User:Michig

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en This user is a native speaker of English. GMT This user's time zone is GMT. This user lives in England. This user is a member of WikiProject Albums. This user is a member of the Discography WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject Hip hop. This user is a member of WikiProject Reggae This user is a proud member of WikiProject Caribbean. This editor is a member of WikiProject Jamaica. This user is a member of WikiProject Punk music. This user is a part of WikiProject Alternative music. This user is a member of WikiProject Computing. even This editor is an eventualist. 1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talkpage rather than engaging in an edit war. linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor. This user is not a Wikipedia administrator, but would like to be one someday. 15,000+ This user has made over 15,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. There are no statements of belief or opinion on this page. I'm here as an encyclopedist. This user is vegan. This user enjoys reggae. band-3 This user loves the band The Fall. band-3 This user loves the band Bogshed. This user plays the guitar. This useriplays the bass guitar. According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-7.75) and Social Libertarian (-7.38)

Contents 1 Awards 2 WikiInterests 3 Wikipedia annoyances 4 Articles I started 4.1 Reggae/Jamaica 4.2 Reggae albums 4.3 Indie/Alternative Music 4.4 Indie/Alternative albums 4.5 Hip Hop 4.6 Hip Hop albums 4.7 Metal 4.8 Popular/other Music 4.9 Books 4.10 Television 4.11 Local stuff 4.12 Other 5 Photos 6 Things to do when I've got a minute

[edit] Awards

I award Michig barnstar in appreciation of contributions to article related to Software Testing. --Pinecar 08:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		I do hereby award the Rescue Barnstar to Michig, not only for the hard work and dedication he demonstrates in digging up sources to save articles from deletion, but also for his sense of evenhandedness. Michig is not a wild-eyed Inclusionist, but rather is a fair broker at AfD for all music-related articles (and more than a few others as well) who just happens to improve most everything he touches. Rock on, Michig. Unschool 20:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Awarded to Michig for paying careful attention and putting their money where their mouth is: nice work on The Fixxers. Drmies (talk) 22:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WikiInterests

Wikipedia Interests (and topics that I am likely to contribute to):

• Reggae and Jamaican music in general
• Popular and alternative music
• Software Development
• IT
• East Midlands local interest and local government
• Black Metal - although it's not a genre I'm deeply into, many of the articles in this area need a lot of work (sources, etc.), and there seems a tendency for articles to be created on every recording by every band, even if there's no more than a tracklisting. While working on some of the black metal band articles, I have come across Absu and Alcest, who are both worth a listen...and I haven't got past A yet...
• Hip hop - I know little about hip hop, but through improving and defending articles in this area, I'm getting more into it. I now have some good book sources, so if any articles need help, feel free to get in touch.

[edit] Wikipedia annoyances

• People who nominate articles for deletion without making any effort to determine whether the subject is notable and/or improve the articles in question
• Abuse of speedy-delete tags (by non-vandals), and the fact that WP doesn't have adequate measures for dealing with such abuse. Examples of articles that I 'rescued' because they were wrongly tagged for speedy deletion in one week in December 2007: Lillie Pope, Floyd Johnson, Greg Hartley, Peter Peters, Gospel Gangstaz. Who knows how many others get wrongly deleted because nobody spots them in time?
• Editors who subtly troll without actually violating any WP policies or guidelines, but nonetheless seem to delight in winding other editors up
• Incivility

[edit] Articles I started

Count = 294 (not including redirects, disambiguation pages, etc.)

[edit] Reggae/Jamaica

The Aces (Jamaican group); Yasus Afari; Aisha (reggae singer); Marcia Aitken; Alpha & Omega (band); Gladstone Anderson; Patrick Andy; Mike Anthony (singer); Admiral Bailey; Admiral Tibet; Audio Active; Baby Wayne; Mega Banton; Starkey Banton; Dave Barker; Theophilus Beckford; Lorna Bennett; Big Joe (reggae); Black Roots (band); Black Slate; The Blackstones; Everton Blender; Mike Brooks (singer); Barry Brown (singer); Buccaneer (musician); Philip "Fatis" Burrell; Clement Bushay; The Cables; Susan Cadogan; Al Campbell; Cornell Campbell; Lacksley Castell; Lloyd Charmers; Herman Chin Loy; Leonard Chin; Vincent "Randy" Chin; The Chosen Few (reggae group); The Cimarons; The Clarendonians; Gussie Clarke; Ansell Collins; Joseph Cotton; Roy Cousins; Tommy Cowan; Ronnie Davis; Dobby Dobson; Earl Sixteen; Clint Eastwood (musician); Clint Eastwood & General Saint; George Faith (rewriiten over microstub); Fathead (musician); Dean Fraser; Front Line (record label); General Echo; General Trees; Donovan Germain; Rudy Grant; Owen Gray; Myrna Hague; Audrey Hall; Errol Holt; Peter Hunnigale; The In Crowd (reggae band); David Isaacs; The Itals; Jah Lloyd; Jah Stitch; Jah Warrior; Jah Woosh; Jamaica Independence Festival; Jet Star; Roydel Johnson; Pat Kelly (musician); Kiddus I; Knowledge (band); Ken Lack; Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont‎; Byron Lee (replacing redirect); Aura Lewis; Hopeton Lewis; List of Lovers Rock artists (moved from Lovers Rock and tidied up); Fred Locks; Jimmy London; Lone Ranger (musician); Mafia & Fluxy; Larry Marshall; Massive Dread; The Maytones; Freddie McKay; Bertram McLean; Enos McLeod; The Meditations; Peter Metro; Mishka; Nigger Kojak; George Nooks; Triston Palmer; Pama Records; Pan Head; Ken Parker (musician); Dwight Pinkney; Prince Alla; Michael Prophet; Ranking Joe; Johnny Ringo (musician); The Royals (group); Devon Russell; Errol Scorcher; Screwdriver (musician); Roy Shirley; The Silvertones; Sir Lord Comic; Ska Cubano; Leroy Smart; Ernie Smith (singer); Soul Syndicate; Roman Stewart; Tinga Stewart; Rod Taylor (singer); Jah Thomas; Ruddy Thomas; Carroll Thompson; Nicky Thomas; Andrew Tosh; Toyan; Trinity (musician); U Brown; The Uniques (Jamaican group); Vibronics; Wayne Wade; Welton Irie; Ernest Wilson (singer);

[edit] Reggae albums

Best Dressed Chicken in Town; Black Roots (album); Cool Ruler; Cry Tough (Alton Ellis album); Forever Version; Full Experience (album); Nyah Man Chant; Pick Up the Pieces (album); Sarge (album); Song Book (album); Visions of Dennis Brown; What Kind of World;

[edit] Indie/Alternative Music

A.C. Temple; Adventures in Stereo; The Avant Gardeners; A Witness*; The Band of Holy Joy; The Batfish Boys; Biff Bang Pow!; Big Dipper (band) (after the original very brief article was deleted); The Bitter Springs; Blab Happy; Blow Up (band); BOB (band); Bogshed*; The Bomb Party; Boots For Dancing; Bradford (band); The Bridewell Taxis; The Cannanes; Captain Oi! Records; The Caretaker Race; The Carpettes; Cay (band); Chaotic Dischord; The Chesterfields; Colenso Parade; The Corn Dollies; Crash (UK band); The Creepers; Cuddly Toys; The Decorators; The Defects; Delicatessen (band); The Derelicts; The Destructors (band); The Diagram Brothers; Dislocation Dance; The Distractions; Drinking Electricity; The Droogs; The Dylans; East River Pipe; The Ejected; Electrafixion; Elevation Records; The Enemy (UK punk band); The Fits; Flag of Convenience (band); Further (band); Ganger; Glaxo Babies; The Golden Dawn; Gore (band); The Gorillas (replacing redirect); Great Leap Forward (band); The Groovy Little Numbers; The Handsome Family; The Happy Family; Heresy (band); The High; Honeybunch; Hayley Hutchinson; Inca Babies; The June Brides; The Killjoys (UK band); Kyte; List of indie pop artists (well, at least it keeps the list out of Indie pop), Robert Lloyd (Nightingales); The Mackenzies; Maximum Joy; Mazinga Phaser; Medal (band); Medium Cool Records; The Membranes; Miaow (band); Mighty Mighty*; Misterlee; The Motorcycle Boy; New Fast Automatic Daffodils; Noah and the Whale; Notsensibles; One Thousand Violins; The Outcasts (band); Pacific Ocean Fire; The Parachute Men; The Perfect Disaster; Perfume (band); Rabid (band); Radial Spangle; The Rain (band); The Rainkings; The Raw Herbs; Razorcuts*; The Revolving Paint Dream; Riot Squad; Ron Johnson Records; The Room (band); Rote Kapelle (band); Ruth's Refrigerator; See See Rider (band); Serious Drinking; The Servants; Shrubs (band); The Siddeleys; Slumberland Records; Kendra Smith; The Sneetches (band); The Snivelling Shits; Spirea X; The Starlings; Stretchheads; Suckle (band); Sudden Sway; Troy Tate; Ten Benson; Tompaulin; Tree Fort Angst; Tse Tse Fly (band); Twang (band); UK Indie Chart (replacing redirect); Viva Saturn; The Very Things; Walkingseeds; The Wall (UK band); Whipped Cream (band); Yeah Yeah Noh; Zabrinski;

[edit] Indie/Alternative albums

Golden Blue; Kill Twee Pop!; Slow to Fade;

[edit] Hip Hop

The Away Team (group); Big Shug; Kaze (rapper); Khrysis; Justus League; L.E.G.A.C.Y.; Tha Mexakinz; Skyzoo;

[edit] Hip Hop albums

• National Anthem (album);

[edit] Metal

Abigail Williams (band);

[edit] Popular/other Music

Nayanka Bell; The Glitter Band (replacing redirect); Hell's Belles (band); Immaculate Fools; Jenna Mammina; Louisiana Red;

[edit] Books

• The Room (Selby novel)

[edit] Television

A Small Problem*; The Front Line (TV series); Mick Bunnage;

[edit] Local stuff

Anstey, Leicestershire*; Bradgate Electoral Division; Woodhouse (parish), Leicestershire;

[edit] Other

• Steve Evets;

*using a previous account

[edit] Photos

Some of the photos that I have contributed. Others can be found at Wikimedia Commons.

[edit] Things to do when I've got a minute

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