This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 1 month and 13 days. 18,000+ This user has made more than 18,000 contributions to Wikipedia. 12,000+ This user has made over 12,000 contributions to Wikipedia This user has created 344 articles on Wikipedia. This user has contributed 24 images to Wikipedia and Commons. This user has been awarded 3 Barnstars on Wikipedia. This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) en This user is a native speaker of the English language. GMT This user's time zone is GMT. This user lives in England. This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron. This user is a participant in WikiProject Albums. This user is a member of the Discography WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject Hip-hop. This user is a participant in WikiProject Reggae This user participates in WikiProject Caribbean. This user is a participant in WikiProject Jamaica. This user is a participant in WikiProject Punk music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Alternative music. This user participates in WikiProject Computing. even This editor is an eventualist. 1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page 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. This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. There are no statements of belief or opinion on this page. This editor is here as an encyclopedist. This user is vegan. This user enjoys reggae. band-3 This user likes The Fall. band-3 This user likes Bogshed. This user plays the guitar. This user plays the bass guitar. According to The Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (−7.75) and Social Libertarian (−7.38)

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  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)

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

• Reggae and Jamaican music in general
• Popular and alternative music, punk, etc.
• Software Development
• IT
• East Midlands local interest and local government
• Black Metal - 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.
• Hip hop - I now have some good book sources, so if any articles need help, feel free to get in touch.
• British Folklore
• Cinema

/How to find sources for popular music articles

• People who nominate articles for deletion without making any effort to determine whether the subject is notable and/or improve the articles in question. We're here to build an encyclopedia not to see how much stuff we can get deleted as quickly as possible.
• 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, and people who don't know the difference between an editor telling them they've done something wrong and being uncivil
• People who seem to want Wikipedia to become a debating society - we're here to build an encyclopedia not to argue for the sakes of it.

Count = 344 (not including redirects, disambiguation pages, etc.)

The Aces (Jamaican group); Aubrey Adams; Yasus Afari; Aisha (reggae singer); Bobby Aitken; Marcia Aitken; Alpha & Omega (band); Gladstone Anderson; Lynford Anderson; Patrick Andy; Mike Anthony (singer); Admiral Bailey; Admiral Tibet; Audio Active; Baby Wayne; Mega Banton; Starkey Banton; Dave Barker; Theophilus Beckford; Richard Bell (record producer); Lorna Bennett; Big Joe (reggae); Black Roots (band); Black Slate; The Blackstones; Everton Blender; The Blues Busters; Barry Boom; Sonny Bradshaw; Annette Brissett; Mike Brooks (singer); Barry Brown (singer); Buccaneer (musician); Philip "Fatis" Burrell; Clement Bushay; The Cables; Susan Cadogan; Al Campbell; Captain Sinbad; Cornell Campbell; Don Campbell (musician); Lacksley Castell; Lloyd Charmers; Herman Chin Loy; Leonard Chin; Vincent "Randy" Chin; The Chosen Few (reggae group); Geoffrey Chung; The Cimarons; The Clarendonians; Gussie Clarke; Clue J & His Blues Blasters; Stranger Cole; Ansell Collins; Joseph Cotton; Count Matchuki; Roy Cousins; Tommy Cowan; Lloyd Coxsone; Sydney Crooks; Ronnie Davis; Dobby Dobson; Earl Sixteen; Clint Eastwood (musician); Clint Eastwood & General Saint; Junior English; George Faith (rewriiten over microstub); Fathead (musician); Sharon Forrester; Dean Fraser; Front Line (record label); General Echo; General Trees; Donovan Germain; Rudy Grant; Owen Gray; Winston Groovy; Myrna Hague; Audrey Hall; Carl Harvey; Lennie Hibbert; Ossie Hibbert; Errol Holt; Honey Boy; Peter Hunnigale; The In Crowd (reggae band); David Isaacs; The Itals; Jah Lloyd; Jah Stitch; Jah Warrior; Jah Woosh; Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation; 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; King Kong (musician)‎; Lone Ranger (musician); Mafia & Fluxy; Carlos Malcolm; Larry Marshall; Massive Dread; Matumbi (band); 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; Prezident Brown; Prince Alla; Michael Prophet; Ranking Joe; Cynthia Richards; Jimmy Riley; Tarrus Riley; Johnny Ringo (musician); Jackie Robinson (musician); The Royals (group); Devon Russell; Errol Scorcher; Screwdriver (musician); B.B. Seaton; Roy Shirley; The Silvertones; Sir Lord Comic; Ska Cubano; Leroy Smart; Ernie Smith (singer); Soul Syndicate; Roman Stewart; Tinga Stewart; Rod Taylor (singer); Sylvia Tella; Jah Thomas; Ruddy Thomas; Carroll Thompson; Nicky Thomas; Andrew Tosh; Toyan; Trinity (musician); Tony Tuff; U Brown; The Uniques (Jamaican group); Vibronics; Wayne Wade; Welton Irie; Ernest Wilson (singer);

Best Dressed Chicken in Town; Black Roots (album); Cool Ruler; Cry Tough (Alton Ellis album); Forever Version; Foul Play (album); Full Experience (album); Health and Strength; No Man is an Island (album); Nyah Man Chant; Pick Up the Pieces (album); Sarge (album); Song Book (album); Visions of Dennis Brown; What Kind of World; Wolf & Leopards;

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; Electric Sound of Joy; 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; Jowe Head; Heresy (band); The High; Honey Tongue; Honeybunch; Hayley Hutchinson; Inca Babies; The June Brides; The Killjoys (UK band); Kyte; The Land of Nod (band); 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; Mount Vernon Arts Lab; New Fast Automatic Daffodils; Noah and the Whale; Notsensibles; One Thousand Violins; The Outcasts (band); Pacific Ocean Fire; The Parachute Men; The Parkinsons (band); 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; Screaming Dead; 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 (band); Whipped Cream (band); Yeah Yeah Noh; Yr Anhrefn; Zabrinski;

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

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

• National Anthem (album);

Abigail Williams (band);

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

• The Room (Selby novel)

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

Douglas Buck; Cat Chaser; The Hide;

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

• Steve Evets;

*using a previous account

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

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