User:Rob~enwiki

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Rob en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user enjoys classical music. This user attends or attended Newcastle University This user studies or studied at Durham University. This user is or was a member of Hatfield College, Durham.

I used to be a postgraduate researcher in music at Durham University^[1], and have been contributing occasionally to Wikipedia since December 2005. My particular interest is in British composer and music articles, and often other pages that I have written have a link to these, although sometimes my other contributions are not connected at all.

On Wikipedia I tend to write pages about British light music, a branch of music that's fairly neglected, so I'm quite pleased to see that the text from some of these articles is being used on the Light Music Society website.^[2] I have also added various other music-related articles, and around November every year I seem to end up writing articles about medieval Christmas carols. I have four "Good articles"; Personent Hodie, I syng of a mayden, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Wisbech Grammar School which you can probably guess are where I originate from and went to school.

Outside of Wikipedia, I have presented academic papers about the composers Ernest Farrar^[3] and Gerald Finzi, so it's a bit shameful I haven't really improved their WP pages - it's mainly because I tend to focus on serious British music of that era as part of my university research and don't want to end up quoting my internet self! I also used to write and present my own student radio programmes called Absolute Classic^[4] and A Little Light Music^[5] on Purple Radio, the latter of which got through to the final of the 2009 Student Radio Awards.^[6] This programme used to feature a slightly silly radio serial called Forsooth!, which is still available on YouTube.^[7]

I have occasionally added a few bits and pieces to British radio and television pages here and there as well, although usually by accident, as I write television articles and other articles under another more active alternative account. (My other account is not used as a "sockpuppet", but exists purely because I prefer to keep my music-related articles separate under my actual name.) Also outside of Wikipedia I co-write a website about media-type things called "Image Dissectors"^[8] My latest external website, "War Composers" is about composers who fought in World War I.^[9] In real life, I used to work in Libraries & Archives and now work for a certain public service broadcaster. Needless to say, none of my edits reflect the views of my employer.