User:Circusandmagicfan

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I began contributing to Wikipedia in February 2007. "Circusandmagicfan" was an awful pseudonym that I came up with on the spur of the moment so don't read too much into it.

My background is an odd mixture of stuff so rather than try to come up with a title to describe myself I'll just give a list of stuff:

• I've had professional experience managing websites and e-comms projects
• I've worked as a journalist
• I have a masters degree in international relations
• I'm intersted in various aspects of IT, information security and policy - I have no particular qualifications but I've a reasonable level of understanding thanks to self-teaching and what they euphemistically call "on the job training".
• I have pretty wide musical tastes - from the mainstream to weird and experimental.
• I'm interested in magic and illusion and also in certain aspects of circus arts (but for the record I'm not into circuses with animals)

The above information is included to give people a rough idea what sort of person I am. I have no great ambitions on Wikipedia other than to make occasional contributions on topics that interest me. The tendency is for these topics to be outide the areas in which I work professionally and so I am not trying to establish myself as any sort of expert.

[edit] Projects I'm involved with

• WikiProject Magic - currently proposing various guidelines and changes to the project structure.

[edit] Article creations or major contributions

Magic Jeffery Atkins (illusionist) Val Walker Radium Girl Aztec Lady Assistant's Revenge Arian Black Morgan the Escapist Kristen Johnson (escape artist) Cynthia Morrison Dean Gunnarson Table of Death André Kole Devil's Torture Chamber Simon Drake (editing only) Paul Zenon (editing only) Gary Ouellet Mark Kalin and Jinger Secret Cabaret (complete re-write) The Magic Land of Allakazam Richiardi Jr P. T. Selbit (re-write) Horace Goldin Magician's assistant

Other Impalement arts Target girl Circus of the Stars Right to bear arms (specifically UK/English aspects of that article) Peter Buck (editing only)

[edit] Awards

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		Awarded to Circusandmagicfan for possibly the best first article, and certainly best first edit, I have ever seen- impalement arts. Keep it up! J Milburn 16:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Useful links

• http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Infoboxes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AWB