User:VampWillow

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Hi, I'm VampWillow and live in Highgate London, England adjacent to the world-famous Highgate Cemetery. I use this pseudonym almost everywhere online as I am active at a national level in UK politics and, whilst I have very few issues with people knowing about me, I dislike the way that assumptions can be made when only partial information becomes known to the public. "I am the sum of my parts, not just the individual facets".

Why Vamp Willow though? Well, I am clearly very geeky, I like pointy things (stakes, needles, knives, etc), am bisexual (with a strong lesbian bias), and have red hair. I also think a certain Willow Rosenberg is very fanciable!

Signing the guestbook at the very first WikiMeet - in London
user:MykReeve user:VampWillow

I was born on Friday 13th April and have added a number of people and updated the links on that page for others that I share a birthday with. My first recorded WP edit with this username was Westminster System on March 10th 2004. I made a number of small & minor edits before creating the ident (and then forgot to log in repeatedly too, and don't recall which pages I did anyway!). On May 2004's list of Wikipedians I'd already made it to number 1,864 of 19,353 back then. By June 16 2004 I'd jumped to 509th place (up 1396) and was #527 on the all-namespaces count. I'm also present on other wikis with occasional edits too and shot through my thousandth edit here on 12 June, reaching #2000 at 00:52 on July 4th. I've since lost track of what number I've reached ...

I've worked in IT for most of my life, although for a short while was in the entertainment world as a sound engineer / lighting designer and tour manager. I used to be very active in and around the Westminster Bubble for the LibDems (but I've calmed down a bit since the GE,) and in LGBT politics since the early 1980s, being one of the founders of the UK Chapter of the Lesbian Avengers and also of the London Lesbian and Gay Centre (LLGC).

I have an MBA from the Open University Business School, I sometimes play softball (1B,2B or C) when I manage to escape my computer room. I drink a perilous amount of coffee, am polyamorous, a bit of a Cyber Goth, and drive a Mazda MX-3 car.

I was present at the first ever WikiMeet in London on 5th June 2004, and some others since.

On 24 June 2004 I was nominated for Adminship, which I was happy to accept. After 25 votes in support (and none against!) Secretlondon 'made it so' at 15:09, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC). Between 18 August and 1 December 2004 I was a recovering Wikipediholic and since then I try to limit myself in the amount of time I spend here (but often don't succeed!). I score 511 on the [Test] ...

So far, I have Created, carried out major Rewrites of, or Merged/Split/Disambiguated 252 articles while making over 4800 edits to over 2400 pages ...

[edit] Books

Coming to Power^C198

The Ethical Slut^C109

Macho Sluts^C200

[edit] Conceptual and Disambiguation pages

Alert state^C118	Awayday^C047	Bell^R072^M	BIKINI state^C119
Brace (grouping)^C011	Brownfield land^R055	Bursar^C203	Choice^C142
Cob^R087^M	Come/Cum^M249	Direct^C091^R	Dyke^R088
Estate^M054	Estate (area)^C052	Estate (house)^C053	Farley^R223
Fat cat^C019	Flagstone^C124	Flick^C145	Greenfield land^C056
Guy^C020	Highgate (disambiguation)^C237	Incantation^C089	Kendall^R236
LLGC^C127	London Necropolis^C151	Mercy^C100 (and edit #2000)	Nookie^R149
Northern Line (disambiguation)^C239	Offensive^C110	Premium^C092	Pronoun game^C095
Protected view^C242	Quantity^C010	Real^C013^M	Real (currency)^C012^M
Sieve^M081	Slut^R143	Slag (slang)^C144	Subtext^C022
TPE^R240	TTFN^C049	WikiMeet^C025	YMSTICPC^C045

[edit] Dance, Theatre and Stage

Auditorium^C085	Blocking (improv) ^C163	Blocking (stage) ^C162	Box office^C102
Flats (theatre)^C168	Fly tower^C165	Gobo (recording)^CR173	Gobo (lighting)^CR172
Lantern (disambiguation)^C169	Producing house^C171	Prompt (theatre)^C166	Prompt corner^C164
Receiving house^C170	Revue^C097	Siobhan Davies Dance Company^C156	The Sanguine Fan^C078
Tabs (stage)^C167

[edit] Film, Television and Radio

The Belles of St Trinian's^C175	BB UK 1^M226	BB UK 2^M227	BB UK 3^M228
BB UK 4^M229	BB UK 5^M230	BB UK 6^M231	Blue Murder at St Trinian's^C176
Budgie^C113	Ever After^R216	Gainsborough Pictures^C106	The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery^C177
Jules et Jim^C244	Karen Sisco^C132	Leavesden Film Studios^C004	The Lyon's Den^C222
Market in Honey Lane^C190	Mongo^C077	The Pure Hell of St Trinian's^C174	Teen Big Brother (UK)^R232
This Sceptred Isle^C017	Stonewall (film)^C195	Upstairs, Downstairs^C117	Up the Junction^C116
The Wicked Lady^C107

[edit] Food and Drink

Batterie de cuisine^C083	Colander^C082	Coffee percolator^R008^M238	Go to work on an egg^C181
Laphroaig^C068	Kopi Luwak^C046	Scapa^C069

[edit] Music

Bell (instrument)^C070^M	Bjorn Again^C027	Cello Concerto (Elgar)^C076	Direct^C090^M
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (album)^C184	Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)^C192	I vow to thee my country^C120	Little Feat^C101
Riot grrl^R066^M	Tribute band^C026^M234

[edit] Organisations

Alyson Publications^C199	Apsley Grammar School^C148	Association of Chief Police Officers^C247	City and Guilds of London Institute^R129
Delga^C006	Egg Marketing Board^C182	Farley's^C224	HEFCE^C016
Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre^C246	London Lesbian and Gay Centre^C126	London School of Contemporary Dance^C159	Plokta^C248
Samois^C042

[edit] People

Aaron Barschak^C189	Lilian Baylis^C161	Friedrich Bechstein^C140	James Bolam^C112
Betty Box^C180	Sal Brinton^C202	Angela Burdett-Coutts^C029^R130	David Burrowes^C210
Patrick (Pat) Califia^C044	Kyle Chandler^C221	Siobhan Davies^C155	Clarissa Dickson-Wright^C208
David James Elliott^C121	Bridget Fox^C185	Jill Fraser^C186	Justine Greening^C240
Stephen Hammond^C207	Rose Heilbron^C214	Celia Imrie^C111	Jo Kendall^C235
Brian Kennedy^C128	Sadiq Khan^C205	Lesley Joseph^C193	Elizabeth Lane^C215
Derek Laud^C220	Christopher Lee^C018	Hudson Leick^C021	Eric Lubbock^C196M
Patrick McCarthy^C243	Chris Maines^C197	Angela Mason^C073	Harriot Mellon^C031
Mike Moran^C014	Lesléa Newman^C201	Helen Normanton^C213	Mimi Parent^C024
Barrington Pheloung^C154	Iris du Pré^C108	Cynthia Rothrock^C141	Lee Scott^C206
Grant Shapps^C211	Sydney Silverman^C212	Ned Sherrin^C115	Ben Summerskill^C074
Russ Tamblyn^C075	Keith Waterhouse^C114	Shen Wei^C158	"Steakknife"^C040^M
Rainbow George Weiss^C188	Laura Willoughby^C194	Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart^C225

[edit] Places

Archway^C043	Bell (place)^C071^M	Brent Cross^C028	Bull and Bush^C103
Cerne Abbas giant^C092	Croyde^R147	Elstree^C003	Fistral Beach^C146
Holly Lodge Estate^C030	Ilford^R041^M	King Henry VIII's Mound^C241	Magic Roundabout^C183
Markyate^C105	Swiss Cottage^C067	Walton Hall, Milton Keynes^C015

[edit] Politics and Events

Ballot Box^C080	Division Bell^C048	12 Downing Street^C209	Lib-Lab Pact^C007
Polling Station^C079	Potters Bar Railway Crash^C001	Westminster Bubble^C033

[edit] Constituencies

Hampstead & Highgate^C133	Holborn & St. Pancras^C134	Hornsey and Wood Green^C191	Islington North^C136
Islington South & Finsbury^C135

[edit] Science, Technology, Medicine and Law

Cob (building)^C086^M	Chain ferry ^C104	Concentrate^C032	Eemian interglacial era^R096
Estate (law)^M051	E-6 process^R050^M	Farpoint^C099	Filly^C098
Hot flushes^C009	Login^C034	Logout^C035	Microconnect Distributed Antennae^C217
Not Proven^C023	Open proxy^C094	Pinks^C123	Shock sensitivity^C245

[edit] Transport

Aldwych tramway station^C036	Autobahn^R064^M	Autoroute^R057^M	Autoroute (Quebec)^C058^M
Derwent Valley Light Railway^C187	Freeway^R059^M	Freeway (Canada)^C063^M	Hammersmith tube station (Piccadilly & District Line)^M250
Hammersmith tube station (Hammersmith & City Line)^M^R251	Hammersmith (Grove Road) station^C252	Highway^R065^M	Holborn tramway station^C037
Interstate^R062^M	Kingsway tramway subway^C038	London Necropolis railway station^C150	Lots Road power station^C125
Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme (MiDAS)^C219	Motorway^R060^M	M10 motorway^C002	Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling (MIDAS)^C218
Parkway^R061^M	Speedbird^C025	Strand Underpass^C039	Tufnell Park tube station^C005

[edit] Venues and Festivals

Battersea Arts Centre^C131	Dance Umbrella^C157	London Contemporary Dance Theatre^C153	London International Mime Festival^C137
Queen Elizabeth Hall^C138	Queen's Hall^C084	Sadler's Wells^R160	The Place^C152
Wigmore Hall^C139

[edit] redirects

new redirects (and related content at the target) amongst many include

AAGPBL	Arabica	Bechstein Hall	Divided highway
English Democrats	Henry Pierrepoint	Log-in/Log in/Log on/Logon	Log-out/Log out
Number 1, London	Open University Business School	Polyamorous	RAID0/RAID1/RAID5
Robusta	Royal Coburg Theatre	Royal Victorian Theatre	Thomas Pierrepoint
Trading estate	Scenery	Scotch verdict	Scottish verdict
UK politics	Voice artist

[edit] categories

and categories including

Category:Big Brother (UK)^C233	England	Contemporary Dance in London	Ireland
Irish political parties	London Districts	London's railways	Scotland
Stage terminology	Wales

... and their related pages (and many elsewhere too), as well as making contributions about railways, London, other roads, current events, UK and regional politics, geography, sports ...

I also came up with the tempate {{MergeDisputed}} on the grounds that there was otherwise no way to mark a disagreement with someone's use of the {{merge}} template which is worded as a fait accompli, and the UK map option {{mmuk mapdet}}.

[edit] Art

Apart from reworking various logos I also create lineart (examples images here) and (photos here)

[edit] QuikLinks

Templates	Custom messages	Disambiguating pages	Inter-language linking
Policies	Standard user greeting	Style Manual	Topical Index
Utilities	Village Pump	VfD

[edit] Real Name

Won't be linked to here. If you work out my real name (not that difficult, I know) I'd appreciate it if you didn't post it alongside the use of or in reply to a post with this name on it; I am trying to keep Google and other spiders clear of making the link and so far have managed to do so. Thanks ;-)

[edit] Elsewhere

my website (under this pseudonym anyway)
My LiveJournal

[edit] Categories

WikiWomen, Queer Wikipedians

[edit] Footnote

My favourite authors are Uncle Bob and Anne McCaffrey. From Heinlein comes my love of freedom, polyamory and SF, plus my favourite quotation (I've crossed through the ones I've yet to try!): "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, ~~fight efficiently, die gallantly~~.
Specialization is for insects."

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