User:TSP

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 9 months and 23 days.

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This user studies or studied at Durham University.

I'm TSP, and

I've been Wikipeding since January 2005 (though I was quoted on Wikipedia some time before 2002).
I live in Durham in the North East of England
I'm a graduate of the University of Durham - I was at St Chad's College and represented Durham on University Challenge.
I play double bass, bass guitar, guitar, drums, piano and a few other things. I play in a punk-folk band, a brass band and at church.
I'm not notable (though two of my family are).

My interests are probably best summed up by my contributions, but here are few pages I've been significantly responsible for, usually because I stumbled across something and thought "Why doesn't THAT have an article already?" (or sometimes "...have a better article already?")

Created:

Rudolph von Ripper, fascinating Austrian-American surrealist artist and intelligence operative
Stamford University (England), briefly-extant 14th century English university
Adelfius - a surprisingly extensive article about a 4th-century bishop we know almost nothing about
Seely & Paget, 1920s architectural partnership and probably couple
Sam Green (councillor), the first openly gay candidate in any British election
St Chad's Hostel, Julia Warde-Aldam, Frederick Samuel Willoughby, Douglas Horsfall and a few other articles around the early history of St Chad's College, Durham
Bishop Cosin's Hall, the third college of Durham University
South College, Durham, the seventeenth college of Durham University
Cosin's Library, 17th century library in Durham
Iwerne camps, influential Evangelical summer camps closed after multiple abuse cases
Llanthony Abbey, early Anglican monastic experiment, later home of Eric Gill
St Nicholas' Church, Durham, open evangelical church in Durham

Expanded:

Dunelm House, modernist building in Durham (now a listed building!)
Durham College, Oxford, a medieval college belonging to Durham Priory whose buildings were used to found (and in some cases still house) Trinity College
Doxbridge, an article I was never very attached to but ended up very involved with largely out of frustration at the bad arguments of those who wanted to delete it

I technically also have two featured pictures (illustrated), but only because I did the final edits that were featured! I should probably upload some of my own photography.