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I am a 69 year old married man, who was born and lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and has a life long interest and passion for popular music in all its many guises. In recent years, my input to Wikipedia has concentrated on creating, enhancing, expanding and referencing many music related, and other miscellaneous articles.
I sometimes describe myself as a pop historian. If no one will believe that somewhat dodgy, promotional and dubious claim, I am definitely now a 'Senior Vanguard Editor'. So there - suck on that one if you will.
Just drop me a line, either via Wikipedia, or through e-mail at - [email protected]. You never know your luck, I might even reply.
An editor with a life long interest and passion for popular music in all its many guises. His diligence makes positive things happen to improve articles. 95% of his edits are to article space.
Recognized for
creating, enhancing, expanding and referencing many music related articles.
Derek R Bullamore, I award you the Barnstar of Diligence for your months of outstanding hard work furnishing Wikipedia with the facts of musical life, and in particular for your sharing of new information in a true community spirit. It warms my heart. Vinoir 19:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
An overdue Music Award, in particular my appreciation for your efforts keeping an eye on Shirley Bassey. (I can't take my eye off her, either.) Nyctc7 (talk) 04:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar
Here is a token of my appreciation for the efforts you placed into rescuing all these articles, in what is undoubtedly a stressful time for you. Having every of your contributions scrutinized is not a comfortable place to be. Don't think even for a moment that your efforts aren't valued. MLauba (talk) 22:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For the time and effort you put in to improving the project. Moonriddengirl(talk) 14:38, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
The Content Creativity Barnstar
For the creation of
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The Biography Barnstar
To commemorate the achievement of writing 250 new articles - mostly but not all biographical, I suspect... It's how they would have wanted to be remembered! Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all the reference-filling you've been doing! :) Ironholds (talk) 19:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
The Working Wikifier's Barnstar
For your diligence in the use of
Reflinks to fill in bare urls. Almost as soon as I tag an article for using bar urls, you are there and remedy the situation. Thank you. NtheP (talk
) 15:53, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
An appreciation Barnstar
An appreciation barnstar in recognition of your all past and present works on Wikipedia. Justice007 (talk) 13:13, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
For all the hard work you do in repairing bare urls. Exceptional work ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 20:59, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I've noticed you're always the one that fills in the references of all the articles I tag as linkrot. I thought you might appreciate this. Mason Doering (talk) 14:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Thanks for your help! Much appreciated! GabeIglesia (talk) 20:12, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
For tirelessly fixing bare URL's. I put the "Bare URL" sign on a page (
For your tireless contributions, filling in references in the fight against linkrot. Thank you! C679 16:31, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your considerable efforts to improve the quality of sourcing and articles on wikipedia on a daily basis. Keep it up!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 00:10, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Great to have you back Derek, keep up the terrific sourcing work! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:50, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
For all the MILHIST citiation work. Catlemur (talk) 20:56, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For all the bare URL's you fill in, verifiability would be more difficult without your help! Snuggums (talk / edits) 19:40, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing so many bare URLs. Edwardx (talk) 18:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I thereby award you with The Tireless Conributor Barnstar for your continued work combating linkrot here on Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. ArmbrustTheHomunculus 23:01, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
thank you for helping! Dutchy85 (talk) 23:13, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
I hereby award you this barnstar for services to referencing. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:40, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank yuo so much! Oeoi (talk) 21:51, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits to Lula and Clarksdale. Magnolia677 (talk) 01:16, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
The Linkrot Barnstar
Dear, Derek R Bullamore, for your Linkrot efforts at many articles, in the face of considerable hard work!Justice007 (talk) 19:34, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
The Linkrot Barnstar
For continuous, tireless work on improving bare urls - Ninney (talk) 22:03, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
Thank you for your work on Jwala Gutta and fixing the references. Your work is appreciated! Numerounovedant 12:02, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
The Hard Worker's Barnstar
For your work improving the formatting of references on Sari Squad and countless other articles. zazpot (talk) 21:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your great work in repairing bare urls. Yellow Dingo (talk) 11:21, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for helping the article expand!! :) Batreeqah (Talk) (Contribs) 00:51, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
thanks for filling out the references in Bernard Dzoma's article. Endo999 (talk) 14:37, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your tireless responses to the omnipresent linkrot tags. Happy Holidays. Quis separabit? 22:56, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
You made it all better. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:39, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for your tireless contributions. I'm always impressed when I don't have time to clean up bare links and so add a linkrot template by how often and how quickly you come along and clean them up! Melcous (talk) 01:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For all your tireless addressing of link rot in citations. You are making our great work a lot more professional-looking and easier for readers to follow cites.
Great job!! Thank you! Atsme📞📧 19:59, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
The Empty Set Barnstar
For emptying a clean-up category.
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The Special Barnstar
For all your wonderful work in preventing link rot and expanding citations. Much appreciated! Skr15081997 (talk) 12:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for correcting the citations on the article Ballie Wahl Barry Ne (talk) 11:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
The Cleanup Barnstar
For all the inglorious work you do laboring away at the incessant linkrot on WP. Keep up the good work. Onel5969TT me 15:34, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Mr. Bullamore,
Thank you for taking the time to enhance the quality of the article
Malankara-Persia relations. This topic is of great historical importance to the ancient Christian population in India. Once again, thank you and Merry Christmas! Swordofcherubim (talk
) 02:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Always responding to pesky linkrot templates within hours, and often adding your own little fixes too -- you deserve this and more, thank you! Merry Christmas! ~Sıgehelmus♗(Tøk) 17:36, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I know you will be there to clear up my clean up tags. I do want to emphasize that I don't just do '
drive-by' taggings. Keep up the good work. 7&6=thirteen (☎
) 14:21, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
The Invisible Barnstar
Could have been the diligence barnstar, or the tireless contributor barnstar, but I think this is the most appropriate. Your tireless contributions to fixing citations is quite admirable. Whenever I do my cursory work on such articles, and leave the banner that there are still more citations to fix, I know I can count on you to do the fixing. Bravo. Onel5969TT me 00:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Thank you for continually filling in bare URL refs over the years. Sro23 (talk) 02:43, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I'm very impressed by your dedication to black musicians in particular. I've seen your name in various specialist magazines and want to commend your efforts best Greg Dorkinglad (talk) 14:50, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations are in order! You have created or expanded 50 articles that appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page; articles primarily about blues musicians. Thank you for expanding the wealth of human knowledge in this well-deserving area. Great work! Binksternet (talk) 13:42, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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This is an ongoing, 'work in progress' list, relating primarily to 'obscure' blues musicians. However, several of those listed may well fall into the R&B, country and/or jazz genres. It is likely that some of those currently listed will fail the current Wikipedia notability criteria. If that is clearly the case, then I will remove those names. Otherwise, and allowing for the usual verifiablesources being available, then the quest is to change a fair number of the 'red links' into 'blues' (pun intended).
As this list is now public property, I have absolutely no objection to anyone with an interest seeking to assist. It would be helpful, to avoid potential duplication of effort, if anyone contributing makes their interest known. Thank you.