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Number 57 is an Englishwikipedian from the county of Suffolk. As well as Hertfordshire and Berkshire, he also lived in southern Israel for several years. Having picked up a bit of Hebrew during his time in the Negev, he decided to try and learn how to read in Arabic and Russian after seeing so many signs written in them in Beersheba.
On Misplaced Pages he writes about Israeli politics, elections and referendums all over the world, association football, and small places in Israel and Suffolk that no-one else can be bothered to. He occasionally contributes to the Hebrew[REDACTED] (though as his written grammar is appalling, the articles tend to be completely rewritten once someone else finds them), and has accounts on a few other wikis, largely to correct obvious mistakes or fix/create inter-wiki links. Since September 2007 he has been an admin on the English wiki. This means that his userpage is now regularly vandalised by editors who cannot understand why he deleted their wonderful articles.
Articles I've started
At the last count, I'd started just over 900 articles. You can see the full list by using this tool. My major achievements would be completing the sets of articles on:
I once decided to retire in a huff, but had my faith semi-restored by the closure of this AfD. However, there are still major problems on Misplaced Pages, notably;
Small groups of nationalist POV-pushers are able to force their "consensus" on major subjects and neutral editors are left helpless. Hundreds of articles can be affected by this false consensus, making entire areas of the project unreliable, unfactual and suffering an inbuilt bias.
In areas where there are almost equal numbers of POV pushers on each side, articles are completely poisoned - it's all about making the other side look bad and trying to cover up their own bads. Neutral editors who step in to help are labelled as biased by both sides, and then are helpless to intervene as they are now "involved parties".
WP:AfD and WP:RM are completely broken; the vast majority of admins do nothing but !vote count and completely ignore the strength of the arguments (allowing the groups mentioned above to force their opinions on stuff).
WP:PROD is also broken - allowing an IP (with its first edit) to remove a prod and force a time-wasting AfD is an utter nonsense.
I've wasted many, many hours of my life on trying to deal with the issues above, and I have better things to do than deal with some of the utter morons (who are consistently encouraged by the lack of action taken against them) on here. I can think of at least 20 editors who should have been banned years ago, yet somehow they are all still here (many of them despite numerous arbitration cases, blocks etc) pissing all us sane people off. Hopefully one day a big enough group of admins will see sense, but sadly I doubt it.
Barnstars
I, Shuki, hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit for your extensive contributions to Israel-related articles, especially on the subject of the Israeli democracy/politics.
/M\ 13:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC) 06:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I ran into your user page and, browsing through your article contributions, I feel that you really merit this well-deserved Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Thank you for all the diligent work. Anas 10:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
In recognition of your work on Israel related articles, and completion of the Signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence articles -- Derwig (talk) 15:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
You are hereby awarded this "Football Barnstar" for dedicating your time and effort during the month of November, 2007 on formulating Misplaced Pages's NC for sports teams. --Riurik 07:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your recent changes to Ma'agan Michael. The article has been on my mind for a while as one that needed something, but what I didn't know. Now after your edits, I feel that the article is starting to read fairly well. Keep up the good work! « D. Trebbien (talk) 05:30 2008March 5 (UTC)
Thanks for being nice and rational in the deletion of Michael Paton, instead of just "delete or else"! Cheers mate! -- weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 09:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
As recognitian of your continued committment to Israel related articles Flymeoutofhere (talk) 11:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
For creating a bot-like amount of articles on Israeli localities. -- Nudve (talk) 11:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
For the mass of Israeli locality articles created recently, thanks for the amazing work! -- Ynhockey 21:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
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I, Shuki, hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit for your extensive contributions to Israel-related articles, especially on the subject of the Israeli democracy/politics.
/M\ 13:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC) 06:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I ran into your user page and, browsing through your article contributions, I feel that you really merit this well-deserved Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Thank you for all the diligent work. Anas 10:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
You are hereby awarded this "Football Barnstar" for dedicating your time and effort during the month of November, 2007 on formulating Misplaced Pages's NC for sports teams. --Riurik 07:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your recent changes to Ma'agan Michael. The article has been on my mind for a while as one that needed something, but what I didn't know. Now after your edits, I feel that the article is starting to read fairly well. Keep up the good work! « D. Trebbien (talk) 05:30 2008 March 5 (UTC)
Thanks for being nice and rational in the deletion of Michael Paton, instead of just "delete or else"! Cheers mate! -- weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 09:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
As recognitian of your continued committment to Israel related articles Flymeoutofhere (talk) 11:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
For creating a bot-like amount of articles on Israeli localities. -- Nudve (talk) 11:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
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