User:Number 57 - Misplaced Pages

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About Me

This user is male.

This user is a member of
Generation X.

This user lives in England.

This user is from Suffolk

2°

This user has two academic degrees.

This user is straight
but not narrow.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user is a geek.

Babel

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

he-2

משתמש זה יכול לתרום ברמה בינונית של עברית.‏

de-2

Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

Cyrl-2
Д

This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic script.

Arab-2
ع‎

This user has an intermediate understanding of the Arabic script.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

Misplaced Pages

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ויקיפדיה
משתמש זה תורם לוויקיפדיה העברית.

I support the Hebrew language Misplaced Pages with my contributions.

This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)

This user page has been vandalized 20 times.

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

Misplaced Pages is not censored.

This user absolutely hates redirects and has to fix any one they see.

This user can be reached by email.

This user participates in
WikiProject Israel.

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This user spends WAY too much time on Misplaced Pages and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

Beliefs

This user is a committed advocate of democracy.

User:Danbarnesdavies/Userboxes/Regional politics/User monarchist

This user prefers parliamentary systems of government.

This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user is a secular humanist.

This user believes that the universe began with a bang.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user does not believe in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, but agrees it is as likely as creationism.

This user believes that the meaning of life is to live a happy life.

This user has arranged for organ donation; have you?

This user supports gender equality.

This user opposes all forms of racism and admires Nelson Mandela.

This user is interested in environmentalism.

This user supports the use of green energy.

This user supports the use of nuclear energy.

This user is interested in animal rights issues.

This user believes that Organic farming is a bad thing.

This user supports recycling.

This user supports public transit.

This user supports the United Nations.

מרצ

This user supports Meretz.

C₂H₅OH-0

This user is a non-drinker.

This user does not smoke.

This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.

This user is drug-free.

This user is peaceful.

This user believes in a multi-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict

Where I've been

Number 57 is an English wikipedian 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 1,500 articles. You can see the full list by using this tool. My major achievements would be completing the sets of articles on:

Members of the Knesset.
Knesset elections.
Governments of Israel.
Political parties which have had Knesset seats (133 articles).
Signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence (plus a major improvement of the article itself).
Elections and referendums in Botswana, Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda
Regional councils in Israel.
Basketball clubs in Ligat HaAl.
Towns and villages in Israel (including West Bank settlements, though not outposts).
Past and present Israeli government ministers.
Football clubs that have played in the top division in Israel.
Football clubs that have played in the Eastern Counties Football League.

Plus the vast majority of these templates are my work.

Current work

At the moment I'm trying to complete the sets of articles on:

Parishes in Suffolk.
Elections and referendums in Africa

as well as:

adding infoboxes and lists of MKs to all Israeli political party articles.
cleanup all MK articles

Did you know

... that Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I?
... that the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset?
... that Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit was the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel?
... that the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage?
... that the 1967 general election in Sierra Leone saw the first defeat of a ruling party in an election held under universal suffrage in sub-Saharan Africa?
... that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
... that the 1966-68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
... that Hussniya Jabara was the first Israeli Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset?
... that Gershom Schocken was the editor of Haaretz for over 50 years?
... that Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was the first non-Jewish member of an Israeli government?
... that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France, where he was wanted for embezzlement?
... that Shmuel Rechtman was the first member of the Knesset to be sent to prison?
... that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
... that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
... that the twenty-ninth government of Israel was the first to have a non-Jewish minister?
... that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
... that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
... that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa?
... that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo, Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
... that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum, thereby opting for independence?
... that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?

Wikiproblems

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.
$T/M\B 13:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC) 06:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)$ /_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 2008 March 5 (UTC)
Thanks for being nice and rational in the deletion of Michael Paton, instead of just "delete or else"! Cheers mate! -- weburiedoursecrets inthegarden 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)
For all of your excellent work on African election articles, I award you this AfricaProject Award. Wear it with pride. Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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