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Number 57 is an English (not British) Wikipedian who also considers himself to be an honorary Israeli having lived there for several years. His username is derived from the shirt number he was given when playing for his university football team, and is a sad reflection on his playing ability. He believes referring to oneself in the third person is pompous, but secretly enjoys doing so.
His specialist subjects on Wikipedia are Israeli politics, Non-League football and the English language, particularly the alphabet. As a result of an apparent lack of interest from anyone else in the English-speaking world, Number 57 has started a whole bunch of articles on Israeli politics, as well as several others on elections in other countries and a few more on football clubs and leagues. Annoyed by a lack of order in Wikipedia, he has also created a series of election templates and standardised those already in existence.
As well as pomposity, Number 57 also enjoys pedantry, and will spend the first fifteen minutes of any visit to a foreign restaurant pointing out spelling mistakes in the menu to his friends. This may or may not have contributed to the statistically significant drop in the number of invitations to dinner he has received recently.
Number 57 speaks and reads English and Hebrew. As a result of a one year Master's degree being stretched out over two years and the subsequent boredom, he has also learnt to read in Cyrillic and Arabic.
Lastly, he has a variety of political beliefs that suggest he is rather confused about whether he is right-wing or left-wing. The only thing he is sure about is that every ethnic group should have the right to an independent homeland, even those that consider sheep innards to be a national dish. If you would like to make suggestions as to his political leanings, use the userboxes below as a guide.
[edit] Articles created
[edit] Football related
Ashington, Bootle, Burton Swifts, Burton Wanderers, Gainsborough Trinity, Glossop North End, Hapoel Acre, Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona, the Israeli football league system, Liga Alef, Liga Bet, Loughborough, Merthyr Town, Nelson, New Brighton, New Brighton Tower, Rotherham Town, Sektzia Nes Tziona and the Vasermil Stadium
[edit] Politics
[edit] Israeli politics
Agriculture and Development, Agudat Israel Workers, Akhva, the Alignment, the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers, Rostam Bastuni, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, the Democratic List of Nazareth, the Democratic Movement, the Druze Party, the Faction independent of Labour Unity, the Fighters' List, the Free Centre, the Hebrew Communists, Ofer Hugi, the Independent Liberals, the Independent Socialist Faction, Knesset elections in 1949, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977, 1981 and 1984, Prime Ministerial election in 1999, the Jewish-Arab Brotherhood, Kalman Kahana, Labour Unity, the Left Camp of Israel, the Left Faction, the Liberal Party , Maki (original), Meri, Mizrakhi, Mizrakhi Workers, Moked, the Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism, the National List, Ometz, One Israel (1980), Participation and Brotherhood, Participation and Development, Progress and Development, Progress and Work, the Progressive Party, the Religious Torah Front, Sephardim and Oriental Communities, Tami, Esterina Tartman, Telem, This World – New Power, the United Arab List (1976), the United Religious Front, the Unity Party, the Women's Party, Ya'ad, Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement and the Yemenite Association
[edit] Random elections and referenda
| 1960: |
Belgian Congo |
| 1962: |
Brunei |
| 1970: |
Pakistan |
| 1984: |
India |
| 1988: |
India |
| 1990: |
Burma, Zimbabwe |
| 1993: |
Russia |
| 1999: |
India, Uruguay, Yemen |
| 2000: |
Uzbekistan |
| 2001: |
East Timor, Guyana, Honduras, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Solomon Islands, Transnistria |
| 2002: |
Colombia (presidential and parliamentary), East Timor, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea |
| 2003: |
Cambodia, Jordan, Kiribati (presidential and parliamentary), Maldives, Yemen |
| 2004: |
Cook Islands, Mayotte, Mongolia, Namibia (presidential and parliamentary), Nauru, Palau, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu |
| 2005: |
DR Congo, Honduras, Maldives, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Suriname, Tajikistan, Tonga, Transnistria |
| 2006: |
Solomon Islands |
| 2007: |
Jordan, Seychelles |
[edit] Election templates
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium (local), Belize (local), Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (national and local), Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Cyprus, Norway, Palau, Palestine, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal (local), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Korea, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Transnistria (national and local), Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia
[edit] Templates standardised
Alberta, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Zealand, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Nova Scotia, Portugal, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Serbia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sweden, UK, Yukon, Zimbabwe
[edit] Totally random
The Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Mishmar HaNegev
[edit] Categories created
Election templates, Former Members of the Knesset, Signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence
[edit] Userboxes
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This user is a committed advocate of democracy. |
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This user does not smoke. |
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This user is drug-free. |
[edit] Barnstars, etc.
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The Original Barnstar |
| You have done a great job in creating so many articles related to football, so here's a token of appreciation --NRS | T/M\B 13:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC) 06:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| 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 talk? 10:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC) |
