User:Shirt58

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This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

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when 17th centry Heo Mok was visited Song Siyeol, but Song Si-yeol's meeting is nothing. reverted to a long wait of Fail. Angry was Heo Mok Said, "Bojihwyangdong Bulansonsseonsaeng"

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This led knoweth sumhwet of Englyssh.

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この利用者は中級の日本語ができます。

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

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Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.

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這位用戶無法理解中文。
这位用户无法理解中文。

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Ez a szerkesztő nem tud magyarul.

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Acest utilizator nu înțelege româna.

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Tämä käyttäjä ymmärtää suomea hyvin vähän tai ei yhtään.

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"The superfluous, that very necessary thing..." - Voltaire

Hi, I'm Peter aka Shirt58. My username comes from the field hockey shirt I was allocated some while ago. Yes, men do play field hockey. And Tasmania is not a fictional place.

The Australia men's national field hockey team has a long tradition of being the the best in the world and then somehow managing not to win the Olympic gold medal, with one exception.

I have very strong opinions about almost everything. My views are unconventional, iconoclastic and coruscatingly pragmatic. You will find nothing of the sort in my contributions to the Wikipedia project.

This user page has been vandalized , apparently, but I am far too scatter-brained to have even noticed, let alone count how many times.

Brief Q&A

Q: Shirt58, are you as easy-going, helpful, ridiculously erudite, and concise in real life as you appear to be from your contributions?
A: Yes, that is correct.

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Did You No, seriously, I'm not making this stuff up
that Ego Leonard is a giant minifigure who is no real than you are? that Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal band for kids? that an Alibi-ya can provide a fake boss to give a speech at your wedding? that Undie Runs are very popular with College administrators? that Bidenichthys beeblebroxi is a hoopy fish that really knows where its towel is? that Parkes, New South Wales is the home of the Parkes Elvis Festival and the Parkes Spacemen? that there is a Wikipedia article called Ȓ? that "Hamlet on Ice" was a jest at the expense of Shakespeare and Australian manhood? that Milnesium tardigradum can into space? that Australia is a philistine nation but Melbourne is a civilised city? that the paper frill wot looks like a chef's hat, innit, is called a Manchette? that the article shipyourenemiesglitter.com, despite being completely ludicrous, somehow managed to survive its AfD?

Did You No, seriously, I'm not making this stuff up

that Ego Leonard is a giant minifigure who is no real than you are?
that Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal band for kids?
that an Alibi-ya can provide a fake boss to give a speech at your wedding?
that Undie Runs are very popular with College administrators?
that Bidenichthys beeblebroxi is a hoopy fish that really knows where its towel is?
that Parkes, New South Wales is the home of the Parkes Elvis Festival and the Parkes Spacemen?
that there is a Wikipedia article called Ȓ?
that "Hamlet on Ice" was a jest at the expense of Shakespeare and Australian manhood?
that Milnesium tardigradum can into space?
that Australia is a philistine nation but Melbourne is a civilised city?
that the paper frill wot looks like a chef's hat, innit, is called a Manchette?
that the article shipyourenemiesglitter.com, despite being completely ludicrous, somehow managed to survive its AfD?

Mockpuppet account
I have an allowable alternate account - User:Shirt58's testing account.

My editing philosophy

Be concise and use good references.

This user has written or expanded 14 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

I've recently tried to bump up my contributions to at least 50% article-space edits. As of 27 February 2014^[update] my "edit count pie" looked like this. As of 1 November 2014^[update] my "edit count pie" looked like... erm, a SVG image with XML markup I couldn't even begin to understand, but it's 53.3%.

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Wikipedia projects

This user is a participant in WikiProject Insects.

This user is a member of WikiProject Australian literature.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Rugby league

This user is a member of WikiProject India, a WikiProject which aims to create, edit and expand articles relating to India. Please feel free to join us.

Where I live or have lived

This user lives in the Australian state of Victoria.

This user lives in the
Australian Capital Territory.

This user lives in Tasmania.

This user lives in New South Wales.

This user lives in Queensland.

This user lives in or hails from Tokyo.

Personal

This user is a lawyer.

UTAS

This user attends or attended the University of Tasmania.

This user is a student or graduate of
The University of Melbourne

UTS

This user attends or attended the University of Technology Sydney.

QUT

This user is a student or graduate of the Queensland University of Technology.

Honk honk, here comes the you-know-what mobile. I hope it delivers sushi.

This user is a mammal.

This user is a mamil

This user is ranked somewhere on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

This user is ranked somewhere on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

This user is no real than you are.

All your Beuys are belong to us

This user has read a lot about Jacobean revenge plays (including the Ur-Hamlet) and gets the extended joke about "The Courier's Tragedy" in The Crying of Lot 49

Frequently questioned answers
Somewhat of a star in invertebrate zoology, but just didn't have the maths for most of the other stuff. Ok, I studied Italian in Secondary School for four years, did a semester of Middle English and majored in Japanese. I also took a semester at a private language school in Chinese that would have totaled 20 hours tuition, tops. That's the whole box and dice in my formal language study. My Block log will answer a lot of those kind of questions. For example, the connection between Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs and Ernst's Murdering Airplane. Possibly, but I still love this song. Now you're raking up ancient history from my early University days. I was considered to be too much interested in Eng. Lit. to be a proper Languages nerd. And to be too much of a Languages nerd to be considered a proper Eng. Lit. nerd. Ah, my College days, the best eleven years of my life... On second thoughts, let's not go to Law School. It is a silly place. "When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day." Zadie Smith, On Beauty, 2005 Public service job. Task: explain completely in fewest words. OK, I admit it: I am a Flying Spaghetti Marxist, completely committed to the Saucialist cause. Pasta la Revolución siempre! In the first (and only) year of Bachelor of Science studies, I gave myself extra time to study for Zoology 101 by not bothering to turn up for the other subjects' exams. New bicycle shoes and pedals! "Jackson Pollock was final proof to the philistines that the lunatics had taken over the asylum of modern art; however, the function of the philistines is to be slain." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980 "Bloody hell. Wikipediocracy is becoming a nut magnet, just like Wikipedia and WR." Eric Barbour, Wikipediocracy, 2013

Frequently questioned answers

Ok, I studied Italian in Secondary School for four years, did a semester of Middle English and majored in Japanese. I also took a semester at a private language school in Chinese that would have totaled 20 hours tuition, tops. That's the whole box and dice in my formal language study.
My Block log will answer a lot of those kind of questions.
For example, the connection between Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs and Ernst's Murdering Airplane.
Possibly, but I still love this song.
Now you're raking up ancient history from my early University days. I was considered to be too much interested in Eng. Lit. to be a proper Languages nerd. And to be too much of a Languages nerd to be considered a proper Eng. Lit. nerd. Ah, my College days, the best eleven years of my life...

"When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day." Zadie Smith, On Beauty, 2005
Public service job. Task: explain completely in fewest words.
OK, I admit it: I am a Flying Spaghetti Marxist, completely committed to the Saucialist cause. Pasta la Revolución siempre!
In the first (and only) year of Bachelor of Science studies, I gave myself extra time to study for Zoology 101 by not bothering to turn up for the other subjects' exams.
New bicycle shoes and pedals!
"Jackson Pollock was final proof to the philistines that the lunatics had taken over the asylum of modern art; however, the function of the philistines is to be slain." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980
"Bloody hell. Wikipediocracy is becoming a nut magnet, just like Wikipedia and WR." Eric Barbour, Wikipediocracy, 2013

Quotes I like
"— from a good family?" prompted Amit. "From a good family." "Well educated?" "Well educated. Saraswati gives better blessings in the long run than Lakshmi." - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, page 493 The idea that there were shops devoted entirely to books would have astonished the Pee Wee cow crowd, except for Erwin Hungate, who was a reader, his big tallow-colored face buried in a book even at the bar. ... Vic Vase took up the book often and read passages aloud, mangling his way through medieval French, church Latin, and antique English. "Jesus," said Erwin Hungate, the reader, "lay off, will you? Sound like Umberto Eco." "Who?" said Vic. "I know him," said Old Man DeBock. "Bert Eckle, used a work for Bob Utley. He’s out in Nevada now in a home. Home for old cowboys." - Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt "The Contest", pages 131, 134

Quotes I like

"— from a good family?" prompted Amit.
"From a good family."
"Well educated?"
"Well educated. Saraswati gives better blessings in the long run than Lakshmi."
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, page 493

The idea that there were shops devoted entirely to books would have astonished the Pee Wee cow crowd, except for Erwin Hungate, who was a reader, his big tallow-colored face buried in a book even at the bar.
...
Vic Vase took up the book often and read passages aloud, mangling his way through medieval French, church Latin, and antique English.
"Jesus," said Erwin Hungate, the reader, "lay off, will you? Sound like Umberto Eco."
"Who?" said Vic.
"I know him," said Old Man DeBock. "Bert Eckle, used a work for Bob Utley. He’s out in Nevada now in a home. Home for old cowboys."
- Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt "The Contest", pages 131, 134

Barnstars and so on

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thanks for your help with introducing me to Wikipedia. With your help about how to conduct myself about certain issues, and giving me information about my deleted articles and other Wikipedia policies. Ianlopez12 (talk) 6:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks, for being such a lovely and ORIGINAL AND HELPFUL user. Ian Raphael Mabulac Lopez (talk) 02:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		You've worked tirelessly at improving Wikipedia for nearly five years, with little recognition. I don't normally give these things out—I can never find the right words—but I thought I'd make an exception. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 10:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		13007 contribs. Now take a break. --43?9enter ^★_☭ 07:06, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For being a generally nice person and protecting the innocent (think about it, you're like batman) Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 11:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	thanks for the help getting started Platecarpus.p (talk) 17:49, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Hey! Thanks for helping me get started by telling me bout the four tildes. Orangewarning (talk) 11:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thanks for the welcome! Pppowercurve (talk) 15:09, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Precious I

	spice humour
	Thank you for adding to the encyclopedia in concise style, serving dishes spiced with humour, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	thanks for your suggestion I really appreciate it and I will always try to help improving WikiPedia Anurag (talk) 13:23, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thanks so much for this: Talk:Lee Areum. I guess I'm not much of a people person. I usually just start shooting and sort though the bodies later. :- ) Don 13:25, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	We Germans are immune to humour, as everybody who knows them will tell you. I obviously did not get it without hint, had not heard about franglais in the first place, and managed to confuse myself in the meantime. Much appreciated. Lectonar (talk) 12:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Thanks you! a my solar cave! Hello! I'm Shy Zorua! 04:12, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Thanks, I needed it. Go Phightins! (talk) 11:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For creating Stylidium humphreysii on the heels of the new Fred Humphreys article. Jokestress (talk) 11:12, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for the tips - I'm not super knowledgeable about wikipedia guidelines Likesthisproject (talk) 23:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

	The Are You Sure Tasmania is a Real Place? Award
	For the comment in your user page giving me a little laugh at the end of a long day. Sulfurboy (talk) 09:20, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Melbourne

So Pete, where in Australia are you from?
I'm from Melbourne.
Melbourne? Where's that?
(sighs) It's about 800 kilometres south-west of Sydney
Oh, Sydney. Yeah, I know where Sydney is.

I'm not "technical" - what do I mean by that?

Basically, that I have pretty much no idea what requests at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) mean, let alone how to address them.

I'm in the news, sort of

This from 2025 and that from 2014.

Quick (non-AI) summary: don't.

From Supreme Court of Victoria website:
Generative AI and Large Language Models create output that is not the product of reasoning. Nor are they a legal research tool. They use probability to predict a given sequence of words.

Recent events

OK, obviously the whole Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity thing. I'm still thinking about this. I've been a union member all of my adult life, sometimes inadvertently a member of two unions at once (have I mentioned how absent-minded I am, lately?) I'm currently a member of a union that has as its predecessor one of those unions that sided with the DLP in 1955. That union I chose to not specifically not mention is, in my opinion, a clown car for various sinecures... but in solidarity...

New computer

Maybe back in 2015 or so, my then Compaq computer bought in 2008 sent me messages its "build" or "OS" or something like that wasn't supported any more, so I got in my car and stopped at the first electronics and homewares shop I came across, and bought the second-cheapest desktop they had on offer. Go forward to 2025, and that desktop sent me messages that its "build" or "OS" or something like that wasn't supported any more. Saturday 4 Jul 2026 I knocked my 2015 computer off my desk and its "on button" doesn't work anymore. So so I got in my car and stopped at the first electronics and homewares shop I came across and bought the second-cheapest laptop. And so here we are.