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Hello and welcome to my userpage. My main contributions are on elections and referendums, largely focusing on countries outside the main anglosphere (as there are already enough editors covering those countries). I also do bits and pieces on political parties, politicians and football. As of early 2024, I had added around 7,700 articles to Wikipedia, of which around 3,700 are on elections or referendums, 1,400 on politicians, 1,100 on political parties, 720 on places, 300 on football, 300 on other politics, plus others on random topics like Eakabarere or Ulai Otobed. A more detailed breakdown of article types and the associated country is here.

I edit Wikipedia because I think everyone should be able to access the accumulated knowledge of humanity, and because I am interested in the topics themselves and enjoy the research and reading required to write the articles. I am very thankful for the existence of the British Library, in which I have probably spent thousands of hours, and should also note my thanks to Wikimedia UK, who provided me with a grant to purchase Elections in Europe: A data handbook, which allowed me to create or improve over a thousand articles.

As well as article creation, some of the more satisfying things I've managed to do on Wikipedia include:
 * Creating List of the first female members of parliament by country and writing several hundred of the linked biographies.
 * Creating updater templates like Israel populations or English football updater that allow thousands of articles be updated in a single edit.
 * Starting the RfC that led to election article titles changing from "Niuean general election, 2005" to "2005 Niuean general election". This led to over 35,000 articles being moved after the RfC passed (thankfully via a bot).
 * (Sort of) figuring out how to use Lua to expand the Election results template created by Ythlev to cover all types of elections (a huge thanks should also go to Frietjes who helped on multiple occasions when I was stuck).
 * Adding the embedding function to Infobox election and Infobox legislative election that allows infobox stacking (like this).
 * Completing various article sets – mostly full sets of national election articles, but also things like signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence, all people to have been a member of the Knesset or government minister in Israel, all registered places in Israel, all grounds to have hosted Football League matches etc.

Did you know
A few articles I created have been selected for DYK:
 * 1) ... that the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset?
 * 2) ... that Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit was the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel?
 * 3) ... that the 1951 Gold Coast general election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage?
 * 4) ... 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?
 * 5) ... 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?
 * 6) ... 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?
 * 7) ... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
 * 8) ... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
 * 9) ... that Hussniya Jabara was the first Israeli Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset?
 * 10) ... that Gershom Schocken was the editor of Haaretz for over 50 years?
 * 11) ... that Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was the first non-Jewish member of an Israeli government?
 * 12) ... that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France, where he was wanted for embezzlement?
 * 13) ... that Shmuel Rechtman was the first member of the Knesset to be sent to prison?
 * 14) ... that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
 * 15) ... that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
 * 16) ... that the twenty-ninth government of Israel was the first to have a non-Jewish minister?
 * 17) ... that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
 * 18) ... that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
 * 19) ... that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa?
 * 20) ... that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo, Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
 * 21) ... that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum, thereby opting for independence?
 * 22) ... that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?
 * 23) ... that following a referendum in 1984, Liechtenstein became the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote?
 * 24) ... that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title?
 * 25) ... that the 2002 Costa Rican presidential election was the first in the country's history to go to a second round?
 * 26) ... that by making her debut in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 16, Cecilia Santiago became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup?
 * 27) ... that Japanese international footballer Aya Sameshima worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants prior to the disaster there?
 * 28) ... that the electoral system for the 1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid?
 * 29) ... that Pike's Lane was the venue of the first-ever goal scored in league football?
 * 30) ... that despite receiving the most votes in the 1959 elections, the Dahomeyan Democratic Union emerged as the smallest of the three parties in the Territorial Assembly?
 * 31) ... that Eric Lawson was the first directly elected MP in the Solomon Islands?
 * 32) ... that the 1984 status referendum in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been described as the "smallest act of self-determination ever conducted"?
 * 33) ... that the 1970 general elections in Montserrat saw Percival Austin Bramble's Progressive Democratic Party defeat the ruling Montserrat Labour Party, led by his father William Henry Bramble?
 * 34) ... that the original version of the Massey Ferguson 35 released in the UK was known as the "Gold Belly" due to its distinctive colour scheme?
 * 35) ... that New Logie Green is the only stadium outside Glasgow to have hosted a Scottish Cup final?
 * 36) ... that the first-ever goal in the Scottish Football League was scored at the original Celtic Park?
 * 37) ... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?

Other potential DYKs
A few other interesting articles created after I stopped having the patience to go through the DYK process:
 * 1) ... that John Maynard Hedstrom, Robert Crompton, Henry Marks and Henry Milne Scott were known as the 'big four' andt heavily influenced the Fijian economy and political sphere in the first half of the 20th century?
 * 2) ... that alongside Irene Jai Narayan and Losalini Raravuya Dovi, Loloma Livingston was one of the first female members of the Legislative Council of Fiji?
 * 3) ... that Doris Booth was the first female member of the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea?
 * 4) ... that Percy Morgan was the only member of the constitutional convention not to sign the new constitution of Western Samoa?
 * 5) ... that Savenaca Tamaibeka was a member of Fiji's first-ever international rugby union team and scored a try "with three opponents hanging on to him"?
 * 6) ... that Arno Max Gurau was described as "the only Jew in Western Samoa"?
 * 7) ... that Molitoni Finau was Tonga's longest-serving MP, holding office for over 40 years?
 * 8) ... that Alfred Clarke Turnbull served as 'Acting' Administrator of Western Samoa for eight years before his post was made permanent?
 * 9) ... that the 1935 Gold Coast legislative election had to be re-run in Accra due to the "undue influence of gong-gong beating" in the initial vote?
 * 10) ... that Charlene Warren-Peu is the first woman to be elected head of government in the Pitcairn Islands?
 * 11) ... that William Groves was the youngest-ever sergeant in the Australian military?
 * 12) ... that the candidacy of Arthur Young in the 1891 Cypriot legislative election caused significant controversy, and efforts to prevent him winning led to the results being partially annulled?
 * 13) ... that Dick Charles Brown was the first Leader of Government Business of the Cook Islands?
 * 14) ... that Faimaala Filipo was the first female MP in Samoa?
 * 15) ... that Afoafouvale Misimoa was the first Pacific Islander to head the Pacific Community?
 * 16) ... that Eugene Paul was the first Leader of Government Business of Western Samoa?
 * 17) ... that Kubra Noorzai was the first woman to serve as a government minister in Afghanistan?
 * 18) ... that Tararo Jane Ariki was the first female member of the Legislative Council of the Cook Islands?
 * 19) ... that Aziza Gardizi and Homeira Seljuqi were the first two female Senators in Afghanistan?
 * 20) ... that Vilasini Menon was the first woman elected to national office in Singapore?
 * 21) ... that Silas Sitai was the first Solomon Islander to become Speaker of the islands' legislature?
 * 22) ... that the coastwatcher Paul Mason was described as representing "the upper limit of continuous bravery" during World War II?
 * 23) ... that Carmen Bigler was the first and only woman to be elected to the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands?
 * 24) ... that Ulai Otobed was the first Micronesian woman to become a doctor?
 * 25) ... that Robert Munro was the first President of the Senate of Fiji?
 * 26) ... that Matthias Toliman was the first Leader of the Opposition in Papua New Guinea?
 * 27) ... that Anaseini Qionibaravi was the first female member of the Senate of Fiji?
 * 28) ... that Tuiaana Tuimaleali'ifano Suatipatipa II was the only member of the Council of Deputies for most of the period between 1962 and his death in 1974?
 * 29) ... that Iman Khatib-Yasin was the first hijab-wearing woman elected to the Knesset in Israel?
 * 30) ... that Mimmi Kanervo, Liisi Kivioja, Sandra Lehtinen, Dagmar Neovius, Alli Nissinen, Maria Paaso-Laine, Hilma Räsänen, Maria Raunio and Jenny Upari were among the women elected to parliament in Finland in 1907, becoming the first elected female parliamentarians in the world?
 * 31) ... that Austin Bernicke was the first Nauruan to attend university?
 * 32) ... that Francis Aqorau was the first Solomon Islander to earn a university degree?
 * 33) ... that Ngatupuna Matepi was the first official Leader of the Opposition in the Cook Islands?
 * 34) ... that Reuben Uatioa was the first Leader of Government Business in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands?
 * 35) ... that Julian Toganivalu was the first Fijian to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst?
 * 36) ... that Fred Archibald often used his certificate of sanity during debates in the Legislative Council of Fiji to challenge other MLCs?
 * 37) ... that Oala Oala-Rarua was the first Lord Mayor of Port Moresby?
 * 38) ... that Tofa Siaosi was the youngest-ever MP and minister in Western Samoa at the time he was elected and later appointed to the cabinet?
 * 39) ... that New Hebridean MP Alexis Yolou was killed during a rebellion on Tanna island?
 * 40) ... that Wilson Inia was the first Rotuman representative in the Senate of Fiji?
 * 41) ... that Dwight Heine was the first Micronesian to earn a college degree?
 * 42) ... that Roger Laroque served as mayor of Nouméa for 33 years?
 * 43) ... that Naboua Ratieta was the first Chief Minister of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands?
 * 44) ... that Meli Loki was the first Fijian announcer for the FBC and built the biggest bure in Fiji?
 * 45) ... that brothers Ivan and Claude Champion were appointed to the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea in 1951, having earlier been discouraged from joining the civil service by their father, who feared being accused of nepotism?
 * 46) ... that Ester Banda, Margret Mbeba and Nakatindi Yeta Nganga were the first women elected to parliament in Zambia?
 * 47) ... that Leota Leuluaiali'i Ituau Ale was dismissed from the Legislative Assembly of Samoa for fathering a child with a mistress?
 * 48) ... that Lapati Paka and Patricia Rex were the first two women elected to the Niue Assembly, and Rex was the designer of the Flag of Niue?
 * 49) ... that Mary Gilu was the first indigenous woman elected to the Representative Assembly in Vanuatu?
 * 50) ... that Hanna Sahlfeld-Singer was among the first group of women elected to parliament in Switzerland, and the first sitting member to give birth?
 * 51) ... that Halimahton Abdul Majid was the only female candidate in the 1955 Malayan general election and became the first Malaysian woman elected to parliament?
 * 52) ... that Emilienne Rochecouste was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Mauritius despite her party being opposed to women's suffrage?
 * 53) ... that Ayla Halit Kazım was the first female parliamentarian in Cyprus, but never received her MP's salary?
 * 54) ... that Agnes Terei was the first woman to be appointed to the Advisory Council of the New Hebrides?
 * 55) ... that Emma Eigenmann was the first woman elected to the Landtag of Liechtenstein?
 * 56) ... that although women could not vote in the 1938 Surinamese general election, Grace Schneiders-Howard was elected and became Suriname's first female parliamentarian?
 * 57) ... that Muriel Hanschell was the first female member of the Parliament of Barbados?
 * 58) ... that Liri Gega was the only woman amongst the founders of the Communist Party of Albania and was later one of the first group of women elected to parliament?
 * 59) ... that Naxhije Dume was the first woman to be appointed as a government minister in Albania?
 * 60) ... that Bertha Higgins was appointed to the West Indies Federal Senate in 1958, becoming the first female legislator from Antigua and Barbuda?
 * 61) ... that Emogene Creque was the first woman to become a member of the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands?
 * 62) ... that Dorcas Idowu was the first woman appointed to a legislature in what is now Cameroon, while Julienne Keutcha was the first woman elected to parliament in the country?
 * 63) ... that Ellen Mills Scarbrough was the first woman elected to the Legislature in Liberia?
 * 64) ... that Hiranyamayee Lama was the first woman elected to parliament in Bhutan?
 * 65) ... that Marthe Matongo was the first woman elected to parliament in the Central African Republic?
 * 66) ... that Cornelia Razoux Schultz-Metzer was the first female legislator in Indonesia?
 * 67) ... that Margaret Rose Kelsick was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Montserrat?
 * 68) ... that Madge Biggs was the first woman appointed to the Legislative Council of the Falklands, and Marjorie Vinson was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council?
 * 69) ... that Maria Irausquin-Wajcberg was the first woman elected to the Island Council in Aruba?
 * 70) ... that Angela Altagracia de Lannoy-Willems was the first woman elected to the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles?
 * 71) ... that Céline Oopa was the first woman elected to the Territorial Assembly of French Polynesia?
 * 72) ... that Marie Randall was the first woman elected to the States of Guernsey?
 * 73) ... that Joséphine Hundt was the first woman elected to parliament in Togo?
 * 74) ... that Eva Sylvester was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Grenada?
 * 75) ... that Mele Siuʻilikutapu was the first woman elected to parliament in Tonga?
 * 76) ... that Hsieh Er and Lin Shen were the first two women elected to parliament from Taiwan?
 * 77) ... that Ivy Forster avoided deportation from Jersey by the Nazi authorities after a doctor pretended that she was suffering from tuberculosis, and later became the first woman elected to the States?
 * 78) ... that Iris Collins was the first woman elected to parliament in Jamaica?
 * 79) ... that Elise Rasoamampionona was the first woman elected to parliament in Madagascar and later became the country's first female minister?
 * 80) ... that Roxane Noat-Notari was the first woman elected to parliament in Monaco?
 * 81) ... that Anna Sychravová was the only woman elected to parliament from Slovakia in the 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election?
 * 82) ... that Hnin Mya was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Burma?
 * 83) ... that Rosa Castañeda de Mora was the first woman elected to Congress in Guatemala?
 * 84) ... that Cynthia Torres and Lagrimas Untalan were the first women elected to the Legislature of Guam?
 * 85) ... that Latifa Bennani-Smires and Badia Skalli were the first women elected to parliament in Morocco?
 * 86) ... that Thelma Brown and Carol Warren were the first women elected to the Island Council in Pitcairn?
 * 87) ... that Alice Boase and Barbara Saben were the first women appointed to the Legislative Council of Uganda?
 * 88) ... that Bai Lianzhen, Amina Bughra, Chang Ping-chiang, Chang Wei-chen, Chao Mao-hua, Chen Jianchen, Chen Jiujing, Chen Mingxian, Chen Yi Yun, Cheng Xiaofu, Cheng Xiu, Cheng Yizhi, Chou Hui-ying, Chou Min, Cui Puzhen, Cui Renqiu, Deng Jixing, Ding Chengfang, Fang Jida, Fei Hsia, Fu Ching-yen, Fu Yan, Hsieh Er, Hsing Shu-yen, Hu Manqi, Huang Jiewen, Huang Peilan, Huang Zhiquan, Huang Chen-hua, Ji Qingyi, Lee Hsiu-fen, Li Hui-min, Li Man-kuei, Li Tianlin, Li Xiangheng, Lin Shen, Ling Yingzhen, Liu Heng-ching, Liu Muzhen, Liu Puren, Liu Woying, Liu Yuzhong, Lou Yiwen, Lu Yun-chang, Luo Heng, Ma Runmin, Ma Shucheng, Mao Tan-yun, Ni Yujie, Pao Yi-min, Pi Yi-shu, Qian Ying, Qiao Jiafu, Rashida, Shih Min-chi, Sun Chi-hsu, Suo Zhaoshiya, Tan Tiwu, Tang Gouzhen, Tcheng Yu-hsiu, Tung Tao-yun, Wang Ai-fen, Wang Chang-hui, Wang Chunbi, Wang Der-zheng, Wang Hsiao-hua, Wang Hsiao-ying, Wang Lubing, Wang Tung-chen, Wei Pei-lan, Wong Tsun-yin, Wu Chi-mei, Wu Jingbin, Wu Lin, Wu Yunfang, Xia Jingru, Xiang Runkun, Yang Pao-lin, Yang Chongrui, Yeh Yeh-chin, Yu Ruzhou, Zhang Guangren and Zhuang Jing (plus He Meizhi and Nie Yanghua) were the first women elected to parliament in China?
 * 89) ... that Virginie Ambougou and Antoinette Tsono were the first women elected to parliament in Gabon?
 * 90) ... that Jessie Burnham, one of the first women in parliament in Guyana, published a booklet warning voters to beware her brother, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham?
 * 91) ... that Bienvenida de Sánchez and Dolores de Miño were the first women elected to Congress in Paraguay?
 * 92) ... that Louise Yim was the first woman elected to parliament in South Korea?
 * 93) ... that Mary Mdziniso was the first woman to become a member of parliament in Eswatini when she was appointed to the Senate in 1968, while Lomasontfo Dludlu was the first woman elected to parliament in the country in 1993?
 * 94) ... that Carmen Meléndez de Cálix, Carmen Griffin de Lefreve and Herlinda Blanco de Bonilla were the first women elected to parliament in Honduras?
 * 95) ... that Anna von Gierke, one of the first women elected to parliament in Germany, was deselected by her party prior to the 1920 elections due to her Jewish background?
 * 96) ... that Hwang Shin-duk, Park Hyun-sook, Park Seung-ho and Shin Eui-kyung were the first female legislators in South Korea?
 * 97) ... that Edwige Antier and Marie-Paule Serve were the first two women elected to the Territorial Assembly of New Caledonia?
 * 98) ... that Manuela Billinghurst, Alicia Blanco Montesinos, Lola Blanco Montesinos, María Colina Lozano, Matilde Pérez Palacio, Carlota Ramos de Santolaya, María Eleonora Silva Silva and Juana Ubilluz de Palacios were the first women elected to the Chamber of Deputies in Peru?
 * 99) ... that Taiba al-Mawali and Shakour bint Mohammed al-Ghamari were the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Oman?
 * 100) ... that Widad Haroun and Jihan al-Mosli were the first two female parliamentarians from Syria?
 * 101) ... that Rosa Anders Causse, María Caro Más, María Gómez Carbonell, María Antonia Quintana Herrero, Balbina Remedios, Herminia Rodríguez Fernández and Consuelo Vázquez Bello were the first women elected to Congress in Cuba?
 * 102) ... that Moomina Haleem was the first woman elected to parliament in the Maldives?
 * 103) ... that Hajar Tarbiat was the first woman elected to the Senate in Iran?
 * 104) ... that Fanny Blatny, Anna Chlebounová, Maria Deutsch, Božena Ecksteinová, Emma Maria Herzig, Betty Karpíšková, Irene Kirpal, Luisa Landová-Štychová, Anna Malá, Ludmila Pechmanová-Klosová, Anna Perthen, Eliška Purkyňová, Augusta Rozsypalová, Františka Skaunicová, Anna Sychravová and Fráňa Zemínová were the first women elected to parliament in Czechoslovakia? Sychravová was the only one elected from Slovakia.
 * 105) ... that Tessa Fowler and Mary Gilu were the first two women elected to parliament in Vanuatu?
 * 106) ... that Cristina Makoli and Lorenza Matute were the first two women elected to parliament in Equatorial Guinea?
 * 107) ... that Ellen 'Maposholi Molapo was the first female member of parliament in Lesotho? 'Mamoshebi Kabi, Mats'eliso Moshabesha and Khauhelo Deborah Raditapole later became the first women elected to parliament.
 * 108) ... that Sheroo Keeka, Elifuraha Marealle and K.F. Walker were the first women appointed to the Legislative Council of Tanganyika?
 * 109) ... that Alcinda Abreu, Maria Arruvaia, Monica Chitupila, Carlota Chiwanga, Cecilia Chongo, Celeste Cossa, Justina Gaspar, Helena da Gloria, Melita Guambe, Maria Laice, Rosinha Lisboa, Graça Machel, Celeste Manhica, Isabel Martins, Salomé Moiane, Felipa Muniveda, Esperança Muthemba, Teresa Nhalingue, Marina Pachinuapa, Felizarda Paulino, Maria Rafael, Ana Sansão, Leopoldina dos Santos, Cristina Tembe, Teresa Tembo and Maria Veloso were the first women elected to parliament in Mozambique?
 * 110) ... that in the 1953 elections in American Samoa, the first under universal suffrage, Zilpher Jennings and Mabel Reid were the first two women elected to the Fono?
 * 111) ... that in 1964 Esther Soyannwo became the first woman elected to parliament in Nigeria, but was unable to take her seat due to violence caused by her election?
 * 112) ... that Marie-Cécile Collet was the first female member of the Seychelles legislature?
 * 113) ... that Rosa Aguigui Reyes was the first woman elected to the Guam Congress?
 * 114) ... that Lowestoft Ladies folded less than a year after winning the WFA Cup?
 * 115) ... that double simultaneous vote is an electoral system in which voters cast a single ballot for multiple offices?
 * 116) ... that Perpetua Sappa Konman was the first woman elected to the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia in 2021, with Micronesia having been the only country in the world (except the Vatican City) to have never had a female member of parliament until then?