User:Shirt58

 "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.

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.

My editing philosophy

 * Be concise and use good references.

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Personal

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Precious I

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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.