User:Roisterer

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The Giant L&P bottle in Paeroa.
Just one of a number of so-so quality images the Roisterer has supplied for Wikipedia

[edit] What is a Roisterer?

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990 edition), a roisterer is someone who revels noisily and uproariously. I've also seen it described as someone who behaves in a drunken, outrageous fashion. I am happy to say that I have never roistered while on Wikipedia (as far as I know).

Who is the Roisterer?
Many have asked this exact question. Many have attempted to answer it. Some say the Roisterer is a lactose intolerant hermaphrodite who hasn't gotten around to adding his/her name to the appropriate Lactose Intolerant Hermaphrodite Wikipedians list. Some say the Roisterer is an illegal immigrant using Wikipedia in a convulated visa scam. There are even those who hold the theory that the Roisterer is in fact a lactose intolerant hermaphrodite illegal immigrant. The jury's still out on that theory, however I do keep an eye on the Lactose Intolerant Hermaphrodite Illegal Immigrant Wikipedians list.

Some have even claimed that the Roisterer is a hack journalist based in (but not from) New Zealand who uses Wikipedia to make heads or tails out of topics he has to write articles on. This claim in particular should be treated with suspicion.

What does the Roisterer like about Wikipedia?
The fact that Wikipedia can be enjoyed on so many different levels. There is the simple level of using Wikipedia as a source of information. Then there is the added enjoyment of being finally able to put to use the apparently useless information I learnt at university. Finally, there are the unintentional laughs derived from reading talk pages as, for example, administrators patiently attempt to explain to new users that articles about the time they got drunk in a friend's garage and were sick on a couch is not really newsworthy enough for Wikipedia.

[edit] Countries the Roisterer has roistered in

Countries the Roisterer would have liked to have roistered in but couldn't get served alcohol

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Meanwhile, much to my shock, I noticed that I have reached 9000 Wikipedia edits.
Amongst the articles I have either created or extensively changed include:

Australiana

• South Australian Premiers: Henry Barwell - Richard Layton Butler - Des Corcoran - John Gunn - Steele Hall - Lionel Hill - Frederick Holder - Thomas Playford II - Thomas Playford IV - Robert Richards - Vaiben Solomon - David Tonkin - Frank Walsh
• Other South Australian MPs (state and federal): William Archibald - Edward Craigie - Patrick Glynn - David Gordon (Australian politician) - Andrew Thomas Jones - Andrew Lacey - Gil Langley - Gregor McGregor - John McLeay, senior - Robin Millhouse - Mick O'Halloran - Alexander Poynton - Albert Robinson - Tom Stott - Baden Teague - David Vigor - Mick Young
• New South Wales MPs (state and federal): Thomas Bavin - Cleaver Bunton - Ernest Carr - Thomas Simpson Crawford - James Fingleton - Arthur Fuller - Al Grassby - Anthony Luchetti - Arthur Manning - Bruce Smith (Australian politician) - Sydney Smith (Australian politician) - Eddie Ward
• Other MPs: Charles Barnes - Doris Blackburn - Maurice Blackburn - Adair Blain - Sam Calder - Thomas Crawford (Australian politician) - Brian Davison - Hugh de Largie - Wilfrid Kent Hughes - Goff Letts - William McWilliams - William Maloney - Harold Nelson (Australian politician) - Peter Nixon - Frederick William Piesse - Norm Sanders - Reginald Withers
• Political Parties: Liberal and Country League - Liberal Movement - New LM - Single Tax League - Unite Australia Party
• Other Politics Related Pages: Australian federal election, 1901 - Division of Mayo - Division of Sturt - Electoral district of Northern Territory - List of Premiers of South Australia by time in office - Northern Territory Legislative Council - Playford Family of Australia
• Geography: Barwon River, Victoria - Dimboola, Victoria - Gulargambone - Gundagai, New South Wales - Jeparit, Victoria - MacIntyre River - Murray Island - Nhill, Victoria - Thursday Island
• Sporting Figures: Geoffrey Attenborough - Russell Ebert - Albert Hartkopf - Neil Hawke - Barry Jarman - Ian King (Australian cricketer) - Wally Koochew - Gil Langley - Charlie Moore (Australian rules footballer) - Laurie Nash - Robert Nash (Australian rules footballer) - Hunter Poon - Wayne Prior - Bob Quinn (Australian footballer) - Tom Quinn (Australian footballer) - Graham Ramshaw - Laurence Schache - Jim Stynes - Charlie Walker (cricketer) - Gavin Wanganeen
• Sporting Clubs: Port Adelaide Football Club - West Torrens Football Club - Woodville Football Club
• Australian History: Richard Bourke - Liverpool riot of 1916 - Nugan Hand Bank - Mark Oliphant - Taman Shud Case - Wake in Fright

Foreign Types

• Royalty: Charles Vyner Brooke - James Brooke - Clémentine of Orléans - Eleonore, Princess Reuss-Köstritz - Giovanna of Savoy - Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma - Zorka of Montenegro
• Cricketers: Jim Allen (cricketer) - Murray Bisset - Sylvester Clarke - Brian Davison - Martin Donnelly (cricketer) - Aubrey Faulkner - Eric Hollies - Charles Llewellyn - Maurice Odumbe - Bernard Tancred - Louis Tancred - Vincent Tancred - Everton Weekes
• Men of Power: Murray Bisset - Georges Boulanger - Lionel Cripps - Lucas Mangope - Kaiser Matanzima - Kenneth Mopeli - Cedric Phatudi - Cecil Hunter Rodwell - Fraser Russell - Lennox Sebe - Herbert Stanley - Lothar von Trotha
• Peoples/Organisations: Baster - Bougainville Revolutionary Army - Cromarty fisher dialect - Kanuri - Second League of Prizren - Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly - Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council
• Famous Transsexual Whistlers and other entertainers: Jeanette Schmid - O.C. Smith - Mack Vickery - Thomas Whythorne
• Places: Angra Pequeña - Historical enclaves - Kwang-Chou-Wan - Lado Enclave - Lebowa - Lena River - Mazoe River - Rehoboth, Namibia - Saemangeum Seawall - Spratly Islands

And here can be found some of the aforementioned so-so quality images that I have provided to Wikipedia.

[edit] Awards

Your contributions to South Australian political history are fantastic and I enjoy reading them. Here's an Epic Barnstar for your efforts! michael talk 08:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

		The Epic Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Roisterer for his work in historical South Australian biographies Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		for your efforts with Australian articles Gnangarra 00:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some legal sounding thing

I was asked to place the following statement on this page. Frankly I have no idea what it is about and am not in the slightest bit interested to find out but it looks harmless enough so here goes.

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

User:Roisterer/Šáňďβöχ