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Nur al-Din Zengi

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire. He reigned from 1146 to 1174. He is regarded as an important figure of the Second Crusade.

War against Crusaders
Nur ad-Din was the second son of Imad al-Din Zengi, the Turkmen atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, who was a devoted enemy of the crusader presence in Syria. After the assassination of his father in 1146, Nur ad-Din and his older brother Saif ad-Din Ghazi I divided the kingdom between themselves, with Nur ad-Din governing Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi establishing himself in Mosul. The border between the two new kingdoms was formed by the Khabur River. Almost as soon as he began his rule, Nur ad-Din attacked the Principality of Antioch, seizing several castles in the north of Syria, while at the same time he defeated an attempt by Joscelin II to recover the County of Edessa, which had been conquered by Zengi in 1144. In 1146, after the Frankish attempt to reoccupy Edessa, Nur ad-Din massacred the local Armenian Christian population of the city and destroyed its fortifications, in punishment for assisting Joscelin in this attempt. The women and children of Edessa were enslaved.

Nur ad-Din sought to make alliances with his Muslim neighbours in northern Iraq and Syria in order to strengthen the Muslim front against their Crusader enemies. In 1147, he signed a bilateral treaty with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, governor of Damascus. As part of this agreement, he also married Mu'in ad-Din's daughter Ismat ad-Din Khatun. Together Mu'in ad-Din and Nur ad-Din besieged the cities of Bosra and Salkhad, which had been captured by a rebellious vassal of Mu'in ad-Din named Altuntash, but Mu'in ad-Din was always suspicious of Nur ad-Din's intentions and did not want to offend his former crusader allies in Jerusalem, who had helped defend Damascus against Zengi. To reassure Mu'in ad-Din, Nur ad-Din curtailed his stay in Damascus and turned instead towards the Principality of Antioch, where he was able to seize Artah, Kafar Latha, Basarfut, and Bara.

In 1148, the Second Crusade arrived in Syria, led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany. Nur ad-Din's victories and the Crusader's losses in Asia Minor however had made the recovery of Edessa – their original goal – practically impossible. Given that Aleppo was too far off from Jerusalem for an attack and Damascus, recently allied with the Kingdom of Jerusalem against Zengi, had entered into an alliance with Nur ad-Din, the Crusaders decided to attack Damascus, the conquest of which would preclude a combination of Jerusalem's enemies. Mu'in ad-Din threatened to turn the city over to Nur ad-Din if he was unable to defend it, but the crusader siege collapsed after only four days.

Nur ad-Din took advantage of the failure of the Crusade to prepare another attack against Antioch. In 1149, he launched an offensive against the territories dominated by the castle of Harim, situated on the eastern bank of the Orontes, after which he besieged the castle of Inab. The Prince of Antioch, Raymond of Poitiers, quickly came to the aid of the besieged citadel. The Muslim army destroyed the Crusader army at the Battle of Inab, during which Raymond was killed, moreover, Raymond's head was sent to Nur ad-Din, who sent it along to the Caliph Al-Muqtafi in Baghdad. Nur ad-Din marched all the way to the coast and expressed his dominance of Syria by symbolically bathing in the Mediterranean. He did not, however, attack Antioch itself; he was content with capturing all Antiochene territory east of the Orontes and leaving a rump state around the city, which in any case soon fell under the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire. In 1150, he defeated Joscelin II for a final time, after allying with the Seljuk Sultan of Rüm, Mas'ud (whose daughter he also married). Joscelin was blinded and died in his prison in Aleppo in 1159. In the Battle of Aintab, Nur ad-Din tried but failed to prevent King Baldwin III of Jerusalem's evacuation of the Latin Christian residents of Turbessel. In 1152, Nur ad-Din captured and burned Tortosa, briefly occupying the town.

Unification of sultanate
It was Nur ad-Din's dream to unite the various Muslim forces between the Euphrates and the Nile to make a common front against the crusaders. In 1149 Saif ad-Din Ghazi died, and a younger brother, Qutb ad-Din Mawdud, succeeded him. Qutb ad-Din recognized Nur ad-Din as overlord of Mosul, so that the major cities of Mosul and Aleppo were united under one man. Damascus was all that remained as an obstacle to the unification of Syria.

After the failure of the Second Crusade, Mu'in ad-Din had renewed his treaty with the crusaders, and after his death in 1149, his successor Mujir ad-Din Abaq followed the same policy. In 1150 and 1151, Nur ad-Din besieged the city, but retreated each time with no success, aside from empty recognition of his suzerainty. When Ascalon was captured by the crusaders in 1153, Mujir ad-Din forbade Nur ad-Din from travelling across his territory. Mujir ad-Din, however, was a weaker ruler than his predecessor, and he also agreed to pay an annual tribute to the crusaders in exchange for their protection. The growing weakness of Damascus under Mujir ad-Din allowed Nur ad-Din to overthrow him in 1154, with help from the population of the city. Damascus was annexed to Zengid territory, and all of Syria was unified under the authority of Nur ad-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran in the south. Nur ad-Din was generous in his victory, and allowed Abaq to flee with his property, later granting him fiefdoms in the vicinity of Homs. He was cautious not to attack Jerusalem right away, and even continued to send the yearly tribute established by Mujir ad-Din; meanwhile he briefly became involved in affairs to the north of Mosul, where a succession dispute in the Sultanate of Rum threatened Edessa and other cities.

In 1157, Nur ad-Din besieged the Knights Hospitaller in the crusader fortress of Banias, routed a relief army from Jerusalem led by King Baldwin III, and captured Grand Master Bertrand de Blanquefort. However, he fell ill that year and the crusaders were given a brief respite from his attacks. In 1159, the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus arrived to assert his authority in Antioch, and the crusaders hoped he would send an expedition against Aleppo. However, Nur ad-Din sent ambassadors and negotiated an alliance with the emperor against the Seljuks, much to the crusaders' dismay. Nur ad-Din, along with the Danishmends of eastern Anatolia, attacked the Seljuk sultan Kilij Arslan II from the east the next year, while Manuel attacked from the west. Later in 1160, Nur ad-Din captured the Prince of Antioch, Raynald of Châtillon after a raid in the Anti-Taurus mountains; Raynald remained in captivity for the next sixteen years. By 1162, with Antioch under nominal Byzantine control and the crusader states further south powerless to make any further attacks on Syria, Nur ad-Din made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Soon after he returned, he learned of the death of King Baldwin III of Jerusalem, and out of respect for such a formidable opponent he refrained from attacking the crusader kingdom: William of Tyre reports that Nur ad-Din said "We should sympathize with their grief and in pity spare them, because they have lost a prince such as the rest of the world does not possess today."

Conquest of Egypt
As there was now nothing the crusaders could do in Syria, they were forced to look to the south if they wanted to expand their territory. The capture of Ascalon had already succeeded in cutting off Egypt from Syria, and Egypt had been politically weakened by a series of very young Fatimid caliphs. By 1163, the caliph was the young al-Adid, but the country was ruled by the vizier Shawar. That year, Shawar was overthrown by Dirgham; soon afterwards, the King of Jerusalem, Amalric I, led an offensive against Egypt, on the pretext that the Fatimids were not paying the tribute they had promised to pay during the reign of Baldwin III. This campaign failed and he was forced to return to Jerusalem, but it provoked Nur ad-Din to lead a campaign of his own against the crusaders in Syria in order to turn their attention away from Egypt. Nur ad-Din's attack on Tripoli was unsuccessful, but he was soon visited by the exiled Shawar, who begged him to send an army and restore him to the vizierate. Nur ad-Din did not want to spare his own army for a defense of Egypt, but his Kurdish general Shirkuh was given permission to invade in 1164. In response, Dirgham allied with Amalric, but the king could not mobilize in time to save him. Dirgham was killed during Shirkuh's invasion and Shawar was restored as vizier.

Shawar immediately expelled Shirkuh and allied with Amalric, who arrived to besiege Shirkuh at Bilbeis. Shirkuh agreed to abandon Egypt when Amalric was forced to return home, after Nur ad-Din attacked Antioch and besieged the castle of Harenc. There, Nur ad-Din routed the combined armies of Antioch and Tripoli and captured most of the Crusader armies' leadership, including Raymond III, Joscelin III and Bohemond III, leaving three major principalities of the Crusader states leaderless. However, he refused to attack Antioch itself, fearing reprisals from the Byzantines. Instead he besieged and captured Banias, and for the next two years continually raided the frontiers of the crusader states. In 1166, Nur ad-Din's Kurdish general Shirkuh was sent again to Egypt. Amalric followed him at the beginning of 1167, and a formal treaty was established between Amalric and Shawar, with the nominal support of the caliph. The crusaders occupied Alexandria and Cairo and made Egypt a tributary state, but due to the unpopularity of the Egyptian alliance with the Crusaders, Shirkuh managed to take Alexandria without bloodshed. The Crusaders besieged Alexandria and famine set in quickly due to the city's limited stores of food. Shirkuh organized a sortie and broke through the enemy lines, leaving command of Alexandria to his nephew, Saladin. In the same year, Nur ad-Din raided the County of Tripoli, in which he temporarily captured Areimeh Castle, Chastel Blanc and Gibelacar, exploiting the captivity of Raymond III. Ultimately, Amalric could not hold Egypt while Nur ad-Din still held Syria, and he was forced to return to Jerusalem. The siege of Alexandria was lifted, and Shirkuh's forces withdrew from Egypt as well.

In 1168, Amalric sought an alliance with Emperor Manuel and invaded Egypt once more. Shawar's son Khalil had had enough, and with support from Caliph al-Adid requested help from Nur ad-Din and Shirkuh. At the beginning of 1169, Shirkuh arrived and the crusaders once more were forced to retreat. This time Nur ad-Din's commander gained full control of Egypt. Shawar was executed and Shirkuh was named vizier of the newly conquered territory. Shirkuh died later that year and was succeeded by his nephew Saladin. One last invasion of Egypt was launched by Amalric and Manuel, but it was disorganized and came to nothing. Saladin continued to swear nominal fealty to Nur ad-Din until his death in 1174, but their relationship became increasingly tense. Saladin was reluctant to join forces with Nur ad-Din against Crusader armies or holdings, withdrawing his own armies on several occasions when Nur ad-Din's forces arrived to assist him. Nur ad-Din's insistence that Saladin abolish the Shia Caliphate further raised tensions between them. Saladin was reluctant to do so because the authority of the Caliphate in Egypt was a source of legitimacy for his rule. He feared popular backlash, and was bound by friendship and obligation to the Caliph al-Adid. Nonetheless, Saladin capitulated to Nur ad-Din and the Fatimid Caliphate was abolished in 1171.

Death and succession
During this time Nur ad-Din was busy in the north, fighting the Artuqids, and in 1170 he had to settle a dispute between his nephews when his brother Qutb ad-Din died. With Egypt conquered in his name, Nur ad-Din believed that he had accomplished his goal of uniting the Arab states of the Levant. However, near the end of his life, especially after the death of Saladin's father Najm al-Din Ayyub, Nur ad-Din believed he could no longer trust anyone in Saladin's court to maintain the young ruler's fealty to him. Nur ad-Din began preparations to invade Egypt and depose Saladin, but he was seized by a fever due to complications from a peritonsillar abscess. He died at the age of 56 on 15 May 1174 in the Citadel of Damascus. He was initially buried there, before being reburied in the Nur al-Din Madrasa. His young son As-Salih Ismail al-Malik became his legitimate heir, and Saladin declared himself his vassal, maintaining the de jure unity of Syria and Egypt under As-Salih's rule. When As-Salih died suddenly at the age of eighteen, Saladin defeated the other claimants to the throne and took power in Syria in 1185, uniting Syria and Egypt not just in name, as they were during Nur ad-Din's reign, but in fact.

Legacy
According to William of Tyre, although Nur ad-Din was "a mighty persecutor of the Christian name and faith," he was also "a just prince, valiant and wise, and according to the traditions of his race, a religious man." His sense of justice was never denied to anyone, regardless of their creed or origins. As a result of his justice, a Christian foreigner was said to have settled into Damascus, which was under Nur ad-Din's reign. Nur ad-Din was especially religious after his illness and his pilgrimage. He considered the crusaders foreigners in Muslim territory, who had come to Outremer to plunder the land and profane its sacred places. Nevertheless, he tolerated the Christians who lived under his authority, aside from the Armenians of Edessa, and regarded Emperor Manuel with deep respect. In contrast to Nur ad-Din's respectful reaction to the death of Baldwin III, Amalric I immediately besieged Banias upon learning of the emir's death, and extorted a vast amount of money from his widow.

During Nur ad-Din's reign, forty-two madrasas were built in Syria, of which half he personally sponsored. Through the construction of these madrasas Nur ad-Din was ensuring the creation of Sunni Islamic qadis and imams. Nur ad-Din himself enjoyed having specialists read to him from the Hadith, and his professors even awarded him a diploma in Hadith narration. He had bimaristans (hospitals) constructed in his cities as well, one of them is Nur al-Din Bimaristan and built caravanserais on the roads for travelers and pilgrims. He held court several times a week so that people could seek justice from him against his generals, governors, or other employees who had committed some crime.

Nur ad-Din's Sunni orthodoxy can be seen in his public works. His repair of the Roman aqueduct in Aleppo insinuated an anti-Shia polemic, and the conversion of two Shia mosques into madrasas, one Shafi'i another Hanafi, reinforce his insistence of promoting Sunni Islam. Consequently, in November 1148, he forbade the Shia call to prayer in Aleppo and any public displays of Shi'ism.

In the Muslim world he remains a legendary figure of military courage, piety, and modesty. Sir Steven Runciman said that he loved, above all else, justice.

The Damascene chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi generally speaks of Nur ad-Din in majestic terms, although he himself died in 1160, and did not witness the later events of Nur ad-Din's reign.

The Islamist group Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki, active in the Syrian Civil War in Aleppo since 2011, is named after Nur ad-Din.

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Eugene "Gene" Accas served in executive capacities for major entertainment and advertising companies including NBC, ABC, Grey Global Group and Leo Burnett, where he retired as head of the international agency’s New York City office in 1982.

He was the author of three books, including 1998's The Best in Television; 50 Years of the Emmys, and was a guest on 60 Minutes as spokesperson for the advertising industry. His non-profit and educational endeavors included guest lecture series at Columbia University, New York University and Syracuse University and leadership positions for the television conferences of the Aspen Institute and the Television Conference Foundation.

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Were you the professional photographer of Kauai 1.jpg? Aerial photos are excellent for WP geographical articles.

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Presentation Manager

Presentation Manager (PM) is the graphical user interface (GUI) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1.1 of their operating system OS/2 in late 1988.

History

Microsoft began developing a graphic user interface (GUI) in 1981. After it persuaded IBM that the latter also needed a GUI, Presentation Manager (PM; codenamed Winthorn) was co-developed by Microsoft and IBM's Hursley Lab in 1987-1988. It was a cross between Microsoft Windows and IBM's mainframe graphical system (GDDM). Like Windows, it was message based and many of the messages were even identical, but there were a number of significant differences as well. Although Presentation Manager was designed to be very similar to the upcoming Windows 2.0 from the user's point of view, and Presentation Manager application structure was nearly identical to Windows application structure, source compatibility with Windows was not an objective. For Microsoft, the development of Presentation Manager was an opportunity to clean up some of the design mistakes of Windows. The two companies stated that Presentation Manager and Windows 2.0 would remain almost identical.

One of the most significant differences between Windows and PM was the coordinate system. While in Windows the 0,0 coordinate was located in the upper left corner, in PM it was in the lower left corner. Another difference was that all drawing operations went to the Device Context (DC) in Windows. PM also used DCs but there was an added level of abstraction called Presentation Space (PS). OS/2 also had more powerful drawing functions in its Graphics Programming Interface (GPI). Some of the GPI concepts (like viewing transforms) were later incorporated into Windows NT. The OS/2 programming model was thought to be cleaner, since there was no need to explicitly export the window procedure, no WinMain, and no non-standard function prologs and epilogs.

Parting ways

One of the most-cited reasons for the IBM-Microsoft split was the divergence of the APIs between Presentation Manager and Windows, which was probably driven by IBM. Initially, Presentation Manager was based on Windows GUI code, and often had developments performed in advance, like the support for proportional fonts (which appeared in Windows only in 1990). One of the divergences regarded the position of coordinate (0,0), which was at the top-left in Windows, but at bottom-left (as in Cartesian coordinates) in Presentation Manager. In practice it became impossible to recompile a GUI program to run on the other system; an automated source code conversion tool was promised at some point. Both companies were hoping that at some point users would migrate to OS/2.

In 1990, version 3.0 of Windows was beginning to sell in volume, and Microsoft began to lose interest in OS/2 especially since, even earlier, market interest in OS/2 was always much smaller than in Windows.

The companies parted ways, and IBM took over all of subsequent development. Microsoft took OS/2 3.0, which it renamed Windows NT; as such, it inherited certain characteristics of Presentation Manager. IBM continued to develop Presentation Manager. In subsequent versions of OS/2, and derivatives such as ArcaOS, it was used as a base for the object-oriented interface Workplace Shell.

There is a significant integration of the GUI layer with the rest of the system, but it is still possible to run certain parts of OS/2 from a text-console or X window, and it is possible to boot OS/2 into a command-line environment without Presentation Manager (e.g. using TSHELL ).

Presentation Manager for Unix

In the late 1980s, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft collaborated on an implementation of Presentation Manager for Unix systems running the X11 windowing system. The port consisted of two separate pieces of software - a toolkit, window manager and style guide named CXI (Common X Interface) and an implementation of the Presentation Manager API for Unix named PM/X. Both CXI and PM/X were submitted to the Open Software Foundation for consideration as OSF's new user interface standard for Unix, which eventually became Motif. OSF ultimately selected CXI, but used Digital Equipment Corporation's XUI API instead of PM/X. Microsoft and HP continued the development of PM/X for some time after the release of Motif, with Microsoft integrating the product into a joint development strategy with SCO to bring a common user interface to OS/2 and SCO's Unix products, but it was ultimately abandoned.

Technical details
PM follows the Common User Access interface conventions. It also supports mouse chording for copying and pasting text.

An important problem was that of the single input queue: a non-responsive application could block the processing of user-interface messages, thus freezing the graphical interface. This problem has been solved in Windows NT, where such an application would just become a dead rectangle on the screen; in later versions it became possible to move or hide it. In OS/2 it was solved in a FixPack, using a timer to determine when an application was not responding to events.

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User talk:Stismail

Hello Stismail, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. You can learn more on the how to edit page. The naming conventions and manual of style pages are also useful. Feel free to experiment at the Sandbox. If you have any questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump. Angela

Hey...does the "S" by any chance mean "Samer"? (I notice you were editing quizbowl so I thought I would ask!) Adam Bishop 00:21, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Re: Gostkowski
There's statistics links in the infobox on the right. Since it is unlikely someone will be there updating the stats after every game, they won't be up-to-date. The links obviously will. Pats1 00:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Katrina
Please find a reliable source that talks about it. It's synthesis. Also, you can't say inexplicably when it could be explicable. Just because the guy on the blog couldn't figure it out doesn't mean there isn't a logical explanation. I don't know what that explanation could be, but that really doesn't matter. --Onorem♠Dil 19:24, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Jeopardy!
Hey Samer, I just reverted your addition to the Jeopardy! article... The long and short of it is that Jeopardy!-related articles get accused of being fancruft and expose themselves to AfDs when they don't stick to sourceable hard facts. The article is already pretty bloated and the thrust of work on it, I feel, should be to make it tighter, which would require excluding the sort of analysis that says what things "sometimes" or "often" happen on the show, however true they might be. Thanks for your understanding and for helping to keep the Jeopardy! family of articles lean and mean. Cheers, Robert K S 18:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Duel - Marco
I added Marco to the leader board so that we could have a final ranking for each player. Even though that the show doesn't show Marco, I think that we should leave him on there so that it is shown that he was challenged and ended up in a lower rank. Right now he'll be in 4th but after tonight he will easily go down the ranks. - zachinthebox (User • Talk) 21:36, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a good point. Should we stick him under 24th for now? - zachinthebox (User • Talk) 21:58, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Duel
First, I would like to thank you for discussing this rather than getting into a revert war about it. I think the multiple games fact may be mild original research, true, but if there is going to be presumption (which there was - presumed that the shootout is only one question, which it can't be limited to). The fact is we don't know that that it's one question either if they both get it wrong, or tie. It makes no sense for that to be the case. They can't stop the tape and retape the same question... it's already been answered. If both players put down chips on two answers and get one right, are they supposed to replay the same question and expect one of them not to just put their chip on the right answer? Or if they both are wrong using 3 chips, are they supposed to expect the players not to put a chip on the right answer if they replayed the question? Saying it's a one-question round is only right if the one question is determinative. If you want to change it to "it is unknown what would occur if the question is not determinative" I suppose that would be more wikifriendly; but saying it's one question can't be any truer than saying it can be more than one. I'll see if I can tweak it to be slightly more appropriate.

To your "they" issue, there is no concensus to use one or the other (or another option), but there IS consensus that "they" is an acceptable usage, and it exists all over wikipedia. Thus Meta article notes that the option "they" is viable, as is "he or she" (but I don't think "he/she" is considered appropriate), and while "he or she" would be acceptable, it is my belief that other than a single occurance (eg: if there was an article about... Greece, and it mentioned something like "any traveler coming to Greece would find that he or she enjoyed it"), rather than an article in which the subject of a whole section is the contestant and their actions. Then it becomes a mesh of he or she, his or her, him or her, etc. It's simply cleaner to use they, and it is accepted syntax. I suggest that it remain they.

I also would suggest that for a post like this, you would be better in the future to post it on the article's talk page, and just make a little note to the editor that you brought it up there, so that other editors can weigh in on which option they think is best. Thanks. TheHYPO (talk) 15:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Greenberg has also said "the duel will end on this question" last night when one contestant said A and one said B and D. If it had been C, the game wouldn't have ended, but clearly the producers told him that C wasn't the right answer.

 * If both shootout contestants chose B and C, and C is the right answer, for example how could the game possibly end on one question? And as I said before, if both chose A B and C and the correct answer was D, how can you have them redo it and expect them not to both choose only D?

It doesn't add up. Either they will play another question and delete that question from air, or they will say "we goto a second shootout" and show it on air. Either way, it is unknown right now what would occur, and I have added that to the article.

 * I'm not asking you to remove "he or she"; I'm simply stating that to keep the article easier to follow, I'm going to stick with "they"; Particularly in a popculture 2000s TV show article; just as in a UK article one would be using Colour and Favourite as the local text, I suggest that in a modern 2000s topic article, there is no issue with using a contemporarily accepted usage. If the topic was something more formal antique like, say "Ancient Rome", perhaps there would be an argument for the more fomalized structure (not saying it would or wouldn't be appropriate, but I could see a stronger argument). It is the exact same issue as the serial comma (1, 2, and 3 - or 1, 2 and 3?) - some prefer one way, some the other - but a standard should be used amongst a whole article in the way that is easiest to read for the reader. TheHYPO (talk) 17:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Your latest edits look good. I think the article is now well on its way to being a good article (not wikipedia "good article", just... "good" article, heh) TheHYPO (talk) 19:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

2008 NFL Draft
I messed up calculating Atlanta's SOS, but as to the Buffalo/Denver tie, NFL.com is ambiguous. The website states "If any ties cannot be broken by strength of schedule, the divisional or conference tie breakers, whichever are applicable, are applied." Not "conference record tie breakers", but "conference tie breakers" which would seem to include head-to-head. Do you have a source for it merely being conference record? Jonpin (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

RE: Patriots-Giants game
Hi. Sorry that I was unaware of the discussion on the talk page you mentioned. I redirected your article to the section on the main season page because it was longer and had references. If you don't mind I was going to merge some information from the season page to your article. Also, I think it could use a more precise title, maybe 29 December 2007 New England Patriots-New York Giants game? --Merovingian (T, C) 15:10, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Does this mean you want to include the week number in the title? I suggested the date disambiguation because that's the usual way to do it.  Also I'd like some disambiguation because New England and New York played a pre-season game in 2007 as well; of course it really doesn't matter, either in real life or here (because a pre-season game isn't going to get its own article) but somebody pickier than I will probably point it out eventually.  I will move the article to include the teams' full names, though.  --Merovingian (T, C) 22:18, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

2008 NFL Draft/Patriots' pick
Please stop changing the seventh overall pick to San Francisco. It is New England's and they will utilize it. The pick they are losing from the league for spygate is their OWN first-round pick, not the one they acquired for the 49ers. The latter is still theirs.► Chris Nelson Holla! 05:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

 * In that case, the entire first chart is completely unnecessary. Two separate charts aren't needed and it's confusing to the common reader. The current chart is all that is needed, with any explanations in prose or in a list.► Chris Nelson Holla! 05:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Right now it just reads like a giant lesson on how draft order is determined. All that's really necessary, at any time, is the rules for determining draft order, the current draft order, and a couple paragraphs explaining any unusual circumstances (Pats' forfeiture of the pick, any trades, etc.).► Chris Nelson Holla! 05:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Why would you delete the one that's accurate as of today? That is the most important piece of info right now. How the picks were acquired or lost is something that should follow the current draft order table in prose or a list. There's simply no need for a table of how things would be if stuff that's happened hadn't happened.► Chris Nelson Holla! 05:43, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: WELKER PIC
Feel free to crop that down Michigan10 (talk) 00:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Welker link
No problem. I did notice some overlinks in the article, though (the second one to Oklahoma City even points to a redirect), which I'll clean up sometime here soon. Keep up the great work. →Wordbuilder (talk) 00:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing the location of the ref on that quote. I had it there but it was dropping to the next line. I realize now it was because I put it after the instead of before it. →Wordbuilder (talk) 21:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Super Bowl XLII
I appreciate you pointing out whenever I make errors, but you don't need to re-write entire sections because of 1 or 2 inaccurate words. For fixing my last edit, all that was needed was switching the word "sixth" to "seventh" and removing the word "immediately". Chainclaw (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

When you look at the difference between how Brady did before getting Welker and Moss and then how he did after, their effect seems self-evident. I understand if you want it verified, and I guess I'll have to go looking through old SI or NFL.com articles for citation. I was just hoping to avoid going through the process of citation for something that obvious. Chainclaw (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Record in schedule
Could you also do the same to the 2006/5/4 Pats articles, since I'm well, a little too lazy right now to do so? Thanks :)  Pats 1  T / C  00:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Wilfork fines
Fair enough. I know you have a certain interest in the Patriots organization, but I was just trying to give a full picture here and not make it look like a "fawning" article. Yes, he was in the Pro Bowl, but he also did some things the league didn't like (being fined four times in once season is unusually high). I rephrased it so that it gives both instances equal weight, the good and the not-so-good, while still being concise (the first time I revised it, I gave a little too much weight to the fines and was being too verbose, after all, it may not need to be "fawning" but it's not supposed to be "bashing" either). My point is, all I'm doing is trying to build a neutral article. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 21:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

2007 New England Patriots-New York Giants game
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Re: NFL Draft
Are supplemental compensatory picks not used to fill that gap?  Pats 1  T / C  00:51, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Deal or No Deal (3/1/08)
Would you please explain why you undid my edits? Most of my changes consisted of wikifying the content, in particular: (1) Making the tone more encyclopedic. (2) Removing the repetitive links to Howie and the models (they don't need to be linked every time they are mentioned). (3) Fixing the formatting (the title is not supposed to be boldfaced every time it appears). (4) Removing extraneous formatting (someone confused proper nouns with titles). I'm not going to get into the argument of what belongs and what doesn't, since to a large extent, I don't care. But I think that whatever is there should mirror the rest of Wikipedia in terms of style. (And, for the record, the argument that the tone doesn't match won't work, because the rest of the article has been flagged for non-compliance with WP standards to begin with.) Samer (talk) 03:48, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The fact that you want the alter the boldface or italics doesn't bother me that much. What bothers me is that you think you have the authority to decide what stays on the article and what goes.  I don't go around altering other articles to fit my personal taste.  What makes you any different?  How would you feel if some Colts fan did a huge number of your precious Patriots article?  I’m sure they have a lot of scandals they can write about, especially with the head coach.  Now that wouldn’t be nice now, would it?  Also don’t take this the wrong way, but I found a lot of run-on, spelling and grammar errors in your edits.  And another thing, WHAT STYLE???  I understand copyright laws and all.  In terms of style, there is no clear cut definition of style regardless of what any editor or administrator say.  I'll be franked; these so-called styles and standards are a big fat joke.  And the encyclopedic part, if I wanted encyclopedic...I would just go to the Encyclopedia Britannica website instead of this.  Or I can just go to the library and read the encyclopedia there.  If wikipedia wants to more encyclopedic, more than half of the articles on here would be gone, and editors like you and me would not be able to contribute.  This fact is... this is wikipedia, and readers here want to know more about the extra trivial information of a certain subject than the encyclopedia would ever offer.  Those who say they don’t pretty much have bigger issues than they give out.  I'm not saying that I'm the type who throws all convention out the window and put whatever I want to put on here.  You're attacking the wrong editor.  You're basing your judgment that this article was flagged from an obnoxious editor who basically went around to every single TV article and flagged them all.  You seem like an intelligent person to know which editor I'm talking about.  It's that editor you should be attacking, and she has her share of fights with other editors after she flagged articles they were passionate about.  This is the same editor who pretty much spends 20 of her 24 hours on wikipedia watching over it like a hawk.  The articles she flagged, chances are she doesn't know anything about it.  A little tidbit for you, I tried to do what you did and fix up the DOND article a few weeks ago.  The article that you see right now, it wasn't like that two weeks earlier.  Truth be told, this editor reverted all the edits, grammar checks, spelling, and valuable information back to the unorganized clutter than you see right now.  So if I were you, I would just let these edits be, because chances are you will be extremely disappointed when somebody undoes all you have worked on.  Until the day when this editor is block from putting up red flags left and right and reverting everything back to trash would the wikipedia world be a better place. S3884h (talk) 08:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Very well. I must confessed at times even I questioned myself over the redudancy of the Howie and Model links. S3884h (talk) 21:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: A proposal
If you want to go ahead and standardize the schedules back to 2003, which is how far I've gotten with them, feel free to as soon as you want. Just make sure to keep it Giants Stadium, because, well, Giants Stadium is Giants Stadium. It's the same place as the Giants' Giant Stadium, so I don't think we should create the illusion that it's not (I know the NFL tries to do so, but having both Giants Stadium and The Meadowlands in a schedule where, say, the Pats play both the Giants and Jets in the same season, can be rather confusing to a novice reader). There's really no need to disguise one - they're both at the same stadium, it's the same article for both. "The Meadowlands" is never a stadium and never has been -- Giants Stadium doesn't change it's name for the 3 hours the Jets are playing there. The NFL simply chooses the use the broader name of the complex and the region. As far as the draft footnotes and such, we can get into that later.  Pats 1  T / C  21:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Spygate
That is presumed, but the NFL's statement suggests otherwise.  Pats 1  T / C  11:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Right, we all know the penalty was for everything back to 2000. Still, Goodell didn't even say that the conduct dated back to 2000 until February after the meeting with Specter. Before that, the most he said was that a few of the tapes they destroyed were from "late in 2006." We know the truth (everyone does), but it's still original research.  Pats 1  T / C  14:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Program links
When you get a chance, could you also do that for the drafts on the Pats season articles back to 1996? You're well-versed in which of those articles exist and each team's nicknames; I'm not.  Pats 1  T / C  15:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you also de-link multiple wikilinks in the draft positions/colleges while you're at it? Thanks.  Pats 1  T / C  15:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Draft refs
Can you do one for a more complex trade (i.e. that whole Bills/Ravens Bledsoe/Wilson/etc. trade from 03-04?)  Pats 1  T / C  21:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, the parentheses system was a bit crazy, and this method seems to preserve the necessary details too. So definitely go ahead and get started -- the good thing is this style consolidates things, as there used to be a separately-worded ref for each pick acquired in the trade.  Pats 1  T / C  21:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Danny Amendola
Oh, ok. I apologize, I just assumed you were talking about the one directly after the sentence. I guess the Cowboys bulked him up a few pounds. Well, there still might be a chance, Amendola hasn't made the team yet, but he hasn't been cut yet either. I'm not much of a Cowboys fan, but I hope he succeeds there or anywhere else that picks him up. I'm pretty neutral when it comes to the Patriots too, but I sure did watch them as much as I could mostly to see how Welker did. Anytime you have a star NFL player come out of your university, it's pretty exciting to watch them progress from college to the pros. Almosthonest06 (talk) 20:29, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

2007-08 Boston Celtics season
I have updated this page throughout the season and have put a lot of effort into it, and now you decide you'll have it your own way. Here is what I don't like: I am positive that we can work this out without any problems, and I would like you to discuss with me any changes you make to this article, because I wrote it with my own blood. ●  8  ~  Hype  @ 20:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You changed the lead part although there was absolutely no need for a change.
 * In the section "key dates" you talk about past events in present tense, and add the excessive words "the Celtics" before each sentence.
 * You improperly (leaving "]]") removed a picture of Garnett, which was not necessary.
 * You shortened the section "awards", although each award needs to be mentioned seperately, as this is a list, not an article.
 * You added the word "awards" to sub-sections.

Ray Allen

 * First you describe my edits as "poorly worded"--which is risible in and of itself--but now you claim "underhand" [sic] removal of info? Would you please tell me precisely what info I actually removed that is relevant to this article? (That the All-Star game was played in New Orleans this year does not count; it makes no difference where the game is played.) Samer (talk) 16:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

You poorly re-worded the All-Star and 40th Anniversary part, which was totally redundant, and although I reverted it yesterday, you still had it your own way. You added the same information while performing other changes. That's why it is underhanded. ●  8  ~  Hype  @ 20:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

If not quotes or italic text, how should we else point out the official name of the award? ●  8  ~  Hype  @ 19:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Nick Kaczur
i noticed that you removed some info on the Nick Kaczur page, posted by 66.41.182.153 about Nick having sisters and kids. I can guarantee that this info was absolutely wrong. I know Nick and his family VERY well (his mom and my dad were together for quite a long time), and I can verify that his only siblings are his older brothers Chad and Jim. He has no sisters, and no children. I also do NOT believe that he was involved with this Oxycontin thing, it's a case of someone trying to become famous off of him. Jru Gordon (talk) 23:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * there was a story about Nick on TSN here in Canada right before the Super Bowl, and they stated that he was engaged.

All-Star coaching
Let me be clear why the extra sentence needs to be there. I'm not arguing that you are incorrectly quoting the source, but rather that you're leaving out the context needed to make sense of that information. (This is why the very next paragraph in the source you cite contains the same facts that I added.)

That sentence aside, I again note that the original sentence contains grammatical errors (e.g., it's not "earn the honor to coach", but "earn the honor of coaching"). Samer (talk) 18:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

 * This isn't a grammatical error. ●  8  ~  Hype  @ 19:00, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Stop reverting my edits. I am quoting the first two paragraphs of the source. This is enough. I am going to report you if this happens again. ●  8  ~  Hype  @ 15:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

David Berkoff
If someone is clearly notable, don't speedy delete for copyvio if you can reduce to a noncopyvio stub that still shows the notability. See WP:CSD. DGG (talk) 18:45, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

re: Tom Brady and the cart
Well, it would have been better suited for the article if he was on a cart, but the fact that he wasn't isn't really notable. Now, if you could find a way to insert that he was able to walk off the field under (mostly) his own power, then that would probably be notable.  RC-0722 361.0/ 1  17:19, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Lurita Doan edit
Hello, I noticed you stopped by the Lurita Doan page and made an edit to a section of an article currently under an NPOV dispute. While your edit is appreciated, I would invite you to contribute your thoughts on the talk page, where a lively discussion and a significant edit have been proposed. Do have a look, at your convenience. Kind Regards.--Happysomeone (talk) 19:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Ashley Todd
FYI, you may be interested to see that Ashley Todd was speedily deleted using CSD:G10 as the justification: "exists primarily to disparage its subject." I happen to disagree with this decision as the article was neutral and nothing on the AfD page implied it as an "attack" page, and content that this is out of process. I encourage you to chime in if you have an opinion either way at User_talk:Orderinchaos. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

xXx: State of The Union
Can I ask why you placed a cleanup tag on this page? I spent some time on it a while back and don't see any glaring issues? Thedarxide (talk) 19:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Schedule
Sounds good, just remember I'm a stickler for continuity (nah, really?!?), so make sure you apply it to the other schedules on 2001 and 2003-2007. Thanks.  Pats 1  T / C  21:05, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

2009 NFL Draft
Why are you removing the references from the draft? If you look at the featured articles, 2007 NFL Draft and 2001 NFL Draft, they both have the references in the draft table. There was discussion somewhere to have a section for pre- and post- draft trades this year, to avoid the textual explanations from being buried in small text in the refs. That is accomplished. But the references themselves can easily be referenced in the table as well as in the new sections. If consensus is to do otherwise and just have the refs in the new sections only, then you should at least move the refs rather than deleting them.-- 2008 Olym pian chit chat 05:23, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, I understand. I'll move them to the textual section until the new tables are inserted.-- 2008 Olym pian chit chat 05:31, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't care if the team names are spelled out or not. But what does need to happen is that they need to be uniform. Either spell them all out or shorten all of them.

Yes, see : "Acquired by New Orleans Saints from New York Giants, 7/21/08 in exchange for second- and fifth-round 2009 draft picks."-- 2008 Olym pian chit chat 05:02, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I think that the Shockey trade is covered by the article cited in the Vilma trade. And the picks for Washington, Cleveland, and New Orleans should be set through the third round, no matter what shuffling happens later in the rounds.-- 2008 Olym pian chit chat 19:48, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Gostkowski
Hey, this information is very important. ps. don't reply on my talk page. 83.31.117.170 (talk) 15:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Draft table
Thanks, I just felt that the single blue color made it feel like it was only grouping the blue ones. And you're right, it could be used for the 2010 draft (if anyone remembers!).  --Pbroks13 talk? 20:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Draft Order
"FYI, the draft order doesn't work the way you have it (sadly, my Patriots will pick after the Cardinals unless the Cardinals make the Super Bowl). Samer (talk) 04:38, 29 December 2008"

Just find this kinda funny now. Dudeyall (talk) 02:28, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: 2009 NFL Draft
Oops, my bad. It seems like every time I touch the article, I've made one error or another. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 08:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

 * I'll get it right one of these days. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 08:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

 * What's your final opinion about the grouped references? I think it'd be really helpful to have them grouped, with references that jump up to each part of the trade. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 03:42, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Here's a test run User:IanManka/NFL_Draft. Feel free to edit and play around with it. First, unfortunately, having multiple group names for a reference was not possible. However, after the draft, we can point to specific picks (like I did with one of the picks involved in the Cutler trade). During the draft, the links change so rapidly that it would be near impossible to implement. However, after the article is more stable, we can add-on this improvement to the grouped references. I must stress, however, that the grouped references should be added before tomorrow. Let me know what you think, as well as propose some changes (e.g. edit and save to my user subpage so I can see some of your ideas). If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 05:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

 * As I was getting ready to go to bed, I had a last-second epiphany, and overhauled the references on the draft page. It took awhile to do, so I ask that a massive revert before the draft. The system of references allows it to be split by rounds, with URL anchoring to jump to other rounds that are pertinent to the trade. It's not as extreme as the first overhaul of the trades I did earlier in the week, but stays closer to what we have currently. I think all of your concerns have been addressed in the new design.

 * I didn't know what to call each group name, but those can be easily changed with a find and replace. Also, if separating the trade references from the other references in the article is not desirable, you can merely remove the group name or add noid="noid" within each of the tags. Let me know what you think of the redesign! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 12:57, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

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