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British Rail logo
Just thought I'd let you know that I replaced your PNGed British Rail logo with a nice shiny new SVG version...

—Wereon 19:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Mrmiscellanious Banned Me After Voting @ Wikinews.
Hi, I'm not sure where else to contact you since I'm now banned from making edits at Wikinews.

Mrmiscellanious banned me from wikinews in retribution for exercising my right to vote against a potential admin he supported here. As my history of edits will show, I made no other edits or comments on Wikinews since that vote at all. I just voted, then was banned by Mrmiscellanious shortly thereafter.

If there was already clear consensus of a dire problem with me existing on Wikinews, why did Mrmiscellanious wait until after I made that vote (he didn't agree with) to ban me? I signed up some time ago and Mrmiscellanious (and others) observed me in the Water Cooler back in early February, but no ban was made against me (by Mrmiscellanious or anyone else) until I made that vote.

The timing of this ban is about power and control, not truly enforcing policy, consensus and making Wikinews a better place. I also fear that this form of intimidation could adversely affect other Wikinews contributers and influence their votes when they see what happens to those who vote in ways that Mrmiscellanious doesn't like. If contributers perceive their votes may exact revenge upon themselves, I'm sure less contributers will vote and make their voices heard. That seems to be the opposite effect of what a Wiki is supposed to be all about.

Anyway, I'm sorry to waste your time with this and take away from more important things like contributions, etc. but I'm hoping you can fix this so I can make positive contributions to Wikinews when time allows.

I have no intention to talk (argue, etc.) with Mrmiscellanious about this once I'm able to edit and vote again (or even if I'm not). I'll will just drop it and moo-ve on. If he attacks or bans me for revenge again, I'll just contact you and hopefully you can get him to chill out and focus on important issues at Wikinews.

As can be observed here & elsewhere throughout Wikinews, Mrmiscellanious is embroiled in enough conflict with others right now -- and I have no desire to distract him from all those other conflicts in order to confront him with the issue of banning me. He seems to have enough conflict with others on his plate. I'll just be glad to move on, vote and contribute positively to more important, positive Wikinews tasks. Thank you for your time. Cowicide 03:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded on other users page. Bawolff 03:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Amgine has now blocked me from editing my talk page
Amgine moved in quickly and has now blocked me from editing my talk page on wikinews.

Be sure to check out the last few edits in the History. He was not letting me say I thought the Chinese govt. was fascist because it might offend some Chinese contributers. I changed the "bastard" part and he still wouldn't accept my edit and banned me.

Is is really against Wiki policy to say that you think the Chinese government is fascist on your own talk page? If so, things are getting very out of control at Wikinews. Check the last few edits and you'll see what I'm talking about. This is crazy. Cowicide 07:14, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You're not allowed to put things in your user-space that offends people. Wikipedia has similiar policies. Bawolff 20:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Among other things, MrM says he doesn't agree with Homosexuality on his page... that will very well offend people. Shall we ban him if he doesn't remove the "offensive" text? For me to say that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist... that is my political opinion. I removed the "bastards" reference... therefore, it was only my political opinion beyond that point. Can you HONESTLY say that political opinion is NOT allowed on talk pages? If that's the case, you and Amgine had better start cleaning house and you both can start with MrM's talk page with his opinions that very clearly offend people somewhere.

I'm going to put the statement that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist on my talk page on Wikinews. Come after me if you TRULY think that political speech on individual talk pages are against the rules. Then please come after MrM for his opinion page thereafter.
 * Seeing as thats a protected page, I wonder how you'll go about doing that. Bawolff 02:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I find it sad that you two don't see the irony in removing my opinion on the Chinese govt. and its fascist censorship. Cowicide 02:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Its not that it may offend somebody somewhere, its that somebody complained. If you complained that mrm's opinions offend you than I could get him to kill thoose if you cared so much (and provided a good argument as to why you care). You can state the chinese thing in a way thats not offensive as well. (al la. I don't like the way the PRC is censoring the internet) and some people on wikinews do have similiar things written on their talk page. Its a little tiny thing. You shouldn't be so concerned. (or if you care that much you'll probally have better luck with a fork). Bawolff 02:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm just tired of the hypocrisy from Amgine and MrM. It's ruining Wikinews, period. If those 2 guys disappeared from Wikinews, quality contributions/participation would skyrocket. I don't understand the fear some of you seem to have of them, Amgine should lose his admin status and MrM should be "permabanned" instead of this too little, too late one month (now only 2 week) ban he just got for his outrageous behavior with Karen (A behavior Amgine has also exhibited with other contributers). You know very well this is NOT the first time MrM has used his admin power for revenge, ego and agenda instead of for the greater good of Wikinews. You also know very well it won't be the last time until MrM is completely banned. It's incredible that MrM still has admin status at this point. He has massively damaged the project and thwarted participation. MrM makes the environment at Wikinews absolutely nasty. For the sake of Wikinews, these guys need to go and/or lose admin privs. I'm just thankful MrM will be gone for a month so everyone can see how much the general civility & quality at Wikinews rises without him. Maybe then some more people will see the light and finally... finally... at least remove MrM's ridiculous admin status. Cowicide 18:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I understand your disagreements with mrm, (and to a point, agree with most of them), but fail to see your problem with Amgine. Sure s/he may have done some bad things, But the good things that s/he has done outways them vastly in my opinion. Bawolff 20:19, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Amgine certainly does good things, but does NOT have the interpersonal skills and tact to be an admin. While I somewhat commend Amgine's recent reprimands of MrM.... it's too little, too late... overall, in the past, Amgine has been an enabler for MrM and that has absolutely ruined the spirit at Wikinews. Amgine's demeanor towards new contributers has also been nasty similar to (but not quite as venomous as) MrM.

They both have created a hostile environment with rampant hypocrisy for all to see. Wikinews would be better off with MrM gone entirely and Amgine focusing on projects instead of ego-trip power struggles. Contributership has been very low. If Amgine backed off (which is unlikely because of ego) and MrM disappeared, we both know contributership would blossom as the general good spirit increased. If you still fail to see my problem with Amgine... go take a look at Amgine's demeanor with contributers and compare it with your own. Would YOU want to be treated like that? You exhibit some of the best qualities in an admin, while I think Amgine exhibits some of the worst. And, MrM is just poison to the project, period.

Like I said, Amgine should focus on projects and leave interpersonal administration up to people that have much higher aptitude for such things. Mark my words, the Wikinews contributership and quality would improve drastically if that happened. I'd like to see more balanced views (from the middle, right & left) on wikinews from MORE contributers from all walks of life... the current environment Amgine helps to create does NOT let that happen... it just repels far too many newbies who don't want to deal with a terse, insulting tone in their spare time. They just put up their arms and split. Cowicide 21:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thats certainly intreasting. Well I disagree with most of that, its intreasting to know what people think. I have never found Amgine to be rude or anything to any contributor, New or otherwise. I don't wish to comment on too much else as, I've already made alot of people mad at me, and wish to tread lightly.(people finnally stoped blocking eachother, but their certainly a little edgy) Bawolff 04:29, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I could send you examples of Amgine's behavior (with others), but if you need to "tread lightly" that's fine. Anyway, I think you are a great admin and wish you well. Hopefully, Wikinews will "self-heal" over time and become a less hostile place as MrM and some others become too beleaguered to be nasty to other people eventually. Take care. Cowicide 15:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, here's some ideas for articles on my userpage (Wikinews) on the latest from China and its censorship: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cowicide It would be great if Wikinews covered this stuff more like the rest of the Western world is starting to. Wikinews IS part of the Western world, right? ;) Thanks again for lending an ear. Cowicide 16:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

They removed it AND edited the History data... - here instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cowicide You know, I've heard that there might be some admins at Wikinews that may have some govt. affiliations. I didn't really think it was true before, but I'm very seriously beginning to wonder at this point... Cowicide 16:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've only got two seconds right now, so I can't really look at the momment (sorry), but I will some time in the very near future (tommorow). Bawolff 00:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Userpage
Hi! Thanks for your comment, although I haven't had much luck on Esperanza/User Page Award tho :-(! But thanks anyway! --Fir0002 style="color:#C6CACC; background:#F8FCFF">www 08:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Goober-peas
Hi Bawolff, Thank you very much for informing me of the user Goober-peas. I would prefer it if s/he did actually remove his statement. I don't know why s/he seems to hate me; I have never heard of the user before. I am actually slightly worried about him/her beacuse I have actually been receiving e-mails about my password being reset. Thank you once again for alerting me about this.  K ilo-Lima|(talk) 20:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay. Bawolff 00:37, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You might not know who he is because based on his page, it doesn't look like he has an account. Proably some anon who vandalised something that you reverted. Bawolff 00:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Impersonation account
That's fascinating, too, I thought I had an account at n: but I could be wrong; also, despite the notice that the person is not me, they've replicated my sig. Can someone reset the pw and send it to my fastmail addy so I can (re)claim this account? Thanks :)  Radio Kirk   talk to me  23:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Crisis on Bae Yong Joon
Of late, there has been a spam of newly registered users and annoyomous users trying to remove certain data from the article. While most article cites general personal data on personalities in wikipedia on a neutral basis, these editors have been removing certain data without cause to suit their taste (see NPOV). Such acts have been rampant since March 2006 (check the article's history), and such behaviour can be reflected as Vandalism, and this article needs Semi-protection status against such crisis. I need your help in solving this problem. Thanks. Mr Tan 17:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm proably not the best person to ask, but i'll see what I can do. Bawolff 01:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not hurt my feelings Dragon Emperor 05:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

More template talk...
...here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Could you reply to that last comment? I really think that template needs tweaking... Look for example at Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad : we have a lot of articles related to him now, wouldn't a search function be an easy way of not having to update that link on every new article?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Klingon
Hi! I would like to inform you that the former Klingon section of Wikipedia (tlh) has moved to wikicities and will now be continued as Klingon Encyclopedia. I would be glad to hear/read from you there again.

Please acceppt my apologies if this looks like spam to you; I just saw you name on the users list of the klingon wikipedia.

Greetings, Lieven.
 * Glad to hear it. I always thought it'd be cool if that project succeded, Unfourtantly I can't speak klingon, but registered an account because of how cool it is to have an encyclopedia in klingon. Bawolff 00:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:Dungeonscape merge
Yeh, i didn't see the template on the Dungeons & Dragons page before i requested it to be merged.  . If i had, wouldn't have suggested merge. Ur right in sayin that it requires a article of its own, but i would suggest it should have more of a reference to it on the Dungeons & Dragons article, it has only been mentioned once. -- [|.K.Z|]  [|.Z.K|]   05:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, glad we agree. Bawolff 05:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the welcome! BuddingJournalist 06:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the encouragement! Budding Journalist 01:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. Bawolff 03:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

duplicates?
You have exchanged the pictures in the HIV article on deWP. In fact the two graphics 800px-HIV Viron.png and HIV Viron.png are not identical concerning their legends. Did you realize that? Tx --87.169.108.48 08:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry my apoligies. I should have been more careful. Bawolff 08:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

pirates, pirates
You say: In regards to this edit, Why do you say he was a pirate?, The article doesn't say anywhere else in it that he is a pirate. Bawolff 02:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I said because he was. He attacked my island, and stole the church, the st. francis monastery and the council house. He was a pirate with the royal consent, like many others british admirals. This is not a revenge or something like that, it is just the historic truth. I'm talking about San Miguel de La Palma, Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, Spanish Kingdom. Maybe I'm in a mistake, but I learned it at school. Very sorry if I have offende anyone and please excuse my horrible english grammar. I am Joe Satana in the spanish wikipedia, congratulations for this wonderfull work. bye
 * Thankyou for the response. Don't worry about bad english grammar. My Spanish would be much much worse then your english [[image:smile.png]]. Bawolff 03:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi! I'm here just to say hello and to sign, because now I'm in this wikipedia too.bye,--Joe Satana 02:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Discussion function more user friendly
tell me what you think please,disscussions more user friendly, hovru 68.122.82.13 06:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

image - commons:Image:20070219 1118236758001.jpg
hi, i updated the image source to clarify.--Gerash77 20:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

pong
I saw it, I didn't respond immediately because I was attempting to communicate with the person (User:Gurch) who requested the deletion. He said he'll contact you, and I told him to refer you back to me if you still need undeletion. In any case, I apologize for not running a check on the images before deleting them. --Golbez 19:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * He contacted me, thank you. Happy editing. Bawolff 21:18, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

re: User_talk:Waggers
Hi, I'd be glad to. Do I need to take any further action (eg. adding additional tags) or is this message sufficient? Waggers 08:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Same here. Wouldn't GFDL suffice for you to copy the templates over to Wikinews? All contributions here are automatically licensed under GFDL. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 13:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thankyou, This message is sufficent for permission. GFDL does not suffice as we (the wikinewsies) do not consider it really free for for news articles. Wikinews is not under the gfdl. Bawolff

Re: Location maps
Hi, I would willingly put these maps under cc-by-sa-2.5, however the location maps that I have produced are derived from content on the OpenStreetMaps website. They licence under cc-by-sa-2.0--because of the share-alike clause, I'm not sure then whether I can release these maps under any other licence. Is 2.5 backwards compatible? —Jeremy (talk) 01:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't understand, what should I do to let you use these maps? Change the license? Don Alessandro 10:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

 * As Jeremy said above, as some of my data was from OpenStreetMap, all derived works must be released under cc-by-sa (it says cc-by-sa-2.0, but I imagine simliar cc-by-sa ones would be fine). As far as I can tell, I could not release it under cc-by-2.5. Richard B 11:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. note: I'm not 100% sure the copyright can apply to data like that, I'm just asking to be on the safe side. However I'd like to point out the cc-by-sa-2.0 is not compatible with the gfdl. Bawolff 21:53, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Ezhiki
Certainly. I hope this does work retroactively?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:18, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It works however you say it works. You own the copyright, you can release those rights in whatever form you chose. (but you can't change your mind once released, well for the cc licenses you can't). Bawolff 21:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Markussep
You can use the location maps I worked on for wikinews, as far as I'm entitled to say so. I think the only map image I actually created was an edit of a map image by User:Morwen (Greek prefectures). Markussep Talk 18:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Sure, go ahead. Markussep Talk 21:31, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bawolff
I'm not sure if this is the place to answer your query about hypersudoku, but the four extra squares in hyper sudoku have to also have numbers 1-9 in them. As they overlap the squares underneath this makes it a little trickier. The algorithm for working out the numbers is many many times more complicated. As for the image, it is the work of Chris McCusker, that's me, and I have no problem with it being distributed or reused. The site that runs the hypersudoku hypersudoku.com makes no profit from people playing the game. It's all free, go and play a game if you like. Thanks, cmccus01.
 * Thanks for your response. In future, for stuff relating to wikinews, I would prefer if you used n:user talk:Bawolff (Just so i could keep track of everything better). The image should be okay with that information in mind, however the article sounds spammy, and probably needs to be written in a less promotional sounding manner. Also, (I'm assuming you're the one who wrote the article), since you own the site, there is a conflict of interest with you writing a news article on it for wikinews, so I don't think the article can be published unfortunatly. Bawolff 02:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Location maps licensing
No problem. I replied here]. Sorry oir the delay, but I have been away for a fortnight. —Ian Spackman 19:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

And I similarly, here. Sorry for the delay, I was absent for a while. Kaveh 19:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

commons:image:Trophy.jpg
Do you remember anything about the copyright of that specific image? Its currently on dr at commons - see, and I was hoping you might remember something about its source. Bawolff 22:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes - it was actually a press release snapshot photograph from an NIH function. It appears that NIH has deleted the source ohot from its site. The award was part of an otherwise very busy picture, but the shot was head-on so I could cut out all the extraneous people, etc. To cover some of the jagged lines from the edit, I added a drop shadow - which looks as if it has been badly cropped by some other Wiki editor. - Davodd 16:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Plusnet-logo.gif)
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Disabled right-click menu for PNG/SVG
19-Feb-2009: Thanks for reporting that text in Template:Ph:Images and other uploaded files. Actually, since Oct. 2007, the disabled-menu problem has been a recurring issue: it seems to get fixed, but then will get disabled again every few months. Yet, it always seems ok in Commons or German Wikipedia, etc. I will mention that in the text. Again, thanks for letting me know about that text; I've worked on over 20,000 articles, and I didn't even remember having added that text in that location.... -Wikid77 (talk) 06:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

EB and Wikipedia
When I was in Grade IV (1963), I had the first glimpse Edgar Allan Poe's pages in Encyclopedia Britannica, at my aunt's house, due to our class assignment. In 1973, I had used EB 2 times at the Loyola House of Studies Library. In 2006, it was the first time I opened Wikipedia researching on witches. Today, our Encyclopedia online has devastated EB, but the latter still sways - proudly displayed in almost all top libraries of this weird planet. I am fascinasted with witches Six suspected witches lynched in Pokot. They were burned at stakes by the Inquisition during the Middle Ages.
 * Last night, I was watching EWTN, and I learned that anything that twinkles or had sparkled do possess the time of death. Many of us administrators, here, and tons of our users/editors had made this project with its sister projects, phenomenal. Soon, all of us will retire or be tired, as new sysops will bloom amid the fall of this project IN TIME. Nothing is permanent said the wise man from the West. Wikipedia and Mr. Jimbo Wales will fade in time, but we admins will leave traces or marks, footprints so to speak, in online history. I had viewed featured articles written by best Wiki-adm and I found that 70% of these powerful button-holders created one of the best biographies compared to EB's which were authored by professionals/eggs-perths. Deep thought reveals to me that the flaw is abuse: any administrator can push button any nemesis, detractor, tons of enemies, and even personal enemies of those friends who voted in his or her or a sysops LGBT's RFA. Blocking is a "quickie." When I earned my Ph.D. in psychiatry, I had written a beautiful thesis on cancer, stroke, nerve disorders vis-a-vis hatred, anger, vendetta and pure failure to accept LGBT as disease. Vandalism and sockpuppets abound here, amid patrol-lers, coz of those who were blocked due to godfather-button-chicanery things.
 * To illustrate this point: my cousin lived in LA as immigrant for 10 years. She never talked to Mexicans since they would have her deported to Mexico. She explained to me crab mentality - "When my neighbor had outage or fights with his boyfriend, the former brings the anger in the e-forum, blogs, office and in Wikipedia," said Pong. As administrator, you cannot fight alone, arguing against a blank wall when at your back an adm (either lesbian or gay, trans, or bi-sex, but not a witch) had already decided and even planned a blocking. I myself was asked by a friend admin to block his nemesis, but I refused politely. There is no way that Jimbo Wales can cure this disease, do it, since he is even plaged by the IP address posting issues spammed by EB. EB posters abound in Wikipedia to destroy Wikipedia since November 2008 amid blocks of Wikipedia in some countries like China. I am dropping to you my 2.1 cents. Best of Luck.--58.69.139.52 (talk) 07:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * umm, what? Bawolff (talk) 05:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Thanks for checking. Mgray (talk) M.Gray (talk) 01:27, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Stupid SUL. I own both accounts, BTW. If you want to check, I use the same email and have email enabled. M.Gray (talk) 01:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Wiktionary lookup js for blogs
I want to try out the new parameters for configuring the Wiktionary gadget on my blog, but I don't know where add the configuration code to make it work.--ragesoss (talk) 02:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey Bawolff, if you want to write up something about this for the 'post, you can always just leave a writeup here; thanks! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:59, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Responded on other people's talk. Bawolff (talk) 21:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had tried (I think) just exactly that after digging around online to see how to add configuration parameters to hotlinked js, but for some reason it didn't work the first time.  Now that it is working...a bug: the popup box often isn't big enough to hold all the definitions, so the final line with the "more" link (and sometimes parts of the definitions as well) gets cut off.--ragesoss (talk) 22:11, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

DYKVerified
Is there a method of adding this script to my toolbox? I'd like to try it out for a while. Gatoclass (talk) 06:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * responded on his talk page. Bawolff (talk) 07:15, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

FYI, the tool appears not to be counting properly. It's currently only updating to about 34 verified hooks when there are over 50 on the Suggestions page. Gatoclass (talk) 07:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

 * The script should be copying over the verified hooks in the recent nominations and those in the older nominations. The section it shouldn't copy from is the "Special occasions" section, since that is only a small section and doesn't need a special page to manage it. Gatoclass (talk) 12:52, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
iBendiscuss 03:51, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
iBendiscuss 06:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

New Test-mode Template
Just wanted to let you know about David's new test-mode template based on previous conversations - on my talk page and the main discussion on David's talk page stmrlbs | talk  17:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

EasyTimeLine Malayalam
Hi, After a little research, I also got it correctly. But I did more edits than you suggested.

for eg. I replaced
 * àŽ‰àŽ¬àµ�àŽ£àµ�àŽŸàµ� àŽªàµ�àŽ±àŽ€àµ�àŽ€àŽ¿àŽ±àŽ™àµ�àŽ™àµ�àŽšàµ�àŽšàŽ€àµ�àŽ‚ àŽªàŽ¿àŽšàµ�àŽ€àµ�àŽ£àŽ¯àµ�àŽ‚

by

 * ഉബുണ്ടു പുറത്തിറങ്ങിയതും പിന്തുണയും

Actually I like usability of that extension. But unfortunately we cannot use it because our language not defined in iso-8859-1 :(. Your suggestions are very useful and I'll use them surely. thanks--Praveen: talk 17:51, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

DYKVerified?
I noticed the article I created, Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah on your sub page User:Bawolff/DYKVerified. It does not have a verified stamp on it whereas the other articles do, has this article actually been verified? Thanks in advance. Supertouch (talk) 12:54, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow, people are actually using that :) - i thought it got lost in the depths of talk page archives. The page should probably be moved out of my userspace if people are actually using it. (but thats irrelevent to the issue at hand). I'm unsure why its copying it over there if there is no verified stamp on it, it shouldn't. (/me goes investigates). Bawolff (talk) 06:13, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like there was an extra space after the closing ==== in the headline which caused the script to think it was part of the proceeding headline. (script should now recognize such headers). The script also seemed to fail to identify the February 1 header as a section break. I don't know why, but it doesn't seem to affect anything. I'll investigate that more later. Anyways should all work now, thanks for the bug report. Cheers. Bawolff (talk) 07:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thanks. Bawolff (talk) 06:07, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

UI enhancement proposal
Hey Bawolff. I noticed you are familiar with Bugzilla and MediaWiki. Was wondering if you could see into the technical posibilities of this proposal, when you get the time? Best regards. Reh man  11:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi. I was actually just reading that bug earlier today. There already exists an extension (as a result of 13520 ) to do that, but it has not been reviewed by a senior developer (aka tim) for security/performance, and this would be the type of thing that would probably have performance implications if not done carefully. It also seems to be more of a user sets status rather then an auto-set status thing where the auto-set away status seems more desirable. There's also the whole, do the sysadmins think the concept is a Good Idea™, which seems to be an open question based on ^demon's comments on bugzilla. Bawolff (talk) 15:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Ticker
Hi Bawolff, how can i adopt Modèle:Ticker system on Turkish wikinews? Have you any idea? Thanks, have a great day. -- Duke ϡ»» ileti ^^ 21:20, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. I responded at n:tr:user_talk:koc61. Bawolff (talk) 23:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your helpfulness. Now, the ticker is working on Turkish Wikinews, too. Have great day. Koc61 (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wikinews portal
Template:Wikinews portal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thanks :) Bawolff (talk) 20:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Berlin hackathon invitation
Just a reminder and a request to come to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 20:12, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite. Bawolff (talk) 20:15, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Restricted-use media list
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Helvetica typeface on Wikimedia
Recently I'm fiddling with SVG fonts due to Jarry1250's SVG Check on WMF Labs not sharing the same complete library of typefaces with Wikimedia: Liberation Sans apparently falls back to Helvetica. But my question is: Isn't Helvetica a licensed typeface? Also this Helvetica appears to be not quite the same as the commercial version. In my file:St petersburg metro map sb ru.svg, some Cyrillic alphabets rendered by Wikimedia like "ж" (zhe) has greater effective width, some like "я" (ya) just look entirely different when I open the SVG file natively in my iPhone 5 by Safari. I wonder if normal user could download the fonts installed on Wikimedia server for inspection. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 03:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Sameboat. I don't know about the real servers (Although generally I think tool labs has all the fonts the real servers have, plus a couple), but on tool labs:

tools.sequencer@tools-login:~/public_html/mwEmbedStandAlone$ fc-match 'Helvetica' n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" tools.sequencer@tools-login:~/public_html/mwEmbedStandAlone$ fc-match 'Liberation Sans' n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" So both those font names end up going to Nimbus Sans L. All fonts on Wikimedia servers are open source, and from the ubuntu repositories. So in principle you can download all of them, but if you're not using linux some might be hard to install. If you're using ubuntu (or probably any other debian derivitive) you can install them using the command, where font-package is the things on the list at https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fpuppet.git/production/modules%2fmediawiki%2fmanifests%2fmultimedia.pp. All fonts on that list can also be downloaded manually, but may require some googline (e.g. first one on that list can be downloaded from https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/fonts-arabeyes/trusty/files ). Bawolff (talk) 04:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * You're right. And I'm using Windows XP/7. I'm not starting the doubt that if Helvetica is actually installed on Wikimedia server. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 04:46, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, the real Helvetica is not open source, so it's not going to be used on Wikimedia servers. Nimbus Sans L, is used instead because its fairly close. Bawolff (talk) 07:28, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't we just remove (or hide) Helvetica from the meta:SVG fonts list by now? -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 07:33, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure. I imagine much of that list is incorrect. Bawolff (talk) 07:44, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikimania IdeaLab
Hello there my Wikimania IdeaLabs fellow :D Our Idea is here if you wish to follow. --Bharel (talk) 15:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Gallery packed mode and caption centering
I am not sure if you are the person to ask, but in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cactus&oldid=648970914 this version] of the packed mode gallery, the gallery caption recenters when you change the browser window width. however, in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cactus&oldid=648937924 this version] it doesn't. the difference is with the first one, I didn't use the gallery tag's built-in caption feature, but in the second one, I did. Peter coxhead reported the problem to me after I converted some of the galleries to use the gallery tag with mode=packed. Frietjes (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Frietjes, thanks for letting me know. For now, I've filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91075. (btw, credit for making the gallery work well with resizing the window goes to User:M4tx (pl:user:M4tx)). Bawolff (talk) 16:32, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikinews
Hi Bawolff. Wikinews is hoping for a hand from you. Pi Zero has left you a semi-urgent message on your talk page there. Hope all is well with you. Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 21:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I fixed the issue. All I need to do to be popular is let the js break :P Bawolff (talk) 04:52, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiNews block error

 * Hello. I am reposting this from "commons:user talk:ShakataGaNai/Archives/2015/October."  Apparently  isn't active, so my post on their talkpage ended up being automatically archived by a bot.  I have not gotten a wikireply from  either yet on this.  If you can please unblock me on WikiNews, it will be much appreciated, thanks!  Nicole Sharp (talk) 01:51, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

 * Copy of earlier post to WikiNews admin :
 * I have been erroneously blocked from editing on WikiNews by . In case they cannot fix it any time soon, if you can please unblock me, it would be much appreciated, thanks!  You can view the relevant discussion at "user talk:Pi zero" and at wikinews:user talk:Nicole Sharp."  Nicole Sharp  07:53, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

 * I was able to get hold of on IRC though, and have copied/pasted the log of our conversation below.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 01:51, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

 * Based on the conversation below, it does not seem that is willing to correct their block.  I would request that the other WikiNews admins review the information and go ahead and unblock me as soon as possible.  I also saw on WikiNews that I am not the first WikiNewsian to complain about the administrative actions of  ("wikinews:user talk:ShakataGaNai").  Nicole Sharp (talk) 02:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

 You blocked my account without allowing me to make any edits outside of my userpagespace. If you cannot fix the problem, then the issue has to be referred to other administrators. I have already explained multiple times the issue you were confused on both on your Wikipedia talkpage and on my WikiNews talkpage, as you requested.
 *  Hello.
 *  hello.
 *  Hello, is this user:Pi zero on Wikimedia?
 * [pizero|afk] (~chatzilla@wikinews/pi-zero): New Now Know How
 * [pizero|afk] #wikinews-en #wikinews
 * [pizero|afk] hobana.freenode.net :Bucharest, RO
 * [pizero|afk] idle 00:01:50, signon: Thu Nov 5 07:48:39
 * [pizero|afk] is logged in as pizero
 * [pizero|afk] End of WHOIS list.
 *  yes. you can tell by my irc cloak - if you type "/whois pizero|afk", your irc client should give you an address that ends with wikinews/pi-zero ; freenode has an agreement with wikimedia so those can't be faked.
 *  I am not very familiar with IRC unfortunately. I am user:Nicole Sharp on Wikimedia.  I left you a number of messages but have not heard back.  You erroneously put a block on my WikiNews account.  If you can please fix this, it would be much appreciated.
 * [pizero|afk] (~chatzilla@wikinews/pi-zero): New Now Know How
 * [pizero|afk] #wikinews-en #wikinews
 * [pizero|afk] hobana.freenode.net :Bucharest, RO
 * [pizero|afk] is logged in as pizero
 * [pizero|afk] End of WHOIS list.
 * [nicole_] (~nicole@72-28-201-163-dhcp.jst.pa.atlanticbb.net): realname
 * [nicole_] #wikipedia-en #wikipedia #wikimedia-overflow #wikinews-en #wikinews
 * [nicole_] leguin.freenode.net :Umeå, SE, EU
 * [nicole_] is using a secure connection
 * [nicole_] is connecting from *@72-28-201-163-dhcp.jst.pa.atlanticbb.net 72.28.201.163
 * [nicole_] idle 00:01:03, signon: Sat Nov 7 20:01:33
 * [nicole_] End of WHOIS list.
 *  Erroneous? As I recall, we asked you not to do something you came back a while later and were doing it again, and I blocked you to prevent you doing it.  And I believe you have the ability to write on your talk page, so that's where it should be discussed.
 * <nicole_> The block is clearly erroneous, as I have replied to your posts on both Wikipedia and WikiNews. If you still have a dispute, the issue needs to be referred to an impartial administrator so the block can be removed.
 * <nicole_> I have tried to be both polite and patient on this as long as I can. Blocking is not an effective measure to prevent users from making constructive edits to Wikimedia projects.  Anyone can make edits from any IP address or a new account.  I'd rather edit under my own account though if I can.
 * <nicole_> I would like to think that your block was erroneous and misguided, and not a malicious effort to vandalize my Wikimedia account by preventing me from constructively contributing to WikiNews and maintain my own userpage there.
 * <nicole_> Either way though, the block needs to be fixed.
 * <pizero|afk> You weren't making constructive edits. You were making edits that caused a problem.  This was explained to you, and instead of finding a way to be more constructive, you went away for a while and then came back and make a confusing mess again.  So I blocked you to prevent you continuing to confuse things.  You have continued to demonstrate an aggressively nasty attitude toward requests to...
 * <pizero|afk> ...not cause problems. I also note there has never been any sign whatever that you ever wanted to contribute to Wikinews, so that claim appears to be completely spurious.
 * <pizero|afk> I wasn't confused, and am not confused. You seem to have never understood that you were causing a problem.
 * <nicole_> There are no problems with a wikiuser updating and maintaining their own userpage. In fact, that is a very useful and helpful practice.
 * <nicole_> Stopping a user from updating their own userpage is erroneous and misguided at best, and malicious and vandalistic at worst.
 * <pizero|afk> You changed *other* users' pages. You changed those pages in a way that would be inappropriate even if you proved they were alternate accounts of yours (which you didn't).  And you changed your own user talk page so as to hide administratively significant evidence, which is not acceptable.  And now, instead of trying to be constructive you're spending your time and effort accusing adminstrators o
 * <pizero|afk> f mistakes or misconduct for a simple, non-judgemental preventative block against misbehavior on your part that you were warned about prior to the block. Moreover, you're continuing the pattern of obfuscation by making this conversation private.
 * <nicole_> I have never and never would alter another users' userpage. Nor have I ever attempted to "hide" or "obfuscate" any edits or changes to Wikimedia, as you can clearly see from both my Wikimedia userpages and my talkpages.  I only contacting you here on IRC because you refused to reply to any of my posts on Wikimedia.  Since it seems we cannot come to a resolution, I will go ahead and copy/paste our conversation here (so far) to Wikimedia for archiving so that other admins can review the facts and make the decision to correct your block if you are unwilling to do so.
 * <pizero|afk> I did not refuse to respond on your talk pages. Since you just reminded me, I've been trying to write a short note on your en.wn talk page, but haven't had time to do so since you've been monopolizing my time with this private conversation.
 * <nicole_> It would be more helpful to reply on Wikipedia, since your block does not allow me to reply to anything you post on WikiNews.
 * <pizero|afk> That's blatantly false (as are a number of thing things you've said here). The appropriate place for discussion is your en.wn user talk page; nothing prevents you from replying.
 * <nicole_> I have been unable to make any edits other than creating new posts.
 * <nicole_> I copied and pasted our IRC conversation above to a new WikiNews admin on Wikipedia. I posted to your Wikipedia talkpage with the wikilink.
 * <nicole_> I should add also that I find your actions most particularly frustrating since even if you were not in error blocking me, all I need to do to edit my WikiNews userpage is log out and edit anonymously. There are plenty of both public and private IP addresses that I can edit from.  However, I would much prefer to resolve this properly by having my account unblocked so that my edits are under my usernam
 * <nicole_> e.
 * <nicole_> *frustrating and nonsensical
 * <pizero|afk> So, you're continuing to obfuscate the situation by spreading it all hither-and-yon across the wiki-sphere. One of my weaknesses, as you may indeed have figured out by now, is that I hate to think ill of people, so I'm sometimes slow to conclude that somebody is deliberately causing problems.  But that's seeming more and more likely in your case.  If you'd put a fraction of the effort into...
 * <pizero|afk> ...working with us that you've put into complaining, the situation would have been resolved ages ago. Enough of this, you've managed to monopolize an entire hour of my time tonight, that's more than enough.

resummation

 * There a number of different posts on a number of different wikipages (since I am blocked by from posting directly to WikiNews), so I thought it would be helpful to quickly resummarize here what happened and Pizero's reaction.  I have been a contributor to Wikimedia for many years, and over the years, have had different usernames, as documented at "user:Nicole_Sharp" and at " http://nicoleruizsharp.altervista.org/w/wikipages ."  On each Wikimedia project, for each of my old usernames, I have placed redirect links to my current userpage "user:Nicole Sharp," and on each Wikimedia project, have also placed an archive link on each talkpage to "user talk:Nicole Sharp/archive" with the archives of the talkpages from my old accounts.  Every single Wikimedia project except for WikiNews though.  As soon as I began placing the redirect links to update my old userpages on WikiNews, user  blocked my account without so much as a discussion with me (see "wikinews:user talk:Nicole Sharp").  I have been unable to make any edits or correct my old userpages on WikiNews since.  I can go in at any time anonymously or with a new account, but I would much rather just have Pizero's erroneous block fixed so that my edits are under the correct username.  I would also like to add that WikiNews has the lowest amount of webtraffic for any Wikimedia domain, and needs helpful educated editors who can contribute to the project.  Blocking users from simply maintaining their own userpages is a very harmful and anti-Wikimedian way to alienate contributors from the project.  The fact that Pizero ignored my posts for so long, and still refuses to correct the block, to me seems to be bordering on malicious and vandalistic instead of just simply erroneous and misguided.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 02:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I havent been an active admin at wikinews for years and i dont really want to be drawn into whatever dispute this is. Its clear that pi zero didnt "accidentally" block you (which seems to be your original claim) and it appears he has been discussing the matter with you (contrary to the original claim that he refused to talk to you). If you think the block was inapropriate, please find an active wikinews admin to request a second opinion from. Bawolff (talk) 16:29, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Are there any active admins on WikiNews other than ? You are the third I have contacted, and the first to even post a reply.  The admin list is already quite short to have such nonparticipation in the project.  The admin list needs to be updated so that users know who is active or not active to help with administrative problems on WikiNews.  I have gone ahead and reposted to a fourth admin at "user talk:Blood Red Sandman," but I again have no way of knowing if they are active or not.  If you know an admin or admins who are active, please forward this problem to them for me, so that my account can get unblocked, thanks!   has refused to undo their actions, and another admin is needed to unblock my account.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 17:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I just finished the "harassment consultation 2015." According to the survey, the actions of admin  do meet the Wikimedia Foundation's definition of content vandalism hasarassment for blocking me from constructively editing and updating my own userpage (and my old userpages) on WikiNews.  My experiences on Wikimedia have always been positive, other than this single incident of harassment on WikiNews by .  If the WikiNews admins cannot correct the actions of, the survey recommends that I contact MetaWiki and open a request there.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 18:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * user:Blood Red Sandman is active, i believe. Bawolff (talk) 12:46, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * There has still been no response from . You are the only admin to have replied.  Can you please either correct the issue from  or forward the issue to an active admin who can?  You need to remove yourself from "wikinews:Wikinews:Administrators" if you are unable to help with adminstrative issues.  If you cannot help, then my only options at this time seem to be to either go ahead and post to a fifth WikiNews admin, and just hope that they too are not also inactive, or forward my case to MetaWiki and the Wikimedia Foundation as a harassment and vandalism of my Wikimedia account.   should not be allowed to use their administrative privileges to harass or vandalize users without accountability.  If there are no other active admins on the WikiNews project to correct the actions of, then the Wikimedia Foundation needs to mediate.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:45, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have gone ahead and reposted (again) to "user talk:Brian." Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:55, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

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Mixed Content Warnings in wiktLookup.js
This script generates mixed content warnings due to loading another script over HTTP. Your script should use the HTTPS version, or use protocol relative URIs when loading scripts. So  would become   or just AfroThundr3007730 (talk) 18:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The script has been literally broken since August 2012. That's 5 years now. Bawolff (talk) 18:37, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

How to Install MediaWiki on a Linux Desktop ?
I saw that you do this. I want to run a wiki on my computer with MediaWiki syntax, not on a separate server. All search results are sparse and incomplete recipes. Can you provide a recipe?
 * see my research: User:T3g5JZ50GLq/MediaWiki Linux Desktop
 * T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 01:59, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi User:T3g5JZ50GLq - I think you're overthinking things. Installing MediaWiki on linux is pretty easy. If you're using debian/ubuntu, you can do . Otherwise, just install (with apt or whatever your package manager is) php, apache, php-mysql, mysqld, then download and extract the MediaWiki tarball into the web directory (often /var/www/html ), and follow the instructions. If you get stuck at a specific step, ask at the #mediawiki irc channel. Bawolff (talk) 04:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey User:Bawolff, I want to do an as-lightweight-as-possible server stack installation, and I believe the repository  is not as current as the tarball, so I want to install a lightweight server stack, then extract the MediaWiki tarball into the web directory. I do not know if just installing   (or FastCGI) is sufficient, or how much RAM, Hard Disk, and CPU resources such an installation would use, as this would be on a January 2016 1.6 GHz Celeron with 4GB RAM, but with other tools in use, I would only be able to allow 750MB at the most for MW+LLMP. So what are the resource requirements that you have encountered in your deployment on your laptop?
 * T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 09:26, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * That's probably fine as long as you're not serving a lot of people. If using php-apcu (A good idea. It will improve performance significantly) you can adjust acpu.shm_size to adjust how much ram is used by cache. If you want really lightweight, you can use sqlite instead of mysql (sqlite will have worse performance if multiple people are visiting the site at the same time, but is probably fine if its just you and will reduce resource usage as you don't have to have a mysql server running all the time). The debian package will be older than the most recent mw, it is usually the LTS release. Bawolff (talk) 10:29, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Bawolff, I plan on using it only for myself. In this case?: A install:, M install one of:  , P install one of:   ? T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 04:05, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You also need to install php-sqlite and php-mysql. The mysql package is probably the commandline access to mysql - which can be useful for debugging, but you probably want to go with mysql-server if you plan to go with mysql as your database. I'm assuming debian/ubuntu package names here, other distros might use different naming convention. My best advice here would be for you to try it and see what happens. The best way to learn is through experimenting. If you make a mistake, you can always start over - just try to install and see what happens. Bawolff (talk) 04:29, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data

 * Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:21, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * it was reverted by User:Koavf - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data/styles.css&diff=946071657&oldid=946071475 Bawolff (talk) 22:25, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks
I really appreciate your assistance tonight with that little weird MediaWiki issue. I don't know why I feel like I'm the one who keeps finding these weird things, but...well... In any case, my colleagues and I will work next week to try and get all those non-attached accounts sorted, and you're subscribed to the phab task. Risker (talk) 06:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I realize this edit probably didn't ping you, so I'll let you know here that I mentioned you at WT:ACN. Thank you for your efforts. – bradv  🍁  22:24, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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I mean, the title just called for that response. ;-)

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Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise may refer to:

Film and television

 * Return to Paradise (1935 film), a French film directed by Serge de Poligny
 * Return to Paradise (1953 film), an adaptation of James Michener's book (see below), directed by Mark Robson
 * Return to Paradise (1998 film), a remake of the 1989 French film Force majeure, directed by Joseph Ruben
 * Return to Paradise (Philippine TV series), a 2022 Philippine drama romance series
 * Return to Paradise (Australian TV series), a British-Australian crime drama TV series

Literature

 * Return to Paradise (short story collection), a 1951 novel by James A. Michener
 * Return to Paradise, a 1992 book by Breyten Breytenbach

Music

 * Return to Paradise (Randy Stonehill album), 1989
 * Return to Paradise (Sam Sparro album) or the title song, 2012
 * Return to Paradise (Styx album), 1997
 * "Return to Paradise", a song by Elton John from A Single Man, 1978
 * "Return to Paradise", a song by X-Perience from Lost in Paradise, 2006
 * "Return to Paradise", a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1953 film

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title: Return to Paradise


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Ana Beatriz Barros

Ana Beatriz Barros (born 29 May 1982) is a Brazilian model, known for her multiple appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Intimissimi, GUESS, Bebe, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line.

Early life
Barros was born in the town of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to Sônia, a housewife, and Reinato Barros, a mechanical engineer. Later, her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she spent her childhood. She is of German, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish descent.

1990s
When she was 13, Barros and her older sister, Patricia, were vacationing in Rio de Janeiro when they were spotted by a representative from Elite Model Management. Barros was encouraged by the Rio Elite office to participate in the Elite Model Look 1996, which she was runner up to Diana Kovalchuk. Barros subsequently competed for international Elite Model Look and placed second worldwide. Elite sent her portfolio and recent Polaroid shots to GUESS? which led her to do the Millennium GUESS? campaign along with her friend and fellow Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio.

2000s–2010s
In addition to Guess?, Barros has done advertisements for Christian Dior, Armani Jeans, Oakley, L'Oréal, Diesel, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line, among others. In 2004 Jennifer Lopez selected Barros to be the face of her new lingerie line, JLO Lingerie. Lopez said, "I wanted someone young, sexy and urban, with a universal appeal". Barros has been in shows for the likes of Valentino, Missoni, Gucci, Christian Dior, Versace, Emporio Armani, BCBG, DKNY, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Balmain, Etro, Loewe, Vivienne Westwood, Diane Von Furstenberg, Chloe, Giles Deacon, Stella McCartney, John Galliano, Thierry Mugler, Guy Laroche, Karl Lagerfeld, Mango, Elie Saab  and many more prestigious fashion houses. She walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009.

She has been on numerous covers of magazines such as Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire, Allure; Brazilian magazines such as Capricho and Audi magazine, W, Elle to name a few. Barros appeared seven times on Sports Illustrated in the Swimsuit Issue (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). Barros was named number 96 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" supplement in 2006.

She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar photographed by Terry Richardson in Bahia, Brazil, alongside Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, Miranda Kerr and other models. Barros replaced Lindsay Lohan for Fornarina's Spring Summer 2010 campaign and look book. She has already filmed her first commercial for the company. Barros was also featured in the 2010 Spring/Summer campaign for British retailer Marks and Spencers alongside Twiggy, VV Brown, Lisa Snowdon and Dannii Minogue.

Barros was the ambassador for Italian lingerie brand Intimissimi from 2005 to 2008. In August 2014 she was announced once again as the new face for Intimissimi. In March 2014, she appeared in an ad campaign for Azzaro Fragrance with Ian Somerhalder.

Personal life
Barros married Greek-Egyptian millionaire Karim El Chiaty on the Greek island of Mykonos on 8 July 2016. The list of attendees included fellow Victoria's Secret supermodels, Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Isabeli Fontana and Fernanda Motta.

In December 2017, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a son. Barros announced she was expecting her second child in September 2019.

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Gottuvadhyam

The gotuvadyam is a 20 or 21-string fretless lute-style veena in Carnatic music from around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, named by Sakha Rama Rao from Tiruvidaimarudur, who was responsible for bringing it back to the concert scene.

It is also known as chitravina (चित्रवीणा), chitra veena, chitraveena, chitra vina, hanumad vina and mahanataka vina.

Today it is played mainly in South India, though its origins can be traced back to Bharata's Natya Shastra (200 BCE-200 CE), where it is mentioned as a seven string fretless instrument. Sarangadeva (1210–47) also made a similar reference to the chitravina in his work, Sangita Ratnakara.

Recent history
As a chitravina it was popularised in South India by Sakha Rama Rao before his disciple Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar (1903 - 1959), who was a palace musician of the erstwhile States of Travancore and Mysore took it to great heights. Iyengar's son, Chitravina Narasimhan (b. 1941) was instrumental in spreading his father's stringing and tuning methods as well as playing style.

Construction and tuning
Since its first reference in the Natya Shastra, The chitravina has undergone numerous developments and is today shaped like the South Indian veena.

There are six main strings used for melody that pass over the top of the instrument, three drone strings and 11 or 12 sympathetic strings running parallel to and below the main strings. Among the more prominent solo instruments in Carnatic music, it is also seen in collaborative world music concerts and north-south Indian jugalbandis.

The chitravina is generally tuned to G sharp (5 and 1/2) and played with a slide like a Hawaiian steel guitar and the north Indian vichitra veena. The approach to tuning is similar to the sitar in the context of the 11-12 sympathetic resonance strings (from the low Pa to high Sa), similar to the Saraswati veena in the context of the three drone (tala) strings (Sa-Pa-Sa), but is unique in terms of the top-layer main playing six strings, which are configured as 3 tonic strings (sa), 2 fifth strings (pa) and 1 base tonic string (sa). The 3 and 2 include an octave string which gives the instrument a unique tone.

The fretless nature of the instrument, Narayana Iyengar's stringing methods have made its tone 'reminiscent of the human voice.'

Playing technique
The index and middle fingers of the right hand are usually used with plectra to pluck the metal melody strings while a cylindrical block made out of hardwood (often ebony), buffalo horn, glass, steel, or teflon held by the left hand is used to slide along the strings to vary the pitch.

Contemporary use
Narayana Iyengar's grandson Chitravina N. Ravikiran (b. 1967) plays the instrument and is the inventor of a variant, the navachitravina (which is typically tuned to B or C).

Other exponents of the instrument include Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri (1894 - 1978), A Narayana Iyer, Mannargudi Savithri Ammal, Allam Koteeshwara Rao (1933 -), M V Varahaswami, Allam Durgaprasad, Chitravina P Ganesh (b. 1976), Madhavachar, Kiranavali (Chitravina), Shashikiran, Gayatri Kassabaum, Lalitha Krishna, Vishaal Sapuram and Bhargavi Balasubramanian, Anahita Ravindran, Apoorva Ravindran. Seetha Doraiswamy, known more as a jala tarangam exponent, used to play the Balakokila, a smaller version of the chitravina.

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Petr Paucek

Petr Paucek is a Czech-born biophysicist and biomedical researcher and an associate professor of biology at Portland State University.

Early life and education
Paucek attended the Academy of Science at Prague, where he obtained doctorates in biophysics and physiology, and later trained at the Medical College of Ohio (subsequently renamed The University of Toledo Health Science Campus) and the Oregon Health & Science University. He relocated from Oregon to Maine in 2005 to conduct research at the Thomas M. Teague Biotechnology Center in Fairfield.

Career
He has co-authored a number of frequently-cited articles in Circulation Research, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and the American Journal of Physiology.

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Cold Squad

Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series that premiered on CTV on January 23, 1998, at 10 p.m., and ran for seven seasons. Led by Sergeant Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart), a team of homicide detectives from the Vancouver Police Department reopen long-unsolved, or "cold" cases (the titular "Cold Squad"), using present-day forensic technology and psychological profiling to help crack them. Cold Squad premiered simultaneously in French Canada on Séries+ as Brigade spéciale.

The series was created by Matt MacLeod, Philip Keatley and Julia Keatley, and produced by Keatley MacLeod Productions and Alliance Atlantis in association with CTV Television Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund).

Cold Squad is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver. With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television.

The cast of Cold Squad was diverse and changing. Except for Julie Stewart, almost the entire cast was replaced between the second and third seasons, and the series revamped. The revision was meant to attract a younger audience and more male viewers. (Michael Hogan, who played main character Det. Tony Logozzo in Seasons 1 and 2, appeared in the third season two-part opener episode "Deadly Games" but thereafter was gone from the series).

Starting with the third season, the "Cold Squad" division was folded into a province-wide task force and its basement setting eliminated. Along with significant variations of the title sequence (Seasons 1–2, 3–6, 7), theme music (Seasons 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7), new sets (Seasons 3–6, 7), and change in McCormick's hair colour from auburn to blonde along with her wardrobe (in particular her jacket), these differences contributed to a considerable reworking of the series. The only character to appear in all seven seasons was Sgt. Ali McCormick.

Main cast

 * Julie Stewart as Sgt. Ali (Alison) McCormick
 * Michael Hogan as Det. Tony Logozzo (seasons 1–2 | Guest season 3)
 * Joy Tanner as Jill Stone (seasons 1–2)
 * Paul Boretski as Det. Nick Gallagher (season 1)
 * Jerry Wasserman as Insp. Vince Schneider (season 1)
 * Hiro Kanagawa as Det. James Kai (seasons 1–2)
 * Jay Brazeau as Sam Fisher (seasons 1–2, 4 | Recurring season 3)
 * Paul Coeur as Sgt. Lloyd Mastrowski (seasons 1–2)
 * Eli Gabay as Det. Larry Iredell (season 1)
 * Linda Ko as Christine Liu (seasons 1–2)
 * Bob Frazer as Det. Eddie Carson (season 2)
 * Lori Triolo as Det. Jackie Cortez (season 2)
 * Peter Wingfield as Insp. Simon Ross (season 2 | Guest season 3)
 * Garry Chalk as Insp. Andrew Pawlachuk (seasons 4–7 | Recurring season 3)
 * Tamara Craig Thomas as Det. Mickey Kollander (seasons 3–6)
 * Gregory Calpakis as Det. Nicco Sevallis (seasons 3–6)
 * Stephen McHattie as Sgt. Frank Coscarella (seasons 3–4)
 * Joely Collins as Christine Wren (seasons 4–7)
 * Matthew Bennett as Det. Len Harper (seasons 5–7 | Recurring season 4)
 * Sonja Bennett as Det. Samantha Walters (season 7)
 * Tahmoh Penikett as Cst. Ray Chase (season 7)

Recurring cast

 * Tasha Simms as Dep. Chief Malcolm (seasons 1, 2)
 * Stacy Grant as Leanne Walker (seasons 1, 3, 6)
 * Keith Martin Gordey as Judge Foster (seasons 2, 4)
 * Timothy Webber as Desmond Cage (seasons 2, 5)
 * Richard Ian Cox as Manny Needlebaum (season 3)
 * Sharon Alexander as Bernice Boyle (season 3)
 * Allan Lysell as Det. Bill Overmyer (season 3)
 * Lisa Houle as Rachel Sherman (seasons 3, 4)
 * David Palffy as Bailey Gallanson (seasons 3, 4)
 * Michael David Simms as Sgt. Casey (seasons 3, 4, 5)
 * Jill Teed as Laura (seasons 4, 5)
 * Kate Logie as Vanessa (seasons 4, 5)
 * Craig Warkentin as Vito (seasons 4, 5)
 * Laurie Murdoch as Chief Perkins (seasons 4, 6)
 * Lawrence Ricketts as Hank Johnson (seasons 4, 6)
 * Crystal Bublé as Billie (seasons 5, 6)
 * Bryan Genesse as Dan (seasons 5, 6)
 * Brenda James as Sonia Parker (season 6)
 * Adrian Holmes as Dr. Ben Wilson (seasons 6, 7)
 * Chilton Crane as Wanda Harper (seasons 6, 7)
 * Michael Rogers as Chief Wilcox (seasons 6, 7)
 * JR Bourne as Paul Deeds (season 7)

Development and production
Cold Squad was originally conceived in 1995 as a one-hour series for the Lifetime channel in the United States. Baton Broadcasting became involved in its development in November 1995. Lifetime, however, backed out in mid-1996 and in 1997 the producers partnered with Alliance Atlantis.

At the time Cold Squad was developed, the production of television series in Vancouver was heavily dominated by programs made for the United States. When Cold Squad was greenlit it became the first one-hour, prime time dramatic series for Canadian television to be produced out of Vancouver.

After Baton committed to local production of the series, the producers reached an agreement with Canadian labor union ACFC West (Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople) to cut the cost of labor on 13 episodes by $225,000 (CAD). With this concession, the overall budget to produce the first season became approximately $12.5 million (CAD).

An unexpected cash crunch by Telefilm Canada's Equity Investment Program affected the corporation's funding for the series and the original order for 13 episodes was reduced to 11 episodes. Funding was adjusted and both Baton and Alliance Atlantis committed to an increased financial investment in the production of Cold Squad, with the budget per episode at $900,000-plus (CAD). Baton thereafter reoriented its involvement to that of being the series' Canadian broadcaster only. Keatley MacLeod Productions retained 75% copyright ownership and the rights to U.S. distribution, and Alliance Atlantis retained 25% ownership with distribution rights in other international territories. (Baton Broadcasting, which had full control of the CTV network, was reorganized and renamed CTV Inc. in December 1998. In March 2000, CTV Inc. was acquired by Bell Canada Enterprises.)

Originally scheduled to start on June 16, 1997, filming on Cold Squad began on July 2, 1997, and the new series' scheduled premiere was changed from September 1997 to January 1998.

Cold Case intellectual property controversy
When U.S. television network CBS announced the premiere of Cold Case for its 2003/2004 schedule, John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote: "Cold Case...is a new drama about a blond, female cop (played by Kathryn Morris) who tracks down old, cold cases and faces discrimination because she's a woman. It has no connection with Cold Squad, a Canadian series about a blond, female cop who tracks down old, cold cases and faces discrimination because she's a woman." The likeness to Cold Squad was also noted by other Canadian television critics. Stephanie Earp of TV Guide wrote: "Last fall, American viewers got excited about a new crime drama that revolves around a tough blond detective with an edgy haircut who solves cold cases. Of course, Canadian viewers got excited by that show back in '98, when it debuted under the name Cold Squad."

The comparison between Cold Squad and Cold Case became compelling when it was revealed that Meredith Stiehm, the creator of Cold Case, had attended seminars on television writing in April 2002 at the Canadian Film Centre and was informed about the concept of Cold Squad during one of the sessions.

The similarities led Cold Squad series creators Matt MacLeod and Julia Keatley to retain intellectual property attorney Carole Handler, of Los Angeles law firm O'Donnell & Schaeffer, to broker talks with Cold Case producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Bros. MacLeod declined to discuss details but said, "We are deeply concerned [about the shows' similarities]...We're taking the appropriate actions." Confirming that written correspondence was proceeding between the producers of the two shows, Handler stated, "We hope to work out the producers' concerns. This is a real issue. My clients are the creators of the original concept." Recourse in the matter included the option of doing nothing, a settlement involving royalties or a format payment, or a lawsuit.

CTV acquired the rights to broadcast Cold Case in Canada and added the series to its Fall 2003 schedule, at the same time postponing the last season of Cold Squad until Fall 2004. The network took advantage of the resemblance between the two shows by scheduling both during the same prime time day of the week, Sunday, publicizing the programming as a "crime theme night", with Cold Case airing at 8 p.m. and Cold Squad at 10 p.m.

During the 18th Gemini Awards, awards host Seán Cullen bluntly echoed a shared sentiment about CTV bumping Cold Squad off its fall programming in favor of the new American cop show: "Screw you Cold Case. I love Cold Squad."

When Cold Squad went into syndication in the United States the similitude between it and Cold Case raised eyebrows — until American viewers discovered that Cold Squad was the precedent series.

Broadcast
The premiere of the final season was delayed until Fall 2004 and its programming changed to 9 p.m. Saturday as part of CTV's "crime time" block.

Due to the network's sporadic scheduling of the season, the last episodes of the series premiered in their French-dubbed versions on Séries+ in 2004, long before the English-language versions of those episodes aired on CTV in the Spring of 2005.

In July 2000, CanWest Global Communications obtained the international distribution rights for Cold Squad from Endemol Entertainment Holding NV when it purchased the company's television library. Endemol had procured the rights from Alliance Atlantis.

Alliance Atlantis owned Showcase and within Canada reruns of Cold Squad aired on the channel (Showcase was acquired by CanWest in 2007 after its purchase of Alliance Atlantis ).

Syndication
In 2005, Thunderbird Films acquired the syndication rights to the series. In Europe, Sony Pictures Television International secured the license to broadcast the program from Fireworks International in October 2005. In the United States, Program Partners (PPI Releasing) acquired the syndication rights from Thunderbird in January 2006, and the series began airing in the U.S. in Fall 2006 as part of a "Crime Watch" block package. In June 2008, the syndication was renewed for an additional season to begin airing in the fall.

Cold Squad was seen in off-network syndication intermittently on cable specialty channel Mystery TV,  and also on Bravo. The series aired on digital cable channel Sleuth in the U.S. in 2009. It was then broadcast on digital television networks, such as Tuff TV. It began airing on Retro TV in 2011. Also in 2011, My Family TV added Cold Squad to its roster of programs and continued to carry the series after rebranding as The Family Channel. In May 2019, the series began airing on the El Rey Network.

Home media
Alliance Atlantis released the DVD of Season 1 for Region 1 in Canada only, on September 2, 2003. It became available in the United States in 2009. The Region 2 DVD of Season 1 was released in the Netherlands (English audio with Dutch subtitles) by Just Entertainment Bv on March 20, 2012. It became available in the United Kingdom as an import.

The Season 2 DVD (Region 2) was released in the Netherlands (English audio with Dutch subtitles) by Just Entertainment Bv on June 19, 2012. It was made available in the United Kingdom as an import.

Digital distribution of Cold Squad became available in the U.S. as instant streaming on Netflix in 2011. The complete series (98 episodes) was made available as video on demand (VOD) on Hulu in February 2013. Amazon Video added Season 1 to its North American library in October 2015, Season 2 in September 2016, Season 3 in October 2016, and Season 4 in March 2017. In the United Kingdom, Amazon Instant Video UK added Season 2 first to its library in September 2016, Seasons 1 and 3 in October 2016, and Season 4 in February 2017. The series became available on Tubi in 2018.

Reception
In a final season interview with Julie Stewart, media and television columnist Bill Brioux wrote: "Cold Squad has consistently been one of the top-rated Canadian-produced TV shows, despite being booted all over CTV's schedule."

Awards and nominations
Cold Squad was nominated for 38 Gemini Awards, 49 Leo Awards, one Directors Guild of Canada award, and two Writers Guild of Canada awards during its seven-season run. The series won seven Gemini Awards, including Julie Stewart for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role" (2002), Garry Chalk for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series" (2002 and 2001), and Tamara Craig Thomas for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series" (2001). It won four Leo Awards, including Julie Stewart for "Best Lead Performance By A Female in a Dramatic Series" (2003).

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John Attard Montalto

John Attard Montalto (born 7 February 1953) is a Maltese politician who was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists. He served in the government of Malta as Minister for Industry and Economic Affairs from 1996 to 1998.

Career
Born in Sliema, Attard Montalto studied History and Law at the University of Malta and he was also student representative on the University Senate. He first contested the general elections in 1987 and was elected. He was re-elected in subsequent elections in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2003. Between 1996 and 1998, when the Labour Party was in government, he served as Minister for Industry and Economic Affairs.

After the defeat of Labour Party at the polls in 2003 and the resignation of the Party Leader Alfred Sant, Attard Montalto announced his intention to run for the post. The race turned out to be between three contestants, including Sant who was persuaded to run and who, eventually, won the election. Attard Montalto finished last. In the same year Attard Montalto was appointed an observer to the European Parliament by the Labour Party. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 (resigning his seat in the Maltese House of Representatives) where he sat with the Party of European Socialists and was the first Head of Delegation for Labour MEPs from Malta.

Attard Montalto was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a substitute for the Subcommittee on Human Rights, a member of the delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.

His tenure as MEP has not been without controversy. He did not attend the plenary session at Strasbourg for the vote on the Port Services Directive, a proposal which the Labour Party was against. Labour Party leader Alfred Sant said Attard Montalto had been on a "personal political mission" to Central America. In the past, Attard Montalto was also member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1992–1995, 1995–1997,1999-2003, 2003–2005).

Education

 * 1974: B.A. (Hons.) History
 * 1978: Diploma of Notary Public (Dip. Not. Pub.)
 * 1979: Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)

Member of the Association of Foreign Title Holders in Malta.

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Simon Busuttil

Simon Busuttil (born 20 March 1969) is the Secretary General of the EPP Group (European People's Party) in the European Parliament. Formerly, he was Leader of the Opposition. and Leader of the Nationalist Party in Malta and a Member of the European Parliament for Malta.

Education
Busuttil, who is from Lija, graduated as Doctor of Laws (University of Malta, 1993), MA in European Studies (University of Sussex, 1994) and Magister Juris in International Law (University of Malta, 1995). As a student he was President of the Maltese Christian Democrat Students, SDM (1989–91), Student Representative on the Senate of the University of Malta (1991–92) and International Secretary of the Maltese National Youth Council (1992).

Career
Busuttil's career is mostly linked with EU affairs as well as with his parliamentary roles in the European Parliament and in the national Parliament in Malta. In 1999, Busuttil was appointed Head of the Malta-EU Information Centre (MIC) and led Malta's public awareness campaign ahead of the 2003 EU membership referendum. At the same time he was also a member of Malta's Core Negotiating Group (negotiating Malta's membership in the EU) and the Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee (MEUSAC) in 1999.

Member of the European Parliament
In 2004, Busuttil was elected as an MEP with the Nationalist Party in the election for the European Parliament netting the largest number of personal preference votes, 58,899 votes. He was the first Maltese MEP to address the European Parliament on 21 July 2004. He was re-elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 election, again registering the largest vote tally of votes ever, or 68,782 votes.

As an MEP he was a member of the bureau of the European People's Party (EPP) and sat on various committees including the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets. But his strongest contribution was within the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee where he was the Coordinator (Spokesperson) for the EPP Group and covered issues that include the sensitive areas of common European immigration and asylum policy.

Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Party and MP
In November 2012, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Party following the resignation of Tonio Borg. He was elected an MP in the 2013 general election.

Leader of the Nationalist Party and Leader of the Opposition

Immediately after the elections, incumbent Leader Lawrence Gonzi announced that he would not be seeking re-election for the role of leader of the Nationalist Party. Busuttil was one of four candidates running for leadership along with Mario De Marco, Raymond Bugeja and Francis Zammit Dimech. On 4 May 2013, at the first round of voting, Busuttil obtained 50.3% of the votes while Mario De Marco obtained 38.5% and conceded the race, leaving Busuttil de facto leader elect. A further vote was taken on 8 May in order for him to officially receive 2/3 of the votes, the threshold required by the election rules. Simon Busuttil was confirmed Leader having exceeded 90% of the votes cast. As leader of the opposition, Busuttil also announced his Shadow Cabinet in May 2013.

Busuttil's term as Leader of the PN and of the Opposition was characterised by a his choice to champion the rule of law and the fight against corruption in Malta. He led the Opposition charge against the Labour Government led by Joseph Muscat following the revelations made by Daphne Caruana Galizia and PanamaPapers in February and April 2016 respectively. In April 2017, he published a leaked report that implicated the Chief of Staff in money laundering activities linked to Malta's golden passport scheme. The following month, in May 2017, Busuttil published yet another leaked report and presented evidence of alleged illegal transfers to the tune of €650,000 paid by Keith Schembri to the former Managing Director of The Times of Malta, Adrian Hillman. The revelations increased pressure on the Labour Government and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and eventually led to an early election being called on 1 May 2017. In reaction, Busuttil said that people faced a stark choice between Joseph Muscat's interests and Malta's interest and appealed to voters to 'Vote for Malta'. He claimed that the elections were a matter of trust, not just proposals. He claimed that Muscat called the snap election to evade justice. Busuttil led the General Election campaign based on a platform of the fight against corruption and the importance of Rule of Law.

In that election, Busuttil contested the 11th and 12th Electoral Districts in the 2017 Maltese general election as the leader of the Nationalist party. However, on 4 June 2017, after polls on the previous day, it was clear that the Malta Labour Party had won by a 55% margin. The win was historic as the Labour party won the election by a record margin, and the margin was seen to be even bigger than in the 2013 Maltese general election. Many reasons were attributed for the result, including the fact that the economy was experiencing record growth under Joseph Muscat while at the same time the PN gave little reason for being elected other than a good governance pledge, which even that was not considered authentic because of the corruption scandals that rocked the party back during their time in government. Busuttil conceded defeat and the following day announced his resignation as leader of the Nationalist Party along with the entire party administration. He met party activists on 6 June 2017 and explained that although he would be leaving, the party should "never give up" in its principled fight for the rule of law. He also announced a new and more open procedure for electing the new leader, with all party members being able to vote to elect their leader for the first time.

Backbench MP
On 17 September 2017, Busuttil was succeeded by Dr Adrian Delia as leader of the Nationalist Party and on 6 October 2017 as Leader of the Opposition. In February 2018, Delia appointed Busuttil as Shadow Minister for Good Governance, asking him to continue his fight for the rule of law. Nevertheless relations between them turned sour when Delia asked Busuttil to resign from the PN parliamentary group in the wake of the news of the publication of the conclusions of the 'Egrant' magisterial inquiry into the alleged ownership of one of the Panama company by the Prime Minister's wife, which concluded that no proof was found that Egrant belonged to the Prime Minister's wife although the inquiry did not find details of the actual owner. Delia had not yet been given a copy of the inquiry when he accused Busuttil. The allegation had first been made by Daphne Caruana Galizia, and was believed by Simon Busutil to the point of putting the allegation centre stage in the 2017 election campaign. Busuttil warned Delia that he should not side with Muscat and refused to suspend himself. The Administrative Council of the Nationalist Party met later during 22 June 2018 in order to discuss the events, and backed Delia's request to Busuttil, asking the latter to make way so that the party can move on in an effective matter, as no one can be considered bigger than the party. Despite this, he still found the support of many prominent people in the PN parliamentary group, among them being his former deputies Mario de Marco and Beppe Fenech Adami who supported him saying that the party should unite for greater strength. Other MPs that lent their name to this cause included Claudette Buttigieg, Therese Comodini Cachia, Marthese Portelli, Claudio Grech, Karol Aquilina, Karl Gouder and Jason Azzopardi, as well as MEP David Casa. MEP Roberta Metsola requested that the matter was discussed within party organs. MP Chris Said offered to mediate the situation. Delia would eventually relent, which would prove to be one of many incidents regarding internal party politics.

Secretary General of the EPP Group in the European Parliament
On 14 January 2020, Simon Busuttil was appointed as the new Secretary General of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. To take up this Brussels-based post, Busuttil announced that he would resign his parliamentary seat at the end of February 2020. He officially took over his new responsibility of Secretary General of the EPP Group on 1 May 2020.

Controversies
Busuttil was subject to criticism on a number of direct orders that he was awarded from previous Governments under the Nationalist administration. Replies to a series of parliamentary questions revealed that a total of €49,015.56 were awarded by the Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure and its entities to Europa Research and Consultancy Services Ltd, of which Opposition leader Simon Busuttil was the founding director. Additionally, contracts amounting to Lm82,144.13 between 1999 and 2004 were also awarded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Nationalist Party had said that these direct orders were related to contracts that have been awarded to his firm between 1999 and 2004 related to his services rendered in the run-up to the EU referendum.

Additionally, Busuttil benefitted from more than €1,500,000 which was also confirmed by the Court of Justice, losing a libel case against Partit Laburista.

Decorations
National
 * 2003: 🇲🇹 Member of the National Order of Merit of Malta

Others
 * 2004: Winner of The Outstanding Young Person Award of the Junior Chamber (Malta)

title: Simon Busuttil