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June 2017
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Impenitent thief. Tgeorgescu (talk) 17:11, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

 * Please don't threaten me for disagreeing with you. I linked to a prexisting wikipedia page, that is not original research and for you to claim that it is very dishonest of you. Woscafrench (talk) 18:23, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

 * See WP:CIRCULAR: Wikipedia isn't a reliable source. We have rules for editing, it's not bad that you don't know the rules, but you should be willing to learn them. More at Talk:Impenitent thief. Tgeorgescu (talk) 20:10, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I added a verifiable source and you deleted it which was hypocritical of you. My source wasn't wikipedia, it was a former Bishop of the Church of England. Are you not worried I might report you for your aggressive behaviour? Woscafrench (talk) 12:16, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I explained you about WP:VER three times (in three places) before giving the above warning. How many times do I have to explain that to you before you get it? Let me make it very clear: in by far the most situations Wikipedia cannot be a source for Wikipedia. Do also read what I wrote at Talk:Impenitent thief. The gist is: if you don't edit by Wikipedia rules, you will be blocked by admins. There are certain edits that are wholeheartedly allowed, while other edits are considered nefarious. Also, you have inserted your own personal opinion in the article and that's not done. I guess that for you the Bible is holy. Well, for Wikipedia the mainstream academic view is holy and it should be respected in all circumstances. Tgeorgescu (talk) 17:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * See?
 * Is a verifiable reference to a reliable source.
 * John Robertson
 * Isn't a verifiable reference to a reliable source. Got it now? Also, Robinson's view is a minority view, see WP:UNDUE, WP:BALANCE, WP:PROPORTION. It is also outdated. Tgeorgescu (talk) 21:04, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You have not explained anything to me. Is your problem with the source I provided that that I provided a link to the wikipedia page about the book, rather than a link to the book itself? Woscafrench (talk) 16:31, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * First, the cited source is too old and it is a minority view, so it should not be cited anyway. Second, yes, in general, you have to cite specific pages of a book/article, instead of linking to other Wikipedia articles. Tgeorgescu (talk) 20:46, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * In what way is it "too old"? Does being more than a decade or two old make a book ineligible to be used as a source in wikipedia? Woscafrench (talk) 21:00, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * See Identifying reliable sources (history). Tgeorgescu (talk) 21:56, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You didn't quite answer my question there, could you please try again? Woscafrench (talk) 22:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Robinson's view did not stick in mainstream scholarship. It is therefore outdated. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * This view appears to be original research on your part. I could not find it in the source you cited Woscafrench (talk) 12:18, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You want to cite it, you have the WP:BURDEN to show that is accepted by a large part of mainstream Bible scholars. I.e. despite Ehrman's statement about almost universal assent for the gospels being written some decades after the death of Jesus. Does Robinson's view pass the WP:CHOPSY test? I guess not. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't want to cite it. You made me cite it after refusing to accept (the undeniable truth) that there is no way of knowing when the New Testament was written. Are you not even a little interested in the truth of that claim? Rather than just parroting someone else's opinions? Robinson was a lecturer at Cambridge, so I imagine his views would pass the WP:CHOPSY test. Woscafrench (talk) 18:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We speak about what is taught as fact at CHOPSY now, not 40 years ago. Here we are not interested about WP:THETRUTH, see WP:VNT. All we do around here is "parroting someone else's opinions". If you don't like this, leave. This whole website is a huge appeal to authority, nothing else. Wikipedia is only interested in editors' competence to cite reliable sources for verifying information. Wikipedia is not meant for venting your opinion or my opinion or another editor's opinion. It is only meant to render what has been published in reliable sources, and all this according to WP:UNDUE, WP:BALANCE, WP:PROPORTION, WP:FRINGE and so on. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:17, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We speak about what is taught as fact at CHOPSY now, not 40 years ago. Here we are not interested about WP:THETRUTH, see WP:VNT. All we do around here is "parroting someone else's opinions". If you don't like this, leave. This whole website is a huge appeal to authority, nothing else. Wikipedia is only interested in editors' competence to cite reliable sources for verifying information. Wikipedia is not meant for venting your opinion or my opinion or another editor's opinion. It is only meant to render what has been published in reliable sources, and all this according to WP:UNDUE, WP:BALANCE, WP:PROPORTION, WP:FRINGE and so on. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:17, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

"If Wikipedia had been available around the sixth century B.C., it would have reported the view that the Earth is flat as a fact and without qualification. And it would have reported the views of Eratosthenes (who correctly determined the earth's circumference in 240BC) either as controversial, or a fringe view. Similarly if available in Galileo's time, it would have reported the view that the sun goes round the earth as a fact, and if Galileo had been a Vicipaedia editor, his view would have been rejected as 'originale investigationis'."

- WP:FLAT

 * Quoted by Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I should also remind you of WP:NOTFORUM and WP:NOTFREESPEECH. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:45, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Pontius Pilate
See Sockpuppet investigations/Herbert McCallum. I've been dealing with this person for the past few days, and is obviously a sock of them. As such, all edits by them should be reverted on sight, per WP:BLOCKEVASION; this includes edits to talk pages. It would also be wise for you to see WP:DNFTT if you haven't already. Sky Warrior  14:14, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree that this is probably a sock puppet who is not adding anything valuable, and if their accounts are banned for that reason that seems fair enough. In the case of their edit to the talk page I think chastising them there for wasting people's time with a joke no-one was laughing at would do more to defuse the situation than just deleting the comment and waiting for them to come back. Woscafrench (talk) 14:41, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Ipuwer
I apologise for reverting your reversion of my deletion of the Ipuwer papyrus, but I promise it will get a mention, along with things like the Apiru and the tempest stele. PiCo (talk) 01:36, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Cubic honeycomb
I am genuinely curious how you happened across an edit I made nine months ago on a page that has had well over 100 edits since then. Primefac (talk) 18:44, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I was reading the article, and then I suddenly thought to myself "this is an obscure article - I wonder if I've heard of anyone who's edited it?". And yes - Tomruen's name came up a lot, I went further back in the articles history to find someone other than Tomruen and I saw your username and it rang a bell and I noticed you'd reverted a good faith edit with no explanation and marked it as a minor edit. For some reason that gets under my skin - I've grumbled before about it. But you needn't worry as I'm currently aiming to get my mainspace edits back up to a respectable 70%, so I'm not planning on stirring up discontent on any more talk pages for the near future.

 * Just so we're all on the same page, a few days ago when I first saw what happened to Fmadd, I was so indignant I broke my fast and left a message on the talk page of the sockpuppeteer template page: Template_talk:Sockpuppeteer. My revert of you was perhaps a little cheeky as it technically counts as a mainspace edit, so it was helping me towards my 70% target. Woscafrench (talk) 19:42, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Edit summary
What is this supposed to mean? Do you not understand the purpose of the edit? Jauerbackdude?/dude. 03:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello. No I do not really understand the purpose of your edit. Did you read the article before you edited it? You mass edited so many articles in such a short period of time, that I think the answer to that question is "no". One of the reasons you cited for making your change was a suggestion that the language was editorialising, but that suggestion doesn't seem to match the text you edited. The edits in your editing spree were so similar, it made me wonder if you were running a script of some sort to do it. Woscafrench (talk, contribs) 12:11, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Nope, not running a script. It's pretty easy to do a search for articles with that phrase, find it in the article, and reword it properly. And how does my edit not perfectly match my edit summary? Did you click on either of the links in my edit summary (one is to an essay; the other to an MOS)? I can't imagine that you did otherwise it would make perfect sense. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 12:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The edit you made was to remove the bracketed part of this sentence:
 * While this is the standard usage of the term "normalizer" in Lie algebra, [it should be noted that] this construction is actually the idealizer of the set S in $\mathfrak{L}$
 * Your edit summary did not match, as there was no editorialising in that sentence, or at least any editorialising that was done was entirely legitimately trying to explain the subject mater, rather than pushing some POV. That being said, I think I reverted you prematurely and should have just left a note on your talk page as I've come round to your edit since I first saw it. The "it should be noted that" was a bit redundant considering that the sentence began "While". However, doing a quick check of a few of your other edits, I quickly found a couple which have obscured the meaning of the sentence for no gain at all, here and here. That last edit completely failed to spot the sort of original research that I think the manual of style was warning you to look out for! Woscafrench (talk, contribs) 14:34, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * We'll just have to agree to disagree as it doesn't look like you're comprehending it. If I happen to spot another issue as I am making those changes, I will, but OR is generally not something I'm looking for. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 16:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions alert
My very best wishes (talk) 02:27, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Do you believe that was an OK comment on your part? If so, can you please explain why do you think any of the users you mentioned "defends the Nazis"? My very best wishes (talk) 02:30, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Removing God from the Bible
Hi W. I should explain what I mean by conservative Christians (and Jews) removing God from the Old Testament/Tanakh. I mean that they turn everything into history. At the extreme (and I'm not saying this is your position), they say that God created the world 6000 years ago over a period of 6 days because that's what the Bible says. They're right, it does, but those who tell them they're wrong because this contradicts science are also wrong. It's wrong not because it contradicts science (or rather, is contradicted by science) but because it ignores the intention of the passage, which is about God's plans for Israel. In other words, Genesis 1-2 and the biblical chronology are statements about God, not about the world.

Less extreme conservatives will allow that Genesis 1-2 can be read in ways that accommodate modern science, but still hold that the rest of Genesis and the Exodus story are real history. This is very difficult to argue these days, and only a few respectable scholars will do so (Hoffmeier and Kitchen, most notably). Their essential position is a Christian one: Jesus, a man, was also God, appearing in history; the Old Testament records that history, and must therefore be accurate, or else the New Testament record of Jesus as Christ cannot be trusted. So they reserve their theology for the Resurrection, and reduce the Exodus to reportage.

But the Tanakh is a Jewish book, not a Christian one. The article on the Exodus, for example, has a grotesquely long section about the historicity of the Exodus, because that's what interests Christian - the historical reality of the Exodus guarantees the historical reality of the Resurrection and the Christ-hood of Jesus. It's not really about that at all, it's about God's revelation of himself to Israel and his strength and faith with them. I'd like to get rid of that section, but I can't (despite what you might think, I don't always have my way on these articles). I'd like to see much more on what Exodus and the law codes and the rest tell us about God and his care for Israel, but very few Wikipedia editors share such concerns.

As for the article Yahweh, the etymology of the name is a red herring, like the historicity of the Exodus. Christians and Christian-influenced Jews (they don't even realise they're influenced by Christian theology) think it matters if YHWH is derived from a verbal root meaning existence because (they believe) this demonstrates that YHWH/God is creator of the universe (although "I am that I am" isn't a statement of creation). Quite possibly they're right, quite possibly it is derived from such a root, as Frank Moore Cross first theorized (that's in our article), but it doesn't matter: what really matters is that YHWH both was and is the strength and hope of Jewish people through all their history.

I'm tired of Wikipedia, honestly. PiCo (talk) 23:50, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi PiCo. Just to recap: on Talk:Yahweh you appeared to say at one point that you wanted to put God back into the Bible, which I asked you about, and you have responded to that here. I haven't replied for four months, since I'm still not quite able to piece together what you're saying. For example, I don't understand why you think that Christians would care about the historicity of the Exodus whereas Jews wouldn't, I also can't see how someone could argue that the origin of YHWH's name "demonstrates that YHWH/God is creator of the universe". It may be the case you have some religious insight that I lack. Woscafrench (talk) 22:33, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

June 2019
Your account has been blocked indefinitely because it is suspected that it has been compromised. If your account is locked, please contact. Otherwise, if you are able to confirm that you are the user who created this account, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section), then add this below the block notice on your talk page: .Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:17, 4 June 2019 (UTC) Hello I am the user that created this account. I can email some ID to an administrator if that would help? Would be the right address for that? Woscafrench (talk) 17:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I don't think so; that address is just for if your account is globally locked, which yours isn't. If there's a current admin that you know who can vouch for you, emailing them would be good, I think. I can also ask a checkuser to check your account, though I don't know how helpful that might be. I know the guidance is that compromised accounts are *usually* not unblocked; if you want, I can remove the account creation block, and you can create a new account and use that. I also know that losing one's edit history hurts, though, so I'm open to seeing what can be done; I know it's not unprecedented for a compromised account to get unblocked, once it's recovered.
 * Just so I'm clear, though: this account was compromised, correct? These edits, made almost a year after the previous edits on this account, suggest so. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:20, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I made those two edits. I think the IP of the first one would be the same IP for many of my edits last year if that is evidence of some sort for a checkuser? I'll try to see if there's an administrator who I can send an email to. Woscafrench (talk) 19:16, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, okay. They were pretty weird-looking edits, if you'll excuse my saying so; the one on Gråbergs Gråa Sång's talk page raised particular alarms, given that we deal with a lot of "subscribe to PewDiePie" nonsense from one-off vandals. That, plus the time gap between those and your last edits, is why I thought the account was compromised. Anyway, I'm happy to admit that I was wrong and apologize, and I'll unblock your account. Before I do, though, do you mind explaining a little bit about those edits? Not like an unblock request or anything, I'll unblock regardless; I'm still just wondering about the edits. Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:44, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Woscafrench has posted a comment on my talk page before, a few years ago. Tho I don't recall any other interaction, the name does seem familiar. hmmmmm... nope, I've had a think and still can't recall anything else.  Possibly some ANI thread?  But anyway, every rational person loves me.  So that's not worrying.  I do share a concern about the post on User talk:Gråbergs Gråa Sång, tho.  That seems like trolling, or making threats, or loonieness, or bringing off-wiki disputes on-wiki, or ... something not good. GGS seems to be undistrubed by it, but that kind of post should not happen again. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

- I have evidence to prove that I am Woscafrench, but I have not been able to find an administrator who is willing to look at it. Would you be willing for me to email you it? I appreciate you may be busy right now, I can wait until you get back. Woscafrench (talk) 20:19, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You can mail it. You may need to turn on WP email so you can do it thru Special:Emailuser/Floquenbeam. Not sure what kind of evidence would prove this, but I'll take a look if you're in no rush. , from your comment above, it seems like if I believe this is the same person, you're OK with an unblock; is that still true?  *Iff* that's the case, my inclination would be to formalize their assurance that they will not mention or interact with Gråbergs Gråa Sång as an unblock condition. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:31, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yessss...I'm okay with that. Honestly, I'm a bit puzzled about this whole thing; my gut (very tentatively) says unblock, but I trust Yunshui as a general rule, so I didn't really want to go against their judgment, especiqllu when I'm not particularly confident in my own. I also trust you, though, so if you're good for an unblock once you get the email, so am I. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 21:58, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Unblock
With the OK of the blocking admin, I'm unblocking you based on the private evidence you sent me, which convinces me you are the original owner of this account. However, this unblock is contingent on a 1-way interaction ban with Gråbergs Gråa Sång. See WP:IBAN for details. That post to their talk pge was too disturbing to me to allow it to slide; I don't understand what is going on (and don't want to!), but it is not going to come up here anymore. You indicated above you were OK with this (although at the time I don't think I'd raised the possibility of making it a condition of your unblock). Give me a sec to dot the i's and cross the t's. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:30, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:32, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you :) Woscafrench (talk) 20:10, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Scope of the Yahweh article
The article Yahweh does not cover modern conceptions of God in Judaism; it does cover the ancient god of early Israel and Judah. Unless you have a source on a pagan/polytheist renaissance in Israel, we should not say that the Yahweh from the article is still worshipped today. —C.Fred (talk) 18:59, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? It's literally the same name. Woscafrench (talk) 19:35, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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Vicente del Bosque

Vicente del Bosque González, 1st Marquess of Del Bosque (born 23 December 1950) is a Spanish retired football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and is to date the only football manager to have won the World Cup, the Champions League, the European Championship and the Intercontinental Cup.

After taking over from Luis Aragonés – who had led Spain to European success at UEFA Euro 2008 – del Bosque went on to lead the national team to win their first-ever FIFA World Cup in 2010, and then to retain their European Championship in 2012. Del Bosque coached Real Madrid from 1999 to 2003, which was one of the most successful periods in the club's modern era.

During his playing career, del Bosque made over 400 appearances for Real Madrid, winning five La Liga titles and four Copas del Rey. He played internationally with the senior Spain national team on 18 occasions.

Playing career
As a player, del Bosque was a midfielder who played in La Liga 441 times with 30 goals. This career included spells at Castilla CF, Córdoba, Castellón and Real Madrid. He won five league titles (1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80) and four Copa del Rey titles (1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1981–82) with Real Madrid. He was also part of the Real Madrid team that lost to Liverpool in the 1981 European Cup Final.

Internationally, del Bosque received 18 caps with the Spain national team, scoring one goal. He appeared for Spain at UEFA Euro 1980, which would be disappointing for Spain as it exited at the group stage of the competition.

Real Madrid
Del Bosque served at Real Madrid since 1984 and rose through the ranks at the club; however, he only first managed Madrid for a couple of months in 1994 after the sacking of Benito Floro and before the appointment of Jorge Valdano. He would again manage Real for two games in 1996, while he was the youth team coach, after Jorge Valdano was sacked and before Arsenio Iglesias took the job until the end of that season. But in 1999–2000, the club management decided to give him the full-time job after difficulties with their coach, John Toshack, with del Bosque taking over in November 1999.

In his four seasons in charge, del Bosque ushered the club through one of its most successful spells in modern history, having steered the club to two UEFA Champions League titles in 2000 and 2002, two domestic La Liga titles in 2001 and 2003, a Supercopa de España in 2001, a UEFA Super Cup in 2002, the Intercontinental Cup in 2002 as well as finishing in the last four of the UEFA Champions League every year he was in charge. Not since the great Madrid side of the 1950s and 1960s that had Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás did the club succeed so consistently. Del Bosque was credited with a humble, patient and unassuming style which saw him manage the club as it underwent a policy during Florentino Pérez's tenure as club President that was known as Los Galácticos, where the world's best and most marketable stars were signed for the club beginning with Luís Figo and including David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo. In the del Bosque era Real managed 104 wins out of a possible 186 in his time as coach of Madrid. Despite the level of success, many players – in particular the so-called Galácticos – were bought without the input of del Bosque amid often made allegations that the Real Madrid hierarchy (in particular Pérez and general manager Jorge Valdano) had more control over transfer policy, team selection and other aspects of club that minimised the level of control del Bosque had during his time as manager.

Real Madrid decided not to renew Del Bosque's contract in 2003, just a day after he won the club its 29th Liga title and a week after the club signed David Beckham. Del Bosque was offered the post of technical director but turned it down, leading to many suggestions in the Spain's media that there was a much rumoured political split at the club involving del Bosque and several players, especially captain Fernando Hierro (who was asked to leave the club in the summer of 2003), on one side, while Valdano and Pérez wielded the axe of control to in their words, "shake up the team," on the other. Pérez said in an interview with BBC Sport, "del Bosque was showing signs of exhaustion. I want to be sincere about this – our belief that he was not the right coach for the future."

The BBC article states: "It is a strange tale from start to finish – how the shy, mustachioed man from Salamanca came to be in charge of the most expensive and talented bunch of footballers in the modern game, won the biggest trophies on offer and then got the boot in favour of a man yet to be named. With the Real superstars, del Bosque was extremely popular – partly because he was happier to let them get on with it. Cool as a cryogenically-frozen cucumber, he managed to avoid confrontations with his charges, despite the stellar egos in the squad, and never once lost his calm in front of the media."

In the four years since Del Bosque's departure, Real Madrid changed seven coaches and did not win any major trophies until they won the La Liga title in 2007, under new coach Fabio Capello (who was also sacked afterwards). They had also been defeated in the round of 16 of the Champions League every year since the 2004–05 season (one year after Del Bosque was sacked), until the 2010–11 Champions League season, which saw Real Madrid defeat Lyon in the round of 16 under new manager José Mourinho. It would take until the 2013–14 campaign for the club to win another Champions League title, under manager Carlo Ancelotti.

Beşiktaş and hiatus
After Iñaki Sáez resigned in the wake of a terrible performance at UEFA Euro 2004, which saw Spain having their worst result in the tournament since 1988, del Bosque was approached as a possible manager of the national side. He was not interested in the job, however, and the job was subsequently given to Luis Aragonés.

With Beşiktaş, del Bosque arrived in Turkey to much fanfare and hope, but failure to deliver results saw him get the sack towards the tail end of the 2004–05 season.

After Mexico were eliminated by Argentina in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, del Bosque was approached with an offer to become their manager, but declined.

During the 2007 Real Madrid crisis, del Bosque spoke on the line saying that the departure of Ronaldo was a mistake, and he was one of the candidates to replace Fabio Capello as manager of the team. Bernd Schuster, however, was awarded the job on 9 July 2007.

Spain national team

On 11 March 2008, del Bosque announced that he would replace Luis Aragonés as head coach of the Spain national team; it was confirmed on 15 July 2008.

Spain under del Bosque began their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign successfully, defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–0 with a goal from David Villa. Spain defeated Armenia 4–0 three days later with two goals coming from Villa, and one each from Joan Capdevila and Marcos Senna, with a notable debut from Bojan, coming on as a substitute and defeating rumours that he will swap allegiances to Serbia. This win secured the Spaniards a first place spot in their group with six points. The next round saw Spain defeat Estonia 3–0, then, four days later, beat Belgium 2–1 away – an 88th-minute strike from Villa (his fifth of the campaign) earning them the win. This result maintained their 100% start to the qualifying campaign.

Since del Bosque was appointed to the job, 38 players have debuted with the Spain team: Bojan, Andoni Iraola, Fernando Llorente, Diego Capel, Sergio Busquets, Jesús Navas, Diego López, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Pedro, Pablo Hernández, Borja Valero, Bruno, Nacho Monreal, Víctor Valdés, Álvaro Negredo, Juan Mata, Javi Martínez, Thiago, Manu, Aritz Aduriz, Adrián, Juanfran, Beñat, Iker Muniain, Javi García, Álvaro Domínguez, Markel Susaeta, Koke, Marc Bartra, Isco, César Azpilicueta, Iñigo Martínez, Alberto Moreno, Mario Suárez, Michu, Cristian Tello, Diego Costa, Ander Iturraspe, David de Gea and Gerard Deulofeu, while one uncapped player, Fernando Amorebieta, has been called up but failed to debut.

On 9 June 2009, in a friendly against Azerbaijan in which Spain won 6–0, del Bosque became the first manager in all of football history to win his first ten games as debut manager of a national team, the previous record being nine held by João Saldanha of Brazil. The record currently stands at 13 successive victories, with the last winning match being a 2–0 win against South Africa in the 2009 Confederations Cup, followed by a 2–0 defeat in the semifinal stage of the same competition against United States.

On 14 October 2009, Spain joined the very small number of teams to have won all their World Cup qualifying games in a single campaign, achieving a record-breaking ten wins in ten games.

In Spain's first game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on 16 June, they lost 1–0 to Switzerland. Spain bounced back and won group H by winning the next two games. They faced Portugal in the Round of 16, winning 1–0, and defeated Paraguay in their quarter-final match, again by 1–0. Spain then defeated Germany in the semi-final on 7 July 2010, winning 1–0, allowing them to reach their first World Cup final. In the final against the Netherlands, he led his team to victory after a goal scored in extra time by Andrés Iniesta. Upon this triumph, he became the oldest coach to win the World Cup.

On 1 July 2012, del Bosque led Spain to victory at Euro 2012, hosted by Poland and Ukraine. Spain defeated Italy 4–0 in the final in Kyiv to win a second consecutive European championship.

In the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup held in Brazil, Spain advanced to the final, played against Brazil; but suffered a heavy 3–0 defeat. A goal from Neymar and a brace from Fred saw a heavy burden landing on del Bosque and his type of football tactics he used, tiki-taka.

In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, del Bosque and his team posted their worst finish in the finals since the World Cup in France in 1998 through being eliminated during the group stage following a 5–1 defeat to the Netherlands and a 2–0 defeat to Chile, before a 3–0 dead rubber win over Australia. The heavy opening defeat to the Netherlands marked the first time Spain had conceded five or more goals in an international game since a 6–2 defeat to Scotland in 1963, and only the second time they had conceded five or more goals in a World Cup game, having done so before in their 6–1 defeat to Brazil in 1950, which incidentally was also held in Brazil. The result was also the biggest margin of defeat by a defending champion at a World Cup. Furthermore, despite a 3–0 win rounding of their campaign following the 2–0 defeat to Chile, Spain's final standing of 23rd out of the 32 entered teams was their worst-ever finish at a World Cup. After this, he announced that he would resign as Spain's manager, but there was no reaction from the RSFF.

Del Bosque announced his intentions to resign as the Spain national team coach following UEFA Euro 2016. On 14 June 2015, he reached 100 matches as Spain coach in a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying win over Belarus in Barysaw.

At the age of 65 and having achieved every available top-tier title, del Bosque announced his retirement from the sport on 30 June 2016.

Personal life
Del Bosque married María de la Santísima Trinidad "Trini" López, and has three children – two sons and one daughter.

Club
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International

 * Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first

Player

 * Real Madrid
 * La Liga: 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80
 * Copa del Rey: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1981–82

Manager
Real Madrid
 * La Liga: 2000–01, 2002–03
 * Supercopa de España: 2001
 * Copa Iberoamericana: 1994
 * UEFA Champions League: 1999–2000, 2001–02
 * UEFA Super Cup: 2002
 * Intercontinental Cup: 2002

Spain
 * FIFA World Cup: 2010
 * UEFA European Championship: 2012

Individual

 * UEFA Club Coach of the Year: 2002
 * IFFHS World's Best Club Coach: 2002
 * IFFHS World's Best National Coach: 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
 * World Manager of the Year: 2012
 * FIFA World Coach of the Year: 2012
 * ESPN 11th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013
 * World Soccer 13th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013
 * France Football 33rd Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019

Personal

 * Nobility: Created 1st Marquess of Del Bosque by King Juan Carlos I
 * Government of Spain: Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Sporting Merit
 * Salamanca Provincial Council: Gold Medal
 * Salamanca City Council: Favourite Son of Salamanca

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Mahamadou Issoufou

Mahamadou Issoufou (born 1 January 1952) is a Nigerien politician who served as the president of Niger from 7 April 2011 to 2 April 2021. Issoufou was the prime minister of Niger from 1993 to 1994, president of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1996, and a candidate in each presidential election from 1993 to 2016. He led the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), a social democratic party, from its foundation in 1990 until his election as president in 2011. During the presidency of Mamadou Tandja (1999–2010), Issoufou was the main opposition leader.

Having left power by respecting the constitution that limited him to two presidential terms, thus leading to the first ever democratic transition of power in the country, in March 2021 he received the Ibrahim Prize for good governance, democratic election and respect of term limits.

Background
Issoufou, an ethnic Hausa, was born on 1 January 1952, in the town of Dandaji in Tahoua Department. An engineer by trade (Ingénieur Civil des Mines de St Etienne), he served as National Director of Mines from 1980 to 1985 before becoming Secretary-General of the Mining Company of Niger (SOMAIR). He is married to Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou, a chemist, and to second wife, Dr. Lalla Malika Issoufou, a physician.

1993 presidential election and appointment as prime minister
In February 1993, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held. In the parliamentary election, Issoufou's party, the PNDS, won 13 seats in the National Assembly, and Issoufou himself won a seat as a PNDS candidate in Tahoua constituency.

Together with other opposition parties, the PNDS then joined a coalition, the Alliance of the Forces of Change (AFC). This coalition held the majority of the newly elected seats in the National Assembly. Later in February 1993, Issoufou ran as the PNDS candidate in the presidential election. He placed third, winning 15.92 percent of the vote. The AFC then supported second-place finisher Mahamane Ousmane for president in the second round of the election, held on 27 March. Ousmane won the election, defeating Tandja Mamadou, the candidate of the National Movement of the Development Society (MNSD); with the AFC holding a parliamentary majority, Issoufou became Prime Minister on 17 April 1993.

Conflict, cohabitation, and arrest: 1994–1999
On 28 September 1994, Issoufou resigned in response to a decree from Ousmane a week earlier that weakened the powers of the prime minister, and the PNDS withdrew from the governing coalition. As a result, the coalition lost its parliamentary majority and Ousmane called a new parliamentary election to be held in January 1995.

Issoufou and the PNDS forged an alliance with their old opponents, the MNSD, and in the January 1995 election that alliance won a slight majority of seats; Issoufou was then elected as President of the National Assembly. The opposition's victory in the election led to cohabitation between President Ousmane and a government, backed by a parliamentary majority, that opposed him; the result was political deadlock. With the dispute between President Ousmane and the government deepening, on 26 January 1996 Issoufou requested that the Supreme Court remove Ousmane from office for alleged incapacity to govern. A day later, on 27 January 1996, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara seized power in a military coup. Issoufou, along with President Ousmane and Prime Minister Hama Amadou, was arrested and subsequently placed under house arrest until April 1996. They were all put on television by the military regime in February 1996 to endorse the official view that the coup was caused by flaws in the political system and that changes in the system were needed.

Issoufou placed fourth (receiving only 7.60% of the vote) in the flawed and controversial 7–8 July 1996 presidential election that gave Maïnassara an outright victory. Along with the three other opposition candidates, Issoufou was placed under house arrest on the second day of polling and held for two weeks. Afterward, he refused to meet with Maïnassara, unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court for the election to be annulled, and the PNDS called for demonstrations. On 26 July he was again placed under house arrest, along with another leading PNDS member, Mohamed Bazoum; they were freed on the order of a judge on 12 August. Following a pro-democracy demonstration on 11 January 1997, Issoufou was arrested along with Ousmane and Tandja and held until 23 January.

Opposition leader: 1999–2010
Maïnassara was killed in another military coup in April 1999, and new elections were held in late in the year. In the first round of the presidential election, held in October, Issoufou placed second, winning 22.79% of the vote. He was later defeated by Mamadou Tandja in the November run-off, capturing 40.11% of the vote compared to Tandja's 59.89%. He was backed in the second round by the unsuccessful first round candidates Hamid Algabid, Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, and Ali Djibo, while Tandja received Ousmane's support. After the announcement of the provisional results showing Tandja's victory, Issoufou accepted them and congratulated Tandja.

In the November 1999 parliamentary election, Issoufou was again elected to the National Assembly as a PNDS candidate in Tahoua constituency.

In a repeat of the 1999 election, Issoufou placed second behind incumbent Tandja in the 2004 presidential election, winning 24.60% of the vote. He was defeated in the run-off, winning 34.47% of the vote to Tandja's 65.53%; however, that was still considered an impressive result for Issoufou, as he had substantially increased his share of the vote even though the other first round candidates had backed Tandja in the second round. Issoufou, who targeted corruption in his campaign, accused Tandja of using state funds for his own campaign, along with other accusations of electoral misconduct, and said that the election was not as transparent as the 1999 election.

In the December 2004 parliamentary election, Issoufou was re-elected to the National Assembly as a PNDS candidate in Tahoua constituency.

2009 political crisis
In 2009, the PNDS strongly opposed Tandja's efforts to hold a referendum on the creation of a new constitution that would allow him to run for re-election indefinitely. At an opposition rally in Niamey on 9 May 2009, Issoufou accused Tandja of seeking "a new constitution to stay in power forever" and the establishment of "a dictatorship and a monarchy". As leader of the Front for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) opposition coalition, he said on 4 June 2009 that a planned anti-referendum protest would be held on 7 June despite an official ban. As part of the constitutional dispute, Tandja assumed emergency powers on 27 June. Accusing Tandja of undertaking a coup d'état, "violating the constitution and ... forfeit[ing] all political and moral legitimacy", Issoufou called on the armed forces to ignore his orders and urged the international community to intervene. Issoufou was detained at his home by the army's paramilitary police on 30 June; he was questioned and released after about an hour. A nationwide strike called by the FDD was held on 1 July and was deemed partially successful by the press.

The referendum was held on 4 August 2009, despite the opposition's furious objections and calls for a boycott, and it was successful. Speaking on 8 August, shortly after the announcement of results, Issoufou vowed that the opposition would "resist and fight against this coup d'etat enacted by President Tandja and against his aim of installing a dictatorship in our country".

On 14 September 2009, Issoufou was charged with misappropriation of funds and then released on bail. He said that he was actually charged for political reasons. He left the country. On 29 October 2009, international warrants for the arrest of Issoufou and Hama Amadou were issued by the Nigerien government, and Issoufou returned to Niamey from Nigeria late on 30 October in order "to cooperate with the judiciary".

Tandja was ousted in a February 2010 military coup, and a new transitional junta enabled the opposition leaders to return to politics in Niger while preparing for elections in 2011. At a meeting in early November 2010, the PNDS designated Issoufou as the party's candidate for the January 2011 presidential election. Issoufou said on the occasion that "the moment has come, the conditions are right", and he called on party members to "turn these conditions into votes at the ballot box". Some observers considered Issoufou to be potentially the strongest candidate in the election.

Presidency (2011–2021)
Issoufou won the January–March 2011 presidential election in a second round of voting against MNSD candidate Seyni Oumarou and was inaugurated as president on 7 April 2011, succeeding Salou Djibo, the Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy. He named Brigi Rafini as Prime Minister.

In July 2011, a planned assassination of Issoufou was allegedly uncovered. A major, lieutenant, and three other soldiers in Niger's military were arrested.

On 7 November 2015, the PNDS designated Issoufou as its candidate for the 2016 presidential election. In February 2016 Issoufou won 48% of the votes in the first round of the elections. As no candidate obtained a majority a second round was needed. A coalition of opposition parties boycotted the second round, saying that Issoufou had become increasingly authoritarian. Issoufou subsequently won with 92.5% of the votes. He has been described by The Economist as "a staunch ally of the West".

In 2020 he announced that he would not run for a third term in the 2020–21 Nigerien general election.

On 31 March 2021, two days before Issoufou's term was to expire, his government thwarted a coup attempt by dissident military officers believed to have been plotting to prevent the inauguration of his successor, Mohamed Bazoum.

Post-presidency
Following Bazoum's removal and detention during the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état in July, Issoufou was reportedly involved in negotiations for his release. He later reiterated his call for Bazoum's release and restoration to office during the subsequent 2023 Nigerien crisis in August. His son, Bazoum's oil minister Mahamane Sani Mahamadou was among several officials arrested by the military junta formed after the coup.

Other activities

 * International Crisis Group (ICG), Board of Trustees (since 2023)

Honours

 * 🇳🇪 Niger:
 * National Order - Grand Cross (Niger) - ribbon bar.png Grand Cross of the National Order of Niger
 * Grand Cross of the Merit Order of Niger.
 * Grand Cross of the Order of Legion d'Honor of France.
 * Grand Cross of the Republic Order of Tunisia.

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Will contract

A will contract is a term used in the law of wills describing a contract to exchange a current performance for a future bequest. In such an agreement, one party (the promisee) will provide some performance in exchange for a promise by the other party (the testator, because they must draft a will) to make a specific bequest to the promisee party in the testator's will. Most jurisdictions recognize such contracts as valid, although a few hold them as void against public policy. Some jurisdictions will not recognize an oral contract for such a purpose, requiring instead that the contract be executed in writing and signed by both parties. Some jurisdictions require full compliance with the Statute of Wills to be effective, i.e., in writing and signed in the presence of two witnesses.

The general rule, where such contracts are recognized, is that the promisee can not specifically enforce the contract if the testator later revokes or supersedes the will making the promised bequest, but can only sue the testator's estate for breach of contract. This protects the testator's very strong freedom to dispose of his property however he sees fit. For example, suppose Joey agrees to execute a will bequeathing his house to Rachel in exchange for services provided by Rachel. If Joey later revokes that will, Rachel can not force Joey's estate to convey the house to her, but can only sue for the value of the house.

Typically, will contracts are made between people who have different heirs to whom they wish to leave their property at death, but they may wish for the other person to have the use of until all of their combined assets until the death of the second to die. A married couple with children from an earlier marriage is a good example. The husband may leave his separate estate to his wife at his death, instead of directly to his children from his earlier marriage and in exchange, she may agree to combine his separate estate with her separate estate at her death and split the combined estate up between all of their children. It would work the same if she died first. A will contract only becomes irrevocable only at the first party's death. Because of differences in state laws regarding will contracts, an estate planning attorney should be consulted before use of this planning device.

The law behind wills becomes tedious when many parties are not present, typically in cases with limited family members. This mainly occurred after World War Two where many wills had no possible recipients so the assets went to the government. Wills are often confused with trust funds, but wills are only present at death whereas trust funds can be accessed during the time that the creator of the fund is still alive.

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High Court (Hong Kong)

The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a part of the legal system of Hong Kong. It consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance; it deals with criminal and civil cases which have risen beyond the lower courts. It is a superior court of record of unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction. It was named the Supreme Court before 1997. Though previously named the Supreme Court, this Court has long been the local equivalent to the Senior Courts of England and Wales and has never been vested with the power of final adjudication.

Eligibility and appointment
A person who has practised for at least 10 years as a barrister, advocate, solicitor or judicial officer in Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction is eligible to be appointed as a High Court Judge or Recorder. A person who has practised for at least 5 years as a barrister, advocate, solicitor or judicial officer in Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction is eligible to be appointed as the Registrar or a Master.

Full-time Judges and Recorders, as well as the Registrar and Masters, are appointed by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the independent Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission (JORC).

Part-time Deputy Judges are appointed on a temporary basis by the Chief Justice.

It is not uncommon for a person to sit as a Recorder or Deputy High Court Judge prior to appointment as a full-time High Court Judge.

Newly-appointed High Court judges with previous service as the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Department of Justice are subject to a 'sanitisation' period of 6 months upon appointment. During this period, the judge does not deal with any criminal trials or appeals or any civil cases involving the Government to maintain judicial independence and impartiality.

Upon appointment as a full-time High Court Judge, one must give an undertaking not to return to practise in future as a barrister or solicitor in Hong Kong.

The remuneration of High Court Judges is determined by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the independent Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service. As of 1 April 2017, a full-time Judge of the Court of First Instance receives a monthly salary of HK$292,650, while a Justice of Appeal receives a monthly salary of HK$307,050. The Chief Judge of the High Court receives a monthly salary of HK$340,600. Further, full-time Judges are provided with housing in Judiciary Quarters or, alternatively, a housing allowance at HK$163,525 per month. As of 1 April 2020, Recorders and Deputy High Court Judges receive honoraria at a daily rate of HK$11,765.

The retirement age of full-time High Court Judges is 70. However, the term of office can be extended further up to the age of 75.

Chief Judge of the High Court
The Chief Judge of the High Court is the Court Leader of the High Court and the President of the Court of Appeal. The Chief Judge is responsible for the administration of the High Court and is accountable to the Chief Justice, who is head of the Judiciary. The Chief Judge must be a Chinese citizen who is a Hong Kong permanent resident with no right of abode in any foreign country.

The Judges who have held the position of Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong to date are:

 * 1) Patrick Chan Siu-oi (1997–2000)
 * 2) Arthur Leong Siu-chung (2000–2003)
 * 3) Geoffrey Ma Tao-li (2003–2010)
 * 4) Andrew Cheung Kui-nung (2011–2018)
 * 5) Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor (2019–present)

For pre-1997 Chief Justices, see: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong

Full-time judges
Full-time High Court judges are given the prefix 'the Honourable' and referred to as 'Mr/Madam/Mrs Justice [surname]'. The Chief Judge of the High Court may be referred to in writing by adding the post-nominal 'CJHC'. Vice Presidents of the Court of Appeal may be referred to in writing by adding the post-nominal 'VP'. Justices of Appeal may be referred to in writing by adding the post-nominal "JA".

In 1995, Mrs Justice Doreen Le Pichon was the first woman to be appointed as a High Court judge. She subsequently became the first woman to be appointed as a Justice of Appeal in 2000. In 2019, Madam Justice Susan Kwan was the first woman to be appointed as Vice President of the Court of Appeal.

The current full-time judges of the High Court (as at 3 July 2024) are (ranked according to the priority of their respective appointments; Senior Counsels indicated by an asterisk *):

Chief Judge of the High Court
 * The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor, CJHC

Justices of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court

 * *The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Colin Macrae, VP
 * The Hon Madam Justice Susan Kwan Shuk-hing, VP
 * The Hon Madam Justice Carlye Chu Fun-ling, VP
 * The Hon Mr Justice Peter Cheung Chak-yau, JA
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Aarif Tyebjee Barma, JA
 * The Hon Mr Justice Derek Pang Wai-cheong, JA
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Kevin Paul Zervos, JA
 * The Hon Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung, JA
 * The Hon Madam Justice Maggie Poon Man-kay, JA
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Godfrey Lam Wan-ho, JA
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming, JA
 * The Hon Madam Justice Anthea Pang Po-Kam, JA

Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court
 * The Hon Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah, GBS
 * The Hon Mrs Justice Judianna Wai-ling Barnes
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan Russell Harris
 * The Hon Madam Justice Queeny Au-Yeung Kwai-yue, SBS
 * The Hon Madam Justice Esther Toh Lye-ping
 * The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Chan Hing-wai
 * The Hon Madam Justice Mimmie Chan Mei-lan (Judge in charge of the Commercial List and the Construction and Arbitration List)
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Anthony Chan Kin-keung (Judge in charge of the Admiralty List)
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Peter Ng Kar-fai
 * The Hon Mr Justice David Lok (Judge in charge of the Intellectual Property List)
 * The Hon Madam Justice Susana Maria D'Almada Remedios
 * The Hon Mr Justice Wilson Chan Ka-shun (Judge in charge of the Probate List)
 * *The Hon Madam Justice Lisa Wong Kwok-ying
 * The Hon Mr Justice Poon Siu-tung
 * The Hon Mr Justice Alex Lee Wan-tang
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Russell Adam Coleman (Judge in charge of the Constitutional and Administrative Law List)
 * *The Hon Mr Justice Keith Yeung Kar-hung
 * *The Hon Madam Justice Linda Chan Ching-fan (Judge in charge of the Companies and Insolvency List)
 * The Hon Mr Justice Johnny Chan Jong-herng
 * *The Hon Madam Justice Anna Lai Yuen-kee
 * *The Hon Madam Justice Yvonne Cheng Wai-sum
 * The Hon Mr Justice Au-Yeung
 * The Hon Madam Justice Tsui

A Justice of Appeal may sit as an additional Judge of the Court of First Instance. A Judge of the Court of First Instance may also hear cases in the Court of Appeal, including as a single Judge (for example, when determining applications for leave to appeal in criminal cases).

Cases in the Court of First Instance are usually heard by a single Judge, though important cases may be heard by a bench consisting of more than one Judge, although this is very rare. This practice is similar to the English High Court, where important cases may be heard by a divisional court consisting of a three- or two-member bench.

All judges of the Court of First Instance also serve as members of the Competition Tribunal. The President and Deputy President of the Competition Tribunal (currently Mr Justice Harris and Madam Justice Au-Yeung respectively) are appointed by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission.

The President of the Lands Tribunal must be a High Court Judge (currently Madam Justice Lisa Wong) and is appointed by the Chief Executive.

High Court judges also serve a number of other public service roles. It is a statutory requirement that the Electoral Affairs Commission be headed by a chairman who is a High Court judge (currently Mr Justice Lok) appointed by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Chief Justice. The Electoral Affairs Commission must appoint a Judge of the Court of Final Appeal or a High Court Judge to act as returning officer for elections for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Similarly, it is a statutory requirement that the Chief Executive appoint a serving or retired High Court judge to be Commissioner on Interception of Communications and Surveillance (currently Mr Justice Suffiad). The Chief Executive also appoints three to six Judges of the Court of First Instance (currently Mr Justice Fung, Mr Justice Bharwaney and Madam Justice Lisa Wong) on the recommendation of the Chief Justice to serve as panel judges handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies. Further, it is a statutory requirement that the Chief Executive appoint at least 2 serving or retired High Court Judges as members of the Long-term Prison Sentences Review Board. At present, Mr Justice Pang Kin-kee and Mr Justice Wilson Chan are President and Deputy President respectively of the Long-term Prison Sentences Review Board. It is also a statutory requirement that the Chief Executive appoint a retired High Court Judge, District Judge or magistrate as Chairman of the Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions (currently Mr Justice Pang Kin-kee). In addition, it is a statutory requirement that the Chief Executive appoint a serving or retired High Court Judge or Deputy High Court Judge to chair the Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) and the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal (SFAT). At present, Mr Justice Lunn (former Vice President of the Court of Appeal), Mr Justice Hartmann (former Justice of Appeal), Kenneth Kwok SC (former Recorder of the Court of First Instance) and Judge Tallentire (former Deputy High Court Judge) are Chairmen of the MMT and SFAT.

The Chief Executive may appoint a High Court judge to lead a public inquiry. For example, Mr Justice Andrew Chan was appointed in 2015 as Chairman of the Inquiry into incidents of excess lead found in drinking water, and Mr Justice Lunn, JA was appointed in 2012 as Chairman of the Inquiry into the collision of vessels near Lamma Island.

A number of serving and retired Hong Kong High Court Judges also sit as Supreme Court Judges in Brunei. For example, while Mr Justice Rogers served as Vice President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, he also sat as a non-resident Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam between 2010 and 2011. As of 2019, three retired Hong Kong High Court Judges sit as Judges of the Court of Appeal of Brunei Darussalam (Mr Justice Burrell, who is the President of the Brunei Court of Appeal, and Mr Justice Seagroatt and Mr Justice Lunn, who are Justices of Appeal); two retired Hong Kong High Court Judges sit as Judicial Commissioners of the High Court of Brunei Darussalam (Mr Justice Findlay and Mr Justice Lugar-Mawson). Another retired Hong Kong Judge, Edward Woolley, who previously sat as a Deputy High Court Judge and High Court Master, also sits as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam.

Recorders
Recorders of the court of first instance of the high court are practitioners in private practice (in practice, Senior Counsel) who are appointed for a fixed term of a few years and sit for a few weeks in a year. Recorders may exercise all the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of a full-time Judge of the Court of First Instance.

The recordership scheme was introduced in 1994 to encourage experienced practitioners who are willing to sit as a High Court Judge for a few weeks every year, but are not prepared to commit themselves to a permanent, full-time appointment. It was intended to act as a more formal system of appointment compared to the more ad hoc nature of appointment of Deputy High Court Judges.

The current Recorders of the Court of First Instance of the High Court (as at 1 February 2024) are (ranked according to the priority of their respective appointments):
 * 1) Mr Eugene Fung Ting-sek, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 2) Mr Martin Hui Siu-ting, SC of Plowman Chambers
 * 3) Ms Sit Yat-wah, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 4) Ms Rachel Lam Yan-kay, SC of Des Voeux Chambers
 * 5) Mr Wong Ming-fung, SC of Des Voeux Chambers
 * 6) Mr Victor Dawes, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 7) Mr Richard Khaw Wei-kiang, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 8) Mr José-Antonio Maurellet, SC of Des Voeux Chambers
 * 9) Mr Abraham Chan Lok-shung, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 10) Mr Pao Jin-long, SC of Temple Chambers
 * 11) Ms Maggie Wong Pui-kei, SC of Plowman Chambers
 * 12) Mr Derek Chan Ching-lung, SC of Plowman Chambers

Part-time Deputy Judges
The Chief Justice appoints on a temporary basis a number of serving full-time District Court Judges, retired High Court Judges and practitioners in private practice (in general, barristers who are Senior Counsel or solicitors who are senior partners with litigation experience) to sit as part-time Deputy High Court Judges. Before 1983, the position of Deputy High Court Judge was known as Commissioner.

A Deputy High Court Judge may exercise all the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of a full-time Judge of the Court of First Instance.

Judicial review cases are not listed before part-time Judges.

In order to ensure judicial independence and impartiality, part-time Judges are not permitted to participate actively in political activities (although membership of a political party is acceptable).

Forms of address
All High Court Judges (regardless of whether they are full-time Judges, Recorders or Deputy Judges on temporary appointment) are addressed in court as "My Lord" or "My Lady".

In court judgments and decisions, Vice Presidents of the Court of Appeal are referred to as '[surname] VP' or '[surname] V-P' (or in the plural as '[surname] and [surname] V-PP'). Justices of Appeal are referred to as '[surname] JA' (or in the plural as '[surname] and [surname] JJA'). Full-time Judges of the Court of First Instance are referred to as '[surname] J' (or in the plural as '[surname] and [surname] JJ'). Recorders are referred to as 'Mr/Madam/Mrs Recorder [surname]' (with the post-nominal 'SC' if they are Senior Counsel). Deputy High Court Judges are referred to either as 'Deputy Judge [surname]', 'Deputy High Court Judge [surname]' or 'DHCJ [surname]' (with the post-nominal 'SC' if they are Senior Counsel). Deputy High Court Judges were previously called Commissioners and were referred to as 'Mr/Madam/Mrs Commissioner [surname]' (with the post-nominal 'Q.C.' if they were Queen's Counsel) in judgments before 1983.

High Court Building

The High Court Building is located at 38 Queensway, Admiralty. The 20-storey building was built in 1985 as the home of the then Supreme Court of Hong Kong, which was renamed in 1997. It was named the Supreme Court Building, and the road leading to its main entrance is still named Supreme Court Road. The High Court Building was designed by Architect K. M. Tseng.

The structure is a white clad tower and has a water fountain outside its front door.

Sometimes, the High Court may sit in another venue. For example, a serving District Judge sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge may hear a case in a courtroom situated in the District Court building. This is similar to England, where the High Court sometimes sits outside London in County Courts which act as High Court District Registries.

Cases
In the Jimmy Lai case, the prosecution asked the High Court for an adjournment from 1 December 2022 to 8 December 2022; the High Court added a few more days and adjourned it until 13 December 2022. On 13 December 2022, the High Court further delayed the trial until September 2023, until after the NPCSC ruled in the matter.

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--- Please read this article before editing further. While your contributions to [[Yu-Gi-Oh! are appreciated, the style of your articles, in addition to their abrupt and in some cases, inappropriate creation, is causing more trouble than you may think.

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Myself and Moe Epsilon are considering creating a Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject, and I was wondering whether you would be interested in joining. -- Setokaiba 19:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

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Anadine. Linguist. For discussion please refer to the following page: scholarly debate.

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-08-01/In the news

In addition to its wide recognition as a resource on current events like the recent London bombings, Wikipedia received press coverage for something ordinary encyclopedias would never carry, a catalog of profane language in films.

What the...?
Although Wikipedia's List of films ordered by uses of the word "fuck" has been around since last December, the world's media has picked up on it this week, presenting it as a new survey 'carried out' by Wikipedians. In the UK, tabloid newspaper The Mirror even quoted a 'Wikipedia spokesperson' discussing the list.

It was duly reported that Nil By Mouth was the most foul-mouthed film on record, notching up some 470 fucks in 128 minutes. The Mirror quoted a Wikipedian as saying 'Nil by Mouth is a classic film but it's almost non-stop swearing'. The article has had a variable history, at one point being nominated for deletion but surviving.

Quite what prompted its sudden appearance in newspapers from London to Hindustan is not clear. Perhaps it has something to do with the launch of The Aristocrats, a documentary being billed as 'The most foul-mouthed movie ever'.

However, since the publication of a rash of stories mentioning the link, the list has been updated, with Nil By Mouth apparently having been usurped by The Devil's Rejects, a horror film described as 'depraved, sick and brutal' by the Internet Movie Database. It clocks up some 560 instances of the word 'Fuck', achieving a rate almost 30% greater than Nil By Mouth.

Manufacturing the sausage of the news
An article published in the Daily Times of Pakistan has this week looked at the phenomenon of mass participation media such as Wikipedia and Wikinews, and how it is affecting traditional media. Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Wikipedia's article on the events 'quickly became a useful resource', according to the Times. Noting that the article was edited over 5000 times during its first two weeks, the newspaper looked through the page history and said it was 'like watching the sausage of news being made by a community, edited and massaged into a historical record'.

Meanwhile, the American Journalism Review considered the possible applications of wiki technology to mainstream news in the light of the LA Times 'wikitorial' fiasco (see related story). The AJR thought that wikis could yet find a place in the mainstream media, although probably not in the form of opinion pieces on controversial topics. Instead, news sources might encourage reports from eyewitnesses via wikis, or use wikis as foci for collaborations in investigative journalism.

Nora Paul of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota was quoted as saying that a growing groups of news consumers were familiar with and wanted to make use of wiki technology, and that the time would come when 'news organizations have to adopt an attitude of, 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em'.

Negotiating article content
Steven Zenith has this week published a blog entry describing how editors with opposing views and different backgrounds can work together to hone article content so that it is acceptable to everyone. Writing on alwayson-network.com, he described his efforts to improve British Monarchy in concert with Lord Emsworth who added most of the content.

Characterising Emsworth's understanding of the subject as 'well-intentioned but naive', Zenith said he had edited the article advocating 'the removal of opinion and common perceptions, and the simple presentation of the facts as befits an encyclopedia'. However, he acknowledged that his idea of how the article should look was influenced by his views as an antiroyalist.

An understanding between Zenith and Emsworth was apparently disturbed by 'the self-righteous indignation of a UK student who embodies a completely different view of the matter'. Zenith acknowledges that none of the three protagonists are experts on the subject, but believes that he is the 'more knowledgeable of the facts'. However, he concludes by saying that 'freedom of speech is not a balanced thing. There is no requirement that the playing field be leveled. The ignorant...have as much right to be heard as the wise.'


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ADDENDUM I appreciate that my Blog entry BlogHER: Favor the Wise at Always On was referenced in this Signpost - but allow me to point out that you have misrepresented the posting and you also failed to reference the blog entry directly.

--Steven Zenith 18:46, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

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By the Pricking of My Thumbs

By the Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

Tommy and Tuppence are middle-aged in this work (they aged from novel to novel).

The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when the second witch says:

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."

Synopsis
The novel is divided into four books.

In Book 1 Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy’s aunt Ada in a retirement home called Sunny Ridge. While Tommy talks with his aunt, Tuppence has a conversation with another resident, Mrs Lancaster, who unexpectedly says "Was it your poor child? There behind the fireplace."

A few weeks later Aunt Ada dies of natural causes. When they return to the home after the funeral to make arrangements for Ada’s possessions, they find that Mrs Lancaster has suddenly departed. The matron tells them that a relative called Mrs Johnson took her away. Tuppence suspects there’s more to it and tries to find the relative but the trail turns cold. One of the items Aunt Ada had left is a painting of a house by a river. The picture strongly reminds Tuppence of a house she once saw and immediately liked. The painting was supposedly given to Aunt Ada by Mrs Lancaster.

In Book 2 Tommy is away for a few days, so Tuppence starts looking for the mystery house on her own. Eventually she finds it in a small village called Sutton Chancellor. It turns out that the house is divided in a peculiar way. The back part of the house is rented by a middle-aged couple called the Perrys. The front part has been vacant for years. Tuppence meets with the people of Sutton Chancellor. There is an elderly vicar, a talkative B&B landlady called Mrs Copleigh, and a Miss Bligh who seems to run the parish.

Under the pretence of house hunting, Tuppence tries to get more information about the house. Mrs. Copleigh tells her a grim story about a spate of child killings some years ago. Then Tuppence fails to return home on the arranged day, having been concussed by a blow to the head.

In Book 3 Tommy and his servant Albert are worried about Tuppence. Tommy does some investigation on his own. He discovers the painting was by an artist called Boscowan who died several years ago. Tommy meets with the doctor of Sunny Ridge. There have been some deaths that the doctor finds odd and he is worried about possible foul play. Tommy then talks to an investigator friend who hints the house in Sutton Chancellor might have been used as a safe house for a criminal gang. Tommy shows the painting to Mrs Boscowan, who notes that someone has added a boat to the picture. At home, Tommy learns that Tuppence is in a hospital near Sutton Chancellor with severe concussion. Tommy and Albert then find a hidden letter from Aunt Ada, in which she suspects there is malice in Sunny Ridge.

In Book 4 Tuppence has recovered. An old doll she found in the mysterious house turns out to contain uncut diamonds. A party is arranged in Sutton Chancellor. Sir Phillip Starke, the local landowner, and Mrs Boscowan are invited. Tuppence has the impression that Sir Phillip knows more about the whole affair. The next day Tuppence goes to the vicarage and confronts Miss Bligh, who she suspects was the one who hit her on the head.

Alone, Tuppence goes to the mystery house and to her surprise finds the missing Mrs Lancaster. She takes Tuppence to a secret part of the house and proceeds to tell her life story. She was a wild child, a dancer, who got pregnant young. After she chose to abort the baby (“I was a dancer, I didn’t want a child... the doctor said it would be all right, but it wasn’t all right”), she took up with a criminal gang; they used the house to hide their loot. Later she left that life behind and got married, hoping to have a family, but could not conceive again and in her grief and guilt over the abortion became unhinged and started killing children. "The only way to atone for the first murder was more murders— they were sacrifices, see?"

One of the other residents, Mrs Moody, in Sunny Ridge had recognised her, so she had to be silenced. Miss Bligh, posing as a relative, resettled her into a new home. After her candour, Mrs Lancaster attempts to kill Tuppence, first with poisoned milk, then with a metal blade.

Tuppence is saved just in time. It is revealed that Mrs Lancaster is actually the wife of Sir Phillip Starke. He had covered up her insanity and the crimes she committed. He was assisted in the cover-up by Miss Bligh, his former secretary and confidante. Tommy and Tuppence then return home.

Literary significance and reception
The novel is dedicated "to the many readers in this and other countries who write to me asking: 'What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?'"

Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) in The Guardian's issue of 13 December 1968 admitted that, "This is a thriller, not a detective story, and needless to say an ingenious and exciting one; but anyone can write a thriller (well, almost anyone), whereas a genuine Agatha Christie could be written by one person only."

Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 17 November 1968 said, "Not her best though it has patches of her cosy euphoria and aura of the sinister."

Robert Barnard said that this novel "Begins rather well, with a vicious old aunt of Tommy's in a genteel old people's home, but declines rapidly into a welter of half-realised plots and a plethora of those conversations, all too familiar in late Christie, which meander on through irrelevancies, repetitions and inconsequentialities to end nowhere (as if she had sat at the feet of Samuel Beckett).” He concluded his negative assessment of the plot by saying that it “Makes one appreciate the economy of dialogue – all point, or at least possible point, in early Christie."

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
In 2005, the novel was adapted by the French director Pascal Thomas under the title Mon petit doigt m'a dit...

The novel was adapted into a television film in 2006 as part of the Agatha Christie's Marple series starring Geraldine McEwan even though Christie did not write Marple into the original story. The plot was altered with Tommy away on military intelligence business abroad, and Tommy's part of the story was re-written for Miss Marple. Tommy was portrayed as a self-important strong male, while Tuppence was portrayed as a maudlin alcoholic who carried a hip flask and who was resentful of her husband's success; she too was going to be signed-up by MI6 but had then not been able to fulfil this ambition as she was pregnant with their first child. Tommy and Tuppence were played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi. The time in which this adaptation is set is somewhere between the late 1940s and the early 1950s, but unclear and slightly inconsistent: a US B-17 (which left the UK soon after the war and was out of US service by 1949) overflies the village, yet US airmen wear the blue USAF uniform introduced in 1949, and there is also a 1951 Festival of Britain poster in the village shop.

Publication history

 * 1968, Collins Crime Club (London), November 1968, Hardcover, 256 pp
 * 1968, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1968, Hardcover, 275 pp
 * 1969, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 208 pp
 * 1971, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
 * 1987, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, ISBN 0-7089-1571-X
 * 2000, Signet (New York), Paperback, ISBN 0-451-20052-7

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Observers following the featured article process have recently found it a useful academic research subject, and the featured articles have garnered some outside publicity as well. There were also 5 new admins, 11 new featured articles, 2 new featured lists, and 5 new featured pictures this week.

Featured article IQ
A group of students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois has published a paper entitled "Information Quality Discussions in Wikipedia" (PDF format). The focus of the paper was on assessing the IQ of Wikipedia featured articles — in this case, IQ stands for "information quality" — when compared to other samples from the project, including featured article removal candidates, pages marked as NPOV disputes, and a selection of random pages.

According to the paper, the study showed how seriously the Wikipedia project views issues of article quality. The authors concluded that as a quality standard, the featured article process "is not ideal, but it does seem relatively rigorous." They also noted that the process is not as resource-intensive as other possibilities, such as blind judging.

Norman Borlaug
It seems that the selection of featured articles for the Main Page is becoming a matter of interest for people outside Wikipedia as well. Norman Borlaug was the featured article chosen for display on the Main Page for Wednesday, 27 July. In anticipation of this, the scheduled appearance was mentioned on a website that apparently is run by an American farmers' advocacy group.

Admins
Five users were granted admin status last week—Canderson7 (nom), Sasquatch (nom), JamesTeterenko (nom), Sango123 (nom), and Dmcdevit (nom).

Featured content
Eleven articles were promoted to featured status: Louisville, Kentucky, Angkor Wat, Tasmanian Devil, Elias Ashmole, Porgy and Bess, Gas metal arc welding, Robert Lawson (architect), Congress of the United States, Space opera in Scientology doctrine, Italian Renaissance, and Algerian Civil War.

Two new featured lists were designated: List of Portuguese monarchs and List of elements by symbol.

In addition, five featured picture candidates were promoted this week:


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Silvio Pellico

Silvio Pellico (24 June 1789 – 31 January 1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification.

Biography
Silvio Pellico was born in Saluzzo (Piedmont). He spent the earlier portion of his life at Pinerolo and Turin, under the tuition of a priest named Manavella. At the age of ten, he composed a tragedy inspired by a translation of the Ossianic poems. On the marriage of his twin sister Rosina with a maternal cousin at Lyon, he went to reside in that city, devoting himself for four years to the study of French literature. He returned in 1810 to Milan, where he became professor of French in the Collegio degli Orfani Militari, now the Scuola Militare Teulié.

His tragedy Francesca da Rimini, on the life and death of the noblewoman, was brought out with success by Carlotta Marchionni at Milan in 1818. Its publication was followed by that of the tragedy Euphemio da Messina, but the representation of the latter was forbidden.

Pellico had in the meantime continued his work as a tutor, first to the unfortunate son of Count Briche, and then to the two sons of Count. He threw himself heartily into an attempt to weaken the hold of the Austrian despotism by indirect educational means.

The Conciliatore, a review, appeared in 1818. Of the powerful literary executives that gathered about Counts Porro and Confalonieri, Pellico was the able secretary on whom most of the responsibility for the review, the organ of the association, fell. However, the paper, under the censorship of the Austrian officials, ran for a year only, and the society itself was broken up by the government. In October 1820, Pellico was arrested on the charge of carbonarism and conveyed to the Santa Margherita prison. After his removal to the Piombi at Venice in February 1821, he composed several Cantiche and the tragedies Ester d'Engaddi and Iginici d'Asti.

The sentence of death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years of jail in harsh condition, and in the following April he was placed in the Spielberg, at Brünn (today's Brno), where he was transferred via Udine and Ljubljana. His chief work during this part of his imprisonment was the tragedy Leoniero da Dertona, for the preservation of which he was compelled to rely on his memory.

After his release in 1830, he commenced the publication of his prison compositions, of which the Ester was played at Turin in 1831, but immediately suppressed. In 1832, his Gismonda da Mendrisio, Erodiade and the Leoniero, appeared under the title of Tre nuove tragedie, and in the same year the work which gave him his European fame, , an account of his sufferings in prison. The last gained him the friendship of the Marchesa Juliette Colbert de Barolo, the reformer of the Turin prisons, and in 1834 he accepted from her a yearly pension of 1200 francs. His tragedy Tommaso Moro had been published in 1833, his most important subsequent publication being the Opere inedite in 1837.

On the decease of his parents in 1838, he was received into the Casa Barolo, where he remained until his death, assisting the marchesa in her charities, and writing chiefly upon religious themes. Of these works, the best known is the Dei doveri degli uomini, a series of trite maxims which do honour to his piety rather than to his critical judgment. A fragmentary biography of the marchesa by Pellico was published in Italian and English after her death.

He died in 1854 at Turin. He was buried in the Camposanto, Turin.

The late nineteenth-century English novelist George Gissing read the work, in Italian, whilst staying in Naples in November 1888. My prisons contributed to the Italian unification against Austrian occupation. This work was translated into virtually every European language during Pellico's lifetime.

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Red bat

Red bat may refer to:

 * Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis), a species of bat found in the Eastern United States
 * Western red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a species of bat found in Western United States, also called the "Desert red bat"
 * The Red Bat, a cartoon character

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