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Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz (فاروق الباز, Pronunciation: ) (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where he touched the Black Stone (which in Islam is believed to be sent down from the heavens).

He is married, has four daughters, and has seven grandchildren. He was a Senior Advisor to Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak.

El-Baz was a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He has since now retired but his work remains timeless and well regarded at the university

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Geological Society of America Foundation, Boulder, Colorado, and a member of the Board of Directors of CRDF Global. He was also elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC (2002) for selecting the landing sites for the Apollo missions, and for pioneering methods of discovering subsurface freshwater from space observations.

Biography
Farouk El-Baz was born on January 2, 1938, in Zagazig, Sharqia Governorate to Muslim Egyptian parents. His family is originally from the Nile Delta village of Touqh el Aklaam, El Senbellawein Centre, Dakahlia Governorate.

Education
Farouk went to many schools. In 1958, he attended Ain Shams University. From 1962-1963, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After that, in 1964, he attended Missouri University of Science and Technology. Finally, in 2002, he attended Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Achievements
In 1961, he received a Master of Science in geology from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (now Missouri University of Science and Technology).

In 1964, at the age of 26, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in geology from the Missouri University of Science and Technology after conducting research from 1962 to 1963 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1978, El-Baz was appointed Science Adviser to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. He was charged with the selection of regions for land reclamation in the desert without detrimental effects on the environment. For his distinguished service, President Sadat awarded him Egypt's Order of Merit - First Class.
 * In 1989, he earned an Honorary Doctor of Science from New England College.
 * In 2002, he earned a professional degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
 * In 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Mansoura University.
 * In 2004, he earned a Doctor of Laws from the American University in Cairo.
 * Also, in 2004, he received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Post-doctorate period
El-Baz taught Geology at Assiut University, Egypt (1958–1960) and the Heidelberg University, Germany (1964–1965). He joined the Pan American - U.A.R. Oil Company in 1966, where he participated in the discovery of El-Morgan, the first offshore oil field in the Gulf of Suez.

The NASA period
The key scientist who helped NASA plan and identify the Moon landing location for Apollo 11 historic Moon landing in 1969, El-Baz is currently a leading expert in the study of deserts and how to find and sustain water in such environments in the Arab world.

From 1967 to 1972, El-Baz participated in the Apollo Program as Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning at Bellcomm Inc., a division of AT&T that conducted systems analysis for NASA. During these six years, he was Secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee for the Apollo lunar landing missions, Principal Investigator of Visual Observations and Photography, and Chairman of the Astronaut Training Group. In addition to being the scientist who played a key role in helping NASA decide on the ideal Moon landing site for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, El-Baz also served on the Apollo 15 rover mission in 1971. Throughout his time in the Apollo program, El-Baz joined NASA officials in briefing members of the press on the results of the lunar missions. His ability to simplify scientific jargon made his remarks on the program's scientific accomplishments often quoted by the media.

Soon after beginning with the Apollo Program, he was put to work poring over mountains of detailed photographs of the Moon's surface—a crucial step in selecting the most ideal and precise landing location based on lunar terrain, climate variations, and other factors. He also performed the same role for the famous Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle rover mission, and trained Apollo astronauts in the important skills of visual observation and space photography, in addition to instructing crew members on which rocks to collect and how to collect lunar soil. So pivotal was he to Apollo that in Tom Hanks' HBO TV-series, From the Earth to the Moon, El-Baz's role as an Apollo scientist and astronaut trainer was featured in a segment entitled, "The Brain of Farouk El-Baz," and a shuttle craft named El-Baz soared through the popular TV-series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

His outstanding teaching abilities were confirmed by the Apollo astronauts. While orbiting the Moon for the first time during Apollo 15, Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden said, "After the King's [Farouk's nickname] training, I feel like I've been here before."

The Post-Apollo period
After the Apollo Program ended in 1972, El-Baz joined the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC to establish and direct the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Air and Space Museum. At the same time, he was elected as a member of the Lunar Nomenclature Task Group of the International Astronomical Union. In this capacity, he continues to participate in naming features of the Moon as revealed by lunar photographic missions.

In 1973, NASA selected him as principal investigator of the Earth Observations and Photography Experiment on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first joint American-Soviet space mission in July 1975. Emphasis was placed on photographing arid environments, particularly the Great Sahara of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, in addition to other features of the Earth and its oceans.

Emphasizing the study of the origin and evolution of arid landscapes, he collected field data during visits to every major desert in the world. One of his significant journeys took place soon after the United States and China had normalized relations in 1979, when he coordinated the first visit by American scientists to the deserts of northwestern China. The six-week journey was chronicled in National Geographic and Explorers Journal. His research on the origin and evolution of the desert resulted in his election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

From 1982 until he joined Boston University in 1986, he was vice president of Itek Optical Systems of Lexington, Massachusetts. During these years he supervised the utilization of the Space Shuttle's Large Format Camera photographs.

El-Baz was elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and of the National Academy of Engineering (USA). In 1999, the Geological Society of America Foundation (GSAF) established the Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research, to annually reward excellence in arid land studies. In 2007 the GSAF also established the Farouk El-Baz Student Research Award to encourage desert research.

In April 2011, he joined the liberal Free Egyptians Party, founded by the telecommunications tycoon Naguib Sawiris.

Desert research and theories
During the past 20 years in his research at Boston University, El-Baz has utilized satellite images to better understand the origin and evolution of desert landforms. He is credited with providing evidence that the desert is not man-made, but the result of major climatic variations. His research uncovered numerous sand-buried rivers and streams in the Sahara based on the interpretation of radar images.

These former water courses lead into depressions in the terrain, which he theorized must contain groundwater. His analysis of these data resulted in the location of groundwater in the arid terrains of Egypt, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), and perhaps Darfur in Sudan (unless it dried up).

The Kuwait River
El-Baz piqued the interest of Biblical scholars around the world with his announcement of paleo-drainage from Arabian Peninsula into the Persian Gulf. The idea that a river once flowed across the deserts of Arabia, and somehow connected with the Tigris and/or Euphrates Rivers, draws its evidence from satellite datasets, especially from the radar images taken during the 1994 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. El-Baz studied the images, and noticed that traces of a defunct river that emerged from Kuwait and crossed northern Arabia from west to east were visible beneath the sands, thanks to the ground-penetrating capabilities of the radar technologies.

He called it the Kuwait River, which is more popularly known as Wadi Al-Batin, an extension of Wadi Al-Rummah. The Wadi Al-Batin river system would have been responsible for deposition of the Dib DiBa Formation (similar to an alluvial fan deposit, both morphologically and sedimentologically). This river system may have been active 2500–3000 BC.

Giza pyramid theory
In a National Geographic documentary film in 2002, El-Baz proposed a new source for the shape of The Pyramids at Giza. El-Baz believes that the ancient Egyptians chose to bury their dead in pyramid shaped structures because they knew from an earlier nomadic life that monumental pyramidal landforms, which abound in the Western Desert of Egypt, evade erosion.

Awards and honors

 * He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including: the Golden Door Award of the International Institute of Boston; the Nevada Medal of the Desert Research Institute, and the Pioneer Award of the Arab Thought Foundation.
 * Asteroid 7371 El-Baz, discovered by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Schelte Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1978, was named in his honor. The official  was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 (M.P.C. 115893).

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Webbie

Webster Gradney Jr. (born September 6, 1985) who performs under the mononym Webbie, is an American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He's been signed to the independent Trill Entertainment label since 2003. In 2005 he came into the hip hop scene with "Gimme That" featuring Bun B. His songs "Bad Bitch" and "Swerve" were featured on Gangsta Musik, his 2003 group album with Lil Boosie, and in the 2005 movie Hustle & Flow. Webbie's second album, Savage Life 2, was released in early 2008 with the hit single "Independent" featuring Lil Boosie and Lil Phat.

Early life
Webbie was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His mother died when he was nine years old so his parental care was split between his father and grandmother. Ever since he was five years old, he had been writing rhymes, and throughout his childhood he had become a fan of hardcore rap artists including Southern hip hop performers Master P, Eightball & MJG, the Geto Boys, UGK Along With DjTrillReed (Second Cousin).

Music career
Webbie first appeared on Lil Boosie's album For My Thugz on the track "Gotta Get It" in 2001. He and Lil Boosie released Ghetto Stories in 2003 and Gangsta Musik in 2004. As Webbie's solo track "Give Me That" featuring Bun B was frequently featured in mixtapes, as a label Trill Entertainment was growing in popularity & was signed for a distribution deal at Asylum Records along with (Webbie). After he was signed there, his major-label debut Savage Life was released in 2005, debuting at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart.

Trill began a deal to sign Webbie to the subsidiary label Atlantic Records & was successful. Singles from his next album, Savage Life 2, include "Independent" featuring Boosie and Lil Phat. As of 2020, it is Webbie's most successful song to date, peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top of the Rap Songs chart. Webbie released his third studio album Savage Life 3 on November 15, 2011, under Trill Ent. The first single from the album was "What's Happenin'". The album has currently sold over 50,000 copies.

Webbie's fourth album Savage Life 4 is the fourth in the Savage Life album series. The first single from the album "What I Do" was released on April 16, 2013. The album was released on November 19, 2013.

Acting career
He has made an independent biographical movie, Ghetto Stories in October 2010, with Lil Boosie, based on their lives and lyrical themes. He also appeared in the 2011 film Video Girl, which featured actress Meagan Good.

Controversy
On the October 14, 2011, episode of BET's 106 & Park, Webbie was banned from further appearances on the countdown show. Webbie appeared that day on the show as a guest judge for Freestyle Friday. The reason behind his ban was tied to allegations that he made sexually inappropriate comments to the show's hostess, Rocsi.

On September 13, 2012, Webbie was arrested in Baton Rouge on suspicion of robbery and battery. He was accused of kicking and pushing a woman down the stairs before stealing $340 from her purse.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Savage Life (2005)
 * Savage Life 2 (2008)
 * Savage Life 3 (2011)
 * Savage Life 4 (2013)
 * Savage Life 5 (2016)
 * Savage Life 6 (2020)
 * Collaboration albums
 * 2003: Ghetto Stories (with Lil Boosie)
 * 2004: Gangsta Musik (with Lil Boosie)
 * 2007: Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of the Fittest (with Foxx, Lil Boosie and Trill Fam)
 * 2010: Trill Entertainment Presents: All or Nothing (with Foxx, Lil Boosie and Trill Fam)
 * 2016: Trill Entertainment Presents: Trill Fam – Respect Is a Must (with Trill Fam)

Filmography

 * Films
 * Gangsta Musik (2005)
 * On The Grind (2006)
 * Ghetto Stories: The Movie (2010)
 * Video Girl (2011)
 * I Got the Hook up 2 (2019)

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Higinio Uriarte

José Higinio Uriarte y García del Barrio (11 January 1843 in Asunción – 21 April 1909) was a Paraguayan politician and President from April 12, 1877 to November 25, 1878.

He was Juan Bautista Gill's cousin. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, and was elected as Vice President 1874. After Gill was assassinated, Uriarte became the acting President for the remainder of Gill's four-year-term. He was Minister of Finance of Paraguay from 1887 to 1889.

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Cándido Bareiro

Cándido Pastor Bareiro Caballero (October 27, 1833, in Luque Paraguay – September 4, 1880, in Asuncion, Paraguay) was President of Paraguay from 27 November 1878 to 4 September 1880 and the leading politician of the post-war decade.

Bareiro served as ambassador and commercial agent for the Paraguayan government of Francisco Solano López government in Europe.

During the last months of Paraguayan War he returned to Paraguay in 1869 and entered politics, where he started a political movement that would result in creation of the Colorado Party. A strong ally of General Bernardino Caballero, he was elected President in 1878 with Caballero's help and died from a stroke after two years in office.

Early life
Son of Jose Luis Bareiro Montiel and Felipa Mayor Dolores Caballero he was the grandson of the famous Paraguayan founding father of Independence, Pedro Juan Caballero. He went to a school managed by the Argentine teacher Juan Pedro Escalada. Bareiro benefited from the opening to the world which was initiated by the regime of Carlos Antonio López, with a group of other Paraguayan students on June 2, 1858, he sailed to Europe, where in London he finished his studies. He returned home in the middle of December 1863 and received a bonus of 200 pesos. In May 1865 he was awarded with the National Order of Merit.

The Uruguayan writer Jose Carranza Sienra, who met him at the start of the Paraguayan War, said of Bareiro: "... he has a clear talent, an illustration of anything vulgar, a simple and sympathetic look"

- Jose Carranza Sienra

Political biography
On March 21, 1864, government appointed Cándido Bareiro as chargé d'affaires in the Paraguayan Embassy in London and Paris. He was relieved from his post in October 1867 due to inability to organize critically needed armament shipments to Paraguay. By the time he managed to return to Asuncion in February 1869, the city was already occupied by the Allied armies.

Bareiro faction
Around him quickly gathered the remaining Lopez loyalists who on March 31, 1869, founded the Republican Union Club which in early 1870 become the Club del Pueblo and after February 17, 1878 Club Libertad and who published their newspaper La Voz del Pueblo.

Bareiro faction was also known as lopiztas because of their loyalty to the memory of President Lopez and it was opposed to the Decoud faction who had established their rival Club del Pueblo (after March 23, 1870, the Gran Club del Pueblo). Both of these factions were crucial for the establishment of the Colorado Party in 1887.

Together with Bernardino Caballero he was one of the organizers of the revolt against the Presidency of Salvador Jovellanos. Despite this, after the removal of Benigno Ferreira in February 1874 he was appointed a Foreign minister by Jovellanos. In this capacity he went to London where he tried to negotiate the war loan payment crisis. He served as Minister of Finance of Paraguay during the Presidencies of Juan Bautista Gill and Higinio Uriarte from August 1876 to August 1878.

President, 1878-80
On November 25, 1878, he finally was elected to the presidency. His government included:
 * Adolfo Saguier, Vice-president.
 * Juan Antonio Jara, Treasury.
 * Bernardino Caballero, Minister of Interior.
 * José Segundo Decoud and Jose Antonio Baez, Ministers of Justice, Culture and Public Education.
 * Patricio Escobar and Pedro Duarte, Ministers of War and Navy.
 * Benjamin Aceval and José Segundo Decoud, Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

On October 1877 he had involved in the murders of imprisoned former President Facundo Machain and others suspected in the assassination of President Gill. In December 1878 he probably was involved in the assassination of former President Rivarola. His political ally Bernardino Caballero was the main organizer of these murders. In June 1879 he suppressed the Galileo uprising led by the exiled Juan Silvano Godoi.

During his rule Paraguay won part of the disputed Gran Chaco territory. This decision was made by international commission led by the US President Rutherford Hayes, in whose honor Presidente Hayes Department was created. After this decision, the Decoud-Quijarro treaty was signed on 15 October 1879 that recognized Bolivia's claims to northern Chaco, but it was never ratified. Argentina handed over territory of the West Villa, currently Villa Hayes where the first ice factory of the country was established.

Despite being almost bankrupt, Government proceeded with the construction of the Palace of Lopez; the Nueva Germania was established, bringing German immigrants to Paraguay; Pedro Juan Aponte was appointed as the first post-war bishop of Paraguay and Argentine Penal Code adopted.

After Bareiro's death his vice-president Adolfo Saguier was prevented from assuming the presidency by a bloodless coup led on September 4, 1880, by Bernardino Caballero. Saguier was arrested and the Senate was informed that he has resigned. Caballero then was elected to the presidency.

Controversial acts
Earlier in the year 1867 Solano Lopez thought in recommending Bareiro to the mission to travel to the United States to thank the authorities for their thoughtful participation. Unfortunately certain formalities were not entirely fulfilled by Bareiro. The Marshal had ignored a first act of disobedience on his part, but other events that occurred lacked accountability. Lopez ordered to delegate Benitez to Peru and to express the declaration of repudiation by the Paraguayan government towards the treaty of the Triple Alliance. Bareiro did not focus properly on the indication, so he recklessly send a letter, dated December 14, 1866.

It is said that one of the mistakes of Lopez was to choose Bareiro as Chargé d'affaires of Paraguay in Europe. Some accused him of the defeat of Paraguay in the war, since his mission was to travel to Europe to buy weapons, but these were lost because of his incompetence. All this had no justification whatsoever, so on January 20, 1868, Bareiro was forced to surrender his position.

Awards

 * 1865 – National Order of Merit.

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Ivan Honl

Ivan Honl (23 April 1866 in Zbýšov, Moravia –  7 June 1936 in Lázně Běloves, Náchod, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech bacteriologist, serologist and activist in the struggle against tuberculosis. Honl became one of founders of Czech microbiology.

Under the guidance of Jaroslav Hlava Honl gained his habilitation in bacteriology at Charles University in Prague in 1898. In 1919 he was named head to the new Czech Bacteriological Institute (Ústav pro bakteriologii a sérologii Lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy). .

Honl was one of the early researchers of antibiotics. At the end of the 1890s he isolated a product of Bacterium pyocyaneum (today called Pseudomonas aeruginosa), which was used as medicine (Anginol) from the start of WWI until it was replaced by penicillin after WWII.

In 1899 he co-founded an institute to treat tuberculosis in Czechoslovakia and was active in this struggle for decades.

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User talk:Adam Bishop/archive4

 * Archive: June 10-December 30, 2003
 * Archive 2: December 30, 2003-July 15, 2004
 * Archive 3: July 17-December 30, 2004
 * Archive 4: January 1-July 13, 2005
 * Archive 5: July 17-December 31, 2005
 * Archive 6: January 3-July 19, 2006
 * Archive 7: July 21, 2006-July 12, 2007
 * Archive 8: July 17, 2007-July 2, 2008
 * Archive 9: July 5, 2008-July 12, 2009
 * Archive 10: July 17, 2009-June 30, 2011

Copyright violations

 * To who has taken the time to file comments on my book additions. Whatever has been included in the above listed pages is NOT a copyright violation. The information doesn't come from any website, but its based on the advertising information of the aforementioned books (which are in my library by the way.) That information, by definition, is intended to be of free distribution, thus it doesn't fall under any such category as to be construed copyrighted. I appreciate your concern on the matter, but in summary: a) said information has been somewhat rewritten to make it coherent; b) it's free information, and as such, free to be distributed, and c) I do not appreciate threats, either direct or implied. So I would appreciate sincerely that before issuing them, you do review your facts a little better. User:Melromero

Feudalism
Hi Adam -- Thanks! I can't be around much, but it does look like Stbalbach could use some help at Feudalism. I don't know what Zain is playing at, but it seems like an attempt to hijack the article for his own political agenda. I know you're also active on the list, so you might also mention it there if it gets too heated. He's just plain wrong, as you probably well know! Cheers! JHK 20:04, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Unverified image
Hi, thanks for uploading Image:Alexius4.jpg! I noticed that it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? I would guess that it is a piece of work that is probably old enough to quality under but I just wanted to make sure. If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:55, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

Vergilius Augusteus
I'm sorry to say that I don't much about the Vergilius Augusteus. I am most interested in illuminated manuscripts, and so far as I know, it has no pictures. Thanks for the heads up on the medieval wikiproject. Dsmdgold 01:07, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * If it has decorated initials then by my rather low standards it qualifies as illuminated. Right now my standard for inclusion on the illuminated manuscript list is ANY amount of decoration makes it onto the list. Initials can be a bit tricky, if they are merely enlarged, like this, then I don't count them. If they are decorated like [Image:CathachColumbaText.jpg|this]], then I do include them.  t is strange that the Augusteus manuscript never made it into any my art history books though, decorated initials that early would be important.  Dsmdgold 01:46, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems to me that the the decoration of the initials are enough to qualify the manuscript as "illuminated". I wish there were better images available.  On another, related topic.  Since I created the List of Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, I have been considering doing away with the "Famous Illuminated Manuscripts" section of the Illuminated manuscripts article. It is a bit of a misnomer as the Ranworth Antiphoner is not particularly famous, and many very famous manuscripts (Utrecht Psalter) aren't on it, because we don't have articles on them yet.  I would prefer just to link to the list on a separate page, which can be expanded indefinitely. What do you think? Dsmdgold 03:29, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

invite
Thanks for the invite! I added my name. Looks like fun (I love this stuff ... I must be a nut.) Happy editing, Antandrus 05:04, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Charles Lennox
It's not so much necessary to have all those cricket categories as convenient. Cricketers could be searched by the fact they are cricketers, their nationality, the teams they played for or by skill. It's convenient to add them to all categories where people may search for them. Also, it should increase the number of people who read the article - there's never any harm in advertising:) Kind regards, jguk 19:48, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thoros
Hi. I didn't write the content of Thoros_(god), i just moved it there from Thoros. Nateji77 06:48, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Collingwood
Hi, what makes you so sure the content of the article you just deleted was "nonsense"? All the best,  21:07, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * If that is as you say, should his name be removed from the gay page then?  21:16, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)

Welsh article
Hi Adam, you're quite right about cy:Mali 'r Mail Arglwyddes, but I've listed it on cy:Wicipedia:Tudalennau amheus so all the other users can have a laugh first! I've never come across something that purports to be machine-translated into Welsh before, we sometimes get dictionary translations which are almost as good. I had to take a look at en:Molly, the Mail Lady to try to make sense of it -- at least they got Molly --> Mali right, but Arglwyddes is Lady as in aristocrat, and "Mail" is "Post" anyway, not forgetting that the word order is different! -- Arwel 21:25, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Help.
Then what I'am I supposed to do to help Wikipedia?

--Relaxation 21:10, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tide the laundry detergent.
Why did you delete it? --Relaxation 21:24, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Amphibian Visual Cortex
I hope you realize that the Amphibian Visual Cortex is a REAL THING! I wrote that article to inform, not to watch my work get deleted! The amphibian visual cortex has been mentioned in the book "Jurassic Park." I bet that you're so stupid, you didn't know that is WAS a book! Moron! Jayrod 17:55, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Saladin tithe, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Re:New3B.JPG
Hi, Adam. If you are still a System Administrator, How About deleting image:New3B.JPG from the system for me, please and thanks. I would appreciate that very much... User_talk:Michael Reiter.

Re:Re:New3B.JPG
Hi, again. User_talk:Michael Reiter here. Please disregard Re:New3B.JPG, please and thanks. Sorry. I am not playing pranks, I just changed my mind, is all. Thanks a Million. User_talk:Michael Reiter.

Wiedergutmachung
Any reason why you removed a large chunk of my contributions? Your comment said "presuming". You removed my contributions based on a presumption? --JoergenF 20:32, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Franks
Hi Adam -- I stopped in yesterday and saw some iffy changes to Franks by Shimmin. Did some editing and explained, but probably someone needs to keep an eye on the page. Cheers! JHK

Lindsay Lohan
How about not using rollback in content disputes? If a revert is a slap in the face, then a rollback breaks a nose and knocks out a few teeth. Everyking 01:27, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote
Hi. Since you have edited on pages with disputes about the names of Polish/German locations, I would invite you to vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote to settle the multi-year dozens-of-pages dispute about the naming of Gdansk/Danzig and other locations. The vote has two parts, one with questions when to use Gdansk/Danzig, and a second part affecting articles related to locations with Polish/German history in general. An enforcement is also voted on. The vote has a total of 10 questions to vote on, and ends in two weeks on Friday, March 4 0:00. Thank you -- Chris 73 Talk 03:06, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

More fun with JillandJack
I've just noticed that JillandJack actually wrote, in the article on Diane Francis, that Canwest Global originally owned and launched the National Post. That wouldn't be an excusable error even from a user who wasn't insisting that their edits are factually perfect. Any thoughts? (I've already corrected it.) Bearcat 08:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Heh. You know, Angelique had come to mind for me, too, but other than a couple of tangles about whether a "racist" comment by Suzanne Tremblay deserved to be highlighted in Bloc Québécois, I wasn't intimately involved enough with that whole thing to remember how deep it all actually went. Good stuff. Bearcat 20:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Duplicate article listing
Hello, I noticed you're an administrator and I have a small problem I've been meaning to ask someone knowledgable about for some time. Early last month I created an article for a former Assembly of First Nations chief, Ovide Mercredi. Unfortunately I was impatient and when it did not immediately appear after I clicked Save page, I believe I tried to save it again. Eventually it did appear, but unfortunately thanks to my impatience the article is listed twice in the Category:Canadian Assembly of First Nations chiefs. Additionally, for both "phantom" Ovide Mercredi articles when one clicks on the 'What links here' link in the toolbox, no links are reported, despite the fact that it very clearly is linked to from the Assembly of First Nations page. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance you could give in clearing this mistake up. Thanks! Kurieeto 19:40, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * By the way, I reviewed this situation as well, since I noticed it during our other discussion. Admins actually can fix the duplication issue, by deleting the offending article and then recreating it. I've done that; article now appears only once in the category list. It hasn't actually fixed the "what links here" issue, though. Bearcat 20:42, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You forgot to sign the message you left on our page:
 * So, DW/Joe Canuck/Angelique/whoever else, congratulations...you're pretty good at changing identities, but why don't you just stay relatively well-behaved for once? If you didn't always revert to doing and saying the same things that always get you banned, we would probably never notice when you return.

Sorry, but I don't understand your comment. Would you be good enough to elaborate? Thank you. JillandJack 21:51, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, but I still don't understand your comment. I read the article Angelique but can't figure out what you are saying.
 * Elaborate? "You are Angelique." Don't be shy, we know it's you :) Adam Bishop 22:12, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I don't want to appear stupid, but can you try and explain again? Thank you, Adam. JillandJack 22:29, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Oh, by the way. Who is this "we" that you refer to? Thank you, Adam. JillandJack 22:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

JillandJack
Thanks for letting me know about JillandJack. I was finding it hard to believe they were acting in good faith. HistoryBA 00:41, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Angelique
Thanks for notifiying me. I sort of suspected the irrationnal bozo who was using the first person plural to refer to himself (or herself?) was Anglique/DW, but I was too fed up from last time to do anything about it. "They" did a lot of reverts and changes this time. I guess we'll have to manually undo all the damage "they" did by hand. I hate how morons always get away making us do all the cleanup after them...

-- Mathieugp 03:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

A new user, Oirvine, edited Quebec independence movement within the last 24 hours, reinstating almost verbatim every POV JillandJack edit that Curps and I edited out after the ban. User has exactly 13 other edits to their name besides this, mostly to Canadian labour union subjects and dogs. Bearcat 16:59, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm wondering if maybe Quebec independence movement should be protected for the time being, since who knows how many other backup usernames our friend might have...but since I've been directly involved in the dispute, I can't protect it myself according to Wikipedia policy on these things. What do you think? Bearcat 22:50, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I got an e-mail from Oirvine today, stating that they're not JillandJack and their blocking was in error. I know that this still fits in with DW/Angelique/JJ's prior pattern of behaviour, but I'm willing to consider that I may have been wrong. How would I go about having their IP reviewed against the other identities? Bearcat 00:10, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

None that I can find; it has a Yahoo! mail address and the only IPs I can find in the headers are Wikimedia's. The Yahoo! profile says Victoria, BC, but we know full well that you can't always take a Yahoo! profile at face value. Bearcat 01:00, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, actually, it's not the only evidence; Oirvine even reinserted some of JillandJack's spelling ("interventionnism", "terroist") and grammar ("the the", inappropriate capitalization) errors, in places where the sole change Curps or I made to the paragraph was to correct the grammar and spelling. And based on the arrangement of what they changed versus what they didn't in one single edit (ie. there are parts that weren't reverted sitting between parts that were), it can't have been just a cut-and-paste job from the old article -- it has to have been either manually retyped, or cut-and-pasted from, say, a file on their hard drive. And if you compare their edit histories, Oirvine's few prior edits consistently coincide with times JJ was not editing; most conspicuously, Oirvine's three-day stretch of edits in January falls perfectly inside one of the very few multiple-day blocks in which JJ made no edits at all. Which, I suppose, is all still somewhat circumstantial, but I think it adds to the balance of probabilities. Bearcat 01:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Byzantine end
Sorry but facts are that Roman ( Byzantine ) empire still existed few years after fall of Constantinople. That's like saying that Roman empire in western Europe has stopped to exist with fall of Romulus Augustus, forgeting Julius Nepos or roman regular army which has been fighting few years after his death. I can't accept conecting my text about years after 1453 to fall of Constaninople text. Looking your text about Byzantine empire I have make finding that ulmost every has little historical mistakes in facts or years. If you are interested I will give you one or two examples latter. User:Rjecina

Greetings
Thank you for leaving me a greeting on my Talk page. I'm still getting the hang of working this Wiki, which is why it took me so long to reply. Missi

Campaign boxes in Napoleonic wars
Starting with one particular battle, I'm trying to organize what is arguably a campaign in the Napoleonic Wars known as the "Gunboat War" between Denmark-Norway and Britain. The initial entry is about the Battle of Lyngør. I tried using the Battlebox to track it, but you'll see that something isn't quite working when it comes to campaigns. I'd appreciate your help in figuring out how to set up the Campaign information that would populate the box, and then I'll include all the relevant battles. Thanks in advance. --Leifern 02:33, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)

Melisende and Middle ages
hello Adam! Drachenfyre here, thank you for copy editing Melisende with/for me! I still want to flesh out more of her reign and the second crusade- when she met with Eleanor of Aqutaine, and more depth in the church and her building projects... so be prepared for more editing :) I am still getting used to the wikipedia format. My only previous contributions were on the Naboo posting.. though I didn't have an acct at the time and my edits there are numbers...

As you are a history buff I have a question for you... recently I have taken a keen interest in the lives of midievial ages women, particulary rulerships. I have come across great resource material in my local libary and am reading them with great vigor. Before now I knew women in Wales had greater freedoms then women in other parts of Europe, and now I am learning women in Scnadinavia also held more rights then their sisters in the Med Sea regions. My fundelmental question is this: what inspired William X of Aqutain, Henry I of England, and Baldwin II of Jeruselam to all go against the grain and appoint their daughters as their direct heirs rather then their next male relitive? Each did have a male relitive that would have become king/duke under strict adhereance of salic laws- at the time practiced everwhere. Instead... they compelatly made a change that was so culturally and politically avantguard. What is more is they all three did it within the same generation... my examples here are contemparies! What are your thoughts?

== Yes.. mostly from the source I cited... I have it in front of me now and it is invaulable. I checked it out of the Virginia Beach local libary... it seems a compliation of various authors under the title. The author of this particular passage, Benard Hamilton, cites other sources himself.... is it sufficient that I attribte him and not the others... or should I also cites his others... such as Bucher and William of tyre? A few bits on Eleanor and and Melisende I got from a book called Uppity Women of Miieval Times, Damsels Not in Distress, the Lady in the Tower; Medieval Courtsey Lititure for Woman. I do recognize there is a slight feminist leaning to some of the authors (especially of Uppity Women... but WHAT a good read) but as many of this material is already cited elsewhere I trust the interpitations. I never realized that in the Dark Ages women had more rights then the later Middle Ages and Rennisance! What a step backwords! According to more then a few of these sources women could even own land in England during the time of Empress Maude and expect to recive it back if the marrage was annuled/divorced!

Further Question... I have seen Empress Maude's name always with a 'e' behind the 'd'... is this a more Wiki-way to universilize names by dropping the 'e'? ==

Hello, thanx again for mor ecopy editing... my spelling is horrible! I read your artical on the Melisende Psalter... great stuff! But for clarity I had a question. In your artical you list Fulk as the one who commissioned it... I am uncertin if this is so. According to Benard Hamilton in the Mideveil Women artical he writes that Melisende had it commissioned for her. This would make sense as she was known for her patronage to Chrurch, and in keeping with her status as a monarch and dynast. It is possible Fulk had it commissioned, but he would have to had it cleared with Melisende.

It would make sense if he had it commissioned in 1135 or 1136 to reconcile with Melisende... but this is a stretch in light of the absolute control of the situation Melisende had 1136 onwards, and donations to the church previously, and with the suport of church leaders.

Either way, you are the history major so I defer this to you... and feel our two articals should be better reconciled reguarding this.... Drachenfyre 00:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Baldwin IV
I think your Benard Hamilton and my Benard Hamilton are one and the same! In the Mideival Women book where I am using -almost- all my material he wrote a very nice chapter entitled "Queens of Jerusalem". It follows about 8 queens, and he writes about how marrying into the female family was more likely to reflect stability, as the men were oft killed in action.

I became interested women in power in the mideival world because there is much reissitance in some forums I participate in that whish to regulate women to no role at all. I had searched the libary and found Melisende and this artical Benard Hamilton wrote and it has become the cornerstone for a thesis I am working on... and I touched on it before in the Melisende artical and you rightly edited it out, about how three very powerful women were chosen over their male relitives to rule after their fathers. Whats more is this happened in the three most important realms in the 12th century. All three were in the same social-cultural realms, or very approximate. I think that is important.

Anywho.. that was a tangent!

I am going to the libary in the morning to see if we have that book here... I would love to read it! I will countinue to add what Hamilton says in this book.. and please come in behind me to be sure nothing is left out.

One difference I noted was he suggests in this peice that Agnes had more direct influence on choosing Guy as regent and never hints that Baldwin was coerced by Guy himself into choosing him. I would liek to reconcile that for sure. Also, I read ahead and the artical on Sibylla seems as though she were a pawn, but he says she held more power then the artical on wikipedia. We can resolve this. I am sure Hamilton worte about Sibylla in your book too.

Lastly, how do you feel about placing an image of the Melisende Psalter on the Melisende page? I think as it is such a masterpeice of her reign (whomever commissioned it) that it would be a badge and credit worthy of display on her page as well. If you are willing to do that... could you do it? I am not that expierenced with posting yet.Drachenfyre 23:05, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

On the Melisende, the Melisende Psalter looks FANTASTIC! Also, Alberia Torkenkluvin added another fantastic image at the top.. I NEED to know.. is this from the psalter? And if it is so.. am I interpeting it correctly to be Melisende, as Queen, accepting fealty from a vassel? If Fulk commisssioned it for Melisende it might even be his 'apology' and submission after he was all but deposed in the Palace coup, when the Queen was restored to her rights... your thoughtsDrachenfyre 00:14, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I added a text box around the Melisende Psalter image on the Melisende page.. and wanted to enlarge the other image of the queen accepting feality. I could not find instructions on how to enlarge the image, however. Can you help me enlage the top image to the same size as the Melisende Psalter?

I am very excited by the page.. it looks very special now with additional illistrations!

Links
You know exactly what I was trying to do because you fixed it. (But I do appreciate the fix)

User:TuffStuffMcGruff

Sibylla and Guy
Hello :) Can you copy edit Sibylla's page for me? Also... what do you think of getting maps showing the extent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the various reigns of the monarchs? I saw a very simplified one.. black and white and looked hand drawn.. I did not like that one....I would want something more spiffy... maybe from a histroical atles, with color? What are your thoughts? Drachenfyre

Can you copy edit Guy of Lusignan's page :) 205.143.204.206

Guy of Lusignan

Hello.. I seem to have uncovered a date discrepancy and I know you can help. We know Sibylla died in 1190, and Guy tried to claim the crown dispite the Haute Cour endorsing Isabelle as Queen. However, it says on Guy's page he was crowned in 1192 right after a battle, and yet Hamilton he says Isabelle was proclaimed Queen after Sibylla as Guy only held the crown matromonial- though he does not give the coronation date. We can imagon that tehre was much confusion as the kingdom was almost compleatly conqured. What do your sources say on the cronology of this time? One can imagine great chaos as the kingdom was practically conqured. Who crowned Guy after Sibylla's death? and why was he the forced to Cyprus?

Insane Germans and Frenchmen
Do you think both the Germans (de:Albert Speer) and the French (fr:Albert Speer) are "insane"? Are everyone else in the world "insane"?

The younger Albert Speer is clearly a very famous architect also, and the page should thus be a disambiguation page according to the style manual.

Hi Adam, in response to your questions: Empress Irene and Zoe are taken from a mosaic in the Hagia Sophia Church in Istambul. You can read a little about the church here: http://www.guideistanbul.net/ayasofya.htm. The others were found on www.guide2womenleaders.com but I haven't been able to track down the names of the original art.

Baldwin V
Can you copy edit this for me? I added info but wasn't loged in! oops! also.. do you know more on the Queen accepting Fealty image?

How do I....
create my own sand box type page for things I am working on.. that peopel would not necessarily see? Also.. I noticed you worked on a Welsh artical! WOOT! My Welsh is very poor.. but mayhap we can translate the King of Jerusalem to Welsh as well?

Lol.. one of your subjects here said Welsh artical.. I had assumed you also worked on that thread... do people just translate articals from one to another anyway?Drachenfyre

Rulers of Shewa
Howdy, I had edited "List of monarchs of Shewa" but hadn't noticed it was a duplicate. Do you think Rulers of Shewa should be re-named to List of rulers of Shewa? (i.e. a stand-alone list.) I was under the impression that Wikipedia automagically handled articles whose names start with "List of." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:23, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Crusader States
Thank you for fixing an obvious mistake. I was just wondering...What was the relationship between the Holy Roman Empire and Latin Empire? Do you have any worthwhile resources? 24.255.40.174 08:33, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Interesting and thanks once again! 24.255.40.174 09:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * For all the politeness I dealt you, I have gotten nothing really beneficial in return. I hope you spend 6 hours on your favourite topic, only to see somebody fuck it up for their "comfort with the usual".  How goes this day, when your brain shrinks instead of expands?  Looks like Canada is still stuck in pinko policies.  You are a suckling fat piglet.  You have no right other than the clause at the bottom of the page.  If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it. 24.255.40.174 10:45, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kings of Jerusalem
I really like how you fleshed out Baldwin II more! Great job. I visited the French and German Wikipedia sites on Melisende, and there is almost no info there- that is sad to see, so I emailed their most recent posters (hopefully they might read English as well) so they might possibly update their Melisende.

The point to this is.. they have a copy of the Jerusalem coat of arms, and I would think we would want to use that too, incorporating that in all the kingships. What do you think on that? Also, at the libary I have found atleses showing the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the middle ages, are these public domain for Wikipedia purposes? Lastly, on the sources you list under Baldwin II, are you citing the actual work by William of Tyre, or a translation? If you are reading a translated work of William of Tyre then it should be accompanied by the translator's name, publisher and date of publication. I know you have access to more material then I do reguarding the middle ages... so know the material is beyond question. But others would not... and at least would not be able to get their hands on the actual works by William of Tyre.205.143.204.110

HA! In the biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine the author cites William of Tyre, and this is how she credits his work: William of Tyre. A History of Deeds done beyonde the Sea (trans. and ed. E.A. Babcock and A.C. Krey, 2 vols., New York, 1943; reprinted 19976)

I was courious myself on how one would attribute that. It seems she is citing an English translation.. is your book the same as hers or simular? If simular it seems appropriate to list it like she does, if you are translating and interperting the text from the origional latin then I haven't yet found the correct format. I also want to properly credit the artical in Midevial women correctly. 205.143.204.110

I would love to read that book!

YES so you have the book now Medieval Women?! That is exactly what it's title is! Have you read through the Queens of Jerusalem? Does the naration fit with what has been witten and your own interpertaions? Also.. we should correctly format the attibution.... the positions here should be creditable. There is a second quote in the Melisende artical by william of Tyre, it too is in latin but was not directly translated... can you look that up... it was the quote about Melisende.."reseditque regni potestas penes dominam Melisendem, Deo amabilem reginam, cui jure hereditario competebat"Drachenfyre

LOL.. reread your message.. you do not have the bood :(

Anyway... yes.. I'll read more on Rosalind, the book is invaulable sourece material for further exploration. I am interested in far more then Midevial Women though :) Its is simply what has obsessed me as of late because I know now what other people said about women is not compleatly true. And there seems to be another connection... the Gnostic-inspired Cathars, under their customs, from 1000's to the Albiginian Crusade, women were more or less equal, and in the Aquitaine author Alson Wise says women could inherit and hold property and administer them automoniously from their husbands estates well into the mid 1200's. Boulonge, where Baldwin I and II and ultimatly the entire Jerusalem line, is from also was a Cathar stronghold. I would not be surprised if that was a contributing factor to Baldwin II;s ease in designating Melisende his heir.

Where would you direct me reguarding female inheritance and their ability to excercise their rights in this periode? What other plausable examples can I research?

So far, I have uncovered authors and books that point out that women excercised much political authority and soical accume in the Dark Ages. Often women represented the link with the prior rulership, and an invading leader would wed the widow of his former enemy, as a show of unity between the conqured and conqurers. During the dark ages, these women sat in council with their husbands and were associated with them in their policial decisions. by the time the Catholic church excercised more influence women were loosing their rights, from thir positions of authority, their ability to engage in commercial activites, and eventually they were excluded from their inheritance or even administering their inheritance, as this became property of the husband, this was by the First Crusade through out to the Albiginian Crusade. The only places which seem to have allowed greater equality for women, according to the authors of the books, is in Cathar regions, and according to John Davies, in under the secular laws of Hwyl Dda in Wales.

I am very much open to other sources, but there is a reason why the common conception of womens roles in the middle ages was that she held no power. Yet, I am finding authors who suggest that they did excercise power and influence by rights and laws common in their realms at the times they lived. Where would you direct someone researching this?

Let me blank those pages
Hello, would you re-revert those pages The Crown Prince Naruhiko and Crown Prince Naruhiko? Those two pages don't seem to be correct according to the naming convention. I found those should be Naruhiko, Crown Prince of Japan Or would you let me know why you did this instead?? at33

Hi. I got your point. However, don't you have any authorities to delete such pages?? Oh, I will appreciate if you let me know the sources about salutes stuff you mentioned before. Do you mean HM salute is appropriate in the British Royal Family but in the Japanese Imperial Household?? Hope not you are ... at33

List of Latin phrases
Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. Me and a couple of other enthusiasts (weirdos?) have just finished translating the list into German, and in the process, I encountered a number of inaccuracies/blatant errors, which I promised myself I would start correcting in the original version ASAP. Well, I have started, and your note was just what I needed to keep me going :-). Do you think it might be a good idea to add more information on sources, or is that beyond the scope of this list? Thanks also for pointing out the Latin Wikipedia to me. In fact, I have payed it a couple of visits ananymously, but frankly, I find it frustrating: For one thing, while I'm a fairly fluent reader of Latin, Latinitas viva is not my forte; and secondly, there is just so much bad Latin going on around there (I do envy the Americans for their let's-just-go-and-do-it attitude!). BTW, since you know German as well (pretty impressive user page you've got there ;-)), you might find this project interesting; a Late Antiquity WikiReader, centering around Julian the Apostate. --T.a.k. 13:16, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

John A. Macdonald
Hi Adam, sorry for creating so much work for you rving all the Macdonald page move stuff, after thinking about it some more, that way does make more sense. Anyway, apologies. Fawcett5 05:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * most are sufficently obscure that the middle name vs. the initial is pretty much a wash, you see it both ways. But there are a few I will reconsider. Fawcett5 05:42, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Justin I
Hi. Can you please look my changes in Justin I. Birth year ( 435 ) from my point of view has been wrong, so I needed to change text for new birth year. My web source is Britannica 1911.

CSS
Glad the CSS thing has been sorted out. Mr. Jones 08:05, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Classical Dictionary
Hey. I saw your nice additions to Roxane and then your classical interests. I'd like to invite you to check out my new site, the "Wiki Classical Dictionary." The idea is to do for the Oxford Classical Dictionary what Wikipedia did for the Encyclopedia Britannica. The WCD has somewhat more specific editorial guidelines, category editors and a focus on topics not already in Wikipedia, including a category for that. With luck, it will become a good sister-site to Wikipedia.

You may also like the thousands of pages from 19c classical dictionaries at the containing site Ancient Library. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography… does Byzantines, particularly Byzantine scholars, but not Crusaders. Incidentally, I took a course on the Crusades when I was a student in Alanya, Turkey, visiting a number of Crusader castles in Turkey and Syria. Later, I worked at the Institute for Nautical Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey, which is housed in the tower of the wonderful Crusader castle there. Thanks, Lectiodifficilior 01:51, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I suppose the justification is that serious classics scholars are somewhat wary of Wikipedia. I have a certain amount of respect for "smart mobs," but the idea often breaks down in the classics entries. Almost no "real" classical scholars work on the site, mostly because they don't trust it. The WCD aims to integrate a wiki structure with a focus on classics and the academic standards of classics. Another factor is the problem of "hot" topics. The root of the project was an Alexander wiki. Those of us who work on the subject are sick and tired of rehashing the ethnic and sexual issue. The Alexander the Great entry here is real battleground of these things, and it turns people off. Anyway, that's the notion. Best of luck in your studies! Lectiodifficilior 02:18, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, fight the good fight. I imagine the Crusades are subject to similar battles. Oh, I forgot, my other interest is ancient divination and magic. That means the two Wikipedians who, say, read Greek and are interested in the topic are constantly shoved aside by teenage Wiccans whose sources tell them otherwise or who want to link to their tarrot site. Anyway, good luck. Lectiodifficilior 02:40, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Claiming Past Credit
Hello Adam! Question.. is it possible to claim past credit for edits one made without being "logged in"? Way back when I first discovered Wikipedia, I rewrote the Naboo and Corellia articals based off source material I had available. I was not logged in and they remain numbers now. You have read my writting style and I belive you can identify that the rewrite is indeed mine. The question is.. can I be given back credit for that? I will understand if it is impossible. It is just that now the artical is being quoted amongst the Star Wars circles, and the giest of the articals came from the source material I had then. Not to be egotistical, but I would liek to claim some of that credit. :) What do you think? Is it possible?

Thanks Adam
For supporting my recent RFA. I'll put the admin power to good use; already had an opportunity, working with you to clean up after a page-creation vandal today. (It was kinda fun.) Keep up the good work on the Medieval articles! Antandrus 01:02, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Zhen Ji
You removed the speedy deletion tag from that article. the article is about a legend of a woman which is purposely messed up by the writer. (This means the article is half-truth, half-fiction, as far as my knowledge goes) I am looking for vertification from zh community and if appropriate, I am putting a Vfd. SYSS Mouse 02:20, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I checked with zh-pedia. It is a valid entry, but still need cleanup. SYSS Mouse 19:27, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User Bello
Hello!

I created the user account "Bello" and forgot to enter an e-mail address. That's now my problem: I can't remember the password and want to give this account to a friend. Because I didn't do anything with this account I think it is possible to delete it and then create it again (a German admin said that to me). Can you help me with this?

-- Serpens 11:55, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (revert on my user page)
Thank you for speedily reverting my user page from the vandalism of "Le Migou". Looking at the... *ahem* "contribution history" for this character, I can only guess that a ban is in the near future.

In case something like this happens again and no sharp-eyed admin is around, how do I report abuse to personal pages?
 * Just to drop a line to say thanks as well for the same reason as above. Ironically, I just happened to place a POV notice on a gay-related page, and I tot this was instant retribution! :D --Huaiwei 17:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks too from me. It really offended me and one of my other trusted users says that "User:Le Migou" is a bot however, I do not know. Thanks anyway - (Erebus555 16:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC))

the issue of school articles
In November 2003, you participated in a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). The issue over this article remains contested. moreover, there still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. The article in question has been re-nominated for VfD at Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland). My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:13, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) P.S. The history of the debate can also be reviewed and discussed at Are high schools encyclopedic?.

Thema
Hello, Adam. I was planning to translate it into Chinese. Would you mind provide me some good reference in English (or in Chinese, if u wish), preferably on the web, to which I can refer as I translate? Google search in Chinese yielded nothing. Ktsquare (talk) 08:32, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Canadian legislators
Hi, I'm trying to organize Category:Legislators. I'm trying to arrange it so that each country gets one entry for its national legislators (e.g. U.S. senators and U.S. House members are put into Category:Members of the U.S. Congress, which is then put into the legislators category. I was going to do this for Canada as well, but hit a roadblock. I read through Parliament of Canada, and couldn't find the word for "Senators and MPs". What category should they go into? Should I just use "Category:Canadian national legislators" or is there a preferred term? Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 01:44, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the suggestion--I'll take it there. Best, Meelar (talk) 01:48, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Kingdom of Heaven
HA! a "premptive mention to prevent a Bloom fan" from mucking it up! I LOVE that! Anywhos, I am courious about the actual plot of the movie, and how they will actually protray they characters. I am sure it will be far off the mark. Though mayhap they will capture the drama of a people in te grip of history, about to lose their world (albiet only 80 years old by that time).

To clarify: Sibylla dies of epidemic in 1190. Hamilton wrote that though Guy atempted to retain his position, the surviving members of the Haute Cour recognized Isabelle as Queen. He does not mention when she was crowned though. During this periode I have learned that her marrage to Humphry was annuled and she married Conrad of Toron. hamilton is silent on the role Richard Lionheart and the French King played in their endorsement of Isabella, but certinly the surviving members of the Haute Cour held more authority over the title given their previous position in the country.

My questions is: was Isabella endorsed as Queen on her half sister's death in 1190? Why do our sources here list her as queen in 1192? Was not Guy simply 'bought off' with Cypres (not REALLY such a raw deal, I mean.. it was a Kingship title of a nation, and already secured for him). Drachenfyre

An heresiarch
Now here's something that makes a non-native speaker curious. Is heresiarch pronounced without the h where you come from? Greetings T.a.k. 13:50, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind reply. I found this piece of information in the meantime, which I'm afraid implies that you are a "distinctly old-fashioned" person ;-). But seriously, your explanation makes a lot of sense to me. My guess would be that the h consonant is much more distinct when it's in a stressed syllable, which would explain why the use of a/an varies in front of an unstressed h. Sorry to bother you with all this, by the way... Greetings T.a.k. 18:44, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Infant Henry of Castile
Hi Adam, I was wondering if you get a chance to take a look at the article Infant Henry of Castile and the talk page, Mississippienne and I are working on. There seem to be two versions of his life, and you may have access to some sources that could help verify or provide some insight. Stbalbach 19:00, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for your support on my RfA! I shall attempt to put the shiny new buttons to good use. (Side note: I promise that if after I get the admin status and the power, the women also come running, I shall direct them over to you. ;-)) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Battle template
Hi Adam, Thanks for the tip. It seems if "dead=alive" then the empty template Template:Infobox pope/alive is inserted which ignores the death parameters. If "dead=dead", the Template:Infobox pope/dead is used which adds a couple of rows to the infoxbox. You still need to put all parameters in the template, whether used or not. I'll have a think about how this might be used in the battlebox templates. It would probably mean adding a new parameter which means updating all articles that use the template. Geoff/Gsl 22:42, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

user:Ph43r
Hi, I do not quite understand what kind of "idiotic vandalism" he is blocked for. At least I don't see his edits reverted. I'd like to see more specific block log entries. Mikkalai 00:16, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I see, thanks. By the way, out of curiosity: so scripts and bots are threats to wikipedia. Are there any means of automatic defense? Mikkalai 00:28, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looks like this guy is alive and kicking as user:raef (already blocked but not cleaned up yet). Looks like we are facing tug-of-war...Mikkalai 00:31, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vanity
Howdy; saw your comment on the Sebastien Lefebvre Vfd. AFAICT, a "vanity" article isn't neccessarily limited to one written by a member of a group or the subject of the article or someone associated with the subject. Vanity is a catchall term that includes "non-notable and non-encyclopedic articles about people." Anyone can write a "vanity" article about someone that they're not personally involved with. Given the recent astouding proliferation of band stubs, this may need clarification on Vanity page. Soundguy99 18:11, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, you've been around here for a while, so you're definitely more experienced than me, but I think this is a bit of relatively recent but useful "instruction creep" attempting to deal with the proliferation of non-enyclopedic and non-expandable stubs. Check out the last month or so of VfD. Maybe we should create a Wikineologism to help clarify this, say, "fanity" articles. Soundguy99 18:40, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ancient Olympic Games
The 919 date comes from the second paragraph of the History section. Since the intro said "as early as" the earliest justifiable date ought to be used. If you want to stick with the earliest definitively recorded date, perhaps the intro should use different wording. I couldn't come up with a non-kludgy way of saying "by 776, but perhaps even earlier, like 919 or the 13th century" (see 776 BC) so I just changed the number. I don't really care either way. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:07, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Re: milo/milon, I don't really care, I was just following the advice on the talk page. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:34, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for reverting my User page from the Wikipedia is Communism vandal (who was under ZScout370 at the time). Zscout370 (talk) 01:51, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment you made on Microsoft .NET Passport
Hey there just writing you with a quick tip based on what you wrote on the "[[Microsoft_.NET_Passport" wikipedia "discussion" page eons ago. :-)

There's a website |www.archive.org which basically keeps 'backed up' copies of old webpages that it happend to surf across and puts them into an archive. You had mentioned the site FireFly and you're in luck they have some left over HTML pages from the 1998 FireFly.com website. The only thing about archive.org is they don't really keep many images assoc. with most websites because images I assume would take up huge amount of space on their servers. But check it out, if you think you recall where you saw it, it might be able to jog your memory. I don't know the site well enough to find where the message boards were, but thought you might remember it well enough you can probably find it in a second if you wanted to. Best of luck. CaribDigita 00:46, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Goddess of Democracy
I have found that uncareful choice of words and different perceptions of meaning can be the cause of great confusion and misunderstanding. I am very surprised that you called my comments a "rant". Perhaps you are not aware of the nuances of the term? Rant, while it can refer simply to an emotional or bombastic declaration, usually connotes that something that is said in anger or disgust (especially in reference to writings on the internet). Since the comments contain neither anger nor disgust (cloaked or evinced), "rant" is a misleading term.

- Pioneer-12 01:45, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

IBDTSFY
-Internet slang -SV|t 15:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * No, that phrase has been around for years, man. -SV|t 17:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Blocking
You just blocked User:Academic ChalIenger for 24 hours. Per Block, I am unblocking and reblocking indefinitely. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Sphinx
Hi Adam, I put in a move request to Requested moves for Sphinx (iconic image) ->Sphinx, someone had made a mistake while creating a disambig page. Could you take a look? I think its pretty easy to fix, theres no debate or anything just a mistake and the system wont take the move now. Stbalbach 00:19, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone got to it quickly its ok now, thanks. Stbalbach 00:59, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

RE: Balian of Ibelin
Hi Adam. Thanks for the note. There was not a lot wrong with the article when I put the tag on, but I seem to recall that I felt the bottom section seemed a bit "fractured" (maybe I should have added some detail to the talk page). Anyway, I like your changes (the sources are good too) and I agree that the tag should be removed as the article looks fine to me now. Cheers TigerShark 14:52, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Battle of Nicopole
Only the link was important, but i can't find the image at Tokapi. http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Islamic/1935.13.html

Maximilian of Baden
Hi, I noticed you moved Maximilian of Baden to Prince Maximilian of Baden. I am of the understanding that normally we don't include titles in article names about people. Do you mind if I move it back? --Improv 22:46, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Guy of Lusignan and Queen Isabella
Did we every qualify exactly when Isabelle was crowned? Hamilton sugested that it was clear to all Jerusalem Lords that Isabelle was queen after Sibylla died. There may have been some lords that suported Guy, but considering the president set in previous succession examples his authority died with Sibylla. I wish for clarity on this point, because he might have tried to maintain his own authroity from 1190 to 1192, but he would be a usurper during this periode as through the succession practices the kingdom was following the crown passed to Isabella, and through her her husband as consort. I have been looking this up with little success myself, so have not altered anything as nothing seems definitive.

by the way.. what did you think of the movie? I was so confused about Balin of Iblin because I never read he was a blacksmith from France! lol. Though Eroul did write that Sibylla and Balain developed a close relationship in 1177 and she wrote passionate letters to him, whe would have been about 17 then. And subsequently she was forced to marry Guy.Drachenfyre

K.of H.
Differing geography? wow. I was most excited about seeing Jerusalem itself, and kept looking for "Melisende's ghost"! lol. I noticed a very quick scene of Raymond "partying" in the castle. Preseumably that was the wedding festivities. During this periode it was compleatly correct that Queen Maria and her daughter would have been excluded. I am going to alter the Sibylla page to mention the alleged relationship between Balian and Sibylla, which would have occured between 1177 and 1180. As a historian did think it worthy of note. The Iblins were ambitious to have her married into their family so it is not that far fetched after all.

To the Guy/Isabella question. I agree it was a chaotic time. But considering the traditional succession practices, and considering that Isabella was seen as the rightful queen by all save Guy and his faction, whould not the correct succession box on the Sibylla page read Isabella rather then Guy? His atempt to hold on to power faild him, and ultimatly he was bought off with Cypras. I would see Isabella as Sibylla's ultimate successor, not Guy. Even in light of the chaotic time. Your thoughts?

Sibylla and Baldwin
Same source, Mideival Woman. I had left it out origionally because Hamilton wrote a whole paragraph on it... then said that it may be a suspect account as Eroul was employed by the Ibelin family. Because of this I left it out, as it could not easily be proven that Sibylla did write to him. However, Hamilton himself suggests that it may be true because of the large sum of money Salidan demanded, and he let him go on "security". Salidan may have also assumed that Baldwin would be the next king, or else why would he have demaned such an exhorbant amount then all but release him? Also, the Emporer Manual- according to Eroul and Hamilton, granted Baldwin the money. He would be exceedingly generous if he didnt think he had something to gain by granting Baldwin the money. In the talk page I could I guess type the entire paragraph? There is more there too... about Agnes and Maria Comena that is not on their pages. And about Isabella. The paper was written focused on the eight most influenceial 12th century women in Crusader Jerusalem. I have not yet touched on Isabella because there is a discrepancy reguarding her succession.

I think it most proper that we list Isabella as succedding her sister. Certinly in the minds of the most influencial members of the Haute Cour, those gathered in Tyre, Isabella became Queen because she was next by blood to the previous monarch, and because of the 1183 agreement, and because she was Almeric I's next heir.

It would certinly be appropriate that we list on Guy's page that he atempted to retain his position. But he held no right to the crown after Sibylla's death. Benard Hamilton thought this, and I assume teaches this. So it would be more appropriate to list Isabell as Sibylla's heir, in my humble opinion. (by the way.. I have HUGE late fee's on this libary book. I am looking to see if I can get Barns and Noble to order me a copy from the publisher, as well as some of the translations you suggested!)

I know it is pure accidemic speculation, but HAD Sybilla been able to marry Baldwin of Iblin instead of the detestable toad Guy, she and her children would have "united" the rival Courtney and Iblin factions in court! Lol. And mayhap, things would have worked out different. On a compleatly Fruedian note, it would not be a stretch if Sibylla had an affair with Balian himself, mayhap transfering her affection from one brother to another, it has happened before.

Thank you for the copy editing. I am atrotious! What do you think on the Sibylla to Isabell rather then Sibylla to Guy succession box?Drachenfyre 07:14, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Styling of the Prime Minister of Canada
Adam, could you explain for me why you assert that some PM's are styled Right Honourable why others are only honourable? This is confusing to me. As I understand it, there are basically three ways to get the style: 1. Holding a position (PM) that automatically confers it; 2. Being on the Queen's Privy Council for Canada; 3. Grant by the Governor General. Fawcett5 13:02, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * very interesting... I notice that Abbot for instance is listed as honourble even though he was both P.C. and Q.C. — I'll bet there's a story there. Fawcett5 15:14, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Prime Ministers of Australia have the same rules and the only way to be a right honourable is to be appointed to the Privy Council, a separate body from the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.Alan 23:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Dear Adam and Alan - to sort this out once and for all, I wrote to the Library of Parliament, and received a prompt response which I have posted here: Talk:The_Right_Honourable Fawcett5 20:23, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Second
Hey great job, that looks like a lot of work, an impressive single-edit :) The Runciman book recently arrived and I just started to look at it. The 2nd crusade doesnt have nearly the drama the first had, well its hard to imagine anything more dramatic than the first in terms of epic story. Will need some good pictures/maps as well. Anyway Ill start in on it and see how it goes, youve filled in a lot allready from what ive read. Stbalbach 20:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Trebizond
Any chance of an (ahem) Trapezuntine succession template? Alan

 * Could you look at Alexius I of Trebizond and see why I am generating extra characters?

Popular reputation of the Crusades
Adam Bishop has suppressed the following introduction:
 * In the popular imaginations of East and West, the complex phenomenon of the Crusades has resolved itself as a series of symbolic and instructive frozen vignettes. Popular history can be recognized as a form of pseudohistory in part by the use made of such imagery. Genuine history is as unclear as the motivation of strangers, and often has little immediate relevance to current events. Popular history is crystal-clear and full of implied prophecies and other vividly direct relations to modern times.

Is there a phrase in this very carefully worded text that is factually incorrect or that presents a point-of-view that is not within the mainstream? Is there something objectionable in these axiomatic commonplaces? Perhaps there is an uneasy sense that it might be "witty". Would it be more acceptable if it were rephrased in more pedestrian language? Can Adam Bishop provide an alternative introduction to the popular usages of Crusades material, one that distinguishes popular from authentic history, so that the section can be returned to Crusade. Thank you. --Wetman 08:32, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

 * The paragraph is waffle. Substitute any proper noun for "Crusades" and you have something just as meaningful. Leave it out. Gdr 16:42, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

Thanks
Honestly didn't even think to do that. Thanks for the clarification! --Girolamo Savonarola 03:50, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Adelaide del Vasto, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Quantum praedecessores, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Roman Africa
The links and redirects in this topic have become a maze. I've posted a suggestion at Talk:North Africa during the Classical Period. It needs an administrator to act on it. Alan 02:49, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Can you give me a contact for a Roman admin? Sejanus? One of Claudius' liberti? Alan

Re: Trish Stratus
I was following up on a suggestion, brought on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Professional wrestling --LBMixPro(Speak on it!) 00:32, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

In Soviet Russia, award wins you!
CryptoDerk 06:39, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

American West
I need your help but first some necessary boring info: You created American West as a redirect to U.S. West back in 2003. In late 2004 CPret made it into a duplicate (more of an alternate, actually) of U.S. West. I've been putting off dealing with the article for sometime but, in 2005 WikiProject U.S. regions adopted a new standardized naming convention for U.S. regions, forcing the duplicate to be addressed. All articles are currently located at their new homes, including U.S. West— now located at Western United States. I've engaged the writer of American West, CPret in a polite, but heated, debate about the page, but he has yet to respond to me. Since you created the page originally as a redirect to U.S. West I was hoping you could weigh in, so the matter can be resolved. Thanks. -JCarriker 05:13, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's my point. I just need someone elso to say so so Cpret won't complain about unilateral action. -JCarriker 05:23, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * CPret is trying to make this into a me verse him arguement, rather than me trying to implement a policy adopted by consesnsus. He'a trying to enforce a specific point of view, while I and the wikiproject want various views. He's taking things out of context and ignoring facts, even when links are provided. I could really use another wikipedian on the page, I need support there. -JCarriker 08:31, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Gratitude
I thank you, Mr. Bishop, for having 'reverted' "vandalism" upon my 'user-page.' --Anglius 03:04, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Durres
Removed:  Greek: Δυρράχιον / Dyrrhachion  from the article of the same reason as the user Dori mention above.

The city was a Greek colony in the begining of 6th century B.C. known as Epidamnos/Epidamos and not Dyrrhachion., The Greek form Dyrrhachion comes from the Latin name Dyrrhachium, and the Greek form is not known by others then modern Greeks. The paragraph where Durazzo and Dyrrhachium is mentioned should remain since this two form are very popular, Dyrrhachium is the ancient name for Durrës and Durazzo is another name for Durrës, while Dyrrhachion is just a Greek modern name for Durrës and not known by others then Greek speakers. The Greek form is very irelvant, Dyrrhachion gives only 681 hits on google search and almost all the website are in Greek, while the latin form Dyrrhachium gives 6 130 hits and almost every site is in English. Then we have Durazzo that gives 71 300 hits and many are in english...  The Greek form is not used in English and is not a bit popular for english speakers or anyone els then Greeks.. there is also no Greek minority living in the city, not likely, so why mention the new Greek term for the city?... The Greek name is irelevant and not a good headword, it will not remain in the article.. --Albanau 07:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project
You voted for High Middle Ages, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

La mia identità
No, not Juan Tomas I'm afraid, I'm Owen Cook. Thought you found an old school friend or something? (I'm really surprised I don't run into people I know on Wikipedia, what with common interests and all.) Quartier Latin   1968  22:33, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
I figured you'd know better than I would about this: You see the man sitting down, immediately to Elizabeth's right in the Parliament picture? Is that Pierre Trudeau? Please reply. Mike H 04:48, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Nardwuar the Human Serviette
I finally broke down and told him about Wikipedia; I knew he wasn't going to be thrilled to see his real name there. He seemed a bit confused by the Sum 41 thing... might have been someone else; I'm pretty sure there are food fight pictures in his gallery, actually.

I do his web site and a bit of photo for him; gets me into shows for free at least. -- Xinit 06:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

poll
Poll There is a poll in the talk page of Macedonian Slavs article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonian without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people possibly from the other side of the story. I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies.Newcomer 11:32, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Crusade literature category
Good idea. I added it as a sub-category of cat:Medieval literature, and removed cat:medievial literature from those that are specific only to the crusades. Stbalbach 20:42, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Officers of Crusader kingdoms
While looking through Edbury's History of the Kingdom of Cyprus the other day, he claims to have compiled a list of the great sergeants of Cyprus through most of the Lusignan period and the titular great sergeants of Jerusalem at the same time. Unfortunately, it's in his Ph.D. thesis (unpublished, St. Andrews University) and I don't know how to get it, but I thought I'd let you know. Choess July 1, 2005 05:09 (UTC)

Congrats
I'd like to congratulate you on your work concerning the article Byzantine Empire. You gave all the right answers to all those imperfectly educated people who questioned the reliability of the article due to their modern nationalist ideas. I couldn't have done any better. Miskin 1 July 2005 15:08 (UTC)

User:A. Lafontaine
Hi, Adam,

I gather you're a sysop now, so I'll advise you of this. User:DW may have reappeared as User:A. Lafontaine. He claims to be from Elliot Lake, which is where everyone believes DW is from. A. Lafontaine has already gutted the Esther Delisle article, which started out as a highly slanted and inaccurate representation of Delisle's work, probably created by DW. In particular, he has removed the section about methodological criticisms of Delisle's work. I'm going to restore it, but fun may ensue. John FitzGerald 4 July 2005 13:52 (UTC)

 * I also suspect this User:A. Lafontaine is User:DW resurrected. Same focus, same pattern in edits. -- Mathieugp 4 July 2005 17:59 (UTC)

Thanks, Andrew and Mathieu. His edits to Esther Delisle were borderline; he offered a questionable explanation. I've restored the important points with an explanation. John FitzGerald 5 July 2005 03:28 (UTC)

Bizarrely, at Talk:Canada and Talk:Politics of Canada, A. Lafontaine is making a big deal out of the fact that I changed user names several months ago, something that I have never tried to hide. I even have a disclaimer on my User page. His/her behaviour is very aggressive -- making strongly POV edits, and accusing me of making personal attacks for saying that the edits were POV -- but I have't seen a bannable offence yet. Ground Zero 8 July 2005 18:14 (UTC)

Kalev Ots
Dear Sir, please delete my contribution 'Kalev Ots'. Kalev Ots himself asked me to do this because of humiliating additions to this article by Sesel and Boothy443 and my poor English.

Good News!
There is now a stub template for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related articles in need of expansion. Please add to articles. You can also go to the Category page for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related stubs and click the "watch this page" link in the sidebar, so that you can see new stub articles as they appear. Spread the word! JHCC (talk) 6 July 2005 15:04 (UTC)

Empress Matilda
I posted a reply to your note on the Talk page of the eponymous article. Duckecho (Talk) 6 July 2005 17:44 (UTC)

Agnes of Courtenay
Thanx for jumping on the edits to Agnes. I had been meaning to contribute to that for some time. Are my contrabutions ok there? Additionally, It seems Almeric I and Baldwin IV needs some review. There seems to be oddly phrased and inappropriate sentences. Lastly, I still mean to do Isabella and Maria Comnena some re-working. Will this be ok?Drachenfyre 7 July 2005 17:34 (UTC)

Searles Castle
Thanks for the 4 minute rv. Just curious, are you on RC patrol or is the article on your watchlist. hydnjo talk 8 July 2005 16:28 (UTC)

 * About 80 edits in 12 minutes today! You could use an un-bot. ;-) hydnjo talk 8 July 2005 16:41 (UTC)

81.240.255.226
Hmm! I see User:81.240.255.226 is keeping you busy. Such a(n) ***** Alren 8 July 2005 16:29 (UTC)

Medieval Greece
Adam, a new user has created an article Medieval Greece that redirects to Byzantine Empire, and then changed the Middle Ages template, removing Byzantine Empire and replaceing it with Medieval Greece. I suspect this is incorrect, but you know more about it. I think a Medieval Greece article could be made, but it would include more than just Byzantine, it would also include the Latin States. In any case I dont think Medieval Greece should redirect to Byzantine Empire. Stbalbach 9 July 2005 16:00 (UTC)

User:A. Lafontaine
Re: recent RfC posted to the Canadian discussion board. I have major suspicions that our old friend DW/Angelique/JillandJack is back for another kick at the can. See here for a significant sampling of evidence that this user has the same revisionist view of Quebec-related history and a similar contribution pattern. Also see user page. Bearcat 22:00, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, sorry. Now I see that you already beat me to my brilliant detective work. Oh, well. Bearcat 22:03, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

Vandals
Well, that was fun. Glad you finally put the block in. Catch you later - Kaisershatner 19:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuck You

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 06:00, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Fuck You
Not notable CD from a band that is currently on VFD. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:33, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Gwk 21:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Friday 21:39, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Look at the artwork on that baby. How could you want to delete it?--Runciblerabbit 21:48, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Because it was a CD by a group that has an article up for VFD, because the group calls itself a "small unknown garage band" which "lasted for only 3 months." Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Another option: well, though this article is about a CD, there is an English term by the same name. Could we redirect this to Fuck? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:53, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if the band Chipmonk is being deleted, otherwise move to Fuck You (album) or else merge with Chipmonk article. Strangely enough, this article was in my watchlist, so apparently something existed with this name before. Jdavidb 21:55, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * From what I checked in the article history,, there were only two edits: Runciblerabbit creating it and me placing the VFD tag on it. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:59, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The article history wouldn't have history for a previously-existing article that got moved. Jdavidb 22:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm...well, I typed in fuck you and see what it did. Fuck you redirects to Fuck. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 22:13, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete nn band vanity, the band and all the records. --Etacar11 00:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable band vanity. JamesBurns 06:45, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Fuck (where lower-case Fuck you already redirects) --Angr/undefined 07:54, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Redirect per Angr. Xoloz 16:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Adolfo Saguier

Adolfo Saguier (b. 1832, d. 1902) was a Paraguayan politician who served as the nation's Vice President from 1878 to 1880.

Adolfo was the brother of a former Paraguayan ambassador to Argentina and a cousin of Francisco Solano López. During the rule of Carlos Antonio López he was sent to study in Europe. During the Paraguayan War he served in the army and commanded artillery in the Battle of Curupayty. During the last years of Lopez’s rule he led one of the conspiracy trials that led to the arrest, torture and execution of alleged plotters against Lopez.

After the war he was associated with the Liberal politicians of the Decoud faction. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He was Minister of Finance of Paraguay from 1875 to 1876.

Saguier was elected Vice President under Cándido Bareiro in 1878, and after the sudden death of Bareiro he was prevented from assuming Presidency by a bloodless coup organized by Bernardino Caballero on 4 September 1880. After Saguier was informed that Bareiro had died, he was led by Minister of War and Navy Pedro Duarte to a barracks, where he was told he would be named president. Instead, generals Caballero and Escobar were waiting with troops loyal to them - Saguier was forced to sign his own resignation. This document was presented to the Senate, and Caballero was named president.

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Forbidden Gardens

Forbidden Gardens was an outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history located on Texas Highway 99 and Franz Road in northern Katy, Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was funded and opened by businessman Ira Poon in 1996. Forbidden Gardens closed its doors in 2011.

Features and naming
Forbidden Gardens took its name from two of its major features: A 1:20 scale model of the Forbidden City with hundreds of palace buildings and figurines under a 40000 sqft pavilion, and the small grounds for walking and viewing additional exhibits.

Additional exhibits included a detailed panorama of a scholarly retreat called Lodge of the Calming of the Heart, an outdoor array of 6,000 one-third scale soldiers and chariots from the Terracotta Army tomb of the first Emperor of Qin, an indoor panorama of a city called the Venice of China (Suzhou), and rooms exhibiting details of historical architecture and weapons.

Forbidden Gardens was unusual in that it was privately funded. It displayed extensive models made and shipped from China. It originally cost $40 million to construct and only 40 of the 80 acre Poon bought were used. The Terracotta Army display was unique in that the statues were exposed to direct sunlight, unlike the sheltered originals, enabling excellent photography conditions.

Closure
It was announced that the Forbidden Gardens would close its doors on February 21, 2011, to make way for the Grand Parkway expansion. Terracotta soldiers were offered on Craigslist for $100 a soldier, sparking media attention. The warriors were pulled off Craigslist on February 9, with a note explaining that excess demand made it necessary.

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Abba Bok'a

Moti Abba Bok'a was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (reigned 1859–1862). He was the son of Abba Magal, and brother of Abba Jifar I.

Reign
Because the son of his nephew, Moti Abba Rebu, was an infant when he was killed, Abba Bok'a was made King. A devout believer unlike his predecessors, he advocated Islam in Jimma, building many mosques and sending educated Muslims to proselytize and teach in his provinces.

Abba Bok'a was very old at the time he became King, and died from natural causes.

title: Abba Bok'a


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Corzine

Corzine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Amy Corzine, American writer
 * Dave Corzine (born 1956), basketball player
 * Jon Corzine (born 1947), former CEO of MF Global, former Governor on New Jersey, former CEO of Goldman Sachs
 * Red Corzine (1909–2003), American football player
 * Roy A. Corzine (1882–1957), Illinois state representative and farmer

title: Corzine


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Ghotki

Ghotki (گهوٽڪي) is a city in northern Sindh, Pakistan, and the headquarter of Ghotki District. Its population as of 2020 is. Ghotki is famous for its date palms.

According to Mirza Kalich Beg, Ghotki was founded by Pir Mohsin Shah during 1447 and had also constructed a glorious mosque. He has written that the previous name of Ghotki was لوہے صاحبان.

Law and order situation
The district of Ghotki is facing a serious law and order issue with numerous incidents daily of kidnappings, murders, and robberies. The challenging aspect of the problem is that these incidents are occurring in remote "kutcha areas" (riverine areas) with difficult-to-access routes.

The cabinet approved the proposal for the procurement of military-grade weapons and surveillance systems worth Rs2.79 billion to combat kidnapping and attacks on police forces in the riverine areas of Ghotki, Shikarpur, and Sukkur districts.The Home department was directed to seek an NOC from the Ministry of Interior for the purchase. The Sindh police planned to procure drone technology to use the unmanned aerial vehicles not only for surveillance but also for targeting bandits in riverine areas of the province.

Outlaws found safe havens in the difficult terrain of four hard-to-reach districts - Ghotki, Sukkur, Shikarpur, and Kashmore. Drones were previously used by the army during Zarb-i-Azab, but now law enforcement agencies use them extensively in counter-terrorism and to combat urban terrorism. This marks a major shift in operational techniques used by law enforcement agencies, including the Counter-Terrorism Department.

Gas reserves
OGDCL has discovered gas from Umair South East-1 well in Guddu Block, Sindh. The well tested 1.063 MMSCFD of gas from Pirkoh Formation during drilling in May 2022. The discovery of 1.063 MMSCFD of gas from Pirkoh Formation was a result of the Guddu Joint Venture Partners' exploration strategy. OGDCL operates the Guddu Block with 70% stake. About 1050 meters of drilling estimated 5.1 million square feet of gas, which would help overcome gas shortage in Sindh province.

Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has begun supplying gas from the Tipu compartment of the Goru-B reservoir, located in Sindh province's Ghotki district. Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) will initially receive 20 mmscfd of pipeline quality gas after processing at MPCL's Sachal Gas Processing Complex (SGPC), with an additional 90 mmscfd planned for supply later in the year.

title: Ghotki