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Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Maoririder

Statement by MAO
I think his response exemplifies exactly what's wrong with his attitude- people have tried to help him, he's just refused to listen. His definition of help is that he writes one sentence, and then a dedicated army of writers follow him around and clean-up and expand his articles. Spare Change (food) (currently on AfD), which he wrote today, is one example.--Scimitar parley 20:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

See my evidence. Contrary to your false claim above, Maoririder was responsive and polite from the first. His editing style improved noticeably and by the end of the first week he was producing stubs of acceptable, sometimes even very good, quality on a diverse range of subjects.

You say Maoririder's definition of help is "that he writes one sentence, and then a dedicated army of writers follow him around and clean-up and expand his articles." So? Welcome to Wikipedia, baby! --Tony Sidaway Talk 08:34, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppets, etc.
Maoririder may be autistic, he may be a little kid, or he may just be a disingenuous stealth vandal. At this point, why does it matter? The creation of numerous sockpuppets and the continuation of disputed behavior certainly demonstrates that he doesn't have any desire to change, or even address that behavior.

Some would argue that this behavior isn't problematic. Fine, perhaps I'm wrong and this is normal behavior, perhaps it should even be encouraged but I doubt it. In any event, the fact that these actions are currently before the Arbitration Committee should be more than enough to suspend them for the duration of the investigation. If they find that Maoririder is acting in a perfectly normal fashion then fine, keep cranking out worthless nanostubs. Until then, don't you think a rational person who only wants to make Wikipedia better would take a timeout? I know I would.

As I mentioned above, at this point I don't think what/who we're dealing with is any longer relevant. The continuation of the behavior, the attacks on and general deprecation of people who originally tried to help him (most notably Lucky), and even his responses -- if they can even be termed as such -- to the charges are completely inexcusable.

Something else I find completely inexcusable is Tony's sudden interest in the situation and the fashion in which he's been conducting himself. The comments above demonstrate that he has little to no knowledge of the situation. I'm begging you, look at the same record everybody else is looking at! Maoririder was not at all responsive at any point. If you mean did he respond to comments on his talk page the answer is sometimes. If you mean did he alter his behavior in the slightest because of them the answer is a categorical no.

What I see isn't someone who wants to contribute to Wikipedia in any meaningful way that conforms with community consensus. What I see is someone of questionable motives and mental status who wants to add nonsensical garbage to Wikipedia to make himself feel better.

If it sounds like I'm being harsh it's because I am. I tried to be patient and helpful from the start, as did many others, but my patience wore thin a long time ago. I urge the Committee to consider the evidence at their earliest convenience as new points seem to be added almost hourly. Soltak | Talk 21:50, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Firstly you suggest that Maoririder may be "a disingenuous stealth vandal". Well if he were, wouldn't we be able to find copious examples of this? Many hoax articles, for instance, or insertions of bogus factoids into articles.  I think the nearest I've seen to that is Spare Change (food), which contained an unverifiable vignette about a supposed kind of Mexican burrito.  Nearly without exception, Maoririder's other edits have been on encyclopedic subjects and correctly (if often extremely tersely) identified their subject, enabling easy expansion.

 * Secondly you repeat the false description of his output as "worthless nanostubs". These articles are certainly stubs, but they're not worthless.  Skillin Elementary School, for instance, contains a single sentence fragment but correctly identifies and locates the school in question.  A person reading this doesn't learn much, but he does learn enough to expand the article--which is how stubs work.

 * Thirdly you falsely state that Maoririder " doesn't have any desire to change, or even address that behavior." My evidence in this case demonstrates that Maoririder made great improvements in his first week, at the end of which he was subject to two blocks of dubious legitimacy.  The quality of his contributions has deteriorated since then, sadly.  But on this we should consider the mixed signals we've been sending him.  No sooner did he learn to put the name of the articles in block caps and include a little more information in articles than "it is a type of dog", than he was blocked twice for "disruption".  No sooner did he learn to put an expansion template into the talk page than someone scolded him for "overuse" of that useful template.

 * One frustrating aspect of this case is how repeatedly the same falsehoods are trundled out to describe Maoririder's behavior. "Disruptive", "worthless", "vandal".  Yet he keeps producing stubs on useful subjects where before there was nothing, and the content of the stubs while minimal is almost invariably useful.  Why is this a problem for Wikipedia? --Tony Sidaway Talk  00:22, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm curious if there's any way to see how many articles he created were deleted? It seems to me that by looking at his edit history, we are only seeing non-deleted articles, which is going to give a sample that is skewed towards those articles that were encyclopedic. -Satori (talk) 15:42, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * You can't see the "tagged-and-bagged" articles, but you can see the ones that were deleted before anyone edited them to add a del or db tag, or to copy edit. In the deletion log you'll see articles like this with a deletion summary containing the words "and the only contributor was 'X'" where X is the name of the creator of the article being deleted. You'll find a few of these listed in Tranches one and two of my evidence.

 * In theory it's possible to find the names of all the deleted articles created by an editor by a simple sql query of the database, but this cannot be performed on the live system for performance reasons, and for legal reasons the English Wikipedia does not make the archive table (where deleted revisions are kept) available to outsiders--it's full of defamatory statements and copyright infringements. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

You know, this really has be my favorite part of arguing with Tony. It's pretty easy to refute something when you take tiny parts out of context isn't it? I find it's one of the easiest ways to win an argument.

First, I mentioned "stealth vandal" in a short list along with "At this point, why does it matter?" Reading the things around a statement, and having a general understanding of the spirit in which it was written (I learned a long time ago in college that this is called context) can be really helpful.

Secondly, my statement that he churns out "worthless nanostubs," while again not taken in context with the rest of the argument, is nonetheless completely correct. As Satori pointed out, the most useless have been deleted through the AFD process and are therefore not available in his list of contributions. The not-so-useless are still available because people have spent time expanding them.

Out of all of your comments I still don't have an understanding of why you inserted yourself into a situation that you have no real knowledge of and were never in any way involved in. And you really need to realize that just because you disagree with the consensus that doesn't make the consensus wrong. Soltak | Talk 21:34, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * If you claim that someone may be a "disingenuous stealth vandal", then I expect to see you able to present evidence of stealth vandalism. Since there really isn't much in the way of such evidence, it's appropriate for me to mention that fact.  The surrounding commentary doesn't mitigate the fact that you made this claim without a shred of evidence.

 * On the maoririder articles that have been nominated for deletion, let's have a look at what happened.  Here are the first dozen identifiable Maoririder deletion debates I could find on AfD, searching forward from the date of his earliest edit:

 * Sport Digital Watch deleted
 * Butler School Rewritten as disambig and kept
 * List of streets in Manchester, New_Hampshire deleted
 * List of streets in Portland, Maine deleted
 * Cloverhill Bakery expanded and kept
 * Baxter Boulevard expanded and kept
 * King Middle School, Portland, Maine expanded and kept
 * Tukey's Bridge deleted
 * Million Dollar Bridge (Maine) expanded beautifully and kept
 * Deering Oaks expanded and kept
 * Portland High School, Portland, Maine expanded and kept with an overwhelming keep vote
 * Endurance Hawaii kept

 * So out of twelve listings, only four were deleted. At least one of the other eight, Portland School was kept with an overwhelming keep vote.  So what's the problem here?  Even most of the articles that get listed for deletion don't get deleted.  Overall AfD has a deletion rate of around 70-75%.  Maoririder's score is much, much better, only 33% of these twelve articles listed for deletion were deleted.  So again the use of the term "worthless nanostubs" is shown to be unjustified.

 * Finally I think you should be careful of phrases like "my favorite part of arguing with Tony". They look like attempts to make a sneaky personal attack. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:56, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't realize that "only 1/3rd of what I write gets trashed!" was a plausible defense. I'm gonna have to remember that one. As for sneaky personal attacks, that wasn't one- stop misrepresenting your ideological opponents.--Scimitar parley 18:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Progression?
This is today (courtesy of Sockpuppet #1,300,456): This is from August 9:  Is this progression? Co-operation? Learning? No, it isn't. There has been no noticeable change in quality or commitment from Maoririder, regardless of what Tony says.--Scimitar parley 21:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The evidence shows otherwise. His style has deteriorated since the marked improvements of his first week, but that doesn't mean he didn't improve greatly in that week.  From this to this.  At about which point he was blocked twice, his style deteriorated again, and an RfC was created describing his contributions as "extremely disruptive".

 * What I'd like you to do is to stop making these easily refuted false statements about Maorider's behavior and try to work out why this happened.  Why did some of those who purported to be helping him go on the attack at precisely the time he was showing so much progress? --Tony Sidaway Talk  00:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I never went on the attack and I still don't consider myself to be "on the attack". Maoririder's behaviour needs to change, and talking to him didn't work.  The RfC didn't work, because he ignored it.  I'm hoping this will work.  As for extremely disruptive, any conflict that can tie up 4+ admins is, in my opinion, disruptive.--Scimitar parley 14:25, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Why do you claim that Maoririder's behavior needs to change? Isn't he just editing the wiki the way you and I do? You claim that the "conflict", as you describe it, "tied up 4+ admins". What on earth were admins required for in the first place? Why did these admins harass him when all he was doing was editing pages, some of which went on to be very impressive articles indeed? By the way, have you seen his midget wrestler lately? It's amazing what wonderful oak trees can quickly grow from Maoririder's small acorns. As one voter on AfD recently said of the article: "keep and roll eyes". --Tony Sidaway Talk 17:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I assume you just asked the midget wrestler for effect; evidently you missed my vote change three days ago to keep. As for tying up admins, some admins do new page patrol, and Maori's flood of barely single-sentence contributions take time and effort to fix.  As for contributing like you or I, I properly format my articles and contribute enough that the articles don't have to go to AfD for expansion.  As for my reasons he needs to change, I think I've already laid them out half a dozen times and feel no need to repeat myself.--Scimitar parley 17:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

If you like midget wrestler, then what's the problem?

You say that Maoririder's articles "take time and effort to fix". Well this is what we're here to do--it takes time and effort to improve any article. I'm still utterly mystified as to why you're so hateful towards this fellow. He was producing perfectly good stubs when you agreed to an administrator blocking him, for what possible reason I cannot imagine. That's quite bizarre. Can you not see how I'd find it difficult to understand your attitude towards this perfectly harmless user who produces so many articles that get expanded into exciting stuff like midget wrestler. --Tony Sidaway Talk 18:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not remotely hateful to him; I dislike the way he floods new pages with his half-finished thoughts. It makes patrolling it impossible.  If he took the time to put a little more effort (formatting, more than one sentence) into his stubs, there never would have been a problem.  He steadfastly refused to.  All I want is for him to contribute stuff that doesn't need fixing.  Expansion? Sure, great fine.  But when thirteen of the twenty most recent articles are from him, and all need fixing, it makes it very difficult to stop vandals and address other problems.  I want him to grow to a point where he doesn't need a babysitter.--Scimitar parley 19:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This is the trouble, you make false statements as if they were true. For example:
 * If he took the time to put a little more effort (formatting, more than one sentence) into his stubs, there never would have been a problem. He steadfastly refused to.

 * Then how do you explain this?
 * 15:20, 3 August 2005 Prides Corner School:
 * Prides Corner School grades are K-2. It is a public school. It has 361 people. It is located on 375 Pride Street Westbrook, Maine 04092. It is located in Cumberland County. It's phone number is (207) 797-5222. It is a part of the Westbrook School Department.
 * External Links
 * http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/me/535 Prides Corner School

 * And I can point you to many other stubs he was creating at about the same time, that demonstrated that he was well up to normal Wikipedia standard within a week or so of making his first edit. So don't give me that bullshit, let's talk about the facts, not what you would wish to pretend are the facts. --Tony Sidaway Talk  20:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * While not an admin, I am an editor that often patrols New Pages. And yes, the nature of New Pages patrol is that one spends a lot of time cleaning up stubs. My frustration with Maori, however, was that the same mistakes were being made over and over again.  Furthermore, when people attempted to explain to him how he could make better articles himself, he would often reply affirmatively, but not follow through.
 * Now, perhaps there's no specific WP policy that was broken. But, I think several editors felt that the spirit of a consensus-based community was violated by the "yes, ok, I'll try" answers and the continuing creation of misformatted and sub-stubby articles. I don't think anybody was trying to be "hateful". I do think that a group of editors realized that they weren't getting through to him, and weren't sure how to deal with that.  Hence the RfC, which I didn't feel was meant as an attack.
 * And again, yes NP patrol involves a lot of cleaning up of bad style by new contributors. However, I think there is an expectation that someone who is committing to being a regular contributor of new pages to the project understand concepts such as ideal stub articles and what Wikipedia is not, especially after they've been pointed out a couple of times. -Satori (talk) 21:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, that's great. Did he do it consistently? No. You can point to the surviving stubs all you want; they don't tell the whole picture.  You don't see the deleted nano-stubs.  You chose to ignore the fact that every time he got a little slap on the wrist he reverted back to "is a school" type stubs.  You're looking at things now, and trying to piece together what initially happened. I was there, you weren't.  It's also helpful if you remember that I was only here less than three months when the initial block was performed.  Lucky was not yet an admin.  Hence, I believe someone called Ike in.  Ike saw what was going on, saw Maori promising to change and not doing it, and blocked him.  It was eminently justifiable, especially since none of us knew what we were dealing with.  Now we think we do, but we really aren't sure.  He ignored the RfC. Now he needs a babysitter.  That's what I want.  I'd suggest you, since you're already effectively functioning as one, but this recent streak of belligerence, and the fact you refuse to see where everyone else is coming from has me worried.--Scimitar parley 23:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

niggz
tony defend he say niggaz to a black man racist unsigned comment added by Maoririder (talk • contribs)
 * Clarification of the above comment: Maoririder used a racial slur to vandalize Android's user page. No user has used this word directed at Maoririder. His latest spate of edits mostly consists of accusing everyone else of using it. (ESkog)(Talk) 21:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Jingofetts
looks like maoririder is back under a different name. hes stopped using his old account and is now here as User:Jingofetts. is that allowed? BL  kiss the lizard  23:12, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


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User:Smylere Snape

Hi, thanks for visiting my userpage. I'm a 36-year-old college professor based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My interests range widely, so if I start listing them I would probably never finish. However, I do love science fiction, history and British and Spanish sitcoms. Besides Wikipedia, my other online venture was a webcomic titled "The World According to Geek." It's at http://www.twatgeek.com. I also recently retired from serving as one of the global administrators of TheForce.Net's FanForce. I hold a B.A. in English Literature with an early 20th century American literature specialization from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. I also hold a M.A. degree in English literature from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras with a writing specialization. I'm also a PhD candidate with a Puerto Rican literature specialization. My training in writing is what attracted me to Wikipedia in the first place.

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St. Edward High School

St. Edward High School is a name shared by several high schools:

 * St. Edward Central Catholic High School (Elgin, Illinois)
 * St. Edward High School (Nebraska), St. Edward, Nebraska
 * St. Edward High School (Lakewood, Ohio)
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Nobel Conference

The Nobel Conference is an academic conference held annually at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Founded in 1963, the conference links a general audience with scientists with topics related to the natural and social sciences.

History
Gustavus Adolphus College was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1862 and throughout its history, has continued to honor its Swedish heritage. As the College prepared to build a new science hall in the early 1960s, College officials asked the Nobel Foundation for permission to name the building the Alfred Nobel Hall of Science as a memorial to the great Swedish inventor and philanthropist. Permission was granted, and the facility's dedication ceremony in 1963 included 26 Nobel laureates and officials from the Nobel Foundation.

Following the 1963 Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, College representatives met with Nobel Foundation officials, asking them to endorse an annual science conference at the College and to allow use of the Nobel name to establish credibility and high standards. At the urging of several prominent Nobel laureates, the foundation granted the request and the first conference was held at the College in January 1965.

Beginning with the help of an advisory committee composed of Nobel laureates such as Glenn Seaborg, Philip Showalter Hench, and Sir John Eccles, the conferences have been consistently successful in attracting the world's foremost authorities as speakers.

Past speakers have included David H. Hubel, Fritz Lipmann, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, and Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum.

Fifty-nine Nobel laureates have served as speakers, five of whom were awarded the Nobel prize after speaking at the Nobel conference at Gustavus.

The Nobel conference has a focus on scientific topics such as "Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow" (2006), "The Legacy of Einstein" (2005), "The Science of Aging" (2004), "The Nature of Nurture" (2002), "Virus: The Human Connection" (1998), and "The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science" (1995). The social sciences are also well represented and many topics are interdisciplinary; focusing on economics, politics, the social sciences, and philosophy.

The Nobel conference is open to the general public.

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Talk:Catalonia (historic territory)

Added and corrected from Traditional Catalan domain. Toniher 20:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

If Toniher had used a move, it would have been a lot simpler. The history of this article now includes edits done at Traditional Catalan domain as well as edits done on the current title of Catalonia (historic territory). -- RHaworth 15:35, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * My fault, I overlooked it :-/ Thanks Toniher 09:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Catalonia has never been a sovereign country or an independent one for that matter, that is basic history. Stop pushing nationalist mythology.
 * Well, I understand it was a sovereign country as much as Castile, Aragon or Valencia were in former times. Of course, it has never been a modern nation-state. We might discuss about the degrees of sovereignity, or more concretely, practical independence, depending on the timeline, but this does not deny the sentence we are discussing. Best regards. Toniher 23:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It was never a "sobereign country" as Castile or Aragon, it was part of the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kigdom was sovereign Catalonia was not. The fact is simple.If you have prove of the contrary please bring it.
 * I know it is a usual confusion. Crown of Aragon != Kingdom of Aragon. The Principality of Catalonia and the Kingdom of Aragon had their own and separate institutions but, for most of the time, the same monarch, who swore their own respective laws. It's the same case for the Kingdom of Valencia, and for some time, the Kingdom of Majorca as well. Toniher
 * With more reason then Catalonia was never a sobereign country. The soverenignty resided on the king of Aragon not in Catalonia.Once Wales or Scotland were under the rule of the english kings there weren´t sovereign.
 * Was the Principality of Catalonia under the laws of Kingdom of Aragon? No, it was not. Consider the Catalan constitutions, and even, the origin of one of the dinasty of kings, etc. However, I would try to end up it here with another slightly rewritten version, since I assume this is rather a matter of interpretation than of facts. Toniher 23:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It´s not a matter of interpretation, at least not on my side. You ask me if Catalonia had to abide with the laws of the Kingdom of Aragon and if you just check any historical source it did. Not all of them, only the ones that afected the whole kingdom, but clearly the sovereignty resided in the King of Aragon and not in the "constitutions".
 * Are you sure? Please, provide me the historic sources that state that laws of Kingdom of Aragon were legally applicable and precedent to any of those of the Principality. The monarch, which had the titles of King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, Sicily, Majorca, etc. etc., yes, could be regarded as ultimate sovereign (and it's more difficult than this - and depending on the epoch), but that is another matter. Toniher 16:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

As for your new correction I find it equally absurd and confusing. Catalonia is not and never was a country by itself. Such preposterous affirmation is coincident with the affirmation founded in that wikipedia article about "country/ies"; claiming that Wales and Scotland are also countries. Go ahead actitudes like this are just making Wikipedia useless as a serious reference page. I´m finding now web pages from universities and professors rejecting Wikipedia as a source in any essay. I thought it was typical collegial elitism but pages like this are making them right
 * Have you looked up «country» in any dictionary? Toniher 16:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * country   ( P )  n. pl. countries 1)A nation or state. 2)The territory of a nation or state; land. 3)The people of a nation or state; populace: The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms. 4)The land of a person's birth or citizenship: Foreign travel is restricted in his country. 5)A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture: hill country; Bible country. 6)An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area: a vacation in the country.

Now you will argue that you are referring to the first definition let me guess, to play the game to equal country to nation, but you see in actual Political Geography there are two definitions of Nation. You may indeed think Catalonia is a nation(as a cultural concept) I´m not going to argue about that, but Catalonia is most def not a Nation as a Country because it does not have ultimate sovereignty and never did. Here you have it explained quite simple and clear(http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm). When you add that Catalonia is a "historic country" you know how it sounds in English? it doesn´t sound like you are talking about politics, it sounds like the traveling guide of a place with quaint Inns and ruins to visit.

Redundant pages?
It seems to be a great overlap between this article and History of Catalonia. Shouldn't both be merged? Another possibility is keeping this page as a reference to the tradition of the Catalan nationalist movement, since this seems to be the origin of the page as a split from the Catalonia article, as discussed there. Diego Moya 15:53, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I also think there is some redundancy. I consider this article should be somewhat equivalent to Castile one, but also noting the Catalan nationalist implications (as it could also be for the Castilian nationalist ones) which should be further developed in other articles about Catalan nationalism. Catalan traditions would deserve another article by its own. Toniher 19:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Principality

 * I made some necessary amendments due to the historical innexactitudes, I´ve tried to respect as much as possible of the originall leaving out most of the anacronic interpretations of Medieval law --The Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: el Principat de Catalunya), or simply the Principality (Catalan: el Principat), is one of the traditional mames of Catalonia. Suposedly its origin was the wedding of the Count of Barcelona Ramón Berenguer with the Princess Petronila, doughter of King Ramiro II of Aragon. The agreement ofr the wedding was done in 1137, but because she was only two years of age the wedding was postponed.The marriage was celebrated in 1151, and Ramón Berenguer count of Barcelona became prince consort and thus the denomination of principality extended later to Catalonia. Catalonia was not a county either, because the County of Barcelona only comprised part of it.

The oldest formal reference dates back to 1350, during the Corts in Perpinyà presided by the king Peter IV of Aragon. However, there seems to be an older reference, in a more informal context, in Ramon Muntaner's chronicles.

The Principality denomination was even used during Bourbonic administration, after the Decretos de Nueva Planta, until the 19th century. Afterwards, Republican movements favoured its abandonment because it is historically somehow related to monarchy.

Current Constitution of Spain or the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia do not mention this denomination, but it is presently quite popular, especially among Catalan nationalists and independentists.

 * Thanks for the contribution. Could you pass a reference to what you have added about the Principality? Toniher 23:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. Most of this internet sources are only in Spanish or Catala but I got some in English (http://libro.uca.edu/chaytor/hac4.htm) ,(http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/ramon_berenguer_iv.htm) ,(http://www.tvcatalunya.com/historiesdecatalunya/personatges/per105970452.htm).
 * Thanks. I will check them when I have a little more time. In any case, I meant the origin of the denomination, not the very historical events. Toniher 16:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have not found any reference in the links above about the origin of the denomination. What you say can make sense, just pass suitable references. I have ommited the proper origin sentence (since it is not clear in the ref of the article, either). I would also look for it. Toniher 09:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * More references (http://www.lalonjeta.net/utiles/El%20Mirador.pdf)(http://web.udg.es/hcj/text/historia_del_dret/Textos_%20HDE_III.pdf)(http://www.crea.es/articulos.nsf/0/058cb94e2e3039cd802566c100433ecc?OpenDocument) If you are looking for a manuscript from the XII century in witch it´s explained exactly why - 200 years latter - people started using "Principado de Cataluña" tell me about it when you find it.
 * Good. One of the latter links is what I was asking for :) Toniher 08:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Barça
I might like or not the the fact that a sport team is regarded as a national symbol, but this is simply true nowadays, and not only for Barça... These things would be better discussed in Barça entry. Of course, there are political and historical motivations behind. However, I think this feeling is not currently as strong as it was, for instance, 40 years ago. Toniher 23:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I´m sorry the original connotation of "is more than a club"

was referred to socioeconomical reasons. Maybe now between nationalist, and since it´s last presiden is interested more in politics than in sport, maybe the connotation has changed. Anyway how many catalan futboll players play in the Barcelona and how many foreign ones? how many of the thousands of Barsa´s followers through Spain such as Spain´s president Zapatero consider the Barcelona Catalonia national team? and the foreing followers and international sport press?
 * I do not want to question whether it makes sense or not. I have my opinion, of course, but it does not matter. Barça was, for many people during Francoism, associated to an expression of Catalanism or anti-Francoism. Nowadays, not only because of the current presidency but also before, has continued been usually associated to this (possibly in a minor degree). Many foreigners simply know Catalonia because of Barça, etc. Toniher

Biased map
To me, this map appears to be a bit biased, attempting to depicting Spanish sovereign territory as separte from the rest of the Spanish state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.165.126.18 (talk • contribs) 18 April 2006.

 * Given that it is an historical map, the problem is a different one: there was no such political entity as Spain at that time! -- Jmabel | Talk 17:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

True there was no such political entity as Spain, so why does the map says "Spain" where Aragon is? It's totally biassed as it clearly separates Spain and Catalonia. Spain should be removed from the map or should be put on bigger fonts in a way that would include Catalonia. (It's not a matter of anti-nationalism, it's about being neutral and accurated) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.138.233.89 (talk • contribs) 25 April 2006.

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1929 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1929 National Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1929. / Државно првенство 1929.) was won by Hajduk Split.

The season was marked bt a major controversy at the end. BSK Belgrade finished the season at top, however because they fielded an unregistered player, they had to replay their two last matches. Having refused to play the first one against their Belgrade rivals Jugoslavija, a 3-0 defeat was registered, and later their 2-1 victory over Hajduk was not enough to grant them the title.

Bosnian club SAŠK dissolved before the season began and the clubs participating was reduced to five, all Serbian or Croatian. 1929 was the first year in which the championship used a double round-robin style league, and so the stats for each team began having higher numbers.

Controversial end of the championship
The season featured a good deal of controversy as the team that finished the season in top spot was BSK, not Hajduk Split. However, because they were judged to have had an improperly registered player on their roster (Dušan Marković), BSK got ordered by the FA to replay their last two matches of the season: home match against SK Jugoslavija and the away match at Hajduk Split (both of which BSK originally won: 5-1 and 3-1, respectively). Furious with what they considered to be an unfair decision, BSK refused to re-play the matches. They didn't show up to replay their arch cross-town rivals SK Jugoslavija and the match was eventually registered 3-0 in Jugoslavija's favour. As for re-playing the second match at Hajduk, BSK originally also refused, but were eventually forced to travel to Split by the FA under a threat of heavy sanctions. Though re-gathered and put together in hasty fashion, BSK players still managed to beat Hajduk 2-1. However, it still wasn't enough for the title as Hajduk had more points due to BSK refusal to play Jugoslavija.

BSK appealed, launching a formal complaint with the FA (Jugoslovenski nogometni savez). Their appeal was scheduled to be heard during the next scheduled FA assembly that took place on March 24, 1929, at the FA headquarters in Zagreb. The initiative for the relocation of FA headquarters from Zagreb to Belgrade was also discussed at the same assembly, causing high tensions and incidents that even police had to intervene. The assembly was interrupted and stopped following the incident, which meant that BSK's appeal was not even discussed.

Qualifiers
This season introduced a change in which there was no longer directly qualified teams, and this meant that all teams had to go through one round of qualifiers. As in previous seasons, the subassociations of Belgrade and Zagreb provided the first two teams, while the access to the rest of the subassociations was only provided to the correspondent subassociation champion.

The representatives were:

 * Subassociation of Belgrade: BSK Belgrade and SK Jugoslavija
 * Subassociation of Zagreb: HAŠK and Građanski Zagreb
 * Subassociation of Ljubljana: Primorje
 * Subassociation of Osijek: Hajduk Osijek
 * Subassociation of Sarajevo: Slavija
 * Subassociation of Skoplje: Pobeda Skoplje
 * Subassociation of Split: Hajduk Split
 * Subassociation of Subotica: SAND Subotica

Qualifying round:
 * BSK – Pobeda Skoplje 17:2, 0:1
 * SAND – Jugoslavija 0:1, 1:3
 * HAŠK – Hajduk Osijek 1:1, 3:0
 * Primorje – Građanski Zagreb 1:3, 0:4
 * Hajduk Split – Slavija Sarajevo 2:1, 2:1

The first leg was played on June 2, and the second on June 9.

Winning squad
Champions:

HAJDUK SPLIT (coach: Luka Kaliterna)

 * Bartul Čulić
 * Janko Rodin
 * Ivan Montana
 * Veljko Poduje
 * Miroslav Dešković
 * Marko Mikačić
 * Šime Poduje
 * Veljko Radić<
 * Ljubo Benčić
 * Branko Bakotić
 * Antun Bonačić
 * Leo Lemešić

Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.
 * 1 - 10 goals - Đorđe Vujadinović (BSK Belgrade)
 * 2 - 7 goals - Ljubo Benčić (Hajduk Split)
 * 3 - 6 goals - Blagoje Marjanović (BSK Belgrade), Ivan Hitrec (HAŠK)

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Office of Federal Financial Management

The Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) is a component of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).

The President of the United States appoints the controller, who serves as the chief officer of OFFM. The current acting OFFM Controller is John C. Pasquantino.

Organization
OFFM is made up of two branches: the Management Controls and Assistance Branch and the Accountability, Performance and Reporting Branch.

Mission and responsibilities
OFFM's mission is to support the effective and transparent use of Federal financial resources. OFFM's responsibilities includes implementing the financial management priorities of the President, establishing government-wide financial management policies of executive agencies and carrying out the financial management functions of the CFO Act of 1990.

OFFM's priorities include transparency and data management, shared services, real property, improper payments, grants management, internal control, federal financial reporting, debt collection and charge cards.

History
OFFM was established by the Chief Financial Officers Act (CFO Act) of 1990.

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault  is the first expansion to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for Windows by developer Relic Entertainment and publisher THQ. Based on Games Workshop's tabletop wargame, Warhammer 40,000, Dawn of War: Winter Assault was released in September 2005. Some time after its initial release, Winter Assault and Dawn of War were coupled together in a double pack which featured some art on a fold out cover, an Ork with a flamethrower, or a group of Imperial Guard tanks lined up for attack. Though Winter Assault required the base game to play, its follow-up expansions, Dark Crusade and Soulstorm were stand-alone, not requiring the base game.

Winter Assault received highly positive reviews.

Expansion features
New units are added to each of the base game's races.

Imperial Guard
A new faction was included, the Imperial Guard, with some units previously available in certain single player missions of Dawn of War.

The Imperial Guard specializes in defense and attrition warfare, and therefore has the strongest defensive structures of all the factions in the game, as well as garrisonable production structures and a tunnel network between them, allowing stealthy transfer of troops. Their infantry tends to be of lower quality than that of their opponents in terms of weapons, armor, and morale, due to Guardsmen being regular humans. However, the Imperial Guard makes up for this with a range of powerful armoured vehicles, such as the Leman Russ and the Baneblade, as well as the Sentinel walkers, which until the Dark Crusade expansion were the only vehicular unit in the game which could uncapture strategic points. Also, uniquely, the Imperial Guard features not a single primary hero but a Command Squad staffed by a General and up to four secondary heroes, as well as up to 13 stand-alone secondary heroes, 8 out of which are Commissars or Priests that are much more effective when attached to squads (e.g. a Commissar helps to combat morale problems).

New campaign
There are two new single player campaigns, both of which involve each faction attempting to recover a lost Imperator-Class Imperial Titan. All races from Dawn of War (Orks, Eldar, Chaos, and Space Marines) are available in addition to the new Imperial Guard, with each race trying to find and gain control of the Titan for their own reasons. Although the Titan as a whole is not controllable, its weapon systems can be used to assist in the destruction of the Necrons, who make a cameo in the final mission for each faction. In this campaign at the beginning the player has a choice to either go with "Disorder", personified by the Orks and Chaos Space Marines, or with "Order", which comprises the Eldar and Imperial Guard with the odd appearance by the Space Marines.

Other changes
Many of the units available in Dawn of War were simplified, reduced or limited for the Winter Assault expansion. For example, Space Marine Predator tanks were limited to carrying anti-tank weapons while Chaos Predators were limited to anti-personnel weapons. In the original Dawn of War game both sides could upgrade their tanks from anti-personnel to anti-tank (Destructor pattern and Annihilator pattern respectively). Likewise the Land Raider was limited to one per player but in turn had greatly increased durability.

Limitations were also applied to the Orks, who lost most of their upgrade choices and became limited in their weapon choices. The Eldar had their "hard counters" removed, meaning that specialized units such as Dark Reapers were no longer as prominently effective against heavy infantry. Some units, including most of the Ork army, also lost the ability to use grenades. The Chaos Space Marines also lost the ability to upgrade to any heavy weapons other than the heavy bolter and plasma gun.

Setting
The game takes place in the late 41st millennium, on Lorn V, a winter planet on the fringes of known space. The planet was once controlled by the Imperium of Man, but has fallen into the control of demonic Chaos forces loyal to the Chaos God Khorne. Chaos control over Lorn V is contested by Orkish warbands, who are currently divided amongst themselves. The 412th Cadian Regiment, from the fortress world Cadia, is dispatched to reclaim the world and the Titan upon it. The Eldar travel to the planet to fight their ancient enemy awakening from dormancy, the Necrons. The four faction leaders are Farseer Taldeer of the Eldar, General Sturnn of the Imperial Guard, Khornate Chaos Lord Crull of the Chaos Space Marines and Gorgutz of the Orks. Supporting characters include an imperial Commissar and the Ultramarine Space Marine Chaplain Varnus. The Imperial Guard under the command of Sturnn assault the planet to recover a Titan Dominatus, an ancient war-machine of the Imperium. Except for a reference made, there is no connection to the base game's campaign.

Order
The Order campaign begins with the landing of Guard forces on the planet. The Eldar secretly assist the Imperium forces. Space Marines under the command of Varnus are rescued to assist the Imperium forces. The Eldar and Imperium form an alliance of convenience. Taldeer reveals that she is on the planet to combat the Necrons, an ancient enemy of the Eldar. The player is given a branching choice whether to finish the campaign as the Eldar or Imperial Guard. Whatever faction is chosen leaves the other behind an energy field. If the Eldar are chosen, the Imperial Guard manage to fight their way to the Titan and assist against the Necrons. The Eldar choice ends with the Titan suffering critical damage, leading to its imminent explosion. The Eldar teleport out. If the Imperial Guard are chosen, then they successfully defeat the Necrons and recover the Titan.

Disorder
Gorgutz reunites the Orkish clans on Lorn V into one. The entry of the Imperial Guard onto the planet forces an alliance between the Orks and Chaos forces. A choice to finish the campaign is given like the Order campaign. If Chaos is chosen, Crull defeats the Necrons, corrupts the Titan and uses it for his own ambitions. If the Orks are chosen, the Necrons are defeated while the Titan is left abandoned. Gorgutz kills Crull in a duel.

The canonical ending is unknown, however either the Eldar or Imperial Guard were the canonical choices. Taldeer and Gorgutz appear as the Eldar and Ork faction commanders respectively in Dark Crusade.

Development
Winter Assault was announced in early 2005. Several non-gameplay improvements were implemented in Winter Assault. A weather system was introduced to improve immersion. The author C.S. Goto adapted Winter Assault as the novel Dawn of War: Tempest.

Reception
Winter Assault received "generally positive" reviews, accordinng to review aggregation sites Metacritic and GameRankings.


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Dior Homme

Dior Homme is the menswear division of Christian Dior SA, the French clothing retailer. Dior Men has been under the creative direction of Kim Jones since spring/summer 2019.

History
During the 1980s and 1990s Dior's menswear line was called Dior Monsieur.

Dior Homme was directed by Hedi Slimane from the fall/winter 2001-02 season. Under Slimane's direction, the label introduced a characteristic slim silhouette which soon took off within the fashion industry. The early collections delved into the exploration of the male sex. The look darkened during the Luster period which was inspired by the electroscene of Berlin. From 2004 A/W, Dior Men delved into exploring the different styles of Rock and Roll. The logo currently used by Dior Men is a bee, usually in the bottom right-hand side of knitwear and the top right side in polo shirts.

Following the departure of Hedi Slimane in 2007, Kris Van Assche implemented a more formal and minimal style. Over the seasons, he softened the black stiff silhouette which had become too cliché and opted for models who add an athletic look to the spindly Dior Men silhouette. This new look was characterized by attention to details and color palette of shades of black, gray, blue or brown.

In late 2007 Dior Men began producing a six-piece men's skin care range, with Hedi Slimane designing the packaging. The skin care range is available for sale in France and department stores in many other countries.

Since March 2018, the Dior menswear line has been called Dior Men instead of Dior Homme. The change was under the influence of creative director Kim Jones.

Reference codes
When dealing and trading Dior Men, the reference code is often used to place the item within the season it was produced. Here we decipher a typical/standard code: 5EH1015678 E47 B6A8 (SS'05 blue glitter jeans). '5' refers to the year, that is, 2005. 'EH' refers to the season, that is, Eté (Summer). HH refers to 'Hiver' (Winter). '101' refers to the item group, in this case, trousers (Pantalon). Other examples: 102 refers to blazers (Veste), 105 to shirts (Chemise) and so forth. The next 4 numbers '5678' should refer to the specific item, with jeans it will reveal the type of cut as the entire 16 digit reference code will only differ by the first 2 digits in this set of 4 numbers for the differing cut. As noted earlier, the # for this item is 5EH1015678 E47 B6A8, referring to the 21 cm cut. The # for the 19 cm variant is 5EH1011678 E47 B6A8. 'E47',is the fabric code. The last 4, 'B6A8', is the colour code. In this particular case, 'B' refers to Bleu (blue), as in indigo blue, the main colour of the jean. 'A' refers to Argent (silver), the colour of the glitter. Another example would be B6N0 - the colour code for the SS'03 released classic blue distressed clawmark jeans painted over in matte black paint. The B6 again refers to the base colour bleu whilst the N0 refers to the black paint ('N' for Noir - black).

Advertising
For its advertising campaigns, Dior Homme worked with photographers including Willy Vanderperre, Larry Clark, Karl Lagerfeld, David Sims, Patrick Demarchelier and Alasdair McLellan.

Other projects
In 2017, Dior Homme collaborated with audio manufacturer Sennheiser to produce a special line of four headphones.

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