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I, Smoddy do hereby, and with all due and deserved ceremony, award you, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus a barnstar for your excellent and unending work creating and critiquing featured article candidates. It is hugely appreciated. Thank you. 16:53, 28 March 2005
For your great work on articles related to Poland, I give you the Barnstar of National Merit. Congrats. Zscout370(Sound Off) 20:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
For your work on getting many Polish articles promoted to Featured Article Status, and for helping getting some of my articles Featured, I present you the The Featured Article Medal. Congrats. Zscout370(Sound Off) 20:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
For your countless contributions to Wikipedia, I, Appleseed, present you with the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Your work is very, very much appreciated! 13:17, 31 January 2006
For your particularly fine History-related contributions concerning the Polish-Soviet War I present to you this Epic Barnstar award.Rosa 05:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
For an almost intimidating amount of useful information, I present you with this Excellent User Page Award. –Frater5(talk/con) 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
In honour of your endless contributions to DYK. Much appreciated. User:Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 05:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Just Because. evrik 21:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)) 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
You surely deserve this one. //Halibutt 15:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I love sharing my knowledge and the idea of telecommuting, so Wiki is a 'home quite close to home' for me, also illustrating the truth in saying if you find work you like, you will never work again. Working on Wiki gives me this great feeling of doing something good and useful *now* - anybody can access my work anytime the will, there are no delays in article publications, no restriction on who has enough money to pay for my work (hmmm, I can see a problem with this in the long run though... :>). I have now seen Wikipedia grow for over a year, and it is amazing. I am sure that in the near future Wiki will rival Google as the best tool on the web. And, of course, if it is, it should be on Wiki.
The history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s. Elizabeth Magie invented in 1903 a version of The Landlord's Game which was a real estate trading game in which players got rich by monopolizing sets of properties. This game, usually called "monopoly", was played extensively from 1904 through 1931 when it showed up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There a group of Quaker teachers changed it to a version which was copied by Charles Darrow. The copy was then commercialized by Parker Brothers which claimed that Darrow had invented the game and turned Darrow into a rags to riches embodiment of the American dream. In the 1970s, Professor Ralph Anspach, while defending himself against a trademark infringement suit filed by Parker Brothers and its then parent company, General Mills, against his Anti-Monopoly game, uncovered the true history of the game. Because of the lengthy court process, and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers' trademarks on the game was not settled until 1985. The game's name remains a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, as does its specific design elements. International tournaments, first held in the early 1970s, continue to the present day, with the next world championship scheduled for 2008. (more...)
Or sample my own work. The below lists shows projects I have worked an and:
bold - are extremly interesting
italic - need work and expansion
red - need creation
Note: Once I used to list all articles I worked on here. Then I left just those I created. Now that both are in hundreds, the list below is just for small sample of 'most interesting' articles I have worked on.
Edward Rydz-Śmigły - Polish general, Commander-in-Chief during the '39 campaign. A tragic figure.
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - Polish economist and minister. A forgotten economic genius, if you ask me.
Józef Piłsudski - Polish hero, saviour, dictator. A controversial person, but one of the most famous Poles - at least, in Poland.
Stefan Starzyński - economist, mayor of Warsaw in '39. A hero and a matryr, another tragic figure.
Stanislaw Kot - a diplomat. A patriot who died exiled from his country....
Witold Pilecki - the only person who volunteered to go to Auschwitz (to gather intelligence and creata a resistance). Fought in the Warsaw Uprising. A forgotton hero. And a matryr, killed by the communist puppet government of Poland after the war...
Władysław Sikorski - general. Prime Minister of Poland in exile after '39. Died in 42...assasinated? Accident? A hero. One of those people whose actions and death do shape the fate of entire countries
Polish September Campaign (aka Polish Defence War of 1939) - the begining of the Second World War, has suprisingly few urban legends and myths connected with it. No, Polish cavalry never charged tanks, give it a rest, will ya?
Warsaw Uprising - we made into the Featured Articles, and [brag warning] I said first that we should try this :) [/brag warning] - that's right, he said this first :D [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]]
Moldavian Magnate Wars (aka the Polish-Ottoman War 1595-1621) - what szlachta did in their spare time
Nihil novi - nothing new without us. Or how the szlachta became more powerful then the kings.
Offices in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - one of my pre-Wiki articles, adapted for Wiki. Also a begining of the study of political systems of the PLCommonwealth series;
Shortage economy - also known as socialism or capitalism. Been there, seen there, glad to be rid of it. If one thinks communism works as an economy system, this is an interesting counterargument.
Max Weber - the inventor of term 'bureaucracy'. And lots of other interesting stuff.
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