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The town of Baarle' legally consists of two towns. Baarle-Nassau is in the Netherlands and Baarle-Hertog is in Belgium. The farmland surrounding the town is in the Netherlands. The town of Baarle-Hertog consists of 22 "islands" of Belgian territory within the Netherlands. Inside these islands are a further six islands that are Dutch territory.
During the twelfth century the area was swampland. In 1198 Hendrik I, the Duke of Brabant made over some of the land to Godfried of Schoten, the Lord of Breda. Hendrick kept the lands that were paying him a rent.[1] The area that Hendrick kept is now part of Belgium. The area that was given to Gotfried is now in the Netherlands. The title "Lord of Breda" is now held by Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands.[2] The title, "Duke of Brabant" is now a courtesy title of the heir to the Belgian throne.[3]
- en:Wikipedia_talk:Identifying_reliable_sources/Archive_34#Polls and surveys
- en:Talk:Metrication in the United Kingdom/Archive 2#ASDA
- en:Talk:Metrication in the United Kingdom/Archive 3#Asda report - 12 October update
- en:Talk:Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_5#Before this gets out of hand...
- en:Talk:Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_4#Proposed_removal_of_the_whole_Asda_story
- en:Talk:Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_4#Proposed compromise over the Asda story
- en:Talk:Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_4#The totally true reason why the Asda story is so important to some
- en:Talk:Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_4#ANI notification
- en:Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 107#Using reports of market research surveys
- en:Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/17 October 2011/Metrication in the United Kingdom
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- ↑ Whyte (2004). ""En Territoire Belge et à Quarante Centimètres de la Frontière" - An historical and documentary study of the Belgian and Dutch enclaves of Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau". The University of Melbourne. ISBN ISBN 0-7340-3032-0.
{{cite journal}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help); Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Willem Alexander: Prins van Oranje enz. enz" (in Dutch). RTL News. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ↑ "Duke of Brabant". The Belgian Monarchy. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
Are Centaur and DeFacto the same person? There are a number of indicators suggesting that DeFacto and Centaur are one and the same.
- DeFacto made three edits in siWiki on the topic of Speed limits in 2007. He made an edit two weeks earlier on enWiki on the same topic and another a week later. Two of Centaur's earliest edits were to the same subject. Another DeFacto sockpuppet, en:User:Ornaith, was a major "contributer" (for sake of a better word) to the article en: Kilometres per hour. A lot of different people interested in speed limits and kilometres per hour. Are they all the same person?
- DeFacto's favourite stomping ground as far as I was concerned were articles associated with metrication. His other interest was motor cars and motor-racing. This was brought out in the discussion section of this sockpuppet investigation (in which I was not involved). An examination of Centaur's interests in siWiki shows his interest in metric units (including Metric system and kilometres per hour), the latter being a link between his motoring and metrication interests. Are they the same person?
- A total of 23 sockpuppet investigations have been made against DeFacto Sockpuppets on enWiki. 17 of these were instigated by me in response to disruption by DeFacto of work I had done. The majority of my complaints were upheld. This demonstrates that Defacto has launched Sockpuppets in the past so the possibility of Centaur being a sockpuppet of DeFacto should be investigated. This also shows that DeFacto was harassing me on enWiki. Centaur started work on two articles in siWiki where somebody else was already working – both were articles on which I was working. These both show a similarity in interests. Are they the same person?
- Neither DeFacto nor Centaur have a sense of notability. The ASDA incident on enWiki shows that he was incapable of realising that a single promotion of a single product by a single supermarket chain was not notable. Likewise devoting over 10% (392 words out of 3689) of the article Metric system to problems that France had over 200 years ago shows no sense of proportion. In my view it is appropriate to devote 10% of the article discussing the development of the metric system in France with no more than a quarter of that to French PR problems in selling the system to their own people.
- DeFactos' puppets refused to abide by the en:WP:BRD (bold-revert-discuss) principal. He would engage in brinkmanship forcing me to risk a 3RR ban when I tried to revert to the last stable version prior to having a meaningful discussion. It was easy for him – if the sockpuppet was exposed and banned, he would create another one. In this series of edits on enWiki DeFacto (in his incarnation as EzEdit) refused to base discussions on the last stable version of the article. In this series of changes Centaur likewise refused to follow the BRD principle.
- DeFacto, in his incarnation as Bill le Conquérant started writing the article Legal metrology as a spin-of from en:Metrology. There was no real need for a spin-off, nor did Bill le Conquérant demonstrate any real knowledge of the subject. Most of the article was waffle. After Bill le Conquérant was exposed as a sockpuppet, I salvaged what was worthwhile from the article and merged it back into en:Metrology. Centaur started writing the article System of measurement. What has been written to date shows that he does not really understand the scope of the subject. The article itself would be much better off as a subsection of the article Measurement . I notice that both these editors attempted to write articles on similar topics and that they were ill-equipped to write them.
- DeFacto's sockpuppet Passy2 was exposed as a sockpuppet on enWiki on 19 February 2014 and banned on 21 February 2014 (See here). Centaur opened his account on siWiki on 20 February 2014. Were the two actions related? When Passy2 realized that he had been rumbled, did he decide to go and cause trouble elsewhere and seeing that I was working on siWiki decided to go there?
Each of the above on its own could be put down to coincidence, but when viewed together, I believe that they present overwhelming evidence that DeFacto and Centaur are one and the same person. Finally, why is Centaur using a new account when he already has a valid account on siWiki? Is he trying to hide something?