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'''Tom Sims''' is a pioneer and world champion of [[snowboard]]ing, originally from [[Haddonfield, New Jersey|Haddonfield]], [[New Jersey]]. In 1963, he made what he called a the "skiboard," an early version of the snowboard, in the Haddonfield Middle School's shop room after failing to complete his intended project, a custom skateboard.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0211/021198.feat.sports.1.html He was not the first person to do, there were many kids building a surfboard for the snow as well as even articles on surfers riding their surfboards in the snow in 1964A Man Who Helped Skiers Get on the Snowboard], ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', [[February 11]], [[1998]]</ref> Sims was the snowboarding stunt double for "007"(Roger Moore)in the 1984 James Bond release, A View to a Kill. He did not patent his invention. There is much dispute as to whether or not he is the inventor of the snowboard. Many industry publications, such as Transworld Snowboarding and various informational books, . Both Sims Snowboards and Burton Snowboards are very successful. In 2006 Sims Snowboards was bought out, and Tom Sims is no longer the owner. POWer magazine said that the buy out was "the end of Sims' run and now Burton was officially on top."
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In 1980-81 Tom Sims setup a design skunkworks in a rented barn located in the Santa Barbara,His friend Chuck Barfoot was the guy who actually built Tom's designs as well as building his own designs. they started selling their models as Sims SKiboards and Barfoot Snoboards in the first Sims advertisement in 1980, in 1981 Barfoot split from Sims and has been building snowboards under his name ever since..
== Press reports: somebody edited Wikipedia ==
==References==
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==External links==
[http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover020706.htm Freemasonry link to Kofi Annan's father disappears from Wikipedia] [[User:Haakon|Haakon]] 18:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
*[http://www.simsnow.com/ Sims Snowboards]
*[http://www.ideas21.co.uk/177 Ideas: The Snowboard]
*[http://www.frqncy.com/index.php?issue=14 Tom Sims Interview in Frequency Snowboard Journal]
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:The thing is, I'm having trouble finding evidence that the mentioned information was ever in this article. I'll be taking a closer look. — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 00:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
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::I've left messages about this on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheKMan#Freemasonry_link_to_Kofi_Annan.27s_father_disappears_from_Wikipedia TheKMan's talk page] and senior administrator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mindspillage#Canada_Free_Press_article:_Kofi_Annan_and_Wikipedia Mindspillage's talk page] --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 01:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[[Category:American snowboarders]]
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:::I have looked through all 542 revisions to this article, from the first on ''03:06, 23 September 2001'' to the last at ''01:43, 8 February 2006''. None of those revisions have any mention of the word "freemason". — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 01:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
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:::::You deserve an award of some kind. :) --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
::::So did they just make it up? Or are they subtly referring to a different article? [[User:Haakon|Haakon]] 11:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
::::::Read through the [[Canada Free Press]] article and then you can decide. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
:::::Annan's father does not have an article on Wikipedia, and I do believe the article is stating that his "freemasonry" link was removed from this page. There was absolutely nothing to remove, because it was never added in the first place. I don't really see what the big fuss is anyway, it's not like this is about Kofi himself. — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 19:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
::::::The article's author [[Judi McLeod]] is unhappy with Wikipedia and is looking for any reason to attack us. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
::::::: There is another artical [http://www.williamshawcross.com/annan1.html here] stateing that Annan's father was a freemason. I have searched the internet several times for other articals (from more reliable sources) to back this up with no luck. I recall seeing the page in the history before the deletion of the freemason sentance. I don't know if its possible to remove parts of the history of the artical as well. At one point, i added the freemason part back in and then removed it again (about a min later) when i realised how unreliable my sources were. --[[User:Ethoen|Ethoen]] 24th March 2006 (GMT)
:::::::::That is the same article we refer to below. Moreover the article's author claims it happened before this discussion began. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 23:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
:::::::: The addition I made on the 25th February 2006 about Annan's father being a freemason (which i removed minuites later) has been deleted from the history. None of the archived pages for the 25th Feburary 2006 were done from my IP address or User name. I know that i added the sentance on the 25th because I also created an artical on that day about a band. I can only presume that someone has the power to remove archived pages, or I'm wrong. I hope i'm wrong. --[[User:Ethoen|Ethoen]] 24th March 2006 (GMT)
::::::::: Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|Assume good faith]] policy is being tested now. If - and that's a big ''if'' - Wikipedia had a secret agenda to remove any mention of his father's freemason status, wouldn't someone have deleted this discussion long ago? --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 23:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
== Kofi Annan's father ==
According to [http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover020706.htm Canada Free Press], it is an outrage that we have removed material stating that Annan's father was a "a high ranking freemason". Well, I have news for them: we have a [[WP:NOR|no original research]] rule. Unless a source is given, this info is staying OUT of the article. - [[User:Ta bu shi da yu|Ta bu shi da yu]] 02:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
:Thank you for repeating what [[Judi McLeod]] already knows. We removed original research from her own biography last summer after she complained. The information dealt with her connection to [[Paul Fromm]]. A senior Wikipedia admin had personal knowledge of this himself. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
== Possible solution ==
McLeod may have confused Wikipedia with [http://www.williamshawcross.com/annan1.html this website] --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 23:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
: I don't believe she confused us with William Shaw Cross' site, as that still mentions the Freemason theory. I'll cross post this response to the talk page, so we can all work on a response for me to send out to her, on behalf of the org. -- [[user:zanimum]]
: I'm just thinking... Wikipedia wrote an article, William stole a paragraph and added a sentence, McLeod goes hunting for conspiracies, finds William's site, searches down where the content came from, finds Wikipedia, sees that the last sentence isn't there. -- [[user:zanimum]]
:: Bingo! Either that or she is genuinely confused. Maybe she read William's website first and some time later thought she had read the information on Wikipedia. Ask her if she has any dates or screenshots of the Wikipedia article containing the Freemason allegations. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 20:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
:: Also ask her where she supposedly heard that Kofi Annan had gotten information removed from his page. There's always the possibility that someone misinformed her, or that she's been the victim of another "Mel Gibson" style hoax. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 20:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
==Reply to Cyberboomer's post on my talk page==
I'm probably the most suited sysop for the job of managing our official response to this. I am the Canadian press contact and the Canadian representative of the newly founded Communications Committee for the Wikimedia Foundation. [[Kofi Annan]]'s article has ''never'' been deleted, so no edits are hidden. There is no possible way, within the confines of the MediaWiki software Wikipedia uses, that edits can be manually hidden, even by Jimmy Wales himself. -- [[user:zanimum]]
: With the greatest of respect, that is not entirely true. If it is not yet active, there is at least on the drawing board a feature that would allow removal of individual revisions from the history. (I am not totally clear if it would merely change those revisions into "deleted edits" or remove them wholly from the database.) In any case it is a fact, which probably need not be advertised too much (or else even more people will clamour excision of material they freak out about), that by a somewhat complicated and AIUI unwieldy process one can "edit" the database itself directly, which has been done, in some *very special* cases, once in a blue moon. -- [[User:Cimon avaro|Cimon avaro; on a pogostick.]] 08:30, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
:: But this has not been implemented in MediaWiki, at all, it's just in the development stages, yes? -- [[user:zanimum]]
::: I'm sure that the [[Paul Fromm]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Fromm&action=history history page] linked to a page of deleted edits. It's not there any more. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 20:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
== Letter draft ==
Some members of Wikipedia, including myself, are intrigued with your acquisation that we removed content from Kofi Annan's biography.
In your article, you state that at one point Wikipedia mentioned Kofi Annan's father was a high-ranking freemason. You say we removed the information, hinting that Mr Annan or his office ordered us to do so. We've internally investigated your claims, and have turned up nothing to substansiate such allegations.
As of 8 February 2006, there were exactly 542 revisions to the article, since 23 September 2001. None of those revisions mention the word "freemason", let alone link Annan or his family to the secret society. Every edition of every article on Wikipedia is saved in this fashion, and no edit can be completely deleted or hidden from our database.
Unless you have a saved copy of our article, with this sentence about freemasonry in the Annan family, we must suspect that you either are trying to frame Wikipedia with yet another scandal, or are some how mistaken in your research, confusing us with other sources.
The most possible route of explaination is this: you visited William Shaw Cross' website, reading his assertation that Annan's father was a Freemason. You noticed similar sentences scattered throughout this section of his profile of Kofi, and assumed it was lifted from the similarly worded Wikipedia. Thus, you made the assumption that it was an excerpt from a previous version of Wikipedia's article, and the Freemason mention had since "flat out disappear"ed from our resource.
For sure, the answer would make for an intriguing story.
Nick Moreau
Canadian Communications Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
: How is this? -- [[user:zanimum]]
::Yikes! Better change "acquisation" in the first sentence to accusation.
::I would also change the fourth paragraph to something like this: Unless you have a saved copy of our article with this sentence about freemasonry in the Annan family, we must either question your motive or assume that you have made a serious mistake in your research, confusing us with other sources.
::Also change the final sentence to "For sure, your answer will make an intriguing story."
::I do appreciate the effort you're putting into this, Zanimum. Thanks! --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 20:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
::: Still no reply from CFP. I sent yesterday. -- [[user:zanimum]]
::: Sent on the 12th, no postings on their letters section of anything since then. Perhaps by Monday I'll send a second, more direct and serious letter, not that the first wasn't serious. -- [[user:zanimum]]
::::McLeod was in Washington D.C. last week. I think you should phone her and find out if she actually received it. Her office is in Toronto. Day number (416) 977-0183 or after hours 416-690-9220. If you want to send a second letter, please post the draft here. Thanks for your tireless efforts. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
::: Have you checked all the vesrions of the "external link" sections ?
::: Has it <b> never </b> occured to you that a contribution you made did not apear. It occured to me enough times to know it is possible. Especially with all the server failures recently. But to claim that anaan is a freemason or not is a small issue compare to the frequest changes in articles such as [[Hamas]] - depends whn you look [[Hamas]] can be a terrorist organization, or a welfare organization, or both, or none of them. Do you think this is a serious way to write an encyclopedia?
::: Other articles suffer from the same insatbility. Other articles suffer from stability of wrong information or inuendos. For example in [[Nakba]] there is now a 2.5 years attempt to make the article NPOV. This effort fails again and again. So over all no one should be surprized if the ever changing nature of Wikipedia cause problems. The qustion is how to interduce stability into a system that is ever changing. [[User:Zeq|Zeq]] 05:28, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
:::: Pardon? CFP said that in our article, we said that Kofi's dad was a freemason. They did not say that we linked to an article that said Kofi's dad was a freemason. '''We''' never tried to make a contribution saying he was a freemason, as '''we''' do not have any trustworthy sources to back the fact up. What Hamas should be considered as is completely seperate. People with different views see Hamas as different things. However, whether someone is a member of the Freemasons is a straight-forward yes or no fact, that can be proven or not. End of story. -- [[user:zanimum]]
I've sent out a new (more direct) letter to CFP, on 4 March 2006. Should be interesting if they publish it. -- [[user:zanimum]]
: Thank you for sending your letter to Canada Free Press.
: We have recently set up a new blog to show all our letters--good and bad. (http://www.canadafreepress.com/letters/index.php)
: Please feel free to see how other people feel about us and the topics we cover.
: Again, thank you from Canada Free Press
:::I have reinserted your contributions to the [[Canada Free Press]] article re: CFP claims they publish all their letters. You were correct. --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 23:37, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks for following up. Judi McLeod's libel against Wikipedia is spreading across the internet. This is very frustrating and upsetting. We have gone out of our way to address her concerns but she gives us no credit. Both [[user:Homeontherange|Homeontherange]] and I have made sure that unproven assertions and inflammatory statements are quickly taken out of the article whenever they appear. I myself made it a priority recently to include positive details such as the journalism award McLeod won in 1983. And yet she calls us "wicked pedia". --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 00:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
==[[United Nations]] briefing mentions Wikipedia and [[Judi McLeod]]'s Freemason "accusations"==
[http://www.un.org/news/briefings/docs/2006/db060207.doc.htm ''"There was a report that a Wikipedia entry on Kofi Annan had recently been edited to take out reference to his father being a Freemason."''] --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 22:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
== [[Macalester College]] ==
According to the [http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/sg_biography.html UN biography], Kofi Annan attended [[Macalester College]], not [[Hamline University]], so the anonymous editors were correct when they changed that information. — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 03:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
==Quotations==
Should the quotation section be merged with the wikiquote article? It is highly irregular to place quotations in an article, especially that many.
Please discuss.
[[User:Sfacets|Sfacets]] 06:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
:I agree that 'quotations' sections are bad - the wikiquote project exists for collections of quotes. [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 10:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
== [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good Article]] [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations|nomination]] has failed ==
The [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good article]] [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations|nomination]] for [[{{PAGENAME}}]] has failed{{#if:The lead section is not adequate - it needs to summarise the article's contents in a couple of paragraphs. Also, I do not think the one reference given is adequate to allow a reader to verify the content of the article. And I think 'quotes' sections are not good - wikiquote is the place for collections of quotes. [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 10:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)|, for the following reason:|. <font color="red">'''Please provide a reason!'''</font>}}
:The lead section is not adequate - it needs to summarise the article's contents in a couple of paragraphs. Also, I do not think the one reference given is adequate to allow a reader to verify the content of the article. And I think 'quotes' sections are not good - wikiquote is the place for collections of quotes. [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 10:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
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==POV?==
It is very easy to get a bunch of negative quots about a politician who served for ten years at a responsible position as that of Annans. I would prefer if there is more attention for the character and political goals of Annan. On the television i heard about Annan that he is primarily concerned in making life better for all humans. He has sleepless nights about the disasters that occur frequently and tries his best to help everybody victim of disasters. Anan is focused at reforming the UN, so the UN is better prepared to make an end to poverty and war. I don't know much about him, to be honest, that is why i didn't edited this information on this page. This article is so negative about Annan that it is mean. Perhaps it could be that some of the allegations are true, but still Annan is a symbol for the things he stands for and he is our representative. The only person where the word our accounts to all people. Could it be possible to make this article more positive?--[[User:Daanschr|Daanschr]] 15:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
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