User:Saebhiar

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Xavier

Basque: Xabier
Cantonese: 沙勿略 (sa-wu-lüè)
Japanese: ザビエル (za-bi-e-ru)
Russian: Ксаверий
Irish: Saebhiar

Adishatz and welcome to my wikipage! As you might have guessed my name is Xavier. Coming from the town that was once home to one of Napoleon's favourite generals, to the great inquisitor in The Name of the Rose and also to one of the Middle ages' most infamous and blood-thirsty families; I guess it makes sense I should be named after someone who has more blood on his hands than a Veterinarian convention. My friends call me Xabi or Xav, for the purpose of this Encyclopedia I shall be (un)known as Saebhiar.

What am I doing here, I hear you ask? Well, even though I'm originally French, I've been living in Ireland for a decade now and have spent more and more time on the English version of Wikipedia.

Passions include Sci-Fi, Motorcycling and, last but not least, Rugby union. Now, I try to stay away from Sci-fi pages here as I feel people are (overly) passionate about those, and editing wars are not good for my blood pressure. The Rugby crowd, on the other hand, are a very friendly and nice bunch of lads to work with - which is why I spend most of my time working on the pages relating to the Game played in Heaven.

In fact, they do such a good work that I've created an award just for them.

=Places I visited=

See if you can guess the theme:
Stade de France, Paris, France.
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland.
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales.
Twickenham Stadium, London, England.
WIN Stadium, Wollongong, Australia.
Telstra Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
Telstra Dome, Melbourne, Australia.
Stade de Gerland, Lyon, France.
Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.
And also:
Emirates Stadium, London, England.
Highbury, London, England.
Comiskey Park, Chicago, USA.
Shea Stadium, New York City, USA.
Anfield, Liverpool, England.
Fenway Park, Boston, USA.
Wrigley Field, Chicago, USA.
Asiad Stadium, Busan, South Korea.
Munhak Stadium, Incheon, South Korea.
Sang-am Stadium, Seoul, South Korea.
Niigata Stadium, Niigata, Japan.
Shizuoka Stadium, Shizuoka, Japan.
Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain.

Those are some of the places my travels took me to but my spiritual home has always been and always will be there...

Contributions

=Rugby Logos=

I specialise in creating/converting rugby teams logos. Some were easy to find and convert, others had to be drawn from scratch (Argentina was a b****, there's a lot of spots on that cat!). Here's a quick list of what the logos I've done so far:

=Rugby Pages=

A couple of months ago, Argentine rugby was a bit of a wasteland on WP. Very few clubs had a page so I decided to give it a go. So far I've done around 40 club pages and counting.

=Things I might finish at some point=

Bouclier de Brennus - I really want to finish that one. Could be a featured article someday.
Dave Gallaher Trophy
Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy
East Coast Aces
Ballymore Tornadoes
Queensland Country Heelers
Trophies awarded in Rugby Union - That one will take a while!

Saebhiar