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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

2401: Time to Split
Sergeant Cortez has returned from a previous assault on a TimeSplitter space station. He carries in his ship the 9 recovered Time Crystals which might bring the war to an end. A laser hit his ship on approach to the atmosphere causing it to malfunction and force Cortez to crash land. He must bring the Time Crystals back to Spacetime Marine HQ.

1924: Scotland the Brave
Cortez has been sent back to 1924 on a small island off the coast of Scotland. He is investigating time travel energy residues in which Anya had detected. On arrival, he meets Captain Ash who tells him that they are in the middle of a battle between the British Navy and foreign troops who are occupying the island. Thankfully, Captain Ash has offered to lend a hand.

1969: The USSR Connection
Cortez is following the mysterious Time Traveller from Scotland to a train depot in Russia. The Time Traveller seems to be the leader of a cult and has teamed up with Khallos, a terrible arch genius on the loose. A difficult task but Cortez and super chilled agent Harry Tipper can handle it!

1969: The Khallos Express
Cortez has found Khallos' train but back at base Anya is trying to find out where the Brotherhood of Ultra Science is based at in the future. Meanwhile, there are other issues to attend to! Khallos is threatening to start World War 3 by launching a nuclear missile from his train. Harry Tipper needs help to save the world (and save his girl!)

1994: Mansion of Madness
Anya has finally traced the base of the Brotherhood of Ultra Science to an isolated and creepy mansion in Connecticut. The very useful Jo-Beth Casey has offered to lend a hand. But, that is the good news. There's always going to be bad news: this creepy is infested with zombies. You'd better hurry up!! Apparently, the mansion will burn to the ground that night...

1994: What Lies Below
Cortez and Jo-Beth have reached the catacombs below the mansion. Although there is still no sign of the Time Traveller, the horror and craziness around this area are the result of twisted research of the Brotherhood of Ultra Science!

2052: Breaking and Entering
At last the mysterious Time Traveller has a name: Jacob Crow. He's a crazed genius planning to carry on his research across 200 years. He used to be the father of the Brotherhood of Ultra Science and then a hundred years later the founder of U-Genix. In this year the U-Geniz Corporation is under investigation for illegal research. Time to sneak in and look around...

2052: You Genius, U-Genix
Cortez and Amy Chen are now in the centre of the U-Genix building which is the secret research lab of Jacob Crow. I wonder what he is reearching...

2243: Machine Wars
Thrown in the middle of the Machine Wars, Cortez gets aid from an R-110 combat droid. He must explore the outdoors around the Ultra-Net complex. But, which one is the entrance to Crow's lab?

2243: Something to Crow About
Far beneath the city, Crow's secret base holds tanks, robots, the list is endless! What has he been researching?

1924: You Take the High Road
Cortez might have destroyed the TimeSplitter army in 2243 but that won't stop Crow. As long as the Time Crystals exist, Crow can always start again, any time, any place. If Cortez destroys them, Crow cannot start again, there will be no TimeSplitters and no time device. So, we're back to 1924 and under the island where Cortez and R-110 have to find and destroy the source of the crystals and the time device ending Crow's insanity before it begins!!!

2401: The Hooded Man
Cortez isn't the only one who is trying to use time travel to stop things before they happen! Crow has sent an arsenal of Time Assassins from 1924 to 2401 where the idea is to kill Cortez before he can get the Time Crystals to Anya at Spacetime Marine HQ. You MUST protect yourself!!

1924: Future Perfect
Cortez has foiled the Time Assassins and returns to Kronia to find and destroy Jacob Crow.

One Gun Fun
1. ROCKETS 101

Plat: 1st with 20 kills

Gold: 1st with 18 kills

Silv: 1st with 16 kills

Bron: 1st

Game Mode: Deathmatch

2. A BIG GAME HUNT

Plat: 1st with 50 kills

Gold: 1st with 35 kills

Silv: 1st with 25 kills

Bron: 1st with 15 kills

Game mode: Team Deathmatch

3. DIVINE IMMOLATION

Plat: 1st with 20 kills

Gold: 1st with 18 kills

Silv: 1st with 15 kills

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Deathmatch

Night Sticking
1. COMMUTING WILL KILL YOU

Plat: 1st in 2 mins 20 secs

Gold: 1st in 2 mins 40 secs

Silv: 1st in 3 mins 40 secs

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Elimination

2. A TOY SOLDIER

Plat: 1st with 30 kills

Gold: 1st with 28 kills

Silv: 1st with 20 kills

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Shrink

3. IT'S DAM COLD OUT HERE

Plat: 37 points in 2 mins 45 secs

Gold: 37 points in 3 mins

Silv: 37 points in 3 mins 30 secs

Bron: 37 points

Game mode: Zones

On The Take
1. VAMPING IN VENICE

Plat: 1st in 2 mins

Gold: 1st in 2 mins 30 secs

Silv: 1st in 3 mins

Bron: 1st overall

Game mode: Vampire

2. PIRATE GOLD

Plat: 12 points in 1 min 50 secs

Gold: 12 points in 2 mins 30 secs

Silv: 12 points in 3 mins

Bron: 12 points

Game mode: Thief

3. A VIRTUAL BRUTALITY

Plat: Complete the assault in 2 mins 30 secs

Gold: Complete the assault in 4 mins

Silv: Complete the assault in 6 mins

Bron: Complete the assault in 11 mins

Game mode: Assault

Dead Weight
1. A POX OF MOX

Plat: 36 points in 2 mins 30 secs

Gold: 36 points in 3 mins

Silv: 36 points in 3 mins 30 secs

Bron: 36 points overall

Game mode: Zones

2. A RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

Plat: 1st in 3 mins 15 secs

Gold: 1st in 3 mins 30 secs

Silv: 1st in 4 mins

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Elimination

3. A FREAK UNIQUE

Plat: 30 kills 2 mins 30 secs

Gold: 30 kills 3 mins

Silv: 30 kills 3 mins 45 secs

Bron: 30 overall

Game mode: Team Deathmatch

A Fever Pitch
1. WELCOME TO OUTBREAK HOTEL!!!

Plat: Survive for 3 mins

Gold: Survive for 2 mins 30 secs

Silv: Survive for 1 min 30 secs

Bron: Survive for 1 min

Game mode: Virus

2. MISSILE BUNKER

Plat: Survive for 3 mins

Gold: Survive for 2 mins 30 secs

Silv: Survive for 1 min 30 secs

Bron: Survive for 1 min

Game mode: Virus

3. BAG SLAG

Plat: Hold the bag for 3 mins 10 secs

Gold: Hold the bag for 3 mins

Silv: Hold the bag for 2 mins 30 secs

Bron: Hold the bag for 1 min 30 secs

Game mode: Virus

Mode Madness
1. I LIKE DEAD PEOPLE

Plat: 1st with 40 kills

Gold: 1st with 32 kills

Silv: 1st with 12 kills

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Shrink

2. ZANY ZEPPELINS

Plat: ?????

Gold: 1st with 20 kills

Silv: 1st with 12 kills

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Gladiator

3. LIP UP FATTY

Plat: Complete the assault in 4 mins

Gold: Complete the assault in 5 mins 30 secs

Silv: Complete the assault in 7 mins

Bron: Complete the assault in 10 mins

Game mode: Assault

Smash 'N' Grab
1. SCREW LOOSE

Plat: 25 points in 3 mins

Gold: 25 points in 3 mins 30 secs

Silv: 25 points in 4 mins

Bron: 25 points

Game mode: Thief

2. O SHOAL O MIO!!!

Plat: 40 kills in 1 min 40 secs

Gold: 40 kills in 2 mins

Silv: 40 kills in 2 mins 20 secs

Bron: 40 kills

Game mode: Team Deathmatch

3. ASTRO JOCKS

Plat: 1st in 2 mins

Gold: 1st in 2 mins 15 secs

Silv: 1st in 2 mins 30 secs

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Elimination

Group Therapy
1. ZONE CONTROL

Plat: 35 points in 2 mins 45 secs

Gold: 35 points in 3 mins

Silv: 35 points in 3 mins 15 secs

Bron: 35 points

Game mode: Zones

2. FRONT LOADED

Plat: 10 kills in 1 min 50 secs

Gold: 10 kills in 2 mins 10 secs

Silv: 10 kills in 2 mins 50 secs

Bron: 10 kills

Game mode: Deathmatch

3. OLD BAGGERS

Plat: Win with 5 captures

Gold: Win with 4 captures

Silv: Win with 3 captures

Bron: Win with 2 captures

Game mode: Capture the Bag

Retro Chic
1. THE DEAD, THE BAD AND THE SILLY

Plat: 30 kills in 2 mins 10 secs

Gold: 30 kills in 2 mins 25 secs

Silv: 30 kills in 3 mins

Bron: 30 kills

Game mode: Team Deatmatch

2. NINJA GARDEN

Plat: 1st with 24 kills

Gold: 1st with 20 kills

Silv: 1st with 17 kills

Bron: 1st

Game mode: Monkey Assistant

3. SOCK IT TO THEM!!

Plat: Complete the assault in 1 min

Gold: Complete the assault in 1 min 50 secs

Silv: Complete the assault in 2 mins 40 secs

Bron: Complete the assault in 4 mins

Game mode: Assault

Behead the Undead
1. A BRAIN DRAIN

Plat: 35000 points

Gold: 25000 points

Silv: 15000 points

Bron: 5000 points

Level: Hotel

2. RARE OR WELL DONE?

Plat: 50000 points

Gold: 30000 points

Silv: 20000 points

Bron: 10000 points

Level: Mansion of Madness Kitchen

3. A BOXING CLEVER

Plat: 100000 points

Gold: 50000 points

Silv: 20000 points

Bron: 5000 points

Level: U Genius, U-Genix

Cut Out Shootout
1. A HART ATTACK

Plat: 1800 points

Gold: 1750 points

Silv: 1600 points

Bron: 1100 points

Level: Time to Split

2. COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

Plat: 1800 points

Gold: 1600 points

Silv: 1450 points

Bron: 1150 points

Level: Venice

3. BALLS OF STEEL

Plat: 1300 points

Gold: 1000 points

Silv: 875 points

Bron: 700 points

Level: Something to Crow About

Cat Driving
1. THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG

Plat: Finish in 1 min 10 secs

Gold: Finish in 1 min 20 secs

Silv: Finish in 1 min 30 secs

Bron: Finish in 1 min 40 secs

Level: Breaking and Entering

2. LAPIN' IT UP!

Plat: Finish in 2 mins

Gold: Finish in 2 mins 15 secs

Silv: Finish in 2 mins 30 secs

Bron: Finish in 2 mins 45 secs

Level: VR

3. CATS PYJAMAS

Plat: Finish in 2 mins 25 secs

Gold: Finish in 2 mins 30 secs

Silv: Finish in 2 mins 50 secs

Bron: Finish in 3 mins 10 secs

Level: Some ice level!!!

Super Smashing? Great!
1. AVEC LA BRIQUE

Plat: Smash everything in 2 mins 40 secs

Gold: Smash everything in 2 mins 50 secs

Silv: Smash everything in 3 mins

Bron: Smash everything in 3 mins 30 secs

Level: Chinese

2. ABSOLUTELY POTTY

Plat: Smash everything in 1 min 40 secs

Gold: Smash everything in 1 min 50 secs

Silv: Smash everything in 2 mins

Bron: Smash everything in 2 mins 30 secs

Level: Temple

3. DON'T LOSE YOUR BOTTLE

Plat: Smash everything in 1 min 30 secs

Gold: Smash everything in 1 min 35 secs

Silv: Smash everything in 1 min 45 secs

Bron: Smash everything in 2 mins

Level: Disco

Story Classics
1. QUEEN OF HARTS

Plat: Complete in 2 mins

Gold: Complete in 2 mins 20 secs

Silv: Complete in 3 mins 30 secs

Bron: Complete in 6 mins

Level: Spaceport

2. SAMMY HAMMY NAMBY PAMBY

Plat: Complete in 2 mins 20 secs

Gold: Complete in 2 mins 40 secs

Silv: Complete in 3 mins 20 secs

Bron: Complete in 6 mins

Level: Vietnam

3. A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING

Plat: Complete in 2 mins 40 secs

Gold: Complete in 3 mins

Silv: Complete in 4 mins

Bron: Complete in 6 mins

Level: Hotel

Monkeying Around
1. ELECTRO CHIMP DISCOMATIC

Plat: Survive for 6 mins

Gold: Survive for 4 mins 30 secs

Silv: Survive for 4 mins

Bron: Survive for 3 mins

Level: Disco

2. A MELON HEIST

Plat: Score 2400

Gold: Score 2000

Silv: Score 1200

Bron: Score 750

Level: The Russian Connection

3. A BRASS MONKEY

Plat: Score 3000

Gold: Score 2500

Silv: Score 1500

Bron: Score 500

Level: Some ice level!!!

Miscellaneous Challenges
1. CORTEZ CAN'T JUMP!

Plat: Score 350 points

Gold: Score 250 points

Silv: Score 150 points

Bron: Score 100 points

Level: Something to Crow About

2. TSUG: TIMESPLITTERS UNDERGROUND

Plat: Score 4000 points

Gold: Score 3500 points

Silv: Score 2000 points

Bron: Score 1000 points

Level: Some Underground Level!!!

3. PLAINLY OFF HIS ROCKER

Plat: Score 300 points

Gold: Score 200 points

Silv: Score 150 points

Bron: Score 100 points

Level: No paticular level (on a gun emplacement)

STORY UNLOCKABLES
2401: Time to Split

Easy - The General

Normal/Hard - Anya

1924: Scotland the Brave

Easy - The Jungle Queen

Normal/Hard - Warrant Officer Cain

1969: The Russian Connection

Easy - Swinging Tipper

Normal/Hard - Henchman Cortez

1969: The Khallos Express

Easy - Kitten Celeste

Normal/Hard - Elite Henchwoman

1994: Mansion of Madness

Easy - Arthur Aching

Normal/Hard - Gaston Boucher

1994: What Lies Below

Easy - Dr. Lancet

Normal/Hard - Jo-Barf Creepy

2052: Breaking and Entering

Easy - Inceptor

Normal/Hard - Jack Sprocket

2052: You Genius, U-Genix

Easy - Dr. Amy

Normal/Hard - Dr. Cortez

2243: Machine Wars

Easy - Mordecai Jones

Normal/Hard - Ghengis Kant

2243: Something to Crow About

Easy - GOLIATH SD/9

Normal/Hard - Private Jones

1924: You Take the High Road

Easy - Robot Louis Stevenson

Normal/Hard - Time Assassin Cortez

2401: The Hooded Man

Easy - Berserker Splitter

Normal/Hard - Time Assassin

1924: Future Perfect (completing Story Mode)

Easy - Jacob Crow, Mad Old Crow

Normal - Victorian Crow, Corporal Hart

Hard - Karma Crow

GAME MODES
Deathmatch

Free-for-all!!! Kill everyone!

Team Deathmatch

Kill the other team!

Capture the Bag

Capture the other teams' bag and return it to your base!

Bagtag

There is only 1 bag, hold on to it for as long as possible!

Elimination

Once each contenders lives are lost, it's game over!

Shrink

Contenders size is based on ranking.

Vampire

Kill others to extend your life span.

Thief

Collect the kill rewards left behind by a dead contender.

Virus

Once tagged, contenders stay on fire. The last one alive is the winner!

Zones

Contenders score for each zone that is under their control!

Assault

Attack the enemy base!

Gladiator

Only the Gladiator can score!

Monkey Assistant

The contender in last place has some little helpers!

ARCADE LEVELS
Vietnam

Hotel

Venice

Temple

Disco

Subway

Zeppelin

Mars Prison

Siberia

Bunker

VR

Spaceport

Chinese

Mexican Mission

Training Ground

ARCADE AWARDS
Most Lethal

Most Professional

Longest Spree

Brain Surgeon

Decapitator

AC-10 Award

Hypochondriac

Hoarder

Most Frantic

Most Sneaky

Best Equipped

Underequipped

Most Manic

Longest Innings

Shortest Innings

Survivor

Most Flammable

Most Damaging

Most Effective

Marksmanship

I Hit Dead People

Pathetic Shot

Lemming Award

Glass Jaw

Where's the health?

Where's the armour?

Bully

Unlucky to Lose

Fists of Fury

Fists of Steel

Vandal

Traitor

Sniper

Dodger

Weapons Expert

Most Outgunned

Most Cowardly

Sloth

Most Losses

Multi Kill

Most Peaceful

Bag Man

Most Dishonourable

Ricochet King

Backpeddler

Sidestepper

Porter

Victim

Most Useless

Ledgehopper

Cartographer

Trigger Happy

Smasher Award

Golden Oldie Award

Insomniac Award

Beheader Award

Persistence Award

Traveller Award

STORY OBJECTIVES
2401: Time to Split

- Reach the rebel base

- Use the gun emplacement to defend against the TimeSplitter attack.

- Help defend the rebel base

1924: Scotland the Brave

- Protect Captain Ash

- Infiltrate the castle

- Escape the trap

- Locate the Time Crystal mining site

- Gain entry to the meeting hall

- Help Captain Ash rescue his assistant

- Access the underground areas of the island

- Destroy the enemy tank

1969: The Russian Connection

- Find the Time Traveller

- Rendezvous at the water tower

- Deactivate electricity

- Protect Harry Tipper

- Gain Access to Sector 3

- Activate starter-motor

- Restore water pressure

- Locate Khallos's train

1969: The Khallos Express

- Find Khallos

- Prevent the missile launch

- Stop the train

- Destroy the helicopter

- Deactivate the gas trap

- Defeat Khallos

1994: Mansion of Madness

- Investigate the mansion

- Rescue the scientist

- Investigate the attic

- Locate lab entrance

- Defeat the creature

1994: What Lies Below

- Uncover the identity of the mystery Time Traveller

- Protect Jo-Beth from the zombie horde

- Eliminate 'Princess'

- Escape the catacombs

2052: Breaking and Entering

- Locate Crow's office

- Penetrate rooftop security

- Protect the intruder

- Activate the fire suppression system

- Help Amy gain access to Crow's floor

- Access Crow's terminal

- Return to the lift

2052: You Genius, U-Genix

- Find Jacob Crow

- Obtain an employee's ID Card

- Advance past the security area with Amy

- Pass through the sterilization sensors

- Clear the area of hostiles

- Destroy Crow's security droids

- Decode first security terminal

- Decode phase two of first security terminal

- Destroy the railbots

- Decode second security terminal

- Destroy the spiderbots

2243: Machine Wars

- Locate the Ultra-Net secret laboratory

- Reach the battle tank

- Gain access to the processing facility

- Obtain a cypernetic security implant

2243: Something to Crow About

- Terminate Crow

- Deactivate the central power core

- Defeat the battle mech

- Destroy the TimeSplitter life support system

- Eliminate the creature

1924: You Take the High Road

- Destroy the Time Crystals

- Activate the drilling machine

2401: The Hooded Man

- Protect your past self from the Time Assassins

1924: Future Perfect

- Destroy the Time Crystals

CHARACTERS
Cortez

Henchman Cortez

Dr. Cortez

Time Assassin Cortez

Captain Ash

Harry Tipper

Swinging Tipper

Jo-Beth Casey

Amy Chen

Dr. Amy

R-110

Victorian Crow

Karma Crow

Jacob Crow

Mad Old Crow

Anya

Captain Fitzgerald

Nobby Peters

Sapper Johnson

Tommy Jenkins

Ivor Baddic

Pulov Yuran

Comrade Papadov

Warrant Officer Cain

Warrant Officer Keely

Deep Diver

The Jungle Queen

Robot Louis Stevenson

John Smith

Jim Smith

Fergal Stack

Khallos

Booty Guard

Kitten Celeste

Henchwoman

Elite Henchwoman

Henchman

Elite Henchman

Vlad the Installer

Leonid

Oleg

Dr. Peabody

Nurse Gulag

The Deerhaunter

Carrion Carcass

Headsprouter

Mr. Fleshcage

Clip Clamp

Crispin

Gideon Gout

Daisy Dismay

Jed

Arthur Aching

Gilbert Gastric

Jo-Barf Creepy

Gladstone

Blanche Deadwood

Gaston Boucher

Dr. Lancet

Dr. Pustule

Nurse Tourniquet

Nurse Sputum

Lenny Oldburn

Edwina

Deadwina

Brother Bartholomew

Sister Faith

Envirosuit

Neophyte Lucian

Neophyte Constance

Security

Jack Sprocket

Inceptor

Inceptress

The Freak

Tin-Legs Tommy

SecuriDroid XP

The General

Private Hicks

Private Jones

Lazarus Mumble

Mordecai Jones

Ghengis Kant

Angel Forge

Prison Officer

Lt. Black

INSETICK SD/12

INSETICK SK/10

PROMETHEUS SD/7

PROMETHEUS SK/8

GOLIATH SD/9

Med-Unit 6

Time Assassin

Berserker Splitter

Monkey

Cyborg Chimp

Brains

Ninja Monkey

Renzo

Goddard

Schmidt

Jacque de la Morte

Viola

Mr. Underwood

Sewer Zombie

Undead Priest

Crypt Zombie

Maiden

Changeling

The Cropolite

Jared Slim

Venus

Chastity

Ghost

The Master

Riot Officer

Mischief

Mr. Giggles

Leo Krupps

Stumpy

Bear

Kypriss

Stone Golem

Aztec Warrior

High Priest

Dinosaur

Braces

Handyman

Candi Skyler

R One-Oh-Seven

Calamari

Corporal Hart

Badass Cyborg

Snowman

Robofish

Chinese Chef

Gingerbread Man

Duckman Drake

Koozer Mox

Teeth Mummy

Captain Ed Shivers

Gretel

Arial DaVinci

Dozer

Sheriff Skullface

The Shoal

Hans

Mr. Socky

Lt. Christine Malone

Eli Scrubs

WEAPONS
Baseball Bat

Bricks

Pistol 9MM

Pistol 9MM (x2)

Kruger 9MM

Kruger 9MM (x2)

LX-18

LX-18 (x2)

Sci-Fi Handgun

Sci-Fi Handgun (x2)

Revolver

Injector

Mag-Charger

Flamethrower

Machine Gun

Machine Gun (x2)

K-SMG

K-SMG (x2)

Shotgun

Dispersion Gun

Tactical 12-Gauge

Soviet Rifle

Harpoon Gun

Electrotool

Plasma Autorifle

SBP500

Minigun

Rocket Launcher

Heatseeker

Ghost Gun

Sci-Fi Sniper

Vintage Rifle

Sniper Rifle

Flare Gun

Flare Gun (x2)

Proximity Mines

Remote Mines

Timed Mines

Grenades

Plasma Grenades

Monkey Gun

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Unreal Tournament 2004

The third installment in the Unreal Tournament series of games, UT 2004 is radically different from many other multiplayer FPS games, in terms of sheer speed and other factors.

Contents
This Section Deals with the various terms and symbols used in Unreal Tournament 2004. While some of the terms here are unique to the UT series, many terms are common in other such FPS games. Experienced FPS Players may want to skip this section.
 * /Terminology/

Gameplay
This chapter deals with all the very core basics every UT player must know. If you're new to UT, this is the section to go to. This section covers everything such as control, going around, overview etc. This chapter deals with the variety of gametypes included in UT2004. This chapter also has gametype-specific help and tips. This chapter deals with the variety of weapons in UT2004. This is a place to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each of the 16 weapons in the game. This chapter deals with the 4 different turrets found in the Assault gametype, and focuses on their advantages and disadvantages. This chapter deals with the various vehicles in UT2004, one of the most anticipated new additions to the series. The chapter focuses on the controls, the advantages, disadvantages etc. regarding the vehicles. This section contains all the tips that don't fall into any of the above category. These are mostly general tips and important for every Tournament player. If you're looking for how to improve your game, this is the place. This section deals with the Multiplayer aspect of the game. It covers the various Internet terms used, the most popular maps and other frequently used questions regarding multiplayer. Also contains Multiplayer-exclusive tips. The section lists the various cheats in UT2004, as well as their effects and how to activate them. This section also deals with the various tricks you can use in the game.
 * /Core Basics/
 * /Gametypes/
 * /Weapons/
 * /Turrets/
 * /Vehicles/
 * /Tips/
 * /Multiplayer Etiquette and Tips/
 * /Cheats/

Modification

 * /Modding Basics/
 * /Minor Modifications/
 * /Mapping/(Making Maps)
 * /Skinning/(Making Skins)
 * /Modeling/(Making Models)
 * Programming and Scripting

Links

 * Unreal Tournament Official Website

title: Unreal Tournament 2004


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Wii Sports

Wii Sports is a collection of simplified sports games that employs the Wii Remote to mimic an action in real life, such as swinging a golf club. The sports available in the Wii Sports package include baseball, tennis, bowling, boxing, and golf.

As you play the different sports, you will be awarded Skill Points which add or subtract from your cumulative Skill Level. Once you reach 1000 Skill points, you will receive a special tag that says "Pro".

Information in this book is currently quite sparse, but you're invited to add more details and gameplay tips!

Table of Contents

 * /Tennis/
 * /Baseball/
 * /Golf/
 * /Boxing/
 * /Bowling/
 * /Training/

title: Wii Sports


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Wild ARMs 2

Wild ARMs 2 or Wild ARMs: 2nd Ignition in Japan, is the second installation of the  and was released in 2000 on the Sony PlayStation in the US.

Contents

 * /Battle Mechanics/
 * Characters - Below is a brief summary of each character in relation to the plot, their tools, and their battle abilities.
 * Ashley Winchester
 * Brad Evans
 * Lilka Eleniak
 * Tim Rhymeless
 * Kanon
 * Marivel Armitage

title: Wild ARMs 2


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X-COM: Apocalypse Strategy Guide

Introduction
While X-COM: Apocalypse is not exactly a hard game, it can quickly become hard if you let your position slip. This guide is intended for new players that have never played the game before, and will therefore only contain a few spoilers. Note that this guide only deals with the real time aspect of the game.

Table of Contents

 * Gameplay
 * /General Tips/
 * /Equipment/
 * /First Week/
 * Meta
 * /Spoilers/
 * /OpenApoc/

title: X-COM: Apocalypse Strategy Guide


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Template:Horticulture/Cat-topic (add "y" where applicable)

This template is deprecated. Use  /Path/To/Category  to file your page under :. For plants, pests, diseases, herbicides, pesticides, and weeds, the templates their pages use automatically file their pages into the proper category.


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User talk:Dan Polansky

Welcome!
Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally.--Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

LaTeX
Can you synchronize such substantial changes to the book table of contents with the print version and navigation template? Thanks. --Derbeth talk 14:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Done. I have left out the index from the print version, as it does not seem to be useful for it, and from the navigation bar, as that one omits appendices, or most of them. CMIIW. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Ok, thanks. --Derbeth talk 15:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Cascading Style Sheets
Done. --Derbeth talk 09:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

JavaScript/Contents
Yes, you're right, no pages like "XY/Contents" should exist. However, lots of books violate Manual of Style and create "cover page" on page "XY" and create table of contents on "XY/Contents"; what's worst, some even name chapters like "XY/Contents/Chapter name" to get free backward links to table of contents, which is dreadful. Book table of contents should always be placed on page named the same as the book.

This was also the case here: JavaScript was first a cover page with categories and interwiki, than someone came and removed all this, making a redirect. I restored the cover and fixed the TOC.

The problem is that English Wikibooks has no policy on cover (title) pages and currently there's a total mess. Some people put categories and interwiki here, other put there, sometimes there are some different sets of both on both pages. Noone knows where to link to from bookshelves: to table of contents or to cover?

On Polish Wikibooks there's a clear policy: all interwiki and categories should be only on cover page if it exists and all links to book should lead to the cover page, not table of contents. That's the best solution, because if there's a cover, readers should see it first when clicking on book title (otherwise the cover would not make any sense); in the same time the table of contents cannot be a subpage ("/Contents"), because this would break automatic backward links.

We lack such policy here. Unfortunately I'm not very active on Wikibooks, so I don't have time to fix it. However, if you have time, it would be good to start preparing it. --Derbeth talk 17:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Sorry for elbowing myself into this discussion, but just a quick note. There is a bit of a mess with the page structure, but there is a clear preference by the current community for placing an overview of the contents on the book main page and the MoS strongly recommends doing it that way. We do, however, give editors some leeway to do things the way they like. Better a poorly structured book than no book at all (structure can always be fixed once they come to their senses ;-) ).
 * We don't have bookshelves any more (these have been replaced by subject pages) and they are being phased out. Links should always point to the main page. If book contributors want readers to start on a cover/splash page, then so be it.
 * As for the state of affairs, this derives from the fact that many books were created well before the manual of style had taken hold. Most of the language books are very similar and may have been formatted by a small number of people (many seem to be minimal courses from some Peace Corps program or something similar) and/or be the case of a meme spreading. I've been fixing a few, but it takes a while. If you plan to do work on this, make sure to check whether the books have active contributors before doing anything drastic. --Swift (talk) 15:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

English
I just removed your speedy delete request because the page still is part of the book structure. There are also other pages that are similarly empty of content. It would be better to deprecate these pages before deleting them. Leaving red-links would be even more confusing to future contributors. --Swift (talk) 15:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Sounds good. How do I tag a page as deprecated? I used to do it using, but is there a standard way? --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

 * If a page qualifies for speedy deletion, you tag it as as you did. But before that, it's generally a good idea to deprecate it by removing links that point to it. This shows that the page isn't used any more, helps make sure it won't just get recreated later and leaves a clearer replacement-structure for future contributors.
 * You can see what links to the page you are viewing by clicking on the "What links here" link in the toolbox in the side-bar (on the left in the default skin).
 * Not that this procedure needs to be overly rigid and formal. In the case of deletions, content gets the benefit of the doubt and your fellow Wikibookians may prefer keeping it if they don't know where you plan to take the book. --Swift (talk) 17:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

 * What exactly are you doing to the English book/project? I spent a long time creating an 'English' page which would serve to direct users to the specific book they were looking for as 'English' on its own was too general.  Why couldn't you have just included all the other books on the English language that you'd found into the original 'English' page rather than 'subject:English language'?--ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 22:27, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I post my reply here: Talk:English. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:19, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess I should also post a reply here: I have split again several books on English that you have "merged" by adding the prefix "English/" to them. I did it per Wikibooks policy that Wikibooks books should not have their subject in their title as a prefix, only a book title. I was aware that I was undoing your move. After careful consideration, I decided to take that step, as I came to the conclusion that your move--adding the prefix "English/" to the book titles--was after all not a good idea. At least one user---Martin Kraus--agrees with my move, as follows from Talk:English. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:00, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Dan, I think this English category has to be ordered somehow, I wrote more about that in English Grammar talk page. In short, I think that there should be three grammars for different levels, called something like Comprehensive English Grammar, Advanced English Grammar and Beginners English Grammar, and these should be separate from learning modules. All other grammars should be deleted. Otherwise, people have done great work, but there is still no certainty. Tkorrovi (talk) 18:15, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 * For the record, I guess you are referring to Talk:English Grammar. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Subject pages
Hi Dan,

Subject pages such as the one you created at Shoe belong in the subject name-space (just prepend "Subject:" to the title). As for that particular case, I would recommend a slightly more subject-oriented title such as leather-works, crafts, or something similar. Note also that a book can belong to multiple subjects. The hierarchy isn't very good, but you can browse the existing ones from the Card Catalog Office. Adding new subject pages to that hierarchy will increas its accessibility and make it easier to maintain. --Swift (talk) 10:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Rhetoric and Composition Wikitext
Hi, Dan. I noticed you've been more active than anyone else on our Rhetoric and Composition wikibook, and I wondered if you'd like to get involved in our efforts to revise it this semester. I have a group of four graduate students in my Digital Rhetoric and Pedagogy class, and I intend to make editing this book part of the syllabus. If you're interested in helping out, perhaps by focusing on the most problematic areas, let me know. I can be reached here or at matt@mattbarton.net

Thanks,

Matt
 * Thank you for the offer. I am now busy with other things, I am afraid. I am looking forward to seeing that nice Wikibook revised by you and your students. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

C++ Programming
Some notes to myself and others about C++ Programming Wikibook. The Wikibook seems to have been hijacked by. The editor's tactic used to gain editorial control over the book seems to consist above all in controlling the talk page Talk:C++ Programming. He asks editors to post to one of three other places (Talk:C++ Programming/Content, Talk:C++ Programming/Conventions and Talk:C++ Programming/Q&A), and he removes discussions from that page without properly archiving them. As a consequence, it is hard to figure out what has been discussed and what the consensus has been.

I have discovered this when I tried to remove a big text from the main page of the book. I wanted to post on the talk page what I was doing and that User:Ruakh has done the same thing before, only to find that the talk page contains some oddly formatted sections, and that it is nowhere clear where a note on my change could be posted. The talk page was in this revision.

Further digging around in the history of the talk page has lead to the discovery that the user has been a subject of arbitration in Arbitration/Panic2k4_vs._SBJohnny. My reading Arbitration/Panic2k4_vs._SBJohnny/Plaintiff_Charges has confirmed my impression of what the user was doing to C++ Programming.

If C++ Programming Wikibook is to be brought to sanity, the foremost task is to prevent the user from further hijacking the talk page Talk:C++ Programming, so that various editors can start posting their supporting and opposing posts on various subjects concerning the book. It is essential that posts to that talk page are allowed to remain there for an extended period of time, such as several months. Archiving should only take place when the page becomes too long.

Panic2k4 has complained about my edits on the talk page of Adrignola at 02:28, 31 March 2012.

This post of mine seems best posted to my talk page, as this is the only page over which I exercise extensive editorial control, a page from which posts cannot be removed by user Panic2k4 or any other rogue editor. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 12:46, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Saylor.org Textbooks
Hi Dan, I've noticed that you have made significant contributions to the Rhetoric and Composition textbook as well as the C++ Programming book. I have been working with the Saylor Foundation to produce new textbooks on these subjects. If you have time and are interested we would love for you to check out our book pages (Saylor.org's English Composition and Saylor.org's C++ Programming) and possibly make some contributions! --Azin (discuss • contribs) 19:54, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Article Edit in Windows_Batch_Scripting
Is there any particular reason why you removed some of the Links like cmd.exe in Windows_Batch_Scripting? --Albin77 (discuss • contribs) 05:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think Wikibooks should only rarely link to Wikipedia from the middle of the text. Each Wikibook should be standalone, independent of Wikipedia for the content. The reader should not need to go to Wikipedia to get a clarification. If a clarification is needed, the Wikibook should provide it directly. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 19:57, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree (apart from the consideration to write for "a reader" if you dont specify him/her for example by his knowledge, otherwise long arguments might occure). But did you consider the link not containing required information to understand the paragraph but containing a shourtcut for a source for the purpose of further reading, for whatever reasons the reader might have to acuire further knowledge? For me it's nice to have a direkt link to at least one other source, which you can access directly before searching the internet. If the text is understandable without the link, it does no harm, or dont you want delete it for another reason? If it's not understandeble, maybe it's better to take out that piece of information altogehter, move it to a different area in the book or into the discussion section etc. If you decide to leave it anyway, and I'm the reader I would appreciate a link with info that helps me to understand it. Anyway, just wanted to offer you a second perspective, if you want to consider one. --Albin77 (discuss • contribs) 22:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * PS. currently I very busy, so if I dont answer write a note on my discussion page, then I'll get an email.

Pidgin 2
Note to myself and whoever cares to read: I have recreated Pidgin page with new content. The subject seems to fit Wikibooks well; other guides to using GUI software include GIMP, Inkscape, FreeMind, Using Firefox, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice (a stub), and Microsoft Office. Undeveloped and almost content-free books include American Studies, Audacity, Gramma's Grammar, VBA For Business, OIB English, Breton, Communism, and others; see also Category:Stubs. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:39, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Python programming
Please explain what in particular you are not happy with. And actually I contributed to Programming Python all the way back in 2006. I suppose what makes me entitled is the same thing that makes you entitled. Programing Python in particular is actually a bit of mess. I am working on organising it basis of not knowing python, and building incrementally on previous topics. I do not think I have turned anything 'upside down' and if you would like to have a conversation about organisation, I would be more than happy to.

I also suggest you should use a more conciliatory tone. What makes you entitled to use such an abrasive tone? I'm on the IRC channel if you would care to discuss. Hackbinary (discuss • contribs) 17:41, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have responded at User_talk:Hackbinary, which is the original location of this conversation. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:49, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Your did you not respond entirely. Your attitude is shocking.  Programming Python *IS* a mess.  Decorators are talked about Classes.  The navbars do not link between articles.  The text page basically talks about strings.  And my favourite, there is a section called 'Intro': Intro is not even a word.  And I almost forgot about the Discussion pages: I archived what seemed me as no longer relevant.  Capitalisation is inconsistent.  The list goes on and on.  What gives you right to revert improvements?  I would be happy to discuss if you took a more cooperative tone.  I do not contend that my view is gospel, but it is very peculiar why you are being so hostile.  Please explain.  Hackbinary (discuss • contribs) 18:03, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I've been bold and reverted your revert. Lets discuss what you are not happy about.  Hackbinary (discuss • contribs) 18:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Let's have the conversation on my discussion page? Hackbinary (discuss • contribs) 18:24, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have started the conversation on your talk page, so this is where it belongs. How did I tell that you are a hasty newbie? --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 18:26, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 'Hasty newbie' indeed.    Please could you delete these three pages:  Python_Programming/HTTP_Tools Python_Programming/Code_Reuse Python_Programming/Editing_and_Running_Python_Code, and talk pages if they have them. Thanks Hackbinary (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Python programming 2
Your edits today seem to be very disruptive. I understand that there are differences between editors of this book but that is not the way to sort out your differences (constantly reverting and undoing). I have reverted one of your edits while others I will leave for the other editors of the book to address and undo if they wish. I'd suggest you consult the other editors more.--ЗAНИA talk 12:04, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't believe my edits were "very disruptive". They were not disruptive at all, IMHO. I reverted changes made by user Hackbinary that are not based on consensus and are opposed by me. Your revert in diff in Template:Python Programming/TalkNav Start is hard to understand; the template is entirely pointless and should ideally be deleted. Since user Hackbinary has nothing of substance to contribute yet pushes his way in matters of taste, he should ideally be blocked from editing the pages under dispute. There is absolutely no reason why an editor with nothing of substance to contribute should be allowed to engage in an edit war with an editor with substantive contribution and get his way in matters of taste. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:35, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * What you say may be true. I really don't know much about the book's subject or the history of the problems but it seems courteous to at least leave a message on the user's talk page if you plan on reverting their edits.  If you wish to get further opinions on this then you should post a notice in the Reading Room.  --ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Estonia.svg|15px]]talk 01:12, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I do not think it good or productive to leave a message on the user's talk page when reverting the user's changes. Doing so is not a common practice on Wiktionary, my home wiki; is it a common practice on Wikibooks? When you are doing a revert, are you usually notifying the user? If so, can you post some diffs of such behavior of yours? --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * You will find that the majority of times I revert changes I leave a message on the talk page. Generally only IP edits are reverted and if I am reverting several hours later then I may not leave such a message.  I don't usually revert logged-in users' edits instead editing them in some way.  I think that I leave messages far more often that other active users and there is no policy on this but I would consider it to be polite to do so especially when reverting a regular user's edits.--ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Estonia.svg|15px]]talk 18:24, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with Xania that you should have put rfd before the third revert, but for the record I would have voted for the template deletion (not a redirection). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:19, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem is that RFD process in Wikibooks does not work; there are not enough people to administer it and vote in it in a reasonably timely fashion. Redirect instead of deletion is a practical way of actually getting things done. Note that we are not talking a deletion a of a book but rather deletion of a subpage of a book. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:24, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

What is Wikibooks for
The Wikibooks name is misleading: Wikibooks is not for any and all books; it is especially not for fiction. Wikibooks is for non-fiction that does not fit other wiki projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, and therefore, it is for non-fiction that does not fit the encyclopedia project, the dictionary project or the source/library project, especially non-fiction that instructs or serves as a how-to.

Keywords: Wikibooks inclusion criteria, Wikibooks scope. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:46, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Relevant policy: What is Wikibooks. This includes:
 * "Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course, or for self-learning. As a general rule, only instructional books are suitable for inclusion. Non-fictional books (as well as fictional ones) that aren't instructional aren't allowed on Wikibooks. Literary elements, such as allegory or fables, that are used as instructional tools can be permitted in some situations.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:47, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Policy votes
Wikibooks had some policy votes in the past. These are listed at Policies and guidelines/Vote.

Specific votes (support:oppose:abstain):
 * Policies and guidelines/Vote/Naming policy, 2006, 14:2:?, Feb 12 - Mar 1
 * Policies and guidelines/Vote/Deletion Policy, 2006, 10:0:0, Mar 3 - Apr 15
 * Policies and guidelines/Vote/Be Bold, Mar 2007, 7:0:0, Mar 24 - Apr 20
 * Policies and guidelines/Vote/Blocking policy, Apr 2007, 5:5:0, Apr 20 - May 6 - "Vote ends one week after the last posting or consensus has clearly been reached"

Eligibility criteria:
 * "Only registered users with at least 20 edits can vote." - used in all the four votes above.

Vote duration:
 * See the list above. In the past, somewhat less than one month.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:30, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

A modest proposal
There are atm several individual pages on Wikibooks about various UNIX utility programs; things like,  ,. I see a way to satisfy both those who want those pages kept, and those who feel any one of them in itself does not constitute a book. We could create a book about UNIX utility programs, and make all these pages sections of that book. Would you be agreeable to that? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:41, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The book already exists: Guide to Unix/Commands. I have added an index (Guide to Unix/Index) and external links to have the book in a ready state for further expansion, and to make it much more useful as it is. However, I prefer to keep less, grep, hexdump, sed and Awk as separate pages.
 * Those who want to delete useful small pages should first make sure useless stale TOC-only pages such as Conphilosophy get deleted, which is not happening. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:56, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm looking for constructive ways to improve things; I've no interest in the sort of needlessly-escalated confrontation that evidently happened recently between JackPotte and you. Which said, I do have another question to try out on you. I feel I should explain where I'm coming from.  I'm not concerned about the nature of the content on those pages (which is why I described that RFD nonsense as needless escalation); but just because the content is appropriate for Wikibooks doesn't mean that the quantum of content is appropriate to be treated as a standalone book.  (I wouldn't put Awk in the same class, btw, fwiw.)  You've mentioned a section of a book into which the material might fit.  We do have more than one book on some topics, so I didn't think it unreasonable to suggest the option of a separate book, as an alternative to trying to graft those pages onto the existing structure of a book that might not really want them.  As individual pages, though, they seem a bit like rogue planets, drifting about with no solar system to belong to. I see no reason why, as long as those pages are the primary repository of info on their respective subjects, there mightn't be a redirect from the unadorned name to where they reside within some book (though eventually I hope we'll have some more effective means available for helping readers to find all information on Wikibooks related to less or grep or whatever).  Would location within a book, with a redirect from the unadorned name of the utility, address your current concerns?  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:10, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I see no benefit for me and the readers in having extensive sed information in Guide to Unix/Commands/Sed (redlink) rather than in Sed. If I end up outvoted and Sed ends up at Guide to Unix/Commands/Sed, having a link from Sed to that location would certainly help.
 * I do not see it as essential that Wikibooks pages are organized into subpages. Some material benefits from that, some less so. I am happy with planets located outside of their solar system; they are easier to get started and maintain, and can still be useful and have the character of instruction. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 14:18, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The ones that concern me most are the narrowest; it's not at all clear to me whether Sed would want moving (I'd have to think carefully about that). I do see moving some of the narrowest ones into the structure of some larger book as beneficial to readers, both to readers of those particular resources and to readers of the project as a whole — but I admit I'd really like to wait a bit and revisit all this when there are no related open RFDs, as I find it unpleasant to try to operate in an environment of threat regardless of whether I myself feel targeted.  (Come to think of it, Wikipedia has a real problem with this, widespread threat of RFD adding to the mix of toxins in the social atmosphere.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:43, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Windows Batch Scripting
Hi. Just a heads-up, that I moved some things around to untangle an administrative snarl. You'd renamed this book in August 2012, but the book category didn't move with it, and neither did about half a dozen subpages that (just to further complicate things) you had, at the time, just recently unlinked from the book. I had come along the next year and, noticing the book main page without a book category, I created a book category for it. This meant there were two separate book categories, one of them containing the book main page under its new name, and the other with no main page in it but the half-dozen abandoned stub subpages. To tidy things up, I've moved the stubs so they are once again unlinked subpages of the book main page, and there's once again only one book category (the old one, renamed to the new book title and new naming scheme; I just deleted the one I created in 2013). --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Removing Talk header
I have started to remove uses of Talk header (or Talkheader) added by PokestarFanBot or PokestarFan without discussion. There is a lot to do and I need to figure out how to do it in volume.

Wikbooks did well without the template so far. The template clutters display while adding close to nothing of value. The overwhelming majority of editors have managed to properly use talk pages without being given an instruction along the lines of "post only true sentences"; Wikibooks is not a kindergarten.

If such a box should be on every talk page (which I oppose), this could be done centrally by customizing this installation on MediaWiki or the like.

For my reference, a Wiktionary deletion discussion is at wikt:Template talk:talk header; a discussion on my talk page is at wikt:User_talk:Dan_Polansky/2013.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:09, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Hey I would like to help. Is there a way to call up all the pages that had it? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 21:05, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Talk_header yields a list of transclusions, but I intend to go by a list of PokestarFanBot contributions. If we had consensus to delete the template altogether, it would be easier; I posted to Template_talk:Talk_header. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 14:49, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I used AWB and User:DPMaid to remove about 700 transclusions. We would ideally find consensus to delete or deprecate Template:Talk header, and then it would be easy to remove all instances. If we do not deprecate or delete the template, the template will keep being added by various people. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:57, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * AWK corrected to AWB. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs)

Desysopping
The admin policy draft, marked as policy, is at WB:ADMIN.

Inactivity-based desysopping is governed by the following from WB:ADMIN: "Sysops who are especially inactive, specifically for at least one year or longer, can be removed without a consensus discussion." En wikt policy is 5 years of no use of admin tools, per vote, whose talk page contains some interesting statistics in "Some statistics" section. The period of 2 years is used in Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders, which to my taste uses fairly complex language. Also of interest is Admin activity review/Local inactivity policies, which lists inactivity policies of various Wikimedia projects.

Desysopping takes place in Requests for permissions.

I registered my opposition to the 1-year period in Requests for permissions for Recent Runes, July 2018 (rev), and earlier in the same page for Darklama, March 2016 (rev).

A 2005 discussion is at Wikibooks talk:Administrators/Archive 1.

A 2006 discussion is at Reading room/Archives/2006/February

There is now Category:Requests for desysop, just created by me. It may be incomplete.

Keywords: removal of admin rights.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:50, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Opposition to inactivity desysopping includes that by Xania: "Oppose As usual I am registering my opposition to these deadminship requests. I disagree with the policy of removing admin rights for inactivity. Xania". --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 14:08, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Another: "Be that as it may, the decision to desysop due to age... something I've also been against for some time... is something that is up to the community at large. --Rob Horning", where "due to age" is probably to be understood as "due to time of inactivity". --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 12:33, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

 * I distantly recall coming across, years ago, an archived remark by somebody being desysopped for inactivity that they were in favor of the practice; I think they said they'd been a primary architect of the policy, though that could be my memory embellishing. Since afaict we haven't turned that one up yet, I figure there's more on the subject somewhere.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:11, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Original research
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The status of the page:
 * "draft proposal for a Wikibooks policy or guideline". Therefore:
 * 1) it is a mere draft proposal
 * 2) it does not say whether the page, if approved, would be a policy (a set of rigid rules) or a guideline (a set of overridable/flexible rules)

Key statements from the page:
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The conjunction of these statements is rather low-quality or subpar. Since, in case of doubt about material one has spent one's resources to produce, S3 applies, and then, requirement to cite "reliable publication" applies. What S1-S3 state in rather confusing language is that "Wikibooks forbids original research and all statements must be able to trace to reliable sources". The phrase "must be able to trace" was intentionally chosen in contrast to "must trace" since even Wikipedia does not require "must trace", merely "must be able to trace".

When working on books like Windows Batch Scripting, I am in part relying on the experimental method. I formulate a hypothesis, and testing on my Windows machine, where cmd.exe is naturally present. There is a risk that I make an error during the hypothesis testing; after all, I am not engaging in professional, well-funded reverse-engineering. I am not producing a published test suite to verify each statement. In general, I am unable to trace observations I make to authoritative sources, in part since there is scarcity of authoritative sources. In particular, Microsoft official documentation is rather incomplete.

Possible solutions:
 * Greatly reduce the content of "Windows Batch Scripting" to match stringent sourcing principles. However, since the official Microsoft documentation is in fact not 100% reliable (this can be empirically demonstrated), it is unclear whether it qualifies as "reliable source"; and if it does not, one would need to find an alternative for sourcing, and then the question is whether one would be able to empirically refute/falsifiy the other sources as well to some extent, proving them to be not 100% reliable.
 * Declare the guiding page to be non-binding, which it officially is, and apply one's common sense, which is not necessarily common. Point out that even if it were a formally approved "policy or guideline" and not merely a proposal, it would still be "or guideline", and thereby overridable, not strictly binding. Do one's best to provide accurate information, while accepting the risk of putting inaccurate information in Wikibooks. This is the solution I chose years ago.
 * Rationale: There is genuine value in providing readers with this form of original research. It is not original making things up, which is what Wikiversity is for (Wikiversity expressly allows original research). It is original experiment-verified statement production. Merely repeating in different words what is already in Microsoft pages adds very little value. A similar reasoning applies to other computing Wikibooks.

An alternative is to use Wikiversity for creating materials that would otherwise be in Wikibooks. Since, thanks to the original research policy of Wikiversity, there would be no policy dispute concerning possible accusation of original research. A whole book like "Windows Batch Scripting" could be transferred to Wikiversity. However, until an actual dispute arises, this seems unnecessary.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:33, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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The Rowers of Vanity Fair/deHavilland RS

“Havvy” (Spy), July 4, 1901
''When a boy at Eton he so successfully concealed his skill as an oar behind many eccentricities of style that he found no place in the Eton Eight; but at Oxford he suddenly developed, or else his hidden merits were quickly discovered by a perspicacious coach: for he twice rowed in the Dark Blue Eight before he was chosen President of the O.U.B.C.  Then he went to Wellington for a schoolmaster:  whence he migrated to Eton eleven years ago. At Eton he turns out good oars and employs his leisure moments in teaching the young idea to shoot. Since he began to coach the Eton Eight they have carried off the Ladies’ Plate at Henley for seven successive years; and although they were disgracefully beaten last year, he hopes this week to begin a new series of Etonian victories. He is a young man in the forties, who although he has been a pedagogue for fifteen years, is neither narrow-minded nor pedantic; but being one of the cheeriest and most unconventional of “beaks” he is quite popular with all good fellows, including both his contemporaries and the more difficult tribe of boys. He is a good all-round sportsman who can shoot and ride, while his military aspect is the envy of the other Officers of the Eton Volunteers. He is an admirable coach who has turned out many brilliant oars; there is no more welcomed or more nervous man at Henley; he is a bold and almost reckless tow-path horseman; and he is known to all Etonians, past and present, as “Havvy.”''

Reginald Saumarez de Havilland (1861-1921) rowed with D.H. McLean at Eton, winning the Trial and Upper Eights in 1880. At Oxford he won the University Pairs for Corpus Christi and was in the Boat Race crews of 1882 and 1883, despite a lifelong affliction with asthma. “He was said to have had the roundest back and the strongest blade of all men of his day; his muscles were like iron, and were laid on his shoulders and back in great slabs, which caused the apparent roundness.” He was president of the O.U.B.C. in 1884, succeeded by D.H. McLean.

After a stint at Wellington, de Havilland returned to Eton in 1889 as a House Master and, according to the Eton Boating Book, “was almost at once invited to coach the Trial Eights.” He took over the Eight in 1893 from S.A. Donaldson, who found “[h]is method of dealing with the boys differ[ent] from the Warre tradition in the fact that he trains them as if they were men, and is not content with a marked beginning and a lively recovery, and the ‘swing, swing together’ of the Eton Boating Song.”  “Havvy” preserved Warre’s fixed-seat orthodoxy while increasing the slides to fifteen inches and layering on Muttlebury’s style for rowing on them. “The principles of both [fixed and sliding seats] are the same,” he wrote in a 1913 pamphlet for Eton junior coaches. “The slide is merely an artifice for lengthening the stroke.” Although de Havilland never himself competed at Henley, he coached Eton to eleven victories in the Ladies’ Plate over a twenty-six year career, including a seven-year run starting in 1893 with H.G. Gold at stroke. “Apart from his technical skill in shaping an oarsman and welding together the crew,” recalled The Times, “in which he carried on the torch of Edmond Warre, he had an unrivalled power of keeping them cheerful and dispelling the young oarsmen’s nervousness by his fatherly care of them during the trying ordeal of Henley Week. This must have won many races, besides laying the foundation of lifelong friendships.” He retired in 1920 and died the following year of heart failure.

The 1884 Torpids
Nearly all Vanity Fair rowing coverage concerned the Boat Race or, in lesser proportion, Henley Regatta. Yet occasionally the odd article about the Oxford or Cambridge college races would slip in, such as this one (March 1, 1884) on the Torpids featuring a Corpus crew coached by de Havilland:

''The Torpids came to an end at Oxford on Wednesday, after the usual six days’ racing. The Corpus boat kept the headship with unexpected ease. They are a strong, rough lot of hard workers, and, “form” being more necessary in the Torpids -- rowed as they are in clinker boats against a rapid stream -- than in any other races, their strength told. University fell every night, and finished in the disgraceful position of nineteenth boat. Wadham won five places, making two bumps on the last day. But the event of the races was the success of the despised Jesus men. Ever since the memorable year when the Jesus coach was heard to scream in despair from the tow-path to his College eight, “You’re all rowing very bad but five: and five is rowing d____d bad,” the Welshmen have consistently remained at the “bottom of the river;” but at last their pluck is rewarded. They have risen three places, and amongst their victims is St. John’s; and they would have bumped University had the races lasted two days longer.''


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The Rowers of Vanity Fair/McLean DH

“Ducker” (Spy), April 8, 1897
''A few years after his birth -- which happened some seven-and-thirty years ago in Australia -- he came to England to learn; but being an insubordinate little fellow he disagreed with seven or eight Head Masters before he was disciplined by the strong right arm of the Lower Master at Eton. So soon as he could swim he took to the river and studied the theory of rowing with a strength and solemn industry that presently made him so proficient on it that he rowed in three Eton eights. Then he went to New College, and continued to row so well on the higher reaches of the Thames that he was sent to Putney to row against Cambridge. This happened five times; and he is said to have once lost the race by breaking his oar at a critical moment. Since then, as coach, he has made many other oars; and it is not too much to say that the last five Dark Blue victories are more or less due to his knowledge of the art of rowing and his facile readiness to impart that knowledge to others.''

''His chief occupation is coaching: but when he is otherwise employed he lives in Somersetshire; where it is hard to communicate with him because he is remarkably averse from opening his letters. He has, however, played cricket for his county, and he has shown himself a smart wicket-keeper. He is also a fair shot, a very painstaking billiard-player, and a dignified person, who is equally imperturbable whether he is sitting as a Justice of the Peace or watching a close boat race.''

He has been seen smoking a cigarette.

Douglas Hamilton McLean (1863-1901) rowed for Eton, New College, Oxford, Oxford Etonians, and Leander over a ten-year career before becoming a highly-regarded coach. (For Vanity Fair to tease that coaching was “his chief occupation” suggests its familiarity with the ARA’s restrictive definition of amateur, which excluded anyone “employed in or about boats.”) McLean’s success was not a foregone conclusion, for although he “had shown considerable promise in Lower Fours and Lower Eights [and] sat up well in a boat,” recalled G.C. Bourne of his Eton days, McLean “was astonishingly clumsy in wrist and shoulder action. For a long time I thought that he never would make an oarsman. . . .” By the end of the 1882 season, McLean had won the Trial Eights once (at 12 stone 8, with R.S. de Havilland exactly two stone lighter), the House Fours and School Pulling twice, the Upper Eights three times, and was second Captain of Boats.

At Oxford McLean won the University Pairs for New College in 1885 and 1886, the same years he was O.U.B.C. President, and went head of the river in 1887. He was Captain of Leander in 1888. He rowed in five Boat Races, winning in 1883 and 1885. Although Cambridge won in 1884 by three lengths, Vanity Fair (April 12, 1884) found McLean “by far the best oar of the sixteen engaged, and is the best that has rowed in this race -- always excepting West -- for three years.” Yet McLean never had much success at Henley. He won the Ladies’ in 1882 with Eton and the Goblets in 1885 with his brother, Hector, but came up emptyhanded for the Grand despite six attempts. T.A. Cook recalled one moment of off-the-water drama involving McLean at Oxford in 1885:

''Benson had brought one of his companies down, at that time, to act Othello in the old theatre; and Miss Featherston-haugh as Desdemona was so ravishingly beautiful that when she was smothered in her night-gown an audible shudder went through all the spectators, and a tall man in front of me stood up and suddenly fainted. It was D.H. McLean, then President of the O.U.B.C., as I recognised when he was being taken out in the fresh air and a small undergraduate followed the procession carrying his gold spectacles. I hope the curtain had by then descended, for I am sure nobody looked at anything except “Dukker.”''

Following his appearance in Vanity Fair , McLean went over to Cambridge at the request of W. Dudley-Ward to help turn around their program in 1898 and 1899. In the South African war he commanded the 69th Sussex Company Imperial Yeomanry, and died of colitis in Johannesburg on February 8, 1901, becoming the only rower of Vanity Fair to die in that conflict.

The 1887 Boat Race: McLean’s Broken Oar
McLean was in India during the early Oxford trials. On returning he, “god-like, severed the nodus Dei vindice dignus by ousting Williams from No. 7 almost at the eleventh hour,” reported Vanity Fair (March 19, 1887), predicting an Oxford victory. “[He] is a born oar, and seems to row as well after his voyage from India as though he had been in the boat from the beginning.” In the event, Oxford lost because McLean cracked his oar, which led to Ayling’s invention of the patented brass button to reduce strain on the shaft. Vanity Fair ’s account (April 2, 1887):

''Until the accident to Maclean’s oar crippled the Oxford Eight just after Barnes Bridge, we thought that our forecast of the Boat Race was going to be precisely fulfilled: and had it not been for that cruel mishap, we firmly believe that Oxford would have reached the Ship before Cambridge. So we believed from the start. It seems a little ungracious thus to detract from the glory of the Light Blue victory but it is only justice to the vanquished. Look at the race. The Cantabs started off at two strokes to the minute more than Oxford; they had the better station; they had, as the event well showed, the better coxswain. Of course they took the lead. But they did so to a great extent on sufferance, and certainly we have never seen a long stern race rowed with fewer symptoms of raggedness or flurry than this one was rowed by the Oxford crew. For a quarter of an hour the leaders kept their lead, rowing the faster stroke all the time. Then the pace began to tell, the boat travelled more slowly, and the oar-blades began to strike irregularly. All this time their rivals were rowing steadily through the worst of the weather, and at Thorneycroft’s they were naturally two clear lengths to the bad. Then Titherington quickened slightly, and his men keeping well together, the gap began to decrease, until at Barnes Bridge there were not five yards of daylight between the two boats. Now came the favouring bend of the river, and Oxford gained faster. Just as their nose levelled with the other boat’s rudder came the crack. Maclean’s (No. 7’s) oar floated away in two pieces, and the race was over. Had it not been for this, Oxford must, we think, have passed their opponents, had not the latter been able to spurt strongly; and this we do not believe they could have done. As it was, they did their best, and were quite unable to finish strongly, gaining only a length and a-half in the last 500 yards from their crippled rivals.''

''Now, the Oxford stroke meant to make this effort after Barnes Bridge. Oxford knew that they would then have the bend in their favour, as well as comparative shelter from the wind; and they knew they had the advantages of weight and better condition. The last five minutes of the race must have been a grand spectacle, at any rate; and the Oxford Eight, “fresh as daisies,” were rowing so well, with such uniform swing and time, that no oarsman could have thought them beaten, when an unkind fate suddenly extinguished their chance. There was, in fact, every chance of their rivalling the Cambridge win of last year, when the victors were led through Barnes Bridge to overhaul their leaders in the last quarter of a mile, if only Titherington had spurted. Why did he not do so before? Had he really quickened at any time after Hammersmith, Cambridge must have been beaten. Neither of the crews were first-rate in quality; but Oxford were an average crew with a headless stroke, and he lost the race. To ourselves it seemed that Maclean’s temper got the better of him because stroke would not quicken, and that a vicious tug at his oar caused its collapse; and there was good excuse for temper in a fresh crew, trying to row their rivals down, but kept from doing so by the slow stroke of the man upon whom they could not quicken. This is not the first time an “accident” of this kind has happened to an Oxford Eight. In 1877 the Dark Blues were winning easily, when, just at the same spot, Cowles’s oar snapped. The result then was the famous dead-heat. On each occasion Oxford has lost a victory by the breaking of an oar. But on this occasion Oxford would have led, if their stroke had quickened, long before Barnes Bridge.''

''Hint to the respective Presidents of the University Boat Clubs: -- Don’t in the future row with new oars, which have only been tried during the last two days of practice, when no hard work is done. Better an old and well-tried blade than a good-looking new one. Oar-blades and sword-blades alike need strong tests before they can be relied upon, as recent events have more than proved of both.''

Guy Nickalls’ account from No. 2 in the Oxford crew:

''There was no doubt over the whole course that we were the faster crew, but Frank Wethered damned the whole outfit. An hour before the race we rowed two minutes at 40 from the start. Dissatisfied with the row, which was certainly scrambled, we were taken back to the start and made to row as hard as we could back to the Mile Post. When we started the race an hour later I was dead to the world and stale, as were all the new blues. Cambridge led us a length under Barnes Bridge and Titherington was holding his spurt. We were on Middlesex shore, and, out of the corner of my eye, I could see the Cambridge cox bobbing back to us at every stroke. Titherington began his spurt; back they came to us. I was opposite their stroke; we knew the race must be ours and Holland yelled: “It’s all right, we’ve got ‘em!”  Then, “Ducker” McLean broke his oar off short at the button. With the station in our favour and him out of the boat we could have won even then, but “Ducker” funked the oncoming penny steamers and, instead of jumping overboard as he should have done, we had to lug his now useless body along, to lose the finish. That was disappointing. Titherington was a fine stroke.''

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Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment

Table of Contents
/Note to Readers/ |  /About the Authors/

Foundations of Education

 * 1) /Educator as a Professional/
 * 2) /Educational Philosophy/
 * 3) /History of Education/
 * 4) /Educational Reform/
 * 5) Diversity: Classroom Practices and Law
 * 6) Sociological Influences: Economics and Culture
 * 7) /School Organization/
 * 8) /Curriculum/
 * 9) /Effective Schools/
 * 10) /Effective Teaching/
 * 11) /Classroom Management/
 * 12) /Ethics and Law/
 * 13) /Technology/

Instructional Assessment
Expanded Table of Contents
 * 1) Involving Students in the Assessment Process
 * 2) /Grading/
 * 3) /Performance Assessment and Rubrics/
 * 4) /Assessment Strategies/
 * 5) /Standardized Testing/


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The Rowers of Vanity Fair/McKenna R

“In the Winning Crew” (Spy), October 31, 1906
''Mr. Reginald McKenna is a man who takes himself and his politics with becoming gravity. He was educated in the first place privately, in the second at King’s College, London, and in the third at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he developed views on the science of oarsmanship, and was promoted to a seat in the Cambridge Eight of 1887. He was, moreover, in the crews that won the Grand and Stewards’ Cups at Henley. On leaving the University he was called to the Bar, but abandoned that profession on his election to Parliament.''

''As Honorary Secretary of the Free Trade Union it has been the peculiar pride of Mr. McKenna to keep an eye upon Mr. Chamberlain. When in 1904 Mr. Austin Chamberlain proposed a tax that might have assisted the tobacco-stripping industry, Mr. McKenna was earnest in his efforts to aid foreign labour as against British workers, and finally forced Mr. Chamberlain to yield a rebate. This notable achievement met its reward in his subsequent appointment as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.''

''He was, and in some manner still is, a disciple of Sir Charles Dilke. He is popular with his own side, and behind his air of aggression is earnest and sensitive. He has now an opportunity to tackle reforms in the Customs, a department where justifiable discontent exists in the subordinate ranks. It has yet to be seen whether he is equal to the task.''

“The Universal Puzzle Is: Find Mr. McKenna” (Owl), April 23, 1913
''Mr. M’Kenna is not famous, we regret to say. He has held some public offices. True. He has made failures therein. Also true. Too true. Always. Everywhere.''

''I do not wish to be personal in these notes. Yet I cannot help feeling that if Mr. M’Kenna is famous (as some say) let the rest of us be infamous.''

''Mr. M’Kenna is entitled to be addressed as right hon. My laundress is both right and hon. But she cannot control votes. So I think she would not figure largely as the head of the Board of Education, or as First Lord of the Admiralty, as [sic] as Secretary of the Home Office. Neither did Mr. M’Kenna. Let us pass all that, however.''

''Mr. M’Kenna was born, and yet the place and date escape me. He bowed the Cambridge Eight in 1887. Good work. On the strength of this it was publicly stated that Mr. M’Kenna was qualified for the Admiralty. More than this or that is needed to qualify Mr. M’Kenna.''

However, Mr. M’Kenna has been kept in the public eye -- very much as a cinder might be -- irritatingly and intrusively.

''Mr. M’Kenna suffers most from his friends. His enemies would soon forget him. It is a great pity that Mr. M’Kenna should have greatness thrust upon him, for he was not born great, nor has he achieved it.''

Too bad.

Really, it is all too bad.

In outline, Reginald McKenna (1863-1943) shadows C.W. Dilke, his mentor -- Trinity Hall scholar and athlete in the Leslie Stephen mold, oarsman, barrister, Liberal M.P., Cabinet Minister, statesman. The outline differs mainly in Dilke’s bent toward literary and foreign affairs, versus McKenna’s in finance, an interest rooted in a youth of near-poverty due to his father having lost most of the family money in the “Overend Gurney” bank failure of the 1860s.

Born days after Dilke’s first appearance at Henley, McKenna went up to Trinity Hall when Steve Fairbairn was keeping Jesus College head of the Cam and C.W. Dilke was in the Foreign Office. McKenna had the good sense to learn from both in turn. Graduating in 1885 as the Senior Optime of the mathematical tripos, he stayed on to take an unofficial degree in rowing. Fairbairn tutored McKenna on the river and in his rooms which featured a slide, a rigger, and a portion of an oar to practice endless chain movements. “I was in Trinity Hall at 6 a.m. every morning with Bristowe and McKenna, teaching these turns in 1886,” Fairbairn recalled. That year McKenna rowed in the Hall eight that wrested the headship from Jesus and won the Grand. In 1887 he rowed in the Cambridge crew that pulled away from Oxford when McLean’s oar broke, and at Henley he won the Stewards’, the Hall having its annus mirabilis by taking the Grand, Ladies’, Thames, and Visitors’ as well. (Hoping for the club to repeat, which of course it did not, Dilke gave £100 to their Henley fund in April 1888 and earned a vote of thanks that carried by acclamation.) In securing the 1887 victories, the club history credits McKenna with teaching the crews to use long slides, as de Havilland would do at Eton several years later:

''[McKenna] thought out the whole theory of rowing afresh for himself, being helped not a little by his knowledge of physics. Sooner than anyone at the Hall he realised that the Jesus crews were on the right lines in adopting the long 15-inch slide, and he convinced Bristowe and Propert of this; but though the Jesus crew, the only crew rowing on long slides, kept Head in ‘84 with the greatest ease, the official style at the Hall, with a succession of Etonian captains, was still the Etonian short slide with the emphasis on “beginning” and body swing, and it was not till ‘86 that the long slide won its way into general use.''

During the late 1880s McKenna was a rowing guest at Dockett Eddy of Dilke, who was then in political exile following the Crawford case. McKenna failed in his first run for Parliament in 1892, when Dilke reentered for the Forest of Dean, but won in 1895 despite being a Liberal and represented North Monmouthshire thereafter to 1918. Shortly after the 1895 election Dilke went on record to say, in paraphrase, that “any man of ordinary parts who stuck to his task day after day and night after night for ten years would find himself on the Treasury Bench at the end.” McKenna took the advice and proved it right, becoming Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1905. Indeed, by 1905 McKenna could look back on a decade of close political association with Dilke to “say without qualification that he owed more to Charles Dilke than to any other six men dead or living,” in the words of McKenna’s biographer.

''Exact knowledge, unremitting industry, lucid expression: these were lessons that he might indeed have learnt for himself, but it was at the house in Sloane Street that he had received his introduction to Liberal society and it was by Dilke that he had been taught -- perhaps for better, perhaps for worse -- to prefer logic and hard facts to rhetoric and emotion. . . [and] the paramount importance of businesslike administration.''

McKenna became President of the Board of Education in 1907 (shortly after his first appearance in Vanity Fair ) and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1908, from which position as “a staunch disciple of Dilke’s naval policy” he promoted the buildup of the British fleet, which proved prescient for the 1914-18 war. In 1911 he moved to Asquith’s Home Office where in 1913 he had to decide whether to force-feed imprisoned women suffragists or let them starve to death, a Hobson’s choice he attempted to resolve by seeking and obtaining passage of the “Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act, 1913.” Generally known as the “Cat and Mouse Act,” the law gave McKenna discretion to “license out” prisoners who were close to starvation (so that any continuation of their hunger strike was on their own heads), but also to revoke parole promptly for any new offense. It pleased hardly anyody: neither the suffragists, for it did not give them the right to vote and weakened the political impact of their in-prison hunger strikes; nor did it please their opponents, who viewed early release on these grounds as an affront to law and order. McKenna’s second appearance in Vanity Fair dates to that episode, in which the magazine, by then under Allinson’s uninspired hand and destined for absorption into Hearth and Home, came down vitriolically for the suffragists.

During the war McKenna began to shift out of politics to spend the remaining third of his life in finance. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he financed Britain in the war and at home, following the rule laid out in his 1916 budget speech: “We never borrow a pound without making provision in advance by new taxation sufficient to cover both interest and a liberal sinking fund.”  After the war he chaired the committee appointed to locate German capital held abroad and retrieve it for reparations. Shut out of the coalition government formed in late 1916, McKenna soon joined the Midland Bank, becoming its chairman in 1919 and holding that post until his death in 1943. “[H]is annual expositions on banking problems at the Midland Bank’s general meetings came to be regarded as one of the events of the banking year,” wrote the Times. “But he had many critics. Though in fact a kindly and genial being, his manner, as the House of Commons had noted an an earlier date, was apt to be donnish.” Lord Beaverbrook wrote that McKenna “likes to assert his view, and if you run against some projecting bump in his opinions you must merely nurse a bruise,” while an unnamed M.P. reportedly quipped that McKenna’s chosen epitaph would be:  “I WAS RIGHT.”

Early Fairbairnism
When Steve Fairbairn of Melbourne, Australia came up to Jesus College, Cambridge in 1881, he had already formed definite views on rowing. His eldest brother had also been up to Jesus and, coming back in 1877, stroked the Melbourne Rowing Club and the first winning Inter-State crew. When asked, “Why don’t you row in the Varsity style?” he said: “Because others can’t, and you will find [the Melbourne] style is better when you get into it.”  Steve Fairbairn thus came to Cambridge, “prepared to find the Varsity style not to perfection,” and indeed found as a freshman in the Blue boat “the coaching for style very bad.”  In reaction, at Jesus he not only rowed in but coached the May boat (which went head of the river 1875-85), telling the man who nominally had the job:  “Do you mind not speaking to the crew; your talking is upsetting their rowing.”  He rowed in the Boat Race 1882, 1883, 1886, and 1887, on the last occasion with Reginald McKenna. While Fairbairn’s major mark on English rowing came after his return from Australia to Jesus in 1904, where his coaching became progressively revered, it seems fair to infer that he taught McKenna in 1886 much of what he shared a half century later with the rest of the world in Chats on Rowing (1934):

''Rowing like everything else is a religion, and I fancy oarsmen at times have been in the same frame of mind as the Scotch Meenister who after playing a bad round of golf said to his partner, “I must give it up.” “What! gi’e oop the gawf?” “Na, na, gi’e oop the meenistry.”  Oarsmen and coaches are very apt to coach for too much length, for showy body form, thereby breaking the rhythm, or worshipping the golden calf. The rhythmical movements of the good oarsman are not showy; they are all smooth and easy and machine-like. The better the oarsman the longer and harder he rows, but the less do his movements show. Trying to row too long breaks the rhythm and ruins the oarsman.''

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''[The oarsman] must go in for no showy movement. He must not try for any exaggerations. He must meet his stretcher fair and square. In fact, rowing is summed up in the saying: AS YOU MEET YOUR STRETCHER SO YOU MEET YOUR GOD. And this applies to every walk in life. If an oarsman sees that he does his best to propel the boat the next stroke, he will be doing his best to propel far more than the boat.''

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''Teaching to shoot the slide or to bend the back or to go for any point would be fatal, and there is a tendency to do this now, especially to shoot the slide. Coaches must stick to concentrating the oarsman on working the oar to move the boat, and so get an endless chain movement.''

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''Probably every oarsman, when starting, thinks the stroke is a lot of separate movements; first a direct backward movement, a stop with the weight sitting on the seat, while the oar is taken out of the water, then the hands away, and then swing forward. No doubt this was the thought of the old text-books, with their “drop the hands down, bring the oar out and then feather,” having by the way rowed the oar in, to touch the chest. All hopelessly wrong; a collection of stops, and angular movements, instead of an endless chain, rounded, spinning movement, running one stroke into the next with no check.''

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''The best way to coach is to have two crews, and let the second crew keep in front of the first boat. The best coach in the world is the bows of a faster boat moving behind a crew; it keeps them concentrated.''

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''Also the first rule in coaching is: keep your mouth shut. Have patience and get the crew keen, and improvement will come from the daily row conditioning the muscles, through the unconscious action of the Subjective Mind which has free play with the keen but silent coach. Telepathy will pass his thought to the crew.''

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''As I frequently say, a man is a better oarsman after ten years than after five, the reason is that these movements that I am advising take a very long time to become a stereotyped part of the oarsman’s movements, owing to his not understanding, and consequently not practising, them. Mileage makes champions, because the whole muscular system has to be conditioned. One must not think that by learning watermanship through these exercises that nothing more is needed. He will still require plenty of honest, long, hard work.''

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''The straight path to peace and contentment in rowing is to be got by eliminating all rush, worry, anxiety, and fear, and this is done by unscrewing the tension nut. When the machines for shearing sheep came into use in Australia there was a tension nut, and when anything went wrong the shearers would screw up the tension nut, and so I suppose put more effort into the machine, and so when anything goes wrong in a boat the oarsman stiffens himself and increases the tension, and so spoils his rowing.''

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There is an old saying that one should always practise the three C’s, “Keep Quite Cool,” and if every oarsman did that always, each would be doing his best, there would be no tension, and the faces would all be quite placid, and then they would be able to keep quite calm, cool, and collected (the five K’s).

title: The Rowers of Vanity Fair/McKenna R


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