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User talk:Tarquin

Tarquin's Talk page: leave comments & questions at the bottom of this page. I usually reply here.

Archives

 * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 1 (Jan-Nov 02) when I was young and naïve
 * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 2 (Nov 02-Jan 03) when I was bitter and twisted
 * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 3 (Jan-March 03) when I was... bitter and twisted some more, probably ;-)
 * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 4 (March-May 03) when I was tired and weary
 * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 5 (May-September 03) enough already

Press release
Editing on the meta version of the press release has effectively stopped. Please be advised that we may be distributing the non-English press releases as early as Monday 29 September. The English version will be distributed the week after in order to smooth out the load on our servers. --maveric149 22 Sep 2003

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Wikipedia is in desperate need of articles on nose-picking!

 * Oh yeah, you're clearly qualified to discuss the relevance of an Anais Nin commencement speech with me. Malcs64

 * what I put on my user page is my own business. The above was in response to something that happened a long time ago. -- Tarquin 09:43, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)

 * What obscenities I delete from your user page is everyone's business. You childishly defend the indefensible.  OmegaMan

 * I have no idea what you are saying. User pages are considered private property on WP unless extremely offensive. Please leave mine alone -- Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Well, it would be purely argumentative to disagree over Tarquin's arbitrary distinction (NOT Wikipedia's) between "extremely offensive" and "moderately offensive". Yes, I deleted your "social theory" weeks ago.  OmegaMan

 * Please leave my user page alone. -- Tarquin 21:07, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Any chance of persuading you to voluntarily remove your "social theory" simply on the grounds of good taste? [I am making the precarious presumption that you understand the concept.]  By the way, why did you think such nonsense was important enough to restore?  OmegaMan

Omegaman, please leave his dang talk page alone. This is why you aren't on WikiPedia anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.174.173.102 (talk) 19:35, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

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asking a favor
Hello, Tarquin.

I have a favor to ask to a French ambassador. Would you somehow let the IP user from 217.64.171.225 know the message at fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Tomos?

I am not sure if the person can read English (although my message is in English because I cannot write in French). It seems s/he is most active at fr. wikipedia after comparing with en., ja., and de.

And I wrote the message at my discussion page, just because I did not want to be rude by writing it at his/her page.

many thanks,

Tomos 19:47, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) I can be reached at ja:利用者‐会話:Tomos or en:User talk:Tomos

Hi, Tarquin,

My original contribution at Wikipedia talk:Americocentrism came out sounding offensive, so I have revised it. I didn't want to offend anyone but just make the point that I don't think that turning a predilection into an ism is the best way to make articles comprehensive. Trontonian 23:29, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Care to suggest a better name and tweak the page a bit? Tarquin 13:25, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I still think the best solution would be to provide some examples of carious types of centrism. It just occurred to me that the original article about American football was Eurocentric. It seemed to have been written by someone who'd never played the game or seen much of it. It and the Canadian football articles still talk about number 3 rugby balls instead of giving the actual specifications of the balls used in the games. I also tried to introduce some balance into Ice hockey. Because there are two varieties of the game it's important to cover them both adequately.

At the moment I'm writing a lot of jazz stubs, and every one has been about an American (Oscar Peterson already had an article). I hope that the struggle against Americocentrism doesn't lead to the sections on jazz ending up like a printed encyclopedia of jazz I have, in which minor European figures are given equal prominence with people who played jazz as a living music rather than as a novelty. The printed encyclopedia has no article about Hazel Scott, but it has one about Ronnie Scott, for example. I bet buddy might even think Hazel wasn't a jazz figure -- purist Europeans did boo Muddy Waters for playing electric guitar. Trontonian 18:45, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * In fact I went back and checked the hockey article and it was still slightly biased towards international rules, so I've been fixing that up. So there you have proof of the need to be alert for national bias. Trontonian

 * FWIW, I point out bias towards France on the fr: wikipedia ;) -- Tarquin 20:17, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Could you let me know the title? I had a quick look but couldn't find it (just looked for francocentrisme and francocentrique). Thanks. I'm Trontois over there. Trontonian

 * There's only a post on the mailing list so far. I've been planning to add a section about it to the main NPOV page. Apart form that, I've been modifying articles on cities to state that they're in France... -- Tarquin 13:17, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'm being more diligent about national POV as a result of our discussion. I am happy, though, that i have not so far run across the earnest Canadocentrism one finds so foten in the Canadian media. Trontonian 00:00, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Smooth Newt
I recently started with cleaning up some of the amphibian pages, and came along the Newt page. I wonder about the taxonomic name of the Smooth Newt you gave there (and in the image description) - Lophinus punctatus. Google couldn't find much about that one (most were wikipedia and copies of it), thus I searched the common name, but that one gave me the taxonomic name Triturus vulgaris. Is L. punctatus a different species? Or just a very uncommon alias name? andy 22:20, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Noel sur fr:
aux fêtes, que les choses soient claires, Tarquin. Je ne soutiens pas particulierement ce logo. Je suis neutre en la matière. Je me suis étonnée que personne ne réagisse le moins du monde. Cela m'a paru curieux. Si tu quittes wiki fr pendant 15 jours sous prétexte qu'il est la, je n en veux pas :-) -- Anthere

 * franchement, entre les PDF, les titres de pages tout en anglais comme ASCII en tout mots, cette idee d'une association avec un serveur en france -- je commence en avoir marre du fr:. Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas. -- Tarquin 22:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas non plus. En plus de l'association, il y a le fait de ne pas admettre qu'on puisse ne pas etre d'accord avec la nomination de Céréales Killer au status d'admin, il y a le fait que les règles sont faites pour certains, mais pas pour d'autres, il y a les copyrights sur les images, il y a les problèmes de pov, il y a beaucoup de choses. Trop :-)

La Vie en Rose
Nous les en: l'en avons. Les fr: non plus - qu'une xref vide chez Edith Piaf. Peut-être un petit cadeau soit necessaire? - unkamunka. 22:32 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Why did you move Kitchener back? Standard practice is to use peerage titles in article titles unless the person is much better known without them (e.g. Disraeli, Baldwin, and so forth). I'd say that's not the case with Kitchener, and that he should be listed with his peerage title. john 17:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * It is? and he is? Oh well. I'm obviously not up to date on the most recent title conventions. Sorry -- Tarquin 08:56, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks...
... for the fix on the Hi-Q disambiguation page. I was lazy. I looked at a random disambiguation page and copied its style instead of looking for the right boilerplate. Now if only I could remember which one and fix that... Jmabel 19:27, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * no problem :) -- Tarquin 20:48, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for your advice concerning naming pics. Its the first time i've loaded one. Should I reload the picture under a new name or leave it as it is do you think ? ledgerbob 11:56, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * No problem :) It might be an idea to reload it as a longer name. THe problem with "alexander" is that it could be used by someone else uploading a pic of another Alexander, such as Alexander the Great, etc. -- Tarquin 12:00, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Will do ... thanks ledgerbob 12:07, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Paddington Skin?
What's the news on this? I stumbled across the reference and scurried over to the Test Wiki to try it out but I can't find any trace. It's mentioned a couple of times on Meta but I haven't actually been able to view it. Phil 10:25, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

 * It's here: Paddington skin. You can't see it directly because HTML files are sent by the server as text for security. You'll need to dowbnload it. I've had very little feedback from it. I'm currently thinking of starting  a new design from scratch, or maybe starting a design document first. -- Tarquin 10:29, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Holy Marge mother of Crust, you're right! I've been had, I'm going to write to the Church of the Order of the Toast and demand my money back!

The image on "Teacher"
I would be happy to disclose from where the image comes. But first, can you tell me why it's important? —Vespristiano 20:29, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)

 * Please accept my apology—I checked "Image description page" and discovered you're absolutely right: I should add copyright information. When I get the chance, I will update the description page for that image as well as another one I uploaded. —Vespristiano 20:45, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)

I came across this little tidbit

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Enjoy. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

 * You mean I'm heading for a fall? ;) -- Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thumbnail CSS stylesheets
Hello tarquin, the stylesheets you offered to review can be found at http://jeluf.mormo.org/testwiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stylesheets, I've removed everything hardcoded except the width:, this can be tuned via LocalSettings.php and is needed by the image resizing tool. -- JeLuF 16:12, Jan 5, 2004 (UTC)

Numbers in the Bible
Even for non-believers, the Holy Bible has had a profound cultural impact, and numerical symbolisms used in or suggested by the Bible are copied into secular culture. Of course, some numbers in the Bible are more important than others and I concede that I'm neither a theologian nor a mathematician. User:Robert_Happelberg

Delete request
Tarquin,

Please delete Psittacidae and Psittaciformes. I will be moving parrot (family) and parrot (order) to those pages and want to preserve edit history. Thanks! - UtherSRG 17:49, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah... you are correct. Thanks anyway! - UtherSRG 18:04, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * ok. No problem :) -- Tarquin 20:19, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject French départements
Hi Tarquin. Maybe you wouldn't mind having a quick look at WikiProject French départements, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject French départements. I've proposed transferring the tables currently in use on the french wikipedia to the english one, and would quite like some feedback before I start inserting them into the département articles. Thanks, snoyes 14:32, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Article series
Hi, you had previously expressed an interest in Article series. Jengod, Jiang and I disagree on what types of articles are suitable for a series and. Just thought I'd let you know since watchlists aren't usually working these, and only three people have opined at all. Tuf-Kat 07:42, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hundred and
I would only be too happy to do add the word "and" to the articles on numbers, but others have already started to do it for me (look at 360 in the article on 300). The discussion on this issue is spread out all over the place. I would like to gather it all at WikiProject Numbers. For the time being I really would rather not worry about it. If I write the article on 400, I will make the stubs on 401 to 499 shorter by excluding the spelled out form of those numbers, therefore bypassing the issue altogether until the stubs grow to merit their own articles.

The work on these number articles is a noble effort and I don't want to see that effort disrupted by this issue over one word. PrimeFan 17:32, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Stingray Nebula
Thanks for the welcome and advice on Stingray Nebula! (I actually copied some text and adapted it from a Nasa article.) Sennheiser

Animated gif
You expressed some concern over the idea of an animated gif, so I solicit your opinion as to whether my proposed image is a good idea. You can see it on Talk:Central limit theorem. Cheers, Cyan 04:18, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Press contact
You still want to be the press contact for the UK? If so, please add your name and contact information to Press releases/February 2004. --mav

Press Release
I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum

 * I'm afraid my email is out at the moment. -- Tarquin 15:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tetration
Wikipedia has no page for tetration. Why, then, did you bring it up but not add a page for it??

 * beacause it's another word for the thing I mentioned it on! - Tarquin 14:11, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia's layout development
Layout development --Maio 05:17, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Cologne Blue v2.0?
comments? HTML identation is a mess (will fix later). Ignore the Geocities banners, valid XHTML strict (w3 validator).

(#pd: I posted this message on your User page by accident)

--Maio 01:48, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * Barging in to say nice! Dori | Talk 03:08, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * Looks good! But why are you using a TABLE for the header? Could you use the hooks I suggested on Meta for print stylesheet and page settings? -- Tarquin 10:22, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I was forced to do so, I hate them with all my heart. :( I wanted to use CSS-tables but the problem was the background color and floating elements: if you use a CSS-table with floating elements, the background-color covers the static (non-floating) element only. In the case of the skin, the size of the 2 cells can differ for each browser. For example, I'm pretty sure than in Netscape Navigator, the right-cell is the biggest one; while in MSIE, the left cell is the biggest. (h8 broswer compatibility) Could you point me out to your suggestions on Meta? --Maio 22:19, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * For Cologne, try the mockup I made: Cologne skin. Feel free to plunder that for tricks. As far as hooks etc go, please read the Layout design document and the Layout design document/Page architecture technical thingy. The idea was that if all layout templates conform to a basic HTML element architecture, then we can have a number of things handled by a global stylesheet and alsoa global print stylesheet. -- Tarquin 16:43, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ordres de grandeur
J'ai découvert un peu par hasard le gros boulot fait sur en: concernant les ordres de grandeur, je vois que tu y as participé. Maintenant j'aimerais transposer ceci sur fr:. As-tu des conseils a donner ? Je n'ai pas encore pris le temps de lire toutes les pages de discussion...

Contacte-moi sur fr:, je ne traine ici que rarement. Beatnick 13:00, 25 Mar 2004

Stewards
Hi, please could you make an account on test so you your steward access can be set. Thank you. Angela. 06:13, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * Done. :) -- Tarquin 07:11, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, it seems I might have been wrong to assume you were to be made a steward. See m:talk:stewards. Angela. 22:18, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * ah. I'm not sure what they are anyway and I have only just found from that page that there was a vote. I am off the ML these days :)

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Hi! Can you please translate the election notice * into French and post it prominently on the Recent Changes page of the French Wikipedia. Once you have done that, please let me know, and leave me a link where I can find it. Thanks. User:Danny

 * I'm not currently involved with fr: since they repeatedly muck about with the logo in manners I consider to be non-NPOV. -- Tarquin 14:36, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Kensington (Olympia)
I notice you've edited Kensington Olympia in the past. Would you be willing to use your admin privileges to help move that page to Kensington (Olympia) station - the current page there is pithy and duplicating and there's a need for consistency. Timrollpickering 07:05, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Done :) -- Tarquin 09:22, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks! Timrollpickering 10:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

mysterious foo
Tarquin, I have no idea what's happened so am not sure you're the person to speak with. And, in case we have different ideas on this. Nevertheless, I'll have a go at it.

I noticed a little while ago that there was no article Foo. So I created one. Someone suggested it should be a redirect to metasyntactic variable, and I disagreed as this more than a foo puzzled person probably wants to know in the first instance, and thus over much parsimony in articles. However that may be, I happened to end up at foo just now, only to find myself at metasyn... What had happened, I naturally asked myself?

I found at the redirect page (foo) no evidence whatsoever of my recent creation nor any discussion of whether it deserved independent existence. The Talk page included a note from you from 02 suggesting that it be a redirect and requesting comment. And thus to you.

I am not so old an admin that I want to go crashing around (with my vast Cthululian powers) causing trouble trying to find out what has happened. Can you enlighten a benighted and so save civilization from my spastic fingers? ww 17:39, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * (channeling Gilda Ratner), never mind. I created FOO, it's scrolled off my contributions list, and I lost it. You (!) even added the message that it ought to be merged now that I look at the page history. Not sure what to do yet. Thanks for reading the ravings above and I'll just slink softly off the stage now... ww

Plugs
I'd like to invite you to vote on what to do with the plug pages. See Talk:Mains power plug.

Hemiola
Hi, I thank you for providing it, and I was wondering if you could tell me the tempo of your musical example on hemiola? Thanks. Hyacinth 07:14, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * the MIDI sequence I used to make that image sounds best at around 150 crothets / min. -- Tarquin 08:15, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, nice to see you around. So many people have disappeared lately, I'm beginning to feel like an old-timer (wait a minute, I am an old-timer). I probably should give it a rest myself, but can't seem to tear myself away, probably because I've always been a ten or twenty-a-day kind of girl, rather than wearing myself out with a couple of thousand contributions a week. Deb 17:29, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Another old-timer rises from the grave. Back after sabbatical, Ortolan88 19:00, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Deb! Ortolan! Great to see both of you back :) -- Tarquin 20:42, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Slug
Salut. J'avais copié sur fr: ta belle image de limace.Est-elle sous GFDL ? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Limace.JPG --Youssef 14:02, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Oui, et je pars a l'instant ajouter la notice. J'espere prendre une photo de limace plus nette, mais j'attends d'en trouver une aussi horrible! -- Tarquin 08:45, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Cette photo là est déjà très bien. Merci beaucoup :-) --Youssef 12:11, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ferdinand de Saussure
hello,

I'm adressing you since you're listed as the french wikipedia ambassador.

we were wandering how should the name 'Ferdinand de Saussure' be pronounced.

thanks in advance,

Felagund

 * This is a guess, but I would say: the last 'd' is silent, and all the 's's in Saussure are 's' rather than 'z'. So it will sound like 'chaussure' said by someone with a lisp. -- Tarquin 11:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image help, Please!
I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? Also, the fourth image down is in conflict with the text. I can't figure it out. Tom 19:42, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image help, Please!
I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? Tom 19:40, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

TV Naming conventions.
At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. Mintguy (T) 16:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure I understand what's been going on there, so I don't really want to vote on anything. But you can assume whatever I voted for or said in the past stands :) -- Tarquin 14:35, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Data Management Wiki Committee
Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:28, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

RP
Hey there. Regarding your media files in the RP talk page, one is missing and the other cuts short towards the end of 'talk'. Could you re-upload them or give new samples (i'd be interested in hearing them). Also, for the benefit of the guy above your comment, could you do 'cot, 'caught' and the other one too. ta. Nicholas

 * I'l look into it. -- Tarquin 13:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Counties policy
Hello I have added an explanation note to the counties naming policy at Naming conventions (places). I have done this to make it clearer because certain people have insisted upon mis-interpreting it (see Shipston-on-Stour and Talk:Gloucestershire). I dont think it has changed the policy just explained it better.

It has already been OK'd by User:Angela and User:Warofdreams, is it OK with you?. The reason I'm contacting you is because you voted on the original policy. G-Man 17:12, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User page protection
I am sending this message to a group of seasoned users whose opinions I respect. My aim is not to draw you into a dispute, but to canvass opinion on a contentious area of policy. If you have a few minutes to spare, please see the debate currently under way at Wikipedia talk:Protection policy, with particular reference to user page protection. For some reason, I seem to have fallen foul of a group of sysops who have made it their business to stamp out the practice of protecting one’s own user page. A sensible (in my opinion) proposal has been made to amend the policy, and I would be grateful if you would add your view, assuming you have one. Cheers. Deb 13:23, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Comments on photo
On the picture in http://images.webster-dictionary.org/wiki/7/74/Weevil_close-up.JPG was photographed weevil Liophloeus tessullatus Muell., the female. (V. N.)

 * Thanks! Updated the image description page. -- Tarquin 13:12, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)  20:10, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll get back to you on this later this month when I get my legal brain installed ;) What are the consequences of multi-licensing? Multi-licensing suggests there may be downsides. -- Tarquin 13:51, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Body Piercing
On your comments in the above article I take it that I can assume you think I probably self-harm because I have six piercings. Oh, and the fact that I have a tattoo only strengthens your arguement I suppose?

I don't think so, body piercing is NOT mutilation, unless of course the person piercing does it incorrectly, then you may have a 'strange/mutilated' body part where you had to take out aforementioned bad piercing.

Selphie 17:09, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) **

I see you haven't replied to me, why is that? Do you not talk to people who are "different" from yourself?

Selphie 11:19, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC) **

Sustainability category/project/series
Hi. I noticed you have worked on the Sustainability page. There has been, as you might expect, a little heat recently at the Hubbert Peak page, and some of us are discussing ways we might better organize the information about energy sources and developments. Articles/subjects that we are discussing the organization/hierarchy of include Hubbert Peak, Energy development, Sustainability, Future energy development, Alternatives to oil. It occurred to me that you might have some fresh ideas about how to go about organizing a rational hierarchy, whether it be a project, a system of categories, a series, or simply an informal vision. Please give your input at the bottom of Talk:Hubbert Peak. Tom - Talk 17:27, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

COTW
Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

Meta sysop
Hello Tarquin,

I noticed on Administrator on Meta that some sysops on Meta were to be confirmed in January, so I put it up on Requests for adminship. Accordng to the administrator page, ''Any sysop inactive on meta for a full year will be desysoped. "Inactive" means no edits in the past 6 months and less than 50 edits in the last year.'' You fall under that definition. So, if you do need sysophood, or don't need sysophood, or don't care either way, please say so on the Requests page. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  03:34, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

"Polish football"
Regarding your comment on Talk:Paper and pencil game, I think you may be looking for Paper Soccer.--Pharos 16:50, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * That's it! Thanks for pointing it out to me :) -- Tarquin 15:36, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Period at the end of sentence
Having nothing better to do, I keep on bugging everybody who at one point or another wrote a math article, and did not put a period at the end of formulas which are at the end of sentence. Not that it matters really much (although this is the correct style), but I would like to let you know about this for future reference. The artcle in question is Laplace operator which you started way in 2003. Happy editing! Oleg Alexandrov 06:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Lonodn Postal Districts
I have answered your question in Talk:Postcode -- RHaworth 09:08, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)

 * Thanks! Tarquin 12:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Dr. Martens, black, old.jpg
Hi, can you upload your picture to Commons? Then we can use it for french wikipedia also! Would be great. Thanks! --213.54.47.202 23:42, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Done! -- Tarquin 11:08, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! --213.54.47.202 14:20, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dungeons & Dragons move
When moving articles please fix double redirects. thanks. --Deelkar (talk) 00:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

British county names (again)
A year or so ago you kindly helped out with developing a policy on this. It's all going pear-shaped and I, for one, would be grateful if you'd take another look. I've raised an RfC or you can go straight to the Project's talk page. Thanks. Chris Jefferies 7 July 2005 16:35 (UTC)

 * Oh dear. If I may be blunt, are we dealing with the same nuts as last time or new ones? -- Tarquin 7 July 2005 18:16 (UTC)

Well, I'm the same nut as last time :-) Owain is still in favour of traditional counties all the way, but 80.255 doesn't seem to have been active on Wikipedia since early March so is not currently arguing.. er.. discussing the issues. If you have time, I'd appreciate another sane voice. Chris Jefferies 8 July 2005 00:34 (UTC)

80.255 is back again and this topic has become a hot potato all over again. There's been constant discussion and argument for weeks. We've now reached a critical point and are having a straw poll on a particular issue to see if we can make some progress that way; if this fails we may need to go to official mediation.

Would you be willing to take a look at the straw poll and consider voting? It was posted on the policy talk page on 22nd August 2005. Many thanks Chris Jefferies 23:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania competition
I thought you might like to know that since one of you images was one of the most popular WP:FPC nominations this year, I've entered it into the Wikimania Media Competition -- Solipsist 19:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks! :-) -- Tarquin 12:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Using European brown snail image
Hi Tarquin,

I work for the Environment Agency in England and Wales and we were wondering if we could use the above image for a scientific poster we are using? If you are - can you let me know how you would us to credit you? You can email me on kim.thomas@environment-agency.gov.uk

Many thanks,

Best wishes, Kim

 * Hi. My email's out at the moment. If you're using other pictures from Wikipedia too, I'm happy to just be included in a general credit to Wikipedia. But have you looked for snail images on Wikimedia Commons? There are some there that I think are rather better than my snail image. -- Tarquin 10:17, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Rosicrucian article
Dear user Tarquin, as I have seen an edition of yours (the third one) at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Featured_article_candidates. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Devanagari sample from hindi WP.PNG
Hi, I listed this article for deletion because it's obsolete and stuff. -Lethe | Talk 10:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:White_maggot.JPG
Hmmm... during a discusion with a biologist friend of mine on the subject of the fly, we came accross a picture you uploaded: His view was: "I wouldn't like to stake too much on it without properely identifying the species, but I'm reasonably convinced that the "white_maggot" image is actually not a maggot at all, but the larva of a beetle of some description!". I dont suppose you can remember where the picture came from? 62.189.44.102 15:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I took the picture myself, and I probably found the maggot in my garden. I expect it was taken not long before I uploaded it, so in the spring, if that helps. -- Tarquin 17:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day
Hi Tarquin,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Frogspawn closeup.JPG is up for a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 14th. If reused the caption from last time, but you can make any changes at Picture of the day/October 14, 2005. -- Solipsist 18:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi again, and thanks for making corrections to the caption. However, I see that you have removed the frogspawn link. Ideally the Pic of the Day caption should contain a primary link in bold which leads to an article which best uses the image. Would a link to spawning be better? -- Solipsist 20:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, I see. Frog is fine. I changed it because I think it's misleading to have the same page linked to twice in different ways. There is already a link to "frog". Having "frog|frogspawn" will make readers think there is an article "frogspawn". -- Tarquin 22:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm with you. Then lets make Frog the bold primary link. It is just as good at leading people to the right page where the picture is used and I doubt anyone will be too confused about the picture. -- Solipsist 08:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Organisation des traductions et Babel
Saluton, Tarquin, kiel fartas vi ?

Sur la page de discussion du projet traduction sur Wiki FR j'ai fait une ébauche de proposition pour intégrer le modèle Babel avec l'organisation des traductions. Comme Babel concerne tous les wikis, et que je ne parle pas assez bien anglais, on m'a conseillé de faire appel à un ambassadeur (c'est tombé sur toi, pas de chance).

Le lien : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projet/Traduction/Avancement#Int.C3.A9gration_avec_Babel._Centralisons_techniquement_et_d.C3.A9centralisons_les_initiatives

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Question regarding colloquial French
Hello, this may sound like a weird question, but how do you say "give me a break" in French? I can't find it in any dictionary, at least specifically, when I looked up "break" I got "interrompre", "pause," "repos," and "trêve." I know that basic verbs like "give," "get," and "have" barely ever translate directly, so I'm at a loss at what the French phrase is. Your response would be greatly appreciated.--67.184.163.248 18:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)Ikiroid

 * There's no real translation that I can think of; certainly nothing direct. 'laisses tomber', perhaps, which means 'drop it'. -- Tarquin 19:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks.--Ikiroid 16:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * "fous moi la paix","Laches-moi", "laches-moi les baskets" suggested by Taopaipai, Tarquin stalker

 * une autre question--comment dit-on "I don't care/whatever/it doesn't matter to me" en francais? I can't find a decent translation of it anywhere.--ikiroid | (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * many possibilities, one being "Je m'en tape", suggested by Taopaipai

Footnotes reminder
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Happy New Year
Regards, Arno 09:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Naming conventions for television shows (again)
I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

bicycle audio
are you still working on the bicycle audio file.? I've started. --CyclePat 01:42, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * No, I found I had problems recording. Go for it! :) -- Tarquin 13:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I have started but... boy it's long. I left my audio clips (ogg formate practically unedited) at talk:bicycle.  Maybe you could do some editing? --CyclePat 06:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Administrateur (francophone)
Bonjour,

j'ai vu que tu étais administrateur et que ça faisait assez longtemps que tu ne contribuais pas à wikipédia. Je me demandais si tu accepterais de renoncer à tes droits d'admin dans la mesure où ton engagement a beaucoup diminué (sauf bien sûr si tu prends une pause bien méritée et que tu penses revenir contribuer régulièrement). Il serait logique, à mon avis, de ne garder des "pouvoirs spéciaux" qu'aux administrateurs qui continuent de contribuer au projet. Ca nous permettrait d'y voir un peu plus clair. (certains admins actuels pensent que c'est une bonne idée, d'autres que ce n'est pas très gênant de garder les droits d'admins à des gens qui ont beaucoup contribué il y a longtemps). Poppypetty 15:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Oui, si ca vous facilite la vie. -- Tarquin 13:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * C'est fait, tu es maintenant désysoppé. -Ash_Crow 08:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Page name for temperature articles
To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 23:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

A user in despair
I am in desperate need of assistants. and a cohort of new users and anonymous Ips have for seven days inserted un-sourced and unverifiable information on the Flemming Rose page. I have in seven days asked (read the talk page) to source their insertions. None of them does (I believe most of them are Catstail anyway). Could I ask a helping hand, maybe lock this page for anonymous Ip and new user edit? At least give a 3rd party opinion? Twthmoses 17:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC) These are the users in case you are intreasted;

Ambassador
Hi Tarquin,

J'ai besoin de ton aide sur un point diplomatique et sur des points techniques plus secondaires.

Problème : Ils veulent contribuer sur ht en créole guadeloupéen. Je suis le seul administrateur de ht wiki et je ne veux pas bloquer ces internautes qui ont de l'énergie à revendre pour contribuer à wikipedia. Si je les bloque sine die, j'ai peur que certains décident de vandaliser le site ht, même si c'est fort peu probable (ils ne sont pas nombreux, et même l'un d'eux reconnait que ce serait compliqué à gérer). Solution (à mon sens) : il faudrait créer un site wiki pour le créole guadeloupéen et rediriger ces contributeurs vers ce site. Mais ce n'est pas si simple ! La Guadeloupe a son propre domaine internet gp. Wikipedia conseille plus un domaine sur la langue que sur le pays. Il faudrait donc choisir gpf (comme indiqué dans ethnologue). Mais la Martinique n'accepterait pas ce choix ; elle parle aussi ce créole. Ce n'est pas mon aire d'action, mais je pense que quelque chose plus proche de la langue créole serait plus facilement acceptée par ces deux parties : kzf (Krèyol de Zantilles Francé), ou quelque chose dans ce genre vu que je ne maîtrise pas bien le créole guadeloupéen. Requête : quelqu'un de meta pourrait prendre le rôle de tierce personne pour proposer une solution qui contente tout le monde. Personnellement, je pense que la solution de créer le site kzf et d'inciter ces contributeurs à le faire évoluer est la bonne. Il faut juste les pousser un peu, parce que je ne vois pas l'un d'entre eux faire la demande de création de site.
 * 1) Contexte : Je travaille sur le wiki ht (Haitian Creole). Des contributeurs ont écrit trois articles en créole guadeloupéen. Ce n'est pas grand chose, mais cela a entraîné tout de suite une discussion. Pour résumer, ces deux créoles font partie de la même famille de langues, mais ne sont pas pareils (voir le site de ethnologue ; je peux aussi donner d'autres sources si besoin).

 * 1) J'ai fait des requêtes techniques à la page suivante il y a quelques jours mais je ne sais si je suis allé sur la bonne page. Quelqu'un pourrait-il me faire un signe même si ensuite les réponses peuvent prendre du temps ?

In English, en français, oubyen avèk kreyòl, does not matter ! :)

Regards, --70.82.187.175 20:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC) => user page in creole

 * Il n'existe pas de code ISO 639 pour cette langue, mais peut-etre que ISO 639-3 travaille la-dessus, et il existe un code dans une version preliminaire? Autrement, je te conseille de contacter la list de diffusion. -- Tarquin 21:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

To newt or not to newt
Hello, Tarquin. Je me permet de te laisser un message : un utilisateur nous a contacté sur OTRS pour nous signaler qu'une de tes images sur commons, Image:Smooth newt.jpeg, serait mal identifiée, et qu'il ne s'agirait pas d'un smooth newt, mais plutôt d'un triton palmé triturus helveticus mâle ou Palmate newt. Une idée ? Solensean 00:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * je ne suis pas un expert, mais il me semble que le triton dans la photo n'a pas les pattes palmees, or c'est le case pour le palmate newt. -- Tarquin 11:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Il y a si longtemps...
... que je ne t'ai plus croisé sur fr ! J'espère que tu vas bien ! I am not a number 20:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Pas trop mal, merci, mais je n'ai plus souvent l'occasion de visiter Wikipedia. J'espere que les choses sur fr: vont bien. -- Tarquin 14:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Frog spawn photo
Dear Tarquin,

How would I go about obtaining permission to use this frog spawn photo on the cover of a small print run poetry book?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Frogspawn_closeup.jpg

Any insights are appreciated!

Thanks.

 * Dear unsigned, as it's GFDL, you can go ahead and use it. Please include the URL for the image description page on Commons as a credit for the cover, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Frogspawn_closeup.jpg Let me know when it's published too! -- Tarquin 14:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

NOR
There is akl angthy debate here, perhaps you have a comment Slrubenstein  |  Talk 16:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Translation Request (2 sentences)
For the front page of the Novial Test Wikipedia it would be nice to have a French translation of the following 2 sentences:

<>

Welcome to the Wikipedia in the Novial language!

You can read about the international auxiliary language Novial here.

<>

See the original request at Wikimedia Incubator here.

Thank you, Nov ialiste 17:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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Intentional error?
On your user page you have a line that says "at what point will Larry Sanger's" under the Thoughts on Wikipedia section. This, except Larry Sanger's links to Hari Seldon. It seems this would have to be intentional; I am confused. Please explain. --  thisma talk 19:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You'd have to read the Foundation series... ;) -- Tarquin 09:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject France
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frogspawn picture
Dear tarquin, I have listed your picture of frogspawn at Featured picture delisting candidates. Sorry.

If you want to, have a look at the nomination here: Featured picture candidates/delist/Frogspawn

Best, Witty Lama 21:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Jesus
Do you mean to blaspheme on your main page, or was it just a mistake. I can honestly say i was offended by that, and I demand for it to be taken down. Wikipedia is NOT more popular than Jesus, it is just a onciclopedia. Now take it DOWNN! Christine118500 12:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui - large.JPG
Hi, is this image taken in Europe? Could you add the locality info, and also in the Painted Lady taxobox? Thanks in adavance! Dysmorodrepanis 00:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I have added the info to the page. To add an image description to the taxobox, simply insert

 * | image_caption =

 * under the image_width (or image, if no width is given) and putting the description after the =. You can also add links in the description with the usual  format. Dysmorodrepanis 19:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Resource Exchange
Hi, can you please take a look at WikiProject Resource Exchange, I need your opinion on a big merge concerning your project. Key to the city 12:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi. I'm not sure what you mean, as it's been a long time since I've been properly involved in Wikipedia. If you mean the proposal to merge the four projects into that one, then it sounds like a good idea to me, and it has my approval -- though I don't recall being involved with any of those. -- Tarquin 14:00, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I proposed Arcology for deletion.
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Award
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Many thanks for Oliver
I normally roll my eyes when I think of the various Barnstars bestowed from one one Wikipedian to another, which is vaguely reminiscent of the plethora of medals that military types tend to wear across their chests on their uniforms. However I will grace your comments page with an unequivocal THANK'YA for your Oliver Heaviside article, which in its present state is quite compelling. Its a great choice. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 17:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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Cirex
Regards; The Reason an Italian Moderator to delete the article was because seems like I USED A TRANSLATOR WHICH NOT! I hired an italian called Sara Ballini for it.. can you checkout the draft please? https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Cirex Thnks! 14:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elwebmaster1 (talk • contribs)

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Proposed deletion of Photocopy
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Where should I put an article on Greek tragedy, as a genre of Greek Theater?

1) Tragedy; topic exists

2) Greek Theater; link mentioned

3) Greek Tragedy; would be new link

4) ???

How about Greek tragedy (capitalization is not needed for the T and is in fact counter to a Wikipedia naming convention.

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A rather bizarre article on Irish Public House. Where did you learn all those facts? From the same place Tom Cruise got his 'oirish' accent in Far and Away? I've never heard an Irish saint mentioned in a pub, ever. I don't know anyone who has ever taken poteen. (I've only ever seen it twice, both times used to feed to calves who had a severe life-threatening chill; it warmed them up sufficiently to keep them alive for a critical few hours. Though seeing a pissed calf, drunkenly lying with its tongue out, snoring madly is one of the funniest things ever. Almost as funny as seeing it with a hangover the next morning. But at least it is alive, which it wouldn't have been otherwise! The only funnier moment was finding a cat which had knocked over a creamy drink called Baileys and drank some, walking over a floor, pissed completely, followed by four kittens drank a few drops themselves. All five swaying from side to side, colliding, their tongues hanging out before collapsing in a heap on top of each other and snoring their heads off!)

As your the clichéd Irish catholic nonsense, Ireland has some of the most liberal gay laws in Europe (decades ahead of America), a prime minister who left his wife and is living with his girlfriend, religious attendances plummeting and two feminist presidents in a row (with a senior gay senator tipped to get the job next). Oh and today we are the only part of the continent of Europe buried in snow, which suggests our climate is not all that bad. Sorry, don't mean to bitch. Its just that your description of Irish bars was about as realistic as Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins. 'Holy Catholic' drink-laiden Ireland is about as realistic a Britain full of cockneys and men wearing bowler hats, French men who wear strings of garlic around their neck, or Germans who all have Kaiser Wilhelm moustaches. Fun cliché, but not real. (Don't worry. I'm not mad or anything, just amused. :))) JTD 04:36 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

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Arnhem

Arnhem ( or ; Arnheim ; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both banks of the rivers Nederrijn and Sint-Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development.

Arnhem is home to the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Netherlands Open Air Museum, Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein', Royal Burgers' Zoo, NOC*NSF and National Sports Centre Papendal. The north corner of the municipality is part of the Hoge Veluwe National Park. It is approximately 55 km2 in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands.

Early history

The oldest archeological findings of human activity around Arnhem are two firestones of about 70,000 years ago. These come from the Stone Age, when the Neanderthals lived in this part of Europe. In Schuytgraaf, remnants of a hunters camp from around 5000 BC have been discovered. In Schaarsbergen, twelve grave mounds were found from 2400 BC, which brought the so-called Neolithic Revolution to the area of Arnhem, which meant the rise of the farmers.

The earliest settlement in Arnhem dates from 1500 BC, of which traces have been found on the Hoogkamp, where the Van Goyenstraat is currently located. In the inner city, around the Sint-Jansbeek, traces of settlement have been found from around 700 BC, while the first traces south of the Rhine have been found dating to around 500 BC, in the Schuytgraaf.

Though the early tracks of settlements did show that the early residents of Arnhem descended from the forests on the hills, Arnhem was not built on the banks of the river Rhine, but a little higher along the Sint-Jansbeek. Arnhem arose on the location where the road between Nijmegen and Utrecht and Zutphen split. Seven streams provided the city with water, and only when the flow of the Rhine was changed in 1530, was the city located on the river.

Middle Ages
Arnhem was first mentioned as such in 893 as Arneym or Arentheym. In 1233, Count Otto II of Guelders from Zutphen, conferred city rights on the town, which had belonged to the abbey of Prüm, settled in, and fortified it. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by Charles the Bold of Burgundy.

16th and 17th century
In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor Charles V. As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of Utrecht during the Eighty Years' War in 1579. After its capture from the Spanish forces by Dutch and English troops in 1585 the city became part of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands. The French occupied the town from 1672 to 1674.

18th and 19th century

From 1795 to 1813, it was reoccupied by the French, by both revolutionary and imperial forces.

In the early 19th century, the former fortifications were almost completely dismantled, to give space for town expansion. The Sabelspoort (Sabresgate) is the only remaining part of the medieval walls.

In the 19th century, Arnhem was a genteel resort town famous for its picturesque beauty. It was known as "het Haagje van het oosten" (The Little Hague of the East), mainly because a number of rich former sugar barons or planters from the Indies settled there, as they did in The Hague. Even now the city is famous for its parks and greenery. The urbanization in the north on hilly terrain is also quite unusual for the Netherlands.

World War II
During the German occupation (World War II), the occupiers operated a subcamp of the Herzogenbusch concentration camp in the city.

During Operation Market Garden (September 1944), the British 1st Airborne Division, under the command of Major-General Roy Urquhart, and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem.

Glider infantry and paratrooper units were landed into the area on 17 September and later. The bulk of the force was dropped rather far from the bridge and never met their objective. A small element of the British 1st Airborne, the 2nd Parachute Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel John D. Frost, managed to make its way as far as the bridge but was unable to secure both sides. The British troops encountered stiff resistance from the German 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions, which had been stationed in and around the city.

The British force at the bridge eventually ran out of ammunition and was captured on 21 September, and a full withdrawal of the remaining forces was made on 26 September. These events were dramatized in the 1977 movie A Bridge Too Far. (The bridge scenes in the movie were shot in Deventer, where a similar bridge over the IJssel was available, as the area around Arnhem bridge had changed too much to represent WWII-era Arnhem). As a tribute, the rebuilt bridge was renamed 'John Frost Bridge' after the commander of the paratroopers. The official commemoration is 17 September.

The current bridge is the third almost-identical bridge built at the same spot. The Dutch Army destroyed the first bridge when the German Army invaded the Netherlands in 1940. The second bridge was destroyed by the United States Army Air Forces shortly after the 1944 battle.

Liberation
A second battle of Arnhem took place in April 1945 when the city was liberated by the British 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division fighting as part of the First Canadian Army. The inhabitants of the city, who had been forcibly evacuated by the Germans during and after the battle, returned in the summer of 1945. The reconstruction of Arnhem took until 1969 to finally be completed.

Just outside Arnhem, in the town of Oosterbeek the Commonwealth War Graves Commission built the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery which contains the graves of most of those killed during the September landings, and many of those killed in later fighting in the area.

The city also hosted the 1980 Summer Paralympics.

Neighbourhoods
The municipality of Arnhem consists of the city of Arnhem and the following surrounding suburbs and former villages:
 * Elden, Netherlands (former village, now totally surrounded by other Arnhem neighbourhoods)
 * Schaarsbergen

Arnhem consists of three districts (stadsdelen) and 24 neighbourhoods (wijken). Each neighbourhood has a number which corresponds to its postal code.

 * 1) Arnhem Centrum (Binnenstad)
 * 2) Arnhem-North (Spijkerkwartier, Arnhemse Broek, Presikhaaf-West, Presikhaaf-East, St. Marten/Sonsbeek-Zuid, Klarendal, Velperweg, Alteveer en Cranevelt, Geitenkamp, Monnikenhuizen, Burgemeesterswijk/Hoogkamp, Heijenoord/Lombok, Klingelbeek)
 * 3) Arnhem-South (Malburgen-West, Malburgen-East (North), Malburgen-East (South), De Laar East/West, Vredenburg/Kronenburg, Elderveld, Rijkerswoerd, Schuytgraaf)

Neighbouring villages
The outlying areas of the following villages are bordering the municipality of Arnhem directly, which means among others that in many a case a considerable number of their inhabitants originate from Arnhem.

 * Velp
 * Oosterbeek
 * Driel
 * Elst
 * Huissen
 * Wolfheze
 * Rozendaal
 * Westervoort

Proximity of border with Germany
The city lies approximately 15 kilometers from the border with Germany, and to some extent the westernmost villages in the municipality of Elten, Germany, function as dormitories for people who work in the Dutch city of Arnhem in part due to the immigration of Dutch people from the region that were attracted by the lower house pricing just across the border.

Climate
Arnhem features the same climate (Cfb, oceanic climate) as all of the Netherlands; however, its location on the foothills of the Veluwe, the largest forest in the Netherlands, contributes to some higher precipitation values.

Places of interest
The Grote Kerk (St. Eusebius' Church), built 1452–1560, lost most of its tower during World War II, of which a part has been reconstructed to a modern design and opened in 1964. Officially the tower is not part of the church and is owned by the municipality.

The house of Maarten van Rossum, a general serving Duke Charles van Gelre, has been the town hall since 1830: The satyrs in its Renaissance ornamentation earned it the name Duivelshuis (devil's house). The Netherlands Open Air Museum is located outside the city. It includes antique houses, farms, factories, and windmills from different parts of the Netherlands. Two other windmills stand in Arnhem itself, De Hoop and De Kroon.

The Royal Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem is one of the biggest and most-visited zoos in the Netherlands, featuring an underwater walkthrough, desert, mangrove, and rainforest. The GelreDome, the home of Vitesse Arnhem, the city's Eredivisie team in football, is a unique facility that features a retractable roof and a slide-out grass pitch. The concept has been fully duplicated since then by the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., and partially by the Sapporo Dome in Japan (which has a sliding pitch but a fixed roof).

The KEMA Toren (formerly known as SEP Control Tower) is the highest structure of the town. It is a 140-m-high TV tower.

Events

 * Airborne Commemoration (17–26 September)
 * World Statues Festival (The World Championship of Living Statues)
 * Sonsbeek Theater Avenue
 * Free Your Mind Festival
 * Dancetour
 * 8Bahn
 * De Rabo Bridge to Bridge (Marathon)
 * UITboulevard (Cultural Festival)
 * Sprookjesfestival (Fairy tale Festival)
 * King's Day
 * Sinterklaas
 * Hoogte80
 * ASM Festival

Sport
The National Sports Centre Papendal is the national sports development centre of the Netherlands, located in Arnhem. The first event held at Papendal was the 1980 Summer Paralympics, from 21 June to 5 July. However the site was formally adopted and developed from 1993, after the merger of the Dutch National Olympic Committee (NOC) and the Nederlandse Sport Federatie (NSF).

NOC*NSF have 90 affiliated national sports organizations, representing about 2700 individual sports clubs. Papendal is also the training location of football club Vitesse Arnhem, and the club's youth development system. Supporting facilities include a conference centre and hotel.

In preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, in 2011 the facility built a replica of the proposed BMX racing track at the London Velopark venue. The track will host the second event on the 2011 UCI BMX World Championships, on 27 and 28 May 2011.

Since January 2013 Sports Centre Papendal officially split from NOC * NSF and thus as organization demerges. This split offers Sports Centre Papendal many commercial benefits. There are facilities for various sports, including athletics, cycling and more.

Sport in the city is principally focussed on its association football club Vitesse Arnhem and its stadium the GelreDome built for the UEFA Euro 2000. The club has enjoyed some success in the Eredivisie and has featured in the UEFA Cup competition. Their best result in the Eredivisie was third place in 1997–98. The club won the KNVB Cup in 2016–17.

Introdans is a dance company based in the city of Arnhem. In 2009 the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science designated Introdans part of the basic national infrastructure. In 2016 was the Giro d'Italia in Arnhem.

Transport
Arnhem has had a main central railway station since 1845 – Arnhem Centraal railway station, which is serviced by several intercity lines and the Intercity-Express to Düsseldorf and further on to Frankfurt.

Until 2016, there were also NS International trains to other destinations abroad, with some coaches going as far as Moscow.

The intercity lines provide direct connections to Utrecht, Nijmegen and Zutphen. It is also the terminus for several local railway services. Arnhem has three other stations, namely Arnhem Velperpoort (since 1953), Arnhem Presikhaaf (since 1969) and Arnhem Zuid (since 2005).

KLM operates a bus from the train station to Schiphol Airport for its customers. Arnhem is unique in the Netherlands with its trolleybus system.

Notable people

 * Karel Aalbers (1949), Business man and club president
 * Truus van Aalten (1910–1999), actress
 * Afro Brothers (2016), electronic/urban DJ duo
 * Blaudzun (1974), singer-songwriter
 * Marion Bloem (1952), writer and film maker
 * Hetty Blok (1920–2012), cabaret artist, singer, and actress
 * Edmond Classen (1938–2014), actor
 * Ien Dales (1931–1994), politician of the Labour Party (PvdA)
 * Esmée Denters (1988), singer and YouTube celebrity
 * Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
 * Henk Guth (1921-2002), artist
 * Jan van Hooff (1936), biologist
 * Aarnoud van Heemstra (1871–1957), politician and maternal grandfather of Audrey Hepburn
 * Kenny van Hummel (1982), bicycle racer
 * Rudolf Jansen (1940–2024), pianist
 * Tania de Jong, Dutch-born Australian soprano and entrepreneur; daughter of Eva Duldig
 * Ferdi Kadıoğlu, (1999), Dutch-born Turkish player
 * Antonie Kamerling (1966–2010), actor and musician
 * Herman Koch (1953), writer and actor
 * Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * Goos Meeuwsen (1982), circus artist
 * Leo Peelen (1968–2017), track cyclist
 * Estavana Polman (1992), handballer
 * Joran van der Sloot (1987), convicted murderer
 * Mart Smeets (1947), radio and television host, and writer
 * Saar de Swart (1861–1951), sculptor
 * Rik Toonen (1954), water polo player, bronze medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics
 * Linda Wagenmakers (1975), singer and voice actress

Facts and figures

 * Arnhem is the name of a march composed by A.E. Kelly.
 * Arnhem Land in Australia is named after the VOC-ship Arnhem.
 * Theirs is the Glory (a.k.a. Men of Arnhem), is a 1946 British war film about the British 1st Airborne Division's involvement in the Battle of Arnhem (17 to 25 September 1944) during Operation Market Garden in the Second World War. Another film, A Bridge Too Far, tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden in Arnhem.

Twin towns – sister cities
Arnhem is twinned with:

 * 🏴 Coventry, England, United Kingdom
 * 🏴 Croydon, England, United Kingdom
 * 🇩🇪 Gera, Germany
 * 🇨🇿 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
 * Kimberley, South Africa
 * 🇵🇪 Villa El Salvador, Peru

 * 🏴 Airdrie, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Pornography

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Pornography is the explicit depiction of human sexual behaviour or sexually related imagery in film, novels, short stories, magazines, etc., with the generally accepted goal of sexual arousal. In its original meaning, the word was literally "writing about prostitutes." It evolved into writing about anything sexual, especially in a base manner, and grew to include sexually related material of all kinds, both written and graphical. The term pornography is often used with a negative connotation of low quality as compared to the more esteemed erotica.

The euphemisms Adult Film and Adult Video are generally preferred within the industry producing these works.

There are recurring urban legends of snuff movies, in which murders are filmed for pornographic purposes. No confirmed snuff movies have ever been found.

Legal situation Sometimes a distinction is made between soft-core and hard-core pornography. The former refers to materials which feature nudity and some sexually suggestive scenes but are usually tame enough to be sold in general stores and (in some countries) to be shown on TV. Hard-core pornography features close-ups of genitalia and sexual activities and is normally only available in adult bookstores (sometimes also in gas stations), and (in some countries) via special satellite TV channels. The term X-Rated is also used for these materials.

The legal status of pornography varies widely. While child pornography is illegal almost everywhere, most countries allow at least some form of pornography. In Japan until very recently, no genitals could be shown, but there is no taboo regarding sex and violence and also much less general concern about portraying teenagers as sexual beings (this applies to both out-and-out pornography and works dealing with other themes). Most western countries have some restrictions on pornography involving violence or animals, and they also restrict the sale of pornography to businesses which are open only to adults. The Netherlands have the most liberal rules: pornography is sold openly at normal newsstands and material involving animals is legal. In Sweden material involving animals is de-facto legal but subject to animal-welfare laws. Porn movies can be viewed beginning at age 15, and there are no age restrictions for magazines. In Britain, hard pornography has been illegal until recently, and it remains illegal (but tolerated) in Norway.

Anti-pornography movement Criticism of pornography comes from two directions: conservative and religious forces, and feminism.

Religious conservatives, exemplified by the American Rev. Jerry Falwell, decry pornography because they see it as immoral; sex is reserved for married couples, and pornography is thought to lead to an overall increase in immoral behavior in society.

In the United States, a 1968 Supreme Court decision which held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes caused Congress to fund and President Lyndon Johnson to appoint a commission to study pornography. The commission's report recommended sex education, funding of research into the effects of pornography, restriction of children's access to pornography, and recommended against any restrictios for adults. The report was widely criticized and rejected by Congress.

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed another commission to study pornography issues. It was headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese and is generally known as the Meese commission. The commission's report, released in 1986, found that pornography is harmful and can lead to violent acts. These findings have been criticized for not reflecting the empirical evidence.

The feminist position on pornography is divided. Some feminists view pornography as a crucial part of the sexual revolution which lead to women's liberation, and see conservative views of morality as designed to fortify an oppressive status quo. Other feminists, most vocally Andrea Dworkin? and Catharine MacKinnon?, see pornography as degradation of women which leads to violence against women. They have attempted to create laws which allow sexually abused and otherwise affected women to sue pornographers. One such attempt in Indianapolis was struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1986. In a 1992 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the Canadian obscenity law, accepting the feminist argument that the law is intended to create gender equality and prohibits materials that harm women, rather than "immoral" materials. Dworkin herself favors a civil law approach and opposes all criminal pornography prohibitions.

The criticisms of Linda Boreman, who herself worked as a porn actor under the name Linda Lovelace, focus on the exploitative practices of the porn industry, rather than on pornography's societal effects.

History Pornography has possibly a very long history. Nude human beings and sexual activities are depicted in some paleolithic art. However it is not certain that the purpose was sexual arousal, the images may have had instead a spiritual significance. There are numerous pornographic paintings on the walls of ruined Roman buildings in Pompeii. One notable example is a brothel in which the various sexual services are advertised in murals above each door. In Pompeii you can also see phalluses (an erect penis and testicles) engraved in the sidewalks, pointing the way to the prostitution and entertainment district, to aid visitors in finding their way.

In the second half of the 20th century, pornography became available in "men's magazines" such as Playboy. These magazines usually featured nude or semi-nude women, sometimes engaging in the act of masturbation. Other magazines evolved into more explicit displays, featuring sexual penetration, lesbianism and homosexuality, group sex, and fetishes?.

The movie camera has been used for pornography throughout its history, and with the arrival of the home video tape recorder? the pornographic movie industry grew massively, people being able not only to view pornography in the privacy of their own home without having to go out to a theater, but also to make their own pornography.

Pornographic computer games have also existed almost since the start of the industry.

With the arrival of the Internet, the availability of pornography increased greatly. Many of the most successful internet entrepreneurs are those who operate pornographic internet sites. As well as conventional photographic or video pornography, some sites offer "interactive" video-game-like entertainment. Due to the international character of the Internet, it provides an easy means for consumers of pornography that is illegal in their country to simply acquire such material from sources in another country where it is legal or not prosecuted.

The almost-zero cost of copying and shipping of digital data boosted the formation of private circles of people swapping pornography. This type of exchange is especially popular for material that is illegal, most notably child pornography.

Magazines:

Playboy (originally only in US, nowadays has editions in many countries) Penthouse? Hustler Magazine? (originally only in US, nowadays has editions in many countries) Private (Established in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 as the world's first full color hardcore sex magazine) Le Ore? (Italy), once an ordinary newspaper, in the 1970s had a notable turn in editorial line and represents now the most important title of a wide network of sex related magazines in central Europe. Movies:

Deep Throat Personalities:

Hugh Hefner Larry Flynt? John Holmes? Ron Jeremy Nina Hartley? Marilyn Chambers? Linda Lovelace Georgina Spelvin? Annie Sprinkle? Ilona Staller Moana Pozzi? Karin Schubert?

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Greetings
Greetings from the girl that translated JVA to Spanish :p The world is a little handkerchief full of snots xDDDD — Claunia 14:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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Good idea. I had already made one for my modified historical infoboxes - see Template:Infobox Historical State and take the code from there if you like. — 52 Pickup 09:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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You edited the Larry Breed page to say that the death date is 2021-05-16. Do you have more information about that? -- Roger Hui (talk) 00:07, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

 * I am friends with close friends of his, and I received an email, addressed to all who knew him in the Buring Man's AEZ village, about his passing. I have no quotable references, though. Tempel (talk) 13:57, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

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Jennifer, I have restored all the information you presented, based on your comments and Danny's added info. Based on your arguments and on Danny's you have swayed me to your position: I now agree with you that it would be appropriate to discuss this in the entry on Jewish fundamentalism. I was using too restricted a definition of this term. RK

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