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User talk:Radicalsubversiv/archive1

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Good call on Howard Dean; your phrasing is much clearer. Best, Meelar 06:49, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Civil Society
Sorry to have been abrasive. I am particularly touchy about reverts, and I'm a rabid militia/gun rights advocate, so you got my hair up a bit. Cheers, Sam Spade 01:10, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I wasn't offended. Do check my response on the talk page though. As one of my professors is fond of repeating, calling something civil society or not isn't making a normative judgement, just drawing a categorical distinction. RadicalSubversiv E 01:25, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Jello Biafra
Good research, and a good call based on it, on Talk:Jello Biafra. Separating the exquisitely plausible from the verifiable is crucial, and you've graced us w/ great example of it. Thanks. --Jerzy(t) 15:26, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

reversion
hi, i reverted your last edit to hillary clinton. the edit summary was 'speculative & pov'. i don't mean that you are actively attempting to insert pov, and later wished i could edit the summary. but you can't. what i really objected to was the phrasing 'liability' not 'controversial'. as to speculative, i suppose what i really object to is the whole section. it seems bizarre to dedicate a section about a possible run by someone who has no stated intention of running. Wolfman 02:57, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I disagree. You have a point that the whole section is speculative, but that's hardly grounds to revert my edit in particular. And I stand by my phrasing: the point is not that she necessarily is a liability, but that she could -- indeed almost certainly would -- be seen as one in some circles. If the article is going to cover the presidential speculation (and offer language bordering on POV praise), it ought to make this important point about it. RadicalSubversiv E 06:02, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Putnam
Why did you remove the link? It is not specifically about Putnam, but it deals with the concept he help developed. The World Bank's usage of social capital is directly relevant to Putnam's work. The link does not go where it should because the page is dynamic. The url is different but it is the intended page. -- EDGE

 * The link was already in the social capital article, where it belongs. In fact, I've just corrected it there so it actually goes to the appropriate location. RadicalSubversiv E 20:24, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category:United States Historians
I've added a note to the talk page of this category. Sorry I misunderstood your intention for the page.-gadfium 01:04, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nader and other candidates
Re your edit summary on Ralph Nader -- I understand the point you're making, and I thought about just deleting all the other candidates, but I had a reason for not doing so. The reason is that I haven't been closely involved in editing that article. It appeared that there was a consensus to leave in the Buchanan reference. I thought best was to mention none, but since others apparently disagreed, second-best was to mention all (at least all others on the ballot in most of the states).

The whole paragraph is still way too POV, in my opinion. Were those candidates marginal because they were excluded or were they excluded because they were marginal? There are elements of both; the latter greatly predominated but the text puts great emphasis on the former. It caters to what I consider the delusional Naderite POV that if only Nader were in the debates, millions of voters would abandon their longtime party allegiances and vote for him. Anyway, unless and until I work up the energy to try to change that, I think the current text (after your edit) is better than what was in place a day ago. JamesMLane 07:00, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you.
I owe you a debt of gratitude. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 18:47, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Reithy
I have endorsed your summary on the RFC. Also, I've taken a look over United States Libertarian Party and added my hopefully unbiased view of the dispute (hopefully unbiased on the grounds that I'm not American, don't know much about the party, and don't much care about them either!). While Reithy's behaviour has been completely unacceptable, he has drawn attention to a couple of claims in there that I think need to be sourced and cited. Have a look at Talk:United States Libertarian Party and see what you think. —Stormie 01:16, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Radicalsubversiv, I would be happy to accept your revert if I understood what you objected to. I have decided to state boldly but very honestly exactly what Ron Paul stands for. Wikipedia should not be a place for PR gloss but the truth as best it can be expressed. Reithy 20:00, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough. I will amend as you suggest. They were probably over the top, although I will try to find a source about him being universally loathed on the Hill, it is certainly true from what I understand. Reithy 20:08, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I have made the amendments, although I notice you think I swept onto the page to vandalize it. That certainly wasn't my intention. I have written up quite a few changes, and some were probably off the mark but the most important ones such as tagging certain of his statements as racist were done deliberately and with some thought and considerable justification. I want the article to be NPOV, which is very difficult when writing about someone controversial and am happy to work with you to make it so. Reithy 20:39, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Radical, from your edit summary you suggest I have a POV problem with the Ron Paul article. I actually don't, I just don't think the article should read like Dr Paul's website promoting him and only pointing to anything positive. I suspect I may have overcompensated and have taken on board specific and constructive suggestions when they've been made (only by you so far!). The practice of libertarian members and supporters of Ron Paul is just to revert without actually addressing the issue of what they were deleting and why. I doubt this is correct practice and I am certain it won't create a better article. Reithy 22:33, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I have noticed your outrageous and ex parte application for a temporary injunction. Produce evidence of your claims or withdraw them immediately. I have not posted anything that cannot be sourced and defended. I note your previous comment and would be happy to comply with that process if others do. Reithy 22:52, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * In your discussion in the Temporary Injunction section on the Request for Arbitration on Reithy and Chuck F, you have listed libertarian capitalism twice. There have also been edit wars and/or vandalism on libertarian socialism, Libertarian League, Liberal Democratic Party of Australia, Liberal Party of Australia, Liberalism in the United Kingdom, McJob and Arthur Farnsworth.

Tim Eyman
Your revision concerning Initiative 18 was misleading. The initiative was not sponsored by Eyman, so it wasn't his initiative. He didn't start the initiative, plan the initiative, or provide the volunteers to put it on county voters' ballots. That was the jail guards' union. Eyman tried to use it as a way to promote himself, but readers need to know that it wasn't his initiative. The previous text made it sound that way. I did not eliminate the reference to I-18, but I have revised it and added a proper explanation.

Seanorthwest

FYI: Temp injunction in Reithy's ArbCom case
"Both Reithy and Chuck F and any sockpuppets are to edit only on their respective arbcom case. Edits to the mainspace may be reverted on sight."

--mav 20:38, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Naming organisations
Thanks. I joined the discussion at United States Democratic Party and didn't move that page yet. I sincerely think one should use the (English version) official name of organisations with when necesary the country name. Gangulf 21:34, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Willie Horton
You save that article from a fate worse than death, that of becoming blatantly POV. Comments about Dukakis' answer to the Kitty hypothetical from Shaw belong under Dukakis/ own article, and perhaps U.S. presidential election, 1988, not here, where the issue was Dukakis; furlough of Horton and others like him, not his failure to receive the death penalty, which was not even an option. Rlquall 23:16, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, the POV pushers have been all over that one, thanks for keeping an eye on it. Ellsworth 21:10, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Politics of the United States
I just noticed you reverted my change to the Organization of American Political Parties section of the above-mentioned page. I was merely changing this to stop an International-English-speaking reader jarring at the sight of the British Labour party being referred to as Labor, as you have it. I don't think the comparison loses anything here, as the point you were making was entirely apolitical. If you prefer, perhaps it would be better to compare the Republicans and the Conservatives.

Incidentally, I would say that the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats in the US is very similar to that between Labour and the Conservatives in the UK - very little indeed. But never mind about that...

your question on arbcom case
I think this answers it from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Reithy

Final decision Due to Reithy being banned and inadequate development of the case against Chuck F this case was closed December 3, 2004. The temporary injunction expires on that date due to closing of the case.

 * The above was posted without signature by User:Chuck F, who is obviously not exactly an impartial commentator on the matter. RadicalSubversiv E 08:55, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * are you saying that fred just posted that there and on my talk page just to be playing games with my head? Chuck F 09:02, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Apologies, I missed that bit. That having been said, the ArbCom as a whole made no ruling on the matter, so I guess this falls in the realm of Fred offering an interpretation on behalf of the committee. As an aside, you're doing a damn good job developing a case against yourself right at the moment. RadicalSubversiv E 09:05, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm thinking about putting the following text through RfC and then a binding poll. I'm trying to see if Chuck can be convinced through said poll (and who knows, maybe we'd lose?) that the community as a whole has a position. Take a look here and let me know what you think. I do have a fairly strong perspective that his edits are POV and bad, but I'm hoping to make some progress so the edit wars can stop. I've been talking a lot with him on IRC about this. --Improv 12:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

3RR
What do you think is the best way (read easiest) to find out if an anon has broken the 3RR before? How did you know these anons were aware of it? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 14:25, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Libertarians in Australia and Chuck_F
I fear that I am partially to blame for this. I live in Australia and to be honest with you the Libertarians aren't known about by about 95-98% of our population. I commented to Chuck_F on IRC that I thought the Libertarians in Australia were the same as the U.S. ones, but my comment is from a position of ignorance (as would be the case for most Australians). That anon, however, may be confusing themselves with the Liberal party of Australia, one of the main Aussie political parties and who currently are in government. They are most definitely capitalist.

Not sure if this helps clarify matters any. - Ta bu shi da yu 22:18, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Flattered
I'm flattered that you think I've been patient about the Chuck/Reithy thing. You've put in a lot of effort to Chuck's RFAR, a task that also requires patience. Sorry I haven't helped out more, I've been busy with school and what-have-you. And at this point I have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for much more of this stuff. So thanks for taking the reins. Rhobite 04:51, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Arbcom formatting
I was under the impression with the new timeline format that each user has a different section per day, I've asked arbcom members about it and will cease editing the page till then Chuck F 20:23, 8 Dec 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
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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)

Thanks for being so rude at the Talk:Rachel Corrie page -- you really help make the world a better place with snide little comments such as, "I hate to be taking Lir's side". Lirath Q. Pynnor

Please you state your case on talk
Actually... this was how the article was for a long time, I compleatly mis-read an addition and re-added it, and that's why this edit war has started up agian because that anon aol ip won't listen to anything I say at all and just likes to revert me.

Anyway, The section of that article is titled why reasons Libertarians point to such success as(releating to third parties)... Thier placement(as other users besides me have argued on talk) in terms of non-third parties have absoulty nothing to do with that. If you want it to be different you need to change the entire section, not just that sentence, by prefacing that section of the article by saying libertarians claim to be the third largest party and point to success such as, you are also giving a warniing that this is not a netural list, this is what libertarians calim :Chuck F|Chuck F]] 12:40, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Chuck has again broken the three-revert rule on Libertarian Party (United States), and without responding to comment left on his Talk page: 195.92.67.66

Comments from Libertas
I am definitely not Chuck. How do I prove this? Seeing his legacy of destruction, I am insulted I could be so accused. Libertas

I am not Chuck, OK. Nor am I Reithy. Nor am I anyone else. I am just me. I am interested in the topics I have made contributions on, I hope that's OK. Perhaps only people who've been here forever with their own cliques are welcome. I'm not sure what I've done that's so offensive but if there is anything specific, do tell. Libertas

I don't have a monopoly on knowledge but I do know when someone is shafting me! My entry made it very clear it was one of Ron Paul's staff (Norman Singleton) who commented on President Bush. Not Lew Rockwell. Can you at least read the content you are deleting? Libertas

Request for Wikification
Please wikify the phrase cookie cutter campaign, which I have added to to further improve your excellent improvements in the article I started on political consulting. Wikifying that will lead to an article I have authored, which you may wish to add further research to. Zulitz 17:53 December 20, 2004

Quotes from Rep. Mark B. Cohen
I am glad you find entry relevant to the article. The quote came from his blog at phillyblog.com, which is unfortunately down at the current time. It should be revived, and when it is, I will get it to you. Zulitz, December 20, 2004, 21:24 UTC.

January 15 Seattle meetup
Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:49, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Federal campaign contributions
You say (and may be right for all I know) that corporations are not able to contribute to federal election campaigns. Although individual executives can I assume which is the basis of the list here which demonstrates what I was saying I think Libertas

Why isn't it noteworthy to point out the source of campaign contributions, they are interesting given his voting record which never wavers. Libertas

 * See my reply at Talk:Ron Paul -- discussion should go there. RadicalSubversiv E 02:41, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Comments from Chuck about Libertas (and threatening to evade a ban)
Libertar

I find it almost impossible to belive this guy isn't Reithy, he goes and edits the excat same articles that I've had edit-wars with Reithy. and now he's gone and re-added the excat same text from monthes ago that Reithy added, unless he really like's going through edit historys(which he hasn't done on any other subjects). You have any idea on the process to go through to get an admin to check his ip(otherwise, hey When I'm banned, I'm coming back too) - Chuck

 * Replied on your talk page. RadicalSubversiv E 04:41, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Is there any way of confirming this with the IP addresses? I'm having my first encounter with Libertas on Soviet Union; and I'm seeing the same behavior that you note in your arbitration case. Thanks. 172 06:27, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. I've never crossed paths with Chuck or Reithy, so I'm not familiar with the details... Nevertheless, Libertas is really trying my patience on Talk:Soviet Union. 172 06:48, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Radicalsubversiv, I have reason to believe you are in fact 172 and Chuck and Reithy. I require that you be investigated forthwith. Libertas

Edit summary
Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 16:21, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The specific unsummarized edit I noticed was a minor edit to Cradle Will Rock. Looking at your contributions you commendably use edit summaries most of the time. However, the guideline is "Always fill the summary field." Hyacinth 19:07, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Endemic Left Wing Bias
You are clearly a leftist and I don't have a problem with that. But let's not kid ourselves that you are even-handed in your assessment of Rev Moon citing 172. You aren't. He was trolling me and you were trolling me before I even knew what it meant! That's the bad news. The good news is that I won't be writing on Russia related subjects, at least for a while. I have exposed 172 as a complete academic fraud (he's a full-time researcher or so he says, I hate to think which taxpayer funded sinecure he has) and think that's as close to a victory as I'll have. Check out how many sleepy leftists he's been desperately trying to rouse from their Festivus slumber to help slap me down. What a joke. It is very sad that Soviet nostalgics are determining the content of the Soviet Union article. I'm glad at least the Nazi article seems neutral. Anyway, like every good capitalist, I know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. I fold. Good to go out with a small victory though with Rev Moon. I will write on business related and Ron Paul related subjects which I know more about and where Rev Moon citing leftists seem not greatly active. LOL Libertas

Rev Moon thanks you. Libertas

Request for comment
Thank you for you comments. A request for comment is definitely in order, as there seems now to be little hope that we can work to get Soviet Union unprotected amicably... At the same time, I don't think that I should be one of the two users certifying it. It's probably a better to have a user who has been less embroiled in the dispute, such as yourself, filing a request. This makes it more readably apparent that the issue is behavior, not contending POVs. (We're not dealing with a user interested in building a consensus around his proposals but rather turning the page into his personal soapbox... Perhaps another user who has witnessed this spectacle on Talk:Soviet Union will be want to certify it. (So it might be a good idea to propose this to all users interested in the article on the talk page.) If one gets started, I'll sign and help compile evidence. Thanks again. Happy New Year! 172 04:17, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Just a reminder in case... The two of us can't revert History of post-Soviet Russia because of the 3RR. 172 04:21, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, someone else who commented on either page will be good. That up to around 10 people so far. 172 04:32, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

(personal attack removed). Just wanted to let you know that I've blocked Libertas for 24 hours for 3RR. If you have concerns about personal attacks, trolling, et cetera, feel free to take them to the arbcomm. Pakaran (ark a pan) 05:54, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes! like the arbcom case stopped Reithy from editing or did anything about this miffed person Chuck F 08:45, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

AOL Users
Radical, recently someone or ones have been following my edits around and reverting people who have disagreed with me.

Normally this would be no bad thing :-)

However, I am minimizing reverting and have already attracted accusations from leftists who populate Soviet Union Stalinist protection league that I am acting improperly using AOL IP's. I do not use AOL, have never used AOL, I have a fixed connection and wouldn't know how to use AOL if it existed where I am which I doubt. I've certainly never seen any ads for it here.

I read in edit histories of the legendary Ron Paul article written by you that Chuck_F and Reithy have used AOL IP's and that you have dealt with them before.

I have had interaction with Chuck but not with Reithy. Is there any way of my establishing whether they have been involved with this? Or anyone else for that matter.

Thanks for your consideration, I think someone is being tricky at my expense. Libertas

Messiah complex?
Sorry I don't get that. The only Messiah I am familiar with is the Reverend Moon, who owns UPI which the incredible 172 cites as a source(!) and was busted for it.

What do you mean a Messiah complex though?

Libertas

Further thoughts on your unsolicited attack on my user page

 * Undergraduate opinion while welcome should be carefully explained so as to not lose reader interest.
 * I am not the Messiah. 172 cites Reverend Moon's media outlets and he claims to be the Messiah, indeed he recently claimed 5 dead US Presidents communicated with him to confirm his Messiah-hood. This makes 172's claim to great scholarship ring rather empty, even by undergraduate standards.
 * I have indeed tangoed.
 * I have not trolled, indeed you have trolled me, following me into articles you have never previously edited.
 * Personal attacks, you mean like the "Messiah Complex" crack you just made, is that what you mean?

Libertas (two post-grad degrees but who's counting)

Please cut me some slack Radical
Regarding Ron Paul, your edit summary says:

(there is no unified mainstream opinion on the subject. if you want to contrast his position with something, offer a specific quote)

I think about it carefully and dig up the perfect counterpoint, which was Giuliani. I put in no commentary, just the quote, exactly as you suggested.

In those circumstances, vendetta editing seems to be going on here. I respect you as an editor, despite your views, but think in this case you are acting arbitrarily and wrongly.

I followed your advice almost to the letter and am left rather disappointed by your vendetta editing.

Can you please carefully consider your actions because I won't accept the spurious reasoning given in your most recent edit.

Libertas

Soviet Union
Why don't you try contributing to the article? Your intervention in its talk page is neither helpful nor welcome. We're here to edit articles not have arguments. You aren't helping. Libertas

Response
What specifically was wrong about what I said. He expressly denied using Marxist sources, implying that I was lying about him. I proved him wrong with one Google search, in response to his challenge. I have tried to put it as diplomatically as possible in the circumstances.

So I note your warning, but it isn't much use without you being specific. Libertas

You cite an example of me referring to some highly abusive words 172 was used in the past. How is this disruptive? Libertas

Wikipedia Justice - My Friendly SUggestion to You
It is clear that many admins use their powers to advance their POV and to punish those they disagree with. I am not saying you do this, in fact, there is ample evidence to the contrary. We've had some good exchanges I think and I hope they continue. I was concerned about the Ron Paul thing, where I followed your advice, which you then seemed to forget, and then reverted me, seemingly automatically...

However, I do not accept that you have any right to block me in any dispute we are having in the Soviet Union article or any other article. You are not a disinterested judge. Your user page indicates a familiarity with "left-wing" issues. We are often on the other side of edits. I don't think it's appropriate for you therefore to block me or take any action against me. I am willing to be judged by impartial peers but I will not accept that you can provide impartiality. I am not familiar with the process but was blocked by Evercat last night for having a disagreement on IRC. He is of similar age and views to you.

So I ask you to heed that warning before exercising your authority. We are all accountable, including you, especially those in authority. If you tell me I'm astray, I will listen and follow the advice. If you use your powers improperly, then I will ensure you are held accountable, as Evercat was. Libertas

I presumed from your tone that you were. You can ignore my plea, but I certainly welcome the advice.Libertas

Please take a look at my cry for help on the administrators' noticeboard. Relief is needed right away. After all, what's the point of even having a body of administrators if a user is allowed to turn an article talk page for attacking a user? There's nothing I can say on the talk page any longer. Most of the page already is mucked up with attempt after attempt to twist my words and work around and make me out to be something that I'm not. I'm tempted to send Jimbo an email resigning my adminship and delete my user page never to come back. 172 10:17, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK. I'll take you up on that. I assume I'm allowed to edit my own remarks? Libertas

This is cruel and unusual punishment. Some of my words offend even myself. Libertas

I don't know... By cleansing his own comments, this will allow the dialogue to be rewritten, and make it easier to cast everyone else as the abusive ones. I mean, I don't get to delete my replies to the provocations, nor do the other users... This seems to be a shift from a strategy of direct aggression to passive aggression. The latter is always harder to deal with on Wikipedia. This allows these kinds of users to win support by playing the victim. But maybe I've grown too cynical after more than two years on Wiki. Let's hope for the best. Thanks for your involvement. 172 11:40, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Radical, I refer you to 172's remarks on the administrator page. I find all of this a bit tiresome, especially the accusation of "passive aggression". WHen I figure out what that is I might be offended. I will persist with removing the irrelevant words from talk, unless you think I should stop. Let me know. Libertas

I'll take it on, and would like you to review it carefully. Libertas

Trolling
All of the images I've uploaded are fair use, if they require tags beyond what I've done, I will put them there. While I'm doing that, I suggest you grow up. Libertas

I commend these words to you:

If you find a copyright infringement

It is not the job of rank-and-file Wikipedians to police every article for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue on that page's talk page. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.

If you "police" every image I've uploaded in the manner you propose, you would be in breach of the above. Again, stop trolling and leave me alone, I have no desire to interact with you further. Libertas

Why Your Trolling is Inappropriate
You are:

 * Constantly reviewing every entry of mine, including those unrelated to your area of interest
 * Following up those investigations with sniping remarks of limited value
 * Upsetting difficult to achieve compromises on controversial articles
 * Engaging in tag-team reverting to avoid the 3RR rule

I have followed your advice from time to time, but will do so no longer. You are a troll. Please go away. Libertas

I understand your formula. I am a troll and can be freely accused of that and a hundred other things. You - while engaging in troll like behaviors - are not a troll and cannot be so accused lest it be a personal attack. You are a troll. Your threats are unwelcome and unworthy. I suggest you follow your own advice. Libertas

24 of Your Last 50 Edits Referred to Me
I again ask you to stop harassing and stalking me. It's creepy, it's unnecessary and politically motivated. Please concentrate on writing neutral articles and leave me alone. Libertas

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United States Notes
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Tuolla Aki Kaurismäki sivuilla olet merkannut Saimaa Ilmiö leffan enkunkieliseksi nimeksi: Saimaa Gesture. Onko se jokin virallisempikin nimi, eli tekijän itse valitsema, tai esitetty jossain sillä nimellä? Itse nimittäin ehdottomasti Englannintaisin sen joko Saimaa Syndrome tai vielä mieluummin Saimaa Phenomenon. -- Cimon avaro

 * Nimi on suoraan Siunattu teknologia! -sivuilta, jonka tekijät ilmoittavat itse kääntäneensä osan nimistä, tämä on ehkä yksi niistä. Itsekään en pidä sitä ihan osuvana, mutta jos elokuvaa ei ole ikinä levitetty millään englanninkielisellä nimellä, niin nimi pitäisi itse asiassa jättää kääntämättä kokonaan.

I made a general topics sidebar for biology - at Mediawiki:biology - use tag to put it on articles as needed. Sub-field article sidebars like psychology can be worked on as well (if it's not too much work ;) - SV (talk) 18:14, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Geckos
Timo, nice work on those geckos! The articles look much better now. – Quadell (talk) (help)  18:37, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Individual Amiga model articles
Argh... I know I should've placed the edit summary comments for the A1000, A500, etc, in the articles' source text. Anyway, the comments read as follows: "rm cat -- computer easily found from Amiga and/or  ". Sorry for the lack of info -- but the positive thing is I have learned my lesson now. Also, nice to see more Nordic contributors! :-) --Wernher 01:34, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Do you mean that the articles for individual models should not be categorised? AFAIK, every article should be categorised, eventually. Maybe these would warrant their own category, something like "Models of Amiga computers", that would be a subcategory for "Home computer" and "Personal computer". — Timo Honkasalo 10:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adobe on cleanup?
You added a cleanup banner to Adobe, but didn't list it on Cleanup or explain what needed doing. Please do so. JesseW 02:35, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adrian Legg - neutrality
Hi, thanks for work on this article, you make a point about my neutrality, how would you like to see it improved ?

Remarks about pre-eminence of a particular musician are very common on Wikipedia. I can see why they're perhaps controversial, but they can also be necessary. We have to choose who/what goes into Wikipeda. There are too many guitarists in the world for them all to go in (and I've listened to too many of them!). So there is a value judgement implicit in the inclusion of pre-eminent individuals.

Thus, I felt that some justification was needed for inclusion, apart from fame. It may need to be worded differently here and there, and I'm making a few changes. Would be very glad of your comments (can't find anything on the Adrian Legg:Talk page - have copied this comment there if you want to continue discussion there).

(If value judgements, however well-informed, don't belong here, then there are a list of pages that need updating.)

cheers

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lots of edits, not an admin
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Capital "Advice"
Hi. I'm contacting you because you have edited Advice (constitutional), and more particularly because you have edited it in relation to the capitalisation of "Advice" (or "advice", if you prefer). A wee dispute about this has arisen at the article, with one editor decapitalising in the text and placed a "fact" tag on the statement that the term is often capitalised. If you have some input on this, and particularly some relevant references, please take part in resolving it, at the article. Thanks and best regards -- Lonewolf BC (talk) 19:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Peace of Utrecht

The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne of Spain, and involved much of Europe for over a decade. The main action saw France as the defender of Spain against a multinational coalition. The war was very expensive and bloody, and finally stalemated. Essentially, the treaties allowed Philip V (grandson of King Louis XIV of France) to keep the Spanish throne in return for permanently renouncing his claim to the French throne, along with other necessary guarantees that would ensure that France and Spain should not merge, thus preserving the balance of power in Europe.

The treaties between several European states, including Spain, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Savoy and the Dutch Republic, helped end the war. The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV of France and of his grandson Philip on one hand, and representatives of Queen Anne of Great Britain, King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, King John V of Portugal and the United Provinces of the Netherlands on the other. Though the king of France ensured the Spanish crown for his dynasty, the treaties marked the end of French ambitions of hegemony in Europe expressed in the continuous wars of Louis XIV, and paved the way to the European system based on the balance of power in international relations.

Another enduring result has been the creation of the Spanish Bourbons, which still is the Monarchy of Spain. The French branch of the House of Bourbon has since the July Revolution been dethroned.

Negotiations
On 2 January 1710, king Louis XIV of France agreed to commence.

France and Great Britain had come to terms in October 1711, when the preliminaries of peace had been signed in London. The preliminaries were based on a tacit acceptance of the partition of Spain's European possessions. Following this, the Congress of Utrecht opened on 29 January 1712, with the British representatives being John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, and Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford. Reluctantly the United Provinces accepted the preliminaries and sent representatives, but Emperor Charles VI refused to do so until he was assured that the preliminaries were not binding. This assurance was given, and so in February the Imperial representatives made their appearance. As Philip was not yet recognized as its king, Spain did not at first send plenipotentiaries, but the Duke of Savoy sent one, and the Kingdom of Portugal was represented by Luís da Cunha. One of the first questions discussed was the nature of the guarantees to be given by France and Spain that their crowns would be kept separate, and little progress was made until 10 July 1712, when Philip signed a renunciation.

With Great Britain, France and Spain having agreed to a "suspension of arms" (armistice) covering Spain on 19 August in Paris, the pace of negotiation quickened. The first treaty signed at Utrecht was the truce between France and Portugal on 7 November, followed by the truce between France and Savoy on 14 March 1713. That same day, Spain, Great Britain, France and the Empire agreed to the evacuation of Catalonia and an armistice in Italy. The main treaties of peace followed on 11 April 1713. These were five separate treaties between France and Great Britain, the Netherlands, Savoy, Prussia and Portugal. Spain under Philip V signed separate peace treaties with Savoy and Great Britain at Utrecht on 13 July. Negotiations at Utrecht dragged on into the next year, for the peace treaty between Spain and the Netherlands was only signed on 26 June 1714 and that between Spain and Portugal on 6 February 1715.

Several other treaties came out of the congress of Utrecht. France signed treaties of commerce and navigation with Great Britain and the Netherlands (11 April 1713). Great Britain signed a like treaty with Spain (9 December 1713).

Treaties

Principal provisions
The Peace confirmed the Bourbon candidate as Philip V of Spain to remain as king. In return, Philip renounced the French throne, both for himself and his descendants, with reciprocal renunciations by French Bourbons to the Spanish throne, including Louis XIV's nephew Philippe of Orléans. These became increasingly important after a series of deaths between 1712 and 1714 left the five year old Louis XV as his great-grandfather's heir.

Great Britain was the main beneficiary; Utrecht marked the point at which it became the primary European commercial power. In Article X, Spain ceded the strategic ports of Gibraltar and Menorca.

In a major coup for the British delegation, the British government emerged from the treaty with the Asiento de Negros, which referred to the monopoly contract granted by the Spanish government to other European nations to supply slaves to Spain's colonies in the Americas. The Asiento de Negros had come about due to the fact that the Spanish Empire rarely engaged in the transatlantic slave trade itself, preferring to outsource this to foreign merchants. Bourbon France had previously held the Asiento de Negros, allowing French slave traders to supply 5,000 slaves to the Spanish Empire each year; France had gained control over this contract after Philip V had become King of Spain. After the British government gained access to the Asiento de Negros, the economic prominence held by Dutch Sephardic Jewish slaveowners began to fade, while the South Sea Company was established in hopes of gaining exclusive access to the contract. The British government sought to reduce its debt by increasing the volume of trade it had with Spain, which required gaining access to the Asiento de Negros; as historian G.M. Trevelyan noted: "The finances of the country were based in May 1711 on the assumption that the Asiento, or monopoly of the slave trade with Spanish America, would be wrested from France as an integral part of the terms of peace". Following the passage of the treaty, the British government gained a thirty-year access to the Asiento de Negros.

The importance placed by British negotiators on commercial interests was demonstrated by their demand for France to "level the fortifications of Dunkirk, block up the port and demolish the sluices that scour the harbour, [which] shall never be reconstructed". This was because Dunkirk was the primary base for French privateers, as it was possible to reach the North Sea in a single tide and escape British patrols in the English Channel.

Under Article XIII and, despite the British demands to preserve Catalan constitutions and rights in return for Catalonia's support for the Allies during the war, Spain only agreed to grant an amnesty, thus implying the imposition of the laws and institutions of Castile to the Principality of Catalonia, as it already happened in 1707 to the other occupied kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon. Spanish territories in Italy and Flanders were divided, with Savoy receiving Sicily and parts of the Duchy of Milan. The former Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, and the bulk of the Duchy of Milan went to Emperor Charles VI. In South America, Spain returned Colónia do Sacramento in modern Uruguay to Portugal and recognised Portuguese sovereignty over the lands between the Amazon and Oyapock rivers, now in Brazil.

In North America, France recognised British suzerainty over the Iroquois, and ceded Nova Scotia and its claims to Newfoundland and territories in Rupert's Land. The French portion of Saint Kitts in the West Indies was also ceded in its entirety to Britain. France retained its other pre-war North American possessions, including Cape Breton Island, where it built the Fortress of Louisbourg, then the most expensive military installation in North America.

The successful French Rhineland campaign of 1713 finally induced Charles to sign the 1714 treaties of Rastatt and Baden, although terms were not agreed with Spain until the 1720 Treaty of The Hague.

Responses to the treaties
The treaty's territorial provisions did not go as far as the Whigs in Britain would have liked, considering that the French had made overtures for peace in 1706 and again in 1709. The Whigs considered themselves the heirs of the staunch anti-French policies of William III of England and the John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. The Whigs were now a minority in the house, but still pushing their anti-peace agenda. The whigs opposed peace every step of the way. The Whigs even called the treaty a sellout for letting the duke of Anjou stay on the Spanish throne.

However, in the Parliament of 1710 the Tories had gained control of the House of Commons, and they wished for an end to Great Britain's participation in a European war. Queen Anne and her advisors had also come to agree.

The party in the administration of Robert Harley (created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer on 23 May 1711) and the Viscount Bolingbroke proved more flexible at the bargaining table and were characterized by the Whigs as "pro-French"; Oxford and Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new "Tory peers" to ensure ratification of the treaty in the House of Lords. The opponents of the treaty tried to rally support under the slogan of No Peace Without Spain.

Although the fate of the Spanish Netherlands in particular was of interest to the United Provinces, Dutch influence on the outcome of the negotiations was fairly insignificant, even though the talks were held on their territory. The French negotiator Melchior de Polignac taunted the Dutch with the scathing remark de vous, chez vous, sans vous, meaning that negotiations would be held "about you, around you, without you". The fact that Bolingbroke had secretly ordered the British commander, the Duke of Ormonde, to withdraw from the Allied forces before the Battle of Denain (informing the French but not the Allies), and the fact that they secretly arrived at separate peace with France was a fait accompli, made the objections of the Allies pointless. In any case, the Dutch achieved their condominium in the Austrian Netherlands with the Austro-Dutch Barrier Treaty of 1715.

Aftermath
The Treaty stipulated that "because of the great danger which threatened the liberty and safety of all Europe, from the too close conjunction of the kingdoms of Spain and France, ... one and the same person should never become King of both kingdoms". Some historians argue this makes it a significant milestone in the evolution of the modern nation state and concept of a balance of power.

First mentioned in 1701 by Charles Davenant in his Essays on the Balance of Power, it was widely publicised in Britain by author and Tory satirist Daniel Defoe in his 1709 article A Review of the Affairs of France. The idea was reflected in the wording of the treaties and resurfaced after the defeat of Napoleon in the 1815 Concert of Europe that dominated Europe in the 19th century.

For the individual signatories, Britain established naval superiority over its competitors, commercial access to Spain and America, and control of Menorca and Gibraltar; it retains the latter territory to this day. France accepted the Protestant succession on the British throne, ensuring a smooth transition when Anne died in August 1714, and ended its support for the Stuarts under the 1716 Anglo-French Treaty. While the war left all participants with unprecedented levels of government debt, only Great Britain successfully financed it.

Spain retained the majority of its Empire and recovered remarkably quickly; the recapture of Naples and Sicily in 1718 was only prevented by British naval power and a second attempt was successful in 1734. The 1707, 1715 and 1716 Nueva Planta decrees abolished regional political structures in the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca and the Principality of Catalonia, although Catalonia and Aragon retained some of these rights until 1767.

Despite failure in Spain, Austria secured its position in Italy and Hungary, allowing it to continue expansion into areas of South-East Europe previously held by the Ottoman Empire. Even after paying expenses associated with the Dutch Barrier, increased tax revenues from the Austrian Netherlands funded a significant upgrade of the Austrian military. However, these gains were diminished by various factors, chiefly the disruption of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 caused by Charles disinheriting his nieces in favour of his daughter Maria Theresa.

Attempts to ensure its succession involved Austria in wars of little strategic value; much of the fighting in the 1733–1735 War of the Polish Succession taking place in its maritime provinces in Italy. Austria had traditionally relied on naval support from the Dutch, whose own capability had been severely degraded; Britain prevented the loss of Sicily and Naples in 1718 but refused to do so again in 1734. The dispute continued to loosen Habsburg control over the Empire; Bavaria, Hanover, Prussia and Saxony increasingly acted as independent powers and in 1742, Charles of Bavaria became the first non-Habsburg Emperor in over 300 years.

The Dutch Republic ended the war effectively bankrupt, while the damage suffered by the Dutch merchant navy permanently affected their commercial and political strength and it was superseded by Britain as the pre-eminent European mercantile power. The acquisition of the Barrier Fortresses however became an important asset of Dutch foreign policy and enlarged their sphere of influence. Although judged favourably by contemporaries, it was later argued that the barrier proved to be largely illusory when put to the test during the War of Austrian Succession. The Dutch had in any case successfully defended their positions in the Southern Netherlands and their troops were central in the alliance which halted French territorial expansion in Europe until a new cycle began in 1792.

While the final settlement at Utrecht was far more favourable to France than the Allied offer of 1709 had been, it gained little that had not already been achieved through diplomacy by February 1701. Though France remained a great power, concern at its relative decline in military and economic terms compared to Britain was an underlying cause of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740.

Evaluations
The British historian G. M. Trevelyan has argued that: "That Treaty, which ushered in the stable and characteristic period of Eighteenth-Century civilization, marked the end of danger to Europe from the old French monarchy, and it marked a change of no less significance to the world at large, – the maritime, commercial and financial supremacy of Great Britain."

The British academic Brendan Simms argues that: "Britain had shaped Europe in her interests at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It soon became clear, however, that she had designed a system to deal with past threats, principally from France, rather than those of the future. The new challenges came first from Spain, which was unreconciled to the loss of its Mediterranean lands."

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Hej Css!

Jag ser att du både har en dansk och en engelsk sida, så då skriver jag självklart på svenska :-)

Jag har just lagt upp egna användarsidor på flera språk. Jag tittade litet på hur andra har gjort först. Det ser ut som om det vanligaste är att fixa länkar som hamnar i en lista över andra språk i vänstermarginalen. Se gärna min sida och dess källsidor!

Jag var inne på de danska sidorna, därför att jag ville se hur naturliga tal beskrevs på olika språk. Jag tror att Naturligt tal behöver förbättras en hel del, men sansynligvis av nogen bruger der snakker dansk, vilket jag tyvärr inte gör. M. v. h., JoergenB 15:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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Camille

Camille may refer to:

Fictional entities

 * a Power Rangers Jungle Fury character
 * Camille Wallaby, a character in Alfred Hedgehog
 * a character from League of Legends video game voiced by Emily O'Brien

Films

 * Camille (1912 film), a short American film directed by Jay Hunt based on Dumas' novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias)
 * Camille (1915 film), an American silent film adapted by Frances Marion, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Clara Kimball Young as Camille and Paul Capellani as Armand
 * Camille (1917 film), an American silent film adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara as Camille
 * Camille (1921 film), an American silent film starring Alla Nazimova as Camille and Rudolph Valentino as Armand
 * Camille (1926 feature film), an American silent film adapted by Fred de Gresac and company, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Norma Talmadge as Camille and Gilbert Roland as Armand
 * Camille (1926 short film), an American short film by Ralph Barton, compiled from his home movies, loosely based on La Dame aux Camélias
 * Camille (1936 film), an Academy Award nominated American film directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo as Marguerite and Robert Taylor as Armand
 * Camille (1984 film), a television film adapted by Blanche Hanalis, directed by Desmond Davis, starring Greta Scacchi as Camille and Colin Firth as Armand
 * Camille (2008 film), a 2008 comedy drama film starring Sienna Miller and James Franco
 * Camille 2000, an Italian film adapted by Michael DeForrest, directed by Radley Metzger, starring Danièle Gaubert as Marguerite and Nino Castelnuovo as Armand

Music

 * Camille (album), an unreleased project by the musician Prince
 * La traviata, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Novels

 * La Dame aux Camélias, a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, commonly known in English as Camille
 * Camille (Matilda Heron Translation), an English translation of La Dame aux Camélias by Matilda Heron
 * Camille (Charles Ludlam play), an American play by Charles Ludlam

People

 * Camille (given name), a male or female given name
 * Camille (French singer), full name Camille Dalmais, French singer and songwriter
 * Camille (Belgian singer), full name Camille Dhont, Belgian singer and actress
 * Camille (American singer), full name Camille Filfiley, American singer and recording artist
 * Camille (violinist), full name Imbi-Camille Tamm, Estonian violinist

Other uses

 * Camille (ballet), a 1990 ballet by Veronica Paeper
 * "Camille" (Red Dwarf), an episode from series 4 of Red Dwarf
 * Hurricane Camille (1969), one of the most destructive storms to make landfall in the United States
 * Camille (Monet) or The Woman in the Green Dress, an 1866 painting by Claude Monet
 * Camille’s (Providence, Rhode Island) (1914) oldest Italian restaurant in Rhode Island

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Tochigi Prefecture

Tochigi Prefecture (栃木県) is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Tochigi Prefecture has a population of 1,897,649 (1 June 2023) and has a geographic area of 6,408 km² (2,474 sq mi). Tochigi Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the west, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the southeast.

Utsunomiya is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture, with other major cities including Oyama, Tochigi, and Ashikaga. Tochigi Prefecture is one of only eight landlocked prefectures and its mountainous northern region is a popular tourist region in Japan. The Nasu area is known for its onsens, local sake, and ski resorts, the villa of the Imperial Family, and the Nasushiobara station of the Shinkansen railway line. The city of Nikkō, with its ancient Shintō shrines and Buddhist temples, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Prefectural overview
Situated among the inland prefectures of the northern part of the Kantō region, Tochigi is contiguous with Ibaraki, Gunma, Saitama, and Fukushima Prefectures.

The climate of Tochigi may be classified as a humid temperate zone with broad variations in temperature. Winters are arid with dry winds, while summers are humid with frequent thunderstorms.

The population of Tochigi as of November 2010 is approximately 2,005,096.

Located in the center of the prefecture is the largest open plain in the Kantō region. Shirane (2,578 m), Nantai (2,484 m) and Nasudake (1,917 m) mountain are in the northern part of the area. Kinugawa, Nakagawa, and Watarase River originate in this region, which flow across the Kanto plain before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Tochigi is the 20th largest prefecture in Japan with a total area of 6,408.09 square km.

As of 1 April 2012, 21% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely Nikkō National Park, Oze National Park, and eight Prefectural Natural Parks.

History
Before the Meiji Restoration, Tochigi was known as Shimotsuke Province.

In the early 15th century, the Ashikaga Gakkō, Japan's oldest school of higher education, was re-established in the prefecture, holding over 3,000 students by the 16th century. Saint Francis Xavier introduced Ashikaga to the world as the best university in Japan.

In the early 17th century, Japan was unified under the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. After his death, Tōshō-gū shrine was built in Nikkō on what the shōguns thought of as holy ground to protect and worship Ieyasu. The establishment of the Nikkō Tōshō-gū in 1617 brought Nikkō to national attention. The Tokugawa shogunate developed the Nikkō Kaidō (日光街道, part of the major road connecting Nikkō with Edo) and acquired lavish processions to worship Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa line of shōguns.

In the late 19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate fell and the new government established the prefectures. The prefectural capital was established in the city of Tochigi after the unification of Utsunomiya Prefecture and Tochigi Prefecture in 1873. By 1884, however, the capital was transferred to Utsunomiya.

In March 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, levels of radioactivity in Utsunomiya were 33 times higher than normal.

Geography
The chief city of Utsunomiya is famous for its many gyoza specialist shops. Also located in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture has one of the largest shopping malls in the North Kantō region, Bell Mall.

Cities
Fourteen cities are located in Tochigi Prefecture:

 * Ashikaga
 * Kanuma
 * Mooka
 * Nasukarasuyama
 * Nasushiobara
 * Nikkō
 * Ōtawara
 * Oyama
 * Sakura
 * Sano
 * Shimotsuke
 * Tochigi
 * Utsunomiya (capital)
 * Yaita

Towns
These are the towns in each district:

 * Haga District
 * Haga
 * Ichikai
 * Mashiko
 * Motegi
 * Kawachi District
 * Kaminokawa
 * Nasu District
 * Nakagawa
 * Nasu
 * Shimotsuga District
 * Mibu
 * Nogi
 * Shioya District
 * Shioya
 * Takanezawa

Industry and agriculture
Located close to Tōkyō, Tochigi is home to many corporations and industrial zones, including the Kiyohara Industrial Complex, one of the largest inland industrial complexes in the country.

Industrial manufacturing accounts for 36.6% of the prefecture's total output. Vehicle parts and accessories are the primary products, followed by vehicles, radios and televisions, pharmaceuticals, and wireless communication equipment.

Below are goods manufactured in Tochigi with the highest market share in Japan:

(The 2004 industrial analysis report published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

The annual gross agricultural output in Tochigi is about 274 billion yen. Rice, vegetables, and livestock are produced in the region. Tochigi is also known for strawberries, Chinese chives, and Japanese pears sold throughout Japan and exported to other countries. Approximately 55% of Tochigi is covered by forests. Mushrooms, such as Shiitake mushrooms, make up half of the forest industry, with an output of approximately 5.6 billion yen.

Education
Tochigi is home to many universities and colleges including those for science and technology, literature, medicine, education, and art. Below is an alphabetical list of some of the universities located in Tochigi.

 * Ashikaga Institute of Technology
 * Bunsei University of Art, Utsunomiya
 * Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu
 * Hakuoh University, Oyama
 * International University of Health and Welfare, Otawara
 * Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke
 * Oyama National College of Technology
 * Sakushin Gakuin University, Utsunomiya
 * Sano College
 * Teikyo University, Utsunomiya
 * Tochigi College of Industry and Technology (Central), Utsunomiya
 * Tochigi College of Industry and Technology (North), Nasu
 * Tochigi College of Industry and Technology (South), Ashikaga
 * Utsunomiya Kyowa University, Utsunomiya and Nasushiobara
 * Utsunomiya University

Sports
The sports teams and events listed below are based in Tochigi.

Football (Soccer)

 * Tochigi S.C. (Utsunomiya)

Ice hockey

 * Nikkō Ice Bucks (Nikkō)

Basketball

 * Utsunomiya Brex

Motorsport

 * Twin Ring Motegi circuit
 * Nikkō Circuit

Cycling
Tour de Tochigi, a cat 2.2 three-day road race of the UCI Asia Tour

Tourism
Nikkō National Park is famous for its UNESCO World Heritage Site which was registered as the 10th World Heritage Site in 1999. This encompasses Rinnō-ji, Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Mount Nantai, and Futarasan Shrine. The Kegon Falls, also in Nikkō, is popular with tourists. To travel between the city and the falls, automobiles and buses take the Irohazaka, a road with dozens of switchbacks. In addition, 400-year-old Japanese Cedars (about 13,000 in total) line the famous Cedar Avenue of Nikkō for roughly 35 km, making it the longest tree-lined avenue in the world.

A more recent and modern attraction is the Twin Ring Motegi Circuit race course, which hosts the only IndyCar race outside the United States. The track also hosts many other race events including Formula One and motorcycle races as well as festivals and fireworks events.

Tochigi has many traditional festivals and events such as Nikkō Tōshō-gū's 1000 Samurai Procession and Horseback Archery Festival, and the city of Tochigi's Autumn Festival where doll floats are pulled around the city once every five years.

Other attractions include:
 * Nikkō Tōshō-gū
 * Rinnō-ji
 * Futarasan Shrine
 * Kegon Falls
 * Lake Chūzenji
 * Kirifuri Falls
 * Mashiko
 * Shiobara Hot Spring
 * Nasu resort area
 * Kinugawa (hot spring)
 * Nasu Animal Kingdom
 * Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura
 * Tobu World Square
 * Cannabis Museum
 * Nakagawa Aquatic Park
 * Ashikaga Flower Park

Roads
Traversing the prefecture along the north–south axis and connecting to the rest of the country are the Tōhoku Expressway and the new and old Route 4. From east to west spans Route 50, connecting southern Tochigi with Ibaraki and Gunma Prefectures.

Also connecting Tochigi, Gunma, and Ibaraki is the Kita-Kantō Expressway, with the 18.5 km that connect the Tochigi-Tsuga Interchange and the Utsunomiya-Kaminokawa Interchange. Portions of the Kita-Kantō Expressway are still being constructed and is set to be fully completed by 2011. The highway will link the region's other main transport arteries, the Tōhoku, the Jōban and the Kan-Etsu Expressways, providing a link to the international port of Hitachinaka in Ibaraki.

Rail
The Tōhoku Shinkansen and the JR Utsunomiya Line are the main railways running north and south in Tochigi. Shinkansen runs from Tokyo Station to Oyama in south Tochigi in 43 minutes. Utsunomiya can be reached by rail in as little as 48 minutes, and many parts of Tochigi are within commuting range of central Tokyo. To the east and west, the Mito and Ryōmō Lines connect Tochigi to Ibaraki and Gunma.

Freight is served by the Utsunomiya Freight Terminal.
 * East Japan Railway Company
 * Tōhoku Shinkansen
 * Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
 * Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)
 * Nikkō Line
 * Ryōmō Line
 * Mito Line
 * Karasuyama Line
 * Tobu
 * Isesaki Line
 * Nikkō Line
 * Kinugawa Line
 * Utsunomiya Line
 * Sano Line
 * Utsunomiya Light Rail
 * LIGHTLINE (Utsunomiya Haga Light Rail Line)
 * Mooka Railway
 * Yagan Railway
 * Watarase Keikoku Line

Air travel
Fukushima Airport is approximately an hour's drive from Utsunomiya on the Tōhoku Expressway. International and national air transportation is through Narita International Airport to the east of Tokyo, approximately three hours by vehicle from Utsunomiya.

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Peace of Ryswick

The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697. They ended the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance, which included the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.

One of a series of wars fought by Louis XIV of France between 1666 and 1714, neither side was able to make significant territorial gains. By 1695, the huge financial costs, coupled with widespread famine and economic dislocation, meant both sides needed peace. Negotiations were delayed by the question of who would inherit the Spanish Empire from the childless and terminally ill Charles II of Spain, the closest heirs being Louis and Emperor Leopold I.

Since Louis could not impose his preferred solution, he refused to discuss the issue, while Leopold refused to sign without its inclusion. He finally did so with great reluctance on 30 October 1697, but the Peace was generally viewed as a truce; Charles' death in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.

In Europe and North America, the terms essentially restored the position prevailing before the war, though Spain recognized French control of the island of Tortuga and the western portion of Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue). In Europe, France evacuated several territories it had occupied since the 1679 Treaty of Nijmegen, including Freiburg, Breisach and the Duchy of Lorraine; conversely, it retained Strasbourg.

Background
The Nine Years' War was financially crippling for its participants, partly because armies increased in size from an average of 25,000 in 1648 to over 100,000 by 1697. This was unsustainable for pre-industrial economies; the war absorbed 80% of English state revenue in the period, while the huge manpower commitments badly affected the economy.

The 1690s also marked the coldest point of the so-called Little Ice Age, a period of cold and wet weather affecting Europe in the second half of the 17th century. Harvests failed throughout Europe in 1695, 1696, 1698 and 1699; in Scotland and parts of Northern Europe, an estimated 5–15% of the population starved to death.

Although fighting largely ended in Europe after 1695, the subsidiary conflict known as King William's War continued in the Americas. A French fleet arrived in the Caribbean in early 1697, threatening the Spanish treasure fleet, and English possessions in the West Indies. England occupied the French colony of Acadia, while the French repulsed attacks on Quebec, captured York Factory, and caused substantial damage to the New England economy.

Negotiations

Talks were dominated by the primary issue of European politics for the last 30 years: the Spanish inheritance. By 1696, it was clear Charles II of Spain would die childless, and his potential heirs included King Louis XIV of France and Emperor Leopold I. The Spanish Empire remained a vast global confederation; in addition to Spain, its territories included large parts of Italy, the Spanish Netherlands, the Philippines, and much of the Americas. Acquisition of these territories by either France or Austria would change the European balance of power.

Recognising he was not strong enough to impose his preferred solution to the Spanish question, Louis wanted to prevent its discussion, by dividing the Grand Alliance and isolating Leopold. In the 1696 Treaty of Turin he made a separate peace with the Duchy of Savoy. Other concessions were the return of the Duchy of Luxemburg to Spain; considerably larger than the modern state, it was essential to Dutch security. Louis also agreed to recognise William III as monarch of England and Scotland, rather than the exiled James II.

Formal discussions between the delegations were held in the Huis ter Nieuwburg at Ryswick, mediated by Swedish diplomat and soldier Baron Lilliënrot. Many members of the Empire, such as Baden and Bavaria, sent representatives, although they were not party to the treaties. Talks proceeded slowly; Leopold habitually avoided making decisions until absolutely necessary, and since the terms failed to address the inheritance question, he would only agree to a ceasefire. One of the Spanish negotiators, Bernardo de Quiros, ignored instructions from Madrid to make peace at any price, and agreed to support this demand. Although the British initially preferred to continue fighting, William became anxious to finalise peace. William and Louis appointed the Earl of Portland and Marshal Louis-François de Boufflers as their personal representatives; they met privately outside Brussels in June 1697, and quickly finalised terms, with de Quiros being overruled.

The peace consisted of a number of separate agreements: on 20 September 1697, France signed Treaties of Peace with Spain and England, a Ceasefire with the Holy Roman Empire, and on 21 September, a Treaty of Peace and Commerce with the Dutch Republic. When Charles fell seriously ill, Leopold used it as an excuse to delay signing; one frustrated negotiator claimed "it would be a shorter way to knock (Charles) on the head, rather than all Europe be kept in suspense." The Spanish king recovered, while William threatened to dissolve the Alliance if Leopold did not sign before 1 November; he finally did so on 30 October.

Provisions
The treaty essentially restored the map of Western Europe to that agreed by the 1679 Treaty of Nijmegen; France kept Strasbourg, the strategic key to Alsace, but returned other territories occupied or captured since then, including Freiburg, Breisach, Philippsburg and the Duchy of Lorraine to the Holy Roman Empire. French forces also evacuated Catalonia, Luxembourg, Mons and Kortrijk in the Spanish Netherlands. Louis recognised William as king, withdrew support from the Jacobites, and abandoned claims to the Electorate of Cologne, and the Electoral Palatinate.

In North America, positions returned to those prevailing before the war, with France regaining Acadia, although in reality low-level conflict persisted around the boundaries. Conversely, in the Caribbean Spain recognized French control of the western portion of Hispaniola and the island of Tortuga; France had in fact established its colony of Saint-Domingue years earlier. Meanwhile, the Dutch returned the colony of Pondichéry in India to France.

Aftermath
All sides interpreted Ryswick to be a truce, and expected conflict to resume when Charles died. The war demonstrated that France could no longer impose its objectives without allies. Louis therefore adopted a dual approach of a diplomatic offensive to seek support, while keeping the French Army on a war footing. The increase in Habsburg power following victory in the Great Turkish War was offset by the growing independence of states like Bavaria, which looked to Louis for support, rather than Leopold.

The war diverted resources from both the Dutch and French navies, and although the Dutch still dominated the Far East trade, Ryswick marked a turning point in England's rise as a global maritime power. Previously focused on the Levant, its mercantile interests began challenging Spanish and Portuguese control of the Americas, where the French struggled to compete. The huge debts accumulated by the Dutch weakened their economy, while London replaced Amsterdam as the commercial centre of Europe. The Nine Years' War, together with the subsequent War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), marked the end of the Dutch Golden Age.

At the same time, the determination of the Tory majority in Parliament to reduce costs meant that by 1699, the English army had been reduced to less than 7,000 men. This seriously undermined William's ability to negotiate on equal terms with France, and despite his intense mistrust, he co-operated with Louis in an attempt to agree a diplomatic solution to the Spanish succession. The so-called Partition Treaties of The Hague in 1698 and London in 1700 ultimately failed to prevent the outbreak of war between the two kingdoms.

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Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.

Early life and education
Russell was born in Elmhurst, Illinois.

She graduated from Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois, which has registered its chapter of the National English Honor Society.

Sparrow series
Russell's first two novels, The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God (1998)—sometimes called the Sparrow series or Emilio Sandoz sequence —(Random House Villard in 1996 and 1998) have been called speculative fiction and focused on the religious and psychological implications of first contact with aliens. Both explore the problem of evil (theodicy) and how to reconcile a benevolent, omniscient, all-powerful deity with lives filled with undeserved suffering.

The Sparrow won the Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA, and Tiptree annual science fiction book awards (below), and it was the basis for Russell winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1998.

For The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, chief editor John Clute calls Russell an "author who established a strong reputation for cognitive subtlety and narrative power in her brief [science fiction] career; after the Emilio Sandoz sequence ... she turned her interest to other fields."

Other novels
The rest of Russell's novels have been categorized as historical novels, although she draws from a variety of genres when telling these stories.

A Thread of Grace (Random House, 2005) is a World War II thriller set in Northern Italy and features both the Italian resistance movement and the plight of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution throughout Europe. Much of story is based on accounts by survivors from the period, when many Italian citizens allowed Jews to seek safe harbor in their farmlands, cities, and ports. (Russell herself is of Italian heritage and is a convert to Judaism.)

Dreamers of the Day (Random House, 2008) is a historical romance set in the Midwestern United States and the Middle East during aftermath of the First World War and the Great Influenza. It focuses on the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, when Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and a group of British oilmen invented the modern Middle East, thus setting the region up for a hundred years of war.

Doc (Random House 2011) is a murder mystery as well as a realistic and compassionate portrait of the notorious "gambler and gunman" known as Doc Holliday. Doc is set in Dodge City, Kansas, during 1878, the last year that Dr. John Henry Holliday's tuberculosis was in check long enough for him to practice dentistry, a profession at which he excelled. The plot revolves around the mysterious death of a half-black, half-Indian boy who leaves a remarkable void in the life of the city. Doc was the American Library Association's Top Pick in Historical Fiction as well as the Kansas State Library's Notable Novel and the Great Lakes Great Reads pick.

Epitaph (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) picks up where Doc left off, following Holliday and the Earp brothers to Tombstone, Arizona, and traces the political and social roots of the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, as well as the making of the mythology that surrounds it. Epitaph is deeply researched; in addition to thorough study of the history of those involved, the 60-year-old Russell rode 58 miles on horseback through the mountains surrounding Tombstone, retracing the Earp Vendetta Ride. The novel was called the best ever written on the subject by Earp biographer Allen Barra and was recognized by True West Magazine as the Best Historical Western of 2015. The Ohioana Library Foundation awarded it the Best Fiction Prize of 2016; it also won the Ohioana Readers Choice Award for the year.

The Women of the Copper Country (Atria Books, 2019) is a painstakingly researched novel about the Copper Country strike of 1913–1914, the first unionized strike against all the copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The central character, "Big Annie" Clements, is based on "America's Joan of Arc," Anna Clemenc, who founded the Women's Auxiliary of the Western Federation of Miners and proudly carried the flag in many marches against the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Other historical figures, including James MacNaughton, General Manager of Calumet and Hecla, Woodbridge N. Ferris, governor of Michigan during the strike, and Mother Jones, prominent activist and union organizer, are also elaborately and credibly portrayed. The book received a Michigan Notable Book Award for 2020 from the Library of Michigan.

Russell is active on the lecture circuit, speaking at colleges, universities and libraries.

Books

 * The Sparrow (Villard, 1996; Ballantine, 1997)
 * Children of God (Villard, 1998; Ballantine, 1999)
 * A Thread of Grace (Random House, 2005; Ballantine, 2006)
 * Dreamers of the Day (Random House, 2008; Ballantine 2009)
 * Doc (Random House 2011; Ballantine, 2012)
 * Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015 hc, 2016 tradepaper)
 * The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel (Atria Books, 2019 hc, 2020 tradepaper)

Awards

 * James Tiptree, Jr. Award, 1997, The Sparrow
 * Arthur C. Clarke Award, 1998, The Sparrow
 * BSFA Award for Best Novel, 1998, The Sparrow (UK edition: Transworld Publishers Black Swan, 1997)
 * John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 1998, The Sparrow
 * Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame Award, 2001, The Sparrow and Children of God
 * Kurd Lasswitz Preis (Germany), best foreign novel, 2001, The Sparrow

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