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Lupe Pintor

José Guadalupe Pintor Guzmán (born April 13, 1955), better known as Lupe Pintor, is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1974 to 1995. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC bantamweight title from 1979 to 1983 and the WBC super bantamweight title from 1985 to 1986.

Early life and his career
Lupe Pintor was born into a poor, working-class family in Cuajimalpa, just outside Mexico City in 1955 and is alleged to have had an extremely violent relationship with his father, eventually forcing him to run away. He lived for some time on the city streets, learning how to look after himself and began boxing professionally in 1974.

He opened his account with a second-round knockout of Manuel Vázquez and immediately stepped up to ten round bouts, claiming a decision over Francisco Nunez on his next outing. He suffered his first loss three fights later, when he was disqualified against Magarito Lozano, but claimed victory in his next eight bouts, seven by knockout, including wins over notables Juan Díaz, Rocky Mijares and Willie Jespen.

Pintor first boxed future World Bantamweight Champion Alberto Davila on 25 February 1976, losing a decision over ten rounds, then embarked on a winning streak of some twenty-two fights in a row. Amongst the fighters he beat during this period were Gerald Hayes – who later conquered Juan Laporte – and Antonio Becerra, the only man to get the better of Salvador Sánchez as a professional boxer.

He then travelled to Puerto Rico, where he lost a ten-round decision to Leo Cruz – himself a future world champion. Upon returning to Mexico, Pintor lost for the second time in a row, carelessly dropping a decision to journeyman Jose Luis Soto. Another winning streak, comprising five fights in a row, all by way of knockout and he was ready for a shot at the world title.

World championships
Carlos Zarate was Pintor's stable mate and a fellow Mexican. He was an outstanding champion and continues to be rated one of the very best of all Bantamweights. The records, however, show that Pintor edged a very close and controversial split decision, following a remarkable contest that saw him hit the canvas in round four. But the judges were so at variance when recording their verdict, that (like already stated) the contest remains a matter of controversy today. Naturally, the new world champion's relationship with Zarate – already strained – took another hit and Zarate retired in disgust.

Pintor was a busy champion and he began his reign by engaging in three non-title bouts, beating Aucencio Melendez by a knockout in the first and avenging his loss to Jose Luis Soto before losing a rematch with Manuel Vázquez by a knockout in six. Then he began to defend his title in earnest, retaining it with a knockout in twelve over Alberto Sandoval in Los Angeles and drawing over fifteen with Eijiro Murata in Tokyo.

His next bout ended tragically. He defended against Johnny Owen of Wales in Los Angeles. Many of the fans present and the authors of The Ring's Boxing in The 20th Century, have agreed that the fight should have been stopped during round ten. But it carried on until the close of the twelfth, when Pintor unleashed a savage right-hand, knocking his opponent out cold. Owen failed to regain consciousness, lapsed into a coma and died seven weeks later. This fight was documented in the film Faces of Death II.

Saddened, Pintor – encouraged by Owen's family – resumed his career by avenging his loss to Davila, retaining the title by unanimous decision. He went on to retain the belt against Jose Uziga – again by decision – and Jovito Rengifo, by a knockout in eight. He stopped Hurricane Teru in the fifteenth and final round to close 1981 and began 1982, by retaining the title against Seung-Hoon Lee with an eleventh-round knockout.

Soon after the Lee fight, Pintor vacated his world title and started eyeing the WBC Super Bantamweight crown worn by the great Wilfredo Gómez. Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion Jorge Luján and then, on 3 December of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carnival of Champions in New Orleans. Showcased on HBO, this duel was subsequently dubbed the division's 'Fight of The Decade' by The Ring magazine. But it did not go Pintor's way. Gómez recorded a fourteenth-round knockout and relinquished his own title five months later.

Pintor was inactive throughout 1983. He returned to the ring a year-and-a-half later as a fully-fledged Super Bantamweight defeating Ruben Solorio on 16 February 1984 and busied himself thereafter trying to get another shot at the world title. his perseverance paid off when he was pitted against Juan 'Kid' Meza, the WBC's Super Bantamweight Champion on 18 August 1985. Pintor floored the defending champion three times on the way to collecting a unanimous decision and celebrated his new status as a double world title holder.

His first defense of this new crown did not go to plan. Traveling to Bangkok to meet Samart Payakaroon, Pintor exceeded the division weight limit and was subsequently stripped of his title at the scales. Payakaroon could still become champion if he defeated Pintor but if Pintor won the title would be declared vacant. Payakaroon pounded Pintor to defeat in five rounds and the ex-champion quit fighting for the next eight years.

Pintor made a comeback of sorts in 1994, but at the comparatively advanced age of thirty-eight, he was long past his best. Winning just twice in seven contests over the next eighteen months, he was finally convinced that it was time to retire.

Honors
Pintor was named The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year fighter for 1985.

After boxing
Unlike many great champions, Pintor has managed his money well and opened a boxing school in Mexico City. In 2002, he was invited to Merthyr Tydfil by Johnny Owen's family to help unveil a bronze statue commemorating the boxer's life and career.

In 2008, Pintor reunited with Carlos Zarate and joined Juan Laporte as the three former victims of Wilfredo Gómez showed up at a party dedicated to Gómez for his fiftieth birthday, in Puerto Rico.

Pintor, along with Hector Camacho and Hilario Zapata and several non-boxers was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in December 2015 and was inducted in June 2016.

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Cause célèbre

A cause célèbre (, ; pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. The term continues in the media in all senses. It is sometimes used positively for celebrated legal cases for their precedent value (each locus classicus or "case-in-point") and more often negatively for infamous ones, whether for scale, outrage, scandal, or conspiracy theories. The term is a French phrase in common usage in English. Since it has been fully adopted into English and is included unitalicized in English dictionaries, it is not normally italicized despite its French origin.

It has been noted that the public attention given to a particular case or event can obscure the facts rather than clarify them. As one observer states, "The true story of many a cause célèbre is never made manifest in the evidence given or in the advocates' orations, but might be recovered from these old papers when the dust of ages has rendered them immune from scandal".

Etymology
In French, one of the meanings of cause is a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court decisions from the 17th and 18th centuries.

While English speakers had used the phrase for many years, it came into much more common usage after the 1894 conviction of Alfred Dreyfus for espionage during the cementing of a period of deep cultural ties with a political tie between England and France, the Entente Cordiale. Both attracted worldwide interest and the period of closeness or rapprochement officially broadened the English language.

Examples
• The Murder of Edward the Martyr, England, 978

• The Becket controversy, England, 1163–1170

• The Tour de Nesle affair, France, 1314

• King Edward IV of England's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, England, 1460s and 1470s

• The Princes in the Tower, England, 1483

• The Murder of Lord Darnley, Scotland, 1567

• The Execution of Mary Stuart, England, 1587

• The Gunpowder Plot, England, 1605

• The execution of Robert-François Damiens, France, 1757

• The Douglas Cause, Great Britain, 1760s

• Ireland Shakespeare forgeries, Great Britain, 1790s

• The Burr Conspiracy and ensuing show trial, United States, 1805–1807

• The Marie Lafarge case, France, 1840

• The Parkman–Webster murder case, United States, 1849–1850

• The Mortara case, Papal States, 1850s and 1860s

• Tichborne case, United Kingdom, 1860s and 1870s

• Vera Zasulich trial, Russia, 1878

• R v Dudley and Stephens cannibalism case, United Kingdom, 1884

• The Dreyfus affair, France, 1890s and 1900s

• The murder trial of Lizzie Borden, United States, 1893

• The libel trial of Oscar Wilde, United Kingdom, 1895

• The murder trial of Maria Barbella, United States, 1895

• The murder trial of Adolph Luetgert, 1897

• The Brown Dog affair, United Kingdom, 1900s

• The Los Angeles Times bombing, 1910

• The Beilis case, Russian Empire, 1913

• Sacco and Vanzetti appeals, United States, 1920s

• The Ponzi Scheme, United States, 1923

• The Scopes Monkey Trial, United States, 1925

• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, United States, 1929

• The Lindbergh kidnapping, United States, 1932

• The Port Chicago disaster, United States, 1944

• Bhawal case, India, 1946

• Derek Bentley case, United Kingdom, 1953

• The Petrov Affair, Australia, 1954

• The shooting of William Woodward Jr. by his wife Ann Woodward, United States, 1955

• The Killing of Johnny Stompanato, United States, 1958

• The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, United States, 1963

• The Tate-LaBianca murders, United States, 1969

• The Thorpe affair, United Kingdom, 1970s

• The Watergate scandal, United States, 1972–1974

• The disappearance of Lord Lucan, United Kingdom, 1974

• Ted Bundy's impending trial in Aspen, 1977

• The Jonestown Cult Suicide, Guyana, 1978

• The trials of Claus von Bülow, United States, 1982–1985

• The Đorđe Martinović incident, Yugoslavia, 1985

• The Murder of the Goldmark family, United States, 1985

• Rodney King beating, United States, 1991

• The Murder of Shanda Sharer, United States, 1992

• Peter Ellis trial, New Zealand, 1993

• Murder of Stephen Lawrence, London, 1993–2015

• O. J. Simpson murder case, United States, 1994–1995

• Terri Schiavo case, United States, 1998-2005

• David Camm, United States, 2000

• The Bain family murders, New Zealand, 2004

• Amanda Knox trials, Italy, 2009–2015

• Sergei Magnitsky's death, Russia, 2009

• Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation, Tunisia, 2010

• Julian Assange extradition, United Kingdom, 2011

• Pussy Riot trial, Russia, 2012

• Delhi gang rape, India, 2012

• Causeway Bay Books disappearances, China, 2015

• Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey, 2018

• Sea of Japan radar targeting incident, Japan and South Korea, 2018

• Murder of George Floyd, United States, 2020

• Murder of Sarah Everard, United Kingdom, 2021

• Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse after the Kenosha unrest shooting, United States, 2021

• Murder of Brianna Ghey, United Kingdom, 2023

• Depp v. Heard, United States, 2022

• Murder of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe, Brazil, 2022

• Death of Mahsa Amini, Iran, 2022

Fictional examples

 * Death of General Lamarque in Les Miserables (1832)
 * The prison riot in Natural Born Killers

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Alexander Sumarokov

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков;, Moscow – ) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.

Life and works
Born of a family of Muscovite gentry, Sumarokov was educated at the Cadet School in St. Petersburg, where he acquired an intimate familiarity with French polite learning. Neither an aristocratic dilettante like Antiokh Kantemir nor a learned professor like Vasily Trediakovsky, he was the first gentleman in Russia to choose the profession of letters. He consequently may be called the father of the Russian literary profession. His pursuits did not undermine his position in the family; indeed, his grandson was made a count and, when the Sumarokov family became extinct a century later, the title eventually passed to Prince Felix Yusupov, who also held the title of Count Sumarokov-Elston.

Sumarokov wrote much and regularly, chiefly in those literary genres neglected by Lomonosov. His principal importance rests in his plays, among which Khorev (1749) is regarded as the first regular Russian drama. He ran the first permanent public theatre in the Russian capital, where he worked with the likes of Fyodor Volkov and Ivan Dmitrievsky. His plays were based on the subjects taken from Russian history (Dmitry Samozvanets), proto-Russian legends (Khorev) or on Shakespearean plots (Makbet, Hamlet).

D.S. Mirsky believed that there could be no doubt "the good acting made the reputation of Sumarokov, as the literary value of his plays is small. His tragedies are a stultification of the classical method; their Alexandrine couplets are exceedingly harsh; their characters are marionettes. His comedies are adaptations of French plays, with a feeble sprinkling of Russian traits. Their dialogue is a stilted prose that had never been spoken by anyone and reeked of translation".

Sumarokov's non-dramatic work is by no means negligible. His fables are the first attempt in a genre that was destined to flourish in Russia with particular vigor. His satires, in which he occasionally imitates the manner of popular poetry, are racy and witty attacks against the government clerks and officers of law. His songs, of all his writings, still attract readers of poetry. They are remarkable for a prodigious metrical inventiveness and a genuine gift of melody. In subject matter they are entirely within the pale of classical, conventional love poetry.

Sumarokov's literary criticism is usually carping and superficial. But it nonetheless did much to inculcate on the Russian public the canons of classical taste. He was a loyal follower of Voltaire, with whom he prided himself on having exchanged several letters. Amanda Ewington has argued that Sumarokov was not only influenced by Voltaire as such but accessed a wide variety of European influences, from Shakespeare to Lope de Vega, through the conduit of Voltaire. Vain and self-conscious, Sumarokov considered himself a Russian Racine and Voltaire in one. In personal relations he was irritable, touchy, and often petty. But his exacting touchiness contributed, almost as much as did Lomonosov's calm dignity, to raise the profession of the pen and to give it a definite place in society.

His daughter Ekaterina, an 18th-century poet, is often considered to be the first Russian woman writer, as she, together with and  were the first women to see their works printed in Russian journals.

Opera libretti
The first opera written in Russian was Цефал и Прокрис (Tsefal i Prokris – Cephalus and Prokris, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov) by Italian composer Francesco Araja serving to the Russian Court. The opera was staged at St. Petersburg on March 7, [OS February 27], 1755.

The second opera set to a Russian text was Альцеста (Altsesta – Alceste, 1758, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov) by German composer Hermann Raupach (1728–1778) also serving to the Russian Court.

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Banking in the United States

In the United States, banking had begun by the 1780s, along with the country's founding. It has developed into a highly influential and complex system of banking and financial services. Anchored by New York City and Wall Street, it is centered on various financial services, such as private banking, asset management, and deposit security.

The beginnings of the banking industry can be traced to 1780 when the Bank of Pennsylvania was founded to fund the American Revolutionary War. After merchants in the Thirteen Colonies needed a currency as a medium of exchange, the Bank of North America was opened to facilitate more advanced financial transactions.

As of 2018, the largest banks in the United States were JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs. As of March 2024, there were 4,587 FDIC insured commercial banks and savings institutions in the U.S.

History
Merchants traveled from Britain to the United States and established the Bank of Pennsylvania in 1780 to fund the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). During this time, the Thirteen Colonies had not established a currency, and used informal trade to finance their daily activities. On January 4, 1782, the first commercial bank in the U.S., Bank of North America, opened. In 1791, U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton created the Bank of the United States, a national bank intended to maintain American taxes and pay off foreign debt. However, President Andrew Jackson closed the bank in 1832 and redirected all bank assets into U.S. state banks. State banks began printing money rapidly, sparking runaway inflation and leading to the Panic of 1837.

Investment banking began in the 1860s with the establishment of Jay Cooke & Company, one of the first selling agents for government bonds. In 1863, the National Bank Act was passed to create a national currency and a federal banking system, and to make public loans. But at that time not all parts of the country had become states. In Oklahoma Territory, which did not become a state until 1907, Muskogee mayor H.B. Spaulding resigned in 1902 from his position as vice-president of the Territorial Trust and Surety Company, after his Spaulding Mercantile Company was given a charter to found a private bank. Similarly in 1903 several more private banks were founded. One contemporary banker from Oklahoma defending the vitality of these private non-US banks did note that a small number of bank failures had resulted from a "dip in deposits due to partial crop failure".

In 1913 the Federal Reserve System was established and began executing monetary policy. The Great Depression led to the separation between investment and commercial banking known as the "Glass-Steagall Act", but the Act was repealed in 1999, leading to the 2008 financial crisis.

Regulatory agencies
While most countries have only one bank regulator, in the U.S., banking is regulated at both the federal and state levels in an arrangement known as a dual banking system. Depending on its type of charter and organizational structure, a banking organization may be subject to numerous federal and state banking regulations. Unlike Switzerland and the United Kingdom (where regulatory authority over the banking, securities and insurance industries is combined into one single financial service agency), the U.S. maintains separate securities, commodities, and insurance regulatory agencies—separate from the bank regulatory agencies—at the federal and state levels. U.S. banking regulations address privacy, disclosure, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, anti-usury lending, and the promotion of lending to lower-income populations. Some individual cities also enact their own financial regulation laws (for example, defining what constitutes usurious lending).

Federal Reserve system
The central banking system of the United States, called the Federal Reserve system, was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907. Over time, the roles and responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System have expanded and its structure has evolved. Events such as the Great Depression were major factors leading to changes in the system. Its duties today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, are to conduct the nation's monetary policy, supervise and regulate banking institutions, maintain the stability of the financial system and provide financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, up to $250,000 per depositor per bank. , the FDIC insured deposits at 6,800 institutions. The FDIC also examines and supervises certain financial institutions for safety and soundness, performs certain consumer-protection functions, and manages banks in receivership (failed banks). Since the start of FDIC insurance on January 1, 1934, no depositor has lost any insured funds as a result of a bank failure.

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. federal agency established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. Thomas J. Curry was sworn in as the 30th Comptroller of the Currency on April 9, 2012.

Office of Thrift Supervision
The Office of Thrift Supervision is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of the Treasury. It was created in 1989 as a renamed version of another federal agency (that was faulted for its role in the Savings and loan crisis). Like other U.S. federal bank regulators, it is paid by the banks it regulates. On July 21, 2011, the Office of Thrift Supervision became part of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Bank classification
There are various classifications and charters that a bank can obtain in the United States. Depending on their classification, they may be overseen by the Federal Reserve and supervised by either the FDIC or OCC.

National bank
A national bank is a bank that is nationally or federally chartered and is allowed to operate throughout the country in any state. An advantage of holding a National Bank Act charter is that a national bank is not subject to state usury laws intended to prevent predatory lending. (However, see also Cuomo v. Clearing House Association, L. L. C., stating that federal banking regulations do not preempt the ability of states to enforce their own fair-lending laws.) There is currently no federal cap on rates. The federal government only requires that whatever rates, fees, or terms are set by issuers be disclosed to the consumer in accordance with the Truth in Lending Act. A national bank must have "National" or "N.A." in its corporate name.

State bank
A state bank is a bank that is state chartered, meaning that it has been formed under the laws of a specific state government and not the federal government. Although historically state banks could only operate within the state where it was chartered, this distinction slowly eroded. In 2010, this distinction was eliminated with the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. Now state chartered banks may operate branches in any other state. A state chartered bank cannot have "National" or "Federal" in its name.

State non-member bank
These are the similar to state chartered banks but are not members of the federal reserve. They are still overseen by the FDIC.

Federal savings association
Federal savings associations (FSAs), including federal savings banks (FSBs), are chartered under the Homeowners Refinancing Act of 1933. Although originally focused on residential mortgage lending, they have expanded their business across the range of banking activities. They operate under a distinct regulatory framework from national banks that allows them, for example, to invest directly in real estate development companies. FSAs were originally overseen by the Office of Thrift Supervision, but the Dodd–Frank Act transferred most regulatory jurisdiction to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

State savings association
This is similar to a federal savings association but is registered under state law. They are overseen by the FDIC.

Bank mergers and closures
Bank mergers can happen for many reasons in normal business: for example, to create a single larger bank in which operations of both banks can be streamlined; to acquire another bank's brands; or due to regulators closing the institution due to unsafe and unsound business practices or inadequate capitalization and liquidity. Banks may not go bankrupt in the United States. As of October 2008, depositor accounts are insured by the FDIC up to $250,000 per individual per bank. Banks that are in danger of failing are either taken over by the FDIC, or administered temporarily, then sold or merged with other banks. The FDIC maintains a list of banks showing institutions seized by regulators and the assuming institutions.

Banking privacy
In the United States, banking privacy and information security is not protected through a singular law nor is it an unalienable right. The regulation of banking privacy is typically undertaken by a sector-by-sector basis. The most prominent federal law governing banking privacy in the U.S. is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB). This regulates the disclosure, collection, and use of non-public information by banking institutions. Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) serves as the primary protector of banking privacy by fining violators of federal and state banking privacy laws. Unlike banking in Switzerland or other European countries, violations of banking privacy are usually a civil offense not a criminal one. However, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) offers numerous banking privacy provisions within its statutes.

List of banks
According to the FDIC, there were 6,799 FDIC-insured commercial banks in the United States as of February 11, 2014. Every member of the Federal Reserve System is listed along with non-members who are also insured by the FDIC. The five largest banks by assets in 2011 were JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs.

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Glam

Glam is a shortened form of the word glamour.

Glam or GLAM may also refer to:

Film

 * Glam (film), a 1997 experimental drama film

Institutions

 * University of Glamorgan, founded in 1913 and merged into the University of South Wales in 2013.
 * GLAM (cultural heritage), c. 1990s, an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, the cultural heritage institutions
 * Glam.com, 2003, a life-style related Web company

People

 * Moshe Glam (born 1970), Israeli footballer and football manager
 * Rami Glam (born 1978), former Israeli footballer
 * Glamourina (born 1988), Polish fashion stylist

Places

 * Short form of Glamorgan a historic county of Wales and formerly used as a postal abbreviation.

Mathematics

 * Generalized linear array model, 2006, in statistics

Music

 * Glam metal, 1970s, a subgenre of heavy metal music
 * Glam rock, 1970s, a style of rock and pop music
 * Glam punk, 1970s, a genre that mixes elements of glam rock with protopunk or punk rock

Albums

 * Glam (album), 1998, by Mouse on Mars

Bands

 * Glam (band), 2010, a South Korean girl group

Songs

 * "Glam", a 1982 instrumental by Icehouse from Primitive Man
 * "Glam 25", a 1999 song by Zombie Nation from Leichenschmaus
 * "Glam", a 2010 song by Christina Aguilera from Bionic
 * "Glam", a 2014 song by Chuck Inglish from Convertibles

Sport

 * Glamorgan Cricket Club, 1888, first-class county club representing Glamorgan, abbreviated as Glam
 * Glamorgan Wanderers, 1893, Rugby union team in the county of Glamorgan

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User talk:Axlrosen

Speed deletion of the Multibionta Wikipedia page (guidance and revisions required to repost)
Hi Axlrosen:

I have a few question regarding the speed deletion of the Multibionta Wiki page. Firstly, I understand the points that were provided regarding the "Marketing campaigns" subheading and links. I actually agree with these items for removal as it does seem like product promotion. I really want you to know that this was not the intent. I developed this page as a result of a a digital coupon found online and numerous questions posted by interested viewers. That said, the Multibionta page's intent is to provide an unbiased look at what Multibionta exactly is, how it works, and some scientific data on multivitamin/probiotics. I recieved a notification that the page was considered an "orphan" as well as a tip to add categories. Upon following this direction, I did realize that some of the page's content should be revised (noteably the marketing related information). All other information is purely unbiased and substantiated by the scientific studies referenced (I'm a healthcare guy). With this in mind, am I able to repost the page, add the "hangon" leader, and revise the content to not include any marketing related information? Originally, I thought this content would be of value to readers given the context in which I developed the page, but have since realized that it should not be included within Wikipedia pages. I am relatively new to the Wiki community and would love to hear your insights on improving this page so that it is at a quality/standard suitable for Wikipedia.

Thanks so much, Axlrosen. I really appreciate your time and guidance. Have a great day and looking forward to your response.

Cheers,

(Ry4Health 17:18, 12 May 2010 (UTC))

 * All of your edits appear to be promoting Multibionta and its marketing campaigns. This gives you the clear appearance of a conflict of interest. (I'm not saying that you have a conflict of interest, I'm just saying that to all outward appearances, it appears that you do.) So it's going to be very hard for you to create a WP:NPOV page on this subject, once which doesn't violate the Conflict of interest policy. (Also - many people who read Conflict of interest should probably also read Sock puppetry :) Remember that the purpose of Wikipedia is to create an encyclopedia. If your interests differ from those (e.g. you want to get the word out on Multibionta), then that's going to be a problem. Does that make sense? Axlrosen (talk) 18:46, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi Axlrosen:

Yes, the above makes sense. Thanks for your help. I'm now wondering whether I will be able to repost if I remove all marketing related info and add "hang on" with notes appended. The article will then only offer unbiased information on Multibionta and third party research concerning consumption studies on probiotic strain efficacy/safety. I think this should certainly meet guidelines without giving WP:NPOV and Conflict of interest policy. Please let me know what my next steps can/should be. As a new contributor, I really appreciate your help and support!

Cheers,

(Ry4Health (talk) 17:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC))

 * Hi, and thanks for engaging on this topic. I'm glad that you're interested in learning and doing the right thing. Personally, I am pretty skeptical that such an edit would meet the Conflict of interest policy. Note of course that I speak only for me; others may have different opinions. Axlrosen (talk) 04:01, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Edits made to Natural World Museam
Hello Alxrosen:

I have a letter here from the United States Bankruptcy court which confirms the edits I created were factually correct for the Natural World Museum. How might I get a copy of this to you to allow the edits I did to be acceptable to Wikipedia and to accurately reflect the history of the NWM?

thanks

RK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.181.80.199 (talk) 01:39, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi RK. It's not about getting this information to me; it's how to make the reader of the article know that you're not some crackpot with a grudge against this museum. (Which I don't think you are BTW.) Check out WP:V for the scoop on the Verifiability requirements for Wikipedia, and WP:CITE on citation. I'm not completely sure how to deal with this particular type of reference (a letter from a court) - a published citation would certainly be more ideal, but I think if you just presented the information about the letter in a scholarly-sounding way, it would be pretty good evidence. (Like, "Personal letter from Judge John Smith, U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Virginia, dated Jan 14 2009" or something.) Also, make sure that only facts from that letter are included in the article... if it doesn't say that people are "stranded", then saying so in the article would be original research. You could even scan it and post it somewhere, maybe even in wikinfo.org. Does that make sense? Axlrosen (talk) 17:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

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A question about your edit of the Kinetic Bombardment in fiction page
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinetic_bombardment&diff=361391389&oldid=360293964

Why did you delete this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loren Pechtel (talk • contribs) 23:29, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

 * I didn't - User:Therealhazel did. I think you misread the diff. Axlrosen (talk) 20:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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General number field sieve
Regarding your edits to general number field sieve: I'm afraid you're mistaken. On MathWorld, it doesn't say that n is the number of bits in the number to be factored. In fact, when talking about factoring, n is by convention the number to be factored. Anyway, in factoring, it's unusual to specify the size of numbers in bits (except with, for example, RSA keys), since decimal digits are a more intuitive measure of number size to us humans. Decrypt3 15:59, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * OK, now I agree with the change. I hadn't spotted the n and logn difference, since in every source I've seen apart from Wikipedia it's logn, and I wasn't expecting it to be different. I think it's better this way - like I said, it is conventional to use n as the number to be factored in factoring discussions, so this keeps with the convention. Sorry for the confusion! Decrypt3 00:07, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

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Practising
I did not make that edit which you question, but Merriam-Webster on line allows both spellings. There may be some difference in British vs American usage, but from my best recollection (mostly U.S.) the spelling with the "cing" is used more for practicing music, tennis, mathematics, and so on - part of a learning or development process, while I believe for the concept of following precepts, as in religion or moral code, I have seen the "sing" more often. For a profession, such as being a doctor actually in service, however, I think I have seen the "c" more. Maybe we are both "practising pedants." Pdn 03:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Direct sum of modules
I agree with you that, strictly speaking, one does not have to define integral scalar multiple to define the direct sum of abelian groups. So, I left this out of the definition. However, I reverted everything else back to read "abelian group" and inserted a remark regarding integral scalar multiplication.

The whole purpose of the article is to describe direct sum constructions of certain modules. In other words, to describe various coproducts in certain categories of modules. The reason to include abelian groups specifically, is that the direct sum construction is only a coproduct in the category of abelian groups, but not in the category of groups. The reason to include the 2 cases of vector spaces and abelian groups is that each of these is a special case of a category of modules over a ring (with vector spaces, it is a field; with abelian groups, it is the integers). This is why it is important to mention the integral scalar multiplication.

Even in the category of finite groups, the direct sum (coproduct) construction is not the direct sum as described in this article, it is the free product. Revolver 01:39, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Hi Chinju. Thank you for your change to Independence (mathematics). The article looks better now. And one request. It would be really nice if you put edit summaries when you contribute. This is one of those things which make it easier for other people when they check the watchlist and for editors checking recent changes. Think of it as of the "Subject:" line in an email. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov 03:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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Causality
Hello,

I was planning to make changes to the special relativity article on this point some time ago. I agree with you that one cannot say that a violation of causality is a logical paradox. But if one can send signals using tachyons, one can create a so-called "anti-telephone", i.e. you can send a signal to yourself in the past. This can be used to construct paadoxes, however, it is then still possible to conjecture that you can only have consistent solutions. In this article some details are given.

Anyway, it would be interesting to give some more details in the article, like how the faster than light signals should be sent in order to send a signal into one's own past than just say that there are observers that see the order of events reversed. Count Iblis 02:07, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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What are you attempting to do on the Michael Phelps article? I can help. Dreadstar †  04:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It's gone now? Cool...I'm not even sure what the vandalism was.  Can you provide a link or two?  Dreadstar  †  04:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Also wanted to make sure Kigabo's edits were ok. Dreadstar  †  04:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replying on my talk page is fine. I also check the talk page of the editor I'm communicating with.  Six of one...  Thanks for the info on Zodiac.  Dreadstar  †  04:28, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I suspect that the vandalism in question is template related because it effected all of the old versions of the article in the edit history. I.E. even when I looked at version from the last week they were screwed up, and then they were ok again. It would be good to know for the future. —MJBurrage(T•C) 04:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Indeed, that is what I now realize. It's just coincidence that my article edits have coincided with the fix of the templates. I'm curious which template it was this time. -Chinju (talk) 04:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It was the Template:Infobox Swimmer, the vandalism itself was right here: . Dreadstar  †  05:25, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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Cauchy-Schwarz inequality alternative proof
Hi. I just saw you replaced the "standard" proof by yours again in CS ineq page. Please take a look at the talk page of CS inequality. I still believe the "standard" proof should be there as a reference. Your proof or the other one in talk page can be an ALTERNATIVE proof. --Memming (talk) 20:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Zeta Function Regularization
Dear Chinju, I found out you edited the wikipedia's page "1+2+3+4+..."

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF

where I've found the following statement:

More generally $\zeta(s)$ will always be given by the degree zero term of the Laurent series expansion around $h=0$ of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n^{-s} e^{hn}$.

Do you have some reference for this statement? It seems wrong to me, but I am not sure because I am not an expert in complex analysis. IN any case, I found no reference in the literature of such property of the Riemann $\zeta$ function. Thank you very much for your attention. Best Regards, Maurizio Barbato (user: PoppiesInAWheatField)PoppiesInAWheatField (talk) 21:28, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Proofs of Fermat's Little Theorem
Dear Chinju, I want to put back the first method you deleted from this page. This is contained here Proofs of Fermat's little theorem (an older version)

You made the following remark before the deletion:

 * Removed proof originally added by Ling Kah Jai in October 2008; it has languished for years with a large unexplained gap (why must all the b_j be distinct in the second case?

You are referring to the (why?) in the original text:

 * Thus the elements of second row of matrix $$B$$ are not identical to that of the first row, neither are the third and fourth rows, etc. Conditions for Lemma 2 shall hold for all factor $$n|(p-1)$$, any violation will result in satisfying the condition of Lemma 1 whereby the result has been proven. Consequently each value of $$b_j$$ must be unique for $$j = 1, 2, \dots, mn$$.

Don't you think the text has explained every thing? b_j is < p since b_j is result of a^x (mod p). All b_j are non identical and there are only that many numbers possible: 1 to (p-1). Take note that (p-1) is mn.--Ling Kah Jai (talk) 07:18, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

No, I do not think the text has explained everything. You claim all b_j (i.e., all powers of a from a^0 through a^(p - 2)) are non-identical, but do not prove this. You claim it simply because a^n does not equal 1 for any factor n of p - 1, but it's not clear why it would follow that all b_j are non-identical. For example, if p were 23, and I proposed that neither a^1 nor a^2 nor a^11 nor a^22 were equal to 1, why would I then automatically know that b_1 (i.e., 1) and b_6 (i.e., a^5) must be different? We know we cannot have a^i = a^j where i and j differ by a factor of p - 1 (this is your "Lemma 1"), but what about the possibility that a^i = a^j where i and j differ by a non-factor of p - 1?

Indeed, the whole proof you propose is an extremely convoluted way of saying "For prime p, and a distinct from 0 modulo p, assume for contradiction that a^(p - 1) is not 1. Then the values a^0, a^1, ..., a^(p - 2) are all distinct [for reasons unexplained!]. It follows that (a^(p - 1) - 1)/(a - 1) = a^0 + a^1 + ... + a^(p - 2) = 1 + ... + (p - 1) = p * (p - 1)/2 = 0 mod p [we may assume here p is odd, since a is neither 0 nor 1 modulo p], and thus a^(p - 1) = 1, completing the proof". But the key step has been left out: why must a^0, a^1, ..., a^(p - 2) all be distinct? Again, we know that if a^i = a^j where i and j differ by a factor of p - 1, it automatically follows that a^(p - 1) = 1 (for then a^(i - j) = 1, and a^(p - 1) is a power of that), but what about the possibility that a^i = a^j where i and j differ by a non-factor of p - 1? You fail to explain why this cannot happen. And explaining why this cannot happen is the whole key to Fermat's Little Theorem! -Chinju (talk) 08:05, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Chinju, this is obvious: if b_k repeats b_1, then b_k+1 repeats b_2 etc. Thus this goes back to Lemma 1. If b_k does not repeat b_1, and k can be any such integer, the whole set is unique. You may explain it more clearly if you wish.--Ling Kah Jai (talk) 04:17, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

No, it is not obvious. You prove in Lemma 1 that if b_k = b_1, WHERE k - 1 is a factor of p - 1, then already a^(p - 1) = 1 and we are done. You do not in Lemma 1 do anything to rule out the possibility that b_k = b_1 where k - 1 is not a factor of p - 1. As I said above, consider this example: suppose p is 23, and I say to you that I have an a such that neither a^1 nor a^2 nor a^11 nor a^22 equal 1. How can I be sure that b_1 (i.e., 1) and b_6 (i.e., a^5) must be different? How does Lemma 1 apply to this situation? (It does not). -Chinju (talk) 15:35, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Dear Chinju, Suppose (Zp, *) is the multiplicative group of integer modulo p and contains p-1 elements.The cyclic subgroup 1 is generated by 'a' on 1. It is  a subgroup of Zp. Say the number of elements is n. Suppose this subgroup does not contains an integer q. The cyclic subgroup 2 generated by ’a' on q shall contain the same number of elements (I.e. n number) as subgroup 1 but have all elements distinct from subgroup 1. Accordingly, there must be m such subgroups available and if we gather all these elements together they are Zp. Thus it is not possible for b_r+1 to repeat b_1 unless r is a factor of (p-1)--Ling Kah Jai (talk) 13:58, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

The reasoning you just gave is valid, but was not mentioned in your original proof. Indeed, the reasoning you just gave suffices on its own to establish Fermat's little theorem, without all the obfuscation of your original proof (as you just noted, by considering the equal-sized subgroups generated by a, we must have a^n = 1 for n some factor of p - 1; accordingly, we have that a^(p - 1) = (a^n)^((p - 1)/n) = 1^((p - 1)/n) = 1). And this proof is already in the Wikipedia article! It's the one at the bottom called "Proof using group theory" mentioning Lagrange's theorem. So I still object to adding a convoluted presentation on top of that as though it were a distinct proof. -Chinju (talk) 16:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Dear Chinju,

Please note also that a^(p-1) -1 can be factored by a^n -1, if and only n is a factor of (p-1). Otherwise it is not true. If a^n -1 is multiple of p, so is a^(p-1) -1.--Ling Kah Jai (talk) 17:17, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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Being instructed by the commensurate relation {{Reproducibility:what instructs]]:alike| Physics and Lexicography (among others); with the commensurate certain je ne se wha'tya'ca l'  endurance to observe and to (consider to) commit ViceVersas. Envisioning myself accordingly as one among Wikipedians.

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Nice article on cushion. I'm sometimes amazed at what we don't have. Writing on knitting needle, I discovered we have neither needle, pin, sock or jumper -- astounding! (I created the last one... but it's stubbish) -- Tarquin 11:30 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)

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Oops, thanks for catching the Edward VI error. I of course meant to type in 1537 instead of 1547. But it's been a long day here in Canberra.

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Hello, Frank. I've always wondered: Do you try to write in such a way that it will be difficult for most people to understand you? This certainly has its purposes (and I've always found you interesting, at least to a degree), but I don't think that it belongs in Wikipedia. -- Toby Bartels

As to: I've always wondered: Do you "try" [...]
 * I've rarely wondered whether an encyclopedia might benefit those who readily try not to understand as much as those who readily try to imagine being understood.

 * I've never wondered that before, since it's not the sort of thing that one would normally compare. I'd say that an encyclopædia is most useful when:
 * The reader tries their best to understand;
 * The writer assumes that the reader isn't going to try very hard.
 * That is, as writers, we should try to be comprehensible with a minimum of effort on the reader's part, just in case.

As to: I've always found you interesting [...
 * Regrettably (and I may not even begin to comprehend the magnitude of my loss) I can't recall having found you instructive.

 * I'll take it as a compliment that you seem to imply that this is a great loss -- I only know that some people have found me instructive (on USENET I mean, where we met).

 * In any case, I try to be easily understood (even though I don't always succeed), since that helps in being instructive. And I'm not going to come out and say that you do try to be hard to understand -- still, I wonder. -- Toby 20:03 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)

 * Regards, Frank W ~@) R, Jan. 9th, 20:35 (PST).

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What does "Hunmin jeong'eum haerye" have to do with this? Are you being serious, or are you trying to irritate me (and other members of this project)? You give the impression of willfully misinterpreting what other people say. And please don't create self-links: "Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld" on the Seinfeld page itself. -- Tarquin 19:32 Jan 6, 2003 (UTC)

As to: please don't create self-links: "Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld" on the Seinfeld page itself
 * How ougth We to distinguish, or even to emphasize, that the linked entity referred to "Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld", not to "Jerry Seinfeld in Wikipedia"? Specificly,

 * Seinfeld: [...] features clips [...] of Seinfeld delivering a standup routine

 * Is it reproducible that the reference is strictly to "Jerry Seinfeld, the character appearing and scripted in Seinfeld", or not possibly instead to "Jerry Seinfeld, the overarching comedian which may have drawn on the whole of in Wikipedia"? In the latter case, at least as an POV, ought We not give this particular instance the recognition of providing a link Seinfeld?

As to: What does "Hunmin jeong'eum haerye" have to do with this?
 * In My view, the making of the article by that name provides an instance of Make "Wiki" explain. Thereby it appears to illustrate its meaning, about which You had asked.
 * Also, that was the first article to appear when I searched Explanation.

As to: You give the impression of willfully misinterpreting what other people say
 * Far be it from me. I wish to impress by carefully interpreting what wikipedians write, and, to the best of my ability and resources, ask Us about may not have understood right away; allowing all to do equally well.

 * Best regards, Frank W ~@) R,			Jan. 6, 12:28 PST.

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No, it wasn't a joke. Your use of the verb "instructs" is, frankly, bizarre. I don't understand any of your response below. Your excessive linking and quoting makes things very hard to follow. What does " Make Wiki explain." mean? --- Tarquin 13:31 Jan 6, 2003 (UTC)

As to Your use of the verb "instructs" is, frankly, bizarre.
 * (Instance of my use of instructs <TT>, acting as verb</TT> may be found on this page and in refeences therein.)
 * I'm sorry that my use of instructs <TT>, acting as verb</TT> can be characterized as frankly, bizarre; especially since I'm under the impression that instruction <TT>, acting as noun</TT> which appears in Encyclopedia ought to be commensurate.
 * Can You provide instances of whether and how We have or ought to observe instructs <TT>, acting as verb</TT> instead, please? Otherwise your characterization would appear, frankly, bizarre.

As to ''What does " Make Wiki explain." mean?''
 * Excellent, a question. (Also, therefore, as in Excellent question).
 * What appears be an adequately good (at least) answer is viewed as in Hunmin jeong'eum haerye. (Also, therefore, my reply may Itself be addressing Your question.)

As to Your excessive linking and quoting makes things very hard to follow.
 * I appreciate Your afforts to follow nevertheless.
 * Having attempted to do so myself, I found that the link given below might more easily be expressed as 2 <TT>as denoting Two</TT>.

As to No, it wasn't a joke.
 * Of course that's always understood, is it not?!

 * Best regards, <TT>F</TT>rank <TT>W ~@) R</TT>,			Jan. 6, 10:58 PST.

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Are you using translation software to write here? You keep using phrases like "a neighbourhood, which instruct Physics as well as Mathematics?" -- this usage of the verb "instructs" is unusual. As you can see, several wikipedians are having problems understanding what you write, both in articles and talk pages. -- Tarquin 10:28 Jan 6, 2003 (UTC)

As to: ''You keep using phrases like "a neighbourhood, which instruct Physics as well as Mathematics?" -- this usage of the verb "instructs" is unusual.''

 * I don't know if that was meant to be a joke
 * (if so, noting the apparent unusual use of "a neighbourhood" ought to be about twice as funny),
 * if you're deliberately refusing to resolve
 * articles [...] which instruct Physics as well as Mathematics
 * and
 * articles, e.g. about what is and what isn't a neighbourhood
 * (which I seem to have expressed recently in Talk:Local coordinate system)
 * or if you're plainly not understanding me, in which case I count on being able to
 * Write in Wiki,
 * and (thereby)
 * Make Wiki explain.
 * anyways.

 * Each of these options involves as much as the notion of 2, which is apparently already articulated ...

As to As you can see, several wikipedians are having problems understanding what you write, both in articles and talk pages
 * Indeed. Fortunately, Wikipedia instructs even them to be considerate and even rational in addressing such problems; since first and foremost they're Ours.

 * Best regards, <TT>F</TT>rank <TT>W ~@) R</TT>,			Jan. 6, 5:18 PST.

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You've got me really confused, Fwappler. What language are you speaking? -- Zoe

As to What language are you speaking?

 * I don't speak language a lot; instead express what I thought in writing -- usually Aleutian Denglisch.

As to You've got me really confused

 * I beg your pardon. What's Your question?

Best regards,  <TT>F</TT>rank <TT>W ~@) R</TT>,			Jan. 5, 22:53 PST.

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Interesting rearranging you've done here. I'm not sure if I'm writing in the right place. I get the impression that you don't understand what the Wikipedia project is about and what it is trying to achieve. Your use of English makes much of what you write here hard to understand. You should go see Talk:Duration -- Tarquin 21:27 Jan 5, 2003 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I noticed your statement only as of this writing. Hopefully my renewed rearrangement of correspondence indicates

 * 1) that you ```did' apparently the right place''; at the when I ought to have replied, I just seem not to have gotten past Zoe follow-up; sorry. And
 * 2) the principle about how to be writing in the right place on this page still remains.

As to You should go see Talk:Duration
 * 1) I had already replied to your kind notification from earlier the same day.

<TT>F</TT>rank <TT>W ~@) R</TT>, Jan. 9th, 19:38 (PST).

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Regarding Chart, see what AxelBoldt wrote on Talk:Local coordinate system. You write above: "As to PLEASE stop writing everything" -- I don't if that was meant to be a joke, if you're misunderstanding me, or if you're deliberately taking my remarks out of context. -- Tarquin 14:46 Jan 5, 2003 (UTC)

As to As to PLEASE stop writing everything[...]" -- I don't [know] if that was meant to be a joke, if you're misunderstanding me, or if you're deliberately taking my remarks out of context.
 * Yes, and No, Tarquin.
 * As to stop writing [... in { }]
 * First of all I've valued your instruction(s), seeing my use of Talk:Markup being so directed until further notice; and I presume having thereby Your PLEA adequately Squelched. However,
 * As to writing everything
 * I couldn't help but observe and focus on the superlative presumption of your request; and, while I had to go to sleep, I attempted to gather instructions on whether and how there's no I in Wikipedia, phonemically or otherwise.
 * Distributed instruction, you know ?
 * May We not observe wholes by recognizing their parts, say: find out !?

As to see what AxelBoldt wrote on Talk:Local coordinate system
 * How do We reconcile the presumption of a reader being one intelligible Wikipedian, albeit ever so ignorant of the subject, with said reader's selfproclaimed ignorance on what a commensurate relation is to start with ?! --- Do We lead by example?!

 * Frank W ~@) R,   Jan. 5, 13:05 PST.

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Fwappler, PLEASE stop writing everything in { }. They have no special meaning in wiki markup & make everything you write in talk pages hard to read. -- Tarquin 13:54 Jan 5, 2003 (UTC)

As to ''{ } ... have no special meaning in wiki markup''
 * In my view, that's a terrible waste, or a terrific resource, of bandwidth. But strangely, even though Wikipedia knows about at least about Markup, Bandwidth and Resource Wikipedia itself doesn't seem to be too excited about this circumstance yet.

As to make everything you write in talk pages hard to read
 * That's quite contrary to my intention, which is for my writing to be instructive; especially for ... (you know who? ;).

As to PLEASE stop writing everything
 * Well, I hope I've written already enough to catch on (with those who are excited about wiki markup; please bear with me.
 * Otherwise, of NECESSITY: I myself don't have the endurance to be writing always in any event.

 * Best regards, Frank  W ~@) R,      Jan. 5, 2003

 * p.s. My view of Chart has meanwhile disappeared, and with it the instruction I meant to convey in Talk:Duration; I may require it there explicitly.

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Frank, are you deliberately inserting nonsense into Wikipedia? If so, please stop doing it. See Talk:Pluralis Majestatis; also, "Ümmerläuterern" is not a word. --Eloquence 12:24 Jan 5, 2003 (UTC)

As to deliberately inserting nonsense

 * In my view not at all; especially since Wikipedia does have instructions concerning nonsense. However, I admit being challanged by the present absence of instructions concerning Allusions; and even more so by the apparent presumption to distinguish the notion of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia as a whole, as reinforced by its potentially stupifyingly marvelous Synthax, from the notion of s as apparetly only weakly linked and lonesome entities.

As to "Ümmerläuterern"
 * that's a German "Wortschöpfung" -- (well, as I just found out, Wikipedia knows this one already as neologism ... Super!) -- which alludes to Pluralis Majestatis by the bag-full. Btw., Wikipedia first observed it in Talk:Bundesland, in a discussion devoted to different forms of plural.

 * Wikipedia ist nicht der Ort für Wortschöpfungen. Wenn Du Deiner Kreativität freien Lauf lassen möchtest, empfehle ich de.talk.bizarre. --Eloquence

 * Best regards, Frank  W ~@) R,      Jan. 5, 2003

 * p.s. In my view, all my How does one edit a page|writing takes far too long; I may have to ask for some technical relief from Emacs ...

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As to Memo to self
 * observed in Talk:Duration having been observed by Tarquin 23:10 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC). Actually, that's not even wrong, since Distinct|to|for. Damn -- We're smooth! ...

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Thank you very much for the nice and concise welcome. It may still take a while for me to appreciate the style, for figuring the technicalities in taking my first steps 'pedin'...

Best regards,  Frank  W ~@) R

Dear Fwappler (I don't know how to type that other name),

You responded recently on the talk page for glove. You twice expressed italicized concerns that we not forget the knowledge of the 1911 encyclopedia authors. I wonder, though, were they all knowledgeble? Here's an excerpt from the 1911 article on negros:

 * Other characteristics appear to be a liypertrophy of the organs of excretion, a more developed venous system, and a less voluminous brain, as compared with the white races. In certain of the characteristics mentioned above the negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids.

That doesn't sound knowledgeable to me.

best wishes,

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Germans
I've for long (a year, actually) been itched by the way Wikipedia-links are done with often sloppy distinctions between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity (with regard to persons) and also between nations and countries. This is particularly obvious in the case of people or entities that are denoted as German. A link to the Federal Republic of Germany is often outright unhistorical and wrong, but this has until now been the most usual.

Therefore I'm considering an article on Germans, which I've started at User:Ruhrjung/Germans. I would wish to avoid too much of edit wars after having started to link to the article. In particular, I would not wish to see the current disputes over German-Polish matters automatically extend also to this article, why I kindly ask you for comments now, in advance, in order to try to find wordings acceptable to as many as possible of concerned wikipedians.

I look forward to your comments at User talk:Ruhrjung/Germans. --Ruhrjung 23:49, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Automobile
Please learn how to use Wikipedia link syntax correctly. The edit you are making to Automobile is nonsensical. Since you've been here since January, I think you should have learned how to do it by now. —Morven 17:17, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

 * And again. I resent that you deliberately make work for everyone else having to clean up after you because you refuse to do things the way that actually works. —Morven 06:22, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Why do you think that < phi1, phi2 | psi1, psi2 > = < phi1 | psi1 > < phi2 | psi2 > is possibly wrong? We have 2 Hilbert spaces, the ones of Alice and Bob. It was a bad idea to delete this. Ulrich 13.07.2004
 * Please see my reply at the discussion page of the article with that statement of mine in the Edit summary.
 * <TT>F</TT>rank <TT>W ~@) R</TT> 06:26, 14 Jul 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 2000 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:
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tools
One reason that List of physical tools was deleted was that it consisted entirely of red links. If you had produced a list of links to articles already on Wikipedia, it might have fared better. -- RHaworth 07:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Alas, 'tis less bland to toil than to tool. <tt>F</tt>rank <tt>W ~@) R</tt> 15:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * p.s. Thanks for explicating this reason. Is it, even among others, supposed to be recognizable when vieving the Deletion notice for [[List of physical tools] ], or are Wikipedians expected to surmise reason in a cause as well ?
 * p.p.s. Which of your preference settings would allow you to recognize Dabber as a red link, similar (presently) to, say, Pineapple corer ?

 * The deletion log shows that it was deleted as {{empty}}. That is a good enough summary of the reason for and cause of its deletion. Red link checking is based on the presence or absence of an article - it does not extend to checking for labels within an article.
 * I get a feeling that your grasp of English is better than one might think but that you twist your words for the fun of it. What, for example, is the purpose of the two crazy links above that you have piped to "others" and "cause" respectivley. -- RHaworth 19:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

 * The purpose of these crazy links you noticed ... wait a minute! Crazy!? I haven't even started yet to really beat my wife!
 * À propos: Is List of physical tools one of many articles that got deleted due to being mistaken as having "consisted entirely of red links"? Or would that be an exception, which explains why it should not be deleted?
 * On that prospect, I'm going to quote you at Talk:List of physical tools. (You didn't engage in this correspondence here, rather than there, just for the ... "diversion" of it, did you?)

 * Finally, besides merely my individual grasp of language, I'm looking forward to bettering that of Wikipedia as a whole, for instance by means of the articulated links that you noticed. (They're an improvement on the wikibriq proposal developed within WikiPEN.)
 * Specificly: the above articulated link "\[\[reason#::Grammatical number..Plural::|others\]\]" is to express the context that "others" in that instance was a short version of "other reasons" (since you had referred to One reason, i.e. presumably one reason of several reasons); therefore the reference to the Grammatical number of reason.
 * The other articulated link that you noticed, "\[\[cause#::User:R. fiend:: caused ::Wikipedia:Deletion:: of ::List of physical tools::|cause\]\]" encapsulates a specific instance of Causation, with "User:R. fiend" constituting the cause, and the effect being identified as "Deletion of List of physical tools".

 * Hope this helps, <tt>F</tt>rank  <tt>W ~@) R</tt> 06:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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Einstein synchronisation
Can you pls have a look at Talk:Einstein synchronisation? --Pjacobi 21:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Right...<tt>F</tt>rank <tt>W ~@) R</tt> 20:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Puzzle globe
Since you created the Puzzle globe article, I though you'd be interested in this discussion :) Waldir talk 23:59, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Too much honour: the pride and care that attaches to creatorship seems (these days) to be reserved to Knol.
 * And too little honour: after all, I consider my creation the (oh-so-transient) encyclopedic reference between and.

<tt>F</tt>rank <tt>W ~@) R</tt> (talk) 21:50, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Water well
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The article Fork (topology) has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
 * Searching for "fork" in graph theory finds many different competing meanings, most of them different from this one, and none of them standardized in major graph theory textbooks. For instance, they include an induced subgraph in the form of a five-vertex tree (10.1016/j.jda.2008.04.001), a vertex in an embedded graph surrounded by three 120 degree angles, a vertex of a tree with two children , a tree of height one (10.1007/BFb0057951), etc. So by saying that a fork is this specific meaning we are misleading readers into thinking that it's standardized terminology when it isn't. And it would not make sense to turn this into a disambiguation page because most of those topics are non-notable and the title of the article is wrong (should be graph theory not topology). So I think the best thing to do in this case is delete it.

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ist das irgendwo besprochen und entschieden worden, auf der Mailinglinte z.B.? Die Kategorien sind (im Moment noch!) etwas durcheinander; würden da Subpages nicht noch mehr Verwirrung stiften?

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Hi! Did you ever finish that English langauge paper on you research? Andicat 13:11, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I attended your visualization session at Wikimania. I'm starting to work through some of the the things you presented. I was wondering if you would be willing to share some of your python scripts for processing the XML dumps? I would mainly like an example that I could learn from. Thank you! K1v1n 00:49, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Dewey Decimal System
I can see from the talk pages that there was some effort to get rid of WP:DSS, which is a clear copyvio, and that you were involved in it to some extent. However, the main page and all its subpages still remain. Now, there is a curious "copyright notice" on the the main page (Dewey Decimal System) which proclaims that pre-1923 of the Dewey Decimal System are public domain, and a link to the current copyright holder which proclaims that a licence is required. However, the page itself says it is based on the 2003 system, not a pre-1923 system. There is a legal precedent cited about recipes in a cookbook, which, my law degree tells me, sounds like it is being cited out of desperation rather than clear legal argument. Further, it seems odd to me that the page talks about pre-1923 being copyright-free when it admits to actually using the 2003 system. I am tempted to try to get this deleted as a copyvio but I want to find out why the last effort to do so failed - I can find no trace of why it failed on the talk pages, just some messages agreeing that it should be deleted! Can you remember what happened that meant this got kept? TheGrappler 17:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm more used to the German Wikipedia where we delete copyvios very strictly. Maybe in the English Wikipedia people tolerate the use of non-free material - you can argue alot that DDC is "only a bit non-free" and OCLC will probably tolerate it's usage in Wikipedia but sue other users (see Dewey_Decimal_Classification). It's a pitty that other users tend to tolerate non-free material because this way there is no need to create free knowledge or free the existing. --

WorldCat Identities
You might be interested in a proposed project to link to WorldCat Identities: if you are, please do sign up at the project proposal page! Dsp13 15:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your mention of WorldCat Identities on Wikimetrics. I'm not very sanguine that en:Wikipedia will look happily on systematically adding external links as de:Wikipedia did to PND: it falls foul of many editors' anti-spam instincts (e.g. here and here). Do you have any idea when VIAF is likely to be up and running? Dsp13 20:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Bibliogram
Could a bibliogram or similar measurement be done on Wikipedia? For instance, if the various contributions of individual editors were indexed and analyzed it might yield an interesting description of the quality of edits and editors. —joeFriday— { talk }  01:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I have done such measures in my masters thesis (confirming among other results Lotka's law) but quantitative analysis is a vague ground for qualitative assumptions. -- Nichtich 09:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

List of speakers at Wizards of OS
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AfD nomination of List of speakers at Wizards of OS
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AfD, VfD and other cryptic machine-talk
Hallo Nichtich, Tut mir Leid wegen der Machinensprache. Ich habe nur die Instruktionen fuer "speedy delete" and "AfD" befolgt und die templates wie vorgeschrieben auf Deine Seite kopiert. Damit bist Du nicht nur in Kenntniss gestellt (wie es sich hoeflichkeitshalber natuerlich gehoert - es ist nicht zwingend vorgeschrieben), aber gibt es auch sofort die noetigen Links. Tut mir Leid falls das hirnlos erschien! --Crusio 23:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

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Open Knowledge Foundation
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Case folding in EBCDIC
I have edited your section on case folding to say that it does work in EBCDIC. — PhilHibbs | talk 12:48, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Reuse of OA logo
FYI there is a discussion about the attribution constraint for the OA logos you uploaded to Commons on this page. --DarTar (talk) 17:08, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Tilman Said you might be interested
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I spoke to Tilman this weekend and he said that you'd be interested to comment on my proposal to create a bot to link Wikipedia to VIAF. If you'd like to comment check out the proposal on Village Pump. Thanks Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 00:36, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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