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Eagle_101
Ok I will return to run the bot in 1 week. (on April 10th)... I have cooled down a bit...but I don't think it is wise for me to jump right back in :-).

If you want please have a look at the bot criteria and change them as you see fit... As to not have this problem agian :-). User:Gnome (Bot)/Help/CleanupCriteria

Feel free to change as you see fit...I will change the bot to match... You and I should do some communication between us before I run agian.

P.S. I was ok with the blocks... It just was the tone of voice behind them, and the general attitude that I got when I tried to find out what was wrong. :-)  I probably should not have run, but I was not expecting permision so soon... Once it is given you only get a week to prove the bot.  More than likily this whole fiasco was due to unfortionate circumstances. I really am sorry... the timeing of this was just bad. :-).

 * When I do run I am going to set it up so that we are working togather.Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Also can you tell me if it is ok to remove the cleanup tag for wikification...ect??? I'm assumming the answear is no...but just tell me. Or better yet change the Criteria and I will change the bot to fit.
 * It only takes a couple minutes to modify the bot... It is programmed and working bug free, just not to the satification of the people here. adding and removing features is really easy now!!!

 * We will have to reapply for another test run... as this one will run out tonight. (should not be hard)---Especally if I have your diplomacy to help!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

In addition, if Gnome bot is unable to remove the cleanup tag... (I'm assumming that Zoe's argument about grammer ect. applies to rememoving the cleanup tag and replacing it with, , , ect.) what exactly is Gnome bot to do... just add a bunch of tags to all of the articles in the backlog??? (leave the backlog be??) but that defeats the purpose of the bot...

As you see I am concerned about the future of the bots operation... right now as it stands the bot will only be able to replace ((cleanup)) with ((cleanup-list)), and ((disambig-cleanup))...I don't see the back log shrinking under these circumstances.

I really like your new stub type proposals... Very good... the bot will be able to work with those, if we find continuing opposition to Gnome bot's removal of cleanup tags.

NOTE: my personal belief is that every stub can be marked with cleanup, the all are small, and 99% of them have issues with english, or wikification... The cleanup tag should refer to only articles that are not stubs, and that are fully wikified... Kind of like a last polishing. (25% or more are stubs that are on the list)(and if the bot does not mark these with the stub tag, they will be marked with the wikify tag)75%(a guess) of stubs in general need the wikify tag What I am trying to say is that should be reserved only for articles that don't fit in the other categories, otherwise it is rather pointless, as the category is used as a catch-all.

does exist... my bot can't put any-thing into it, but you get the idea... these tags are poorly defined as to there scope... the only ones that are clear at all are, , , , ((and a few others, that I can't think of)). We need to think about redifining(better defining) what putting something in cleanup means, v.s. putting something in one or more of the more specific categories.

Back to hibernating!!!(I will of course continue this discussion)This time we are getting this right

New idea
Back out of hibernation... I think I have a solution to the problem...

The objection seems to be to the automatic removal of cleanup --> stub. If that is the case than we can have the bot put them on a list, similar to WikiProject Novels/Book to novel autolist that Gnome bot made. This list started with around 600 articles on it... it is down to about 100 articles. I had the bot make the list... As I knew that this task was not automatable.

For some reason people really like lists of this sort... especally when they are accurate... I think it is belause it is a list of easy edits to boost peoples edit counts... (it is easier to go through a list that is 95% accurate, no matter how long... than it is to go through the whole category at one time over 2000 articles) But really I don't care... The job gets done... and that in the end is the point:-)

I propose that instead of changing cleanup --> stub, the bot make a list with the articles name and the number of words, and the %wikified).Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok Hibernation for real.

Daily checkup
It seems that we have had only positive thoughts toward the bot, (exepting the block and subsequent mess)... That appears to be changing... Opposition to the idea is slowly riseing, i.e. the first opposing comment I have seen (this opposition does not appear to be related to the block).

I left a link below, I think we need to rediscuss Gnome (Bot)'s mission... (I wrote the code... We are going to do something with it... just what we need to figure out. :-)

I am sorry about the botophobia... but the comments that zoe and others left... and the dificult trail I had to follow to get even a vauge idea was... in short disturbing... to me total lack of trust... but I am going to leave that for another day.Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Cleanup

PNA on Archaeology WikiProject
Hi, just seen your addition to the WP:ARCHAEO page. Not sure where this came from could you explain. I'm not sure that the link to page really covers it. Is this a single additioin to a project or are all about to get similar treatment. Not against it just seeking to understand what is going on. Also part of "Sports Olympics" and "Novels" projects and nothing appears to have changed there. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  08:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for you response. Also happy to get envolved if you want to try adding it to Novels WikiProject. Olympics might need a bit more introduction to others as a "lot" of people seem to "contribute" / "get in each others way" on that project. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  15:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Bunch of stuff from Eagle 101
Hi its me Eagle_101

Thank you for fixing my horrible English skills, and grammer... on the bot criteria page. I'm a math and physics major, not english:-).

I am e-mailing you to inform you that I have indeed managed to get topic specific programming started, It is very basic right now, but is possible!!!! I am using a bit more than just finding the word in an article, the bot actually counts the frequency of apperence of ALL key words, than compares that to the total number of words, and yeilds a percent. In short it can tell which words are used the most.

In addition, it can tell if the key word is wikified, (If it is than it is more likely to be relevent to determining what category is what.) examples. This book is novel. as compared to This novel is a book written by ...

It is rather amazing how many of the key words turn out to be wikified, (of course this only works on articles that don't need to be wikified).

I am e-mailing you as Zoe unbocked only his block, there still is a second block left... And I triggered it. (it's rather funny:-)

Tell me what you think,... Gnome bot can do topic sorting with ease and a bit (dare I say, a lot) more programming of what words to look for. (I would like some serious imput here.... what words should be key words for what category or categories)..... The bot can (and will) keep track by a "point system" of each category that is possible. In short, key words can mean more than just one thing.) Agian, my code is very flexable, as it is set up now, the bot can "wieght" certian words. This will need more discussion between the two of us and the community in general... but it can be done, and I have programmed the initial parts of this system.:-)

Please consider and think about the above....

I originally was going to e-mail this to you, Ignore all references to e-mailing anything, just post on my page.

Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:17, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. if you would like me to, I will archive most of this old stuff on your page for you... As this page is getting long.

Ok get me in contact with Beland
First off, yes massive cut 'n paste... there is no better way

Second, can you get Beland to look at my bot's criteria... and tell him about the category sorting.... and if it is not too much, point me to his bot's criteria... That way we will not trip over each other's toes. As it is, my bot can do auto-categorization into the main categories... I am just missing key words (and what wieght to give each word). What is Berland doing excactly... please elaborate. I am going to try and look myself.. but I probably will not find it!!!!

Thanks for your responseEagle (talk) (desk) 14:48, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Just tell beland that my bot is not yet approved... It will need a trial run, In addition my bot's features may not be on line entirely for about a month (hope to shorten it, but I need key words and time to figure out false positives) In addition, I probably should start with really easy to tell categoryies first. Give me some ideas.

P.S. I have a problem with useing the names of the categies... Chemistry means more than the science of chemistry... two people have good chemistry... same thing for most category names... we need to start with obious categories and work ourselves in... (Archology (I think I spelled it right) is a very distinct word... things like that.Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Pages needing attention/Physics
Why are you dismantling PNA/Physics? It seems to me that it's a better place to centralize notes on articles needing attention that WikiProject Physics, and I didn't see any discussion about the drastic changes being implemented. If this discussion has occurred elsewhere, please make a note about it on PNA/Physics. --Christopher Thomas 16:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You may wish to consider putting the notice at the top of the page, rather than buried in the middle. You might also wish to _suggest_ transclusion of PNA/Physics to relevant WikiProjects, rather than implement it. I've also moved the comments you copied to the WikiProject Pseudoscience page. I recognize that you're putting a lot of effort into this, and that there's a reason for it, but please realize that WikiProject main pages tend to be fairly meticulously maintained by their members. --Christopher Thomas 17:15, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I can't speak for WikiProject Physics, but please don't unilaterally transclude anything into WikiProject Pseudoscience ever again. Put a suggestion on the talk page. The talk page _does_ get read. --Christopher Thomas 04:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Autocategorization
I have not yet put it on the criteria list, as
 * A)The bot will not be running immediately...
 * B)I don't have User:Beland's respose yet.
 * C)I fear the amount of contriversy that this could bring to Gnome (Bot), I am going to wait untill I see if Beland thinks it is a good Idea.

P.S. Please tell me now what others may say about auto-categorization... This may be a topic to be put onto the Cleanup sorting proposal... pending Beland's response.Eagle (talk) (desk) 02:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Let's take this slow, I want to leave plenty of time for objections.

P.S. Due to real life interfering I will be a bit sparse... Probably little or no programming for a week or two... I will be checking in on my talk page of course... I don't think that will harm Belend and my bot's potential to work togather... Autocategorization I predict will draw some debate... and I think my bot should not run untill after it is over.Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't autocategorize
Great idea!!! Gee so simple and easy, but I never thought of it. (Knocks head on wall) Thank you. If we wait for bot approval after the autocat feature is tested than the bot will not be running (on articles) for 2-3 months... I am in school and exams are comming. In addition it is a lot of typing, (I am trying to use some Algorithms, perhaps will make more accurate (presise) and less typing on my part.), (will enable me to add new criteria, and new output with fewer lines of code.

My view is that I am going to take all the time that is needed to get this correct. (please help me identify good starting categories, and perhaps what to look for, other than the specific category name... I can't use just that... the word "novel" appears in more articles than just those that are in category novel. Ditto for every other category name in wikipedia!!! Any help in this area is Greatly appreciatedEagle (talk) (desk) 18:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

AutoCat-Re
Ok statistical studies it is... (woohoo!!! more work... at least this is automated, to exept for reading the output:-)

Without help, i.e. someone telling me to look for X, Y, Z.... and take the most commenm, this will extend the bot startup date considerably. Can you at least point me in the right direction... (how about a obsucre category to start... and I will work my way up.

If you are unable, that is ok... just keep working with me, and when I get the bot started, (i.e. testing--making sample output in the form of a list), please help me look over them and tell me if the runs were effective.

P.S. the only reason I responed so fast, is that I am doing research now on wikipedia!!!

Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

As long as it is useful
Not to bad!!! great idea's... can you give me a link to the statistically improbable phrases... that will make my analysis sooooo much easier.... as I will only have to look for which words show up in each category..... I have a idea marked on paper on how I am going to do this... (the method), but I need to know what to do with the info that the algothim gives me... (i.e. when I see novel, assume that means the article is about the author of a novel, or the novel itself.) One or two more words, such as book, literature, ect., can also be added to improve results. (I am not just throwing out ideas here, I have a plan of action:-), I just need to know how to interprete results.Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I will start with antropology... :-) (I need to analyze the category first, i.e. taking representive samples, and going from there)

P.S. I have my research done, I am going to look for potential words. a link to my results is here--These are NOT done in any scientific manner( I am reading the article spotting words that appear multiple times in different articles)--Than I can do some analysis off-site on the specific words that I have found, (data dump).

User:Eagle 101/keywords/potential

Feel free to add your own!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Will think on that
Perhaps you can elaborate... I already had a plan to do this, but you may have something to add. (please elaborate on your last post)-(plus to you have any links to amazon's uncommen word list, if it is available)Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I will stick to what I started with, forget amazon
I will use my plan that I have here... The concept (method) i will use is already partly on my computer... I just need to find good keywords for the categories that I am going to start with)

forget amazon, I will just software that is on my computer (i.e. I will do my own analysis), are you ok with the bot being delayed??? Or is this a problem.Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Certinly
Just is it useful... if we want to run it, I will need about 2-weeks before I am ready to ask on WP:BOT, as I have real life in the way. (the bot is done, ...first part, I just don't have the time to supervise it.)Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:PNA
I must have missed something... I thought I go through WP:CU's list. please explain??? sorry.Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Riiight... how did I miss this???
Wow. do they know that Gnome bot is going to try to autocat... at least basic (top level) autocat??

Also Beland has not contacted me... advice here??

Please explain in more detial on my talk page, exactly what Gnome (bot) is to do now, and exactly what is planned for Gnome bot. Because I am lost.

Very good!!!
ok so no matter what, I am to only add, never delete, even in the case of disambig-cleanup and cleanup-list?

I'm not worried about Beland, I just am feeling abit out of the loop here. Is there a page where all of this has been discussed???

P.S. This sounds Gread!!!!, very good work and coordination on your part. Thank youEagle (talk) (desk) 20:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

sorry one more... than I must go :-(
Thanks for the page.

ok so no matter what, I am to only add, never delete, even in the case of disambig-cleanup and cleanup-list?

sounds good
I trust that you will do that disscussing... I can, but I suck at diplomacy, and discribing what I want to do... (remember my criteria...)Eagle (talk) (desk)

On the cleanup proposal... Is the below Gnome (Bot) as well... In the future, working off of the leftovers.

 * If anyone has ideas on how to automate topic-specific sorting, I would love to hear them. I'd previously considered it too massive to tackle, but the more stuff that gets autosorted, the less has to be sorted by eyeball -- and the volume of articles to be sorted is the #1 objection to...

I have class, so I will respond tomarrow. (we kept talking, so I just hung around, now Gotta Run!!!)

Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:05, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

some good search words
I am slowly, through the database dumps, and google building up a list of good critiria for automatic categorization.

I have started with Category:Anthropology, here is a link (below), please look at this often and critique it... Than I only need post in one place... For now on I will just update this page... instead of filling your talk page with questions... I've done enough of that... Do your critique in the sections named, comments... (I will have one of these for each category that autocategorization will be done on... (All will be on this page)

User:Eagle 101/keywords/potential

Eagle (talk) (desk) 04:27, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Ethnic groups
I'm confused about this edit of yours:. Why do a bunch of archaeology belong prominently as part of WikiProject Ethnic Groups? - Jmabel | Talk 01:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Boat boy questions
Hello, Alba,

Regarding the entry for Boat boy, I wonder if you could answer some questions for me.

The article does not cite its sources. I am fairly new to Wikipedia. Does this mean that the article needs someone to find a source external to Wikipedia and cite it? If so, I am glad to do that. The article is reasonably accurate as it is, but I am glad to try to find something else if that helps.

I am a thurifer and work with boat boys and girls. I have one photograph of a thurifer and boat girl and have permission to use it. Is there any reason not to use it? It does have the photo of a child. Is this acceptable to post? Is there any risk to doing this?
 * Sorry I did not sign the above - just my oversight. I know better. Thanks for your reply. I'll work on the Boat boy article. Sarum blue 17:58, 13 April 2006
 * OK - I worked on the boat boy page. Glad to take your comments on that if you wish.... Sarum blue 21:09, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

PNA/Physics
I agree that this needed redesign, but how exactly is this "bot updating" to work? What exactly is the procedure for reporting problems? (You can answer here; I'll check back.) ---CH 15:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Tagging any page in the Category:Physics or its subcategories with cleanup will put it on the cleanup list; tagging any page in the Category:Physics with expand or expert puts it in the relevant subsections as well. On top of that, we are trying to build another sorting bot that can place new stubs and cleanup pages without a category in the physics category, so that they too will be listed.
 * Now, this doesn't relieve the need to delineate the problems with the article. Those that can be automated, again, will be -- such as wikify. But descriptors still need to be posted, on the article's talk page or (if desired) the talk page of the PNA subpage.
 * The basic idea is to keep these lists rapidly and comprehensively updated. In the previous system, things were posted only if someone very familiar with Wikipedia and the problems in the article hunted down PNA/Physics and posted. This meant that many, maybe most, of the pages that needed help simply never got attended to -- which is why the cleanup, wikify, and expert lists are all horribly backlogged. By pooling these projects to PNA, autoupdating them, and transcluding them to the people who care about such articles, we hope to have a much more efficient system for Wikipedia maintenance. Alba 18:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Comments: I strongly agree with the goal of trying to streamline and improve WP article improvement/maintanance, but I suspect the biggest problem may be essential unsoluable: lack of a sufficiently expert editor pool large enough and energetic enough to cope with a horde of monomaniacal vandals, cranks, and well-intentioned but unwikiskilled newbies, inexperienced writers, etc. ---CH 18:40, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) what about expert flagged articles in subcategories like General relativity?
 * 2) what about  and similarly flagged articles?  Currently I think this is the most common way to flag articles which WP Physics members believe are biased toward some crank notion.  See WikiProject_Pseudoscience/Articles_attracting_pseudoscientific_edits for hundreds of examples, including many in physics-related articles.  FYI, I and others have been using PNA/Physics primarily to alert physicists Wikipedians to relevant AfDs and cruft problems, so I hope you will modify the bot to look for POV flags and list affected articles under an appropriate new section.
 * 3) numerous articles I have written or extensively edited have expert flags and todo lists on the talk pages; the intent was to help organize the work of WikiProject GTR.  What about modifying the bot to note when an article having expert flag also has a todo list in talk page?

 * Subcategories and sub-subcategories are included. The bot programmer, User:Beland, is of the opinion that sub-sub-subcategories is going too far, but you can ask him about that.
 * Hadn't considered POV monitoring or todo lists; I'm sure those could be done -- probably a short list.
 * That's why we're trying to automate as much as possible, so that the amount of 'expert' knowledge needed is minimized. Nonetheless I find that, over the course of human history, the truth has won out over vandals, cranks, newbies, and inexperienced writers. I feel sure the same will occur on Wikipedia -- in the long run. I mean, if you are right, then Britannica is right and the entire Wikipedia project is hopeless. Alba 19:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I add wikification and POV tags to the list of things to be aggregated by topic. Others have requested it, and the PNA list really is intended to aggregate anything that anyone interested in the topic might care to work on.  I can probably do todo lists, too, though that may take some more programming. -- Beland 03:31, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Auto categorization
I am going to back off of this, as User:Beland told me that this is not needed. (my bot will stick to original tasking). Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Eagle 101link to beland's response.
 * Any "autocategorization" will be placed on to lists so that humans can do the actual editing (double-check the bot)

Alba, give me your two cents
Belend's response is interesting, but as you were the one who asked for my bot to work on WP:CU, you really need to look at this. Please tell me what you think. (It is rather interesting...)

User talk:Gnome (Bot)/Help/CleanupCriteria

Mathbot
Hmm, interesting. Yeah, we will have to try to balance condensing the reports with not making them look too crowded. I suspect things will evolve as people (hopefully) start to actually use the pages, and request changes. -- Beland 03:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Cat Lovers Committee
, from your userboxes, I can see that you love cats.

Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee?

If you want to join, you can add yourself to the members list and contact the committee founder, me, GeorgeMoney on my talk page.

Thank You. -- George Mon  e  y Talk   Contribs 21:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Fumocy page?
Alba,

You flagged the Fumocy page for being sub-standard. It would be more helpful if you said what is wrong with it, besides saying that you don't understand it. It has been around for a couple of years and maybe no-one has been reading it, but it attracted very few edits so I think it is safe to assume that most people who did thought it was fine as it was. At least it is factually correct.

Tom Peters 22:21, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

 * In reply to your response: I elaborated on the explanation on the use of the fumocy for predicting the new and full moons, now on Talk:Full_moon_cycle. Please let me know what you think of it now. Tom Peters 00:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Alba, would you spend some time reviewing the expanded explanation on the use of the fumocy for predicting the new and full moons in Talk:Full_moon_cycle? If now comprehensible, I'd like to put it back at the end of the main page. Tom Peters 23:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Tom again here: would you care to give another look at Talk:Full_moon_cycle? I hope it is fully comprehensible now, and I like to put it back on the main page. Tom Peters 19:48, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

PNA/Physics
If you're finding that the "cleanup" list is too large, how about filtering out pages that are already listed from it due to other tags? A bot-updated list _is_ useful, though the tendency towards growth seems inevitable (we have half a million articles or more; quite a few of them will need cleanup). --Christopher Thomas 19:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee
, I can see from your userboxes that you love cats.

Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee?

If you want to join, you can add yourself to the members list, and contact me, Sergeant Snopake, on my talk page, or the committee founder, GeorgeMoney, on his.

The Wikipedia Cat Lover's Committee has also been nominated for deletion.

Whether you join or not, please could you comment on the deletion page to help keep the committee going.

Please vote keep.

Thank You very much! :)

I, uh, I accidently put this message in your userbox disscussion page, also. Sorry. I've been doing this for nearly two hours now, and I only had about six hours sleep last night, so I'm bound to make mistakes. Sorry all the same.

S e r g e a n t  S n o p a k e 10:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh my God, this is so embarrassing. I've just noticed that GeorgeMoney already put an invitation on your talk page. I'm so, so sorry. I really screwed up with you, Alba and I will NEVER DO IT AGAIN. In fact, I'm just going to leave your talk page alone entirely. Forever. S <font color="#3366FF">e <font color="#FF99FF">r <font color="#3366FF">g <font color="#FF99FF">e <font color="#3366FF">a <font color="#FF99FF">n <font color="#3366FF">t <font color="#FF99FF"> <font color="#FF99FF">S <font color="#3366FF">n <font color="#FF99FF">o <font color="#3366FF">p <font color="#FF99FF">a <font color="#3366FF">k <font color="#FF99FF">e 22:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks!
Hi Alba... just wanted to say thanks for helping me out on the Lado Guitars subject! I'm new to editing on Wikipedia and really appreciate people to criticise constuctively. Doug Darkwater 19:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

SANE and Peace Action
Thanks for bringing it to my attention that the SANE article still existed. I was the one who merged it in with Peace Action some time ago, and didn't realize I'd forgotten to redirect the old article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:49, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Eagle's still here
Is gnome bot still needed? If not just tell me and I will find other uses for the code. Sorry for taking so long but I was kind of waiting for a response from you:-).Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Lol, I have never been much of a grammer freak. About the only thing that I type neatly is code. Every thing else there is Grammer check and spell check:-) Though thanks I will try to improve a bit. Ok, why don't you modify Gnome bot's function list to enclude what is needed, feel free to hack off what ever you want. Plus since I have been out of the loop, please give me an idea on where to run Gnome (bot)... what I mean is what categories should I run in? Also when I ask for a trial period, (I'll let you know) please drop in a note saying that the bot's functions are wanted. thanks.Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * To be frank, the code has been ready for a while, so all that is needed, after you update the task list, is to reapply for a trial period.(I already got the bot unblocked)Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Reminder...
When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 22:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Gnome Bot
Ok, I have the bot progammed and ready with the selected features. Unfortunatly I don't have time to watch my bot run for trial run right now. Is it ok with you to delay the Start date to 10 June 2006 (at least). I am sorry about this, but as my bot's mission is not urgent and the realworld is giving me problems (agian), I see no problem with the delay. What do you think?Eagle talk 21:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: please respond on my talk page as I do not watch other users pages. Thanks.

WikiProject Architecture
Hi, We've got some articles on this Wikiproject in the PNA list that don't belong to architecture at all. For instance Vehicle, Blanco galindo (Geography), The Deaf Club, etc. etc. Am I ok to edit the list to sift out non-architectural articles?--Mcginnly 16:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Seeing as you are inactive... Give me any start date after July but before the final week of august
As the title says... I have gotten ensnared in 'real life', June 10 is not looking good... I am sorry, depending on how busy I am, I may consider giving you the program and allowing you to babysit it though it's trial runs... Of course I will tell you how to shut it down ect... (that is last ditch, if July does not work...)Eagle talk 04:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Help researching info on MIT graduate Ed Seykota
I need help writing the article about Ed Seykota, I need help researching his time in MIT, I need access to MITs library. I want copies of his thesis, papers etc. I also need official documentation about his degrees at MIT. Please help. How do i go about doing this, I do not live in the US.

trade2tradewell (at) yahoo (dot) com - Replace "at" with "@", and "(dot)" with "."

Thanks

--Trade2tradewell 20:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Search help
Do you have an account at https://alum.mit.edu/login.vhtml maybe you can search for me ? Edward A Seykota, Edward Seykota, Ed Seykota or Seykota. He graduated 1969

Thanks

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International Peace Institute
Dear alba,

please clarify wht you mean by

"But without the evidence I'm not going to do their work for them"

in the International Peace Institute deletion page

Echo Valley, Colt 45
Many of the other porn stars do not have the notibility of Maxi Mounds, really lame excuse to delete these pages

Editing pages during AfD
I saw in the Articles for deletion/Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica) discussion that you stated you were reluctant to edit during AfD. Please do so - many articles have been saved by people editing during the process. Moving a page would be a bad idea would possibly be unwise, but editing is certainly allowed. Cheers, Yomangani talk 10:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Entymology?
Hello Alba,

Thank you for moving my edit - my very first!! - of the Pern topic (reference to W.B. Yeats) to match the Wikipedia format. As a newbie, I'm still learning. I looked at the topic "history" to see why it was moved and saw your note, "move Yeats entymology to match Wikipedia format". Although Dame McCaffrey has created a novel ecology for the planet Pern, I don't think you were referring to insects (entomology). Did you mean etymology? :)

Best, Bad ascii 07:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Looking for members to join Project Boston
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Full moon cycle put up for deletion
Alba, the Full moon cycle page has been submitted for deletion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Full_moon_cycle). You expressed interest in the article before so you may wish to express your opinion. Tom Peters 12:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Jennifer Ann Crecente
Hi, you chimed in during the discussion for an AfD for this article a while back. The article was re-created after two pieces of legislation were passed. If you could please look at the new article and share your thoughts at the NEW AfD I would appreciate it!

Jennifer Ann Crecente 2nd AfD

Drew30319 18:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia...
I recently received a message from you about posting nonsense, which I didn't do. While I do live in Alabama, I have never edited the page "Alabama School of Fine Arts." Perhaps my ISP has given me an IP that the user who did edit that page must have had.

Best regards,

Brian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.226.18.248 (talk) 03:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hymn of the Soviet Union (other language versions)
I understand that transwiki items are candidates for speedy deletion, but since I was reverted before doing a merge and redirect, my only step was to go the AFD route. I was dealt the same hand when dealing with flag galleries. Explendido Rocha was the one who was reverting me. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

cleancat
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Articles for deletion/Winzapper
It's been nominated again. Please help. Captain Zyrain 13:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Ecoregions
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Hubertus von Amelunxen

Hubertus von Amelunxen (born 29 December 1958, Bad Hindelang, Allgäu) is a philosopher, art historian, editor, curator, photography critic, and professor for philosophy of photography and cultural studies. Amelunxen has authored and published several books focusing on the history and theory of photography and has curated several international exhibitions. He served as president and provost at the European Graduate School, based in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta from October 2013 until June 2018.

Academic career
Hubertus von Amelunxen studied Roman languages, German Studies, and Art History in Marburg and Paris. In Paris he visited the lectures by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France and by Jacques Derrida at the École Normale Supérieure. He obtained his Ph.D. in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim with the thesis ''Allegory and Photography. Research on French Literature''.

Amelunxen started his academic career by lecturing in Basel on time and photography (1991). He became a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1991-1992), representing Victor Burgin. In 1995 he obtained a 5-year tenure at the Muthesius Hochschule for Art and Design in Kiel, where he founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Project Studies. Afterwards, in 2000, he taught at the University of Düsseldorf and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp). In 2001 he became founding director at the International School of New Media in Lübeck, a position he held until 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he served as rector of the École Européenne Supérieure de l'Image (ÉESI) in Angoulême/Poitiers, France. From 2010 to 2013 he served as president of the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Braunschweig.

The European Graduate School (EGS)
Since 2002 Amelunxen has been a faculty member of the European Graduate School, a private graduate school based in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta, which specializes in philosophy, critical thinking and art therapy.

In 2006 he obtained the Walter Benjamin Chair at the EGS, specialized in Media Philosophy and Cultural Studies.

From October 2013 to July 2018, Amelunxen served as president and provost at the European Graduate School. Under his term, the EGS has expanded to Malta and its programs have gained full European accreditation.

Archivio Conz
Hubertus von Amelunxen has been the Academic Director of Archivio Conz in Berlin, Germany since 2020. The Archivio Conz brings together Lettrism, Concrete Poetry, and Fluxus in a collection of over 4,000 works including artwork, literature, documents, personal belongings and editions catalysed by the Italian publisher, collector, and also photographer Francesco Conz.

Curatorial work
Besides his academic endeavours, Amelunxen has been active as curator and member of artistic organisations. From 2001 until 2007 Amelunxen was a visiting curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal. During this time, he was responsible for the Tangent series of exhibitions and accompanying publications, which brought "contemporary artists into dialogue with the CCA Collection and [resulted] in newly commissioned works." While at the CCA, he played a role in the acquisition of an important group of works by Gordon Matta-Clark.

In 2003 Amelunxen was appointed member of the Fine Arts Section of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 2014 he was appointed member of the first Artistic Advisory Board at the Public Art Experience, in Luxembourg.

Amelunxen has curated several international exhibitions, working shoulder to shoulder with well-known artists such as Cy Twombly, Iannis Xenakis, Dieter Appelt, Peter Weibel, Naoya Hatakeyama, among others. His exhibitions have been shown in different galleries and museums of North America and Europe.

Editorial work
Amelunxen has been active as an editor. He first became member of the editorial board of the Mannheim series of papers Mana-Analytika (Média Medusa) in 1987, a position he occupied until 1992.

In 1988 he became editor of the well-known German magazine on the history of photography Fotogeschichte, which is published in Marburg and Frankfurt am Main.

Since 1996, he is a member of the German editorial board of the French series of papers Esthétique, Editions l’Harmattan, a publication based in Paris.

Books

 * Gustave Le Gray, Seascapes, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich (2015); contains an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Steve Sabella, Works 1997-2014, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (2014); edited by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Gordon Matta-Clark, Moment to Moment: Space, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg; co-edited with Angela Lammert and Philip Ursprung (2012).
 * Elger Esser, Nocturnes à Giverny. Claude Monet's Garden, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, Munich (2012); with an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Iannis Xenakis, Kontrolle und Zufall, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2011); co-edited with Angela Lammert.
 * Cy Twombly, Photographs III. 1951-2010 (2011); with an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Photography and Disaster. Collected Essays, University of Disaster Series, Atropos Press, New York/Dresden (2010).
 * Paul Virilio, Grey Ecology, University of Disaster Series, Atropos Press, New York/Dresden (2009); edited by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2008); co-edited with Dieter Appelt and Peter Weibel.
 * Naoya Hatakeyama, Scales, Nazraeli Press, Portland (2007); with an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Petra Wittmar, Medebach, Steidl & SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (2007); with an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Victor Burgin, Voyage to Italy, HatjeCantz, Stuttgart (2006); co-edited with Thomas Zander.
 * Dieter Appelt, Forth Bridge. Cinema. Metric Space, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (2005).
 * Alain Paiement, Tangent e, Lars Müller Publishers & Canadian Centre for Architecture, Zürich/Montréal (2003).
 * Jean-Philippe Reverdot, "Bilan provisoire. Photographies 1983-1999", Marval, Paris (2001).
 * Gegenwartsbildung / Present Formations, Schriftenreihe der Muthesius-Hochschule "Gestalt und Diskurs", vol. 2, Kiel (2001); co-edited with Antje Krause-Wahl.
 * Photo- und Konzeptkunst am Bau. Unter den Linden 50. Ein Projekt für den Deutschen Bundestag Berlin, AWF Verlag, Heidelberg (2000); co-edited with Hans-Werner Schmidt.
 * Architecture of Zaha Hadid in Photographs by Hélène Binet, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden (2000); with an essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Theorie der Fotografie i-IV. 1980-1995, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich (2000); co-edited with Wolfgang Kemp.
 * Tomorrow For Ever. Architektur/Zeit/Photographie, DuMont, Cologne (1999); co-edited with Carl Aigner and Walter Smerling.
 * Andreas Müller-Pohle, Interfaces. Foto + Video. 1977–1999, European Photography, Göttingen (1999); edited by Hubertus von Amelunxen.
 * Artfiction. Junge Kunst aus Italien, Kiel Stadtgalerie im Kulturviertel/Sophienhof Kiel, Kiel (1998); co-edited with Knut Nievers and Edoardo DiMauro.
 * Photography after Photography. Memory and Representation in the Digital Age, G+B Arts, New York (1997); co-edited with Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rötzer.
 * Les lieux du non-lieu. L'état des choses dans la photographie française contemporaine, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden (1997); co-edited with Ulrich Pohlmann.
 * Fotografie nach der Fotografie, Verlag der Kunst, Berlin (1995); co-edited with Stefan Iglhaut and Florian Rötzer.
 * Allegorie und Photographie. Untersuchungen zur französischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, University of Mannheim (1992); doctoral dissertation.
 * Zhang Hai'er, Fotografien aus China. 1986-1989, Edition Braus, Heidelberg (1990); co-edited with Barbara Kunzendorf-Hohenadl.
 * Television/Revolution. Das Ultimatum des Bildes. Rumänien im Dezember 1989, Jonas, Marburg (1990); co-edited with Andrei Ujică.
 * Die aufgehobene Zeit. Die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot, Nishen, Berlin (1988).

Exhibitions

 * "Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010" at BOZAR-PMSK (The Palace of Fine Arts), Brussels (2012); co-curated with Cy Twombly.
 * "Kontrolle und Zufall. Iannis Xenakis: Komponist, Architekt, Visionär" in the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2011); co-curated with Sharon Kanach and Angela Lammert.
 * "Notation – Kalkül und Form in den Künsten" at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, in Karlsruhe (2008, 2009); co-curated together with Dieter Appelt and Peter Weibel.
 * "Notabene" at the Villa Oppenheim in Berlin (2008).
 * "Eric Rondepierre. Umkehrungen" at the Villa Oppenheim in Berlin (2008).
 * "Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales" (part of the Tangent series) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2007-2008); co-curated with Louise Désy.
 * Overall concept for "Peter Greenaway. L’avenir dure longtemps" at the Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image in Poitiers (2007).
 * "Gordon Matta-Clark. Moment to Moment: Space" at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2013).
 * "Victor Burgin. Voyage to Italy" (part of the Tangent series) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2006-2007).
 * "Anthony McCall & Eric Rondepierre. Timeline" at the Galerie Thomas Zander and at the Neues Kunstforum in Cologne (2006).
 * "Dieter Appelt. Cinema Forth Bridge" (part of the Tangent series) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2005).
 * "out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2003-2004); co-curated with Mirko Zardini, Mark Wigley, Marco De Michelis, Philip Ursprung and Anthony Vidler.
 * "Tangent - Alain Paiement" (part of the Tangent series) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2003).
 * "Tomorrow For Ever. Fotografie als Ruine" at the Kunsthalle in Krems and at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg (1999).
 * "Andreas Müller-Pohle. Interfaces, Foto und Video 1977–1999" at the Altes Rathaus in Göttingen (1999).
 * "Artfiction. Junge Kunst aus Italien" at the Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof in Kiel (1998); the first of a long series of exhibitions on Italian art in Kiel.
 * "Carol Dallaire. Ça a été: Le territoire en deuil" at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles, in Arles (1998).
 * "Les lieux du non-lieu. L'etat des choses dans la photographie française contemporaine" at the Münchener Stadtmuseum in Munich (1997).
 * "Lewis Baltz & Slavica Perkovic. Stories of Power and Desire" at the Galerie Angelo Falzone in Mannheim (1996).
 * "Photography after Photography", exhibition presented in Munich, Krems, Erlangen, Cottbus, Odense, Winterthur, Helsinki and Philadelphia (1995-1998); commissioned by the Siemens Kulturprogramm.
 * "Der Ton des Raums. Malerei, Skulptur und Photographie" at the Galerie Angelo Falzone in Mannheim (1995).
 * "Die aufgehobene Zeit. Die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot", presented at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (1989-1990).
 * "Denis Roche. Un peu plus de lumière" at the mumok in Vienna, the Institut Français of Heidelberg and at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt (1986-1987).

Academic initiatives

 * Cinéma, Interactivité, Société / Cinema, Interactivity, Society. First Biennale Figures of Interactivity, Poitiers, France (2008).
 * Workshop Vitra Design Museum, Domaine de Boisbuchet; together with Richard McGuire (2008).
 * Co-responsible for the international congress config.art for Documenta 10, Kassel (1997).

Personal life
Hubertus von Amelunxen married Christine Marx in 1990; they divorced in 2012. They have two sons.

Amelunxen lives and works between Berlin, Switzerland and Malta.

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Talk:Union Pacific 737

Article length
I think this article is far too long for its own good Refdoc 00:29, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Yes, I will agree, I just copied it from a public domain government site. Greenmountainboy 02:29, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * The bulk of this article seems to be under the wrong heading. It's information about the Union Pacific Railroad, when the article title is UP 737, a particular (classic) engine.  The article should probably be renamed, or the entire body scrubbed. Daelin 09:56, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * We don't seem to have an article on Union Pacific, I'm moving it there. JesseW 22:24, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) ; I'm crazy; we do have an article. Well, then someone needs to go through this text and see if it has  any new information.  Actually, probably putting a link to the "public domain government site" were this was found on Talk:Union_Pacific_Railroad would be better.  Then this can be deleted.  OK with you, Greenmountainboy? - JesseW 22:29, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:Key45 just did a nice cleanup job on this, so I'm removing it from cleanup. It's a nice article now. Cool. JesseW 22:53, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Very cool. Daelin 05:28, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This article is almost entirely plagerism as it is word-for word copied from this source--Ishtar456 (talk) 21:32, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Desktop Linux Consortium

The Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) was a non-profit organization which aims at enhancing and promoting the use of the Linux operating system on desktop computers.

It was founded on 4 February 2003.

Members

 * Ark Linux
 * CodeWeavers
 * Debian
 * KDE
 * Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
 * The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
 * Lycoris (company)
 * Mandriva (formerly known as Mandrakesoft)
 * NeTraverse
 * OpenOffice.org Organisation, does not exist any more
 * Questnet (Support4Linux.com)
 * Samba
 * Sunwah Linux (rays Linux Distribution)
 * SUSE
 * theKompany
 * TransGaming Technologies
 * TrustCommerce
 * Xandros
 * Ximian

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Talk:The Daily Telegraph

Premature obituaries and criticism section
The Telegraph was founded 168 years ago in 1855. The "Premature obituaries" subsection in the "Criticism" section lists three examples in The Telegraph's history of publishing premature obituaries. The only source for this is a 2001 article by a journalist in The Telegraph itself. Is this really "criticism"? Many media outlets in many countries do occasionally print mistakes or occasionally publish premature obituaries, often due to a technical or human error. In my view the "Premature obituaries" subsection is WP:UNDUE in the criticism section, as apart from the journalist in The Telegraph mentioning three mistakes made in different years, there is no other reference to state The Telegraph was criticised for these errors.

In the subsection "Accusation of antisemitism" there is only one person, Owen Jones of The Guardian, who has made the accusation of antisemitism against The Telegraph for publishing articles which have espoused a Cultural Marxism / antisemitic conspiracy theory. Apart from an op-ed / Guardian column from Jones, there is no other person listed in a reference who has accused The Telegraph of antisemitism. In my view, the "Accusation of antisemitism" subsection may also be WP:UNDUE given the absence of criticism regarding this from anybody in a reference apart from Owen Jones.

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Frank McGuinness

Professor Frank McGuinness (born 1953) is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, and Strindberg to critical acclaim". He has also published six collections of poetry, and two novels. McGuinness was Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) from 2007 to 2018.

Biography
McGuinness was born in Buncrana, a town located on the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland. He was educated locally and at University College Dublin, where he studied Pure English and medieval studies to postgraduate level.

He first came to prominence with his play The Factory Girls, but established his reputation with his play about World War I, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, which was staged in Dublin's Abbey Theatre and internationally. The play made a name for him when it was performed at Hampstead Theatre, drawing comments about McGuinness's Irish Catholic background. It won numerous awards including the London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for McGuinness and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He has also written new versions of classic dramas, including works by Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, and Euripides, adapting the literal translations of others. In addition, he wrote the screenplay for the film Dancing at Lughnasa, adapting the stage play by fellow Ulsterman Brian Friel.

McGuinness's first poetry anthology, Booterstown, was published in 1994. Several of his poems have been recorded by Marianne Faithfull, including Electra, After the Ceasefire and The Wedding.

McGuinness previously lectured in Linguistics and Drama at the University of Ulster, Medieval Studies at University College, Dublin and English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Then he was a writer-in-residence lecturing at University College Dublin before being appointed Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English, Drama and Film there.

Original plays
Frank McGuinness has explained, "My earliest writing was … song lyrics. I would have loved to have been … Paul McCartney … Joni Mitchell". Desiring to write something "substantial", however, he "tossed a coin" between a play and a novel, and decided to write a play. The Glass God, a one-act play written by McGuinness for the company Platform Group Theatre, was premiered at the Lourdes Hall Theatre in Dublin in 1982. It was one of three one-act plays presented under the collective title of Shrapnel.

McGuinness' first full-length play, The Factory Girls, also premiered in 1982, and dealt with a group of female workers facing redundancy from a small town in Donegal. McGuinness explained that he was inspired by "the women in my family". A critic has highlighted its "Wednesday to Sunday time frame", in a link to Catholic imagery which, surprisingly given its theme, indicates that this is in fact "a passion play". "When I wrote 'The Factory Girls'," McGuiness has explained, "I desperately wanted to bring across the audience a sense that I came from a sophisticated background, [because] I come from a background where language is very dangerous, where language is very layered."

McGuinness' second play, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme, was first staged in 1985. The play, about a group of Protestant soldiers in the First World War, was not primarily political in intent, but, according to the playwright, was originally inspired by "a great story". Observe the Sons of Ulster has been described as "a theater of ghosts", a play where "a community is figured as spectral".

The play which followed, Innocence, dealt with the painter Caravaggio. It took its name from one of his paintings, The Sacrifice of Isaak, about the Biblical story of the father whose faith is tested by God's request that he kill his son. In the painting, a sheep watches the sacrifice about to take place and looks appalled at human cruelty, its innocence shattered. McGuinness was inspired by "this innocent sheep" who, at the end of the story, will be sacrificed instead of the child. "Only Caravaggio would remember the sheep" in the story, McGuinness says.

His next play, Carthaginians, premiered in 1989, was concerned with the Bloody Sunday events in Northern Ireland. In 1972, in Derry, British soldiers shot unarmed civilians who were taking part in a march against internment and killed 14 people. McGuinness has described Carthaginians as "My play on the Catholic imagination …", stating that "the keyword in [the play] is the word 'perhaps'". It has been claimed that Carthaginians should be placed primarily "within a body of translations and adaptations of ancient Greek tragedy in the Irish theatre of the 1980s and 1990s". A number of critics have suggested that Ibsen is the main influence in the plays of McGuinness, something corroborated by the writer himself, who has also explained that "... there is of course another influence, that of Shakespeare...". It was this influence that triggered the composition of Carthaginians and "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme". In the author's own words: "I decided, right, let's grab the unicorn by the horn, and see what happens". McGuinness has declared that he had "wanted to construct a five-act Shakespearean play", and to use "narrative in a way that I hope no one had done before". He has described the play as "a big brute", adding that, among his works to date, "I suspect 'this play will last'".

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, first staged in 1992, is a play about the 1986 Lebanon hostage crisis. It is in effect a tragi-comedy which explores the relationship between three hostages, one American, one Irish and one English. Despite their contrasting backgrounds and beliefs the play soon erodes away their differences and brings to the fore the shared humanity that they rely on in order to cope with the horrors and uncertainties of their incarceration. In his introduction to Frank McGuinness: Plays 2 (a collection of plays which included Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Dolly West's Kitchen and The Bird Sanctuary) McGuinness explains, "At their hearts' core these plays centre around rituals and the need to disrupt ritual. […] In their tee-total captivity, Edward, Michael and Adam throw a wild party, somehow knowing that it's a wake. After these engagements, nothing will be the same. Comedy thrives on change. I suppose these plays are about change. Are they comedies? When they want to be."

The play Dolly West's Kitchen, premiered in 1999, is set during the Second World War in Buncrana. This time was euphemistically referred to in the Republic of Ireland as "The Emergency". McGuinness has explained that the arrival of US troops into the town of Buncrana was not only an invasion in terms of the military presence, but also an "invasion of sexuality", as the soldiers made quite an impression in the town. But the main theme in the play "… was to do with a gigantic sorrow in my life, which is that my mother died". This was the heart of the story, because, McGuinness explained, when the mother dies, "the children have to grow up".

The play Gates of Gold, premiered in 2002, was commissioned by The Gate Theatre in Dublin to celebrate its anniversary. The theatre was founded by Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, who were lifelong partners in life and work, and the play is about them. McGuinness, who is himself gay and whose plays often contain gay relationships or explore more traditional family drama from an outsider's perspective, has explained that he "wanted to write a play that was a great celebration of homosexual marriage, love, partnership". The playwright has a drawing of MacLiammoir, by Norah McGuinness, in his sitting room, a work "which I bought with the royalties of the Factory Girls", so the actor is literally a constant presence in McGuinness' life. Gates of Gold looks at the dying days of MacLiammoir, because McGuinness wanted to write "something darker and stranger", and less predictable, about these two pioneers of theatre.

Premiered in 2007, There Came a Gipsy Riding asks the question of "how do you survive the greatest loss, the loss of a child...", to conclude that "you don't recover, but you do learn to live with it". A critic summarised this "impressive drama" as "a concentrated piece that intricately dissects a middle-class family at war with itself following the suicide of one of their three children".

The play The Hanging Gardens, premiered in 2007, is concerned with Alzheimer's disease, and the devastating effect it has on its sufferers and the people around them. McGuinness explained that: "I hope the audience laughs. And that they're shocked. I try to give them something more than they expect." One reviewer declared that the play "holds us, moves us, alarms us."

Adaptation
McGuinness is as well known for his play adaptations as for his original plays. He has adapted classics by Sophocles, Jean Racine, Henrik Ibsen, Molière, Valle-Inclan, Federico García Lorca, as well as short works by Strindberg and Pirandello, a short story by James Joyce, and novels by Stoker and Du Maurier. His ability to distil the raw force from classic Greek drama, in particular, has been noted by critics. He sometimes takes noticeable liberties in his adaptations, in order to strengthen characterisation—for example by making the alienated protagonist of Rebecca into an Anglo-Irish woman from a once privileged family—or to underline the theme of the play—for example in Rebecca "I've invented a scene in which Mrs Danvers confronts Max and says, 'You loved her, but she didn't love you'", or in Barbaric Comedies, a play about a world of amoral grotesquerie, he added a sexual assault scene. Some of these liberties have been controversial. By and large, McGuinness' adaptations have been hailed as reworkings that "breath[e] life" into the originals.

Poetry
Frank McGuinness began his writing career as a poet. As a university student, he has explained, "I sent some poems to the 'Irish Press' and the wonderful [general editor] David Marcus wrote back to me saying [']I'm going to publish them['], and 'You are a writer'. He didn't know what he was unleashing but that was the beginning really. A terrific thing to say when you're 20 or 21. And I went from there". 'Booterstown' (1994), is rooted in the town of the same name; 'The Stone Jug' (2003) is a sequence of sixty sonnets; 'Dulse' (2008), takes its name from a Latin word meaning 'sweet', which is also the name of an edible seaweed used in Ireland. Broadly, McGuinness poetic style is characterised by the use of clear solid unrhymed lines designed to echo in the mind of the listener or reader. The poems often seek to organise emotion, and sometimes represent probing psychological sketches. They are concerned with relationships, events, and the significance of the everyday. The poems are snapshots, often inspired by personal experience, but sometimes created to supplement or assist in delineating fictional characters for his plays. One critic has claimed that McGuinness's poetic work is characterised by its "reliance on dramatic monologue and on intense lyricism". The Memorial Garden at University College Dublin, designed in a circular shape, features a carved stone with a short poem written by Frank McGuinness for the site: "This silence is round / So is remembrance, / they say".

Fiction
Frank McGuinness' first novel, Arimathea, was published in 2013. It has been described as "[a] story of salvation". The book is set in a village in Donegal in 1950, registering the effect of the arrival of an Italian painter who "came from out foreign and … spoke wild funny". The story, told from the point of view of various characters, is inspired by a historic Italian artist who was commissioned to paint the Stations of the Cross in the catholic church of Buncrana in the 1900s. McGuinness wrote the book as research for his play The Hanging Gardens, but never thought it would be published as a novel. The story of the play deals with a novelist who contracts Alzheimer's disease, and progressively loses control of his mind; in order to understand the character better, McGuinness decided to try to write a novel that that man could have written, and the result was Arimathea. In addition to this piece of work, McGuinness also conducted other research for the play, by interviewing people with experience of elderly parents being affected by Alzheimer's disease. While one reviewer claimed that "there is nothing like [this novel] in the history of Irish fiction", another stated that Arimathea is "a distinctively Irish book, and one in which echoes of Joyce vie with those of Máirtín Ó Cadhain". Many commentators pointed out that this choral novel, told in a series of monologues, makes good use of Frank McGuinness' experience in the theatre, including his ability to render individualised voices. His background as a poet may also have been relevant to Arimathea's investment in suggestion as a method and silence as an idea. "[T]he final effect" of the novel, as one reviewer put it, "is to lead the reader to consider those voices not yet heard, and the private agonies that are never shared".

Frank McGuinness' second novel, The Woodcutter and His Family, published in September 2017, deals with the last days of James Joyce in Zurich. The novel is made of four sections, monologues from James, his partner Nora, their daughter Lucia, and son Giorgio, who are given the names of characters from Joyce's play Exiles. At the book launch, Joycean scholar professor Anne Fogarty spoke of her surprise at opening the book to meet the voice of Giorgio Joyce, a figure neglected by Joycean scholars. Fogarty said that McGuinness' novel has "liberated" the Joyce family from historiographers and biographers, and described the book as "wise and witty". At the launch, Frank McGuinness explained that he fell under the spell of Joyce as a young man, when he heard Joni Mitchel read out the opening one and a half pages from the novel 'Portrait of the Artist'. McGuinness also said that he was aware, in taking on the project of a novel about the Joyces, that he was "putting my head into a zoo-worth of lions' mouths", but that this would not stop him. The Woodcutter and His Family is notable also because it deliberately changes historical facts. While focusing on the Joyce family, the book also includes a portrait of the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, a friend of the Joyces.

Short fiction
McGuinness has published a number of short stories. The short story "Paprika", from 2014, appeared in a collection of new stories by Irish writers. "Paprika" is a tale of murder, centered on a disgruntled, mentally unstable operatic white tenor, who is currently playing the role of Othello in an opera, wearing blackface. The story is told through "the pompous voice" of the protagonist, "who veers between grandiosity and despair". Structured as a fluid but self-conscious monologue, the piece has various levels of association, including a subversion ─or an update─ of the plot of Shakespeare's play Othello, an investigation on the performance of identity, and a dissection of the 'logic' of inequality, and employing "[t]he shards of childhood", to "pierce the narrative in an unusual and thought-provoking [way]."

In 2018, McGuinness published his first collection of short fiction, Paprika, consisting of twelve stories. It is published by Brandon, an imprint of The O'Brien Press in Dublin. The stories have been described as "uproarious and outrageous, [tending] to depict insecure, unhinged individuals who find themselves on the wrong side of a comfortable life. A startling collection"

Opera
Frank McGuinness's first opera libretto was Thebans, produced in 2014 at the English National Opera in London. The opera is a version of the trilogy of plays by Sophocles. He was invited to write the libretto by composer Julian Anderson. Adapting this substantial body of work onto a single story 100 minutes long was a considerable challenge. Recalling his initial conversations with the composer, McGuinness explained: "The first thing I said was: I know it will have to be much, much shorter. We looked at a two-page speech. "I can get this down to six lines," I told him – and then did just that." The Theban trilogy, comprising Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, has been occasionally performed as a chronologically ordered, three-play show. For his version, McGuinness made the decision to change the traditional order in the story. He explained that "I've always thought that putting [the play Antigone] at the end of the evening short-changes it remarkably. Although it's the final part of the trilogy, it never feels like the end; in fact, it almost feels as if it were by a different writer." While some critics did not approve of the switch, they still described the opera as "distinctly impressive".

McGuinness' priority in producing the libretto was to make the original text accessible to a contemporary audience. "I'm trying to make this accessible", McGuinness declared, "and to write as beautiful a text as I can for the singers to sing. And that is what I think they are, these stories that have haunted us: they are something beautiful, something brutal, and the beauty and brutality confound each other." The original trilogy is "revered as a foundational document of western civilisation", and one of the main achievements of this "dazzling new opera", a reviewer pointed out, was that "it blows apart this crippling reverence and presents the drama afresh"

One reviewer underlined the fact that "McGuinness has whittled Sophocles's plays down to a succession of very short, simple lines that can be easily heard when sung across an auditorium", and that "Anderson's music fills the emotional space around these lines", to conclude that "[f]or all the antiquity of its roots, Thebans may point to the future of opera". Another reviewer declared that Frank McGuinness "has supplied what seems an eminently settable, elegant condensation of the drama", and that the opera as a whole offers "[t]he superb assurance of the writing metallically intent but underpinned by a novel harmonic richness".

Film and television
McGuinness has written a number of film scripts. His script for Dancing at Lughnasa (Dir. Pat O'Connor, 2005) was an adaptation of the play of the same title by Brian Friel. This film's "most significant transformation of the play", one critic has pointed out, is the shifting of a defining dancing scene from the end of the first Act to the end of the story, which "reveals the defining principle of the film: it turns memory into ritual". McGuinness was also the author of the original script for "Talk of Angels", the cinema adaptation of Kate O'Brien's banned novel Mary Lavelle, although the script was considerably modified in the final production.

Discussing his childhood, McGuinness has explained that, while there were no books around when he was growing up, in addition to newspapers, they had "television, which is the great subverter, a wonderful wonderful (sic) source of entertainment at the time". His television films include Scout (BBC 1987), directed by Danny Boyle, about the talent scout for the football team Manchester United in Northern Ireland, and A Song for Jenny (BBC 2015), adapted from Julie Nicholson's book of the same title, about the aftermath of the 2005 Islamist terrorist bombings in London. McGuinness was also the scriptwriter for the ground-breaking television film "A Short Stay in Switzerland" (BBC 2009), dealing with euthanasia. In addition, McGuinness has scripted a number of documentaries for television, including The Messiah XXI (RTÉ, 2000), commemorating the premiere of Handel's oratorio Messiah in Dublin in 1791, and Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (RTÉ, 2004), celebrating the Irish writer.

Themes and opinions
Major recurring features of McGuinness's playwriting include the treatment of historical events and the prominent inclusion of gay or bisexual characters.

A writer's task, McGuiness declared in 2015, is "to do something that no one has done before, to discover". In the same interview, he added that: "The enquiring mind, the radical mind, will always be ill at ease about what is said about a particular subject."

Awards and honours
Source for entries 1985-1999:

 * 1985 London Evening Standard "Award for Most Promising Playwright" for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
 * 1985 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Observe the Sons …
 * 1985 Arts Council Bursary for Observe the Sons …
 * 1985 Harvey's Best Play Award for Observe the Sons …
 * 1985 Cheltenham Literary Prize for Observe the Sons …
 * 1986 London Fringe Awards for Best Play and Best Playwright New to the Fringe for Observe the Sons …
 * 1986 Plays and Players Award for Most Promising Playwright for Observe the Sons …
 * 1987 Ewart-Biggs Peace Prize for Observe the Sons …
 * 1990 Prague International Television Awards for The Hen House (BBC2)
 * 1992 New York Drama Critics Circle for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
 * 1992 Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
 * 1992 Independent Sunday Best Play of the Year Award for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
 * 1992 Oliver Award nomination for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
 * 1992 Tony Award nomination for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
 * 1992 Ireland Fund Literary Award
 * 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival for A Doll's House
 * 1997 French Order of Arts and Letters
 * 1999 Oliver Award nomination for Best New Play for Dolly West's Kitchen
 * 2010 BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama for A Short Stay in Switzerland
 * 2014 Irish PEN Award
 * 2019 Tip O'Neill Irish Diaspora Award
 * 2019 UCD Ulysses Medal

Plays

 * The Glass God (Platform Theatre Group, Dublin, 1982)
 * The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982)
 * Borderlands (TEAM Educational Theatre Company, 1984)
 * Gatherers (TEAM Educational Theatre Company, 1985)
 * Ladybag (Damer Theatre, Dublin for Dublin Theatre Festival, 1985)
 * Baglady (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1985)
 * Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986)
 * Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986)
 * Times in It (Peacock stage of Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1988: triple bill consisting of 'Feed the Money and Keep Them Coming'; 'Brides of Ladybag' and 'Flesh and Blood')
 * Carthaginians (Abbey, 1988; Hampstead, 1989)
 * Mary and Lizzie ([The Pit] Barbican / RSC, London, 1989)
 * The Bread Man (The Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1990)
 * Someone Who'll Watch Over Me—based on Brian Keenan's 'An Evil Cradling' (1992) (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992)
 * The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1993; Pittsburgh Public Theatre, 2005; )
 * Mutabilitie (RNT, 1997)
 * Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1999)
 * Speaking Like Magpies (RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2005)
 * Gates of Gold (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2002. UK premiere Finborough Theatre, 2004. West End transfer 2006.)
 * There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida Theatre, London, 2007)
 * The Holy Moley Jesus Story (Greash Theatre, Dublin, 2008)
 * Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle Theatre, London, 2010)
 * The Match Box (Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool, 2012)
 * The Hanging Gardens (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2013)
 * Éamonn Ceannt, in 'Signatories' (Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 2016)
 * The Visiting Hour (Gate Theatre, Dublin 2021)
 * Dinner with Groucho (Civic Theatre, Dublin, 2022)

Adaptations

 * Dracula, from the novel by Bram Stoker (Druid Theatre, Galway, 1986)
 * Yerma by Federico García Lorca (Abbey, 1987)
 * Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (National Theatre, London—The Cotesloe--, 1987)
 * The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (The Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1991)
 * Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (Gate, 1988; RSC and world tour, 1994)
 * Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (Roundabout Theatre, Broadway, 1994)
 * Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Field Day Production on tour, Derry, 1995; Tricycle Theatre, London, 1995)
 * The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht (RNT at the Oliver Theatre, London, 1997)
 * A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Playhouse Theatre, London, 1996; Belasco Theatre, NY, 1997; Fairfax Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1998)
 * Electra by Sophocles (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 1997; McCarter Theatre, Princeton, 1998; Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NY, 1998; The Project Theatre, Dublin, 2004—directed by Frank McGuinness--; The Old Vic, London, 2014)
 * Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Gate and Royal Court, 1990)
 * The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 1991)
 * The Man with the Flower in his Mouth by Luigi Pirandello (The Project Theatre, Dublin 1993—double bill with 'The Stronger')
 * The Stronger by August Strindberg (The Project Theatre, Dublin 1993—double bill with 'The Man with the Flower...')
 * The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky (The Almeida Theatre Company, London, 1998)
 * Miss Julie by August Strindberg (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2000;
 * Barbaric Comedies by Ramón María del Vallé-Inclán—originally a cycle of three plays under that common title: 'Silver Face', 'Rampant Eagle', and 'Wolves Romance' (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2000; King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 2000)
 * Hecuba by Euripides
 * The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 2003)
 * Hecuba by Euripides (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2004)
 * Rebecca, from a novel by Daphne du Maurier (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Thyne, 2005)
 * Phaedra by Racine (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2006)
 * There Came a Gypsy Riding(Almeida Theatre, London, 2007)
 * Oedipus by Sophocles (Royal National Theatre, 2008)
 * Helen by Euripides (Shakespeare's Globe, 2008)
 * John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen (Abbey Theatre, 2010)
 * Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (London Classic Theatre, 2011)
 * Damned by Despair by Tirso de Molina (English National Theatre, London, 2012)
 * The Dead, from the short story by James Joyce (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2012)
 * Tartuffe, by Molière (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2023)

Screenplays

 * Scout (BBC2, 1987)
 * The Hen House (BBC Northern Ireland, 1989)
 * Dancing at Lughnasa, adaptation of play by Brian Friel) (Dir. Pat O'Connor, 1998)
 * Talk of Angels, adaptation of the novel Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien (novelist). Anne Guedes, and Frank McGuinness (Dir. Nick Hamm, 1998)
 * A Short Stay in Switzerland (BBC TV, 2009, based on the true story of Dr Anne Turner)
 * A Song for Jenny (BBC TV, 2015)

Poetry

 * Booterstown (Gallery Press, 1994)
 * In Loving Memory (Limerick City Gallery of Art, 1989, with photographs by Amelia Stein)
 * The Sea with no Ships (Gallery Press, 1999)
 * The Stone Jug (Gallery Press, 2003)
 * Dulse (Gallery Press, 2007)
 * In a Town of Five Thousand People (Gallery Press, 2012)
 * The Wedding Breakfast (Gallery Press, 2019)
 * May Twenty-second (Gallery Press, 2022)

Opera

 * Thebans—Libretto by Frank McGuinness, after Sophocles, set to music by Julian Anderson (London Opera Company, 2014)

Musical

 * Donegal (Abbey Theatre Dublin, 2016)

Fiction

 * Arimathea (Brandon, 2013)
 * The Woodcutter & his Family (O'Brien Press, 2017)
 * Paprika: Stories (Brandon, 2018)

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