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User talk:Mav/archive 18

Scientific Skepticism
Help needed on Scientific_skepticism! Reddi, someone absolutely clueless on science and scientific skepticism, needs to be told off or corrected, or whatever, I can't think of the right word at the moment. Right now, though, skepticism is locked. Your input? :( - Lord Kenneth 01:23, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll see if I can take a look at it later. For now I've listed it on Requests for comment, which in turn is linked from RC and bolded. --mav

You're right
They're not trolls, they're serious users who are fair, unbiased, and by no means do things to start trouble. Nope, nosiree. Oh, by the way, your user page appears to have a professional photograph, which might not be allowed as fair use-- the professional photographer retains the copyright. I don't know if that has been discussed or not... - Lord Kenneth 14:42, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * I paid for it so it is mine. --mav

Sorry, buddy, that's not how copyright law works. You only paid for copies, not for full rights to it. That's why it is illegal to upload MP3s over p2p-- it doesn't matter that it's your face in the picture. If you don't remove it, I will take this to the possible copyright infringment page. - Lord Kenneth 23:19, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * Are you trying to pick a fight? Leave my photo alone. --mav

I'm not trying to pick a fight. Got that? Copyright violation is copyright violation, and it's against wikipedia's image policy. - Lord Kenneth 23:28, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * You are wrong on this issue. Got that? Leave my image alone. --mav

Oh ho ho, but I'm not. Your image is a copyright violation. I have reported it as possible copyright infringement. Unless the photographer gave up the rights to it (extremely unlikely) you're in the wrong. Got that? - Lord Kenneth 23:35, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * You just made another enemy. I had nothing against you before, but now I do. --mav

Wow, talk about not assuming good faith and unnecessary hostilities! Are you really qualified to be an admin when you can't follow the policies and break copyright rules? It seems that you make this a personal issue when I'm simply following the guidelines- to notify the person that they are breaking copyright. Looks like it's you who doesn't know wikipedia policy very well. - Lord Kenneth 23:40, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * You will be made very familiar with our policy in the comming days. Rest assured. --mav

Are you threating me? You are the one in violation, not me, and your hostile actions either indicate that you've had a bad day or aren't fit for your position. Here's a guide, perhaps it'll help you: http://www.alex-tomlinson.supanet.com/guide/copyright.htm

- Lord Kenneth 23:49, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * Ever heard of fair use? All I have on my user page is a very low resolution version of the original. --mav

Duck Dodgers?
Are you sure you've identified those "Duck Dodgers" screenshots correctly? They look an awful lot like shots from Dripalong Daffy to me. The Duck Dodgers I remember looked much more like this. —Paul A 02:18, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yep - that is what it said when I was watching it and what was in the TV guide. Porky Pig was a robot in that episode. --mav

 * (effect of light bulb) These are from the TV series I'd never previously heard of, then? Fair enough. (But I still think they don't look like they're from Duck Dodgers.) —Paul A 02:32, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I never saw the show before, or the movie. The screenshot may therefore not be representative of a regular episode. --mav

Ed's rights
Why do you think that message deserves to be on talk:DNA? I told you why I think it doesn't.168... 05:31, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I told you why. Ed has the right to say what he wants when it is relevant. Your abuse of sysop user rights at DNA is a valid thing to note at talk:DNA. Your removal of that note looks as if you are trying to hide that fact. Your use of the auto revert feature on me is another abuse of your admin status. I suggest you stop. --mav

Actually all you said originally was that he had a right. In your summary you offered no reason why you thought his comment relevant. I suggest you try to look at what I do with an open mind instead of assuming the worst of me, which you seem to be doing consistently. While you say Ed's post is valid because I abused sysop rights, actually that is a POV--yours. It has not been decided that what I did counts as abuse. Ed in expressing his own POV admitted that it's not well founded, because he had only skimmed the history and/or record. So it's one guy naming me and expressing a negative opinion about what I did and advice specifically for me in front of lots of people, and it makes no difference to anybody else how to proceed with the DNA article or discussion. I thought of replying to it, but it seemed obvious to me that it would not be appropriate for me to debate the matter with him there, not to mention redundant with the defense of my action I've been asked to give at the "Possible abuse" page. Given that, it seems obvious to me in turn that Ed's opinion and advice to me and Lir (who unlike me he doesn't "out" by naming him) belongs on my talk page and Lir's talk page and/or on the "Possible abuse" page. BTW I didn't know I couldn't use the autorevert whenever I revert. Seems like a silly rule, if it exists. I propose to ignore it until pointed to a sensible reason for it.168... 16:08, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Then you should have moved it to your talk page or the page tracking your sysop abuse. Yet you silenced it. You are also not supposed to use your sysop user rights in an edit war. Yet you did that. --mav

Should should yet yet. Baloney.168... 23:12, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You owe me several apologies now.168... 23:12, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I owe you nothing. I do owe the community additional scrutiny of you and your actions. --mav

Please! I'm begging for scrutiny. It's your summary rushes to judgment that offend me. I owe it to the community to lend an opposing voice to your views and actions, many of which I consider reactionary and conservative. 168... 00:21, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Then why did you delete Ed's scrutiny of you? My judgment is sound, your actions were uncalled for. --mav

I don't know which action you mean when you say your judgment is sound. Protecting agains Lir was called for according to both Cyan and you yourself. It's the appearance of the action you don't like. With regard to Ed and "scrutiny," in his post he specifically disclaimed close scrutiny. His post was a snap judgment and an opinion which served no reasonable purpose on the page he posted it. 168... 00:35, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Then you should have moved it instead of censoring it. That's another thing that looks bad and thus makes all admins look like they are part of a cabal. Looks are very important around here. --mav

Moved it where? Part of it was addressed to me, part was to Lir, and it was a message Ed evidently meant as a timely announcement for a moment in time that passed now long ago, and which preceded the movement to formally debate the appropriateness of my protection on a separate page. Ed pays some attention to Talk:DNA. If he wants his message preserved on an active page somewhere, he can get off his rash behind and think about a good place to put it, in one two or three pieces. It's not my problem. BTW, that was really annoying that you moved the accusations against me to a separate page without moving the lengthy defenses I have offered for my action. You might want to think how the obviousness of your own bias affects the reputation of all admins. 168... 00:54, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Extro
Maverick,

Thank you for the welcome.

-Extro

 * You are welcome! --mav

Pictures
I noticed on my watchlist that you added pictures to Sesame Street related articles, thanks; only thing, they don't seem to work. Could you maybe re-upload them with underscore instead of spaces? That might work. -- user:zanimum

 * See your talk page. --mav

Terms of use and Submission standards
I am just wondering what you opinion regarding the submissions standards is. Jamesday told me that there were grumblings on IRC about it, since there is no record of IRC that I can find I find it a very low authoritative source for knowing what people think in this community. Do you know anything about this? we were going to go live with this all on Jan. 21 but it never happened, I've been quite busy in court the last two weeks so I haven't been following everything as closely as possible, can you fill me in? I've added my suggested to change to the MediaWiki:copyrightwarning talk page. Thanks. [[User:Alex756|— Alex756 talk]] 00:44, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

rocks and minerals project
Since you commented on the original, wanted to let you know that I created a WikiProject Rocks and Minerals if you'd like to join. I'm hoping you will, since you did so much on related categories. Elf 19:38, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Joined. Neat idea. --mav

Resolve what?
You said both you and cyan tried to resolve "this" with me. What's this? 168... 01:00, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes. On this talk page and Cyan's talk page. We could not resolve the conflict that way. Besides, this all started on another page with a diferent set of rules and was only moved after the talk got too long. --mav

 * You have avoided answering my question. I'll ask it another way: What's to resolve with me and when did you and cyan try to resolve it with me? 168... 01:34, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * You protected a page in an edit war. We don't want you to do that again. You refuse to admit what you did was wrong and therefore indicate that you will continue this behavior. --mav

Continued at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment

Please could you leave the dispute pages alone for a while until things have cooled down. Angela. 01:44, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * When will that be? --mav

 * Hopefully soon. I expect it'll happen a lot sooner if you and 168 just ignore those pages for a while. Stop wasting your time. Whatever do you hope to gain from it? You know no one is ever banned or desysopped, so the whole system of setting up dozens of complaints pages is completely worthless anyway. Angela. 02:17, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * It is not worthless - we are trying to work this out without having to go to mediation or arbitration. The RfC pages allow people to vent and for the issue to be defined. --mav

Re:Protection of the rfc/mav
You're welcome. I sensed an edit war afoot, and I call'em like I see'em. →Raul654 08:59, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

We meant the full name as in (e.g.) Aquila audax (Latham, 1801) Tannin

 * Oh, OK. I'm not too opposed to that. --mav

Please vote
At Talk:DNA Peak 06:15, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Did you delete my pledge poll? I click the link and all I see is whiteness.168... 06:26, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * No. Reload the page. --mav

Wikistats
Yeah, I knew the stats were out of date, but I figured a working link was still better than a 404. =] You wouldn't happen to know if any updated stats are in the works, would you? --Delirium 09:59, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * Haven't heard anything. But the developers have been very busy optimizing MediaWiki and getting it ready for a squid cache config for the server farm (and eventually for mirrors all over the planet). --mav

New pic code
Answer on my talk page -- hike395 06:17, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks to the wonders of MediaWiki, no permanent harm done. -- hike395

 * No big deal. :) I was considering doing the same thing myself but decided to just wait for a better solution. --mav

User name violation?
User:Philatio. Whaddya think? --Dante Alighieri 06:51, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * They don't know how to spell but might be a fun date. :) --mav

 * Well, I'm guessing that's an attempt to avoid the OBVIOUS ban that User:Fellatio would get. --Dante Alighieri 21:32, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Could be a stamp collector? His/her edit to 755 is correct and non-obvious. -- hike395

Copyright violation
hi Mav,

you uploaded an image for the battle of Lutzen, but this was marked as available for fair use, not for public domain, so I have listed it for deletion. TeunSpaans

I moved this image to Possible_copyright_infringements and commented on it over there. Jamesday 14:49, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * See that page for my comment. --mav

Thanks
Thanks for the support at Wikisource (not Wikibooks where I don't go very often). I wasn't too sure how my recent confrontations with Angela would affect things. Hopefully I can help to set a more co-operative tone in that project without importing the edit war mentality that can be a big drain on people's energy on Wikipedia. ☮ Eclecticology 18:02, 2004 Feb 7 (UTC)

 * No problem. :) --mav

Elements taking too much volume
It seems that a number of the element pages are showing the molar volume a factor 1000 too high. See for example Rubidium, Gold. This should be 10-6 rather than 10-3. Andre Engels 12:36, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Opps! I looks like you are right. I'll see what I can do. --mav

I found the source for the Osiris image
I responded to you on Talk:Osiris (planet). Sorry for taking so long. I didn't notice that you had edited the talk page until I looked at it today. Sennheiser! 16:44, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yep - the image is OK now. Thanks! :) --mav

Subst
Hi, please use subst, not msg for VfD. I've explained why at Wikipedia talk:Boilerplate text. Thanks. Angela. 00:17, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * OIC - noted. --mav

Jim
Thanks, I'm looking forward to Sri Lanka, Jim. Incidentally, this page is displaying a 94k warning.

 * Wow! Will you have time to do any birding? I would love see see some photos of birds from Sri Lanka. I just made an archive. --mav

Poll notification
Jack (now known as Sam Spade) created a poll at Talk:Atheism/Godvrs.god poll on the capital G issue in atheism, so I figured I should drop a note about it to all the major participants in the editing on that article since Jan 11. I just went through the edit history clicking names that looked prominent, so if you aren't interested in the issue feel free to ignore it. Bryan 05:27, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

RFC:168
Just letting you know that 168.. has removed the material you added to Requests for comment/168. I'm not in a mood for an argument with him/her atm, so I'm not reverting. - snoyes 19:35, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Reverted. Then 168 reverted my revert then others tried and failed as well. --mav

No content was lost. The name's just been changed. As you can see from the 1985-1991 article, you have an article on the Gorbachev years (and a very brief, superficial one at that), not an article on the collapse. If you want, I could draft a new article with a day-by-day timeline of events from the August coup to the dissolution of the USSR on 12/26/91, which can go in a newly recreated article on the collapse. Until then, the content on the Gorbachev years fits better at the end of the Soviet history series. 172 01:02, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * OK - just wanted to know why. --mav

Mav, has anybody actually asked you to intervene at DNA (i.e. besides Lir?). You don't seem to understand what is going on there. You also ignored my request long ago to tell me how far back into the discussion history you had read. If nobody is inviting you and you don't have the patience to study the matter, I suggest you stay out of it.168...|...Talk 03:25, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Nobody has to ask me - I'm already involved in the discussion over that page. You seem to be ignoring the consensus and the RfC process. --mav

Sure, mediation welcome. But we have to agree on the mediator, this being such a partisan operation.168...|...Talk 05:51, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * OK. See Requests_for_mediation --mav

Would you like to express any preferences regarding who should mediate your dispute with mav? The members of Mediation Committee are the recommended choice, but you may ask anyone if you like. You may tell me any mediators that are acceptable to you, or ones that you would refuse to accept. You may also e-mail me if you do not want your concerns publically posted (Tucci528 AT yahoo.com). Tuf-Kat

 * Done. --mav

List of volcanoes
I notice that from your contributions, you have written or assembled a number of articles on volcanoes. I've been expanding the list of active and dormant volcanoes a great deal over the past few days. It's been based on the lists maintained at the Smithsonian Institute's volcano site. I hope you find the expanded lists useful.David Newton 16:10, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Wow! Neat list - lots of red links to work on. I will add the list to each of the volcano articles I've been working on. --mav

bombing of dresden
I am an 'ultra-newbie' to Wikipedia. My first article wa on the fire bombing of dresden in WW2 (http://en.wihistory.searchbeat.com/ww2battles.htm#bombingofdresden) turns out to be strikingly similar. In fact about 90% is the same word for word. The searchbeat article is copyrighted. I read the procedure to follow for copyright question but because i'm so new, i'm hesitant tokipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II). I think it's a great article and Wikipedia is a great reference. Just my luck that another source on dresden (http:// take what seems like an extreme step. Also the procedure looked a little complicated for someone as green as me. Can you help me?

 * The link you gave does not work. However many different websites copy Wikipedia content - not all of them give credit. See Sites that use Wikipedia for content and Possible copyright infringements. --mav

VW Kerry Quote
Vietnam War - its not POV to use an important and iconic quote form that time - in fact I shortened it - originally it was:

 * "...many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia —not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis, with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command..." "They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages..." "...and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..."
 * - John Kerry, in Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee, 1971.

It sounds like that particular POV was rather well informed, dont you? Look at the Linguistics article - using a quote in context is not inapproprate BASOTI. -戴&#30505sv 00:25, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * It has no place in the lead section of an aricle. No quote does. --mav

--- Actually, Hector is right about the VC (I'm sorry - the NLF). What do you think of this compromise? You can keep a brief article on the origins of the pejorative "VC" at the VC entry. It can contain a link to an article on the NLF. Would this be better than Hector's idea of simply redirecting the VC page to the NLF page? 172 00:59, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think that it is so pejorative as to warrant going against common usage. Most people have no idea what NLF means and the "Liberation" part also has its own POV issues. --mav
 * Hector may see this as an NPOV issue (I could care less about the connotations). However, I see this as an issue of encyclopedic standards. The word "liberation" in the title does not have "its own POV issues," as you seem to be suggesting. We are dealing with what is merely the name of an organization. By your logic, we cannot have an article on, e.g., the People's Republic of China or the PRC People's Liberation Army (PLA). Yes, VC is more recognizable. But that's why I'm suggesting a stub on the use of the name "Vietcong" at the VC entry. The article can then direct readers to the main article on the subject at the NLF page. 172 02:27, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * the common usage page says  "Also, some terms are in common usage but are commonly regarded as offensive to large groups of people (Eskimo, Black American and Mormon Church, for example). In those cases use widely known alternatives (Inuit, African-American, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for example)."  Being as the NLF never called themselves VC, a name they found offensive, and much of the world press called them NLF, I would say they should be called what they called themselves - if you strip the power from people to even tell you what their name is, and order that they must be referred to as some derogatory name, then that is probably the final nail on the coffin of trying to get any kind of NPOV.  The same goes for every other derogatory term used in the American corporate media (NLF -> VC, PCP -> Shining Path, CPK -> Khmer Rouge).  Hell, the Viet Cong page says that Viet Cong is a derogatory term which the page you pointed to said should be avoided HectorRodriguez 01:07, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I wrote the part of the common usage page you quoted. I simply do not think that the name is so offensive as to warrant going against common usage. You removed all refs to VC which is uncalled for. At the very least the name VC should be mentioned at least once per article that deals with the subject so that people know what NLF is - otherwise they may not get the connection. However, I do concede that this may be similar to the Eskimo / Inuit situation and may require two separate articles. But let's continue this on the correct talk page. --mav

 * I am interested in this debate, because this issue came up w.r.t. Shining Path recently. Lancemurdoch renamed every reference to the group to "Peruvian Communist Party" which may be historically correct, but no one refers to them as such, in Peru or elswhere. -- Viajero 21:00, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Zviad Gamsakhurdia reversion ping-pong
Mav, I should let you know that I've suggested to Tannin (talk) that I've asked if the Zviad Gamsakhurdia article can be permanently protected. This ridiculous reversion war has been going on since December (!) but Levzur will not discuss it other than to constantly assert that he's right, which is hardly a basis for reaching a compromise. I hate the idea of locking the article (not least because I'll be locked out too) but I can't see any other way of protecting it from Levzur's evident wish to turn it into a hagiography. Is there any alternative that you can suggest? -- ChrisO 01:51, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, we don't permanently protect articles around here. Way before that we will be banning people who cannot control their behavior. There seems to be one person editing that article that fits the bill. --mav

 * I thought that might be the case. The thing is, Levzur has made some good contributions, despite his behaviour on this article. His material on Georgian culture and historical figures has been genuinely useful (and we have few enough contributors from that part of the world). It's a pity that he seems to be so blinkered on this particular subject. I see you've read my response to Tannin's comments on protecting pages - I think you can work out what prompted me to suggest narrowly focused bans. -- ChrisO 02:16, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Then the arbitration committee (which I happen to be a member of) could issue a ruling that he cannot edit certain articles. --mav

 * Have we got to a point where it should be referred to the AC? This has been going on for 3 months now, the page has already been protected (by you, as I recall) and unprotected, and I see no prospect of a resolution any time soon. -- ChrisO 02:29, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * See Dispute resolution. It sounds like you have tried and failed Step 1. If at least one other person has tried and failed Step 1 then you can open an RfC page. --mav 02:31, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. I'll do that. Thanks for the advice. -- ChrisO 02:48, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Hi, 168... has accepted Anthere as the mediator between you and him. The problem is Anthere is currently on holiday. She went away on the 6th and I don't know when she is expected back. Are you willing to postpone mediation until she is back, or would you like 168 to choose an alternative mediator? Angela. 19:15, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

 * 168 can choose any mediator he wants but I will only accept one I've already mentioned (which happens to be most of the mediators). --mav

Plautus satire
Hi, what exactly did User:Plautus satire explain to you via email? I may block him/her soon and want to know what happened last time. silsor 03:26, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

 * Hm. Already deleted that email exchange... Basically I blocked PS for what looked like the removal of another user's talk comments. It turned out that PS did in fact do this at least once but after somebody reverted the change he removed some text PS wrote. PS was reverted by another admin, I gave a warning, PS did not respond and instead removed the text again. So I blocked the account. PS then emailed me explaining what happened and after investigating it did look like the text removed after I gave the warning was written by PS. But I'm still not 100% sure about that - just reasonably sure. So I unblocked the account. --mav

 * Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I've blocked him again, see block log for details. silsor 03:37, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

 * Sigh. Some people just can't work with others. I hope PS learns. --mav

Watch what , mav ? It couldn't be spelling. That's what I was concerned with. Maybe you just want to behave aggressively against your fellow Wiki editors. In that case please write to me, and I will report your aggressivity properly and systematically. I am only afraid of the lack of rule of law : )

Sincerely, irismeister 13:01, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

 * Watch what you do. If you continue to violate policy then you will be banned. --mav

Banning Plautus satire
Hey Mav: On Plautus satire's talk page I threw down the gauntlet. I told him that I was willing to wipe the slate clean and treat him like a new user, provided he straighten up and follow the rules. (no more inflammatory POV edits presented as facts; no more reverting talk pages).

I told him if he didn't, I would ban him shortly. He has rejected the offer outright. When he (inevitably) vandalizes another page, I am going to ban him, and I am going to make sure it's permanent. Just wanted to OK this with you first. →Raul654 21:48, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm just another admin - nobody special. Do what you think is best, but please don't think that my blessing means anything special. --mav

 * Thanks mav. I just didn't want to be accused of acting unilaterially or abusing my powers - Plautus had made a few (4?) good edits, and I don't think we're supposed to ban people who have made any. However, a quick look at the "thank you's" I'm getting on my talk page show me that my fears were unfounded. →Raul654

 * On a purely unofficial level I am very glad to see PS gone (at least for a while). --mav

195.92.168.177
[Peak:] One has to go digging in the Talk:Race archives to see that 195.92.168.177 has already been given a chance. His previous intransigence and bullying tactics resulted in the page being protected before, so I think, in context, that P0M's remarks were completely justified. Peak 23:39, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Perhaps - but they still serve as bad examples to others who do not know the context of the situation. --mav

I'm wondering if you can act quickly to prevent a farcical version of the Alexandros/personal information controversy. The author dug up a pseudonym (so there's no real infringement of privacy), ran a search, and found comments from what appear to be joke/vanity pages. I had already seen troubling signs of passive aggression from the author before, but hardly anything so nakedly malicious. Initially, I asked Eloquence about this problem. He stated, "It seems pretty clearly in violation of Wikiquette..., which is a bannable offense." But he's not responsible for enforcing these policies. Since I don't want to be associated with that garbage (just to reassure you - it's a totally false distortion!), quietly deleting it before it becomes a big issue and dropping a brief note on the author's user talk page would be great. I came to you since you are on the arbitrators' committee, maintain a spotless reputation among all users, and can handle things discretely. The latter is really important in this case, explaining my reservations about going directly to the conflicts resolution page and making this a more public matter. After all, the page doesn't bother me as much as the idea of all the ruckus that this matter could cause. 172 11:32, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I'm at work now and will be going to night class right after. I will not have time to review this until Friday. --mav

 * I truly and sincerely apologize for including material on a reference page that was the work of a troll, and not 172. I have removed the offending material, and all that remains is Wikipedia texts that are properly related. As I mentioned in that private, un-linked page, "It is best to understand those that you have conflict and disagreement with so you can empathize with their viewpoint and achieve consenus." I look forward to putting this matter behind us so we can productively work together on Wikipedia. --Hcheney 01:02, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I want to be reinstated with full status and a very big formal apology from you ASAP. I wouldn't mind if you felt obliged to resign from the arbitration committee as well. 168...|...Talk 00:45, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * That's not going to happen and I have nothing to apologize for. --mav

TH align"center"
... is redundant. TH already centers the text (as well as bolding it). - UtherSRG 03:13, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Not for Internet Explorer 6.0 and not for Konqueror 3.1.3. --mav

Sorry but.... From HTML's def:
 * align = left|center|right|justify|char [CI]
 * This attribute specifies the alignment of data and the justification of text in a cell. Possible values:
 * left: Left-flush data/Left-justify text. This is the default value for table data.
 * center: Center data/Center-justify text. This is the default value for table headers.
 * right: Right-flush data/Right-justify text.
 * justify: Double-justify text.
 * char: Align text around a specific character. If a user agent doesn't support character alignment, behavior in the presence of this value is unspecified.

It works fine in the MSIE 5.5 I'm using from work, so I find it hard to believe it is now broke in 6.0. I'll check to see what version I have at home, but I'm pretty sure it's 6.0. - UtherSRG 15:53, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This is what it looks like at work (IE 6.0), school (IE 6.0) and home (Konqueror 3.1.3). Having the align="center" doesn't hurt a thing and yet makes it so that the alignment is correct. --mav 00:29, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have MSIE 6.0 at home. There is something wrong on your end, because th centers properly. Removing the align="center" makes the HTML more streamlined and legible. Let's try to figure out what settings we have different? - UtherSRG 00:40, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * It works with the align="center". So that is all that matters. --mav

No, that's not all that matters. Do't be stubborn, INTJ. *grins* Do you have an IM? - UtherSRG 00:43, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * We are talking about 14 characters (counting the quotes). That is all that is needed to make the table work right. I'm not the one being stubborn. --mav

 * I've got to go to class right now. Don't assume my silence means that I agree with you. --mav

It's 14 characters on top of the existing characters for the line. For taxoboxes, this can often mean the line wraps in the editor making the table less readable. Let's take this to IM or someplace where we can discuss this more efficiently -err.... when you are not in class. - UtherSRG 00:51, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Request for Comments on Plautus satire
Your comments are requested on Requests for comment/Plautus satire. →Raul654 05:17, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)

screenshots
Do you plan to restore the deleted screenshots you made? PMA 06:27, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)

 * Do you plan to read the top of Village pump. ;) --mav
 * Sarcasm does not suit you Mav :) --PMA 01:15, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

New tufa pic for Mono Lake
Hey, mav! Check out tufa for a new pic I uploaded. This is a clearer shot of tufa than is currently at Mono Lake. Would you mind if I replaced the current pic? -- hike395 07:11, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes - please do! I took the ugly tufa photo from the visitor's center with a 3x camera. --mav

Zviad Gamsakhurdia - what next?
Unfortunately the RfC that I posted regarding this article doesn't seem to have provoked much interest - no comments yet, anyway - and the reversion war is continuing between Wik and Levzur (who I see is still marking deletions as "minor"). How long should I wait before moving on to the next stage, which I assume would be mediation? -- ChrisO 08:49, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry about that. I left a comment. --mav

 * Thanks for that. I'd already provided references earlier in the thread, but I've added a summary of my position to make things clearer for all concerned (hopefully!). -- ChrisO 13:03, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

press release
Hi Mav

Youssef told me we were very near the 500k line.

When should non english send the press releases ?

Thanks Anthère0

(great that I can send a couple of ones :-))

 * Holy Cr*p! 495 K as of the 20th. Monday! --mav

Regional press contact
What's the point of the regional press contact in the press release? I understand the purpose, but why have it here on en: where Jimbo is the only relevant contact? Shouldn't other languages use the version on meta as a template? I fear that leaving this in may lead to careless copy and pasting of the template stuff.—Eloquence 10:50, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * People volunteered for it - I'm just notifying them. Their argument (which I happen to agree with) is that reporters from different nations will want to interview somebody from the same region. This also helps to reduce the media load on poor Jimbo. Plenty of people will still be contacting him. Those that only contact the regional press contact can still use Jimbo's quotes in the press release. --mav

We will must likely send the press release on the danish wikipedia at roughly the same time as the english BrianHansen 10:53, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Cool - thanks for the update. :) --mav

evidence
Please add your evidence to Matter of Wik evidence. Specifically please track down specific diffs and add them to that page and explain what the problems are. You may want to work together with other users in order to create a summary of the evidence. The arbitration committee cannot decide an issue based on statements (statements are only a starting point) - we need evidence. --mav 04:30, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Wik has admitted reverting edits of mine solely because I made them. What more evidence could I possibly need?  Anthony DiPierro 13:51, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Show the diffs of him actually reverting you. --mav

Mav, thanks for the note, I've added my name to the press release as Asia region contact. Feel free to edit for formatting if necessary. Fuzheado 17:09, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Np. --mav

You may be interested in Template:cc-by-sa, as I've noticed that you twin-license your images. I marked one of your images as such, just for kicks, let me know if that's OK. Martin 17:21, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah - I need to reformat all my images too... Thanks for the note. --mav

Thanks for supporting the crapflooder position on Talk:List of numbers/Deletion. I really thought you had more sense than that.—Eloquence

 * I honesty think articles like 101 (number) are interesting - kinda like a disambiguation page but also an article. So I voted accordingly. --mav

 * Actually, the disambiguation policy has already been revamped to prevent disambig pages from turning into search indices. Now the only remaining vector of entry for these loose lists are the number pages.—Eloquence

re: Main Page
Well, I updated the Fatos Nano article, I am not sure what to put in the Albania article itself. I don't think the news should go in the articles of countries anyway (unless they're a major historical event that goes in the history blurb). Wik has also created and has been maintaining Timeline of Albanian history from 1994 which does include some of that info. Should the link in the main page have been something other than Albania, perhaps Fatos Nano? I don't know. Dori | Talk 03:52, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Either the timeline or the Fatos Nano article will do nicely. As it is, readers visiting Albania will likely have no clue as to why it was listed. --mav

events in history
You have done a commendable job with the "events in history" page! Perl 15:06, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you! It is going to take some time to fill up the list though. I'll try to stay ahead of the current day by at least week or so. --mav

 * Mav, thank you for doing so much great work and for the support--I just get easily obsessed. :) jengod 07:19, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks. :) I've been told that I get a bit obsessed sometimes as well. ;) --mav

-- Mispelled word; Dear Mav: Hi1 Take a look at Main Page, under Rod Paige information, it says appologised instead of apologized. I tried to correct this but when I saw that at the edit page all it had was msg:message under news, I dared not touch it. Maybe you can fix the misspelling, I dont know how to fix it now that we have this ultra-cool new main page.

Thanks and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio Lost Mind Martin

 * Hey Antonio! :) Just edit Template:Itn, or visit the top of Talk:Main Page and click on the link. --mav

Thanks for offending me...
Mav, I fail to see why you had to do a wholesale revert of legitimate global news that I posted to the news section of the main page. I was in the process of doing the things that you chastized me for. Next time, please show some paitience and don't hurt people's feelings by removing their work. Instead, try to work with them and make Wikipedia better. That's what a *community* is all about...

Feeling extremely hurt. -- Seth Ilys 14:27, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry you feel hurt - that was not my intention. But in the future please update Current events and the subject first. --mav

 * Apology accepted. Yes, I think the other order makes sense. I'm a news junkie, so I sometimes jump to the headline first. I'll try to follow the guidlines order in future, now that I know such guidelines exist. Thanks. :) -- Seth Ilys 15:00, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Things are in flux right now. We did have a very longstanding policy about adding links to the old Main Page at Selected Articles on the Main Page. We need revamp that page for the new layout though. --mav

Events in history
I really don't like that idea. I was in fact thinking about having many items for every day and just establish the policy that only 4 can be displayed at any one time on the Main Page. They can be commented out and rotated (just like the images). But dividing this between many different pages is not something that I favor at all (if anything we would divide it up based on month - but only for space considerations).
 * Totally agree with everything you are saying. The reason I put those there, I guess I didn't mean archiving--I was just thinking that people should always be working on EiH, for March, for October, for January--but the main page is going to get ginormous, in no time flat, if everybody is adding an unlimited number of items to the "prototype" for the day--I just wanted to have a place where people could work without getting in endless "Edit Conflict" situations. Am I making sense? jengod 14:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah - I was thinking along those lines as well. One subpage for each month. Events in history/January for example. --mav

News on the main page
Thanks for pointing out the note to me. I had in fact added the item to the current events log before updating MediaWiki. However, I disagree with the policy. It's not necessarily appropriate for an encyclopedia to add every news item involving a subject to the article about that subject. Furthermore, the policy is not always being followed. For example, Earthquake is currently bolded, but the article does not have anything about the Moroccan earthquake, nor should it. --Michael Snow 17:08, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * We are only supposed to link to items we update - if the news item is not significant enough to merit updating the article then, that article should not be featured on the Main Page. Wikipedia is not a news report. I will remove the earthquake entry - thanks for pointing it out. --mav

 * Yes, Wikipedia is not a news report. That's exactly my point. We want to provide in-depth information about subjects that happen to be in the news, not just regurgitate news events in all of our articles. We should link to appropriate articles that people will be interested in, whether or not the article needs to be updated. Adding list of earthquakes and bolding it is worse than bolding an un-updated earthquake (I see Jengod beat me to removing it). Also, for aesthetic reasons George W. Bush should be in bold because his picture is there, whether or not it's appropriate to update his article. --Michael Snow 17:33, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * One of the main purposes of the 'in the news' section is to drive people to update the articles. If we list items without updating them then that removes the incentive. Jendgod sublinked the list. --mav

 * Well, there's some tension between the purpose of providing information for readers, and that of motivating contributions. I think readers are more likely to want to read about earthquakes than just see a list of them. Maybe some news items shouldn't have anything bolded. --Michael Snow 17:58, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * That is what current events is for. --mav

Question for you on Talk:Main Page -- Tim Starling 01:00, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Problems with Template:wikipediasister, do you see them too?
Moved Talk to MediaWiki talk:wikipediasister. --Lexor|Talk 08:13, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note
I like the solution we've reached with selected anniversaries well enough, I think, so I won't advocate otherwise. :-) Thanks for letting me know about the discussion, though! Jwrosenzweig 17:39, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the idea! - mav

 * No problem; good luck with all the work that you've just started on ;-)
 * James F. (talk) 07:30, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Luftwaffe
Hi Mav, you're probably the wrong person for this in which case I apologize, but you're the name in the page history I recognized first!

In the new front page (which by the way is VERY fine) there's a bit in the "day in history" which reads horrendously - something about Hitler ordering the recreation of the Luftwaffe. I don't know if this works in US English but in the UK it sounds like he wanted them to have days off, swimming pools, golf courses, maybe some nice walks in the park etc. (I mean maybe he did but, you know ...) To make it read even half-well it needs to split the sense away from "leisure" by making it re-creation, but that is clunky and ugly so surely "rebuilding" or similar would be much, much better?

Sorry to trouble you with this - I know you're busy! 138.37.188.109 09:20, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks. LOL :) I'll fix it. --mav

 * Thanks, that's great. 138.37.188.109 12:36, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Putting up a picture of the current German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder and calling him Herman Goering, next to an article about Hitler. Guaranteed to cause offence!.

 * Opps! The image is so small that the current Chancellor looked like Goering. Sorry 'bout that. --mav

Browse by topic - Main page
I noticed that when you edited the Main page here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&oldid=2523076 you reverted to an earlier version of the list of topics. Was that intentional? mydogategodshat 04:47, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * No it wasn't. --mav

An obsevation
You said that, as a member of the arbitration committee, you wanted to see diffs to document claims. It looks like you are going to get your wish. →Raul654 05:56, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries
Based on a re-reading of guidelines for Selected Anniversaries, it appears that I need to bold some of the links, and also cut out topics which have already appeared in the queue this year. True? Also, I figured that images of the selected anniversary topics are secondary to the selection, and that images can be added later, with March topics needing the images sooner. Or else is it that all of the above needs to be done before adding the Selected Anniversary item? 169.207.89.21 11:40, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes on the first part, no on the second. I will be making sure entries are OK before the particular day arrives, so there is no need to worry much about things being perfect. Thanks again for you help! --mav

Alex
Hi mav, I'm back from my vacation, keeping a low profile. Just wanted to tell you that I am sorry I got a little crazy and left Wikipedia because of your comments; I shouldn't have reacted so much, I was just stressed out by life in general. I needed a break anyway and I'm just going to do a few things here and there, still very busy with work so I don't have much time to volunteer anyway. Just wanted to let you know that there are no hard feelings. I hope we can both continue to help Wikipedia in the future. Alex

 * Yay! You made my day Alex. I was rather down thinking that I harmed Wikimedia by driving you away. I hope your workload is lessoned a bit soon so that you can edit more. But I'm very glad that there are no hard feelings between us now. :) --mav

holy sheesh :)
Mav, I have to say, of all the new changes to the new Main page system...your work on anniversaries is truly a work of genius. Quite stellar!!!!!!! Kingturtle 05:13, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks! :) --mav

MediaWiki
Hi Mav! Always busy with dates, i see. I have a question about the MediaWiki pages for anniversaries. Do they substitute the normal day pages? Shall i add dates to it, when i find something to go? Or can you direct me to a explanation page? Anyway, i add my name to the compliment above and comend you for your hard work. Sorry but i was away for sometime, cheers, Muriel 11:17, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks! :) The selected anniversaries pages are a 'best of', not a substitute of the normal day pages. See Selected anniversaries. --mav

 * Ok, i'll add my dates, mostly BC, if they follow the criteria. thanks, Muriel

Formatting
I was intrigued by the slightly strange formatting on some Mediawiki pages (particularly September 4): the left margin break. I take it this is some trick to make it look good on the Main Page? It looks extremely strange on the Mediawiki page itself, I wonder if you need to include a comment stopping anyone from removing it? ... On second thoughts, having taken a look at today (March 1) I wonder if this might be a mistake on September 4? Yours in confusion --Phil 08:54, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * It should be fixed now. Thanks for seeing that. --mav

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Arrow Cross

A cross whose arms end in arrowheads is called a "cross barby" or "cross barbée" in the traditional terminology of heraldry. In Christian use, the ends of this cross resemble the barbs of fish hooks, or fish spears.

In modern use, the symbol has become associated with extremist organisations after the Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) symbol was used in Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s as the symbol of a far-right Hungarist fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, and of this party's thuggish paramilitary organization. The symbol consists of two green double-ended arrows in a cross configuration on a white circular background. The arrow cross symbol remains outlawed in Hungary.

A similar symbol, the Crosstar, is used by the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group based in the United States.

A similar symbol to arrow cross, modified version of Portuguese cross, is used by the former Brazilian monarchist movement Brazilian Patrianovist Imperial Action from 1932 to 1937.

Arrow cross previously used by the Falange Venezolana (Venezuelan Phalanx), a far-right group based in Venezuela.

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Conventicle Act

Conventicle Act may refer to:

 * English Acts of Parliament:
 * Conventicle Act 1664
 * Conventicles Act 1670
 * Conventicle Act (Sweden), in effect 1726–1858 in Sweden and until 1870 in Finland
 * Conventicle Act (Denmark–Norway); in effect 1741–1848 in Denmark and until 1842 in Norway

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Act of Settlement (disambiguation)

Act of Settlement most commonly refers to the Act of Settlement 1701, an Act of the Parliament of England.

Act of Settlement or Settlement Act may also refer to:
 * Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, in response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641
 * Act of Settlement 1657, ratifying previous decrees from  the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652
 * Act of Settlement 1662, a partial reversal of the Act of Settlement of 1652
 * Poor Relief Act 1662 ("the Settlement Act"), clarifying which parishes were responsible for Poor Relief
 * Act of Settlement 1704, clarifying the status of the population of the Isle of Man

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Talk:Act of Settlement (disambiguation)

Did you mean Talk:Act of Settlement 1701?

(or one of the other Acts).

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Act of Uniformity

Over the course of English parliamentary history there were a number of Acts of Uniformity. All had the basic object of establishing some sort of religious orthodoxy within the Church of England.

 * The Act of Uniformity 1548 (2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 1), also called Act of Equality, which established the Book of Common Prayer as the only legal form of worship
 * The Act of Uniformity 1552 (5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 1) required the use of the Book of Common Prayer of 1552
 * The Act of Uniformity 1558 (1 Eliz. 1. c. 2), adopted on the accession of Elizabeth I
 * The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 4), enacted after the restoration of the monarchy
 * The Act of Uniformity (Explanation) Act 1663 (15 Cha. 2. c. 6)
 * The Act of Uniformity Amendment Act 1872, modified the preceding acts

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Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay   is a 102 km2 oceanic bay and village in the Jervis Bay Territory and on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. In the Dhurga language of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area, it is called Booderee, which translates as "bay of plenty".

A 70 km2 area of land around the southern headland of the bay is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, known as the Jervis Bay Territory, which is administered by, but is not a part of, the Australian Capital Territory. The Territory includes the settlements of Jervis Bay Village and Wreck Bay Village. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base, HMAS Creswell, is in the Jervis Bay Territory between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch Point.

History
Archaeological finds at Burrill Lake, 55 kilometres south of Jervis Bay, provide evidence of Aboriginal occupation dating back 20,000 years.

Jervis Bay was sighted by Lieutenant James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour on 25 April 1770, two days after Saint George's Day, and he named the southern headland Cape St George.

In August 1791, Lieutenant Richard Bowen, aboard the convict transport ship Atlantic, part of the Third Fleet, sailed into the bay and named it in honour of Admiral John Jervis, under whom he had served. In November 1791 Master Matthew Weatherhead entered the bay aboard Matilda, which had also been part of the Third Fleet, in order to undertake repairs to the ship.

In mid 1797, survivors of the wreck of Sydney Cove passed through the area on foot, while undertaking an arduous trek of 600 kilometres in an attempt to get to Port Jackson (Sydney) – only three of them completed the journey.

Explorer George Bass entered the bay on 10 December 1797 and named Bowen Island.

Alexander Berry's takeover of land in the Shoalhaven displaced the Aboriginal inhabitants, who were moved to Wreck Bay in 1822. Smallpox and syphilis significantly reduced their population. A separate population of Aborigines, whom settlers called "the Jervis Bay tribe" — the Wandandian people — remained on their traditional lands on the bank of Currambene Creek, near Huskisson, and around St Georges Basin, until well into the 20th century.

In 1841, the private township of South Huskisson on Jervis Bay was founded as a seaport and terminus of The Wool Road. It was renamed Vincentia in 1952.

The bay was a base for whaling in 1912 and 1913. The vessels involved were the factory ship Loch Tay and her two catchers Campbell and Sorrell.

!n 1915, the land now comprising the Jervis Bay Territory was surrendered to the Commonwealth Government by the state of New South Wales. It was proposed that it would become a seaport for the new federal capital under construction at Canberra, which would be Australia's only inland capital.

In the late 1960s, Australia's first nuclear power plant was proposed for the area, and a site was prepared, but the project did not proceed.

In 1995, Jervis Bay National Park and Botanic Gardens were handed back to the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community. In 1997, the community, who jointly manage the park with the Commonwealth Government, decided to rename it Booderee National Park and Botanic Gardens.

Geology

Jervis Bay is a drowned river valley and formed 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The bay took on its present appearance around 4000 BC after the sea levels had risen 120 m, and as sand dune barriers created the southern peninsula. Much of the rock in Jervis Bay is part of the Sydney Basin sandstone formation, which is 280-225 million years old, although lower areas are overlain with Tertiary-era sediments.

Several features at Jervis Bay have been used as evidence that the Australian coast experienced many giant tsunamis prior to European colonisation.

Description
In the Jervis Bay Territory on the southern side of the bay are the settlements of Greenpatch, Hyams Beach, and Bowen Island. From north to south on the New South Wales shore of the bay are Callala Beach, Callala Bay, Huskisson and Vincentia. Beecroft Peninsula, on the northern side of the bay, has been used as a bombing range by the RAN. Point Perpendicular forms the southern end of the peninsula. Jervis Bay is approximately a three-hour drive south of Sydney. A door-to-door shuttle service is available between Sydney Airport and the South Coast every day.

Environment and protected areas
Significant areas of the Jervis Bay natural environment have been established as protected areas, including Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay National Park (NSW) and the Jervis Bay Marine Park.

Some 158 km2 of the land on both sides of the bay have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because the coastal heathland supports the largest sub-population of the endangered eastern bristlebird, isolated from other sub-populations.

Jervis Bay has been recorded as having the whitest sand in the world.

Recreation

Jervis Bay is known for recreational fishing, kayaking, paddleboarding, sailing and scuba diving, with tour operators departing from Huskisson and amateurs using boat ramps at bayside towns and camp sites. Popular diving sites include The Labyrinths, Gorgonian Wall, Point Perpendicular, a submerged Fairey Firefly aeroplane, scallop beds, Middle Ground, Ten Fathom Reef, and Bowen Island.

Jervis Bay is also known for whale watching, because whale migration, both north and south, can be observed as the animals pass the entrance to the bay, frequently entering the sheltered waters to rest. The majority of whales sighted at Jervis Bay are humpbacks, which migrate along Australia's east coast from June to November. Southern right whales are also showing a slow but steady increase in recent years as they re-colonise former habitats, having been extensively hunted in the 19th and 20th centuries. Other species sighted have been false killer whales, orcas, minke whales and, on one occasion, a blue whale.

Tourism
Tourism in Jervis Bay is one of the most important avenues of income for many of the local residents, with many businesses orienting themselves towards it. The Jervis Bay Visitors Information Centre is at Huskisson, and is part of the Lady Denman Maritime Museum and Gallery. Local council-managed visitor information centres are at Nowra and Ulladulla.

Aquaculture
The first commercial aquaculture licence for an area in the bay was granted in 2015, for an enterprise which started growing blue mussels. They also found abundant Angasi oysters and scallops growing on the lines which they dropped at first, but the industry focus is on the blue mussels, which have a high ratio of meat to shell. The first full-scale commercial harvest of blue mussels was scheduled for November 2020. The potential of growing seaweeds for commercial use is also being explored, and Shoalhaven City Council is investing A$2.3 million to develop a wharf, boat maintenance facility and other infrastructure needed to service the industry. It is hoped that the industry will create up to 1,000 jobs.

Climate
Jervis Bay experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), with average maximum temperatures varying from 16 °C in winter to 25 °C in summer tempered by sea breezes. Since 2001, the highest recorded temperature is 42.1 °C on 1 January 2006, and the lowest 4.7 °C on 13 August 2005. Hot summer evenings are often relieved by a front of rapidly moving cool air known as a southerly buster.

Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the seasons, with a bias to the first half of the year, due to prevailing easterlies. Short high intensity rainfall events may happen at any time of the year and can lead to local flooding. Jervis Bay also experiences thunderstorms during the warmer months bringing lightning, heavy rain and occasionally hail. With an annual rainfall around 1,200 mm, it is wetter than other areas in the South Coast due to its exposed eastward location on a peninsula facing the Tasman Sea, thus making it more susceptible to moist easterly flows. Yearly rainfall is influenced by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

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35-hour workweek

The 35-hour workweek is a labour reform policy adopted in France in February 2000, under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. Promoted by Minister of Labour Martine Aubry, it was adopted in two phases: the Aubry 1 law in June 1998 and the Aubry 2 law in January 2000. The previous legal working week was 39 hours, established by President François Mitterrand, also a member of the Socialist Party. The 35-hour working week had been on the Socialist Party's 1981 electoral program, titled 110 Propositions for France, but was not pursued because of the poor state of the economy.

Time worked after the standard legal limit of 35 hours is considered overtime. The reform's aim is primarily to lower the unemployment rate, then at a record high of 12.5%, by encouraging the creation of jobs with work sharing.

Objectives
The main stated objectives of the law were to create new jobs, by making it more cost effective to hire an additional worker than to pay current staff overtime, and the pursuit of decommodification of France's citizens, by lowering the amount of time dedicated to work without lowering their standard of living. Additionally, the Jospin government was able to advantage of the changes introduced with the 35-hour workweek to relax other workforce legislation.

Implementation
The Aubry 1 law was passed in 1998. It served as an encouragement for businesses to transition voluntarily to a 35-hour workweek. It did so by offering a reduced payroll tax for all businesses that lowered their current employees' working hours and hired additional workers before January 2000.

The Aubry 2 law was adopted in January 2000. It legally lowered the standard hours worked per week from 39 to 35 for companies with more than 20 employees. Small businesses had until January 2002 to prepare for the shift. Additional hours worked after 35 then had to be paid at the overtime premium of 25% for the first eight hours, and then at a 50% premium for any further hours.

Businesses were required to sign an agreement with unions to bargain over the hourly wage increase, to make up for the potential loss of income by the employees' decreasing work time. Unions wanted to ensure that the reduced weekly hours would not result in a reduced income. Their slogan was "35 hours pays 39".

To motivate companies to compromise with unions, the government offered social security rebates to all firms that signed contracts with unions agreeing to a 35-hour workweek and wage increases. The legislation explicitly stated that monthly income must stay at the same level, however this only applied to minimum wage workers. To help small companies make the transition, the government increased the annual limit on overtime hours for small companies and set their overtime premiums at a lower rate.

Amendments
The Raffarin government, some members of which were vocal critics of the law, gradually pushed for further relaxation of the legal working time requirements. On 22 December 2004, the French Parliament extended the maximum number of overtime hours per year from 180 to 220 under the Fallon laws. The reforms also reduced the payroll tax cuts given to companies that implemented the 35-hour workweek.

On 31 March 2005, another law extended the possibilities of overtime hours.

In August 2016, the El Khomri law reduced overtime payments.

Results
Professor Fabrice Gilles at the University of Lille studied the impact of the Aubry laws, by analyzing data on capital operating time (the average time that capital equipment is in use at firms) from the Bank of France and administrative files on work time regulation agreements from the French Ministry of Labour. He found that capital operating time has not decreased in shift-work firms, because they responded by increasing the intensity of night-shift work and adding some additional overtime. In fact, shift-work companies have expanded scheduled hours to preserve output and increase productivity. Non-shift-work companies have decreased their capital operating costs.

There has not been a significant rise in dual jobholding as a result of the reduction of full-time employment work hours.

Even though the standard hours worked in a week has been lowered to 35, some occupations demand more. The French bar association (CNB) says that 44% of lawyers in the country worked 55 hours or more a week in 2008. Part-time workers work an average 23.3 hours a week in France, compared to the European average of 20.1 hours.

After being implemented, the Aubry reforms were credited with lowering unemployment and expanding the economy, although they have been met with legislative proposals for additional reforms.

Criticism
Businesses have overhead costs such as training, rent and employment taxes that do not adjust with operating hours. The expenses and higher wages cause the cost benefit of hiring an extra worker to go down, and raise the incremental cost of each additional worker.

Generally speaking, left-wing parties and trade unions support the reduction, while right-wing parties and the MEDEF employer federation oppose it. Critics of the 35-hour working week have argued that it has failed to serve its purpose because an increase in recruitment has not occurred. In their view, the reluctance of firms to take on new workers has instead simply increased hourly production quotas. According to right-wing parties and economic commentators, the main reason that French firms avoid hiring new workers is that French employment regulations on labour flexibility make it difficult to lay off workers during poor economic periods.

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User:Perl/contact

I can be reached in the following ways:

 * If you want to /msg me, I am usually on the #wikipedia freenode channel with the username of millipede
 * Email me
 * If you want to mail me, my address is:

 * Alexander Douglas Plank
 * 2009 Bobwhite Court
 * Charlottesville, Virginia 22901
 * USA

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You're Under Arrest (manga)

You're Under Arrest (逮捕しちゃうぞ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazines Morning Party Zōkan and Morning from 1986 through 1992. It centers on a fictional police station in Sumida, Tokyo, as its officers tackle everyday criminals while keeping people safe. It mixes both drama and action with humor.

The chapters of You're Under Arrest have been collected in seven tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The manga has been adapted into three television seasons, three OVA series and a film, all animated by Studio Deen. The series also spawned a live-action drama special starring Misaki Ito and Sachie Hara. The show has received positive reviews from critics.

Story
The story revolves around Natsumi Tsujimoto and Miyuki Kobayakawa, two female officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the protagonists of the show, as they are stationed at the fictional Bokuto Police Station located at Sumida, Tokyo. The series is largely episodic, and it focuses on the interaction between the main characters and the humorous supporting cast.

The majority of the series takes place in the Greater Tokyo Area. However, the site where the Bokuto Police Station is supposed to be does not exist in the Sumida Ward. In reality, the Bokuto Hospital takes its place.

Manga
The English version of the manga was published by Dark Horse Comics, which only contained selected episodes from volumes 6 and 7 (reportedly at Fujishima's request, resulting in continuity confusion by some fans of the series ). The final frame of the last Japanese volume refers to a You're Under Arrest 2, which has not yet been serialized.

A special one-shot chapter, titled "Taiho Shichauzo GP", appeared in Monthly Afternoon on December 23, 2022.

Anime
The series was first adapted into a four-episode OVA series, directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, which was released in Japan from 1994 to 1995. An animated television series subsequently aired in Japan on TBS between 1996 and 1997, spanning a total of 47 episodes. It was also broadcast on Rai in Italy, NTV7 in Malaysia, Hero TV in the Philippines and TTV and AXN-Taiwan in Taiwan. 20 7-minute mini-specials and one full-length episode was created and broadcast on TBS in 1999. A 26-episode sequel to the series also aired on TBS in 2001. A third animated television series, You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle (逮捕しちゃうぞ フルスロットル), aired from 2007 to 2008. Animated by Studio Deen and produced by Bandai Visual, the series featured character designs by Atsuko Nakajima and music by Kow Otani and Yasunori Iwasaki. The first two television series were aired with English subtitles on AXN Asia's networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

AnimEigo licensed the initial OVA series, the first television series, and the only full-length television episode of You're Under Arrest that aired in 1999 for North American release. ADV Films subsequently released the 1999 mini-TV episodes that comprised the rest of ''You're Under Arrest! Mini-Specials'' as well as the movie. The 2001 TV series, the 2002 OVA TV special and Full Throttle are licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks and distributed by the new company Section23 Films.

In South Korea, Tooniverse licensed the OVA series until 2nd season.

TBS is in charge of promoting the 2nd season, movie and Full Throttle! outside of Japan.

Movie
The movie ran for 90 minutes in the US and 92 minutes in France.

Video game
Released on March 29, 2001 by Pioneer LDC for the PlayStation, the game is a text adventure game that introduces three new characters. One of them is a detective named Ryosuke Arisugawa, a 24-year-old plainclothed officer assigned to Bokuto Police Station in order to identify and arrest a hacker who was trying to break into the precinct's network system. Another character is his 18-year-old sister Chiharu Arisugawa, who the player must keep an eye on.

Players can assign various characters from the Bokuto Station to conduct patrols around the neighborhood.

Novel
A novel was published by Kodansha. It is a stand-alone story from the series, detailing a fight with Miyuki and Natsumi due to the latter being late for work again in Bokuto Station. Work on the novel had been supervised by Kōsuke Fujishima himself personally with Atsuko Nakajima doing the artwork in the novel.

TV drama
A TV drama was created and aired on TV Asahi in 2002. The opening theme song was called "Galaxy" by Nana Katase, and the closing theme was "Through the Rain" by Mariah Carey. It adapted the main characters while adding new characters over the course of the nine-episode series. The drama also advances the romantic relationships of the main characters. Each episode ran for 45 minutes each.

Model kits
Two models were created and titled Honda Today and Natsumi's motorcycle. Each are $1/60$ scale.

Reception
Shortly after You're Under Arrest 2 came out, You're Under Arrest was among the top 10 anime shows in Newtypes August 2001 issue.

Regarding the Full Throttle revival series, Theron Martin commented that "Little that the series does in these episodes is especially fresh or memorable, but if you were always a fan of the Bokuto Traffic Section's antics in the earlier series then that enjoyment is unlikely to fade here.". Similarly, Chris Beveridge said that "Though this season pales for a lot of people because some of the supporting cast are either minimized or gone entirely, I appreciated the return to dealing with the core cast of characters after all this time.".

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Taymyr Peninsula

The Taymyr Peninsula (Таймырский полуостров) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administratively it is part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia.

Geography
The Taymyr Peninsula lies between the Yenisei Gulf of the Kara Sea and the Khatanga Gulf of the Laptev Sea.

Lake Taymyr and the Byrranga Mountains are located within the vast Taymyr Peninsula.

Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost point of the Eurasian continent, is located at the northern end of the Taymyr Peninsula.

Population

The Nenets people, also known as Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia, and some live at the Taymyr Peninsula.

The Nganasan people are an indigenous Samoyedic people inhabiting central Siberia, including the Taymyr Peninsula. In the Russian Federation, they are recognized as being one of the Small-Numbered peoples of the Russian North. They reside primarily in the settlements of Ust-Avam, Volachanka, and Novaya in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, with smaller populations residing in the towns of Dudinka and Norilsk as well. The isolated location of the Nganasan people enabled them to maintain shamanistic practices even in the 20th century.

Economy
MMC Norilsk Nickel conducts mining operations in the area. The company conducts smelting operations in the area of the city of Norilsk, near the peninsula. The nickel ore concentrate and other products of the company are transported over a short railroad to the port city of Dudinka on the Yenisei River, and from there by boat to Murmansk and other ports.

Ecology
The peninsula is the site of the last known naturally occurring muskox outside of North America, which died out about 2,000 years ago. They were successfully reintroduced in 1975. The population grew to 2,500 in 2002 increasing to 6,500 in 2010.

Study in 2021 found that based on eDNA, woolly mammoths survived on the Taymyr Peninsula until 3,900 to 4,100 years ago, roughly concurrent with the Wrangel population. The Taymyr Peninsula, with its drier habitat, may have served as a refugium for the mammoth steppe, supporting mammoths and other widespread Ice Age mammals such as wild horses (Equus sp.).

Climate
The coasts of the Taymyr Peninsula are frozen most of the year, between September and June on average. The summer season is short, especially on the shores of the Laptev Sea in the northeast. The climate in the north and exterior of the peninsula is Tundra Climate (ET), while some areas further-south have a very cold but somewhat more continental subarctic climate, with winters even slightly colder than the tundra directly to the north, but with somewhat warmer summers that can support some tree growth. Winters are harsh, with frequent blizzards and extremely low temperatures. The following data for Cape Chelyuskin provides an indication of the weather experienced in the northern part of the peninsula.

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Atheist (band)

Atheist is an American death metal band from Florida, founded in 1987 by the vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kelly Shaefer, lead guitarist Rand Burkey, bassist Roger Patterson and drummer Steve Flynn. The band is known for its highly technical playing style, and its 1991 album Unquestionable Presence is regarded as a landmark of the technical death metal genre. The band managed to gain a reputation in the underground. After disbanding in 1994, the group reformed in 2006 and has since released one studio album and a live DVD.

History
The band was originally formed in 1984 in Sarasota, Florida, firstly under the name Oblivion and later as R.A.V.A.G.E. (which stands for "Raging Atheists Vowing A Gory End"). They released their first album, Piece of Time, in 1989. Shortly before entering the studio to record their second album, Roger Patterson died on February 12, 1991, in a car accident at the age of 22. Shortly afterwards, they recruited ex-Pestilence and Cynic bassist Tony Choy to record their second album, Unquestionable Presence. Atheist disbanded for the first time in 1992, then reunited in 1993 to record a third album, Elements, fulfilling their contractual requirements, before disbanding for a second time in early 1994.

Seven years after their second breakup, Shaefer decided to re-release and remaster their three albums with different bonus tracks.

Relapse Records reissued the band's three albums in late 2005, as well as a vinyl box set containing the three albums plus the R.A.V.A.G.E. demo "On They Slay". Flynn formed the band Gnostic in the same year. In January 2006, Atheist announced they were regrouping to perform live during the summer and autumn. The line-up was Shaefer, Burkey, Choy and Flynn. Shaefer only provided vocals due to long battles with tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. The Gnostic guitarist Sonny Carson played all of Shaefer's guitar parts, while Burkey was later replaced by Chris Baker of Gnostic.

On July 12, 2008, Shaefer issued a statement indicating that he and Flynn were working on new material. A month later, Shaefer announced that they had commenced the recording of a new studio album, which would be their first in over 15 years. The band toured Europe and the US in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Piece of Time. A live DVD filmed at the Wacken Open Air Festival appeared towards the end of the year.

On July 11, 2010, Atheist revealed that their fourth studio album would be called Jupiter and was set for a November release. They inked a deal with Season of Mist and Jupiter was released on November 8, 2010.

On August 3, 2010, Shaefer and Flynn announced on behalf of the band that Tony Choy would not be appearing on Jupiter but was still likely to appear in live performances with the band due to his own musical aspirations. The band announced in 2014 that it was working on a fifth studio album, which was planned to be released in 2015; however, the album would be left unreleased for over half a decade.

In February 2018, Atheist signed with Agonia Records, and the band plans to release their fifth studio album for the label.

Members
Current
 * Kelly Shaefer – lead vocals (1987–1994, 2006–present), guitars (1987–1994)
 * Dylan Marks - drums (2023-present)
 * Yoav Ruiz Feingold – bass (2019–present)
 * Jerry Witunsky – guitars (2023–present)
 * Alex Haddad – guitars (2023–present)

Former

Guitarists
 * Rand Burkey – (1987–1994)
 * Frank Emmi – (1993–1994)
 * Sonny Carson – (2006–2009)
 * Chris Baker – (2006–2012)
 * Jonathan Thompson – (2010–2012), bass (2010)
 * Jason Holloway – (2012–2018)
 * Chris Martin – (2012–2022)
 * Daniel Martinez – (2019–2022)

Bassists
 * Roger Patterson – (1987–1991; died 1991)
 * Tony Choy – (1991–1994, 2006–2009, 2012–2018)
 * Darren McFarland – live (1992)
 * Travis Morgan – (2011–2012)
 * Sean Martinez – live (2019)

Drummers
 * Steve Flynn – drums (1987–1992, 2006–2023)
 * Marcel DeSantos – live (1991–1992)
 * Mickey Hayes – live (1992)
 * Josh Greenbaum – (1993–1994)
 * Joey Muha – live (2019)
 * Anthony "Apollo XVII" Medaglia – live (2019–2022)

Timeline

Studio albums

 * Piece of Time (1989)
 * Unquestionable Presence (1991)
 * Elements (1993)
 * Jupiter (2010)

Live albums

 * Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken (2009)

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Sagami

Sagami may refer to:
 * Sagami, an 11th-century waka poet
 * Sagami Province, an old province in Japan
 * Sagami River, a river in Kanagawa and Yamanashi
 * Sagami Bay, a bay south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū
 * Sagami Line, a railway roughly along the east bank of the Sagami River
 * Sagami Railway, a railway company operating three lines in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
 * Sagami Railway Main Line, a railway line extending from Yokohama to Ebina
 * Sagami Railway Izumino Line, a railway line extending from Futamatagawa in Yokohama to Shōnandai in Fujisawa
 * Sagami-ji, a Buddhist temple in Hyōgo, Japan

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) was a state-run health sciences institution with six locations in New Jersey.

It was founded as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1954, and by the 1980s was both a major school of health sciences, and a major research university. On July 1, 2013, it was dissolved, with most of its schools merging with Rutgers University to form a new Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, while the School of Osteopathic Medicine, including its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, became part of Rowan University and was renamed the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.

History
The university had two primary predecessor finding organizations:

 * Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry (1956), including two constituent colleges (medicine, dentistry)
 * Rutgers Medical School (1966)

In 1965, the State of New Jersey took over Seton Hall's schools and merged them with the Rutgers school, forming the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (CMDNJ).

In 1981, it was renamed to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).

Seton Hall
The Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry was incorporated on August 6, 1954. The college enrolled its first class in 1956 at the Jersey City Medical Center. This was the forerunner of the New Jersey Medical School, the New Jersey Dental School, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In 1965, the college was acquired by the state of New Jersey and renamed the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD).

Rutgers Medical School
Rutgers Medical School opened in 1966 as a two-year basic science institution offering the master of medical science (M.M.S.) degree.

State takeover and merger
The College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (CMDNJ) was created by legislature in 1968 with the consolidation of the boards of trustees of Rutgers Medical School (now Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) and New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. It was the largest school of health sciences of its kind in the United States. It was also the leading research university in New Jersey, edging the other major research universities in the state (including Princeton University and Rutgers University) in federal research grant dollars. It did, however, have various academic partnerships with universities and other institutions in New Jersey.

Relocation to Newark
In 1966 plans were made to move the school from Jersey City to Newark. Residents of the neighborhood targeted as the new location were blindsided by the decision. Community organizations banded together to oppose the relocation of the school, citing displacement of 20,000 people and businesses. President Johnson's Model City Act dictated community involvement. In 1968 Robert Wood, undersecretary of Housing and Urban Development, representatives from President Johnson's administration, and Governor Hughes urged Newark's Mayor Hugh Addonizio to negotiate in good faith with the community organizations as mandated by the Model City Act.

On March 15, 1968, a substantial agreement was made. One of the demands included was a smaller site than the 150 acres initially approved. In compromise the site was reduced to 57.9 acres, with another 63 acres was to be designated for housing and other related facilities to be developed and built by community organizations. Other compromises were the development of Community Health programs and an upgrade to the current Newark Community Hospital. The community secured jobs by mandating that 1/3 of the day laborers to build the hospital and college, and 1/3 of the workforce to run it were black and Latino. They also mandated the admittance of minority students into its program and the inaugural class had 28 minority students. This agreement became known as the Newark Accords. A binding agreement between the Community Organizations and the city, it also became the framework for other cities to follow in their negotiations. The University Hospital is a direct result of those agreements.

Tuition raise
In July 2010, UMDNJ's board of trustees voted to raise tuition up to 21 percent for out-of-state students and up to 18% for in-state students. The changes occurred after medical students had already begun their clinical rotations, signed into housing agreements, and received their financial aid packages. Returning students received an additional bill after the academic year had already started. They had anticipated an increase of up to 4% based on historical data and their acceptance letters. However, Governor Chris Christie had passed a tuition cap of 4% for public universities on undergraduate tuition in 2010. In the students' eyes, the unprecedented increase in tuition was viewed as a way to make up a sudden financial deficit in UMDNJ's budget, though there was a lack of transparency by the UMDNJ Board of Trustees and President Denise Rodgers at the time.

Dissolution
On 1 July 2013, UMDNJ was dissolved under legislation passed by the New Jersey state legislature on 28 June 2012 and signed by Chris Christie in August. University Hospital became an independent organization. Rowan University took over the School of Osteopathic Medicine. The other component schools were taken over by the Rutgers University system.

The School of Pharmacy was not part of the transfer, as it had been part of Rutgers University since 1927.

Academics
UMDNJ was made up of 8 schools:

 * New Jersey Medical School – Newark
 * New Jersey Dental School – Newark
 * Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences – Newark, Piscataway, and Stratford
 * School of Health Related Professions – Newark
 * School of Nursing – Newark
 * School of Public Health – New Brunswick
 * Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – Piscataway
 * School of Osteopathic Medicine – Stratford

UMDNJ also operated The University Hospital in Newark and the Raritan Valley Hospital in Greenbrook, New Jersey, while Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack and Cooper University Hospital in Camden were affiliates of UMDNJ. UMDNJ also operated a palliative care facility for people living with AIDS.

UMDNJ had approximately 7,000 students in more than 100 degree and certificate programs; more than 13,000 employees, including nearly 2,500 faculty members; more than 31,000 alumni and more than 200 education and healthcare affiliates throughout New Jersey. The university was dedicated to pursuing excellence in the education of health professionals and scientists, conducting research, delivering healthcare, and serving the community. The National Science Foundation ranked UMDNJ #71 out of 630 universities and colleges in terms of R&D expenditures.

Notable alumni and faculty

 * Donald Arthur, Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy
 * Oxiris Barbot, Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
 * Stanley S. Bergen Jr., founding president of UMDNJ
 * Philip J. Cohen, author of several books on the former Yugoslavia
 * Anthony F. DePalma, orthopedic surgeon and professor, founded the university's orthopedic department and headed it for five years
 * Roger Granet, psychiatrist, psycho-oncologist, and author and editor of several books on mental disorders and diseases.
 * Harold Jeghers, NJMS Professor of Medicine and namesake of Peutz–Jeghers syndrome
 * Bing Xia, scientist and professor at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, known for his discovery of the PALB2 tumor suppressor gene
 * Marilyn Kozak, RWJMS Professor of Biochemistry, discoverer of the Kozak consensus sequence
 * Howard Krein, surgeon
 * Sandra Leiblum, RWJMS Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, first to describe Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
 * Paul J. Lioy, RWJMS Professor of Occupational and Community Medicine, author of DUST: The Inside Story of Its Role in the September 11th Aftermath (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.)
 * Sidney Pestka, RWJMS Professor of Microbiology, and Immunology, known as the "father of interferon" for his groundbreaking work developing antiviral treatments for hepatitis B and C
 * Robert A. Schwartz, NJMS Chairman of Dermatology, co-discoverer of the Schwartz-Burgess Syndrome
 * Arthur C. Upton, RWJMS Clinical Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, former director of the National Cancer Institute
 * Eric F. Wieschaus, Nobel Prize-winning biologist and RWJMS Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry
 * René Joyeuse was an Allied OSS intelligence agent/officer during World War II, CMDNJ Assistant Professor of Surgery, co-founder of the American Trauma Society, involved in training physicians and EMS personnel in trauma care.

Controversy and scandals
UMDNJ was involved in a series of Medicaid over-billings. The criminal complaint filed against the institution charged that health-care fraud occurred through alleged double-billing of Medicaid between May 2001 and November 2004 for physician services in outpatient clinics. A deferred prosecution agreement was filed in federal court in Newark, N.J., December 29, 2005 to avoid prosecution. Herbert Jay Stern, a former U.S. Attorney and federal judge in New Jersey, was appointed as a federal monitor to oversee and enforce compliance in accordance with the deferred prosecution agreement that outlines reform and action to help resolve illegal practices and restore financial integrity and professionalism to the institution. The monitor soon discovered dental students were being given credit for classes they did not attend. Local doctors were rewarded for no-show jobs at the school in exchange for sending patients to the cardiac-surgery center.

In March 2008, UMDNJ announced that its accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education had been restored, following the termination of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement; Stern had recommended the return of full responsibility for governance of the institution to UMDNJ's board of trustees after implementation of a number of systemic reforms by the Board and administration.

In Stratford, New Jersey, at the UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine, Warren Wallace, the prior Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, was terminated amid accusations of unethical behavior. Accusations include inappropriate use of UMDNJ time and resources for political activities, efforts to obtain no-bid contracts for a friend or neighbor, and inappropriate actions in relation to obtaining admission to the School of Osteopathic Medicine for his daughter.

UMDNJ had placed New Jersey Senator Wayne Bryant on a "no-show" job to increase funding for the school, Bryant being the chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Legislature's Joint Budget Oversight Committee. Bryant stepped down from this position in February 2007. The case was investigated by former United States Attorney (later New Jersey governor) Christopher Christie. Bryant was found guilty of the charges on November 19, 2008, and received a four-year sentence in federal prison. R. Michael Gallagher, former dean of the School of Osteopathic Medicine, was convicted of bribing Bryant and received an 18-month sentence.