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no prefecture 2, but 2 prefectures 5?

 * Good catch. The 5 higher up should be a 2. Dori | Talk 14:27, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

Shall we move to Prefectures? Prefecture/Districts that's the way it is done on German, Netherland, Swedish WP. Albanian uses (as said in de:WP) official qark/qarku, but often prefekturë/prefektura. I will do the move if there are no objections. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:04, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PD/PS?
On what sources is based the map that shows PD/PS differences on each prefecture? I doubt PD leads over so many prefectures, especially in the south. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.255.147.60 (talk) 18:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

First and second level
There are often several ways of describing things, and sometimes that causes misunderstandings. Regarding the levels of administration in a country, they can basically be described in two completely opposite ways, "top-down" or "bottom-up". In a top-down description, you start with the country, explain what is the top-level administrative division, then divide these again, possibly further down in more levels. In a bottom-up description, you start with some sort of atomic unit, then group them together in larger areas, possibly further up in more levels. Both these ways of description are valid, but you cannot use both of them at the same time.

As I understand it, with help from Google translate, §5 of the Albanian law on local administration starts by describing the municipalities (bashki) as the basic unit of local administration. (Both Google translate and different dictionaries indicate that "basic unit" is a closer translation than "first level" of njësi bazë in the original legal text.) Then it describes the counties (qark) as a second level unit. This makes it a bottom-up description, which is fine.

Wikipedia, however, is consistently using a top-down description when they use the terms "first-level", "second-level". This is described explicitly in the last paragraph of the lede section in the article Administrative division: For clarity and convenience the standard neutral reference for the largest administrative subdivision of a country is called the "first-level administrative division" or "first administrative level". Next smaller is called "second-level administrative division" or "second administrative level". The same thing is shown in a more concrete way in the List of administrative divisions by country.

You can, of course, insist on using the terms "first-level", "second-level" differently for Albania than for the rest of the countries in the world. The problem is that readers will be confused, and I am not sure that will do any good for the articles about Albania's administrative levels. --T*U (talk) 20:50, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the lengthy response. The issue here is that Albania's administrative divisions are organized different than most countries. Where a county which would be the equivalent of a state or region has more governing powers and decision making than local municipalities, in Albania it's the opposite. The Municipalities run everything on the local level. Counties are simply geographic regions. In fact, there has been talk in recent years of abolishing counties and creating 3-4 regional centers. This has yet to materialize but it's to show that counties have a rather meaningless status in local governance. They used to be more important prior to the territorial reform changes of 2014 but currently they are just geographic entities with no administrative powers. That is why I recommend to show them as 2nd level units of governance to reflect their actual status. It's about accuracy and facts afterall, even though it may confuse some readers. Kj1595 (talk) 05:40, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I still think you are on the wrong track. The situation you describe, with municipalities being the basic and most important local level, is definitely not special for Albania. Federal states aside, it is actually quite the normal situation. Unitary states may have zero, one, two or even three levels between the state level and the municipality level (see NUTS for examples). The possible abolition of some of these levels is or has been discussed in many countries, either in order to make larger units or in order to abolish levels completely. However, the "status" of the different levels has nothing to do with the way "first-level", "second-level" is consistently used in Wikipedia. If it is accuracy and facts you are looking for, it does not help much to use the terms in a way that gives a false impression.
 * I would suggest that we need to find another way to explain to the readers the relative importance of the administrative levels than using terms that mean something else in the rest of Wikipedia. Calling the municipality level "basic", "primary", "main level" or even "most important level" (if that can be sourced) could solve this; calling it "first-level" is imho counterproductive. Also, please explain how you would solve this in List of administrative divisions by country. --T*U (talk) 08:45, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * What is the definition of first-level? Kj1595 (talk) 09:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be as I quoted from the article Administrative division: the standard neutral reference for the largest administrative subdivision of a country is called the "first-level administrative division" or "first administrative level". --T*U (talk) 09:53, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it is better to stick strictly to the definition that the law makes despite the confusion it can create. In fact it is a common way even in wikipedia, for example the case of Greece that has the same (more or less) definition. The regions in Albania have practically little or no authority, they are often useless. They only matter during parliamentary elections (in local elections they have no function at all) and in cases of civil emergencies during natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes. Bes-ART Talk  11:01, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The Greece-related article you refer to, has room for a detailed explanation that helps avoid confusion. Nevertheless, the article Municipalities and communities of Greece speaks about the lowest level of government (while I would prefer "the basic level"), the article Administrative regions of Greece explicitly says first-level administrative entities complying with standard usage in Wikipedia. Furthermore, in the templates for first-level and second-level articles, Greece follows the standard pattern. Also, I am still interested in how you would solve Albania in List of administrative divisions by country if you insist on following the law definitions. And by the way, the law does not really say "first level", but "basic unit", which is not exactly the same. --T*U (talk) 11:34, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It is called "basic unit" because in Article 108 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania are considered as such. While other units are said to be "determined by law", in the sense of inferior laws. I can agree with the definitions you give but in the article it must be defined that the basic unit is the Municipality for the fact that this is recognized by the constitution, and two laws, the one on administrative division and the law on local self-government. If we construct the article to give the feeling that the Municipality is a subdivision of the County it can be misinterpreted as they may have dependence on them and then the confusion would be greater than in the case we were discussing. Bes-ART Talk  12:22, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

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This way we avoid completely the conflicting use of "first-level", "second-level". We would have to keep this article in the first-level template, though, in order to harmonise with other countries (like Greece) and with List of administrative divisions by country. --T*U (talk) 12:56, 4 November 2020 (UTC) (Link to Administrative divisions of Albania added to proposal. --T*U (talk) 14:11, 4 November 2020 (UTC))
 * Agree, even tho I think the article need improvement by adding more content. This article, the one of Municipalities of Albania and Administrative divisions of Albania need all improvements and more explaining content to make the reader better understand it. Bes-ART Talk  13:49, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds right to me. I would, however, concentrate the efforts on Administrative divisions of Albania, which would be the main article for people who want to know more about the structure itself. I think this article is more for people looking for more specific info about the counties. I have added a link to the Adm.div. article in my proposal. How about, are you happy with this proposal, too (including the need to develop the Adm.div. article? --T*U (talk) 14:11, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I'm fine with the proposed changes. Kj1595 (talk) 21:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Counties?
"Counties (Albanian: qarqe or qarqet), also sometimes known as prefectures (prefekturë)"

They are NEVER called "counties"! 79.106.203.67 (talk) 12:21, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It looks like you're right, I don't know where they got "county" from. Look at a Google Ngram comparison, for example between usage of "Tirana District" and usage (none) of "Tirana County" in books written in English. Largoplazo (talk) 12:46, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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Season finale

A season finale (British English: series finale; Australian English: season final) is the final episode of a season of a television program. This is often the final episode to be produced for a few months or longer, and, as such, will attempt to attract viewers to continue watching when the series begins again.

A season finale may contain a cliffhanger ending to be resolved in the next season. Alternatively, a season finale could bring storylines to a close, "going out on a high" and similarly maintaining interest in the series' eventual return.

Mid-season finale
In the 2000s, the terms "mid-season finale," "fall finale," or "winter finale" began being used by television broadcasters in the United States to denote the last episode before a mid-season hiatus, often for the holiday season. As with a season finale, a mid-season finale can include a major plot development, or a cliffhanger ending that will be resolved when the series returns. Winter/Fall finales are often used by networks to draw attention and encourage viewership of such episodes as event television, especially if they fall during the November sweeps period. The practice has faced criticism for affecting the structure and narrative of broadcast television programs, as writers may be coerced by broadcasters into placing cliffhangers and plot developments in midseason episodes, rather than allow a plot to build up to a traditional season finale.

Series finale
The final episode of a television series often concludes the entire premise of the show, wrapping up any loose ends and storylines. On occasion, the season finale has become the series finale due to cancellation of the series, sometimes unexpectedly so, leaving plot points unresolved.

In sports
In American English, the term has evolved to describe the final event of a sporting season, e.g. in soccer or motocross, perhaps partly because of the popularity of these with television viewers.

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Furosemide

Furosemide is a loop diuretic medication used to treat edema due to heart failure, liver scarring, or kidney disease. It has had many trade names including Discoid, Frusemide, Lasix and Uremide. Furosemide may also be used for the treatment of high blood pressure. It can be taken intravenously or orally. When given intravenously, furosemide typically takes effect within five minutes; when taken orally, it typically metabolizes within an hour.

Common side effects include orthostatic hypotension (decrease in blood pressure while standing, and associated lightheadedness), tinnitus (ringing in the ears), and photosensitivity (sensitivity to light). Potentially serious side effects include electrolyte abnormalities, low blood pressure, and hearing loss. It is recommended that serum electrolytes (especially potassium), serum CO2, creatinine, BUN levels, and liver and kidney functioning be monitored in patients taking furosemide. It is also recommended to be alert for the occurrence of any potential blood dyscrasias. Furosemide is a type of loop diuretic that works by decreasing the reabsorption of sodium by the kidneys. Common side effects of furosemide injection include hypokalemia (low potassium level), hypotension (low blood pressure), and dizziness.

Furosemide was patented in 1959 and approved for medical use in 1964. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. In the United States, it is available as a generic medication. In 2021, it was the 21st most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 26million prescriptions. In 2020/21 it was the twentieth most prescribed medication in England. It is on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned drug list due to concerns that it may mask other drugs. It has also been used in race horses for the treatment and prevention of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.

Medical uses
Furosemide is primarily used for the treatment of edema, but also in some cases of hypertension (where there is also kidney or heart impairment). It is often viewed as a first-line agent in most people with edema caused by congestive heart failure because of its anti-vasoconstrictor and diuretic effects. Compared with furosemide, however, torasemide (aka "torsemide") has been demonstrated to show improvements to heart failure symptoms, possibly lowering the rates of rehospitalisation associated with heart failure, with no difference in risk of death. Torsemide may also be safer than furosemide. Providing self-administered subcutaneous furosemide has been found to reduce hospital admissions in people with heart failure, resulting in significant savings in healthcare costs.

Furosemide is also used for liver cirrhosis, kidney impairment, nephrotic syndrome, in adjunct therapy for swelling of the brain or lungs where rapid diuresis is required (IV injection), and in the management of severe hypercalcemia in combination with adequate rehydration.

Kidney disease
In chronic kidney diseases with hypoalbuminemia, furosemide is used along with albumin to increase diuresis. It is also used along with albumin in nephrotic syndrome to reduce edema.

Other information
Furosemide is mainly excreted by tubular secretion in the kidney. In kidney impairment, clearance is reduced, increasing the risk of adverse effects. Lower initial doses are recommended in older patients (to minimize side-effects) and high doses may be needed in kidney failure. It can also cause kidney damage; this is mainly by loss of excessive fluid (i.e., dehydration), and is usually reversible.

Furosemide acts within 1 hour of oral administration (after IV injection, the peak effect is within 30 minutes). Diuresis is usually complete within 6–8 hours of oral administration, but there is significant variation between individuals.

Adverse effects
Furosemide also can lead to gout caused by hyperuricemia. Hyperglycemia is also a common side effect.

The tendency, as for all loop diuretics, to cause low serum potassium concentration (hypokalemia) has given rise to combination products, either with potassium or with the potassium-sparing diuretic amiloride (Co-amilofruse). Other electrolyte abnormalities that can result from furosemide use include hyponatremia, hypochloremia, hypomagnesemia, and hypocalcemia.

In the treatment of heart failure, many studies have shown that the long-term use of furosemide can cause varying degrees of thiamine deficiency, so thiamine supplementation is also suggested.

Furosemide is a known ototoxic agent generally causing transient hearing loss but can be permanent. Reported cases of furosemide induced hearing loss appeared to be associated with rapid intravenous administration, high dosages, concomitant renal disease and coadministration with other ototoxic medication. However, a recently reported longitudinal study showed that participants treated with loop diuretics over 10 years were 40% more likely to develop hearing loss and 33% more likely of progressive hearing loss compared to participants who did not use loop diuretics. This suggests the long-term consequences of loop diuretics on hearing could be a more significant than previously thought and further research is required in this area.

Other precautions include: nephrotoxicity, sulfonamide (sulfa) allergy, and increases free thyroid hormone effects with large doses.

Interactions
Furosemide has potential interactions with these medications:
 * Aspirin and other salicylates
 * Other diuretics (e.g. ethacrynic acid, hydrochlorothiazide)
 * Synergistic effects with other antihypertensives (e.g. doxazosin)
 * Sucralfate

Potentially hazardous interactions with other drugs:
 * Analgesics: increased risk of kidney damage (nephrotoxicity) with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; antagonism of diuretic effect with NSAIDs
 * Antiarrhythmics: a risk of cardiac toxicity exists with antiarrhythmics if hypokalemia occurs; the effects of lidocaine and mexiletine are antagonized.
 * Antibacterials: increased risk of ototoxicity with aminoglycosides, polymyxins and vancomycin; avoid concomitant use with lymecycline
 * Antidepressants: increased risk of hypokalemia with reboxetine; enhanced hypotensive effect with MAOIs; increased risk of postural hypotension with tricyclic antidepressants
 * Antiepileptics: increased risk of hyponatremia with carbamazepine
 * Antifungals: increased risk of hypokalemia with amphotericin
 * Antihypertensives: enhanced hypotensive effect; increased risk of first dose hypotensive effect with alpha-blockers; increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias with sotalol if hypokalemia occurs
 * Antipsychotics: increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias with amisulpride, sertindole, or pimozide (avoid with pimozide) if hypokalemia occurs; enhanced hypotensive effect with phenothiazines
 * Atomoxetine: hypokalemia increases risk of ventricular arrhythmias
 * Cardiac glycosides: increased toxicity if hypokalemia occurs
 * Cyclosporine: variable reports of increased nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity and hepatotoxicity
 * Lithium: risk of toxicity.

Mechanism of action
Furosemide, like other loop diuretics, acts by inhibiting the luminal Na-K-Cl cotransporter in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, by binding to the Na-K-2Cl transporter, thus causing more sodium, chloride, and potassium to be excreted in the urine.

The action on the distal tubules is independent of any inhibitory effect on carbonic anhydrase or aldosterone; it also abolishes the corticomedullary osmotic gradient and blocks negative, as well as positive, free water clearance. Because of the large NaCl absorptive capacity of the loop of Henle, diuresis is not limited by development of acidosis, as it is with the carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.

Additionally, furosemide is a noncompetitive subtype-specific blocker of GABA-A receptors. Furosemide has been reported to reversibly antagonize GABA-evoked currents of α6β2γ2 receptors at μM concentrations, but not α1β2γ2 receptors. During development, the α6β2γ2 receptor increases in expression in cerebellar granule neurons, corresponding to increased sensitivity to furosemide.

Pharmacokinetics

 * Molecular weight (daltons)            330.7
 * % Bioavailability   47 – 70%
 * Bioavailability with end-stage renal disease  43 – 46%
 * % Protein binding                     91 – 99
 * Volume of distribution (L/kg)         0.07 – 0.2
 * Volume of distribution may be higher in patients with cirrhosis or nephrotic syndrome
 * Excretion
 * % Excreted in urine (% of total dose) 60 – 90
 * % Excreted unchanged in urine (% of total dose) 53.1 – 58.8
 * % Excreted in feces (% of total dose) 7 – 9
 * % Excreted in bile (% of total dose) 6 – 9
 * Approximately 10% is metabolized by the liver in healthy individuals, but this percentage may be greater in individuals with severe kidney failure
 * Renal clearance (mL/min/kg) 2.0
 * Elimination half-life (hrs)  2
 * Prolonged in congestive heart failure (mean 3.4 hrs)
 * Prolonged in severe kidney failure (4 – 6 hrs) and anephric patients (1.5 – 9 hrs)
 * Time to peak concentration (hrs)
 * Intravenous administration   0.3
 * Oral solution   0.83
 * Oral tablet    1.45

The pharmacokinetics of furosemide are apparently not significantly altered by food.

No direct relationship has been found between furosemide concentration in the plasma and furosemide efficacy. Efficacy depends upon the concentration of furosemide in urine.

Names
Furosemide is the INN and BAN. The previous BAN was frusemide.

Brand names under which furosemide is marketed include: Aisemide, Apo-Furosemide, Beronald, Desdemin, Discoid, Diural, Diurapid, Dryptal, Durafurid, Edemid, Errolon, Eutensin, Farsiretic, Flusapex, Frudix, Frusemide, Frusetic, Frusid, Fulsix, Fuluvamide, Furantril, Furesis, Furix, Furo-Puren, Furon, Furosedon, Fusid.frusone, Hydro-rapid, Impugan, Katlex, Lasilix, Lasix, Lodix, Lowpston, Macasirool, Mirfat, Nicorol, Odemase, Oedemex, Profemin, Rosemide, Rusyde, Salix, Seguril, Teva-Furosemide, Trofurit, Uremide, and Urex.

Veterinary uses
The diuretic effects are put to use most commonly in horses to prevent bleeding during a race. In the United States of America, pursuant to the racing rules of most states, horses that bleed from the nostrils (exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage) three times are permanently barred from racing. Sometime in the early 1970s, furosemide's ability to prevent, or at least greatly reduce, the incidence of bleeding by horses during races was discovered accidentally. Clinical trials followed, and by decade's end, racing commissions in some states in the USA began legalizing its use on race horses. In 1995, New York became the last state in the United States to approve such use, after years of refusing to consider doing so. Some states allow its use for all racehorses; some allow it only for confirmed "bleeders". Its use for this purpose is still prohibited in many other countries.

Furosemide is also used in horses for pulmonary edema, congestive heart failure (in combination with other drugs), and allergic reactions. Although it increases circulation to the kidneys, it does not help kidney function, and is not recommended for kidney disease.

It is also used to treat congestive heart failure (pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, and/or ascites) in cats and dogs. It can also be used in an attempt to promote urine production in anuric or oliguric acute kidney failure.

Horses
Furosemide is injected either intramuscularly or intravenously, usually 0.5-1.0 mg/kg twice/day, although less before a horse is raced. As with many diuretics, it can cause dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, including loss of potassium, calcium, sodium, and magnesium. Excessive use of furosemide will most likely lead to a metabolic alkalosis due to hypochloremia and hypokalemia. The drug should, therefore, not be used in horses that are dehydrated or experiencing kidney failure. It should be used with caution in horses with liver problems or electrolyte abnormalities. Overdose may lead to dehydration, change in drinking patterns and urination, seizures, gastrointestinal problems, kidney damage, lethargy, collapse, and coma.

Furosemide should be used with caution when combined with corticosteroids (as this increases the risk of electrolyte imbalance), aminoglycoside antibiotics (increases risk of kidney or ear damage), and trimethoprim sulfa (causes decreased platelet count). It may also cause interactions with anesthetics, so its use should be related to the veterinarian if the animal is going into surgery, and it decreases the kidneys' ability to excrete aspirin, so dosages will need to be adjusted if combined with that drug.

Furosemide may increase the risk of digoxin toxicity due to hypokalemia.

The drug is best not used during pregnancy or in a lactating mare, as it has been shown to be passed through the placenta and milk in studies with other species. It should not be used in horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (Cushings).

Furosemide is detectable in urine 36–72 hours following injection. Its use is restricted by most equestrian organizations.

In April 2019, it was announced that Lasix would be banned from use at US racetracks within 24 hours of a horse racing starting in 2021.

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Borscht Belt

The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, straddling both Upstate New York and the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.

"In its heyday, as many as 500 resorts catered to guests of various incomes." These resorts, as well as the Borscht Belt bungalow colonies, were a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews from the 1920s through the 1960s. By the late 1950s, many began closing, with most gone by the 1970s, but some major resorts continued to operate, a few into the 1990s.

Name
The name comes from borscht, a soup of Ukrainian origin (made with beetroot as the main ingredient, giving it a deep reddish-purple color) that is popular in many Central and Eastern European countries and brought by Ashkenazi Jewish and Slavic immigrants to the United States. The alliterative name was coined by Abel Green, then editor of Variety, and is a play on existing colloquial names for other American regions (such as the Bible Belt and Rust Belt). An alternate name, the Yiddish Alps, was used by Larry King and is satirical: a classic example of borscht belt humor.

History
After the expansion of the railway system including the tracks Ontario and Western as well as the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, the area of the Catskill Mountains became a touristical destination because of the beauty of the landscape, which impressed the painters of American Romanticism, and because of the rising popularity of fly fishing in its trout-rich rivers. As New York City streets would bake in the summer and air-conditioning was not yet available, people flocked to the Catskills.

In the early 1900s, some hotels' and resorts' advertisements refused to accept Jews and indicated "No Hebrews or Consumptives" in their ads. This discrimination led to a need for alternative lodging that would readily accept Jewish families as guests. Visits to the area by Jewish families were already underway "as early as the 1890s ... Tannersville ... was 'a great resort of our Israelite breathren [sic]' ... from the 1920s on [there were] hundreds of hotels." The larger hotels provided "Friday night and holiday services as well as kosher cooking", thus supporting religious families to take a vacation in accordance to their customs.

Rise
Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, summer camps, and kuchaleyns (kuch-alein, literally: "Cook it yourself" ) (a Yiddish name for self-catered boarding houses) flourished. The bungalows usually included "a kitchen/living room/dinette, one bedroom, and a screened porch" with entertainment at the casino, the communal center, being simple: bingo or a movie. The kuchaleyns were often visited by lower middle-class and working-class Jewish New Yorkers. Because of the many Jewish guests, this area was nicknamed the Yiddish Alps or Solomon County (a malapropism of Sullivan County) by many people who visited there.

A sufficient choice of Jewish cuisine was an important feature of the hotels in the Borscht Belt, and "too much was not enough" developed as a notion. Jonathan Sarna wrote: "To understand the emphasis on food, one has to understand hunger. Immigrants had memories of hunger, and in the Catskills, the food seemed limitless." The singles scene was also important; many hotels hired young male college students to attract single girls of a similar age. One book on the era contended that "the Catskills became one great marriage broker."

Borscht Belt resorts stood in towns such as Liberty, Fallsburg, Mamakating, Thompson, Bethel and Rockland in Sullivan County as well as Wawarsing and Rochester in Ulster County. Such resorts included Avon Lodge, Brickman's, Brown's, Butler Lodge, The Concord, Grossinger's, Granit, the Heiden Hotel, Irvington, Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, the Nevele, Friar Tuck Inn, the Laurels Hotel and Country Club, the Pines Resort, Raleigh Hotel, the Overlook, the Tamarack Lodge, Shady Nook Hotel and Country Club, Stevensville, Stier's Hotel, and the Windsor. Some of these hotels originated from farms that Jewish immigrants established in the early part of the 20th century.

Two of the larger hotels in High View (just north of Bloomingburg) were Shawanga Lodge and the Overlook. One of the high points of Shawanga Lodge's existence came in 1959 when it was the site of a conference of scientists researching laser beams. The conference marked the start of serious research into lasers. The hotel burned to the ground in 1973. The Overlook, which offered rooms in the main building as well as bungalows, spiced up with entertainment, was operated by the Schrier family.

Decline
The Borscht Belt reached its peak in the 1950s and 60s with over 500 resorts, 50,000 bungalows, and 1,000 rooming houses but the start of a decline was apparent by the late 1960s. "Railways began cutting service to the area, the popularity of air travel increased, and a younger generation of Jewish-Americans chose other leisure destinations." Another source mentions a secondary factor: "anti-Semitism declined, so Jews could go other places."

Access to the area improved with the opening of the George Washington Bridge and upgrade of old travel routes such as old New York State Route 17. On the other hand, passenger train access ended with the September 10, 1953 termination of passenger trains on the Ontario and Western Railway mainline from Roscoe at the northern edge of Sullivan County, through the Borscht Belt, to Weehawken, New Jersey. A 1940 vacation travel guide published by the railroad listed hundreds of establishments that were situated at or near the railway's stations. The following year, the New York Central ceased running passenger trains on its Catskill Mountain Branch. The area suffered as a travel destination in the late 1950s and especially by the 1960s. Another source also confirms that "cheap air travel suddenly allowed a new generation to visit more exotic and warmer destinations." More women remained in the workforce after marriage and could not take off for the entire summer to relocate to the Catskills.

A Times of Israel article specifies that "the bungalow colonies were the first to go under, followed by the smaller hotels. The glitziest ones hung on the longest" with some continuing to operate in the 1980s and even in the 1990s. Bungalow colonies fell into disrepair or many of the nicer ones have been converted into a housing co-op. The Concord Resort Hotel, which outlasted most other resorts, went bankrupt in 1997 but survived until 1998 and was subsequently demolished for a possible casino site. By the early 1960s, some 25 to 30 percent of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel visitors were not Jewish, nevertheless it closed in 1986.

The Stevensville Hotel in Swan Lake was located on the shores of an artificial reservoir of the West Branch Mongaup River which fed a tannery since the 1840s. It was commissioned in 1924 and managed by the Dinnerstein and Friehling families until around 1990. It reopened as Swan Lake Resort Hotel in 1999 offering Asian cuisine plus Tennis & Golf facilities but only survived until 2007. In 2015 the ultra-Orthodox Congregation Iched Anash bought the property for $2.2 million and began to operate the Satmar Boys Camp, a religious summer school (yeshiva gedolah).

In 1987, New York City mayor Ed Koch proposed buying the Gibber Hotel in Kiamesha Lake to house the homeless. The idea was opposed by local officials and the hotel instead became the religious school Yeshiva Viznitz.

The Granit Hotel and Country Club, located in Kerhonkson, boasted many amenities, including a golf course. It closed in 2015 and was renovated and turned into the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, which closed in 2018. The property was sold in May 2019 to Hudson Valley Holding Co. LLC. The company did not announce its plans for the hotel.

21st century
As of the 2010s, the region is a summer home for many Orthodox Jewish families. Some of the hotels have been converted into rehab centers, meditation centers or Orthodox Jewish hotels and resorts. The former Homowack Lodge in Phillipsport was converted into a summer camp for Hasidic girls. Officials of the state Department of Health ordered the property evacuated in July 2009, citing health and safety violations. The Orthodox Jews who flock to the region each summer provide commerce that the area would not have otherwise. The Flagler Hotel, Nemerson, Schenk's and Windsor Hotels in South Fallsburg, and the Stevensville Hotel in Swan Lake, were converted into Jewish religious summer camps.

In 1984, the Catskills division of Hatzalah was founded which covers the Borscht Belt and served the needs of a growing Orthodox clientele; as of 2020 a volunteer force of 450 rescue workers and paramedics is operating a fleet of 18 ambulances. Although financially independent from the other chapters, it cooperates in day-to-day business with Central Hatzalah of NYC as the 17. neighborhood and also with State Forces (police, forest rangers, emergency medical services, fire departments).

Many Buddhist and Hindu retreat centers have been constructed on the land or in the restored buildings of former camps or resorts to serve adherents in New York City, the establishment of which has then drawn even more temples and centers to the area. This led to the coining of the nicknames "Buddha Belt," "Bhajan Belt" and "Buddhist Belt" to refer to the area's revival.

Despite the region's decline as a cultural epicenter, a handful of traveling acts, such as the Doox of Yale, continue to regularly tour the Borscht Belt.

Between 2013 and 2018, the decaying state of the abandoned resorts was captured by several ruins photographers:
 * Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel; the Grossinger's complex partially was demolished in 2018 and a new owner planned to build a hotel, homes and other amenities. A remaining structure on the property was destroyed by fire in August 2022.
 * Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club; a wellness club was built on the site and opened in June 2018. The original Kutcher's nightclub is all that remains of the original hotel. The Kutcher's Hotel front electric sign was donated to the Sullivan County Historical Museum.
 * The Pines Hotel closed in 1998. The dilapidated main building and surrounding structures remained in a state of decay until it was destroyed in a fire in June 2023. The Pines Hotel golf course has been converted into a Jewish religious summer camp.
 * The former Gilbert's Hotel and Brickman Hotel are not part of the Siddha Yoga SYDA complex. A gift shop remains open at the sites, which are not in current active use.
 * Nevele Grand Hotel
 * The Vegetarian Hotel
 * White Lake Mansion House
 * Homowack Lodge
 * Lesser Lodge
 * Tamarack Lodge
 * Concord Resort Hotel (In February 2018, Resorts World Catskills opened on the site of the old hotel.)

Comedic legacy
The tradition of Borscht Belt entertainment started in the early 20th century with the Paradise Garden Theatre constructed in Hunter, New York by Yiddish theater star Boris Thomashefsky. A cradle of American Jewish comedy since the 1920s, the Borscht Belt entertainment circuit has helped launch the careers of many famous comedians and acted as a launchpad for those just starting out.

Comedians who got their start or regularly performed in Borscht Belt resorts include:

 * Joey Adams
 * Woody Allen
 * Morey Amsterdam
 * Sandy Baron
 * Benny Bell
 * Milton Berle
 * Shelley Berman
 * Mel Brooks
 * Lenny Bruce
 * George Burns
 * Pesach Burstein
 * Red Buttons
 * Sid Caesar
 * Jean Carroll
 * Jack Carter
 * Myron Cohen
 * Bill Dana
 * Rodney Dangerfield
 * Phyllis Diller
 * Totie Fields
 * Betty Garrett
 * Estelle Getty
 * George Gobel
 * Shecky Greene
 * Buddy Hackett
 * Mickey Katz
 * Danny Kaye
 * Alan King
 * Robert Klein
 * Jack E. Leonard
 * Mal Z. Lawrence
 * Sam Levenson
 * Jerry Lewis
 * Jackie Mason
 * Lou Menchell
 * Corbett Monica
 * Jan Murray
 * Freddie Prinze Sr.
 * Carl Reiner
 * Don Rickles
 * Joan Rivers
 * Freddie Roman
 * Allan Sherman
 * Jackie Vernon
 * Jonathan Winters
 * Henny Youngman

Borscht Belt humor refers to the rapid-fire, often self-deprecating style common to many of these performers and writers. Typical themes include:

 * Bad luck: "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." (Henny Youngman)
 * Puns: "Sire, the peasants are revolting!" "You said it. They stink on ice." (Harvey Korman as Count de Money (Monet) and Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI, in History of the World Part I)
 * Physical complaints and ailments (often relating to bowels and cramping): "My doctor said I was in terrible shape. I told him, 'I want a second opinion.' He said, 'All right, you're ugly too! "I told my doctor, 'This morning when I got up and saw myself in the mirror, I looked awful! What's wrong with me?' He replied, 'I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect! (Dangerfield)
 * Aggravating relatives and nagging wives: "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." (Dangerfield). "Take my wife—please!" (Henny Youngman); "My wife drowned in the pool because she was wearing so much jewelry." (Don Rickles); "My wife ain't too bright. One day our car got stolen. I said to her, 'Did you get a look at the guy?' She said, 'No, but I got the license number. (Dangerfield) "This morning the doorbell rang. I said 'Who is it?' She said 'It's the Boston Strangler.' I said 'It's for you dear! (Youngman)

In popular culture
The Heiden Hotel in South Fallsburg was the film location of the 1987 movie Sweet Lorraine starring Maureen Stapleton. It was destroyed by fire in May 2008 while no longer hosting guests.

In the same year, the movie Dirty Dancing replayed the heyday of the Borscht Belt in an upscale resort. The plot was inspired by the screenwriter's experience as a teenager in the summertime community at Grossinger's.

In the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1991), Art Spiegelman's father Vladek spends the summer in a bungalow settlement in the Catskills and visits with his son the nearby The Pines resort.

In the second season of the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–23), both the Weissman and Maisel families spend a summer vacation at Steiner's Resort in the Catskills, depicted by Scott's Family Resort on Oquaga Lake in Deposit, NY.

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Petición de ayuda
Saludos. Siento no poder expresarme con corrección en tu idioma, pero me dirigo a ti, porque no sé a quien recurrir y sé que dominas en gran medida el español. Soy un antiguo contribuyente de la Wikipedia en español, que hace alrededor de un año volvió a ella. Se encontró entonces con que la Wikipedia en español estaba dominada por administradores que violaban sistemáticamente las normas de wikipedia, como la de la neutralidad y la de no borrar informacion útil. Me he rebelado contra su censura, y he reivindicado el sentido original de las normas. Uno de mis contertulios en mi página de discusión y que ha renunciado a participar en la wikipedia hispana resume así la situación que se vive en la enciclopedia en español:

''Una vez que me convertí en escritor y no sólo en lector comencé a descubrir la realidad que esconde este proyecto. Ediciones honestas que buscaban enseñar a quienes quisieran aprender fueron eliminadas inmediatamente. Mis intentos de diálogo se vieron contestados por insultos y acusaciones injustos y por la extendida costumbre de recuperar la versión "oficial", es decir, la de eliminar todo incluyendo la corrección de errores ortográficos. Sólo he sido capaz de conseguir algún avance tras interminables discusiones, mediante la búsqueda de docenas de referencias a revistas, periódicos o documentos oficiales capaces de demostrar la insensatez de las críticas absurdas que con frecuencia se hacen y, principalmente, recuperando una y otra vez los datos que se intentan ocultar. Es decir, la cantidad de esfuerzo que hay que hacer es inmensa.''

''El gran problema es que las causas de la situación son muy profundas. Por ejemplo, es verdad que hay artículos larguísimos que describen cómo aplicar la política de neutralidad pero no hay ningún sitio donde se establezca breve y claramente qué es lo que no se puede hacer. Así es absurdo que se permita eliminar una edición completamente recuperando la versión anterior sin dar ninguna explicación. Si yo añado algo como "el 12 de marzo Aznar dijo que se estaban siguiendo dos líneas de investigación" cualquiera lo eliminará inmediatamente sin dar ningún motivo. Si lo vuelves a añadir y preguntas en la página de discusión por qué lo han borrado, que lo que has escrito es verdad, que se miren los periódicos que tienen edición digital accesible de ese día y todo eso el resultado es que te lo vuelven a quitar. Y no puedes hacer nada salvo volver a recuperarlo hasta que tú o ellos se cansen. Y es absurdo que esto sea así, porque la política de no neutralidad se resume en dos puntos: sólo se pueden incluir (1) hechos objetivos o (2) teorías existentes descritas indicando que son teorías. Si alguien elimina una contribución que no es puro vandalismo debería justificar que lo ha hecho porque no es ni un hecho objetivo ni una teoría existente. Si no se está eliminando el esfuerzo de una persona que ha querido participar en la Wikipedia lo que desincentiva dicha participación cuando se debería fomentar ya que en realidad se trata de generar un enciclopedia seria.''

Yo no quiero rendirme. Y no he dejado de debatir con esos administradores. En mi página personal, he escrito un ensayo donde denunció las practicas que se cometen en la wikipedia hispana. Lo puedes leer en []

Temporalmente he conseguido algunas mejoras, consiguiendo, por ejemplo, que algunos usen la página de discusión antes de borrar lo que no les gusta o no concuerda con su ideas. Ayer estaba añadiendo información al artículo del 11-M y acababa de discutir con un administrador que quería borrar el artículo dedicado a Leonor de Borbón Ortiz, primogénita de los Príncipes de Asturias, Felipe de Borbón y Letizia Ortiz, y segunda en la línea sucesoria de la Corona española. Este administrador decía que en la wikipedia no debía haber artículos sobre la recién nacida (cuando otras wikipedias lo tienen). Puedes leerlo en Discusión:Leonor de Borbón Ortiz. Ahora no puedo escribir en la wikipedia hispana, porque otro administrador, llamado FAR, que se declara amigo del administrador con que discutía, me han bloqueado la IP, tachándome de vándalo. No me dejan ni el derecho a réplica. ¿Puedes ayudarme, por favor? ¿Con quién debo hablar para solucionar esta situación?

Usuario:Visitante, 12:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC).

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'''I Blocked him because he did vandalic editions in another article. I even unknow he was in that discussion (although I have just read it, and he wrote offensive words)''' And be care, here, we think he is a troll.--es:Usuario:FAR

Paul Allen
Hi Herdrick. I am studying computer history (Unix) and history on computers (wikipedia) and I came across an edit |edit of you of Paul Allen. I wonder why you wrote "though he dropped out after two-and-a-half years to pursue his and Gates' dream of writing software commercially for personal computers." Allen dropped out to go and work at Honeywell. It doesn't really matter at all, don't get me wrong, but I am interested in whether you made this sentence up yourself or copied it from somewhere, just so I can understand wikipedia-dynamics better.

Thanks, Robert Buzink

SocialPicks
I don't know if you've seen this article, but would you stop by the AfD page Articles_for_deletion/SocialPicks to offer your opinion on whether the article subject is notable? Thanks. Dimension31 (talk) 00:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

teh Biographicons
Yo Ethan, I am the creator of the Biographicon article and am just wondering if one is supposed to refer to your website as "the Biographicon" (as in "the necronomicon") or simply as "Biographicon"? Our article currently uses both. Congratulations on such an excellent idea by the way. Skomorokh 11:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Skomorokh. First, thanks for the great work on that article.  It's well done!  To answer your question, yes, we prefer "the Biographicon".  We encourage biographies of online identities, by the way, so if your alter ego "Skomorokh" has an interesting history you could start a biography for him/you.  I'd like to see more of that, I think it could be really interesting and useful, too.  Hope to see you over on the Biographicon.  Thanks again!  -Ethan  Herdrick (talk) 22:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have amended the article to reflect your preference. And thank you for the offer, but for this particular individual, the attraction of the Internet is the possibility to participate anonymously and stay below the search engine radar. Best of luck in your endeavours, and don't hesitate to ask if you're curious about anything here on Wikipedia. Regards, Skomorokh  23:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Skomorokh. Will do.Herdrick (talk) 21:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

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Corn Belt

The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States and part of the Southern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the United States. In North America, corn is the common word for maize. More generally, the concept of the Corn Belt connotes the area of the Midwest dominated by farming and agriculture, though it stretches down into the South as well reaching into Kentucky.

Geography
There is lack of consensus regarding the constituents of the Corn Belt, although it often includes Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan, western Ohio, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, southern Minnesota, and parts of Missouri. It also sometimes includes South Dakota, North Dakota, all of Ohio, Wisconsin, all of Michigan, and Kentucky. Some people and industries break the Corn Belt down even further and refer to it as the Eastern Corn Belt and the Western Corn Belt.

The region is characterized by level land, deep fertile soils, and a high organic soil concentration.

As of 2008, the top four corn-producing states were Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota, accounting for more than half of the corn growth in the U.S.

More recently, the Corn Belt was mapped at the county level using the Land use and Agricultural Management Practices web-Service (LAMPS), along with animated maps of changes in time (2010–2016).

History
On account of new agricultural technology developments between 1860 and 1970, the Corn Belt went from producing mixed crops and livestock into becoming an area focused strictly on wheat-cash planting. After 1970, increased crop and meat production required an export outlet, but global recession and a strong dollar reduced exports and created serious problems even for the best farm managers.

In 1956, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, a pioneer of hybrid seed, declared that the Corn Belt had developed the "most productive agricultural civilization the world has ever seen".

Most corn grown today is fed to livestock, especially hogs and poultry. In recent decades, soybeans have grown in importance.

By 1950, 99% of corn has been grown from hybrids.

EPA Ecoregion
In 1997, the USEPA published its report on the United States' ecoregions, in part based on "land use". Its "Level III" region classification contains three contiguous "Corn Belt" regions, Western (47), Central (54), and Eastern (55), stretching from Indiana to eastern Nebraska.

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Series
Hi, there has been some discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article series to codify the format for Article series boxes (aka a seriesbox). The format that many articles used before the MediaWiki message came into existence is close to the format you have, but is a little less like a table of contents (to distinguish them from TOCs) and have a slightly smaller footprint.

I think it would be a good idea to standardize this, so please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article series. Thanks. --Lexor|Talk 10:02, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Illyrians?
why is the Illyrian thing there when it is not proved and not even mentioned by most scholars? Various Yugoslavs have also claimed Illyrian ancestry without proof. source it adequately as a fact and then add it. 150.140.227.137 (talk) 11:48, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Template duplication
This template is, content-wise, the same as Template:History of Albania. One of the two should be merged into the other. Constantine  ✍  14:07, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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Series box
Hi, there has been some discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article series to codify the format for Article series boxes (aka a seriesbox). The format that many articles used before the MediaWiki message came into existence is close to the format you have, but is a little less like a table of contents (to distinguish them from TOCs) and have a slightly smaller footprint.

I think it would be a good idea to standardize this, so please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article series. Thanks. --Lexor|Talk 10:03, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Image
An image has appeared at the top of the table. I don't feel that it is inappropriate, though keeping it in some sense mean failing the proposed format at Wikipedia talk:Article series. For the time beeing I decided to retain the image, but adapting the table in general along the lines of the proposal. -- Mic 11:43, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * I think that article series for different subjects can't all be the same. This is an article series about the history of Sweden, and thus it is natural to include the Swedish coat of arms at the top of the table. It also gice the table a nicer look. Den fjättrade ankan 01:31, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * I think having an image in some seriesboxes is fine. Tweaks on the basic format are fine, so long as they are in addition to the baseline format (the basic format that shouldn't be changed is: font, font size, border width and basic layout) and don't replace them.  So for me, images like this are fine, any discussion will come up on Wikipedia talk:Article series. --Lexor|Talk 04:21, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

"Frihetstiden" ["the Age of Liberty"]
I've long been disturbed by both this template and the name of the article that covers Sweden's 18th ct experiment with Parliamentarism. Up until now, this template has listed as follows:  Swedish Empire Great Northern War Absolute Monarchy Union with Norway

There are several disturbing things here:  Sweden in fact had a more typical Absolutism in the 17th century, dismantled 1718-22, than the Gustavian Absolutism that was introduced in 1772. The template gives until now the opposite impression.

Frihetstiden is a much used concept for an important epoche 1721/22-72 that somehow has been made invisible.

The Great Northern War was fought by the Swedish Empire, but the link from this template has been to the Frihetstiden-article.

I now change the template to:

Swedish Empire

"Age of Liberty"

Gustav's Absolutism

Union with Norway

 This is not ideal, but for matter of brevity "Gustav's Absolutism" is to be preferred instead of better alternatives.

Maybe the phrase "Age of Liberty" has disturbingly much of propagandist ring to it, but it's fittingly short and it corresponds with the terminology used by Swedish (and Finnish?) history books.

Add an image?
The current layout of this template is a bit colorless. What about adding a picture to it? I suggest that we take a historical map, but we could use something else as well. For instance, a picture of Gustav Vasa is used on the swedish history stub. If nobody disagrees, I will add the image to this template.

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Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch (1975–1978), and Hart to Hart (1979–1984). He later had recurring roles on Two and a Half Men (2007–2008) and NCIS (2010–2019).

In films, Wagner is known for his role as Number 2 in the Austin Powers trilogy of films (1997, 1999, 2002), as well as for Prince Valiant (1954), A Kiss Before Dying (1956), The Pink Panther (1963), Harper (1966), The Towering Inferno (1974) and The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979).

Early life
Wagner was born in Detroit, to Thelma Hazel Alvera (née Boe, stemming from Bøe), a former telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner, Sr., a travelling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. He had one older sister, Mary (1926–2023).

Wagner's mother came from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her parents were both immigrants from Norway, who married in La Crosse in 1887. Wagner's father was a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan. His parents were from Germany.

The family moved to Bel-Air, an extremely upscale section of Los Angeles, in 1937.

20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures
Wagner became interested in acting, and after an unsuccessful screen test directed by Fred Zinnemann for his film Teresa (1951), was represented by Albert R. Broccoli. He made his uncredited film debut in The Happy Years (1950); was signed by agent Henry Willson and put under contract with 20th Century Fox.

"I started off as an ingenue", recalled Wagner. "I was 19 years old. I was the boy next door. But you always felt you could work your way up, that you could have a better part in the next picture. [Head of Fox] Darryl Zanuck was always placing me in different positions."

Wagner's first film for Fox was Halls of Montezuma (1951) a World War II film. Wagner had a supporting role, with Richard Widmark as the star. The studio then had him perform a similar function in another war movie, The Frogmen (1951), again with Widmark; the cast also included another young male under contract to the studio, Jeffrey Hunter, with whom Wagner would often work. Let's Make It Legal (1951) was a comedy where Wagner again supported an older star, in this case Claudette Colbert.

Wagner first gained significant attention with a small but showy part as a shell-shocked soldier in With a Song in My Heart (1952).

"You were part of 20th Century Fox", he said. "You felt proud of being part of the organization. When I wasn't working, I was on the road, going out and selling movies or dancing on the stage and meeting the public. They never let you rest."

20th Century Studios started to give Wagner better roles. He was the romantic male lead in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952), a biopic about John Philip Sousa starring Clifton Webb. He supported James Cagney and Dan Dailey in John Ford's version of What Price Glory (1952) and supported Webb again in Titanic (1953). He was in a minor Western, The Silver Whip (1953) with Rory Calhoun.

Leading man
Fox gave Wagner his first starring role in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953). Reviews were poor but the movie was only the third ever to be shot in CinemaScope and was a big hit.

Also popular was a Western, Broken Lance (1954), where Wagner supported Spencer Tracy for director Edward Dmytryk, appearing as Tracy's son. Fox gave Wagner the lead in an expensive spectacular, Prince Valiant (1954). While popular, critical reception was poor and Wagner later joked his wig in the movie made him look like Jane Wyman. He was teamed with Jeffrey Hunter in a Western, White Feather (1955).

Wagner was borrowed by Paramount for The Mountain (1956), directed by Dmytryk, where Wagner was cast as Spencer Tracy's brother, having played his son just two years earlier in the same director's Broken Lance. He received more critical acclaim for the lead in A Kiss Before Dying (1956), from the novel by Ira Levin; it was made for Crown Productions, a company of Darryl F. Zanuck's brother in law (the leads were all under contract to Fox) and released through United Artists.

Back at Fox Wagner was in Between Heaven and Hell (1956), a war movie, and The True Story of Jesse James (1957), playing the leading role for director Nicholas Ray (Jeffrey Hunter was Frank). Both movies were box office disappointments and it seemed Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in Stopover Tokyo (1957). In 1959, Wagner disparaged the film: "When I started at Fox in 1950 they were making sixty-five pictures a year. Now they're lucky if they make thirty. There was a chance to get some training in B pictures. Then TV struck. Everything went big and they started sticking me into Cinemascope spectacles. One day, smiling Joe Juvenile with no talent was doing a role intended for John Wayne. That was in a dog called Stopover Tokyo. I've really had to work to keep up." Wagner supported Robert Mitchum in a Korean War movie, The Hunters (1958), and appeared with a number of Fox contractees in a World War II drama, In Love and War (1958).

After a cameo in Mardi Gras (1958), Wagner supported Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds in Say One for Me (1959).

Trying to kick-start his career, Wagner appeared with his then-wife Natalie Wood (they married in 1957) in All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), made for MGM.

In January 1961, Wagner and Wood formed their own company, Rona Productions, named after the first two letters of both their first names. Rona signed a three-picture deal with Columbia pictures for Wagner's services, which was to start with Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) and The Interns. He also had a deal to make one more film at Fox, which was to be Solo, the story of a jazz drummer directed by Dick Powell, or The Comancheros with Gary Cooper.

Wagner made Sail a Crooked Ship but his part in The Interns went to James MacArthur. Solo was never made, and The Comancheros was made instead with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Wagner did make The War Lover (1962) with Steve McQueen that was filmed in England.

Europe
Wagner's first marriage to Wood had broken up, and he relocated to Europe. He had a small role in The Longest Day (1962), produced by Daryl Zanuck for Fox. He had a larger part in The Condemned of Altona (1962), a commercial and critical disappointment despite being directed by Vittorio de Sica and co-starring Sophia Loren.

Considerably more popular was The Pink Panther (1963), a massive hit, although Wagner's part was very much in support to those of David Niven, Capucine, Peter Sellers, and Claudia Cardinale. It was directed by Blake Edwards, who wanted Wagner for the lead in The Great Race (1965), but Jack L. Warner overruled him.

Return to Hollywood and Universal Pictures
His return to America found him playing in the theatre for the first time with the lead role in Mister Roberts for one week at a holiday resort just outside Chicago. The disciplines of the theatre were not his forte and Wagner was glad to be back in Hollywood to find a good supporting role in the modern-day private investigator hit, Harper (1966), starring Paul Newman.

Wagner signed with Universal Pictures in 1966, starring opposite future wife Jill St. John in the films How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a made-for-TV movie released in the United Kingdom as Deadly Roulette, and Banning (1967). He returned to Italy to make a caper film with Raquel Welch for MGM, The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968).

Television star
In 1967, Lew Wasserman of Universal convinced Wagner to make his television series debut in It Takes a Thief (1968–1970) on ABC-TV. ""I was opposed to doing Thief", Wagner said later. "But Lew Wasserman said: 'I want you to be in TV Guide every week. This is your medium, you've got to try it, you'll be great.' Roland Kibbee wrote the part for me, and I would have missed all that if I hadn't listened to Lew."

While the success of The Pink Panther and Harper began Wagner's comeback, the successful two-and-a-half seasons of his first TV series completed it. In this series, he acted with Fred Astaire, who played his father. Wagner was a longtime friend of Astaire, having gone to school with Astaire's eldest son, Peter. Wagner's performance would earn him an Emmy nomination for Best TV Actor.

During the making of the series he made a film for Universal, the comedy Don't Just Stand There! (1968) with Mary Tyler Moore. It was not a success. More popular was Winning (1969), a racing car drama where Wagner supported Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. He also guest-starred in The Name of the Game (1970).

Wagner's friend and agent Albert Broccoli suggested that he audition to play James Bond, but he decided it was not right for him.

Wagner appeared in the series pilot, City Beneath the Sea (1971), that was not picked up. The following year, he produced and cast himself opposite Bette Davis in the made-for-TV film Madame Sin, which was theatrically released overseas as a feature film.

He was a regular in the BBC/Universal World War II prisoner-of-war drama Colditz (1972–1974) for much of its run. He reunited with McQueen, along with Paul Newman and Faye Dunaway, in the disaster film The Towering Inferno released in the same year. It was a massive hit, although Wagner's part was relatively small.

Switch
By the mid-1970s, Wagner's television career was at its peak with the CBS-TV television series Switch (1975–1978, opposite Eddie Albert, Sharon Gless, and Charlie Callas) after re-signing a contract with Universal in 1974. Albert had been a childhood hero of Wagner, after he watched the movie Brother Rat along with a few others. The friendship started in the early 1960s, where he also co-starred in a couple of Albert's movies. After the end of the series, the two remained friends until Albert's death on May 26, 2005. Wagner spoke at his funeral, and gave a testimonial about his longtime friendship with him.

In partial payment for starring together in the Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg production of the TV movie The Affair, Wagner and Natalie Wood were given a share in three TV series that the producers were developing for ABC. Only one reached the screen, the very successful TV series Charlie's Angels, for which Wagner and Wood had a 50% share, though Wagner was to spend many years in court arguing with Spelling and Goldberg over what was defined as profit.

Wagner and Wood acted with Laurence Olivier in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), as part of Olivier's television series Laurence Olivier Presents for the UK's Granada Television.

Wagner had a small role in some all-star Universal films, Midway (1976) and The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979).

Hart to Hart
Wagner's third successful series was Hart to Hart, which co-starred Stefanie Powers and Lionel Stander and was broadcast on ABC-TV from 1979 to 1984. No one else was seriously considered for the role. George Hamilton had a high-profile at the time and was suggested, but producer Aaron Spelling said that if he was cast "the audience will resent him as Hart for being that rich. But no one will begrudge RJ [Wagner] a nickel."

During the series run, Wagner reprised his old Pink Panther role in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983). He also had a supporting role in I Am the Cheese (1983).

Wagner played an insurance investigator in the short-lived TV series Lime Street (1985).

In 1985, he reflected, "Bad-guy roles work if they're really good parts, but they don't come along very often. I think that what I've been doing has worked for me. Sure I'd like to do a Clint Eastwood, grizzled, down-and-out guy, but there aren't many scripts like that... What has been projected for me is an international quality that can take me anywhere and get me into all kind of involvements; to do otherwise would mean a character role."

Later career
Wagner appeared in a TV movie with Audrey Hepburn, Love Among Thieves (1987) and in a miniseries with Jaclyn Smith, Windmills of the Gods (1988). He and St. John worked with Pierce Brosnan in the miniseries remake of Around the World in 80 Days (1989). For Tom Mankiewicz he played a supporting part in Delirious (1991). More widely seen was Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), where Wagner played a producer. Wagner played Love Letters on stage with Stefanie Powers. They also reprised their Hart characters in a series of TV movies.

Wagner's film career received a boost after his role in the Austin Powers series of spy spoofs starring Mike Myers. Wagner played Dr. Evil's henchman Number 2 in all three films: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). He also had small roles in Wild Things (1998), Crazy in Alabama (1999), Play It to the Bone (2000), Becoming Dick (2001) and Sol Goode (2001).

Wagner became the host of Fox Movie Channel's Hour of Stars, featuring original television episodes of The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955), a series which he had appeared on in his early days with the studio. In 2005, he became the television spokesman for the Senior Lending Network, a reverse mortgage lender and in 2010 he began serving as a spokesman for the Guardian First Funding Group, also a reverse mortgage lender. In June 2011, Guardian First Funding was acquired by Urban Financial Group, who continued to use Wagner as their spokesperson.

In 2007, Wagner had a role in the BBC/AMC series Hustle. In season four's premiere, Wagner played a crooked Texan being taken for half a million dollars. As Wagner is considered "a suave icon of American caper television, including It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart", Robert Glenister (Hustle's fixer, Ash Morgan) commented that "to have one of the icons of that period involved is a great bonus for all of us". Wagner also played the pivotal role of President James Garfield in the comedy/horror film Netherbeast Incorporated (2007). The role was written with Wagner in mind. He had a recurring role of a rich suitor to the main characters' mother on the sitcom Two and a Half Men. His final appearances on the show were in May 2008.

Wagner has guest-starred in 13 episodes of NCIS as Anthony DiNozzo Sr., the father of Anthony DiNozzo Jr., played by Michael Weatherly. Weatherly had previously appeared as Wagner in the TV movie The Mystery of Natalie Wood.

Wagner was set to star as Charlie in the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels, but had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.

Despite his apparent distaste working with Raquel Welch on The Biggest Bundle of Them All, they reunited 50 years later on the 2017 Canadian series Date My Dad.

Personal life
In his memoirs, Wagner said he had had affairs with Yvonne De Carlo, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Ekberg, Shirley Anne Field, Lori Nelson, and Joan Collins. He also claimed a four-year romantic relationship with Barbara Stanwyck after they acted together in the movie Titanic (1953). According to Wagner, because of their age difference—he was 22, she was 45—they kept the affair secret to avoid damaging their careers. He is also rumored to have had affairs with men, although Wagner identifies as heterosexual.

In 1956, when he was 26 years old, Wagner became involved with 18-year-old actress Natalie Wood. They were married on December 28, 1957, in Scottsdale, Arizona. At some point during the first half of 1961, according to several published accounts, Wood caught him having an extramarital affair with a man in the couple's home. They announced their separation on June 20, 1961, and divorced on April 27, 1962.

While working on location in Europe, Wagner reconnected with an old friend, actress Marion Marshall. After a two-year courtship, Wagner, Marshall and her two sons from her marriage to Stanley Donen moved back to America. Wagner and Marshall married on July 21, 1963, at the Bronx Courthouse. They had a daughter, Katie (born May 11, 1964). They separated in June 1970 and divorced on October 14, 1971.

Wagner was engaged to Tina Sinatra from June 1970 until January 1972. Immediately afterwards, Wagner rekindled his romance with Wood. They remarried on July 16 aboard the Ramblin' Rose, anchored off Paradise Cove in Malibu. They had a daughter, Courtney (born March 9, 1974). Following Wood's death in 1981, Wagner became the legal guardian of her daughter by producer Richard Gregson, Natasha, then 11. He also gradually cut ties with his former sister-in-law, Lana Wood. Lana has claimed publicly that the reason behind the couple's first divorce was that Natalie caught Wagner in the arms of another man.

On Valentine's Day 1982, Wagner began dating actress Jill St. John, whom he had known since the late 1950s. After eight years together, they married on May 26, 1990, in Pacific Palisades. The marriage is the fourth for both Wagner and St. John and it has lasted longer than all six of their previous marriages combined. The couple co-starred in six films between 1967 and 2014—most of them low-budget—as well as the pilot episode of Hart to Hart, and also appeared onstage in a 1996 production of Love Letters.

Wagner became a first-time grandfather in 2006 when Katie Wagner, his daughter with Marshall, gave birth to her son Riley John Wagner-Lewis.

In 2007, Wagner and St. John sold the Brentwood ranchette they had lived in since 1983 for a reported $14 million. The couple now reside in Aspen, Colorado, where they built a vacation home in 1995. They retain a condo in L.A.

Death of Natalie Wood
On November 29, 1981, Wood died under mysterious circumstances near, within a mile of, or on the 55-foot yacht Splendour while it was moored near the isthmus of Santa Catalina Island. Wood had been on board the Splendour along with Wagner, Christopher Walken, who was co-starring with her in the motion picture Brainstorm (1983), and Dennis Davern, the Splendour's captain. No explanation has ever been given for the absence of Walken's wife Georgianne. According to Wagner, Wood was not on the yacht when he went to bed, and, according to his spokesman, he thought Wood had taken off on a small inflatable boat by herself, as she had done before. Wood's body was found about a mile away from the yacht, while the inflatable boat was found beached nearby. The autopsy report revealed that Wood had 39 fresh bruises on her body, including an abrasion on her left cheek.

Later, in his memoir Pieces of My Heart, Wagner acknowledged that he had an argument with Wood before she disappeared but had calmed down and gone to bed. The autopsy found that Wood's blood alcohol content was 0.14% and there were traces of two types of medication in her bloodstream: a motion-sickness pill and a painkiller, both of which increase the effects of alcohol. Two witnesses, who had been on another boat nearby, stated they had heard a woman scream for help during the night. Following his investigation, Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi ruled her death an accident by drowning and hypothermia.

Wagner, Walken, and Davern initially all told detectives that Wood had left in a dinghy to go ashore; the case was reopened in November 2011 after Davern publicly stated that he had lied to police during the initial investigation and that Wood and Wagner had had an argument that evening. He alleged that Wood had been flirting with Walken, that Wagner was jealous and enraged, and that following Wood's disappearance, Wagner had prevented Davern from turning on the search lights and notifying authorities. According to Davern, Wagner was responsible for Wood's death and he believed that Wagner had intentionally kept the investigation into Wood's death "low-profile".

In 2012, Los Angeles County Chief Coroner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran amended Wood's death certificate and changed the cause of her death from accidental drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors". The amended document included a statement that the circumstances of how Wood ended up in the water are "not clearly established." On January 14, 2013, the Los Angeles County coroner's office issued a ten-page addendum to Wood's autopsy report. It stated that she may have sustained some of the bruises on her body before she went into the water and drowned.

On February 1, 2018, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department named Wagner a "person of interest" in the investigation into Wood's death. Robert Wagner has denied any involvement in Wood's death. On May 27, 2022, Lieutenant Hugo Reynaga announced that all leads in the case have been exhausted and that the case remains open and unsolved.

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Recent edits
You set the date for de Jong Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog 1939–1945 Deel 3 Mei '40 as 1971 but on the pdf it's 1970 so I'm altering the year. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 16:09, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Fine with me, just make sure to update the related sfn and not just the cite. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 17:00, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 'Tis done, thanks for the trouble you've taken. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 19:02, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Tank strengths
Hi, the article is looking good.

The section German Army, 'Tactics', contains this sentence: "German tank battalions (Panzer-Abteilungen) were to be equipped with the Panzerkampfwagen III and Panzerkampfwagen IV tanks but shortages led to the use of light Panzerkampfwagen II and even lighter Panzerkampfwagen I instead.[citation needed]"

There are several reasons for said shortages: but I'm not sure how much of the following can be meaningfully abbreviated into the article. Info comes from my my draft article User:MinorProphet/Draft subpages/WW2 Maybach gearboxes, which is slowly taking shape.

 * According to Jentz's Panzertruppen vol. 1, at the start of the French Campaign (or Fall Gelb) there were 349 Panzer IIIs (381 total inc. reserves), of which 135 were lost; and 280 Panzer IVs, of which 97 were lost. This page summarises the figures from the contemporary divisional organisational diagrams in table form. It shows that there were also 554 Panzer Is and 920 Panzer IIs, plus 154 command radio tanks (Befehlswagen), a few of which would have been Pz. IIIs and IVs.

 * The manufacturing schedule for the first major production series of the Panzer III, the Ausf. E, was meant to start in early 1938, but the adoption of a new, untested gearbox delayed production for over a year. This was the complex and initially very unreliable Maybach SRG 32 8 145, a semi-automatic, pre-selector transmission which replaced the tried and tested SSG 76 manual gearbox by Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (ZF) fitted in the 70 or so pre-series models Ausf. A-D. There were two sets of problems with the SRG: basic design problems/faults down to Maybach; and assembly faults of the intricate mechanisms by the subcontractor, ZF. The first production Panzer III Ausf. E weren't delivered to their regiments until March–June 1939, a few months before the start of the Polish Campaign. Combat reports gathered up to March 1940 detail the technical faults. A decision to install ZF's SSG 77 manual gearbox in the Ausf H. wasn't made until the autumn of 1940. By 1941 the design and assembly problems had been ironed out, and the Maybach gearbox eventually gave reliable service in Panzer IIIs in both North Africa and Russia.

 * Production of the Panzer IV, begun in 1938, was not originally accorded a high priority; there were about 278 Pz. IVs available in May 1940, and the same number were made during the whole of 1940. The monthly production quota was set at 40 units from November 1940. On 1 July 1941 there were 531 Panzer IVs on hand; barely replacing the losses in Russia, there were only 552 units in April 1942.

Please feel free to incorporate any of this into the article. Cheers, MinorProphet (talk) 23:05, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

 * Sources

fall of france
what caused the fall of france 70.26.105.194 (talk) 18:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

 * One factor was that they left the ardennes to go and hep defend belgium, a region with heavy treeline and bumpy hills because they thought that Hitler couldn't penetrate the area with so many troops and tanks however, Hitler did penetrate his forces through the area and blasted through the french lines which French Commanders were caught veyr off guard by. 72.138.179.198 (talk) 17:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

BEF size
In the prelude section under 'Allies' it states that at the start of battle the BEF was 1.6 million men. Given the BEF was only 13 divisions that is clearly wrong. Firestar47 (talk) 10:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I think that seeing as 250,000 were taken home from Dunkirk and another 150,000+ emigre contingents from other ports it might be that the 1 in 1.6 million is wrong. Keith-264 (talk) 11:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Maybe. Annoyingly all the books on my shelf give only the number of divisions. The number though is written in full so is unlikely a typing error. Firestar47 (talk) 11:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

 * The number of 1.6 million men refers not to the BEF but to the total armed forces, territorial divisions and units in training included.--MWAK (talk) 14:11, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Prelude
It says that the french mobilised 5 million men but that only half served in units in the north. So where were the other half? Are we talking about the navy as well? I feel this needs clarification. Firestar47 (talk) 10:56, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Well, the text now states "France mobilised about one-third of the male population between the ages of 20 and 45, bringing the strength of its armed forces to 5,000,000" but this is a clear mistake. The male population of France numbered about twenty million in 1940 and about six million of these were between 20 and 45 years old.--MWAK (talk) 14:30, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Well I've just been to my bookshelf, both books I checked gave the mobilization figure as 5 million so that bit seems right. Firestar47 (talk) 20:56, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Size of Allied Forces involved
(originally from Loic on AHF) "Pierre Le Goyet La défaite 10 mai-25 juin 1940 gives for Metropolitan France 1. may 1940

2 651 802 "aux Armées" (means the Front) 529 028 des formations du territoire (Interior) 675 386 Depôts et Centres d'Organisation (Interior) 75 638 Foreigners (RMVE & Légion in Métropolitan France, Polish & Czechoslovak Armies) 53 466 in the hospitals"

Overseas and Air forces aren't included in the above nor is naval. For the Belgians and Dutch, the wiki articles show 600,000-650,000 men and 280,000 men respectively. The BEF in France was 390,000 men. Luxembourg had 693. Even if we only go with the Front armies for the French and even then exclude the 150,000 French attributed to the Alps (and no airforces), go with the lower Belgian estimate, and ignore the RAF that totals to at least 3,770,000. Something is seriously wrong with the article. 47.220.25.18 (talk) 06:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have any written sources for your claims? Keith-264 (talk) 20:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:FX (TV channel)

FX Networks
I moved this to FX Networks rather than FX Network because, judging on everything their website says, that's their name. -Branddobbe 10:08, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

Man Show
The Man Show is a Comedy Central show. Don't know where that came from.Mole 20:00, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

News Corp.
"This marked the first time News Corp. specifically marketed a Fox-branded media property to a British audience." No, surely that was Fox Kids (renamed JETIX on January 1 2005), later followed by Fox Noise. Lee M 00:52, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Son of the Beach
Some one should put something about "Son of the Beach" and their boxing programing, which where two important shows for the network's beginigns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ymallet (talk • contribs) 17:03, 8 July 2005 (UTC)

Logo image
I think we should use Image:FX Logo.jpg in the article. Personally, I like it, and we have to use it, otherwise it will be deleted. 24.171.29.45 04:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I live in the UK so I'll leave it to the US Wikipedians to decide whether to revert, but as I understand it that's not even an official FX logo. Which is why it wasn't being used. --Matthew Humphreys 19:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Image:FX Logo.jpg was uploaded by Randallrobinstine, who has been blocked several times for uploading false logos for various organizations. I can find no evidence at all that it is anything more than a bad drawing of the real FX logo. —Bkell 21:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

FX Australia now W Channel
FX Was renamed as part of the digital launch in 2004 not 2000 I believe, it would help if a source could be found Mike Beckham 06:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Current Programming update
I added two shows to the list that were not listed which FX still airs weekdays. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Practice. For some reason their website doesn't list them under the shows menu but they are still on everyday. Robertlroy 00:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Writing
This article is absolutely horribly written. just read the "post fox gone cable" section. It soudns like a third grader wrote it.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.124.201.14 (talk • contribs) 07:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion
Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --User: (talk) 01:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Only 3 shows Emmy nominated, not 4
Sunny certainly has not been nominated for an Emmy (as can be confirmed by both the show's page and the Emmy pages). I love the show, but let's be serious, it never will be up for an Emmy. This page had wrong information on it for about 4 months —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.91.38 (talk) 04:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Headings
Are the history period headings better without the descriptions? I felt they were useful for clearly demonstrating why the periods were broken up as they were, but at the same time I understand the need to stay away from flowery, frou-frou, unnecessary language. Is there consensus to keep it pared down as the anon did? Carl.bunderson (talk) 06:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

FX standards for offensive language
On The Daily Show recently, Louis C.K. said that in his new FX sitcom Louie he was not allowed to say "cunt" or "fuck". Is that a new policy at FX? Because I'm pretty sure that Nip/Tuck used those words regularly. —Mathew5000 (talk) 07:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Dish Network
So is this network on, Dish Network? 74.183.60.33 (talk) 14:17, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Not anymore, for the time being, along with National Geographic Channel, and FSN, and by Nov. 1, Fox, and MyNetworkTV O&O's. Look on those articles!!!The Man Who Needs No Introduction! (talk) 01:21, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

E!?
Why is E! listed under Owned By in the sidebox? Nothing in the article says anything about the channel ever being owned by anyone other than Fox/News Corp.76.226.127.75 (talk) 23:44, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

series in development
Mayflower: This series is an unflinching portrait of the Puritan settlers at Plymouth Colony and their uneasy alliance with the local Native Americans. The series will be executive produced by Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side) and marks his first foray into television. Serving alongside Netter as Executive Producers are Dan Carey and Paul Giamatti (Sideways, John Adams). Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) are writing the series and executive producing. Produced by FX Productions in association with Touchy Feely Films. Grand Hotel: In this series, an international luxury hotel in Paris turns into a hellish trap when it becomes the center of a terrorist attack. Written and executive produced by Richard McBrien (Merlin, Wallander), Grand Hotel will also be executive produced by Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Jarhead), Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty), and Alain & Vassili Clert (Spiral). Mad Dogs: Based on the British series and written by Cris Cole (Mad Dogs, The Bill), this series follows the reunion of four forty-something guys who head to Belize to visit their old school friend, when things take an unexpected and dark turn. Shawn Ryan (The Shield, Terriers, The Chicago Code) will serve as Executive Producer alongside Cole. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, in association with Left Bank. Sutton: Based on the novel “Sutton” by J.R. Moeringher, this extraordinary journey begins on Christmas Eve 1969, when Willie “The Actor” Sutton – Irishman, lover, folk hero, and the most prolific bank robber in American history – stepped out of Attica Prison and boarded a plane for New York City, where he proceeded to take a reporter and photographer on a five-borough guided tour of his remarkable life and crimes. Written and executive produced by Rob Siegel (The Wrestler, Big Fan), Sutton will be executive produced by Jim Burke (The Descendants, Cedar Rapids), Michael De Luca (Moneyball, The Social Network), Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways) and Jim Taylor (The Descendants, Sideways). Produced by FX Productions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.148.25.42 (talk) 21:32, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

480i version of channel
Recently I switched to FX in SD and was surprised to see Buffy the Vampire Slayer in it's normal resolution (guess FX stopped airing the botched HD remasters), while also filling in the whole screen. It wasn't letterboxed, so I'm starting to think the SD feed of FX is almost always letterboxed, but it isn't just the HD feed downgraded. I also saw that FXX aired "In Living Color" in SD also filling up the whole screen. Can someone try to confirm this for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.12.121.110 (talk) 07:05, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

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Split FX Networks
I propose splitting FX Networks to its own page because there’s enough content now. This page should be for just the US FX tv channel as the lead sentence describes it. Everything else in the FX Networks and International sections can go to the “FX Networks” page. Starforce13 16:31, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

 * can you add the template to the FX Networks section? -- 65.94.170.98 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I Support that idea, this should be a TV channel article, the company should be a separate article. The international channels are already a separate article, FX (international), so the company should be split off as well. -- 65.94.170.98 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Very much Support this change; I was just thinking about this recently, as there's a similar split between, say, HBO and Home Box Office, Inc., amongst other examples. P.S. I'm likely adding the split-section thing since hasn't done so yet. –Piranha249 21:47, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

I support this, when is this happening? Kantonicity (talk) 19:56, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

when is this happening? I can't wait much longer, even I can't wait much longer for FXP. 45th Century Pro & Contra (talk) 12:27, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

✅ - This move has been completed as of January 4, 2022.--  Astros 4477  ( Talk ) 17:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Split FXP from this page.
FXP is now producing stuff on their own and not depending much on sister studios like earlier. I think it's time for creating Separate page for FX Productions. Saichaitanya4496 (talk) 15:03, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

 * can you add the split-section template t the FXP section? -- 65.94.170.98 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Sports programming paragraph
Should the sports programming paragraph be made into either a separate article or something since all FX sports programming is now under the ESPN on FX branding so is there a way we can incorporate that in a bit more? Hoopstercat (talk) 01:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

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