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User talk:Daibhid C

I see nobody's given you the welcoming speech yet. *Ahem.*

Hello Daibhid, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump.

(And no, I can't remember offhand which author bio you nicked that joke from, either.)

--Paul A 04:30, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm not entirely happy about Image:Amcoa.jpg. I have a feeling that it is against Wikipedia policy to use images whose terms of permission exclude third-party use. --Paul A 09:15, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * Only if that restricts others. It's routine in publishing to seek permission, even very limited permission, when it's not really needed. That provides protection against a time and money wasting legal case. It's a prudent step for many uploaders and is likely to be required much of the time when non-US people use items which qualify for fair use in the US. Sometimes US people assume incorrectly that having a license that's restrictive restricts the right to fair use, which isn't the case. Even in the US for fair use materials, it's just a cheap way for the uploader to get legal protection. Jamesday 08:12, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

I have moved a couple of your Red Dwarf pages to more sensible places. I hope you don't mind. --Moochocoogle 18:36, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Not at all. That's how Wikipedia works, after all, and you're right- the new headings are more sensible. --Daibhid C

Very much thanks is very much required for me to give to you. My List of Fictional Witches was a bit...empty. Being that it was my first page, it required all the help it could recieve. User:capitolZ

Legislation in Scots
On Scots language you added: "although the Scottish Parliament makes legislation available in Scots, as well as English and Gaelic."

Apart from a leaflet and a report to the Education and sports comitte I am not aware of any Legislation avaible in Scots. Do you have any sources for this information?

Is Scots really an official language in Scotland? Any sources?

 * To answer your second question first, one source was Wikipedia itself, which lists it as such on the Scotland page. The Scottish Parliament seems to give it the same status as Gaelic, which is considered an official language. On the other hand, it's not on any street signs, and I don't believe the language bill specifically gives it that status; but then, the same could be said for Gaelic.

 * I dunno. I've deleted that bit until I've got more info.

 * As for the legislation, well I was having difficulty navigating the Parliament site and took someone's word for it. I've changed it to something I actually know for a fact, namely that the website itself offers Scots as a language option. I should have known better, and apologise.

Article Licensing
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WikiProject Discworld
WikiProject Discworld

Spam message: Having noticed you have made some great additions to the Discworld articles I thought you might be interested in this new WikiProject. It's at a very early stage and needs quite a bit of work. violet/riga (t) 21:45, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of postal codes in the United Kingdom
In the list of fictional post codes you put "FX - Fairfax". Could I ask you to tell me the source of this information? You'll have to reply here as I'm an anon. Thanks, --JS.

 * I'd forgotten about that. I'm afraid I cannot recall or find the source of the information, although I do recall I stumbled across it while double-checking AM for Ambridge. I'll remove it until I can get more info. Daibhid

WikiProject Shannara
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Wikiproject Doctor Who
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List of fictional Elvis impersonators
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Help and support needed.

 * It would appear as though there are certain "editors" who wish to remove the lesser known literary punk genres, not only is this a blatant witch hunt which emerged from my argument on the Dark City talk page that the movie is a relveant component in reference to the dieselpunk genre, but also extremely vindictive against myself and those who have helped in categorising and adding content to the literay punk genres. For further info: Talk page here Piecraft 17:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Wow-Wow sauce
Please provide a source for the non discworld portion of this article. Thanx.TheRingess 00:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Done. Daibhid 14:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks for the kind words. Some people seem to resent me cleaning up their edits, and I'm glad you don't. It seems a trifle immodest and bad form to choose your own barnstar, but in this case since you ask, given the two, I think that the Diligence one seems more appropriate... --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:36, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks again. I'll wear it with pride. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 23:32, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

hey
stop removing my edit on the name thaum please.

 * I've not been; it's being reverted to the last edit before yours, which happens to have been mine. Daibhid C 15:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Boo!!
Hi Daibhid. I just wanted to let you know that I've recently created a Wikipedia account, thus breaking my habit of editing articles anonymously. Feel free to visit. You know me better as 8'FED. Zerrakhi 09:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Daibh, here are some ideas of mine. I haven't made them into templates but if there's a demand for them I might. What do you think? Zerrakhi 05:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

!!NEW!! I've created an "improved" version of the octarine userbox, using elipses for the link. That way the link is there, but it doesn't make the word "octarine" unreadable. Check it out at User:Zerrakhi/details and please tell me what you think. Zerrakhi 05:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Porridge
Alright mate (and your awkward nameing system). I noticed you added some stuff from that porridgr mockumentary they did recently. I've not seen it but I found you edits interesting. I was wondering if there was any mention of Barrowclough or Mackay (obviously Fulton whatsisname is dead and Wilde hasn't been on TV in years, but they still mentioned Godber). Any interesting information from that episode and the characters lives after the series would be greatly appreciated, even if you just tell me about it on me talk page rather than add it to the article. I assure you I am not a twat.--Crestville 18:18, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Indian Heroes
Hello, Daibhid, thanks for the heads-up on the "Indian Superheroes". I will add your links and remove the "seven" comment. I just added the whole thing as trivia because "Krrish" was several times praised as the "first Indian Superhero", which is just not true. --Plumcouch 23:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Trivial: in case you care
Zerrakhi 14:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I created a new userbox today - this one's about phonetics. It's on my userpage.
 * User Alnaschar suggested to me recently that the real life personality of Biddy Early resembles Nanny Ogg.

Castle in the Desert
I've been waiting for somebody to say "Hang on, what about Playback?" so long that I'd resigned myself to thinking that it was never going to happen... :) --Paul A 06:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

2000 AD
Thanks for starting the Armitage article. If you are interested in doing anything else in the same area we have a 2000 AD to do list. Happy editting ;) (Emperor 19:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC))

AfD List of Fictional Books
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re: Discworld
I thought you deserved an explanation as to my spate of undiscussed mergers throughout Wikipedia's Discworld domain. The simplest answer is that I did it to save those articles from deletion. I edit a number of fantasy-related Wikipedia topics (Harry Potter in particular) and have seen those topics shredded by angry Wikipedians determined to eliminate anything they see as irrelevant (in their terms, "irrelevant" means, "a work of fantasy fiction I don't like or haven't heard of"). Largely due to the fact that so few people edit it, the Discworld domain on Wikipedia has remained relatively unscathed (though the Minor Discworld concepts article has faced one deletion attempt, and may face another); however, as the Cruft-Warriors forces grow, it is only a matter of time before the two of us are forced to fight back their advances. What mainly draw their claws are relatively obscure articles relating to a fantasy fiction universe, such as descriptions of the Archchancellor or Parasite universes. The best way to protect these articles is to merge them together into topics which also include less obscure elements, such as the Unseen University or Death's Domain. As Vetinari says, alloys are stronger, and the more we can keep topics linked together, the less likely they are to be destroyed. That is no guarantee that they will be safe, and there have already been some fairly ludicrous attempts at deletion for Discworld topics, but things are looking up at present. As to why I haven't discussed the mergers, well, since the two of us are the only editors who regularly tackle Discworld, it seemed I would only be discussing the matter with you, and I didn't really want to chance that you might go off on a month's holiday.  Serendi pod ous  19:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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"Alistaire" vs. "Alistair" Stuart
I found your edits to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and just have to satisfy my curiosity. Given what I read in the linked-in article via the name Alistair Stuart, I must ask why you went to the trouble to drop the final "e" from the visible text in the Brig's article? I repeat, I'm curious, not challenging. Ted Watson (talk) 21:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Eastgate Shopping Centre
can i say thanks for the additional info that you included in the Eastgate extension, which i am very grateful for, since i was struggling to find info for the article to contain. if you don't mind, i moved the mention of the noah's ark into the introduction since i felt it didn't fit in with the construction of the shopping centre.

although i do not come from Inverness (the lang toun is my home or better put it "offically Scotland's largest town without a cinema since 2000"), i have been a visitor to the city and the shopping centre so i have actually seen this place for real. i have to say, it's one of Scotland's most impressive places ranking alongside Perth and Stirling. Kilnburn (talk) 19:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Egbert B. Gebstadter
Confermo ciò che aveva scritto nella pagina di discussione nell' aprile 2006. Egbert B. Gebstadter è autore anche di Ambifoni: un minimondo ottimo per lo studio della scopertività. Sono italiano e mi scuso per non aver risposto in inglese. Spero che la pagina di E.B.G. possa essere ampliata. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.30.221.80 (talk) 14:23, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7
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List of celebrity and notable guest appearances in Doctor Who
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Anna Fortune
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To get across what I'm asking, is that would you mind taking over the Anna Fortune page? I've been trying to keep all four of the pages updated as soon as another issue of the series they appear in comes out. But since I'm pretty much the main editor for them and have to do most of the work, and when I saw you edit the Anna page, I thought maybe you could write for it when each issue of All-Stars comes out and keep her page updated with what she's been doing. And because I would rather focus on King and Mr. America instead of Anna. So please let me know what you think. Mfowler (talk) 11:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Great, thank you very much! Don't feel rushed to go and quickly edit the page as soon as you get an issue, just try to keep it updated whenever you can. I will try to help out still, as well. Thanks! Mfowler (talk) 11:47, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Oliwa

Some one who knows about this history, please expand into complete sentences. -- Crenner 14:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Revert
I reverted 81.219.96.251's edits because of his history. Can someome check the diff and see what is correct. — siro χ  o  21:06, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

Oliwa or Danzig/Gdansk history
Is some of the history described here relevant to Danzig/Gdansk rather than just Oliwa? Signor Eclectic 22:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Double naming is used only in historic context
Modern locations are not to be double named.--Molobo (talk) 21:14, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That is correct. How is your point related to this article? Skäpperöd (talk) 07:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Double naming is not used in historic context but in lead about modern location. I will correct it.--Molobo (talk) 22:07, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The article is about historical and modern Oliva --> double naming. Skäpperöd (talk) 16:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Gustav Schilling
I removed a wikilink Gustav Schilling, since it redirected to Guus Schilling (Dutch track cyclist, 1876-1951). However, at File:Gustav Schilling (15215529905).jpg, a "baron" and "local judge" is hsown (1839-1909), who could be the person that was meant in the article. Maybe, his picture could be included here. - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 20:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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User:Daibhid C

Daibhid C was born and raised in "Invuhrrsnekie". He's really called David Kennedy, but uses the Scots Gaelic spelling of Daibhid Ceannaideach on the internet. He is a huge Terry Pratchett fan, and enjoys writing about himself in the third person. He nicked the last joke from the author biography at the back of a Doctor Who novel, but can't recall which one.

Rather than keep updating the list of pages I've worked on, I've decided to just say that most of them can be found under the following categories:

 * Category: Lists of fictional things
 * Category: Discworld
 * Category: Doctor Who
 * Category: DC Comics
 * Category: Marvel Comics
 * Category: BBC radio comedy programmes
 * Category: Red Dwarf

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Rationalization

Rationalization may refer to:

 * Rationalization (economics), an attempt to change an ad hoc workflow into one based on published rules; also, jargon for a reduction in staff
 * Rationalisation (mathematics), the process of removing a square root or imaginary number from the denominator of a fraction
 * Rationalization (psychology), a psychological defense mechanism in which perceived controversial behaviors are logically justified also known as "making excuses"
 * Post-purchase rationalization, a tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected
 * Rationalization (sociology), the replacement of traditions, values, and emotions as motives for behavior in society with rational motives
 * Rationalization, appropriate placement of a factor such as was done with $4π$ for Heaviside–Lorentz units

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Talk:Brzeźno

I give up, someone who knows how, please get this accented z in the title. -- Crenner 14:37, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * There is no way because the English Wikipedia does not currently support Unicode. — Timwi 02:43, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:USS Virginia (1776)

HMS Conqueror
WP turns up an inconsistency - the HMS Conqueror of this period was a ship-of-the-line, not a frigate. Either the name is wrong or the ship type is wrong, need to investigate further. Stan 14:40, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Joshua Barney

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NOTE: This article refers to Lt. Joshua Barney as the Virginia's executive officer. This information was likely taken from his memoirs, published in the 1830s by his daughter-in-law, and from subsequent biographies which perpetuated this error. In fact, he was too junior to be the first lieutenant, and official sources I have come across indicate he was, in fact, the fifth lieutenant, making him the most junior lieutenant aboard. Unfortunately, I cannot find the specific reference at this time. Thus I am only making this note rather than an official change. However, as soon as I can find an official source like I did in my research a couple years ago, I will update this site. V/R LCDR T. D. Thygesen, USNR (Ret.)

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Wilson Cruz

Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría; December 27, 1973) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life, Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery, and the recurring character Junito on Noah's Arc. As a gay man of Afro-Puerto Rican ancestry, he has served as an advocate for gay youth, especially gay minorities.

Early life
Cruz was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents born in Puerto Rico. His family eventually moved to Rialto, California, where he attended Eisenhower High School, graduating in 1991. At age 19, Cruz came out to his parents as gay, first to his mother and then to his father. While his mother was initially hurt and shocked, she eventually accepted the news. His father, however, threw him out of the house, and Cruz spent the next few months living in his car and at the homes of friends. He later reconciled with his father.

Career
Cruz went to Hollywood to seek work as an actor, intending to be open about his sexuality from the beginning of his career. In 1994, he was cast as Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, a troubled, gay teen, in the short-lived, critically acclaimed cult classic TV series My So-Called Life. This made Cruz the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay character in a leading role in an American television series.

Following My So-Called Life's cancellation, Cruz went on to play J. Edgar Hoover's servant Joaquin in Oliver Stone's film Nixon and had a small role in the television movie On Seventh Avenue. In 1996, he appeared with David Arquette as Mikey in Johns, about the day-to-day struggles of male prostitutes. In 2000, he played Victor in the final season of Party of Five. He also had a recurring role as Rafael de la Cruz on the series, Raising the Bar.

Cruz's other acting credits include the films Joyride (1996), All Over Me (1997), Supernova (2000), Party Monster (2003), Margaret Cho's Bam Bam and Celeste (2005), Coffee Date (2007), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009); the television film The Perfect Pitch (2002); and guest appearances on the series Great Scott!, Sister, Sister, ER, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Noah's Arc, and Grey's Anatomy. Cruz starred as Adrian in the film The Ode (2007), based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla.

He also appeared/starred in the 2009 movie The People I've Slept With. He plays the best friend of a promiscuous woman who tries to find out who got her pregnant so that she can get married.

Since 2017, Cruz has portrayed Dr. Hugh Culber on the science fiction series Star Trek: Discovery.

Since 2020, Cruz has been a recurring guest on 25 Words or Less.

In 2023, Cruz became the new chair of the board of directors for GLSEN.

Personal life
Cruz works with and advocates on behalf of LGBT youth, especially youth of color. He has volunteered his time as host for the Youth Zone, an online community at Gay.com for LGBT youth. He was the Grand Marshal of the 1998 West Hollywood Gay Pride parade, the 2005 Chicago Pride Parade and the 2019 Fierté Montréal Pride Parade in Québec. In 2008, he was the keynote speaker at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Lavender Graduation and Rainbow Banquet honoring graduating LGBT students.

Cruz joined the board of directors of GLAAD in 1997 to assist the organization through a leadership transition, and joined the staff of GLAAD in 2012 as a National Spokesperson and Strategic Giving Officer.

Cruz's maternal stepaunt Brenda Lee Marquez McCool was among the 49 victims killed in the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting; Cruz stated that she was killed while protecting her son Isaiah, who survived the gunfire.

In 2020, Wilson was honored on one of the covers of Out magazine's annual Out100 issue, saying Wilson "beautifully weaves his activism inside every aspect of his work".

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Angwantibo

Angwantibos are two species of strepsirrhine primates classified in the genus Arctocebus of the family Lorisidae. They are also known as golden pottos because of their yellow or golden coloration.

Angwantibos live in tropical Africa and their range includes Nigeria, Cameroon north of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Angwantibos grow to a size of 22 to 30 cm, and have almost no tail at all. They only weigh up to 0.5 kg. Their fur is yellow brown to golden in color. Their snout is more pointed than that of the other lorids and this, along with their round ears, gives it the bear-like appearance that lends them their name in German: Bärenmaki, "bear lemur".

Solitary, nocturnal and arboreal, they prefer the underbrush and the lower layers of the forests. They spend the day hidden in the leaves. Like all lorisids they are characterized by slow movements.

The diet of angwantibos consists predominantly of insects (mostly caterpillars), and occasionally fruits. Owing to their careful movements and their good sense of smell, they can quietly stalk and close-in on their prey and catch it with a lightning-quick movement.

The males mate with all available females whose territory overlaps with theirs. Copulation takes place hanging onto a branch. Gestation lasts 130 days and births are of a single offspring. The juvenile clasps itself first to the belly of the mother and later she may park her offspring on a branch while she goes searching for food. Within three to four months the young are weaned, at about six months it leaves its mother, and at an age of eight to ten months it becomes fully mature. The life expectancy of angwantibos is at most 13 years.

A subplot in Gerald Durrell's first book The Overloaded Ark centres on his attempts to secure an angwantibo for zoological study.

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Merfolk

Merfolk, Mercreatures, Mermen or Merpeople are legendary water-dwelling, human-like beings. They are attested in folklore and mythology throughout the ages in various parts of the world.

In English, female merfolk are called mermaids, although in a strict sense, mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance; male merfolks are called mermen. Depending on the story, they can be described as either ugly or beautiful.

Chinese rényú (人魚) stands for "merfolk", but in ancient geographical or natural historical tracts, the term referred to "human-fish" or "man-fish" purported to inhabit rivers or lakes in certain parts of China. The Japanese analogue ningyo (人魚) likewise translates to "merfolk" while, at the same time, having also applied to various human-like fish recorded in writings from medieval times into the Edo Period.

China
Certain fantastical types of "fish", generically referred to as renyu (, "human-fish") are alleged to occur in various parts of China according to the Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas, 4th century BC). It is mentioned in the Bei Shan Jing ("Classic of the Northern mountains"), Zhong Shan Jing (Central Mountains), and  Xi Shan Jing (Western Mountains) sections of this work.

This work and others also mention several additional types of "anthropomorphic fish" with limbs in other regions such as the ("red ru fish" ) and  (魚; "hill-fish"), considered to be in the same category of creatures. Certain tribes or races of humans were also described being part-fish, namely the.

It is recorded that the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was illuminated with lamps fueled by the oil of the human-fish (renyu), whose flames were meant to last a very long time.

Renyu or human-fish

 * (aka haieryu. subtypes tiyu and niyu )

The renyu (人魚; human-fish) is described in the Bei Shan Jing ("Classic of the North Mountains") section as dwelling on Mt. Longhou (龍侯山, "Dragon-Marquis Mountain") in the waters of the Jueshui (決水, "Bursting River"), which flows eastward into the Yellow River. It is said to "resemble the tiyu" (translated as "resemble catfish" ) possess four legs, with a voice like baby crying.

Eating the fish purportedly cured idiocy or dementia. This fish as a cure was also quoted in the Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu (1596) under its entry for Tiyu (䱱魚)

The Bencao Gangmu categorized the tiyu (魚) as one of two types of "human-fish" (renyu). The human-fish were also known as "child-fish" or haieryu (魚; 孩儿鱼).

The other type, called the niyu (魚) is elaborated in a separate section. It has been noted by Li Shizhen that the character for the Niyu (Ni 鯢 fish) consists of the "fish" indexing component (魚) and "child" (兒) radical.

Translators of the Bencao Gangmu attempt to match entries with actual taxa of animals, forbs, etc., where possible, and the tiyu type is glossed as "newts" while the niyu type is "Chinese giant salamander".

Chiru or red ru fish
The (赤鱬; "red ru fish". Wade-Giles: ch'ih-ju; "red ju") is described in the Nan Shan Jing ("Classic of the Southern Mountains") as a human-headed fish. It is said to be found in the Qingqushan (青丘山 "Green-Hills Mountains") in the Pool-of-Yi (Yì zhī zé 翼之澤; "Carp-Wings Lake"). It is described as basically fish-form but having a human face, and issuing sounds like the mandarin duck. Eating it purportedly prevented scabies or itchy skin.

The illustration of the chiru from China may have influenced the legless, human-faced fish visualization of some of the ningyo in Japan, according to the hypothesis of.

Jiaoren
The jiaoren ( "flood dragon people" or "shark people") that appear in medieval writings are considered to be references to merfolk.

This mythical southern mermaid or merman is recorded in 's "Records of Strange Things" (early 6th century CE).

"In the midst of the South Sea are the houses of the kău people who dwell in the water like fish, but have not given up weaving at the loom. Their eyes have the power to weep, but what they bring forth is pearls."

Similar passages appear in other texts such as the Bowuzhi (博物志, "Treatise of Manifold " c. 290 CE) as "weep[ing] tears that became pearls".

These aquatic people supposedly spun a type of raw silk called jiaoxiao "mermaid silk" or jiaonujuan  "mermaid woman's silk". Schafer equates this with sea silk, the rare fabric woven from byssus filaments produced by Pinna "pen shell" mollusks.

Loting
Loting (盧亭) is a mysterious ethnic group residing in Hong Kong's Myths. They are legendary merfolk half human and half fish, also known as Lo Yu, Lu Heng, or Lo Ting Fish Man. They have lived on Tai O' Lantau Island in Hong Kong since the local civil uprising in the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. It is said that Loting has fish scales on his fish-like human body, a face that resembles humans, and he enjoys sucking chicken blood. They could use their catch to fish from Tai O and trade chickens with the local human inhabitants to survive.

Japan
The ningyo (人魚 "human-fish") of Japan has its own history in the country's literary record. The earliest references (in the Nihon shoki, entry for year 619, reign of Empress Suiko) do not specifically use the term ningyo, and the "thing" appeared in fresh water (a river in Ōmi Province, canal Settsu Province), and may presumed to be a giant salamander. Later accounts claim that Empress Suiko's regent Prince Shōtoku knew the creature to be a ningyo when one was presented to him by representatives of Ōmi. The appearance of the human-fish was strongly associated with ill omen in later treatments of the Prince's encounter with the human-fish.

During the Kamakura Period, ningyo of the marine sort were frequently reported as washing ashore, and these were taken to be ominous signs usually prefiguring bloody battles.

The ningyo, or rather renyu (人魚) and the like found in Chinese sources (chiru, tiyu etc., etc., discussed above) were also discussed in Japanese literature, for example, works of scholars of herbal and traditional medicine, such as Kaibara Ekiken (d. 1714) and Ono Ranzan (d. 1810). These Japanese scholars were also aware of European discussions on "sirens", "anthropomorphic fish", "peixe muller (fish-woman)", etc.

In popular culture

 * Merfolk are a fictional race of humanoids that live underwater in Dungeons & Dragons.
 * Merfolk are humanoid aquatic creatures with fish-like characteristics in Magic: The Gathering.
 * Merfolk are humanoid aquatic creatures with fish-like characteristics in Spectromancer.
 * In One Piece, the Merfolk are among the different races in the anime and one of the two types that dwell underwater (the other being the Fishmen). Each of the Merfolk has their "fish" parts based on different fishes and related creatures like coelacanths, icefish, kissing gouramis, Japanese rice fish, striped beakfish, righteye flounders, olive flounders, blue-striped angelfish, smelt-whitings, sharks, oarfish, opahs, blue-ringed octopuses, shortfin mako sharks, seahorses, catfish, Bering wolffish, goldfish, and brotulas however not all of them are half fish as they have the aquatic parts of other marine creatures from waist down instead like an octopus.
 * In Monster Musume, Meroune Lorelei is a mermaid princess wearing gothic loli clothes who moves around in a wheelchair when she's out of water.
 * The Techno Trolls introduced in Trolls World Tour bears a striking resemblance to mermaids but are able to survive and walk on dry land like the other tribes of trolls.

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Przymorze

Przymorze is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk. It is divided into 2 quarters:
 * Przymorze Małe
 * Przymorze Wielkie
 * inhabitants: 54,277
 * area: 5.6

History
Przymorze was a private church village of the abbey in Oliwa, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.

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New research on taxonomy
I don't have time to go through it right at the moment, but a PhD thesis on the taxonomy of Perodicticus has recently been published on the web. It looks like it has some information in it that might be helpful to this article. Just thought I'd mention it in case someone else has a chance to get to it before I do. Perodicticus 22:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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elevation
I don't know how many people bother looking at this site but hey, I was just at a prosimians conference, and have heard that the three subspecies have been upgraded to full species. I'm currently doing work on ibeanus, and just to mention that pottos are not necessarily as slow as everyone tends to make out, they can certainly get around as and when they wish (much like the loris, which I was working on in 2006). Raggs —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.49.77.71 (talk • contribs).

 * Neat. When the work is published, put a pointer to it here and we'll update the article. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Right me again, i've now been following perodictus ibeanus around for 3 months (alas i can't remember the book title, but it's like its basically the Primates book). I've updated a little, again like the loris they aren't slow moving, they just don't run or jump, however anyone who's seen them whilst it's raining would never refer to it as slow moving. Also on the palm civets Elizabeth Pimley (worked on the pottos in cameroon) had an instance of being able to track a palm civet for a short while whilst the radio collar from an adult potto was travelling through it's digestive tract... so they definitly get munched on time to time at least. Raggs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.49.87.75 (talk) 07:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Your first-hand knowledge is not relevant. When the work is published and you can cite your verifiable sources, you can add the information. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Well I am intending to publish this work in conjunction with Elizabeth Pimley, however publication can take anything from 1-2 years, and even then, mentioning that it's not a slow, careful moving animal that the general public think it is, most likely won't be included in the article. In the meantime I can probably make an extremely strong case for claiming that I know more about the habits of this species in the wild than anyone else currently on this planet, seeing as the only previous work done on them in the wild was by Elizabeth Pimley, for 3 weeks last year, and preceeded by Charles Dominique over 30 years ago. But whatever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raggs212.49.74.144 (talk) 06:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Again, it does not matter what you know. What matters is what you can cite so others can verify it. But while you are awaiting publication, how about [ creating an account] ? - UtherSRG (talk) 11:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about my previous comment, it was bigheaded and immature, and whilst I'd be the first to admit that I can be arrogant, I'm not usually immature. I have just left the field site and good friends, my research has gone neither as well as I had hoped nor expected, so when I am told that what I know (and in truth I wasn't really exaggerating about knowing their habits in the wild) is irrelevant, it is somewhat frustrating. As for making an account, using slow internet connections in kenya isn't conducive to doing much of anything most the time. Once I'm settled back in a country where I have a more reliable connection, then I shall do so. Again I apologise for my statements, but stand by the fact that my first hand knowledge is of better quality than what people have been using for the past thirty years and saying that they are slow moving. It may only be the ibeanus species that moves rapidly, but I would put it's movements on a par with those of the red slender loris, which I spent 6 months working on for a phd student (she should soon be finishing her dissertation, then hopefully publishing, but in the meantime Anna Nekaris has put some information out there). -Raggs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.49.84.165 (talk) 10:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Image Potto.png
There is doubt about the identity of the animal depicted by the black-and-white drawing, which seems to be a copy (flipped to be sure) of a colour drawing/painting purportedly showing a Calabar angwantibo. Please check the file on the right. Dogo (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * While the images are indeed quite similar, I believe this is due to the fact that the two animals are very similar and that the images were created by the same author. Looking close, you can see that there are some differences between the images. Note the shape of the ears, the shape of the gap above the feet, and the angle of the arm. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I can hardly believe that you are serious. Do you really mean that those "differences" have any taxonomic significance, especially between animals that belong to different genera? You must be joking. Even if both drawings were made by the same author and he decided to give them exactly the same posture and to place them on branches with practically the same shape, he would at least have clearly shown the tail of the potto to distinguish it from the angwantibo. It does not make sense to make two drawings that nobody can clearly differentiate, and then label them with different species names. Consequently, I am 99% certain that the black-and-white drawing is a copy made by another author, who for some reason called it a potto (if the original was in fact labeled "golden potto", one could not even blame the copier too much). The differences you see, are simply copying errors. Dogo (talk) 21:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * How much would you like to bet? The Potto image was used on the cover of the O'reilly GNU Make book.. They are both 19th century lithographs. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:21, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what this proves. This "Make book" clearly uses clipart. I would have to see the original lithographs with proof of authorship before I consider changing my position. Maybe some other people could also contribute to this discussion. Dogo (talk) 23:38, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

First of all, the illustration is so old that it can hardly be considered reliable or accurate. Secondly, until we can find the original source and provide more information in its info box on Commons, I wouldn't even use the image... even for historical purposes. I've looked for the last hour for the source among the most popular illustration books from that time, but the closest I could come up with was from 1894 and 1884. Both are clearly labeled as an angwantibo. Again, the artwork is so old and inaccurate that it's pointless discussing anatomical differences. However, according to one of my books, the angwantibo and potto are easily confused, with the angwantibo being slightly smaller, having a longer face, and exhibiting differences in the hands. – Maky  « talk » 04:13, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, that is a useful contribution in my view. So, based on my findings and those of Maky, I propose to the authors of this article that they remove the drawing that we have discussed here, unless any of them comes up with another, but very convincing, argument. Dogo (talk) 22:32, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Looking at the article's edit history, I would have to say that this article came together piecemeal, like so many other Start- and Stub-class articles on Wiki. For now, I'm going to remove the image, although I am more than open to discussing it if UtherSRG or anyone else disagrees. –  Maky  « talk » 22:54, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't object to the image being removed. I only objected to the claim that it was a bogus image. Cheers! - UtherSRG (talk) 07:20, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you don't object to the removal of the image. However, I never used the word bogus and didn't imply it either. Bogus suggests intent. The point I wanted to make was that this image most likely depicted an angwantibo. The mislabelling could have been relatively innocent. Dogo (talk) 22:34, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

crypsis
The article currently reads: "The potto moves slowly and carefully, always gripping a branch with at least two limbs. It is also quiet and avoids predators using crypsis." clicking on the link for "crypsis" yields this definition: "crypsis is the ability of an organism to avoid observation or detection by other organisms." So the sentence basically means that it avoids detection by the ability to avoid detection. This is not very informative. A clarification of which methods of crypsis it uses would be far more useful. Also later the article says that it has no natural predators b/c the predators do not climb trees. What is correct? -- InspectorTiger (talk) 13:53, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

l l l l --- The crypsis method used is just sloth-like slow movement and inconspicuous coloration. You're right, the word "crypsis" should be change to "cryptic movement", but the link to the "crypsis" page should remain. Msbaggott (talk) 05:19, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Citation needed
The last two sentences of this article present information without a proper referenceMsbaggott (talk) 05:05, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Predation Problems
There is not a satisfactory description of predation on the potto in this article, and references for natural predation bushmeat hunting are missing. Humans, many raptor and owl species, and chimpanzees are the principal predators of the potto. Oates, J.F. 1984. The niche of the potto, Perodicticus potto. International Journal of Primatology. Vol. 5(1), 51-61.Msbaggott (talk) 05:17, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Is something preventing you from editing the article yourself? Perodicticus (talk) 21:11, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Behavior and Ecology
The potto is said to have a "strong" territory. Was this phrase meant to say "large" territory or was the author referring to the fact that a male's territory is strongly defended against same-sex intruders?RooneyRee (talk) 20:30, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Wilmer Valderrama

Wilmer Eduardo Valderrama (born January 30, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Fez in the sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006), his current role as Special Agent Nick Torres in NCIS (2016–present), and Agustín Madrigal in Encanto. He was also host of the MTV series Yo Momma (2006–07), the voice of Manny from the Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior animated series Handy Manny (2006–2013), and played Carlos Madrigal in From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016). He has had recurring roles on Grey's Anatomy as well as The Ranch (both in 2016).

Valderrama has further performed in several prominent feature films, including Party Monster (2003), Beauty Shop (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), Unaccompanied Minors (2006), Larry Crowne (2011), and The Adderall Diaries (2015). He voiced the character of Prince Philippe Charming in the family animated film Charming (2018).

In addition to his acting career, Valderrama tours extensively as Global Ambassador for the United Service Organizations (USO), works with the voting rights organization Voto Latino,  and co-founded the non-profit Harness.

Early life
Valderrama was born in 1980 in Miami, Florida, to Balbino A. and Sobeida Valderrama. He moved to Venezuela at age 3 and grew up there until the age of 13 when his family moved back to the US. His father is Venezuelan and his mother is Colombian.

Television and film career
Valderrama got his start performing in numerous plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and Rumors. He made his professional debut in a Spanish-language Pacific Bell commercial. At his drama teacher's suggestion, he got an agent and was cast in the CBS miniseries Four Corners and in Omba Mokomba on the Disney Channel. He made his big-screen debut in the film Summer Catch.

Valderrama played Fez on That '70s Show from 1998 to 2006; he was a senior in high school when the pilot episode was filmed. He played DJ Keoki in the 2003 film Party Monster. He produced and hosted the MTV series Yo Momma from 2006 to 2007, and appeared three times on Punk'd, hosted by fellow That '70s Show alumnus Ashton Kutcher.

In April and May 2003, Valderrama appeared in the Los Angeles Times critic's choice play Blackout, an adaptation of the feature film Drunks, and on April 4, 2004, starred in the Actors' Fund of America one-performance only reading of Sunset Boulevard. He filmed the short film La torcedura in which he played the lead, and appeared in The Darwin Awards, an independent film directed by Finn Taylor.

In animation work, Valderrama voiced Rodrigo in Clifford's Really Big Movie. He also voices the main character, Manny, in Disney Channel's Handy Manny series for preschoolers. He had a starring role in El Muerto, an indie film directed by Brian Cox and based on the comic book created by Javier Hernandez. In January 2007, Valderrama launched his own men's fashion label called "Calavena". His production company is WV Entertainment.

In 2010, Valderrama guest-starred on Disney Channel's series Wizards of Waverly Place playing the role of Theresa Russo's brother, Ernesto. In 2011, he appeared in three episodes of USA Network's Royal Pains as Eric Kassabian, an art dealer. In 2012, Valderrama co-hosted Premios Juventud as a superhero on July 19, 2012. In August 2012, he appeared in house music group Nomads' music video of "Addicted to Love".

On September 27, 2013, Valderrama won an ALMA Award for Outstanding Social Activism. By late November 2013, Valderrama had joined the cast of From Dusk till Dawn: The Series.

On June 16, 2016, Valderrama joined NCIS in its fourteenth season. He is a series regular as NCIS Special Agent Nicholas Torres. This led to crossover appearances on spin-offs NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Hawaiʻi.

Wilmer also voiced Gaxton in the 2020 Disney/Pixar animated feature film, Onward. In 2021 he lent his voice to the Disney animated film Encanto. In December 2021, Wilmer was set to executive produce and star in an untitled Zorro series for Disney Branded Television. On April 30, 2022, it was announced that Valderrama would have a guest appearance in the follow-up sitcom, That '90s Show.

Music career
On May 11, 2011, Valderrama released the song "The Way I Fiesta," which he performed as his alter ego, Eduardo Fresco. The video was directed by Akiva Schaffer from the group The Lonely Island. Danny Masterson, Valderrama's co-star from That '70s Show, has a cameo appearance in the video. Valderrama appeared in the 2009 music video for Wisin & Yandel's song "Imagínate". He also appeared in and produced the 2011 video for LMFAO's song "Sexy and I Know It." At the Billboard Latin Music Awards, he said that he is making music which he will release in Spanish and English. On July 27, 2012, he interviewed Latina and said that he is recording tracks and is working with great artists/producers from both the English and the Spanish side. He said he was hoping to release more music in 2013. On March 10, 2014, Valderrama revealed that a Salud Part 2 is in the works and that his new music would be coming out towards the end of the summer of 2014.

United Service Organizations
Since 2007, Valderrama has taken part in multiple tours on behalf of the USO. He has traveled more than 46 times and made hosting appearances in locations including Bagram air base in Afghanistan, as well as Iraq, Germany, Poland, South Korea, and Bahrain. In 2021, Valderrama was named a USO Global Ambassador along with singer Kellie Pickler.

Harness
In 2017, Valderrama co-founded Harness with America Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams, with the stated goal of improving representation in historically marginalized communities. The non-profit's Be Counted campaign encourages the Latino community to complete and return U.S. census forms.

Voto Latino
Valderrama has worked with the voting rights non-profit Voto Latino since the organization was formed in 2004. The organization promotes increased voter participation and conducts voter registration drives at cultural events. Valderrama currently serves on the organization's impact council.

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Between 2009 and 2012, Valderrama served as the spokesperson for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Ready to Lead program.

Essential Voices with Wilmer Valderrama
In July 2021, Valderrama launched Essential Voices with Wilmer Valderrama, an iHeartRadio podcast highlighting the experiences of key workers.

Personal life
Valderrama met Mandy Moore when she was 15, and they dated when she was "16 or 17." Valderrama, who is four years her senior, later claimed that Moore had lost her virginity to him, which she denied. In 2004, Valderrama dated Lindsay Lohan, who was 18 at the time; he was 24. From 2010 to 2016, he was in an on-and-off relationship with Demi Lovato. The two met when Lovato was 17 and Valderrama was 29, though they did not begin dating until Lovato turned 18. Lovato would later release the song "29" (2022), which was widely interpreted as a condemnation of Valderrama now that the singer themself was 29, although Lovato did not directly confirm the inspiration and simply stated, "I feel like the song says it all".

In January 2020, Valderrama became engaged to Amanda Pacheco, who is eleven years his junior. In December 2020, the couple announced they were expecting their first child. Their daughter was born on February 15, 2021.

Valderrama is a car collector. He has retained the original model 1969 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser used in That '70s Show, purchased for $500 upon learning that the show was going to cease production.

Awards

 * (2022) (NHMC Impact Awards Gala) (Trailblazer Impact Award)
 * Nominated – Imagen Foundation Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Film
 * Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Sidekick (2003, 2005, 2006)
 * Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Sidekick (2002, 2004)
 * Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006)
 * Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series by a Young Ensemble (1999)
 * Imagen Foundation Award for Best Supporting Actor – Television (2019)

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