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Serbian dinar

The dinar (динар, ; paucal: dinara / динара; abbreviation:  DIN  (Latin) and дин (Cyrillic); code: RSD) is the currency of Serbia. The dinar was first used in Serbia in medieval times, its earliest use dating back to 1214. The dinar was reintroduced as the official Serbian currency by Prince Mihailo Obrenović in the 1868. One dinar was formerly subdivided into 100 para.

Medieval Serbian dinar
The first mention of a "Serbian dinar" dates back to the reign of Stefan Nemanjić in 1214. Until the fall of Despot Stjepan Tomašević in 1459, most of the Serbian rulers minted silver dinar coins. The first Serbian dinars, like many other south-European coins, replicated Venetian grosso, including characters in Latin (the word 'Dux' replaced with the word 'Rex'). It was one of the main export articles of medieval Serbia for many years, considering the relative abundance of silver coming from Serbian mines. Venetians were wary of this, and Dante Alighieri went so far as to put the Serbian king of his time, Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia, in Hell as a forger (along with his Portuguese and Norwegian counterparts): E quel di Portogallo e di Norvegia lì si conosceranno, e quel di Rascia che male ha visto il conio di Vinegia.

First modern Serbian dinar (1868–1920)
Following the Ottoman conquest, different foreign currencies were used up to the mid-19th century. The Ottomans operated coin mints in Novo Brdo, Kučajna and Belgrade. The subdivision of the dinar, the para, is named after the Turkish silver coins of the same name (from the Persian پاره pāra, 'money, coin'). After the Principality of Serbia was formally established (1817), there were many different foreign coins in circulation. Eventually, Prince Miloš Obrenović decided to introduce some order by establishing exchange rates based on the groat (Serbian groš, French and English piastre, Turkish kuruş, قروش) as money of account. In 1819 Prince Miloš Obrenović published a table rating 43 different foreign coins: 10 gold, 28 silver, and 5 copper.

After the last Ottoman garrisons were withdrawn in 1867, Serbia was faced with multiple currencies in circulation. Thus, the prince Mihailo Obrenović ordered a national currency be minted. The first bronze coins were introduced in 1868, followed by silver in 1875 and gold in 1879. The first banknotes were issued in 1876. Between 1873 and 1894, the dinar was pegged at par to the French franc. The Kingdom of Serbia also joined the Latin Monetary Union and adhered to a bimetallic standard up until 1914. Attempts to put the Serbian dinar solely onto the gold standard were hampered by widening budget deficits, significant government foreign debt and poor gold reserves.

In 1920, the Serbian dinar was replaced at par by the Yugoslav dinar, with the Yugoslav krone also circulating together.

Coins
In 1868, bronze coins were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, and 10 paras. The obverses featured the portrait of Prince Mihailo Obrenović III. Silver coins were introduced in 1875, in denominations of 50 paras, 1 and 2 dinars, followed by 5 dinars in 1879. The first gold coins were also issued in 1879, for 20 dinars, with 10 dinars introduced in 1882. The gold coins issued for the coronation of Milan I coronation in 1882 were popularly called milandor (Milan d'Or). In 1883, cupro-nickel 5, 10, and 20 para coins were introduced, followed by bronze 2 para coins in 1904.

Banknotes
In 1876, state notes were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 dinars. The Chartered National Bank followed these notes from 1884, with notes for 10 dinars backed by silver and gold notes for 50 and 100 dinars. Gold notes for 20 dinars and silver notes for 100 dinars were introduced in 1905. However, gold-backed notes were not received well by the public. Lack of public faith in the Serbian dinar, bartering and immediate exchange for gold coins meant that the notes fell out of circulation. Silver-backed notes were however well received and made up 95% of total note circulation. During the Balkan Wars and on the eve of World War I, bank note conversions to gold and silver were temporarily suspended. During World War I, silver notes for 50 and 5 dinars were introduced in 1914 and 1916, respectively. In 1915, stamps were authorized for circulation as currency in denominations of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 50 paras.

Second modern Serbian dinar (1941–1944)
In 1941, the Yugoslav dinar was replaced, at par, by a second Serbian dinar for use in the German occupied Serbia. The dinar was pegged to the German reichsmark at a rate of 250 dinars = 1 reichsmark. This dinar circulated until 1944, when the Yugoslav dinar was reintroduced by the Yugoslav Partisans, replacing the Serbian dinar rate of 1 Yugoslav dinar = 20 Serbian dinars.

Coins
In 1942, zinc coins were introduced in denominations of 50 paras, 1 and 2 dinars, with 10 dinar coins following in 1943.

Banknotes
In May 1941, the Serbian National Bank introduced notes for 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, and 1,000 dinars. The 100 and 1,000 dinar notes were overprints, whilst the 10 dinar design was taken from an earlier Yugoslav note. Other notes were introduced in 1942 and 1943 without any new denominations being introduced.

Third modern Serbian dinar (2003–present)
The Serbian dinar replaced the Yugoslav dinar in 2003 when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Both Montenegro and the disputed territory of Kosovo had already adopted the Deutsche Mark and later the euro when the mark was replaced by it in 2002. The Serbs in North Kosovo and the enclaves within it continue to use the dinar. However, in February 2024, the Kosovan government banned the use of the dinar for payment, requiring all regions to use the euro. The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, later clarified that the currency was not banned but that the euro would be the only legal currency for commercial transactions and that there would be a months-long transition period to ease in the new legislation.

Between 2003 and 2006, the Serbian dinar used the ISO 4217 code CSD, with CS being the ISO 3166-1 country code for Serbia and Montenegro. When the State Union was dissolved in 2006, the dinar's ISO 4217 code was changed to the current RSD.

Coins
Coins currently in circulation are 1 RSD, 2 RSD, 5 RSD, 10 RSD, and 20 RSD coins. All coins feature identical inscriptions in Serbian, using the Cyrillic and Latin scripts. The 10 RSD and 20 RSD coins are uncommon in circulation, as banknotes of the same value are used instead.

Banknotes
In 2003, banknotes of the (re-established) National Bank of Serbia were introduced in denominations of 100 RSD, 1,000 RSD, and 5,000 RSD. 500 RSD followed these in 2004, 50 RSD in 2005, 10 RSD, 20 RSD and 200 RSD in 2006, 2,000 RSD in 2011.

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Star Fox 64

Star Fox 64, (スターフォックス64) known as Lylat Wars in the PAL regions, is a 1997 rail shooter game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the second installment in the Star Fox series and a reboot of the original Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Star Fox 64 was the first Nintendo 64 game to feature support for the system's Rumble Pak peripheral, which initially came bundled with retail copies of the game. Since its release in 1997, the game has sold over 4 million copies, making it the best-selling game in the series and the ninth best-selling game on the system. The game received critical acclaim for its precise controls, voice acting, multiplayer modes, and replayability through the use of branching gameplay paths. Like the SNES Star Fox game before it, Star Fox 64 has been deemed one of the greatest video games of all time. A stereoscopic 3D remake for the Nintendo 3DS, Star Fox 64 3D, was released in 2011, and a reimagining for the Wii U, Star Fox Zero, was released in 2016. The game was also re-released on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack at the launch of the service on October 25, 2021.

Gameplay
Star Fox 64 is a 3D rail shooter game in which the player controls one of the vehicles piloted by Fox McCloud, usually an Arwing. Most of the game takes place in "Corridor Mode", which forces Fox's vehicle down an on-rails path straight forward through the environment. In Corridor Mode, the player's vehicle can be maneuvered around the screen to dodge obstacles and can also perform a somersault to get behind enemies or dodge projectiles. The Arwing is also capable of deflecting enemy fire while performing a spinning maneuver called a "barrel roll" (actually an aileron roll in real-life aviation terms). The Arwing and Landmaster can charge up their laser cannons to unleash a powerful lock-on laser.

In addition to Corridor Mode, some stages of the game, including multiplayer and most boss fights, take place in "All-Range Mode". In this variant, the player can move freely in a three-dimensional space within the confines of a large arena. The Arwing can also perform one new maneuver in All-Range Mode: a U-Turn to change direction.

Throughout the game, the player can fly or drive through power-ups to collect them. These include silver and gold rings that refill the vehicle's shields, weapon upgrades, wing repairs, extra lives, and Nova bombs.

Returning from the original Star Fox are wingmen that fly with the player in their own Arwings. Fox's wingmen periodically attack enemies or are pursued into the player's field of view, requiring the player to shoot down the pursuers before the wingman has to retreat to the Great Fox mothership for repairs (the character will then be unavailable to start the next stage, but may return if enough time passes). Each wingman provides a different form of assistance to the player: Slippy Toad scans bosses and displays their shields on the player's screen, Peppy Hare provides gameplay advice, and Falco Lombardi occasionally locates alternate routes through stages. Some stages also feature special appearances from supporting characters that assist the team.

The game features a branching level system, in which more difficult paths are unlocked by completing certain objectives. Players can also change paths once the current mission is accomplished. All of the game's possible routes start at Corneria, eventually putting the player in contact with the Star Wolf Team, and end at Venom in a confrontation with Andross.

To add replay challenge, the game also features awardable medals, which are earned by accomplishing a mission with all wingmen intact and having achieved a certain hit total. Obtaining medals unlocks bonus features, such as new multiplayer vehicles, cosmetic changes to Fox in single player, and additional game settings such as "Expert Mode".

Vehicles
The Arwing is the primary fighter craft used by the Star Fox team. The player can use the fighter's boost meter to perform special techniques to avoid collisions, change direction, and gain tactical advantages in combat. Certain levels also put the player in a tank-like vehicle called the Landmaster, as well as a submarine named the Blue Marine on the planet Aquas. Each vehicle shares some tactical characteristics with the Arwing while providing its own unique gameplay elements.

Multiplayer
Star Fox 64 features split-screen multiplayer support for up to four players simultaneously. At first, users can only play using the Arwing fighter, but by earning certain medals in the main campaign, players can unlock the Landmaster tank and fight on foot as one of the four members of Star Fox equipped with a bazooka. Multiplayer is the only place where players can use a Landmaster with upgraded lasers.

There are three modes of multiplayer play: a "point match" in which the player must shoot down an opponent a certain number of times, a "battle royal" in which the last player left wins, and a "time trial" to destroy enemy fighters.

Plot
On Corneria, the fourth planet of the Lylat system, the scientist Andross is driven to madness and nearly destroys the planet using biological weapons. General Pepper exiles Andross to the remote planet Venom. Five years later, Pepper detects suspicious activity on Venom. Pepper hires the Star Fox team (including James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar) to investigate. After Pigma betrays the team, Andross captures James and kills him, Peppy escapes from Venom alive and informs James's son Fox McCloud about father's fate.

A few years later, Andross launches an attack across the Lylat system. Defending Corneria, Pepper summons the new Star Fox team, now consisting of the team leader Fox, Peppy, Falco Lombardi, and Slippy Toad. While traveling through several planets, the team battles with several of Andross' henchmen, including the rival mercenary team Star Wolf. After the team arrives at Venom, Fox confronts and defeats Andross alone, then returns with his teams to Corneria for a victory celebration. Pepper offers Fox the opportunity to join the Cornerian Army, but he declines and the team departs.

Two endings are available depending on how Fox approaches Venom and defeats Andross. The Easy route ending occurs when Fox arrives from Bolse and destroys a robotic version of Andross, leaving Andross himself drifting in the Lylat system. In the Hard route ending from Area 6, Fox reveals Andross' true form as that of a floating brain, and finally kills him. Shortly before his death, Andross activates his base's self-destruct system in a last-ditch attempt to kill Fox. However, his father James appears and guides Fox out of the exploding base before disappearing again.

In a post-credits scene, Pepper receives a bill from Star Fox presenting the number of enemies killed and multiplies it by 64, resulting in the amount of money due. If the price is between $50,000 and $69,999 (between 781 and 1,093 enemies killed) he will say, "This is one steep bill....but it's worth it". If the price is over $70,000 (1,094 or more), he says "What?!" At this point, the bill is stamped.

Main characters
The Star Fox team is a group of mercenaries who are enlisted by General Pepper to defend the Lylat system. The team consists of:
 * Fox McCloud: A red fox who took over leadership of the team after his father, James, was captured by Andross in a prior assault. Fox is the game's protagonist and only playable character in Story Mode.
 * Peppy Hare: A rabbit who was part of the original Star Fox team. He survived and escaped when Pigma betrayed the team, which led to James's capture. He serves on the current Star Fox team as a mentor to Fox during missions.
 * Falco Lombardi: A falcon who is an excellent fighter, but is also quite cocky and self-assured. He looks for alternate routes and shortcuts.
 * Slippy Toad: A frog who is the team's mechanical expert. He is cheerful and energetic, but also prone to getting himself in trouble. He provides the player with valuable information about certain enemies and bosses.

Star Fox receives instructions and support from General Pepper, a bloodhound and leader of the Cornerian militia. The team's mothership, the Great Fox, is piloted by a robot named ROB 64 (NUS64 in the Japanese version). Two other supporting characters appear in certain missions to provide aid to the Star Fox team: Bill Grey, Fox's bulldog friend and leader of two fighter units; and Katt Monroe, Falco's friend and former gang member.

Andross is the game's primary antagonist who resembles a monkey or ape. He is a evil mad scientist who is intent on capturing and controlling the Lylat system. To stop Star Fox's progress, Andross recruits the Star Wolf team, a rival band of mercenaries consisting of the team leader Wolf O'Donnell, a wolf and Fox's long-time rival; Leon Powalski, a sinister chameleon who targets Falco; Andrew Oikonny, Andross's nephew, who goes after Slippy; and Pigma Dengar, a pig and traitor to the original Star Fox team who chases his former teammate Peppy.

Development
Following the release of Star Fox in 1993, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto began working on Star Fox 2 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). By 1995, Miyamoto and team had largely finished development of Star Fox 2 before realizing that its release would require the upgraded Super FX 2 chip, which would increase the cost of the game. Furthermore, newly launched competitor consoles, namely the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation, possessed processing power and graphics capabilities that dwarfed those of the SNES, making Star Fox 2 appear obsolete. Recognizing this and that the Nintendo 64 would launch the following year with significantly increased processing power and graphical capabilities, Miyamoto made the decision to cancel Star Fox 2 in favor of developing a new Star Fox game for the Nintendo 64.

Following the cancellation of Star Fox 2, Miyamoto and team began work on Star Fox 64. The team cribbed heavily from the work that had been done in Star Fox and Star Fox 2, stating in an interview that roughly 30% of 64's gameplay came from the original game, roughly 60% came from the cancelled sequel, and the remaining 10% was original work done during development. In particular, Miyamoto said: "All-Range Mode, Multi-Player Mode and the Star Wolf scenario all came from Star Fox 2". One new aspect of gameplay was the addition of levels that used the Landmaster tank and the Blue-Marine submarine, which were conceived of by members of the development team (rather than Miyamoto himself) in response to Miyamoto's suggestion that the game include a "human-type craft", which the team generally did not approve of. The team originally intended for the game to contain multiple underwater levels but ultimately scaled back as they found that the underwater levels slowed down the pacing of the game.

With the underlying gameplay largely complete early in development, Miyamoto and the team focused the majority of their efforts on graphics, audio and dialogue, and enemy AI, seeking to harness the Nintendo 64's processing power. For example, inspired by Miyamoto being a fan of the British puppet-based show Thunderbirds, the development team animated the game's characters opening and closing their mouths in a puppet-like fashion while speaking, which reduced the overall amount of animation work required for the game. The team also realized that adding dynamic audio would enhance the 3D gameplay experience as the player's allies could audibly signal when the player was being pursued by an offscreen enemy. In writing dialogue for the game's characters, the developers sought to invoke traditional historical dramas, adding more conventional lines such as "I've been waiting for you, Star Fox" and "You're becoming more like your father". Edgier dialogue such as "I guess it's your turn to be thankful" was written for the character Falco Lombardi, while more supportive dialogue such as "Never give up. Trust your instincts!" came from the character Peppy Hare.

Star Fox 64 was also the first title to make use of the Rumble Pak peripheral, which came bundled with the game in some instances. Miyamoto stated that the development team struggled to utilize the Rumble Pak in a way that players understood, noting that during development, players were often confused as to why their controller was vibrating.

Release
The game was first shown publicly at E3 1996 where Nintendo released a video of an early version of the game. This early version of the game showcased only the first level (Corneria) and featured a minimalistic HUD, showing only a crude meter reflecting the player's shield gauge. Nintendo released further beta footage of the game on December 6, 1996, that showed subsequent levels, an improved HUD, and a short multiplayer segment.

As the game approached launch, Nintendo became concerned that the title "Star Fox" could be considered too similar to the name of the German company "StarVox". Thus like its predecessor, the game was rebranded as Lylat Wars in certain PAL territories. Nintendo Power subscribers received a promotional video prior to Star Fox 64's release (the same tactic was used to promote Donkey Kong Country for the SNES as well as Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, and Hey You, Pikachu! for the Nintendo 64) that advertised the game's cinematic presentation, as well as new features like the Rumble Pak and voice acting. It revolves around two agents of Sega and Sony (who at the time were Nintendo's biggest hardware competitors) interrogating a Nintendo employee into revealing information about the game. The game reportedly had a marketing budget of $7 million.

Years after release, a substantial number of unused assets were found on the cartridge including unused icons, audio files, levels, and power-ups. In an interview post-release, Miyamoto said that while he was not 100% satisfied with the final version of Star Fox 64, he felt that the game made better use of the Nintendo 64's increased processing power than Super Mario 64, which was a launch title for the console and which Miyamoto had also developed.

Reception
Star Fox 64 received critical acclaim and was one of the top-selling games of 1997, second to Mario Kart 64. Reviews hailed the level branching system, particularly its use of player performance and secret in-level triggers rather than simple path selection. Many reviewers also praised the multiplayer modes as an ample source of replay value. However, Crispin Boyer of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) considered them a waste, contending that the split screen display made targets too small to pinpoint. The game's voice clips were widely complimented, not for the quality of the acting, but for the unprecedented quantity of audio clips for a cartridge-based game. Critics also applauded the precise analog control,   boss designs,   Rumble Pak implementation,     and cinematic cutscenes. GamePro gave the game a perfect 5 out of 5 in all four categories, praising the gameplay, graphics, controls, and fun factor.

The most common criticism was that Star Fox 64 was not as much of a leap over the original Star Fox as Super Mario 64 was over previous Mario games, in particular that the gameplay was still on rails. This perceived shortcoming did little to dull critics' response to the game, however. GameSpot reviewer Glenn Rubenstein declared Star Fox 64 "an instant classic" and "a pleasure to look at". EGM gave it their "Game of the Month" award, with Dan Hsu calling it "a shooting fan's dream come true" and Shawn Smith "almost as good as Mario 64". IGN reviewer Doug Perry said it "demonstrates that shooters are more alive now than ever".

The GameSpot review of the Wii Virtual Console version bestows a (7.6/10), praising its simple, enjoyable shooting gameplay, and much voice acting. The review says the game is nice to look at regardless of its graphic age, with added replay value in finding hidden paths, but found the lack of rumble support "alarming", especially since it is the first game to support the Rumble Pak.

In the first five days of the game's U.S. launch, more than 300,000 copies were sold, surpassing the record previously held by Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64. It sold above 1 million units in the United States by the end of 1997, one of five Nintendo 64 games to do so. Sales were considerably less in Japan, where it sold 75,595 copies during the first week of sale. The game also took the #73 spot in Nintendo Power's "Top 200 Nintendo Games Ever".

Star Fox 64 is listed as the 45th greatest game of all time by Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition in 2009. In 1997 EGM ranked it the 39th best console video game of all time, citing its amazing visuals, huge amount of voice acting, and the deep challenge of earning medals on all stages and completing expert mode. They also named it "Shooter of the Year" at their 1997 Editors' Choice Awards. In 2009, Official Nintendo Magazine ranked the game 14th in a list of the greatest Nintendo games.

Remake
At E3 2010, Nintendo announced a remake of Star Fox 64 for the Nintendo 3DS, titled Star Fox 64 3D. Nintendo exhibited a demo the same day that emphasized the technology of the Nintendo 3DS. The remake was co-developed by Q-Games and features stereoscopic 3D graphics, quality-of-life improvements, gyroscope controls, and brand new voice recordings. The game was released on July 14 in Japan and September 9, 2011 in Europe and North America. This marked the first time that Star Fox 64 had been released in PAL territories under the original Star Fox name. While the remake supports multiplayer for up to four players via download play, the game does not have an online multiplayer mode.

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A tag has been placed on Baila Funky Band, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Chris 73 | Talk 15:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Months in LoPbN
_ _ Thanks for the excellent summary re the two footballers, of course as well as for your determined work on LoPbN. (WTH are you doing, glancing articles that look like names on the list of all articles, to be sure they are bios of real people, and then adding the missing ones? Great idea, that i wouldn't dare to undertake without more automation than i have ever mustered. Are you keeping a list? Hmm, i suppose your contribs & Watchlist come close to doing that.) My pref is to read up on them both, and find some more widely known distinction, probably position played, since that is less likely to change than team. The style i currently use is [wink], in order to clearly demarcate the inclusion of player's position, or politician's office (if dead or retired), state, or city, or novelist's genre, as the kind of detail that none of the surrounding entries have need of. I guess that syntactically this is a little like the difference between
 * Smith, Adam (born 1985), British footballer -- tackle
 * football (sport)
 * football (equipment)

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 * football sport
 * football equipment

_ _ IMO the Dab'g suffixes are a similar issue; i'm not sure if dates for Dab'n are officially deprecated, but i think the usual ones i see (much moreso than these!) are misguided. (But peek at (mostly) my work, The boxers Davey Moore.) _ _ IMO dates are usually useful only to distinguish generations, people needing LoPbN to find the bio probably have less information than the entries do, and those knowing an exact year are unlikely to fail to get to the bio directly or thru a Dab page. And those make more sense than LoPbN (for those who don't treasure the chance, as i do, to add an entry when no existing LoPbN one gets me to the bio). If i'm right, that implies we need something besides a month on the LoPbN entries, so why not instead of it. --Jerzy•t 21:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * _ _ FWIW, here are the changes i made related to the footballers Adam Smith. (I don't know if anyone else converts Rdrs that get created when a Dab'd title is changed into what i think of as "double Dab'ns", but it seems to me they are logically required, since it is our policy to support entry into our articles via inward lks that may be out of date, rather than deleting an RdR that has been discovered to be too narrow.)
 * _ _ I read your user page this time [smile]. As you say, it needs doing, and when you find you need to slack off substantially, i hope you'll copy that discussion onto Talk:LoPbN or one of its subpages, and indicate the point you've reached: it probably is more efficient to tackle it as steadily as you are, when no one else has been doing it in the same neighborhood recently. (I think "recently" goes back to 2001 Jan. at the moment, and will continue to until the point where one pass has been made thru the 1.58M-&-counting articles.) If there is enough interest, perhaps workers should sign up there as exclusive S-g-method editors, for limited lengths of time, of specific stretches of the A-Z "page" -- of course, in parallel with all the myriad other strategies (& non-strategies) for adding names.
 * _ _ BTW, my guess was bcz i can't imagine anyone putting up with inspecting in alpha order by (usually) given name and having to add the entries alpha by (usually) surname, if the two megalists were not so firmly committed to those orders. But it has a nice side effect: graceful rather than catastrophic expansion of LoPbN-tree pages, such as occurred with the mergenames expansion of the T sub-tree. (That was not a disaster, but it was fairly demanding until i caught up.) I do think i am going to have to start a cyclic alphabetical patrol of the tree, seeking overgrown sections and pages, at least until (i think "unless" would be overcautious) i get the page-subdvn task well enough supported by templates that entry-adders undertake it.
 * _ _ In the spirit of your user-page request, here are three inputs:
 * I wasn't sure if you were apologizing for/excusing using or not using "actress", whose elimination is typical of my own "lo-res trmnlgy" edits. I think it's fair to summarize my approach roughly as avoiding all distinctions that fail to serve the goal of aiding navigation to the bio being sought; such failures IMO occur when they
 * are matters of judgment ("mogul" will never have a clear boundary vs "entrepreneur", nor if it did, would our editors let alone our users be aware of it)
 * tax the cross-cultural knowledge of users by using terms too specialized to provide more clarity as to which bio is the desired target than a more general term. (The titles of religious leaders, heads of state and government, and lawmakers seem to be the most frequent offenders). by excessive specialization.
 * embody what may be considered the other side of the same coin, making a distinction that makes too little difference to justify the attention burden of another word or of a more elaborate idea, e.g. by dividing a larger category into a very few parts (actor vs actress when simply "actor" in the broad sense is seldom less useful; (notable) lawyer vs judge when just "jurist" will do as well) or so lopsidedly as to almost always be useless (since notability is a given, prefixing a term with "professional" tells only what we should assume if "amateur" is absent;
 * generally change in the course of a career -- e.g., "politician" is usually sufficient to distinguish those it applies to from others of the same name; not all their notability stems from their highest office (my poster-children for lo-res trmnlgy are Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter: they are less notable for their presidencies than what came, respectively, before (breaking the Boston police strike as governor of Massachusetts) and after ("using the presidency as a stepping stone to greatness" as an activist/quasi-diplomat); users may seek them without being aware of their highest office; and such users may even be more likely to quickly find the bio without the red herring of the entry pointing out their highest office.
 * IMO (tho i anticipate having to make more than the usual case), several of those criteria call for using sailor or soldier for both the officers and non-commissioned personnel of the respective services, especially since so few of them, even medal winners, are notable without being officers.
 * Non-Western names are an issue IMO worthy of the concern you are showing about it. Some of the issues may not need definitive answers, since IMO (which i reflect in my practice), duplicate entries, that collectively cover all the places where a range of savvy and naive users are likely to look for a given name, are the best outcome; we need to accommodate all of them. (Note that whatever wisdom we can accumulate on name formats belongs in the bios and articles on the practices of the respective cultures, and attempts to conform LoPbN's style to the most correct practices are antithetical to its purpose of getting users to the bios they have in mind.)
 * I treat nationalities under the influence of point 3 of WP:MOSBIO (and my long-standing belief that it included the word "passport" to clarify "citizen or national"). But i either advocate, or grudging accommodate, the following variations:
 * hyphenating nationalities has no fixed meaning, but when i find it in an existing entry or the lead of the bio, i use a mentioned nationality that differs from birth place only if (presumably formal) change of nationality is asserted in the bio and use xxx-born ahead of it if apparent residence has changed, and birth nation is asserted as part or all of nationality or no nationality is asserted.
 * using a more general term than a nationality, when it conveys more information to a substantial fraction of users: "African", perhaps (or "West African", if it motivated me enough to check that) in place of "Burkina Faso" (obscure enough that i was not the first to misspell it "Burkino Faso" in using it as an example of obscurity, but was the first to create a misspelling Rdr to it); "Pacific" or "Caribbean" in the case of a few island nations (Nauru, Vanatua (hmm, Google << 346 of about 1,330 for Vanatua>>, and i'm creating the Rdr to Vanuatu), and Barbuda (OK: as i feared, not a country) come to mind).
 * following "American" or "Canadian" with "Puerto Rican" or the name of an Indian tribe, rather than argue with advocates who'd prefer dropping the fully-sovereign nationality.
 * analogous treatment for Basques, Catalans, and Sardinians, even tho no active editors seem to care,
 * no consistent approach to the sub-nationalities (if you'll permit that neologism) of British, probably mostly because shifting to "British" sometimes gives an impression of ending a dispute that a double term didn't.
 * I don't see these as mandated beyond the fact that they've been applied often enuf that ad hoc deviations amount to introducing stylistic inconsistency: i urge dissidents either to sit still for my changing them (or reverting back to them), or to mount a Talk:LoPbN discussion aimed at changing to an alternative backed by a formal consensus. But note that you are doing enuf entries, and responsibly enuf, that i'll be reviewing them less and less, and if you have any style agendas, you probably deserve the chance to assert them piecemeal (as i have) if you don't choose to initiate formal discussion; i'm not at all certain to do so if you precede without doing so, in part bcz i think any sufficiently promoted, consistently applied, reasonably functional system is better than the former chaos or an informal struggle among the heavy contributors.
 * _ _ I applaud your choice to forgo extensive research, since it should increase your efficiency on the part of the task that can't be done effectively except by someone doing a lot of entries. I am usually even more cold blooded with my extractions from Cat LP, usually doing just the fields of Template:LoPbN Entry that are needed for generating the link, and leaving to subsequent editors the parts that can be efficiently done one by one, whenever the spirit moves someone. --Jerzy•t 08:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh, it seemed to me that you were doing most or all of your LoPbN edits as whole-page edits, and perhaps you are using a tool that makes that more convenient. Most sections that have no subsections are of a length that makes them less confusing and laborious to edit than the whole page. I imagine you already know how to edit sections, but ask me it's somehow unclear. --Jerzy•t 08:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you use the "exhaustive list" for access to pages? Its purpose was to reduce the number of page fetches to get to the desired LoPbN-tree page. I understand that time to load it is an issue, and i'm working (mostly thinking for now) on how to speed it up; don't know if this bears on the scalability issues you imply. --Jerzy•t 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Long-term LoPbN Matters
_ _ Gosh, of course your procedure naturally provides access the stats on the whole population of bios. _ _ I'd be, well, at least curious as to all the high, low, & "best" estimates you find it worthwhile to make, whenever they become available: _ _ Any thots you've had about scalability problems and their solutions would interest me, including their potential for shaping the structure mechanisms that i'm currently upgrading. _ _ Thanks for all of this discussion! --Jerzy•t 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC) _ _ Yeah, the sampling is a more serious issue than i'd thot about, and probably the benefit is not great enuf to go beyond your previous (perhaps impressionistic) numbers. I think serious statistics would be a big enuf project to interfere with the task you've started, which can be efficiently done only non-randomly. _ _ As to marking edits as minor, you may have noticed i never do so. So i may be the wrong person to ask. But my sense is that in general, the most logical line to draw between "minor" and "[not]" is that punctuation, spelling, and grammar are minor, and perhaps so is everything else clearly specified in WP:MOS. If LoPbN (a nav facility akin to Rdrs and Dabs, not a bunch of articles) is different from articles in this regard, i would say that
 * % of articles that are bios
 * % of bios on LoPbN
 * % of bios dead/living
 * % of bios tagged with Cats descended from Category:People
 * % of bios that are tagged as stubs
 * any cross-tabulations (random example: dead-subject bio-stubs missing from LoPbN) you find interesting.
 * every new entry adds substance,
 * adding dates, nationalities, and callings found within WP doesn't, and
 * it's a matter for either debate or case-by-case judgment whether such info, when derived from outside research, is minor or not, and likewise for correction of errors of fact.

(But i think that including summaries is much more important than what one does in good faith about minor, and that your inclusion of the lk to the bio is exemplary. It's quite valuable to me, and probably many RC patrollers and the like, as a means of checking -- as i hope you don't distract yourself by doing, unless it helps stave off boredom-induced nausea -- whether a bio article, whose visibility has just increased, is of reasonable notability and quality.) I also think that a line should be drawn between all-cases-in-section-or-page edits that reflect either the de facto MOS or a new consensus, and those that in effect propose new stylistic stds. For example, an editor argued that my distinction between people known by surname and by given name (ask me for my recent thots if interested) is artificial & an impediment, and redid the Thomases accordingly. While i considered that a valuable experiment and stimulus to discussion, i think it's a change in MOS which can't be minor (and i think it probably could legitimately have been reverted as overly bold, since it leaves the organizing principles of the list inconsistent). --Jerzy•t 21:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * _ _ While i've neither researched nor tested it, i've long speculated that "random article" would turn out to be random from the user's point of view but favors under-edited or under-read articles.
 * _ _ I'm not a great colleague, as i suggested in my "acceptance speech" for admin nom; in particular i've done damn little to respond to the request to archive my talk page (despite its kind and prominent source). But i don't believe i've ever gotten (or seen anyone else get) any hint of a request to use the minor-edit box. --Jerzy•t 16:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * _ _ Thanks again for your massive effort via the list of all articles. And congratulations on winding up the Ad... names! It has impressed me that you've been churning out so many new entries, without more progress thru the alphabet. I admire your endurance.
 * _ _ It's true that mergenames produces results that are inferior in several respects, so this is at least another important, probably more important, demonstration of feasibility, that will be crucial even if you have to break off tomorrow: i expect users (noting that letters at the start of the alphabet are more heavily used) will say, perhaps for years of repeat sweeps for new names, "If Slyguy working alone got thru more than six 26ths of more than a 26th of the two-letter combos, i can have a real impact too."
 * _ _ BTW, here's another number or two that i have: within about the last month, i counted abt 170 parent nodes, and each parent node almost always indicates at least one full-ish page. Now, the distributions of given names and of surnames among regions of string-space corresponding to common head strings won't be the identical, but probably will be fairly similar. So you've probably knocked down very roughly one 170th of the total with the Ad... names alone, and if you last thru the Al... ones (3 parent pages), over one 36th. The whole of the A pages embraces 10 parent pages, or a 17th.
 * _ _ I don't put much stock in counting leaves of the tree (name-entry pages), bcz they vary so wildly in size, but for completeness, you've gone thru digraphs (at the heads of given names) that parallel 7 out of what seem to now be 870 leaf pages (i.e., actually or potentially (mostly-sur-) name-bearing pages).
 * _ _ On another LoPbN subject, i just made a change last nite to Template:List of people by name exhaustive page-index (sectioned), losing two levels of transclusion, and i'm working toward losing transclusion of 15 of the last 25 templates you'd see listed at the bottom of the edit page for that template, hopefully in the next week.  That next batch should make some difference in response time for the pages of the tree, whereas last night's change will affect just that Tl's and the root page's response times. If you experience changes, i'd be glad to hear abt it. --Jerzy•t 18:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

barnstar

 * My. I don't know what to write.  Except thanks!

 * --Slyguy 15:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I noticed at random that "LoPbN" has been deleted. How does this strike you? You deserve to rant, rave, threaten to leave! But seriously, every time my opinion of WP starts going back towards a balanced one, I run across something like this deletion. It's a shame. – Outriggr § 01:55, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Siklós & Sikorsky
Your alpha-order "correction" to Siklós > Sikorsky has to be momentary distraction on your part, so i'm undoing it without awaiting your reply. --Jerzy•t 07:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Whoops! Sorry about that.  Thanks.  --Slyguy 15:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

John Harvards
_ _ Thanks heartily for the effective & well summarized rescue of my mess from abt 8 wks ago. I hunted it down, & i guess i half-finished the task of harmonizing the old entries and the new ones that overlapped them; not sure why i wanted to save the old entry, but did it again (properly!), in case i had something sensible in mind. (WP is always a WiP, right?) _ _ I've been watching with pleasure as you laid the Alberts to rest and move on to the Alexes, with the Alexanders on the horizon. Hmm, Alfred, Alison, Allen, Alma (Mahler, Werfel, Gropius, but not Nietzsche, IIRC; think i'll do those dupes now.) hmm, Alston?, Althea, Alva, Alysa maybe. Curious to see which big ones i'll have missed. In case you're curious, was it to you that i mentioned the lists of American male & female given-name frequencies? --Jerzy•t 18:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Yes, i think so; i'd be sure if the pop-up tools and the summary line would expand (small) templates. --Jerzy•t 21:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

LoPbN "Lo-res termnlgy" issues
It occurs to me that you're the most useful person to discuss these with, including the one whose opinions i'm most likely to take seriously, since you also have immersed yourself in them and IMO had some occasion to take the practicalities of them seriously. (In the long run, it may make sense to copy this material to the Talk:LoPbN pages.)

Of course, i don't intend to distract you from your quest, if you're not looking for such breaks, so don't feel the need to comment.

Martial artist
Your use of this term (perhaps extracted from a bio) offers me the occasion to put down some of my thots, tho i'm guessing they'll be incredible overkill as far as talking you out of that term goes. The term "art" has senses that describe a range of practices far broader than the range of people described by "artist". Examples are "School of Arts and Sciences", "term of art" (a legal concept), The Art of War, Zen and the Art of Archery, Manual Arts High School, JNA Institute of Culinary Arts, International Institute of Culinary Arts, Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, Robert Morris College Institute of Culinary Arts, California Institute of Culinary Arts.

The 8th Collegiate gives as first sense of "art"
 * skill acquired by experience, study, or observation [as in] the art of making friends

and gets to
 * the conscious use of skill... esp. in the production of aesthetic objects

only in sense 4a.

All of that means that "martial arts" is a reasonably natural term, and for someone who hears it for the first time, the fact that it user "art" as a countable noun ("the martial arts", "a martial art",  "a martial-arts discipline", "various martial arts") in contrast to "art school", "high art", "quattrocento art" makes them likely to understand "skills of a martial nature".

In contrast, the first sense of "artist" is
 * one who professes and practices an imaginative art

with 1b shifting only slightly by mentioning "the fine arts".

In Miller's Crossing Albert Finney's character is described as "an artist with a tommy gun", and what that sounds like is a metaphor implying "he handles a tommy gun with the precision and expressiveness that a fine-arts painter demonstrates with a brush"; if someone spoke of a "tommy-gun artist", many if not most people would picture someone producing decorative pieces by painting the surfaces of tommy guns, or turning them into flower pots, or even producing paintings depicting tommy guns.

In a line, "artist" has a far stronger focus on what art schools teach than does even "art"; this is heightened by "artist" giving up the syntactic clues that make "art" (art-school-related stuff) distinguishable from "arts" (skills of unspecified kinds)

"Martial artist" is a term likely to seem logical to those inculcated with the ethos of the martial arts. But others understand "martial arts" almost exclusively as marketing-like term embracing the few specific martial-arts disciplines that they happen to know something about, say karate and judo and tai chi, and "martial artist" without context may have no meaning to them without wracking their memory. Even having done so, they are not fools if they conjecture that "martial artists" are colleagues of military historians, and concern themselves with recording battle scenes.

It is with that in mind that my conception of lo-res trmnlgy includes substituting "martial-arts practitioner" on LoPbN where i find "martial artist". I'm not sure the two-word version is a bad idea in an article, where detail is likely to make the distinction clear, but as i never tire of saying, Dabs and LoPbN are not articles (and barely closer than Dabs are), and there are plenty of cases where what's good in an article is lousy on LoPbN. --Jerzy•t 01:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

LoPbN Entry

 * 1) Incorporation elsewhere: Of course. My tone of asking your indulgence was about using your talk page as my notebook of first drafts, something you'd IMO be entitled to complain about.
 * 2) The template: (Re)read the documentation on its talk page. There are two almost identical syntaxes for such situations. I'm going to describe my editing steps, and leave the syntax for you to study.
 * _ _ Suppose i copied & pasted a bunch of entries from Category:Living people. Depending on how similar the surnames are, i edit them in the edit pane or in a separate editor, usually Wordpad (but i'm looking into the RegEx-editor-above-the-edit-pane add-on). Let's use
 * Mike Jones (politician)
 * as our example. If i'm cutting & pasting on the edit pane, i get
 * }}
 * ({LoPbN Entry|
 * in the paste buffer, and go down the page (until i hit an exceptional case such as you ask abt) alternating between
 * replacing the NewLine (and any other crap) between titles with the paste-buffer content, and
 * replacing the blank before the surname with a "pipe" char.
 * When i get to Mike, i paste, type "ttl=", jump to the end of the line, hit enter to hightlight it as an exception, and deal with the next line (select the NL & crap, and paste). When i come back to do an exception, i'm starting from e.g.
 * {{LoPbN Entry|ttl=Mike Jones (politician)
 * I copy
 * Mike Jones (politician)
 * and jump to the end of the line's non-blank text, type a "pipe" and paste. Now i have
 * ({LoPbN Entry|ttl=Mike Jones (politician)|Mike Jones (politician)
 * which i change to
 * ({LoPbN Entry|ttl=Mike Jones (politician)|Mike|Jones |politician }}
 * Then i go back & either add data from the bio article, or struggle to get the right number of consecutive pipe characters; it's a shock, the first few times, when you proof-read the preview, and the template hasif t so cleanly formatted it with
 * (died British)
 * [Huh??!]
 * _ _ P.S.: I hate typing, so in the discussion near the bottom of the tl's talk page, i went so far as to as to specify a further-extended version that would let you build the equivalent of
 * Guy, Sly, Cardinal, Count, Sr. (or something vaugely reasonable) without retyping any of the bio's title, but that would probably not be worth the trouble of remembering which variable-names to insert.
 * 1) Rhetorician?: Hey, aren't we all? (I'm serious; one view is that the human brain is like a peacock's tail, heavy, energy-draining to build or maintain, and harmful overall to the individual's survival, but boy does it get you laid. Peahens like peacock feathers bcz them that can grow them successfully must have lots of good survival genes to stay alive despite supporting that damn tail. Women like guys who can write poetry, tell a joke right, explain constellations, and create or solve puzzles for the same reason, and they have big brains too, bcz you need that to tell those abilities from faking it.) In my case, i think i'm actually an asshole extremely compulsive, and find it hard to say anything w/o beating the subject to death. I'm glad you don't find it too burdensome. --Jerzy•t 17:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

American/Commonwealth spellings in LoPbN
(In response to your Q.) _ _ Excellent question, and it is not too far off topic, i hope, to mention the similarity to another question: how do regional meanings of terms affect LoPbN entries? (My general answer to that is to avoid such terms in favor of more widely understood, usually more explicitly descriptive words. "Politician" instead of specific offices, and "religious leader" for over a hundred terms that appear in my thesaurus, are my poster-kids; "jurist" for both lawyers and judges, avoiding more than just the solicitor vs. barrister confusion that i think most Americans have is another fairly non-controversial one, and my lumping of all military personnel of all ranks as soldiers, sailors, air-soldiers and marine-soldiers is an example of an unresolved controversial one. Football/soccer/rugby is a toughy, and i dislike the suggestion that football means "soccer" everywhere but US (& Canada?), and that there (but nowhere else) "football" and "soccer" should be used American style.  If   it worried me more, i'd stop using all those terms in favor of "kicking-game player", seriously. But for lack of commitment to those sports, and of a perfect answer, i'm diffidently deciding, perhaps inconsistently, as i go.) _ _ Your question does not have a completely simple answer either. Note that LoPbN pages are not articles, nor do i think the whole LoPbN tree has the status of an article: it is more akin to Dabs & even Rdrs, in being navigational devices within the main namespace. I think suiting the LoPbN spelling to the bio-subject's context is a virtually harmless, offense-avoiding approach (tho, in a perfect world, better to demonstrate a single style for the benefit of the vast majority of readers, who read articles without reading instructions for using WP so we gain a way to reinforce the avoidance of dialect meanings). (The context-sensitive approach corresponds to using "football" for what Yanks call "soccer", avoiding the offensiveness of the presuambly less ambiguous "soccer", which i assume is understood by most English speakers even if it is not part of their active (speaking & writing) vocabulary -- i don't object to some inefficiency, even tho WP is not the place to educate us arrogant Americans, much tho we need it.) The other position i can sympathize with is that the size and traffic ratios between en: and de: or jp: suggest to me not just that English-speakers are rich and tech-equipped, but also that English is the language of world culture, and that even if it has peaked in that role (i doubt it has), it's still way ahead of Chinese and Spanish. I know i'm not able to be fully objective, but i argue that international English is primarily American English, bcz of economics and bcz you give up much of your potential influence on international English when most of your countrymen learned Swahili or Hindi (for instance) before English: you can't care enough about English to have the same impact on it as one Yank or Brit etc. does, if you're busy caring about your society's first language. So my other answer is that there's nothing wrong with using Yank spelling in LoPbN entries for Commonwealth people. And yes, i know i didn't answer your deserving question. (And BTW, i think you and are especially influential on these matters by working on LoPbN this much, but i'm not going to suggest we can do more than tilt the initial direction of the discussion.) --Jerzy•t 19:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Alexander Wong
You annotated his LoPbN entry with the cmt
 * unsure what to write here for him that's low-res

An excellent question, IMO. My answer is
 * jurist & activist

I use "activist" to cover a wide variety of "sins", from
 * delivery of charitable services and
 * political work that doesn't provably affect governance, to
 * private educational/propaganda efforts directed at the general public (including social, philosophical, or factual ideas), and
 * all manner of revolutionary activities and terrorism.

In all of these areas, it's hard to be notable, so that there are few enuf of them that IMO that's usually as much as a user is likely to need to distinguish them from others with the same or confusable names. --Jerzy•t 17:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Virtual Champagne
I think i implied that getting all the way to Alf would be a noteworthy accomplishment.

Here's a virtual authentic Champagne bottle, and a couple of virtual alcohol-free ones, with my congratulations! --Jerzy•t 18:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Subst User Warnings
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When using certain templates on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:uw-test1}} instead of {{uw-test1}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. --  p b 3 0   < c . t > 00:01, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Exh list
Tnx! But at least pending looking at it (only 22 min left here), i don't rule out some WP:AGF latitude, since the section-edit lks don't work. That may set up editors for section destruction, AFAIK. --Jerzy•t 22:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Curiouser & curiouser. I get an error msg when attempt a secn edit, but i'm skeptical abt a vandal hand-building a section-edit markup in the summary, to match the section removed. I jus dunno. & i don't have time to look at the editor's sparse contrib history. --Jerzy•t 22:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Date formats
Thank you for all your effort maintaining Wikipedia. Changing date formats in this way is redundant because Wikimedia sequences the day and month according to each user's preferences as set in their options. Consequently 23 May and May 23 are seen the same way by any individual user. For example, I see all dates as DD Mon; others see all dates as Mon DD. Changing one sequence to the other in an article wastes your energy and time. —Theo (Talk) 12:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Animation
is very cool. Is there any way to speed it up? On my computer (hardly old or slow) it takes about a minute to watch the whole thing, which is asking a lot of readers' patience. Fireplace 20:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit
I wrote the article on Alexis Christoforous and you tagged it. Could you please tell me what I did wrong, that caused the article to deserve a copyedit tag? I do not see anything wrong with it at all.

69.121.68.125 20:48, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

 * (Responded to on user's talk page --Slyguy (talk) 01:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC))

OK
No offense. Just wanted to know what I did. I strive to fix such problems, but I make mistakes, also.

69.121.68.125 02:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Cynthia Manley
Since you created the Boys Town Gang article, I thought you might be interested in this:

Cynthia Manley wrote to me!!!!!!!!!! Oh My God!!!!!

Sent: October 10, 2007 Read: October 11, 2007 Subject: Thank You For The Music! Message: Dear Cynthia,

Just a note to say that your music has made me happy since I was a teenager. remember Me/Ain't No Mountain High Enough is probably one of the greatest singles ever released. Even now, almost 30 years later, I have it downloaded into my iPod and listen to it on a regular basis.

Your voice just gives me chills, and moves me with its depth of feeling.

I'm happy to see you're still going strong and touring. I hope Europe is on your itinerary (specifically Amsterdam). Thank you for your contributions to both musical culture and gay culture.

Love and respect,

Jeff Woloson

Sent: October 11, 2007 Subject: Re: Thank You For The Music! Message: hello jeff, thank you so much for your kind words and support. the music biz is brutal and it is always nice to hear positive things .... i love my job and it is the only thing i know how to do, so i KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON !!! SPREAD LOVE, CYNTHIA Jeffpw 19:33, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Scope of Colorado's anti-discrimination law
This is the first time using this method of communication-- I apologize if I'm "doing it wrong". This is a response to you about a change I made to Romer v. Evans, indicating that a law passed this year finally includes protections for sexual orientation, but only for government workers. You are right, it was incorrect. I'm not sure how I had it in my head that it was only for public employees. In any case, I have corrected it over on the Romer v. Evans page. Thanks for the note.

Mtnkodiak (talk) 18:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Tom Teahen
You state that Teahen's notability is "well-established" - how so? From what I can see, he's a one-time defeated candidate who has held a few miscellaneous public positions. In addition, every article that links to him concerns the 2007 election, in which he was not elected. I'm sure information on Teahen would be better merged into Liberal Party candidates, 2007 Ontario provincial election. Morgan695 (talk) 00:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Rick Yu
You said putting Rick Yu under notable alumni on Malvern Collegiate Institute is vandalism?? He is in fact a notable alumni. You are wrong. Stop making false accusations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.141.21.212 (talk) 17:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Are you a Malvern historian? Because I am, I bet you don't even live in Wonderbread Town. If Rick Yu isn't a notable alumni, why is Carter Livingstone. If you went to Malvern today more people would know Rick Yu than Carter Livingstone. Slyguy you ain't so fly... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.234.163 (talk) 18:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I do not understand why Rick Yu fails to meet the standards of notable alumni for Malvern CI ... Maybe if you explained why I could understand, but Rick is quite the cult hero at Malvern and the surrounding area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.234.163 (talk) 02:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

This is Rick Yu. I fail to see why you hate me so much, unless of course you are Alan Brodie. In any case, I am certainly a notable alum of Malvern Collegiate. Peace out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickyuisking (talk • contribs) 23:03, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Image:US LGBT civil rights animation.gif
Can you update this animation to remove Louisiana? The executive order expired, and was not renewed. I already updated Image:US LGBT civil rights August 2008.png. Thanks!  C t j f 8 3 Talk 20:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know how many of the dates you have sourced. But here is a map with the dates to help ya out!  C t j f 8 3 Talk 03:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Matt Prokop
A tag has been placed on Matt Prokop, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

its unambiguous advertising or promotion of the subject and does not indicate why its subject is important or significant

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Cactusjump (talk) 22:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

NGC1039
Back in the spring of 2007 you created a couple of dozen redirects such as, , , , , , etc. despite the prior existence of the properly spelled (spaced?) redirects ,, , , , , etc. Was this a mistake, or did you intend for them to be R from typo type redirects? -- ToET 03:57, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks. If I'd paid closer attention, I'd have noticed that you had created others that specifically targeted "NGC with a space" style articles, such as  → NGC 1, and so that it was clearly intentional.  Looking more closely now, I see that you created 153 of the 176 redirects I was questioning at WT:AST.  I don't have a particular problem with their existence, only one with their limited existence.  My sense of the climate at WP:RFD is that, barring a strong consensus from WP:AST, they would be kept as being potentially useful, which they probably are.  I think that the best solution may just be to create the rest.

 * There is the question of how to tag them -- that is, are they a valid alternative name, or actually inaccurate? Additionally, just FYI, I've changed your R from scientific name tag on these (of those with the space, at least) to fairly new R from systematic name.  I don't know if the intention of R from scientific name has morphed over time, or has just been made clearer, but it is now intended only for scientific names in the sense of biological nomenclature.  (Better explained at Category:Redirects from scientific names than the template's page itself, and still better explained in a draft version of a replacement for WP:TMR.) -- ToET 23:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm not implying any ownership on your part at all, but would you like me to hold off and let you create the missing ones? -- ToET 07:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

About LGBT employment anti-discrimination in Oregon
Excellent work on File:US LGBT civil rights animation.gif and related contributions. But I think the data on Oregon is not quite accurate. Oregon is shown protecting sexual orientation in state employment from 1987 to 2007. It's true that Gov. Neil Goldschmidt issued an executive order to this effect in the late 80s. But this was successively challenged through Ballot Measure 8 in the 1988 general election. From that point forward, as far as I know, there was no anti-discrimination law or directive for LGBT people. I can't tell you if any law replaced it before the current law was passed in 2007; I just know Oregon should be changed somehow. Sorry I can't tell you more. — Athelwulf [T]/[C] 06:18, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Tyler Maynard
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Ohio discrimination
Can you change Ohio to the "blue" color since Governor Kaisch made an executive order barring discriminating against homosexuals. I'm not gay, I'm only telling you to update the animation. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.28.144.6 (talk) 05:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

File:US LGBT civil rights July 2011.svg
Hi. You should update. Stop to create new maps. Wikipedia it is not the tip. Ron 1987 (talk) 17:57, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Request for update of map.
Hi. Could you update ? Massachusetts should be purple. See. Regards. Ron 1987 (talk) 20:43, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Done. Thanks for the heads-up. --Slyguy (talk) 16:17, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

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Global account
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