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stub-sorting
Hallo, Good to see someone else attacking the backlog! (Multiple Association Division was on my watchlist after I PRODded it, and, as sometimes happens, by the time I'd PRODded it I forgot to stub-sort it, so I spotted it when you sorted it - it's usually impossible to know who else is working on them). I hope that the recent flood of stubs was a one-off catchup operation and once we've got it cleared we'll be back to the usual steadier flow. I tend to pick off the ones which look interesting in some way - likely to be in need of a DEFAULTSORT, or to check for incoming links, or part of a set in some way, and I always take care of any which file under "P". If 25 other people adopted a letter of the alphabet we'd keep them under control! Happy Editing! Pam D  11:52, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * ...And we've now got it down to below 100 for the first time in quite a while! Well done. Pam  D  23:44, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * ... and now down to zero - though I see you last edited early this morning, and I'm sure I saw 48 or so entries in the list earlier today, so someone else has obviously blasted through a lot of them! Well done us all. Now we wait for the next bot to drag a batch of elderly untagged stubs into the category. Pam  D  21:53, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * And I will be able to do some gnome-work on other areas I work on as possible. Rpyle731talk 01:13, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

San Diego Comic-Con International meetup proposal
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:12, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Empress Theatre (California)
One of the Reference links is dead. I am adding an 'archiveurl' to the citation, do I update the 'retrieved' date as well?
 * You could use wp:wayback - http://web.archive.org/web/20120213111701/http://www.arcincarchitects.com/projects/institutional/pdf/ET002%20Empress%20Theater.pdf - leave out the retrieved as you have not got a new copy and the date is in the webarchive link  Ron h jones  (Talk) 22:12, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Hope I did it right. Rpyle731talk

August 2013
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 * {music-event-stub}
 * ✅ Thanks. Rpyle731talk

Category:Southern United States television station stubs
This Category seems to have the wrong description listed. I do not feel confident how to correct the problem. Rpyle731talk 03:23, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I fixed it! (diff). That's been that way since the category was created in 2008, so I think someone copy/pasted the template and forgot to change it.  Thanks for noticing it!  Howicus (talk) 03:56, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That was what I was thinking, also. Thanks, H. Rpyle731talk 04:10, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

September 2013
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 * ] himself in 1857. Covering an area of more than 40000 m2 with construction area of convert|10000|m2 , Fuhou Mansion, the most completely preserved rural marquis mansion in China, symmetrically
 * ✅ Thanks. Rpyle731talk 00:31, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Wichmann the Elder
Do I have the sort key and name field correct for this article? I have looked at the relevant manual articles, but wanted a second opinion. Thank you.

 * I have made some changes, following the precedent of Henry VIII of England. The persondata entry should be his name proper, not some sort key. The defaultsort entry doesn't matter all that much since we currently don't have articles on any other Wichmanns - if we had, I think your sorting and mine wouldn't have made much of a difference. Huon (talk) 00:57, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

October 2013
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 * ✅ Rpyle731talk 03:14, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Opting in to VisualEditor
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Translation of an article.
Hello. Could you help me to translate an articles, please ? I need somebody to do it.

Articles to translate:
 * Confédération brésilienne d'escrime (Brazilian Fencing Confederation)
 * Confédération brésilienne de judo (Brazilian Judo Confederation)
 * Matières utilisées pour fabriquer un film (Materials used to make a film)
 * Fédération autrichienne de judo (Austrian Judo Federation)

Thanks. Bye bye. 92.136.12.245 (talk) 15:57, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Translation of an article.
Could you help to translate an article, please ? I need somebody to do it. You can write me a message on my discussion page.

Articles to translate:
 * Confédération brésilienne de judo (Brazilian Judo Confederation)
 * Confédération brésilienne d'escrime (Brazilian Fencing Confederation)
 * Matières utilisées pour fabriquer un film (Materials used to make a film)
 * Fédération autrichienne de judo (Austrian Judo Federation)

Say me when you can translate the articles for me.

Thanks. Bye bye.

92.134.13.136 (talk) 16:51, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Translation of an article.
Could you help to translate an article, please ? I need somebody to do it. You can write me a message on my discussion page.

Articles to translate:
 * Confédération brésilienne de judo (Brazilian Judo Confederation)
 * Confédération brésilienne d'escrime (Brazilian Fencing Confederation)
 * Matières utilisées pour fabriquer un film (Materials used to make a film)
 * Fédération autrichienne de judo (Austrian Judo Federation)

Say me when you can translate the articles for me.

Thanks. Bye bye.

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Zárate, Buenos Aires
Someone has replaced this article with a Spanish version. I do not feel comfortable doing a revert, would prefer a more experienced editor to make the fix. Thank you.
 * Done!. Yeah, dunno why an IP editor felt the need to do that...fixed now, though.  Happy editing!  Howicus (Did I mess up?) 04:10, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Howicus. Rpyle731talk 04:14, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:Jain community
I assume this is IP vandalism, or perhaps just an incorrect edit. Not sure how best to proceed.
 * It may have just been a mistake. Either way, it's not constructive, so I just reverted it.  That's what I'd suggest you do as well, if the edit is replaced.  Howicus (Did I mess up?) 04:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * thanks. Rpyle731talk 04:04, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Impossible Dream (game publisher)
Hello Rpyle731,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Impossible Dream (game publisher) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Tco03displays (talk) 04:42, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Dreaming of the Tiger Spring
A couple of questions on the coord template I've added: would this be considered a type:waterbody as I have put, or should it be type:landmark? Also, is there consensus/policy as to where in the article the coord template is to be placed? I've seen it in several places in different articles. Thanks in advance. Rpyle731talk 22:07, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

 * I checked a couple of other Chinese spring articles, and the only one which didn't use type:waterbody was primarily about a hill, not the spring. So that seems to be correct. Regarding the template's position, Template:Coord says: "Per WP:ORDER, the template is placed in articles after any navigation templates, but before any Persondata or Defaultsort templates, or Categories." So you did that correctly, too. Thanks for improving the article! Huon (talk) 23:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Huon. Rpyle731talk 23:17, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * the command of Jorge de Brito with orders to intercept the Spanish fleet of [Ferdinand Magellan], sailing towards the Spice Islands from the Americas, and to construct a fortress on Ternate to
 * ✅ Rpyle731talk 03:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Meetup in San Diego?
Hi Rpyle731, I am Sebastian Wallroth from Berlin, Germany, board member of Wikimedia Deutschland. I am visiting San Diego from February 3rd to February 8th, happily invited to a wedding. I would like to meet Wikipedians. Is there a chance for a Wiki Meetup in San Diego during the first week in February? --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 15:28, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

A Twist in the Tale (TV series)
Both of the episode descriptions seem to be copyvio from the entercloud9.com website. Not sure how to apply the appropriate template due to the article text being part of a table. Rpyle731talk 08:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ – copyrighted material has been removed – see talk page –  Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 09:38, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Rpyle731talk 10:31, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Black orientalism
I see that you replaced a direct use of a stub category with its stub tag on Black orientalism. Please note that the article in question had already been declared not to be a stub - in the previous edit, a user said so explicitly in the summary while removing the stub tag. Please check for things like that in the future. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I missed that. Thank you for pointing out my error. Rpyle731talk 22:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Your fixes on Indian childhood cirrhosis
This is regarding your fixes on Indian childhood cirrhosis vide this edit wherein you have used author2 rather than coauthor in template. Could you please explain the rationale behind. Further, in case of more than one coauthors use author2, author3 and so on, better still last2, first2, and so on, and that too without capitalisation. Also look up WP:DATESPROJECT, Date formatting and linking poll and Wikipedia talk:Date debate as a number of conventions are followed for date, none of which are thought to be wrong.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 14:25, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * My understanding was that the coauthor parameter was deprecated, so per my understanding, I changed coauthor to author2 (and author3, etc if needed.) As for dates, I was looking at articles with Category:CS1 errors: dates, and trying to follow MOS:DATEFORMAT. If I have made errors, I am sorry. Rpyle731talk 03:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I was unaware that coauthors was depricated but when you use author2, make it a point not to include all the coauthors under author2 (which you have done in the case that I pointed out). I would strongly insist that rather than using author2, use last2 and first2. I will keep MOS:DATEFORMAT in my consideration.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 13:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Modifying and removing deprecated parameters might indeed be important, but I would invite you to and insist that you also participate in WP:CLEANUP, WP:COPYEDITORS, WP:TYPO and WP:WIKIFY.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 07:04, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:CCLEAN also needs your help.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 07:06, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * | DATE OF DEATH    = Pula, Austro-Hungary
 * ✅, plus a few other fixes. Rpyle731talk 04:57, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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Win Roy & H.G.'s Money
I may have incorrectly put a copy violation notice on this article. The source text is from http://australiangameshows.wikia.com/wiki/Win_Roy_%26_H.G.%27s_Money, and on further checking the site, I'm not sure if their licensing (http://www.wikia.com/Licensing) is compatible with Wikipedia's licensing or not. I will leave this for the experts to decide. Sorry if this is a tempest in a teapot. Rpyle731talk 07:28, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not a copyvio: Wikia uses CC-BY-SA, which is the same as our license, though our article needs to attribute Wikia as the source. I have removed your copyvio notice. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 11:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, JohnCD. I am glad it turned out not to be a copyvio. Rpyle731talk 18:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Oops, missed that. Thanks for the heads-up. Cannot fix, article has become a redirect. Rpyle731talk 20:36, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Link needed to be "County of Tyrol". Rpyle731talk 00:28, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Mea maxima culpa. :facepalm :grumble :grumble --Rpyle731talk 00:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Stripped Classisim?
Stripped Classicism is a brand new article. If we can work together to make it long enough (I need your help), I would be pleased to nominate it for a WP:DYK, and list all the contributors as creators. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

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California Faults
There appears to be a problem with this template, it is not displaying correctly. It shows the wikicode instead of the correctly formatted table. I've made no changes to the template. Rpyle731talk 04:52, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I won't be much help, but for anyone knows what they're doing, the problem is reproduced in my sandbox. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @  05:15, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it happens in my sandbox also, and several other articles that use the template. (resp to ) Rpyle731talk 05:20, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Now it should be fixed. The problem was, that closing }} was kind of out of template. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 06:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . --Rpyle731talk 06:55, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Article aman az eshgh
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Category:North American journalist stubs
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 * It was a problem with the image. It was the wrong one and not compatible with the instructions to reduce it to 30 px. Mkdw talk 02:34, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I had naively changed "North" to "South" in the various arguments in asbox. Rpyle731talk 02:42, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Stub sorting help
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Watch out with stub sorting
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typo in template
The Infobox water buffalo breed seems to be adding an extraneous "}}". I don't feel comfortable trying to fix the template, so if an expert could step in and make the correction, that would be great. Thanks in advance. Rpyle731talk 07:55, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up. Yunshui 雲 水 09:09, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

r.e. ancient tree (fossil)
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 * Thank you for the kudos, !  --Rpyle731talk 08:26, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Wasi (duo)
I am trying to fix a Cite error in the above article. The original source shows the author as "Becky (Contributor)". A previous wiki-editor had put |first1=Becky| and left |last1=| blank, giving the Cite error. I have tried |first=Becky| and |last=| as suggested in one of the Help articles; still an error. Not sure if there is a proper way to fix this, and i don't know where else to RTFM. Thanks in advance. Rpyle731talk 10:25, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello! I messed around a bit, and eventually just put Becky in the last name spot, which got rid of all the problems. It shows up as if one only had her first name, but again, it's just in the last name spot. If you want, you could put "contributor" somewhere in there to make clear that we have no idea if that's that person's real name. --Nerd1a4i (talk) 13:50, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Rpyle731talk 02:49, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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Dawson City

Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a city in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest city in Yukon.

History
Prior to the late modern period the area was used for hunting and gathering by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was Tr'ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, now a National Historic Site of Canada, just across the Klondike River from modern Dawson City. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley.

The current settlement was founded by Joseph Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse.

Dawson City was the centre of the Klondike Gold Rush. It began in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 16,000–17,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St. Paul's Anglican Church, also built that same year, is a National Historic Site. The downtown was devastated by fire in November 1897 (started when dance hall girl Dolly Mitchell threw a lamp at another girl in an argument), 1899 (started in the Bodega Saloon), 1900 (started at the Monte Carlo Theatre) and flooding in 1925, 1944, 1966, 1969 and 1979.

The population dropped after World War II when the Alaska Highway bypassed it 518 km to the south. The economic damage to Dawson City was such that Whitehorse, the highway's hub, replaced it as territorial capital in 1953. Dawson City's population languished around the 600–900 mark through the 1960s and 1970s, but has risen and held stable since then. The high price of gold has made modern placer mining operations profitable, and the growth of the tourism industry has encouraged development of facilities. In the early 1950s, Dawson was linked by road to Alaska, and in fall 1955, with Whitehorse along a road that now forms part of the Klondike Highway.

In 1978, another kind of buried treasure was discovered with the Dawson Film Find when a construction excavation inadvertently uncovered a forgotten collection of more than 500 discarded films on highly flammable nitrate film stock from the early 20th century that were buried in (and preserved by) the permafrost. These silent-era film reels, dating from "between 1903 and 1929, were uncovered in the rubble beneath [an] old hockey rink". (See Dawson Film Find.) Owing to its dangerous chemical volatility, the historical find was moved by military transport to Library and Archives Canada and the U.S. Library of Congress for both transfer to safety film and storage. A documentary about the find, Dawson City: Frozen Time, was released in 2016.

The City of Dawson and the nearby ghost town of Forty Mile are featured prominently in the novels and short stories of American author Jack London, including The Call of the Wild. London lived in the Dawson area from October 1897 to June 1898. Other writers who lived in and wrote of Dawson City include Pierre Berton and the poet Robert Service. The childhood home of the former is now used as a residency and retreat for professional writers administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada.

In 2023, the Dawson City townsite became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of its archaeological record highlighting the transformation of the site from predominanty Indigenous to predominantly European use, and the adaptations that the Indigenous people made in response to European colonialism.

Geography
Dawson City lies on the Tintina Fault. This fault has created the Tintina Trench and continues eastward for several hundred kilometres. Erosional remnants of lava flows form outcrops immediately north and west of Dawson City.

Climate
Dawson City has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dsc), with significantly higher continentality (greater temperature swings) than the territory capital of Whitehorse. Despite this classification, most precipitation actually occurs during summer and July is the wettest month. However, April, one of the six warmer months is sufficiently drier than October and November. Hence the letter 's' is used instead of 'f' (as in Dfc).

The average temperature in July is 15.7 C and in January is -26.0 C. The highest temperature ever recorded is 35.0 C on 9 July 1899 and 18 June 1950. The lowest temperature ever recorded is -58.3 C on 3 February 1947. It experiences a wide range of temperatures surpassing 30 C in most summers and dropping below -40 C in winter. In the very cold month of December 1917, the temperature did not rise above -37.2 C and it averaged -46.3 C.

The community is at an elevation of 320 m and the average rainfall in July is 49.0 mm and the average snowfall in January is 27.6 cm. Dawson has an average total annual snowfall of 166.5 cm and averages 70 frost free days per year. The town is built on a layer of frozen earth, which may pose a threat to the town's infrastructure in the future if the permafrost melts.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dawson had a population of $1,577$ living in $770$ of its $836$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $1,375$. With a land area of 30.91 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Ethnicity
According to the 2021 Census, the town is predominately European Canadian with 60.8% of the population with Indigenous Canadians accounting for 31.4% of the population and East Asian Canadians accounting for 3.0% of the population.

Economy
Today, Dawson City's main industries are tourism and gold mining.

Energy
Electricity is provided by Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC). Most of the grid power is hydroelectric power through the north-south grid from dams near Mayo, Whitehorse and Aishihik Lake. After the local hydroelectric power plant for the gold dredges was shut down in 1966, YEC provided electrical power from local diesel generators. In 2004 YEC connected Dawson to its grid system. Since then the diesel generators function as a backup to the grid.

Gold mining
Gold mining started in 1896 with the Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek discovery by George Carmack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason (Keish). The area's creeks were quickly staked and most of the thousands who arrived in the spring of 1898 for the Klondike Gold Rush found that there was very little opportunity to benefit directly from gold mining. Many instead became entrepreneurs to provide services to miners.

Starting approximately 10 years later, large gold dredges began an industrial mining operation, scooping huge amounts of gold out of the creeks, and completely reworking the landscape, altering the locations of rivers and creeks and leaving tailing piles in their wake. A network of canals and dams were built to the north to produce hydroelectric power for the dredges. The dredges shut down for the winter, but one built for "Klondike Joe Boyle" was designed to operate year-round, and Boyle had it operate all through one winter. That dredge (Dredge No. 4) is open as a National Historic Site of Canada on Bonanza Creek.

The last dredge shut down in 1966, and the hydroelectric facility, at North Fork, was closed when the City of Dawson declined an offer to purchase it. Since then, placer miners returned to the status of being the primary mining operators in the region until recently. In 2016, Goldcorp announced a takeover of Kaminak Gold's Coffee Project south of Dawson. This marked a shift in the region, drawing the interest of the major gold mining companies in the Yukon. In 2017, Newmont Mining Corporation, Barrick Gold and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited have all committed significant investment, engaging in the exploration of properties across the Central Yukon.

Tourism
There are eight National Historic Sites of Canada located in Dawson, including the "Dawson Historical Complex", a National Historic Site encompassing the historic core of the town.

The Downtown Hotel at Second Avenue and Queen Street has garnered media attention for its unusual Sourtoe Cocktail, which features a real mummified human toe. The hotel and the toe received increased attention in June 2017 after the toe was stolen; it was soon returned to the hotel by mail along with a written apology.

Bonanza Creek has two National Historic Sites; the Discovery Claim and the Dredge No. 4.

Tr'ochëk is the site of a traditional Hän fishing camp on the flats at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River. The site is owned and managed by the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. In addition to the fishing camp remains, the site includes traditional plant harvesting areas and lookout points.

Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall puts on nightly vaudeville shows during tourist season, from May to September.

Sports
Every February, Dawson City acts as the halfway mark for the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Mushers entered in the event have a mandatory 36-hour layover in Dawson City while getting their rest and preparing for the second half of the world's toughest sled dog race.

Dawson City also hosts a softball tournament which brings teams from Inuvik in late summer. Furthermore, a volleyball tournament is held annually at the end of October and is attended by various high schools across Yukon.

The city was home to the Dawson City Nuggets hockey team, which in 1905 challenged the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup. Travelling to Ottawa by dog sled, ship, and train, the team lost the most lopsided series in Stanley Cup history, losing two games by the combined score of 32 to 4.

Government
In 2004, the Yukon government removed the mayor and the town council, as a result of the town going bankrupt. The territorial government accepted a large portion of the responsibility for this situation in March 2006, writing off $3.43 million of the debt and leaving the town with $1.5 million still to pay off. Elections were set for June 15, 2006. John Steins, a local artist and one of the leaders of the movement to restore democracy to Dawson, was acclaimed as mayor, while 13 residents ran for the four council seats. Steins was succeeded in office by former mayor Peter Jenkins, who in turn was succeeded by Wayne Potoroka.

In 2021, four candidates ran for Mayor, and former city councillor William (Bill) Kendrick won the election and is the current Mayor of Dawson City.

Other past mayors of Dawson City have included Art Webster, Colin Mayes, Yolanda Burkhard, Mike Comadina and Vi Campbell.

In the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Dawson City is in the electoral district of Klondike, currently represented by Sandy Silver of the Yukon Liberal Party.

The government of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, now a self-governing First Nation, is also located in Dawson.

City or town status
Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902 when it met the criteria for "city" status under the municipal act of that time. It retained the incorporation even as the population plummeted. When a new municipal act was adopted in the 1980s, Dawson met the criteria of "town", and was incorporated as such although with a special provision to allow it to continue to use the word "City", partially for historical reasons and partially to distinguish it from Dawson Creek, a small city in northeastern British Columbia. Dawson Creek is also named in honour of George M. Dawson. This led the territorial government to post the following signs at the boundaries of the town: "Welcome to the Town of the City of Dawson". As of the 2001 Municipal Act, the town's official legal name is now simply the "City of Dawson".

Infrastructure
The Yukon River is navigable (when not frozen) and historically was travelled by commercial riverboats to Whitehorse and downstream into Alaska and the Bering Sea.
 * Airports: Dawson City Airport is located 8 NM east of town. Dawson City Water Aerodrome is located next to the community on the Yukon River. Both are classified as an airport of entry and, as such, can handle aircraft with up to 30 passengers. The water aerodrome is one of only two in Canada that is able to handle aircraft with more than 15 passengers.
 * Road: Klondike Highway (Yukon route 2) from Whitehorse-open year-round; Top of the World Highway (Yukon route 9) and Taylor Highway (Alaska route 5) from Tok, Alaska, open seasonally May to September.
 * Winter transportation: During the winter, Dawson City is accessible via the North Klondike Highway. There is an ice bridge across the Yukon River, for both foot and vehicle traffic, that is operated and maintained by the Yukon Department of Highways.
 * Rail: None currently. See Klondike Mines Railway
 * Boat: The George Black Ferry connects the North Klondike Hwy to the Top of the World Highway, by operating vehicle and passenger ferry service across the Yukon River. This is part of the Territorial highway system, and operates from May to October, weather dependent. There is no cost to use this ferry.
 * Cable television: municipal government-owned system with several channels via satellite
 * Telephone/Internet: Northwestel telephone exchange. and ran fibre internet to the community in 2021.

Education
Yukon School of Visual Arts, a university level accredited art program, is based in Dawson City.

Robert Service School, Dawson City's only grade school, is named in honour of British-Canadian poet and writer Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958). The Robert Service School offers Kindergarten – Grade 12 and is one of only 28 schools in the Yukon Territory.

Media
Television

Radio Print
 * Dawson City is not served by a daily newspaper. The local Klondike Sun is published every two weeks, and the Whitehorse-based Yukon News is available two days per week.

Notable people

 * Pierre Berton: Dawson City is home of the Berton House Writers' Retreat program, housing established Canadian writers for four three-month get-away-from-it-all subsidized residencies each year. Berton House was the childhood home of popular-history writer Berton. The program is now administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada. Berton narrated the 1957 film City of Gold which describes the excitement of Dawson City during the gold rush. He also wrote the book Klondike, an historical account of the gold rush to the Klondike in 1896–1899.
 * Martha Black, the second woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada, as a single mother in Dawson earned a living by staking gold mining claims and running a sawmill and a gold ore-crushing plant. She later married George Black, Commissioner of Yukon, and in 1935 was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Yukon as an Independent Conservative taking the place of her ill husband.
 * Joseph W. Boyle, "Klondike Joe," entrepreneur, hockey organizer and adventurer.
 * Suzanne Crocker, documentary filmmaker.
 * John D. Ferry, chemist and biochemist, was born in Dawson in 1912
 * Lulu Mae Johnson, manager of Dawson's dance hall in the early 1900s. She died on the SS Princess Sophia.
 * Victor Jory, actor of stage, film, and television, was born in Dawson in 1902 to American parents.
 * William Judge, a Jesuit priest who during the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush established a facility in Dawson which provided shelter, food and any available medicine to the many hard-at-luck gold miners who filled the town and its environs.
 * Jack London spent the late Autumn of 1897 and Spring of 1898 in Dawson. He spent part of the winter 1897–1898 in a cabin that was originally on Henderson Creek, a tributary of the Stewart River. It was in the 1960s located disassembled and relocated and is now just up the street from downtown Dawson.
 * Micí Mac Gabhann, an Irish language storyteller (seanchaí) who lived in Dawson in 1897–98 and whose memoirs of the Klondyke Gold Rush Rotha Mór an tSaoil were published posthumously in 1959.
 * William Ogilvie, a Dominion land surveyor, explorer and Commissioner of the Yukon, surveyed the townsite of Dawson City and was responsible for settling many disputes between miners.
 * Alexander Pantages, impresario, had his start in Dawson City. He opened a small theatre to serve the city. Soon, however, his activities expanded and the thrifty Greek went on and became one of America's greatest theatre and movie tycoons.
 * Robert W. Service, known as The Bard of the Yukon for his famous poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and many others which depicted the Gold Rush and the culture of the Klondike. Service was transferred to the Dawson branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson City in 1908. Then, he dwelt in a log cabin where he would pursue his writings with The Trail of 98.
 * Joe Vogler, Alaskan politician, buried in Dawson.
 * Jan Eskymo Welzl was a Moravian adventurer, hunter, gold prospector, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice on New Siberia island and later a story-teller and writer. During his life in Dawson City he was called Perpetual Motion Man and was also known as an inventor. Books based on his stories were published in many countries all over the world. Buried in Dawson City.
 * Black Mike Winage, a Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer, and adventurer, who lived to be 107 years old, lived in Dawson City.
 * Weldy Young, professional hockey player for the Ottawa Silver Seven.

Freedom of the City
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Dawson City.

Military Units

 * The Canadian Rangers: 22 August 2022.

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Fruitcake

Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated.

Fruitcakes are usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas. Given their rich nature, fruitcakes are most often consumed on their own, as opposed to with condiments (such as butter or cream). Fruit cake is different to fruit bread, but may share similar toppings and mixtures.

History

The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash. In the Middle Ages, honey, spices, and preserved fruits were added.

Fruitcakes soon proliferated all over Europe. Recipes varied greatly in different countries throughout the ages, depending on the available ingredients as well as (in some instances) church regulations forbidding the use of butter, regarding the observance of Fasting. Pope Innocent VIII (1432–1492) finally granted the use of butter, in a written permission known as the ‘Butter Letter' or Butterbrief in 1490, giving permission to Saxony to use milk and butter in the Stollen fruitcakes.

Starting in the 16th century, sugar from the American Colonies (and the discovery that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruits) created an excess of candied fruit, thus making fruitcakes more affordable and popular. The 17th-century English fruitcake was originally yeast-leavened, and the rum and dried fruit helped extend the shelf life of the cake.

Australia
In Australia, fruitcake is consumed throughout the year, but most commonly at Christmas, and is available at most major retail outlets. The cake is rarely given icing; often it is consumed with butter or margarine, or custard.

Bahamas
In the Bahamas, not only is the fruitcake drenched with rum, but the ingredients are as well. All of the candied fruits, walnuts, and raisins are placed in an enclosed container and are soaked with the darkest variety of rum, anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months in advance. The cake ingredients are mixed, and once the cake has finished baking, rum is poured onto it while it is still hot.

Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, the common fruitcake is known as keks (кекс ), is home-made and is consumed throughout the year. Recipes for keks vary, but commonly it contains flour, butter and/or cooking oil, milk, yeast, yoghurt, eggs, cocoa, walnuts, and raisins. It is usually baked in Bundt-style pans.

There is also another specific type of fruitcake prepared for Easter, which is known as kozunak (козунак ).

Canada
The fruitcake is commonly eaten during the Christmas season in Canada. Rarely is it seen during other times of the year. The Canadian fruitcake is similar in style to the UK version. However, there is rarely icing on the cake, and alcohol is not commonly put into Christmas cakes that are sold. The cakes are shaped like a small loaf of bread, and often covered in marzipan.

Dark, moist and rich Christmas fruitcakes are the most frequently consumed, with white Christmas fruitcake less common. These cakes tend to be made in mid-November to early December when the weather starts to cool down. They are a staple during Christmas dinner and also can be a gift generally exchanged between business associates and close friends/family.

It's called gâteau aux fruits in Quebec and New-Brunswick.

Chile
Pan de Pascua is a fruitcake traditionally eaten around Christmas and Epiphany.

France
In France, fruitcake is called cake aux fruits confits.

Germany
In Germany, baked goods which fit the description of fruitcake are not usually regarded as cake but rather as sweet breads.

Stollen is loaf-shaped and often powdered with icing sugar on the outside. It is usually made with yeast, butter, water, and flour, with the addition of citrus zest, candied citrus peel, raisins, and almonds.

The most famous Stollen is the Dresdner Stollen, sold at the Dresden Christmas market, the Striezelmarkt. Official Dresden Stollen, produced by only 150 bakers in Dresden and some adjacent settlements, bears a special seal depicting Elector Augustus II the Strong. Typically, it is covered with a crust of compacted powdered sugar around 1 cm thick, but it is actually defined by its richness in butter and certain fruit and nuts: Per kilogram flour, Dresdner Stollen is mandated by law to contain at least 650 grams sultanas, 500 grams of butter, 200 grams succade, and 150 grams of almonds. The recipe originated in 1491, when after several generations of lobbying by Elector Ernest, Duke Albert III, and their ancestors, Pope Innocent VIII gave an exemption to the Roman Catholic ban on using butter during Lent to Saxon bakers.

In Bremen, the local fruitcake called Klaben is traditionally sold and eaten during the Christmas season. Bremer Klaben is a kind of stollen which is not dusted with powdered sugar after baking. Both Dresdner Stollen and Bremen Klaben are protected geographical indications.

In Southern Germany and the Alpine region, Früchtebrot (also called Berewecke, Birnenbrot, Hutzenbrot, Hutzelbrot, Kletzenbrot, Schnitzbrot, or Zelten) is a sweet, dark bread baked with nuts and dried fruit, e.g. apricots, figs, dates, plums, etc.

India
Fruitcake is a rich dense cake packed with dry fruits and nuts flavoured with spices usually made during Christmas. In India, this is found everywhere during the Christmas season, although it is also available commonly throughout the year.

Ireland
In Ireland, a type of sweetbread called barmbrack is eaten at Hallowe'en. The cake contains different objects such as a ring or small coin, each signifying a different fortune for the person who finds it.

Italy

Panforte is a chewy, dense Tuscan fruitcake dating back to 13th-century Siena. Panforte is strongly flavored with spices (panforte means "strong bread") and baked in a shallow form. Genoa's fruitcake, a lower, denser but still crumbly variety, is called pandolce ("sweet bread").

There are various types of fruitcakes from the Emilia-Romagna region, most being dark and heavily spiced with an abundance of candied fruit and nuts. The certosino from Bologna is a round cake similar to pan forte but with Chinese spices and a variety of whole-halved candied fruit decorating the top; dark chocolate is often added to the dough for a richer flavour. The certosino is low and very dense. Panone, produced in much of Emilia, is similar to the certosino, but with a lighter, fluffier dough and candied fruit inside the cake rather than used as decoration. Panpepato from Ferrara has a dough similar to panone but has a higher ginger content, giving it almost a gingerbread taste. Candied fruit is not often found and instead there is a high concentration of nuts within the dough; the entire cake is often coated in dark chocolate.

Gubana is a Christmas/holiday cake from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, specifically from the area around Cividale del Friuli. It is a leavened dough cake with a filling of nuts, dried fruit, sugar, and grappa which is rolled into a spiral filled tube which is then twisted into the shape of a rose or snail's shell. Gubana is often eaten with alcohol (slivovitz or grappa) around the holiday season. It combines Italian, Friulan, and Slovenian tastes and cooking styles to make a unique sweet.

Panettone is a Milanese sweet bread loaf (widely available throughout Italy and in many other countries), served around Christmas, which is traditionally filled with dried and candied fruits, with a bread loaf consistency.

New Zealand
Fruitcakes arrived in New Zealand with early settlers from Britain. Until the 1960s fruitcake was generally homemade, but since then has become commercially widely available in a range of styles. Light coloured fruitcake is often sold as tennis cake or light fruit-cake all year round.

Most New Zealand wedding cakes are finely iced and decorated fruitcake often several tiers high. Most fruitcake is eaten in the Christmas period. It is dark, rich and made from multiple dried fruits. Homemade cakes may use brandy or sherry to enhance flavour rather than as a preservative. They may be square or round, iced or uniced. A Christmas cake is usually simply decorated with a Christmas scene or the words Merry Christmas.

Poland

Keks is a traditional fruitcake eaten during Christmas season. It is a loaf shaped sponge cake with a substantial content of nuts, raisins, figs and candied fruits.

Portugal
Although French in its origin, Bolo Rei is a traditional fruitcake enjoyed during Christmas season and a staple dessert in any Portuguese home during the holidays. Included is the characteristic fava bean and, according to tradition, whoever finds the fava bean has to pay for the cake the following year.

Switzerland
Birnenbrot is a dense sweet Swiss fruitcake with candied fruits and nuts.

Anglophone Caribbean
Black cake, is a traditional part of Christmas celebration in the English Caribbean. The cake incorporates a large quantity of mixed fruits and rum/wine and becomes a treasured Christmas treat consumed and given out between the Christmas season and New Year. The fruit, wine and rum is prepared weeks, sometimes months, ahead, and has its origin in the English Christmas pudding, and can be quite expensive. It is very different from a North American fruitcake.

United Kingdom

In the UK, fruitcakes are made in types ranging from extremely light to rich and moist.

The traditional Christmas cake is a round fruitcake covered in marzipan and then in white royal icing or fondant icing. It is often further decorated with snow scenes, holly leaves, and berries (real or artificial), or tiny decorative robins or snowmen. It is also the tradition for a similar kind of cake to be served at weddings.

In Yorkshire, fruitcake is often served accompanied with cheese. Fruitcakes in the United Kingdom often contain currants and glace cherries, an example of this type being the Genoa cake. A type of fruitcake which originated in Scotland, the Dundee Cake, owes its name to Keiller's marmalade. It does not contain glace cherries, but is decorated with almonds.

Fruitcake was historically referred to as plum cake in England from around 1700.

United States
Typical American fruitcakes are rich in fruit and nuts.

Mail-order fruitcakes in America began in 1913. Some well-known American bakers of fruitcake include Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, and The Claxton Bakery in Claxton, Georgia. Both Collin Street and Claxton are Southern companies with inexpensive access to large quantities of nuts, for which the expression "nutty as a fruitcake" was derived in 1935. Commercial fruitcakes are often sold from catalogues by charities as a fund raiser.

Fruitcakes are also made and sold by Christian monasteries, as a means of supporting the monks and nuns who reside there. Some well-known American monasteries which offer fruitcake include Abbey of Gethsemani, in Trappist, Kentucky; Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri; Monastery of the Holy Spirit, in Conyers, Georgia; and Trappist Abbey in Carlton, Oregon. The fruitcake produced by the Trappists of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky earned the "best overall fruitcake" accolade from The Wall Street Journal.

Most American mass-produced fruitcakes are alcohol-free, but those made according to traditional recipes are saturated with liqueurs or brandy and covered in powdered sugar, both of which prevent mould. Brandy (or wine) soaked linens can be used to store the fruitcakes, and some people feel that fruitcakes improve with age.

In the United States, the fruitcake has become a ridiculed dessert, in part due to the mass-produced inexpensive cakes of questionable age. Some attribute the beginning of this trend with The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. He would joke that there really is only one fruitcake in the world, passed from family to family. After Carson's death, the tradition continued with "The Fruitcake Lady" (Marie Rudisill), who made appearances on the show and offered her "fruitcake" opinions. In fact, the fruitcake had been a butt of jokes on television programs such as Father Knows Best and The Donna Reed Show years before The Tonight Show debuted and appears to have first become a vilified confection in the early 20th century, as evidenced by Warner Brothers cartoons. It has also been used as a derogatory term for people who are considered weak, strange, or insane.

Since 1995, Manitou Springs, Colorado, has hosted the Great Fruitcake Toss on the first Saturday of every January. Leslie Lewis of the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce said that they encourage the use of recycled fruitcakes. The all-time Great Fruitcake Toss record is 1,420 feet, set in January 2007 by a group of eight Boeing engineers who built the "Omega 380", a mock artillery piece fueled by compressed air pumped by an exercise bike.

Shelf life
When a fruitcake contains a good deal of alcohol, it can be preserved for many years. For example, a fruitcake baked in 1878 has been kept as an heirloom by a family in Tecumseh, Michigan; as of 2019, the baker's great-great-granddaughter is the custodian of the cake. Wrapping the cake in alcohol-soaked linen before storing is one method of lengthening its shelf life.

A 106-year-old fruitcake discovered in 2017 by the Antarctic Heritage Trust was described as in "excellent condition" and "almost" edible.

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Where's Willy?

Where's Willy? is a website that tracks Canadian paper money, most commonly $5 bills, but also higher denominations. "Where's Willy" is free, supported by users who pay a fee for extra features. The name Willy refers to Sir Wilfrid Laurier - the seventh Prime Minister of Canada whose portrait appears on the $5 banknote.

Where's Willy? is a currency tracking spin-off of Where's George, a site that tracks United States dollars.

History
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To increase the chance of having a bill reported, users write or stamp text on the bills encouraging bill finders to visit whereswilly.com and track the bill's travels.

Since Canada has replaced the one and two dollar bills with more durable coins, the $5 note is the smallest denomination tracked by Where's Willy.

In April 2003, USA Today named whereswilly.com one of its "Hot Sites".

In 2005, the Montreal Mirror described the hobby as "the most joy to be had with the five-dollar bill since the illegal defacing of Laurier with Spock ears." While the Mirror describes this practice as illegal, a 2015 statement from the Bank of Canada explained that "Spocking Fives" does not violate the Bank of Canada Act or the Criminal Code.

As of June 7, 2021, Where's Willy? was tracking more than 5,800,000 bills totaling nearly $85,000,000.

Researchers studying pandemics have used currency tracking sites to plot human travel patterns, to find clues on how to combat the spread of diseases like SARS.

Willy Index
The "Willy Index" is a method of rating users based on how many bills they've entered and also by how many total hits they've had. The formula is as follows:

$$100\times\left[\sqrt{\ln({\rm bills\ entered})}+\ln({\rm hits}+1)\right]\times[1-({\rm days\ of\ inactivity}/100)]$$

Because of the nature of square roots and natural logarithms, the higher a user's bills entered and hits are, the more of each are necessary to increase the score.

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Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. There seem to be enough support votes, based on valid arguments, with only one oppose. Plus the page was moved away from the target title without a move request last year, so that is the default title even in a no consensus situation. — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Fruit cake → Fruitcake – This was moved without discussion last year with the rationale "Most WP:Common name for the cake. Fruitcake is more common for insults and other alternative uses". However, the use of "fruitcake" as an insult is not a reason to move the article on the cake, and my checking seems to suggest that "fruitcake" is in fact the more common term in recent years; see Google Ngram results since 1940 for evidence, or raw book results. No doubt some uses of "fruitcake" in the Google Books corpus do result from the usage of "fruitcake" as an insult, but that means very little; the pejorative usage is a direct reference to the food and ought to be included in consideration of the proper name. 168.12.253.66 (talk) 21:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

 * Is this serious? The "fruitcake" link goes to uses of fruitcake as something nutty rather than to a cake containing fruit. The first result in the Google book link is: "That is until Del Pritchard walked into his life. DEL PRITCHARD WAS A TOTAL FRUITCAKE... But Del was a fruitcake with money." While the "fruit cake" link goes to recipes for cake containing fruit, such as "Nothing beats the rich aroma of fruits and spices that wafts through the house when a fruit cake is baking.".  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  22:39, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

 * Support for procedural reasons (to undo an undiscussed move) and on the merits (per nom). Interestingly, according to the Google Ngram Viewer, "fruit cake" was once more common but hasn't been for a number of decades.  —  AjaxSmack   03:13, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That graph shows usage of terms, but not what the terms mean. The term fruitcake meaning nutter has been growing in popularity for sure. But that has nothing to do with cake containing fruit. I think you have been led up the garden path by the IP. Did you look at the IP's book links? Worth doing that as it clearly shows were the usage lays: fruitcake = nutter; fruit cake = cake with fruit. This is something of a wind up I'm sure. That IP address has a history of trolling.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  15:19, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * This graph shows nutter, fruit cake and fruitcake. Fruit cake remains fairly constant, while fruitcake grows as nutter falls, and when nutter rises, fruitcake falls. I think that shows a close correlation between fruitcake and nutter, and no relationship between fruitcake/nutter and fruit cake.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  15:40, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

content=slice+of+fruit+cake%2C+slice+of+fruitcake&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cslice%20of%20fruit%20cake%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cslice%20of%20fruitcake%3B%2Cc0 Google Ngram] for "slice of fruit cake" v "slice of fruitcake" (as an attempt to exclude pejorative uses) and "fruit cake" wins by a sliver. "Fruit cake" also wins for British English (my own dialect) which explains why I am not comfortable with "fruitcake". I wonder if the Ngram for English is showing US bias? Hard so say. Anyway, I'm not convinced that "fruitcake" is the norm nowadays worldwide. Francis Davey (talk) 09:36, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'm not convinced by the ngram, consider this [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
 * Good point about the WP:ENGVAR issue. However, when I changed "slice of..." to "piece of..." in this Ngram Result, "fruitcake" shows the same usage trend as that without the preface, i.e. more common over the last few decades.  This seems to confirm a geographic difference in usage.  Does this topic have WP:TIES? —  AjaxSmack   02:31, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong support as per WP:ENGVAR... a little history-diving shows that the article was in American English as fruitcake, which matches my own personal tendency to want to write it without the space. I don't think there are any WP:TIES, but WP:RETAIN seems to dictate that we put it back at "fruitcake", a la yogurt. Non-stub version that uses "fruitcake" and is clearly AmE: (notice "centered" right below the section break).  Red Slash 03:02, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment ISTM this is really a question as to whether the article should be in US or Commonwealth English. My UK-English OED's entry states: "Fruit cake: a cake containing dried fruit; fruitcake: (slang) an eccentric or mad person" Samatarou (talk) 20:16, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * So then, since the article was originally in American English, should we move it back? Red Slash 03:20, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Not sure if it is an ENGVAR issue at all. I'm British and I would say the commonest term in the UK (and the one I'd use) is "fruitcake". Should be moved back to the original title. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:18, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Like Necrothesp, I don't think this is an ENGVAR issue, but the article did start at fruitcake. Jonathunder (talk) 15:38, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Support move back to fruitcake. I'm not convinced it matters much either way, but let's first revert the undiscussed move, this is obviously controversial (which surprises me a little, considering how much the article needs work in other ways, but there you go) and I'm reasonably confident that an RM if it had been raised would have failed. So the onus of proof should be on those who want to move to fruit cake. (It's also a bit more elegant in my opinion, considering that this is the primary meaning of both phrases but there aren't significant competing meanings of fruit cake, but that's just a personal preference unsupported by policy AFAIK.) Andrewa (talk) 17:23, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Pudding/Duff - Remove
I am concerned that the references to Christmas Pudding and Plum Duff (mentioned under the heading for New Zealand) are misleading.

Christmas Pudding is a direct (1) lineal descendant of medieval puddings of meat and vegetables, boiled , and with fruit and spices added for flavour. The meat is nowadays represented only by the use of suet, and the vegetables are reduced to at most a token of grated carrot , but leaving aside the question of ingredients, the fact that it is boiled represents a significant difference from fruitcake, which like all cakes is baked by convection in an oven. Christmas Pudding has traditionally been boiled in a cloth or pudding basin--whether in the UK, Australia , or New Zealand --and accordingly is cooked at a temperature never exceeding 100C. A cake, on the other hand, is dry-baked at a temperature far in excess of that: generally in the range 175-190C ; for a heavy cake such as a fruitcake typically in a falling oven, but from around 175-200C only down as far as 150C or 140C.

Plum Duff (2) was indeed a colonial dish of New Zealand, and also of Australia , and in both cases was based on the Plum Puddings of England in the 18th and early 19th centuries: here the word 'plum' refers to dried plums (prunes), which by extension had come to refer to any dried fruit. And not only do they contain similar ingredients, but they are also puddings, and accordingly also cooked by boiling rather than by baking (which is one reason for their living on both on shipboard and in colonial Australia and New Zealand, as both sailors and drovers, shepherds, shearers and many other early colonists had little access to ovens).

In summary, Plum Duff and Christmas Pudding are not specific to New Zealand, and so should not be specifically mentioned under that heading. They are not two different things, but are aspects of the same thing, namely a boiled descendent of the meat puddings of old--and accordingly more closely related to a haggis than any cake. More seriously, the significant difference in cooking methods suggests that the references to Plum Duff and Christmas Pudding are misleading and should be removed from an article that focuses on a baked cake.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Whilst there was a break in the English tradition of puddings for half a century from the 1660s, this was not universal over all the European continent. The German-born Hanoverian King George 1 supported their re-introduction, and indeed the recipe for Christmas Pudding that was served from his kitchens is reputed to still be in use by the British monarchy to this day.

2. The term "Duff" is alledgedly due to the peculiarities of English spelling, and a story printed in 1893 explains it thus: if R-O-U-G-H is pronounced "Ruff", then D-O-U-G-H should similarly be pronounced "Duff".

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