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Ethnicity in lede
I removed the subject's ethnicity from the lede per WP:MOSBIO. Unless its part of his notability, it doesn't belong. I was reverted with an edit summary talking about a compromise solution. Has this been discussed before and was there consensus for inclusion? Thank you, --Malerooster (talk) 01:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed it again until notability or consensus can be established. --Malerooster (talk) 01:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * How is my being American notable? I'm a dual national. If you have one, you have to have the other.
 * —A drian L amo ··  01:15, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Can you provide a citation that shows dual nationality? --Malerooster (talk) 02:48, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Everything below I'm copying from Malerooster's talk page in the interest of avoiding redundancy:

— A drian L amo ··  13:29, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

'''—== Ethnicity =! Nationality ==—'''

Hello,

I replied to your comment on Talk:Adrian Lamo. I'm a dual national. Being Colombian is consequently as relevant as being American. If you have one, you have to have the other, unless you're saying one country is less relevant. Per WP:BLP & WP:SELFPUB, this| should serve as sufficient background to establish an uncontroversial fact that's not a conflict of interest.

Cheers & wikilove,

—A drian L amo ··  01:29, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not sure if that's sufficient or a proper reliable source for this in the lede. --Malerooster (talk) 02:50, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This and this should help establish it, as the case and my related actions have been covered heavily in certain Colombian media. In a previously-linked article, it ledes: "Esta es la historia de Adrián Lamo, el pirata cibernético de origen colombiano que reveló a las autoridades estadounidenses quién filtró la información a WikiLeaks." (emphasis mine.) Semana is a prominent magazine, and according to Wikipdia itself:

 * >> "Semana, which has won several international prizes and has more than a million readers, is considered required reading for Colombia's political, economic, and cultural elite. “In the history of journalism in Colombia,” reads a profile of López by a Colombian writer, “there is a 'before Semana' and an 'after Semana,' because, in effect, before May 1982 such a thing didn't exist....the press in this country was an extensionof the political parties.” The same profile notes that “at least 80 percent of all the political scandals that have occurred in Colombia in the last 30 years have been exposed by Semana.” The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Economist have all called Semana the best magazine in Latin America. <<

 * I believe that qualifies it as a reliable source, and if it's fact-checking finds that I am also Colombian, the ball is now in your court to ascertain otherwise through more credible sources, rightly or wrongly, rather than vice-versa.

 * v/r,
 * — A drian L amo ··  22:09, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

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Death?
Apparently his father is reporting his death. Ryan (talk) 15:15, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

2600 Magazine is apparently confirming this now. Corydon76 (talk) 15:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Facebook and 2600 are not WP:RS The most effectual Bob Cat (talk) 21:12, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Discrepancy in sentence for conviction
Which is correct? "Six months of house arrest, two years and six months [sic] probation, $64,938 restitution" or "Later in 2004, Lamo was sentenced to six months' detention at his parents' home, plus two years [sic] probation" Autodidact1 (talk) 20:06, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. See article for correct wording and citation to WP:RS. A previous editor seems to have misconstrued two years probation, with six months to be served in home detention, as meaning two years plus six months. KalHolmann (talk) 20:38, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Alain Giraud?
An investigative team lead by Adrain Lamo exposes French intelligence officer Alain Giraud as the Mastermind behind Bitconnect. Dalamstaat (talk) 05:24, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * We need a better source than user-generated IMDb. Video on YouTube is 1½ hours of crude comic animation—not documentary. Lamo's "research" may have been minimal. KalHolmann (talk) 14:55, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Retroactive revision of quotes?
Maybe there is a broader wikipedia policy that justifies this, but I don't think that Lamo's quote, reproduced below, about Chelsea Manning should be edited. Alterations to quotes should generally be made only when necessary for grammatical correctness or to enhance comprehension. While I understand the value of acknowledging the identities of trans people, as well as the harm that deadnaming can cause, I don't think this justifies altering the quote. In its original form, Lamo's comment, using male pronouns, is grammatically correct but factually incorrect, making this edit an attempt to retroactively correct Lamo. Such changes, if implemented as a broader policy, could lead to more troubling results. Would it be acceptable to similarly edit a comment made by a transphobic individual where they deliberately misgender someone? Doing so would create a false impression about the speaker. I understand that this is a sensitive question, and I hope that some thought could be given to establishing a formal policy if such changes are indeed called for.

"[She] was in a war zone and basically trying to vacuum up as much classified information as [she] could, and just throwing it up into the air"

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Andrew Cunningham (politician)

Andrew Cunningham (8 June 1910 – 14 June 2010) was a political figure and union leader in North East England. Born in Durham, he was jailed for his role in the Poulson scandal of 1974. He lived most of his life in Chester-le-Street.

At the height of his career in 1971 he held the following positions:

 * Member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party
 * Chairman of the Chester-le-Street and the Northern Region Executive of the Labour Party
 * Head of the Northern District of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW) (the biggest union in the north-east, succeeding John Yarwood MBE)
 * Alderman of Durham County Council
 * Member of the Chester-le-Street town council
 * Chairman of Durham Police Authority
 * Chairman of Newcastle Airport Consultative Committee
 * Member of the Northumbrian River Authority
 * Member of the Peterlee New Town Development Corporation
 * Member of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority

His role with the GMWU in particular gave him considerable influence, via the Trade Union block vote, in the selection of Labour Party parliamentary candidates. The Poulson scandal also destroyed the careers of T. Dan Smith and the Conservative Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling. Cunningham was sentenced to five years imprisonment, reduced to three on appeal. He was paroled from Ford Open Prison in June 1976.

He was the father of Labour politician Jack Cunningham and two other children.

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Rachael Ray

Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968) is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosted the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray. Other programs to her credit include 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, $40 a Day, Rachael Ray's Week in a Day, and the reality format shows Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and Rachael Ray's Kids Cook-Off. Ray has written several cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2006. Ray's television shows have won three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Early life
Rachael Domenica Ray was born in Glens Falls, New York, the daughter of Elsa Providenza Scuderi and James Claude Ray. Her mother's ancestry is Sicilian and her father is French, Scottish, and Welsh.

When Ray was eight, her family moved to Lake George, New York. Her mother managed restaurants in New York's Capital District, including the Lake George Howard Johnson's restaurant, located near the former Gaslight Village amusement park, which attracted many entertainers. Ray also briefly worked at Sutton's Marketplace in Queensbury, New York, and later offered to do commercials for the business. She would continue to promote the establishment, especially their cider donuts and grilled raisin bread. She graduated from Lake George Junior/Senior High School.

In 1995, Ray moved to New York City. She worked first at the Macy's Marketplace candy counter. When Macy's tried to promote her to a buyer in accessories, she moved to Agata & Valentina, a specialty foods store.

1996–2004
Moving back to the Adirondacks, Ray managed Mister Brown's Pub at The Sagamore, a hotel on Lake George. From there, she became a buyer at Cowan & Lobel, a gourmet market in Albany. Ray credits the concept of 30 Minute Meals to her experience working at the store, where she met people who were reluctant to cook. She taught a course in which she showed how to make meals in less than 30 minutes.

With the success of her "30 Minute Meals" classes, WRGB, the local CBS-TV affiliate, asked her to appear in a weekly segment on their newscasts. This, along with a public radio broadcast and the publication of her first book, led to a Today show spot and her first Food Network contract in 2001.

Rachael Ray was the host of the TV show $40 a Day for three seasons (77 episodes) from 2002 to 2005. She would travel to various destinations and attempt to eat three meals for $40 a day.

2004–2017
Ray, who favors a "quick and easy" cooking style, teaches many simple recipes that she says can be completed in 30 minutes or less, although critics claim her concept does not include preparation time.

Ray says her Sicilian maternal grandfather, Emmanuel Scuderi, and her Cajun ancestry both exert strong influences on her cooking. She uses ingredients such as fresh herbs, garlic, and chicken stock to boost flavors, and believes measuring "takes away from the creative, hands-on process of cooking." She, instead, favors approximations such as "half a palmful" or "two-pan swirl."

To critics of her shortcut techniques, Ray responds, "I have no formal anything. I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had." She has also repeatedly said, "I'm not a chef."

On her television programs, she has used catchphrases such as "E-V-O-O" (extra-virgin olive oil), "yum-o", "G.B." (garbage bowl), "Oh my gravy!", "delish," "entréetizer" (entrée-sized appetizer), "stoup" (cross between a soup and stew), and "choup" (thicker than a soup but thinner than a chowder). In 2007, The Oxford American College Dictionary announced the addition of the term EVOO, short for extra-virgin olive oil, which Ray had helped to popularize, and credited her with coining the phrase.

One of Ray's specialties is burgers. She has devoted one of her published works to the topic, The Book of Burger.

Television
Ray hosted 30 Minute Meals on Food Network for 11 seasons from 2001 to 2012, as well as a revival of the series starting in 2019.

In 2005, she signed a deal to host a syndicated daytime TV talk show. The show, Rachael Ray, premiered on September 18, 2006, and aired until May 24, 2023. Recurrent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show were used to fuel the launch, much as Dr. Phil's show was spun off based on his own frequent visits to Oprah. The show tapes in New York City. In coordination with the syndication announcement, Ray said, "People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share".

On January 12, 2008, Ray's television series Rachael's Vacation premiered on the Food Network. The show was a five-part food travelogue shot in various European countries.

In 2008, Ray became a television executive producer of a short-lived Latin cooking show on the Food Network, called Viva Daisy!, starring Daisy Martínez.

Rachael Ray's Week in a Day is a 2010 reality television cooking series hosted by Rachael Ray.

In January 2012, Ray and Guy Fieri were team captains in the Food Network reality series Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off.

In 2016, Ray guest-starred in the second episode of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a miniseries revival of Gilmore Girls, as a fictionalized version of herself.

In 2019, Ray fulfilled a long-time goal of voicing a cartoon character when she voiced a character on the Nick Jr. Channel program Butterbean's Café.

In 2023, Ray announced that she would be ending her talk show after its 17th season, and she will launch her new production company, "Free Food Studios."

In 2024, Ray and her show were featured in the final episode of the show The Curse. Ray played herself on the show, with her guests being Vincent Pastore as himself, and Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder as their fictional characters Whitney and Asher Siegel.

Magazines
In 2003, Ray posed for the men's magazine FHM. Though she was not nude in any of the photos, this drew criticism so harsh, not least of which from Ray's own mother, that in a March 2, 2009 ABC News Nightline interview she gave to Cynthia McFadden, an ABC News correspondent, Ray defended her decision to pose in the magazine. The interview quoted her as saying, "I'd do it again tomorrow."

The Reader's Digest Association launched Ray's magazine Every Day with Rachael Ray on October 25, 2005. The magazine featured seven issues in 2006 and increased to 10 issues in 2007. In October 2011, Meredith Corporation acquired the magazine.

Product endorsements
In November 2006, Ray became a spokeswoman for Nabisco crackers. She appears in commercials and on boxes for the many Nabisco products. Many boxes with Ray's picture have her recipes.

In February 2007, WestPoint Home launched sheets, blankets, and coverlets designed by Ray. Within six months, WestPoint expanded Ray's bed and bath line to include the "Moppine," a two-in-one dish towel/oven mitt, as Ray is often seen with a kitchen towel over her shoulder that doubles for her as an ersatz mitt.

In March 2007, the Dunkin' Donuts company announced Ray as its celebrity endorser, mainly of its coffee, since she had denied being able to make coffee herself. As part of a promotional campaign, Ray describes the company's coffee as "fantabulous."

In May 2007, Ray's recipes were made available on AT&T cellular phones via the "Rachael Ray Recipes on the Run" feature.

In July 2008, Rachael Ray's "Nutrish" pet food was introduced. The dog foods are created from recipes Ray developed for her pit bull, "Isaboo". All proceeds from the sale of these products go to Rachael's Rescue, a charity which Ray organized specifically to provide assistance for at-risk animals.

In December 2016, PulteGroup started Rachael Ray Home Collection for their interior design division. The furniture it markets is all of Ray's own design.

Personal life
On September 24, 2005, in Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy, Ray married John M. Cusimano. Ray's main residence is located in Lake Luzerne, New York. She also owns a Manhattan Greenwich Village apartment to be near the studio. The Lake Luzerne home was destroyed in a fire on August 9, 2020. The next day, a director of emergency services with the county stated that there were no injuries to Ray or her family.

In June 2009, Ray stated that "hard work was too much for her to be a [mother]".

Charity work
In 2006, Ray launched the Yum-O! nonprofit organization. Its mission is to "empower kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking. This is achieved by teaching families to cook, feeding hungry kids, and funding cooking education."

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ray joined with the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to support a charity in Ukraine, the Unbroken National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv with projects and programs related to food and children.

Cookbooks

 * Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook (2000)
 * Comfort Foods (2001)
 * Veggie Meals (2001)
 * 30-Minute Meals 2 (2003)
 * Get Togethers: Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals (2003)
 * Cooking Rocks!: Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids (2004)
 * $40 a Day: Best Eats in Town (2004)
 * Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals: Cooking 'Round the Clock (2004)
 * Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals for Kids: Cooking Rocks! (2004)
 * Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes (2005)
 * Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (2005)
 * Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8: Great Meals for Couples or Crowds (2006)
 * Rachael Ray's Express Lane Meals (2006)
 * Rachael Ray's Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook (2006)
 * Rachael Ray: Just in Time (2007)
 * Yum-O! The Family Cookbook (2008)
 * Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book (2008)
 * Rachael Ray's Book of 10: More Than 300 Recipes to Cook Every Day (2009)
 * Rachael Ray's Look and Cook (2010)
 * The Book of Burger (2012)
 * My Year in Meals (2012)
 * Week in a Day (2013)
 * Guy Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (2014)
 * Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (2014)
 * Comfort Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (2014)
 * Everyone is Italian on Sunday (2015)
 * Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life: A Cookbook (2019)

Other honors

 * 2004: ranked #92 on "FHM-U.S.'s 100 Sexiest Women 2004"
 * 2006: ranked #71 on "FHM-U.S.'s 100 Sexiest Women 2006"
 * 2006: named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She was nominated by fellow Food Network star Mario Batali
 * 2009: according to Forbes magazine, Ray earned about $15 million in the year ending June 2009, as well as naming her as the 79th most powerful celebrity in the world
 * 2010: Ray was the inaugural honoree on the Ride of Fame
 * 2011: People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Cook

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Sergio García

Sergio García Fernández (born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish professional golfer. He turned professional in 1999 and played on the European Tour and PGA Tour prior to joining LIV Golf in 2022. García has won 36 international tournaments as a professional, most notably the 2008 Players Championship and the 2017 Masters Tournament. García was also the Chairman of Spanish football team CF Borriol.

García has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking, including over 300 weeks in the top 10 between 2000 and 2009, and over 450 weeks in the top 10 in total. He reached his highest career ranking, second, after winning the HSBC Champions tournament in November 2008. García has achieved career earnings of more than US$43 million. As a player, he is noted for strong iron play and accuracy. In the Ryder Cup, he competed in ten of the eleven matches playing during his professional career cumulatively earning a record 28.5 points during those matches.

Early years and amateur career
García began playing golf at the age of three and was taught by his father, Victor, who is a club professional. García won his club championship at age 12. Four years later, he set a record as the youngest player to make the cut at a European Tour event, the 1995 Turespaña Open Mediterrania. This record was broken by amateur Jason Hak in November 2008 at the UBS Hong Kong Open, beating García's record by 107 days. In 1995, García became the youngest player to win the European Amateur. He followed that with a win in the Boys Amateur Championship in 1997. He won a professional tournament, the 1997 Catalan Open, as an amateur.

Garcia was part of the Spanish teams winning the European Boys' Team Championship in 1996 and 1997. In 1998, he won The Amateur Championship at Muirfield and reached the semi-finals of the U.S. Amateur. He also finished second in the 1998 Argentine Open, being the low amateur, and winning the Pereira Iraola Cup.

Professional career
García turned professional in 1999 after shooting the lowest amateur score in the 1999 Masters Tournament. His first title on the European Tour came in his sixth start as a professional, in July 1999 at the Irish Open. He first achieved worldwide prominence with a duel against Tiger Woods in the 1999 PGA Championship, where he eventually finished second, losing by one stroke. Late in the final round, García with his ball up against a tree trunk in the right rough on the 16th hole, and the green hidden from view, he swung hard with his eyes shut and hit a low curving fade that ran up onto the green. As the shot traveled, he sprinted madly into the fairway and then scissor-kick jumped to see the result. Shortly afterwards he became the youngest player ever to compete in the Ryder Cup. In 2002, during a practice round, García made an albatross (double eagle) on the par-5 second hole at the Masters, one of the few players to have ever done so. On the 575 yd hole at the Augusta National Golf Club, he holed a 253 yd 2-iron following a 325 yd drive.

When García first turned professional, he had an unorthodox swing with a circular loop and long large lag, and this method drew comparisons to Ben Hogan, one of the best players of all time. But during the 2003 season, he worked towards making his swing more conventional, but has largely kept his original method. In his early years, he repeatedly gripped, released, and regripped his hands on the club handle before finally taking a shot. This "waggle" habit created a stir, especially at the 2002 U.S. Open when some spectators shouted out, "Hit the ball, Sergio!", and some people audibly counted the number of regrips into the twenties. Since then he has eliminated the habit. Responding to criticism of his swing, he said, "My swing works for me, so why should I change it? I prefer to have a natural swing and play well rather than a perfect swing and not be able to play good."

PGA Tour titles
At the age of 21, García won his first PGA Tour event at the 2001 MasterCard Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, and then won again at the Buick Classic in New York the same year. He was the youngest Tour winner since Tiger Woods in 1996 at age 20. In 2002, García won the Mercedes Championships in early January, and in 2004, he won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship and the Buick Classic for the second time. His sixth PGA Tour victory came at the 2005 Booz Allen Classic. As of October 2020, he has eleven PGA Tour victories, including the 2017 Masters Tournament. He also plays a limited schedule on the European Tour, where he has 16 tour level victories to his name.

Ryder Cup star
García has been a member of every European Ryder Cup team since 1999, with the exception of 2010 and 2023, and has a career record at the Ryder Cup of 25–13–7 (.630). He has been in six winning sides and his singles win in 2018 made him the all-time Ryder Cup points leader, with 251⁄2 points in 9 appearances, overtaking Nick Faldo's 25 points in 11 appearances. By winning three of his four matches at Whistling Straits in 2021, he extended this record to 281⁄2 points, and also surpassed Faldo as the player with the most individual match victories, with 25.

In the 2006 Ryder Cup, at the K Club in Republic of Ireland, García won both his fourball and foursome matches (with José María Olazábal and Luke Donald, respectively) on day one, beating David Toms and Brett Wetterich in the fourballs and Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in the foursomes. On day two, he paired up with Olazábal again, who won both their matches against Phil Mickelson and Chris DiMarco in both the foursomes and fourballs. Going into the final day in the singles, García was heavily tipped to be the second person to win all their matches in one Ryder Cup; however, Stewart Cink beat him 4 and 3. Europe won the cup again, with 181⁄2 points to the United States' 91⁄2 points. At the 2020 Ryder Cup, Garcia won the inaugural Nicklaus-Jacklin Award for the European team. It is an award given to the player whose teamwork, sportsmanship, performance and decisions epitomized the spirit of the Ryder Cup.

2007: Near-miss at the Open Championship
In March 2007, García received criticism for a spitting incident at the WGC-CA Championship. During his third round García spat into the bottom of the cup on the 13th green after three-putting for bogey. After missing the cut in the first two major championships of 2007, García came close to winning The Open Championship – his favourite of the four majors – at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland. He held the lead after each one of the first three rounds and carried a three-shot lead over Steve Stricker and a six-shot lead over the rest of the field into the start of the fourth day.

At an early stage of the last round, García had extended his lead to four shots, but bogeys at the 5th, 7th, and 8th holes brought him back to the field. On the final challenging hole, he needed a par to win, but failed to get up and down from the greenside bunker. The last putt on the 18th hole on Sunday, from about 8 ft, would have given him his first professional major. He missed it by a fraction and faced a four-hole playoff with Pádraig Harrington that he eventually lost by one stroke.

In his post-round news conference, García seemed to suggest that bad breaks had cost him the Open championship. During the playoff, on the long par-3 16th hole, his tee shot hit the flagstick but then bounced 20 ft from the pin, off the green, and García could not convert for birdie. "It's not the first time, unfortunately", he stated. "I don't know... I'm playing against a lot of guys out there, more than the field." In the 2007 PGA Championship, he was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard after the third round.

2008: Victory at the Players Championship and near-miss at the PGA Championship
On 11 May 2008, García won The Players Championship on the PGA Tour in a sudden-death playoff against Paul Goydos. The playoff began at the par-3 17th, where Goydos hit a pitching wedge that ballooned and fell inches short of the island green and into the water, while García played a sand wedge to within four feet (1.3 m) of the hole. Goydos made double bogey while García made par for the win.

At the 2008 PGA Championship, played over the South Course of Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit, García narrowly missed out on winning his first professional major championship yet again. Like at the 2007 Open Championship, Pádraig Harrington was able to erase a García lead on the back nine to take the title. García finished two strokes back for his second runner-up finish at the PGA Championship. His most serious mistake during the final round was misjudging his second shot on the 16th, playing into a strong wind, which found the water in front of the par-4 hole's green, costing him sole ownership of the lead. Regarding another near-miss in a major championship, García stated, "I felt like I responded well, and he was obviously very good on the back nine, and things just happened his way."

On 26 October 2008, he won his first European Tour title in over three years, at the first playing of the Castelló Masters Costa Azahar at his home course, the Club de Campo del Mediterráneo in Castellón, Spain. With this win, he rose to a career high of third in the Official World Golf Rankings. He dedicated the victory to compatriot Seve Ballesteros, who was recovering from multiple operations from the brain tumor that would ultimately claim Ballesteros' life. He won the 2008 HSBC Champions, the opening event on the 2009 European Tour season on 9 November 2008 in a playoff over Oliver Wilson. This win notched him up to a career high second in the Official World Golf Rankings, replacing Phil Mickelson in that spot, who had coincidentally won the HSBC Champions in 2007. García earned more money than any other golfer in 2008, earning $6,979,959 in 26 events.

2009–2010: Slump in form, competitive break
After his success in 2008, García had a very disappointing season in 2009, rarely contending and finished ranked 74th on the PGA Tour money list. He had more success on the European Tour where he finished tenth in the inaugural Race to Dubai. His slump continued into 2010, and after missing the cut at the US PGA Championship, García announced he was taking a break from golf and would miss the 2010 Ryder Cup. He also dropped out of the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Struggles with the putter were the primary cause of his slump, since his ballstriking remained among the best in the world. On 29 August 2010, European captain Colin Montgomerie announced that García would be his fourth vice captain for the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor.

2011–2012: Return to form
García returned to competitive play in late 2010 with a new putting grip and this produced better results for him on the greens during tournaments in 2011. After 36 holes, he was near the lead in both the 2011 Transitions Championship and the 2011 Byron Nelson Championship, but both times faded on the weekend to fall out of contention.

García had to withdraw from qualifying for the 2011 Open Championship because of an infected finger. He had originally planned against qualifying for the 2011 U.S. Open, where he was outside the top-50 in the OWGR and was not guaranteed automatic entry. He eventually earned a spot in the U.S. Open after being one of the top four at a qualifying tournament near Memphis. García played well in all four rounds of the U.S. Open, ending in a tie for seventh place at five-under par 279. García finished tied for ninth place in The 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's. This was his 17th career top-10 finish in a major.

In late June 2011, García almost broke his winless streak dating back to 2008, when he lost at the fifth sudden-death playoff hole to fellow Spaniard Pablo Larrazábal at the BMW International Open. García led the tournament after the 11th hole of the final round with a stunning stretch of holes, which saw him produce three birdies and two eagles in six holes, from holes six to eleven. However his charge to the finish was derailed by four bogeys in five holes, leaving him needing a birdie at the last to make the playoff. In the playoff, both players made consecutive birdies at the first two extra holes (both par 5s) before parring holes three and four (both par 3s). At the fifth extra hole, García had a 30 ft eagle putt for the victory, but ran the effort four feet (1.3 m) past the hole. The resulting putt lipped out, allowing Larrazábal to hole a two-foot birdie putt for the victory.

García's runner-up finish at the BMW International Open ensured qualification for the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's, through the current form money list exemption. García went on to finish tied for 9th place at the Open Championship, his best finish for four years. He continued the run at the 2011 PGA Championship where he finished in a tie for 12th place, extending his streak to 50 consecutive majors played, the longest streak among active players. In October 2011, García ended a three-year title drought with back-to-back wins in his home country at the Castelló Masters and the Andalucía Masters. García won the Castelló Masters in dominant fashion, with a final score of 27-under-par, 11 strokes ahead of the field. It was the joint third highest victory margin on the European Tour, beaten only by Tiger Woods' 15 stroke victory at the 2000 U.S. Open and Ernie Els' 13 stroke win at the 2005 BMW Asian Open. After the win, García dedicated it to the late Seve Ballesteros, stating "That was for Seve."

The following week, García won the Andalucía Masters, played at the Club de Golf Valderrama, arguably regarded as one of the toughest golf courses on the European Tour. He edged out fellow countryman Miguel Ángel Jiménez by one shot after a tense final round. Following his back-to-back wins, García moved back into the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking. In August 2012, García ended a four-year title drought on the PGA Tour by winning the Wyndham Championship. In doing so, García also secured his place on the 2012 Ryder Cup team. In December 2012, García fired a final round 61 to win the Iskandar Johor Open on the Asian Tour.

2013: Controversy
While tied for the lead at the 2013 Players Championship, García hit three balls into the water on the 17th and 18th holes, finishing quadruple-bogey, double-bogey. He finished tied for eighth place. After the tournament ended, García and Tiger Woods (who won the tournament) had a public feud over an incident that occurred during the third round. Two weeks later, at a European Tour players dinner, García was asked about meeting with Woods at the U.S. Open, to which he responded, "We'll have him 'round every night. We will serve fried chicken." The remark was seen as racist. García issued a statement later that night apologizing and then issued another apology the next day, saying that his comments were "totally stupid and out of place."

2014–2016
In January 2014, García won the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters after defeating Mikko Ilonen in a playoff. The win put him back in the world top 10. In July 2014, García finished joint runner-up at the 2014 Open Championship, two strokes behind Rory McIlroy. This was the second time García had finished as a runner-up at The Open Championship and fourth time in a major championship, having still yet to break through. García began the final round seven strokes behind McIlroy, but got to within two after an eagle on the 10th hole. However his challenge was ended when he left his second shot in the bunker at the par three 15th which he would bogey to fall three behind with three to play. This finish moved García back inside the world's top five in the world rankings.

The biggest result of García's 2015 season was at the 2015 Players Championship; where he tied Rickie Fowler and Kevin Kisner at 12 under par after 72 holes. He was then eliminated after the three-hole playoff, after finishing two strokes behind Fowler and Kisner. Fowler would go on to win in sudden-death. On the Asian Tour, he won the Ho Tram Open in Phước Thuận, Vietnam, beating Lin Wen-tang, Himmat Rai and Thaworn Wiratchant in a four-way playoff.

As the year before at The Players Championship, García came very close to another win on the PGA Tour at The Honda Classic. In a final round showdown with Adam Scott, where the pair started the final round level, the Aussie prevailed by one shot. In May, García won his second AT&T Byron Nelson championship in a playoff over Brooks Koepka. The win was his first on the PGA Tour since 2012 and his ninth career victory, tying Seve Ballesteros for most by a Spanish-born player.

2017: Major championship win
In February 2017, García completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his first European Tour title in over three years. The victory was García's 12th of his European Tour career, as he finished three strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson. The victory moved García back inside the top-10 and after the win García said "Hopefully it will be the beginning of a great year."

2017 Masters win
On 9 April 2017, in his 74th major championship, García broke through and won the Masters Tournament with victory on the first sudden-death playoff hole against Justin Rose. García became the third Spanish player to win the Masters, after Seve Ballesteros and José María Olazábal. The victory also came on what would have been Ballesteros' 60th birthday.

García shot rounds of 71-69-70 over the first three rounds to enter the final round at six-under par and in the co-lead with Rose, who played together in the final group. This represented García's second career 54-hole lead/co-lead at a major championship, after the 2007 Open Championship. García began the final round strongly, with two birdies on his opening three holes and he forged a three shot lead early on. Rose came back though and following bogeys on the 10th and 11th for García, Rose opened up a two shot lead.

The 13th hole was then pivotal, as García scrambled a par and Rose missed a short birdie putt to keep the gap at two shots. García would then birdie the next hole and eagle the par five 15th to tie Rose with three holes remaining. They then both hit their tee shots at the 16th close, but only Rose converted, to again lead by one. Rose however would make a mistake at the 17th, leading to a dropped shot and meaning both players were tied going up the 72nd hole. Both players hit their approach shots close on the 18th green, but Rose burnt the lip with his birdie putt. García had a five-foot putt to win the tournament in regulation play but missed it right resulting in a playoff as both players finished level on 9-under-par after 72 holes.

Playing the 18th hole again, Rose hit his tee shot into the pine straw, meaning his second shot was blocked off by trees, so could only advance his ball 50 yards or so. He played his third to a similar area of the green he had during regulation play. García fired his approach to within twelve feet. Rose's putt for par then missed on the left side of the hole, leaving García with two putts for the win. He only needed one, as he holed his birdie putt for his only major championship.

Rest of 2017
On 9 October 2017, it was announced that García had parted ways with TaylorMade after 15 years with the equipment brand.

Two weeks later, he won the Andalucía Valderrama Masters. Along with the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and the Masters, it was the first time he had recorded three wins in a single European Tour season. A few days after his win, he spoke about the rising tensions in Spain after the Catalan independence debate, calling on the country to 'be more together'.

Ahead of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai in November, García dropped a huge hint that he was on the verge of signing an equipment deal with Callaway Golf Company after playing a full set of the brand's clubs in Dubai.

Following his three-win season, García was named European Tour Golfer of the Year in December.

2018
On 21 January 2018, García played a bogey-free 27 holes to win the Asian Tour's SMBC Singapore Open by five strokes over Satoshi Kodaira and Shaun Norris. García shot four-under on the back nine to close out a third-round 66, then posted a closing three-under 68 in his final round.

2018 Masters
On 5 April 2018, in the first round of the 2018 Masters Tournament, García tied the record for most strokes on a hole in Masters history, shooting a 13 on the 15th hole. García ultimately missed the cut at the 2018 Masters Tournament and failed to defend his title after shooting 81–78.

Rest of 2018
García was a member of the 2018 Ryder Cup winning European team at Le Golf National outside of Paris, France on 28–30 September 2018. He went 3–1–0 and won his singles match against Rickie Fowler (2 and 1). European captain Thomas Bjørn made García a captain's pick notwithstanding García's inconsistent play for much of 2018, but was chosen for his passion and record in the Ryder Cup.

On 22 October 2018, García successfully defended his Andalucía Valderrama Masters hosted by the Sergio García Foundation title after wrapping up a comfortable four-shot victory at Real Club Valderrama in Spain.

2019
In February 2019, García was disqualified from the Saudi International tournament on the European Tour for damaging five greens deliberately in anger during his third round.

In March 2019, García was involved in another controversy at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. García and Matt Kuchar were locked in a quarterfinal duel when things went awry at the par-3 seventh hole. Trailing Kuchar by one, García missed a seven-footer for par to win the hole, his ball coming to rest an inch or two away from the cup. García went after his putt and gave it a quick-rake, and the ball lipped out. Due to the Spaniard's swiftness, Kuchar did not have a chance to concede the putt. As such, García lost the hole. Kuchar told the official he wanted to give García the putt, but that cannot be done retroactively. García eventually lost 2 up to Kuchar, who went on to play in the finals of the event.

In April 2019, García missed the cut at the Masters after shooting 73–75, which was won by Tiger Woods, and the missed cut was his 6th straight in a major championship, the longest such streak in his career.

In July 2019, García was again mired in controversy after throwing his driver at his caddie at the final round of the 2019 Open Championship after a poor drive at the fifth hole at Royal Portrush. Later that month, footage emerged of García gouging the teebox after a poor drive on the 16th hole, while competing at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational event in Memphis.

In September 2019, García won the KLM Open in Amsterdam with a one-shot win over teenage Danish golfer Nicolai Højgaard. This was his sixteenth European Tour win.

2020
In January 2020, speaking ahead of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, García revealed that he had ended his association with Callaway after just two years together.

In October 2020, García won the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. He has now won PGA Tour events in three separate decades.

Tennis debut
Also in October 2020, it was announced that García would partner Amer Delić in a semi-professional doubles tournament to be held in Austin, Texas. The pair lost their opening match at the Men's UTR Pro Tennis event.

2022
In May, while competing at the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour, García had a verbal altercation with a rules official while attempting to find his ball. García became heated after being told it took too long to find his ball, leading to him shouting "A couple more weeks, and I won't have to deal with you anymore". This led to speculation that Garcia would join the Saudi Arabia-led LIV Golf Invitational Series. García resigned from the PGA Tour and was then suspended from its future tournaments after he began to play in the first LIV Golf tournament.

2023
Having joined LIV, García was subject to fines and suspension from the European Tour for playing without a conflicting event release. After those sanctions were upheld by an independent arbitrator, in May 2023, the European Tour announced that he had resigned his membership of the tour.

Personal life
In July 2017, García married Golf Channel reporter Angela Akins, the daughter of Marty Akins. His sister Mar is married to the footballer Pablo Hernández. Until June 2018, he was also the president and chairman of his hometown football club CF Borriol, for whom he occasionally played in the Tercera División. He maintains residences in Austin, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Borriol, and Crans-Montana.

On 14 March 2018, García became a father. He named his daughter Azalea, after the famed flowers of Augusta National Golf Club and the nickname for the par-5 13th hole where García made par to move ahead and help claim his only major championship. They had son Enzo in April 2020.

García is also an avid Real Madrid supporter and was invited to take the honorary kickoff for El Clásico (between Real and archrival FC Barcelona) at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu wearing his green jacket after his Masters victory.

Amateur wins

 * 1995 European Amateur
 * 1997 Boys Amateur Championship, French Open Amateur Championship, Sherry Cup (Sotogrande)
 * 1998 Spanish International Amateur Championship, The Amateur Championship

PGA Tour wins (11)
PGA Tour playoff record (6–6)

European Tour wins (16)
 * Note: The 2018 Andalucía Valderrama Masters was shortened to 54 holes due to weather. 1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour, Sunshine Tour and PGA Tour of Australasia, but unofficial money event.

European Tour playoff record (4–4)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)

Asian Tour wins (5)
 * Note: The 2012 Iskandar Johor Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather. 1Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour 2Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour

Asian Tour playoff record (1–0)

LIV Golf League wins (1)
LIV Golf League playoff record (1–3)

Other wins (5)
Other playoff record (2–0)

Wins (1)
1Defeated Rose in a sudden-death playoff: García (3), Rose (5).

Results timeline
Results not in chronological order in 2020. {{legend|lime|Win}} {{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} LA = low amateur CUT = missed the half way cut "T" = tied DQ = disqualified NT = no tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

 * Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (2014 U.S. Open – 2016 Open)
 * Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (2002 Masters – 2002 PGA)

Results timeline
{{legend|lime|Win}} {{legend|yellow|Top 10}} CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place C = Cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships
Results not in chronological order before 2015. 1Cancelled due to 9/11 2Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic {{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play "T" = tied NT = No tournament Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009. Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022.

PGA and European Tour career summary
* As of 19 September 2020

These figures are from the respective tour's official sites. Note that there is double counting of money earned and wins in the majors and World Golf Championships.

Team appearances
Amateur
 * Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 1995, 1997 (winners)
 * European Boys' Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995, 1996 (winners), 1997 (winners)
 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995, 1997 (winners)
 * Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1995 (winners), 1997
 * Eisenhower Trophy (representing Spain): 1996, 1998
 * St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 1996

Professional
 * Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Spain): 1999 (winners)
 * Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1999, 2002 (winners), 2004 (winners), 2006 (winners), 2008, 2012 (winners), 2014 (winners), 2016, 2018 (winners), 2021

 * Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2000 (winners), 2003
 * World Cup (representing Spain): 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009

Golf equipment
García previously had an endorsement deal with TaylorMade and Adidas, at the time a joint company used all TaylorMade equipment, and Adidas shoes and clothing.

Following the acquisition of TaylorMade by KPS Capital Partners and separation from Adidas and after fifteen years with the company, in January 2018 Sergio García severed his ties with TaylorMade, remained with Adidas and signed with Callaway. At the start of 2020, García confirmed he had parted ways with Callaway after two years to become a free agent.

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Follis

The follis (plural folles; follaro, فلس, Fels) was a type of coin in the Roman and Byzantine traditions.

Roman coin
The term follis is used for a large bronze Roman coin denomination introduced by Diocletian in about 294. The term "nummus" is now thought to be the actual ancient term, but usage of "nummus" has not caught on. ). At first the follis weighed about 10 grams and was about 4% silver, with a thin layer of silver on the surface. Over the next decades it declined both in size and in silver content.

The word follis means bag (usually made of leather) in Latin, and there is evidence that this term was used in antiquity for a sealed bag containing a specific amount of coinage. It has also been suggested that the coin was named Follis because of the ancient Greek word "φολίς" meaning a thin layer of metal (cf. Latin folium, "leaf") which covers the surface of various objects, since originally, this coin had a thin layer of silver on top. The 'follis' of Diocletian, despite efforts to enforce prices with the Edict on Maximum Prices (301), was revalued and reduced as time passed. By the time of Constantine the Great, it was smaller and barely contained any silver. A series of Constantinian bronzes was introduced in the mid-4th century, although the specific denominations are unclear and debated by historians and numismatists. They are referred to as AE1, AE2, AE3 and AE4, with the first being the largest (near 27 mm) and the last the smallest (averaging 15 mm) in diameter. Namely:

Discoveries
Large hoards of folles have been discovered all across the Roman empire. For example, in Seaton Down, Devon, England, near the site of a second- to third-century Roman villa and fortifications, 22,888 folles were found in 2013. Fourth century folles represent the largest category of coin finds in the United Kingdom. Between 30,000 and 50,000 exceptionally well-preserved folles from the first half of the fourth century were discovered in the sea near the north-east shore of Sardinia in 2023.

Byzantine coin
The term "follis" is used for the large bronze coin denomination (40 nummi) introduced in 498, with the coinage reform of Anastasius, which included a series of bronze denominations with their values marked in Greek numerals.

The fals (a corruption of follis) was a bronze coin issued by the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates beginning in the late 8th century, initially as imitations of the Byzantine follis.

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Fals

The fals (فلس, plural fulus) was a medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate (661–750) beginning in the late 7th century. The name of the coin is derived from the follis, a Roman and later Byzantine copper coin. The fals usually featured ornate Arabic script on both sides. Various copper fals were produced until the 19th century. Their weight varied, from one gram to ten grams or more.

The term is still used in modern spoken Arabic for money, but pronounced 'fils'. The plural form fulus فلوس is used in contemporary dialects of Arabic (e.g. Egyptian, Iraqi) as a general term for "money". The French term folous is borrowed from Arabic. It is also absorbed into Malay language through the word fulus فولوس.

In popular culture

 * The Malay derivant fulus was used as basis for naming the fictional setting of Metrofulus in the 2006 Malaysian superhero film Cicakman.

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Indian filter coffee

Indian filter coffee is a coffee drink made by mixing hot milk and sugar with the infusion obtained by percolation brewing of finely ground coffee powder with chicory in a traditional Indian filter. It has been described as "hot, strong, sweet and topped with bubbly froth" and is known as filter kaapi in India.

History
Until the 17th century, coffee was grown only in Arabia and exported in roasted or baked form. Taking raw coffee beans out of the country was prohibited to protect the Arabian coffee monopoly. According to a legend, Indian Sufi Baba Budan discovered coffee on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He smuggled seven raw coffee beans back to India and planted them in the hills of Chikmagalur in present-day Karnataka.The favorable conditions enabled the coffee plants to thrive in the hills, which were later named Baba Budangiri ('Baba Budan Hills'). The British Indian government became very interested in the coffee, and established large plantations in Coorg (present-day Kodagu). Budan's original coffee plants are purported to be the ancestors of most of the world's coffee trees today.

Ingredients
Traditionally, Indian filter coffee is made with Plantation A washed arabica or Peaberry coffee beans. The beans are dark roasted, ground, and blended with chicory, with the coffee constituting 80-90% and the chicory 10-20% of the mixture. The chicory's slight bitterness contributes to the flavor of Indian filter coffee.

Traditionally, jaggery or honey were used as sweeteners, but white sugar has been used since the mid-1900s.

Preparation
Indian filter coffee is prepared by first bringing water to a boil. A special filter, cylindrical in shape, is used in the preparation of the coffee. The filter has two metal cups that assemble one over the other. The filter coffee powder is first added to the upper cup on top of the perforated chamber and then compressed with a pressing disc. The boiled water is then poured over the disc and filter. The upper cup is then secured with the lid, and the coffee is allowed to brew. This process allows the water to extract more flavor from the coffee, resulting in a more robust and stronger flavor compared to Western drip coffee.

Once the collector containing the brew is detached, the brew can be combined with hot milk. Sugar may also be added to the filter coffee.

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Talk:Indian filter coffee

 * 1) I'm not sure if coffee is more popular than tea in Andhra Pradesh. I know that coffee is in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and I know (?) tea is in Kerala. Anyone from Andhra, please edit article as necessary.
 * 2) I'm not sure of the cultural significance of coffee in other regions of South India, and I didn't want to use generic terms like "South Indian culture". Someone with knowledge, please edit. Ambarish | Talk 05:06, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) It appears that this webpage is famous - in an interesting example of cross pollination of information, the picture and text from this page made it (w/o attrib) to the state run "Podhigai" tamil language television as part of a quiz programme. See http://cheeni.livejournal.com/9272.html --Cheeni 11:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Stronger than espresso?
The article mentions the "decoction" or "filter" is "stronger" than Western coffee including espresso. This is an ambiguous statement. Does it refer to caffeine content? Or taste? Can't imagine the caffeine content to be higher compared to any of the coffees in the West to be lower, specially when not using Chicory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgeneris (talk • contribs) 19:13, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

The strength of the decoction is dependent upon the proportion of coffee powder and water being used. And when someone says "strong/stronger", it is not an indication of the caffine content. Spk100 (talk) 11:52, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Preparation
It looks like the entire "Preparation" section is not cited & was written without any inline citations. Should we attempt to find citation to back this existing information? Or should we rewrite this section with citations? Whitestar12 (talk) 03:18, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

 * It should be rewritten based on reliable sources. These sources are a good place to start.
 * - Ram1751 (talk) 23:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much & for sharing some sources. I'll try to take a look and update this section accordingly. Whitestar12 (talk) 01:11, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

 * With the latest revisions, Ram1751 - do you think it's appropriate to remove the tags at the top of the article? The tags are: "This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (March 2013) This article possibly contains original research. (July 2013)" Whitestar12 (talk) 01:17, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I think the Preparation section is now in good shape. However, the other sections need to be checked for the issues and rewritten if necessary. For instance, the Name section cites the Bangalore Mirror, a tabloid - therefore not a reliable source per Wikipedia guidelines. Is the Name section even necessary or appropriate for this article? Similarly, I'm in favor of deleting the Culture section since the single source cited does not appear reliable.
 * Thank you for your contributions! Ram1751 (talk) 02:40, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course! Considering the content is now updated with citations, is it okay if I remove the tag at the top of the article? Whitestar12 (talk) 02:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * , it appears you did not see my comments above, so I'm repeating them below. The template can be removed after the items below have been adequately addressed. Thanks.
 * I think the Preparation section is now in good shape. However, the other sections need to be checked for the issues and rewritten if necessary. For instance, the Name section cites the Bangalore Mirror, a tabloid - therefore not a reliable source per Wikipedia guidelines. Is the Name section even necessary or appropriate for this article? Similarly, I'm in favor of deleting the Culture section since the single source cited does not appear reliable.
 * Ram1751 (talk) 02:58, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * My apologies; I responded too fast.
 * I agree with your comment regarding the Name section. In place of "Name," it may be more valuable to have a section on "Etymology?" Or perhaps remove it altogether. Any relevant content under the "Name" section could be moved to another section on the page.
 * I am also in favor of deleting the "Culture" section. Whitestar12 (talk) 15:03, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ram1751
 * For the "History" section - I reviewed the content & sources under this section. Do you think we should be good with removing the tag? Whitestar12 (talk) 01:46, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi just wanted to see if there was any further opinion on the History section before I take down the tag.
 * Thanks!
 * Whitestar12 (talk) 02:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Both of the cited sources are available only by subscription so they can't be verified. Can you provide the relevant quotes from the sources, or better, provide more easily verifiable sources? Thanks. Ram1751 (talk) 03:01, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * So, I took a closer look at the sources. The first one is a book & the information is coming from a chapter in the book (The English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture). I don't have access to the book, but I did a quick search. Looks like the publisher is Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. At a glance, since this book contains essays, it feels like a primary source to me. This book could potentially be reliable but would love for someone else to weigh in.
 * As for the 2nd source, I agree. I'll try to see if I can find a more verifiable source here. If not, perhaps we remove the content?
 * Thanks!
 * Whitestar12 (talk) 15:13, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Since we don't even know what the relevant material is from the first source, it should not be cited. Since the material from both sources cannot be verified, the content of this section should be removed and it should be completely rewritten from scratch, based on a fresh search for reliable material. These sources may be useful for the rewrite. Ram1751 (talk) 20:23, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * , I have rewritten this section based on verifiable, reliable sources and removed the template. Ram1751 (talk) 03:07, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! sorry, didn't get a chance to help with this.
 * Whitestar12 (talk) 19:06, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Ram1751- Just curious, I know this article is currently start class. What is stopping it from moving it to a B class? Trying to explore ways to help improve it further.
 * Thanks! Whitestar12 (talk) 20:11, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Ram1751 just wanted to resurface my last question.
 * Thanks! Whitestar12 (talk) 22:41, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Balrog (Street Fighter)

Balrog´s skin
Why Balrog´s skin in Street Fighter II was white during the fights, and why in official artworks of Street Fighter II Balrog has black skin?
 * ??? Pictures, please. Danny Lilithborne 23:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Printed screenshots of Street Fighter II sometimes made him look white during the fights but if you see the game up and running on-screen, he's black. He doesn't look anything like his character portrait, but he's definitely black. Daigo (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Full Japanese name of Balrog
Is Balrog's full Japanese name Michael Gerard Bison? I wonder if that is official. Mike Tyson's full name is Michael Gerard Tyson.

Nope, in Japanese it's Mike Bison, with no relation to Mike from SF1.Vasili10 01:46, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Lawsuit?
Is the lawsuit thing an assumption or does proof exist? --Feitclub 02:27, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

It's an assumption, otherwise Capcom would be inviting the lawsuit itself. 84.90.24.117 (talk) 18:51, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Balrog as Mike from SF1
Capcom denied that Mike and Balrog are the same person.
 * Source? Evan1975 21:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Several. The easiest to compare them side by side would be All About Capcom Head-to-Head Fighting Games 1987-2000 or the The Street Fighter 2 Movie Memorial Official Fanbook.Vasili10 01:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, Mike's entry in All About Capcom on page 340 says that he is considered to be a prototype version of M. Bison/Balrog the boxer. Jonny2x4 (talk) 01:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

And of course Capcom denied... they are too afraid to confirm. It's better retcon characters (splitting into two) than have a lawsuit or something. "Is Mike (the American boxer) from SF1 the same Mike (the American boxer) from SF2? Capcom will always say "no". Otherwise, what good would the rotation of names (vega-m.bison-balrog) do if this boxer still had his SF1name untouched? They couldn't change his SF1 name (witch was no problem - there are many Mikes in the world), but they could change the facts by official stating they are two different characters: "Balrog" and Mike. Ok, the official is what matter but... were they originally meant to be two persons?Newsblade (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2007 (UTC) > http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6372/mike2ex9.jpg > http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/260/bison1lw4.jpg

In SF2 Capcom decided to show this boxer’s full name revealing to be ‘Mike Bison’, to extent that parody (already implicit in SF1) to the American black boxer, and champion, ‘Mike Tyson’. Because of lawsuit issues Capcom US decided to change is name into ‘Balrog’. Then, the character previously named ‘Balrog’ got the name ‘Vega’ and the boss of SF2 got the ‘Mike Bison’. Because ‘Mike Bison’ was not a very appropriate name for the main villain it was reduced to M. Bison and people now call him ‘Major Bison’, 'Master Bison', 'Max Bison' 'Mister Bison' or ‘Mr. Bison’, but nobody really know what 'M.' stands for, neighter Capcom US.

However, changing names in US version of SF2 proved to be not enough since this character continued to be called Mike in US version of SF1, fact that linked Japanese SF2 ‘Mike Bison’ to the American releases of SF series, still proving that Mike’s full name was Mike Bison. To get a complete ride of possible lawsuits from Tyson’s lawyers, Capcom created the first and, until now, the major retroactive continuity in SF story by splitting this character into two: Mike, the black American pugilist and Mike (Bison) the black American pugilist.

Obviously Capcom should (and must) deny these historical facts, since after all that work of changing character’s names, retroactive continuity and other headaches; confessing this not only would be a waste of work, but also a suicide, since Tyson’s lawsuit would, once again, be a problem. However, besides the name, profession, nationality, skin color, etc., the resemblances between these two characters are clear and more evident than other street fighters that also transited, like Birdie for instance. 217.129.243.193 (talk) 10:30, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Here... http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8306/streetfighter1mikebisonbk5.png 84.90.24.156 (talk) 00:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

In the original “Street Fighter” there’s a black boxer from United States with a similar appearance to “Mike Bison” (マイク・バイソン). After Super Street Fighter IV, the project manager Natsuki Shiozawa made the same “Mike and Bison”relation, and assumed them to be probably the same person!. Incidentally, the name Mike Bison became, [during the translation/westernisation process of SF2] in Europe and America “Balrog”, while the SF1 character remains “Mike” (マイク) […since it’s not humanly possible to go back and change already finished /released games]. 84.90.24.117 (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Case closed, problem solved  Mike (SF1) is Balrog (SF2). At last! Capcom has stated on their official blog (http://www.capcom.co.jp/blog/sf4/nakky_blog/2010/03/26_2099.html) that both characters are "probably one and the same". 84.90.24.117 (talk) 21:29, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

From Wikipedia.Japan 初代『ストリートファイター』には、バイソンに容姿と設定が似たアメリカ出身の黒人ボクサー「マイク」が登場していた. 後に『スーパーストリートファイターIV』（以下『スパIV』と表記）の公式ブログにおいて、同作のプロジェクトマネージャーである塩沢夏希が「（マイクとバイソンは）おそらく同一人物であると思われます!」と回答している[4]. なお、マイク・バイソンは欧米では名前が「Balrog」になっているが、マイクは欧米でも名前が「Mike」のままである.

Source: http://www.capcom.co.jp/blog/sf4/nakky_blog/2010/03/26_2099.html 84.90.24.117 (talk)

Why
Why is the SVC pic being used? the source is the same? T-1000 00:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Balrog/Barlog
In the SNES version of Super Street Fighter II, Balrog's name is pronunced as Balrog or as Barlog?

 * From the article: On the Street Fighter II: Champion Edition arcade machines, Balrog's name is misspelled as Barlog. In turn, the announcer in Super Street Fighter II mispronounces Balrog's name as Barlog as well. This pronounciation was also carried over into the SNES version of the game. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 09.21.856.326 (talk • contribs).

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No illustration at all. --194.145.185.229 (talk) 17:26, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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American informations should be provided on this article!
Hello there. I changed Balrog's height from 6'6" to 6'5" because the most websites with American informations describe Balrog being 6'5" tall and the Wikipedia is a website where American informations should be provided. I also removed his weight informations because there are too many different informations about his height on American and Japanese websites. Anyway, here: FIGHTER 2 || BOSS CHARACTERS || BALROG & VEGA (arcadequartermaster.com), - Mike Bison - Street Fighters - Character profile - First take - Writeups.org, • Street Fighter II- The Animated Movie • Absolute Anime,, are the sources where the original American informations describe Balrog, being 6'5" tall and the real Mike Tyson is described being 5'10.5" tall on several websites and also in some of his official boxing videos. I explained the reason with acceptable sources for my contribution to this article and please respect my request and do not revert. 213.162.68.237 (talk) 22:54, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello. While it has been documented he was 6'5" in American releases of Street Fighter 2, it has been retconned in future American sources such as the Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia, and even in Street Fighter 5, which confims that he is 198 cm, or 6'6", according to the "Lair of the Four Kings" Stage.

The sources that have been stated on your post are not only unreachable, but they are mere fansites; not recognized by Capcom itself and furthermore not a reliable source. If you can find a modern-day, reliable source that states he is 6'5", then by all means, go for it, but please make sure it is official. Thank you for your contribution. Steelermajor (talk) 23:57, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

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Meg Tilly

Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan on February 14, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress and writer.

For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Psycho II (1983), The Big Chill (1983), Masquerade (1988), and Valmont (1989). For her role in the television series Bomb Girls (2012–13), she won the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Tilly has also written multiple novels, including Porcupine (2007), which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

Early life
Tilly was born in Long Beach, California to Patricia Ann (née Tilly), a Canadian teacher, and businessman Harry Chan. Her father was Chinese-American, while her mother was of Irish and Finnish descent. She is the younger sister of actress Jennifer Tilly.

Following her parents' divorce when she was three, Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island in British Columbia, Canada. She later claimed that Ward was a violent pedophile. At the age of 12, Tilly started taking dance lessons, in part to avoid her stepfather, and in a few years had developed into a gifted ballerina.

Tilly attended Esquimalt High School in Esquimalt, British Columbia, and also Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle, Washington where she is listed among its alumni. After graduating from high school, Tilly left home and moved to the United States to pursue a career as a professional dancer. In New York City she studied with Madame Darvash and Melissa Hayden on full scholarship. She joined the Connecticut Ballet Company. She made her screen debut (somewhat ironically) as a dancer in Alan Parker's 1980 musical drama Fame, despite the fact that Tilly's dance career had been halted in 1979, when a dance partner dropped her, leading to a serious back injury.

Acting
Forced to give up dancing because of complications stemming from her back injury, Tilly moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress and studied acting under Peggy Feury. She made her television debut in the 1982 half-hour drama The Trouble with Grandpa, co-starring Elisha Cook Jr. After playing a prostitute in a second-season episode of Hill Street Blues, she appeared in her first starring role in the 1982 coming-of-age adventure film Tex with Matt Dillon.

In 1983, after she starred as the lead in the supernatural horror film One Dark Night, she appeared in Psycho II with Anthony Perkins, and Lawrence Kasdan's award-winning ensemble film The Big Chill, with Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, JoBeth Williams and Mary Kay Place. Tilly's appearance in The Big Chill, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, helped her career significantly. In 1984, she starred in the movie Impulse.

Tilly was the first choice for the role of Constanze Mozart in Miloš Forman's film Amadeus, having received glowing appraisals of her rehearsal work by both her would-be costar Tom Hulce and director Forman. However, she sustained a leg injury playing soccer and had to abandon the project. The role later went to Elizabeth Berridge.

In 1985, Tilly landed the acclaimed title role in Norman Jewison's Agnes of God, appearing with Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft. Playing the role of a novitiate nun who confesses her involvement in a virgin conception, Tilly "delivered a magnificent portrayal of a tormented young woman experiencing the ultimate crisis of faith". Tilly's critically praised performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.

Tilly later appeared in Valmont (1989), The Two Jakes (1990) with Jack Nicholson and Leaving Normal (1992) with Christine Lahti, as well as the 1993 horror film Body Snatchers. After this, she stopped acting for the next 15 years.

Tilly returned to acting in 2010, portraying the Blessed Mother, a Pope-like figure in the Caprica episode "Unvanquished". In 2011 she played Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, presented by the Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre in Victoria, B.C.

In January 2012, Global in Canada launched the six-part Bomb Girls about women who work in a munitions factory during World War II. Tilly stars as Lorna, the emotionally closed floor matron who blossoms as a leader and an appealing woman. She won the 2013 Lead Actress, Drama Canadian Screen Award for her work on the series.

Writing
Tilly is the author of multiple published novels. In 1994, Tilly's first novel Singing Songs was published by Dutton to generally positive reviews. Donna Rifkind from Publishers Weekly called the book "an impressive first novel", and the New York Times Book Review praised Tilly for "the remarkable coherence and clarity" of Anna's narrative voice. The book is about a young girl and her sisters living in the Northwest who are molested by their stepfather.

Her second novel Gemma was published in 2006 by the Syren Book Company. and picked up by St. Martin's Press in 2010. The book is about a twelve-year-old girl who is kidnapped and taken on a cross-country journey in which she is physically and sexually abused by her captor.

Her third novel Porcupine was published in 2007 by Tundra Books. The book is about a twelve-year-old girl, Jacqueline "Jack" Cooper, whose life is shattered by the death of her father by friendly fire in the War in Afghanistan. Porcupine was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, shortlisted for The Canadian Libraries Association Best Children's Book 2008, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year and was an Ontario Library Best Bets 2008.

Her fourth novel First Time was published in 2008 by Orca Book Publishers. The novel is about a sixteen-year-old who is molested and physically abused by her mother's boyfriend, and must deal with the trauma alone without the help of her mother or best friend. First Time was a 2009 Golden Eagle Award Nominee, a 2009 YALSA Quick Picks and 2010 CCBC Best Books.

Tilly's fifth novel A Taste of Heaven was published in 2013 by Puffin Books. A departure from the darker themes of Tilly's previous work, the novel is about two young girls who become friends who experience the "comical, sometimes bittersweet and melodramatic trials and tribulations of tweenhood". One reviewer wrote, "Tilly paints an insightful, memorable portrait of the ups and downs of friendship and the unwavering bonds of family, delving into age-old issues of honesty, trust, and loyalty. A Taste Of Heaven was shortlisted for the 2014 Libris Young Reader Book of the Year, a 2014 Diamond Willow Award and won the 2014/2015 Chocolate Lilly Award.

Her sixth novel, Behind the Scenes, was published in 2014 by Puffin Books (Canada).

In 2018, Tilly published the first of three books in her Solace Island trilogy, a series of romantic thrillers about a young woman, Maggie Harris, dating a mysterious handsome man after recently being dumped by her fiancé. It was quickly followed by two sequels, Cliff's Edge and Hidden Cove.

In 2021, Tilly's latest novel, the new romantic thriller The Runaway Heiress, was published.

Personal life
In 1983, Tilly married Tim Zinnemann, an American film producer and son of film director Fred Zinnemann. They met on the set of her first film, Tex. The couple had two children, Emily (born 1984) and David (born 1986). The marriage ended in divorce in 1989.

In 1989, Tilly began a 5-year relationship with British actor Colin Firth, whom she met during the filming of Valmont. They moved from Los Angeles to a log house on five acres of mountainside property about an hour outside Vancouver near the town of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. They have one son, William Joseph (born 1990).

In 1995, Tilly married John Calley, an American film studio executive and producer 30 years her senior. They moved to Los Angeles, where Calley worked as president and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The marriage ended in divorce in 2002.

In 2002, Tilly married her current husband, author Don Calame, who writes fiction for adolescents. They met during a writing seminar in Big Sur, California.

Since 1999, Tilly has resided in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia.

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Talk:Lunar phase

First and last quarter
I think the moon is exactly half when the earth and sun are 90° apart from the moon, not when moon and sun are 90° apart from the earth. And the reason is that for the moon to be exactly half, the sun would have to be shining directly on the edge of the visible part of the moon, meaning that the sun and earth would have to be 90° from the moon. Which means about 89.857° from the earth if the sun is 400X farther than the moon. The Channel of Random (talk) 16:32, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

 * You are correct. And there seems to be several other places where the terms are mixed up in this article.
 * The moon is at dichotomy (half-lit) when it has swung 89.85° through it's orbit around Earth, NOT 90°.
 * About 6 hours after the moon is exactly half lit, when it's more than half lit (50.1%?), THEN it becomes a quarter moon, when at quadrature (90°). I think...
 * This article seems to say exactly that... right before contradicting itself and saying the opposite.
 * But all the sources I've found online are sloppy and woefully conflate "Quadrature_(astronomy)" with "dichotomy" with "quarter moon" (even NASA!!!) so I'm not sure what the definition of a quarter moon is, nor even if there is a scientific definition for a quarter moon, versus just a sloppy, common term for any time when it is around 89ish or 90ish degrees until 134ish or 136ish degrees +/-. Skintigh (talk) 23:06, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

 * The official and traditional astronomical definition is given in the first footnote. Why would you want to define the lunar phases as seen from the Moon as most people actually live on the Earth? I agree that the article should clearly distinguish between the quarter phases and dichotomy. AstroLynx (talk) 12:14, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Art and Culture

 * This page is linked by a few articles that use the crescent moon as a symbol, and it would benefit from some discussion about the prominent symbolic uses of a crescent moon Immcarle183 (talk) 07:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

General

 * Six Millennium Catalog of Phases of the Moon
 * U.S. Naval Service on Moon Phase / What the Moon Looks Like Today (United States Naval Observatory)
 * Moon Phase For Any Date (Full moon date analysis from 1900 - 2050)
 * Full Moon Names
 * Current Moon Calendar
 * The Length of the Lunar Cycle (numerical integration analysis)

Educational aids
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aicraftor (talk • contribs) 17:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Open Source Physics Lunar Phase Model
 * Lunar phase simulator (animation)
 * Starchild: Moonlight Madness Lunar Phases Game
 * Names and Images of the 8 moon phases
 * Astrophysics Science Project Integrating Research & Education: Lunar Phases Quiz
 * Lunar Phase Image Sets In High-Resolution (1200x1200 pixels) at 1-Degree Intervals - Views of the Moon From 4 Sides at Any Relative Phase
 * Front/Back/East/West Lunar Phase Explorers
 * Mnemonic devices for the Lunar phases
 * Moon activity idea from Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Calendar
The section "Calendar" should be about the use by humanity of the lunar phases as a form of calendar. Instead it takes three paragraphs to explain that lunar months and Gregorian calendar months have different lengths and so are not in phase. Shock - not.

So two questions for debate: 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 08:41, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) does the section as it stands have any value? If so, it needs a different section name.
 * 2) A section about calendrical use of lunar phases should actually say something about the subject. Would it be enough to just copy the lead of lunar calendar or do we need something a bit longer that also describes lunisolar calendars too. And maybe even Blue Moons.
 * I don't think the section is important enough to keep.
 * Some sort of section, even shorter than the lunar calendar lead, with a "Main article" template, would be appropriate.
 * When I saw mention of lunar phases and the Gregorian calendar, I thought of the aspects of the Gregorian calendar that are used to calculate the date of Easter. But that is exhaustively covered in other articles, and I don't think it needs to be mentioned here.Jc3s5h (talk) 16:41, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I have deleted the section about lunar and calendar month coincidences. Consensus is that it had no value. I have added a brief section on use of lunar phases for "timekeeping" (long-range time, as in "four moons ago" rather than "four minutes ago").--𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:03, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Almost repetition
The two initial files in the article are almost the same. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 08:00, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

 * They're not the same at all. The first one shows the lunar phases and librations as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere and the second one from the Southern Hemisphere . – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:39, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Distinction between common vernacular "lunar phase" and astronomical "lunar phase"?
I was recently educated re: the distinction between "lunar phase" as commonly understood: the percentage illumination of the lunar disc, and as it is apparently considered in astronomical context: defined by the alignment of the sun/moon/earth system as viewed from the perspective of the ecliptic. E.g. today there was an eclipse of the sun, which peaked at 9:20am from my location, which intuitively must be the new moon since the moon face is never less illuminated than when the sun is directly behind it, but the official "new moon" time was 10:55am, because that was when the moon was directly between the sun and earth from the perspective of the ecliptic plane. It seems like this distinction should be made in this article, and I would add a section but I don't feel qualified to do so. Any takers? Chconnor (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Hat note
I appear to have upset user:AukusRuckus by questioning their decision to move the confusing hatnote from a single arguably confusing section to the top of the article.

IMO, the effect of that note at the top of the article is to assert that the whole article is confusing. That, at least to me, seems a significant overreaction, because it is not a reasonable assessment of the article as a whole. (I accept to call it "extreme" was, well, extreme and I withdraw that adjective but the rest of my challenge stands.)

Before applying such a full-on mark of condemnation to an article, I would expect to see a talk page topic that makes the case that the whole article is a hopeless case, completely incomprehensible, beyond repair. I see no such case. If the state of the article is anything less than that severe, then the tag is an overreaction.

In the final analysis, WP:so fix it applies unless you really don't have any idea what it is trying to communicate. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:42, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

 * I didn't apply it, though — someone else did. So "WP:so fix it" in no way applies to edit, but the original tagger's. (And if you took your own advice, you'd have "just fixed it" by simply removing he offending hatnote.) There  a talk page discussion on it, above, in fact. I just followed what I thought had been intended (we don't put banners in the middle of text. Such locations require an inline tag).
 * What I objected to was the wholly unnecessary reversion: Just remove the hatnote. You undid the DAB link fix for no good reason, one that I had mentioned, front-and-centre, in my ES. There was no need to just undo everything willy-nilly.
 * I take your point about it being obtrusive (but you should try stumbling around and finding a huge block like it in the notes section, when you can't see well) for a relatively small problem: So just remove that and nothing else. Only revert as a last resort, especially if you're not willing to look at what else you're reverting.
 * (So, you realise I was  the editor who put the tag into the article? From your comment, it seems you think I was ... Could you look at the diffs please? I can see how I may appear ott to you, but my edits—which I really enjoy doing—are rather more effortful than the average person's, I imagine, due to a visual disability: So I can get in a bit of a tizz when they're undone.
 * In the final analysis, this kind of reversion is just discourteous. Nevermind, expect it'll all come out in the wash. AukusRuckus (talk) 17:14, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * but am I right in saying that it was your edit that moved the "confusing" tag from the section to the whole article? I'm editing on mobile at present and am aware how its limitations can generate misunderstandings. I hope that this is not another such.
 * I recognise your edit was made in good faith and if we should cross paths again I will aim to ask questions first and shoot afterwards. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 19:05, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Date format
The date format of the article has been inconsistent. A recent edit by changed a few dates from the mdy format to the dmy format. The earliest version of the article I found that has dates, from January 2006, uses the mdy format. The earliest version I found that has citations with dates uses a style that is no longer accepted, yyyy-mm-dd for publication dates. I suggest the format for dates outside citations be restored to mdy, and the mdy format be used within citations as well. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC) lllllllllllllllllllllllllll

What about history?
I came to this page hoping to find some imformation about early theories to explain the phenomenon. I do not know why this is completely omitted. Anyone knowledgable in the subject, please create a section, hopefully it will be expanded overtime. DivinePtr (talk) 13:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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