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Palade ehhh Weibel
Hi PFHLai, thanks for improvements on George Emil Palade, such as my clumsy (it was late) misspelling of Dr Weibel's name. You must have followed the link from endothelium! By the way, what stopped you from adding the URL to the J Cell Biol and just leaving it commented out??? I didn't realise that journal had fulltext going back to the 1960's!  JFW |  T@lk  19:12, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your message and for starting my User talk page, Dr. JFdWolff.
 * Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to find that ancient JCB article online. (They even have it in pdf format !!)
 * I originally had the URL ready on George Emil Palade. I removed the external link because I felt that Weibel-Palade bodies deserve a Wiki-page on its own and decided to save the URL for it. I don't know when I'll get to make this yet-to-exist Wiki-page. (I need to read up on W-P bodies first ...)  If you feel like it, please go ahead and make the page.  Have fun with it.  ;-)
 * PFHLai 14:59, 2004 May 6 (UTC)

I'm still waiting to find time for completing von Willebrand factor, which was a major undertaking. My resource was a very good review in Annu Rev Biochem (see references there), which also deals with the composition of Weibel-Palade bodies. The one thing that's missing is a proposed mechanism how WPBs are fused with the cell membrane for release (e.g. after ddAVP infusion). JFW | T@lk  17:21, 6 May 2004 (UTC) PS: Does Prof Weibel deserve a seperate page? I couldn't find much more on him.

 * You have made von Willebrand factor a very good, very informative page already. Your figure makes the page very pretty, too.  I think factor VIII, the first linked item on the vWF page, needs more help than the vWF page.

 * Prof. Ewald R. Weibel, the longtime Chairman of Anatomy at University of Berne and former President of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, probably deserves his own page. He is apparently very famous in lung and respiratory research (which I don't understand.)  I've found many Google entries with his name, but most of them are written in German (which I don't understand.)  His English CV and bibliography can be found at " http://130.92.22.171/anatomy/person/persondetail_e.jsp?person=weibel ". Very impressive.
 * PFHLai 16:12, 2004 May 7 (UTC)

Imatinib
I printed out the Imatinib/diabetes/atherosclerosis article. Very impressive; perhaps we should mention on the imatinib page that "imatinib is used in laboratory settings to investigate inhibition of PDGF-Rβ and its potential benefit in other diseases, such as atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes mellitus". Good idea? JFW | T@lk  09:24, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure. It's always good to keep Wikipages as current as possible. :-)
 * PFHLai 19:00, 2004 May 10 (UTC)

Weibel... Palade... atherosclerosis... vasculitis...
Hi Patrick. I saw someone had put Weibel-Palade body on the "requested articles" list, so I wrote something stubbly. I don't have Sadler's article at hand, so I had to reproduce this from memory. Please add whatever you think is suitable. By the way, I have read that Finnish article on atherosclerosis vs vasculitis. There is only a hypothesis that viral infections cause atherosclerosis; until then the inflammation is not the primary nosologic phenomenon, as in vasculitis... JFW | T@lk  16:46, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

 * You reproduced that from memory ? Wow...  I'm impressed, Dr. Wolff. 8-)
 * PFHLai 02:32, 2004 May 29 (UTC)

 * BTW, I was the one who put 'Weibel-Palade body' on the Opentask box. I'm lazy ....
 * PFHLai 01:55, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

HEPA
Nice work for cleaning up HEPA. I removed the msg:cleanup and msg:stub as I think the article is fine now. Thue 17:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks. :-)  PFHLai 02:24, 2004 May 29 (UTC)

Pulmonary Hypertension
We keep on running into each other's edits! Sorry I buffed up on BMPR2... you can see we need people like you to iron out these mistakes, which would otherwise go unnoticed! Something we also might have to include is this article on angiopoeitin and the related signalling cascade. It might explain how BMPR2 causes PPH. I'll see if I can read it tonight... JFW | T@lk  17:08, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, Dr. Wolff, if you plan to read on Agpt-1 (this is my preferred abbreviation for Angiopoietin-1, but no one listens to me...) and PPH, may I suggest and   ?  To be frank, I am not quite sure if this controversy/descrepency is encyclopedic yet.  More papers are due from both groups soon. There is also another lab group in Colorado working on the VEGF and apoptosis aspects of PPH.  I'll probably wait till the dust settles (i.e. when everyone has switched to progenitor/stem cells) before I submit more on the pathobiology of PPH (or PAH, according to the WHO ....)
 * PFHLai 21:28, 2004 May 30 (UTC)
 * P.S. Would the super-messy BMP/TGF-beta signalling pathway be more fun to wikify ?  I find it very intimidating .....  8-O

You're right, perhaps we ought to practice restraint before introducing current controversies into an encyclopedia... I have read little about the TGFβ/BMP pathway. It is indeed intimidating, touching on cirrhosis, scleroderma, and other things I know too little about. What's your exact field of research, BTW? JFW | T@lk  21:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Keywords outlining my research can be found on my User page. I don't study PH myself, but I have friends working on it. I've learnt about PH mostly through copyeditting my friends' manuscripts, etc. (and they thought I was only checking for typos ....)
 * PFHLai 01:55, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

Cal Ripk i n Jr.
Why should the redirect page Cal Ripkin Jr. be deleted? Wouldn't you want someone that typed that in to the "go" box to be redirected to Cal Ripken, Jr., instead of getting a this page does not exist message? (<-- User:Braaropolis wrote this.)

 * Well, Yeah ! Google-searching in Wikipedia is set up to suggest alternatives when a page cannot be found. I just tried it with "Cal Ripkin Jr". And I was then directed to the right page.
 * I don't think Wikipedia should waste resources like that and keep such pages that should not exist. The Wikipedian who created the page made a typo and left the page like that. Sigh ... It's already not that easy to log-in these days ..... I wonder how many such unuseful, unwanted pages are there taking up memory in Wikipedia's hardware ....
 * Anyhow, someone has fixed the 're-direct' (which I almost did.) Never mind. It's okay. Just that I felt I should answer your question.
 * Have a nice day, Braaropolis. :-)
 * PFHLai 03:03, 2004 Jun 2 (UTC)

Thank you re CAM tags
Thank you for adding an outside, neutral voice to the CAM tagging of articles. I agree with your advice, entirely. Kd4ttc 15:30, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * You are very welcome, Dr. Holland. Thank you for agreeing with my posting. I hope Mr-Natural-Health reads it, calms down and goes back to building Wikipages.  However, not only has he ignored my posting, he has removed it without a single reply.  I am rather disappointed. -- PFHLai 01:24, 2004 Jun 9 (UTC)

Haute Couture
Thanks for filling out the Charles Frederick Worth reference. I was just too lazy to do any lookup.

I left the American designers blank because I couldn't think of which ones did made-to-order and gave shows. Does Jones New York do custom clothing? As far as I know, fashion houses like Calvin Klein and DKNY are ready-to-wear and not custom.

Amazing that I should be a regular reader of Vogue and unable to figure out which designers do custom. I suppose it's in the interests of the fashion industry to blur the difference between custom and ready-to-wear, because the custom is the loss leader that allows them to get the hype, the buzz, and the ready-to-wear orders.

Me, I'm just a home sewer trying to do couture-quality work.

Zora 05:34, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * You are welcome, Zora. No need to thank me, I was just playing at Wikipedia. I landed on Haute couture by way of Template:Opentask, which listed the Wikipage as a Stub in need of expansion.
 * Sorry, I honestly have no idea if JNY does custom clothing or not. I am very ignorant about fashion, let alone Haute Couture.
 * I am a grad student and I am broke. JNY is very high fashion to me.  I have two suits for weddings, funerals and conferences, one of them is a ready-to-wear JNY suit purchased on gift certificates !
 * If JNY doesn't belong to the list of haute couture fashion houses, please excuse my ignorance and take it off the list. Thanks.
 * Have a nice day ! :-)
 * -- PFHLai 05:06, 2004 Jun 16 (UTC)

HHT
Dr. Lai, do I have something for you: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. If this isn't vascular... Perhaps you have access to some more details on pathogenesis. JFW | T@lk  09:44, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Nicely done, Dr. Wolff. Oh, yes, this is indeed very vascular. :-)
 * Access to some more details on pathogenesis of HHT ? Hahaha... Do you think I have lunch with Dr. Osler regularly ????
 * BTW, please don't call me 'Doctor'. I haven't finished writing my thesis yet, not to mention the thesis defence. Please, please, please don't jinx me !
 * -- PFHLai 12:46, 2004 Jun 16 (UTC)

And so humble too. JFW | T@lk  13:24, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

redirects
I moved your request for deletion of Conducting system from cleanup to Redirects for deletion. It will eventually perk up to the surface and be handled there. - Nunh-huh 03:54, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I didn't know Redirects for deletion exists. Thank you.
 * Have a nice day.
 * -- PFHLai 22:40, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC)

 * No reason you should know, really. It would be simpler if such obvious cases for deletion didn't have to go through these elaborate processes and could just be deleted! - Nunh-huh 22:44, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, IMO, it's a bit too much work. But such barriers may be needed, considering so much vandals are around Wikipedia ... Afterall, perhaps the page can survive, and someone re-writes it with a detailed description of conducting systems for heat transfer. ... :-) ... -- PFHLai 22:58, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC)

Mesanglial (sp?) cells
Thanks, great edit there! --inks 04:24, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. :-)  -- PFHLai 05:11, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)

Culture of Hungary
I appreciate the nomination :) I really felt like reading up on the country and was pretty disappointed to find nothing at all on its clearly very unique culture. Kudos! Sarge Baldy 21:07, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

Gucci
Hi. Please note that the Gucci article you were working on was a copyright violation which will be deleted soon to get the copyvio out of the article history. I've moved your version to Gucci/Temp. Please work on the article there until the Gucci article is deleted, then Gucci/Temp will be moved to Gucci. RickK 05:05, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- PFHLai 05:38, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
 * Hm. I don't know who listed it as a copyvio, but they should have put it on the Copyright problems page.  RickK 05:40, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, if you want, go ahead and re-list it on Copyright violations. RickK 05:57, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Chinese box
Hi, PFHLai;

Could you please tell me why you added "insane" and "disputed" flags to the Chinese box article? The "insane" flag indicates "patent nonsense"—that seems unwarranted for this article.

--Cluster 16:40, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi, Cluster, please see my response on your talk page. Thanks. -- PFHLai 20:08, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)

 * PFHLai, thanks so much for the thorough response. You're a great asset to Wikipedia.

 * Thank you for your kind words, Cluster. BTW, I've re-posted my response at Talk:Chinese box. -- PFHLai

Babylonia
No, I don't like the idea of a merger because Babylon is for the actual city of Babylon whereas Babylonia is for the entire state. I'll admit the links coming off Babylonia are terrible, but I think if Babylonia were made AotW people will probably improve the satellite articles as well when they use them to dig up more information for the main one. Sarge Baldy 21:04, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Atherosclerosis
Hi PFHLai. Thanks for your edits to improve organization and details. I have made a few edits, both clarification and a few more details, no photo or drawing details yet.

I could use help breaking the circular link of atheroma to atherosclerosis. I have written a new and failry short page on atheroma, however when I attempted to break the circular database link using the redirect function, I only succedded in breaking the atherosclerosis listing, changing it to atheroma, as opposed to creating as seperate atheroma entry for the link. (At least I then fixed my break.) Can you help?

 * I can certainly help, MAlvis. Please see my response at your talk page. -- PFHLai 00:13, 2004 Jul 24 (UTC)

Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures
New edits at Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures, in case your interested. Thanks for your suggestions and help. MAlvis Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 5:22 PM CST

Commercialism
I noticed that myself actually. Looks like it's really coming off to a good start! :) Sarge Baldy 06:12, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

 * Personally I think the Commercialism article is vague and speculative. I'm not sure of its anthropological accuracy, and I don't think "cave men" is a real term. I put it on WP:PNA, don't know if it's good etiquette to put it on cleanup as well. I don't have the background to fix the article myself. Rhobite 13:17, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

YACHAD
I'm looking for input on the situation with the YACHAD Germany articles. Please take a look at Talk:Yachad (Germany). --Smack 21:54, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Coronary catheterization
Significant new edits at Coronary catheterization, in case your interested. For some reason, radiolucent hyperlinks OK but radiodense and the key term radiocontrast, all of which I started today, do not; suggestions, help appreciated. Would look forward to more direct talk some time, if your interested. MAlvis Friday, July 30, 2004, 5:34 PM CST

 * You are welcome to chat here anytime, MAlvis. :-)
 * The links on your new pages seem fine now. Perhaps it's a cache problem. Pressing 'Ctrl-F5' to empty the cache of your computer may help display new changes.  Hope this helps.
 * -- PFHLai 12:36, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
 * Despite my lack of expertise, I have boldly made some changes at the above mentioned pages. Barium sulfate, a relevant page, has been re-written, too.
 * I think physicians at WikiProject Clinical medicine will be interested in your new pages.
 * -- PFHLai 18:36, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

thanks for warm welcome
Hi there. Thanks for warm welcome. Certainly interested in Wikiproject Clinical medicine. I have introduced myself more thoroughly at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine. :) See you soon! BjarteSorensen 13:49, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Happy editing !  :-)
 * -- PFHLai 18:52, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

Paraguay supermarket fire
Sorry, Gary D, I have hidden the line you've added to Template:In the news because there is no relevant page in Wikipedia updated to include this incident. Please feel free to undo my hiding when a page has been updated (but I don't think either supermarket or Paraguay would be a good page to update.... if I know which page to update, I would've done it myself...). Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:54, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

 * I've found one: Asunción. I shall undo the hiding at Template:In the news. -- PFHLai 02:59, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

 * Oh, okay, I was just about to concede that maybe it wasn't significant enough to justify updating any pages and so had to stay off the main page. --Gary D 03:05, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * With such a high fatality count, I think it can stay on the MainPage. IMO, the explosion in Belgium and the IMF funding to Turkey are less significant news.
 * I don't know how long this news item will stay on Asunción, though. That page is pitifully short, considering "Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America."  The link from the MainPage may lead more editors there to make more changes .....
 * Have a nice day. :-)
 * -- PFHLai 03:21, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

Captions on Opentask
Hi, I have restocked the standbys for Captions on Template:Opentask. My selections were random. Please feel free to re-stock to serve your Wikiproject's needs. Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:28, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

Thanks! I pulled some off the list since they didn't have pictures or didn't need much help (in which case I just fixed them up as long as I was there). I don't suppose there's much use in keeping a long (>5) list of articles in the queue because the project is sufficiently dynamic and we only knock off one or two a week from opentask, anyway. -- ke4roh 03:34, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * Actually, there is a reason to have a long list. I keep many standby items of various lengths (number of letters). With different replacements available, it's easier to keep the length of each line on the Template:Opentask more or less the same [for esthetics reason ....] :-)
 * I also try to have topics from different fields of study active at the same time.
 * -- PFHLai 10:10, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

New Medical Edits
Of possible interest Angiogram, Gamma camera, Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary heart disease. I appreciate your reviews and help Patrick.
 * -- MAlvis Sunday, August 8, 2004, 10:58 AM CST

No problems. :-) -- PFHLai 02:35, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)

A COTW
Thanks for correcting my brain-fade on Wikipedia talk:Article of the week. I thought "collaboration" but my fingers typed "challenge" for some reason (... twice ... - at least I got it right in Village Pump)

Time for a holiday :) -- ALoan (Talk) 14:26, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Captions on Opentask
Please see my reply to your query on User_talk:Ke4roh. -- ke4roh 17:07, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Wikiholiday
It's hard, Patrick, isn't it??? JFW | T@lk  12:58, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, Dr. de Wolff. It's very hard ....  I am very much addicted ..... -- PFHLai 01:14, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

Stop calling me Dr de Wolff! If I can call you Patrick you can certainly call me Jacob! JFW | T@lk  08:12, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, Sir ! :-) -- PFHLai 16:40, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

adminship
I've nominated you for adminship (janitorial duties). Please go to WP:RFA and accept. Cheers, Jiang 22:35, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Hello, Jiang,
 * I am pleasantly surprised by your nomination for adminship. I accept.  Thank you very much.
 * I'll read Administrators carefully before I do anything at WP:RFA.
 * Thanks, again.
 * -- PFHLai 01:26, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

Given your skillfull handling of Opentasks and your many judicious edits, I think you'd be great admin material. Just make sure you don't get sucked into the black hole of anti-trolling, thorny issues (Polish vs German naming of Gdansk, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other heartsinks) etc. I use my admin privileges sparingly - reverting obvious vandalism, deleting redirects to facilitate a pagemove, banning notorious vandals and occasionally mediating between the usual suspects. As for molecular biology: I got a fair grounding in the basic topics during my studies, but I've grown more interested in molecular pathophysiology over the last little while. Please share some more of your knowledge! JFW | T@lk  07:49, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome and congratulations! It looks like your vote's going to be unanimous. 172 19:14, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks, again. :-) -- PFHLai 19:35, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

Voyager 2
Re: your edit of "selected anniversaries"---Voyager 2 did not "leave the solar system" in 2003, according to e.g.. I don't know what the anniversary is for... (What does "leave the solar system" mean anyway?)

As I understand the Voyager 2 article, the date August 24, 2003 is merely a random date when the distance to the probe was found by a wikipedian...

 * Dear User:193.216.55.231, Thank you for pointing that out. I admit I do not understand the item on Voyager 2 at all. I shortened and changed the tense (Please see the edit summaries .  I am now restoring its original form and let someone else do the copyediting. Would you like to help ?  Please sign in. :-)
 * -- PFHLai 19:26, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

 * There are only a handful of spacecraft which have left the solar system. Voyager 2 actually launched before Voyager 1. Voyager 1 is near the outermost rim of the solar system. There is a photo of Earth from one of the spacecraft, poignantly far away from home, and thrusting farther away with every second. Voyager 2 is not far behind. And in 40,000 years, it may still be intact. Ancheta Wis 20:53, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Since you appear to have an interest in Selected Anniversaries, may I point out that Selected anniversaries/November forward to Selected anniversaries/February do not have the full 3 to 5 selections for each day. Mav started this and I attempted to fill in selections in as fair a way as I could, but I stopped in October. November forward, I put in only the space fillers for each day. I do not doubt that Mav could spend the few moments for each selection, but I am sure that he and I would appreciate any attention you wished to lavish on any of the Selected Anniversary days. Hint, it helps to start the selections on the last day of that month, then to successively select the previous day from the footer of the page. Ancheta Wis 00:48, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Adminship
You're welcome! I look forward to continuing seeing you about and I'm glad you are now an admin (well, at least you will be by the time you get this message). Wikipedia is a great project, and it's always a thrill to meet people who are as committed to it as you are. David Cannon 11:35, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome! -- Merovingian ✍  Talk  00:19, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

 * Ditto! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 00:23, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're a sysop!
Congratulations! Consensus having been reached on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 06:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome
Congratulations on your adminship ..... and good luck juggling Wikipedia and the thesis (I can relate, being about to face a similar dilemma myself). ffirehorse 07:38, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're Right
I'm sorry about deleting the Douglas McGregor, I wasn't thinking and thought it was in the expand section and that it had already been expanded. Yono P.S. Sorry about the double edit, I really gotta get more sleep. ;)

Selected Anniversaries
Thanks for the help on some of the Selected Anniversaries entries! --mav 06:13, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Support
Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. Looks like I only got my sysop powers mere days after you. If you would like to talk sometime, by all means, message me. I like conversations. :-) Mike H 03:41, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Comptroller
that's cool, also if you're an admin take a look at Guitar.com Miscellaneous Forum ugh. :\

COTW
Hello, I see you reverted edits I made without explaining why you did so on either my talk page or the article talk page. I am interested in know why you did so. Davodd 01:09, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * No problem. The only thing that really mattered was my Atilla the Hun vote and comment. Davodd 01:14, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching that. I didn't realize "by X" meant the end of the day; not the beginning. Davodd 01:45, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Remember my password across sessions
Thanks for the tip, i dd try it befor, but then i forgot about letting it tore cokkies, so in=m just hoping that it will work now :-) ~

Thanks
thanks!! User:Tsemol

beta Systemic Bias section
Hi, if you wish to help contribute to a beta version of a Wikipedia page section designed to counter-act Wikipedia's systemic bias, please sign the bottom of this section on the Village pump - Village_pump. If not, no worries.--Xed 03:55, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sports
Hi! The problem with sports is that people from all over the world can claim that this or that sport is too 'minor' to be featured on the mainpage. I personally feel that past sporting events should stay off the main page like the Current sports events does for the 'In the news'. I've come across more baseball events than other sports including F-1, chess, etc. As for cricket, I will be taking a months break and will resume later. There's a lot still to be done on cricket, and updating the anniveraries page happens to be the last on the list. ¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | [[User talk:nichalp| ✉ ]] 20:12, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * I do add some events when I get the time. However, I will be offline the next month. ¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | [[User talk:nichalp| ✉ ]] 19:40, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Opentask
Hey. I'm still new, but I'm trying my best to get involved and get a feel for things. I hope my changes to the Opentask template weren't against any etiquette or rules that I overlooked in my reading? - Defunkt [[User talk:Defunkt| (talk) ]] 20:22, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Astrodynamics...
Hate to disagree with you, but I would call astrodynamics a stub because there is more than one section that simply glosses over things as if they are to be expanded upon later. For example, here are the first four paragraphs of the "Historical Approaches" section:

 * First, you've got Aristotle and Ptolemy.

 * Next, you have Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, followed by Isaac Newton.

 * The Keplerian problem was addressed by lots of very able mathematicians, such as (examples here ... Bernoulli ??? Alan Turing ??? Henri Poincaré, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace ).

 * This stuff is useful for calculating the behaviour of planets and comets and such. More recently, it has also become useful to calculate spacecraft trajectories. See spacecraft propulsion, Tsiolkovsky rocket equation.

This is not a finished product, and as someone who has been a professional editor and copyeditor, I can assure you that only final drafts are acceptable for copyediting. To copyedit this article at this point would be premature and counterproductive.

Also, I've noticed that there is a lot of scientific terminology and equations in the article. I would strongly recommend relegating those advanced concepts to a separate section where experts in the field and adventurous amateurs can examine them. Right now, though, I think they might put off the general audience that Wikipedia is aimed at. In other words, it should be an encyclopedia entry, not a journal article or textbook chapter.

I have reverted it to stub status (an article can be long and still be a stub), but I'd be happy to do the final copyedit when it's ready. --Dablaze 22:21, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

As for the significance part:http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/index.html

The significance: The suspected murderer was really rich (richer than the state of Texas), hired a really good lawyer, and ended up being proven innocent. WhisperToMe 23:31, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Today is the 150 anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
National Public Radio did a piece on the Charge of the Light Brigade this weekend. On part of the segment pointed out that as the charge began, the Russian gunners scoffed at the chances of the British solders charging the cannons. They changed their tune AFTER the charge of the Light Brigade: for months whenever even a few squads of British gathered for a charge the Russians viewed their OWN chances with dread.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123120

Paullaw 17:17, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC) | talk

Main page changes don't seem visible unless the "purge" link is hit.
I brought up the main page but did not see the Charge of the Light Brigade entry until I went to this page and hit the purge link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page

Dennis (talk) 20:04, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Polycythemia
Rubra means 'red'. Vera means 'true'. Axl 10:25, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yamato Ishida
This guy's not a Pokemon character.... WhisperToMe 21:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

You're back!
Really! JFW | T@lk  21:03, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Kind of .... -- PFHLai 00:01, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)

Revolutionary vs List of Revolutionaries
Err... have you read my reasoning for moving the List of revolutionaries out of the Revolutionary article, where it originally was, into its own page? -- koenige 20:50, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries
Just wanted to say that you are still doing a great job with these! :) --mav 07:56, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :-) -- PFHLai 08:04, 2005 Jan 30 (UTC)

Romanov Dynasty
Eee... Well, I'm not smart in history, but pretty smart in browsing the web and other sources (especially the Russian ones):) As a rule, all the dates in Russian sources prior to 1918, when Gregorian calendar was introduced there, are Julian, unless otherwise noted. On February 7 1613(Julian) a representative assembly of All Classes of the Land (Vsesoslovny Zemsky Sobor) decided to elect Mikhail Romanov as tsar, but the final choice of the assembly was postponed until the opinion of people in the main towns had been known. It had on February 21 1613 (Julian) and this is the official date of the election and the solemn ceremony to celebrate this (e.g. namely this date is mentioned on the official website of Kremlin Museum ). It's also interesting, that namely the Julian date (i.e. February 21, not March 3) of this event is mostly celebrated in Russia. To summarize, the date February 21 1613 is much more appropriate to be named as the date of the foundation of Romanovs Dynasty than February 7 1613.

Sorry for the late answer, I'm now mostly involved into gathering the results and other data for the article 1980 Summer Olympics, which somehow got connected to the History of Antarctica and to the foundation of Romanovs Dynasty. :) Cmapm 12:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Пожалуйста! ("you are welcome" in English) (this is a common answer to "Спасибо!" in Russian) :) Cmapm 16:39, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Protecting the selected anniversaries pages
I think that the sad day has arrived that we need to protect our turf from Main Page vandals. See Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries --mav 22:29, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome, have you finished your graduate thesis? :p 202.150.96.34 09:42, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Introduction
Hullo. I noticed you reverted it to a revision from a very long time ago. Please note that the content is supposed to be:

...so newbie testing is perfectly OK, and is in fact intended. — Dan | Talk 13:16, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dresden
Would you care to explain why you removed this item from yesterday's DYK? Certainly in this part of the world (Europe) it was a major topical anniversary, in the news.

I don't see any particular reason why you should have reverted my edits with no comment whatsoever. Rather highhanded really IMO.

zoney ♣ talk 09:35, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I should pay attention to that yellow box saying new messages :). Unfortunately I had a number of messages and didn't see yours. Sorry for the prompt accusations!
 * No problems, I was just going blindly by our media here (BBC, RTÉ, etc.). Plus I think the commemorations were yesterday perhaps? zoney ♣ talk 09:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I understand. It's alright.  When I first saw the news on the 'Net about the celebrations, I thought I had screwed up something, too.  I do make mistakes more often than I want, you know....  :-) -- PFHLai 09:54, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)

Typo in Did You Know
Thanks for fixing the typo in Did You Know; most of my copy editing takes place on non-protected pages and when it's not, by the time I find the talk page and make a comment the change is usually made. Telso 10:28, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

>>Hello. Please see Talk:Main Page#Small typo on the Did you know... block. >>It's about your article Palladium-Hydrogen electrode. Thanks.

Thank you. I've posted answer.(Kaverin)

adsorb -> absorb
Just so you know. adsorb was not a typo. It's hard to explain, but chemically there is a difference between the two. Mgm|(talk) 22:50, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, I need to learn to read the other stuff that's written here. I've since read the main page talk and understand the mistake the author made. Thanks for the correction. Mgm|(talk) 22:53, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Romeos Lion
Thanks for the info on tagging. I was wondering if we could change the news. I'm getting really bored with the Kyoto Treaty. It's been up at least two days.

Selected anniversaries
In recognition of your work on Selected Anniversaries, you are awarded this Barnstar. Thank you. Ancheta Wis 16:34, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Whao !!! A barnstar for me ? This is a pleasant surprise, Ancheta Wis !  Thank you very much ! :-D  -- PFHLai 22:42, 2005 Feb 22 (UTC)

About SA edits
Hi. I appreciate your contribution to SA edits, in particular to February. A note and a question:
 * 1) according to SA guidelines, no more than 4 SA are to be selected when national holidays are present; your modification to 24 february fails to comply with this requirement;
 * 2) do you know who determines when a SA is in view-only mode? and why all March SA are in view-only mode?

--Panairjdde 10:46, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Panairjdde. Thank you for your interest in Selected Anniversaries. I am pleasantly surprised that someone is actually reading and following the guidelines. Sorry to disappoint you, but the guidelines are a bit old. I guess I should've updated them. I thought I am the only admin doing this on a regular basis, so I .... Okay... For now: up to 3 holidays, and independently, minimum 4 to maximum 5 events per day. This has been the case since last summer. I see that you have been taking things out. Don't worry about them. There is no urgency to restore them. Let it be ... Even if there are six, don't worry. We can cycle them in and out throughout the day if we want to .... I usually aim for 12 to 16 lines on the MainPage (It may be different on your screen, depending on font size, etc.) This should be about what 'Did you know' is also occupying on the right side -- Our space is wider, though. If I can only find 4 suitable events to feature on a certain day, I would try to write in longer sentences. I sometimes also adjust the size of the picture. The idea is to try to get a nice spatial balance on the MainPage. I don't always succeed, as I can't predict nor control the space to be taken by other sections on the MainPage, which can change any minute. As 'In the News' (top left on MainPage) is getting rather short these days, we may have to adjust the SA text length accordingly. We'll see .... Lucky us, most of the existing entries in March are short ..... :-)

 * ok, understood. less work to do!--Panairjdde 14:19, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

All items on the MainPage are currently protected. This is a recent policy to avoid getting vandals who put all kinds of junk on the MainPage. (We sometimes get porn !!!) As a result, all SA templates, 'In The News' and 'Did you know' can only be edited by admins. I don't know how you managed to get thru and edit the SA templates, perhaps a fellow admin missed a click or two on screen..... Regular users are encouraged to post suggestions at the respective talk pages, and you are certainly welcome to do so. I usually check them as I fill up the SA template for each day.

 * ok, I'll do this way. note that august is completely open for modifications. --Panairjdde 14:19, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Any more questions ? suggestions ? Please let me know. I am willing to 'unlock' a few SA templates in March at a time, if you are planning to rewrite them. Let me know well in advance, 'coz I'll have to 'lock' them up soon after you are done.

Regards, -- PFHLai 20:21, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

 * In general, I'd suggest to give slightly more SA before 20th century. I know it's hard, since there are less anniversaries with certified date. furhtermore, I'd introduce more non-American/non-European anniversaries, even if usually these had higher impact on world history. as regards editing, I'll put them in the discussion page of the SA. best regards --Panairjdde 14:19, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * August is so far ahead in the future .... go ahead and play. :-) And, oh yes, we certainly need more diversity. -- PFHLai 18:01, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

In the News
Thanks for your recent In the News updates on the Palestinian prisoners and Tung Chee-hwa. I noticed that you also re-instated the country-specific links ( Canada – EU – Hong Kong and Macao – India – UK & Ireland – U.S. ) at the bottom of the ITN section. There was a bit of discussion about this a few days ago. My feeling (and I think the consensus on the talk page) was that these added unneccessary clutter to the Main Page, and were inherently POV. For example, the Hong Kong and Macao item keeps re-appearing there. Hong Kong is definitely a major player in current events today with the Tung resignation, but is not generally a top-six source of international news. For the last few days, these country-specific links have been removed and replaced with a simple pointer to the Current events page. Perhaps you'd consider going back to this approach? - Jpo 14:31, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

HKCOTW and HKWNB
Hello PFHLai. I noticed you have joined the contribution to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. You may also be interested to take a look of Hong Kong Collaboration of the week and Hong Kong wikipedians' notice board. — Instantnood 16:38 Mar 1 2005 (UTC)

Automatic sel anniv event cycling
I'm developing such a plan at Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries. I'd really like to see what you think. :) --mav 18:58, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see my reply there. Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:49, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)

Blood vessel
Finally, thanks for sorting out the hideous vasodilation construction. As you will have found, I've done a mega expansion of blood vessel. Would you mind checking for errors and updating whatever you feel like? JFW | T@lk  13:21, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me .... :-)  -- PFHLai 06:14, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC)
 * P.S. What do you mean by "the hideous vasodilation construction" ? The bad redirects ?  No problem...

Salt March
I editied the template yesterday but unfortunately the same did not update on the main page even after purging the cache. Is there another place where I have to edit so that the results are seen? Are six events allowed? Nichalp 20:22, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)

Some India related events
Hi. I've got some India related events that I think are important and should be put up.

If I remember some more I'll let you know. Nichalp 20:09, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) March 12 1993 -- 1993 Mumbai Bombings — This was the most sever terror attack in an urban centre before the Sep 11 incident.
 * 2) April 14 1944 -- massive explosion rocks the harbour of Mumbai
 * 3) December 6 1992 -- Babri Masjid in Ayodhya demolished resulting in Hindu Muslim riots all over India till December end.
 * 4) October 31, 1984 PM Indira Gandhi assisinated by her bodyguards
 * 5) 11 May & 13 May, 1998 -- India conducts 5 nuclear detonation.

BC vs. BCE
Why did you change BC to BCE in this edit?

I was under the impression that the author's original style should be kept. Regardless, nobody takes offence at BC and it is certainly more obvious to the average reader (especially important on the Main Page). —Wereon 23:48, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, Wereon.

I personally have no preference either way. I changed it because I know someone else will probably do it anyway ..... (e.g. .) -- PFHLai 01:09, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)

 * Nothing is inevitable. Besides, Neutrality has already been criticized for his BCE edits. —Wereon 17:34, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Red Lake High School massacre
Thanks for adding Jeff Weise to the list of victims. When I made that list, I meant to include him, but somehow forgot in the rush of digging up names. It always irked me to see Harris and Klebold left off of the Columbine victims lists, and I didn't want to repeat that oversight here; thanks for fixing it! -- Seth Ilys 19:25, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome. :-)
 * May all those who passed away yesterday at Red Lake rest in peace.
 * -- PFHLai 19:40, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

Misdirected frustration
I apologize if I came across overly harshly at In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates; my frustration is mostly aimed at Current events, where almost anything U.S.-related is immediately transferred to the U.S.-specific page, no matter how widely it's making the news.. —Korath (Talk) 03:07, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * There is no need to apologize, Korath. You weren't being harsh, nor was I offended at all. :-) -- PFHLai 03:30, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)

Cleaning up In The News suggestions
Is there some archive where suggestions are supposed to be stored after a certain period of time, or can we just delete everything from February so we can get rid of the suggested size warning? --Kitch 14:43, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I honestly don't know ..... See my note on that page ? :-P Somewhat disappointed by the lack of response so far ..... -- PFHLai 08:56, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

Holi
I'm sorry I confused you. You are partially (80% right) right. As you read, Holi is a spring festival associated with the burning of the demoness Holika. The dates vary according to the Hindu calendar just like Easter, but always falls in March. Now the bonfire part is carried out today (at night) (25 march) and this is called Holi. The throwing of colours happens on the following day and this is known as Rangpanchmi. Though rangpanchmi is a holiday across India, most calenders erroneously call Rangpanchmi as Holi. (this mixup is common in many parts of India). So 26 March is the holiday in India.

To be precise, it would be better if you name the event as 'Rangpanchmi with Holi in brackets (as the term Holi is popular internationally). :) Nichalp 18:21, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

WYK
Hello, nice to meet an alunmi on wikipedia. The Chinese Wikipedia article on the beloved WYK had been recently translated. Please take a look, edit it or add photos if needed. Ktsquare (talk) 01:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) of '94

 * Well, no matter the first ever 10-A scorer graduated from WYK or WYHK, he still came under the banner of "In Hoc Signo Vinces". BTW, User:Gakmo is another WYK alumni although we are both his senior. I was even more suprisied after reading this site, your another great work: it seems that we are living in the same city. LOL. The world is indeed small. Ktsquare (talk) 16:28, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Current events
Did you mean to remove the physics story from Current events? Your edit summaries lead me to believe it was accidental. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 21:51, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Whoa
Thanks for the heads up. I didn't realize I had a fan. Well, I know how personal these vandals take everything, so I'll leave the matter in the capable hands of the other admins who are paying attention. Obviously, I think it's covered under Username, but I don't want to act unilaterally and ban the id myself. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:26, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

April 22 anniversary and poison gas
Hi, Just to clarify, 2nd Ypres wasn't the first use of chlorine in World War I but it was the first use on the Western Front. Better wording might be:

 * The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is used in the Second Battle of Ypres.

or something like that. It's kind of tricky to put it in a compact sentence and still use an unwieldy title like "use of poison gas in World War I". Geoff/Gsl 23:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, I realise I am wrong and you are right. I was thinking of the gas used at Bolimov, which wasn't chlorine.  As far as I can tell, 2nd Ypres was the first use of chlorine.  Certainly the first large-scale use.  My apologies.  Either version of your text is fine.  Geoff/Gsl 03:26, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It reads fine, thanks. At the risk of putting my foot in it again, re: Selected anniversaries/April 21, I don't know whether it's correct to day the Red Baron was in the Luftwaffe. My understanding was that the Luftwaffe didn't come into existence until the 1930s. In 1918, at the time of Richthofen's death, the German air force was called the Luftstreitkräfte (which at the moment just redirects to Luftwaffe). Luftstreitkräfte might be a bit obscure and confusing so perhaps just saying "the most successful German flying ace" instead would do. Or leave it as is -- I'm probably being overly pedantic. Geoff/Gsl 07:18, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Balancing the main page
Don't change the main page to balance the content. Instead, prune the templates on each side accordingly. In-the-news is the culprit 99% of the time. →Raul654 23:08, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Question on old edit
Hi,

I noticed that in June 2004 (!!!) you added the datum that Ibn Nafis discovered the circulatory system in 1242 in the article Ibn Nafis. However, this disagrees with the date of 1268 given in circulatory system by a whopping 26 years! I looked online for a source to no avail; do you have a reference for the datum in question? I would like to fix whichever article is in need of fixing, but I can't do it without a reference and unfortunately I can't find one myself. (Internal inconsistencies drive me crazy!) Thanks for your help.

- Bryan is Bantman 23:10, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, User:Bantman. I dunno... I think I copied that from 1242 and Timeline of medicine and medical technology. Not sure though ....  Anyway, I'm glad that someone is checking all these little details. Thank you. -- PFHLai 23:19, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

extraneous "=" ?
Ah, I see. I guess that's what happens when one sees a mistake the first time one visits an article. Thanks for the investigation, I would have had a hard time looking for that little gem. --Deathphoenix 19:39, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

thanks for clearing those up
I'm in California, USA, so I missed your initial question because I was asleep. Thanks for clearing up both of this issues. The language you used in the OED entry is much better than the old language. Kingturtle 13:51, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, Kingturtle. Glad that you like my version. Cheers ! -- PFHLai 07:16, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

In the news
Hi, PFHLai. I noticed you re-added the link I removed to simple majority on the British election story on the main page. I assume I must have misunderstood the meaning of simple majority, so I wonder if you could set me straight on the matter. Labour's new majority of 67 means it has half the seats in the House of Commons, plus 67. Of course, Labour's share of the vote was well under 50%, but it was the biggest share of any single party. This could be described as a simple majority, but obviously it's the make-up of Parliament that's most relevant to what will happen in the coming months and years, and the PLP has not just a plurality but an absolute majority of the seats. Saying it has a simple majority would suggest to me that we had a hung parliament with Labour as the biggest group. Am I getting some terms muddled up here? Cheers. — Trilobite (Talk) 15:49, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. As I said, I don't fully understand the terms, so a link to majority is probably safest. It seemed ambiguous to me because I thought perhaps a simple majority could have meant something like: Labour 300, Conservatives 250, Lib Dems 100. This would have been a simple majority as I understand the term, but would have resulted in a hung parliament in which Labour could not have ruled on their own, but what's actually happened is that Labour has 67 more MPs than everyone else put together. So I'm not quite sure how that would be expressed but your edit has removed the ambiguity if there was any in the first place (it could just have been my brain malfunctioning). Thanks again. — Trilobite (Talk) 17:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Julia Tuttle
Could you please not put a copyrighted image on the main page the next time you change an image? From what I've been told it's not allowed. At the very least other images are preferred if available. Mgm|(talk) 21:54, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reminder, MacGyverMagic. Actually, I know that. That's why I took out Image:Miami skyline from Biscayne Bay.jpg, which at the time was untagged and copyright undetermined. I noticed that Julia Tuttle died in 1898 and assumed that the tag was a PD-50, or sth like that, without reading it carefully.  I guess I made it worse, eh ? Whoops.... I'll read the copyright tags more carefully next time.  Thanks, again. -- PFHLai 22:54, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

Gdr's DYK update
Gdr updated 1 hour and 23 minutes after I did. If you see such a quick update next time, please revert it back. At least 6 hours exposure is the norm. Mgm|(talk) 07:02, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sure. Gdr's edit was indeed too early. If I see sth like that again, I will undo it. -- PFHLai 07:21, 2005 May 10 (UTC)

Chirac's photo
We should avoid having different photographs whose name varies only by filename extension. I'll try to fix this. David.Monniaux 17:27, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for looking into this. Please let me what I can/should do with this problem I created. Thanks. -- PFHLai 18:56, 2005 May 12 (UTC)
 * I created Image:Chirac ABr62200 cropped.jpeg and deleted the picture with the ambiguous name. I'm a bit unsure about uploading to the same name — some people may prefer the other photo for reasons for page layout. David.Monniaux 21:48, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much for fixing this. It's very nice of you to help out. Thank you. -- PFHLai 14:20, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

Protection of Images on the MainPage
Yes, sorry about that. Gdr 19:21, 2005 May 14 (UTC)

i'm back
Hi. Thanks for your wishes. My reports are now clear and so won't have to take those horrible medicines. Regards, == 06:14, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * I had a mysterious lower back problem did not abate for more than two weeks. So I had to take some pretty strong pain killers which almost knocked me out (plus I carelessly -- through oversight (a grave mistake!) doubled my dosage). Nothing serious in the end, thankfully, as my blood tests turned out to be favourable. =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:44, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Protected images on main page
When you switched the image on Template:Did you know, you remembered to add Template:Mprotected to the new image, but you forgot to protect the new image and unprotect the old image. Also, the new image Image:Helst, Self-portrait.jpg is from the Commons, so needs to be protected there as well. (I did all of these tasks for you.) Gdr 16:09, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

 * Oops ! That was very careless of me.  Glad that you've fixed that.  Thank you. Someone just made a similar mistake at ITN.  I'll go fix that now. -- PFHLai 22:58, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

 * Oh, wait a minute. Protected at the Commons ? I have never done that before. How do I do that ? -- PFHLai 23:07, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

Yes, images on the Commons are an awkward wrinkle when trying to protect the Main Page. To protect images on the Commons, you first get an account on the Commons, then you apply for adminship at Commons:Administrators, then if you succeed you can protect and unprotect as normal. An alternative procedure is to upload a copy of the image to the English wikipedia under the same name and protect that, then delete it when it's not on the Main Page any more. Gdr 23:25, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

Pearle & Selected Anniversaries templates
Hello, Beland. May I ask why Pearle is categorising the Selected Anniversaries templates, please ? I hope the cat-tag won't appear on the MainPage. And may I suggest ordering numerically by dates rather than alphabetically ? -- PFHLai 14:36, 2005 May 16 (UTC)

 * Actually, the categories from the per-day pages would get applied to the main page, which is obviously bad. The reason they were being categorized in the first place is that I was doing a long run (authorized by Auto-categorization) as part of an attempt to categorize all pages in the Wikipedia: namespace.  I didn't notice that these pages were being transcluded, so I just created a trival category tree for them.  Fortunately, some of them were protected, so the bot aborted its run.  I've gone back and manually de-categorized the April per-day pages (which is as far as it got).  It's safe to categorize the per-month pages because those are not transcluded, so I did a quick remedial run to do that.  I've added the per-day pages to a list of pages which should not be categorized.  Thanks for noticing my oversight! -- Beland 23:58, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the detailed reply. :-) -- PFHLai 00:47, 2005 May 26 (UTC)

ITN: avoid an apostrophe
Just curious: apostrophe bad? –Hajor 21:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, the use of the apostrophe in "England's" seems awkward to me. England is not a person. I've learnt to avoid it. Perhaps "of England" or "in England" would be better. I wouldn't say it's dead wrong, but to me, it's somewhat 'chatty' English. -- PFHLai 22:08, 2005 May 23 (UTC)

Hmm. OK. Personally, I have no problem with using the apostrophe-possessive with inanimates, but the question of a 'chatty' register is certainly valid. Sometimes, particularly on ITN but also in news-related stories in general, we walk a narrow line between snappy journalistic style and staid encyclopedic writing. Thanks for the reply. –Hajor 22:21, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

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Shawnee Mission USD 512

Shawnee Mission USD 512 is a public unified school district headquartered in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, United States. The district comprises five high schools, five middle schools, 34 elementary schools, and six District centers. In the 2023–2024 school year, district enrollment is approximately 26,200 students.

History
In 1969, several school districts unified to become the Shawnee Mission School District. These districts were Greenwood District 39, Shawnee District 22, Lenexa District 500, Districts 10 and 90, Valley View District 49, Overland Park District 10, Linwood District 1, Roeland District 92, Merriam District 99, Antioch District 61, Westwood View District 93, Prairie District 44, and Corinth District 82. South Park Elementary school, in Merriam, Kansas, played a role in school desegregation before the unification of the Shawnee Mission School District. South Park opened in 1948 for white students, leaving African-American students in the inadequate Walker Elementary using an outdated curriculum. Corinthian Nutter, an African-American teacher, resigned in protest and taught the students from her home. In 1949, the Webb vs. School District 90 case paved the way for Brown v. Topeka Board of Education five years later.

McAuliffe Elementary School in Lenexa, Kansas, was one of the first schools in the nation named in honor of Christa McAuliffe.

The district converted from the 7–8–9 junior high model to the 7–8 middle school model in 1986.

The Superintendent is Michelle Hubbard and was selected by the Board of Education on February 22, 2021.

On Feb. 12, 2024, the Board of Education announced the selection of Michael Schumacher as the next Superintendent of the Shawnee Mission School District

Shawnee Mission North High School
Shawnee Mission Rural High School opened on September 12, 1922, having cost $950,000 to build. It had 12 faculty members and a senior class of 20. The school colors are Red, Black, and White, and the school mascot was the Indian.

There had been a vote on September 21, 1921, on a "proposal to organize a rural high school district." The school was named ' Shawnee Mission Rural until 1945 when senior Robert F. Bennett was sent to Topeka to petition the legislature for a name change to more accurately reflect the school's suburban status. Later elected Governor of Kansas, Bennett was named North's first Distinguished Alumnus by the class of 1975. It was thus named Shawnee Mission High School until 1958 when Shawnee Mission East High School opened and Shawnee Mission High School was renamed Shawnee Mission North High School. The student body of Shawnee Mission High School had petitioned the school board to name the new school anything other than Shawnee Mission East High School in an attempt to avoid a renaming of their school.

In the 2023–2024 school year, enrollment is approximately 1,507 students.

Feeder schools

 * Middle schools
 * Hocker Grove Middle School
 * Elementary schools
 * Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School
 * Crestview Elementary School
 * East Antioch Elementary School
 * Merriam Park Elementary School
 * Nieman Elementary School
 * Santa Fe Trail Elementary School
 * Roesland Elementary School
 * Rushton Elementary School

Shawnee Mission East High School
Shawnee Mission East High School opened in 1958. The mascot is the Lancer and the colors are Columbia blue, black, and white.

Shawnee Mission East is at the southwest corner of 75th Street and Mission Road in the city of Prairie Village, and serves Prairie Village along with the other Kansas suburbs Westwood, Westwood Hills, Mission Hills, Mission Woods, Fairway, Leawood, and Overland Park.

In the 2023–2024 school year, enrollment is approximately 1,671 students.

Feeder schools

 * Middle Schools
 * Indian Hills Middle School
 * Elementary Schools
 * Belinder Elementary School
 * Briarwood Elementary School
 * Comanche Elementary School
 * Corinth Elementary School
 * Highlands Elementary School
 * Prairie Elementary School
 * Tomahawk Elementary School
 * Westwood View Elementary School
 * Trailwood Elementary School

Shawnee Mission South High School
Shawnee Mission South's school colors are green and gold and its mascot is the Raider. The school's mascot was chosen by the first graduating class of 1967. The Raider was chosen as a mascot because of the popular band Paul Revere and the Raiders. Juniors from Shawnee Mission East and Shawnee Mission West were assigned to Shawnee Mission South the first year the school opened. Most of the students from the South come from the middle school Indian Woods. South has a newspaper called The Patriot and a yearbook called Heritage.

In the 2023–2024 school year, enrollment is approximately 1,594 students.

Feeder schools

 * Middle Schools
 * Indian Woods Middle School (formerly Nallwood Junior High School)
 * Elementary Schools
 * Brookridge Elementary School
 * Brookwood Elementary School
 * John Diemer Elementary School
 * Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary School
 * Rosehill Elementary School
 * Trailwood Elementary School

Shawnee Mission West High School
Shawnee Mission West's mascot is the Viking and the official school colors are black and gold. West opened its doors in 1962; since then, it has been remodeled several times. Additions have also been made to the school, the most famous of which is "the bridge," an actual bridge between halves of the school that later had classrooms added beneath it. It is in Overland Park at 85th Street and Antioch Road.

West is home to both an award-winning school newspaper, the Epic, and a yearbook, SAGA. The Epic was ranked the fifth-best news magazine in the country by the Scholastic Press Association in 2010. West has twice (1986 and 2007) placed second at the National Forensic League tournament for policy debate.

West's student body population is 13.3 percent Black students, which is the highest population of Black students of any Shawnee Mission high school. West is the most ethnically diverse high school in the district with 46.1% of students coming from Hispanic, Asian, or Black backgrounds. West draws its student population from Overland Park, Lenexa, and small parts of Shawnee.

In the 2023–2024 school year, enrollment is approximately 1,618 students.

Feeder schools

 * Middle Schools
 * Westridge Middle School (formerly Hillcrest Junior High School)
 * Elementary Schools
 * Apache Elementary School
 * Christa McAuliffe Elementary School (Partial)
 * Comanche Elementary School
 * East Antioch Elementary School (Partial)
 * Lenexa Hills Elementary School
 * Overland Park Elementary School
 * Pawnee Elementary School
 * Rising Star Elementary School (Partial)
 * Sunflower Elementary School (Partial)

Shawnee Mission Northwest High School
Shawnee Mission Northwest High School's mascot is the Cougar, and the school colors are black and orange. It is in Shawnee, at 12701 West 67th Street, between Pflumm Road and Quivira Road.

In the 2023–2024 school year, enrollment is approximately 1,619 students.

Feeder schools

 * Middle Schools
 * Trailridge Middle School (formerly Trailridge Junior High School)
 * Elementary Schools
 * Broken Arrow Elementary School
 * Christa McAuliffe Elementary School (Partial)
 * Mill Creek Elementary School
 * Raymond B. Marsh Elementary School (Ray Marsh)
 * Rhein Benninghoven Elementary School
 * Rising Star Elementary School (Partial)
 * Shawanoe Elementary School
 * Sunflower Elementary School (Partial)

District centers

 * Aquatic Center
 * Arrowhead Day School (K-12)
 * Horizons High School
 * Broadmoor Technical Center
 * Indian Creek Technical Center
 * SM Instructional Support Center

Former schools

 * Middle/Junior High Schools
 * Antioch Middle School (formerly Milburn Junior High School)
 * Broadmoor Junior High School
 * Indian Creek Junior High School - now Indian Creek Technical Center
 * Mission Valley Middle School (formerly Meadowbrook Junior High School)
 * Old Mission Junior High School - closed in 1986
 * Elementary Schools
 * Antioch Elementary School - now part of the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, KS
 * Arrowhead Elementary School - now Arrowhead Day School
 * Cherokee Elementary School - now New Haven Seventh Day Adventist Church
 * Don Bonjour Elementary School - now Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church
 * Dorothy Moody Elementary School - closed at end of 2011–2012 school year
 * Flint Elementary School - merged with Bluejacket to become Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School
 * Greenwood Elementary School - razed, now a Walmart Supermarket
 * Hickory Grove Elementary School - now Horizons High School
 * Katherine Carpenter Elementary School - merged with Oak Park to become Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary School
 * Linwood Elementary School
 * Marsha Bagby Elementary School
 * Mohawk Elementary School - now Mohawk Park
 * Nall Hills Elementary School
 * Osage Elementary School - now Osage Park
 * Porter Elementary School - now Porter Park
 * Ridgeview Elementary School - now Kansas City Christian School
 * Roeland Park Elementary School - closed in 2003
 * Sequoyah Elementary School - now Vineyard Community Church
 * Shawnee Elementary School
 * Skyline Elementary School
 * Somerset Elementary School - closed in 2004, now Addington Place of Prairie Village
 * South Park Elementary School - merged with Merriam to become Merriam Park Elementary School
 * Valley View Elementary School - now Holy Cross Catholic School
 * West Antioch Elementary School - closed in 2003

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, the district had a population of 219,949 with 93,221 households (or occupied housing units) and 59,084 families. 69.0 percent of the housing units were occupied by the owner. The racial makeup of the district was 91.0 percent White, 2.6 percent Black or African American, 0.3 percent American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.8 percent Asian, less than 0.1 percent Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 1.6 percent of some other race, and 1.6 percent of two or more races. 4.3 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino.

There were 93,221 households, of which 29.9 percent were people living alone, 63.4 percent were families, and 6.7 percent were non-families with two or more people. 52.2 percent of households (or 82.4 percent of families) were married couples living together and 28.6 percent (or 45.1 percent) had their own children (persons under the age of 18) living with them. Of the 11.2 percent of households that had a householder with no spouse present, 44.4 percent were women living with their own children. The average household size was 2.33, and the average family size was 2.93.

The 50,632 children in the district were 23.0 percent of the total population, and 13,283 (6.0 percent) were under the age of 5; 13,605 (6.2 percent) were from 5 to 9; 14,874 (6.8 percent) were from 10 to 14; and 8,870 (4.0 percent) were from 15 to 17. 48.8 percent of the children were female. For 95.1 percent of the children in the district, the householder was the child's parent and 77.3 percent live in married-couple families, but 1.1 percent were not related to the householder. 21 householders or spouses were under the age of 18.

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The Keys of Marinus

The Keys of Marinus is the fifth serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC TV/BBC1 in six weekly parts from 11 April to 16 May 1964. Written by Terry Nation and directed by John Gorrie, the serial takes on a "mini-adventures" format, in which the First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell), and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) search for four keys to restore the Conscience of Marinus, a computer which maintains law and order. The group travel to two cities, a jungle, and an icy wasteland in search of the keys.

The Keys of Marinus was written to replace a different script which was deemed problematic. When commissioned to write the script, Nation was intrigued by the idea of the TARDIS crew searching for pieces of a puzzle; he and script editor David Whitaker decided to construct the serial around a series of "mini-adventures", each with a different setting and cast. Incidental music was composed by Norman Kay, while Raymond Cusick, Daphne Dare, and Jill Summers worked as designers. The serial premiered with nine million viewers, maintaining audience figures for several weeks before seeing a significant drop from the fifth episode. Response for the serial was mixed, and it received several print adaptations and home media releases.

Plot
The First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) arrive on a small island on the planet Marinus where they meet Arbitan (George Coulouris), Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus—a vast computer developed as a justice machine which kept law and order across the entire planet. Arbitan explains that the society of Marinus is in danger, as the Voord, humanoid creatures protected by amphibian-like black rubber wet suits, are seeking to enter the tower to take control of the Conscience. To prevent this, the Conscience requires five keys, and Arbitan coerces the Doctor and his friends to gather them by placing a force field around the TARDIS. As they teleport to the City of Morphoton, Arbitan is stabbed to death by a Voord that has gained access to the tower.

In Morphoton, the crew are impressed by the luxuries of the city; however, Barbara soon realises that they have been hypnotised, and that Morphoton is actually a place of dirt and squalor. The creatures who govern Morphoton order Barbara's death, but Barbara escapes and hides in the city, where she makes contact with the slave girl Sabetha (Katharine Schofield), who has been blamed for Barbara's awakening and sentenced to death. Barbara notices one of the keys around her neck. They escape and destroy the creatures, freeing the subjects of the city. Another slave, Altos (Robin Phillips), remembers that he was also sent by Arbitan, and he and Sabetha join the Doctor and his crew on their quest. While the Doctor continues to the City of Mellennius, the others search in a dangerous screaming jungle. After triggering a trap, Barbara is lost in an ancient temple in the jungle; while Ian remains at the temple to search for the key, Sabetha and Susan continue to the next location.

Ian finds Barbara in the temple, where they discover an aged scientist, Darrius (Edmund Warwick), who reveals the location of the next key before dying; Ian and Barbara retrieve the key and teleport to an icy wasteland. They meet the duplicitous trapper Vasor (Francis de Wolff), who steals their keys. Ian and Altos confront Vasor and force him to take them to the ice caves, where they find Sabetha and Susan with mechanised Ice Soldiers, and discover the next key frozen in a block of ice. As they flee, Vasor takes Susan hostage, but an Ice Soldier kills him and the group escapes. At the next location, Ian is accused of the murder of Eprin (Dougie Dean), a friend of Altos. At Ian's trial, the Doctor returns and postpones the trial while he gathers evidence. Susan is kidnapped as a hostage to persuade the Doctor to stop investigating. The kidnapper has persuaded the judges to find Ian guilty; however, Susan is found bound and gagged, and the plot is uncovered. The Doctor finds the final key, hidden in the murder weapon, and Ian is freed.

The travellers return to Arbitan's island, where Altos and Sabetha have been held prisoner by Yartek (Stephen Dartnell)—Arbitan's killer—and the four keys have been seized. The Doctor frees Altos and Sabetha and unmasks the Voord. Ian gives Yartek a false key found in the screaming jungle; when Yartek places the key in the Conscience, the machine explodes and he is killed along with the occupying Voord. The Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara flee the tower with Altos and Sabetha before the growing blaze overtakes the ancient structure.

Conception and writing
The Keys of Marinus was written to replace a different script, Dr Who and the Hidden Planet by Malcolm Hulke, which was deemed problematic and required rewrites. The production team approached Terry Nation, writer of the second serial The Daleks, to write the serial. Nation had been due to write Doctor Who's eighth serial, The Red Fort, but had focused on other projects in the interim. Due to the quick turnaround required for the script, Nation and script editor David Whitaker decided to base the serial around a series of "mini-adventures", each with a different setting and cast; Nation was intrigued by the idea of the TARDIS crew searching for parts of a puzzle. As the first two episodes were written with mostly interior sets, Nation wanted to tell a story more "out in the open", setting the third episode in a jungle to allow the designer an opportunity for different settings. Whitaker suggested a cold snow-scape setting for the fourth episode to contrast with the hot jungle. Nation used many existing words for location and character names in the story: Marinus originated from the Latin word marinus, meaning "of the sea"; Morphoton is based on Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams; Millennius came from the term millennium, for a thousand years; and Arbitan is based on the Latin word Arbiter, meaning a judge. Producer Verity Lambert selected John Gorrie as the serial's director; even though Gorrie was unhappy with the quality of the scripts, he agreed to direct the serial to advance his career.

Characters and casting
Carole Ann Ford was displeased with the portrayal of Susan in the serial, as she felt that she was written like a child, describing her character as "pathetic". By mid-March 1964, the serial's guest cast had been finalised. Veteran actor George Coulouris was cast in the role of Arbitan; Gorrie immediately thought of Coulouris for the role while reading the script, and was delighted when he accepted the part, describing Coulouris as his "hero". Francis de Wolff was selected to play Vasor, while Donald Pickering played Eyesen. Gorrie cast Henley Thomas as Tarron; the two were old friends who had previously worked together. Robin Phillips, who was also friends with Gorrie, was cast as Altos; Gorrie felt that Phillips' handsome looks fit the role of Altos accurately. Similarly, he wanted the character of Sabetha to resemble a princess, and selected former drama student Katharine Schofield. Gorrie was impressed by the sinister voice of Heron Carvic, casting him as the Voice of Morpho, and the role of Kala was given to Fiona Walker, who had written to Gorrie for a role. For the role of the Voord, among other villains, three young actors, who were friends of Gorrie, were cast: Martin Cort, Peter Stenson, and Gordon Webster.

Music and design
Norman Kay, who had scored the show's first serial, composed the incidental music for The Keys of Marinus. The score, performed by seven musicians, was recorded in Maida Vale Studio on 7 March 1964; several standard instruments were used, including a clarinet, bass clarinet, double bass, guitar, flute, harp, piccolo, trumpet and percussion. Nineteen new sound effects were recorded for the serial by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, including the sounds of the Conscience of Marinus and the clocks in Millennius. Raymond Cusick, Daphne Dare and Jill Summers were commissioned as the designers for the serial. Dare based the design of the Voord on a rubber wetsuit, while the heads were created using vulcanised rubber by prop builders Jack and John Lovell. The submersible props and the Conscience machine were designed by Shawcraft Models. Cusick used leftover fibreglass to complete the design of the Conscience machine, as the budget was running low. The moving vegetation in the third episode was constructed by Design and Display Ltd. Jablite polystyrene was used to simulate snow in the third and fourth episodes. The tank-top worn by Susan in the serial was knitted by Ford's mother.

Filming
Model filming for The Keys of Marinus commenced in March 1964 at Ealing Studios. For the shots of the wolves in the fourth episode, the BBC purchased 14 feet of film from the 1957 Russian thriller Seryy razboynik (The Grey Robber) from distributor Sovexport. Rehearsals for the first episode took place from 16–19 March, and weekly recording for the serial began on 20 March in Lime Grove Studios. Gorrie found the recording days difficult, due to the complexity of the show and the small size of the studio. William Hartnell was absent from the recording of the third and fourth episodes, as he was on holiday. Ford recalled that the cast could "have a few more giggles" during rehearsals, as Hartnell's tendency to forget lines was time-consuming. The final episode was recorded on 24 April 1964. The first episode was edited on 23 March. While most episodes were edited within three hours in an evening, the second episode required two evenings, on 31 March and 2 April 1964.

Broadcast and ratings
The first episode was broadcast on BBC TV on 11 April 1964, and was watched by 9.9 million viewers, maintaining the audience from previous weeks. The following episode dropped to 9.4 million viewers, while the third returned to 9.9 million. The third episode became the first Doctor Who episode to be transmitted on BBC1, following its renaming from BBC TV due to the launch of BBC2. The fourth episode was the serial's most watched, with 10.4 million viewers, followed by a significant drop for the fifth and sixth episodes, with 7.9 million and 6.9 million viewers, respectively; from the fifth episode, the show's broadcast time returned to its original slot of 5:15pm. The drop in viewers for the sixth episode was attributed to the absence of Juke Box Jury—the programme that followed Doctor Who—which was replaced by the film Where Coco Lives. The Appreciation Index was an average of 61 for the six episodes, ranging from 60 to 63.

Critical response
The serial received mixed reviews. Bob Leeson of the Daily Worker felt that the fifth episode of the serial was the show's low point, noting that the introduction of a trial scene represented a rushed script. In The Discontinuity Guide (1995), Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping felt that the episodic narrative left little room for each story to develop, and that the show's limited budget was evident. In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker praised Cusick's work with a limited budget, and enjoyed the serial's conclusion. In A Critical History of Doctor Who (1999), John Kenneth Muir lauded the serial's depiction of co-existing—but not strictly interconnected—cultures and the development of their world. In a 2008 review, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times wrote that "standards slip appreciably" after the four preceding serials in terms of "ambitious but slapdash" script quality, as well as the below-par sets and supporting characters.

In 2009, Graham Kibble-White in Doctor Who Magazine derided Susan's character for "devolving into a bit of a shrill", but was generally positive towards the episodic story structure and the timing of Hartnell's holiday. Despite this, he wrote that the final two episodes "never truly engages with the tenets of courtroom drama". Elliot Thorpe of Den of Geek felt that the episodic story structure "works incredibly well" by keeping the momentum and making each episode "fresh". In 2010, DVD Talk J. Doyle Wallis attributed the serial's weakness to the Doctor's absence, the lack of a main antagonist that would thread the episodes together, the "lacking and disparate" world of Marinus, and the "ramshackle" execution of the concept. Arnold T. Blumberg of IGN described the serial as "a clichéd premise ... handled poorly and with no spark at all apart from Hartnell's late-hour rally". He cited the poor production quality and the "hodge-podge" leaps to various locations on Marinus which were "boring if not inept".

Commercial releases
A novelisation of this serial, written by Philip Hinchcliffe, was published by Target Books in August 1980, with artwork by David McAllister. The paperback version of the book was also included in The Doctor Who Gift Set in 1986. The serial was released on VHS in March 1999, and on DVD in September 2009; the latter included several special features, including audio commentary and a documentary on the sets featured in the serial. While remastering the serial for the DVD release, it was discovered that the second and fourth episodes had been slightly edited; off-air soundtracks recorded by David Holman were used to restore the cuts. Sound effects from the serial, under the title "Sleeping Machine", were included on Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection, originally released on CD in December 2013.

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Les Moonves

Leslie Roy Moonves (born October 6, 1949) is an American media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation from 2003 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse. He has been married to TV personality Julie Chen since 2004.

He held a series of executive positions at CBS from July 1995 to September 2018. He was also on the board of directors at ZeniMax Media from 1999 until 2021. Later, he was co-president and co-chief operating officer (COO) of the original Viacom, the legal predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split in December 2005. He became chairman of CBS in February 2016. In September 2018, Moonves stepped down as chairman of CBS after multiple women brought forth sexual assault allegations against him. Moonves allegedly destroyed evidence of his sexual misconduct.

According to various media reports, Moonves has amassed a net worth of over US$800 million through compensation from CBS. Moonves earned $68.4 million in 2017, combined with stock options of the media company, worth over $100 million.

Early life
Leslie Roy Moonves was born in Brooklyn, New York City to a religious Jewish family, the son of Josephine (Schleifer) and Herman Moonves, and grew up in Valley Stream, New York. His mother was a nurse. He has one sister, Melissa Moonves Colon, and two brothers, including entertainment attorney Jonathan Moonves. He attended Valley Stream Central High School and went to Bucknell University, graduating in 1971. In his sophomore year, he decided that his science courses were unfulfilling and switched his major from pre-medical to the Spanish language (a subject he found vastly more enjoyable) and acted in a few plays; following graduation in 1971 he moved to Manhattan to pursue an acting career where he eventually graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He landed a few parts, playing tough guys on Cannon and The Six Million Dollar Man, which he described as "forgettable" TV roles before deciding on the career change. He also worked as one of casting director Caro Jones' first office assistants early in her career.

Business career
Moonves was in charge of first-run syndication and pay/cable programming at 20th Century Fox Television. Also at 20th Century Fox Television, he was vice president of movies and mini-series. Other positions included vice president of development at Saul Ilson Productions (in association with Columbia Pictures Television) and development executive for Catalina Productions.

Lorimar Television and Warner Bros. Television (1985–1995)
Moonves joined Lorimar Television in 1985 as executive in charge of its movies and mini-series, and in 1988, became head of creative affairs. From 1990 to 1993, he was president at Lorimar. In July 1993, he became president/CEO of Warner Bros. Television, when Warner Bros. and Lorimar Television combined operations. In this phase of his career, he green-lighted the shows Friends and ER, among many others.

CBS (1995–2018)
He joined CBS in July 1995 as President of CBS Entertainment. From April 1998 until 2003, he was president and chief executive officer at CBS, then was promoted to chairman and CEO of CBS in 2003. CBS had six of the ten most-watched primetime shows in the final quarter of 2005: CSI, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, Survivor: Guatemala, NCIS, and Cold Case.

In February 2005, Moonves was identified as the executive directly responsible for ordering the cancellation of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise and the ending of the 18-year revival of the Star Trek television franchise. In January 2006, Moonves helped make the deal that brought together the CBS-owned United Paramount Network (UPN) with The WB Television Network to form The CW Television Network that fall.

Moonves was the second most highly-paid executive for 2012 and 2013: he received $58.8 million and $65.4 million. He is considered the second-highest paid CEO, having been paid $68.4 million in 2017.

In 2013, Moonves was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. He became chairman of CBS in February 2016.

Of the tone of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign, and the advertising dollars it delivered, Moonves said, "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS ... Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun ... I've never seen anything like this, and this [is] going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going." He added, "Donald's place in this election is a good thing."

Moonves was also open to acquiring smaller film production companies to expand the company's CBS Films division. At the end of July 2017, Moonves was a part of a first-look television production deal between CBS and Imagine Entertainment, a feature film, television programming and documentary production company run by filmmaker Ron Howard and film producer Brian Grazer.

In September 2018, following allegations of sexual assault, it was reported that CBS was negotiating a $100 million exit package for Moonves and that CBS Chief Operating Officer Joe Ianniello would serve as his interim replacement. On September 9, 2018, CBS Corporation announced he had resigned and Joe Iannello would become interim CEO. Moonves and CBS will donate $20 million to the #MeToo movement, money that will be deducted from any severance benefits Moonves may be owed, the company said. The donation to charities promoting women's equality in the workplace would come upon the conclusion of an independent investigation into the allegations, according to the statement. In May 2021, Moonves dropped his claim for $120 million in severance pay, which reverted to ViacomCBS (the result of the 2019 merger of CBS Corporation and the second Viacom, later Paramount Global in 2022), and law firm Covington & Burling paid an undisclosed settlement fee to Moonves.

Janet Jackson
Following his firing from CBS due to sexual harassment, Moonves was revealed to have been obsessed with ruining R&B singer-songwriter Janet Jackson's career. His actions had followed the February 1, 2004, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, also known as Nipplegate. Jackson's right breast, adorned with a pierced nipple shield (with a silver sun), had been exposed by ex-NSYNC member, vocalist Justin Timberlake, for 9/16ths of a second.

The brief exposure became, what was at the time, the most rewatched moment in the history of TiVo.

According to the documentary Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson, Moonves wanted an apology from both Jackson and Timberlake. Moonves deemed Jackson's apology as "insufficient" and implemented a blacklist of her music and music videos on MTV, VH1 and Infinity Broadcasting radio stations, all of which were owned by the original incarnation of Viacom at the time. MTV also had produced the halftime show, and it was permanently disallowed from producing future halftime shows as a consequence. Jackson had been scheduled to attend the 46th Annual Grammy Awards where she was to perform a tribute to Luther Vandross, after collaborating with him on the #1 single "The Best Things in Life Are Free", which was created for the soundtrack to the 1992 film Mo' Money. She, along with Timberlake, however, were disinvited from attending unless they released on-air apologies for the "Nipplegate" incident. Only Timberlake went to the ceremony after having approached Moonves in person at CBS' Los Angeles offices, where he tearfully apologized to him. The Vandross tribute was instead performed by Celine Dion, Alicia Keys and Richard Marx. CBS was fined $27,500 for the incident. In June 2006, that amount later was later increased to $325,000 by the Federal Communications Commission. ) Moonves allegedly asked fellow CBS executives if the corporation could compel Jackson to pay the FCC fines following the investigation of the halftime show incident by Congress.

Moonves' anger at Jackson over the occurrence continued well into 2011, when Jackson signed a book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, owned by CBS Corporation, for the self-help book True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself. "How the fuck did she slip through?," he reportedly inquired. Moonves also said, according to one source, that "...heads were going to roll," as a result of the settlement to which Jackson had agreed.

Howard Stern litigation
In February 2006, Moonves led CBS to file a $500 million lawsuit against Howard Stern for allegedly breaching his contract by failing to disclose the details of his deal with Sirius Satellite Radio while still employed by Infinity Broadcasting. Stern vowed to fight the suit, and said on his radio program that Moonves and CBS were trying to "bully" him and his agent, Don Buchwald. Stern later appeared on CBS' own Late Show with David Letterman, wearing a shirt mocking Moonves and his wife. In June 2006, Stern announced that the lawsuit had been settled. As part of the settlement, Sirius acquired the exclusive rights to all of the WXRK tapes (over two decades' worth of shows) for $2 million.

ZeniMax Media
Moonves was on the board of ZeniMax Media from its foundation in 1999 until 2021, alongside his friend and ZeniMax president Ernest Del. Moonves' personal investment in the company has been noted, as well as his appearances at several launch parties, including for Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Rage.

Sexual assault allegations
Moonves voiced support for the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment in the workplace, even describing it as a "watershed moment" during a November 2017 press conference, and was a founding member of the Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace, formed in late 2017 to "tackle the broad culture of abuse and power disparity". In January 2018, CBS Cares released public service announcements concerning how to combat sexual harassment.

In July 2018, The New Yorker published an article by Ronan Farrow saying that six women accused Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens have described abuse at CBS. Moonves was subsequently placed under investigation by the CBS board. In August 2018, Bucknell University removed references to Moonves on its website, and University of Southern California suspended Moonves' name from its Media Center. In September 2018, The New Yorker reported that six more women (in addition to the six original women reported in July) had raised accusations against Moonves, going back to the 1980s. Shortly after resigning as CEO of CBS that month, Moonves released a statement denying all of the sexual misconduct allegations.

In November 2018, The New York Times published an article in which actress Bobbie Phillips alleges that Moonves sexually assaulted her during the mid-1990s, and was attempting to bury the allegations. The next month, it was revealed Moonves had been involved in paying a $9.5 million settlement to actress Eliza Dushku, who claimed she was written out of her starring role on CBS drama Bull as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment by co-star Michael Weatherly; actress Cybill Shepherd alleged in a radio interview that Moonves cancelled her sitcom, Cybill, after she rejected his advances.

On December 18, 2018, CBS announced that the board would deny Moonves his $120 million severance pay, as their investigation had found Moonves violated his contract. According to investigators, claims made by the women were credible and led to more claims that were found to be credible during the course of the investigation. In addition, it was claimed that Moonves attempted to interfere with the investigation. Allegations of examples include Moonves refusing to cooperate with investigators, acting "evasive and untruthful" towards investigators, deleting hundreds of messages, and passing off his son's iPad as his own to investigators.

On June 21, 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll wrote in a first-person essay in New York that Moonves sexually assaulted her in an elevator in the mid-1990s after she interviewed him for a story. Moonves denied the allegation.

On May 14, 2021, CBS and Moonves agreed to settle their disputes over the latter's $120 million severance. A joint statement from Moonves and CBS explained that the $120 million would "revert" to CBS, that the cost of the settlement would be borne by CBS' law firm, and that Moonves would contribute the settlement money to various charities.

Moon Rise Unlimited
On February 8, 2019, The New York Times reported that Moonves had founded his own company in West Hollywood, California named Moon Rise Unlimited after being fired from CBS.

Public appearances
On April 7, 2003, Moonves portrayed himself in an episode of The Practice. From early 2004 until its end in May 2015, Moonves made regular appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman. One of these came when Letterman declared outrage that CBS featured his late-night competitor Jay Leno in an ad for CBS's telecast of the People's Choice Awards. Letterman jokingly warned the "CBS stooge in the control room" to call his buddies "before things turn ugly"; Moonves obliged. Later appearances took the same format, with Letterman discussing current events and the CBS network with the company's CEO.

On the March 23, 2015, premiere episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, Moonves portrayed himself as the head of CBS who sends out a golden ticket granting whoever finds it a chance to host The Late Late Show, in an homage to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Moonves also appeared on the September 8, 2015, premiere of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, operating a large switch he could use to switch back to reruns of The Mentalist if he was unhappy with the new program.

Personal life
Moonves is a grand-nephew of Paula Ben-Gurion, born Paula Munweis, wife of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel.

In 1978, Moonves married Nancy Wiesenfeld, with whom he has three children including W magazine editor in chief Sara Moonves. In April 2003, Nancy Moonves filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. Nancy and Les Moonves were already living apart.

While still married to Nancy, Moonves began dating Julie Chen, CBS' The Early Show reporter and host of the reality series Big Brother and The Talk. On December 10, 2004, Moonves got a court to grant an early divorce, on a motion citing a "desire to return to the status of being single". Thirteen days later in Mexico, he married Chen. In 2009, Chen gave birth to a son.

Moonves resides in Beverly Hills, California, in a house he bought from Andy Heyward. He also owns residences in Malibu, California and New York City.

Moonves practices Transcendental Meditation, and has said, "It puts me in a calm state, which I'm not always in."

Philanthropy
In 2015, Moonves and Chen made a major donation to University of Southern California, resulting in a media center being named the Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center. Moonves was already a USC School of Cinematic Arts' board of councilors member. Previously Moonves was a University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism board member.

In August 2018, Moonves was "suspended" from the USC School of Cinematic Arts' board of councilors in the wake of sex abuse allegations.

In September 2018, at the same time Moonves resigned, CBS announced that Moonves and the network would be donating $20 million to #MeToo-related organizations.

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