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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 14:26, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the VfD header to the US Imperialism list. I forgot to do that when I made the nomination. Rossami

Thank you for expanding Timeline of algorithms. It was one of the first articles I created, and a pretty lousy stub at that, and I had pretty much forgotten about its existence. Now I don't feel embarrassed about having been part of its creation any more :)

Keep up the good work! Fredrik 15:28, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for all your recent pages. Could you take a look at some of the technical talk in the spline area? I have just redirected control point to B-spline - but I'm sure it would be helpful to sort out knot and control point and some other terms a bit more centrally.

Charles Matthews 08:45, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Meandric number 2
I couldn't help noticing that $$ M_2 $$ is 1, not even. Ancheta Wis 16:23, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) Upon re-reading, I see the notation distinguishes open meadric number from semi-meandric number etc. Never mind ;-0)

Subtraction
Please check the discussion on the subtraction article, I think you made the existing graphics and I was wondering if you could make replacements.

AlfredR 18:16, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Chebyshev nodes
I did some heavy editing of Chebyshev polynomials and merged your page Chebyshev nodes into Chebyshev polynomials. I think Chebyshev polynomials gives a better context to discuss the application of Chebyshev nodes.MathMartin 21:06, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Forget what I just said. I changed my opinion :) It is better to have a separate page on Chebyshev nodes as they are not directly related to Chebyshev polynomial. I think the Chebyshev polynomial page should discuss the properties of the Chebyshev polynomial. If the roots of the Chebyshev polynomial are used in numerical analysis this should be discussed on a separate page. Some people just want to read about the best nodes for polynomial interpolation and they should not have to wade through the whole Chebyshev page.MathMartin 14:52, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Powerset construction
I recently wrote an article on the powerset construction for converting NFAs to DFAs. Since you are the primary author of the page on NFAs and linked this, I thought I might be able to solicit your feedback and improvements on this new article. Thanks a lot. Deco 23:33, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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New Mathematics Wikiportal
I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Please vote on list of lists, a featured list candidate
Please vote at Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Anarchism
Very nice use of source-based evidence. I wish more wikipedians would take the time to cite evidence in favor of the opinions they banter about. Unfortunately, RJ seems to think that general encyclopedias are a valid means of contradicting primary source evidence. Revkat 15:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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Is the richardsson text correct ?
Hi I am a beginner in this forum, as well as in Richardson extrapolation. I have been trying the richardson extrapolation on (1+x*h)^(1/h). First with step size h=0.1, then halving the stepsize, approaching closer and cloaser to the value e. Let me call the approximations as a function on Stepsize A(h), A(h/2), A(h/4) etc. I've noticed that the recurence formula that you give does not yield as exact results as when you calculate the richardson approximate A_r as A_r1=2*A(h/2)-A(h) A_r2=[4*A(h/4)-A(h)]/3 A_r3= [8*A(h/8)-A(h)]/7 etc.

this gives superior results compared to what the recurrence relation that you describe gives Example [4*A(h/4)-A(h/2)]/3, which I think that you mean gives a much bigger error than A_r2.

When calculating the richardson approximate as above the accuracy gets better by one order.

Kindest regards, Lasse Karagiannis email: Lasse.Karagiannis@hotmail_no_spam.com

/Math Markup
Hi. I wonder - is there any specific reason not to include some capital forms of greek letters? This is not really a big deal, but i'd have liked to find that page as complete as possible... Speaking of which, i forgot how to include the backslash character while writing in TeX. :"> Could you please include it in your page? Or may i, if i do find it myself before you answer? -- Jokes Free4Me 09:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Meander (mathematics)
Hi Jaredwf! Would you please add some external links or information about meanders and meadric numbers. Few of us in Hungarian Wiki are interested in translate the article and we need some more info. (meander (matematika)) Thanks 'o lot! Mozó (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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WP Computing
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Wikipedia's Expert Peer Review process (or lack of such) for Science related articles
Hi - I posted the section with the same name on my talk page. Could you take part in discussion ? Thanks ARP Apovolot (talk) 21:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Using of images created by you
Hi, i've uploaded two images that you have created to wikicommons to use them in the traslation of the article graph-structured stack

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Graph-structured stack
Hoe use it? In Graph-structured stack image for example I have pointer to 0 node and I do pop Where now will pointer? I am analyzing allstar-techreport.pdf especially "Function 7: closure" there is for $$q\Gamma' \in \Gamma$$. Pass $$q\Gamma'$$ as pointer to GSS or set of numbers? Borneq (talk) 12:26, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

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User talk:Inversetime

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User talk:Loganimal

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The VfD debate for Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Hi. I've removed the VfD debate for Cheese-eating surrender monkeys and placed it in Talk:Cheese-eating surrender monkeys; thank you for removing the VfD notice. I do think the page deserves a place; equally I would deplore the article being used as a French bashing tool. Best wishes --Tagishsimon

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User talk:Uly

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Ama no Jaku
I just stopped by to mention that I agree with you about the meaning of 'Ama no Jaku' and that I've edited that article accordingly. BTW, has someone vandalized your user page? It's a bit... odd. Franzeska 21:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * True, 'imp of heaven' is peculiar as well, but that was the most common translation I found online. I have the impression that some other name for the same creatures involves the ocean, so perhaps that's where the confusion arose from.

Renaming an article
Hi Uly,

User:Endroit was kind enough to rename the article for you.

Wikipedia calls it "moving" so the way to do it is to click the Move tab near the top of the window. Then enter the new name and take it from there. The Move tab only appears when you're logged in, so in the future if you don't see it, simply log in (you were logged in when you put in the move request, so I'm sure you know all about that).

Best regards,

Fg2 04:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hazor

Hazor or Hatzor (חצור) may refer to:

Places

 * Hatzor, a kibbutz in Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, Southern District, Israel
 * Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force military air base
 * Hazor HaGelilit, a town in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed
 * Baal-hazor, the highest point on Mount Hazor, named in the Second Book of Samuel
 * En-hazor, a fortified settlement named in the Book of Joshua
 * Mount Hazor, a plateau on the boundary between Samaria and Judea
 * Nahal Hazor, a tributary to the Jordan River in the Dead Sea watershed
 * Tel Hazor, an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor in the southern Hula Valley
 * Kingdoms of Hazor, mentioned in Jeremiah 49:28 and 49:30

Other

 * "Hazor", a song on the 1998 album The Circle Maker (among several others) by John Zorn
 * Hatzor Junction, the intersection of Highway 40 (Israel) and Route 3922 in Bnei Ayish

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Frederick Handley Page

Sir Frederick Handley Page (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.

His company Handley Page Limited was best known for its large aircraft such as the Handley Page 0/400 and Halifax bombers and the H.P.42 airliner. The latter was the flagship of the Imperial Airways fleet between the wars and remarkable at the time for having been involved in no passenger deaths.

He is also known for his invention, with Gustav Lachmann, of the leading edge slot to improve the stall characteristics of aircraft wings. Frederick Handley Page was the uncle of World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page.

Early life
Handley Page was born in Cheltenham, the second son of Frederick Joseph Page, a furniture maker and member of the Plymouth Brethren. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. In 1902, against his parents' wishes, he moved to London to study electrical engineering at Finsbury Technical College.

Career
On qualifying in 1906 he was appointed head designer at Johnson & Phillips Ltd, an electrical engineering company based in Charlton in south east London. In 1907 he joined the Royal Aeronautical Society where he met the artist and aviation pioneer José Weiss. Weiss was performing experiments with gliders using an inherently stable wing design based on the seed-pods of the Zanonia macrocarpa which he was to patent in 1908. Unfortunately Handley Page, in his enthusiasm for aviation, started experimental work at Johnson and Phillips without authorisation: this was interpreted by the board as attempted fraud, and he was dismissed, leaving in charge his assistant, A.R. Low, who would later become an aircraft designer for Vickers.

He immediately set up his own business, with an office in Woolwich, and accepted a commission to build an aircraft for G.P. Deverall-Saul. After some searching for a suitable flying ground he leased a small stretch of marshland and a shed at Creekmouth in Essex. Here he constructed his first aircraft, a canard configuration glider with a tricycle undercarriage and wing of the Weiss pattern. Handley Page had entered into an agreement whereby he could use Weiss's patents in exchange for making an improved wing for his next glider, and it was agreed to take a stand at the Aero Exhibition to be held at Olympia in 1909. In June 1909 he established his business as a limited company, with an authorised capital of £10,000.

Neither the glider nor the aircraft built for Saul-Deverell, which was powered only by a 7 hp engine, was successful but Saul-Deverell ordered a second machine and two other commissions were received. Handley Page also set about designing and building his first powered aircraft, the Bluebird (so-called because of the blue-grey rubberised fabric with which it was covered), intended for the 1910 Aero exhibition. As well as complete aircraft, the company also supplied metal fixings for aircraft and aircraft propellers, two of which were used by one of the Willows airships. After it was exhibited at Olympia, Handley Page set about attempting to learn to fly using the Bluebird. A brief straight flight was first achieved on 26 May 1910, but after a few more similar efforts Handley Page's first attempt at a turn ended in a crash. It was rebuilt with a slightly more powerful engine and the addition of wing-warping for lateral control, but it proved no more successful and was abandoned and work begun on a new, larger, monoplane.

At this time he was also active in the reform of the Royal Aeronautical Society and gained additional income from journalism and lecturing, giving classes at Finsbury on electrical engineering and in 1911 obtaining a post as a lecturer in aeronautics at the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in Clerkenwell, London. Here he had a wind-tunnel built, and he also sold the Bluebird to the Institute for use as an instructional airframe.

First World War
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Handley Page was invited by Murray Sueter to the Admiralty to discuss Naval air requirements. The result was a specification for a large twin-engined aircraft, capable of carrying 600 lb of bombs and larger than anything that had been flown at the time. The eventual result was the Handley Page 0/100, first flown in December 1915 and the start of the Handley Page company's reputation for building large aircraft. During the war it was further developed into the 0/400 and 0/1500 bombers.

Development of leading-edge slots
In 1917 Handley Page and his aerodynamicist R.O. Bothwell started wind-tunnel experiments intended to combine the low drag of high aspect ratio wings with the delayed stall at high angles of attack of a low aspect ratio wing. The first attempts involved using a wing divided into separate square panels by slots running chordwise, but this produced no significant result. The idea of a wing divided into two sections by a narrow spanwise slot was then tried, and the first experiment, using a slot at 25% chord in a RAF 15 section wing gave an increase in lift of 25%. The shape and position of the slots was found to be critical, and a series of wind-tunnel test were made during 1918–19 under conditions of great secrecy, since Handley Page realised the commercial value of the idea and consequently wanted it kept secret until it could be patented. He delayed doing this until he was able to file a patent for a controllable device in which the slot could be opened and closed by the pilot. This was granted on 24 October 1919. The principle had been independently arrived at by Gustav Lachmann, a German pilot and engineer: Lachmann attempted to patent the idea a few weeks before Handley Page, but his patent application was initially refused. When his patent was retroactively granted, he contacted Handley Page but rather than getting involved in a legal dispute the two men arrived at a mutually satisfactory arrangement, with the patents being shared and Lachmann accepting a post as a consultant for Handley Page. He was later to become the company's head of design and later director of research.

Post-war
The period immediately after World War I was a difficult one for the aviation industry, Handley Page Ltd being no exception. Companies had expanded hugely during the conflict: Handley Page had only 12 permanent staff at the outbreak of the war; by 1918 this had grown to over 5,000 Early in 1919 he converted HP into a public limited company. On 14 June 1919 he set up a subsidiary company, Handley Page Transport Services had already begun, with converted 0/400s being used to ferry newspapers on 1 May 1919, the first day on which civil aviation was permitted under the new Air Navigation rules.

The enormous number of now-unwanted military aircraft, aero-engines and assorted spares was initially handled by a government body, the Aircraft Disposal Board, but a political scandal over misadministration led to a government decision to sell the material. Handley Page's bid was successful, and for £1M plus 50% of any profits the entire stock of more than 10,000 airframes, 30,000 engines and sundry spares (such as 1,000 tons of ball-bearings), was acquired by a newly formed company, the Aircraft Disposal Company. It in turn appointed Handley Page Ltd as its sole agent.

The involvement with the Aircraft Disposal Company proved nearly disastrous for Handley Page: by April 1919 the value of £1 ordinary shares in Handley Page Ltd had dropped to one shilling, and he was accused of having used £400,000 of the ADC's money to subsidise his various failed civil aviation projects. The same amount of money was owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland. The situation was saved by the RBS, which arranged for Handley Page to remain as managing director of Handley Page Ltd on condition that two seats on the board of directors were held by their nominees and two more by representatives of the ADC. This deal cost Handley Page £179,000 in royalties due to him from Handley Page Ltd but assured the survival of the company and Handley Page's control over it.

He was knighted in 1942 for his contribution to the war effort.

In 1946 along with Sir Roy Fedden he played a major role the establishment of the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, and was chairman of its governing body until his death.

Page was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 1960.

He died on 21 April 1962 in Grosvenor Square, Westminster, London at age 76. The house in Grosvenor Square where Handley Page lived, No. 18, now bears a blue plaque.

In 1987, Handley-Page was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. A road named Sir Frederick Page Way has been created in BAE Systems' Enterprise Zone at the site of the old Samlesbury Aerodrome.

Personal life
He married Una Thynne (1890–1957) in 1918. They had three daughters, Helen Anne, born on 5 November 1919 (m. Manley Walker, d. 2001); Phyllis (Elizabeth "Buffy"), on 10 December 1921 (m. Winfield, d. 1987), and Patricia (Mary), on 14 June 1923 (d. 1992). His nephew was Geoffrey Page, a World War 2 fighter ace.

His positions included:
 * President of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors (SBAC) (1938–39 – he also served as honorary Treasurer and chairman);
 * President of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) (1945–47 – and longstanding member of its Council);
 * Vice-Chairman of the Air Registration Board (for 20 years);
 * President of the Institute of Transport (1945–46); and
 * chairman of the board of Governors of the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield.
 * Master of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers (1943–44)
 * Deputy lieutenant (1954–56) and later lieutenant (1956–60) of the county of Middlesex
 * Chairman of Council of the City and Guilds of London Institute (1949–61)

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Paul Grist (comics)

Paul Grist (born 9 September 1960) is a British comic book creator, noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff.

Biography
Grist was born in Sheffield. His first work was published in the 1980s by DC Thomson and Fleetway. His early work also includes St. Swithin's Day (written by Grant Morrison and published by Trident Comics), Grendel: Devil in Our Midst (written by Steven T. Seagle and published by Dark Horse Comics), and a Judge Dredd adventure, Kinky Boots, authored by Robbie Morrison.

He later founded his own publishing company, Dancing Elephant Press, under which Kane and Jack Staff were first published, but both titles later moved to Image Comics. He also published Burglar Bill under the Dancing Elephant umbrella (May–Nov. 2003, though it had partly appeared in an earlier form published by Trident Comics).

Grist's art is notable for its spare — sometimes stiff — style, heavy use of shadow, and inventive layouts. His writing is marked by a penchant for sudden cuts between events occurring in different time periods, without the gradual transitions common to the comic book medium. Following the structure of Grist's stories can be a challenge, but he provides subtle visual clues to aid the alert reader.

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Ministry of Commerce (China)

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) is a executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China that is responsible for formulating policy on foreign trade, export and import regulations, foreign direct investments, consumer protection, market competition (competition regulator) and negotiating bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. it is the 20th-ranking department of the State Council. The current minister is Wang Wentao.

History
Before October 1949, the Ministry of Economic Affairs was the governing agency of the Republic of China on the mainland responsible for economic trade issues. The agency was created in 1931 and reorganized in 1937.

In November 1949, a month after the People's Republic of China was established, the Chinese Communist Party formed the Ministry of Trade (贸易部) while the MOEA continued to operate in Taiwan and several other islands.

In August 1952, the Ministry was renamed to Ministry of Foreign Trade (对外贸易部). Ye Jizhuang was the first Minister and died in the post in 1967.

In March 1982, the Ministry of Foreign Trade was merged with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Liaison (对外经济联络部), the State Import and Export Regulation Commission (国家进出口管理委员会), and the State Foreign Investment Regulation Commission (国家外国投资管理委员会), and became the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (对外经济贸易部).

In March 1993, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade was renamed to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (对外贸易经济合作部).

In the spring of 2003, the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation went through a reorganization and was renamed Ministry of Commerce. During 2003, the Ministry established Forum Macao in the Macao Special Administrative Region as a multi-lateral mechanism for cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries.

In 2006, the Ministry of Commerce oversaw the program of "ten thousand businesses advance westward" in conjunction with the Hu-Wen administration's early emphasis on balancing regional development.

The ministry also incorporates the former State Economic and Trade Commission and the State Development Planning Commission.

In 2018, the ministry lost powers and responsibilities regarding anti-monopoly, intellectual property, counterfeit goods, foreign aid, and some financial products to other departments.

Coordinating foreign aid became the responsibility of the newly-created China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA). MOFCOM had tended to emphasize the use of aid to support foreign trade objectives, whereas CIDCA has increasingly emphasized the use of aid to support foreign policy objectives. MOFCOM continues to have a role in foreign aid through implementing overseas projects and selecting the firms to undertake them.

Functions
MOFCOM is in charge of the administration of foreign trade and is China's primary foreign trade negotiator. MOFCOM also deals with foreign investment regulation. It works with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to draft negative lists for foreign investments at the national level and for special economic zones. MOFCOM certifies Chines firms' international contracting business; Chinese contractors performing work abroad must obtain letters from the MOFCOM Economic and Commercial Office at the Chinese embassy in the host country.

MOFCOM additionally is responsible for developing strategic national plans in the areas of finance and taxation, drafts the central financing budget, supervises central financial expenditures, and audits the budget and accounts of state capital and the national social insurance fund.

MOFCOM is China's most important negotiator in the global governance of intellectual property.

MOFCOM additionally has responsibilities on economic relations with Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. To that end the Vice Minister An Min, and the previous Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Antony Leung, concluded the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). New agreements are continually negotiated between An and the current Financial Secretary John Tsang under the auspices of the CEPA. Similar agreements were also concluded between the MOFCOM and Secretariat for Economy and Finance of Macau.

In the first decade after the institution of China's Anti-Monopoly Law (2008-2018), MOFCOM was responsible for regulation of mergers under the law. Other antitrust investigations were handled by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce and the NDRC. During that period, MOFCOM prohibited two mergers and imposed remedies in 36 transactions, all of which involved foreign multinational corporations. The State Administration for Market Regulation was created and became China's primary antitrust regulator in 2018.

MOFCOM assists in drafting laws and regulations in its relevant policy areas.

Structure
A ministerial-level MOFCOM vice minister serves as the International Trade Representative, representing China at bilateral and multilateral trade agreements.

The Ministry of Commerce is structured into the following departments:

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User talk:Mpearl

Welcome
I am Morris Pearl. You can see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~morris for some more information about me. I contribute to wikipedia once in a while, but I read more than I write.

My sons (11 and 14) also find wikipedia a useful source to do some of their research.

yield
yea, thank you for pointing out my mistake. it should be YTM if i remember correctly --空向 00:27, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC) sorry, i am forgetting too much. just edit as you know it. --空向 00:36, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Mortgages
Hi Mpearl - I saw you mention on Village Pump that your specialty is mortgage securitization. If you have a spare moment, we could use your help on the related pages. I've taken a stab at the subject on GNMA but haven't had time to add detail to other pages that would also benefit - as you know, the finance articles on Wikipedia are often lacking and can use a lot of development and detail. It's a shame at the moment because for a lay person like myself it seems to take a lot of time to find details about the field on the web. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can lend. By the way, personally I haven't found that your concern (of endless fighting with the ignorant) has been much of a problem. Tempshill 00:43, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the extra detail on GNMA. I wasn't aware of the distribution of the half-point split.  Tempshill 04:41, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Respiration
You may well not beleive that it's causing my computer to crash, but it is. Also, a Wiktionary search shows that there is no such word as "snippy". Don't reply: see my talkpage for reasons.--Honeycake (internal ID number: 118170) 18:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Henry Morgenthau
Hi,

Regarding Henry Morgenthau, Sr., I'd been rewriting the second section when you turned up, and appear to have overwritten your changes... my apologies. I was trying for something relatively innocuous; the section there before either of us edited appeared to be a fairly one-sided piece, and whilst I don't know much about the topic (no dog of mine in this fight - I came to it looking for information on his son), I do know it's contentious and the original looked biased. What do you think of this alternate version? It cuts out most of the quotes; they may be accurate, but I have a suspicion they were deliberately selected for "political effect", as it were...

Comments appreciated. Shimgray 02:31, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

(Update: I've reinstated your edits on the biography - thanks for those, it was a bit stilted - but am leaving the more equivocal controversy section for the moment. Feel free to revert it if you object.) Shimgray 02:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * It still needs a polishing, but I'm glad to see someone else thinks it's a fair summary. Thanks for the help. Shimgray 03:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Jimmy Carter
I was reverting vandalism by a known troll; the hostages et al are already covered in the article. Ollieplatt is the subject of an arbitration proceeding; see: Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas and Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas/Evidence. Ollieplatt is just one of his many user IDs; he has many sockpuppets. — Davenbelle 20:06, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * He's been at the page again; I'll revert again, but feel free to help defend the page. — Davenbelle 22:36, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

p.s. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Ollieplatt

 * I'll leave the page alone; if you like, have at it. I believe Ollieplatt just got blocked again. FYI, see Internet troll and Dealing_with_vandalism. — Davenbelle 23:21, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Morris. I don't believe you'll be encountering Ollieplatt much more; see:

Requests for arbitration/Libertas.

If you do, or encounter a new sockpuppet or anon IP who you believe may be Ollieplatt et al, please let someone know: User:RickK, User:Fvw, User:Rdsmith4, User:Danny, User:GeneralPatton or someone on the Arbitration Commitee.

— Davenbelle 00:11, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

User:12.217.127.27
Hi Morris. I noticed this user last night. I don't believe this is Ollieplatt, in fact the anon reverted Ollieplatt several times (however, this could be part of game). That IP is taged as being in Moline, Illinois, which is not where I believe Ollieplatt to be. I don't intend to get involved in editing the content of political articles. I believe Jimmy Carter is a good man and was a good President at a time when it was a rather difficult job. You seem like a reasonable person and I would encourage you to Be Bold. Feel free to drop me a note anytime. Best wishes. — Davenbelle 01:30, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

The Signpost
Thanks for your comments. It's been advertised a little bit on the mailing list, the Community portal page, and yes, I also put it on the village pump when I first started. The announcement's still there last I looked, but it didn't really trigger any discussion, just presumably sent a few people off to read it. So anyway, the fact of its existence is still sort of trickling through the community, and since it seems the publicity hasn't reached saturation levels yet, I suppose I could do another announcement sometime to remind people. --Michael Snow 07:04, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Gates
Hi Morris, thanks for the Gates photo, perfect! I added somewhat to the image tag:

 * [[Image:Gates_base.jpg|thumb|450px|The Gates during construction: One of the many metal Base parts (February 6, 2005)]]

See The Gates in what this results --Francis Schonken 08:17, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * There are (several) image tutorials, e.g. Images, Extended_image_syntax, ...
 * To be short: once one adds ...|thumb|... to the list of image modifiers (which allows to add a text in the image frame after the last ...|...), than it automatically jumps to the right. If wanting to avoid that, add ...|center|... ...|left|... or ...|none|... to the image modifier list. Only in that last case (or when displaying the image without any "modifier" at all, like you originally did), the image is on the left, without text wraparound. Also ...|center|... avoids text wraparound.
 * so e.g. [[Image:Gates_base.jpg|thumb|center|250px|The Gates during construction: One of the many metal Base parts (February 6, 2005)]] gives what you see here:

 * --Francis Schonken 08:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice photos! Looking forward for an update after February 12. Also, since you said on Image:Gates base.jpg 'All rights are granted under the same license terms as the rest of Wikipedia'', could you add a image copyright tag to the images? This gives them the same copyrights as the other wikipedia texts. Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 23:57, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Great. Thank you! Now the license is clear. -- Chris 73 Talk 04:10, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

What I don't like about your The Gates photos is that they look like you took them on a camera phone. I would like the article to have some really high resolution pictures as a historical archive. The Gates are going to be gone in however many days and I would like to show my future kids some really good photos of it. I am not trying to be insulting, this is just what I would like to see. Sorry if I offended you.MpegMan 04:49, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe you could upload some picture to the Wikimedia Commons.MpegMan 02:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)p.s. I just found this picture in the commons. This was the kind of picture I wanted to see.

The Gates High Resolution Pictures
User:CoolGuy slapped a VfD on The Gates High Resolution Pictures but did not finish the VfD job. See my comment when I removed the VfD. They (other Wikipedeans) do not like big pictures in article pages - but thumbnails are always clickable to get to a big picture. -- RHaworth 11:48, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

I am sure I read that Christo himself says that his works are not permanent. They are meant to be photographed and dismantled. So the more pics the better. Since these are on display in a public place, I am sure he has no copyright over pictures of The Gates. (But I don't think that was CoolGuy's problem anyway.) -- RHaworth 13:07, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

 * I put them in a separate article specifically because the large pictures would make The Gates take a long time to load. The pictures are made available under the GFDL, they are my pictures.  (They were obviously all taken out doors in public.)  The Gates are to be dismantled two days from now.  I have no problem combining the two articles, if that is what someone wants, but I shall be on vacation for about a week, starting very shortly.

 * I said thumbnails (I assume you know what that means). Wikipedia is very clever and generates thumbnails for you. Put thumbnails in The Gates article and it will not take much longer to load. See List of images/Places/Europe/United Kingdom/Cities/London/Croydon for an example of how to create a gallery.
 * In fact with your pictures in a thumbnail gallery it will be a two stage process: the user clicks on the thumbnail which takes them to the Image description page which shows a larger but still Wiki-generated version of the image. There they can click again to see the full size version. Messy but it works and that is how these (mostly totally verbal) Wikipedians like it.
 * I repeat, your High Res page was marked VfD. CoolGuy may be cool but he is not actually a WikiWiseGuy. Even so he may come back and re-instate the VfD and I might get into trouble for removing it.
 * Best of luck. I am fuming at the moment because someone has thrown away some images I put on Wiki so I sympathise with you. -- RHaworth 16:35, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

LBJ
Thanks for the note--I meant to type "since before the Civil War". Best, Meelar (talk) 17:25, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

GNMA
Sorry, indeed, I gave a little thought to the move. But you do agree the section is related to all three of them. How about making a separate article and link to it from the "big three"? Mikkalai 17:42, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC) Please take a look at Mortgage GSE controversy and surrounds. Mikkalai 18:15, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More answers at User talk:Mikkalai.Mikkalai 19:07, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Good afternoon, Mpearl. Was it Adam directed you onto this, or did you search for Franklin's name throughout articles to find that we were mentioning it? Merely wondering.

Sometimes it's complicated to keep an eye on one idea of one format of name while keeping the other active at the same time, and I understand that. Otherwise, where do you stand on the issue of the current name of the FDR article? I think I'll continue with the work, and keep on keepin' on with these FDR redirects.

Thank you. Bobo192 | Edits

 * Wow. Cool. I really should have checked the edit history more carefully to see who had contributed. :) But then again, to these articles I normally make the tiniest, tiniest possible of edits, normally, to my detriment, several at a time. In fact, there pops one up for Witte right now.

 * I'll see what more I can do to these articles - they're not usually the kind of article to which I contribute, but I'll give my best shot. Thank you. Bobo192 | Edits

 * I always believe in trying my best for any article which I can, or for which I've been set to, so I'll research this one through and see what can be achieved. Bobo192 | Edits

More on Roosevelt
I think the easiest thing to do here is alert you to User_talk:Bobo192, to see the latest developments on the Roosevelt saga. How is this idea? Bobo192 | Edits

 * This situation is becoming more and more difficult as time goes on. I'm getting the feeling I should have stayed outta it altogether..

 * I'm still not sure of the real solution, even despite this. I don't even think I have a valuable opinion on the matter any more. That said, things aren't generally known by FDR's full name on Wikipedia, cf. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. Ugh. For that matter, there's two articles on that topic (the second is at F.D. Roosevelt State Park). This is getting more and more confusing. Bobo192 | Edits

I've reverted the FDR changes, as far too much content was lost (I posted the tip of the iceberg on both Talk pages), let alone the separation from the history and the rarely used form of the name. I'm going to suggest Adam discuss any future drastic changes before implementing them. Niteowlneils 00:16, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Survey on Prefixed-Styles
Since you are one of the people currently voting only a "First choice" I am hoping to encourage you to vote a full set of preferences in the ongoing survey before May 14, in order to prevent a deadlock which will result in no consensus. Whig 13:10, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth II
Please note that I have disputed the neutrality of this article. Jguk reverted my NPOV template, claiming that the NPOV dispute is just a personal campaign of one person. Whig 08:58, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Arthur J. Altmeyer
Thanks for the note. I've cleaned up the AJA article. I understand the description "wikify" to mean something like "opportunities to insert wiki links in this article". best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Infobox President
Hi. There has been a mess on that template. As a hot fix I've created template:Infobox President old. Please use that on all articles that you see broken. Many articles have already been converted to a new parameter set, so they now need the new version of Netoholic in order not to break. Adrian Buehlmann 02:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Please address further concerns regarding template:Infobox President to User:Netoholic. template:Infobox President old is now orphaned (not used) and I put it up for a speedy delete. Adrian Buehlmann 10:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Poll on years of birth/death
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Lewis Hine
I reverted that article before I was an admin, so chances are I reverted to the wrong version. I would revert to any changes before Dec. 9, just to be on the safe side.--Shanel 05:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Mark Green
You know, I had the exact same thought about cropping it--I'll do so tonight; I was torn if I liked the crowd in or not. I'll see what it looks like and let you know when I upload so you can give your opinion. The three author shots I have done so far were my first of people, and they are difficult to do. I would like it to be crisper, so hopefully that will improve. --DavidShankBone 22:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Morris, I cropped the Green photo; I think our intuition was right--let me know what you think. --DavidShankBone 00:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks Morris I think I'm getting better with the photos of people. The problem is they move a lot and I had to use a slower speed to not use a flash.  These are two I took last night Billy Goldberg (doctor) and Mark Leyner.  So, some improvement. --DavidShankBone 13:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Turning articles into redirect pages
Regarding [ this edit]: Please remove all prior content in an article when turning it into a redirect page. I've removed the old stuff under this particular redirect for you - it was causing MediaWiki to flag the page as a broken redirect page. Regards, Kimchi.sg 14:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Frank hogan
NOTE TO ALL PLEASE SEE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:People%27s_Volunteer_Army for background info about John Smith's's actvieties just anote up till now he has only edited China articles this "just happens" to be his first article rleated to NYC.

If anyone thinks I'm just paranoid about John Smith's, look at the Frank Hogan article, its a topic that John Smith's knows nothing about a Ny DA, who has had several important biographies written about him. But because I was the creator of the article John Smith's tagged it with nonnotable. Look I didnt want to believe that John Smith's was pursuign a vendetta against me I wanted to beleiev that it was just a coincidence and that he was just very active in China related articles, but the NYDa has nothing to do with his "expertise" it was clearly done simply to "punish" me, it is IMPOSSIBLe that it was a coincidence. --Gary123 04:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

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Upcoming NYC Meetup
You might want to know when the next meetup was being organized in New York City. Plan for Saturday, 9 December 2006. While you're at it... Come help us decide on a restaurant. See: Meetup/NYC. Spread the word. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 23:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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Kane (comics)

Kane is a comic book series created, written and drawn by Paul Grist and self-published through Dancing Elephant Press. Grist put out 31 issues of Kane from 1993 to 2001.

Overview
Kane concerns a police detective who works in the 39th precinct of the fictional American city of New Eden, which seems to be located on the West Coast. Despite being a UK citizen, Grist appears to have modeled New Eden and its police force in the style of American cop shows such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. Another clear influence is the work of Frank Miller, particularly his Sin City comics. Cerebus was another formative influence, particularly because it proved to Grist that self-published comics were a viable proposition; the first issue of Cerebus that Grist read was #39, hence the designation of Kane's precinct.

Kane has a difficult relationship with his co-workers due to a violent encounter with his former partner, which unfolds gradually and in flashback during the series. Police corruption is a recurring theme. Kane is also densely intertextual and brims with references to popular culture, particularly characters from British television, comics, and films.

Since the end of 2001 Grist has concentrated on his superhero character Jack Staff, although he has announced plans to continue Kane as a series of original graphic novels.

Reception
Kane won the 1998 National Comics Award for Best Self-Published/Independent comic.

Collections
Kane has been collected in the following trade paperbacks from Image Comics:

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Robert Darwin

Robert Waring Darwin (30 May 1766 – 13 November 1848) was an English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family.

Biography
Darwin was born in Lichfield, the son of physician Erasmus Darwin and his first wife, Mary Howard. He was named after his uncle, Robert Waring Darwin of Elston (1724–1816), a bachelor. His mother died in 1770 and Mary Parker, the governess hired to look after him, became his father's mistress and bore Erasmus two illegitimate daughters.

In 1783, Darwin began his studies of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he apparently took lodgings with the chemistry professor Joseph Black. His father then sent him to the Leiden University in the Netherlands for a few months, and he took his MD there on 26 February 1785. His Leyden dissertation was impressive and was published in the Philosophical Transactions, but his father may have assisted him in this. In Edinburgh Robert Darwin had studied under several leading scholars, including John Walker. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 February 1788.

Career
In 1787, when he was still under 21 years old, Darwin set up practice in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire. The family story was that he was brought there by his father who gave him £20, saying, "Let me know when you want more, and I will send it you", then sent another £20 by his uncle, and that was all he needed. A tall and then slim young man, he gained attention when the wife of a bookseller in Wellington, who was being treated for illness by a doctor from the county hospital, fell dangerously ill while that doctor was away for several days on business. Darwin was called in, and as the apothecary would give no information, had to decide on treatment himself. She died, and there was a controversy about which doctor was to blame. Darwin hastily published a pamphlet showing that the other doctor had been treating her for a disease which she did not have, and while his reputation was gained, the other doctor moved elsewhere. After only six months, Darwin "already had between forty and fifty patients", and within two years had a large practice. For two or three years he lived on St. John's Hill, then moved to The Crescent. For years afterwards Darwin, regretting the hasty way the pamphlet had been written, bought up all copies and burnt them.

With small inheritances from his mother and an aunt, Darwin invested in housing, buying the freehold of several buildings in Shrewsbury and getting income from rents. He became a major stockholder in the Trent and Mersey Canal, and an investor in the London to Holyhead road built by Thomas Telford as another part of the infrastructure of the Industrial Revolution.

Erasmus Darwin reached an understanding with his close friend Josiah Wedgwood that his son Robert would marry Wedgwood's favourite daughter, Susannah, when able to support her. Josiah died in January 1795, leaving £25,000 to Susannah. By then Robert Darwin was well established, and they married on 18 April 1796. Their first child, Marianne, was born at The Crescent. Robert Darwin purchased land overlooking the River Severn and had a large red-brick house built there around 1800 which was named The Mount, where all their other children were born. He took great pleasure in the large garden, and had it planted out with ornamental trees and shrubs as well as having particular success in growing fruit-trees.

A large man of 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he reportedly stopped weighing himself when he weighed 24 stone (336 lb, 153 kg). He required his coachman to test the floorboards of houses he was visiting, and had to have special stone steps made for him to enter his carriage.

He held his experience in Edinburgh in such high regard that he sent his son Charles to study there. He at first refused to let his son join the survey voyage of HMS Beagle, but was persuaded otherwise.

Scientific contributions
Robert Darwin provided the first empirical evidence that small eye movements are made even when people attempt to keep them fixed. This he found during his studies of the afterimages of colored stimuli in which he noticed that while a person tried to fixate a colored circle, a lucid edge appeared on the adjacent white-paper background. He concluded "as by the unsteadiness of the eye a part of the fatigued retina falls on the white paper".

Family
On 18 April 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, at St Marylebone, Middlesex (now part of London), and they had six children:

 * Marianne Darwin (1798–1858), married Henry Parker (1788–1858) in 1824.
 * Caroline Sarah Darwin (1800–1888) married her cousin Josiah Wedgwood III
 * Susan Elizabeth Darwin (1803–1866), unmarried.
 * Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804–1881)
 * Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882)
 * Emily Catherine Darwin (1810–1866), married 1863, Charles Langton clergyman and widower of her cousin Charlotte Wedgwood.

He, his wife, and their daughter Susan are buried in St Chad's Church, Montford, near Shrewsbury.

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User talk:AndyCapp

Hi AndyCapp, I listed your article list of countries by IQ on votes for deletion, because I think the statistics are what we call on the Wikipedia "patent nonsense" (I've explained why on the deletion page). This is a slightly unusual case, however, as you've cited a published source and, if it was correct, this is an encyclopedic (if somewhat distasteful to me) topic. Go and have a look and if you wish to leave a counterargument please do so. --Robert Merkel 14:35, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Table suffixes
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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since April 1994, but did not launch officially until 28 April 1997, following government approval to fund it by TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to competition and complaint from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market.

The website has gone through several branding changes since it was launched. Originally named BBC Online, it was rebranded as BBCi (which itself was the brand name for interactive TV services) before being named bbc.co.uk. It was then renamed BBC Online again in 2008, although the service uses the branding "BBC".

On 26 February 2010 The Times claimed that Mark Thompson, then Director General of the BBC, proposed that the BBC's web output should be cut by 50%, with online staff numbers and budgets reduced by 25% in a bid to scale back BBC operations and allow commercial rivals more room. On 2 March 2010, the BBC reported that it would cut its website spending by 25% and close BBC 6 Music and Asian Network. On 24 January 2011, the confirmed cuts of 25% were announced, leaving a £34 million shortfall. This resulted in the closure of several sites, including BBC Switch, BBC Blast, 6-0-6, and the announcement of plans to sell the Douglas Adams created site h2g2.

Early years
www.bbc.co.uk was introduced in April 1994 with some regional information and Open University Production Centre (OUPC) content. By September, the first commercial service launched, a transcription service via FTP server. At its peak, it had 122 accounts, including FBI bureaus around the world, taking daily updates from 12 feeds.

Within 12 months, the BBC website offered "Auntie" online discussion groups; web pages for select web-related programs and BBC departments; free web pages for associate members.

The BBC Multimedia Centre was a team led by Martin Freeth to introduce new media across the corporation.

BBC Networking Club
BBC Networking Club www.bbcnc.org.uk (the "nc" standing for "networking club") was launched by BBC Education on 11 May 1994 as a non-profit paid subscription service. For a joining fee of £25 and a monthly subscription of £12, members of the club were given access to an early type of social networking site featuring a bulletin board for sharing information and real-time conversation, along with a dialup Internet connection service.

BBC Online and beeb.com
The BBC Director General John Birt sought government approval to direct licence fee revenue into the service, describing planned BBC Internet services as the "third medium" joining the BBC's existing TV and radio networks, achieving a change in the BBC Charter. This led to the official launch of BBC Online at the www.bbc.co.uk address in April 1997.

As well as the licence fee funded www.bbc.co.uk, BBC Worldwide launched the commercially funded beeb.com, featuring mostly entertainment focused content, with sites including Radio Times, Top Gear and Top of the Pops. The development of these services formed the basis of a three-year agreement between BBC Worldwide and International Computers Limited, intended to assist the former in exploiting commercial opportunities in the "new medium" of the consumer Internet, while permitting the latter to gain commercial and technical experience and to position itself as a supplier to the media industry. Later, BBC Online launched licence-fee funded web sites for Top of the Pops and Top Gear, resulting in some duplication.

Beeb.com was later refocussed as an online shopping guide, and was closed in 2002. beeb.com later redirected to the BBC Shop website, run by BBC Worldwide.

In 1999, the BBC bought the bbc.com domain name, previously owned by Boston Business Computing, for $375,000, but the price of this purchase was not revealed until six years later. , www.bbcnc.org.uk no longer exists.

BBCi
In 2001, BBC Online was rebranded as BBCi; the website launched on 7 November 2001. The BBCi name was conceived as an umbrella brand for all the BBC's digital interactive services across web, digital teletext, interactive TV and on mobile platforms. The use of letter "i" prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time; according to the BBC, the "i" in BBCi stood for "interactivity" as well as "innovation".

As part of the rebrand, BBC website pages all displayed a standard navigation bar across the top of the screen, offering category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index and a search function. The navbar was designed to offer a similar navigation system to the i-bar on BBCi interactive television.

bbc.co.uk and the return of BBC Online
After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc.co.uk, after the main URL used to access the site. Interactive TV services continued under the BBCi brand until it was dropped completely in 2008. The BBC's online video player, the iPlayer has, however, retained an i-prefix in its branding.

On 14 December 2007, a beta version of a new bbc.co.uk homepage was launched, with the ability to customise the page by adding, removing and rearranging different categories, such as 'News', 'Weather' and 'Entertainment'. The widget-based design was inspired by sites such as Facebook and iGoogle, and allowed the BBC to add new content to the homepage while still retaining users' customisations. The new homepage also incorporated the clock design used in the 1970s on the BBC's television service into the large header and a box containing featured content of the website. The new BBC homepage left beta on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 to serve as the new BBC Homepage under the same URL as the previous version.

On 30 January 2010, a new webpage design became available as a beta version, that by May 2010, replaced the old homepage. This homepage expanded on the modules idea and the customisation theme. The website allowed certain themes that interested the viewer to be tracked, via a new module. It also included a new 'Media Zone' where featured content could be displayed, with this new featured box being located across the entire top of the webpage, below the header. The Media Zone was also changed so that the content changed by running the mouse over the tabs. The header was again changed to include the headings of the major sections of the website, these being: Home, News, Sport, Weather, iPlayer, TV, Radio and more, spread out evenly across the header. This new header was included across the entire website. Despite the cosmetic appearance of the relaunch, the new website was actually relaunched using a completely different operating system, allowing the site's four different international versions to be more easily altered. It also brought their website layouts and operations closer to that of the main website.

Following the launch of the new BBC News website, which altered the header bar on that site, in October 2010, the new style of header was launched across the whole website, starting off with some of the larger, yet not obvious, sites, such as Doctor Who, first before relaunching all of the sites, including the homepage with the new look. This new style of header included the headings as before, but with the search box redesigned and aligned right, as with the links which are significantly smaller. Other links, such as BBC id login and mobile versions of the website also appear on the header, just to the right of the smaller BBC logo.

On 21 September 2011, a new BBC homepage went into beta testing that was drastically different from those before it. The new homepage was based on feedback that stated that the current page was too narrow in focus and not distinctive enough, with the homepage not displaying the full extend of the BBC Online site and that some did not realise it was the homepage. As a result, they launched a new version that featured as a centrepiece a revolving carousel of content on the BBC Online website, with filters beneath to restrict it to, and to show more of entertainment, lifestyle, knowledge and news and sports topics. At the top of the page, a new header has been inserted giving the date, the time through the use of the vintage BBC clock, as well as weather prospects for the next three days through the use of the traditional weather symbols. Below the carousel, boxes contain links to the most popular video material, web articles and pages on the site, as well as TV and Radio listings alongside an A-Z list of the BBC's top level domains. This new site replaced the previous one on 30 November 2011. In a blog post from the same day, James Thornett explained the changes – while the post attracted complaints from users disliking the refreshed layout, the new-look site was critically acclaimed and nominated by the Design Museum as one of their Designs of the Year in 2012. It also won a Peabody Award in 2011 because it "continued, expanded and enhanced one of the greatest traditions in electronic media."

Content
BBC Online contains a variety of content ranging from News, Sport, Music, Science, Technology and Entertainment, amongst other things. The website has a British orientation, although the home page, news section and sports section each provide different content between UK and "International" visitors. There are also separate pages for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland written by the BBC Nations.

The website focuses around the primary top level domains of News, Sport, Weather, iPlayer, TV and Radio. These are easily accessible from the taskbar running across the top of all current BBC Online pages. However, other top level domains are also in existence: some are available from a drop down list on the taskbar including CBBC, CBeebies, Comedy, Food, Health, History, Learning, Music, Science and Nature, while other top level domains are only available through the A-Z index on the BBC website. These include Archives, Arts & Culture, Ethics, Gardening, Parenting, Religion and Travel news. However, there are many more top level domains – some 400 in March 2010 however this number has decreased as top level domains now frequently link to a lower domain name – that link to websites for individual services or programmes.

News, Sport and Weather
One of the most used aspects of the BBC Online website are the sections relating to News content, Sports results and news and Weather forecasts. The BBC News Online subsite launched in 1997 and received around 2 billion page views each month in 2012. The site contains journalistic content from the BBC covering news from the UK, both as a whole as well as regional news from the BBC Nations and Regions, and International content. The site also contains analysis from correspondents and other features from the Magazine section of the website. The BBC Sport Online subsite offers, in a similar way to news, a wide variety of material including sports results, live feeds to on-air programming, sports related news and analysis from commentators and pundits. The BBC Weather subsite primarily focuses on weather forecasts for UK and International locations, but also includes other features including Country guides that detail to geography and climate of each country, winter sports forecasts and during times of unusual or extreme weather, videos are produced explaining the causes for this weather.

iPlayer and Programmes sites
The BBC iPlayer subsite allows programmes to be viewed again after broadcast over the Internet. This successful site has now been expanded to include mobile views and downloads onto computers and mobiles allowing viewing for up to 30 days after broadcast.

BBC Programmes is a service of BBC Online which provides a page for every television and radio programme broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was launched in October 2007 and gives each programme an eight or eleven digit identifier which is used to provide a permanent URL. It currently only holds data from the launch date plus a selection of high-profile programmes (notably Natural History programmes and Radio 4 programmes), but Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, said in June 2008 that the BBC will eventually add a page for each programme it has broadcast over its history to the service.

BBC Programmes is available as HTML and RDF/XML and JSON.

The BBC Programme Catalogue is an internal archive of the BBC back catalogue which was briefly available online to the public in beta.

Sounds
BBC Sounds is an internet streaming, catchup, radio and Podcast service from the BBC. The service is available on a wide range of devices, including mobile phones and tablets, personal computers, and smart televisions. It was launched in November 2018 and replaces the 'iPlayer Radio' branded service, and the mobile apps currently complement the existing iPlayer Radio native applications, which remain available.

Knowledge and learning
The BBC also operates numerous sub sites that focus on different topics and subjects to expand the knowledge of the reader. These are mainly centred around the topics of Science, Nature, Arts and Culture, Religion and Ethics, Food and History. Each of these sub sites feature new articles published on the topic and contain other collections relating to the topic.

For example, the Food site contains recipes featured on various BBC cookery programmes, the History site has an interactive timeline of key events and individuals, the Nature site contains a database of creatures, and the Language site teaches phrases and more in 40 languages. Included in this range was the well received Your Paintings website that catalogued every painting in public ownership for view.

Until 2013, the BBC also hosted a health website with detailed information, checked by professionals, of medical conditions and symptoms. However, the BBC withdrew the site as this service is available from other sources on the Internet which did not exist when the Health site launched, the most prominent of which is NHS Choices.

In addition to these subsites, the BBC also runs sites dedicated to education and learning. These include the Bitesize revision website for teenagers and a section with resources for teachers including Learning Zone Class Clips that provides video from educational programmes for use in the classroom.

The BBC plans to merge this content into one easier to access site in the foreseeable future.

BBC Own It is an offshoot that provides online safety advice for parents, teachers, and young people to help them make positive choices online. It follows in the footsteps of other online safety services such as Internet Matters and Childnet.

Children's
The BBC runs a comprehensive children's website. It includes information on all of CBBC's shows along with several subsites covering art, sport, news, and other current events. Its message boards are especially popular with children who use them to communicate with each other about all of CBBC's output among other salient topics for kids like bullying, books, and personal problems.

In conjunction with the Children's subsite, the BBC also runs an online revision website using the Bitesize brand and also ran a message board for students. This latter service, now called "BBC Student Life" and previously called "Onion Street", was launched in 2001 and is aimed at young people between the ages of 11 and 16. The site offers a pre-moderated forum discussion on school work, revision and other areas of learning.

The BBC previously ran a page to help young people sort out their life difficulties entitled "Your Life". The page featured agony uncle "Ask Aaron", a professional psychotherapist who provided regular answers to children's questions across the message boards; after the page's closure, the agony uncle has moved on to Radio One's Sunday Surgery as their mental health expert.

There is integration between television output and website content with aspects of children's programming have follow-up information on their websites.

International-only site
An international BBC subsite named "BBC Britain" is only available to users with IP addresses outside the UK. UK users attempting to visit the site are told: "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee." Additional subsites exist which were initially inaccessible to UK users in the same manner as BBC Britain but have since been made accessible while displaying the following disclaimer: "This website is produced by BBC Global News Ltd, a commercial company owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. The money we make from it is re-invested to help fund the BBC's international journalism." These subsites include:

 * "Culture" which is a fusion of videos and images coupled with editorial content from a host of well-known and respected journalists and commentators, offering an alternative lens on global trends across the arts.
 * "Future" which is universal topics focused on future trends in the worlds of science, technology, environment and health.
 * "Worklife" (formerly Capital ) which is dedicated to offering a global perspective on economic stories, trends and profiles on a personal level.
 * "Autos" which is an entertaining, insightful daily read focused on the passionate side of the motor industry, including design, technology and community.
 * "Earth" which is the website of the BBC International channel BBC Earth.
 * "Travel" which is a site about all aspects of travel.
 * "Reel" which has video features.

BBC Blast
BBC Blast was the BBC's network which encouraged teenagers to become creative in music, film, dance, art and fashion. It provided access to mentors online, and at free events and workshops across the UK. The website specifically catered for 13- to 19-year-olds but the BBC Blast project also ran a variety of work experience schemes for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. Blast was running from 2002 until 2011. It included an online forum where participants could upload videos, audio tracks and images and comment on each other's work. There was an annual season on BBC2 where their films could be shown. The BBC Blast tour built partnerships with local arts organisations around the UK, featuring workshops and talks with stars from a variety of backgrounds, and providing a performance space for participants. These including rapper Akala, director and actor Noel Clarke, the artists Antony Gormley and Jake and Dinos Chapman, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJs Ace and Vis, singer-songwriter Jay Sean, rapper Chipmunk, Panjabi Hit Squad and Yngve & The Innocent. The tour also featured very early performances and interviews by artists such as Rizzle Kicks and Ed Sheeran.

Blast worked with a number of national partners to put on events and give teenagers' content a chance to be used at a higher level. These included the Victoria and Albert Museum, RSC, National Portrait Gallery, National Theatre, Zoo Nation, and the British Film Institute.

On 24 January 2011, the BBC announced the closure of BBC Blast as part of a 25% cut to the BBC Online budget, resulting in a £34 million shortfall.

Cult TV
From 1999 to 2005, the BBC ran a popular subsite called Cult TV. This subsite had news, star interviews, trivia, and other content popular with fans of the cult TV shows they covered. Examples of covered TV shows include The X-Files, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

On 15 July 2005, the BBC announced that the site was closing as of the end of the month, although the Doctor Who section would be unaffected as the series was an ongoing BBC concern. The announcement explained that this was "part of the restructuring of the BBC's online activities". It was promised that some of the content would be moved to new places on bbc.co.uk, although as of January 2017 it is currently still all online at the no-longer-updated Cult site. In recent years, some of the content covered in the Cult section was included in the BBC's Archive section, such as content and information on the 25th Anniversary of Children's BBC.

BBC Guide to Comedy
The BBC Guide to Comedy was an online encyclopaedia based on Mark Lewisohn's 1998 book The Radio Times Guide to Comedy. It offered "Info on every TV comedy shown in the UK, from 1936 to today..." and featured articles on almost every comedy programme and sitcom produced by the main channels in the United Kingdom. The site also featured video clips, viewable in RealPlayer, and a small gallery of cast photographs or screenshots. It was replaced by a smaller, less detailed guide in 2007, which only focussed on BBC shows and is also now discontinued.

Democracy Live
Democracy Live was a subsite of the BBC that contains live streams and recorded programmes from deciding bodies that affect the UK. Launched in November 2009, the site focused around live and recorded debate from the House of Commons and the House of Lords in Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the European Parliament. While recordings tended to focus on the main debating chambers, the site also hosted video from some committees. The site also included a search facility to find relevant debate, a tool to follow a particular member and see videos of their contributions and other videos of historic events from these institutions. The service also allowed the translation of Welsh Assembly proceedings to and from Welsh.

Funding
The BBC's site was initially entirely free from advertising, this was due to the BBC's funding, derived primarily from compulsory television licence fees from UK viewers. BBC Studios who exploit BBC brands commercially have had several attempts at launching services online including Beeb.com in the late 1990s.

In 2006, the BBC began making controversial plans to raise revenue by including advertising on the international version of BBC News Online accessed from outside the United Kingdom. BBC Online is currently freely available worldwide (via various URLs including bbc.com/news) but planned video services and a lower than expected licence fee settlement paid for by UK residents only led to the BBC introducing banner advertisements to the site from November 2007. The BBC Trust approved the plans for introducing advertisements which also involved creating bbc.com as a part of BBC Worldwide. Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the Trust, confirmed the BBC would not charge for online news following News International's planned introduction of charges for online content.

Prior to this there had been criticism from some, as web users outside the UK could use the services (including the entire BBC radio services) without having to pay for them. In addition, where rights to sporting events (such as certain football or cricket matches) do not include international online coverage, users from outside the UK are blocked from listening to commentaries.

On 24 January 2011, it was announced that the BBC was to cut its online budget by 25% or £34 million. To cope with this, many BBC websites would be closed including BBC Switch, BBC Blast, 6-0-6, BBC raw, Video Nation, and planned to sell the Douglas Adams created website h2g2, as well as the automation of many programme websites and radio websites.

Streaming media
A service, called BBC iPlayer, was launched in December 2007, which allows users to download both radio and TV content for up to seven days after broadcast. The television version allows users to either stream programmes or to download them using peer-to-peer and DRM technology.

Initially streams were generally broadcast in the RealAudio and RealVideo formats controlled by RealNetworks and the BBC drew criticism with some for using those closed formats which, at the time, could only be played using RealPlayer. In response to such criticisms, the BBC negotiated a deal with RealNetworks a 'cut-down' version of RealPlayer which did not contain as much advertising and marketing.

Windows Media has also been adopted and since Autumn 2006, a Windows Media stream of all national BBC radio stations has been available.

More recently, the BBC has been experimenting with MP3 downloads and podcasting facilities for an increasing number of radio shows, with a high level of success; a less publicised trial of Ogg Vorbis streams for certain programmes was less successful, and has now been discontinued.

During major events, the BBC often features liveblogs which publish the most recent text and image posts from BBC correspondents; particularly significant political events may pair live blogs with live video streams or recorded video loops relevant to the event.

Message boards
In February 2001, BBC Online incorporated Douglas Adams' previously independent h2g2 project into its group of web sites, and eventually replaced all its existing message boards, which used an archaic system called Howerd, with the DNA software derived from that project. The site's now archived Collective magazine also used the DNA software along with numerous other sites created after the BBC's acquisition of h2g2.

Developers
The website has extensive technical information available about its operation. The BBC also made some of the content on bbc.co.uk and the BBC News Website available in XML format on the former developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk. Also, through participation in the Creative Archive Licence group, bbc.co.uk allows legal downloads of selected material via the Internet.

In November 2011, the BBC launched the Connected Studio initiative which resulted in the running of workshops for independent web designers to work with the BBC in conceiving new designs and ways for current BBC services to be improved.

Tracking cookies and privacy policy
BBC Online uses several third-party companies to log information from users, by means of cookies. The BBC lists the companies it uses in its privacy policy:
 * 24/7 Real Media
 * AOL Advertising
 * Atlas Solutions (Microsoft Advertising)
 * Audience Science
 * Google DoubleClick
 * Media Mind
 * Specific Media
 * Yahoo! Network Plus

Vulnerabilities
In March 2007, a vulnerability was exposed in the BBC's "Most Emailed" and "Most Read" news sections which could allow for the popularity of a news article to be exaggerated and thus highlight it to other website visitors.

Graf report
In early 2004, the site was made the focus of a government review, launched by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, led by Philip Graf. Sections of the UK Internet industry had argued that the BBC site offered things that were available in the commercial sector, creating unnecessary competition.

The review was published in July 2004 and it was recommended that the BBC "prioritise news, current affairs, education and information which is of value to the citizen." In response the BBC also shut down a small number of sections of the site, including the Soaps section.

In November 2004, the Governors of the BBC announced a newer, much more tightly drawn remit for bbc.co.uk as part of their response to the review. They also announced, as Graf had recommended, a new approach towards external providers which will see bbc.co.uk aiming to spend at least 25% of its eligible budget on content and services through independent commissions by the end of 2006/07.

The implementation of the Graf report has seen the popular message boards in the BBC Sport section shut down, as the BBC tries to promote its 606 brand, but these changes have proved unpopular as the interface has proven unusable and large numbers of content providers have abandoned the BBC site.

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