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User talk:DanP

DanP, please stop adding your stuff to childbirth. Pushing a POV agenda is very poorly tolerated on Wikipedia, and only leads to edit wars and banning. Please go and do something else. JFW | T@lk  19:48, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Actually, I make efforts to present both sides of every issue. If you have an opinion, that does not mean yours is the only one. DanP 21:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Actually, your other edits have been quite evenhanded. This childbirth stuff was simply getting too far off-topic. JFW | T@lk  21:48, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Breastfeeding
A consensus was reached to mention the negative effect neonatal circumcision may have on breastfeeding in the "Breast refusal" section of the Breastfeeding article. In my opinion that is the appropriate way to include information about circumcision and how it may adversely affect breastfeeding. I am opposed to adding more information about circumcision to the Breastfeeding article and I am also opposed to deleting the information that is already there. -- DanBlackham 06:38, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Discomfort, possibly due to recent surgery or medical procedures (for example, circumcision )
 * The information focuses on breastfeeding and circumcision, which is neither surgery (according to Wikipedia's definition), nor is it medically-indicated in the majority of cases. Nonetheless, I believe the reader should explore this topic and make up their own mind.  Automatically judging circumcision as unconnected is equally as biased as automatically judging it as connected.  So ideally, it is up to the reader to make form their own opinion.  I thank you for your views, and hope every person's perspective is respected in the article.  DanP 18:29, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Please join in the discussion in Talk:Breastfeeding rather than having an edit war. I thought we had already reached a consensus position, but apparently not.  You have added the same text four times now (in breach of the spirit, if not the technical wording of the three revert rule).  Please try not to do it again until we reach an agreed position - adding and deleting the same (or slightly modified) text time and again is only giong to entrench positions, not lead to consensus. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:46, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I only want a neutral viewpoint.DanP 20:53, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Male Circumcision
I've reverted your latest changes to this article as non-neutral. Please don't take it personally: I agree with many of your edits and have defended them against other users' objections. Please be careful what words you choose when editing articles; some suggest (dis)approval and are thus inherently non-neutral. Exploding Boy 19:23, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I stumbled into non-neutral territory -- not taking it personally. Many of the changes I made were to correct factual errors as well, and existing POV (like that part on "most men", never saying who says so).  If I introduce POV, I apologize, but clearly some parts of the article say POV things without backing them up. DanP 19:28, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikiquette
DanP, on Wiki, there is something called the Three revert rule. It states:
 * Don't revert any page more than three times within a period of 24 hours.

On the Foreskin restoration page, you've now performed four reverts today. Furthermore, you've failed to make the reverts explicit in the edit summary, disguising them instead. These are the reverts:
 * 19:15 16 Dec 2004 is a revert to 19:00 (but disguised thru the summary)
 * 14:51 16 Dec 2004 is a revert to 14:30 (disguised)
 * 14:30 16 Dec 2004 is a revert to 13:29 (disguised)
 * 13:29 16 Dec 2004 is a revert to 23:49 10 Dec 2004 (disguised)

- Jakew 19:45, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Dan, please note that, if true, this could get you blocked (I'll take Jake's word for it). Four reverts would be a fairly serious matter.  Firstly you're holding up any attempts to resolve differences of opinion. Secondly you're making people upset.  Don't revert, modify.  If a change really needs to be reverted and you've already reverted an edit on the same page once in the past day or so, contact someone else and ask them to have a look at the page and see if they agree with you.  --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 20:18, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I only inserted a paragraph that Jakew previously deleted without explanation. If Jakew says I repeatedly reverted the article, my apologies as it should not have been so and was terribly inadvertent.  I'm pretty sure we can dig up Jakew deleting the same paragraphs over and over without the last month, while attempts to compromise are made on my part.  I also have followed my edits up with discussion.  Jakew has not done this so well.  Take a look at 20:21, 19 Nov 2004 for just one example of Jakew's trademark pattern of article vandalism, among several repeated content deletions that day.  No discussion, just deletion without explanation. DanP 23:16, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, play nice with each other, I'm sure you'll find it more productive to assume good faith and be fair. Jake could have gone running to an admin and got you blocked for breaking the 3RR, but he didn't. I think he's genuinely interested in working with you and you should try to hammer out your differences in talk. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 23:56, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Removal of TotallyDisputed tag
In this edit to Gliding action, you reverted the insertion of a TotallyDisputed tag. I have already objected to this, and to your misleading edit summary, on that article's talk page. This act of attempted censorship is totally unjustifiable and unacceptable. Please justify it on that article's talk page, or better still, undo it. - Jakew 19:49, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

3RR violation
Please be advised that you have violated the 3 revert rule, which states that each user is only permitted to revert a page three times per day, unless it is a case of obvious vandalism. You can be blocked for up to 24 hours if you violate the 3RR, and I will do so if you continue to revert the page. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation. -Frazzydee|✍ 21:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I am unaware of such an instance without vandalism present. Please direct me to it, since I want to respect the 3RR rule.  DanP 22:01, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, sorry for not telling you before. The violation was at Foreskin restoration (hist).  You reverted 5 times between 24 Jan 2005 (23:53) and 25 Jan 2005 (19:11).  The exact times were:
 * 19:11, 25 Jan 2005 DanP (rv. See talk page.)
 * 18:36, 25 Jan 2005 DanP (rv. Use discussion page please)
 * 00:58, 25 Jan 2005 DanP (rv. please use talk page)
 * 00:47, 25 Jan 2005 DanP (rv. Immerman is in this one.)
 * 23:53, 24 Jan 2005 DanP (rv. and add Schultheiss)
 * You should note that it's within 24 hours, not within a day, so the reverts on January 24 and January 25 are both counted towards your limit. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.  You may (or may not) want to present your point of view at Administrators' noticeboard.  That's how I came to know about the violation.  Sorry you got blocked, but I'm not going to unblock you since you did violate policy.  I have, however, asked Jayjg to consider unblocking you himself. -Frazzydee|✍ 23:13, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Jayjg |  (Talk)  23:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The block was for 24 hours, and should come off by itself in a few minutes. If it doesn't, I'll undo it manually. Jayjg |  (Talk)  22:43, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * You should be ok now, I've unblocked. Jayjg |  (Talk)  22:59, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm OK now.  I'll review Wikipedia policies to make sure I stay in compliance. DanP 23:03, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Disappointed
Dan, I see that the very first change you make after coming back is to describe an edit as vandalism. This was on your user page ("rv repeated user page vandalism by Robert the Bruce"). Vandalism is replacing a page with "cock shit balls", and it upsets people to describe their edits as such, even if you strongly disagree with them. It would help to create a more peaceful atmosphere at Wiki if you chose a different term. - Jakew 23:12, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * That is BS. The revert was of my own user page that was vandalized repeatedly by him with insults (psycho-sexual motivation, has a mental condition, etc.).  Check the history.  Read Vandalism and the section on User page vandalism.  It is also Sneaky vandalism, as he is somehow implying that I feign neutrality (which is clearly noted on my user page as well).  Your lies about vandalism are even worse, so back off please. DanP 23:37, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't see that he replaced your user page with insults or profanities. I'm not so sure about adding hostile comments to your user page, however - I don't think it's vandalism, but it does seem a bit rude to me. As far as the vandalism "lies" go, look above, in the section "Wikiquette". See the sentence: "Take a look at 20:21, 19 Nov 2004 for just one example of Jakew's trademark pattern of article vandalism, among several repeated content deletions that day."? - Jakew 00:11, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * So burn me at the stake. I am not perfect.  In my defense, you had repeated deletedly paragraphs with bothering to discuss. DanP 00:56, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Personal attack (historical)
You chose to attack me on your user page (note: now deleted). Concerning vandalism:

Yes, each will doubtless follow similar accusations by yourself. Childish? Yes. Irresponsible? Yes. Can you find anything after November 2004? I doubt it. I can change. Can you? - Jakew 00:03, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I would love for you to delete all this, which is only self-defensive.  I have only included all this because you:
 * Have reported me as "infuriating" and describing your edits as "vandalism".
 * Have described me here as "coming back to describe an edit as vandalism"
 * Clearly this is within the last 24 hours, not November. I offer you the freedom to delete this whole "personal attack" section, the "disappointed" section just above, and the whole "Jakew" section on my users page once you retract these two statements.  After that I have no outstanding grievances except with Robert the Bruce concerning the bullet points listed.  DanP 00:56, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I have briefly reviewed your edit history. I found several examples since November. Here are a few:   . However, I agree that this has become much less common recently.
 * I have described your inappropriate use of the term "vandalism" as infuriating. It is. It is undeniable that you described an edit (I believe your first since unblocking) as vandalism, and I cannot see why you find this so upsetting. I don't think it appropriate to delete the sections, but I have made amendments to this section, as you can see. - Jakew 23:28, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * That is not the whole truth. What particular instance are you talking about?  Your statement was "DanP frequently describes edits he disagrees with as vandalism - a habit I find infuriating".  How frequently may I ask?  When I was unblocked, I removed User:Robert the Bruce's edits of my user page that were clearly indicated as unwelcome edits.  He made changes four times -- knowing I was blocked!  Can I edit yours with childish nonsense next time you're blocked?  Further, Robert has posted that exact same graffiti of email in several discussions, purportedly as an elephant in the room to prove something (who knows what - I wasn't feigning neutrality, that's for certain).  That is easy enough to prove and I'm finished discussing this.  Yes I make mistakes, but you have no evidence that I make frequent vandalism claims -- certainly not at your level you describe, or even at the level you've engage in.  So let's drop it unless I'm wrong about some particular fact here.  Sometimes I think you and Robert enjoy arguing these meta-accusations.  DanP 23:53, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to argue about Robert's edits. That's between you and him. Your descriptions of edits as vandalism are rarer these days, and I agree that "frequently" was not the right word. It's more frequently than I would like, but "occasionally" seems a better description these days. I apologise. What would you like me to do about it? - Jakew 01:27, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Your user page
Dan, could you remove the inflammatory material from your user page? Although I don't agree with Jake and Robert's activities on the page I think you're doing the wrong thing in using the page as a forum to air your grievances. The right thing to do if you have a problem with someone else's conduct is to go to RfC and put your opinion into RfC form. There is already a [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Robert the Bruce|RfC on Robert the Bruce] so you could add your complaint to that if you'd prefer not to start your own.

 * As it stands now you have a good chance of others raising a RfC against you for putting this kind of material on your user page. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:14, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See Robert the Bruce's "list of anti-circumcision activists" (or similar) on his user page. You know, people do this type of thing all the time on their user pages, but I don't think there's any specific policy that deals with it. Exploding Boy 16:26, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, actually I believe EB is right that it's not against policy if it's true Wikipedia behavior and not a lie. Notice I insulted no person, but only make true claims of actions and behavior.  But I happen to agree with you that it's distasteful blaming, even if true.  So I deleted Jakew from my user page even though he probably will again say I "accuse him of vandalism" on every edit or conflict resolution effort ("DanP frequently describes edits he disagrees with as vandalism - a habit I find infuriating" see User:Frazzydee discussion).  If you noticed, I indicated that mine was also part of that "stupid game", only I admit it and oppose it.  Now if you can get in Robert the Bruce to agree to this principle regarding his user page, we'll all be happier. DanP 18:51, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * DanP you need to help me understand Sidaway with this. He was the one who tinkered with my user page and yet he now gets all defensive about what happens on yours. What do you call that? There must be a word for it? - Robert the Bruce 14:49, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Robert, I welcome you to "tinker" with my user page in some way that is reasonable and helpful. However, you:

I recommend you tell Sidaway your feelings. DanP 14:55, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * knew your edits were unwelcome
 * posted much of the same material, at random, in other discussions
 * knew I was blocked and could not react
 * acted repeatedly to leave unwelcome edits in place
 * Quick question, Dan, does your welcome to tinker in reasonable and helpful ways apply to me? - Jakew 14:59, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Certainly. I am sure that we can have a gentleman's agreement that unwelcome changes are unreasonable ones.  You know enough by now to know what I'd surely revert.  DanP 15:08, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Just a quick note to let you know that I appreciate your efforts to help engage Robert Blair in discussion. - Jakew 23:37, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. Just too many civilian casualties in the edit war. :) DanP 23:53, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No kidding. I'm drafting an RfC (see my user page), but hopefully it won't be needed. Thanks again. - Jakew 01:29, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Gliding action
Just when we seemed to be reaching agreement, 207.69.137.202 appears and reverts. Can you revert? I'm running low. - Jakew 01:20, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Obviously I have objections to other things in the article, but it probably is collectively less disturbing than versions before today. DanP 01:25, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. It's maddening to spend an hour trying to sort this out only to have this person revert the lot. Please raise the issue on the talk page and we can try to find less objectionable (or equally objectionable) versions. Please also reply on genital integrity. - Jakew 01:29, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * This so so nice for a change. I love WikiLove.  I wish that we could all just get along.

--

Ŭalabio 02:48, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)

FGM
Well, then that would be just called GM, not FGM. Please use the google. The word FGM is used specifically in reference to female circumcision carried out in African countries. The US State Department also uses the word in this context. See OneGuy 20:01, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I have explained this on your talk page.  Please go there and realize one can be a subset of the other, not necessarily synonyms.  DanP 20:24, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem is that the word FGM is used for African practice of Female circumcision. If I am looking for that information, I am going to search FGM. If you search google for FGM, I bet you are not going to find information about piercing in the first 100 hits. Almost all the search results would be in reference to Female circumcision. OneGuy 20:28, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Here the search result on google for "Female Genital Mutilation." Given that, now where should that article be redirected to? OneGuy 20:33, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? There are obviously instances where one term is used, and the other is inapplicable.  This is an encyclopedia, remember?  DanP 20:43, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's illegal even if the adult women is forced (as sometimes happens in Africa), not just minors. Please fix your edit there OneGuy 02:34, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Policy Discussion Regarding Slogans
Hey DanP, I noticed your avid support for one of the slogans on the VfD and was wondering if you'd mind putting some of your opinions about political slogans at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Inclusion of Slogans as Separate Articles. Everyone there so far is in favour of deleting them (myself included), but it would be nice to hear the other half of the debate (if indeed there is one). Thanks for your time! Regards, [[User:Consequencefree| Ardent † ∈ ]] 22:16, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Leave the medical articles alone please
If there is an issue of fact, raise it on the talk page please and we can discuss it. Your changes are not improvements; while they don't change the meaning much, I can't see that they make it any better. I am tired of reading that your changes are "NPOVing" when you can't even explain on the talk page what POV you are removing, and you admit you are here simply to advocate a single extreme POV. I mean single POV in the most literal and accurate sense. Single-- you have no interest but genital surgeries and procedures, and extreme --- your viewpoint is that of a small proportion of the population (I am against circumcision, and I can't even understand your perspective), and POV-- you are willing to add any info no matter how trivial or rare that seems to support your pov no matter whether it distorts or misrepresents facts about a topic by overemphasis, lack of balance, or what is omitted. I stay away from the circumcision articles. Please don't mess with the other medical ones. alteripse 01:01, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Understood. I have no problem with cooperating in a civil manner with circumcision advocates like Robert Brookes, or conversely entering into disputes with those who support genital integrity.  Wikipedia is not about turf, or about taking sides.  But I do have a problem with being immediately accused of severe one-sided or POV edits, when in fact, my accuser is guilty of worse.  I am admitting that I take a genital integrity position -- never denied it.  Perhaps you can explain why I am met with such hostility for merely trying to work with you?  When one really sits down and sifts through articles on Wikipedia, one finds the circumcision articles are some of the most NPOV, and are stripped of blatant value judgement.  To that end, circumcision advocates are partly to be given credit, despite their evil intentions.  When you say things like you just did, it is hardly your desire to give anyone a chance to oppose your opinion or to correct article POV.  I am not assuming bad faith on your part, only telling you not to assume such a thing when I make an edit.  Neither side is perfect.  As far as Wikipedia edits go, I don't give a rat's ass if you're against circumcision.  It doesn't justify using the editor to judge the edit. DanP 01:28, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You ask why you are met with hostility? (1) Because each of your changes in the articles I wrote claims that you are correcting POV but in none of them did you explain what POV you are correcting. (2) You accused me of suppressing iatrogenic problems but you clearly didn't read the article. (3) You removed important meaningful information, twice. I have worked hard on these articles. I am willing to discuss any questions or pov issues on the talk pages with civility and reasonableness. Try starting there if you think an article doesn't present all sides or has inaccurate info instead of starting with unexplained deletions and unsubstantiated accusations and you might be surprised how civil I can be. alteripse 04:14, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Alteripse, you do not have the balls to deal with this POV onslaught ... all you do is whine. - Robert the Bruce 06:02, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee ruling
The arbcom case against Robert the Bruce has closed. As a result, you are advised to re-read Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy, with particular attention to the idea that NPOV includes all significant points of view regarding any subject on which there is division of opinion. You are expected to improve their editing habits and reminded that any future cases will consider seriously any failure to heed this warning. Please see the final decision for details. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 23:48, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

Template:genital-integrity-stub
I'm a little bothered by this template, as it appears laudatory. Though the ribbon is the actual symbol of the supporters of genital integrity, when applied to an article in such a manner, it appears to be an endorsement or sign of support for the position, rather than a NPOV categorization of a subject. Perhaps another image could be used, or none at all? I doubt there is a need for such a stub-sorting template anyway, and I note there are only three such stub articles at present. Furthermore, there is an organized process for creating new stub-sorting templates at WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, and I do not see that yours was first discussed there. Please list your template on that page and present your reasons as to why it is necessary. Thanks! Postdlf 22:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is subject based. Thanks for letting me know, I'll follow your advice with the stub sorting. DanP 22:18, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vivisection
Hi DanP. I get the impression we're at cross purposes over our edits of the vivisection article. What in particular don't you like about the 'disputed paragraph'? I genuinely don't understand. I want to try and work this out so this damn revert war can stop. As you can imagine, I don't see anything wrong with how it has stood. That is, if you want to do *any* work with humans, even just asking them *questions* you need ethical approval. The link I provided was evidence to that, and not limited to "some research centres". The ethical review process for human experimentation is the visible result of laws on work on humans. G.hartig 00:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Since this is an encyclopedia, we are under an obligation to report occurences of this event without making value judgements. Whether or not ethical review is required in some legal systems and at some universities is a very different question than whether or not such review is actually carried out worldwide.  The article, as you've defended it, makes the claim that ethical review is ubiquitous.  The link you provided does not support that.  Clearly, slaughterhouses do not get ethical review when they strip meat off a conscious animal.  Your claims are overreaching, and I hope a more limited claim makes sense now.  DanP 18:03, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not really. The section is on human vivisection, and the paragraph starts with "Human volunteers...". Slaughterhouses have nothing to do with it. Instead of deleting the paragraph, how about referencing something that disproves that "Human volunteers can consent to be subjects for invasive experiments which may involve, for example, the taking of tissue samples (biopsies), the implantation of catheters, or other procedures which require surgery on the volunteer. These procedures must be approved by ethical review..." I've started, by finding a reference that supports the statement. G.hartig 00:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The section on human vivisection seems to exactly be the problem. Look up vivisection in dictionary, there is no mention of volunteers or ethical constraints being a requirement.  The link you provided is just a form -- it doesn't mention vivisection whatsoever.  It might as well be under any old human research article.  It is not a principle in Wikipedia that speculation can be included and subsequently must be "disproven".  That's not how science works.  You must provide sources for the claim.  DanP 17:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

3RR violation (this was a false claim made by Nandesuka)
DanP, please be advised that you have violated the 3 revert rule, which states that each user is only permitted to revert a page three times per day, unless it is a case of obvious vandalism. As you know due to previous penalties, you can be blocked for up to 24 hours if you violate the 3RR. The page you violated the rule on was Erection (hist) with the following edits:

07:06, 16 July 2005 DanP (rv. edit which includes incomplete and off-topic data) 06:39, 16 July 2005 DanP (rv. according to precedent, see talk page) 18:54, 15 July 2005 DanP (Not at all, it is also unpiered, unscarified, and unsubincised. Be honest here.) 17:42, 15 July 2005 DanP (Further clarification)

All four of these edits involved a dispute over a particular word in a caption on a photo. All four involved changing the word back to your preferred version. Nandesuka 14:07, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Please sign your edits. The edit at 17:42, 15 July 2005 was not a revert!  I'm glad that you're paying attention to the rules though. DanP 13:41, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry for forgetting to sign. As discussed in Revert:  "A revert is a change or an edit made to a page that has the effect of undoing an earlier change or edit on the same page."  Are you seriously trying to claim that you didn't make four edits in 24 hours that had the effect of undoing an earlier change or edit on the same page (that change being the earlier addition of the world "uncircumcised?"  You can't pretend that something isn't a revert by just not typing "revert" in the Edit summary field.Nandesuka 14:07, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not at all. The presence of the word revert means nothing.  In fact, I reinforced exactly the change you're supporting by using "unaltered".  It expands on your POV and encompasses more mutilations not fewer (as you are claiming I am duplicating from previous edits).  That is an entirely different stance, and I hope we can both see eye-to-eye on this.  Which do you want, all mutilations, none, or just some to be referenced in the caption?  If it is "some" they why do you get to choose?  Clearly I did not hold a stationary assertion during the course of your purported (and plainly false) 3RR violation. DanP 14:24, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

AIDS article needs your help to make it a Featured Article
Hi there! In an effort to make the article here on AIDS the best possible before trying to submit it as a "Featured Article", I've looked up some active submitters in the last month or so and found you. Please, take a little time to go by the AIDS article and it's Talk page to see how you can help. One rather large source of confusion and complication, the References/External Links section, has just been cleaned and polished, thus your experience should be much more tolerable in general ;).

AIDS is a very serious world wide issue; never before have we needed to spread AIDS education as much as we do now. We need as many people as possible working together to make this article on AIDS the best it can be. Hope to see your contributions soon! JoeSmack (talk) 23:47, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Pro circumcision POV pushers are attempting to censor wikipedia
Thank you for agreeing with proposal to use the term intact rather than uncircumcised in the main circumcision article. Not to sound melodramatic but its become clear that pro circumcision POV pushers are censoring wikipedia uninhibitedly, which can be seen in their attempt to remove the article Aposthia and vandalizing the disambiguation page at uncircumcised to eliminate any other interpretations of the word supported by the dictionary that they feel improves their political agenda. For the sake of intellectual freedom I emplore you to look into these matters and make choice about how you will respond. Thanks again. Sirkumsize 23:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Penguin Wars

Penguin Wars (ぺんぎんくんWARS) is an arcade game released in 1985 by UPL. It was ported to the original Game Boy (1990), MSX and Famicom by ASCII under the title Penguin Wars. The Game Boy version of the game is known as King of the Zoo in Europe and Penguin-Kun Wars Vs. in Japan. The main background music in most versions of the game is an electronic rendition of "Motto Sekkin Shimasho" (もっと接近しましょ) a song originally performed by 1980s J-Pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa (石川秀美) (in turn a translation of "The Glamorous Life" performed by Sheila E.).

Gameplay
The player participates in a sport called "Dojiball" (ドジボール), a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "Dodgeball". In the arcade and Famicom editions of the game, the five animals featured are the penguin, bear, panda, koala and beaver, with the penguin being controlled by the player. In the Game Boy version, the player can choose as any one of the five animals, which, in addition to the penguin, are a cow, rabbit, bat, and rat. In all versions of the game, the player plays against all the other animals. In each game, the participating animals find each other on opposite sides of a square table with five balls on each side. The object of the game is to roll those balls over the table. As soon as all ten balls are on one player's side, that player loses the game. Each game also has a time limit of 60 seconds; if that is reached, the player with the fewest balls on their side wins.

If a player is hit by one of the balls, they are knocked unconscious for a certain amount of time. Thus, it could also be said that part of the object of the game is to hit the opponent, as otherwise it would not be possible to get all ten balls to the other side (the opponent can just roll them back before all of them have arrived).

The different animals have different strengths and weaknesses which are a trade-off with each other. For example, the rat is the one that can move left and right the fastest, but in return he can roll the balls only very slowly. The cow, on the other hand, is a very slow walker, but in return she regains consciousness more quickly.

After thirty seconds of playing, a jellybean-like obstacle appears in the middle of the table which moves left and right. Later levels have different kinds of these obstacles cause varying effects on the trajectory of the balls; some deflect them so they start rolling diagonally, whereas others simply have the ball bounce straight back.

Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Penguin Wars on their August 1, 1985 issue as being the fourteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

Legacy
A remake of Penguin Wars for the Nintendo Switch was released in Japan on September 21, 2017, and on June 27, 2019 in North America and Europe. The PlayStation 4 version was released in January 2019.

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Tampere–Pirkkala Airport

Tampere–Pirkkala Airport (Tampere-Pirkkalan lentoasema, Tammerfors-Birkala flygplats), or simply Tampere Airport, is located in Pirkkala, Finland, 7 NM south-west of Tampere city centre. The airport is the sixth-busiest airport in Finland, as measured by the total number of passengers (168,328 in 2022), and the third-busiest as measured by the number of international passengers (159,801 in 2022).

The airport is also home to the Satakunta Air Command base of the Finnish Air Force. F-18 Hornets were stationed at Tampere-Pirkkala airport until the middle of 2014 when the 21st flight of the Satakunta Air command was dissolved.

History
Tampere Airport was founded in 1936 in Härmälä neighbourhood, located 6 km from the centre of Tampere. At that time the airport was connected to Helsinki, Vaasa, Oulu and Kemi by Aero O/Y (now Finnair). The first terminal building was built in 1941. Karhumäki Airways began to fly to Stockholm in the 1950s. The runway was paved in 1958. Between 1936 and 1979 Härmälä airport served 1.5 million passengers. In 1979, Härmälä airport was closed and the new Tampere–Pirkkala Airport was opened.

The current terminal 1 building was completed in 1996. Ryanair started flights to Tampere–Pirkkala in April 2003. Its first destinations were Stockholm-Skavsta, London-Stansted, Frankfurt-Hahn and Riga. This made the airport one of Finland's fastest-growing airports and increased its annual passenger numbers from 256,380 to 709,356 between 2000 and 2008. In 2011, Ryanair had 13 destinations from Tampere–Pirkkala. Wizz Air flew to Gdańsk during summers 2010 and 2011. airBaltic resumed flights to Riga in March 2017.

The low-cost airline terminal 2 was renovated in 2014–2015. However, in April 2015, Ryanair announced that it would cancel all the routes from Tampere for the winter season 2015–16 due to a plane shortage. Then, only routes to Bremen and Budapest resumed in spring 2016. in late 2023, Ryanair terminated the route to London-Stansted, ending 20 years of service.

On 14 December 2021, AirBaltic announced that its first secondary hub outside of the Baltic countries would be established in Tampere Airport in May 2022. In March 2023, Finnair announced it would end flights between Tampere and Helsinki Airport and replace them with bus service due to low demand and the short distance.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Tampere–Pirkkala Airport:

Ground transportation

The airport is connected to the city centre of Tampere (25 minutes) by bus route 103, which runs a few times a day just after planes land. The bus fare for a single ticket to Tampere is €5.50 (zones A+B+C). One can change to any other bus, tram or commuter train going anywhere within Tampere and parts of neighbouring municipalities within 90 minutes from the purchase of the ticket.

There are long-distance connections to Helsinki and other cities via the Tampere Bus Station. The timetables and fares can be found at the Matkahuolto web site.

Bus route 34 goes to central Pirkkala once an hour during rush hours. One can transfer to a few local buses that go to other parts of Pirkkala or Nokia, avoiding zone A completely.

A taxi service is also available in front of Terminal 1.

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File:King of the Zoo (1).png

An example of a game of King of the Zoo.

Attentive viewers will notice that there are only 9 balls in the screenshot, even though there are always 10 balls in the game at any time. The reason is that the screenshot was taken while the bat was in the process of picking up a ball. The ball disappears shortly when the player picks it up.

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Animation
Hi Jeff! I've noticed that you've been adding quite abit about animation and animation studios. Thanks! I hope you find Wikipedia an inviting and engaging place, and decide to stay. Your contributions are very much appreciated. One quick thing: there's a particular style that editors are encouraged to use when writing articles. It's described at Manual of Style. Best wishes, and happy editing! --Diberri | Talk 22:03, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

Charlie Dog
I have no idea what's up with that contributor. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between trolls, the clueless, and the insane... —tregoweth 00:02, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

 * Tregoweth, what's the protocol for discussions in Wikipedia? Do I post on your page and you respond on my page?  Just not too familiar with it yet.  Btw, this same "contributor" (to use the term lightly) has also vandalized the Bugs Bunny page and mentioned my name twice on Talk:Main_Page to try and blame me for vandalism. Thanks, Jeff schiller 00:08, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)

 * Going back and forth between user pages seems to be the protocol. Not the greatest system, but eh. —tregoweth 00:17, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Jeff schiller, if you look at 1974 in television, and 1978 in television, the title of would-be his 1970s cartoon is listed, but I could not find the title on Google or on any website, you deleted.

Disco Dog
No, I was not aware of that. No wonder I was having hard time finding anything. Anyway, I was going to re-edit 1974-1978 in television and remove this show. Thanks much for your pointers, though; I would still be uncertain what to do if it was not for your note.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 16:48, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

This "Disco Dog" guy is at it again, now vandalizing my talk page. I was out of the country during his last flurry of faux edits (as User:4.188.99.28, 4.188.100.83, 4.160.183.136, etc.). Do you know what happened? Was he reported? Was his IP blocked? Now he seems to be using 65.54.155.15, 65.54.154.48 and similar IPs, and he's posting about the Charlie/Disco Dog nonsense again. BrianSmithson 7 July 2005 22:24 (UTC)

SVG
Hi, Jeff, Glad to see the SVG 1.2 history has now reached a consensus that people are happy with. I hadn't actually joined wikipedia to edit in that particular area, hence the different name, but was astonished to see the error and had to leap in and correct it. Are you planning to add articles on CDF as well? --Nantonos 20:01, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

De-Categorization of Cartoon Characters
I noticed you removed several categorization of Looney Tunes characters (Charlie Dog, Sniffles, Daffy Duck). Your statement was that they should not be categorized under a category and a sub-category. I agree, however "Fictional Dogs" is a different category than "Animated Characters". Cujo is not an animated character and Bugs Bunny is not a dog. Can you please revert all your edits in this vein? I agree with Yosemite Sam and Bosko edits though. Perhaps Charlie Dog should be a "Fictional Dog" and a "Looney Tunes Character" but not an "Animated Character"? Jeff schiller 21:28, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The issue has nothing to do with dogs, etc. The issue is that these articles are already in Looney Tunes characters (LTC), and LTC is a sub of Animated Characters. By categorization policy, it should only be in the more specific one.  It has nothing to do with the additional Dogs/Rabbits/Pigs/etc categories.  Those are down a separate branch of the category tree. TexasAndroid 22:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

More Charlie Dog Stuff

 * I had a argument with Jeff Schiller anyway of removing popular references to Charlie, but in confusion I think he denied all of that. I did not know before September or October 2004 was there wasn't any show featuring both dogs?  Do a search on Google for me. :(

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 * I hope you can listen and understand me. I don't know if you are intentionally being a vandal or have some problem understanding me and others who have reverted your changes.  I am not denying that we have had disagreements about Charlie Dog, but you continue to inject your comments into other people's conversations/topics.  If you insist on stating that Charlie Dog appeared in a television show then I am willing to listen to your arguments as long as they make sense.  Can you follow these steps:  1) I do not even know your name, please let me know your name.  2) Can you create an account with wikipedia?  If you are convinced you are correct, then please stop using an anonymous login when you make edits to Wikipedia as this makes you look like a vandal.  3) Can you produce any evidence of this show that you are talking about?  I believe you are confusing Scooby Doo with Charlie Dog, but if you have any proof (other than what's in your mind) that such a show existed then I'm willing to listen.  Until you follow the above steps, it will be very hard to make your case as it appears us that are simply vandalising pages.  Thanks, Jeff schiller 14:08, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I think I have little problems with you and other people. Are you saying I saw the show on both dogs on television, last year? No, this was 20 years ago, when it was in reruns. I am not sure which show featured both of them? I would like the real title of it.

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 * No, I'm not saying you saw the dogs on television last year. But you didn't follow my instructions:  let me know your name and create a wikipedia account.  Instead you gave a phone number... Jeff schiller 18:03, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Jeff, if you ever decide to call this guy, please let me know what you find out. I am dead curious what this might lead to. So far, this discussion has been beyond belief. :))—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 22:02, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

I have never confused Scooby with Charlie, these both cartoon dogs are not the same breed, I am not sure he had any new films in 2002, 2004 and 2005? Is there anyone compared to the little dog? No, not any other character is himself! User:Unknown person

Beans
Good job. I think Vitaphone means well, but he or she does like to edit with guns blazing. I think Pietro left because of it. — BrianSmithson 03:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

SVG edit question.
Hello,

There is a question I would like to ask you regarding your recent edit to the Scalable Vector Graphics article. Just out of curiosity, do you know if the GIMP developers ever claim that support for Scalable Vector Graphics would be available? Folajimi 14:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)(talk)
 * SVG can be imported and exported, albeit probably not in the way most users would suspect (hey, like GIMP would ever win awards for usability...). It can only export "paths", you can't do a "save as..." and specify SVG.  Counterintuitive?  Very yes.  Enough people whining about it for something to change?  Not really.  Just thought you might want to know, Jeff.  Keep up the good work. 68.100.68.23 04:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

BATMAN BEGINS 2 casting rumors
Jeff, just thought I'd let you know that those fanboy casting rumors for the BATMAN BEGINS sequel keep reappearing in the BATMAN BEGINS and JOKER articles. I agree that they should not be in the article. After the role is cast, then it would be acceptable to add something like "and so-and so was also considered for the part", if even that is really neccessary (IMO only if its someone really off beat or unexpected). Thanks.

WikiProject American animation
Charlie and the Cholocate Factory? (Let me try to spell that one, correctly.) Well, I think it was that movie featuring the dog.

--65.54.155.56 03:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Your reverts are bad
You have reverted Booles in the SVG page and this is wrong. According to the guidelines, the list of external links must remain small, and links to commercial products must be avoided. Booles has made an excellent work, not you. Spankman 14:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Superman Returns
I've made massive cuts and changes to this article:

 * forked off all the crap and cruft to a side article that is better suited for it
 * tried to clean up the writing in many of the sections
 * massively re-ordering of all the categories to make more sense
 * lost the table for the Cast section to reformat per the Casablanca and Revenge of the Sith articles
 * Tried to de-fan the synopsis and expand it slightly; will probably trim that even more after (wanted to clean first)
 * production budget section was a mess, I think that's better

Most neeeding immediate help:
 * Box office results
 * Reactions (yuck)
 * Promotion of the film - do we need a zillion links there?

Might need deleting:
 * Related Superman Returns media

Would you be willing to take a crack at just de-fan-izing it further, and taking out any weasle-word stuff I missed? rootology (T) 01:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice (and nice cuts on the synopsis). I'll let it sit for the weekend to see how it goes. rootology (T) 05:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

"Licence" is correct, for the noun
Thanks for checking Alternative terms for free software for typos, but this one was a false postive. "Licence" is the noun, "license" is the verb. This is true for UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and India). In the USA, they use "license" for both (and the Philippines). Gronky 09:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia allows both USA English and British English. There are various rules for when to use each.  One is that articles on USA topics should use the former and articles on British (or ex-colonies') topics should use the latter - although for global issues and non-geographical topics, like many free software topics, that doesn't apply.  Another is that articles should be internally consistant.  The last is that simply changing from one to the other is not acceptable - this just avoids friction.  As you'll guess, the last two can sometimes conflict.  Gronky 14:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

"Happy Rabbit": discussion reopened
Just a heads up that I've reopened the question you raised about the precursors to Bugs Bunny being identified as one character named Happy Rabbit. There is no question in my mind that you had a very good point, and the linked-in source was insufficient given its own nature and the many solid reference works to the contrary. Ted Watson 20:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Another user and I have been following this "Happy Rabbit" question with great interest, and I am currently undertaking an "investigation", of sorts, to find the truth about the so-called "precursor" to Bugs Bunny. You are welcome to go to my talk page and participate in the discussion.  —  Cinemaniac 20:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal

Glencoe is situated in the Umzinyathi District, District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

The main economic activity in the area is coal mining along with sheep and cattle ranching.

History
With coal discovered 8 km away from Dundee, an efficient way was needed to transport coal to factories other than by ox wagon. The railway from Durban to Johannesburg reached this point on 4 September 1889. A new village sprung up where a branch line was built from the Durban-Johannesburg line  to the eastern Transvaal in 1903. The village was renamed Glencoe, after a mountain valley in Lochaber, Scotland, it became a town in 1934.

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 * General French was periodically stationed here during the Second Boer War.
 * Boer President Paul Kruger twice stayed overnight during the Siege of Ladysmith, South Africa.
 * The house of Carl Landman - second in command at the Battle of Blood River can be found on a farm close to Glencoe.
 * Fort Mistake, a fort designed as a communications link between Ladysmith and Newcastle in 1881 and playing a key role in the Anglo-Boer War is nearby.

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Untitled
So, there's a place named "Fishkill" and its page on Wikipedia doesn't explain the origin of the name? C'mon, there must be a story behind this.
 * Not as exciting as one might think. Certainly not that exciting to New Yorkers accustomed to such "grisly" names as Catskill Mountains!  The Dutch settled the area and named it "Vis-Kil", or fish creek, which of course was anglacized into Fishkill.  You'll find all kinds of kills all throughout the erstwhile New Netherlands.

Removal of separate term
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Fish kill is also a phenomenon in aquatic ecology when fish and other organisms die because of oxygen depletion or chemical water pollution

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Simply because it had nothing to do with Fishkill, NY, which is the title of the page.

Removed the part about the Hudson Valley Bears, because the team and its league no longer exist, and they played in Poughkeepsie which is a few towns away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.67.205 (talk) 06:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

"suburb of New York City" should be removed
Though opinions may vary on what "suburb" means exactly ... the distance (60+ miles) and amount of other towns and open space between Fishkill and NYC indicate that it is not a suburb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgchaps (talk • contribs) 15:45, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

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Clapham, West Sussex

Clapham is a rural village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on varying downslopes and escarpment of the South Downs National Park three miles (5 km) north of Angmering on the A280 road and north of the A27 crossroads. It is adjacent to the village of Patching.

Geography
The main part of the village is known simply as The Street, a single long dead-end road coming off the A280 and containing the majority of the village's housing. The Street is also home to the local school and, up a slight incline into the woods, the Church of St Mary the Virgin, a 12th-century building. The houses of The Street are a combination of 1930s council houses, much older original village cottages and post-Second World War bungalows in some of the new closes.

A turn-off from the A280 a few hundred metres to the south of The Street leads into Brickworks Lane (although this name is not commonly used), named after the brickworks of the Clapham Common Brick & Tile Company which was based there from the early 20th century up until the 1970s, although the quantities of clay available meant that there had been brickmaking activity on the site since the 18th century. The site of the old brickworks is now occupied by a branch of the Travis Perkins builder's merchant's company, and at the end of Brickworks Lane there is a West Sussex County Council highways depot.

Clapham Common itself turns off Brickworks Lane and is mostly made up of 1930s council houses. Both roads are also dead ends.

The houses of the village are surrounded mostly by fields and woodland, but the increasing encroachment of housing and road-building into the area is decreasing this green belt. Arun District Council's local plan envisages that in the long term at least in the early 21st century Clapham and Patching will be slowly absorbed as conjoining suburbs of Durrington as more houses and retirement apartments become demanded.

History
Clapham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is spelled Clopeham. The woods around the area made it an ideal location for the gathering of wood for timber and firewood, and led to the first Saxon settlements in the area.

For many years much of the land around Clapham was owned by the Dukes of Norfolk and subsequently, after a land exchange, by the Somerset family, although by the early 20th century most of the land owned by the family had been sold off or donated to the village.

Landmarks
Within the parish lies Clapham Wood, which is said to be haunted. The area was under the media spotlight in the 1970s due to many strange events which took place in local woodlands which became known as the Clapham Wood Mystery.

Local Commerce
There is one major farm in Clapham, which for many decades was operated by the tenant farmers, the Cornford family; it is now run as part of the Somerset estate. There is a village tea room and stores based in a portable cabin concreted into a corner of the recreation ground on The Street. There are also a retirement home, a kennels and a business centre. Many of the residents of working age have jobs in nearby Worthing.

Amenities
The village primary school was established in the early 19th century, and has occupied its current building since the 1830s, with various improvements over recent years - the school finally gained indoor toilets in 1990.

In 1976, with fewer than thirty children being educated at the school, the West Sussex Local Education Authority recommended its closure. The school was at the time the smallest in the county, but a protest by staff, pupils and parents resulted in the County Council narrowly voting against closure. The school currently educates around fifty pupils. Children of secondary school age are educated at The Angmering School in nearby Angmering.

The Village Hall, opened in 1977, is also shared with the neighbouring Patching. Previously, a smaller village hall was located on The Street in Clapham, but this was destroyed by fire. The Hall is home to many local clubs and societies, and is regularly used as a venue for Church and School fetes. For many years the green there was the home ground of Clapham & Patching Cricket Club, but the club was forced to merge with the local Littlehampton club in 2000 and now plays home matches there. The village's current premier sports team is the Short Mat Bowls club, who compete in many local competitions.

The nearest local pubs, The World's End (formerly the Horse and Groom) and, although slightly further away for most residents, The Fox, are both located in Patching. For many years the two villages shared a local policeman who was based at a police-owned house in Patching, but this was discontinued in the late 1970s, and police from Worthing now cover the area.

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British School at Athens

The British School at Athens (BSA; Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών) is an institute for advanced research, one of the eight British International Research Institutes supported by the British Academy, that promotes the study of Greece in all its aspects. Under UK law it is a registered educational charity, which translates to a non-profit organisation in American and Greek law. It also is one of the 19 Foreign Archaeological Institutes defined by Hellenic Law No. 3028/2002, "On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General," passed by the Greek Parliament in 2003. Under that law the 17 accredited foreign institutes may perform systematic excavation in Greece with the permission of the government.

The School was founded in 1886 as the fourth such institution in Greece (the earlier being the French, German, and American). For most of its existence, it focused on supporting, directing and facilitating British-based research in Classical Studies and Archaeology, but in recent years, it has broadened that focus to all areas of Greek Studies. It has made notable contributions in the fields of epigraphy and the history of Modern Greece.

It is defined by Hellenic law to be a "foreign archaeological school" with a very specific meaning. In addition to being trusted with antiquities in Greece, it serves as an agent for the Hellenic utilisation of British resources in Greece. Only the BSA can assign projects to British institutions, and it may only do so with permission of the Minister of Culture.

The BSA's activities include a regular programme of lectures and seminars, a series of scholarships and bursaries, the publication of a research journal, reports, monographs and online works, Athens-based courses for undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers, as well as archaeological fieldwork. The Directors, who have included many distinguished figures, have tended to be in Greece for only part of the year, keeping roles in the UK or elsewhere.

Facilities
BSA facilities include one of the most important Classical and archaeological libraries in Greece (over 60,000 volumes), and the Fitch laboratory, the oldest archaeometric laboratory in Greece. The BSA also operates a branch at Knossos in Crete, including one of the island's main archaeological libraries.

Fitch Laboratory
The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory, Fitch Laboratory for short, is a scientific laboratory for conducting technical investigation of materials obtained from archaeology. It is located in a separate building on the grounds of the premises at 52 Souedias Street, Athens. Having begun in 1974 in a storage facility, it was expanded into a two-story building in 1988. The laboratory is funded separately from the rest of the school. It has its own director, currently (2019) Evangelia Kiriatzi, its own research scientists, teaches its own courses, offers its own grants, and issues its own publications. It is, however, governed by the main school's Committee for Archaeology.

Fitch Laboratory was founded during a period of growing interest in establishing the provenience of pottery discovered during excavation. The method of archaeology established a sequence of layers at a site, which gave relative dates to the objects found in them; however, the method had limitations. Suppose that pottery in one region was similar to pottery at another, how was this similarity to be interpreted? Did invaders carry the pottery from one site to another? Were the similar pots trade exports? Did the pottery of one region serve as a model for the manufacture of pottery in another?

Answers to these questions were provided by the judgements of the lead excavators, but with no method of establishing provenience, these judgements were often highly controversial. For example, there are striking similarities between some Minoan and some Mycenaean pottery. Arthur Evans, Duncan Mackenzie and their supporters were proposing that Mycenaean pottery was a type of Minoan pottery. To the contrary, Carl Blegen and his supporters were affirming a mainland Greek origin for and importation to Crete of Mycenaean pottery. Given some of this pottery at a site, which was it, Minoan or Mycenaean, and how could one establish which?

By the 1960s archaeologists were turning to the chemical and physical sciences for answers. The science of geology provided them with petrology, the study of the rock composition of the clay from which the pots were made. Microscopic examination of a thin section of pot material reveals the minerals present in the grains of clay. The mineral composition of pots is then compared to the mineral composition of the rock from which various known clay beds had come. If there were any mineralic distinctions between Mycenaean and Minoan pottery, petrology would discover them.

By that time also new methods of chemical analysis of inorganic material were available, which are generally classified as "activation analysis." The general method exploits two natural phenomena: the tendency to form stable atoms with a given energy structure (number and configuration of electrons and neutrons, etc.), and the action of an atom to transduce radiational energy falling on it. The input energy "activates" or superenergizes the atom in some way, creating an unstable configuration, which then decays, releasing the extra energy in radiation of wavelengths characteristic of the atom. A device to read the wavelengths and radiational intensities at those wavelengths then identifies the element and concentration present.

Of the three general types of activation, the mass spectrometer bombards the sample with a stream of electrons, or electrical current, until it reaches temperatures high enough to dissociate the atoms into a plasma, or cloud of superenergized ions, in which the electrons have acquired the energy to expand into unstable orbits. As the electrons fall back they lose energy as visible light. Diffraction of the light produces a spectrum that can be read electronically or captured on film. The bands of light identify the elements. Specrometers are used less frequently in archaeology as they destroy the sample; in fact, Law 3028 forbids destructive tests of artifacts.

In a second type, Neutron activation analysis (NAA), a stream of neutrons generated in a particle accelerator is directed onto the sample, forcing some of its atoms to acquire additional neutrons, generating unstable isotopes, which decay immediately, releasing gamma radiation. As in electron bombardment, the radiation emitted is of wavelengths characteristic of the element. The gamma photons are diffracted for a spectrum read-out; in addition, the half-life of the decaying isotope can be calculated, which also is characteristic and serves as an identifier. This is a popular method in ceramic elemental analysis because it is non-destructive of the sample. As it requires larger facilities, such as a particle accelerator, not present at most laboratories, the samples must be sent out.

The third method, X-ray fluorescence. a type of fluorescence, analyzes the elemental composition of solids without dissociating the atoms from the solid state. It is generally employed on the solids of art and archaeology, such as ceramics, metallic objects, paintings, and so on. In this type the sample is bombarded with x-rays or gamma rays. The electrons are energized in place without breaking up the solid matrix. Moving from the inner orbits to the outer, they fall back to the inner, giving up the induced energy as x-rays of wavelengths characteristic of the element. These are diffracted and read.

In 1960, Sinclair Hood, director of the British School, in the process of attempting to determine whether some pottery was Minoan or Mycenaean, contacted the new laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the University of Oxford, which was already using activation analysis. The director and assistant director of the laboratory considered the question so important that they flew immediately to Greece to obtain permission from the government to acquire and experiment on samples from 20 Theban pots. The pots were analyzed, but the analysis produced no definitive answers. Oxford and the British School continued to work together analyzing pots until in the late 1960s M.J. Aitken of the Oxford laboratory proposed that the British School initiate its own laboratory. The proposal was kept secret until the British School could obtain permission from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture with the assistance of Spyridon Marinatos, Inspector-General of the Archaeological Service. Permission obtained, the managing committee of the British School openly sought funding from the British Academy. They agreed to underwrite expenses once it was established and equipped. The Oxford laboratory offered to provide initial equipment and training. There remained a gap in the funding required to start the laboratory. The Fitches, who had helped build the stratigraphic museum at Knossos, stepped forward. The laboratory became operational in 1974.

Since 1974 the laboratory has been continually in use either for educational purposes or for conducting research. There has been no lack of funding from many private sources. The laboratory specializes in petrology and analysis of inorganic materials, especially ceramics, by x-ray fluorescence. For the petrology it has two research polarising microscopes supported by a digital photography system. The analysis is performed by a Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (WD-XRF) unit, which diffracts the sample-emitted x-rays into a spectrum of different wavelengths. The laboratory's course on ceramic petrology is standard. All samples are archived on the second floor. The archive contains about 3000 rock samples from various geological formations covering a range of clay beds, and 10,000 archaeological samples. The laboratory also collects animal bones and seeds for reference. Recognizing that research can best be performed by a pool of facilities at different laboratories, the Fitch Laboratory is part of a formal network of laboratories.

Archaeological fieldwork
During its long history, the BSA has been involved in a multitude of archaeological projects, including surveys in Laconia, Boeotia, Methana (Argolid), and in the islands of Ithaca (Ionian islands), Kea, Melos, Kythera (Cyclades), Chios (North Aegean) and Crete (Ayiopharango Survey, Ayios Vasilios Survey, Knossos Survey, Praisos Survey) and excavations at Nea Nikomedeia, Sitagroi, Servia and Assiros (Greek Macedonia), Lefkandi (Euboia), Emborio and Kato Phana (Chios), Perachora (Corinthia), Mycenae (Argolid), Sparta (Laconia), Phylakopi (Melos), Keros (Cyclades), as well as in Crete at Knossos, Karphi, Praisos, Debla, Trapeza Cave, Atsipades Korakias, Psychro, Myrtos, Petsofas and Palaikastro.

Women in the BSA
Eugénie Sellers Strong was the first woman student to be admitted to the BSA in 1890, four years after its foundation.

Agnes Conway was admitted to the British School at Athens under Director Alan Wace for the 1913-1914 session, along with her friend Evelyn Radford with whom she had attended Newnham College, Cambridge. The trip they took to the Balkans during the session was published in 1917 as A Ride Through the Balkans: On Classic Ground with a Camera. Agnes Conway married architect-archaeologist George Horsfield in 1932.

There have been three female Directors of the BSA out of 24 in total. Rebecca Sweetman assumed the position in September 2022.

Directors of the BSA
• 1886 F. C. Penrose

• 1887 E. A. Gardner

• 1895 Cecil Harcourt Smith

• 1897 D. G. Hogarth

• 1900 R. C. Bosanquet

• 1906 R. M. Dawkins

• 1913 A. J. B. Wace

• 1923 A. M. Woodward

• 1929 H. G. G. Payne†

• 1936 Alan Blakeway†

• 1936 Gerard Mackworth Young

• 1946 John Manuel Cook

• 1954 Martin Sinclair F. Hood

• 1962 A. H. S. Megaw

• 1967 P. M. Fraser

• 1971 H. W. Catling

• 1989 E. B. French

• 1994 Martin Price†

• 1995 R. A. Tomlinson

• 1996 D. J. Blackman

• 2002 A. J. M. Whitley

• 2007 C. A. Morgan

• 2015 John Bennet

• 2022 Rebecca Sweetman † Died in office

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Mirror (disambiguation)

A mirror is an object whose surface reflects an image.

Mirror, mirrors or MIRROR may also refer to:
 * Reflection (mathematics), creating the mirror image of a shape across a point, line or plane
 * The "silver mirror", created in chemical tests involving Tollens' reagent
 * Current mirror, an electric circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device of a circuit
 * Magnetic mirror, a magnetic field configuration
 * Acoustic mirror, a device used to focus and amplify sound waves

Geography

 * Mirror, Alberta, a place in Canada
 * Mirror Lakes, a set of lakes in New Zealand

Computing

 * AirPlay Mirroring, an iOS 5 feature for wireless video streaming
 * Disk mirroring, replicating the content of an entire storage disk
 * Mirror site, an Internet server which replicates content available elsewhere
 * Mirror (programming), a type of reflection mechanism in programming
 * Port mirroring, replicating network packets for diagnostic purposes

Books and publications

 * Mirrors, novel by Naguib Mahfouz
 * Mirror (Yi Sang poem), 1933 poem by Yi Sang
 * Mirror, a short poem by American author Sylvia Plath
 * Daily Mirror, a newspaper based in the United Kingdom
 * Montreal Mirror, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Quebec, Canada
 * Mumbai Mirror, a compact daily newspaper based in Mumbai, India
 * Mirror (Pakistani magazine), a Pakistani social magazine published from 1951 to 1972
 * Australian Woman's Mirror, an Australian weekly magazine published from 1924 to 1961
 * The Mirror (Western Australia), published from 1921 until 1956

Film

 * Mirror Releasing, now United Artists Releasing, a film distribution company
 * Mirror (1947 film), a French crime film directed by Raymond Lamy
 * Mirror (1975 film), a Russian art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
 * Mirrors (1978 film), a horror film by Noel Black
 * Mirrors (2007 film), a Canadian short drama film
 * Mirrors (2008 film), a supernatural horror film starring Kiefer Sutherland
 * The Mirror (disambiguation)
 * The Mirror (1997 film), a 1997 Iranian film
 * The Mirror (2014 film), a British found footage horror film

TV

 * "Mirror", a 2008 episode from the television series Legend of the Seeker
 * Mirror ident, a 2007 television ident for BBC Two

Music

 * Mirror (multimedia project), a multimedia project created by Thomas Anselmi
 * Mirror (group), a Hong Kong boy band
 * Mirrors (Ohio band), an early 1970s proto-punk/psychedelic garage band from Cleveland, OH
 * Mirrors (band), a synthpop band from Brighton

Albums

 * Mirror (Emitt Rhodes album), 1971
 * Mirror (Graham Central Station album), 1976
 * Mirror, a 1988 album by One 2 Many
 * Mirror (The Rapture album), 1999
 * Mirror (D'espairsRay album), 2007
 * Mirror, a 2008 album by I'm Not a Gun
 * Mirror (Charles Lloyd album), 2009
 * Mirror (Jacky Terrasson album), 2007
 * Mirrors (Blue Öyster Cult album), or the title song
 * Mirrors (Peggy Lee album), 1975
 * Mirrors (Sandra album), 1986
 * Mirrors (Joe Chambers album), 1999
 * Mirrors (Misery Signals album), or its title song, "Mirrors"
 * Mirrors EP, a 2009 EP by alternative rock band Young Guns
 * Mirrors, a 2006 album by Miki Furukawa
 * Mirror (Lauren Spencer-Smith album), 2023

Songs

 * "Mirror" (Gackt song), 2000
 * "Mirror" (Lil Wayne song), 2011
 * "Mirror" (Porter Robinson song), 2020
 * "Mirror" (Sigrid song), 2021
 * Mirror (Ado song), 2024
 * "Mirrors" (Natalia Kills song), 2010
 * "Mirrors" (Justin Timberlake song), 2013
 * "Mirrors" (Tohoshinki song), 2019
 * "Mirror", by Bazzi from the album Cosmic, 2018
 * ”Mirror”, by SoMo from the album The Answers, 2017
 * "Mirror", a 2006 song by Ne-Yo from In My Own Words
 * "Mirror", a 1996 song by X-Perience from the album Magic Fields
 * "Mirror", a 2017 song by the Drums from the album Abysmal Thoughts
 * "Mirrors", a 2014 song from White Noise by PVRIS
 * "Mirrors", a 2017 song by Niall Horan from the album Flicker
 * "Mirrors", a 2022 song by Kendrick Lamar from the album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers

Other

 * Mirror stage, a psychological development step
 * Mirror armour, a type of cuirass
 * Mirror (dinghy), a small boat

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Fantasy Hero

Fantasy Hero is a role-playing game book originally published by Hero Games in 1985 that allows gamemasters to plan and present fantasy role-playing games using the Hero System rules. Several revised editions of the book have subsequently been published.

Description
Fantasy Hero uses the rules of the Hero System for character creation and combat, adapted for the fantasy genre by adding rules for magic items, spells, and fantastical creatures. The first edition published in 1985 also includes two short sample adventures, as well as rules for converting other role-playing games to Fantasy Hero.

Magic
The first two editions of Fantasy Hero ("3rd" and "4th" edition) include a series of theme-oriented magical colleges, and a specific mechanical basis for spellcasting. In the 5th edition supplement the concept of colleges is removed, replaced by twelve different magic systems.

Scenarios
Three scenarios were included to give the players an idea of what an adventure involves. The first is a solo boar hunt, the second involves a local inn, and in the third, the player characters must choose to help one of two warring wizards.

Publication history
Hero Games originally published the superhero role-playing game Champions in 1981, using a set of rules for character creation, skills and combat that came to be known as the Hero System. This system was further refined in a second edition of Champions (1982) and again in a third edition (1985). In 1985, Hero Games released Fantasy Hero, a 160-page softcover book designed by Steve Peterson, and illustrated by Brian Hamilton, Denis Loubet, Patricia Moriarity, Scott Ruggels, Carolyn Schultz-Savoy, and Patrick Zircher, that included the Hero System without the superhero rules, but with relevant fantasy rules. As other editions were published, this edition became known as Fantasy Hero 3rd edition, since it used the 3rd edition of the Hero System rules.

About this time, Hero Games ran into financial difficulties and was taken over, becoming a subsidiary of Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.). In 1990, I.C.E./Hero Games released the 4th edition of the Hero System as a stand-alone generic rules system, without the Champion superhero rules. They also published a new edition of Fantasy Hero, a 256-page softcover book that did not contain the basic Hero System rules, only the fantasy rules; this required players to have the 4th edition Hero System book in order to play Hero Fantasy games. In 2003 Steven S. Long designed a new edition of Fantasy Hero for the 5th edition of Hero System, a 416-page softcover book.

In 2009, a new edition of Fantasy Hero, a 480-page hardcover book, was published to be paired with the new 6th Edition Hero System.

Reception
Phil Masters reviewed the original edition of Fantasy Hero for White Dwarf #76, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, but warned that "This is not a game for the lazy. [...] Nonetheless, for those who want flexibility, high colour and playability, it's probably the best thing on the market."

In Issue 9 of The Games Machine, John Woods reviewed the original edition and liked the character creation system, calling the non-random point-buy system "one of the most appealing parts of the system." He concluded, "This is little-known system certainly deserves more players. The rules are very clearly written and attractively presented, and the game offers wonderful opportunities for referees who are prepared either to develop their own background material or to spend a little time customising adventures intended for other systems. Well worth tracking down!"

In Issue 42 of Different Worlds, Russell Grant Collins liked the universailty of the Hero System, noting that "knowing how to play one of these games [by Hero Games] makes it easy to learn any of the others." Collins also liked the character generation system, calling it "one of the best things about the Hero System." He did note a few issues with the combat system, since it had originally been designed for Champions, a superhero game, and the player characters in this game are slower and less powerful. However, Collins still felt this game was "quite fun. I recommend it to anyone who plays other games from Hero as a primer on how to introduce magic to those systems, as well as various mythological creatures. And I recommend it to anyone wanting a fantasy system where the characters are only limited by the players' imagination (and the game master)."

In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan thought the ability to design one's own magic spells was "versatile, but it's time-consuming and awkward." Swan also didn't like that a campaign world or setting had not been included, calling the generic result "pretty dull." Swan concluded by giving the game a below-average rating of 2 out of 4, saying, "As a standalone game, it's for completists only."

Awards
At the 2004 ENnie Awards, the 5th Edition of Fantasy Hero won gold for "Best Non-d20 Supplement".

Other reviews and commentary

 * White Wolf #25 (Feb./March, 1991)
 * Pyramid

Publications
The following publications have been released to support Fantasy Hero:

 * Broken Kingdoms (2001) – a unique Fantasy Hero setting.
 * Fantasy Hero (1st edition, 1985)
 * Fantasy Hero (2nd edition, 1990)
 * Fantasy Hero Companion (1990) – included mass combat rules.
 * Fantasy Hero Companion II (1992) – included detailed naval rules.
 * Magic Items – an early-edition magical items list.
 * The Spell Book – an early-edition spell list.

Publications since 2003 support the new 5th edition Hero System rules:

 * Fantasy Hero (2003, 416 pages)
 * Fantasy Hero Battlegrounds (2004, 128 pages)
 * Fantasy Hero Grimoire (2003, 270 pages)
 * Fantasy Hero Grimoire II: The Book of Lost Magic (2004, 144 pages)
 * Monsters, Minions, and Marauders (2003, 128 pages)
 * The Turakian Age (2004, 319 pages) – a high fantasy setting
 * The Valdorian Age (2005, 199 pages) – a swords & sorcery setting
 * Asian Bestiary, Vol. I (2006, 144 pages)
 * Asian Bestiary, Vol. II (2006, 144 pages)
 * Nobles, Knights, and Necromancers (2006, 176 pages)
 * Tuala Morn (2007, 300 pages) – a pseudo-Celtic fantasy setting
 * Enchanted Items (2007, 240 pages)
 * The Atlantean Age (2008) – a high fantasy setting
 * Urban Fantasy Hero (2009)
 * The Book of Dragons (2009)

In addition, these Hero game system publications could be used to support a Fantasy Hero campaign:

 * Hero System Almanac 1 (1993)
 * Hero System Almanac 2 (1995)
 * Hero Bestiary (2nd edition, 1992) – a general Hero bestiary that includes fantasy genre creatures.
 * Hero System Bestiary (2002, 239 pages)
 * Hero System Combat Handbook (2005, 160 pages)
 * Hero System Equipment Guide (2005, 206 pages)
 * Horror Hero (1994)
 * Ninja Hero (1st edition, 1990)
 * Ninja Hero (2nd edition, 2004, 160 pages)
 * The Ultimate Martial Artist (1st edition, 1994)
 * The Ultimate Martial Artist (2nd edition, 2002, 192 pages)
 * The Ultimate Mentalist (1st edition, 1995)
 * The Ultimate Mentalist (2nd edition, 2006, 290 pages)
 * The Ultimate Metamorph (2005, 248 pages)
 * The Ultimate Mystic (2005, 230 pages)
 * The Ultimate Skill (2006, 400 pages)
 * The Ultimate Speedster (2006, 292 pages)
 * The Ultimate Supermage (1996)
 * The Ultimate Vehicle (2003, 236 pages)

title: Fantasy Hero