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International Commission on Stratigraphy

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the "International Stratigraphic Commission", is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific daughter organization that concerns itself with stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters on a global scale.

It is the largest subordinate body of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The ICS is essentially a permanent working subcommittee, which meets far more regularly than the quadrennial meetings scheduled by the IUGS, when it meets as a congress or membership of the whole.

Aims
One of its main aims, a project begun in 1974, is to establish a multidisciplinary standard and global geologic time scale that will ease paleontological and geobiological comparisons region to region by benchmarks with stringent and rigorous strata criteria called Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Points (GSSPs) within the fossil record. (i.e. section of the rock record as of a core sample section or accessible exposed strata, which when a core sample are usually "trayed" in long pieces, also called "sections" about a meter in length.)

Methodology
Additionally the ICS defines an alternative type of benchmark and criteria called Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages (GSSAs) where the characteristics and dating criteria set solely by physical sciences methods (such as magnetic alignment sequences, radiological criteria, etcetera.) as well as encouraging an international and open debate amongst Earth scientists in the paleontology, geology, geobiology and chronostratigraphy fields, among others.

The International Commission on Stratigraphy has spawned numerous subcommittee level organizations organized and mobilized on a local country-wide or regional basis that are the true working committees of the IUGS, and these do the field work, basis comparisons in conference or co-ordination research committee meetings of local or wide-scale scope.

Publications
The ICS publishes various reports and findings as well as revised references periodically, summarized in the International Stratigraphic Chart, a combined working proposal and guideline-to-date released after the last ICS deliberations prior to the upcoming (next) meeting of the IUGS. Until the IUGS accepts the recommendations, they are unofficial since the IUGS parent approves or dismisses the individual deliberation reports of the ICS, which are presented as recommendations, and span dating and strata selection criteria, and related issues including nomenclatures. In de facto everyday matters, the deliberative results reported out of any meetings of the ICS are widely accepted and immediately enter everyday use, except in the rare cases where they result in a strong body of dissenting opinion, which matters are resolved before the full IUGS.

One such controversy arose in 2009 when the ICS deliberated and decided that the Pliocene Series of the current but unofficially named Quaternary Period should be shifted into the Neogene System and Neogene Period. Despite the strong debate, the Quaternary saw official ratification as a geological unit from the IUGS in June 2009, placing its lower boundary to the Gelasian Stage/Age at Monte San Nicola, Sicily, Italy (until then uppermost part of the Pliocene Series/Epoch, and thus of the Neogene System/Period), 2.58 Ma BP.

In addition to publishing paper and document (PDF) versions of the International Stratigraphic Chart, the ICS also provides a machine-readable version of the chart formulated using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and, in particular, Time Ontology in OWL. The ICS' chart web page also provides an interactive version of the chart, based on the OWL data.

Logo
The logo of International Commission on Stratigraphy was designed after the Chinese character of "mountain", 山.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phantom mobile device vibration-1

"Phantom mobile device vibration" was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was ambiguous. I count 5 delete + 1 anon delete vs 5 keep (including Aramgutang's late vote). Page was deleted on 17 July 2004 by User:VampWillow. Rossami 22:41, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

5 for deletion, 5 against (informal tally added during voting)

Original research? RickK 22:51, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't know it it's "original research," but I've heard this phenomenon discussed in physiological circles before, and think it warrants an article.  This one certainly needs work, though.  Austin Hair 23:02, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)  (See additional comment below.  Austin Hair 02:23, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC))
 * Original pointless, useless, trivial research, yes. delete. --128.151.43.132 23:00, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * A tentative "keep." I couldn't find much under this convoluted title, but found many mentions when searching "phantom vibration." Joyous 23:05, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe "many mentions" is too strong. Joyous 23:09, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * I assume you're referring to this line:
 * Individual ideas (eg. stuff made up) should either go to 'votes for deletion' [because they "fail the test of confirmability" (not because they are false)], or be copyedited out.
 * I'm not sure why, if Slashdot trolling phenomena is a fair article for Wikipedia, this one isn't. It's not original research, insofar as I did not make up the idea, and I cited my sources. ··gracefool |☺ 23:25, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I think it's a diffuse neologism - the term itself is certainly unstable, but the idea is widespread enough. Keep ··gracefool |☺ 03:16, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete as original research, or at least not widely adopted usage. I do imagine a new gag, though:  "Are you happy to see me, or is your pager going off?"  (Ok, so it's not new.) Geogre 00:56, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Let me not be so flippant. My point of view is that the phenomenon of cerebral rehearsal and repetition is physiological.  It happens to video gamers who twitch in their sleep, and it happens to drivers on road trips.  It happens after plane flights.  I agree that the phenomenon is notable, but I don't know how we can list the information in a way that allows it to be found by users of Wikipedia.  The reason that I vote against this is that the neologism is so limited that no one but the author and people on the VfD page know that it exists at this location.  We are here to serve as a reference, not a community, first, and I ask whether this information is logically placed.  Because it's a neologism, the answer is no.  Once this term is common enough that users will come to the site looking for it, it's appropriate to keep this article. Geogre 01:12, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * So a more general article should be created, and this one should redirect to it? ··gracefool |☺ 03:43, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's my feeling, but I, for my part, can't figure out what a good article title would be. I'm at a loss, except, and I hope this isn't too unhelpful, I think we can't end up duplicating ourselves or hiding the light under a bushel. Geogre 17:21, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * To put the orginal question more succinctly, is this an unstable neologism (in which case it should be deleted), or a diffuse neologism (in which case it may stay)? ··gracefool |☺ 03:16, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Could be expanded, if possible, but I think it's valid - I've certainly suffered from it Darksun 09:28, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. Andris 10:37, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete original research/neologism. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:26, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism. Would hope to see an article built on this, however - one notable example of this phenomenon occurs among jack-hammer operators, who complain (often enough that it gets media space, apparently) that the sensation of the jack-hammer lingers, sometimes for a considerable time, after they have stopped work. Denni ☯ 01:58, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)
 * I can attest to this, and agree that a more comprehensive article covering the phenomenon more generically would be a great deal better. Austin Hair 02:23, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep, perfectly valid, but an extensive article on related issues should be written --Aramgutang 12:30, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Biodiesel/to do

 * Note the amount of land required to produce a reasonable quantity of Biodiesel. Total world oil consumption is ~4*10e12 kg/yr. Using Soya yielding 1000kg/ha, this would require ~4*10e7 sq km of land to be devoted to Biodiesel production. (Stats taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption) This is 4 times the surface area of the US. It should be made clear to the non-scientific reader that this is impractical in terms of available fertile land. 'We can eat, or we can have biodiesel, but we can't do both.'

 * Also I believe the scientific name of chinese tallow has changed to Triadica Sebifera, from Sapium Sebiferum. Using the old name in google results in outdated links.

 * Whilst extensive, this article totally ignores the strength of opposition from prominent scientists, environmentalists and journalists such as George Monbiot who warn of the potential threat of the mass production of biodiesel crops. May I suggest you expand or produce a new section outlining some of the major arguments against such as the displacement of communities and (often biodiverse) forest to grow biodiesel crops, the draining of wetland and subsequent release of Co2 from dried out peat bogs, the environmental problems of any monoculture such as pesticide build-up or nutrient depletion, and most strikingly of all the loss of space for food production. A useful resource might be: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-than-fossil-fuel/
 * Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat (ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, New York Times, Feb 8, 2008) claims that two new studies show that the damage to forests and such makes it so that, all told, biofuels use more carbon than regular fuels.
 * Expand production cost discussion. currently more expensive, that could reduce with economies of scale, focused production, innovation, and use of better crops.
 * Adjust notation of many volumetric amounts. IE, "230,000 million US Gallons" is simply 230 billion US Gallons.  Problems like this exist all throughout the article.
 * Check the figures on the yield 95,000 litres oil/ha per year from an algae farm. There are no such farms in existence. One company GreenFuel is currently proving the concept at the Redhawk power station in Arizona. Check an article: Biofuel made from power plant CO2 http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19225725.600-biofuel-made-from-power-plant-cosub2sub.html They estimate that a farm of between 8 - 16 square kilometers (8000 - 16000 ha) will yield 150 million litres of biodiesel plus 190 million litres of ethanol per year. Total fuel 21,250 - 42,500 litres per year. I have done some calculations that make me feel that even these values may be a bit optimistic. The 21,250 value is getting close to the limits discussed in: http://www.upei.ca/~physics/p261/Content/Sources_Conversion/Photo-_synthesis/photo-_synthesis.htm ; "At least eight photons are required to store one molecule of CO2 which means 1665 kJ of light energy are required to store 477 kJ in the plant. Max efficiency is 28.6 %. Only light in the range 400-700 nm can be used. This amounts to 43% of total solar incident radiation." Thus before other considerations the limit is 12.23%. They go on to take into account other factors like energy lost in respiration and set a limit of 6.6% in crops. In practice crop farming yields are very much lower than 6.6% in agreement with your table.
 * "Green Diesel" should not redirect here, but to "Vegetable oil refining".

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Anastasiya Kapachinskaya

Anastasiya Alexandrovna Kapachinskaya (Анастасия Александровна Капачинская; born November 20, 1979) is a Russian former sprint athlete. She was the 2003 World champion in the 200 m. She was disqualified from competitions in 2004 and 2008 due to doping offences. As a result, the bulk of her athletics performances after 2004 have been annulled.

Career
Kapachinskaya won the women's 200 m at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. The following year, she was initially awarded gold in the 200 m event at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. She denied all knowledge of how it had happened, and during her two-year ban she vowed to work with the World Anti-Doping Agency to promote sports without drugs.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Kapachinskaya reached the 400 m final, where she placed fifth. She initially won silver in the 4 × 400 m relay. In 2009, she advanced to the 400 m final at the world championships and finished 6th. The Russian team which included Kapachinskaya initially achieved a bronze in the relay.

In May 2016, it was reported that Kapachinskaya was one of 14 Russian athletes, and nine medalists, implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the 2008 Olympics. Kapachinskaya was named by Russian press agency TASS as having failed the retest, which was undertaken following the Russian doping scandal of 2015 and 2016. If confirmed, under IOC and IAAF rules, Kapachinskaya stood to lose all results, medals and records from the date of the original test to May 2016. As this would be a second doping offence, she would also face a lifetime ban from the sport. In August 2016, Kapachinskaya and her relay teammates were officially stripped of their 2008 silver medal. Kapachinskaya had tested positive for the steroids stanozol and turinabol. On 21 June 2017 it was reported that Kapachinskaya had forfeited all results and medals from 17 August 2008 onwards.

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Helsinki Halli

Helsinki Halli (formerly Hartwall Arena) is a large multi-functional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland. It was opened in April 1997. The arena is convertible for various events. The total seated capacity during ice hockey games is 13,349 (about 14,000 for basketball, for concerts up to 15,000) and as an amphitheatre, it is significantly reduced to between 3,000 to 5,000.

The Russian-owned arena has been unused since March 2022 due to EU sanctions related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The main sponsor, Hartwall, also ended its sponsorship and the arena's name was changed.

Construction and facilities
The initiative for building the arena came from Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo in 1994. It was built to be ready for the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1997, and was delivered by the constructor on 11 April 1997. The building is elliptical, 153 metres long and 123 metres wide. It also has a practice arena 37 metres underground, used by many hockey teams. It is connected to a multi-storey carpark, which has a total capacity of 1,421 vehicles.

The arena is situated next to Pasila railway station, which is the second busiest railway station in Finland, 3.5 km north of the Helsinki Central railway station.

Other and former names
The national broadcaster Yle calls the arena "Helsingin areena" or "Helsingforsarenan" ("the Helsinki Arena" in Finnish and Swedish). The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat calls it "Helsinki-areena".

It was branded as "Hartwall Areena" from its opening until 2014, and as "Hartwall Arena" thereafter until 2 March 2022. The beverage company Hartwall, also based in Helsinki, was its largest sponsor, and thus got the naming rights. Hartwall ended its sponsorship in March 2022, to avoid association with the Russian main owners of the arena, Roman Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Sports

The arena was the home venue of the ice hockey team Jokerit.

The arena has also been used for Ice Hockey World Championships, World Figure Skating Championships, NHL Challenge, and World Cup of Hockey. On 2 October 2009, the NHL opened its season in the arena with a matchup between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Florida Panthers, making it the first NHL game to be held in Finland. In May 2011, the arena served as the main venue of the 2012 IIHF World Championship. It hosted all Group A games and quarterfinals, all semifinals and the bronze and gold medal games. Group B games and quarterfinals were hosted in Ericsson Globe, Stockholm. It also co-hosted the 2013 IIHF World Championship with Ericsson Globe, but in 2013 all games after quarterfinals were played in Stockholm.

The arena was one of the host venues of the 2016 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Its assignment included hosting the gold-medal game, in which Kasperi Kapanen scored an Overtime goal to win Gold for Finland on home ice.

One of the group stages of EuroBasket 2017, was also played at the arena.

The arena hosted two 2018–19 regular season NHL games between the Winnipeg Jets and Florida Panthers on Thursday, 1 November 2018 and Friday, 2 November 2018 as part of the 2018 NHL Global Series.

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John Vianney

John Vianney (born Jean-Marie Vianney and later Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney; 8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859) was a French Catholic priest often referred to as the Curé d'Ars ("the parish priest of Ars"). He is known for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish in Ars, France, resulting in the radical spiritual transformation of the community and its surroundings.

Catholics note his saintly life, mortification, persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was canonized in 1925 and his feast day is August 4. He is the patron saint of parish priests.

Early life
Vianney was born on 8 May 1786, in the French town of Dardilly, France (near Lyon), and was baptized the same day. His parents, Matthieu Vianney and his wife Marie (Belize), had six children, of whom John was the fourth. The Vianneys were devout Catholics who helped the poor. Vianney's paternal grandparents once hosted Benedict Joseph Labre, the patron saint of the homeless, who passed through Dardilly on his pilgrimage to Rome in 1770.

By 1790, the anticlerical Terror phase of the French Revolution forced many loyal priests to hide from the regime in order to carry out the sacraments in their parish. Even though to do so had been declared illegal, the Vianneys travelled to distant farms to attend Masses celebrated on the run. Realizing that such priests risked their lives day by day, Vianney began to look upon them as heroes. He received his First Communion catechetical instruction in a private home from two nuns whose communities had been dissolved during the Revolution. He made his first communion at the age of 13 in a neighbour's kitchen; during the Mass, the windows were covered so that the light of the candles could not be seen from outside.

The Catholic Church was re-established in France in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, resulting in religious peace throughout the country, culminating in a Concordat. By this time, Vianney was concerned about his future vocation and longed for an education. He was 20 when his father allowed him to leave the farm to be taught at a "presbytery school" in the neighbouring village of Écully, conducted by the Abbé Balley. The school taught arithmetic, history, geography and Latin. Vianney struggled with school, especially with Latin, since his past education had been interrupted by the French Revolution. Only because of Vianney's deepest desire to be a priest—and Balley's patience—did he persevere.

Vianney's studies were interrupted in 1809 when he was drafted into Napoleon's armies. He would have been exempt, as an ecclesiastical student, but Napoleon had withdrawn the exemption in certain dioceses because of his need for soldiers in his fight against Spain. Two days after he had to report at Lyons, he became ill and was hospitalized, during which time his draft left without him. Once released from the hospital, on 5 January, he was sent to Roanne for another draft. He went into a church to pray, and fell behind the group. He met a young man who volunteered to guide him back to his group, but instead led him deep into the Forez mountains, to the village of Les Noes, where deserters had gathered. Vianney lived there for fourteen months, hidden in the byre attached to a farmhouse, and under the care of Claudine Fayot, a widow with four children. He assumed the name Jerome Vincent, and under that name, he opened a school for village children. Since the harsh weather isolated the town during the winter, the deserters were safe from gendarmes. However, after the snow melted, gendarmes came to the town constantly, searching for deserters. During these searches, Vianney hid inside stacks of fermenting hay in Fayot's barn.

An imperial proclamation in March 1810 granted amnesty to all deserters, enabling Vianney to go back legally to Écully, where he resumed his studies. He was tonsured in 1811, and in 1812 he went to the minor seminary at Verrières-en-Forez. In the autumn of 1813, he was sent to the major seminary at Lyons. Considered too slow, he was returned to Balley. However, Balley persuaded the vicar general that Vianney's piety was great enough to compensate for his ignorance, and the seminarian received minor orders and the subdiaconate on 2 July 1814, was ordained a deacon in June 1815, and was ordained a priest on 12 August 1815 in the Couvent des Minimes de Grenoble. He said his first Mass the next day, and was appointed the assistant to Balley in Écully.

Curé (priest) of Ars
In 1818, shortly after the death of Balley, Vianney was appointed parish priest of the parish of Ars, a town of 230 inhabitants. When Vianney's bishop first assigned him to Ars, Vianney got lost trying to find the town. Two young men tending flocks in the fields pointed him in the right direction.

With Catherine Lassagne and Benedicta Lardet, he established La Providence, a home for girls.

As parish priest, Vianney realized that the Revolution's aftermath had resulted in religious ignorance and indifference, due to the devastation wrought on the Catholic Church in France. At the time, Sundays in rural areas were spent working in the fields, or dancing and drinking in taverns. Vianney spent time in the confessional and gave homilies against blasphemy and profane dancing. If his parishioners did not give up this dancing, he refused them absolution. His stern sermons were later collected together in the famous "Sermons of the Curé of Ars," along with his moral Catechetical Instructions.

Later years
Vianney came to be known internationally, and people from distant places began travelling to consult him as early as 1827. "'By 1855, the number of pilgrims had reached 20,000 a year. During the last ten years of his life, he spent 16 to 18 hours a day in the confessional. Even the bishop forbade him to attend the annual retreats of the diocesan clergy because of the souls awaiting him yonder'."He spent at least 11 or 12 hours a day in the confessional during winter, and up to 16 in the summer.

In his article "How does the Church Respond to Suicide?" Shaun McAfee references an incident described in the book Cure of Ars: "'...a woman...told....Vianney that she was devastated because her husband had committed suicide. She wanted to approach the great priest but his line often lasted for hours and she could not reach him. She was ready to give up and in a moment of mystical insight that only a great saint can receive...Vianney exclaimed through the crowd, 'He is saved!” The woman was incredulous so the saint repeated, stressing each word, 'I tell you he is saved. He is in Purgatory, and you must pray for him. Between the parapet of the bridge and the water he had time to make an act of contrition. '"Vianney had a great devotion to Saint Philomena. He regarded her as his guardian and erected a chapel and shrine in honour of the saint. In May 1843, he felt so ill that he thought that his life was coming to an end. He attributed his cure to her intercession.

Vianney yearned for the contemplative life of a monk, and four times ran away from Ars, the last time in 1853. He was a champion of the poor as a Franciscan tertiary and was a recipient of the coveted French Legion of Honour.

Death and veneration
On 4 August 1859, Vianney died at the age of 73. The bishop presided over his funeral with 300 priests and more than 6,000 people in attendance. Before he was entombed, Vianney's body was fitted with a wax mask.

On 3 October 1874 Pope Pius IX proclaimed him "venerable"; on 8 January 1905, Pope Pius X declared him Blessed and proposed him as a model to the parochial clergy. In 1925 John Mary Vianney was canonized by Pope Pius XI, who in 1929 made him patron saint of parish priests. In 1928 his feast day was inserted into the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 9 August. Pope John XXIII's 1960 revision, in which the Vigil of Saint Lawrence had a high rank, moved the feast to 8 August. Finally, the 1969 revision placed it on 4 August, the day of his death.

In 1959, to commemorate the centenary of John Vianney's death, Pope John XXIII issued the encyclical letter Sacerdotii nostri primordia. John Paul II visited Ars in person in 1986 in connection with the bicentenary of Vianney's birth and referred to him as a "rare example of a pastor acutely aware of his responsibilities … and a sign of courage for those who today experience the grace of being called to the priesthood."

In honour of the 150th anniversary of Vianney's death, Pope Benedict XVI declared a Year for Priests, running from the Feast of the Sacred Heart 2009–2010.

The Vatican Postal Service issued a set of stamps to commemorate the 150th Anniversary. With the following words on 16 June 2009, Benedict XVI officially marked the beginning of the year dedicated to priests, "…On the forthcoming Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday 19 June 2009 – a day traditionally devoted to prayer for the sanctification of the clergy –, I have decided to inaugurate a ‘Year of the Priest’ in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the dies natalis of John Mary Vianney, the Patron Saint of parish priests worldwide..."

Pope Benedict XVI declared 19 June 2009 – 19 June 2010 a Year for Priests to encourage priests to strive for spiritual perfection. In the Pope's words the Curé d'Ars is "a true example of a pastor at the service of Christ's flock."

There are statues of Vianney in many French churches and in Catholic churches throughout the world. Also, many parishes founded in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are named after him. Some relics are kept in the Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette in Paris.

John Vianney is remembered in the Anglican Communion with a commemoration on 4 August.

"Heart of a Priest" relic tour
In November 2018, Vianney's heart was transported to the United States for a 6-month nationwide tour. As Joe Bollig explained in his article detailing the relic's unexpected stop in Kansas City, "The heart receives special veneration because in Scripture it is considered to be a person’s hidden centre of emotional, intellectual and moral activity. Saint John Vianney is said to have lived his life according to the heart of Christ and united his heart to Christ’s." By the end of the tour, "the relic [had] travelled almost 36,000 mi — almost one and a half times the circumference of the Earth — and was available for over 1,200 hours of public veneration."

The tour of the incorrupt heart of John Vianney came to the Parish of St. Catherine of Siena in Nichols, Connecticut, on April 29, 2019, with a liturgy celebrated by Daniel A. Cronin, Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, and concelebrated by Joseph A. Marcello, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena. (Photos of the event available here.)

Notable institutions carrying his name
There are dozens of institutions, including schools, seminaries, and churches named after Vianney in countries including Belize, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Haiti, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Philippines, England, United States, Nigeria, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

 * Curé of Ars Roman Catholic Church (Merrick, New York, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Round Rock, Texas, US)
 * St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Primary School (Belize City, Belize)
 * Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney (Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church and School (Barrie, Ontario, Canada)
 * Societé Jean-Marie Vianney (SJMV), (Ars-sur-Formans, France)
 * St. John Vianney's Church (Peshawar, Pakistan)
 * Saint John Mary Vianney Academy (Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines)
 * St. John Vianney Theological Seminary (Cagayan de Oro, Philippines)
 * St. John Mary Vianney Centre (Seminary), (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
 * St. Jean Vianney School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church, (Shelby Township, Michigan, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Flint, Michigan, US)
 * St. John Vianney Cure of Ars School (The Bronx, New York, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Brookfield, Wisconsin, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary (Denver, Colorado, US)
 * St. John Vianney High School (Holmdel Township, New Jersey, US)
 * St. John Vianney High School (Kirkwood, Missouri, US)
 * St. John Vianney High School (Los Angeles, California, US)
 * St. John Vianney College Seminary (Miami, Florida, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (St. Petersburg, Florida, US)
 * Saint John Vianney School (Gallatin, Tennessee, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Sedona, Arizona, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church and School (Spokane Valley, Washington, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Cumberland, Rhode Island, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Dublin, Ireland)
 * Saint John Vianney School (Firswood, England, UK)
 * Saint John Vianney Catholic Church & School (Rancho Cordova, California, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Clergy Residence for Retired Priests (Riverdale, Bronx, New York, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Catholic Church & St John Vianney R.C Primary School (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
 * Saint John Vianney Catholic Church (Houston, Texas, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church & School (San Jose, California, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic Church (Hacienda Heights, California, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Catholic Church & School (Northlake, Illinois, US)
 * Saint John Vianney Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska, US)
 * St. John Vianney Catholic School, Manchester, UK
 * St John Vianney Church (West Green Road, Tottenham, London, England, UK)

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Category:Atheism

Atheism is either the general lack of belief in the existence of deities or a specified disbelief in specified deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists

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Wikipedia talk:World War II wikireader/articles

DO NOT BUILD THE LIST HERE - that's what the article is for. Articles added here do not count. →Raul654 23:31, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Arrangement proposal

 * Moved to Wikipedia talk:World War II wikireader/arrangement

Discussion
As this list stands now, we should take the "must-haves" and the "should-haves" (127 articles) and add a dozen or two of the would-be-nice articles. That would give us about the right number. I do have one request - we have a lot of articles on individual germans tank models. I'd like to include an overall article on german armor during world War II. →Raul654 21:51, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok, this list is getting quite long now (there's no way we can include all of the ones currently listed). So,

 * 1) Are we still missing any really important ones?
 * 2) We need to start paring this list down to the list cut. Any suggested tweaks? →Raul654 23:51, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * So, on to do list has to be a dedicated article about German AFV's of World War II... something like this... . So should we just cover the tanks or all AFV’s? GeneralPatton 08:01, 6 Aug

2004 (UTC)
 * Cover all AFVs and use it to replace Pather tank on the must haves. →Raul654 02:35, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * This list seems short on Axis victories, especially short on China and Southeast Asia. Would be nice to grab the World War II sections of conentration camp, not sure how that would work though - could we make a separate article just for the Wikireader? Strategic bombing has good information on an important topic but covers a broader period than WWII -what do we do with something like that where only part of the article is useful? The fall of the Philippines seems to lack an article although it was started under Military history of the Philippines. Rmhermen 17:01, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * I added Strategic Bombing During World War II. →Raul654 02:35, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

Finishing the list
I went through, I made some corrections. I think the best thing would be to take all the must-haves and the should-haves. That would give us 145 articles. What do people think of this? If no one registers objections, we can move into phase 2 - organization. →Raul654 02:44, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

Lot of battles and stuff... we could possibly use more on the non-combat side of things. Why not Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw-Haw for example? Or, on a lighter note, how about at least an exerpt from Kilroy was here? Isomorphic 02:54, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Simply put - we're aiming for 100-150 articles (200 at absolute max - I'd prefer not to go that high). That means we have to pick and choose our articles carefully. Since it *is* about the war, it's only logical that battles and theatres get top priority. We can omit some of the less important battles, but we can't include everything. →Raul654 03:10, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I understand. But any war is more than just battles and commanders, and it's valuable to have at least a little bit of lighter "color" reading, and a little bit of cultural flavor.  If nothing else, it's a change of pace for the reader, and makes the whole thing less dry.  I'd really like to see old Kilroy make it in there.  Rosie the Riveter is another possibility, although that's a bit more U.S.-centric.  Isomorphic 04:28, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok, let's split the difference. There are currently 144 must/should have articles. Why don't we add 16 "color" articles to make it an even 160? (preferably chosen from the 'would be nice' articles). I personally like Toyko Rose. →Raul654 04:38, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Sounds fine. Unfortunately I'm off to bed, but I reiterate my nominations above, of Rosie and Kilroy.  I know Kilroy was here sounds a little silly compared to the other stuff, but he was a well-known phenomenon at the time, and you still hear references to him today.  Lord Haw-haw is really just the German version of the better-known Tokyo Rose, but you might be able to put a blurb about him in with her article.
 * Also, I'm moving Musashi from "Should-have" to "Would be nice." We already have Yamato in there for sure, and Musashi is mostly known as Yamato's sister ship.  She didn't have a huge effect on the war, either;  her career was basically "Allied bombing target." There are lots of things I'd include before Musashi, for example the sinking of the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, or an article on one of the famous fighter pilots (Dick Bong anyone?) Isomorphic 05:01, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Actually now that I think about it, I'm not sure there are 16 good "color" articles to find. I just want to make sure we include some. Speaking of which, Ernie Pyle would be another good article not directly related to combat. I see he's on there as a "would be nice." Isomorphic 05:17, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Here are my suggestions: Code talkers, Otto Skorzeny, Iron Cross, Tuskegee Airmen, Kilroy was here, Tokyo Rose, Hiroo Onada, PURPLE (if we include ultra, we should include purple, and vice versa). I'm sure GeneralPatton has some too. →Raul654 05:20, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * All good suggestions. Onada Hiroo is an excellent "color" article for two reasons.  First, it's an interesting piece of trivia (I've heard the story but never knew the soldier's name.)  Second, it gives some insight into the Japanese mindset during the war.
 * In other news, I just noticed that Kamikaze isn't on the list. Adding it to "should have" because it's one of the things people clearly associate with WWII.  Isomorphic 06:26, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ok, let's settle this one and for all. We need 13 articles to have an even 160:
 * 1) Onada Hiroo
 * 2) Kilroy was here
 * 3) Tokyo Rose
 * 4) PURPLE
 * 5) Otto Skorzeny
 * 6) Code talkers
 * 7) Iron Cross
 * 8) Tuskegee Airmen
 * 9) Ernie Pyle
 * 10) White Rose
 * 11) ODESSA
 * 12) Japanese American Internment
 * 13) Husband E. Kimmel

I've filled out the last few items. If you don't like them, change them to what you want. Speak now or forever hold your peace →Raul654 20:33, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

Okay, I have a lot of objections: The list can be construed as America vs. Germany with some British and Soviet help for the Americans, and some Japanese help for the Germans. No article on Zhukov? Much more important to the war than Anne Frank (who really has nothing to do with the war). More comments coming. Danny 01:19, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Rape of Nanking? Haile Selassie? When exactly does World War II begin? Why Hitler Youth or the Reichstag fire? Those are about Nazism, not WW2?

 * 1) We do have an article on Zhukov to be included.
 * 2) Unlike Mr. Selassie, the Hitler youth did actively fight in the war (during the later stages)
 * 3) The Rape of Nanking is a good one that should be included. Since the list size is now capped, would you like to suggest what it should replace? →Raul654 01:34, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * PS - it would have been nice if you had registered these objections before (like when I said "Speak now or forever hold your peace"), rather than waiting until later, after I closed off this list (with the edit summary "No objections have been raised. I am officially posting the final list"). →Raul654 02:05, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)

Before you go off making a book, some things to consider:
 * 1) Books are printed on the basis of pages, not number of articles. They should be divisible by 16 (32 is better). Why do you set a cap of 160 articles?
 * 2) When creating a book, it is customary to make a statement of objectives about what will include. "World War II" is not such a statement. What about World War II? From whose perspective? (The Russians look at it very differently from the Americans. So do the French. In fact, so do the Canadians.) Battles, personalities, ideologies, trivia, some combination of the above? Once that is defined, you will find that you will be better informed as to what articles should go in the Reader and which should not.
 * 3) Set your timelines, first of all. Why do you include the Treaty of Versailles or the Spanish Civil War? Causes of World War II and earlier conflicts? You might as well include the Great Depression and the Japanese invasion of China, certainly the invasion of Ethiopia (Haile Selassie is a major figure in this early history). What about political movements? Isolationism in the US (and France, btw), Nazism, Fascism, Communism. The latter ideologies are especially important to understanding why war broke out.
 * 4) Some figures are so minor that they should not be included. Other major figures are left out. For instance, Anne Frank and Klaus Barbie are in, but Petain and Tito and the Ustashi are out? Pius is out (well, if fascism v. communism is out, that makes sense, but they should be in.) The Chindits played a major role in Burma. Unfortunately, they were British, so Americans don't know much about them (except, perhaps, that Jackie Coogan was Wingate's wingman). Chamberlain is in but Anschluss and Sudetenland are out? Partition of Poland is out? Ribbentrop is in (most Nazis couldnt stand him), but Molotov is out? Anzio, Maquis, Oradour, European resistance in general (see Werner Ring and his four categories of resistance), Mao, Oppenheimer, Sicily, Guadalcanal (or is that covered in Code Talkers).
 * 5) If you want an American bias (which is legitimate, btw) what about the homefront, four freedoms, race riots (Detroit and Zoot Suit), Lend-Lease Act (which should be in anyways).
 * 6) What about WW2 technologies?
 * 7) Those are just some things off the top of my head. Working on a book is a long, time-consuming effort. I know. I have done it many times. Dont make grandiose statements like "This is done." Wikipedia is still a collaborative effort. Personally, I do not believe we are ready for this, but it can be done. You have some decent historians here who have training in this area. A bad product reflects badly on all of us. Danny 02:34, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps it's better to decide what should be covered, then select or create the appropriate articles? For example, Ultra, Purple and such need to be covered but might best be covered by a single article on codes in WW2, which would both reduce the article count and produce more well-rounded coverage. Jamesday 02:57, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think that I have to agree with Danny and Jamesday here. Other similar sources that tried to do the same thing should be looked at first. Then we would be more informed as to what is important to have in our list. We also need to determine what we want to create; a World War II encyclopedia, a selection thereof, or something else that is more book-like. Limiting this to a specific number of articles seems odd; we need to be more concerned about number of printed pages. Therefore deciding what to cut is more of a per article decision. --mav 03:13, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Raul, you may have nothing to do but work on this, but most of us have jobs or classes or (as in my case) both. If you want input from the rest of us, you need to slow down. A lot. There is still work to be done, finding and correcting oversights as well as rationalizing the current choices. We definitely need to decide who our audience is before we move on. I also agree with Jamesday. We should be thinking "how can we cover all the important topics" more than "which articles should we include." For example, is there a Propaganda in World War II article? Should we be writing one? That way we could cover Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw-haw, and Allied propanda, all in one article. Isomorphic 03:08, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * "No objections have been raised. I am officially posting the final list" according to Raul's post on the article comment box. I think that is an unusual interpretation of the comments on the talk page. Are there really no objections? Rmhermen 04:34, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * These comments were made after (and largely in response to) his "closing" of the list. Isomorphic 04:47, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * My comments were made on Aug 6th mentioning the lack of Asian articles. Rmhermen 05:33, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ah. OK. I see what you were referring to now. Either way, we agree that this is not a closed subject. Isomorphic 05:55, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The list has Tokyo Rose mentioned twice. I also suggest merging Potsdam Agreement, Potsdam Conference and Potsdam Declaration into one, Anne Frank and Klaus Barbie taken out as they are covered under Holocaust and Lidice also taken out as its covered under Reinhard Heydrich. The extra space being used to put in Vyacheslav Molotov, Sepp Dietrich, Ivan Koniev, Operation Mars, Operation Tempest, Stavka and Aleksandr Vasilievsky. Lets not forget, 80% of German casualties was on the East Front, and Soviets lost about 10 million military and 20 million civilians. All other theaters of war were almost sideshows.GeneralPatton 08:58, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I found that we have an article on the war in China under the title: Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). It should be included. Have we really decided on a set number of articles yet? Rmhermen 12:59, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

You have both Karl Doenitz and Karl Dönitz on your list, at #91 and #92, respectively. Regards, Rhymeless 10:06, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Proposal
Perhaps we're going the wrong direction entirely. If we try to make a single volume on WWII, it's going to be a mishmash of partially overlapping articles, omissions where we don't have room, etc. Wikipedia articles aren't suited for writing a book; a good book needs more structure than just putting some independent pieces together. On the other hand, to make a reference on the whole war we would need to be much more comprehensive than the current list.

Perhaps instead we should do a series of more focused references on World War II. I could see "Biographical Encyclopedia of World War II" being a very useful reference, and perfectly suited for using Wikipedia content. In fact, this could spur the writing of new articles for Wikipedia, to expand our current coverage. So would "Battle and Campaigns of World War II". I could also see references on ships of WWII, on aircraft of WWII, and on ground combat equipment of WWII. Isomorphic 03:00, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I would like to second Isomorphic's suggestions. Both are excellent ideas, and both can be used to focus our efforts more in the writing of articles. Danny 03:32, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I am willing to do the battles part. However, the suggested length is 100-150 articles. We might be able to get 100 biographies, but probably not 100 battles or theatres. How do you suggest we handle that? →Raul654 06:24, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * A hundred battles, theaters and operations should not be hard. Rmhermen 14:32, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * Right now I am more than willing to do a "Military Hardware of WWII", or do the splits "ships of WWII", "aircraft", etc. Already did something minorly like that for WWI a few years ago. Perhaps there should be work on a proposed list of possible volumes that we think should be around. We shouldn't base it on articles we have, but on what should really be done to cover the entire war. Then see if we A- have enough articles to fill up a decent sized volume, or B-need to be writing articles, and C- Identify said articles in a and b. Lyellin 14:05, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * While it sounds nice this is not a good idea, first we have to make the single-volume World War II wikireader, and then we can expand, but first, lets just focus on these 160 articles, instead of doing 1000+. The single volume can be done, the multi-volume will take years. GeneralPatton 20:24, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * We don't need to do the multi-volume all at once. Each one could stand alone. Isomorphic 04:13, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Echoing Isomorphic, I also would like to point out that if you do a single volume, and then decide to do more volumes later, you wind up wind redundant material, doubled articles, etc. Not sure if this is good or bad myself, just saying. Lyellin 07:02, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Echoing General Patton, while this would be great, it's simply not feasible. The purpose of this is to leverage our current article base to create a good reference, with a bonus of improving the articles along the way. If we were to do some of the things you suggest we'd either have to write lots and lots of new stuff or essentially create a reference of stubs. Right now, I don't think there are even 100 articles on WWII battles. And could we really create 100 interesting biographies on WWII personalities? Let's move from the general to the specific, rather than the other way around. Gregb 02:57, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree about the general to the specific - I just would like to avoid unnessecary doubling. Perhaps a model such as "WikiReader:Important aspects of WWII", and then "WikiReader:WWII Appendix A: Battles", etc, etc. Each "appendix" would be a more detailed look at the specific issues that were covered in the general wikireader, along with additions of others that did not make the cut? We don't need to be AFRAID of adding new content. Heck, maybe Wikipedia does a bad job of covering things (For instance, world war 1 aces are pretty weak), and we discover that. Might take a bit more work, but we don't lose anything by adding in the articles. We don't need to limit ourselves to current content, nessecarily. Lyellin 07:02, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

We should have no trouble finding 100 interesting WWII biographies out of what's already in Wikipedia. Probably well over 100, and I know of others just offhand that I could write. The volumes don't need to be absolutely complete, or especially large, although the biographical volume could easilly get huge. I don't think the original WikiReaders were especially large. Isomorphic 04:13, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * To reinforce that: just looking at the categorized airplanes for instance, you've got 20+articles there, in just the american section. Figure another 20 or so for both the British and German sections, add in a few from all the other airforces.... then you can consider.. Major air battles? Airplane flyers? Commanders? Bases? Sure, you'd include battle of britian in the general reader, but not everything else. Someone when talking about the paper wikipedia (I think), suggusted a hub and spoke model. Same thing could be done here, on a smaller scale. *shrugs* Just my .02, I'll help out whatever winds up happening. Lyellin 09:53, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Article quality
As the discussion on how to order and divide the content seems it may become prolonged, I wonder if anyone, in the meantime, is going through the must-have's and should-have's to get them up to snuff? Some of the battles lack "battleboxes" (I noticed Dieppe Raid, Attack on Pearl Harbor.) An article like Dwight D. Eisenhower or Franklin Delano Roosevelt contains a lot of material irrelevant to WWII (like Supreme Court appointments). Do we prune it? Where do we put the temp article? World War II casualties has a disputed tag -and why are some numbers in bold face? Just some ideas. Rmhermen 13:00, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm slowly going through the battles - I've added battleboxes to almost a dozen battles, and maps, etc. My current effort is to bring Battle of the Bulge up to featured article quality - a week ago, it was barely more than a stub. →Raul654 16:51, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Should we be editing the list with notations as we copyedit, proofread, etc? Lyellin 14:16, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

I began looking at other sources to see what we are missing. Here is of articles in a WW2 book, just covering A. We may have some of these under slightly different names. Danny 16:53, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I suppose that excessive information is not a problem. We can remove irrelevant information in the last phase of composition of the Wikireader. Dr Bug (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 21:10, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Axis Powers
I haven't caught this page until now, but it seems that if we're talking about WWII, Axis Powers would seem to be a rather important article - yet it's in the "would be nice" section. Wouldn't it be sensible to not only put this in, but put this as part of an introduction? (or close to the beginning) Ambi 13:37, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Moving forward
Since this project appears to have stagnated for a while, I'd like to propose that we move on with the Must/Should have articles (maybe with a small amount of last-minute shuffling). Is this acceptable? →Raul654 16:36, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure. I suggest we follow the Cryptography project's idea, and get an article of the day thing going. Ambi 02:01, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * A good idea. Also, I think we should have some way to keep track of which articles we've edited, and claim are ready to go for the reader. Perhaps as simple as putting our naems next to it if we've read through it... if a certain number have edited it, it get's a * next to the article name, so it's "ready" Lyellin 07:02, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

Articles completed
Now that all the articles on this page have been completed, do we still need it? It hasn't been modified in three years. -- Kndimov (talk) 20:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blaine Ober

Blaine Ober was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

Non-notable person, nonsense article. RickK 23:02, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete: Obviously a deletion candidate, and obviously one of those "I just saw this, so I need to write an article about it" things (e.g. the people who write articles about jokes they hear on Crank Yankers), though it's not really nonsense, IMO. Geogre 01:12, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is a pointless copy-'n'-paste from the Fahrenheit 9/11 list of quotes. Blaine Ober as a person is a google no-show, as his his company. TPK 07:05, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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Audio Visuals

The Audio Visuals were an unlicensed series of Doctor Who audio dramas made by British fans in the 1980s. Featuring Nicholas Briggs as the Doctor, twenty-eight audio plays were recorded and distributed on audio cassette between 1985 and 1991 (a pilot, in which the Doctor was voiced by Stephen Payne, was recorded at Chris Corney's house in Hamble near Southampton in 1984).

The first three seasons (released 1985-1988) were produced by Bill Baggs, and the fourth and final season (1989–1991) by Gary Russell.

Although the Audio Visuals audios were a violation of copyright, the BBC chose to look the other way. Gary Russell later told an interviewer,
 * "We were fans doing some stuff for a handful of people. We never advertised in professional magazines, we kept ourselves to ourselves. In doing so, we broke every copyright rule in the book (hell, Terry Nation would have crucified us - although I think our Dalek stories knocked spots off Saward's!) JNT was certainly aware of us, but he didn't care. Why should he? We were no more than any other fan product and at least we weren't printing articles about him or the show. I doubt Saward knew or cared. He wouldn't know drama if it bit him."

Many of those involved in the Audio Visuals went on to work in more professional, licensed science fiction audio drama, either through BBV (founded by Bill Baggs) or through Big Finish Productions (which in 1999 began producing licensed Doctor Who audio drama under the guidance of Gary Russell). Nicholas Briggs has worked for both BBV and Big Finish as an actor and as a writer; he also worked on additional Doctor Who-related/inspired productions for Reeltime Pictures and, beginning in 2005, provided vocal work for the new Doctor Who series.

Several Audio Visuals scripts have been remade professionally, either by BBV (with the Doctor Who elements removed, as part of the video series The Stranger), Big Finish (as licensed Doctor Who audios), or Arcbeatle Press (as licensed novels). The Big Finish audios which were adapted from Audio Visuals plays are The Mutant Phase, Sword of Orion, Minuet in Hell and the Doctor Who Magazine special releases Last of the Titans and Cuddlesome. Arcbeatle Press released an adaptation of Requiem as part of their Doctor Who spin-off Cwej: The Series.

Elements from various Audio Visuals plays also appear in Gary Russell's contributions to the licensed Doctor Who novel ranges published by Virgin and the BBC, most notably in Deadfall. The Nicholas Briggs incarnation of the Doctor has also appeared in the DWM comic strip both as an unspecified future version, and the form taken by Shayde when posing as the Ninth Doctor.

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Talk:Chief Rabbi

Secular Position
Contary to the statement "recognized religious leader", Chief Rabbis are secular religious leaders. The distinction is that they are often recognised by other groups (states, other religions, etc) as individuals appointed from within the Jewish communities as a focus for contact. But they are not "Chiefs" in so far as they have any religious authority over other Rabbis or Jews. Although Rabbis "club" together in broad factions, e.g Orthodox, Conservative, Reform etc, and may have a "Chief", this individual acts more as spokesperson. They do not have anything like overall or substantive authority - in this was they fundamentally differ from a Pope or an Islamic authority able to proclaim a fatwā. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Excelis4 (talk • contribs) 10:28, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Sephardi chief rabbis
There's a gap between Rav Ovadiah Yosef and Rav Bakshi-Doron. Does anyone know what happened? JFW | T@lk  23:08, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The title for Sephardi Hachamim should have a "c" in it, as that is how its pronounced by those who use the term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diogenes The Cynic II (talk • contribs) 09:20, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Simple way to find more rabbis to add to the lists
Google or even Google helps.19:57, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. You don't even need to log in! (Although there are some reasons why you might like to…) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. JFW |  T@lk  13:52, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

There are pictures of all the UK chief Rabbis on Dr Sacks website, would it be possable to add them to the individual Chief Rabbi's pages?

Article title
Why is the title of this article "Chief rabbi" rahter than "Chief Rabbi"? I would think that if there was an informal groups of rabbis, and one of them was the leader, he'd be the "chief rabbi". But if it is an official title, shouldn't both words be capitalized, like Secretary of State or Queen Mother?--Keeves 12:46, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. Do a move request. JFW | T@lk  13:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that when "Chief Rabbi" is an official title, it should be capitalized. Similarly, when speaking of the President of the United States, you capitalize the 'P'. However, when speaking of the presidents of various countries, you don't capitalize the 'p': The respective presidents of France and the United States met today.... Same here: when we're discussing chief rabbis in general, including those of many countries, it should be lowercase.—msh210 07:21, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Hahambasi
Hahambasi is the title of the Turkish Chief Rabbi in Kushta. Someone wanna figure out a way to include that? Tom e rTALK 03:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but what is Kushta? I know the article Kushta redirects to İstanbul, but that article doesn't mention the word Kushta at all, so I'm not sure what it is: Is it another name for Istanbul? Or what?—msh210 07:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry. "Kushta" is Dzhudezmo for "İstanbul" (and yes, we were there long before the Turks).  Tom e rTALK 07:29, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Rabbi Pinchas Feldman
Is he really the chief rabbi of Australia? Who appointed him? I always believed that OZ didn't have a chief rabbi, rather Victoria had Rabbi Ch. Gutnik, and NSW had Rabbi Apple.Hyim 14:36, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * There are leaders of a few Rabbinic councils / organisations. But the only Chief Rabbi of Australia is the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, R. Sir Jonathan Sacks. jnothman talk 02:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

It was more like, he is a chief Rabbi, and is in Australia. Not he is the chief Rabbi of Australia. Its all context mate ;) ems 14:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * But then that's deceiving according to the definitions at the opening of the article. Only list him if you also give of what he is Chief Rabbi! jnothman talk 00:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

St. Louis
I know St. Louis has a Chief Rabbi. Currently it's Rabbi Sholom Rivkin. Previously it was Rabbi Eichenstein. Someone have access to the history there? Yoshm 19:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Germany
Does anyone have any data on chief rabbis for Germany and German cities? Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 23:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Who is the Chief Rabbi of Chile
I was forced to revert an anonymous user who changed the Chief Rabbi of Chile to Roberto Feldman. I can confirm that Rabbi Feldman does exist, but not that he is the chief rabbi. I await clarification on this point. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 15:42, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Edah HaChareidis
Chief Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis. Is this within the scope of the list which seems more geographical as opposed to 'dynasty'-oriented? --Shuki (talk) 18:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No, Shuki. The Edah is not a 'dynasty'. I will tell you the other name of the Edah HaChareidis, the initial name: ועד העיר לקהלת האשכנזים. "City Council for the Ashkenazi Community". The Chief Rabbis are known as גאב"ד ירושלים and ראב"ד ירושלים. See for example this scan of a letter by the current ראב"ד: . Satisfied? I understand that you, as a non-chareidi person (no insult intended), do not know about this, but now you do. --Piz d'Es-Cha (talk) 19:16, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Where did you come from? You have absolutely no idea if I wear a kipa or if I wear tzizis that are longer and fatter than yours. Stick to the discussion at hand - is this article/list of cheif rabbis of localities the proper place to list the chief rabbis of the 'edah'. --Shuki (talk) 21:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Rav Yitzchok Tuvioh Weiss shlita is the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and nobody else. (Literally, in fact, since the Zionist state hasn't appointed a Zionist puppet - oops, "rabbi" - in that position for years.) --Piz d'Es-Cha (talk) 08:35, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Gevalt, Piz. As a self-described representative of Haedah surfing the internet, grow up and stop being an anti-semite. Oh sorry, people who are not part of Haedah aren't Jewish anyway, right, so no anti-semitism here. Thanks for clearing that up for us! Why don't you just delete most of the list? There might be some reform rabbis as well, and now you are actually equating your rabbis with all the others. --Shuki (talk) 21:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

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United Kingdom
I'm surprised to find no UK chief rabbis represented here. Surely someone can remedy this. Bjenks (talk) 09:34, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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Reorganization?
The list of chief rabbis would be much easier to navigate and use if the city rabbis were listed under their respective countries.

Also, shouldn't the heading for "Grand Rabbi" be a separate item instead of being inside the template with the list?

PS. What does "The Far East" even mean? That's not a country. Did that rabbi oversee an entire continent? --JDspeeder1 (talk) 17:23, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Table of contents
Why is this article's Table of contents on the right rather than the left? Mcljlm (talk) 23:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

 * Floating it to the right is allowed per WP:TOC if it's beneficial to the layout of the article. It's a really long TOC and it sits well to the right of the content, which is mostly lists that don't stretch across the screen. — Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 03:50, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SW City

I can't tell if the article is trying to claim that this is a micronation or just some sort of role playing, but regardless, it isn't worth an article, especially one of this length. If there was anything worth keeping, it could be in Alphaworld, but ONLY if it's role playing and not micronation nonsense. Note that the article claims that the city was created by SW Comit, and that the article was created by User:Comit. RickK 23:10, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * Did you read the article properly? It's part of a virtual world (AlphaWorld) which is part of a virtual universe (Active Worlds). As the largest city in the largest virtual world in one of the oldest virtual universes, I would say that the article is worthwhile. I myself am a citizen of SW City, and the way Active Worlds works, it would not be suited as a subsection on an article on AlphaWorld. Trilliangoose 00:34, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Sock puppet whose only edit is to this page. RickK 05:30, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Indeed, SW City is a household name in this particular genre, and therefore merits an explanatory article. I don't see why this is up for deletion, at all. DeusExMachina 01:38, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Sock puppet whose only edit is to this page. RickK 05:30, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * I only recently signed up as a member; I've been visiting wikipedia for a while now. I never even realised they had a member function until today, surprise surprise. So, no, I'm not a sock puppets. I'm just not an active editor enough yet, but I'm still entitled to an opinion, aren't I? I just want to support the article. DeusExMachina 07:37, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, I've just read the article (properly, I hope), and have not the faintest idea what this is. Apparently it's a city in a virtual world (which nobody has written an article on), which is part of a virtual universe (which nobody has written an article on). All I can gather is that it's something to do with online gaming. And it has incited people to create accounts solely for the purpose of contributing to the VFD debate - always a worrying sign. Delete - but I may change my vote if someone can provide some proper context, like AlphaWorld and Active Worlds articles. —Stormie 03:39, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Basically SW City is an online community of a large enough size and age to, in my opinion, warrant it an article. I thought it would be legit here as other private groups, such as bands, have articles too.  RickK - yes I wrote the article and founded the city over 5 years ago, but the city was built by over 200 people, and moreso have been involved with it.  Granted Active Worlds needs an article to support this one, and I'll look into it ASAP. --Comit 03:58, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You might want to read Auto-biography to learn about policies here. Andris 11:33, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * It should be noted that while SW City was founded by SW Comit, its current mayor is not Comit but Syntax. Trilliangoose 20:10, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. And I dislike sock puppets (accounts created purely for this vote). Andris 11:31, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete, not notable; 200 members does not make an online organization encyclopedic. Sean Curtin

 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Google "link to" search on www.swcity.net shows only four hits. Google's "contains the term" notes 192 hits but only displays 13, only half of which refer to the site. [[User:dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 12:42, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You can say that again! Dpbsmith002 12:46, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Google "link to" search on www.swcity.net shows only four hits. Google's "contains the term" notes 192 hits but only displays 13, only half of which refer to the site. [[User:dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 12:55, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You can say that again! Dpbsmith002 12:58, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree! Dpbsmith003 12:48, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Me too! Dpbsmith004 12:49, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Dpbsmith is a true paragon of sound judgment and wise counsel! DefinitelyNotDpbsmithsSockPuppet 12:50, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete: You know, there is more hosiery on display on one of these debates than at the Victoria's Secret runway show, but it's not as interesting.  Fictional worlds and cities take a backseat to reality.  The tiniest real town in the infamous Wikipedia census dump is superior, IMO, to the largest micronation or online community in the world.  In this case, I vote for deletion based on the fact that Wikipedia is not a web directory, the online community does not establish notability, and this is largely unverified information.  I will not debate this, incidentally, so no point in a new user tacking comments on below in argument.  Geogre 13:23, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just not enough people will be interested. I too may change my vote if there is an AlphaWorld article. DJ Clayworth 16:32, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm awaiting permission from the owners of Active Worlds before writing up an article for it.--Comit 22:07, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * If you doubt the existance of an SW City community, you should take a look at the forum. forum.swcity.net Trilliangoose 20:10, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oi! Stop with the sockpuppets already! You're fooling nobody! PreventCrueltyToSocks 20:48, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Me? I just mentioned the Wiki article on our forums and two people from there so far have commented here in this dicussion...--Comit 20:59, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to the particular thread. Trilliangoose 22:18, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Hmmm ... from reading the thread, I could probably add "purpose is advertising" as a reason for deleting this article, but I'm not a nasty person, so I won't. If these new voters are in fact real persons and not sockpuppets, I'm still not very happy though - I dislike new voters being "bused in" just for the purpose of supporting a certain article - also see the whole Genital Integrity/Intact Day debate elsewhere on this page. I'm still wondering how Wikipedia should handle this type of thing ... maybe disallow people from VfD votes that were created before they became members? Thoughts, anybody? Elf-friend 22:58, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Good idea. dpbsmith 23:16, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I concur. DpbsmithAlterEgo 23:28, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Me, too. BrandNewGenuineUser 24:06, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Indeed! DoPpelgangerBSmith 24:36, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Amen, brother. GrassRootsSupport 25:16, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * These aren't even real sockpuppets. Despicable! Nemo of Erewhon 08:16, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and I support Geogre's point of view. Elf-friend 21:14, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I thought he made good point too untill I noticed other online communities here such as Habbo_Hotel--Comit 22:07, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * a) So? The part I particularly agree with is: "Fictional worlds and cities take a backseat to reality. The tiniest real town in the infamous Wikipedia census dump is superior, IMO, to the largest micronation or online community in the world." I don't see how your reference could change my opinion regarding that at all. b) "Habbo Hotel": 81,200 Google Hits, including a lot of sites that seem independent from them; "SW City": 4,860 Google hits, many which seem to have no relevance to the SW City mentioned in the article at all. c) Now that you have brought it to my attention, I'm seriously considering putting Habbo Hotel on VfD as well. Elf-friend 22:28, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I have to say that I am extremely glad that Angela blanked my talk page but kept my user page with its link to "missing Wikipedians." That being said, I thought I'd drop by.  What do I find?  Triple feature!  Another child porn site, four more vandal bot hits on the new pages and Sockpuppet Central.  Gee, I'm so disappointed I left.  Idiots like this are the reason this project is going to hell in a handbasket.  I'm not certain my vote counts, so I won't cast one.  I will say that any temptation I had of either returning or even surfing anonymously is utterly gone. - Lucky 6.9 07:16, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I understand the reasons for the deletion votes and revised the article to be more relevant to Wiki. What do you think?  Also, Active Worlds has an article now.--Comit 17:59, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Systolic

Systolic is an adjective describing something pertaining to a systole, part of the cardiac cycle.

Systolic may also refer to:

Physiology and medical

 * Systolic hypertension
 * Systolic heart murmur

Mathematics

 * Systolic geometry

Technology

 * Systolic array

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Ron Guidry

Ronald Ames Guidry (born August 28, 1950), nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Guidry was also the pitching coach of the Yankees from 2006 to 2007.

Guidry's major league career began in 1975. He was a member of World Series-winning Yankees teams in 1977 and 1978, both over the Los Angeles Dodgers. He won the American League Cy Young Award in 1978, winning 25 games and losing only 3. He also won five Gold Glove Awards and appeared in four All-Star games. Guidry served as captain of the Yankees beginning in 1986; he retired from baseball in 1989. In 2003, the Yankees retired Guidry's uniform number (49) and dedicated a plaque to him in Monument Park.

Early life
Ronald Ames Guidry was born on August 28, 1950, in Lafayette, Louisiana.

College career
He attended and pitched for the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a combined 12–5 with a 2.03 earned run average (ERA) and 137 strikeouts as a two-year letterman with the Ragin' Cajuns baseball team in 1969 and 1970.

Draft and minor leagues
The New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB) selected Guidry in the third round, with the 67th overall pick, in the 1971 MLB draft.

New York Yankees (1975–1988)
After four seasons in the minor leagues, he pitched briefly in the Major Leagues in the 1975 and 1976 seasons. He was nearly sent to the Baltimore Orioles as part of a trade deadline blockbuster on June 15, 1976, but the Yankees did not want to give up any more left-handed pitchers beyond the three (Scott McGregor, Tippy Martinez and Rudy May) that they had already included in the deal. The following year he was to have been dealt to Toronto for Bill Singer in a transaction that was approved by the Yankees but was vetoed by Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi.

In 1977, Guidry began the season as a relief pitcher but was moved into the Yankees' starting rotation. On April 30, he was called on to make an emergency start in replace of Mike Torrez, recently acquired in a trade from the Athletics, who had not joined the team in time for what was supposed to be his first start. In the longest outing Guidry could remember since his Eastern League days of 1974, he helped the Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners 3–0. Guidry finished the season with a 16–7 record. His emergence as a starter after his previous seasons in the bullpen made him one of the Yankees' biggest surprises in 1977. He helped lead the Yankees to a World Series championship.

In 1978, Guidry posted a career year that has been described as the all-time best season by a Yankees pitcher. Against the California Angels on June 17, he struck out a Yankee-record 18 batters. Guidry's 18-strikeout performance is usually cited as the launching pad of the Yankee Stadium tradition of fans standing and clapping for a strikeout with two strikes on the opposing batter. For the season, Guidry went 25–3, setting the all-time mark for winning percentage by a pitcher with at least twenty wins. He led the league with a 1.74 ERA, an .893 winning percentage, nine shutouts, and 248 strikeouts. Guidry's success in 1978 was due in large part to his mastery of the slider. His 248 strikeouts set a Yankees' franchise record for most strikeouts by a pitcher in a single season, a record that stood until 2022 when Gerrit Cole recorded 257 strikeouts.

Guidry's 25th win of the 1978 regular season was his most significant, as it came in the Yankees' 5–4 win over the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff at Fenway Park in Boston to determine the American League East division winner. The game is best known for Bucky Dent's seventh-inning, three-run home run that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead. Later that month, the Yankees again won the World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Guidry won the 1978 American League Cy Young Award unanimously. He also finished second in the American League Most Valuable Player voting to Boston Red Sox slugger Jim Rice. In addition, Guidry was named The Sporting News AL Pitcher and Major League Player of the Year. Had he not taken the loss in Toronto on September 20, when his record at the time was 22-2, he would have become the first (and to date, only), pitcher ever with at least a .900 winning percentage, and at least 20 wins in a season.

Guidry was named to the American League All-Star Team in 1978, 1979, 1982, and 1983. Known as an excellent fielder, Guidry won a Gold Glove each year from 1982 through 1986. In 1984, Guidry won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the Major Leaguer who "'best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual’s contribution to his team.'" On August 7, 1984, Guidry struck out three batters (Carlton Fisk, Tom Paciorek and Greg Luzinski) on nine pitches in the ninth inning of a 7–0 win over the Chicago White Sox. Guidry became the eighth American League pitcher and the 27th pitcher in major-league history to accomplish an immaculate inning. In 1985, he led the American League with 22 wins. Guidry and Willie Randolph were named co-captains of the Yankees on March 4, 1986.

The latter years of Guidry's 14-year major league career were hindered by shoulder and elbow injuries. He retired from baseball on July 12, 1989.

Guidry's number 49 was retired on August 23, 2003. The Yankees also dedicated a plaque to Guidry in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The plaque calls Guidry "a dominating pitcher", a "respected leader", and "a true Yankee." Each living Yankee previously honored with a plaque in Monument Park was on hand for the ceremony: Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson and Don Mattingly.

New York Yankees (2006–2007)
Guidry joined Yankees manager Joe Torre's coaching staff as pitching coach in the 2006 season, replacing Mel Stottlemyre. Guidry was criticized in 2007 because the Yankees' highly acclaimed pitching staff was underachieving. In 2007, Yankees pitchers walked the sixth-most batters overall in the Major Leagues; this was the most walks in a season for a Yankees pitching staff since 2000. Torre's departure from the Yankees following the 2007 season ended Guidry's tenure as pitching coach. Though he was interested in returning to the Yankees for the 2008 season, he was not offered a position on new manager Joe Girardi's coaching staff. He did return to the Yankees as a spring training instructor.

Former New York Times writer Harvey Araton wrote a book called Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift that profiles the friendship Guidry had with Yankees' Hall of Fame catcher (and Guidry's former coach and manager) Yogi Berra.

Personal life
Guidry is married to Bonnie Rutledge Guidry; their wedding was on September 23, 1972. They have three children: two daughters, Jamie and Danielle, and a son, Brandon.

Guidry is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

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User:Tooto

I have resently arrived at wikipedia. ooked at it befor, but hay, tryin to acrtually do somthing now, not just look.

im also called 195.137.54.92, when i cant be botherd to log in... (or befor i created this account. probabvly not the best person to ask todo copyediting ect, as my spelling aint that hot. more a get the content, check spelling a week later when i look over what ive done.

Wikipedia Growth
Ok, looking into the size of wikipedia, and in particular taking some inspiration from Modelling Wikipedia's growthit became clear that um, well while doing my coarswork, it became bious that w had missed a measure of size predition, mainly using logarithms... so ho it works, take a log of the article count, and then take a log of the month (or probable day0 sinsethe project has been running... and guess what, you get a streat line! big deal! BUT its a very good fit (ok, so it wokes well for en, and probably only en. hm, takes to long to do stuff in real life, annouying)

Footnots and the wiki
do we need all of those footnots? -- from cleanup
 * my persional oppinion is yes, yes, YES. infact i would go as far to sa that this is what most wikipedia articals lack. i am sure this is how other ensyclipedias can offer so few disclaimers, they keep refrances, foonotes, discussion pages, refrances for all the articals they wright. even half well writted fact-bassed novals usialy have some footnotes so that they cant be accused of making it all up. Think about if all the news channles relied on only one source for all there majour news stories, why, you would end up with somthing like the hutton enquirie into the BBC and the goverment, wouldent that be just great. the only troubble is that at the moment, wikipedia isn't double or tripple source checked, infact, its more a case of it being 0 sorsed,(counting that the auther could just be making it all up)

Lists
For Me, Lists have no value. I think that they should come uop with a way to use the catogary system better so that you can add a bit of text at ether end to describe that catogary, and you remove the need for most of the multipe lists. my pet hate is pages needing to be mearged (mainly what i do), but espessialy lists needing to be mearged.

The percevied problem with this wiki. there is a very simple problem witrh this wikipedia(w), and it is that it cant be relied apon. there is no way to tell which artticals may have been made by a pHD proffessor, or one made mainly by an 8 year old (there have been cases). +++or more importantly by people out to make trouble, (8 year old peices of work are normallly easy to spot). This is why W has such a drastic disclaimer: General_disclaimer. this is where the w problems start.no one is able to use w as as source of reliable informationm when we cannot garantee it. this has been the cornerstone of all other ensyclapedias, and is why they arnt that woored about their future. they will probably acnkologe that w is the largest, but isnt reliable, contains a skew of articals that thwy do not suffer, and unless we can safly say, what you are readong is true, then they will say to their coustoers, just look at their discalmer, thats somthing you dont see with us. the neutpedia(n) project was originaly set up to provide that ensyclapedia that was open and accurate. the trouble is, that w was meant to feed into n, and so at the end of that process get its accountability. so, esentuall what we have at the moment on w, afgter the death of n, is thousands of people all swarming over the sourcscode of the enslcipedia, with very little refrences, to where the info came from, which is required if it is to be moved onto a more accountable platform.

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testing my skills to test my tex markup... not bad? oh, if you dont know them, there the equations of motion (under constant accelaration) appaently at any rate...

4*(3/(2*Pi*c))^(3/2)*Pi*r^2*exp(-3*r^2/(2*c)) $$P = 4\left( {\frac {3}{2 \pi c}} \right) ^{3/2 }\pi \,{r}^{2}{{\rm e}^} $$

$$3\,\sqrt {3}\sqrt {2} \left( {\frac {1}{\pi \,N{a}^{2}}} \right) ^{3/2 }\pi \,{r}^{2}{{\rm e}^{-3/2\,{\frac {{r}^{2}}{N{a}^{2}}}}} $$ $$v=u+at $$

$$s = {1\over 2} (u+v)t$$

$$s = ut +{1\over 2}at^2$$

$$s = vt -{1\over 2}at^2$$

$$v^2 =u^2 + 2as $$

Quadratic equasion: $$ x= {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 -4ac} \over 2a} $$

A random table: taken from Fraunhofer lines

more (randomish maths) $$ a= {-1 \over 10} t$$ $$ a = {dv \over dt} $$ $$ v = \int a \; dt = \int {-t \over 10} dt$$ $$ v = -{{1 \over 10}t^2 \over 2} + c = -{t^2 \over 20} +c $$ $$v= {-0^2 \over 20} +c$$ $$V=c$$ $$v=-{t^2 \over 20}+ V$$ $$0= -{10^2 \over 20} + V$$ $$V={100 \over 20} = {10 \over 2} = 5$$ $$v= {-t^2 \over 20 } +5$$ $$v=\frac{ds}{dt}$$ $$s=\int v \; dt = \int {-t^2 \over 20} + 5 dt$$ $$s=-{\frac{1}{20} t^3 \over 3} +5t +c$$ $$s= {-t^3 \over 60} +5t + c$$ $$0={-0^3 \over 60} +5 \times 0 +c$$ $$c=0$$ $$s= {-t^3 \over 60}+5t$$ $$s=-{10^3 \over 50} + 5 \times 10$$ $$s=50-\frac{100}{6}$$ $$s=\frac{-100 +300}{6}={200 \over 6} = \frac{100}{3} \approx 33.3 (3sf)$$ $$ \int t^n dt = {t^n+1 \over n+1} $$ $$ \frac{(\frac{t^3}{20})}{3}= \frac{t^3}{20} \times {1 \over 3}$$

Random (physicy maths) $$n=\frac{\sin i_1}{\sin r_1}$$ $$n=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_2}$$ $$\frac{\sin i_1}{\sin r_1}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_2}$$ $$ i_2=60^\circ - r _1$$ $$\frac{\sin i_1}{\sin r_1}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin{(60^\circ - r _1)}}$$ $$\sin i_1\cdot\sin{(60^\circ - r _1)}=\sin{r_2}\cdot\sin{r_1}$$ $$\frac{\sin i_1\cdot\sin{(60^\circ - r _1)}}{\sin{r_1}}=\sin{r_2}$$ $$\frac{\sin{(60^\circ - r _1)}}{\sin{r_1}}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1}$$ $$\sin{(A-B)} \equiv \sin{A}\cos{B} - \cos{A}\sin{B} $$ $$\frac{\sin{60^\circ}\cos{r_1} - \cos{60^\circ}\sin{r_1}}{\sin{r_1}}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1}$$ $$\frac{\sin{60^\circ}\cos{r_1}}{\sin{r_1}} - \frac{\cos{60^\circ}\sin{r_1}}{\sin{r_1}} =\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1}$$ $$\frac{\sin{60^\circ}\cdot\cos{r_1}}{\sin{r_1}}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1} + \cos{60^\circ}$$ $$\sin{60^\circ}\cot{r_1}=\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1} + \cos{60^\circ}$$ $$\cot{r_1}=\frac{\frac{\sin r_2}{\sin i_1} + \cos{60^\circ}}{\sin{60^\circ}}$$

$$\theta_c = \arcsin \left( \frac{1}{1.33} \right) $$ $$\theta_c = 48.75^\circ...$$

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John Knoll

John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy. He also served as ILM's visual effects supervisor for Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Along with Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall, Knoll and the trio's work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest earned them the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Knoll has been praised by directors James Cameron, Gore Verbinski, Guillermo del Toro, and Brad Bird. Del Toro, who worked with Knoll for the first time on Pacific Rim, stated "He basically has the heart of a kid and the mind of a scientist, and that's a great combination."

Knoll is also the inventor of Knoll Light Factory, a lens flare generating software inspired by his work at Industrial Light and Magic. He was the Computer Graphics Project Designer on The Abyss, an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Oscar, and worked on two Star Trek episodes: Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers".

Knoll had a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as a fighter pilot, helped pitch the story of Rogue One, a feature film set in the Star Wars series, for which he also worked as writer and executive producer.

John Knoll reflected on his work with George Lucas on the Star Wars prequel trilogy: "I still feel like I owe George a lot to have been given that opportunity. On those three films, I feel like I got a whole career’s worth of experience packed into eight years. George never constricted his thinking to what he knew for sure the tools were capable of; his attitude was, “Yeah, well, I’m writing what I want to see, so you guys will figure it out.” I loved that he would constantly throw those challenges out with the confidence [that] you guys will figure it out. That was great."

In 2016, John Knoll and his brother Thomas were inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

At the 2019 Oscars, John and his brother Thomas were awarded a Scientific and Engineering Award for the original architecture, design and development of Photoshop.

Books

 * John Knoll, J. W. Rinzler: Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days with CDROM; Book about the Making of the Star Wars Saga; ISBN 0-8109-5936-4

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