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John Doerr

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 40th richest person in tech in 2017 and, as of 1 August, 2023, as the 146th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$11.9 billion. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting, and Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.

In 2022, John and his wife Ann collaborated with Stanford University to launch its first new school in about 70 years: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Early life
Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri. One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. Doerr obtained a B.S. and an M.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976.

Career
Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices. In 1980, Doerr was offered a job with Kleiner Perkins. Intel president Andrew Grove told him, "John, venture capital, that's not a real job. It's like being a real estate agent."

He joined Kleiner Perkins that year, and since then has directed the distribution of venture capital funding to technology companies including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, Macromedia, and Google.

Doerr has backed entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com; and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit.

Venture funding
Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund, and TechNet, a policy network of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion in funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been listed on Forbes magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world.

Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change, and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference, he cited his daughter's remark, "your generation created this problem, you better fix it", as a call to fight global warming.

In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, declaring the iPhone "more important than the personal computer" because "it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with other iFund members announced an increase in iFund's value by another $100 million, making iFund the world's biggest investment pool in the cell phone application industry.

He currently serves on the boards of Google, Watershed, Amyris Biotech, Tradesy, ASAPP, and Zynga. Doerr led Kleiner Perkins's $150 million investment in Twitter in 2012.

In 2013, he invested in DreamBox, which has been acquired by Charter School Growth Fund. He had also funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc. Doerr is a major backer of the education company Remind.

In 2016, Doerr stepped down from his role leading Kleiner Perkins, ceding leadership to Ted Schlein.

Doerr mentored Ellen Pao when she first joined Kleiner Perkins. Before changing his mind in 2012, he was known for challenging those who gave her negative performance reviews.

Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.org.

Economic Recovery Advisory Board
In February 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member of the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board by President Barack Obama to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.

Personal life
Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California, with their two children.

In August 2010, they signed the Giving Pledge, a campaign set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime.

In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business. In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2010, Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2019, Doerr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

He is also member of the Global Advisory Board of Khan Academy.

On May 4, 2022, Stanford University announced Ann and John Doerr's donation of $1.1 billion to establish the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The gift is the second largest to an academic institution—the first being Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University. It is the largest gift to Stanford in the university's history.

Politics
Doerr is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for the party on several occasions. Along with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, John Doerr was a co-founder of FWD.us, a lobbying group focused on immigration reform, improvements in education, and scientific research.

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Americus

Americus may refer to:

Places in the United States

 * Americus, Georgia, a city with a population of around 17,000
 * Americus, Indiana, a small town in Washington Township
 * Americus, Kansas, a city with a population of around 900
 * Americus, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Americus Township, Lyon County, Kansas

People

 * Americus Backers (died 1778), described as the father of the English grand pianoforte style
 * Americus Mayo (died 1891), American politician, state legislator in Arkansas
 * Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), American politician, banker, and businessman
 * Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose first name was Americus in Latin
 * Saint Emeric of Hungary (died 1031), also known as Saint Americus or Emeric, a Hungarian prince
 * Americus Symmes (1811–1896), son of John Cleves Symmes Jr.

Other uses

 * Americus (baseball team), a minor league club that represented the city of Americus, Georgia
 * Americus Hotel, historic building in Allentown, Pennsylvania
 * Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad, historic railroad that operated in the states of Georgia and Alabama
 * Americus (horse) (died 1910), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Americus, a 2011 graphic novel by M. K. Reed, published by First Second Books

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Tankini

The tankini is a bathing suit combining a tank top, mostly made of spandex-and-cotton or Lycra-and-nylon, and a bikini bottom introduced in the late 1990s. This type of swimwear is considered by some to provide the coverage of a one-piece suit with the convenience of a two-piece suit, as the entire suit need not be removed in order to use a toilet. Tankinis come in a variety of styles, colors, and shapes, and some include features such as integrated push-up bras. It is particularly popular as children's beachwear, and is considered an athletic outfit fit for a triathlon. According to Katherine Betts, Vogue's fashion-news director, this amphibious sportswear for sand or sea lets users go rafting, play volleyball, and swim without worrying about losing their tops.

A tank top consists of a sleeveless shirt with low neck and adjustable shoulder straps that vary in width and style. It is named after tank suits, the one-piece bathing costumes of the 1920s that were worn in 'tanks' or swimming pools. The upper garment is worn either by men or women, having a greater variety of models available for women. In men it is usually used as underwear.

Etymology
According to author William Safire, "The most recent evolution of the -kini family is the tankini, a cropped tank top supported by spaghetti-like strings." The tankini is distinguished from the classic bikini by the difference in tops, the top of the tankini essentially being a tank top. The tankini top extends downward to somewhere between just above the navel and the top of the hips. The word is a portmanteau of the 'tank' of 'tank top' and the -kini suffix of 'bikini'. This go-between nature of the tankini has, in turn, given its name to things ranging from a lemonade-based martini (Tankini Martini) to server architecture (Tankini HipThread). The Language Report, compiled by lexicographer Susie Dent and published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2003, considers lexicographic inventions like bandeaukini and camkini, two variants of the tankini, important to observe.

History
Tankini and the concept of mix-and-match swimwear were the two major innovations in that genre in the late 1990s. Designer Anne Cole, the US swimwear mogul, was the originator of this style. She was the woman behind the California swimwear label bearing her name, an offshoot of her family's swimsuit company. Called by some the first major innovation in women's swimsuits for decades, Cole's two-piece, which blended the 'freedom' of a bikini with the coverage of a one-piece bathing suit, soon captured nearly a third of the swimwear market. Her tankini, first devised by Cole for herself as a young girl, came out in 1998. Aimed at "closing a gap in the swimwear market, the popularity of tankini largely came from Cole's tapping into women's anxieties about swimwear." In the six seasons following its introduction, tankinis diversified in style and range, variations being offered by designers like Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Nautica, and Calvin Klein. In 2005, a controversy broke out when Buddhists complained about swimwear manufacturer Ondade Mar and lingerie company Victoria's Secret marketing tankinis with Buddhist iconography. In the same year, Nike's breast cancer awareness swimwear collection featured four different cuts of tankini.

Usage
Tankinis are suggested as an option for women who have gone through mastectomy, i.e. removal of one or both breasts by surgery, women who have modest bust sizes, and long torsos. For women who do not have 'washboard abs', Betts commented, "If you don't feel comfortable wearing a bikini, the tankini's an option that's sort of in between." In Think & Date Like a Man, fashion writer April Masini suggests the tankini is the most flattering choice of beachwear, with the right amount of coverage along with the feeling of a two-piece suit. A not-too-close-fitting tankini, ensembled with a sarong, has been suggested for gymnophobia or the fear of nudity. Tankinis, sometimes divided in the front exposing the navel, exist for pregnant women.

Variants
Gucci's crystal-studded tankini, on the May 1998 covers of both Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan was as expensive as US$2,425, while bargain tankinis were available at less than US$10. Variations of the tankini, made mostly of spandex-and-cotton or Lycra-and-nylon, have been added by designers and retailers, chiefly Cole of California and Mervyns in the US, to maximize the tankini sales. Fashion guides also suggest tankini-style wedding dresses for brides of certain body types, such as women who are athletic and have long legs.

Camkini
A camkini is a tankini with the spaghetti straps of a camisole top, over a bikini bottom. Ebony Fashion Fair's traveling fashion show in 2000 presented camikinis as one of the top trends that year. Point Sol, a fashion house, offers higher-waist bottoms and a sports camisole as a more sports-oriented swimsuit style for volleyball and in-line skating.

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Tom Bender (architect)

Tom Bender (September 24, 1941 – March 4, 2020) was one of the American founders of the green architecture and sustainability movements.

Life
Thomas Guernsey Bender was born in 1941 in Fostoria, Ohio. He began to make his mark in the early 1970s as an educator, architect, historian of non-Western architecture, author, and strategic planner. He has since been visible also in the emerging field of sustainable economics.

His research, writing, and architectural design since the 1970s was to development of the relatively new field of solar and ecological architectural design. Bender was an associate professor of architecture in the University of Minnesota, and the Project Ouroboros he co-directed there with Dennis Holloway in the early 1970s was one of the first demonstrations of "resource-self-reliant houses."

Like Amory Lovins and some other modern analysts, Bender demonstrated the feasibility and benefit of major reduction of energy usage (often through the decrease of on-site energy wastage) rather than a massive increase of centralized energy-production facilities in a society.

Tom Bender moved to Oregon in 1974 to serve as an energy researcher for Governor Tom McCall during the early 1970s energy crisis. "Cosmic Economics", which he co-authored, showed the hazards of dependence on fossil fuels, the role of peak oil in global warming, and the benefits of extraction taxes for fossil fuels and minerals.

The term "sustainability" which he coined in his 1975 essay, "Sharing Smaller Pies", has become core to current progressive cultural perspectives. During that decade, Bender was also the co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technologies. As a theorist and practitioner of the "green" approach to planning and design, he has been a popular essayist since that time.

These principles have received interest from governments of Austria, the Netherlands, and Norway, as well as endorsement by the European Union, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and UNEP.

In local application demonstrating these concepts, he has been a co-founder of Fire Mountain School, the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, NeahCasa, and the local community center.[3][4] He lived on Neahkahnie Mountain, on the Oregon coast and designed many residencies and public buildings in the surrounding communities. Many of his writings are available on his website.

Bender died on March 4, 2020, in the home he and his partner constructed on Neahkahnie Mountain, near Manzanita Oregon.

Awards

 * California Affordable Housing Award (1981)
 * Sustainable Community Solutions international competition award (the American Institute of Architects & International Union of Architects, 1993)
 * National Award for Sustainable Design (AIA Architecture and Energy Program, 2001)
 * Top 10 Green Buildings (2002) from the AIA for his Bank of Astoria project in Manzanita, Oregon.

Books and other media

 * "The five horsemen of our apocalypse", Daily Astorian, 6/11/2009
 * "SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: ECONOMICS, ARCHITECTURE, AND BANKING", GreenMoney Journal, Spring 2010
 * Environmental Design Primer, 1973.
 * Silence, Song & Shadows, 2000.
 * Building with the Breath of Life, 2000.
 * Learning to Count What Really Counts: the Economics of Wholeness, 2002.
 * Building with the Breath of Life, DVD, 2003.
 * The Cave Temples of India, DVD, 2004.
 * The Physics of Qi Energy, DVD, 2007.
 * The Economics of True Sustainability, 2013.

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Giacomo Gates

Giacomo Gates (born September 14, 1950) is an American jazz vocalist.

Career
Gates was born and raised in Connecticut. His father was a classical violinist. He made his public debut as a vocalist at the age of six. Soon after, he picked up guitar. In his youth he listened to jazz stations broadcasting from New York City, learned about jazz from disc jockeys, and played along on guitar. When he was ten, he bought his first jazz album, Time Out by Dave Brubeck. Between radio and his record collection, he listened to many of the biggest names in jazz. He took a particular interest in vocalists, such as Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. As he got older, he admired Mose Allison, Cab Calloway, Betty Carter, Babs Gonzales, Al Hibbler, Eddie Jefferson, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Carmen McRae, Mark Murphy, Anita O'Day, Louis Prima, Martha Raye, Keely Smith, Sarah Vaughan, and Joe Williams.

After graduating from high school, he went to college but dropped out after a year. He found work on a road crew as a laborer, then drove dump trucks and heavier vehicles like bulldozers. Gates moved to Alaska to work on the Alaska Pipeline, intending to stay only a year but remaining for twelve. While performing at a jazz festival in Fairbanks, he was approached by Sarah Vaughan, who encouraged him to leave Alaska and pursue a singing career. In 1990, at the age of forty, he moved back to Connecticut. Five years later, he released his first album, Blue Skies (DMP, 1995).

Gates interprets jazz standards, practices vocalese, and is active in jazz education. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the Hartford Conservatory of Music, and New Haven's Neighborhood Music School. In his singing he tries to copy the sounds of instruments, such as flutes, trombones, and drums.

Discography

 * Blue Skies (DMP, 1995)
 * Fly Rite (Sharp Nine, 1998)
 * Centerpiece (Origin, 2004)
 * Luminosity (Doubledave Music, 2007) CD+DVD
 * The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant, 2011)
 * Miles Tones: Giacomo Gates Sings the Music of Miles Davis (Savant, 2013)
 * Everything Is Cool (Savant, 2015)
 * What Time Is It? (Savant, 2017)
 * You (Savant, 2022)

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Positive set theory

In mathematical logic, positive set theory is the name for a class of alternative set theories in which the axiom of comprehension holds for at least the positive formulas $$\phi$$ (the smallest class of formulas containing atomic membership and equality formulas and closed under conjunction, disjunction, existential and universal quantification).

Typically, the motivation for these theories is topological: the sets are the classes which are closed under a certain topology. The closure conditions for the various constructions allowed in building positive formulas are readily motivated (and one can further justify the use of universal quantifiers bounded in sets to get generalized positive comprehension): the justification of the existential quantifier seems to require that the topology be compact.

Axioms
The set theory $$\mathrm{GPK}^+_\infty$$ of Olivier Esser consists of the following axioms:

Extensionality
$$\forall x \forall y (\forall z (z \in x \leftrightarrow z \in y) \to x = y)$$

Positive comprehension
$$\exists x \forall y (y \in x \leftrightarrow \phi(y))$$

where $$\phi$$ is a positive formula. A positive formula uses only the logical constants $$\{\top, \bot, \land, \lor, \forall, \exists, =, \in\}$$ but not $$\{\to, \neg\}$$.

Closure
$$\exists x \forall y (y \in x \leftrightarrow \forall z (\forall w (\phi(w) \rightarrow w \in z) \rightarrow y \in z))$$

where $$\phi$$ is a formula. That is, for every formula $$\phi$$, the intersection of all sets which contain every $$x$$ such that $$\phi(x)$$ exists. This is called the closure of $$\{x \mid \phi(x)\}$$ and is written in any of the various ways that topological closures can be presented. This can be put more briefly if class language is allowed (any condition on sets defining a class as in NBG): for any class C there is a set which is the intersection of all sets which contain C as a subclass. This is a reasonable principle if the sets are understood as closed classes in a topology.

Infinity
The von Neumann ordinal $$\omega$$ exists. This is not an axiom of infinity in the usual sense; if Infinity does not hold, the closure of $$\omega$$ exists and has itself as its sole additional member (it is certainly infinite); the point of this axiom is that $$\omega$$ contains no additional elements at all, which boosts the theory from the strength of second order arithmetic to the strength of Morse–Kelley set theory with the proper class ordinal a weakly compact cardinal.

Interesting properties

 * The universal set is a proper set in this theory.
 * The sets of this theory are the collections of sets which are closed under a certain topology on the classes.
 * The theory can interpret ZFC (by restricting oneself to the class of well-founded sets, which is not itself a set). It in fact interprets a stronger theory (Morse–Kelley set theory with the proper class ordinal a weakly compact cardinal).

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Blizzard of 1888 (disambiguation)

Two major blizzards occurred in the year 1888.

 * The Great Blizzard of 1888 which struck parts of the eastern United States and Atlantic Canada from March 11 to March 14
 * The so-called Schoolhouse Blizzard which affected the northern Great Plains on January 12

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Kirill Moskalenko

Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko (Кирилл Семёнович Москаленко, Кирило Семенович Москаленко, romanized: Kyrylo Semenovych Moskalenko; 11 May 1902 – 17 June 1985) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A member of the Soviet Army who fought in both the Russian Civil War and World War II, he later served as Commander in Chief of Strategic Missile Forces.

Early life
Moskalenko was born in the village of Grishino, Bakhmutsky Uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine), in a family of Ukrainian peasants. He graduated from a four-year primary rural school and two classes of the school of the ministerial school. From 1917 to 1919 he studied at an agricultural school in Bakhmut, where poet Volodymyr Sosiura studied at the same time according to his recollections. He was forced to interrupt his studies due to the outbreak of the Russian Civil War.

Russian Civil War
He returned to his native village, where he worked in the rural revolutionary committee. When the province of his village was seized by the troops of the Volunteer Army of General Anton Denikin, he hid because of the threat of execution. After the occupation of the village by the troops of the Red Army in August 1920, he joined their ranks.

Moskalenko fought in the civil war while serving as the member of the First Cavalry Army. He fought against the troops of General Pyotr Wrangel and Ataman Nestor Makhno.

Post civil war
He studied at the Luhansk Artillery School and at the 2nd Kharkov Artillery School. In May 1921, he was transferred to the artillery department of the Kharkov School of Red Officers, from which he graduated in 1922. Later, he graduated from the advanced training courses for the command personnel at the Red Army Artillery Academy in Leningrad and the faculty of advanced training for the higher command personnel of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Military Academy in Moscow Oblast. During his studies in Kharkov, as part of the school, he participated in battles against gangs in the Don and Donbas regions.

From 1922 to 1932 he served in the 6th Cavalry Division and First Cavalry Army, and platoon commander of the Cavalry Artillery Division. During his service in Armavir, he participated in battles against political banditry in the North Caucasus.

In September 1923, together with a military unit, he was transferred to Bryansk. From 1924, he served as a battery commander. He later served as commander of a training battery, artillery battalion, and chief of staff of an artillery regiment from 1928.

From 1932, he served as chief of staff and commander of a special cavalry division of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army near Chita. From 1934, he served commander of a cavalry regiment. Moskalenko commanded the 23rd Tank Brigade in Primorsky Krai from 1935. From 1936 he served in the 45th Mechanized Corps within the Kiev Military District.

World War II
During the Soviet-Finnish War, he was the commander of artillery for the 51st Rifle Division and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. He successively chief of artillery of the 35th Rifle Corps and the 2nd Mechanized Corps in Chisinau and Tiraspol respectively.

When Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, Moskalenko was the commander of an anti-tank brigade which was stationed in Lutsk. Between June 1941, and March 1942, Moskalenko first held command of the 1st Anti-Tank Brigade, 15th Rifle Corps, 6th Army, and later of the 6th Cavalry Corps. During this time, he took part in the defensive battles in Lutsk, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Rovno, Torchyn, Novohrad-Volynskyi and Malyn. Moskalenko participated in the Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation and fought in battles near Teterev, Pripyat, Dnieper and Desna. During a month of continuous fighting, being in the direction of the main attack of the enemy Army Group South, the brigade destroyed more than 300 enemy tanks. For military successes, courage and bravery, he was awarded the Order of Lenin on 23 July 1941.

In December 1941, he was appointed deputy commander of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front and acting commander of the army. The 6th Army under the command Moskalenko took part in the Barvenkovo-Lozovaya offensive and the liberation of the cities of Izium and Lozova. On 12 February 1942, he was appointed as commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps and from March to July 1942, he served as commander of the 38th Army. He was the commander of the newly reformed 38th Army from March to July 1942.

During the Battle of Stalingrad, he commanded the 1st Tank Army during which he participated in battles on the distant approaches to Stalingrad from July to August 1942. In August 1942, he was appointed commander of the 1st Guards Army until October 1942. At the very beginning of the defensive period of the Battle of Stalingrad, the 1st Tank Army attacked the enemy almost continuously for twelve days in a row and held back their advance. According to Moskalenko, at Kalach-on-Don, his army stopped the advance of German General Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army to Stalingrad and almost won a month to organize defense in depth and pull up reserves. He was then appointed commander of the 1st Tank Army from July to August 1942 and the 1st Guards Army from August to October 1942 before finally receiving command of the 40th Army, which was separate from the Voronezh Front, a position he held until October 1943.

Moskalenko led his troops during the winter counteroffensive and during the Battle of Kursk. He participated in the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive, third battle of Kharkov and the battle of the Dnieper. Moskalenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for heroism and courage when crossing the Dnieper and securing a bridgehead on its western bank.

From October 1943 until the end of the war, Moskalenko was the commander of the 38th Army. He led his troops as they helped drive the Germans from the Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Post-World War II
After the war, Moskalenko commanded the 38th Army, which was transferred to the Carpathian Military District. From August 1948, he served as commander of the Air Defense Forces of the Moscow Region. He served in various capacities in the Moscow Military District, before being appointed its Commanding General in 1953.

On 26 June 1953 the CPSU Secretary Khrushchev along with Marshals Georgy Zhukov and Kirill Moskalenko secretly arrested First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR Beria during a joint CPSU Presidium and Cabinet meeting. While Zhukov could not carry a gun into the Kremlin, Moskalenko sneaked into the Kremlin with a gun to arrest Beria. During the next six months, he and Rudenko investigated the "Beria Case". In December 1953 the Soviet Supreme Court found Beria guilty after a five-day proceeding. On December 23, Beria was shot. Another version states that Beria was shot by machine gun during the military assault on his residential compound in Moscow.

As a result of this operation, on 11 March 1955, Moskalenko, along with five other commanders, was given the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Moskalenko remained in the Moscow Military District until 1960, when he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces. Moskalenko owed his very rapid promotion to having served with Khrushchev during the war. In his memoirs, Khrushchev said:

"Moskalenko could be the best and the worst of men. During the war, I'd given a high recommendation of him to Stalin because Moskalenko was a devoted to the defence of our country, and he wasn't a bad soldier. On the bad side, he had a violent temper. He was more than just rude - he was mentally unbalanced. He was notorious for abusing his subordinates. His favourite phrases were 'You traitor, scoundrel, enemy of the people! You ought to be court-martialled! You ought to be shot!' His uncontrollable temper made him a deeply moody man who could easily be used by others."

Khrushchev also claimed to have been shocked by the virulence with which Moskalenko denounced Marshal Zhukov in 1957, when Khrushchev had decided to sack Zhukov, but even so, he remained in office until April 1962, when he was dismissed without any reason being given, and was made an Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense. an honorary post of no significance. The French journalist Michel Tatu, who was based in Moscow at the time, surmised that his fall was related to the Cuban Missile Crisis:

"The decision (to install soviet missiles on Cuba) affected him directly as commander in chief of strategic rockets. It is a safe bet that a man anxious to preserve his equipment intact could not have been happy at the prospect of having his most secret weapons shipped with nuclear warheads to a highly exposed site such as Cuba."

For his services in the development and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the USSR, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time on 1978. From December 1983, he was part of the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

Moskalenko died on 17 June 1985 in Moscow, at the age of 83. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honours and awards

 * Soviet Union

 * Foreign

Other honors

 * The Poltava Military School of Communications was named in honor of him.
 * Honorary Citizen of the city of Tiraspol
 * Streets named after him in Pokrovsk, Horlivka and Vinnytsia
 * A bronze bust honoring him in Pokrovsk

Former honors
The Kyiv City Council stripped the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Kyiv" from Moskalenko on 26 May 2023. It stated it did so in accordance with Ukrainian decommunization laws.

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U of A

U of A may refer to

 * Unit of account, a unit of measure

Oceania

 * University of Adelaide, in Australia
 * University of Auckland, in New Zealand

Europe

 * University of Antwerp, in Belgium
 * Aveiro University, in Portugal
 * University of Aberdeen, in Scotland
 * University of Alcalá, in Spain

North America

 * University of Alberta, in Canada
 * University of Akron, in the United States
 * University of Alabama, in the United States
 * University of Alaska System, in the United States
 * University at Albany, The State University of New York, in the United States
 * University of Arizona, in the United States
 * University of Arkansas, in the United States
 * University of Atlanta, in the United States

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User:Abek

I'm working on the beer-related aspects of the wikipedia. I'll remember to log in some day, so I can take credit for my work.

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Graveyard Shift

Graveyard shift is a work shift running through the late hours of the night through the early hours of the morning, typically from midnight until 8 am.

Graveyard Shift may also refer to:

Media

 * Graveyard Shift (1987 film), by Jerry Ciccoritti
 * Graveyard Shift (1990 film), based on the Stephen King story of the same name
 * Graveyard Shift (2005 film), a 2005 Russian comedy film
 * Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants), TV series episode
 * Graveyard Shift (radio show), a late night radio show
 * Graveyard Shift, a mission in the video game Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
 * Graveyard Shift, a mission in Manhunt (video game)
 * Graveyard slot, a time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day
 * Graveyard Shift, a name of street league in the video game Need for Speed Payback

Literature

 * Graveyard Shift (short story), by Stephen King
 * Graveyard Shift, a 1960 short story by Richard Matheson
 * The Graveyard Shift (novel), by Harry Patterson
 * The Graveyard Shift, a short novel by William P. McGivern featured in Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology – Volume 4

Music

 * “Graveyard Shift”, a song by Stela Cole from the 2020 extended play Woman of the Hour
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by Uncle Tupelo from the 1990 album No Depression
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by Sam Roberts from the album Collider
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by Steve Earle from the album The Mountain
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by Kardinal Offishall from the 2008 album Not 4 Sale
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by John Zorn from the 1989 album Naked City
 * "Graveyard Shift", a song by Afroman from the 2000 album Because I Got High
 * "Graveyard Shift", a piece by NomeansNo from the 2010 album One
 * Graveyard Shift, a side-project of Jani Liimatainen and former bandmate Henrik Klingenberg
 * Graveyard Shift (album), an album by Motionless in White
 * The Graveyard Shift (album), a mixtape by 40 Glocc and Spider Loc
 * Graveyard Shift, an American hip-hop group, part of Mo Thugs

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British Empire Range

The British Empire Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the most northern ranges in the world and the Arctic Cordillera, surpassed only by the Challenger Mountains which lies immediately to the northwest and the United States Range slightly further east. The highest mountain in the range is Barbeau Peak.

The range was named by Gordon Noel Humphreys during the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. Edward Shackleton, also a member of the party, claimed, in 1937, that Humphreys had done so because he was "a great imperialist".

Peaks of the range include:

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Jerry Buss

Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning 10 league championships that were highlighted by the team's Showtime era during the 1980s. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor. Buss owned other professional sports franchises in Southern California.

Early life and business career
Born in Salt Lake City, Buss and his three younger siblings were raised by their divorced mother, Jessie, who worked as a waitress. His father, Lydus, was an accountant who went on to teach statistics at Berkeley, who abandoned Buss after his first birthday and never returned. When he was nine years old, Buss moved with his mother to Los Angeles; three years later when she remarried, they then moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming and lived in a six-room home with his half-brother Mickey, his half-sister Susan, and stepbrother Jim. One of Buss' boyhood jobs was working for his stepfather, Cecil Brown, who owned a plumbing business. Other jobs in Buss' high school days included carrying bags at the Kemmerer Hotel (paid $2 per day), setting pins at the bowling alley, working on the Union Pacific Railroad, selling stamps, and shining shoes.

Buss earned a scholarship to the University of Wyoming, graduating with a BS degree in two and a half years in 1953. He then returned to Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he earned an MS and PhD in physical chemistry in 1957 at the age of 24. Upon completion of his PhD, Buss moved to Boston and worked for Arthur D. Little. Buss started as a chemist for the Bureau of Mines (now the Mine Safety and Health Administration); he then briefly worked in the aerospace industry for McDonnell Douglas and was on the faculty of USC's chemistry department.

Buss originally invested in real estate to provide supplementary income so he could continue teaching. His first investment was $1,000 in a 14-unit West Los Angeles apartment building in 1959. Finding great success in the real estate business, he, along with longtime business partner, Frank Mariani, formed real estate investment company Mariani-Buss Associates. In 1979, Buss purchased Pickfair, the Beverly Hills estate once owned by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; he sold it in 1987. Buss claimed his company owned—across Arizona, California and Nevada—roughly 700 properties by 1979.

In 1974, Buss produced a movie named Black Eye starring former gridiron star Fred "the Hammer" Williamson.

Buss was an owner of the Phoenix location of the Playboy Club.

Sports team ownership
Buss became an owner of the Los Angeles Strings in World Team Tennis. In 1979, he purchased the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, The Forum, and a 13,000-acre ranch in the Sierra Nevada from Jack Kent Cooke for $67.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ). Buss later sold his controlling interest in the Kings to Bruce McNall in 1988. He then reached a major advertising agreement with Great Western Bank for the naming rights to The Forum, resulting in the official name of the building being changed to the Great Western Forum.

Later, when the WNBA was formed in 1996, Buss took charge of operating that league's Los Angeles franchise, the Los Angeles Sparks. Eventually, all three teams moved into a more modern arena in downtown Los Angeles, the Staples Center, which opened in 1999. As part of the deal to move the Lakers into Staples Center, Buss sold the Great Western Forum (which was later reverted to its original name).

The Lakers were very successful under Buss' ownership, winning 10 NBA championships with such players as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Pau Gasol, and with coaches Paul Westhead, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson. He inspired the Lakers' Showtime era with his vision that basketball games must be entertaining. The Sparks also experienced their share of success, winning two WNBA championships with such players as Lisa Leslie, Tamecka Dixon and DeLisha Milton-Jones.

In 2002, when the WNBA was restructured to give its teams individual owners, Buss took ownership of the Sparks. He sold the team in 2006. Buss also owned the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The Lazers also played in The Forum. The team folded in 1989 and the league folded three years later.

His contributions to basketball were recognized by his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. Buss received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement in 1983.

Poker player
Buss was a high-stakes cash game poker player for many years, but later in life was more active in tournament games. His best finishes included third in the 1991 World Series of Poker seven-card stud event and second place in the 2003 World Poker Tour Freeroll invitational. He also appeared in the GSN series High Stakes Poker and the NBC late-night series Poker After Dark.

Jerry Buss’s Entourage
Beginning in the early 1980s, Jerry Buss was notoriously seen in and around Los Angeles at charitable events with his ever-present entourage of close friends who were infamously dubbed in the press as “The Seven Dwarfs”. Jerry's inner circle entourage included John Rockwell, Ron and David Wilder, Miguel A. Nunez, Lance Davis, Mark Fulton, and Brian J. Sadler. This close-knit group of friends would often bid on charitable auction items that would help the causes of the events they attended. The Dwarfs were gifted championship rings when the Lakers won titles and were granted carte blanche access to all Laker home games and events at the Fabulous Forum / Great Western Forum / Staples Center. Professionally, The Dwarfs were outstanding contributors who held positions as special assistant, financial advisor, investment banker, ADPAC marketing executive. The Dwarfs were regular fixtures in and among the Showtime Lakers throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and until Jerry’s passing in 2013.

Philanthropy
In January 2008, Buss donated $7.5 million to USC's Department of Chemistry to fund two endowed chairs and an endowed scholarship fund for chemistry graduate students; the two chairs were to be named after his mentors at USC, Professors Sidney Benson and David Dows. Buss was an inaugural member of the USC College Board of Councilors.

His philanthropy also extended to people associated with the Lakers. When former Lakers player Walt Hazzard, then an adviser to the team, suffered a catastrophic stroke in 1996, Buss kept Hazzard on the payroll and told Hazzard's son that his father would remain a Lakers employee for as long as Buss owned the team. When Hazzard died in 2011, he was still a Lakers employee.

Personal life
Buss has seven known children. His marriage to the former JoAnn Mueller ended in divorce in 1972 after having five children: Lee (born 1953 ), Johnny (born 1956), Jim (born 1959), Jeanie (born 1961) and Janie (born 1963). Their oldest child, Lee, was put up for adoption shortly after birth. Buss allegedly married his second wife, Veronica Hoff, in 1972 while still married to his first wife, JoAnn. During his time as Lakers owner, Buss was widely known as a playboy and had a string of young girlfriends. Buss dated Debbie Zafrani, a Playboy bunny and the younger sister of the wife of Lakers player Kurt Rambis.

Buss had two more children with a girlfriend, Karen Demel: Joey (born 1985) and Jesse (born 1988). At the time of his death in 2013, six out of seven of his children worked in the Lakers organization.

In 1990, Buss reached a settlement out of court in a palimony suit filed by Puppi Buss, who said that she had an on-and-off relationship with Buss for 15 years, and also alleged that he fathered her son; details of the settlement were not revealed.

On May 29, 2007, Buss was issued a citation for driving under the influence after two California Highway Patrol officers saw him driving his gold Mercedes-Benz on the wrong side of the road in the coastal community of Carlsbad in northern San Diego County, with a 23-year-old woman passenger. After failing a field sobriety test, Buss was taken into custody, given a blood test, and booked on suspicion of driving while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level over 0.08.

Death
In 2012, Buss was in a hospital for months with an undisclosed intestinal problem. Through his 80th birthday on January 27, 2013, he had not attended a Lakers game during the 2012–13 season due to health concerns. On February 14, 2013, four days before his death, it was revealed that Buss had been battling cancer since 2012.

After being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with an undisclosed form of cancer, he died of kidney failure on February 18, 2013, aged 80. On February 21, hundreds of friends, colleagues, and family members gathered to pay tribute to Buss in a televised memorial service at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, across from the Lakers' home court, Staples Center. Buss was buried on February 22 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills in a private ceremony with family and close friends.

NBA commissioner David Stern said of Buss "The NBA has lost a visionary owner whose influence on our league is incalculable and will be felt for decades to come". Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said "His impact is felt worldwide," and called Buss “the greatest owner in sports ever.”

Buss's 66% controlling ownership of the Lakers passed to his six children via a trust, with each child receiving an equal vote (11% for each child). His succession plan had daughter Jeanie assume his previous title as the Lakers' governor as well as its team representative at NBA Board of Governors meetings.

The 2013 World Series of Poker paid tribute to Buss before the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event.

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The Bolitho novels

The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by British author Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent). They focus on the military careers of the fictional Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho in the Royal Navy, from the time of the American Revolution past the Napoleonic Era.

Richard Bolitho
Richard Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the main character in Reeman's novels. Bolitho was born in 1756 in Falmouth, Cornwall, in Great Britain, the second son of a prestigious naval family. He joined the navy in 1768 and served in the wars against France and the United States. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1774, captain in 1782, and admiral in 1812. He died in action against the French in 1815. He played a significant role in driving the Americans back to Brooklyn Heights in 1776, helping to secure a decisive British victory in the largest battle of the entire American Revolution.

The name Bolitho is a common Cornish surname, but Reeman says that he borrowed the name Richard Bolitho from a real person, "a distinguished old chap" he had met in the Channel Islands when he sailed his boat there. Reeman also states that the real Richard Bolitho was the brother of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

Among his fellow officers, Bolitho is known for his tactical ingenuity, his daring, and his disregard of both convention and political expediency. He rises to high rank—despite the opposition of less competent men—because of his ability to win crucial victories against seemingly impossible odds. Among the men of the fleet, Bolitho is known as a demanding but scrupulously fair and humane captain. The men sometimes refer to him, though never to his face, as "Equality Dick". His reputation as a paragon of decency in a brutal world creates a fierce sense of loyalty among those who serve under him.

Officers and men who serve under Bolitho frequently choose, when given the chance, to do so again. Ships in the squadrons he commands as a senior officer are frequently commanded by men who had served as his lieutenants when he was a captain. His most lasting relationships are with Thomas Herrick—a fellow officer and his oldest friend—and John Allday, a former Cornish shepherd who became Bolitho's coxswain and de facto bodyguard.

Bolitho had a number of romances. One of the first was Viola Raymond, the wife of an English diplomat. She died while Bolitho and a small number of his crew were stranded in a boat in the tropics, but it was her courage and sacrifice that rallied the crew. Bolitho married twice. His first wife, Cheney Seton, died in a carriage accident whilst carrying their unborn child. His relationship with the second, Belinda, the mother of his child Elizabeth, deteriorated when it became clear that she was nothing like the person he thought he married and was a very selfish individual. Estranged from her and his daughter, he carried on an increasingly public affair with Lady Catherine Somervell, who was his wife in all but name until his death.

Douglas Reeman uses some real locations as settings for his stories. The fictitious Bolitho ancestral home near Falmouth, Cornwall was inspired by a house which Reeman saw and photographed in the 1960s at Philleigh near the King Harry Ferry in Cornwall. In reality, the house is not near Falmouth at all, so Reeman "relocated" it for his novels. However, the Church of King Charles the Martyr, which is mentioned in the books, really does exist in Falmouth.

Reeman's own Royal Navy career and lifelong interest in sailing informed his seafaring novels. He saw active service with the Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving in the North Sea, Arctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean campaigns. Starting as a midshipman on destroyers, he later transferred to motor torpedo boats, where he was twice mentioned in dispatches.

Adam Bolitho
Adam Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is another main character in Reeman's novels, succeeding the previous main character, Richard Bolitho.

In Enemy in Sight, Richard Bolitho is joined by his nephew Adam Pascoe, who is later renamed Adam Bolitho when he becomes Richard's heir. Adam, the only son of Richard's disgraced older brother Hugh, was born in 1780 in Penzance, Cornwall, shortly after his father joined the revolution in America. Having been sent to Richard at the age of 14 by his dying mother, he joined the Royal Navy, rising through the ranks to establish himself as a daring and resourceful frigate captain, as his uncle had once done.

Adam's role in the series steadily increases as Richard ages and achieves high rank. After Richard's death, he becomes the principal character in the series.

Books in the series
Several omnibus editions have also been released which collect multiple books from the series into one volume:

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User talk:AshtonBenson

Apple TV
I can't help noticing that you continue to revert the article from various IP addresses in complete disregard for our policy. It is obvious that the edits were made by you, plus, all of the IP addresses are registered to either AT&T mobile (mycingular.net) or UC Berkeley. Since you have been warned about this before, you are again blocked and the article will soon be protected. If you wish to be unblocked, please follow the instructions in the guide. Thank you. —DoRD (talk) 14:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC) You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for logging out to continue an edit war (sockpuppetry). If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.

Speedy deletion nomination of Runit

A tag has been placed on Runit requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nat682 (talk) 03:15, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Lfcho

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some tips to help you get started:

 * Try the Tutorial, and feel free to experiment in the test area.
 * If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk
 * Eventually, you might want to read the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines.
 * Remember Neutral point of view
 * Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Good luck!

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P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).

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User talk:DCEdwards1966/Archive 1

Hello. With apologies for messing around in your userspace, I retitled your subpages with forward slashes, which titles have some technical benefits that should be readily apparent. I hope you won't mind. :-) —No-One Jones (m) 23:31, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I don't know how you get your hands on all that chart data—I search and search and can't up with all that—but I'm in your debt for improving the chart info and format at Autobiography (album). Much appreciated. Everyking 09:15, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

DCEdwards1
DCEdwards is great! One of the best on Wikipedia.

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

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

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

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

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

 * Quoth: I have released all my text contributions into the public domain.
 * Can you put this notice somewhere on your user page or User:DCEdwards1966/Copyrights with " "?  That way we can have you explicitly stating this.  Thanks!    – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   13:21, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

thanks
I understand the capitalization issue now. -Emerman.

WP:CFD / CfD
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia%3ACategories_for_deletion&diff=8409018&oldid=8408960 you just deleted an issue and replicated another? 132.205.15.43 01:00, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jonesville
Born in Jonesville, eh? (I checked your user page after you fixed my typo in Lee County, Virginia - I was curious why anybody would be reading that obscure article!) I lived in Pennington Gap in the early 1980s while working for the Kingsport Times-News - haven't been back in two decades, but one of these days I'm going to take the kids there. - DavidWBrooks 18:41, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Seven fixed
Done -- it's been awhile since I fixed a bad page move, but I think I got it right. BTW, if I nominated you for adminship, would you accept? I'm not sure you'd get in, since you appear to have only been active since September and I think some people prefer more time than that. Also, many (most?) of your edits are creating album articles with little more than the template and basic info -- this doesn't bother me at all, since it certainly makes it easier to add content when I don't have to go find recording dates and reviews and the like, but some people might not want to count these edits. So... it might be better to wait another month or two. What do you think? Do you have any particularly wonderful articles you've written I could point to? Tuf-Kat 22:19, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * And you have been nominated! You'll have to accept your nomination formally at Requests for adminship. Tuf-Kat 03:46, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Van Halen: heavy metal?
Hi. I noticed on some of the Van Halen album pages you created or modified that you have classified them as heavy metal although the band page states them as hard rock. There is a distinct difference (at least to me), and I have always thought of Van Halen as a hard rock band, never heavy metal. RedWolf 04:05, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

albums
Hi! There's a response for you at User talk:Quill. Quill 20:35, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Evan Seinfeld
Yeah, after doing an extensive search, I came to the same conclusion that Evan and Jerry Seinfeld are not brothers. While they both are from Brooklyn, Evan is some 18 years younger than Jerry. This does not explain why Jerry Seinfeld had a cameo on Oz in which he was killed by Evan Seinfeld's character. Also, I recall hearing something years ago about the Seinfeld theme being written by Evan, and they Jerry played some of it as well, but reading about it now, it looks like someone from Incubus or some other band wrote it. Good work though. MicahMN | Talk 19:28, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

VfD
Heya, a word of warning: I think you may be adding VfDs to yesterday's second-level page. --fvw *  04:45, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)

Dear DCEdwards1966
(please refer to delete votes)
 * Dear Wiki contributors, admins & sysops. You have been mislead by Curps. Please see that article in question and decide for yourselves if deletion is a correct Wiki thing to do. I have decided not to pursue the re-naming of Curps's article 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and through consultation with other helpful Wikis, I have decided to start a series of Asian Tsunami articles on my own ... there is freedom to initiate such a move right ? The articles in questions is proposed to drill deep in the subject in question. In Asian tsunami : The earthquake I have attempted to focus just on the earthquake that caused the Asian Tsunamis. In Asian tsunami : Time-line (currently vandalised by Curps), I have drilled down to the exact minutes to minutes account of the waves of deadly tsunamis. I will be added other article in the Asian tsunami series like the humanitarian aspects, current news & occurrences etc. because I think it is the right thing to do. kenkam 06:55, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!
Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm aware you live in Tennessee; I'm just sending out the templates to out-of-state people who are active on Wikipedia and would probably be interested in the bid. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Revert on Whitman Page
You reverted a revert that was a proper edit. Whitman was killed by Police Gunfire, not just ginfire, which could have been accidental, self-inflicted or a whole host of hypotheticals, my contribution clarified the method. Sherurcij reverted it without explanation. I reverted that with an explanation - twice. Are you subverting a revert war, with partiality? Also, what is the "practical joke" message about?

Thanks a lot
Thank you for reformatting Kansas City Chiefs seasons because I had been meaning to do it myself. I originally had it all ready to go a few months ago but I did not save the data when my laptop got unplugged. I was just about finished with it too! Oh well, thanks for doing it, I really appreciate it. I just nominated it for a feaured list. '' conman33 (. . .talk)  03:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Zachary Jaydon
There seems to be confusion as to the relation between Jaydon D. Paull & Zachary Jaydon. They are one in the same. A large percentage of performers/artists don't go by their legal name. Any notability no matter which of the two names they are credited under are still assertions of nobility under either or both. Many people are eliminating anything that can be user uploaded or changed. I agree with the principle of this in general, however, videos, magazine scans and the such are irrefutable proof of events or facts no matter where they came from. If there is a video of Mr. Jaydon playing with a National Rock Band, you can't say that because it was put up by a "user" that the fact doesn't remain.

While every sentence of this Wiki Article isn't strongly sourced, it doesn't mean he doesn't meat notability requirements for an article. I have scanned and uploaded quite a few of my sources at: http://zacharyjaydonwiki.blogspot.com/

Also, the following was taken directly from WP:N:

Criteria for composers and lyricists

For composers, songwriters, librettists or lyricists:

1. Has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition.

Jaydon has written material on several Multi-Platinum records, including *NSYNC, Craig David, Ryan Cabrera and others. These WERE songs that were included on these albums. They weren't scrapped, or obscure B-Sides. These were songs included on official releases by MAJOR artists. He obviously has notable talent if these artists are choosing to work with him. This is obviously an arguable issue, but given the success of the albums his work has been featured on, it seems at the VERY least, notable. These credits are easily verifiable here:

The 3 above sources are all from www.ASCAP.com which is one of the most trusted sources used on Wiki for Songwriter Credit Verification.

also shows from a VERY large, Fortune 500 companies website with information on Close To Home and confirming Mr. Jaydon's Songwriting Credits. This website would be considered reliable on any front, and also independent of the subject himself.

Skyler Morgan (talk) 22:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Material on Jacksonville Jaguars
The reason for the duplication is because the Jacksonville Jaguars page is more informative and less work is required to obtain that information. As a Jaguars fan, I feel the information is pertinent ON the page, and it should remain as such. Augarcher (talk) 16:34, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, not all of the other NFL pages have that setup. Carolina Panthers is set up the same way Jacksonville Jaguars is. Augarcher (talk) 16:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

don't belong here
Why would you say I don't belong here? I've just arrived on wikipedia - why would you be so rapid to judge? I have some relevant Freddie Mercury news and it is removed and you tell me I don't belong here. I didn't know it was a cliquipedia!! Metalintheass (talk) 15:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The edit summary was directed at the content that I removed.  D C E dwards 1966  16:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:AFD
YOu thought you were removing a duplicate, however you didn't, look at the capitalization of "black" and "Black", two seperate pages. I've reverted your edit. Just thought I would point that out to you.  D u s t i SPEAK!! 17:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * oops  D C E dwards 1966  17:32, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Its ok :) Have a great weekend  D u s t i SPEAK!! 17:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

David Catterall AfD nomination
I don't think it will make any difference, but the article for David Catterall was a first nomination. There had been another site of the same name, previously deleted, but for a totally different person. I won't bother trying to change the codes (as I'm not sure how) but if you think this could cause a problem could you make the required adjustments. Thanks.--Dmol (talk) 18:07, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I noticed that it was a different person, but the AfD needed to be on a separate page. Maybe I should have named the page something else like "David Catterall (different person)" or something.  D C E dwards 1966  18:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Oops!
It seems I tried to revert the edit to The Ting Tings article the same time you did and I got a edit conflict which overwrited yours. Sorry. I put it back though. :) eric  (mailbox)  19:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Practical Joke
Saw the Practical Joke while visiting your profile, liked it and added to my profile. Just thought of letting you know.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 15:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm about to do the same thing. Awesome, dude. David in DC (talk) 17:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I copied from someone else for the same reason.  D C E dwards 1966  17:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Good Girl Gone Bad, US sales
Hi, Good Girl Gon Bad is 2 times pletinum by RIAA what means that the album has shipped more than 2 million copies, but sales is not the same as copies shipped in stores. It has been distributed 2 million copies in stores but it has sold around 1,6 million copies: http://www.chcmedia.com/forums/index.php?s=a97a3c1f079e3e14b21726bd4c7b9509&showtopic=21444 Sorry for my english--Albes29 (talk) 12:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If that is the case then I suppose it should remain at 1.6 million. I was not aware of the distinction. And your English is fine.  D C E dwards 1966  18:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

my bad
my bad I just saw a large missing section on recent changes and did not know why it was gone. if you read my user page you will see my method of antivandalisim is crude hope I did not offend you --Zaharous (talk) 19:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Horrible
Dr. Steel is unpleased. Bow before him or you WILL be destroyed! 192.5.109.49 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll cope, I'm sure.  D C E dwards 1966  19:24, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Roffle. —   pd_THOR  undefined | 19:41, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of American Dumb Ass
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Happy Editing! —  20:03, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

DC
DC, I got your message. I don't happen to agree, and currently that link is not violating any rule (that I know about) so I'll keep it in place over the weekend :) Thhanks 17:24, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Ting Tings
I take note of your helpful comments and have now added the photo of Katie White further down in the article. I think it looks better there too. Holly har (talk) 15:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That works for me. :)  D C E dwards 1966  15:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

AFD of Web 2.0 squared
Just a heads up, it appears that you created an AFD page for Web 2.0 squared, but did not place the AFD template on the article. I've added the template, but just wanted to let you know. -- BeezHive (talk|contribs) 21:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Nazi Germany v. Germany
I recently corrected a citation that violated POV, and you changed it back. Rather than get into an edit war with you, I decided to ask you why you think it does not violated POV. When a person reads this article, the reader may assume, by the way it reads now, that all Germans or at least all Germans who fought in the war were Nazis. Why do you disagree?--Jojhutton (talk) 20:35, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied at article talk page.  D C E dwards 1966  20:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Question on reverting vandalism
I have recently found myself scouring several pages in search of vandals and other articles that need fixing. I actually find this very fun, but get frustrated by the unregistered user. I have noticed that you have also been very good at this subject as well. My question is with the Edit summary. I have just been typing in "Reverting Edit", but have notice many others have been able to type in "reverted edit by whoever identified as vandalism to last version by whoever" Is there a "hot key" for this or do I need to physically type in all of that information?--Jojhutton (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Amy Macdonald (singer)
Hi

I notice you've been reverting several attempts to add an image to this article. The anonymous editor adding the image is, I suspect, a sock of several indef blocked editors - User:Bennet556 and User:Nimbley6 in particular, and a whole series of quickly indef blocked registered editors and anonymous IPs. The latest sock puppet report is at WP:Suspected sock puppets/Nimbley6 (5th); however, there have been several previous reports.

The editor has several "tells" - when editing anonymously their IP addresses resolve to Opal Telecommunications. Whether anonymous or registered they focus on Scotland - either removing "British" words from Scottish articles ("Amy Macdonald was born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland, UK" -> "Amy Macdonald was born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland") or adding British words to non-Scottish articles ("Jarvis Cocker was born in Sheffield, England, UK -> "Jarvis Cocker was born in Sheffield, UK"). The editor has an obsession with sub-headings and images (as you've encountered on Amy Macdonald (singer)).  Recently they seem to have developed a new trait of engaging in bizarre attempts at discussion on articles' talk pages, most recently on Talk:Scotland (their comments have now been removed/archived).

Sock Puppet reports are difficult to follow through, given the large number of anonymous IP addresses and admins' understandable reluctance to range-block. I've taken to reverting on sight, and otherwise ignoring the silly troll.

Best wishes, This flag once was red   01:13, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Article
So, how come that your deleting that article? it doesnt make sense. there are plenty of articles on here that are worse —Preceding unsigned comment added by Justme89 (talk • contribs) 04:45, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Kurt Cobain
Sorry, my bad. A quick google search proves that your right about Kurdt cobain. I just never heard that before.  Burner 0718  Jibba Jabba!  17:43, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That's alright. I had to google it too.  D C E dwards 1966  17:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Quick work
Thanks for the speedy vandalwhacking re:User:Edwahunn0800, who "confirms" the death of a notable actress in her article and gets upset when his "confirmation" is removed. Edison (talk) 20:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Revert on Spirograph page
Noted your removal of my link to SpiraPaint. Spirapaint is on topic and, to my knowledge, the only non-commercial and free program available that comes even close to replicating what both the Spirograph and Super Spirograph was able to do. I do ask people using the program for commercial purposes to seek my permission first, mainly to discourage graphic artists from using my program for profit.

I added the link back to the Spirograph page and feel it is in keeping with the subject matter. Cactus521 (talk) 01:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Edit: 10/9/08

Saw you removed all the links to anything other than references to the toy. I've updated my own website to remove the link back to the Wikpedia article since you don't seem to feel such efforts have anything to do with the original toy. IMHO it's heavy handed editing, to purge the article of such references based on your sole interpretation of what respects subject matter. Not everyone can go out and buy the toy, but those of us who offer an alternative via a computer can give them the experience. Even the disabled can use our applications, which is not true of the toy referenced in the Wikpedia article. Although "Spirograph" references a toy which is a registered trademark of Hasbro, it's also become part of the vernacular when referencing any image that mimics what the toy could do. There are even examples using Powerpoint. To those with an open mind who wish to see what I was trying to accomplish by linking my application to the article, here is a link to my webpage:

http://members.cox.net/cactus521/spirapaint.shtml

Cactus521 (talk) 18:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Better Image
How is a dark image showing just her face arms and a mic a better image? IT'S NOT --84.13.122.134 (talk) 19:26, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you're already aware, but just in case... Nimbley6. This flag once was red   19:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The reason i like the other picture is just becuase the current picture A) makes the info box to wide 2) Its to Dark. I Do like the other pic but you guys r the boss Im a 14 year old i cant be this bad so im gonna stop for real now. I Just wanted to edit and make wikipedia a better place (Heard from a freind) but i ended up making it a worst place, Sorry. --84.13.122.134 (talk) 19:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Louis XIV of France
Sorry, I was merely editing this for printing purposes. I wanted it American for myself. 168.170.198.36 (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Thomas J. Walker House
An article that you have been involved in editing, Thomas J. Walker House, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Thomas J. Walker House. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Travisl (talk) 22:14, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

this revert was not vandalism
Sorry, but I have to undo this revert. It looked a lot like vandalism done by an IP, but in this case the IP was totally right. It was a revert of an edit without consensus that got an editor blocked for 1 week --Enric Naval (talk) 14:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:Kjetil_r
I have replied at my talk page. You might want to check the relevant history pages before claiming that other users move pages to nonsensical titles. Thanks, --Kjetil r (talk) 20:35, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Reverts...How to...
Hi there. How can I revert several vandalism edits with just one revert click, rather than reverting each edit individually? thanks for the info. Amsaim (talk) 18:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I've managed to figure it out, it can be done via using Twinkle :) Amsaim (talk) 18:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority
Thanks for the undelete. I worked almost a hundred solid hours on the sources, making sure that each bullet point is almost exactly worded with the source material, so as not to violation BLP, but it comes out very choppy this way, and it is still in construction, after a hundred hours of drudgery. Can you help me find the missing "reference/"? I have been looking using WP:Sandbox now for hours for all of the typos. Thnx. FederalLibrarian (talk) 20:30, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Amazon Search By Price
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Congratulations!
I am a student at Boston Latin School and a countributive writer for the school newspaper "The Argo". In the last hour, I had made several examples of vandalism to three individual articles as an experiment for an upcoming report on the reliability of Wikipedia as a schoolwork source. I am satisfied to see all three edits of vandalism were revert in less than 4 minutes. I apologize for any confusion, and thank you for serving as an example of Wikipedia's excellent dependability! 76.19.142.114 (talk) 01:17, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Beal City
What happened to the Tom Bowl entry on Beal City? If you google search Beal City the Tom Bowl is the third thing to come up. Aside from that, someone else posted in the Beal City discussion that the Tom Bowl should be mentioned in there. And Wiki wants Tom Bowl to be linked to another page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Payment500 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Snopes.com
Hi there! For the record, I am a fan of Snopes.com and use it all the time. My previous comments on the article's talk page should show that I don't believe them to be particularly biased. I personally believe that most of the site's detractors on Wikipedia are a bunch of [insert ad hominem attack]s. That said, I think that they're right about the sentence I deleted, which you just reverted even before I had finished posting my explanation on the talk page.

The issue is not the relevance of the quote, as you indicated in your reversion. Of course it's relevant; the issue, however, is that the article is now using a quote from one of the subjects of the article, stating that he and his wife are "apolitical," as evidence to dispute claims that they are biased. I just don't see how a self-serving opinion from the subject of an article could possibly be considered a reliable factual source.

I have no desire to get into an edit war with anyone, so I'm not presently planning to undo your reversion, but I'd appreciate it if you would reconsider and delete the sentence again. If you still disagree, please respond to my comment on the article's talk page. Thanks! --Shadow (talk) 22:00, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

concerning Sarah Lane
hello I noticed your request for a citation for the Sarah Lane article and took the liberty of going around and culling a few sources but wanted to get your opinion on which one best fits the fact that needs to be supported.

The links are:
 * Tweet 1
 * blog 1
 * blog 2
 * tweet 2
 * tweet 3

Well thanks in advance. andyzweb (talk) 01:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I am Confused
Dancemaid062 (talk) 19:34, 13 November 2009 (UTC) I'm new here and I was just wondering why it is wrong to copy thing from other websites when you add the reference. Is it violating copy right? If it is then does that mean I should put the text into my own words and then add the reference or something like that? I'm slightly confused on what I should do. D;

Importing charts (from Wiki German to Wiki English)
DC, Could you perhaps help me fix a problem I created? For the article "Georgia (U.S. state)", I imported the population chart from the Wiki German article about Georgia to the English version (the cool blue table now appears under "Cities: Most Populous Cities"). Ït looks great, but the links to each individual city don't work (even though they work in the German article and even though I have added appropriate bracket codes around each city article name correctly). Do you know anyone who could solve the mystery? Many sincere thanksMason.Jones (talk) 01:36, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Astounding Discovery
Have just discovered a very big flaw in Hitler biography ! Need to make urgent change...contact me... Jon Ascton    (talk)

Harvey Milk
Why did you revert my changes? The sentence makes no since. According to the sentence the film being destroyed had nothing to do with them buying the camera store.

Steve McQueen
That clown who keeps putting in the rent-boy stuff and arguing over the Bullitt chase is the HarveyCarter sockpuppet. He's banned for life and can be reverted without explanation. His ISP is always 92.something. Monkeyzpop (talk) 21:48, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Just curious why you reverted edits on the Connecticut page. The articles for the other New England states all mention their location in New England in the first line. Is there a cognizable argument for treating Connecticut differently? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.1.189 (talk) 04:55, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Blanking
Registered users are allowed to blank their user page. It's not vandalism. Hipocrite (talk) 20:33, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See WP:UP, kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 20:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

DCEdwards
- Why did you change by my change on the Wow Cataclysm page about the change to Heroic version of Deadmines and SFK. The cataclysm trailor that was sent out by Blizzard shows at 4:01 "Heroic Classic Instances: Deadmines and ShadowFang Keep". By this line it says there is only a new Heroic version of both Deadminds and SFK, and not a normal 85 version. Also on www.wowwiki.com for both places it shows the following "A heroic version of Deadmines will be added for high level players in the upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. " Does not say anything about changing the normal version to 85. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lordstr (talk • contribs) 16:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy tagging
Hi. Thanks for doing New Page Patrol, which needs all the eyes it can get; but when you tag an article, like "Charlotte perls" just now, you should warn the author - the speedy template on the article contains, towards the bottom, a standard warning for you to copy and paste to the article author's talk page. Otherwise, he doesn't know what has happened and probably thinks he pressed the wrong button and simply puts the article in again. Also, if it's a new author who has never had a Welcome paragraph, I think it's important to give him one - it softens the WP:BITEyness of the speedy notice, and gives links to useful pages like WP:YFA, so that he may learn. A good one for someone who has just put in a first, unsuitable article is. You can see the effect at User talk:Cooldudesocks. Keep up the good work! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Reverts on Tareq Salahi
I saw you reverted the revert of my edits on this article. Per Bold, Revert, Discuss, I have started a discussion at Talk:Tareq Salahi. I invite you to join the discussion. --A More Perfect Onion (talk) 16:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Article you tagged deleted as vandalism but..
Hello. Thanks for the newpages patrol! Regarding Matthew Stidwill which you tagged for speedy deletion as a repost, I just wanted to drop by to tell you that CSD G4 only applies to pages previously deleted after discussion, at an XfD forum such as at AfD. It does not apply to pages that were only previously speedy deleted, as this article was. Note also that even when an article was previously deleted on the merits, G4 is only applicable where the reposted article is substantially identical to the deleted version and any changes in the recreated page do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted. Cheers. Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2009 (UTC)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Spectre's "Powers and abilities"
I welcome the arrival of another registered editor to this dispute. As the response to my request for a Third Party Opinion was totally unhelpful and IP 70.115. etc., has struck again, what do you recommend as the next step? Personally, I'm tempted to delete the whole P&A section, as implied by the TPO. (I've put your talk page on my watchlist pending the outcome of this discussion, so you can reply right here and I'll be notified.) --Tbrittreid (talk) 23:16, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Anon edit to Meredith Baxter which I reverted.
Cheers for catching my error there. I have apologised to the anon. Crafty (talk) 20:20, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. I had to look at the source to make sure.  D C E dwards 1966  20:22, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Template
Hi! I saw http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles&diff=332117285&oldid=332115799

I reverted this edit. Here are the reasons why:
 * This template exists specifically to link an article to the wikiproject about the article. It inherently is designed to do what you objected to
 * Wikipedia must uniformly have a set style, so we cannot have some people decide that Wikiprojects shouldn't be linked from articles while others believe wikiprojects should be linked from articles. It should be an all or nothing.

The incorrect step is to remove the LA Wikiproject template from just that one article The correct step is to file a Templates for discussion request against the WPbox template and explain your reasons. If the template is deleted, then of course the Wikiproject won't be linked from the Los Angeles article. And if it isn't, then the template will be linked. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Optigan13 nominated the template for deletion. See: Templates_for_discussion WhisperToMe (talk) 23:51, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello DCEdwards1966! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) J. D. Souther -

Bedtime Stories
Yo DC, you listed Michael Frossenkemper as an engineer for that album  on the "Production Credits" section of the article. Can you tell me where ya got that information from and what links ya have to support this?

I'd appreciate your prompt reply. Jrod2 (talk) 18:40, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears that it was from allmusic.com .  D C E dwards 1966  19:26, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I added the Allmusic references to that section. Thx. Jrod2 (talk) 19:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: golden ratio
Hi DCEdwards1966, You just reverted my edit (under a different IP address) to Golden ratio. For something to belong in the section on disputed observations of the golden ratio, there should be some claim that the thing being observed exhibits the golden ratio somehow. In the case of the light switch, there is no evidence for such a claim, and indeed any such claim would be inherently unreasonable (since in fact there is an exact known ratio of the sides of a light switch plate, and this ratio is not equal to phi). I request that you re-remove the content. Thanks, --18.87.1.234 (talk) 17:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Sherlock Holmes Revert
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Sherlock Holmes. Your revert was done without explanation. Therefore, the editor whose edit was reverted has no idea what s/he has done wrong. An oppotunity to have educated a possibly new editor to our various editing guideliness and policies was missed. Moreover, reverts without explanation can be seen to bite the newbies as well as have a chilling effect on their contributions. Finally, WP:REVEXP reminds us to use edit summaries to inform those being reverted as to the reason for the revert. Thanks! —  Spike Toronto  02:33, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Opinions Needed
Would you mind going to Articles for deletion/Abbotts Mill, Delaware and commenting with your opinion on the deletion I proposed? As a past contributor to articles for deletion in Delaware, I thought you may have knowledge whether Abbotts Mill, Delaware is a community or not. Thanks. Superman7515 (talk) 19:57, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

D.B. Cooper Edit
Hi I was wondering if you could give me any information on a message you sent to an IP I use pertaining to an edit that was deleted on the D.B. Cooper entry. I don't ever remember doing anything on that page, let alone edit it. Also, the timestamp for the message was 19 November 2009, which makes this even more odd. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated. Gamefreak1346 (talk) 19:39, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

One Man Dog
Hi-- I'm wondering about your source for the authorships of the songs on One Man Dog, in particular One Morning in May.CountMacula (talk) 05:43, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The musical is loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired. It ran on Broadway in 1955. This was the last musical that Porter wrote for the stage.

Background
During the "severely troubled tryout" George S. Kaufman and his wife Leueen MacGrath were replaced by Abe Burrows. (According to Cecil Michener Smith and Glenn Litton, Kaufman became angry and quit. ) Burrows re-wrote most of the book. The producer Cy Feuer took over the direction from Kaufman. The three leads had not performed in a Broadway musical comedy: Hildegard Knef was a German film and stage actress, Don Ameche never had sung on stage, and Gretchen Wyler was making her Broadway debut. "All three triumphed."

Productions
Following tryouts in Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the production opened Broadway on February 24, 1955 at the Imperial Theatre and closed on April 14, 1956 after 478 performances.

Directed by Cy Feuer and choreographed by Eugene Loring, the cast included Hildegard Knef (Ninotchka), Don Ameche (Steve Canfield), Gretchen Wyler (Janice Dayton), George Tobias, David Opatoshu, Julie Newmar, and Onna White. Jan Sherwood replaced Knef as Ninotchka and portrayed the role for the show's first national tour. Scenic and lighting designs were by Jo Mielziner and costumes were by Lucinda Ballard. The tour played the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California starting in April 1956, as well as Los Angeles.

The score "played a large part in keeping Silk Stockings running on Broadway for 478 performances and in helping to recoup the immense production expenses for the show (brought in at a cost of $370,000, Silk Stockings was considered one of Broadway's most expensive musicals for its time)...The big hit...was clearly 'All of You'."

An original cast recording was released by RCA Victor.

The Lost Musicals staged reading of the musical was held in September 2005 in New York City.

Hildegard Knef (original German spelling) gave a vivid backstage account of the casting, rehearsals, tryouts and Broadway opening of Silk Stockings in her autobiography The Gift Horse: Report on a Life (McGraw Hill, 1971) pages 281 through 342.

Synopsis
The musical involves special envoy Nina Yaschenko, who is dispatched from the Soviet Union to rescue three foolish commissars from the pleasures of Paris. Romanced by theatrical agent Steven Canfield, she eventually comes to recognize the virtues of capitalist indulgence. Other characters include Peter Boroff, Russia's greatest composer, who is being wooed by Janice Dayton, America's swimming sweetheart, to write the score for her first non-aquatic picture, a musical adaptation of War and Peace.

Song list

 * Act I
 * "Too Bad" - Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski, and Hotel Staff
 * "Paris Loves Lovers" - Steve Canfield and Ninotchka
 * "Stereophonic Sound" - Janice Dayton
 * "It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All" - Ninotchka
 * "All of You" - Steve
 * "Satin and Silk" - Janice
 * "Without Love" - Ninotchka
 * "All of You" (Reprise) - Steve

 * Act II
 * "Hail, Bibinski" - Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski, and Ensemble
 * "As On Through the Seasons We Sail" - Steve Canfield and Ninotchka
 * "Josephine" - Janice
 * "Siberia" - Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski
 * "Silk Stockings" - Steve Canfield
 * "The Red Blues" - Ninotchka and Ensemble
 * "Too Bad" (Reprise) - Full Company

Film
The film Silk Stockings, based on the stage musical, was released in 1957.

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Ted Kennedy
Please desist from making your POV edits to the Ted Kennedy article. RickK 23:42, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC) Explain how stating the fact that the water was six feet deep is a POV.Lokifer 23:47, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't be disingenuous. RickK 23:51, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not. It is a fact. I'm not questioning if he had the ability to save her or not. But the fact that the water was only six feet deep appears nowhere. The article sounds like the water was deeper than it actually was.Lokifer 23:54, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Please document your contention and its significance. RickK 00:03, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * As I said, please also explain its significance. You may also want to discuss this at Talk:Ted Kennedy, as I am not the only person who is questioning your motives with this edit, nor am I the first to revert it.  RickK 00:09, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. That wording is much more NPOV. RickK 00:50, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

Your original editing implied that Kennedy's attempts at rescuing her were either nonexistant or half-hearted. RickK 01:02, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Thanks! Appreciate the time & the details you spent in making the revisions. Still don't know what MERC is, though... --allie 11:17, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category:World War II veterans
This category is listed for deletion and its survival is uncertain. Please don't put more articles into it while the discussion is ongoing. This only creates more work for those of us who will end up having to empty it if the decision is to delete. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 02:37, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Do You Like Stalking Me?
Stop tracking my edits and reverting them. CPS 05:32, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Sticks, stones..but political affliations hurled at me don't hurt.Lokifer 08:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Lokifer has tracked down 5 different pages (Right-to-work law, Geto Boys, Talk:Nolan chart, Bill O'Reilly, and Votes for deletion/List of ethnic stereotypes) to revert my edits. This is in the course of one or two days. I know this is his idea of being "clever" (what other people deem being an asshole), but it isn't allowed on Wikipedia and probably isn't healthy for an old fossil like him to be doing anyway. Lokifer, do you look like this? Fellow army ass-kisser CPS 04:13, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Micah Wright
You should stop slandering Micah Wright. He has apologized for his actions. Further, you are adding lies and fiction to Wikipedia by creating new offenses which he has not committed. Please list credible links showing him talking to anti-war rallies or universities, for example. He also never claimed to have been ordered to execute civilians... this is pure fiction and you know it. Wikipedia is not your private right-wing blog... go elsewhere to spread your hate.

Re: Spitting Image Query
The issue I see with what you added is that you have to upgrade (i.e., pay) to see the sources. Which makes them questionable as refs. However csloat is entirely wrong in saying it "smacks of original research"- WP:OR states it can be counted on as OR if: '' * It introduces a theory or method of solution; * It introduces original ideas; * It defines new terms; * It provides or presumes new definitions of pre-existing terms; * It introduces an argument, without citing a reputable source for that argument, that purports to refute or support another idea, theory, argument, or position; * It introduces an analysis or synthesis of established facts, ideas, opinions, or arguments in a way that builds a particular case favored by the editor, without attributing that analysis or synthesis to a reputable source; * It introduces or uses neologisms, without attributing the neologism to a reputable source. ''

Newspaper articles do not get killed by any of these. I'd ask you to go to his talk page and talk to the editor in question. If you need me to get involved, I'll help. Dåvid Fuchs ( talk / frog blast the vent core! ) 16:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:41, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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Acro Sport

Acro Sport Inc was an aircraft manufacturer based in Hales Corners, Wisconsin that marketed plans for homebuilt aircraft.

The company sold plans for the Acro Sport I and Acro Sport II aerobatic biplanes, but also owned the rights to a number of other designs, including the Nesmith Cougar, Pober Pixie, Pober Junior Ace, and Pober Super Ace. All except the Cougar are designs of Paul Poberezny. The company is not affiliated with either Poberezny or the Experimental Aircraft Association.

title: Acro Sport