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Leslie White

Leslie Alvin White (January 19, 1900, Salida, Colorado – March 31, 1975, Lone Pine, California) was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of the theories on cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. White was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964).

Early years
White lived first in Kansas and then Louisiana. He volunteered to fight in World War I, serving in the US Navy before enrolling at Louisiana State University in 1919. In 1921, he transferred to Columbia University, where he studied psychology, receiving a B.A. in 1923 and a M.A. in 1924. His PhD in Anthropology and Sociology came from the University of Chicago(1925).

White studied at Columbia, where Franz Boas had lectured, however he supported cultural evolution as defined by writers such as Lewis. H Morgan and Edward Tylor. White's interests were diverse, and he took classes in several other disciplines, including philosophy at UCLA, and clinical psychiatry, before discovering anthropology via Alexander Goldenweiser courses at the New School for Social Research. White also spent a few weeks with the Menominee and Winnebago in Wisconsin during his PhD His thesis proposal was a library thesis, which foreshadowed his later theoretical work. He conducted fieldwork at Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico.

In 1927 White began teaching at the University at Buffalo.

Buffalo transition
Teaching at University of Buffalo marked a turning point in White's thinking. White developed an interest in Marxism in 1929, he visited the Soviet Union and on his return joined the Socialist Labor Party, writing articles under the pseudonym "John Steel" for their newspaper.

White went to Michigan when he was hired to replace Julian Steward, who departed Ann Arbor in 1930. Although the university was home to a museum with a long history of involvement in matters anthropological, White was the only professor in the anthropology department itself. He remained here for the rest of his active career. In 1932, he headed a field school in the southwest which was attended by Fred Eggan, Mischa Titiev, and others.

White brought Titiev, his student and a Russian immigrant, to Michigan as a second professor in 1936. However, during the Second World War, Titiev took part in the war effort by studying Japan. Perhaps this upset the socialist White. In any case by war's end White had broken with Titiev, who would go on to found the East Asian Studies Program, and the two were hardly even on speaking terms. No other faculty members were hired until after the war, when scholars like Richard K. Beardsley joined the department. Most would fall on one side or the other of the split between White and Titiev.

As a professor in Ann Arbor, White trained students such as Robert Carneiro, Beth Dillingham, and Gertrude Dole who carried on White's program in its orthodox form, while other scholars such as Eric Wolf, Arthur Jelinek, Elman Service, and Marshall Sahlins and Napoleon Chagnon drew on their time with White to elaborate their own forms of anthropology.

White's anthropology
Over time, White's views became framed in opposition to that of Boasians, with whom he was institutionally at odds. This could take on personal overtones: White referred to Boas's prose style as "corny" in the American Journal of Sociology. Robert Lowie, a proponent of Boas's work, referred to White's work as "a farrago of immature metaphysical notions", shaped by "the obsessive power of fanaticism [which] unconsciously warps one's vision."

One of White's strongest deviations from Boas's philosophy was a view of the nature of anthropology and its relation to other sciences. White understood the world to be divided into cultural, biological, and physical levels of phenomena. Such a division is a reflection of the composition of the universe and was not a heuristic device. Thus, contrary to Alfred L. Kroeber, Kluckhohn, and Edward Sapir, White saw the delineation of the object of study not as a cognitive accomplishment of the anthropologist, but as a recognition of the actually existing and delineated phenomena which comprise the world. The distinction between 'natural' and 'social' sciences was thus based not on method, but on the nature of the object of study: physicists study physical phenomena, biologists biological phenomena, and culturologists (White's term) cultural phenomena.

The object of study was not delineated by the researcher's viewpoint or interest, but the method by which he approached them could be. White believed that phenomena could be explored from three different points of view: the historical, the formal-functional, and the evolutionist (or formal-temporal). The historical view was dedicated to examining the particular diachronic cultural processes, "lovingly trying to penetrate into its secrets until every feature is plain and clear." The formal-functional is essentially the synchronic approach advocated by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and Bronisław Malinowski, attempting to discern the formal structure of a society and the functional interrelations of its components. The evolutionist approach is, like the formal approach, generalizing; but it is also diachronic, seeing particular events as general instances of larger trends.

Boas claimed his science promised complex and interdependent visions of culture, but White thought that it would delegitimize anthropology if it became the dominant position, removing it from broader discourses on science. White viewed his own approach as a synthesis of historical and functional approach because it combined the diachronic scope of one with the generalizing eye for formal interrelations provided by the other. As such, it could point out "the course of cultural development in the past and its probable course in the future" a task that was anthropology's "most valuable function".

This stance can be seen in his views of evolution, which are firmly rooted in the writings of Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Lewis H. Morgan. While it can be argued that White's exposition of Morgan and Spencer's was tendentious, it can be safely said that White's concepts of science and evolution were firmly rooted in their work. Advances in population biology and evolutionary theory passed White by and, unlike Steward, his conception of evolution and progress remained firmly rooted in the nineteenth century.

For White, culture was a superorganic entity that was sui generis and could be explained only in terms of itself. It was composed of three levels: the technological, the social organizational, and the ideological. Each level rested on the previous one, and although they all interacted, ultimately the technological level was the determining one, what White calls "The hero of our piece" and "the leading character of our play". The most important factor in his theory is technology: "Social systems are determined by technological systems", wrote White in his book, echoing the earlier theory of Lewis Henry Morgan.

White spoke of culture as a general human phenomenon and claimed not to speak of 'cultures' in the plural. His theory, published in 1959 in The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome, rekindled the interest in social evolutionism and is counted prominently among the neoevolutionists. He believed that culture–meaning the total of all human cultural activity on the planet–was evolving. White differentiated three components of culture: technological, sociological, and ideological. He argued that it was the technological component which plays a primary role or is the primary determining factor responsible for the cultural evolution. His materialist approach is evident in the following quote: "man as an animal species, and consequently culture as a whole, is dependent upon the material, mechanical means of adjustment to the natural environment." This technological component can be described as material, mechanical, physical, and chemical instruments, as well as the way people use these techniques. White's argument on the importance of technology goes as follows:
 * 1) Technology is an attempt to solve the problems of survival.
 * 2) This attempt ultimately means capturing enough energy and diverting it for human needs.
 * 3) Societies that capture more energy and use it more efficiently have an advantage over other societies.
 * 4) Therefore, these different societies are more advanced in an evolutionary sense.

For White "the primary function of culture" and the one that determines its level of advancement is its ability to "harness and control energy." White's law states that the measure by which to judge the relative degree of evolvedness of culture was the amount of energy it could capture (energy consumption).

White differentiates between five stages of human development. At first, people use the energy of their own muscles. Second, they use the energy of domesticated animals. Third, they use the energy of plants (so White refers to agricultural revolution here). Fourth, they learn to use the energy of natural resources: coal, oil, gas. Fifth, they harness nuclear energy. White introduced a formula,

 * P = ET,

where E is a measure of energy consumed per capita per year, T is the measure of efficiency in using energy harnessed, and P represents the degree of cultural development in terms of product produced. In his own words: "the basic law of cultural evolution" was "culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased, or as the efficiency of the instrumental means of putting the energy to work is increased". Therefore, "we find that progress and development are effected by the improvement of the mechanical means with which energy is harnessed and put to work as well as by increasing the amounts of energy employed". Although White stops short of promising that technology is the panacea for all the problems that affect mankind, like technological utopians do, his theory treats the technological factor as the most important factor in the evolution of society and is similar to ideas in the later works of Gerhard Lenski, the theory of the Kardashev scale, and some notions of technological singularity.

Selected publications

 * Ethnological Essays: Selected Essays of Leslie A. White. University of New Mexico Press. 1987.
 * The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome. 1959.
 * The Science of Culture: A study of man and civilization. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1949.
 * The Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico. American Anthropological Association Memoir 60, 1949.
 * The Pueblo of San Felipe. American Anthropological Association Memoir No. 38, 1938.
 * The Pueblo of Santo Domingo. American Anthropological Association Memoir 60, 1935.
 * The Acoma Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology, 47th annual report, pp. 1–192. Smithsonian Institution, 1932.

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France Bonsant

France Bonsant (born August 18, 1952 in Waterville, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.

Biography
She was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada. She represented the district of Compton—Stanstead from 2004 to 2011. From 1991 to 1999 she was a regional councillor in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality representing the municipality of Ascot Corner.

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User talk:A2Kafir

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revert war
I understand you think that one sentence on Munich Massacre is wrong. I agree. But you are reverting a huge amount of text -- not just that one sentence. Please stop.

Also, I have started a discussion on Talk:Munich Massacre about your version and the other version, and I would value your input there. – Quadell (talk) (help)  19:46, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. He wants to depersonalize the whole thing (eliminating the names if the athletes) and otherwise get rid of anything he views as sympathetic towards Israel, which he clearly hates.  Too bad.  He is wrong to drastically alter waht was a balanced, factual article to fit his worldview.

Talk:Munich Massacre
Regarding Talk:Munich Massacre, any comments you have about a user belong on that user's talk page. The talk page for Munich Massacre should be used exclusively for discussion about the article itself, not the participants. Thanks,   – Quadell (talk) (help)   21:57, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Good point; that would lower the snarkiness level a bit.

I have attempted a compromise version of Munich Massacre that incorporates the best parts of both versions. Improvements are welcome, but I would like to humbly ask that you not do a blanket revert, as you would be reverting good edits as well as bad. Thanks! – Quadell (talk) (help)  22:21, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Yasser Arafat article
Hi A2Kafir. The version HistoryBuffEr tried to insert was his own; he does this with all articles he edits, creates his own POV version, and insists on inserting it without any kind of consensus or agreement in Talk:. Feel free to revert them whenever you see them, as his versions violate Wikipedia policy in several important ways. Jayjg 03:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip. A2Kafir 03:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * My pleasure, and if it hasn't been said before, welcome to Wikipedia. Jayjg 03:50, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bat bomb
Hi, I actually thought the Bat bomb edit you reverted was a good one; I looked up the two books and "Sunwing" does seem to be inspired, plot-wise, by the bat bomb project, whereas "Silverwing" isn't. Just a thought. I have a special affinity for this article, because it was my first one on Wikipedia (before I got a login)............ A2Kafir 23:15, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I assumed that since the books were one series having the link to the one with an article would be best, not realising it needn't be referenced in all books from the series. My bad, restored. Thanks for you vigilance! --fvw * † 23:18, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

Leaning tower
"Good lord. It's like arguing with a lump of depleted uranium." Hey, if it's me you're referring to, (a) smile when you say that, and (b) can't you upgrade my predepleted self to plutonium? Erm, that little matter aside, I was outside the Leaning Tower the year before last. Its leaningness lets too many people overlook what a lovely building it was supposed to be, and still is. Shortly after seeing it I saw a wonderful photo book devoted to it. Italian text only, and I didn't buy it because it was big and expensive and I'd already bought too many books, and I stupidly omitted to make a note of the photographer, title, ISBN. Extensive websearches have failed to turn up anything. D'you happen to know the book I'm talking about? -- Hoary 02:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder of separate-language capabilities of Bookfinder, O fellow infidel. I'll take a look later. Books, books -- yes, I have dozens of them; I don't know what to do. The most monstrous is the Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th edition: the spines are crumbling and the effect on the, er, decor is profoundly depressing. As for Italian book-souvenirs, my prize is Salvini, Il Duomo di Modena. And as for irresistible bargains, if you don't already have Get me a table without flies, Harry (bemused American tourists in Ireland and all that), snap it up at half price. (Incidentally, Bill Griffith is about a thousand times more Wikipediaworthy than at least one Philadelphia-based timewaster I could name.) Hoary 03:35, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 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:
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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:

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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)

Siberia Airlines
Might want to work this in somewhere: Siberia Airlines Flight 1812. A2Kafir 20:52, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Here it is Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 accident AlexPU

Sorry, couldn't find it when I looked.
Sorry about that... I couldn't find the add message link (that little "+") but have now.

I keep adding a link and it keeps getting reverted... did I miss the (a) point here?

I'm asking you, because yours was the last revert.

--User_talk:Brillpappin

Three revert rule
Hi, looking at your recent edits on Khmer Rouge I see that you have reverted the page at least three times in the past twenty-four hours:

 * 17:50, 16 Dec 2004 reverting to 5:07, 16 Dec 2004
 * 01:35, 17 Dec 2004 reverting to the same version
 * 02:48, 17 Dec 2004 reverting to the same version

This is usually a sign that you need to step back a bit and, if the page needs to be reverted, let someone else do it.

It's also a breach of the Three revert rule, which makes three or more reversions by the same user in twenty-four hours an offence that can be dealt with by an administrator blocking you for twenty-four hours. Consider this a polite warning.

It's okay to go to another editor and ask him to look at a page and see if he thinks it should be reverted. That would not be breaking the rule.

I agree that the other user should go to the talk page and discuss his POV problems. Why not leave a message on his talk page asking him to do so? --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 03:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Reverting
Before you revert, you should discuss the edit on the talk page. You are not doing so. Please start. Stargoat 16:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up! Didn't see my typo. Danny 00:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Japan-geo-stub
Hi A2Kafir - I've just removed the image you put on the japan-geo-stub template. Images have been removed from many of the larger stub categories to help with server problems. There was already a perfectly good image for this category, which was removed in line with this policy - and then you put a new, different image back there. Please do not use an image on this or other templates which have had images removed until the "all-clear" has been given to use images - see [] for more information. (In any case, the images used on stub categories are usually decided after some debate at WP:WSS - a map of Japan was not used because there is disputed territory involved in the country, so to use a specific map might cause concern). Grutness|hello?  05:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Charles Krauthammer
Hi, A2Kafir,

I noticed you undid my recent changes to Charles Krauthammer, my notes on his being Jewish and a neoconservative. While I can understand how someone could perceive such changes as biased against either of those groups, I believe my edit was not "irrelevant" and clarifies some possible misconceptions that an uninformed reader could develop without my addition. Krauthammer is (correctly) noted in the article as a staunch supporter of the state of Israel, as well as the policies of George W. Bush. However, the there was no mention of his religion and the only mention of his broad political views was that he worked campaigns for Jimmy Carter and wrote speeches for Mondale. You may think, and not without reason, that an intelligent reader could reasonably assume the neoconservative conversion of Krauthammer, and I would not disagree with that. I would contend, however, that it is certainly worth noting in an encyclopedic article. Less prominent figures than he, such as Donald Kagan, have such changes mentioned.

I would not be adverse to the idea of keeping mention of his being Jewish out of the article. Again, his last name implies a Jewish (or at least German) heritage to the intelligent reader. I would, however, be quick to point out that many other prominent Jewish people have such mentioned in their articles. It may not be directly relevant for them either, but it is a precedent which is followed, and I have not previously seen fuss of it. Of course, there may well be relevance in the fact that he is Jewish, given his staunch support of the Israeli state.

My edits were made to make sure no one perceived Krauthammer as a "Democrat" who has simply been largely supportive of George W. Bush, à la Zell Miller. I hope that we can reach a reasonable compromise on this issue, and I am sure that we will be able to. Yours, --BDD 14:36, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

With almost a month without any response from you, A2, I have decided to place my comment back into the article, based on what I believe is a precedent from the Alan Colmes article, where the mention of his religion is far less relevant than in Krauthammer's. If you still oppose this, I am still happy to discuss it here. Additionally, I have mentioned the fact that he is Jewish in a very logical and practical place - the section "Defending Israel". And the last time I checked, neoconservative was a political description rather than a pejorative, so I don't think there should be any problem with me describing him as such. --BDD 19:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Did you go to DCDS?
Did you go to country day? Yuber 04:55, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the damage the Samuele de Gaunt vandal did to my talk page. P Ingerson 09:17, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Animal stubs
Thanks for your help sorting all the animal stubs. It's so nice to check at the beginning of the day and find that so much work has been done overnight. I had thought I might have to sort all those stubs myself. So, thanks again. --Stemonitis 05:58, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Stubs
Hello. I noticed your edit to Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans, and I thought I'd let you know that British nobles are categorized as. Best, Mackensen (talk) 23:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

User:The Number, User:Sollogfan RfAr
Hi A2Kafir, I've filed an arbitration request against The Number and Sollogfan. Please consider if you want to add yourself as a plaintiff, or perhaps comment on the case if it gets accepted. Cheers, --MarkSweep 09:38, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Moon-stub
Hi A2kafir - thought you might have some input to make to this discussion, since you've been doing a lot of the astro-stub work! Grutness...  wha?  13:53, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Category rename?
Hi - you wrote: ''I moved all the spacecraft stubs out of rocket-stub to spacecraft-stub. But the category for rocket-stub is "Rocket and spacecraft stubs". Do you know how to rename that?''
 * Mm. To be honest, I'm not certain. User:Grm wnr might be the best person to ask - he does a lot of that work for sfd. Grutness...  wha?  01:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:10, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Vanunu
Vanunu is indeed the current Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. This doesn't mean he actually has to do anything, and Lord Rectorial elections often aren't very serious. Dundee University tried to elect a hamster for the same role. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:34, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Housed vs. Stored
Don't be too sure. I gather from what they were saying last spring, that all the dead Popes are stored in the Vatican, albeit individually boxed. >:) Wahkeenah 22:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

The College of Wooster Greeks debate reopened
Since you participated in this AFD debate, you might like to know that it has been reopened following discussion at WP:DRV. The new debate is at here. Yours, Sjakkalle (Check!)  16:46, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

University of Michigan
I saw that you have done some edits on the Ann Arbor article. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind looking at the University of Michigan article as well, which is currently on the Featured Article Candidates board. Thanks. Pentawing 02:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

KTVX
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About moving the pics
Hey A2Kafir, I saw you moved to the right-upper corner the pic of Nicole Neumann I had added some days ago. I wanted to ask you HOW can i move all the pics I add, so not to appear in the center of the page. What shall I do? Hope you answer, thanks!

Re: the Rehabilitation Project Force article
Hello A2Kafir, can we get into communication regarding that article please? It is:. The reason I am attempting to talk with you here is because you don't discuss it on the appropriate discussion page of the article. The article hardly has a citeable datum in it. All three links point to pages created by third persons, they are all opinions of persons outside of the organization which created, maintains and runs the RPF. Since even a rock must first be defined for what it is before controversy about said rock can be understood, I maintain that no context has been developed in that article which would then allow those cited links to make sense within. Introductions states: Term, Topic, Context and then prepare the reader for what will follow. The term is almost defined there, but the topic is not. The RPF is not a punishment camp. It might take reading 1000 pages of the Church of Scientology dogma to clearly see how the RPF is a rehabilitation and not a punishment, but it is exactly what it says, A rehabilitation project. The CoS people mostly deal with ideas, with people, and with paper. They work long hours and it is a trying vocation. The RPF, counterwise, works with brooms, hoses, makes repairs, hammers nails and so on. One complements the other you see? And working with the hammers and brooms in the way they do, in those conditions, rehabilitates a Sea Org member so they may once again take up the more difficult mantle of paper and people. In any event, no matter what your understanding, the article needs to be accurate. It is not at this time accurate. I've no arguement with the linked informational sources, but with the accuracy of the article. Can we arrive at a compromise? Terryeo 20:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Khmer Rouge
Arbitration has been requested, do you care to make a statement? WP:RFAR CJK 23:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry
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You're my sockpuppet?
You may be interested to read the theory found at User:Hillman/Dig/Kohs that purports you're my sockpuppet. Kind of funny, being that we seem to share ONE article edit (Jacobson Stores). Man, if I were to have a sockpuppet, I wish he would at least have the decency to be a Michigan STATE fan! ;-) -- MyWikiBiz 22:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, A2Kafir, fear not, if I had seriously suspected you of anything untoward, I would have eventually asked you here. In any case, I am disposed to believe you when you say that you and Kohs do not know each other, so you need have no worries on that score.

 * Unfortunately I neglected to add a standard user subpage header (just corrected) in which I ask others not to edit these notes directly but to express concerns on my user talk page. I have incorporated the information you provided.  Please note that several of my pages of notes point out that X is not suspected of socking for Y.  This is obviously valuable information for third parties.

 * Hope this clarifies what was going on.---CH 02:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Munich massacre
I've reverted your edits for readability and simplicity. Overstating the obvious - they were murdered - confuses the reader. HOW they were murdered makes it clearer. "Murdered by explosion" kind of rubs me, an English teacher, the wrong way.

User:BassPlyr23 18:07, 25 October 2006 (EDT)

The Advocate article
Thanks for cleaning that up... people on my staff keep having fun with it and I don't always catch it :) FCYTravis 06:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Mevo'ot Yericho
I've added the "prod" template to the article Mevo'ot Yericho, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Mevo'ot Yericho. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 23:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image
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Currency unit stubs
I think it is brilliant idea to separate the currency units from the rest of the stub articles. It appears that you're going through this alphabetically. I just have one question. There are some at Category:Currency unit stubs in the A's and B's. Did you miss them? or you have something else in mind? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No, it's just an artifact of being tired and doing it semi-randomly. I just started on the first page of money-stubs and picked out obvious ones.  I will go back and do a more systematic sweep after the population of obvious ones declines.  A2Kafir 13:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I will help, if I have time. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 13:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Undercover mosque
Thank you for cutting the Gordian Knot in relation to the above. I am less bold than you are. The other party appears to be oblivious to reason. Gerryfarm 19:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Islam and slavery
If you have time, please weigh in on the issues on the talk page. There's an anon who has been simply reverting without discussion and it's causing problems. Currently, it's fine. Criticism of the Quran is having the exact same problem. Arrow740 02:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Interestingly, it's the same anonymous user who is making reverts without discussion on Undercover mosque. Gerryfarm 12:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Please no
Hi. Without exactly disagreeing with you on this (smile), may I remind you of WP:DFTT? --Justanother 17:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Numismatics
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Hey A2Kafir, in case you didn't see, I found a reference for the lower-front passenger deck with panoramic windows in the MD-12 article. It's mentioned on the Airliners.net MD-11 page. -Fnlayson 00:22, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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I noticed that you created this page by putting it in Category:Images of birds. Did you do this because you thought this was a file here on Wikipedia (I make edits like that by accident occasionally)? If that wasn't the case (if you can even remember), I don't really see any reason to categorize the file here when the file is at Commons, especially since Commons already has its own (and far better) category and gallery system; after all it's not a featured picture or anything.

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Untitled
I don't see why this article needs cleanup; it seems perfectly clear to me. Nor is it really a stub. Kundor 01:35, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * The tags were added before I made some changes. Since you agree it's been expanded well, I'll go ahead and remove them. Derrick Coetzee 02:31, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * In that case, good work. ;-) Kundor 21:33, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

possible move
i'm considering moving this article to PC text mode art and generalising it since the affects can be (and often were) achived by methods other than ansi.sys (such as loading data direct to screen memory). What do others think? Plugwash 23:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * You would then include ASCII Art, Amiga Art, etc? Lordscarlet 19:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well i meant PC as in its modern meaning of IBM compatible. and yes by definition ascii art would be included Plugwash 21:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

 * There are a number of related types of character based art, ascii art being most portable. Although pc art looks similar, ansi art differentiates itself with the use of ansi color escape sequences, ansi cursor positioning for basic animation, and the use of graphic characters (usually cp437 which was standard on pcs), which made it a natural companion to bbs use as it could be transmitted over serial lines. There is a small movement (not particularly significant yet) to reintroduce ansi art using utf8 instead of cp437 which works unmodified on many modern terminal emulators (cp337 has been steadily loosing marketshare to more standard character sets such as latin-1 and unicode). 71.211.214.28 (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Mysteriously, no new versions of TheDraw emerged after version 4.63 in 1993, but in later years a number of other ANSI editors appeared, some of which are still maintained today. Does this sentence add anything to the article? Bipedalpedia 23:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps not the mysteriously bit, but it does add something to the article; implying The Draw was the de facto standard, but once it disappeared, others sprung up. --75.80.181.183 07:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

SPAM or NOT SPAM?
I am new to Wikipedia, so...

I have tried to add to "ANSI Art" a few times as "kayakdiver", and my submission keeps getting deleted. The program I am offering a link to is FREE, as is a neat little demo program I also wrote! I think it is being seen as spam by the Bots. I even saw a message that says my web site, www.KayakDiving.net, which hosts some of my image files, is flagged as being disallowed.

The "TheDraw" program featured in the article clearly asks for money to continue using the program. Why is it NOT being disallowed as spam as my free program seems to be? Or, is there some other problem with my submission I am overlooking?

The link I'd like to present is on one of my own web sites (http://www.sitontop.com/KDImages/as_photos.html/#Factory), and I am the sole author/owner of the web sites, programs and images involved.

Any help is appreciated!

Kayakdiver 23:29, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * "SE.EXE Screen Editor FREE! Probably the most intuitive ANSI Screen Editor out there. Download the .zip file containing the editor and manuals, and/or a great sample program (GOOO Factory) that illustrates what you can do with SE.EXE."

 * To begin with, the way this is written can only be interpreted as an ad. It's biased, contains weasel words and does not stick to the WP:NPOV. Also, Wikipedia is not a link farm nor an instruction manual, so the instructions in the paragraph should be removed. It may be possible that it could contribute to the article, but then the link needs complete rephrasing.

 * Suggested phrasing would be like this:
 * "SE.EXE is a freeware ANSI screen editor."

 * That's all for now. I'd like to hear what others have to say about this before any changes about this matter are made. - Eagle_Tas 19:14, 20 July 2007 (GMT)
 * I removed the list of editors and viewers from the article, renamed the paragraph to "ANSI art editors and viewers" and added the reference to List of text editors where the editors and the viewers are listed. --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 04:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Beyond that, TheDraw is a historically significant, relevant, and notable piece of software, used over the years, and moved ANSI art forward. If you have a new software program, then this article is not the place to write about it, but this talk page is fine!! —Wikibarista (talk) 05:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Amen, I am using TheDraw myself since 1993 :) --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 20:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

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the lit diversion
No one worked harder to advance ANSI artscene lit than myself, as Cthulu of Mistigris. But these paragraphs do not belong in this article. I have preserved them so that some enterprising future writer can use them to jump-start an article on that topic.

"A subset of the broader ANSI art scene arose in 1993–1994, known as the 'Lit Scene'. Packaged and distributed similarly to ANSI art packs, zipped and uploaded to BBS systems throughout the United States and the world, Lit packs saw increasing popularity - and rising quality - until an abrupt end of the scene coincident with the explosion of the web-driven commercial Internet. These Lit packs often also contained ANSI art by authors and guest artists, and music that could be played by reader clients provided with the packs, composed on hexadecimal sound editors using instrument samples, typically in MOD format as originally developed on the Amiga and later also used on early Soundblaster-powered PC's. The effective replacement of the BBS scene with the Internet effectively decimated both sides of the ANSI and Lit scenes, creators and users.

Two of the most well-known and prolific Lit groups were Soulz at Zero (SaZ) and its contemporary Candelabra, the latter of which restarted as a website a few years after its initial run as a traditional BBS-driven distributed 'pack'-zine. Candelabra's run as a website lasted the better part of a decade. The leader of SaZ, The Stranger, and one of its best-known writers, WiSH, joined Candelabra, whose co-founder and original editor The Alienist had also contributed briefly to SaZ during its run."

Header pic is not ANSI art
The header pic is definitely NOT ANSI art. If you zoom in, you'll see it's just pixels. Trust me. If you keep zooming in, you'll just see plain color, no glyphs. The Old Macintosh (talk) 13:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

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Plumb

Plumb may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Plumb (novel series), 1978–1983 novel series by Maurice Gee
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 * Plumb (Plumb album), 1997
 * Plumb (Field Music album), 2012
 * Plumb (poetry collection), by Romanian poet George Bacovia

People

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 * Plumb (singer) (born 1975), American musician

Places in the United States

 * Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, a beach and neighborhood
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 * Plumb Brook, a brook in St. Lawrence County, New York
 * Plumb Lane, an arterial road in Reno, Nevada
 * Plumb Memorial Library, a historic public library in Shelton, Connecticut

Tools

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 * Plumb (tools), a brand of tools known for its hammers

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