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Milanesa

The milanesa is a variation of the Lombard veal Milanese, or the Austrian Wiener schnitzel, where generic types of breaded cutlet preparations are known as a milanesa.

The milanesa was brought to the Southern Cone by Italian immigrants between 1860 and the 1920s. Its name probably reflects an original Milanese preparation, cotoletta alla milanese, which is similar to the Austrian Wiener schnitzel.

A milanesa is a thin slice of beef, chicken, fish, veal, or sometimes pork dipped in egg and bread crumbs (or occasionally flour) with seasonings and fried.

Variations

By adding tomato paste, mozzarella cheese, and sometimes ham, a dish called milanesa a la napolitana (lit. 'milanesa in the Neapolitan style') was created. "Neapolitan" is not named for the city of Naples but for a Buenos Aires restaurant named "Napoli". The dish is sometimes made out of chicken breast, suprema napolitana. Milanesa is one of the most popular dishes in Argentina as in Uruguay and have been described as "one of the quintessential Río de la Plata dishes". They are the legacy of Italian immigrants, who introduced cotoletta alla milanese in the late 19th century and early 20th century. During that time, Argentina experienced a huge European immigration wave, with most immigrants coming from Italy.

They are frequently served hot with fried or mashed potatoes; this dish is known as milanesa con papas fritas or milanesa con puré. In Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay it is often topped with a fried egg, known as milanesa a caballo (lit. 'milanesa riding horseback'), but omits the tomato sauce. They are often eaten cold as a sandwich filling, with salad. Mustard and mayonnaise are often used as seasoning. Other common condiments include lemon juice and salsa golf.

Milanesa Kaiser, or escalopa as it is known in Chile, is a variant (where normal milanese are also eaten) reminiscent of cordon bleu or valdostana, with a layer of melted cheese between the beef and a layer of ham. A classic Chilean version is called escalopa a lo pobre, topped with french fries, sautéed onions and fried eggs, akin to lomo a lo pobre.

In Mexico and the Southern United States, milanese are eaten in some regions, often in a torta (a sandwich made with bolillo or sandwich roll). In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S. influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal. The milanesa memela napolitana is made with a thick fried tortilla with a milanesa on top, with ham, tomato sauce, and grated cheese. In Mexico, milanesa usually refers to the preparation method; any type of meat that is pounded thin, breaded, and fried might be referred to as a milanesa. In the northern state of Nuevo León, perhaps due to the influence of German and Czech immigrants, the dish known as milanesa is extremely popular and stands on its own as a main dish in most restaurants. It is usually served with french fries, refried beans, rice, and a lettuce salad.

In Panama, they are most commonly made of thinly sliced beef (usually sirloin steak), but also thin chicken fillet. Lime juice is squeezed over them before serving or eating them, and often they are also seasoned with hot sauce. They are eaten with white rice and other side dishes such as salad, lentils, or beans. The latter two are poured over the rice, as they are usually served in Panama while the salad is served off to the side where space is still left on the plate. When served as sandwiches, they are known as emparedado de milanesa or sandwich de milanesa when tomatoes, onions, lettuce, ketchup, or American cheese (queso amarillo i.e. yellow cheese). Pan de molde (sandwich bread) and pan flauta (a Panamanian type of baguette that is thicker and softer) are the types used to make these sandwiches.

In the Philippines, milanesa is known as carne frita (not to be confused with bistek, which is also called carne frita in the Philippines), and is cooked in much the same way as described above (meat pounded until thin, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, fried). Admittedly, it is not as popular in the country as it is in South America, and it is served mainly in people's homes, not in restaurants. The families who do eat it usually serve milanesa/carne frita with white rice, a bean stew of some sort (for instance, white beans with a dark leafy green; also fabada), sometimes an American-style potato salad with cut green beans added, and often, chili ketchup or a mayo-ketchup mixed sauce not unlike the Argentine salsa golf. It is almost never served as a sandwich.

The Polish variety of milanesa is commonly known as kotlet schabowy, which is pork loin pounded with mallet until it becomes thinner and soft, then coated with flour, beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fried on the pan. Also, kotlet drobiowy is made of chicken or turkey and prepared in similar way, and kotlet wolowy is made of beef steak, pounded, soaked in milk for few hours to tenderize the meat and then coated in flour, beaten egg, and bread crumbs. Polish kotlet is traditionally served with cooked or mashed potatoes, fries, Silesian dumplings, sszałot, or rice. Typically, sides are traditional Polish salads such as mizeria, thinly grated carrot salad, Ćwikła, or one of traditional Polish surówka. The history of the Polish kotlet dates back to the 19th century.

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Xiphosura

Xiphosura (, in reference to its sword-like telson) is an order of arthropods related to arachnids. They are more commonly known as horseshoe crabs (a name applied more specifically to the only extant family, Limulidae). They first appeared in the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician). Currently, there are only four living species. Xiphosura contains one suborder, Xiphosurida, and several stem-genera.

The group has hardly changed in appearance in hundreds of millions of years; the modern horseshoe crabs look almost identical to prehistoric genera and are considered to be living fossils. The most notable difference between ancient and modern forms is that the abdominal segments in present species are fused into a single unit in adults.

Xiphosura were historically placed in the class Merostomata, although this term was intended to encompass also the eurypterids, whence it denoted what is now known to be an unnatural (paraphyletic) group (although this is a grouping recovered in some recent cladistic analyses). Although the name Merostomata is still seen in textbooks, without reference to the Eurypterida, some have urged that this usage should be discouraged. The Merostomata label originally did not include Eurypterida, although they were added in as a better understanding of the extinct group evolved. Now Eurypterida is classified within Sclerophorata together with the arachnids, and therefore, Merostomata is now a synonym of Xiphosura. Several recent phylogenomic studies place Xiphosura within Arachnida, often as the sister group of Ricinulei; included among them are taxonomically comprehensive analyses of both morphology and genomes, which have recovered Merostomata as a derived clade of arachnids.

Description
Modern xiphosurans reach up to 60 cm in adult length, but the Paleozoic species were often far smaller, some as small as 1 to 3 cm long.

Their bodies are divided into an anterior prosoma and a posterior opisthosoma, or abdomen. The upper surface of the prosoma is covered by a semicircular carapace, while the underside bears five pairs of walking legs and a pair of pincer-like chelicerae. The mouth is located on underside of the center of the prosoma, between the bases of the walking legs, and lies behind a lip-like structure called the labrum. The exoskeleton consist of a tough cuticle, but do not contain any crystalline biominerals. Like scorpions, xiphosurans have an exocuticular layer of hyaline which exhibits UV fluorescence.

Xiphosurans have up to four eyes, located in the carapace. Two compound eyes are on the side of the prosoma, with one or two median ocelli towards the front. The compound eyes are simpler in structure than those of other arthropods, with the individual ommatidia not being arranged in a compact pattern. They can probably detect movement, but are unlikely to be able to form a true image. In front of the ocelli is an additional organ that probably functions as a chemoreceptor.

The first four pairs of legs end in pincers, and have a series of spines, called the gnathobase, on the inner surface. The spines are used to masticate the food, tearing it up before passing it to the mouth. The fifth and final pair of legs, however, has no pincers or spines, instead having structures for cleaning the gills and pushing mud out of the way while burrowing. Behind the walking legs is a sixth set of appendages, the chilaria, which are greatly reduced in size and covered in hairs and spines. These are thought to be vestiges of the limbs of an absorbed first opisthosomal segment.

The opisthosoma is divided into a forward mesosoma, with flattened appendages, and a metasoma at the rear, which has no appendages. In modern forms, the whole of the opisthosoma is fused into a single unsegmented structure. The underside of the opisthosoma carries the genital openings and five pairs of flap-like gills.

The opisthosoma terminates in a long caudal spine, commonly referred to as a telson (though this same term is also used for a different structure in crustaceans). The spine is highly mobile, and is used to push the animal upright if it is accidentally turned over.

Internal anatomy
The mouth opens into a sclerotised oesophagus, which leads to a crop and gizzard. After grinding up its food in the gizzard, the animal regurgitates any inedible portions, and passes the remainder to the true stomach. The stomach secretes digestive enzymes, and is attached to an intestine and two large caeca that extend through much of the body, and absorb the nutrients from the food. The intestine terminates in a sclerotised rectum, which opens just in front of the base of the caudal spine.

Xiphosurans have well-developed circulatory systems, with numerous arteries that send blood from the long tubular heart to the body tissues, and then to two longitudinal sinuses next to the gills. After being oxygenated, the blood flows into the body cavity, and back to the heart. The blood contains haemocyanin, a blue copper-based pigment performing the same function as haemoglobin in vertebrates, and also has blood cells that aid in clotting.

The excretory system consists of two pairs of coxal glands connected to a bladder that opens near the base of the last pair of walking legs. The brain is relatively large, and, as in many arthropods, surrounds the oesophagus. In both sexes, the single gonad lies next to the intestine and opens on the underside of the opisthosoma.

Reproduction
Xiphosurans move to shallow water to mate. The male climbs onto the back of the female, gripping her with his first pair of walking legs. The female digs out a depression in the sand, and lays from 200 to 300 eggs, which the male covers with sperm. The pair then separates, and the female buries the eggs.

The egg is about 2 - 3 mm across. Inside the egg, the embryo goes through four molts before it hatches into a larva, often called a 'trilobite larva' due to its superficial resemblance to a trilobite. At this stage it has no telson yet, and the larva is lecithotrophic (non-feeding) and planktonic, subsisting on the maternal yolk before settling to the bottom to molt, after which the telson first appears. Through a series of successive moults, the larva develops additional gills, increases the length of its caudal spine, and gradually assumes the adult form. Modern xiphosurans reach sexual maturity after about three years of growth.

Evolutionary history
The oldest known stem-Xiphosuran, Lunataspis, is known from the late Ordovician of Canada, around 445 million years ago. No xiphosurans are known from the following Silurian. Xiphosurida first appears during the late Devonian. A major radiation of freshwater xiphosurids, the Belinuridae is known from the Carboniferous, with the oldest representatives of the modern family Limulidae also possibly appearing during this time, though they only appear in abundance during the Triassic. Another major radiation of freshwater xiphosurans, the Austrolimulidae, is known from the Permian and Triassic. All extant species are estimated to have diverged from a common ancestor that lived about 135 million years ago in the early Cretaceous. As a group they have never showed much diversity in regard of species. Less than 50 fossil species are known from the Carboniferous period, when they were at their most diverse.

Classification
Xiphosuran classification :

Order Xiphosura Latreille, 1802
 * †Maldybulakia Tesakov & Alekseev, 1998 (Devonian)
 * †Willwerathia Størmer, 1969 (Devonian)
 * †Kasibelinuridae Pickett, 1993 (Middle Devonian to Late Devonian)
 * Suborder Xiphosurida
 * †Infraorder Belinurina
 * †Belinuridae Zittel & Eastman, 1913 (Middle Devonian to Upper Carboniferous)
 * Infraorder Limulina
 * †Bellinuroopsis Chernyshev, 1933 (Carboniferous)
 * †Rolfeiidae Selden & Siveter, 1987 (Early Carboniferous to Early Permian)
 * Superfamily †Paleolimuloidea Anderson & Selden, 1997
 * †Paleolimulidae Raymond, 1944 (Carboniferous to Permian)
 * Superfamily Limuloidea
 * †Valloisella Racheboeuf, 1992 (Carboniferous)
 * †Austrolimulidae Riek, 1955 (Early Permian-Early Jurassic)
 * Limulidae Zittel, 1885 (Carboniferous to recent)
 * Limulinae Zittel, 1885 (Late Jurassic-Present)
 * Tachypleinae Pocock, 1902 (Late Cretaceous-Recent)

Taxa removed from Xiphosura
Two groups were originally included in the Xiphosura, but since have been assigned to separate classes:
 * Aglaspida Walcott, 1911 (Cambrian to Ordovician)
 * Chasmataspidida Caster & Brooks, 1956 (Lower Ordovician)

Cladogram
Cladogram after Lasmdell 2020.

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Fort Gilkicker

Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns. The actual installed armament rather differed from this. In 1902 the RML guns were replaced by two 9.2-inch and two six-inch BL guns, and before the First World War the walls were further strengthened with substantial earthwork embankments. The fort was disarmed in 1956 and used for storage until 1999. On 28th July 2022, the fort was sold at auction for just under £1.4M and planning has been granted for 26 homes. Since then a massive restoration project has been underway.

Layout
Each of the twenty two gun casemates on the main gun floor consists of a brick vaulted chamber behind a granite face fourteen feet thick. Each gun fired though an armoured embrasure with a shield hung on a massive shield frame. To the rear of each gun casemate is the barrack room for the gun crew with space for folding barrack room beds and a fireplace. The barrack rooms open on to a verandah, or walkway, that connects all of the barrack rooms. Beneath the gun casemates are a series of magazines appropriated for shells and cartridges. Vertical lifts from the shell and cartridge passages open onto each gun casemate allowing efficient supply of ammunition for the guns. The magazine floor was lit by oil lamps placed on lamp trolleys running on rails through lamp tunnels from the parade. Steps lead up from the verandah and parade to the upper battery that consisted of five large open gun emplacements with expense magazines between. The rear, or gorge, of the fort is closed by a two-storey barrack block that was originally occupied by the officers. It included Officer's bedrooms, the officers’ mess with kitchen and pantry, a field officer's quarters, and officer's servant's quarters. At each end was an artillery store. At the western end was the laboratory for filling shells and cartridges. The entrance to the fort through the centre of the barrack block opens onto the central parade. Outside the fort is an artillery store and a smith and fitters shop.

Original battery (1853-1863)
The first fortifications on Gilkicker Point were constructed as an auxiliary battery to Fort Monckton and consisted of an earthen rampart for eleven guns firing through embrasures cut through the parapets. The battery was a distorted quadrilateral in shape with a long gorge (or rear) a short sea facing rampart with two flanking faces. The front faces were protected by a ditch which was flanked by musketry caponiers at the angles. The rear was closed off by a brick wall with a barrack for officers at its centre. The battery was heavily criticised by James Fergusson, who eventually became the Treasury representative on the Royal Commission in to the defences of the United Kingdom, set up in 1859. In his paper ‘The Peril of Portsmouth’ he stated that the battery was in danger of collapse under the weight of its own guns and could easily be captured by a small force landing in the bay as it could offer little resistance. As a result, the Defence Committee proposed a new work to replace it.

Construction (1863-1871)
The current Fort Gilkicker was constructed between the years 1863 and 1869 at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Its purpose was to defend the deep water anchorage at Spithead and to protect the western approach to Portsmouth harbour. The fort was begun by a contractor who failed in November 1863 early in the stages of the construction and a renowned civil engineer, John Towlerton Leather who was already involved in the construction of the great sea forts at nearby Spithead, was asked to complete the Fort at Gilkicker. His yard was nearby at Stokes Bay, the site of which eventually became the Stokes Bay Submarine Mining Establishment. The new Fort Gilkicker was conceived as a curvilinier fort for twenty six guns on one level firing through armoured embrasures with a barrack closing the rear. It faced in a more easterly direction that its predecessor and its principal role was to direct fire on Sturbridge Shoal and to the flanks were to bear upon Spithead and Stokes Bay. The design for the fort was altered slightly and it was completed in 1871 for twenty two guns in casemates with five heavier guns in open positions on the roof. The estimated cost of Fort Gilkicker in 1869 was £61,395, the actual cost on completion being £58,766.

First version (1871-1906)
The approved armament was:- seventeen 10-inch R.M.L. 18 tons Lower tier casemates; five 9-inch R.M.L. 12 tons Lower tier casemates. Five gun positions were constructed in the upper battery, three for 11-inch guns of 25 tons on ‘C’ pivots in positions 2, 3 and 4 and two for 12-inch guns of 25 tons on ‘A’ pivots in positions 1 and 5. The site was used for milita training in 1871, and submarine mining experiments in 1879. Additional guns were added through the 1880s. In 1891 two of the positions for 11-inch guns on the roof were altered as lookout and the guns removed.

Second version (1906-1956)
In 1898 Colonel Montgomery recommended that Gilkicker be modified to take the latest Breech Loading guns in place of the 10-inch and 9-inch RMLs on the lower gun floor. The upper battery was to be completely remodelled to take two of the latest 9.2-inch BL Mark X guns on barbette V mountings with two 6-inch BL Mark VII guns on CPII mountings for closer range support. The 9.2-inch BL was to counter Armoured ships up to a range of 6,000 yards whilst the 6-inch BL was for use against unarmoured ships, ships attempting to block channels by sinking in them and against ships trying to break through booms (blockers and boom smashers). The authority for the alteration was given in 1902. The work was completed in October 1906 at an estimated cost of £16,000 and an actual cost of £19,671. The contractor was William Hill of Gosport. The work included the rebuilding of the magazines, gun emplacements and barrack block. The magazines were altered to accommodate 1000 6-inch B.L. shells and cartridges and 500 9.2-inch BL shells and 1,000 cartridges. As part of this work the whole of the exterior granite wall of the fort was covered with earth and the front ditch filed to protect the shell and cartridge stores. Position finding cells were built into this bank at each end of the fort. each worked in conjunction with a transmitting station exterior to the fort, that for the 6-inch guns at Fort Monckton and that for the 9.2inch guns at No.4 battery of the Stokes Bay Lines.

The Owen Committee decided in 1905 that the heavy armament of Gilkicker, Stokes Bay and Browndown were only of use against ships that had forced the outer defences and such ships would be deterred by the inevitable damage they would incur. The 9.2-inch guns at Gilkicker and Browndown were therefore superfluous. The 6-inch guns at Gilkicker and at No.2 battery of the Stokes Bay Lines were also superfluous and ineffective. These guns were to be removed. A 1906 armament return shows that the 9.2 inch and 6-inch guns were still mounted but to be reduced. Corrections to August 1907 show them as dismounted. The barrack block was altered 1908-1910 by converting it to married quarters for Royal Engineers at nearby Fort Monckton. In 1916 the fort was armed with an early type of Anti-Aircraft gun, a 3-inch Quick Fire gun on a high angle mounting. This was placed in the eastern 9.2inch B.L. position on top of the fort. Trinity House had a small observation post on Fort Gilkicker after 1939.

During World War II the fort was briefly armed with a 40mm Bofors gun and Gun Laying Radar was fitted outside the fort to direct the guns of the nearby Gilkicker Anti-Aircraft gun site. In the build-up to D-day a signals unit occupied the fort and during the Normandy landings on 9 June over 1,000 signals were recorded for the day needing routing to over 1300 addresses. Later an average of 800 signals to almost 1,000 addresses were routed via Gilkicker. The fort was the site of artillery exercises in 1953.

Later use (1956-1999)
In 1956 Coast Defence was abolished and the fort was then used by the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works as a plumbers workshop. Later a substantial wooden signalling station was built on top of the fort, which was continuously manned by former RN Signalmen, and used to monitor movements of vessels and assist in RN signalling training. Vessels transiting The Solent in the vicinity could also check their compass errors using the nearby navigational transit towers of Gilkicker and Kickergil. The fort was used by HMS Dolphin, based at Fort Blockhouse as storage for Submarine spares from 1959, with Fort Brockhurst staff maintaining it. The adjacent beach was closed to the public during this period.

In November 1986 Hampshire County Council bought the fort, but not its surrounding earth bank. The fort was used as a building materials store from 1987 until 1999.

Disuse (1999-present)
The Phoenix Trust proposed to convert the fort to apartments in 1999, but pulled out in 2001. A similar redevelopment scheme was posited by Try Homes from 2003 to 2006, and Assett Hawk from 2007 to 2012. The latter did engage in some work on the site clearing overgrowth in 2012, but none of the schemes came to fruition. In 2016, the fort was earmarked for restoration and conversion to modern apartments by Fort Gilkicker Developments Ltd, and work began on site with the erection of a fence, however these plans were again dropped in 2018 due to financial issues, and the fort was put on sale again in November 2019 with a guide price of 5 to 5.5 million pounds.

On 28 July 2022, it was sold to developers for £1.38 million, with plans to turn it into 26 homes - 22 in the former gun emplacements and 4 larger ones in the barrack block.

It is a Grade II* Listed Building and on the Buildings at Risk Register, but is currently in extremely poor condition due to a lack of maintenance and numerous break-ins. An urban explorer took a series of photographs of the interior in 2016, demonstrating the scale of the damage. The site suffered a major fire in March 2019.

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Jerry Holland (musician)

Jerry Holland (February 23, 1955 – July 16, 2009) was a musician and fiddler who lived on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.

He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States to Canadian parents – his father was from New Brunswick and his mother was from Quebec. During his childhood, Holland was exposed to the music of the large Cape Breton expatriate community in Boston. He began to play the fiddle and step-dance at the age of five, and played at his first square dance at the age of six. He made his television debut in 1962 on the Canadian program Don Messer's Jubilee. By the time he was ten years old, he was playing regularly at dances in the Boston area. Holland's family made annual summer trips to Cape Breton, and he moved there permanently in 1975.

In his early 20s, Holland performed with the Cape Breton Symphony, a group of fiddlers that included Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald, Angus Chisholm, Joe Cormier, Wilfred Gillis and John Donald Cameron. The group appeared regularly on CBC television on The John Allan Cameron Show and other programs. From playing with these much older and more experienced musicians, Holland gained an appreciation for the traditional style of Cape Breton fiddle music, as well as a repertoire of over a thousand fiddle tunes.

Holland released his first, self-titled album in 1976. It was his second album, Master Cape Breton Fiddler (1982, re-released on CD in 2001), that made his reputation as a ground-breaking musician. Accompanied by Dave MacIsaac on guitar and Hilda Chiasson on piano, Holland pioneered a new, more modern sound for Cape Breton music on this album, while still remaining firmly within the Cape Breton tradition. Master Cape Breton Fiddler was a major influence on younger Cape Breton fiddlers such as Howie MacDonald.

Holland released thirteen albums and appeared as a guest musician on over 25 more. He published two collections of fiddle tunes: Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes and Jerry Holland's Second Collection of Fiddle Tunes, both edited by Paul Cranford. He was also noted as a composer of fiddle tunes, most famously "Brenda Stubbert's Reel" (named for his friend and fellow Cape Breton fiddler Brenda Stubbert) and "My Cape Breton Home".

Holland died on July 16, 2009, from cancer.

Discography

 * Jerry Holland (1976)
 * Master Cape Breton Fiddler (1982)
 * Lively Steps (1987)
 * Jerry Holland Solo (1988)
 * The New Fiddle (1990)
 * A Session With Jerry Holland (1990)
 * Fathers and Sons (1992)
 * The Fiddlesticks Collection (1995)
 * Fiddler's Choice (1998)
 * Crystal Clear (2000)
 * Parlor Music (2005)
 * Helping Hands (2009)
 * Jerry Holland and Friends (2010)

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Oakland Cemetery FAR
I am doing the grunt work of notifying article creators/principal writers of articles up for FAR. Your sig was different on the FAR page than on the article, hence my message that it was up for review. If I may ask, why did you nominate it, rather than just fixing the problems? You obviously know a lot about the article and subject, given that you created it. Just curious. Jeffpw 18:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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You have probably been told this already, but I just want to comment on how amazing the above image is. I stared at it for ages... I absolutely love it. It is really informative, and it looks so good. I set it as my wallpaper. Definately deserves the featured image status it got, well done. Just interested to know, how long did it take you to make? J Milburn 23:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy...
Groundhog Day Matt!! You are an excellent contributor on the reference desk. [' Mαc Δαvιs '] X ( How's my driving? ) ❖ 23:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

What I was going to post on Talk:Something Awful
I was going to post this, but you removed your comment before I finished typing it up. Ignore it if you like.

 * News source
 * News source
 * Reliable weblog
 * News source
 * News source
 * Television source
 * Reliable weblog
 * I'd go on, but I think I've made my point. These sources are reliable in terms of Internet sources- they may be unacademic, but they're definitely edited and reviewed. We shouldn't allow original research and shakey primary sources in lieu of actual sourcing just because "it's the internet". The reason I asked you to be civil is because you're being very aggressive and confrontational. Believe it or not, I have actually read what you posted, and just because I'm going by policies and guidelines doesn't mean I'm using then as a "bludgeoning stick".

 * The primary concern about the sourcing in this context is not about the history of the website - the important stuff is sourcable - it's the fact that having a criticism section that consists entirely of blogspot links and forums is not appropriate. They have absolutely no editorial or reviewing process, and most of all, they have zero credibility. --Wafulz 02:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Your signature
How in the world do you get the datestamps like that? ffm yes? 20:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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POTD
Hi Matt,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Internet map 1024.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-03-31.  howcheng  {chat} 06:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Oakland Cemetery rating

 * Wasn't sure if you were watching my page, so I'm responding on yours. Hope that's okey-dokey. :)
 * I'm going thru and rating the WP:NRHP-related articles, as it was starting to get backlogged. As far as this one, I'd say:

 * 1) Very good amount of information
 * 2) Nice pics to highlight points
 * 3) It was a former featured article
 * Dang, and the map in the infobox, I didn't even notice; that's well cool! I normally under-rate articles (I'd rather err on the side of caution when I'm not sure) but that map would have definitely helped put it over anyway. My understanding is that an individual can't rate an article higher than a B. Above that has to go through a review process. So I rated it the highest that I could. I'd love to see it get back to FA status again. If there's some way I can help, unlikely though that may be, I'd love to. Since I live in North Central Florida, we're practically neighbours, cosmically speaking. I'm trying to get pics of all the NRHP sites in the state, but I've been tempted to pop across the border to get a few Georgia ones.
 * That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! :)  --Ebyabe 00:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I'm watching your page, so you can respond back here. Or on my page, whichever works for ya. :) --Ebyabe 00:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your corrections on Overclocking. I am not familiar with the subject and only relying on the books. Your coaching is welcome! --BorgQueen 22:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

May I ask a favor of you?
I noticed you are a regular editor of the semiconductor Wikipedia page. I created the extrinsic semiconductor page for a technical communication class and would greatly appreciate your feedback on it. I need to make another revision for my final grade and would like some pointers from an experienced Wikipedia editor. I appreciate any comments but if you don't have time to check it out that is ok, too.

Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Adeut85 (talk • contribs) 01:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

Hi
I ask if you could take a look at Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses and see if it needs some language and grammar check. I would also ask if you could check out the article Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions. I believe there is reason to highly question that article's neutrality. Summer Song 13:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Removing links added from other users without contact.
The links added by myself are legitimate and are not marketing. I represent a review site that conducts tests and posts analysis of products. We dont sell a thing. I would appreciate you checking with the user posting a link before arbitrarily removing a link. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JasonTWL (talk • contribs) 19:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

Recent edits on Main JW Page
Some good editing in the "Belief and Practices" section of the main JW page. Glad to see you back on the page! Dtbrown 16:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

OMG, there's like hourly vandalism on the jw page. Good work to you and the others in keeping it under control. Fcsuper 05:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Edits by User:Mstare88
User:Mstare88 is a new editor who is learning what is and is not acceptable editing at Wikipedia. He has come a long way since his earliest edits but still has quite a ways to go. His last two edits were to Hell and Jehovah's Witnesses, both of which you reverted based primarily on content. I am not qualified to comment on whether his edits were factually correct or not. I defer to your knowledge of the subject.

However, I would ask that you be kind to this user and explain on User talk:Mstare88 why his edits were unacceptable. It appears that he has a strong anti-JW POV and so he may be a little difficult to work with, especially if you are a JW. Nonetheless, he shows some potential for becoming a valued contributor to Wikipedia (see my Talk Page to see the discussions that we have had).

Thanks and happy editing!

--Richard 16:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

why were my edits erased?
I thought that my edits were good. They were not from an anti point of veiw. they were true facts with truth. i got from from the book Kingdom of the Cults. please explain further to me why they were erased. thank you have a nice day.Mstare88 01:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I answered this when you asked it on Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses. -- mattb
 * I wonder if Mstare88 also believed that his first edit: "This religon is false. and it is not in any part apartof Christianity. Do not follow this religon" was "good"; "not from an anti point of view"; and "facts of truth". It certainly wasn't a good start for credibility.--Jeffro77 08:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Why was my link erased?

I put the link to the Jehovahs Witnesses main site in the beliefs section so that if people want the beliefs they can go straight to the source instead of taking others peoples opinions who are not jehovahs witnesses. People wont use the link because its small an hidden.

Enjoy!

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talk
if there are any JW's out there please visit my talk page and discuss why you belive thses things. I am a Protestent and would enjoy discussing these things with you. i would like to know more about JW's and maybe we can find common ground on some things. as well a maybe point out were either one of us may be wrong. please reply.Mstare88 15:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I see that Mstare88 is flaming other users' talk pages with this request, and not just on mine. Groan. Anyway, thanks Matt for answering the question left on my Talk page while I was out of town.--Jeffro77 08:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Fnagaton
Hi,

Would you mind notifying Fnagaton that removing messages from own user talk page is inappropriate? I notified him about that, and he removed my notification in this diff. I don't think he's going to believe me about anything at all... --SLi 00:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

 * The user threatened "Please note that removing messages from your user talk page is not allowed. ... I will have to report you to the administrators" but then retracted that when he realised it's not against the rules.User_talk:Fnagaton&diff=121567016&oldid=121561973 Fnagaton 17:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't want to get in the middle of your dispute. I care only about the guideline in question.  For your interest, you can see my earlier response to SLi on his talk page. -- mattb

Heads-up
Allo. Just a quick heads-up. So it doesn't take you by surprise, I used some pretty strong language on the mos talk page. Just know that it has nothing to do with you (you've been pretty darn cooperative), but rather my strong desire to more definitively resolve the issue. I'm just bloody tired of people hiding behind an alleged consensus that seems to be off-limits for revisiting. Bladestorm 15:55, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I absolutely know the difference between sarenne's actions and other editors who just happen to prefer the IEC prefixes. I don't use sarenne as an example of a typical pro-IEC, but rather as an example of the need to re-open this for full discussion. BTW, I really did mean what I said. If it does end up with a vote, please do notify some editors that you know prefer the IEC prefixes. Because, otherwise, we could end up with them saying, "but I didn't know it was re-opened!" Even if all those notifications end up leading to a majority for IEC, that's still preferable to a perceived consensus on KB if it isn't really deserved. :) Bladestorm 16:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, I hate admitting this, but, um... I kinda still don't get how to use IRC... (eep) (honours degree in computer science and can't even figure out a bloody chat.. um.. thingy) I'm on my way out now for the moment, but, um, feel free to drop a couple links on my talk page for, uh, how to use it? (hint hint) Bladestorm 16:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

3RR
Thank you for reporting me at WP:ANI/3RR without informing me. Sarenne 08:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Content removal and citation
has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Hi Matt, regarding my removal of content on the article Jehovah's Witnesses (00:55, 12 April 2007 38.99.8.114 (Talk) (Citation needed to back this up.)) I'd like to apologize for making that edit without examining the article further. You're correct that the necessary references have been cited on that page. Sorry.

Is there any way to tie that statement into its reference a bit closer? It seems the proper thing to do.

Any ideas?
Hey matt, I don't have much time, so I hope this makes sense... I'm noticing two problems with the binary prefixes discussions. First, it's getting harder and harder to locate the most recent comments. And second, it's taking up the whole page, and that MoS page is about more than just binary prefixes. Do you think we could/should set up a different discussion page, just for this topic? (So the rest of the MoS stuff doesn't get buried?) Anyways, tell me what you think. Bladestorm 14:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA
After a careful review of your contributions to Wikipedia, you've passed my standards for admin nomination. Your RfA now exists at Requests for adminship/Matt Britt. In moving this nomination forward, please follow these instructions I crafted for nominees I have nominated, as this will help ensure a smooth RfA process for you and success as an admin. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I'll be happy to help in any way that I can. Do not forget to accept the nomination, update the time/date of the ending of the RfA to match when the RfA is posted to WP:RFA +7 days and answer the questions on the RfA prior to posting it to WP:RFA. Thank you very, very much for being a willing guinea pig in this experiment. --Durin 21:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Requests for adminship/Matt Britt 2 is now available. Update end time when you post to RfA and answer questions of course. --Durin 17:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Minor thing
I'm not going to oppose your RFA for it, and it's quite a minor thing, but I'm not sure that the timestamp in your signature would be readable by the bots that archive pages like the administrators' noticeboard. If that's true, it would impede the bot's ability to archive sections that you were the last to comment on. Again, not a big deal, but something you should probably check on. Ral315 » 01:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Not your RFA
In your essay you suggest that Wikipedia needs a policy to encourage people to write articles. I was wondering how you envision that in practice.  > R a d i a n t <  14:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA
Hi. For what it's worth I believe you should seriously consider aborting your RfA and restarting it under a more convenient format. A very large number of people have already indicated that they find the format frustratingly complicated and the experiment has stopped being helpful. The fact is, hardly anyone involved in your RfA is now contributing to any of the sections that actually concern your capacity as an admin and that's not what an RfA should be. Best, Pascal.Tesson 22:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You might actually want to consider this. When I saw that you had an RFA, I wanted to go and add my 'support' to it... but, um... I have no clue how to use that bloody page. Bladestorm 14:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: PlayStation Portable external link
Thanks for the links, I'll carefully read before doing responding. Carlblackburn 05:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Your closed RfA
Your RfA has been closed by Dan as unsuccessful because of the format has not yet gained community consensus. Dan suggest that you re-run using the standard format for now and I agree with that, if you run again in the current format I would be more than happy to support you. --WinHunter (talk) 01:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I supported you in the test format, I'd be happy to support you in the standard one as well. This is an unusual case, "wait several months before trying again" clearly doesn't apply here. I hope you will. Seraphimblade Talk to me 01:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree. --Richard 13:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

RfA
Hi Matt,

It really is unfortunate that your RfA has become embroiled in debates over "the system" that have little to do with you. While my reasons for opposing you are independent of that, the climate is more tense than usual because it seems the "stakes" are higher. I'm sorry that you have had to suffer through a week of this, and I do appreciate your calmness in directly asking me for clarification.

I know that you intend now not to close XfDs. I believe you. The trouble is that adminship is not divisible. Once you have one capacity, you have them all. As such, I like to make sure that every candidate meets a minimal level of familiarity with a wide-range of admin tasks. I'm glad not everyone comments like I do; I look forward to the success of your RfA, should that occur. I feel it is my role, however, as an RfA "stickler" to point out areas where candidates are lacking. Even if you succeed, it is good for you to remember the limits of your own experience; it is in that spirit that I record my opposition.

My opposition to your candidacy is stronger now than before because I do feel it is very bad form for anyone to reapply at RfA after one day, whatever their reason. If I were you, I would have asked Durin to delay the nomination two weeks or so, just to allow tensions to cool. Adminship is not such an urgent thing. Unfortunately, I do believe that your rapid acceptance of renomination demonstrates "not-good" judgment: I understand the reason you did; the choice simply makes a little less comfortable with you.

As always, though, my opposition is never personal. Despite what others may say, RfA has always been ruled by consensus: part of consensus is the airing of potential problems, and the acknowledgement of their existence. Another part is the graceful acceptance of the community's judgment if it is contrary to one's own. I anticipate that the community will promote, and I look to forward to seeing your good work. Best wishes, Xoloz 19:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Admins can not know everything. There's simply too much. There's admin area after admin area after admin area. It is therefore a forgone conclusion that all admin candidates will have areas they are lacking. Opposing on this basis is therefore flawed; we would promote no one if that reason for opposition was valid and everyone at RfA lock-stepped with that idea.
 * Xoloz, administrators are expected to delete images for a wide number of reasons. Since you have such a horrendously low edit count with regards to images, (only 9 to date, and three of those were just removing speedy tags), it is blatantly obvious that you can not be trusted with the appropriate judgment to handle your administrator duties. If you are not a hypocrite, you would be well advised to stand down from your adminship since you are so blatantly, obviously ill-qualified to be an administrator.
 * Matt was encouraged by multiple parties to re-apply, including the bureaucrat who closed it. I see nothing wrong with him re-applying in a "normal" format of RfA. Since the RfA is going so swimmingly well, it's apparent the community seems to feel the same. --Durin 19:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've replied to Durin's comment (joke?) at his talk page, for the record. Xoloz 20:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not a joke. I found the position you are taking to be hypocritical. You hold your perception of XfD experience against Matt for adminship, yet have even less experience in images. Doesn't make sense. If you think he shouldn't be an admin for lack of XfD experience, then you probably think you shouldn't be an admin either because of lack of image experience. Your quandary. --Durin 20:41, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Optional question
As a courtesy, I thought I'd drop you a note to say that I've posted an optional question at the RfA. --Dweller 08:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I figured that Radiant's oppose would prompt discussion about your project space efforts and I thought it would be useful to stimulate a similar discussion about mainspace. --Dweller 15:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The way your response begins, makes it seem as if I've misinterpreted Radiant. I'm sure that's not your intention. If you would consider revising, I'd appreciate it. --Dweller 08:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, the way your question begins makes it appear you misunderstood Radiant (you ask about mainspace contributions, Radiant's concern was with project space contributions.) Radiant never said a thing about mainspace, that I can see. It also seems that mainspace contributions were addressed pretty thoroughly under question 2. (None of this to say you can't ask anything you like, of course, but it really does look like you misunderstood what Radiant was saying.) Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. That's why I wrote "Further to" Radiant. Ho hum. Q2 doesn't talk about the last year. --Dweller 09:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fuhgeddaboutit. --Dweller 09:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Solar cell p-n junction
Hi, thanks for your clarifications at p-n junction. I was wondering if you could help me out with a question about these junctions in the context of solar cells. I left that question at Talk:Solar cell. Cheers, AxelBoldt 16:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Tri-Gate Transistor
Hi Matt, please explaine why did you delete article about Tri-Gate transistor.

Thanks for the explanation (btw, i am new to talk pages, so i don't know where should i be answering you in my talk page or yours?).

Now, back to the Tri-Gate transistor, I have B.Sc in Microelectronics and I clearly see that this is a very important and major imporvement of transistor architecture! people worked on it for more than 10 years to make it happen... I agree that the basic consept is the same, but do you know how many types of RAM memory exist? they all share the same consept yet each type has it's own article (or at least an entry in the main article).

My friend wanted to know what is Tri-Gate transistor and looked in the wikipedia, but there was nothing about it... It should not be that way, if we want to make wiki complete.

I don't not know how is in control, but this should be reconsidered...

Thanks for the explanation Matt, I understand the process better now.

Congratulations
Well after a format change and another go at it, you're now an admin. Have fun with the new tools, and get to work already! :) Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions and keep up the good work. Again, congrats. - Taxman Talk 21:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Congrats, looks like it came out right the second time around at least! Seraphimblade Talk to me 21:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Runcorn

 * He is an admin so either his account has been compromised or he is on a rampage. How would an admin not know how to ref or leave an unsigned vandalsim template warning without any referenc e ot what i have allegedly vandalised, ~and of course its my talk page so I cant be blocked for removing his templates, 23:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Internet map 1024.jpg listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Internet map 1024.jpg, has been listed at. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Mikeblas 15:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Recent MoS change
Can you at least add back "Changing all prefixes to binary prefixes is not acceptable, especially when the reliable sources in an article do not use binary prefixes." since it was in a block below that you might not have seen and it's definitely in the spirit of the discussions? Fnagaton 16:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Tired of showing good faith
Done, but the guideline has already changed because there's a "new consensus", the problem is resolved... yipiii ! MoS and guidelines are really useless/worthless in Wikipedia. You would have blocked me yourself when a "guideline" recommended what I was doing. "blah blah blah blah" would have the same effect. Sarenne 16:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Invitation to comment on computer program
The Computer program article is in need of repair. Would you comment on any improvement suggestions? I joined the talk starting with the thread talk:computer program. Timhowardriley 21:59, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments. There are other threads in the talk which I believe could use your input. Timhowardriley 16:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

binary prefix
Thanks for catching my mishap. The blanking was an accident, sorry. Shmget 04:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Prefixes, again
Well it seems I too have run afoul of User:Sarenne's revision sprees. I saw a (blanked) mention you made of some sort of discussion about this issue. Can you point me to it? Maury 12:52, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * WT:MOSNUM ? Sarenne 16:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

revert on binary prefix
The email you pointed me too is interesting, and it certainly does not hint in anyway that JEDET has actually decided to 'deprecated' the use of common usage unit. My problem with the current wording is that it misquote the JEDEC standard. The JEDEC standard state: IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997 states “This practice frequently leads to confusion and is deprecated.” the phase "This practice frequently leads to confusion and is deprecated." is not JEDEC's word, but JEDEC quoting IEEE. In the rest of the document when JEDEC want to makes some-one else's standard its own, they make the statement, witout quote then give the original reference, for example:

memory organization: The arrangement of memory cells, either by geometrical arrangement in rows and columns or by organization of the data to be stored. (Ref. IEEE Std 641.)

The wikipedia article is formulated in a way that make it seems that it is JEDEC that affirm that the common use unit are 'deprecated'. That is NOT the case. Shmget 00:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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