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User talk:Bijal d g

Hi Bijal d g, and welcome to Wikipedia.

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Copyright problems
Hi Bijal, sorry to bring some bad news, but some of the articles you've contributed create problems for Wikipedia because they seem to have been copied from other websites, in some cases word-for-word. This makes Wikipedia vulnerable to legal action by copyright holders. Because of this, the articles will have to be removed.

This is a shame, because we really need better coverage of Indian topics on Wikipedia (not just American and British ones!) Maybe you could try to rewrite the articles in your own words?

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User talk:PiccoloNamek/Archive 1

Great article!
I hereby award to thee the Rotating Barnstar Award for thy most excellent Spira article. Out of all the Wikipedia articles I have viewed, Spira is truly my favorite.→ Jarlaxle Artemis   03:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: Pictures
I definitely think the pictures should be added next to their entries (as thumbnails of course). The painting of the Thunderplains is spectacular. → Jarlaxle Artemis   02:10, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image source
Thank you for uploading Image:The childe.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. BrokenSegue 19:33, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image:K2-big.jpg
Hi. You uploaded Image:K2-big.jpg which I believe is based on the image now on Commons →. Since that image was released under GFDL, I assume that your enhanced version is also released under GFDL? If so, I will also copy it to Commons. Thanks. RedWolf July 9, 2005 07:30 (UTC)

Hey I won
Go me.

Improvement of Spira (using images)
Hi, great work on the Spira article, but could you edit your image files so they are placed in Category:Final Fantasy media? Just put anywhere in the description. Cheers.. and the article is greatly improved. — Cua HL   08:16, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I had JUST reminded myself to do that. I'll get right to it.PiccoloNamek 07:55, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ooops, sorry about my coding mishap earlier, and Spira could definately be FA soon. I'm thinking about starting a peer review within the WikiProject so we could start with that — Cua HL   08:16, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Which I went and did... — Cua HL   09:18, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Nice. I hope they like it. I'm sure most of them have seen it already, and there aren't any complaints on the improvement pages. At any rate, it certainly sets the standard for "Final Fantasy Locations" articles. The only thing I worry about is that some people might not like the fact that it includes a summary of the backstory. Personally, I think it's concise and accurate, and compliments the Final Fantasy X article (which includes a summary of the "frontstory") well.PiccoloNamek 09:23, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Skull pictures
Could you please provide more detailed reference to the source of these pictures? The current discussions and reverts likely won't move any ahead otherwise. Pavel Vozenilek 00:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes. Please put the URL to the description of the image. Pavel Vozenilek 17:06, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Jima
He's Jima in Geneon's English-language release, right? WhisperToMe 01:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Monarch butterfly
Look at the article! jimfbleak 12:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

My humblest apologies
Blaise-- I think we got of on the wrong foot, and for that I apologise. I understand what you are saying about photography and photoshop. My comment wasn't meant to be a slam on PS itself, but really everything that doctors photos. I don't have a problem with photoshopped pictures in general. I just don't think that photoshopped pictures should be called "great photos". There have been many, many unbelievably stunning photos that didn't have any doctoring, CG or otherwise. I'm sorry if what I said came off as a personal attack. I didn't mean to start a big fight. I was just commenting on the almost ironic state of photography. I hope I didn't offend you. See you around. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 13:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed... here, have a cupcake. :) --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 16:26, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Mahou no Sakura
Yatta yatta! Yahoo wata-shi-wa kattaze!

Gallery?
Hi Piccolo, I was wondering if you had a gallery... --Fir0002 09:32, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Image deletion
Listed under Images and media for deletion/2005 September 21. Thunderbrand 01:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: Beetle
Hi, The beetle you sent me is Passalidae - Bess beetle. Check this site for more info. I do not know Passalidae well, they looks all similar and ID is possible almost only with studying genitals. -- Goliathus 07:51, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Image deletion
Listed under Images and media for deletion/2005 September 23. Thunderbrand 19:36, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Featured pic promotion: Dandelion seeds
Gratz Piccolo! I don't think this is your last one this morning either :-)

 * ~ Veledan • Talk + new 10:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Featured pic promotion: Chinese Mantis

 * ~ Veledan • Talk + new 10:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi there
Hello Piccolo

I want to apologise for the tone of my original comment on your hornet pic. I should have learned better by now than to make judgments or cast votes after getting home from the pub; I really didn't intend to be an arse, and I'll pay the penalty now by being embarrassed every time I see that I managed it nonetheless, at least for the next 12 days. Sorry

On another note, you mentioned having trouble brightening this morning's mantis without washing out the highlights and I can see on the new annoying image metadata tables you use PS CS2. I wondered whether you've tried using the Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight filter for that? It was a new tool in CS1 I think that does something very clever with Levels.

I realise I'm offering a suggestion fairly inappropriately here because I know absolutely nothing about photography and you obviously know an awful lot, but from my experience in prepping online albums I've found I get a lot of positive feedback when I run people's photographs through this filter :-) It's not useful quite so often for printing images (where I think you need darker colours to make the print more vivid) but it does always seem to bring out lots of colour detail on computer screens.  The default setting just reduces shadow without touching highlights, and that's normally enough to make things look better lit on screen.  I used it on the Hajib pic currently under debate and it got the fawn pic through FPC a couple of weeks ago and here's a link to the effect on your wasp and mantis.  Please don't be offended at my attempt if it's just that I have my monitor set wrong :-)

Anyway, I've waffled enough. Cheers for uploading excellent pics, I'm very envious of your talent ~ Veledan • Talk + new 22:48, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day
Hi Piccolo,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Photos-photos 1087592507 Energy Arc.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 1st October. As this will be a weekend, it will also appear on the Main Page. If you get a chance, you can correct and improve the associated caption at Picture of the day/October 1, 2005. -- Solipsist 08:30, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: Question
Hi Piccolo, Sorry for not being able to reply to your message before you decided to take the jump (School time :- but I like the photo, and if it was mine I certainly would put it up as a candidate. The blur is a bit of a problem - maybe a little unharpening in Photoshop? Anyone great photo, and great photos. Keep up the good work! --Fir0002 12:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, Thank You for removing the vandalism my user page. Also can I borrow this form you user page? It looks like it may be of some use to me now and in the future. Blue520 08:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Featured Picture Promotion
I would like to congratulate myself on this:

^_^PiccoloNamek 05:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Quick question for ya.
Piccolo, I wanted to drop you a line to ask if you'd be interested in voting on my admin candidacy. I've seen you a lot in voting on FP's and thought you might have a somewhat good or positive idea of me and what kind of work I do. I might have been wrong about the whole featured diagrams issue that came up, but figured you might still have a good view of my contributing otherwise. I'm kind of having a personal tiff with a certain user right now and would appreciate your vote if you feel i'm qualified enough. I also answered the usual questions at the bottom of my nomination form you can read if interested. I'd jut like to get the change to make wikipedia even better and I think this would allow me to do so. Just thoguht I'd see if you'd help me out with it. Thanks and I'll see you around the FP's I'm sure. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 23:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

FFVI articles.
I request that you do not make attacks on a Wikipedia user. Thank you. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

You had no basis to claim that any single AfD I created on these FFVI characters is a bad faith AfD. On what basis do you believe that I am AfDing these articles out of hatred for them? I guess I must not have copyedited some of FFVI's article. Quality of an article is not a reason to keep. If the character is not notable enough to warrant an article, they should not get their own article. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:41, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * May I also assume bad faith on the FF community after you attacked legitimate AfDs, Hibana tried to get the AfDs removed and Hibana tried to spam the AfDs on a talk page that will obviously attract people who would vote keep. I can also assume bad faith on this simple fact - I cannot trust that you are voting on the overall worthiness of it having its own article, but you vote on what kind of article it is; an FF article. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see. So wonderful to know that the Final Fantasy editors focus more on protecting their articles than improving Wikipedia. Also, it's nice to know you're not below stating your opinion as fact. So, because you like these articles, I have to like them too? More notable characters than these have been VfD'd. And of course, you voted Keep on Umaro. I guess lack of backstory, personality, and almost the entire thing being GAMEPLAY doesn't matter to you, because it is a Final Fantasy article. Status > quality in your eyes, but in Wikipedia, we don't just let every single article exist. If you don't like that there are legitimate AfDs on your articles (Yes, they ARE legitimate, because your word is not the word of God), tough cookies. And it IS bad to spam people to vote keep on the articles. That's a blockable offense. If I made an article called Donkey shit, and it went to the AfD, are you saying that it's okay for me to cheat the process? Grow up. Preserving the quality of Wikipedia holds precedence over your wants. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:55, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Ah, finally. Took you a little longer than usual to make baseless accusations. Did I say the articles were bad? No. Quality of an article =/= important. Notability. Kefka is not playable, and you admitted Kefka does not deserve an article. Same with Leo.

If I had a superiority complex, I would skip the AfD, as I would be arrogant and disregard your opinion (which you feel is the word of God). But I did not, I put it up on the AfD. Congratulations, I gave you a chance to spam your friends into voting on this. Also, do you even need proof that trying to cheat the AfD process is a blockable offense?

It isn't so crazy based on the fact that you called them good articles and said that is why the AfD was in bad faith. That is stating opinion as fact. Wario isn't in the Brittanica, but it is kept. Give me one good reason why Umaro deserves an article. What, is it his deep personality? His exciting backstory? The two paragraphs that do not have to do with how he plays?

Also, I would like to think that I am not a rabid deletionist (as I rarely ever nominate anything for AfD). Of course, that fact is irrelevant - AfDing your favorite articles makes me one. - A Link to the Past (talk) 01:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Wait, am I to believe that I am a rabid deletionist because I nominated many relevant articles? The point is that you don't think my reason for nominating them is in bad faith because you don't agree. Whoo. - A Link to the Past (talk) 01:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Nice job making up stuff. I never said you were WRONG about anything. I said I disagreed. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, you ought to consider just moving them to Wikibooks. You could actually expand upon the characters there. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And, you did a good job on Spira, so here. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC) [[Image:Original Barnstar.png|right]]

I accept your apology. - A Link to the Past (talk) 03:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

New featured picture
That's quite a collection of FPs you've taken. Congratualtions, and well done. Raven4x4x 10:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Plasma Lamp picture technical details
Love your plasma lamp picture, which I've used on a number of pages to illustrate plasmas. Any chance of providing some technical details? I've tried my own plasma lamp pictures without success, so I'd be interested to know whether the image is film/digital, exposure times, flash, etc etc. --Iantresman 11:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Beetle-Bessbug.jpg
Hi,

I wanted to make sure you knew I tagged Beetle-Bessbug.jpg with a 'no source' tag so you could be sure to tag it before someone deleted it. Beautiful pic.

Thanks - Tempshill 22:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Copyright problems with :Image:Fucking austria small.jpg
An image that you uploaded, :Image:Fucking austria small.jpg, has been listed at Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Very funny image, but I'm concerned we don't have permission to use it. -SCEhardt 03:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops. Done!  -SCEhardt 13:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Images and Commons
Please use Wikimedia Commons so that other projects could profit from your images. I've uploaded (or will upload) some of them to Commons, especially cloud images.--Saperaud 23:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day
Hi Piccolo,

Just to let you know that your Image:SakuraHealed.png will be up for Pic of the Day on Sunday. As this will be a weekend, it should also appear on the Main Page. If you get a chance you can check and improve the caption at Picture of the day/November 6, 2005. -- Solipsist 16:00, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Talk:List of Kazan khans

IBN issue
The therm "ibn" should not be used in the names of the rulers of any Khanates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.182.79.246 (talk) 16:12, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

[Untitled]
Dear proponents of Tatar language, would you please keep in mind that this is an English wiki. Would you please at least try to transliterate Tatar names into legiable English. The current Tatar writing can't be read by normal English speakers. --Gene s 06:50, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Transliteration is given in articles.
İ'm sure, that ways of pronouncing are not matter in the list of links. User:Untifler

Girays
I think Girays should be written uniformly. Since the majority of sources refere to them as Someone Giray, I think we should write them that way - two words, the second as Giray (expected pronounced as jiray, which is wrong) or Ghiray (correct pronounciation, but uniusual spelling). --Gene s 08:19, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * In case of Utameshgaray, I prefer to use Utamesh, but refer to both name and to Utameshgaray perviously, becose in original Kazan Tatar speeling Utameshgaray writes as one word.
 * If speeling is various, transcription shoul be used. --Untifler 11:52, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * p.s. Olug Moxammat - Good job!

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Talk:Agni missile

Copyright Infringement?
This articles text is copied directly from this website:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/missile/agni.htm

Disambig
Should probably be converted into a disambiguation page for the variants. Or alternately they could all be merged into this page since their individual articles are fairly short. Eluchil404 03:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Naming convention
A naming convention for the missiles should be established. Right now there are seperate articles at Agni-II and Agni II. Judging from this press release the forms with roman numerals and without the hyphen are to be prefered. Eluchil404 09:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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Category:Style guides

A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.

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User talk:NathanHawking

 Add a message to Nathan Hawking's talk page. Be sure to use a title.

Archive
Archive01: Sep 20, 2004 through Oct 30, 2004

Re: How to advertise a policy issue?
I think you've listed it at the most important places already. Other than that, to gain publicity the best place is of course the Village Pump. However, there are a few WikiProjects - WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Linguistics, and their associated projects that might be worth approaching - at least that's where those linguistically-inclined Wikipedians will be hiding out. T.P.K. 07:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks, TPK. --NathanHawking 08:14, 2004 Nov 4 (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:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

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

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

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

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

Image copyright tags
Thanks for uploading Image:Biceps-13.jpg and Image:Biceps-12.jpg. I notice they currently don't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 00:24, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Draper-1989.jpg
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American Labor Party

The American Labor Party (ALP) was a political party in the United States established in 1936 that was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and former members of the Socialist Party of America who had established themselves as the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). The party was intended to parallel the role of the British Labour Party, serving as an umbrella organization to unite New York social democrats of the SDF with trade unionists who would otherwise support candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties.

Before and after its demise, many ALP members joined the Liberal Party of New York (LPNY) and the Progressive Party.

Establishment

The Socialist Party of America suffered an internal struggle between the right-wing Old Guard and left-wing. In May 1936, the Old Guard broke from the party and formed the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), taking The Forward with them. The SDF formed the People's Party in New York.

In his 1944 memoir, Waldman wrote:"Back from Detroit, I was immediately confronted with a problem which involved millions of dollars of property controlled by subsidiaries of the Socialist Party. In New York alone there were such institutions as the Jewish Daily Forward, the leading Jewish newspaper in the world with a circulation running into hundreds of thousands and with reserve funds amounting to millions. There was The New Leader, a weekly newspaper published in English; there was the Rand School of Social Science, which, together with Camp Tamiment, had enormous property value, not to speak of their importance as propaganda and educational instruments. Control of the Forward alone also meant probable control of fraternal and labor organizations such as the Workmen's Circle, with its millions of dollars in property and tens of thousands of members throughout the United States.... After Detroit it was obvious that the militant Socialists controlled the Socialist Party. I saw that all they had to do in order to gain control of the valuable property in New York was to revoke the New York State charter and expel all state organizations controlled by the Social Democrats or the Old Guard. Since there was always a minority of militant Socialists in each of these corporate institutions, these properties involving millions of dollars in property value and cash reserves would quickly fall into the hands of the militants.... All during 1935 and the early part of 1936 my office was converted into a meeting place for the various committees and members of the organizations threatened by the militants. Constitutions and bylaws were modified in such a way as to prevent control falling into the hands of Norman Thomas' super-revolutionists. -- Louis Waldman, Labor Lawyer. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1944; pp. 272-273."

On April 1, 1936, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, and other officials of the unions of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations established Labor's Non-Partisan League (LNPL), an organization akin to the modern political action committee, designed to channel money and manpower to the campaigns of Roosevelt and others standing strongly for the declared interests of organized labor.

Max Zaritsky, a union president, suggested forming a political party from the Labor’s Non-Partisan League of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to David Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman. Zaritsky, Hillman, Dubinsky, Luigi Antonini and Isidore Nagler of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Louis Hollander of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Baruch Charney Vladeck and Alexander Kahn of The Forward, and Louis Waldman of the SDF met at the Brevoort Hotel to discuss the plan. The party's name, American Labor Party, was suggested by Nagler. The SDF agreed to join the initiative.

Vladeck was the first chair of the party. James Farley, chair of the New York State Democratic Committee, and Edward J. Flynn did not support the party, but Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Democrats to aid the ALP collect enough signatures for party status. During the summer of 1936, the New York state organization of LNPL was transformed into an independent political party in an effort to bolster Roosevelt's electoral chances in the state by gaining him a place on a second candidate ballot line. 274,924 voted for Roosevelt using the ALP's ballot line in the 1936 presidential election, with 238,845 coming from New York City. The largest amount of support came from Jewish areas.

Rise and internal struggles
The organization was largely funded by the needle trade unions of the state. The ALP found itself $50,000 in debt at the end of the 1936 campaign, but substantial contributions from labor groups erased the red ink. The ILGWU itself contributed nearly $142,000 to the 1936 campaign, a relatively huge sum for a third party campaign, given that only $26,000 from all sources had been raised and spent by Norman Thomas' Socialist campaign in the previous presidential election. Over 200 unions were affiliated with the ALP by 1937. Party decision-making in the first year was handled by ILGWU executive secretary Fred Umhey, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union's Jacob Potofsky, and Alex Rose of the Milliners'.

The party supported Fiorello La Guardia during the 1937 New York City mayoral election and he received 482,790, 21.6% of the popular vote, on their ballot line. They were the second-largest party in the city and largest in some districts in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Members of the Communist Party USA started joining the party and Israel Amter, chair of the Communist Party, called for the "building of the American Labor Party". Although its constitution specifically barred Communists from the organization, there was no enforcement for this provision and large numbers flocked to registration as ALP members from the Communist-led United Electrical Workers, Transport Workers, and State, County, and Municipal Workers. Norman Thomas and the Socialists attempted to enter the party in 1937, but faced opposition. Algernon Lee opposed their entrance due to Thomas' pacifism.

Communists in the ALP opposed reelecting Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and the party's leadership started an attempt to remove them from the party. The party condemned the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Fights broke out at the party's convention on September 14, 1940, where Roosevelt was given the nomination despite an attempted resolution condemning Roosevelt.

Vito Marcantonio was a supporter of the Soviet Union.

Labor activists Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were executed by the Soviets. Anti-communists in the ALP condemned their deaths while communists defended the Soviet Union. This debate was one of the major issues in the party's county committee elections in 1943, and the left-wing gained control over the Bronx affiliate.

Hillman, a member of the left-wing, threatened to have the ACWA become involved in the 1944 state committee elections if the party's leadership voted against a proposal to increase union control over the party. The right-wing rejected it. Adolf A. Berle and Eleanor Roosevelt supported the party's right-wing while Franklin Roosevelt wanted to avoid conflict between the factions. La Guardia proposed a compromise in which the state executive committee would be divided between the factions and no communist would be on the election slate. Hillman accepted the proposal, but Dubinsky rejected it. The left-wing won 620 of the 750 committee seats.

The Liberal Party of New York was formed in opposition to the ALP by Paul Blanshard, August Claessens, Harry W. Laidler, and others.

Decline

The ALP endorsed Henry A. Wallace's position on the Soviet Union after he was dismissed from President Harry S. Truman's cabinet.

The passage of the Wilson Pakula prevented candidates from the ALP from being able to run for the nominations of other parties without the approval of the party's committee. The party lost two state legislators in the 1948 election, but Marcantonio was able to win reelection solely on the American Labor ballot line.

In 1941, American Laborite Joseph V. O'Leary was appointed New York State Comptroller by Governor Herbert H. Lehman both to recognize the ALP's previous and to maintain the party's future support. In 1944 the Congress of Industrial Organization's Greater New York Industrial Union Council, a federation of unions in New York City, formally linked itself to the ALP. The GNYIUC Executive Board "adopted a resolution directing GNYIUC Community Councils, which had been organizing around community issues in neighborhoods throughout the city, to merge into the local ALP clubs," and the "GNYIUC diverted some of its PAC monies directly to the ALP." With this move, the CIO's largest labor federation, consisting of approximately 200 locals and 600,000 members, was formally connected to the ALP. Over the ensuing years, the council would call for local unions to ‘‘Build the American Labor Party, the strongest voice for labor in city and state affairs,’’ and would direct Political Action Stewards in workplaces across the city to ‘‘recruit shop members for active participation in the community activities of the American Labor Party.’’ This support would be instrumental in building the political capacity of the ALP and would ultimately lead to conflicts with the national CIO during the 1948 presidential election.

In 1947, several ALP leaders defected. On October 9, 1947, Charles Rubinstein, president of the United Civic Associations of the Bronx, member of the ALP's State executive committee, and former ALP candidate for the City Council left the ALP for no other party, due to "misguided Communist sympathizers" within the ALP. On the same day, George Salvatore, vice chairman of the ALP's Bronx executive committee and former ALP candidate for District Attorney and Supreme Court Justice, left the ALP for the Democratic Party, citing "we are tending to become apologists for Russia's point of view." The next day, October 10, 1947, Eugene Huber resigned as executive secretary of the ALP's Bayside area to join the Liberal Party of New York State because, Huber said, he had found "affixed a stranglehold by the Communist party upon the ALP which has in consequence become a mere envelope for Communist policies and candidates."

In 1948, rather than support Truman, the ALP backed Progressive Party candidate Wallace. Former Republican Vito Marcantonio won a seat again to the United States House of Representatives, representing East Harlem for the ALP, as he had done in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, and 1946 (but lost in 1950). Marcantonio had been the target of the New York Wilson Pakula Act in 1947 aimed at restricting candidates from one party running in another party's primary election (electoral fusion). Leo Isacson was elected in early 1948 to fill a vacancy in a Bronx district but lost in the general election in November. The Communist Party USA openly endorsed the Progressive Party; some ALP candidates that year were known or alleged communists, e.g., Lee Pressman. Candidates included (winners bolded):
 * United States House of Representatives:  Marjorie Viemeister (1st District), Richard T. Mayes (2nd District)  Herbert A. Shingler (3rd District), Thomas J. McCabe (4th District), Morris Pottish (5th District), Irma Lindheim (6th District), Joseph L. Pfeifer (Democrat + ALP) (8th District), Murray Rosof (9th District), Ada B. Jackson (10th District), Frank Serri (11th District), Vincent J. Longhi (12th District), James Griesi (13th District),  Lee Pressman (14th District), Emanuel Celler (Democrat + ALP) (15th District), Frank Cremonesi (16th District), Alvin Udell (17th District), Vito Marcantonio (18th District), Arthur G. Klein  Democrat + ALP) (19th District), Annette T. Rubinstein (20th District),  Paul O'Dwyer (Democrat ALP) (21st District), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Democrat + ALP) (22nd District), Leon Straus (23rd District), Leo Isacson (24th District), Albert E. Kahn (25th District), Nicholas Carnes (26th District), Francis X. Nulty (27th District), Pasquale Barile (28th District), Harold M. Chown (29th District), Robert R. Decormier (Democrat + ALP) (30th District), Andrew Peterson (31st District), Margaret L. Wheeler (32nd District), Rockwell Kent (33rd District), Raymond K. Bull (34th District), Max Meyers (35th District), Sidney H. Greenberg (36th District), John Muschock (37th District), Harold Slingerland (39th District), Helen M. Lopez (41st District), Emmanuel Fried (42nd District), George W. Provost (43rd District), Robert Williams (44th District), and Lewis King (45th District).
 * New York State Senate: Francis W. Frazier (1st District), Doris Koppelman (2nd District) John S. Fells (3rd District) Gabriel Kopperl (4th District) Donald H. Smith (5th District) Paul Melone (6th District) John Profeta (7th District) Leroy P. Peterson (8th District) Kenneth Sherbell (10th District) Robert Lund (13th District) Helen I. Phillips (15th District) James Malloy (23rd District) Sol Salz (25th District) Charles Hendley (28th District) S. Fels Hecht (31st District) Sidney H. Greenberg (36th District) Max Meyers (35th District) George La Fortune (36th District) Willard Ryker (42nd District) George W. Provost (43rd District) William Murphy (44th District) and Harry Bailey (51st District).
 * New York State Supreme Court: Hyman N. Glickstein (1st District), Joseph J. Porte (2nd District),  Paul L. Ross (1st District), Charles Rothenberg (2nd District), Robert V. Santangelo (1st District), Max Torchin (2nd District) and Abraham Wittman (8th District).

Demise
The party lost its ballot access after John T. McManus, their 1954 gubernatorial candidate, received less than 50,000 votes. Marcantonio criticized communists for being the reason behind the party's poor performance. He claimed that the party's poor performance was due to their poor performance in the 1953 New York City mayoral election. He claimed that communists sabotaged the mayoral campaign by implying that they approved voting for the Liberal candidate.

Marcantonio lost reelection in the 1950 election. He resigned as chair and left the party in November 1953, due to disputes with Communist leaders who he claimed were no longer interested in third-party politics. The party dissolved in 1956.

Co-founders

 * Luigi Antonini, co-founder
 * David Dubinsky, co-founder
 * Sidney Hillman, co-founder
 * Louis Hollander, co-founder, New York City Councilman, 1938-40
 * Alexander Kahn, co-founder, candidate for Attorney General of New York, 1942
 * Isidore Nagler, co-founder, candidate for U.S. Representative, 1938
 * Alex Rose, co-founder
 * Baruch Charney Vladeck, co-founder, New York City Alderman, 1918-22, New York City Councilman, 1938
 * Louis Waldman, co-founder, New York Assemblyman, 1918, 1920
 * Max Zaritsky, co-founder

Officeholders

 * Dean Alfange, Chairman of the New York State Quarter Horse Racing Commission, 1970-75, candidate for Governor of New York, 1942
 * Benjamin Brenner, New York Assemblyman, 1938, Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1953-69
 * Salvatore T. DeMatteo, New York Assemblyman, 1938, Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1974-81
 * Abraham Feller, General Counsel of the United Nations, 1946-52
 * Leo Isacson, New York Assemblyman, 1945-46, U.S. representative, 1948-49
 * Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City, 1934-46
 * Harry W. Laidler, New York City Councilman, 1940-42
 * Vito Marcantonio, U.S. Representative, 1935-37, 1939-51
 * Nathaniel M. Minkoff, New York Assemblyman, 1938
 * Salvatore Ninfo, New York City Councilman, 1938-44
 * Joseph V. O'Leary, Comptroller of New York, 1941-42
 * Mike Quill, New York City Councilman, 1938-40
 * Oscar García Rivera, New York Assemblyman, 1938-40, first Puerto Rican officeholder in the continental United States
 * Kenneth Sherbell, New York State Senator, 1947-48
 * J. Eugene Zimmer, New York Assemblyman, 1941-44

Candidates

 * W. E. B. Du Bois, candidate for U.S. Senator, 1950
 * Frank Crosswaith, candidate for New York City Councilman, 1939
 * Charles J. Hendley, candidate for New York State Senator, 1948
 * Minneola Ingersoll, candidate for U.S. Representative, 1949
 * Rockwell Kent, candidate for U.S. Representative, 1948
 * Corliss Lamont, candidate for U.S. Senator, 1952
 * John T. McManus, candidate for Governor of New York, 1950, 1954
 * Karen Morley, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1954
 * Hugh Mulzac, candidate for Queens Borough President, 1951
 * Lee Pressman, candidate for U.S. Representative, 1948
 * Mary van Kleeck, candidate for New York State Senator, 1948

Archives

 * American Labor Party Minutes and Proceedings. Archive #061. The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

Articles

 * Eimer, Stuart, "The CIO and Third Party Politics in New York: The Rise and Fall of the CIO-ALP, " Political Power and Social Theory," Volume 18, (2007) 133-171 online
 * Hardman, J.B.S., "The Late-Lamented American Labor Party." Labor and Nation, January–February 1948.
 * Waltzer, Kenneth, "The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party in the 1930s," Radical History Review, no. 23 (1980).
 * Wolfe, Allan, "The Withering Away of the American Labor Party," Rutgers University Library Journal, 31 (1968).

Theses

 * Bakunin, Jack, The Role of the Socialists in the Formation of the American Labor Party. Master's thesis. College of the City of New York, 1965.
 * Carter, Robert Frederick, Pressure From the Left: The American Labor Party, 1936–1954. PhD dissertation. Syracuse University, 1965.
 * Licht, Walter, An Analysis of a Political Experiment: The American Labor Party (1936–1940), Senior Thesis. Harvard University, 1967.
 * Sarasohn, Stephen Beisman, The Struggle for Control of the American Labor Party 1936–1948. Master's thesis. Columbia University, 1948.
 * Stern, Sheila Irene, The American Labor Party, 1936–1944. Master's thesis. University of Chicago, 1964.
 * Stewart, William James, A Political History of the American Labor Party, 1936–1944. Master's thesis. American University, 1959.
 * Waltzer, Kenneth, The American Labor Party: Third Party Politics in New Deal-Cold War New York, 1936–1954. PhD dissertation. Harvard University, 1977.

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Talk:Ivy Mike

Untitled
I edited the levels of the photograph to bring out more detail and remove the glare.PiccoloNamek 07:10, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

ambiguous statement...
From the article:

 * Only 408 personnel are said to have received no radiation following the test.

What the heck does this mean, or more to the point what was it supposed to mean?--Robert Merkel 00:01, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Video?
The article talks about the shot being filmed, and that film being later released to the public. I have tried locating a copy of said film on the Internet, but only found one version of very low quality, with unneccessary background music and being just a few seconds long, too short to be interesting (Video). Does anyone have a copy of this film or knows where we could get one? --capnez 11:17, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

http://www.archive.org/details/OperationIVY1952

incorrect statement
I edited the sentence saying that "at 10.6 Megatons it is the largest detonation in history." It was not, in fact. That honor goes to the Czar Bomba at nearly FIFTY megatons.

 * "In history" can be somewhat complicated; sometimes it means "up to that point in history", sometimes not. Anyway it is clearly that particular meaning that is meant here and it should/could be clarified. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 23:04, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Was Castle Bravo successful?
"that test was cancelled when the Bravo device was successful." Didn't that test exceed its design yield causing a severe nuclear incident? Hardly successful. Howboutpete 20:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Successful in the sense that a dry fuel bomb could reach (what was then) extreme levels of yield. It was more than what they expected of what they wanted, and so successful. They cancelled the tests of the semi-cryogenic bombs, which required refrigeration apparatus, as obsolete.  The unsuccessful part was their part; had they known that 15 Mt was possible from it, the identical test would have in no way been not a success. SkoreKeep (talk) 23:39, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

 * Depends how you define successful. If you mean, "a full-scale thermonuclear detonation of dry fusion fuel" then yeah, it was successful. --24.147.86.187 01:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

 * The wording could be more informative here. ".. a little (too) successful" is confusing.  Does that imply that the US slowed down its nuclear program because of the casualties from Ivy Mike?  If so, a citation would be very helpful.  --joe056

 * Huh? No. It means that they didn't need to use the wet fuel bombs anymore. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect statement
First the article says that the bomb was detonated on November 1, 1952

And then it says that Ivy Mike was the first of some 43 nuclear tests fired at Enewetak from 1948 to 1958.

The big question is: If this was the first bomb, then how did it detonate both 1948 AND 1952? Was it a hell of a bomb perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.208.228.170 (talk) 22:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Whomever copied the info from the Enewetak article mangled it up. It was the first H-bomb test there (no surprise, it was the first in the world) but not the first nuclear test there. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 22:59, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Mike Fireball??
Does there really need to be an article about the fireball? I've never seen it listed as a separate codename; it was the fireball of the MIKE shot, it doesn't need it's own article. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 22:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect statement, as to who was President
Eisenhower was not yet President, or even President-elect, on November 1, 1952. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.69.61.160 (talk) 15:14, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Maybe it means Eisenhower screened the film, after his term began.

I just tried editing the page, to reflect the correct physics of the device, but it got all shagged up. I would just like to point out, for my fellow wikipedians, that Richard Rhodes' book "Dark Sun" really gives an excellent explanation of what actually went on inside "The Sausage". For example, the low-density polyethylene did not get attached to the secondary casing, it was attached to the inside of the entire device casing, so that it could be converted to a plasma under hard x-ray bombardment and then re-radiate the absorbed energy as "soft", longer-wavelength x-rays, that ablated and in turn imploded the natural uranium seconday casing. This knowledge is public-domain, commonly-held, and should be correctly represented, especially given that Mike, whatever the moral qualms some may have, was a milestone of human civilization, and a brilliant accomplishment of engineering. Maybe I have to get better at editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajlocke2003 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

 * The statement about who was president has now been clarified by a recent edit of mine.Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Nuclear physics
Hello, I think it could be insteresting to add a section on the nuclear physics results which came with the explosion of Ivy Mike. Currently, there is only one sentence about it. For example, the fermium and the einsteinium were discovered thanks to this bomb. You may find some information in this paper. Pamputt (talk) 12:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Rump project?
Can someone clarify what that is? Rodarmor (talk) 04:06, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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Impact on the islanders
There should be a section on the impact to the islanders themselves.

These are from a Marshallese activist's blog-- I know no original research but it may be good if someone wants to read these and look for more sources to corroborate /more work on the narrative of the impact to the islanders. It should be included.

https://www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com/dome-poem-part-ii-of-islands-and-elders/

https://www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com/on-birthing-new-life-and-fresh-possibilities/

Kizemet (talk) 00:21, 12 July 2020 (UTC)kizemet

Ivy Mike record breaking yield
I read somewhere that the Ivy Mike shot released more explosive power then every other man-made explosion in history, including every bomb, shell and rocket expended in WWI and WWII AND every other nuclear test to that date.

I would be happy to to research this and put add the necessary citation but I have not actually added new sections before, is there any guidance on where I would put this info ? Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rags17 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Confusion between Ivy Mike and Castle Bravo.
This article states Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion.”, but Castle Bravo came first. They were different designs, but both thermonuclear. If someone just dropped in on this article alone they would be left with the impression that Ivy Mike was the first thermonuclear test. It wasn’t. It was a more practical, dry device, but not the first thermonuclear device tested. 72.168.145.39 (talk) 03:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Hmm, NO! You seem to be confused here. Ivy Mike was THE first demonstration of the Teller-Ulam design and basically a physics field experiment. Castle Bravo came about 1.5 years later and demonstrated the first use of LiD fuel for a thermonuclear bomb, which ultimately lead to a practical and usable weapon design. 85.169.148.50 (talk) 02:57, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I ran across someone making the same erroneous assertion a few months ago, and now I can’t find it. I’m not sure why it keeps coming up, but Ivy Mike was the first detonation of a Teller-Ulam-configured thermonuclear device, It was a test device, not a deployable weapon. That was 1952. Castle Bravo was also a test device, but more practical as a weapon, in 1954. Ivy Mike was a cryogenic device, Castle Bravo was a dry device.  Acroterion   (talk)   04:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Castle Bravo

Gif on page
I like the gif, but its 6.42 MB. That's way too large, could we convert it into a video instead and embed it on the page? MarkiPoli (talk) 12:04, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

 * That's not a bad point. Converting to .OGV cuts it down to ~600 Kb, so that's probably the best bet. That said, I have zero experience with uploading to commons, so I'm not sure how best to handle it. If anyone else feels up to the task, https://convertio.co/gif-ogv/ does the job of converting our GIF. —  The Hand That Feeds You :Bite 12:42, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems the ogv file has been converted directly from using the .gif file source instead of the actual listed source within the file's commons description section and has resulted in a very poor quality low bitrate video. Unless the new .ogv video file is created directly from the higher-quality original video source located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYJ5JfrK7KE I have already contacted the original .gif maker's talk page requesting for him/her to reduce/compress the original .gif file size further if possible to more manageable levels. If any consensus is made to establish the use of the .ogv instead of the .gif file, please do so using the original high-quality source rather than the .gif source HanyNAR (talk) 15:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Right, the entire point was to convert from the original source video to OGV. Someone must've misunderstood. —  The Hand That Feeds You :Bite 15:50, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Stastitics on cancers among islanders that I removed
This section I removed needs to be re-written to say which diseases (or what % increase) is ATTRIBUTABLE to this test (or nuclear testing in general). Some of these diseases may have other causes. --- Avatar317 (talk) 03:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, this was a good removal. Clear synth. VQuakr (talk) 04:17, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello! You added the sentence: "The Marshall Islands have the highest incidence rate of cervical cancer in the world at 74 per 100,000 which is four-times higher than most U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands and about ten-times higher compared to the U.S., primarily attributable to challenges with HPV vaccination which began in 2009 in the Marshall Islands." to this article. This sentence doesn't talk about how much of this cervical cancer rate is attributable to radioactivity from nuclear weapons testing. Since this article is about a nuclear test, cancers attributable (or attributed) to other causes shouldn't be mentioned in this article. Thanks!!

If I have time, I'll look through these sources and see what kind of statements I can add based on statements or conclusions in the sources of specifically how much higher cancer rates are estimated to be AS A RESULT OF the nuclear testing. --- Avatar317 (talk) 17:06, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

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Beam riding

Beam-riding, also known as Line-Of-Sight Beam Riding (LOSBR), beam guidance or radar beam riding is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam. The name refers to the way the missile flies down the guidance beam, which is aimed at the target. It is one of the simplest guidance systems and was widely used on early missile systems, however it had a number of disadvantages for long-range targeting and is now found typically only in short-range roles.

Basic concept
Beam riding is based on a signal that is pointed towards the target. The signal does not have to be powerful, as it is not necessary to use it for tracking as well. The main use of this kind of system is to destroy airplanes or tanks. First, an aiming station (possibly mounted on a vehicle) in the launching area directs a narrow radar or laser beam at the enemy aircraft or tank. Then, the missile is launched and at some point after launch is “gathered” by the radar or laser beam when it flies into it. From this stage onwards, the missile attempts to keep itself inside the beam, while the aiming station keeps the beam pointing at the target. The missile, controlled by a computer inside it, “rides” the beam to the target.

Radar beam riding
Beam riding is one of the simplest methods of missile guidance using a radar. It was widely used for surface-to-air missiles in the post-World War II era for this reason. An early example was the British Brakemine, first tested in 1944, as was the first commercially available SAM, the Oerlikon Contraves RSA.

Early tracking radars generally use a beam a few degrees wide, which makes it easy to find the target as it moves about. Unfortunately, this makes the beam too wide to accurately attack the target, where measurements on the order of $1/undefined$ of a degree are required. To perform both operations in a single radar, some additional form of encoding is used. For WWII-era systems this was either lobe switching, or more commonly by the second half of the war, conical scanning. Conical scanning works by splitting the single radar beam in two, and comparing the return strength in the two beams to determine which is stronger. The radar is then rotated towards the stronger signal to re-center the target. The antenna is spun so that this comparison is being carried out all around the target, allowing it to track in both altitude and azimuth. Systems that performed this automatically were known as "lock on" or "lock follow".

Beam riding systems can be easily adapted to work with such a system. By placing receiver antennas on the rear of the missile, the onboard electronics can compare the strength of the signal from different points on the missile body and use this to create a control signal to steer it back into the center of the beam. When used with conical scanning, the comparison can use several sets of paired antennas, typically two pairs, to keep itself centered in both axes. This system has the advantage of offloading the tracking to the ground radar; as long as the radar can keep itself accurately pointed at the target, the missile will keep itself along the same line using very simple electronics.

The inherent disadvantage of the radar beam riding system is that the beam spreads as it travels outward from the broadcaster (see inverse square law). As the missile flies towards the target, it, therefore, becomes increasingly inaccurate. This is not a problem at short ranges, but as many early surface-to-air missiles were designed to work at long ranges, this was a major issue. For example, earlier versions of the RIM-2 Terrier missile introduced in the 1950s were beam riders, but later variants employed semi-active radar homing to improve their effectiveness against high-performance and low-flying targets. In contrast to beam riding, semi-active guidance becomes more accurate as the missile approaches the target.

Another issue is the guidance path of the missile is essentially a straight line to the target. This is useful for missiles with a great speed advantage over their target, or where flight times are short, but for long-range engagements against high-performance targets the missile will need to "lead" the target in order to arrive with enough energy to do terminal manoeuvres. A possible solution for this problem was to use two radars, one for tracking the target and another for guiding the missile, but this drove up implementation costs. A more common solution for long-range missiles was to guide the missile entirely independently of the radar, using command guidance, as was the case for the Nike Hercules. Pure radar beam riding was rare by 1960.

Laser beam riding
Beam riding guidance based systems became more common again in the 1980s and 90s with the introduction of low-cost and highly portable laser designators. Due to the shorter wavelengths used, a laser beam can be projected with a much narrower angular resolution than a radar beam while not requiring a significant increase in the size of the projector's aperture when compared to other optical devices being used by a typical guidance system for precision-guided munitions. Because of this, it is possible to spatially encode additional information in a beam using digital or electro-optical means, which has a number of advantages. Missiles with small optical receivers on their tail can beam-ride on lasers with similar ease as earlier radar beam systems, but will be inherently more accurate due to the higher spatial resolution of the beam's encoding at the target.

Additionally, because the beam is usually projected directly onto the missile's receiver, an order of magnitude less intensity is needed than a semi-active design where the target must be "painted" and the missile must detect the laser's diffuse reflection from the target. The lower intensity requirement of laser beam riding systems compared to semi-active laser homing systems can make them significantly more difficult for a target's laser warning receivers to detect. Very low power signals can be used.

In modern use, laser beam riding is generally limited to short-range missiles, both anti-air and anti-tank. Examples include ADATS, the Starstreak, the RBS 70, Russian 9K121 Vikhr and 9M119 Svir, Ukrainian Skif and Stuhna-P ATGMs.

title: Beam riding