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Suicidal for Life

Suicidal for Life is the eighth studio album by American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1994. It is their sixth full-length album with original material, and their last album to feature lead guitarist Rocky George and bassist Robert Trujillo as well as their only one to feature drummer Jimmy DeGrasso. Suicidal for Life was also Suicidal Tendencies' final studio album released on Epic Records and their last one before their temporary breakup in 1995–1996.

Overview
Suicidal for Life was considered controversial among fans and critics, partly due to the album containing four consecutive songs with the word "fuck" in the title. By 1994, Suicidal Tendencies had become increasingly weary of their newfound fame following the massive success of Lights...Camera...Revolution! and The Art of Rebellion; as a result, with Suicidal for Life, the band decided to tone down the accessible aspects of their sound in favor of a more aggressive style than its predecessor. Frontman Mike Muir recalled to Loudwire of this era, saying: "We're not for everybody, we never were supposed to be, we're not supposed to be a big band. We got bigger than we should have been, but, fortunately not big as other bands are - we'd probably be very unhappy. But I think what we do has meant a lot to other people and to be able to have an opportunity to go out there and people discover you, and still discover you, and appreciate what you're doing. You can tell that - I believe we're doing it for the right reasons."

Reception
The critical reception of Suicidal for Life was lackluster. AllMusic writer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album an average of 1.5 out five stars, writing, "Suicidal Tendencies' long relationship with Epic Records came to an end with 1994's Suicidal for Life and, as expected, the breakup was not a pretty one. The label's inability to introduce any of the group's groundbreaking albums to a significantly wider audience certainly didn't sit well with ST main man Mike Muir, who decided to run through the motions while being as gratuitously offensive as possible on this contractually necessary release."

Even though the album failed to live up to the expectations of Suicidal Tendencies' previous releases, commercial and otherwise, Suicidal for Life peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it their second highest-chart entry behind The Art of Rebellion, which peaked at number 52. Among the album's songs, "What You Need's a Friend" had garnered airplay through radio (most notably from KNAC in Los Angeles), while a music video was shot for "Love vs. Loneliness" but received only limited airplay on MTV.

Suicidal Tendencies have rarely played any songs from Suicidal for Life since their reunion in 1996, though "Fucked Up Just Right!" was played live again briefly in 2012. "What Else Could I Do?", "What You Need's a Friend", "Depression and Anguish", "Evil" and "Love vs. Loneliness" have never once been performed live.

Personnel

 * Mike "Cyco Miko" Muir – vocals
 * Rocky George – lead guitar
 * Mike Clark – rhythm guitar
 * Robert Trujillo – bass
 * Jimmy DeGrasso – drums
 * Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, and Groove Masters, Santa Monica, US
 * Produced by Paul Northfield and Suicidal Tendencies
 * Engineered and mixed by Paul Northfield
 * Mixed at Skip Saylor Studios, Hollywood, US
 * Assisted by Mark Guilbault, Ray Taylor-Smith. Bob Salcedo, and Eric Flickinger
 * Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios

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Talk:The Light of Other Days

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Did anyone else here get the distinct feeling that Clarke and Baxter were kinda fighting over who get to end the story there at the end? I think Baxter won, and then I think he ran out the door to the publishers before Clarke could catch him. -Litefantastic 01:36, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it's a pretty silly book. :-) - Omegatron 15:00, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

See also: The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov. --68.44.13.236 04:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Er, it's pretty silly that this page lacks mention that the title was originally that of Bob Shaw's classic slow glass story "Light of Other Days", which is even mentioned on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Shaw

Also, it may or may not be notable that in the book, the commonly accepted term for wormholes used to view the past is "stapledons". 68.44.13.236 04:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I wonder to what extent Bobby can possibly be both a clone of Hiram and a half-brother to Hiram's son David. 217.95.87.253 (talk) 16:18, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Mergefrom
I have added Mergeto tags to three related articles, because they were about three characters from the novel (who have no importance outside of that novel) and which were merely regurgitated plot summaries. Those articles are:

 * David Curzon
 * Bobby Patterson
 * Hiram Patterson

--Calton | Talk 01:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the character articles be included in the main book article. They can be a list in a section of the book article. I would also include Kate and Mary in the list. --BRS (talk) 03:53, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

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Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, allowing users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies.

Common features
Unlike file sharing, social bookmarking does not save the resources themselves, merely bookmarks that reference them, i.e. a link to the bookmarked page. Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments, votes in favor of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. It also helps to promote your sites by networking with other social book markers and collaborating with each other.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.

History
The concept of shared online bookmarks is believed to have originated around April 1996 with the launch of itList, the features of which included public and private bookmarks. Another system known as WebTagger, developed by a team at the Computational Sciences Division at NASA, was presented at the Sixth International WWW Conference held in Santa Clara on April 7–11, 1997. WebTagger included several advanced social bookmarking features including the ability to collaboratively share and organize bookmarks using a web-based interface, provide comments and organize them according to categories. Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and others entering the market. They provided folders for organizing bookmarks, and some services automatically sorted bookmarks into folders (with varying degrees of accuracy). Blink included browser buttons for saving bookmarks; Backflip enabled users to email their bookmarks to others and displayed "Backflip this page" buttons on partner websites. Lacking viable revenue models, this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst—Backflip closed citing "economic woes at the start of the 21st century". In 2005, the founder of Blink said, "I don't think it was that we were 'too early' or that we got killed when the bubble burst. I believe it all came down to product design, and to some very slight differences in approach."

Founded in 2003, Delicious (then called del.icio.us) pioneered tagging and coined the term social bookmarking. Frassle, a blogging system released in November 2003, included social bookmarking elements. In 2004, as Delicious began to take off, similar services Furl, Simpy, Spurl.net, and unalog were released, along with CiteULike and Connotea (sometimes called social citation services) and the related recommendation system Stumbleupon. Also in 2004, the social photo sharing website Flickr was released, and inspired by Delicious it soon added a tagging feature. In 2006, Ma.gnolia (later renamed to Gnolia), Blue Dot (later renamed to Faves), Mister Wong, and Diigo entered the bookmarking field, and Connectbeam included a social bookmarking and tagging service aimed at businesses and enterprises. In 2007, IBM released its Lotus Connections product. In 2009, Pinboard launched as a bookmarking service with paid accounts. As of 2012, Furl, Simpy, Spurl.net, Gnolia, Faves, and Connectbeam are no longer active services.

Digg was founded in 2004 with a related system for sharing and ranking social news, followed by competitors Reddit in 2005 and Newsvine in 2006. As of January 20, 2016, Reddit is now the 32nd highest ranking in the world and Digg is no longer a social bookmarking platform and has dropped out of the top 1000.

Folksonomy
A simple form of shared vocabularies does emerge in social bookmarking systems (folksonomy). Collaborative tagging exhibits a form of complex systems (or self-organizing) dynamics. Although there is no central controlled vocabulary to constrain the actions of individual users, the distributions of tags that describe different resources have been shown to converge over time to stable power law distributions. Once such stable distributions form, the correlations between different tags can be examined to construct simple folksonomy graphs, which can be efficiently partitioned to obtain a form of community or shared vocabularies. While such vocabularies suffer from some of the informality problems described below, they can be seen as emerging from the decentralized actions of many users, as a form of crowdsourcing.

From the point of view of search data, there are drawbacks to such tag-based systems: no standard set of keywords (i.e., a folksonomy instead of a controlled vocabulary), no standard for the structure of such tags (e.g., singular vs. plural, capitalization), mistagging due to spelling errors, tags that can have more than one meaning, unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion, unorthodox and personalized tag schemata from some users, and no mechanism for users to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags (e.g., a site might be labeled as both cheese and cheddar, with no mechanism that might indicate that cheddar is a refinement or sub-class of cheeses).

Uses
For individual users, social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Institutions, including businesses, libraries, and universities have used social bookmarking as a way to increase information sharing among members. Social bookmarking has also been used to improve web search.

Enterprise bookmarking
Unlike social bookmarking, where individuals can bookmark their favorite web resources to share those with the public on the internet, enterprise bookmarking is for knowledge management and sharing it within a specific network of an organization. Enterprise bookmarking is used by the users of an organization to tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web as well as the knowledge base of the organization's databases and file servers.

Libraries
Libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to patrons. The University of Pennsylvania (UP) was one of the first library adopters with its PennTags.

Education
Social bookmarking tools are an emerging educational technology that has been drawing more of educators' attention over the last several years. This technology offers knowledge sharing solutions and a social platform for interactions and discussions. These tools enable users to collaboratively underline, highlight, and annotate an electronic text, in addition to providing a mechanism to write additional comments on the margins of the electronic document. For example, Delicious could be used in a course to provide an inexpensive answer to the question of rising course materials costs. RISAL (Repository of Intean organization's users to manage and share bookmarks on the web and supporting teaching and learning at the university level.

Social bookmarking tools have several purposes in an academic setting including: organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval; keeping tagged pages accessible from any networked computer; sharing needed or desired resources with other users; accessing tagged pages with RSS feeds, cell phones and PDAs for increased mobilan organization's users to tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web and giving students another way to collaborate with each other and make collective discoveries.

One requirement unique to education is that resources often have one URL that describes the resource, with another for the actual learning content. XtLearn.net allows bookmarking of both in one step, the relevant URL being delivered to either tutors or learners, depending on the delivery context. It also demonstrates integration with traditional learning content repositories, such as Jorum, NLN, Intute and TES.

Comparison with search engines
In comparison to search engines, a social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning and quality of a resource. Also, people can find and bookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by web spiders. Additionally, a social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users, which may be a more useful metric for end-users than systems that rank resources based on the number of external links pointing to it. However, both types of ranking are vulnerable to fraud, (see Gaming the system), and both need technical countermeasures to try to deal with this.

Abuse
Social bookmarking is susceptible to corruption and collusion. Due to its popularity, some have begun to use it as a tool to use along with search engine optimization to make their website more visible. The more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better chance it has of being found. Spammers have started bookmarking the same web page multiple times and/or tagging each page of their web site using a lot of popular tags, obligating developers to constantly adjust their security system to overcome abuses. Furthermore, since social bookmarking generates backlinks, social bookmark link generating services are used by some webmasters in an attempt to improve their websites' rankings in search engine results pages.

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Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

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Songs of Faith and Devotion

Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was first released on 22 March 1993 in the United Kingdom by Mute Records and a day later in the United States by Sire Records and Reprise Records. The album incorporated a more aggressive, darker rock-oriented tone than its predecessor Violator (1990), largely influenced by the emerging alternative rock and grunge scenes in the United States.

Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in several countries, and became the first Depeche Mode album to debut atop the charts in both the UK and the US. To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the fourteen-month-long Devotional Tour, the largest tour they had undertaken to date.

Recording the album and the subsequent tour exacerbated growing tensions and difficulties within the band, prompting Alan Wilder to quit in 1995, making this album the final one with him as a band member, and also the final album of the band to be recorded as a quartet. The ordeal had exhausted their creative output following the enormous success they had enjoyed with Violator, leading to rumours and media speculation that the band would split. Depeche Mode subsequently recovered from the experience, and released Ultra in 1997.

Background
Depeche Mode had released their previous album Violator in early 1990 and had supported it with a world tour that lasted through the end of that year. Most of the band, coming off the "peak high" of a successful album and tour, took a year off before reconvening in early 1992 to record their new album, with only Wilder actively working on music, helping band Nitzer Ebb by remixing a song for their ''As Is (1991) EP.

Techniques and processes
Songs of Faith and Devotion was recorded over eight months in a rented villa in Madrid during 1992, as well as later sessions in Hamburg and London. Following his work on U2's seventh studio album, Achtung Baby, producer Flood suggested the idea of building their own studio in a rented house where the band would live and work, the same process having yielded huge successes for U2. A studio was set up in the basement of the villa, with two drum kits using different spaces to achieve different sounds. The recordings from the kits could then be processed through synthesizers, such as the large Roland System 700 the band had installed in the studio. The band had become aware of getting caught in easy routines in the studio leading to boredom and thus wanted to change as many aspects to their approach to the recording as possible.

Wilder recalled on Violator the band had relied heavily on sequencing; though the album used a great deal more live recorded audio than previous Depeche Mode releases, the audio had been quantised to the exact beats of the bars, resulting in a slick but sequenced feel. For making Songs of Faith and Devotion, the band wanted the sound to be looser and less programmed. Tracks such as "I Feel You" included drums performed live by Wilder which were then sampled and sequenced to form drum loops using Cubase, in a different structure to how they were originally performed, keeping all the dynamics and inherent mistakes of a human performance. Embellishments like reversed cymbals were added later at the behest of Wilder, who often suggested such experimentation.

Further techniques used in recording included the reversed piano on the conclusion to the track "Mercy in You". The introduction of the track "Judas" has uilleann pipes recorded with reversed reverberation mixed into the sound, to achieve a haunting, atmospheric feel. "Walking in My Shoes" included a piano part which was processed through a guitar processor to add distortion. A harpsichord sample was then played and recorded over the top, giving a unique, layered sound to the riff. Early demos for "Condemnation" included all four band members performing in the same space—Andy Fletcher bashing a flight case with a pole, producer Flood and Dave Gahan clapping, Alan Wilder playing a drum and Martin Gore playing an organ. The sound produced was very embryonic; however, it gave the band a direction as to how the track should sound. Guitars were processed through devices such as Leslie tone cabinets, originally designed for organs, to achieve different sounds.

Recording
Upon returning from their long break after the World Violation Tour of 1990, they found it difficult to collaborate, with several factors contributing to the more difficult atmosphere that the band experienced recording the album. The band living and working together in the same house meant that they rarely got breaks from each other as opposed to previous albums whereby the band would go to work in a studio, and then return to their respective homes or hotels at the end of each day. Fletcher described the band living together as "claustrophobic", and the lack of a break from each other as a factor in contributing to the stress. Gore felt pressured to write tracks that could live up to the success of the previous album, Violator, despite encouragement from Fletcher that he wrote better under pressure. Gahan had moved to Los Angeles following Violator and had been spending time with up and coming alternative rock bands such as Jane's Addiction and Soundgarden, which inspired him to create a rock-oriented record, leading to creative differences with the rest of the band. Not helping was that Gahan was dealing with drugs at this point. The band also began to jam together, something which they had not previously done in terms of album writing, only for fun. The lack of success of coming up with musical ideas from such jams led to intense frustration.

Unlike the previous albums, there was very little pre-production, where the band would listen to demos created by Gore and then suggest ideas to establish a creative framework. Flood recalls the lack of pre-production as a big mistake that adversely affected the early recording sessions. Due to these frustrations, the first recording batch of four weeks was largely unusable, which Wilder described as "a complete fucking waste of time" in a sarcastic toast to Flood at the airport on their way back home. The lack of progress increasingly frustrated everyone involved. Flood compared the collective effort of Violator where the band would contribute as a whole, and while there were disagreements, it was in recognition that it was for a greater good, whereas in the making of Songs of Faith and Devotion, the band members were highly adamant of their own individual ideas, leading to considerable tension. Flood described the atmosphere as "like pulling teeth" and emotionally draining. Gore, Gahan, and Daniel Miller shared his sentiments, comparing the party-like atmosphere of creating Violator to the stale atmosphere on Songs of Faith and Devotion. Though Wilder would say the band members had drifted as far apart as they had ever been, the emotional stress contributed to some of Depeche Mode's best tracks, including "In Your Room" and "Walking in My Shoes", which many felt were indicative of Gore's greatest works.

Gahan downplayed his role on the album, stating the only thing he felt he contributed was what he considers his greatest vocal performance for "Condemnation". Conversely, Wilder praised his role, stating that on previous releases, Gahan's studio contribution was often only vocal performance, and thus did not get in the way much; but during the recording of Songs of Faith and Devotion Dave often offered a lot of positive encouragement, and Wilder's creative differences with Gore were actually the real source of the tension in the band. Flood recalls Wilder and Gore having a very heated argument over the mix to "Judas", and that there were constant disagreements throughout the recording process between the members of the band and Flood himself. Despite the feeling the band were realising one of their greatest works, Flood commented that the "little things" of the recording process never ran smoothly, leading to constant, largely non-constructive, arguing. Conditions improved between the band when the recording sessions moved to Hamburg, largely in part as it was a return to normal studio routine, as opposed to living together.

It was during the recording of the album that Wilder decided he had to leave the band, although he wouldn't leave until after the subsequent tour. Wilder later was comparing the friction between the members of the Beatles during the recording of their 1968 self-titled album to conditions working on Songs of Faith and Devotion: "we were in the worst possible state as members but we were creating some of our best work. The stories I hear about them [The Beatles] not being even in the same room together – that was very much the same with us, when one person would be in the studio and the other would be in another city, and then the next day that person would come and do their vocal and you'd go away, because you couldn't bear to be in the same room. ... at the time, it was a living hell. During the making of that album, I really made a decision to leave the group; even though I didn't leave until two or three years later, I remember thinking 'I'm never going to make another record under these circumstances again, because it's so much not fun'. And music should be fun – there should be some sort of enjoyment there."

The album was mixed at the Olympic Studios in London by Wilder, Flood and Mark "Spike" Stent.

Artwork
Overlapping each image of the band members is a symbol representing that member, in a similar style to Led Zeppelin's fourth studio album. The symbols first appeared on the cover of lead single "I Feel You", which did not feature the band members, and as such, each featured its member's birthdate in the right-hand corner to identify the member.

Reception
Songs of Faith and Devotion became Depeche Mode's first studio album to reach number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It also topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.

The album received largely positive reviews from critics and peers of Depeche Mode. The Guardian critic Adam Sweeting dubbed Songs of Faith and Devotion an "astonishingly powerful album" and a "masterpiece". David Quantick of NME called it "a very fine record indeed", while Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that "the songs make desire more desperate, and more alluring, than ever". A mixed review came from Rolling Stone's Arion Berger, who wrote that the album "documents how Depeche Mode's savvy justifies its worst instincts; like the band itself, it's gloomy, pretentious and winning." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice assigned the album a "dud" rating. In a retrospective review, Ned Raggett of AllMusic stated that "Songs of Faith and Devotion continues the Depeche Mode winning streak", and in 1999, he ranked the album at number 18 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for Freaky Trigger. Q later included it on their list of "In Our Lifetime: Q's 100 Best Albums", along with Violator.

Band member Alan Wilder stated he felt "In Your Room" and "Walking in My Shoes" as some of the best works the band had ever done, a sentiment agreed upon by producer Flood, who commented that "many people" involved in the project shared such sentiments. Fellow musician Gary Numan also stated that Songs of Faith and Devotion was the album that saved his career, noting, "[after listening to this album] [my] music changed dramatically. It became much darker. At school I was excused from religious instruction because I had no faith and Songs of Faith and Devotion suddenly gave me something to write about and something to be bothered about. [...] I love Depeche Mode, always will."

Tour
The subsequent Devotional Tour to support the album was the largest Depeche Mode had undertaken to that point. The tour spanned fourteen months, visiting twenty-seven countries and played to over two million people over 158 dates. The tour covered 100,000 miles and required 90 tonnes of equipment. The huge scale of the tour was to cover the sponsoring costs. Anton Corbijn designed the elaborate stage design, the first time he had ever done so. The huge scale of the tour took its toll on the band members. Despite Fletcher's comment that "Dave was loving it [the tour]...he was on a different planet", his heroin addiction had increased, Gore was drinking excessively and had several seizures, Fletcher was suffering from clinical depression to the point where he was replaced by Daryl Bamonte on all dates from April and the grueling nature of touring had taken its toll on Wilder. Gore later commented, "I don't think anyone was ever the same after that tour", highlighting the tense nature of the tour, and Q magazine would later refer to the Devotional Tour as "the most debauched rock tour ever".

Following the tour, the experience of Songs of Faith and Devotion and the subsequent supporting tour had taken too hard a toll on Wilder, who announced his departure from the band on his 36th birthday in 1995, highlighting a highly uneven workload distribution, lack of acknowledgement from his bandmates, creative differences within the band and overall lack of cohesion. Wilder's departure and the internal strife within the band, specifically Gahan's growing heroin addiction led many to speculate that the band was finished. The band managed to recover from the loss of Wilder, releasing Ultra in 1997.

2006 re-release
A collector's edition of Songs of Faith and Devotion was released in 2006, including a bonus DVD. It was released as part of the second wave of reissues—along with A Broken Frame and Some Great Reward. The first CD was remastered and was released on a CD/SACD hybrid except for in the US where the remastered first disc was pressed to standard CD. The bonus DVD includes a 5.1 surround mix of the original album, the B-Side "My Joy" and the Jazz Mix of "Death's Door" (basically an extended mix of the original version), as well as several other remixes.

Also included was a 36-minute documentary on Songs of Faith and Devotion titled Depeche Mode: 1991–94 (We Were Going to Live Together, Record Together and It Was Going to Be Wonderful), named after a quote from Wilder on the potential of living in their Madrid-area recording studio. It features interviews with Depeche Mode (including Wilder, who would leave the band in 1995) and other important Depeche Mode-related figures like Daniel Miller, Anton Corbijn and Daryl Bamonte. There is also footage from the film Devotional and the music videos. The documentary mainly focuses on the extreme difficulty of recording the album, and the even more frustrating fourteen-month tour that followed.

It was released on 2 October 2006 in the UK and 3 October 2006 in the US. The remastered album was released on vinyl on 2 March 2007 in Germany and on 5 March 2007 internationally.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Depeche Mode

 * Andrew Fletcher
 * David Gahan
 * Martin Gore
 * Alan Wilder

Additional musicians

 * Bazil Meade – additional vocals (track 7)
 * Hildia Campbell – additional vocals (track 7)
 * Samantha Smith – additional vocals (track 7)
 * Steáfán Hannigan – uilleann pipes (track 5)
 * Wil Malone – string arrangements, strings conducting (track 9)

Technical

 * Depeche Mode – production, mixing
 * Flood – production, mixing
 * Mark Stent – mixing
 * Steve Lyon – engineering
 * Chris Dickie – engineering
 * Paul Kendall – engineering
 * Jeremy Wheatley – engineering assistance
 * Marc Einstmann – engineering assistance
 * Shaun de Feo – engineering assistance
 * Volke Schneider – engineering assistance
 * Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
 * Daryl Bamonte – album coordination

Artwork

 * Anton Corbijn – visuals, art direction, sleeve design
 * Area – sleeve design

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Talk:Killology

Pushing the POV line
Giving this article a look, I'm concerned that it might not be completely NPOV, on both sides of the issue. I think it could do with a balanced look at some of the controversies around these theories, rather than a link to an external site in which a guy tries to debunk Grossman in what I consider to be a very unprofessional-looking manner. What are the issues and what are the responses on both sides? 23skidoo 21:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Subliminal Messages and Killology
I removed this section from the Killology entry:

Common subliminal message In 2005 an organisation by the name of Platnim 1000 (incorrect spelling intentional) began a research investigation to descover how to induce the mental conditions that occur in a serial killer when attempting to murder their victims. Their research led them to develop a subliminal message that supposidly increased the chance of a person commiting a murder. The sublinal message in question has been given the name "KILL" as a joke by its inventors. "KILL" was never proven to work, although there have been several incidents where "KILL" was supposibly exposed to a large group of people without there own knowledge or consent. The most famous being in a high school in liverpool, sydney. "KILL" is a very basic messege that consists of just 8 lines and can be written in any direction, i.e right to left, up and down, left to right...

The subliminal message of "kill" has a tangential (at best) relationship to Killology and has little relevance to an encyclopedic article about Killology.

If anyone disagrees, feel free to replace the section (as long as you fix the spelling mistakes), and reply here why you think it is relevant to what has already been stated within the article. Aubreygrossman 15:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Major revamp of the article
Ladies and gentlemen, I am a senior in Psychology at Clemson University and for my capstone course we are editing articles on psych related topics. I chose Killology because I read Lt.Col Dave Grossman's book and was fascinated with the content. I am currently re reading it and also reading SLA Marshall's book Men Against Fire. I will keep everyone updated on changes I intend to make. At this moment I am outlining how I want the article to be structured and what content is necessary and superflous. If anyone wants to help or to get into contact with me please get a hold of me via my user page.

Ddmassett (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The trick here is avoiding incorporating original research or WP:SYNTH into the article. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:32, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed. You might post a link to your sandbox or draft subpage. Here is more info: WP:SP. – S. Rich (talk) 16:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedians here is a link to my sandbox. Please post any constructive criticism as you feel fit but do not edit. My professor is monitoring the space. On a side note due to class regulations I was forced to write more than I felt comfortable at this time, I will be going back and condensing information and properly cross linking and citing information. Ddmassett Sandbox --Ddmassett (talk) 14:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It appears well written, but I'm a little uncomfortable with how it is almost exclusively sourced by a primary source (ie, the book). Grossman cites some of these examples and points in his book, so why not insert them? Although there is a little synthesis involved, I don't see anything that looks like it's problematic. I don't have a huge issue here, but if someone does challenge the amount of material from the primary source, I'd be hard pressed to defend it. Niteshift36 (talk) 18:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Niteshift Thanks for the input, I am currently combing through the book getting sources that Lt.Col Grossman used and using them to cross-reference the material. I think this will add a much higher level of validity to the article.--Ddmassett (talk) 14:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I would agree that adding those sources would increase the credibility and deflect allegations of the article being a promotion for his book. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedians, I have uploaded many changes to the article. Please give feedback for anything that you think needs changing or more explanation. Thank you for your help on this project, hopefully it will be the first of many Wiki uploads. --Ddmassett (talk) 13:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The major problem here is still going to be the amount of primary source material. a disproportionate amount of material is from the book. Again, I'm not going to challenge it, but if someone does, it'll be hard to defend. If you want, you can invite input from the WP:NPOVN. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Can't really discuss the book's points without quoting from it. That's better than citing his sources, making this article appear to be drawing OR conclusions. Kortoso (talk) 21:05, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Critics of Killology
Radley Balko is a reporter for the Washington Post who specializes in criminal justice, including police misconduct including unjustified killing of innocent civilians. Here's an article that he wrote about Killology:

 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/20/albuquerque-police-lieutenant-advertises-killology-classes/
 * Albuquerque police lieutenant advertises “Killology” classes
 * By Radley Balko
 * November 20, 2014

Here's one of his sources:

 * http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/police-academy-director-defends-new-training-that-puts-fewer-limits/article_4ad9bdf1-f301-591c-ad09-e5fb6731c6d1.html
 * New police training puts fewer limits on use of force
 * By Uriel J. Garcia
 * The New Mexican
 * Feb 16, 2014

Killology is controversial among police. The New York Times and other major publications have also had stories on how killology-style police training encourages the killing of innocent people, including civilians who were shot in the back. Following WP:NPOV this entry should discuss the criticism. --Nbauman (talk) 23:52, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Balko blogs for them and this is an opinion piece where he tried to link a shooting by one agency to training later in the year. Since the training hadn't happened, it clearly wasn't a factor in the shooting, just a red herring. If Balko bothered to be honest, killology doesn't promote killing. It's the study of it and the effects. Grossman argues against how culture desensitizes it, not for it. But Balko only survives on a controversy. So is his opinion piece really relevant? Debateable. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Anything is debatable, but this Killology article uncritically accepts Grossman's views, even though many other police professionals disagree with them. There is nothing to indicate that Balko's feature is a blog rather than a column, but even if it is, WP:RS says "Some news outlets host interactive columns they call "blogs", and these may be acceptable as sources if the writers are professional journalists or professionals in the field on which they write, and the blog is subject to the news outlet's full editorial control," which would apply to any blog by Balko. Furthermore, opinion pieces are WP:RS. WP:RS says "Sometimes non-neutral sources are the best possible sources for supporting information about the different viewpoints held on a subject." WP:NPOV requires that Wikipedia articles require all significant viewpoints. Do you agree? --Nbauman (talk) 17:11, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * His bio line says:"Radley Balko blogs about criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post." Whereas actual reporters are labeled as reporters and their bio lines say "Matt Zapotosky covers the Justice Department for the Washington Post's National Security team" or "David Nakamura covers the White House." Do you see the difference? Or better, let's use the Washington Post's own words: See the top? "Radley Balko Opinion blogger — Nashville, Tenn". Please stop arguing about things I'm not saying. I never said a blog can't be a RS or that opinion pieces are never to be used. You're claiming that "many" police professionals disagree with Killology. Then cite them and use the coverage of their disagreement. Balko does have opinions, but it's fair to question his objectivity. He work solely focuses on trying to create and fuel controversy. BTWE, as a side note, I'm an experienced user. There's no need to wikilink RS and NPOV for me, especially multiple times. Niteshift36 (talk) 20:06, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, the "source" Balko cites never mentions Killology at all. The Balko piece is more a screed about APD and he misrepresents Killology and implies a link to events that happened before the training ever happened. Niteshift36 (talk) 20:11, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Do you agree that Balko's piece, "Albuquerque police lieutenant advertises “Killology” classes," is a WP:RS? --Nbauman (talk) 21:33, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's an opinion piece published by a RS. (see how I did that without the wikilink?) Thanks for acknowledging that I was correct and that Balko is a blogger for the WP, not a reporter. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:51, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I saw the two citations removed that criticized it as pseudoscience. The first source was indeed clearly labeled as "opinion" and the second said Killology was similar to another program that was considered pseudoscientific (inference by association).  Since that's not very explicit, if mentioned I suggest attributing it as opinion.  — Paleo  Neonate  – 01:04, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Garbage
This article is absolute shit, and should be rewritten entirely or deleted. Temerarius (talk) 06:28, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

The article is incoherent nonsense — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:BDA0:CF:34C8:AF14:7D45:D20D (talk) 20:25, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Just stumbled across this non-NPOV garbage article, which focuses almost exclusively on the Content of a book which has its own page. This article should be deleted or reduced to stating that it is a term referring to a field of study made up by David Allen Grossman. -A — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:D81:2C60:505E:C601:17DF:D3C5 (talk) 01:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

"Though he spent years as a soldier, he has never killed anyone in combat"
this is stated in the wiki article for the man in question as well, but everything I've googled keeps tracing back to the article cited in the killology wiki page, which doesn't explain where the claim came from. Does anyone know where I can find more info on his military background?

maybe this is a good link to use?
this is a link to a podcast episode all about this topic; the podcast features a journalist analysis of many topics. at the least, some of the sources cited in the podcast could be of use for one's research for this page. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xt9iFLH9vx5GimA8y9FPl?si=458934571b74433c
 * The podcast itself? Some reporters with opinions. Some of the sources? Maybe. Depends on which ones and what they're asserting. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:50, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

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Near–far problem

The near–far problem or hearability problem is the effect of a strong signal from a near signal source in making it hard for a receiver to hear a weaker signal from a further source due to adjacent-channel interference, co-channel interference, distortion, capture effect, dynamic range limitation, or the like. Such a situation is common in wireless communication systems, in particular CDMA. In some signal jamming techniques, the near–far problem is exploited to disrupt ("jam") communications.

Analogies
Consider a receiver and two transmitters, one close to the receiver, the other far away. If both transmitters transmit simultaneously and at equal powers, then due to the inverse square law the receiver will receive more power from the nearer transmitter. Since one transmission's signal is the other's noise, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the further transmitter is much lower. This makes the farther transmitter more difficult, if not impossible, to understand. In short, the near–far problem is one of detecting or filtering out a weaker signal amongst stronger signals.

To place this problem in more common terms, imagine you are talking to someone 6 meters away. If the two of you are in a quiet, empty room then a conversation is quite easy to hold at normal voice levels. In a loud, crowded bar, it would be impossible to hear the same voice level, and the only solution (for that distance) is for both you and your friend to speak louder. Of course, this increases the overall noise level in the bar, and every other patron has to talk louder too (this is equivalent to power control runaway). Eventually, everyone has to shout to make themselves heard by a person standing right beside them, and it is impossible to communicate with anyone more than half a meter away. In general, however, a human is very capable of filtering out loud sounds; similar techniques can be deployed in signal processing where suitable criteria for distinguishing between signals can be established (see signal processing and notably adaptive signal processing).

Taking this analogy back to wireless communications, the far transmitter would have to drastically increase transmission power which simply may not be possible.

Solutions
In CDMA systems and similar cellular phone-like networks, the problem is commonly solved by dynamic output power adjustment of the transmitters. That is, the closer transmitters use less power so that the SNR for all transmitters at the receiver is roughly the same. This sometimes can have a noticeable impact on battery life, which can be dramatically different depending on distance from the base station. In high-noise situations, however, closer transmitters may boost their output power, which forces distant transmitters to boost their output to maintain a good SNR. Other transmitters react to the rising noise floor by increasing their output. This process continues, and eventually distant transmitters lose their ability to maintain a usable SNR and drop from the network. This process is called power control runaway. This principle may be used to explain why an area with low signal is perfectly usable when the cell isn't heavily loaded, but when load is higher, service quality degrades significantly, sometimes to the point of unusability.

Other possible solutions to the near–far problem:
 * 1) Increased receiver dynamic range - Use a higher resolution ADC.  Increase the dynamic range of receiver stages that are saturating.
 * 2) Dynamic output power control – Nearby transmitters decrease their output power so that all signals arrive at the receiver with similar signal strengths.
 * 3) TDMA – Transmitters use some scheme to avoid transmitting at the same time.

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Óscar Rojas (Costa Rican footballer)

Oscar Emilio Rojas Ruiz (born April 27, 1979 in San José) is a Costa Rican-Mexican naturalized football midfielder or forward, who last played for Municipal Grecia.

Club career
Rojas made his professional debut in 1999 for Carmelita before moving abroad to play in the Primera División with La Piedad in the 2001 Invierno. He had a stint at second division Tigrillos de Nuevo León and has also played for Irapuato.

He made his return to the Primera División in 2004, joining Dorados for the 2004 Apertura. He was a mainstay in midfield with the team, starting 16 of 17 games, and scoring three goals. Rojas subsequently moved to Veracruz in summer 2005 and Jaguares Chiapas in 2006. He remained with until the end of 2008, helping the club reach the playoff series twice. He left them for a brief spell at Morelia, then dropped into the second division to play for Mérida, Indios and Toros Neza before returning to Costa Rica with Herediano ahead of the 2012 Verano championship.

Return to Mexico
In summer 2012, Rojas returned to La Piedad, with the club being relocated to Veracruz and recalled Tiburones Rojos. His debut was postponed when Morelia, who still owed him, did not immediately agree on the transfer. He left the club in summer 2013 after they told him he did not fit in their plans after winning promotion to Mexico's top tier. After a few months out of a club, he joined another Mexican second division side, Estudiantes Altamira.

International career
Óscar Rojas made his debut for Costa Rica in a 1–0 World Cup qualification victory over Jamaica on November 11, 2001 and earned a total of 28 caps, scoring 1 goal. He represented his country in 9 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and appeared at the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup, but missed out on the 2002 FIFA World Cup as one of the last cuts by national coach Alexandre Guimaraes. Absent from the national team for three years, he returned to the selection in 2005, first under Jorge Luis Pinto and then under the reappointed Guimaraes and he played at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Again, however, he was not chosen for the World Cup squad in 2006. His first international goal came against Peru national football team on August 22, 2007.

He announced his retirement from the national team on April 10, 2009. However, he was once again selected by Pinto for a match against Jamaica on March 21, 2012, making his return to the national team just weeks before his thirty-third birthday. His final international was a September 2012 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Mexico

International goals

 * Scores and results list Costa Rica's goal tally first.

Personal life
Rojas is married to Jessica Tencio and they were expecting their fourth child in October 2014.

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Basal reader

Basal readers are textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren. Commonly called "reading books" or "readers" they are usually published as anthologies that combine previously published short stories, excerpts of longer narratives, and original works. A standard basal series comes with individual identical books for students, a Teacher's Edition of the book, and a collection of workbooks, assessments, and activities.

Description
Basal readers usually are well organized. Stories are chosen to illustrate and develop specific skills, which are taught in a pre-determined sequence. Often, new words are introduced, and then reinforced, in a very deliberate sequence to build the student’s reading vocabulary.

The teacher's editions are also tightly organized, containing much more than the answer key to the questions that usually appear at the end of each reading passage. The teacher's book also contains suggestions for pre-reading and post-reading activities and assessments, as well as scripted questions to ask students at specific points in a story. The teacher’s editions usually seek to make it easier for the teacher to present, reinforce, and test the reading skills covered in the corresponding student book and student workbook.

History
Basal readers have been in use in the United States since the mid-1860s, beginning with a series called the McGuffey Readers. In the McGuffey Readers, the first book focused on teaching Phonics thoroughly, while later readers introduced other vocabulary, including non-phonetic “sight words”. This was the first reader published with the idea of having one text for each grade level.

Since then, teaching methodologies in school basals have shifted regularly. The Scott Foresman Company published what is perhaps the most famous basal series, whose stories starred two children named Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane books emphasized memorizing words on sight, a method which came to be known as "look and say". The competing Alice and Jerry readers also used the “look and say” method. This philosophy came under attack in the late 1950s, largely due to Rudolf Flesch's book Why Johnny Can't Read. This was a scathing condemnation of the "look say" method, and advocated a return to programs that stressed teaching phonics to beginning readers.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, the pendulum did swing back toward a more phonics-based approach. During the latter part of the 1980s, basal usage declined as reading programs began to turn to whole language and so-called balanced reading programs that relied more heavily on trade books, rather than textbooks. The 1990s and early years of the 21st century have seen a renewed interest in skills acquisition which has sparked a resurgence in basal dominance.

Benefits
The highly planned nature of basal readers is seen as one of their strengths, as this eases the load on teachers, particularly those who are inexperienced. Specific skills can be easily targeted, tested, and remediated. Those with very controlled vocabulary usage may ease difficulties for beginner or weak readers. Students who are reading below grade level will receive some benefits from using the on-level basal. The exposure will prepare them for state testing. Using a basal reader as a starting point for grade level reading allows educators to quickly assess student reading level. Basals are not meant to be the only resource a student uses, just the starting point.

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Chamber of Representatives

Chamber of Representatives is or was a legislative body of several governments:

 * Chamber of Representatives of Misiones, Argentina
 * Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)
 * Chamber of Representatives of Burkina Faso
 * Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
 * Chamber of Representatives (France), during the Hundred Days in 1815
 * Chamber of Representatives of the Memel Territory, or Parliament of the Klaipėda Region, Lithuania 1924–1939
 * Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay

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Please do not Americanise my spelling, particularly in an article about an Old World topic. 19:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I have 20,028 edits, you have 3 according to your contributions, so I can see you're the expert on editing! This article was started using British English, and all pheasants are of Old World origin, with one, maybe two, introduced to North America.

 * I cannot see on what basis you can justify Americanising this article, and I suggest that before you have the arrogance to do so again you learn the conventions about editing Wikipedia. Can you imagine the response I would get if, say, I changed the Gray Catbird article to Grey Catbird (British English) on the basis that it has occurred in the UK? jimfbleak 05:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I am going to ask, in view of your persistence in vandalising this article, either that the page is protected or that you are blocked from editing. I won’t take either step myself, since I am involved in this dispute. Incidentally, blanking your talk page doesn’t lose the edits, as you should know, jimfbleak 05:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Third Opinion
I have reviewed many of the edits on the original article as well as this talk page, and I find no justification whatsoever for altering the article. It may have started by some well-meaning American who honestly felt that "characterised" was a misspelling of "characterized" (I admit I didn't look that far back). Regardless of how the war began, the article should be left in in the current dialect, Ye Olde Englishe (just teasing), and if the Americanizer (see, it's my native dialect too) continues to 'correct' the spelling of words that are already spelled correctly, it is my opinion he should be dealt with as a vandal by WikiAdmins. Let's hope this ends the problem. I will remove the request for a third opinion. Aumakua 19:16, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Useful Articles

What the devil is the use of a page on pheasants, talking about their sexual dimorphisms and beautiful plumage, when there's nothing about how to cook the damn things? I mean, what's the point of being a pheasant if not for me to eat it? Here we have a perfectly good resource on Pheasants, with narry a word about roastin', or sauteein', or fricaseein', or stuffin', or orange sauce, or cream, or pheasant au vin, or pheasant en croute... What, I ask, is the point?

 * I'll tuck into a pheasant with relish - but the pseudo-rant refers only to one species, not the whole family jimfbleak 05:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, that's a fair cop

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 * In many countries pheasant species are hunted, often illegally, as game, and several species are threatened by this and other human activities such as illegal logging and habitat loss.

This may or may not be true (it is certainly not true for at least some species), but it is extraordinary, and should be cited. Consequently, I moved it here to the talk page for others to find sources and/or disagree. TableManners (talk) 02:52, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Monals
How come the Monals/Lophophorus are not listed under the list of species? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.167.219.53 (talk) 19:35, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Actual usage in USA
AFAIK, in the USA, the term "Ring-necked pheasant" refers to Phasianus colchicus, and Phasianus colchicus is generally known as the Ring-necked pheasant. E.g.:
 * American Heritage Dictionary - http://bartleby.com/61/33/R0253300.html
 * Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/ring-necked%20pheasant
 * Natural Resources Conservation Service / United States Department of Agriculture (government) site - http://www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/ecs/biology/technotes/biotechnoteMT11.html
 * U.S. Geological Survey (government) site - http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3091id.html
 * Interagency Ecological Program (government) site - http://www.iep.ca.gov/suisun_eco_workgroup/workplan/report/wildlife/pheasant.html -- Our articles should reflect this standard usage. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 00:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Maybe we should have a note on US usage, but bear in mind that Common Pheasant states that ' "Ring-necked Pheasant" is a collective name for a number of subspecies and their crossbreeds. ', which means they are inevitable just going to use P.colchicus unless they are referring to a specific subspecies. PJTraill (talk) 19:50, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Relationship to other Pheasant articles
What is the relationship between this article and Phasianidae? If this article should not be merged with Phasianidae, it should at least link to it and explain the difference in scope between the articles. It is also unclear to me if the Category:Phasianidae is appropriate. PJTraill (talk) 19:24, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Native to?
I hope the English version spat of ten years ago was resolved in favor of American shpelling. Just joking, I'm irrationally American on this subject, and W-pedia was founded in the US, but we have to be fair to that minority of English speakers across the Pond who insist on archaic misspellings. That said, this article says NOTHING about the geographic origins of the various pheasant species. Whilst this is forgivable, it is an enormous oversight. Tapered (talk) 04:06, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

 * I liked these jokes too: minority of English speakers across the Pond— pretending "dumb American" feigned ignorance of the fact that the large majority of English-speakers live outside North America in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia the Caribbean and Australasia, rather than just the UK and Ireland, and all use BE spelling. Also, many US spellings and usages are more archaic than the BE versions, such as "gotten", which I'm sure you realise. I must admit I've not seen "shpelling" before though, so we obviously still have something to learn from our magnanimous US cousins.

 * The distribution of the various pheasant species is covered in their own articles, necessary clutter here Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Pheasant as game
I think that an interesting addition to this article could discuss the history of pheasants as a game bird. Pheasants are a commonly hunted game animal and even stocked in regions of North America. An inclusion of the game history of pheasants would be an interesting addition.

Alecthefruitbat (talk) 19:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Alecthefruitbat, see Common pheasant Jimfbleak (talk) 06:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Jimfbleak Thank you!

--Alecthefruitbat (talk) 02:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Merge with Phasianinae
Both of these are pretty much the same page with little differences --Cs california (talk) 02:18, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose I oppose the merger of this article into Phasianinae because the two articles do not have the same scope. This article is about pheasants, but not about tragopans, junglefowl, peafowl and other similar birds that are members of Phasianinae. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:40, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose it makes no sense to merge these two articles.Catfurball (talk) 19:26, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Phasianinae concerns all phasianid genera in that subfamily, which includes birds not traditionally thought of as pheasants, i.e., peafowl and junglefowl, wherease "Pheasants" only concerns those genera that are traditionally thought of as "pheasants."--Mr Fink (talk) 21:40, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment I thought peafowl, junglefowl, and tragopans are pheasants? Who said they aren't?  User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 18:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment Taxonomically yes, but, colloquially no, not at all. I mean, try getting people to take you or your cuisine seriously when you insist that your chicken is pheasant.--Mr Fink (talk) 00:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Why is there no link to the German article?
See here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasan 2A02:908:2813:F180:1445:F70A:B2BE:4B74 (talk) 01:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

 * Fixed. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! 2A02:908:2813:F180:F0A9:CF19:367D:593D (talk) 02:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Jack Names the Planets

"Jack Names the Planets" is the debut single by Ash, released in February 1994. The single was originally released on vinyl only and is entirely different from the album version that appears on their EP, Trailer. The single was re-released on 2 December 2002 in CD format as a limited edition with the Raptor 12" version of "Season" as an extra B-side, as part of the promotion for the Intergalactic Sonic 7″s greatest hits collection.

The song first appeared on the Shed demo tape, recorded in 1992 and again on the Garage Girl and Pipe Smokin' Brick demo-tapes. Ash were first signed when a copy of Garage Girl was given to Stephen 'Tav' Tavner, who signed them on the basis of "Jack Names the Planets".

Only 2,000 copies of the single were released, and the single was recorded on a £300 budget. However, the band was unhappy with the version released on the 1994 single, and re-recorded it for their first album.

The title of the track is taken from a chapter of the Stephen King and Peter Straub novel, The Talisman. This book is further referenced in some of the lyrics.

The single's B-side, "Don't Know", first appeared on the Garage Girl demo tape.

In 1995, the song appeared on the soundtrack for the film Angus. Clips from the movie were interspersed with footage of Ash performing as figures in moving posters for the video of "Jack Names the Planets", which was also released in 1995. Phil Harder directed the video.

The first 50,000 pressings of Ash's first full-length album, 1977, began with "Jack Names the Planets" and "Don't Know" as hidden tracks found by rewinding the CD, before the usual opener "Lose Control". "Jack Names the Planets" also appeared on Ash's first greatest hits collection Intergalactic Sonic 7″s, and is considered a fan and band favourite. It is rare not to be included in the band's live setlist.

During the spoken section at the beginning of the song, two Dutchmen, Oscar "Wilde" Vermeer and Patrick "The Brewer" Schrama (who met Tim Wheeler during a holiday in France), suggest that the song should have been called "Jack Names The Planet Nieuw-Vennep", given that, in their opinion, "Nieuw-Vennep" is a good name for a planet. Nieuw-Vennep is a town of thirty thousand inhabitants in the west of the Netherlands, midway between The Hague and Amsterdam.

Track listing

 * 1994 7"
 * 1) "Jack Names the Planets" (Wheeler)
 * 2) "Don't Know" (Ash)

 * 2002 CD re-release
 * 1) "Jack Names the Planets" (Wheeler)
 * 2) "Don't Know" (Ash)
 * 3) "Season" (Wheeler)

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Talk:Geoffrey D. Miller

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i don't have time to work on this article, but please, someone with time, read this news item and work it into this artcile. Kingturtle 01:47, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I can't get from a search of "Geoffrey F. Miller" to the article about Geoffrey Miller, the evolutionary psychologist. A disambiguation article would be useful.

Original Research
Removed. Giving a talk of legal precedence without a secondary source is way over the top. Yachtsman1 (talk) 03:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Invalid external source links must be updated or removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.100.69.170 (talk) 16:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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Benxi

Benxi is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, south-southeast of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,326,018 (1,709,538 in 2010) whom 809,655 lived in the built-up area made of 3 urban districts (Pingshan, Xihu and Mingshan). It was founded as a metallurgical center in 1915. Benxi Iron and Steel Company (Bengang) is the largest employer in the city, and used to be the fourth-largest steel company in China. The second-largest industry in Benxi is coal mining. The city has pollution problems due to steel production and coal mining.

During the disaster of Air France flight AF447, Benxi Iron and Steel Company lost 5 employees, including the executive Chen Chiping who was the wife of Liaoning's provincial governor.

History
As early as 400,000 years ago, there were people living in Benxi prefecture, which was indicated by Miaohou Mountain ruins with human fossils and stone tools explored in this region.

The worst coal mining disaster in the world took place on April 26, 1942 in Benxihu Colliery. A coal-dust explosion killed 1,549 miners working that day, making it the worst disaster in the history of coal mining and the second worst recorded industrial accident. The explosion sent flames bursting out of the mine shaft entrance. Miners' relatives rushed to the site but were denied entry by a cordon of Japanese guards who erected electric fences to keep them out. In an attempt to curtail the fire underground, the Japanese shut off the ventilation and sealed the pit head. Witnesses say that the Japanese did not evacuate the pit fully before sealing it, trapping many Chinese workers underground to suffocate in the smoke.

The city is home to a notable number of Manchu and Hui people.

Administrative divisions
Benxi contains 4 districts and 2 autonomous counties:

Within these there are 25 counties, 40 villages and towns, 229 communities and 289 village committees.

Geography
Benxi is located within latitude 40° 49'–41° 35' N and longitude 123° 34'–125° 46' E, and has a total area of 8411.31 km2. It is bordered by Tonghua (Jilin) to the east, Dandong to the south, Liaoyang to the west, Shenyang to the northwest, and Fushun to the north. The area has many mountains as well as a high degree of forest coverage (74%).

Climate
Benxi has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwa), characterised by hot, humid summers, due to the East Asian monsoon, and long, cold and windy, but dry winters, due to the Siberian anticyclone. The four seasons here are distinctive. Nearly half of the annual rainfall occurs in July and August alone. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −11.5 °C in January to 24.0 °C in July, and the annual mean is 7.83 °C. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 38% in July to 63% in February, the city receives 2,325 hours of bright sunshine annually.

Economy
Benxi's economy grew 10% in 2012 to a regional GDP of 111.24 billion CNY. Ranked eighth out of fourteen prefecture level cities in Liaoning, the city's GDP accounted for approximately 4% of provincial total. Urban per-capita disposable income was 22,466 CNY, and consumption per capita 16,064 CNY.

With 46 large and medium-sized enterprises in Benxi, main industrial products are raw iron (14 million tons), steel (13 million tons), finished steel (12 million tons), cement (3 million tons) and raw coal (1 million tons). In 2008, 92,615 people were employed in manufacturing, 20,368 in education, 19,228 in public administration and social organizations, 17,913 persons in the mining industry, and 12,997 in transportation and storage. According to the type of business ownership, 63,000 were employed in private companies.

Uranium is mined in the region.

As of 2009, Asia's biggest iron ore mine, which is reported to possess more than 3 billion tons of proven reserves, has been found in this region.

Education
The city contains the Benxi Campus of the Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (LNUTCM).

In the perspective of high school education, the Benxi Senior High School (Benxi Gaozhong) is located in the city, while the school faced severe controversy on the unreasonably-high number of Sporting Students. However, the currency of the school is improving with the former-principal Pang Mingrong (庞鸣嵘) dismissed from the school, Pang was infamous and controversial for the injustice in his attitude towards students of different 'classes,' which builds on test scores, however revered by his students.

Tourist activities
Benxi is rich with tourist attractions. The eastern side of the prefecture is covered with mountains, caves and lakes with low population, making the various parks in that area popular.

The Benxi Lake, located at the urban area of Xihu district in Benxi, after which the city was named in Qing dynasty, is the tiniest lake in the world. With an area less than 15 sq. meters and a daily rate of flow at approximately 20,000 tons, the lake acts as a famous tourist attraction of the city.

The Benxi Water Cave National Park is a subterranean river, some 3,000 meters long, 2 meters deep and wide enough for 20-30 boats. It flows through this cave situated 35 km east of Benxi city. The cave is filled with countless stalactites and stone flowers, pillars and curtains.

Wunü Mountain National Park is an area of natural beauty. The park also contains the remains of an ancient Goguryeo capital city. As such the site has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Guanmenshan National Forest Park is a valley of outstanding natural beauty. Secluded trails run up and down the valley. The area is particularly popular in autumn when the leaves of the many maple trees that line the valley turn bright red.

Pictures
 File:Benxi Steel Industries.jpg|Steel industry Feb 2013 File:Ping Ding Shan.jpg|View from the top of Pingdingshan

Sister cities

 * 🇺🇸 Peoria, Illinois, United States
 * 🇨🇦 Brampton, Ontario, Canada
 * 🇮🇹 Modena, Italy

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How-to
Wikipedia is not a how to. That means that this article needs to be cleaned up so that is isn't a how-to. AndyZ 02:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The section "Interpreting a punnet square" is really lol "how to make a punnet square" but it is valuable information and I don't think it should be deleted. Dr d12 20:01, 2 December 2006 (UTC)dr_d12

 * Agree with dr_d12 (72.141.120.45 22:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC))

Link recommendation
Perhaps there should be some pointer or classifcation to genetic theories, applications, or genetic mutation? Vandykee 23:55, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Punnett square solver online — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.32.79.146 (talk) 14:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

"disfigured" alleles
I removed the following from "Situtations where punnet squares don't apply"
 * a parent has a disfigured copy of the allele in question.

Does anyone know what this means? Tocharianne 03:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It was vandalism added in the Revision of 22:04, 11 April 2007 by 24.199.66.233. - Dr d12 16:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection?
Nearly 100% of the recent edits on this article are IP vandalism and the reverting of IP vandalism. Would anyone object to semi-protection? I know we can keep reverting by hand, but it seems like a waste of effort on an article that remains rather static and is not being actively improved. EdJohnston (talk) 04:39, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Genetics
There was a brief war of the bots; the project tag was added and removed. I just restored the tag, since we can all agree that this is a topic in Genetics. I also removed some old random stuff at the top of the page. EdJohnston (talk) 03:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

compare with Karnaugh map (or Veitch Diagram)?
Electrical engineers describe the Boolean algebra functions that crop up in digital logic designs using a diagram called a Karnaugh map which strikes me as being both structurally and functionally very similar to a Punnett square. Is it worth mentioning this correspondence anywhere? (Perhaps just a See Also link?) —Steve Summit (talk) 03:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Abstract comparisons could be made, but I don't think K-maps are similar enough to Punnett squares to warrant mentioning in this article. While both tools are designed to show the possible combinations of multiple binary variables (0 and 1 states in K-maps, dominant and recessive alleles in Punnett squares), they don't have any other common features that I can think of off the top of my head.  Their purposes seem very different, Punnett squares lack virtually all of of the operations critical to K-maps, and K-maps (notably) don't have to be be square.  It's a neat point you bring up, but it just seems too peripheral to include.  If you've got more rationale in favor of mentioning K-maps in this article, I'd be interested to hear it.  Cheers, Emw2012 (talk) 04:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * How about a See also link then?

Umm.. is there any mathematics etc. links those 9:3:3:1 ratios? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.223.147.182 (talk) 07:31, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

A Veitch diagram, however, looks quite a bit like a Punnett square. If you represent a dominant allele as a zero, and a recessive allele as a one, you can find that by writing the products in each square, you can get the same output as a Punnett square. Another point reinforcing the notion that the Veitch diagram is like a Punnett square is that both the Punnett square and the Veitch diagram are required to be a 2x2 or larger square. 71.45.104.235 (talk) 23:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

 * I think it's K-Maps and Veitch diagrams aren't that related to Punnett square. First of all, Punnett squares are only useful for unlinked genes (e.g. ones on different chromosomes or are very distant on the same chromosome).  Punnett Squares are just the first step to understanding genetics, which gets very complicated very quickly.

 * You could argue that these electronic boolean diagrams are similar if you treat Dominant Alleles as one and Recessive Alleles as zero, and treat the combination of two Alleles as a Boolean OR. I.e.  AA genotype => A phenotype; Aa genotype => A phenotype; aa genotype => a phenotype.  But that's about as far as you can take the analogy.

 * As visualization tools, they are similar and useful (as looking at a bunch of boolean algebra expressions is harder to understand.). I would add a "see also" link but not to drag electronics/boolean algebra into the fray.
 * Clemwang (talk) 21:58, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Redundant rows in Punnett squares
A Punnett square helps determine the probability of different genotypic outcomes. If a parent is homozygous for a particular allele, it requires only one line. A good example is the Punnett at the top right of this article: there is no need of a second column, which only doubles the number of cells to count.

Maybe the problem comes from the convention of calling it a square. "Grid" might be better, but is more rarely used as a name.

I'd like to see the redundant column removed. As it stands, the diagram seems to be encouraging the unthinking perpetuation of this curious habit of redundancy. Dasyornis (talk) 07:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Just because the cells happen to be equal for the Aa/aa test cross does not make them unnecessary. The math the chart represents is still identical to the Aa/Aa or any other case. There are still four outcomes, it just happens in this case that the outcomes are not all unique. I wouldn't collapse it down to one column as it may be confusing to the reader. Those familiar enough with probability to understand why the table could be drawn in one column in cases like these won't need to use a Punnet square to assist themselves in deriving the probabilities resulting in an independent cross between Aa and aa. --ThisIsPink (talk) 19:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Banana Punnett Square Diagram
I am a new student to this, but the banana Punnett Square diagram seems incorrectly labeled. The quote says "A Punnett square showing a typical monohybrid cross", yet only one parent is heterozygous while the other parent is homozygous. By definition, a monohybrid cross involves two heterozygous parents. I apologize if I am understanding something incorrectly. Ramses89 (talk) 00:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

You're right. It is not a monohybrid cross, but a test cross. Dasyornis (talk) 03:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Fixed. --ThisIsPink (talk) 19:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Accuracy?
Has there been any research into the factual accuracy of the Punnett square? It seems to me that this is a good tool for making estimates, but it seems like it was based solely on observation. At this point in time, genetics has reached a level where we can probably decide if there is really a '75% chance' or if there are more factors at stakes. Anyone know more about it?168.158.220.3 (talk) 20:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

 * One thing that is missing from this article, is that Punnett Square is a simplistic view of genetics, albeit, a necessary first step. Prior to Mendel's work on the genetics of pea plants, people were very confused.  They thought that genetic traits mixed, so that the reappearance of a recessive gene in later generations was very surprising.  (Some traits are mixed, e.g. skin color.)  Punnett Square is great at showing how unlinked dominant/recessive genes work.  My biology professor speculated that if Mendel had presented his data with a Punnett Square (not yet invented), his work could have gained acceptance in his life time.  Where Punnett Square breaks down, is when two genes are **linked** (i.e. are located on the same chromosome). Mendel, didn't know about chromosomes and didn't understand linked genes.  When the genes are on separate chromosomes, then the two genes are unlinked and randomly distributed (assume other factors aren't taking place.). In fact, the genes that Mendel "happened" to study are on different chromosomes.  (There is speculation he cherry picked which genes to study.)  Another place where the Punnett Square "doesn't work" is with recessive lethal genes.  Instead of getting a 1:2:1 ratio (homozygote dominant : heterozygote : homozygote recessive), you get 1:2:0 (homozygote dominant : heterozygote : homozygote recessive dead)

 * George Box's quote is apt here: "All models are wrong, some are useful."  IMHO, the article needs to be recast as the Punnett square being a great illustration of a simple, first model of genetics, but that in biology, things can get complicated as new discoveries are made.

 * See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21766/ An Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 7th edition where this is all explained.  (There are some later editions, as biology is a rapidly changing field.)
 * Clemwang (talk) 17:44, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

A Punnet square still gives an accurate model of the probability of an individual inheriting any given alleles from their parents. How the traits are influenced by these alleles is a different story, and often aren't nearly as simple dominant/recessive. I suppose there is a possibility of a crossing over event within the gene, making a "hybrid allele", but in most cases the chances of that are negligible. CallmeNiel (talk) 00:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

 * In addition to Niel's comments, there can be breakdown in the outcomes of the Punnets squares in other circumstances as well. For instance if you were to cross Aa with Aa, normally you would expect 1/4AA, 1/2 Aa, 1/4aa.  However, if having two recessive alleles leads to death of the child generation or improper development, you would not see these, so it would appear to be 1 part AA to two parts Aa.  There are also assumptions of independence in the inheritance probabilities  of the alleles - see Genetic_linkage. Newmanrs (talk) 02:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request from 97.76.235.46, 7 September 2011
When completing a simple Mendelian Punnett square, it is standard convention to not use "X" or "Y" - these letters should be reserved for representing sex chromosomes only - it can be confusing, especially when one goes further into using the Punnett square for sex-linked traits. Please consider changing the "Y"s to either an "A" or a "B", using the upper case for the dominant trait and the lower case for the recessive trait in the green and yellow diagram and the explanation. I have seen this problem in many diagrams where a well-intentioned individual picks "Y" to mean yellow. For teenagers it can be difficult to explain why it means yellow in one instance and in another it refers to a male. I am trying to speak out about this because it is a source of confusion. Additionally, the diagram that uses "B" is essentially correct except the maternal information goes on the left side, and the paternal across the top. The two-trait Punnett square is simarly flawed to the single trait as the "Y" should not be used there, either. Thank you for this consideration.

97.76.235.46 (talk) 21:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that! As far as I know paternal does go along the top where there is a preference. I'm not so sure about the "Y"s, but I'll see what I can do about editing the images. I've edited the table to use "a" in the meantime, but others may disagree. sonia ♫ 06:21, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * For the lead image, I think the Y is okay there since there are some pretty strong redundant cues in the colour. For the other images, those Ys could be confusing. The tables should match the images so we'd want to change both. This image should be SVG, and once it is made into an SVG these changes will be straightforward. I don't know if paternal always goes across the top, conventionally, but that certainly seems common in the textbooks I've seen. Dcoetzee 09:25, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 31 March 2012
65.30.196.111 (talk) 14:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC) In this example, the allele for yellow seed color is dominant and the allele for green seed color is recessive. When the two alleles of a pair are different, one is dA gene can exist in more than one form? Organisms inherit two alleles for each trait. Dominant and the other are recessive. The principles that govern heredity were discovered by a monk named Greg or Mendel in the 1860's. One of these principles now called Mendel’s law of segregation, states that allele pairs separate or segregate during gamete formation, and randomly unite at fertilization. Organisms have two alleles for each trait. When the alleles of a pair are heterozygous, one is dominant and the other is recessive. The dominant allele is expressed and the recessive allele is masked. Mendel crossed true-breeding plants that differed for a given character A monohybrid cross involves one (mono) character and different (hybrid) traits. Pollen from true-breeding pea plants with purple flowers (one trait) was placed on stigmas of true-breeding plants with white flowers (another trait). The F1 seeds were all purple; the white flower trait failed to appear at all. Because the purple flower trait completely masks the white flower trait when true-breeding plants are crossed, the purple flower trait is called dominant, and the white flower trait is called recessive. The F1 plants were allowed to self-pollinate. This step was the monohybrid cross. (or the F1 cross). The progeny, called F2, were examined: roughly 1/4 were white, and 3/4 were purple. Mendel proposed that the units responsible for inheritance were discrete particles - particulate theory

 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. I see a lot of text here, but no proposal for a change to the article. Can you be more specific? Thanks!  — Jess · Δ♥ 15:24, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 24 February 2013
I want to add in this page the translation of this page in the Portuguese Wikipedia: Quadro de Punnett

Caioponce (talk) 17:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. Thank you, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:15, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

More Punnett Square pictures
I've made a set of Punnett squares.

Feel free to include them wherever appropriate. dllu(t,c) 18:43, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

What is dominant over what?
From the sidebar: "(yellow is the dominant color over green for pea pods, in contrast to pea seeds where yellow is dominant over green)" ... What? 217.64.163.97 (talk) 06:57, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Monohybrid Cross - Edit request on 24 April 2024
Am I misunderstanding something or is the punnet square in this section just completely wrong? It seems to be set up as if for an X-linked trait but that isn't what the text describes or what the alleles in the table show.

Shouldn't it be ...

References?
The bottom half of the article is entirely unsourced, is this something that needs fixing? it doesn't seem quite right. Forgive me if i missed something, am not familiar with Wiki guidelines and norms. Bráz1984 (talk) 12:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

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