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Jadranka Kosor

Jadranka Kosor (born 1 July 1953) is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.

Kosor started working as a journalist, following her graduation from the Zagreb Faculty of Law. During the Croatian War of Independence, she hosted a radio show dealing with refugee problems and disabled war veterans. She joined the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in 1989 and quickly climbed up the party hierarchy. In 1995 she was elected party vice-president and was elected to serve in Parliament for the first time. After the death of president and longtime HDZ leader Franjo Tuđman, Kosor supported Ivo Sanader's successful party leadership bid in 2000. Three years later, her party won the parliamentary election and Kosor became the Minister of Family, Veterans' Affairs and Inter-generational Solidarity in the Sanader's first and, later, Sanader's second cabinet, during which time she served as deputy prime minister as well. In the 2005 presidential election she ran as a representative of the HDZ, but lost to incumbent president Stjepan Mesić in the second round. After the abrupt resignation of Sanader, Kosor managed to form a functioning parliamentary majority and was approved to her new post as prime minister in July 2009, also becoming leader of her party. Kosor was the party's candidate for prime minister in the 2011 general election, but HDZ lost in a landslide over the centre-left Kukuriku coalition, led by the Social Democratic Party. Kosor handed power to the new Prime Minister, Zoran Milanović, in December 2011.

As prime minister, Kosor failed to commit to structural reforms although she managed to prevent the country's budgetary meltdown with two budget revisions and the introduction of new taxes as a response to the ongoing economic crisis. During her tenure, she strongly advocated a zero-tolerance policy to political corruption and organized crime. This uncompromising stance, along with the new criminal code passed before her term began, opened the door to unprecedented efforts to combat corruption. This resulted in arrests of numerous influential business-people and politicians from across the political spectrum, although most of them were members of HDZ, which severely damaged the party's reputation. The discoveries made by prosecutors were far-reaching and criminal charges were even raised against former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Deputy Prime Minister Damir Polančec, who would later be charged with lengthy prison sentences for criminal activity and abuse of power. In foreign policy, Kosor and her Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor were successful in solving the long-standing border dispute and she is credited with successfully finishing the negotiating process of the Croatian accession to the European Union. On 9 December 2011, she and President Ivo Josipović signed the EU Treaty of Accession in Brussels. A moderate conservative, Kosor ran for another term as party leader after losing the election, however, was defeated by the more conservative Tomislav Karamarko. After months of criticizing his leadership and the new party platform, she was expelled from HDZ by the party's High Court for damaging the party's reputation.

In 2021, Kosor was awarded with the Grand Order of Queen Jelena with Sash and Morning Star by President of Croatia Zoran Milanović for "extraordinary contribution to the international position and reputation of the Republic of Croatia" and for "the development of relations between the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian people and other states and peoples."

Early life
Jadranka Kosor was born in Lipik to Zorica Belan and Mirko Kosor. She finished primary education in Pakrac. Her parents divorced when she was two, and she spent her childhood living with her grandmother. Her childhood friends describe her as a pretty, smart, and sociable girl that loved poetry and wrote songs. She contested a beauty pageant and was selected runner up for Miss Swimming Pool of Lipik. She studied in Zagreb, where she graduated in law and began working as a journalist from 1972 as a correspondent for Večernji list and Radio Zagreb. In 1971, her book of poetry Koraci was published by the Pakrac branch of Matica hrvatska. During the Croatian War of Independence, she worked as a radio-journalist and her show explored war topics such as refugee problems and disabled war veterans. She also worked briefly as a correspondent for the BBC during this time.

Politics

In 1995, Kosor became a representative in the Croatian Parliament as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). She was also the vice-president of the Croatian Parliament. From 1999 to 2000, she was president of the HDZ's Women's Association Katarina Zrinski. She is credited with the number of female candidates from the HDZ in the 2000 elections doubling.

Kosor was the vice-president of the HDZ party between 1995 and 1997, and from 2002 up to 2009 when she became the president of the party. In 2003, she became the minister in the Croatian department for Family, Veterans and Inter-generational Solidarity in the Croatian Government of Ivo Sanader.

HDZ nominated her as their presidential candidate for the presidential election of 2005. In the first round, she overtook Boris Mikšić by a few percent to reach the second place. She then faced off Stipe Mesić in the second round, but lost.

In July 2009, she was politically installed as the head of the Croatian Democratic Union following the resignation of Ivo Sanader.

Prime minister
On 1 July 2009, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader suddenly and unexpectedly resigned, and suggested Kosor as the next prime minister. With the support of the coalition partners Kosor went to the President Stjepan Mesić who invited her to form a government. This resulted in the formation of the Kosor cabinet which contained most members of the previous Sanader administration. On 6 July, Parliament approved the proposed cabinet with 83 votes in favor out of 153 members and Kosor was confirmed as the first female Prime Minister of Croatia after independence - actually the third in the history of the republic after two female Prime Ministers of Socialist Republic of Croatia. The Opposition was not pleased with this development calling Sanader a coward and Kosor his puppet saying that an early general election was necessary.

Domestic policy
In the first month of her term Kosor, faced with a huge deficit and high unemployment, introduced an emergency budget aimed to reduce spending and the national debt. One of the most unpopular austerity measures taken along with the introduction of the budget was a new income tax called the "crisis tax" (krizni porez). In addition, the value-added tax rate was increased from 22% to 23%. Businesses criticized the tax hikes as well as the idea of tax code changes in the middle of the fiscal year as an unreasonable burden, while independent economists mostly noted how new taxes would cut consumer spending and further slow down the economy. The Opposition criticized the new measures heavily, calling the crisis tax harač, a historical Turkish loanword representing a tax implemented during the Ottoman Empire in the late Middle Ages. Indeed, the government's handling of finances was unpopular among the public resulting in the Prime Minister's dismal approval rating of 32% by the end of her first month.

In the last quarter of 2009, many public officials, as well as members of the boards of various government agencies, became suspected of participating in corrupt activities. An unprecedented number of officials were detained and arrested under these allegations which resulted in both praise and criticism of Kosor's government. The praise was mostly directed by those who believed that the government had finally taken a stronger stance against political corruption, while others criticized the fact that most suspects were, in fact, members of Kosor's own Croatian Democratic Union. The Opposition accused the government, especially the prime minister, for political responsibility, claiming that it was impossible that Kosor didn't know what was happening around her when she was a vice president of the government almost seven years before becoming prime minister. The accusations grew louder as more and more corruption affairs were tied with the former prime minister, Ivo Sanader. On 30 October 2009 Damir Polančec, member of the HDZ Presidency, resigned as deputy prime minister and minister of the economy following allegations of corruption.

On 3 January 2010, Ivo Sanader announced he was returning to active politics, saying it was a mistake he ever left. He accused Kosor and the members of the HDZ Presidency of failed leadership citing Andrija Hebrang's poor result in the first round of the presidential election held just a week earlier. Hebrang received, for HDZ as the largest party in the country, an embarrassing 12% of the votes claiming third place, the lowest result for an HDZ presidential candidate ever. Ivo Josipović, the candidate of the largest opposition party, the Social Democratic Party, won a landslide victory in the resulting runoff on 10 January. Most political pundits, as well as the majority of the public, believed the true reason of Sanader's surprise return was fear that he will eventually be tied with the numerous corruption scandals which have emerged since he left office. On 4 January, the day after Sanader's coup as it was called by the press, the HDZ Presidency decided to evict Sanader from the party. The Croatian public quickly rallied in support of Kosor against the hugely unpopular former prime minister, resulting in the highest support for any Prime Minister since polling began, topping at 77% by the end of February.

Throughout 2010, the economy topped corruption as the biggest concern of the government, and the enthusiasm for Kosor and her government soon wore off. Industry shed tens of thousands of jobs, and unemployment soared. Consumer spending reduced drastically compared to record 2007 levels, causing widespread problems in the trade as well as transport industries. The import/export balance did derive a benefit from a large decrease in imports and a more tempered decrease in exports. The continuing declining standard resulted in a quick fall in both the Prime Minister's as well as government's support. In June, Kosor proposed loosening the labor law and making it more business-friendly. This was greatly opposed by the unions who have organized a petition against the proposed changes demanding a referendum on the issue. The petition was signed by over 700,000 citizens, unprecedented in Croatia. Just as the 2010 Croatian labour law referendum was being prepared, the government decided to drop the proposed changes. The Constitutional Court ultimately declared the referendum issue moot, but ordered the government not to subject any changes to the labor law in the following year. This was seen as a legal way to avoid the referendum which many speculated would be a referendum on the Government rather than on the labor law. The unions criticized the move calling it undemocratic, announcing protests.

In August 2011, at the official celebration of Victory Day, Kosor sent a public greeting to Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač who were in April of the same year found guilty in a first instance verdict of war crimes and crimes against humanity by ICTY. In 2012, they were both acquitted by the ICTY's Appeals Panel and released from custody. Kosor's statement was criticized by Serbian president Boris Tadić, leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) Milorad Pupovac, Deputy Prime Minister Slobodan Uzelac (SDSS), as well as by leaders of the opposition Social Democratic Party and Croatian People's Party. Amnesty International expressed concerns.

Foreign relations
Jadranka Kosor signed an agreement with Borut Pahor, the prime minister of Slovenia, in November 2009, that ended Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession and allowed Croatian EU entry negotiations to proceed. On 9 December 2011, Prime Minister Kosor and President Ivo Josipović signed EU Accession Treaty in Brussels.

Post-premiership

Following HDZ's defeat at the 2011 parliamentary election, Kosor handed over power to newly elected prime minister, Social Democrat Zoran Milanović. On 23 December 2011, Kosor was elected Deputy Speaker of the Croatian Parliament and was also chairwoman of the HDZ's Deputy Club and leader of the opposition. Kosor contested 2012 HDZ leadership election and came in third out of five candidates. A moderate conservative, Kosor continuously publicly criticized Tomislav Karamarko's leadership and the new, more conservative, party platform. In 2012, she testified at the trial in the Fimi Media corruption case against Ivo Sanader. On 12 June 2012, Kosor and Vladimir Šeks were removed from the positions of Deputy Speakers. In 2013, she was expelled from HDZ for "damaging the reputation of the party".

Kosor continued as an independent, considerably more liberal, politician and eventually formed a deputy club with two Croatian Civic Party MPs. Kosor voted in favour of presenting the issue of the 2013 referendum on banning same-sex marriage before the Constitutional Court, and against the proposed Constitutional change which represented a change from her previous position on homosexuality and same-sex marriage since she had been known for being against the expansion of LGBT rights. She also voted for the Life Partnership Act which gave same-sex couples in Croatia rights equal to heterosexual married couples. After receiving death threats in 2015, Kosor was granted police protection. After speculation that she might be the SDP's candidate, Kosor eventually decided to participate in the 2015 parliamentary election as a candidate for the liberal Successful Croatia coalition in the 5th electoral district. She wasn't elected to the parliament. She continued to criticize Tomislav Karamarko and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović as well as Bridge of Independent Lists party for their indecisiveness. In February 2016, she called on Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković to remove Zlatko Hasanbegović from the position of the Minister of Culture after photograph of him wearing a cap with an Ustaše badge was published. In August 2016, Kosor stated that yelling Za dom spremni was "an insult to war veterans and their friends who gave their lives for a democratic, independent, and free Croatia".

Kosor is very active on Twitter where she writes on daily events and statements by politicians. She also maintains a personal blog - "Day After Yesterday - On Obverses and Reverses of Politics". In 2017, she published a book which included texts she wrote on her blog and columns written for the Slovenian leftist newspaper Dnevnik in the period from 2015 to 2017 in which she commented on Croatian interior and foreign politics.

In 2023, she reached the semi-final of Croatia's Masked Singer.

Personal life
Jadranka Kosor was married twice; between 1971 and 1981 to Hrvoje Markul, an editor of the HTV Entertainment Program, and between 1984 and 1993 to Ivo Škopljanac, the radio host. Her son Lovro Škopljanac (b. 1984) works as a senior assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

She has published five books - two of poetry, two related to the Croatian War of Independence and one containing her comments on Croatian politics. Kosor received The Golden Pen Award of the Croatian Journalists' Association, European Union's Humanitarian Award, European Circle Award of the Croatian European House and HRT's Lifetime Achievement Award "Ivan Šibl". She is an honorary member of the Association of Parents of Deceased Veterans, Honorary Vice President of the Association of the Deafblind "Dodir", Honorary President of the Association of Homeland Defence War Veterans - HVIDRA, Honorary President of the Association of Croatian Homeland Defence War Veterans Treated for PTSD of the Šibenik-Knin County - "Tvrđava Knin" and Honorary President of the International Committee of Humanists for the Protection of Children and Families from Abuse and Violence.

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Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray (born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares; October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes (1947) and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life. In the mid-1950s, she served as Sid Caesar's comedic partner on Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmy Awards, and appeared with Fred Astaire in the film musical The Band Wagon. From 1979 to 1984, she played Katherine Romano, the mother of lead character Ann Romano, on the TV series One Day at a Time. She also appeared as the mother of Christine Armstrong (played by her niece Shelley Fabares) in the television series Coach.

Fabray had significant hearing impairment and was a longtime advocate for the rights of the deaf and hearing-impaired people. Her honors included the President's Distinguished Service Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award.

Early life
Fabray was born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares on October 27, 1920 in San Diego, California to Lily Agnes (McGovern), a housewife, and Raoul Bernard Fabares, a train conductor.

She used one of her middle names, Nanette, as her first name in honor of a beloved aunt from San Diego named Nanette. Throughout life, she often used the nickname Nan. Her family resided in Los Angeles, and Fabray's mother was instrumental in introducing her to showbusiness as a child. At a young age, she studied tap dance with, among others, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. She made her professional stage debut as Miss New Year's Eve 1923 at the Million Dollar Theater at the age of three. She spent much of her childhood appearing in vaudeville productions as a dancer and singer under the name Baby Nan. She appeared with stars such as Ben Turpin.

Despite her mother's influence, Fabray was not interested in showbusiness as a young girl. Consequently, as an adult she did not believe in pushing children into performing at a young age. However, because of her early dance training, Fabray considered herself to be primarily a tap dancer. Despite a persistent rumor, she was never a regular or recurring guest in the Our Gang series, but she did appear as an extra during a party scene.

Fabray's parents divorced when she was nine, but they continued living together for financial reasons. During the Great Depression, her mother converted their home into a boarding house, which Fabray and her siblings helped to run, and her main job was ironing clothes. In her early teenage years, Fabray attended the Max Reinhardt School of the Theatre on a scholarship. She then attended Hollywood High School, participating in the drama program and graduating in 1939. She bested classmate Alexis Smith for the lead in the school play during her senior year. Fabray entered Los Angeles Junior College in the fall of 1939, but she did not fare well and withdrew a few months later.

Fabray experienced difficulty in school because of an undiagnosed hearing impairment. She was later diagnosed with conductive hearing loss related to congenital, progressive otosclerosis in her twenties after an acting teacher encouraged her to have her hearing tested. Fabray said of the experience, "It was a revelation to me. All these years I had thought I was stupid, but in reality, I just had a hearing problem."

In 2004, Fabray was interviewed for the oral-history project of the Archives of American Television.

Theatre
At the age of 19, Fabray made her feature-film debut as one of Bette Davis's ladies-in-waiting in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). She appeared in two additional films that year for Warner Bros., The Monroe Doctrine (short) and A Child Is Born, but was not signed to a long-term studio contract. She next appeared in the stage production Meet the People in Los Angeles in 1940, which then toured the United States in 1940–1941. In the show, she sang the opera aria "Caro nome" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto while tap dancing. During the show's New York run, Fabray was invited to perform the "Caro nome" number for a benefit at Madison Square Garden with Eleanor Roosevelt as the main speaker. Ed Sullivan was the master of ceremonies for the event and mispronounced her name, prompting her to subsequently change the spelling of her name from Fabares to the more easily pronounced Fabray. Artur Rodziński, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, saw Fabray's performance in Meet the People and offered to sponsor operatic vocal training for her at the Juilliard School. She studied opera at Juilliard with Lucia Dunham in 1941 while performing in her first Broadway musical, Cole Porter's Let's Face It!, with Danny Kaye and Eve Arden. However, as she preferred performing in musical theatre over opera, she withdrew from the school after about five months. She became a successful musical-theatre actress in New York during the 1940s and early 1950s, starring in such productions as By Jupiter (1942), My Dear Public (1943), Jackpot (1944), Bloomer Girl (1946), High Button Shoes (1947), Arms and the Girl (1950) and Make a Wish (1951). In 1949, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Susan Cooper in the Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner musical Love Life. She received a Tony nomination for her role as Nell Henderson in Mr. President in 1963 after an 11-year absence from the New York stage. Fabray continued to tour in musicals for many years, appearing in such shows as Wonderful Town and No, No, Nanette.

Television and film
In the mid-1940s, Fabray worked regularly for NBC on a variety of programs in the Los Angeles area. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she made her first high-profile national television appearances performing on a number of variety programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show, Texaco Star Theatre and The Arthur Murray Party.

She also appeared on Your Show of Shows as a guest star opposite Sid Caesar. She appeared as a regular on Caesar's Hour from 1954 to 1956, winning three Emmys. Fabray left the show after a misunderstanding when her business manager made unreasonable demands for her third-season contract. Fabray and Caesar did not reconcile until years later. In December 1956, she appeared in an episode of Playhouse 90 titled "The Family Nobody Wanted" alongside Lew Ayres and Tim Hovey.

In 1961, Fabray starred in 26 episodes of Westinghouse Playhouse, a half-hour sitcom series that also was known as The Nanette Fabray Show or Yes, Yes Nanette. The character was loosely based on herself and her life as a newlywed with new stepchildren.

Fabray appeared as the mother of the main character in several television series such as One Day at a Time, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Coach, in which she played mother to real-life niece Shelley Fabares, who became a regular cast member in One Day at a Time.

Fabray made 13 guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show. She performed on multiple episodes of The Dean Martin Show, The Hollywood Palace, Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall and The Andy Williams Show. She was a panelist on 230 episodes of the long-running game show The Hollywood Squares, a mystery guest on What's My Line? and later a panelist on Match Game in 1973. Other recurring game-show appearances included participation in Password, I've Got a Secret, He Said, She Said and Celebrity Bowling, Stump the Stars, Let's Make a Deal, All Star Secrets, and Family Feud.

She appeared in guest-starring roles on Burke's Law, Love, American Style, Maude, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. During the PBS program Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore credited Fabray with inspiring her trademark comedic crying technique. In 1986, Fabray was cast in the pilot episode of the unsold TBS sitcom project Here to Stay.

In 1953, Fabray played her best-known screen role as a Betty Comden-like playwright in the MGM musical comedy "The Band Wagon", performing in, among others, the musical numbers "That's Entertainment" and "Louisiana Hayride"; and in "Triplets" which was also included in That's Entertainment, Part II. Fabray's additional film credits include The Happy Ending (1969), Harper Valley PTA (1978) and Amy (1981).

Fabray's final work occurred in 2007 when she appeared in The Damsel Dialogues, a musical revue at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, California.

Personal life
Fabray's first husband David Tebet was in television marketing and talent and later became a vice president at NBC. According to Fabray, their marriage ended in divorce partially because of her depression, anxiety and insecurity related to her worsening hearing loss. Her second husband was screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, whose writing credits include Mildred Pierce and Cleopatra and who served as president of the Writers Guild of America in the early 1970s, They were married from 1957 until MacDougall's death in 1973 and had one son together, Jamie MacDougall.

Fabray lived in Pacific Palisades, California, and was the aunt of singer/actress Shelley Fabares. Her niece's 1984 wedding to M*A*S*H actor Mike Farrell was held at her home. Fabray was associated with her longtime neighbor Ronald Reagan's campaign for the governorship of California in 1966.

She was hospitalized for almost two weeks after being rendered unconscious by a falling pipe backstage during a live broadcast of Caesar's Hour in 1955. The audience in the studio heard her screams and Sid Caesar had at first been told that she had been killed in the freak accident. Fabray suffered a serious concussion along with associated temporary vision impairment and photosensitivity/photophobia. Later, she realized that she had avoided being directly impaled because she was bending down rather than standing straight at the time of the accident. In 1978, during the filming of Harper Valley PTA, Fabray suffered a second major concussion after falling, hitting her neck on the sidewalk and the back of her head on a rock. The accident was caused when a live elephant appearing in the film stampeded when it was spooked by a drunken bystander. Fabray developed associated memory loss and visual issues such as nystagmus but had to finish her scenes, including one involving a car chase. She was closely directed, coached, and fed lines as she could not remember her lines or cues as a result of the concussion. She was filmed from specific angles to hide the abnormal eye movements that the concussion had temporarily caused.

Activism
A longtime champion of hearing awareness and support of the deaf, she sat on boards and spoke at many related functions. A forward-thinking proponent of total communication and teaching the deaf language and communication in any way possible, including American Sign Language and not just the oralism method of the time, Fabray was one of, if not the first, to use sign language on [live] television, something which she continued to showcase on many programs on which she made appearances, including the Carol Burnett Show, Match Game '73, and I've Got a Secret. She even contributed the story line to an entire 1982 episode of One Day at a Time, which focused on hearing loss awareness and acceptance, treatment options, and sign language. Fabray appeared in a 1986 infomercial for hearing device and deafness support products for House Ear Institute. In 2001, she wrote to advice columnist Dear Abby to decry the loud background music played on television programs. A founding member of the National Captioning Institute, she also was one of the first big names to bring awareness to the need for media closed-captioning.

Likewise, after the passing of her second husband, Randy MacDougall, Fabray also started to learn about the tribulations associated with spousal death and began to bring awareness to the need for changes in the law for widows and widowers. She focused her later years on campaigning for widows' rights, particularly pertaining to women's inheritance laws, taxes, and asset protection.

Death
Fabray died on February 22, 2018, at the Canterbury Nursing home in California at the age of 97 from natural causes.

Honors
A Tony and three-time Primetime Emmy award winner, Fabray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1986, she received a Life Achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.

She won a Golden Apple award from the Hollywood Women's Press Club in 1960 along with Janet Leigh for being a Most Cooperative actress.

She was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award for her long efforts on behalf of the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Stage work

 * The Miracle (1939)
 * Six Characters in Search of an Author (1939)
 * The Servant of Two Masters (1939)
 * Meet the People (1940)
 * Let's Face It! (1941)
 * By Jupiter (1942) (replacement for Constance Moore)
 * My Dear Public (1943)
 * Jackpot (1944)
 * Bloomer Girl (1945; 1947; 1949)
 * High Button Shoes (1947)
 * Love Life (1948)
 * Arms and the Girl (1950)
 * Make a Wish (1951)
 * Mr. President (1962)
 * No Hard Feelings (1973)
 * Applause (1973)
 * Plaza Suite (1975)
 * Wonderful Town (1975)
 * The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild (1977)
 * Call Me Madam (1979)
 * Cactus Flower (1984)
 * Prince of Central Park (1989) (replacement for Jo Anne Worley)
 * The Bermuda Avenue Triangle (1997)

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World League for Freedom and Democracy

The World League for Freedom and Democracy (WLFD) is an international non-governmental organization of anti-communist politicians and groups. It was founded in 1952 as the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China (First on Mainland China, after 1949 on Taiwan) and retired General Charles A. Willoughby that united mostly right-wing authoritarian people and organizations, and acted with the support of the right-wing authoritarian regimes of East Asia and Latin America. During the Cold War, WACL actively participated in anti-communist and anti-Soviet positions.

In 1990, the organization changed to its current name, but has preserved its traditions and former ties. It unites representatives from more than 100 countries and has eight regional divisions. It has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.

History
The WLFD descended from the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League. Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, Elpidio Quirino of the Republic of the Philippines, and Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea founded the APACL in Jinhae, the wartime capital city of the Republic of Korea (ROK) on 15 June 1954. Its first general conference was held in that city and was hosted to advocate and support the causes of anti-communism. The other participating states, including South Vietnam, Thailand, Okinawa, Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau also sent representatives.

World Freedom Day
World Freedom Day is a memorial day celebrated on 23 January in Taiwan and South Korea. The event marks the return of some 22,000 ex-communist war prisoners of the Korean War (1950–1953) to Taiwan, of whom 14,000 Chinese soldiers arrived at Keelung harbor on 23 January 1954, and were given the title "Anti-Communist Heroes". The Republic of China (ROC) government subsequently declared 23 January as World Freedom Day to honor these soldiers, and created the "Anti-Communist League" (which later became the World League for Freedom and Democracy) to fight communist expansion worldwide. The league is led by President Yao Eng-Chi, a former Kuomintang-MP and Secretary-General Ger Yeong-Kuang, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University. Every year World Freedom Day Celebrations are held in Taiwan, and the event is attended by both local and foreign delegates from all over the world. Usually, the president of the ROC delivers congratulations, and cultural events are held.

Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy
The Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy (APLFD) was founded in 1954 as the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League in Chinhae, South Korea with the support of the governments of the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan (as the Republic of China). The APLFD is a non-profit international organization for interchanges among the Asians for peace and prosperity of the region.

The APLFD was founded in the same year and under the same international background as the forming of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), or the Manila Pact, in 1954, when the Second World War had concluded. However, while the SEATO (1954–1977) was sort of an Asian Nato in nature, the APLFD is a people's organization trying to secure peace and prosperity through ideas and convictions and friendship.

Having founded the APACL, the government of the Republic of China prepared to organize the second conference and chose Taipei City as the place to set up the Republic of China Chapter of the APACL on 1 July 1954. Ku Cheng-kang, President of the Chinese Refugees Relief Association of the Republic of China, was designated as the first president of this Chapter. Over the years, successors to the presidency of the Republic of China Chapter are Clement C. P. Chang, Chao Tze-chi, Yao Eng-chi, and Tseng Yung-chuan. the president was Yao Eng-chi, former Vice President of the ROC Legislative Yuan (Parliament) and also Senior Advisor to the President of the Republic of China on Taiwan.

World Anti-Communist League
In 1966 the memberships of the APACL had increased to 27, in Asia, Australia, and Africa. At its 12th Conference in Seoul on 3 November 1966, a fifteen-member committee was formed to discuss the expansion of this organization. The committee eventually decided to set up a new anti-communist organization, including the APACL, regional organizations, and an international anti-communist organization. On 7 November 1966, the delegates adopted the "Charter of the World Anti-Communist League" at the plenary session. It also resolved that the Republic of China Chapter was in charge of organizing the first General Conference.

The Charter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), with 8 chapters and 32 articles, came into effect on 1 April 1967. It stated that the WACL should immediately set up its regional organizations in six regions: Asia (now known as Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy), the Middle East (now known as Middle East Solidarity Council), Africa (now known as the African Organization for Freedom and Democracy), and Europe (now known as the European Council for World Freedom), North America (now known as the North American Federation for Freedom and Democracy), and Latin America (now known as the Federation of Latin American Democratic Organization). The organization in the Asian region was the main force to push for the mission of the World League.

Renaming
To adjust to the worldwide political changes after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and to strive for recruiting more people to join, the WACL held its 22nd General Conference in Brussels, Belgium on 23 July 1990, and the delegates resolved that the organization should be renamed the "World League for Freedom and Democracy" (WLFD). This resolution came into effect on 1 January 1991.

On 21 August 1991, with the new name, the WLFD held its 23rd General Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica. Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, President of Costa Rica, and vice presidents from six countries in Latin America, gave speeches. The conference passed a resolution to set up the Presidency of League, a new post to highlight the leading center of the WLFD and also to take responsibility to organize WLFD activities. Chao Tze-chi, President of the Republic of China Chapter of WLFD, was elected as the first President of the WLFD, and re-elected in 1995. U Chae-sung of the ROK was named as the Secretary-General.

On 19 January 2006, the WLFD adopted its charter amendment in the 34th General Conference. According to the Amendment, the President of the League shall be "the top official of the League" and shall represent the League, and shall supervise the performance and development of the League in compliance with the charter. According to the previous charter of the WLFD, the President of the League shall be "the Leader of the League" and shall represent the League. This person shall supervise the performance and development of the League in compliance with the charter.

According to the Charter of the WLFD, the President of the League shall be elected by and from the members of the executive board of the League. The result of the election shall be reported to the General Conference. The President shall hold office for a term of four years and shall be eligible for re-election. In October 2000, all members of the executive board approved Yao Eng-chi, President of the WLFD ROC Chapter, as the third President of the League during the Executive Board Meeting in New York City The executive board also amended the charter to add several positions such as four vice presidents and two deputy secretary-generals. The decision made by the executive board was also confirmed by the members at the 31st WLFD General Conference in Taipei, ROC, on 13 January 2001. President Yao Eng-chi was re-elected as President of the League at the 33rd WLFD General Conference in Melbourne, Australia, on 20 December 2003. Ger Yeong-kuang was named as Secretary-General of the League. On 1 August 2008, Ger resigned and was succeeded by Hsieh Wen-huang, Parliamentary Assistant to Vice President Tseng Yung-chuan of the ROC Legislative Yuan (Parliament). Hsieh resigned; Chou Yujen's was nominated to replace him on 23 January 2013.

Membership
According to the charter, national, regional or international organizations that subscribe to the purposes of the League are eligible for membership. Membership shall consist of Regular Members with voting rights and Associate Members without voting rights.

The Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy (APLFD) was formed in 1954 as the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League. The APLFD Secretariat was first established in Saigon, Vietnam in 1957; then the Secretariat moved to Manila in 1964. Three years later, the Secretariat moved back again to Saigon until its fall in 1975. After some compromise and a resolution, the APLFD Secretariat was re-established in Taipei, Taiwan in 1976 where it remains active. In 1983, at its conference in Fiji, it changed its name to the Asian Pacific Democratic League.

The APLFD has 18 member nations. It holds an annual conference every year.

The number of members in Denmark is unknown, but several politicians have or have been connected to the organization. Progress Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard participated in 1988 as WACL's guest at the organization's congress in Taipei. The Danish WACL leader has been municipal politician Erik Dissing.

The French chapter was headed by Suzanne Labin. The president of the German section as of 2012 has been Axel Fischer.

In Sweden, a department of WACL was established in 1967. The Swedish organization has been characterized by strong participation among exiled Estonians. Among the member organizations in the late 1960s were Democratic Alliance, Baltic Committee, Nordic War and UN Veterans Association and the Committee for a Free Asia. The National League of Sweden was also linked to the organization for some time. Swedish chairman has been Birger Nerman (1967–70), Arvo Horm (1970–1984), Birger Hagård (1984–88) and Åke J. Ek (1988–2011).

Controversies
In 1978, British anticommunist activist Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, who led the British affiliate out of WACL, declared that despite a publicized housecleaning, "The World Anti-Communist League is largely a collection of Nazis, Fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers. It has evolved into an anti-Semitic international."

In 1978, Roger Pearson became the World Chairman of the WACL. Pearson was described in a Washington Post article as having neo-Nazi associations     and sources report that as a result of an article in The Washington Post in 1978 critical of WACL and alleging extreme right wing politics of Pearson that either he was expelled from WACL or at least was pressured into resigning from his position as World chairman.

The US chapter of WACL, the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) was founded in 1981 by Major General John K. Singlaub. Singlaub was the former US Chief of Staff of both United Nations and American forces in South Korea, but was relieved in 1977 by U.S. President Jimmy Carter after publicly criticizing Carter's decision to reduce the number of troops on the peninsula. Singlaub became a member of the WACL in 1980, and founded and became president of its U.S. chapter, the United States Council for World Freedom. This branch generated controversy when it supported Nicaraguan guerrillas in the Iran–Contra affair and, in 1981, the USCWF was placed under watch by the Anti-Defamation League, which said that the organization had increasingly become "a point of contact for extremists, racists, and anti-Semites". During the 1980s, the USCWF and WACL conducted a purge of these elements, and invited ADL observers to monitor its conferences; by 1985, the Anti-Defamation League declared itself "satisfied that substantial progress has been made since 1981 in ridding the organization of racists and anti-Semites."

It is alleged that in the mid-1980s WACL had become a supplier of arms to anti-communist rebel movements in southern Africa, Central America, Afghanistan and the Far East. During the 1980s, the WACL was particularly active in Latin America, notably by aiding the Contra forces in Nicaragua. During this period, WACL was criticized for its presence in the organization of neo-Nazis, war criminals, and people linked to death squads and assassinations. Other allegations have included reports claim that the World League for Freedom and Democracy is responsible for producing what its opponents call "troops of killers", while ostensibly organizing to provide support for Corazon Aquino from the right-wing in the Philippines and for supporting the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) movement in Mozambique.

The World Anti-Communist League held annual conferences at various locations throughout the world. Numerous groups participated, including the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. WACL also enjoyed support from many U.S. Congressmen, most notably 2008 presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who sat on the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) Board of Directors in the early 1980s. When his membership was brought up during the election McCain said he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead but there was absolutely no evidence that McCain had ever resigned or asked for his name's removal from the United States Council for World Freedom.

Controversial participants of WACL conferences
In the World Anti-Communist League, numerous Nazi collaborators and Latin American death squads were active. The prominent individuals who attended conferences included:
 * Ryōichi Sasakawa, gangster and billionaire jailed as a war criminal after World War II
 * Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church (Moon sect)
 * Yoshio Kodama, behind-the-scenes power broker and yakuza crime lord from Japan
 * Osami Kuboki, member of the Moon sect, president of the International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVC) and the Japanese Unification Church
 * Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Guatemalan politician, “Godfather” of Central American death squads
 * Giorgio Almirante, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement
 * Dsmitryj Kasmowitsch, the Belarusian policeman of Smolensk, who was responsible for fighting partisans
 * Theodor Oberländer, Nazi German politician in the NSDAP, participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, Oberleutnant of the Nachtigall Battalion
 * Ante Pavelić, Croatian Ustaše fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia, responsible for the genocide of Serbs during World War II
 * Otto Skorzeny, Austrian Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer
 * Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay

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User talk:Jmabel/Archive 8

Notability
Responding to your comments at Wikipedia talk:School articles needing evaluation (copied here since you indicated that you would remove that page from your watchlist):
 * I'm sorry you feel that way. I actually consider myself more of a moderate inclusionist (I do not think everything under the sun deserves an separate article and I don't think WP needs to preserve edit history of semi-literate babble from every contributor and I have no problem with deleting substubs, even on valid topics, that do not contain any non-obvious information). I think the recent increase on VfD of radical deletionism reflects a fundamental betrayal of how Wikis work. It is imposing artificial and elitist values of "notability" in an attempt to filter out some classes of conributions. No one has been able to demonstrate exactly what harm is done to Wikipedia by having articles about schools (or the so-called "fancruft" for that matter). What is the threat that requires such militant deletionism? The main challenge that I see to such articles is organizing them and deciding how to manage them. My take is that as long as Wikipedia is a Wiki, then people will continue to attempt to add such information. What we should be doing is deciding how to manage, organize and improve the information rather than simply supressing it. older ≠ wiser 13:30, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)

History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jmabel, Thanks for your thoughtful editing of the Jewish State article. Your edits have turned it from a stub into a full grown piece. Thanks again, Guy Montag

I've responded to your comments there, with full citations so you can see for yourself. I'd appreciate if you had a second to spare to go look; as it stands HistoryBuffEr is promising a revert war because he thinks I need to be taught a lesson. Jayjg 16:09, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to be ignoring you on the other page; there's so much nonsense going on right now I can't keep up with all the edits, questions, changes, etc. Is your question answered now? Jayjg 20:09, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Regarding my proposal
Jmabel, I want to apologize for jumping on your comment about notability. I took it too far and replied with a blanket statement, which was unfair of me. I want to let you know that I am not plotting to make School articles needing evaluation into some inclusionists' collection of nonverfiable substubs. My prime reasons for creating this page were to divert the hostility of VfD away from these school articles, and to give us a better way of evaluating them. I am against school (or any) substubs in principle, and would not advocate keeping them as such. In fact, I think that merging schools into their related city articles is probably the best idea for most school articles. I do, however, think that there are some very well written articles about schools, (ex. Moanalua High School, Saint Louis School). and I don't want vfd to make it impossible to achieve that. Lastly, I do not support inclusion of articles about all people who have met thousands of other people. A person who has not had a profound effect on all of those people, an effect that has a verifiable paper-trail and possiblility for an encyclopedic article, rarely deserves an article, if ever. I don't support including unverifiable advertisments about businesses, products and websites either. I merely want to be able to give better evaluation to school articles than VfD currently does. Hope that helps to clear stuff up. — siro χ  o  01:45, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

I've copied the remarks to the project talk page as you suggested, and will reply to you there. — siro χ  o  02:54, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

Wiki fact project
Hello, many people want to move forward with the WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check project instead of waiting for 'smart' footnotes to be coded into MediaWiki. The first step is agreeing upon a formatting template used to fact check new articles. Several candidates are up for vote, and everyone is encouraged to vote and/or submit their own proposal. Comments on proposals are also very much welcome.

Thanks for your interest in our project, I hope you will vote :o). --ShaunMacPherson 10:20, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cuba
I did some more work on Opposition to Castro in Cuba. I still think it needs work to be de-POV, especially in the last two sentences of paragraph 2, but I'm not sure how to do it. --Improv 22:24, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Opposition to Castro
Thanks a lot for your help on getting the Oppossition to Castro in shape. Many regards SilentVoice 04:16, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry, I've changed my vote to "keep". --*drew 04:26, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re: Four Freedoms - Hello!
I already added a note in reply on the Four Freedoms Talk page when I decided to have a look at your User page to learn a little more about you. Well, small world! My associate and close friend from Texas is currently teaching at the University at Sibiu and guess what? About six months ago he asked me to locate a reference for him to show that in the 1980s he had worked for the Four Freedoms Federation! (I noticed your own interests in Romania.) Rather than post too much personal stuff here I would be happy to send you an email with a reference to my friend who is still in Romania teaching American governmental studies. MPLX/MH 02:01, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Recent Olympiad discussion
Out of curiousity, I tried to find what reason there had bean to change that page, but I can't find the discussion you mentioned. Do you know where to find it? Aliter 14:33, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wesleyan Disambig Page
Hi Jmabel, I noticed you were paying attention to the current discussions on the Wesleyan University article, and I'm wondering if you might take a look at what's going on at the moment on the Wesleyan disambig page. Another user and I are going around in circles in an edit war, and without a third party I fear we'll never resolve this issue. The discussion is all on the Talk:Wesleyan page, but as a brief (and possibly biased) summary: I'm trying to have the page point to Methodism first, Wesleyan University second and Ohio Wesleyan University third. This user (who often fails to log in) wants to reverse this order. He has failed to give a reason beyond the fact that "he was there first." When I countered that none of the pages that originally linked to the disambiguation meant to go to OWU, yet several meant to go to WU, and that WU had many more links to it than OWU, he responded by deleting several links to WU and copying-and-pasting several articles from the web into Wikipedia in order to boost the number of pages linking to OWU.

If I shouldn't be bringing this to you, apologies, I'm no edit-war veteran and am unsure of the correct procedure, but know that we'll never get anywhere with just the two of us.

Thank you very much, --Asbestos 23:21, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Could Asbestos tell us what of the pages meant to go to Wesleyan in CT? Thanks.

(The previous remark was apparently written unsigned by Ranamim. I have no idea why a question to Asbestos was placed on my talk page. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:16, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

THIS IS A QUESTION TO JMABEL, NOT ASBESTOS...

ALSO, I UNDERSTAND YOUR ASSISTANCE TO ASBESTOS. YOU ARE APPARENTLY BOTH ALUMNI OF WESLEYAN (CT). THIS MAKES YOU A BIASED EDITOR. COULD YOU PLEASE STOP CHANGING THE ENTRY UNDER WESLEYAN? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE TO YOU IF IT IS WESLEYAN (CT) OR WESLEYAN (OH) THAT APPEARS FIRST? TO ME? WELL, THAT'S HOW IT APPEARED ORIGINALLY AND I BELIEVE ANY CLAIM AGAINST THE OPPOSITE IS NOT REALLY STRONG. AND SINCE IT IS NOT WELL-JUSTIFIED, GOOD MANNERS DICTATE TO LEAVE AS IT WAS. IF YOU WISH TO LEAVE THE REALM OF GOOD MANNERS, THEN I AM AFRAID IT MAY GET A BIT MORE UGLY. DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT?

(The previous threatening remark was apparently written unsigned by Ranamim). -- Jmabel | Talk 06:21, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

NOTHING IS THREATING. BUT I SUPPOSE FOR THE SENSITIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER'S SOUL IT COULD BE. IT WAS A DIPLOMATIC QUESTION IN THE NAME OF EFFICIENCY. AND IT WAS UNSIGNED BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE SIGNATURE COMES AUTOMATICALLY. --Ranamim

Apparently this is an assertion that messages written entirely in capital letters accusing me of bias, objecting to my editing an article, and ending "I AM AFRAID IT MAY GET A BIT MORE UGLY. DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT?" are not threatening. I'm not sure I want to know what this user considers threatening. I have replied to the substantive matter on his talk page. For the record, my reply is reproduced here as well:

That was a remarkably threatening note over a remarkably trivial matter. If you continue to address me in that manner, I will probably try to start a formal request for comment on your behavior. Yes, for the record, I am an alumnus of Wesleyan University. You ask (without apparently wanting an answer), why should Wesleyan University be listed on the disambiguation page Wesleyan ahead of Ohio Wesleyan University? The answer is because "Wesleyan University" is commonly called "Wesleyan", just like "Harvard University" is commonly called "Harvard", "Williams College" is commonly called "Williams" and "Ohio Wesleyan University" is commonly called "Ohio Wesleyan". Normally, I wouldn't expect Ohio Wesleyan to show up on the disambiguation page of "Wesleyan" at all -- no more so than Bartlesville Wesleyan, Illinois Wesleyan, etc. I left it there as a courtesy because some editor (I take it, you) seemed to believe that it was commonly called just "Wesleyan" (if it is, I suspect it is a very local usage in Ohio). However, certainly in most contexts if someone refers just to "Wesleyan" they mean Wesleyan University, not Ohio Wesleyan University, just like if someone refers to "Columbia" they presumably mean the one in New York, not the one in Missouri. "First post" has nothing to do with it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:32, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

IF YOU THINK THAT NO ONE REFERS TO OHIO WESLEYAN AS WESLEYAN, THEN PERHAPS YOU SHOULD GO AND TALK TO PEOPLE. FOR EXAMPLE, AS AN ALUMNUS OF WESLEYAN, WHEN YOU SAY THAT YOU GO TO WESLEYAN, JUST WESLEYAN...HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU GET THE QUESTION "WHICH ONE?". I BET YOU...THE ANSWER IS...A LOT! IF YOU COMPARE OHIO WESLEYAN AND KANSAS WESLEYAN OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU LISTED, THEN YOU SHOULD CONSIDER FOLLOWING MY PATH IN ACADEMIA AND GET A PHD IN A RESPECTABLE INSTITUTION AND SEE HOW MANY PHD STUDENTS AND WHAT THE ACADEMIC AND OVERALL REPUTATION OF THESE TWO INSTITUIONS IS ACROSS THE BOARD. I AM NOT SAYING THAT TO BOOST OWU'S REPUTATION OR ANYTHING BUT TO QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF AN ABSURD COMPARISON.

WHAT WAS THAT THREATENING?!?!?!? IF YOU PERCEIVED IT TO BE A THREAT, THEN LET ME TELL YOU IT IS A THREAT AGAINST THE EFFICIENT USE OF OUR TIME...NOTHING ELSE! I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO CATCH THE NUANCE OF MY SEEMINGLY THREATING TO YOU QUESTION (BUT REALLY A RHETORICAL QUESTION)...

AND BY THE WAY...YOU WOULDN'T KNOW..BUT LET ME TELL YOU: IN ACADEMIA, CAP LETTERS ARE USED TO MAKE EDITS TO DOCUMENTS, NOT TO INDICATE ANYTHING AND CERTAINLY NOT TO THREATEN!

-PN

Meetup
Joe--Great to meet you today. Great choice on the restaurant--was that your idea? Hope I come to birthday party. I put up some pictures at Meetup/Seattle, including one of you. Best wishes -- Matt Decumanus 09:01, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)

Thanks for contributions
Thanks for alphabetizing the list over in the Chronicles article. [Last time I tried to add this note my browser crashed and I apparently blanked your page as a resuilt. My apologies - glad you could restore it! ]Pi9 18:20, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

wrongtitle or maybe not
Hi Joe,

I notice that you are entering a tags to a number of pages on the English Wiki. I applaude your attention to detail, but this probably isn't correct. As far as I am aware the manual of style recommends that an article be at the most common use of the name in English. Virtually every English reference I know would refer to Constantin Brancusi without Romanian accents. So the article is already at the correct title. It is still good to give the native spelling / accents in the opening paragraph though. -- Solipsist 20:41, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * You know, you are probably right on Brancusi, who made his career mainly in the West and is therefore usually known by this simplified spelling of his name. I was going through and doing this on a bunch of Romanian names, for most of which these simplified spellings are not customarily used. Similarly Nicolae Ceauşescu is so well-known that similar issues apply, and Nadia Comaneci (for whom I didn't add one of these) actually changed her name from "Comăneci". Feel free to reverse my decision on Brancusi; on the rest of these, though (e.g. Ion Creangă, Ştefan cel Mare) I think my decision was correct. Do you think not?

 * For whatever it is worth, I was following the pattern of Panini (scholar), recently discussed on the Village Pump -- Jmabel | Talk 20:57, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * Well my awareness of famous Romanians probably only covers Brancusi, Ceausescu, George Enescu and Angela Gheorghiu (oh, and Count Dracula) so I can't comment much on the others. However it looks like Stefan cel Mare would have a common English name, possibly 'Stephen the Great of Moldavia'. At least there is a redirect from Stephen the Great. I'll revert the Brancusi one for now. -- Solipsist 21:31, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

how to use wikipedia
Hi Jmabel,

It was really great to meet you yesterday. I have started Researching with Wikipedia, per our discussion at the meet-up. See what you think. DanKeshet 21:48, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, edit wars were taking place on both Guzman and Shining Path. I shouldn't comment now on whether or not the DoD classification of the group as a terrorist organization belongs in the lead, given my protection of both pages. Good luck resolving the dispute, though. 172 08:09, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Invite
Hi

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW, a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:32, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Neil Young
Thank's for helping to bash the loose edges off Neil Young -- GWO

comment
Hey Jmabel,

You said: "I left it there as a courtesy because some editor (I take it, you) seemed to believe that it was commonly called just "Wesleyan" (if it is, I suspect it is a very local usage in Ohio). However, certainly in most contexts if someone refers just to "Wesleyan" they mean Wesleyan University, not Ohio Wesleyan University"

You will appreciate to know that CNN is your "very local usage" network: www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/30/classroom.affairs.ap/

Cheers mate... (I don't have the time to try to find other examples. I surely hope that CNN.com is convincing enough for you.)

One misguided soul by the local usage,

Ranamim

 * Actually, this is CNN reprinting an AP story, probably without review. I would call this a screw-up, presumably on AP's part: "Ohio's Wesleyan University" instead of "Ohio Wesleyan University"? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:34, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Ranamim
I endorsed your summary and added one piece of evidence. He also edits anonymously a lot, though he signs with his real ID when he uses the anons on Talk pages. RickK 22:34, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

I added my name to the users certifying the basis for the dispute, along with further explanation in this section (as well as on the talk page). If you think my added explanation should not be in that section (or if you think they should be rephrased), do please let me know how it should be changed (I would hate to have valid arguments invalidated). -- Asbestos 04:54, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Holy cow....interesting stuff. I had no idea the passions of Methodists ran so high. ;-) (I assume Wesleyan universities began their lives, at least, as Methodist seminaries -- perhaps mistakenly.) At any rate, I think you've assembled a remarkable amount of good evidence collectively -- there is clear evidence of personal attacks and "revenge editing" which the fellow openly admits to, as near as I can tell, not to mention the sockpuppetry for which reasonable evidence appears on the talk page.  Officially, you are supposed to now request mediation with this person (and their various alter egos) -- I encourage you to try it.  Requests for mediation is the place to go.  Link back to your RFC and make it clear that you're interested in amicable resolution, not punitive damages (I know you know this, but some people have the unusual idea that "mediation" will be a chance to punish their rival, so I always include this piece of advice to help remind people in general to treat mediation as the last hope for reconciliation, not the first levels of our wikijudicial system). Advancing immediately to arbitration may well result in a few votes of "try mediation first", although I think many of the arbitrators would see this case is ripe for arbitration. I leave that up to you. If mediation fails or is refused (you are asked to notify the fellow that you're requesting mediation, and they're supposed to post acceptance or refusal), you advance to Requests for arbitration. If you need any help on how to format said requests, let me know. As I noted above, I think you've made a good and detailed case at your RfC, so I don't think you need worry that you're not familiar with this process (I do envy you, by the way -- how have you avoided it this long?). I hope Ranamim can be reasoned with, but I think your comment at the RfC is apt -- if the fellow continues his pattern of behavior in the RfC itself, we cannot hold out much hope. Good luck, Jwrosenzweig 23:14, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

RINO/DINO
I've noticed that people have a tendency to attempt to remove politicians that they have an affection for from the list. -Joseph (Talk) 05:45, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)

U.S. embargo against Cuba
You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Sabra and Shatila Massacre article
Hi Jmabel. Viriditas has asked you what I think is a compelling question on the Talk: page there, I'm hoping you can respond. Jayjg 15:26, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
I have drafted a proposal for a new voluntary association on Wikipedia (joining groups like the The Business and Economics Forum and the Harmonious editing club) to promote discussion of a sort of system of expert review on Wiki. Please take a look and add your ideas. 172 02:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Wonderful idea! I have joined. I will let some others know. Thank you. IZAK 03:25, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Great observations. I have moved them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards#Editorial_arbitration. My response is on that page. Thanks. 172 01:29, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about my oversight. 172 02:49, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Anya Schiffrin
The criteria for inclusion of biographies quite clearly state that editors of newspapers with a circulation above 5000 are notable. Schiffrin edited the Turkish Times. More importantly, I just happen to be editing a book on marketing at the moment and I note that she is the editor of a new book on journalistic approaches to globalisation. Admittedly, it's published by her own uni's press but it looks the kind of thing that will be widely used and cited. She is a fairly notable journalist. Certainly, if she were a scientist with a similar track record, she'd be in. I don't have an axe to grind either way. Sometimes I vote on VfD if I see something I think should be kept or axed, and I noticed you said to ping. I think she scrapes in by anyone's standards.Dr Zen 05:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ranamim
Sorry, I don't participate in the ridiculous mediation/arbitration process. Hope somebody else will join you in it. RickK 06:17, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

FWIW, I've made a comment on the RfC. I think RickK's attitude, as expressed here, rather helps Ranamim's case. It's very frustrating to run up against editors who think they are above the law, as it were. It certainly doesn't help lessen the tension in a dispute. But the same can be said of Ranamim, of course.Dr Zen 06:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I didn't add my name to the RFM, as I had already listed my arguments against PN on the RFC page. Also, I wasn't really sure what we would achieve, as PN certainly doesn't want to participate in regular polite discussion, let alone discussion with a moderator. Ranamim seems to have slowed down now, which is good, but I can certainly add my name to anything if he starts vandalizing again. -- Asbestos 17:06, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hunyadi
Hunyadi are usually considered to be a 'magyarized' family of Romanian origin (they needed to learn Hungarian in order to enter the Transylvanian nobility). Hungarians consider them 'pure' Hungarians.

It seems that even the 1911 Britanica says that:
 * HUNYADI, JANOS (c. 1387-1456), Hungarian statesman and warrior, was the son of Vojk, a Magyarized Vlach.

Bogdan | Talk 10:42, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Amos Oz
Nice going on the expansion of the Amos Oz stub. Thanks for picking up the gauntlet, for the second time in 24 hours (California 4th grade mission project too). --Woggly 22:00, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

esTotW
howdy, i changed this weeks translation. It took me so long for two reasons, firstly ive been sick, busy, and involved in other parts of wikimedia (like wikijunior, and wikinews); secondly ive come to see a couple of quite serious problems with the idea behind esTotW. I just dont think that the quality or the quantity of articles on es.wiki are good enough to provide enough material for us to trasnalate. In conversation with another user (not an esTotWer) i came up with another proposal, to replace (or perhaps complement, if it was thus decided) here, i would appreciate your feedback on the idea. The bellman 08:18, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)
 * a list like that would be great. The bellman 08:28, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)
 * so, what do you think of the notice board idea?

Che Guevara heads up
(I do not believe he supported only the "Viet Cong", I believe he supported the North as well. If you have a good citation, I will gladly yield)

Just for the record, I'm perfectly fine with replacing "Viet Cong" with "Communists in Vietnam"; my main problem with "Vietnamese Revolution" was that for whatever reason, it is pretty much a non standard term. --Bletch 18:06, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Encyclopedic Standards
Hi. I think you make a lot of good points at Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. And it seems like we are sometimes online about the same time of day. Maybe it would be useful for us to hash out some things that we could then present to the rest of the group. If you're interested, maybe we could start with your idea about a mission statement. Maurreen 05:44, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your note and summing up the archives. It looks good. Maurreen 21:28, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * You did a great job overhauling those pages! I hope it re-sparks some interest. I was concerned that maybe I was overdoing it. I have added myself to the members list, as you suggested. Part of the reason I didn't do so initially was the emphasis on formal education. It's really good working with you. I also think your think tank idea is good. Thanks. Maurreen 04:13, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Jmabel, just to say I most appreciate your work on the Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. :ChrisG 18:24, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re: Category:Jewish Encyclopedia
Dear Jmabel: I have been meaning to ask you, why did you create Category:Jewish Encyclopedia? I am very puzzled by the need for a category about an encyclopedia which is only used as a source or reference for Jewish-content articles. Isn't it enough that articles using its material cite it as a source if and when material is derived from it (the Jewish Encyclopedia). You also mistakenly refer to it as the "Encyclopedia Judaica" (Template:JewishEncyclopedia "This article incorporates text from the public domain 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia (a.k.a. Encyclopedia Judaica). Please feel free to update like any other article.") which is problematic because the modern "Encyclopedia Judaica" exists and is copyrighted (a new hard-copy sells for around $1,350 see for example) it's also sold as a CD, see  for example. Seems someone also started stub on it at Encyclopedia Judaica. My main point though, is that we don't need the "category" of an ancyclopedia as it serves no purpose that I can tell. I am thinking that it should be removed. What do you think? Thanks. IZAK 05:07, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Punk Rock
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your being circumspect about projecting your prejudices, but with your memories of the period and involvement in the movement, you are a primary source of Punk history, and likely to be more accurate than the majority of contributors here. And others will jump in to disagree if you go off the rails (I think we had a back-and-forth about the relationship between "New Wave" and Punk, didn't we?). More to the point, you know how to write, which is a less than universal attribute among Wikipedians. Even when the sentences are rendered clear and comprehensible, it seems to me that many contributors are anxious to annex whatever tidbit they know about a given subject, leading to excructingly repetitive and circuitous entries. The Punk Rock entry, though labelled an outstanding example, would be improved by cutting at least a couple of paragraphs, in my view. I think Wikipedia is a great idea, but so far the results often seems to suffer from the absence of traditional editors.--BTfromLA 06:56, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC) PS: Small world: I was at that Roundhouse show, too, next to the stage in front of Johnny (I'm told that my young hippieish self is glimpsed onscreen in the recent documentary about the Ramones).

Ranamim
Just a heads up. Ranamim is now posting as User:Rananim. RickK 21:36, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

You're right it's two different articles
There is a consensus article, and then a new version written by HistoryBuffEr. He's done that on several articles, and he refuses to use the Talk: pages to propose any of it. I empathize your position, since the POV warriors showed up it has been quite unpleasant on Wikipedia for me as well. That said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Jayjg 23:51, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you weren't doing anything. I'm frustrated with all this Wikipedia policy violation and POVing, and the few neutral parties willing to weigh in keep getting their heads bitten off, so there doesn't seem to be much hope. Jayjg 00:04, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Goddams Ches
Do you really think that "Che" is the proper (and only) place in Wikipedia to refer to a French mediaeval slur directed to Englishmen?

Best, Ejrrjs 09:27, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Systemic bias oops
Thanks for moving me to the proper systemic bias project participant page. I was wondering why I was the only person to sign up for such an important project. :) BanyanTree 05:55, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I fixed it. If anyone has ideas for a better name, I'm certainly open. Maurreen 09:01, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

FA references
Yes, any one of those would be. My idea was to finish that list then create a message to be pasted to all of the talk pages. Feel free to coordinate work on adding references to any of them - Taxman 12:28, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

CSB redux
Well, thanks for asking me. :) I've reduced my participation in WP:CSB because I'm tired of being shrieked at that whatever I do isn't good enough.  I genuinely believe Xed started CROSSBOW/CSB as a vanity project, and even though it's an exceptional goal and a great undertaking, his recurring bouts of ego make it difficult for anyone else to join in.  Wikipedia chose to change his pet cute name for the project and it's been all downhill from there.

Overall, we have basically two approaches to CSB. Laissez-faire participants believe the value is in having a to-do list and letting people work on articles as they see fit. You've also talked about the value of recruiting more diverse subject-matter experts, which I agree will be most effective in the long term. Activist participants place more importance on the COTF and in attacking every article on the to-do list, doing outside research to fill in our own knowledge gaps. I don't disagree that this would make me a smarter and better-rounded person if I were to do this. :) There's always going to be tension between those two approaches, but I think most of us are reasonable and perfectly happy to accommodate both.

The bigger problem comes when one ego-driven hyper-activist (as far as I can tell, only Xed is doing this) decides that the laissez-faire approach is worthless and that unless everyone is willing to put in the level of activist effort he deems necessary, the entire project is worthless and should be cancelled. I notice from the Talk page that other activist participants do not agree with him, and even he himself flip-flops... today he's back suggesting fixes.

I have two thoughts on trying to resolve this. One would be a writeup on the laissez-faire vs. activist approaches: codify as part of the project that either is acceptable and that lulls in activity are OK because the to-do list is always there when things pick up again. If we can get consensus on that basic principle, maybe we don't have to fight about it all the time. Two, if we wanted to be heavy-handed about it, we could list WP:CSB on WP:VFD and let wikipedia decide, once and for all, whether the community as a whole thinks the project is worth keeping. I'd vote to keep, of course, and I'd list the reasons we've discussed. That's probably excessive, but it'd be one way to get disinterested third parties to weigh in.

I'm glad you're involved, and I hope any of this helps. :) —Bsktcase 19:31, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Please, please reconsider. The CSB project is such a good idea, but it's not going to go anywhere as long as we let Xed pull this sort of stuff - I think Bsktcase accurately summarises what's going on. It's a collaborative project, and he shouldn't be calling the shots. I think it's about time the rest of us took it back. Ambi 02:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I think it's about time we just ignored him. If he wants to work with us, he's welcome to do so, but I don't think we're under any obligation to let him play overlord. If he reverts, we can always re-revert.

 * What would you think about moving CSB to the noticeboard format? It's probably more suited to that - WikiProjects were always more about enforcing standards across existing articles, and it might be easier to get people involved than having all that garbage that's presently on the front page. Ambi 03:01, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I think we need to come at this from three different angles - recruitment, retention and using the people we have to do as much as we can. Recruiting is important, but it's the hardest to do, and it rarely seems to come of anything. I don't really agree with your suggestion that it's only the privileged who are thick-skinned, either. In my opinion, the best way of tackling this is to move it to a subpage and really brainstorm the best ways of doing so - I don't think there's much added benefit in all that stuff being on the front page.

 * The same could probably go for the participants list - in most cases, I don't think there's a need to have a list of people to contact (and if there is, that purpose can be served just as well by welcome messages and looking at discussion pages). For places where this is necessary, such as translation, once again, I think setting it up on a subpage is probably the way to go, as it only applies to a subset of the people involved.

 * Retention, on the other hand, is I think the best way of going about this. Wikipedia gets bunches of editors who come along, make a few edits, maybe even register an account, and disappear off into the sunset. We've been very successful in solving this problem with the Australian noticeboard and such - new users editing related articles invariably get a welcome message dropped on their talk page that points them to a place where they can find like-minded people interested in working on the same articles - in this case, the noticeboard (or better, a specialised subpage). We've picked up numerous editors in this way that I don't think would've stuck around otherwise.

 * But just as important is making use of what we have. We've already got a bunch of interested writers, with some, such as Filiocht, being particularly brilliant. If we're to make any real impact here, I think we need to get all the interested regular Wikipedians together and come at this. After all, while local experience is certainly helpful, it isn't necessarily vital if one is to write something of even FA-quality. Once again, the notice boards seem to have been particularly effective in doing this. Six months ago, our Australian articles were wretched, and the Australian editors we had were working off in random places around the 'pedia. Now we're getting an average of ten new Australian articles every day.

 * What I'd like to do is set it up like these noticeboards (the UK and Ireland ones also having been very successful), with a brief to-do list not unlike the one we have now, but a bit longer, a full one with all the articles needing work (which I'll try and start, but will probably need some help, particularly with African and ethnic topics), a log of created articles, so we can see what others have been doing, and subpages for a list of participants list, translation and recruitment (which would all be linked from the to-do list, and could be mentioned in welcome messages). I apologise for making this so long, but in my opinion, this is the way to get things back on track. Ambi 03:58, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Effort at Consensus
Thanks for your contribution - I noticed your well put edit in "Who is a Pashtun". I think we have done our bit, and I will be ending furher discussion on the topic (hopefully). A collective action like this always helps.

Best wishes, Insaaf.

Culture
Hi, nice work on the "Culture" article. Thanks for your help! Maurreen 06:23, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Barnstar
I gave you a barnstar for your work on Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards and the Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. But I don't know how to add this info and put it in a box and make it pretty. Maurreen 02:50, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I think the edits I did are what you have in mind. If not, well, then I tried *shrugs* --Josiah 03:09, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Haute Couture
Joe, I inserted "haute couture" back into the Culture article. If you really feel it's inappropriate then I won't keep re-inserting it, but my reasoning is that many men and women (the group that also goes to the opera, buys expensive art etc) have it as an article of faith not to buy clothes off-the-peg. Haute couture doesn't only refer to high-fashion designer clothes. It refers (I believe) to the very best tailoring (the phrase means "high sewing"). So even the Queen, though it doesn't always look like it, wears clothes of that quality. That's why I thought it would be classed as part of that "high culture", but if you still feel it's wrong, by all means remove it. Slim SlimVirgin 03:18, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Partition of India
You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

spanish page of the week
I was working on the spanish page about the explorer, when i realized that you were working on it at the same time. I didnt want us to step on each other´s toes, so i backed off. Contact me if you need any help. --Handel 03:12, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Addendum
What if we are both working on the same page, and you edit a page X into version y, but then I, still working with version X, edit it to version Z? My changes to the article would not record your changes if we both open the ¨edit¨ page before either of us makes a change.

As of
Mr. Mabel, based on the Wikipedia policies you showed me Re:United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, I have gone back and revised the pages for the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st thru 8th Circuits and the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Thank you. — DLJessup 03:21, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

On systemic bias

 * Joe, what you say is very interesting, but I have one objection and one query. The query is: how do you know that most editors are men? How do you know that most are white? Are you inferring this from the subject matter covered or not covered? If so, you're begging your own question.
 * The objection is that I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "systemic". There's nothing about the way Wikipedia is set up that discourages certain groups of people from joining, or that treats them differently if they do join -- unless you mean the fact that it's online discourages people with no access to computers, but then you'd have to argue books portray systemic bias because not everyone can afford equal access to books. But if you're not referring to the online nature of Wikipedia, what do you mean by "systemic"? Slim 09:11, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Replied on User talk:SlimVirgin -- Jmabel | Talk

CfD confusion
Hi! You expressed some confusion about the listing of Category:National Bolshevik topics at Categories for deletion, but its listing has been there for one week and is due to removed, so I thought I'd respond here.

I listed Category:National Bolshevik topics for deletion because it's not a very good name for a category. (It's basically redundant. A category is assumed to contain articles related to the topic of the category. You could have a List of National Bolshevik topics or a Category:National Bolshevism, but Category:National Bolshevik topics is just plain unnnecessary.)

Some well-intentioned Administrator deleted the category and moved it to my suggested replacement before the CfD period was over. This caused some confusion, but Category:National Bolshevik topics was the only one of the two that was ever listed for deletion. As far as I know, no one is challenging the existence of such a category, just its name. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel (" Sarah ")]] 19:11, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 20:47, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

 * If you are concerned about attribution, then paste the   template into your user page and save it.  This will allow licensing under the GFDL (which requires attribution) and all of the Creative Commons licenses that require Attribution.  By no means will it release anything into the public domain. -- Ram-Man 17:49, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Blind Uncle Gaspard/Cajun man
Yes, you're right in your critique of the edit. Thanks. Is the Ethnic Groups Wikiproject still going? User:Bennmorland 1226 EST, Nov. 30, 2004

Very well. I would have been interested in joining the project. Benn M. 10:32, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

Marriages
Joe, I'm laughing at you saying Wikipedia is easier for single people, or for people with good or bad marriages. To which I might add: and for people with good marriages going bad, thanks to Wikipedia. :-) Slim 23:31, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

CheeseDreams
Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams? -- 23:32, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Ikkyū

Copyvio?
I notice that some of the material on this page also appears here: [www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3545/ikkyu.html]. However, looking arond on that page, I don't see any copyright tags, so maybe it's not a problem. Maybe they got that passage from us.

I also have to wonder if we have another source for the claims we make about Ikkyu. Given that he's become a folk hero, it's possible that there are tall tales and such about him. - Nat Krause 09:52, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Iconoclastic vs. iconic
05/23/07 I'm not sure if the term "iconoclastic" was meant in the introductory sentence. I think whoever wrote this intended "iconic." The word iconoclastic means "destruction of icons." 05/27/07. I have made the change to "iconic."

 * I didn't write it but actually 'iconoclastic' has a more general sense in everday English of someone who challenges traditional teachings and institutions through their actions.--Nio-guardian (talk) 13:25, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Religious career
The reference to Raul Salcedo's web page makes no sense in this place. Maybe can be put on "external links" User:chomoi == —Preceding undated comment added 14:19, 13 September 2009 (UTC).

Tom Robbins is not a comic author
"Comic author Tom Robbins identifies Ikkyu as his "idol"[3][4]." Tom Robbins is not a comic author, afaik he has not even published any comic. Instead quite some books, but even without any illustrations. I guess we have a similar "misunderstanding" here as the "iconic" vs. "iconoclastic" issue above. Some people call Mr Robbins' work as "seriocomic", but which does not have anything to do with comics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.180.79.190 (talk) 09:51, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Ken'o
Could you provide the source for this: "Ken'o was sporadic in his teaching style and was a strong believer in the supremacy of zazen."?

I read Hisashi Sakaguchi manga about ikkyu and it describes ken'o as strong opponent of zazen practice.

Unfortunately i have no access to other more reliable sources, but the manga looks quite faithful to ikkyu biography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.53.68.182 (talk) 01:00, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Crazy Cloud

 * Ikkyū (一休宗純 Ikkyū Sōjun, 1394–1481) (self-named: "Crazy Cloud") ...

I'm scratching my head. No part of 一休宗純 appears to correspond to any part of "Crazy Cloud". —Tamfang (talk) 06:49, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Agreed. It's been removed, pending citation. - Boneyard90 (talk) 18:26, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

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Lemsip

Lemsip is a brand of cold and flu remedies in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It is manufactured by the British company Reckitt.

Products
Their original and best-known product is a lemon-flavoured hot drink containing 650 mg of paracetamol (an analgesic), and 10 mg phenylephrine hydrochloride (a decongestant) to help to relieve headache, fever, blocked nose, body aches and pains, and a sore throat. In 1995 the Lemsip Max range was launched which included lemon, blackcurrant and "Breathe Easy" hot drink flavours, and saw a variety of capsule products added to the range, including Lemsip Max Cold & Flu Capsules. The entire Lemsip Max range contains the maximum level of active ingredients allowed for general sales listing in the UK. In 2016 it was the fourth biggest selling branded over-the-counter medication sold in Great Britain, with sales of £63.9 million.

In 2007 Lemsip launched Lemsip Max All In One hot drinks in Lemon, Wild Berry and Hot Orange, and Breathe Easy flavours. In 2008 Lemsip launched a Liquid into the Lemsip Max All In One range. The range contains 200 mg of guaifenesin which helps to relieve chesty cough, in addition to 1000 mg of paracetamol and 12.2 mg of phenylephrine hydrochloride (12.18 mg of phenylephrine hydrochloride in Lemsip Max All In One Liquid) which aims to relieve headache, sore throat, fever, body aches and pains, and a blocked nose. The Lemsip range now contains capsules, tablets, liquids, and hot drink sachets.

Side effects, contraindications, and interactions
Possible side effects include hypersensitivity, blood problems or, above the recommended dose, pancreatitis and vomiting.

Taking Lemsip alongside other medicine containing paracetamol can cause an overdose, potentially resulting in serious liver and kidney damage.

Phenylephrine, which alongside paracetamol is one of Lemsip's two primary active ingredients and is intended to be responsible for most of the product's claimed effects, was discovered to be ineffective as a decongestant in 2015, leading some pharmacists to call for the ingredient to be banned.

Manufacturing
Lemsip is manufactured in parent company Reckitt's Hull and Nottingham sites.

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