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 * Re Hlaw: (Moved from the list of areas. Added buildings. "Central" is used long before the Island line. Schools and some churches are at mid-level)

 * Central was not common before the open of the MTR.
 * Boundary between Central and the Mid-levels is not clear. Some regards some parts but not all of Mid-levels as part of Central.

 * Central District or in short, Central was used long before the opening of island line in mid 1980s. I know that some nonofficial maps used the direct translation "Chung Wan" previously, but it is not widely used in reality. While it is difficult to specifically search for documents in those days which predate the internet, you may check e.g. from old bus route tables before mid-80s (Central terminus / Central (Jubilee Street) / Central (Macau Ferry)), old gazettes, etc that Central/Central District is popularly used much earlier. (Try to find usage of the term "Chung Wan" for comparison). Logically, if the term "Chung Wan" is widely used before there is no reason for MTR to rename its station to "Central" instead.

 * The article clearly indicates that it is talking about the business center portion of Central. In any case a "see also" section to Mid-level is sufficient. Editorially it seems pointless to duplicate the list of churches etc in two (and three if you include the C&W district) mutually inclusive articles. In the long term the structure of articles decribing districts and areas in HK should be reworked. -Hlaw 17:29, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Maps (official and non-official ones) dated back in the 1910s and 1920s (I don't know for the older ones) uses Choong Wan or Chung Wan. (In those days Des Voeux Road was marked as Des Vœux, anywayz, irrelevant.)  It was marked in this way until the 1980s.  As far as I remember even in early 1990s, some minibuses with destinations to 中環 were still using "Chung Wan" on their signs above the windshield.

 * Originally MTR named the connected stations as Charter (Modified Initial System, 修正早期系統) and Peddar (Island Line) at the very beginning. The names of the connected stations were changed into Central when the Island Line was in use.

 * Including some of the buildings in the Mid-levels is for the convenient of readers. Editorially there's nothing wrong and absolutely alright to duplicate for the sake of convenience of readers.  Afterall the boundaries are not clearly defined, and the perception of the boundaries can be varied and overlapping, or even one is a subset of another.  As long as it is convenience for readers I think it would be alright.  What about adding a paragraph saying that the boundaries are unclear?  Rewriting is rather meaningless I would say. -- 21:23, December 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * In fact the term "Chung Wan" is still the name of the District Council constituency today. But my point is that the use of "Chung Wan" had never remotely been popular, other than to indicate Chinese transliteration. The terms "Central District" / "Central" were, and are, much more prevalent over "Chung Wan". (Although in earlier days a reference to Queens Road C and Pedder Street, for example, should be enough, as all streets there were well known). You edits seem to suggest that Chung Wan is the original term, and the term "Central" suddenly become prevalent only as recent as the mid-80s. Both of these are not accurate.

 * If you are not convinced, try to search a newspaper archive for "Central District" and "Chung Wan" respectively, for newspaper clippings from 1970 to 1985. "Chung Wan" turns up 6 times (and at least half of which refer to the DC constituency, one is a person's name). "Central District" - 171 times.

 * Putting a link to a more proper article only makes it one click away and would not cause much inconvinence. On the other hand making overlapping districts, especially in such case where common usage (of Central) and descriptions (of CBD) do not apply to a substantial part (mid-levels), is confusing, making the pages harder for maintenance (which is essential for such a collaboration project), appearing inconsistent with each others (so where is this building located?), and tend to make the articles longer and less readable and less easy to locate the desired info. I don't think making a set of articles more structured, readable, and consistent etc (by moving information around) meaningless. This is what lots of wikipedians are doing. -Hlaw 04:07, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Have you ever checked the maps dated back into the establishment of the crown colony until the 1920s? "Central" never found, but "Choong Wan" or "Chung Wan".
 * "Central district", to my understanding, was a general term referring to a downtown or a CBD, until relatively recently, when Central becomes a proper reference as the name of the place. A substantial proportion of Sheung Wan, notably east of the North Block of the Western Market, where many office buildings are located, are also considered part of the "Central district" since 1980s as far as I know.
 * We've gotta look for older references and see the boundary of Choong Wan, as one of the wans, and see the extend of it.
 * I agree links are just clicks on the fingertip. Nevertheless the perception of the boundaries are never defined.  We have little ground and basis to draw the boundaries and tell which buildings are in which areas.  It's absolutely a good thing to make the articles more structured and readable, when and only when we have the ground to do so. -- 07:21, December 8, 2004 (UTC)

Restaurants
206.116.124.148 was me. I reverted the entire Restaurants section because it was advertisement for someone's restaurant in Central, complete with phone number and all. Carson.Talk 04:28, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

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From List of English words of Irish origin:

 * quiz: word allegedly invented by a Richard Daly, a Dublin theatre owner, in the late 18th century as result of a bet that he would introduce a new word to the English language overnight.

 * This is a sort of an "urban legend" and a catchy "quiz question" too ;). Though most dictionaries quote the origin of this word as unknown, a popular theory regarding the word's origin has been this bet/invention tale. This bet was believd to have taken place in 1791 and Daly hired a bunch of street urchins to write the word “quiz”(meaningless then) on walls around Dublin, and within 24 hours the word caught up. But there are evidences of usage of this word even before 1791 in literature, but with completely different meanings. Not sure if we can add this to the wikipedia article. Sanjeeth 07:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * It definitely should be in the Quiz article, but first there probably should be some verification (and, if needed, a correction to the List of English words of Irish origin article). It's times like this that I which that I owed the CD-ROM version of the OED. I have an old version of the Shorter Oxford, so I will have to check that to see what it says.

 * Better yet: just Google an answer at Ask Oxford gK [[User talk:GK|¿?]] 11:29, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Etymology
I just added an unedit bit on the etymology of the word. --Brazucs 05:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Links
I think the dmoz listing of links is inferior to the listing of links that was here before and that the list should be brought back with the bad links removed. I don't think deleting them all solves anything so propose to restore them. Jw6aa 10:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The dmoz listing seems to comprise daft "personality" quizzes. It does not replace links which give lists of active quizzes and quiz leagues. -- Ian Dalziel 19:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with Jw6aa and Ian Dalziel on this one. The dmoz listing is useless, please delete it and reinstore some of the previous links. Not all were super-relevant but many linked to quiz leagues and competitions and were valid. StevenDC 16:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

 * There seems to be a consensus to remove the silly dmoz listings and replace them by the quiz competitions and quiz league links that were listed previously. StevenDC 07:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi everyone.

 * Please add the quality links to dmoz, which exists for that purpose. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a web directory or link clearinghouse. This page happens to be popular for linkspammers, so it is easier to make a policy (e.g. with Sudoku and Trivia) against non-notable external links  than to justify the inclusion of some and exclusion of others.

 * There is a difference between external links that contribute to scholarship of the subject (or serve as references), and those that point to examples of the subject. The latter are not necessary in an encyclopedia.

 * PS: There is a dmoz section on "Trivia," maybe that would be more relevant? 68.183.123.165 05:48, 13 October 2006 (UTC) [its all non sence not verthy]Italic text

Australia

 * It seems strange for there to be a special section about Australia, especially when what is written is in no way unique to Australia.
 * Suggest removing it, or just adding the description of a quiz night to the main article Jamierc 10:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I noticed you've removed all Australian conetnt from this page. It seems strange for you to have done that. The information provided was factually accurate and unique. Quiz nights are a popular form of fundraising/entertainment in Australia. I notice Quiz night as a page title links to Pub quiz. In Australia these are never called pub quiz. Although they may occasionally be held in a pub. Ozdaren 13:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

History of the quiz
We have a history of the word quiz, but no obvious information on quizzes or general knowledge games before 1900.

-- TimNelson (talk) 10:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay Lazola Mzileni (talk) 16:34, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Online Quizzes
I'm taking the liberty of refactoring the Other Quizzes parts about online quizzes into that article. It isn't much so shouldn't be an issue.--Boredjohn (talk) 20:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Second sentence is confusing
The second sentence says that a quiz is a test of your knowledge "about a certain subjet". This is confusing. Many quizzes are tests of general knowledge. The BBC programme Mastermind (TV series) has questions on general knowledge as well as questions on the partipant's chosen subjects!Vorbee (talk) 11:05, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Quiz
Quizá 2607:FB91:1586:71E0:3407:386D:BD83:B240 (talk) 01:11, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Mapeh
Get 5 questions about sarimanok 136.158.103.105 (talk) 12:10, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Banking & insurance
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Agata Wróbel

Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in Żywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75 kg category.

She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

At the 2000 World Junior Championships her combined total for both the snatch and clean and jerk was a record-breaking 290 kg. She has broken no fewer than 11 world records in the sport. In 2002, she was voted 2nd for world weightlifter of the year.

As well as numerous Junior and World Championship successes, coming first in 2002, she has participated in both the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's +75 kg category, winning a silver medal and a bronze medal respectively.

In 2003, she appeared in the [French] documentary "M2A – Mission to Athens", depicting her preparation to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

After retirement from the sport, she worked in a waste sorting facility.

For her sport achievements, she received:

Golden Cross of Merit in 2000; Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2004.

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Ramagupta

Ramagupta (IAST: Rāma-gupta; r. c. late 4th century CE), according to the Sanskrit play Devichandraguptam, was an emperor of the Gupta dynasty of northern India. The surviving fragments of the play, combined with other literary evidence, suggest that he agreed to surrender his wife Dhruvadevi to a Shaka enemy: However, his brother Chandragupta II killed the Shaka enemy, and later dethroned him, marrying Dhruvadevi.

The official Gupta genealogy does not mention Ramagupta, and therefore, the historicity of the Devichandraguptam narrative is debated. Several other sources refer to the events mentioned in the play, but these sources do not mention Ramagupta by name, and may be based on the play itself. Three undated inscriptions, written in a variety of the Gupta script and discovered in central India, mention a king called Ramagupta: this seems to attest the existence of a Gupta emperor named Ramagupta, although it does not conclusively prove the historicity of the Devichandraguptam story. Some coins discovered in central India have also been attributed to Ramagupta, but this attribution has not been unanimously accepted by modern historians.

Reign
Based on the surviving passages of Devichandraguptam and other supporting evidence, modern scholars theorize that Ramagupta was the elder son and successor of the Gupta emperor Samudragupta.

According to the play, Ramagupta decided to surrender his wife Dhruva-devi (or Dhruva-svamini) to a Shaka enemy, but his younger brother Chandragupta went to the enemy camp disguised as the queen, and killed the enemy. According to the Devichandraguptam passage quoted in Bhoja's Shringara-Prakasha, the enemy camp was located at Alipura. Bana's Harsha-charita calls the place "Aripura" (literally "enemy's city"); one manuscript of Harsha-charita calls the place "Nalinapura".

The identity of Ramagupta's "Shaka" (IAST: Śaka) enemy is not certain. Proposed identifications include:

 * Historian V. V. Mirashi identified him with the Kushan king who ruled in Punjab, and who is referred to as "Devaputra-Shahi-Shanushahi" in Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar inscription.
 * Historian A. S. Altekar identified him with Piro, a son of Kidara I, who controlled western and central Punjab. Altekar theorized that Piro invaded eastern Punjab, and Ramagupta attempted to check his advance, leading to a war.

Based on the Jain statue inscriptions (see below), historian Tej Ram Sharma speculates that Ramagupta may have adopted "a peaceful style of life" after his humiliation by the Shaka enemy, which may explain his inclination towards Jainism.

Later, Chandragputa appears to have killed Ramagupta and married Dhruvadevi, who is mentioned as Chandragupta's queen in the Gupta records.

Historicity
The theory that Ramagupta was a historical person is supported by the following points:

 * Inscriptions attributed to Ramagputa have been discovered in central India (see below). These inscriptions mention a king called Ramagupta who bore the imperial title Maharajadhiraja. Moreover, the inscriptions are in the Gupta Brahmi script of 4th-5th centuries CE, which proves that Ramagupta was a historical Gupta emperor.
 * Dhruvadeva and Chandragupta, the two other main characters of the play Devichandraguptam, are known to be historical persons. The official records of the Gupta dynasty mention Chandragupta II as an emperor. Dhruvadevi is attested by her royal seal which describes her as the wife of Chandragupta and the mother of Govindagupta.
 * The Eran inscription of Samudragupta appears to mention that his queen Datta-devi had many sons and grandsons, although this cannot be said with certainty because the inscription is mutilated.
 * In the official Gupta genealogy, the kings are described as "meditating on the feet" of their fathers. However, in a departure from this convention, Chandragupta II is described as having been "accepted by his father" in his Mathura stone pillar inscription as well as Bihar and Bhitari inscriptions of Skandagupta. Scholars who believe the play to have a historical basis argue that this is a covert way of stating that his accession to the throne was contested.
 * Several later texts and inscriptions (see ) refer to the episode mentioned in the Devichandraguptam, although these sources may be based on the play itself, and therefore, cannot be regarded as conclusive evidence corroborating the play's historicity.

Inscriptions
Two stone statues of Jain tirthankaras, discovered at Durjanpur (or Durjanpura) near Vidisha, bear inscriptions that mention Maharajadhiraja Ramagupta; the partially-damaged inscription on another similar statue also appears to mention his name. The statues were discovered while clearing a field with a bulldozer, and were partially damaged by the bulldozer.

Based on the reconstructed text, all three inscriptions appear to contain same text except the name of the tirthankara. They state that emperor Ramagupta caused the statues to be built at the behest of a mendicant. The mendicant was named Chella Kshamana or Chelu-kshamana (IAST: Celū-kṣamaṇa), who was a son Golakyanti and a pupil of Acharya Sarppasena-kshamana, who in turn, was a pupil's pupil of Chandra-kshamana.

These inscriptions do not mention that Ramagupta belonged to the Gupta dynasty, and do not mention any date. However, following arguments can be made to date them to the 4th century, and to support the identification of the Ramagupta mentioned in these inscriptions as a Gupta emperor:

 * According to epigraphist G. S. Gai, who edited the inscriptions, the inscriptions feature the so-called southern or western variety of the Gupta script: the alphabet clearly resembles the alphabet of the Eran inscription of Samudragupta (who must have been Ramagupta's predecessor) and the Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II (who must have been Ramagupta's successor). The medial 'i' character is different from the one featured in the Sanchi inscriptions, but such a character can also be found in earlier inscriptions, such as the Nandsa-Yupa inscriptions of the 3rd century. Thus, on palaeographic basis, the Ramagupta inscriptions can be assigned to the 4th century CE.
 * According to Gai, the sculptural features and styles of the statues also suggest that they belong to the 4th century CE. The prabhavali (halo) is not as developed and stylized as in the 5th century Buddha images from Sanchi. The pedestals of the statues feature a chakra at the centre, instead of the characteristic lanchanas (traditional symbols) associated with the tirthankaras, which suggests that the images belong to an "early stage in the development of the Jaina iconography".
 * Maharajadhiraja is an imperial title, which indicates that Ramagupta was a historical Gupta emperor.

However, according to another theory, the Ramagupta of the Durjanpur inscriptions is a later Gupta king, not the brother of Chandragupta II. Historian D. C. Sircar has dated these records to a later period, based on a comparison of letters and signs that occur in these inscriptions and the Sanchi inscriptions of Chandragupta II.

Coinage
A few copper coins, bearing the legend "Ramaguta" (Prakrit form of "Ramagupta") on the obverse, and the figure of a lion or a garuda on the reverse, have been found at Eran and Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh. Some scholars have attributed these coins to the Gupta ruler Ramagupta, but others believe him to be a distinct, local ruler. Since Garuda was the emblem of the imperial Gupta dynasty, numismatist K. D. Bajpai asserted that these coins were indeed issued by the Gupta emperor Ramagupta. Bajpai speculated that Samudragupta appointed his son Ramagupta as a governor of the eastern Malwa region in central India; Ramagupta was forced to stay there even after his father's death because of the war with the Shakas, and the events depicted in Devichandraguptam happened there.

However, historian D. C. Sircar doesn't find Bajpai's theory convincing, and states that the issuer of these coins may have been a local chief of imitated Gupta coinage after the decline of the Gupta dynast in the late 5th century CE. Sircar points out that a non-Gupta ruler named Harigupta is known to have issued copper coins that feature a garuda, and imitate the gold coins of Chandragupta II. Coins of another such imitator, named Indragupta, have been discovered at Kumhrar. Sircar also notes that other Gupta emperors are known to have issued gold coins, but no gold coins issued by Ramagupta have been discovered.

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Wanstead tube station

Wanstead is a London Underground station in Wanstead in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. on the Hainault loop of the Central line. Towards Central London the next station is Leytonstone. Towards Woodford it is Redbridge. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. It opened on 14 December 1947 as an extension of the Central line to form the new part of the Hainault loop.

History
The extension of the Central line eastwards from Liverpool Street was first proposed in 1935 by the London Passenger Transport Board. The station at Wanstead George Green would be one of three stations in Tube tunnel between Leytonstone and Newbury Park.

Construction of the station began in the mid 1930s, but was delayed by the onset of World War II. The incomplete tunnels between Wanstead and Gants Hill to the east were used for munitions production by Plessey between 1942 and 1945. The station was finally opened on 14 December 1947. The building, like the other two below ground stations on the branch, was designed by architect Charles Holden. It kept its original wooden escalator until 2003, one of the last Tube stations to do so.

The station has been extensively refurbished since 2006, including the replacement of the original platform wall tiling, which had become badly damaged.

According to rumours, the site of William Penn's Home in Wanstead was on that of the station.

Connections
The station is served by London Buses routes 66, 101, 145, 308, W12, W13 and W14, and also by night routes N8 and N55.

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California State Route 118

State Route 118 (SR 118) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs west to east through Ventura and Los Angeles counties. It travels from State Route 126 at the eastern edge of Ventura immediately northwest of Saticoy, then through Saticoy, in Ventura County east to Interstate 210 near Lake View Terrace in Los Angeles. SR 118 crosses the Santa Susana Pass and the northern rim of the San Fernando Valley along its route.

Route description
SR 118 has two distinguishable sections, which connect at the intersection with State Route 23. The western section of SR 118 goes through the more rural areas of Ventura County. SR 118 begins at an intersection with SR 126 in Ventura as Wells Road and heads southeast, crossing the Santa Clara River as Los Angeles Avenue and intersecting SR 232 in unincorporated Ventura County. The highway continues southeast before intersecting Santa Clara Avenue, where Los Angeles Avenue turns east and passes north of Camarillo. In the community of Somis, SR 118 intersects SR 34. The road continues into Moorpark, where it intersects SR 23 and runs concurrently with that road. After about 1.25 miles, SR 118 and SR 23 come to a freeway interchange, where SR 118 continues north, and SR 23 continues south.

The eastern section is an urban freeway that starts in the cities of Moorpark and Simi Valley, and ends in Los Angeles. The SR 118 freeway initially travels north, but quickly turns east, passing near Moorpark College, before entering the Simi Valley city limits. SR 118 continues through Simi Valley before entering Corriganville Regional Park and crossing into Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles city limits. The freeway has an HOV lane between here and Interstate 5. In Los Angeles, SR 118 passes through Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park before passing through Chatsworth and interchanging with SR 27. SR 118 subsequently goes through Porter Ranch and Granada Hills before intersecting with I-405 and I-5. Following this, SR 118 goes through Pacoima before terminating at an interchange with the Foothill Freeway.

SR 118 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, and is part of the National Highway System, a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration. SR 118 is eligible to be included in the State Scenic Highway System, but it is not officially designated as a scenic highway by the California Department of Transportation. The freeway portion of Route 118 between Moorpark and Lake View Terrace was originally named the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway before it was designated as the Ronald Reagan Freeway in 1994. It was renamed in honor of Ronald Reagan, the 33rd Governor of California and the 40th President of the United States, due to the location of his presidential library in Simi Valley.

History
SR 118 used to extend past I-210 on Foothill Boulevard through Sunland-Tujunga, La Crescenta and La Cañada, then across the Arroyo Seco into Pasadena, where SR 118 ran on Lincoln Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue, ending at Colorado Boulevard (US 66 Alternate). The original routing across the Arroyo Seco ran along La Cañada Verdugo Road (now Oak Grove Drive), which crossed the arroyo along the crest of Devil's Gate Dam. In 1957, the first segment of the Foothill Freeway was completed between Montana and Cañada Streets in Pasadena and Foothill Blvd and Michigan Avenue in La Cañada. SR 118 ran along this short freeway until 1974, when the current Foothill Freeway alignment over the Arroyo Seco was completed further to the south. SR 118 was then truncated to its current terminus with I-210 near San Fernando.

Before the freeway was built, the route went through Simi Valley on Los Angeles Avenue and Kuehner Drive, then crossed into the San Fernando Valley on Santa Susana Pass Road. The eastern segment used Devonshire Street through the San Fernando Valley, then cut through San Fernando along Brand and Maclay Streets before joining Foothill Boulevard in Sylmar. During the 1932 Summer Olympics, it hosted part of the road cycling event. The SR 118 freeway began construction in 1968 and the last section of freeway opened in 1979. The segment of freeway between Balboa Boulevard and Tampa Avenue was one of the last freeway segments to be built in the Los Angeles area. As a result of the Northridge earthquake in January 1994, a section of the highway between I-405 and I-210 was closed for over one month while damage to an overpass was repaired. The Porter Ranch Drive interchange is relatively new; before it was constructed, that interchange connected to a closed Winnetka Avenue and a Park and Ride lot.

Route 118 from Route 23 to Route 210 was named the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway by Assembly Concurrent Resolution 145, Chapter 185 in 1970. In December 1994, the portion of Route 118 constructed to freeway standards was renamed The Ronald Reagan Freeway. The original proposal for this name was introduced by Willie Brown on August 30, 1994 and amended August 31, 1994, as State Assembly Concurrent Resolution 156, however this version of the bill died on the desk in November 1994. The name was reintroduced by State Senators Lockyer, Maddy, and Wright as State Senate Resolution 7, amended and enrolled December 5, 1994. Since it was neither a concurrent resolution nor a joint resolution, it was not filed with the Secretary of State. The rationale for choosing this name for State Route 118 is that the western end of the highway, at the time the bill was passed, is very close to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

There is an additional unconstructed segment of SR 118, defined in 1959 in the California Streets and Highways Code, extending from its current terminus with I-210 to a planned SR 249, located within the Angeles National Forest. This appears to have been roughly planned to run primarily along Big Tujunga Canyon between Foothill Boulevard and Los Angeles County Route N3, Angeles Forest Highway, which is the current traversable routing for unconstructed SR 249.

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HMS Hecate (A137)

HMS Hecate (A137) was a Royal Navy deep ocean survey vessel of the Hecla-class survey vessel. She was present at the "presentation of fleet colours" review in Torbay on 29 July 1969. The ship was decommissioned in 1990.

Design and construction
The Hecla class were designed as combined hydrographic and oceanographic survey ships, built to merchant ship standards and of similar design to RRS Discovery. She was laid down at Yarrow Shipbuilders' Scotstoun shipyard on 26 October 1964, was launched on 31 March 1965 and was commissioned on 20 December 1965. She had the pennant number A137.

Hecate was 79.3 m long, with a beam of 15.0 m and a draught of 4.7 m. Displacement was 1915 LT light and 2733 LT full load, with a gross tonnage of 2,898. She had diesel-electric propulsion, with three Paxman Ventura 12-cylinder diesel engines rated at 1280 bhp powering two electric motors, rated at a total of 2000 hp and driving one propeller shaft, giving a speed of 14 kn. She had a range of 12000 nmi at a speed of 11 kn and 20000 nmi at 9 kn. The ship had a complement of 127 officers and other ranks. She was fitted with a hangar and helideck aft to allow operation of a single Westland Wasp helicopter, while two surveying launches were carried.

History
On 21 April 1971, two launches attached to HMS Hecate were towed out to sea and bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while the vessels were moored at Baltimore, Republic of Ireland. One of the launches, Stork, was wrecked, while the other boat, Puffin, survived with minor damage. HMS Hecate was carrying out a hydrographic survey in collaboration with the government of the Republic.

In the mid-1970s HMS Hecate was in the Persian Gulf surveying the entrance areas in the event of conflicts while based in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

In November 1981 while on a routine visit to Nantes, France, an attempt was made to sink the vessel using a bomb placed on the hull by divers. The detonator went off in the early hours of the morning, but the explosive failed to detonate. calling themselves "the Bobby Sands Committee" later claimed responsibility. Hecate was undamaged and conducted North Atlantic surveys for the next 4 months, visiting Gibraltar, Tangiers, Madeira and Lisbon.

In June 1982, during the Falklands War, while her sister ship were used as hospital ships, Hecate was painted grey and given an armament of two 20 mm guns and Blowpipe surface-to-air missiles. On 23 July, after the ceasefire had ended the fighting, Hecate was sent to the South Atlantic to relieve HMS Endurance (1967) as Ice Patrol Ship while Endurance returned to Britain for a refit. Hecate conducted patrols and surveys in the South Atlantic. A survey was made at Mare Harbour in East Falkland, which later became the port facilities for RAF Mount Pleasant. A survey was also made of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Hecate visited British Antarctic Survey bases and spent Christmas in Grytviken, South Georgia, where the crew attended a candlelit Christmas mass in the settlement's old whaling church. The New Year was spent at the Falkland Islands before Hecate became the first Royal Navy ship to visit South America following the hostilities. Hecate embarked a Chilean pilot at Punta Arenas before sailing to Talcahuano, Chile via the Patagonian Channel. Following a brief visit, Hecate took passage through the Panama Canal for a four-day visit to Antigua. Hecate returned to the UK in February, 1983.

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SULFA

SULFA, short for Surrendered ULFA, refers to former members of the United Liberation Front of Assam that have surrendered to the Indian government.

Since 1990, the government of India has been attempting to capture members of ULFA. In 1992, a large group of high-ranking leaders and members surrendered to government authorities, which was the first time ex-ULFA members were referred to as "SULFA". However, those that surrendered were disarmed by the government, leaving them without a means of defence against retaliation from their ex-associates. They were also offered bank loans to start a new life, in return for providing information to the government about the ULFA.

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Toba Tek Singh District

Toba Tek Singh District is a district of Faisalabad Division in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located between 30°33' to 31°2' Degree north latitudes and 72°08' to 72°48' Degree longitudes. It became a separate district in 1982.

Etymology
The city and district is named after a Sikh religious figure Tek Singh. Legend has it that Tek Singh, a kind-hearted man served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travelers passing by a small pond (Toba in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name. There is also a park here named after Singh.

British Raj
Toba Tek Singh was developed by the British toward the end of the 19th Century when a canal system was built. People from all over the Punjab (from the current Pakistani and Indian Punjab) moved there as farmlands were allotted to them. Most of the people who migrated there belonged to Lahore, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts. The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the tehsil of Toba Tek Singh as follows:

Tehsil of the new Faisalabad District, Punjab, lying between 30°50' and 31°23' N. and 72° 20' and 72°54' E., with an area of 865 sqmi. The population in 1906 was 148,984. It contains 342 villages, including Toba Tek Singh (population, 1,874), the headquarters, and Gojra (2,589), an important grain market on the Wazirabad-Khanewal branch of the North-Western Railway. The land revenue in 1905-6 amounted to Rupees 470,000. The tehsil consists of a level plain, wholly irrigated by the Chenab Canal. The soil, which is very fertile in the east of the tehsil, becomes sandy towards the west. The boundaries of the tehsil were somewhat modified at the time of the formation of the new District of Faisalabad (formerly called Lyallpur).

The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League and Pakistan Movement. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from India settled in the Toba Tek Singh District.

After independence
During the 1970s, when many Pakistani cities were renamed to change names given after British Rulers to their original or native names, or to names more acceptable to the local population (for example, Montgomery was renamed to its old original name Sahiwal), Toba Tek Singh remained one of the very few cities to maintain its original name mainly because of noble reputation of Tek Singh. In 1982, Toba Tek Singh, formerly a subdivision, was separated from Faisalabad District and became a separate district.

in 1970, the historical Kisan Conference saw 200,000 Kisans (peasants) and progressive people from the whole country gathered in Toba Tek Singh. The conference had a great impact on the political history of Pakistan and led to the land reforms during the regime of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

Demography

Toba Tek Singh is located in central Punjab and occupies 3252 square kilometers and is made up of large areas of lowlands that flood frequently during the rainy season; the floods originate from the Ravi River that runs along the southern and southeastern borders. During the British Raj, Toba Tek Singh had a small Sikh population, much of which migrated to India after the partition in 1947, while many Muslim refugees from modern-day India settled in the Toba Tek Singh District.

At the time of the 2017 census, Toba Tek Singh district had 338,181 households and a population of 2,191,495. Toba Tek Singh had a sex ratio of 991 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 67.32% - 73.85% for males and 60.83% for females. 441,971 (20.17%) lived in urban areas. 557,461 (25.44%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 391,861 households and a population of 2,511,963.

At the time of the 2017 census, 97.86% of the population spoke Punjabi and 1.03% Urdu as their first language.

Toba Tek Singh People
As per University of Agriculture, Faisalabad research, after Karachi, Toba Tek Singh is the second hub of poultry products in Pakistan. Farmers grow orange (kinoo) gardens and have a major role in the export of oranges from Pakistan. Many Toba people are overseas Pakistanis and these make a major contribution to the Pakistani economy.

Administration
The district of Toba Tek Singh is administratively subdivided into four tehsils and 82 Union Council.

The district is represented in the National Assembly by three elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:

The district is represented in the provincial assembly by seven elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:

Until the year 2000, when the Divisions of Pakistan were abolished, Toba Tek Singh and Jhang districts were part of Faisalabad Division (this included Faisalabad District).

Major towns in Toba Tek Singh District are:

 * Pir Mahal
 * Gojra
 * Kamalia
 * Rajana
 * Sandhilianwali
 * Mongi Bangla
 * Nawan Lahore

Notable people

 * Muhammad Hamza Former Member of the Senate of Pakistan (PML-N) NA-92.
 * Amjad Javed Saleemi Ex-Inspector General, Punjab Police (October 2018 to April 2019).
 * Riaz Fatyana MNA (PTI) NA-113 Chairman Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Member Public Accounts Committee, Convener SDG's, Member NACTA EX Minister for Education, Finance and Information, Punjab.
 * Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry MNA NA112-NA93, Minister Postal and Communication Services (2017-18), Member Public Accounts Committee.
 * The Governor of Punjab, Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar (2013 – 2018 )(2018 – 2023), Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Chairman of Sarwar Foundation.
 * Ashifa Riaz Fatyana MPA (PTI) (Minister for Women's development), Punjab
 * Ehsan Riaz Fatyana MPA PP-58 (Independent).
 * Ijaz ul Haq EX-MNA (son of former President of Pakistan, Zia ul Haq)
 * Asad Ur Rehman EX- MNA (PML-N).
 * Nazia Raheel EX-MPA (PMLN).
 * Khalid Ahmed Khan Kharal EX-MNA (PPPP).
 * Shafqat Rasool Pakistan Hockey Team player

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User talk:Darrien

Archive 1

This user page is a barnstar free zone

If I have left a message on your talk page, please respond to me there.

Inorganic chemical substances
Hi,

I'm quite new to Wikipedia, but I'm trying to get a group of people together who are interested in working on the Chemicals Wikiproject. I notice that you have done quite a few edits on chemical compounds, and wondered if you might be willing to help out?

Also, one thing I am trying to do is to get everyone to use IUPAC naming for compounds (unless they deserve to be under a common name like water).

 * I have been championing the same cause for as long as I can remember being here. Just a word of caution, you will experience heavy resistance from British nationalists sooner or later (see my talk page archive and bot request). Point them to the Manual of Style where it says "In articles about chemicals and chemistry, use the style of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for chemical names wherever possible, except in article titles, where the common name should be used if different, followed by mention of the IUPAC name..." and try to stay calm.

I notice that you are using a format like copper (I) oxide, rather than the IUPAC form of copper(I) oxide. Do you mind if I switch these to the IUPAC name?

 * Please do so. My original source for IUPAC nomenclature was obviously flawed.

I think it would be best if all the names are consistent. I put some details on naming up at http://www2.potsdam.edu/walkerma/inorg_naming.pdf to clarify things. Section 2.252 deals with the Stock notation and parentheses.

I hope you can join us, we need as many knowledgable people as possible!

Walkerma 20:51, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * You may want to consider joining WikiProject Chemistry as well. I'm a member and always try to fix things when I see them, though when I have free time I will actively search for things that need fixing.

 * I have also requested permission to run a bot to aid in repetitive changes here: Wikipedia_talk:Bots, but have not had the time to run it through the tests necessary for it to reach formal approval.

 * Darrien 08:56, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I will join WikiProject Chemistry. I am a Brit myself, by the way, but I take your point! Since I have been doing chemistry in the US for 12 years now, I have grown used to writing sulfate instead of sulphate. But in my experience Americans can be just as nationalistic- why use meters and liters when the rest of the world is using metres and litres, and anyway most Americans don't know what a litre is? I will take your advice regarding the Manual of Style, and I certainly agree with you. I'm glad to find another chemist who cares about such details!

Thanks, Walkerma 16:05, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

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

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

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

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

OTT Linux References
Comparison of operating systems has 5 Linux distros when every other OS is done by OS, not distro. You might want to clean that up as well :-) Kiand 12:58, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Incineration
I noticed you changed some spelling it might be worth looking over the whole article and changing it to American English as I put some of it to British English to try and fix some of the worst of the spelling, apart from removing all the u's im not sure what else to do :D --Davelane 13:23, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Policy dictates that the spelling used by the first major contributor should be used. This edit appears to be the first major contribution. It used American spelling, so the current article should use it as well.

 * Darrien 17:35, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)

cool, thanks for looking that over --Davelane 20:02, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Better suggestion needed for my RedHatism
This one put in by me because I couldn't think of a better one. X Window System - the diagram of a server and clients. I even asked on the talk page and got no better ideas for a remote client than up2date.

The key factor I'm looking for here is an application that is routinely run as a remote X session. Can you think of any that aren't quite so specific?

(And we'll never mind that the graphical nature of up2date is incredibly stupid. I disliked Linux before administering it for a living, now I despise it.)

If you can, please suggest it on Talk:X Window System and I'll redo the image, or I can send you the SVG (I did it in Inkscape) and you can go wild with it :-) - David Gerard 15:51, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Why put anything specific at all? The local applications are generic, why shouldn't the remote one be so as well? I would put "CAD/CAM application" or somesuch, though if you wanted to name a program, anything computationally expensive would work.

 * Darrien 02:47, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)

 * I was thinking concrete examples would be better for getting a handle on the concept - I've seen the X reversal of "client" and "server" explode heads when I've tried to explain it. (Though that may just be my explanations.) If anyone comes up with a good real life example, I'll be happily doing a new diagram - David Gerard 18:13, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OpenBSD
As per what I said before, Darrien, do you mind if I reformat your comment on the Talk:OpenBSD page? I'll simply move the sig up and add the '--', bring it into line w/everything else. -- Maru Dubshinki

 * Go ahead.

 * Darrien 05:14, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

Sulphate
I noticed you changed "sulphate" to "sulfate" on the climate change page. Personally I don't care how it is spelled, but "sulphate" is technically not archaic, since it is still the preferred spelling in the UK and many english speaking countries outside the US and the one used by the IPCC (the source of the statement you edited); IUPAC be damned.

 * If the statement had been properly quoted, I wouldn't have changed it.

This has been discussed before on Talk:Global warming/OldTalk5, with the conclusion basically being reached that since sulfate/sulphate is clear under either spelling, and both are common, it was best to leave it as is and not fight over it.

 * As I recall, William was unwilling to accept the IUPAC spelling on the grounds that global warming wasn't a chemistry topic and no one was willing to pursue it further. Either way, that discussion was about global warming, my edit was on climate change.

As I said, I don't really care, so I am not going to fight over it, but if you continue playing with "sulfates" I am sure that there are those that will.

 * I've already dealt with many Brits who were unwilling to accept the IUPAC spelling (see my talk page archive), but thanks for the warning anyway.

Dragons flight 19:48, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Darrien 20:24, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

 * As an aside, wasn't sulphate/sulfate replaced by sulphateVI /sulfate VI, or was that change reversed? Guettarda

Please stop mass-deleting external links
Please stop mass-deleting external links, claiming they are "biased".

 * No.

First, that is no reason to delete any links,

 * Bias is every reason to delete links.

and second, most of these links are just explaining the current scientific knowledge.

 * And I have left those intact.

I will revert all your edits related to this. Cacycle 22:42, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Threats will get you nowhere with me.

 * Darrien 22:54, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

 * I have read this page about greenfacts.org: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GreenFacts_Foundation. However, even if it seems to be a lobbyists group that does not warrant to remove the links. Their pages are didactically great overviews over scientific knowledge that has been evaluated in governmental studies. Show us where they lie or where their bias in these overviews is and I'll help you remove that specific link. Cacycle 23:02, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Their dioxin page actually seems somewhat OK. Their mercury page however, is totally inaccurate. Seeing that page first, the fact the links were added in a massive flood, and the link description passing it off as scientfic fact, along with several other factors led me to believe that all information on their site was false.

 * At this point I'm more concerned with the link being labeled as "fact" when it should have a more neutral description. Would:

 * Assessment of the health risk of dioxins (PDF), a scientific consensus report published by the IPCS and the WHO.
 * Summary and commentary of "Assessment of the health risk of dioxins"

 * in place of the existing link be acceptable to you?

 * I'm also wondering why you have also removed the links to the governmental studies. Cacycle 23:05, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Look at the link as it is rendered by Wikipedia. The study is in the description of the link.

 * Darrien 23:29, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

Yes, separating those links is definitely better. It would also be ok to label them as a lobbyists group.

Since these deletions are a bit controversial, I'd suggest that you leave a specific reason on the talk pages of the articles. That way it would be possible to understand your actions better and it would become possible to argue about it. (E.g. what made you think their mercury page is totally inaccurate). Cacycle 00:01, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

BTW, the user 194.183.227.97 has the same address in Brussels as GreenFacts... Cacycle 00:11, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have compiled an new article about the GreenFacts Foundation. Cacycle 14:07, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

summaries of UNEP "Global Mercury Assessment"
GreenFacts presents a summary of the "Global Mercury Assessment" of UNEP (2002) at: http://www.greenfacts.org/mercury It does not comment or add information to the UNEP report, but simply aims to make its content more accessible and understandable for the public (structured as questions and answers in 3 levels of increasing detail).

UNEP itself acknowledged this summary and linked to it at the top of its website, see: http://www.chem.unep.ch/mercury/Report/Final%20Assessment%20report.htm

I would like to know why a link to the summary posted on GreenFacts is not considered appropriate for Wikipedia's article on mercury (element)?

 * The link as it was titled was not appropriate for wikipedia.

Do you consider the UNEP report biased?

 * While I have yet to read it in it's entirety, I see no appreciable bias in what I have read so far.

Do you consider the summaries biased?

 * Yes.

If so in what way?

 * Many ways. Your "context" box says "Mercury is a heavy metal which is known to be highly toxic". Without any qualifications, that statement is false. The toxicity of elemental mercury is extremely slight. Only its salts, specifically its mercury(II) salts, and organic compounds pose any appreciable danger.

 * In section 2.1: your summary states "Mercury and its compounds are highly toxic substances for humans" yet the source you reference says "The toxicity of mercury depends on its chemical form".

 * Also in section 2.1: "Methylmercury and elemental mercury are of the highest concern". The problem I have with this statement is again a lack of qualifications. Methylmercury is extremely toxic, moves up the food chain, and causes numerous health affects. Elemental mercury might as well be considered inert when compared to methylmercury, but it does tend to slowly form methylmercury in living organisms. The only way elemental mercury could be of any major concern is if large amounts of it are being discharged into rivers and oceans. However, with the huge public outcry and massive governmental fines that any corporation would face after doing such; I highly doubt that any of them would allow such a thing to happen. As such, your statement needs to explain why elemental mercury is such a high concern. Especially seeing as I could not find a similar statement in the source you reference.

 * In section 2.2: you state "The main source of elemental mercury vapour is dental amalgam" and again in section 2.4 you state "Whilst ... amalgam fillings in teeth are ... the main sources of ... mercury vapour exposure for most people". This is somewhat of a half truth. Once an amalgam filling has set, little or no mercury is released. Any danger comes from the mixing and first few minutes after application. Modern dentists mix amalgam fillings by placing a sealed capsule of mercury and powdered metal in a machine that mixes it together. This is in sharp contrast to the days of yore when dentists used a mortar and pestle to mix amalgams. The first few minutes after application are not really of great concern, but a dentist could keep a suction tube near the filling while it sets to reduce, if not eliminate any exposure while it sets.

Stephanie Mantell, GreenFacts Publication Manager StephanieM

 * I have to say I am somewhat surprised you contacted me personally. I hope we can work together to correct any oversights in your publications.

 * Darrien 02:44, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)

 * Darrien, it looks as if you will end in their Panel of Experts collection... But I'm sure they pay good money... :-P Cacycle 09:58, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I think this discussion should be moved to the mercury talk page. Cacycle 10:13, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for all your very detailed comments, which we will consider carefully.

 * An adjustement to the context box is relatively easy. Changes to the texts of level 1 and 2 summaries would be more difficult at this stage as they have already undergone a thorough peer review by experts in that field. When changes are made to such texts they require a renewed peer review and approval by our Scientific Board... We will make another check. StephanieM 09:42, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have reinstated all deleted GreenFacts links together with links to the original studies, a clear statement that GreenFacts is an industry lobbying group, and with a link to the GreenFacts article that has details on the GreenFacts strategy. Cacycle 17:30, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Please note that GreenFacts is not a lobbying group. See GreenFacts talk page StephanieM 09:42, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Computer and video games infobox
Hello, you commented several weeks ago that the font size in the computer and video games infobox was too small to read. We're currently revising the infobox and as a test, could you take a look at Template:Infobox Videogame or X-COM: UFO Defense. Please post a comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and video games on whether the text in this infobox is legible or not. Thank you! --Mrwojo 16:48, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction from the phosphorus talk page. The eutrophication page explained to me what I needed to know. By the way, eutrophication is a very good article, so I nominated it as a featured article candidate. Since you seem to know about this subject, maybe you could vote on this article's candidacy. ike9898 16:36, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Phosphorous
Darrien,

I notice that you have switched the redirect of phosphorous to phosphite. I wanted to explain why I switched it back. The problem is that you are thinking like a chemist! A chemist is pretty unlikely to enter phosphorous as a search term when looking for phosphite. However a non-chemist (or a chemist with bad spelling) is EXTREMELY likely to type phosphorous when they mean phosphorus! This is such a spelling problem that when my old adviser gave an exam on organophosphorus chemistry, he stated that anyone spelling phosphorus in this way would lose two points for each mis-spelling! If you doubt me, take a look at the 693,000 Google hits for phosphorous- even though one would expect badly spelled pages to score lower on Google, I had to scroll down to #14 before I found the correct use of the word in the title. Maybe once we have more phosphorus compounds on Wikipedia such as H3PO3 (I recently wrote pages on all four P trihalides) we can make this a disambiguation page? BTW, thanks on your cleanup of Cu2O, long needed, I will work on a table for that page soon. Cheers, Walkerma 18:30, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. Though your professor sounds like he was too generous. If I was a professor, I would treat every misspelling the same way I would treat "oxygen" if the answer was "benzene". Different compounds are different compounds, regardless of whether or not their spelling differs by only one letter. It may sound harsh, but I doubt many professors would be as tolerant of an -ane -ene -yne mixup.

 * Darrien 20:26, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

 * (from Ecosystem ecology) Interesting - I tried one spelling, it redirected to the other (I generally use the preview page as a spell check as well as a link check), and I assumed it was an AE/BE thing. Guettarda 04:26, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yet more Linux-pushing...
A user first moving, then twice removing the references to Linux Washing Powder off the Linux page, refering to it as 'disgusting', and eventually leaving a comment ordering people not to re-add it.... thought you might find that 'interesting'. --Kiand 11:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems like a compromise has been reached for the moment, so I'm going to leave it alone. However, I'll keep a closer eye on it nonetheless.

 * Darrien 23:31, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

Bryce Harrington
Hi -- Since you've worked on the Inkscape article, I thought you might be interested in the fact that the Bryce Harrington article is up for deletion.--Bcrowell 03:40, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Help requested
Any criticism (or editing) you can offer on Drug abuse and/or Substance abuse would be greatly appreciated. And, if you can briefly comment on the proposed outline over at Talk:Drug abuse that would be helpful as well. Thanks in advance. --Viriditas | Talk 09:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

RMS
Some days, something comes along that just strenghtens my resolve to use proprietary software. That message was one of them. Thanks for the warning, I think I'll get back to my IRIX box... --Kiand 12:21, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Microsoft vs. Linux
You might want to check the edit history. I re-wrote the paragraph in question that User:131.174.122.171 and myself were complaining about. Previously it didn't mention ACLs or use the phrase "finer-grained". AlistairMcMillan 07:43, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I saw it, it's a great improvement. I just wrote my message on the talk page before I checked the article.

 * Darrien 07:53, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Star Trek survey
Hello. Please see my Non-canon Star Trek survey. Thanks. — J I P | Talk 13:53, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

retroflex
Hi Darrien,

Please fix the retroflex table.

 * Believe me, I've tried.

Or ask someone who's worked on the table to fix it. Meanwhile I'm reinserting it.

 * Please don't, the page becomes almost unreadable at large font sizes with it present.

Better a table broken at large font sizes than no table at all. kwami 20:17, 2005 August 15 (UTC)

 * It's better to have everyone be able to read the article than to exclude the poor sighted from reading it. The table adds little information that can't be found elsewhere.

 * Darrien 20:26, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Dental amalgam controversy
I have nominated Dental amalgam controversy, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Dental amalgam controversy. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. ScienceApologist (talk) 03:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Alexander Witt

Alexander B. Witt (born 1952) is a Chilean-American filmmaker and cinematographer mostly known for his work as a camera operator and second unit director, including regular collaborations with director Ridley Scott.

Life and career
From a 2004 interview on IGN, he says this about his history: ""I was born in Chile, the third generation of Germans there. And, we moved to Mexico, from Mexico in '73 I moved to Europe, where I started working in film. I started with Arriflex, the company that makes the cameras. I was there for a year and I did kind of a trainee type of year where I was in the sound department, in the lab, in the studio working with the actual productions and also assembling cameras. And then I moved to Europe, where I lived three years, and then, back in '76, I did my first movie as a camera assistant, which was 21 Hours at Munich. And then, I kept on going, I moved up to focus puller or first AC, and then operating and then DP-ing. And then I was DP-ing commercials and then I started directing commercials in the late 80's and beginning of [the] 90's. I was working with Jan de Bont and doing his second unit as a DP while he was a DP. He is the one that really gave me the break on Speed to start directing second unit.""

Witt works mostly as a second unit director and cinematographer and has worked on a plethora of films ranging from Gladiator to Cinderella. He is a frequent collaborator of director Ridley Scott, and served as the director of photography on his 2007 film Body of Lies. He made his directorial debut in 2004 with the video game adaptation Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Witt also served as the second unit director on the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

Other work
Director
 * Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
 * Sayen (2023)
 * Sayen: Desert Road (2023)
 * Sayen: The Huntress (2024)

Cinematographer
 * Body of Lies (2008)

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User:Mmsarfraz

Muhammad Mahmood Sarfraz, is a Pakistani Wikipedian.

Education
He holds Bachelor's degree in Computer science.

Biography
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