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Serial comma

 * Hi Avraham,
 * I also consider myself a stickler for grammer and I am wondering if you can help me out with a silly question. In a list, does a comma come before and? For example xxx, xxx, xxx, xxx, and xxx or does it go xxx, xxx, xxx and?
 * Thanks, Guy Montag 04:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Guy. Actually, both are valid constructions. It is called a "serial comma". I have the CMOS at work, not home, so I cannot give you the specific chapter, but the Chicago Manual of style DOES recommed putting the serial comma in. See here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/cmosfaq.Commas.html (especially the one about Mother Theresa and the pope) :-) Hope that helps. -- Avi 04:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Artificial state article
Hi there. I noticed you reverted my edits on Artificial state without stating a reason. Could I ask for your reasoning in removing Israel from the list? It is a controversial topic wherever it rears its head, but it seems to fit the technical definition of an artificial state. - 69.249.92.211 16:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * If you do not provide a reason in the next week or so, I'll revert your edit pending an explanation. 69.249.92.211 14:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Move of deir yassin
It is known as "tevakh Dir yassin" (i.e. massacre of deir yassin) even in Hebrew. Can you move it back. Zeq 09:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Joseph Kennedy
I've added a section dealing with his virulent (even for the day) anti-Semitism. If you have any additional info, please feel free to add. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 17:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Some folks are trying to chip away at it, too... Why people rush to defend this monster is beyond my ken. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 19:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've done about all I can on this. Rjensen continues to whitewash. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 20:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Israel and weapons of mass destruction
Hi there Guy, could you please explain on the above article's talk page why you think the information you deleted is "not legitimate"? The Times article existed, and was unequivocal in its claims, and the Times is a credible source (it's the same source that broke the Vanunu story). I think the story was BS myself (for reasons of scientific plausibility as much as anything), but, like I said, it was reported as fact in one of the world's best-known newspapers. --Robert Merkel 23:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Reported for pobation violation
I have reported you for a violation of your probation, see here: Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Banned from Battle of Deir Yassin/Deir Yassin Massacre
Per your probation, you have been banned from editing Battle of Deir Yassin/Deir Yassin Massacre. You may continue to edit the talk pages, per the conditions of your probation, but if you continue to act disruptively, as you did by posting a "broken record barnstar", and making incivil comments, you may be blocked from editing for a short time. Ral315 (talk) 16:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Your move was not that bad a thing in itself, "Deir Yassin Massacre" is certainly embedded in popular culture, getting 24,000 google hits, but was obviously part of a larger battle. The problem is not discussing the matter fully on the talk page before you made major changes. As a result you caught everyone by surprise and a confused period of controversy resulted. This amounts to disrupting the article, so I think you did violate probation. So the ban is proper. I encourage you to continue considering titles of this nature and bringing them to the attention of the community, but please discuss major changes first on talk pages. As an analogy, Tiananmen Massacre redirects to Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. I opposed this at the time, but now think it is probably a better title. Fred Bauder 00:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * People keep articles like Deir Yassin Massacre on their watchlists forever. I still have Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 on mine after several years (I originally wrote most of it). So the fact no one was currently editing meant nothing. Fred Bauder 00:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "What about the Wikipedia Be bold? Does that cease to have any meaning?" Being on probation means, "be cautious". Fred Bauder 01:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I have removed your ban per RAL315's instructiosn on the noticeboard. I believe that it was improperly made. Happy editing, Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 14:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

 * As above, the ban isn't active, but my reason for banning you was the result of a few things. First, you edited the article rather vigorously, an action that isn't necessarily bad, but should be backed up with a comment on the talk page before making such drastic changes.  Perhaps the changes were positive- I can't judge the quality of the edit, knowing absolutely nothing about Deir Yassin.  But the reaction you got on the Talk page shows that the edits were pretty drastic- Huldra critiqued your changes pretty thoroughly.

 * Second, you made the move right away, another action that wasn't necessarily wrong, but probably could have used discussion on the talk page first. I'm sure you're aware that nearly every Israel-related article is in some way controversial, due to editors on both sides clashing over many points.  In that vein, I'd suggest that any move you want to make first be approved through the requested moves process.

 * Third, I'd watch comments like the Barnstar you "gave out". I understand the humor factor, given the absurdity of the comment, yet it's important to be careful.  Because you're on probation, it really wouldn't be a bad idea to just be careful in your comments.  I'm not saying you shouldn't comment, but be safe about what you say- on the internet, nearly everything can be read negatively, even when meant as a joke.

 * My apologies that this comment is so late; I was without internet access for much of this week on a trip. Let me know if you have any more questions.  Ral315 (talk) 04:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Deir Yassin
Please, do not remove sourced information without an explanation. Benny Morris is an internationally respected historian, and his books contain an overwhelming number of citations. If you have a problem with this quote, provide a quote with proper citation from an historian who presents a different explanation of events. Thank you. --(Mingus ah um 02:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC))

 * My apologies for the misunderstanding; when I did not see an explanation, I assumed the worst. --(Mingus ah um 04:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC))

Milstein book
Can I ask you which version of the Milstein book you have used for the references? Was that the Hebrew version, or the English translation? And which edition (publication year). -- Kim van der Linde at venus 04:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Banned
For adding copyvio information to the Deir Yassin article, along with being (as some would put it) quite aggressive on the talk page, I've banned you for the period of one year as per your probation. Now, personally I don't think you need to be banned for that long, but I think you should probably give it a rest for a month or so. Work on some other articles, Srebrenica sure could do with a helping hand. Please feel free to appeal this, but I think I'm being reasonable. - FrancisTyers · 23:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It appears to me much more than a single sentence, and Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Perhaps I was overhasty in submitting it all for copyright review, but I think that given the similarity, and knowing Macmillan Co. v. King it is appropriate. As I mentioned above, please feel free to appeal this decision. - FrancisTyers · 01:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, I don't think I've been harrassing you, I'm sorry if you got that impression. You are quite right, I misread the ruling and will rectify that immediately. - FrancisTyers · 01:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Haha! Ok, *phew* I'm quite relieved. ;) Yes, I think that would be the best course of action. Just ask them if they can release it under the GFDL or public domain would be best. There are some templates here that might be useful. Let me (or another administrator) know when we have the permission and we can get on with editing. Apologies again if it seems I overreacted, but I have quite strong feelings about copyright :) - FrancisTyers · 01:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Genocide
What the hell are you doing putting POV tag? I have seen that you are not familiar with the subject, you just showed up and put POV tag without explanation which parts of the article are POV?! This article is based on International sources, and Bosnian Serb government report (they admitted genocide), so it is not POV. If you dont know anything about subject, then dont make full of yourself. ThanX!--Emir Arven 09:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Deir Yassin
I am just trying to clarify stuff in the article as it is now. The version that was blanked due to copyvio's contains copied sections from 4 or 5 different websites (I am still busy with finding more), so, there will be a lot of weeding out that needs to be done from that version. Furthermore, I do not think that adding well sourced material based on the major scholary works is a bad thing, even when the page is in transition. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 18:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * So, you claim that there is only copyrighted information of http://groups.msn.com/Mishpocha/deiryassin.msnw or http://www.deiryassin.org/denierspr-980309-99.html that has been used in the article? -- Kim van der Linde at venus 19:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Genocide Re:

 * People that worked on the article made a dill to use just valid sources, mostly international judgements (Serb, Bosniak and other users) in order to stop nationalists which are trying to destroy the article or hide the truth or deny genocide. So the style is not in the focus because most of the senteces were taken from judgements. But that was the only way to stop vandalism. There is for instance Radislav's judgement convicted for genocide. You should read it, maybe that will be enough for you to understand this style matter. --Emir Arven 19:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I have just seen that you asked for more sources?! Have you seen this: Srebrenica_massacre --Emir Arven 19:06, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It is not about the number of sources, it is about the relevance of those sources. And they are as we all agreed the most relevant sources (mostly UN courte judgements, they are not Bosniak or Serb sources, they are neutral). There are hundreds more sources but we didnt want to put it there because we didnt want to lose the relevance of the article. And this is the only thing that stopped vandalism which started a year ago. --Emir Arven 19:15, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

IDF investigation into Qana airstrike
Hi. After I had removed "the cause of death and time line of events are under investigation by the IDF," noting that the formal investigation had been concluded, and after having authored a section on it, you restored that line. So that did not end up working well for me. Thanks. El_C 12:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Picture on 2006 Qana airstrike article
Hello there! Although I think the inclusion of a victim photo is questionable, the concensus on the talk page seems to be in favor of including a photo. There does not appear to be a copyright issue. We would prefer one showing a panaroma of the entire building, as that would be less sensationalist, but so far nobody has delivered one. Please see the Talk page for comments on this.

FYI, I am not going to revert the picture back (I don't need a revert war, and anyway, I sort of agree with you) but as you can see on the Talk page, the concensus has been in favor of it, so you probably will be reverted shortly. --Jaysweet 18:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I totally disagree with you about putting 'justifications in the intro. The intro is the place to state what happened: There was an airstrike that destroyed a building. The rest of the article fleshes out the background, and readers can then make a decision on whether they feel it was justified.

You'll notice I have fought heavily against both sides putting anything that is even slightly POV in the intro. For instance, the BBC comment that several civilians were unable to escape due to bombing of roads. I could argue that is relevant background -- it helps explain why it wasn't the civilians' fault they were in a Hezbollah-occupied area -- but I my fear is that statements like that will cause people to make up their minds before they even get outside the intro. For something this emotionally-charged, we need to be very very careful in the intro to just state the basic facts of what happened. Reasons are for later.

I don't revert war, though, so I'll wait for someone else to remove it from the intro. --Jaysweet 19:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I do indeed see your point. Let me suggest a possible compromise:  What if the sentence were shortened so that it simply said "in response to Hezbollah rocket attacks"?  The wording "firing over 150 Katyusha rockets in a two week period", while technically true (since you are saying only that the IDF alleges it), seems to me an attempt to generate sympathy for one side over the other.   For instance, how about this for an intro paragraph:

The 2006 Qana airstrike was launched by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the South Lebanese village of Qana, on 30 July 2006, during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, in response to numerous Hezbollah rocket attacks alleged by the IDF to be coming from the village. . Considerable controversy ensued over the propriety of the attack (see reactions and Hoax conspiracy theories below).
 * What would you think of that? --Jaysweet 19:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I read your latest counter-proposal on my Talk page... I think the placement of "according to IDF" in the middle of the sentence is a little bit awkward in terms of phrasing, but from a POV perspective I think it is good. (P.S. I told ya people would get on you over removing the image ;) )--Jaysweet 19:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

--- Hi again. Why do you keep removing the image? Thanks. El_C 19:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

3RR on Israel-Lebanon conflict
Hi. I believe you breached 3RR on Israel-Lebanon conflict. I rollbacked your edit as it had some formatting errors, but I'm willing to treat it as a self revert. Does that sound okay? El_C 23:40, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * On 2nd thought, I'm no longer certain that it was a revert, but am still confused about what the edit intends to accomplish (on the "characterizing the cricitism through equivelence" front). El_C 23:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe Iranian support is more on the range of $150 million p/a. Also, please (please please): use edit summaries. Thanks you. El_C 21:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, $150 million p/a during the 1980s, $60 million p/a after, says this source. El_C 21:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
Hey Guy, sorry I reverted the Hezbolah war crimes paragraph that you added. I was trying to revert the guy that added some BS right before you and I guess there was some collateral. I did a partial self- revert but I forgot to write that in the edit summary so hopefully no 3RR report for me.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 19:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Hezbollah military capability
What about Israel's military capabilities and respective funding? El_C 23:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, both your refs are misformatted; see any other ref as an example on how to correct this. El_C 23:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Hezbollah capabilities in 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
A few. Iran and Syria's roles are included in Roles of non-combatant State and non-State actors in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict so they don't need a whole section on the page. (As mentioned on talk and in the edit summary). Hezbollah's capability I saved on the talk page because there is merit for a sentence or two there about Israel meeting unexpected resistance, but that belongs not in the "History" section, but in the "Hezbollah rocket campaign" section. Overall, the pressing issue is keeping the article as short as possible. When I awoke this morning it had grown from 59kB to nearly 80, which is far too long. A sentence or two on Syria & Iran could be included in the "International reaction section" I suppose, but I think a section is excessive. And the Hezbollah capability is fine as a sentence or two, but as I mentioned, belongs in the "Hezbollah rocket campaign" section (maybe that should be renamed to "Hezbollah response" to cover fighting in Lebanon.) --Iorek85 04:14, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've already integrated the funding into the international reaction section since someone insists on keeping U.S funding for Israel there. But your capabaility was a statement was that their anti tank missiles can kill tanks. Apart from being a statement of the obvious, since Israeli tanks have been destroyed, it isn't that notable, so I removed it. Something on Israel meeting unexpected resistance could be put into the Hezbollah response section, I suppose. But yes, article size is important. See WP:SIZE --Iorek85 22:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre
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An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 13:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi :)
Since this is the first time we are talking, I'd like to inform you that I have answered your comment on my talk page. I always do that :) Regards, --  G OD OF  J USTICE 02:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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Anti-Zionist Hannah Arendt and Sidney Hook?
I share Jmabel's question:

Hannah Arendt and Sidney Hook
On what basis are Hannah Arendt and Sidney Hook called "anti-Zionist"? - Jmabel | Talk 07:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Anomalocaris 17:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Lehi page
Hi there. Since you made comments in the past about this article, I thought maybe you'd want to look around. I made some serious comments on the issue and tried to WP:NPOV article and avoid the WP:POV and WP:OR that was pushed by certain users. But it escalated into an edit war. Maybe you'd be interested in taking a look there. P.S. hope you stick around. Amoruso 06:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

IDF and Military of Israel
Hi Guy: Please take a look at the vote at Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 10. Your expertise is required. Thanks a lot. IZAK 12:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Mount Hermon
Subsequent to the discussion on Maale Adumim check this out -> this was annexed for sure - no doubts, it's in Israel. that fact belongs in the intro(syria, lebanon and Israel borders line) and in the category as mountains in Israel. There is a user there deleting these facts. It doesn't make sense to make this article differnetly while Jerusalem and Golan Heights and subsequent villages and so on are all recognised as Israeli territories. Amoruso 20:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

My RfA: Malber
Thank you for your support in my recent nomination for adminship, even though it was unsuccessful. Thank you for your positive comments. -- User:Malber (talk • contribs) 15:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre
This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.

Guy Montag is banned from articles which relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Guy Montag's Probation under the terms of Requests_for_arbitration/Yuber is extended to include one year from the final date of this decision. KimvdLinde and other administrators are encouraged to effectively enforce Guy Montag's Probation in appropriate circumstances. Should Guy Montag violate any ban imposed by this decision he may be blocked for an appropriate period. All blocks are to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Deir Yassin massacre.

For the Arbitration Committee. Arbitration Committee Clerk, FloNight 00:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Guy, maybe you did misbehave; but to encourage KimvdLinde to continue to abuse her admin powers to promote her point of view is reprehensible to me. --Leifern 11:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Israeli terrorism
Sorry for me not replying to your follow-up in the Israeli terrorism dispute from last year. Wass too busy at that time and missed it somewhat later on. Anyway I see the page has changed considerably since then. The name it was moved to seems more relevant and less conflicting now. Regards, --Oneliner 16:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Your contact info
Hi Guy: Hope all is well at your end. You have not enabled your Wikipedia Email feature in your "tool box" on the left hand side of your user page. Sometimes editors overlook that when it's a useful way of staying in touch with other editors. Best wishes. Shalom, IZAK 15:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Hellenism
I just thought you would like to know that someone re-added the original research into the Anti-Hellenism article. Judging from some of his past comments and contributions, he seems to be a mild (not extreme) Greek-nationalist. That's all. 124.185.180.135 10:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Hellenism
First of all I don't think that the article is far from reality and secondly I think we should discuss it before removing whole the content Sthenel 18:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I've now taken it to AfD (Articles for deletion/Anti-Hellenism). Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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re Deir Yassin
Hello!

You use the following as a reference : Sharif Kanaana and Nihad Zitawi, "Deir Yassin," Monograph No. 4, Destroyed Palestinian Villages Documentation Project (Bir Zeit: Documentation Center of Bir Zeit University, 1987), p. 55.

I see it all over the net but I would like to really see it in real life. Presumably on page 57 it has a list of victims and ages -- oh! this was the study that reduced the number of victims from 254 to 107. I understand it is in Arabic, but I sure would like to see it -- esp the names and ages of the victims. Do you know anything about it ? Oh btw -- this has an excellent article on DY -- Appendix II & III -- have you read it?: http://books.google.com/books?id=UcSUgrDsD_sC&printsec=index&dq=gelber+thesis+deir+yassin&source=gbs_toc_s&cad=1#PPA311,M1 Juanita (talk) 23:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Irgun was a terrorist organization
deal with it they used the same tactics as palestinian terrorists and before you say anything criticizing a jewish group doesn't make me anti semetic i feel bad for the relatives of the people in the hotel they blew up apparently if a bunch of psychos who blow up innocent people are terrorists if they're palestinian if they're israelis they're heroes it's also apparently okay for israelis to persecute palestinians you'd think after thousands of years of persecution they'd treat other people with some respect and now my legitimate criticisms will be ignored and i will be called anti semetic and anti israel and i am neither. i think i'll go read a book by noam chomsky. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.70.91.110 (talk) 06:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC) I would suggest that you read a book about proper english grammer first, and then move up to Chomsky. Perhaps then I can enlighten you to the many historical mistakes you've written here.

Guy Montag (talk) 03:56, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Deir yassin
There is currently a discussion on the Deir Yassin discussion page in connection with the controversial title. First, I invite you to join the debate since your name came up during the discussion. Second, am I wasting my time? And third, I invite you to place me on your watch list.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 02:07, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice bro. It's like banging your head against a brick wall. Fortunately, I've been told I've got a thick skull--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 04:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've followed ur advice regarding changes to the the body text and am facing a flurry of opposition as u had anticipated. However, I have noted many sources in addition to Bard (including some heavy-hitting publishing houses) and I can't see how they could be precluded.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 06:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Despite your near absence from the discussion, your name comes up quite often. you must have made some impression ;) Are you still under sanction? Just in case you haven't been following, the entire artice has been placed under temporary edit protection due to edit warring but the debate continues on the discussion page. I'm pleasantly surprised by the outpouring of support, though I have been threatened twice by various editors. One actually had the cheese to imply that I would end up banned and invoked your name (I would wear that with a badge of honor). I don't respond well to threats. Just makes me more determined to inject a measure of neutrality to an otherwise libelous article. Respectfully,--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 05:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I didn't take your advice. It's much worse than what you described. I feel bad that I wasn't around when you attempted to inject some neutrality into the article. Its truly pathetic--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 03:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kinda, English

Kinda, English
Dicdef, kinda Tuf-Kat 07:10, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Deleta as dicdef stub that has no hopes for expansion. DreamGuy 07:20, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Redundant dicdef. "kinda" is already mentioned on relaxed pronunciation. --MarkSweep 07:22, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Incorrect dictdef. Geogre 13:28, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete conditionally, unless someone wants to write an article on the etymology of the word and just created the stub as a placeholder. EagleFalconn 20:20, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * del. Mikkalai 08:57, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not just used in instant messaging, but spoken and informal written English practically everywhere, as dropping the "v" sound in the word "of" is a very common tendency. Nevertheless, this can never expand beyond a dictionary definition and there really isn't anything more to say about the etymology than what I've just explained. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 23:54, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Sahafism
Slang dicdef, word of dubious usage Tuf-Kat 07:11, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: "Comical Ali" joke, but this one didn't catch on. Geogre 13:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Rare neologism, yesterday's news and not even a throwaway mention on Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Nobody uses this without explanation. I'm not going to insult Wiktionary by suggesting a transwiki, either. It seems the primary instigator has already contacted pseudodictionary, I suggest that that's more than enough. JRM 13:39, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've heard the term. -- Judson 19:29, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, it's a notable word. -- Old Right 19:38, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. - I agree with Judson and Old Right. There is no valid reason to delete the article. -- Crevaner 19:41, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll be a son of a gun. This is actually used? I wonder why I could only get 34 Google hits on it (580, but only 34 that aren't duplicating others), and 0 in discussion groups. Aren't you all remembering this from a year back, or so? Is it in any current use? If so, where? JRM 20:23, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)
 * Even if it is in use, that makes it a candidate for wiktionary. Wikipedia does not keep dictionary definitions, and that's what this is -- admittedly with a more detailed etymology than most.  I don't see any way it could be expanded into an encyclopedia article. Tuf-Kat 20:37, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete dicdef of neologism Dunc|☺ 21:12, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Do not transwiki.  Looks like we have some new faces at VfD all of the sudden!  [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 21:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Despite its origins as an intentionally promoted neologism, it seems to have had a brief vogue as a shorthand for "a lie stunning in its audacious disregard of the real world."  (hmmmm, I believe some VfD commentary might merit that description...)  Do not transwiki unless substantial usage of this neologism post- 1993 2003 can be demonstrated. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:51, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * (hmmmm, I believe some VfD commentary might merit that description...) No impersonal attacks, please. Ah drat, that's not even written yet! This encyclopedia sucks. And I take it you mean post-2003? JRM 23:07, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism, do not transwiki, do not redirect. I'm not buying this "it's notable" stuff. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:00, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * del no transwiki. Mikkalai 08:58, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Gamaliel 08:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. A bit kitschy, but valid. -- unsigned vote from 24.12.250.245, whose 9th edit this was.
 * Slang dicdef. I can find no evidence that this is in current use.  I also note that it is an orphan article.  Delete.  Neither transwiki nor redirect seem necessary.  Rossami (talk) 00:29, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete without trankswiki'ing. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 22:34, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Philippine Football Federation

The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is the governing body of association football in the Philippines. Established as the Philippine Amateur Football Association (PAFA) in 1907, the PFF is one of the oldest national football associations in Asia and is among the founding members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The PAFA reorganized as the Philippine Football Association (PFA), and later as the Philippine Football Federation.

Aside from being a member of the AFC, the PFF is also a member of the ASEAN Football Federation. It is recognized as the national sports association (NSA) for the sport of football in the Philippines by Philippine Olympic Committee.

It organizes the Philippines men's, women's and youth national football teams (as well as national teams for the football variants of futsal and beach soccer). It is also responsible for the organization of domestic football tournaments in the Philippines such as the Philippines Football League and the Copa Paulino Alcantara through the Liga Futbol Inc., and the PFF Women's League.

Early history
The football body's origins dates back to 1907 when it was established as the Philippine Amateur Football Association (PAFA). It was among the twelve founding Asian football associations of the Asian Football Confederation.

In 1917, the first Spanish and Filipino footballer to play for a European club, Paulino Alcántara Riestra, was selected by the Philippines to represent the country at the Far Eastern Championship Games in Tokyo. He helped them defeat Japan 15–2, which remains the largest win in Philippine international football history.

In 1961, stakeholders of Philippine football officially organized themselves to establish the Philippine Football Association (PFA) which was later reorganized as the Philippine Football Federation in 1982.

Adad era
In October 1996, Rene Adad was installed as PFF president after a snap election which ousted his predecessor, Ricardo Tan. In 2002, the PFF inaugurated its first regional center in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo.

Martinez era
The PFF under the Presidency of Jose Mari Martinez saw crises which challenged his leadership as well as the national teams.

Under Martinez, the PFF also had a new headquarters, the PFF House of Football in Pasig, which was inaugurated by then FIFA President Sepp Blatter and AFC President bin Hammam in 2008. The PFF moved to the building after occupying the PhilSports Complex as its headquarters for decades.

In 2009, a crisis affected the Philippine women's national futsal which resulted to the ouster of women's futsal coach Emmanuel Batungbacal and long-time men's national football coach Juan Cutillas. Batungbacal was sacked allegedly leading the futsal team in a tournament without sanction from the PFF. Batungbacal said that he had sanction and he claimed Martinez ignored to make a dialogue with him on the matter. The players who played under Batungbacal resigned from international duty as protests. Martinez said that a lack of suitable coaching license was the reason to Batungbacal's dismissal.

On 27 November 2010, at the PFF 7th Ordinary Congress at the PhilSports Complex in Pasig, Martinez was ousted by 25 Presidents out of the 29 present member associations to approve a resolution made by 8 members of the Board of Governors calling for the ousting and replacement of Martinez as PFF president. Martinez was dismissed due to allegedly falsifying public documents and misusing funds. Mariano Araneta was named Interim President.

Araneta era
After serving as Interim President for about a year after Martinez's ouster in 2010, Araneta was elected as president on 26 November 2011 at a PFF congress held at the Astoria Plaza in Pasig.

On 14 October 2016, at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Pasig, the Online PFF Player Registration System was launched following a contract signing between the PFF, MMC Sportz Marketing and RSportz. The initiative by the PFF is among the first in Southeast Asia. The registration system will create a database of Filipino players which will be accessible to organizers of PFF-sanctioned tournaments. The registration system was planned to be online by November 2016.

In November 2016, Araneta announced that the PFF will move its headquarters to Carmona, Cavite in 2017 where an artificial football pitch is due to be finished within the month. The new location will also house a dormitory, a natural grass pitch and corporate offices.

The PFF's registration system dubbed "My PFF" was officially launched in June 2017 and will be embedded in PFF's website on 3 July 2017 to be more accessible for registrants.

A financial issue with the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) was resolved on September 14, 2018, when the PFF remitted ₱4.8 million amount of unliquidated financial assistance from the government agency. The scope of the financial aid covers the administrations of the PFF from past 1996 to 2010.

The PFF was given the right to hold AFC ‘A’ and AFC ‘B’ Diploma Courses in the Philippines by the Asian Football Confederation starting 2019. The federation launched its first esports tournament, the PFF eTrophy which featured the video game title FIFA 21 in 2021.

On July 30, 2022, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new PPF headquarters in Carmona took place. In November 2022, the PFF decided to allow the expansion of its regional associations.

Gutierrez era
Araneta, bound to a two-term limit, ends his presidency. The PFF held an election on 25 November 2023 to determine its new set of officials.

John Gutierrez of Bukidnon FA was elected as Araneta's successor. The other candidates were Filbert Alquiros of Stallion Laguna, and Henry Sabate of Davao-South RFA. Gutierrez garnered 30 out of 36 votes, with the other contenders receiving three votes each.

Member associations
There are 36 member associations, three of which are professional football clubs, under the PFF.

 * Agusan del Sur – Surigao del Sur RFA
 * Cordillera RFA
 * Bukidnon FA
 * Butuan – Agusan Del Norte FA
 * RFA of Camarines Norte
 * Camiguin-Misamis Oriental FA
 * Central Visayas RFA
 * Golden Davao RFA
 * North Davao RFA
 * Davao R.F.A.
 * Iligan – Lanao Regional Football Association (Iligan-Lanao RFA)
 * Iloilo FA
 * Laguna – Cavite RFA
 * Legazpi City – Albay Federated RFA
 * East Visayas R.F.A.
 * Federated F.A. of Masbate
 * Central Bicol RFA
 * National Capital Region F.A.
 * Negros Occidental F.A.
 * Negros Oriental – Siquijor RFA
 * Maguindanao-Cotabato City FA
 * Misamis Occidental – Ozamis FA
 * Mount Apo RFA
 * Oriental Mindoro FA
 * Quezon – Batangas RFA
 * FA of Rizal
 * South Cotabato – Sarangani – Gen. Santos City RFA (SOCSARGEN RFA)
 * Sultan Kudarat RFA
 * Surigao del Norte and Dinagat Islands RFA
 * Central Luzon RFA
 * Zamboanga del Norte – Dipolog RFA
 * Pagadian – Zamboanga del Sur – Sibugay RFA
 * Zamboanga – Basilan – Sulu – Tawi-tawi FA (ZAMBASULTA FA)
 * Kaya FC-Iloilo
 * Stallion Laguna FC
 * United City FC

National league

 * Philippines Football League
 * PFF Women's League

National Cups

 * Copa Paulino Alcantara
 * PFF National Men's Club Championship (defunct)
 * PFF Women's Cup

Youth competitions

 * PFF National Men's U-23 Championship (defunct)
 * PFF National U-22 Amateur Championship (inactive)
 * PFF U-19 Boys National Football Championship

 * PFF U-15 Boys National Championship (inactive)

Esports

 * PFF eTrophy

Honors
The PFF was given the AFC President Recognition Award for Grassroots Football in the Developing Category in 2014 and in 2016.

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Grady Louis McMurtry

Grady Louis McMurtry (October 18, 1918 – July 12, 1985) was an American ceremonial magician, student of occult writer Aleister Crowley, and an adherent of Thelema. He is best known for reviving the fraternal organization Ordo Templi Orientis, which he headed from 1971 until his death in 1985.

Early life and career
He lived in various parts of Oklahoma and the Midwest, and graduated from high school in Valley Center, Kansas in 1937. He then moved to Southern California to study engineering at Pasadena Junior College, where he made friends with some students at the nearby California Institute of Technology. Among them was Jack Parsons, who shared his enthusiasm for science fiction, and who introduced him to Thelema. In 1941 McMurtry was initiated into the Minerval and I° of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a secret society headed at the time by Aleister Crowley.

In February 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, McMurtry's entire Reserve Officers Training Corps class was called to active duty, and he served as an officer in Ordnance. He took part in the invasion of Normandy, the liberation of France and Belgium, and the occupation of Germany. He was recalled to active duty to serve in the Korean War, eventually reaching the rank of major. He was recalled again for another tour of duty in Korea in the early 1960s. Six months prior to completing 30 years of Reserve service, he was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel during a RIF (Reduction In Force) and lost what would have been an earned pension. He continued his academic studies as a civilian between tours of duty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his A.B. in political science in 1948 and an M.A. in the discipline in 1955. His thesis for the latter degree examined the parallels between magic and Marxism. In a 1970 conversation with Jacques Vallée (who was flummoxed by McMurtry's lengthy military career), McMurtry identified as a political liberal. He noted his opposition to Richard Nixon's Middle East policies and characterized himself as "a poet who happened to fight in two wars."

During World War II, especially when he was stationed in England in 1943 and the first half of 1944, McMurtry was able to meet with and become a personal student of Aleister Crowley, who elevated him to IX° of O.T.O., giving him the name Hymenaeus Alpha (which enumerates to 777) in November 1943.

In September and November 1944 (and once again in June 1947), he received letters from Crowley referring to him as Crowley's "Caliph" (or successor). When McMurtry returned to California after the war he was appointed Crowley's O.T.O. representative in the United States (April 1946), subject only to the authority of Crowley's viceroy and heir apparent, Karl Germer.

Crowley died in December 1947, and Germer was recognized as the head of O.T.O. At the time the only functioning Thelemic O.T.O. body in the world was Agape Lodge in Southern California, which was headed for a time by McMurtry's friend Jack Parsons. McMurtry planned to start a lodge in Northern California, but his deteriorating relationship with Karl Germer (based on Germer's refusal to initiate new members) put an end to his plans. He tried to organize other O.T.O. members in California to lobby Germer to change his policy, but the situation came to a head at a meeting in 1959 in which Dr. Gabriel Montenegro (Germer's representative) "ordered" McMurtry to cease his efforts. This order was reiterated in writing in November 1960. McMurtry unwillingly complied with the order, and he was disillusioned enough by this turn of events that he ended his direct involvement with O.T.O. In 1961 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he soon became completely out of touch with other O.T.O. members.

Re-establishing O.T.O.
On October 25, 1962 Germer died from prostatic cancer at the age of 77, without naming a successor as head of O.T.O. His widow, who was not a member of O.T.O., retained material possession of the O.T.O.'s extensive archives. Though individual members carried on with their spiritual activities, the central organization, for all intents and purposes, ceased to function.

There were a few individuals, notably Kenneth Grant of Britain, Hermann Metzger of Switzerland, and later, Marcelo Ramos Motta of Brazil, who claimed succession to Germer. McMurtry was unaware of any of these developments until 1968, when he received a letter from Phyllis Seckler, a fellow Agape Lodge O.T.O. initiate.

Seckler's letter was to inform McMurtry that the archives in Germer's widow's care (including Aleister Crowley's library) had been burglarized the previous year by persons unknown. When he became aware of the situation he decided to take charge of what remained of O.T.O. In 1969 he left his job at the United States Department of Labor and returned to California to investigate the burglary. Though the crime was never officially solved, McMurtry felt that it had probably been carried out by a group, claiming affiliation with O.T.O., that called itself the "Solar Lodge". McMurtry had moved into Seckler's home in Dublin, California, and soon they were married.

At this time, McMurtry decided to restore the Order by invoking his emergency orders from Crowley which gave him authority (subject to Karl Germer's approval) to "take charge of the whole work of the Order in California to reform the Organization", and he assumed the title "Caliph of O.T.O.," as specified in Crowley's letters to McMurtry from the 1940s. His witnesses were Dr. Israel Regardie (1907–1985) and Gerald Yorke, who both offered their support.

Along with Seckler and two other surviving members, Mildred Burlingame and Helen Parsons Smith, he slowly began performing O.T.O. initiations again. They also eventually succeeded in their efforts to find a publisher for the Thoth tarot deck designed by Aleister Crowley. O.T.O. was registered with the State of California on December 28, 1971 as a legal organization.

In 1974 McMurtry and Seckler separated, and he moved to Berkeley, California. Germer's widow died in 1975, and in 1976 the surviving members of O.T.O. were enabled by court order to claim the still considerable archives. In October 1977 McMurtry founded Thelema Lodge in Berkeley to serve as the headquarters of his resuscitated O.T.O. Many initiations were performed, and a weekly celebration of the Gnostic Mass was soon established in the San Francisco Bay area. McMurtry, and other initiators chartered by him, established O.T.O. groups in many other areas in the United States and internationally. By 1985 O.T.O., by its own report, had more than seven hundred members in several different countries. In that year McMurtry, in failing health, successfully sued Motta in United States district court over the possession of the O.T.O. trademarks and copyrights. He died in a Martinez, California convalescent hospital on the day that the U.S. court clerk released the text of the decision that set the seal on McMurtry's efforts to reestablish O.T.O. Since then O.T.O. had, by its own report, grown to over three thousand members in more than forty countries, although numbers have declined significantly over the last decade.

Publications

 * The O.T.O. Newsletter Vol. I, Nos.1-4, May 1977 - March 1978
 * Transcript of an interview with McMurtry about his early life, serialized in the Thelema Lodge Calendar, November 2000 - September 2001
 * A comprehensive collection of 134 poems was published as "The Poetry of Grady Louis McMurtry" Red Flame No. 1, September 2001

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CKOF-FM

CKOF-FM (104.7 MHz) is a French-language commercial radio station in Gatineau, Quebec, serving the National Capital Region including Ottawa. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts a talk radio format, calling itself "104,7 FM". Some programming is shared with sister station CKOI-FM Montreal. The radio studios and offices are in the Chemin des Terres neighbourhood of Gatineau.

CKOF-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 31,000 watts, with a maximum of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is located in Camp Fortune, near Gatineau Park.

History
The station originally began broadcasting in 1968 on the AM band. It was CJRC, on 1150 kHz with a daytime power of 50,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station. It used a directional antenna with slightly different daytime and nighttime directional patterns in order to protect various other stations on that frequency – particularly CKOC in Hamilton, Ontario.

The station was signed on the air on June 3, 1968 by Raymond Crepeau, Marcel Joyal, Robert Campeau and Gerard Moreau with the presence of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the then-prime minister of Canada (and father of future prime minister Justin Trudeau) as part of the Radiomutuel network. Originally its headquarters were at the Sparks Street Mall in Ottawa but were later moved in the old city of Gatineau in the 1980s after a stay on Belfast Road in Ottawa. It became part of the Radiomédia network (later known as Corus Québec) on September 30, 1994, after Radiomutuel merged with Télémédia (that network's Gatineau station, CKCH, was closed down).

On November 24, 2006, the CRTC authorized the station to switch to the FM band. The change of frequency forced CHMY's transmitter in Arnprior, formerly on 104.7, to move to 107.7 FM. The 104.7 MHz frequency was also used in Ottawa by 3077457 Nova Scotia Limited which was approved in 2005 to operate a tourist information station. The station, CIIO-FM later moved to 99.7 MHz in 2007.

On April 16, 2007, at 7:00 a.m. EDT, CJRC made the move to the FM band on 104.7 MHz as CJRC-FM Le FM parlé de l'Outaouais.

On June 12, 2008, CJRC-FM received approval to increase power from 2,900 to 36,000 watts.

In March 2009, Corus announced plans to drop the talk radio format on CJRC, CHLT-FM in Sherbrooke, CHLN-FM in Trois-Rivières and CKRS-FM in Saguenay, in favour of a classic hits-oldies format branded as "Souvenirs Garantis", effective on March 28, 2009.

Since the implementation of the new CJRC-FM on 104.7 in 2007, the old 1150 AM has been simulcasting the programming of CJRC-FM which was originally to be shut down on March 16, 2009 although as of April 2009, the 1150 AM signal was still in operation. The old AM 1150 CJRC signal finally left the air on May 1, 2009.

In early 2010, the local morning news show featuring Louis-Philippe Brûlé (previously before for several years by Daniel Séguin) was removed in favor of a provincial newscast broadcast from Montreal by Paul Arcand.

On December 17, 2010, the CRTC approved the sale of most of Corus Entertainment stations in Quebec, including CJRC-FM, to Cogeco.

On February 21, 2011, the station rebranded to CKOI 104.7, picking up the hot adult contemporary format and branding similar to its Montreal sister station, CKOI-FM and CJRC-FM change its callsign to CKOF-FM.

On June 20, 2012, Cogeco announced that CKOF-FM, along with CKOY-FM and CKOB-FM, will revert to their talk formats on August 20, 2012, all but dismantling the CKOI network. Apart from an expansion of talk programming, no changes in current talk and sports programming are expected for these stations.

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Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada

The Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada (CMAC) (Cour d'appel de la cour martiale du Canada) hears appeals from Courts-martial of Canada ("courts martial").

In Canada, courts martial are presided over by independent military judges from the office of the Chief Military Judge. They have the jurisdiction to try military personnel, and those civilian personnel that accompany military personnel abroad, for crimes that contravene the Code of Service Discipline and the National Defence Act; which incorporates many of the offences under the Criminal Code and related statutes.

The CMAC was established in 1959 by Parliament under the National Defence Act, to replace the Court Martial Appeal Board. Due to the court's small caseload, justices of the CMAC are cross-appointed from justices of provincial superior courts and the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal. Appeals from the CMAC lie with the Supreme Court of Canada. Appeals require leave from the Supreme Court, unless a justice of the CMAC dissents on a question of law, in which case there is an appeal as of right to the Supreme Court.

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Talk:Philippine Football Federation

Moved the previous article to East Timor, as it had to do with East Timor --jmboothe 07:24, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Vipul pratap

Vipul Pratap Singh
Me and Myself

My home page : http://vipulpratap.googlepages.com/home

Hi This is Vipul. More about me :

Born in Luckow. Did my engineering from BIT,Mesra, India. Working as IT consultant with Cognizant. Currently living in Scranton, PA. Love to go to places and reading Books. quizing is my fav pastime. I know this is not innovative way of writing about myself, but this is just the beginning. Wait n watch......

Contact info : vipulpratap@gmail.com MY blog: http://seeunforeseen.blogspot.com Phone no. 631-880-9510

papers: http://mgt.gatech.edu/fac_research/centers_initiatives/finlab/finlab_files/ga_tech_lease_capitalization_2007.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.99.163.216 (talk) 15:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

groups associated : bitfamily@yahoogroups.com

orkut id : vipulpratap

Links to my friends' pages :

1. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~skverma/

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Dilara

Dilara or Delara can be a given name or surname in several languages.

Delara (Persian: دل‌آرا-دلارا) is a Persian female first name popular in Iran and other Persian speaking countries such as Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Dilara is popular in Turkic countries such as Azerbaijan and Turkey.

It is a compound word of Persian origin that consists of two parts: "Del"+"-ara". In Persian, "del" (دل) is a noun meaning heart, and "ara" is a suffix that comes from the Persian verb ārāstan (آراستن), meaning adorner, beautifier, and embellisher. According to the Dehkhoda Dictionary, Dilara can be translated as "she who delights the heart", "she who is pleasing" or "what makes heart beautiful".

Dilara or Delara can be also a variant of the Spanish or French habitational name Lara.

In the Shahnameh ("The Book of Kings"), the masterpiece of Ferdowsi (940–1025), Dilara was a prudent and wise queen in the time of the ancient Persian Empire. For hundreds of years since then in Persian literature, poets such as Saadi have used the name "Dilara" to refer a dearly loved woman who fills their hearts with joy and happiness.

Given name

 * Delara Burkhardt (born 1992), German politician
 * Delara Darabi (1986–2009), Iranian woman executed for murder
 * Dilara Aksüyek (born 1987), Turkish actress
 * Dilara Aliyeva (1929–1991), Azerbaijani historian
 * Dilara Bağcı (born 1994), Turkish volleyball player
 * Dilara Bedia Kızılsu (born 1965), Turkish sport shooter
 * Dilara Begum Jolly (born 1960), Bangladeshi print artist, sculptor, installation artist, and painter
 * Dilara Bilge (born 1990), Turkish volleyball player
 * Dilara Bozan (born 1997), Turkish karateka
 * Dilara Buse Günaydın (born 1989), Turkish swimmer
 * Dilara Büyükbayraktar (born 1989), Turkish actress
 * Dilara Eltemur, Turkish karateka (2018–2019 medal winner)
 * Dilara Hanif Rita (born 1981), performing with the stage name Purnima (Bangladeshi actress)
 * Dilara Harun (c. 1946–2012), Bangladeshi revolutionary and politician
 * Dilara Hashim (born 1936), Bangladeshi author and novelist
 * Dilara Hava Tunç (born August 1998), German rapper and singer performing with the stage name Hava (musician)
 * Dilara Kaya (born 1991), Turkish basketball player
 * Dilara Kazimova (born 1984), Azerbaijani singer
 * Dilara Lokmanhekim (born 1994), Turkish judoka
 * Dilara Narin (born 2002), Turkish weightlifter
 * Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 1998), Turkish-German footballer
 * Dilara Soley Deli (born 2002), Germany-born Azerbaijani and Turkish women's footballer
 * Dilara Türk (born 1996), Turkish-German women's footballer
 * Dilara Uralp (born 1995), Turkish female windsurfer
 * Dilara Yurtdaş (born 2004), Turkish artistic gymnast
 * Dilara Zaman (born 1943), Bangladeshi actress
 * Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), Actress (was using stage name Dilara for her adult movies)

Television and film

 * Dilara, a 2018 Pakistani television series starring Kinza Razzak as Dilara
 * Dilara, the leading character portrayed by Aybüke Pusat in the 2021 Turkish dark comedy streaming television series 50M2
 * Dilara Giritli, a fictional character portrayed by Sinem Kobal in the 1990s Turkish television sitcom series Dadı
 * Dilara Terzioğlu Gürpinar/Erguvan, a fictional character portrayed by Ebru Özkan in the 2014 Turkish television drama series Paramparça

Other

 * Aseptis binotata, a moth formerly known as Aseptis dilara and Hadena dilara

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Wantan

Wantan is:
 * an alternative spelling for wonton, a Chinese dumpling
 * an alternative common name for black mulga, an Australian tree

China

 * Wantan, Henan (万滩镇), town in Zhongmu County
 * Wantan, Wufeng County (湾潭镇), town in Hubei
 * Wantan Township (湾潭乡), Hanchuan, Hubei

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Billy Squier

William Haislip Squier (, born May 12, 1950) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who had a string of arena rock and crossover hits in the early 1980s. His best-known songs include "The Stroke", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover", "In the Dark", "Rock Me Tonite", "Everybody Wants You", "Emotions in Motion", "Love Is the Hero", and "Don't Say You Love Me". Squier's best-selling album, 1981's Don't Say No, is considered a landmark release of arena rock, bridging the gap between power pop and hard rock.

Described as a personification of early 1980s rock music, Squier's most successful period was from 1981 to 1984, during which he had five Top 10 Mainstream Rock hits (two of which were number ones), two Top 20 singles, three consecutive platinum-selling albums, and videos in MTV rotation. Even after falling out from mainstream favor and chart success, which some say is because of the 1984 video for "Rock Me Tonite", Squier has maintained his presence on rock radio and his music used in many films and video games. Squier largely stopped recording music after the commercial failure of the 1993 album Tell the Truth, but has continued to perform smaller tours, one-off concerts, and occasional collaborations.

His 1980 song "The Big Beat" contains one of the most-sampled drum breaks, used by artists such as Run-DMC, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, UTFO, and Dizzee Rascal. "The Stroke" is sampled in Eminem's 2013 hit "Berzerk".

Early life and first bands (1950–1974)
Squier was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a 1968 graduate of Wellesley High School. While growing up, he took piano lessons starting at age eight. Squier played piano from age eight. Bored with the lessons after three years, his grandfather paid him to continue for a while longer. The only child became interested in guitar after a classmate sold him one for $90. Squier formed his first band, the Reltneys, when he was 14. He became more serious about music when he discovered John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers.

Squier's first public performances were in 1968 at a Boston nightclub in Kenmore Square named the Psychedelic Supermarket, where he saw Eric Clapton and the band Cream. This encouraged him to take music more seriously. He formed the band Magic Terry & the Universe with a school friend. In the early 1970s, Squier played with the short lived bands Kicks, alongside future New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan. Squier also briefly attended Berklee College of Music in 1971. Squier was planning to become a teacher but instead went back to New York and played with the band the Sidewinders.

Piper and solo career (1975–1980)
In the mid-1970s, Squier encountered his first real experience with the music industry after striking a record deal with his new band Piper, which went on to release two studio records, Piper and Can't Wait. The band was praised by critics: reviewing the self-titled album, Circus magazine touted it as "the greatest debut album ever produced by a US rock band". Piper was managed by the same management company as Kiss and opened for them during their 1977 tour, including two nights of a sold-out run at New York's Madison Square Garden. Squier served as both main songwriter and frontman of the group.

Despite receiving considerable success at the local rock scene, Piper broke up. Squier signed a solo deal with Capitol Records in 1979 and started working on his solo debut The Tale of the Tape, which was released in spring 1980. The album provided him with strong momentum, spending three months on Billboard's album chart, though peaking only at #169. Squier's first singles "You Should Be High Love" and "The Big Beat" missed the charts but got moderate radio play nationally. Along with Bobby Chouinard, his backing band consisted of Alan St. Jon on keyboards, Cary Sharaf on lead guitar, and Mark Clarke (who previously had short jobs in Uriah Heep and Rainbow) on bass.

Commercial success: Don't Say No and Emotions in Motion (1981–1983)
Following a small but fairly successful summer tour with Alice Cooper in 1980, Squier got in contact with Queen guitarist Brian May and asked him to produce his next album. Due to scheduling conflicts, May declined, but he recommended Reinhold Mack, who had produced Queen's most recent album The Game. Squier and Mack joined forces to produce Don't Say No, which earned rave reviews and spawned three hit singles. The first, "The Stroke," became his breakthrough hit, hitting Top 20 in the US and reaching the top five in Australia, as well as charting high in Canada and in Britain, where the song remains his only chart entry. "In the Dark" and "My Kinda Lover" were successful follow-ups. The album also includes "Lonely Is the Night", which became a radio favorite and one of his signature songs, despite not being released as a single (however, in Britain, it was the B-side for "In the Dark"). Squier was also popular on the new MTV cable channel, where his straightforward performance-based videos received heavy rotation. Don't Say No peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 and lasted well over two years on the chart, eventually selling over 4 million copies in the US alone, making it Squier's most commercially successful album.

Squier was known for being a perfectionist and short-tempered at producers sometimes. He ended his partnership with Mack after disagreements between the two escalated because of artistic differences. Despite the problems, Squier's third album Emotions In Motion was released in 1982 and became very successful, although in the long run, it didn't catch its predecessor in sales. Nevertheless, the album hit #5 in both US and Canada, sold approximately 3 million copies, and spawned the successful radio and video hits "Emotions in Motion" and "Everybody Wants You". The latter is notable for being Squier's first #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart and holding the place for six weeks straight, more than any other number one in 1982. During the tour for Emotions in Motion, Squier and his band served as openers for the North American leg of Queen's 1982 Hot Space Tour and later, he finally became a headliner act for the first time. British newcomer Def Leppard supported him and he helped the band break through in the US, in conjunction with the release of their breakthrough album Pyromania.

Career pinnacle: Signs of Life (1984)
Squier began writing songs for his fourth album Signs of Life in late 1983 after finishing his first headlining arena tour. He planned to have Robert John "Mutt" Lange as producer. However, Lange was already reserved by The Cars and suffered a breakdown afterward. Squier brought in Jim Steinman, whom he admired for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, which he described as "the most passionate and exciting rock record of our time". Steinman showed enthusiasm for the project and he got along well with Squier and his band, despite his role in the studio being significantly smaller than usual. The resulting album was a departure from Squier's typical guitar-heavy hard rock into a more keyboard-oriented style, with hints of Steinman's Wagnerian producing approach.

When Signs of Life arrived in late July 1984, Squier was at the peak of his career. Fueled by the songs "Rock Me Tonite" and "All Night Long", the album brought his third consecutive platinum certification. The music video for "Rock Me Tonite", which featured Squier dancing in a bedroom wearing a pink tank top, proved a controversial choice by director Kenny Ortega. The 2011 book I Want My MTV promoted it as the worst video of all time. Martha Quinn, an MTV VJ when "Rock Me Tonite" was released, commented, "I don’t remember that video being poorly received at the time." Whether it was the video or the shift in music style or other factors, Squier stopped selling out shows. He fired both of his managers and insulted Ortega for misleading and deceiving him. Ortega has denied Squier's accusations.

Brief resurgence and feud with Capitol (1985–1993)
Apart from a few live appearances and a new song, "Shake Down" for the soundtrack of the film St. Elmo's Fire, Squier stayed out of the spotlight for the majority of 1985, taking some time off and preparing his next album with British producer Peter Collins, who was known for his work with Nik Kershaw, Gary Moore, and Rush. 1986 saw the release of his fifth album Enough Is Enough, which was carefully crafted, but still a commercial flop. The album spawned a minor hit, "Love Is the Hero", with Freddie Mercury on backing vocals. Mercury also co-wrote and arranged the song "Lady With a Tenor Sax", which also appears on the album. Enough Is Enough sold an estimated 300,000 copies. "Love Is the Hero" has usually been singled out for praise. Squier did not embark on a tour in support of the album.

Squier spent the next three years working on his sixth full-length album, Hear & Now, which was released in 1989. The album peaked at #64, but sold only 300,000, the same as Enough Is Enough. "Don't Say You Love Me" was a modestly successful comeback single and his last Hot 100 hit, which peaked at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went to #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Squier's seventh album, Creatures of Habit, was released in 1991. Both critical and audience reception were mixed; many criticized the album for lacking innovation and being uninspired, mainly on the songwriting side. Some also found the album's polished sound somewhat outdated, since at the time of the album's release, alternative rock and especially grunge began ruling the rock scene. Peaking only at #117 in US, the album became his lowest charting since The Tale of the Tape. However, it contained the radio hits, "She Goes Down" and "Facts of Life". The former is Squier's last Top 5 on the Mainstream Rock charts and his highest charting radio single of the 1990s. Creatures of Habit was supported with a tour.

In 1993, Squier released his final album with Capitol Records, Tell the Truth, with different sets of musicians performing the various tracks. Despite Squier himself comparing it favorably to Don't Say No, Capitol did little to nothing to promote it, which ended up becoming his first album not to chart at all and selling 37,000 US copies, per Nielsen Soundscan. After the album's release, Squier walked away from the label and music business as a whole.

Later career (1994–2022)
In 1994, Squier's original screenplay Run To Daylight was short-listed at the Sundance Film Festival. The film itself was never produced. In 1995, Capitol released 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier.

On February 17, 1998, during the initial run of Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God, a monodrama about the life of Freddie Mercury, Squier debuted a song that he wrote in memory of his friend, titled "I Have Watched You Fly", on stage before a performance of the play. He introduced the song by saying, "I was privileged to know Freddie as a friend. I'm honored to share the stage with him in the afterlife."

That same year Squier released independently his last studio album to date, a stripped-down acoustic blues effort titled Happy Blue. The album was both stylistically and sonically a departure from his typical hard rock sound, with only Squier accompanied by an acoustic guitar and no overdubs. For this album, Squier reworked his hit song "The Stroke" into an old-fashioned blues number, "Stroke Me Blues".

The year 2001 marked the 20th anniversary of Don't Say No. In the same year, Squier embarked on a concert tour that was his first large one since the 1991 tour for Creatures of Habit.

In 2004, "Everybody Wants You" was remixed with the group Fischerspooner's song "Emerge" and included on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy soundtrack. In 2006, Squier joined Richard Marx, Edgar Winter, Rod Argent, Hamish Stuart, and Sheila E touring with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. A documentary of the tour, including a full-length concert performance, was subsequently made available on DVD. In 2007, Squier appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Ronnie Spector, Mitch Ryder, Tone Loc, Deniece Williams, Dr. Hook, and Tom Cochrane. In 2008, Squier joined Colin Hay, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Hamish Stuart, and Gregg Bissonette touring with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. In 2009, Squier launched a nationwide summer/fall tour with a band that included drummer Nir Z, guitarist Marc Copely, long-time bassist Mark Clarke, and keyboard player Alan St. Jon.

Squier played a special acoustic show at B.B. King's in New York on November 30, 2005. Highlights of the show were acoustic versions of "Everybody Wants You," "Nobody Knows," "Learn How to Live," "Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You," and most of the Happy Blue project. VH1 Classic and New York hard rock radio icon Eddie Trunk introduced Squier that night as "one of the greatest singer/songwriters in the history of rock."

In May 2010, Squier was part of the Boston Legends Tribute to James Cotton including Magic Dick (J. Geils Band), the James Montgomery Band, Jon Butcher, Sib Hashian (Boston), Michael Carabello (Santana), the Uptown Horns, and James Cotton. Squier accepted Cotton's invitation in June to join him at the "James Cotton's Blues Summit" at Lincoln Center in New York City, along with Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin' Wolf's band), Taj Mahal, and many more. In November, Squier appeared at the Iridium in New York and played a double set that night, "Blues Deluxe," that showcased songs from his blues upbringing and new versions of several of his hits.

Shout! Factory released Don't Say No: 30th Anniversary Edition on July 27, 2010, marking the first time that this album had been remastered in over 20 years. It was released in collaboration with Squier, who provided two live bonus cuts from his personal collection. That same year, all his albums except Tell the Truth and Happy Blue, became available on digital and streaming. Later on, Tell the Truth joined in 2014 and Happy Blue in 2020.

In October 2011, Squier performed at the third annual "Right to Rock" Celebration at the Edison Ballroom in New York (including Steven van Zandt and Lady Gaga) in support of the Little Kids Rock charity and performed "Lonely Is The Night" with a group of Jersey City students.

In May 2012, Squier joined the Li'l Band O' Gold for several shows at the New Orleans Jazzfest. During Memorial Day weekend, Squier made a surprise appearance at the John Varvatos store in Easthampton, New York, in support of his friend, rock photographer Rob Shanahan and his new book, Volume One. In June, Squier performed at the "Industrial Hedgefund Awards Dinner" in New York, in another fundraising effort for 'Little Kids Rock.' In September, Squier appeared as a guest during the set of the James Montgomery Band at the Westport Blues Festival. In December, Squier headlined a fund-raising concert for "The American Revolution," a documentary on the rock FM station WBCN at the House of Blues in Boston.

In the summer of 2013, Squier performed his 'Electric Man' show at the Patchogue Music Festival on Long Island. In November, he played the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans. The Stooges, a local brass band (not to be confused with Iggy Pop's band), joined Squier on "The Stroke." At the same time, Eminem released 'Berzerk', which makes use of various samples from "The Stroke." On his 2014 effort "Shady XV", Eminem sampled "My Kinda Lover."

In September 2014, Squier took his 'Electric Man' show to the 9th Jack Show in Anaheim, California.

New music (2023-present)
On February 14, 2023, a clip of a new track titled "Molly" was uploaded, with March 8 noted in the video. The song was ultimately released as "Harder On A Woman".

Personal life
In 1985, Squier hired a helicopter from the Prince of Nepal and offered $10,000 in cash to two helicopter pilots to land him on the summit of Mount Everest. They turned him down, saying that it was too dangerous.

In 2002, Squier married Nicole Schoen, a German professional soccer player. They divided their time between a home in Bridgehampton, Long Island and an apartment in The San Remo on Central Park West in Manhattan, New York City. Squier had been, as of 2016, an active volunteer for the Central Park Conservancy for more than 17 years, physically maintaining 20 acre of the park, as well as promoting the Conservancy in articles and interviews. He also supported the Group for the East End and its native planting programs on eastern Long Island.

Studio albums

 * The Tale of the Tape (1980)
 * Don't Say No (1981)
 * Emotions in Motion (1982)
 * Signs of Life (1984)
 * Enough Is Enough (1986)
 * Hear & Now (1989)
 * Creatures of Habit (1991)
 * Tell the Truth (1993)
 * Happy Blue (1998)

Compilation albums

 * A Rock and Roll Christmas (various artists compilation) (1994)
 * 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier (1995)
 * Reach for the Sky: The Anthology (1996) (PolyGram)
 * Classic Masters (2002)
 * Absolute Hits (2005)
 * Essential Billy Squier (2011)
 * ICON (2013)

Live albums

 * King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Billy Squier (1996)
 * Live In The Dark (1982, DVD, directed by Keith McMillan)

Non-album soundtrack contributions

 * "Fast Times (The Best Years Of Our Lives)" – from the soundtrack album Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
 * "On Your Own" – from the soundtrack album Metropolis (1984)
 * "Shake Down" – from the soundtrack album St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

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Manawatū River

The Manawatū River is a major river of the lower North Island of New Zealand. The river flows from the Ruahine Ranges, through both the Manawatū Gorge and the city of Palmerston North, and across the Manawatū Plains to the Tasman Sea at Foxton.

Name
The river, along with the more northern Whanganui River, gives its name to the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The name of the river was given by the tohunga Haupipi-a-Nanaia, a descendant of Haunui-a-paparangi. Haupipi-a-Nanaia or Hau, travelled down the west coast in pursuit of his wife Wairaka, who had eloped. When Hau reached what is now known as the Manawatū River, he is said to have stopped and clutched his chest, horrified at the prospect of crossing so mighty an expanse of water. Therefore the river's name comes from the Māori words manawa (heart) and tū (stand still). In this context, when said together, the interpretation is ‘heart standing still’ to represent how Hau felt when he first saw the river. However cross he did, and a few kilometres south of Paekākāriki, Hau overtook the fugitives and changed Wairaka into a rock.

Geography
The Manawatū River has its headwaters northwest of Norsewood in the Tararua District, on the eastern slopes of the Ruahine Range on the North Island of New Zealand. It flows initially eastward before turning south-west near Ormondville, flowing 40 km before turning north-west near Woodville. At this point it enters the Manawatū Gorge, between the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges. Beyond the gorge it joins with the Pohangina River at Ashhurst and turns south-west, flowing through the city of Palmerston North. At this stage the river is still flowing swiftly and carrying gravel from the mountains.

After Opiki, it slows and has a lower gradient, meandering over the Manawatu Plains; its bed at this point is mud and silty sand. In its meandering and frequent shifting of course it has created oxbow lakes, lagoons, and swamps. Sediment deposited along its course has created levees, higher than the surrounding plain; when the river is in flood it overflows these and creates wetlands. The Manawatū reaches the Tasman Sea at Foxton Beach, on the west coast of the North Island, creating the Manawatu Estuary.

Major tributaries of the river include the Makakahi, Mangahao, Pohangina and Oroua Rivers. The Manawatū's total length is 180 km, making it only the 12th-longest in the country, but at 102 m3/s it is one of New Zealand's greatest rivers in terms of flow, and second only to the Waikato River among North Island rivers.

Bridges
The river is crossed by 18 road, 3 rail bridges and He Ara Kotahi walk/cycleway. The lowest and longest, Whirokino Trestle and Manawatū River Bridge, carry SH1 1.1 km over the Moutoa Floodway and 180 m over the river. It replaced the 1938 and 1942 bridges in February 2020, at a cost of $70m.

Geology
The Manawatū is unique among New Zealand rivers in that it crosses a mountain range. The river has formed a "water gap" across the mountains because it is older than the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges. Most rivers arise from an already-existing range of mountains or hills, but beginning about 3 million years ago the central North Island mountain ranges began to uplift across the Manawatū's current course. Because it drained a large catchment, the river had sufficient flow to keep pace with and erode the rising mountains, eventually forming the Manawatū Gorge; other rivers were unable to and were diverted into the Manawatū instead.

After exiting the Manawatū Gorge, the river carries rock and sediment down from the mountains. During glacial times, with the prevalence of ice, snow, and bare mountains, this erosion increases and forms a stony elevated terrace. During an interglacial, while the mountains are forested, gravel outwash is reduced and the river cuts down into the terrace, forming a gorge. This cycle has created four distinct terraces between the Manawatū Gorge and Palmerston North.

The Manawatū Plain was seabed 5 to 6 million years ago, and as it was raised above water by the action of the Australian and Pacific Plates it buckled, forming five long and low ridges (or anticlines) parallel to the mountains, which impede the flow of the Manawatū, Rangitikei, and Oroua Rivers, forcing them to flow southwest rather than directly into the Tasman Sea.

Vegetation
At the time of human arrival, the Manawatū Plains were covered with forest. Towards the foothills and the Manawatū Gorge grew black beech, turning into tawa forest at lower altitudes. Along the plains and terraces the forest was mixed podocarp and tōtara, changing to mixed tawa, tītoki, and māhoe in the sand dunes.

Across the flood plain of the Manawatū and on the low-lying land bordering the river, the predominant vegetation was semi-swamp forest, mostly kahikatea and pukatea. Three major swamps bordered the Manawatū: Moutoa Swamp north of the river, towards the mouth, known as the "Great Swamp" in the 19th century; Makerua Swamp further inland, to the south of the Manawatū and north of the Tokomaru River, which covered 22000 acres; and Taonui Swamp on the north side of the river. The main vegetation in the swamps was harakeke and raupō: harakeke in the drier parts, raupō in the wetter.

The Manawatū river mouth and estuary was listed under the Ramsar Convention as a Wetland of International Importance in 2005.

Flooding
The Manawatū River flooded in February 2004, displacing over 3000 people (primarily from Marton and Feilding) and damaging over 1000 Manawatū farms. The cost of the flood in terms of insurance payouts was NZ$122 million. Further damage was prevented by the opening of the Moutoa floodgates, which intercept the river between Foxton and Shannon.

Water quality
In 2018 a case study on water quality in the Manawatū-Whanganui region was jointly commissioned by Horizons Regional Council and the Ministry for the Environment, the study was conducted by Land Water People (LWP) and the results were reviewed by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and StatsNZ. Results showed that water quality for sediment and E. coli had improved over the previous seven to ten years in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The report found strong statistical evidence of a connection between regional scale water quality improvements and local scale interventions.

In 2006 Fonterra were criticised for an application to discharge 8500 m3 of wastewater into the Manawatū River. In 2009, the Cawthron Institute found that the river had the highest gross primary production (GPP) compared to 300 rivers and streams in the Western world. High GPP rates are an indication of poor ecological health and can lead to various environmental issues. In 2011, the Horizons Regional Council laid blame with the Palmerston North City Council for "considerable" and "sustained" breaches of one of its discharge consents, and some degree of non-compliance with two others. A report by the Ministry for the Environment ranked 76 New Zealand sites for water clarity and E. coli levels. Using those measures, they found only four other New Zealand rivers rate worse than the Manawatū (the Waitara, Whanganui, Waipā and Rangitīkei).

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I removed this from the article. Seemed just a tad out of place.

 * 1. Name 3 other bands named after shirts. No, don't. It's a terrible way to name a band, and I don't think any of them were very successful. Gant, by the way, is French for glove. Maybe they should have called themselves The Gloves; it sounds almost psychedelic!

 * 2. Herring, like the singer for The Knickerbockers, did a fairly accurate imitation of John Lennon's voice when he sang his own songs. Unfortunatly, the rest of the boys sounded like Americans, not Paul & George, on harmonies.

- Vague | Rant 07:31, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

ROFL
ROFL, Gant is my name71.112.182.159 23:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Necessary edits in History section??
Paragraph four seems a bit too personal in nature. Perhaps this could be edited so the pov is more neutral.THX1136 (talk) 15:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

==My name is Sid Herring, founder of the Gants. I am requesting corrections and changes be made to article, The Gants, which was posted long ago without my knowledge or input.Thank you.SidHerring (talk) 21:36, 22 August 2017 (UTC) ==

Summary box-please remove "Alias-The Kingsmen". The Kingsmen was an earlier band that I had for a short time prior to forming The Gants. Also please change "Past Members" to "Original Members" and remove Johnny Freeman from the list. He came into The Gants at a later date, not as an original Gant. This will be explained in the History section edits that I am working on. Thanks for any assistance in making these edits.SidHerring (talk) 21:36, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

 * Hello,, welcome. However as was instructed in the request you made on your user talk page:  Any requests for change will need reliable sources WP:RS to back such claims. I also found the few sources listed as not still working, except the band website.  If this is your article, it is subject to be pruned at any time for WP:Original Research. It is written in an anectdotal commentary style that needs to be questioned as to authenticity. In fact I have just tagged for 'Original Reseach', while I am investigating this request.  Sorry, but without evidence in published third-party well-known media I cannot answer this request. Your assertion that you are the founder is made in good faith but holds no weight for this article.  Thank you for your interest.  Fylbecatulous talk 19:13, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Addendum: for the use of the musical artist infobox template, it has limited but mandatory parameters. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_musical_artist#past_members. The two choices are either :current members (for active groups) and past members. Since the group is inactive, all members are listed under past members. There is no parameter for original members. It would not show in the article text and introduces template error categories.   If it were a possible parameter I would change it, but since I spend much time correcting infobox improvision errors someone else would revert it as a mistake.  Thanks again.   Fylbecatulous talk 12:25, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of pornstars named Jenna Jameson

List of pornstars named Jenna Jameson
This page was tagged for vfd but never added to the vfd page. This "list" only has one entry, and as far as I know, it's complete. What's next, List of months that start with Feb? Even if it's incomplete, I would think we should have a disambiguation page instead of this. Dave6 07:33, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Dude! They totally forgot Jenna Jameson (pornstar). Delete. -R. fiend 07:37, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Isn't this a speedy? -- Jmabel | Talk 08:18, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: DCEdwards1966 12:57, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. We also need a list of planets where humans live, and a list of letters that come after A and before C in the alphabet. Kosebamse 13:15, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * List of pornstars named Jenna Jameson that have been Deleted. I tried to make a List of letters that come after A and before C in the alphabet, but it was speedy deleted in under a minute...just like this should be. —ExplorerCDT 08:27, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly speedily, but also see the links within the article, particularly List of heterosexual erotic actresses. What the heck is that except yet another attempt to get the deleted porn lists back in?  Geogre 13:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Could be a speedy, I think, as an obvious prank, hence vandalism. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:17, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * It was so ridiculously silly I speedied it. Dunc|☺ 21:10, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete -- although in honor of Clifford Claven, we might start a List of porn stars who've never been in my kitchen which would be, alas!, a long list. --Christofurio 16:45, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)


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Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins may refer to:

 * Peter Jenkins (diplomat) (born 1950), British diplomat
 * Peter Jenkins (journalist) (1934–1992), British journalist
 * Peter Jenkins (politician) (1944–2021), Canadian politician
 * Peter Jenkins (travel author) (born 1951), American travel author

title: Peter Jenkins