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User talk:Dr Zen/past

Robert Szeleney
AlistairMcMillan and I have a disagreement over the contents of this page. Alistair believes there should be more. I believe there should be less. Take a look at the history.

Al Qa Qaa controversy timeline
I notice you put the following summary in the edit history: "For speedy delete. State your case on talk page, don't revert." and then on the talk page "This has got to go. It's notable today but probably won't be in a couple of weeks. At best it's a tiny footnote to the war on Iraq.Dr Zen 05:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)". This article is in no way a candidate for speedy deletion. If you think it's not notable, please place it on WP:VfD. Thanks. - Ta bu shi da yu 05:35, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC) Note Ta bu shi da yu's comment and action come very swiftly after I disagreed with him over a VfD. He denies it, posts me some very interesting rules and goes his merry way. He doesn't explain how his rules disallow "John Smith is gay", which is, of course and rightly so, speedily deleted.

More back and forth about this issue followed. TBSDY took an intransigent line, which has at least let me know that he is not a person to waste too much time seeking consensus with.Dr Zen 06:29, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your kind and supportive words as I learn what's appropriate (and, more specifically in this case, what is not) on WP. GrantNeufeld 08:19, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedian beauracrats:
When you say some users are 'forgetting the spirit that they are intended to represent' you have hit the nail on the head. It is the spirit of Wikipedia and its vision I admire, but at this time, I see it being strangled by frustrated surfers and like msn prone to corruption.

It is gratifying to know I can feel secure with the thought that my efforts have not been a complete waiste of time, and may think again how best to tackle the problems as I see them. All the best: faedra

Finished my essay, sexy. It's on my page. In fact, it IS my page! --Jscott 22:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jeremy Mirkola
Thanks for the heads up, i didnt realize that minor was checked when creating new pages. I will be more careful from now on. Is there a way for fixing it? I did this in one other location. Mkrupnic 11:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hiya
Thanks for the heads up, I responded at my my talk. RoyBoy 06:51, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Witto Aloma
I replied to your questions on Witto Aloma at User talk:GK gK 00:48, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * and again gK 03:36, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Susan Pratt
May I direct your attention to User:B-Movie Bandit? These ridiculous, malformed entertainment substubs have been posted for months by this individual. He/she refuses to answer any inquiry and merrily just keeps on posting these substubs, most of which never get beyond the present stage. - Lucky 6.9 01:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

LOL! Thanks. You have no idea how much I've been fighting against this person. Best, Lucky 6.9 01:38, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikiquette and HistoryBuffEr
I just noticed your reply to the remarks I posted on HistoryBuffEr's talk page. I realize that my remarks probably seemed curt. They were curt because HB had responded to friendlier approaches (by myself and by other users) in a way that I can only describe as contemptuous. Certainly I was wrong to try to resolve that dispute through VfD. Still, if there's a way of engaging HistoryBuffEr constructively and getting his respect despite differences of opinion, I don't know of any Wikipedian who has found it. Thanks for the comments. Gazpacho 09:58, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dedham
In reply:

I saw the page when checking his contributions. Having seen six different people revert him numerous times and after having read (at speed) that the talk page discussion was not getting anywhere I decided that, based on previous experience with this guy, I would revert it. Every other contribution made by him has been POV or incorrect and I thought best to err on the side of caution while, admittedly, been rather biased against him. While I recognised some usernames from the arbitration process, thus also making them biased, I didn't know them all. When it was clear that he was reverting me as well I went and requested page protection - something I felt needed to be done straight away but had not previously been requested. While it wasn't a consensus there were enough people involved to indicate that the revert war would continue and I wanted to go through the process of being reverted three times myself before calling for protection. violet/riga (t) 08:36, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * If a vandal makes bad changes to numerous articles and then edits one that people are disputing and is in an edit war then I'm certainly going to go against him. He has not made a single positive edit and with that one being in dispute it's obvious that we cannot trust his "citation" (which he conveniently does not have to hand).  There was no reason to think that the Dedham edit was in any way different to his other changes.  Further, I'm not sure if you've seen the olive branches extended to him by all the other editors and totally ignored, but we have all tried to change the way he edits.  The content there is now being discussed and its merits taken into account - reverting an article 40 times to include that content is incorrect and he should have backed down before I (or most of the others) got involved. violet/riga (t) 11:09, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nudity
I think you overestimate the extent to which you're making a discernable point for anyone to ignore. I am looking for one, but about all I'm seeing are conflicting (conflicted?) comments that you like the picture... followed by judgments that it's "exploitation", "pornographic", and "wankfodder". Or acknowledgement that yes, it's representative of the nude in art... but you don't like what it represents. Figure out a coherent point to express, and you'll get a less annoyed audience trying to figure out what your complaint actually is.

Pot Kettle Black {shrug} Tverbeek 04:51, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ah, irony! That was funny. :) Tverbeek 05:03, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Gosh!
You certainly are silly. Don't call names. Don't make fun. For someone who claims that he's for building, you have one of the most disasterous strategies for that I have ever seen. You haven't really given me any reason to believe that you're worth talking to, so let's not. Oh, and when it comes to "build, not destroy," I am unafraid of your name calling. Geogre 05:18, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * This an editor who has a rather overinflated opinion of the value of their vote, as the discussion on Votes for deletion/Flickr will demonstrate. I don't discuss this issue with him or her because I want to change his/her vote but because I hope that others that might follow his or her lead without thinking it through might be given pause. He/she chose to vote to delete an article on an Internet phenomenon simply because he/she has never heard of it. This, I explained to him/her, is not in itself a reliable criterion of notability. He/she replied that the article must demonstrate its own notability and that editors who are deciding whether to keep or delete articles need not do even the most elementary research to discover whether it is in fact notable in its field. Unfortunately, he/she began to personally attack me, becoming rather uncivil. Of course, there is nothing wrong with differences of opinion, but it's very tiresome to be yelled at by people who are not interested in discussion or compromise unless it is on their terms. I note that on this editor's user page, he/she specifically denies the value of trying to form a consensus on deletion pages. Vote, and explain it, and that is all, seems to be his/her credo. Of course, I do not share this notion of what a consensus is. I believe that the ideal is a solution that has taken account of all views, that has persuaded or tried to, and is acceptable to all.

Um, who are you talking to? Is there an audience out there somewhere? You claim that I voted because "he/she has never heard of it." Again, that's not true, as I pointed out twice. I do invite you to actually read it. I also encourage you not to play to the audience the whole time and try to rally to a flag. That's the most objectionable thing of all. You appear to want to create villains so that you can be a hero. That's not a good attitude at all. I should also point out that I "deleted" nothing. I do hope you'll read the guidelines and policies a bit and realize that, while I could, certainly, have unilaterally deleted the article, I voted for deletion of an article with such woeful content as to have been, quite literally, a joke. As for your misreading of my user page's guidelines, I am very sorry that you are having such confusion, but, as Pope said, "All seems yellow to the jaundic'd eye." Please stop shouting at the galleries. If you wish to be the hero of a movement, that's fine, but real life has many more opportunities than Wikipedia, and real life means a great deal more. I also wonder about this "consensus" you speak of that seems to be built by calling people's tone "shitty" for pointing out your own hypocrisy. Give less attention to your supposed admirers and more to the articles. It will help Wikipedia. Any time you want to improve the article in question, you are welcome to do so. Save the energy you're about to spend in yet another pained philippic and fix the article. Geogre 05:46, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't have to be talking to anyone. I'm entitled to edit my user pages as I please. Your tone is "shitty". I've never known anyone so willing to talk down to a fellow with so little good reason for it. You seem to be obsessed with "admirers" and "galleries". I have to tell you that so far as I know I do not have a cause, except to build a great encyclopaedia, nor a faction, except those who wish to build a great encyclopaedia. Now please, stop flaming me here and elsewhere. It's not productive and I'm not going to give you any more of my time.Dr Zen 05:53, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with asking the author. There most emphatically is something wrong with calling the nominator names for not having done so. Do you see the difference between good will not expended and ill will vented? Again, please stop painting your public face and start working. If you are interested in conciliation, you can begin with an apology to Wyllium, and then to me, and then you can stop your fingers the next time you ready yourself to call someone a villain on VfD or anywhere else. Further, if you can't understand my guidelines for voters, you could, of course, ask me. You haven't. Again, you seem to like to give that advice, but not to follow it. Pity, really. You are a silly person. Geogre 05:46, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * What, I wonder, is so wrong with the suggestion that rather than summarily listing an editor's work on VfD, as was done with textfiles.com, where the editor in question is a user of good standing, that one might write to the editor and ask them to discuss its notability? Are we in such a hurry to delete pages we don't approve of that it hurts to allow them an extra day. Build. Don't destroy.Dr Zen 05:37, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Naturally, I did not call anyone names. I'm not interested in your "guidelines for voters". You are not an editor I would look to for advice. You have indulged yourself in flaming and personal attacks to the hilt and I have had enough of it now. Take your own advice and go to work instead of indulging in a personal feud.Dr Zen 05:53, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Thanks for your supoprt, both in your original vote and in defending me. It seems like I am indeed caught in the middle, but there's nothing much I can do. I'll probably still make it through the vote, even if all the people 172 messaged vote against me, but if not, it's not the end of the world. I'm more worried about the principle of the thing. Having a setup where anyone who speaks in favour of an unpopular user risks having a group of people come and try to vote them down is not something I want to see happen.

I knew when I endorsed Sam I was blowing whatever slim chance I had at the Arb Comm elections. I was fine with that. After all, it would just mean some people didn't tick my box on a secret ballot. I'm a bit miffed it's spilled over elsewhere though. There's enough bad blood going around already, and it looks like I've just caused a bit more to come out. Oh well, what can you do? Shane King 07:48, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks again, I replied on my talk page. :) Shane King 23:34, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Agreement
Believe it or not I actually volunteered to sign that agreement. A user User:Raul654 had declared himself dictator of what article gets featured on the main page (this was later changed to the title Featured Article Director). I got into an edit war with another user over whether or not Raul should be allowed to keep a blurb there which had a copyrighted picture which was not available under a free license. My thoughts on the matter was that Wikipedia calls itself a free encyclopedia, so we shouldn't be featuring non-free pictures on the main page. During the edit war some admin decided to block me and not block the other user. I spoke to Jimbo about the whole matter, and he basically sided with the admins, saying that you should never get into a revert war no matter what. So fine, I agreed then to not get into any more revert wars and made a rule upon myself not to revert a page more than once in a day. Then Raul took the case to Requests for arbitration. It's my feeling that arbitration would have led to nothing but a hate-fest in my name (which happens to be my real name), and the arbitrators would not be likely to change anything anyway, so I told Raul that I would agree to let any admin block me for any reason if he dropped the case. My thoughts on the matter were that the admins basically had this power anyway, and I'd rather let disputes come to my attention right away then have them talk about me behind my back and then all attack at once. Things have actually gotten better since the ruling, but maybe this is because I also adopted the one-revert rule upon myself (though I have broken it once or twice and made two reverts in a day).

Basically, I've given up on trying to fight against the adminship. I had though that adminship was no big deal and admins didn't have any authority, which is what it says in Administrators. But without Jimbo or the board backing that up it's just a lie. Lately Jimbo has been getting more and more intolerant of people with differing points of view. He recently banned a user from every single Wikipedia except for the English one, and he has argued strongly for blocking any user who has violated the three revert rule (see Three revert rule enforcement). Reversion is one of the only powers we non-admins have to force an admin to discuss an issue and come to a consensus. Once this is gone I'm afraid we will have a site which is run by admins who will completely ignore non-admins. Really, I should leave and be done with Wikipedia, because I have very little hope of ever becoming an admin. It's just so damn addicting, though.

I dunno, we'll see how this three revert enforcement goes. And the discussions on VFD seem to be coming to somewhat of a climax. At least I hope so. VFD just eats up more and more time that could be spent making articles better. It's bound to collapse upon itself at some point. anthony 警告 14:22, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Disagreement?
I am curious as to your definition of "terrorism". In a court of law, a big distinction is being made between a stray bullet and an intentional killing. Why do you think this rule should not apply to an encyclopedia? ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:58, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I define "terrorism" generally as "violent means intended to inculcate terror, particularly in civilians". I doubt there is anything more calculated to cause terror than shooting at a school. There is no prospect of a "stray bullet" killing a child if soldiers refrain from shooting at schools.Dr Zen 10:02, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Goth Joy Division
Thanks for the excellent and sympathetic edit you made to the Joy Division article. I think you have captured my and the original editor's ideas very nicely. My experience was that lots of indie kids, who liked, say, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gang of Four maybe, Simple Minds, were also into JD, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, the Cult, whatever, but didn't do the style thing. So I think the article at least now reflects that pretty well. Thanks.Dr Zen 01:07, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Well actually, I was the original editor of the brief paragraph about the gothic association with Joy Division. I think there was a bit of a misunderstanding. I've done quite a lot of editing on the Joy Division page but only provided a brief paragraph describing the gothic association, why it exists, and that the band has also been labeled new wave and post punk. It was kind of an attempt to explain and clarify the ambiguity between genres at that time.

 * I also provided that online source since I knew that paragraph would cause an uproar (this tends to happen when discussing groups from that time that had been labeled goth by the music press or their management so there's always a few who do not like the connection of their favorite postpunk band with goth). I chose that website because the author there claims to have been part of the original goth scene and quotes from contemporary articles from that time, so it seems like a credible source rather than just some website made by an internet kid.

 * I would never actually call myself a goth and my appearence is about as nondescript as Joy Division's was. My only real connection with goth is that I like a lot of the post punk from that time, which just happens to include a lot of goth bands but also many other good bands like Magazine, Wire (though 154 sounds pretty gothic at times), the Stranglers, and Spizzenergi. So I think we are probably more on the same page than you think.

 * I was born in 1977 and less than a year old when they decided to call themselves Joy Division, so I honestly can't say I've been a fan of Joy Division since their very beginning, but I get the impression that goth was pretty much invented by the music media rather than the bands or their fans so I tend to avoid approaching the goth scene with the same pretensions that many "goths" do. Grice 12:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

"extremely delete"
Does that count for two votes or something like that? — David Remahl 00:27, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wild accusations
Let's look at 2 comments you made about me:

 * Contrition and a repeated commitment to consensus would have been far more persuasive than being adamant that censorship is a valuable tool for an editor.

 * Perhaps you truly feel that deleting someone else's discussion helps further the community spirit.

In both cases, you were putting words in my mouth. I never said either, and you have no reason to accuse me of these things. That is flaming, plain and simple. And you simply continue to do so by mocking me in my talk page. I have contacted an admin about this, and despite what you assume, they do have some power. You may not recieve serious punishment, but even then you are still at risk of it if you continue to go on like this. -- [[User talk:LGagnon|LGagnon]] 04:57, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * This editor is now blocked from my talk page. Cajoling and threatening other editors who disagree with you is totally unacceptable in my view.Dr Zen 05:04, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Your attention requested
Please see Talk:Clitoris. Thanks. —No-One Jones (m) 02:35, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've toned down that vote, as it was not meant to be targeted at all the objectors, but my point stands - there are certain people there who appear to be pushing an ideological disagreement, rather than any suggestion that this user would actually abuse their powers. I'm also a little bit bemused that you bring Shane King into this, when he also voted for said user's adminship.

Finally, it seems a bit much to be calling for the head of people for removing material from talk pages when your own says that you'll do exactly that to two users. But anyway, as I said, I've toned the point down a little. Ambi 02:53, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
User:LGagnon has requested mediation with you at Requests for mediation. Please could you indicate there whether you are willing to participate. This is entirely voluntary and intended to help you and he resolve your differences. What is mediation? gives a general introduction to mediation, but please ask if you have any other questions. Regards -- sannse (talk) 21:02, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee)

Yasser Arafat
Please reconsider keeping this page on your watchlist. Your criticism is valuable. --Viriditas 11:09, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Dr Zen will periodically purge his watchlist for the good of his soul. Heh.  You do have quite a wit about you, Dr. Zen.  --Viriditas 01:27, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not angry, and I hope you aren't upset. You explained your position quite well, and you also gave me some things to think about.  What more could I ask for?  --Viriditas 09:03, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cantometrics
Hi. I am "finished" with the cantometrics article in the sense that it doesn't seem I have more to add to it at the moment. I did add one more sentence since you asked, but then listed the article on Copyright problems. Hyacinth 06:18, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Spirit of Wiki
Thanks, Dr. Zen. Slim 08:24, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Be civil
See Civility. Everyking 01:01, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I don't ignore others' points of view. On the contrary, I've been hard at work trying to accommodate them while maintaining the integrity of the articles. Others are, of course, subject to being ignored if they choose to be consistently uncivil to the point that I can no longer tolerate their insults, but hopefully it won't come to that. Everyking 01:13, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm not "trolling" you on your talk page. What, you can write whatever you want anywhere, no matter how harsh, and that's fine, but I can't ask you to tone it down a notch? If you don't want me to keep telling you that, don't continue doing it. Everyking 01:19, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cabal
You might be interested in Arbitration request - CheeseDreams vs. a cabal of "fundamentalists"

CheeseDreams 02:29, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Spence School (section)
you said in Votes for deletion/Spence School that Fvw gave a perfect reason for keeping it. I was a bit confused, do you mean what he said at the begginning as the case against deleting it, or was it something else?

oh and im sorry i keep voting delete against schools. while my opinion might differ from yours, i will really try to broaden my veiw of what i think should and shouldnt be kept

your right i added my sig to my second article by accident
well i guess so...

and one could make a good point that my work on this site is not particularly noteable (wilsons magnolia is a very obscure plant- my article provides more info than anything on the internet now existing can provide so im proud of that- but i still dont say much)

So whats the topic area your most active in? im currently most active as my first task in the magnolias section but im going to expand out to other species, birds, and gardening. I have no idea how some people here have the ability to get things done so fast. (i still cant beleive theres no article titled respitory!! i put it in the requested articles section, but...)

so what are your interest areas where you do most of your wikipedia work?

RfC
Having read your comment on the RfC against me, I was wondering, since no evidence of trying to remove the dispute has been posted within 48 hours (or indeed 96) of the page's creation, why does the RfC still exist? CheeseDreams 19:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * You might be interested to know that the latest addition to evidence is that (1) I objected to 2 suggestions of a mediator (2) I withdrew from mediation after I and my co-party were offended by an act of the mediator (3) Apparantly I have broken the Verifiability policy (obviously this means I should be banned). I'm wondering if it could get any more ridiculous. CheeseDreams 02:35, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Now they have just lost it - they have started forging text they claim I wrote!!!!! CheeseDreams 15:39, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Dr Zen, I see that you signed on as a character witness at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/CheeseDreams. Your comment probably belongs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/CheeseDreams instead, at least for the time being. Beyond that, I have to say that I think you have naive view of the situation. In my experience, CheeseDreams has neither apologized for anything big or small, nor admitted to making the least factual error, nor admitted that another editor might be more knowledgable about a particular point. All these traits make her difficult to work with at best. When that is combined with her editing numerous articles in a short time span, without taking time to properly discuss edits, reverts or tags on the articles' talk pages, along with her apparent belief that NPOV is identical to her POV rather than a side by side presentation of multiple POV's, she has the perhaps unintended effect of creating multiple near simultaneous messes. When she slows down and takes time to engage in discussion of an article, she does show some promise as a potential collaborator, but I have yet to see her reach a compromise with me or anyone else that both parties agree is an improved article. Wesley 04:40, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have replied to this on Wesley's talk page. Anyone would think that CheeseDreams' opponents were the epitomes of reason. No one involved comes out of it looking particularly good.

Abuse of adminship
Would you care to take a look at Requests for comment/John Kenney ? CheeseDreams 02:15, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Speedy delete
An excellent question. Articles which are factual but are lacking in content are speedy deletion candidates. I don't recall which exact category states that, but I've seen it and a lot of half-sentence articles have been deleted by other admins under the same rule. The same guy who did the "Evelyn Lear" article has been bombing the site with similar entries. Birthday, date of death, vocal range, place of birth (if one is lucky)...that's all. I left polite word several times and tagged a few as bio-stubs prior to the Lear entry. In fact, the same guy is back today and adding, well, not much of anything and leaving a whole lot of "nanostubs" for others to expand. It's similar to a problem we had a while back with an individual I tagged the B-Movie Bandit. Jimbo Wales stopped short of an official decree regarding the guy's non-entries but he did say that they could be deleted on sight. Hope this helps. - Lucky 6.9 17:34, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Good point. I'm not philosophically opposed to substubs per se, but that particular entry was one of many similar entries.  Since I was having trouble contacting the user, I began to fear that we might have a weird little bot on our hands.  I did tag a few of those as bio stubs and I'm very pleased to say that the user (who is not a bot :^) )has created an account and is planning on fleshing out future contributions.  BTW, I really appreciate your civility in this matter.  All too often, opposing viewpoints on this site are met with some real flaming. - Lucky 6.9 00:50, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Speedy delete 2
Good evening, Dr Zen. You seem to have an interest in monitoring the use of speedy deletes. I have been an advocate for several months now of a fairly strict interpretation of the specific speedy cases. Unfortunately, I think some articles get tagged with instead of  either through ignorance or confusion. I and a few others occasionally patrol the Candidates for speedy deletion page for articles which we consider incorrectly tagged. When I find one, I correct the tag and enter the discussion on the VfD page (often abstaining in the actual vote). The page changes pretty rapidly. If you have interest and time, we could use more help. Rossami (talk) 23:04, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * From everything I have seen, Geogre is very dedicated to the goals of Wikipedia. He generally does assume good faith.  I think you are right that the two of you have different visions for Wikipedia but I don't think you're as far apart as you imagine.  To me, it seems like a difference in process, not in end-state.  I can tell you that I have found him to be most cooperative when I present my findings and arguments in a calm, fact-based manner.  VfD discussions have far too much emotional rhetoric, in my opinion, and too little factual analysis.  Thanks for your help.  Rossami (talk)
 * Sorry about that. I thought the nowiki tag kept that from happening.  Give me some time to test a few things.  This might be a bug worth reporting...  Rossami (talk)
 * You are right. And now I've learned something new about how the category tags work.  Thank you.  If you are interested, this link seems to work the way I'd originally intended: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion  Rossami (talk)

 * You can do a normal wiki link to a category (or image, or any namespace) by putting a : in front of it, like so Category:Candidates for speedy deletion . Result: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Hope that helps. :) Shane King 01:01, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Deletion policy
I think the proper place to "write it up" is Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_policy. Describe the textual changes you want to make, and see if there is support or objection, then add it. I havn't done this, so I may be wrong about this. JesseW 00:46, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No worries :-)
Sorry, it took me a while to respond. I'd been blocked by User:Silsor and had to unblock myself, which took some time to do. But it's cool... I reckon you're a good editor and like your work on the election controversy articles! - Ta bu shi da yu 04:33, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Upsetness
Is it surprising? I got no warning before being blocked, I got treated with contempt and treated like a vandal/spammer with the assumption that I was messaging all the admins in bad faith and I just got told I was on crack! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:57, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know! I'm pretty much over it now. Thanks for your calm words of advise :-) Ta bu shi da yu 06:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wiki Wiffle Bat
May I give you one for being funny as hell? Reene✎ 06:49, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

For your information
Could you take a look at Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams You can comment on the talk page, or in "evidence" CheeseDreams 00:55, 11 December 2004

Your accusations with respect to Robert
Hi, if you'd rather discuss this off Robert's and Phil's page and the RfC page, feel free to use here or my talk page.

In recent posts you've come out with accusations that I genuinely, racking my brains, cannot reconcile with my own recollection. You have accused me of

 * being part of a gang
 * politely attacking Robert the Bruce
 * abandoning factual rebuttals for "taking sides and the facts be damned".
 * insisting "that because there was a vote on one issue that means there is consensus on related issues."

Those are all pretty damaging accusations. They require at least that you defend your claims, I should think. Would you like to give it a go, because you've got me scratching my head and wondering whether you've been reading the wrong contribution list. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 02:47, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have removed my comments from Phil's talk page. I am sorry you felt hurt. I made the comments in good faith to try to help tone down the tension. Because they have inflamed you further I have withdrawn them. I have explained further my comment on the RfC. I will not discuss this any further because clearly it is not having the desired effect. Dr Zen 02:51, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for contributing to the effort to reach consensus regarding the Libertarian-related articles! --Improv 05:26, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFA Questions
Salve, Dr Zen! I've been away for three days--among other things during that time, I took my grandmother out to lunch for her birthday--so I did not see your comments until this morning. I've now answered the generic questions as well as responded to some of the other issues at WP:RFA. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 17:31, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

I have just worked something interesting out
Thanks to Mirv, Ive found something out, see Requests for comment/Rienzo for more information CheeseDreams 00:09, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Just to keep you informed of the latest events in this saga, they have started a revert war (initiated by them unprotecting then reverting the article) at Historicity of Jesus CheeseDreams 14:37, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Lost and Found (band)
I see that it was, indeed, a real band. I thought it was created by a few teenage band members of a high school band, or something. My vote's been changed. Andre ( talk )A| 22:13, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

VfD vs. Speedy
If you have an issue with my interpretation of the criteria for Speedy Deletion, I'd be glad to discuss it with you. Of course, I'm not normally terribly receptive to people who post libellous remarks about me, but I'll make an exception in your case as you seem to be (other than the libel of course) a reasonable individual. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:26, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

 * Response on my talk page. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:51, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

Keeping schools
Hi,

just noticed you in some of the lastest vfd-discussions, and I checked out your page. I see we have very similar views on a lot of things in WP - I also believe that if subjects can have interesting and factual good writeups, then there is much that is wikifiable. Schools are a given. Libraries and other institutions too. Personally I think the singular Simpsons jokes, and individual songs from non noteworthy albums are rather suspect, but if they are good type-ups, I won't bother anyone about it. As you stated, Wikipedia isn't a 29 bind Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the only constraint is really processing power, where I think the number of users make a much bigger difference than the number of articles.

Ideally, I suppose these discussions should be done more in general, rather than fighting it out over every single little school, but if it is not possible to reach a consensus, I guess it is harder.

Anyway, just wanted to leave a message. Houshuang 02:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your message. You had a good point in that people should probably spend more time actually adding stuff, so I spent a bit of time updating both the high schools Novato High School and San Marin High School, hopefully this will make people think twice about deleting them (I'll be pretty annoyed if they do delete them now). You're example from Harry Potter on your user page is hilarious... but again, I don't mind them keeping that if they let me keep my public libraries and high schools :)

Houshuang 18:35, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My rfc
I've removed you comments from my rfc because it's out of date. Normally the rfc would have been deleted, and in fact it was deleted. But it was undeleted to be used in evidence against cheesedreams arbitration case. Cheese dreams made a number of trivial rfcs 5 or 6 in one week IIRC. None of them were certified. Anyway you weren't to know this, but if I don't remove your comments then cheesedreams will see it as unfairness because her comments were deleted from other out of date rfcs. Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 09:04, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Christian bias and Wikipedia
Look, I wouldn't have minded so much if CheeseDreams hadn't caused large structural and content changes of articles like Historicity of Jesus and had added her material in an integrated way. I would have argued whether the material was correct on the talk page and attempted compromises. But that's not what was done. Instead, one article was added on top of another. In other words one user acted in a roughshod way over several other hardworking editors. Do you think that sounds fair? Why should one user be allowed to make major changes that others don't agree with? Why didn't she just make smaller changes and discuss them? I suppose that some might say she's a newbie and to deal with it. But in this case she's been making personal attacks, creating new duplicated articles to get around problems and force her viewpoint (and note that the article title was Historical reconstruction of the sort of person Jesus would be - entirely a POV title, and there was no need for it). If I thought CheeseDreams was willing to do edits in a more friendly and NPOV way then I'd have no problem. But it doesn't seem that she wants to do this. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:29, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Patrick Hamilton (writer)

Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".

His two most successful plays, Rope (1929) and Gas Light (1938), were made into famous films: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948); the UK-made Gaslight (1940), followed by the 1944 American version.

Life and works
Hamilton was born on 17 March 1904, at Dale House, in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to (Walter) Bernard Hamilton (1863-1930), a writer and non-practising barrister, and his second wife, Ellen Adèle (née Hockley; 1861-1934), who wrote as "Olivia Roy". His parents were pretentious and snobbish; Bernard Hamilton thought himself to be "a great writer although the few books he penned — soppy romances and some hotchpotch of religion and spirituality — were mediocre at best", "frequently boasted about his genealogical table", and "pretended to be the rightful heir to the throne of Scotland", and Ellen "treated her domestics with haughtiness" and "attempted to breed her children as members of the high society". Due to his father's alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton's childhood living in boarding houses in Chiswick and Hove. His education was patchy, and ended just after his fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School. His first published work was a poem, "Heaven", in the Poetry Review in 1919. His sister Lalla, acted under the name of Diana Hamilton and starred in Sutton Vane's Outward Bound.

After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of Monday Morning (1925), written when he was nineteen. Craven House (1926) and Twopence Coloured (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play Rope (1929, known as Rope's End in America).

The Midnight Bell (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love with a prostitute and was later published along with The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934) as the semi-autobiographical trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1935).

Hamilton disliked many aspects of modern life. He was disfigured badly when he was run over by a car in the late 1920s: the end of his novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse (1953), with its vision of England smothered in metal beetles, reflects his loathing of the motor car. Despite some distaste for the culture in which he operated, however, he was a popular contributor to it. His two most successful plays, Rope and Gas Light (1938, known as Angel Street in the US), made Hamilton wealthy and were also successful as films: the British-made Gaslight (1940), the 1944 American adaptation of Gaslight, and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948).

Hangover Square (1941) is often judged his most accomplished work and still sells well in paperback, and is regarded by contemporary authors such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd as an important part of the tradition of London novels. Set in Earls Court where Hamilton himself lived, it deals with both alcohol-drinking practices of the time and the underlying political context, such as the rise of fascism and responses to it. Hamilton became an avowed Marxist, though not a publicly declared member of the Communist Party. During the 1930s, like many other authors, Hamilton grew increasingly angry with capitalism and believed that the violence and fascism of Europe during the period indicated that capitalism was reaching its end. This encouraged his Marxism and his novel Impromptu in Moribundia (1939) was a satirical attack on capitalist culture.

During his later life, Hamilton developed in his writing a misanthropic authorial voice which became more disillusioned, cynical and bleak as time passed. The Slaves of Solitude (1947) was his only work to deal directly with the Second World War and he preferred to look back to the pre-war years. His Gorse Trilogy – three novels about a devious sexual predator and conman – are not generally well thought of critically, although Graham Greene said that the first was 'the best book written about Brighton' and the second (Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse) is regarded increasingly as a comic masterpiece. The hostile and negative tone of the novels is also attributed to Hamilton's depression and disenchantment with the utopianism of Marxism. The trilogy comprises: The West Pier (1952); Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse (1953), dramatized as The Charmer in 1987; and in 1955 Hamilton's last published work, Unknown Assailant, a short novel much of which was dictated while Hamilton was drunk. The Gorse Trilogy was first published in a single volume in 1992.

Hamilton had begun to consume alcohol excessively while still a relatively young man. After a declining career and melancholia, he died in 1962 of cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure, in Sheringham, Norfolk. He was married twice, firstly to Lois Marie Martin in 1930, and a year after divorcing Lois, to Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot (a novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Laura Talbot) in 1954.

A collection of Hamilton's manuscripts and correspondence can be found at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Novels

 * Monday Morning (1925)
 * Craven House (1926, revised edition 1943)
 * Twopence Coloured (1928)
 * The Midnight Bell (1929)
 * The Siege of Pleasure (1932)
 * The Plains of Cement (1934)
 * Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1935 – trilogy of The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure and The Plains of Cement)
 * Impromptu in Moribundia (1939)
 * Hangover Square (1941)
 * The Slaves of Solitude (1947)
 * The West Pier (1952)
 * Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse (1953)
 * Unknown Assailant (1955)

Stage plays

 * Rope (1929)
 * The Procurator of Judea (1930; unpublished)
 * John Brown's Body (1931; unpublished)
 * Gas Light (1938), also known as Angel Street
 * The Duke in Darkness (1943)
 * The Governess (1946; unpublished)
 * Caller Anonymous (1952; unpublished)
 * The Man Upstairs (1953)
 * Miss Roach (1958; unpublished)
 * Hangover Square (1965; unpublished)

Radio plays

 * Rope. BBC National Programme, 18 January 1932. Adapted from the stage play qv
 * Conversation in a Train. BBC Regional Programme. 2 June 1936
 * Money with Menaces. BBC National Programme, 4 January 1937
 * To the Public Danger. BBC National Programme, 25 February 1939
 * Gas Light. BBC Home Service, 24 November 1939. Adapted from the play qv
 * This is Impossible. BBC Home Service, 27 December 1941
 * The Duke in Darkness. 17 April 1944. Adapted from the stage play qv
 * The Governess. BBC Home Service, 1 November 1948. Adapted from the stage play qv
 * Caller Anonymous. BBC Home Service, 7 March 1952
 * 20,000 Streets Under the Sky. BBC Radio 4, 17 Nov 1989

Recent revival
Hamilton was the subject of a special season of films in March 2005 at the National Film Theatre in London, and continuing the strong revival of interest in his work the British TV channel BBC Two screened an adaptation of 20,000 Streets Under the Sky in September 2005, reshown on BBC Four in January 2006, alongside a documentary account of his life. The adaptation was released on DVD in 2007. A one-man show about Hamilton's life appeared in the Edinburgh Festival in 2014 and the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2015 and in London, written and performed by Mark Farrelly and called The Silence of Snow: the Life of Patrick Hamilton.

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Roger I

Roger I may refer to:
 * In chronological order

 * Roger I of Carcassonne (died 1012), Count of Carcassonne
 * Roger I of Tosny (fl. 1013–c. 1040), Norman noble
 * Roger I "de Berkeley" (died 1093), Norman noble, possibly the son of Roger I of Tosny - see Baron Berkeley
 * Roger I of Sicily (1031–1101), Norman ruler of Sicily
 * Roger I Trencavel (died 1150), Viscount of Albi, Carcassonne, and Razès
 * Roger I of Fézensaguet (1190–1245), Viscount of Fézensaguet

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Samut Songkhram

Samut Songkhram (สมุทรสงคราม (Pronunciation)) is the capital of Samut Songkhram Province.

Etymology
The word "samut" originates from the Sanskrit word "samudra" meaning "ocean", and the word "songkhram" from the Sanskrit "sangrama" meaning "war". Hence the name of the province literally means "war ocean".

Geography
Samut Songkhram is at the mouth of the Mae Klong River to the Gulf of Thailand. By means of canals (khlong) the water of the river is spread through the province for irrigation. At the coast are many evaporation ponds for producing sea salt.

History
In the Ayutthaya period the area of Samut Songkhram was known as Suan Nok (Thai สวนนอก, "outer garden") and was administrated by Ratchaburi. During the reign of King Taksin it became a province. It was the birthplace of Queen Amarindra of King Rama I, who also initiated the name Suan Nok. The birthplace of King Rama II in Amphawa District is now a memorial park.

Notable people

 * Apidej Sit-Hirun, a Muay Thai fighter
 * Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins"

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Basket Case (song)

"Basket Case" is a song by rock band Green Day, released on August 1, 1994 by Reprise Records as the second single from the band's third studio album, Dookie (1994). The song spent five weeks at the top of the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart and garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the category for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Its music video was directed by Mark Kohr and filmed in an abandoned mental institution in California. In 2001, the song appeared on their greatest hits album International Superhits!. In 2021, "Basket Case" was ranked number 150 in Rolling Stone's updated list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". As of March 2024, "Basket Case" is the most streamed song by the band on Spotify (exempting remixes and alternate versions), with over 1 billion streams.

Origin and recording
Green Day vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong said "Basket Case" is about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder years afterward, he thought he was going crazy. Armstrong commented that at the time, "The only way I could know what the hell was going on was to write a song about it."

"Basket Case" was one of the songs producer Rob Cavallo heard when he received Green Day's demo tape. He ended up signing the band to Reprise Records in mid-1993. Green Day and Cavallo recorded the version of "Basket Case" released on the trio's major label debut Dookie between September and October 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.

In April 2021, Armstrong revealed in his book Welcome to My Panic that he wrote the song whilst on speed and that it was written in Glasgow, Scotland.

Composition
"Basket Case", is a punk rock   and pop-punk song,      performed in the key of E-flat. The introductory verse features only Armstrong and his guitar. Towards the end of the first chorus, the rest of the band joins in, with Tré Cool adding fast tom fills and explosive transitions and Mike Dirnt adding a bass line that is reminiscent of the vocal melody. In the second verse, "Basket Case" references soliciting a male prostitute; Armstrong noted that "I wanted to challenge myself and whoever the listener might be. It's also looking at the world and saying, 'It's not as black and white as you think. This isn't your grandfather's prostitute – or maybe it was.'" The song's chord progression closely mirrors that of Pachelbel's Canon.

Release and reception
"Basket Case" was the second single released from Dookie, following "Longview". It peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, a position it maintained for five weeks. In 1995, the song garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group category.

In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote, "Something of an instant classic [...] it is certainly one of the most alternative Top 10 smash since Radiohead's "Creep". As to where it goes next it is hard to tell but it could potentially open the door for a flood of the post-Nirvana young American rock bands who are currently making waves on the other side of the Atlantic." Andrew Mueller from Melody Maker commented, "Green Day themselves are an enthusiastically rockin' kind of act who've learnt a neat trick or two from The Buzzcocks and The Ramones and are the sort of band I'm regrettably likely to think are the future of rock'n'roll if I've drunk enough to stun an ox." A reviewer from Music Week gave the song three out of five, describing it as "the Generation X-flag-wavers' splenetic slice of Bay Area punk". John Mulvey from NME wrote, "Long-time heroes of the US skatepunk scene. Green Day are These Animal Men without the crap Brit-mod trappings and with slightly better songs. Bouncy, a bit fraggly and a bit annoying, but there are worse things in the world. Like 'Speed King', for starters." Upon the re-release, another NME editor, Andy Richardson, praised it as "an irresistible punk snort, a ripping three-minute blast or the ultimate good mood record to play before you go out, depending which way you look at it." Paul Evans from Rolling Stone declared it as a "rave-up", noting that Green Day's lyrics "score graffiti hits". Charles Aaron from Spin ranked "Basket Case" number 19 in his list of the "Top 20 Singles of the Year" in December 1994. Troy J. Augusto from Variety called it "psycho-rave".

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Basket Case" was directed by Mark Kohr. It was filmed in an actual mental institution called Agnews Developmental Center in Santa Clara County, California, at the request of the band members. The mental institution had been abandoned, but most of the structure remained in a broken-down state. The band members found old patient files, deep scratches in the walls and dental molds scattered around. The video frequently references the films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Brazil. The video was originally filmed in monochrome with the colors painstakingly added in later, hence the over-saturated, surreal look.

The video was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1995: Video of the Year, Best Group Video, Best Metal/Hard Rock Video, Best Alternative Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Viewer's Choice Award. The video did not win in any of the categories it was nominated for.

The video for "Basket Case" was later published on Green Day's official YouTube channel in October 2009. It has amassed more than 339 million views as of January 2024. In February 2024, the video was remastered in 4K.

Impact and legacy
In 2006, on Mike Davies and Zane Lowe's Lock Up Special on BBC Radio 1, the listeners voted "Basket Case" the Greatest Punk Song of All Time. In 2009, it was named the 33rd best hard rock song of all time by VH1. In 2021, Kerrang ranked the song number three on their list of the 20 greatest Green Day songs, while it was ranked number 150 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" that same year. In 2022, American Songwriter ranked "Basket Case" number two on their list of the 10 greatest Green Day songs. As of February 2024, it is the most streamed song by the band on Spotify (exempting remixes and alternate versions), with over 1 billion streams.

In popular culture
"Weird Al" Yankovic featured "Basket Case" in his 1996 polka medley "The Alternative Polka" from Bad Hair Day.

In August 2017, the English band Bastille released a version of the song for the Peter Serafinowicz series The Tick. Unfortunately, the song was never used in the show.

The song has also been covered and released as a promotional single by Avril Lavigne, who performed the song during her first headlining tour, the Try to Shut Me Up Tour.

In 2024, It was added to Fortnite in Fortnite Festival as a jam track alongside "Welcome to Paradise" and "When I Come Around".

The song was featured in the video game BMX XXX. It is also set to be featured in the upcoming dance rhythm game Just Dance 2025 Edition.

Track listings

 * Initial pressing
 * 1) "Basket Case" – 3:01
 * 2) "On the Wagon"  – 2:48
 * 3) "Tired of Waiting for You" – 2:30
 * 4) "409 in Your Coffeemaker" [Unmixed]  – 2:49

Note: Live tracks recorded March 11, 1994 at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida. These tracks are also available on the live EP Live Tracks
 * Alternate pressing/Limited edition pressing
 * 1) "Basket Case" – 3:01
 * 2) "Longview" (live) – 3:30
 * 3) "Burnout" (live) – 2:03
 * "2,000 Light Years Away" (live) – 2:49

 * Japanese version
 * 1) "Basket Case" – 3:01
 * 2) "She" – 2:14
 * 3) "Emenius Sleepus" – 1:43

 * 7-inch vinyl singles box set
 * 1) "Basket Case" – 3:01
 * 2) "When I Come Around" – 2:58
 * 3) "Having a Blast" – 2:44
 * 4) "When I Come Around" (Live from Stockholm, Sweden) — 2:49

Credits and personnel

 * Songwriting: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
 * Production: Rob Cavallo, Green Day

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Satun

Satun (สตูล,, Setul) is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern Thailand, capital of the Satun province. It covers the whole tambon Phiman of Mueang Satun. Satun lies 985 km south of Bangkok. As of 2005 it has a population of 21,498.

Climate
Satun has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with a short dry season in January and February and a prolonged wet season running from March to December. The highest monthly rainfall occurs in September and October with average monthly rainfall above 320 mm. The average annual high temperature in Satun is 32.6 °C and the average annual low temperature is 23.7 °C.

Transportation
Satun is connected to Malaysian Langkawi Island by direct ferry service.

Telecommunication
Satun hosts Thailand's landing points for optical fiber submarine communications cable Segment FEA (FLAG Europe Asia) of the 28,000-kilometer-long FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); and for the 49,000-kilometer-long SEA-ME-WE 3, which links regions of south-east Asia to regions of the Middle East and Western Europe.

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Scotsman (disambiguation)

A Scotsman defines somebody from Scotland.

Scotsman may also refer to:

 * The Scotsman, a national newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland
 * The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland (formally the offices of The Scotsman)
 * The Scotsman, a character in the animated television series Samurai Jack
 * "The Scotsman", a novelty song written by Mike Cross
 * performed by Bryan Bowers on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection album
 * Studebaker Scotsman, an American economy car from the 1950s
 * LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman, a 1923 4-6-2 tender locomotive

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Uday

Uday or Odai is a masculine name in Arabic as well as several Indian languages. In many Indian languages it means 'dawn' or 'rise'. The Arabic name (عدي) means 'runner' or 'rising'.

List of people

 * Uday Benegal, Indian musician
 * Uday Pratap Singh, Indian titular of Bhadri state.
 * Uday Chopra, Bollywood actor
 * Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein
 * Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, medieval Yazidi saint
 * Oday Jafal, Syrian footballer
 * Uday Kiran, Indian film actor
 * Uday Kotak, Indian businessman
 * Uday Merchant, Indian cricketer
 * Ouday Raad, Lebanese actor and voice actor
 * Oday Rasheed, Iraqi film director
 * Uday Pratap Singh, Indian politician
 * Odai Al-Saify, Jordanian footballer
 * Uday Shankar, Indian choreographer
 * Udai Singh, Indian royalty
 * Uday Singh, Indian politician
 * Uday Singh (Fiji politician), Indo-Fijian politician
 * Uday Bhagat Film maker ,Bihar
 * Oday Taleb, Iraqi footballeBhojpuri film maker

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Uttaradit

The original name of Mueang district, Uttaradit, was Bang Pho. This district was under the control of Phi Chai District. Later, it was established as Uttaradit Province and Bang Pho District became the capital district. It was changed to Mueang Uttaradit District recently. The district is the seat of government and the center of economic activity of Uttaradit Province. Uttaradit is 483 km north of Bangkok.

Geography
The district is surrounded by the following districts:
 * North – Den Chai District (Phrae Province) and Tha Pla District.
 * East – Tha Pla and Thong Saen Khan Districts.
 * South – Thong Saen Khan and Tron Districts.
 * West – Laplae District.

History
In the past, Mueang District was called Bang Pho Tah It. It grew rapidly due to its harbor. King Rama V ordered the capital moved from Phi Chai District to Muang District. Next, in the reign of King Rama VI, the king ordered the incorporation of Mueang District into Uttaradit Province.

Climate
Uttaradit used to hold the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Thailand: 44.5 °C observed at Uttaradit on 27 April 1960. This was broken when temperatures in Mae Hong Son reached 44.6 °C on 28 April 2016.

Uttaradit has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). Winters are dry and very warm. Temperatures rise until April, which is very hot with an average daily maximum of 38.2 °C. The monsoon season runs from May through October, with heavy rain and somewhat cooler temperatures during the day, although nights remain warm.

Transport
Uttaradit is served by a station on the State Railway of Thailand. The nearest airport is at Phitsanulok.

Notable people

 * Narong Prangcharoen (b. 1973), composer

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Line I (Buenos Aires Underground)

Line I is a planned addition to the Buenos Aires Underground.

Line I will run from Parque Chacabuco ("Directorio") to Ciudad Universitaria with 18 new stations. The route length would be 12.6 km. The future of this line (which had the lowest priority in the expansion plans) is currently uncertain since it has been proposed that a Metrobus line be built instead, which would follow the same route as the proposed metro rail line.

The first phase would have a route that went from Parque Chacabuco to Plaza Italia ("Serrano"), a length of 6.6 km, and the line would have 10 stations.

Phase 1
Serrano - Directorio line is planned as follows:

 * Serrano
 * Costa Rica
 * Córdoba
 * Corrientes
 * Warnes
 * Díaz Vélez
 * Aranguen
 * Rivadavia
 * Pedro Goyena
 * Directorio

Phase 2

 * Palermo (interchange to Line D)
 * Chenaut
 * Jorge Newbery
 * Teodoro García
 * Virrey del Pino
 * Barrancas de Belgrano

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.

He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels, which have been translated into multiple languages. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Writing
Pérez-Reverte's novels are usually centered on one strongly defined character, and his plots move along swiftly, often featuring a narrator who is part of the story but apart from it. Most of his novels take place in Spain or around the Mediterranean. They often draw on numerous references to Spanish history, colonial past, art and culture, ancient treasures and the sea. The novels frequently deal with some of the major issues of modern Spain, such as drug trafficking or the relationship of religion and politics.

Often, Pérez-Reverte's novels have two plots running in parallel with little connection between them except for shared characters. For example, in The Club Dumas, the protagonist is searching the world for a lost book and keeps meeting people who parallel figures from Dumas's novels; in The Flanders Panel, a contemporary serial killer is juxtaposed with the mystery of a 500-year-old assassination.

In his often polemical newspaper columns and the main characters of his novels, Pérez-Reverte frequently expresses pessimism about human behaviour, shaped by his wartime experiences in such places as El Salvador, Croatia or Bosnia. His views have also been shaped by his research for crime shows.

Throughout his career, and especially in its latter half, he has been noted for cultivating his trademark maverick, non-partisan and at times abrasive persona. This has occasionally been a source of conflict with other journalists and writers. He originally refused to have his novels translated from the original Spanish to any language other than French. However, English translations were eventually published for some of his works, and most of his work is also available in Portuguese and Polish.

Pérez-Reverte was elected to seat T of the Real Academia Española on 23 January 2003; he took up his seat on 12 June the same year.

Themes such as the hero's tiredness, adventure, friendship, the journey as danger, death as the last journey, and culture and memory as the only salvation that allows understanding reality, enduring pain and knowing the identity of the person and the world are frequent in his novels. The writer's view of existence in general is bleak. He hates Christian humanism and believes that pagan philosophy has a more accurate view of the world. Typical Revertian characters are the weary hero in hostile territory with a dark past and the femme fatal. Among the traits of the characters, the moral ambiguity stands out.

In the articles he publishes every Sunday in XLSemanal magazine, he harshly criticizes postmodernity, political correctness, gender ideology, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, the critical pedagogy, the European Union, the inclusive language and the woke thought. These articles were published in the following books: Patente de corso (1993-1998), Con ánimo de ofender (1998-2001), No me cogeréis vivo (2001-2005) and When we were honorable mercenaries (2005-2009). He regrets that society is conditioned by the "whim of minorities" and that Europe, "the moral reference of the West", copies the values of society in the United States, considered by him as "sick and hypocritical". He affirms that political correctness has its origins in Anglo-Saxon puritanism.

An active user on Twitter, he has already created numerous controversies. In a controversial article he compared the European refugee crisis with the barbarian invasions that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. However, he was awarded the "Premio Don Quijote" of journalism.

In 1998 he published a very harsh article against global capitalism that prophesied the world 2007–2008 financial crisis. This article was very successful on the internet when the crisis happened in Spain.

Awards and recognition

 * The Painter of Battles was the winner of the 2008 Premio Gregor von Rezzori award for foreign fiction translated into Italian.
 * In 2016 Pérez-Reverte was named as one of the 10 most important writers of the year by the Spanish national newspaper ABC.

Personal life
Pérez-Reverte started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television broadcaster), often as a war correspondent. Becoming weary of the internal affairs at TVE, he resigned as a journalist and decided to work full-time as a writer.

His teenage daughter Carlota was billed as a co-author of his first Alatriste novel. He lives between La Navata (near Madrid) and his native Cartagena, from where he enjoys sailing solo in the Mediterranean. He is a friend of Javier Marías, who presented Pérez-Reverte with the title of Duke of Corso of the Kingdom of Redonda micro nation.

His nephew Arturo Juan Pérez-Reverte is a professional footballer playing for FC Cartagena.

Perez-Reverte owns a library which has an estimated 32,000 books.

Controversies
Mexican novelist Verónica Murguía accused Arturo Pérez-Reverte of plagiarizing her work. On 10 November 1997 Murguía published a short story, titled "Historia de Sami", in the magazine El laberinto urbano. Months later, in March 1998, Pérez-Reverte published a story in El Semanal, with the title "Un chucho mejicano", bearing close similarities in narration, chronology, phrases, and in the anecdote. Pérez-Reverte's story was recently republished in a re-compilation for the text Perros e hijos de perra (Alfaguara), and Murguía noticed the plagiarism at that time. Murguía would not proceed with a legal case but asked for an apology and the removal of the story from his text. Meanwhile, Pérez-Reverte apologized and noted that the story he published he wrote exactly as it was told to him by writer Sealtiel Alatriste.

Pérez-Reverte's script for the film Gitano in the late 1990s also brought another charge of plagiarism against him. In May 2011 the Audiencia Provincial of Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte and Manuel Palacios, director and co-writer of Gitano, to pay 80,000 euros to filmmaker Antonio González-Vigil, who had sued them for alleged plagiarism of the film's script. Pérez-Reverte described this decision as "a clear ambush" and a "clear manoeuvre to extort money." The ruling contradicted two previous criminal rulings, and one from a merchant judiciary which had all decided in favor of Pérez-Reverte and Palacios. In July 2013 the Audiencia Provincial of Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte to pay 200,000 euros to González-Vigil for plagiarism.

Captain Alatriste novels

 * El capitán Alatriste (1996; tr: Captain Alatriste, Plume 2005, ISBN 978-0452287112), presenting the character of a swordsman in the Spanish Golden Age.
 * Limpieza de sangre (1997; tr: Purity of Blood), about the "purity of blood" demanded from Conversos.
 * El sol de Breda (1998; tr: The Sun over Breda), about the war in the Spanish Netherlands – specifically, the Siege of Breda.
 * El oro del rey (2000; tr: The King's Gold), about the Spanish treasure fleet.
 * El caballero del jubón amarillo (2003; tr: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet). Alatriste clashes with king Philip IV of Spain.
 * Corsarios de Levante (2006; tr. Pirates of the Levant). Alatriste fights Barbary pirates across the Mediterranean.
 * El puente de los Asesinos (2011). Alatriste is involved in a conspiracy to kill the Doge of Venice.

Falcó novels

 * Falcó (2016)- Lorenzo Falcó is an intelligence operative working for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, who embarks on a mission whose outcome may turn the tide of the war.
 * Eva (Pérez-Reverte novel) (2017) -A new mission takes Falcó to Tangier, where he must prevent the departure of the Moscow gold shipment.
 * Sabotaje (2018)- Falcó travels to Paris for a new mission involving painter Pablo Picasso.

Other novels

 * El húsar (1986). The story of a young hussars officer during the Peninsular War
 * El maestro de esgrima (1988; tr: The Fencing Master, Mariner Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0156029834). A mysterious lady requests lessons from a fencing master.
 * La tabla de Flandes (1990; tr: The Flanders Panel). The mystery surrounding the relationship between a serial killer and a mysterious medieval Flemish painting.
 * El club Dumas or La sombra de Richelieu (1993; tr: The Club Dumas ISBN 978-0156032834). A cult of followers of the novels of Alexandre Dumas.
 * La sombra del águila (1993). Set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
 * Territorio comanche (1994). A novelization of his experiences as a war reporter during the Yugoslav Wars.
 * La piel del tambor (1995; tr: The Seville Communion). A thriller involving hackers, the Vatican and the lost treasure of a privateer.
 * Un asunto de honor (1995). The story of an underaged prostitute.
 * La carta esférica (2000; tr: The Nautical Chart). The story of a retired sailor who longs for the sea.
 * La Reina del Sur (2002; tr: The Queen of the South ISBN 978-0452286542). The story of a Mexican woman who becomes the leader of a drug trafficking cartel in southern Spain.
 * Cabo Trafalgar (2004), about the battle of Trafalgar.
 * El pintor de batallas (2006; tr: The Painter of Battles). A retired war photographer confronts his past.
 * Un día de cólera (2007). 2 May 1808. The battle in Madrid against the French army for independence, hour to hour.
 * Ojos azules (2009). Spanish soldiers flee the Aztecs.
 * El Asedio (2010; tr The Siege by Frank Wynne). Set in 1811, during the siege of Cádiz.
 * El tango de la guardia vieja (2012; tr: What We Become). Romantic novel set across the world during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
 * El francotirador paciente (2013). A maverick graffiti artist constantly evades capture.
 * Hombres buenos (2015). About the Royal Spanish Academy and the Encyclopédie
 * Los perros duros no bailan (2018). Novel told from the point of view of a street dog.
 * Sidi (2019). About the Castilian knight El Cid.
 * Línea de fuego (2020). Nationalists and Republicans clash to capture a strategically important town in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.
 * El italiano (2021). An Italian Navy diver on a sabotage mission washes ashore in southern Spain during World War II.
 * Revolución (2022). A Spanish mining engineer is caught in the chaos brought by the start of the Mexican Revolution.
 * El problema final (2023).

Non-fiction

 * Obra breve (1995)
 * Patente de corso (1998). Collection of press columns.
 * Con ánimo de ofender (2001). Another collection of columns.
 * No me cogeréis vivo (2005)
 * Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios (2009)
 * Los barcos se pierden en tierra (2011)
 * Perros e hijos de perra (2014)
 * La guerra civil contada a los jóvenes (2015). Illustrated by Fernando Vicente.
 * Una historia de España (2019)

Screenplays

 * The Fencing Master (1992) (co-screenwriter with Antonio Larreta, Francisco Parra and Pedro Olea, based on his novel The Fencing Master)
 * Comanche Territory (1997) (co-screenwriter with Slavador García-Ruiz and Alberto Lecchi, based on his novel on Comanche Territory)
 * Gitano (2000) (story, co-screenwriter with Manuel Palacios)
 * Gold (co-screenwriter with Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on his short story)

Films and television series based on novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

 * The Fencing Master (1992) (based on his novel The Fencing Master, also co-screenwriter)
 * Uncovered (1994) (based on The Flanders Panel)
 * Cachito (1995) (based on Un Asunto de Honor)
 * Comanche Territory (1997) (based on Comanche Territory, also co-screenwriter)
 * The Ninth Gate, by Roman Polanski (1999) (very loosely based on The Club Dumas)
 * The Road to Santiago (1999), Spanish television miniseries (story)
 * Alatriste (2006) (based on the series Captain Alatriste)
 * The Nautical Chart (2007) (based on The Nautical Chart and starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón)
 * Quart: El Hombre de Roma (2007), Spanish television miniseries based on The Seville Communion
 * La Reina Del Sur (2011), telenovela airing on Telemundo based on The Queen of the South
 * The Man from Rome (2022), based on La piel del tambor.

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Deep Springs Valley

Deep Springs Valley is a high desert valley in the Inyo-White Mountains of Inyo County, California. It is east of the Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and south of Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, near the California-Nevada state border.

California State Route 168 connects it to the Owens and Fish Lake valleys, crossing Westgard Pass to the west and Gilbert Pass to the north. To the northwest lies White Mountain Peak. To the east lies Eureka Valley, connected via Soldier Pass in the Piper Mountain Wilderness, which can be traversed on horseback but not by automobile.

Geography

Deep Springs Lake is a playa, a seasonal salt lake, generally drying in the summer to produce a salt pan, with surface water replenished in late spring with flows from nearby springs and snowmelt that travels the length of the valley from Wyman and Crooked creeks, which enter from the north. Birds, and birdwatchers, flock to the Lake during the spring and fall migrations. Surrounding the lake are numerous springs, some artesian, which gave the valley its name.

The springs are home to the Deep Springs Black Toad (Bufo exsul, or "exile toad"), an endemic species that occurs only in Deep Springs Valley. Although the population in Antelope Springs was once thought to be introduced, a genetics study published in 2009 found that there was not strong similarity to the perceived source population and this population likely occurs naturally. The population of toads, however, appears to be stable, despite the presence of cattle that graze around the lake during the winter and spring.

Geology
On the hillsides of the southwestern end of the valley, lie the Poleta Folds, a distinctly visible example of crustal folding frequently studied by geology students from the University of California and California State University educational systems. The intensely folded and clearly visible layers comprise the Cambrian-aged Poleta formation. Several complex fault systems add to the challenge for geology students to unravel the area's history. The Poleta Folds field area is revered as one of the most complexly folded and faulted in California, and has been used by generations of undergraduate-level geology students around the United States and Canada. During a typical summer one can often find near-established trails leading to the best outcrops.

Also easily visible at the base of the Inyo Mountains, in the southwestern end of the valley behind Deep Springs Lake, is a sizable dip-slip fault. Researchers showed that the most recent fault scarp had an average displacement of 2.7 m along a 20 km section of the fault. With an estimated rupture area of 345 km2, the event was calculated to have a moment magnitude of 7.0 and was estimated to have occurred about 1,800 years ago. The fault is still active, but studies suggest that it slips about every 4000 years. Deep Springs Lake is at 37.27639°N, -118.04361°W. At 4905 feet in elevation, the lake is intermittently filled and actively precipitating dolomite, understood to rarely occur in such conditions.

Population
It is the home of Deep Springs College, a nontraditional two-year liberal arts institution with about 26 students. There are also ruins of an early small mining establishment, White Mountain City, in the northwest corner of the valley.

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South Down

South Down may refer to:

 * South Down (Assembly constituency), for the Northern Ireland Assembly
 * South Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
 * South Down (UK Parliament constituency)
 * South Down GAA, hurling team

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South Governorate

South Governorate (محافظة الجنوب, or simply الجنوب) is one of the governorates of Lebanon. South Lebanon has a population of 590,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km2. The capital is Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters. The local population is religiously diverse and includes Shia and Sunni Muslims, Druze, Eastern Orthodox, Maronite, Protestant, and Greek Catholic Christians. Temperatures can drop to 4 °C during winter with much rain and snow on the higher ground. In the humid summer, temperatures can rise to 30 °C in the coastal areas. The governorate has several rivers: the Litani, Deir El Zahrani, Naqoura, Awali, Qasmiye, and Hasbani. The area is famous for its citrus and banana farms. Its main cities are Sidon, Tyre and Jezzine.

Local attractions and events
The area offers a great number of attractions, including pristine white sandy beaches south of Tyre, and the opportunity to snorkel or dive among submerged Phoenician and Roman ruins near the ancient cities of Sidon and Tyre. Culture-lovers will enjoy the bustling Ottoman-era Pazars, and one can relax after a long day at a seafood restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean. Southern Lebanon also hosts the Tyre festival, which attracts thousands of tourists each year.

Religion in the South Governorate
Shias make up the majority of the governorate and are the main residents of the Zahrani Tyre districts. Sunnis are the main residents of Saida the capital of the governorate and the third largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli. Christians are mainly residents of the Jezzine district and form a small community in the city of Tyre, which is the fourth-most-populous city in Lebanon.

Districts

 * Jezzine
 * Sidon
 * Tyre

Cities

 * Jezzine
 * Sidon or Saida
 * Tyre
 * Ghazieh

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Southampton Township

Southampton Township may refer to:

 * Southampton Township, New Jersey
 * Southampton Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
 * Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
 * Southampton Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
 * Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

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Angel Air

Angel Airlines (แอนเจิลแอร์ไลน์), trading as Angel Air, was an airline based in Bangkok, Thailand, which was operational between 1998 and 2003.

Destinations
Over the years, Angel Airlines flew to the following destinations:

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Over the years, Angel Airlines operated the following aircraft types:

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