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Please leave your message at the bottom of the page. Duncharris 16:05, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

Archives

Archives of old discussions:
 * One
 * Two
 * Three
 * Four
 * Five (a few random messages, lots of Jimmyrants)

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

 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

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

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

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

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace   with   . If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 17:57, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Why?
Why do I get compared to the likes of CheeseDreams? [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 14:56, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jimmyrant
- FRUAD BY NGUYENHUE aka JOSEPH CRISP STOLEN MATERIAL FROM NGUYEN DYNASTY OF VIETNAM

EVIDENCE BELOW
1. NguyenHue is a expelled member from the Nguyen Dynasty staff *About the Author Joseph Crisp aka NguyenHue

2. He was told by the Nguyen Dynasty to shut down his website and return all work that belonged to the Nguyen Dynasty.

3. The Copyright holder for the Cuong De biography is the Nguyen Dynasty noted here The Revolutionary Prince Cuong-De

4. This is true because NguyenHue points out above that the biography belongs to his Geocites site The Revolutionary Prince Cuong-De

5. He was instructed by the Nguyen Dynasty to again close his website but simply chose to delete photos of Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh and all information related to Nguyen Dynasty because he was EXPELLED and kept WITHOUT PERSMISSION all biographies and research that was submitted by Nguyen Dynasty Scholars.

6. As shown here: H.I.H. Prince Nguyen-Phuc Buu Chanh and Nguyen Dynasty delegation with British government officials and princes of the royal houses of Laos and Burma at a meeting of the British Committee for Free Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma in Westminster Palace, London

7. HIH Prince Buu Chanh giving a speech before assembled guests and dignitaries after solemn ceremonies in honor of the national hero and saint, Fleet Admiral-Marshal Tran Hung Dao

8. Nguyen Thi Linh (my own 'Momma Linh') sit back and watch the chaos of present opening unfold NOTE: Joseph Crisp sitting next to Nguyen Thi Linh she is also listed as a supporter on his other website that is a TEXAS based website where Joseph Crisp goes to university and lives. *About the Author Joseph Crisp

9. NGUYEN THI LINH from Texas  listed as a supporter for the expelled group from the Nguyen Dynasty that is based in TEXAS with please note the bottom of the website that shows support  also again NGUYEN TRUNG DE as a supporter.

10. Contributors and Supporters of this Website: Kong Jing Xue, Nguyen Trung De, Nguyen Van Tuan, Kong Zhishu, Nguyen Thi Linh

11. ALSO NOTE that his own family business is a supporter Crisp Conservation Service of their expelled group

I hope this sheds light on this indiviual NGUYENHUE that is an expelled member of the Nguyen Dynasty I have found this out doing a little research on the issue over the internet of  NGUYENHUE  JOSEPH CRISP as his other workers NGUYEN THI LINH & NGUYEN TRUNG DE and the rest supporters in Texas that have committed FRUAD against the NGUYEN DYNASTY.--Jimmyvanthach 15:25, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes Jimmy, I see you've posted unsubstantiated personal attacks in a few places. Just for the record, Mr Crisp and User:Nguyen Hue seem to be different persons. User:Jimmyvanthach, User:Tran van Ba, User:Celindgren, User:Saigon76something or other all seem to be one person. Dunc|☺ 15:34, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jimmy
Oh boy. At least now he's doing it in "public" so other people are seeing it. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:42, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Abuse of adminship
Would you care to take a look at Requests for comment/John Kenney ? CheeseDreams 02:19, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Subud
Pursuant to our discussion about Subud and atheism/agnosticism (see ), the Humanist Manifesto II, in part, says that:

--Authoritarian religion does a disservice to humanity; --There isn't enough evidence for the supernatural; --Nature is primary rather than God; --God won't save us, we must save ourselves; and, --Fear of Hell is harmful because it takes the focus away from life here and now.

Many folks in Subud would agree with this. My particular viewpoint goes along the lines of Process theology, which is directly in line with these statements and other statements like them. The problem with your point of view above is that you are arguing against an outdated version of theism (from as far back as the Middle ages). Some of these outdated ideas are that God is omnipotent and thus controls everything, that human beings have little or no power and God determines human destiny, that God is a personal entity and is supernatural, that classical or authoritarian religion is acceptable, that theism cannot solve the problem of evil, etc. None of these ideas (and a host of others, see, e.g., "Ominpotence and Other Theological Mistakes" by Charles Hartshorne) make much sense to a process theist, or to those (some of which are in Subud) who are open-minded theists.

Also, I'm not sure what you're saying about Subud being "obscure." Could you clarify this? Aliman 09:59, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

re: User:Jimmyvanthach
Good afternoon, Duncharris. I noticed your VfD nomination on Royal Lao Government in Exile. In it, you mentioned the Arbitration Committee's decision on User:Jimmyvanthach. I was not aware they'd made a decision. We have had an old VfD discussion thread that has been waiting for a long time for that decision. Would you be familiar enough with the case to go to Votes for deletion/Phan Lien and close out the discussion? It is currently listed at Votes for deletion/Old. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 17:44, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day
I changed the Boxing Day article, because it seems we're no longer calling the 26th Christmas Sunday and the 27th Boxing Day when Christmas Day is a Saturday. The last time it happened, in 1999, the Radio and TV Times, and indeed everyone I know, called the 26th Boxing Day, and the same is happening again this year. I've left the article as you put it back to for now, but the people on the Boxing Day discussion page seem to be of a similar view. Perhaps refer this for arbitration? Best wishes, Jess Cully (talk) 9 Dec 2004, 20:20 UCT

RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:37, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day
Ah, User:Jess Cully had it right. Boxing Day itself is always on the 26th - the day off work associated with it may move (just as if November 11th - or any other holiday on a fixed calendar day - is on a Sunday, people get the following Monday off) to the day following, but Boxing Day stays on the day after Christmas. You should revert your reversion... Noel (talk) 11:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:46202 Princess Anne after crash.jpg
Hi. Can you supply copyright info on this image. Thanks. -- Chris j wood 23:53, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day
Thanks for the support, Noel. I've done the rv.

No offence meant, Dunc - I actually liked the custom of calling the 26th Christmas Sunday and the 27th Boxing Day when Christmas Day was a Saturday. Alas, the custom has fallen out of use. Everyone I've spoken to about their plans for Christmas this year calls the 26th Boxing Day; all the 'Christmas Opening Hours' signs at my local shops do likewise; as do the Radio and TV Times (who themselves started the 26th CS/27th BD practice back in 1954). In the face of such an overwhelming tide, it is futile for we purists to kick against the pricks. We have to bow to general usage. Sorry.Jess Cully 16:51, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ukrailways.wikicities.com
I've started a new wiki at wikicities to concentrate on the history of railways in the UK. This will in time, hopefully, provide a space to greatly expand on what is available on wikipedia. For example, individual pages for locomotives, signal boxes and the like. I've picked on you as a likely contributor from looking at the edit history for the LMS and then at your personal edit history.

At the moment I am busy seeding the wiki with pages from wikipedia, with a few minor edits, before annoucing its existance to the wider railway world. I'm contacting a few people who seen to edit railway articles on wikipedia at first, as they are already enthusiastic about the wiki system. I would be interested in you views on how I can move it forward and the structure of the wiki. I'll keep an eye on this talk page, my talk page or you could email me at richard_bedwell@hotmail.com

Lasesr tag
The redirect had already been deleted once, so it's a speedy candidate. --fvw *  18:36, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Steve Davis (Comedian)
Heya, could you restore Steve Davis (Comedian) please? It was on VfD and in no way a CSD. --fvw *  23:51, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)
 * Okay, restored. The author blanked it though, which is grounds for a speedy delete, I think. Dunc|☺ 23:53, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Nope, afraid not. See WP:CSD. --fvw *  23:54, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Kents Hill School
Hi Duncharris: The article on Kents Hill School has been refactored and expanded, with additional work underway. I think that the fact it is one of the oldest co-ed schools in the nation sets a good case for notability. In any case, I was hoping you would revisit the issue and reconsider your vote. Thank you -- [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 20:00, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Charles Darwin
I have always followed the three revert/24 hour rule, and a little light sarcasm aside, I have remained civil. A 24 hour ban would be uncalled for, and I think an instance of admin abuse. Cheers, Vincent 12:16, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, three times in 24 hours. That's three.My understanding is that a fourth reversion would have broken the rule. Am I wrong? More on the Darwin Talk page. Vincent 09:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Mgm|(talk), the mediator, has unblocked me. You abused your admin privileges yesterday, but I'll forgive you that, in the interest of harmony. I don't think the issue has reached arbitration, but I am preparing for that just in case you cut off my access again. I am keeping to three reverts a day. (Remember of course that my day starts at GMT+9.) I am keeping mostly civil. I am sorry for implying you and the others were among the "ignoramuses" of the world. Vincent 08:07, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for pointing out that Paul Bouche was a Vanity. I must have missed the first VfD.

EMD E2
Eleven minutes after I created EMD E2, Hoary voted to delete it as non-notable. With his comment about "a ginormous set of such articles", he might be gunning for the whole project. Please vote as you see fit. Rmeier 07:58, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

funny things going on with uploads
I am experiencing the same problem as you -- I've even tried re-uploading files to no avail. If you discover a solution please let me know. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 18:14, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Honest signalling
I think you missed a bit out, before the word "should". Kappa 21:29, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:MarkSweep/thumb
Could you please undelete it? You're the third person to delete this page – because of the frequent misunderstandings I've replaced it by Template:isd, but for now User:MarkSweep/thumb still has incoming links, which will disappear once someone clears out all the images listed on CAT:CSD. Further details regarding previous deletions and undeletions can be found on my talk page and on CAT:CSD (see notes on top of page). Thanks, --MarkSweep 03:23, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images
Hi. You uploaded Image:Cyril Clarke.jpg but did not list any source and/or copyright information on the image description page. Please mark it either as GFDL or public domain. See Image_copyright_tags for more info. Please note that images without copyright information may be deleted in the future. Thanks. RedWolf 18:21, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Please do the same for the Richard Roberts image. Image: Richard Roberts. jpgThanks :) Apwoolrich 22:39, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Raftornadof3b.jpg
Hello. Image:Raftornadof3b.jpg has been on WP:CP since you listed it on 18 October. I was wondering if you could add any feedback that might help in resolving the status of this one. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 19:13, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Queen's Christmas Message
You voted for Queen's Christmas Message, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 04:01, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Christmas Broadcasts
Your changes to the Christmas Broadcast article were marked as a minor edit, but they were definitely not: in fact you made it read as if George V were still alive in 1939! rossb 18:22, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nomination for adminship
Do you want me to nominate you for adminship? Dunc|☺ 23:34, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oooh, this is flattering, you're the second person in the past month to offer to do so. I have however already been noninated for adminship (and failed to achieve consensus) already at the beginning of this month; Waiting at least a month between nominations appears to be common practice. I'd greatly appreciate your support next month though. Thanks again for the vote of confidence! --fvw *  23:39, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
 * Say, is this offer still good? --fvw *  16:39, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Glorious First of June
When you move a page, you need to fix the double redirects (see Special:Whatlinkshere/Glorious First of June). Gdr 19:15, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

Macedonian Slavs
I've protected Macedonian Slavs, now what's the problem? Dunc|☺ 15:15, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not entirely sure, I suspect it's just POV pushing. I'm not really involved, I just happened to seem some major 3RR violation going on in RecentChanges and warned both editors involved. Protection probably isn't a bad idea though, they do both seem to be willing to discuss the matter, so with any luck this will all be solved in a little while. --fvw *  15:18, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening
You have been named as a disputant in the recently opened Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute case brought before the Arbitration Committee. You may wish to add evidence to Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute/Evidence to support your case. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 03:32, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)

Average rule
I'm thinking of nominating Average rule for deletion on the grounds that it is a neologism and original research. This article has existed since August 2004 without anyone questioning it or proposing it for deletion. Do you think it's legitimate? Do you know of any reasons I shouldn't nominate it for deletion? Dpbsmith (talk) 15:33, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

HMS Beagle
Hi, I undid your move of HMS Beagle for reasons that were explained at Talk:HMS Beagle - since you didn't add any countercomment before doing the move, I assume you didn't notice the note. Stan 18:41, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Evolution edits
I noticed you removed a reference inserted by an anon. I was just curious about that - whether there was some problem with the ref itself, or whether it was just superfluous. Guettarda 14:03, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Guettarda 14:27, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Unnecessary bot request
Your link can be automatically linked using the variables built in to MediaWiki. As can be seen from meta:Help:Variable. Your request would be: (in no wiki format) http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/July/29/.

 *
 * Your request

I think that solves your problem. I hope. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Er... the only problem is that July would capitalize the month... and apparently the link is case sensitive... I wonder if there is a lower case function.  Maybe ask User:Jamesday if he could make a variable for you... or you could modify it monthly...  hmm... -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:15, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'll write your one time use bot when I have time. Maybe this weekend. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:52, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, could you tell me where the link should go? -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am going to presume that all days have a holiday and observances section, making the total number of sections to be at least four. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:39, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sup
I emailed as per your request, did you not receive?--Deglr6328 01:57, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

On This Day...
... a bot that I have created is completing/has completed your request. See for more information. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:24, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Could you be so kind as to check this list over? Thanks. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) Dates with Problems: + Anything beyond the February 1 article in Kakashi Bot's contributions. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:43, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * January 10 -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
Now there's a first - NPOVing something I wrote to make it less anti-evolution :) I suppose I erred on the side of caution - the initial article was garbage that probably could have made it through VfD, but I thought it better not to attract that level of attention to it.  Guettarda 21:14, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

effective population size
Looks great Duncan, correct as far as I can remember the formulas without cracking a book. Need to read over it more carefully though. Only one thing, I would reorganize the sections so that the mathematics sections are confined to those sections specifically. i.e. you can talk about the concepts of Variations in population size non-mathematically (then mathematically define them later), ditto Hardy-Weinberg principle. Also, no need to preference everything with "In  foo is..." because the category system effectively does that for us, and in the case of Ne and HWP, it doesn't need to function as a disambiguation because HWP doesn't exist in any other discipline... ;-) Lexor|Talk 14:30, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

On this day...
Hey... I'd appreciate it if you let me know if you looked over the bot's work or what. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:19, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

email pour demander un image?
Est ce que vous avez un email/lettre pour demander d'un autre person des images ou des texte comme en:wikipedia:boilerplate request for permission? Je voudrais un image pour Gustave Malécot. Merçi, Dunc_Harris|☺ 26 fev 2005 à 20:35 (CET)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Reginald Punnett, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page. Warofdreams 11:22, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour please? I keep getting blocked by G-Man because I share an IP address with some vandals (195.93.21.67). This has happened six times, three times in the last three days and I to the least annoyed about it. Could you please unblock me? Is there anything I can do about this? Thanks GordyB 12:03, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Royal Society PDFs...
The problem is that trying to parse a PDF is nearly impossible. If you can email or link me to a text file version, I'd be happy to help. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:29, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * HTML will do. You can leave it in raw HTML and Python's modules can easily parse that data.

RfCs ...
Hey friend. Schroeder's had me up on RfC for over a week now, didn't bother to sign it until today, and the only other person to sign it is his advocate (who is obviously not a participant in the "dispute" and therefore doesn't count to make the two. I haven't edited a creationism page in 2 weeks.  He posted that rfc 4 days after my last edit, without any articulated goals, or any evidence of "trying and failing to resolve the conflict" (obviously, since the "conflict" was resolved 4 days before he posted it).  I wonder if, when you have a moment, you might be willing to use your admin privileges to delete both his RfC and mine from the list due to their both being stale without being signed by two participants in the dispute?  Ungtss 16:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

On that subject, is there any reason not to unprotect Origin of life and RNA world hypothesis? Gazpacho 09:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Votes_for_deletion/Casque & Gauntlet Society
Would you consider rewording your nomination? See my soapbox comments in the discussion. By all means say it's a piece of non-notable student cruft, vanity, etc. but let's not perpetuate the "oh-no-it's-from-Dartmouth" stuff... Dpbsmith (talk) 02:42, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Dunc -- Thanks for your welcome, comments, and criticisms. And no, I'm not a sock puppet (but I play one on tv). Fisher 04:22, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Heligoland Bight
Hi! As part of the Wiki Syntax cleanup effort, I came across a broken redirect from German Bight to Heligoland Bight, which you put up a few months ago. Such redirects are usually meant to be deleted, but there are two pages linking to it, and the redirect does seem to make sense (from what I gather from these articles). Could you possibly be persuaded to write a stub for Heligoland Bight? Thanks! --Fbriere 21:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Not to sound picky (though I probably will anyway), but are you sure this redirect is appropriate? From what I glanced from the article, Heligoland and Heligoland Bight are not the same thing, are they?  The reason I'm asking is that we now end up with German Bight being a double redirect, which is a Bad Thing™.  Sure, you could change its target, but that's going to mess things up if a real Heligoland Bight article were to be written.
 * Of course, it's possible the two terms are the same, in which case you're welcome to adjust the redirect, call me an idiot, and get a free pizza for your trouble. :)
 * --Fbriere 05:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Never mind; after a bit of googling, I managed to come up with a stub to replace the redirect. --Fbriere 18:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Invisible Pink Unicorn
The IPU idea addresses an outdated notion of deity. Attributes such as "supernatural," "outside human perception," "great spiritual power" (these phrases were taken from the Wikipedia article on the IPU)and even "omnipotence" don't necessarily apply to deity or God. To claim that they do is a textbook example of the Straw Person fallacy (in fact, I use that example in class to demonstrate to my students an example of the SP fallacy).

Aloha, Aliman.

White City
While a agree that it was an excellent move to copy information from White City to White City, London and turn the original page into a disambiguation page, I wish you had done this just a little more carefully. Two meanings of White City were lost in your transfer process, I've just reconstructed them. I had been using White City as a quick link to World Columbian Exposition, and it took a bit of sluethwork to figure out why this wasn't working anymore. In future, please take care to preserve disambiguation information that has already accumulated, when making this kind of change. --Woggly 11:29, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

History of ecology
Curious about your rationale for the move. Also, given that rationale, do you think Ecology (disciplines) should be moved as well? Guettarda 16:51, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: books
OK, sorry. Didn't know. Jkam

issues over school articles
In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:18, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * :) Oleg Alexandrov 19:33, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moving Darwin, Northern Territory
Hi, Duncharris. I was a little bit surprised to see the changes at Darwin you made a few days ago; I was wondering what your reasons for deleting the Darwin redirect to Charles Darwin and then moving Darwin, Northern Territory to Darwin. I recognize that Darwin, Northern Territory is a territory capital and is quite important; however, I believe that an unqualified "Darwin", to most people, would refer to the naturalist and that Darwin should therefore redirect to Charles Darwin. Or if not that, then the disambiguation page should be there, in my opinion. What do you think? (And please let me know if this was discussed somewhere that I overlooked). Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:03, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Articles should refer to a person's full name, always Charles Darwin not just Darwin. The capital of an Australian territory is quite important. Dunc|☺ 09:17, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree, and I fully support leaving Charles Darwin at its current title. However, in my opinion, an unqualified "Darwin" usually refers to Darwin the scientist, not Darwin the city. I am not trying to belittle the capital's importance but I feel that the scientist is a far more common meaning for the name "Darwin" and so Darwin should redirect to Charles Darwin. I realize there is room for disagreement, although it might have been nice to bring this up on the talk page or WP:RM, since it is not an obvious change; especially since it was a complex revert and you had to delete the original Darwin page. I also would have left a note on the talk page explaining what you did so that others, especially nonadministrators who can't see the deletion history, would understand what happened. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:18, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Came to bug you
I do this when I have bad mood in the morning. Thank you for your contribution to trend. And one request. Would you mind putting an edit summary? Something like "add link to bio journal" or even pasting the whole thing "Trends are a series of scientific journals of biology." could be quite helpful for other editors watching those pages. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 17:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I guess I was really in a bad mood. Edit summaries are indeed important, my request was kind of terse though. Just hope I did not make too mad. Oleg Alexandrov 22:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * no, I just ignored you. Dunc|☺ 16:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * :) Oleg Alexandrov 19:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

On formatting images
Hello. You're mistaken about placing images on the page. The following tips from my Userpage will help you, I hope, while you might keep in mind Thoreau's remark, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Consistency is important within pages and among closely connected pages, but its only purpose is to serve the reader.

Not all Wikipedia pages need have identical formats, with the first illustration squared top right, though more than one Mediator is convinced this is a requirement. Some images are neutral in their format possibilities, others not:

 * 1. Images need to face into the page.
 * 2. Vanishing points need to lie on the page.
 * 3. Sources of light in an image need to come from the center of the page.

Even if you have never thought about page layout, a moment's reflection will demonstrate the reasonableness of these three axioms, practiced by all professionals. --Wetman 04:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Reason I moved Lancaster, England back.
Dear Friend, Lancaster is a popular name of many places in the world. Lancaster, England is one of the most popular references to the name, however it is not the most popular. That title actually goes to the city in Pennsylvania, although, Lancaster, England is the original. Not to mention, that neither the English, or the Pennsylvania city is the largest of the Lancaster family. That title goes to the California city. So, Lancaster, England does not carry the same weight of a single title city such as London or Los Angeles. So, I reverted it back to the Lancaster, England page where it should be. I also placed boldened type to the 3 primary Lancasters to separate them from the others so that they would be more easily identifyable. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. --Anon 07:09, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

And you seem biased to your own Lancaster. The point is, there are 3 cities worthy of the title. If neither San Jose can have it... neither can a particular Lancaster. Leave it the way it is or I will appeal to the administrators to have it protected. --Anon 00:11, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Note that Winchester is also liable to being moved back, as this has been discussed twice before on the talk page concluding that the main page should be the dab. Joe D (t) 13:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, sorry about that.
That wasn't intentional, just got lost in the copyedit.

Ben@liddicott.com 10:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Research project on wiki contributors
Hello-

I am aware that this is not the typical message usually posted, so I would like to apologize and ask for your kind understanding. I am a PhD student at Syracuse University School of Information Studies. My advisor and I are working on a research project on contributors to Wikis. This project received Institutional Review Board Approval number 05048. I would like to have a brief email dialog with you about your experience as a Wikipedia contributor. Please respond to this posting or send me an email at wikiresearch@hotmail.com, if you would be willing to answer a couple of quick questions. I would like to assure you that your comments will remain confidential.

Best regards, -Isabelle Fagnot

Why is the article not notable
\Did u see? the links that are enclosed in his article? I am familiar with Paul Bouche. How many of your listings have won an Emmy award? As a matter of fact I was searching for him after Discussion and presentation by him @ Miami International University of Art and Design.

He has been arround for many years and has been an inspiration for many young hispanics as myself. I guess you are not familiar with the field of spanish media. That is ok. But know I also searched The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, La Opinion (Los Angeles Main Hispanic Paper), Even Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Hispanic Business magazine have featured articles about him. Perhaps you should too. I don't see anyone on the list of comments that strike me as Hispanic or Latino. Ask arround. Even though you probably know no hispanic americans.

Just because you dont know someone doesn't mean they are not relevant for our community 35 million in the US and 400,000,000 arround the world.

Anthony Flew article
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for stepping in and locking the page overnight. I don't know if this is the correct way to convey my thanks, but I had to thank you. Harvestdancer 18:20, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Feeding trolls
Well, I'm at a loss. How do you get rid of a troll? Starvation? Graft 20:51, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

<<Please feel free to add plot synopsis here.>>
I noticed your speedy of Cleanliness Is Next to Ed in the deletion log and thought it looked a little dubious, so took a look at the main Ed, Edd n Eddy article. Unggrh. Looks like almost all of the episodes' articles are similar placeholders. Could you take a look at them? —Korath (Talk) 11:23, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Ed, Edd n Eddy
I have continued my work on these pages since you looked last...

Season 1 episodes have just been completed, and am working on season 2.

A question, tho...

I think that the 'subject' Ed, Edd n Eddy should be the CATEGORY Ed, Edd n Eddy.

The category matches the subject now, but my question is: What tags to I put into the original article to suggest that this be moved, or cross-linked to the category?

Am rather new at this, and would appreciate any suggestions you might be able to make.

BTW: Please look at the format for the sub-articles in the 1st season and tell me if you think it's ok... Have been trying to make all of them look the same, hense the 'blank' templates. As I add the text, the 'blank part goes away.

Hi there
Please see discussion on Paul Bouche. New information relevant for undeletion has been posted. As well as undeletion requests by two hispanics besides myself (one lives in Tokio)Please post any repply to this on the "undeletion ddiscussion page since I am just a user not a member. Thanks.

Rene Lake

Comments requested
Our neo-eugenicist friend is making more noise at Talk:Eugenics. I assume he, like all of the other of his sort which periodically show up and demand that the page be about the wonderful and glorious future of human modification (and of course all of that stuff in the past is far distant and was never really eugenics anyway), will eventually realize that there is little space for POV pushing around here, but in the meantime your reasoned thoughts would be appreciated. --Fastfission 16:50, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't know who is worse in the end -- the people who want to give a biased history of eugenics and evolution because they like eugenics, or the people who do it because they hate evolution. It has an odd tugging effect -- one side wants to whitewash the whole thing, the other wants to portray it in as unfavorable a light as possible, while I have to insist against the objections of both of steering the middling and ideologically unsatsifying path of historical truth! As such I get accused of polar opposite POVs no matter what! Ah, I just can't win... --Fastfission 00:32, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Russian Biologists
I'v found list of Russian Biologists in wanted list please check if my suggestions right Best regards
 * Any_Key

Kennedy Fried Chicken
...but I don't think it's proper to delete an article that is under discussion in VfD, I don't think Wikipedia articles have "authors," and while I think the requests of article contributors should be given due weight in VfD I don't think articles should be deleted on "author's request." The phenomenon of restaurants with names like "Kennedy Fried Chicken," "Kansas Fried Chicken," "Mississippi Fried Chicken," etc. is amusing enough to be worth a mention in Kentucky Fried Chicken, so what it really boils down to here is whether Kennedy Fried Chicken should be a redirect or simply nonexistent. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:36, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't want to be a jerk about Kennedy Fried Chicken...
...but I don't think it's proper to delete an article that is under discussion in VfD, I don't think Wikipedia articles have "authors," and while I think the requests of article contributors should be given due weight in VfD I don't think articles should be deleted on "author's request." The phenomenon of restaurants with names like "Kennedy Fried Chicken," "Kansas Fried Chicken," "Mississippi Fried Chicken," etc. is amusing enough to be worth a mention in Kentucky Fried Chicken, so what it really boils down to here is whether Kennedy Fried Chicken should be a redirect or simply nonexistent. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:37, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:JSTOR
Template:JSTOR has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Templates for deletion. Thank you. — Xiong熊 talk* 09:58, 2005 May 11 (UTC)

Obsessive behaviour re: image location top right
I notice your the same guy who vandalized Wetmans personal page back in April over this same issue. I await your response on Talk: JSTOR. Stbalbach 16:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Spelling in Template:nonCommercialProvided
I noticed a typo in Template:nonCommercialProvided, but do not have the authority to fix it. "Licenced" should be spelt "licensed", as "licence" is only the noun and not the verb form. Thanks. —Wereon 16:53, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Template:History
Thank you for your good thoughts. I think there's a misunderstanding. I didn't intend it as a link to the history of a page itself – Wikipedia already provides such a link in the skin. The template is meant to refer to any other page. I use it e.g. on my homepage as some sort of a watchlist (that was, before i found out you can build customized watchlists) and to allow people to check which contributions i made to pages. — Sebastian (talk) 20:05, 2005 May 14 (UTC)

I now reverted your changes since they completely destroyed the function of the template. — Sebastian (talk) 20:13, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

Alan White
Why have you moved Alan White (drummer) to Alan White (Oasis drummer)? He left the band over a year ago and I doubt he'll go back. Either way, he had a life before Oasis and may well have a career after Oasis. Do me a favour and move is back. Cheers.--Crestville 21:53, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just noticed there are two. How do you know he is named after the Yes drummer and it's not just a conicidence? I still don't think he should be called "Oasis Drummer".--Crestville 22:12, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Point taken.--Crestville 13:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 16:38, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 16:38, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

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Adminship
Eh, I'm pretty argumentative, get frustrated pretty quickly, and have a hard time being universally cordial to people who I think are malicious cranks (which include a number of regular users). Though I would never go so far as to let any of that bleed into any sorts of administrator abilities, it seems like more hassle than it is worth (I already get the "you are a bully" line because I cite off-line sources to back up my points, lord knows the trouble I would cause if I had any institutional sanction). It would be helpful in fixing up vandalism and so forth but I've been able to do an okay job at that as it is without it, so I think I'll stay a "normal" user and feel free to get irritated towards and be suspicious of people in a way which would feel unbecoming as an administrator. But thank you for the sentiment. --Fastfission 19:27, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Rumer Willis
I see you voted delete on Rumer Willis in VFD. Merging the info as you suggested would require saving the history for the GFDL, so you might want to change it to either a merge and redirect or just a full delete. Mgm|(talk) 10:15, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thank You Girl
Hi - I've just rewritten this article which you voted delete on at vfd - thought you might like to take another look...? Grutness...  wha?  03:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hey, about Nicole
If you are into rap music, the girl in question was probably mostly known for the video for Bounce Ya On My Pole (you probably HAD to be in New Orleans to really see it), she did with Ruda about 5 years ago. In it she basically looked like a hooker (in the article I was nice), but she also sang on another track, and I can't remember which, nor can I find the CD. In any event, I was wanted to answer your question

Andrea 198.49.31.230 20:38, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sir Clive
New one on me. Live and learn. GordyB 21:50, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VfD COOL
Sorry if I seem too forward in telling an admin about procedure, but it's generally considered bad form (as per VfD notice) to redirect an article while it's on VfD - confuses the issue too much. I have reverted to the stub. Just thought I'd let you knopw. Thanks. 18:01, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

School VfDs
Just to let you know, I appreciate your efforts to keep the un-encyclopedic trivia out, even if they're in vain. Jayjg <sup style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 21:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * However, you may want to consider merging them into lists by state or districts, since that is both faster and more likely to succeed than attempting to get them deleted. Radiant_ >|< 10:13, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't let the hordes of keep votes and the frustration of watching more and more substandard articles on substandard topics infiltrating wikipedia stop you from doing what is necessary to improve the project. There may be very few of us with actual standards who patrol VfD regularly, but we are all with you. Indrian 04:24, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

LMS Locos
I notice you keep removing the Template:LMS Locomotives from the bottom of the page articles. Is there any reason for this, as they are useful navigational tools, much like Template:GWR Locomotives, Template:British Rail Locomotives, Template:British Rail DMU, Template:British Rail EMU. Our Phellap 16:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

# Wayne Ray from [599] (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/ray/bio.htm).Dunc|☺ 09:06, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi This Bio is not a copyright infringement, both bios are from my CV. I wrote them and they are me !! I still haven't got the html link down properly, should I have made a link to U of T Poets? or my personal webpage. I was trying to make these poetry entries neutral. I am adding Canadian Poets to the Wiki list, that I find significant as well. But not copyiing their Bios, just adding their list of books in print.

WayneRay 02:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)WayneRay

steam train photos
Thanks for the link. I have my own photos of some LMS locos if you want to use them as well. Locos in question: 6233 Dutchess of Sutherland, 5690 Leander, 6201 Princess Elizabeth, 45157 The Glasgow Highlander, 8F 48151, 2MT 46441 all from Crewe Works open day in 2003. Also 2MT 46443 on the Severn Valley. All are high resolution (2048x1536). The photo of 6233 is not so overexposed as the one you added as it wasn't taken into the sun. Our Phellap 21:06, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I will upload them in the next day or so and add the photos to their respective pages. May as well do them all. I've got lots of LNER, GWR and a few SR steam loco pictures if that is of interest for the future?! Our Phellap 21:21, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Yep I have the GCR Class 04 63601 amongst other. There are links to all my photos at User:Our_Phellap/Gallery. Our Phellap 21:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Added some photos. Links below. I have created red links in the photo description for the class article. For the LNER locomotives there use the Template:LNER Locomotives, for GWR use Template:GWR Locomotives (the Template:SR Locomotives needs completing if you want to try?!!). Will upload more later this evening. Our Phellap 12:33, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:GCR O4 63601 at Doncaster Works.JPG - I think this was GCR Class K8 reclassified as LNER Class O4
 * Image:LNER D49 246 'Morayshire' at Doncaster Works.JPG
 * Image:LNER B1 1306 'Mayflower' at Doncaster Works.JPG

Also there is a photo for GWR 6400 Class but no article.

More pictures!! Our Phellap 17:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:SR Q1 C1 at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:LSWR 0298 Class 30587 at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:SR West Country Class 21C123 'Blackmore Vale' at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:SR Schools Class 30925 'Cheltenham' at Cheltenham Racecourse.jpg

Right, even more pictures Our Phellap 20:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:GWR 2251 Class 3205 departing Cheltenham Racecourse.JPG
 * Image:GWR 5100 Class 5199 at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:GWR Manor Class 7822 'Foxcote Manor' at Crewe Works.jpg

Final batch for a while. Not going to be around for approx. 2 weeks after tomorrow. Our Phellap 22:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) I am away for about 2 weeks. Was going to do templates for the GNR, GCR, GER etc. locos if you want to have a go?!! When I get back I'll try and finish off the rest of the BR diesel/electric locos and units. Our Phellap 00:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:GWR 5205 Class 5224 approaching Cheltenham Racecourse.JPG
 * Image:SR West Coutry Class 34045 'Ottery St. Mary' at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:SR Class USA DS238 'Wainwright' at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:GWR 3822 at Cheltenham Racecourse.jpg
 * Image:SR N15 30777 'Sir Lamiel' at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:GWR Hall 4936 'Kinlet Hall' at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:GWR Modified Hall 7903 'Foremarke Hall' departing Cheltenham Racecourse.JPG
 * Image:GNR J52 68846 at Doncaster Works.JPG
 * Image:GNR Stirling 1 at Doncaster Works.jpg
 * Image:GNR C2 990 'Henry Oakley' at Doncaster Works.JPG
 * Image:GWR 6430 at Cheltenham Racecourse.JPG
 * Image:GWR 5700 Class 7754 at York Railfest.JPG
 * Image:GWR 5700 Class 7760 at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:LMS Princess Coronation 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:LMS Jubilee 5690 'Leander' at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:BR 4MT 76079 at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:LMS 8F 48151 at Crewe Works.jpg
 * Image:LMS Ivatt Class 2MT 46441 at Crewe Works.jpg
 * and last but not least Image:LMS Black Five 45157 'The Glasgow Highlander' at Crewe Works.jpg

IDiots
Nice term. Perfect counter to IDEA. Guettarda 15:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:Jammo
This user has posted four articles on "party poker" with text like "its hot" or "I really like it". I recommend a formal chastisement and possible blocking. Antares33712 15:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Self-induced abortion vfd.
Thank you for voting to keep the article on self-induced abortion. I promise to continue working to develop and improve this article. -- BD2412 talk 15:26, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

Nguyen Dynasty POV-pushers strike again
Some time ago I went to great effort to write several biographies of the nguyen kings, that were balanced, showing both good and bad points. I can list the books which supplied the information if anyone would like to check up on it -fact is they were not a very popular dynasty. However, I have noticed that almost all of these have been changed, to very N-NPOV bio summaries giving nothing but a rosy spin on everything these kings did. What is more (shock of shocks) they are direct copies of the summaries on the website here http://www.oocities.com/imperialvietnam/nguyenemperors.html which you will remember Jimmy/Lindgren/TranVanBa were known to copy & paste from (I have noticed the page now has a warning about the Buu Chanh group as a result of this). Because of a lack of promised action in the past, and seeing how systematic this historical revisionism is, I have stopped after changing back one article. Would you care to comment? Can *anything* be done to stop this sort of garbage? It's non-neutral point of view, as well as plagarism, and I remain convinced all part of pushing modern claims to power by the Buu Chanh pretender. -Nguyen Van Tuan

Copied from your user page
Message from flo98, concerning Nonhuman animals ethics :

I am not censoring you. Your insults were irrelevant. If you you think my article is innacurate (that the facts are "disputed"), feel free to develop it or set Criticisms.

1. My facts are not innacurates as you said

2. This article needs to be developped for sure

Please be constructive and add links to it or new views one the subject, and if something is innacurate, then tell me about it, or simply correct it instead of telling me what to do.

Thank you

Peer review request for Nonhuman animals ethics
The peer review request you submitted for Nonhuman animals ethics has been archived in accordance with the request removal policy as an inappropriate request. Peer review is a place to seek out creative feedback, and the nature of your request suggests that such feedback is not needed at this time. If this article, or any other you may be working on reaches a point were peer review would be appropriate, please feel free to submit future requests. --Allen3 talk 21:00, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA. Guettarda 00:22, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: USATC articles
Nice start on those two. I took a quick run through with a copyedit, fixing red links and bypassing redirects and disambigs as well as a little grammar. I might have some information in my resources that could be added; I'll see what I can find. slambo 20:40, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Comments from A ghost
I saw your edits on Intelligent design. If you want to edit the intro, fine, although if you check the Talk there's good reason why it is the way it stands. But please don't feed the troll.--ghost 20:47, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I disagree because I'd checked his contributions list and found that he'd already exceeded the 3RR rule on 3 seperate articles this afternoon. The editors on those pages refered to his actions as vandalism, and responded accordingly.  Although I agree that his has a right to a POV, and to edit in theory, he refuses to respect the community.  Therefore, the community has no need to make an exception to it's rules.

 * BTW, if he'd bothered to read 3 paragraphs into the article, he'd have found the exact criticism he used. It was moved there as part of a larger effort.--ghost 21:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
Please explain how this article is "notable" w.r.t. Inappropriate Uses of Wikipedia? Ariele 03:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Let's go one level higher problems that may require deletion Ariele 13:25, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC).

 * Reviewing Wikipedia's policy on soapboxes, I've moved my discussion to my talk page but my viewpoint has not changed. The article began as a soapbox and later revised.  The new revision has toned the original version down but that doesn't change what happened.  You say that you've been polite.  And I say, that I've been polite to you as well.  I don't troll.  If you really want the truth, my encounter with this so called "defense of tradition, family, and property" was not coincidental.  These folks came to me, not the other way around.  They were doing the trolling, I wasn't.  Ariele 14:25, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Template:Spoiler-about
Radiant misunderstood and misstated the template's intended application. I've attempted to clarify this matter on both the templates for deletion page and the spoiler warning page, and I would sincerely appreciate it if you would reassess the template's validity. Thanks for your time! —Lifeisunfair 10:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Phone Sex survey
Hello, you left an edit in the phone sex article stating that I'd conducted my survey improperly. Please explain. Thank you.68.56.232.25

Speedy delete of Maurice Goode,Jr.
I placed Maurice Goode,Jr. for VfD and you speedy deleted it. It was headed for deletion anyways, so I don't care that it was deleted. I'm just curious under what criteria you speedy deleted it? I don't see anything apparent at WP:CSD under which it qualified for speedy. According to WP:DP it qualified as a vanity page. Did you speedy delete it based on Deletion policy/Reducing VfD load? --Durin 20:52, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cfd:Controversial books
I know you're a pretty busy fellow but if you had the time, I'm worried about people deleting a useful and interesting category because they don't understand what the word "controversial" means. Category:Controversial books. You can plainly see my view of it on the page there, I'd appreciate your input as well, as I think you're a pretty sensible fellow. --Fastfission 04:39, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Family trees
Thanks for the feedback; I've answered on my talk page. Dewet 19:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edip Yuksel
I believe this meets WP:CSD under section 1.1.4. --Xcali 00:27, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

William Sorell
This appears to be a direct copy-and-paste from here. Can you please explain why this material is available for use in Wikipedia? Is it in the public domain, or released under the GFDL? Thanks, Bovlb 03:46, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)

Louvre layout
A strip of illustrations down the right hand edge like a pane of postage stamps. This layout needs your unerring and elegant touch. --Wetman 10:08, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

it would be good to open a dialogue concerning the peppered moth article are scientist creationists? clearly many are! it does not help the cause of the evolutionary biologist to make glib statements such as I found on this article portraying a false divide on either camp warm regards tritonal

Category:UK Wikipedians
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 19:13 (UTC)

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Iberian scripts

The Iberian scripts are the Paleohispanic scripts that were used to represent the extinct Iberian language. Most of them are typologically unusual in that they are semi-syllabic rather than purely alphabetic. The oldest Iberian inscriptions date to the 4th or possibly the 5th century BCE, and the latest from end of the 1st century BCE or possibly the beginning of the 1st century CE.

Variants
There are two main graphic as well as geographic variants in the family:
 * Northeastern Iberian script
 * Dual variant (4th century BCE and 3rd century BCE) (tentative)
 * Non-dual variant (2nd century BCE and 1st century BCE)
 * Southeastern Iberian script

In the sense that the Iberian scripts are the scripts created for the Iberians to represent the Iberian language, the Greco-Iberian alphabet, a separate adaptation of the Greek alphabet, was also an Iberian script. It was used mainly in Alicante and Murcia. Likewise, neither the southwestern script, very similar to southeastern Iberian script but used for the Tartessian language, nor the Celtiberian script, a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script used for the Celtiberian language, are technically Iberian scripts.

The northeastern Iberian script is often known simply as the Iberian script, because it is the script of 95% of known Iberian inscriptions. These have been found mainly in the northeastern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, mostly along the coast from Languedoc-Roussillon to Alicante, but with a deep penetration on the Ebro valley.

The southeastern Iberian script is poorly attested, and there are some gaps in the records: There are no positively identified symbols for /gu/, /do/, and /m/, for example. Unlike the northeastern Iberian script the decipherment of the southeastern Iberian script is not still closed, because there are a significant group of signs without consensus value. The southeastern inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of Iberia: Eastern Andalusia, Murcia, Albacete, Alicante, and Valencia.

There is substantial graphic variation in the Iberian glyphs, and over the past several decades many scholars have come to believe that, at least in northeastern Iberian script (and recently also in Celtiberian script) some of this variation is meaningful. It appears that the original simple letters were assigned specifically to the voiced consonants /b/, /d/, /g/, whereas the voiceless consonants /t/ and /k/ were derived from /d/ and /g/ syllables with the addition of a stroke. (This is the so-called dual signary model: see the image at right). If correct, this innovation would parallel the creation of the Latin letter G from C by the addition of a stroke.

Typology
Excepting the Greco-Iberian alphabet, the Iberian scripts are typologically unusual, in that they were partially alphabetic and partially syllabic: Continuants (fricative sounds like /s/ and sonorants like /l/, /m/, and vowels) were written with distinct letters, as in Phoenician (or in Greek in the case of the vowels), but the non-continuants (the stops /b/, /d/, /t/, /g/, and /k/) were written with syllabic glyphs that represented both consonant and vowel together, as with Japanese kana. That is, in written Iberian, ga displayed no resemblance to ge, and bi had no connection to bo. This possibly unique writing system is called a "semi-syllabary".

The southeastern script was written right to left, as was the Phoenician alphabet, whereas the northeastern script reversed this to left to right, as in the Greek alphabet.

Origins
The Iberian scripts are classified as Paleohispanic scripts for convenience and based on broad similarities, but their relationships to each other and to neighboring contemporaneous scripts, such as Greco-Iberian, are not firmly established. It is generally accepted that they were derived at least partly from the Greek alphabet and/or Phoenician alphabet, with which they share many similar-looking glyphs. Some researchers conclude that the origin of the northern and southern Iberian scripts ultimately lies solely with the Phoenician alphabet; others believe the Greek alphabet also played a role; others still have suggested influences from Old Italic. It appears that either the glyphs themselves were changed, or that they assumed new values. For example, the southern glyph for /e/ derives from Phoenician ‘ayin or Greek Ο, whereas northern /e/ resembles Phoenician he or Greek Ε, though the letter arguably had the value of /be/ in southern Iberian. However, it is clear that they had a common origin, and the most commonly accepted hypothesis is that the northeastern script derives from the southeastern script.

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Scotty Beckett

Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

Early life and career
Born in Oakland, California, Beckett got his start in show business at age three when the family moved to Los Angeles and a casting director heard him singing by chance. He was at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital visiting his father, who was recovering from an illness. A studio casting director noticed the child and told his parents he had movie potential. He auditioned, and landed a part in Gallant Lady (1933), alongside Dickie Moore. The same year, his father died. In 1934, he joined Our Gang, in which Moore had appeared from 1932 to 1933.

Our Gang
Beckett appeared as a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1934 to 1935. In it, he played George "Spanky" McFarland's best friend and partner in mischief. His trademark look was a crooked baseball cap and an oversized sweater exposing one shoulder. His role was taken over by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer in 1935, and he left the series for features in 1936. In 1939, he returned briefly as Alfalfa's cousin, Wilbur, in Cousin Wilbur and Dog Daze.

Career after Our Gang

After his Our Gang tenure ended, Beckett won increasingly prominent roles in major Hollywood films, usually playing the star's son or the hero as a boy. Among his major credits are Dante's Inferno with Spencer Tracy, Anthony Adverse with Fredric March, The Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn, Conquest with Greta Garbo, Marie Antoinette with Norma Shearer; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in which he played Jon Hall's character as a child, and Kings Row, in which he played Robert Cummings's character as a child. In 1940, he played Tim in My Favorite Wife, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. He appeared as one of the unborn children in Shirley Temple's The Blue Bird (1940). He also had a central role in the wartime propaganda film The Boy from Stalingrad (1943).

Beckett attended Los Angeles High School and took time off from filming to try his luck on the stage. Adolescence did not hamper his career, as he won important roles as that of young Al Jolson in The Jolson Story, with his singing voice provided by Rudy Wissler, and Junior in the radio show The Life of Riley. His performance as Jolson was described as "touching, enchanting, and to all indications, accurate". In 1947, he appeared alongside former Our Gang member Dickie Moore and Marilyn Monroe in Dangerous Years.

Beckett was signed by MGM in 1947, with his first role under contract as Will Parker in Cynthia. He gained the role of Oogie Pringle in A Date with Judy, the film adaptation of the radio series of the same name, opposite Jane Powell as Judy Foster. In 1949, he was featured in the war drama Battleground and the following year he starred as the fast-talking Tennessee Shad in the comedy The Happy Years. By 1950, the success of those three films resulted in expectations that his career would rise. Unfortunately, while other actors his age moved into leading roles, his career declined, as evidenced by his small role in Nancy Goes to Rio, again with Powell.

Beckett attended the University of Southern California, but dropped out when the combined workload of school and films became too great. Although he was working steadily at MGM, his life grew increasingly tumultuous in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1948, he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.

In 1954, Beckett's career took an upward turn when he was cast as Winky, the comic sidekick in the popular TV show Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. However, he was fired from the series after being arrested on a concealed weapons charge and for passing a bad check. According to actor Jimmy Lydon, who appeared with him in the Gasoline Alley films and also replaced him after he was fired from Rocky Jones, he earned a bad reputation due to his excessive drinking. Lydon also claimed that he made many enemies because he gambled frequently but refused to pay his gambling debts or repay money that was lent to him. After being fired from Rocky Jones, he made only a few subsequent TV and film appearances, some uncredited bit parts, before leaving show business forever.

Post-acting life
After leaving the entertainment industry, Beckett sold real estate, cars, and twice enrolled at universities with the intention of becoming a physician. He was also arrested several times for drunkenness, drunk driving, drug possession, and passing bad checks. His first arrest for drunk driving came in 1948, followed by a second arrest in March 1959. In February 1957, he was arrested after attempting to cross the Mexican border with 250 "stimulant pills." On August 14, 1959, he was arrested for possessing four Benzedrine pills. He was released after twelve hours after the county prosecutor refused to press charges. Four days later, at age 29, he sustained a broken hip and skull fracture after crashing his car into a tree while driving in West Los Angeles. Lydon claimed that the accident left Beckett severely disabled and he had to utilize a wheelchair and crutches for the remainder of his life. In 1962, he attempted suicide after a heavy drinking binge.

Personal life
Beckett was married three times and had one child. He married professional tennis player Beverly Baker on September 28, 1949, in Las Vegas. She was granted a divorce in June 1950. His second marriage was to model and actress Sunny Vickers. They married in 1951 and had one son, Scott Jr., before divorcing in 1957. In 1961, he married Margaret C. Sabo; she remained with him until his death.

Death
On May 8, 1968, Beckett checked into a Los Angeles nursing home to seek medical attention after suffering a serious beating (the circumstances surrounding it were never made clear). He was found dead in his room on May 10. He was 38 years old. A note and pills were found, but the Los Angeles County coroner stated that an exact cause of death was unknown even though an autopsy had been performed. While no official cause of death has been listed, various media reports state that he overdosed on either barbiturates or alcohol.

Beckett is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles.

Short subjects

 * Sailor Made Widow (1934)
 * Hi'-Neighbor! (1934) as Scotty
 * For Pete's Sake! (1934) as Scotty
 * The First Round-Up (1934) as Scotty
 * Honky Donkey (1934) as Scotty
 * Mike Fright (1934) as Scotty
 * Washee Ironee (1934) as Scotty
 * Mama's Little Pirate (1934) as Scotty
 * Shrimps for a Day (1934) as Scotty
 * Anniversary Trouble (1935) as Scotty
 * Beginner's Luck (1935) as Scotty
 * Teacher's Beau (1935) as Scotty
 * Sprucin' Up (1935) as Scotty
 * Little Papa (1935) as Scotty
 * Our Gang Follies of 1936 (1935) as Scotty
 * The Lucky Corner (1936) as Scotty
 * M-G-M Miniature: Little Boy Blue (1936) as The Boy
 * The King Without a Crown (1937) as King Louis XVII, the Dauphin (uncredited)
 * Cousin Wilbur (1939) as Wilbur Nesbitt Newcome II
 * Dog Daze (1939) as Wilbur
 * The Royal Rodeo (1939) as The King
 * Cinderella's Feller (1940) as The Young Prince
 * The Flag of Humanity (1940) as Johnny Wilson (uncredited)

Films

 * Gallant Lady (1933) as Deedy - Age 2 (film debut, uncredited)
 * I Am Suzanne (1933) as Child in Hospital (uncredited)
 * George White's Scandals (1934) as Child (uncredited)
 * Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) as Boy Auditioning for Miss Adams (uncredited)
 * Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) as Jack Forrester, Age 4
 * Romance in the Rain (1934) as Child Specialty
 * Babes in Toyland (1934) as Schoolboy (uncredited)
 * Sailor Made Widow (1934)
 * Dante's Inferno (1935) as Alexander Carter
 * Pursuit (1935) as Donald McCoy 'Donny' Smith
 * I Dream Too Much (1935) as Boy on Carousel
 * The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) as Bobbie Ames
 * Anthony Adverse (1936) as Anthony's Son
 * Old Hutch (1936) as Roy Hutchins (uncredited)
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) as Prema Singh
 * When You're in Love (1937) as Little Boy with Whistle (uncredited)
 * A Doctor's Diary (1937) as Billy (uncredited)
 * Slave Ship (1937) as Boy (uncredited)
 * It Happened in Hollywood (1937) as Boy (uncredited)
 * Life Begins with Love (1937) as Young Boy
 * Conquest (1937) as Alexandre Walewska (uncredited)
 * Wells Fargo (1937) as Young Nick Pryor (uncredited)
 * The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) as Sammy Grant (uncredited)
 * No Time to Marry (1938) as Junior
 * The Devil's Party (1938) as Mike O'Mara as a Child (uncredited)
 * Marie Antoinette (1938) as The Dauphin
 * Smashing the Rackets (1938) as Franz's Boy (uncredited)
 * Listen, Darling (1938) as Billie Wingate
 * Love Affair (1939) as Boy on Ship (uncredited)
 * The Flying Irishman (1939) as Henry Corrigan - 7 Years Old (uncredited)
 * Blind Alley (1939) as Davy
 * Mickey the Kid (1939) as Bobby
 * The Escape (1939) as Willie Rogers
 * Our Neighbors – The Carters (1939) as Dickie Carter
 * Days of Jesse James (1939) as Buster Samuels
 * The Blue Bird (1940) as Child
 * My Son, My Son! (1940) as Oliver as a Child
 * My Favorite Wife (1940) as Tim - the Ardens' Son
 * Gold Rush Maisie (1940) as Harold Davis
 * Street of Memories (1940) as Tommy Foster
 * Father's Son (1941) as Danny (uncredited)
 * Aloma of the South Seas (1941) as Tanoa as a Child
 * The Vanishing Virginian (1942) as Joel Yancey
 * Kings Row (1942) as Parris Mitchell - as a Boy
 * It Happened in Flatbush (1942) as Squint
 * Between Us Girls (1942) as Little Prince Leopold
 * The Youngest Profession (1943) as Junior Lyons
 * The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) as Pavel
 * Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943) as Jimmy Dixon
 * Heaven Can Wait (1943) as Henry Van Cleve - Age 9 (uncredited)
 * Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) as Ali Baba as a Child
 * The Climax (1944) as The King
 * Circumstantial Evidence (1945) as Freddy Hanlon
 * Junior Miss (1945) as Haskell Cummings Jr.
 * My Reputation (1946) as Kim Drummond
 * Her Adventurous Night (1946) as Junior Fry
 * White Tie and Tails (1946) as Bill Latimer
 * The Jolson Story (1946) as Asa Yoelson / Al Jolson, as a boy
 * Cynthia (1947) as Will Parker
 * Dangerous Years (1947) as Willy Miller
 * A Date with Judy (1948) as Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle
 * Michael O'Halloran (1948) as Michael O'Halloran
 * Any Number Can Play (1949) as Paul Kyng as a Boy, in Photo (uncredited)
 * Battleground (1949) as William J. Hooper
 * Life of St. Paul Series (1949) as Jacob
 * Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) as Scotty Sheldan
 * Louisa (1950) as Jimmy Blake
 * The Happy Years (1950) as 'Tennessee' Shad
 * Gasoline Alley (1951) as Corky
 * Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951) as Corky Wallet
 * Hot News (1953) as Bill Burton
 * The High and the Mighty (1954) as Coast Guard Navigator (uncredited)
 * Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) as Gordon Peters
 * Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957) as Photographer (uncredited)
 * The Oklahoman (1957) as Messenger at Ranch (uncredited)
 * Monkey on My Back (1957) as Corpsman (final film, uncredited)

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George H. Ross

George H. Ross (born January 6, 1928) is a former executive vice president and senior counsel of the Trump Organization. He is perhaps best known as one of Donald Trump's two advisors on the NBC reality television program The Apprentice, along with Carolyn Kepcher. On the program, Ross monitored the progress of the contestants and assisted Trump in determining who should be "fired".

Early life and education
Ross was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in the Bronx. His father died when he was 16. Ross went to Stuyvesant High School and afterward, joined the U.S. Army as a cryptanalyst for one year. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College before earning a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.

Career
He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1953. After he passed the bar, he worked in the litigation department for Dreyer & Traub. In 1954, he became the in-house counsel for Goldman-DiLorenzo (founded by Sol Goldman and Alex DiLorenzo). Between 2000 and 2005 Ross was in the supervisory council (Aufsichtsrat) of TD Trump Deutschland, planning to purchase or build a Trump Tower in Germany.

He teaches courses in negotiation and real estate transactions at New York University. He is the author of two books, Trump Strategies For Real Estate and Trump Style Negotiation.

Personal life
As of 2004, Ross lives in Hewlett Harbor, New York, and is married to Billie Ross; they have two children: Nanci and Stephanie.

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Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 25 prior to 1999 ) refers to both the institution responsible for the operation of all English public schools in the city of Ottawa, Ontario and its governing body. Like most school boards, the OCDSB is administered by a group of elected trustees and one director selected and appointed by the Board itself. Additionally, annually, two student trustees are selected per provincial regulation.

Every four years, within the context of the Ottawa municipal elections, an election is held within each of Ottawa's twelve trustee electoral zones to elect each trustee. Following election and annually thereafter, the board of trustees holds its organizational meeting, where the Board membership elects two of its members to the positions of chair and vice-chair of the Board. Chairs and membership of each of the Board's committees are also determined as part of the organizational meeting. In addition to the twelve trustees, two student trustees are elected by their peers, providing opportunities for the student body to become informed and involved in Board governance.

History
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board was created on 1 January 1998 in accordance with Ontario provincial government legislation including merging of the former adjacent Carleton Board of Education and the Ottawa Board of Education. The headquarters of the amalgamated school district is located at the former headquarters of the Carleton Board of Education at 133 Greenbank Road, Nepean.

Historically, and to this day, the OCDSB is one of the very few school boards in Ontario with an advisory council on the arts providing input and annual reports to the board of trustees.

In 2009-2010 the OCDSB tried to shut down the Alternative program, a group of students and parents from Lady Evelyn Alt teamed up with a trustee and won the Review.

In 2017 a family was awarded approximately $3,000 after winning a lawsuit against the OCDSB over the board's failure to take a student's complaints about bullying seriously.

In 2018 two former students filed lawsuits against the OCDSB for failing its "legal duty to provide for the safety of its students".

In 2019 an investigation was launched to look into what ultimately resulted in three sex offense charges against OCDSB teacher Majed Turk in July 2020. The alleged incidents occurred between September and November 2019.

As of 2020, there were ongoing lawsuits filed against the OCDSB for the sexual abuse of its students by now deceased teacher and Bell High School basketball coach, Donald Greenham.

In 2022 a disciplinary panel with the Ontario College of Teachers found former OCDSB teacher Peter Des Brisay guilty of professional misconduct after sexually abusing a former student in the late 1990s.

Schools and programs
The OCDSB has 147 school sites (117 elementary, 25 secondary including the Adult High School, plus five secondary alternate sites). Schools within the OCDSB provide English with Core French, Alternative, Early French Immersion, Middle French Immersion, Late French Immersion, Special Education, IEP's and gifted program.

Finances
The OCDSB has an operating budget of $784.8 million for the 2010–2011 school year. In 2007, the school busses belonging to the OCDSB and the co-terminus catholic school board were taken over by a new corporation: The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (See external link, below)

Demographics
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario, serving students within the City of Ottawa, covering an area of 3,760 sqkm. The OCDSB is the seventh largest district by school population in the province of Ontario. Enrolment as of 31 October 2007 totalled 72,388 students (47,099 elementary and 25,455 secondary).

The District has 2,711 full-time equivalent (FTE) elementary teachers and 1,337 secondary teachers, as of 31 October 2007, with 238 principals and vice-principals. In addition to the full-time teachers, approximately 2,494 teachers are on the district's occasional teachers list. The OCDSB also has 2,059 administrative and support staff of whom 1,817 work in the schools.

The chair of the OCDSB is Lyra Evans.

Trustees
The following is a list of trustees elected to the school board since its creation.

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Talk:Daytona USA

link-up
Regarding the comments on the link-up capabilities (four cabinets, each with two players/seats), I seem to recall larger cabinets with just one player, where the 'car' you sat in moved with the gameplay, which also had a much larger screen.

This resulted in the possibility of eight large individual cabinets able to link with each other, with the demonstration attraction sequence spanning all eight screens.

I'm pretty vague on all of the above information, so could anyone clarify this for me? --CherryMay 14:27, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * You are correct - I played the single-player, sit-in-a-mockup-car with a hugeass screen version. I don't know, however, if this could be linked together with other units.

 * That would be an incredibly expensive setup, but I suppose it COULD be possible. I just never saw it myself. --Golbez 17:33, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * Aha, looking around the wonders of the internet, I found this picture which is what I was thinking of... although I still can't tell if it's eight cabinets, or four. The TV monitors between each two screens could suggest otherwise.  (IIRC, they switched between the two players faces- each cabinet also had a small camera directed towards the seat.  Perhaps this could be added to the entry too?) Daytona USA 8 machine linkup?

 * Edit: KLOV confirms that there can be 8 deluxe machines linked up, so I edited the article to reflect this. --CherryMay 18:52, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Looks nice, but I think the DELUXE single player version had a much larger screen and a different car. I could be wrong, though. I could be very wrong. --Golbez 21:17, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Realistic?
This part sounds wrong:

 * ...with the smoothest graphics and most realistic physics yet seen in a racing game.

Now, Daytona USA is certainly smooth, but realism has never been one of its qualities. Picture this: a crash makes the car spin in the air, it lands on its wheels, and not only keeps running, but it barely slows down. In fact, the absence of realism is one of the things that made it so fun to play!

For realistic physics, one should check Atari Games' Hard Drivin' series instead: a mere bump on another car, a jumping stunt performed too fast, pretty much anything will bring your car to a halt for good. Far more realistic than Daytona USA, and 5 years older.

Concerned Chitizen: I Agree... DAYUSA Is Smooth, But The Physics Engine Id Whack, Thats Why I Love That Game! And Even Better Those Stupid Hacks People Put On (GTX Edition) Make The MT Hornet Float :) But The AT Hornet Goes Faster On The Cheap-A*s Turbo....

Can someone create a Hornet article?
Can anyone who's editing Daytona USA right now start an article on the hero racing team from this game? I searched for it tonight and it wasn't found. Does anyone know much about the Hornet cars in this game? --D.F. Williams 04:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Problem is, there's no real consistency. Team Hornet are never mentioned by name in any of the Daytona USA games - the name only comes from general consensus regarding the name of the car in the arcade game. After all, you are the only Hornet car on the track - without any evidence to the contrary, it's reasonable to assume you are racing for Team Hornet. That explains where the name 'Team Hornet' comes from. As for their cars - the way I see it, they produce their cars, you are the Team's driver. In the arcade game, Team Hornet's has two cars available to race, each numbered 41 - with selectable automatic or manual transmission. In the Saturn port, Team Hornet's garage has expanded - there are far more cars to choose from, each with different characteristics (listed in the main article). However, the car number is still 41, despite your choice of car. Things change in Daytona USA:CCE and CE: in these games there are a number of different cars, each numbered differently - there's the Hornet all-rounder, numbered 19 this time, with about eight others; Balance, Magic, Phoenix, etc. This could mean that the player no longer races under Team Hornet's banner, instead choosing whether to race for Team Balance, Team Magic, Team Phoenix, Team [car name], etc. I believe CE's inside CD case cover displays the Hornet car along with its 'specifications', though - I can add that information to this article later. The same goes for Daytona USA 2001 - Team Hornet is never mentioned, and a number of seperate cars are selectable.

Despite these changes through time, your pit crew remains constant - the radio chatter is cut back slightly in Daytona USA 2001 (for example, 'Try to go easy...' as opposed to 'Try to go easy on the car!'), and they wear red, white and yellow jumpsuits/overalls - the same colour as the Hornet car.

Make of this what you will :P

^^ I've fixed most of this up, moving the Team Hornet information into the all-inclusive 'Available cars' section. Internetsupergenius 21:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Why were the course logos that I added removed? Internetsupergenius 21:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Team Hornet has more than #41 in the arcade version. In linked arcade cabinets, you have cars from #1-#8, each colour ranging from Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Gray, Pink, Cyan, Orange. As for Internetsupergenius, your picture does not contain any permission from the author. Cheers,--RuleOfThe9th (talk) 12:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Need a Link
Anyone know how i can get a working arcade version of this game?
 * I can think of only 2 options... 1. Find an arcade that has this game and offer them cash... 2. Find the Dreamcast Version and buy a Steering wheel set... --Biggman15 18:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Highest Grossing Game of All Time?
This statement at the top of the article is highly doubtful, and I am going to remove it. While Daytona USA was certainly popular, it did not sell as many units as Pac-Man and other notable golden age hits and there are no numbers that I am aware of that show it took in more quarters than any other game either. The "reference" used to prove the statement provides no information at all, as the author himself states that he has no figures to back up his assertion that it is the highest grossing game; he just figures it must be based on what information he has. Unless a reputable source can back up this statement, it does not belong in the article. Indrian 00:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Why remove it?
It IS the highest grossing game of all time (hello ONE DOLLAR is more than ONE QUARTER!) If I need to, I will have SEGA confirm that with me. Ashura96 17:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Then prove it. Without a source, this statement cannot stand. I have never seen any numbers published for the top grossing arcade games of all time and I have never seen an article about Daytona USA that has ever made the claim that it is the highest grossing game of all time that was backed up by sales figures.  Not saying you are wrong, but you need a source for the statement. Indrian 04:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I just emailed Sega about this. hopefully they can verify, and also I noticed the Japanese Wikipedia lists the same claim. Ashura96 16:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

 * What did Sega have to say, and can they point to an official source outside your email inbox? For that matter, where did you get the original idea that it was the highest-grossing game of all time? -Ashley Pomeroy 17:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I did NOT get the idea for this whole damn thing, the "fact" has been floating around for over 10 years now...and I never got a reply back from Sega...and way to go on your 4 month response. 阿修羅96 20:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I Have Better High Resolution Pictures
That Might Me Better Than The Small Pictures. I Will Upload Them If I Am Allowed. Offensiveandconfusing 12:10, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I Also
Have A Copy Of Daytona USA Deluxe For Picturing. Offensiveandconfusing

Emulation
Can I Post A Small Thing About The Emulation Of Daytona? Offensiveandconfusing 12:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

No. Create an article about the M2 Emulator... Ashura96 17:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

1993/1994 version
Seeing as how a local restaraunt has had a deluxe 1993 cab set up next to a twin 1994 cab for as long as I can remember, and that the 1993 cab displays all text in English and has a speedometer displayed in miles per hour, I'm fairly certain that the 1993 version was officially released worldwide and not exclusive to Japan as the current article seems to indicate.208.180.139.108 06:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but keep an eye on the 1993 version. 1993 Daytona USA machines does not support multiplayer mode. Please add the information on the second section of the article. Cheers,--RuleOfThe9th (talk) 12:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Car 20?
The article currently states that car number 20 (MISS Tea) is a notable CPU opponent to watch out for, but I haven't seen a car with that number in the game. Cars number 21 and 14 (the latter of which only appears at the name entry screen) have MISS Tea as a sponsor though... Curiously, on the Beginner track, I notice that the leaderboard display beneath the start/finish line usually reports that car number 20 is indeed leading the race or at least in the top 5 after a few laps, but after some testing I have discovered that it is reporting the incorrect number for car number 69 (Car Ex).

As others have no doubt noticed, the ordering of the CPU cars at the start of the race begins with the highest numbered car in the pole position, the next highest numbered one following, and ends with numbers 00 and 1 directly in front of the player. This is also generally true of the rolling demo. I've noticed, however, that car number 69 is present in the rolling demo for the Beginner track, behind car 21 and in front of 16.

I'm playing the 1994 arcade version. Is the current article mistaken or was there indeed a car 20 in a previous version that was replaced with number 69 in this one? Sixfortyfive 16:26, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

It's possible that Sega changed the number of the car in the 1994 version. However, I have not seen the 20 car in the 1993 version, so a mistake is most likely. Cheers,--RuleOfThe9th (talk) 12:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey, wait a second, aren't you that M2 Emulator guy from YouTube?--ROT9 (talk) 11:26, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Soundtrack
Judging from the revision history, there seems to be some confusion about the composer. I've never heart or read anywhere that Tetsuya Mizuguchi composed the soundtrack. According to various sources on the web and Mr Mitsuyoshi himself, the composer is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. Now, I've changed the article accordingly, but just to prevent further uncertainty, here are some more sources: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is coming to Leipzig, Mitsuyoshi performs Daytona USA, S.S.T. Band. - ntropie 19:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Red Cat/Javelin
My save file in Daytona 2001 is past 24 hours now; I still don't have the Red Cat. I have no idea where folks got the idea that 20 hours would earn it, but either we've been had or there's some other mystery task. And curious that there's no details on the Javelin here...have that few people been able to unlock it? 172.129.136.69 05:37, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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most detailed 3d racer at its introduction (1994)
Debatable point ... 'most deatiled' is highly subjective. Sega's previous racer, 1992 Virtua Racing, featured higher polygon count (Model 1 board pushed more polygons, but didn't do any texture-mapping or other rendering effects.) Namco Ridge Racer rendered at a higher resolution (640x480.)  Statement needs to be carefully qualified, because Daytona was not the most detailed in terms of the two preceeding, objective criteria. (Subjectively, I agree it was definitely the best looking racer, for a variety of reasons.)

Can anyone please create a seperate article for each car?
It would be rather puzzling, but you could recieve congitive information from each car from all four games ROT9 (Pit Paddock)--RuleOfThe9th (talk) 15:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Sega Racing Classics
Should this have a section devoted to it? There are differences that should be noted IMO --86.143.113.252 (talk) 15:16, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think there absolutely should be. Just about every other re-imagined/re-hashed game/movie/tv show gets one, why shouldn't this?

Cars 1-40
I have noticed there are 40 cars when you play by yourself. 8×5=40, so all of the colors are repeated 5 times if there are 40 seats. I also noticed if there are 2 or more players, there is a car 99 (which is the machine). SEGA will help me build this game for my children (and car 41 is the machine). Click here to talk about this section. Talker26 (talk) 07:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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Demo
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Clarification on Endurance and Grand Prix modes
Additional "Endurance" and "Grand Prix" modes are also included, both of which require pit stops.

By including the above sentence in the paragraph discussing the Saturn version of the game, it seems to imply these were added for the console port. But referring to guides for the arcade version written in 1994 and 1999, it's clear that these longer gameplay modes were available in the menus for the arcade cabinets for arcade owners to set as desired. And pit stops were only required if the time lost to a pit stop to get fresh tires and damage repaired was less than the total time lost from continuing to lap on worn tires/with car damage. F355fan (talk) 16:59, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Do you have specific sources? Red Phoenix  talk  20:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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West Croydon

West Croydon may refer to:

 * West Croydon, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
 * West Croydon railway station, Adelaide, South Australia
 * West Croydon station, Croydon, England

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Eye in the Sky (album)

Eye in the Sky is the sixth studio album by British rock band the Alan Parsons Project, released in May 1982 by Arista Records. At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards in 1983, Eye in the Sky was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album. In 2019, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Production
Eye in the Sky is the first of three albums the Project recorded on analogue equipment and mixed directly to the digital master tape.

Release
Eye in the Sky was the last platinum record in the United States from the band.

Eye in the Sky contains the title track, the Project's biggest hit, with lead vocals by Eric Woolfson. The album itself was a major success, reaching the top 10 (and sometimes the number one slot) in numerous countries.

The album features the instrumental piece "Sirius", which has become a staple of many college and professional sporting arenas throughout North America. It is best known for its use by the Chicago Bulls to introduce its starting line-up during its championship years of the 1990s and is still used today.

Another instrumental, "Mammagamma", was used separately by TVNZ in New Zealand and BBC Wales in the mid-1980s for their snooker coverage, and as a bed for the "My Favourite Five" feature on Tony Fenton's late-night 2FM show in Ireland across 1989 and 1990. The instrumental also saw use in an industrial video for Iveco in Italy.

On 1 December 2017, a 35th-anniversary-edition box set of the album was released, for which Alan Parsons, along with surround mastering engineers Dave Donnelly and PJ Olsson, won the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Reception
From contemporary reviews, Ken Tucker of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the album a one star rating out of five rating, calling it a "hopelessly banal album" with "Paul McCartney-as-manic-depressive melodies and whining vocals would be merely pathetic were it not for Parsons' lyric pretensions".

From retrospective reviews, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that "this is a soft rock album through and through, one that's about melodic hooks and texture," noting that "with the exception of those instrumentals and the galloping suite "Silence and I," all the artiness was part of the idea of this album was pushed into the lyrics, so the album plays as soft pop album—and a very, very good one at that [...] it adds up to arguably the most consistent Alan Parsons Project album—perhaps not in terms of concept, but in terms of music they never were as satisfying as they were here."

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Personnel

 * Chris Rainbow – main vocal (Track 4)
 * Lenny Zakatek – main vocal (Tracks 6 & 9)
 * Elmer Gantry – main vocal (Track 7)
 * Eric Woolfson – keyboards, main vocal (Tracks 2, 5, 12 & 14)
 * Colin Blunstone – main vocal (Track 10)
 * The English Chorale – choir vocals
 * Alan Parsons – keyboards, Fairlight programming, vocals
 * Andrew Powell – orchestral arrangement (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), orchestral conductor (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), piano (5)
 * David Paton – bass guitar, lead vocal (Track 3)
 * Ian Bairnson – acoustic & electric guitars
 * Mel Collins – saxophone
 * Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion

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Jack Davis (actor)

John H. Davis (April 5, 1914 – November 3, 1992) was an American child actor, notable for appearing in Hal Roach's Our Gang series. His sister Mildred Davis also acted; she appeared in Roach comedian Harold Lloyd's films as his leading lady. When Lloyd and Mildred were married in 1923, Lloyd pulled Jack out of Our Gang and enrolled him in military school.

Career
Davis first appeared in the fourth Our Gang short, Young Sherlocks. He was known as the little tough boy and was a rival (usually with Mickey) for Mary Kornman's affections. In other shorts he was a just a member of the gang instead of a bully. His screen career ended after 19 shorts in the series when Harold Lloyd and his older sister, Mildred Davis, got married, and Lloyd put the boy into military school. His final appearance was the 1923 short Derby Day. After degrees in anthropology and medicine Davis became a successful physician in the Los Angeles area, specialising in cardiology, and associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. He was the grandfather of American actress Carrie Mitchum and actor Bentley Mitchum.

Death
Davis died in 1992 in Santa Monica, California of respiratory failure at the age of 78.

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