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WWE Hall of Fame

The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame which honors professional wrestlers and professional wrestling personalities maintained by WWE. Originally known as the "WWF Hall of Fame", it was created in 1993 when André the Giant was posthumously inducted with a video package as the sole inductee that year. The 1994 and 1995 ceremonies were held in conjunction with the annual King of the Ring pay-per-view events and the 1996 ceremony was held with the Survivor Series event. After an eight-year hiatus and after the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) had been renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002, the promotion relaunched the Hall of Fame in 2004 and has held the ceremonies in conjunction with WrestleMania ever since. Since 2005, portions of the induction ceremonies have aired on television and since 2014, the entire ceremonies have aired on the WWE Network, which was extended to Peacock in 2021 after the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock that year.

As of 2024, there have been 245 inductees, with 131 wrestlers inducted individually, 46 Legacy inductees, 19 group inductions (consisting of 52 wrestlers within those groups), 14 celebrities, and 9 Warrior Award recipients. Seven wrestlers have been inducted twice in two categories: Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Booker T, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash, while two two-time inductees were inducted twice as a member of a group, Sean Waltman (D-Generation X and The New World Order) and Barry Windham (The Four Horsemen and The U.S. Express). Sixty-four members have been inducted posthumously.

History
The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) established the WWF Hall of Fame in 1993. It was first announced on the March 22, 1993, episode of Monday Night Raw where André the Giant, who had died nearly two months prior, was announced as the sole inductee. In the proceeding two years, induction ceremonies were held in conjunction with the annual King of the Ring pay-per-view events. The 1996 ceremony was held with the Survivor Series event, for the first time in front of a paying audience as well as the wrestlers, after which, the Hall of Fame went on hiatus.

In 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the promotion relaunched the now WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 to coincide with WrestleMania XX. This ceremony, like its predecessors, was not broadcast on television, though highlights were shown at the WrestleMania event followed by the inductees appearing on the entrance stage in a condensed ceremony, which would become a Hall of Fame tradition from that point forward. The full version was released on DVD on June 1, 2004. Beginning with the 2005 ceremony, an edited version of the Hall of Fame was broadcast on Spike TV (2005) and on the USA Network (2006 –present ); these were aired on tape delay. Since 2005, the entire Hall of Fame ceremony has been packaged as part of the annual WrestleMania DVD release, and from 2014, has been broadcast live on the WWE Network streaming service. The 2021 ceremony was pretaped on March 30 and April 1 and aired on April 6. In addition to the WWE Network in international markets, the event also aired on Peacock in the United States after the American version of the WWE Network had merged under Peacock in March that year.

Although a building has never been built to represent the Hall of Fame, WWE has looked into constructing a facility. In 2008, Shane McMahon, then-Executive Vice President of Global Media of WWE, stated that WWE had been storing wrestling memorabilia in a warehouse for years, with all items categorized and dated in case a facility is created. Ric Flair stated in 2020 that WWE was in the process of creating a building for the Hall of Fame and that it would be in Florida in the Orlando area, but plans had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current WWE president has expressed interest about creating a hall of fame building in 2021.

Celebrity wing
The "celebrity wing" of the Hall of Fame is dedicated to celebrities that have made memorable appearances on WWE programming, and/or have had longtime associations with WWE (or professional wrestling in general), who have been very successful in other fields.

Warrior Award
In 2015, WWE introduced the Warrior Award for those who have "exhibited unwavering strength and perseverance, and who live life with the courage and compassion that embodies the indomitable spirit of the Ultimate Warrior".

While WWE promotes Warrior Award recipients as Hall of Fame inductees, they are not included in the Hall of Fame section at WWE.com and an image gallery which shows "every WWE Hall of Famer ever" does not contain any recipient.

The award was created following the Ultimate Warrior's death. During his April 2014 Hall of Fame speech shortly before his death, he proposed that there be a special category called the "Jimmy Miranda Award" for WWE's behind-the-scenes employees. Miranda, who died in 2002, was part of the WWE merchandise department for more than 20 years. Former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts expressed disappointment at how WWE used portions of Warrior's Hall of Fame speech to promote the award but left out Warrior's intentions of honoring WWE's off-screen employees. WWE responded, "It is offensive to suggest that WWE and its executives had anything, but altruistic intentions in honoring Connor and his legacy with The Warrior Award", adding that "moving forward the award will be given annually to acknowledge other unsung heroes among WWE's employees and fans". Since 2019 all recipients have been either current or former WWE employees.

Traditionally, Dana Warrior, the widow of the Ultimate Warrior, presents the award. The 2024 Hall of Fame did not have a Warrior award entry.

Legacy inductees
In 2016, WWE introduced a new category for the Hall of Fame called the "Legacy" wing. Inductees in this category are from several eras of wrestling history, going back to the early 20th century. All but two inductees, Hisashi Shinma and MSG Network creator Joseph Cohen, have been inducted posthumously. Legacy inductees are recognized with a video package at the ceremonies.

The Legacy wing also has some criticism around it, specifically regarding the abbreviated way of the inductions. Journalist Dave Meltzer said "this is the category they (WWE) use to honor people who, for whatever reason, they don't feel are marketable names to the modern audience to put in their actual Hall of Fame". Promoter and manager Jim Cornette criticized the fact that recognizable names like Jim Londos or El Santo were part of a video package. Legacy inductees are not announced before the ceremonies and families of posthumous inductees are not notified of their inductions. This practice has been criticized by family members of Legacy inductees Bruiser Brody and Ethel Johnson. The Legacy wing was retired in 2021 and has not inducted anyone since.

1993
WWF Hall of Fame (1993) was the inaugural class of the WWE Hall of Fame. During the March 22, 1993, episode of Monday Night Raw a video package announcing André the Giant's induction was shown. No ceremony took place, and André was inducted posthumously. In March 2015 a condensed version of the 1994 ceremony was added to the WWE Network. Due to no original ceremony, the 1993 induction of André was discussed by Gene Okerlund and Renee Young as part of the 1994 commentary.

1994
WWF Hall of Fame (1994) was the event that featured the introduction of the second class to the WWE Hall of Fame. The event was produced by the WWF on June 9, 1994, from the Omni Inner Harbor International Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

In March 2015 a condensed version of the ceremony was added to the WWE Network. Due to the original ceremony only being partially recorded and not originally intended to air, Gene Okerlund and Renee Young host the program with added commentary.

1995
WWF Hall of Fame (1995) was the event that featured the introduction of the third class to the WWE Hall of Fame. The event was produced by the WWF on June 24, 1995, from the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event took place the same weekend as King of the Ring.

In March 2015 a condensed version of the ceremony was added to the WWE Network. Due to the original ceremony only being partially recorded and not originally intended to air, Gene Okerlund and Renee Young host the program with added commentary. It has been discovered that the full ceremony has been recorded (albeit with low quality) and has been uploaded on YouTube

The 1995 class featured two posthumous inductees. Antonino Rocca was presented by his wife, and The Grand Wizard was represented by Bobby Harmon.

1996
WWF Hall of Fame (1996) was the event which featured the introduction of the fourth class to the WWE Hall of Fame. The event was produced by the WWF on November 16, 1996, from the Marriott Marquis in New York City, New York. The event took place the same weekend as Survivor Series.

In March 2015 a condensed version of the ceremony was added to the WWE Network. Due to the original ceremony only being partially recorded and not originally intended to air, Gene Okerlund and Renee Young host the program with added commentary.

Due to Vincent J. McMahon's death in 1984, he was posthumously inducted by the McMahon family.

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Omissions and refused inductions
In 2012, The Post and Courier columnist Mike Mooneyham noted that the Hall has garnered criticism due to the inductions of questionable performers, and the omissions of major names within the industry. Bob Backlund declined induction multiple times, and The Ultimate Warrior wrote that he refused the honor in 2010; they were eventually inducted in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Randy Savage was long recognized as being noticeably absent; Chris Jericho said that the Hall achieved a level of legitimacy by inducting Savage in 2015. Mick Foley long described Vader as "the most glaring and obvious omission from the #WWEHOF"; this was later corrected when he was posthumously inducted as part of the Class of 2022. Chyna is also a topic of conversation of whether or not she should be inducted due to the nature of her post-WWE career. Ultimately, she was posthumously inducted as a member of D-Generation-X in 2019, although fans, family and fellow wrestlers have since started petitioning for her solo posthumous induction. The most recent discussion amongst fans about a potential induction to the Hall of Fame is about the potential posthumous induction of Bray Wyatt in the near future. Fans started petitioning for his induction, whether it be solo or as part of The Wyatt Family, after his death in August 2023.

Bruno Sammartino, the longest-reigning WWWF World Heavyweight Champion, was once critical of the Hall of Fame. Sammartino disapproved of celebrity inductees such as Pete Rose and William Perry, and said of the ceremony: "What's the point to a Hall of Fame? Is it a building I can actually go to? No. Give me a break". Sammartino declined previous induction offers, before accepting in 2013. Paul Levesque (Triple H) said that it was important for Sammartino to be inducted from a "legitimacy standpoint" and ESPN said that his induction was an opportunity to legitimize the Hall of Fame. After being announced as an inductee, Sammartino said he considered the Hall to be legitimate.

In December 2021, Jeff Hardy was released from WWE. On March 8, 2022, the day that Hardy's no-compete clause expired, WWE reached out to Hardy and offered him an inductee spot to the WWE Hall of Fame (2022) ceremony. Jeff Hardy declined the offer because he was offended, felt like it wasn't time yet and he wanted Matt Hardy to be inducted alongside him.

Quality of inductees
Ric Flair has stated there are several wrestlers in the Hall of Fame that didn't deserve it, but he didn't name names. Koko B. Ware, who worked as an undercard wrestler in WWF, is often billed as a controversial inductee since he was selected before wrestlers such as Randy Savage or Bruno Sammartino. Caleb Smith of Slam Wrestling questioned how Ware was inducted, but former WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Ivan Koloff never was before his 2017 death. 411Mania writer Steve Cook defended his Hall of Fame status since he was very popular with fans and some of his losses were historic, while Kevin Pantoja described him as "the floor for inductees".

Superstar Billy Graham publicly slammed the hall and demanded that WWE remove him from it, due to the 2011 induction of Abdullah the Butcher. Graham wrote: "It is a shameless organization to induct a bloodthirsty animal such as Abdullah the Butcher into their worthless and embarrassing Hall of Fame and I want the name of Superstar Billy Graham to be no part of it". In 2018, Bret Hart, who headlined the 2006 ceremony, criticized the omissions of several wrestlers, primarily Dynamite Kid and his brother Owen, as well as the inductions of the likes of The Rock 'n' Roll Express and The Fabulous Freebirds, who experienced little success in WWE. Hart said he would not go to another ceremony until WWE inducts "proper, deserving candidates". Hart attended the 2019 ceremony to be inducted for a second time as part of The Hart Foundation. Hart also asked WWE to remove Goldberg from the Hall of Fame, stating that "he got in there for hurting everybody he worked with" (which included himself in 1999). In 2021, after the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Mick Foley asked Vince McMahon to remove Donald Trump from the Hall of Fame though it ultimately did not occur.

Dave Scherer of PWInsider has questioned how WWE can sustain the 2004–present Hall of Fame model, due to legends being rapidly inducted. He wrote: "There are only so many people that they can have headline a class. They really need to make more new stars to ensure that they can keep filling arenas for the ceremony". 411Mania's Ryan Byers said WWE standards are "weird" since several inductees have Hall of Fame careers, but others "made it in for political reasons, longstanding loyalty to the promotion".

Praise and criticism
Owen Hart's widow, Martha Hart, responded to calls for him to be inducted by stating: "They don't even have a Hallway of Fame. It doesn't exist. There's nothing. It's a fake entity. There's nothing real or tangible. It's just an event they have to make money. They put it on TV and have a celebration, and it's just so ridiculous. I would never even entertain it. It's garbage." Sabu also criticized the Hall of Fame, saying "I'd only do it because I need the money... I don't consider it a real Hall of Fame".

Others have offered praise for the Hall of Fame. World Wrestling Council promoter and 26-time WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion Carlos Colón Sr. said that his 2014 induction was a "realization of a dream". Arn Anderson, who was inducted in 2012 as part of The Four Horsemen, said that the induction was the "pinnacle of [his] wrestling life". 2015 Hall of Fame headliner Kevin Nash stated that two things in the professional wrestling business are real: "When you win your first championship and when you get inducted into the Hall of Fame". Nash claimed this is a sentiment to which colleague Ric Flair also subscribes. During his 2013 induction, future U.S. president Donald Trump said that the honor meant more than "having the highest ratings in TV, being a best-selling author or getting a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame".

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Talk:Carly Fiorina

Concerns with edit descriptions
I am concerned that a specific editor reverts edits and does so without regarding the information provided. The language used to describe some edits is less than professional. If people are editing, they should conduct themselves as editors even if they are only editors on a voluntary basis. I wanted to note that it continues to happen and I hope other editors will be on the look-out.SeminarianJohn (talk) 18:13, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

 * You're obviosly talking about my reverts here and here, with "fishing for eyeballs" as the edit summary.
 * What makes you think I was reverting "without regarding the information provided"? I certainly looked at the information provided, and I found it lacking.
 * The language I used is flippant but not inaccurate. If you are asking for other editors to "be on the look-out" for slang words like "eyeballs" then you've stepped into a position of suppressing free expression, to achieve a chilling effect. I don't intend to be restricted in that manner. Binksternet (talk) 18:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

You can say what you would like, but it is indeed flippant and I maintain grossly inaccurate. We all have free expression, but we should act in a professional manner when approaching other people. There is still a such thing as being respectful. Saying things flippantly is not very flattering on a person. I disagree with your reasoning, but I chose to take this route instead of back and forth. Please see Wikipedia:Civility for conduct. SeminarianJohn (talk) 19:00, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

I do not intend to be disrespected, and I will challenge disrespect and refer back to Wikipedia:Civility.SeminarianJohn (talk) 19:08, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Being flippant certainly does not fall in here. "Stated simply, editors should always treat each other with consideration and respect. They should focus on improving the encyclopedia while maintaining a pleasant editing environment by behaving politely, calmly and reasonably, even during heated debates."SeminarianJohn (talk) 19:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC) Civility

 * You're taking personally a flippant comment I made about Fiorina's attempt to stay in the public eye. Why? Binksternet (talk) 19:30, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2020
Hello!

Hope you and your family is all well. My suggestion is to make that she is a Democrat. She said she will vote for Joe Biden in 2020. 2600:8805:9900:5AF:E196:1FF3:EF85:E9D3 (talk) 20:38, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Rummskartoffel (talk) 21:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It was clear to me that this IP editor wanted to change Fiorina from Republican to Democrat, which is not supported by any references. Nobody is saying she is now a Democrat. So this request is definitely not going to happen. Binksternet (talk) 21:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 July 2020
Hello.

Currently she is a Democrat. She said she would vote for Joe Biden. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/carly-fiorina-joe-biden-trump/index.html2600:8805:9900:5AF:D0C1:7A7C:B27:B04B (talk) 11:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The source you provided reports that she intends to vote for Biden, but not that she is a Democrat. Democrats need not vote for Biden and people who vote for Biden need not be Democrats. Rummskartoffel (talk) 11:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Remove political positions section?
The "political positions" section is redundant with the one in her 2016 campaign page. I think that this section should be removed.--Sa57arc (talk) 22:23, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I think removal is too much. Greatly pruning the section here is a good idea, though, leaving all the detail at a campaign page. We should tell the reader her positions on major issues, that she is anti-abortion, for instance. Binksternet (talk) 23:29, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

 * OK. I will think about this some more.--Sa57arc (talk) 03:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I read it over again and I changed my mind. I am going to leave it as is.--Sa57arc (talk) 04:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Dictamnus albus

Needs to me merged with Dittany, I believe. --DanielCD 15:36, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The page has been turned into a disambig page, and this is no longer relevant. -- Kizor 17:10, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

The article on the burning bush says that the seeds do cause damage to the plant when they catch fire, contrading this one. A fix to one or both would be much appreciated. -- Kizor 17:10, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Redirect
Since Dittany of Crete is a redirect to Origanum dictamnus, perhaps Dictamnus (the genus) should redirect to Dictamnus albus (its sole species, according to the article.) Feezo (Talk) 01:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Scratch that. Looks like the article is wrong. Feezo  (Talk) 01:42, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

A "disorder" called "in the gravel"?
The second paragraph in the "Historical medical uses" section begins (italics are mine):

"An infusion of the tops of the plant was also used as a pleasant and efficacious medicine in the gravel. It was believed to work powerfully by provoking urine and easing colicky pains which frequently accompany that disorder."

I traced this text all the way back to: 09:00, 18 February 2005 Lady Tenar (talk | contribs) (3,833 bytes) (merge with content from Dittany) (undo)

And then back further in the current disambiguation Dittany page's history to the time it was an article. The original text was the same as the current one, so "in the gravel" is not from an editing mishap along the way.

A Google search for "gravel illness" turned up one mention of kidney stones being obliquely referred to as gravel. My first impression was "gravel" was a typo for "gravid," but that seems unlikely.

Sorry that this is all I can do at the moment. I have my own, non-gravel illness to deal with, so I appreciate anyone who can finish this research and revise the section. I suggest starting with a search for "kidney gravel" to find a decent reference.

Thanks, Geekdiva (talk) 08:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

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Portal:United Kingdom/Projects

Main United Kingdom

UK-wide UK geography, UK politics, UK subdivisions

Selected area-based projects England (London), Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales (Cardiff)

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Baronetcies, Clans of Scotland, Cricket, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Football clubs, Sherlock Holmes, British military history, Peerage

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Salling Group

Salling Group A/S (formerly Dansk Supermarked A/S) is Denmark's largest retailer, with a market share around 34%. It owns several chains of stores, including Netto, Føtex, Bilka, and Salling. Additionally, it holds franchise rights for Starbucks and Carl's Jr. in Denmark. Salling Group's international operations include Netto, which has expanded into Germany and Poland, and has made two unsuccessful attempts at operating in the United Kingdom. Its stores in Sweden were sold off in 2019.

On 1 June 2018 Dansk Supermarked changed its name to Salling Group.

The early years
The Danish Supermarket was built on the foundation of the Salling department store, created in 1906 by Ferdinand Salling. He worked there until his death in 1953 and he managed to transform his company into public limited company - F. Salling A/S.

After the death of Ferdinand Salling, his son Herman Salling took over the company. He travelled all over the world in search for inspiration and new ideas. After that he decided to focus on department stores, supermarkets and hypermarket chains.

In 1960, Herman Salling opened his first supermarket store Føtex, through his company Jysk Supermarket, which was a completely new type of store for Denmark. The idea behind that store was to provide both food and textiles under one roof.

A.P. Møller enters Dansk Supermarked
Herman Salling wanted to expand his venture across Europe, so he started looking for partners to provide him extra funding.

Salling found the right partner in 1964 and he made a deal with Arnold Peter Møller, which acquired 50% of the company off him. Møller also suggested that Herman Salling's company - Jysk Supermarket, should change its name to Danish Supermarket A/S.

The birth of Bilka
In 1970, Danish Supermarked gave the Danes the first discount store in Denmark - Bilka. The first store was located in Tilst, near Aarhus. After the opening of the store, there were more than 50,000 people visiting it every day. At this point, the customers were becoming more and more price conscious. Some of them even had extra freezers at their homes, so that they could buy more goods at the discount store. The idea for the creation of Bilka came from Herman Salling's visit to West Germany. After that he managed to convince his partner, the shipping magnate Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, that hypermarkets were the way forward.

The launch of Netto
In 1981, the first store of the discount supermarket chain Netto was opened in Denmark. The company later expanded into France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Netto is the only company owned by Dansk Supermarked to have expanded outside Denmark.

The German Netto stores, set up in 1990, were originally a 75:25 joint venture between Dansk Supermarked and the largest German supermarket chain, Edeka. Dansk Supermarked acquired Edeka's 25% stake in January 2013, enabling it to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Dansk Supermarked. Edeka also owns a separate discount supermarket chain, Netto Marken-Discount, which is completely unrelated to Dansk Supermarked.

The United Kingdom Netto stores, also set up in 1990, were later sold to the British supermarket chain Asda, (owned by the United States retailer Walmart), in 2010. However, in 2014, Dansk Supermarked relaunched Netto UK stores as a 50:50 joint venture with another British supermarket chain, J Sainsbury plc. In 2016 J Sainsbury plc closed cooperation with DS and again Netto chain left British market.

The Swedish Netto stores were established in 2002 as a 50:50 joint venture with the Swedish retailer ICA AB. However, ICA later reduced its stake to 5%, meaning that from 2006 Dansk Supermarked had a 95% controlling interest in the Swedish Netto stores. Netto left Sweden in July 2019, when the stores were sold off to Coop Butiker & Stormarknader AB.

Expansion into other ventures
Tøj & Sko, a clothing and footwear retailer, was also founded in 1981. The stores were closed in 2012.

Dansk Supermarked also launched in 1987 another non-food retailer A-Z. However, by 2014, these A-Z stores had been rebranded to Bilka.

Mærsk sells its stake back to Salling
As of January 2014, the company was 81% owned by F. Salling Invest A/S and F. Salling Holding A/S (known as the Salling Companies) and 19% owned by A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. On 7 January 2014, A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S announced that it was selling a 48.68% stake in Dansk Supermarked back to F. Salling Invest A/S and F. Salling Holding A/S (jointly the "Salling Companies"), with an option to buy back the remaining 19% stake in 2019. The remaining stake was bought earlier than expected at the end of 2017.

Relaunch of BR toy store chain
On January 17, 2019, Salling Group announced the acquisition of some parts of Top-Toy, the bankrupt company behind the toy chains BR and Toys "R" Us in Denmark. The agreement included Top-Toy's entire Danish inventory and the rights to the BR name and brands for a future 25 new stores. Salling Group's CEO, Per Bank, called the deal a "strategically important agreement" that would ensure that Danes could still buy toys in physical stores across the country. However, no decision was made regarding the long-term future of the BR brand. The acquisition did not include Top-Toy's stores or employees, but Salling Group did have 1,500 open positions. Of those, approximately 1,000 were in Denmark, and 60% of those were aimed at young people under 18 or were student positions.

Mini Market
The Mini Market (in Danish: Mini Marked) campaign was a largely successful campaign done by Salling Group in the summer of 2019. The campaign revolved around miniature toys shaped and designed like grocery products, such as a toothpaste bottle, a carton of eggs or a deodorant. Customers would receive one of the toys if they purchased more than 100 kr. worth of groceries in a Salling, Føtex or Bilka store. Along with the toys was a collection binder that customers could purchase at stores. It was expected that the toys would be sold until July 4, however because of the popularity, the expected end date was then June 27.

The campaign also received criticism. Throughout the campaign, they received complaints because of the large amounts of plastic they were producing. In response, the press manager for Salling Group, Mads Hvitved Grand, stated that the toys' intention for a long period of use was best met with plastic, and that the company wanted to promote playing with physical toys instead of sitting in front of a screen.

Current operations
Salling Group is Denmark's largest retailer, with a 34.9% market share.

Current stores and restaurants as of 31 December 2022:

Former operations
Former stores in Denmark: Former stores outside Denmark:

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Craxi

Craxi ( or, ) is an Italian surname which originated from Sicily. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Bettino Craxi (1934–2000), Italian politician
 * Bobo Craxi (born 1964), Italian politician, son of Bettino
 * Stefania Craxi (born 1960), Italian politician, daughter of Bettino

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cleanup netware page
You've done a great job of extending the Roger Billings page. If you have time could you take a look at the NetWare page. It is sound enough, but it doesn't mention any of the precursors to NetWare, particularly it doesn't mention FSD, and you seem to know more about this than me.

Also FSD should have a page of its own.

By the way, we usually try to make as many internal links and as few external links, and keep the externals in a "see also" section near the bottom. Book links are easy, you just write ISBN then the 11 (or 13?) digits.

Thanks again for your work on Billings. — Zeimusu | Talk 13:59, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

Unexplained deletions in Roger E. Billings and Church of Jesus Christ in Zion
I just wanted to draw your attention to the talk pages for these articles, and I'd like to discuss the reasons for your deletions in these articles there. Thanks. CO GDEN  03:06, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages or sections with blank content. It is considered vandalism. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. tregoweth 14:51, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

When you blanked Church of Jesus Christ in Zion, your comment was as follows: "This information is completely false. I think that this page should be recontructed only by people having firsthand knowledge." If you have first-hand knowledge, you are invited to make corrections. However, it is not appropriate to simply blank the page. CO GDEN  17:34, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

The paragraph about the Church of Jesus Christ in Zion was deleted from the Polygamous Mormon fundamentalists article because it did not apply. There is no connection, and the indication to the contrary was unfounded.

The article Church of Jesus Christ in Zion was temporarily blanked with the comment that it contained false information that was defamatory. Having been a member of that group, I know for a fact that the things stated are not correct.

I finished my edits and the article was corrected, and a discussion of the changes, references, and reasoning behind the changes was posted to the discussion section of that page.

 * Unfortunately, I've been "outed", and called to task by my "contact" in the group about what I have written here (which I have deleted). I just want to explain that I never meant to imply that I had any real first-hand knowledge about the church, and that most of what I know is second-hand or third-hand. My "contact" in the group did not actually verify any of the information in this article, and agrees with you that most of the original article is false. CO GDEN  17:54, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

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Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team

The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships or the Olympic hockey tournament.

After its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet team competed as the CIS team (part of the Unified Team) at the 1992 Winter Olympics. After the Olympics, the CIS team ceased to exist and was replaced by Russia at the 1992 World Championship. Other former Soviet republics (Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine) established their own national teams later that year. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) recognized the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union hockey federation and passed its ranking on to Russia. The other national hockey teams were considered new and sent to compete in Pool C.

The IIHF Centennial All-Star Team included four Soviet-Russian players out of a team of six: goalie Vladislav Tretiak, defenseman Vyacheslav Fetisov and forwards Valeri Kharlamov and Sergei Makarov who played for the Soviet teams in the 1970s and the 1980s were selected for the team in 2008.

History
Ice hockey was not properly introduced into the Soviet Union until the 1940s, though bandy, a similar game played on a larger ice field, had long been popular in the country. It was during a tour of FC Dynamo Moscow of the United Kingdom in 1945 that Soviet officials first got the idea of establishing an ice hockey program. They watched several exhibition matches in London, and National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell would later say that "This was the time when the Russians got the idea for their hockey team. The Russian soccer players were more interested in watching Canadian players play hockey than in soccer." The Soviet Championship League was established in 1946, and the national team was formed shortly after, playing their first matches in a series of exhibitions against LTC Praha in 1948.

The Soviets planned to send a team to the 1953 World Championships, but due to an injury to Vsevolod Bobrov, one of their star players, officials decided against going. They would make their debut at the 1954 World Championships instead. Largely unknown to the larger hockey world, the team surprised many by winning the gold medal, defeating Canada in the final game.

The Soviets played their first exhibition tour in Canada in 1957, which perpetuated a rivalry between the countries. Throughout the rest of the 1950s the World Championships were largely contested between Canada and the Soviet Union. That changed in the early 1960s. Canada won the gold in 1961, and after missing the 1962 tournament due to political issues, the Soviets would win the gold medal every year until 1972. They faced perhaps their greatest upset at the 1976 World Championships; in their opening match against host Poland, the Soviets were defeated 6–4.

In 1972 the Soviets played Canada in an exhibition series that saw the Soviet national team play a team composed of National Hockey League (NHL) players for the first time. Both the Olympics and World Championships did not allow professionals, so the best Canadian players were never able to compete against the Soviets, and in protest at this Canada had left international hockey in 1970. This series, known as the Summit Series, was a chance to see how the NHL players would fare. In eight games (four in Canada, four in the USSR), the teams were close, and it took until the final 34 seconds of the eighth game for Canada to win the series, four games to three, with one tie.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Soviets also had one of their most notable losses. Playing the United States in the medal round, the Soviets lost 4–3. This match, later dubbed the Miracle on Ice, was notable because it had the Soviets, recognized as the top international team in the world, against an American team composed largely of university-level players. The Americans would go on to win the gold medal in the tournament, while the Soviets finished with the silver, only the second time they failed to win gold at the Olympics since their debut in 1956.

The reforms of the 1980s in the Soviet Union had a detrimental effect on the national team. No longer afraid to speak out against their treatment, players like Viacheslav Fetisov and Igor Larionov openly critiqued the management style of their coach, Viktor Tikhonov, which included being secluded in a military-style barracks for eleven months of the year. They also sought the chance to move to North America and play in the NHL, though the authorities were reluctant to allow this. Negotiations with the NHL began in the late 1980s over this, and in 1989 several players, including both Fetisov and Larionov, were permitted to leave the Soviet Union and join NHL teams.

Yuri Korolev was head of the research group for the national men's team from 1964 to 1992, and contributed to the team winning seventeen Ice Hockey World Championships and seven Winter Olympic Games gold medals.

Journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin traveled with the national team as both a reporter and an English to Russian translator. He had access to the team's locker room and the opportunity to speak directly with the players and be part of their daily life. In his 2016 book The Red Machine, Kukushkin reported that the nickname for the Soviet national team came into usage during the 1983 Super Series, when a headline in a Minneapolis newspaper headline read "The Red Machine rolled down on us".

Statistics
Leading scorers (Olympics, World Championships, Canada Cups, 1972 Summit Series)
 * 1) Sergei Makarov – 248 points
 * 2) Aleksandr Maltsev – 213+ points
 * 3) Valeri Kharlamov – 199 points
 * 4) Boris Mikhailov – 180 points
 * 5) Vladimir Petrov – 176 points

Summit Series

 * 1972 – Lost to Canada
 * 1974 – Won series against Canada

Canada Cup

 * 1976 – Finished in 3rd place
 * 1981 – Won championship
 * 1984 – Lost semifinal
 * 1987 – Lost final
 * 1991 – Finished in 5th place

Challenge Cup and Rendez-vous vs. NHL All-Stars

 * 1979 – Won series
 * 1987 – Tied series

Other tournaments

 * Deutschland Cup: Gold medal (1988, 1991)
 * Nissan Cup: Gold medal (1990)

Notable players

 * Yevgeny Babich
 * Helmuts Balderis
 * Vsevolod Bobrov
 * Vyacheslav Bykov
 * Vitaly Davydov
 * Vyacheslav Fetisov
 * Anatoli Firsov
 * Valeri Kamensky
 * Sergei Kapustin
 * Alexei Kasatonov
 * Valeri Kharlamov
 * Vladimir Krutov
 * Alfred Kuchevsky
 * Igor Larionov
 * Sergei Makarov
 * Alexander Maltsev
 * Boris Mikhailov
 * Vladimir Petrov
 * Alexander Ragulin
 * Vyacheslav Starshinov
 * Vladislav Tretiak
 * Valeri Vasiliev
 * Alexander Yakushev
 * Yevgeni Zimin
 * Viktor Zinger

Amateur status of players
Until 1977, professional players were not able to participate in the World Championship, and it was not until 1988 that they could play in the Winter Olympics. However, the Soviet team was populated with amateur players who were primarily full-time athletes hired as regular workers of a company (aircraft industry, food workers, tractor industry) or organization (KGB, Red Army, Soviet Air Force) that sponsored what would be presented as an after-hours social sports society hockey team for their workers in order to keep their amateur status. By the 1970s, several national hockey federations, such as Canada, protested the use of the amateur status for players of Eastern Bloc teams and even withdrew from the 1972 and 1976 Winter Games in protest.


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Talk:Henstock–Kurzweil integral

Educational use
This was in the text of the article:

''This topic is somewhat esoteric: most mathematical departments do not teach it even for graduate students, and specialists in this field are numbered. Consider reading first Riemann integral (the oldest and simplest definition) or Lebesgue integral (the most common).''

I believe Uffish added that remark.

I disagree with this Point Of View. The Denjoy-Perron-Henstock-Kurzweil integral is part of the first year course in Mathematics and also Physics at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The course is given by Jean Mawhin (J. Mawhin, Analyse : fondements, techniques, évolution. De Boeck Université, Bruxelles, 1992. ISBN 2-8041-1670-0). -- 15:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, that still doesn't make it taught at most departments. In the past proponents of this approach have written things here designed to 'promote' this approach. Not surprisingly there was a negative reaction. Charles Matthews 16:35, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the explanation. It sometimes seems to me that mathematicians in any field are numbered and that all of mathematics is viewed as esoteric ;-) 19:44, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Relation to Lebesgue
It would be nice to see how this definition relates to Lebesgue integration beyond the statement that it "in some situations is more useful than the Lebesgue integral." It is easy to see that all Riemann integrable functions are Henstock-Kurzweil integrable, but does Henstock-Kurzweil itegrability imply Lebesgue integrability, or vice versa? Althai 05:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * If I recall correctly, at the external site, it is stated that Lebesgue integrability implies gauge integrability. Indeed, the example at the start of the article gives a function that is not Lebesgue integrable but is gauge integrable. If somebody confirms this, then maybe further emphasis can be added to article on these points DRLB 15:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, Lebesgue integrability implies gauge integrability. Lebesgue integral is equivalent to so-called McShane integral, which is a weaker form of the gauge integral. Its weakness is in removing the condition $$t_i\in[u_{i-1},u_i]$$, that is, the only thing that connects the point and its segment is the gauge. McShane integral is obviously weaker than the gauge integral, but equivalence of McShane and Lebesgue integrals takes some efforts to proof.
 * P.S. McShane and Kurzweil-Henstock integrals (together with Riemann integral) are a part of the first year calculus course by professor T.P.Lukashenko in the Moscow State University - i've been learning it ;)
 * --a_dergachev 17:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Diagram
Probably a diagram similar to this should be added to the page. --128.163.161.42 (talk) 10:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

A few changes
I added a section called "Properties" which describes a few key properties of the gauge integral. (Also I removed the paragraph from the text about the fundamental theorem of calculus and added corresponding material in this section.) In particular, I added the characterization of gauge integrable functions in terms of Lebesgue integrable functions.

It would be nice to be more explicit about the fact that the gauge integral, unlike the Riemann and Lebesgue integrals, is a "nonasbsolute integral" i.e., integrability of f does not imply integrability of |f|.

Is it now time to remove the extremely vague and unhelpful statement about the gauge integral being "in some situations more useful" than the Lebesgue integral? We have now called attention to several particular uses: (i) integration of all derivatives; (ii) inclusion of improper Riemann integrals; (iii) arguably more elementary definition. 72.152.92.55 (talk) 23:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)Plclark

 * Just added a statement on Hake's theorem. --a_dergachev (talk) 09:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

distributional Denjoy integral
In Real Analysis Exchange 33(1) pp51-82, Erik Talvila has defined an extraordinarily simple integral which takes Dejoy, Henstock, Lebesgue & Reimann as special cases. The definition is: given distribution $$f$$, if there exists a continuous function F with real limit at infinity such that $$F' = f$$ (distributional derivative) then define $$\int_{-\infty}^\infty f = F(\infty)-F(-\infty)$$. Integrable distributions form a Banach space, and its dual is $$\mathcal{BV}$$. He then derives int by parts, a very general change of variables, convergence theorems, Holder inequality and other properties.

Just giving heads up! --Pwsnafu (talk) 03:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

This comes quite many years late, but thanks for this heads up! The relevant paper is "The Distributional Denjoy Integral", Erik Talvila, Real Analysis Exchange 33(1) pp. 51-82. --Kaba3 (talk) 14:07, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

And, whoever is interested in that paper, is probably also interested in the papers "The Regulated Primitive Integral" and "The Lp Primitive Integral" from the same author. --Kaba3 (talk) 16:02, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Question of cause/meaning
I question the sentence:" Due to these two important mathematicians, it is now commonly known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral." I suspect that it is a poor translation..(?). As is, this sentence clearly implies that both Henstock and Kurzweil caused the integral to be named after themselves. Its common for mathmeticians to claim a bit too much credit, but in this case I wonder if the text is correct. I suspect that the author meant "Due to the importance of their work with/on it, it is commonly known as the Henstock-Kurzweil integral." If they did not claim priority and not lobby for a name change, would someone change the above to make clear what is being said? Thanks173.189.73.72 (talk) 23:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

 * Heh. Good one! Someone corrected it; it now says "Due to these two important contributions..." 67.198.37.16 (talk) 20:12, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

To use or not to use it when teaching
I use the idea of the gauge integral as a bridge from Riemann to Lebesgue integration in Sect.1 "Introduction" of my course Functions of a real variable. There you can also find my explanation, why use it as just a bridge, not instead of Lebesgue integral. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 16:11, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

... calculating that integral gives the same result by all three formulations
This seems trivially false to me. The Riemann integral of sin(x) from 0 to 2 pi is 0, while the Lebesgue integral is 4, and as far as I can understand from the definition given here, the gauge integral should be zero. I have however only had formal education in Riemann integrals and sums. Possibly f was meant to be nonnegative on [a, b]. Edit March 20: The weird definition of Lebesgue integration got me, the article is fine. Yodo9000 (talk) 11:02, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

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cultural background of hongkong
cultural background of hongkong 103.225.136.41 (talk) 03:06, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

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Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/October 2005

 * ...that Simeon Solomon was a British painter who regularly had works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1860?
 * ...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
 * ...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
 * ...that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
 * ...that, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?


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Corona (beer)

Corona is a Mexican brand of beer produced by Grupo Modelo in Mexico and exported to markets around the world. Constellation Brands is the exclusive licensee and sole importer of Corona in the fifty states of the United States, Washington, D.C., and Guam. Belgian company AB InBev owns the beer in all other worldwide markets and it solely brews the beer for all markets including the US. Corona is now brewed in China for the Australasia market. It is the top-selling brand of imported beer in the United States. It is often served with a wedge of lime or lemon in the neck of the bottle to add tartness and flavor. The recipe for the mash bill includes corn as well as the barley malt and hops traditionally used for making beer.

The brand's most popular variation is Corona Extra, a pale lager. It is one of the top-selling beers worldwide, and Corona Extra has been the top-selling imported drink in the U.S. since 1998. Other variants of the Corona beer brand include Corona Light, Corona Premier, and Corona Familiar. A variety of flavored hard seltzers marketed under the Corona brand name was launched in March 2020.

Ingredients
According to Sinebrychoff, a Finnish company owned by the Carlsberg Group, Corona Extra contains barley malt, corn, hops, yeast, antioxidants (ascorbic acid), and propylene glycol alginate as a stabilizer.

Packaging
Corona beer is available in a variety of bottle presentations, ranging from the 207 ml ampolleta (labeled Coronita and just referred as the cuartito) up to the 940 ml Corona Familiar (known as the familiar, Litro or Mega). A draught version also exists, as does canned Corona in some markets.

Since the 80s, Corona had been branded as Coronita (literally, 'little crown') in Spain, as winemaker Bodegas Torres had owned the trademark for "Coronas" since 1907. The packaging was otherwise the same in Spain as in Mexico and the United States. AB InBev resolved the branding issues with Torres in 2016, with the beer starting to be sold as Corona in Spain from June of that year. In Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and the United States, smaller, 210 mL bottles of the beer are also branded as "Coronita".

Sponsorship partners

Corona was a longtime sponsor of boxing in Mexico, then the United States in the cable age, including sponsorship of Saturday night fights on Televisa, but reduced its sponsorship after Anheuser-Busch InBev took full control of the brand. In the United States, Constellation Brands continues to sponsor boxing through Corona, most notably with undefeated featherweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Corona was the title sponsor of the LPGA Tour tournament Corona Championship (later Tres Marias Championship) from 2005 to 2009, and of the NASCAR Mexico Corona Series (now NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series) from 2004 to 2011, the most followed stock car racing series in Mexico.

In addition, Corona is a "second sponsor" for four of the top-flight professional football teams of Mexico's first division, Liga MX. The teams sponsored by Corona are Santos Laguna, América, Toluca, and Mazatlán. Corona has sponsored the Mexico national football team since 2003, and has signed a contract to do so until 2026.

Corona and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) had a 5½–year sponsorship in which Corona was the ATP's premier worldwide sponsor. Corona was also the title sponsor of the SBK Superbike World Championship from 1998 until 2007.

Advertising
Corona calls itself: "La cerveza más fina."

Corona commercials for both Corona Extra and Corona Light typically take place on a beach with the tagline "Miles Away From Ordinary" from 2000 to 2007. Since the early 2010s, the tagline "Find Your Beach" was used.

In 1990, Corona introduced a Christmas-themed commercial called "O Tannenpalm". It features a whistling rendition of the popular Christmas song "O Tannenbaum" as a palm tree lights up with Christmas lights, with the caption "Feliz Navidad" (Merry Christmas). "O Tannenpalm", the longest-running beer ad, has aired every year during the month of December.

Use in cocktails
Some bars and restaurants serve a "Coronarita", a beer cocktail that consists of a bottle of Corona upturned to drain into a margarita.

COVID-19 pandemic
In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN published an article falsely claiming that 38% of Americans would not buy Corona "under any circumstances" due to its similarity in name to coronaviruses. The claim was based on a press release by 5W Public Relations, whose customers include competitors of the maker of Corona. 5WPR had done a phone poll of 737 American beer drinkers, and presented the results as related to the pandemic. However, the question responsible for the 38% statistic did not actually mention COVID-19 as a motivation, which might have instead simply indicated a preference for a different brand of beer. In The Atlantic, Yascha Mounk deemed 5WPR "unscrupulous" and "shameless".

Sales increased 8.9% in the first three months of 2020, and showed year-over-year growth of 24% in the first three weeks of March 2020, as American consumers were drinking more beer and alcoholic beverages while staying at home during the emerging pandemic.

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Air Andaman

Air Andaman was a Thai regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a regional carrier operating a small network of domestic and international services, as well as charter flights. The airline ceased all operations in 2004.

History
The airline was established in 2000 and started operations on 29 October 2000. It was one of several new carriers formed to take advantage of the deregulation of the air transport industry in Thailand and the Thai government's "Open Skies" policy, which came into effect on 1 September 2000.

Air Andaman's services included a domestic route between Bangkok and Phuket and flights to Singapore. In 2003-04 it had an extensive network with 13 regional destinations served from Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

But by the end of 2004, the airline was defunct. In March 2006, Thailand's Civil Aviation Department said it was withdrawing the airline's license.

The airline's major shareholders were Atichart Athakravi and Prathip Boonprasom, who in March 2006 was planning a comeback with German investor Hubert Joseph Trunser and Swiss investor Bernan Luthee in a joint venture called Asian Aerospace Service. The new airline aimed to run chartered flights from Bangkok with two Jetstream aircraft.

Destinations
During its four-year existence, Air Andaman flew to the following destinations:

 * Thailand
 * Bangkok — Don Mueang International Airport (hub)
 * Chiang Mai — Chiang Mai International Airport (focus city)
 * Chumphon — Chumphon Airport
 * Mae Hong Son — Mae Hong Son Airport
 * Mae Sot — Mae Sot Airport
 * Nakhon Ratchasima — Nakhon Ratchasima Airport
 * Nan — Nan Nakhon Airport
 * Phrae — Phrae Airport
 * Phuket — Phuket International Airport
 * Surin — Surin Airport

Fleet
Air Andaman had operated the following aircraft (at 2003-04):
 * 3 Fokker 50 based in Bangkok
 * 2 BAe Jetstream 31 based in Chiang Mai

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User:Ashley Pomeroy just modified the sentence: "Nonetheless, when the villain "The Hooded Claw" grabbed her and held her back- down over his head, she would somehow be incapable of doing anything other than yelling "Hayulp!" and flailing her limbs uselessly above her, like an upended turtle." The phrase "like an upended turtle" was removed with the comment "NPOV edit; we cannot see into the minds of turtles". I don't understand how the phrase was a POV problem nor how it implied turtle mindreading. Puzzled, -- Infrogmation 15:55, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * As I never got an explanation as to why it was "POV", I put the turtle comparison back in. -- Infrogmation 00:51, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The correct thing to do. If he starts a fight over it, try going over his head. Wikipedia lets anyone "moderate" it, and the moderators end up forming nerdish, territorial cliques. There was that one American kid who was something like 16 years old, and created the entire Scottish Wikipedia by transcribing English articles into a bad Scottish accent! Literally search-and-replaced the English words with Scottish slang. He wasn't found out for years! This place is a shithole, ruled by type A personalities and the severely autistic. They're stubborn and they don't care about getting on with people. I imagine the criticism on your post was some sperg's idea of a joke. Honestly. For those people, editing and messing with articles is their social life. Some of them have done thousands. Nobody can be an expert in a thousand subjects.

 * All that saves this place is the few experts who dedicated their time to writing the really good articles. On the other side you have the "moderators" like some sort of paper-eating worm, gradually gnawing away at that knowledge and replacing it with bland assumptions. If you ever have 5 days to spare, go look at the rules moderators are supposed to obey. Every one of those rules came about from a real event. "Close your mouth when you eat and put clean underpants on" needs putting into a table for them.

 * This place is a joke, and it's cos the owner was lazy and cheap, and decided to give volunteers petty amounts of power. That only attracts people who will put hours of their life in for no other reward than petty power. The sort of people who are petty and shouldn't ever have any power.

 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 06:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Penny's Japanese name; it's not listed
What Penelope's Japanese name? --User:Angie Y.
 * A fair guess would be "Penerope Pittusutoppu", although the article doesn't say... 惑乱 分からん 11:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * No, that's just her English name in stupid pseudo-Japanese. Anybody can do that, it's not actually speaking Japanese.
 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 06:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I am a native English speaker learning Japanese, and I'm dating a native Japanese person. That's not "pseudo-Japanese". That's an almost-correct romaji (Roman alphabet) transliteration of one katakanaization of her name in Japanese.
 * The process of converting English words to Japanese follows established conventions. All consonant sounds in Japanese, with the exception of N, are followed by a vowel sound, and so consonants like the trailing P in Pitstop require additional vowel sounds that are not present in English.
 * Adding those additional vowels can sound "stereotypical", but in this case the stereotype exists for a reason: Japanese phonology doesn't have the same sounds as English!
 * Her name in Japanese, taken from Japanese Wikipedia is ペネロッピー･ピットストップ which would transliterate in romaji as peneroppī pittosutoppu. You'll note that's pretty close to what they said, the major difference being the long "ee" sound at the end of her first name, compared to an "eh" sound in their version.
 * That said, Penelope seems to be katakanaized differently for different people. Penelope Cruz is katakanaized to ペネロペ on Japanese Wikipedia, which transliterates to penerope (with a final "eh" sound).
 * Tofugu have an article on katakana-ization that may interest you. 2A02:6B68:C62:0:BDCA:1289:7A8B:D44 (talk) 23:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I had sex in a cosplay club in Kanai in Yokohama about a year ago with a "penerope" inspired girl. Great costume, right down to the boots. Tall girl for a Japanese, very slim and beautiful. Too bad I didn't have a Dick Dastardly costume! Then again, as nice as this girl was, I'd have done her even if she was dressed as Mutley! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.101.196.2 (talk) 06:17, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Nice!

Vibrator
In a recent television programme in the UK (100 Greatest Cartoons) it is averred that amongst the "personal grooming devices" in Penelope's Pitstop's car, the second or third item was quite visibly "VIBRATOR" and they backed this up with a screenshot. I can't honestly say that I recall this from my youth, but if it is true and verifiable, it is probably the most interesting thing about this character, and probably deserves a mention in the Wikipedia article. Legis 12:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

This myth has strong grounding - a clip does indeed exist showing PP operating the Compact Pussycat VIBRATOR lever, which causes her driver seat to vibrate like a relaxation chair. Whether this was later edited out is unknown, but scene did indeed exist with all the innocence of its year of production. Dave Shepherd. 86.154.223.94 (talk) 02:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I can attest to the "in-joke" with the vibrator reference. Although, I was in the US Air Force in England and actually saw the word "dildo" instead of vibrator on the dashboard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.186.104 (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Why "despite" ?
"despite having white sclerae, she wears red lipstick."

Why "despite"? What's the one got to do with the other?
 * 84.70.129.162 (talk) 18:15, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

 * I came here to ask exactly that, and seeing that no one's posted any kind of justification in almost two years, I'm going to "be bold" and go ahead and remove that phrasing. 2601:4C0:4002:52E0:F5AA:C515:2C47:22B8 (talk) 19:54, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

No More Jockeys / Job Gloves
Penelope Pitstop became a running joke on the YouTube series No More Jockeys. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZucoN2CCA&t=885s

Her gloves are jokingly referred to as "job gloves", which has been used in some vandalism on this article, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penelope_Pitstop&oldid=1078679168 2A02:6B68:C62:0:ADA3:77C4:1F31:E155 (talk) 23:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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