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University Ramon Llull

University Ramon Llull (Universitat Ramon Llull, URL; ) is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain established in 1990. Currently it is formed by several different colleges specialized in different topics, most of which are located in downtown Barcelona.

History
University Ramon Llull is named after Ramon Llull, a famous writer and philosopher born in the 13th century. University Ramon Llull was founded by four educational institutions to which others were added later on. The URL is composed of: gave a conference organized by the URL and the Sant Joan de Déu in 1996. Among the promoters of the URL one can find Artur Juncosa Carbonell, later Síndic de Greuges of the university.
 * ESADE (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) (1958).
 * La Salle Engineering and Architecture (1903).
 * IQS (Institut Químic de Sarrià) - Chemical Institute of Sarriá (1905) and its two schools: IQS School of Engineering and IQS School of Management
 * Blanquerna Foundation (1948).
 * Pere Tarrés University School of Social Studies (1998).
 * Ebro Observatory Research Institute (1904).
 * Vidal i Barraquer Foundation - University Institute of Mental Health (1964).
 * Borja Institute of Bioethics (1974).
 * ESDi Higher School of Design (1989).

Academics
Ramon Llull University comprises 13 schools and faculties and 3 university institutes:
 * IQS School of Engineering
 * IQS School of Management
 * Blanquerna School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences
 * Blanquerna School of Health Science
 * Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations
 * La Salle Digital Engineering School
 * La Salle International School of Commerce and Digital Economy
 * La Salle School of Architecture
 * ESADE Business School
 * ESADE Law School
 * Pere Tarrés Faculty of Social Education and Social Work
 * Ebro Observatory University Institute
 * Vidal i Barraquer University School of Mental Health
 * Borja Institute of Bioethics
 * ESDi Higher School of Design

Notable faculty

 * -economics professor at the Chemical Institute of Sarrià.
 * Begoña Román Maestre (born 1965), Spanish philosopher, university professor, researcher

Notable alumni

 * Kurt Burneo (DrBA from ESADE Business School)-economics professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru's Centrum Católica.
 * Damià Calvet (Degree in Building Sciences and Technologies from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura La Salle)-Catalan Minister of Territory and Sustainability.
 * Ramon Laguarta (BBA and MBA '85 from ESADE Business School)-chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo.
 * Christian Rosa Olmo (MA in Advertising Strategies and Creativity from Facultad de Comunicación y Relaciones Internacionales Blanquerna)-Puerto Rican publicist and photographer.
 * Albina Ruiz (PhD in Chemistry)-Peruvian environmentalist and engineer, Ciudad Saludable founder.
 * Ester Vilarrubla Escales (Degree in Teaching Sciences from Facultad de Psicología, Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte Blanquerna)-Andorran Minister of Education and Higher Education.

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World Manga
Neologism coined late last year by a single website. I've seen no evidence that the term is in common use. Article is a dictdef (and the term isn't that hard to figure out in the first place). — Gwalla | Talk 23:02, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete CDC   (talk)  01:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is too early to have it listed on Wikipedia. Zzyzx11 05:31, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable neologism, dictionary definition. Megan1967 06:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does appear to be a recent neologism. Trilobite (Talk) 10:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Ernst Grünfeld

Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950.

Life and career
Grünfeld was born in Josefstadt, Vienna. He lost a leg in his early childhood, which was beset by poverty. However, he discovered chess, studied intensely, and quickly earned a reputation as a skilled player at the local chess club, the Wiener Schach-Klub.

The First World War (1914–1918) seriously affected Grünfeld's chances of playing the best in the world as few tournaments were played during this troubled period. He was reduced to playing correspondence matches and spent much of his spare time studying opening variations. He started a library of chess material which he kept in his small Viennese flat until his death at the age of 68 in 1962.

He developed a reputation as an expert on openings during the 1920s and success over the board soon followed. He was 1st in Vienna (1920) with Savielly Tartakower; 1st in Margate (1923); 1st in Merano (1924); 1st in Budapest (1926) with Mario Monticelli; 1st in Vienna (1927) and he shared first spot in the Vienna tournaments of 1928 and 1933 (Trebitsch Memorial)—the former with Sándor Takács and the latter with Hans Müller; and finally he was 1st in the tournament at Ostrava of 1933. He also won in the 23rd DSB Congress at Frankfurt 1923.

During the Bad Pistyan (Piešťany) tournament of April 1922 Grünfeld introduced his most important contribution to opening theory—the Grünfeld Defence. He played the defence against Friedrich Sämisch in round 7, drawing in 22 moves, and later that year he used it successfully against Alexander Alekhine in the Vienna tournament. However, he did not play the opening frequently.

During the late 1920s and 1930s Grünfeld played top board for Austria in four Chess Olympiads (1927, 1931, 1933, 1935), and his best year was in 1927 when he scored 9½/12. According to the Chessmetrics website he would have been rated around 2715 at his peak (December 1924).

In May 1943, he took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, in Poznań, and won in December 1943 in Vienna. After the Second World War, he tied for 3rd-4th at Vienna 1951 (Schlechter Memorial, Moshe Czerniak won). Grünfeld was awarded the title International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950. By the late 1950s he was playing very little chess and he mainly worked on his prodigious library which by now had completely filled the living room in his flat which he shared with his wife and daughter. His last tournament was Beverwijk (Hoogovens Tournament) in 1961, where in a field with five more strong grandmasters, he finished with a score of 3/9 (with only one win, against Jan Hein Donner).

He died in the Wilhelminenspital in Ottakring, Vienna on April 3, 1962.

Playing style
He reputedly modeled his style of play on Akiba Rubinstein's and only played 1.d4, claiming that he did not make mistakes in the opening. However, his style of avoiding complex variations together with an essentially drawish nature was simply not good enough to trouble the world's best. He is best remembered for his eponymous defence, the Grünfeld Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5) and for his general expertise in the opening.

Writings
Ernst Grünfeld contributed many articles on openings to chess magazines around Europe. Indeed, before he had turned 20, he was already contributing articles on the Ruy Lopez to Wiener Schachzeitung, which was one of the most popular German-language chess publications of its day, and over the next 40 years or so he wrote many articles on opening theory for chess publications in Germany, Belgium, and the USSR. His favorite market was in Bulgaria, though, because they used to pay for his work in food rather than in money!

He published several books which were generally well received and he contributed to a seminal account of the Teplice tournament of 1922. Other publications include The Queen's Pawn Game and the Queen's Gambit Declined (1924) and Taschenbuch der Eroffnungen im Schach (1953).

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Are CEOs of lobbying organizations inherently noteworthy? If not, is there something which sets this particular individual apart from other lobbyists and makes him worthy of inclusion? GRider\talk 23:03, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. Just notable enough for me - 6,200 Google hits. Megan1967 06:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Would be nice if the author could expand it, but even with very little information this person is just about notable enough for me. Trilobite (Talk) 10:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ComCat 02:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes. Keep - David Gerard 23:17, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable. JamesBurns 09:34, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Bakkum

Bakkum is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum and lies about 12 km southwest of Alkmaar. It has three satellites: the village of Bakkum-Noord, the hamlet Noord Bakkum and Bakkum aan Zee which is nowadays called Castricum aan Zee.

The village was first mentioned in the late-11th century as Bachem, and means "settlement on a height". Bakkum used to be a heerlijkheid. In 1749, it was sold to Nicolaas Geelvinck who was Lord of Castricum among others.

In 1812, Bakkum became a part of the municipality of Castricum. Some tourism developed in the early 20th century, but Bakkum never developed into a seaside resort town. After World War II, it started to form a single urban area with Castricum.

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Jesús Sosa Blanco

Jesús Sosa Blanco (December 25, 1907 – February 18, 1959) was a colonel in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista. After Fidel Castro came to power, Sosa was arrested and charged with having committed 108 murders for Batista. His show trial took place in the Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva, before 17,000 spectators. Sosa was given a public trial in January 1959. The trial was televised. During his trial, Sosa smiled and laughed at the crowd, which was screaming for him to be killed immediately. "'This is the Colosseum in Rome. I met brave rebels in the mountains, not types like you here. All you do is talk.'"The trial lasted through the night. Forty-five witnesses testified against Sosa. One woman, Maria Jacinta Galvez Martinez, said he massacred nearly an entire family. After one of Sosa's men refused to open fire on the family, he had him executed as well. "'This is the worst criminal in the world! He killed every member of the Argote family -my neighbors.'"The widow of one of Sosa's victims, Tomasa Batista Castillo, tried to lunge at him. "I begged you not to kill my husband, because of our eleven children," she said. "You said the rebels could raise them." One of Sosa's men said he witnessed his superior personally massacre 17 unarmed farmers.

Sosa's defense attorney was a regular army lawyer who had been cleared of any involvement in war crimes or connections to Batista. He did not dispute the charges against Sosa. However, he did ask for leniency. Sosa's lawyer said Cuba did not have capital punishment when the crimes took place, and that his client was a soldier following orders during a civil war. The trial lasted 13 hours, and the crowd had thinned to about 500 people when the sentencing was finally done at dawn. Sosa was sentenced to death, albeit his execution was delayed so he could appeal.

Sosa had a second hearing on February 18, 1959. During his appeal, he was implicated in more crimes by additional witnesses. His conviction and death sentence were affirmed, and he was executed by firing squad two days later. Before he was shot, Sosa said "I forgive you, and I hope you forgive me." His last words were "Fire." The same month, five of Sosa's men were executed for massacring 19 villagers.

The ways the trials were conducted received widespread criticism outside of Cuba. In response, Castro said "Criticism hurts when coming from Mexico, which once gave me asylum. But if 20 people make a good jury, why don't thousands of people make a good jury?"

American media reports on the trials were also sharply negative. However, a minority of reporters and politicians defended the trials. Democratic Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Charles O. Porter, whom Castro invited as observers, both stated that despite the atmosphere of the trials, they saw "no evidence of injustice." Castro said speedy executions were the only way to prevent mass lynchings. He pointed out that the Batista regime had murdered over 20,000 civilians.

The Harvard Crimson said that despite criticism of Cuba's "blood bath", the courts had acquitted dozens of suspected war criminals. The same month Sosa was executed, 24 suspects were acquitted in Santiago de Cuba. Nearly 50 were more were acquitted in Matanzas. Herbert Matthews, a New York Times reporter who secured an exclusive interview with Castro in 1957, called the coverage of the executions the worst he'd ever seen in his entire career. "'In all my 36 years of newspaper work, I have never seen a worse job of journalism than the coverage of the Cuban revolution during the last three weeks. All you saw in most papers was how many people Castro shot. The real picture of a country under Batista's brutal dictatorship was not made clear.'"Castro himself called the coverage "the most criminal, vile, and cowardly campaign ever conducted against any people."

After Sosa's trial, other trials and executions were no longer broadcast live. Gabriel García Márquez attended the trial and execution and used the incident as the basis for his 1975 novel, The Autumn of the Patriarch.

In popular culture
In Rachel Kushner's 2008 novel Telex from Cuba, Sosa Blanco is described as having been convicted and imprisoned for murdering his wife, mother-in-law and sister-in-law before Batista released him to help establish the Rural Guard.

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Nuclear reactor
I found this article, and while I am not involved in it, I think it is a brilliant example of what can be done on Wikipedia. It is very well researched, intersting, and torough. Páll 23:04, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Oppose: The lead section does not work - it should give a general introduction to the article - however it contains a list of applications of nuclear reactors - this should be an individual section! Also the whole article only contains one image - why are there no diagrams of reactors or more precisely basic diagrams of the stages of a nuclear reactor? If an article about steam power was up for fa status i'd expect to see a basic diagram of a steam turbine in regard to the generation process. Oh, and the one image the page does contain is too large! It dominates the opening section. CGorman 23:42, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. 1) "Application" needs its own section separate from the lead. 2) Illustration needs to be thumbed. 3) "Process of fission" needs layman expansion and diagrams. 4) difference between pressure vessels and pressurized channels needs clarification. 5) Explain the diffence between pool and loop reactors. 6) A large number of technical terms are unexplained (peak supply, instantaneous power production, baseline supply, etc). 7) Major copyediting remains to be done to eliminate opaque paragraphs such as this: "In an attempt to encourage development of nuclear power, the US Department of Energy DOE has offered interested parties to introduce France model for licensing and to share 50% of a construction expenses. Several applications were made but project is still in its infancy." Denni ☯ 01:43, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * Although I've worked on it and I like it, I still have to oppose, in its current state. It refers to nuclear power plant for an explanation of how a nuclear reactor actually works, but there's not much of an explanation there either. Diagrams would be nice too (although there should be some Manhattan Project photos of an early one). More seriously, a lot of the nuclear technology articles could stand some refactoring. --Andrew 04:21, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)


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Introduction
Ostracoda is a class of the Crustacea, sometimes known as the seed shrimp because of their appearance. Some 50,000 extinct and extant species have been identified, grouped into several orders.

Ostracods are small crustaceans, typically around one mm in size, but varying between 0,2 to 3 mm, laterally compressed and protected by a bivalve-like, chitinous or calcareous valve or "shell". The hinge of the two valves is in the upper, dorsal region of the body.

Ecologically ostracods can be part of the zooplankton, or (most commonly) they are part of the benthos, living on or inside the upper layer of the sea floor. Some groups of ostracods are also found in fresh waters and in humid continental soils (normally in humid forests).

Ostracods are particularly useful for the biozonation of marine strata on a local or regional scale, and they are invaluable indicators of ancient shorelines, salinities and relative sea-floor depths. They have a long and well documented fossil record from the Cambrian to the present day. An outline microfaunal zonal scheme based on both foraminifera and ostracoda was compiled by M.B. Hart (1972).

Morphology
The body of an ostracod is encased by two valves, which together form the duplicature. A distinction is made between the valve (hard parts) and the body with its appendages (soft parts).

Soft parts and ontogeny
The body consists of a cephalon (head), separated from the thorax by a slight constriction. The segmentation is unclear. The abdomen is regressed or absent whereas the adult gonads are relatively large. There are 5-8 pairs of appendages. The branchial plates are responsible for oxygenation.

During the ontogeny the epidermis (containing mesodermal tissue invaginates ventrolaterally near the cephalon/thorax area. This invagination proceeds upwards and tailwards, until the whole animal is enveloped by a double tissue layer on both sides: this forms the duplicature. The dorsal region never becomes invaginated, and is called the isthmus. The mesodermal tissue in the duplicature develops into the vestibulum. The vestibulum makes contact with the body near the isthmus. It plays a role in oxygenation. In paleo-ecology, the size of the vestibulum can be cautiously interpreted as an environmental indicator. The two double tissue layers surrounding the animal each have an inner and an outer lamella, which surrounds the vestibulum. These lamellae are surrounded by a chitinous cuticle, that is secreted by the epidermal cells.

Like all arthropods, ostracods develop discontinually. Before reaching maturity 8 larval stages (instars) are passed.

Hard parts
The epidermal cells may also secrete calcium carbonate after the chitinous layer is formed, resulting in a chalk layer enveloped by chitin. This calcification is not equally pronounced in all orders. During every instar transition, the calcified layer gets thicker. The outer lamella calcifies completely, while the inner lamella calcifies partially, with the rest remaining chitinous. The partial inner lamella calcification occurs when the ostracod becomes adult. The partial inner lamella calcification is most strongly developed frontally (see electron micrograph). The marginal zone is the area where inner and outer lamella meet, and includes part of the vestibulum. The edge of the marginal zone is called the fused zone, and in this area inner and outer lamella join. The fused zone can contain marginal pore canals. These, along with non-marginal pore canals (that are dispersed evenly along the ostracod's valve) connect the vestibulum to the outer world. The line of concrescence is the visible line between the vestibulum and the fused zone. In many cases, this line is wavering and follows the marginal pore canals. On the inner lamella, a selvage may be present.

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Talk:Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

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Can you please post the link to the one photo you have seen?

It was in a topic on arfcom (www.ar15.com), but it seems to have been deleted.

There is a picture of a SDM-R in this soldier's blog. There are also pictures on the TRADOC website. Pettifogger 05:15, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Would like some info on what round this rifle fires. Thanks.

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The female soldier in the lead photo is missing a couple of significant items: (A) a rear sight and (b) a magazine. Another picture would be far more suitable.
 * Note that these things aside, that is an official US Army photograph of the weapon. -- Thatguy96 03:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Only one problem. The Army DMR program only allows MALE students as it is a COMBAT ARMS COURSE. Thus the female could not be a graduate of such said course. Yeah the gov't messes up with photo captions and such... Especially since the US Army is bringing in more modified M14 Rifles and issuing them as the DMR. Besides it fires the same round as a regular M16, thus making it very little of an improvement over the M16A2, and why many units are issuing the modified M14 rifles still.

 * Note that she was not training to be a SDM; rather, she was training to be a SDM instructor. D.E. Watters 11:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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Any way we can abbreviate the title? Koalorka (talk) 18:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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The article is written in conflicting terms (infobox says it is in service, lead portion says it isn't, and bits toward the bottom say it is). Which is correct?  Oc  t  ane   [ improve me? ] 11.08.10 2355 (UTC)

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NK Osijek

Nogometni klub Osijek (Osijek Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Osijek, is a Croatian professional football club from Osijek. Founded in 1947, it was the club from Slavonia with the most seasons in the Yugoslav First League and, after the independence of Croatia in 1992, it is one of the four clubs that have never been relegated from the Croatian First League, the others being Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split and Rijeka.

1947–1976
The precursor to NK Osijek was founded on 27 February 1945 as NK Udarnik on the tradition of banned JŠK Slavija Osijek, which was founded in 1916 and played in the first jugoslav league 7 times between 1923 and 1941. Already in 1946, the club is merged with Jedinstvo, and changes its name to NK Slavonija. The conventional birthday of the club is considered to be the following year on the February 27, 1947, when NK Slavonija and Nk Bratstvo merge to form the FK Proleter. The first match played under that name comes the 16th of March of that same year, when Proleter beats city-rivals Mladost by five goals to nil. The first competition in which the club participated in was the Osječko Okružno Prvenstvo, along with four other teams. The club got into the second national league soon after. Proleter achieved placement into the Yugoslav First League in 1953, having won the so-called Croato-Slovenian League. The best players from that side were Andrija Vekić, Franjo Rupnik, Dionizije Dvornić and Franjo Majer. Proleter played in the First League for three seasons, but were then relegated to the second division.

Proleter moved to current Gradski vrt stadium in autumn 1958 and changed its name to Slavonija as part of the unifying process of the boxing, athletics and Olympic lifting club in a newly founded sports association in 1962. It still plays in the second league. Five years later the association is disbanded and the club took on the name NK Osijek. The then-colours red and blue were switched to current colours blue and white.

In 1970, Osijek wins the 2nd North League championship, however, Borac Banja Luka beat them in the promotion play-offs. A year later, Bijelo-plavi try for promotion again, winning in a penalty shoot-out against Rijeka, but end up being stopped by Vardar.

The next time Osijek reached the promotion play-offs was in 1973. NK Osijek made it to the final round, beating FC Prishtina. Following their victory, NK Osijek was set to meet NK Zagreb at Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb. A record-breaking 64,129 tickets were sold with approximately 20,000 of them going to Osijek supporters. NK Zagreb proved victorious on the day, winning via a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after 90 minutes, Osijek denied promotion for a third time in four years.

1977–1991
In 1977, NK Osijek finally secured its return to the top flight by taking out the league championship.

NK Osijek managed to stay competitive in the Yugoslav League up until the Croatian War of Independence, except for the season of 1979–80, when Osijek fought back into the premier league after failing to stay in it. The club was present in the second part of the First League ladder in the 80s, except for 1984, when the team placed 6th, headed by Davidović, Lulić, Džeko, Lepinjica, Rakela, Karačić and the team captain Kalinić. In 1989, the team placed 8th with Davor Šuker leading the line for the side scoring 18 goals, taking out the league's best goalscorer award. Šuker is the only player in NK Osijek history to take out the award. During the last season of the YFL, NK Osijek finished ninth.

1992–1999
After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the Croatian First Football League was formed and the first season was played in 1992. Due to the war, it was a shortened season played from February to June. NK Osijek was unable to play in Osijek due to the war, so they had to play in the cities of Đakovo, Donji Miholjac and Kutjevo. Osijek finished the 1992 Croatian First League season in 3rd placed, six points behind NK Zagreb and nine behind league champions Hajduk Split. Osijek's top goalscorer was Robert Špehar, who finished the season with nine goals.

NK Osijek quickly became one of the top 4 Croatian football teams. One of Osijek's best ever seasons came in the 1994–95. The Bijelo plavi finished in third place, only six points behind first-placed Hajduk. Špehar scored 23 goals to become the league's top goalscorer. The greats of NK Osijek during that time were–a part from Špehar–Žitnjak, Lulić, Beljan, Ergović, Rupnik, Beširević, Bičanić and Labak.

As a result of the third-placed finish, NK Osijek qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup. Osijek faced Slovan Bratislava in the preliminary round, going down 6–0.

Osijek finished third in the 1997–98 Croatian First League, qualifying for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup. Osijek came up against Anderlecht. After a famous 3–1 victory at home in front of 15,000 supporters, Osijek lost 2–0 in Belgium and were knocked-out on away goals. In 1998–99, Osijek attained its first trophy, the Croatian Cup, following a victory over Cibalia 2–0. A year later, West Ham United was playing away in Gradski vrt, headed by Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair, Paolo Di Canio, Paulo Wanchope and Igor Štimac.

2000–2015
In the 2000–01 UEFA Cup, NK Osijek beat Brøndby 2–1 (2–1, 0–0) and Rapid Wien 4–1 (2–1, 2–0). In the 3rd round, Osijek beat Slavia Prague 2–0 at home, but lost 5–1 in Prague. Osijek finished third in the league once more. In the 2001–02 UEFA Cup, Osijek progressed past Dinaburg on away goals, beat Gorica in the first round, but then lost 3–5 to AEK Athens. In the 2003–04 HNL, Osijek had the first and second highest goalscorers in the division with Špehar scoring 18 and Goran Ljubojević scoring 16. The club then went through a long phase of mid-table finishes and mediocre results.

NK Osijek was almost relegated during the 2013–14 season. On the final match day, Josip Barišić managed to score and keep Osijek afloat against Hrvatski dragovoljac. Osijek changed coaches on four occasions throughout the season. The following season, Osijek once again finished one position above the relegation play-off spot, finishing one point ahead of Istra 1961.

2015–present
In September 2015, Zoran Zekić was appointed as the first team head coach, replacing Dražen Besek.

With the club facing bankruptcy, Osijek went into private ownership for the first time in its history in February 2016 with Hungarian oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros and Croatian entrepreneur Ivan Meštrović buying a majority of shares in the club. The duo went about stabilizing the club, improving the squad and bringing back ambition to the city and supporters. Much of the debt was restructured and paid off, securing the short-term and long-term future of Osijek.

On 27 February 2017, the club celebrated its 70th anniversary in the Osijek theater. In the 2016–17 season, Osijek finished 4th, which was their highest league finish in nearly 10 years. The 4th-place finish led to Osijek participating in the qualifying phase of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League; with the club staging an extremely successful run to the play-off round, beating Santa Coloma, Luzern and PSV, the former champions of Europe, who won the 1987–88 edition. The club's run was ended following a 1–2 home loss to Austria Wien, and despite the club winning the second leg 1–0, Osijek were eliminated on the away goals rule. Despite being eliminated, Osijek were praised and congratulated by Croatian press, fans and media for their historic run.

In the 2017–18 season, Osijek finished 4th again, securing a place in the UEFA competition. Osijek beat Petrocub Hîncești 2–1 at home after drawing the first leg in Moldova 1–1, and faced Rangers in the second qualifying round of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League. Osijek lost the home leg 1–0.

After a bad start to the 2020–21 season, during which Osijek managed only a single point after the first three games of the season, manager Ivica Kulešević was sacked. On 5 September 2020, Osijek appointed Nenad Bjelica as the new club manager.

On 9 September 2020, it was announced that Lőrinc Mészáros was no longer the formal co-owner of the club, with the private investment fund BETA taking over his shares in NK OS d.o.o. The reason being that Mészáros was also the owner of Puskás Akadémia FC, and UEFA rules forbade two clubs owned by the same person from participating in European competitions, should they have both qualified.

Stadium
NK Osijek plays its home games at Gradski vrt, where it played its first game on the 7 September 1958, against Sloboda. It was officially opened in 1980.

The current design was made in the year 1979. The upper western tribune is unfinished to this day. The current capacity lies at 18,856 spectator seats, with 980 of them being for standing audiences. Before the club had transferred to Gradski vrt, Osijek played on a pitch next to the river Drava.

In April 2018, NK Osijek president Ivan Meštrović released plans for the new Pampas Stadium. A new state of art stadium will be built at the Pampas neighbourhood in Osijek as part of the new NK Osijek training centre. The capacity of the new stadium will be 12,000, with all of the seats covered. The stadium will be UEFA category four and will be finished in June 2021. During the stadium construction, NK Osijek will play their home games at the current Gradski vrt stadium, which is in the future going to be used as the main stadium for the NK Osijek B squad.

Supporters
The fan club of NK Osijek is called Kohorta (cohort, named after the Roman army unit composed of 360 soldiers). It was founded in 1972 under the name Šokci, and carries the name Kohorta since 1988. Kohorta is usually situated on the eastern tribune of Gradski vrt. Its seat is in the university street in Tvrđa, Osijek.

Osijek is the third most supported football club in Croatia with 5% of population supporting it.

Rivalries
The Slavonian derby match is between the two largest Croatian football clubs from eastern Croatia, Osijek and Cibalia. Each new match between these two great rivals, means a great match on the field, but also in the stands.

Osijek–Rijeka derby is the name given to matches between Osijek and HNK Rijeka. On Croatian First Football League all-time table Rijeka and Osijek are on the third and fourth place. Rijeka and Osijek are with Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split the only four clubs that have never been relegated from the Croatian First League. Osijek and Rijeka are third and fourth best supported football clubs in Croatia. Osijek is supported by 5% and Rijeka by 4% of population.

Honours
Osijek has won one Croatian Cup. In European competitions, the club has reached the third round of the UEFA Cup in 2000–01, the second round of the Intertoto Cup in 2006, the third place of the Mitropa Cup in 1981–82 and play-off round of the UEFA Europa League in 2017–18.

Domestic

 * Croatian football league system
 * Croatian First League
 * Runners-up (1): 2020–21
 * Croatian Cup
 * Winner (1): 1998–99
 * Runners-up (1): 2011–12

 * Yugoslav football league system
 * Yugoslav Second League
 * Winner (5): 1952–53, 1969–70, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1980–81

Recent seasons
Key
 * League: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points won; Pos = Final position;
 * Cup / Europe: PR = Preliminary round; QR = Qualifying round; R1 = First round; R2 = Second round; QF = Quarter-final; SF = Semi-final; RU = Runner-up; W = Competition won;

Summary
Source:, Fully up to date on 3 August 2023. Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

By season
Last updated on 17 August 2023.

Player records

 * Most appearances in UEFA club competitions: 18 appearances
 * Petar Bočkaj, Mile Škorić
 * Top scorers in UEFA club competitions: 4 goals
 * Muzafer Ejupi

Football school
The football school of NK Osijek was founded in 1982 as the youth school. It was set in motion by Andrija Vekić, with the wish to recruit and create great players and coaches alike by creating a good and competitive atmosphere. Many players considered to be high-level were in that school.

Notable players
To appear in this section a player must have: Years in brackets indicate their spells at the club.
 * Played at least 150 league games for the club;
 * Scored at least 50 league goals for the club; or
 * Played at least one international match for their national or olympic team while playing for NK Osijek.

 * Franjo Rupnik (1947–51)
 * Ljupko Petrović (1967–79)
 * Ratomir Dujković (1977–80)
 * Ivica Miljković (1977–80)
 * Mustafa Hukić (1978–81)
 * Ivica Grnja (1972–82)
 * Jasmin Džeko (1980–84, 1985–89)
 * Vlado Kasalo (1983–87)
 * Davor Šuker (1984–89)
 * Robert Špehar (1988–92, 1994–95, 2002–04)
 * Miroslav Bičanić (1989–92, 1994–96)
 * 🇧🇦 Bakir Beširević (1992–94, 1994–02)
 * Nenad Bjelica (1992–93, 1999–01)
 * Davor Rupnik (1992–98)
 * Damir Vuica (1992–94, 1997–02, 2005–08)
 * Petar Krpan (1993–98, 2001)
 * Mario Galinović (1993–02)
 * Ivo Ergović (1994–01)
 * Ronald Grnja (1994–04)
 * Stjepan Vranješ (1992–99)
 * Ivica Beljan (1994–96, 1997–00)
 * Igor Pamić (1995–96)
 * 🇧🇦 Nermin Šabić (1996–97)
 * 🇷🇴 Dumitru Mitu (1996–02)
 * Jurica Vranješ (1997–00)
 * Josip Balatinac (1997–06)
 * Stanko Bubalo (1998–00)
 * Mato Neretljak (2000–02)
 * Marin Skender (2003–09)
 * Valentin Babić (2004–09, 2013–14)
 * Ivo Smoje (2005–09, 2010–13)
 * Josip Barišić (2005–11, 2013–14)
 * Tomislav Šorša (2006–16, 2017–20)
 * Domagoj Vida (2006–10)
 * Vedran Jugović (2007–13, 2019– )
 * Hrvoje Kurtović (2008–16)
 * Mile Škorić (2008–11, 2013–23)
 * 🇧🇦 Zoran Kvržić (2010–13)
 * Antonio Perošević (2010–17)
 * Borna Barišić (2013–15, 2016–18)
 * Nikola Matas (2014–18)
 * Mateo Barać (2016–18)
 * 🇲🇰 Muzafer Ejupi (2016–19)
 * Mihail Caimacov (2018–21)
 * Mirlind Daku (2018–23)
 * Ivica Ivušić (2019–23)
 * 🇭🇺 László Kleinheisler (2019–23)
 * Damjan Bohar (2020–22)
 * 🇦🇷 Ramón Miérez (2020–)
 * 🇭🇺 Ádám Gyurcsó (2021)
 * Mario Jurčević (2020–23)
 * 🇧🇦 Adrian Leon Barišić (2018–23)
 * 🇦🇲 Styopa Mkrtchyan (2023–)
 * 🇲🇰 Jovan Manev (2023–24)

Historical list of coaches
incomplete list

 * Viktor Šter
 * Blagoje Marjanović (1952–1953)
 * Franjo Glaser
 * Zorko Hlavač
 * Mato Kasač
 * Vladimir Beara
 * Sima Milovanov
 * Gustav Lechner (1945–49)
 * Ernest Dubac (1951–55)
 * Bernard Hügl (1955–56)
 * Milan Antolković (1972–73)
 * Miljenko Mihić (1978–79)
 * Milan Đuričić (1979–80)
 * Josip Duvančić (1980–83)
 * Milan Đuričić (1983–85)
 * Ljupko Petrović (1985–87)
 * Milan Đuričić (1987)
 * Stjepan Čordaš (1989)
 * Tonko Vukušić (1990)
 * Šaban Jasenica (1990)
 * Ivica Grnja (1991)
 * 🇭🇷 Stjepan Čordaš (1992–93)
 * 🇭🇷 Vlado Bilić (1993)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivica Grnja (1993–94)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivo Šušak (1993–95)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivica Matković (1995–96)
 * 🇭🇷 Ante Čačić (1995–96)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivan Katalinić (1995–96)
 * 🇭🇷 Goran Popović (1996–97)
 * 🇭🇷 Luka Bonačić (1996–97)
 * 🇭🇷 Milan Đuričić (1997–99), (Jun 2002 – Aug 2002)
 * 🇭🇷 Stanko Poklepović (1998–00), (Nov 2002–03)
 * 🇭🇷 Pavo Strugačevac (1999)
 * 🇭🇷 Stanko Mršić (1999–01)
 * 🇭🇷 Vlado Bilić (2000–02)
 * 🇭🇷 Vjekoslav Lokica (2001–02)
 * 🇭🇷 Miroslav Blažević (2001–02)
 * 🇭🇷 Nenad Gračan (2002–03)
 * 🇭🇷 Branko Karačić (2003–04)
 * 🇭🇷 Stjepan Čordaš (2004–05)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivo Šušak (July 1, 2005 – Nov 13, 2006)
 * 🇭🇷 Miroslav Žitnjak (2006–07)
 * 🇭🇷 Ilija Lončarević (Nov 14, 2006 – Sept 26, 2008)
 * 🇭🇷 Tomislav Steinbrückner (Sept 26, 2008 – Aug 16, 2010)
 * 🇭🇷 Branko Karačić (Aug 16, 2010 – May 2, 2011)
 * 🇭🇷 Vlado Bilić (May 3, 2011 – March 31, 2012)
 * 🇭🇷 Stanko Mršić (March 31, 2012 – May 13, 2013)
 * 🇭🇷 Miroslav Žitnjak (interim) (May 13, 2013 – June 4, 2013)
 * 🇭🇷 Tomislav Steinbrückner (June 4, 2013 – Aug 18, 2013)
 * 🇭🇷 Davor Rupnik (Aug 19, 2013 – Oct 21, 2013)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivica Kulešević (Oct 21, 2013 – Feb 27, 2014)
 * 🇭🇷 Tomislav Rukavina (Feb 27, 2014 – Feb 11, 2015)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivo Šušak (Feb 11, 2015 – June 1, 2015)
 * 🇭🇷 Dražen Besek (June 14, 2015 – Sept 1, 2015)
 * 🇭🇷 Zoran Zekić (Sept 1, 2015– Mar 29, 2019)
 * 🇭🇷 Dino Skender (Mar 29, 2019 – Sept 21, 2019)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivica Kulešević (Sept 23, 2019 – Sept 4, 2020)
 * 🇭🇷 Nenad Bjelica (Sept 5, 2020 – Aug 29, 2022)
 * 🇦🇹 René Poms (Aug 29, 2022 – Mar 2, 2023)
 * Ivica Kulešević (Sep 29, 2022 – Mar 2, 2023)
 * Borimir Perković (Mar 2, 2023 – Apr 22, 2023)
 * Stjepan Tomas (Apr 24, 2023 – Oct 3, 2023)
 * Zoran Zekić (Oct 13, 2023 – May 21, 2024)
 * 🇮🇹 Federico Coppitelli (June 12, 2024 – present)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Boretz

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 20:55, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Benjamin Boretz
This author receives 1080 hits on google. Are all published 21st century authors inherently noteworthy? What bar must authors meet to become included on Wikipedia? GRider\talk 23:09, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Keep. Founder of a scholarly journal and music critic for The Nation seems pretty notable. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:02, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, if you filter through the results removing wikipedia and duplicate pages it actually drops down to 830. Just under the bar of notability for me. Megan1967 09:04, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. By founding a scholarly music journal, seems to me boretz established a stable venue for informed and intelligent musical discussions.  In other disciplines, such venues contribute to advancements in the field, don't they?  I checked out Perspectives of New Music, and since its founding in the early 60's every big name in 20th century 'classical' music has published there: Stockhausen, Babbitt, Xenakis, Ferneyhough, the list goes on.  If the founder of the scientific journal Nature was also a noteworthy biologist, or accomplished physicist, would'nt they be notable enough for inclusion here? Everything I've encountered (such as the entry on him in Groves Encyclopedia, the standard source in music scholarship) suggests Boretz is an accomplished and respected composer and music theorist. In what ways do Google hits affirm/deny notability? --User:Nding
 * Keep.
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Haven (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Haven" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, originally aired on November 30, 1987, in broadcast syndication in the United States. Directed by Richard Compton, the story was originally created by Lan O'Kun, and developed into the final script by Tracy Tormé.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) deals with the commitment of an arranged marriage after the arrival of the wedding party, including her mother Lwaxana (Majel Barrett). Meanwhile, the Enterprise must deal with a plague ship approaching a paradisiacal planet.

The episode marked the first appearance of several guest actors in The Next Generation, including Barrett and Carel Struycken. Tormé disliked the final version of the episode, and the critical response to the episode was mixed, with the performance of Barrett both praised and criticised.

Plot
The Federation starship Enterprise arrives at the planet Haven, where the ship's Betazoid Counselor Deanna Troi has been summoned by her mother Lwaxana. Troi had previously been set into an arranged marriage to the young human doctor, Wyatt Miller (Robert Knepper), and his parents have since tracked down Lwaxana to enforce the marriage. After Lwaxana and the Millers are welcomed aboard the Enterprise, the parents argue over whose cultural traditions will be honored at the ceremony. Troi and Wyatt attempt to get to know each other but find it difficult, as Troi is still in love with Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Wyatt has had numerous dreams of another woman with whom he has fallen in love, and had initially believed her to be Troi communicating telepathically with him.

The Enterprise then learns of an unmarked vessel approaching Haven. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) recognizes it as Tarellian, a race thought to have been wiped out by a highly lethal and contagious virus. When they contact the ship, they find a handful of Tarellian refugees who have been traveling at sub-light speeds to Haven in hopes of finding an isolated location to live out the rest of their lives in peace. Picard insists that they cannot go to the planet for fear of spreading the virus, and has the Tarellian vessel placed in a tractor beam. Wyatt recognizes one of the Tarellians, Ariana (Danitza Kingsley), from his dreams, and she too recognizes him. He tells Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) that he will transport some medical supplies to them, but transports himself along with the supplies. When the crew discovers this, Wyatt's parents demand that Picard bring Wyatt back to the Enterprise, but Troi insists that he cannot return, as he would now carry the Tarellian virus. Wyatt tells his parents, Troi, and the rest of the crew that he knew that this would be destiny, and is happy to try to help cure the Tarellian virus. He convinces the Tarellians to leave Haven and search for help elsewhere. Picard orders the tractor beam to be dropped and allows the vessel to depart the system.

Production
The episode's plot originated from one which Lan O'Kun submitted entitled "Love Beyond Time and Space", although at one point, the episode was called "Eye of the Beholder". O'Kun's script was on the verge of being cut from the show when it was handed to Tracy Tormé for re-writes. Tormé later described it as a "no-lose" situation as he felt that O'Kun's script was so bad anything would be an improvement. Tormé changed the script from O'Kun's serious outline to something more comedic, although he felt that a lot of the comedy elements were later removed before filming. He didn't like the overall result, saying "I didn't particularly like the episode when it first aired. It's still one of my least favourite shows that I've been involved with". Because of the work on the episode, Tormé was recruited as executive story editor.

The episode was directed by Richard Compton, who had previously appeared as Lieutenant Washburn in The Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine". "Haven" began filming twenty years to the day after Compton filmed his scenes in "The Doomsday Machine". Dennis McCarthy composed the music for "Haven", which was so strongly disliked by executive producer Rick Berman that McCarthy thought he might be fired. "Haven" was the fifth episode to be filmed, but was broadcast as the eleventh episode.

"Haven" marked the first appearance of Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi. She had previously appeared as Number One in the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage", and as Christine Chapel in Star Trek: The Original Series and movies. She would go on to re-appear as Lwaxana on average once per season for the rest of the run of The Next Generation. Dutch actor Carel Struycken also made his first appearance as Mr. Homn in "Haven", which also marked the only time during his several appearances alongside Barrett that he had a line of dialogue. Robert Ellenstein appeared as Steven Miller; he had previously appeared as the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. "Haven" also marked the first filmed appearance of another actor who would regularly appear in the Star Trek franchise. Armin Shimerman appeared as the face of the Betazoid gift box in this episode. This was his first filmed appearance, but his first broadcast appearance was as the Ferengi Letek in "The Last Outpost". He would later appear as the Ferengi Bractor in the season two episode "Peak Performance" before being cast once more as a Ferengi, but this time in the main cast, as Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

The Tarellian spacecraft seen in this episode was developed by Andrew Probert, who also designed the Romulan Warbird and Enterprise 1701D (the TNG Enterprise). He also collaborated with Gene Roddenberry on this design, which helped develop the idea of putting the ship's power plant in the center of the spacecraft. "...I was just very pleased with the shape, the concept, it brings me good memories of Gene and me working together. —Probert on the 'Haven' alien spaceship"

Reception
"Haven" aired in broadcast syndication during the week commencing November 29, 1987. It received Nielsen ratings of 10.3, reflecting the percentage of all households watching the episode during its timeslot. This was the lowest ratings received by the series since "The Last Outpost" six episodes earlier.

Several reviewers re-watched the episode after the end of the series. Cast member Wil Wheaton watched the episode for AOL TV in May 2007, saying that "this could have been an absolutely dreadful 'shotgun wedding' episode that was as predictable as it was tedious, but Tracy's script, aided by very good guest star casting and great acting from everyone involved, made it one of the better episodes in season one." He gave the episode a grade of B. James Hunt, for the website Den of Geek, watched the episode in November 2012. While he was mostly negative of the episode, saying that "Troi episodes tend to test the patience of even the most devoted Trek fan", he said that "Haven" marked the first time that the series would "properly execute the idea that TNG episodes can have an A and B plot which dovetail nicely in the final act".

Keith DeCandido reviewed the episode for Tor.com in June 2011. He described the episode as "painful to watch" and one that where "all the worst sci-fi TV show clichés are in evidence". He criticised the out of date sexist values of the plot in which Troi would have been forced to leave the ship to be with Wyatt. He did praise the appearance of Majel Barett, describing her as "ever-radiant" and the "saving grace of the episode". He gave it a score of three out of ten. Zack Handlen watched the episode for The A.V. Club in April 2010. He described Majel Barrett as "agonizing" and the episode was "full of lazy shoulder shrugs and half-finished ideas". He gave the episode a grade of D.

In 2019, Den of Geek noted this episode for featuring romantic elements.

Home media release
The first home media release of "Haven" was on VHS cassette, appearing on April 1, 1992 in the United States and Canada. The episode was later included on the Star Trek: The Next Generation season one DVD box set, released in March 2002, and then released as part of the season one Blu-ray set on July 24, 2012.

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Imagine Software

Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, high-budget approach to packaging and advertising (at a time when this was not commonplace in the British software industry), as well as its self-promotion and ambition.

Following Imagine's high-profile demise under mounting debts in 1984, the name was bought and used as a label by Ocean Software until the late 1980s.

Founding and early success
Imagine Software was founded in 1982 by former members of Bug-Byte Mark Butler and David Lawson. Butler and programmer Eugene Evans had previously worked at Microdigital, one of the first computer stores in the UK. The owner of Microdigital, Bruce Everiss, was invited to join the company to run the company day-to-day and run the PR department. Imagine Software produced several very successful games, including Arcadia for the Vic 20 and ZX Spectrum, throughout 1982 and 1983, but some games shipped with serious, game-breaking bugs. The company grew in size through this period, at one point employing upwards of 80 people, a large number for its time, and splashed out large sums of money on company cars and the founding of a racing team to race in the Isle of Man TT race.

Financial troubles and demise
Rumours of Imagine's financial situation began to circulate in December 1983 following the revelations that an estimated £50,000 of its advertising bills had not been paid. The following year the debts mounted, with further advertising and tape duplication bills going unpaid, and Imagine was forced to sell the rights to its games to Beau Jolly in order to raise money. The company then achieved nationwide notoriety when it was filmed the following year by a BBC documentary crew while in the process of going spectacularly bust. Mark Butler also made an appearance on Thames Television's Daytime programme in 1984, talking about his experience of having been a millionaire who lost his money at a young age.

On 28 June 1984 a writ was issued against Imagine by VNU Business Press for money owed for advertising in Personal Computer Games magazine, and the company was wound up on 9 July 1984 at the High Court in London after it was unable to raise the £10,000 required to pay this debt (though by this time its total debts ran to hundreds of thousands of pounds).

Legacy
Former programmers went on to establish Psygnosis and Denton Designs. The company's back catalogue was owned by Beau Jolly, who in turn later sold those rights to Subvert, while rights to the Imagine label were acquired by Ocean Software, which primarily used it to publish home computer conversions of popular arcade games.

In other media
The Black Mirror interactive film Bandersnatch, released in 2018, alludes to Imagine Software and the failed work to produce Bandersnatch. The film starts on 9 July 1984, the date of Imagine's closure, and includes a shot of the cover of Crash reporting on the closure. Within the film, the fictional software company Tuckersoft, which had developed both Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum games, places its financial future on the attempt to produce Bandersnatch, and in some scenarios falls into bankruptcy after the game fails to appear.

Megagames
Imagine had intended to develop six so-called "Megagames", the most well-known of which were Psyclapse and Bandersnatch. These games were designed to push the boundaries of the hardware of the time, even to the extent that they were intended to be released with a hardware add-on which would have increased the capabilities of the computer, as well as guarding against piracy. The games were advertised heavily and would have retailed at around £30 – an expensive price tag when the average price of a game at the time was £7.20 – but Imagine's collapse meant that they remained vaporware and never saw the light of day.

During the BBC documentary it was revealed that Psyclapse was little more than a paper sketch, though the name was later used for a sub-label of Psygnosis. Most of the concepts originally intended for Bandersnatch eventually appeared in another Psygnosis game, Brataccas, for the 16-bit Atari ST, Amiga and Macintosh computers.

Games

 * Arcadia, 1982
 * Wacky Waiters, 1982
 * Frantic, 1982
 * Catcha Snatcha, 1983
 * Schizoids, 1983
 * Ah Diddums, 1983
 * Molar Maul, 1983
 * Jumping Jack aka Leggit!, 1983
 * Zip Zap, 1983
 * Zzoom, 1983
 * Bewitched, 1983
 * Stonkers, 1983
 * Alchemist, 1983
 * Pedro, 1984
 * Cosmic Cruiser, 1984
 * BC Bill, 1984

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What year are the figures for the student body etc.? Is someone going to keep these up to date? --JiMternet 16th Feb 2005

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I wanted it in for the same reasons as you, though I'm not sure how many took it seriously. :-) --gcbirzantalk 23:11, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Krzysztof Szydłowiecki

Krzysztof Szydłowiecki (1467–1532) was a Polish noble (szlachcic), magnate, and Count of Szydłowiec.

He was courtier since 1496, Podstoli of Kraków, Treasurer and Marshal of the Court of Prince Zygmunt since 1505, Podkomorzy of Kraków and Court Treasurer of the Crown from 1507 to 1510, castellan of Sandomierz since 1509, Deputy Chancellor of the Crown since 1511, Great Chancellor of the Crown and voivode of Kraków Voivodeship from 1515 to 1527 and castellan of Kraków since 1527. Szydłowiecki was also the Starost of Sieradz, Gostynin, Sochaczew, Nowokrocze, and Łuków.

He is one of the characters on the famous painting by Jan Matejko, Prussian Homage.

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User:Nethilia

Nethilia - Neth for short - is a thirty-something year old chick who spends time here and there on Wiki. She was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Texas, and now and now lives on the West Coast. She graduated from Texas A&M University class of 03 (whoop!) and is currently eking out an existence step by step the best she can.

Neth is a pagan, specifically an eclectic Pagan. She is an avid collector of My Little Pony, plays Pokémon as well as many other video games, participates on Gaia Online and Fandom Wank, and enjoys reading all types of literature including Harry Potter, and A Series of Unfortunate Events. She'll read anything but sappy chicklit, watch anything but sappy chick movies, and listen to anything but grinding country.

Her major contributions to Wikipedia have been to the American Girl (company) article (she is a collector of the dolls and add news as she recieves it) and the My Little Pony articles.

The rest of what you want to know about her is summed up by the userboxes. She's lazy that way and The userboxes sum it up so neatly.

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Christmas Eve and Other Stories

Christmas Eve and Other Stories is the debut studio album by American symphonic metal band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on October 15, 1996, through Lava Records and Atlantic Records. It is the first album in the band's "Christmas trilogy", with The Christmas Attic (1998) and The Lost Christmas Eve (2004) coming afterward. All three albums, as well as their The Ghosts of Christmas Eve DVD, were featured in the box set of The Christmas Trilogy. The album's cover art was created by Edgar Jerins.

The album became one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time in the U.S. and has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA for selling 3 million copies in the US. As of November 2016, the album track "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" has sold 1.3 million downloads, becoming one of the best-selling Christmas songs of all time in the US as well.

Commercial performance
, Christmas Eve and Other Stories was the ninth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (1991 – present), with sales of 3,430,000 copies according to SoundScan. On November 28, 2011, Christmas Eve and Other Stories was certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.

Plot summary
On Christmas Eve in 1995, a young man wanders into a bar and orders a whiskey. Soon after, he is joined by an old man who soon begins a story, telling of how God sent an angel down to Earth to find and bring him an example of kindness done in the spirit of Christmas ("An Angel Came Down"). While flying down, he overhears church bells ringing carols ("O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night"), as he flew closer, a single voice rang out in the church, later joined by a full choir ("A Star to Follow").

With the song over, the angel continued his search, the skies now snowing as he flies over the world ("First Snow"). Flying over the Ural Mountains, he notices a small village, where he takes upon the disguise of a human to approach the people ("The Silent Nutcracker"). The angel asks a village peasant what Russian hearts desire for Christmas, with the peasant simply answering "peace on earth" ("A Mad Russian's Christmas"). The angel returns to flight, thinking about the birth of Christ, and its impact upon Christmas Day ("The Prince of Peace"). The angel then flies over Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo, witnessing mass destruction and violent warfare below. Confused as to why individuals would kill each other, the angel flies close to a recent battlefield, where a single cello player stood alone playing a forgotten Christmas song. While departing, the angel realized that as long as there was music, there would always be hope ("Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24").

Flying over the countryside, the angel heard a voice begin to sing from a church below. The angel reached out and held the song in his hand, wondering if it was the answer he was seeking; however, he still believed there was something missing, and continued his journey into the night ("Good King Joy"). The angel soon overhears a prayer to God from a man in distress. Listening closer, he discovers that the man's daughter is lost, and his only prayer was for her to be home for Christmas ("Ornament"). The angel made it his personal mission to bring the girl home, and he followed the man's prayer to an old bar in New York City, where he found her standing outside, wishing upon the neon sign to come home, as there were no stars to wish upon ("The First Noel"). A young child entered the bar and asked the bartender if they knew of the lost girl outside. The bartender asked the child how he knew the girl was lost, to which the child told the bartender that on Christmas Eve, if someone were to be home, they would already be there. Moved by this realization, the bartender took money from the cash register, and paid for a taxi cab to take the girl to John F. Kennedy International Airport to help her get home ("Old City Bar").

The angel was moved by this gesture, and truly believed this to be the example of kindness that he had been looking for ("Promises to Keep"). As the girl finally arrived home to her father, the Angel flew back up to Heaven, bringing God back his shining example of kindness during Christmastime ("This Christmas Day"). The old man then concluded his story, and thanked the young man for his company as he left the bar. The young man then rushed outside to thank the old man; however, he discovered he was already gone, and had left no footprints. Walking back home, he realized that for the first time since his childhood, he'd finally dreamed and believed in Christmas again ("An Angel Returned").

Track listing
All new lyrics by Paul O'Neill.

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Caribou (code name)
Non-notable, unverifiable, speculative internet trivia. Only the first few hits for "caribou" gmail seem to mention this, and they are all 'reverse engineered' extrapolations based on the word in the URL, appearing on blogs and forums. Couldn't find any place this is stated as fact. Even the article says "The only evidence for this, is to go to your Google accounts managing page and hover on the "Delete Gmail service" and the link "https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteCaribouService" appears." Speculation/original research shouldn't be presented as fact. Niteowlneils 23:19, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if this were true, why would we care?  RickK 23:48, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is just some useless trivia. Not worthy of being in Wikipedia. Zzyzx11 05:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Useless trivia. Trilobite (Talk) 10:22, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Marshal of the Court

Marshal of the Court may refer to:
 * Court Marshal of Denmark
 * Hofmarschall (Court Marshal), in German princely courts
 * Marshal of the Court of Lithuania
 * Marshal of the Court (Serbia, Yugoslavia)
 * Marshal of the Court (Sweden)
 * Marshal of the United States Supreme Court
 * Marszałek, royal official in the Polish-Lithuanian court

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Child tax credit

A child tax credit (CTC) is a tax credit for parents with dependent children given by various countries. The credit is often linked to the number of dependent children a taxpayer has and sometimes the taxpayer's income level. For example, with the Child Tax Credit in the United States, only families making less than $400,000 per year may claim the full CTC. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, the tax credit is only available for families making less than £42,000 per year.

Germany
Germany has a programme called the "Kinderfreibetrag" which, despite technically being a tax exemption and not a tax credit, functions similarly. The child allowance is an allowance in German tax law, in which a certain amount of money is tax-free in the taxation of parents. In the income tax fee paid, child benefit and tax savings through the child tax credit are compared against each other, and the parents pay whichever results in the lesser amount of tax.

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, a family with children and an income below about £32,200 could claim the child tax credit on top of child benefit. The tax credit is "non-wastable" – it is paid whether or not the family has a net tax liability – and is paid in or out of work. Higher rates are paid for disabled children. It is integrated with the working tax credit, which also provides support for childcare costs.

All taxable income is tested for the credit, so a couple who both work and have children, will have both salaries taken into account. Tax Credits may be capped which it is claimed could affect the poorest families disproportionately. On Monday 26 October 2015, the House of Lords voted for Labour Party proposals for financial redress to those affected by reduced entitlements.

Since 2018 Child Tax Credit has been replaced by Universal Credit for most people. UK citizens may claim Child Benefit which is paid out by the UK tax authority HMRC and anyone earning less than £50,000 year will receive the full benefit. Anyone earning between £50,000 and £60,000 per year will need a percentage back with £60,000 or more per year paying the full amount back.

Currently, the only way to make a new claim for Child Tax Credit is if you have an existing Working Tax Credit claim. This will be phased out due to the government moving everyone over to Universal Credit and is expected to happen in 2024.

United States
The child tax credit is available to taxpayers who have children under the age of 17 (or in 2021 under the age of 18). Since 2018, the CTC is $2,000 per qualifying child. It is available in full to single filers who make up to $200,000 and married couples filing jointly who make up to $400,000. Above these limits, the CTC is phased out at the rate of $50 for each additional $1,000 earned. When a taxpayer's credit value exceeds his or her tax liability, the taxpayer is eligible for the additional child tax credit (ACTC), which is calculated as 15% of the taxpayer's AGI in excess of $2,500 (i.e. a family must make at least $2,500 to be eligible for the credit), with the refund value capped at $1,400.

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) of 2021 significantly expanded the child tax credit for one year, allowing qualifying families to offset $3,000 per child up to age 17 and $3,600 per child under age 6. It also made the credit fully-refundable and offered the option of receiving half of the credit as six monthly payments. 39 million households, covering 88% of children in the United States, will begin receiving these payments automatically beginning July 15, 2021. The proposed Build Back Better Act would extend the expansion for an additional year and make the full refundability of the CTC permanent.

The child tax credit has a significant effect on child poverty. In 2016, it was estimated to have lifted about 3 million children out of poverty. In 2021, a Columbia University study estimated that the expansion of the CTC in the American Rescue Plan Act reduced child poverty by an additional 26%, and would have decreased child poverty by 40% had all eligible households claimed the credit.

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Stoogism
Wikipedia is not the repository for drunken ramblings made after watching a Three Stooges marathon DS 23:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete CDC   (talk)  01:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, silliness. --Idont Havaname 02:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No notable references. Just nonsense. Zzyzx11 05:30, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 06:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 10:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Junk. Djbrianuk 17:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Stooges Longhair 14:53, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Football in England

Women's football in table
Is it possible that the big table can have women's stuff like the FA Women's Cup added in? i have no clue how to do it and don't want to cock up. A.K.A.47 — Preceding undated comment added 23:21, 16 February 2005 (UTC)

Football by Region is redundant
Besides missing a lot of links, doesn't the "Football in different regions of England" section just regurgitate details that can be found on the pages of the respective clubs? Does anyone else think it should be summarized a bit? --Howcheng 19:18, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree - currently it's just a club-by-club dump of facts, so I've taken it out. Having a subsection of "History" dealing with the spread of footballing power throughout the country might be worthwhile, but this is just an unwikified mess. sjorford #£@%&$?!  09:39, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Axe
Hi. I just took an axe to the lists at the Football League First Division and suchforth. We now have articles

 * List of winners of English Premiership and predecessors
 * List of winners of English Football League Championship and predecessors
 * List of winners of English Football League One and predecessors
 * List of winners of English Football League Two and predecessors

I did this because I thought it was not especially useful to have long lists that acted as if the Premiership was a new league, rather than pretending it was a renaming of the first division (for the purposes of record keeping, the structure had been static ever since the 3rd/4th divisions were set up - people keep track of how many old 1st division+premiership wins clubs have, for example).

This means that the first article has the Premiership winners and the old first division winners - the second article has the Championship and the newer first division winners, etc. Hope this makes sense to everyone else.

Morwen - Talk 14:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Sounds good to me - as you say, most people just see these as just name changes, particularly when counting First Division/Premiership titles. sjorford (talk)  14:47, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah. It's a shame I suppose that they didn't adopt the "League Championship", "League One" and "League Two" terminology back in 1992.  But oh well. Morwen - Talk 15:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I've reverted to saying Third and Fourth Divisions instead of Leagues One and Two ;) sjorford (talk)  17:14, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks good. I've got a couple of ideas though:
 * I'd like it better if the clubs were linked every year instead of just the first year that they won a division. It's strange that if someone sees Aston Villa winning the league in 1981 and want to go to their page, they have to go back to 1894 to find the link, and I don't think over-wikifying looks bad in tables.  Also, I think players' full names would be better than initials and surnames.  If no-one makes any objections I'll make a start on this later.  [[Image:Yemen flag large.png|24px]] CTOAGN (talk) 18:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree, with perhaps the caveat that this is only used where victories come a large distance apart e.g. Blackburn, Aston Villa or Chelsea. There's no point having link after link to Man Utd or Liverpool Robdurbar 23:08, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, I was wondering if, for completeness, we think that divison threes north and south could be incoporated into this, perhaps in the League 1 and predecessotrs page? Robdurbar 23:13, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I dunno, 3N and 3S were not really part of this 4-division system. Oh, and the tables are rather inconsistent at the moment - they need making consistent at least within a page.  Morwen - Talk 13:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Any way you look at it, the mighty Man U will never be there so dont worry about it!!-TTT13

I have created an all-time list for the English First Division up to the creation of the Premier League and would like to submit it, how do I do it? Robd27 19:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)robd27

Great players/managers
I recommend these should go or at least be trimmed/re-named. Such lists are very subjective and p.o.v., and usually just seem to be an excuse for people to add their own favourites to the list. SteveO 23:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. There is a discussion on "lists", albeit those that form articles, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football. You might find it useful to raise this matter there as it is related. Alias Flood 00:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Here, here --Robdurbar 07:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, I've removed them. SteveO 02:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

 * How about "see also" links to the PFA Players' Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year and FWA Player of the Year articles instead? They are verifiable and cover most of the same names.   A    q    uilina   16:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Last section unfinished?
At the bottom section of the article it reads "These two led to a modernization of English football and English grounds. Efforts were made to remove hooligans from English football, whilst the Taylor Report led to the". Is someone still finishing this? --81.157.138.137 13:00, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * A whole chunk at the end got cut off by a careless editor, I have restored it and sent him a message Bob Palin 15:04, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Condensing and reducing number of sections
I made a few changes a couple of weeks ago in an attempt to consolidate the number of subheadings and sections in the article. At some point it was reverted, though its not obvious when without quite a bit of digging through the history. What are people's thoughts about changing the League system and Cup competitions sections to a single Structure section as in ? Oldelpaso 15:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually I think they're best left as they are - they're a healthy size each and there's very little overlap between the two. Qwghlm 09:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Merge & reorganisation
As well as this article there is a Football in regions of England article, whose existence is dubious given that the top five levels of football in England are played on a national, not regional scale. I would suggest merging it with the History of English football section in this article, but that would probably make the page too long. So instead I propose splitting off the History section to a separate page, merging what's possible from the regions article into that, and providing a mere summary here. Does anyone have any opinions? Qwghlm 00:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Plus, it might free up room in this article for a summary style Economy of English football section which is currently lacking. (I made a start on this in a sandbox a while back, but never got around to finishing it). What do you think of the idea of a Structure section I proposed above? Oldelpaso 08:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I've split the article off, as no-one objected. Qwghlm 13:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

 * And now done the merge, which was painful. Some of the writing quality admittedly isn't very good; the History of English football could do with a going over as a CotW, to be honest. Qwghlm 21:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Seasons in English football
This is not specifically about this page, but I have noticed that in the 'seasons of english football' there are only a few records of international success (or lack thereof). I think that every season in English football page should have information about how England performed internationally —The preceding unsigned comment was added by funkyduncan (talk • contribs).

"soccer"
it isn't "unusual" for it to be called "soccer." ITV regularly use the term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.157.115 (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

 * It tends to be called "soccer" in places where there is another type of 'football', like the Republic of Ireland and the USA. Unfortunately there is small but forceful movement on Wikipedia to disambiguate with "Association" rather than "soccer". Someone changed Football in the Republic of Ireland over to Association football in the Republic of Ireland - on a 60% "consensus" too. There is a vote to try and change it to "Football (soccer)" right now, as the press uses "soccer" in the Rep of Ireland to disambiguate from Gaelic football. The rationale is WP:COMMONNAMES.

 * I'd like to see them try adding "Association" to England, just because some people use "soccer" in England! My view is that Wikipedia should disambiguate with "(soccer)", where there is another version of football as a national game (like the Republic), and leave everyone else well alone. Who knows what some people will try to do if the "Association" ball gets rolling though - "conformity" is always the big argument with these things. Hopefully the Rep of Ireland vote will see "Association" removed - does anyone really want to see it in the national teams? It's bad enough that it's taken over the main "Association Football" article, but now that (unhappy) fact is being cited as a reason to change the Rep of Ireland article too.--Matt Lewis (talk) 20:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

 * To answer the original comment and keep this on topic rather than drifting off to discuss something else, many in the UK seem to forget that soccer is a word in common use here and it is not unusual at all. It is also of British origina. Soccer Saturday and Soccer AM are popular British shows about the sport. And soccer is used rather than Football AM or Football Saturday. Then there is Granada Soccer Night on ITV. And isn't World Soccer magazine a British publication? ♦Tangerines♦ · Talk 21:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree with the British use. My old games teacher in my junior school in Wales was very fond of it - though I don't remember us using it. It's always been footy to me! World Soccer is IPC, which is a UK publisher, yes.--Matt Lewis (talk) 22:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Soccer seems to be used in the media predominatly. You don't hear the term much in everyday usage, where it is almost universally football. Ihave always known the sport as 'football', but out of respect to followers of other football codes in England such as Gaelic Football and American Football, I would support a move to Association Football in England. Lord Cornwallis (talk) 17:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Straw Poll - on changing to Association football in England
The Republic of Ireland football article has recently been changed to Association football in the Republic of Ireland. The attending voters had a chance to use the common Irish-media-used 'disambiguator' of "Soccer" (ROI of course has Gaelic football too), but instead they chose "Association". It was pushed through on an "over 60% percent consensus". There is a vote going on now to change the article to "Football (soccer) in the Republic of Ireland". But even now "Association" is winning out - and the most common reason given to keep it is that the 'main article' is called Association football - and so other articles must keep in line.

But for this 'conformity' to make proper sense, it would mean that the other national team articles like England's would have to fall into line too. Some voters have openly expressed a desire for this to happen. Where will it end - with the national teams?

I think people here should be alerted to the tide of change that was first started with the move to Association football, and that a collection of UK nation 'straw polls' would be an interesting barometer for us all.

Note on "canvassing"

Supporters of the word "Association" are very critical of "WP:CANVASSING on this subject, and it is my opinion that they prefer their votes to be tight and guarded: and I can see no bias involved in informing all the UK nations at all. I am risking this accusation as I believe this vote is of major importance to all national team articles: I have given valid reasons for this above - so please restore this poll if it changed or removed, and explain why it is important in your edit note.--Matt Lewis (talk) 16:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Straw Poll

'''Would you like to see this article CHANGED to Association football in England? Or would you like to KEEP it as it is?'''

Please vote "Change" or "Keep" in bold, and sign.

This discussion is in breech of WP:CANVASSING,WP:Point and WP:Vote Gnevin (talk) 18:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Matt Lewis (talk) 16:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Change. Lord Cornwallis (talk) 18:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Football (soccer) was changed to Association Football per naming policy. There is nothing wrong with the title of this page, it doesn't have to please different people in England because different names for the sport are used comprehensively. It is widely known as football so keep as Football in England per WP:COMMONNAME. Peanut4 (talk) 19:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Lead section
My first impression of the article is that the lead section as it is today is not about English football, but about the word football as it is used in England. This does a disservice to the rest of the article. I propose that it be moved into the body of the article, and a new lead section written which defines the topic and summarises the article. I like the guidelines at WP:LEAD, that style seems to work well for featured articles. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 08:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Clubs
A section on clubs would be useful here, listing numbers, oldest, most successful etc. Also a paragraph on those clubs located in England that play in other nations' leagues, such as Berwick. Grunners (talk) 20:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Reference to Football's Pre War GOAL INFLATION
With the Pre War era being an amateur, undeveloped, substandard era, slack rules/offside (sometimes non existant), goal inflation, easy scoring, with teams filled with local players only who had multiple jobs..and goal records galore...

most goals by a player in a game - 10 (1936). most goals by a player in top flight game - 7 (1935, Drake). most hat-tricks in a season - 9 (1926, Camsell). most top flight goals in a season - 128 (1931, Villa). most home goals in a season - 83 (1928, Millwall). most away goals in a season - 60 (1931, Arsenal). most goals in 1 day - 209 in 44 games (1936). most goals in a game - 13-4 (1936).

There should be more detail on this...also explain why the weak Pre War era is ignored and dismissed by contemporary writers and experts due to its lack of credibiity...and the use of the term "Post War" record is dominant in the media when the sport started to develop. 666 Eddie (talk) 05:56, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

London wiki
If anybody wants to develop articles on London-area football clubs for London wiki [www.london.wikia.com] please do so (given that my knowledge of football is very limited). Jackiespeel (talk) 15:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Summarised Cup Eligibility Table
Not being English the huge number of cups is confusing, not to mention the fact they regularly change sponsorship name and also have similar names. Being a visual person, I think it would be great to include a table that summarises per league which cups (including vases, trophees etc) a club in that league is eligible to participate in. Using the following columns:
 * League Level (ie. 1,2,3,....-11)
 * League (name eg. Premier League, Championship....)
 * Then a column per Trophee indicating if clubs at that level are eligible to participate using a tick or cross.

Thoughts? Is anyone good at wiki tables? --TinTin (talk) 01:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Current National Cup Competitions
I got around to creating the table to show what I meant (see above). I think it nicely summarises the text. I haven't included the FA Community Shield as the eligibility is a bit more complicated because technically the FA Cup winner could be from any level. --TinTin (talk) 00:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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The current capacity of the stadium is62303. Planning permission has been granted to increase this to 62850 https://sportsvenuebusiness.com/2020/10/16/spurs-secures-approval-for-capacity-increase-phase-3-stadium-complex-plan/2A02:8084:26E0:AA00:AD1B:CE1B:D755:8ACB (talk) 17:28, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

england were absolutely dominated by spain in euro 24
WEHEY 37.228.242.182 (talk) 21:56, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

england were absolutely dominated by spain in euro 24
WEHEY 37.228.242.182 (talk) 21:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

 * ikr they were so bad 37.228.242.182 (talk) 21:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Knauss

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Ben Knauss
The article begins "Ben Knauss (born July 17, 1971 in Angola, Indiana) is credited as the primary software/hardware liason between PortalPlayer and Apple Computer for the development of the iPod project" and the remainder reads very much like some sort of curriculum vitae / resume. With about 542 google hits is this document a valuable addition to Wikipedia, or is this self serving vanity? Could visitors (other than headhunters) conceivably benefit from reading this article? GRider\talk 23:22, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, claenup and expand. Megan1967 06:15, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't see anything notable here. Programmer (or "liason" or whatever), VP of small internet startup, those don't clear the bar. -R. fiend 07:44, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. IT person who has done a large bunch of different IT jobs, but doesn't establish notability. Radiant! 09:31, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Looks suspiciously autobiographical. Trilobite (Talk) 10:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a self written CV to me. No more impressive and important a computer programmer than my sister, and I'm not writing an article on her. Average Earthman 14:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, As the only person to ever go on record concerning the history of the iPod, I think its a valid contribution.
 * Delete: no evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 07:22, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - not notable enough Brookie 08:29, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete Yuckfoo 04:01, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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