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HŠK Posušje

Hrvatski športski klub Posušje is a professional association football club based in Posušje that is situated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is best known for winning the First League of Herzeg-Bosnia in 1999 and 2000, the top flight ethnic Croat league in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time.

Currently, Posušje competes in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina and plays its home matches at the Mokri Dolac Stadium, which has a capacity of 8,000 seats. The club played in the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina until the 2020–21 First League of FBiH season, after which it gained promotion to the Bosnian Premier League.

Previously, Posušje won the southern group of the Second League of FBiH in the 2017–18 season, going 12 rounds undefeated to start the season. However, the club did not gain promotion after losing to Goražde in the play-offs.

Previous names of the club have included NK Zidar (from 1950) and NK Boksit (from 1963), with the current name being adopted in the early 1990s. Posušje's fans are now known as the Poskoci (Horned Vipers), but were previously known as Torcida. The stadium's name, "Mokri Dolac", means 'Wet Valley'.

League

 * First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Winners (1): 2020–21
 * Second League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
 * Winners (2): 2017–18 (south), 2019–20 (south)
 * First League of Herzeg-Bosnia:
 * Winners (2): 1998–99, 1999–2000

Cups

 * Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup:
 * Semi-finalists (2): 2000–01, 2007–08

Managerial history

 * Albert Pobor
 * Stjepan Čordaš
 * Stanko Mršić (1999)
 * Vjeran Simunić (2000)
 * Ivica Kalinić (2000–2001)
 * 🇧🇦 Mario Ćutuk (1 July 2002 – 30 June 2004)
 * 🇧🇦 Dragan Jović (4 September 2006 – 7 October 2007)
 * Ivan Katalinić (1 June 2008 – 31 December 2008)
 * 🇧🇦 Boris Gavran (24 June 2008 – 10 March 2009)
 * Darko Dražić (19 March 2009 – 11 May 2009)
 * 🇧🇦 Mario Knezović (1 June 2015 – 21 September 2015)
 * 🇧🇦 Damir Ramljak (14 October 2015 – 1 February 2016)
 * 🇧🇦 Leo Slišković (4 February 2016 – 1 June 2020)
 * 🇧🇦 Denis Ćorić (12 June 2020 – 12 September 2021)
 * Stipe Balajić (16 September 2021 – 22 March 2022)
 * 🇧🇦 Toni Karačić (23 March 2022 – 5 June 2022)
 * Ferdo Milin (14 June 2022 – 19 September 2022)
 * Goran Granić (29 September 2022 – 22 March 2023)
 * Branko Karačić (23 March 2023 – 30 December 2023)
 * 🇧🇦 Denis Ćorić (2 January 2024 – 6 June 2024)
 * 🇧🇦 Duško Vranešević (17 June 2024 – present)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Truelove Eyre

 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 ambiguous. I count 5 clear "delete" votes and 7 clear "keep" votes (but 2 of them were from anon or very new users and are discounted). Even after discounting the anon votes, this discussion fails to reach a clear concensus to delete. The decision defaults to keep. Rossami (talk) 00:41, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Truelove Eyre
Hoax / not verifiable. See Votes for deletion/Eyre Empire. Rhobite 21:04, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm reiterating my nomination to delete this article. All the new references are genealogy sites, which can have a tendency to accept and repeat unverified information. Some of the sites even admit that this story is apocryphal. Rhobite 19:15, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * You are correct to state that the story is apocryphal. I personally believe that a centuries-old legend is as least as notable as, for example, the Drug urban legends included in Wikipedia, but you have every right to disagree. GeorgeStepanek\talk  21:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep. The author clearly states that the subject of the article is mythological and openly acknowledges that many sources have it to be pure legend. While wikipedia may have no room for a man who was never born, we certainly do record myths and folklore that achieve particular popularity. This one has obviously circulated for hundreds of years (see, Eyre Empire). Also, keep in mind, while there is no clear historical precedent to prove his existence, there is also nothing with which to disprove it. No premise for deletion. Maybe relist as, "Legend of Truelove Eyre." History 21
 * It's irritating when the author of an article pretends that he's an innocent bystander. You ARE the author. Rhobite 00:54, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - A google search for "Truelove Eyre" produces utterly nothing. I suspect it is in fact a vanity (if you can call it that) page written by an "Eyre", or whoever owns the page it links to - a "fictional genealogy" if you will. Complete rubbish, and a hoax. And to comment on the points the user "History 21" raises - "while there is no clear historical precedent to prove his existence, there is also nothing with which to disprove it". Well, I'm not a historian, but perhaps you'd care to tell me how William the Conqueror granted Truelove "significant lands in Ireland", when we wasn't in control of Ireland at the time? Nick04 22:28, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, changed vote following extensive rediting, and realising some of my comments out of line. Nick04 08:52, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - yes, I know I've changed my vote twice, but having only just glanced over at the Eyre Empire article, I suspect I've beein hoaxed...and even if you discount the Eyre Empire, the article as it stands now (even after extensive revision) is nothing more than a) family legend, and b) genealogy, which don't belong here. Nick04 22:59, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I have put a lot of work into totally rewriting this article to remove the Eyre Empire-type rubbish that the original author invented, and to base it very soundly on the wealth of legitimate references that have subsequently been found and cited. Please do not make a superficial decision based on an entirely different article. GeorgeStepanek\talk  00:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nick04, google has no hits for Truelove Eyre, but yahoo does (quite a few actually). You should always try BOTH engines when doing a search, especially if you can't find anything on google at first. Secondly, Truelove Eyre's existence or nonexistence is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. Only the legend ITSELF is relevant, as it is widely well known tale in Britain. If there was a widely known "Legend of the Bat Boy," I expect that wikipedia would have an article on it. "In 19th Century Romania, a false but highly believable story circulated...blah blah blah...this folklore has become a part of Romanian history and lives on to this day." You get the picture. The story itself is famous, that's what matters. But just as an aside, the Gaelic name for Ireland is, "Eire." That's no coincidence. Go to yahoo. History21

Keep thank you, Nick04, but I'm serious about what I said.
 * You don't get to vote twice. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:06, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - unverifiable. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:06, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I know that I don't get to vote twice, I was just emphasizing what I had said before. You all don't seem to understand what I'm saying here: nothing about Truelove Eyre is verifiable. But the fact that a legend surrounds him IS verifiable. It is the LEGEND that we are reporting. For all I know, William the Conqueror could have falled from his horse because he saw a shiny coin on the ground--I DON'T CARE. The story, however, is a significant part of folklore and should be shown on wikipedia. It is made perfectly clear in the article that the story is largely thought to be myth. History21

 * Delete. Even legends are verifiable: you can verify that people believed them at the time. This has not been done for Truelove Eyre. I don't consider a family album to be a sufficiently authoritative citation for such a supposedly significant historical or mythological figure. GeorgeStepanek\talk  02:07, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The supplied references (below) now convince me that this is a notable and verifiable legend. I have done a major cleanup of the article and removed the spurious claims, particularly regarding the "Eyre Empire". The remaining facts are well supported by the references listed. Despite the utterly bizarre behaviour of the author, this is a actually a notable subject. GeorgeStepanek\talk  01:31, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not notable, probably hoax, as the Eyre Empire nonsense shows.  RickK 05:58, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * The new edits don't change my vote. It's still non-notable, bogus genealogy and not of encyclopedic interest.  RickK 05:37, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not verifiable with no Google hits and no reliable reference from a paper source cited. Capitalistroadster 10:46, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Change to keep because of George Stepanek's edits. Well done George. Capitalistroadster 07:33, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, largely because the Eyre Empire ridiculousness has made it impossible for me to assume good faith, and so much of the article is unverifiable. Foobaz · ✐  00:45, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep because of GeorgeStepanek's edits. Foobaz · ✐  01:54, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep Legend verified and Once again, legend verified. 168.184.90.11 01:41, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, I'm a registered Wiki user with hundreds of edits to my name. I have no vote on this issue yet; I'd just like to provide some actual Google hits here, so as to clarify that this is NOT NONSENSE. It may not be notable, but it's not nonsense, okay? Sheesh. Note that many of these are for "Truelove who was henceforth called Ayre/Eyre", or similar phrasings., , , , ,  (a 100-year-old transcript which refers to "True Love" instead of "Truelove"),  (a history of the family name 'Truelove', and how it's associated with Eyre), and . I'll grant that many of these have similar wording; this is apparently because they're all quoting the same centuries-old source. That source's reliability is another issue, of course. If this is a hoax, the hoaxsters have put an enormous amount of work into it over a long, long, long time. The ineptness of the page's defendants shouldn't be a factor in deciding whether it's worthy of being kept or deleted. DS 14:50, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ahh, that's better, GeorgeStepanek. Pleasure working with you; I now vote keep. DS 03:17, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for providing sources, but they only establish the origin of a name, not the existence of an entire empire, or any of the other fantastic claims made in the article. 68.18.28.36 09:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep . Abstain KEEP --Sn0wflake 23:56, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am changing my vote one more time due to a simple fact: this article is a legend, yes. But WHO SAYS legends are not Wikipedia material? I have seen such ridiculous articles get away from VfD's axe... so even whitout full knowledge of this article's subject, I can't let it be deleted. Do you all remember that rule? Yeah, that one... assume the best? It's part of the Wikipedia's utopia, and it's one that we should take into consideration here. I hereby change my vote to Keep and it will stay that way. Please rethink your Delete votes. --Sn0wflake 00:54, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nobody says that legends are not Wikipedia material. Hell, many of the pages I work on here are about legends. But this particular alleged legend, strongly linked to hoax articles whose only claims to verification are on non-authoritative web pages that could very well be passing off fake lore as folklore, isn't notable and is very likely to be completely bogus. DreamGuy 19:28, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

I just read the link provided by 168.184.90.11, and i'm starting to think it sounds like Truelove was the man's old surname, i.e. his name was Bob Truelove, and he was rechristened Bob Eyre. This would explain why "Truelove Eyre" gets no Google hits. Does this sound reasonable to anyone else? Foobaz · ✐ 06:05, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * In medieval Europe people didn't really have surnames. They were indentified by their occupation (e.g. "John the Smith"), their location (e.g. "John of York") or their nickname (e.g. "Edmund Ironsides"). "Eyre" was just a nickname. "Truelove" may have been another nickname: it certainly sounds like one. GeorgeStepanek\talk  21:36, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * So, if we can't even verify that a man with the name "Truelove Eyre" existed, why are we voting to keep an article about him? Foobaz · ✐  22:59, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Did King Arthur exist? Certainly not under that name, but it's the name that we know him by now. Likewise Truelove Eyre appears to be the best extant name for this individual (if he existed). GeorgeStepanek\talk  23:34, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems to me the only people who call him Truelove Eyre are the people using the four IPs involved in this and the Eyre Empire article & discussion. Surely the article is valuable, but i don't believe it belongs at its current name, nor should it mention the name Truelove Eyre, since i highly doubt that was the brave man's name. How about moving the article to Eyre legend? Foobaz · ✐  00:02, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Yep, that sound like a good idea. It agrees with the quote that "hereafter instead of Truelove be called Eyre". But can we rename the article before the VfD has run its course? GeorgeStepanek\talk  00:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

One cannot verify the Truelove Eyre legend without thus verifying the Eyre Empire itself, as it is said to have stemmed from him. Therefore, I counsel patience and caution before recklessly acquiescing to the validity of either article. 168.184.90.11 (talk · contributions)

 * Delete - Obviously, this is at best a legend, and it doesn't seem to be a notable legend at that, as a google search reveals. Furthermore, a legend which people insist 'may be true' is what is generally called a hoax or, when pressed, a conspiracy theory. There is no verifiable fact at all in the article as it stands, even after the edits. This Truelove is not mentioned by anyone (that I was able to find) as the founder of the Ayre or Eyre families, and the Eyre family crest does not feature a leg in armor. Finally, to say that 'historians cannot definitively confirm whether or not Truelove actually existed' gives his legend far too much credit; historians actually appear not to care at all. Squibix 19:08, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I have rephrased these statement to better reflect the references. I have also listed the eight references that DS found, which appear to be independent of each other at least back to 1900, if not earlier. If it is a hoax or a conspiracy, then it's a very old one, and certainly nothing to do with the Eyre Empire nonsense (although it has been a bit of a job removing that author's ludicrous inventions). I urge you to take a look at the references, and reconsider your position. GeorgeStepanek\talk  03:18, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - At worst this is a hoax that has managed to confuse some of the editors voting above. At best it's horribly nonnotable and unverifiable. Either way it doesn't belong here. DreamGuy 01:00, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * How can you say that it is "unverifiable" if you haven't taken a look at the references? I am getting rather frustrated with opinions like this, that clearly been made only on the most cursory examination of the evidence at hand. Please read the article closely, compare it to the source texts, and then (if you are still unconvinced) provide a reasoned explanation of why you think this subject is invalid. GeorgeStepanek\talk   00:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * George, have you compared Eyre Empire and Votes for deletion/Eyre Empire? THAT is why people want this nonsense deleted.  The whole thing is of a piece.  It's all a hoax.  This person, even if he were a real person, does not qualify for an encyclopedia article,  And are you REALLY trying to claim that Ireland got its name because of a person whose last name was Eyre?  RickK 00:55, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Truelove Eyre, as I have rewritten it, does not state that Ireland got its name from a man named Eyre. It is not "of a piece" with Eyre Empire. Forget Eyre Empire. I have totally rewritten the article based on a significant number of independent, verifiable references. Please address your comments to those references, and to the article as it stands. Can you not see how much of a logical fallacy it is to say "article A is rubbish, therefore article B should be deleted" if articles A and B have different authors? I am now the author of Truelove Eyre, not the idiot person who wrote Eyre Empire. GeorgeStepanek\talk  01:28, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Those links you gave above are personal pages and sites that allow the gneral public to add info about their families. There's nothing authoritative about them that would make them reliable sources, and they seem like a relatively easy way to slip bogus family history out onto the web. But even if this were true, it's not encyclopedic material. It's completely and utterly nonnotable, and even if you give it the benefit of the doubt there, it's fringe nature added to the very real likelihood that someone is out there pulling your leg and we have an article that needs to be removed. Sorry you took time rewriting something so insignificant, but that was your choice and I don't think editors here should vote to keep it just because you trust those Internet sites you went to and rewrote something that undeniably started as a hoax article. The submitter wants you to believe that Ireland was named after his ancestor for crying out loud... can you say "untrustworthy source"? And is it really so hard for you to believe that if that person took the time to post the hoax articles here that he didn;t do the same on those personal pages and geneology sites that let people claim whatever they want about their families? Come on. DreamGuy 19:39, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but your assertion that these "sites that allow the general public to add info about their families" is simply not true. This, for example, is the Chapter 15 of "The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W.W.H. Davis, 1876 and 1905 editions" which runs to over 15,000 words (not to mention the other 54 chapters). The idea that someone has simply invented this mass of material is, frankly, ludicrous. Have you even bothered to take a look at these sources? Rhobite is correct in pointing out that the story is apocryphal, but it is a centuries-old legend, not something that a contemporary individual has put together. GeorgeStepanek\talk  21:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Senior major golf championships

Men's professional senior golf is for players aged 50 and above. Golf differs from all other sports in having lucrative competitions for this age group. The leading senior tour is the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions, which was established in 1980 (as the Senior PGA Tour). It has established a roster of five major championships. These events are all played over four rounds, whereas other senior tournaments are generally played over three rounds—only one other current Champions Tour event, the limited-field and season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, is played over four rounds. A golfer's performances can be quite variable from one round to the next, so playing an extra round increases the likelihood that the senior majors will be won by leading players.

In the current order of play, the senior majors are:
 * The Tradition (Champions Tour major since foundation in 1989) – May
 * Senior PGA Championship (founded 1937; Champions Tour major since 1980) – May
 * U.S. Senior Open (Champions Tour major since foundation in 1980) – July
 * Senior Players Championship (Champions Tour major since foundation in 1983) – June
 * The Senior Open Championship (often called the "Senior British Open" outside the UK; founded 1987; Champions Tour major since 2003) – July

The Senior PGA Championship, U.S. Senior Open, and Senior Open Championship, have fields of 144 to 156 players and a 36-hole cut. The Tradition and Senior Players Championship have 81 player fields and no 36-hole cut.

The order of play has changed many times during the history of senior golf, especially since 2006:
 * In 2006 the U.S. Senior Open, Senior Players Championship, and Senior Open were held in July and were consecutive on the schedule. There was no event in the week after the Senior Players, allowing golfers adequate time to travel to the United Kingdom and acclimate for the Senior Open two weeks later. This gave the Champions Tour a very clear peak period, which is not found on most other tours, including the PGA Tour. The Tradition was the last major on the schedule.
 * In 2007 the Senior Players Championship moved to October, two months after The Tradition, to spread the majors over a longer period of time.
 * In 2008, the U.S. Senior Open moved to the week after the Senior Open. This once again gave the Champions Tour a clear peak period, with no tournament held between the U.S. Senior Open and The Tradition (a one-week break in 2008, two weeks in 2009). In 2010, there was a regular tournament in the week after the U.S. Senior Open, followed by a one-week break before The Tradition.
 * The 2011 season saw another significant schedule change. The Tradition moved from late August to early May, becoming the first major of the season. The Senior Players Championship moved from October to the August date vacated by The Tradition.
 * In 2012, the order was almost completely reshuffled. The schedule was also greatly compressed, with all five majors now being played in a two-month period:
 * The Senior PGA Championship remained at its end of May slot.
 * The Tradition moved from early May to mid-June.
 * The Senior Players Championship, formerly the last major of the season in August, moved to late June/early July
 * The U.S. Senior Open remains the fourth major in schedule order, but is now held in mid-July.
 * The Senior Open kept its 2011 date, but due to the other schedule changes is now the final major.

Unlike the mainstream majors, two of the senior majors have title sponsors, and the Senior PGA Championship and Senior Open have presenting sponsors whose names appear after the tournament title. Also unlike the mainstream majors, none of which falls under the direct jurisdiction of any professional tour, the Champions Tour directly operates two of its majors—The Tradition and the Senior Players Championship. The other three senior majors are operated by the same bodies that organize their mainstream counterparts—the PGA of America for the Senior PGA, The R&A for the Senior Open, and the USGA for the U.S. Senior Open.

The Senior PGA is by far the oldest of the senior majors, having commenced in the 1930s. The other four tournaments all date from 1980 or later, having been founded in the era when senior golf became a commercial success. This occurred when the first big golf stars of the television era, men such as Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, began to reach the relevant age.

Unlike mainstream men's golf, the senior game does not have a globally agreed set of majors. The three majors recognized by the European Senior Tour are the Senior PGA Championship and the U.S. and British Senior Opens. However, the Champions Tour is much more dominant in global senior golf than the PGA Tour is in mainstream men's golf.

Senior major winners
The table below shows the results of all the events designated as majors by the Champions Tour. As the order in which the majors were played frequently changes, they are listed in the current order of play. Winners of Senior PGA Championships played before December 1979 (from the 1980 to 1985 seasons, it was the winner of the Senior PGA Championship if the previous calendar year) and Senior Opens played before 2003 are not listed here as they were not Champions Tour majors at the time nor retroactively recognized as majors. Those winners are shown in the tournaments' articles. The other three tournaments have been Champions Tour majors throughout their existence. The Senior PGA Championship was held twice in 1984 but was not held in 1983 or 1985.

Bernhard Langer holds the record for the most senior majors won with twelve. Gary Player has also won nine championships that are now considered senior golf majors, but three of his titles came at the Senior Open Championship before this tournament officially gained senior major status. Jack Nicklaus has won eight senior majors and holds the record for the most regular majors won (18).

Bernhard Langer is the only player to have won each of the five senior major championships and is therefore held to have won the 'Career Grand Slam.' In his time, Nicklaus also held a 'Career Grand Slam' as the Senior Open did not become the fifth senior major until 2003, by which time Nicklaus had effectively retired from senior golf (his only appearance in the Senior Open was in 2003).

''NOTE: The Senior PGA Championship was held in December from 1979 to 1984, with one exception. For consistency reasons of golf seasons, which at times have been wraparound seasons before the tournament moved to late May, December tournament of the Senior PGA Championship are regarded as the following year's season.''

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User talk:JimCollaborator

As of February 28, 2005, I am a new User, so bear this in mind. --JimCollaborator 21:08, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I have deleted JimCollaborator/Gallery. You should not put pages about yourself into the main namespace. Please use User:JimCollaborator/Gallery instead. Regards, jni 20:03, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Williams X-Jet, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page. --Rlandmann 22:15, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * No Jim, the thanks are to you for such a cool article :) --Rlandmann 08:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi again and thanks for another great aircraft article! Just a couple of quick pointers - Cheers --Rlandmann 01:25, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Please don't modify the standard data section unless using it results in absolute nonsense (ie, "Wingspan" is absurd for the X-Jet, so "Footprint" was a perfectly acceptable alternative there).
 * 2) Please don't place articles on specific aircraft types anywhere but at the lowest level of the category tree - eg "U.S. special-purpose aircraft 1990-1999", never just "Special-purpose aircraft".

 * Thanks for the tips! --JimCollaborator 01:31, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, I have now made the correction. MPLX/MH 05:21, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. --JimCollaborator 05:23, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

People had already cleared up the NLP spam when I checked; so I cleared up the NLP category system a bit. The articles on NLP really need work; but I keep hoping some dedicated NLPer with a bit of balance will get motivated. :ChrisG 14:03, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your help. JimCollaboratortalk ~ 01:05, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Circumcision and Anti-semitism
Hello Jim. I want to thank you sincerely for the efforts that you made on this article. I was very pleased with your contributions and I look forward to working with you in the future. The article has been deleted. I do not know what your feelings were on the value of the final version of the article before deletion. I am appealing the process at Votes for undeletion. If you have any input I would be happy to see it put there. Once again thanks for going the extra mile for this article with changes less than average of survival. Your da man. Sirkumsize 03:12, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jewish Wikicabal
Hey! I see on User_talk:Slrubenstein that you seem to be implying there is no such thing as a Jewish cabal on Wikipedia. I'd like to let you know, there is! We're meeting at my house right now—playing cards, eating pasta and drinking whiskey (gotta clean up...pesach is coming!). You're welcome to come join us! :-p (obviously, my tongue is stuck to the side of my mouth...)  Tomer TALK  23:14, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Jimcollaborator! -SV|t 00:57, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * JNT

Wikifun Round 9
Is now open to play. See WP:WF. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:01, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings, JimCollaborator! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag   to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 06:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Appeal for balanced help with NLP
Hello JC. The NLP page has had quite a lot of turbulence recently, however, it has also undergone quite a lot of information gathering over the past months. There is a problem with a particular zealous NLP promoter who reverts the page at every opportunity and works hard to remove any kind of good research related to even remotely negative facts about NLP.

I myself am an NLP teacher, but I believe that NLP beliefs should be questioned using rigor and fact. It helps the learning process. Perhaps that is beside the point, but basically I am all for Wikipedia creating a good NLP page. I reckon a purely neutral NLP page is really difficult, but a well researched one with a balanced set of views is an excellent idea.

I believe all that is required is to revert when people are being unreasonable/misbehaving against wiki convention, and revert when people remove researched fact without reaching consensus. The page has just been judged by the "authorities" and a ViewOfAll page was determined by them, so we have a solid re-starting point.

Would you be able to pop in every now and again and revert any nonsense/spamming/ from any zealot? Your balance, education, and reason will be much appreciated. Best regards HeadleyDown 08:44, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikifun round 12
This is to invite you to participate in the next game of Wikifun.

Round 12 will begin at 11:00 UTC on Friday January 20. 2006.

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Sociology Portal
Proposed Sociology Portal

Portal:Sociology has been proposed from WikiProject_Community and WikiProject_Sociology. - CQ 13:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

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Photos
Hey there, I noticed you listed yourself as open to requests for photos, and was curious if you felt like venturing out of Seattle a bit to help fill in the photos as List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington. Cheers! Murderbike (talk) 22:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Wikipedia in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page. Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 03:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Use of a photograph of yours outside Wikipedia
Dear Jim:

I am glad to inform you that I have decided to use a picture of yours in order to illustrate my Website and other commercial projects.

The picture was taken from Wikimedia Commons, and as I understand it, you uploaded that picture in that server with the intent to share it with others.

Of course, due credit is given.

The resulting Webpage is the following:

http://sites.google.com/site/aldoloup/articulos/ya-es-el-siglo-xxi-donde-estan-los-autos-voladores The same page in English and other languages will follow.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to use that picture. However, if you feel in any way that my use of your picture does not fit into your original intentions, please let me know it as soon as possible.

In case you are not the sole and only copyright owner of the specified material so that these copyrights are shared with others, I would appreciate any information you can provide me about anybody else I should contact.

Sincerely yours,

Aldo L (talk) 18:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

P.S.: Please excuse me for writing you to your Wikipedia User Talk Page, as I have been unable to find any other contact information in order to reach you. You can reach me via my Copyright Notice & Disclaimer page.

Commercial use of a photograph authored by you
Dear Jim Collaborator:

I am about to publicize a website containing a photograph of yours, obtained through Wikimedia Commons. The end result is the following:

http://sites.google.com/site/aldoloup/articulos/ya-es-el-siglo-xxi-donde-estan-los-autos-voladores

The same page in English, Portuguese and maybe other languages will follow. A printed version is envisioned too.

I want to be sure that you have no complaints about this use of your work. I really don't want to have problems over copyright issues down the road.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to use your work in commercial ventures.

If you have any issue with this use of your work, please let me know it immediately.

I am acting in good faith, in the firm belief that the license for commercial use that appears in the Wikimedia Commons page of your photograph is completely valid, accurate and current.

Thank you very much.

Aldo Loup.

aldoloup@hotmail.com

P.S.: Right now I know you only by your pseudonym, but if you agree, I would like to credit your photograph with your real name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.16.27.225 (talk) 16:53, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Commercial use of a photograph authored by you
Dear Jim Collaborator:

It is a honor to contact you.

Some time ago you granted authorization to use a work of yours by third parties, royalty-free, worldwide and for indefinite time. Now, it is in my website and other publishing projects.

I want to thank you for your disinterested kindness. Your work really helped me with my projects.

The page in English language is now available:

http://www.naturapop.com/home/it-is-already-the-xxist-century-where-are-the-flying-cars

Of course, any comments are very welcome.

Once again, thank you very much for your help.

Very truly yours,

Aldo Loup.

aldoloup@hotmail.com

P.S.: Right now I know you only by your pseudonym, but if you agree, I would like to credit your photograph with your real name.

X-Jet listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect X-Jet. Since you had some involvement with the X-Jet redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 20:28, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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Bardolatry

Bardolatry is excessive admiration of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901. Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare as a thinker and philosopher because Shaw believed that Shakespeare did not engage with social problems as Shaw did in his own plays.

Origins
The earliest references to the idolising of Shakespeare occur in an anonymous play The Return from Parnassus, written during the poet's lifetime. A poetry-loving character says he will obtain a picture of Shakespeare for his study and that "I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one – I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king – slept with Homer under his bed's head". However, this character is being satirised as a foolish lover of sensuous rather than serious literature.

The serious stance of bardolatry has its origins in the mid-18th century, when Samuel Johnson referred to Shakespeare's work as "a map of life". In 1769 the actor David Garrick, unveiling a statue of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon during the Shakespeare Jubilee, read out a poem culminating with the words "'tis he, 'tis he, / The God of our idolatry". Garrick also constructed a temple to Shakespeare at his home in Hampton. The phenomenon developed during the Romantic era, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Hazlitt, and others all described Shakespeare as a transcendent genius. Shaw's distaste for this attitude to Shakespeare is anticipated by William Cowper's attack on Garrick's whole festival as blasphemous in his poem The Task (1785).

Voltaire
Voltaire traveled to England in 1726, and attended the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane several times, seeing multiple of Shakespeare's plays. He heralded Shakespeare as a writer of genius. He was the main promoter of Shakespeare's works in France, and he translated the first three acts of Julius Caesar into French. Through promotion, translation and dissemination, he laid the foundation for the cult of Shakespeare. Later, Voltaire tried to combat the cult by calling Shakespeare a barbarian, dismissing the cult as "simply bardolatry," and criticizing his grasp on the laws of art, but the ideals of the cult had already begun to spread.

Victorian bardolatry
The phenomenon became important in the Victorian era when many writers treated Shakespeare's works as a secular equivalent or replacement to the Bible. "This King Shakespeare," the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, "does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying signs; indestructible".

The essential characteristic of bardolatry is that Shakespeare is presented as not only the greatest writer who ever lived, but also as the supreme intellect, the greatest psychologist, and the most faithful portrayer of the human condition and experience. In other words, bardolatry defines Shakespeare as the master of all human experience and of its intellectual analysis. As Carlyle stated,

"Of this Shakspeare of ours, perhaps the opinion one sometimes hears a little idolatrously expressed is, in fact, the right one; I think the best judgment not of this country only, but of Europe at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, that Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea!"

Shaw's sceptical views arose in response to such ideas. Shaw wished to demythologise Shakespeare. He emphasised that Shakespeare was capable of both brilliance and banality, a point made humorously in his late puppet play Shakes versus Shav, in which he compares Shakespeare's work to his own. He unequivocally asserted that Shakespeare was a great poet, even calling him "a very great author" at one point, and praised his use of what Shaw called "word-music". He also declared, "Nobody will ever write a better tragedy than Lear". However, he also wrote in a letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell, "Oh, what a damned fool Shakespeare was!", and complained of his "monstrous rhetorical fustian, his unbearable platitudes, his sententious combination of ready reflections with complete intellectual sterility".

Harold Bloom
The critic Harold Bloom revived bardolatry in his 1998 book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, in which Bloom provides an analysis of each of Shakespeare's thirty-eight plays, "twenty-four of which are masterpieces." Written as a companion to the general reader and theatergoer, Bloom's book argues that bardolatry "ought to be even more a secular religion than it already is." He contends in the work that Shakespeare "invented" humanity, in that he prescribed the now-common practice of "overhearing" oneself, which drives one's own internal psychological development. In addition, he embraces the notion of the true reality of the characters of Shakespeare, regarding them as "real people" in the sense that they have altered the consciousness and modes of perception of not only readers, but most people in any western literate culture.

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Talk:The Famous Grouse

Copy vio
The text in this article appears to have been taken from http://www.scotchwhisky.com/english/about/blended/famousgrouse.htm
 * I rewrote the page and used that website as a reference, just to keep things on the up and up :) --Fxer 17:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Bottle redesign
I believe the bottle shape was changed somewhere in 2004. Could we get some pictures of the old and new design, respectively? 85.72.173.16 23:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Percent of single malts?
Does anyone know what percentage of the blend is comprised of the single malts? That would be a great bit if info to include, if we have a source.--Skylights76 (talk) 18:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, no. Moitraanak (talk) 15:17, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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Incomplete References and Other Errors
Moitraanak (talk) 13:39, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The reference to Christmas sales (3) is now a dead URL and unverifiable. Ref 11, certainly valid for the period 2012-13, may not be applicable here. These refs could be tried:

 * A preview of the references in the History section elicits a flag: Cite warning: tag with name autogenerated2 cannot be previewed because it is defined outside the current section or not defined in this article at all. Needs reworking.

 * There are many errors/oversights, some of which have (inadvertently) crept in because of the irregularity in maintaining the article. For instance, no mention is made of its Blended Malts.

 * I have added a reference to support the expansion of the Atholl Street premises. The entry on page 111 shows: Gloag, Matthew, wine merchant, 20-26 Atholl St.; h. St. Albans, Kinnoull. While their business offices were expanded on Atholl Street, they had moved house to Albans Street, Kinnoul. Pages 38, 289 & 322 (Ctrl F--Gloag) also show their home address in Kinnoul. This is at variance with what has been stated in the article.

 * The Great French Wine Blight (1863-mid 1890s) has been cited as instrumental in making William Gloag attempt blending in-house brands. This is neither correct nor verifiable. Some factors have been missed here.

 * In the attempt to keep the history section brief and precise, far too much has been sacrificed. I am ill and should be fine by March!!! I will try then to make this article more chronological and detailed. Assistance is welcome.

 * The article has used the "Whisky Opus. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2012. p. 101" eight times as a reference. There is only ONE paragraph (~105 words) in the ref, which is outdated, incomplete and mostly factually incorrect. The one generally valid statement therein is that Highland Distillers bought Matthew Gloag and Son(s?) in 1970. There are far more comprehensive, up to date and factually undeniable details (photographic evidence like catalogues, price lists, whisky bottles of the 1896> era, addresses, ads, newspaper cuttings, etc.) available today. Highland Distillers was acquired by Edrington in 1999. I cannot understand a printed-in-2012 Opus missing out this critical fact. I will remove this ref when I complete my study/get fit.

 * I must hasten and correct myself where I say in the para immediately above this that: "The one generally valid statement therein is that Highland Distillers bought Matthew Gloag and Son(s?) in 1970." Only the first half is correct. The Gloag Company name is Matthew Gloag & Son. Not '& Sons'.

 * Moitraanak (talk) 10:11, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Moitraanak (talk) 11:29, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Moitraanak (talk) 07:55, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Moitraanak (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Scope of Article Under the Displayed Banner
The Project Banner up front says: This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Brands on Wikipedia. The contents of the article are not within the scope envisioned. It is limited to the second Blended Scotch created by Matthew Gloag III (1850-1912), the first of many to be called The Famous Grouse after 1950, and marketed as such in 1896-97. It talks about one of 75+ brands comprising more than 180 expressions. The article needs substantial remodelling to include relevant data. Charles Maclean's 2015 Coffee Table book is a great basis.  Moitraanak  (talk) 12:18, 14 February 2020 (UTC).

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Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially Eurodance. Despite many of its tracks being made by various musicians from all over the world and mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.

The first issue, Dancemania 1, was released on April 10, 1996, with artists including E-Rotic, Cut 'N' Move, Me & My, Maxx, Basic Element, Magic Affair, Odyssey, Captain Jack, Interactive, Space Pilots, and DJ Quicksilver as the leading mixer. 1 debuted at number 14 on the Oricon weekly album chart in April 1996 and reached number 4 in the same chart in May 1996 and ranked number 56 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1996 with 480,980 copies sold.

Dancemania has spawned many sub-series projects, such as Summers & Winters, Bass, Euro Mix, Super Techno, Classics, Delux, Game, Club, Zip Mania, Trance, Trance Paradise, Covers and Speed. Many of these sub-series have further each spawned their own sub-series projects.

The series released approximately 50 volumes in its first four years and the label claims that over 10 million copies were sold by the end of the 20th century. Some of song later appear on Spotify.

Many songs from the series have been licensed for use in Bemani games by Konami, such as Dance Dance Revolution or Dance Maniax.

Main series

 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania 1 – 10, 20 – 22
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania X1 – X9 (a.k.a. 11 – 19)
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania EX 1 – EX 9
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Best Yellow
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Best Red
 * Dancemania Tre*Sure 10th Anniversary Special Edition
 * Dancemania Sparkle – Best of 90s Dance Pop

Summers and Winters
Summers mainly features Latin dance and reggae. Winters mainly features handbag house, breakbeat and big beat.
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Summers 1 – 3
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Summers 2001
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Winters 1 – 2
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Winters Rock Groove

Speed
These features Hardcore and Happy Hardcore songs and remixes.
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed 1 – 10
 * Classical Speed 1 – 2
 * Hyper Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed G1 – G5
 * Happy Speed The Best of Dancemania Speed G
 * Hyper Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed Best 2001
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers
 * Dancemania Speed Presents Best of Hardcore
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed SFX
 * Hyper Nonstop Megamix Christmas Speed
 * Hyper Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed TV
 * Nonstop Megamix Speed Deka
 * Nonstop Megamix Anime Speed
 * Anime Speed Newtype Edition
 * Speedrive
 * Nonstop Megamix Speed Buyuuden

Bass
These features Miami Bass, Drum 'n' Bass and Jungle songs.
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Bass #0 – #11

Euro Mix
In this sub-series, "euro" means Eurobeat and Europop.
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Euro Mix Happy Paradise 1 – 2
 * Dancemania Presents J:Paradise
 * Dancemania EURO CLASSICS

Super Techno

 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Super Techno I – II
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Super Techno Best

Classics
Classics features vintage tracks of Eurobeat/Hi-NRG/R&B from the late 1970s–1980s club scene.
 * Dancemania Classics
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Euro Classics
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Club Classics 1 – 2
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania SuperClassics 1 – 3
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania SuperClassics Best
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania 80's
 * Non-stop Essential Mix Dancemania 80's Two
 * Dancemania Sparkle Classics – Best of 80s Disco Pop

Trance Paradise

 * Trance Paradise The Best
 * Hime Trance 1 – 4
 * Himetra Best
 * Himetra Speed
 * Himetra Presents Tsukasa Mix
 * Himetra Anime*Mix
 * Hostrance 1 – 2
 * Auto Gallery Tokyo 2006
 * Kabatra

Others

 * Non-stop Megamix Dancemania Sports
 * Dancemania presents Disco Groove
 * Nonstop Megamix Disco Viking
 * Nonstop Megamix Disco Viking Megamix
 * Dancemania Presents Summer Story 2007 Supported by 9LoveJ
 * Dancemania Presents Summer Story 2008 Supported by Club J
 * Dancemania Presents Summer Story 2009

Special series

 * Dancemania Delux 1 – 5
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Hyper Delux
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Extra
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Diamond
 * Dancemania Diamond Complete Edition

D.D.R.

 * Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Original Soundtrack Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
 * Original Soundtrack Dance Dance Revolution Party Collection
 * Dance Dance Revolution Festival & Strike Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania (re-release)

Dance Maniax

 * Original Soundtrack Dance Maniax
 * Original Soundtrack Dance Maniax 2nd Mix

Beatmania

 * Beatmania 5th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania
 * Beatmania 6th Mix Original Soundtrack Presented by Dancemania

Club

 * Non-stop Mix Fura Mania
 * Dancemania Presents Club The Earth I – II
 * Dancemania Presents Club The Earth Disco Classics
 * Dancemania Presents Two Face
 * Dancemania CLUB CLASSICS 1-2

Zip Mania

 * Dancemania featuring Nagoya-based radio station Zip-FM.
 * Nonstop Megamix Zip Mania 1 – 7

Giants Mania

 * Dancemania Presents Giants Mania

Trance

 * The Best of World Trance FantasiA 1 – 3
 * Trance Mania 1 – 3
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Trance Z 1 – Z 2
 * Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Super Trance Best

Covers
Covers features cover versions of various famous songs remixed and covered by dance music acts.
 * Dancemania COVERS
 * Dancemania COVERS 2
 * Dancemania COVERS 01

Artist

 * Dancemania Presents E-Rotic Megamix
 * Dancemania Presents Scorccio Super Hit Mix
 * Dancemania Presents Cartoons Toontastic!
 * Dancemania Presents Captain Jack Captain's Best - Best Hits and New Songs -
 * The Very Best of E-Rotic
 * Dancemania Presents Captain Jack Party Warriors

Video series

 * Nonstop Megamix * Video Happy Paradise Para Para Mania

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TML

TML may refer to:

Sport

 * Taiwan Major League, former baseball league
 * Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadian ice hockey team

Transportation

 * Tamale International Airport, northern Ghana
 * Tata Motors Limited, an Indian automotive company
 * TransManche Link, Channel Tunnel builder
 * Tuen Ma Line, a rail line in Hong Kong

Other meanings
§ Run by the TML Islamic Board]]
 * TML Entertainment, record label
 * TransducerML, transducer markup language
 * Trinidad Muslim League, operating schools in Trinidad and Tobago; see [[List of schools in Trinidad and Tobago#Run by the TML Islamic Board|List of schools in Trinidad and Tobago

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Talk:White City tube station

White City Depot
Is White City Depot still open?. Passing its site today for the first time in a while, there seems to be significant redevelopment going on. If it has closed, then this article needs revising somewhat. -- Chris j wood 21:13, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you'll find that the depot is being replaced with a new one under the development. Britmax 09:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

 * The old depot, properly called Wood Lane depot, has been replaced with a new one called White City depot which is under the new shopping centre - see here for information.--DavidCane (talk) 00:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I saw the link through for the shepherds bush & white city development (links to alwaystouchout.out) and on their master plan large .pdf it now shows the new white city depot below the development, as replacement to wood lane depot (demolished), I also saw the Dimco buildings (listed) as to be converted to a 'drive through' bus depot, I do not know if the Caxton curve is still there (sharpest underground turn from shepherds bush to under Caxton road) as the wood lane depot and rail routes through the middle of the Westfield development are gone.(no source other then MS virtual earth birds eye view looking where the rail lines (used to) come out from beneath the road Ariel Way and curve south to the depot) Andy Dt (talk) 00:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bushists

 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 ambiguous.

I count 4 clear "delete" votes, 5 clear "keep" votes (but 2 are either anons or very new users) and 4 "keep as redirect" votes. Failing to reach a clear concensus to delete, the decision defaults to keep.

Personally, I am inclined to agree with the "keep as redirect" group. Noting that a redirect does not require the same degree of overwhelming concensus as deletion, I am going to be bold. Rossami (talk) 00:33, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bushists
Speculative opinion piece. Rhobite 21:15, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC) http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/desantisArticles/2002_600/desantis606/bushistrightism.html The truth hurts
 * Keep. The term has entered into usage by the mass media. It represents a legitimate political faction. History21
 * Sorry, I meant to say Keep I just learned how to do that History21
 * You need to log in and sign your vote with ~ to be counted. Gazpacho
 * Delete unless someone adds more who/what/when details. As far as I know Zell Miller didn't endorse "Bushists," he endorsed George W. Bush. Gazpacho 00:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bushism. Precedent set by Stalinist redirecting to Stalinism and Marxist redirecting to Marxism. Also the title of the article should not be plural. DaveTheRed 00:25, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The difference is that "Stalinisms" are not words or phrases unique to the style of General Secretary Joseph Stalin. Maybe the polictical section of Bushism needs to be split out. Kappa 01:07, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It says explicitly in the article that this is separate from Bushisms. CPS 05:24, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * When I said redirect to bushism, I didn't mean the verbal gaffes. I meant the philosphy and doctrine of Bush. This is as per the second definition in the Bushism article. If someone wants to seperate that part out of the article as Kappa suggested, then bushist should redirect to that new article. DaveTheRed 07:53, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless some sort of proof of general usage is provided. I've heard "Bushisms" used quite frequently, but never heard this term. Gamaliel 05:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Bushist gets over 10,000 google hits, and they seem relevant. DaveTheRed 06:13, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, google hits don't do much to sway me as bloggers make up lots of terms and then try to write articles about them here claiming they are in wide usage. "Bushisms" has appeared frequently in major media and there's even a book by that title.  Is the use of "bushist" this widespread? Gamaliel 21:18, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Stalinist and Marxist have distinct meetings in political science/history. Bushist has neither - plus this is a load of POV nonsense. Capitalistroadster 10:56, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't know really. May I just remind you that I put the page on Pages needing attention/Political science before deletion was proposed, so maybe someone can come up with an NPOV definition saying it is a POV term or something like that?  11:12, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Bushist does appear to be on its way to being the word of choice to describe those who adhere to the policy of the current administration. Though precedent would seem to indicate the -ism suffix, in this case Bushism has already been widely adopted as a reference to his distinctive speaking characteristics (like Spoonerism). HyperZonktalk 17:12, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep despite my misgivings about the article's author. The term gets hits on Google News, and i have faith that it will be NPOVed. Foobaz · ✐  00:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but should be called BushBots not Bushists (vote by User:4.65.88.1)
 * Comment: The article says Bushists are also known as Neocons. Well, we already have an article on Neoconservatism (United States), itself a widely abused term, that has more verifiable details. Gazpacho
 * Redirect to Neoconservatism (United States), possibly with a very minimal merge. —Korath (Talk) 07:56, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * See, this is why a politician named Rimsky-Korsakov would never get enough votes :) Anyway, merge & redirect. Radiant! 08:40, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Frankly, the merger of this with our neoconservatism article would achieve nothing but ruining that article. The claim that Bushists supposedly encourage Christianisation of America (whatever that means) would be nonsense in an article about neoconservatism which predates President George W. Bush's presidency by at least 30 years. Very few if any of the President's supporters identify themselves as Bushists unlike Reaganites which was a common term. Frankly, I can think of few Republicans or conservatives whose opinions do not waver in any way from President Bush's although most generally support the administration. No change of vote. Capitalistroadster 17:20, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. The "Bushists" article does not describe the reality of Bush's supporters. Rhobite 18:33, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * The term as I've heard it is used chiefly by opponents of the Administration, rarely by actual Bush followers. I think that the terms "bushist" and "neocon" are not necessarily synonymous, but if we do redirect to Neoconservatism (United States), then we should definitely not merge, because what's written here is POV and IMO unusable. DaveTheRed 20:30, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, no merge. -Sean Curtin 03:23, Mar 4, 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.


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E. W. Bastard

Edward William Bastard (28 February 1862 – 2 April 1901) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Somerset. Bastard was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, described in his Wisden obituary as Somerset's best bowler during his time with the club. Bastard was also part of the Oxford team often said to be the university's best ever.

His first-class career was confined to his university years, when he appeared for both Oxford and Somerset. Close to the top of the bowling averages for both teams in each season, his 62 first-class wickets in 1885 placed him among the 20 most prolific wicket-takers in the country. Somerset's temporary loss of first-class status in 1885 brought a premature end to Bastard's first-class career when he was 23. Although he continued to play for the side in second-class cricket until 1889, by the time Somerset resumed first-class cricket in 1891, Bastard had lost his place following the emergence of Sammy Woods and the acquisitions of Ted Tyler and George Nichols. He died at the age of 39 while engaged in scholastic work in Taunton.

Early life
Edward William Bastard was born in Wilton, a parish just outside Taunton, the second son of Henry Horlock Bastard. He was educated at Sherborne School, and played for the school cricket team. Although he was later known as a bowler, Bastard occasionally opened the batting for the school, as he did against Clifton College in 1881. During his time at Sherborne, he also played some games for Dorset.

University and county cricket
On completion of his studies at Sherborne School, Bastard attended Wadham College, University of Oxford. He played in the Freshmen's Trial in May 1882, and collected four wickets in each innings, conceding just 35 runs from his 29 overs. His side, LML Owen's XI won by 79 runs. He played in two matches against the university's first team during his first year, opening the bowling for both the Freshmen side and the "Next XVI". He made his debut in first-class cricket that June, appearing for the university against the Marylebone Cricket Club. He claimed one wicket during the match, in which the university lost by an innings. Bastard appeared three times in first-class cricket for the university in 1883, and according to Geoffrey Bolton, author of History of the O.U.C.C, "was lucky to be chosen this year" to play in the University match against Cambridge University. Bastard was wicketless against Lancashire, and although he took three wickets in each innings against the MCC, John Foord-Kelcey took more wickets at a better average. Nevertheless, Bastard was preferred for the contest against Cambridge, thus gaining his Blue. Bastard claimed a wicket in each innings of the match, which Cambridge won by seven wickets. Bolton attributes the loss to a combination of the weather and Oxford's loss of the toss, which resulted in Cambridge batting first on a good batting pitch. Rain followed, and when Oxford batted, the pitch was described by Bolton as "really nasty".

During the university's summer break, Bastard made his debut for Somerset. His first match for the county was against the MCC in late July. He appeared six further times in 1883, against county opposition, and in all matches that season, collected 52 first-class wickets at an average of 30.20. In 1883, he also made his highest first-class score, making 47 runs during Somerset's second innings against Hampshire. He came in to bat with the score at 86 runs for the loss of seven wickets, and was the last wicket to fall, by which time Somerset had moved to 181, and Bastard had shared a tenth-wicket partnership of 74 with Arnold Fothergill. Even so, Somerset lost the match by seven wickets.

Bastard played in all eight of Oxford University's first-class matches in 1884 as part of the team which was described by Altham and Swanton as a remarkable side, and one of Oxford's best ever. The university won seven of the matches, and narrowly lost the other. During the opening match, against the Australians, Bastard was wicketless in the first innings, but took five second innings wickets, his maiden first-class five-wicket haul. Among his wickets was the tourists captain Billy Murdoch, who later that summer scored 211 runs against England in the third Test. Bolton wrote that against the Australians, "Bastard had bowled supremely well," and the performance was Bastard's best for the university during 1884; he collected his wickets steadily and finished as Oxford's second most prolific wicket-taker. He claimed 34 wickets for the side, second only to the 53 taken by Hugh Whitby, although his average of 17.00 ranked him fifth among the bowlers. In the university match that year, he claimed three wickets in each innings. Batting in Oxford's first innings, he and Benjamin Nicholls quickly scored 52 runs, and then bowling in Cambridge's second innings, he and Whitby claimed their opponent's final six wickets for just 17 runs.

He returned to play for Somerset during the summer break once again in 1884, playing four matches for the county, during which he claimed 24 wickets: more than double that of the next most prolific Somerset bowler, Charles Winter. His best performance came against Hampshire, against whom he claimed six second innings wickets to help Somerset to their only victory of the season.

The following season, Bastard returned to play for Oxford University, along with most of the successful team of the previous year. Despite the availability of almost the same squad, Oxford did not win a single match during 1885. Four of the university's bowlers, Edward Buckland, Herbert Page, Nicholls, and Whitby had an average in excess of 24 in 1885, having averaged below 21 the previous season. The team came to rely upon the bowling of Bastard and Alfred Cochrane, both slow left-arm bowlers. Bastard began the season with a five-wicket haul in the first innings against the MCC, which he followed up with three more wickets in the second. He improved upon this performance in the next match, taking five wickets in each innings against Lancashire to complete his maiden ten-wicket haul in a first-class match, although the northern county won by 50 runs. He was less effective in later matches, claiming four wickets in an innings twice, but more often going wicketless. In the university match, Bastard's last, Oxford were bowled out on the first day for 136, and Cambridge opened a first innings lead of 151; Bastard claimed a solitary wicket from 38.3 overs. Oxford recovered in the second innings and scored 239, of which Bastard contributed 12 runs, leaving Cambridge requiring 89 runs to win, with over a day's play remaining. According to Bolton, Bastard "bowled with great skill on the last morning", and claimed three Cambridge wickets, but was not supported by his fellow bowlers, and Cambridge achieved victory before lunch on the final day.

Bastard was Somerset's leading wicket-taker again in 1885, claiming 25 wickets. In his first match for the county that summer, he recorded his second ten-wicket match. Facing Hampshire in Taunton, Bastard claimed eight wickets in the first innings, and a further three in the second as Somerset recorded their only win of the year. His next match for the county was also against Hampshire, this time in Southampton. Somerset could only field nine men in the fixture, and after batting first reached 117. In the Hampshire response, a contemporary match report recorded that Bastard "did a capital performance in the first innings of Hants, taking eight of the ten wickets at a cost of only 59 runs". Despite his performance, Hampshire passed Somerset's total and had a first innings lead of 45 runs. Somerset scored 166 in their second innings, leaving Hampshire requiring 122 to win. Bastard bowled 27 overs in the second innings, but failed to add to his wicket tally, and Hampshire won the match by eight wickets. Bastard's performances during 1885 saw him selected in two games for the Gentlemen during the Scarborough Festival. The team was a young one, as well as three of his Oxford team-mates from that season, Page, Kingsmill Key and Tim O'Brien, there were a number of players from the Cambridge team chosen. Bastard claimed five wickets in the first innings of the match against I Zingari, but failed to take any against the Players. In 1885, his 62 first-class wickets was the eighteenth highest among bowlers in the country.

Later life
Bastard graduated from Oxford in 1885, gaining his B.A. that year, and collecting his M.A. three years later. He continued to play cricket for Somerset, who had by this stage been stripped of their first-class status for three reasons: they had not organised and played enough first-class fixtures during the season, their performances were not what was expected from a first-class county, and they had not succeeded in fielding a full side of eleven players in all their matches. He picked up plenty of wickets, particularly in 1886 and 1887; eleven in a match against Hampshire, with eight in the first innings, fifteen against Devon, and another eight in the first innings against Warwickshire being the highlights. However, the additions of Sammy Woods, Ted Tyler and George Nichols resulted in Bastard bowling less frequently, and he made his final appearance for the county in August 1889 against the MCC. He was not required to bowl in the match, which Somerset won by 9 wickets, thanks to Tyler and Woods. He was described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as "the chief bowler in the Somersetshire eleven before the County became first-class."

Bastard died in Taunton on 2 April 1901, aged 39, while employed in scholastic work.

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What happened in that article was that people with a POV kept inserting minor details intended to make one party look bad. If you look at the history, it was even worse before, the nonsense that is still there is a compromise. That said, you can certainly delete that stuff if you like; as you point out, it doesn't really belong, and was only put in to promote a POV. Jayjg (talk) 21:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:In vitro staining

Merging and refactoring
I'm thinking of merging this article with in vivo staining in the next few days. There's overlap between the stains used in the two cases, and many of the stains listed in the in vivo article can't actually be used that way.

I'll flesh out the stain entries, and add a section on fluorescent stains. If the article starts getting too big, then perhaps the histology protocols can be spun off into their own article.

Thoughts? --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I've updated in vivo staining to cover all biological stains, and included a brief section on fixation and sample preparation. That article has been moved to the title Stain (biology).
 * I'm thinking of keeping the histology and cytology protocols in this article, but they should probably be under a new title. Maybe staining protocols?

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Rearrangement and refactoring
I'm thinking that trying to divide biological or histological stains up into in vivo and in vitro articles isn't working. I'm planning on merging in vivo staining and in vitro staining into one article in the next few days, unless someone has any serious objections. At the same time, I would move the merged article to the title Stain (biology) and relink the redirects appropriately.

I'll also attack some housekeeping tasks, including adding information for some of the other stains listed on this page (many of which are not in vivo stains, by the way).

Finally, I'll add a section on fluorescent stains, since these play a very important role in modern cell biology.

Any comments? Thoughts? Suggestions as to why this might be an ill-advised venture? --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Great idea. Go for it! - Marshman 03:27, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Wow--there's a weird coincidence. I just moved the page, and was fixing redirects when I saw your comment.  Glad you approve. :)  --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 03:36, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

'Staining dye' redirect. ..
Hi all, a few moths ago someone created the article Staining dye. It was one sentence and so I redirected here. R. Baley (talk) 00:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Collagen stains yellow?
Does Safranin O really stain collagen yellow? The stains file says it stains cartilage yellow but cartilage is a lot more than just collagen. Most of the literature I've been reading has Safranin O staining the glycosaminoglycans orange/red (and you find loads of them in cartilage). Is this a case of mistaken identity? 163.1.181.208 (talk) 22:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Cresyl violet stain
Please check and include in the list: Cresyl violet stain. -- C opper K ettle  10:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

This article may have too many section headers
This has been flagged since 2013. I disagree, I think the nature of the article is suited to the layout and that the use of headers is appropriate to the content, I suggest the flag be removed. JohnHarris (talk) 09:56, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Done. JohnHarris (talk) 15:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

In vivo vs In vitro section removal?
It seems to me that having a whole section for "In vivo vs In vitro" is not needed and will just confuse the reader. In vivo or vital staining is real thing and should be mentioned, but maybe with a subsection, of even just a few sentences that link to the main vital staining page. I would propose removing the "In vivo vs In vitro section" and adding a heading called "Histologic staining", "Biological staining", or something like that, which would include "In vivo staining". This would mean that all the headings below would have to be reduced one level so that other non-biological microscopy staining could have the same level heading as biology. Does anyone have any feedback on that idea, other suggestions, or general disagreement with the proposal? Waughd (talk) 22:52, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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 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 DELETE. Cool Hand Luke  07:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

He was a Crook
Source text, not an article. Probably copyrighted too. Should be delete. Thue | talk 21:20, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - comment: someone had copyviod it, but not put a source material. I've since updated that... Nick04 22:05, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur, delete as source material. Radiant! 08:43, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's definitely copyrighted.  theAtlantic.com owns it, I think, or perhaps Rolling Stone.  theAltantic.com now charges for admission to read it, though those other sites linked to appear to be fine with hosting it.  Either way, it doesn't belong here.  I posted to a talk page, then immediately deleted, then posted a link to the talk page's history/version that had it in there, and that needed to be taken down even (I think, as far as I can tell), so this should almost certainly be removed.  Now, (and if a seasoned Wikipedian perchances upon this voting place) I'm curious:  Can one link to the history/version of a page that gets deleted? Just curious. -209.6.22.123 02:47, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Don Zimmer

Donald William Zimmer (January 17, 1931 – June 4, 2014) was an American infielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Zimmer was involved in professional baseball from 1949 until his death, a span of 65 years, across 8 decades.

Zimmer signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1949. He played in the major leagues with the Dodgers (1954–1959, 1963), Chicago Cubs (1960–1961), New York Mets (1962), Cincinnati Reds (1962), and Washington Senators (1963–1965). Shortly thereafter came a stint with the Toei Flyers of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1966.

In between, Zimmer saw action in all or parts of 18 minor league seasons spanning 1949–1967. He also played winter baseball with the Elefantes de Cienfuegos and the Tigres de Marianao of the Cuban League during the 1952–53 season, as well as for the 1954–55 Puerto Rican League champion Cangrejeros de Santurce en route to the 1955 Caribbean Series. Zimmer led his team to the Series title, topping all hitters with a .400 batting average (8-for-20), three home runs and a .950 slugging percentage, while claiming Most Valuable Player honors.

During a minor league game on July 7, 1953, Zimmer was struck in the head by a pitch from Jim Kirk and lost consciousness, and developed blood clots on his brain that required two operations. He woke up two weeks later, thinking that it was the day after the game where the incident took place. This eventually led to Major League Baseball adopting mandatory batting helmets as a safety measure to be used by players when at-bat.

Following his retirement as a player, Zimmer began his coaching career. He worked in Minor League Baseball, before coaching the Montreal Expos (1971), San Diego Padres (1972), Boston Red Sox (1974–76, 1992), New York Yankees (1983, 1986, 1996–2003), Cubs (1984–1986), San Francisco Giants (1987), Colorado Rockies (1993–1995), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays / Rays (2004–2014). He served as manager for the Padres (1972–73), Red Sox (1976–1980), Texas Rangers (1981–82), and Cubs (1988–1991).

Playing career
Zimmer was nicknamed "Zim", "Gerbil", and sometimes "Popeye" because of his facial resemblance to the cartoon character, In addition, he was dubbed "El Galleguito" (The little Galician) in Cuba as well as "El Soldadito" (The little soldier) in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Zimmer began his career in 1949 with the Cambridge Dodgers of the Class-D Eastern Shore League. He then played with the Hornell Dodgers of the Class-D PONY League in 1950, the Elmira Pioneers of the Single-A Eastern League in 1951, the Mobile Bears of the Double-A Southern League in 1952, and the St. Paul Saints of the Triple-A American Association in 1953 and 1954. He made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954. Zimmer's big league career lasted 12 seasons, almost exclusively as a utility infielder. Notably, he played for the 1955 World Series champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and with the 1962 New York Mets, who lost a record 120 games.

Immediately following his rookie season, Zimmer played winter ball in Puerto Rico, emerging as a dark horse 1955 Caribbean Series MVP on the heavy-hitting 1954–1955 Cangrejeros de Santurce club managed by Herman Franks. Nicknamed El Escuadrón del Pánico (lit. "The Panic Squad"), the team featured future Hall-of-Famers Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente, future All-Stars George Crowe and Sam Jones, local hero Luis Olmo, as well as Negro leagues stars Bob Thurman and Buster Clarkson. It was later described by Zimmer as "probably the best winter league baseball club ever assembled."

While with St. Paul in 1953, Zimmer nearly died after being hit in the temple with a pitch. He was not fully conscious for 13 days, during which holes were drilled in his skull to relieve the pressure of swelling. His vision was blurred, he could neither walk nor talk and his weight plunged from 170 to 124. He was told his career was finished at age 22; nonetheless, the following year Zimmer reached the Major Leagues.

Zimmer was beaned again in 1956 when a fastball thrown by Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Hal Jeffcoat broke his cheekbone and almost caused a detached retina but he persevered. Because of these injuries it was widely reported that he had a surgically implanted steel plate in his head. This was false, although the holes drilled in the surgeries following the 1953 beanball were later filled with four tantalum metal corkscrew-shaped "buttons."

In the major leagues, Zimmer remained with the Los Angeles Dodgers after their move west in 1958. In 1960, the Dodgers traded Zimmer to the Chicago Cubs for Johnny Goryl, Ron Perranoski, Lee Handley and $25,000. After the 1961 season, the expansion New York Mets chose Zimmer from the Cubs as the fifth pick in the premium phase of the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion draft, costing the Mets $125,000. In May 1962, the Mets traded Zimmer to the Cincinnati Reds for Cliff Cook and Bob Miller. He returned briefly to the Dodgers in 1963, when the Reds traded him to the Dodgers for Scott Breeden. The Washington Senators purchased Zimmer from the Dodgers in June 1963. The Senators released Zimmer after the 1965 season, and he played for the Toei Flyers of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1966.

In 12 seasons, Zimmer played 1,095 games. He compiled 773 hits, 91 home runs, 352 RBI, 45 stolen bases and a .235 batting average. He played in the World Series with the Dodgers in 1955 and 1959, and was selected to the National League All-Star team in 1961. Although he had a low career batting average, Zimmer was regarded as a fine infielder, willing to fill in at third base, shortstop, and second base. He also caught 33 games in his final season with Washington in 1965.

Minor leagues
Zimmer served as a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds with the Double-A Knoxville Smokies and Triple-A Buffalo Bisons in 1967. Zimmer ended his playing career after the 1967 season, and he managed the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians in 1968. In 1969, he left the Reds' organization for the expansion San Diego Padres, piloting the Class-A Key West Padres before moving up to the Triple-A Salt Lake City Bees in 1970.

Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres (1971–1973)
In 1971, he joined the Montreal Expos as third-base coach, working under former Dodger Gene Mauch. He spent a year with Mauch, then returned to the Padres to take up a similar post for 1972. But after only 11 games, he was asked to replace Preston Gómez as San Diego's skipper on April 27. The promotion gave Zimmer, now 41, his first managerial job in the major leagues.

Zimmer compiled a 54–88 record for the remainder of 1972, then posted a 60–102 mark in 1973, each season finishing last in the National League West Division. The Padres' attendance woes caused the team's founding majority owner, C. Arnholdt Smith, to sell the club amidst rumors it might move to Washington, D.C. When new owner Ray Kroc bought the team, Zimmer and most of his coaching staff were dismissed.

Boston Red Sox (1974–1980)
He then was hired as the third-base coach for the Boston Red Sox, serving for 2½ seasons. Working under skipper Darrell Johnson, Zimmer's tenure included a memorable event during Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. Boston had the bases loaded and no one out in the home half of the ninth inning. The score was tied. A soft fly to left field was too shallow to score the winning run, but baserunner Denny Doyle thought Zimmer's shouts of "No! No! No!" were actually "Go! Go! Go!" He ran for home, and was thrown out at the plate. That play, and Dwight Evans' brilliant catch off Joe Morgan in extra innings, set up Carlton Fisk's classic, game-winning home run.

The 1976 Red Sox never got on track under Johnson, who was replaced by Zimmer as manager on July 19. He led them to a winning record, but a disappointing third-place finish in the AL East. The Red Sox would win more than 90 games in each of Zimmer's three full seasons (1977–1979) as manager, only the second time they had pulled off this feat since World War I. His 1978 team won 99 games, still the fourth-best record in franchise history.

However, he is best remembered among Red Sox fans for the team's dramatic collapse during the 1978 season. After leading the Yankees by as many as fourteen games, the Red Sox stumbled in August. By early September that lead was reduced to four games. That lead evaporated in a four-game series against the surging New York Yankees which is still known as "the Boston Massacre."

The Red Sox spent the last month of the season trading first place with the Yankees, forcing a one-game playoff on October 2. In that game, the Yankees took the lead permanently on a home run by Bucky Dent over Fenway Park's Green Monster.

During this stretch, Zimmer made several questionable personnel moves. He never got along with left-handed starting pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee. The feeling was mutual; Lee nicknamed Zimmer "the Gerbil." Zimmer's outright hatred of Lee ran so deep that he gave the starting assignment in the last game of the "Massacre" to rookie Bobby Sprowl, who had only been called up from Triple-A Pawtucket a few days earlier. Reportedly, Carl Yastrzemski pleaded with Zimmer to start Lee, who, along with Luis Tiant, had dominated the Yankees during their careers. (Lee, for example, won 12 out of 17 decisions against the Yankees in 10 years with Boston.) Sprowl allowed four walks, one hit and one run in the first inning before being pulled and made only three more major-league starts.

Zimmer also started Fisk, the team's longtime starting catcher, 154 times (out of a possible 162), a heavy workload for a catcher. Fisk complained of sore knees for much of this stretch and missed most of the next season with a sore arm. Finally, Zimmer kept third baseman Butch Hobson in the lineup, even though Hobson's elbow miseries (he had floating bone chips which he frequently rearranged before coming to the plate) made it impossible for him to hit for power or average, or throw accurately. Hobson made 18 errors during August and September 1978 (and a league-leading 43 errors for the season, resulting in an abysmal .899 fielding percentage). Finally, Zimmer called on Jack Brohamer to replace Hobson on September 23; with Brohamer at third, Boston won its last eight games of the regular season to force a tie with the Yankees, but the Red Sox lost the playoff game on home runs by Dent and Reggie Jackson.

1981–1995
Zimmer next managed the Texas Rangers. He spent less than two years in the job and his firing by owner Eddie Chiles was different. Zimmer was fired on a Monday but asked to remain on through Wednesday's game before being replaced by Darrell Johnson. When asked for the reason he fired Zimmer, Chiles said it was "something personal" but refused to elaborate further.

After Texas, Zimmer coached three stints with the Yankees (1983, 1986, 1996–2003), then coached for the San Francisco Giants in 1987. He served as third base coach for the Chicago Cubs from 1984 to 1986. Zimmer took over as manager of the Cubs in 1988. In 1989, he managed the Cubs to a division title and was named Manager of the Year. He was fired as Cubs manager during the 1991 season after a slow start. Later, he returned to Boston for one season as a coach (under manager Hobson) in 1992. Overall, Zimmer won 906 Major League games as a manager.

Zimmer was on the first coaching staff of the expansion Colorado Rockies in 1993 under manager Don Baylor. On June 6, 1995, he left the bench during the fifth inning of the game against St. Louis, which came to the surprise of players and staff (he had told Baylor about plans to retire a few weeks beforehand). He was unhappy that Baylor had become close to Art Howe, who was added to the Rockies coaching staff in 1995.

New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays (1996–2014)

In 1996, he joined the Yankees as their bench coach for their run of four World Series titles. In 1999, Zimmer filled in for manager Joe Torre while he was recuperating from treatment for prostate cancer. Zimmer went 21–15 while guiding the Yankees during Torre's absence. (This record, however, is credited to Torre's managerial record.)

In 1999, Zimmer was hit by a sharply struck foul ball batted by Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch. The next game, Zimmer wore an army helmet with the word "ZIM" painted on the side and the Yankees logo stenciled on the front, which was given to him by Michael Patti, a Madison Avenue advertising executive. This led to the installation of railed fencing in front of the dugouts at Yankee Stadium, which eventually became commonplace at all ballparks. Zimmer was involved in a brawl with Pedro Martínez in the 2003 American League Championship Series, when he ran at Martinez and Martinez threw him to the ground. Zimmer accepted responsibility for the altercation and was apologetic to his family and the Yankees organization but maintained that Martínez was "one of the most unprofessional players" he had ever known.

Zimmer was a senior advisor for the Tampa Bay Rays from 2004 to 2014. His role included assisting the team during spring training and during home games. Every year, Zimmer incremented his uniform number by one to match the number of years he has worked in baseball. During the 2014 season he wore #66. (In 2014, longtime Tampa Bay third base coach Tom Foley wore Zimmer's name and number on the back of his own uniform in tribute.) Zimmer often noted that every paycheck he'd ever gotten came from baseball, and that he never held a job in any other profession.

Zimmer wrote two books, Zim: A Baseball Life, and The Zen of Zim, that describe his life in baseball, as a player, manager, and coach.

From the 2008 season to his death, Zimmer was one of the last former Brooklyn Dodgers (along with pitchers Don Newcombe and Tommy Lasorda and announcer Vin Scully) still in baseball in some capacity. Zimmer also served as a member of the advisory board of the Baseball Assistance Team, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping former Major League, Minor League, and Negro league players through financial and medical difficulties.

On March 24, 2015, the Rays announced they were retiring number 66 in honor of Zimmer.

Personal life
Zimmer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father owned a wholesale fruit and vegetable company. At home plate before a night game in Elmira on August 16, 1951, Zimmer married Soot (Carol Jean Bauerle), whom he had started dating in 10th grade. Until his death in June 2014, they were still married and lived in Seminole, Florida. They had lived in the Tampa Bay Area since the late 1950s.

Zimmer's son Thomas is a scout with the San Francisco Giants. Zimmer also had a daughter, Donna, and four grandchildren. A grandson, Beau, works as a reporter at WTSP 10, St. Petersburg, Florida.

In December 2008, Zimmer suffered a stroke, causing loss of speech for a week.

On June 4, 2014, Zimmer died at age 83 in Dunedin, Florida, from heart and kidney problems.

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Talk:Steve Maharey

Political views
I removed the section on Maharey's political views as it lacked any citation. I am aware that he was considered on the right of the Labour caucus, but we need something to firmly back this up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmcs005 (talk • contribs) 09:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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My reference for the change to be considered below is: []

"After the 1999 elections, a Labour-Alliance goverment was formed, Maharey became Minister of Social Services and Employment, having responsibility for social welfare, youth services, and the reduction of unemployment."

My reason for adding for inclusion of the next sentence is that it was in October 2002 that the Ministry of Social Development for was formed, replacing the title Department of Work and Income and bringing in other Social sector agencies. It was more than a name change, it also meant that the mandate for the ministry was considerably widened. []

"In 2002, the portfolio title changed to become Minister for Social Development and Employment."

Christine Rankin Affair
I don't think it's fair to attribute all of the comments made by Christine Rankine to Maharey's biography, but it is appropriate to make reference to the Christine Rankine affair, which I think should constitute a separate article, with the background in a neutral POV, including the roles played by Maharey, Rankine (and the background including WINZ extravagance), Mark Prebble, Michael Wintringham, and the subsequent employment court dispute.

It might also be useful to have bio stubs on Wintringham, Prebble, and Rankine.

Vandalism
I'm pretty sure Steve's spouse is not Peter Davis (New Zealand) Nankai 22:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC). Repaired. Please keep an eye on this.

Er, anyone know who Steve's cohab (if any) is? The "spouse" field in the data box is now blank. Nankai 22:08, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Resignation
Maharey has resigned from office, as of a couple of weeks ago; someone enthusiastic might want to deal to that in the article. 125.238.38.89 22:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)Robbo

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