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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zushiba day

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Zushiba day
Made up and highly insignificant holiday 24.205.103.26 15:32, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * The article creation date, 3 days after the "holiday" date referred to by the article, strongly support this, as does the minor edit war amongst anonymous contributors, who have obviously come here from the forum concerned, no doubt after a posting drawing their attention to it. 24.205.103.26 managed, in contrast, to submit a full VFD nomination, getting the process pretty much right straight off.  Well done!  Please create an account here and contribute more. Let this also serve as a reminder that anonymity is not a bar to either nomination or voting in VFD.  It merely lends additional weight to other bad faith.  Anonymous users make hundreds of good faith contributions to Wikipedia every day. Delete. Uncle G 18:06, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Delete. Please keep your flame wars in the forums which ignited them, unless they become culturally significant, like the ARBN debates I was involved with back in the 1990s! (Sorry, couldn't resist the inside joke.) HyperZonk 19:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yes, I created the starmen.net article. No, I did not create this article. No, I do not support this article. Also, I direct you to this thread: http://forum.starmen.net/?t=msg&th=10219 --SMWhat 19:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, say, as cruft? Wyss 20:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * As a concerned person acting in auctoritas ex officio at the forums in question, I must register my strong desire that the actions of whatever individual was responsible for the posting of this page not be construed as representative of the qualities or attitudes of said forums in toto. With regard to the article specifically, I cannot help but observe its plenary lack of any relevance, authority, or utility, and therefore recommend it heartily for deletion. 134.39.40.29 22:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 03:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Übercruft. I am from the forums, and agree with 134.39.40.29. Potatophone 23:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Ponaganset High School

Ponaganset High School is a school of the Foster-Glocester School District, located in Glocester, Rhode Island in Providence County. (It has a North Scituate, Rhode Island address for postal purposes.) The majority of high school students live in the rural towns of Glocester and Foster, Rhode Island. This is a public high school, known for its music program, AP and honors classes, as well as its CTE approved pathways; plant systems, animal systems, materials and manufacturing, pre-engineering, music technology, music performance, and pending programs: computer science and information technology, and biomedicine. The school's athletic teams are named the "Chieftains," and the FIRST Robotics Competition team is called "5112, The Gongoliers." The principal was Renee Palazzo.

Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 722 students enrolled for 2012-2013 was:
 * Male - 51.5%
 * Female - 48.5%
 * Asian/Pacific islanders - 0.1%
 * Black - 0.3%
 * Hispanic - 0.3%
 * White - 99.2%
 * Multiracial - 0.1%

Additionally, 18% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Mascot
Ponaganset's mascot is the Chieftain. This has come under fire in recent decades as mascots with Native American imagery and symbolism has been reviewed. The regional school district is now deciding whether to keep a symbol many consider to be cultural appropriation, or to change it to something more appropriate as the local tribe, the Nipmuc, have been asking for.

Capital improvement plan
In the late 2000s, the school underwent a major multi-phase renovation in which the former middle school was re-located to a new building and the existing high school took over the old middle school structure. An indoor glass walkway was put in to attach the high school with the old middle school. The renovations were completed at the end of 2009.

Notable alumni

 * Sherwood C. Spring, retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut and graduate of the Class of 1963.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tori Mac

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Tori Mac
"well on the way to being the most downloaded transgendred model on the net" - not exactly notable. Also article is heavily POV. Radiant! 15:33, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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 * Come back to us when he/she gets there, and, moreover, when that claim can be proven. He/she will probably still even then not be notable if that is all that can be said about him/her, though.  Gosh!  A model whose pictures are downloaded via Internet.  And with a promotional web site, too.  How rare is that! Delete. Uncle G 17:03, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Delete 74 Google hits as an exact phrase, 38 displayed and only about 10-15 of those relevant to this subject, and some of those are just guestbooks and such. I try not to take Google results as any sort of de facto notability standard, but considering this article's #1 claim to fame is apparently net-related, the fact that only a handful of pages even mention them is not a good sign. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  17:10, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Currently not notable enought to be in Wikipedia. Maybe later. Zzyzx11 19:32, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, ad. Wyss 20:02, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Ned Vaughn

Ned Vaughn (born November 20, 1964) is an American film and television actor who served as vice president of the Screen Actors Guild prior to becoming the founding executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA. He resigned that position on 21 August 2013, when he announced he would run as a Republican candidate for California's 66th State Assembly district, representing Los Angeles County's South Bay region. However, he later withdrew from the race.

Early life and education
Ned Vaughn was raised in Huntsville, Alabama with his sister Anna by their parents, Helen and Ed Vaughn. Vaughn's father was a news anchor and reporter for Huntsville's CBS Television affiliate (WHNT-TV) before starting his career as a civilian public affairs officer for the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, which included work on Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars. Ned's mother, Helen, is an active professional artist whose early works were described as "celebrations of the many aspects of womanhood" and focusing on "the psychological truth of being female in today's society."

At age 10, Vaughn performed his first acting role in a community theater production of the musical Oliver!, staged in the Von Braun Center's 2000-seat concert hall. Vaughn continued acting as he attended Lee High School and performed in several productions while attending Birmingham-Southern College. It was there that Vaughn decided to pursue acting as a career. He drove to New York with just $600 and initially stayed with a family acquaintance, making the commute to New York City from Peekskill.

While taking classes at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, Vaughn made ends meet by working as a doorman at New York's Wellington Hotel, which he described as a crash course in human nature.

Acting career
In January 1986, Vaughn booked his first professional job from his first audition: a Miami Vice-themed Pepsi commercial directed by Ridley Scott, which premiered during the 1986 Grammy Awards telecast. However, Vaughn's role did not appear in the final cut. Over the remainder of 1986, Vaughn was cast in more commercials and performed in the HB Playwrights Foundation production of K on K by Franz Kafka.

In February 1987, Vaughn was cast in his first starring film role in The Rescue, which also starred Kevin Dillon and featured James Cromwell. After filming was completed in New Zealand and Hong Kong, Vaughn moved to Los Angeles.

Vaughn's acting career quickly took off and in 1989, he was cast as Seaman Beaumont of the USS Dallas (SSN-700) in the blockbuster film The Hunt for Red October. The same year, Vaughn joined the ABC television series China Beach, playing the role of Corporal Jeff Hyers. Throughout his career, Vaughn has gravitated toward characters who serve in the military (24, The Tuskegee Airmen, JAG, NCIS), law enforcement (Heroes, Frost/Nixon), and politics (The Unit).

In 1995, Vaughn appeared in Apollo 13. In 1998, Vaughn performed in Hellcab at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin, Ireland during the Dublin Theatre Festival.

In addition to his film work, Vaughn has appeared in a wide variety of television programs, with nearly one hundred episodes to his credit. In 2011, Vaughn provided the face and voice of LAPD Captain Gordon Leary in video game L.A. Noire, which was the first video game to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Screen Actors Guild / SAG-AFTRA leadership
In 2008, Vaughn campaigned to merge the Screen Actors Guild with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). Vaughn was elected to the SAG board in 2008 and became SAG 1st Vice President in 2010. During his tenure, Vaughn focused on uniting SAG and AFTRA. In January 2012, it was announced that a merger referendum would be presented to members of both unions. Merger opponents and SAG board members Martin Sheen and Ed Harris, along with former SAG president Ed Asner, filed a federal lawsuit to block the referendum, but the vote went ahead. When their case was dropped, Vaughn commented, "Dropping this frivolous lawsuit is the first good decision the plaintiffs have made." On 30 March 2012, the merger passed overwhelmingly, with 86% of AFTRA members and 82% of SAG members voting to create SAG-AFTRA, the largest union representing performers in the entertainment and media industries. Vaughn was the organization's founding executive vice president, serving as the second-ranking and only Republican national officer of the 160,000-member organization.

Politics
On 21 August 2013, Vaughn announced he would run as a Republican candidate for California's 66th State Assembly district, representing Los Angeles County's South Bay region. On the same day, he resigned his position as SAG-AFTRA executive vice president in order to focus on his Assembly campaign. On 16 October 2013 Vaughn announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy.

Personal life
Vaughn married his wife, Adelaide, in 1997. They have five children and live in Augusta, Georgia.

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Demetrio Albertini

Demetrio Albertini (born 23 August 1971) is the sporting director of Parma and a former professional Italian football midfielder and vice-president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). He is widely considered one of the legends of the AC Milan side of the 90s and a fundamental player for the Italy national team of the same period. He spent most of his career with Milan of Italy's Serie A, winning many trophies, including five Serie A titles and two UEFA Champions League titles with the club. He also played his final season for Barcelona, winning the Spanish League before retiring that year.

A vital member of the Italy national team, Albertini was part of the squads that competed at the World Cups of 1994 and 1998, as well as the 1996 and 2000 European Championships, reaching the finals of the 1994 World Cup and Euro 2000.

Club career
Albertini, born in Besana in Brianza, province of Monza e Brianza near Milan, emerged as a product of A.C. Milan's youth system, and went on to spend 14 highly successful years with the senior club after debuting in Serie A as a 17-year-old during the 1988–89 season under Arrigo Sacchi, on 15 January 1989, in a 4–0 home win over Como. He spent part of the 1990–91 season on loan at Padova Calcio in Serie B, collecting 28 appearances and 5 goals, in order to gain experience, and was subsequently awarded a prize by Diadora as one of the most promising young Italian stars. After a successful season with Padova, he soon established himself in the starting lineup of the Milan senior side during the 1991–92 season under Fabio Capello, wearing the number 4 shirt, and helping Milan to win the title undefeated that season; he would go on to make almost 300 Serie A appearances for the club (293 in total, scoring 21 goals), and 406 total career appearances for Milan, scoring 28 goals in all competitions.

Albertini won many titles during his years at Milan, and claimed three successive Serie A titles in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and he also managed to capture two further scudetti in 1996 and 1999. In addition, he made 41 Champions League appearances, helping the Rossoneri to reach three consecutive finals between 1993 and 1995, lifting the trophy in 1994. He also won two UEFA Super Cups, three Italian Super Cups, and an Intercontinental Cup during his time at the club. Albertini remained at Milan until 2002, when his manager and former mentor Carlo Ancelotti preferred to play the emerging Andrea Pirlo in his position. During his time at the club, he managed 28 goals in 406 appearances; he also scored a personal record of 8 goals during the 1996–97 season.

After leaving Milan, Albertini bounced around different teams. He spent the 2002–03 season on loan to Atlético Madrid, scoring 2 goals in 28 caps for the Spanish club. He was eventually traded to Lazio in exchange for Giuseppe Pancaro during the 2003–04 season, with great bitterness, where he finally won the Coppa Italia which had eluded him at Milan, scoring 2 goals in 23 appearances for the club. He started the 2004–05 season with Atalanta, playing 14 matches and scoring a goal on his debut, before transferring to FC Barcelona in January, where he joined his former midfield mentor, now manager Frank Rijkaard, and was able to capture La Liga during the final season of his career, with five appearances.

International career
For the Italy national team, Albertini has been capped 79 times between 1991 and 2002, scoring 3 goals. He made his debut on 21 December 1991, at the age of 20, in a 2–0 win against Cyprus in Foggia. In 1992, he competed with the national squad at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and he won the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship with the Italian Under-21 side. He played for his country at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups, Euro 96, and Euro 2000. Although he was still an Italy regular at the time, he was unable to participate in the 2002 World Cup due to an injury to his Achille's tendon a few months before the competition. His final international appearance came in a 2–1 away win over England in Leeds, in an international friendly match on the March 2002, with Albertini coming on during the second half. Albertini captained Italy on 6 occasions.

World Cup 1994
Albertini's first major tournament for Italy came at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in USA, under manager Arrigo Sacchi. Alongside Milan teammate Roberto Donadoni, as well as Dino Baggio, Albertini formed the "engine room" of the Italian midfield throughout the World Cup. In the last group game against Mexico, Albertini assisted a crucial goal for Daniele Massaro, which allowed Italy to qualify for the second round as the best third placed team. In the semifinal against Bulgaria, Albertini gave a dominant performance, taking several shots on goal and even hitting the post. Albertini also created several chances during the match, dictating the tempo of his team's play; he notably helped to set up Roberto Baggio's second goal of the match, with a lobbed throughball, which allowed Italy to progress to the final with a 2–1 victory. In the final against Brazil, a balanced, scoreless game after extra-time led to a penalty shoot-out; Albertini scored his penalty, but his effort did not prove to be sufficient, as his teammates Franco Baresi, Daniele Massaro, and Roberto Baggio missed their penalties.

Euro 1996
Italy went to the European championship in England and many saw Sacchi's team as the key contender for the title along with Germany, and saw Albertini as Italy's key player, wearing the number 10 shirt. However, the tournament ended in frustration for the Italians, as they suffered a first-round elimination. Arrigo Sacchi's team selection for the second group game against Czech Republic was based on the presumption that, after the opening 2–1 victory over Russia and in the light of the upcoming clash with Germany, Italy could afford playing without a series of key players. Italy lost 2–1 to the eventual runners-up Czech Republic, however, and then were knocked out of the tournament following a 0–0 draw with future champions Germany in their final group game, a match the "Azurri" dominated thanks to Albertini's presence in midfield, with Gianfranco Zola missing a potentially match-winning penalty. Sacchi in one of his interviews admitted the early departure was due to his mistakes and the 1996 squad was his best Italy team, even better than the one that got the second place in USA 1994.

World Cup 1998
Albertini played a key role in helping Italy to qualify for the 1998 World Cup: during the first leg of the 1998 World Cup qualification play-off against Russia, in Moscow, on 29 October 1997, he set up Christian Vieri's goal in a 1–1 draw; he also set up Pierluigi Casiraghi's goal in the second leg in Naples, which allowed Italy to qualify for the World Cup 2–1 on aggregate.

At the 1998 World Cup, Albertini's presence was not as central or explicit as it was in the previous major tournaments, but Cesare Maldini relied on him as one of the team's key central midfielders and creative players. Out of the games that Italy played in France, Albertini was not involved only when Italy faced Austria in the final match of the group stage. In the quarter-final clash, a Zidane-led France managed to overcome the masters of insurmountable defence only on penalties, during which Albertini's surprising failure did induce the tides to turn against la "Squadra Azzurra". Ironically, the midfielder could have been the creator of Italy's golden goal; during extra-time, his superb delivery into the area to Roberto Baggio, from a lobbed pass, left the latter alone in front of French keeper Fabien Barthez, but the volley went just inches wide. Having won the most difficult match of the tournament, France went on to claim the nation's first World Cup title on home soil.

Euro 2000

In Dino Zoff's formation at Euro 2000, Albertini was the unquestionable leader of Italy's midfield, starting alongside Di Biagio, behind either Stefano Fiore or Francesco Totti. His pace-setting and creative role in creating chances and controlling the Italian midfield was paramount to Italy's successful run in the tournament, as he provided two assists for his team (one for Totti's goal against Belgium, and the other for Inzaghi's goal against Romania), finishing the tournament as his country's top creator, although the Italians ultimately missed out on the trophy. The azzurri progressed to the final undefeated, winning all three of their group matches against Turkey, co-hosts Belgium, and Sweden. Italy went on to defeat Romania 2–0 in the quarterfinal, and overcame co-hosts the Netherlands in the semi-final on penalties after a 0–0 draw following extra time. Italy eventually lost out once again to the 1998 World Champions France 2–1 in the final, on a golden goal in extra-time. Albertini was chosen to be part of the Team of the Tournament due to his performances throughout the Cup.

Missed World Cup 2002 and retirement
Despite being a key part of Giovanni Trapattoni's Italy squad, Albertini missed the 2002 World Cup due to an injury sustained on 14 April 2002, less than two months before the tournament, in the away Serie A game for Milan against Juventus, effectively putting an end to his international career at the age of 30. Coincidentally, this game also turned out to be his last for AC Milan as well.

After retirement
On 5 December 2005, Albertini announced his retirement from professional football and expressed his desire to one day become a full-time football manager. On 15 March 2006, a Milan vs Barcelona celebration match was organised in Albertini's honour, featuring great footballing names from both past and present (such as Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, and Franco Baresi). Milan won the match 3–2 at the San Siro, with Albertini scoring the first goal from a textbook swerving free kick. Following the match, a visibly emotional Albertini was given a standing ovation from the fans.

In 2006, Albertini was involved in a project to create a Footballing Academy in his name, “Scuola calcio Demetrio Albertini", in Selvino (Bg), which took place in Milan and Lecchese, involving over 1000 young players.

Sporting director with FIGC
On 18 May 2006, following the Italian football Calciopoli scandal involving Juventus and Luciano Moggi, among others, which led to the resignation of Franco Carraro from the Italian Football Federation presidency and the appointment of a temporary commissioner, Guido Rossi, by the National Olympic Committee, Albertini was named vice-commissioner of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

On 19 September, following the resignation of Rossi, who was in the meanwhile appointed as chairman of Telecom Italia, Albertini also announced his resignation. He was later appointed vice-president of the FIGC in 2007, under Giancarlo Abete, and was re-elected in 2013.

On 27 July 2014, Albertini nominated himself for the position of the president of the FIGC, but ultimately lost controversially to his former co-vice-president Carlo Tavecchio on 11 August, despite having the support of the A.I.C. (the Italian Footballers' Association).

Parma board member
Following the bankruptcy of Parma F.C., Demetrio Albertini was appointed to the club's board as a football advisor for the club’s administrators.

Researcher for Football Manager
Albertini is a researcher for Football Manager, the football management simulation game franchise.

Style of play
Albertini was a complete, experienced and composed midfielder, who was gifted with stamina, power, technique, and class, which allowed him to be regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation. His key strengths as a player were his mentality, his excellent vision, tactical knowledge, ability to read the game, and ball control, but above all, his brilliant passing range, which made him a key member of the Milan and the Italy national sides of the 90s and early 2000s; he was also known for his powerful and accurate shots from distance, which also enabled him to contribute to his team's offensive play with goals as well as assists. Few players were able to replicate Albertini's precise long passing and powerful distance shooting adeptness, and many have likened his abilities in these areas to those of Ronald Koeman. Albertini was also an accurate penalty kick and set piece taker, who could curl the ball well, but also kick with power, and was known for often striking the ball without a run-up during dead ball situations. Although he was fundamentally a hardworking, intelligent, and creative central midfielder or deep-lying playmaker with excellent technical ability, he was able to complete himself tactically and improve upon the defensive and offensive aspect of his game play throughout his career, demonstrating his adeptness as a ball-winner; his wide range of skills made him a versatile player, allowed him to play in several other midfield positions, including out on the wing, due to his crossing ability.

In the Milan side and Italy side, he was seen as the heir to Carlo Ancelotti, and later also as the predecessor to Andrea Pirlo as the playmaking pivot of the teams' midfield, due to his ability to create goalscoring opportunities or control the game in midfield and set the tempo of his team's play with his distribution, and he was often regarded as the "creative brain" and "metronome" of his teams. Many football experts draw parallels between Albertini and Pirlo, the midfield ace of European and world football, who emerged as his heir in Italian football, both for Milan and for the Italy national side. Like Albertini, Pirlo is a deep-lying playmaker who also possesses excellent technique, ball skills, vision and passing range, and who is also a set-piece specialist and a goal threat from distance. In addition his footballing skills, Albertini was also known for his correct behaviour on the pitch, and was seen as a symbol and leader for both his club and national sides.

Personal life
Albertini is a practising Roman Catholic. He married to Uriana Capone in 1996 in Oria, Italy. He has a son named Guillermo who is born in Den Bosch, Holland.

Club
*European competitions include the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, and UEFA Super Cup

Club
AC Milan
 * Serie A: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99
 * Supercoppa Italiana: 1992, 1993, 1994
 * UEFA Champions League: 1993–94
 * UEFA Super Cup: 1989, 1994

Lazio
 * Coppa Italia: 2003–04

Barcelona
 * La Liga: 2004–05

International
Italy
 * UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 1992
 * FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1994
 * UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2000

Individual
 * UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 2000
 * A.C. Milan Hall of Fame

Orders

 * ITA OMRI 2001 Uff BAR.svg 4th Class / Officer: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 2006

 * Cavaliere OMRI BAR.svg 5th Class / Knight: Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 2000

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tore Uppström

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Tore Uppström
"His contributions as a composer are limitied to a handful piano pieces" - not exactly notable. Radiant! 15:34, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep assuming the basic info in the article is correct, he's notable. Toured internationally as a musician and wrote a published book. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  17:21, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, aside from which this topic's more encyclopedic than most of the porn stars listed on WP. Wyss 20:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. We don't know how widely-read the book is, or how well-attended the tours were, or how frequently performed his compositions are... but he seems well-known enough. Isomorphic 20:11, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - less than 25 Google hits. Megan1967 03:18, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually 124 Bogdan | Talk 12:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, looks like a man for Wikipedia. bbx 04:12, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment (abstaining for now): I have made some additions to the article from Swedish sources, but his notability, as far as I can judge, seems very borderline. There is any number of Swedish composers, both contemporary and older, who would better deserve articles: Dag Wirén (who is now linked from Uppström's article), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Ture Rangström, Lars-Erik Larsson, Johan Wikmanson, Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, Jacob Axel Josephson, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Sven-David Sandström, Moses Pergament, Sten Broman, Johan Gottlieb Naumann, Emil Sjögren, Hilding Rosenberg, John Fernström, August Söderman, Ingvar Lidholm, Gösta Nystroem, Sven-Erik Bäck and probably others that I can't recall at the moment (I just added several of these to the List of Swedes in music), not to mention many important performers (such as the conductor Sixten Ehrling who just died). The fact that the coverage of Swedish music in the English Wikipedia is bad is in itself not an argument against Uppström, but unless I have missed something significant (which is possible), he is very far from being in the same league as the other ones listed here. Does the sum of his accomplishments as composer, performer and writer still bring him above the bar? Where is the line drawn? / up+land 12:40, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, but "Why does X have an article but Y doesn't?" has never been a very valid argument. There are many thousands, even millions, of valid article subjects that don't have articles yet.  It doesn't mean anyone else is necessarily any less accomplished or notworthy than ol' Uppström here, it just means someone got to him first.  Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  23:17, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * I already anticipated that, didn't I? I don't really care if Uppström is retained, but unless somebody can say something about his importance I still wonder why he should be in. If somebody would point out that "he hasn't composed many pieces but his Second Trio for Pyrophone, Banjo and Viola has been of monumental significance for the introduction of the pyrophone into modern chamber music" or something like that, I would understand why the article is here. Or is every published composer notable enough to be included? What are the criteria? / up+land 07:56, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Based on the guidelines at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music/Notability_and_Music_Guidelines this musician fits criteria #2 (international concert tour). And that's not even counting his composing, or the book he wrote.  That's not to say that there aren't a lot of other worthy candidates for articles, but based on our guidelines, this guy is definitely in. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  13:33, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment (not intending to vote): I transferred this from Wiktionary, where it does not belong, to Wikipedia. I have been asked on my user talk page who the original poster was, but I have been unable to find this out.  The Wiktionary page has been deleted and there is no "View deleted edits?" link.  Is it possible that this page had a different title when I copied it to Wiktionary? — Paul G 12:48, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not significant. JamesBurns 10:04, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable enough for me, and more so for those in Sweden. -- Riffsyphon1024 10:09, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Whaling Ships
I saw you on the ships project page. I'm looking for data on ships named Phoenix, and their relation to the discovery of the Phoenix Islands. Can you help?Pustelnik 11:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

NGC 2812 and Theta Pictoris
I see that you have created pages on NGC 2812 and Theta Pictoris. Out of curiosity, why did you create these pages? As a professional astronomer, I have a difficult time finding even basic references on NGC 2812. I also do not understand what is special about Theta Pictoris. Are these objects somehow important in a way that I do not understand? Also, would you like information on formatting the pages? George J. Bendo 18:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Both were mentioned, in a roundabout way, in Star Trek -- CaptainMike 17:04, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought as much. I can just imagine the dialog...
 * Spock: We have arrived in NGC 2812, Captain. Scanners indicate nothing of interest in this galaxy.
 * Kirk: Could someone remind me why we are here?
 * Sulu: It's my fault, sir. I sneezed when entering the coordinates for NGC 2841.
 * Kirk: Well then, plot a new course for our original destination.
 * Sulu: Aye, Captain.
 * I am still wondering how NGC 2812 ended up in a Star Trek episode; it's a distant, unnotable galaxy, and I had the impression that the Enterprise rarely left the Milky Way. Anyhow, would you like help with formatting the articles or information on useful scientific references (not that many references exist for NGC 2812)? You may also be interested in the star systems in fiction page, although I do not know of an equivalent page for galaxies. (You do understand the difference between stars and galaxies, don't you?) George J. Bendo 17:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I apparently took too long to respond to your request. You did a good job with applying the template, but you need to use references. I have revised the NGC 2812 entry with referenced information from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. You should reference your information as often as possible. Good luck with the Theta Pictoris article. George J. Bendo 08:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You may be interested in WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes, which has information on the templates used to create infoboxes. You will need to page down to find the infobox templates for stars. George J. Bendo 13:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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T-2 Tankers
I noticed that you did a lot of work on the T-2 tanker pages that I started. Do you by chance have any more info for the Sacketts Harbor? That was my grandfather's ship and it's how I got started listing info.

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 * I haven't heard of the ship but I've been expanding my database here .. I'll see what I can dig up. -- CaptainMike 16:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * sauvage—French ‘savage’ < late Latin salvāticus < Latin siluāticus ‘of the woods, wild, from the silua’
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Talk:John Cobb (racing driver)

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I'm trying to contact the copyright holders of the book S C H Davis (1953) The John Cobb Story Pub. London: Foulis which will expire I believe 50 years after the death of Mr Davis. Foulis are no longer listed in the UK Yellow Pages. I think they are out of buisness. It would be best for everyone if this was put in the public domain. It may already be so. Meanwhile I'll contact Autosport and the Brooklands Society.

Memorial to John Cobb
Done --Nevit (talk) 19:12, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trevs

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Trevs
Slang term. Maybe transwiki, but probably not widespread enough. Radiant! 15:42, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Easily fixed by redirecting—we already had an article on Chavs, which Trevs said it was synonymous with. Postdlf 15:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but the etymology sounds dodgy. Wyss 19:59, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:34, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Aerobatic maneuver

Aerobatic maneuvers are flight paths putting aircraft in unusual attitudes, in air shows, dogfights or competition aerobatics. Aerobatics can be performed by a single aircraft or in formation with several others. Nearly all aircraft are capable of performing aerobatics maneuvers of some kind, although it may not be legal or safe to do so in certain aircraft.

Aerobatics consist of five basic maneuvers:

 * Lines (both horizontal and vertical),
 * loops,
 * rolls,
 * spins, and
 * hammerheads.

Most aerobatic figures are composites of these basic maneuvers with rolls superimposed.

A loop is when the pilot pulls the plane up into the vertical, continues around until they are heading back in the same direction, like making a 360 degree turn, except it is in the vertical plane instead of the horizontal. The pilot will be inverted (upside down) at the top of the loop. A loop can also be performed by rolling inverted and making the same maneuver but diving towards the ground. It can be visualized as making a loop of ribbon, hence the name it is given (there is an animation depicting a loop on the bottom of this page).

A roll is simply rotating the plane about its roll axis, using the ailerons. It can be done in increments of 360 degrees (i.e. four short 90 degree rolls will bring the aircraft back to its upright position).

A spin is more complex, involving intentionally stalling a single wing, causing the plane to descend spiraling around its yaw axis in a corkscrew motion.

A hammerhead (also known as a stall turn) is performed by pulling the aircraft up until it is pointing straight up (much like the beginning of a loop), but the pilot continues to fly straight up until their airspeed has dropped to a certain critical point. The pilot then uses the rudder to rotate the aircraft around its yaw axis until it has turned 180deg and is pointing straight down, facing the direction from which the aircraft came. The aircraft gains speed, and the pilot continues and returns to level flight, travelling in the opposite direction from which the maneuver began. It is also known as a "tailslide", from the yawing turn, which is different from the typical method of turning an aircraft in the pitch axis.

Table of the basic aerobatic figures
Most of these can be entered either erect or inverted, flown backwards or have extra rolls added.

Where appropriate, the Aresti Catalog symbols have been included. Not all the figures are competition figures, and so some do not have diagrams to accompany the description.

Reading the diagrams, a figure begins at the small solid circle and ends at the short vertical line. Inverted flight (negative g) is depicted by dashed red lines. The small arrow indicates a rolling maneuver.

 * Dive; extreme nose down attitude (not necessarily vertical), resulting in an increase in both airspeed and descent rate.
 * Lazy eight; 1/4 looping up, wingover (left or right), 1/2 looping down+up, wingover (right or left), 1/4 looping down
 * Lomcovak; family of autorotational, tumbling figures. In all varieties, the aircraft appears to tumble out of control.  For example, one style involves the aircraft tumbling (simultaneously) nose over tail and wingtip over wingtip in a negative-g, gyroscopic condition. Introduced by Czechoslovaks such as Ladislav Bezák, and others.
 * Pugachev's Cobra; the nose of the aircraft is pulled up suddenly. The aircraft pitches up to 90–120° angle of attack. The nose then falls back to the horizontal, and the aircraft accelerates away in the original direction
 * Kulbit; post-stall maneuver similar to Pugachev's Cobra, but going to 360° pitch angle, flying a "loop"
 * Roll; Rotational motion around the longitudinal axis (the nose rotates around its center).
 * Barrel roll; a combination of a loop and a roll. The flight path during a barrel roll has the shape of a horizontal corkscrew and follows a helical path.
 * Aileron roll; 360° revolution about the longitudinal axis at maximum roll rate. It consists of a pitch-up followed by a roll which is uncontrolled in the pitch axis, resulting in an initial climb, and then descent to the original altitude.
 * Slow roll; roll around the longitudinal axis slowly, maintaining level flight by cross-controlling the elevator and rudder inputs.
 * Hesitation roll; slow roll, stopping momentarily at various points during the roll. Common variations include a two-point roll, three-point roll, four-point roll, etc...
 * The Scissors; flying in a zigzagging pattern, either horizontal or rolling.
 * Standing eight; inside loop, 1/2 roll (inverts the aircraft), inside loop (towards the ground) 1/2 roll on top of the loop
 * Wingover; left or right 180° tight turn (yaw) at the top of a 1/4 looping (up)
 * Zoom climb; dive followed by extreme nose up attitude (not necessarily vertical). Consists of an initial airspeed gain resulting in an increased rate of climb, followed by airspeed loss and decreased rate of climb, returning to the original speed and altitude.
 * Falling leaf; throttle off, wings-level stall, allowing the plane to side-slip in one direction, then countering the slip with rudder before a spin develops, allowing it to side-slip to the other direction, countering with rudder again, diving to exit the maneuver.
 * Torque roll; tailslide performed with aileron added in the direction of the engine torque. The aircraft climbs in the vertical until forward momentum is lost, and rolls due to the torque of the engine as it tailslides.

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Talk:Touchtel

Written from company's POV. Someone neutral please validate the facts? Radiant! 15:41, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travis Fimmel

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Travis Fimmel
Vanity. Radiant! 15:42, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (25k+ hits in Google), but under the condition that it is NPOVed. --Sn0wflake 18:17, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I'm not sure at what point a "celebrity" (love those scare quotes) becomes notable enough, but this guy does appear to have an acting job on WB. Perhaps if his new series becomes popular. Hmmm. For the time being a very weak keep. HyperZonk 19:19, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it, someone might care enough to look it up sometime. Wyss 19:57, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He's done someacting as well as modeling.  RickK 20:56, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep starring roles in two different major-network TV series, and has an active fan community. Well above the bar. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  10:44, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Celebrity = notability.--Centauri 01:36, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV promo. Megan1967 06:35, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you consciously make it a policy to vote the opposite of the most votes at the time you vote? RickK 06:38, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a policy that I must follow other votes? Megan1967 04:02, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The current article is fannish and vain-sounding which would have made it a deletion candidate at first blush, but the subject certainly exceeds the notability factor.  Needs a POVectomy and expansion to be sure. - Lucky 6.9 01:15, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Norman Rogers\talk 01:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like vanity. JamesBurns 10:13, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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American Forest and Paper Association

 * see http://www.afandpa.org/
 * also cited on wikipedia

Steven Markoff
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General Development Corporation
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 * http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/honorary/hon6.html
 * Honorary degree from Univ of New Brunswick
 * 1964     KELSEY, Frances Kathleen Oldham                   D.Sc.

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 * http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/thalidomide/effects.html
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 * Hawthorne, Fran (2005). Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ: 2005.

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TRGB
Company vanity. Nothing notable here, they just sell cars. Radiant! 15:45, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * Not only vanity, but a blatant advertisement that has sat undetected on Wikipedia for 2 months, complete with a (probably GFDL-incompatible) image and the rate for services. As always, the best weapon to use against these is to hit them with a Copyvio, and let their own copyrighting of their advertising work against them, Judo-style; especially when one can make the rewrite article be about something else entirely.  ☺  (And if anyone feels strongly about its final section, be bold.) Uncle G 17:54, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Copyvio deleted, replaced by /Temp. Lupo 08:12, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Gangkhar Puensum

Elevation
A lot of web pages stating Gangkhar Puensum as the world's highest unclimber peak give its height as 7541 m (24750 ft).

For example:

Fewer seem to give 6896 m (22624 ft).

Does anyone know the correct height? Thincat 15:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * There are surprisingly few official sources on this. The Sierra Club, says 24741 ft. Do we trust them? Also, I count at least 18 peaks on that list that are higher than Gangkhar Puensum.  -- Scott  eiπ  17:31, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

white peak of the three spiritual brothers
Who has a source for the translation of this? The only thing I found online was that it means "3 mountain siblings".--Josh Rocchio 22:16, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Please someone answer, this is translation of the week, and it can't very well be translated if I don't know what to call it.--Josh Rocchio 12:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I see no reason to doubt that the translation given by the above link is correct, and thank you for this link which has an excellent image of the mountain. Viewfinder 12:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * So should we change it in the article? Thanks, for responding.--Josh Rocchio 13:14, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

3 mountain siblings is a shorter version of the above. Whether the words "white" and "spiritual" are correctly included in the translation, I do not know. Viewfinder 14:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Right, I certainly see that it is a shorter version of the longer one...my point is that white and spiritual are two extra semantic objects...siblings, for that matter, is a different semantic object than brothers, not in all languages, but certainly in english, and I haven't the expertise to assess whether or not brothers and siblings are a different semantic object in dzongkha. The problem is, "white peak of the three spiritual brothers" is getting translated word for word into many wikipedias:

 * it:Vetta Bianca dei Tre Spiriti Fratelli
 * tr:Üç Ruhsal Erkek Kardeşin Beyaz Zirvesi
 * scn:Tettu jancu di tri frati spirituali
 * da:De Tre Åndelige Brødres Hvide Bjerg
 * lt:Baltoji trijų dvasingųjų brolių viršūnė

 * etc...and this is potentially misleading, as three mountain siblings neither includes peak, white, or spiritual, and there is no reason to assume that dzongkha thinks of "mountain" as a masculine object (does dzongkha even have gendered nouns?). I mean even in descendant languages, this gender is not always kept, cf latin mons,montis, masc, and its descendant, spanish la montaña, fem. So if mountains are feminine, this could be three mountain sisters. I know that it was not you who entered the translation, and I have sent a message to User:Thincat, who seems to have been the responsible party. The problem, again, is that people all over the world atre taking this page on this wikipedia as a credible source for this article, and it might be terribly misleading.--Josh Rocchio 15:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Now fr: sommet blanc des trois frères spirituels...--Josh Rocchio 17:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Now ca:Cim blanc dels tres germans espirituals
 * and po:Biały szczyt trzech duchowych braci...--Josh Rocchio 17:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * and ast:Cume blanca de los tres hermanos espirituales

If this bothers you, add a footnote to the main article, stating that no citation that goes further than "3 mountain siblings" can be found. Viewfinder 18:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's more than it bothering me. It's that I can't even really translate the name or the article, much less the rest of it, into latin until I know what it means. Latin semantics, orthographics, and even the alphabet strongly discourages transliterating Gangkhar Puensum (ie, not using k, certainly not using kh, and certainly not ngkh). It would properly be Mons Trium Fratrum Montanorum (mount of the three mountain brothers) or Mons Albus Trium Fratrum Spiritosorum (white mountain of the three spiritual brothers) or something, but something like Gancar Punsum would be hardly appropriate.--Josh Rocchio 15:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

These next two copied from my talk page...--Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just back from holiday, hence my delay in replying. I certainly didn't translate "Gangkhar Peunsum". I found the translation either on-line or in Steven Berry's book (reference in article), I suspect in the latter. I have a copy of the book but when I last tried to find it I couldn't! I'll try again. However, Berry is a mountaineer and was probably just repeating what someone told him.  Thincat 08:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I've found this on the web . I'm not sure of its date but anyway, I doubt this was my original reference. It can't simply be copying erroneous material from Wikipedia (!) because it has additional details not reported there. Thincat 12:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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Ok, well that says it's derived from a phrase that means white peak of the three spiritual brothers...and 3 mountain siblings certainly counds derived from that. Can we agree to emend? I will send out a note to the other wikipedias, I can speak about half of the languages whose wikipedias translated this well enough to write a quick note, and for the others, english will have to do =].--Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
I've arranged it in the Catalan version. (Els tres germans de la muntanya) --83.44.189.186 11:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure.--Josh Rocchio 03:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Bhutan or China?
Can somebody clarify this? The Mountain's summit is actually in Tibet, isn't it? As such it doesn't really make sense for the map to show its location "within Bhutan" when it isn't in Bhutan, at least the red tiangle representing the summit isn't. It doesn't make sense either that there's no mention of Tibet in the intro. --Lo2u (T • C) 23:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I reverted the change to Tibet, since no source I've seen supports that. Instead, I cited a detailed discussion of GP (and Kula Kangri) which lays out the different claims. I did put into the intro a sentence mentioning that it is on the border with Tibet. -- Spireguy (talk) 22:54, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually, looking at those coordinates on Google Earth, the summit does seem to be within Bhutan. The reasons I thought it was in Tibet were firstly that the red triangle on the map was entirely outside Bhutan (I think the location map possibly needs to be recallibrated)) and secondly that the GeoHack coordinates gave China for this location, though they don't seem to any more. --Lo2u (T • C) 01:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

One other point, comparing these two maps, it seems there are about 200 square miles along the northern border that the first map places in Bhutan and the second places in Tibet. This may be because the borders are not properly defined but it is telling that there are several maps in the Bhutan article and none of them is the same shape as the green map here, which makes me think the borders of the green map are less widely recognised. The green map shows Gangkhar Puensum in China but all the others would show it in Tibet. I'm tempted to revise this map along the lines of. --Lo2u (T • C) 02:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with your remarks and a better map would be most helpful. Since the present map seems to show a northern border for Bhutan which bears little relationship to what is shown on several mapping sites, I am deleting it as being worse than no map at all. Thincat (talk) 13:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Map and infobox
I shall revert the last edit to the article which put a different map in the infobox which then shows GP entirely within China (see last section of this discussion above). Interestingly, Bing shows the GP coordinate given in the article as being within Bhutan. I think the underlying issue is that the border between the countries is not defined clearly (but maybe it is convenient to say GP is on or near the border).Thincat (talk) 09:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

The location map in the current article seems to be working appropriately. File:Bhutan_location_map.svg of 08:22 14 October 2008 (from Germen WP) is the file in use. Thincat (talk) 18:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

This map below recently became available. It shows the disputed borders in the north and west that account for the descrepancies in the above maps. Just thought I'd share it here although unsure if should be included in this article. More info in Talk:Bhutan page. --Racerx11 (talk) 04:04, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

 * The coordinates in the infobox give 0 seconds for both the latitude in longitude which usually means that the source (which is no documented) did not specify the location with much accuracy. This makes it impossible, using this data, to determine were the summit is with respect to a border. If the border is in dispute, the article should make no claim about which country the summit is in. The body of the article makes the situation clear but the claim in the first sentence that the mountain is "in" Bhutan is probably inappropriate (IMHO). – droll  [chat]  05:08, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I have included a better set of coords with ref to the article. -- Racer X11 Talk to me Stalk me  18:13, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Balance wheel

A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock. It is a weighted wheel that rotates back and forth, being returned toward its center position by a spiral torsion spring, known as the balance spring or hairspring. It is driven by the escapement, which transforms the rotating motion of the watch gear train into impulses delivered to the balance wheel. Each swing of the wheel (called a "tick" or "beat") allows the gear train to advance a set amount, moving the hands forward. The balance wheel and hairspring together form a harmonic oscillator, which due to resonance oscillates preferentially at a certain rate, its resonant frequency or "beat", and resists oscillating at other rates. The combination of the mass of the balance wheel and the elasticity of the spring keep the time between each oscillation or "tick" very constant, accounting for its nearly universal use as the timekeeper in mechanical watches to the present. From its invention in the 14th century until tuning fork and quartz movements became available in the 1960s, virtually every portable timekeeping device used some form of balance wheel.

Overview
Until the 1980s balance wheels were the timekeeping technology used in chronometers, bank vault time locks, time fuzes for munitions, alarm clocks, kitchen timers and stopwatches, but quartz technology has taken over these applications, and the main remaining use is in quality mechanical watches.

Modern (2007) watch balance wheels are usually made of Glucydur, a low thermal expansion alloy of beryllium, copper and iron, with springs of a low thermal coefficient of elasticity alloy such as Nivarox. The two alloys are matched so their residual temperature responses cancel out, resulting in even lower temperature error. The wheels are smooth, to reduce air friction, and the pivots are supported on precision jewel bearings. Older balance wheels used weight screws around the rim to adjust the poise (balance), but modern wheels are computer-poised at the factory, using a laser to burn a precise pit in the rim to make them balanced. Balance wheels rotate about $1 1/2$ turns with each swing, that is, about 270° to each side of their center equilibrium position. The rate of the balance wheel is adjusted with the regulator, a lever with a narrow slit on the end through which the balance spring passes. This holds the part of the spring behind the slit stationary. Moving the lever slides the slit up and down the balance spring, changing its effective length, and thus the resonant vibration rate of the balance. Since the regulator interferes with the spring's action, chronometers and some precision watches have "free sprung" balances with no regulator, such as the Gyromax. Their rate is adjusted by weight screws on the balance rim. A balance's vibration rate is traditionally measured in beats (ticks) per hour, or BPH, although beats per second and Hz are also used. The length of a beat is one swing of the balance wheel, between reversals of direction, so there are two beats in a complete cycle. Balances in precision watches are designed with faster beats, because they are less affected by motions of the wrist. Alarm clocks and kitchen timers often have a rate of 4 beats per second (14,400 BPH). Watches made prior to the 1970s usually had a rate of 5 beats per second (18,000 BPH). Current watches have rates of 6 (21,600 BPH), 8 (28,800 BPH) and a few have 10 beats per second (36,000 BPH). Audemars Piguet currently produces a watch with a very high balance vibration rate of 12 beats/s (43,200 BPH). During World War II, Elgin produced a very precise stopwatch for US Air Force bomber crews that ran at 40 beats per second (144,000 BPH), earning it the nickname 'Jitterbug'. The precision of the best balance wheel watches on the wrist is around a few seconds per day. The most accurate balance wheel timepieces made were marine chronometers, which were used on ships for celestial navigation, as a precise time source to determine longitude. By World War II they had achieved accuracies of 0.1 second per day.

Period of oscillation
A balance wheel's period of oscillation T in seconds, the time required for one complete cycle (two beats), is determined by the wheel's moment of inertia I in kilogram-meter2 and the stiffness (spring constant) of its balance spring κ in newton-meters per radian:

 * $$T = 2 \pi \sqrt{ \frac {I}{\kappa} } \,$$

History

The balance wheel appeared with the first mechanical clocks, in 14th century Europe, but it seems unknown exactly when or where it was first used. It is an improved version of the foliot, an early inertial timekeeper consisting of a straight bar pivoted in the center with weights on the ends, which oscillates back and forth. The foliot weights could be slid in or out on the bar, to adjust the rate of the clock. The first clocks in northern Europe used foliots, while those in southern Europe used balance wheels. As clocks were made smaller, first as bracket clocks and lantern clocks and then as the first large watches after 1500, balance wheels began to be used in place of foliots. Since more of its weight is located on the rim away from the axis, a balance wheel could have a larger moment of inertia than a foliot of the same size, and keep better time. The wheel shape also had less air resistance, and its geometry partly compensated for thermal expansion error due to temperature changes.

Addition of balance spring
These early balance wheels were crude timekeepers because they lacked the other essential element: the balance spring. Early balance wheels were pushed in one direction by the escapement until the verge flag that was in contact with a tooth on the escape wheel slipped past the tip of the tooth ("escaped") and the action of the escapement reversed, pushing the wheel back the other way. In such an "inertial" wheel, the acceleration is proportional to the drive force. In a clock or watch without balance spring, the drive force provides both the force that accelerates the wheel and also the force that slows it down and reverses it. If the drive force is increased, both acceleration and deceleration are increased, this results in the wheel getting pushed back and forth faster. This made the timekeeping strongly dependent on the force applied by the escapement. In a watch the drive force provided by the mainspring, applied to the escapement through the timepiece's gear train, declined during the watch's running period as the mainspring unwound. Without some means of equalizing the drive force, the watch slowed down during the running period between windings as the spring lost force, causing it to lose time. This is why all pre-balance spring watches required fusees (or in a few cases stackfreeds) to equalize the force from the mainspring reaching the escapement, to achieve even minimal accuracy. Even with these devices, watches prior to the balance spring were very inaccurate. The idea of the balance spring was inspired by observations that springy hog bristle curbs, added to limit the rotation of the wheel, increased its accuracy. Robert Hooke first applied a metal spring to the balance in 1658 and Jean de Hautefeuille and Christiaan Huygens improved it to its present spiral form in 1674. The addition of the spring made the balance wheel a harmonic oscillator, the basis of every modern clock. This means the wheel vibrated at a natural resonant frequency or "beat" and resisted changes in its vibration rate caused by friction or changing drive force. This crucial innovation greatly increased the accuracy of watches, from several hours per day to perhaps 10 minutes per day, changing them from expensive novelties into useful timekeepers.

Temperature error
After the balance spring was added, a major remaining source of inaccuracy was the effect of temperature changes. Early watches had balance springs made of plain steel and balances of brass or steel, and the influence of temperature on these noticeably affected the rate.

An increase in temperature increases the dimensions of the balance spring and the balance due to thermal expansion. The strength of a spring, the restoring force it produces in response to a deflection, is proportional to its breadth and the cube of its thickness, and inversely proportional to its length. An increase in temperature would actually make a spring stronger if it affected only its physical dimensions. However, a much larger effect in a balance spring made of plain steel is that the elasticity of the spring's metal decreases significantly as the temperature increases, the net effect being that a plain steel spring becomes weaker with increasing temperature. An increase in temperature also increases diameter of a steel or brass balance wheel, increasing its rotational inertia, its moment of inertia, making it harder for the balance spring to accelerate. The two effects of increasing temperature on physical dimensions of the spring and the balance, the strengthening of the balance spring and the increase in rotational inertia of the balance, have opposing effects and to an extent cancel each other. The major effect of temperature which affects the rate of a watch is the weakening of the balance spring with increasing temperature.

In a watch that is not compensated for the effects of temperature, the weaker spring takes longer to return the balance wheel back toward the center, so the "beat" gets slower and the watch loses time. Ferdinand Berthoud found in 1773 that an ordinary brass balance and steel hairspring, subjected to a 60 °F (33 °C) temperature increase, loses 393 seconds ($6 1/2$ minutes) per day, of which 312 seconds is due to spring elasticity decrease.

Temperature-compensated balance wheel
The need for an accurate clock for celestial navigation during sea voyages drove many advances in balance technology in 18th century Britain and France. Even a 1-second per day error in a marine chronometer could result in a 17 mi error in ship's position after a 2-month voyage. John Harrison was first to apply temperature compensation to a balance wheel in 1753, using a bimetallic "compensation curb" on the spring, in the first successful marine chronometers, H4 and H5. These achieved an accuracy of a fraction of a second per day, but the compensation curb was not further used because of its complexity. A simpler solution was devised around 1765 by Pierre Le Roy, and improved by John Arnold, and Thomas Earnshaw: the Earnshaw or compensating balance wheel. The key was to make the balance wheel change size with temperature. If the balance could be made to shrink in diameter as it got warmer, the smaller moment of inertia would compensate for the weakening of the balance spring, keeping the period of oscillation the same.

To accomplish this, the outer rim of the balance was made of a "sandwich" of two metals; a layer of steel on the inside fused to a layer of brass on the outside. Strips of this bimetallic construction bend toward the steel side when they are warmed, because the thermal expansion of brass is greater than steel. The rim was cut open at two points next to the spokes of the wheel, so it resembled an S-shape (see figure) with two circular bimetallic "arms". These wheels are sometimes referred to as "Z-balances". A temperature increase makes the arms bend inward toward the center of the wheel, and the shift of mass inward reduces the moment of inertia of the balance, similar to the way a spinning ice skater can reduce her moment of inertia by pulling in her arms. This reduction in the moment of inertia compensated for the reduced torque produced by the weaker balance spring. The amount of compensation is adjusted by moveable weights on the arms. Marine chronometers with this type of balance had errors of only 3–4 seconds per day over a wide temperature range. By the 1870s compensated balances began to be used in watches.

Middle temperature error
The standard Earnshaw compensation balance dramatically reduced error due to temperature variations, but it didn't eliminate it. As first described by J. G. Ulrich, a compensated balance adjusted to keep correct time at a given low and high temperature will be a few seconds per day fast at intermediate temperatures. The reason is that the moment of inertia of the balance varies as the square of the radius of the compensation arms, and thus of the temperature. But the elasticity of the spring varies linearly with temperature.

To mitigate this problem, chronometer makers adopted various 'auxiliary compensation' schemes, which reduced error below 1 second per day. Such schemes consisted for example of small bimetallic arms attached to the inside of the balance wheel. Such compensators could only bend in one direction toward the center of the balance wheel, but bending outward would be blocked by the wheel itself. The blocked movement causes a non-linear temperature response that could slightly better compensate the elasticity changes in the spring. Most of the chronometers that came in first in the annual Greenwich Observatory trials between 1850 and 1914 were auxiliary compensation designs. Auxiliary compensation was never used in watches because of its complexity.

Better materials
The bimetallic compensated balance wheel was made obsolete in the early 20th century by advances in metallurgy. Charles Édouard Guillaume won a Nobel prize for the 1896 invention of Invar, a nickel steel alloy with very low thermal expansion, and Elinvar (from élasticité invariable, 'invariable elasticity') an alloy whose elasticity is unchanged over a wide temperature range, for balance springs. A solid Invar balance with a spring of Elinvar was largely unaffected by temperature, so it replaced the difficult-to-adjust bimetallic balance. This led to a series of improved low temperature coefficient alloys for balances and springs.

Before developing Elinvar, Guillaume also invented an alloy to compensate for middle temperature error in bimetallic balances by endowing it with a negative quadratic temperature coefficient. This alloy, named anibal, is a slight variation of invar. It almost completely negated the temperature effect of the steel hairspring, but still required a bimetal compensated balance wheel, known as a Guillaume balance wheel. This design was mostly fitted in high precision chronometers destined for competition in observatories. The quadratic coefficient is defined by its place in the equation of expansion of a material;
 * $$ \ell_\theta = \ell_0 \left(1 + \alpha \theta + \beta \theta^2\right) \,$$

where:
 * $$\scriptstyle \ell_0$$ is the length of the sample at some reference temperature
 * $$\scriptstyle \theta$$ is the temperature above the reference
 * $$\scriptstyle \ell_\theta$$ is the length of the sample at temperature $$\scriptstyle \theta$$
 * $$\scriptstyle \alpha$$ is the linear coefficient of expansion
 * $$\scriptstyle \beta$$ is the quadratic coefficient of expansion

title: Balance wheel