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Dorothy Stang

Dorothy Mae Stang, SND (June 7, 1931 – February 12, 2005) was an American-born Brazilian member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was murdered in Anapu, Pará, in the Amazon Basin in 2005. Stang had been outspoken in her efforts on behalf of the poor and the environment and had previously received death threats from loggers and landowners.

Life
Born on June 7, 1931, in Dayton, Ohio, but naturalized Brazilian, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur community in 1948 and professed final vows in 1956. From 1951 to 1966, she taught elementary school classes at St. Victor School in Calumet City, Illinois, St. Alexander School in Villa Park, Illinois and Most Holy Trinity School in Phoenix, Arizona.

She began her ministry in Brazil in 1966, in Coroatá, Maranhão. Stang dedicated her life to defending the Brazilian rainforest from depletion by agriculture. She worked as an advocate for the rural poor beginning in the early 1970s, helping peasants make a living by farming small plots and extracting forest products without deforestation. She also sought to protect peasants from criminal gangs working on behalf of ranchers who were after their plots. Dot, as she was called by her family, friends and most locals in Brazil, is often pictured wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, "A Morte da floresta é o fim da nossa vida" which is Portuguese for "The Death of the Forest is the End of Our Lives".

"I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment."

Death
On the morning of February 12, 2005, Stang woke up early to walk to a community meeting to speak about the rights for the Amazon. Ciero, a farmer Stang invited to the meeting, was going to be late. Ciero was a couple of minutes behind Stang, but he was able to see her and hid from the two armed men who followed her. She progressed on and was blocked by the two men, Clodoaldo Carlos Batista and Raifran das Neves Sales, who worked in a livestock company. They asked if she had any weapons, and she claimed that the only weapon would be her Bible. She then read a passage from the Beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in spirit..." She continued a couple of steps but was suddenly stopped when Ciero called her "sister", as she was held at gunpoint by Raifran. When Clodoaldo approved of discharging at Stang, Raifran fired a round at Stang's abdomen. She fell face down on the ground. Raifran fired another round into Stang's back, then fired all four remaining rounds into her head, killing her. She was 73 years old.

Investigation and trials
The US Attorney's Office, Transnational Crime Unit, in Washington, DC, pursued an indictment of the four people (three in custody, one at large) under Title 18, USC 2332, a statute on international homicide. The key elements of this statute require 1) the victim be a US citizen, 2) that the murder takes place outside the US, and 3) that the murder was carried out to influence, pressure, or coerce a government or civilian group. Stang's murder met all the key elements.

In June 2005, two men were charged with conspiracy to murder an American outside the United States in connection with her death. These men, Rayfran das Neves Sales and Clodoaldo Carlos Batista, were convicted on December 10, 2005.

On May 15, 2007, a court in the city of Belém sentenced Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, aged 36, to the maximum term of 30 years in prison for paying gunmen to shoot Stang. Stang's brother David, who was at the trial, said: "justice was done." In a second trial, Moura was acquitted of all charges, because the gunman, Rayfran das Neves Sales, declared in court to have killed Dorothy Stang for personal motivation. The prosecution appealed, however, and Moura was found guilty, and re-sentenced to 30 years in prison, on April 12, 2010.

Rayfran das Neves Sales was retried on October 22, 2007. He was again found guilty, and a judge in Belém sentenced him to 27 years in prison–the same punishment as in the first trial in 2005. Prosecutors said Moura had ordered Stang's death because she had sent letters to the local authorities accusing Moura of setting illegal fires to clear land, which led to his receiving a substantial fine. At a third trial, on May 6, 2008, Rayfran das Neves Sales was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

Regivaldo Pereira Galvão, a rancher suspected of ordering the killing, was arrested in December 2008 and was to be charged with the murder. He had been arrested previously for the murder but released.

On April 7, 2009, the Court of Justice, in Pará, decided to void the third trial. The same court decided to put Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura back in jail but Moura's lawyer appealed that decision. A new trial was to be scheduled. On April 22, 2009, Superior Court of Justice of Brazil set Vitalmiro Moura free until a final decision about his request of Habeas corpus.

Roniery Lopes, a witness in the trial of Regivaldo Galvão for fraud, was shot in November 2009, just before he was to testify.

On February 4, 2010, Superior Court of Justice revoked Vitalmiro Moura's habeas corpus. Moura was arrested on February 7, after surrendering voluntarily to police. On April 12, 2010, he was convicted again by a jury and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

On May 1, 2010, Regivaldo Galvão was also convicted of having ordered the murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

On August 21, 2012, the Brazilian Supreme Court conceded a Habeas Corpus to Regivaldo Galvão. The defense attorney claims that the jury decided to condemn Reginaldo before all the legal recourses available to the defendant were exhausted. Regivaldo Galvão was freed the following day.

On May 15, 2013, Brazil's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Vitalmiro Moura. On September 19, 2013, Moura was convicted of the murder for a fourth time and sentenced to 30 years in prison by a court in Pará State.

In July 2013, das Neves Sales gained early release from prison. On September 20, 2014, Neves Sales was arrested again facing accusations of having killed a young man and woman with whom he had a drug deal. They supplied 50 kilograms of cocaine from Bolivia, but instead of paying them for the consignment, Sales fatally shot them.

Documentary
On March 2, U.S. Ambassador John Danilovich met with Dorothy Stang's brother David Stang, Daniel Junge (who was traveling with Stang to film a documentary), and Sister Mary Ellis McCabe (a member of Dorothy's religious congregation who was stationed in Ceará, Brazil). Stang and Junge were in Brasília to meet with Minister of Justice Marcio Thomaz Bastos after visiting the site of Dorothy's murder in Para state. Stang thanked the Ambassador for the Embassy's support and said that he was pleased with the Brazilian federal government's reaction. He was very critical, however, of Para state authorities for failing to protect his sister and for failing to offer their condolences during his visit.

In 2008, the American filmmaker Daniel Junge released a documentary titled They Killed Sister Dorothy. The film is narrated by Martin Sheen in the version in English and by Wagner Moura in the version in Portuguese. The film received the Audience Award and the Competition Award at the 2008 South by Southwest Festival, where it had its worldwide première.

Opera
In 2009, Evan Mack composed an opera based on the life of Sr. Dorothy Stang. Angel of the Amazon depicts her life's work, her devotion to her mission with Brazilian peasant farmers, and the events that sent her on a path of martyrdom. Encompass New Opera Theatre developed the opera in 2010.

Other notable mentions
A brief overview of the circumstances and murder of Sister Dorothy Stang is discussed in the movie Cowspiracy (2014).

A center for social justice activism at Notre Dame de Namur University is named for her.

In 2021, a species of owl discovered in the Amazon rainforest was named Megascops stangiae after sister Stang.

Posthumous United Nations Human Rights Prize
Dorothy Stang received the United Nations Human Rights Prize posthumously on December 10, 2008.

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Boundedness

Boundedness or bounded may refer to:

Economics

 * Bounded rationality, the idea that human rationality in decision-making is bounded by the available information, the cognitive limitations, and the time available to make the decision
 * Bounded emotionality, a concept within communication theory that stems from emotional labor and bounded rationality

Linguistics

 * Boundedness (linguistics), whether a situation has a clearly defined beginning or end

Mathematics

 * Boundedness axiom, the axiom schema of replacement

 * Bounded deformation, a function whose distributional derivatives are not quite well-behaved-enough to qualify as functions of bounded variation, although the symmetric part of the derivative matrix does meet that condition
 * Bounded growth, occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is constantly increasing at a decreasing rate
 * Bounded operator, a linear transformation L between normed vector spaces for which the ratio of the norm of L(v) to that of v is bounded by the same number over all non-zero vectors v
 * Unbounded operator, a linear operator defined on a subspace
 * Bounded poset, a partially ordered set that has both a greatest and a least element
 * Bounded set, a set that is finite in some sense
 * Bounded function, a function or sequence whose possible values form a bounded set
 * Bounded set (topological vector space), a set in which every neighborhood of the zero vector can be inflated to include the set
 * Bounded variation, a real-valued function whose total variation is bounded
 * Bounded pointer, a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced

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Procor

Procor is a Canadian company producing railway shipping cars. It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet, with more than 30,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars.

Linked to Sparling Tank Car of Toronto, Procor was founded in 1952 as Products Tank Line Limited and became an affiliate of US-based Union Tank Car Company. The company, which shortened its name to Procor in 1962, is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario.

Manufacturing and sepair
Procor manufactured cars in its Oakville shops until 2002, but now sources from parent Union Tank Car's plant in Alexandria, Louisiana and Sheldon, Texas.

List of cars once manufactured by Procor:

 * Hopper car
 * Tank car - (sulphuric acid, LPG, ethanol)
 * Funnel flow tank car
 * Coal gondola

Procor operates from numerous locations across Canada.

Repair shops

 * Joffre, Alberta
 * Edmonton, Alberta
 * Regina, Saskatchewan
 * Sarnia, Ontario
 * Oakville, Ontario

Mobile/mini shops

 * Regina West
 * Prince George, British Columbia
 * North Vancouver, British Columbia
 * Trail, British Columbia
 * Waterton, Alberta
 * Joffre, Alberta
 * Edmonton, Alberta
 * Winnipeg, Manitoba
 * Greater Sudbury, Ontario
 * Nanticoke, Ontario
 * Montreal, Quebec

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Talk:2005 New York City mayoral election

Polls
Okay, this is very suspect: where are the numbers (at the very least, the estimates) of the election results? Percentages are being thrown around without any numbers as to how those percentages were attained. What gives?

It would be interesting to find some poll in this article, and information about who is favourite. Is Bloomberg likely to be reelected ?

I have just added the most recent poll from Quinnipiac University. As the election draws near, should I continue adding polls - opinion polls, tracking polls and exit polls - on the main page or should I place the new polls on a separate page? --Blue387 17:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you're adding the polls here, and I think they should stay here where they're most useful in context. We could also use some more on the events of the race itself.--Pharos 18:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I've decided to keep adding polls until the primary election on September 13; then, I plan to remove old poll numbers and shift to the general election numbers between Bloomberg and the Democratic nominee because the page will get crowded over the next few months with each new poll. I will also be adding polling numbers to the 2006 governor's election, even though Spitzer will probably win in a landslide. --Blue387 20:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Table to save for future use
This was removed by Pharos on June 17th. Instead of creating a new table later, I have placed this table here to save it for future use. I will fill it in after November 8th when we find out the election results. --Blue387 20:44, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Of course, Bloomberg isn't guaranteed to win the primary either.--Pharos 20:46, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Primaries
The last I heard, Ognibene was still pursuing a court challenge to get on the Republican ballot. Does anyone know if any of the 'minor' Democratic Party candidates had enough signatures to get on the ballot?--Pharos 02:13, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

 * According to this document, Christopher X. Brodeur - who, according to the Village Voice, ran in 1997 with a bag over his head - and Arthur Piccolo are running as Democrats. This article shows that Brodeur will appear on the ballot, indicating that he somehow had the signatures. Meanwhile, Piccolo, according to this article has 8,000 signatures, more than the necessary 7,500 signatures to appear on the ballot on Septemer 13. --Blue387 23:31, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Here's the right article on how Christopher X. Brodeur ran in 1997 with a bag over his head. --Blue387 23:37, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Mickey Mouse candidates
We really don't need the write-ins, except maybe Bloomberg. Anyway, if we're gonna have a couple we really ought to include them all, and not just the famous ones. I must say though, I did find the full list on the pdf quite interesting.--Pharos 19:51, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * All right. I recommend any candidate recieving more than, say 100 votes, will be on the list when the general election occurs in November. Also, what can we/I add to this page? --Blue387 20:16, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, can someone please check my math on the Democratic primary result numbers/percentages? Ferrer recieved more than 40% but the exact number is uncertain and the number I wrote is wrong. Thanks. --Blue387 20:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Polling data
Hello. I've been putting up polling data for this page (and others) for several months now and I must ask: should I use the poll numbers for "Likely voters" or "Registered voters"? What about "Likely Voters w/ Leaners" and other distinctions? (See here for an example ) From what I see, likely voters must be registered and registered voters can be likely voters though not all the time. Which do I use and what is the difference? Also, the election is now less than one month away. What else can we/I add to this page? Recommendations? --Blue387 06:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Final result chart
Bloomberg has won and I request a chart/table to show the results from last night. I have no idea how to make one. Results can be found at the New York Times page here. --Blue387 16:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

5 Michael Bloombergs'
There are 5 candidates who are exacly the same (Michael Bloomberg). This needs checking out. Thank you. (92.237.105.211 (talk) 22:36, 11 September 2009 (UTC))

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Daylesford, Victoria

Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,781 as of the 2021 census.

As one of Australia’s few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town’s numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts.

The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve.

It is also the filming location for the third season of The Saddle Club, and scenes from the 2004 film Love's Brother.

History
Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Djadja Wurrung people. Pastoralists occupied the Jim Crow and Upper Loddon districts following white settlement in 1838. A farming protectorate was established at Franklinford, but was short-lived and by 1863 most of the survivors had been moved to Corranderk station at Healesville. In 1848, Irish immigrant John Egan took up land on the future town site then known as Wombat Flat. He and a party of searchers found alluvial gold in 1851 on ground now covered by Lake Daylesford initiating the local gold rush. Other finds quickly followed. With the finding of alluvial gold a town site was surveyed and founded in 1852. Between 1851, and when Daylesford was declared a municipality and formed its first Council in 1859. The population had risen to approximately 7000 Men and women of all nationalities came to this town of muddy-streets and numerous hotels. Initially called Wombat, it was renamed Daylesford. Agricultural activity quickly followed the miners, and many Chinese miners quickly turned to market gardening. The early Europeans, particularly Italians, established vineyards.

In 1859, around 3400 diggers were on the local diggings. The post office opened on 1 February 1858 and a telegraph office was opened in August 1859. Daylesford was declared a municipality in 1859 and a borough in the early 1860s.

On 30 June 1867, three boys from Connells Gully, near Table Hill (William Graham, 6, his brother Thomas, 4, and Alfred Burman, 5) wandered into the bush near Daylesford. Despite exhaustive searches, their skeletal remains were finally located (when a boot was found by a farmer's dog) on 13 September about 10 kilometres away. Today, there is a park, a memorial cairn, and a 16 km long "Lost Children's Walk" that visitors can hike. The Daylesford Primary School also has a prize, the Graham Dux Award, presented to annually since 1889, in their memory.

By the 1860s, the alluvial gold was exhausted and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s. In later years, Daylesford became associated as being a fashionable spa resort, but fell out of favour in the Great Depression.

The Daylesford Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990.

Climate
At 616 metres above sea level, it has a cooler, wetter climate than Melbourne. Summer (January–February) temperatures range from 10 to 37 °C, while July temperatures are cold, ranging from about 1 - 2 C to 9 °C. Annual precipitation, occasionally falling as snow, averages about 880 mm but has ranged from 445 mm to over 1350 mm per year.

Economy

With 65 mineral springs, the Daylesford-Hepburn Springs region accounts for more than 80 per cent of Australia’s known mineral water springs. As a result, the region has a number of spa developments including Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa, Mineral Spa at Peppers Springs Retreat and Salus Spa, Lake House. The town is also known for hosting a number of annual events, including the ChillOut Festival held during the Victorian Labour Day long weekend in March each year, the largest LGBTQ festival in rural and regional Australia; the Harvest Week Festival; the Lavandula's Festivals; and the Hepburn Springs Swiss Italian Festival celebrating the town's Swiss-Italian heritage. The annual Daylesford Highland Gathering features pipes and drums, a street march, dancing, Scottish Clans, Scottish clubs, stores et. al.

Major industries in the economy of Daylesford today are healthcare, accommodation and food, and retail trade respectively.

Education
The town is served by a number of primary schools and one public secondary school, Daylesford Secondary College. The town's Secondary College was originally established as a mining school, in 1890. In 1961 the college was established as the sole provider of secondary education in the Shire of Hepburn and has just over 500 pupils. Daylesford Primary School, formerly known as Daylesford State School, is the oldest and longest-running provider of primary education in Daylesford. Other primary schools in the area include St. Michael's Primary School and Daylesford Dharma School. Daylesford Primary School is host to an annual book fair which first started in 2010 and has since begun operating as an annual book fair, where used and unwanted books are donated to raise funds that go towards improving children's literacy.

Transport
The Midland Highway runs directly through the town linking it with Castlemaine in the north and Ballarat in the south-west. The Western Freeway is the main route linking Daylesford to Melbourne, the State Capital of Victoria.

The railway to the town closed in 1978. The railway layout at Daylesford station was unusual in that the lines from Creswick and Carlsruhe both entered the station from the same end. The Daylesford Spa Country Railway currently operates a Sunday tourist service to Musk and Bullarto along the line towards Carlsruhe.

Sport
The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Central Highlands Football League. Daylesford is also home to the Daylesford and Hepburn United Soccer Club, also known as the Saints or the Sainters. The Saints have won four league titles in their 20-year history along with two cup finals.

Incidents
In November 2023, a car crashed into the beer garden of the Royal Daylesford Hotel, resulting in the deaths of five people. The accident has been described as "devastating" by some locals of the small town.

Notable people

 * David Allison – Politician
 * Keith Bradbury – Politician
 * David Bromley (born 1960) – artist, worked in Daylesford
 * (Lord) Sebastian Ulick Browne – 12th Marquess of Sligo
 * Peter Corrigan – Architect
 * Josh Cowan – AFL Footballer
 * Bessie Lee Cowie – Temperance campaigner
 * Charlie Foletta – VFL Footballer
 * Joseph Furphy – Novelist
 * Jack Gervasoni – VFL Footballer
 * Chris Grant – AFL Footballer
 * Geraldine Hakewill – Actress
 * Lynda Heaven – Politician
 * John Stuart Hepburn – early pastoralist and landholder
 * Merv Hobbs – AFL Footballer
 * Simon Holmes à Court – Entrepreneur and Founder of Climate 200
 * Sir Charles Hotham – Governor of Victoria
 * George Raymond Johnson – Architect (designed The Daylesford Town Hall)
 * Samuel Johnson – Actor and Radio Presenter
 * Michael Leunig – Cartoonist
 * Peter Loney – Politician
 * Cecily Maude O'Connell – trade unionist and religious social worker
 * Charlie Pannam
 * Ambrose McCarthy Patterson – painter and printmaker
 * Alfred Cecil Rowlandson – Publisher
 * Edward Russell – Trade Unionist
 * Jack Stevens – Major General (Australian Army)
 * Eugene von Guerard – Painter
 * Karl von Möller – Film Director and Cinematographer (15 Daly Street until 2012)
 * Ferdinand von Mueller – Botanist
 * Abigail Wehrung – Basketball Player
 * Carl Willis
 * Mark Leonard Winter – Actor

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Daylesford

The name Daylesford is borne by a number of settlements:

 * Daylesford, Victoria, Australia
 * Daylesford, Saskatchewan, in Rural Municipality of Lake Lenore No. 399, Canada
 * Daylesford, Gloucestershire, England
 * Daylesford, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Daylesford (SEPTA station), a commuter rail station

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Glen Abbey Golf Course

Glen Abbey Golf Club is a public golf course in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It is one of Canada's most famous golf courses and is home to Golf Canada and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. It has hosted 30 Canadian Open Championships, more than any other course, with the first having been in 1977. It was the first solo design by Jack Nicklaus in 1976.

A distinguishing feature of the Glen Abbey course are the "Valley Holes", numbered 11 through 15. On number 11, a par 4, players tee off a cliff to a fairway that is approximately 60 feet below on the valley floor. The second shot must clear Sixteen Mile Creek to the green. Holes 12, 13 and 14 all use Sixteen Mile Creek as a hazard of one form or another. Number 15 is a short par 3 with a sharply-sloping green, after which players climb out of the valley to the 16th hole.

Glen Abbey is owned by Clublink, operated by TWC Enterprises Limited. The company was planning to demolish the golf course in order to build residential and commercial units. The plan was opposed by the Oakville Town Council, which designated the facility a heritage site. In 2018, the company achieved some success in its efforts against the town after a Superior Court ruled against the town's attempts to block its plan. However, in July 2021, the Ontario government became involved in the issue and an agreement was reached for the Glen Abbey Golf Course redevelopment plans to be quashed and the golf course to continue. The Glen Abbey Golf Course is now continuing to operate going forward, recognized as a sports venue of historic importance.

History
The property Glen Abbey is situated on was previously owned by a number of groups before it was made into a golf club. The land was originally patented to King's College (the predecessor to the University of Toronto) in 1814. In 1937, the property was sold to Andre Dorfman, as a private estate. In 1953, the property was sold to the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada, and was used as a retreat. From 1963 to 1974, the property was sold to another developer, who first attempted to develop the property into a gentlemen's club and golf course; and later into a ski hill. In 1974, the property was sold to another developer, who developed the property into the present golf course. In 1975, the Royal Canadian Golf Association relocated its headquarters and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame to the golf club the following year. Two years later, the course hosted its first Canadian Open. The golf club is presently a rota course of the Canadian Open, hosting the event 30 times since 1977. The Royal Canadian Golf Association purchased the club in 1990 and sold it to Clublink in 1999.

The 18th hole is notable due to its connection to Tiger Woods, who, in the final round of the 2000 Canadian Open, hit a six-iron shot 218 yards from a bunker on the right side of the fairway to about 18 feet from the hole. The shot was over a large pond that guards the green. In doing so, Woods proceeded to defeat his playing partner Grant Waite and won the tournament. The shot is regarded as one of the most spectacular both of Woods' career and in recent PGA Tour history.

In 2009, Mark Calcavecchia set a new PGA Tour record with 9 consecutive birdies in his second round of the Canadian Open. After having started the round on the 10th hole, he birdied holes 12 through 18, then holes 1 and 2 of the front nine.

Redevelopment plan
Clublink Corp first filed an application in October 2015 to redevelop the property. In its plan, there was no provision for a golf course. The Town of Oakville Council responded in August 2017 by declaring the golf course a heritage site under the Ontario Heritage Act. This would make it more difficult for Clublink to develop the area as it had planned, with 3,222 housing units. 69,000 square feet of commercial/retail space and 107,000 square feet of office space. Golf Canada was also concerned, since they could not predict whether it could get the necessary permit to hold the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey in 2018. Eventually, the event was in fact held at Glen Abbey.

The Town of Oakville formally rejected the plan to demolish the golf course in a unanimous vote by the Planning and Development Council on February 12, 2018. In summer 2018, Clublink was awaiting a Superior Court decision on its plan to request a demolition permit and, in the meantime, the Canadian Open took place at the course. On October 25, 2018, Justice Edward Morgan ruled that Clublink had a right to take its demolition application to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), in spite of the town's previous denial of this step. The city council subsequently voted unanimously to take the issue to the Ontario Court of Appeal.

On December 11, 2018, the Ontario Superior Court ruled against the conservation plan and bylaws which had been enacted to stop the Glen Abbey development plan. Judge Edward Morgan said that the effort exceeded the town's legal rights and was made in bad faith. The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) will hold an eight-day hearing in June 2019 on ClubLink’s appeal of the town’s updated official plan and amended bylaws and later in 2019, another hearing later about ClubLink’s development application appeal.

A report at the time of the October 2018 hearing clarified the owner's plan: building "3,222 residential units, including nine apartment buildings between nine and 12 storeys in height". These would be over and above the planned office space and commercial/retail space.

The 2019 and 2023 Canadian Open were scheduled to be held at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club but the event may again be held at Glen Abbey in some future years if the redevelopment is not allowed to proceed.

In July 2021, following discussions with the Ontario government, the Glen Abbey Golf Course redevelopment plans were quashed by Clublink and the property continued as a golf course. With the redevelopment plans no longer proposed, the Glen Abbey Golf Course continues to operate going forward, recognized as a sports property of historic importance.

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Beth Goddard

Elizabeth Jane Goddard (born 31 March 1969) is a British actress known for her role as Suze Littlewood in the BBC comedy series Gimme Gimme Gimme.

Early life
Goddard grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and attended Clacton County High School and the Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, Greater London, from 1986 to 1989.

Career
One of Goddard's first television roles was as unscrupulous journalist Clare Moody in the 1994 episode "To Be a Somebody" of the ITV drama Cracker. She played Belinda Ashton in the ITV detective drama Lewis in 2008, and also starred as Suze Littlewood in the comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme. Goddard appeared alongside her husband Philip Glenister in the third series of BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes in 2010.

Personal life
Goddard met her husband, Philip Glenister, best known for his role as Gene Hunt in TV drama Life on Mars, at a birthday party for Jamie Glover in 1997. They married in 2006. The couple have two daughters, Millie and Charlotte, born in 2002 and 2005 respectively.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Barry

 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 (author vandalized this page and blanked the article). jni 17:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Barry
Vanity. Radiant! 14:19, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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 * No, genealogy. Delete unless something informative, not merely family relations and hereditary titles (and schooling!), can be said about this person. Uncle G 15:31, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Delete, aristo-cruft, belongs in one of those glossy mags one sees posted around Europe to people who can't quite get past the middle ages. Wyss 20:12, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is nn vanity; open and shut. GRider\talk 20:33, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. jni 17:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Perry Saturn

Merge
Merged info from the article Perry Saturn into this one and made the previous article into a redirect page. I merged the info into the Perry Satullo article instead of the Perry Saturn article because the Perry Satullo article was created a week earlier than the Perry Saturn one and apparently the adopted naming convention for professional wrestlers provides that they are usually listed under their real names. --Jtalledo 14:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Not true
"On August 28, 1997 Satullo was offered a job by WCW road agent Terry Taylor, who had been impressed by a bump that Satullo had taken in a Scaffold Match." This is not true. The match this refers to is when Perry Saturn (with a full leg brace on) climbed a scaffold & did a flying elbow drop off of it onto one of the Dudleys (I believe it was Bubba but could be wrong). The Eliminators weren't in the scaffold match main event, "Prime-Time" Brian Lee & Tommy Dreamer were (aKa High Incident).--68.192.68.177 06:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

WCW Career
Where the hell is the information on his tenure in WCW? I swear it was on here before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.158.164 (talk) 09:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Shot
Anyone else think the part about him being shot should be seperated from the independent circuit section? With all the bizarre wrestling storylines, it's not abundantly clear that this man was actually physically shot in the neck while preventing a rape, which should in my opinion be the highlight of this entire hero. That one act alone makes him more of a hero in my eyes than anything inside the wrestling ring, and I think it at least deserves it's own section, or a note in Personal Life as opposed to being buried in the wrestling storylines. TheJudge310 23:29, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Perry's son
There is an article in a 2000 issue of the WCW magazine that states that Perry has a son named Rocky. I don't have an issue number but it would be really great if someone could find a source instead of just deleting the info. Thanks. (MgTurtle 02:53, 5 July 2007 (UTC)).

Requested move

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Perry Satullo → Perry Saturn — Satullo has wrestled as "Perry Saturn" since the early 1990s. This will enable more direct linking. 2,040 Google hits for "Perry Satullo", 59,100 for "Perry Saturn". —McPhail 17:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Survey

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 * Support it's the name he's most known as, move it MPJ-DK 16:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Concur; naming conventions say to use the most common name, even if not birth name. —  SMcCandlish  [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:57, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

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This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 06:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 00:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

SAVE US
go on youtube and watch perry saturn's old theme video for the wwe, it looks extremely simmilar to the Save Us promos that have been on wwe recently, i personally believe its jericho but look for yourself —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.47.130 (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

FINISHING MOVE
WHY DOES THE MOSS COVERED THREE HANDLES FAMILY GREDUNZEL FINISHER REDIRECT TO THE CAT IN THE HAT WHEN YOU CLICK IT? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.36.155.251 (talk) 12:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

UH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM KTHXBAI 72.171.0.139 (talk) 09:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

GB/2/WOOO/ ABOVE POSTS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.42.212.146 (talk) 01:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I think he's thinking of Dean Malenko AndarielHalo (talk) 00:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Now selling Doors
I think the bit about working at a door manufactuaring plant should be removed as the part stating so in the article is based upon a rumour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.52.211 (talk) 18:02, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Twitter
I realise there are many many many fake Twitter accounts for wrestlers, celebrities, hell I think even I have one, but I beleive this one to be notable due to the circumsatances of Saturn's disapearence, the inclusion of a personal photograph, and especially becuase of the interaction with Saturn's friend Jericho. Obviously, the account appears to be a hoax but it's still rather compelling, and notable IMO. --Crestville (talk) 10:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Disagree. Not notable because the same could be said for any schmuck making a fake Twitter account. I'd prefer its removal because its either a hoax, making someone feel good about fake information on Wikipedia, or its really Saturn who went to effort to be off the map and should have his privacy. The Twitter information has next to no value....A picture and "He sent a message to Jericho" and that's it. MJ56003 (talk) 20:50, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

TNA Wrestling
Perry Saturn had a short run with TNA wrestling in 2003. Can somebody add this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.85.140 (talk) 22:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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Updated links regarding shooting incident
Greetings. I re-checked and then replaced a permanently dead news report cite regarding the shooting incident, and created a full (correct, I hope) cite av media to replace the bare inline YouTube cite.

 * I searched for a news source about the shooting incident to replace the permanently dead link. I found a published source that is original reportage, not just a regurgitation of Wikipedia text.
 * I replaced the bare youtube link related to this story, published by the same source. I attempted to create a full, correct cite AV media template. While reading the information on citing a YouTube video, I also read and tried to understand the COinS information. I can't figure out whether I put in the information correctly for the generation of that information. If I got it wrong or omitted anything, I would like to know where I went astray.

With regard to a remark above by TheJudge310 on 23 August 2007, the news source I've cited specifically says that Saturn was shot twice during the struggle with the two rapists. I agree that this was a heroic act in defense of another that's never received the attention it deserves. It should be broken out into a section of its own.

/Bruce/ [aka Slasher] (talk) 12:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Wasn't he in movies as well? Shouldnt that be listed? Also, what is his Bach degree in? Appologies for the poor posting, I dont do this too often.

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Great Glen, Leicestershire

Great Glen (or Glenn) is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in Leicestershire, 2 miles south of Oadby. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,662. Leicester city centre is about seven miles north west. Its name comes from the original Iron Age settlers who used the Celtic word glennos meaning valley, and comes from the fact that Great Glen lies in part of the valley of the River Sence. The 'great' part is to distinguish the village from Glen Parva.

Features and amenities
In 1751 a turnpike bridge was built over the River Sence as a part of the stagecoach route from Leicester to London. The pubs The Italian Greyhound (The Old Greyhound) and The Crown were originally coaching inns built soon after the new road opened. This road later became the A6 road, and a bypass around the village was opened in 2003. The Midland Main Line runs to the south of the A6, and formerly had a station to serve the village at the closest point.

Leicester Grammar School is constructed on the land of Mount Farm, Great Glen.

There are two other schools in the village, the C of E St Cuthbert's primary school, which feeds to the local state schools in the neighbouring village of Kibworth and the town of Market Harborough. The independent school, The Stoneygate School, also has its site at Great Glen. Its pupils won Best Junior Choir at BBC Songs of Praise 2005 School Choirs Contest

Only four of the village pubs remain open, to date:
 * The Yews
 * The Royal Oak
 * Fox Pond
 * The Italian Greyhound (formerly The Greyhound).

The village park, The Recreation Ground on Bindleys Lane is the home of two of the village's sports clubs:
 * Glen Villa FC
 * Great Glen Cricket Club.

At the centre of the village on the Stretton Road/Oaks Road T-junction is Great Glen Methodist Church, a Grade II* listed building. Built in 1827 it houses many activities including Sunday morning and evening services, a Sparklers mums and toddlers group on Mondays, Fusion children's group on Sunday mornings and Confusion alternate Friday evenings for teenagers. View the church at Google Maps

The village is serviced by a Post Office and a Co-op store.

The K6 Red telephone box on the village green is a listed building.

Footballer Trevor Benjamin used to live here, and Engelbert Humperdinck has a home in the village.

Stretton Hall
Stretton Hall was built in the early 18th century, and though named after Stretton Magna it lies in Great Glen parish. It was built as the manor house of the lordship of Stretton, by, or for, the Hewett family: it was the English residence of Colonel William Hewett (1693–1766), friend of the famous Marquess of Granby, of the novelist Laurence Sterne, and of the eccentric John Hall-Stevenson and his "Club of Demoniacs". Hewett set acorns all over his estate to create a plantation of oaks, some of which were disposed to form a double colonnade like that in front of St Peter's in Rome. These obtained a gold medal from the Society of Arts.

Leicestershire and Rutland Joint Board for the Mentally Defective bought the hall in 1932 for conversion to a hospital. Under the NHS it was a residential hospital for learning disabled children and had 157 beds in 1979. The hospital closed in the 1990s and a housing development has been built on part of the site.

History
Great Glen was the central place of an early Anglo-Saxon multiple estate. The settlements that comprised this estate are: Great and Little Stretton, Wistow, Newton Harcourt, Fleckney and Kilby. These parishes comprise the minimal extent of the estate which broadly follow the River Sence, Glen itself possibly taking its name from an earlier British river-name Glen or from Glennos meaning valley. It is possible that the estate extended further west along the river to Glen Parva where it joins the River Soar. It has not been possible to establish this securely. Glen (as at glenne, not Great Glen) enters the record for the first time in AD 849, when Alhhun, bishop of Worcester tarried there with nine of his clerics to issue a charter granting lands in Worcestershire to King Beorhtwulf of Mercia.

The medieval manorial history of Glen is outlined by John Nichols in his History of Leicestershire. In the 16th century, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey, became the lord of the manor. After his execution for treason, his lands were seized by the crown.

Following the Battle of Naseby in 1645, during the English Civil War, Great Glen played host to a band of Cromwellian soldiers who were pursuing some of the (defeated) Royalist Cavalry. They were later joined by the rest of the army who camped overnight before moving onto Leicester. Some of these soldiers made camp in the church where they caused much damage (such as breaking all the windows), of which some evidence can still be seen today. There are five road names in the village that mark these events: Cromwell Road, Naseby Way, Ruperts Way, Edgehill Close and Halford Close.

The old public house, The Fox and Goose, is still visible on Church Lane but has been converted to a private residence.

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University of Illinois Institute of Aviation

The University of Illinois Institute of Aviation was an aviation institute affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Founded in 1945, it was located at the university-owned Willard Airport in Savoy, Illinois, United States. The institute was the first school in the U.S. to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct all tests leading to the issuance of civilian pilot certificates. It had a long history of providing flight training, and was particularly well known for conducting research into aviation-related human factors. For training purposes, the institute maintained a fleet of 18 Piper Archers, 7 Piper Arrows, 3 twin-engine Piper Seminoles and two Cessna 152s.

2010 review of institute
The Institute of Aviation was placed under review by the University of Illinois in the spring of 2010. The university faced a major budget shortfall, and was owed $431 million by the state of Illinois. Closing the institute was proposed as a means of cutting costs.

Closure of institute/transfer to Parkland College
On July 21, 2011 university trustees voted 6–2 to close the institute by the 2013–14 academic year, allowing current students to finish. This vote marked the end of over 60 years on campus for the institute. In the year prior to the institute's closure, there were fewer than 160 students, 34 of those were freshmen. It was also said to be the smallest degree granting unit with "some of the highest costs" on campus.

However, in September 2013, the university entered a three-year agreement with Parkland College in Champaign to transfer ownership of the institute to the community college for continued flight training. The Parkland College Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois allows students to earn a two-year associate degree in aviation or take courses to earn FAA-approved pilot certification to various levels. Leasing the university's aircraft and facilities at Willard Airport in Savoy, Parkland’s flight institute planned to open for the fall 2014 academic semester and began accepting applications at the end of March 2014.

Former programs of study
The Institute of Aviation offered a B.S. in Aviation Human Factors. This program of study focused on aircraft safety, accident prevention, and human factors psychology; the core curriculum was a mixture of flight and psychology courses. Through the flight courses, students could earn their private pilot certificate, commercial pilot certificate, instrument rating, and multi-engine rating. The psychology courses provided the students with an understanding of operator and machine interaction.

Some university students were interested in flight training, but would prefer to pursue a degree in another field. For these students, the Professional Pilot program was an option. In this program, the students were able to earn their private pilot's certificate and instrument rating while still pursuing a non aviation degree. Students then transferred to a different college at the University of Illinois in order to complete their bachelor's degree.

Former courses offered
The following is a list of both flight and non-flight course options that were offered by the institute for the 2009–10 school year. For the current course options, they are listed in the Parkland College catalog excerpt as well as in the previous paragraph regarding the transfer of the institute and the new program.


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De Camp

De Camp, or DeCamp, or Decamp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Vincent De Camp (1777-1839), British stage actor
 * L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000), American science fiction and fantasy writer
 * Catherine Crook de Camp (1907–2000), American writer, wife of L. Sprague
 * Caroline Middleton DeCamp (1926–2000), British politician                                                                                Joseph DeCamp (1941–2017), state senator and authjoseph DeCamp (1858–1923), American painter
 * Rosemary DeCamp (1910–2001), American actress
 * C. M. DeCamp, national champion college football player

title: De Camp


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Jefferson family

 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. jni 12:26, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Jefferson family
While TJ is notable, his family is not really. Should merge but the important information is already there anyway. Radiant! 14:26, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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 * delete unless more than one of his close family was also notable (and then move to Jefferson family). Dunc|☺ 15:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete a pretty good example of the sort of thing that should never be a seperate article. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 17:28, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Couldn't have said it better myself, Radiant! ... HyperZonk 18:39, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Wyss 20:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Effort by one of our younger contributors, I suspect. Sorry kiddo, no genealogy articles accepted here. Average Earthman 20:18, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no genealogy. Szyslak 20:19, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Lang

 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. jni 17:35, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Lang
Drummer. Article fails to establish notability. Radiant! 14:26, Feb 14, 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.
 * Delete. Pure vanity and definitely non-notable. --Sn0wflake 18:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, ad for a session drummer. Wyss 20:08, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 03:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Take Me (TV series)

Take Me is the title of a 2001 British television drama serial on ITV, starring Robson Green and Beth Goddard. The series was produced by STV Studios, then known as "SMG TV Productions", and Coastal. It was filmed between October and December 2000 and first broadcast in the UK on 5 August 2001. Alex Pillai was the director.

The series was filmed in multiple locations, including Newcastle upon Tyne city centre; Wynyard Park, Billingham; Mitford Hall, Morpeth; Low Hauxley Beach; Samsung Factory at Billingham (Middlesbrough); the Cammell Laird Shipyard, Hebburn; and St. Aloysius Church, Hebburn.

Plot
Jack Chambers (Robson Green) and his wife, Kay (Beth Goddard), move into their new house on the Hadleigh corner estate – only to become embroiled in a tangled web of sexual relationships and secrets involving their neighbours, Doug Patton (Danny Webb) and his wife, Andrea (Olga Sosnovska). To make matters worse, Jack's work life has fallen into disrepair after his secretary Helen (Tara Moran) tries to seduce him, and he discovers his best friend, Kevin (Gilly Gilchrist), is having an affair with his wife. As the situation intensifies, Jack is caught up in the covering up of a murder, and Kay is left wondering who the father of her baby is when she falls pregnant. Meanwhile, Jack is forced to deal with the increasing pressure of his elderly father Don (Keith Barron).

Cast

 * Robson Green as Jack Chambers, businessman
 * Beth Goddard as Kay Chambers, Jack's wife
 * Julia Mallam as Maggie Chambers, Jack and Kay's daughter
 * Danny Webb as Doug Patton, Jack and Kay's neighbour
 * Olga Sosnovska as Andrea Patton, Doug's wife
 * Annette Ekblom as Lauren Vincent, Kay's older sister
 * Aneirin Hughes as Sam Vincent, Lauren's husband
 * Keith Barron as Don Chambers, Jack's father
 * Gilly Gilchrist as Kevin Denton, Jack's best friend and colleague
 * Tara Moran as Helen Jefferson, Jack's colleague and admirer

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Talk:M3 Stuart

Never given an official name?
Wasn't its official name Light Tank M3? Oberiko 14:28, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably, I meant to distinguish that the USA never officially called it StuartGraemeLeggett 15:23, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Given that, why is the page titled "Stuart tank"...? Trekphiler 15:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Because it is wikipedia policy to name the article after the best-known or most popular name, and 'Stuart' is a lot better-known than "M3" or "M5"....plus 'Stuart' covers the whole series nicely. DMorpheus 19:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Stuart was the official name of the M3 and M5 light tanks supplied to Britain and the Commonwealth during the war. 143.167.167.170 (talk) 14:45, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No, Stuart was the name the British gave M3/M5 light tanks in their service. Since they're U.S. vehicles, this doesn't make it an official name.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  02:38, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

My apologies, what I meant was that the name Stuart was the official British name of the Light Tank M3 and the M5 supplied under the various Lend-lease acts. Loates Jr (talk) 14:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[]

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Unsatisfactory Light Tank?
I feel that this entry knocks the Stuart too much and strayed from neutrality. M3/M5 series were LIGHT tanks, and as such will always be inferior when compared to mediums and heavies which quite literally outclassed them (what do you expect?). M3/M5 is a SCOUT tank and it was, IMHO, a superb fighter in the recon battle. -Chin Cheng-chuan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.225.71.187 (talk) 21:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Stuarts were not the best but the reality is they WORKED during the war. Crews did everything from hunt enemy tanks and raise a ruckus with enemy infantry and supplies to charge positions other tanks stayed away from because they could not get there fast and safe. A better tank was needed; but the M3 and M5 lights were not USELESS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.182.175.139 (talk) 19:46, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

What happened to these 25,000 tanks
The article at present concentrates on the military history of the Stuart Tank. What happened to them after WW2? Some obviously were recycled into other armies. Did they all end up as scrap metal? I know at least one that was put to productive use in agriculture. Is there anyone else with examples of post war life of the Stuart? Gamagr (talk) 03:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

 * There's a guy in Virginia who keeps one parked in his driveway. Surplus WWII hardware was plentiful and cheap when the Army unloaded it, but most of it was bought for scrap. Solicitr (talk) 20:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Remains in use in Brazil
This weak tank remains in use today, by Brazilian Army today, with a new diesel engine.Agre22 (talk) 03:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)agre22

Going under
"underpowered, undercrewed, and possessed "? Undercrewed? First off, I doubt "undercrewed" is even a word, not to mention it's very PC. Second, it implies Soviet tanks didn't have enough manpower, which I seriously doubt. Third, it's unclear, per point 2. I deleted, hoping somebody can clarify what it was meant to say, which I presume has something to do with design & number of crewmen (2-3 man tanks, as opposed to 4-man, & 1-2 man turret, as opposed to 3), which has nothing to do with "undermanning", a quite separate issue (namely, a 4 man tank going out with only 3, for lack of manpower).

In addition, "However, the heavier M4 mediums were eventually brought to overcome heavily entrenched positions, though until the end of the war, supplemented the Stuarts along with" is not a complete thought, & I have no idea what was intended... TREKphiler  hit me ♠  13:42 & 13:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Photo Improvement
The banner color photograph of this vehicle is a fine study but please crop out the eye catching person wearing red in the lower right of the image !Resolution Man (talk) 17:34, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Here it is, July 17, 2010 and still no edit of the "red" person to the far right ! That person is an "eye catcher" and spoils the image 'cause once you see that red, you will always see the red and thus is very distracting !Resolution Man (talk) 16.50 July 17, 2010

Now we are up to October 17, 2010 and STILL no cropping out of the RED figure to the far right in the header photo ! How can this be done and by whom ???Resolution Man (talk)October 17, 2010

This is wikipedia. You do it. Regards, DMorpheus (talk) 21:38, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you SO much for the crop...this is RESOLUTION MAN...back to you DMorpheus...and if I knew how to crop, I would have done it by now...again : THANX !Resolution Man (talk) 11.46, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Poorly qualified statement
"However, the M3 was superior to early-war Soviet light tanks such as the T-60, which were often underpowered and possessed even lighter armament than the Stuart." In the section on operational history gives the impression that the M3 was the best tank the Soviets had when invaded by Germany despite the fact that their T-34 and KV-1 were the heaviest and most powerful tanks in the world at the time. This statement should be properly qualified and explained.--Senor Freebie (talk) 02:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

America's "Pacific War" & Russia's "Great Patriotic War"
Both of those two above titles are describing the same war; WWII. The former Soviet Union (Russia) might have always called WWII their "Great Patriotic War" (against Germany...they had a non-aggression agreement with Japan); but the US it seems has only recently (in the past few years or 10) began to call the Pacific Theater of Operations the "Pacific War."

This might come back to haunt us in the end, for as the years roll by, people will soon begin to forget the men that died in the China-Burma-India theater of operations (that old "Merrill's Marauders" film starring Jeff Chandler), because you see...the Pacific War was a naval war...and that would leave the men that perished in the CBI theater (which was a land war) out of the history books (and left out of WWII).

Realizing that trends begin with each new generation, e.g. "Pacific War"..."Great Patriotic War"..."Gulf War"...etc. It's IMPORTANT to keep in mind that by changing "something" abit too much, "sometimes" changes "Historical Accuracy" into inaccurate history. In the US Army, GIs used to have an old saying, "If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!" During WWII the US Military War Machine had a system: Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), European Theater of Operations (ETO), China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (CBI), etc. That system accurately described the battle areas (combat zones). No one was left out, every man was accounted for. Now the new generation wants to change that; that World War II system worked then, it works now, don't try to fix it...it'll just mess things up (it'll begin to confuse the next generation of young people). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.105.32.38 (talk) 23:14, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually: ETO = European Theatre of Operations; MTO = Mediterranean Theatre of Operations; CBI = China-Burma-India; POA = Pacific Operational Area
 * Loates Jr (talk) 13:20, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

 * Actually POA = Pacific Ocean Areas DMorpheus2 (talk) 17:36, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Britain Tops America In Firsts?
Notice that an editor moved the British Army to first again: The British were the first to use the American M4 Sherman tank in combat; the British were the first to use the M3 Stuart light tank in combat. Now, for the third first, an editor has moved the M3 Stuart to "the Stuart was used by the British during Lend-Lease..." in the first portion of the article. The American's first tank vs tank battle of WWII has been relegated to 3rd place.

The M3 Stuart was and American tank. It was designed and built in the US. It was given to the British (under lend lease) to help them out during the war. The British already have their Firsts with the Sherman and Stuart tanks by being the first to use them in WWII (first use in combat). The way the article was first written, the Americans had their first tank engagement in this tank! It's an American Tank, with Americans fighting in it for the first time, the American Stuart light tank at least deserves top billing as the article was first written (instead of 3rd place under the British!).

After all, whats more important; the Stuart was as a lend lease vehicle, or it fought America's First tank battle! America's first tank fight should be written where it was in the beginning...at the start of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.21.110 (talk) 18:10, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This isn't an American encyclopedia or a list of "American firsts". The M3 was first used in action by Brits. That makes M3's first combat action a Brit action. First American use, therefore, is much less significant. Get over it.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  02:27, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

 * The US Stuart, Grant/Lee, and Sherman tanks were all first used in action by the British Army in North Africa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.13 (talk) 11:08, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

M3 Stuart's combat record or Lend Lease
The article is about the M3 Stuart light tank, and it's history, which includes it's combat record. Neary all US tanks; to include the M2 light tanks, M3 Lee tanks, and the famous M4 Sherman medium tanks were lend-leased to the allies in WWII. Lend Lease is not particular to the M3 Stuart. Lend lease should be mentioned, as it is in the article, but it certainly is not unique to the Stuart. It's first combat action against enemy tanks during WWII is distinctive to the tank. No other US tank can claim that title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.49.142.245 (talk) 21:42, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This isn't an American encyclopedia or a list of "American firsts". The M3 was first used in action by Brits. That makes M3's first combat action a Brit action. First American use, therefore, is much less significant. Get over it.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  22:27, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

M3A1 Stuart at Osereika Beach landing During early February, 1943 http://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/m3a1_osereika.phpMan74 (talk) 17:12, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Policies Concerning NPOV & Vandalism
For this Veteran's Day, I decided to again explore the field of military history, and while not particularly interested in the M3 Stuart, nor WWII for that matter, as I'm past that stage, I was drawn to two nearly exact responses from an apparently same Wikipedia editor. Although the editor answered the "discussion topic" both times, they both contradicted the "discussion topic." The editor rightly replied that the Wikipedia Encyclopedia "isn't an American encyclopedia..." then in the same line implies it's a British one! With his reply "...first...by the Brits...", followed by another example, etc.

Wikipedia's NPOV (Neutral Point Of View) clearly states that "Representing fairly, proportionately,and as far as possible without bias is the non-negotiable and expected policies from all articles and editors." While the editor in question may have bordered violating that policy, he probably crossed the line when he stated "...First American use...is much less significant." Downgrading Americans during their participation in WWII is cleary a biased statement. Although said editor has a right to his opinions, he should be more objective (neutral/unbiased) to the articles and discussion pages within the scope of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia's Vandalism policy is any addition, removal, or change made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Given the precedent of the two aforementioned discussions, I proceeded to the history of the discussion talk page, and read the notes by the same editor; which was removed and stated, "...needless verbiage with no apparent objective..." with an added "Vandalism?"

Reading the topic that the editor removed, entitled "The Article is about the M3/M5 Stuart Tank", appeared to be more professionally written than any previous ones, and to some extent supplied some explanations. There is no need for me to place it back onto this page, readers can see it on the history back-pages;  and it is addressing the same argument about the Stuart tank. The issue here was that that particular writing was not vandalism, the editor's NPOV caused him to escalate into committing vandalism when he labelled it vandalism (a defense measure) and then removed it without due cause. A far lessor violation would have been to respond to it (for a third time) with his same old line..."Get over it!"

Have a good & safe Veteran's Day! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.104.160.36 (talk) 17:22, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Since I removed the previous commentary with no suggestion of vandalism, & since this appears to be the same IP trying to make a point as the last 3 times, I reiterate: this is not an all-American project, so mention of "first American combat use" in itself does not merit mention. Moreover, talk pages are for comment on improving the page, not merely rambling (see not a forum), which the removed post seemed only to be. Calling that vandalism is both mistaken & unjustified, plus contrary to assuming good faith. Nor is repeatedly going over the same ground & ignoring the responses you do get, which you've been doing, going to endear you to anyone. Moreover, anyone who genuinely believes the previous removed content is, in fact, worth restoring is perfectly free to do so.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  07:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Greetings TREKphiler, The "suggestion of vandalism" was the editor's use of the word "(vandalism?)" in the history revision section for the talk page. Otherwise, you've made a rather sincere response, thank you.  Have a safe and enjoyable Veteran's Day Holiday.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.104.160.54 (talk) 16:33, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Suggest you look again. Those are 2 separate instances.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  04:35, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Identification of Photograph
The title above the photograph of a light tank in the introduction is, "Light Tank M3A3 (Stuart V)” while the caption below the photograph identifies it as an M5A1. This really should be resolved one way or the other. ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 15:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

 * It's a surprisingly difficult issue. There's not enough differentiation to have a separate M5 Stuart article. There aren't any good, large photographs on Commons of an M3. Renaming the article to M3/M5 Stuart or M-Series Light Tank would be ugly. Rewriting the caption to "An M3-derived M5A1 Stuart" would be confusing. The article can't really be moved to M5 Stuart. What the article needs is a good large photo of an M3. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:16, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Quote from after action report
I put the quote back into the article but put it as a footnote as a result of it being shortened for the article. I actually spent a bit of time going through .pdf files of ww2 after-action reports and this struck me as a piece of primary evidence at the time that would go well with the article. It took me a while to transcribe the quote into a text form. I think it's important but I'm happy to leave it as a footnote.

--One Salient Oversight (talk) 08:12, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm disinclined to the inclusion of quotes, fn or no, unless they say something that cannot be said as well or better in summary, which is why I deleted most of it. I would from the fn, too; it's not uninteresting, but...  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  14:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also like to point out that the quote is what historians would call a primary source. Thus I would say that it's more valuable than the citations of Zaloga and others who write about the Tank. Moreover, the quote appears not to have been noticed yet by historians. This article and Zaloga have said that the 37mm Gun was bad, but this is an actual quote from an actual commander of a light tank battalion. The link to the primary source is good, but to be honest the copy of the report that was turned into a pdf is problematic to read (there are a lot of deteriorated pages that are difficult to read). In short I would argue that the quote be in the footnotes because a) it is a good primary source, b) because the orginal source, while on the internet, is hard to read, and c) it would be of interest to military historians on the matter. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 09:35, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * That it's a primary source falls afoul of WP opposition to citing from them (which troubles me less). That the quote itself adds nothing more material is what troubles me. If this was a document repository or a library, or something, I might agree with you. It's not. I'm not unsympathetic to your view. My own "clipping" of what seems germane, to support Zaloga et al., is what I meant about "material". The rest of the report is material to the unit involved, not to the M3 itself. If you can find (or create!) a page for that unit, I'll be the first to say that report should be quoted, for the reasons you've mentioned.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  12:01, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I have been creating pages for various ww2 Tank Battalions so I might end up doing that in the future. I've seen quotes on other ww2 related pages that are similar in nature to the one which I had, but I'm not going to contest it because having the link to the quote is a victory. Having the quote in the article would've been better imo but I'm not going to start an edit war over this. Besides I've checked your profile and you seem pretty knowledgeable about editing ww2 related articles so I'll just have to assume good faith, which is fine. Thanks for the dialogue. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 00:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Choice of lead pic
I think we have enough photos of M3 Stuarts that its time to debate the best one for the lead pic. So I present the best various options I can find.

Any opinions?©Geni (talk) 19:36, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

 * A contemporaneous one rather than a restored or museum one would be better. GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:08, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

 * the only colour pics we have of the tanks in service are File:M3A1 Light Tank.jpg which suffers from size and much of the tank being hidden by mud and File:15mayo2002-M3-Stuart.jpg which is potato quality.©Geni (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Rich

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Thomas Rich
Doubtful notability, and I didn't find a reference to the school. Radiant! 14:29, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. The little I've found of his history doesn't seem to indicate sufficient notability, but the school can be found at [www.strs.org.uk]. If others find notability, please enrich the entry! Otherwise, let's go with Radiant! on this one. HyperZonk 19:00, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it. Wyss 20:07, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Google has very little to say about the man himself; and what there is doesn't seem to mark him out beyond other merchants of the period. Delete. [Oops, this was me - forgot to sign. TSP 10:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)]
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 03:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. nn. historical merchant. jni 17:50, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems notable. JamesBurns 09:41, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Derek and Clive Come Again

Derek and Clive Come Again, subtitled on the CD reissue as "Further Ejaculations From......" is the second record released by Derek and Clive, a pair of characters created by comedy duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Although the first album, Derek and Clive (Live), was reasonably good-natured in its blasphemous subversiveness, Come Again was released at the height of the punk rock phenomenon and Cook, in particular, seems keen to elevate the excess to new heights of jaw-dropping offensiveness. To that end, he improvises routines about raping the victims of road traffic accidents and cross-dressing members of the aristocracy masturbating rent boys in taxi cabs, not to mention several extended routines on cancer in all its variations. Moore, on the other hand, improvises a smutty rhyme about his mother sucking his penis, oral sex performed in lavatory cubicles and how he masturbates with the aid of a greased toilet roll connected to his electric train-set.

Throughout much of the album (recorded in just one day for a Christmas release), both Cook and especially Moore are drunk and out of control, with Moore in particular regularly collapsing in hysterics (Cook achieving his primary comic aim of making Moore laugh with regular ease). Shortly after the album's release, controversy unsurprisingly erupted in a variety of forms, most notably a petrol station attendant being fired from his job after it was discovered that he owned a copy of the album (Cook testified at the man's industrial tribunal), and a distributor of talking books accidentally sending out copies of Come Again on cassette in cases intended for the children's classic Black Beauty. The CD reissue adds several previously unreleased routines, including a sketch about Derek (Moore) cutting his wife's hymen out with an electric carving knife, and one of their most popular sketches amongst their fans, 'Mother', in which Moore plays Cooks hysterical, domineering, deranged mother. Like much of the extra material, it was actually recorded during the 'Ad Nauseam' sessions a couple of years later than the original Come Again album.

Track listing
All tracks by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

As listed on LP cover

 * 1) Side One: Ay, Bee, See,You, En,Tee
 * 2) Side Two: Ef. You2, See2, Kay,En2,Gee

As listed on LP label: Side 1

 * 1) "Coughin' Contest" – 2:37
 * 2) "Cancer" – 0:29
 * 3) "Non-Stop Dancer / My Mum Song" – 5:36
 * 4) "Joan Crawford" – 5:05
 * 5) "Norman The Carpet" – 1:38
 * 6) "How's Your Mother" – 4:40
 * 7) "Back Of The Cab" – 6:23
 * 8) "Alfie Noakes" – 3:01
 * 9) "Nurse" – 0:48

As listed on LP label: Side 2

 * 1) "In The Cubicles" – 5:15
 * 2) "Ross McPharter" – 3:42
 * 3) "Hello Colin" – 0:16
 * 4) "Having A Wank" – 11:54
 * 5) "I Saw This Bloke" – 1:42
 * 6) "Parking Offence" – 5:45
 * 7) "Members Only" – 3:31

CD Release

 * 1) "You Stupid Cunt" – 1:29**
 * 2) "Coughin' Contest" – 2:38
 * 3) "Cancer" – 0:30
 * 4) "Non-Stop Dancer / My Mum Song" – 5:36
 * 5) "Joan Crawford" – 5:04
 * 6) "Norman The Carpet" – 1:37
 * 7) "How's Your Mother" – 4:40
 * 8) "Back Of The Cab" – 6:22
 * 9) "Alfie Noakes" – 3:00
 * 10) "Nurse" – 0:48
 * 11) "In The Cubicles" – 5:15
 * 12) "Ross McPharter" – 3:41
 * 13) "Hello Colin" – 0:16
 * 14) "Having A Wank" – 11:54
 * 15) "I Saw This Bloke" – 1:41
 * 16) "Parking Offence" – 5:45
 * 17) "Members Only" – 3:31
 * 18) "Valerie's Hymen" – 2:05*
 * 19) "Mother" – 8:48*
 * 20) "Films" – 3:15*
 * 21) "Young Dudley Moore Performs "Jump" – 1:47*

* Extra material (from the Ad Nauseam/Get the Horn) sessions included on CD release in November 1989. 'Films', however, was later dropped from subsequent reissues - the reasons for this remain unclear. This had the result that the "Warning" on the later CD's insert that "This CD contains another 17 mins, 27 secs of filthy language" is incorrect as they contain 14 mins 12 secs of extra material.

** 'You Stupid Cunt' was initially recorded on the same day as the rest of 'Come Again' but was not included on the original vinyl release.

Personnel

 * Peter Cook – vocals
 * Dudley Moore – vocals

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Tony Butler (broadcaster)

Tony Butler (15 May 1935 – 14 July 2023) was a British sports broadcaster from Birmingham. He was one of the first stars of local radio in Britain, known for a distinctive local accent and sometimes controversial style.

In 2007, he was honoured by the Sony Radio Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Early career
Tony Butler was born in Wolverhampton on 15 May 1935. He began his journalistic career in local papers in Birmingham before beginning to contribute to BBC national and regional radio in the 1960s. His strong regional accent caused problems at the staid BBC, and he later recalled how he was encouraged to soften his natural accent. At one point the BBC even provided elocution lessons.

BRMB
In 1974, he was hired to be the first sports editor at Birmingham's new independent (i.e. non-BBC) radio station BRMB, one of a handful of commercial stations to launch at that time. With BRMB striving to offer something different from the established BBC radio stations, Butler was encouraged to speak informally on the air, emphasising rather than hiding his accent.

After being sent on a tour of radio stations in Canada and the US, Butler noticed the success of the forthright North American broadcasters and, back in the UK, he began to develop a similar aggressive manner on the air, offering controversial opinions and arguing with callers to his shows. In another innovation imported from across the Atlantic, Butler began to offer sports fans the opportunity to call into his shows with their opinions of their teams' performances, giving birth to his boast that he was the inventor of the football phone-in.

Butler's much repeated catchphrase "On 'yer bike" was used to cut off callers whose opinions he disagreed with, whilst his competitions would tax listeners with questions such as "How many yards of elastic are there in a golf ball?". During live coverage of football games, fans were encouraged to "get those prayer mats out" to help their ailing teams. Similar encouragement was offered through frequent playing of "The Butler Theme Tune" (in reality Hurricane Smith's "Theme from an Unmade Silent Movie").

Butler's outspokenness and unique radio shows soon made him one of Birmingham's most recognised voices. It helped that the late 1970s and early 1980s were a particularly good time for local sport, with five of the West Midlands' teams enjoying top-flight football. Butler and his team of reporters were also able to cover memorable European campaigns for Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers. His abrasive style, locally well-known, was brought to national attention after being worked into the routines of Birmingham comic Jasper Carrott, who often liked to poke fun at the homespun nature of BRMB's programming at the time.

In 1984, Butler was sacked from BRMB after a row with fellow broadcaster Brian Savin, who is disabled. Savin had sent a note to Butler complaining about coverage of a cricket match over-running into his show; Butler was said to have found the content of the note offensive and confronted Savin, grabbing him by the neck during the ensuing argument. The dismissal of such a high-profile personality was front-page news in Birmingham, and programmes on BRMB were severely affected as some of Butler's former colleagues walked out on strike.

Butler later commented that the matter had been blown out of all proportion, claiming that he remained friends with Savin. He preferred to attribute the sacking to a general falling-out with BRMB management.

BBC
Following his sacking, Butler was snapped up more or less immediately by the BBC local TV news programme Midlands Today often reporting on the lighter items and demonstrating a much softer side to his nature than anyone had hitherto seen. He also presented successful local TV shows Sporting Butler, Boating Butler and Biking Butler, travelling around the region meeting people with an interesting story to tell.

In 1987, Tony Inchley was appointed Manager of ailing BBC Radio WM, at a time when the BBC was under pressure from the government to justify its provision of local radio services. Inchley swiftly revamped the BBC station's output, hiring a number of personalities and recruiting Butler to restart his Friday night football phone-in in direct competition with BRMB's George Gavin, Butler's former deputy.

Butler was subsequently promoted to host the prestigious breakfast show, replacing Ed Doolan (who then began his hugely popular lunchtime show). Under Butler, Radio WM's breakfast show was a mix of current affairs, information and phone-in competitions, the presenter able to show his versatility switching from interviewing politicians to chatting with callers. He gave away eggcups and mugs to the same callers week in week out. He continued to host the Friday night football phone-in.

However, Butler was still unable to shake off his controversial image; in 1989 Radio WM's reporters found themselves banned from covering Wolverhampton Wanderers games after the club accused Butler of making racist comments about one of their black players, Shane Westley.

When Tony Inchley announced his retirement, Butler felt his time was up, so he decided to leave.

Xtra AM
In 1994 Butler moved back to commercial radio, hosting the breakfast show on BRMB spin-off station Xtra-AM, giving him the opportunity to play more music. During this time he also co-hosted Xtra's Friday night football phone-in, along with sports editor Tom Ross.

Back to the BBC
The purchase of Xtra-AM by the Capital Radio group saw the end to most of the locally produced programming, and so in 1998, Butler made his way back to Radio WM. Firstly, presenting a Saturday lunchtime show, before taking over his Monday – Thursday evening football phone-in show from 7 to 8pm and the Sportsnight show on Mondays from 8 to 10pm.

Birmingham Live TV
In 1998 Butler joined local cable TV station Birmingham Live TV, a regional affiliate of MGN's L!VE TV. As part of the sports team, he presented the local sports bulletins on the channel, as well as going out to interview sporting figures across the West Midlands. He also hosted a live phone-in show on the channel every Friday night called 'Butler's Sports Special'. He remained at Birmingham Live until its closure in November 1999.

Controversy at BBC West Midlands
Butler courted additional controversy on a BBC West Midlands radio programme, broadcast on 28 March 2007. He stated that women should not be in war zones and, commenting on kidnapped British sailor Faye Turney, said that were she decapitated, "it would serve her right."

His outburst prompted a barrage of complaints from listeners, and led the BBC to issue an apology.

Retirement
Butler announced in April 2009 that he would retire at the end of the 2008–09 football season, commenting "I think you know when it's time to retire, and I'm on my bike."

Return to commercial radio
In August 2009, after Orion took control of BRMB and Gold, it was announced by Tom Ross that Butler would be returning to co-host the football phone-in on Friday nights.

In August 2012, Ross revealed that Butler had finally ended his broadcasting career due to ill health. Ross paid tribute to Butler in an emotional telephone interview with his predecessor on his opening football phone-in show of the 2012–13 season, thanking him for bringing him to BRMB over thirty years earlier.

Death
Butler died on 14 July 2023, at the age of 88.

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Wikipedia talk:How to edit a page

Common Law?
Is that first tag,, supposed to have a long description of common law? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.111.57.154 (talk • contribs) 17:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

This page currently has a description of the company Talk2Rep and not any helpful information. Can it be reverted to an older version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilom (talk • contribs) 21:28, 12 November 2007 (UTC) There are many leuges like ahl,nhl and whl.

page formatting
i dont' want images and boxes to overlap into other sections because the sections are too small. i put in a bunch of white space between sections with images to stop them from overlapping but i don't think its the proper way. here are some pages i recently edited and added white space.. if anyone knows the proper way to stop images from overlapping from section to the other please fix it or tell me how: saddleback college, san francisco state university, golden gate university, golden gate university school of law. to see what i'm talking about...look up the schools in the search box and look at how i did the formatting under "edit this page"

missing information
this article doesn't describe how to link to an article while making the text different--24.6.185.253 (talk) 10:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you have to use HTML code to alter text, bold, colour, etc. Just do a search engine search for "HTML code" and you'll find some answers. Nick carson (talk) 10:40, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Adding References
I have just given up trying to edit an article, because I could not find a suitably simple guide to link a newspaper article that was a reference to the detail I was providing. I tried to copy another similar edit but was unsuccesful. I will be helped to be given a link to a simple "how to do it" instruction please. Stranger on the shore (talk) 20:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Just start with the basics, a good way to learn this sort of stuff is to just click 'edit this page' in any article and sneak a peak at how the references are done behind the scenes. Copy/paste also helps. Nick carson (talk) 12:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Taking credit for anonymous edits
Lets say I made a couple of anonymous edits before I decided to sign up for an account. Now that I have an account, is there any way to 'take credit' for those edits? Ajrisi (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 * This used to be possible, but not anymore. See Changing attribution for an edit. -- Avenue (talk) 13:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

 * That would be quite a useful tool. I made a fair few edits before I signed up as an editor. Nick carson (talk) 10:42, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomson Local

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Thomson Local
It's a brand of phone book. Radiant! 14:31, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * keep; yeah, but they produce a different one for each local area in the UK. We have Yellow Pages. Dunc|☺ 15:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It was practically the only competition in this field that British Telecom had for a long time. Keep. Uncle G 19:01, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Keep. Very notable. They also have a horrendous tv advert doing the rounds at the moment. — Xezbeth 19:20, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it. Wyss 20:06, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a brand of phonebook worthy of note, which is why we will be keeping this article. GRider\talk 20:28, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)~
 * Keep - household name in the UK, though I never quite understood why people used it over the official BT one. TSP 09:43, 2005 Feb 15 (according to history Uncle G 14:24, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)) (um, what? No, definitely me, though UncleG may have slightly edited it (like, added  an extra space or something) when he added his signed reply.  TSP 08:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC))
 * the official BT one — I see that the monopoly telephone company mindset is still not yet dead, a quarter of a century on, and even though Yellow Pages has itself been one of BT's competitors for a couple of years now. One of the things that The Thomson Corporation should mention is that it was Thomson that introduced Yellow Pages to the United Kingdom, back in 1966, when it was an advertising sales agent for the GPO's telephone directory. "official BT one" — chuckle. Uncle G 14:24, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
 * Maybe TSP just doesn't like the Thomson version and prefers the BT edition? Keep, anyway. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:05, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd actually now usually use The Phone Book, BT's semi-competitor to the Yellow Pages (it has what are effectively Yellow Pages sections) - I think there was only a year in which there was no BT-owned option. At work I now have The Phone Book, Thomson Local, Yellow Pages and Business Pages (which is published by Yell) on my shelf, and I can't think of an earthly reason to have so many... but that doesn't make any of them non-notable. TSP 08:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. James F. (talk) 02:28, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Throckley

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Throckley
A village, where (and I quote) pedestrians take their lives in their hands by daring to cross at the zebra crossing, as visibility is so badly obscured by the village idiots in their cars. Really. Radiant! 14:32, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * I see it's been rewritten now, so keep. This is a perfect example of an article needing cleanup, not vfd. sjorford// 15:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Real place in the UK associated with colliery. Thanks to person who wrote it. Capitalistroadster 15:59, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * And afterwards I found that you two went and got your votes in before I could say Rewritten article. Uncle G 19:51, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Keep Wyss 20:04, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three ways west

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Three ways west
Mission statement for a band. I hope they'll be famous some day. But not now. Radiant! 14:32, Feb 14, 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.
 * Delete They're a little more notable than this article would suggest, but still not quite enough for a WP entry yet. All releases so far seem to be CD-Rs with a few songs each.  Waiting for an album, even an indy one, then might re-consider. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  17:15, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * For the meantime Delete, as suggested above. HyperZonk 19:02, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Currently not notable enought to be in Wikipedia. Maybe later. Zzyzx11 19:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, yep, let's wait for the indy release. Wyss 20:03, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, band promo. Megan1967 03:11, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. jni 08:33, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dominus 22:08, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)