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The list is getting a touch long. Perhaps you should move it to a new page. -Howardjp 13:26, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Interstate 11

Interstate 11 (I-11) is an Interstate Highway that currently runs for 53.9 mi on a predominantly northwest–southeast alignment in the U.S. state of Nevada, running concurrently with either or both U.S. Route 93 (US 93) and U.S. Route 95 (US 95) from the Arizona state line and Boulder City. The freeway is tentatively planned to run from Nogales, Arizona, to the vicinity of Reno, Nevada, generally following the current routes of I-19, I-10, US 93, and US 95. Planners anticipate upgrading two existing highway segments to carry future I-11: US 93 in Arizona from Wickenburg to the Nevada state line on the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge over the Colorado River and US 95 in Nevada from the Las Vegas Valley to Tonopah. The most recent extension came in 2024, when officials replaced I-515 signs in Las Vegas with I-11 signs and added I-11 signs on US 95 north of Downtown Las Vegas, which extended I-11 northward about 30.5 mi. An extension of the Interstate northward along US 95 to Mercury, Nevada, is planned after that. An exact alignment for I-11 has yet to be determined outside of these sections; a number of corridor alternatives, however, have been identified for further study and refinement. The building of I-11 in Arizona is also facing local opposition from conservation groups.

As originally proposed in the 2012 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, the highway would run only from Casa Grande, Arizona, to Las Vegas. This was to provide a Las Vegas–Phoenix freeway link. Extensions of the corridor to the north toward Reno and to the south toward Nogales, however, have since been approved by the 2015 Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act).

The numbering of this highway did not initially fit within the usual conventions of the existing Interstate Highway grid as the whole route was east of I-15. I-17 was already built to the east of the I-11 alignment in Arizona, making it impossible to fit this freeway's Interstate number into the national grid and remain within the traditional numbering convention. I-11 being extended along US 95 through Las Vegas and crossing over I-15 remedied this situation since it put a portion of I-11 west of I-15 and thus in line with the national grid numbering conventions.

The 80th session of the Nevada Legislature passed a bill designating the entire route of I-11 in the state as the Purple Heart Highway, which went into effect on July 1, 2019.

Route description
<!-- ===Arizona=== The southern terminus of the freeway would be at I-19 Business in Nogales, concurrent with that of I-19 proper, or follow State Route 189 (SR 189) from its interchange with I-19 to the Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry where it continues south as Federal Highway 15D, creating a Nogales–Heroica Nogales metro area bypass for high-density CANAMEX Corridor traffic. As originally envisioned, the freeway would then join I-10 in Tucson and continue to Casa Grande. Corridor alternatives, however, were studied, and the draft tier 1 environmental impact statement selected a recommended corridor alternative that would split from I-19 near Sahuarita and travel around the Tucson Mountains as a Tucson bypass route, then travel parallel to I-10 until Casa Grande. The two Interstates would be within miles of each other, and a short connection to I-10 is proposed in Marana.

At or near the interchange with I-8 and I-10 in Casa Grande, the freeway would split from I-10 and travel in a generally westward and then northward direction as a bypass route around the Phoenix metropolitan area. Two general corridor alternatives have been identified for this bypass section. One recommended alternative would have the highway running concurrently with I-8 west to Gila Bend, turning north to its interchange with I-10 in Buckeye or Tonopah. The second recommended alternative would have the highway run concurrently with I-8 east to an intersection with either SR 303 or the Hassayampa Freeway and then follow some combination of those highways, SR 30, or SR 85 to an intersection with I-10 in or near Buckeye.

North of I-10 in Buckeye or Tonopah, the study has identified a general corridor roughly parallel to the Hassayampa River with two more specific corridor alignments. The first would create a new highway running north to the US 60/SR 74 intersection in Morristown before turning northwest to run concurrently with US 60 to its intersection with US 93 in Wickenburg, thereafter, running concurrently with US 93 to the northwest. The second alignment would follow the alignment of the Hassayampa Freeway as proposed by Maricopa Association of Governments to an intersection with US 93 northwest of Wickenburg in Yavapai County.

The highway would then run concurrently with US 93 through Morthern Arizona, including a concurrency with I-40 in and near Kingman. After leaving Kingman, the highway would continue north, crossing the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge into Nevada.

Nevada
--> The highway currently begins at the Arizona state line on the Hoover Dam Bypass, then runs along the 15 mi Boulder City Bypass around Boulder City, which opened on August 9, 2018. It is signed concurrently with US 93 throughout. At mile 14, I-11 intersects and joins with US 95 heading north. Continuing northwest, the highway runs along the former I-515 around Henderson to the Henderson Spaghetti Bowl interchange with I-215 and State Route 564 (SR 564).

In 2024, I-11 was extended through the Las Vegas Valley along US 93/US 95 (the rest of the alignment of former I-515) to Downtown Las Vegas and I-15, then running concurrently with US 95 northwest to SR 157. When this segment was designated, I-515 was decommissioned. Studies to extend I-11 from SR 157 northward to Mercury were started in late 2023.

History
As recently as 1997, US 93 was mostly a two-lane road between Wickenburg and Hoover Dam and was known for its dangerous curves and hills in the stretch between Wickenburg and I-40. In the late 1990s, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) began widening US 93 to four lanes and, in some areas, building a completely new roadway. In other places along the route, ADOT simply repaved the old highway and built two new lanes parallel to it. ADOT also began studying the possibility of adding grade separations to US 93 near the Santa Maria River to make the road a full freeway.

At the same time, Nevada and Arizona began looking at US 93's crossing of Hoover Dam, a major bottleneck for regional commerce, with hairpin turns, multiple crosswalks for pedestrians, and steep grades. Plans for a bridge to bypass the dam became even more urgent when the road was closed to trucks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, forcing commercial traffic to detour through Bullhead City, Arizona, and Laughlin, Nevada, causing major transport delays as a result.

With the completion of the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on October 14, 2010, the vast majority of the roadway is now a four-lane divided highway. Still, with Phoenix and Las Vegas as the two largest neighboring cities in the U.S. not connected by Interstate Highway, leaders in both cities lobbied to include I-11 in the next Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century reauthorization. With the rise of the concept of "megapolitan" urban regions, I-11 is considered a key connector to unify the triangle formed by Las Vegas, Phoenix, and the Los Angeles area (the triangle consisting of I-15 to the north/west, I-10 to the south and I-11 on the east). The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) approved the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)'s environmental review of a bypass around Boulder City, which would connect the end of the recently constructed Hoover Dam Bypass bridge east of Boulder City to I-515 west of the town.

In December 2013, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, researchers discovered naturally occurring asbestos in the route of the Boulder City bypass. Containing the asbestos and monitoring the surrounding air to keep workers safe was estimated to cost at least an additional $12 million (equivalent to $ in ). Work was completed without any Occupational Safety and Health Administration incidents, with 14,000 air samples taken during the construction.

On March 21, 2014, "Future I-11 Corridor" signs were installed along the US 93 corridor. On May 21, 2014, NDOT submitted an application to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to request the creation of the I-11 designation between the Arizona state line and the I-215/I-515 Interchange in Henderson. AASHTO approved this request at their Spring 2014 Special Committee on US Route Numbering meeting, contingent on FHWA approval. On August 16, 2017, the first southbound segment was opened to traffic, with its accompanying northbound segment opening on January 27, 2018. On February 20, 2018, NDOT opened additional ramps connecting the new Railroad Pass Casino Road to both the Boulder City Parkway (formerly US 93 and US 95) and to I-11 (southbound exit and northbound entrance). The final portion of Phase 1, between the new casino access road and US 95, opened on May 23, 2018. On August 9, 2018, Phase 2 was opened to traffic, officially completing the Boulder City Bypass.

Phase 2, which began construction on April 6, 2015, was expected to open by October 2018; in May 2018, however, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada announced that the section would be open by June 2018, three months ahead of schedule. That opening date was subsequently pushed back to August 9, 2018, as it was still in the post-construction stage. In March 2019, NDOT replaced I-515 signs along its southernmost 5 mi stretch with I-11 signs.

In July 2022, NDOT decided to route I-11 along the existing alignments of I-515/US 93/US 95 to Downtown Las Vegas, then running concurrently with US 95 northwest to SR 157 rather than use I-215 or construct a new corridor as had been proposed, but abandoned due to local opposition. NDOT replaced I-515 shields with I-11 shields in this area in 2024 and plans to finish adding I-11 shields all the way through the Las Vegas Valley by the end of the year. This extended I-11 northward about 30.5 mi and eliminated the I-515 designation.

Beginning in 2022, several construction projects have been started or planned to improve the I-515 corridor, which will eventually become I-11. The projects include soundwall and retaining wall reconstruction, bridge rehabilitation, and interchange improvements. All the projects are expected to be started by 2027.

Current status
, I-11 is entirely in Clark County, Nevada extending from the Arizona state line on the Hoover Dam Bypass through Las Vegas to SR 157 northwest of city. An extension to Mercury is currently being planned. The Nevada portion of the original I-11 corridor is a full freeway that meets current Interstate Highway standards from the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on US 93 to the northwest of Las Vegas on US 95. While the bulk of US 93 through Arizona has been widened to four lanes, some portions of the corridor are not built to Interstate Highway standards, as there are scattered at-grade intersections, substandard roadway and shoulder widths, median crossovers, and other deficiencies. Part of these dual roadways are repaved, restriped sections of very old parts of US 93. Farther south, a direct system interchange with US 93 and I-40 is planned to eliminate the bottleneck at Beale Street in western Kingman. The first phase of construction, planned to begin in 2024 and finish in 2026, will construct direct connectors from westbound I-40 to northbound US 93 and from southbound US 93 to eastbound I-40. The remaining movements between US 93 and I-40 will continue to use the existing Beale Street interchange until traffic demands warrant and the second phase can be funded.

Phase 4 of the US 93 Corridor Improvement Project will finish what was started in 1998 and connect the four sections of the divided highway to Wickenburg, allowing more traffic on these congested roads. US 93 will be cosigned as I-11 once it is built to Interstate standards. US 93 from north of Las Vegas to the southern terminus may be decommissioned afterwards.

Funding
The funding bill for the U.S. Department of Transportation, which replaced stopgaps that expired on June 30, 2012, officially designated I-11. This bill sped up funding for studying, engineering, and possibly building the highway. The Arizona State Legislature passed a law in 2009 that allowed private investors to team up with ADOT. In July 2012, Nevada's Transportation Board awarded $2.5 million (equivalent to $ in ) in contracts to a team of consultants to study I-11's feasibility and its environmental and economic consequences.

Tucson extension plans
Officials in Pima County, Arizona, supported an extension of the planned I-11 from Casa Grande, which would wrap southwest of the Tucson Mountains before meeting with I-19 in Sahuarita, south of Tucson, and continuing east to I-10. Over 800 residents signed a petition opposing that west-side bypass because it would impact the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Saguaro National Park, and Ironwood Forest National Monument. They recommended that I-11 be concurrent with existing I-10 route through Tucson. The additional segment would create the Tucson bypass route identified as a critical need by ADOT based upon I-10 traffic projections. In 2019, the draft tier 1 environmental impact statement selected the Tucson bypass route as the recommended corridor alternative, with the corridor parallel to I-10 until Casa Grande and a connection to I-10 in Marana. Although seen as beneficial to some people, the plan to build I-11 in Arizona as a whole is still receiving pushback and conservation groups are currently suing the FHWA over the construction of the route.

Northern Nevada extension plans
The proposal to extend I-11 to the Reno area was supported by both of Nevada's U.S. Senators, Harry Reid and Dean Heller, as well as the rest of Nevada's delegation to the U.S. Congress. Heller stated that connecting the Phoenix area with Las Vegas and Northern Nevada would "spur long-term economic development, create jobs and bolster international trade". The 2015 FAST Act gave Congressional approval to the proposed extensions in Nevada and Arizona but not to extensions north of I-80.

The Reno City Council was informed of potential I-11 corridor plans in March 2018. These include a route through Yerington that roughly parallels SR 208 until just before the Topaz Lake area, then takes a new route into Gardnerville and Minden before meeting up with current I-580 in Carson City, which it follows to its terminus of I-80 in Reno. The other potential corridors stick closer to US 95, with one following US 95 Alternate (US 95 Alt.) through Silver Springs to meet I-80 in Fernley, while another would take a new route east of Silver Springs to Fernley, meeting current US 50 Alt. west of Fallon, which would then go to I-80 in Fernley. Another proposed route would go east of Mina and Luning and go north through Salt Wells before meeting US 95 north of Fallon, which then meets I-80 farther north. Other minor alterations to these routes were also shown.

Long-term corridor plans
I-11 was previously projected to serve as an Intermountain West part of the U.S.'s long-term CANAMEX Corridor transportation plans, with potential extensions south from Casa Grande to the Sonoran border, and north from Las Vegas through northern Nevada (potentially passing through Reno or Elko) and onward through either eastern Oregon–Washington or western Idaho before terminating at the Canadian border. I-11 is projected to become the Intermountain West Corridor, extending from Phoenix and Las Vegas through Reno to the Pacific Northwest via central or eastern Oregon and central Washington to the Canada–U.S. border. Feasibility studies for these corridor extensions began in July 2013 and were published in November 2014.

Exit list
Old exits on I-11 were formerly exits on I-515 numbered according to US 95 mileposts.

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TDK

TDK Corporation (TDK株式会社) is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation that manufactures electronic components and recording and data-storage media. Its motto is "Contribute to culture and industry through creativity".

"TDK" is an initialism of the original Japanese name of the company: Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kōgyō K.K. (Tokyo Electric Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.). The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX indices.

History
TDK was founded by Kenzo Saito in Tokyo, Japan, on 7 December 1935 to manufacture the iron-based magnetic material ferrite, which had been recently invented by Yogoro Kato and Takeshi Takei. In 1952 and 1957, they began to produce magnetic tape, with compact cassette tapes following in 1966. TDK manufactured an extensive portfolio of magnetic and optical media, including several formats of videotape and blank CD-R and recordable DVD discs until the recording media business was sold to Imation in 2007.

TDK produced five million ferrite cores through 1945 that were primarily used to reduce the volume and weight of radio receivers used by the Imperial Japanese military.

Operations in the US began in 1965 with a New York City office, and European operations began in 1970 with an office in Frankfurt, West Germany.

In 1980, TDK developed a multilayering technology to create chip capacitors and inductors used in personal computers, laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices.

In 1986, TDK acquired SAE Magnetics and introduced high-density recording heads.

In the 1990s, TDK's Mass Storage Division included brushless DC spindle motors, magnetoresistance (MR) heads and thin-film heads.

Since 1997, TDK has gradually withdrawn from the production of compact cassettes. First with the MA-X and AR ("Acoustic Response"), then the AD ("Acoustic Dynamic") and SA-X line in 2001 and 2002 respectively, then the MA ("Metal Alloy") line in 2004. The SA ("Super Avilyn") and D ("Dynamic") lines were withdrawn in 2011. Industry trends see the company moving into new forms of media. In 2004, TDK was the first media manufacturer to join the companies developing BD post-DVD technology. TDK operated a semiconductor division in California for about a decade, but divested it in 2005.

The company dabbled in the video game business in the late 1990s and early 2000s, by operating TDK Mediactive in the U.S. and Europe, and TDK Core in Japan.

In late 2007, Imation acquired TDK's recording media business, including flash media, optical media, magnetic tape, and accessories, for $300 million. This also included a license to use the "TDK Life on Record" brand on data storage and audio products for 25 years. In September 2015, Imation announced that it had agreed to relinquish this license and would cease selling TDK-branded products by the end of the year.

Since the 2000s, TDK has focussed on the development, manufacture and sales of electronic components, HDD heads and suspension, and power supplies.

Beginning in 2005, TDK has acquired many types of electronic device manufacturers including passive component developers, sensors manufacturers and power supply companies. These areas remain TDK's focus today.

Since acquiring numerous companies and sharpening its product line focus in recent years, TDK has begun building a portfolio of varying sensors, actuators and power electronic components through these brands. These include multi-axis MEMS motion tracking devices and MEMS microphones from InvenSense, a point-of-load DC-DC converter from Faraday Semi, and MEMS-based ultrasonic Time-of-Flight sensors from Chirp Microsystems intended for consumer electronics, AR/VR, robotics, drones, IoT, automotive and industrial market segments. Other areas of TDK's recent focus include power components for mobile devices, high-stability MEMS accelerometers from Tronics, and miniaturized haptic actuators.

In 2017, TDK and GenCell began collaborating to develop and produce an ammonia-based fuel solution.

Key acquisitions and joint ventures

 * 1986:	SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd., a magnetic head maker based in Hong Kong
 * 2000:	Headway Technologies, a magnetic head maker based in the United States
 * 2005:	Amperex Technology Limited, a Lithium Polymer battery company based in Hong Kong
 * 2005:	Lambda Power Division, a group of power supply businesses of London-based Invensys PLC.
 * 2008:	Epcos, an electronic device manufacturer based in Germany
 * 2016:	Hutchinson Technology Inc., a manufacturer of HDD suspension assemblies based in the United States
 * 2016:	Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG
 * 2017:	RF360 Holdings Singapore PTE Ltd. – a joint venture with Qualcomm Inc. (USA)
 * 2017:	ICsense NV, a mixed-signal ASIC design & supply company based in Belgium
 * 2017:	InvenSense, Inc., a sensor specialist based in the United States
 * 2018:	Chirp Microsystems, a developer of low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions based in the United States
 * 2018:	Faraday Semi LLC, a developer of miniature Point of Load (PoL) solutions based in the United States
 * 2023:	Qeexo, co. a developer of embedded AI / tinyML technologies based in the United States

Sponsorship and advertising
TDK has sponsored the IAAF World Championships in Athletics since the 1983 inaugural event in Helsinki.

TDK sponsored Ajax for several years in the 1980s during which it won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1987. From 1993 to 1999, TDK were also the sponsors of the English football club Crystal Palace, who were promoted to the Premier League twice during this era, though lasting for just one season before being relegated on both occasions. TDK was also a minor sponsor of the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Team during the early 1990s. It is a current sponsor of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. It also sponsors activities and events such as those at The Cross nightclub in Central London, and it had a prominent sign at Piccadilly Circus from 1990. The contract for this sign was terminated in 2015, as TDK was moving away from consumer electronics.

TDK has owned a sign on One Times Square since 2000. The screen is placed under that of Toshiba and can be seen during the annual Times Square New Year's Ball Drop.

Since 2001, TDK has supported performances of some of the world's distinguished orchestras in Japan within the company's "TDK Orchestra Concerts" program. TDK's "Outreach-Mini Concerts" and "Special Rehearsals and Main Concert Invitations" additionally serve as avenues for the company to attract younger audiences. TDK's own football club, based in Nikaho, Akita, recently split from the corporation to become independent football club Blaublitz Akita, with the aim for the professional leagues.

Museum
TDK operates a company museum in Nikaho, Akita, Japan. The museum is open to the public, free of charge. Among its exhibits are a comprehensive history of the company, its products and technologies, and emerging developments.

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You're nothing but trying to destroy the article and making it as biased as possible. Your edits are the worst I've ever seen so far. Discuss them if you can! Go to the talk page.149.225.40.78 20:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) What was the edit war good for??? Now it's protected! Did you want that? Just discuss next time and try to be constructive. Never forget: every edit is saved to the database of wikipedia and that base shouldn't be spammed by such a pointless affair. Wikipedia needs everything but that.149.225.40.78 20:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I totally disagree. I have gone on the talk page. You just keep reverting to some old version, which looses mine and other people edits for things like spelling as well as the content. If you want to make reasonble edits to incorporate your idea's like everbody else, fine but stop going back to some old version. Ele9699 20:50, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

On the contrary! You just commented ONCE on the talk page, then stopped. The version isn't old at all! What would "new" mean in your opinion then? An AA-chat or what??? The version used to have objectiveness and THAT'S what it should keep, if you know what I mean. I did NOT neglect other people's contributions. I checked them all and included someone's fix of a spelling mistake, which is more than you've managed. It's not about ideas or opinions this wikipedia! An edit war is just counter-productive, it's not about who can click on "save page" fastest.149.225.36.199 21:04, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * On the contray, you are liar. I not only commented MORE the once but you did NOT check for spelling and other people's edits. The rest is on the AA talk page. Ele9699 23:14, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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From MediaRight on Q-Course: I updated the page again, sorry. But your kinda wrong. Here's the link to the page. Q-course came up as well in a very recent interview with the project leader for AA. Here is a link to the version databank and interview:
 * Yea, thats a great and all but you didn't need post all this here. I specifically didn't take you up on your offer for links about this because I took your word it. Also, even if I had, a link to the info is enough. I agree though that is a good link. Ele9699 08:24, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Databank: http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=79389 (updated 3/11/05 Here's the article in full. You can delete it after you read it. sry. "America's Army Updated Impressions - The Q Course

America's Army, the US Army's official first-person shooter, will mark its third anniversary in July. But prior to that, the game, developed as a recruiting tool given to prospective recruits and available for free on the Internet, will receive a significant update in the form of the Q Course, which is what Philip Bossant, the project's lead art director, bills as a "gamer upgrade." We got the details at the Game Developers Conference on what to expect in this upcoming update, as well as what future plans are in store for the Army's game project.

In Army jargon, the Q Course is the name for the Special Forces Qualification Course, the test that all applicants must pass in order to qualify for the Army's elite units. In America's Army, the Q Course will be a package of five big new maps, as well as a host of new gameplay enhancements that will attempt to mix up the gameplay. One of the goals of the new levels is to get away from the current Middle Eastern theme of most America's Army levels. As such, the new maps will feature a mix of urban, rural, industrial, and mountainous terrain. The Q Course will also introduce two new weapons. The first is the bunker-defeating munition, a powerful, one-shot rocket launcher capable of punching holes in walls. This will be especially useful, as the new maps will feature destructible objects, such as walls and doors. This means that you can actually blow open your own entranceways into guarded compounds. The second new weapon is actually a door breacher, a small explosive charge useful in blasting open locked doors. It's important because the new levels will feature randomly locking doors. That means that every time you start a match, doors that were previously locked may be unlocked, and vice versa. This sense of unpredictability will play a big role in the update.

According to Bossant, the Q Course will enhance the replayability of America's Army, thanks to random events. One of the problems inherent in the current version of America's Army, as well as other online first-person shooters, is that since each match starts with essentially the same parameters, it's possible for the gameplay to boil down to patterns, because players already know from experience where the other team starts and what direction they will come from. The new maps in the Q Course will support features such as random spawn locations so teams will start in different positions; random objectives, so that the goal and location in each mission will change; random extraction points, so players won't know where to go until they locate and seize an objective, such as a hard drive with special information on it; and random non-player characters , which is another term for civilians. In addition to having random events on these new levels, the team is looking to see whether it can retrofit existing levels with random events to change the way they play.

Civilians are especially important in the Q Course, because the presence of innocents on the battlefield will have a huge effect on the way the game is played. In current versions of America's Army, since players know that there are only combatants on the battlefield, they tend to act aggressively. Ironically, they're a bit too aggressive for the Army's tastes. For example, while players of America's Army may lob grenades indiscriminately in the hopes of killing an opponent, in real life, US soldiers operate under rules of engagement that require them to identify their targets before engaging them. This means that they can't randomly toss grenades, because the chances of hitting a civilian are too high. So the Q Course will introduce civilians to America's Army, and shooting or wounding a civilian, even accidentally, will be treated like a case of friendly fire. If the incident is minor, such as the civilian was wounded by a stray grenade fragment, then your score will be penalized. But if you purposely harm or kill a civilian, you'll be kicked out of the game and sent to a virtual cell in Leavenworth, just like you would for shooting a friendly. This should slow down the game and make players behave more like real soldiers and less like Rambo.

Civilians will also have a useful purpose on the battlefield, assuming that you can speak the language. That's where advanced Special Forces training will come into play. With the Q Course upgrade, your soldiers will be able to go undergo optional training to learn new skills, much like going to medic school in the current version of the game lets your character play as a medic on the battlefield. So, in the Q Course, if you undergo the 18D training, you'll learn about being a Special Forces medic by watching a movie of a real Army Special Forces medic discussing what he does and some of his real-world experiences. Afterward, your character will be able to carry more bandages into battle, heal comrades faster, and even be able to do a limited amount of self-healing. And in the case of encountering civilians on the battlefield, if your character has taken the appropriate language training, you can ask the civilian questions and gather valuable intelligence on the location of your target, making your job a lot easier. Little bonuses such as these will give you the incentive to undergo as much training as possible, and it will let the game educate you about the many different specialties in the Army.

America's Army was originally devised as a recruiting aid to attract new soldiers. However, Bossant told us that the Army is rapidly finding other uses for the game for soldiers already in its ranks. There are already modified versions of America's Army that help teach weapons familiarization and language training. There is also a version of the game to teach convoy protection. That's a particularly important issue, as the Army was caught unprepared by the frequent insurgent attacks on US convoys in Iraq. How to protect convoys was something soldiers had barely received training in prior to the war, but with the modified version of America's Army, the Army now trains soldiers in convoy tactics using a simulator.

With its role as a recruiting tool established and its role as a training tool growing, the future of America's Army looks bright. After the Q Course, which is due in May, the next major update for the game should be Overmatch, which will finally introduce vehicles into the gameplay. After that, it sounds like there will be a second Overmatch update, at which point the current version of America's Army will come to an end. That doesn't mean that the project is going away, though. The current version of America's Army is based on the aging Unreal Engine 2.5. The Army has already signed up for Unreal Engine 3, and America's Army will eventually transition to it. However, that transition won't happen for a while, as the current version of America's Army still looks like it has plenty of life in it.

By Jason Ocampo, GameSpot POSTED: 03/10/05 02:47 PM"

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Irrefutably, you're intensively involved in changing this article. I have to admit that I do not agree with most of your changes. That does not mean, that you're wrong and I'm right, but this means that I will not accept changes I don't agree with at all. It appears to me that you spend a lot of time with your editings so it's clear that you don't want to have them done it in vain. Hence, you'll insist on your versions for you have put so much work into them. I can really understand that. But there are others that have different point of views about the game and you're ignoring them with your rapid modifications. No one can win in such fights - everyone just wastes time with it and the article will end up in a mess. That's why I'd like you to to follow the middle course, then we'll all be happy. Also, don't make so much changes so fast, I prefer quality instead of quantity. Please don't see this as a personal attack. RememberMe 20:18, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well your only edits were large reverts and on the talk page, so if you want your idea's added you (aka user:Nightbeast) need to carfully edit your idea's in like everybody else. Id be more then happy to see your idea's added, just not by disregarding everything else. Ele9699 20:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) An article in wikipedia is not about adding ideas. The information you add are liable to account by the one who adds them, which you ignore. If you want to add something others do not agree, you HAVE to discuss the matter on the discussion page. If you read the discussion page, you'll find out that there were huge discussions about one sentence. Do you really believe you can change everything without disputes???

 * 2) "you (aka user:Nightbeast)" What is this supposed to mean? I know who I am and I don't think you do. If you want to conclude that I'm someone else in order to reduce the number of opponents, I have to disappoint you. I'm not this user and as long as you can't prove it, it's slander which is a dihonourable crime where I come from. Actually, this is a good example for my criticism: the information you add is not verified. You added a lot of speculatons into the article just like this accusation.

 * 3) "People With Dynamic IPs are Forbidden From Posting on My Talk Page" Neither this talk page nor the article is in your possession. It's under the terms of the GNU Free Documenation License RememberMe 20:50, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * "An article in wikipedia is not about adding ideas". Wow, that is really why out there. I guess a rational converstion is not really possible with "you". Why dont "you" stop make larger reverts to old versions, and just edit your idea's in like your supposed to. Ele9699 21:01, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not quiet sure if we have another definition of "idea", but this article is not a forum. If you state that "the game was well received by the gaming community", that CANNOT be accepted (not even as "your" idea). You have to prove what you claim on the discussion page which you neglect. You should be more careful of what you state! Why the hell are "rational converstation" not possible with me??? Can you explain it? Can you justify it?
 * For I believe I am, and as said before, I know much better who I am. RememberMe 21:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nighbeast/Remember me comments
Your edits contained misinformation although it was explained to you on the talk page and although you read through it. (For example the number of accounts). That's sneaky vandalism. Your edits are almost all objectionable. If you revert the version again ignoring what I pointed out on the talk page, I'll request temporarily page protection on grounds of vandalism.NightBeAsT 20:52, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok User:Rememberme / User:Nightbeast, that not only does not make sense, but isn't even true. The only "vandalism" on that page, is when "you" revert it that old version and disregard all the updates inlcuding spelling and corrects. Again, just edit your idea's in rather being so distruptive. Ele9699 21:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) When the hell will you understand that I'm not User:Nightbeast??? Can you prove it, NO! And you will never be able to for it is false, a lie, slander, whatever...
 * 2) "old version" The word "old" is POV, if you can follow me. You added speculations and false statements. I,too, consider your edits vandalism as long as you don't discuss them properly and make compromises.
 * 3) The article had a lot more spelling mistakes after your changes. There is no need to correct them, since the contents of the sentences is not acceptable. Just do yourself a favour and discuss changes before you do them - if you discuss properly, what is there for you to fear? RememberMe 21:24, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ha again your not right, you even reverted spelling corrections of things YOU wrote. Which, btw feel free to edit back in- just not by reverting the whole page. Ele9699 21:39, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 1)I don't know that. If I reverted spelling corrections, you can apply them again.
 * 2)"again your not right" ??? I can't recall that you ever were. RememberMe 21:42, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * So I can apply them again? Well tell you what, why dont you just edit your idea's back in like rather then reverting the entire article. Ele9699 21:49, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You know quiet well that it's more work to change your editings rather then reverting them all, for there's hardly anything that can be used and most needs to be removed anyway. As I said before, discuss the changes you're going to make before changing everything completely from its roots. Then it's a matter of reasoning instead of making hundreds of changes lacking quality. RememberMe 21:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ele9699 - If this dispute with Nightbeast is likely to continue, and you feel that he is using sock puppets, there are many options open to you. I suggest you refer the matter to the Association of Members' Advocates; as a last resort, you can request arbitration from the Arbitration Committee. I have also posted these suggestions to Nightbeast's talk page. Gabriel Beecham/Kwekubo 21:54, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ele9699, I've contacted user:Alex756 to engage a third impartial party to end the dispute, just to let you know. I've tried to offer an objective description of the dispute. We should both explain our attitudes to him, and give reasons for them as well so he can understand what's going on and how to settle our differences in a fair way.NightBeAsT 19:37, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if you could stop your editing spread for a second and prove you're in favour of settling our differences by talking rather than by pressing on "save page". Ignoring people deliberately just makes one look arrogant and self-centered. If you're actually trying to achieve a dispute resolution, you should take advantage of the opportunity you now have.NightBeAsT 20:37, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * We'v already had extensive discussion, both you and your puppet account/"friend" Rememberme. I responded to you several dozen points and most other comments as well. Iv already said dozens of time's know that you should feel free to edit the idea's you want back in, and stop reverting the page and disrearding dozens of spelling, details, and corrections by me and other users. Ele9699 20:42, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

conclusion
Your conclusion ROCKS!!! Let's recall it:

"A large part of its success can not only be atributed to it being a US_Army game, but by simply being a free first person shooter. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is another free FPS has done even better during the same time period, much better then its nearly identical predeccesor Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a game which must be purchased."

Thanks for making me laugh! Thank you, Ele!!! RememberMe

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I have to agree with your statement on the Lou Albano page. If you ask people on the street what they know Lou Albano for they won't say "Being the voice on Mario once". Thanks for the laugh, Clay4president

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Are you sure it's me? Never heard of the group, or the album! SkierRMH 21:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

NRBQ At Yankee Stadium

 * Hi. You included this album in the list of missing articles about notable albums.  I'm starting work on the article, but I'm wondering if anything specific led to it being included.  If it was on a notable list of "greatest albums", that fact should be in the article itself.  I haven't found it listed anywhere like that, though.  Let me know, thanks!  --Skyraider 23:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Skyraider - I generated that list from several sources - most of them are listed. The reason that it was notable was the critical acclaim that it received over many other similar albums.  I think that it was from a version of acclaimedmusic.net that is no longer available.  Best of luck!.  -- Reflex Reaction  ( talk )• 22:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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To me, calling it controvercial (without adequate citations) implies a certain POV, which, as you know, we can't do. If you'll also notice, the SecuROM article is almost entirely unsourced and unreferenced. Better to be safe than sorry, no? Dp76764 (talk) 23:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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I noted the POV tag on the discussion of the cartoon. The statement regarding the animation was irredeemably a violation of WP: NPOV so I removed it. I mention this to you just in case a bot reverts my edit (being an anonymous IP that happens to me quite a lot). Good catch! 68.146.64.9 (talk) 03:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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HI - I tried to add some info on the NRBQ page.
my stepdad, Bobby Burnett went to high school with Steve Ferguson and Terry Adams, as did my mother, her brother, my father and his brother. All have passed away now, including Bobby, who just passed on Thursday, July 21 2011 - who I believe was a ex-brother in law to Joey Spampinato as well- not sure about that lore.

So, while comtemplating my grief for my beloved stepdad, I remembered meeting and hearing NRBQ play through Bobby, who introduced me to the band in Louisville about 30 years ago, including Joey, Terry and Steve Ferguson. This had a lifelong influence on my blues tastes. And I did locate some articles that show that NRBQ- at least its founding members - were from Louisville, not Miami.

However, I am new to editing Wiki and I do not understand some of the editing tools. But I did the best I could and hope whoever originally wrote the article will forgive me and/or correct any mistakes I made. Steve Ferguson was a guitar hero and I helped participate in the fundraising for MERF (Musicians Emergency Relief Fund) in Lou Ky for his benefit.

Please forgive and correct if needed.

Thanks,

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The Irish Press

The Irish Press (Irish: Scéala Éireann) was an Irish national daily newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 5 September 1931 and 25 May 1995.

Foundation
The paper's first issue was published on the eve of the 1931 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Kilkenny and Cork; other newspapers did not cover Gaelic games in any detail at the time. Margaret Pearse, the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse, pressed the button to start the printing presses. The initial aim of its publisher was to achieve a circulation of 100,000 which it quickly accomplished. It went on to list a subscribership of 200,000 at its peak. Irish Press Ltd. was officially registered on 4 September 1928, three years before the paper was first published, to create a newspaper independent of the existing media where the Independent Newspapers group was seen as supporting Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael, and The Irish Times being pro-union, and with a mainly middle-class or Protestant readership. The Irish Press founder Éamon de Valera said the paper's objective was: "To give the truth in the news, that will be the chief aim of The Irish Press. The Irish Press will be a truthful journal and a good newspaper". The founders planned to produce an evening and Sunday edition of the paper if the daily was successful, and they did.

Initial financing
The money to launch The Irish Press was raised in the United States during the Irish War of Independence by a bond drive to finance the First Dail. The amount raised was $5 million ($55 million adjusted for inflation as of 2011). However, 60 percent of this money was left in various banks in New York. Nobody has been able to explain why Éamon de Valera ordered the bulk of the money to be left in New York when he returned to Ireland in late 1920. In 1927, as a result of legal action between the Irish Free State government and de Valera, a court in New York ordered that the bond holders be paid back outstanding money due to them. However de Valera's legal team had anticipated the ruling and had prepared for the outcome. A number of circulars were sent to the bond holders asking them to sign over their holdings to de Valera. The bond holders were paid 58 cents to the dollar. This money was then used as start up capital to launch The Irish Press. Following the 1933 Irish General Election de Valera used his Dáil majority to pass a measure allowing the bond holders to be paid the remaining 42 percent of the money still owed.

Censorship by Free State Government
In December 1931, the editor Frank Gallagher was prosecuted by an Irish Free State military tribunal for publishing articles alleging that Gardaí had mistreated the opponents (Anti-Treaty republicans) of the Irish Free State government. This was facilitated by Amendment No. 17 of Constitution of the Irish Free State and Gallagher was convicted and fined £50. An example of animosity from those who supported Independent Newspapers and the Free State government was that The Irish Press was excluded from the special train which delivered newspapers from Dublin to the countryside.

Prominent personalities
The newspaper was controlled by Éamon de Valera and his family, and as a consequence, it supported Fianna Fáil consistently throughout its life, expressing the "national outlook" in keeping with the thoughts and sentiments of his party supporters. The paper was aimed particularly at teachers and schools, with strong coverage of GAA games and the Irish language. Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was the first Irish language editor. The first editor was Frank Gallagher, who fought alongside Éamon de Valera during the Irish War of Independence. Its directors included Robert Barton.

Seán Lemass was an early managing director. Major Vivion de Valera, son of the founder, subsequently became managing director. De Valera was noted for courtesy amongst those running the business, which was considered well run. Shareholders came from both Ireland and the United States. It was many years before a dividend was paid. Douglas Gageby worked on each of the press titles, The Irish Press, Evening Press (as first editor) and The Sunday Press, and subsequently was editor of The Irish Times. Tim Pat Coogan, who started working for the Evening Press, became editor of The Irish Press from 1968 until 1987. Derry-born James Patrick (Jim) McGuinness, who was editor from 1953 until 1957, brought in journalists such as Benedict Kiely, Seán J. White, and also Brendan Behan as a columnist.

Others who have written for The Irish Press include the poet Patrick Kavanagh; the broadcaster and journalist Vincent Browne, who was Northern Editor from 1970 to 1972; Damien Kiberd who was business editor; his brother, Professor Declan Kiberd, was a columnist with The Irish Press from 1987 to 1993; the Catholic and feminist campaigner and journalist Mary Kenny; sports writer and founder of GOAL John O'Shea; the novelist John Banville was Chief Sub-editor of the Irish Press - other sub-editors included the poet Hugh McFadden; the historian Dermot Keogh, and the Joycean critic Terence Killeen; T. P. O'Mahony (Religious Affairs Correspondent 1967–89); Maire Comerford; sports writer Michael Carwood; Breandán Ó hEithir (Irish Language editor 1957–1963); Dermot Walsh; Tom O'Dea (television critic 1965–1983); also the renowned sports writer Con Houlihan.

In its early days, it was circulated throughout Ireland by a specially rented train because the rival Independent Newspapers would not rent space on its train to The Irish Press. It sustained itself with its own resources until the Sunday Press was founded in the 1940s. In its heyday, The Irish Press had a number of first-rate reporters and columnists. One notable section, New Irish Writing was edited by David Marcus.

Section 31 and the Troubles
In the 1970s, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Conor Cruise O'Brien, tried to use and amend The Emergency Powers Act and Section 31 of the Broadcasting Authority Act, to censor coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Press editor, Tim Pat Coogan, published editorials attacking the Bill.

The Fine Gael/Labour Coalition Government tried to prosecute The Irish Press for its coverage of the maltreatment of republican prisoners by the Garda "Heavy Gang", with the paper winning the case.

Additional titles
Later, the Irish Press started two further newspapers, the Evening Press (1954), and the Sunday Press. The Evening Press was aimed at an urban readership and achieved a daily circulation of 100,000. Terry O'Sullivan, the pen name of Tomas O'Faolain, father of writer and journalist Nuala O'Faolain, was provided with a car and driver and wrote a social column. The new newspapers subsidised The Irish Press when its circulation sagged. Its adoption of a tabloid format did not rescue its declining circulation.

Formerly one of the main daily newspapers in Ireland, its business failure left the ground clear for its old rivals, The Irish Times and the Irish Independent, to dominate the daily market for some years until other competitors were introduced.

Final days
The final issue of the Irish Press and Evening Press was on Thursday, 25 May 1995. The newspapers closed ostensibly because of a bizarre industrial dispute over the sacking of the group business editor, Colm Rapple, but in fact, the company was insolvent with accumulated losses of €19m and the company applied to liquidate with a few days of the dispute starting. The group had not been in a healthy financial state for several years. When it eventually closed, with indebtedness of £19 million, 600 people lost their jobs.

A relaunch in 1988 of the Irish Press as a tabloid did not help matters. In 1989, Ralph M. Ingersoll Jr. took a 50 percent stake in Irish Press Newspapers. Several efforts were made to relaunch the newspapers but these failed.

Independent Newspapers invested £1.1 million for a 24.9 percent stake in Irish Press Newspapers and had made loans of £2 million when the titles ceased publication. It recouped £1 million arising from a charge against a loan when the Irish Press office in Burgh Quay was sold in 1996.

The final editor from 1987 to 1995, Hugh Lambert died after a short illness on 26 December 2005.

Irish Press plc today
The company, Irish Press plc, remained in existence after cessation of printing of the main titles. Irish Press bought Thom's Directories for £355,000 in October 1999. The directors of the company are Éamon De Valera (grandson of the former Irish president that founded the newspaper) and Jimmy A. Lehenan. Vincent Jennings was Chairman 1992–2005. The company experienced mixed success with its Thom's Directory venture. Since getting out of the newspaper business, the company has struggled on occasion to produce profits.

The company entered voluntary liquidation in 2017 following the sale of all its remaining assets except Thoms Directory, which had ceased printing in 2012 and moved to an online directory format afterwards. No buyer was found for Thoms, which was then itself liquidated.

The Irish Press group sponsored a trophy for the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship in 1949, the winners ever since, being awarded the Irish Press Cup.

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Yelizaveta Kovalskaya

Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kovalskaya (Елизавета Николаевна Ковальская; 17/29 June 1851 – 1943) was a Russian revolutionary, narodnik, and founding member of Black Repartition.

Early life
Kovalskaya was born near Kharkiv. Her mother was a serf, who belonged to her father, Colonel Solntsev. When she was aged about seven, she confronted her father, having just learnt that "there were landowners and peasant serfs in the world, that landowners could sell people, that my father could separate my mother and me by selling her to one neighbouring landowner and me to another—but my mother could not sell my father." He agreed to free them both, and had them registered as free citizens, and arranged for her to be privately educated. When he unexpectedly died, he left his large estate to his illegitimate daughter. She used her new wealth to organise free higher education courses for women, and hired a lecturer named Yakov Kovalsky, whom she married but later divorced, until a police officer came and threatened to arrest them both unless they stopped.

Revolutionary life
Kovalskaya went on to join the Kharkov society for the promotion of literacy. She was inspired by the women's movement in the 1860s and so she was always interested in feminist and socialist views. Impressed by the work of Robert Owen, she used one of her inherited houses as a college for young women seeking education.

In 1869, she met Sophia Perovskaya and began attending her women's meeting, both joining Zemlya i volya (The Land and Liberty).

When Zemlya i volya split in 1879, Kovalskaya joined the Black Repartition, while her colleague Perovskaya joined Narodnaya Volya (The Peoples Will). Black Repartition rejected terrorism, while Narodnaya Volya felt that terrorist acts were an appropriate method in forcing reforms. Kovalskaya worked with Black Repartition to support a socialist propaganda campaign among workers and peasants.

In 1880, together with Nikolai Schedrin, she took part in organizing the Worker's Union of Southern Russia in Kiev. Although only involved in propaganda work, she was arrested in 1881, found guilty of being a member of an illegal organization and sentenced to an open-ended katorga in 1881. In 1882, Kovalskaya was transferred to the Kara katorga. During the next twenty years, she went through several hunger strikes and made two unsuccessful prison escapes as well as knifed a prison guard. She and Sofya Bogomolets escaped together in February 1882, but were recaptured after about two weeks. According to the American journalist George Kennan, who visited Siberia in the 1880s and interviewed political exiles, a warden named Colonel Soloviev had the two women stripped naked in his presence, then told their male comrades that they were "not much to look at." Back in prison, Bogolomets protested by ripping up floorboards and was put in a straitjacket. Kovalskaya, who tried to prevent the wardens from binding her, was put in handcuffs. Shchedrin, who was in the same prison, punched Soloviev in the face, for which he was sentenced to death, though the sentence was commuted, and he was chained to a wheelbarrow. In 1888, she refused to stand up when the Governor General of the Amur region entered her cell. As a punishment, she was stripped naked by males soldiers, forced to wear the convict clothes of a common criminal, and taken 70 miles by stream in a small boat from Ust-Kara to a new place of deportation, Stretinsk. This set off a prolonged protest by other female political prisoners in Ust-Kara, which began with a sixteen day hunger strike and culminated in the flogging of a prisoner, Nadezhda Sigida, and the deaths of five prisoners, who poisoned themselves in protest.

She was finally released in 1903, moving to Geneva and joining the Socialist Revolutionary Party. In 1903–1917, she was in exile in Switzerland and France.

In 1918, Kovalskaya became a research worker at Petrograd Historical Revolutionary Archive and member of the editorial board of the Katorga and Exile magazine.

She had been married twice, and there was never any mention of her having children.

title: Yelizaveta Kovalskaya


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bend Over Here It Comes Again

 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. The initial definition is already in the list of acronyms. The rest of the text is a hoax which should be removed from history. Rossami (talk) 07:30, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bend Over Here It Comes Again
At best a dicdef, more likely a neologism or hoax. Delete. --BM 18:06, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Entry unnecessarily broken out from List of acronyms and initialisms yesterday. Delete. Uncle G 18:44, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial dictionary definition. Megan1967 23:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect back to List of acronyms and initialisms. Quite surprisingly, this acronym garners 5180 google hits.    GRider\talk 00:12, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Triddle/Archive 1

M1126A Fryker
For details on the dispute regarding this article see User talk:Triddle/M1126A Fryker

 * You should place the page on uncyclopedia.org, where it can live forever. Ihavenolife

vandalism

 * Please leave your comments here regarding my vandalism solution.

See Foundation issues. Soundguy99 04:26, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Besides all those policy questions, it's very difficult for person outside US to pay for something in the Internet. Like a hundredth of a procent of Russians I have a classic credit card. And what? I can't even donate - PayPal does not want to accept cards from Russia. So, it's a useless piece of plastic. Varnav 03:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

you'll probably notice the problem before you see this but...
You forgot to sign your comment at Featured picture candidates/Undercarriage. Circeus 00:36, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Stubsensor
Hi, Triddle!

Could you please adjust the stubsensor in such a way as not to include articles on Russian federal subjects (so far only Vladimir and Saratov Oblasts have been affected; I reverted them both)? I can very well see how the sensor would assume these are not stubs, but, as a matter of fact (and unfortunately), they are just stubs. There is not nearly enough information there to justify calling them articles. Here is an example of what such an article would need to achive to classify as non-stubby: Kalmykia. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks, and keep up the good work—I hope you are getting more hits than misses!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 17:50, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

I think that would be the most perfect solution. I really can't accept an article such as Saratov Oblast as a non-stub, even though the Perfect stub article guideline begs to differ. seems to cover this gray area very well. Thanks for your comments.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:17, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

The ironic thing, of course, is that I will probably be the one expanding those articles, when their turn is up in the Russian federal subjects WikiProject ( status ). Oh, well, let's hope for the best. Maybe the expand tag will bring some additional attention those articles are in such desperate need of...—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:33, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

I fully agree with Ezhiki in that if an article is, strictly speaking, more than just a stub, but so incomplete on the subject, that the reader needs to know it right away, then removing the template will do more bad than good. In such article the reader needs to be warned PROMINENTLY not to rely on the article if he looks for info on the subject and go elsewhere (perhaps to Britannica or the library) if he wants to get any clue on the topic.

There is an appealing suggestion at User:Triddle/stubsensor page:
 * If the article is still not satisfactory to you perhaps is more suited?

However, there is one problem. Current instructions for the say :
 * This category is for articles that are beyond a stub, but still need to be expanded with additional information or details. These articles should be marked with at the top of their talk pages.

The problem is that more often than not the reader won't bother to check the talk page. I placed the once on the article page itself because the article seemed very inadequate to me while going beyond the stub. Someone moved this template to the talk page. I reverted, but strictly speaking that someone is correct and I am not. We need either to change the rule of the expansion template or create another template to be placed on the main pages. Would appreciate any ideas. Irpen 00:46, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems the best thing to do is to keep calling it a stub until another tactic can be found. That will still let us do a majority of the job and not disrupt other's work. I have updated the guidelines to that effect as well. Thanks for letting me know there was a problem.Triddle 01:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't really have any ideas regarding what the best way to handle this is, so I crossposted Irpen's comments to the Category talk:Articles to be expanded page (I hope it's OK with Irpen; if not, please feel free to remove your comments from there). Perhaps this will help, as, obviously, more people are watching that category than this talk page.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 14:48, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Triddle: Whilst I think that stubsensor is a great concept, it will diminish Wikipedia if the users do not flag articles as incomplete. In my opinion, it is very rare that an article flagged as a stub is complete: most need expansion or cleanup. Perhaps you could emphasise the need to replace the stub template with something more appropriate, rather than simply removing it in most cases. --Theo (Talk) 09:30, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Theo: I've tried to do just that; I added in instructions about Template:wikify and Template:cleanup but other than that (and Template:expand, which was already on the instructions page) I don't know what else to do. There is a huge grey area inbetween Perfect stub article and most of what we touch here. But I also read on a Template:expand instruction page that most articles need expansion on Wikipedia and Template:Expand really should not be on most articles. Do you have any ideas for how this can be done better? Thanks for the feedback! Triddle 17:17, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree with Triddle on this. I don't think the stub template was meant to be used like the expand template is. I think it was meant to denote short articles and that's it. I wish I had a solution for this. I do think that, just like anything else on Wikipedia, it's got to be taken on a case by case basis. There are plenty of tags that can be used. We have expand and wikify and cleanup and a bunch of others. I say, use them and don't use stub. In fact, if it was up to me, we'd ditch stub altogether. I'm not sure what the point of it is since yes, most articles on here need expanding.

 * And thanks for the thanks on my talk page, Triddle. Just here to help. Got my broom handy. :-) --Woohookitty 02:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, most articles need expanding. Every article in WP could be made to inform on the subject better than its current version. However, information that is just less than complete is one thing. The article that would not just underinform but also would mislead due to its incompleteness is something else and such article require to be tagged in one way ore the other. Very often the article would be misleading not because it is POV but because lots of things were simply not written yet. If such article is more than a stub, the expansion template on top seems a good way to tag it. Irpen 22:08, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

Stubsensor
Can you inform me how to use your stubsensor? I'm not really knowledgeable on Perl or Programming in general - so any help would be much appreciated! Thanks. --Randy 11:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Suppressor updates
I elaborted the suppressor page, and I think I straigtened out the apparent contradiction. Take and look and see if it looks better. scot 19:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Isolation tank

 * Interesting thing, your stubsensor. Good idea. Anyway, there should be something intermediate between stub and full-fledged article, so to indicate to people "please extend this". Probably that's just what the extend-template says.
 * I will be more cautious about where to put the stub alert. Ben talk contr 04:20, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I read it, now it became clearer, Triddle, thanks a lot. Ben talk contr 04:55, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Stubsensor
Has twice taken the stub tag off Linux Tablet, an extremely long article with little more than headings in it. Its a stub....

Any chance the code can be mangled to check how much of an article isn't in == == statements? --Kiand 08:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Very kind. Lush award. Very proud. Like to thank my mother and father, Vint Cerf, &c &c. --Tagishsimon (talk)
 * BTW, could yo hack your Edit link so that it autofills the Edit Summary box with suitble Stubsensor propganda? --Tagishsimon (talk)

Stubsensor
Are you the anon who deleted this section? If so, please make sure you're logged on, so you don't keep me guessing :) Mgm|(talk) 18:25, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

More stubsensor stuff
Noticed that your stubsensor project wound up "un-stub-tagging" the article Ampeg. which is on my watch list as an article I'll get around to adding to one of these days. No real objection to the loss of the stub tag, since the article has grown, but it would be nice if the human editors untagging would make sure that articles larger than stubs but not yet near complete would get another tag (like "expand") that would still keep the article listed so it gets more attention. Also, I would really strongly recommend that your section about "How to object to the actions of the stubsensor project" and the edit summaries not be titled "Conflict resolution." That name has a long-standing history for the variety of official ways that article problems or issues with problem editors can be resolved, like Requests for comment, Mediation and Requests for Arbitration. My first interpretation when I saw the edit summary that had a link to "conflict resolution" was that you were being extremely arrogant and suggesting that if someone didn't like your edits you weren't going to listen to reason, but were instead inviting editors to take it up with the officials. Not the case, of course, but changing the name would help prevent any possible misinterpretation. Thanks for listening, Soundguy99 04:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They're still out there
Stubs, I mean. We need you Tridders, old chap. Run that 154KVA Stubsensor just one more time, huh? thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

WikiBook: Demystifying Depression
Hi triddle, I have discovered your work on the Demystifying Depression WikiBook and just want to say a really big THANK YOU. I have only done a quick scan through most of it so far, but it looks like an outstanding piece of work, both for helping sufferers and for informing and de-mystifying the subject for others.

In particular, Demystifying_Depression:The_Buildup_to_a_Depression explains precisely what happened to me over the last 6 months in a way that I have been trying to understand, and failing to explain adequately to friends, family and employer. They will all be receiving a link to your excellent work.

Thanks again, and I really LOVE the scarecrow =:-)

--81.77.41.241 08:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Would you link to be an admin?
With all your good work would you like me to nominate you on RfA? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 16:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your consideration but I have given it careful consideration and decided I already spend enough time here doing other chores. Perhaps in the future I'll consider an adminship. Triddle 19:46, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Double redirects

 * '''Moved to User talk:Triddle/double redirect

Triddle, I'm running into LOTS of false positives on the double redirects. It's about half of the ones I've run into. What should we do about it? Just ignore them or should we note them somewhere? --Woohookitty 04:57, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Yup, I think you need to rethink. Most of what I've seen are links to plain single redirect pages - e.g. look at this: - you are marking four innocuous redirect pages, and failing to mark all the pages under Chibi-Usa (redirect page) which are in fact the double redirects. Suggest you remove the project from the active fixup template until you've reconsidered it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * I don't quite follow, perhaps you can explain where I'm going wrong? I checked 20 examples from one of the reports and in all cases each of the false positives had really just been fixed by someone else in between the time the last dump was taken (over a month) and now. I also don't see the problem with Chibi-Usa. Maybe you can show me the double redirect chain you are referring to? Triddle 18:06, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Most wanted stubs
I think you may be good with this kind of stuff, so I was wondering if you could find the time to update Most wanted stubs. It would be a good resource for what should be our priorities. Thanks for your help. --Dmcdevit 22:01, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks a lot. This is much better than what we had before, but if you're still interested, I have some suggestions. I notice that some special characters don't show up right. For example, Añasco, Puerto Rico is rendered as AÒasco,_Puerto_Rico. Also, There seem to be a lot that have inflated total because of navigational templates linked to many pages. I don't even know if it's possible to do anyting about it, but Puerto_Rico, for example, seems to be the only reason all those Puerto Rico cities show up. Is there some way to exlude links from templates? (if you could make it only article space that would work) Thanks. --Dmcdevit 20:24, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Triddle, you're awesome for updating the list, even though I hardly ever get a chance to look at it these days.  Good work. Elf | Talk 04:18, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello Triddle, the trouble with the red links is already fixed in the main list as well as yours. It was due to misspellings of non English characters by the database dump. Perhaps the software could be fixed so that the list replaces the wrong non English characters for the right ones? It would be nice. Vale, Lcgarcia 30 June 2005 18:52 (UTC)

False positives II
On the stubsensor page, I removed a ton of false positives. Someone (not sure who) had listed a whole slew that were definitely not stubs. One was 7 paragraphs long. So that's why the list went from 30 to less than 10. Just so you know. --Woohookitty 28 June 2005 04:03 (UTC)

Help with Stubsensor
Hi Triddle. I know this is kind of a newbie question, but…. Is an article like this, which contains a lot of statistics but little prose, considered a stub? — Bcat

More help with Stubsensor
Am I doing something wrong? It seems like there are a lot of false positives. For example, all the stubs in Category:British Columbia provincial electoral districts. — Bcat (talk | email) 28 June 2005 19:20 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship
Please vote for me. :) I feel like a candidate. :) The vote is at Requests_for_adminship/Woohookitty. --Woohookitty 29 June 2005 03:39 (UTC)

Help

 * Moved to WikiProject_help_desk

Are you a bot-maker, by any chance? You seem to be skilled at computer-science things. Because of the software upate, the bot that I've been using to transwiki dictionary definitions to Wiktionary has broken. It may need to be rewritten from scratch (I didn't write the original, and have no idea how). Now the backlog is growing again. Interested at all? --Dmcdevit 2 July 2005 00:18 (UTC)

Fancy refreshing untagged images?
Untagged images is almost done, but its last run was in February sometime; so I guess we'll have gathered a few thousand more untagged images. I'm not sure who did the last SQL for this & don't think it was published. Would you fancy taking over the task of generating the lists ... from first principles? I guess we're looking for all images without tags listed here. --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * I may have gone off half-cocked - Redworlf is talking about doing the report. Though for my money, I'd be happy if you did, since Redwolf is not saying magic things like "tomorrow". But I should give you the option of declining rather than keep you in ignorance of RW's offer. I think a stubsensor layout would be preferable, yes. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * Meanwhile it occurs to me that a list of articles without categories would be handy. If huge. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Bayesianising stubsensor
I wouldn't mind helping out with this, but I'm off to Europe on Thursday for 2 weeks, so it will have to wait. If you don't know it already, Paul Graham's A plan for spam article gives a good overview of how Bayesian categorisation works: stub sorting should be a much easier problem than spam detection. Also read the docs for the categorizer module: I've never used the module itself, but there are quite a few users for it and I've heard positive things about it. --- Charles Stewart 5 July 2005 22:01 (UTC)

Quick question
Background info: there have been many VfD's that ended with a "transwiki" decision. Those articles that should now be deleted after they've been transwikied, but usually the transwikiers aren't the same as the admins, so after being transwikied, they are promptly forgotten (and not deleted). So, I'm wondering if it would be possible to write something that would look at all the entries at WP:TL and put a link at the end of the line to a VfD page if one exists for that article. So for example the first entry would become: Do you think this could be done? This is just a one-time thing to help clean out that log. Of course this is not urgent, especially since it seems like you're probably busy. Thanks. --Dmcdevit July 9, 2005 02:06 (UTC)
 * Letter writing → Wikibooks:Transwiki:Letter writing --Woohookitty 05:44, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC) (Deleted) (VfD)

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Nice.
Wow. Nice response on Talk:Fox News. I was going to put a comment after it, but I felt I would be distracting too much from your comment, which I feel is more substantial. I was going to mention statistical methods, joint and/or conditional probabilities, and how the demographics of fox viewers can be factored out if one knows the joint probabilities. If this is in the data, I think it's an valuable point to a critically minded person, and I think Silverback is significantly critically-minded. Then the manner of presentation would be the dispute, wherein I would side with wikipedia policy. This also means, to me, at least, and frankly, regardless of wikipedia policy, that if the report reaches an objective statistical conclusion, that fact should be stated as an objective statistical conclusion reached by the report, and if it is the thesis or primary conclusion of the report, it should not be downplayed as anything less than the thesis or primary conclusion, insofar as the report is considered significant enough to present in the article, and the preeminent statement of the report is the thesis/primary conclusion.

Attention to Fox News is a valuable indicator, as well, IMHO, but it would have to be demonstrated that this was irrespective of viewer party orientation, as it could presumably have inverse affects depending on party orientation, or at least that it affected each party orientation or "initial support for Bush" in the same direction, possibly to differing extents. Or another way to do it - weight the demographics of the viewers to match the demographics of the Nation, and see if attention to FOX News remains a significant factor.

There still remains the argument of whether this is due to bias or irresponsible reporting. IMHO, it's the same thing - bias is constitued from lack of checking the facts oneself and realizing the legitimacy of those facts, in comparision to the legitimacy of a second-hand presentation of the same facts - what Henry David Thoreau refered to as "self-reliance". That is, IMHO, there is a direct and mutual inverse relationships between critical thinking and bias. So to me, irresponsible reporting and bias mean the same thing. However, I feel that irresponsible reporting constitutes a bigger problem than bias, for it is okay to have an opinion and state it persuasively, if and only if one is cognizant and respectfull of the facts. Kevin Baastalk 08:40, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)

 * I get the impression that these are the relevant concepts: Logistic regression, Generalized_linear_model, Odds ratio, where "p" is the probability of misperceptions.

 * My interpretation of logistic regression, from first glance, is from an information-theoretic perspective: In logistic regression, one finds, to maximum likelihood, how many bits of information, an, each category contributes to the final probability. (Such that if they each got a "vote" per bit, the outcome would be determined by the average value of the votes. - The value of an votes being xn) Therefore, p(x) =  ea(1,x)x(1,x)ea(2,x)x(2,x)ea(n,x)x(n,x). (each variable multiplies together - we are thus saying "if category 1 is x(1,x) AND category 2 is x(2,x) AND... then p(x) is ...)

 * By "binary" logistic regression, I imagine they meant that in the generalized linear model, the multiplier xn on the coeffecient is either 0 or 1; on or off; vote for Bush or don't vote for Bush.

 * FWIW, what I get from the quotations in your last response. Kevin Baastalk 18:32, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)

uploading
Wikipedia apparently has a file type filter. one can upload images, probably nothing else. wikisource concievably might provide the opportunity to upload other files types. if not, you can probably put it in wiki form on wikisource, by copying and pasting. if all else fails, you can email me the doc and i can upload it to an arbitrary site in a subfolder - i'm a web programmer so i have ftp access to some sites. Kevin Baastalk 06:30, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

 * [mailto:kevin@rockstardesign.com] Kevin Baastalk 18:50, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

 * [mailto:actionforum@comcast.net]--Silverback 22:19, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * uploaded here Kevin Baastalk 06:51, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

Thanks
I appreciate your support vote on Requests for adminship/Chamaeleon. :) Chamaeleon 15:34, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Silverback
What's the story with Silverback? You seem to have had run-ins with him in the past. Any idea what kind of scientist he is? He mentioned something about the Intelligent Design article. Which POV was he with? Creationist? Evolutionist? Something in between? Just wondering what kind of guy we're dealing with here. crazyeddie 08:42, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 10:01, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I thanked everyone who voted for me — and almost found myself wishing that there'd been fewer... Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 12:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike Huckabee Merge Proposal
Please comment on merging Mike Huckabee controversies into Mike Huckabee here [] Jmegill (talk) 09:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Edwards
Be careful using the concrete "affair" instead of "alleged affair", as some acolytes will likely try to twist it later. ;-) Thanks for help with clarifying the issue.  /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 03:46, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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I am concerned with the recognition and disputation of national revisionist claims in a wide range of articles. I think Wiki should strengthen its policy of preventing the hijacking of the site by nationalists writing their own histories. Other than that I am just here to learn. Sosyal 18:07, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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