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Expansion of the article
Should we think about a discussion of the different kinds of clock faces? Originally they were brass, and painted faces came later for instance. It's a way of dating a clock. Evertype 10:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Origin of the name "grandfather clock"
The story on the origins of the term "Grandfather Clock" is interesting, but it sounds rather apocryphal. Perhaps it could be rewritten to clarify which parts are documented evidence and which parts are legenday?

Two pendulums
Whoops! Yes, I meant weights, and the additions and correction are most welcome, Adrian! Evertype 19:38, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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move. — Nightst a  llion  (?) 10:40, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Proposal to rename this article
The proper name of a Grandfather Clock should be a Longcase Clock. I haven't heard the story about the hotel clock before, but the "Grandfather Clock" name does come from the nursary rhyme. JP Godfrey 12:24, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with this; the proper name for these is Longcase Clock, and the redirect should be from Grandfather clock to Longcase clock, not the reverse. Evertype 17:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've never heard the term "longcase clock" before and wouldn't be able to imagine what it referred to. Incidentally, the Henry Clay Work song isn't a nursery rhyme; it's too long for that, with several verses and a refrain. Angr (talk • contribs) 19:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I haven't heard longcase clock either. The only reason everything links here rather than to what is now a redirect (grandfather clock) is because they were changed. It seems that this should have been put up for a requested move if someone wished to change it. -- Vedek Dukat Talk 20:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The original and proper name for these is nevertheless Longcase Clock, and there is no reason to revert. Evertype 21:33, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * What is proper is not always the most common name, which is the convention Wikipedia uses... Again, you can put it up for a requested move if you'd like to move it to longcase clock rather than grandfather clock. -- Vedek Dukat Talk 06:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I object to your moving the article back. The proper name should be used, and the redirect from grandfather clock should suffice. I kind of want to ask, who are you to revert my moving the article? Moving it was being bold and wasn't done precipitously or rashly, or to make anyone angry. It was done for the sake of accuracy, and undone because you hadn't heard the term before. Evertype 09:53, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It was done because Wikipedia articles are generally under the most commonly used name, not the pedantic one. Until now, there was no mention of grandmother clocks in the move rationale, which I suppose makes sense. The point about using WP:RM was that, when there is disagreement about a name, the move request should go there. -- Vedek Dukat Talk 20:30, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
The term "longcase" predates "grandfather" and is more generic, as all longcase clocks are not grandfathers (there are grandmother clocks which are smaller for instance). The term "longcase clock" is used by horologists, clockmakers, etc. This request folows on from a renaming dispute; someone had proposed it to be moved, I agreed and moved it, then someone else moved it back. The usual story, I suppose. I think that the article should be under the more accurate general name, and that the redirect should be from the later popular name to that. Evertype 09:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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 * Support As I have requested. Evertype 09:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I don't feel very strongly one way or the other but am inclined towards the "correct" longcase rather than the popular grandfather for the following reasons: (1) "longcase" was the term for 200 years before "grandfather" became popular; (2) clock experts generally use "longcase"; (3) having the main article on "longcase" allows both "grandfather clock" and "grandmother clock" to redirect to "longcase clock". Adrian Robson 12:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * (Later, after doing a quick search on Google for "longcase" I found that Encyclopedia Britannica uses "longcase", as does the BBC's Antiques section. That doesn't mean Wikipedia has to slavishly copy them and use "longcase"; it just highlights that the term hasn't fallen out of use.) Adrian Robson 23:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Weak Support, per Adrian Robson's 3rd reason above: in a nutshell, it will simply be easier for users to find what they are really looking for. With that said, my father has worked professionally on antique and new clocks for over a decade (authorized repairman for Howard Miller and Seth Thomas), and he never uses the term "longcase clock" to my knowledge. I am not sure that the second claim above ("clock experts generally use 'longcase'") can be verified. I would say that "longcase" is more useful for our purposes here because it allows us to condense two articles into one that should be sufficient for the needs of both subcategories. I don't think it is our place to decide that an archaic linguistic variant is somehow objectively "correct." That, IMO, would be a violation of NPOV. Dick Clark 15:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak support per Clark's rationale. -- Vedek Dukat Talk 20:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support The term "grandfather clock" is a colloquialism that came into use after "longcase", as described by Adrian. A few surfs around antique clock shops and you'll find there's something of a consensus that the correct name for a grandfather clock is a longcase clock (or, more specifically, a floor standing longcase clock).  As Wikipedia grows not only in volume of content but also a strong reputation for accuracy, I believe we should endeavor to sustain technical correctness, particularly in areas attempting to offer valid definitions. Brendan Kehoe 23:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose: use the common name most readers will know. Thumbelina 17:59, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Rather than try to prove some nebulous linguistic point about the "correct name", it may be preferable to keep the current name and to mention early on something about how "Grandfathers clocks are one of several types of longcase clocks." We could maintain a unified article or have a general longcase article and then a "grandfather" article, "grandmother" article, etc., if there is enough information go around. I have no doubts about there being plenty for "longcase" and "grandfather," but "grandmother" and any others may get short shrift. Dick Clark 18:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I don't think we have enough material for separate articles, and so I still think Longcase clock is the best umbrella for this topic. Evertype 09:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Oppose Antiques Roadshow calls it a "grandfather clock": I call it a "grandfather clock" -- I don't care what any whorologist says. Ewlyahoocom 08:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment That PBS Antiques Roadshow link cites a Pennsylvanian expert "Your mentor, Gordon Converse, an antique clock expert out of Stafford, PA continues. He says that grandfather clocks were called longcase clocks or tall case clocks prior to that mid-19th-century American song." -- so the term hasn't fallen out of use, though there are alternatives, such as the term you prefer. Note too Adrian's citation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the BBC's equivalent of the Antique's Roadshow. I remain convinced that Longcase clock should be the article title, and other names, popular or not, should redirect to it as they are instances of longcase clocks. Evertype 09:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. Use more inclusive term.  Otherwise, where would we put stuff about Grandmother clocks?  (Oops, looks as if 'What links here' is already set up in favour of the move.)  Noisy | Talk 14:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
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Ummm... dude... just move it and STFU.

Wikipedia official naming policy
According to Wikipedia's official policy regarding naming conventions, "Generally, article naming should prefer what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature." Furthermore, according to Wikipedia's common name naming convention, "When choosing a name for a page ask yourself: What word would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?" I did a Google search for "longcase clock" and "grandfather clock" and got 46,300 results and 843,000 results, respectively. Note also that the article on Mark Twain is titled "Mark Twain", not "Samuel Langhorne Clemens", even though the latter was his legal name. The article on Billy the Kid is named "Billy the Kid", not "Henry McCarty". This is Wikipedia's official naming policy. Naming this article "Longcase clock" rather than the more popular "Grandfather clock" violates Wikipedia naming policy, even if the former is more correct. --JHP 01:56, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The correct name as used here doen't "violate" policy, which is a guideline. "Generally" article naming might prefer a common term, but that doesn't mean an article "must" do so. A grandfather clock is only one type of longcase clock. The redirects get you here from a variety of subtypes of longcase clock. It ain't broke... -- Evertype·✆ 08:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Help - broken picture
Can anybody fix the first image in this article? On my browser it appears blank (white). However he source image on Wikimedia Commons seems to be there. Can't find the problem. -- Chetvorno TALK 23:39, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * If by the first image you mean the photo of the Thomas Ross clock, it looks fine here. -- Evertype·✆ 08:30, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, guess it's my browser. Thanks -- Chetvorno TALK 20:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Shifted picture and deleted picture
I don't really understand BrokenSphere's edit. The Turkish clock photo is really rather bad, and shouldn't showcase the article. I'd even be OK with deleting it. An English clock from 1790 is a far better example. I'll try to do a rearrange that is more pleasing. -- Evertype·✆ 21:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Comtoise and Bornholm clocks
I've merged the new Comtoise Clock article here; the French original has more information which we can mine for this article. I also translated the Bornholm clock article from the Danish Wikipedia and added it here. -- Evertype·✆ 10:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Can I edit?
As an antiques dealer myself I have written an article about the history of longcase clocks for my shop's website. I've noticed some inaccuracies in this particular article and feel I could add to it. I have never edited a Wikipedia article before. Would I simply add my content then reference to the article on my site. Is there a protocol on references linking to other websites? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.141.252 (talk) 17:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You can edit, but please do back up your edits with links. So long as your edit is factual and not commercial, it can be acceptable. Sources to printed books are also great. Please consider registering (so you are not identified as an IP address. And when you finish writing on a Talk page (like here) you can sign your post with four tildes ~ and it will convert into your username and timestamp. -- Evertype·✆ 19:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

grandfather vs grandmother
My understanding has always been that a grandfather clock has straight sides and a grandmother clock is narrower in the middle section. Height may also play a part, but the primary difference is the construction. Googling grandfather clock and grandmother clock illustrates the difference nicely.  |    |       |     |      |     |       |     |      |     |       |     |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |        |   |      |     |       |     |      |     |       |     |    grandfather   grandmother JBarta (talk) 01:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Possible origin of "grandfather clock"
It has been suggested that a popular song, My Grandfather's Clock, is the first use of the term. However, there is at least one literary work of the same year, 1876, that may be the first usage with an illustration (that I've found):
 * The Catskill fairies By Virginia Wales Johnson, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1876.

It may be premature to list the song as the source. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 19:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I have found it in an 1817 publishing...
 * Ovid's Art of love, Remedy of love, Art of beauty, and Amours, By John Dryden Ovid, p.23. Knight & Smith Printers, 62 East Smithfield, 1817.

++++++ This was so weird I had to check it out. The fact is that the Ovid text is followed (with no break) by "Wee Mcgreegor"(1903)by John Joy Bell. Google books just tacked it on at the end!

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Grandmother has gone missing
On 1 October 2012 a description of "grandmother clock" was removed from this article as being unsourced. Now Grandmother clock redirects to this article, which does not mention it at all. WP has no information at all on grandmother clocks. This should be remedied. Chris the speller  yack  01:23, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I just checked, and the granddaughter went missing at the same time. Several dictionaries define "grandmother clock" as being about two-thirds the height of a grandfather clock; the dictionary definition alone should keep any sensible editor from removing any mention of it, I think. Chris the speller   yack  01:45, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Oval Office grandfather clock
I've just created the article Oval Office grandfather clock - aka Seymour tall case clock. As far as I'm aware this is the first WP article about a specific/individual longcase clock. I created the Category:Longcase clocks too, and it now contains that one article and this one. So, I assume that new article should be linked in this one, somewhere, but not knowing this article well I don't want to mess it up. Would someone like to integrate this new specific clock article, or shall I just add it to the 'see also' section? Wittylama 16:20, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 4 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page as proposed at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 00:16, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Longcase clock → Grandfather clock – Per WP:CommonName. "Grandfather clock" is by far the most common name for this type of clock. Rreagan007 (talk) 08:00, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, of course, and thank you for finding this and bringing it to RM. And per Captain Kangaroo, who had one, and the Oval Office grandfather clock, on display. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:51, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support In ictu oculi (talk) 15:58, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - per Google Ngrams, "grandfather clock" dominates usage. -- Netoholic @ 19:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Common name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:35, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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Weights calibrated?
Re your recent edit - the weights have to be calibrated? I've never heard of that. --ChetvornoTALK 04:26, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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Japanese Clock Picture is not a Grandfather
While is a pendulum clock, as per the article description, that's not a grandfather clock, it must be taller and reach the floor. That's just a wall pendulum clock... 186.122.180.78 (talk) 14:02, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Article is rather over-flattering, no mention of his opposition to equal marriage, or of the criticisms of his management of Stonewall. Also, needs lots more, third-party, references. DuncanHill (talk) 02:13, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
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Clan Macpherson

Clan Macpherson is a Scottish clan from the Highlands and a member of the Chattan Confederation.

Origins
The Scottish Gaelic surname for Macpherson is Mac a' Phearsain which means son of the parson. The Celtic church allowed priests to marry and the progenitor of the chiefs of Clan Macpherson is believed to have been a man named Muireach or Murdo Cattenach who was the priest of Kingussie in Badenoch.

The Clan Macpherson is part of the Chattan Confederation (Clan Chattan). In 843 the chief of Clan Chattan was Gille Chattan Mor and one of his descendants, the first chief of Clan Macpherson was forced to resettle in Lochaber by Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scots. The chief could have been the lay prior of Ardchattan and he seems to have been named in honour of Saint Cathan.

Touch not the cat bot a glove. 'Bot' means without. The 'glove' of a wildcat is the pad. If the cat is 'ungloved', its claws are unsheathed. The motto serves as a warning that one should beware when the wildcat's claws are 'without a glove'. It is a reference to the historically violent nature of the clan and serves as a metaphorical warning to other clans that they should think twice before interfering with Macpherson business.

Macpherson clan traditions is that in 1309 Robert the Bruce offered the lands of Badenoch to the chief of Clan Macpherson if they destroyed the Bruce's enemies, the Clan Comyn, and the Macphersons carried out the king's wishes. The Clan Macpherson is sometimes known as the Clan of the Three Brothers owing to the fact that chief Ewan Ban Macpherson had three sons: Kenneth Macpherson of Clunie, Iain Macpherson of Pitman and Gillies Macpherson of Invereshie.

14th-century clan conflicts
In 1370 the Battle of Invernahavon took place between the Chattan Confederation and the Clan Cameron. There was a dispute between the Macphersons and another clan of the confederation, the Clan Davidson over who should take the right wing in the battle. The Clan Mackintosh, whose chiefs were also chiefs of the Chattan Confederation favoured the Davidsons and as a result the Macphersons left the field of battle. The Clan Cameron took advantage of this situation and gained the upper hand, however the Macphersons were eventually coerced back into the battle and the Camerons were defeated. The feud between the Clan Cameron and Chattan Confederation continued for many years after and in 1396 the Battle of the North Inch took place, which was watched by Robert III of Scotland and his whole court.

The Black Chanter
According to Clan Macpherson lore, at the end of the battle, a piper appeared in the sky, played a few notes and then let the pipes fall to the ground, where, being made of crystal they broke; all except the chanter, which, being of wood only cracked. The Clan Chattan piper then seized the chanter and began playing. This Black Chanter is kept at the Clan Macpherson Museum in Newtonmore.

16th century and Glenlivet
Prior to the Battle of Glenlivet in 1594 which was fought between Protestant forces under the Earl of Argyll and Catholic forces under the Earl of Huntly, Argyll had laid siege to Ruthven Castle which was well defended by the Clan Macpherson who were vassals of Huntly's and so Argyll had to give up the siege.

17th century and civil war
In 1618 Andrew Macpherson, eighth chief of Clan Macpherson acquired the abbey-castle grange in Strathisla. Andrew's son, Euan Macpherson supported the royalist cause during the Scottish Civil War and fought for James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose. The tenth chief was Duncan Macpherson of Cluny who in 1672 lost his claim to lead the Chattan Confederation. The Privy Council of Scotland instead found in favour of a Mackintosh. Duncan had no sons and in 1722 was therefore succeeded as chief of Clan Macpherson by Lachlan Macpherson, fourth Laird of Nuid.

18th century Jacobite uprisings
Clan Macpherson having supported the Jacobite rising of 1715, General Wade's report on the Highlands in 1724, estimated the clan strength at 220 men. Chief Euan Macpherson of Cluny was a notable leader in the Jacobite rising of 1745 and fought at the Clifton Moor Skirmish. 300 Macphersons took part in the Atholl raids of March 1746. After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, Cluny was able to escape capture by government troops for nine years even though a reward of £1000 was offered for his capture. He escaped to France in 1755. William Macpherson, who was killed at the Battle of Falkirk (1746), is the ancestor of the current Chief of Clan Macpherson. His brother witnessed government "red coats" burning Macpherson of Cluny's house. Duncan Macpherson of Cluny fought in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Castles and other buildings

 * Cluny Castle, about five miles south-west of Newtonmore in Strathspey, was a stronghold of the clan. The original fourteenth-century castle was razed by the Duke of Cumberland after the Jacobite rising of 1745 which the Macphersons had supported. The present Cluny Castle is a nineteenth-century mansion that was built on the site of the original stronghold.
 * Ballindalloch Castle was built by the Clan Grant and owned by the Ballindallochs before coming to the Macphersons, now the Macpherson-Grants.
 * Newton Castle, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, is the current seat of the Macpherson chiefs.
 * Invereshie House, near Kingussie, Strathspey, was held by the Macphersons from the fourteenth century. William Macpherson of Invereshie captured Blair Castle from the Marquess of Montrose in 1644.
 * Pitmain House, near Kingussie, Strathspey, was held by the Macphersons from the fourteenth century. The present building formed part of the Highland Folk Museum until its closure at that site in 2007. Pitmain Lodge was then sold to private owners in 2020.
 * Clan Macpherson House and Museum, Newtonmore, is situated at the junction of Perth Road, Laggan Road and Main Street. The museum opened in 1952, with the exhibition mainly containing items from the nearby Cluny Castle which had recently been sold. The displays in the museum were significantly reworked in 1984–1985 and in winter 2004–2005.

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A prior VfD originally submitted by BmacD at 07:00, 28 Jan 2005. Possible speedy perhaps? -- Longhair 03:50, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete -- speedy. Nonsense. Longhair 03:50, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Just a title and weblink, no content. Speedy deleted. Fire Star 04:18, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, it's justly deleted now, but how about making it a redirect to Special:Randompage ? Radiant! 15:10, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * I like it. If someone searches for a random page, that's exactly what they should get. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 17:47, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fine with me. Fire Star 02:27, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * A good idea -- Longhair 06:33, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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 * I'm curious, why is this 'considered harmful'? The user asks for a random page, and gets exactly that: a random space. It's not really cross-namespace, as special:randompage once more returns to a normal namespace. Radiant! 14:38, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and absolutely do not redirect it across namespaces. I thought the consensus against such redirects was clear. jni 12:47, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as a redirect. I could see using this to get a random page, as it is so easy to remember. The user gets what he asks for this way, and as Radiant said, it's not really cross-namespace. Jonathunder 07:09, 2005 Mar 15 (UTC)

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STS-61-M

STS-61-M was a proposed NASA Space Shuttle program mission, planned for July 1986 but canceled following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L).

Payload was to have been TDRS-D of the U.S. tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) satellites.

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Poverty in Indonesia

Poverty in Indonesia is a widespread issue though in recent years the official numbers show a declining trend. Due to the dense rural nature of parts of the Java, Bali, Lombok, and parts of Sumatra, poverty can be classified into rural and urban poverty. Urban poverty is prevalent in not only in Jabodetabek, but also in Medan and Surabaya.

As a sprawling archipelago, poverty characteristics and implications vary widely from island to island and culture to culture. The Indonesian part of New Guinea (comprising the provinces of Papua and West Papua) has serious poverty issues of its own due to economic, cultural, linguistic and physical isolations which set it apart from the rest of Indonesia.

Figures
In February 1999, as much as 47.97 million people were classified as poor, representing around 23% of the nation's population. However, this figure must take into account the slide of the rupiah in the Asian financial crisis. By July 2005, that number had been reduced to 35.10 million, representing 41.97% of the total population. Figures from March 2007 showed that 37.17 million people were under the poverty line, representing 20.58% of the entire population.

Based on a report from the Asian Development Bank, Indonesia's national population in 2015 was at 255.46 million, 47.2% of whom lived below the national poverty line. Indonesia's national poverty line set a consumption of Rp302,735 ($25) monthly per person - about 82 cents daily. There was also a disparity as early as 2014, where 23.8% of the rural population was classified as poor while the urban population consisted of 16.2%. This stems from the low-productivity jobs available in the country in agriculture and low-end service sectors.

In September 2017, Indonesia's poverty rate stood at 10.12%, with some 26.58 million people living below the poverty line. As of September 2018, the poverty rate stood at 9.66% (some 25 million people), the lowest ever recorded. With the COVID-19 pandemic causing an economic downturn, Statistics Indonesia reported 1.63 million Indonesian fell into poverty in March 2020, raising the total poverty number to 26.42 million people. The government expected the poverty rate to reach 10.60% (28 million) by the end of the year as the pandemic continued to take its toll on the poor across Indonesia.

Poverty and religion
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, which is approximately 227 million people, more than Pakistan and India, at 204 million and 189 million people, respectively. The Indonesian government began to address the issue of poverty in 1994 due to the migration of rural residents into urban areas hoping for better opportunities in the 1970s and 1980s. This existing social inequality then made Muslim economists design a more modern way of collecting alms run by private organizations in accordance with Islamic values. In Islam, zakat is a form of giving where a muslim or business entity gives gold, silver, property and more to those who deserve, in accordance to Islamic Law. Zakat is one of the obligations of Muslims who are able to do it and have the potential to reduce poverty and social inequality. Other than private foundations who collect and distribute zakat, Indonesia has also established the National Amil Zakat Agency (BAZNAS) as an organization that collects and distributes zakat nationally in response to the large zakat potential of this country with the largest number of Muslims in the world. Nevertheless, a study by Khasandy and Badrudin in 2019 argued that BAZNAS could only manage 1% of the potential estimated zakat which was Rp217 trillion. In 1999, the Indonesian government issued a law on zakat management, which stated that zakat as a potential source of funds to support welfare for public needs to be managed professionally and responsibly by the community (private foundations) and the government. Therefore, the government has an obligation to provide protection, guidance and services to zakat givers and recipients and zakat managers. Until now, various poverty alleviation programs have been implemented the government, among others, Family Welfare Savings (Takesra) and Family Welfare Business Credit (Kukesra) in the Suharto era (1970-1998), Labor Intensive Program in the B. J. Habibie era (1998-1999), Health and Education Services for the Poor in the Abdurrahman Wahid era (1999-2001), Cheap Electricity for Poor Households in the Megawati Sukarnoputri era (2001-2014), Cash Transfer Program (BLT) in the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono era (2004-2014) and Non-Cash Food Assistance (BPNT) in the Joko Widodo era (2014-2019).

Faith-based organizations (FBO), like BAZNAS, could be a potential way in alleviating poverty in Indonesia. The existence of the FBOs play an important role in providing welfare services, but do not always have a good impact on certain community groups. Welfare service programs such as education and health are also carried out by Christians and Catholics who are religious minorities in Indonesia. However, these programs are often not carried out on a massive scale because of the reluctance to be misinterpreted as an attempt to convert non-Christians to Christianity. The lack of cooperation between the government and the FBO is also one of the factors in the overlapping program between the FBO and the government. In addition, the existence of anti-Christian tensions in Indonesia also makes it increasingly difficult to establish cooperation between interfaith FBOs in alleviating poverty.

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Talk:Wilhelm Wundt

Experimental methodology
Could someone add some details regarding Wundt's experimental methodology? I know that he relied primarily on analytic introspection, but apparently also measured reaction time. What sorts of specific experimental questions did he examine, and how? Obviously a complete record of his research would be out of place, but presenting a couple examples of actual experiments that he conducted would be a much-needed addition to the article.

Finally, this sentence has me scratching my head: 'His fasting research participants, focusing only on the response they were to make, could respond automatically to the tone because they didn't have to engage in the additional step of interpretation.' By focusing only on the response, how were they engaged in any form of introspection? And what is this about fasting?? Was that a central aspect of Wundt's methodology?144.118.157.172 (talk) 15:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

facts on Wundt
I came here for some facts on Wundt and found almost none, and what was here looked as if it had been written by behaviorists. Some investigation into the page history showed how someone erased the large life and works section and replaced it with a defacement. Kingturtle removed the defacement but failed to restore the life and works. I created my account to fix this--I tried to bring back that portion intact without removing subsequent edits; I hope I have succeeded.

Afterwards, I re-wrote the lede to more accurately reflect the current understanding of Wundt's work, as opposed to misrepresentations by Titchener and further misrepresentations by behaviorists seeking more funding for their own approaches. Much of this was from ten-year-old memories of History of Psychology, but I have gone to other pages to ensure accuracy which I will try to find again and reference properly, sorry.

I added a section for his influence and impact on American psychology, refactoring part of the life and works into it, and adding material, discussing why his work fell into eclipse in the US, and adding more of his prominent students.

I added a bibliography section, which is unfinished.

--AllanBz 03:58, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

i saw on this that William James and Titchener are both quoted as creating the first American psychology laboratory, which one is it? --BuddhaBubba 23:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I fixed some defacement and replaced the original text in the Life and Works section. --Kloepelm 03:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

--- This really does need some work on it, not least because of the paragraph "Professor Wilhelm Wundt, a German psychologist and Marxist at the University of Leipzig, proclaimed that man’s soul – if indeed he had one – was irrelevant, as man could only be understood in terms of physically observable phenomena. A search for the spiritual nature of man, he reasoned, was a waste of time as there was no psyche. Thus psychology became the study of the spirit which denied the spirit. The subject of psychology thereafter became prevalent in universities." No references, and the 'Marxist' comment is certainly anachronistic and makes one suspicious. By a strange coincidence the exactly same passage can be found at http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/Part01/Chp02/pg0062.html, and so I presume there is an agenda here. Chris McManus, University College London. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.238.82 (talk) 21:32, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Rewrite in progress
In the coming weeks I hope to overhaul the article. I can't believe someone as important as Wundt had such a low-quality article! Hopefully I'll be able to put your concerns to rest soon. AdamBiswanger1 17:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Significant rewrite
Most of the substance of this article was removed without reasonable cause or explanation by an anon IP here. Thereafter, AdamBiswanger and others have slowly rebuilt it, though not with nearly the amount of useful summary information that the article had previously contained. I've replenished the article, for now at least, with some of the material that was removed, hopefully without unduly interfering with useful material that has since been added. I've also placed a couple of templates indicating that references should be provided and improved throughout much of the article. ... Kenosis (talk) 03:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Wundt was also the author of an important book on Logic, not even mentioned here. Also, an intriguing book on ethical philosophy. Altogether, he was a multi-faceted figure and this entry gives no real sense of that. --Christofurio (talk) 03:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Not to mention the 10 volumes of Völkerpsychologie 1900-1920 with their very extensive implications for later work in theological, ethnological and philosophical-anthropological studies! Eebahgum (talk) 09:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

still missing...
This article still leaves out details about his work and what it was trying to do. Kingturtle (talk) 16:54, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Original deletion was mere vandalism
and the same vandal is still active... See above:'Removed without reasonable cause or explanation by an anon IP here'. WELL it is perfectly clear also from a list of this anon IP's contributions, here, from 1 December 2006 to the present February 2010, that this IP has been used for nothing but deliberate vandalism. In fact it is the communal web address of the Accomack County Public Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has only escaped blocking for vandalism because it is a shared point of access. I cannot see why this was not noticed on 14 Sept 2007, when the Wundt article was vandalized, and why the whole edit was not reverted. The damage to the original article was NOT the work of a credible editor. The whole position concerning the original article needs reviewing. Eebahgum (talk) 10:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

What is voluntarism?
In the infobox of the article under known for it lists Voluntarism. in structuralism (psychology) it also notes that voluntarism is one of Wundt's principal beliefs. How is it that there is no information on Wundt's article? How is it that the voluntarism disambig lists no articles, no information?--Kiyarr lls- talk 00:06, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Psycholinguistics
I would like to add a bit to the article about Wundt's influence on psycholinguistics, particularly in his books Logik and Die Sprache, and his ideas about language's role in the understanding social and cultural behaviour, and his idea that the "mental sentence" should be a unit of speech.--Violarulez (talk) 22:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. sort of... --Violarulez (talk) 23:45, 31 May 2011 (UTC) p.s.

incomprehensible, please fix
Though Wundt wrot physics, physiology, psycholinguistics, and of course the universe.[12] In recognition of Wundt's work, the 74.239.209.92 (talk) 05:40, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Publications Section reinstated - Vandalism?
Although inadequate, there was formerly in this article a Section providing a list of publications which was removed about a year ago without comment by an anonymous user. As this was fully referenced material and there is no explanation for its removal, nor otherwise any stated wikipedian objection to its presence in the article, I have restored the material on the assumption that the deletion was vandalism. If in so doing I have reverted a legitimate edit by mistake, I apologise. If there is a good reason to delete it, please, when doing so, leave an explanation on this talk page so that the reasons for and against can be understood by other users. In default of an explanation, a subsequent deletion of the material may be regarded as vandalism. Thanks, Eebahgum (talk) 00:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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Before walking away, please check that your link goes to the right page. The article Association theory goes to a page pertaining to what that term means in chemistry, which is interesting but not relevant when the term is used to refer to a theory in psychology.

The problematic passage is at 6.2, within the "General Psychology" subsection in the "Psychology" section of the page. At the start of the first paragraph the first sentence reads:

Apperception theory Wundt rejected the widespread association theory, according to which mental connections (learning) are mainly formed through the frequency and intensity of particular processes.

The grammar itself is poor. Does it mean "In his apperception theory Wundt rejected..."? Was "Apperception theory" supposed to be its own section with the sentence starting with "Wundt rejected"? But the main issue I take with it is that the link is clearly meant for a psychological theory but instead goes to a page about chemistry.

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Wundt quote without reference
There is a reference to a Wundt excerpt in a section, however there is no citation to where it comes from. See “Central themes in Wundt’s work”, in heading “Definition of psychology”, #1.

There is even a single quote, which suggests that there is a direct quote, however it does not close. The source is also not listed. It is well known that Wundt posited this datum, however, this quote should be referenced.

Does anyone know where this came from? Andrewdegenhardt (talk) 19:13, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

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Should be stipulated that Apocalypse's molecular manipulation power is SELF matriculation. He doesn't have generic molecular manipulation powers such as a character like The Silver Surfer or Dr Manhattan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.27.247.230 (talk) 05:21, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

En Sabah Nur meaning
In the introduction it says <> But under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_(comics)#Rise_of_Apocalypse <>

which one is it? 190.230.55.30 (talk) 14:59, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Although the name is deemed a mistranslation, the name still means "The First One" within the universe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MulhollandJn (talk • contribs) 21:43, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

 * En Sabah Nur does not mean the morning light in Arabic. Sabah is indeed Morning. Nur is light. That phrase though is gibberish. Nur es-Sabah (Nur al-Sabah) = the light of the morning or the morning light. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.216.225.116 (talk) 21:06, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * On reflection, this is almost certainly a mangling of the actual phrase Sabah En-Nur (Sabah El Nur), but En Sabah Nur is not Arabic, it's gibberish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.216.225.116 (talk) 21:11, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm guessing there must be some real linguistic root, because Tolkien uses a very similar name for the caverns on Mount Doom -- Sammath Naur. Too similar to be a coincidence? Bookgrrl holler/ lookee here 00:20, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

"First one to possess the mutant gene"
I thought the 'mutant gene' was placed inside all of humanity by the Celestials, almost a million years before En Sabah Nur was born. And isn't Selene, whose origin predates Apocalypse's both in fiction and reality, a mutant, too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.207.150 (talk) 09:57, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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En Sabah Nur first mention
The first mention of Apocalypse as En Sabah Nur is actually Cable #5 not #6. The name is used in Cable #2 (page 7), but without mention of Apocalypse. Bootlego (talk) 19:45, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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Marine Hedge

Marine Hedge may refer to:

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 * Marine Hedge, a 1985 victim of American serial killer Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

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Much of this article is a straightforward copy from the two links given in the Sources section. Have we obtained permission from the Pasteur Institute, or is this supposed to be fair use? AxelBoldt 04:01, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I have adapted, extended and illustrated the content and I am not claiming original authorship, either. The pages you cited have not copyright indications on them, so we naturally assume they are fair use or governmental public domain. Rsabbatini, 28 Feb 2005.
 * Anything that doesn't carry a copyright notice (except US Government publications) is automatically protected. Also, if you don't claim to be the original author, then you can't really release the material under the GFDL. AxelBoldt 16:18, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * OK. I will contact them to assure authorization. How it can be displayed? Rsabbatini, 28 Feb 2005.
 * If you get permission, you can simply state so here, that would be sufficient. If they don't give permission, you'd have to rephrase the information a bit. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Institut Pasteur secret activities linked to Soviet Union:

At the end of the 1920ies, "soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered his scientists to cross humans with apes to create an invincible breed of red army soldiers....Scientist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov's archived reports show the Pasteur institute in Paris let him use a research station in Guinea, West Africa, for ape-breeding research. And he wrote to the politburo:"The biggest problem is to catch living females"...Ivanov reported that african women had been seized to be impregnated with ape sperm, but no pregnancy resulted..." (from Jerome Starkey, "The Sun" tuesday, december 20, 2005, p.15)

Promotional
A lot of this article is written in a promotional tone, like an advert. Thats about all I can think of. --Spongefrog (talk) 19:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Read that : "The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation" Jeff This insitution compares favorably to the Rockefeller University

Category:Pasteur Institute
I've created a category for this institution based on the French wiki one. Please help populate by tagging faculty and such. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:01, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

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Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) under Douglas Engelbart.

Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Vallée was first noted for his defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Early life
Vallée was born in Pontoise, France in 1939. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Paris in 1959 and received the equivalent of an MS in astrophysics from the University of Lille Nord de France in 1961. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first science fiction novel, Le Sub-espace (1961), published under the pseudonym of Jérôme Sériel.

Academic and business career
Vallée moved to the United States in 1962 and began working as a research associate in astronomy under Gérard de Vaucouleurs at the University of Texas at Austin. While at McDonald Observatory, he compiled NASA's first detailed informational map of Mars with de Vaucouleurs.

In 1963, Vallée relocated to Chicago, Illinois. He was initially employed as a systems analyst at nearby Northwestern University while continuing to pursue non-institutional ufological research with his mentor, J. Allen Hynek, the chair of the University's astronomy department. Professionally, he began to conduct early artificial intelligence research and received a PhD in industrial engineering and computer science from the institution in 1967. Thereafter, he briefly worked for Royal Dutch Shell (in Paris) and the RCA Service Company (in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) as an engineer before joining the Stanford University Computer Center as manager of information systems in 1969. In 1970, Vallée became a consultant to Stanford applied physicist Peter A. Sturrock's Institute for Plasma Research. Upon learning that Vallée had written several books about UFOs, Sturrock felt a professional obligation to peruse Vallée's work, prompting his own research in the subject.

In 1971, Vallée left Stanford to join the Engelbart group as a senior research engineer. His tenure at ARC coincided with the group's immersion in Erhard Seminars Training and other social experiments, ultimately prompting his departure. While at the Institute for the Future as a senior research fellow from 1972 to 1976, he succeeded Paul Baran as principal investigator on the large National Science Foundation project for computer networking, which developed one of the first ARPANET conferencing systems, Planning Network (PLANET), predating instant messaging by many years. The technology was spun off into InfoMedia, a startup company founded by Vallée in 1976. Although the firm formed several international spinoffs and partnered with a variety of prominent firms and governmental organizations (including Lehman Brothers, Renault and NASA), it failed to attain long-term profitability.

Following its sale in 1983, Vallée entered the venture capital sphere as a partner at Sofinnova. From 1987 to 2010, he served as a general partner of several funds in Silicon Valley, most notably as the co-founder of the family of three Euro-America Ventures funds in North America and Europe. As a private investor, he continues to serve as executive manager of Documatica Financial, a San Francisco boutique focused on early-stage healthcare and technology startups. Among the companies for which he spearheaded early-stage financings, fourteen achieved initial public offerings, including Electronics for Imaging, Accuray (developers of the "CyberKnife" for cancer surgery), NeoPhotonics (developers of nanotechnology for optical networks), Mercury Interactive, P-Com, Isocor, Regeneration Technologies, Harmonic Lightwaves, Ixys, Integrated Packaging, E.Piphany, Sangstat Medical, Com21 and Synaptic Pharmaceuticals (which specialized in neurotransmitter biology). Other companies financed by Vallée (most notably HandyLab, which produced an instrument recognized as being "transformative for oncology") were successfully acquired by Becton-Dickinson, Intel, Lucent, AOL, Cisco, Wilson Greatbatch and Intuitive Surgical.

He has also served on the National Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan College of Engineering and authored four books on high technology, including Computer Message Systems, Electronic Meetings, The Network Revolution, and The Heart of the Internet.

Paranormal research
According to Vallée, he sighted an unidentified flying object over his Pontoise home in May 1955. Six years later in 1961, while working on the staff of the French Space Committee, Vallée claims to have witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of an unknown object orbiting the Earth. The particular object was a retrograde satellite – that is, a satellite orbiting the Earth in the opposite direction to the Earth's rotation. At the time he observed this, there were no rockets powerful enough to launch such a satellite, so the team was quite excited as they assumed that the Earth's gravity had captured a natural satellite (asteroid). He claims that an unnamed superior came and erased the tape. These events contributed to Vallée's lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallée began to correspond with Aimé Michel (who would become a key mentor and research collaborator) in 1958.

In the mid-1960s, like many other UFO researchers, Vallée initially attempted to validate the popular Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or ETH).

However, by 1969, Vallée's conclusions had changed, and he publicly stated that the ETH was too narrow and ignored too much data. Vallée began exploring the commonalities between UFOs, cults, religious movements, demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena. His speculation about these potential links was first detailed in his third UFO book, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers.

As an alternative to the extraterrestrial visitation hypothesis, Vallée has suggested a multidimensional visitation hypothesis. This hypothesis represents an extension of the ETH where the alleged extraterrestrials could be potentially from anywhere. The entities could be multidimensional beyond space-time; thus they could coexist with humans, yet remain undetected.

Vallée's opposition to the popular ETH was not well received by prominent U.S. ufologists, hence he was viewed as something of an outcast. Indeed, Vallée refers to himself as a "heretic among heretics".

Vallée's opposition to the ETH theory is summarised in his paper, "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects", Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1990: Scientific opinion has generally followed public opinion in the belief that unidentified flying objects either do not exist (the "natural phenomena hypothesis") or, if they do, must represent evidence of a visitation by some advanced race of space travellers (the extraterrestrial hypothesis or "ETH"). It is the view of the author that research on UFOs need not be restricted to these two alternatives. On the contrary, the accumulated data base exhibits several patterns tending to indicate that UFOs are real, represent a previously unrecognized phenomenon, and that the facts do not support the common concept of "space visitors". Five specific arguments articulated here contradict the ETH:
 * 1) unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth;
 * 2) the humanoid body structure of the alleged "aliens" is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel;
 * 3) the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race;
 * 4) the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon; and
 * 5) the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives.

Vallée's ideas about Miracle at Fatima and Marian apparitions are that they are a class of UFO encounters. Vallée is one of the first people to speculate publicly about the possibility that the "solar dance" at Fatima was a UFO. Vallée has also speculated that UFO activity may have caused other religious apparitions, including Our Lady of Lourdes and the revelations of Joseph Smith. Vallée believes that religious experiences such as these should be studied outside of their religious contexts.

Via professional association with SRI and independent friendships with Harold E. Puthoff and Central Intelligence Agency analyst Kit Green (who obtained a temporary security clearance for him in 1974), Vallée was intermittently consulted on classified remote viewing research (including the Stargate Project) throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the early SRI experiments (led by Puthoff and Russell Targ in conjunction with Green as CIA contract monitor), he became acquainted with Uri Geller, Edgar Mitchell, Charles Musès, Andrija Puharich, Jack Sarfatti, Arthur M. Young, Edwin C. May, Pat Price and Ingo Swann. In 1973, Doubleday editor Bill Whitehead introduced Vallée to Ira Einhorn, a close confederate of Puharich; their association would span Vallée's business and paranormal networks until Einhorn was charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1979. More recently, he has been associated with Robert Bigelow as a consultant to the National Institute for Discovery Science and a member of the scientific advisory board of Bigelow Aerospace.

Film appearances
In 1979, Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée. The updated version is entitled UFOs: It Has Begun.

Vallée served as the real-life model for Lacombe, the researcher portrayed by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also attempted to interest Spielberg in an alternative explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallée said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting — this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"

Filmography

 * UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
 * Witness of Another World (2018)
 * The Phenomenon (2020)

X-Files
Episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" of X-Files which aired on April 12, 1996 had fake alien pilots named Jacques Sheaffer and Robert Vallee. According to Robert Sheaffer this was a joke by the X-Files creator Chris Carter to name the characters after Vallee and Sheaffer. Sheaffer further states that "the M.P. who later arrested them [the characters] was Sgt. Hynek", a reference to ufologist J. Allen Hynek.

Personal life
Vallée was married to Janine Saley until her death in 2010. They have two children.

Journal articles

 * "An Automatic Question-answering System for Stellar Astronomy," with J. Allen Hynek. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 78, no. 463 (August 1966): 315-323. ..
 * Richard J. Rosa, William T. Powers, Thomas R. P. Gibb, Jr., Philip C. Steffey, Isabel R. A. García, and George Cohen also had letters.
 * "Group Communication Through Electronic Media: Fundamental Choices and Social Effects," with Robert Johansen and Richard H. Miller. Educational Technology, vol. 14, no. 8 (August 1974): 7-20. ..
 * "Remote Viewing and Computer Communications: An Experiment." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 2, no. 1 (1988) pp. 13–27..
 * "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 4, no. 1 (1990): 105-117. . archived
 * "Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989."
 * "Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989."

 * "Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 345–358..
 * "Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 359–375..
 * "Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1998) pp. 345–358..
 * "Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics," with Garry P. Nolan, Sizun Jiang, Larry G. Lemke. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, vol. 128 (Jan. 2022). ..

Books
Finance
 * The Four Elements of Financial Alchemy: A New Formula for Personal Prosperity. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press (2000). ISBN 978-1580082181..

Novels
 * Fastwalker, with Tracy Tormé. Berkeley: Publ. Frog Ltd. (June 1996). ISBN 1883319439.
 * Stratagème (in French). (January 2006). ISBN 2841877779.
 * English: Stratagem (July 2007). ISBN 978-0615156422.

Science Fiction
 * Le Sub-Espace [Sub-Space] (as Jérôme Sériel). Sub-Space (1961)
 * Le Satellite Sombre [The Dark Satellite] (as Jérôme Sériel). (1963)
 * Alintel (1986)
 * Provided partial basis for Fastwalker.

 * La Mémoire de Markov (1986)

Technical
 * Computer Message Systems. Data Communications Book Series. New York: McGraw-Hill (August 1984). ISBN 0070510318.
 * Electronic Meetings: Technical Alternatives. Addison-Wesley Series on Decision Support. Addison-Wesley Publishing (July 1979). ISBN 0201034786.
 * The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist. Berkeley: And/Or Press (1982). ISBN 0140071172.
 * The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-line Revolution. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. (2003). ISBN 978-1571743695.

UFOlogy
 * Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space – a Scientific Appraisal. NTC/Contemporary Publishing (January 1965). ISBN 0809298880.
 * Reissue: UFO's In Space: Anatomy of A Phenomenon (paperback). Ballantine Books (April 1987). ISBN 0345344375.
 * Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma – with Janine Vallée (NTC/Contemporary Publishing, 1966)
 * The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects – Jacques Vallée and Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Quality Books, 1975)
 * UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat (Ballantine Books, 1992)
 * Forbidden Science: Journals, 1957-1969 (North Atlantic Books, 1992; ISBN 0615187242)
 * Forbidden Science, Volume Two: Journals, 1970-1979 — California Hermetica (San Francisco: Documatica Research, 2009; ISBN 0578032317)
 * Forbidden Science, Volume Three: Journals, 1980-1989 — On the Trail of Hidden Truths (self-published with Lulu Press, 2016)
 *  Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999 (self-published with Lulu Press, 2019)
 * TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret (Documatica Research, 2021; ISBN 979-8745902567)
 * UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat (Ballantine Books, 1992)
 * Forbidden Science: Journals, 1957-1969 (North Atlantic Books, 1992; ISBN 0615187242)
 * Forbidden Science, Volume Two: Journals, 1970-1979 — California Hermetica (San Francisco: Documatica Research, 2009; ISBN 0578032317)
 * Forbidden Science, Volume Three: Journals, 1980-1989 — On the Trail of Hidden Truths (self-published with Lulu Press, 2016)
 *  Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999 (self-published with Lulu Press, 2019)
 * TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret (Documatica Research, 2021; ISBN 979-8745902567)
 * TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret (Documatica Research, 2021; ISBN 979-8745902567)

Reports

 * Group Communication Through Computers, Vol. 1: Design and Use of the FORUM System, with Hubert M. Lipinski and Richard H. Miller. Menlo Park, Calif.: Institute for the Future (July 1974).
 * "Supported by National Science Foundation Grant GJ-35 326X and Advanced Resesrch Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 72 C 0165."

Other materials

 * Report from the Field: Scientific Issues in the UFO Phenomenon (presentation). George Washington University (November 8, 2002).
 * "Crop Circles: 'Signs' From Above or Human Artifacts? Some personal speculations on a fractal theme." ufocasebook.com.
 * "Are UFO Events related to Sidereal Time? Arguments against a proposed correlation." jacquesvallee.com.

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Exposed node problem

In wireless networks, the exposed node problem occurs when a node is prevented from sending packets to other nodes because of co-channel interference with a neighboring transmitter. Consider an example of four nodes labeled R1, S1, S2, and R2, where the two receivers (R1, R2) are out of range of each other, yet the two transmitters (S1, S2) in the middle are in range of each other. Here, if a transmission between S1 and R1 is taking place, node S2 is prevented from transmitting to R2 as it concludes after carrier sense that it will interfere with the transmission by its neighbor S1. However note that R2 could still receive the transmission of S2 without interference because it is out of range of S1.

IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS mechanism helps to solve this problem only if the nodes are synchronized and packet sizes and data rates are the same for both the transmitting nodes. When a node hears an RTS from a neighboring node, but not the corresponding CTS, that node can deduce that it is an exposed node and is permitted to transmit to other neighboring nodes.

If the nodes are not synchronised (or if the packet sizes are different or the data rates are different) the problem may occur that the sender will not hear the CTS or the ACK during the transmission of data of the second sender.

The exposed node problem is not an issue in cellular networks as the power and distance between cells is controlled to avoid it.

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Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)

"Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" is a novelty song by Canadian comedian Tom Green, created in 1999 for The Tom Green Show. When the show moved to MTV, Green released it as a single, encouraging visitors to download the song (an mp3) for free from his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends. The music video was filmed by Jeff Boggs in Seattle, Washington.

This song's nonsensical, comedic lyrics deal with various objects upon which the narrator's buttocks are placed, such as a step, a taxi, a railing, cheese, bubblegum, a dog, a cat, a telephone, an old man, a boat (inaccurately described as a battleship), and the letters SWEDISH in front of the Swedish Medical Center, from which the name of the song is derived. He claims that the objects become lonely when he is not there to put his bum on them before asking the listeners to "get the poo off my bum".

The full music video which aired on MTV's The Tom Green Show shows Green in a variety of costumes placing his bum on the objects before arriving at Lake Washington where he wades in toward the end of the song and starts screaming “None of this is real!”

The song's lyrics were interpolated in the first verse of "The Real Slim Shady" (2000) by Eminem and again in “Without Me” (2002). The video also featured Eminem in a superhero outfit similar to the one worn in Green's video.

Overview
The song came about when Green recorded a comedy sketch on a cruise ship as he wandered the decks bothering people. Following an altercation with a ship employee, he began rubbing his bottom against a rail, singing, "My bum is on the rail, my bum is on the rail." The incident inspired Green to compose the full song.

Green filmed a music video and aired it on his talk show, encouraging viewers to call MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) and request the song. The song became so popular it went to number one on TRL and executives of the program made Green retire it from the show the following week, a decision that Green agreed upon but regretted.

Legacy
The song's promotional music video was a great success on Total Request Live. It was retired the day it reached number one on the countdown (27 August 1999), and after just five total days on the show. Green stated that the reason for retiring the video was that "it's not fair to 98 Degrees." Later, in his autobiography Hollywood Causes Cancer, he revealed that MTV had pressured him to do so in order to maintain the image that Total Request Live was, in fact, a live show. The next week's episodes had already been taped on-location, and the producers of the show were completely unaware of the song at the time.

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User:Aleron235

I like to do things on the internet. My first edit was in 2003 with the ThinkGeek article.

Userboxes
It seems userbox pages are all the rage nowadays, so see mine here.

Portfolio
You can see some of the article work I've done here.

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St. John Fisher College (University of Tasmania)

St. John Fisher College, known simply as John Fisher College and familiarly referred to as "Fisher", is a residential college of the University of Tasmania. It was established in 1963 by the Archbishop of Hobart Sir Guilford Young and built by the Catholic Church and its community. The building was designed by notable Tasmanian architect Rod Cooper. The college was named after 16th century scholar St John Fisher and provides accommodation for around 110 students. It is located in Upper Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia, on campus at the University of Tasmania.

It is the smallest of the four residential colleges at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. The college was originally all-male, but became co-residential in 1980 when it amalgamated with Ena Waite College. Ena Waite was an all-female residential college staffed by the Dominican and Loreto sisters, and operated from 1968 to 1980. It was located at Currievale House at 63 Goulburn Street, West Hobart. The building was subsequently sold, and residents moved to John Fisher College. In 1999, ownership of John Fisher College was transferred from the Catholic Church to the University of Tasmania.

Today
In 2011, the college completed an extensive renovation period. In March 2009 the Vice Chancellor officially opened "Pepperz" restaurant and cafe bar, located next to the entrance of Fisher, marking the transition of John Fisher College from catered to self-catered accommodation.

The St. John Fisher College Student Club provides representation for the members of the college. The Student Club holds events throughout the year for college residents, such as the Vatican Ball, pub crawls, an annual boat cruise, tours of the university, barbecues, and a significant O-Week orientation program.

The college offers free tutoring services on a number of subjects through Accommodation Services.

College spirit and sport
Every year, John Fisher College competes with Jane Franklin Hall, Christ College and Hytten Hall in inter-college sports. John Fisher College colours are royal blue and white, and the playing uniforms for sports feature the "Vatican V" crest. The college mascot is the Hellfish. Sports played include rugby, Australian rules football, soccer, netball, cricket, basketball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, volleyball and debating.

Rooms and facilities
There are 110 rooms at John Fisher College. They are spread over four floors, A-D Floor, as well as E-Wing which is on the other side of Pepperz. The main common room is on B Floor, as well as the "O'Sulley", a study space. John Fisher College is the only residential college in Hobart where all residents are housed in one building.

Notable alumni

 * Damian Bugg AM QC, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian DPP and UTAS Chancellor
 * Michael Field AC, former Premier of Tasmania and former UTAS Chancellor
 * Brendon Gale, former AFL player and current CEO of Richmond
 * Tim Lane, sports journalist
 * Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens (attended Ena Waite College)
 * Michael Tate AO, Catholic priest, law professor and former Labor politician
 * Patrick Quilty, Antarctic scientist
 * Richard Cogswell, Rhodes Scholar and NSW District Court judge


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Chad Lowe

Charles Davis Lowe II (born January 15, 1968) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his supporting role in Life Goes On as a young man living with HIV. He has had recurring roles on ER, Melrose Place, and Now and Again. Lowe played Deputy White House Chief of Staff Reed Pollock on the sixth season of 24, and played Byron Montgomery on Pretty Little Liars.

Early life
Lowe was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Barbara Lynn Wilson (1939–2003), a teacher, and Charles Davis Lowe, a trial lawyer. His parents divorced when Lowe was young. He has an older brother, actor Rob Lowe, and two half brothers from the second marriages of his parents, the producer Micah Dyer (maternal) and Justin Lowe (paternal). Lowe was baptized into the Episcopal church. He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.

Lowe was raised in a "traditional midwestern setting" in Dayton, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California, with his mother and brother. He attended Santa Monica High School, the same high school as fellow actors Holly Robinson Peete, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, and Robert Downey Jr.

Career
Lowe began his acting career in the 1980s when he appeared in a number of television films. Lowe co-starred with Charlie Sheen in the 1984 CBS Television drama Silence of the Heart. In 1988 he co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Urich in the made-for-TV film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War. Lowe played the title character in the short-lived sitcom Spencer, which he left after six episodes.

From 1991 to 1993, he starred in Life Goes On, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1993.

Lowe had recurring roles on Melrose Place, Popular, Now and Again, and ER, and guest-starring roles on Touched by an Angel, Superman, CSI: Miami and Medium. Lowe's feature film appearances have included roles in Nobody's Perfect, True Blood, Quiet Days in Hollywood, Floating, and Unfaithful. In 2000, he portrayed iconic singer John Denver in the television film Take Me Home. That year he also wrote and directed the short film The Audition. Lowe made his feature film directorial debut in 2007 with Beautiful Ohio. Lowe has directed episodes of Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hack, Without a Trace, and Pretty Little Liars.

In April 2010, Lowe replaced Alexis Denisof as Aria's father, Byron Montgomery, in Pretty Little Liars.

Personal life
While filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, Lowe met actress Hilary Swank. They married on September 28, 1997. On January 9, 2006, Lowe and Swank announced their separation, and in May 2006, they announced their intention to divorce. The divorce was finalized on November 1, 2007. Swank infamously forgot to thank Lowe during her acceptance speech after winning her first Academy Award in 2000 (for Boys Don't Cry). Upon winning her second Oscar in 2005, for Million Dollar Baby, Lowe was the first person she thanked.

On January 19, 2007, a representative announced that Lowe was dating producer Kim Painter. Lowe and Painter's daughter was born on May 16, 2009. Lowe and Painter were married on August 28, 2010, in a small ceremony in Los Angeles. They welcomed their second daughter on November 15, 2012. Their third daughter was born on March 18, 2016.

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Andreas Dittmer

Andreas Dittmer (born 16 April 1972 in Neustrelitz, Bezirk Neubrandenburg) is a German sprint canoeist. The dominant sprint canoeist of his generation in 1000 m races, he has won three Olympic and eight world championship gold medals.

Dittmer won his first world championship medal - a bronze - at Paris in 1991 as a member of Germany's C-4 500 m crew. In 1994 he won the C-2 1000 m world championship with Gunar Kirchbach. At the 1996 Olympics the pair won the gold medal in the same event.

Now established as Germany's top canoe sprinter he was selected for the C-1 event and won the C-1 1000 m world title at his first attempt in Dartmouth, Canada in 1997.

At Sydney 2000 he won the C-1 1000 m gold as well as the bronze in the 500 m race. He then won three consecutive C-1 1000 m world titles (2001, 2002, 2003). In 2003 he also won his first world 500 m title, finally defeating four-time champion Maxim Opalev of Russia to claim his first "double". At the European championships too he won three straight gold medals in his specialist 1000 m event, but had to be content with four consecutive silver medals behind Opalev in the 500 m.

Dittmer went to the 2004 Summer Olympics as the overwhelming favourite for the 1000 m gold medal, having been undefeated in major finals for over four years.. However he was surprisingly beaten by Spain's David Cal, who finished just 0.52 second ahead of Dittmer's time of 3:46.721.

In the C-1 500 m final Dittmer gained his revenge, edging out Cal by 0.34 seconds, to win the gold medal in a time of 1:46.383, with 500 m specialist Opalev pushed back into third place. Dittmer's sister, Anja Dittmer, also competed at both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. She is a triathlete.

In 2005 he reasserted his authority over 1000 m, winning his fourth European C-1 gold medal in Poznań. At the world championships, held in Zagreb, he again doubled up winning his fourth consecutive C-1 1000 m gold as well as a second C-1 500 m title.

His run of success at the European championships finally came to an end in 2006 when he was defeated by Romania's Florin Mironcic in the 1000 m final in Račice, Czech Republic.

At the 2006 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, Dittmer suffered the misfortune of being disqualified in the C-1 500 m heats. He also lost his 1000 m crown as Mexico's Everardo Cristóbal won a shock victory ahead of the second-placed Dittmer.

Dittmer earned a silver in the C-1 500 m event at the 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg. He went on to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but did not medal in any of the C-1 events.

As of 2009, Dittmer has a total of 22 world championship medals.

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Fight Back to School III

Fight Back to School 3 (逃學威龍3之龍過雞年) is a Hong Kong comedy film produced in 1993 starring Stephen Chow, Anita Mui and Anthony Wong Chau-sang. The film was written and directed by Wong Jing, who replaced Gordon Chan as the director of the final installment after the 1992 film Fight Back to School II and the 1991 film Fight Back to School.

Plot
Chow Sing-Sing is an obnoxious undercover cop who gets into all sorts of trouble, only this time he does not go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite. This does not sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as an undercover cop.

Cast and roles

 * Stephen Chow - Star Chow, Million Wong
 * Anita Mui - Judy Tong Wong
 * Sharla Cheung - Man
 * Anthony Wong Chau-sang - Tailor Lam
 * Natalis Chan - Man's Cousin
 * Philip Chan - Superintendent, Officer Chan
 * John Ching - Devil of Gamblers
 * Kathy Chow Hoi-mei - Ching Man Ching
 * Paul Chun - Mr. Hung 'King of Gamblers'
 * Bryan Leung - Superintendent, Officer Lai
 * Mimi Chu - Japanese Housekeeper “呢卷厕子”

Reception
Phil Mills of FarEastFilms.com felt that Fight Back to School 3 was the poorest of the three in the series, and that "no attempt is made to connect it to its predecessors".

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RocketMail

RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including RocketMail, was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997 for $92 million. Yahoo! assimilated the RocketMail engine. Yahoo! Mail was essentially the old RocketMail Webmail system.

At the time of the transition, RocketMail users could either choose a Yahoo! ID, since they were not guaranteed the availability of their RocketMail ID on Yahoo!, or could use username.rm as their Yahoo! ID. Thus, they were able to keep their rocketmail.com address and receive the same services as all Yahoo! users.

On 19 June 2008, Yahoo! started the RocketMail brand again by allowing new users to sign up for accounts under the rocketmail.com domain, which had not been possible since its acquisition of Four11 Corporation. In April 2013, Yahoo! closed support for creating new RocketMail email addresses; existing RocketMail accounts were not affected.

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User talk:DFA~enwiki

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NPOV on O'Reilly
Please elaborate on your belief that the article Bill O'Reilly (commentator) violates the WP:NPOV policy. If you don't have a specific complaint, the tag will soon be removed from the article. Thanks. Rhobite 05:49, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Josephah

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Heinlein Trio (2nd vote)

 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. Note: page was already deleted, so I am cleaning up this VfD article. Deathphoenix 00:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"A Heinlein Trio"
"Any material that was here has now been merged into Robert A. Heinlein."

I could just be hopelessly confused, but AFAICT there was a vote to merge this into Robert A. Heinlein. Whatever content there was in this page is now gone, and has apparently been merged there, so isn't it time to delete this page now?--Bcrowell 18:29, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The page has block compressed revisions, so it's undeletable, but I've tagged it as pending. Snowspinner 18:31, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * There does seem to be some confusion here, of several sorts. Firstly there has never been a page at "A Heinlein Trio". Secondly, A Heinlein Trio, the page under discussion both here and on Talk:A Heinlein Trio, has significant history, and can't be simply deleted if the text has been copied elsewhere. That's why merge and delete is not a valid vote. Andrewa 20:14, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * How on earth is merge and delete not a valid vote? Merge the current content, delete the page... this is... fairly sensible... Yes. The history gets lost. Hence merge and delete being a different vote from merge and redirect. Snowspinner 20:18, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete might be a valid vote, but no-one used it in this case. Kappa 21:16, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * (Sigh) Yes, that's another puzzling thing. The decision seems to have been merge and redirect anyway, so how does deletion even arise? But see Deletion policy and a new page I've created at Wikipedia talk:Merge and delete. Andrewa 23:59, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Merge and delete is not an allowable vote in almost all circumstances because it violates the attribution requirement of GFDL.  See Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion.  Comment 2:  When nominating a page for the second time, please do not just start editing the archive of the prior discussion.  Also, please do not transclude it in.  Link it instead.  In this case, see the prior discussion at Votes for deletion/A Heinlein Trio.  Rossami (talk) 04:20, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment 3: The redirect has been restored (not sure by whom).  Challenges to the redirect decision should be taken to "Redirects for deletion".  Rossami (talk) 04:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * seems to have been deleted now. --Henrygb 19:20, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: More confusion. Exactly what are we voting on here? The article at "A Heinlein Trio" has never existed. The redirect at A Heinlein Trio (which I restored, in accordance with the previous VfD vote) is not a suitable candidate for VfD, it should go to redirects for deletion. No vote until I know what I'm voting for! Andrewa 20:29, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I vote to delete this VfD page, personally. Snowspinner 22:37, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Removing it from VfD is not a bad idea IMO, but I think the text should be archived somewhere, in the hope of avoiding minimising the tendency to reinvent the wheel where some of the issues raised are concerned. Andrewa 23:57, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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User talk:DocMengele

Offensive user name block
If this is in fact your name, not an allusion to Josef Mengele, I will certainly unblock it if you email me a scan of your birth certificate and doctorate. Thanks! - David Gerard 19:03, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * On email request from the user of this account, I've unblocked the IP address associated with it so that a new account name may be created. If an admin sees the IP block show up again, please remove it - David Gerard 00:26, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:DocMengele