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abso-bloomin'-lutely
I got rid of the part in the article where it gave "absobloominlutely" as an example of a word with an infix. An infix is a grammatical unit like a prefix or suffix except it comes in the middle of a word. There aren't really any of them in the English language. "fan-freakin'-tastic" equals exactly "fantastic" except with an intensifying expletive in it

okay, someone reverted it. Whatever.
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 * Hi, I'm sorry that I reverted your edit — as it was an unmotivated deletion and the very first edit from an anonymous IP, it looked like a test to me, which is why I reverted the deletion and welcomed you on your Talk page. Now that you've explained your deletion, I've reverted myself to allow for discussion here. Hope I didn't scare you! — mark ✎ 18:15, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

 * It depends of course on one's definition of 'infix', which in your case is a very strict one. However, 'affixation' (just like its children suffixation, prefixation and infixation) is commonly used in a very general way, just to express something being put before, after or inside something else. For example, in reduplication it is common to speak of the 'affixation' of something reduplicated to the base morpheme — this can be a whole word in the case of full reduplication, or (in cases of partial reduplication) only part of a word. I guess one could use 'infixation' in the same, loose way (loose as opposed to the definition of infix you gave above). Thus, I'd take its use in this article as simply descriptive: some word is infixed into another word, i.e. put inside of it. Which in my view makes absobloomin'lutely a fine example. — mark ✎ 18:33, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

See Infix and Expletive infixation. Absobloominlutely is a fine example of infixation (or tmesis, depending on linguists) because the word absolutely is separated.
 * "fan-freakin'-tastic" equals exactly "fantastic" except with an intensifying expletive in it

They are different because the former has an intensifying expletive, as you have written. Fanfreakintastic is the same as freakin' fantastic. Actually, meaning doesn't matter. We used absobloominlutely as an example of divisibility of a word in some situations, regardless of its meaning. - TAKASUGI Shinji 02:31, 2005 May 10 (UTC)

Different kinds of words
As I understand it, there are at least two different meanings of word in linguistics:
 * the morphological word, which corresponds to a terminal node (X°) in a syntactic tree, and
 * the phonological word (also called prosodic word), which mostly corresponds to a morphological word, but can include two morphological words in cases of contraction (like don't, won't), and in cases of compounding one morphological word can consist of two phonolgical words (like doghouse). --Angr/undefined 6 July 2005 10:32 (UTC)

 * Yes, but with some reservations; and there is at least another one. First, the first one is heavily theory dependent. Most cognitive linguists would shrug their shoulders and ask 'what is "the syntactic tree"'? To some theorists, the syntactic tree is largely a theoretical construct comparable to a proposition in formal logic. It may or may not have a psychological basis (Lakoff goes so far as to say that Chomskyan syntax is nothing more than a theoretical construct, and a idealized one at that). To others, the psychological basis is quite clear and in that case the notion of word has a more substantial basis in (psycholinguistic) reality (I think Jackendoff might be a good example, but he doesn't use the term 'morphological word' for this.) Furthermore, the terminal node of your garden variety syntactic tree may or may not correspond to what some call a morphological word (it depends on what kind of boundary you want to draw in the syntax/morphology interface).
 * The second sense you mention ('phonological word') is important in phonology and prosodic theory. Semantics doesn't play a role in this definition. The article touches this under 'phonetic boundaries' (it might be a good idea to mention phonological word there.)
 * A third sense is word as lexical item (lexeme), as pointed out in the article. 'Word' and 'lexical item' are often used interchangeably. For some, it's important to stress the distinction between the two; if 'word' is indeed the end node of the syntactic tree and 'lexeme' is the item that is stored in memory, the two don't have to be identical.
 * A lot more could be said but I think the article in its current state does a wonderful job of untangling the different senses of 'word'. — mark ✎ 6 July 2005 21:00 (UTC)
 * As a somewhat syntax-impaired phonologist, I don't really understand the difference between 'word' as the end node of the tree and 'lexeme' as the item stored in memory. Don't you just take the word you have stored in memory and plug it into the syntactic tree? Can you give an example of a lexeme that isn't an X° or an X° (not counting empty categories, of course) that isn't a lexeme? --Angr/undefined 6 July 2005 21:58 (UTC)
 * It depends on your theory of the lexicon and your definition of lexemes. If you define the lexicon as the inventory of words in memory, there's no problem (but then you have a tautological definition at best). Chomsky, for one, insists (in Aspects) on the non-redundancy of the lexicon — i.e., he wants the lexicon to contain only non-predictable features. This does not necessarily hold for words, however: you won't break up 'runner' into run (verb) + er (nominalizer) in your garden variety syntactic tree. That's an importance difference between words and lexemes in this theory (incidentally, Jackendoff points out that Chomsky likely deviates from psychological reality here, in that there is no reason to think that the brain stores information non-redundantly.)
 * There is more margin in the definition of lexeme. If the lexeme is to be a psychologically realistic entity, why would one want to confine it to grammatical words? What about idioms like 'hit the road' and 'kick the bucket'? Surely they are stored in memory, and I think those are good examples of lexemes (lexically stored items) that aren't X°'s. Now the other way round. Consider languages with a highly productive morphology like Swahili or Turkish. Grammatical words can have a lot of affixes in those languages (noun class, number, cases, verbal extensions, etc.). Thus, to quote Jackendoff (2002:154) on this issue, "the number of grammatical words [in such languages, MD ] is vast, possibly too large to store in long-term memory; on the other hand it is possible to construct most grammatical words online from units that are stored in long-term memory: the independent stems and affixes. These elements are smaller than grammatical words, and cannot be produced in isolation." To give a real example, consider the following Swahili verbs: kulipa 'pay', kununua 'buy', kulipia 'pay for, to' and kununulia 'buy for'. Rather than assuming that these X°'s are all separate lexemes, I would want my theory of the lexicon to account for the semantic regularity observed here: that there is an affix -i- or -li- that introduces an applicative sense to verbs carrying it. This affix is not a grammatical word; the verb as a whole (with the 'applicative extension', as it is called), is. So this applicative verb, I think, is a good example of an X° that is not a lexeme. Hope this helps! — mark ✎ 6 July 2005 22:45 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does. And I now that I know the difference (I did before, actually, I just thought of it in different terms), I would definitely want my definition of "morphological word" to be X°, not lexeme, as I would not want to say that "kick the bucket" is a word, but I would want to say that kulipia is. --Angr/undefined 7 July 2005 06:40 (UTC)

Definition
The definition stated that a word carries meaning and grammatical employment, what about phonological properties a word is also an association of group of sounds

 * Yes, please add info on that. As it stands right now, the entire article is only about word boundaries.DanielDemaret 07:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * The confusion in the definition of a word comes from the fact that we don't distinguish the means a language uses to denote CONCEPTS, and the units a language uses to create its sentences. If the language is written or spoken does not matter.  Kaseluris, Nikos 17:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

 * The definition of word described in the article pertains to the concept of a word only as written (in that it talks about separating words by spaces, for example). It completely disregards the fact that language is verbal in nature. That is to say, it seems to suggest that words can't exist without a written language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.74.137 (talk) 06:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Word is a syntactically identifiable and semantically measurable (significant) sign, which is a unit of linguistic interaction. The word regardless of how it is expressed or perceived. Morphology of the word depends on the implement of its linguistic expression and comprehension (e.g.: speech expression, gestural or tactile, computational and etc.).
 * Despite being hijacked and semantically circumcised by those linguists, who are trying to narrow their research to the speech language’ rules and tendencies, the term, word, need to be defined at its full semiotic significance.60.241.15.151 (talk) 07:32, 26 December 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.15.151 (talk) 07:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Polysyntethism
Would French really classify as a polysyntethic language, I find it hard to see how "je ne le sais pas." would classify as more polysynthetic than "Ah dunno." 惑乱 分からん 07:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC

It merely says that it demonstrates elements of a polysynthetic language, not that it is an example. --124.170.35.1 09:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Pop Culture
What about the (apparently) popular process of saying "Word!" after a sentence, as an exclamitory enhancer(?)? Alx xlA 05:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC) Wikipedia.org

That would go in another article, I believe. --124.170.35.1 09:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Confusing to whom?
"Especially confusing are languages such as Vietnamese, where spaces do not necessarily indicate breaks in words and boundaries must be determined by the context of the piece."

Do literate Vietnamese find it difficult to distinguish a word, or is this a difficulty held by language learners acquiring Vietnamese literacy? If it is the latter, then I doubt Vietnamese should be called "especially confusing." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.180.55.14 (talk) 19:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Confusing to Westerners, of course. It's natural for Vietnamese to delimit monosyllabic morphemes.  I have modified the article.  - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 06:05, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Powerful Concept?
"All in all, a word is a very powerful concept that permits us to communicate with others and interact with the rest of the world."

Is this really a necessary sentence? It's so wishy washy: "All in all ..." also it's not so much "a word" that allows us to "communicate with others AND interact with the rest of the world" (aren't communicating and interacting the same thing in this context as well?), but language itself, of which "a word" is only a part. And what the hell is a "powerful concept"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.179.95.145 (talk) 02:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Greetings
Just to let you know, I added a space into the two separate words above and mentioned; 'abovementioned'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.142.10.142 (talk) 01:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

the study ofwods was proven to be sorts of a language lily schwarz 11  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.183.140 (talk) 22:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Portmanteau
Does the definition of portmanteau really need to be in the first paragraph of this page? I see its relevance here, but I've been feeling like "partmanteau" is a buzzword here on wikipedia just used for the sake of using it, and many times inappropriately. I'd like to see it moved to the body somewhere. 129.21.191.202 (talk) 22:30, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree it seems somewhat out of place. It could either be moved, or it could be placed into context by adding similar terms like "clipped form", "acronym", and "initialism". —Angr 07:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have removed the sentence from the lead section. Cnilep (talk) 20:02, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

introduction
The beginning of the article is very odd; it waxes philosophical and says some basically untrue things: "Words are fundamental units of inherent quality or basic constitution of things." The word "the" doesn't have much inherent quality; or if it does, then only about as much as prefixes like "con-" and "post-", which aren't words. Anyway the next sentence claims words represent mental pictures, which isn't true. What picture does "any" represent?

This is followed by quotes which were obviously pasted from somewhere. I don't know how much of this text was just pasted from something else; googling doesn't find it, so maybe not...

Then there is the claim that all human expression and communication is representing words. Words can try and explain what smiles or flags mean, but that certainly doesn't mean those symbols are just expressing words.

Anyway. Rant aside, I'm fixing the thing to my own taste. However, I admit that my point of view is rather overly scientific (throwing out poetic stuff because it's technically wrong?), and furthermore I actually question whether there is any good definition of word. And so someone might want to revert or partially revert my changes.

Obviously the philosophy section I created needs a little work.

Dranorter (talk) 03:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I also think this could use maybe a popular culture section or something, mentioning the likes of "`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dranorter (talk • contribs) 04:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The last thing the article needs is an "in popular culture" section. We'll get a list of every episode of every TV show where anyone has ever uttered the word "word". +Angr 06:42, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Can someone put this in the article for WORD to elaborate on the PIE wrdhom for Word? I am not sure if copying is allowed but if not then can someone compose something original based on the info below?

English word is directly from Old English word, and has cognates in all branches of Germanic (Old High German wort, Old Norse orð, Gothic waurd), deriving from Proto-Germanic *wurđa, continuing a virtual PIE *wr̥dhom. The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. Proto-Germanic, or Common Germanic, is the hypothetical common ancestor ( Proto-language) of all the Germanic languages such as modern English Cognates outside Germanic include Baltic (Old Prussian wīrds "word", and with different ablaut Lithuanian var̃das "name", Latvian vàrds "word, name") and Latin verbum. The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Prussian is an extinct Baltic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the area that later became East Prussia (now north-eastern Poland Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. Latvian language (latviešu valoda is the official state language of Latvia. The PIE stem *werdh- is also found in Greek ερθει (φθεγγεται "speaks, utters" Hes. ). Hesychius of Alexandria (῾Ησύχιος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς a Grammarian who flourished probably in the 5th century CE compiled the richest lexicon The PIE root is *ŭer-, ŭrē- "say, speak" (also found in Greek ειρω, ρητωρ). Serbo-Croatian govor means speech. Rhetoric has had many definitions no simple definition can do it justice The original meaning of word is "utterance, speech, verbal expression". An utterance is a complete unit of speech in Spoken language. Speech refers to the processes associated with the production and perception of Sounds used in Spoken language. Until Early Modern English, it could more specifically refer to a name or title. Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period (the latter half of the 15th century to 1650 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.162.126.201 (talk) 02:48, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Merge
Word (language) needs merging here, it is a copy of the Citizendium article on the topic and the two are redundant. Fences &  Windows  15:51, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. These are clearly the same topic. Cnilep (talk) 16:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see why we need to merge Citizendium's article into our own. I would simply delete Word (language) without merging. +Angr 16:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, agree with Angr. Any content that is worth preserving can be brought over here, but there's no need for a full-on merge. (Anyone is free to userfy a copy of the deleted article so they can work on the merging.) It looks to me like that article is written more like a textbook chapter or essay than an encyclopedia article, so I doubt a whole lot of it is worth preserving here. r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 17:36, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * To clarify: I am not suggesting a full-content merger, only a selective merger. I'm not a fan of full-content dumps anyway, and upon closer examination I find only one element at Word (language) that is both sourced and not already discussed at Word. That is the discussion of semantic primes. While I think it might be worthwhile to have some link to Semantic primes at Word, I would not object to a redirect without merging. Cnilep (talk) 20:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * A selective merge or a redirect without a merge would both be fine by me. Btw, this article was copied in as part of WikiProject Citizendium Porting. Fences  &  Windows  15:56, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Support. Merge, delete and save some of it, whatever you call it, it sounds good.-- Patrick {o Ѻ ∞} 04:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Quotations
I was searching for the origin of the quotation "the meaning of a word is its use in the language.". I was a bit disapointed, 'cause I just found a link to secondary sources. Which is of cause helpful to come deeper into the topic, but which won't give me the possibility to study the original context of the /famous/ quotation.

Does anyone know the book and the page on which it was printed? I think it was the "blue book".

Thanks a lot! Otherwise: a great article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.74.147.134 (talk) 09:14, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Wiktionary
Shouldn't this article include a link to the Wiktionary definition? Dlabtot (talk) 23:42, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, go for it. That template is seriously underused on Wikipedia. —Angr (talk) 05:56, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Intext cites
This text is absolutely missing intext citations. This text could be easily cited using various educational websites. Ratibgreat (talk) 18:28, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to add some. r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 05:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion
I suggest the line "Orthographic boundaries: See below." is superfluous when the article discusses the orthographic boundaries separately. Speling12345 (talk) 8:43, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Ridiculous
How dare you (or you) to "create" a global encyclopedia and write such blood-curdling and fist-clenching bull*s: "Hebrew hrmm ("breath", "spirit", also translated as "word" or "angel"), probably pronounced, memrah. The English words memory, membership, message, and meaning are derived from this word."

It just... defies any description, you, German-Linguistic-Expert. I pitty you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.230.226.234 (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Definition and Lede
Another REALLY bad Wikipedia article, imho. If it is about the linguistic term, instead of starting off the lede with "In linguistics ..." why not start with "Applied to language ..." (or eqivalent)? SHOULD the general reader be expected to know what "linguistics" is? I also demand an authoratative reference to the statement:"In linguistics a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning)." I have so many problems with this. In no particular order: it conflates the "as utterance" meaning with the "linguistic meaning", the distinction it makes is not useful in that its "meaning" in isolation may not be its meaning in context, "element" is not defined and its use here is tautological (if words aren't identified, 'elements' won't be, either). I see absolutely NO reason to include both the difficult phrase "with semantic or pragmatic content" and the more intuitive phrase "with literal or practical meaning". I also fail to understand what "practical meaning" (or "pragmatic content") MEANS. I doubt if you can produce an authoratative DEFINITION of either of those terms. Moving on... The first examples are lousy. They are all single syllable English words!! Why not include "a"? (perhaps because as an article it fails to have a meaning uttered in isolation? (What does "a" mean?)) Why not include "abnormalities"? why not include "aminoazomethyphenylalanine"? And how is that definition useful to determine whether or not "km" is a word or an abbreviation (is an abbreviation a word?, Is "1" a word? Is the utterance "letmebe" a word? one or three?) And (perhaps I'm just ignornat here) doesn't the use of "morpheme" to describe single syllable words confuse rather than inform? Why focus on the difference between morphemes and words when there are several equally valid ways to categorize the term "word"? And how can anyone justify the use of the weasle phrases "not necessarily", "may not be able", and "will typically" (the word "may" is used 4 times in the lede, does it mean "might" or "shall"?) The lede's last paragraph is the clearest and most useful, imho. (Although it could use improvement, too.) By jumping immediately into the "linguistic" use, the editors SHOULD understand that they have gone to an ABSTRACTION, not a "pragmatic" definition (as it true with most if not all technical definitions). Oh, not only are abbreviations ignored here but so too are nonsense words WITHOUT semantic content, is "mlaxup", which I just invented, a word? Seems to me the fundamental meaning of "word" is either an element of an utterance (in some languages) OR a linguistic element. I doubt if either can be claimed to be a "fundamental" (or "indivisible") element in any absolute sense (in most languages both are composed of smaller elements in audible and visual presentation.) (which brings up sign language and braille...). So, could someone who knows what they're talking about rewrite the lede to make it sensible to a general reader and so that it corresponds to the actual definition(s) of "word"? Thanks. (Also, do a better job in the examples of words, clauses, phrases and sentences. A phrase shouldn't also be a clause, a clause shouldn't also be a sentence; the goal here is to distinguish them! )216.96.76.79 (talk) 19:01, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

 * The critical thinking is good and I am sure that the article can benefit from it to some degree, but some of the "everyone else must be an idiot" flavor is misplaced. There are some flawed assumptions here about how simple and mutually exclusive everything must/should be, an assumption of an intrinsic black/white behind a mere poorly written explanation. Many things in the sciences resist dirt-simple mutually exclusive definitions—even exclusive definitions that we can manage to distill to one line are more often than not subtly clever for having pulled it off. For example, "not necessarily" and "may not be able" are simply correct: some morphemes can also be words (for example, the indefinite articles "a", "an"), but many are not (for example, -y, -ness). This is already explained with examples right there where it's stated. Regarding the last point, all clauses are also phrases, many clauses are also sentences, and many sentences are also clauses. Sometimes natural language doesn't offer mutual exclusiveness. It's not a pedagogical flaw obscuring a simplistic reality—it's the underlying multivariate reality that makes good pedagogy challenging. Quercus solaris (talk) 01:47, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

ĐỀ CƯƠNG ÔN TẬP NGỮ VĂN 6 Câu 1: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.19.123.80 (talk) 07:22, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 10:52, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

suffix
The word "desinence" is defined in the Wictionary as a technical term from linguistics. The word "suffix" is the standard word used in United States of America in teaching school children. The Wikipedia page "Desinence" is in fact a redirect page to the Wikipedia article "Suffix". Suffix is 150 times more common in use than desinence, according to the books.google.com/ngrams word count of words in over 1,000,000 books. The Wikipedia style page instructs editors to avoid technical language in favor of standard English words. So I made this change. Nick Beeson (talk) 19:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Word Boundaries (Analytic vs. Agglutinative)
The section on word boundaries doesn't really explain why in Chinese, the words are considered to be isolated instances, while in say, Japanese, the words are considered to be a hodgepodge of morphemes combined into one unit. Chinese does have grammatical particles that have no meaning on their own, just like Korean has suffixes that have no meaning on their own. Now, there are some features that can distinguish a few (though not not close to all) breaks in Japanese words (which I believe are primarily due to /n/ at the end of a word becoming [ɴ]), but assuming one picks an agglutinative language that lacks such things, or at least have so few of them such methods aren't usable (of which I am sure there are plenty), what differentiates it from analytic Chinese (which I have seen written in what appears to be agglutinative fashion akin to Korean and Japanese, such as the Chinese poetry here)?

What about English, which has lost a lot of its inflections to become predominantly analytic? Why is "will have done" said to be three words, even though "will" and "have" both lack meaning on their own? Is it solely orthography in such a case? The sandhi in English isn't constrained by word (but rather either by morpheme or not at all with neither being consistent, such as in "disable" /dis.eɪ.bɫ̩/ and "whatcha" /ʍʌ.t͡ʃə/), so that can't be used unless you want to make almost every morpheme a separate word. And people can say "un" on its own in correcting someone (albeit rarely), just like they can say "the" on its own to correct someone (which is not quite as rare, but still far from common, as one usually will add the word that follows).

I get the feeling (and correct me if I'm wrong) that it's somewhat arbitrary, and in the absence of phonological evidence, linguists will use the orthography or their gut, and it will rarely change thereafter. Blanket P.I. (talk) 21:56, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

What is a word
A word is an idea in the head with a sound label that comes out of the mouth. Other definitions may talk about the difference between a word and a term, or draw from language science and talk about its irreducible form, in pure language (not human speech) but is probably talking about lexemes. -184.250.56.111 (talk) 02:44, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * In language, a word is an idea that has a spoken label —a singular or compound sound which can then be used in an expression composed of sequences of words. In writing, the 'label' is a graphical-form glyph, or string of glyphs, which may either emulate the spoken form (cf. alphabet) or else represent the idea through symbolism (cf. ideogram). In language science terms, a word is the smallest element..

_184.250.56.111 (talk) 02:50, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Not really. A word is a sequence of sounds, not an idea. Not all words even represent ideas. I'm also a little confused by your use of the terms "compound sound", "language science", and "pure language", and the focus on alphabets and ideograms is a little odd, considering that there are other common kinds of writing systems, and true ideograms are rare in actual writing systems. For all of these reasons, I think the current lead is clearer and more accurate than what you've proposed here. —Granger (talk · contribs) 11:23, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Name a word that does not have an idea connected to it. It would be a sound and not a word. It could be written in transcription form, but its either a word or a transcription of a sound. And sounds that don't have a specific assigned meaning will usually have some meaning in the way that they are used, and then would be words, because theres an idea connected to that sound. -184.250.0.250 (talk) 03:29, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * One example is the word "it" in "It's raining", which is there purely to fulfill the requirements of English syntax and does not represent an idea (see Dummy pronoun). Anyway, this discussion isn't going to go anywhere useful without reliable sources. —Granger (talk · contribs) 12:43, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. The it in "it's raining" is meaningful, you're perhaps just making the mistake of assigning meaning to objects only. So there is a case of you being in error. -2600:1:9A03:5FBC:7D74:79C5:D9FB:283 (talk) 03:47, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2019
118.172.62.228 (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. NiciVampireHeart 00:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Multi-word expressions
The article should mention the existence of linguistic expression that are seemingly made up of multiple words, yet exhibit word-like behavior (blind spot, catch fire, work in progress, etc). I'm not good writing up a new section, so I'm hoping that others can discuss/expand on this concept in the article.

Two properties that linguists agree words should have is cohesiveness and fixed internal order. There are there empirical tests to discover degrees of wordhood: the seperation test (credit card -> *a blind and tiny spot), the substitution test (to take place -> *to take location) and changing the order of the constituents (They turned up. -> *Up they turned). The article should also mention that some multi-word expressions might pass some but not all of these tests, which opens up a scalar view of wordhood (some words being more "wordlike" than others). Source: The Lexicon by Elisabetta Ježek, p.25-28.--Megaman en m (talk) 15:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2023
None of these words can be used by white people. Thyne mother (talk) 20:40, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Nardog (talk) 21:06, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Filipino
Mga salitang pareho ang baybay mag ka iba ang kahulugan 2405:8D40:48D9:2E17:178D:5019:166B:3BED (talk) 08:53, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

tacedook
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Neha

Neha (Hindi/ Sanskrit: नेहा) is a popular Hindi/ Sanskrit Indian feminine given name, often found in the Hindu community. It means "love" / "affection", "rain" / "downpour", and is sometimes translated as "beautiful eyes."

Etymology
The name Neha has multiple origins. It may mean one of the following:

 * love or affection, when derived from Sneha (Sanskrit: स्नेह);
 * rain or downpour, when derived from Nehal (Sanskrit: नेहल);
 * or beautiful eyes, when referencing common beliefs across Indian baby naming sites.

Notable people named Neha

 * Neha (actress) (born April 18, 1977), Indian actress.
 * Neha (footballer) (born May 19, 2006), Indian footballer.
 * Neha Aggarwal (born January 11, 1990), Indian table tennis player.
 * Neha Ahuja (born September 27, 1981), Indian alpine skier.
 * Neha Joshi, (born 7 December 1986), Indian actress.
 * Neha Bamb (born May 9, 1985), Indian actress.
 * Neha Bhasin (born November 18, 1982), Indian musician and presenter.
 * Neha Devi Singh (born August 9, 1981), Indian actress and writer.
 * Neha Dhupia (born August 27, 1980), Indian actress and model.
 * Neha Hinge (born 1986), Indian actress, model and software engineer.
 * Neha Janpandit (born June 8, 1988), Indian actress.
 * Neha Jhulka (born 1984), Indian actress.
 * Neha Kakkar (born June 6, 1988), Indian singer.
 * Neha Kapur (born 1984), Indian actress, model and winner of the 2006 Femina Miss India pageant.
 * Neha Lakshmi Iyer (born 1990), Indian actress.
 * Neha Mankani, Pakistani midwife
 * Neha Marda (born September 23, 1985), Indian actress and model.
 * Neha Mehta (born June 9, 1988), Indian actress.
 * Neha Nair (born September 14, 1989), Indian composer and singer.
 * Neha Narang (born August 4, 1987), Indian actress.
 * Neha Oberoi (born September 15, 1980), Indian actress.
 * Neha Pendse (born November 29, 1984), Indian actress.
 * Neha Rajpal (born June 23, 1978), Indian anchor, composer, producer and singer.
 * Neha Ratnakaran (born March 24, 1997), Indian actress and model.
 * Neha Saxena (born 1989), Indian film actress.
 * Neha Sharad (born October 6, 1992), Indian actress and poet.
 * Neha Sharma (born November 21, 1987), Indian actress and model.
 * Neha Sharma (cricketer) (born June 9, 1988), Emirati cricketer.
 * Neha Shetty, Indian actress
 * Neha Tanwar (born August 11, 1986), Indian cricketer.

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Caroline Baillie

Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and specialist in engineering education, since 2017 the inaugural Professor of Praxis in the School of Engineering at the University of San Diego, USA.

Background
Baillie was born and educated in south-east UK. She has a Bachelors in Materials Technology, University of Surrey (1985). Her first job after undergraduate study was in public relations, and she resigned when asked to promote asbestos despite its carcinogenic properties. She returned to Surrey for a PhD in materials science and engineering (1991). She has one son born in 2012.

Career
Her first lectureship in materials was in the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney (1992-1996), where she also took a Masters in Higher Education, which helped to fuel her developing interest in student learning. She was then lecturer in Materials and education development at Imperial College London, then deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2000-2003). She then became the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

In 2009 she moved back to Australia, to the University of Western Australia in Perth where she held a Chair in Engineering Education and was Director of the Faculty Academy for the Scholarship of Education. In 2017 she became Professor of Praxis in the School of Engineering, University of San Diego.

Media
Baillie was the host of Building the Impossible, a four-part documentary commissioned by the BBC in which a team of experts undertook the challenge of building historical inventions to their original specification to see if they really worked.

Awards and memberships
Caroline is co-founder and co-director, along with Eric Feinblatt, of Waste for Life, a network of scientists, engineers, academics, designers, and local communities working together to research, implement, and disseminate poverty-reducing solutions to specific environmental problems.

Baillie is also a member of Critical Stage Company, which is "committed to new writing, or tackling established pieces in a new way..." Through Critical Stage and the Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University, she put on several productions using student and members of the Kingston community that linked to the themes of engineering and society.

She is also an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.

Publications

 * Dowling, D, Hadgraft, R, Carew, A, McCarthy, T, Hargreaves, D, Baillie, C.A. 2016. Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide. Wiley.ISBN 978-0730369165
 * Baillie, C.A., Armstrong, R., Cummin Potvin, W. 2014. Mining and Communities: Understanding the Context of Engineering Practice. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 9781608458790
 * Baillie, C.A., Jayasinghe, R.A., Mushtaq, U, Smythe, T. 2013. The Garbage Crisis: A Global Challenge for Engineers. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 9781608458721
 * Baillie, C.A., Pawley, A.L., Riley, D. (eds.). 2012. Engineering and Social Justice: In the University and Beyond. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.ISBN 9781598296266
 * Baillie, C.A. (ed.). 2012 Global Dimensions in Engineering: A Guide to Running Workshops for Engineering Students. United Kingdom: Engineering, Social Justice and Peace.ISBN 978-1780992280
 * Baillie, C.A. (ed.). 2012. Social Justice and Higher Education. United Kingdom: Engineering, Social Justice and Peace.ISBN 978-0-9571849-1-6
 * Baillie, C.A., Kabo, J., Reader, J. 2012. Heterotopia: Alternative Pathways to Social Justice Uk: Zero books.ISBN 978-1-78099-228-0
 * Baillie, C.A., Feinblatt, E., Thamae, T., Berrinton, E. 2010. Needs and Feasibility: A guide for engineers in community projects: The case of waste for Life. Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 9781608451630
 * Meyer J.H.F., Land R., Baillie C.A. (ed.). 2010. Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.ISBN 9789460912078
 * Baillie, C.A, Catalano, G. 2009. Engineering and Society: Working Towards Social Justice, Part I: Engineering and Society. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 9781598296655
 * Baillie, C.A., Catalano, G.(ed.). 2009. Engineering and Society: Working Towards Social Justice: Part II: Engineering: Decisions in the 21st Century. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 978-3031799518
 * Baillie, C.A. 2006. Engineers within a Local and Global Society. California: Morgan & Claypool.ISBN 9781598291360

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Tea classics

Tea as a drink was first consumed in China and the earliest extant mention of tea in literature is the Classic of Poetry, although the ideogram used (荼) in these texts can also designate a variety of plants, such as sowthistle and thrush.

Chinese literature contains a significant number of ancient treatises on tea. Together, there exist approximately one hundred monographs or treatises on tea published from the Tang dynasty through the end of the Ming dynasty. The more famous books on tea are listed below.

Tang dynasty

 * The Classic of Tea (茶經) by Lu Yu, 780.
 * Report on Water for Brewing Tea by Zhang Youxin, 814.
 * Records of Tea Picking (采茶录 Chai Cha Lu) by Wen Tingyun (温庭筠), 860.

Song dynasty

 * The Record of Tea (茶录) by Cai Xiang (蔡襄), 1049.
 * Report on Tasting of East Brook Tea (东溪试茶录 Dong Qi Shi Cha Lu) by Song Zian (宋子安), 1064. Translation by Global Tea Hut.
 * Treatise on Tea (大观茶论) by Emperor Song Huizong (宋徽宗), 1107.
 * Record of Xuan He Era Tribute Tea in The North Farm (宣和北苑贡茶录 Xuan He Bei Yuan Gong Cha Lu) by Xiong Fan (熊蕃).
 * Essential Record of Tea Tasting(品茶要录 Pin Cha Yiao Lu) by Huang Ru (黄儒), 1075.
 * Pictorial of Tea Ware (茶具图赞) by The Old Man Shenan (审安老人).

Ming dynasty

 * Zhu Quan (朱权): Cha Pu (茶谱), 1440. Translation by Global Tea Hut. Translation by John Thompson.
 * Gu Yuanqing (顾元庆): Classification of Tea (茶谱 Cha Pu), 1541. Translation by Global Tea Hut.
 * Lu Shusheng (陆树声): A Report on Tea House (茶寮记 Cha Liao Ji), 1570.
 * Tu Long (屠隆): Kao Pan Yu Shi (考槃余事), or Desultory Remarks on Furnishing the Abode of the Retired Scholar, ca 1590.
 * Gao Lian (高濂): Eight Discourses on the Art of Living/ Tea (遵生八笺 Jun Sheng Ba Jian), 1591.
 * Hu Wenhuan (胡文焕): Tea Collection (茶集), 1593.
 * Chen Shi (陈师): Research on Tea (茶考 Cha Kao), 1593.
 * Chen Jiru (陈继儒): Tea Talks (茶话), 1595.
 * Zhang Yuan (张源): Tea Notes (茶录), 1595. Translation by The Leaf.
 * Zhang Qiande (张谦德): The Book of Tea (茶经), 1598.
 * Xiong Mingyu (熊明遇): Report on Lu Jie Tea, (罗岕茶记 Luo Jie Cha Ji), ca 1608.
 * Feng Shike (冯时可): Tea Record (茶录 Cha Lu), 1609.
 * Wen Zhenheng (文震亨): Treatise on Superfluous Things/ Incense and Tea (长物志 Zhang Wu Zhi), 1621. Translation by Martin Tai. Translation by Global Tea Hut.
 * Wen Long (闻龙): Tea Notes (茶笺 Cha Jian), 1630. Translation by Global Tea Hut.
 * Zhou Gaoqi (周高起): Treatise On Yixing Teapots (陽羨茗壺系 Yángxiàn Mínghú Xì), c. 1640.
 * Zhou Gaoqi: Report on Tongshan Jie Tea (洞山岕茶系 Tongshan Jie Cha Xi), 1640.

Qing dynasty

 * Lu Tingcan (陸廷燦): The Sequel to Classic of Tea (續茶經).

Japanese
Eisai (Yosai) came to Tiantai mountain of Zhejiang to study Chan (Zen) Buddhism (1168 AD); when he returned home in 1193 AD, he brought tea from China to Japan, planted it and wrote the first Japanese treatise on tea, called Kissa yojoki (喫茶養生記, Treatise on Drinking Tea for Health). This was the beginning of tea cultivation and tea culture in Japan.
 * Myōan Eisai (明菴栄西): Treatise on Tea Drinking for Health (喫茶養生記), 1193.
 * Sen no Rikyū (千利休) (1522 – April 21, 1591): Southern Record (南方録).

English

 * Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三): The Book of Tea (originally written in English by Okakura), 1906.
 * A Nice Cup of Tea essay by George Orwell, 1946.
 * ISO 3103 specifying a standardized method for brewing tea, by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), 1980 revised 2019.
 * How to make a Perfect Cup of Tea, debunking Orwell, by Andrew Stapley for the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003.
 * How To Make a Decent Cup of Tea, inspired by Orwell, by Christopher Hitchens, 2011.

Modern Chinese

 * 陆羽《茶经》 －解读与点校, 程启坤 杨招棣 姚国坤. 上海 上海文艺出版社 2003 ISBN 7-80646-567-7
 * 茶经 ISBN 957-763-053-7
 * 遵生八笺——白话全译, 重庆大学出版社

Czech

 * Lu Jü : Kniha o čaji. Translated by Olga Lomová. Spolek milců čaje a DharmaGaia, Praha, 2002, ISBN 80-86685-01-2.
 * Karel Valter : Vše o čaji pro čajomily, Granit s.r.o., Praha, 2000

English

 * The Classic of Tea (ISBN 0-316-53450-1) Lu, Yu; Intro & Translation By Francis Ross Carpenter, Illustrated by Hitz, Demi;Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co. 1974
 * The Classic of Tea: Origins & Rituals (ISBN 0-88001-416-4) Lu, Yu; Yu, Lu; Carpenter, Francis Ross; New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Press. 1995 reprint of 1974 edition. This is a complete translation.

French

 * Vianney, Soeur Jean-Marie: Le Classique Du The Par Lu Yu, Morel - 1977

Hungarian

 * Lu Jü: Teáskönyv – A teázás szent könyve a nyolcadik századi Kínából. (Translation By Zsolt Tokaji and Barbara Nyiredy.) Terebess Kiadó, Budapest 2005, ISBN 963-9147-69-9
 * Teáskönyv. (Trans., ed, by Zsolt Tokaji.) Fapadoskonyv.hu, Budapest, 2010. ISBN 978-963-329-005-7

Italian

 * Lu Yu: IL CANONE DEL TÈ, Traduzione (dal cinese) di Marco Ceresa, Leonardo. November 1990.
 * Marco Ceresa, Ph.D. Dissertation:I trattati sul tè di epoca Tang (Tang Dynasty Monographs on Tea) Far Eastern Studies, Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples.1992

Russian

 * Лу Юй: Канон чая; перевод с древнекитайского, введение и комментарии Александра Габуева и Юлии Дрейзис. Москва: Гуманитарий, 2007. — 123 с. ISBN 978-5-91367-004-5

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Former name of Moorea: I've read a lot, and never seen it spelled "Aimeho", although I have seen it spelled "Eimeo" and "Aiméo". Accordingly, I changed it to Aimeo. TShilo12 09:34, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually Aimeho was its name at time of fisrt encounter with europeans, but wrongly understood by people with no knowledge of tahitian language... Leodom 21:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Conseil du Scoutisme polynésien
Can someone render "Conseil du Scoutisme polynésien" and "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Tahitian? Thanks! Chris 14:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

User ty
I have looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_language. It would appear that there are no templates like, for Tahitian. :( Chris 06:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Microsoft app
A Microsoft application (part of Office 15) that was recently leaked is codenamed Moorea.--88.73.40.12 (talk) 12:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The pronunciation we have in this article is garbage. It means nothing unless the reader has the Merriam-Webster pronunciation key before him, and that's nowhere to be seen in the article. I also suspect it is an inadequate rendering anyway, as I think there's a glottal stop between the two O's. I believe the actual pronunciation is closer to [moʔoˈrea]. Can anyone confirm this?Kelisi (talk) 06:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Etymology
This needs an etymology section. Why did it cease to be called Eimeo? KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:21, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Akropolis (newspaper)

Akropolis (Ακρόπολις) was a Greek newspaper based in Athens. Between 1883 and 1921, it played a major part in the debate concerning the Greek language question, particularly in the events leading up to the Gospel Riots of 1901 in Athens.

History
Akropolis was essentially the creation of one man, Vlasis Gavriilidis, who founded it in 1883 and played a great part in running it until his death in 1920. Eight months later the newspaper ceased publication, although it was relaunched in 1929 and has been published intermittently since then.

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Holland Road

Holland Road may refer to:

 * Holland Road, London, United Kingdom
 * Holland Road, Singapore, Singapore
 * "Holland Road", a song by Mumford & Sons from their 2012 album Babel

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" today that figure is probably 99 percent" - can we get verification? this looks bad --Smooth Henry 09:42, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

I changed the word "south" to "east" in the first paragraph since the term "east of the river" is commonly used to refer to that side of the city. By the way, I just looked at the city's data from the 2000 Census regarding the "99 percent" statistic. The heart of downtown historic Anacostia is Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue (census tract 75.03). Of 2,515 residents in this tract, 2,445 were African American in 2000 which is about 97%. There were 28 whites and single digit numbers of other races. --jd4508 17 Feb, 2005

And Now, Anacostia
The link to And Now, Anacostia should be removed.

That blog is a shill for real estate developer Jones Lang LaSalle, and the blog's owner, David Garber, has an agenda to push with regard to development in Anacostia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lastort (talk • contribs) 21:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It seems sneaky to substitute the link in the way you tried. However, we have a guidelines on external links, helping us to decide what to include.  This one is marginal, per our guidelines and can be removed. --Aude (talk) 21:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You're right, I should not have redirected the link to Jones Lang LaSalle. Deleting the link is a better way to handle it. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lastort (talk • contribs)

 * Not a problem. Sorry that I misunderstood what you wanted to do there. If you like to, please feel free to improve the article in any other way you think is needed.  I think it needs a bit of work. --Aude (talk) 22:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi- Oh man.. I'm sorry somebody said that about the blog. It has absolutely nothing to do with any company, and its sole purpose is to show Anacostia in a non-biased, but good light. I would appreciate it if you would allow the link to go back so that people interested in the neighborhood can be directed there. It is already an underserved neighborhood. The above person was disgruntled because I would not write in support of a certain issue--but since it is a non-biased site I didn't want to make it political. It would be nice if it could be linked. Thank you. -DG-rad —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.115.148.92 (talk) 18:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

If you read through the site (www.anacostianow.blogspot.com) you will see that it is mostly about public meetings, gallery shows, and local news and projects about the neighborhood. It is unfortunate that a contingency of people are trying to do away with it--but the vast majority of people that read it really appreciate its content and use it as a way of learning about the neighborhood. Thank you. :) -DG-rad  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.115.148.92 (talk) 18:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

SO, is it okay if I put the link back up? thanks! DG-rad —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.237.59 (talk) 06:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

is this section necessary?72.83.197.140 (talk) 02:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Tourism section
In the Tourism section can you please take away the section on the environmental center? It is on Kingman Island, which, while on the Anacostia River, is absolutely nowhere near the Anacostia neighborhood. What you Should be mentioning in TOurism is Cedar Hill, Anacostia's major tourist attraction and historic estate of Frederick Douglass.

Also, it should be mentioned that Big Chair Coffee is a main (and new) neighborhood gathering spot at 2122 MLK Avenue.72.83.197.140 (talk) 02:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Move to unique name
I realize (now, if not before) that the name "Anacostia" was unique. I don't like the article losing it's connection as a neighborhood of Washington DC. It is not a town or city by itself, nor a suburb of Maryland or Virginia. Leaving it the way it was made that clear. The new way loses that connection in the reader's mind - he has to read the article to find out otherwise. I don't think this is desirable. Student7 (talk) 12:20, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

The Great Depression
This section is poorly written and lacks citation. I realize that no one has posted on here since '10, but I'm going to fix it if nobody cares. Subplanar (talk) 21:56, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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Basic information to add to this article: the size/area (in square miles) of this neighborhood. How could a supposedly encyclopedic article have been written and this left out? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 22:41, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Also to add: the average income for residents of this neighborhood. 76.190.213.189 (talk) 22:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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Holland Road, London

Holland Road is a road in Kensington, London, which connects Kensington High Street with the Holland Park roundabout. The southernmost section is one-way (northbound only, returning via Addison Road) and forms part of the Kensington/Earl's Court one-way system.

Location
The road forms part of the A3220. To the east is Addison Road and Holland Park. To the west is West Kensington and Kensington (Olympia) station.

Etymology
Like Holland House and Holland Park, the road is named after the Earls and Barons Holland, who owned the estate on which the road was later built.

Architecture
Holland Road is a prominent residential road situated in the district of Holland Park within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This partly tree lined boulevard runs roughly north - south and is characterised by its imposing period Victorian architecture. Most of the terraced town houses are 4 or 5 storeys high and feature either painted Italianate stucco or ornate brick facades and retain numerous original features. As with many such very large Kensington townhouses constructed in the 1870s, most of the houses have since been converted into spacious and sought after self-contained apartments.

Part of the southern stretch of the road, between nos. 40 and 94, is also within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Holland conservation area. The architectural style adopted in construction is particularly notable and worthy of preservation because the terrace is essentially classical in its proportions, whilst being Gothic in its ornamentation.

Public transport
Holland Road is especially well served by public transport (zone 2) with Holland Park, Shepherds Bush, Kensington (Olympia), and High Street Kensington train stations within easy walking distance as well as numerous bus routes passing along the road.

Residents past and present
The greenery of Holland Park itself (the public park) is only a five-minute walk away to the east. Famous former residents include Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock group Queen. He wrote the classic bestseller Bohemian Rhapsody whilst living at 100 Holland Road in the 1970s. The front cover from a record album is from a photo session of Queen taken at Mercury's flat in Holland Road.

British solicitor John Indermaur lived at 114 Holland Road in the early twentieth-century.

Until 2017, the corporate headquarters of Universal Music were located on the corner of Holland Road and Kensington High Street.

Since 1962, the only showroom of Bristol Cars has been located on the corner of Holland Road and Kensington High Street. As a result of Bristol Cars' liquidation, the future of the showroom is unknown.

The Society of Science, Letters and Art, a late 19th century bogus learned society, had its headquarters at Addison House, 160 Holland Road (demolished).

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 20:05, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

List of General Slocum victims
Not notable; no contextual information or links Brookie 09:51, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no context, potential for a fork. Wyss 11:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, another useless trivial list. Megan1967 01:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've added the context.  Someone reading the article on the General Slocum disaster might find it interesting to have the list of names available, but it would clutter the main article. JamesMLane 16:03, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding the necessary context. I am still inclined to vote delete because Wikipedia is not a memorial.  The discussion at the main article is excellent.  The list of people who died adds nothing to an encyclopedia.  An alternative might be to transwiki this list to Wikisource.  Yes, I realize I am suggesting an approach that is inconsistent with, for example, the list of Sep 11 victims but we have to take these nominations one at a time.  Rossami (talk) 17:25, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if delete references to 9/11 victims. lets not be temporalcentric. Just because you didnt see it on TV doesnt mean it not important --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 16:21, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Rossami that this should be deleted because it's a memorial. I'm not quite sure what useful purpose this list would serve. Carrp | Talk 17:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it's not a memorial, it's a list. See for example Columbine High School massacre. Individual articles on the victims would be memorials unless they were otherwise notable.  Although, I would actually find such memorial articles an interesting window into a bygone era.  But at any rate, I think the list is a useful addition since a quick scan of it gives a feel for the sex, age, & ethnic distribution of the victims. Wolfman 04:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, but... if this is not elsewhere on line, let's find it a home (maybe Wikisource?). If it is elsewhere on line then link to that from General Slocum. I would not favor a deletion if it means that this material would not be on line anywhere. (Also, it needs a clearer citation. The name of a newspaper, without a date, is a poor citation.) -- Jmabel | Talk 06:49, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is either a memorial or a copy of primary source material. Either way, not encyclclopedic.   I'm going to check the article with the 9/11 victim's names, and if it hasn't already been through VfD, I will submit it, by the same logic.  (Further note: the list of WTC victims has been moved to a special memorial site: sep11.wikipedia.org.  There are still lists of the Pentagon victims and the passengers on the planes.) --BM 19:06, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 9/11, general slocum, and columbine victims should be treated the same. but if you don't want them here, they should be wikisourced - not deleted. Wolfman 19:42, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't have a problem with them being transwiki'd to Wikisource, provided we can correctly cite the source, and someone verifies the text against the source. But, by the way, what is the source for this list?  --BM 22:42, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Chamundi Hills

The Chamundi Hills are located 13 km east of Mysore, Karnataka, India. The name comes from the Chamundeshwari Temple at the peak. The average elevation is 1060 m.

Attractions
The Chamundeshwari Temple is located atop the Chamundi Hills. Patronised for centuries by Mysore rulers, it was renovated during the time of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (1827).

Temple
Named after the Goddess Chamundi, the Chamundeshwari Temple sits atop the main hill. The main hill itself features an ancient stone stairway of 1,008 steps leading to its summit. Approximately halfway to the summit is statue of bull Nandi, the vahana, or "vehicle" of Lord Shiva, which is 4.9 m tall and 7.6 m long and carved out of a single piece of black granite. Around this point, the steps become significantly less steep and eventually the climber is rewarded with a panoramic view of the city.

The Temple has a quadrangular structure. A key feature is the statue of Mahishasura bearing a sword in his right hand and a cobra in the left. Within the temple's sanctum stands a sculpted depiction of Chamundeshwari. She is seated with her right heel pressed against the lowest of the seven chakras. This cross-legged yogic posture echoes the posture of Lord Shiva. Worshipers believe that this powerful yogic posture, if mastered, provides an added dimensional view of the universe.

During the rule of Wadiyars of Mysore, the Maharaja was seated in the golden howdah atop the elephant during Vijayadashami (tenth day of Dasara) procession. Post-independence, the Maharaja was replaced by an idol of Chamundeshwari, while the Dasara into a State festival.

From the peak of the Chamundi hills, the Mysore Palace, the Karanji Lake and several smaller temples are visible.

Legend
According to a legend, the asura Mahishasura (king of the city that is currently known as Mysore) was killed by goddess Chamundeswari (also called Chamundi) after a fierce battle. The goddess is also called Mahishasura Mardini.

According to mythology, this rocky hill was known as Mahabalachala. Two ancient temples occupy the hill, the Mahabaleshvara and the Chamundeshvari; the Mahabaleshvara Temple on the hill is the older of the two and is a place of pilgrimage. The car festival and 'Teppotsava' are held there.

The influence on the name of Mysuru
The name of Mysuru comes from the old Kannada word "Mahishooru". Mahishooru literally means 'the village of Mahishasura.' The British then modified this name to 'Mysore'. Then, on 1 November 2014, the government of Karnataka changed the name to 'Mysuru'. The hill thus has an indirect influence on the name of the city

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-02-14/Google hosting

A potential solution for Wikipedia's overloaded servers appeared last week, as news broke that the Wikimedia Foundation was in talks with Google about providing hosting services. Preliminary indications were promising, but no final agreement has been reached and is probably still several weeks away at the earliest.

The initial hints appeared 1 February, as an agenda item for the 7 February Wikimedia Board of Trustees meeting referred to "Hosting by Google". After the board meeting was held last Monday, the summary of the agenda reflected more clearly that this was not simply a theoretical discussion, but indicated that an actual contract proposal was being worked on and a private meeting was scheduled on the issue for 2 March. However, the information did not yet indicate whether there was any discussion on Google's part, or whether the Wikimedia Foundation was simply hoping to interest Google in the idea.

Participants in the meeting alluded to the proposal in discussions on the Foundation mailing list during the week, prompting additional questions about the plan. Wikimedia CFO Daniel Mayer said Wednesday, "The plan for Google hosting will greatly reduce the amount of money we need to spend as will other hosting offers." (Mayer later said he was not speaking in an official capacity.) In response to the queries that followed, Trustee Angela Beesley confirmed that Google had made a proposal to host Wikimedia content, but said she couldn't elaborate.

The Wikipedia community's other elected Trustee, Anthere, reported on Thursday that Jimmy Wales had met with Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page during a trip to Stanford, where he was a guest lecturer last Wednesday in a class taught by Howard Rheingold. She indicated that Brin and Page were enthusiastic about the Wikipedia project.

The story breaks
The first appearance of this information outside of Wikipedia discussions seems to have been posted on a blog Thursday at dirson.com, one of a number of blogs dedicated to Google-related issues. The Dirson blog provided no real information beyond what had been stated on the mailing list — in fact, an update to the blog copied information verbatim from mailing list posts, complete with misspellings like Zeon in reference to the Xeon servers Google might use as a hosting provider. (Zeon is apparently, among other things, a planet in the Star Trek universe; perhaps next we might see rumors that the Federation will be providing additional bandwidth in exchange for Wikimedia abandoning its plans to relocate the Klingon Wikipedia to Wikicities.)

Dirson's post, combined with the existence of a Meta article about Google hosting, meant that the information was now published both internally and externally. This was apparently good enough for other people to start repeating the story, with the Meta page serving as "official" confirmation. The story was picked up by Slashdot the same day, prompting an extended discussion on that site.

Response to publicity
As a reflection of the combined name recognition of Google and Wikipedia, or the large audience Slashdot enjoys, the news proliferated rapidly to many different internet sites on Friday. The "Google hosting" page on Meta had to be protected due to vandalism after the news hit Slashdot, a common problem for Wikipedia articles that get linked there. Meanwhile, Brion Vibber reported that many of the people he spoke with while manning a Wikipedia booth at the Southern California Linux Expo wanted to know about the Google deal.

The coverage brought out a limited response from Google, confirming the basic fact that talks were underway but not elaborating on the nature of the discussions. As reported by Susan B. Shor of TechNewsWorld, Google spokesman Nate Tyler stated, "While we don't have anything specific to announce today, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively evaluating creative ways to support Wikipedia.org and its community."

Details of the proposal remain confidential, although Mayer did say that as he understood the plan, there would be "no strings attached". The Foundation did not offer an official statement, and the fact that outside sources treated information on Meta as official prompted the addition of a disclaimer to the page. According to Beesley, any official statements would be placed on the Wikimedia Foundation website.


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Marotiri

Marotiri is a group of four uninhabited volcanic rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. Marotiri is also known as Bass Rocks (Îlots de Bass in French), maybe according to the name of the European explorer George Bass. Marotiri is very isolated, located about 725 mi west-south-westward of Pitcairn Island. The closest island is Rapa Iti, 75 km farther northwest, but separated from it by an ocean depth of more than 1,500 meters. The rocks are part of the municipality of Rapa.

The climate is wet temperate. The lower rocks are almost devoid of vegetation - although there is some vegetation on the upper slopes and summits. They are important as a seabird rookery. Fish abound in the adjacent waters. The rocks emerge from a submarine platform 100 meters deep and 5 km in diameter. They lie at a distance between 1.5 and 3 km from one another. The total land area is 43,100 m2, which is broken down as follows by the individual rocks:

The southern rock is the largest, with a height of 113 meters at its highest point.

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Mercury Drug

The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Filipino pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City. The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945, making it the second oldest drugstore chain in the Philippines after Southstar Drug by eight years. As of 2017, Mercury Drug has over 1,000 branches nationwide and over 50 percent of the Philippine pharmaceutical retail market.

History
The company began on March 1, 1945, with a single drugstore along Bambang Street, Santa Cruz, Manila owned by Mariano Que (d. April 15, 2017). He named it after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, whose caduceus wand is sometimes used as a symbol of medicine, as well as the element of the same name and the closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System. The logo was designed by Alfredo Medinaceli Cabrera. By 1948, the company has established a delivery system.

The store began cutting packaged, bulk items into single pieces and selling them individually; this retail practice is colloquially called tingí-tingî in Filipino. It is the second oldest operating drugstore chain in the country after Southstar Drug, which was established eight years earlier.

Upon the invitation of Ayala Corporation, Mercury Drug opened its second branch in May 1963 at the Corporation's developing commercial center in Makati now known as the Ayala Center. The self-service concept was introduced at that branch, making it today's model for all branches.

In 1965, Mercury Drug established its landmark branch at Plaza Miranda, Quiapo, Manila opposite Quiapo Church, which is currently noted for its large, outdoor LED screen. The company also established 24-hour store schedules in the same year. It was later expanded to Visayas and Mindanao, starting operations there in 1976.

In 1981, Mercury Drug's new spacious warehouse was inaugurated. The following year, it inaugurated its new head office in Quezon City.

In 2001, Trade and Industry Secretary Mar Roxas described Mercury drug as a "near monopoly" and said it has 70 percent share of the domestic market though it faces competition from the above-mentioned Southstar Drug (later acquired by Robinsons Retail in 2012), Rose Pharmacy (partnered with Robinsons in 2020), and the SM-owned Watsons Philippine franchise.

As of 2010, the company has an estimated 50 percent share of the local pharmaceutical retail market. By 2012, Mercury Drug Stores have made drive-thru pharmacies. By 2015, the company's share in retail increased from 50 percent with competitors such as Watsons getting a 6 percent share of the market.

As of 2017, Mercury Drug has reportedly over 1,000 branches across the country. In the early 2010s, it opened a new building, MDC100, located in Eastwood City, Quezon City.

Urban legends
There are urban legends about why Mercury Drug stores are non-existent inside SM Malls. One story claims that Henry Sy, a businessman selling footwear who would eventually establish SM Supermalls, was rejected a rental space to sell shoes at Mercury Drug, while also claiming that Sy remembered this and as a result, secured Watsons as the pharmacy in his malls. Another story claims that Sy was selling footwear in front of Mercury Drug as a sidewalk vendor and then was shooed away by drugstore's security guards. The story also adds that after years have passed, Mercury Drug had allegedly asked to rent a space at SM malls but was "rejected" and "banned" because Sy had remembered the incident of being driven off by guards.

Sy was silent about the truthfulness of these urban legends. In 2002, his daughter, Teresita Sy-Coson, wrote The Philippine Star and stated that his father and Mariano Que were "good friends and this friendship extends to family members." Furthermore, she said that the two companies could not agree on rental rates, which is the "only reason" why there is no Mercury Drug store in SM malls. Likewise, Mercury Drug said in an official statement that they have "a high regard for Mr. Henry Sy and the SM Enterprise" and they "respect each other's business endeavors and maintain a friendly attitude toward each other."

Tropical Hut
Mercury Drug is also the owner of the popular food chain Tropical Hut. It was the biggest fastfood chain for hamburgers in the country from the 1960s to 1970s. President Benigno Aquino III considered hamburgers his comfort food and usually visited its branch at Jaka Plaza along Sucat Road in Parañaque as it was his favorite restaurant.

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C1-inhibitor

C1-inhibitor (C1-inh, C1 esterase inhibitor) is a protease inhibitor belonging to the serpin superfamily. Its main function is the inhibition of the complement system to prevent spontaneous activation but also as the major regulator of the contact system. C1-inhibitor is an acute-phase protein that circulates in blood at levels of around 0.25 g/L. The levels rise ~2-fold during inflammation. C1-inhibitor irreversibly binds to and inactivates C1r and C1s proteases in the C1 complex of classical pathway of complement. MASP-1 and MASP-2 proteases in MBL complexes of the lectin pathway are also inactivated. This way, C1-inhibitor prevents the proteolytic cleavage of later complement components C4 and C2 by C1 and MBL. Although named after its complement inhibitory activity, C1-inhibitor also inhibits proteases of the fibrinolytic, clotting, and kinin pathways. Note that C1-inhibitor is the most important physiological inhibitor of plasma kallikrein, FXIa, and FXIIa.

Proteomics
C1-inhibitor is the largest member among the serpin superfamily of proteins. It can be noted that, unlike most family members, C1-inhibitor has a 2-domain structure. The C-terminal serpin domain is similar to other serpins, which is the part of C1-inhibitor that provides the inhibitory activity. The N-terminal domain (also some times referred to as the N-terminal tail) is not essential for C1-inhibitor to inhibit proteases. This domain has no similarity to other proteins. C1-inhibitor is highly glycosylated, bearing both N- and O-glycans. N-terminal domain is especially heavily glycosylated.

Genetics
The human C1-inhibitor gene (SERPING1) is located on the eleventh chromosome (11q11-q13.1).

Role in disease
Deficiency of this protein is associated with hereditary angioedema ("hereditary angioneurotic edema"), or swelling due to leakage of fluid from blood vessels into connective tissue. Deficiency of C1-inhibitor permits plasma kallikrein activation, which leads to the production of the vasoactive peptide bradykinin. Also, C4 and C2 cleavage goes unchecked, resulting in auto-activation of the complement system. In its most common form, it presents as marked swelling of the face, mouth and/or airway that occurs spontaneously or to minimal triggers (such as mild trauma), but such swelling can occur in any part of the body. In 85% of the cases, the levels of C1-inhibitor are low, while in 15% the protein circulates in normal amounts but it is dysfunctional. In addition to the episodes of facial swelling and/or abdominal pain, it also predisposes to autoimmune diseases, most markedly lupus erythematosus, due to its consumptive effect on complement factors 3 and 4. Mutations in the gene that codes for C1-inhibitor, SERPING1, may also play a role in the development of age-related macular degeneration. At least 97 disease-causing mutations in this gene have been discovered.

Despite uncontrolled auto-activation, it is important to note that levels of key complement components are low during an acute attack because they are being consumed – indeed, low levels of C4 are a key diagnostic test for hereditary angioedema. This situation is analogous to the low levels of clotting factors found in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

Hereditary angioedema
Blood-derived C1-inhibitor is effective but does carry the risk associated with the use of any human blood product. Cinryze, a pharmaceutical-grade C1-inhibitor, was approved for the use of HAE in 2008 in the US after having been available in Europe for decades. It is a highly purified, pasteurized and nanofiltered plasma-derived C1 esterase inhibitor product; it has been approved for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with HAE.

A recombinant C1-inhibitor obtained from the milk of transgenic rabbits, conestat alfa (trade name Ruconest), is approved for the treatment of acute HAE attacks in adults.

While C1-inhibitor therapy has been used acutely for more than 35 years in Europe in patients with C1-inhibitor deficiency, new methods of treating acute attacks have emerged: a plasma kallikrein inhibitor and the bradykinin receptor antagonist icatibant.

Other products also have been introduced including plasma-derived products such as Berinert and Haegarda.

For other conditions
The activation of the complement cascade can cause damage to cells, therefore the inhibition of the complement cascade can work as a medicine in certain conditions. When someone has a heart attack, for instance, the lack of oxygen in heart cells causes necrosis in heart cells: Dying heart cells spill their contents in the extracellular environment, which triggers the complement cascade. Activation of the complement cascade attracts phagocytes that leak peroxide and other reagents, which may increase the damage for the surviving heart cells. Inhibition of the complement cascade can decrease this damage.

Synthesis
C1-inhibitor is contained in the human blood; it can, therefore, be isolated from donated blood. Risks of infectious disease transmission (viruses, prions, etc.) and relative expense of isolation prevented widespread use. It is also possible to produce it by recombinant technology, but Escherichia coli (the most commonly used organism for this purpose) lacks the eukaryotic ability to glycosylate proteins; as C1-inhibitor is particularly heavily glycosylated, this sialylated recombinant form would have a short circulatory life (the carbohydrates are not relevant to the inhibitor function). Therefore, C1-inhibitor has also been produced in glycosylated form using transgenic rabbits. This form of recombinant C1-inhibitor also has been given orphan drug status for delayed graft function following organ transplantation and for capillary leakage syndrome.

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Talk:Claim in bankruptcy

Which jusrisdiction is this referring to?
This probably refers to US bankruptcy law - and if so - the article needs to make this clear. This article certainly does not cover the position in the United Kingdom. If we are trying to have an encylopdic entry we need to set out what it is that we're covering. See also Bankruptcy. Brookie 09:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, this definitely is the case in the U.S. - I'll make it clear. -- BD2412 talk 21:29, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

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Category talk:Generic top-level domains

Handy search tip
I can't think of a more acceptable place to put this, and can't really justify putting it on the page itself.

In order to Google only sites that only belong to a particular domain you can use:

site:.domain search term

So, to search only sites belonging to .museum for references to Salvador Dali enter the search:

site:.museum "salvador dali"

Note the period after the colon.

Well, I find it very handy. --bodnotbod 10:01, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

The TLD organisation is not very useful
Do you organise your files by which ones were created by companies, and which ones were created by non-profit organisations? No. Does anyone? No. Then why is the Internet organised this way?

It has ended up being practically a flat address space with the TLDs not providing any useful categorisation of sites or information about the subject of a site

A much more logical domain system would be something similar to the system for newsgroups, where the groups are organised into a logical hierarchy of categories. Jibjibjib 06:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:To-do list/to do

 * Explain that this to-do list is just an example. It is not meant to contain actual items to be done.
 * Explain that the purpose of this list is illustration, so you can see what a to-do list might look like.
 * Explain that this to-do list is not a list of things to do in Wikipedia in general. See Edit requests for one way to propose a change.
 * Add an infobox.
 * Update the Criticism section with the latest developments.
 * Link to To-Do list
 * Add Pictures
 * Do the To-Do List!

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Juan Carlos Romero (politician)

Juan Carlos Romero (born 16 November 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and senator, and was Governor of Salta for 12 years. The former Peronist governor has accumulated political and economic power since 1995.

Romero was born in Salta where his father Roberto Romero was a politician, later governor of the province. He studied law and political science at the University of Buenos Aires. A lawyer, he became deputy editor, and then editor of the Salta newspaper founded by his father, El Tribuno, from 1974.

In 1986 Romero became a Senator for Salta Province. He took a leading role in economics and was re-elected in 1992. In 1995 he was elected governor of Salta and was re-elected in 1999 and 2003. He launched a bid for the presidency ahead of the 2003 general election, though he ran as Carlos Menem's running mate on the Peronist Front for Loyalty ticket. They narrowly won the first round, but poor polling numbers persuaded Menem and Romero to forfeit the runoff.

In 2007 he was again elected a Senator, with Juan Manuel Urtubey being elected governor of Salta. Romero was appointed vice-president of the Senate in December 2007. Although he had opposed Kirchnerism, he sat in the governing Front for Victory block in the Senate until 20 February 2009 when he announced that he and his fellow Salta Senator, Sonia Escudero, would be leaving the majority block.

Romero used to be married to Betina Marcuzzi and has four children. One of them, Bettina, currently serves as mayor of the City of Salta.

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Rhône-et-Loire

Rhône-et-Loire was the short-lived department of France whose prefecture (capital) was Lyon. Its name takes into the two rivers which is flowing in the department: Rhône and Loire. Created on 4 March 1790, like the other French departments, Rhône-et-Loire was disbanded on 12 August 1793 when it was split into two departments: Rhône (prefecture: Lyon) and Loire (prefecture: Feurs, then Montbrison, and then Saint-Étienne, the current capital). The division of Rhône-et-Loire was a response to counterrevolutionary activities in Lyon which, by population, was the country's second largest city. By splitting Rhône-et-Loire, which was the natural economic and, potentially, military hinterland of Lyon, the government sought to protect the French Revolution from the potential power and influence of the counterrevolutionary revolt in the Lyon region.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Rhône department was enlarged several times by incorporating into it areas from neighboring departments, so that today the two departments of Rhône and Loire combined are larger than the former Rhône-et-Loire department.

If Rhône-et-Loire still existed, its population at the 1999 French census would have been 1,799,812 inhabitants, whereas in 1999 the Rhône department had 1,578,869 inhabitants, and the Loire department had 728,524 inhabitants.

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Bass Islands (French Polynesia)

The Bass Islands (Îles Bass or Îlots Bass) consist primarily of Rapa Iti (-27.58333°N, -144.33333°W) and Marotiri (-27.91667°N, -143.43333°W). They are usually considered to be the southernmost of the Austral Islands, although this classification is more one of geographic and political expediency than because of similarities between them and the rest of the Austral Islands. The Bass Islands, lying several degrees outside the tropics, are the southernmost islands in French Polynesia. Culturally, the Bass Islands appear to have been colonized about the same time as Tahiti and the Marquesas, and the culture and language (Rapan) appear to have diverged about the same time as well, indicating that they developed in relative isolation almost from the time of first settlement.

Geography
It has an area of approximately 40.6 square kilometers. Geologically, the Bass Islands are distinguished from the Austral Islands in that their vulcanism appears to be much more recent.

Rapa, sometimes called Rapa Iti (Little Rapa, to distinguish it from "Rapa Nui" (Big Rapa), a name for Easter Island), is the largest and only inhabited island of the Bass Islands. An older name for the island is Oparo. Its area is 38.5 km2 with a population of 530 and a max elevation of 650 m. Its main town is Ahuréi.

Marotiri, with an area of 0,043 km2, is a group of four uninhabited volcanic rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. Marotiri is also known as Bass Rocks (Îlots de Bass in French), maybe according to the name of the European explorer George Bass. Marotiri is very isolated, located at -27.91667°N, -143.43333°W, about 725 mi west-south-westward of Pitcairn Island. The closest island is Rapa Iti, 75 km further northwest, but separated from it by an ocean depth of more than 1,500 meters. The rocks are part of the municipality of Rapa and uninhabitable by people. They form an important bird sanctuary.

Also nearby is the purported Neilson Reef or Lancaster Reef (-27.01667°N, -146.03333°W), a crescent-shaped reef to the north-northwest of Rapa.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dabog

 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. Block compress error: pending deletion tagged. Joyous 20:03, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Dabog
Likely a hoax - Google searches fail to find anything relevant. Other contributions by the same IP near that time seem like someone was playing around. TrueGnu 10:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Gazpacho 10:19, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonsensical. Delete Radiant! 10:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Nonsense. Inter 11:04, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, some sort of vanity hoax. Wyss 11:06, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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