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User talk:Cecropia/Archive 10

User:68.187.13.154
I've been trying to block 68.187.13.154 for repeated vandalism, but I don't get the usual block link, and he can't be found in the list of blocked IPs. I suspect maybe someone banned the range he's in. Is there any way to be sure? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:53, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

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Note from user:dino
Under User talk:Dino, you note:

 * == Congratulations, Dino, and Sorry! ==

 * Sorry to hear about your metacarpal, but on the positive side, it's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 20:40, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! My editing / admining / Elvis impersonations may be lean until December 30 when this &%*(#($ cast comes off. Getting used to using a mouse left-handed (I'm right handed). If I get lost or am unsure about an admin thing, maybe I'll drop you a note.

Still trying to find a public domain image of one of my favorite pulp writers, Mickey Spillane. It may take time.

dino 01:58, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And the Woggle-bug too says: thanks! --Woggly 19:58, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Congratulations
Thank you very much, Cecropia. Good luck in the Arbcom election. :) - RedWordSmith 22:23, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Laws of war
"subtitle and order in logical progression" -- A job which needed doing and done well. Philip Baird Shearer 11:02, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cheers mate.
Want to tell that to User:Silsor who blocked me? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Select admins
I understand what you're saying, but that's awful! How am I meant to get consensus amongst admins if I only ask admin "allies"? Surely that's skewing the system for your own means? Ta bu shi da yu 04:39, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Ah. I see what you mean. Sounds fair :) BTW, thanks for defending me. I appreciate it. Ta bu shi da yu 04:46, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFC on myself
Well, if it was Selsor, this would be seen as attacking him. And I wanted to solicit comments on my own behaviour as well as whether the way the block was applied to me was fair and kosher. Do you think I should withdraw it? Two people have already commented. Incidently, I'm about to start Administator's noticeboard. However, in this case I would like to tell all admins about it, so I'd like to send a message to all admins. Yet this will be classed as spam and I'll get blocked again! So what do I do here? Not tell anyone? - Ta bu shi da yu 05:34, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Greets
Thanks for starting an article on the International Workers Order! Just wanted to bring to your attention that I uploaded their logo. Bit by bit, I'm working offline on a greatly expanded version of this article, hopefully it will be ready in a few weeks. I don't know how active your interest in that organization is, but I've been kind of obsessed ever since my grandfather started telling me about it... --Brian Z 02:45, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Movin' On Up
Salve, Cecropia! Thanks for your note re my adminship promotion. I was very happy to see such nice comments from our fellows in the voting. Out of curiosity, what did you have to do to give me admin status? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:44, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Terrorism
I hate to bug you about this, but the terrorism article has gotten obnoxiously POV again. I reverted a rewrite a bit ago, but Stevertigo has put it back in and I don't have the time or energy to deal with this. If you do, could you trim the introduction back to something reasonable? Isomorphic 21:03, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I trimmed out a bit of the worst and the blatantly inaccurate, and a couple others have done a bit, but it's still flaky.  I hoped that since you'd worked on it before and seem to know the issues well, you might be able to do something with it.  If you'd rather stay away from the mess, it'd be understandable.
 * It's interesting to note that the new additions seem always to be in the intro. The result, besides being POV and distorted, is a terribly structured article.  Isomorphic 23:31, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your Dad's Quotes
I really liked both of those quotes by your Dad. --Wtmgeo 04:25, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Arbcom Election Results
Only three votes short!! Recount, recount! Actually I'm happy with all the people that got elected, but I would have liked to see you win. Unfortunately it turned out I didn't get to vote because I haven't been a member long enough, but next time... --MPerel 03:52, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, the Green Party is going to dispute the election. I'm crushed, and for a moth, that's serious! ;-) Cheers, Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:02, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh! So close. Sorry you didn't make it into the ArbCom. You would have been a great arbitrator. But look at it this way: you now get most of the credit (by being just a few votes shy) but without any of the responsibility. Cheers! – Quadell (talk) (help)  18:08, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Cachet
I just wanted to let you know how thrilled I am to finally see someone on the internet who knows how to use cachet correctly instead of saying cache. --Michael Snow 05:05, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My promotion
Hi Cecropia. Looks like it was you who just granted me sysop access, so I'd like to thank you. I'll read the guidelines and get in touch with the way things work for admins here. I'll do my best on following those rules and administrating articles now.

Again, thanks, and Merry Christmas! --Kaonashi 05:53, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Staten Island
I am seeing all the good work you are doing on mass transit articles, or whatever we want to call them. I have been doing some research on Henry H. Rogers (1840-1909). One of my sources states that he was long the "transit magnate of Staten Island". I haven't been able to find out anything more, although Rogers lived in Manhattan, had ties to Greenpoint in Brooklyn, has involved in other rail operations including Union Pacific, Erie, Lackawanna, Deepwater, Tidewater, Virginian, Ohio River Railroads. He was also involved in multiple ventures with Abram S. Hewitt, a former NY mayor who has been called the father of the NY subway. With your location and interests, I thought you might have leads for me. Here is the link if you want to see what I have been unable to come up with so far.

 * my work so far on Henry Rogers and Staten Island transit

Thanks for any help, and your collaboration of the other articles. Vaoverland 07:09, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Jew-template Discussions
Hi Cecropia:Please see the discussions taking place at Template talk:Jew it's connected to the Jew article in all its "extensions". Please provide your views. Thank you. IZAK 08:10, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I admire you.
Ground 16:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New York City
Hello, I've started WikiProject New York City, and from your edits it seems you might be interested. See its talk page for the beginning of a discussion on the standardization of neighborhood names, and bringing New York City up to featured status.--Pharos 13:26, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cable car (railway)
Hi. You write:

 * I also added a paragraph to the "Funicular" section emphasizing the conceptual difference between the two. Do you think that para should be nearer the top of its section?

I think it reads well where it is. I suggest leaving it where it is. If there is another rash of funiculars added to the article, we can always reconsider. Thanks for the nice words, BTW. -- Chris j wood 00:40, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Shikai shaw

If you need to contact me immediately, please use my talk page in Japanese Wikipedia.

Wellcome zh-min-nan Wikipedia
こんにちは, hoan-gêng/welcome! A-giau 04:59, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That is, to zh-min-nan: (except I wrote it in the wrong Wikipedia :) 05:00, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * ありがとうございます. Thank you. --shikai shaw 01:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

twice interlink
You added ja: to some articles which already had it, and sometimes you added it twice. Please see following links:. --Acepectif 03:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I understood. I am careful about how to put on interlang. Thank you. --shikai shaw 01:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

About Template:Late Universal Century Mobile weapons
I noticed that you add ORX-005 Gaplant to the list, could you please point me out which series does it appear? L-Zwei 12:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Gaplant appears in the beginning of Gaia Gear, and there is an important meaning for a chief character. But Gaplant is not in condition to operate. I delete it if unnecessary. --shikai shaw 17:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for explanation, then it should be there.L-Zwei 16:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

System-∀99 ∀ Gundam
You probably already saw, but I've listed System-∀99 ∀ Gundam for deletion. KI 04:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I don't know English Wikipedia rules. I moved System-∀99 ∀ Gundam to WD-M01 Turn A Gundam, it's OK? --shikai shaw 04:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Yugioh episode titles translation
I am having trouble translating these.. may you help me

 * 20. 恋する乙女は強いのよデッキ
 * 34. 湯けむり旅情
 * 36. ムコとり決闘
 * 41. 闘牛場
 * above the Kanji is "Dark Arena" in katakana

 * 42. ブラマジガール乱入
 * 43. 明日香にセカンド・ラブ・チャンス!?
 * 47. サイバー・エンジェル-弁天-
 * 48. and 49. 2つの幻魔
 * 64. アニキへの熱き想いデュエル
 * 76. 合体
 * 84. 開幕

Thanks

(207.200.34.177 15:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC))

 * I tried to translate these. Please refer. But, these are very difficult. Because I can speak English little.

 * 20. Koisuru otome wa tsuyoinoyo dekki - "The girl/maiden in love is strong" deck.
 * 34. Yukemuri ryojō - The sentiment of a traveler in hot spring. (This word is difficult, and it is not conveyed a Japanese meaning precisely.)
 * 36. Mukotori kettō - "Get married" duel or "Get a groom/husband" duel.
 * 41. Tōgyūjō - Bullring.

 * 42. Buramajigāru rannyū - Blamagigirl intrusion or Blamagigirl broke into.
 * 43. Asuka ni sekando rabu chansu !? - Second love chance for Asuka!?
 * 47. Saibā enjeru -Benten- - Cyber angel -Benten-. (Benten is nickname of Benzaiten. Benzaiten is Saraswati in Japanese Buddhism.))
 * 48. and 49. Futatsu no genma - Two phantom demons.
 * 64. Aniki e no atsuki omoi dyueru - "Hot feeling to big brother" duel.
 * 76. Gattai - Union.
 * 84. Kaimaku - The opening or The curtain rises.

 * --shikai shaw 09:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

About Z Plus's name
Isn't it's pronoun as Z Plus not Zeta Plus?L-Zwei 14:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I can't understand your question. Because I can speak English little.

 * When I examined it, a correct mark of Zeta Plus is "Ζplus". Ζ is Zata of a Greek character. However, it becomes the ゼータプラス (Zeta plus) of the katakana in the plastic model of Bandai because of the trademark.

 * An easy example is enumerated as follows.
 * Ζ (Greek: Zeta/ゼータ) - Ζ Gundam, Ζplus, ΖΖ Gundam, etc...
 * Z (Japanese English: Zet/ゼット) - ZII (ゼッツー (Zettū/Zet-two) from Ζ-MSV, However, it becomes the Zeta Twei of the katakana in the Gundam Fix Figuration because of the trademark.)
 * Z (German: Zet/ツェット) - FAZZ (ファッツ (Fattsu/Fats) from Gundam Sentinel)
 * Z (English: Zee/ズィー) - ZZ-GR (ズィーズィー・ジーアール (ZiZi-JiĀru/ZeeZee-GeeAr) from Gundam Evolve../10)

 * --shikai shaw 09:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

May you please unblock me
I am user: Aywana in the Japanese wikipeida. May you please unblock me. The person that block me is the user: KMT in the Japanese Wikipedia. The IPs are 66.25.132.168 and 207.200.34.177, they are school IPs. The reason is for vandal. Please, I am not the vandal.

I want to be unblocked, the 66.25.132.168 will expire in July, 5 (3 months). The block is causing me not to edit the Japanese Wikipeida.

May you please unblock me.

AC Gundam Data
Hello. I was just wondering what you use as sources/standards for the edits you make to the pages about After Colony Gundam things. You seem to have a very strict set of criteria, but I can't make sense of it - you don't allow some things that turn up all over the place (OZ-17MS Serpent), but then put in obscure data not present in the original source (The model numbers for the Deathscythe and Shenlong Perfect Album MSVs). Rather than just editing back and forth, I decided to ask what you were basing it on.

Sorry if my English is hard to understand; I'm bad at keeping things simple.

Golux Ex Machina 15:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * OZ-17MS ,SK-12SMS and WF-12SMS are original numbers by a fan made with MAHQ. As far as I know it, They do not have a source by Japanese, but do they have a source by English, you know? Please take Google searching into account too., ,
 * The source of Deathscythe and Shenlong MSVs are Kodansha "Comic BombBomb" November, 1995 issue.
 * Because I am weak in English, I'm sorry if you can not understand. --shikai shaw 04:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way, is English version of "Tiel's Impulse" released? A Japanese original version does not have information about a model number at all. --shikai shaw 04:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I think The Gundam Project (which is shut down) used the OZ-17MS and the Taurus numbesr first, but I could be wrong. I'm curious as to where they came from, though.

Tiel's Impulse is not out in English; I don't know where those numbers came from either. Is the November Comic BomBom also the source of the names like "Tornado Gundam" and "Dinosaur Gundam" for the MSVs?

Golux Ex Machina 18:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

 * 私は英語に自信がないので、日本語も付記しておきます.
 * 「Gundam Project」は、ウェブサイトですか？私は知りませんが、これらがそこで作られたものである可能性は高いでしょう. インターネットでは、まちがった内容が広まることはよくあります. （例えば、ドラゴンボールAFなど. ）したがって、私たちがその内容が正しいことを確認するためには、原典を参照しなければなりません.
 * 私は少なくとも日本語の書籍において、原典を発見することはできませんでした. また、これらの情報は英語圏のインターネットではよく見られるのにもかかわらず、日本語圏のインターネットではほとんど見つからないということも確認しています. つまり、これらの型式番号の原典は英語で書かれたものという証拠でしょう. そもそも、日本におけるサンクキングダムのつづりは、"Cinq Kingdom" あるいは "Thank Kingdam" ですので、"SK" とはなりません.
 * ガンダムシリーズには、雑誌でのみ公開され書籍に収録されていない事柄が多いのです. しかし、ガンダムWに関してはそれが非常に少ないと言えます. あなたが、それらの型式番号が存在することを証明できないということにより、それらの型式番号が存在しないことが証明されます. 詳しくは悪魔の証明を参考にしてください.
 * 『ティエルの衝動』（実業之日本社『新機動戦記ガンダムW Endless Waltz 最強プレイングブック』ISBN 4-408-61474-2）についても同じです. 『ティエルの衝動』は、出版社などの状況から考えると、原典以外の出典があるとは思えません. 英語版が発売されていない以上、原典に載っていない情報がインターネット上で（しかも英語圏のみで！）広まっているということは、それが虚偽である証拠です.
 * いずれにせよ、いつまでも原典の確認できない情報を記載しておくのは、ガンダムシリーズの制作者に対する冒涜であり、許されるものではありません. これらの情報を載せるのならば、それぞれのモビルスーツの記事で、「英語圏のインターネットでのみ確認される情報であり、ファンによる創作である可能性が高い」と記述するべきでしょう.

 * Because English does not have confidence, I add Japanese.
 * Is "Gundam Project" a website? I do not know it, but the possibility that these were made for there will be high. On Internet, it often happens that wrong content spreads out. （For example, Dragon Ball AF.） Therefore, we must refer to the original source so that we confirm that the contents are right.
 * I was not able to discover the original source in a Japanese book at least. Moreover, it is confirmed to be hardly found in the Internet of Japanese area though it is seen well in the Internet of English area. In other words it will be evidence to say that the original source was written in English of these model numbers. To begin with, because spelling "Sanc Kingdam" in Japan is "Cinq Kingdom" or "Thank Kingdam", it doesn't become "SK".
 * The Gundam series has many the matters that it is shown only with a magazine, and is not recorded by a book. However, it may be said that there are very little them about Gundam W. It is proved that there are not them by that you cannot prove that there are those model numbers. Please refer to Probatio diabolica in detail.
 * As for "Tiel's Impulse" (Jitsugyo no Nihon sha "New Mobile Report Gundam W Endless Waltz Saikyo Playing Book" ISBN 4-408-61474-2), it is the same. There do not seem to be sources other than the original by "Tiel's Impulse " when thinking from the situation such as publishers. Since English version is not released; the information that does not appear in the original sources on Internet（Besides, it is only the English area!） It is the evidence that it is false to spread out.
 * In any case it is profanity for a producer of the Gundam series that carry the information that I cannot confirm of the original forever, and it is not a permissible thing. If these information is put, it should be described, "The possibility is high that it is the creation with the fan because it is information confirmed only by the Internet of English area" by the article on each mobile suits page.

 * 講談社「コミックボンボン」1995年11月号に掲載されたデスサイズとシェンロンのバリエーションは、テレビに新しいモビルスーツ（デスサイズヘルとアルトロンのこと）が登場するということで、その予想として作られたものです. その後、講談社『新機動戦記ガンダムW パーフェクトアルバム』 (ISBN 4-06-103300-X) に掲載された時に、デスサイズとシェンロンの試作案という設定に修正され、名称の変更と、型式番号の除去が行なわれました. また、ヘビーアームズとサンドロックのバリエーションも追加されました. 名称の変遷は以下の通りです.
 * Deathscythe and Shenlong Variations carried by Kodansha "Comic BombBomb" November, 1995 issue was made as the expectation that new mobile suit (it is Deathscythe Hell and Altron) appeared to television. Afterwards, it was corrected to the setting of experimental idea of Deathscythe and Shenlong when published in Kodansha "The New Mobile History Gundam W Perfect Album" (ISBN 4-06-103300-X), and the change in the name and the removal of the model number were done. Moreover, the variation of Heavyarms and Sandrock was added. The change of a name is as follows.
 * コミックボンボン1995年11月号 (Comic BombBomb November, 1995 issue) -> 新機動戦記ガンダムW パーフェクトアルバム (The New Mobile History Gundam W Perfect Album)
 * ガンダムデスサイズバリエーション (Gundam Deathscythe Variations)
 * XXXG-01DB ガンダムデスビースト (Gundam Death Beast) -> ガンダムクレイジービースト (Gundam Crazy Beast)
 * XXXG-01DC ガンダムデスケンタウロス (Gundam Death Centauros) -> ガンダムナイトメアケンタウロス (Gundam Nightmare Centauros)
 * XXXG-01DF ガンダムデスファイター (Gundam Death Fighter) -> ガンダムダークエンジェル (Gundam Dark Angel)
 * XXXG-01DS ガンダムデススパイダー (Gundam Death Spider) -> ガンダムマッドタランチュラ (Gundam Mad Tarantula)
 * シェンロンガンダムバリエーション (Shenlong Gundam Variations)
 * XXXG-01SB ブリザードガンダム (Blizzard Gundam) -> ブリザードガンダム (Blizzard Gundam)
 * XXXG-01SD ダイナソーガンダム (Dinosaur Gundam) -> ツインヘッデッドリザードガンダム (Twin Headed Lizard Gundam)
 * XXXG-01SS ストームガンダム (Storm Gundam) -> シューティングスターシェンロン (Shooting Star Shenlong)
 * XXXG-01ST トルネードガンダム (Tornado Gundam) -> アクアシェンロン (Aqua Shenlong)
 * 型式番号不明 ガンダムカタストロフィー ((Model Number Unknown) Gundam Catastrophe) -> カタストロフィD (Catastrophe D)

 * --shikai shaw 04:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Gundam Project is a website. It'd shut down now however.

Also, thanks for clearing up the origins of those MSVs.

Golux Ex Machina 15:57, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I am happy if I had you understand it. --shikai shaw 07:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

AC Gundam Data (2)
Hi I noticed your recent updates to the After Colony mobile suit pages and template and just so you know I am going to have to disagree with those updates and so I'll post this message here first before I revert anything. The problems with those pages in my POV are that even though a lot of the mobile suit pages that were merged are similar, however the key issue is that not only is it off topic as those pages were originally created about that specific mobile suit and that the sudden merging of the these pages has affected the quality of the original page although a few exceptions are the different minor variations such as the Leo, Virgo, Tallgeese II and the modified Sandrock and Heavyarms since seperating them wouldn't exactly create a decent article. -Adv193 23:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

 * We continue arranging Gundam related page in Japanese Wikipedia. I unified the pages which did not make ends meet according to it alone. Please understand it. --shikai shaw 04:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay and just so you know there is a big debate about merging similar Mobile suit pages together in the Cosmic Era Mobile Suits right now. I was thinking that if it is sucessful then I can possibly focus on drawing the attention to the After Colony Mobile Suits to. If you want you can post a note in that disscussion page then here is the link: WikiProject Gundam. -Adv193 18:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Ultraman Mebius
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Temporaary block
I've blocked you for the time being due to your mass page moves. You have been reverting page moves to include "ryū" in the page name. This is the proper transcription into the Roman Alphabet for the various karate techniques. Moves need to be discussed at the English Wikipedia, and you were doing mass unilateral changes. I will be unblocking you after I finish this message, but please do not continue the page moves.— Řÿūłóñģ ( 竜龍 ) 08:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry. Because "Ryu", "ryu", "ryū", "-ryu" and "-ryū" coexisted, I intended to unify it.--shikai shaw 08:55, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * That is all right. Generally, if it's read as りゅう, then it should be written as "ryū." Most pages get created and unnoticed. I was only notified of the moves because it was making my IRC client go off when you made the moves. Please watch out from now on.— Řÿūłóñģ ( 竜龍 ) 08:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I understood it. I will be careful in future.--shikai shaw 09:07, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Info regarding kata names, etc
Hello from Okinawa.

I wondered - where did you get the information regarding meanings of kata names, etc.? Most of it is from my personal writings and essays, much of it word for word.

How did it come to you?

Actually, I don't mind it being posted as alternate meaning or supplemental information; I am just puzzled about the source. I didn't share that with many people, and the Zankai is the only UechiRyu association or style that uses these meanings.

If you prefer, you may post to me privately.

breyettg@ii-okinawa.ne.jp

Regards to all,

Seizan 21:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I am sorry by the business that there was a mistake, because I do not so know a lot in Uechi-ryū. But Uechi-ryū is a school of the Okinawa karate, and please forgive it because it is in particular absoluteness to be near to Naha-te. --shikai shaw 01:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. I did not mention any mistake, or mention Naha-Te. I asked where you found the kata name/meaning information you posted. I did not even ask for it to be removed. I simply wish to know where you found it. I am interested since the information is uniquely my own and derived from my unpublished work. If you wish, you may reply to my e-mail shown above.

Seizan 22:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Mass renaming of Japanese people
I just noticed that you renamed many articles of Japanese people from given name + family name to family name + given name. On the English language version of Wikipedia, names of modern Japanese people should be written as given name + family name, per Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). I realize that this is different from the Japanese language version of Wikipedia, but I believe that most of the articles you renamed already had the proper titles, as per the English guidelines. Would you kindly go back and undo all of your recent moves of modern people? In the future, before you make mass page moves, please discuss it. Thank you. --Scott Alter 23:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I understand it. Because both styles coexisted, I did not understand it which I should have unified it in. Therefore I did it in that way, but revise it. Thank you. --shikai shaw 01:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Your edits on List of Lucky Star characters
Certainly, your edits on List of Lucky Star characters is made under good faith and is not vandalism. However, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. In the case of this article, it already contained too much information that would not be of interest for a people reading a general-purpose encyclopedia and editors are actively removing unnecessary content in that article. As a result, I decided to revert your edit.

Although not a Wikipedia policy or guideline, I consider WP:CRUFT of interest for what should be or should not be included in articles related to fictional universes.-- Samuel di  Curtisi  di  Salvadori  16:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Aside from the last time, this revision performs only the following things mainly.
 * I matched the name of the item with the English official site.
 * I matched the turn of the item with a Japanese formula profile.
 * I added age.
 * I hardly let a hand in each item of the profile and main text. Therefore I do not understand it why it was done a revert this time. I sharpened the unnecessary item as much as possible and intend to have aimed at the neutral page. I do not intend to have been against no policy and a guideline of Wikipedia either.--shikai shaw (talk) 18:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Mass renaming
You've already been blocked once for mass renaming of articles, so I'm appalled that you have turned around and done it again, messing up multiple album lists by your wholly inappropriate renaming of them from "List of series albums" to "List of series singles and albums." Your renames violate all naming conventions and were completely inappropriate. Please do NOT do any more article renaming until you actually are well versed in naming guidelines and DISCUSS such renames. Meanwhile, I have reverted all of the renames (I hope). -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 20:04, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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hello.
Yuka Saito and Yuka Saitou is different person

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=51586 = Yuka Saito & http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=66935 = Yuka Saitou

--Ald™ ¬_¬™ 21:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry. But "Saito", "Saitou" and "Saitō" are Japanese hiragana letter "さいとう", and this is only difference in romaji notation. Therefore you should transcribe it into "Saitō" in Wikipedia. See Romanization of Japanese.
 * And see http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=66935, wrote "Website: Yuka Saitō @ Aoni Production (Japanese)" in this Site.--shikai shaw (talk) 07:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Mass renaming
I noticed you moved the article Hideo Kanze to Kanze Hideo, and made several other page moves placing the family name first in biographical articles about Japanese subjects. You have already been advised by User:Scottalter about the Manual of Style for articles concerning Japan (WP:JATITLE) which advises on the English Wikipedia to name modern (beginning of the Meiji period) Japanese subjects as given name + family name—granted this was in 2007, but you accepted this and agreed then, and it is only six messages up on your talk page. Are you able to advise why you appear to have resumed renaming a significant number of articles in violation of this guideline? --Canley (talk) 04:21, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Because these names are the names to affect traditional culture (Kabuki and Noh) in Japan, the one where a family name is before it is good.--shikai shaw (talk) 05:23, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reply. I raised it on the WP:JAPAN discussion page, another editor agrees with you, but also notes the Manual of Style does not mention any exceptions—perhaps it should. --Canley (talk) 05:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

 * I'm happy for you to move back my other reversions of your page moves, as the discussion on the WP:JAPAN talk page seems to be reaching consensus that Noh and Kabuki performers be listed as their stage name which has the "family name" first. However, in the case of Hideo Kanze, the editors in the discussion seem to agree that this was his real name, not a stage name, and the article title should follow the Manual of Style (given name first). --Canley (talk) 05:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Certainly. Hideo Kanze played an active part as a noh player, but the activity as the actor was long, too.--shikai shaw (talk) 07:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Birth date for Tanroh Ishida
Hi. I am afraid I had to remove the birth date and place you added to the Tanroh Ishida article recently in accordance with the Wikipedia guidelines at Biographies of living persons and Verifiability, as, not only was it not accompanied by a reference source, but these details are not mentioned in any of the sources currently provided on the article - including his official profile. I agree that it would be highly useful to be able to include such information in a biographical Wikipedia article such as this, so if you do have access to a reliable source that backs up the information, please feel free to add it to the article. Thanks. --DAJF (talk) 07:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Certainly.--shikai shaw (talk) 07:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Ryūkyū merge
Please do not rename Ryūkyū Province and Ryūkyū Domain. There are good reasons for keeping two separate articles. Yes, there are many ways that these two subjects overlap, but the differences are important -- perhaps more important.

It appears that your purpose is something like Merging, but Moving a page is not the ordinary or best process for this kind of change.

This subject requires discussion and consensus. Please do not be discouraged. This is not simple or easy.

For the time being, I am restoring the two articles to the way they were before. In effect, I am reverting your work. I hope you understand why this is reasonable. --Ansei (talk) 15:42, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

 * Province and Domain are totally different concepts. But Ryukyu Province does not seem to be an official Province like Karafuto Province. You may be considered to be it how if you have you specify so. --shikai shaw (talk) 16:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, we start from agreement that the system known as the Provinces of Japan and the Japanese Han system are not the same. Yes, we also agree that the way in which the Ryūkyū Islands were parsed in the context of each system is overlapping. Yes, in some parts of each article, the cited sources may be interpreted as interchangeable. However, the differences are important; and they are obscured or lost in the redirect. No, it is not necessary to explain all the distinctions between province and domain. Reliable sources are cited which support two distinct and specific subjects; and further edits by other contributors can refine the work which has been invested. --Ansei (talk) 17:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * @Shikai shaw -- One of the sentences in your diff here presents an informal fallacy. The statement is like apples and oranges.  The only safe response to this is to reject the premise because of the implied controversies which it generates: But Ryukyu Province does not seem to be an official Province like Karafuto Province. --Ansei (talk) 19:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

 * In addition, Naminoue Shrine is considered to be new primary shrine (shin-ichinomiya) of the Ryukyu Province. --shikai shaw (talk) 16:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, the fact of an ichinomiya at Naha is one of many good reasons for restoring the article about Ryūkyū Province. --Ansei (talk) 17:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

See WP:Third Opinion → This small difference of opinion was added to a list of problems here --Ansei (talk) 17:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * This may be helpful --Ansei (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ryūkyū Kingdom (琉球王国); compare 国 = ja:琉球王国
 * Ryūkyū Province (琉球国); compare 国 = ja:琉球国 (令制)
 * Ryūkyū Domain (琉球藩); compare 藩 = ja:琉球藩

This is discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan. --Ansei (talk) 18:52, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

 * There is an "under construction" headnote at Ryūkyū Province and Ryūkyū Domain. There are also small changes at History of the Ryukyu Islands#Satsuma domination, 1609-1871 and at History of the Ryukyu Islands#Ryūkyū Domain, 1872–1879.   Please comment. --Ansei (talk) 16:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

 * I think that I do not have any problem by the recognition, I entrust you.--shikai shaw (talk) 11:29, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

 * Thank you. In my opinion, we need both Ryūkyū Province and Ryūkyū Domain. In part, this is explained in a major re-write of Han system. Your work was a catalyst and good things came from it. I hope we can work together again in the future. --Ansei (talk) 15:25, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Unjustified blanking
Your edit here was not reasonable. Please take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan. --Ansei (talk) 23:46, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Ryūkyū Province was removed by that authority unknown in Japanese Wikipedia. Please see ja:Wikipedia:削除依頼/琉球国 (令制) and ja:ノート:琉球国 (令制) --shikai shaw (talk) 01:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Please help sharpen the focus of the issues at Articles for deletion/Ryūkyū Province. --Ansei (talk) 19:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Category
Please review your category changes at
 * Kumaso Province
 * Kibi Province
 * Fusa Province
 * Koshi Province
 * Keno Province

In my opinion, there is a problem with adding these Pre-Taihō Code provinces to the category of former countries in Japanese history? --Ansei (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

 * They are not a 令制国 (Province). They are local administration of the ancient. Therefore, they are categorized in ja:Category:日本の古代国家 in Japanese Wikipedia. Kumaso is a country that does not subordinate to Yamato. Therewith, Kibi Province and Kingdom of Kibi are the same country. --shikai shaw (talk) 14:12, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * I'm sorry. I forgot to write a Chinese title disambiguation. --shikai shaw (talk) 05:02, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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Denny Tamaki
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 * When he was born, his real name was "Dennis". But when he was in elementary school fourth grade, he renamed it "Yasuhiro" after the procedure at the family court. はい、本名は康裕という名前なんですが、僕は名前がアメリカに渡ることを前提に母は私にデニスと付けたんです. ところがアメリカに渡らず沖縄ですっと生活している内に小学校4年生の時に、このままでは暮らし辛かろうということで、家庭裁判所に行って申し出て康裕という名前に変えたんですけど. 小さい頃から僕はデニーと呼ばれていたんですよ. 友達がデニー、デニーと呼んでいたので. --shikai shaw (talk) 05:35, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. Thanks for your answer. --Garam (talk) 17:36, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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List of Is the Order a Rabbit? episodes
I'm aware that the spaces in Japanese are used to separate sentences and I agree that they should be added on the english translation for comprehension purpose but why would you add them to the transliteration? The Romanization is converting the original text using the Latin script, not the english translation and its purpose is to accomodate the reading and the spelling of the text to non Japanese speaker, so I don't see why the commas are needed here. 2A04:CEC0:10CC:20CB:4483:CA4F:41D3:6133 (talk) 05:02, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * Hello. This title consists of two sentences, but it has no punctuation marks and is separated by a space. In order to express this accurately in Roman letters, it is necessary to insert some delimiter. Commas are added to "Pūru ni Nurete, Ame ni Nurete, Namida ni Nurete" and "Egao to Furasshu ga Yakamashī, Kore ga Watashi no Jishō Ane desu" as well, so I think they should be matched. --shikai shaw (talk) 11:57, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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Yellow ribbon
I removed the reference about the song being altered for use in military cadence to avoid copyright infringement, because it didn't make any sense to me. But as you are the author of that part, and a military veteran, I thought I should ask you about it. A good article, by the way.--Pharos 13:26, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Hi there Cecropia, I hope you had lovely holidays. Someone asked me about my licensing preferences and explained that I was among the 1000 most frequent editors. I feel a bit ashamed given that I should use all that time for finally getting done with my studies, but I could not refrain from checking whether you belong to the dirty thousand, too. And yes, I found you, just wondered why the better part of your contribution was not done in the main space? Take care and I hope one day you and your country will Get-back-world-respect 16:46, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) 8^p PS: An email from John Kerry made me decide to include the open letter section into the main part of my website. Please check in case you are interested.

 * Thanks for your reply, and greetings to your treehugging family 8^p
 * I was in Cuba for Christmas, so I did not have a tree - except for a blinking plastic one the family I stayed with got from expatriates in Spain. But I did have about 25°C more than I usually have for Christmas, and I prefer Latino rhythms to German Christmas music.
 * I have already passed all exams, the final one was about law because I thought with war criminals in the government of many western countries I should find out how to reach more justice. Only the thesis is left over. I am planning to write about international trade in services.
 * Now I understand, main namespace does not include talk pages, right? Get-back-world-respect 11:13, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Blocks
Since you're active, could you please unblock the users whose blocks have expired? The ipblocklist includes dozens of users with an expiry time that's long past. 217.85.218.250 00:43, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello? 217.85.218.250 01:26, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
You are entitled to disagree with my edits and to not be persuaded by the arguments I put in edit summaries, but I did not vandalise Template:In the news and do not appreciate being accused of doing so. Neither do I appreciate being threatened with a block. If you want to discuss what should be on that template (ie template policy), my understanding is that you should do so on the template's talk page rather than impose your views on others by threatening to ban those you disagree with.

Having read the comments others have made on the template's talk page, I'm sure you will have reflected on your approach. I look forward to receiving an apology for your hasty accusations, and hope we can move on from this quickly. Kind regards, jguk 13:18, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the apology. All the best, jguk 19:36, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Childlove -- attempting to put the full story into the article
Thought you might like to take a look and help improve it. Thanks 64.160.45.176 22:26, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

About my edit

Clinton was a jerk, too. That doesn't change the facts. My edit should stay.

Thanks for the Bedford-Stuyvesant work!
Hi. Thanks for fleshing out my Bedford-Stuyvesant stub. Excellent work! --RoySmith 13:54, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad to be aboard. - Vague | Rant 07:20, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry - looks like it was a newbie mistake by me (didn't notice the reversion of Dbiv's own mistake here. Trödel 18:04, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

subway map
I was somewhat torn on the ex-LIRR Rockaway Line, but decided that I'd show it under the division it was taken into. Though, thinking about it a bit more, I think I will make it black. I'm doing the same for the Dyre Ave line. Same for the Fulton Street Line east of Rockaway Ave (with the ex-BMT part yellow). And the IND Queens Blvd east of 169th.

By the way, I'm currently working on a map of the IND Second System, as well as more details for that article. --SPUI 20:40, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I just uploaded a new version of Image:NYC subway origins.png - can you take a look and make sure it's all good? --SPUI 21:32, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I'm using Macromedia Freehand (similar to Illustrator), tracing the lines on USGS topos. I just incorporated the changes you suggested; the new version is up. As for details, this map is intended to be a general map - I may do a more detailed one (sort of like Image:SEPTA map.png) if I have the inclination, though I'll have to figure out how to show downtown legibly while keeping a decent size. --SPUI 22:06, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Eighth Avenue Line
Are you sure that the north end of the A-C is called the Washington Heights Line? A Google search for that name gives three results, one of which is Wikipedia. Other sources seem to indicate the 8th Ave going all the way to 207th. --SPUI 19:26, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I have the same question about the Houston Street Line - is it possibly part of the Sixth Avenue Line? The one seems a bit sketchier though. --SPUI 19:38, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * By the way, it looks like the official name is Concourse Line. --SPUI 19:40, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK, so to enumerate the IND system:
 * Bronx
 * Concourse Line - 205th to Manhattan
 * Queens
 * Archer Avenue Line - jct with Queens Blvd. Line east to Jamaica Center
 * 63rd Street Line - jct Queens Blvd. Line west to Manhattan
 * Queens Boulevard Line - 179th to Manhattan
 * Crosstown Line - Queens Plaza to Brooklyn
 * Fulton Street Line - Brooklyn to Jamaica Center Lefferts Blvd.
 * Rockaway Line - Rockaway Blvd to Mott Ave/Beeach 116th (are there separate names for the splits?) the splits are called Far Rockaway Branch and Rockaway Park Branch
 * Manhattan
 * Washington Heights Line - 207th to 145th
 * Concourse Line - Bronx to 145th
 * Eighth Avenue Line - 145th to Brooklyn
 * 63rd Street Line - Queens to 57th-6th and 57th-7th
 * 53rd Street Line - Queens to 8th-53rd
 * Sixth Avenue Line - 8th-53rd to 6th-Houston
 * Houston Street Line - 6th-Houston to Brooklyn
 * Brooklyn
 * Crosstown Line - Queens to Smith-Schermerhorn
 * Fulton Street Line - Court to Jamaica Center Queens
 * Smith Street Line? - Manhattan? to Ditmas ''This line is a little problematic. It has been called the Smith Street Line, but the name used consistently in maps and signage was "Brooklyn Line." (The R1/9 destinations said "Brooklyn-Smith-9th Sts." and "Brooklyn-Church Avenue). Then in 1954 it whole line was shown as the "Coney Island Line" on Hagstrom Maps (more definitive on those nit-picks than most. Lately though, the TA has taken to calling the entire line "Culver Line." For example, the 2000-2004 line item budget shows Church/MacDonald station as being CUL (Culver). I would still call it "Brooklyn Line" but MTA seems to think different.

Do the A-C and F north of Smith-Schermerhorn have separate names? Is the rest of the list correct? --SPUI 20:36, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll try to look into the A/C/F north of Jay Street -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 21:46, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:NYC subway origins.png now includes line names - are there any I've gotten wrong? --SPUI 23:45, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for the info. How sure are you about the 60th Street Tunnel Connection name? The only google results are Wikipedia clones. As for key junctions, I'll probably save that for a different map; this one is getting rather cluttered. The routes can already be followed (except for locating their termini) with the line descriptions at New York Subway; I'll probably make another map with only the routes and terminal stations. --SPUI 01:12, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Subway map
I managed to fit all the current services on Image:NYC subway origins.png while keeping it legible. --SPUI 03:48, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

IND Second System
The chart is from September 16, 1929. Please, if you have official names for the lines, add them in. --SPUI 05:27, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re:Nomination congrats
Thank you. I will do my best to wield my new power responsibly and to the best of my abilities. I don't intend to use mot of it right now :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:24, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

42nd Street Shuttle
I put it at S 42nd (New York Subway) because none of the other routes (except the other shuttles) have anything other than the number/letter and (New York Subway), and 42nd is enough to disambiguate it. I have no real problems with the move, except that I think it should be at S 42nd Street Shuttle (New York Subway). The official map, and probably the schedules, never use suffixes on the numbered streets, but all the articles here do, as does common usage (you say "forty-second street", not "forty-two street"). --SPUI 23:32, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * There's been quite a bit of discussion about how to name subway-related things on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City. We "decided" (whatever that means in an anarchy) that we would use the suffix (i.e. 42nd instead of 42) in article titles.  You might want to read-up on the discussion that led up to that and contribute any ideas you may have. --RoySmith 23:44, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Sure, 42nd Street Shuttle is fine with me. "S" is obviously a special case, since there are three different "S" services, none of which have anything in operationally, historically, or physically in common except that they are shuttles. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 00:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

NYC Subway Table
Hey, I really wanted to thank you for cleaning up the table, however I have a few concerns, namely I feel that the table is WAY TOO BIG now as it stands. Do you have any ideas how we can reduce the amount of space it takes up? I tried deleting the space in between all of the different routes, but that makes the information kind of clunky looking. But I really think something has to be done. Thanks! Páll 22:38, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

53rd Street Line
Unfortunately, the reference to the 53rd street line doesn't use a standard code; it could be that the whole thing is QBL but the Manhattan part is colloquially the 53rd Street Line. I've found several clear mentions of QBL going through Lexington and the 53rd Street Tube, which is the same section labeled as '53 St Ln'. Note that the same document uses 'Smith St Ln' on the next row, which we've determined is now CUL. It also refers to the 'Prospect Pk Line' - that looks like yet another name for part of CUL. It may be that whoever put together that table was using older documents. --SPUI 02:49, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * "Prospect Park Line" referred to the currently non-revenue express tracks that take a shortcut under the NW part of Prospect Park. Does it seem like that's the area they're talking about? I agree with you on 53rd, barring clearer evidence.

By the way, do you know of any name for the East River tunnel on the Canarsie Line? --SPUI 02:57, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Believe it or not: "14th Street Tunnel." Not very imaginative, huh? Originally, the lines that now constitute the Canarsie Line were (Manhattan) the 14th Street Line (Brooklyn) the Eastern District Line ("Eastern District" is what Brooklyn City called Williamsburg after they took it over) up to Broadway Junction, and then Canarsie Line. BTW, are you aware that all the stations at Broadway Junction are now called "Broadway Junction," even the IND? They're actually changing the tiles in what was B'way-ENY to read Broadway Junction. Yet you will find references to the older station names in some recent MTA documents. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 06:27, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

L (New York Subway)
I've put at the top what I think should be on the L page, with everything else on Canarsie Line. --SPUI 06:44, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LIRR connection
Sorry about that - I had made a logical leap that was apparently false. Can you change that part to what actually happened? By the way, what do you mean by "a branch near the Canarsie Line to serve new industrial buildings"? The LIRR Bay Ridge Branch is from the time of the original Canarsie Line; a railroad ran from Bay Ridge to the Canarsie Line at New Lots, and needed somewhere to go once the line was elevated. The bottom of has the information on that. Do you know why the connection was built c. 1970? --SPUI 09:38, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Liberty Ave El
According to, the Liberty Ave El went west to the Canarsie Line. I'm partially changing Canarsie Line back to reflect that. Oh, and I would definitely get a copy of the track map book if I was in the NYC area. But I'm in Orlando for now, and I'll make do with the older track maps on nycsubway.org. --SPUI 18:35, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Paris Bordone

Paris Bordone (Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.

Biography
Bordone was born in Treviso, but had moved to Venice by late adolescence. He apprenticed briefly and unhappily (according to Vasari) with Titian. Vasari may have met the elder Bordone.

Bordone's works of the 1520s include the Holy Family in Florence, Sacra Conversazione with Donor (Glasgow), and Holy Family with St. Catherine (Hermitage Museum). The St. Ambrose and a Donor (1523) is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera. In 1525–26, Bordone painted an altarpiece for the church of S. Agostino in Crema, a Madonna with St. Christopher and St George (now in the Palazzo Tadini collection at Lovere). A second altarpiece, Pentecost, is also in the Pinacoteca di Brera.

In 1534–35, he painted his large-scale masterpiece for the Scuola di San Marco a canvas of The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to Doge Gradenigo (Accademia). However, comparison between this latter painting and the near-contemporary, and structurally similar, Presentation of the Virgin reveals Bordone's limitations, his use of superior perspective which creates dwarfed distant perspectives, and limited coloration relative to the brilliant tints of Titian.

Bordone also painted smaller cabinet pieces, showing half-figures, semi-undressed men and women from mythology or religious stories in a muscular interaction despite the crowded space. He frequently combined portraiture with allegory.

Paris Bordone subsequently executed many important mural paintings in Venice, Treviso and Vicenza, all of which have perished. In 1538 he was invited to France by Francis I, at whose court he painted many portraits, though no trace of them is to be found in French collections, the two portraits at the Louvre being later acquisitions. On his return journey he also worked for the Fugger palace at Augsburg, but again the works have been lost.

Partial list of works

 * Annunciation in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
 * Baptism of Christ in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 * Bathsheba Bathing, with an African Servant - The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
 * Chess Players in Berlin
 * Daphnis and Chloe - Porczyński Gallery, Warsaw
 * Holy Family - Bridgewater House, Westminster
 * Madonna - Accademia di Belle Arti Tadini at Lovere
 * Mythological picture - the Galleria Borghese, Rome
 * Mythological picture - the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome
 * The paintings in the Duomo of Treviso
 * Rest on the Flight into Egypt - National Gallery of Victoria
 * Portrait of a young woman - Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
 * Perseus Armed by Mercury and Minerva - Birmingham Museum of Art
 * A Portrait of a Lady - The National Gallery, London
 * Portrait of Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Wawel Castle, Kraków

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Amnon Wolman

Amnon Wolman (Hebrew: אמנון וולמן; born 1955) an Israeli-American musician. He holds a doctorate degree in music composition. His catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different ensembles, film music, and music for theater and dance. His recently premiered pieces include "Picnic Site" used for a choreography by Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton for the Lyon Biannale; "End Divided Road" for Flute and electronics for Mario Carolli at the TRAIETTORIE Festival in Parma, Italy; "Cruising Prohibited when Lights Flashing" for the Gay Gotham Chorus at the Greenwich House, New York; and "and her mind moves upon silence", for harpsichord and electronic sounds, for Vivienne Spiteri in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Career
His scores are published by the Israel Music Institute and the Israel Music Center. Before Joining the faculty at Brooklyn College he taught at Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. At Brooklyn College he was a member of the composition faculty and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM).

Wolman's film music was featured at the London, Sydney, Los Angeles (1981, 2001), the San Francisco Film Festivals ('93) Berlin Film Festival ('81), Pop Sustainability Film Festival, Seattle Underground Film Festival], Chicago Underground Film Festival (gold medal), CineVegas, Columbus International Film Festival (2000) (bronze medal) and at the Chicago Film Festival ('82, '92).

Awards
His list of awards includes the Queens' 2000 International Competition at the Queen's College, Oxford and an Honorary Mention at the Musica Nova Competition in Prague, Czech Republic. He was also a finalist at the first Ars Electronica, Linz, finalist at the Karl Sczuka Prize, and awarded the First Prize at the NewComp International Competition '88. He received grants from the Eastman Foundation, Arts International, the Dutch Government, America-Israel Culture Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, Meet the Composer, and the MacDowell and Yaddo Foundations. He was commissioned for Heinz Holliger, Charles Neidich, Ursula Oppens, Harry Sparnaay, Benny Sluchin, Ensemble Modern, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra among others.

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Bordone

Bordone can refer to:

 * Benedetto Bordone (1460–1531), Italian miniaturist and cartographer
 * Paris Bordone (1500–1571), Italian painter
 * Richard P. Bordone (1930–2007), U.S. Navy captain and aviator
 * Bourdon (organ pipe), in Italian usage
 * Madonna del Bordone, 13th-century Italian panel painting

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WXLV-TV

WXLV-TV (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Piedmont Triad region. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Greensboro-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV (channel 48). The two stations share studios on Myer Lee Drive (along US 421) in Winston-Salem; WXLV-TV's transmitter is located in Randleman (along I-73/US 220).

Channel 45 went on the air in 1979 as WGNN-TV, a Christian-oriented TV station. It was sold to Television Corporation Stations—later renamed TVX Broadcast Group—in 1980 and changed its call sign to WJTM-TV, becoming the Triad's first general-entertainment independent station. After a gunman killed the general sales manager in 1984, TVX renamed the station WNRW, incorporating his initials. WNRW became the market's first Fox affiliate in 1986; TVX then sold it to Act III Broadcasting in 1986 in order to acquire a station in the adjacent Raleigh market. Act III combined the station's schedule and programming with Greensboro independent WGGT in 1991, creating a simulcast.

In 1995, as a result of regional ABC affiliate WGHP switching to Fox, channel 45 became an ABC affiliate under new WXLV call letters and began broadcasting local news programming. It also picked up a secondary affiliation with UPN, which became channel 48's primary programming when the simulcast was split the next year. Sinclair acquired WXLV in 1998. The station's local newscasts failed to make headway against the established stations in the Triad. Sinclair shuttered the local news department in January 2002. Since then, Sinclair has implemented smaller-scale news programs for the station, first as part of the News Central service, then with cable news channel News 14 Carolina (later Spectrum News North Carolina) and since 2021 with local reporters and anchors at a Sinclair station in Texas.

WGNN-TV and WJTM-TV: Establishment
In February 1976, Good News TV Network filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new commercial TV station in Winston-Salem, which the commission granted in August 1977. Good News TV had been formed after the local Calvary Baptist Church voted to set aside $139,000 for the construction of the proposed outlet; one of the directors was Stuart Epperson, the founder of Salem Communications. The station was originally proposed to operate on a non-commercial basis with Christian religious programs and some secular classic films, though it eventually decided to accept some commercial advertising. Delays in equipment delivery and installation pushed the station's start from 1978 back into 1979; the station also had to settle a payment dispute with an equipment installer. From a transmitter on the Wachovia Building in Winston-Salem and studios on its top floor, program testing for WGNN-TV began on September 22, 1979.

Shortly before going on air, Good News TV Network had sold the construction permit for the station to a subsidiary of Piece Goods Stores, a chain of fabric stores in Winston-Salem. Piece Goods had stepped in when Good News TV Network ran out of cash to put the station on the air. The proprietors of Piece Goods, twin brothers Dudley and John Simms, also appeared on air giving editorials that were strongly conservative in character. The station's programming turned out to be more middle-of-the-road than the religion-heavy, family-friendly lineup once advertised, including films with sexual mentions and violence, as the Simms brothers sought to make channel 45 profitable. However, the station never attracted more than one percent of the audience.

In 1980, Piece Goods sold 85 percent of WGNN-TV and operational control to the Television Corporation of North Carolina, a company controlled by investors from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. After WTVZ in Norfolk, it was the second station to be owned by Television Corporation Stations (abbreviated TVX and later changed to TVX Broadcast Group). The Simms brothers disappeared from the airwaves, while TVX announced it would seek better programming and build a more powerful transmitter facility on Sauratown Mountain. The call letters were changed to WJTM-TV on October 20, 1980, as TVX sought to bring to Winston-Salem the programming style that had made WTVZ immediately competitive in Norfolk. Immediately, and even before the transmitter move to Sauratown in April 1981, ratings ticked up slightly; at the same time, the studios moved to their present site. Even as TVX took over, Piece Goods found itself facing lawsuits for debts the station had owed to a bank prior to the sale.

1984 hostage situation and call sign change to WNRW
On June 5, 1984, 32-year-old Ronnell Leverne Jackson drove to the studios of WJTM-TV in Winston-Salem. He fatally shot 48-year-old William Norbert Rismiller, the station's general sales manager, then kidnapped a secretary and took her to his great-aunt's house, where he lived. Having previously made an unsuccessful demand of the station, the hostage-taker agreed to surrender if Winston-Salem station WXII-TV apologized to him. Jackson believed that the two stations and the Christian television program The 700 Club, which they aired, were spying on him through his TV set. WXII broadcast a fake apology to his house in cooperation with a local cable system, and he released the hostage that afternoon after more than six hours. Two days after the murder, TVX applied to change WJTM-TV's call sign to WNRW (William Norbert Rismiller, Winston-Salem), which became effective on June 25 and was accompanied by memorial advertising in such publications as Broadcasting. It also increased security at the station.

Act III ownership and Fox affiliation
TVX announced in August 1985 that it would acquire WLFL, an independent station in Raleigh, and that it expected to have to sell the smaller-market WNRW to complete the purchase, as the two stations had overlapping signals; FCC rules of the time generally prohibited ownership of stations that shared a portion of their coverage areas. The FCC approved the WLFL transaction in February 1986 and gave TVX 12 months to divest itself of WNRW. In November, TVX filed with the FCC to sell the station for $11 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to a new broadcasting group, Act III Broadcasting, owned by television producer Norman Lear. During 1986, WNRW also became the market's first Fox affiliate when the network launched on October 9, 1986.

As an independent station in the Triad, WNRW was not alone. In 1981, WGGT had reactivated channel 48 from Greensboro. However, beginning at the end of 1986, that station began to fight through a years-long bankruptcy proceeding, burdened by expensive purchases of syndicated programming. It did not emerge from bankruptcy until July 1991; two months later, in September, WNRW and WGGT signed an agreement to simulcast almost all of the broadcast day, a combination billed as a "super station". WNRW–WGGT also became a secondary affiliate of UPN in January 1995.

Switch to ABC and news launch
On May 23, 1994, as part of a deal between Fox and New World Communications, it was announced that High Point-based ABC affiliate WGHP (channel 8) would change from ABC to Fox. The deal left WNRW–WGGT as a Fox affiliate with an uncertain future once the network moved and ABC without an affiliate in the Triad. In the meantime, during the first season of the NFL on Fox, the station took the step of allowing fans to vote by telephone on which NFC football game it would telecast each week. This was particularly unusual because Fox assigned games to stations; when the Greensboro News & Record interviewed the director of media relations for Fox Sports, he reacted, "They're doing what?"

The timing of the affiliation switch in the Triad market was mostly driven by the station ownership juggling that New World had to conduct with WGHP. With 15 stations under option, New World was three stations over the 12-station limit then in force. In February 1995, WGHP finally gave ABC its six months' notice of its plan to disaffiliate from the network, with WNRW–WGGT immediately earmarked as the new ABC affiliate in the market.

The arrival of ABC to channels 45 and 48 came with plans to start a local newsroom. In May 1995, the station hired its first news director, and a total of 33 people—mostly from out of the market, with the notable exception of sportscaster Johnny Phelps—were hired to produce and present the station's newscasts. As channel 45 staffed up its newsroom, the station was sold. In June, Act III Broadcasting merged with ABRY Broadcast Partners; the firm named Dan Sullivan, president of the TV division of Clear Channel Communications, to run Sullivan Broadcasting, a joint venture with ABRY to manage the former Act III portfolio.

Eleven years after the murder of William Rismiller, the station also sought to change its call letters in order to establish a new identity for the station as an ABC affiliate. After discussions with Rismiller's widow, the station announced it would change its call sign to WXLV-TV on September 3, 1995, the date it would become an ABC affiliate; simultaneously, plans were announced to establish a scholarship in his name and dedicate the newsroom in his memory. To obtain permission to share the WXLV call sign from its existing user, the FM radio station at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Pennsylvania, it donated a used audio board.

Founding news director Chris Huston promised a focus on regional coverage and issues, hoping to leave aside a perceived focus on Winston-Salem, Greensboro, or High Point. However, despite ABC's strong national standing, viewers did not flock to WXLV's new 6 a.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. local newscasts. Where WFMY and WXII drew 28 and 25 percent of the news audience at 11, WXLV attracted just 5 percent. An 11:30 a.m. newscast was tested but failed to draw ratings and was canceled after 13 weeks.

After five years, the simulcast of channels 45 and 48 was unwound on September 1, 1996, when channel 48 regained separate programming as full-time UPN affiliate WUPN.

Sinclair acquisition; news department closure
In 1998, Sinclair Broadcast Group bought Sullivan Broadcasting; it also assumed Sullivan's local marketing agreement to program WUPN on behalf of its owner, Mission Broadcasting. Sinclair initially invested in the WXLV news operation. To save money, WXLV had discontinued its morning newscast in March 1997. After the sale to Sinclair, the company restored the morning news and bought new equipment for the station. New lead-in The Jerry Springer Show beat the other three stations' 5 p.m. newscasts and also helped the station lift its 6 p.m. news ratings slightly.

However, as the station continued to make little progress at challenging the existing stations in the ratings, Sinclair cut back in the newsroom. In November 2000, the station discontinued its morning and weekend newscasts and laid off 10 full-time employees in hopes of focusing attention on its 6 and 11 p.m. broadcasts. A new news set and two new vehicles were acquired during the course of 2001, and WXLV-TV also hoped to move from Pilot Mountain to a site in Greensboro in hopes of adding 25,000 additional viewers. It needed the viewers: the station's 6 p.m. newscast was being outrated by reruns of The Drew Carey Show on WTWB-TV. It was not to be. On January 2, 2002, the station announced that it would air its last newscast on January 11, laying off another 35 employees. General manager Will Davis noted that the news department had not turned a profit in 2001 due to a soft economy and its low ratings.

News Central
While a full-scale news department was scrapped, a new corporate initiative at Sinclair put the restoration of news programming to its Triad stations on the table before 2002 had concluded. The company launched News Central, a hybrid national-local news service designed to service Sinclair's stations that were not producing news. In July 2003, WUPN debuted its News Central newscast; as with others of its type, the newscasts combined local news coverage read by anchors in Winston-Salem with national news and weather from Sinclair's corporate headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. In January 2004, a second News Central newscast debuted, this time an 11 p.m. broadcast for WXLV. The newscasts aired until August 10, 2005, when the newsroom was shut down and 22 people lost their jobs. At 10 p.m., the WUPN newscast attracted two percent of the audience compared with 15 percent viewing WGHP; the 11 p.m. newscast also attracted two percent of the audience, while 19 percent watched WXII and 16 percent watched WFMY.

News 14 Carolina/Time Warner Cable News on ABC 45
In February 2011, Sinclair resolved a retransmission consent dispute with Time Warner Cable (TWC) covering 28 stations in 17 markets, including WXLV-TV and WMYV; the group's carriage contract had lapsed, though no stations were temporarily removed. As part of the multiyear agreement, News 14 Carolina, Time Warner Cable's local news channel, would begin producing 6:30 a.m. and 6 and 11 p.m. local newscasts for WXLV-TV beginning in 2012. The goal for the News 14 broadcasts, which were produced in Raleigh with Triad-area reporters and weather and sports from Charlotte, was to provide news programming for channel 45 while advertising the cable news service to non-Time Warner subscribers. News 14 Carolina was renamed Time Warner Cable News North Carolina in 2013 and Spectrum News North Carolina in 2016.

During this time, the future ownership of WXLV came into question. On May 8, 2017, Sinclair entered into an agreement to acquire WGHP owner Tribune Media. It intended to keep WGHP and WMYV, selling WXLV-TV and eight other stations to Standard Media Group. The transaction was designated in July 2018 for hearing by an FCC administrative law judge, and Tribune moved to terminate the deal the next month.

Return of in-house newscasts
In anticipation of taking news production in house, the Spectrum News newscast ceased airing in 2019. Sinclair announced the return of local news to WXLV to air weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m. in January 2021. The newscasts are produced out of San Antonio sister station KABB and featured KABB anchor Camilla Rambaldi until her departure from Sinclair in January 2024.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed: {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

WXLV-TV and WMYV were the first stations in the market to convert to digital-only broadcast transmissions, shutting down on February 17, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, using virtual channel 45.

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WCTI-TV

WCTI-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to New Bern, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Eastern North Carolina. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Greenville-licensed Fox affiliate WYDO (channel 14) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Cunningham Broadcasting. However, Sinclair effectively owns WYDO as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The two stations share studios on Glenburnie Drive in New Bern; WCTI-TV's transmitter is located north of Trenton along NC 41.

History
Nathan Frank, a businessman from Henderson, had filed an application for channel 13 in New Bern in 1954. However, final approval was delayed for almost seven years due to numerous challenges. The Army, Navy and Air Force were concerned that the proposed 771 ft tower on Glenburnie Drive would interfere with the operations of the numerous military installations located in Eastern North Carolina. Several commercial airlines and pilot associations also expressed concerns about the tower.

A new problem arose in 1958, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dropped in a channel 13 allocation in Hampton, Virginia, to give the Hampton Roads area a third VHF station; WVEC-TV moved there from channel 15 shortly afterward. To alleviate concerns about short-spacing, the channel 13 allocation for New Bern was moved to channel 12. Almost immediately, WRVA-TV in Richmond, Virginia (now WWBT), raised concerns of its own about short-spacing. All objections were eventually overcome by 1961, and the station went on the air on September 7, 1963, as WNBE-TV (for "New Bern"). The call letters were changed to the current WCTI-TV in 1970, and the station would activate a 1000 ft tower at full VHF high-band power, off NC 58 south of Trenton. The station has been an ABC affiliate since its inception. When it signed on, Greenville–Washington–New Bern became one of the smallest markets in the country with three commercial network affiliates. Continental Television sold the station to Malrite Communications in 1976.

In 1980, WCTI erected a 2000 ft tower north of Trenton. The new tower expanded the station's secondary coverage as far east as the Outer Banks, as far south as Wilmington and as far west as the Triangle (including Rocky Mount and much of eastern Raleigh). The station's original tower at its New Bern studios is still used as a backup. Malrite sold the station to Heritage Broadcasting in 1983. The 1,000-foot tower south of Trenton that the station had used prior to their move to the new site on NC 41 now holds the antenna for WSFL-FM (106.5). Heritage Broadcasting sold WCTI to Diversified Communications in 1986. In 1993, Lamco Communications bought the station. It was sold to Bluestone Television in 2001. In 2007, Bluestone merged with Bonten Media Group.

On November 6 of that year, it was announced that the FCC approved the sale of certain WFXI/WYDO assets by Piedmont Television to the Bonten Media Group. As part of the deal, WFXI moved from its longtime home on Arendell Street (US 70) in Morehead City to WCTI's facilities in New Bern. In 2000, WCTI launched the first over-the-air digital station in the market on UHF channel 48. A high-definition feed was launched on DirecTV on January 30, 2009. It is also available on satellite through Dish Network. WCTI's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.

On April 21, 2017, Sinclair announced its intent to purchase the Bonten stations for $240 million. The sale was completed on September 1.

On September 13, 2018, Hurricane Florence forced WCTI to evacuate its building as flood waters continued to rise. For the duration of the storm, WCTI simulcast coverage from Sinclair sister station and fellow ABC affiliate WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. By September 16, floodwaters had receded to the point that initial cleanup efforts began.

News operation
In terms of Nielsen ratings, Eastern North Carolina is usually not very competitive during sweeps periods. Historically, WITN-TV has generally traded the highest viewership crown with WCTI and WNCT. In July 2008, WNCT became the most watched television station in the market after taking first place weeknights at 6 and 11. However, since then, that station has fallen to third place weeknights at 6. As of May 2010, WITN has won the sign-on-to-sign-off honors for two consecutive ratings periods. More specifically, it won all time periods except for the weekday noon news.

In January 2008, after becoming a sister station to WFXI/WYDO, WCTI began repeating its nightly 6 o'clock show later in the evening at 10 on the Fox stations. It would not be until the month's end when a new live, nightly prime time newscast (produced by WCTI) debuted on WFXI/WYDO. Known as Fox Eastern Carolina News at 10, the show can be seen for an hour on weeknights and a half-hour on weekends. WNCT offers another newscast at 10 on its CW-affiliated subchannel. Unlike the WFXI/WYDO weeknight program, WNCT's prime time broadcast only airs for thirty minutes each night. As part of debuting the WCTI-produced newscast, WFXI/WYDO introduced an updated graphics package and news music theme licensed for use from News Corporation Digital Media and modified from Fox owned-and-operated stations.

On June 27, 2010, WCTI became the area's first television outlet to upgrade its local news production to high definition (the nightly news on WFXI/WYDO was included in the change at that point). On August 15, 2011, WCTI launched a new 5:30 p.m. newscast. With this newest addition, WCTI and sister stations WFXI/WYDO now offer over thirty hours of local news per week. The station does not currently operate a sports department. In addition to its main studios, WCTI operates bureaus in Jacksonville (on South Marine Boulevard/US 17 BUS) and Winterville (on Old Tar Road covering Greenville).

Subchannels
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Until September 18, 2006, WCTI-DT3 was a UPN affiliate with the branding "UPN 48" (taken from WCTI's physical digital channel number). When UPN and The WB merged into The CW on that date, CBS affiliate WNCT-TV chose to carry the network on a new second digital subchannel, replacing WB outlet "WGWB". After losing the UPN affiliation, WCTI-DT3 became an independent station known as "ENC-TV". This initially aired syndicated programming such as Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, Family Feud, Entertainment Studios, and Extra. Weeknights at 8 p.m., there was a prime time movie. ENC-TV was on DT2 from its launch until WCTI's switch to digital in June 2009 when it moved to DT3. At one point, ENC-TV even maintained a website at enc.tv but this was eventually abandoned.

In late summer 2009, WCTI-DT3 began to add programming from This TV, eventually becoming a full-time affiliate. On November 1, 2013, the This TV affiliation was dropped in favor of the Movies! network. On August 23, 2011, Disney-ABC Television Group announced WCTI would carry Live Well Network as part of an affiliation agreement with Bonten Media Group; the network was seen on subchannel 12.2. In February 2015, LWN was replaced with Decades.

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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial is an American military cemetery in northern France. Plots A through D contain the graves of 6,013 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I, 597 of which were not identified, as well as a monument for 241 Americans who were missing in action during battles in the same area and whose remains were never recovered. Included among the soldiers here who lost their lives is poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918).

A graveyard for former soldiers that were dishonorably discharged and executed for crimes committed during World War II, referred to as Plot E, is nearby. Private Eddie Slovik (1920–1945), the only American soldier executed for desertion during World War II, was buried there until 1987.

Site
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial lies one and a half miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, Picardy, France and about 14 mi northeast of Château-Thierry. It is approximately 70 mi northeast of Paris.

The grounds extend to 36.5 acre and this is the second of eight large permanent American World War I military cemeteries that are not in the United States. It was initially established on August 2, 1918 by the 42nd Division as a temporary cemetery, but was retained as a permanent cemetery by Congress in 1921. The French government provides the site at no cost for use as a military cemetery. The memorials were designed by Cram and Ferguson and the landscape architect was George Gibbs, Jr.

The cemetery is generally rectangular in shape. The chapel, museum and grave plots are one side of the road and a parking area and the service facilities on the other side. The plots are divided by a walkway with a circular island of grass in the middle. The sides of the cemetery include paths, a privet hedge, and a low stone wall.

War dead buried at this site
Most of the 6,013 soldiers and support personnel honorably interred at this site died fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne and the Oise-Aisne campaign. The site also includes American servicemen who were buried in temporary cemeteries and were moved to this site when their families requested that they be buried overseas. All 48 of the states that existed at the time, as well as the District of Columbia, are represented. Stars of David mark graves of Jewish soldiers, all others have a Latin Cross. The headstones are made from white marble quarried in Carrara, Italy.

596 graves at this site are for unknown soldiers. Like the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia, the graves are marked:

 * HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY
 * AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
 * KNOWN BUT TO GOD

The memorial
At the far end of the cemetery there is a semi-circular memorial of marble and granite in a Romanesque style. A small chapel is to the memorial's right, and a one-room museum to the left. There are ten double columns that include the Division numbers of American soldiers who fought in this sector, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 26th, 28th, 32nd, 42nd, 77th, and 93rd. The sides of the columns are engraved with images of contemporary equipment such as gas masks and artillery shells. The columns are separated by four statues: two of soldiers, one of St. Michael and one of St. George. There is an inscription on the monument:

 * THESE ENDURED ALL AND GAVE ALL
 * THAT HONOR AND JUSTICE MIGHT PREVAIL AND
 * THAT THE WORLD MIGHT ENJOY FREEDOM AND INHERIT PEACE

The rear of the monument identifies the American Battle Monuments Commission and the architects. On the friese and the exterior walls of the chapel and museum are 23 carved shields representing the branch and service insignia that served in this region of France, and the museum and chapel both include stylized versions of the Great Seal of the United States.

The names of 241 American soldiers missing in the area who were never found or whose bodies were never identified are inscribed on the walls of the chapel. The museum includes a dedicatory relief in English and French as well as a large map of the Aisne-Marne region.

Plot E
The cemetery also contains an area known as Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot E, which contains the remains of the "dishonorable dead"—96 Americans who were dishonorably discharged from the US Army before being executed for crimes of rape or murder. Plot E is separate from the main cemetery, in an area secluded by hedges and accessible only through a door in the superintendent's office.


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Category:International standards

International or global standards are agreements on common technical approaches that are used world-wide.

Typical examples are:
 * Internet standards — HTTP, SMTP, HTML, XML, etc.
 * SI units of measure
 * Electrical power — 110V and 220V
 * A and AA battery sizes
 * GSM standard for mobile/cell phones
 * A0/A1/A2/A3/A4 paper sizes

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the main global standards organization.

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APH

APH, Aph, or APh may refer to:

 * A. P. Herbert, a British writer
 * A.P. Hill Army Airfield, IATA airport code
 * American Printing House for the Blind
 * Arthur Paul Harper (1865–1955), New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman known as APH
 * Association of Personal Historians
 * Antepartum haemorrhage
 * L'Année philologique
 * APh Technological Consulting
 * Air preheater
 * Hetalia: Axis Powers, a manga and anime series originally published as Axis Powers Hetelia.
 * Australian Parliament House, the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia
 * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Evacuation transport (APH)

title: APH