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User talk:Dynamax

Enlaces en español
Hola amigo,

Gracias por todo tu trabajo en los artículos peruanos. Se queda mucho para hacer, no es cierto? Una cosita: yo tengo mis dudas sobre la utilidad de poner en artículos inglés enlaces a sitios en español, pero a veces sí sirve. Pero en este caso hay que añadir (in Spanish), como acabo de hacer in el articulo sobre Alan.

Vienes de Lima o otre parte del Perú? A mi me encanta tu país, mas que todo la sierra.

 * Suerte, -- Viajero 12:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Departments of Peru
Hello, just wanted to let you know that Peru is not divided into departments anymore. Today, the country is composed of 25 regions, so please update this information if you have used it in any article. Thanks! --Tuomas  hello 02:28, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Please add more information to the last two articles you created. Articles that have images only are at risk for speedy deletion. Academic Challenger 08:31, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Answering your question about Saint Mark
Greetings fellow wikipedian Feel free to ask, and my apologice about delay in response due to signing in to next academic year level in my faculty. HappyApple 03:50, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I am very glad to attend your question about National University of Saint Mark stadium.
 * According to official numbers, the maximun capacity it is 67,469 for the number of seats and people there. Currently it is a project about a further expansion of the universitarian statium, however the rector or authorities were not made an accord on that.
 * If the expansion is aproved a total of 104 000 people could be added.
 * Due to security reasons usually the stadium operates as 43 000 max. capacity.

Fotos
Hola! Quería decirte que me gustan mucho las fotos que has puesto en Inca Empire. Creo que aportan mucho al artículo. Estoy trabajando ese artículo poco a poco cuando tenga tiempo libre porque creo que le falta todavía. Nos vemos acá en Wikipedia. Mona-Lynn 22:31, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Mucho gusto! Qué buena idea, algo sobre las momias. Yo quiero escribir algo un poco mejor sobre religion, que en este momento no dice casi nada, y no estoy segura de que lo que dice sea totalmente correcto. No tiene que ser muy detallado, sino más bien que da una visión más completa de la situación. Una pregunta sobre la última foto: cuando estuve en Arequipa, a mi me dijeron que a las vicuñas nunca las han podido domesticar; o sea, no las llevaban en manada como a las llamas y alpacas. Por eso, hoy día, me dijeron, cuando quieren esquilarlas, las rodean en el alto salvaje en un círculo cada vez más chico hasta poder agarrarlas y esquilarlas, simplemente las cazan. Si eso es cierto, que no se domesticaron, tendríamos que cambiar la descripción de la foto. Qué sabes sobre eso?

Vicuñas
Hello! Well, I didn't trawl the Web for info about vicuñas, but when I was in Peru I asked a lot of questions about them. I took a tour out of Arequipa to Colca Canyon and part of the tour included vicuña-spotting. The guide definitely said that this animal was not domesticable and that all attempts to domesticate it had failed. They look for them in the wild, encircle them, and "trap" them in order to shear them. In some cases poachers just go out and kill them, because the very fair hair (it's hair, not wool) is so very valuable. This is why they are endangered - because you can't raise them in a corral like you can alpacas and llamas, so they must live in the wild. My limited knowledge causes me to think they are quite different from alpacas and llamas and my hunch is that they are not a hybrid but rather a separate species. If the Incas succeeded in domesticating them, that's another question, although I'd be surprised if the people had forgotten how to raise them over time. I think the photo caption just needs a tiny change - the Incas exploited them rather than domesticated them, or something like that. Anyway your first site that you gave me clearly says that the vicuña and the guanaco only exist in the wild. Does this help? Mona-Lynn 10:41, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello
YES, you can write me a message on my talk page in order to coordinate our efforts to expand the peruvian-related topics on Wikipedia. As long as we respect each other and always willing to achieve compromise, It is ok. Happy Editing !! Messhermit 20:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Right now, I-m working to preserve the integrity of each Peruvian President, especially the ones that are still controvertial. Adding Pictures and preventing them from being vandalised, is my main objective.

By the way, In any page that you call me, please avoid that User:Viajero is there. Let's say that he has a totaly different vision of Peruvian Politics than me. Anyways, Keep in touch. Messhermit 20:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Garcí Manuel del Carbajal
May I ask why you marked Garcí Manuel del Carbajal for Speedy deletion? That looks like a wonderful article that you obviously spent much time on. SWAdair | Talk 11:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. After I saw the next one on the list (an alternate spelling), I checked your list of contributions and found Manuel Garcia de Carbajal.  Now I understand.  SWAdair | Talk  11:54, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Greetings! I've made the other spellings into redirects to the page where the article is now instead of deleting them, since it looks like they've all been merged together. This way if anyone searches on one of those spellings, they will be taken to the article they want. It also lets people look at the page history on the pages they came from. Nice work on the article, by the way! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 22:58, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

War review?
You posted a request for peer review of a couple of your articles based on my previous work on war articles. Could you point me to these? I know nothing about wars nor any articles I worked on... Stellertony the Bookcrosser 05:28, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nope - that was my welcome message to him/her. Albrecht's talk page is here: User_talk:Albrecht.  Stellertony the Bookcrosser 05:56, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

Arequipa Cathedral
Hello! I saw the recent change you did to Arequipa Cathedral. I was looking around the web and some call it "Cathedral San Francisco de Arequipa." While others simply call it cathedral. Do you think we should change the name in the article? I think it would be tter to call the catedral by its name instead of just "cathedral." Sonesta Posada del Inca, a hotel just next to the Main Square, calls it "Cathedral San Francisco de Arequipa," and I'm assuming that's the correct name, too. What do you think? --Dynamax 19:52, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I would call it "San Francisco de Arequipa Cathedral", and also use a redirect from Arequipa Cathedral.--AAAAA 15:27, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Project idea
You seem good at organizing things. Maybe you would you like to get this started: WikiProject Peru. It could be useful to have a central location to discuss naming issues, list categories, etc. My experience with projects is limited only to this one: WikiProject Opera, which might give you some idea of what is possible. You might also look at around at some of the other projects for more ideas. Just a suggestion. -- Viajero | Talk 21:30, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Ataw Wallpa
Sorry if it was motivation for discussing, but I don't know :en: rules as well as you do because I'm colaborating most frequently in :es:, where i'm administ (bibliotecario), but I've ever note such terrible mistakes as "SUPA inca" instead sapa inka and bealiving that Cápac is the surname of Mank Qhapaq. By the other side, I don't think chosing Encyclopedia.com and Encarta as main references shall be a good idea, because of Peru related articles in both sources are so small and so unclear. Another point: Erlier spaniard romanizations brought several mistakes such as hevaing three or mor spellings for a single man (ie: Topa Ualpa, Tupac Hualpa, Túpac Huallpa for Tupaq Wallpa).

Anyway, when I made those changes I've also written spanish alternative name. --Huhsunqu 05:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism?
re: Inca Empire I believe that one should be careful about using this label in cases that are not clear cut - also, I have a vague recollection of the rolling toy thing (if not true, but sometimes believed, this backs my thesis that the vandalism label is inappropriate). BTW, from Toy: "The Inca had a rolling toy even though their adult culture did not employ the wheel." see, ,m( for some non-inca (meso-american) examples. Best wishes, Leonard G. 02:04, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Ama qella
I understand the preference for Spanish spellings for terms related to the Incas, since they're more common in English; but when it comes to actual sentences from Quechua it doesn't seem right. If we were (say) quoting a line of Spanish poetry about Peru, surely we wouldn't change "Perú" to "Peru" in the Spanish text just because the English word is Peru. For that matter, if the Spanish orthography is used, it should really be ama sua, not ama suwa!

For what it's worth, Google searches on "ama quella" and "ama qella" are about even, with a slight edge to the latter.

Still, even the Spanish spelling is better than what was there before, which was quite incorrect.Zompist 03:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Precisely because of the Google search is why I did the change. You have a point in the translation part, and perhaps it should be like your saying so as to make it sound better in English. I'm not oppose to this, as long as it seems right to everyone. Thanks for your kind interest. --Dynamax 04:19, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Los Angeles, California
I've answered you question at Talk:Los Angeles, California. The short version is that it was a copyrighted image.

You may be interested in teh Southern California WikiProject. Take a look at the project's page and see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, please contact me. Blank Verse  ∅ 16:45, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Input for next Wikiproject Collaboration
Seeing as we are almost done with the Andrés Avelino Cáceres collaboration and March is coming up. I'd thought that I should inform you and the other members of WP:Peru that you can add your thoughts on what you think the next project collaboration should be on at WikiProject_Peru.--Jersey Devil 21:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I just thought that you should know that the July collarboration is up at the WikiProject Peru. You can vote for which ever Peruvian-related article you think needs to be expanded. Voting ends at the beginning of July though.--Jersey Devil 23:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Juanita
Hello! I am but a spotty contributor to Wikipedia and it normally is restricted to simple copyediting and the like. I really only write things of substance when I have insomnia! I saw the link you placed on the Inca Empire page and it's perfect to draw people to the Mummy Juanita page. You are doing a great job with the Andean articles. Thanks for the follow up! Oh - and maybe we need to create a page for Ampato or (probably better) link it to Colca Canyon or Arequipa Region? Mona-Lynn 21:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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Plaza de Armas
Thanks for the correction. I made the mistake of thinking the picture related to the city mentioned in the article. Regards, E   Asterion  u talking to me? 05:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Presidents of Peru
Please see the "Presidents of Peru" section at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peru and share your opinion with the project.--Jersey Devil 02:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * See my last comment on Gabbec's talk page on a better way to organize the project. I too would have e-mailed you concerning this but your e-mail option is disabled.--Jersey Devil 21:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Russell B. Long

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I just merged a duplicate article by an anon. Since I don't know much about this subject, I'm pasting the content of the duplicate article here in case there's any verifiable content anyone wants to incorporate into this article:

Russell Long was elected a Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1948 and served for many decades. He was the son of the controversial, assasinated governor of Louisiana. As part of Georgia Senator Richard Russell's "southern bloc" in the Senate, Senator Long was often forced to vote along with the other Southern senators against civil rights legislation, though there is evidence that he personally supported civil and voting rights for blacks and Mexican-Americans.

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JFK?
I was wondering if it was worth mentioning that Senator Long was portrayed by Walter Mathau in the film JFK or that he was portrayed as believing in a conspiracy. For all I know this is something that Oliver Stone made up, but I was just curious if he ever did speak out about that and if it was worth mentioning. It's probably inconsequential though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.166.23.62 (talk) 22:23, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I second this. I believe someone needs to provide some evidence that Long really believed in a conspiracy. I can't accept anything said in the movie 'JFK' on faith. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.29.165.122 (talk) 17:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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Mynydd Tir y Cwmwd

Mynydd Tir y Cwmwd (The Headland) is an area of about 175 acres (708,000 m2) in north Wales to the south of the village of Llanbedrog.

From the top of the Headland, with a covering of gorse and heather, there are fine views towards Abersoch and Pwllheli as well as over Cardigan Bay. The whole area is privately owned common land and is zigzagged by many paths. Great care must be taken on the slope where numerous accidents have occurred.

Along the cliff coast are situated three disused granite quarries, relics of pre-war activity. At the sea end of the headland from the beach when the tide is out are the remains of the jetty that was used by ships to transport the stones from the quarries. The remains of the old quarry buildings can also be seen; one is a large hopper building, where stone setts that were cut at the quarry were stored before being transported by ship.

A "Tin Man" sculpture can be found on Llanbedrog headland from the beach, designed by local sculptors and installed in 2002. It replaced a 1980 metal sculpture by Simon van de Put which, in turn, replaced an original wooden man (a figurehead from a ship) which had been placed there by Cardiff businessman Solomon Andrews, but had been destroyed by vandals.

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Liver bird

The liver bird is a mythical creature which is the symbol of the English city of Liverpool. It is normally represented as a cormorant, and appears as such on the city's arms, in which it bears a branch of laver seaweed in its beak as a further pun on the name "Liverpool".

History
King John founded the borough of Liverpool by royal charter in 1207. The borough's second charter, granted by Henry III in 1229, gave the townspeople the right to form a guild with the privileges this came with, including the right to use a common seal. Liverpool's ancient seal probably dated from this time, though the earliest surviving impression (kept in the British Museum) is from 1352. The seal depicted a generic bird with a plant sprig in its beak, together with a scroll inscribed (in shaky letters) "JOHIS" - an abbreviation for Johannis, Latin for "John's". The bird was almost certainly intended to be an eagle, the symbol of John the Evangelist, who was both the namesake and the patron saint of King John. The plant sprig is interpreted as broom (planta genista in Latin), a badge of the Plantagenet dynasty. Also visible on the seal is a star and crescent, one of King John's personal badges.

The shoddy draughtsmanship of the seal has given rise to other theories. Richard Brooke, a 19th-century Liverpudlian antiquary, surmised that the bird was a dove with an olive branch, and that the scroll read "NOBIS" or "VOBIS".

By the 17th century the bird's real identity had been forgotten: it began to be interpreted either as a cormorant, a common bird in the area, or as a "lever". In 1611 the municipal records describe the mayor receiving a plate "marked with the Cormorant, the Townes Armes", while in 1668 the Earl of Derby gifted the town a silver-gilt mace engraved with a "leaver". In his 1688 work The Academie of Armorie, Randle Holme records the arms of Liverpool as a blue "lever" upon a silver field. Holme takes this word to be an adaptation of the German loffler or Dutch lepler/lefler, both referring to the spoonbill. It is possible that these continental words were adopted for the bird in Liverpool's arms as they made a fitting allusion to the name "Liverpool". Around the same time the broom sprig in the bird's beak was reinterpreted as a branch of laver, also on account of the similarity of the word to the city's name.

In August 1796 Mayor Clayton Tarleton wrote to the College of Arms to request an official grant of arms to the city. His letter called the bird "a lever or sea cormorant". Arms were duly granted on 22 March 1797 by Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms, and George Harrison, Norroy King of Arms; however the grant described the bird only as a "cormorant".

In addition to the arms and crest, Garter granted supporters on 23 March. These consist of Neptune, the god of the sea, and his son and herald Triton. The motto is Deus nobis haec otia fecit—a quotation from Virgil's Eclogues translating to "God hath granted us this ease" or "God has bestowed these blessings upon us".

Representations in the city
Representations of the bird can be found throughout Liverpool, most numerously on the heritage lamp standards in the town centre on which small versions sit as a top piece. The two most famous stand atop the clock towers of the Royal Liver Building at Liverpool's Pier Head, overlooking the Mersey. Their names are Bertie and Bella. The male, Bertie looks over the city and the female, Bella looks to the sea. The building, headquarters to the Royal Liver Assurance, was opened in 1911. The metal cormorant-like birds were designed by Carl Bernard Bartels and constructed by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts.

There are other less well-known liver birds in the city. A metal bird is on the nearby Mersey Chambers office building, adjacent to the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, the parish church of the city of Liverpool. Another, a bird carved in stone, topped the St. John's Market building of 1822 until its demolition in 1964. The stone liver bird is now displayed at the Museum of Liverpool.

In 2014 it was announced that a 6ft statue would be placed in the entrance to Liverpool Central station in memory of Paul Rice, former chief executive of Liverpool's Commercial District Partnership.

Though nowadays the bird is inseparable in the public mind with Liverpool F.C., the first club to use it as a symbol was Everton. It was replaced in the 1930s with the Everton Lock-Up, another Liverpudlian icon. Some fans believe it should be reinstated, arguing that as a symbol of the whole city it rightfully belongs to both clubs. In 2012, Liverpool FC introduced a club mascot based on the liver bird emblem, named Mighty Red.

Modern myths and popular culture
The modern popularity of the symbol largely dates to 1911, when the Liver Building was built. This prominent display of two liver birds rekindled the idea that the liver was a mythical bird that once haunted the local shoreline. According to popular legend, they are a male and female pair: the female looking out to sea, watching for the seamen to return safely home, and the male looking in to the city, watching over the seamen's families (or "making sure the pubs are open", as a jocular version has it). Local legend also holds that the birds face away from each other, for if they were to mate and fly away, the city would cease to exist.

Another popular story told about them is that they are chained down, for if they were to fly away the River Mersey would burst its banks and flood the city of Liverpool. This is somewhat similar to the mating story.

An all female rock group from Liverpool called The Liverbirds was active in the '60s. They moved to Hamburg in 1964, where they were billed as die weiblichen Beatles (the female Beatles).

During the 1970s, The Liver Birds was the name of a popular British sitcom dealing with two young women in Liverpool, a play on the British slang term "bird" meaning a young woman.

The crest of Sir Paul McCartney is a calling liver bird holding a guitar, in reference to his profession and native city.

The birds are central to the plot of the 2022 novel Red Bird. Unlike other depictions, the birds are here depicted as murderous and carnivorous jackdaw like creatures.

Trademark
In November 2008, Liverpool Football Club filed an application with the UK Intellectual Property Office to register the version of the liver bird shown on the club badge as its trademark. The deputy council leader, Flo Clucas, responded that "The Liver bird belongs to all the people of Liverpool and not one company or organisation."

Liverpool FC finally acquired a registration covering a trademark incorporating a liver bird in September 2010, after coming to an agreement with the city council. Liverpool FC obtained a trademark registration from the European trademark office and the council obtained its own registration from the UK IPO covering a trademark incorporating a liver bird. This was done to protect its use by companies in Liverpool, but also for the football club to protect itself against counterfeit products.

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Foundation University (Philippines)

Foundation University, also referred to by its acronym FU or simply Foundation, is a private non-sectarian basic and higher education institution in Dumaguete, Philippines. It was founded by Dr. Vicente Guzman Sinco, former president of the University of the Philippines and an alumnus of Silliman University. It offers over 60 specialized higher education areas of study accredited with the PAASCU, CHED, and the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation. The university is known as the birthplace of Negros Oriental's Buglasan Festival. The university is also known as an eco-friendly school. In 2015, Foundation University was awarded National Champion by the DENR - Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) for being the Most Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Campus.

History
The university was established as Foundation College on July 4, 1949. It was granted university status by the Department of Education on January 28, 1969. The university offers many undergraduate courses such as in the fields of elementary education, secondary education, nursing, information technology, computer science, agriculture, engineering, law and many others. The university has schools for elementary and high school.

Established on the eve of the country's independence, it was then known as the Foundation College. The college was founded by Dr. Vicente Guzman Sinco, a known educator and legal luminary during his time. Sinco envisioned the college to contribute to the overall national program of development. During the time of the college's founding, Filipinos were still in the process of building the nation.

The college had a three-fold function — instruction, research, and community action. The success of this mission was recognized in 1963, when Foundation College received international recognition and was invited to become a member of the International Association of Universities. The college was the first institution in the Visayas and Mindanao to receive this honor, and the first institution in the world that was not a full university to become a member of this organization.

On January 28, 1969, the Philippine Department of Education granted the college a university charter.

Colleges and schools

Academic units of the university are organized into nine colleges and several other schools and departments.

Media
Since October 2012, the university has its own radio station called Greyhound 101.

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Talk:Mòd

Whisky olympics
I restored the section which was removed as "offensive", and added a reference. Offensive or not, it is a fact that the press popularly refers to the whisky olympics. It is a fact that bars are opened late, indeed at the Oban Mod there was a controversy because the extension was only a few hours; unfortunately the Oban Times does not have online archives.

If some find this offensive, it would be appropriate to say that too, but I can't find a reference. Facts should not be suppressed because some find them offensive; that would be a very dangerous trend, because there is someone ready to line up to be offended by about anything.

The reference to a real whisky event may seem irrelevant, but I think it may be important to establish that sometimes people mean something else. Better would be an article on the actual whisky olympics, but I haven't been able to complete that research. Notinasnaid 10:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Merge
A little while ago, Royal National Mod was split off from this article. This left this article as little more than a stub and a list of mods. It lacked context on what a mod was, but by putting that back I have just duplicated most of the other article. In my view, there really wasn't enough material left in this article to justify splitting off Royal National Mod, which was previously a redirect. Comments? Notinasnaid 18:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC) This was the previous stub article. Notinasnaid 19:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I would have Royal National Mod as the header for the article or merge the article on Mods in to the An Comunn Gaidhealach article. Sologoal 13:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

It looks to me as if this article should be merged with RNM per Notinasnaid. Ben MacDuiTalk /  Walk  08:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. A lot of people don't know about local mods, and splitting the articles makes that distinction clearer. Combining the two would make it more difficult to maintain clarity of the differences in competitions, for one thing, and the idea of the Mod Fringe is specific to the National -- local mods generally just have an official winners' ceilidh. Prof Wrong (talk) 16:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

In fact, the article for the National is far from complete. If you roll them back together, it wouldn't be possible to complete it -- issues like duration (no mention of the length of the event, presumably because it wasn't in the pre-split version -- The Mod is a week long but mods aren't, if you see what I mean.) Prof Wrong (talk) 16:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

= Origin of name = Since 'mòd' has no direct equivalent in other Celtic languages, and given the long-standing Viking presence in Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland, I'm tempted to see the word as related to modern Norwegian 'møte' (= meeting, gathering) and similar words in other Scandinavian languages (including Old Norse), rather than the suggested Old English 'gemot' - since in those days there was surely very little connection between the Old English and Gaelic language areas. Just a suggestion, but I am a linguist after all.80.60.103.23 (talk) 01:04, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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George Smathers

George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Florida who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1951 and the United States Senate from 1951 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Early life, education and military service
Smathers was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the son of Lura Frances (Jones) and Benjamin Franklin Smathers on November 13, 1913. The Smathers Family moved to New Jersey from western North Carolina. Frank Smathers served as a state judge in New Jersey and his brother, William H. Smathers, represented New Jersey in the United States Senate. Frank Smathers moved his family to Miami, Florida, when George Smathers was six in 1920. Smathers would attend Miami Senior High School. While in high school he was an athletic student.

After graduating from high school, Smathers father would convince him to not accept a football scholarship from the University of Illinois and instead go for the University of Florida as he felt his son had the potential of holding elected office, was not fitted for colleges football and he needed to have connections at the University of Florida for his law firm. At the University of Florida, he would be the captain of both the basketball and track team. He was also academically involved being a member of the Florida Blue Key and managed to become a member of the university's hall of fame in 1936, the same year he graduated. At UF, managed to also become elected as the president of the student body without any opposition. Smathers was inducted into the university's Student Hall of Fame and later into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.

After completing his LL.B. in 1939, Smathers married Rosemary Townley from Atlanta and returned to Miami, where he served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1939 to 1942. During World War II, he volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps and served with Marine Light Bomber Squadron 413 for 19 months in the South Pacific. He survived a crash landing when his light bomber was damaged by enemy fire. Smathers returned to Miami after the war. He would also spend a short period of time prosecuting fraud from the war before running for the United States House of Representatives.

Political career
After the war, Smathers was elected to serve two terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's Fourth Congressional District from 1947 to 1951. He established a reputation for being a moderate except for his anti-communism.

House of Representatives
In 1946, Smathers defeated four-term incumbent Congressman Pat Cannon by a margin of over two-to-one. Smathers served two terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's Fourth Congressional District from 1947 to 1951. He established a reputation as a southern liberal and a rising Democratic leader. He was best known for his strong support for President Truman and the Truman Doctrine to contain Soviet and Communist aggression. He fought to make Miami a gateway to Latin American commerce and cultural exchange. Congressman Smathers sponsored legislation to create the Florida Everglades National Park and supported the 24th Constitutional Amendment outlawing the poll tax in federal elections.

1950 Senate Democratic primary
Congressman Smathers' district included the "Winter White House" of President Harry Truman in Key West, Florida. Smathers was invited by Truman to fly with him from Washington to Key West, establishing a key relationship with President Truman and members of his Cabinet. In 1949, President Truman called Smathers into a meeting at the White House and said, "I want you to do me a favor. I want you to beat that son-of-a-bitch Claude Pepper." Senator Pepper had been a strong critic of President Truman and the Truman Doctrine and had taken a prominent and visible role in the unsuccessful effort to "dump Truman" in the weeks leading up to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

Senator Pepper was a strong supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal and recognized as a leading southern liberal. As one of the most effective orators of his era, Pepper was considered unbeatable by most Florida observers. In attempting to become a national figure, though, Senator Pepper promoted an internationalist platform of post-war, peaceful cooperation with the Soviet Union. In his praise for Joseph Stalin, the Red Army, and the Soviet Union, Pepper developed one of the most vulnerable records in Congress. Those positions, as well as his advocacy for sharing nuclear weapons technology with the Soviets, lost him the support of Florida's and the nation's press.

Smathers' campaign attacked Pepper on his vulnerable international record, his support for universal health care and his changing stands on the Fair Employment Practice Committee. He charged that Pepper was out-of-touch with his Florida constituency and his positions contrary to national interests. Smathers defeated Pepper in the Democratic primary by over 63,000 votes and won handily in the November general election.

Significance of 1950 election
While earlier interpretations stressed anti-communism, race-baiting and red-baiting as the dominant reasons for Pepper's defeat,   more recent scholarship has focused on Pepper's vulnerable voting record. Historians also contrasted the two candidates' campaign styles as a factor in the outcome. Finally, Smathers was the first candidate from south Florida to be popularly elected as United States Senator breaking the political monopoly of north and central Florida on the highest statewide offices. His victory marked the emergence of southeast Florida's significant economic and political power. For the first time in Florida history an incumbent United States Senator went down to defeat. Pepper's loss also broke the Florida tradition dating to 1845 of always electing one United States Senator from north Florida.

Stand on civil rights
The civil rights movement dominated southern politics during Smathers' time in Congress. Smathers publicly opposed federal intervention in racial matters except to support voting rights. He also stressed the rule of law and the need for southern states to comply with any federal legislation. Privately, Smathers rejected many of the doctrines and tenets of white supremacy and believed that, over time, whites would change their views on race relations. Smathers, though, fell into line with other southern senators by signing the 1956 Southern Manifesto, an attack on the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The signatories accused the Supreme Court of a "clear abuse of judicial power" and promised to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution and to prevent the use of force in its implementation." As Johnson's lieutenant in the Senate, he helped craft the Senate version of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He publicly predicted the defeat of the southern filibuster of the bill and voted for its passage in the Senate. The bill was then referred to a conference committee and Smathers voted against the final version. After the chaos surrounding James Meredith's entry into the University of Mississippi in 1962, Smathers wrote "Federal law must be obeyed ... so that force does not have to be used to bring compliance."

Smather's contradictory positions on racial matters as a private individual and a Florida senator responsive to his conservative state were never more evident than after Johnson became president. Smathers urged Johnson to act quickly to pass national civil rights legislation, stating "Now that you're the President, I should think they would agree that the sooner we get a civil rights bill over with ... the better the South would be, the better the North would be, the better everybody would be." Smathers privately strategized with Johnson on the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act telling Johnson, "I hope that he [ Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ] has done his counting and that he has the votes."

Yet, as a Florida senator, when the bill came before the Senate, he voted against it. Likewise, Smathers supported federal involvement in upholding voting rights, believing that through the ballot African Americans would gain a seat at the table at all levels of local, state and federal government. In his words, "franchise and freedom are inseparable in America." However, while publicly praising the objectives of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he opposed the Senate version of the bill. Nonetheless, he supported the final, amended voting rights measures, which enforced the voting rights provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, while outlawing all literacy tests.

Senate leadership
Smathers' legislative abilities quickly attracted the attention of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who brought Smathers into his inner circle as Secretary of the Senate Caucus, the third most powerful position in the party caucus. When Johnson suffered a heart attack in 1956, Smathers became acting Senate majority leader during Johnson's hospitalization. Smathers rejected Johnson's request to later become whip and recommended Mike Mansfield instead. Smathers' refusal to become Johnson's whip precluded Smathers from becoming majority leader when Johnson became vice president in 1961. Smathers retained his position and influence as Secretary of the Democratic Caucus under Majority Leader Mike Mansfield in the sixties. No other Floridian has ever risen as high in either the Democratic or Republican Senate caucuses. Smathers also served as chairman of the important Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for six years.

Smathers helped pass bills to create Medicare and Medicaid, the Clean Air Act, sponsored the creation of the Small Business Administration and the Senate Select Committee on Aging, and was the Senate sponsor of the Kerr-Smathers Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). He steered critical reforms of the Transportation and Immigration acts and legislation moving federal holidays to Mondays, essentially creating the modern three-day weekend.

"Senator From Latin America"
Senator Smathers was an early and longstanding advocate for aid to the countries of Latin America. Smathers continually urged vital improvements in sanitation and infrastructure as well as increased trade and economic aid to modernize Latin American economies. Smathers recommended a joint OAS (Organization of American States) military force that would replace individual national armies to maintain the peace and fight communism. For his leadership on Latin America, his Senate colleagues dubbed Smathers "The Senator From Latin America".

Cuban Revolution
Smathers had a chance encounter with Fidel Castro in April 1948. Smathers was attending the Pan-American Conference in Bogota, Colombia, and Castro was participating in the opposition Pan-American Students Conference. Smathers would later claim that Castro admitted to Communist leanings at their encounter. As such, Smathers became an early opponent against Fidel Castro and an early advocate of an economic and arms embargo of Cuba.

Smathers described the Bay of Pigs fiasco as "an ill-conceived, ill-planned deal" that lacked the planning and firepower to succeed. He was the only Senator with Kennedy the night the President announced the U.S. Naval embargo of Cuba during the Missile Crisis of October 1962 – the historic moment when the global superpowers came closest to nuclear war. Senator Smathers amended the Immigration Act to provide permanent visas for Cubans fleeing Communist Cuba, as well as efforts to provide federal assistance in food, education, housing and work for Cuban refugees. He worked closely with the Catholic Welfare Bureau and State Department officials to support Operation Pedro Pan which brought over 14,000 Cuban children to America.

Alliance for Progress
Smathers received partial credit for much of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress which incorporated Smathers recommendations of the need for the U.S to aid Latin America in sanitation, infrastructure, education, increased trade and economic assistance, including the Inter-American Bank which Smathers helped pass. President Kennedy lauded Smathers for being "one of the first Americans to recognize the importance of Latin America".

Relationship with JFK
Both Smathers and Kennedy entered Congress the same year. They became fast friends, which lasted until Kennedy's assassination. At the wedding of Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, Smathers was chosen by the Kennedys to speak on behalf of Jack Kennedy at his wedding rehearsal dinner. In 1960, Jack Kennedy asked Smathers to give him a nominating speech to the Democratic Convention and to manage the Kennedy-Johnson campaign in the South. Nixon would later say that Smathers was one of JFK's few close friends in politics.

Presidential politics
In 1960, to keep the Florida Democratic Party united, Smathers agreed to run as a "Favorite Son". Winning the Democratic Presidential Primary, Smathers became the first Floridian popularly elected to represent Florida as a presidential candidate at a national convention. In 1968, Floridians again nominated Smathers as their Favorite Son candidate for president.

Retirement from politics
After leaving the Senate in 1969, Smathers was divorced from his first wife and married Carolyn Hyder. He achieved considerable success as a lobbyist and businessman. Smathers lived in Indian Creek Island and was father to two sons, John (born 1941) and Bruce Smathers (born 1943) (Florida State Senate 1973-75 and Secretary of State 1975–78) from his marriage to Rosemary Townley.

In 1988, Smathers donated property appraised at $2 million to renovate the University of Florida's original library building, now Smathers Library. He also made a testamentary gift, valued at the time at $20 million, to the University of Florida and the university honored him by naming the George A. Smathers Libraries. He also donated property valued at $10 million to the University of Miami.

Smathers often attended "Church by the Sea", the United Church of Christ in Bal Harbour, Florida. His funeral was held here after his death at age 93. At the time of his death, he was the last living former U.S. representative who assumed office in the 1940s, the last living former U.S. senator who assumed office in the 1950s, and the last living former U.S. senator who left office in the 1960s. Smathers's remains were interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

Relationships
In addition to his relationships with Kennedy and Johnson, Smathers was also close to Richard Nixon, who was also elected to the House in 1946. Smathers introduced Nixon to "Bebe" Rebozo, who became Nixon's close friend and longtime companion. Smathers sold Nixon his Key Biscayne home which became famous as Nixon's "Florida White House". Smathers was a childhood friend of Phil Graham, a fellow Floridian and half-brother to Bob Graham, Florida Governor (1979 – 1987) and United States Senator (1987 – 2005). Phil Graham would later become the publisher of The Washington Post. Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019, was a summer intern in Smathers's office in 1961–1962 and remained close to the Smathers family throughout his career.

In popular culture

 * Smathers Beach, a popular Key West destination, is named after the senator.
 * The handsome politician was known as "Gorgeous George" (after the famous professional wrestler who appeared under that moniker) by his detractors.
 * Part of American political lore is the Smathers "redneck speech", which Smathers reportedly delivered to a poorly educated audience. The comments were recorded in a small magazine, picked up in Time and elsewhere, and etched into the public's memories. Time, during the campaign, reported a "yarn" that Smathers had said: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, he has a brother who is a known homo sapiens, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy." The leading reporter who actually covered Smathers said he always gave the same humdrum speech. No Florida newspapers covering the campaign ever reported such remarks contemporaneously. Smathers offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove he said it, and there were no takers before his death.
 * Smathers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, was a panelist on What's My Line?, and was frequently a guest on Larry King Live and other news programs.
 * In Bryce Zabel's Surrounded By Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas, Smathers is mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate for President John F. Kennedy in the 1964 presidential election.

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David Irving
I presume that one you say you, you mean the all the people who wrote the Dresden page. Not me personally. The reason why David Irving is described the way that he is, is because he fooled many people for a long time. His book from the early 60s about Dresden is still very influential. I have not seen the two articles quoted in the Encyclopaedias mentioned, but if they do quote a figure of 135,000 dead then that is from Irving. However He has been found in a British court to be (and I quote the judge):
 * Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-semitic and racist and that he associates with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism.

Professor Evans (one of the most respected historians in the UK and an expert on the period who was an expert witness at the trial) said of him:
 * Not one of his books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about.

That is the point. Wven if Irving is telling the truth, one can not be certain that he is unless one is an expert on the subject. The problem gets worse. I have a book written in the 1980 which is a popular history (not an academic volume) of bomber command. It quotes Irving as a reliable source because the author like everyone who was not an expert on the raid thought his work was correct. This problem means that there are many secondary books and articles written between the publishing of his book and the court case which use his work in "good faith" are therefore themselves tainted with information which may not be accurate.

To sum up he Irving is mentioned because he had had a large influence on the popular beliefs on what happened in Dresden 60 years ago. His failings are mentioned to show why his books can not be relied upon. Philip Baird Shearer 10:06, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re: Holocaust
While I acknowledge your complaint, I do not understand why you have directed it at me. I did not write the passage you quoted; furthermore, I have had very little to do with the Holocaust article—aside from the occasional reversion of vandalism and/or blatantly POV edits.

Every editor, whether he or she has administrator or "regular user" status, has the same authority over an article and can edit it as he or she pleases. That's not to say you should expect other users to leave your words unaltered, but it does mean you can edit the passage in question yourself. If you see something offensive or inaccurate, go ahead and change it; of course, other users may disagree with your changes. If conflict arises, it would be best to raise your concerns on the article's discussion page (in this case, Talk:Holocaust). As long as you keep our neutrality policy in mind, you shouldn't run into much of a problem.

I will however point out that the quoted passage is very careful in its wording; it does not say that everyone who thinks the Holodomor was on equal footing with the Holocaust belittles the latter; rather, it says that many do. If you know this to be a misrepresentation and can provide a citation to back it up, by all means change it. If you have any further questions or concerns, I will try to address them. -- Hadal 02:54, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Artificial gills

Artificial gills may refer to:

 * Imitation gills put into stuffed fish for the sake of appearance in taxidermy
 * An inaccurate term for liquid breathing sets
 * Artificial gills (human), which extract oxygen from water to supply a human diver

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Talk:The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language

Obscure information
In writing this article, I found certain information difficult to document. Information about the copyright disputes with Merriam is often scant and conflicting on the web. A case involving George W. Ogilvie (possibly a son or grandson of John Ogilvie) who controlled the Imperial is found at:

I have found no full account dealing with how Century Co. obtained rights to the Imperial, but apparently they didn't have exclusive rights, as the Imperial itself continued to be published in London by the ''Gresham Publishing. Co.'' until at least 1911, I have seen. I am looking into whether the New Gresham Dictionary is a spin-off.

There are other dictionaries based on the Imperial. I've been unable to find documented confirmation that certain non-Merriam Webster's editions were based on the Imperial, although it is pretty obvious from looking at the illustrations and the definitions. George W. Ogilvie Publishing published Webster's Imperial Dictionary in 1904, which is surely based on the Imperial (Annandale edition). I have another called, Webster's New Cosmopolitan Dictionary, 1907.

From there, it surely became Webster's Universal (World Syndicate Publishing Company.) The preface of the Universal (1936) is vague about its origins, but mentions George W. Ogilvie. The same dictionary was also published as Webster's Twentieth Century (Publishers Guild), and both were modestly revised in the 1940s to become ...New Universal... or ...New Twentieth..., with second editions in the 1950s. They were published into the 1980s with a few new words inserted into the 1950s text and almanac data updated.

These dictionaries were based on Noah Webster via the Imperial, were far outdated even in their time, and apparently very little work was put into revisions. They were called "unabridged," but covered little more vocabulary than a college dictionary, and few modern words. In their early editions, they do offer some semblence of the Imperial (which is very expensive in original form), including many "obsolete" words not usually found in modern dictionaries. However, the entries are often trimmed, the pronunciation method is over-simplified, and the illustrations are not as sharp. They are common thrift store items in one or two volume versions, often collected by dealers who charge far more than they are worth, possibly not realizing they were budget productions, or else playing on the public's ignorance. As I have mentioned elsewhere, after these dictionaries went out of print the name Webster's New Universal was used as the title of a reissue of the Random House Dictionary, which is not the same dictionary.

I believe my conclusions are correct, but I don't tell most of this in the main article because it is only my personal observations from being familiar with the dictionaries, and my own filling of the blanks. However, I will also point out that a lot infomation found on the web, and even in books, is probably obtained the same way without being admitted as such. Then someone copies or paraphrases it somewhere else... I have found cases of such copied info which I know is inaccurate.

If anyone knows any reliable sources on this subject, please let me know here or at . (ERL) 216.19.218.24 10:12, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)  This entry revised:  216.19.218.103 22:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)  Revised again: 216.19.218.42 04:56, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) Again: 216.19.218.90 06:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

George W Ogilvie
This was my great uncle, married to Caroline M McAyeal, who for some years edited the Midwestern Magazine published by the Greater Des Moines Publishing Company starting in 1906. George was an elusive fellow, who also served as General Freight Agent for several railroads. He was active in publishing in Chicago and New York, where he had a business with his brother. He was sued several times (via "front" companies) over the purchase of bible plates in England, and of course over the dictionaries. I haven't been able to track his whereabouts or activities after about 1915. I believe he may have died around that time. Howard S MacAyeal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.29.255 (talk) 20:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


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GAC

Gac or GAC may refer to:

 * Gấc, pronounced [ɣək̚˧˦], a Southeast Asian fruit of the species Momordica cochinchinensis
 * Gać (disambiguation), a common Polish place-name

Companies and organisations

 * GAC Group, a Chinese automotive company based in Guangzhou, Guangdong
 * GAC Ireland, an Irish bus manufacturer established with Bombardier (1980–1986)
 * Games Administration Committee, a committee that organises fixtures within Gaelic games
 * Gateway Athletic Conference, a suburban St. Louis high school extracurricular league in Missouri
 * Geological Association of Canada
 * Global Action for Children, an organization advocating for vulnerable children in the developing world
 * Global Affairs Canada, a department of the Canadian federal government
 * Gloster Aircraft Company, an aircraft manufacturing company based in Gloucester, England
 * General Advisory Committee, a committee in charge of the first US nuclear bomb.

Entertainment

 * Ghost Adventures Crew, the team featured on the Ghost Adventures television series
 * Graphic Adventure Creator, a game creation system of the 1980s by Incentive software
 * General Amusement Corporation, an entertainment booking agency founded in the early 1930s
 * Great American Family, a family-oriented general entertainment cable TV channel formerly known as Great American Country
 * Great American Faith & Living, its sister network

Technology

 * Global Assembly Cache, a component of Microsoft's .NET Framework
 * Generic Artificial Consciousness, a database and software of Mindpixel
 * Granular activated carbon, a highly porous and absorbent material used extensively in water filtration

Other uses

 * Globular Amphora culture, an archaeological culture in central Europe
 * Global Assessment Certificate, a university preparation and foundation studies program
 * Great American Conference, an NCAA Division II Conference formed in 2010
 * Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914–1990), influential art collector and mail artist
 * Gender Affirming Care, an extension of the acronym "GAC"
 * GAC, a codon for the amino acid aspartic acid

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Castletown, Highland

Castletown (Baile a' Chaisteil) is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Caithness. The A836 links the village with Thurso and Tongue in the west and with John o' Groats in the east. The B876-A99 links the village with Wick in the southeast. Contrary to the common misconception, the name Castletown is a misnomer as there is no castle within the village limits.

Much of the village is built on the old townland (or fermland) of Stanergill. The Stanergill Burn was the eastern boundary of the townland. It flows now through the eastern end of the village and so into Dunnet Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

The name Stanergill can be read as meaning Stone Valley and much of Castletown was built during the 19th century boom years of Caithness as a source of flagstone. Much of the stone was processed in the harbour area of the village, known as Castlehill, and many of the streets of London, Sydney, Edinburgh and the financial district of New York City are paved with it. The harbour was built by James Bremner. Castletown's main building is the 'Drill Hall'. This is mainly used for parties, discos and small clubs such as the indoor bowls. The building that was used for these functions was the 'Traill Hall', a gift to the Village by the Traill family, owners of the flagstone quarry at Castlehill. Traill House, a large and imposing country home was the residence of the Traill family. It was located in the woods at Castlehill, in later years it was owned by the Crumb-Ewing family, it became derelict after WW2 and burned down in the late 1950s. The remains of the gatehouse can be seen on the side of the A836 at Castlehill plantation.

Industry in the village included manufacture of domestic food storage freezers, under the Norfrost brand. However, the company closed in 2013; Ebac in County Durham now produce the freezers.

Local government
Castletown is in the Landward Caithness ward of the Highland Council. The ward elects four councillors by the single transferable vote system of election, which produces a form of proportional representation. It is one of seven wards within the council's Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross corporate management area and one of 22 wards within the council area.

Sport
Castletown has a football team, Castletown FC, who wear a strip almost identical to the strip worn by Celtic FC. The pitch is regarded as the best in Caithness and Sutherland, and many Highland finals are held at the venue. Castletown play in the Caithness Division 2 following relegation from Division 1 in the 2014 season.

Castletown also have bowls and badminton teams who play in the local 'Drill Hall'.

Facilities
Castletown has a small hotel (The Castletown Hotel, was The St Clair Hotel), a large bed and breakfast on a large property (Olrig House Country B&B), a large guest house (Greenland House), a licensed grocery, a butcher's, a fish and chip shop, a garden centre, a garage, hairdressers, a primary school with nursery and an after-school club, a drill hall, a youth club and an army cadets detachment hut. There are also two churches on Main Street: a Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland, where Reverend Howard Stone has led services for more than 25 years. Most businesses are located on the main street, the A836.

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Equalveillance
I have changed equiveillance to equalveillance to stir some debate about the meaning of equilibrium between surveillance and sousveillance,

in some cases, it is acceptable that some persons are not equal to others when it comes to knowledge, such as, one would not allow a barber to extract a tooth, and only a dentist is allowed to look into ones mouth. A patient may photograph dental decay to understand the decay and treatment plan, or monitor a dentist to make sure an error does not occur during surgery. On the other hand, if we make the dentist nervous with recording, then his chances of making an error increase, so hence, it is advisable to just let the dentist do his/her job in surveillancing the dental problems with x rays and dental exams.

In this case, the know how dictates the equilibrium between surveillance and sousveillance, with opinion and treatment plan dependent upon the dentists cyborglog which forms his clinical judgement, which the individual patient has to trust.

is this the best external reference available?
This page doesn't seem to have attracted much editorial attention, but ...

Regarding the previous post: According to NPOV the TS page should not take a position regarding the acceptability or unacceptability of "some persons" being "equal to others when it comes to knowledge," nor is Wikipedia a venue for random people to "stir debate." And for what it's worth, I don't see the connection between dental surgery and information access. One need not invite everyone who likes looking at dental X-rays to do surgery.

In addition, the external page linked as "The pitfalls of privacy" is incoherent and contradictory. "Besides if someone has nothing that they would be ashamed of why would they worry about privacy." Since nobody has anything to be ashamed of, privacy is thus unnecessary. This is not high-quality analysis.

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Potential Copyright violation
Personal contact with Copyright owner confirms no copyright violation in use of this material - material is in the pubic domain. Velela 10:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-02-14/Wikiportals

At the instigation of Ausir, the first Wikiportal in the English Wikipedia has opened, and last week the new concept prompted the creation of a number of new portal pages.

The idea of Wikiportals, a page functioning as a portal for a particular subject area, was first introduced in the German Wikipedia in 2003. It was later incorporated in the French, Polish, Dutch, Japanese and Hebrew Wikipedias, but was not adopted in English until the concept was brought here from the Polish Wikipedia by Ausir.

Ausir opened the Biology portal on 5 February. This soon spurred the creation of portals for Art, Sports, and numerous other subjects over the past week.

While the larger French and German Wikipedias have more Wikiportals, the Polish ones are generally the most advanced in terms of visual design and layout. Since the Polish Wikipedia was also the most immediate source for the idea, the layout of Polish Portals has been copied for use in the English Portals.

Wikiportals vs. WikiProjects
Despite the jump in portal creations, their exact goal and their difference from WikiProjects remains unclear. In some other languages, the two exist side-by-side, often covering the same subject matter, and some of the new English Wikiportals have corresponding WikiProjects as well.

The Polish Wikipedia, however, doesn't seem to have WikiProjects (or at least the WikiProject page has no interlanguage link to Polish), which may be part of the reason why the portal idea was implemented there. But not all Wikipedias are clear about WikiProjects either.

The French page about WikiProjects indicates that they're supposed to be for coordinating issues across different Wikipedias. The German and English pages about WikiProjects say that they're for collaborating in a particular subject area within Wikipedia, with no allusion to other languages.

Portals are almost like mini-versions of the Main Page for a particular subject area, although their visual resemblance to the Main Page is stronger in other languages than English. WikiProjects seem to be more like working pages to decide on policies and conventions. However, a clear distinction between them isn't clearly mentioned in documentation on the matter in any language.

Separate namespace
With respect to Wikiportals, there are also inconsistent practices across different languages, particularly involving their location. In the German and Polish Wikipedias, for example, the portals are part of the article namespace; French and now English, on the other hand, have them in the Wikipedia namespace.

On Saturday, Ausir posted a request to the wikipedia mailing list for a separate namespace to be created for Wikiportals. He said they don't really belong either in Wikipedia namespace or in the main article namespace. So far, there has been no response to the request.