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Wikipedia talk:Portal/Guidelines/Archive 6

Portals are moribund
Portals are moribund. The lost their relevance about ten years ago, at least. For every portal, there is a parent article that does the job better. Rotating grabby stories and pictures are nice, but they are not in line with the purpose of Wikipedia. Instead, they are barely viewed content forking or WP:OR. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:27, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Have you considered that portals in English help other language Wikis, with a limited number of editors, to decide which topics are most important to translate /adapt? AlwynapHuw (talk) 04:27, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

 * I propose that all low impact Portals be archived, by redirecting subpages to the top page, and redirecting to top Portal page to the parent article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:02, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Portals are "moribund" because they are so poorly supported, not because of any conceptual flaws. And saying they are not inline with Wikipedia's goals is just ridiculous; portals are just topical recreations of the main page. Abyssal (talk) 01:27, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The Main Page receives more than 20 millions page views per day. Yours receives less than 1 per day, except when listed at MfD.   --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Firstly, I've contributed to many portals, many with vastly greater content and viewership than Portal:Brachiopods. Secondly, your smarm and rudeness are uncalled for and damage Wikipedia's community. Abyssal (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Support? What support would you like?  Portals are moribund not because they need support, but because no one looks at them.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The last time I checked, most portals got about as much traffic as the corresponding categories. Sometimes more, sometimes less. You can compare using the |Category:Dogs Pageviews tool. It can display the traffic of up to 10 pages at the same time on the same graph. Since Portals are essentially being proposed for deletion here, based on their lack of traffic, a study should be done of their traffic. If this department still compares with categories in traffic, then no way should they be deleted (such as being redirected out of existence).  Individual portals that are not up to par should be nominated for deletion at MfD as per usual. But, deletion [low traffic] isn't generally considered a valid deletion argument. The Transhumanist 00:51, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Agree, low traffic is not a driving or deciding reason to deprecate. Categories as you mention may be low traffic, but are fully functional and maintained.  The reason to deprecate, or archive, a portal is that the portal is out-of-date and unmaintained, and as a resource it provides a negative experience for the readers, relative to the reader visiting something else, whether the parent article, or a super-portal, or the outline, or an active WikiProject page.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:04, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Specifically, I would like to see:
 * The automatic production of article synopses of the appropriate length when articles relevant to the portal topic are accepted and the ability to edit these synopses if they need improvement.
 * The automatic addition of these synopses to the pool from which the portal draws its content selections.
 * The ability to sort or filter the article synopses on the "more articles" page (or "more pictures", "more DYKs").
 * The criteria portals use to select content should default to chronological rather than random (ie it shows the last article to be featured in that subject).
 * The automatic addition of DYK hooks after they've been displayed on the Main Page to the pool from which the portal draws its DYK selections.
 * The automatic addition to the portal's content pool of featured and quality images when they get promoted at Wikimedia Commons.
 * The automatic generation of an image summary for the featured pictures based on their synopsis at the Commons, but with the ability to edit and improve it if needed.
 * The ability to automatically pull pictures from DYK articles to be associated with their hooks on the portal.
 * The ability to randomize all of the individual DYK hooks instead of manually devising "blocks" of hooks.
 * An automatically generated list of new and recently expanded articles relevant to the subject.
 * Foundation sanction for direct outreach by Wikiprojects to portal-goers like offering topical reference desks, advertising within-project contests, user adoption drives, etc.
 * More probably needs to be done, but those are a start. Abyssal (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Any effort you put into a Portal these days is wasted. No one navigates via portals, the hits are random flukes.  Portal:Contents, the link under Main Page, receives 12 thousand views per day, that's 0.06%.  Recreating the main page look for specific topics was the rage during the period of exponential growth in content.  They helped interconnect efforts to add missing content.  That finished over ten years ago.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Saying that contributing to portals is a waste when you're the one advocating for their deletion verges on circular reasoning since your activities are undermining the value of those contributiongs in the first place. I don't think the contents portal is representative of the way readers use other portals because on its own it doesn't cover any distinct topic that people might be interested in. I think a well-developed portal system could continue to interconnect editors and spur content production. Abyssal (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Portals are unsourced content copied from somewhere, with a mix of WP:OR. They are not why people come to Wikipedia.  Wikipedia does not need them for advertising.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Portals are not unsourced content, the content is just not sourced in the synopses displayed on the portal. Which is not surprising since those are drawn from article lead sections, which by policy tend to lack citations which are meant for article bodies. The sourcing is easily verified simply by clicking the article and reading there. Abyssal (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Abyssal (23:56, 27 March 2017) wrote (my bolding of what I immediately agree with):
 * Specifically, I would like to see:
 * 1.	The automatic production of article synopses of the appropriate length when articles relevant to the portal topic are accepted and the ability to edit these synopses if they need improvement.
 * 2.	The automatic addition of these synopses to the pool from which the portal draws its content selections.
 * 3.	The ability to sort or filter the article synopses on the "more articles" page (or "more pictures", "more DYKs").
 * 4.	The criteria portals use to select content should default to chronological rather than random (ie it shows the last article to be featured in that subject).
 * 5.	The automatic addition of DYK hooks after they've been displayed on the Main Page to the pool from which the portal draws its DYK selections.
 * 6.	The automatic addition to the portal's content pool of featured and quality images when they get promoted at Wikimedia Commons.
 * 7.	The automatic generation of an image summary for the featured pictures based on their synopsis at the Commons, but with the ability to edit and improve it if needed.
 * 8.	The ability to automatically pull pictures from DYK articles to be associated with their hooks on the portal.
 * 9.	The ability to randomize all of the individual DYK hooks instead of manually devising "blocks" of hooks.
 * 10.	An automatically generated list of new and recently expanded articles relevant to the subject.
 * 11.	Foundation sanction for direct outreach by Wikiprojects to portal-goers like offering topical reference desks, advertising within-project contests, user adoption drives, etc.
 * More probably needs to be done, but those are a start. Abyssal (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Bolded sections I immediately agree with, and no implied disagreement with anything else. Automatic and systematic generation of Portal/Contents material sounds great.  Grabbing DYK hooks sounds clever too.  What this doesn't sound like is the current suite of portals, so many of which are ten+ year old remnant of individuals efforts on specific subjects.  I think there is huge overlap with WP:Outlines, where User:The Transhumanist's efforts are extraordinarily admirable, but hopeless if comprehensiveness is a goal.  For navigation and contents, comprehensiveness has to be a goal, and to achieve it, it needs to be automated, comprehensive, and not patchwork.  I don't think these goals are at all helped by retention of the current majority moribund Portal pages.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:34, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Request: some of the existing portals have stand-alone topics lists that overlap with the outlines, while other portals merely transclude navigation footers onto their topics list pages. If portals are decommissioned, I would like to see those stand-alone topics lists moved to draft space (as "Outline of" pages), from where they can be worked on and merged into the outline system. Note that portals themselves are not similar to outlines, they are modeled after the Main page. The Transhumanist 22:50, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note concerning outlines: I have reached the same conclusion as SmokeyJoe that manual efforts are not enough, and I have turned my attention toward building tools to assist or automate outline creation and maintenance. The mission of outlines from the start has been to summarize all knowledge, with an eye toward building a comprehensiveness navigation system in the future. To pursue these objectives, the outline system was created in levels.  The higher levels (Portal:Contents/Overviews, Outline of knowledge, followed by Outline of culture, Outline of geography, etc.) being more general, with successive lower levels (e.g., Outline of chess) being more and more specific.  Thus, it summarizes all knowledge, and does so in more detail over time (as lower level outlines and lists are built).  But, the article-based navigation system that is evolving toward comprehensiveness is the whole list system of which outlines are a part. Item lists—that is, regular lists—are branches of outlines (many embedded in outlines, and many stand-alone lists linked to from outlines). Eventually, when all articles are listed in either outlines or item lists, and all lists (including outlines) are listed in either lists of lists or outlines, then the list system will be a comprehensive navigation system. Though the list system (including outlines) will continue to remain useful in the meantime.  As alluded to above, the end goal will be achieved through automation, which is currently being worked on, in the form of scripts, and exploration into more involved programming solutions. The Transhumanist 22:50, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

 * I support SmokeyJoe's proposal to substantially consolidate portals (although I doubt that this discussion will be exposed to enough of the community to count for much). We should get rid of the minor and low-interest topics. bd2412  T 02:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to list non-minor non-low-interest portals? Some big ones, like Portal:Science, have bare signs of life, 1500 views per day, a weekly edit history, a talk page post twice a year.  Portal:Germany does not, and at 2 views per day per million residents that is not even passing traffic, it is barely passing glimpses by service personnel.  I don't think "interest" of the "topic" is an appropriate measure.  Mainspace is highly populated with very interesting topics.  If someone is interested in a topic, why not have them read the article?  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I meant that as more of a confluence. Topics on universally important portals should be kept irrespective of interest (Science, Law, Art, Music, Health and fitness); high-traffic portals should also be kept, more or less regardless of importance (I have trouble conceiving of a high-traffic portal on a topic of low importance), though they could at least be merged up to whatever portal is at the next higher level of abstraction. bd2412  T 03:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Merging should probably be done on a case-by-case basis, along with merge tags, etc. The Transhumanist 01:00, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

 * I support SmokeyJoe's proposal, and BD2412's take on it.   Define a set of top-priority portals, and keep those, along with other high-traffic portals ... abut purge the rest.
 * Portals are not encyclopedic content. They are a navigation device, and unless they are kept up-to-date, they impede navigation rather than helping it. Editor numbers and activity are way lower than ten years ago, and whatever the theoretical merits of portals, we simply don't have enough editors prepared to devote the time to maintaining them all. The result is effectively a load of incomplete and/or abandoned shop windows, which wastes the time of our readers as well as misleading them. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:32, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Neutral Perhaps there is not much portal traffic because many articles are missing portal (or subject bar) lines? For several years now I am doing article assessments of stub class and start class articles. I would estimate 80 percent or more articles are missing portal information. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 19:17, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Support the restriction of portals to just a few high level topics. For example, Portal:Earth sciences is ok, but for lower level topics (e.g. Portal:Pseudosuchians left with redlinks and broken links to Associated Wikimedia) the costs (in creating/maintaining/deleting them, the confusion they cause to readers/editors etc) probably outweigh any benefits. Part-created portals are often abandoned leaving a large number of Wikipedia pages that show up when doing maintenance tasks (example MFD). DexDor(talk) 21:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 * FYI, on a related note Portal talk:Featured portals - as the featured portal process is dead, I have tagged it all as historical. BencherliteTalk 13:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

 * I have wondered for years why it doesn't draw eyeballs even though it's at the top of the main page. Then I suddenly realized that the standard bullet points preceding the names of major portals on main page was the source of confusion. To editors, we may understand that those are links to portals. But to general readers, those names appear to be a description what Wikipedia contains (arts, biography, history, science, etc.) I understand what I am proposing is not within the scope of this particular RfC, but how about we switch out those bullet points with small diagrams like what the German Main Page does? I'm not proposing a complete revamp of the main page (because we know they will always stall out), but limit the change to just switching out those boring bullet points to diagrams that illustrate the subject. OhanaUnitedTalk page 20:21, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Support extensive consolidation of portals. Lower-traffic portals should have their subpages deleted (or marked historical if there is a lot of history), with their main pages redirected to the correpsonding article. – Train2104 (t • c) 20:57, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * A more appropriate redirect (to an overview) would be to the corresponding outline, and if there isn't one, then to the corresponding article. The Transhumanist 23:18, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Wider venue is required to reach community consensus – Since portals are such an integral part of Wikipedia, a community-wide discussion/vote should take place. I think you should work out the details here of a proposal to bring to the whole community, and then once polished, present it to the whole community for finalization. A lot of people will freak if portals just start disappearing based upon a discussion amongst a few people on a backwater talk page. Therefore, when the proposal is ready, its announcement should be coordinated to be posted via Signpost, on all the other major notice pages, miscellany for deletion, and at the top of every portal (like the way merge and deletion tags are posted). The Transhumanist 23:18, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * User talk:The Transhumanist raises an important point, when he says "some of the existing portals have stand-alone topics lists that overlap with the outlines". These have uses, even if their Portal parents are moribund.  They should not be hastily archived, lit alone deleted.  It may still be a good idea to redirect every moribund Portal (i.e. leave non-moribund Portals alone) to their parent article, but leave the subpage alone for now.  I think there is a developing consensus here that manually made and maintained portals are mostly a relic of the early days and no longer suitable (no longer since 10 years ago).  There is not a developing consensus for what to do about it. I think I would like to see technically-aware editors, like The Transhumanist and User:Abyssal, given all the support they can use to develop an automated, comprehensive, outline/contents/navigation service.  This should replace Portal:Contents, which currently does not serve its purpose.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:03, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Oppose the SmokeyJoe plan, Support the Abyssal plan. Portals don't have the support they should. Automation should solve many of the problems. Oppose the SmokeyJoe plan because it will lead to fighting over what's important enough to get a Portal. I honestly think a major reason why Portals are moribund right now is because they are in a different namespace, and every namespace other than the mainspace is directed more towards editors than readers. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  05:42, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The "Abyssal plan" sounds great. I support anyone who wants to do it.  But it is a dream that is not happening.  In the meantime, the current suite of Portals are mis-serving readers who get caught up in them.  The "SmokeyJoe plan" is not incompatible with the "Abyssal plan".  The "Abyssal plan" is for automated tools to rejuvenate Portals.  Anyone wanting to do that can un-archive the archived Portals.  I just think that it is not going to happen soon, and so a simple, temporary, archiving should be enacted.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:28, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge useful portals into WikiProjects and delete all other portals. Rename the "Portal:" namespace to "WikiProject:" and move all "WP:WikiProject Foo" pages to "WikiProject:Foo". KMF (talk) 02:38, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Basically support Abyssal's suggestion, with the rider that some portals may be merged on a case by case basis, and there may be some advantage to moving the revised products into mainspace. Oppose deletion unless consensus is reaches at a more generally visible forum. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:24, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Support depreciating most portals. Delete them, merge them, redirect up to the main article on the Topic, whatever works best on that portal but almost no one uses them and almost no one works on them and they don't help the reader at all for the info shown on them has no depth or refs. Legacypac (talk) 02:18, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

 * It's been six months, so it's not like this is an active proposal actively seeking consensus..., would you two (and/or anyone else interested) hash out a RfC proposal for WP:VPP, perhaps with multiple options, if needed? czar  08:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It reminds me of that funny bureaucratic situation where to shut down the club you have to call a special meeting, not co-inciding with the annual general meeting, subject to special rules of advertising and quorum. If you achieve quorum, it is by having attracted fluffy-tailed wide-eyed enthusiasts who energetically propose new ideas and derail the orderly shut down process.   Not that I think that User:The Transhumanist or User:Abyssal are spring chickens, but I would like to hear from them whether they agree that a short-term "archive all by redirection to parent articles" is non-damaging and completely compatible with resurrection using advanced automated tools capable of doing the things mentioned in the post of 23:56, 27 March 2017.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:54, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No, I definitely think that removing the portals is intrinsically damaging both to their own future prospects and the community overall. Abyssal (talk) 12:04, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, Abyssal, good to be clear. We disagree.  I think the status quo of multitudes of out of date unmaintained, for 5-10 years, portals is damaging, and these moribund portals are not the future portals you dream of.  I think keeping them around moribund makes it less likely that any new automated portals will be created.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:08, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support phasing out portals. See User:DexDor/Portals for more of my thoughts on portals. DexDor(talk) 06:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Some observations on portals, and fixing the portal problem:

 * Portals are not moribund per se. Brand new ones get created frequently. Some portals are supported by the corresponding subject-based WikiProjects. Some other portals have dedicated individual maintainers.

 * Each portal is analogous to Wikpedia's main page, but for a particular subject. The relevance and popularity of the main page is the strongest argument for the existence of portals.

 * The typical development pattern for the majority of portals is that someone comes along, sees the portals, and then decides to build a new one. Then, or after a (usually short) period of maintaining it, abandons it forever.  Portals are very easy (and fun) to create, because they showcase excerpts (by copy/paste -- there's relatively little composition or editing involved), and because there is some artistry in their design. Forgetting to go back and maintain them is the problem. A portal is very easy to forget all about once you've built it.

 * This is not evidenced in their traffic at all. They get viewed about as much as they always did. Their traffic is comparable to the corresponding categories and outlines. Except the portals listed on the Main page, which get a big boost in traffic.  For the rest, almost all of their traffic comes from within Wikipedia via internal links in portal templates placed in the see also section of articles, and links in navigation templates (navigation footers, side bars, etc.). Portals therefore have quite a dispersed net of links feeding into them, which has kept their traffic fairly consistent over the years. So, traffic has nothing to do with their state of development.

 * Their net of feeder links makes them highly visible.

 * The portal system, by its very existence (and placement on the main page), promotes the creation of new portals. (New users see them and want to add to the collection). But there is no active campaign to maintain portals once created. This pattern has been going on for over a decade. The number of portals keeps growing year after year. There are now over 1400 of them.  New ones keep getting added, while most existing ones grow out-of-date.

 * The total number of portals are growing by 50 to 100 per year.

 * You can track the addition of new portals to the master list via these links:
 * Reference
 * Culture and the arts
 * Geography and places
 * Health and fitness
 * History and events
 * Mathematics and logic
 * Natural and physical sciences
 * People and self
 * Philosophy and thinking
 * Religion and belief systems
 * Society and social sciences
 * Technology and applied sciences

 * Because of the steady inflow of new portals, consensus is unlikely to be reached to discontinue the portal system.

 * A possible solution to portals falling into disrepair would be to delete the out-of-date portals without prejudice to their re-creation from scratch. That way, new editors would come along, see that a portal was missing on say, geology, and create a brand new one. We have a system in place for doing almost exactly this: WP:PROD. The drawback of PROD is that it is a one-shot deal (only one prod can be posted per portal during its lifetime). Another is to nominate out-of-date portals for deletion at WP:MfD.

 * Whatever solution is chosen, will require someone to work...

 * So, if User:Example wanted to remove the portals that haven't been maintained for over 3 years, he'd have to look at every subpage of a portal to see when its last edit was. Once he found a candidate, he'd place a prod tag on its main page, or nominate it for deletion at MfD, proposing Delete, without prejudice for re-creation from scratch. Multiply that by the 1400+ portals that need to be checked (each with half-a-dozen subpages holding content), and you have a big chore on your hands.

 * If you wanted to go the maintenance route, there needs to be a team of editors to champion that objective. For example, the Tip of the day project has dedicated editors maintaining its set of 365 auto-repeating tips.

 * Either way, someone has to be recruited to do the work. And who is going to do the recruiting?

 * The portal dilemma is not one to be solved in a low-participation discussion like this one. Note, to build a community consensus to discontinue or redesign/revamp the entire portal program, a notice would need to be placed on every portal (with a link to the discussion). That would bring a lot of people to the discussion, perhaps many of whom would be willing to volunteer to get the necessary work done. The Transhumanist 23:37, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I have two propositions here. One, echoing my earlier comment, merge and redirect moribund subtopic portals to supertopic portals. Two, for those for which this is impracticable, mark them as historic and require a process to reopen them. bd2412  T 23:48, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Marking as historic could work. The method for reviving them is built-in to the historic system. But, the instructions for historical states "Please note that this template is not appropriate for portals, which exist for the purpose of informing readers on a given topic and, as such, can never truly be 'inactive'." So, a new template would need to be made specifically for portals, or the instructions for that template changed. Though, who would go around and mark the stale ones and then remove all the links in the encyclopedia (and in other portals) leading to them? The Transhumanist 00:33, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 * , skimmed your history links above and it doesn't look like 50–100 portals in the last year, but well below 50... perhaps single digits? Most of the edits to these pages are vandalism, not new portals. As for those advocating for portal consolidation, where would y'all draw the line between major and minor portals? czar  00:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:John_of_Reading/List_of_portals&action=history, the number of portals increased from 1403 to 1491 from March 9, 2015 to March 27, 2017. The Transhumanist 02:24, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion, some portals may have a low number of pageviews because of the variety of article placement locations. While doing numerous article assessments, I have seen Portals in "See also" (mostly), and "Reference" "External links" sections, and sometimes in the article lead section.
 * Portal pageviews, Subject bar

In addition, there are three portal templates most often used:
 * Template:Portal
 * Template:Portal bar
 * Template:Portal-inline

A while back, I began using Template:Subject bar instead of portals for articles without a portal, or to update an existing article. An example is Crusades article that I updated today.

The "Subject bar" is very complete and should be placed at article bottom just before "Authority control" and "DEFAULTSORT" lines. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 01:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Strongly support phasing out all portals. I've been on Wikipedia for around a decade, and I have never used or seen anyone use a portal, other than to decoratively link from a random article. Tbh, I am happy to see more people realising that portals actually cause more harm to Wikipedia (as explained by one of the editors above). As much as I'd like to value the hard work put into making these many many years ago, it is time to let go. Instead of outright deletion, I support redirecting them to the parent article. Tagging as historic is a distraction to readers not aware of Wikipedia's inside workings, IMHO. Reh  man  14:06, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Just saw the past RFC section below... Reh  man  14:14, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Threshold for worth keeping
User:Czar asked: As for those advocating for portal consolidation, where would y'all draw the line between major and minor portals? czar 00:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 * I propose the default line for keeping (and thus starting) a portal should be whether the portal's parent article is a Featured article. Obviously, not all featured articles need portals, but portals detract from the volunteer resources that would be better spent on the parent article.  In the short term, a portal should not be deleted/redirected/archived as long as an interested editor working on the parent topic(s) says he is working towards the goal of a FA parent article.  This is addressed at old fashioned beautified portals, not auto-updating portals as imagined by User:The Transhumanist and User:Abyssal --SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:42, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Why would we apply a different standard for portals than any other kind of content? Abyssal (talk) 02:11, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Because portals are not meant to be content, not original content, but navigational aids containing abridged content. Portals containing transcluded ledes sounds like a very good idea, assuming the ledes meet WP:Lede?  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:12, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think being navigational justifies a double standard. Hyperlinks witthin articles and list articles are navigational features that are not held to double standards. Transcluding leads is a good idea and is pretty similar to my previous suggestions for streamlining the way portals are constructed back in March. Abyssal (talk) 14:08, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The only qualification for having a new portal is that someone wants to create it. Wikipedia has grown as large as it has because it allows self-initiation. People work on the subjects that interest them. According to WP:CHOICE, "Wikipedia is a volunteer community and does not require the Wikipedians to give any more time and effort than they wish." So, we can't say "you can build a portal, but only if you also build a featured article on that subject." Nope, our editors can work on whatever pages they want, whenever they want. And they can create whatever articles they want, as long as those topics fall within our content policies, such as WP:N. The Transhumanist 09:24, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Please count me as someone who wants to deprecate portals. Yes, there are a few portals that are well-trafficked, like Portal:Arts or Portal:History ... but that just might have something to do with the fact that they are among the eight portals linked at the very top of the Main Page. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:05, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Low traffic is not being a reason to argue for deletion. Abyssal (talk) 14:08, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Traffic is not a factor. The important thing is that the information is there when someone needs it. Wikipedia is a summary of the sum of all human knowledge. We want Wikipedia to be as comprehensive as possible. Also, it is very important that if an editor creates a page, that the page is still here when he or she returns.  If you delete their work for such an arbitrary reason as "it didn't get enough views", they may not want to come back. This is not a paper encyclopedia, and so, there are no distribution minimums. The Transhumanist 09:24, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with Abyssal and Transhumanist on this. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:34, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * User talk:The Transhumanist, "We want Wikipedia to be as comprehensive as possible" sounds like the extreme inclusionist philosophy incompatible with WP:N. "The sum of all human knowledge" is not compatible with WP:PSTS, which limits the encylopedia to what others have already covered.  I don't really think this is what you mean, but you could be more clear, these slogans are not clear.  What do you mean by "work"?  The portals in question are independent but redundant material.  The work that you appear to support, "comprehensive navigation" I think is fair, and automated methods of building and maintaining portal/outline pages, I would not want to see deleted, but years-old, single author forking of mainspace content left unmaintained, I think needs to be moved on from.  "There are no distribution minimums"?  that sounds like another cliched slogan, and I am not sure what you mean by it.  I agree with Abyssal and Transhumanist too, in as far as they are talking what should be done, but disagree to the extent that they are saying "everything is fine, do nothing".  Could you try to be more clear, Transhumanist, ideally, where do you see this going?  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:32, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

RfC on marking the featured portal process as historical
See Village pump (proposals). BencherliteTalk 19:38, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Now archived at Archive 138
 * Did this conversation continue elsewhere? Are we looking at deprecating portals altogether? I see a lot of footdragging, ostensibly in acknowledgment of the work that was once put into these, but there does appear to be a clear movement towards (or at least in baby steps towards) their wholesale removal czar  07:14, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * , that was the extent of the discussion about closing down the featured portal process and it was thereafter marked as historical (with no subsequent complaints). What if anything should happen to the portal namespace is another issue. BencherliteTalk 11:07, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I was referring to this part of the close: and where any subsequent discussion has taken place.  czar  15:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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Portal text, transclusions of article ledes?
While looking at one example, one Portal which is pretty significant and should not be left abandoned and stale, is Chemistry.
 * Portal:Chemistry Featured portal candidate 30 November 2006
 * Chemistry FA candidate, not promoted 16 March 2007. (Appear to me to be begging to be lifted to FA level)

Should Portals contain their own unique attribution history, edit history, style and unique content? Or should portals be technically ties to the articles they showcase? For example...

Should Portal:Chemistry/Intro be a transclusion of the lede of Chemistry? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:28, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

 * That looks like a reasonable proposal to me. Have you suggested this on the relevant project? If it is inactive I would suggest be bold and do it. Cheers,

· · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:40, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Ending the system of portals
Relevant RfC Galobtter (pingó mió) 14:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Portals
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Category:Geography of Azerbaijan

 * Geography of Azerbaijan — is located in Western Asia.

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Fanny Lewald

Fanny Lewald (21 March 1811 – 5 August 1889) was a German novelist and essayist and a women's rights activist.

Life and career
Fanny Lewald was born at Königsberg in East Prussia in 1811 to a bourgeois, Jewish family. She was taken out of school at thirteen to learn household skills she would need as a wife. Lewald was intended to marry a young theologian at age seventeen and converted to Christianity for the marriage. However, her betrothed died before the wedding took place. She traveled in the German Confederation, France and Italy. In 1841 she published her first novel in her cousin August Lewald's periodical Europa, under the title Der Stellvertreter. In 1845, she settled in Berlin. Here, in 1854, she married the author Adolf Stahr, a cultural and art historian.

Lewald first received attention for her writing after the publication of a letter she wrote about a court trial she had attended. Lewald's cousin, August Lewald, published the letter in the Stuttgart periodical, Europa, which he edited. August then asked Fanny to write a report on the coronation of King Frederick William IV in Konigsberg in 1840. Fanny Lewald went on to become a prolific writer and publish many successful novels. Her writing often drew from her experience growing up female in a bourgeois family, advocating for better education for women and criticizing marriages of convenience.

In 1876, after Stahr's death, she moved to Dresden, where she engaged in literary work until her death on 5 August 1889.

Published works
Fanny Lewald's published works as cited by The Political Woman in Print
 * [Clementine (1843)
 * Jenny (1843)
 * Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1849; 2nd ed., 1859)
 * Das Mädchen von Hela (1860)
 * Von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht (8 vols, 1863–1865)
 * Nella (1870)
 * Die Erlöserin (1873)
 * Benvenuto (1875)
 * Stella (1883; English trans. by B. Marshall, 1884)

Of her writings in defense of the emancipation of women, Osterbriefe für die Frauen (1863) and Für und wider die Frauen (1870) are conspicuous. She also wrote sketches of travel. Her autobiography, Meine Lebensgeschichte (6 vols, 1861–1862), affords glimpses of the literary life of her time.

A selection of her works was published under the title Gesammelte Schriften in 12 vols (1870–1874), and separately, in English as "Recollections of 1848" and "The Education of Fanny Lewald", translated by Hanna Lewis.

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Category:Geography of the Caucasus

 * The Geography of the Caucasus mountain ranges and regions of far Eastern Europe and central Western Asia.
 * The southwestern Russian republics, oblasts, and autonomous regions are in the European North Caucasus (Ciscaucasia) region; and the independent nations - Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia - are in the Asian South Caucasus (Transcaucasia) region.

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Dartz

Dartz Motorz Company is a privately held Latvia-based company, subsidiary of Estonian corporation Dartz Grupa OÜ, that designs, manufactures, and sells high performance armored vehicles. The company constituted itself from a renovated former Russo-Balt factory in Riga, Latvia.

Product lineup
In 2009, Dartz attained notoriety with its Prombron model, in part because it was originally available in upholstered leather made from the foreskins of whale penises, which the company subsequently dropped after the controversy was publicized.

The Prombron came in nine distinct models: Iron Diamond, Iron Xtal, Monaco Red Diamond Edition, Black Dragon, Black Russian, Gold Russian, Aladeen, White Horse, and Monako. Since September 2014, the product line consists of Prombron Black Shark and Black Snake. The Prombron is available in either the Saloon (sedan) or the Pullman (wagon), offered in standard, short, or long wheelbase.

In 2010, Red Sea Distribution announced that the T-98 Kombat would be available in North America for a list price starting at $225,000. However, just two years later the T-98 Kombat was phased out, and the Prombron was released.

Dartz's Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition was shown at the 2010 Top Marques in Monaco, with an expected price of €1,000,000 ($1.25 million), it would become the world's most expensive SUV. The features included white gold-ruby encrusted embedded badges as well as gold-plated, bullet-proof windows, an exhaust system made out of tungsten, diamond-ruby encrusted gauges, and Kevlar exterior coating. It also comes with three bottles of the world's most expensive vodka, RussoBaltique.

In 2022 the company announced plans to drop its "Z" logo, to apparently portray itself away from its Russian origins in the Russo-Balt company. A diamond sign was supposed to replace it. Instead, as of 2023 its webpage was still marketing luxury "Z" incrusted products interspaced with weaponry images.

Its website explains what animal skin the interior couches are made of, or how it smells, without actual information about the armor rating or vehicle's performance.

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Talk:Pet passport

UK-specific regulations
The section on UK-specific regulations states that pets cannot travel in or out of the UK in the cabin. I believe that this is only true for travel into the UK (in fact, I have taken a pet out of the UK in-cabin). Unless someone has a reference to UK regulations that prohibit carrying pets out of the UK in an airplane cabin, I will remove that part. It is, in fact, true that UK regulations prohibit carrying a pet to the UK in-cabin, but any prohibitions going out of the UK are imposed by airlines (e.g. British Airways doesn't permit it) or the destination countries. Klausness (talk) 16:14, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Best to find a source and clarify rather than just chop it.  Montanabw (talk) 07:40, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

 * Well, it's tough to find a source for non-existence of regulations. I can find sources for regulations regarding travel into the UK but not for travel out of the UK.  So I'm going to chop it, and if anyone finds a source for regulations for travel out of the UK, they can add it back with those sources cited.Klausness (talk) 20:35, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

(context unclear)
I used Guatemala as example because I brought my dog Boddhi there from the UK: I also learnt all about Pet passport taking him to Europe various times. Good to see this article in healthy shape. Squiquifox 23:27, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Two Questions
What sorts of pets are allowed? By the rabies vaccine, it seems to be restricted to mammals. Could I get one for my Sun Conure?

Where is it allowed? The article mentions Europe, it's not clear what the status is from country to country.

If anybody could answer these, that'd be nice (I probably won't see a response, I'm suggesting this for the article).

Thanks, Luke --71.192.117.127 22:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Where is criticism?
Where? 70.59.0.37 (talk) 00:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

update needed with new pet travel schemes
UK has a seperate pet travel scheme and now the EU has their own No. Only Pet Travel Scheme Certificates issued before 1 October 2004 will be accepted to enter France. Pets travel scheme certificate issued from 1 October 2004 are not valid and do not permit the entrance to France. You should obtain an EU pet passport. The EU pet passport applies to movement of dogs, cats and ferrets between Member States." source http://www.consulfrance-londres.org/spip.php?article537 Lisa.Cinciripini (talk) 22:29, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * "Can I still get a Pet Travel Scheme Certificate?

UK rail/ferry section unclear
"passengers travelling with animals by rail or ferry to or from the UK must have access to a vehicle, as you cannot current take animals directly on foot by Eurostar or ferry."

This isn't very clear. If I have access to a vehicle, why would I travel by train? Where do I need the vehicle? Can anyone clarify? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mausch11 (talk • contribs) 03:47, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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AWA

AWA may refer to:

Companies and organizations

 * Advancing Women Artists Foundation, American not-for-profit organization restoring work by female artists in Florence, Italy
 * Africa Wrestling Alliance, a wrestling organization
 * Africa World Airlines, Ghanaian airline company
 * Amalgamated Weavers' Association, former trade union in the United Kingdom
 * America West Airlines, former United States major airline
 * American Whitewater, not-for-profit organization to conserve and restore whitewater resources
 * American Wrestling Association, a former wrestling organization
 * American Writers Association, a literary organization
 * Anarchist Workers Association, a British anarchist organization
 * Anime Weekend Atlanta, an annual anime convention located in Georgia
 * Australasian Women's Association (founded 1900), a Friendly Society
 * AWA Technology Services, electronics manufacturer and broadcaster

Law

 * Adam Walsh Act, US federal statute that organizes sex offenders by crime
 * All Writs Act, US federal statute which authorizes federal courts to issue writs
 * Animal Welfare Act (disambiguation), several laws
 * Australian workplace agreement, an employment contract

Other abbreviations

 * Aluminium wire armour, type of electrical cable
 * Anarchism without adjectives, a school of anarchist thought
 * Apparent wind angle, the angle of the wind experienced by a moving object
 * Arctic World Archive, a data store on the island Svalbard, Norway
 * Australian Web Archive, an online database of archived Australian websites

Other uses

 * AWA (singer) (born 1997), Swedish singer
 * AWA Racing, a Canadian sports car racing team
 * AWA Tower, office and communications complex in Sydney, Australia

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The "re-imagined" Acorn Antiques was called The Mall and was a parody of Eldorado.

I'm sure I remember a Victoria Wood christmas special that "re-imagined" Acorn Antiques as a parody of the "new" Crossroads; all slick and glossy, but the same dodgy acting and scripts at the centre of it. I can't find any info about this anywhere, though. Did I imagine it? Daibhid C 23:28 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

A couple of points that might be worth mentioning but require some research:

 * 1) Wasn't Crossroads originally broadcast live, which meant that there was no possibility of a retake if lines were fluffed or anything else went wrong?   Hence the missed cues, bad continuity, poor camera angles, plot holes, etc, in Acorn Antiques.
 * 2) In a recent interview, Victoria Wood mentioned that Acorn Antiques was intended to be a tribute to the pluckiness of the cast of Crossroads rather than a parody or criticism.
 * 3) She also mentioned it was based on other soap as well as on Crossroads - I don't remember which one.
 * 4) Derek the handyman is clearly meant to be a parody of the character Benny from Crossroads - are there other parallels in the cast members?

— Paul G 11:29, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It was also (apparently) a parody of The Cedar Tree, which was a lunchtime drama, as I recall.

Also note that the spoof documentary was presented by Paul Heiney, not Duncan Preston (he being Mr Clifford).

yes there was a new version in 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeHBddxBzE

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AYM

AYM or aym may refer to:

 * Aymara language, spoken in Bolivia, Peru and Chile
 * The Alliance for Youth Movements, now known as Movements.org
 * Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada, a 2016 Indian Tamil-language film
 * Angry young men, a British literary movement
 * Anglesey Mining, a British mining company
 * Aym (demon), in the Ars Goetia book of demonology
 * Yas Island Seaplane Base, United Arab Emirates (IATA code: AYM)
 * The Constitutional Court of Turkey (Turkish: Anayasa Mahkemesi), the highest legal body in Turkey

People with the surname Aym

 * Zighen Aym (born 1957), Algerian writer and engineer

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AZE

AZE may refer to:

 * Alliance for Zero Extinction
 * Aze (magazine)
 * AZE notation for isotopes: $$^A_Z E$$ where A is the mass number, Z the atomic number, and E the element's chemical symbol.
 * Azerbaijan using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
 * Azerbaijani language (ISO 639 alpha-3, aze)
 * German car number plate for Anhalt-Zerbst
 * Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid

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Man of the House (2005 film)

Man of the House is a 2005 American crime comedy film directed by Stephen Herek. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones as Roland Sharp, a lonesome Texas Ranger who goes undercover as an assistant coach to protect a group of college cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder. Much of the film was shot in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas campus.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has a cameo appearance in the film as himself. Released on February 25, 2005, the film received negative reviews, and grossed just $21 million against a budget of $40 million, making it a box office disappointment.

Plot
Texas Rangers, Roland Sharp and Maggie Swanson question Percy Stevens about the whereabouts of his former prison cellmate Morgan Ball, needed to testify against organized crime boss John Cortland.

Tracking down Ball to a warehouse, Ball tries to bribe Sharp with a key. Instead, he takes it and forces him outside, to awaiting FBI agent Eddie Zane. A sniper wounds Swanson, giving Ball a chance to escape (Swanson is shot in the chest, but survives). A group of cheerleaders from the University of Texas at Austin witness Ball's murder. Agent Zane is found shot in the arm next to Ball's body and claims he didn't see the sniper.

Anne, Teresa, Evie, Heather and Barb are taken to the police station, where they can't identify the shooter. Sharp is to protect the girls at all times, information relayed to him by the Governor of Texas. Sharp is divorced, and has an estranged 17-year-old daughter, Emma.

Without evidence, John Cortland is set free. FBI Agent Zane secretly works for him, so killed Ball and shot himself in the arm. Cortland reprimands him for not tying up loose ends, so Zane kills the hired sniper and searches for Sharp and the cheerleaders. With Swanson in the hospital recovering from her near-fatal wound, Sharp and two other Rangers must now protect the girls and secure their sorority house. Sharp moves in with them, and the other two move into the nearby fraternity house.

Sharp's ground rules include no cell phones and to wear less revealing clothes around him. When they ignore him, he installs an industrial air conditioner, forcing them to dress warmly. Supposedly their cheerleading coach specializing in conditioning, at a Longhorns football game Sharp tackles the opposing team's mascot when it nears them with a gun, a water gun. Other mishaps occur, but Sharp's relationship with the girls begins to strengthen.

Sharp becomes attracted to Barb's English teacher Molly, who draws his attention to Barb's plagiarism. Inviting her over for dinner, the girls coach him through it using an earpiece and tiny camera. After a bit, he turns them off and woos Molly himself. He tells the girls about his failed marriage and the way he feels about his estranged daughter. This interests Evie, who wants to write a paper on Emma. She calls her with the house's "emergency phone", alerting Zane to Sharp's location, as he'd bugged Emma's phone.

At a "spirit rally," Sharp has to give an inspiring speech. He gets more and more impassioned, proving to the girls he finally "gets it." However, afterwards Sharp finds a bomb under their van. He saves Teresa (who hadn't believed someone was after them) by cutting her out of her stuck seatbelt, so she realizes the threat is real.

When Sharp is told Evie phoned Emma he calls, discovering Zane has her. He instructs Sharp to get the money from the safe deposit box Ball had given him the key to, neither of them are aware the cheerleaders are listening. The next day at the meeting point, Zane reminds Sharp to cooperate or he will shoot Emma. Cuffing himself to the steering wheel after leaving his cell and gun in the money bag, Zane then takes off with the money, Sharp's keys and phone, and Emma.

They get on a bus with Barb in the back. As Sharp wonders what is going on, Heather picks his handcuffs, chasing the bus in a stolen Volkswagen Beetle. On the bus, Teresa pretends to go into labor, so Evie demands the bus stop. She attempts to steal Zane's bag, but he pulls a gun, so she runs away from the bus. Zane drives away the empty bus himself.

The cheerleaders rescue Emma, while Zane attempts to cross to Mexico. Sharp causes the bus to flip with one shot. Zane begins walking to the Mexico–United States border, the border officers close it, drawing their guns. Sharp prevents Zane's attempted suicide by cop by shooting his gun hand and handcuffing him. He and Emma are reunited.

At the end of the film, Cortland is arrested and taken back to court. Sharp and Molly are married, with Emma and the cheerleaders part of the wedding.

Cast

 * Tommy Lee Jones as Ranger Lieutenant Roland Sharp
 * Cedric the Entertainer as Percy Stevens
 * Christina Milian as Anne
 * Monica Keena as Evie
 * Kelli Garner as Barbara "Barb" Thompson
 * Vanessa Ferlito as Heather
 * Paula Garces as Teresa
 * Anne Archer as Professor Molly McCarthy
 * Brian Van Holt as FBI Agent Eddie Zane
 * Shea Whigham as Ranger Holt
 * Terry Parks as Ranger Riggs
 * R. Lee Ermey as Captain Nichols
 * Paget Brewster as Coach "Binky" Beauregard
 * Liz Vassey as Ranger Maggie Swanson
 * Curtis Armstrong as Morgan Ball
 * James Richard Perry as himself
 * Turner Stephen Bruton as John Cortland
 * Shannon Marie Woodward as Emma Sharp

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating from critics of 9% based on 67 reviews, with an average rating of 3.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A high concept movie that plays out like a mediocre TV sitcom." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 35 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

James Berardinelli of ReelViews panned the film, rating it one star out of four and writing: "The movie is an "action comedy" in name only – there's nothing in Man of the House that could be considered funny or exciting." He also said the movie "manages to neuter Cedric the Entertainer's capacity for humor" since "not even he is able to deliver a legitimate laugh" and that Tommy Lee Jones "comes across as taciturn and unlikable."

Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post called the film "a one screen multiplex" with "a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside." Hunter felt that by the end the "many personalities" of the film have "grown tiresome". Nonetheless, he complimented Tommy Lee Jones' "deadpan" portrayal, saying "Whenever Herek doesn't know what to do -- and that's frequently -- he cuts to Jones, radiating world-weariness with the aplomb of Fred Astaire, and it's always funny."

Dana Stevens of The New York Times wrote: "Nearly every one of the film's emotional scenes is too predictable to hit its mark, but Mr. Jones's dry delivery has its moments." Stevens found Cedric the Entertainer to be disappointing, stating that he "fails for once to live up to his name".

Box office
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8,917,251 in 2,422 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #5 at the box office and averaging $3,681 per theater. The film closed on April 7, 2005, with a North American domestic gross of $19,699,706 and an international gross of $1,877,918 for a worldwide gross of $21,577,624. The film was released in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2005, and opened on #14.

Soundtrack

 * "We Are Family" – Pointer Sisters
 * "Rising Sun" – Rusted Root
 * "What U Gon' Do" – Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
 * "U Can't Touch This" – Tree Adams
 * "All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow
 * "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" – The Clash
 * "Funny How Time Slips Away" – Willie Nelson
 * "Bad Moon Rising" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * "Walkie Talkie Man" – Steriogram
 * "I'm Too Sexy" – Right Said Fred

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Category:Legend of the Five Rings

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Anthony Thiselton

Anthony Charles Thiselton (13 July 1937 – 7 February 2023) was an English Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. He wrote a number of books and articles on a range of topics in Christian theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. He served on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, appointed by the Minister of Health.

Biography
Anthony Charles Thiselton was born on 13 July 1937. He was educated at City of London School, with degrees from King's College London (BD, MTh) the University of Sheffield (PhD) and the University of Durham (DD). He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chester; in March 2012. Thiselton was an Honorary Fellow of Cranmer Hall, Durham; fellow of King's College London and fellow of the British Academy.

Thiselton was head of theology at the University of Nottingham and was also principal of both St John's College, Nottingham (1986 to 1988) and St John's College, Durham (1988 to 1992). He was a priest and canon in the Church of England, in which he represented the Diocese of Southwell on the church's General Synod. He was an associate priest in the parish of St Mary the Virgin, Attenborough, Nottingham. On 25 June 2002, he was presented with a Lambeth Degree of Doctorate of Divinity by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey.

Thiselton was visiting Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena; Calvin College, Grand Rapids; Regent College, Vancouver; North Park, Seminary, Chicago; the University of Utrecht, Netherlands; several seminaries in South Korea; Senior Lecturer in the University of Sheffield; and Professor of Theology in the University of Chester. Thiselton retired from Nottingham in 2001; then served as Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Chester from 2001 to 2006. He returned to Nottingham as professor, from 2006, and his retirement in 2011 marked his final retirement from academic posts.

Thiselton served on the Church of England General Synod membership, and its Commissions and Committees: Crown Nominations Commission, (2000-2010); Appointments Committee (2008–13); and Theological Education and Training Committee (1999-2005). Outside Synod he remained on the Doctrine Commission for nearly 30 years: Church of England Doctrine Commission (1976-2006); Acting Chairman (1987); Church of England Faith and Order Group (1979–89); and Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (2003–06).

His main published work was in the areas of hermeneutics (especially hermeneutical theory and its relationship to biblical interpretation), Christian doctrine (including eschatology and pneumatology), and biblical studies, in particular with two substantial commentaries on 1 Corinthians. He is unusual in academic theology for publishing research-level works across such a broad range of topics.

Thiselton received a Festschrift, edited by Stanley Porter and Matthew Malcolm, entitled Horizons in Hermeneutics (Eerdmans) in April 2013. In June 2012 he was also the subject of a one-day conference in his honour, at the University of Nottingham, at which he presented a response paper to several contributors who spoke in light of his work. Proceedings from this conference were published by Paternoster (in the UK) and IVP (in the US) as The Future of Biblical Interpretation (2013). St John's College, Nottingham, inaugurated a series of "Thiselton lectures" in 2013 to honour his work in hermeneutics. He gave the first of these himself, in June 2013.

Thiselton died on 7 February 2023, at the age of 85.

Views
Thiselton was described in 2002, during the selection of the next Archbishop of Canterbury, as belonging to the conservative evangelical wing of the Church of England. However, it is far from clear Thiselton would be happy with that description and we note the comment of Stanley E. Porter (President, McMaster Divinity College) on the back of Thiselton's "Puzzling Passages in Paul" which reads "This is an exhilarating and infuriating book by Tony Thiselton. It is exhilarating because he does not shy away from many of the most troubling passages in the Apostle Paul's letter, but infuriating because Thiselton cannot easily or predictably be put in a box regarding his conclusions."

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Bartman

Bartman may refer to:

 * Bartman, alter ego of Bart Simpson in The Simpsons
 * Bartman (comics), comic book of the alter ego character published by Bongo Comics
 * The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, video game for the NES starring the alter ego character.
 * "Do the Bartman", song and music video based on the Bart Simpson character
 * Steve Bartman incident, Chicago Cubs fan who gained exposure during the 2003 National League Championship Series

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Olympic Arms

Olympic Arms, Inc. was a manufacturer and marketer of AR-15 and M16 pattern rifles, carbines and pistols. The company manufactured Colt 1911 (M1911) series 70 style pistols under the name "Safari Arms" and the "Whitney" 22 caliber pistol.

History
Olympic Arms, Inc. was founded by Robert C. Schuetz and began as Schuetzen Gun Works (SGW) in 1956, manufacturing barrels in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Prior to that Mr. Schuetz had been partnered in business with well-known gunsmith P.O. Ackley. In 1975 the company moved to Olympia, Washington, and while its business in rifle barrels and barrel blanks thrived, it also began manufacturing complete custom bolt-action rifles. In 1982, Schuetzen Gun Works began to manufacture AR-15/M16 rifles and components under the trade name of Olympic Arms, Inc, while custom bolt-action rifles continued to be produced under the SGW brand.

Olympic was the first to introduce features now seen as commonplace on AR-15 rifles. It was one of the first companies to produce free floating aluminum hand guards, pistol caliber conversions, and AR-15-based pistols. Olympic manufactured many AR-15s in calibers other than the standard 5.56×45mm. Olympic was the first in the industry to offer AR-15-style firearms in 9×19mm and .45 ACP, 10mm Auto, 7.62×39mm, and the Winchester Super Short Magnum cartridges.

In late 1987, the company purchased Phoenix, Arizona-based M-S Safari Arms, adding the M1911 pistol to its lineup under the name Safari Arms. By January 2004, all 1911-style products were manufactured in the Olympic Arms facility in Olympia.

In 2002, Olympic Arms revived the 1955 Whitney Wolverine pistol for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge, with a black polymer frame instead of the original Whitney's blue-finished aluminum alloy frame.

In February 2013, Olympic Arms announced that the company would no longer sell its products to New York law enforcement officers or agencies, following the state's passage of an assault weapons ban. “After more than 40 years of business, it is with great sorrow that we announce that February 28th, 2017 will be the last day of operation for Olympic Arms, Inc,” noted the company on social media, January 26, 2017. Despite that announcement, they continued to sell parts and fill orders in a limited capacity until 2020, when they finally ceased all operations.

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User talk:Wandadubbayou

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Talk:Endocytosis

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Endocytosis vs phagocytosis
As far as I know, endocytosis and phagocytosis are two separated ways of intake of matter, not the one being the form of another. Phagocytosis is active, mediated by pseudopodia, while endocytosis is not. --Eleassar777 23:35, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC) No phagocytosis is a form of endocytosis and other forms of endocytosis are activeHarvey McMahon 09:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

UK standards?
Hm...I'm confused again. Acording to a As-level textbook, "Biology 1" endorsed by OCR, phagocytosis is only restricted to phagocyte engulfing a pathogen. Other cells "eating" other materials are referred as endocytosis. Why is that? Cherubfish 17:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Endo/Excocytosis
Also i'm not sure (being a relatively new student) but isn't it also true that exo and endocytosis happen by fairly unconnected mechanisms? So it isn't really true to call them opposites. -Unknown
 * The molecular mechanisms that control endo and exocytosis can indeed be different. However here what is meant is that the function of endocytosis is the opposite of that of exocytosis. -Unknown — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.36.64.135 (talk) 13:37, 6 December 2012 (UTC) <!--Autosigned by SineBot--

Phagocytosis
Phagocytosis is not only restricted to pathogens like bacteria and viruses. The uptake of Dying (apoptotic) cells by macrophages is also called phagocytosis. See for example the review on Entrez PubMed the biomedical joural database PMID: 16369558

Fourth method of endocytosis: receptor-mediated endocytosis?
I'm not sure where this fits in on the article, perhaps a fourth method? Either way, it should be mentioned. Perhaps a merge, I'm not sure, best to discuss with whoever created it. Thoughts? Tyciol 09:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Dewikification reverted
This article was deprived of its wiki formating on November 30, apparently by replacing the wiki markup with the rendered article text. No new material seems to have been added, and therefore I have reverted this. /The Phoenix 12:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

images would be great for this article
just a note at this point --John Cumbers 18:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm confident that a penis and vagina have nothing to do with endocytosis and that stupid line should be removed from the article.

Illustration is confusing for this article
I think the illustration is confusing, because it is a general article about endocytosis. The illustration however depicts the transport from the plasma membrane into the nucleus, which seems to be observed, but I guess we all agree is extremely specialized (I learned there is a reference for this mechanism). Probably another picture is more informative and I think the picture should be replaced. 99.101.8.167 (talk) 06:27, 22 September 2011 Sylvia Neumann (TSRI)

I have removed the illustration as it contained several major, unforgivable errors: - I have not been able to find a single review or book in the literature listing that vesicles can move through the nuclear enveloppe into the nucleoplasm. In all my years of studying and working in a lab I have also never seen a single EM picture of a nucleus showing vesicles inside the nucleus, as shown in the illustration here. - The legend of the illustration mentionned phagosomes (a special type of endosomes) instead of more generally endosomes. In this case it is particularly obvious that the illustration is wrong, as phagosomes fuse in the cytoplasm with lysosomes, forming phagolysosomes where the contents of the phagosomes are destroyed. Delivery of the contents of phagosomes directly into the nucleus is exactly what the cells "want" to avoid because of them usually being ... you know ... nasty things like viruses which you WANT TO KEEP AS FAR AWAY FROM THE NUCLEUS AS POSSIBLE! 134.36.64.135 (talk) 13:31, 6 December 2012 (UTC) a.nicolas@dundee.ac.uk

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Cougaar

Cougaar (acronym of Cognitive Agent Architecture) is a Java agent architecture.

History of Cougaar
Cougaar Software Inc. was formed in 2001. Investment in this project dates back to 1996 through DARPA. DARPA began funding projects to develop what became Cougaar Open Source.

Timeline

 * 1996 DARPA funds Advanced Logistics Program (ALP)
 * Program invests $80 Million to develop core architecture technology
 * 2000 DARPA decides to release ALP technology as open source and renames to Cougaar
 * 2000 DARPA funds the Ultralog program to extend Cougaar security, scalability and survivability for global battlefield conditions.
 * The program invest $70 Million to achieve ultimate survivability
 * 2001 Cougaar Software, Inc. starts to commercialize Cougaar Technology
 * 2004 CSI releases first commercial Cougaar based solution – ActiveEdge RFID Middleware
 * 2005 CSI releases first commercial Cougaar applications development environment
 * ActiveEdge Intelligent Agent Platform v1.0 Released
 * Three system integrator partner / customers choose the ActiveEdge platform for major operational initiatives
 * 2006 First Operational Instance of Solution based on ActiveEdge Solution provided through Partner for Major Retail Chain
 * 2007 Additional major partners and customers validate ActiveEdge
 * ActiveEdge v1.5 released
 * The Boeing Company licenses ActiveEdge
 * Additional Defense Contractor licenses ActiveEdge
 * CSI supports SAIC & Honeywell on ALCT application providing theater distribution planning:**El ejército de EE.UU. licencia ActiveEdge
 * 2008 ActiveEdge v1.6 released

Features
Cougaar agent architecture is an open source, which includes infrastructure and core services. Agents are autonomous software entities that communicate with other agents or external services for a specific domain functionality. Computing agents are based on a programming methodology that facilitates direct decomposition of complex tasks. The agents manage application behavior and environment handles systemic adaptation. The agents and the environment can develop, test and configure independently, but run together. Cougaar agent abstraction includes several integrated advanced services, such as:
 * Blackboard publish / subscribe for communication within the agent itself and between agents
 * Http servlet engine for UIs based
 * Knowledge representation system: logistics assets, FrameSets…
 * Coordination between agents through slate coordination mechanisms, assignments, etc.

Cougaar agent running on a node Cougaar (Java Virtual Machine), which itself runs on a host. That agent agrees with one or more plugins, which define the behavior of the agent. An agent with zero plugins does nothing. Unlike other architectures based entirely on messages, Cougaar is based on blackboard plugins as main data managers. The plugins react to the data on the blackboard adding / changing / deleting notifications. The Cougaar platform infrastructure transforms the data to the blackboard in inter-dealer operations, but this is hidden from the developer API. All plugins interagency coordination is implemented through asynchronous data subscriptions. The infrastructure of the blackboard adds / changes / deletes batch notifications, providing greater robustness and scalability to the system. The entire state is stored in the blackboard, which provides support for failure recovery. The core services are Cougaar component-based implementation, covering many fields such as mobility of agents between nodes, the persistence of agent state and subsequent recovery after a crash, a transport of messages supporting multiple protocols, etc..

Applications of Cougaar

 * Integrated Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation
 * Logistics Modeling Tool for Highly Adaptable Military Organizations
 * Logistics-Aided Battle Command Planning
 * Supporting Robot Teams over Wireless Ad hoc Networks
 * Control Surfaces
 * Administrative Tool for Monitoring a Distributed Agent Society

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City of Bristol College

City of Bristol College is a further education and higher education college in Bristol, England.

It provides courses for young people and adults aged 16 and above in areas such as: A Levels, Animal Care, Floristry, Horticulture, Applied Forensic and Medical Science, Business, Catering and Hospitality, Computing, Construction, Creative and Performing Arts, Engineering and Manufacturing, ESOL and GCSEs, Hair, Beauty and Holistic Therapies, Health and Social Care and Childcare, Motor Vehicle and Transport, Public Services, Health and Fitness, Travel and Tourism and many more.

History
City of Bristol College traces its roots back to the educational initiatives of the Society of Merchant Venturers in the sixteenth century.

The college was formed in 1996 when Brunel College merged with South Bristol College. It subsequently merged with Soundwell College and smaller establishments such as the College of Care and Early Years Education.

In 2013 the college was awarded Ofsted's lowest rating, 'inadequate'; and the quality of teaching, learning and assessment were judged to be both inadequate and very inconsistent.

In 2015 the Soundwell centre was closed and some buildings on the Ashley Down Campus sold to developers.

In February 2016, a Whistleblower from the college told the Bristol Post that the college was to be rated inadequate as a result of its January Ofsted inspection. On 10 march, OFSTED confirmed that the college had dropped from its previous 'Requires improvement' grade to 'Inadequate' - the organisation's lowest rating.

In June 2017, the college was rated by Ofsted as requires improvement, with some elements of the college being good, like adult study programmes and provisions for learners with high needs.

Also in June 2017, the college was given a Silver Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) award. This award judges the quality of teaching and the outcomes they achieve at higher education level, as well as taking into account student satisfaction, employment outcomes and retention rates.

College centres
The college currently has four centres:
 * College Green Centre
 * Ashley Down Centre
 * South Bristol Skills Academy
 * Parkway at Filton

Formerly, there was also a Soundwell centre; it closed in 2015.

Some of the buildings of the Ashley Down Centre were originally constructed, as the Muller Homes in the middle of the 19th century. In 1958 the buildings became Bristol College of Science and Technology. The site has been used as the film set for the BBC television series Casualty. Muller Road, which runs near the site of the orphanage, is named after its founder. The site includes the college's university centre, classrooms and laboratories for a variety of courses.

The College Green Centre includes the sixth form centre with around 400 students undertaking A-level courses and 1,200 on vocational courses. The Advanced Engineering Centre offers engineering, aeronautical, manufacturing and automotive courses. The South Bristol Skills Academy opened in 2010 close to Hengrove Leisure Centre and South Bristol Community Hospital.

The college has a range of partnership agreements with other educational facilities. For 13 years the foundation degree dance programmes were based at the Bristol Community Dance Centre. Diploma and degree courses have also been run at dBs Music. The Skills Centre South West also provides courses to help people get into work, foundation and key skills and English for speakers of other languages. The college has also been an academic sponsor of the Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy a University Technical College.

Curriculum
City of Bristol College offers over 1,000 courses at all levels for school leavers, adult learners and international students, as well as training packages for employers.

Courses include Diplomas, A Levels, Apprenticeships and NVQs. University level courses include Foundation Degrees, HNCs and Access to HE in partnership with University of Plymouth, Bath Spa University, University of the West of England, University of Gloucestershire and University of Bristol.

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Power Tower

Power Tower is a thrill ride located at two Six Flags parks in the US, Cedar Point and Valleyfair. The attractions are powered by air in large cylinders in which an aircraft steel cable, connected to the internal piston, travels and is also connected to the external rider car. Hydraulic cylinders at the base of the tower provide an extra measure of safety in case of a ride malfunction. Both rides were designed and manufactured by S&S Power of Logan, Utah. As of the 2020 season from their respective websites, both changed their height requirements from 52 in to 48 in.

Cedar Point
Power Tower at Cedar Point is a multi-tower attraction featuring a pair of Space Shot rides and a pair of Turbo Drop rides, arranged in a square-footprint with a crowning marquee and crisscrossed arches joining the four rides at their peaks. Power Tower is the only four-towered drop tower ride in the world to date, devoting two towers to each drop cycle. The ride was announced on August 20, 1997 and opened to guests in 1998.

Sixteen new LED lights from Chauvet Professional were installed on Power Tower before the 2012 season.

Ride specifications

 * Height: 300 ft (91 m)
 * Drop height: 240 ft (73 m)
 * Top speed: 50 mph (80 km/h)
 * G-force: min -1.0 g, max +4.0
 * Ride Duration: 45 sec
 * Capacity: 1,700 rides per hour
 * Thrill Rating: 5

Valleyfair
Power Tower at Valleyfair is a multi-tower attraction featuring a pair of Turbo Drop rides and a single Space Shot ride, arranged in a triangular-footprint with a crowning marquee joining the three rides at their peaks.

Power Tower is the tallest ride in Minnesota. The ride was originally intended to be 300 feet (91 m) tall, but the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits Valleyfair's rides from being built taller than 275 ft because of the nearby Flying Cloud Airport.

Ride specifications

 * Height: 275 ft (84 m)
 * Drop height: 250 ft (76 m)
 * Top Speed: 50 mph (80 km/h)
 * G-force: min -1.0 g, max +4.0
 * Ride Duration: 45 sec
 * Capacity: 1,300 rides per hour
 * Thrill Rating: 5

Records
Cedar Point's Power Tower was the tallest vertical ascending and descending thrill ride upon debut up until July 1998, when Supreme Scream opened at Knott's Berry Farm.

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Great East Thompson Train Wreck

The Great East Thompson Train Wreck was a large rail disaster which occurred in East Thompson, Connecticut, on December 4, 1891. It was one of the most extensive train wrecks in American history, and the first of two to involve four trains. It happened on the New York and New England Railroad, which provided a shortcut from New York City to Boston by making a diagonal across Connecticut. The railroad is now abandoned, and most of its tracks removed.

Incident
On the morning of December 4, 1891, four trains were scheduled to pass through East Thompson, in the town of Thompson in the northeastern corner of Connecticut: the hotshot Long Island & Eastern States Express from New York to Boston via a ferry across Long Island Sound; the Norwich Steamboat Express traveling to Boston from the quays of New London, Connecticut; the Southbridge Local freight to the town of that name just over the Massachusetts border; and freight train No. 212. To keep the slower No. 212 from impeding the approaching Eastern States Express, the local dispatcher allowed 212 to run on the left-hand track ahead of the express. Unfortunately both the dispatcher and 212's crew had forgotten about the oncoming Southbridge Local freight. At 6:40 am, just before the East Thompson station, the two freight trains collided head-on violently, jackknifing several cars and tossing one across both eastbound and westbound tracks.

Meanwhile, the Eastern States Express approached at 50 mph, unaware of the disaster. It crashed into the car across the other track, causing the engine to derail and strike a telephone pole, killing engineer Harry Tabor and fireman Gerry Fitzgerald. (Fitzgerald was actually substituting for Mike Flynn, who had been scheduled but was marked off the roster since he had had a premonition of disaster the night before.) Steam from the ruptured engine destroyed a nearby home.

Then the uninjured crewmen remembered the Norwich Steamboat Train. A flagman was sent out, but was too late to get the speeding express to stop. At 6:45 AM, it plowed eight feet into the rear of the Eastern States Express, setting fire to the rear sleeping car and the engine cab. Fortunately the crew suffered only cuts and scrapes.

All four engines, the sleeper, and a baggage car were destroyed, the track was torn up for about 500 yd east of the passenger station, and hundreds of people were injured in the wreck. Miraculously, only two people were confirmed dead: Harry Taber and Gerry Fitzgerald of the Eastern States Express. A third man, R.H. Rath of New York, was presumed dead, but his body was never found. (It has been suggested Rath was not on the train, as he reappears very much alive in legal documents more than three years after the disaster.)

Windham County coroner A.G. Bill ruled engineer Henry Wildes and conductor William Dorman of the 212 responsible for the deaths of Tabor and Fitzgerald.

Current conditions of crash site
The station has since been torn down, and the former New York & New England Railroad through this area is now traversed by the Air Line State Park rail trail, where displays and photo dioramas provide trail users with information about the train wreck. The location of the wreck was N 42° 00.530 W 071° 48.557 which now falls on the intersection of E. Thompson Road and New Road near the Rhode Island border. Close by is a trail loop leading to the Tri-State Marker, a small obelisk-shaped monument at the intersection of the Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island state borders.

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Kimber Manufacturing

Kimber Manufacturing is an American company that designs, manufactures, and distributes small arms such as M1911 pistols, Solo pistols, rifles, and revolvers. The USA Shooting Team, Marines assigned to Special Operations Command, and the LAPD SWAT team have used Kimber pistols in the past.

History
Kimber was founded as "Kimber of Oregon" in 1979 by Jack Warne and his son Greg Warne in the small town of Clackamas, Oregon. An Australian, Jack Warne founded the Australian firearms manufacturer, Sporting Arms or Sportco, in Adelaide, South Australia, following World War II.

Following its founding, Kimber of Oregon quickly built a reputation for accurate .22 long rifle caliber rifles. Subsequently, it began to expand its product line and eventually acquired a second manufacturing plant in nearby Colton. Jack Warne acquired the Brownell quick-detachable rifle scope mounting system for Kimber.

In the late 1980s, the company began to struggle after a private stock offering fell short of covering the costs of developing the M89 BG (Big Game) Rifle. In 1989, Kimber of Oregon was sold to Oregon timber baron Bruce Engel, who founded WTD Industries, Inc. Engel had difficulty running Kimber and soon the company sought bankruptcy protection.

In 1990, several Kimber employees, including Dan Cooper, left to found Cooper Firearms of Montana. Jack Warne left to open the Warne Manufacturing Company in February 1991, which began manufacture of a new rifle scope mounting system.

In the mid-1990s, Greg Warne tried to revive Kimber, but much of Kimber of Oregon's original tooling had ended up in a junkyard north of Portland. Warne soon found a financial backer in Les Edelman, who owned Nationwide Sports Distributors. The two purchased the original tooling and partnered to found Kimber of America. The company grew quickly, but Edelman forced Greg Warne out after acquiring a majority interest in the company.

While Edelman was partnering with Greg Warne, he had also invested in Yonkers-based Jerico Precision Manufacturing, which manufactured hand tools and mechanical components for the defense industry, which was adjusting to cuts in defense spending. Edelman decided to connect Jerico Precision's existing infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities and Kimber's reputation and extensive network of dealers to build a line of M1911-style handguns. He eventually moved Kimber's production line to Jerico's facilities in New York, ending Kimber's presence in Oregon. The company now has locations in New York and New Jersey.

On 9 December 2004, a federal grand jury indicted former CFO Denis Shusterman for embezzling $10 million from Kimber Manufacturing and Nationwide Sports Distributors. He was later convicted after pleading guilty, ordered to pay damages and back taxes, and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.

After leaving Kimber, Greg Warne operated Armas Deportivas S.A. in Granadilla, San Pedro, Costa Rica where he made custom gun grips from locally sourced hardwoods. Greg Warne died in 2006.

Kimber is planning to expand manufacturing capacity from its 31500 sqft manufacturing facility in Ridgefield, NJ (Aero Molding). A proposal to add more space to its Yonkers site had been approved as a "regionally significant project" but Kimber appears to have withdrawn its application following concerns raised by worried neighbors.

Faced with political opposition in New York and New Jersey, Kimber explored other locations for their operations. The company announced intention to open a manufacturing facility in Troy, Alabama, in January 2018 On October 21, 2020, Kimber Arms management announced the corporate headquarters is being relocated to Troy.

Pistols
Kimber makes M1911-style pistols with a variety of customization options. Early on, the company introduced the use of metal injection molding for some parts, such as the thumb safety, which makes them more cost-effective to produce.

Models available include:
 * Kimber Custom series
 * Kimber Micro series
 * Kimber Aegis series

Revolvers
Kimber manufactures two models of revolvers, the K6S in either Double Action/Single Action or Double Action Only configuration chambered in .357 Magnum, and the K6xs, chambered in .38 special +P. Both revolvers have a capacity of six rounds. The K6S models are available in 2"-inch, 3" inch, and 4"-inch barrels.

Rifles
Kimber also makes several long gun models, including hunting and tactical rifles. Most of these rifles utilize a Mauser-type controlled feed action, originally designed by Nehemia Sirkis. Kimber rifles have a reputation for accuracy and quality.

Kimber firearms in use
A modified version of the "Team Match II" .45 ACP caliber pistol is used by the US Shooting Rapid Fire Pistol Team. In 2002, the LAPD chose a slightly modified and specially marked (marked in "LAPD SWAT CUSTOM II") version of the Custom TLE II as the standard issue for its SWAT unit. Several other law enforcement agencies have approved Kimber firearms for on-duty carry by their patrol and SWAT officers. In 2007 a new pistol designed by the LAPD Special Investigation Section was added to the Kimber's line of M1911-pattern pistols. A modified Kimber 1911 was also chosen as the sidearm for Marine Corps forces assigned to Special Operations Command.

Political activities
Kimber Manufacturing donated $200,000 to the Red White and Blue Fund, a super PAC that supported Rick Santorum in 2012. Kimber was the first gun company to donate to a super PAC.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peisce Marriton

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Peisce Marriton
Fiction or vanity. Zero hits via Google or Usenet. RickK 23:40, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - zero Google hits, possible hoax. Megan1967 03:30, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails Google test. --Idont Havaname 00:18, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:37, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spirit of Aggieland

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Spirit of Aggieland
Non-notable.

 * delete or wikisource . Mikkalai 23:44, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Create the Texas A&M University traditions page and put the song there. Mikkalai 09:03, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable, and if kept in any form it should be merged with the University page. PlasticBeat 03:02, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, Wikipedia is not a lyrics database. Megan1967 03:31, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Why are some college school songs permited (e.g. Texas Fight ) and others not?
 * Because the others havent been put up for VfD yet. Megan1967 09:03, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Whe the page was placed for deletion it was nothing but lyrics. Now it begins to resemble an article. Mikkalai 09:03, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The university main page (Texas A&M University) has already had to be trimed back as to not excede the 32k limit.
 * You may cut out the whole huge "Traditions" section into a separate article and put the song there. It will be a much better trim. Mikkalai 09:03, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I've deleted the lyrics from both this article and Texas Fight. If the lyrics are copyrighted, we can't use them, if they're not they belong on Wikisource.  The only reason to include them in the article would be if there were some sort of analysis of the lyrics themselves in the article.  RickK 09:56, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Agree with restructuring ideas put forward by Mikkalai. --BM 15:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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