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Franco-Albertans

Franco-Albertans (Franco-Albertains) are francophone residents of the Canadian province of Alberta. Franco-Albertans may also refer to residents of Alberta with French Canadian ancestry, although publications from the government of Alberta use the term Franco-Albertan to refer to its francophone residents. In the 2016 Canadian Census, there were 86,705 Albertans that stated their mother tongue was French. In the same census, there were 411,315 Albertans that claim partial or full French ancestry.

Francophones were the first Europeans to visit the province, with French Canadian voyageurs employed in the fur trade exploring the region in the late 18th century. French Canadians settled into a number of communities in the Northwest Territories during the 19th century, including communities in present day Alberta. Several French toponyms exist in Alberta, exemplifying the Francophone presence in the region. In 1928, the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta was formed to promote francophone rights, and to lobby the interests of Franco-Albertans to the province. Following the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, Franco-Albertans pushed for further linguistic rights within the province, eventually resulting in the province establishing an independent public francophone school system in 1994.

Approximately 72 per cent of Franco-Albertans are situated within the province's two largest cities, Edmonton, and Calgary. The province is home to more than 100 francophone non-profit organizations. Radio-Canada, the country's French-language public broadcaster, serves as the main French-language media broadcaster in Alberta.

Demographics
Alberta holds the fourth largest francophone population in Canada, following the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick; as well as the largest francophone community in Western Canada. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, the number of people that reported French as a mother tongue in Alberta was 86,705 (or 2.1 per cent of the population), making it the most common mother tongue in the province after English and Tagalog. The majority of Franco-Albertans are bilingual in English and French, with only 3,895 respondents (0.1 per cent of Albertans) in the 2016 census reporting they only had proficiency in the French language. There were 264,715 Albertans or 6.6 per cent of the population that reported that they were bilingual in English and French, although that figure includes Albertans that speak French as a second language.

The francophone community in Alberta is largely made up of migrants, with only 25 per cent of francophone residents of Alberta having been born in the province. Nearly 50 per cent of all Franco-Albertans migrated to Alberta from another Canadian province or territory, whereas 24 per cent of francophones in Alberta were born outside of Canada. Among the Franco-Albertans that were born outside Canada, approximately half originated from Africa, 23 per cent from Europe, 15 per cent from other countries in the Americas, and 13 per cent were from Asia.

In the 2016 census, 411,315 Albertans, or 10.5 per cent of the provincial population, reported having partial or full French ancestry. French is the sixth most commonly reported ethnic group in Alberta after Canadian, English, German, Scottish, and Irish.

Communities
The majority of Franco-Albertans reside within the Alberta's two largest metropolitan areas, Greater Edmonton, and the Calgary Region. The former holds 39 per cent of all francophone residents in the province, whereas the latter holds 33 per cent of all francophone residents in the province. The remaining Franco-Albertans are spread throughout the other regions of Alberta.

There are four municipalities in Alberta are officially bilingual and offer municipal services in French, Beaumont, Falher, Legal, and Plamondon. The four communities, in addition to Morinville, St. Albert, St. Paul, Bonnyville, and Smoky River also form a part of the Alberta Bilingual Municipalities Association (ABMA). Thirteen communities formed a part of the AMBA in 2018

History
The first Europeans to visit Alberta were French Canadians during the late 18th century, working as fur traders and voyageurs for the Hudson's Bay Company, or the North West Company. French was the predominant language used in some early fur trading forts in the region, such as the first Fort Edmonton (in present day Fort Saskatchewan).

The early 19th century saw the introduction of French language education in the region, when French missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate were dispatched to evangelize the First Nations in the area. Roman Catholic French Canadian settlers were present in Calgary, Edmonton, Lac La Biche, Lac Saint-Anne, and St. Albert by the mid 1860s; with colonizing clerics actively recruiting farmers from Quebec in the late 19th century.

In 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company ceded Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the government of Canada, most of which was administered as the North-West Territories. Although English and French were official languages in the North-West Territories, the latter was quickly relegated in status; as the influx of anglophone settlers made English the predominant language of the territory by the 1890s. In 1892, French was stricken as an official language of the territory's education system, and its legislature, with English made the only official language for deliberations in the legislature.

20th century
The English-only policies of the 1890s were continued after the region was severed from the territory to form the province of Alberta; with no mention of linguistic rights in the province's establishing statute. Attempts to advance French language education rights were made by the French Canadian clergy, as they involved themselves in public separate school boards. In 1925, francophones in the provinces formed the Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta as a lobby to demand linguistic rights from the provincial government.

The mid 20th century saw the early development of several Franco-Albertan institutions, such as agricultural cooperatives, credit unions, and new Roman Catholic parishes. The Edmonton-based CHFA-FM, predecessor of Radio-Canada's French-language regional radio station, made its first broadcast in November 1949. The enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 prompted Franco-Albertans to approach the public Catholic and secular school boards of Edmonton to establish a fully francophone school, although both school boards rejected the proposal. The refusal to provide public funding for a francophone school led the Association de l’École Georges et Julia Bugnet to bring forward a case that the provincial School Act conflicted with Section 23 of the charter. The case was eventually accepted by the Supreme Court of Canada, who made a ruling in March 1990, stating that language minority groups, such as Franco-Albertans, were guaranteed a "degree of management and control," of their education system. Another decision made by the Supreme Court in 1993 on Franco-Manitoban schools also further French language rights in other anglophone provinces in Canada, when the court asserted the rights of linguistic minorities to control their own education. The following decision prompted the province to create five new regional francophone school boards in 1994.

In 1997, the province signed the first Canada-Alberta Agreement on French Language Services, which is a joint federal-provincial fund aimed at funding French language services in the province. In 1999, the government of Alberta created the position of Francophone Secretariat to act as a liaison between the Franco-Albertan community and the government, and joined the Ministerial Conference on the Canadian Francophonie.

The push for linguistic rights by minority French Canadian populations in the 1980s and 1990s saw a reaction from anglophones in the province, prompting the provincial government to curtail the French language in other areas. Following the Supreme Court's ruling on R. v Mercure, a case involving a Fransaskois in Saskatchewan, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta passed the Languages Act in 1988, in which English was declared the province's official language, and replaced many of the French language rights permitted under the North-West Territories Act; although the Act still permitted the use of French in its legislature, and for judicial cases concerning provincial offences as directed by the court. French language access to the latter was later expanded in 1995, when a francophone service system was created for criminal proceedings.

21st century
In 2017, the government of Alberta established its first French language policy, and adopted the Franco-Albertan Flag as an official symbol of the community. In the following year, the provincial government declared March as Alberta Francophonie Month.

Politics
After the Alberta Languages Act was passed in 1988, English was made the only official language in the province. However, the same legislation provides stipulations that permits the use of French for deliberations in the legislature of Alberta, as well as provincial judicial system as directed by the courts. Access to government services in the French language was promoted in the "French Policy", introduced by the provincial government in 2017. However, no legislation exists that mandates provincial services provide accessibility in French, outside the rights afforded in the Languages Act; or the Education Act, the latter act only establishing the province's francophone public school system. There are four municipalities in Alberta that provide municipal services in both English and French, although the majority of communities in the province provide municipal services in only English.

Franco-Albertans interests are formally represented by the Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta, an organization formed in 1928, and officially incorporated by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1964 in order to ensure its independence. The government of Alberta also established the Francophone Secretariat in 1999 to serve as a government liaison to the Franco-Albertan community. The secretariat forms a part of Alberta Culture, a ministry of the provincial government.

Elementary and secondary
French language education rights for minority francophone populations in Canada is guaranteed under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and is further reinforced under section 14 of the province's Education Act. Prior to their enactment, francophone rights were limited in Alberta, with most public schools in the province being anglophone institutions.

French language education was permitted in Albertan public schools since 1896, although was limited and only conducted in anglophone elementary schools. Following the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the province of Alberta introduced bilingual schools, that saw teachers split between English and French for the instructional languages used in classes from Grades 3 to 12. Although open to Franco-Albertans, the bilingual programs was made primarily for anglophone, or bilingual students. Regulation 250/76 was introduced by the province in 1976, which permitted schools to use French as an instructional language for up to 80 per cent of the school day. The enactment of the charter eventually led the province to establish its first two publicly-funded francophone schools in 1984, and an independent francophone public elementary and secondary school system in 1994.

The province's public francophone schools are administered through one of four public school boards, the East Central Francophone Education Region, the Northwest Francophone Education Region, the Southern Francophone Education Region, and the Greater North Central Francophone Education Region. All four public school boards are mixed secular/separate school boards, operating 42 elementary and secondary schools in 27 different communities. There were 7,814 students enrolled in Alberta's public francophone elementary and secondary schools during the 2017–18 academic year.

Post-secondary
There is no independent francophone post-secondary institution in the province, although the University of Alberta operates as a bilingual institution, offering several bachelor and master's degree programs in the French language at its Saint-Jean campus. The campus originated as the private francophone educational institution established in 1928, Juniorat Saint-Jean, before being absorbed by the University of Alberta in 1977. The university also operates a college on the same campus, offering two-year diploma programs in French since 2014. In 2018, there were 842 students registered at the Saint-Jean campus.

Culture
There are more than 100 francophone non-profit organizations in the province that operate in a wide variety of fields. L’Unithéâtre in Edmonton and the Société de Théâtre serve a French-speaking audience, and a number of folk dancing troupes tour the province. The Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta provides a venue for francophone artists and craftsmen, and the annual Franco-Alberta Festival showcases French language and culture.

Media
Francophones in Alberta receive broadcast media service primarily from the television and radio services of the Société Radio-Canada, the French-language division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including Ici Radio-Canada Télé's station CBXFT-DT, Ici Radio-Canada Première's CHFA-FM and Ici Musique's CBCX-FM. Francophone community radio stations exist in Edmonton (CFED-FM) and Plamondon (CHPL-FM); a third community radio station, CKRP-FM in Falher, was shut down in 2017.

In print, the province is served by the French-language weekly newspaper Le Franco.

Notable Franco-Albertans
The first notable Franco-Albertan, in many regards, was Father Albert Lacombe.

Politics

 * Prosper-Edmond Lessard - Alberta’s first French-speaking cabinet minister. Liberal MLA for Pakan (1909-1913) and St. Paul (1913-1921), Senator for Alberta (1925-1931).
 * Wilfrid Gariépy - founding Franco-Albertan/Canadian politician, Liberal MLA for Beaver River (1913-1921), Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs (1917-1918), Provincial Secretary (1918).
 * Jean Léon Côté - Liberal MLA for Athabasca (1909-1913) and Grouard (1913-1923)
 * Ernest Côté -soldier, diplomat and civil servant.
 * Joseph Miville Dechêne - Liberal MLA for Beaver River (1921-1926) and St. Paul (1930-1935), Liberal MP for Athabaska (1940-1958).
 * Laudas Joly - United Farmers MLA for St. Paul (1921-1930) and Social Credit MLA for Bonnyville (1952-1955).
 * Joseph Beaudry - Social Credit MLA for St. Paul (1935-1952).
 * Léo Piquette - NDP MLA for Athabasca-Lac La Biche (1986-1989), francophone minority rights advocate.
 * Paul André Joseph Langevin - Liberal, then PC MLA for Lac La Biche-St. Paul (1993-2001).
 * Denis Ducharme - PC MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake (1997-2008).
 * Hector Goudreau - PC MLA for Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley (2004-2015), Alberta Minister of Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture (2006–2008), Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs (2008-2011).
 * Claudette Tardif - Liberal, then independent Senator for Alberta (2005–2018). Francophone of Russian descent.
 * Colin Piquette - son of Léo Piquette, NDP MLA for Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater (2015–2019).
 * Marie Renaud - NDP MLA for St. Albert (2015–present).
 * Randy Boissonnault - first Franco-Albertan federal minister representing an Alberta riding. Liberal MP for Edmonton Centre (2015–2019; 2021–present), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (2015-2017), Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance (October 26, 2021 to present).
 * Pierre Poilievre - first Franco-Albertan federal minister. Conservative MP for Nepean—Carleton (2004-present).

Sports

 * Chris Benoît - Professional wrestler. Born to a French-Canadian family in Montréal, but raised in Edmonton, and wrestled out of Calgary.
 * Arthur Boileau - Former professional runner of French-Canadian descent. Represented Canada in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in the Marathon. Born in Edmonton.

Art

 * Crystal Plamondon - singer and songwriter from Plamondon, Alberta.
 * Les Bûcherons, a duo which presents French-Canadian music and dance to audiences throughout the province.
 * Robert Goulet - American entertainer of French-Canadian parentage and Franco-Albertan residency. Migrated with his French-Canadian family from Massachusetts to northern Alberta when he was three months old. Was rumoured to be seeking Canadian citizenship, but died in 2007 before any action could be taken.

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Stringybark

A stringybark can be any of the many Eucalyptus species which have thick, fibrous bark. Like all eucalypts, stringybarks belong to the family Myrtaceae. In exceptionally fertile locations some stringybark species (in particular messmate stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua) can be very large, reaching over 80 metres in height. More typically, stringybarks are medium-sized trees in the 10 to 40 metre range.

Early European colonists often used the bark for roofing and walls of huts.

The term stringybark is a descriptive, vernacular name and does not imply any special taxonomic relationship within the genus Eucalyptus. For example, scientists consider Eucalyptus obliqua to not be closely related to the other stringybarks, because of the gumnut shape. And Eucalyptus acmenoides is part of the mahogany group of eucalyptus. Also as the gumnuts are a different shape, despite the bark being somewhat stringy.

There are many different species of stringybark, including:

 * Blue-leaved stringybark (Eucalyptus agglomerata)
 * Brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri, Eucalyptus laevopinea)
 * Mealy stringybark or silver stringybark (Eucalyptus cephalocarpa)
 * Messmate stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua)
 * Privet-leaved stringybark (Eucalyptus ligustrina)
 * Red stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha)
 * Tindale's stringybark (Eucalyptus tindaliae)
 * Yellow stringybark (Eucalyptus acmenoides, Eucalyptus muelleriana, Eucalyptus umbra)
 * Thin-leaved stringybark (Eucalyptus eugenioides)
 * White stringybark (Eucalyptus globoidea)
 * Wollemi stringybark (Eucalyptus expressa)
 * Stringybark or narrow-leaved stringybark (Eucalyptus oblonga)
 * Stringybark (Eucalyptus tenella)

Studies have shown that blue-leaved stringybark is one of the 20-odd eucalypts preferred by koalas.

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Corncob

A corncob, also called corn cob, cob of corn, or corn on the cob, is the central core of an ear of maize (also known as corn). It is the part of the ear on which the kernels grow. The ear is also considered a "cob" or "pole" but it is not fully a "pole" until the ear is shucked, or removed from the plant material around the ear. It is also the green husk that goes outside the corn.

Young ears, also called baby corn, can be consumed raw, but as the plant matures, the cob becomes tougher until only the kernels are truly edible. However, during several instances of famine (especially in European countries throughout history), people have been known to eat the corncobs, especially the foamy middle part. The whole cob or just the middle used to be ground and mixed with whatever type of flour was available (usually wheat or corn flour). It served as a sort of peculiar "filler", to extend the quantity of the original flour and as such, it was used even in production of bread.

Containing mainly cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, corncob is not toxic to humans and can be digested, but the outside is rough and practically inedible in its original form. The foamy part has a peculiar texture when mature and is completely bland, which most people would find unappealing, due to the consistency similar to foam plastic.

Corncobs are a particularly good source of heat when burned, so they were traditionally used for roasting meat on the spit, barbecuing and heating the bread ovens, through the centuries. In the olden days, it was especially appreciated for its long and steady burning embers, also used for the ember irons.

When harvesting corn, the corncob may be collected as part of the ear (necessary for corn on the cob), or instead may be left as part of the corn stover in the field.

Uses
Corncobs find use in the following applications: Other applications include:
 * Industrial source of the chemical furfural
 * Fiber in fodder for ruminant livestock (despite low nutritional value)
 * Bedding for animals — cobs absorb moisture and provide a compliant surface
 * Ground up and washed (then re-dried) to make cat litter
 * A mild abrasive for cleaning building surfaces, when coarsely ground
 * Corncob-pipe.jpg material for bowls of corncob pipes
 * As a biofuel
 * Charcoal production
 * Environmentally-friendly rodenticide (powdered corn cob)
 * Soil conditioner, water retainer in horticulture
 * Absorbent media for safe disposal of liquid and solid effluents
 * Diluent/carrier/filler material in animal health products, agro-chemicals, veterinary formulations, vitamin premixes, pharmaceuticals, etc.
 * Xylose — a sweetener
 * Anal hygiene
 * The body of a doll

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Talk:From 1040X

In trying to create the article for Form 1040X, I made a typo and accidently created this page. I have not listed this on WP:RFD yet because there might be other users who make the same typo. Zzyzx11 | Talk 00:42, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Edelman v. Jordan

Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that the sovereign immunity recognized in the Eleventh Amendment prevented a federal court from ordering a state from paying back funds that had been unconstitutionally withheld from parties to whom they had been due.

Background
The plaintiff, John Jordan, in a class action suit, sued Illinois officials who administered federal-state of Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled (AABD). He alleged that the program's money had been administered in a way that violated both federal laws and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, Jordan claimed that the Illinois administrators were applying their own guidelines, which ignored federally-mandated time limits and so did not get aid to applicants fast enough. The federal law required that applicants who qualify receive aid within 30 or 45 days, depending on their condition, but the Illinois agency was taking up to four months to disburse aid, and when such aid was distributed, it was not paid retroactively to the time when the state should have started paying it, according to the federal guidelines.

Jordan sought relief including a positive injunction to require the state to award him and others in his position the aid that they had missed because of the lateness in processing the applications. The United States District Court found the Illinois guidelines to be inconsistent with the federal statute and ordered Illinois both to follow the federal guidelines and to release to the aid applicants all funds "wrongfully withheld." The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed, and the case was taken to the Supreme Court, with Agency Director Joel Edelmen named as the party representing the State of Illinois.

Issue
Since the 1890 case Hans v. Louisiana, the Eleventh Amendment had been held to recognize the sovereign immunity of states from suits by their citizens. However, the 1908 case Ex parte Young had allowed an exception: citizens could seek injunctive relief against state officials to stop them from carrying out unconstitutional state policies.

In this case, the Supreme Court examined whether a federal court can require a state to restore funds that had wrongfully been withheld from citizens by the state if the order to restore the funds is an injunction, requiring the state to stop its wrongful possession of the funds.

Decision
The Court, in an opinion by Justice Rehnquist, concluded that private litigants could not avoid the bar of state sovereign immunity by manipulating the doctrine of Ex parte Young. No case examining state sovereign immunity had held that states could be required to repay funds that had wrongfully been withheld. In almost all the cases that had permitted retrospective recovery against the states, the state had not raised the issue of state sovereign immunity. The Supreme Court also overruled any cases in which the state had raised the issue and lost.

It distinguished the payment that had been ordered in this case from expenses that a state might incidentally incur after an injunction is issued to comply with it. The costs of post-judgment compliance are ancillary, but the costs of making up for pre-judgment non-compliance were more like an award of damages to the plaintiff. Noting that there were no precedents squarely on this point, the court expressed disapproval of those precedents that hinted at allowing restoration of funds that had been previously withheld.

The Supreme Court also brushed aside an alternative theory raised by the Court of Appeals that Illinois had waived its immunity by participating in the federal program. Previous cases finding such a waiver had involved express language in the Congressional statute conditioning program funds on such a waiver, but in the statute, there was no such language. The Court refused to find that participation in the program constituted "constructive consent." It instead declared that consent to waive immunity from suit could be found only "by the most express language or by such overwhelming implications from the text as will leave no room for any other reasonable construction."

The majority also rejected Justice Marshall's suggestion that plaintiffs could recover under the civil rights statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It noted had nothing in that statute suggested that Congress had intended to abrogate state sovereign immunity by its passage.

Finally, the Court found that it was not improper to consider the state sovereign immunity issue even though the state had not raised it in the trial court since the state sovereign immunity is a jurisdictional bar, which may be raised at any time.

Justice Douglas, Justice Brennan, and Justice Marshall each dissented from the opinion of the Court.

Dissent of Justice Douglas
Justice Douglas asserted that there should be no distinction made between prospective relief and retrospective relief, as the drain on the state's treasury is the same in either case. He also strongly contended that Illinois had waived its immunity by entering the federal program since the Supreme Court had recently found other states to have waived immunity by joining similar programs. Therefore, Douglas reasoned that Illinois had to have been aware of the possibility that entering the program would waive its own immunity, and its decision to participate in light of that danger showed a willingness to be held liable.

Dissent of Justice Marshall
Justice Marshall argued that 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which permits parties to sue state actors to recover for civil rights violations, also abrogated the immunity of the states and permitted a recovery from the state treasury if the rights of a citizen were violated by an official of the state.

Dissent of Justice Brennan
Justice Brennan's opinion did not reach any of the questions on the limitations of sovereign immunity or waiver thereof that were considered by both the Court and the other dissents. Instead, Brennan argued that the Eleventh Amendment does not immunize states from being sued by their citizens at all. He stated there is no question of what the purported immunity covers or whether it can be waived it does not exist. He noted that the Eleventh Amendment's language bars only suits against a state by citizens of other states. That leaves common law sovereign immunity, which he asserted to have been surrendered by the states when they agreed to join into the United States.

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Welcome. Lotsofissues 00:45, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Backmasking
Hey, it's the famous Jeff Milner! Nice site, even though I have a feeling a lot of misguided people are using it to "prove" that Zeppelin and other artists backmasked. One suggestion: clear up the distinction between backmasking and backwards messages. The former is, by definition, deliberate, whereas the latter includes, as you say, "coincidental" messages. So the question here is somewhat misleading: "What do you think about backmasking? Is there some evil force, like Satan, that helped create them?" If they were created, it was by the artists, not by Satan.

I also wanted to ask you to help some more with Backmasking, and maybe take a look at List of backmasked messages. What is especially important right now is good references, and I'm sure you've come across some reliable ones in your journeys through the world of backward messages. If you could provide a few good sources, it would be a big help. Thanks,  Λυδ α  cιτγ  02:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, it's been a long time since I've checked my talk page. Yeah, I'm certainly interested in helping you out. It will probably have to wait until the new year though.--Jeff 01:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Whenever's good for you. At some point, I'm going to clean out and revise both Backmasking and the List of backmasked messages.  Λυδ α cιτγ  05:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monnett Weekend

 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. — Xezbeth 13:33, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Monnett Weekend
As this weekend is, in fact, Monnett Weekend, this seems a strangely appropriate time to list this on VfD. Monnett Weekend is in no way notable. It is a minor event at a small liberal arts institution, namely Ohio Wesleyan University. It is essentially little more than a parents weekend with few events of any note. To say this is a major annual event in Delaware is a gross overstatement, as the town itself is really not involved at all. There are no fairs or festivals or exhibitions and no concerts or plays or other events put on by any group not a part of the university itself. I base this on four years of attendance at said university and continued contact as an alum. This should be deleted. Indrian 00:45, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Ohio Wesleyan University. --Fuzzball! (talk) 05:04, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agree with Indrian. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:25, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Ohio Wesleyan University - Skysmith 07:13, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agree with Indrian. Jni05 21:53, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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


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Cartmel

Cartmel is a village in Cumbria, England, 2+1/4 mi northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The village takes its name from the Cartmel Peninsula, and was historically known as Kirkby in Cartmel. The village is the location of the 12th-century Cartmel Priory, around which it initially grew. Situated in the historic county of Lancashire, since 1974 Cartmel has been part of the ceremonial county of Cumbria.

Whilst its history has been in its ecclesiastical and agricultural communities, Cartmel has since the mid-twentieth century developed as a minor tourist destination, being just outside the Lake District National Park. Several attractions in the village, including Cartmel Racecourse and a Michelin-starred restaurant, cater to this tourist trade.

History
The name Cartmel means ‘sandbank by rocky ground’, from the Old Norse kartr (rocky ground) and melr. The place-name is first attested in 677, when the Cartmel Peninsula was granted to St Cuthbert, whose influence may explain why by the Norman Conquest the village was known as Kirkby, a name indicating the location of a church.

Cartmel Priory was founded in the village in 1190 by William Marshal, created 1st Earl of Pembroke, intended for a community of the Augustinian Canons regular and was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Michael. To support the new house, William granted it the whole fief of the district of Cartmel. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, much of the local land fell into the ownership of the Preston family at nearby Holker Hall. Through marriage Holker became part of the estate of the Cavendish Family, and today is the home of Lord Cavendish. As well as the estate around Holker, the Cavendish family still owns much of the land of the Peninsula.

Agriculture was the chief industry of the area until the mid-twentieth century, dominated by the lands of the Cavendishes, and remains an important part of the village. Nearby Grange-over-Sands eclipsed Cartmel as the biggest settlement on the peninsula in the nineteenth century, growing as a Victorian seaside resort when the Furness Railway was built across the peninsula. Cartmel village was, and remains, served by a station in nearby Cark, open in 1857 and called Cark and Cartmel.

Hospitality and Tourism
Tourism has grown in the village since the middle of the twentieth century. In 1923 Cartmel Priory Gatehouse became a museum for the Priory, and was used for exhibitions and meetings, before being presented to the National Trust in 1946. By 2011 it was mainly in private residential use, although the Great Room is opened to the public on several days a year. The Priory itself is still the local parish church, but is open to visitors outside of service times.

Cartmel Racecourse dates back to at least the nineteenth century, but grew in popularity when it became a National Hunt course after the Second World War. It started to attract major professionals in the 1960s, and now hosts 9 meetings a year between May and August with its biggest meeting traditionally in Whit Week.

Writers who encouraged the growth of tourism to Cartmel include Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster, Thomas Thompson, who authored sixteen books on Lancashire people and their communities and was fond of Cartmel. The frontispiece in his 1937 book Lancashire Brew is 'Cartmel from an etching by Joseph Knight', the founder of the Manchester School of Painters. Later Alfred Wainwright dedicated a chapter to Cartmel Fell, about 7 mi north of Cartmel, in his 1974 bookThe Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

More recently Cartmel has emerged as a foodie destination. Cartmel sticky toffee pudding was first sold at the village shop in 1984 and grew in popularity: it is now sold in supermarkets around the UK. The Cartmel Sticky Toffee Company, who make it, moved to a larger factory in nearby Flookburgh in the 2000s but still operate and sell from the village shop in Cartmel. In 2002, chef Simon Rogan opened L'Enclume restaurant in the village. The restaurant quickly became one of the UK's most popular, and held top spot as the UK's best restaurant in The Good Food Guide from 2014-2017, returning to the top in 2020. In 2022 it became the first restaurant in the UK outside London and the South-East to gain 3 Michelin stars. Rogan makes use of the agricultural hinterland of Cartmel and most of the produce supplied to the restaurant is grown on the peninsula, including Rogan's nearby twelve-acre (5 hectare) farm. Rogan's second restaurant in Cartmel, Rogan & Co, is also Michelin-starred, and the village also hosts Unsworth's Yard, a collection of artisan-food retailers who use local produce.

Transport
Cartmel is 2+1/4 mi from the nearest town, Grange-over-Sands, and about 2+3/4 mi from the A590 road, which connects it to the M6 Motorway. Cark and Cartmel railway station has a roughly hourly service between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster, with some services continuing north to Carlisle and others south to Manchester.

Education
Cartmel Church of England Primary School is the village primary school. Cartmel Priory School takes pupils aged between 11 and 16 from around the Cartmel Peninsula.

Governance
Cartmel is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency, of which Tim Farron is the current Member of parliament representing the Liberal Democrats.

For Local Government purposes it is in the Grange and Cartmel Ward of Westmorland and Furness Council.

The village also has its own Parish council, Lower Allithwaite Parish Council.

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Chronic Future

Chronic Future was an American rock band from Scottsdale, Arizona. The band was formed in 1995, when their average age was 14. They achieved a short period of mainstream success with the 2004 album Lines in My Face, as well as the album's hit single, "Time and Time Again". The band consisted of vocalist Mike Busse, guitarist Ben Collins, bassist Brandon Lee and drummer Barry Collins, who are all founding members.

After finding mainstream success, the band then went on to operate under their own independent label, Modern Art Records, and released the Modern Art EP online under this new label. The band worked very independently after their departure from Interscope Records, rarely playing live and releasing albums independently as well as releasing online demos and purchasable songs. The band's early/mainstream style was a mixture of hip hop and punk rock, but the band progressed into a unique fusion style of hip hop, electronica, and alternative. The band's vocal style incorporated three vocalists: Mike Busse, Ben Collins and Brandon Lee.

Formation and early history: 1995–2000
Chronic Future began their musical career in the summer of 1995, and a year or so later, they released their first self-titled album when the band members were at an average age of 14. The album gained popular local airplay, but achieved no commercial success. Their followup, 4 Elements, was released in 2000, and was even less successful, with only a few songs being praised. 4 Elements was released on Beyond Records, and the band toured with such bands as Face to Face.

Mainstream success: 2000–2004
From 2000 to 2004, the band signed their first major label deal with Interscope Records, and their third full-length was soon to follow in mid-2004. The band released a promotional EP called the Lines in My Face EP, featuring four songs from the album, as well as two rare songs. Soon after, the band released the album Lines in My Face, which reached No. 18 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The album's single "Time and Time Again" saw airplay on MTV and MTV2 and reached No. 40 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts, as well as being featured in the video game Burnout 3: Takedown and MVP Baseball 2004.

Earlier during that year, the band recruited Ryan Breen from Back Ted N-Ted, to play second guitar on the road. He joined as a full-time member, but then quit to begin on a solo music project of his own, which later became Back Ted N-Ted. He was replaced by Mike Loy, who after the release and recording of Lines in My Face, left to embark on his own musical ventures.

Notably, Lines in My Face featured more metal-orientated guitar styles, as well as Brandon Lee taking on a role as another lead vocalist.

Independent work: 2006–2009
Chronic Future left Interscope Records for an unknown reason in 2006. Several CF members also collaborate with Back Ted N-Ted, although it now appears that Brandon Lee is pulling double duty as a live member of Ryan Breen's solo project Back Ted N-Ted. At around this time, Mike Busse started a solo, hip-hop oriented side project with Charlie Brand of Miniature Tigers called The Future Lords. On October 1, 2006, Ben Collins officially launching Modern Art Records in partnership with Epic Records, but have now denounced their partnership with Epic Records. Collins signed Back Ted N-Ted, as well as the Miniature Tigers, Brothers Backward, Foxglove Hunt, Gospel Claws and The Future Lords.

The band released a limited edition album, This and of That, in late 2006 for online purchase through their now inactive official website. The band had made a sudden change from their rap rock style to an electronica/alternative/hip-hop crossover style by changing their guitar sounds from the traditional rock sound to an electronic sound. Chronic Future had actually previously experimented with this style and uploaded demos of some of the songs from This and of That to their official website, as well as other unreleased demos. The album was limited to merely 1000 copies. The album featured Ryan Breen, the band's former rhythm guitarist, doing programming.

The band recruited Lawrence Hearn AKA "Daggrr" (live guitarist for Back Ted N-Ted & principle songwriter for The Broadcast Royalties) in 2007 to play rhythm guitar for several shows, though he left shortly in 2008 to support both Miniature Tigers and Back Ted N-Ted's live shows. Chronic Future performed at the West Coast show of The Bamboozle in Irvine, California on April 6, 2008.

Just before the release of the Modern Art EP, the following statement on their Myspace page appeared on October 29, 2008:

On November 11, 2008, an EP entitled Modern Art EP was released on iTunes. The album further demonstrated their crossover style, but with far more melodic music than demonstrated on This and of That. The digital EP featured re-recordings of demos previously uploaded to Chronic Future's website and Myspace page. The song "Rocket Science" was converted into techno/alternative/hip-hop from its original punk/rap style. By popular demand from the band's fans, a limited edition demo compilation, Demoitis, was released in April 2009.

Hiatus: 2009–2014
Chronic Future stopped updating their official Myspace page and no information on the band is available on their previous record label's official website. No band activity on their profile has taken place since the July 21, 2009, post about Chronic Future merchandise on their official Myspace page. However, a personal email from guitarist Ben Collins explained that the band members have all moved to New York City and that the Chronic Future project "isn't over yet". According to Ben Collins' personal Facebook page, he had left the band as of January 2010, but reunited several years later with Chronic Future in 2015.

In 2012, backing vocalist and bassist Brandon Lee joined Miniature Tigers for their third record, Mia Pharaoh, as well as recording with them for their fourth album, Cruel Runnings, in 2014. In between the release of the two Miniature Tigers albums, Lee began a new project called The Mathematics, releasing an EP titled Summertime in Babylon on July 8, 2013.

Reunion: 2015
On March 12, 2015, Ben Collins tweeted that Chronic Future currently has "no plans to tour, but are having fun together (as we always have) and playing NYC this summer." The show was held at the Bowery Ballroom on July 18, 2015, with Charlie Brand of Miniature Tigers as the opening act.

About a week after the Chronic Future reunion show in New York City, Ben Collins stated on Twitter that he would like to perform another show with Chronic Future in their home city, Phoenix, Arizona, stating it to be a "good idea". The band played their final show in Phoenix, Arizona at the Rebel Lounge on December 26, 2015.

Final lineup

 * Mike Busse – lead vocals, backing vocals (1995–2009, 2015)
 * Brandon Lee – lead vocals (2004–2009, 2015), bass guitar, backing vocals (1995–2009, 2015)
 * Barry Collins – drums, percussion (1995–2009, 2015)
 * Ben Collins – lead vocals (1995–2006, 2015), guitar, backing vocals (1995–2009, 2015)

Former members

 * Ryan Breen – rhythm guitar (2004)
 * Mike Loy – rhythm guitar (2004)

Touring members

 * Lawrence "DAGGRR" Hearn – rhythm guitar (2007–2008)

Studio albums

 * Chronic Future (1996)
 * 4 Elements (2000)
 * Lines in My Face (2004)
 * This and of That (2006)

EPs

 * Lines in My Face EP (2004)
 * Modern Art EP (2008)

Compilations

 * Demoitis (2009)

Media use

 * Their song "Time and Time Again" was featured on an episode of One Tree Hill, an episode of The Days, and two video games released by Electronic Arts: Burnout 3: Takedown and MVP Baseball 2004 on various platforms.
 * The song "Apology for Non-Symmetry", was featured on the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack.
 * The song "Static on the Radio" was also part of the Gretzky Hockey game for the PS2 soundtrack.
 * The song "Wicked Games" was featured on the CSI: Miami episode "Crime Wave", during shots of various law enforcement agencies' boats racing to intercept a suspect on the ocean. The song was also featured in Cereal Killerz (a paintball movie) for the professional paintball player Oliver Lang.

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User:Knowledge Seeker/Desk

I am no longer participating in the Cleanup Taskforce.

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WCBA

WCBA may refer to:

 * Warrington College of Business Administration
 * West Coast Baseball Association, a league which lasted only two months in 1946
 * Westchester County Bar Association, based in White Plains, New York
 * Western Counties Baseball Association, part of Baseball Ontario in Canada
 * Women's Chinese Basketball Association, the pre-eminent women's professional basketball league in China
 * WCB-Alberta, the workers' compensation board in Alberta, Canada
 * We Came Bearing Arms, a Belgian metalcore band

Among radio callsigns, WCBA may refer to:
 * WCBA (AM), a defunct radio station (1350 AM) formerly licensed to serve South Corning, New York, United States
 * WPHD (FM), a sister station on the 98.7 frequency, which formerly held the WCBA-FM call sign

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Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2

Forbidden Broadway, Volume 2 is the second album released for Forbidden Broadway (FB), an off-Broadway musical that spoofs Broadway's latest musicals. The album was recorded and mixed in February 1991 in New York at Sear Sound.

In the liner notes, Gerard Alessandrini, the show's creator, gives an insight on the show. He explains first why Volume 2 is labeled as the "Unoriginal Cast Recording": firstly, there is already an FB original cast recording; secondly, Alessandri points out that very little about FB is original. He also explains the purpose of releasing a new album: the show had had six different editions, so after many requests by fans, a second volume seemed appropriate. The album includes their best from 1985, 1986 and 1990. All the lyrics and sketches for Forbidden Broadway Vol. 2 (and all other editions) are written by Gerard Alessandrini.

This time, FB attacks shows such as Les Misérables, La Cage aux Folles, Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera, and Into the Woods, and stars such as Stephen Sondheim, Madonna, Bob Fosse, George Hearn, Mary Martin, Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno. It even spoofs major theatre topics, such as the high prices of tickets, the confusion between Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno, the deterioration of Broadway, and the difficulty of Sondheim's lyrics.

Cast

 * Gerard Alessandrini
 * Toni DiBuono
 * Philip Fortenberry (piano)
 * John Freedson
 * Phillip George
 * Dorothy Kiara
 * Kevin Ligon
 * Roxie Lucas
 * Michael McGrath
 * Karen Murphy
 * William Selby
 * Linda Strasser

Track listing
The musical numbers on the album are listed below. The names of the numbers are listed first, followed by the title of the spoofed song and the song's original composer, the latter two being in parentheses.

01 "Opening" (original, Alessandrini)

"Who Do They Know?" (original, Alessandrini)

02 "Forbidden Broadway Volume 2" (original, Alessandrini)

03 "Fugue For Scalpers" ("Fugue For Tinhorns")

04 "Patti LuPone" ("Anything Goes", Porter)

"I Get A Kick Out Of Me" ("I Get a Kick Out of You", Porter)

05 "Into The Words" ("Into the Woods" and "Weekend In The Country", Sondheim)

06 "Annie II" ("Tomorrow", Annie)

07 "M. Butterfly" ("Poor Butterfly")

08 "Madonna's Brain" ("The Rain in Spain", Loewe)

09 "Never, Never Panned" ("Never Never Land", Styne)

10 "Somewhat Overindulgent" ("Over the Rainbow", Arlen)

11 "Chita-Rita" ("America", Bernstein)

12 "I Ham What I Ham" ("I Am What I Am", Herman)

13 "Hey, Bob Fosse" ("Hey, Big Spender", Coleman-Fields)

14 "Almost Like Vegas In New York" ("Almost Like Being in Love", Loewe)

15 "Teeny Todd" ("Ballad Of Sweeney Todd", Sondheim)

16 "Liza" (original, Alessandrini, based on "Johnny One Note" by Rodgers and Hart)

17 "Ladies Who Screech" ("Ladies Who Lunch", Sondheim)

18 "Phantom Of The Musical" (original, Alessandri, based on "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and "O mio babbino caro")

Lloyd Webber ("Goldfinger", Barry-Newley-Bricusse)

19 "Give My Regards to Broadway" (Cohan)

George M ("Yankee Doodle Dandy", Cohan)

20 "More Miserable Sequence"
 * Les Miserable ("C'est Magnifique", Porter)
 * End Of The Play ("End Of The Day", Boubil-Schönberg)
 * I Dreamed A Show ("I Dreamed a Dream", Boubil-Schönberg)
 * Bring It Down ("Bring Him Home", Boubil-Schönberg)
 * Empty Songs, Empty Lyrics ("Empty Chairs at Empty Tables", Boublil-Schönberg)
 * Recitative (original, Alessandri)
 * Do You Hear The People Sing? ("Do You Hear the People Sing?", Boubil-Schönberg)

21 "Finale" (original, Alessandrini)

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Statler Hotels

The Statler Hotel company was one of the United States' early chains of hotels catering to traveling businessmen and tourists. It was founded by Ellsworth Milton (E. M.) Statler in Buffalo, New York.

Early ventures
In 1901, Buffalo hosted the Pan-American Exposition. Statler built a hotel on the Exposition grounds and called it "Statler's Hotel". It was a temporary wooden structure intended to last the duration of the Exposition. With 2,084 rooms, it could accommodate 5,000 guests. Although the Exposition was deemed an overall failure due to a number of factors (including bad weather and the assassination of President William McKinley), Statler was one of the few vendors to make a small profit.

His next venture was the Inside Inn, built for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Another temporary wooden structure, it was the world's largest hotel with 2,257 rooms. A grand success, the hotel made Statler a net profit of $361,000 and laid the groundwork for his first permanent hotel. The hotel was then dismantled and sold for scrap. The Inside Inn was near the edge of Forest Park in St. Louis, now traversed by Highway 64/40.

Company history
The first "permanent" Statler hotel was designed by August Esenwein and James A. Johnson, built in Buffalo, New York, and offered 300 rooms and bathrooms (later expanded to 450 rooms and baths). It was the first hotel chain to offer such amenity. The hotel was successful and led to a chain of hotels in other cities. Statler's intent was not to compete with the luxury hotels, but to provide, clean, comfortable, and moderately-priced rooms for the average traveler. Statler was the first major hotel chain to have a bathroom in every room. His innovative Statler Plumbing Shaft is still used in modern construction. From providing paper and pens for correspondence (prominently bearing the Statler name) to a light in the closet, Statler brought the average traveler a level of luxury that was otherwise unaffordable.

Rooms were originally available at what seemed a very cheap price, leading many other hoteliers to predict the failure of the Buffalo hotel. The opening night price was as low as $1.50 for a guest room, leading to the slogan "A Room and a Bath for a Dollar and a Half". The hotel had a $500,000 line of credit available, but maintained positive cash flow and Statler never used the line of credit. The Statler hotel in St. Louis was the first in the nation to offer air conditioning. The Dallas Statler hotel was the first in the nation to have elevator music.

Each of the subsequent Statler Hotels built upon this formula for success. Reflecting the era's enthusiasm for scientific management, Statler took pride in how he standardized questions of room design. His hotels had minimal wasted space, particularly on the guestroom floors, and he strove to have room layouts that would maximize efficiency and profitability.

After Statler's death in 1928, the company built hotels in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, Hartford, Connecticut, and Dallas, Texas. Many of these hotels were designed by the architectural firm of George Post & Sons, the successor firm of George B. Post. In the mid- and late-1940s, pianist Liberace "gained national exposure through his performance contracts with the Statler and Radisson hotel chains".

The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., was sold to Conrad Hilton's Hilton Hotels in 1954 for $111 million, then the world's largest real estate transaction.

The Statler hotel in Buffalo was the first to be demolished after the Hilton acquisition, in 1968. The Statler hotel in New York became the Hotel Pennsylvania.

The Statler Hotel - Buffalo, New York
The Travel Channel's documentary paranormal television show Destination Fear filmed at the location in 2019 for the seventh episode of their first season.

In 2020, former owner Mark Croce was killed in a helicopter crash. As of June 2021, the hotel has been purchased by developers planning to turn the building into a mixed-use structure with retail, meeting and entertainment space, and 600 - 700 residential units.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Monarchy

Perhaps the State that these monarchs reigned over would be a good feature to add to the box? Moogle 00:50, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Do you intende to replace "Queen" with "King" when this box is installed on a female monarch's page? Isabella of France's, for example? --Anonymous Participant

A lot of the boxes assume a lot of information that may be available for monarachies of Europe, but that will not be available for many Former monarchies of Asia, one issue of which is multiple names, which name should be used when referred to the monarch, and if there is a respectful short name that can be used in general contexts to save space and not interrupt with the flow of narrative when referring to the monarch. The territory once controlled by the Mons and other ethnic minorities in Burma like the Shans. Myanmar or Burma has long been controlled by a Burmese state which has Burmese names to refer to these monarchs, but the Mon and Shan names should be used. How do you join this group anyway? Not easy to figure out and link dosn't work. Jonfernquest 16:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)]

Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
 * User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
 * User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

List of movements that dispute the legitimacy of a reigning monarch
Does anyone have a movement to add to the above list? It only has two now. I created it, but it should probably be deleted if it cannot be expanded. Cheers, JChap2007 21:07, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Alpha Phi Alpha

greek art depicting fair skinned people
There is no citation given for this highly contentious opinion. Almost all greek pottery renders figures as black on orange or orange on black, so pottery is a non starter for claims of a 'fair skinned' greek art. Greek marble tends to be of light colouring, but since these were probably painted and have lost pigment, that is not a strong indicator of 'fairness' either. Given that many 'greeks' were in north africa, there needs to be at least a proper academic citation for a general greek depiction of 'fair skin'.

Add Charles Q. Brown Jr. next to the list
General Brown is the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Q._Brown_Jr. -- AstroU (talk) 00:11, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. Updated. Jax MN (talk) 00:28, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

"James Morton (Alpha Phi Alpha" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Morton_(Alpha_Phi_Alpha&redirect=no James Morton (Alpha Phi Alpha] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 21:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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Saint-Raymond, Quebec

Saint-Raymond, also called Saint-Raymond de Portneuf, is a city in Quebec, Canada, located about 63 km north-west of Quebec City. It is the largest city in population and area of the Portneuf Regional County Municipality.

Geography
Saint-Raymond is located on either side of the Sainte-Anne River. The municipal territory extends far to the north and has a total area of 670 km2. Most of the municipality is made up of forests where several chalets are built.

First settlements
The seigniory of Bourg-Louis, which includes the territory of Saint-Raymond, was initially occupied by the Huron. Their round hut was only a few feet away from the current location of the presbytery. The seigniory was jointly owned by Bernard-Antoine Panet and Peter Langlois. The two men encourage the colonization of Sainte-Anne river valley. Four couples from Ancienne-Lorette were the first to rise to the challenge:
 * Alexis Cayer and Jane Skinner
 * Pierre Plamondon and Louise Déry
 * Pierre Duplain and Esther Robert
 * Joson Déry and Marguerite Hamel

It was in the spring of 1831 that the four men first left their home for the land the Huron had told them about. Once arrived, they shared the land among themselves. They spent the summers of 1831 and 1832 clearing the land. The four men went back to Ancienne-Lorette during the winters. In 1833, the women came with them to help prepare a permanent settlement. Other people subsequently came from the Ancienne-Lorette region.

As families arrived from l'Ancienne-Lorette, Irish communities developed in parallel in the Grand Rang sector. The first Scottish and Irish settlers arrived in the early 1830s. They came by sailboat to Quebec City, and were allocated lots in the seigniory of Bourg-Louis. Harriet Antill, an English-speaking woman married to Bernard-Antoine Panet, attracted hundreds of Irish people who were fleeing the famine in their country. The Irish colony soon built the Saint-Bartholomew chapel, two schools, a post office, a grain mill and a paper mill.

Formation of a town
In 1839, the mission counted 210 inhabitants. In February 1842, an assembly presided by Hugh Paisly, the parish priest of Sainte-Catherine, elected the first syndics who would represent the interests of the newly formed institution.

On 3 August 1844, archbishop Joseph Signay approved the canonical erection of Saint-Raymond in the seigniory of Bourg-Louis and the Gosford township. The parish was named Saint-Raymond Nonnat in honour of its patron saint Raymond Nonnatus.

Édouard Antrobus, the general overseer of roads (grand-voyer), traced the routes and organized municipal chores. A cadastral plan was prepared for lot allocation. The joyful hut (cabane joyeuse) built by Joseph Déry and his friends was used as a city hall. On its door appeared a billboard, which kept the population updated about current events.

Saint-Raymond was civilly erected on 18 June 1845. The taxpayers later elected their first council. The council elected Jacques Labranche as the first mayor.

The first city hall was built in 1903 next to where is now the Chalifour bridge. It was expanded in 1909 to include a reception room, an apartment for the security guard and an office for the secretary-treasurer.

The presbytery was built in 1846. It is located next to the church. It contains several rooms and was designed to accommodate the parish priest and his vicars, the maid, as well as visiting priests.

The postal service started in 1853. The post office was initially located in Siméon Matte's house, which is now occupied by the Buffalo resto-pub.

The Saint-Agricole chapel in the Saguenay rural district (le rang Saguenay) was built in 1860.

The red bridge (le pont rouge) was the first bridge and was built in 1875 at the end of the convent's street. Another bridge was inaugurated on 15 October 1889. The Premier of Quebec, Honoré Mercier, and the member of the National Assembly representing Portneuf, Jules Tessier, came to Saint-Raymond for the inauguration. The bridge was named the Tessier Bridge in honour of the representative. The red bridge was sold in an auction for $46 also in 1889.

A school system was developed in 1870. The schools in the village and in the rural districts provided elementary education only.

Churches
A first Catholic church was built in 1844 on the river bank. The cemetery, before it was moved, was located near the chapel, also on the river bank. The first burial took place on 28 September 1844.

The first church was lost in a fire on 10 January 1858. A small granite church was built to replace it. However, after 40 years, despite successive improvements, the second church became too small for the ever-increasing population. In 1900 began the construction of a third church south of the second one. The third church, still in use today, is a neoclassical work of art. It was built with granite from Rivière-à-Pierre. The plans were drawn by Georges-Émile Tanguay, architect of the city hall of Quebec City. The first mass was celebrated in 1902.

Wood industry
Logging started in 1850. Timber was brought to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade by log drivers on the Sainte-Anne River. It was then sent to Quebec city by schooner.

The construction of a railroad in 1880 stimulated the growth of the wood industry. The first pulp and paper plant, owned by T.-L. Jackson, opened in 1888. Napoléon Piché opened the first large sawmills in 1890 and 1904. By 1900, Saint-Raymond counted 21 (mostly small) sawmills. Logging, log driving, and lumber production became important sectors of the economy.

Late 19th century
In 1886, the population had grown to 3807.

In 1895, a flood caused a lot of damage.

Saint-Raymond lost some of its territory when its smaller neighbours Sainte-Christine and Saint-Léonard were created, in 1895 and 1897 respectively.

As the number of pupils kept increasing, the Sisters of Charity convent (le couvent des Sœurs de la Charité) was erected in 1896.

To better fit people's needs, Saint-Raymond was divided in 1898 into two municipalities: the village and the parish.

On 25 June 1899, a fire started in the middle of the village. Forty houses burned, leaving sixty of the families living on Saint-Joseph street homeless. The houses were rebuilt within three months. The municipality later bought a fire pump and formed a volunteer firefighter program. On 12 June 1907, another fire started at Siméon Martel's house on Saint-Joseph street. Pushed by the wind, it reached Napoléon Moisan's house and other neighbouring houses. The firefighters' efforts limited the damage, but 20 houses were lost.

City development
The first bank in Saint-Raymond was the Halifax People's Bank (la Banque du Peuple d'Halifax). It was built in 1900. The building is now occupied by the clothes shop la Marquisette.

A hydro-electric dam was built on the Bras-du-Nord river in 1901. People referred to it as the pouvoir électrique, a word-to-word translation of the English electric power. The municipality bought the facility in 1914, and sold it to North Shore Power in 1924. The ruins of the dam can still be seen today at the place called the rapid of light (le rapide de la Lumière).

The Sainte-Marie hospital, a private maternity hospital, was the main hospital from 1955 to 1959. The hospital was a log home with two floors and was built where is now located the parking of the Lefebvre drugstore (la pharmacie Lefebvre). The Saint-Raymond hospital opened in 1959. The hospital then counted about 20 beds.

The Saint-Joseph college (le collège Saint-Joseph) was built in 1908. In 1916, it counted 182 students. In October 1928, a fire destroyed the top two floors. During a very cold day in December 1933, fire struck the college again, this time destroying it completely. The school was rebuilt.

The Marguerite d'Youville school, where children now go from kindergarten to the third grade, was built in 1960. Since 1972, high school education is given at the Louis-Jobin high school (l'école secondaire Louis-Jobin), which was initially named la polyvalente de Saint-Raymond.

Le cinéma Alouette, a movie theatre, was built in 1947.

A credit union (caisse populaire) was started in 1934.

A new post office was built in 1938.

The municipal ski centre opened in 1974 and offered 5 trails, a lift, 64 kilometres (40 mi) of cross-country trails, and a 24 by 23 ft chalet. A tubing facility was installed at the centre in 1997.

With money collected during a telethon, an arena was built in 1975.

The Big Log festival (le festival de la Grosse Bûche) is a popular local family event occurring in July since 1976.

In 1992, Saint-Raymond celebrated its 150th anniversary.

In 1994, the rails were removed from the railroad to construct the Jacques-Cartier / Portneuf recreation trail. The trail was finished in 1997.

When the city and the parish fused in 1995, Saint-Raymond became the most populous city of Portneuf.

Three numbered provincial roads converge to St-Raymond, Route 365, Route 367, and Route 354.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Raymond had a population of $11,108$ living in $4,972$ of its $5,752$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $10,358$. With a land area of 666.2 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Population trend:
 * Population in 2016: 10,221 (2011 to 2016 population change: 6.3%)
 * Population in 2011: 9,615 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3.7%)
 * Population in 2006: 9,273
 * Population in 2001: 8,836
 * Population in 1996: 8,733
 * Population in 1991: 8,126

Mother tongue:
 * English as first language: 0.9%
 * French as first language: 97.5%
 * English and French as first language: 0.2%
 * Other as first language: 1.3%

Economy
Saint-Raymond developed mostly around the wood industry. Today, the sawmills and the wood drying, wood treating, plywood, and paper plants still play an essential role in the economy of the region, as well as the sugar shack, where maple syrup is produced. The area is noted as the home of international prize-winning cheese maker Alexis de Portneuf.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linux Tablet

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 no consensus. Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:40, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Linux Tablet
Original research, howto. Delete. --cesarb 00:55, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Getting better after rewrite, less of a howto and more of an encyclopedic article. However, still merge into Tablet PC after heavy cleanup. --cesarb 17:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with deleting both the original and my cleaned up sub-sub-stub. Not an article deserving of a topic anymore than, say, Linux iBook would be. Posted from a TabletPC, running BeOS, badly.... Kiand 01:00, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: You made above comment before the article was last updated- I would appreciate your reactions to the current article and would appreciate your advice.Vizion
 * Hide until someone cleans it up and makes it NPOV instead of rabid fanboy linuxcruft. this has the potential to be an interesting article, or maybe we should just delete it and add any alternative OS info to the Tablet PC. SchmuckyTheCat 01:09, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: You made above comment before the article was last updated- I would appreciate your reactions to the current article and would appreciate your advice.Vizion
 * Redirect to Linux and merge info. --Fuzzball! (talk) 02:21, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Not certain about this idea - it sounds attractive but it may not be pravticle. The topic is a bit too complex to be as a sub-topic under Linux - especially as it would also be advantageous to refer to other unixlike operating systems. It would also mean the same data would then have to be repeated for each of the other Uinxlike operating systems of which there are around 70. That would lead to undecessary duplication. I would prefer to suggest the strategy of placing a cross reference into articles for the other UnixLike and provinding a short sub-sub paragraph into Linux Tablet stating for each distribution how Tablet PC's implemenatation differs for that OS from the Linux implementation. What do you think to this strategy? Vizion
 * Delete the Tablet PC article is based on the hardware not the operating system, and already mentions Linux on the tablet PCs. PPGMD 05:38, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to wikibooks.-gadfium 05:47, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are several Linux tablet PCs, including Element Computer's. Perhaps this article could elaborate. Andrew pmk 06:08, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Tablet PC or Linux. Mgm|(talk) 08:24, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC) Tablet PC under Linux (and Unixlike operating systems is too complex to sit well with the structure of that TabletPC article.
 * Transwiki how-tos (see the version that was vfd'd) to Wikibooks. —Korath (Talk) 10:16, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: see also the author's comments at Village pump (assistance). --cesarb 02:05, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. I am the author of the original article and it was posted as a stub in the expectation that others would contribute to it and that I would add more material as itbecame available and I had the time to do so.

My view is that the topic deserves an article on its own account because it brings under one heading so many different fragments of specialized knowledge which in combination contribute to an understanding of a Linux (or any other **ix distribution)Tablet and how to build and operate one. I have already identified over 20 sub-topics which need to be referenced and indexed within the main body of the article.

The interface requirements of a Tablet is entirely different from of any other computer type. This produces particular problems for software and the OS under Linux/Unix(especially on boot up/login) and an understanding of the hardware/OS interface. I see this stub article providing a reference for all the data about the OS/software/hardware and specialist applications which can be provided using this tool.

I also envisage the article encompassing the data for other **ix like distributions supporting the Tablet PC under one title. That may justify a change in the title of the article and I would be keen to hear any suggestions. What I had in mind doing was to create a sub topic which gave modifications necessary to the data in the main article to build and operate Tablets under other **ix OS distributions.

Iwould agree that my first draft was a bit idiosyncratic and too personal in nature. I was expecting to get some pretty good constructive editing and contributions from others and had collated material ready for carrying out some editing which would have addressed that deficiency. I went back to edit the article and was astonished to find that it had been deleted (I no longer have a copy) within such a short time of the original draft being posted.

If I had realized that the would have been a risk of deletion before an opportunity had arisen to mature the first draft I might have held off from posting at the early stage. I feel it is not inappropriate to ask that the article be undeleted so Ican have an opportunity to receive helpful comments and criticisms, carried out further editing and provide an opportunity to incorporate the benefit of contributions from others.

Vizion

David Southwell

 * It hasn't been deleted yet. You can retrieve old versions of an article with the "history" tab.  Here's a direct link to the last version you edited. —Korath (Talk) 22:16, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Question : So can I still edit that article -- or do I have to wait until the outcome of this dialogue? I am confused by the process. Why does Votes for deletion not take place separately to keep that process away from the article under consideration?

Vizion
 * Yes, you can still edit the article. The Votes for deletion is kept separate (the only change it makes to the article is to add a box on the top, which should be kept if you change the article — it will be removed when the Votes for deletion on it is closed). In fact, the removal of most of the content of the article was an edit made by someone else after the VfD notice was added, and would probably happen even without it. For more information, see the Guide to Votes for deletion. --cesarb 22:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Vizion
 * Comment: Ok I have now started the process of editing which will continue as rapidly as I can make time available. Iwould appreciate it anyone who has constructe ideas or criticisms would please add them here so I can make best use of their knowledge and experience.

 * Comment: Wikipedia isn't a howto archive, and that seems like what you are trying to do. I think if you want to make an encyclopedia type article great, but it simply sounds like you are trying to make a howto. Now I think that the section on Linux in the Tablet PC article needs expanding, I think thats the best place for it, unless it gets too large, than you can branch it out. I would prefer one long article on Tablet PCs in general then one short article on the hardware, another short one on Windows Tablet PC Edition, and another short one on Linux Tablet PCs. PPGMD 14:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You mightbwant to consider that I am making links to other Wiki articles as I go to make cross-references where appropriate. So to start under one heading and change later would create unnecessary work. I hope to persuade you to support me on keeping this article as is and thank you. Vizion
 * Comment: Sorry if you gained an impression from the early draft that this is intended to be a "how-to". That is not the intention as you will see as the article progresses. It is intended to be a collation of all the knowledge and references about Linux Tablet (note the article's definition of OS (Linux and Unixlike) including data about design challenges with references to design solutions. I do not want to make this a sub of the Linux article because the concentration is on the wider Unixlike needs.(I also want to avoid internecine editing wars with virulent advocates of the different Unixlike OSs). I also do not want to get involved in the spats between microsoft/apple/unix devotees which will plague us if the article is a sub of the Tablet PC. This article extends beyond the purview of The Tablet as an instrument andvextends into the areas of OS and application design. The other thing you mightbwant to take into account is that this is planned as a substantial article. I have already garnered s lot of material to be be include once the basic structure is in place.

 * Comment: Based on the current edit it can either turn into a term paper or a howto, both of those would be out of place in Wikipedia. I feel that it would benefit wikipedia more if you started your article as a section of the Tablet PC article, and only seperated out if your article starts to get too long. Until your article demostrates other wise my vote is delete and merge as posted above. PPGMD 18:08, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please see the latest edit - I have made it clear that it is not a How-To. What do you mean by a term paper?

I am not familiar with that. Is that a word with a wiki specific meaning or is it an american word with a meaning unknown to me (I am a Brit)? I do remain strongly opposed to placing it under the Tablet PC article. I have a lot of experience of the difficulties which arise when Unixlike operating systems are discussed in the same space alongside microsoft and apple communities, especially as the agendas would, in thebcontext of this article, be entirely different. The politics get too fierce for my taste! The other thing is the structure of the Tablet PC does not facilitate the objectives of this article and I really do not believe it can be made to work. Vizion

 * A term paper, jeez hard to describe, I have written way too many of them when I was in college. Anyways your objectives of the article, don't seem to line up with the objectives of wikipedia, which "surveys existing human knowledge," this article would require quite a bit of original research to complete. A perfect Linux tablet PC article would include a description, short analysis of current Linux Tablet OSs, short comings of those OSs, and links to sites with howtos. Unfortunately that wouldn't be long enough to merit it's own article, when the current Tablet PC article can easily edited to accommodate it IMO. Note this is no way official, but the opinion of myself. PPGMD 18:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: I am inclined to ask whether you are jumping to conclusions. First the article will bemuch more substantial than commentators here seem to assume. Maybe that is because I have been researching this topic for some time and it is extremely complex. I am not willing to provide surface treatment of the subject. The structure of an article dealing with Tablet PCs on Win XP would have to be entirely different than one on UnixLike systems. Then there would be justifiable criticism that one was writing beyond the subject topic-- the article I am writing goes well beyond that limited title!

 * Comment However, you seem to think that an article on Linux powered Tablets would actually be different enough.
 * At this very moment I am using BeOS 5.03 on a HP Compaq tc1100 tablet. I installed via a DOS network boot and a hard disk image file - took under an hour. All the hardware works (except page flip chip). Its bascially indistinguishable from using the tc1100 under Windows, except for the fact that I have a Tracker in the top right hand corner and no Windows systray. Linux is much the same. There is little that can be written about Linux, or any other OS, on Tablet PC's without devolving into a howto. Kiand 19:20, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Just an aside the compaq tc 1100 is really a dual mode portable as it has a convential keyboard which is detachable. This places it in one of the genre of portable systems distinct from the "pure" Tablet. The Tc1100 shares many attributes with Laptop/Tablet but is perhaps best defined as a Tablet/laptop convertable.

The interesting is that each genre, has its own fascinating distinctions and potentials. For example it is much easier to install/repair an OS onto a Tablet with a detachable physical keyboard which is generally or frequently used in a location with access to a network than it is onto, for example, a rugged Tablet with no keyboard on board a small ship (where physical keyboards are also impracticable and get damaged) or in all terrain vehicle in the desert which never has access to a network. These systems need an OS which is standalone installable and repairable. Most Tablets in use are applied as a simple alternative to a conventional laptop. The limited vision implicit in the use of does not define what can be written about the Tablet. I hope this helps.

Vizion

 * What you are writing is more comparable to a book or a howto, and is simply beyond the scope of Wikipedia. I do agree with Kiand, after checking out Wikibooks, that would be the best place for your article. We could then restructure the Tablet PC article with sections on general concept, hardware, Windows, and Linux, and under the Linux section we could link to your article on Wikibooks. PPGMD 19:43, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment
 * What you are writing is not suitable for the Encylcopaedia. Without us explaining it all, please read the Manual of Style. What you are writing is not an encyclopaedia article; it is basically a howto under a different name.

 * Comment Please read the article not a single How-to in the current draft. There are headings for the insertion of further material but I can assure you that none of those headings will be filled with How-To material. Vizion

 * You will notice that no other encylopaedia articles list the contributors; or contain huge detailed lists of how to do things, in the way yours does.

 * Comment List of contributors edited out. Please read the article you will see there are no detailed lists of how to do things in the article. There are headings for sections which are being written but none of those headings will contain how-to material.

 * However, it would be suitable on Wikibooks, another Wikimedia project for collaborative manual and book writing. Kiand 18:43, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok I am taking out the list of contributors -- in english law you have to maintain a list of responsible contributors in any publication to meet the needs of libel lawyers.. if you do not do so then the publisher can be liable with a very poor defense..so I am following normal practice.

I hear you on your how-to objection but I ask you not to judge so hastily. Seriously I have reason for saying that that label will not be sustainable as the article matures.

 * The History tab keeps that detail, including who wrote what.
 * I still say this article is more suited to wikibooks. Kiand 19:04, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

............ Comment by Vizion: This remark quotes from an earlier draft. Current draft makes intention clear -
 * Delete - This has no more relevance than "Windows Tablet", which thankfully does not exist. Personally, I'd recommend axing it.  This article [...] collates and discusses [...]

This is not an encyclopedia entry. The appropriate place for this would perhaps be a newsgroup or a forum, but not Wikipedia. -- Dpark 19:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment. See also What Wikipedia is not. --cesarb 22:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Question? Please tell me where the Linux Tablet falls into one of the categories identified in What Wikipedia is not-- as far as I can see it does not do so. If you can show me where it does then I will edit accordingly.. Vizion

Comment: I think you have all created an opportunity for me to identify WHY the encyclopaedic knowledge brought together in this article is required. At this point in time there seems to be a general assumption is that the Tablet PC is defined by reference to a Microsoft instance (see Kiands comment - he compares his Tablet as says it does whatever Microsoft can do -- (it could be argued, outside of an encyclopeadic article, that Microsoft's Tablet Edition does not begin to test the Tablet potential possibly because of the limits placed by the privacy of its Operating System source code). In fact the limitations on Tablet potential may be arguably defined by the Microsoft instance and by the public lack of encyclopeadic information about the Tablet. Now that is not an argument which I would dream of including in a Wiki but because there is no publicly accessible source of enclopaedic knowlege about the Tablet the Tablet is in default defined by Microsoft. It might be argued Microsoft would like to keep it that way by retaining their encycopaedic knowledge of the topic in their private domain. I freely acknowledge that I am a newbie in the Wiki world but why do you guys not let something mature a bit before trying to delete it,or, in the alternative, make some constructive suggestions so the article can meet essential requirements? In the current context I cannot help but feel a decision to delete this article would amount to censorship in Microsoft's interest. At thensame time even though I assume this is not personal, and the comments have been made in good faith, it is hard to resist the feeling of being jumped on before time and of exclusion.

Vizion REWRITTEN: The article is being rewritten and I suggest it be revisited. The suggestion the article is a How-to isva false assumption --I cannot but repeat what is said in the article. This is not a How-to article Vizion

Comment: I've tried to clean up the style, though it could still use some work. Even so, I still vote for deletion. I can't help but notice that despite the article being fairly long, it doesn't really contain any information. I or someone else can continue to work on the style, but until there's useful information, can we justify keeping this article? If there really is anything useful in this article that I'm overlooking, maybe it should be merged with Tablet PC. I still don't see the need in a Linux-Specific Tablet PC article, especially until there's a larger body of information. I'd recommend a sub-section on the Tablet PC page, and if it grows large enough, then it could be moved into its own article. So far, there's just a page and a half of empty headings. That does not constitute an article. Dpark 23:24, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I think I've pretty much exhausted what I can/am willing to do for the style. Looking through the article, I found that the following things qualify as useful and original content: The intro sentence. That's pretty much it (and I added that). The rest is either already in other articles (the definitions, basic info on the touch-panel), qualifies as how-to (how to install using a usb keyboard versus custom software), or as "what should be here" (About this Article, everything under the subheadings). The usefulness of the intro sentence is pretty much up for debate, too, since it depends on the importance of the term (which I'd rate as pretty low). I still say delete. There's not really anything here to even merge into Tablet PC. It's been almost two weeks since it was created, and there's still no real content. Dpark
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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