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User talk:Kevin Rector/archive 3

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Canonical Sequence Transwikification
Thanks for letting me know. Courtland 23:38, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

Transfers to Wiktionary
Kevin, your Bot says that it is transferring articles to Wiktionary. Unfortunately it appears to be lying. Although it is marking the articles concerned as candidates for speedy deletion, there is no sign of said articles appearing in the Wiktionary (at least not the ones that I checked -- "backhander" for instance). Please stop the bot immediately until you sort this out. I'm assuming that there is a bug in it. Of course if there is some other explanation for the missing Wiktionary entries, I would be delighted to hear it. In fact it would be nice if the Kevinbot produced a link to a full explanation of what it's doing, assuming that it is in fact working as you intended. Because, if it is, it's not obvious. In any case we don't want to lose a whole lot of useful text, so in the meantime I'm assuming the worst and reversing its changes manually. -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:44, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Having read it I feel much happier about what the Bot's doing, so I'll remove the warning from the Speedy Deletions category page and reverse my manual changes. Cheers. -- Derek Ross | Talk 19:01, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Not transferring edit history
Looks you or your bot failed to transfer the edit history of kiriban: []. I hope that's the only case. Kappa 08:04, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Rlquall up for admin vote
One of the most prolific Tennessee Wikipedians, Rlquall, is currently being voted on for Adminship. If you'd like to support his nomination, cast a vote on the Request for adminship page. Thanks. Kaldari 19:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. My goal is to eventually get all of the regular Tennessee editors up to admin status (that want to be admins) so we can do a better job of keeping up the local articles and stewarding new local editors. Maybe one day we can even put together a Tennessee Wikipedia portal. Kaldari 22:09, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Transwiki stuff
I don't know what the hell is going on, but you need to make your bot pay more attention to talk pages. I objected to a transwiki for letter carrier several months ago, being nice on the talk page and not just summarily reverting everybody in sight, but my reward has been to have another bot attempt to delete it, and only fail because of compression. It really pisses me off that we have irresponsible people running bots to delete stuff, not even taking the trouble to notice if something had been posted on the talk page. I guess the next time I'm just going to revert, since the talk page is apparently no longer used. Stan 17:45, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re : Letter carrier
Hi Kevin,

Letter carrier has been unprotected and deletion notice removed. - Mailer Diablo 03:14, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. :) - Mailer Diablo 03:23, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks all! Stan 13:12, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I posted some comments at Administrators' noticeboard
Hello, I posted some comments at Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents. I have some concerns about whether the bot should be automatically putting Template:Deletetranswikied notices on articles... actually, the very existence of this template is a bit problematic and contradictory. -- Curps 02:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd add, please don't run the bot until this is all squared away. -- Netoholic @ 03:09, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)

Move to Wikisource
I think your bot has sped up the transwiki process quite nicely. I wonder if it could work on Category:Move_to_Wikisource doing the same job for Wikisource (I don't know the what the work involved in programming is, so excuse me if I'm suggesting a huge job). There certainly aren't as many articles to transwiki there, but it looks as if there's not a single editor doing the job, so it will gradually pile up (85 now). What do you think? (PS, I think your "my contributions" link at User:KevinBot doesn't work) --Dmcdevit 04:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I do appreciate your transwikiing, it was only a little while ago that there were hundreds! :) Now if it's not too much trouble I'd like to give it a go, but I warn you I have no experience in programming or anything like that. I don't know when I'll get around to it, but it's a worthy goal. Thanks again for your help with moving to wiktionary! --Dmcdevit 05:02, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I've got XP --Dmcdevit 05:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm emailing it to you; you can't attach using WP's "email this user", right? (Just don't want it in open view). Btw, thanks a lot! --Dmcdevit 05:20, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We love you, Kevin!
In response to your comment that transwikiing has given you a ton of grief and no love, here's a for your efforts.

It's an ungrateful job, but if you didn't do it, nobody would. People seem to think that if you make even one dubious decision in a thousand, it's the end of the world ("it's a bot! shoot it!") Of course it's not. Keep educating people, fix what needs to be fixed, and continue helping out Wikipedia. Your efforts are appreciated. JRM 10:18, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)

 * What they said. Your efforts are appreciated and I hope you'll reconsider transwikiing again if the need arises. Mgm|(talk)

DYK Bot
Hi Kevin,

If you can take some time out of your busy schedule, will you see what's wrong with my code? This is a request from MacGyverMagic that he made personally to me, and I have gotten it working... somewhat. It gets the information correctly... moving the information is another matter. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:45, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * It's not just transferring the information correctly to page to page. The pywikipediabot framework is only to get the page in its entirely as the text of the wikicode.  So basically, if you did "Edit this page" and cut and pasted all the wiki text into a log file, that's basically what I'm doing. -- AllyUnion (talk) 21:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

After taking a break from the code, I looked it over and found one minor thing that I forgot which is why it broke. Then I took a step back and rewrote some things. Now it's working fine. I can start commenting the code should you like if you want to know how it works... just for you to pick up some pointers on Perl. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:07, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VfD template bot request
Hi there! Susvolan pointed out that the bot wouldn't really need admin rights for at least most of the tasks. After all the great work you did on transwikefaction, would you please consider helping out here? Thanks! Radiant_* 09:23, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It's in no particular hurry anyway, just a matter of cleanup. I'd appreciate your help whenever you have time. Yours, Radiant_* 14:49, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Lorna Nogueira
Please don't use the same subpage as an old vfd for a new one; it makes maintenance unnecessarily painful. Either move the old vote aside (as I've done in this case, to Votes for deletion/Lorna Nogueira/vote1), or manually change the vfd link from the article to Votes for deletion/Lorna Nogueira (2) or similar. I do agree that the page needs to go, and would further support deleting the preserved copies out of userspace. —Korath (Talk) 04:58, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I wasn't sure the best way to handle that. But now I know. Thanks for handling that for me. Kevin Rector 05:00, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

re: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
You said:

 * See, it's all this talk about Evidence and arbitration that I find so distressing. What I'd love to see is if we could stop the legaleze and if everyone involved would just step back, take a big deep breath, and just let it go and then maybe go edit an encyclopedia article or something.

Great comment! . Wikipedia started that way, but it's really hard work to actually keep wikipedia that way. Kim Bruning 11:15, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Leaving? On Vacation
I'm sorry to hear that :-( . I was kind of hoping you would have been able to help me keep wikipedia sane. Ah well, take care! Kim Bruning 22:36, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, wikivacation good! :-) Hope to see you around when you're more back-ish :-)! Kim Bruning 10:54, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tutorial formerly named Prince
In re: How to make complex illustrations using FreeHand and Photoshop -- by all the gods, I have got to figure out a better name for this -- I see you have restored the "move to Wikibooks" template.

Note that I did not remove the tag, and am not particularly hostile to the move. I'm only concerned that it is a large and complex project and may very well be difficult to move intact. I started it in Wikipedia space because I saw other graphics tutorials here; and I started it before I became the target of Netoholic's single-minded, stalking attacks.

If you are, in some way, Netoholic's teammate, then I salute you, Sir. If you believe you are acting in truly impartial fashion, then I ask you to shoulder the burden of the move to Wikibooks. It's technically quite involved. If neither, then I suggest you have been made into Netoholic's cat's paw. His nomination for movement has effectively stopped me from contributing to the tutorial.

Thank you. — Xiong 熊 talk 02:32, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

 * I am by no means Netaholic's partner. I don't really even know him. I just saw that your deal is definitely a tutorial and my understanding is that tutuorials go in Wikibooks. I'll help you move it. Kevin Rector (talk) 03:56, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey there, I just now saw that your tutorial is in the Wikipedia namespace and not the article namespace. So as far as I'm concerned, you can leave it right where it is. Sorry if I've been any bother to you at all. By the way, I've read some of your comments on various pages and I really enjoy your sense of humor. Kevin Rector (talk) 04:05, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

That's the way I saw it, too, when I first created the page. I saw other tutorials in Wikipediaspace and I figured that was where this belonged. Since then, you're the 3rd person to tag the tutorial for a move -- see the tutorial's Talk page for discussions.

I really don't know or care whether the tutorial moves. I think a far more serious problem is that I unthinkingly created it with an unbelievably cumbersome name. If you don't want to move the tutorial interwiki anymore, perhaps you can help me think of a better name for it. Thank you for being a civil person. — Xiong 熊 talk 04:28, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

 * How about How to make complex illustrations using FreeHand and Photoshop becomes FreeHand and Photoshop Tutorial. That's the easiest name I can come up with. As far as civility goes, I try as much as possible to be as civil as possible. Of course like everyone else I do have my buttons that can get pushed sometimes. Kevin Rector (talk) 04:51, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Well, Old Netty is a highly skilled button-pusher, and when he can't push the button himself, he'll look for someone else to do it for him.

Your name is better, but still clumsy -- but I appreciate the effort. For one, I don't want to tie it to those two applications. It is a tutorial on the combined use of bitmap and vector graphics editors, showing the user how to switch back and forth between the two to obtain results. I just inserted a reference to the open-source Inkscape, and I want to do more like that.

I'd really like to get some more hands at the table, but I'm too busy these days cleaning up after You Know Who to go recruiting. — Xiong 熊 talk 05:10, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

 * Hmm... Well, it's not really a topic that I know much about so I'd be pretty useless to you, but here's some other name ideas for you:
 * Using bitmap and vector graphic editors
 * How to use bitmap and vector graphic editors
 * Advanced image editing
 * Advanced image editing tutorial
 * How to do advanced image editing
 * Maybe those will help?? Kevin Rector (talk) 05:16, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

The perspective of a newcomer to graphics work is exactly what is needed. It's a tutorial; seasoned pros know all the tricks I plan to show new guys. Everything about it should make sense to somebody with some basic computer skills who has dabbled in these two areas.

I like Advanced image editing, because it is the shortest. You just gloss over the specifics (in the title), and that's fine. It does not really point to the topic with the correct jargon, though. Perhaps Advanced graphic design? Only thing about that is, I don't like to use the word "advanced" -- scares people off. Must think harder. — Xiong 熊 talk 05:28, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

 * ooh... Digital image editing because it is an article about how to edit an image that is digital. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:31, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Fragmented discussion merged to: Wikipedia talk:How to make complex illustrations using FreeHand and Photoshop -- this discussion belongs in a central area. Delete all above if you like; it's preserved. — Xiong 熊 talk 06:24, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

Compromise on Talk:Titanic (1997 movie)
You're welcome, Kevin, but all the thanks go to you. At times, I've felt flustered just reading some arguments, but sometimes I think it's best to either move on or try to find a compromise. Thank you for taking the harder road and most likely succeeding in doing so. --Deathphoenix 04:09, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Convention
Are you interested in the Charter Convention? If so, please email me. — Xiong 熊 talk 05:11, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

 * I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're talking about. However, now I want to know what you're talking about to know if I am interested in it. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:31, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * What I mean to say is, I know what a charter convention is, but I'm not clear on what the charter convention is. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:38, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

You need to email me. — Xiong 熊 talk 06:04, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

Photographs!
Kevin, I understand that you apparently have a problem with my keeping several articles which you do not like on my User pages, however, since I am not violating any polices and many other Wikipedians do this, will you please stop putting all my photos up for deletion? Tony
 * I don't think there's any harm in keeping a page or two in your userspace, as long as these pages aren't linked from the main encyclopedia space (and I believe we have a bot to check that?). Of course someone keeping hundreds of deleted pages in userspace would be pushing it, but I don't think anyone's doing that. Radiant_* 08:13, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC) Having a few user of pages that have been deleted is okay, so please leave my photographs alone and remove the the votes for deletion tags from them! Tony

Titanic
Kevin, I don't get into edit wars. I have reverted your removal of the picture once and will not do so again (usually someone else shows up and does it for me, and if they don't I take that as a sign to drop the idea).

Well I think we already discussed the idea and the consensus seemed to be that it as a perfectly good picture. The new one is more appropriate for the plot, but this is still a very pretty picture so I think it should be in the Award section. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:45, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Meelar reverted it, and that's that. I must say I don't appreciate your tone or your false accusations of working against consensus.  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:26, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm tired
I have angry new editors I would like to be friends with at WP:LDS and WP:JW each shaking fists at me this week over suppressing the truth about "the Morg" and "the Borg". I guess welcoming new editors is sometimes hard work. Any help you can give at Jehovah's Witnesses and Anti-Mormonism will be appreciated. I think I better drop out for a while. Wikiholiday!!! p.s. Lectures on communication skills welcome. Tom Haws 18:50, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Italy competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 304 competitors, 228 men and 76 women, took part in 169 events in 26 sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
In Italy's first archery competition without Giancarlo Ferrari, the four Italians went a combined 0-3 in the elimination round with Ilario Di Buò not even qualifying for the eliminations. The men's team also lost in the first round.

Women's Individual Competition:
 * Maria Testa — Round of 32, 21st place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:
 * Andrea Parenti — Round of 32, 19th place (0-1)
 * Alessandro Rivolta — Round of 32, 22nd place (0-1)
 * Ilario Di Buò — Ranking round, 39th place (0-0)

Men's Team Competition:
 * Parenti, Rivolta, and di Buo — Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

Athletics
Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
 * Alessandro Aimar, Marco Vaccari, Fabio Grossi, and Andrea Nuti
 * Heat — 3:02.09
 * Final — 3:02.18 (→ 6th place)

Men's 800 metres
 * Andrea Benvenuti — 1:45.23 (→ 5th place)

Men's 5.000 metres
 * Salvatore Antibo
 * Heat — 13:33.71
 * Final — 14:02.47 (→ 16th place)

Men's 10.000 metres
 * Salvatore Antibo
 * Heat — 28:18.48
 * Final — 28:11.39 (→ 4th place)

 * Francesco Bennici
 * Heat — 28:45.62 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon
 * Salvatore Bettiol — 2:14.15 (→ 5th place)
 * Alessio Faustini — 2:21.37 (→ 44th place)
 * Gelindo Bordin — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 400m Hurdles
 * Fabrizio Mori
 * Heat — 49.16 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
 * Giovanni De Benedictis — 1:23:11 (→ [[Image:Med 3.png]] Bronze Medal)
 * Maurizio Damilano — 1:23:39 (→ 4th place)
 * Walter Arena — 1:29:34 (→ 18th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
 * Giuseppe de Gaetano — 3:59:13 (→ 12th place)
 * Massimo Quiriconi — 4:00:28 (→ 13th place)
 * Giovanni Perricelli — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Long Jump
 * Giovanni Evangelisti
 * Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw
 * Enrico Sgrulletti
 * Qualification — 75.40 m
 * Final — 72.98 m (→ 11th place)

Men's Pole Vault
 * Andrea Pegoraro
 * Qualification — 5.40 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw
 * Luciano Zerbini
 * Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put
 * Luciano Zerbini
 * Qualification — 20.25 m
 * Final — 19.88 m (→ 9th place)

 * Alessandro Andrei
 * Qualification — 20.14 m
 * Final — 19.62 m (→ 11th place)

Women's 800 metres
 * Fabia Trabaldo
 * Heat — 2:01.44 (→ did not advance)

Women's 10.000 metres
 * Rosanna Munerotto
 * Heat — 32:17.01
 * Final — 32:37.91 (→ 16th place)

Women's 400m Hurdles
 * Irmgard Trojer
 * Heat — 55.49
 * Semifinal — 56.34 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon
 * Emma Scaunich — 2:46.14 (→ 18th place)
 * Anna Villani — 2:46.44 (→ 20th place)
 * Bettina Sabatini — 2:50.09 (→ 23rd place)

Women's Long Jump
 * Valentina Uccheddu
 * Heat — 6.40 m (→ did not advance)

 * Antonella Capriotti
 * Heat — 6.43 m (→ did not advance)

Women's 10 km Walk
 * Annarita Sidoti
 * Final — 45:23 (→ 7th place)

 * Elisabetta Perrone
 * Final — 46:43 (→ 19th place)

 * Ileana Salvador
 * Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's Discus Throw
 * Agnese Maffeis
 * Heat — 60.80m
 * Final — 61.22m (→ 10th place)

Women's High Jump
 * Antonella Bevilacqua
 * Qualification — 1.90 m (→ did not advance)

Baseball
Italy was not very successful at the premiere of Olympic baseball. The Italians lost six of their seven preliminary round games, beating only the host nation Spain. Their 1-6 record tied with that of Spain for seventh and eighth places, the Italians received the advantage in the tie-breaker because of the head-to-head result, barely avoiding last place.

Men's Team Competition:
 * Italy - 7th place (1-6)

Team roster
 * Massimo Ciaramella
 * Guglielmo Trinci
 * Claudio Cecconi
 * Elio Gambuti
 * Marco Urbani
 * Maurizio De Sanctis
 * Francesco Petruzzelli
 * Fulvio Valle
 * Massimiliano Masin
 * Andrea Succi
 * Claudio Taglienti
 * Paolo Ceccaroli
 * Ruggero Bagialemani
 * Rolando Cretis
 * Alberto d'Auria
 * Roberto Bianchi
 * Leonardo Scianchi
 * Luigi Carrozza
 * Massimo Fochi
 * Massimo Melassi

Women's team competition

 * Preliminary round (group A)
 * Lost to Brazil (70-85)
 * Lost to Unified Team (67-79)
 * Lost to Cuba (53-60)

 * Classification Matches
 * 5th/8th place: Lost to Spain (80-92)
 * 7th/8th place: Lost to Brazil (83-86) → 8th place

 * Team roster
 * Elena Paparazzo
 * Monica Bastiani
 * Mara Fullin
 * Stefania Salvemini
 * Anna Costalunga
 * Francesca Rossi
 * Angela Arcangeli
 * Catarina Pollini
 * Susanna Stanzani
 * Silvia Todeschini
 * Giuseppina Tufano
 * Stefania Passaro

Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
 * Luigi Castiglione
 * First Round – Lost to Dong-Bum Cho (ITA), 2:8

Cycling
Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented Italy in 1992.

 * Men's road race
 * Fabio Casartelli
 * Davide Rebellin
 * Mirco Gualdi

 * Men's team time trial
 * Flavio Anastasia
 * Luca Colombo
 * Gianfranco Contri
 * Andrea Peron

 * Men's sprint
 * Roberto Chiappa

 * Men's 1 km time trial
 * Adler Capelli

 * Men's individual pursuit
 * Ivan Beltrami

 * Men's team pursuit
 * Ivan Beltrami
 * Rossano Brasi
 * Ivan Cerioli
 * Fabrizio Trezzi
 * Giovanni Lombardi

 * Men's points race
 * Giovanni Lombardi

 * Women's road race
 * Valeria Cappellotto — 2:05:03 (→ 17th place)
 * Maria Turcutto — 2:05:03 (→ 32nd place)
 * Roberta Bonanomi — 2:05:58 (→ 39th place)

 * Women's individual pursuit
 * Gabriella Pregnolato

Diving
Men's 3m Springboard
 * Davide Lorenzini
 * Preliminary Round — 375.57 points
 * Final — 527.73 points (→ 12th place)

 * Alessandro de Botton
 * Preliminary Round — 312.69 points (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 10m Platform
 * Alessandro de Botton
 * Preliminary Round — 334.98 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 3m Springboard
 * Luisella Bisello
 * Preliminary Round — 249.36 points (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 10m Platform
 * Luisella Bisello
 * Preliminary Round — 272.19 points (→ 19th place)

Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented Italy in 1992.

 * Men's foil
 * Andrea Borella
 * Mauro Numa
 * Stefano Cerioni

 * Men's team foil
 * Marco Arpino, Andrea Borella, Stefano Cerioni, Mauro Numa, Alessandro Puccini

 * Men's épée
 * Angelo Mazzoni
 * Maurizio Randazzo
 * Sandro Cuomo

 * Men's team épée
 * Sandro Cuomo, Angelo Mazzoni, Stefano Pantano, Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Resegotti

 * Men's sabre
 * Marco Marin
 * Giovanni Scalzo
 * Ferdinando Meglio

 * Men's team sabre
 * Marco Marin, Ferdinando Meglio, Giovanni Scalzo, Giovanni Sirovich, Tonhi Terenzi

 * Women's foil
 * Giovanna Trillini
 * Margherita Zalaffi
 * Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella

 * Women's team foil
 * Giovanna Trillini, Margherita Zalaffi, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, Diana Bianchedi, Dorina Vaccaroni

Men's team competition

 * Preliminary round (group A)
 * Defeated United States (2-1)
 * Lost to Poland (0-3)
 * Defeated Kuwait (1-0)

 * Quarterfinals
 * Lost to Spain (0-1) → Did not advance

 * Team roster
 * ( 1) Francesco Antonioli
 * ( 2) Mauro Bonomi
 * ( 3) Giuseppe Favalli
 * ( 4) Luca Luzardi
 * ( 5) Salvatore Matrecano
 * ( 6) Alessandro Orlando
 * ( 7) Stefano Rossini
 * ( 8) Mirko Taccola
 * ( 9) Rufo Verga
 * (10) Demetrio Albertini
 * (11) Dino Baggio
 * (12) Angelo Peruzzi
 * (13) Eugenio Corini
 * (14) Dario Marcolin
 * (15) Gianluca Sordo
 * (16) Renato Buso
 * (17) Pasquale Rocco
 * (18) Marco Ferrante
 * (19) Alessandro Melli
 * (20) Roberto Muzzi

 * Head coach: Cesare Maldini

Judo

 * Massimo Sulli

Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1992. They won a bronze medal in the team event.

 * Individual
 * Roberto Bomprezzi
 * Carlo Massullo
 * Gianluca Tiberti

 * Team
 * Roberto Bomprezzi
 * Carlo Massullo
 * Gianluca Tiberti

Sailing
Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
 * Riccardo Giordano
 * Final Ranking — 182.1 points (→ 16th place)

Women's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
 * Alessandra Sensini
 * Final Ranking — 101.4 points (→ 7th place)

Women's 470 Class
 * Maria Quarra and Anna Maria Barabino
 * Final Ranking — 68.7 points (→ 7th place)

Swimming
Men's Competition
 * René Gusperti, Giorgio Lamberti, Roberto Gleria, Massimo Trevisan, Piermaria Siciliano, Emanuele Merisi, Stefano Battistelli, Luca Bianchin, Gianni Minervini, Andrea Cecchi, Francesco Postiglione, Leonardo Michelotti, Marco Braida, Luca Sacchi, and Emanuele Idini

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
 * Giorgio Lamberti, Emanuele Idini, Roberto Gleria, and Massimo Trevisan
 * Heat – 3:23.43 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Women's Competition
 * Roberto Gleria, Emanuele Idini, Pier Maria Siciliano, and Stefano Battistelli
 * Heat – 7:25.53
 * Giorgio Lamberti, Massimo Trevisan, Roberto Gleria, and Stefano Battistelli
 * Final – 7:18.10 (→ 5th place)
 * Cristina Chiuso, Ilaria Sciorelli, Manuela Melchiorri, Lorenza Vigarani, Lara Bianconi, Francesca Salvalajo, Manuela Dalla Valle, Elena Donati, and Ilaria Tocchini

Synchronized swimming
Two synchronized swimmers represented Italy in 1992.

 * Women's solo
 * Paola Celli
 * Giovanna Burlando

 * Women's duet
 * Paola Celli
 * Giovanna Burlando

Tennis
Men's Singles Competition
 * Cristiano Caratti
 * First round — Lost to Guy Forget (France) 3-6, 4-6, 2-6
 * Omar Camporese
 * First round — Defeated Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-2, 6-2, 6-0
 * Second round — Lost to Emilio Sánchez (Spain) 4-6, 2-6, 1-6
 * Renzo Furlan
 * First round — Defeated Shuzo Matsuoka (Japan) 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
 * Second round — Defeated Andrei Chesnokov (Unified Team) 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
 * Third round — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 4-6, 3-6, 2-6

Men's Doubles Competition
 * Omar Camporese and Diego Nargiso
 * First round — Defeated Miguel Nido and Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
 * Second round — Lost to George Cosac and Dinu Pescariu (Romania) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6

Women's Singles Competition
 * Katia Piccolini
 * First Round – Lost to Nicole Provis (Australia) 1-6 0-6
 * Raffaella Reggi-Concato
 * First Round – Defeated Jenny Byrne (Australia) 6-4 7-6
 * Second Round – Lost to Manuela Maleeva (Switzerland) 2-6 4-6
 * Sandra Cecchini
 * First Round – Defeated Paulina Sepúlveda (Chile) 6-2 6-3
 * Second Round – Lost to Conchita Martínez (Spain) 4-6 3-6

Men's team competition

 * Team roster
 * Lorenzo Bernardi
 * Marco Bracci
 * Luca Cantagalli
 * Claudio Marco Galli
 * Andrea Gardini
 * Andrea Giani
 * Andrea Lucchetta
 * Roberto Masciarelli
 * Michele Pasinato
 * Paolo Tofoli
 * Fabio Vullo
 * Andrea Zorzi

Men's team competition

 * Preliminary round (group B)
 * Italy – Hungary 7-7
 * Italy – Netherlands 6-4
 * Italy – Cuba 11-8
 * Italy – Spain 9-9
 * Italy – Greece 8-6

 * Semi Finals
 * Italy – Commonwealth of Independent States 9-8

 * Final
 * Italy – Spain 9-8 (→ [[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold Medal)

 * Team roster
 * Carlo Silipo
 * Amedeo Pomilio
 * Franco Porzio
 * Pino Porzio
 * Mario Fiorillo
 * Ferdinando Gandolfi
 * Alessandro Campagna
 * Marco D'Altrui
 * Massimiliano Ferretti
 * Francesco Attolico
 * Alessandro Bovo
 * Paolo Caldarella

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User talk:Kevinhksouth

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No Chinese, sooo sorry ;)
I recently created a Village pump to Commons. I'd R.E.A.L.L.Y like to see it used, but for technical facts it seems almost impossible to establish some simple user's "working copy" for translations or edits!

If you think my idea is useful, I'd send you an *.RTF or MS Word.DOC file by mail, ask you to translate into Chinese and send it back to me. I'd do my best to produce an honest picture from your feedback ASAP. If that would be OK for you, please contact me by mail. TX, Wolfgang (from Vienna, Austria) Commons:User talk:Huitzlipochtli III. I do not watch your site, for being somewhat over-wikistressed for several days. In case I would not answer any mail within 24hrs, this would very probably be due to one of the sometimes reported technical bugs within WP. In such case, please leave a note on my Talk page. Best, (213.47.146.118 02:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC))

Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong
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update
Hi kevin,

could you maybe update ? thanks a lot :) effeietsanders 18:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Common Interwiki links
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First Anniversary Celebrations of Wikimedia Hong Kong
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Celebrations for 2nd Anniversary of Wikimedia Hong Kong

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Republic of China article
Since you have previously discussed about the Republic of China, I guess you are interested to share your insights at Talk:Republic of China#Requested Move (February 2012). Thanks for your attention. 61.18.170.223 (talk) 18:43, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

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Richard Corish

Richard Corish (17 September 1886 – 19 July 1945) was an Irish politician and trade unionist.

Early and personal life
Born in Wexford in 1886, Corish was the eldest child of carpenter Peter Corish and Mary Murphy. He was educated by the Christian Brothers in the town. As a fitter in the Wexford Engineering foundry he was blacklisted by his employers after the 1911 Lockout, and became a trade union official in the new Irish Foundry Workers' Union.

In 1913, he married Katherine Bergin and they had six children.

Politics
Richard Corish became Mayor of Wexford in 1920 as an Irish Labour Party representative. However, as the Labour Party in the southern 26 counties, later the Irish Free State, chose not to contest the 1921 elections, Corish ran as a Sinn Féin candidate and was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Wexford constituency. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He ran as a member of the Labour Party at the 1922 general election. He served in the Dáil and as Mayor of Wexford until his death in 1945.

His death caused a by-election to the Dáil which was won by his son, Brendan Corish, who was later a leader of the Labour Party and Tánaiste.

Corish was a member of the Irish National Foresters, and was its High Chief Ranger in 1942.

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Talk:Beer Bad

Untitled
Please help complete the Angel/Buffy episode articles. See what needs to be done on this sub-page of WikiProject Buffy:

WikiProject Buffy/Episodes

Also please help update any major changes made to episode articles on that page so that progress can be mapped.

Moral
I don't think the moral of this ep is "beer and sex are bad." If there is a 'moral', so to speak, it is that excessive behavior is irresponsible. (Buffy is trying to, as the saying goes, "drink her problems away".) It's not "don't do it", it's "be careful". I think this article's writeup is far too slanted and subjective. I would like to rewrite it, but I'll come back to it later. -- Che Nuevara

Indeed, there was the same problem on the Teacher's Pet page, which I have modified (IMHO the message of TP is not "sex is bad" or "it's great to be a virgin", but "peer pressure is bad"). Flagboy 13:26, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that this page is not NPOV. Jwolfe 14:53, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

So much POV. "Only gets worse"? "Widely seen as heavy-handed"? I was loathe to remove such a big paragraph but we really need some verifiable sources. I already removed a section which claimed that many online surveys consider it the worst episode (but didn't link to any online surveys), that some people disavow it from continuity (but linked to a BBC site that didn't mention that), that some Norwegians love it (and just linked to one fan's website), but that it's widely disliked (and linked to a site giving it a pretty good score of 7 out of 10). Ngeh.--Nalvage 13:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

NPOV
There has been some complaint about this article but i see no reason to change it. Most people do consider it one of the worst episode in the series. And yes, the morale is "don't drink underage" and yes it does get worse when it is seen from other countries. To deny the crapyness of this episode would in itself be POV. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.5.42.155 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia editors are not allowed to express any point of view in articles. We are obligated to source our material, so if opinions are expressed, they must come from published, reliable sources. Only then should we worry about NPOV. The "International response" section was chatty in tone and drew unsourced conclusions, so I removed it. (Its statements about drinking ages are potentially sourceable, but they are irrelevant to the subject — the international response to this Buffy episode — unless some publication actually talked about this.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I've added back in the generally negative reception this episode received, this time with sources. Kweeket 06:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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More on Morals
I know the bits discussing the morals of this episode have citations and sources but there still seems to be a lot of original research. I know, this might be a bit vague. I recomment rewriting it to focus on what the third party sources have said and nothing more. Lots42 (talk) 17:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I started to tweak the source citations of the "Writing and acting" section that I believe Lots42 was referring to, but soon realized that the citations in this entire article were frequently misleading. (For instance, the Salon citation is republished by an activist site, the source mentioning ESPN is a now-broken link from a blog, and the source for the "some fans" statement is an obscure TV-review website. One really strong signal that sources are not reliable is when they don't have — and will never likely have — Wikipedia articles.) I did fetch a link to the actual Christianity Today article incorrectly cited by giving another obscure site's mention of this article as the source. (When one claims the source is an article by an author in a magazine, the link one provides must go to that article by that author in that magazine or its web equivalent, not to someone else's article that merely mentions the actual source. I included both the original and the referrer in case the latter has other useful info, but it may not be a wiki-reliable source anyway.)

 * I've taken a pass at correcting, updating, and reformatting all the citations to show exactly who is really being cited in each case. I made no attempt to confirm any of the statements based on the source material, but merely made it easier for regular editors of this article to see if the source material actually supports the statements. Anything that isn't found specifically in the sources is, as Lots42 suggests, forbidden original research, and any sources that aren't reliable by Wikipedia standards cannot be used to support statements in the text. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Confusion
"Beer Bad" is the episode where Buffy gets over Parker: At the beginning, she is pining for him, at the end, she is hitting him over the head with a branch, thus clearing the way for Riley.

How do we know this for sure? At the point Buffy thwacked Parker, she was at the 'Beer bad, tree pretty' stage. Pretty hard to go through a major emotional catharthis when shinies are a major part of your day.

Willow also rants about men, which could be interpreted as foreshadowing her relationship with a woman.

I don't get it. I, as a hot guy, complain about women a lot but I'm still straight.

Van
I think it's noteable that Xander locked the temporarily-nuts student into some completely random vehicle...I added this in but it was reverted. Lots42 (talk) 09:28, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

puritanism

 * A BBC reviewer complained about its "American puritanism" ....

The link was recently disambiguated to Religious fanaticism (which is largely about violence). Of course the temperance movement – and American small-p "puritanism" in general – had religious roots, but there's nothing overtly religious in the episode (that I recall). Is there no more appropriate link? —Tamfang (talk) 23:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Vampire apperance
It states in several articles that vampires do not appear in this episode. However buffy's day dream sequence at the begining of this episode shows her fighting several vampires. Shouldn't this epidsode be removed from the list of episdoes where vampires dont appear as a result? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.91.195.5 (talk) 07:14, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Really worst episode?
The statement that some fans consider this episode to be the "worst" is biased and DOES NOT come from a reliable media source. It comes from a random TV reviewer with no ties to any verifiable media outlets or renowned entertainment critics. I am therefore removing it and any resulting disputes will be referred to moderation. Writerchic99 (talk) 23:05, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually the random review referenced in the article might be the worst I've ever read. The reviewer makes two main points and both of them are invalid. Firstly, he claims that the episode fails in attributing bad effects to drinking. There might have been an attempt to get money from the government by asserting there was such a message, but the episode as it stands on its own tries not show any harmful consequences of people being drunk. It cannot fail in something it hasn't tried to do. Secondly, he is objecting the cavemen being stupid because it contradicts his personal religious belief that men where created as intelligent as modern humans by some god. I hope I don't have to explain why this point is preposterous. At least there is a claim in the beginning of the review that could be interesting for the article: "BBC viewers voted this episode as the worst ever.", though this cannot be verified directly since the voting is defunct. Thank you for reading this review of a review.--Hurfunkel (talk) 21:45, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

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Denmark at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Denmark competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 110 competitors, 77 men and 33 women, took part in 67 events in 14 sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
Denmark had very little success in the 1992 archery competition, losing all three head-to-head matches.

 * Men

Athletics

 * Women
 * Track and road events

 * Field events

Badminton

 * Men

 * Women

Sprint

 * Men

 * Women

Cycling
Eleven cyclists, nine men and two women, represented Denmark in 1992.

Road

 * Men

 * Women

Track

 * Pursuit

 * Points race

Football
Key:
 * Summary
 * W – Win L – Lose D – Draw
 * A.E.T. – After extra time.
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Men's tournament
Head coach: Viggo Jensen
 * Team roster

 * Group play

Rowing

 * Men

 * Women

Sailing

 * Men

 * Women

 * Open

 * Match racing

Shooting

 * Men

 * Women

 * Open

Swimming

 * Men

 * Women

Tennis

 * Men

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Talk:August Leimbach

Posted by anon
(??? I can assure you that there is definitely no German village with that name! Obviously this mistake has also been made in the internet source... Rheinland (=Rhineland) is a region in West Germany, while the name of the village could be Kaltennordheim, which is in the German state of Thüringen (=Thuringia), far more in the East. I´ve no idea what could be meant by "Ellectfeld". It seems as if there weren´t many sources about August Leimbach but perhaps someone finds out, anyway... . (posted by user:217.87.41.112 into the article)

 * Kaishu, please, it was not a vandalism. The anon raised a valid concern, but posted in a wrong place. Such things must be copied to the talk page, rather than simply reverted Mikkalai 21:35, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I have trimmed the name of the village until we can clarify it. I double-checked, and it was transcribed incorrectly from the source provided. I am doing some reasearch to get the name right, if possible. Thanks for the help, folks. Vaoverland 01:37, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * The correct spelling of Ellectfeld is "Elberfeld". This is now a part of Wuppertal. --A.Sopfie 10:02, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Cape longclaw

The Cape longclaw or orange-throated longclaw (Macronyx capensis) is a passerine bird in the family  Motacillidae, which comprises the longclaws, pipits and wagtails. It occurs in Southern Africa in Zimbabwe and southern and eastern South Africa. This species is found in coastal and mountain grassland, often near water.

Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Cape longclaw in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope. He used the French name L'alouette du Cap de Bonne Espérance and the Latin Alauda Capitis Bonae Spei. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the Cape longclaw. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Alauda	capensis and cited Brisson's work. The specific name capensis denotes the Cape of Good Hope. The species is now placed in the genus Macronyx that was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1827 with the Cape longclaw as the type species.

Two subspecies are recognised:

 * M. c. capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) – southwest, south South Africa
 * M. c. colletti Schou, 1908 – southeast Botswana and Zimbabwe to Mozambique and east South Africa

Description
The Cape longclaw is a 19–20 cm long. The adult male has a grey head with a buff supercilium and a streaked blackish back. It has a bright orange gorget, black breast band and otherwise yellow underparts. The female is duller, having a yellow throat and much weaker breast band. The juvenile has a dirty yellow throat, indistinct breast band, and yellowish white underparts.

The Cape longclaw is usually found in pairs throughout the year. It feeds on the ground on insects and some seeds. The song is a musical cheewit cheewit, the contact call is tsweet, and there is also a mewling alarm call. Typically not found in larger groups than two, a breeding pair or more often singly. Another behavioural characteristic is the tendency of birds to stand on top of stones, anthills or large grass clumps. While doing so birds stand upright with their breast extended.

This species has a striking resemblance to the unrelated icterid meadowlarks, grassland birds of the Americas. This is presumably due to convergent evolution.

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Firefly (dinghy)

The Firefly is a British sailboat that was designed by Uffa Fox as a one design racer and first built in 1946. The boat was originally named the Sea Swallow. It was an Olympic class and raced at the 1948 Olympics.

Production
The design was initially built by Fairey Marine in the United Kingdom, starting in 1946 until the end of 1972. It was then built by Vic Lewis Boats from 1973, in glassfibre, using moulds by Craft Mouldings. In 1976 Knight and Pink Marine re-started the production of wooden boats. Omega Boats built a foam sandwich version of the design and then Porter Boats produced it up to 1995. From 1997 to 2023 production was by Rondar Raceboats in the UK. Whitecap Composites in the United States also built Fireflies. As of the summer of 2023, it is now built by Ovington Boats in the UK and remains in production. More than 4,270 Fireflies have been completed.

Design
The Firefly is a recreational sailing dinghy, initially built predominantly of hot-moulded plywood, glassfibre construction was authorized by the class starting in 1965. A rotating mast was introduced in 1970.

The design has a fractional sloop rig, a plumb stem and transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centreboard. It displaces 260 lb.

The boat has a draft of 4.25 ft with the centreboard extended and 10 in with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

The design is raced without a spinnaker.

The Firefly has a Portsmouth Yardstick handicap of 1168 (in the RYA scheme) and a D-PN of 99.6 in the US Sailing system.

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the National Firefly Association.

The first four production boats built by Fairey were purchased by the commodore of the Itchenor Sailing Club, Sir Geoffrey Loules and named Fe, Fi, Fo and Fum.

Even though it was designed for a crew of two sailors, the boat was selected for the 1948 Olympics as a single-handed boat. The Olympic sailing events that year were held at Torbay and the gold medal was won by Danish sailor, Paul Elvstrøm. It was replaced as an Olympic class in 1952 by the Finn.

The National Maritime Museum Cornwall notes, "the Firefly was one of the first production dinghies ever built in large numbers, long before the days of glass reinforced plastic boats, and there is no doubt that it put dinghy sailing within financial reach of many people – the initial cost of a boat was £65."

Boats on display

 * National Maritime Museum Cornwall - the first production boat, Fe.

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