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Hello, Don Vito. Welcome back! I see you made some edits to today after quite a long hiatus. Hope you enjoy your stay. Lbbzman 19:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Don Vito. Thank you very much for creating WikiProject Texas. This shold be very useful in encouraging participation in the project. Best, Johntex\talk 16:42, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by Constellation Energy) and TMI-2 (owned by EnergySolutions).

The plant was the site of the most significant accident in United States commercial nuclear energy when, on March 28, 1979, TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report, the accident resulted in no deaths or injuries to plant workers or in nearby communities. Follow-up epidemiology studies did not find causality between the accident and any increase in cancers. One work-related death has occurred on-site during decommissioning.

The reactor core of TMI-2 has since been removed from the site, but the site has not been fully decommissioned. In July 1998, Amergen Energy (now Exelon Generation) agreed to purchase TMI-1 from General Public Utilities for $100 million.

The plant was originally built by General Public Utilities Corporation, later renamed GPU Incorporated. The plant was operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), a subsidiary of the GPU Energy division. In 2001, GPU Inc. merged with FirstEnergy Corporation. On December 18, 2020, FirstEnergy transferred Unit 2's license to EnergySolutions' subsidiary, TMI-2 Solutions, after receiving approval from the NRC.

Exelon was operating Unit 1 at a financial loss since 2015. In 2017, the company said it would consider ceasing operations at Unit 1 because of high costs unless there was action from the Pennsylvania government. Unit 1 officially shut down at noon on September 20, 2019.

Unit 1 decommissioning is expected to be completed in 2079 and will cost $1.2 billion, but may be recommissioned. Unit 2, which has been dormant since the accident in 1979, is expected to close in 2052.

Emergency zones and nearby population
The NRC defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 mi, concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 mi, concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.

The 2010 U.S. population within 10 mi of Three Mile Island was 211,261, an increase of 10.9 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 mi was 2,803,322, an increase of 10.3 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Harrisburg (12 miles to city center), York (13 miles to city center), and Lancaster (24 miles to city center).

Electricity production
During its last full year of operation in 2018, Three Mile Island generated 7,355 GWh of electricity. In that same year, electricity from nuclear power produced approximately 39% of the total electricity generated in Pennsylvania (83.5 TWh nuclear of 215 TWh total), with Three Mile Island Generating Station contributing approximately 4% to the statewide total generation. In 2021 electrical generating facilities in the state of Pennsylvania generated approximately 241 TWh total electricity.

Three Mile Island Unit 1
The Three Mile Island Unit 1 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Babcock & Wilcox with a net generating capacity of 819 MWe. The initial construction cost for TMI-1 was US$400 million, equal to $ billion in 2018 dollars. Unit 1 first came online on April 19, 1974, and began commercial operations on September 2, 1974. TMI-1 was licensed to operate for 40 years from its first run, and in 2009, was extended 20 years, which means it could have operated until April 19, 2034.

TMI-1 had a closed-cycle cooling system for its main condenser using two natural draft cooling towers. Makeup water was drawn from the river to replace the water lost via evaporation in the cooling towers. Once-through the cooling towers, river water was used in the service water system, cooling auxiliary components and removing decay heat when the reactor was shut down. On February 17, 1979, TMI-1 went offline for refueling. It was brought back online on October 9, 1985, after public opposition, several federal court injunctions, and some technical and regulatory complications – more than six years after it initially went offline.

Unit 1 was scheduled to be shut down by September 2019 after Exelon announced they did not receive any commitments for subsidies from the state, rendering Exelon unable to financially continue operating the reactor. TMI-1 was shut down on September 20, 2019, but may be brought back. The CEO of Constellation Energy, the owner of Unit 1, says the reactor is in "excellent shape," and estimated that it would go online within three years of committing to a restart. Constellation is conducting tests for a potential decision to reopen.

Incidents
In February 1993, a man drove his car past a checkpoint at the TMI nuclear plant, then broke through an entry gate. He eventually crashed the car through a secure door and entered the Unit 1 turbine building. The intruder, who had a history of mental illness, hid in the turbine building and was apprehended after four hours.

During and following the September 11, 2001 attacks, there was a concern that United Airlines Flight 93 was headed towards Three Mile Island. On that day, the NRC placed all of the nation's nuclear power plants into the highest level of security. United Flight 93 crashed into a field (present-day Flight 93 National Memorial) about 135 miles (217 km) west of Three Mile Island in Stonycreek Township, just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, with its actual target believed to have been Washington, D.C.

On November 21, 2009, a release of radioactivity occurred inside the containment building of TMI-1 while workers were cutting pipes. Exelon Corporation stated to the public that "A monitor at the temporary opening cut into the containment building wall to allow the new steam generators to be moved inside showed a slight increase in a reading and then returned to normal. Approximately 20 employees were treated for mild radiation exposure." , it was believed that no radiation escaped the containment building and the public was not in any danger. The inside airborne contamination was caused by a change in air pressure inside the containment building that dislodged small irradiated particles in the reactor piping system. Some of the particles became airborne inside the building and were detected by an array of monitors in place to detect such material. The air pressure change occurred when inside building ventilation fans were started to support outage activities. The site modified the ventilation system to prevent future air pressure changes. Work continued on the project the following day. On January 24, 2010, TMI-1 was brought back online.

Material handling accident
On September 10, 2021, a contractor from Alabama was fatally injured while unloading equipment from a truck. Fire and emergency medical personnel from Londonderry Township were dispatched and declared the contractor dead on arrival. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the injury was work-related, and the contractor was outside the radiological controlled area.

Three Mile Island Unit 2
The Three Mile Island Unit 2 was also a pressurized water reactor constructed by B&W, similar to Unit 1. TMI-2 was slightly larger with a net generating capacity of 906 MWe, compared to TMI-1, which delivered 819 MWe. Unit 2 received its operating license on February 8, 1978, and began commercial operation on December 30, 1978. TMI Unit 2 was permanently shut off after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.

Accident

On March 28, 1979, a cooling system malfunction caused a partial meltdown of the reactor core. This loss-of-coolant accident resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton-85 gas (with an approximate half life of 11 years), and less than 20 curies (740 GBq) of the especially hazardous iodine-131 (with a half life of around 8 days), into the surrounding environment.

Nearly 2 million people were exposed to radiation from the accident. A review by the World Nuclear Association concluded that no deaths, injuries or adverse health effects resulted from the accident, and a report by Columbia University epidemiologist Maureen Hatch confirmed this finding. Because of the health concerns, the Pennsylvania Department of Health kept a registry of more than 30,000 people that lived within 5 miles of TMI at the time of the accident. The registry was kept for nearly 20 years until 1997, when no evidence was found of unusual health effects. Further epidemiology studies have not shown any increase in cancer as a result of the accident. However, almost $25 million was paid in insurance settlements to people who then agreed not to discuss their injuries in ongoing litigation.

Unit 2 has not been operational since the accident occurred.

The New York Times reported on August 14, 1993, 14 years after the accident, that the cleanup had finished. According to the United States NRC, 2.3 million gallons of waste water had been removed.

The incident was widely publicized internationally, and had far-reaching effects on public opinion, particularly in the United States. The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear disaster, which was released 12 days before the incident and received a glowing reception from the movie-going public, became a blockbuster hit.

Unit 2 Generator
On January 22, 2010, officials at the NRC announced the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at TMI will be used at Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant in New Hill, North Carolina. The generator was transported in two parts, weighing a combined 670 tons. It was refurbished and installed during a refueling outage at Shearon Harris NPP in November 2010.

Post-accident
Exelon Corporation was created in October 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois respectively. Unicom owned Commonwealth Edison. The PECO share in AmerGen was acquired by Exelon during late 2000. Exelon acquired British Energy's share in AmerGen in 2003, and transferred Unit 1 under the direct ownership and operation of its Exelon Nuclear business unit. According to Exelon Corporation, "many people are surprised when they learn that Three Mile Island is still making electricity, enough to power 800,000 households" from its undamaged and fully functional reactor unit 1. Exelon viewed the plant's economics of $44/MWh as challenging due to the low price of natural gas at $25/MWh. As of 2016, the average price of electricity in the area was $39/MWh.

Closure
On June 20, 2017, Exelon Generation, the owners of Three Mile Island's Unit 1, sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a formal notice of its intention to shut down the plant on September 30, 2019, unless the Pennsylvania legislature rescued the nuclear industry, which was struggling to compete as newfound natural gas resources drove down electricity prices. Exelon Generation's Senior Vice President Bryan Hanson noted that once Three Mile Island was closed, it could never be reopened for use again. Hanson explicitly stated the reason for the shutdown is because of the unprofitability of Unit 1. Unit 1 has lost the company over $300 million over the last half-decade despite it being one of Exelon's best-performing power plants.

Shut down of Unit 1 can go in two possible directions, the first being the immediate dismantlement after the radioactive fuel has been moved from the plant. The dismantlement can proceed after the spent fuel is removed from the pool, put into storage casks, and the casks are transferred to the ISFSI pad for storage until the DOE takes them away to a DOE repository. Dismantling the plant this way will take anywhere from 8 to 10 years. The second option Exelon could take is the long-term storage, which involves mothballing the plant and letting the radiation decay for up to 60 years on its own to a harmless level before completely dismantling the buildings. The advantage to the long-term storage is the lack of radiation when the dismantlement would begin but the disadvantage would be the possible lack of qualified workers at the time of dismantlement. Exelon would also have to pay for limited maintenance and security of the plant over the potential 60 years. The entirety of the spent fuel will be moved to the Londonderry Township facility, which is another process that could take decades to complete.

About 70 state legislators signed the industry-inspired Nuclear Caucus but made no financial commitments.

In April 2019, Exelon stated it would cost $1.2 billion over nearly 60 years to completely decommission Unit 1. Unit 1 closed on September 20, 2019.

In 2022, Unit 1 was transferred to Constellation Energy following separation from Exelon. Unit 2 was also transferred to TriArtisan ES Partners, LLC – following their acquisition of EnergySolutions.

Decommissioning
Following the TMI-2 accident in 1979, approximately 99% of the fuel and damaged core debris was removed from the reactor vessel and associated systems and shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Since 1993, when the initial cleanup of the plant was completed, TMI-2 has been in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS) and is under constant monitoring to ensure the plant's safety and stability.

The cost of decommissioning a closed nuclear reactor and related structures at Three Mile Island is estimated at $918 million.

Seismic risk
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Three Mile Island was 1 in 25,000, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.

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USS Alloway

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Alloway. The word Alloway is a Delaware Indian term meaning "beautiful tail" and refers to the black fox.

 * USS Alloway (ID-3139), a cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 that later operated commercially as SS Alloway
 * USS Alloway (YT-170), a tug in commission from 1940 to 1946

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Robin Pappas

Robin Pappas is an American actress. She graduated in 1974 from RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). Her credits include The Shining and Superman II, as well as an uncredited role in Chariots of Fire. She is the mother of singer-songwriter Nellie McKay. She also served as the executive producer of her daughter's second album, Pretty Little Head and co-produced fifth album Home Sweet Mobile Home with McKay herself. She appeared in the music video for "David".

Partial filmography

 * The Shining (1980) - Nurse
 * Superman II (1980) - Alice
 * Chariots of Fire (1981) - Clare (uncredited) (final film role)

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Talk:PDF (disambiguation)

Any opinions on whether this article should be at PDF (disambiguation) with PDF re-directing to Portable Document Format?? Georgia guy 19:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is better, Portable Document Format is the most common meaning, I think.--Patrick 22:14, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

PDF is also short for Planetary Defence Force --80.213.112.60 16:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

ssrc
shibatch ssrc has an option to select noise p.d.f: --pdf [ ]      select p.d.f. of noise 0 : rectangular 1 : triangular 2 : Gaussian

Does this have to do with Probability density function or some other pdf?

I actually study noise for my math thesis, and the pdf you described is the probability density function Leoisiah 11:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Irish Army Reserve, Permanent Defence Forces

 * Hi J-beda. Nice job on tidying up PDF (disambiguation) - it looks much better.
 * However, I am a little puzzled by your change of "Permanent Defence Forces (Ireland)" to "Irish Army Reserve, Permanent Defence Forces".
 * P.D.F. is an abbreviation for "Permanent Defence Forces (Ireland)".
 * (Presumably the abbreviation for "Irish Army Reserve" is I.A.R.?)
 * Can you explain your change? Thanks.  pdfpdf 11:02, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

As per Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) piping should be avoided in disamb pages. j-beda 06:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't see anywhere in the Irish Army or Irish Army Reserve where they reference "PDF" or "Permanent Defence Forces" - should they even be listed in the disamb page? j-beda 06:20, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Your search was not thorough.
 * I found PDF used in the following six places:
 * Irish Army Reserve (twice)
 * Irish Army Reserve (twice)
 * Irish Army Reserve
 * Irish Army
 * However, although I found "Permanent Forces" used, I couldn't find "Permanent Defence Forces" used in either of those two articles. (See Irish Defence Forces for use and definition of Permanent Defence Forces.)
 * I didn't write either of these articles; I have now tidied them up a bit.

 * You wrote:
 * The Irish Army is sometimes known as the Permanent Defence Forces, in contrast to the Irish Army Reserve.
 * P.D.F. is sometimes used as an abbreviation for the Permanent Defence Forces of the Irish Army Reserve.
 * No, I'm afraid that's not the case. The Irish Defence Forces consist of the PDF (which comprises the Army/Navy/Air Corps) and the RDF (Army Reserve/Navy Reserve).

 * I've changed the above to avoid piping, but please note, the MoS says that piping should be avoided, not that it must be avoided. pdfpdf 12:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC) (Updated Pdfpdf 15:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC))

JediLofty's POV
User:Pdfpdf reverted my edit of 11:08, 6 September 2007 with the summary "Revert vandalism. User:JediLofty has been involved in absurdly lengthy discussion where he admits he has NO knowledge of the subject matter, yet continues to undo edits of those who do." (sic)

My edit was to remove the third link on the page that pointed to Probability density function. We had a discussion some months ago where Pdfpdf insisted that the phrase Probability distribution function should remain (despite pointing to a redirect page to Probability density function). I gave up on that argument (my argument about maintaining the manual of style fell on deaf ears). Today I removed a third link: p.d.f. is frequently used as an abbreviation for probability density function which I thought was redundant, as the page itself is a disambiguation page for the abbreviation PDF, and it is already linked to twice. Can I have get other opinions, please? -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 14:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Pdfpdf's POV
It seems to me that this disagreement is about interpretation and application of the Manual of Style.
 * For the style guide for interior links, see Manual of Style (links).
 * See also Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)

It seems to me that JediLofty's POV is: "The MoS MUST be applied to the letter". My POV is: "The MoS is a guideline. There are cases where it doesn't seem to handle the situation. This seems to be one of them."

I believe my POV is supported by the statement at the top of every MoS page. viz:
 * This page is considered a guideline on Wikipedia. It is generally accepted among editors and should normally be followed, but it can have exceptions; use common sense when applying it.

To be more specific: There is a statistical tool referred to by many as the probability density function. Many other users of it refer to it as the probability distribution function. A third and much larger group avoid this ambiguity by referring to it as p.d.f.. (Note: Not as pdf, nor as PDF, nor as P.D.F. They refer to it as p.d.f.)

Hence, there are (at least) three names in "common" use for this function.

It seems to me that JediLofty's POV is: "On a disambiguation page, there must be one, and only one, link to this information."

My POV is: It is one piece of information that has (at least) three different names. It would seem to me to be silly to have three separate pages with different names but identical content. It appears to me that the people who created these three pages thought this also. Hence, the information appears on one of these pages, and the other two redirect to it. Which page has the information? It doesn't matter - it's an arbitrary choice. The important thing is, clicking on links to any of the three pages gets you to the information.

So, logically, they are three separate pages. But phyisically in WP, it doesn't make sense to represent the information on three separate pages; physically in WP they are one page and two redirects.

My POV is: "The disambiguation page should contain all three names". It seems to me that JediLofty's POV is: "Only one of these three names should appear".

I disagree with JediLofty's POV because the one he would choose is based on how the information happens to have been represented on WP, and it removes the other two names from the disambiguation page. An abstract representation of the information would include all three names.

Pdfpdf 23:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

This matter has been discussed previously, at GREAT length. The discussion is at Talk:PDF (disambiguation)/JediLofty's reversions

Overtaken by events?
First, I think I've come up with a way to keep both of us happy. Second, I have come across new information which (it seems to me) completely changes the situation.

I have changed PDF (disambiguation) to incorporate both of these. I believe that I have managed to do it without using redirects and multiple links, which (if I understand correctly) is what you wish to avoid.

Could you please review the page and advise if it now satisfies your requirements? Pdfpdf 13:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

You know, I think we finally have a page we can agree on! ;-) -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 13:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Probability distribution function - Again?!
It has been pointed out (by User A1) that the limitations and vaguaries of WP should not get in the way of "the real world". (I have been known to make the same argument myself, but seem to have become distracted when addressing this particular topic.) The fact of the matter is that the real mathematical / statistical / probability experts seem to divide into two camps on what a "Probability distribution function" actually is. Accordingly, I have change the Probability distribution function page to reflect this. Pdfpdf 12:07, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

cleanup according to WP:MOSDAB
I put the comment here: and removed these: Widefox ; talk 19:10, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * pdf,PDF redirect to Portable Document Format
 * p.d.f. redirects to Probability density function
 * P.D.F. redirects here
 * Polypeptide deformylase, a primary structure, in chemistry

كيف حالك يا محمد 156.38.63.145 (talk) 16:30, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

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USS Alacrity

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Alacrity.

 * USS Alacrity (SP-206)
 * USS Alacrity (PG-87)
 * USS Alacrity (MSO-520)

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Battlefield, Shropshire

Battlefield is a village and suburb of the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England. It is 3 mi north of the town centre. The village is today split between three civil parishes - Shrewsbury, Astley and Pimhill.

Battle of Shrewsbury
It was roughly here that the Battle of Shrewsbury of 1403 took place. A church, commonly known as "Battlefield Church", but officially St. Mary Magdalene Church, was built in memory of the thousands who died.

Today the Battlefield Heritage Park is a visitor attraction, commemorating and interpreting the battle site.

Modern day Battlefield
The A49 runs through Battlefield, on its way from Shrewsbury to Whitchurch, as does the Welsh Marches Line (the Shrewsbury to Crewe railway line). The A53 begins its route at Battlefield.

Battlefield has two pubs. The Red Lion is the elder pub, and The Two Henrys is to the north of the Battlefield roundabout, as is the church, which lies just off the A49.

Expansion of Shrewsbury
The town of Shrewsbury has over the past 10 years grown substantially in this area and the village is now part of the town. It is however split by a large Shrewsbury bypass roundabout ("Battlefield Roundabout"), one of the busiest in the county town.

The new Shrewsbury livestock market and a small hotel and service station has been built just off the A53 near the Battlefield Roundabout.

An industrial and business estate, the Battlefield Enterprise Park, has grown up in between the older Shrewsbury suburb of Harlescott and Battlefield. It is located on the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury and the village of Battlefield is nearby. A large part of the battlefield is, however, protected as a heritage site. Even so, the Battlefield Link Road (the A5124) runs straight through it and a car park has been built for visitors. The first businesses moved in during the mid-1990s, though the park became more established later that decade when the Battlefield Link Road, the A5124, was built. The park is near the A49 and A53 and it is also adjacent to the Welsh Marches Line.

Governance
Battlefield is as an electoral ward of Shrewsbury Town Council and also Shropshire Council. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,193.

In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 204. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Albrighton and Shrewsbury.

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Lisa Nilsson

My Lisa Karolina Nilsson (born 13 August 1970) is a Swedish singer.

She was discovered by the producer William (Billy) Butt and she is perhaps best known in Sweden for her 1992 hit, Himlen runt hörnet, written by Mauro Scocco and Johan Ekelund. It was released in English in 1995, titled Ticket to Heaven. She has released four subsequent albums, Till Morelia in 1995, Viva in 2000, Små rum in 2002 and Hotel Vermont 609 in 2006, all in Swedish. A greatest hits compilation, Samlade sånger followed in 2003 and contained two new songs. Prior to Himlen runt hörnet she had released two English language albums, Lean On Love in 1989 and Indestructible in 1991, both released by William Butt. She also participated in Melodifestivalen 1989.

Nilsson's style ranges from out and out pop music to soul-inflected ballads and dance tracks on her earlier albums to a more mature jazz feel in her more recent work, perhaps reflecting familial connections as her father Gösta Nilsson is a jazz pianist.

In 2002, she moved into acting with appearances in the Swedish TV sitcom, Cleo and a role in the Swedish film Paradiset made by British-born director Colin Nutley.

In February 2007 she gave birth to a daughter.

Albums

 * Compilation albums

 * Collaborative albums

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USS Algorma

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Algorma, a Native American word meaning to fish with a torch.

 * USS Algorma (AT-34)
 * USS Algorma (ATA-212)

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User:JMBell

Hi there! Starting over...

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/FK Teplice

If there is such a strong movement to keep this entry, why is the only thing written about it

FK Teplice is a Czech football club based in city of Teplice.

Even if this team is notable in Czechoslovakia why is that the only thing you guys can come up with? No championships? No player roster? Nothing of note other than they come from Teplice and they're a football club? To me this is pure vanity. A bunch of soccer fans putting up one line entries on their favorite local teams. I'm not convinced.

Oh and if you're voting for a article, "Another example of ignorance" is not a reason to keep or delete. It sounds like you're saying you want to keep the article because the article is "another example of ignorance". I'm sure that's not what you were trying to convey. — oo64eva (AJ) (U @ 19:54, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:The Dark Half

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looks more like an essay than an encyclopedia article, Dark Half is mentioned nowhere in the first paragraph (clem 19:54, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC))

Cleaned up some
I've never read this novel, so I don't know any of the story. I based the information off of the original, but the format and style, and switching of character's names, strange "speech" characteristics, and, like the other commentor said, the feel that this was a 9th grade book report essay were annoying enough that I made some minor modifications.

Anyone is free to change for the better, as I added nothing of substance, and only removed the extra. 159.121.130.84 11:03, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Connection with "The Crate"
Is it really true that Rawlie and Billie DeLesseps are the same characters as in "The Crate", the short story? I haven't read it. In the film Creepshow the characters are named Henry and Wilma Northup. Ellsworth (talk) 01:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Self-referential link
The hypertext link "Alan Pangborn" returns one to the article on The Dark Half. Search for "Alan Pangborn" redirects to the article on The Dark Half. AP is a character in Needful Things as well as TDH. Not sure how to go about this, or even if anything is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Runtape (talk • contribs) 13:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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USS Alcor

USS Alcor may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 * USS Alcor (AD-34), a destroyer tender
 * USS Alcor (AK-259) a Victory ship laid down in 1944

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USS Alexandria

USS Alexandria may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 * USS Alexandria (1862), was a paddle steamer commissioned in 1862 and sold in 1865
 * USS Alexandria (PF-18), was a Tacoma-class frigate patrol frigate
 * USS Alexandria (SSN-757), is a Los Angeles-class submarine commissioned in 1991 and currently in service

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Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare (c. 1100 – 6 January 1148), was created Earl of Pembroke in 1138.

Life
Born at Tonbridge, Gilbert de Clare was a son of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare and Alice de Claremont. He started out without land and wealth of his own but was closely related to very powerful men, specifically his uncles Walter de Clare and Roger de Clare. In 1136, Gilbert fitz Gilbert led an expedition against Exmes and burned parts of the town, including the church of Notre Dame, but was interrupted by the forces of William III, Count of Ponthieu, and escaped the resulting melee only after suffering heavy losses. Gilbert was a Baron, that is, a tenant-in-chief in England, and inherited the estates of his paternal uncles, Roger and Walter, which included the baronies and castles of Bienfaite and Orbec in Normandy. He held the lordship of Nether Gwent and the castle of Striguil (later Chepstow). King Stephen created him Earl of Pembroke, and gave him the rape and castle of Pevensey.

After Stephen's defeat at Lincoln on 2 February 1141, Gilbert was among those who rallied to Empress Matilda when she recovered London in June, but he was at Canterbury when Stephen was recrowned late in 1141. He then joined Geoffrey's plot against Stephen, but when that conspiracy collapsed, he again adhered to Stephen, being with him at the siege of Oxford late in 1142. In 1147, he rebelled when Stephen refused to give him the castles surrendered by his nephew Gilbert, 1st Earl of Hertford, whereupon the King marched to his nearest castle and nearly captured him. However, the Earl appears to have made his peace with Stephen before his death the following year.

Family
He married Isabel de Beaumont, before 1130, daughter of Sir Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan, and Elizabeth de Vermandois. Isabel had previously been the mistress of King Henry I of England.

By her, Gilbert had:
 * Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
 * Basilia de Clare, who married (1) Raymond FitzGerald (Raymond le Gros) and (2) Geoffrey FitzRobert.
 * a daughter who married William Bloet.

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USS Algol

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Algol, after a fixed star in the constellation Perseus.

 * USS Algol (AKA-54) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship that served from World War II until 1970.
 * SS Algol (T-AKR-287), formerly T-AK-287, is a container ship operated by the Military Sealift Command since 1984.

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Talk:Sponge (food)

Has the author ever actually made a sponge cake? --Mothperson 19:57, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Ms.Sexy

Ms. Sexy. Many people must wonder who is Ms.Sexy? Right? Well, Ms.Sexy is one of the most popular teenagers in New York. She not famous such as J.Lo but every teenage girl wants to be like Ms. Sexy! She is very beautiful and the best part is that she is a natural beauty. She does not allow her looks to affect her good-natured personality. She is loving, caring and adorable.Ms.Sexy is quite an interesting teenager. She is smart, talented and has interests in which not most teenagers are interested in. At first glance, Ms.Sexy may seem like a typical teenager but once someone gets to know her well, they realize that she is far more mature than her age. Don't let her maturity get to you, she still has the little kid inside of her deep down inside her and knows how to have fun. Ms.Sexy was born in the year of 1991 and lives in New York. Ms. Sexy is extraordinary! she is the type of teenage girl who dreams of her knight in armor who one day will come to her home on a white house. He will then express her love to her and she'll get married to him and they'll live happily ever after! any guy who falls in love with her better not hurt her because he'll be losing quite a gem. with Ms.Sexy's loving heart, she can change the world! so good luck and i hope you're life turns out to be the beautiful fairy tale you dream it to be.

lovin it!
i like this page. Ms.Sexy seems to be a nice person!

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Afon Cothi

The Afon Cothi (also known as the River Cothy) in Carmarthenshire is the largest tributary of the River Tywi in south Wales. From its source at Blaen Cothi in the north of the county, north of Pumsaint, it flows south-east and then turns south-west to flow past Cwrt-y-cadno, Pumsaint, Abergorlech and Pont-ar-Gothi before joining the River Tywi west of the village of Llanarthney.

The Cothi is noted for its trout and sea trout (sewin) fishing and for its scenery.

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Shelton H. Davis

Shelton H. Davis (August 13, 1942 – May 27, 2010) was an American cultural anthropologist and activist for the rights of indigenous peoples. His academic and organizational work with Latin American indigenous communities contributed to the late 20th century public interest anthropology movement.

He created Harvard University's first undergraduate course on Native Americans in the United States. Victims of the Miracle, his in-depth account of the social and environmental impact of the Brazilian Amazon development program in the 1970s, is considered a seminal work in cultural anthropology. The Anthropology Resource Center, which Davis founded in 1975, was cited by Ralph Nader as an exemplifier of anthropology in the public interest— anthropology that, in Davis' words, "would give information not to bureaucrats for the purpose of social engineering but to citizens and community groups for the purpose of social change.” His work as Principal Sociologist at the World Bank was key to the mainstreaming of social issues – such as social impact assessments and social inclusion of indigenous peoples during Bank project preparation – into World Bank policy during the 1990s.

Life
He was Sector Manager in the Social Development Unit, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Latin America and Caribbean Region (LCSES) at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. where he was responsible for the Bank's work on social development, including tribal and indigenous peoples, civil society, resettlement, etc. He was Principal Sociologist in the Social Development Department from its creation in 1997 to August 1998. Between 1991 and 1997, he served as Principal Sociologist in the World Bank's central Environment Department; and before this, he worked in the Latin America and Caribbean Region's Environment Division.

Between 1984 and 1986, he was a visiting scholar at the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights where he conducted a study of international mechanisms for protecting the human rights of forest-dwelling Indian populations in lowland South America. He was also the co-founder with Marie Helene Laraque, and director of, a hemispheric Indian documentation center called Indigena, Inc. in Berkeley, California (1973 1975), and the Anthropology Resource Center in Boston, Massachusetts (1975 1984).

He has written extensively on indigenous peoples, environment and development issues in Latin America, and his book Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1977) is considered a classic in the field. He is also the author of Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples: The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Cultural Survival, 1988); and the editor of Indigenous Views of Land and Environment (The World Bank, 1993) and, Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development (The World Bank, 1995).

Dr. Davis has taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Clark University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and most recently at Georgetown University.

He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology and Anthropology at Antioch College (1965) and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University (1970). He also did special studies in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1963 and 1964), and doctoral research among Mayan Indians in Guatemala (1967 1969).

Publications

 * Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1977)

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Talk:The Saturday Book

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This needs expanding with more detail about the contents, since much of what is in the series gets overlooked by anthologisers. Ideally a full list of contents needs to be accessible from this page. I have about 4/5 of the volumes but hesitate to start it since I don't know if the Wikipedia page is the right place for it. Maybe Wikesource. Also I have failed to find any references on the web to commentaries about The Saturday Book. Does anyone know of any printed ones? Apwoolrich 19:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Annuals are a very British thing, "The Saturday Book" is some adult version of that Christmas gift, there realy could be a wikipage on British Annuals with a link here, all about how slowly we blogged in the past. Annuals and "BEst of" anthologies are like very slow printed blogs. --Meika 05:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The link to Leonard Russell is incorrect He was the editor of the Sunday Times not a player of American football - further information about him can be found here: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/russell.html

 * I changed the link to Leonard Russell (disambiguation), even though there is no entry for this person. RJFJR 21:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

As for printed sources The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden published a short booklet on the Saturday Book a few years ago      --  Martyn

mcsweeneys
reminds me of. did eggers see it?(mercurywoodrose)108.94.2.75 (talk) 07:26, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

The Week-End Book
Seems suspiciously reminiscent of The Week-End Book, which started in 1924. Anybody know anything about that similarity? -- Orange Mike |  Talk  01:16, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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This is rapper Ludacris' music album cover for Word of Mouf released in 2001.


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USS Algonquin may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy:

 * USS Algonquin (1863)
 * USS Algonquin (tug), ex El Toro (1891) of Southern Pacific's Morgan Line, commissioned Algonquin on 2 April 1898, renamed Accomac 15 June 1898, YT-18 and YTL-18
 * USRC Algonquin (1898), Revenue Cutter Service gunboat ordered into Naval service for Spanish–American War serving 24 March 1898 – 17 August 1898 and again during World War I serving 6 April 1917 – 28 August 1919. Sold 23 September 1931 to Foss Launch and Tug Company, Tacoma, Washington.
 * USCGC Algonquin (WPG-75), United States Coast Guard patrol gunboat in commission from October 1934 to April 1947 and ordered into Naval service as part of the Greenland Patrol during World War II.

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Irakli Alasania

Irakli Alasania (ირაკლი ალასანია) (born 21 December 1973) is a Georgian politician, soldier and former diplomat who served as the Minister of Defense of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He was Georgia's Ambassador to the United Nations from September 11, 2006, until December 4, 2008. His previous assignments include Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia(-in-exile) and the President of Georgia's aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks. Soon after his resignation, Alasania withdrew into opposition to the Mikheil Saakashvili administration, setting up the Our Georgia – Free Democrats party in July 2009. In 2012 Alasania was appointed Minister of Defense, a position he held until 2014.

Early life and career
Irakli Alasania was born in Batumi, Adjara. He participated in the Abkhazian war despite not being an adult, but in the last days of war with the pressure of his father General Mamia Alasania he was forced to live in Abkhazia, his father was killed together with other Georgian politicians upon the fall of Sokhumi to the Abkhaz separatist forces on September 27, 1993. Irakli Alasania graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in international law in 1995. Simultaneously he also took courses at the Georgian Academy of Security from 1994 to 1996. He worked for the Ministry of State Security of Georgia from 1994 to 1998. In 1999 the Pankisi Gorge crisis began, he was one of the key figures of resolving this conflict. He was against of cooperating with Russian forces against Chechen Boeviks. In October 2001 he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. He then served as deputy Minister of State Security from February 2002 to February 2004, and deputy Minister of Defense from March 2004 until July 2004, when he was moved to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia.

Diplomatic service
On September 28, 2004, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili appointed Alasania as chairman of the Tbilisi-based Abkhazian government-in-exile. On February 15, 2005, Saakashvili also made him his aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz peace talks, a move that was initially opposed by the Abkhaz secessionist leadership, but later accepted under pressure from the U.N. mission (UNOMIG). During this tenure, Alasania succeeding in establishing good ties with several Abkhaz politicians and was instrumental in resuming the Georgian-Abkhaz Coordination Council, a tool for direct talks between the two sides, in March 2006. That month, however, he was appointed as Georgia's Permanent Representative to the U.N., a decision which triggered some controversy, with critics saying that sidelining Alasania from the Georgian-Abkhaz negotiations would hinder the positive momentum recently observed in the process.

Alasania continued working on Abkhazian issues, and with through his efforts, the UN General Assembly discussed the issue of displaced persons due to the conflicts in Georgia and passed resolution GA/10708 which recognized the right of return by refugees and internally displaced persons to Abkhazia as well as restitution of property.

Alasania retained his position of the President's special envoy for the Abkhazia issue and in this capacity, paid a surprise and largely unpublicized visit to Sukhumi on May 12, 2008, where he presented a Georgia-Abkhaz peace plan. The move came amid the stalemate in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks and increasing Russian-Georgian tensions over Abkhazia.

Due to his appointment as Georgia's Representative to the UN during the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia, Alasania was the Georgian government's key negotiator with the UN Security Council and voiced the need for quick and decisive UN and international pressure on Russia to end the conflict.

Alasania resigned his position as Georgia's Permanent Representative at the U.N. on December 4, 2008, citing concerns over the Georgian government's handling of the 2008 war with Russia.

Political career
On 26 December 2008, several days after his return to Georgia, Alasania announced that he was in talks with Georgian opposition and would actively enter Georgian politics. Alasania criticized the government's handling of recent events, blaming it for "falling into a Russian trap" (a reference to the August 2008 war with Russia). Alasania also called for the creation of strong and transparent democratic institutions. In a subsequent interview on January 25, Alasania called for Saakashvili's resignation and early presidential elections.

On February 16, 2009, Alasania held a press conference, naming members of his group and declared his vision for Georgia's political and economic future. Among people appearing with him as supporters were several former ambassadors including Levan Mikeladze, a former Georgian ambassador to the U.S and the OSCE as well as Switzerland and UN missions in Geneva, Victor Dolidze, who recently quit his post as envoy to the OSCE and Alexi Petriashvili, Georgia's former ambassador to Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. The lawyer Shalva Shavgulidze was also named as a member of Alasania's team. Representatives from most of Georgian opposition parties attended the presentation; most of them expressed their interest in cooperating with Alasania's newly formed party. Two days after the announcements were made Gia Karkarashvili, former Minister of Defense during the War in Abkhazia, expressed his full support for Alasania's ideas.

On February 23, 2009, Alasania's team joined the Republican and New Rights parties in an alliance called "The Alliance for Georgia". Alasania became the alliance's chairman, while Davit Usupashvili of the Republican Party and Davit Gamkrelidze of the New Rights became co-chairmen. The alliance called on President Saakashvili to agree within next ten days to allow the voters decide whether they wanted early presidential elections through a nationwide referendum.

On 16 July 2009, the political party Our Georgia – Free Democrats was founded and Alasania was chosen as its chairman. In September 2009, the Alasania announced that he would run for Tbilisi mayor's post in local elections in May 2010.

In February 2012, the Georgian Dream Political Coalition was founded with the Free Democrats as one of three co-founding political parties. On 2012 Georgian parliamentary election, Alasania was 3th no. in coalition's proportional list and majoritarian candidate in Zugdidi constituency. Alasania got 36,01% and finished on second place. Coalition won election and got 85 seats in parliament.

Alasania served as Minister of Defense from October 2012 until November 2014, when Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili replaced him with Mindia Janelidze, after 6 of Ministry's senior members were arrested on charges of embezzlement and Alasania called it "attack on Euro-Atlantic choice". After this, "Free Democrats" left ruling coalition and withdraw into opposition.

On 2016 Georgian parliamentary election, "Free Democrats" participated independently. Alasania was leader of party's proportional list and majoritarian candidate in 41st constituency of Gori. Alasania got 19,38% and went in second tour, but, on 10 October, after "Free Democrats" got 4,63% and became an extra-parliamentary force, Alasania left politics and refused to participate in second tour.

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Corrections
changed typo Keinitz to Katz and added comment about how Katz optimized for speed (hack) Jfricker 08:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Patents last only 20 years and cannot be renewed. Most patents with possible claims on the ZIP file format have expired. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.48.181.45 (talk) 17:02, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

POV
I will attest that PKWARE is indeed the world leader for compression and security on a Mainframe Platform.

Some of the statements within this article either need to be toned down or provide third party sources which validate claims such as "In the meantime PKWARE is the world leader for compression software on the Mainframe Platform."

I dispute the idea that it was a fight between a "'large, faceless corporation'" and "Katz was 'the little guy'" that angered the community. At least in my circles, this was never brought up. The perception was that Katz brought out a better product and SEA responded by suing rather than improving their product. It was alleged that SEA was claiming to own the ARC file extension. With no internet, it was much more difficult to seperate fact from rumor. After the settlement, there was a seasside.txt file that was circulated that purported to offer their side. The claim was that the PK offering was harming SEA's business plans; this did not really help their case with the community. It was never circulated that SEA's source code was used in the PK product.

[NOTE: I am very new to this forum and am making my very first contribution. If I have not followed proper etiquette this I apologize.] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

SEA/PK dispute
I also am rather new to Wikipedia participation. Apologies (and corrections requested) if I'm not following protocol.

I do have some objections and concerns about the ambiguous handling in this article of the SEA/PK dispute. There is a tone in the article of uncertainty about who did what to whom, and who was "right", despite clear and truthful assertions that Katz did in fact lift the ARC code for his commerical shareware product; that he did lose the lawsuit; that he did pay attorney's fees; and that the suit generally resolved in SEA's favor. This is certainly the way I recall events turning.

I would also like to address the preceding POV comments above, which share some of this same ambiguous quality, as if to say "This is the way I recall this obscure event from 20 years ago, but even back then we didn't quite have all the facts and we were of a faction supporting Katz."

My circumstances at the time were different and certainly "faction free". During the 80's I was an editor/manager and a writer with one of the major computer publications, and for whatever reasons I'd become familiar with Thom Henderson and SEA (and of course with ARC). I never met Phil Katz but had no feeling one way or the other about him or about PKARC. SEA ARC was the preferred file compression format for transfers over FidoNet (I sysop'ed a node), with PKARC coming into wider use, and I became of course more curious about the affair as the charges started going back and forth not so much amongst the principal players as among the "factions".

I finally asked to meet with Thom at his office (not too far away by car) to get a better understanding of the dispute. Firsthand source information was critical to clearing away the rumor and innuendo. I left after a few hours absolutely without any question of Thom's sincerity and honesty. This was to my knowledge the first, the clearest, and most egregious example of open source code (ARC) being lifted, copied, and refashioned as a commercial product.... without any permission or authorization from the originator. I also had sort of a sick feeling about the other party, as if someone without much of a conscience (but now making a lot of money) was clearly taking advantage of Thom's creative work and his generous intentions.

So here we are 20 years later with a Wikipedia article expressing ambiguity about a situation that was not at all ambiguous. The court ruled Phil Katz to be (let's not mince words on this) a code thief. Katz agreed to cease and desist. He paid all of the legal fees. The he turned right around to violate the clear intention of the agreement by renaming "his" product and selling it under a new name.

In the end, Phil Katz *did not* create PKZIP. He lifted the SEA code and made enhancements to it.

Therefore the entire thrust of this Wikipedia article is wrong.

Geeyore 14:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Just to put this lie to death: PKZIP was LAUNCHED with compression methods that ARC never supported, and file format structure that ARC never had. Calling that "enhancement" and not "invention" is slander. --Rpresser 13:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

 * On reflection, it occurred to me that (a) Thom Henderson and I met through FidoNet in 84/85 where Thom was a very active sysop and much more, while I was a slacker of a sysop, and (b) I have another concern about POV and its impact on the main article. In particular the implication (though not directly stated) that PKZIP was somehow an innovative and superior compression program because it was "split" in a compression program and a decompression program. In fact most of the preceding Unix utilities were single function (one compress/one decompress), and it was actually considered an innovation that SEA combined all functionality within the single ARC executable driven by CL switches. There are a few other statements that cause concern (e.g., why PKZIP was "faster").

 * Geeyore 16:34, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I could be wrong, but my understanding is that PKZIP was incompatible with PKARC, and so is unlikely to have contained any SEA ARC code. If this is the case, any mention of the PKWARE/SEA dispute should really be placed in its own article (e.g. PKWARE, Inc.), not this one, because the dispute predated PKZIP.  --ozzmosis 14:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

 * You are wrong. As the expert for SEA in the lawsuit, I found that the majority of the code used by Katz was lifted directly from copyrighted SEA ARC source code, even down to misspellings in comments. His only original work was in the replacement of a relatively small amount of core C code with hand-optimized assembler. This is why Katz lost the lawsuit, consenting to judgment in favor of SEA.

 * The incompatibility came later when Katz added a compression scheme that wasn't in ARC software, with the result that his software created .ARC files that were incompatible with ARC software, damaging the business of SEA. Katz wasn't just a thief, he was a malicious thief.

 * --John Navas (talk) 05:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Your statements apply to Katz's work on PKARC, not on PKZIP, which this article is about. PKZIP is unlikely to have contained any SEA ARC code. --Rpresser 14:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thom Henderson was mostly "right" on the code copyright issues, but he failed to derive any real lasting benefit from the lawsuit, because he was massively "wrong" when he tried to retroactively declare the ARC file format to be closed and proprietary, something which generated a huge negative backlash from users who weren't following the details of the SEA vs. PKWARE lawsuit too closely, but understood very well that SEA was claiming the right to decide which software would be allowed and not allowed to deal with ARC files in the future... AnonMoos (talk) 04:27, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Version
Is it still version 2.04g? → Aza Toth 18:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * You may be able to find the current version number on the PKWARE website. I think it's at least 7.2. --Zundark 22:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * On 03-01-1999 PKWARE released PKZIP 2.50 for DOS final. 83.5.74.70 17:21, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Please look here for proof of above statement. Wikinger 13:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

version 1.93a
Should mention the 1.93a beta, which was released in October 1991, about a year before 2.04g came out, and was the only way people could compress using "deflate" before the official 2.0 release. The release of deflate seems to have given ZIP the final momentum to become the prevailing MS-DOS compression format (before that time there were a number of competitors)... AnonMoos (talk) 04:29, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Performance
ZIP archives were once considered ubiquitous, but gradually have lost the meaning and have been largely replaced by other types of archive. That early popularity was result of tight code optimization, faster execution than any competing product and on average smaller archive. But what helped ZIP to the top, eventually brought it down. The shrinking user base was mainly result of losing performance, such as processing speed, inability to utilize or utilize efficiently other resources such as non-Intel CPUs, additional CPU cores, inability to produce spanned archives on HDD etc. For example PKZIP and later WinZip was eventually allowed creation of spanned archives on hard disk, however this was long after competing products did so. In practical terms this meant entire archive distributed over possibly dozens of slow media had to be created from scratch even if there was single problem with just one of them. Clearly main problem is unacceptable time involved to create archive as any removable media is slower than hard disc (Floppy, CDs etc.). Other archivers such as ARJ etc. allowed making entire archive of spanned volumes on hard disk which is faster and more reliable. Then each volume could be copied to one media disc at a time. Failure of one disc would simply mean need to copy just that one disc instead of making entire new archive disc by disc.

This entire paragraph needs work. I've removed it, and will work on it when I get the chance, it's garbled to the max, dude. a_man_alone (talk) 10:51, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

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