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Po (lateral thinking)

Po is a word that precedes and signals a provocation. A provocation is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found. Po is also an interjection, aimed at obtaining further clarifications without agreeing or disagreeing.

Etymology
The term po was first created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is, making a statement and seeing where it leads to. It is an extraction from words such as hypothesis, suppose, possible and poetry, all of which indicate forward movement and contain the syllable "po." Po can be taken to refer to any of the following: provoking operation, provocative operation or provocation operation.

Additionally, in Maori, the word "po" refers to the original chaotic state of formlessness, from which evolution occurred. Edward de Bono argues that this context as well applies to the term.

Initiating a proposal
For example, in response to "sales are dropping off because our product is perceived as old fashioned":
 * po: Change the colour of the packaging
 * po: Flood the market with even older-looking products to make it seem more appealing
 * po: Call it retro
 * po: Sell it to old people
 * po: Sell it to young people as a gift for old people
 * po: Open a museum dedicated to it
 * po: Market it as a new product

Some of the above ideas may be impractical, not sensible or not business-minded. The value of these ideas is that they move thinking from a place where it is entrenched to a place where it can move.

The above ideas might develop into: • # po: Change the colour of the packaging

• # update the product casing to bring it up to date (electronic goods can often do this)

• # po: Flood the market with even older-looking products to make it seem more appealing

• # take a cut down version and release it as an older cheaper one to make this product seem like the top of the line

• # po: Call it retro

• # instead of retro say "tried and tested" or "industry standard"

• # po: Sell it to old people

• # good idea

• # po: Sell it to young people as a gift for old people

• # good idea

• # po: Open a museum dedicated to it

• # exhibit only your competitor's products

• # sell this product in the museum

• # make the experience educational within your sector

• # open a café

• # accept group bookings

• # add a theme park

• # po: Market it as a new product

• # give it a new name and call it state of the art

The point of these examples is that an initial po may seem silly, but a further development may seem very good indeed. The intermediate silly idea is a necessary step to find the good idea.

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Great Falls International Airport

Great Falls International Airport is a public/military airport in city limits three miles southwest of central Great Falls in Cascade County, Montana, United States. The airport has also been called Great Falls Municipal Airport.

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 143,811 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 146,438 in 2009 and 155,204 in 2010.

Great Falls International Airport is home to Great Falls Air National Guard Base, which hosts the Montana Air National Guard's 120th Airlift Wing (120 AW), the "Vigilantes." Operationally-gained by Air Mobility Command (AMC), the 120 AW reequipped with the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in 2014, which it employs in medium airlift missions. In its previous incarnation as the 120th Fighter Wing, it previously flew the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

Malmstrom Air Force Base, home of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), is 10 mi east of GTF, on the east side of Great Falls. With the transfer of its KC-135 aircraft in the 1990s, Malmstrom's 12000 ft runway is closed to fixed-wing traffic and open only to military helicopters, so Great Falls ANGB provides support for fixed-wing military aircraft visiting Malmstrom AFB.

History
Great Falls International Airport was initiated in November 1928. The airport was leased by the U.S. War Department during World War II and became a home for the 7th Ferrying Group (Air Transport Command) of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the war. Located on Gore Hill, the airport was known as Gore Field during its military use. During the war years, more than 7,500 bombers and fighter aircraft passed through Great Falls on their way to Europe and the Pacific. The U.S. Army acquired an additional 740 acre and built many buildings and other facilities. The airport was under government control until June 1948 when the Department of Defense deeded it back to the City of Great Falls with the stipulation that the facility could revert to military control in a national emergency. The airport was released from this clause in 1961.

In 1975 the terminal was replaced and all runways, aprons, and taxiways updated. With Federal Aviation Administration matching funds, the Great Falls International Airport Authority performs annual operations, maintenance, and capital improvements.

The award-winning terminal was designed by Davidson-Kuhr Architects of Great Falls, Montana, with the lead architect being David S. Davidson.

Great Falls has had airline flights since the 1930s. For at least part of each year from 1977 to 1981 it saw scheduled Northwest DC-10s EWR-DTW-ORD-BIL-GTF-GEG-SEA and back.

In 2011 the airport recorded the most boardings (172,415) in its history. GTF was the fifth-busiest of the state's 15 major airports in 2011, behind Billings (407,960 enplanements), Bozeman (397,822), Missoula (292,530), and Kalispell (179,034).

In early 2012, Frontier Airlines announced new flights to Great Falls from the Denver hub. The Airport Authority hoped to address rising ticket prices and a seasonal shortage of seats with low-cost Frontier flights, but Frontier announced it was pulling out of Great Falls during its Denver hub restructuring in December 2014.

AvMax, a Calgary-based large jet maintenance and repair business, opened a large operation at GTF in 2006; they employ 150.

Model airplane collection
The terminal contains what is believed to be the world's largest collection of model airplanes. 883 such airplanes are on display, about 2/3 of the entire collection. The models were built and painted by local Great Falls resident Bary Poletto from 1977 through 2003. He died in January 2013.

Facilities
The airport covers 2,113 acres (855 ha) at an elevation of 3,680 feet (1,122 m). It has two asphalt runways: 3/21 is 10,502 by 150 feet (3,201 x 46 m); and 17/35 is 6,030 by 150 feet (1,838 x 46 m).

In the year ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 34,599 aircraft operations, average 95 per day: 40% general aviation, 32% air taxi, 11% airline, and 16% military. 84 aircraft were then based at this airport: 58 single-engine, 10 multi-engine, 3 jet, 5 helicopter, and 8 military.

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9th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)

The 9th Mountain Division (9. Gebirgs Division) was the name given to two separate German military divisions by accident in 1945.

Operational histories
Two simultaneous but independent attempts were made to raise the division in the waning days of the war; the resulting units are conventionally distinguished as Nord ("North") and Ost ("East"), after the respective theaters where they were being assembled. For all practical purposes the 9th Mountain Division never fully came into being.

Northern division

In the spring of 1944, the 139th Mountain Regiment, which had been left in Lapland by the 3rd Mountain Division when it withdrew at the end of 1941, was reinforced to become Divisionsgruppe Kräutler. In September it received the additional designation of 140th Special Purposes Division, and as a result is mentioned once in late-war documentation as "Div.Gr.K (Div.z.b.V.140)". On May 6, 1945, the OKW issued an order re-designating it as the 9th Mountain Division, but the order came so late that it is not actually listed as such on any situation maps or other official records. The unit had withdrawn from Lappland into Norway as German fortunes in the Arctic waned, and surrendered to the British at the end of the war. (Some documentation from the post-war period further confuses matters by referring to this unit as the 10th Mountain Division.) Its commander was Mathias Kräutler

Eastern Division

In the spring of 1945, Shadow Division Steiermark controlled two RAD brigades, and these were mobilized for combat duty as an "Alarm" division under the name Mountain Division Steiermark. The division's two regiments were composed of a very diverse mix of personnel from the Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, police, and other organizations. It appears also to be related to Kampfgruppe Raithel and/or Kampfgruppe Semmering, though the late-war documentation is weak. Its elements surrendered to the Soviets at the end of the war. Its commander was Colonel Heribert Raithel.

Order of battle

 * 9th Mountain Division (Northern group)
 * 139th Mountain Infantry Regiment
 * 931st Artillery Regiment (cadre)
 * I/112th Mountain Infantry Regiment
 * II/82nd Mountain Artillery Regiment
 * 3rd Jaeger Battalion
 * 6th Jaeger Battalion
 * 124th Mountain Artillery Battalion
 * 140th Mountain Engineer Battalion
 * 140th Mountain Signal Battalion
 * 424th Light Assault Gun Battalion
 * 140th Divisional Supply Troops

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Talk:Corktown, Toronto

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I made a minor change to the Corktown page to reflect the correct western border of Corktown, which is Berkely Street, and to add Trinity Street to the list of those with old style row housing - I live in one of them! - Chris Hutcheson, April 12/05

Sept 10 2020 I removed the link to the community site since it's a dead link: http://www.corktown.ca/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Going to http://www.corktown.ca/ gets you to a spammy placeholder site with nothing whatsoever on Corktown. Jimmy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.160.130 (talk) 14:22, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Boundaries of the district?
The boundaries of the district in the lead paragraph are unreferenced, and are at odd with the image in the infobox. The lead currently claims Corktown goes from Shuter Street south to Queens Quay and Lakeshore Boulevard, and includes the Distillery District. I added cn and who tags.

My understanding of the idea we should use historic names of districts is that (most) of those district names refer to residential districts. Originally the Gooderham and Worts campus covered most of what we now call the West Don Lands -- all industrial, and thus not part of the historical Corktown. Geo Swan (talk) 11:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Loblaw and Cork's Grocery
Although I am sure it is not an origin for the name Corktown, there is an interesting article by the Ontario Heritage Trust (http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/CMSImages/6b/6b9eb967-9dea-44ae-8d07-bca5e7125f61.pdf) about the founder of the Loblaws grocery empire and his start working for a Mr. Cork on King Street East. Here is a brief extract...

''At the age of 17, Loblaw worked as a ploughman on a local farm and managed to save $20. Using a dollar of his savings – plus a $10 gift from his brother and a new suit from his sister – he headed for Toronto in search of a better job. He eventually obtained a job in a grocery store, Cork’s Cash Grocery located at 400 King Street East, working for J. Milton Cork. After work each Saturday night, he would ride his bicycle home to Alliston and then ride back to Toronto early the following Monday morning.'' Jdr.to (talk) 19:01, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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September equinox

The September equinox (or southward equinox) is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equinox may occur from September 21 to 24.

At the equinox, the Sun as viewed from the equator rises due east and sets due west. Before the Southward equinox, the Sun rises and sets more northerly, and afterwards, it rises and sets more southerly.

The equinox may be taken to mark the end of astronomical summer and the beginning of astronomical autumn (autumnal equinox) in the Northern Hemisphere, while marking the end of astronomical winter and the start of astronomical spring (vernal equinox) in the Southern Hemisphere.

Occurrences

The September equinox is one point in time commonly used to determine the length of the tropical year.

The dates and times of the September equinoxes that occur from the year 2018 to 2028 (UTC) are listed as follows:

Constellation
The point where the Sun crosses the celestial equator southwards is called the First Point of Libra. However, because of the precession of the equinoxes, this point is no longer in the constellation Libra, but rather in Virgo.

The solar point of the September equinox passed from Libra and into Virgo in −729 (730 BCE) and will enter Leo in 2439.

Apparent movement of the Sun in relation to the horizon
At the equinox, the Sun rises directly in the east and sets directly in the west. However, because of refraction it will usually appear slightly above the horizon at the moment when its "true" middle is rising or setting. For viewers at the north or south poles, it moves virtually horizontally on or above the horizon, not obviously rising or setting apart from the movement in "declination" (and hence altitude) of a little under a half (0.39) degree per day.

For observers in either hemisphere not at the poles, the Sun rises and sets more and more to the south during the 3 months following the September equinox. This period is the second half of a 6-month long southerly movement, beginning with the June solstice when the Sun rises and sets at its most northern point.

Calendars
The September equinox marked the first day of the French Republican Calendar.

West Asia

 * The Southward equinox marks the first day of Mehr or Libra in the Iranian calendar. It is one of the Iranian festivals called Jashne Mehregan, or the festival of sharing or love in Zoroastrianism.

East Asia

 * In Japan Autumnal Equinox Day (秋分の日) is a public holiday. Higan (お彼岸) is a Buddhist holiday exclusively celebrated by Japanese sects during both the Spring and Autumnal Equinox.
 * In Korea, Chuseok is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday celebrated around the Autumn Equinox.
 * The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, often near the autumnal equinox day, and is an official holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and in many countries with a significant Chinese minority. As the lunar calendar is not synchronous with the Gregorian calendar, this date could be anywhere from mid-September to early October.
 * The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms (节气, literally "climatic segments"), and the autumnal equinox (Qiūfēn, ) marks the middle of the autumn season. In this context, the Chinese character 分 means "(equal) division" (within a season).

Judaism

 * The Jewish Sukkot usually falls on the first full moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, although occasionally (In the modern Jewish calendar, three times every 19 years) it will occur on the second full moon.
 * Rosh Hashanah falls on a new moon close to this equinox.

Europe

 * Dożynki is a Slavic harvest festival. In pre-Christian times the feast usually fell on the autumn equinox.
 * The Southward equinox was "New Year's Day" in the French Republican Calendar, which was in use from 1793 to 1805. The French First Republic was proclaimed and the French monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792, making the following day (the equinox day that year) the first day of the "Republican Era" in France. The start of every year was to be determined by astronomical calculations following the real Sun and not the mean Sun.
 * The traditional harvest festival in the United Kingdom was celebrated on the Sunday of the full moon closest to the September equinox.

Neopaganism

 * Neopagans observe the September equinox as a cardinal point on the Wheel of the Year. In the Northern Hemisphere some varieties of paganism adapt Autumn Equinox traditions.  In the Southern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox corresponds with Ostara.

Americas

 * The reconstructed Cahokia Woodhenge, a large timber circle located at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the site of annual equinox and solstice sunrise observances. An announcement for the 2017 observance said "Out of respect for Native American beliefs, no rituals or ceremonies will be held at the free event. But visitors will stand in the same place where the Mississippian people once gathered to watch the sun rise."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inspectigate

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 01:23, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Inspectigate
Made-up word, vanity. Delete. 137.222.10.57 00:04, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity neologism. -- Brhaspati\talk/contribs 00:56, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * Added to Wikipedia and Wiktionary by at the same time.  Wiktionary was quicker off the mark, and had inspectigate marked as a protologism within 5 hours, whereas it has taken Wikipedia over a month.  ☺  Amusingly, the first page of Google Web hits now includes the Wiktionary deletion listing for this word.  (Other entries are mainly self-submission dictionaries.  The same user appears to have hit them all along with Wikipedia and Wiktionary.)  Since there's no such verb, there's no appropriate noun to redirect to. Delete. Uncle G 01:05, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * Delete. neolog. Mikkalai 04:26, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Fuzzball! (talk) 04:36, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity neologism. Megan1967 07:46, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete made up words. Mgm|(talk) 09:40, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

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


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March equinox

The March equinox or northward equinox is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth. The March equinox is known as the vernal equinox (spring equinox) in the Northern Hemisphere and as the autumnal equinox (autumn equinox or fall equinox) in the Southern Hemisphere.

On the Gregorian calendar, the northward equinox can occur as early as 19 March or as late as 21 March at 0° longitude. For a common year the computed time slippage is about 5 hours 49 minutes later than the previous year, and for a leap year about 18 hours 11 minutes earlier than the previous year. Balancing the increases of the common years against the losses of the leap years keeps the calendar date of the March equinox from drifting more than one day from 20 March each year.

The March equinox may be taken to mark the beginning of astronomical spring and the end of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere but marks the beginning of astronomical autumn and the end of astronomical summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

In astronomy, the March equinox is the zero point of sidereal time and, consequently, the right ascension and ecliptic longitude. It also serves as a reference for calendars and celebrations in many cultures and religions.

Constellation
The point where the Sun crosses the celestial equator northwards is called the First Point of Aries. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, this point is no longer in the constellation Aries, but rather in Pisces. By the year 2600 it will be in Aquarius. The Earth's axis causes the First Point of Aries to travel westwards across the sky at a rate of roughly one degree every 72 years. Based on the modern constellation boundaries, the northward equinox passed from Taurus into Aries in the year −1865 (1866 BC), passed into Pisces in the year −67 (68 BC), will pass into Aquarius in the year 2597, and will pass into Capricornus in the year 4312. It passed by (but not into) a 'corner' of Cetus at 0°10′ distance in the year 1489.

Apparent movement of the Sun
In its apparent motion on the day of an equinox, the Sun's disk crosses the Earth's horizon directly to the east at sunrise; and again, some 12 hours later, directly to the west at sunset. The March equinox, like all equinoxes, is characterized by having an almost exactly equal amount of daylight and night across most latitudes on Earth.

Calendars
The Babylonian calendar began with the first new moon after the March equinox, the day after the return of the Sumerian goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar) from the underworld, in the Akitu ceremony, with parades through the Ishtar Gate to the Eanna temple and the ritual re-enactment of the marriage to Tammuz, or Sumerian Dummuzi.

The Persian calendar begins each year at the northward equinox, observationally determined at Tehran.

The Indian national calendar starts the year on the day next to the vernal equinox on 22 March (21 March in leap years) with a 30-day month (31 days in leap years), then has 5 months of 31 days followed by 6 months of 30 days.

Julian calendar
The Julian calendar reform lengthened seven months and replaced the intercalary month with an intercalary day to be added every four years to February. It was based on a length for the year of 365 days and 6 hours (365.25 d), while the mean tropical year is about 11 minutes and 15 seconds less than that. This had the effect of adding about three quarters of an hour every four years. The effect accumulated from inception in 45 BC until the 16th century, when the northern vernal equinox fell on 10 or 11 March.

The date in 1452 was 11 March, 11:52 (Julian). In 2547 it will be 20 March, 21:18 (Gregorian) and 3 March, 21:18 (Julian).

Commemorations

Abrahamic tradition

 * The Jewish Passover usually falls on the first full moon after the Northern Hemisphere vernal equinox, although occasionally (currently three times every 19 years) it will occur on the second full moon.
 * The Christian Churches calculate Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the March equinox. The official church definition for the equinox is 21 March. The Eastern Orthodox Churches use the older Julian calendar, while the western churches use the Gregorian calendar, and the western full moons currently fall four, five or 34 days before the eastern ones.  The result is that the two Easters generally fall on different days but they sometimes coincide.  The earliest possible western Easter date in any year is 22 March on each calendar. The latest possible western Easter date in any year is 25 April.

Iranian tradition

 * The northward equinox marks the first day of various calendars including the Iranian calendar. The ancient Iranian peoples' new year's festival of Nowruz can be celebrated 20 March or 21 March. According to the ancient Persian mythology Jamshid, the mythological king of Persia, ascended to the throne on this day and each year this is commemorated with festivities for two weeks. Along with Iranian peoples, it is also a holiday celebrated by Turkic people, the North Caucasus and in Albania. It is also a holiday for Zoroastrians, adherents of the Baháʼí Faith and Nizari Ismaili Muslims irrespective of ethnicity.

West Asia and North Africa

 * In many Arab countries, Mother's Day is celebrated on the northward equinox.
 * Sham el-Nessim is a modern celebration which is claimed by some to have been celebrated in ancient Egypt but with little evidence. It is one of the public holidays in Egypt. It is assumed by some that sometime during Egypt's Christian period (c. 200–639) the date moved to Easter Monday, but before then it coincided with the vernal equinox.

South and Southeast Asia
According to the sidereal solar calendar, celebrations which originally coincided with the March equinox now take place throughout South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia on the day when the Sun enters the sidereal Aries, generally around 14 April.

 * In Cambodia, the Angkor Wat Equinox is a solar phenomenon which dates back to the reign of Suryavarman II.

East Asia

 * The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms (节气, literally "climatic segments"), and the vernal equinox (Chūnfēn, ) marks the middle of the spring. In this context, the Chinese character 分 means "(equal) division" (within a season).
 * In Japan, Vernal Equinox Day (春分の日 Shunbun no hi) is an official national holiday, and is spent visiting family graves and holding family reunions. Higan (お彼岸) is a Buddhist holiday exclusively celebrated by Japanese sects during both the Spring and Autumnal Equinox.

Europe

 * Hilaria was an ancient Roman festival commemorating the death and resurrection of Attis.
 * Lieldienas
 * in Norse paganism, a Dísablót was celebrated on the vernal equinox.
 * Drowning of Marzanna

The Americas

 * Spring equinox in Teotihuacán
 * The reconstructed Cahokia Woodhenge, a large timber circle located at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the site of annual equinox and solstice sunrise observances. Out of respect for Native American beliefs these events do not feature ceremonies or rituals of any kind.

Modern culture

 * World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling, celebrated every year on the day of the northward equinox.
 * World Citizen Day occurs on the northward equinox.
 * The Baháʼí calendar year starts at the sunset preceding the March equinox calculated for Tehran.
 * In Annapolis, Maryland, United States, boatyard employees and sailboat owners celebrate the spring equinox with the "Burning of the Socks" festival. Traditionally, the boating community wears socks only during the winter. These are burned at the approach of warmer weather, which brings more customers and work to the area. Officially, nobody then wears socks until the next equinox.
 * Neopagans observe the March equinox (referred to as Ostara) as a cardinal point on the Wheel of the Year. In the northern hemisphere some varieties of paganism adapt vernal equinox celebrations, while in the southern hemisphere pagans adapt autumnal traditions.
 * International Astrology Day
 * On 20 March 2014 and 20 March 2018, the March equinox was commemorated by an animated Google Doodle.

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Aravind Joshi

Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, where he was awarded a BE in electrical engineering and a DIISc in communication engineering respectively. Joshi's graduate work was done in the electrical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was awarded his PhD in 1960. He became a professor at Penn and was the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Awards and recognitions

 * Guggenheim fellow, 1971–72
 * Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1976
 * Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987
 * Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1990
 * IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, 1997
 * Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1998
 * Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1999
 * First to be awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th anniversary meeting of the ACL, 2002
 * Awarded the Rumelhart Prize, 2003
 * Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, 2005
 * Doctor honoris causa of mathematical and physical sciences, Charles University in Prague, October 30, 2013
 * S.-Y. Kuroda Prize of the SIG Mathematics of Language of the ACL, 2013

Awarded history
On April 21, 2005, Joshi was awarded the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. The Franklin Institute citation states that he was awarded the medal "for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of how language is represented in the mind, and for developing techniques that enable computers to process efficiently the wide range of human languages. These advances have led to new methods for computer translation."

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Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/General discussion

What about Goings-on?
Will this duplicate what Goings-on is supposed to do? Is there a need to have both? Angela. 19:40, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * It probably does occupy much the same arena, but it's rather a different approach, particularly in providing prose instead of just links. Goings-on has increasingly deteriorated from the initial efforts, which were decently useful. Nowadays I think the people who still follow it must be disappointed with how little is there when they check. Anyway, I felt the concept needed to be reinvented rather than repaired.

 * I don't think both are needed, but I wasn't going to try to absorb Goings-on without establishing that this format is useful to people. If nobody objects, I suppose it can be redirected here instead after a little while. --Michael Snow 20:45, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, but the advantage of goings-on is that it is just one page. Will people still be able to get a sense of what is going on from just reading the headlines here? Perhaps that needs to be kept in mind when choosing the headlines so people who don't want to click the links can still remain reasonably informed. Angela. 03:35, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * If I have more time, in future issues I might try to put brief summaries below the headlines to improve that. I think the objective is to give enough information for people to figure out whether they want to know more, not to give so much information that there's nothing to be gained by following the link. Getting everything on one page is a hopeless proposition here. --Michael Snow 04:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Goings on has been slowing down a bit. Once the signpost is established, most of the content of goings-on could be made into a column, a sort of police blotter with the new admins and such. If that was to be done, there would have to be a formal spot for ongoing contributions, not individual's user spaces as you mention above. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  01:05, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * For smaller bits of information, rather than people working on drafts of articles, it would probably make sense to set up a place where people just leave a note about some particular news item, like new admins. Then the reporters can work it into articles for publication. How about Wikipedia Signpost/pending? --Michael Snow 03:03, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Ironically, I only found out about the Signpost from the Goings-on article :) --Lucky13pjn 04:03, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * As did I. Perhaps goings-on would be best refactored as a summary of the Signpost, with or without the blotter. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  05:22, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think this reflects that Goings-on provides any significant usefulness that can't be handled between the Signpost and the Announcements page. And of course people found out about the Signpost there, because they can hardly have developed a habit of going to the Signpost for news when it didn't exist yet. I think the response suggests habits will change pretty quickly, but I'm not necessarily trying to kill Goings-on, I just think it makes sense to let it die. --Michael Snow 19:18, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Interlingual matters
I have been reporting news from meta, mailinglists, other projects, and IRC for Japanese Wikipedia for a long time. I might bring some of the news stories to here when it is also relevant to English Wikipedia community.

I would also perhaps report what's reported here to Japanese Wikipedia, because I certainly see some are of interests of Japanese Wikipedians.

I also recall that German Wikipedia has its own community paper with some humor bent.

Tomos 08:15, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Productivity
I imagine productivity will go up with the Signpost now in service. People won't be wasting time catching up on Wikipedia events which are scattered and uncoordinated... the signpost is quite the apt title since it directs people to current WP events. - RoyBoy 800 22:48, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * If it helps people spend more time working on the encyclopedia, that's great. I know that already people find it useful as a way to catch up on things quickly when coming back from a holiday, and people who have reduced their activity, but remain interested in the project, use it as a way to follow community events from outside. --Michael Snow 23:06, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Short issue
I was traveling most of the weekend and unable to work on this, so I have fewer articles than normal this week. The power outage seems to have slowed the level of news down a bit as well, so maybe I haven't missed that much more than would usually be covered. But of course there are things every week that I don't get to. --Michael Snow 09:47, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Is this a wiki or a newspaper?
I have the next version of the Wikitech column done, but I want to know what will happen to it when I post it.

Is this a newspaper or zine, where things are fine if correct at the time of publishing, or is it a wiki, where every article will be changed as time elapses and related events happen?

I thought it was a newspaper/zine; the bylines, dates, and periodic issue publishing all make it seem like one. If it's a wiki, why does it have those? Why have a new issue every week, why not just update each page (as happened to my last article)? —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  03:39, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that save for minor corrections, the newspaper model is more useful for most readers. You don't have to watch for changes to articles to get the whole story: Just reading it when the new issue comes out (with all-new material) and you've got the whole story. --W(t) 05:37, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

 * I assume from your edit summary ("feh") for your response at that you disapprove of people correcting the false and misleading statements which you made.  Is this true?  If not, perhaps you could clarify. -- Jeronim 04:25, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Please point out how they were false and misleading. "Denied" was a bit strong, but that was what it appeared to be. Everything was true as of when I wrote it. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  00:13, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

It's a newspaper that's published on a wiki, so it ends up mixing the benefits of both, and sometimes the weaknesses of both as well. I've been more focused on the upcoming issue, and only recently saw these particular changes. It seems to have hit some nerves, both on your side and theirs; you expect to control what's under your byline, while the developers want the information to be accurate and are sensitive about how their work is portrayed. I don't know why it was such a big deal so late in the week; by that point, most everybody has already read the story and isn't coming back. Hence the need for a new issue and new stories. Wikinews has a similar natural tension on the issue of whether to update an existing story or start a new one.

Part of the reason to correct a story, though, is that the news changes from week to week. Even when dealing with a recurring subject (like arbitration or press coverage), not that many articles are really about the same subject as the previous week. So if something needs to be fixed, might as well get the facts right where they appear, because you may not be talking about those same facts again later. --Michael Snow 07:06, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I think something could be learned by the developers by what I wrote. I gave it as I saw it as a member of the list. I will post another episode this weekend; if it is similarly censored, it will be my last. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  00:13, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Please be careful with such an attitude. Regardless of whether it's a wiki or a newspaper (it's both), it's supposed to be objective reporting, not pushing an agenda. The function here is keeping the community informed, not teaching people a lesson. Report the facts in an accurate and responsible manner, and let them decide for themselves what lessons they want to learn. --Michael Snow 04:48, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Publicity
It's navel-gazing to the nth degree, but The Signpost is now mildly famous thanks to Steve Rubel. --Michael Snow 20:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You mean Steve Rubel (who?) is now mildly famous thanks to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost. - DavidWBrooks 21:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You could put it that way, too, it depends on your audience. Rubel is a public relations executive and relatively notable in the blogging community. He may not be as well-known to Wikipedians, nobody's felt the need to write an article about him yet. --Michael Snow 21:12, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * We also got linked to from the Quixtar blog entry (see the Suggestions page). He didn't quite get us (he said that people had discussed posting the entry in the Signpost or in the Newsroom), but... Ral315 (talk) 22:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, we wrote about him in December as well; see Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-05/In_the_news. — Catherine\talk 07:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

http://wikipedia.org/Article redirections
If you visit http://wikipedia.org/Article, you're redirected to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article. Is there ANY good reason though that the former URL doesn't immediately point to the correct Wikipedia page? In other words, why can't http://wikipedia.org/Article serve as a direct alternative to http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Article? Just like http://sbgskl.livejournal.com/ points to the same page as http://livejournal.com/~sbgskl

 * Your question would probably have a better chance of being answered at the help desk. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 00:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, but I'll give a suggestion why: Wikipedia is bigger than just the English version, for instance we have a very active German version. It's better to make people aware of the 404 and then redirect so they are discouraged from providing a misleading and inaccurate link. That's my take on it, anyway. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The only reason that the first is still there is because the English version used to be at wikipedia.org, and they didn't want to break links. So it's very unlikely that the latter will be done.  Ral315 (talk) 21:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Something to do
I'll cover something or do something. Just leave a message on my talk page. Gang sta  E  B   EA  00:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost on the front page?
I've proposed at Village pump (miscellaneous) that the signpost have more visibility on the front page to advertise the presence of a Wikipedia community. Comments would be appreciated. Thanks --  Netsnipe  ►  12:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Isn't it a bit internal/community/behind the scenes for the Main Page? There is already a prominent link on Community Portal. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * My point is that the Signpost box is much more dynamic than a static Community Portal link. --  Netsnipe  ►  13:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The dynamic box appears on the Community Portal right near the top - have a look. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * While I can't say I oppose us being added to the main page, I question whether the Signpost is relevant; my worry is that newbies get too fine-grained a look into the community, too early. Someone had the Signpost on the main page during the redesign phase, but it was eventually removed.  I'd certainly entertain a discussion to do so.  Ral315 (talk) 14:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Sign up
How do we sign up for the Wikipedia Signpost?  •S  e  an•gorter•  (T) (P) 05:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

 * You may be looking for the instructions on Template:Signpost-subscription. --Michael Snow 06:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Statistics
A few weeks ago I found my way to a page listing the number of featured pictures, lists and articles etc plus the number of defeatured pictures, lists and articles, and I think it was something to do with signpost. Can anyone point me towards it? Thanks, RHB 21:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It is probably a past edition of Features and admins (current edition). Circeus 21:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Or Featured article statistics? -- ALoan (Talk) 22:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Thats the one, thanks Aloan and Circeus. Is there any way to access that from the main signpost? RHB 17:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Section on Other Language Editions (Spamlist)
Only after I subscribed did somebody bother to change the spamlist from where I posted myself to receive 2 copies of Signpost, one in English, and one in what I thought would be Icelandic. It doesnt matter, it was just a case of reading whichever one I logged into first. 'Now, someone has changed the page informing people that when you sign there, you get a copy of the English language signpost sent to whichever wiki you register to. So now I am getting 2 copies of signpost both in English. Any chance things could be made a little clearer for people please? I wanted signpost in English and Signpost in Icelandic. Guess that's not gonna happen, is it? Thor Malmjursson 13:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The Signpost is in English everywhere. The spamlist for other languages is there if you want to be notified on your talk page on that language, instead of here. Jon Harald Søby 14:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * And, of course, anyone is welcome to translate into other languages if they feel like doing so. We don't have that as a regular service, partly because it was envisioned as primarily an English Wikipedia newspaper. But we're happy if people from other languages find it useful. --Michael Snow 05:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I guess it should have been obvious to me, but what threw me was in that section, it started Other Language Editions, and then people were putting underneath their names, and then (I thought) the language they wanted it in afterwards. As for example with Jon Harald Søby, I saw his name, then (Norwegian) listed afterwards.  What I assumed was that it meant He was requesting a copy in Norwegian, not a copy to go to the Norwegian Wiki... :) Guess we all make mistakes (I know, cause with me, that's frequent!) Thor Malmjursson 11:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That's okay, I can see why it wasn't obvious, I've tried to straighten out the message there to make it more clear. --Michael Snow 21:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

For next time...
...or not, I just found out that the fR WpA WILL NOT let you commit an edit without previewing it. 68.39.174.238 02:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Interesting; I've confirmed this. The edit page button is disabled until you hit "show preview".  Of course, this may apply to anons and new users only (as I didn't log in).  Simetrical or brion might know more about this.  Ral315 (talk) 06:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I just made an edit there (creating my user page), and did not use preview. The need for preview may only apply to anon editors. My account there is not a new one.- gadfium 07:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I also verified with a new account fr:Utilisateur:Trödel Test - which did not have email confirmation and one can commit an edit without preview. -- Trödel 17:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, so it definately seems to be IPs only. I can understand the reasons, but dislike it as I am used to whatever you call tab-navigation. I edit, type tab once, type a [lame] edit summary, hit tab twice and then space and that saves the page. With the save disabled, I would hit "Show changes" and lose out totally... 68.39.174.238 22:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * More new info: Prevew and show changes both enable save. 68.39.174.238 22:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Signpost Distribution
Hi, Has it been discussed to put the signpost on a particular page, and then post in template format on users pages the newsletter, rather than posting the news letter on the actual page...?

Surely that would be a better use of resources..?

Reedy Boy 19:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, users can see the Signpost on the main page, or put the Signpost template on their user or user talk page. But a lot of users seem to prefer having it posted to their talk pages.  For me, it's not really a resource problem, since I use a bot account that automatically makes the posts.  Ral315 (talk) 05:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Delivery
Is there any way I could get the signpost. I am the head of a wikia wiki. -My Talk —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.162.2.135 (talk) 14:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

Delivery
Hi I want the signpost to be delivered to here i added the details in spamlist but i am not getting it. What is frequency of publictaion? Maharashtraexpress 10:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Sorry, this publication is part of the English Wikipedia, and so it likely can only be delivered to English Wikipedia user talk pages. I can't say if that's the reason or not, because I'm only nominally involved with Signpost, but I'd think that's it. --  Zanimum 13:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Weekly publishing day
The "about" section notes that the Signpost is published on Mondays. As we all have seen, it is almost always published on Tuesdays, UTC, to the point where it is already Wednesday in some places.

Why not say that the Signpost is published Wednesdays, and if the eds aim for Early Tuesday UTC, it'll never be late. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, I suspect they aim for Mondays, and slip to Tuesdays... :-) I've been involved in volunteer publishing before, and you really just have to be patient and wait until everything comes together. Carcharoth 12:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The other thing, if people say Wednesday, then regular contributors will just submit their (probably already late) stuff even later. Plus, people will turn up on Tuesday saying they have something urgent to put in the newsletter, and they will be told it's already gone to press. Carcharoth 12:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Leave it be. I'm really pleased that it comes out so regularly and as close to its intended publication day as it does, given that it's a spare-time activity. Well done, Ral315 et al! -- Derek Ross | Talk 15:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Carcharoth has it about right, saying Monday is needed to keep on schedule at all. A transparently soft deadline is much less use than the public embarrassment of being late. If it's Wednesday somewhere at the time of publication, things have actually gone wrong—most of the time it really still is Monday where I'm located when the issue goes up (though not this week, my apologies). I would actually like it if all stories were ready by Sunday. --Michael Snow 18:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

How to sign up for this
Hi. I've noticed that many wikipedians receive the signpost on their talk page, and I'd be interested in recieving it too. Is there a signpost spamlist, or do you have to write for the signpost in order to recieve it? This is because I would like to be notified about wikipedia's news without having to visit the page every time. If it is possible to recieve it without having to contribute (although I could if I found something to write to the signpost about), could someone put me on a list to recieve it, if there is one, or link to it? If not, could you tell me how you recieve it, as so many other wikipedians recieve it as well? I keep thinking of this like a wikiproject, where you could put your name on it, even if it's not. Please reply, and I hope whoever does the signpost doesn't have to send it manually to everyone involved every week, as that would be hard work, I think they use AWB anyway. Thanks. PS. I find it strange that an admin blocked for a reason could easily unblock him/her-self, because then why would they be blocked in the first place, unless they are desysopped? – A  stroHur  ricane  00  1 (Talk+Contribs+Ubx) ( +sign here+How's my editing? ) 22:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

A weird idea
Is it possible at all for the Signpost to get an ISSN? Circeus 05:59, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

 * AFAIK, yes. But "Serials are print or non-print publications issued in parts, usually bearing issue numbers and/or dates. A serial is expected to continue indefinitely.". --Gwern (contribs) 06:16 8 May 2007 (GMT)

Has the Signpost been delivered?
Has the Signpost been delivered this week? I can see the new Signpost at WP:POST, dated last Monday, but I haven't received the Signpost on my user talk yet. A ecis Brievenbus 22:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Subscribing to the Signpost
Presumably, the answer is right in front of my face and I'm just too asleep to see it. I saw a post on another user's talk page to the effect of "Wikipedia Signpost weekly delivery" - where can I sign up for a similar deal? I'd love to read the new editions as they come hot off the Webpresses. PaladinWhite 13:34, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Hey Paladin, the information you're looking for is right here: Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe. Hope that helps! --JayHenry 13:41, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Awesome - I signed myself up. Thanks so much! PaladinWhite 07:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

No Delivery?
The July 30th signpost still hasn't been delivered. I can deliver it with my bot if other's think I should (no approval needed). -- (Review Me) R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 21:38, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I'll take care of it right now. I had a hell of a vacation - the internet connection had limited range, and ended up going down completely for a while due to a storm.  The same storm started a forest fire that forced our campground to be evacuated just a few hours after we left for home :)  Ral315 » 23:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Bummer dude. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:38, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, apart from that it was a great vacation... Ral315 » 13:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Well then, I for one am glad that our hardworking editor-in-chief had a good holiday :-) Ta bu shi da yu 13:53, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Sometimes, the best part of going away is the lack of an Internet connection :) enochlau (talk) 15:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Honestly, after I was sure that Michael had published it, I stayed away from the internet, apart from checking weather maps occasionally. By the way, the fire's still going, at 14,300 acres right now.  I swear, I didn't do it!  Ral315 » 07:03, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Sign up link
Can the link to receive the signpost be made more prominent? I'm getting reports now and then of people who are unable to find it.

Ideally there might be a "Delivery" link on the links at the front page, so that people receiving or reading a copy also easily see the link.

For now though I've added it to the navigation template, which should be easy to find. Putting it under "tools" might be logical, but is not the most helpful thing to newcomers seeking the "sign up" or "remove me" links. FT2 (Talk 07:05, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

signing up
how do you subscribe? LizzieHarrison 20:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Not that I do, but Signpost-subscription? MrZaius  talk  09:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Or if you want talkpage/email notification, Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe. --ais523 15:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Need help finding a Signpost story
About a year ago, the signpost had a story about some museum (I think it was affiliated with the University of Oregon, or some other University in the US Northwest) that had put a bunch of (Native American-related?) pictures on Wikipedia, and saw their traffic spike. I need to find this story ASAP. Raul654 16:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

 * You probably mean the University of Washington, see Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-09/In the news. There are some pictures and also links to useful parts of their digital collection, mostly related to local history (Native Americans along with prominent whites from the region's past). --Michael Snow 16:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's the one. Thanks! Raul654 16:46, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Grr, Michael beat me to it by about 4 minutes. --ais523 16:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * In case a similar problem comes up in the future:  can be given in a Google search to limit it to Signpost entries, and the main problem finding the article was to find the right search terms ('museum' isn't in the article anywhere, and was misleading me). --ais523 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, both of you. The reason I asked is that I'm trying to talk someone with a wonderful (large) collection of modern public-domain classical recordings into letting me upload them to Wikipedia. He was afraid that this would suck the traffic away from his site, and I was trying to reassure him. Raul654 18:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You might want to point him to a sustained increase, rather than a temporary spike. Which was it? Also, pictures and recordings might be different, unless you have a credit and link appear in the article itself (I thought we didn't do that?). Carcharoth 01:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

the great V A T con
is it just me or has anyone noticed no change in prices and in a lot of cases price increases since the reduction in V A T, example i am dare i say it a 'smoker' is there vat on tabbacco, did it come down in price, nope, i am a drinker, same deal, no price drops, in fact my local is putting there prices up, and in more general shopping, in one of the large food retail chains well they might have reduced there V A T, but put there prices up just as quick, so living on a limited budget as i do, i can honestly say V A T reduction has not realy helped that much. am i the only one are there more of me out there. Fly1one (talk) 18:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Could someone involved with the signpost act as a link between the signpost and...
A discussion on the assesment scale is currently taking place at.. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 02:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Couple questions
Would it be feasible to redirect the subpage and template talk pages here or to another central area? That way discussions can have some focus. Also, I can't figure out how to update User Signpost-subscription to the new look. §hep Talk  07:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't even know that template existed. Pretzels probably wasn't aware of it either.  Does it look different now than it used to?  As for discussions, maybe we should just note here where they are going on.  I suspect most issues brought up at a particular template will be technical issues related to that particular template (like the one you bring up at Template talk:Signpost-subscription).  That's the only one I've noticed so far.--ragesoss (talk) 07:48, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a handful; it doesn't look any different then it used to...it just doesn't have the same look as everything else. But with so few uses it probably doesn't matter a whole lot. I'm not sure as to what makes it more useful then the other template, maybe it's a tad thinner? §hep  Talk  07:55, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I got something. It looks decent in IE7/FF2. Thoughts? §hep  Talk  09:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a note that I found this pretty amusing. §hep  Talk  06:14, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, what do you think about implementin the idea at SignpostNavigation from almost a year ago? Maybe not specifically in that template...but somewhere? §hep  Talk  07:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, cheers Shep for spotting that template and doing a little work on it. It's used by under 50 people, but is in the standard userbox dimensions so fits in with other userpage templates - a good example of this is at User:JimMillerJr. There is an archives search box on the Archives index now. P retzels Talk! 17:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

RSS
As a communications consultant, I routinely tell my clients that having their Internet content syndicated on RSS is an important key to building an audience. The current, Mediawiki-specific methods of delivering the Signpost are very effective for some people. But many Wikipedia editors, and others who may be interested in the goings-on of Wikipedia, get the bulk of their news via RSS. Either knowingly, or indirectly because it gets picked up on a web site they read regularly.

I suggest placing a high priority on distributing the Signpost via RSS, in addition to current publication and delivery methods.

Of course, it would be ideal if our wonderful programmers would add this capability to the Mediawiki software; but I think that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. So I'd suggest taking a less technical approach: simply set up a blog account, and paste the contents of each Signpost into it. (wikipediasignpost.wordpress.com might be a good place to start.)

Thoughts? -Pete (talk) 18:08, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree, RSS should be a priority.--ragesoss (talk) 18:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * This should work fine. Also available in Atom here. §hep  Talk  06:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

 * That's very cool, but I don't think it's sufficient for what I had in mind. I'd like to see something that's worthy of inclusion in aggregators like Planet Wikimedia and Open Wiki Blog Planet. In other words, a single entry for every article, or at least for every issue. One lightweight way to do it would be to set up a Twitter or Identica account, and just tweet a link or collection of links every time an issue comes out. Probably means about 10 minutes of work/week to set up 10 shortened URLs and compose the messages. I'd be game to work on it, but would prefer to work with somebody(s) in getting it set up. Anybody? -Pete (talk) 15:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm looking into a couple of possibilities, one of which would be to duplicate the Signpost on another wiki that has RSS enabled. At the least, we can set up a blogger team blog or twitter feed.--ragesoss (talk) 16:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm talking to Mark from jeays.net, he said he should be able to setup a screen scrape similar to this that would check for updates every six hours or so. We could probably have it set to check around 3 UTC. What do you think about this solution? If it's no good I'll need to be able to let him know so he doesn't waste his time coding anything up. He said he should be able to look at it in the next few days. Cheers, §hep  Talk  03:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I own wikipediasignpost.com, and if anyone comes up with a good idea to use it for, I'd be happy to offer it. It has, in the past, hosted a WordPress-based RSS feed, but the maintenance of keeping it up got to be a bit much. Ral315 (talk) 04:25, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

 * What do you think of:  Feed-icon.svg Readers can subscribe to a web feed of the Signpost in RSS format. ?  §hep  Talk  06:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Does this feed only update when the content changes? In other words, could it be included in the wiki planet aggregators and behave like a normal feed that gets pushed down the page as it gets older and pops up at the top again when the new edition comes out?--ragesoss (talk) 15:49, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * As far as I understand everything some program checks the /Spamlist/Message page every 6 hours to see if the links have bbeen updated. If the links are new, it updates the feed. I'm not sure if it would move down a page... You could always email Mark who runs the website, I'm sure he'd have an answer for you.  §hep  Talk  21:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay. I've asked Ral315 to set up WordPress on wikipediasignpost.com, which I plan to update manually.  But this RSS will be good to have as well, as it will serve a different purpose... simply an up-to-date list of articles in the current issue.--ragesoss (talk) 22:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * WikipediaSignpost.com is now live as a WordPress blog, which will be updated weekly. I've added/suggested the feed  to the blog planets.--ragesoss (talk) 16:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice. §hep  Talk  23:51, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The Signpost doesn't update on my user page
Hello there. The template on my user page doesn't update to the latest issue anymore. Can someone more knowledgeable than me fix this problem, please ? If it is of any help, the template does update itself when I pretend to edit my userpage (i.e. click "edit this page" on my userpage and then save without changing anything). As a side note, I do like the new version, it looks more professional, especially graphically. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 13:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

 * You need to purge your cache in order to see the most recent changes. Wikipedia doesn't automatically load templates every time you visit a page, this keeps down on the server load, the downside of this is that it takes a null edit to update the templates on said page else you have to wait for the job queue to get to it which can take a few days. It's very similar to the way categories update. §hep  Talk  19:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Many thanks to you and Ragesoss, who helped too. Thing is, the template doesn't update ever (for weeks in a row) if I don't make a null edit, so I thought I'd ask. Now that I know what to do, everything is fine. Have a nice day ! Rosenknospe (talk) 11:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm thinking of going through with AWB and null editing every page that transcludes the template when I or X! do the deliveries. Can't do it in auto mode, it just skipes the page...but it's under 20,000 pages. §hep  Talk  22:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Errors in the latest Signpost
In the 'WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics' - "They need not all be Featured articles; Good articles and articles which have been through Peer review (with any major problems addressed) can be part of a Featured topic." - misleading, it's articles that are ineligible to become Good or Featured articles and which have been through Peer review. Good Topics have the exact same rule; only the required percent of FA/Ls changes (from 25% to 0%). There's no rule that says that at least three of the articles in the GT have to be GA or FA; I'm not sure where the writers got that from. -- Pres N  15:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I updated the page. NuclearWarfare  ( Talk ) 19:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

SIPO
WP:SIPO is also a redirect. -Stevertigo 03:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Lessons for the "brits"
We are British, or Britons, not "Brit". Shnitzled (talk) 11:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Except me. I'm a Brit. (chorus of "Oh yeah. Except Derek, Of course, Obviously, etc.") -- Derek Ross | Talk'' 16:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried to figured out of if the conveniently short "Brit" was derogatory, but Wikipedia and Wiktionary failed me by giving no indication. Sorry to any Britons that were offended.--ragesoss (talk) 16:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No more derogatory than Yank, Kiwi, or Canuck, I would say. I think that people would need to be pretty thin-skinned to be offended when there was no intention on your part to offend. -- Derek Ross | Talk'' 18:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't find it offensive, it's just not what we are called. Shnitzled (talk) 00:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say Brit is fairly common usage, just slang. -mattbuck (Talk) 01:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Brit Awards? :-) And I'd say Britons has several meanings. I'd use British every time. Carcharoth (talk) 13:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


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Should the Louisiana template be where it is in this article? → Jarlaxle Artemis   00:07, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

At the bottom? I think so. Any reason why it should be elsewhere? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 03:46, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Um, "Suburbs"?
How are Marrero, Metarie, Gretna, etc considered "suburbs"? Surely there's a better word that more accurately describes the relationship of these communities to the City of New Orleans. When people hear "suburb" they think alternating rings of commercial and residential zones around the city, which is not what this is. Here, commerce and residences are mixed together (much like in the city of New Orleans) and these surrounding communities more resemble further expansion of the city than any suburbia.

When I lived in Metairie I thought of myself as living in the "suburbs". Metairie lacks the heavy industry common to New Orleans, Chalmette, Avondale and other areas. It is primarily residential. While there is commerce in Metairie, most of it is consumer retail related. I think the real indication that Metairie, at least, is a suburb is the direction and magnitude of rush hour traffic flow. Tall Girl 06:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Although we often have a certain view of what constitutes a "suburb," American geographers often define it as where workers commute into the city, but live outside city gov't. Therefore sparsely populated wilderness and former farmland in Conneticut are "suburbs," but so are heavily industrialized neighborhoods of northern New Jersey. Your traffic flow comparison is more apt than you may have thought. Cuvtixo (talk) 03:46, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

add a map?
Can someone add a map to this article? Apollo58 21:25, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes Please! Especially for the East Bank/West Bank section. Its really hard to conceptualize this without a map of the river! Cuvtixo (talk) 03:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC) !

Seven, eight, or nine parishes?
It says 7 but lists 8. CalJW 06:22, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * At the top, it says 9. JD 04:08, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

I added Tangipahoa to the list of parishes at the top of the article because there is residential development going on there related to people who moved from the city of New Orleans (and the South Shore suburbs) to the North Shore. However, I think including Washington Parish in the list of parishes included in Greater New Orleans is a bit of a stretch, though it is properly included in the description of the North Shore. Tall Girl 07:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

 * There are seven (7) parishes defined by the U.S. Census for the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan area. I will now go and correct the information in the article. —RJN 22:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I think a brief conversation about my reasons for including Tangipahoa Parish might have been in order before you reverted my change. I realize that the census has its definition, but the North Shore is a growing part of the Greater New Orleans area. Not including Tangipahoa parish means WP will be stuck in the year 2000 for another couple years until someone figures out that the Little Tchefuncte River didn't keep developers from building there. Just a thought.Tall Girl 01:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Since when has the census been the be-all-end-all source for metropolitian area definitions? The GNOCDC includes Tangi, St. Tammany, Washington, the River Parishes, and the traditional Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaq. Secondly, the census definition refers to the "New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan area" not the "Greater New Orleans Metro Area." I totally disagree with this edit and I think we should revert to the broader definition of the area or else explain the two competing defintions of the area. In addition, I've heard some commentary National Radio recently that Greater Baton Rouge and Greater New Orleans are on a path to merger because of Katrina. --Kunzite 03:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I think there is a dispute over official government definitions and what the people from there count. Searching Google I found several non-governmental organizations which include Tangipahoa in "Greater New Orleans area". My bias is to use definitions locals use to define their region. So ... Tall Girl 05:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Washington Parish is included in the New Orleans-Metairie-Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area. Tangipahoa and St.James Parishes are located between the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas. However, I would not be surprised if these parishes are added to either one of those statistical areas. Lionheart1979 21:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC) Regional Planning Commissions do not make a area, look at the map next to the section that talks about the area. When people move out of this area they are leaving New Orleans, they (the evacuees) for the most part finally had the chance to leave that God forsaken city that should not have een built there in the first place. All the editors of all the articles on Louisiana should at least live in this area, but what happened is that a bunch of people from hundreds of miles away looked at what the Census bureau had to say and determined that we people that live 50-75 miles away live in New Orleans. Please reconsider your thoughts on what is part of what!208.54.14.95 (talk)Vesago78 —Preceding comment was added at 00:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

population figures
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1142406498194440.xml

Requested move
Greater New Orleans → New Orleans metropolitan area … Rationale: as the article starts off with the metro reference, is more consistent with other metro areas of the U.S. and is differentiated from the Greater New Orleans region. ACMe 21:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. — Nightst a  llion  (?) Seen this already? 15:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Katrina - Cat 4
This article says "The metropolitan area was hit by Hurricane Katrina—a Category 4 storm—in August 2005". Katrina was Category 3 when it made landfall - both at Buras and later at Waveland. It HAD been a Cat 5 out in the gulf the day before. Didn't want to make that change myself, but haven't heard that the weather service has changed its classification (as it sometimes does - they upgraded Andrew to a category five a few years after it hit south Florida). Ergonaut2001 17:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

The Greater New Orleans Region
The New Orleans metropolitan area is actually designated by the State of Louisiana as The Greater New Orleans Region when identifying the different cultural areas of the state. I noticed at one time the page was called Greater New Orleans, but was redirected to this page. Actually, this page should be a redirect to Greater New Orleans.-- Avazina, (Talk to me) DEMs are morons. 14:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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Electronics (magazine)

Electronics is a discontinued American trade journal that covers the radio industry and subsequent industries from 1930 to 1995. Its first issue is dated April 1930. The periodical was published with the title Electronics until 1984, when it was changed temporarily to ElectronicsWeek, but was then reverted to the original title Electronics in 1985. The ISSN for the corresponding periods are: for the 1930–1984 issues,  for the 1984–1985 issues with title ElectronicsWeek, and  for the 1985–1995 issues. It was published by McGraw-Hill until 1988, when it was sold to the Dutch company VNU. VNU sold its American electronics magazines to Penton Publishing the next year.

Generally a bimonthly magazine, its frequency and page count varied with the state of the industry, until its end in 1995. More than its principal rival Electronic News, it balanced its appeal to managerial and technical interests (at the time of its 1992 makeover, it described itself as a magazine for managers). The magazine is best known for publishing the April 19, 1965 article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in which he outlined what came to be known as Moore's Law.

Intel's hunt for Moore's original article
On April 11, 2005, Intel posted a US$10000 reward for an original, pristine copy of the Electronics Magazine where Moore's article was first published. The hunt was started in part because Moore lost his personal copy after loaning it out. Intel asked a favor of Silicon Valley neighbor and auction website eBay, having a notice posted on the website. Intel's spokesman explained, "We're kind of hopeful that it will start a bit of a scavenger hunt for the engineering community of Silicon Valley, and hopefully somebody has it tucked away in a box in the corner of their garage. We think it's an important piece of history, and we'd love to have an original copy."

It soon became apparent to librarians that their copies of the article were in danger of being stolen, so many libraries (including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) located and secured the articles. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was not so lucky, however, as the day after Intel announced the reward, they found that one of the two copies they owned was missing. Intel has stated that they will only purchase library copies of the article from the libraries themselves, and that it would be easy to determine as most libraries bind their old magazines, requiring the cutting of the article from the bound book if a thief were to sell the article.

Intel ultimately awarded the prize to David Clark, an engineer living in Surrey, England who had decades of old issues of Electronics stored under his floorboards.

First use of E-mail as an abbreviation
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites the first usage of the abbreviation E-mail in the June 1979 edition: “Postal Service pushes ahead with E-mail”. The headline was in reference to the United States Postal Service initiative called E-COM, which was developed in the late 1970s and operated in the early 1980s. No earlier usage has been found, and the first usage of the term email may be irretrievably lost.

CompuServe rebranded its electronic mail service as EMAIL in April 1981, which popularized the term.

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Victor Jory

Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939). From 1959 to 1961, he had a lead role in the 78-episode television police drama Manhunt. He also recorded numerous stories for Peter Pan Records and was a guest star in dozens of television series as well as a supporting player in dozens of theatrical films, occasionally appearing as the leading man.

Biography
Born in Dawson City, Yukon, to American parents, he was the boxing and wrestling champion of the U.S. Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique. He graduated from the Martha Oatman School of the Theater in Los Angeles.

Jory toured with theatre troupes and appeared on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1930. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast as the villain, probably due to his distinctive, seemingly coal-black eyes that might be perceived as 'threatening'. He made over 150 films and dozens of TV episodes, as well as writing two plays. His long career in radio included starring in the series Dangerously Yours.

He is remembered for his roles as malevolent Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Jonas Wilkerson, the opportunistic overseer of the slaves at Tara in Gone with the Wind, and as Lamont Cranston, or 'The Shadow', in the 1940 serial film The Shadow. He also portrayed Oberon in Max Reinhardt's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) starring James Cagney, Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland.

He co-starred in seven Hopalong Cassidy films between 1941 and 1943, usually cast in the role of a villain with the exception of his role as a broad-shouldered lumberjack in the film Riders of the Timberline (1941).

He starred in the radio series Dangerously Yours beginning in mid-1944. The series was retitled Matinee Theater in October 1944 and ran through April 1945. Each episode was a dramatic reworking of famous literary works. The first episode dated July 2, 1944, was "The Highwayman", a dramatic interpretation of the Alfred Noyes poem.

In 1946, he narrated "Tubby the Tuba" for children, which was inducted in 2005 in the National Recording Registry and also introduces the orchestra to young listeners. The disc sold over one million copies. The story tells of a tuba who does not fit in. He also narrated "Bumpo the Ballerina", whose title character is an elephant.

From 1959 to 1961, he appeared with Patrick McVey in the 78-episode syndicated television police drama Manhunt. Jory played the lead role of Detective Lieutenant Howard Finucane. McVey was cast as police reporter Ben Andrews.

In 1957, Jory was cast in the role of the Southern Baptist pastor George Washington Truett of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, in the episode "Lone Star Preacher" of the syndicated religion anthology series Crossroads. In 1960 he portrayed the aging, malevolent husband of Anna Magnani’s character in The Fugitive Kind, adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams.

In 1962, he was cast as Deacon Lee in the two-part episode "Policemen Die Alone" of Leslie Nielsen's ABC crime drama The New Breed. That same year, Jory guest-starred as Mike Dahlback in the episode "Ride to a Fall" in the NBC modern Western series Empire, which featured Richard Egan as rancher Jim Redigo. He also played Helen Keller's father in The Miracle Worker, for which his co-stars Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke won Academy Awards.

In 1964, along with actresses Coleen Gray and Susan Seaforth, Jory testified before the United States Congress as part of "Project Prayer", arguing in favor of an amendment to the United States Constitution to restore school prayer, which the United States Supreme Court struck down in two decisions in 1962 and 1963.

Jory was on the faculty of the University of Utah, teaching acting in the Department of Theater. He endowed a scholarship for junior/senior students in the department known as the Victor Jory Scholarship, which continues to the current day.

The High Chaparral television episode "The Peacemaker" in 1968 featured Jory as a peace envoy attempting to negotiate a treaty with Apache Native American chief Cochise.

In the private-eye series Mannix, which starred Mike Connors as the title character, Jory played the Armenian-American detective's widowed father, Stefan Mannix—a grape farmer in "Summer Grove", a fictitious town in California's Central Valley near Fresno (which continues to have a large Armenian population). He appeared in two episodes,"Return to Summer Grove" (1969) and "Wine from These Grapes" (1971).

In 1977, near the end of his career, Jory guest starred as an aging Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in James Garner's The Rockford Files episode "The Attractive Nuisance".

Jory died on February 12, 1982, at the age of 79, from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California.

For his contribution to the motion-picture industry, Victor Jory was honored in 1960 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star is located at 6605 Hollywood Blvd.

Family
Jory married actress Jean Inness in 1928. They had two children, Jon and Jean. Jon Jory headed the Actors Theater of Louisville, Kentucky, for 31 years, which he helped to build into one of America's most respected regional theater companies. He left the job in 2000 to become professor of drama at the University of Washington in Seattle. His daughter Jean Jory Anderson was a public-relations director of the theater department at Utah State University in Logan.

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Dwight Eddleman

Thomas Dwight "Dike" Eddleman (December 27, 1922 – August 1, 2001) was an American athlete who was generally considered the greatest athlete in the history of athletics at the University of Illinois. Eddleman participated on the university's basketball, track and field, and football teams between the years of 1942 and 1949. Eddleman earned a combined 11 varsity letters in his career at the university, during which he also became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Eddleman was born in Centralia, Illinois, and attended Centralia High School. On October 24, 2008, Eddleman was named a Distinguished Alumni of Centralia High school. He, along with five others, including James Brady, were the first to be named Distinguished Alumni. His wife, Teddy Eddleman, accepted his award.

Beginning in 1969, Eddleman served the University of Illinois as a fundraiser for the athletic department. In tribute to his years of service to the university's athletics, in 1993, the University of Illinois athlete of the year awards for both men and women were named in his honor. In 2002, the portion of Fourth Street in Champaign, Illinois that runs along the east side of Memorial Stadium between Peabody Drive and Kirby Street was designated Honorary Dike Eddleman Way (a street in his hometown of Centralia, Third Street, which runs past the old high school, is also designated Dike Eddleman Way).

In 1983, Eddleman was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Associations Hall of Fame.

High school
As a high school player, Eddleman is considered one of the finest players in the history of high school basketball in the state of Illinois. Eddleman played four years at Centralia High School, from 1939 to 1942. Eddleman led the Centralia Orphans to the 1942 Illinois state basketball championship, after finishing fourth in 1939 and third in 1941. In the 1942 title game, Eddleman single-handedly led a comeback as the Orphans were 13 points down with five minutes to go. As a junior and senior, Eddleman led the state in scoring with 969 and 834 points, respectively. His 969 points as a junior broke the previous state record of 751 points. During his high school career, Eddleman scored 2702 career points, which was at the time of his graduation from high school a state record for most points in a career. Eddleman was the first high school player in Illinois to average at least 20 points per game. In 2007, the Illinois High School Association named Eddleman one of the 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament.

Basketball
In the fall of 1942, Eddleman enrolled at the University of Illinois, playing on both the freshman football and basketball teams. However, in January 1943 Eddleman was called to military duty during World War II. He was placed in the Army Air Corps and, after being sent to Fort Sheridan in Chicago for basic training, he was stationed in Miami Beach where he was assigned as a physical trainer for new cadets, all while still being only 20 years of age. It was in Florida that he would suffer the most serious injury of his time in the military as during a beach volleyball game, Eddleman broke his right foot. Following approximately eighteen months in Florida, Eddleman returned to his home state near Belleville, Illinois stationed at Scott Field. His final destination during his military service was Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, where he played basketball for the Kittyhawks, a military service "all-star" team regarded as one of the greatest in the nation. While playing for the Kittyhawks, he was named to the College All-Star team composed of the best college players in the country. The team played games around the country, but one particularly memorable game was when the Kittyhawks beat the Harlem Globetrotters in 1945. Eddleman would close out his military service in the fall of 1946, transitioning back to the life of a college student athlete.

Upon returning to the University of Illinois, as a second semester freshman in the spring of 1947, Eddleman was immediately issued his Fighting Illini football and basketball uniforms and then flown to Berkeley, California to play in two basketball games prior to the semester commencing. The Fighting Illini played consecutive games against the University of California Berkeley on December 20 and 21. Eddleman followed that trip with another flight, this time to Pasadena to play on January 1 in the 1947 Rose Bowl game. He and his Illinois football teammates beat the UCLA Bruins by a score of 45–14, meanwhile back in Madison, Eddleman's basketball teammates would lose on the same day to the Wisconsin Badgers, the team that would go on to win the Big Ten title. Eddleman returned by train to Champaign, where he joined the reunited remaining group of "The Whiz Kids", Ken Menke, Gene Vance, and Andy Phillip as well as All-American guard Walt Kirk on the basketball team to play in a January 4 game against the University of Mexico in which the Illini would win by a score of 94–36. Eddleman was back for the remainder of a season where he would spend most of it as a backup to "The Whiz Kids". The Illini would finish with an overall record of 14–6 and a Big Ten record of 8–4, second place in the conference.

In his second season of varsity basketball, Eddleman would lead the team in scoring and be named to the Associated Press 2nd team All-American, Converse 3rd team All-American, as well as True Magazine 3rd team All-American. The team would be led by new head coach, Harry Combes to an overall record of 15 wins and 5 losses and a 7 and 5 conference record, third place in the Big Ten. After the season, Eddleman would be named First-team All-Big Ten as well as the University of Illinois Athlete of the Year.

In the 1948–49 season, Eddleman would lead the basketball team to the Big Ten title, and an appearance in the NCAA Final Four. That year, he earned the Chicago Tribune's Silver Basketball as the conference MVP. He was named a Converse 1st team All-American, Big Ten Player of the Year and earned the Big Ten Medal of Honor. Eddleman served as the team captain in 1949 and was named the team MVP that year and the University of Illinois Athlete of the Year for the second straight season. In his military shortened tenure at Illinois, Eddleman scored 618 points in 55 games for an average of 11.2 points per game, but 606 of those points were scored in his final two seasons for an average of 13.5 points per game. The Fighting Illini's record over Eddleman's three season was 50 wins and 15 losses overall and 25 wins and 11 losses in the conference.

Football
Eddleman was a member of three football teams while attending Illinois, however, the 1946 team would be the most successful. Not only would they win the 1947 Rose Bowl game, they were also the Big Ten champions finishing with 8 wins and 2 losses overall while going 6 and 1 in conference play. The 1947 team was not as successful, finishing in fourth place in the conference with a 3 and 3 record, while winning 5 games, losing 3 games and tying 1 overall. Eddleman's final season was in 1948. This team would finish in eighth place in the conference with a record of 2 and 5 and an overall record 3 wins and 6 losses. Individually, Eddleman would set several records for punting and punt returning, seven of which still stand at Illinois.

Eddleman was drafted by the Chicago Bears with the 75th pick in the 1947 NFL Draft and was additionally drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the 145th pick in the 1948 AAFC Draft.

Track & field
As a high school athlete, Eddleman won three Illinois state high jump titles. As a collegian, each year that Eddleman attended Illinois he also competed in track as a high jumper. Eddleman would win various high jump titles while at Illinois, including the Chicago Relays, the Illinois Tech Relays, and the Penn Relays. Additionally, he won three high jump titles in each appearance at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, the Central Collegiate Championships, and the Drake Relays. He also won an NCAA Championship in 1948 as well as Big Ten outdoor high jump titles in 1947 and 1949, the Kansas Relays, the Compton Relays, the Purdue Relays, and the Kansas City Games. During his four years of competition, his Fighting Illini team would win an NCAA championship in 1947.

On July 10, 1948, the summer of his junior year, Eddleman became eligible to participate in the 1948 Summer Olympics by qualifying at a meet held in Dyche Stadium at Northwestern University. After qualifying, Eddleman traveled to London in good company with Illini teammate Bob Richards as well as other Olympic notables including Harrison Dillard, Herb McKenley, Clyde "Smackover" Scott, and Bill Porter. After qualifying in their respective events, the two Illinois athletes made a quick trip back to Champaign-Urbana on the train, leaving the next day to join the other American Olympic hopefuls in New York in order to board the SS America (1939) with a final destination of England.

The high jump took place on the first day of competition, July 30, 1948, and John Winter, a 23-year-old bank clerk from Perth, cleared a height of 6ft 6in on his first attempt. The remaining four jumpers, including Eddleman, failed three times each to match Winter. For the first time in the Olympics, ties were decided according to fewer misses. The winning height was 6 ft. The second-, third-, and fourth-place jumpers all cleared 6ft 4.75in. Eddleman was awarded fourth place due to his number of misses. After the Games, Eddleman competed in an additional track and field meet in Glasgow, Scotland, winning the high jump at a personal-best height of 6ft 8.5in. He then returned to the United States on the RMS Queen Elizabeth, arriving in Centralia by train to a citywide celebration. Less than a week later, he was practicing football in Memorial Stadium.

Professional basketball
After leaving the University of Illinois, Eddleman played professionally for four seasons in the National Basketball Association. His career began after he received offers from the Chicago Stags and the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. He decided to play for the Blackhawks because he preferred to live in Moline, Illinois, with his wife and newborn daughter. In 1950, Eddleman led the Blackhawks in scoring as a rookie. After playing for the Tri-City Blackhawks and the Milwaukee Hawks, he was traded to the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons which resulted in a move to Indiana. While playing for the Pistons, he cultivated a friendship with Fred Schaus, who would later become coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Eddleman played in the NBA All-Star Game in both 1951 and 1952. Over his NBA career, Eddleman scored 3221 points in 266 games, for a scoring average of 12.1 points per game.

During the off-season of the two years that he played in Indiana, Eddleman utilized his physical education degree by working as the recreational director for Central Soya, Incorporated, a Midwest soybean processing company. Prior to the 1954–55 season, after learning he would be traded to the Baltimore Bullets, a team that dropped out of the NBA and folded after playing 14 games in 1954, Eddleman decided to retire from professional basketball and work full-time for Central Soya. In 1956, Eddleman was transferred to a new plant in Gibson City, Illinois, a town located just 30 miles north of Champaign.

Personal life and death
Eddleman married Teddy Georgia Townsley, his high school sweetheart, on December 25, 1945, as the couple exchanged wedding vows in a Christmas ceremony while Eddleman was home on leave from the Army Air Corps. Their marriage resulted in the birth of four children, three daughters and one son. Diana, Nancy, Kristy, and Tom, all of whom attended the University of Illinois.

In 1969 Eddleman left Central Soya and accepted the executive director of Grants-In-Aid position with the University of Illinois Foundation, a fundraising entity working with Fighting Illini Alumni to provide financial aid for student athletes. In 1990, the Grants-In-Aid program was renamed the Fighting Illini Scholarship Fund. Eddleman retired from his position with the University of Illinois on January 1, 1993.

In 1993, the University of Illinois renamed its male and female Athlete of the Year awards the Dike Eddleman Athlete of the Year.

Eddleman died from a heart ailment at Champaign's Carle Foundation Hospital, on August 1, 2001, at the age of 78.

Basketball

 * 1948 – First-team All-Big Ten
 * 1949 – Team MVP and Captain
 * 1949 – Converse 1st team All-American
 * 1949 – Earned the Chicago Tribune's Silver Basketball award
 * 1949 – Big Ten Player of the Year
 * 1949 – Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient
 * 1973 – Inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association's Hall of Fame as a player.
 * 1983 – Inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame.
 * 2005 – Elected to the "Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team".
 * 2007 – Named one of the 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament.
 * 2008 – Honored as one of the thirty-three honored jerseys which hang in the State Farm Center to show regard for being the most decorated basketball players in the University of Illinois' history.

Track & field

 * 1948 – NCAA High Jump Champion
 * 1948 – Member of the United States Olympic team
 * 1959 – Member of the Drake Relays Hall of Fame

Football

 * 1947 – Team leader in scoring (42pts)
 * 1947 – Rose bowl champion

Athletics

 * 1948 & 1949 – University of Illinois Athlete of the Year
 * 1961 – Inducted into the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame
 * 1993 – University of Illinois renamed their male and female Athlete of the Year awards to the Dike Eddleman Athlete of the Year.
 * 2017 – Inducted into the University of Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame

title: Dwight Eddleman