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Talk:Daria O'Neill

Notability
This article does not demonstrate notability. If it does not soon it is subject to deletion. Aboutmovies 22:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Dude. Don't you read? The article says she wears skin-tight tops. 'Enuf said! Copy Editor 10:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 9 articles now have inline cites, notability is better described in lead paragraph. -Pete (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Queen of PDX media
-Pete (talk) 21:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * called "Queen of all Portland media" in Statesman Journal

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The bulk of the sources, which are over ten years old, refer to her as "Daria O'Neill". These all predate her marriage. More recent sources refer to her as "Daria Eliuk"; many refer to her as just "Daria" throughout the text, but I can't tell if that's because she had been going by just "Daria" on air or if it's the writing style of the publication.

Our prose also switched, at some point: even though the article is titled "Daria O'Neill", it refers to her as "Eliuk" throughout.

My question is this: is there objection to moving the article to Daria Eliuk, especially since that's the name currently being used? Or is she still more notable as Daria O'Neill? —C.Fred (talk) 01:45, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:Free JoeM!

This user has repeatedly vandalized user:meelar's user page and is probably a sockpuppet for User:JoeM, who has been hard banned.

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List of places in the Tayside region of Scotland

The following is a list of places in the Tayside region of Scotland.

A

 * Aberfeldy
 * Alyth
 * Arbroath
 * Auchterarder

B

 * Balnaboth
 * Birnim
 * Blairgowrie
 * Brechin
 * Bridge of Cally

C

 * Carnoustie
 * Comrie
 * Crieff

D

 * Dundee
 * Dunkeld

E

 * Edzell

F

 * Ferryden by Montrose
 * Forfar

G

 * Glencarse
 * Glendoick
 * Glenfarg

K

 * Kinloch Rannoch
 * Kinross
 * Kirriemuir

L

 * Letham

M

 * Monifieth
 * Monikie
 * Montrose

P

 * Perth
 * Pitlochry


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Talk:Photoshop tennis

it is a sport?..... --Menchi 01:17, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

yes it is. since the photoshop images will be shuttling back-and-forth between at least two players. you should try it. Jaimejim 08:52, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Please quit removing Digikitten. Thnx. -Hobbes747 10:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Battle
I've always heard these referred to as Photoshop battles. Would it be legitimate to add something like "also known as..." to the opening sentence? « Amina. skywalker (¿Hábleme?) 14:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Battle Farm the Photoshop Photographer Community Morepixels (playgrounds | photoshop battle | photoshop tennis | graphical collaborations | battle arena...) Photoshop Battle Royale Tournament at Worth1000 ...Not tomention the hundreds of different forum threads all over the Internet that speak of 'battles' using Photoshop and "Photoshop battles" in particular. ...Yes, it's more common in the U.S., so it belongs in the page. The argument is that a term that spans in and across forum communities is notable in its own right, even if the individual threads and forums are not notable. -- Down10 TACO 08:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I've never heard it called anything similar to photoshop battles, as such I'd have to vote against this for now. If you can find a primary reference along a similar vein to those currently listed, however, the inclusion of such a phrase would be acceptable. Additionally, although common online use does not make a phrase notable, it certainly in my opinion makes it worthy of a redirect and/or mention on another page. Hence if this is commonly suggested, it may also have merit. LinaMishima 16:38, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * If you can find references, Amina, it may be notable enough to warrant inclusion. :) Nihiltres 22:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * We called them "Photoshop Battles" back on Dreamless.org (this was around 2000–2001), in referrence to the DJ or MC "battles" of the hip-hop world. Also, there's over 15,000 results for "photoshop battle" on Google, and they all refer to the same practice as "Photoshop tennis." I say yes, it's legit. — Down10 T•C 07:25, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's a reference to "battle" on Photoshopbrushes.com. Also, this is a thread for "battles" on Photoshopcafe.com. IMHO, I think the term "photoshop battle" is at least worthy of a redirect. :) « amiИa . skyшalkeя (¿Hábleme?)  15:25, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I vote for this. I've always heard of it being called image editing battle/war or photoshop battle/war, depending on if you could use photoshop or not. Torte 00:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I would suggest that a better source than photoshopbrushes or a forum thread be found first - compared with the renowned sources for the term photoshop tenis, the above two may appear not to properly meet the need to verify. LinaMishima 01:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * More importantly, perhaps, would be that untill a secondary source akin to those already listed calls it 'battle', adding the term without the strong reference would appear to be original research. LinaMishima 01:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * So what? This isn't a field of study, it's a reference to a specific, identifiable trend on the internet. -- Down10 TACO 08:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * And a curious thought - I wonder what the main country of origin of the websites and communities that use these terms are? It wouldn't surprise me if more American orientated communities tended to prefer the 'battles' variant - calling a civil contest 'tennis' (or 'cricket') is quite the britishism (this is not intended to imply any bias by country, indeed would be an interesting point for the article is we can verify my suspicions somehow) LinaMishima 01:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You want sources? You got it:

Nice Article
thanks! User:Pedant 01:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Image
All right let's talk about this, the image image:Troll_Emperor.png, perfectly illustrates this article subject, now don't tell me anything, see WP:IAR --–  Emperor Walt er Humala  · 05:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect
There's nothing at all notable about this topic that isn't already said on Photoshop contest, so redirect is the way to go. Having it here is just an excuse to put in lots of meaningless garbage of no value and invite people to spam the hell out of the page. 216.165.158.7 00:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Please don't redirect the page again without further discussion: I think that Photoshop Tennis is notable enough, having seen it in many places across the internet. A Google search of  gives 149,000 hits, and its nature is notedly different from a photoshop contest. In a Photoshop contest, submissions are parallel by many, while in Photoshop tennis, submissions are in series by few to two, and are usually of a different nature - contests seek merely entries within a certain theme, while tennis seeks serial modification for artistic or humorous means. Can you see what I mean in terms of their difference? I will again revert the page to its former status, please allow it to remain as such until we reach some consensus. Please also assume the good faith which I extend to your changes towards mine. Thank you, Nihiltres 21:18, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

 * it appears to be quite separate to photoshop contest, so what is the disagreement about. I don't think this article should be deleted. The difference between Pcontest and Ptennis is that Pcontest gets users to edit a photo usually for a competition. Ptennis is when a picture is incrementally modified by alternating Photoshoppers....Nloob 08:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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List of cities in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area

This is a list of cities and municipalities in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

Central cities

 * Baltimore, Maryland (Major airport: adjacent to Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Anne Arundel County)
 * Washington, DC
 * Frederick, Maryland
 * Annapolis, Maryland
 * Hagerstown, Maryland

Maryland

 * Columbia

Virginia

 * Alexandria
 * Arlington (Major airport: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Recognized as a "central city" by the U.S. Census Bureau)

Maryland

 * Aberdeen
 * Accokeek
 * Adelphi
 * Annapolis Neck
 * Arbutus
 * Arnold
 * Aspen Hill
 * Ballenger Creek
 * Bel Air
 * Bel Air North
 * Bel Air South
 * Beltsville
 * Bensville
 * Bethesda
 * Bowie
 * Brooklyn Park
 * California
 * Calverton
 * Camp Springs
 * Carney
 * Catonsville
 * Chesapeake Ranch Estates
 * Chevy Chase
 * Chillum
 * Clarksburg
 * Clinton
 * Cloverly
 * Cockeysville
 * Colesville
 * College Park
 * Crofton
 * Damascus
 * Dundalk
 * East Riverdale
 * Edgewood
 * Eldersburg
 * Elkridge
 * Ellicott City
 * Essex
 * Fairland
 * Ferndale
 * Forestville
 * Fort Washington
 * Gaithersburg
 * Germantown
 * Glassmanor
 * Glen Burnie
 * Glenmont
 * Glenn Dale
 * Greenbelt
 * Hagerstown
 * Halfway
 * Havre de Grace
 * Hillcrest Heights
 * Hyattsville
 * Ilchester
 * Joppatowne
 * Kemp Mill
 * Kettering
 * Lake Shore
 * Landover
 * Langley Park
 * Lanham
 * Largo
 * Laurel
 * Lexington Park
 * Linthicum
 * Lochearn
 * Maryland City
 * Mays Chapel
 * Middle River
 * Milford Mill
 * Mitchellville
 * Montgomery Village
 * New Carrollton
 * North Bethesda
 * North Potomac
 * Odenton
 * Olney
 * Overlea
 * Owings Mills
 * Oxon Hill
 * Parkville
 * Parole
 * Pasadena
 * Perry Hall
 * Pikesville
 * Potomac
 * Randallstown
 * Redland
 * Reisterstown
 * Riviera Beach
 * Rockville
 * Rosaryville
 * Rosedale
 * Rossville
 * Scaggsville
 * Seabrook
 * Severn
 * Severna Park
 * Silver Spring
 * South Laurel
 * Suitland
 * Summerfield
 * Takoma Park
 * Towson
 * Travilah
 * Waldorf
 * Walker Mill
 * Westminster
 * Wheaton
 * White Oak
 * Woodlawn, Baltimore County

Virginia

 * Annandale
 * Ashburn
 * Bailey's Crossroads
 * Broadlands
 * Buckhall
 * Bull Run
 * Burke
 * Burke Centre
 * Cascades
 * Centreville
 * Chantilly (major airport: Washington Dulles International Airport)
 * Cherry Hill
 * Countryside
 * Culpeper
 * Dale City
 * Dranesville
 * Fairfax
 * Fairfax Station
 * Fair Oaks, Fairfax County
 * Falls Church
 * Fort Hunt
 * Franconia
 * Franklin Farm
 * Fredericksburg (acts as a central city)
 * Front Royal
 * Gainesville
 * Great Falls
 * Groveton
 * Herndon
 * Huntington
 * Hybla Valley
 * Idylwood
 * Kings Park West
 * Kingstowne
 * Lake Ridge
 * Lansdowne
 * Leesburg
 * Lincolnia
 * Linton Hall
 * Lorton
 * Lowes Island
 * Manassas
 * Manassas Park
 * Marumsco
 * McLean
 * McNair
 * Merrifield
 * Montclair
 * Mount Vernon
 * Neabsco
 * Newington
 * Newington Forest
 * Oakton
 * Reston
 * Rose Hill
 * South Riding
 * Springfield
 * Sterling
 * Sudley
 * Sugarland Run
 * Tysons Corner
 * Vienna
 * Wakefield, Fairfax County
 * West Falls Church
 * West Springfield
 * Wolf Trap
 * Woodlawn, Fairfax County

West Virginia

 * Martinsburg

Maryland

 * Aberdeen Proving Ground
 * Adamstown
 * Andrews AFB
 * Antietam
 * Aquasco
 * Arden on the Severn
 * Ashton-Sandy Spring
 * Baden
 * Bagtown
 * Bakersville
 * Baltimore Highlands
 * Barclay
 * Barnesville
 * Bartonsville
 * Beaver Creek
 * Benedict
 * Berwyn Heights
 * Big Pool
 * Big Spring
 * Bladensburg
 * Boonsboro
 * Bowleys Quarters
 * Braddock Heights
 * Brandywine
 * Breathedsville
 * Brentwood
 * Brock Hall
 * Brookeville
 * Brookmont
 * Broomes Island
 * Brownsville
 * Brunswick
 * Bryans Road
 * Bryantown
 * Buckeystown
 * Burkittsville
 * Burtonsville
 * Cabin John
 * Calvert Beach
 * Cape Saint Claire
 * Capitol Heights
 * Cavetown
 * Charlotte Hall
 * Cearfoss
 * Cedarville
 * Centreville
 * Charlton
 * Chesapeake Beach
 * Chester
 * Cheverly
 * Chevy Chase Section 3
 * Chevy Chase Section 5
 * Chevy Chase View
 * Chevy Chase Village
 * Chewsville
 * Church Hill
 * Clear Spring
 * Cobb Island
 * Colmar Manor
 * Coral Hills
 * Cottage City
 * Croom
 * Crownsville
 * Dargan
 * Darlington
 * Darnestown
 * Deale
 * Derwood
 * District Heights
 * Downsville
 * Drum Point
 * Dunkirk
 * Eagle Harbor
 * Eakles Mill
 * Edgemere
 * Edgemont
 * Edgewater
 * Edmonston
 * Emmitsburg
 * Ernstville
 * Fairmount Heights
 * Fairplay
 * Fairview
 * Fairwood
 * Fallston
 * Forest Glen
 * Forest Heights
 * Fort Meade
 * Fort Ritchie
 * Fountainhead-Orchard Hills
 * Four Corners
 * Friendly
 * Friendship
 * Friendship Heights Village
 * Fulton
 * Funkstown
 * Galesville
 * Gambrills
 * Gapland
 * Garrett Park
 * Garretts Mill
 * Garrison
 * Glen Echo
 * Glenarden
 * Golden Beach
 * Grasonville
 * Greensburg
 * Hampstead
 * Hampton
 * Hancock
 * Herald Harbor
 * Highfield-Cascade
 * Highland
 * Highland Beach
 * Hillandale
 * Hughesville
 * Huntingtown
 * Indian Head
 * Indian Springs
 * Jarrettsville
 * Jefferson
 * Jessup
 * Jugtown
 * Keedysville
 * Kemps Mill
 * Kensington
 * Kent Narrows
 * Kingstown
 * Kingsville
 * Konterra
 * La Plata
 * Lake Arbor
 * Landover Hills
 * Lansdowne
 * Layhill
 * Laytonsville
 * Leisure World
 * Leitersburg
 * Leonardtown
 * Libertytown
 * Linganore
 * Long Beach
 * Lusby
 * Lutherville
 * Manchester
 * Mapleville
 * Marlboro Meadows
 * Marlboro Village
 * Marlow Heights
 * Marlton
 * Martin's Additions
 * Maugansville
 * Mayo
 * Mechanicsville
 * Melwood
 * Mercersville
 * Middleburg
 * Middletown
 * Monrovia
 * Morningside
 * Mount Aetna
 * Mount Airy
 * Mount Briar
 * Mount Lena
 * Mount Rainier
 * Myersville
 * National Harbor
 * Naval Academy
 * New Market
 * New Windsor
 * North Beach
 * North Brentwood
 * North Chevy Chase
 * North Kensington
 * North Laurel
 * Owings
 * Paramount-Long Meadow
 * Pecktonville
 * Peppermill Village
 * Perryman
 * Pinesburg
 * Piney Point
 * Pleasant Hills
 * Point of Rocks
 * Pomfret
 * Pondsville
 * Poolesville
 * Port Tobacco Village
 * Potomac Heights
 * Prince Frederick
 * Pylesville
 * Queen Anne, Prince George's County
 * Queen Anne, Queen Anne's County
 * Queensland
 * Queenstown
 * Reid
 * Ringgold
 * Riva
 * Riverdale Park
 * Riverside
 * Robinwood
 * Rock Point
 * Rohrersville
 * Rosemont
 * Sabillasville
 * St. George Island
 * Saint James
 * Saint Leonard
 * San Mar
 * Sandy Hook
 * Savage
 * Seat Pleasant
 * Shady Side
 * Sharpsburg
 * Silver Hill
 * Smithsburg
 * Solomons
 * Somerset
 * South Kensington
 * Spencerville
 * Spring Ridge
 * Springdale
 * Stevensville
 * Sudlersville
 * Sykesville
 * Tall Timbers
 * Taneytown
 * Temple Hills
 * Templeville
 * Thurmont
 * Tilghmanton
 * Timonium
 * Trego-Rohrersville Station
 * Union Bridge
 * University Park
 * Upper Marlboro
 * Urbana
 * Walkersville
 * Washington Grove
 * West Laurel
 * Westphalia
 * White Marsh
 * Williamsport
 * Wilson-Conococheague
 * Woodlawn, Prince George's County
 * Woodmore
 * Woodsboro
 * Yarrowsburg

Virginia

 * Aquia Harbour
 * Arcola
 * Bealeton
 * Belle Haven
 * Belmont
 * Berryville
 * Boswell's Corner
 * Boyce
 * Brambleton
 * Bull Run Mountain Estates
 * Calverton
 * Catlett
 * Clifton
 * County Center
 * Crosspointe
 * Dahlgren
 * Dulles Town Center (major airport: Washington Dulles International Airport)
 * Dumfries
 * Dunn Loring
 * Fair Lakes
 * Fairview Beach
 * Falmouth
 * Floris
 * Fort Belvoir
 * George Mason
 * Greenbriar
 * Hamilton
 * Hayfield
 * Haymarket
 * Hillsboro
 * Independent Hill
 * King George
 * Kings Park
 * Lake Barcroft
 * Laurel Hill
 * Linton Hall
 * Loch Lomond
 * Long Branch
 * Loudoun Valley Estates
 * Lovettsville
 * Mantua
 * Marshall
 * Mason Neck
 * Middleburg
 * Midland
 * Moorefield Station
 * New Baltimore
 * Nokesville
 * North Springfield
 * Oak Grove
 * Occoquan
 * Opal
 * Pimmit Hills
 * Potomac Mills
 * Purcellville
 * Quantico
 * Quantico Base
 * Ravensworth
 * Remington
 * Round Hill
 * Seven Corners
 * Shenandoah Retreat
 * South Run
 * Southern Gateway
 * Spotsylvania Courthouse
 * Stafford Courthouse
 * Stone Ridge
 * The Plains
 * Triangle
 * University Center
 * Warrenton
 * Woodburn
 * Yorkshire

West Virginia

 * Bolivar
 * Charles Town
 * Falling Waters
 * Harpers Ferry
 * Hedgesville
 * Inwood
 * Middleway
 * Ranson
 * Shannondale
 * Shenandoah Junction
 * Shepherdstown
 * Shepherdstown

 * Shepherdstown

 * Shepherdstown

 * Shepherdstown

 * Shepherdstown


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Windu

 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 00:15, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Michael Windu
This is not a "real" Star Wars character, but rather the name used by a person playing Knights of the Old Republic. The biography of this fictional fictional character is totally false, and is not even featured in the game. — Jon Hart

 * I say: Delete. It's not a real Star Wars character. — Jon Hart
 * Delete as MMORPG character, also non-canonical, non-notable, vanity... oh, and if that's not enough, 1 Google hit from a forum. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 01:27, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. --Fuzzball! (talk) 02:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This name that is used by a person playing a video game is not encyclopedic. Zzyzx11 | Talk 02:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all player characters from MMORPGs, CRPGs, and pen-and-paper RPG campaigns. android↔talk 03:02, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Crap.  Postdlf 03:04, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 *  Delete Strong delete all non-canonical, not officially licensed fan characters.   — J I P | Talk 06:13, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Vote emphasised because of the sock puppets.   — J I P | Talk 08:57, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity MMORPG characters. Not official canon means not notable. Mgm|(talk) 10:36, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Michael Windu is a well-established Expanded Universe character. Allenalb|(talk) 10:57, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (Improperly signed comment by 66.82.9.43.)
 * Given 1 Google hit (per Starblind), the fact that the article clearly reflects that this character was created for a playthrough of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, your impersonation of a nonexistant user, and your vandalism of Mgm's vote, I find that very hard to believe. android↔talk 15:23, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not a nonexistant user, and I don't see how I vandalized anything at all. I am confused by this personal attack, all I have done is vote my conscience.Allenalb↔talk 12:37, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (Improperly signed comment by 12.153.112.11; note that this IP address was previously used to sign as DVSMiC and not Allenalb.)
 * I was mistaken; it was not vandalism, but impersonation, since you copy-and-pasted Mgm's vote and changed it to Keep. Furthermore, User:Allenalb has made no edits, and thus does not exist; if you are truly this user, then log in and sign your posts with ~ ; otherwise, refrain from using a signature that indicates that you are him. android↔talk 16:47, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Impersonation is also an incorrect choice of words, it would be better to say that I plagiarized Mgm's vote, however I did so only to easily facilitate my response. For what it's worth, I am not the 'disputed' Michael Windu (I fully accept that you likely won't believe me). Allenalb 16:58, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think the sheer nerve of this guy warrants keeping this interesting character. DVSMiC|(talk) 11:16, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (Improperly signed comment by 12.153.112.11.)
 * Keep. I can't believe that so many "serious" Star Wars fans have not heard of this character. KommisMar|(talk) 11:31, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (User's first edit.)
 * Keep. I agree with DVSMiC on this one. If someone has the balls to submit this, it deserves to be kept! Keep it!. Tagbishop|(talk) 11:26, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (User's first edit.)
 * Luuuuuuke... I am your deleter. Delete per WP:FICT, fancruft.  Barno 15:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Anonymous users: you would do well to read Sockpuppet. android↔talk 16:51, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete any character that only exists as one user's character on a MMORPG. Average Earthman 18:24, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - NN. The answer to why everyone has odd socks?  Cue rubbish jokes about turning to the Sock Side or something.  Stop that thought now...  SteveW | Talk 20:19, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - The Force is weak with this one. - UtherSRG 21:17, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - until now, sock puppets have not made an appearance in Star Wars. Capitalistroadster 00:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - No legitimate internet presence, doesn't actually exist in official Star Wars canon, completely non-notable, sock puppetry. -LtNOWIS 02:57, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Use the force, you know my existence to be true. Michael Windu|(talk) 12:29, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC) — (Unsigned comment by 68.235.135.203.)
 * Luke - I am your delete. Radiant_* 08:41, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a traaaaaap! Delete. A Man In Black 10:17, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sigh. Quale 21:24, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Use the Delete, Luke, use the Delete. Come, join me... come to the Delete Side. ...I sense a great disturbance in the Sock... the Sock Side clouds everything... Master Thief Garrett

 * 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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Pia Locatelli

Pia Elda Locatelli (born 13 August 1949 in Villa d'Almè, Bergamo) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Italian Socialist Democrats, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

She is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran.

From 2008 to 2010 she was the President of the Italian Socialist Party. In the 2013 Italian general election she was elected in the Chamber of Deputies with the Democratic Party, representing the PSI.

Education

 * Graduated in languages (1973) and economics (1990)

Career

 * 1973-1982: Teacher of English language and literature
 * 1992-2001: Businesswoman
 * National coordinator for women (since 1994) and member of the national executive (since 2000) of the SDI
 * Vice-Chairman (1992-1999) and then Chairman (since 2004) of the Socialist International Women
 * since 2004: Vice-chairman of the Socialist International
 * 1980-1995: Municipal Councillor
 * 1990-1995: Leader of the Socialist Group on the Municipal Council of Bergamo
 * 1990-1995: Member of the board of directors of the University of Bergamo
 * since 2000: Chairman of the 'A. J. Zaninoni' Foundation

Interventions in Plenary

 * 23 February 2005, sul Termine dell'accordo dell'OMC sui tessili e sull'abbigliamento: mms://data.dol.it/dspe/plenariafebbraio2005/locatelli23022005.wmv
 * 8 March 2005, della quarta Conferenza mondiale sulla piattaforma d'azione per le donne: mms://data.dol.it/dspe/plenariamarzo2005/locatelli08032005.wmv

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Talk:Head-driven phrase structure grammar

Stub tag
I've marked this article as a stub because there are huge amounts of material available that isn't covered in this very short article. The external links included are a good starting place for expansion. -- Beland 01:18, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please expand
This article can't be understood unless you are a specialist. Above all, it desperately needs examples. A toy grammar would be useful. Kallerdis 08:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll self-assign
My master's thesis deals heavily with HPSG; I'll expand this article after my thesis is submitted (beginning of March 2008) unless someone else gets to it first. I promise to include anything relevant gleaned during my defense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Msanford (talk • contribs) 05:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That's very nice of you – the article sorely needs clarification. While you're at it, you might have a look at LFG, which is in a similar sorry example-less state.Kallerdis (talk) 09:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's why I'm here! :) I'll add LFG to my to-do list as well. --Msanford (talk) 05:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Sample Grammar
I just added the beginning of a sample grammar. I tried to make it as clear and concise as possible, but I'm not attached to any part of it. Feel free to chop it up, add to it, or redo the AVMs entirely ("walks" seems larger than necessary). I took the suggestion of a toy grammar above as being a good way to introduce how grammars are structured and organized, the basic concepts, and some core features given to typical words/phrases. I see the rest of the article getting into slightly more involved descriptions of the major principles, the type hierarchy, lexical rules, sets and lists, argument structure, underspecification, etc, etc.

The previous stub was left untouched. There's dramatic reorganizing I'd like to do with it, but... one step at a time. :) Lizmarie (talk) 21:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

 * "This user can typeset using  L a T e X." No kidding! Nice work on the sample grammar. Although I thought the idea was to pick out an example from an existing source instead of creating one, which inevitably involves OR, given the dozens of variants of HPSG out there. That said, I think most people will be OK with what you have written. I would just suggest:
 * changing "SUBCAT" to "VALENCE"
 * changing "COMP" to "COMPS"
 * not using "SS" ("SYNSEM" is opaque enough!)
 * expanding the last figure (tree notation) so that it contains all of the information of the preceding AVM, with the same indices
 * Thanks again for your efforts! CapnPrep (talk) 14:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Easy done. I'll wait and see if there are more comments and then I'll implement those. The "she walks" sentence seems to be pretty common in intro courses/books. I went ahead and created images just for Wikipedia just so the licensing would be as unambiguous as possible. Lizmarie (talk) 02:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As for OR: this is a synthesis of P&S 94 and the Sag, Wasow and Bender book. (Lima's website is also very similar.) I'll try to make that clear in future edit, and maybe work in points from other sources on typed feature logic. Lizmarie (talk) 02:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok. No comments? I'll make the changes in a day or two. Lizmarie (talk) 03:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

having trouble understanding this sentence...
Under "implementations" : Currently there grammars for German[4], Mandarin Chinese,[5] Maltese[6], and Persian[7] that share a common core are publicly available.

Can someone help me out? --Ioscius (talk) 01:59, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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Do they not relate?
Hi! This article looks like it should be related to (or perhaps should subsume) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_grammar ... the latter being a first, or less-developed version of the former? I don't have the expertise to say for sure.Jobrill (talk) 17:49, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Link to proceedings
I tried to add a link to the proceedings. They are at: https:// proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/archive but the xyz domain is blacklistet. We migrated the proceedings from CSLI Publications to an OJS instance run by University libaray of Frankfurt/Main.

I asked for whitelisting the proceedings. Two times. I failed. The reasons got deleted with the request. So if somebody with more power could fix this, I would be glad. StefanMülller (talk) 08:49, 10 November 2023 (UTC)


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Talk:Sign (linguistics)

Stub tag
This article is very short, especially compared to the book which has apparently been written on the subject. A good starting place for expansion might be an example or two, an introduction to the notation used, and how this concept was/is or was/is not used in contemporary and modern linguistic theories. -- Beland 01:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is this the same thing as sign (semiotics)? Ben Standeven 06:48, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is. --Sinatra 09:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Should there perhaps be a reference to phonaesthesia on this page? Or at least some linkage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.192.215.122 (talk) 03:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes this is a specific Linguistic Concept separate from (but obviously related) to semiotics. In the field of Linguistics the 'arbitrariness of the linguistic sign' or 'Saussurean arbitrariness' are concepts used by researchers such as Noam Chomsky (for example, in his book "The Minimalist Program"). However the field of semiotics (as a whole) rarely gets a mention in any of the theoretical streams of Linguistics. Although it is true that researchers such as Noam Chomsky have argued against Saussure's Structuralist Linguistics as documented in this entry : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_in_General_Linguistics#Arbitrariness, it is still the case that 'Saussurean Arbitrariness' is a fundamental concept that all work in Theoretical Linguistics and Generative Grammar is built on. Discreteinfinity (talk) 15:27, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The information presented in this article would seem to indicate that signs in linguistic contexts are merely a subset of signs in semiotic contexts, where semiotic signs are "anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign" and a linguistic sign is a sign that is part of a language and communicates a meaning other than itself. Moreover, most of this article's content on Saussure's discourse on signifier and signified is effectively identical to the content of sign (semiotics). I would propose that these articles should be merged, with subsections explaining the intricacies of the term's usage in linguistic contexts vs. semiotic contexts. Rosguill (talk) 23:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Merge Proposal
As per my comment above, I propose that Sign (linguistics) should be merged into Sign (semiotics) with subsections describing any discrepancies of usage between the two fields, similar to how Semantics handles usage of the term in various fields. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosguill (talk • contribs) 19:44, June 18, 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Weighing scale

Scale Image
I made a change to the caption to the right of the fulcrum, no matter what gravity was (ignoring the mass of whatever you're balancing them on). Therefore anything using levers is properly termed a balance. Any device using a spring is based upon force which is dependent on gravity and therefore a scale. Most bathroom scales use springs however the type in the image at the beginning of this article uses a lever/counterbalance method. Shouldn't the caption call it a balance instead of the inaccurate scale? Can someone with some physics knowledge back me up or refute me please. Vicarious 20:54, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * No. Scales is a broader term; it includes balances.  I've run into other pepole with the same misconception before, but there is no real basis for it.  Just consider, for example, any depiction you have ever seen of the Scales of Justice.  (When the adjective is included in a "spring" scale, rather than just "scale" standing alone, that is generally considered to be someting different from a balance.  However, just to confuse things even more, some people also call spring scales balances.) Gene Nygaard 01:27, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

"usually just "scale" in common usage"
I'm under the impression that we British would be more likely to talk about "scales" than "a scale" but I have no objective evidence to back that up whatsoever. Does anybody have a source for the article's current suggested common usage? — 80.177.129.251 11:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm under the same impression for Irish. Maybe scale is just American? 92.251.255.13 (talk) 14:28, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

It actually depends on the area of application. In the laboratory it is generally referred to as a "balance". Outside of the laboratory - food, industry, retail, it is typically a "Scale" or "Scales" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.68.2.132 (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Two main types of scales -- should this article be reworked?
The two main types of scales are the balance scale and spring scale. In classical physics, a balance scale can only directly measure mass (from which weight can be interpolated based on g -- the gravitational constant), wherease a spring scale can only directly measure weight (from which mass can be interpolated when g is known). In physics, weight and force are actually the same thing and the formula for relating weight to mass is F = mg.

Therefore symantically a balance scale cannot be called a weighing scale, as far as rigid physics definitions are concerned. That said, mass and weight are interchangeable in common usage. In fact, the word "weighing" is defined in dictionaries as balancing weights! How confusing.

So I recommend you change "is a device for measuring the weight of an object" to "is a device for measuring either the weight or mass of an object, depending on the design." Then you can (you pretty well already do) introduce the two topics of balance scale and spring scale by stating what they directly mesaure and what can be interpolated from the measurement.

On the topic of whether "scale" should be plural or singular, one has to look at the root meaning of scale, which is "dish" or "bowl". The classic weighing scale is the two dishes and the balanced lever, hence the word "scales" was used to define the whole apparatus. Again, symantically, if a modified design (eg., a spring scale or a balance scale with sliding weights at one end of the lever)has only one dish, then it should be called a singular "scale". But, the word "scale" has taken on a new meaning, referring to any complete weighing apparatus, and "scales" thus has equal meaning, the difference being local preferred usage. Yes, I would agree that "scales" is the common British usage and "scale" is common in Canada (where I live) and the USA. I do not know about other English speaking countries but we can assume they mostly use "scales".

--Jstreutker 22:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Balances measure weight too
A point was made on the science help desk that balances, used in an atmosphere, do not really measure mass, because of the buoyancy that the Achimedes effect introduces in objects of different volume. As an extreme example, imagine a helium ballon that is just-just "in balance" in room air - meaning that its tendency to drop because of gravity is exactly balanced by its tendency to rise because it is less dense than air. If placed on a beam balance, the balance would show no weight on the basin. In space the mass would be more than the buoyancy, and the maas would be "revealed". The article should be changed accordingly, but unfortunately a large number of textbooks carry this error. --Seejyb 22:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I posted something about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics. Not all physicists appear to agree the present articles are in error. --Lambiam Talk 06:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Long story short: As long as what you're weighing is much denser than air, you can compare to a referece mass to get true mass. Buoyancy throws off measurements of weight as well as mass (a floating boat has neutral buoyancy but nonzero weight), so I don't see how changing it to "weight" would be any more accurate. Put in a caveat about buoyancy if you like. --Christopher Thomas 07:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Right, I don't know why the short story became so long. Of course there should be sich a caveat. My question at WikiProject Physics was not: "Do you agree this is wrong?", but "Do you have suggestions for an elegant way of fixing this?", given that the subject matter is confusing to people who are not trained in physics concepts and the corresponding way of thinking, and spread out over several articles. --Lambiam Talk 18:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Seems to be too much repetition about the distinction between weight and mass. Glueball 18:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Pan balance
Pan balance links to this article but is not covered. Pgr94 10:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Bathroom scale
I was looking for information on the typical bathroom scale, like what type of scale it is, how it works, etc, but couldn't find anything like that in this article. --jwandersTalk 06:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I took a bathroom scale apart today and found that it used tension springs. A mechanism with levers causes a spring to elongate when you stand on the scale.  I don't know how typical this tension spring design is but I wouldn't be surprised if it's more common in this application than compression springs.
 * If the tension spring design is indeed more common, the line in this article "In a spring scale, the spring either stretches as in a hanging scale in the produce department of a grocery store) or compresses (as in a simple bathroom scale)" ought to be edited. Tom239 (talk) 00:49, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

go to thinkingfountain.com and go to the the blank box that is under search and search balance and click the first topic one and go to it that is why im giong to research for balance scales for i can read and do the rest of research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.63.198.230 (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Please create a page for the topic of Analytical balance with the following reasons....
The following original edition should be presented with reliable references --222.67.203.108 (talk) 01:14, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weighing_scale&diff=239438763&oldid=239438685

The topic has been researched for a long time --222.67.203.108 (talk) 01:17, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?as_q=analytical+balance&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

--222.67.203.108 (talk) 01:58, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * System suitability tests of the device have been practiced in pharma industry for some times, however with a little info of its monographs
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=analytical+balance+suitability&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?as_q=analytical+balance+suitability&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

Digital
"By the 1940s various electronic devices were being attached to these designs to make readings more accurate. These were not true digital scales as the actual measuring of weight still relied on springs and balances.[17][18] "

... is confused. What makes scales digital is the use of digital electronics, which is a different matter to whether springs or other mechanics are used in or before the sensor. 82.31.66.207 (talk) 01:50, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

 * Actually, some modern scales use a technology called "force restoration" - it uses power applied to an electromagnet to maintain the weighing platform at a certain height. Power needed is proportional to mass, if I understand it correctly. No springs or other mechanics at all - it's purely electronic.152.51.56.1 (talk) 15:04, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Center beam balance is most accurate???
Article says: "For high precision work, the center beam balance is still one of the most accurate technologies available[citation needed], and is commonly used for calibrating test weights."

I have to call shenanigans here. A good digital balance can be accurate to 5 significant decimal places - can you do that with a center beam balance? And mass comparators, not beam balances, are usually used for calibrating test weights.

Can someone else confirm, and then remove this misleading quote from the article? 152.51.56.1 (talk) 15:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Balance, dip!, balance, dip!.. it’s ebb and flow: supply and demand: nature vs nurture: psychological reward system.
The idea of balance is beautiful. It’s Like that moment when you were on the swings as a kid kicking hi in order to get higher and higher and that moment that you are suspended at the top just before you come back down were you almost freezing time… that’s amazing #timestopped what’s your moment? Be creative. Post a photo, a poem, upload a track, or a clip of you dancing your #flexout Share you moment of joy with the world! I dare you to… #FLexdare 2601:18E:C401:F00:9A6:9B9B:827D:1A17 (talk) 03:43, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

History
The first sentence of the section: "The balance scale is such a simple device that its usage likely far predates the evidence." contradicts the second sentence of the second paragraph: The oldest evidence for the existence of weighing scales dates to c. 2400–1800 BC in the Indus River valley. Prior to that, no banking was performed due to lack of scales. (emphasis mine). In November 2011 this article saw some minor ip vandalism, eg Special:Diff/518490970. The statement about no banking was added around the same time: Special:Diff/518502820. It's not clear if it was intended as test vandalism, or a user drawing a conclusion without a source, but either way, I'm removing it. Jd2718 (talk) 01:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Sprite comic

UO comics
UO sprite comics have been around since 1997, possibly predating Neglected Mario Characters. UO comics were prevalent during the height of UO's popularity, such as Bones' UO comics and Imanewbie. Their popularity died out around the time of Renaissance and Third Dawn.

 * Imanewbie
 * Bones' UO Comics
 * Lost in UO

While I think that sprite comics might have been the natural evolution of screenshot comics, I don't think I would consider any of them to be "the first sprite comic."

Offline sprite comics
There may be examples of sprite comics in video game magazines, predating online sprite comics.

History of sprite comics
A history section could describe the evolution of sprite comics and their influence on hand drawn comics and flash animations, as well as advancements in use of image editing software. This would be a good way to reference different titles without advertising them.

Plug your website article
This article has become a "plug your website" article. I hate sprite comic artists, I was part of that community for three years.

If you hate sprite comic artists, why do you even discuss here? You are just trying to instigate a fight. Why don't you let the real spriters deal with the sprites section. "Plug your website" is not good for wiki, but maybe an archive leading to a website list would be good. Even bad sprite comics will help give browsers an example of a bad comic. Maybe you could create a page of "Plug your site" with the warning that content may be very sub-par as anyone can submit to this page. ~Regulus.

Because plugging unknown sprite comics into the middle of the article is just shameless. But there is no such word as shameless in your community. Also, I want to keep the article accurate. The way this was written was making it sound as if these random comics STARTED sprite comics.

wow someones forgetting the whole point of wikipedia

"making it sound as if these random comics STARTED sprite comics." if somethings inaccurate then change it but don't whine like a child when you don't like something.

I think there are some webcomics that deserve to be in the links, unique comics like Kid Radd, and comics that began a certain genre of webcomics. Like Pokemon-X started the whole Pokemon sprite comic genre and 8-bit theater started the Final Fantasy Sprite comic genre. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.102.184 (talk) 22:40, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Upcoming comic
im making a comic called sonicisms (guess who that stars) ill give you a link once ive got a website...
 * Is it notable in any way? If we allow a link for every sprite comic, then the page would be too cluttered. Sonic Mew | talk to me 15:50, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

--I seriously doubt that. Most of the page is just advertising and links to insignifigant comics. We should link only to the most vital to the history of sprite comics, such as NC and BnG, and those of relatively high quality, such as TPC, SAQ, KR, AMD, etc., as well as large lists such as the VFBLOSC. -Sprited Spheniscidae

--I agree. -Cheesy, cheesycomics.20m.com

First?
It says which was the first but when was the first? And how do we know it was the first? RJFJR 02:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Neglected Characters started on September 6, 1997, and there are no sprite comics that have a legitimate claim to outdate it. Eoseth 22:00, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * The comic itself actually started in 1998. Fjord3 16:27, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion
Maybe add some pix? Neopetslovette 02:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge
Unless some sort of non-trivial coverage can be found for these comics, we are essentially just acting as a cheap version of their home pages. They may be notable as sprite comics, but that is as far as they go. That is why they belong mentioned in this article as examples of the "art." TTN (talk) 20:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Right. And Fredholm operator has no non-trivial coverage outside of mathematics, so we should merge it into the latter. The same argument could be made about 88 Minutes and drama films, or Amsterdam (city), New York and Montgomery County, New York.
 * Oppose. Take the above with a huge sense of sarcasm, but also take the point of logic. Your definition of non-trivial does not exactly merge with WP:Notability. The references note that some of them are the most popular webcomics in existance. Surely that is notable enough per the project guidelines; and while that may not be notable for someone who is not familiar with webcomics, but you could say the same about any topic Wikipedia covers, as I noted with my sarcastic reverie above. I also object to your defining them as "cheap versions of thier home pages", as the articles in question without a doubt are not spam/advertisements, and address thier topics in an encyclopedic manner (though not without some effort, there are fans who try to expand in good faith, but end up making things less encyclopedic). I would agree that the size and detail given to the webcomics in question, when compared to other topics, is a clear example of systemic bias, but that is not an argument for deletion or otherwise removal of content (Wikipedia policy is not to reduce the over-exposed topics, but to expand the areas that lack). Its unfortunate that WikiProject Comics doesn't have a project-specific guideline on notability, that would probably have nipped this in the bud.  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   23:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Topics have to be covered in reliable sources in order to retain articles. These do not currently have anything to establish independent notability beyond your subjective claims. These articles cover the plot, characters, and a few little community related things just the same as their homepages. If they all contained a number of sources similar to A History of Webcomics: The Golden Age: 1993-2005 (which is not enough on its own), that would be different. Without that, we may as well briefly describe the topic in this article and let the websites detail the plot points. TTN (talk) 23:43, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. I'm going to let editors with longer fuses detail the process-related reasons why this shouldn't happen, but I'm going to go with Keep on the grounds that this is deletionism at its most absurd. And that's all I'm willing to say about it. JuJube (talk) 00:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose as well. Pretty obvious reasons.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If it is so obvious that these are actual topics, please add actual sources to assert it. Right now, one article has one actual source that is much more relevant here than in it. I doubt most sprite comic sites are reliable sources, so you need a ton of books just like that to make a ton of comments on all three series or a large amount of non-trivial mentions elsewhere. Until that happens, we are just providing details that can be found right on their sites. TTN (talk) 12:46, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh give me a friggin break. You know the majority of people actually going to post here are swamped with their own projects to clean up other articles you're probably going to make a beeline for or already have TTN. Is Wired magazine something we should consider unreliable? Newspapers? etc? And that's on a quick search. Are you even trying to make sure the targets are important beyond your scope of what is notable?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:31, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * And what exactly is important enough to include from the Wired article? It boils down to "Bob and George is a popular web comic" and "8-bit Theater" is a popular web comic." You can try to scrounge up a bit more to apply context, but that is all it is really stating. That will be the tone of any other potential source available. That is much more relevant to the origins and popularization of sprite comics in general than anything else. Forgetting notability for a second, how is any of the content in these really necessary? After being cut down, I can't see either of them being over three or four paragraphs. Half of the will be duplicative of the information provided in this article anyways, so they may as well be placed here. TTN (talk) 15:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The only one that even seems like a good in that regard is "Neglected Mario Characters". The other two have reception though but just feel too 'significant' to just write off as redirects: even people that know nothing about this subject are familiar with 8-Bit Theater. There has to be more.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 17:14, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't be shocked if anything were found for 8-Bit Theater, but I really cannot imagine Bob and George obtaining anything other than "It's a popular web comic", "It's the first popular sprite comic", and other small comments like that. They're really only significant in regards to being the few popular sprite comics out of the tens of thousands that sprout up all over the place. If we ignore covering the stuff available right on their home pages (or what should be covered in the case of 8-Bit Theater), the rest of the relevant information fits right into here. TTN (talk) 17:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well looking this over, support Neglected Mario Characters (a bit on this talk page up top takes a swipe at it's notability), neutral on Bob and George, but still Oppose to 8-Bit Theater. New members tend to be taking merges as the equivalent of deletions, and while I'm unsure if an article in such a sense would be improved in any time relevantly close to now, it's at least giving it a chance.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 18:04, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Given that it's been a month with no further comments, I'm going to say that the consensus is not to merge and remove the templates.  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   16:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Helm

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Please would like to see article on Helm wind very much thank you please.

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Eugene Robert Black

Eugene Robert Black I (January 7, 1873 – December 19, 1934) was an American attorney and businessman who served as the 6th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1933 to 1934. Before and after his term as chairman, Black also served as the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 1928 to 1933 and again from August 1934 until his death in December of the same year.

His eldest son, Eugene R. Black Sr., became the third president of the World Bank Group, serving from 1949 to 1962.

Early life
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 7, 1873. He attended the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity and the Phi Kappa Literary Society. Black practiced law for 28 years until he became president of the Atlanta Trust Company in 1921.

Career
In 1928, he became Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He succeeded the longtime governor, Max Wellborn, who was also his daughter's father-in-law. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 happened, he and two cashiers rushed to Nashville, Tennessee, to supply currency and credit to banks in the city and surrounding region. The situation worsened with other cities in the region experiencing bank runs.

Black kept his district afloat by rushing large quantities of cash to banks that were experiencing runs and extending credit to any bank that could offer any asset of value. He kept this policy active through the Great Depression into 1933. He, along with George L. Harrison, the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recommended open market purchases to increase reserves. His insistence on expansionist policies led to the President appointing Black to the Federal Reserve Board in 1933.

Personal life
In 1897, he married Gussie Grady, the daughter of Henry W. Grady, the Atlanta journalist and orator. They had a son, Eugene Robert Black II. Black died of a heart attack on December 19, 1934, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Eugene Black (Texas politician)

Eugene Black (July 2, 1879 – May 22, 1975) was an American lawyer, teacher, and grocer who was the Democratic United States Representative from the First District of Texas from 1915 to 1929. In 1929 he was appointed by President Hoover to serve on the United States Board of Tax Appeals, on which he served until 1966.

Born near Blossom, Lamar County, Texas, Black attended Blossom's public schools and taught school in Lamar county from 1898 to 1900. Black was employed in the Blossom post office, and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in 1905. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Clarksville, Texas. He was also engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Black was elected as a Democrat to the 64th United States Congress and to the six succeeding congresses.

Black was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928, but was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to the United States Board of Tax Appeals on November 5, 1929, and served until March 31, 1966. Black resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there on May 22, 1975. He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.

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Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (baptised 1614; died 23 July 1666 O.S., 2 August 1666 N.S.) was an English peer of the House of Lords.

He succeeded to the title on 14 October 1617 on the death in infancy of his elder brother Henry Willoughby, 4th Lord Willoughby of Parham. Francis Willoughby was the second son of William Willoughby, 3rd Lord Willoughby of Parham The young and unexpected death of his elder brother Henry made Francis successor to the hereditary peerage and seat in the House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament. Francis Willoughby was an early supporter of the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War but later became a Royalist. He twice served as governor of English colonies in the Caribbean. Francis Willoughby died without male heirs of his body and the title passed to his younger brother William Willoughby, 6th Lord Willoughby of Parham, the third son of William Willoughby, 3rd Lord Willoughby of Parham.

Background
Francis Willoughby was born in perhaps late 1613 (since he was baptised in 1614) to William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham and Frances Manners, daughter of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland of Nottingham at Parham in Suffolk. His father died in 1617, and the barony was held by his older brother Henry for one year until he too died barely five years old, at which point Francis inherited the seat in the House of Lords and with it the family title.

As tensions between the king and Parliament grew in the 1630s, he found himself opposed to Charles I over the levying of ship money. His loyalty was further strained by the Bishops' Wars, in which he was reluctant to fight the Scots.

Parliamentary Commander
When the king in 1642 issued his Commission of Array to form a loyal army, Willoughby rejected his summons and instead took command of a horse regiment under the Parliamentary commander, the Earl of Essex. By January 1643, he was made commander-in-chief of Lincolnshire.

On 16 July of the same year, he led his soldiers in a surprise attack on Gainsborough where he seized the town. Facing a counterattack, Willoughby's soldiers fought along with those under Oliver Cromwell to hold off an advancing Royalist force of superior strength. The main body of the Parliamentary army withdrew to Boston with only two dead.

That September, Willoughby was a subordinate commander under the Earl of Manchester and Cromwell. He fought at the Battle of Winceby and accepted the surrender of Bolingbroke Castle in November.

Willoughby's relations with the Parliamentarians began to fray in 1644. In March he joined with Sir John Meldrum in the assault on Newark, the failure of which has been partially attributed to Willoughby's supposed unwillingness to take orders from Meldrum. Willoughby quarrelled with Manchester and was forced to make an apology to the House of Lords as a result. Furthermore, Cromwell himself saw fit to complain about the conduct of Willoughby's soldiers.

In the next few years, Willoughby became the leader of the Presbyterian force within Parliament, opposed the formation of the New Model Army and was elected as speaker of the House of Lords in July 1647. However, when the Parliamentary army took London in September, Willoughby was imprisoned along with six other peers and held for four months at which point he was released without charge, fleeing to the Netherlands to join the Royalists.

Royalist Supporter
Now espousing the Royalist cause, Willoughby was promoted to Vice Admiral under the Duke of York, an appointment that may have been designed to engender sympathy among Scots and Presbyterians. He was also assigned a command in the 1648 invasion of England under the Prince of Wales. He later surrendered his naval command to Prince Rupert of the Rhine. When Parliament confiscated his estates, he travelled to the Caribbean.

He was appointed Governor of Barbados by Charles II. He arrived at Barbados and took up the appointment in May 1650 and attempted to negotiate the strained politics of that island, which also experienced a division between Royalists and Parliamentarians. During this time he also sent a small colonizing party led by Major Anthony Rowse to Suriname, which established a colony there. Fort Willoughby, which had been an abandoned French outpost, was expanded at the present-day site of the city of Paramaribo).

On 25 October 1651, a seven-ship force under Commodore George Ayscue arrived off Barbados, demanding that the island submit "for the use of the Parliament of England". Willoughby's reply (tellingly addressed to "His Majesty's ship Rainbow") was unyielding, declaring that he knew "no supreme authority over Englishmen but the King". With some 400 horsemen and 6,000 militia, he was prepared to resist any attempt at coercion.

Over the next month, Barbados was blockaded. In early December, with the Royalist cause defeated in England, Ayscue began a series of raids against fortifications on the island and was reinforced by a group of thirteen ships bound for Virginia. On 17 December a force of more than 1,000 Barbadian militia was defeated by one of Ayscue's detachments. Governor Willoughby attempted to stem the spread of Parliamentary sympathies by hanging two of the returning militia soldiers and prohibiting the reading of documents from the blockading fleet. The Royalists held out for several more weeks until one of Willoughby's own commanders declared himself for Parliament. A battle was averted by a week of rain, after which Willoughby, perhaps having seen the hopelessness of his cause, sought negotiations. He was replaced as governor but Barbados and the Royalists there were not punished. Additionally, Willoughby's properties in England were restored. He returned to them in August 1652.

Later years
While he was twice imprisoned during The Protectorate for involvement in Royalist intrigues, Willoughby survived the Cromwell years and after the Restoration in 1660 he was again appointed to a governorship in the Caribbean, administering the colonies at Saint Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, and Antigua.

In June 1664 he organised an expedition from Barbados against the small French garrison at Saint Lucia, expelling it under the pretext that a half-Carib native had effectively "sold" it to England and establishing a short-lived English colony there.

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Willoughby organised Barbados' defences and managed to repel a Dutch fleet led by Michiel de Ruyter in April 1665. Three months later Willoughby engaged in another expedition, sailing to the Dutch island of Tobago. Finding a force under the English privateer Robert Searle already looting the settlement there, he put a stop to the destruction and installed a garrison of fifty men to maintain order.

His last act on behalf of the English crown came in July 1666 when, having learned of the recent French seizure of Saint Kitts, he formed a relief force of two Royal Navy frigates, twelve other large vessels (including commandeered merchant ships), a fire ship, and a ketch, bearing over 1,000 men. He planned to proceed north to Nevis, Montserrat, and Antigua to gather further reinforcements before descending on the French. Leaving Barbados on 28 July (18 July O.S.), his force prowled off Martinique and then Guadeloupe, where he sent a frigate to assault the harbour and capture two merchant vessels on 2 August. This success could not be exploited however as that night most of his force was destroyed by a strong hurricane, including the flagship Hope, from which Willoughby did not emerge.

Marriage and issue
On 16 November 1628 Willoughby married Elizabeth Cecil (1606–1661), the daughter of the soldier Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon and Theodosia Noel.

Francis Willoughby and Elizabeth Cecil had four children:
 * 1) Diana, married 21 May 1645 Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea
 * 2) Frances Willoughby (1625 – September 1680) married William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton
 * 3) Elizabeth Willoughby (born about 1633 – 1 August 1695) married 28 October 1662 Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh
 * 4) William Willoughby (born about 1635); died young and unmarried in his father's lifetime

Legacy
Willoughby died on 2 August 1666 (23 July O.S.), at sea on board his ship Hope, in a hurricane off Guadeloupe.

In his will, he left extensive holdings in Barbados, Antigua, and Suriname to his children and his nephew Henry Willoughby as well as smaller grants of currency or sugar to various associates and servants. He named his daughter Elizabeth as his executrix.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theanism

 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 00:16, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Theanism
Nonnotable religion about a neopagan goddess-centric faith (yeah, that's unique) with no external evidence of its existence. "Theanism" gets about half a dozen entirely unrelated google hits; "theanism" + "goddess" gets 0. Delete. Postdlf 01:24, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete unverifiable, vanity, non-notable. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 01:44, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * This is not correct. It exists. It is a newly developed form of Dianic Wicca. We are currently attempting to set up a web page. Please do not delete!!!! (''Note: Unsigned comment by User:172.132.30.33, the article's author.)
 * I'm sorry, but a religion has to be much more established than that to merit an article. I wish you luck and perhaps some day, if you gain enough followers and outside attention, you may have become notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia.  That day simply hasn't arrived yet.  Postdlf 01:48, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. Recreate if this changes. --Fuzzball! (talk) 02:27, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * delete. Wishing you people luck in developing your religion, but it must first become famous enough to merit an article, and only *then* we include it. Not vice versa. Aris Katsaris 04:12, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * And as a sidenote, I'm Greek and I can tell you that your usage of Greek is flawed. Brother and sister are "Adelfos" and "Adelfi", not "Aldefos" and "Aldefi". Also the names of your months have a mixed usage of cardinal and ordinal numerals (i.e. "pente" means "five" and "endeka" means "eleven", but "proto" means "first" and "ekto" means "sixth"). Aris Katsaris 04:20, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, it must be known before an article is created. Please note that Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Mgm|(talk) 10:37, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, sadly. I get 9 google hits, 2 of which point to this VfD, and one of which is a typo of "prometheanism". If at all verifiable, perhaps a note on it could be dropped in pandeism . -- 8^D gab 02:01, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * Never mind the last part, apparently it's out of vogue. -- 8^D gab 22:03, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * At most it would get a bare mention in Dianic Wicca, but this would amount to nothing more than "one group of practitioners, in an undisclosed location, have invented new names for the days and months and call their version 'Theanism'." It would be like naming individual Bible study groups in Protestantism.  Postdlf 23:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless this is a horrendous misspelling of "Theism" or something like that. Master Thief Garrett 11:07, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Do not delete, this is a a real religion. It has 5,000 adherents many of whom reside in the New England region. It is not known in wider circles, even most neo-Pagans are not aware of its existence. I must say that just because a religion is not well-known or "popular" doesn't mean it should be ignored or written off.
 * Note: unsigned comment by 172.172.49.228; first contribution ever by that IP. Postdlf 21:58, 1 May 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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Hi, I've notified various wikiprojects, can you have a look and see if I've been balanced? I've 2 likely to have bias agreeing with you, 2 likely to have bias agreeing with me, and 1, economics, which is neutral. Alexanderkowal (talk) 11:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

 * The various reasons editors give aren't important in the end. An RfC must receive an overwhelming number (well over 50%) of Support tags from regular WP editors or it can't be adopted. Mason.Jones (talk) 16:21, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen North is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1885 general election, but has undergone various boundary changes since that date. The seat has been held by Kirsty Blackman of the Scottish National Party since 2015.

At the 2019 general election, the constituency had the largest SNP vote share and relative majority, effectively making it the safest SNP seat, although this majority was heavily reduced at the subsequent 2024 election.

There was also an Aberdeen North constituency of the Scottish Parliament, created in 1999 with the boundaries of the Westminster seat of that time. This constituency was abolished in 2011, its area thereafter being covered by the new constituencies of Aberdeen Donside and Aberdeen Central. (See also Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions.)

Constituency profile
The seat covers the much of the northern half of the Aberdeen Council Area. It includes affluent suburbs like Kingswells and Bridge of Don, alongside areas with significant social housing within the city proper such as; Tillydrone, Northfield, Mastrick and Bucksburn.

Current
Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies the newly redrawn Aberdeen North to be fought at the 2024 United Kingdom general election consists of the following electoral wards:

 * In full: the Aberdeen Council wards of Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone, Bridge of Don, Kingswells/Sheddocksley/Summerhill, Northfield/Mastrick North, Hilton/Woodside/Stockethill, Tillydrone/Seaton/Old Aberdeen;
 * In part: the Aberdeen Council ward of Midstocket/Rosemount

1885 to 1918
From 1832 to 1885 there was a single Aberdeen constituency. Prior to 1832, the burgh of Aberdeen had been represented as a component of the Aberdeen Burghs constituency.

When Aberdeen North was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and first used in the 1885 general election, so was Aberdeen South. Aberdeen North then consisted of the municipal wards of St Clement, St Andrew, St Machar and Greyfriars, and the 10th and 11th Parliamentary Polling Districts. The rest of the county of Aberdeen was covered by the county constituencies of Eastern Aberdeenshire and Western Aberdeenshire.

The same boundaries were used in the 1886 general election, the 1892 general election, the 1895 general election, the 1900 general election, the 1906 general election, the January 1910 general election and the December 1910 general election.

1918 to 1950
In 1918 constituency boundaries were redefined by the Representation of the People Act 1918. By then the county of city of Aberdeen had been created and, together with Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South became one of two constituencies covering the city (which was one of four counties of cities in Scotland) and entirely within the city. The new boundaries were first used in the 1918 general election, and Aberdeen North then consisted of the wards of Greyfriars, St Andrew, St Clement, St Machar, Torry and Woodside. The county of Aberdeen was covered by Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Central Aberdeenshire and Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen and Kincardine East and Central Aberdeenshire were entirely within the county of Aberdeen. Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire covered the county of Kincardine minus the burgh of Inverbervie, which was covered by Montrose Burghs, and part of the county of Aberdeen.

The same boundaries were used in the 1922 general election, the 1923 general election, the 1924 general election, the 1929 general election, the 1931 general election, the 1935 general election and the 1945 general election.

1950 to 1955
For the 1950 general election boundaries were redefined again, by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949. A new list of wards defined Aberdeen North - Glimonston, Greyfriars, St Clement, St Machar, St Nicholas and Woodside - but the county of city of Aberdeen remained a two-constituency city, divided between Aberdeen South and Aberdeen North, with both constituencies entirely within the city.

The county of Aberdeen was now again divided between East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire, with both of these constituencies entirely within the county.

The same boundaries were used for the 1951 general election.

1955 to 1983
By the time of the 1955 general election, a boundary review had taken account of a small enlargement of the city area, and Aberdeen North was defined as consisting of the wards of Cairncry, St Andrews, St Clement's, St Machar, St Nicholas and Woodside. The same boundaries were used for the 1959 general election, the 1964 general election, the 1966 general election and the 1970 general election.

For the February 1974 general election there was, again, no change to the boundaries of Aberdeen North, but a review had defined the constituency in terms of a new list of wards. The new wards were Mastrick, Northfield, St Clement's, St Machar, St Nicholas, and Woodside. February 1974 boundaries were used also for the October 1974 general election.

In 1975, throughout Scotland, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, counties were abolished, and the enlarged City of Aberdeen district was formed by including areas formerly within the county of Aberdeen and the county of Kincardine. The City of Aberdeen district became a district within the Grampian region. The enlarged district included areas covered by the constituencies of West Aberdeenshire and North Angus and Mearns. North Angus and Mearns had been created in 1950 to cover the county of Kincardine and part of the county of Angus.

The 1979 general election was held before a review of constituency boundaries took account of new local government boundaries.

1983 to 1997
In this period the constituency was made up of the City of Aberdeen District electoral divisions of Ashgrove, Brimmond, Kittybrewster, Mastrick, Northfield East, Northfield West, St Machar, Seaton, Summerfield, and Woodside.

The 1983 general election, the 1987 general election and the 1992 general election took place during this period.

In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, local government regions and districts were abolished and the city became one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. Also, the name of the city became, officially, Aberdeen City.

1997 to 2005
In this period the constituency was made up of the City of Aberdeen District electoral divisions of Balgownie, Brimmond, Danestone, Mastrick, Middleton, Northfield, Summerfield, and West Don, as provided for by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.

Since 2005 the constituency is made up of the Aberdeen City Council wards of Auchmill, Berryden, Castlehill, Cummings Park, Donmouth, Hilton, Kittybrewster, Mastrick, Midstocket, Newhills, Pittodrie, St Machar, Seaton, Sheddocksley, Springhill, Stockethill, Summerhill, Sunnybank, and Woodside, as provided for by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 2005.

As redefined for the 1997 general election, Aberdeen North was one of three constituencies covering and entirely within the Aberdeen City area, the other two being Aberdeen South and Aberdeen Central. Aberdeen South shared boundaries with both of the other two constituencies.

2005 to 2024
As redefined by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, and subsequently first used in the 2005 general election, Aberdeen North is entirely within the Aberdeen City council area and one of five constituencies covering that council area and the Aberdeenshire council area. To the south of Aberdeen North there is Aberdeen South, which is also entirely within the Aberdeen City council area. To the west there is West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, which is entirely within the Aberdeenshire council area, and to the north there is Gordon, which covers part of the Aberdeen City council area and part of the Aberdeenshire council area. Further north there is Banff and Buchan which, like West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, is entirely within the Aberdeenshire council area.

Fifth Review changes include the transfer of Bridge of Don, Dyce and Danestone areas from Aberdeen North to Gordon, and the new Aberdeen North has boundaries which are very different from those of the earlier constituency. The northern boundary of the earlier constituency coincided with the northern boundary of the Aberdeen City council area. At that time, Aberdeen Central and Aberdeen South covered the rest of the Aberdeen City council area, and all three Aberdeen constituencies were entirely within the council area.

Elections in the 1990s

 * 1997 result based on new boundaries

Elections in the 1910s

 * Pirie was endorsed by the Coalition Government but refused to give it his support.

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West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (UK Parliament constituency)

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Westminster), which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1997 general election, but has undergone boundary changes since that date. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine was re-created as a parliamentary constituency in 1997, having previously existed as Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1918 to 1950.

There was also a Holyrood constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency at that time.

1918–1950
In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.

1997–2005
Kincardine and Deeside District, and the Gordon District electoral divisions of Donside and South Gordon.

2005–present
The area of the Aberdeenshire Council other than those parts in the Banff and Buchan County Constituency and the Gordon County Constituency.

The constituency covers a southern portion of the Aberdeenshire council area.

As redefined by the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland. and subsequently first used in the 2005 general election, it is one of five constituencies covering the Aberdeenshire council area and the Aberdeen City council area. To the northeast of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine there are the constituencies of Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South, which are both entirely within the Aberdeen City area. To the north of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, there is the Gordon constituency, which covers part of the Aberdeenshire area and part of the Aberdeen City area, and further north there is the Banff and Buchan constituency which, like West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, is entirely within the Aberdeenshire area.

The West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency includes the towns of Stonehaven, Portlethen and Banchory, and stretches along the Dee river valley from Westhill to Braemar, and north to Kemnay in the Don river valley, which were with the Gordon constituency until 2005, but are now within this constituency.

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North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats since the 2019 general election.

The seat was created in 1983, and was held by the Conservative Party for four years, before being represented by Menzies Campbell from 1987 to 2015. Campbell was elected as a member of the Liberal Party, which later merged with the Social Democratic Party to form the Liberal Democrats. At the 2015 general election, the seat was gained by Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Gethins held his seat at the 2017 general election by just two votes over Elizabeth Riches of the Liberal Democrats, making the seat the most marginal in the United Kingdom. At the 2019 general election, Chamberlain defeated Gethins to regain the seat for the Liberal Democrats; this was the SNP's only loss at the general election.

Boundaries
1983–2005: North East Fife District.

2005–present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

North East Fife constituency is in the region of Fife in Scotland. Fife has the River Tay on its northern coast, and the Firth of Forth to the south. The famous golf and university town of St Andrews is the major settlement in the seat. Others include Cupar, Newport-on-Tay, Newburgh, Auchtermuchty, and Anstruther.

Elections in the 2020s
On the notional boundaries of the 2019 general election the seat is an SNP hold so Liberal Democrats gain the seat despite previously holding it.

Elections in the 2010s
North East Fife was notable in several respects in the 2019 general election: it was the SNP's only loss of the election, had the largest decrease in vote share for the Conservative Party (after the special case of Chorley, where the party did not stand) and also had the smallest Labour share of the vote in the United Kingdom, at 3.7% (again excluding Chorley, where the party did not stand). The seat went from the most marginal seat at the 2017 general election to the fortieth most marginal in 2019 (measured by percentage majority). When measured by absolute majority, North East Fife was the second most marginal Lib Dem-held seat at the election (after Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross).

North East Fife was the most marginal result in the country at the 2017 general election, with incumbent SNP MP Stephen Gethins seeing his majority cut from 4,344 votes (9.6%) to 2 votes (0.004%) ahead of the Liberal Democrat candidate, Elizabeth Riches. An alike result in Winchester at the 1997 general election was adjudicated and declared void and resulted in a legislative change in party naming rules (the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998).

Elections in the 2000s
In 2005 the ward of Leven East was incorporated into this constituency from what was Central Fife.

Elections in the 1980s

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Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)

Banff and Buchan was a constituency of the House of Commons, located in the north-east of Scotland within the Aberdeenshire council area. It elected one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.

The seat was most recently held by David Duguid of the Scottish Conservatives from 2017; until then the Scottish National Party (SNP) had held the seat since 1987, with the then First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond representing the seat until 2010 and Eilidh Whiteford until 2017.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was subject to boundary changes which involved expansion into eastern parts of Moray. As a consequence, it was renamed Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, which was first contested at the 2024 general election.

Constituency profile
A mostly rural constituency, it took in the towns of Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Turriff, and the main industries are fishing and tourism.

The Aberdeenshire council area as a whole voted against Scottish independence in 2014.

61% of people in constituency are estimated to have voted in favour of leaving the European Union in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

In 2010, Eilidh Whiteford succeeded Alex Salmond as the MP for Banff and Buchan, but the SNP vote share fell below 50% for the first time since 1992, due to a strong challenge by the Conservative Party. In the 2015 general election, the SNP achieved its best-ever result in the constituency, with Whiteford winning a 60.2% share of the vote and increasing her majority by more than 10,300 votes.

In 2017, the constituency saw the second-largest swing to the Conservatives in all of Scotland (20.2%), bested only by the swing achieved by Colin Clark in defeating Salmond in the neighbouring seat of Gordon (20.4%). Observers attributed this to anger at the SNP's opposition to Brexit and support for a second independence referendum. After the election, The Guardian reported, "In the coastal town of Peterhead, locals at the Waverley hotel were toasting Salmond's first defeat since being elected as an MP in 1987. Murdo MacKenzie, 51, a former fisherman, said there was a lot of anger about Sturgeon's stance on Europe. 'Europe is dictating our fishing quotas. I've voted SNP all my life but if you take the power away from Westminster and hand it to Brussels, how is that independence?'"

At the 2019 general election, Banff and Buchan's Conservative vote share bucked the Scottish trend and increased by 2.1%, increasing David Duguid's majority to over 4,000 votes and taking over 50% of the vote share.

Boundaries
1983–1997: Banff and Buchan District.

1997–2005: The Banff and Buchan District electoral divisions of Banff and Portsoy, Deveron, Fraserburgh North, Fraserburgh South, Mid Buchan, Peterhead North, Peterhead South, and Ugie, Cruden and Boddam.

2005–2024: The Aberdeenshire Council wards of Durn, Banff West and Boyndie, Banff, Aberchirder, Macduff, Gamrie King Edward, Buchan North, Fraserburgh West, Fraserburgh North, Fraserburgh East, Fraserburgh South, Buchan North East, South Buchan, Central Buchan, Lonmay and St Fergus, Mintlaw Old Deer, Mintlaw Longside, Boddam Inverugie, Blackhouse, Buchanhaven, Peterhead Central Roanheads, Clerkhill, Dales Towerhill, Cruden, Turriff West, Turriff East, Upper Ythan, and Fyvie Methlick.

As created in 1983, the constituency replaced part of East Aberdeenshire and part of Banffshire.

New boundaries were used for the 2005 general election, as recommended by the Fifth Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, and the constituency was one of five covering the Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City council areas. The Banff and Buchan constituency was entirely within the Aberdeenshire area, covering a northern portion of it. To the south, Gordon included part of the Aberdeenshire area and part of the Aberdeen City area. Further south, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine continues to be entirely within the Aberdeenshire area and Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South are entirely within the Aberdeen City area.

As of its abolition, the Banff and Buchan constituency continued to include the port towns of Peterhead and Fraserburgh, along with Turriff which was formerly within the Gordon constituency.

Elections in the 2010s
1: After nominations were closed, Hoque was suspended from the Labour Party when he was charged with multiple driving offences.

The swing of 10.6% to the Conservatives in Banff and Buchan was the largest swing in Scotland at the 2010 general election.