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James A. Colescott

James Arnold Colescott (January 11, 1897 – January 11, 1950) was an American white supremacist who was Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Under financial pressure from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for back taxes, he disbanded the second wave of the original Ku Klux Klan in 1944.

Biography
He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Frank Colescott and Minnie Minnie Olive Acuff on January 11, 1897. He graduated from the veterinary college in Terre Haute and worked as a veterinarian. He joined the local Ku Klux Klan chapter in Vigo County, Indiana, and in sixteen years moved through the ranks up to the Imperial Wizard. Colescott died on January 11, 1950, his 53rd birthday, in U.S. Veterans' Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida.

Imperial Wizard
Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans resigned on June 10, 1939, and Colescott became the Ku Klux Klan's new leader. He had previously served as chief of staff under Evans. Hiram Evans was effectively forced to quit, as his renunciation of Anti-Catholicism had proven unpopular with "rank-and-file Klansmen". He resigned in favor of Colescott, who was soon officially initiated as the Imperial Wizard. The initiation ceremony was held in the Dixie Ball Room of the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. There were rumors that Evans sold control of the Klan to Colescott in a regular buyout. The alleged transaction of $220,000 between the two men remains unconfirmed. Colescott and Samuel Green did however purchase the ownership of the Klan's headquarters in Atlanta, which they renamed to the Imperial Palace.

Pre-war reorganization efforts
In his new role, Colescott had "initiated several property sales" to raise money for the Klan. He personally led efforts to reorganize the Klan, and toured the Northern United States, the Midwestern United States, and the state of Florida in attempts to appeal to a wider audience. Chester L. Quarles, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Mississippi, points that Colescott had considerable experience as a Klan recruiter across several states. He views Colescott as having good organizational skills, but leaving much to be desired as a public speaker. Some Klan leaders employed glad-handing as a strategy, but Colescott was not among them. His tours were met with suspicion and hostility in the Midwestern United States, including his native Indiana. In the 1920s, the Klan in this region was led by D. C. Stephenson, whose term ended with a major scandal and his conviction for murder. This and other cases of "Klan corruption" had left the organization with a decidedly negative reputation among Mid-westerners.

Overall, Colescott was unable to stop the exodus of members due to the Great Depression. Lowering the initiation fee from $10 to $6 and providing cheaper robes for new recruits for $3.50 instead of $6.50 did not yield much results.

World War II
The decline continued during World War II, when most of the Americans began being preoccupied with the issues of national security and Ku Klux Klan "lost social influence, money and political support". The Klan's association with Nazi sympathizer organizations, such as the German American Bund, and with the Detroit race riot of 1943 were detrimental to the organization's public image: a substantial number of Klansmen stopped attending meetings and paying their dues.

Since the late 1930s, there were recurring reports of Klansmen involved in floggings, kidnappings, and murders. The incidents seemed to be sporadic rather than part of a systematic campaign. Trying to build a positive public perception of the Klan, Colescott announced to the press that he was "against flogging, lynchings, or intimidations", and also had pro-Bund Arthur Hornbui Bell and Alton Milford Young removed from positions at the New Jersey organization.

Dies Committee hearing
In January 1942, Colescott was questioned by the Dies Committee, precursor to the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Martin Dies Jr. (D-TX). Colescott was criticized by Dies for the Klan's alleged anti-Catholicism. During the hearing, committee members John E. Rankin (D-MS) and Joe Starnes (D-AL) defended Ku Klux Klan as an "American institution". The Dies Committee questioned Colescott about the connection of the Klan to violence. He claimed that terrorism was actually against the principles of the Klan, and that the so-called or alleged Klansmen behind these acts were former members, extremists, which the Klan had purged from its ranks. He also testified to the Committee concerning the then-current status of the Klan in terms of membership and finances. There were reportedly less than 10,000 registered members of the Klan. In the financial year 1941, the Klan had only collected $10,000 from initiation fees and other dues.

Legal troubles
In April 1944, the IRS filed a lien for $685,305 in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest from 1920s against the Klan. The special Klonvocation convened by Colescott decided to dissolve the organization. Before formally stepping down on April 23, 1944, he founded a provisional governing committee consisted of five members. On April 23, the final Klonvocation gathering was held in Atlanta. Its decisions disbanded the central Klan organization, "repealed all degrees, vacated all offices, voided all charters, and relieved every Klansman of any obligation whatever". Local chapters could, however, continue their activities, now acting independently from each other. The final Klonvocation called for them to act in an "informal, unincorporated alliance".

After disbanding
Most of the local chapters in the South, or klaverns, continued to operate, thus staging the Klan's comeback and third re-organization under the leadership of Samuel Green, an Atlanta obstetrician, in 1946. Already in November 1944, anthropologist H. Scudder Mekeel had expressed concerns that the end of World War II could be followed by a "revival in full force" of the Klan. Meanwhile, Colescott retired to Miami. He remained bitter about his forced retirement, and blamed "nigger-lover" Franklin D. Roosevelt and "that Jew" Henry Morgenthau Jr. for the downfall of the Klan. In his final statement, Colescott declared, "We had to sell out our asserts, turn the proceeds over to the government, and go out of business. Maybe the government can make something of the Klan – I never could."

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Edinburgh East and Musselburgh

Edinburgh East and Musselburgh may refer to:

 * Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (Scottish Parliament constituency), a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, 1999 to present
 * Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency of the House of Commons, 1997 to 2005 and from the next general election

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Calvin Schiraldi

Calvin Drew Schiraldi (born June 16, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1984 through 1991 for five different teams. He is best remembered as the losing pitcher of Games 6 and 7 of the 1986 World Series, when he pitched for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 ft and 215 lb, he threw and batted right-handed.

Early years and amateur career
Schiraldi was born in Houston, Texas, and attended Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. He was drafted after high school by the Chicago White Sox in the 17th round of the 1980 Major League Baseball draft, but chose instead to attend the University of Texas. Schiraldi, along with future Boston Red Sox teammate Roger Clemens, pitched the 1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team to a 1983 College World Series championship. Schiraldi was named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player and to the All-Tournament Team.

New York Mets (1984–1985)
Following his performance in the College World Series, Schiraldi was selected by the New York Mets in the first round (27th pick) of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft. After going 17–4 with a 2.59 earned run average for the Jackson Mets and Tidewater Tides in 1984, Schiraldi received a September call-up to the Mets. He made his major league debut on September 1, starting the second game of a double header against the San Diego Padres, and gave up five runs (four earned) in 3.1 innings. Schiraldi did not figure in the decision in that game. He made two more starts for the Mets that year, losing both.

Schiraldi split 1985 between the Mets and Tidewater, earning his first major league win on April 22 against the St. Louis Cardinals. Following the season, Schiraldi was traded to the Red Sox along with John Christensen, Wes Gardner and La Schelle Tarver for Bob Ojeda, Tom McCarthy, John Mitchell and Chris Bayer.

Boston Red Sox (1986–1987)
With the International League's Pawtucket Red Sox, Schiraldi was converted to a reliever. He made his debut with the big league club on July 20, 1986. With no outs, runners on first and third, and the Red Sox already down 6-3 to the Seattle Mariners in the Kingdome, Schiraldi replaced Jeff Sellers in the sixth inning. He allowed both inherited base runners to score, and gave up an earned run of his own in the sixth. However, he pitched a perfect seventh.

He pitched again the next day, striking out four in $2 2⁄3$ innings without giving up a run. He earned manager John McNamara's trust with similarly impressive performances on July 26 and August 1, and on August 3, with the Red Sox leading the Kansas City Royals, 5–3, Schiraldi entered in the ninth inning with runners on first and second and no outs. He struck out the first two batters he faced and retired the third for his first career save.

Whereas closing duties had been split between Bob Stanley and Joe Sambito up to that point, Schiraldi emerged as the Bosox's closer for the remainder of the season. He ended the season with a 4–2 record, nine saves, a 1.41 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 51 innings.

Schiraldi appeared in four of the seven games of the 1986 American League Championship Series against the California Angels. Although he took the loss in game four, he pitched respectably in the series, striking out five in the final two innings of game seven.

1986 World Series
After saving game one of the World Series, Schiraldi entered game six in the bottom of the eighth after Roger Clemens was lifted for a pinch hitter. The Red Sox were ahead, 3–2, but he gave up a game-tying sacrifice fly to Mets catcher Gary Carter. Schiraldi allowed the first two batters to reach base in the ninth but retired the next three. The Sox gave him a two-run lead when he took the mound in the tenth, three outs away from what would have been their first World Series title since 1918.

Schiraldi retired the first two batters but allowed three straight singles to Carter, Kevin Mitchell and Ray Knight. Knight's hit knocked in Carter to cut the Red Sox lead to 1 run. Schiraldi was replaced by Bob Stanley, who threw a wild pitch, which allowed Mitchell to score the tying run. Mookie Wilson followed by hitting a ground ball that rolled between the legs of Bill Buckner, scoring Knight and giving the Mets an improbable victory.

With the score tied, 3–3, in the seventh inning of game seven, Schiraldi gave up a leadoff home run to Knight, the series MVP. He gave up two more earned runs in just $1/3$ of an inning to take the loss in the series clincher. His ERA for the World Series was 13.50.

Chicago Cubs (1988–1989)
In 1987, Wes Gardner, who also came over from the Mets in the Ojeda trade, emerged as the primary closer for the Red Sox, though Schiraldi did have six saves. Following the season, he and Al Nipper were traded to the Chicago Cubs for Lee Smith. With the Cubs, Schiraldi was converted back into a starter, and went 9-13 with a 4.38 ERA in. The Cubs shifted him back to the bullpen in before sending him to the San Diego Padres just before the August 30 trade deadline, with Darrin Jackson and a player to be named later for Luis Salazar and Marvell Wynne.

San Diego Padres (1989–1990)
Schiraldi made four starts with the Padres in 1989, going 3–1 with a 2.53 ERA. Though he did make eight starts with the Padres in 1990 (including the game where Roseanne Barr infamously performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Jack Murphy Stadium), he found himself in the bullpen for most of the season. Schiraldi went 3–8 with one save and a 4.41 ERA in 1990. The Padres released him during Spring training the following season. He hit two home runs during his stint with the Padres.

Texas Rangers (1991)
Schiraldi caught on with the Houston Astros following his release from the Padres. He was assigned to their triple A Pacific Coast League affiliate, the Tucson Toros, with whom he went 3–2 with a 4.47 ERA before being dealt to the Texas Rangers. He made three appearances with the Rangers in, spending most of the season with their American Association affiliate, the Oklahoma City 89ers.

Personal life
Schiraldi was previously the head coach of the baseball team at St. Michael's Catholic Academy in Austin, Texas, and the 17U Texas Fire travel team. He is currently the head coach for the Action Baseball Club 17U White team.

Schiraldi is married to Debbie Murphy Schiraldi, whom he met in 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi, while pitching for the Jackson Mets, a Texas League Class AA affiliate of the New York Mets. That year Schiraldi went 14-3 for the championship squad. Calvin and Debbie Schiraldi have two children, Samantha and Lukas.

Schiraldi's son Lukas was signed in June 2014 by the Seattle Mariners and played in their minor league system until July 2017, when he was part of a trade to the Miami Marlins for David Phelps. Lukas was released by the Marlins' Jupiter Hammerheads in April 2019. Lukas played four years of baseball at St. Michael's Catholic Academy under head coach and father Calvin, and was named to the All-State team as a pitcher his senior season. As his father had before him, Lukas pitched baseball for the University of Texas Longhorns, going 9-4 in the 2014 season.

Schiraldi wrote the book The Arena: The True Story of One Man's Search for Excellence and the Price He Paid for Daring to Achieve It about his upbringing, time spent at the University of Texas, his Major League career and post playing days.

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Tallentire

Tallentire is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is about 2.5 mi north of Cockermouth. The village is located just outside the Lake District National Park. In 1931 the parish had a population of 184.

Etymology
The name Tallentire is one of Brittonic origins. The first element tāl means "brow, front, end", and the terminal element *tīr means "land" (Welsh tâl and tir). Unusually, "Tallentire" appears to contain a definite article in the form of -en, leading to the proposition that *[h]ïn was a definite article in the Brittonic of the North, although ï[r] (Welsh y; see Penyghent, Penicuik) is considerably more common. The meaning of the name may be "end of the land".

Governance
Tallentire is part of the Workington constituency for UK parliament. The current Member of Parliament for the Workington constituency is Mark Jenkinson, who is a member of the Conservative Party. Until the 2019 election the Labour Party had won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979. The Conservative Party had previously only been elected once in Workington since World War II, at the 1976 Workington by-election.

For Local Government purposes it's in the Cumberland unitary authority area.

It was previously part of the Broughton St Bridget's electoral ward of Allerdale Borough Council. This ward stretched north to Bridekirk with a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,178. Tallentire was part of the Dearham and Broughton Ward of Cumbria County Council. Tallentire was formerly a township in Bridekirk parish, from 1866 Tallentire was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Bridekirk.

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Alternating sign matrix

In mathematics, an alternating sign matrix is a square matrix of 0s, 1s, and −1s such that the sum of each row and column is 1 and the nonzero entries in each row and column alternate in sign. These matrices generalize permutation matrices and arise naturally when using Dodgson condensation to compute a determinant. They are also closely related to the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions from statistical mechanics. They were first defined by William Mills, David Robbins, and Howard Rumsey in the former context.

Examples
A permutation matrix is an alternating sign matrix, and an alternating sign matrix is a permutation matrix if and only if no entry equals $−1$.

An example of an alternating sign matrix that is not a permutation matrix is

\begin{bmatrix} 0&0&1&0\\ 1&0&0&0\\ 0&1&-1&1\\ 0&0&1&0 \end{bmatrix}. $$

Alternating sign matrix theorem
The alternating sign matrix theorem states that the number of $$n\times n$$ alternating sign matrices is

\prod_{k=0}^{n-1}\frac{(3k+1)!}{(n+k)!} = \frac{1!\, 4! \,7! \cdots (3n-2)!}{n!\, (n+1)! \cdots (2n-1)!}. $$ The first few terms in this sequence for n = 0, 1, 2, 3, … are
 * 1, 1, 2, 7, 42, 429, 7436, 218348, ….

This theorem was first proved by Doron Zeilberger in 1992. In 1995, Greg Kuperberg gave a short proof based on the Yang–Baxter equation for the six-vertex model with domain-wall boundary conditions, that uses a determinant calculation due to Anatoli Izergin. In 2005, a third proof was given by Ilse Fischer using what is called the operator method.

Razumov–Stroganov problem
In 2001, A. Razumov and Y. Stroganov conjectured a connection between O(1) loop model, fully packed loop model (FPL) and ASMs. This conjecture was proved in 2010 by Cantini and Sportiello.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Straight-24

 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 merge/redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 02:59, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Straight-24
There are doubts that notable engines of this configuration really has been built. Anyway, there is no point in having such an article unless something significant can be said. Other than that a Straight-24 has 24 cylinders in a row. -- Egil 16:48, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Straight-14, Straight-12 etc. Radiant_* 08:13, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and posibly move resulting page to something like 'inline engines' Andypasto 08:20, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: That would be Straight engine, which already exists. For Straight-24 there is nothing to merge. -- Egil 08:51, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Redirect to Straight engine until anyone finds any useful information about these. I am not convinced, as I explain on the talk page, that any engines of this configuration have actually been built.  Some aircraft references make offhand references to 'inline 24' engines, but on closer reading they are actually using 'inline' to mean "neither radial nor rotary" and the engines they are referring to are actually V or H configuration engines, rather than straight. —Morven 21:57, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Straight-14

 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 keep. Also Egil, the nominator withdrew his nomination on a rewritten version. Sjakkalle 09:33, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Straight-14
There are doubts that notable engines of this configuration really has been built. Anyway, there is no point in having such an article unless something significant can be said. Other than that a Straight-14 has 14 cylinders in a row. -- Egil 16:49, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep - The only known engine of this type became well-known due to these photos, taken at the Aioi Works in Japan and spread through blogs. --SFoskett 17:00, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: Since the article is now updated, I'll change my vote into a keep. -- Egil 18:08, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep, presumably fascinating to engine devotees. Kappa 21:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Marvelous engine. Klonimus 04:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems notable enough. Megan1967 07:49, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Straight-24, Straight-12 etc. Radiant_* 08:14, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are two problems with merging all of the inline-engine articles into Straight engine: first, each of the V-engine configurations presently has its separate article; second, one is likely to be looking for the more common configs as, e.g., "Straight 8".  I say keep the "14", as it (astonishingly) exists, and delete the Straight-24, unless/until one can be shown to exist. -- Mwanner 22:36, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Eighteen Kingdoms

Wikipedia isn't good for Chinese subjects...I've been trying to research this period. Do any regular checkers on this area (if there are any) know of the location of a decent map for this time?
 * I've just made one and added it. But it is based primarily on the broad present-day borders description mentioned here, and a further number of vague maps that don't give much details either, like historyofwar and imgur. I've also compared it to maps of the Warring States Period, with which it seems to have a lot of overlap (useful for collections of states such as the Three Qis). Nevertheless, my map has numerous errors; it doesn't even claim to be accurate. I just wanted to make a map to give readers an idea what they're reading about. As an aside, did "Zhai" even exist? In all other sources, this former Qin territory is called "Di". Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 05:25, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

18 but it's actually 19?
Why is it called "The Eighteen Kingdoms" if there's actually nineteen of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Like bowser (talk • contribs) 03:41, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

English-language sources?
There aren't many English-language sources about these kingdoms. Does Wikipedia have a policy against using Chinese-language sources? If not, then we could built out this page more. NeoChrono Ryu (talk) 05:02, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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Supreme Court of British Columbia

The Supreme Court of British Columbia is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada. The Court hears civil and criminal law cases as well as appeals from the Provincial Court of British Columbia. There are 90 judicial positions on the Court in addition to supernumerary judges, making for a grand total of 108 judges. There are also 13 Supreme Court masters, who hear and dispose of a wide variety of applications in chambers.

The court was established in 1859 as the "Supreme Court of the Mainland of British Columbia" to distinguish it from the "Supreme Court of Vancouver Island". The two courts merged in 1870 under the present name.

Jurisdiction
The British Columbia Supreme Court is a court of record and has original jurisdiction in all cases, civil and criminal, arising in British Columbia. The Court has inherent jurisdiction under the Constitution of Canada, in addition to any jurisdiction granted to it by federal or provincial statute.

The Court has jurisdiction in any civil dispute, including those matters where the dollar amount involved is within the jurisdiction of the Small Claims division of the Provincial Court. Under the Criminal Code, the Court is included as a "superior court of criminal jurisdiction" meaning that it has exclusive jurisdiction for the trial of serious crimes within British Columbia.

The Court also hears some appeals from the Provincial Court and some administrative tribunals. Appeals from its own judgments are heard by the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

The Supreme Court is also responsible for call ceremonies for admitting lawyers and notaries public where the respective oath of office is administered by a justice.

Justices and masters
All justices of the Supreme Court (including the position of Chief Justice and Associate Chief Justice) are appointed by the federal cabinet, on recommendation of the Minister of Justice. All justices have full jurisdiction over any matter before the Court.

It is court protocol to refer to the judges of the Court as "justices". Prior to 2021, justices in the court were addressed as "my Lord" or "my Lady". As of 2021, by directive of the Chief Justice, the terms "my Lord" and "my Lady" are to be avoided. Rather, Justices are addressed as "Chief Justice", "Associate Chief Justice", "Justice", "Madam Justice" or "Mr. Justice" as context requires.

Masters are appointed by the provincial cabinet, on recommendation of the Attorney General in consultation with the Chief Justice. As provincial appointees, masters do not have inherent jurisdiction. Their jurisdiction is limited to those matters granted to them by statute and the Rules of Court. Masters preside in chambers, where they usually hear interlocutory applications and other pre-trial matters. Masters cannot hear civil trials and do not preside in criminal matters. In court, Masters were formerly addressed as "Master," but in a practice direction issued on September 6, 1991, then Chief Justice Esson advised the most appropriate form of address would be "your Honour". Masters also sit and hear matters as registrars, hearing such matters as assessments of solicitors fees and accounts.

Judicial districts
The Supreme Court sits in eight judicial districts called "counties". That is the only usage of "county" in British Columbia, which is a reference only to such court districts and has no similarity to the meaning in other provinces of Canada, the United States or United Kingdom. Prior to 1990, there existed in British Columbia a County Court, an intermediate court between the Provincial Court and the Supreme Court. In 1990, the County Court was merged with the Supreme Court, and its judges became justices of the Supreme Court. The judicial districts of the Supreme Court have the same boundaries of the counties of the former County Court. The judicial districts are: Cariboo; Kootenay; Nanaimo; Prince Rupert; Vancouver Westminster; Victoria; and Yale. Within each county, or judicial district, justices are resident in the following locations:
 * Abbotsford
 * Chilliwack
 * Cranbrook
 * Kamloops
 * Kelowna
 * Nanaimo
 * Nelson
 * New Westminster
 * Prince George
 * Prince Rupert
 * Victoria
 * Vancouver

The Supreme Court also holds sittings in the following court locations for which there is not a resident justice:

 * Campbell River
 * Courtenay
 * Dawson Creek
 * Duncan
 * Fort Nelson
 * Fort St. John
 * Golden
 * Penticton
 * Port Alberni
 * Powell River
 * Quesnel
 * Revelstoke
 * Rossland
 * Salmon Arm
 * Smithers
 * Terrace
 * Vernon
 * Williams Lake

Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Prior to 1909, when the British Columbia Court of Appeal was established, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was considered the Chief Justice of British Columbia.

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Blaise Castle Estate

Blaise Castle is a folly built in 1766 near Henbury in Bristol, England. The castle sits within the Blaise Castle Estate, which also includes Blaise Castle House, a Grade II* listed 18th-century mansion house. The folly castle is also Grade II* listed and ancillary buildings including the orangery and dairy also have listings. Along with Blaise Hamlet, a group of nine small cottages around a green built in 1811 for retired employees, and various subsidiary buildings, the parkland is listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.

The site has signs of occupation during the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the site was sold. In 1766 Thomas Farr commissioned Robert Mylne to build the sham castle in Gothic Revival style. After Farr's bankruptcy, the estate was sold several times until purchased by John Scandrett Harford, who demolished the previous dwelling in 1789 and built the Neoclassical Blaise Castle House. His son, also named John Scandrett Harford, continued with the development of the buildings and estate, which his family occupied until 1926, when it was bought by Bristol City Council. The park was laid out by Humphry Repton in the early 19th century. The estate is now owned by Bristol City Council. The house is run as a museum by the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and holds a variety of collections. The Picture Room, added in the 1830s, is hung with paintings, mostly of the 19th century. There are selections on display from Bristol Museum's 10,000 items of historic costume, and of toys from the 18th century to the 1980s.

Early history
Flint fragments show Blaise Castle Estate was probably first inhabited by Neolithic farmers. There is more definitive evidence for Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman activity through the distinctive hill-forts in the area and other archaeological finds. The value of this historic landscape was recognised when it became a scheduled monument in 1982.

The land was granted to the Bishop of Worcester as part of the Kingdom of Mercia before the Norman conquest. During this time, when it was the property of the church, the estate had a chapel dedicated to Saint Blaise, which has given the estate its name. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the estate was granted to Ralph Sadler who let it to tenants until 1675. A large part of the estate was bought by Sir Samuel Astry of Henbury.

The chapel's last ruins were removed in 1707.

Blaise Castle House

In the later 18th century, the estate was owned by a sugar merchant and investor in the slave trade, Thomas Farr, who bought it from Astry's descendants in 1762; he built the sham castle. Farr went bankrupt when ships he owned were blockaded during the American Revolutionary War, and the estate was bought in 1778 by Denham Skeate, a lawyer from Bath. Eleven years later he sold it to John Harford, a wealthy Bristol merchant and banker, who demolished the old house in 1789 and had the present two-storey Neoclassical Blaise Castle House built in 1796–1798, designed by William Paty. It is a square stone block with adjoining domestic offices which are faced with stucco. The north west entrance front has five bays with a central semicircular projecting porch with Ionic columns. It is a grade II* listed building, though described by Simon Jenkins as "solid, simple and unexciting". John Nash added a connected conservatory or orangery around 1805 or 1806, and in 1832–1833, Charles Robert Cockerell designed the Picture Room for Harford's son, John Scandrett Harford, who had inherited the estate after his father's death in 1812. The Picture Room extends into a portico which has six Ionic columns. This now houses a display of paintings from the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. The hall has bas-relief medallions by Bertel Thorvaldsen.

The elder Harford also had Blaise Hamlet built to house his servants and tenants, to designs of Nash and George Repton, in 1811. The estate was sold to Bristol City Council in 1926, to preserve it from development. During World War II the house was occupied by the armed forces. A branch of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1949, Blaise Castle House now features collections relating to household items in addition to its period interior decoration. Galleries have displays of historic domestic equipment used for lighting, cooking, cleaning, washing, including a display of toilets.

Blaise Castle
On a hill above the gorge is a sham castle in Gothic Revival style overlooking Bristol, Avonmouth and the Avon Gorge, with views across to South Wales on a clear day. It was built in 1766, by Robert Mylne, on the site of a chapel dedicated to Saint Blaise. The folly is reputed to have cost £3,000. The circular building is built of local ashlar stone with limestone dressings. It has three turrets with crenellated parapets.

Denham Skeate opened the site to the public.

It was open to paying visitors and a popular attraction from the first with excellent views on a clear day. Vessels could be seen passing on the River Avon from the castle, and the hills and mountains of Wales were visible beyond the river. The castle was mentioned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey. John Thorpe, planning a trip to Bristol with Catherine Morland and her brother, describes the castle as "the finest place in England – worth going fifty miles at any time to see.

It was inhabited into the 20th century and was elaborately decorated internally. It is a Grade II* listed building and was restored in 1957.

Blaise Hamlet
Blaise Hamlet is a hamlet composed of a group of nine small cottages around a green. It was originally within the estate grounds, but is now separated from the rest of the site by a road. All the cottages, and the sundial on the green are Grade I listed buildings. Nikolaus Pevsner described Blaise Hamlet as "the ne plus ultra of picturesque layout and design." Blaise Hamlet was built around 1811 for Harford's retired employees.

The hamlet was designed by John Nash, master of the Picturesque style. He had worked for Harford on other buildings. The hamlet is the first fully realised exemplar of the garden suburb and was the inspiration for virtually all garden suburbs that followed. The cottages are all unique and include brick chimneys and dormer windows with some having thatched roofs. They are examples of the picturesque, an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin. An oval path links the cottages and encircles the village green, which has a sundial at its centre. The cottage gardens are planted in a Victorian cottage garden style.

The estate
The castle and its 650 acre of parkland are now open to the public. Along with Blaise Hamlet, the parkland is listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.

The grounds were laid out by Humphry Repton (1752–1818) a leading landscape gardener. Parts of Repton's designs still exist, notably the carriage drive which winds its way from the house, sections of which follow the original route. In addition to the conservatory and the almshouses in Blaise Hamlet, Nash built the limestone dairy in 1802.

The grounds include a gorge cut by the Hazel Brook through Bristol's limestone. The gorge has a number of landscape features, including Goram's Chair, a limestone outcrop often used by climbers, and Lover's Leap and Potter's Point, two panoramic viewing spots. Stratford Mill was moved from West Harptree and re-erected within the gorge after Chew Valley Lake was flooded to form a reservoir. Ongoing renovations started in 2004 of the mill, settling ponds and associated estate pathways. At the gorge's southern end, Hazel Brook joins the River Trym, which continues its flow towards Sea Mills. Other features within the estate include two pools: the Giant's Soapdish and the Penny Well, and two caves: the Robber's Cave and the Butcher's Cave.

Kings Weston Hill, to the west of the castle, also forms the part of the estate which is close to Kings Weston Roman Villa.

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Kudos
Kudos to whoever constructed the phrase "infamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future". While being perfectly true, it sounds exactly like a sci-fi movie poster—which is just the tone I think it should aim for. I love it. Journalist from the Year 5000! Anville 16:50, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Blair
I liked this bit 'passing resemblance to Tony Blair, Ellis' own Prime Minister.' I makes it sound like he's Ellis' own personal Prime Minister. Len, 14:30, 8 July

Politics
It's been mentioned before that while a lot of the political issues in Transmetropolitan are based on past American politicians, Warren Ellis has himself said that a lot of it is still as much about British politics as anything else.--MythicFox 09:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Spoilers
Being personally not very gifted or concerned with editing Wikipedia, I have no idea how to add a spoiler box above the plot synopsis, but I definitely think it should be added, considering it summarizes everything in the comic from beginning to end. Shralla 08:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

The Name of the City
The article says that the city that transmetropoltan is never named. That is not true

"The City" is the name of the city. The city has its own congressmen and senators. One might draw on this that The City is a megatropolis the stretches the length of the Atlantic coast

-This seems obviously true to me. There has been some restructuring of America in the comic's past; Note the "retirement states" formerly known as the west coast, and if memory serves the southern part is called something like "gun state". When the entire east coast has been united in a single city - it will actually happen, you know - why not call it the City?

-I would also like to add that the presence of the 'Statue of Liberty' does not prove that The City is New York, regardless if the name was simply changed. The statue holds a sword in place of a torch. Its possible the statue was changed, but it could also be a different, though similar statue. Also, toward the end of the series, a number of corrispondents in Washington refer to it as "The City", it seems to be the accepted name everywhere. Also I dont know much American geography, but is New York anywhere near any mountains? That The City is boardered on one side by the Atlantic ocean and another by mountains may alow us to conjecture its location. Or maybe Warren Ellis doesnt think such things are worth thinking about so much, and The City's location isnt even possible, which is fair enough.
 * 1 it's megalopolis, not megatropolis. #2 if The City is truly New York City grown to ridiculous proportions, it's entirely possible it could have pushed to the edges of the Appalachian mountain range, which run up the eastern seaboard of the united states, with the edges about 100 miles inland

 * California still exists: it's where Gary Callahan is from, where his wife still lives and where Channon Yarrow visits in between the climax and the epilogue (volume 10).  Florida also—that's where the monstrous Joe/Bob Heller has his power base.  (Hmmm, maybe a good ol' boy like Heller got christened "Joe Bob" and just uses both names from time to time? )  The maps of the country shown on TV during the election night party (volume 4) might be useful in this regard.  I don't recall any notable differences, but I don't have the books with me to check.  Anville 16:20, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * In an interview, Darick Robertson said, "We never really established it other than it's American and in my mind it's the entire country coast to coast. All of the US is one giant teeming city." Anville 16:28, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Landmarks seen in The City need to be taken with a grain of salt -- various depections have shown the Statue of Liberty, the Chrysler Building, and the Transamerica Pyramid. (references needed)--66.92.73.217 22:51, 15 September 2006 (UTC

 * Perhaps The City is basically just New York State renamed? If you look at the campaign map, all the states that currently exist are still there and where they belong, so it can't have pervaded into other states, since it has its own electoral college. Shralla 05:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

-I've read the series several times, and before I looked here, I was convinced that The City was a tremendously expanded San Francisco. The main reasons were:

 * The revival, Mary, lived in San Francisco until she died and was presumably revived in the same place, though I suppose her head could have been picked up and moved somewhere.

 * The mountains look a lot more like the Rockies than anything on the East Coast, and seem to be closer to the City than any mountains are to New York (though geography could have been messed with in this comic. Everything else has been.)

 * People often travel to and from California, which could be what's left of contemporary California after San Francisco split off.

 * Landmarks are unreliable, as noted previously. A duplicate Statue of Liberty is as likely as the enormous statues with their enormous penises that fell off and crushed people.  I mean, one of the police precincts is named after Richard Daley, which is a Chicago reference.

But then, it is mostly just a big city with a coast, and does seem to be sort of generalized beyond that.

Another point in favor of the NYC theory: Issue 32, pg 14, top panel, Spider is cast as the figure with his back to us in an updated version of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. According to the entry for the painting, the diner was based on a Greenwich Village diner. On the other, the diner has been demolished since Hopper's time, so It could have been rebuilt anywhere. I get the distinct impression that the City is an amalgam of all the great American cities, and being an LA resident I of course think that New York tops that list. I half wonder if they don't have some weird kind of space-wrinkle thing that makes the city literally an amalgam of all the great cities. Sherpajack joekepps@gmail.com 68.190.216.13 (talk) 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the statement regarding The City being loosely based on a futuristic New York. There are simply too many conflicting references. I've lived in NYC and San Francisco, and see references to both; driving down from the mountains and crossing a bridge to get to the city - that's San Francisco. The nickname "The City" - arguably both lay claim to this nickname (as does London), although I've only seen it memorialized in a logo for San Francisco (the GG Bridge in a circle with the term "the City" below it on t-shirts and posters). HST lived in San Francisco when he pioneered gonzo journalism. The revival - Mary, as previously mentioned, was in SF. The Mission District (in the comic) is the exact name of a neighborhood in San Francisco. For that matter, the Civic Center neighborhood in San Francisco (as it is actually named) is on the US Register of Historic Places (and shows up first on a WP search of the name Civic Center). And the hyper liberal, outside of mainstream nature of the City is more reflective of SF than NYC.

Note that I'm NOT saying the City is based on SF. I see the parallels with NYC, too. It's clearly an amalgam. I'm simply saying it's not "based" on either, and to say that it is is false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.0.179 (talk) 23:58, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Release date
This article lacks the release date of the comic, which is an important piece of information. I noticed because I wanted to know whether the blog-spirit in the comic was very avant-garde at the time. Unfortunately I'm currently in a state of mind that doesn't allow me to research and add it on my own :o, so I add this comment. 62.206.74.26 22:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. Where are the dates on this?? -Branddobbe 07:16, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Spider Robinson?
Is it confirmed that Spider Jerusalem is named after Spider Robinson? I'm a big fan of Transmet and Spider Robinson, but I have difficulty seeing any logical connection.

Political development of the future
Both the parties use both red and blue colors, probably because the red and blue parties of today become more and more alike. At some point at least the republicans have become extinct - note the numerous references to the "republican party reservation" - and the parties in the comic's present aren't easily recognizable by today's standards, though they're mostly characterized by preservative contra progressive ideologies. And it seems they're simply called "The party in government" and "The party in opposition", trading names as they trade places. Anyway, I was thinking maybe some of that would have a place in the article?

 * Good point. Early on, a video screen says that Gary Callahan is a "D-Cal", which I presume means the "D" senator from California.  "D" might stand for "Democrat", presumably, in which case the two parties might be something like the Democrats and the Constitutional Unionists.  However, the only names ever given explicitly are the "party in government" and the "party in Opposition", which sounds like a British turn of phrase to me.  At one point, Spider actually calls the Smiler's party "the party formerly in Opposition" (volume 7, I think).

 * Also, at some point, the two-term limit got repealed. The Beast defeated Senator Longmarch eight years before the story opens, and the weird pol-turned-pusher (Kristen?  Kirsten?) says he could stay in the White House at least eight years longer.  Anville 16:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

True on all counts. 'Opposition' is in fact the British term for an opposing political party, usually, the one that came in second. In the case of the present government, it is the Conservatives who are in Opposition. A point that could be made about the absence of clear bi-partisan labellings and of a 'name' for The City is that it's the writer's way of reiterating a point he makes in the the first issue of the second volume, Lust for Life: 'There is no real America, you living afterbirth! There's no real City! All there is, is what we make it.'

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Heller
Is there any word about the connection between real word writer Joseph Heller and President Heller? The first time the Beast is called by his birth name, it's "Joe Heller", though it seems to be consistently "Bob" for the rest of the series. I smell a DC cover-up to avoid lawsuits. ..

-If I may correct you there, Heller was the other opposition presidential hopeful besides Smiler, and was only refered to as Bob I think, since he was only in one issue. I think Heller may just be a very Germanic name (a search in Wiki turns up a number of German, Austrian and Hungarian people) I dont think the Beast's name is ever revealed, his campaign material only ever refered to him as 'The President'.

--Maybe Joe Heller was someone else, but this is the Beast: http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7144/heller1qv.jpg

 * Heller is a senator from Florida and a contender for the Opposition Party candidate; Spider describes him as "Hitler stuffed to the gills with jumpstart" or some such. His campaign slogans are all like "America for Americans" and "Give 'em Hell, Heller!"  When Spider is tripping out in the Greenbrook Tower bathroom and typing his first anti-Smiler column, he says the Smiler "considers himself on close moral terms with the monstrous Joe Heller" (I'm quoting from memory, but I'm pretty sure on the name).  Later, in "Notes on a Rally", Spider says, "Bob Heller has a really punchable face."  Heller doesn't make a personal appearance until the rally, and he vanishes entirely after the election.  Anville 16:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * And the JPEG image is of Heller, not the Beast. Anville 16:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. 'The Beast', whilst probably about a half-foot or two taller than Heller is a lot stockier built, has dark hair and an unsmiling face. His campaign literature frequently uses the slogan 'Hard Man. Hard Job.'

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 * Yeah, I had confused the Beast and Joe/Bob Heller. But still - any Joseph Heller connection? 81.225.148.147 12:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I believe, none/accidental, the name being a play on words "Hell" and "Hitler". Sharpfang (talk) 09:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Smiler
I was under the impression that smiler was (at least physically) Robert Kennedy, JFKs bro... Have a look at his wiki entry,, or go to http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celebrity/K/Previews/Plans-11332.jpg Tony blair seems a long stretch as well.

 * The smiler also shares Kennedys favourite poem (according to Ellis anyway)- see what spider says in "Year of the Bastard" Part 2 (which is Issue 14, i think) Suicidal mongoose 15:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

So considering that the Beast is Nixon, Smiler is Kennedy, where does Blair fit into it, should it be changed?

List of Characters
Did this article actually exist at one point and just got moved, or does this need complete creation? Having an empty link be the only item in a section seems a bit off to me. Deafgeek 00:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No I don't recall a list of characters. Most of the major characters have their own pages (which should perhaps be collected as they're all quite short) Elijya 04:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Steve Chung
I've noticed in several issues that grafitti says "free Steve Chung." In the last (or near enough) issue, a background item proclaims "Steve Chung free!" or somesuch. I'm not sure on the specifics, but the references happen at least once an issue towards the last half of the comic's lifespan. It's not a central theme, I know, but it seems like something deliberately put in there, an 'easter egg' of sorts. We might want to put that in the article. 129.237.90.24 03:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

>>Oh, I know this one on hearsay from a friend. Steve Chung was apparently some guy who, in the early run of Transmet, would send long emails to Warren Ellis about the tiny little details in every panel of the comic. Apparently Ellis and Robertson decided that Steve Chung was some guy who was kidnapped and locked up somewhere with nothing but a new copy of Transmet every month and needed to be freed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.40.221 (talk) 22:09, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Quick Suggestion
We should probably have a contents box on the entry...I don't know how to do it, but the article has enough subsections to justify it. 68.102.179.135 05:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You mean a box that lists all the sub sections fo the article? there already is one. Content boxes automaticly appear when there are enough headings, and following the opening sections of articles. Elijya 19:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Quote worth using...?
D'you think we can fit this in somewhere? Noted here so I don't forget it, as I won't get the chance to do it properly right now. Warren Ellis said: I really don't see the City of Transmet as dystopian. It's just like where we live now. There are horrible fucking things and there are things of sublime beauty, and they all live in the same place. --Mrph 10:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Overzealous Dragonfiend
I added a link from the Transmetropolitan page, for a site that stars Spider Jerusalem in ongoing webcomics. (I won't bother to mention it or post a link, because I'm sure the reference will disappear.) The user Dragonfiend has taken it upon himself to erase this, and other bits I've posted, regardless of whether or not the links I added were relevant. This came about after I had the "audacity" to post a relevant link in the webcomics page. Since then he has systematically "edited" out just about everything I've posted, or edited myself. This kind of behavior is nothing new for Dragonfiend, and if you read his page here, you'll see what I mean. Put simply, Wiki doesn't belong to ONE person, nor should ONE person decide what is and isn't appropriate. Unfortunately, Wiki's rules of "mediation" favor the individual who deletes material, and the burden of proving the relevance of material lands on the original poster. People like Dragonfiend pick and choose what THEY think is appropriate to appear in Wiki, all the while hiding behind Wiki's policy of non-hostility when they decide to obliterate someone else's contributions.

I'm not particularly concerned that my username here will become invalid or get banned, so please spare me the (obviously memorized) warning about Wiki's code of conduct, Dragonfiend. Only a sad, misanthropic individual would devote so much time to policing a website that doesn't belong to him or her. Someone needs to contribute a piece on Wiki Fascists, the folks who know what you need to know, before you even think to ask. Anothermic 21:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * And a sad, misanthropic individual would waste his time whining that his inappropriate edits on an online encyclopedia keep getting deleted. This isn't the place to complain, anyway. Looking through your history of supposed "contributions", it's clear you have an agenda to promote this webcomic, seeing as you've added it to several entries, and basically nothing else. This means, in all likelihood, you're the creator of that web comic, in which case you're just shilling your own stuff. Sorry, but wikipedia is not a place to advertise fan creations of minimal notability. I don't know, nor care, who Dragonfiend is, but I agree with him in removing your edits and would do it myself if you add it again. I've read the comic before, it's mildly funny, but it's not an appropriate addition. You're not adding it to enhance wikipedia entries, you're adding it to promote the strip.. Elijya 16:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the unsolicited review of the link, I'll pass on your thoughts. However, I don't believe either you or Dragonfiend are in a position to dismiss the relevance of that link, which was posted in *two* entire pages. For months, I might add, until Dragonfiend took it upon himself to single out what I had posted for removal. What got this started was my posting of a third link, in the webcomics page. I edited that entry three times, trying to create what I thought was an in-context link, but hours after posting it I returned to remove it. Yes, it was an inappropriate link for that particular page, since so few active webcomics were mentioned or linked-to. If Dragonfiend had been a little later, he wouldn't have had to edit anything. If you are not inclined to take the word of a "link-spammer," I will understand. Since my actions are being called into question, I am simply responding with the truth. I'm curious if you or Dragonfiend would like to explain why a webcomic that stars Spider Jerusalem, with ample references to the Transmet book is "inappropriate" for people who are interested in the character? The site in question can live without the half-dozen referrals Wiki sends in a week, so no one is going to cry themself to sleep over this. But I find the actions of Dragonfiend at least as suspect as he (and you, it would seem) find mine. I'm not in a position to press my case, so no one needs to worry that the problem will escalate. Without a cadre of vocal supporters to say that those links were valid, Dragonfiend (and you, perhaps) would continue to follow my infrequent edits, and "correct" them. If that's what Wiki is about for you, I'm genuinely sorry. I use this website every day, and the posts I made were in the way of contributions, not project pimping. Anothermic 22:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

net.kook rant
one of the crazy people on the street (in a later issue of transmet, i don't recall which one at the moment) has an excerpt from a rant that's been around on the net for a while, about people being reborn from their asses. http://people.tribe.net/ferrarabrainpan maybe link it as an external reference?

NB: before ferrara brain pan used it, it showed up as a "true statement by delfim sousa" http://web.archive.org/web/20020802023933/http://www.esophagus.com/sousa.html Rmd1023 04:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Continuity
2 Continuity statements were removed by me for the following reasons:

The "Revival Mary" camera claim that she received the camera after events is not a continuity error. No mention is made of when she recieved the camera and it is safe to assume it was given to her before the Sacht meeting with Fred Christ. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))

It is true that no date is mentioned for Spider giving Mary the camera, yet an honest reading of the comic points quite well towards a continuity problem. Let's recapitulate : Mary is introduced in #8. Vita Severn is killed at the end of #18. In #22, which is naturally supposed to take place afterwards (if anything, because it is part of a story arc that comes after the "year of the bastard" arc), Spider gives Mary the camera, and the dialogue (p.16), though more allusive than anything else, does not make sense if it is not about Vita's assassination (at least, I can't make any sense out of it without that in mind : what would "little vendetta", "gathering evidence" mean at a point in the story prior #18 ?). Mary does not reappear until #57, where she gives Spider a photo she is supposed to have taken quite some time before Vita was killed. Not mentioning the deus ex machina dimension of that event, which is not relevant here, it quite strongly indicates some kind of continuity break. I think, if it is established as a subject worthy of dealing with in the article (which it might not be), that it would be fair to mention both the ambiguity of the chronology and the number of elements that indicate a an error. Sorry if this was a little too long...129.199.159.148 (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Channon Yarrow's nipples changing from bar codes to normal is not a continuity error. Just because the authors don't venture down a completely inane and irrelevant sideline does not make it a continuity error. Put down the comic and get some fresh air if you think it's that important to list in the article. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
 * Especially considering radical body surgery is -canon- in this comics (re: the woman who became a dolphin for a while, it made Spider happy. Awww.). Lots42 (talk) 14:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Channon only had barcodes for nipples in one of the "versions" of her, I'm not sure if it was the feature film version or the porn movie version. The real her never had barcodes... Jacobshaven3 (talk) 00:01, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, no. In her first regular appereance in the comics, she had the bar codes. Lots42 (talk) 02:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Actual volume when that's shown? I can only recall in "The New Scum" the "filthy assistants" throwing a party in Spider's penthouse during the election night, Channon wears a white dress with a triangular cut-out at her breast showing a regular nipple. Sharpfang (talk) 09:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Citation dump
Remind me later to add these to the article: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  *  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *m/?page=article&id=13372 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *ISBN 0312275447 *ISBN 1844110044 *ISBN 1900486261 *ISBN 0595299237 *ISBN 0595289436 *ISBN 1840238089 Skomorokh 16:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Politics and Trivia.
I deleted the 'Politics and Trivia' section for multiple reasons. Mainly because it was literally mostly guesswork and random observations. Clever ones, mind you, but all original research. Suitable for a LiveJournal or weblog but not Wikipedia. But the most important reason I deleted it was because it compared real people to murderous insane psychotic people. This, quite simply, cannot be allowed on Wikipedia and is, in fact, not. You can't compare real people to fictional bad guys. Just not allowed. Lots42 (talk) 14:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

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District 9 movie plagiarizing Transmetropolitan?
Is the plot to Peter Jackson's and Neill Blomkamp's movie "District 9" suspiciously reminiscent of the Greys in "Angels 8"? --Eldin raigmore (talk) 21:28, 19 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldin raigmore (talk • contribs) 00:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No, it's really not. Not by a long shot.  Nutiketaiel (talk) 11:51, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Transmetropolitan story arc seperate article
I think we need a separate List of Transmetropolitan story arcs article. With this new article, we could clean up the main article by shortening the plot synopsis section and cleaning up collected edition section with currently include the back cover summaries from the trades.--Marcus Brute (talk) 00:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * That doesn't really seem necessary to me. The article in its current form doesn't seem cluttered, and a list of story arcs would be pretty much all plot by its very nature.  Nutiketaiel (talk) 17:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Plot
The plot section is crammed with run-on sentences. Also, I think it's noteable to somehow mention that Spider's weird glasses were because his A.I. 'maker' was screwed up on mechanical-drugs. I'd do all this myself but my computer is running wild. This comment serves double duty as a test message. Lots42 (talk) 10:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Political Classification
I don't know much about Wikipedia, so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the way things are classified here, but I was a little surprised to find the City described as "liberal." It seems to me it's liberal on social policy and conservative on civil liberties and economic policy. Any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.153.254 (talk) 18:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Absolute Edition
It may be worth adding that the first absolute edition is released containing the first 3 TPBs. 87.173.245.49 (talk) 13:44, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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Sherwood railway station, Perth

Sherwood railway station (officially Sherwood Station and previously known as Kingsley Station) is a suburban railway station in Armadale, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is on the Armadale line which is part of the Transperth network, and is 28.6 km southwest of Perth station and 1.8 km north of Armadale station. The station opened in 1973 as Kingsley, but was renamed to Sherwood in 1993. It consists of two side platforms with a pedestrian level crossing. It is not fully accessible due to steep ramps, wide gaps at the pedestrian level crossing, and wide gaps between the platform and train. Services are operated by Transperth Train Operations, a division of the state government's Public Transport Authority. Peak services reach seven trains per hour in each direction, whilst off-peak services are four trains per hour.

Description
Sherwood station is along the South Western Railway, which links Perth to Bunbury. The northern 30.4 km of this railway, between Perth and Armadale, is used by Armadale line suburban rail services as part of the Transperth network. The line and the station are owned by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), an agency of the Government of Western Australia. Sherwood station is located between Challis station to the north and Armadale station to the south, within the suburb of Armadale. The station is between Streich Avenue to the east and Railway Avenue to the west, 28.6 km, or a 32-minute train journey, from Perth station, and 1.8 km, or a 3-minute train journey, from Armadale station. This places the station in Transperth fare zone three.

Sherwood station consists of two side platforms which are approximately 100 m long, enough for a four-car train but not a six-car train. The only way to cross the tracks is at a pedestrian level crossing at the southern end of the station. There is a car park on both sides of the station, with a total of 47 bays. Sherwood station is not fully accessible due to the ramps to the platforms being too steep, the pedestrian crossing containing 75 mm gaps, and the platform gap being as much as 130 mm.

History
With the 1970 Corridor Plan for Perth, new areas between Armadale and Kelmscott were opened up for development. The Armadale–Kelmscott Shire Council began lobbying the state government for new stations within the large gap between Armadale and Kelmscott stations. Plans were completed by May 1973 for two new stations, with construction commencing soon afterwards. Sherwood station opened later that year, as did the adjacent Challis station. Sherwood was originally named Kingsley station after the nearby Kingsley Primary School. It was renamed on 27 July 1989 to avoid confusion with Kingsley in the northern suburbs of Perth. The name "Sherwood" comes from a nearby housing estate developed in the early 20th century. In 1982–83, shelters were built at the station.

Services
Sherwood station is served by Armadale line services operated by Transperth Train Operations, a division of the PTA. The line goes between Perth station and Armadale station. Armadale line services reach seven trains per hour during peak, dropping to four trains per hour between peaks. At night, there are two trains per hour, dropping to one train per hour in the early hours of the morning. Apart from at night and on Sundays/public holidays, most train services follow the "C" stopping pattern, which skips Burswood, Victoria Park, Carlisle, Welshpool and Queens Park stations. There are also two "B" stopping pattern services which run during the afternoon Armadale-bound. Those services are the same as the "C" pattern except they stop at Queens Park. Starting at night, trains stop at all stations. On Sundays and public holidays, half of all trains are "C" pattern trains and half are all stops trains.

On Railway Avenue is a pair of bus stops for route 907, the rail replacement bus service.

In the 2013–14 financial year, Sherwood station had 136,158 boardings. The City of Armadale rezoned nearby land for higher densities in the late 2010s, with the goal of increasing patronage.

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Blaise Hamlet

Blaise Hamlet is a group of nine small cottages around a green in Henbury, now a district in the north of Bristol, England. All the cottages, and the sundial on the green are Grade I listed buildings. Along with Blaise Castle the Hamlet is listed, Grade II*, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. Nikolaus Pevsner described Blaise Hamlet as "the ne plus ultra of picturesque layout and design".

Blaise Hamlet was built around 1811 for retired employees of Quaker banker and philanthropist John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House.

The hamlet was designed by John Nash, master of the Picturesque style. He had worked for Harford on other buildings. The hamlet is the first fully realised exemplar of the garden suburb and laid out the road map for virtually all garden suburbs that followed. The cottages are all unique and include brick chimneys and dormer windows with some having thatched roofs. They are examples of the Picturesque style, an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin. An oval path links the cottages and encircles the village green with its sundial. The cottage gardens are planted in a Victorian cottage garden style.

Since 1943 the cottages have been owned by the National Trust. They are still occupied and not open to the public, but the ensemble may be viewed from the green. Rose Cottage is let by the National Trust as a holiday cottage.

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Johan Kenkhuis

Johan Kenkhuis (born 7 May 1980 in Vriezenveen, Overijssel) is an Olympic medal winning Dutch swimmer.

From a young age, Kenkhuis had a strong interest in swimming. In 1998, he won gold medals in both the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events in the European Junior Championships. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Johan was a member of the bronze medal 4×200 meter freestyle relay team. He also helped the Netherlands win a silver medal at the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in 2001 as a member of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay team.

However, by 2002, he was growing tired of the sport and close to retirement. His coach, Fedor Hes, helped him develop a different training strategy which involved spending more time on dry land. Seemingly invigorated by the new training style, Johan quickly progressed enough to win fourth place at the 50 meter freestyle event in the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. He finished only 0.01 seconds behind the bronze medalist.

In the 2004 Olympic Games, Johan was a member of the Dutch Olympic swim team. As the starting swimmer in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, alongside Pieter van den Hoogenband, Mitja Zastrow, and Klaas-Erik Zwering he played a critical role in securing a silver medal in the event.

Kenkhuis is currently living in Amsterdam where he is a member of De Dolfijn SPAX swim club but trains with XLence Swimteam. He is a Business and Marketing major at the Johan Cruyff University in Amsterdam.

Kenkhuis was one of only eleven openly gay athletes to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In November 2006 he announced that he would quit swimming on the highest level after the 2006 European Championships Short Course in Helsinki, Finland.

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Paul Thorlakson

Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson, (October 5, 1895 – October 19, 1989) was a Canadian physician and Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

Paul Thorlaksonwas born in Park River, North Dakota and grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba. He was the third child of the Reverend Neils Steingrimur Thorlákson (1857-1943), who was an immigrant from Iceland and Erika Christopha Rynning (1860-1947), who was born  in Norway. He father was a minister in the Lutheran Church who served the congregations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba.

During World War I he was a medical sergeant. After the war he received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1919. He subsequently undertook his post-graduate studies in surgery in London, England. He co-founded the Maclean-Thorlakson clinic, renamed the Winnipeg Clinic in 1938, one of the earliest multi-speciality private group practice clinics in Canada. He was surgeon-in-chief at the Winnipeg General Hospital and professor of surgery at the University of Manitoba. In 1969 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Thorlakson served three terms as chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He also became a governor of the American College of Surgeons. In 1974, he was the official representative of the Government of Canada to the celebrations marking the 1100th anniversary of the settlement of Iceland.

Honours

 * In 1939 he was named Knight of the Order of the Falcon and was promoted to Commander in 1951.
 * He received honorary doctorates from the University of Manitoba (1952), University of Iceland (1961), Brandon University (1970), and University of Winnipeg (1979).
 * In 1970 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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Delta Flight 5191
Hi Jomi, I merged the articles we both started at the same time into Delta Flight 5191. I hope that's ok with you. All the best, MikeZ 13:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point about the consistency in naming the articles. I support your admin request of a page move from Delta Flight 5191 to Delta Air Lines Flight 5191. MikeZ 13:12, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I asked Firefox to do the page move :-). Cheers, MikeZ 13:29, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Super Game Boy

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I removed the comment about the Wideboy being cased in "smoked plexiglass" - for starters that link said it was opaque (i.e. solid-coloured), it could be any variety of plastic, different revisions of the Wideboy could have been cased in different materials, and honestly I don't think it's all that important - it seems out of place in such an article. --Zilog Jones 16:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Deleting "The Super Game Boy was favored by software developers and testers because they could use a larger television screen while working, instead of the small Game Boy screen." Cant believe developers used the device itself, instead of a PC based environment.

 * Actually, I think you've misunderstood this, and it would probably be more correct to reinstate it. In the late 80s / early 90s, it's quite likely they would have used a combination system - the coding, of course, was done using a cross-compiler on a PC or Mac, or maybe a PC-88, MSX or X68000, but to playtest you would have had to transfer the code to a cartridge inserted in an actual gameboy (either a RAM cart with a serial cable connected to the dev machine, or burning it to an EEPROM cart) and try it on the actual hardware. I doubt there was anything even vaguely resembling an effective GB emulator on any system that early; the oldest Z80-machine emus I know of are one for the ZX80 and ZX81 on the Atari ST (early 90s) and for the Sinclair Spectrum on the PC (around 1994 or so), so even if they were modified for Gameboy emulation they would have come far too late. Plugging it into a SGB, however, even if you only had a little 12" black and white portable, would have made the testing process a lot easier on the eyes, less reliant on lighting conditions, and allowed you to spot/hear graphical/audio errors much more easily - as well as providing a more reliable connection if you were using a cable-download setup... and it wouldn't even have been particularly expensive. 31.185.235.109 (talk) 16:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Super Game Boy Controller
Believe it or not, there is actually a controller designed especially for the Super Game Boy. I saw a picture of it in the March 2006 issue of Tips & Tricks. Does anyone else know about this controller and where I can get a picture of it? (Plainnym 18:03, 16 June 2006 (UTC))

Picture
A picture of a game of screen would be nice (Gnevin 16:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC))

What SGB Games?
I see this on the page but it doesn't tell, is there a list of specific games that won't allow you to change the color or border?

 * Donkey Kong Land 2 for example, won't allow color scheme change. The color scheme button will be dimmed. Game & Watch Gallery 3 won't allow border change.

Controls
What are the controls to play a game on the Super Game Boy compared to the Game Boy's controls? --PJ Pete
 * DPad, Y, B, Start, and Select for the actual game; although you can change the control scheme. L+R for Super Gameboy options.  --Notmyhandle 05:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The default is B and A instead of Y and B. I find that rather silly. --Libertyernie2 18:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Save Game Issues
I dont know if this is a widespread issue, so I'm not adding a section to the article about it. But in my experience using two different SGBs, they ALWAYS erase saved games when you save, although they load them fine. I lost quite a bit of Zelda data this way. I have never gotten an SGB to save without wiping that save from the memory instead.75.7.206.9 04:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * That's unfourtanate :( but I've used my SGB to save on Zelda DX, so I think it's fine. Libertyernie2 16:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Strange. I've never had this happen in my years of using SGB with various saving games, so I'm not sure what happened in your case. ::Travis Evans 08:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Super Game Boy 2 and Game Boy Color
I'm pretty much convinced that SGB2 runs GBC games fine (in GBC, not GB or SGB mode). If there's anyone who can, please confirm this, so the page can be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippy Tesla (talk • contribs) 21:34, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I deleted that part. I made sure that people knew to provide sources. Redjedia (talk) 00:40, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Article Notes
Don't care to edit the article myself, per WP:NOR and WP:COI. I've successfully emulated the Super Game Boy, and I believe that can be used to improve this article.

1. "as well as the ability to display special background sprites on the screen as seen in the Mario's Picross title screen"

Mario's Picross does not make use of the OBJ_TRN command to place special sprites onscreen. It is using standard sprites, along with custom palette colors, and a specially drawn border to make it look like it's one big sprite. I can tell this by observing the commands it transmits in real-time. I do not know of a game that uses OBJ_TRN at this time.

2. "The Super Game Boy plays the audio for games, and the program of the games, about 4% faster than the original hardware."

It is 2.4% faster. The Game Boy clock rate is 4194304hz, and the SNES clock rate is 21477272hz. The Super Game Boy uses the SNES rate divided by five, or 4295454hz. 4295454 / 4194304 = 2.4%. This is for NTSC. We aren't 100% on the SNES PAL clock, but it is assumed to be roughly 21281370hz, making it run 1.477% faster.
 * Presumably this is the system master clock, not the bus or CPU clock, as I don't ever recall those parts being rated as operating at 21.3Mhz ... the SNES CPU is somewhat closer to 2MHz IIRC...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.185.235.109 (talk) 16:24, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

3. "One of the flaws is the system's inability to change borders in some games which have built in borders."

I'm not confirming nor denying this, but a citation of games this affects would help.

4. "The system menu is accessed by pressing the L and R buttons at the same time"

You can also access it with a mouse by clicking both left and right buttons at the same time. This allows you to draw on the screen and such much easier.

5. Off-topic vibe

I don't see why this article goes into such detail about the Wide Boy, Game Boy Player, GB Hunter, etc. Shouldn't these be discussed in their own articles?

6. Screenshots

The screenshots appear to be taken from a hacked Super Game Boy BIOS image. They are notably missing the Nintendo logo, and it's not even possible to access the SGB menu at that point; plus the DQM picture has no in-game video. It might be nice to take some new screenshots now that the device is properly emulated. Perhaps showing off the SGB enhancements in the likes of Space Invaders (custom SNES game), Bomberman 2 (4-player mode with the SNES multitap), something with the menu open while playing a game, etc.

7. "I'm pretty much convinced that SGB2 runs GBC games fine (in GBC, not GB or SGB mode). If there's anyone who can, please confirm this, so the page can be changed."

This is definitely not true. The entire SGB BIOS design can only accommodate 4-color, 2-bpp tiledata. And that says nothing of all the extra hardware available only in Game Boy Color hardware. Many CGB games will work in monochrome mode, but that is it.

Anyway, just my notes. Hope this is helpful. Byuusan (talk) 21:41, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Dubious statement about how the colourising worked
There's a bit in there about how the background (and sprite?) colours were simply overlaid on the image and didn't "move with the background". Whilst I have no way to prove that this is patent nonsense at the moment, I still think it's highly unlikely, and so have left it in place but tagged with a "dubious" superscript.

My understanding of how it worked was that it took advantage of how the GB graphics system was a derivative of that in the NES (as is that of the SNES), i.e. instead of simply using each 2-bit code for a background or sprite pixel to directly assign a shade out of the four available, it still indexed into a changeable palette, with each of the 3 (sprite) or 4 (BG) entries for the palettes being assigned a 2-bit intensity. Thus you could have simple palette-rotating effects with very little bus traffic, and sprites with different tonal ranges even though they could only show three simultaneous shades each. Instead of the multiple BG palettes and several sprite palettes on the NES, the GB only had one for the BG and two for sprites - hence a max of 12 colours overall (with non-transparent sprites), and only really 10 in practice (4+3+3)... which would all be taken from the standard four greys on the actual GB, but on both the SGB and GBC each of the 10-12 entries could have any colour assigned from these machines' 32768-colour master palettes.

Naturally, this would mean that the colours would move with a scrolling background, but there'd be a very limited range of colours for both the background and the sprites, with a single set of 4 for the BG (with each brightness level having a single colour, unless some very clever hijacking took place such as changing the palette halfway down the screen) and e.g. any "dark" and any "light" toned sprites having to share their colours with any others of the same type on the screen, and sprites that would otherwise have been disguised against the background at first on the GB rather more obvious when colourised. This might be where the confusion comes from...?

(FWIW, GBC-enhanced games have a greater set of palettes but still all 2-bit only, so they have a total colour choice similar to that of the NES (~25 simultaneous colours) but with a larger master palette, though some would still have basically been a regular GB game with a built-in GBC palette (so still 10-12 total); GBC-only ones extend this to have more colourful sprites and BG tiles with upto 15 or 16 colours each for a much richer, near-SNES appearance, and hence the limit of 56 colours overall... I think. Erm. That or they have more colourful backgrounds only plus even more sprite palettes allowing them to take advantage of the NES trick of overlaying two 3-colour sprites for a 6-or 7-colour result (with more simultaneous sprites), along with making use of the higher clock speed and extra memory, which altogether prevents easy B&W GB compatibility... I'd have to go and read the actual GBC article again to be sure ;) 31.185.235.109 (talk) 16:47, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * In any event, the statement was unsourced so I removed it czar  16:55, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

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Go-Back-N ARQ

Go-Back-N ARQ is a specific instance of the automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol, in which the sending process continues to send a number of frames specified by a window size even without receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) packet from the receiver. It is a special case of the general sliding window protocol with the transmit window size of N and receive window size of 1. It can transmit N frames to the peer before requiring an ACK.

The receiver process keeps track of the sequence number of the next frame it expects to receive. It will discard any frame that does not have the exact sequence number it expects (either a duplicate frame it already acknowledged, or an out-of-order frame it expects to receive later) and will send an ACK for the last correct in-order frame. Once the sender has sent all of the frames in its window, it will detect that all of the frames since the first lost frame are outstanding, and will go back to the sequence number of the last ACK it received from the receiver process and fill its window starting with that frame and continue the process over again.

Go-Back-N ARQ is a more efficient use of a connection than Stop-and-wait ARQ, since unlike waiting for an acknowledgement for each packet, the connection is still being utilized as packets are being sent. In other words, during the time that would otherwise be spent waiting, more packets are being sent. However, this method also results in sending frames multiple times – if any frame was lost or damaged, or the ACK acknowledging them was lost or damaged, then that frame and all following frames in the send window (even if they were received without error) will be re-sent. To avoid this, Selective Repeat ARQ can be used.

Pseudocode
These examples assume an infinite number of sequence and request numbers. N := window size Rn := request number Sn := sequence number Sb := sequence base Sm := sequence max function receiver is Rn := 0 Do the following forever: if the packet received = Rn and the packet is error free then Accept the packet and send it to a higher layer Rn := Rn + 1 else Refuse packet Send a Request for Rn function sender is Sb := 0 Sm := N + 1 Repeat the following steps forever: if you receive a request number where Rn > Sb then Sm := (Sm − Sb) + Rn Sb := Rn if no packet is in transmission then Transmit a packet where Sb ≤ Sn ≤ Sm. Packets are transmitted in order.

Choosing a window size (N)
There are a few things to keep in mind when choosing a value for N:

 * 1) The sender must not transmit too fast. N should be bounded by the receiver’s ability to process packets.
 * 2) N must be smaller than the number of sequence numbers (if they are numbered from zero to N)  to verify transmission in cases of any packet (any data or ACK packet) being dropped.
 * 3) Given the bounds presented in (1) and (2), choose N to be the largest number possible.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Zulauf

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 15:03, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Will Zulauf
Non-notable, vanity. 156.63.101.132 has been creating multiple pages about nobodies from Ohio that either contain little information or are derogatory. Tufflaw 16:56, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Is that a vote, Tufflaw?
 * Delete - Yes, sorry - I'm the who started the vfd, thought it was assumed the first person is in favor of deletion. Tufflaw 18:52, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

actually they are featured in a magazine.
 * Delete nonnotable.  —msh210 18:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Jayjg (talk) 22:48, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 07:52, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - possible vanity. Maybe I'm wrong, but kids who like to play Baseball in High School just don't seem that Notable. --Irishpunktom\talk 14:38, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
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