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User talk:Vfp15/Archive001

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Category:Psychiatrists
Hey there,

> your note on fictional psychiatrists being removed from Category:Psychiatrists

Sounds reasonable to me, thanks for doing the editing. - Vaughan 08:16, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Napoleon
I've reinstated my piece about delusions of grandeur and Bill & Ted's at Napoleon I of France. You gave no reason for removing the text, but you imply that it is POV. It isn't, since it is perfectly true to say that a great number of comedy sketches have revolved around a character who is supposedly mad and this is illustrated by the fact that they think they are Napoleon.

The Bill & Ted bit is harmless and perfectly true.

Perhaps you can explain why these facts are not relevant to a section of the article about his portrayal in popular culture (a heading, by the way, I did not insert into the article, but which directly led to me recalling those tidbits). --bodnotbod 17:21, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

 * I am currently reading through Dispute_resolution because 1) You reverted my first edits without discussion. 2) You reneged on your claim that you would ask for the opinion of others regarding the Popular Culture section.  The first thing we should agree is not to change the content any further whilst we get a third party involved.  So, for now, the new article stands and I will not revert the changes, though you have shown you would be incapable of such a courtesy.  Please also revisit Talk:Napoleon_I_of_France which should explain why I am currently very angry. --bodnotbod 01:51, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * "As far as courtesy is concerned (your comment on my talk page) well, please note that you also reverted my edit without discussion,"

 * Your terminology is lax. A revert has a very specific meaning relating to the use of the history page.  However, I'll let that slide.  You object to my putting the content you deleted back without discussion.  Firstly that is justified, since didn't explain why it is POV.  Secondly I explained my reason for reinstating it in my edit summary.

 * and more importantly you amplified it:

 * No. What I did was to back up my statement with references and examples in order to mollify you.  The fact that this served to annoy you demonstrates that it is you that has a POV.  You are unwilling to accept any content that might appear to tarnish the Napoleonic name or that you feel trivialises him.

 * Your anger should more readily be directed at those who make the films, write the fiction that depict Napoleon in ways that you find unacceptable or trivialising. Not me who merely documents it.

 * I repeat again: it was not I who added the Popular culture heading - I merely saw it there and documented things that fit perfectly well under that heading. It became amplified (as you erroneously put it) because you clearly wouldn't accept my broad comment, and this is why I then cited a number of examples.

 * As for the Bill & Ted, I have no idea why it should irk you so much. Artistically it is a minor film, however it was a very popular film and hence good reason to include it under that heading.

 * "I showed you the courtesy of keeping all your text in the separate article, and that I qualified the link using your words "as a by-word for mental ill health" even though I strongly feel it is inappropriate."

 * Yes, I am very appreciative of that. Thank you.  Anyway, as I state on the article talk page I intend to try and draft a solution which I hope we can agree on and if not we'll put it to the community via Requests_for_comment.  In the meantime I shall not edit the Napoleon article nor the Popular culture article.  I ask that you leave the popular culture article alone in the meantime, I have no reason to object to you editing the main article save to ask that you not remove the link to Nap in Popular culture.  Regards, --bodnotbod 14:56, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Apostrophes
Did you notice that I changed Copps' to Copps's in several places today, or it an amazing coincidence that you ask me about this today?

The recommendation to add only an apostrophe to singular nouns that end with s seems to be dying out: I know of no major style guide that still uses it. I see this as a good thing for two reasons: (1) it makes the rule simpler and easier to follow. (2) It makes spelling match pronunciation better. Everybody says boss's "bossiz", so it's good that the spelling shows the second syllable. It is true that some people pronounce the possessive of names like Flanders the same as non-possessive form, but for the plural, there is no option: it has to be Flanderses. If you can add a syllable for the plural, why not add one for the possessive? Flanders's sounds OK to me.--Indefatigable 01:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I happened to notice this discussion of apostrophes. If you guys don't mind a comment from a non-Canadian interloper, you might be interested to know that I raised the point a while back.  You can read several users' opinions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 6. JamesMLane 11:56, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Question re Axis of Evil discussions
Reply

I replied to you here [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 08:53, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Other questions  How were you able to determine the "google hits"? Simply by counting the returns on a google search? [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 09:06, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The "read this" is part of my tag - I always post it and have been for several days - I am trying to drum up support to make Neutrality change his name. Your name is fine. [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 09:15, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * The sentence you refer to does not say what you suggest it does, please re-read it: "Those Medieval European leaders who did have a form of faith (and you cannot posibly say thay all uniformly did), if they were Christians, were for the most part Roman Catholics of a much different ilk than others of today."
 * [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 15:09, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Axis of Medieval / Axis of Evil
Fair warning: If you do not stop the incessant POV reverts towards anti-Christian bigotry, I am going to file an Rfc and if needed an Arb case against you. 07:03, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Please read these:

 * http://www.fact-index.com/a/ax/axis_of_medieval.html
 * http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,959059,00.html
 * http://www.theagitator.com/archives/004291.php
 * http://www.valleyskeptic.com/Bush_vs__Women.htm

 * The usage you claim is non-existant or at the very least, not definative. I oppose it in the strongest terms.

 * [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 [[Image:Happyjoe.jpg]] ]] 07:11, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Well, be my guest Rex. I'm not going to waste my time reading the links. That would be like arguing like a flat earther and having to read his literature. The comment you keep reverting is a briefly described item in a list. Your description is inaccurate, mine is accurate. It seems reality offends you. Vincent 07:17, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * What facts can you offer to support your contention of accuracy? I'd like to see them. And I do mean facts, not rationales or arguments as you have offered so far. As for "waste of time" - are you accusing me of bad faith? If not, they you owe this Wiki the requisite time needed to dialog this to a workable conclusion. Either that, or stop reverting me. The choice is yours. [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 [[Image:Happyjoe.jpg]] ]] 07:23, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There were no conservatives in the middle ages, no? As for religious bigotry, I'm a tolerant guy, but you are bugging me man! What do you know if my religious views? What do you know of how I relate to God and Creation?

If anyone is guilty is of religious bigotry, or prejudice, it's you for presuming to understand (and invalidate?) my religious views. President's Bush views on religion are clear and unambiguous, and they do influence his government policy. He would enthusiastically agree with that, yes? That's the AoM joke, that's accurate. AoM does NOT refer to GWB's conservatism.

Kindly not accuse me of religious bigotry again.

Vincent 07:32, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I refer only to your edit, which is clearly intended to offend against GWB on the basis of his faith. This, combined with your unsubstantiated and unsupported claim that your take that term is actually the "right" one, makes me think you are quick to accept a nebulous quip as a chance to assualt a man's reputation (GWB's) because of his faith. That sure sounds like bigotry to me. Perhaps it's not. But if not, why are you so hell-bent to get you version in there? I have accomodated and melded with the group on every other point at issue there. Where is your sense of proportion - why not simply back off and leave it be? [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 [[Image:Happyjoe.jpg]] ]] 07:39, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

CPR
Thanks for the comments on Onderdonk. I have been researching the construction of the CPR in British Columbia in the 1880s, and especially Onderdonk's construction from the west, for a number of years and so most of the article is based on my notes (see my website). The best resource I have found is a website by the Kamloops Art Gallery which is unfortunately offline. I emailed them a few weeks ago and they plan on putting the Onderdonk material back online, at which time I will add a link to it from the Onderdonk article.

 * Regard Rogers, I did not know there was a second photo. If it can be found, it would be good to somehow incorporate it into the Craigellachie article.  "A.B." stands for "Albert Bowman".  I'm pretty sure I read this many years ago in the 'Canadian Encyclopedia'.  I have never heard of him referred to by anything other than "A.B." though.  Just to be confusing, Rogers was usually accompanied in his explorations by his nephew, an "A.L. Rogers" - I think that the "A" also stands for "Albert" but I do not know about the "L".  Al guy 12:25, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * Regarding Berton's book, I don't own a copy of the 'Last Spike' book and therefore haven't read it since I started my research project but perhaps I will go find a copy at the library. Do you know the title/author of the Van Horne biography? Al guy 16:27, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

Darwin vote / Infobox
Per this edit, I'd ask you to remove any names from the tally that have not specifically signed up for that vote. It can be seen as a bit deceptive. Thanks -- Netoholic @ 04:01, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)

 * It's certainly no problem. I've found it's best to contact the people directly, so they can add their signature.  -- Netoholic @ 04:14, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)

 * You can probably bring it up at Template talk:Infobox Biography. -- Netoholic @ 04:30, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)

Hang in there... experiences in VfD...
Thanks for your listing of Engrish on VfD, and your extreme good grace in the discussion that followed.

Unfortunately VfD can be a bit of a lynch mob, as we have seen here. Perhaps a suitable apology will some day be forthcoming but I doubt it. Do you mind if I quote this discussion as a good example of how good Wikipedians can behave badly, as soon as the dust settles?

The listing was perfectly valid IMO. But that is almost irrelevant to the main points I'd like to make.

Feel free to reply by email if you like, andrewa @ alder. ws (without the blanks of course). Andrewa 20:08, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

To avoid people voting before you get the chance to write up your case, next time, you may want to create the VFD sub-page before listing it on the VFD page. (Follow the red link on the vfd header when you add it to a page.) Pyrop 23:56, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't understand this suggestion. It seems to just be what the instructions already say, and what was done. It doesn't stop someone else following the red link before you do. If you follow the red link from preview, then there's an increased risk of edit conflict, and this doesn't seem to be the suggestion anyway. Am I missing something here?

 * But no matter how well we write the code and procedures, they won't replace goodwill or commonsense. Andrewa 20:35, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Add to the page to be listed on VfD.
 * Click on the red link in the vfd header on the page you just edited, and put your reasoning there.
 * THEN go and edit Votes for deletion to list the page there.
 * Pyrop 03:49, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Engrish
Sorry you took offense. I expect to see a clear rationale for deletion at the top of a VfD discussion, and I believe it's proper process to have one. There's nothing I know of that says you can't insert material in its logical place in a VfD discussion, and certainly the person who lists something for deletion could do so. I did read the paragraphs of chitchat at the top, and I did read your vote, and I frankly wasn't sure I saw a statement of a rationale for deletion. I specifically suggested that you put such a rationale at the top and remove my remark, and was slightly surprised that you didn't take me up on it.

It was perfectly proper for you to list the article for deletion. One lists things for deletion in order to bring it to the community's attention and see what the consensus is. The consensus in this case was to keep. I voted to keep, not because I think dialect jokes and the like are funny; I think the term is in fact mildly offensive. However, it is in widespread use and the article seemed reasonably correct. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:01, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No worries, Vincent. I certainly think it was legitimate of you to list the article, and feel strongly that you shouldn't have been pilloried for it. Never mind, you're obviously a good contributor, so I expect you won't let it get to you. Lacrimosus 11:16, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Your zone system edits
I appreciate your thoughts on the zone system. After a day's rest and a reread, I think I'll entirely remove the notion of Adams acknowledging that other systems would work. I left it in deference to another contributor, but upon reflection don't feel it adds much. (I don't recall his system being hugely controversial, and it feels more like a nonissue to me.) Have a look at my rewrite--I think the section is cleaner without it.

Too, I fleshed out the history. --NathanHawking 01:44, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

Zone system follow up
Hi Vincent:

Thanks for the message on my talk page. I addressed your concerns in considerable detail on my page, beneath your remarks. Please have a look and feel free to respond on my page. In particular, see what you think of my reasoning on the "dynamic range" issue and my suggestion for addressing it. --NathanHawking 07:14, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)

Kantei
Ahh, okay. I just guess you didn't know there was an article on Kantei, and that info should go there; and I would have moved it, but I couldn't find anything on it, and didn't want to do it without more info or a website reference. No problem. :) It was just like, if the article on the President of the United States had contained info about the small plane crashing into the White House a few years back; no, that belongs in White House. :) And cool, you live in Japan, I wanna. =p --Golbez 16:46, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Dorothy Malone
For some reason, you chose to make a minor change to my previous entry, and in doing so you made the sentence gramatically incorrect. Your use of the plural "roles" would be accurate only if it was followed by more than one example. Since I was describing just one, "a small but meatly role" is proper usage. Thanks. . . TOM 13:48, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

Farmers' market
On the Farmers' market page, you recently re-inserted two pictures, saying "Restored pics deleted by prev edit ...". I just wanted to point out that I didn't delete any pictures; they were simply moved to the Wiki-Commons. If you click the link to the commons at the lower-right of the page, all three pictures are present.

I think the two pictures should be removed from the Wikipedia article because the article looks crowded as it is right now. The pictures go down much further than the text. I believe one picture fully illustrates the concept enough for a short article, and the other two pictures would be best on the Commons. (They're certainly valuable pictures and should not be gotten rid of, but they should go in the most appropriate place.) Take a look at Notre Dame and Potala for other examples of articles with more pictures than article. Many of those pictures were moved to the commons just to simplify the look of the article.

Thanks! – Quadell (talk) (help)  13:47, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

 * I actually couldn't tell that your first post to me was sarcastic! Too subtle, I suppose. About the article itself: no problem.
 * So you're living in Japan? Why? How hospitable do you find the Japanese in general? I've never been to Asia at all, but I'd love to go. Do you know Japanese? Vpf15-san O-genki des, ka?
 * I respect you for your nuanced and un-pidgeon-holed political stances, although I disagree with you on several of them. You said: "Could this possibly mean that since he delivered a victory to the Republicans, he has earned the right to lead his party where he wants it to go, and could this possibly mean the return of compassionate in his initial compassionate conservative image of 2000? Time will tell." I doubt it, but I hope so. Here's to hoping!   – Quadell (talk) (help)   20:32, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Charles Darwin
Please do not violate the 3 revert rule. Go with the concensus on talk:Charles Darwin. I don't think it's appropriate - yet - to give you a 24hr ban for doing so, but it's a future possibility. Dunc|☺ 11:30, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your edits at;

 * 11:12, 17 Dec 2004 dif
 * 10:56, 17 Dec 2004 dif
 * 01:47, 17 Dec 2004 dif

violated the 3RR. In other instances you have reverted twice in 24hrs, but in total you have reverted this about a dozen times over the past week against consensus on the talk page. Please do not do it again (unless you achieve consensus on the talk page), or it will be considered vandalism. You and I both don't want to go there. see about staying cool when the editing gets hot. Dunc|☺ 15:05, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, the point of RfC was to let others take a look at it and make up their own minds. Which I think is appropriate. I don't think I characterized the situation unfairly, but you're entitled to your opinion about that. I didn't notice the Lincoln comment the first time I went through the article, I would have found it inappropriate then as well. But that's just my opinion. I do find it a bit irritating, as I have said, that you continually defy any sort of consensus in your more-or-less one-man war to keep a coincidence in a prominent spot, which is why I left a RfC in the first place. It is a silly thing to waste people's time on (I have stopped spending any of mind on it, aside from leaving the RfC, which seemed well overdue by that point). You need not take it as a personal attack, my only gripe is with your stubbornness on this particular issue. --Fastfission 18:23, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Left on User_talk:Duncharris
 * Mgm|(talk), the mediator, has unblocked me. You (i.e. Duncharris) abused your admin privileges yesterday, but I'll forgive you that in the interest of harmony. I (i.e. Vfp15) don't think the issue has reached arbitration, but I am preparing for that just in case you cut off my access again. I am keeping to three reverts a day. (Remember of course that my day starts at GMT+9.) I am keeping mostly civil. I am sorry for implying you and the others were among the "ignoramuses" of the world. Vincent 08:09, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Darwin & Lincoln
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born February 12th, 1809

Why is this important to you? Adraeus 00:17, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The summary on the talk page explains why (according to me) it should be left there (factual, a good time marker, good style, precedents abound, and 4000 google hits). Now, as to why I care, it's simple: Someone decided to take delete a true fact because of their POV that the mention ought to go, then others came in and virtually claimed ownership of the article. That's not wiki. Vincent 00:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Instead of promoting a statement that results in inferential conclusions—that is the nature of coincidences after all— why not write a statement that works as a factual "good time marker" without the inferential comparison of Darwin with Lincoln? I'm reasonably certain you are capable of so. Adraeus 00:29, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * At this point I'm pretty sure anything I add will get deleted if it mentions Lincoln :) Also, believe it or not, I don't think it's that relevant, which is why I like it included as an aside or in a trivia list. But, if anyone wants to write it up as an explicit time marker, power to them. Like I said, I'm open to compromise. Vincent 06:31, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Advocacy in Mediation
I've put myself into the mediation process as your advocate as we've agreed. Any question about the process or any information you've got, only send it to my talk page. --Neigel von Teighen 18:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image tag
Thanks for uploading Image:LeninSquarePetropavlovsk.jpg and Image:D0807I14-HarbourTour.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Evil Monkey → Talk 00:36, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Conrad Black
Hi! Agree with you about the CB article. Go for it. Caveat: this is ongoing news, so it's difficult to write a well-developed article. Perhaps limiting yourself to a chronology of events related to Hollinger. This would be factual and NPOV.

The article could be organized like this, for instance. (short intro) 1. Early life 2. Press career 3. Published works 4. Marriage to Barbara Amiel and social life 5. Hollinger chronology

You might want to examine different aspects of the man; he's fascinating. Got expelled from UCC (or LCC?) for selling essays to classmates. Black (an anglo!) wrote one of the best political bios of any French Canadian politician, "Duplessis". He (a right wing capitalist!) wrote perhaps the best single volume bio of FDR, in unabashed praise of the New Deal. He's also active on the social scenes attending lots of parties with the Rich and Famous. Infamously attended a costume party dressed as Cardinal Richelieu. People tend to avoid sitting next to him at dinner because he bores listeners with endless statistics on, say, the exact number of ships wrecked ashore when the Spanish Armada foundered in the 16th century. And then he names and descibes each ship. I'd consider doing it myself, but no time for the research.
 * Thanks for the encouragement. I was aware of the UCC incident, and the Duplessis and FDR biographies (indeed, the Hollinger's purchase of artifacts when Black was writing the FDR biography was part of the controversy!)  Definitely a colourful man. Revived 04:37, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Arbitration request
I do not think edit wars are fun; my edit summary was rather a bit of satire. Misplaced, I acknowledge, and I'd like to offer my sincere apologies if it offended you. If you wish the arbitration request against me to stand, for an official statement from the arbitration committe, that is fine with me since I admit having erred.

As for participating in reverting, I did so because my stance was supported by the overwhelming majority. When there is consensus in favor of one version, that version should be used until people have been convinced otherwise (regardless of who turns out to be right in the end). For the record, I have never participated in reverting over an issue where I am in a minority to support a particular version.

I hope we can cooperate without problems on other articles. Fredrik | talk 05:17, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Fredrik | talk 05:32, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Vincent, it looks as if your Request for arbitration will be rejected by the ArbCom. Can I ask why you only cited three users in your request?  To date, (working backwards) the fact has been reverted by User:Noisy, User:Jonathunder, User:Fredrik, User:Robert Pendray, User:Solipsist, User:Aaarrrggh, User:Duncharris, User:William M. Connolley, User:Mgekelly, User:GK, User:PxT.  That's eleven Wikipedians who don't think that it is appropriate to have it in the article.  The vote about inclusion is currently running at 20:5 (80%) against.

 * Why do you swim against the tide of the community? I'm sure that most people think you're a reasonable editor, but going against such an overwhelming vote just seems wrong.  Another pointer that most people think you are reasonable is that they are prepared to just sit there and revert you, rather than escalating things: in the end, you're the one that has tried to escalate this.

 * The fact - and everyone admits it's a fact - is ONLY a coincidence. You have made no attempt to forge any other links between Darwin and Lincoln, which might have helped your case.  If the two had met and established a friendship; were working in similar fields; or even just attended the same University, then there might be some justification for recording the link.  As it is, a coincidence is non-encyclopaedic, and will be removed.  Noisy | Talk 09:50, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

Reply
Factual and verifiable is a test for inclusion of articles, not for inclusion of trivia. By your criteria, an article on Charles Darwin would include his hat size. An encyclopedia article is not a list of every possible fact on a subject: it is an ordered presentation of the important facts about a subject presented in such a way as to facilitate understanding. Clearly the inclusion of unimportant coincidences degrades the quality of articles; clearly the majority of people who have encountered this particular bit of trivia agree that its inclusion detracts from the article. My suggestion is that you listen more carefully to what they are saying, rather than insisting on getting your way. - Nunh-huh 04:23, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Copy on commons
Hi, I copied on commons a pic from you (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VladivostokStation.jpg) just wanted to let you know it. Thanks Tipiac 22:41, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Charles Darwin
You have made your point on this article. There is no sense in doing 3 reverts a day, when your changes last in total for about an hour. Editing is not a test of stamina, talk about your compromise suggestion. --Mrfixter 13:01, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Three revert rule
Please keep in mind that the Wikipedia has a three revert rule. You have been blocked by an administrator for the violation of this rule. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:10, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I was not the one who blocked you, but this is according to the block log:
 * 19:50, 19 Jan 2005 Rhobite blocked "User:Vfp15" with an expiry time of 24 hours (3 revert rule on Charles Darwin)
 * 19:25, 19 Jan 2005 Mirv blocked "User:Vfp15" with an expiry time of 24 hours (3RR violation on Charles Darwin)

Also, the Charles Darwin article had been requested for protection at Requests for page protection.

If you feel your block was unjust, please ask the two administrators who blocked you. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration
Arbitration is being sought against you. See WP:RfAr. Adraeus 00:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening
You have been named as a disputant in the recently opened Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute case brought before the Arbitration Committee. You may wish to add evidence to Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute/Evidence to support your case. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 03:34, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case closed
The arbitration case concerning you has now closed. The Arbitration Committee has decided that you are to be banned for one month for failing to work cooperatively with other editors over a long period of time. On your return, you are banned from editing the articles Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and their talk pages. You are also prohibited from reverting any article for three months. Please see Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin-Lincoln dispute for the full decision -- sannse (talk)

On a separate note, I want to say that the decision to limit the article ban to these two specific articles does not mean that it is acceptable to insert this or similar facts elsewhere against such opposition from other editors - we just chose to keep this simple and rely on your understanding of how the committee viewed your editing practices -- sannse (talk) 14:46, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Userpage deleted
Vfp15 requested the deletion of his userpage via private e-mail. Since I saw no pressing need to keep it around, I complied with his request. If anyone wishes to confirm this, they should be able to contact him through e-mail. —Charles P. (Mirv) 07:56, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"List of notable U.S. presidential relatives"
Vfp,

Ron Reagan is an atheist and very much liberal. I have to admit I was pretty upset to see that you didn't so much as read the Wikipedia page on him before assuming that I had no evidence to back up that bit of information. Neither of these things are particularly scandalous, that's true, but they are notable since his father was one of the most conservative presidents in recent memory. Also according to his page on this site, he was a ballet dancer, and his father was apparently ashamed of that. I think if you examine the facts you'll see that my edit was valid and not politically motivated. I don't mind you questioning my edits, but I feel, since I used information from Ron's own Wikipedia page, that had little or no thought before undoing my change, which I don't so much appreciate.

Regards, --BDD 04:37, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Grey-headed bulbul

The grey-headed bulbul (Brachypodius priocephalus) is a member of the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats in south-western India, and found from Goa south to Tamil Nadu at altitudes up to 1200m. It is found in dense reeds or thickets mainly near rivers and swampy areas inside forests. They have a distinctive call that reveals their presence inside dense vegetation where they are hard to spot.

Taxonomy and systematics
The grey-headed bulbul was originally described by Thomas Jerdon under the name of Brachypus priocephalus. It was moved to Brachypodius poiocephalus by Edward Blyth, who erroneously "emended" the species epithet, with subsequent confusion in the literature. Formerly, some authorities placed this species within the genus Ixos and later Pycnonotus.

The genus Pycnonotus was found to be polyphyletic in recent molecular phylogeny studies and the species returned to Brachypodius.

The common name 'grey-headed bulbul' is also used as an alternate name for the yellow-bellied bulbul.

Description
This bulbul is resident in moist broad-leaved evergreen forest with bamboo and dense undergrowth. Its plumage is olive-green, with a medium-grey on the crown head, nape and throat. The forehead is yellow-green. The back and wings are olive-green becoming lighter towards the vent. The rump has yellowing green feathers edged in black giving a barred appearance. The flanks are dark and grey edged. The undertail coverts are grey. The beak is greenish and grey while the legs are pinkish yellow. The iris is distinctly bluish white. The tail is grey on the central feathers (the shaft being black), the outer ones are black and are broadly tipped with grey. Both sexes are similar but juveniles have the head dark olive with the yellow on the forehead duller. (Length 143-152mm; head 33-35mm; tail 74-77mm) The call is a sharp chraink. The call is distinct in having a single syllable unlike those of the core genus Pycnonotus members.

Behaviour and ecology
Found singly or in small groups, grey-headed bulbuls actively join mixed-species foraging flocks during the non-breeding season.

Breeding
Grey-headed bulbuls breed from January to June with a peak in April. The nest is a typical platform placed inside a low bush. They build their nest over a period of a week using vines, grasses or leaves. Many nests in a study in the Silent Valley National park were found to be made on saplings of Syzygium species or in reeds of Ochlandra travancorica. The typical clutch is one egg or sometimes two eggs that are incubated for 12 to 14 days. Eggs are sometimes destroyed and eaten by palm squirrels (Funambulus tristriatus). The eggs are pale pink to lavender and flecked in red, more densely on the broad end. Both parents take part in incubation and feeding. The nestlings leave the nest after 11 to 13 days.

Feeding
The diet consists mainly of fruits (>65%) and invertebrates (>30%). Fruits include those of Symplocos cochinchinensis, Antidesma menasu, Clerodendrum viscosum, Syzygium cumini, Litsea floribunda, Maesa indica, Callicarpa tomentosa, Leea indica and Lantana camara.

Other sources

 * Balakrishnan, Peroth (2007). Status, distribution and ecology of Grey-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus priocephalus in the Western Ghats, India. Ph.D. thesis. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

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User talk:Jesusman2005

Hello, Jesusman. It's always good to see new people on Wikipedia, but I would ask if you would please refrain from adding unencyclopedic images to our articles. Many thanks! – ClockworkSoul 13:24, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. Shanes 13:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:No blood for oil

This page is a redirect to Popular opposition to war on Iraq because of a VfD-debate which concluded that the article be merged. That debate is at Votes for deletion/No blood for oil. Prior to being a redirect the content was:

No blood for oil was a popular protest cry prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Sjakkalle 13:25, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was looking for something about the book titled No Blood For Oil by George Caffentzis. Should there be a disambiguation page. Both the book and author are of interest. 172.133.111.133 (talk) 17:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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Kate Nelligan

Patricia Colleen Nelligan (born March 16, 1950), known professionally as Kate Nelligan, is a Canadian stage, film and television actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1991 film The Prince of Tides, and the same year won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Frankie and Johnny. She is also a four-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, receiving nominations for Plenty (1983), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1984), Serious Money (1988) and Spoils of War (1989).

Early life
Nelligan, the fourth of six children, was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of Patrick Joseph Nelligan and his wife Josephine Alice (née Deir). Her father was a factory repairman and municipal employee in charge of ice rinks and recreational parks, and her mother was a schoolteacher.

Her mother, whom Nelligan has described as "very powerful, very brilliant and very, very crazy", suffered from alcohol abuse and other psychological problems, and was institutionalized. Nelligan attended London South Collegiate Institute in London, Ontario, where she went by “Trish”, and then studied at Glendon College in Toronto, but did not graduate. Instead, she switched to studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.

Career
In August 1972, Nelligan launched her professional stage career as a "funny and convincing" Corie in the Bristol Old Vic production of Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon. In the Bristol Old Vic studio space in the following April she took the role of Leila in The Screens, an abridgement by Howard Brenton of Jean Genet's savage Les Paravents. On television, she appeared in a regular role in the British television series The Onedin Line. In 1974, she was invited to London to play the part of Jenny in David Hare's play Knuckle at the Comedy Theatre, followed by a season with the National Theatre playing Ellie in Heartbreak House. 1975 saw her appear opposite Anthony Hopkins in the televised play The Arcata Promise followed by the televised theatrical version of The Count of Monte Cristo that featured an all-star cast of British and American actors. That same year her first feature-length film The Romantic Englishwoman was released.

In 1977, again with the National Theatre, Nelligan gave a "stunning" performance as Marianne, opposite Stephen Rea, in Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods directed by Maximilian Schell. Also in 1977, she played the part of Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by Trevor Nunn, opposite Peter McEnery in Stratford-upon-Avon and the following year in London. This she followed with Plenty, another play from David Hare, at the National Theatre, for which she received the 1978 "Best Actress" Evening Standard Theatre Award, with a runner-up position as "Best Actress in a New Play" in that season's Oliviers. She was cast in a similar role, playing opposite Bill Paterson, in Hare's BAFTA-award-winning companion play Licking Hitler, for BBC television.

Again on screen, in 1978 Nelligan played the part of Isabella in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure, a performance that led the New York Times to describe her as providing "the image of idealized faultlessness". In 1979, she was the female lead alongside Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier in Dracula. In 1981, she starred opposite fellow Canadian Donald Sutherland in Eye of the Needle, a wartime espionage thriller based on the Ken Follett best-selling novel. Two years later Nelligan moved to New York City, where she earned nominations for the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play three times and one Featured Actress in a Play between 1983 and 1989 for the five Broadway plays in which she appeared.

In 1991, Nelligan won a BAFTA for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for her performance in Frankie and Johnny. For her performance in the 1991 film The Prince of Tides she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Between 1987 and 2004, she was nominated for five Gemini Awards for her performances in Canadian television mini-series and films and won twice, both in 1993. In 1996, she played the wife of James Mink in the CBS television film Captive Heart: The James Mink Story.

Personal life
Nelligan and American composer Robert Reale married in 1989. Together they have a son. The couple divorced in 2000.

Broadway plays

 * Plenty (1983)
 * A Moon for the Misbegotten (1984)
 * Serious Money (1988)
 * Spoils of War by Michael Weller, Music Box Theatre New York (1988)
 * Love Letters (1989)
 * An American Daughter (1997)

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Dunsink Observatory

The Dunsink Observatory is an astronomical observatory established in 1785 in the townland of Dunsink in the outskirts of the city of Dublin, Ireland.

Dunsink's most famous director was William Rowan Hamilton, who, amongst other things, discovered quaternions, the first non-commutative algebra form, while walking from the observatory to the city with his wife. The annual Hamilton Walk that commemorates this discovery begins at the observatory. He is also renowned for his Hamiltonian formulation of dynamics.

History
The observatory was established by an endowment of £3,000 in the will of Francis Andrews, who was Provost of Trinity College Dublin at his death on 18 June 1774. The site was established on the south slope of a low hill in the townland of Dunsink, 84m above sea level. The South Telescope, a 12-inch Grubb instrument, is a refracting (i.e. it uses lens) telescope built by Thomas Grubb of Dublin and completed in 1868. The achromatic lens, with an aperture of 11.75 inches, was donated by Sir James South in 1862, who had purchased the lens from Cauchoix of Paris 30 years earlier. He had intended it for a large but troubled equatorial that came to fruition in the 1830s, but was dismantled around 1838. (See also Great refractors)

The entry for the observatory in Thom's Directory (1850) gives the following account of the observatory,

 * ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, DUNSINK
 * Astronomer Royal, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, A.M., LL.D.
 * Assistant Astronomer, Charles Thomson, esq.

This Observatory, endowed by Francis Andrews, esq., LL.D., Provost of Trinity College, and erected in 1785, was placed, by statute, in 1791, under the management of the "Royal Astronomer of Ireland," an appointment first filled by Dr. Henry Ussher, and subsequently by Dr. Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne.

The Institution is amply furnished with astronomical instruments, and is open to all persons interested in astronomical science, on introduction to the resident Assistant. It is situated in Lat. 53° 23' 13" N., Long. 6° 20' 15" W.

Dublin Mean Time, the official time in Ireland from 1880, was the local mean time at Dunsink, just as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at Greenwich Royal Observatory near London. In 1916, Ireland moved to GMT. In 1936, Trinity College stopped maintaining the observatory and rented out the land.

Éamon de Valera, who had driven the establishment of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) in 1940, added a School of Cosmic Physics to it in 1947, partly in order to revive the observatory, for which it was given responsibility.

The named chair Andrews Professorship of Astronomy was associated with the directorship of Dunsink Observatory during the time that the observatory was part of Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

By the late 20th century, the city encroached ever more on the observatory, which compromised the seeing. The telescope, no longer "state of the art", is now used mainly for public 'open nights'.

The observatory is currently part of the DIAS. It provides accommodation for visiting scientists and is also used for conferences and public outreach events. Public talks on astronomy and astrophysics are given regularly at the observatory by professional and amateur astronomers. Stargazing events are also held using the Grubb telescope.

In fiction
The observatory is one of the locations featured in the book, The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew Hughes, which was selected as the Dublin UNESCO City of Literature One City One Book for 2023.

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Tazobactam

Tazobactam is a pharmaceutical drug that inhibits the action of bacterial β-lactamases, especially those belonging to the SHV-1 and TEM groups. It is commonly used as its sodium salt, tazobactam sodium.

Tazobactam is combined with the extended spectrum β-lactam antibiotic piperacillin in the drug piperacillin/tazobactam, used in infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Tazobactam broadens the spectrum of piperacillin by making it effective against organisms that express β-lactamase and would normally degrade piperacillin.

Tazobactam was patented in 1982 and came into medical use in 1992.

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Talk:Wānaka

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Should we move Wanaka to Wanaka, New Zealand? In such a move, would all references to Wanaka be automatically adjusted by wikipedia, or would I have to edit all of them by hand (or set a redirect)? -- Yogi de 22:07, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Note Wanaka in New Zealand seems to be the only place called Wanaka - so there is no ambiguity so far. At the moment, no article (except for this talk page and one other merge candidates page) points to Wanaka, New Zealand - see --Yogi de 22:15, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Picture question
I have uploaded a picture which is larger than the one currently used in the article, and would like to check if it was okay to change it, or whether the current one is preferred. I reckon it's polite to ask first, as it would be a little rude to replace it with asking (will let the original picture owner too) Regards, MartinRe 21:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Confusion about climate
It makes no sense to say that "its Oceanic climate, ...enjoy a near continental climate". It is either Oceanic or Continental, cannot be both.Royalcourtier (talk) 05:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Name change
The name of the town was changed to "Wānaka" on 26 Aucust 2021 (link to NZ Gazetteer notice), and I've moved the article to follow Naming conventions (New Zealand). Some schools and other institutions may not chave changed their name yet, so we'll need to check before renaming other articles. Obviously historic usages of the name should stay as "Wanaka" to avoid anachronism. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:19, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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User:Doktorj

www.doktorj.ca (visionary artist/electronic music producer)

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Carl Engel

Carl Engel (July 21, 1883 – May 6, 1944 ) was a French-born American pianist, composer, musicologist and publisher from Paris. He was also president of G. Schirmer, Inc., a writer on music for The Musical Quarterly, and chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

Voice and Piano

 * Three Lyrics from the German; G. Saerchinger, 1906
 * We Met; W. Maxwell, 1907
 * Four Lyrics by C. Fabbri; G. Schirmer, 1908
 * Chansons intimes; G. Schirmer, 1910
 * Two Lyrics; G. Schirmer, 1911
 * Deux simples chansons; Boston Music Co., 1912
 * Trois epigrammes; G. Schirmer, 1914
 * Trois sonnets; G. Schirmer, 1914
 * Christmas Call; Boston Music Co., 1916
 * Three Songs; C. Fischer, 1917
 * We're In It: And We'll Win It; C. C. Birchard, 1918
 * The Never-Lonely Child; Boston Music Co., 1919
 * Three Poems of Amy Lowell; G. Schirmer, 1922

Violin and Piano

 * Chant Nuptial; C. Fischer, 1917
 * Triptych; Boston Music Co., 1920
 * Chanson frivole; G. Schirmer, 1922

Piano

 * Perfumes; C. Fischer, 1917
 * Presque valse; G. Schirmer, 1946

Choir

 * Dawn; C. C. Birchard, 1915
 * God Rest Our Glorious Land; C. C. Birchard, 1932
 * Lisette; Choudens, 1935
 * Charms of Love; Boston Music Co., 1939

Wind Band

 * For Honor and For Home; C. Fischer, 1917
 * Academic Processional March; G. Schirmer, 1938

Operetta

 * Way Down South in Dixie; C. C. Birchard, 1924

Works

 * "Alla breve, from Bach to Debussy" (New York: G. Schirmer, 1921) ISBN 0-8369-1919-X — short biographies of great composers

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Box art for Stationfall. Source: http://gallery.guetech.org, used with permission.

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Talk:Acid test (disambiguation)

Merge and cleanup questions
There doesn't seem to be anything on this page that's not on the Merry Pranksters page. We might as well just delete this one and get the "merge" notice off the other one. Brendan62442 13:37, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * With the consideration that this page is now a disambiguation page, and is also in conformance with the manual of style, I am removing the cleanup tag. Falcon 04:22, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The Acid Test Liquidity Ratio
Currently there is no active link for this. Could someone create a simple page explaining that acid test=(current assets - stock):current liabilities. Or alternatively can someone show me how to create a new page. Thanks. (Cssman)
 * Done already by me.User Talk:Cssman(October 2006)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Acid test (gold) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:18, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

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House of the People (Afghanistan)

The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga (دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders.

The House of Representatives of the People was the chamber that bore the greater burden of lawmaking in the country, as with the House of Commons in the Westminster model. It consisted of 250 delegates directly elected by single non-transferable vote. Members were elected by district and served for five years. The constitution guaranteed at least 68 delegates to be female. Kuchi nomads elect 10 representatives through a Single National Constituency.

The House of Representatives of the People had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president. The first elections in decades were held in September 2005, four years after the fall of the Taliban regime, still under international (mainly UN and NATO) supervision.

The 2010 Wolesi Jirga election was held on 18 September 2010 and the 2018 Wolesi Jirga election was held on 20 October 2018 after almost three years of delay The new Parliament was later inaugurated on 26 April 2019.

It was effectively dissolved when the Taliban seized power on 15 August 2021. The Taliban did not include the House of the People and several other agencies of the former government in its first national budget in May 2022. Government spokesman Innamullah Samangani said that due to the financial crisis, only active agencies were included in the budget, and the excluded ones had been dissolved, but noted they could be brought back "if needed".

Elections
Elections were last held on 20 October 2018. Originally, they had been scheduled for 15 October 2016, but were initially postponed to 7 July 2018, and then again to 20 October. The last Parliament was later sworn in by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on 26 April 2019. The last Parliament was also Afghanistan 17th Parliament. The same day final results from four Afghanistan provinces revealed, among other things, that House of the People former speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi of Kunduz had been re-elected to the House of the People as well.

Speakers
Speakers of the Wolesi Jirga since establishment of Parliamentary institutions in 1931.

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Corby Glen

Corby Glen is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately 9 mi south-east of Grantham and 8 mi north west of Bourne.

History
The Church of England parish church dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist dates in part from the 12th century and has a notable collection of 14th- and 15th-century murals.

Following the purchase of Irnham Hall by a Protestant family in the mid-19th century the Catholic Chapel of the hall was taken down and re-erected in Corby Glen as the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the designs of architects Weightman, Hadfield & Goldie. A thousand wagonloads of material were carried between the two sites. The new church opened in 1856. The church closed in 2012. The church and the attached presbytery are Grade II Listed buildings.

The village's first Methodist chapel was built in 1846, and replaced in 1902 by the present building which is still in use. The original chapel is now a private house.

To the north of the parish church is a substantial castle mound or motte. Historian David Roffe refers to it as "an early defended manor house".

In 1238 King Henry III chartered a weekly market and an annual sheep fair. The sheep fair is still held and is claimed to be the longest-established such event in Britain.

The Willoughby Memorial Library and Art Gallery is housed in a 17th-century building that was originally Reads Grammar School. The school was founded in 1669 by the bequest of Charles Read (1604–1669), who was born at Darlton in Nottinghamshire and became a wealthy shipper in Hull. Read also founded Read School at Drax in Yorkshire and a grammar school at Tuxford in Notts. Reads Grammar School in Corby closed in 1909. The building was restored and reopened for its current uses in 1965 by the Willoughby Memorial Trust which was founded by Lord Ancaster in memory of his son Timothy, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, who died in 1963. The gallery holds a series of exhibitions from Easter to November and an annual Open Art Competition.

In 1852 the Great Northern Railway opened the East Coast Main Line near Corby Glen. In 1853 the GNR opened Corby Glen railway station on the main line about 1 mile (1½ km) from the village. Corby Glen was served by local trains between Peterborough and Grantham. On 3 July 1938 the London and North Eastern Railway locomotive Mallard passed at high speed through Corby Glen shortly before achieving its world speed record for a steam locomotive seven miles further south near Carlby. British Railways closed Corby Glen station in 1959 and its yard is now occupied by a sawmill.

Geography
The village of Corby Glen is in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It lies mainly to the north of the A151, a former toll road, and to the east of the West Glen River, near where the Glen flows through a small graben in the Jurassic limestone.

Until the 1950s the name of the village was simply Corby. However, in the nearby county of Northamptonshire another Corby had been greatly enlarged by the addition of a steel works and housing to match. Some confusion arose between the two Corbys, so British Railways consulted the villagers to choose an additional name to distinguish the two. The villagers chose "Glen" in reference to the western branch of the River Glen which flows through the village.

Community
The ecclesiastical parish of Corby Glen is part of the Corby Glen Group of the Deanery of Beltisloe.

The Roman Catholic church closed in 2012.

The Methodist congregation is still active in its own chapel, which is part of the Grantham and Vale of Belvoir circuit.

The village has two active public houses, the Fighting Cocks (in the market place) and the Woodhouse Arms (at the crossroads). There is a small Co-op supermarket and an independent shop in a wooden hut next to the Fighting Cocks pub car park, and The Pantry, also in the market square. Other businesses include a Garage, the Sawmill, and the Hey Wine company. The Pantry, formerly a doctor's surgery in the market place, is a tea room and delicatessen and the post office branch is now maintained there.

Community meeting rooms are available at the Church Rooms in Church Street, the Methodist Church, and the Ron Dawson Memorial Hall. The Ron Dawson Hall is part of the sports complex in Swinstead Road. There is an active bowls club with a crown green behind the Willoughby arts gallery.

There is a small lending library at the art gallery, and a monthly visit by the mobile library.

The Sheep Fair is still the biggest social event of the year. The 2013 event was the 775th, and attracted a very large crowd. The traditional auction of sheep was held on the Monday.

The village is served by bus routes 303 to Bourne, and Route 4 to Stamford or Grantham.

Education
A new secondary school opened in Corby Glen in 1963. The school became a comprehensive, and it was renamed the Charles Read High School in 1999. It converted to an academy in January 2011; in 2013, the David Ross Foundation took responsibility for maintaining the school.

Corby Glen also has a community primary school.

Notable residents

 * Beverley Allitt, nurse and serial child killer, grew up in the village.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aled Seago

 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 23:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Aled Seago
Self-confessed vanity page of school student. See Talk:Aled Seago. --Theo (Talk) 13:39, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete below the bar of notability, some nonsense about 'village idiot' and 'town idiot'. Oliver Keenan 14:49, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Abuse. Average Earthman 22:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * well below the bar del BigFatDave 23:14, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 01:30, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity Dsmdgold 01:50, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sounds like a "friends of gays" deal. Haikupoet 00:39, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Roman Kosecki

Roman Jacek Kosecki (born 15 February 1966) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Career
In his club career, Kosecki played for RKS URSUS, Gwardia Warsaw, Legia Warsaw, Galatasaray, CA Osasuna, Atlético Madrid, Nantes, Montpellier, and the Chicago Fire. Osasuna transferred Kosecki to Atlético Madrid after the 1992–93 La Liga season, the second most expensive transfer of a foreign player in that window. After a successful year with Atlético Madrid and the Poland national team, Kosecki was chosen as the 1994 Polish footballer of the year by Piłka Nożna magazine. He came to Major League Soccer in the Fire's inaugural season in 1998, joining fellow Polish internationals Peter Nowak and Jerzy Podbrozny. Kosecki proceeded to score the first goal in Fire's history in a 2–0 win over the Miami Fusion. He then helped the club to the MLS Cup and U.S. Open Cup double. Kosecki played two seasons in MLS, scoring 12 goals and 19 assists in league play, before retiring as a player.

For Poland, Kosecki was capped 69 times, scoring 19 goals between 1988 and 1995.

He was a deputy (poseł) to the Polish Sejm from Civic Platform in 2005. Kosecki ran for the position of president of the PZPN in 2012 but lost to Polish soccer legend Zbigniew Boniek. Boniek however appointed him to vice president of youth development.

Personal life
His son Jakub Kosecki is also a professional football player.

International goals

 * Scores and results table. Poland's goal tally first:

Honours
Legia Warsaw
 * Polish Cup: 1988–89, 1989–90
 * Polish Super Cup: 1990

Galatasaray
 * Turkish Cup: 1990–91
 * Turkish Super Cup: 1991

Chicago Fire
 * MLS Cup: 1998
 * U.S. Open Cup: 1998

Individual
 * Polish Newcomer of the Year: 1988
 * Piłka Nożna Polish Footballer of the Year: 1994
 * MLS All-Star: 1999

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Nakamozu Station

Nakamozu Station (中百舌鳥駅) is the name of two adjacent railway stations located in Kita-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The above ground station is an interchange station operated jointly by the private Nankai Electric Railway and the Semboku Rapid Railway, and the underground station is operated by the Osaka Metro. The name of the station is difficult to read in kanji. The subway station shows the name in hiragana (なかもず) for information, but uses kanji for the official station name. The Semboku Rapid Railway Line uses both kanji and hiragana (中もず) on the destination signs at the stations and on the destination displays on the trains.

Lines
Nakamozu Station is served by the Nankai Koya Line, and is 14.1 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shiomibashi and 13.4 kilometers from Nanba. It is also the terminus of the 14.3 kilometer Semboku Rapid Railway Line to Izumi-Chūō and the terminus of the 24.5 kilometer Midōsuji Line to Esaka

Nankai Railway Koya Line, Semboku Rapid Railway
The above-ground Nakamozu Station has two island platforms serving four tracks, with an elevated station building. The outer tracks are used for the Kōya Line and the inner ones are for Semboku. A reversing track for Semboku is located in the west of the platforms and between 2 tracks for the Kōya Line.

Osaka Metro Midosuji Line
The Osaka Municipal Subway station has an underground island platform serving two tracks. It is the southernmost station on the Osaka subway system.

History
Nakamozu Station opened on October 10, 1912. The Semboku Rapid Railway Line opened on April 1, 1971 and the Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line on April 18, 1987.

The facilities of the Midosuji Line were inherited by Osaka Metro after the privatization of the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau on 1 April 2018.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the Nankai portion of the station was used by an average of 24,442 passengers daily, the Senboku portion of the station by 39,021 passengers daily and the Osaka Metro by 76,151 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

 * Sakai Chamber of Commerce
 * Osaka Prefecture University Nakamozu Campus

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House of Elders (Afghanistan)

The House of Elders or Mesherano Jirga (د افغانستان مشرانو جرګه), was the upper house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, alongside the lower House of the People (Wolesi Jirga). It was effectively dissolved when the Taliban seized power on 15 August 2021. The Taliban did not include the House of Elders and several other agencies of the former government in its first national budget in May 2022. Government spokesman Innamullah Samangani said that due to the financial crisis, only active agencies were included in the budget, and the excluded ones had been dissolved, but noted they could be brought back "if needed."

The House of Elders primarily had an advisory role rather than a maker of law. However, it does have some veto power.

The House of Elders has 102 members. One-third (34) were elected by district councils (one per province) for three-year terms, one-third (34) by provincial councils (one per province) for four-year terms, and one-third (34) were nominated by the president for five-year terms. However, elections for the district councils were not held in the 2005 parliamentary elections. As such, each provincial council also selected one of its elected members to temporarily hold seats in the house until district council elections were held. Half of the presidential nominees had to be women, two representatives from the disabled and impaired and two from the Kuchis.

Speakers
Speakers of the Mesherano Jirga since establishment in 1931

Reserved seats for women
Having been absent from the decision-making process for centuries, Afghan women for the first time entered the political arena in 2001, after the overthrow of Taliban. With the introduction of reserved seats provision in the 2002 Emergency Loya Jirga, when ten percent of 1600 seats were reserved for women, the ground was laid for participation of Afghan women in parliament.

The new 2004 constitution secured reserved seats for women and minorities in both houses of parliament. In the 2005 parliamentarian elections, Afghan women won 89 seats. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in 2009 they held 67 seats (27.7%) in the House of the People and 22 (21.6%) in the House of Elders. This representation is above the worldwide average of 18.5% and above the average of the United States at 16.8% for the House and 15.4% for the Senate.

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Talk:Luleå Municipality

Of the total population of 72,237, 36,201 are male, and 35,451 are female.
 * How is this possible? 62.194.114.150 13:46, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hehe, yes... thanks for pointing that out --Dnalor 16:15, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps some of them declined to answer the question. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  21:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Changed "Gammelstaden" to the correct "Gammelstad".

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The Spectacles, Western Australia

The Spectacles  is a mixed-use suburb located in the City of Kwinana within the Perth Metropolitan Region, the state capital of Western Australia. It comprises almost entirely a wetland reserve, The Spectacles Wetlands, surrounded by degraded native bushland. A small number of residential housing properties lie in the south-eastern corner of the suburb.

The Spectacles wetland area is considered to be the most valuable asset of Kwinana's natural environment, covering 3.7 square kilometres. It is named The Spectacles because it comprises two lakes connected by a drain, giving it the appearance of a pair of spectacles from an aerial perspective.

One third of The Spectacles is owned by Alcoa and was originally intended for residue disposal. As The Spectacles was not suitable for this purpose and the conservation value of the wetlands was recognised, Alcoa funded extensive rehabilitation and provided parking, picnic areas, walk trails, cycle paths, a board walk and bird hides to enable viewing of a number of species of native birds, including the rufous night heron.

The Spectacles actually contains two major wetlands, including the southernmost wetlands within Beeliar Regional Park and is surrounded by banksia woodland. To date $250,000 has been spent on many different walk trails, signage and boardwalks in this area.

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User talk:85.76.15.112

Stop adding useless info/referal links into articles.

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Italo Montemezzi

Italo Montemezzi (August 4, 1875 – May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings), once part of the standard repertoire. It is now seldom performed.

Biography
Montemezzi was born in Vigasio, near Verona. He studied music at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently taught harmony there for one year.

His opera L’amore dei tre re, written in 1913, launched his career and enabled him to devote himself to composition. His opera La nave had its world premiere in Milan in 1918. In 1919 he visited the United States, conducting the American premiere of La nave at the Chicago Opera Association on November 18. He lived in California from 1939 and commemorated Italy's surrender with Italia mia (1944), but later made frequent trips to Italy. He returned permanently in 1949 and died in Vigasio three years later.

Other non-operatic works include the symphonic poem Paolo e Virginia (after Paul et Virginie) and the cantata The Song of Songs.

As a composer, Montemezzi was admired for combining traditional Italian lyricism with a Wagnerian approach to the use of the orchestra in opera, with instrumental color influenced by the works of Debussy.

Operas

 * Bianca 1901 (never performed)
 * Giovanni Gallurese (Turin, 1905)
 * Hellera (Turin, 1909)
 * San Pantaleone (Milan, 1910)
 * L'amore dei tre re (Milan, 1913; New York, 1914)
 * La nave (Milan, 1918) Piano score at Sibley Music Library
 * La notte di Zoraima 1931 reviewed in Time magazine
 * L'incantesimo 1943
 * La Principessa Lontana (incomplete)

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Mahasarakham University

Mahasarakham University (MSU) (มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม;, pronounced: má-hăa wít-tá-yaa-lai má-hăa-săa-rá-kaam) is a Thai public university in Maha Sarakham province, about 470 kilometres from Bangkok. In 2017 it enrolled 39,000 students. MSU is the only Thai university to offer postgraduate programs in paleontology and a Bachelor of Arts in the Khmer language. It was the first Isan university to offer a BA accounting and the second to offer PhD courses in the same subject. Its Faculty of Education, the flagship of MSU, was voted Thailand's Best Education Faculty in 2010 by the National Education Office.

The university is the first Thai higher education institution rated under the QS Stars System for excellence in higher education. It has become one of the top 20 universities in Thailand based on the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

History
The development of Mahasarakham University can be traced back to 1963, when it was known as "Mahasarakham Teacher's Training College". On 27 March 1968, it was established as Mahasarakham College of Education for strengthening and expanding higher education in the Northeastern region (Isan) of the nation. Located in the outer north area of Maha Sarakham province, a small town right at the center of the region, the college has been responsible for developing quality educators to serve educational institutions of all levels. In 1974, the college's status was elevated when it became a regional campus of Srinakharinwirot University. At that time, there were four academic faculties: education, humanities, social sciences, and science.

In 1994, the college gained its statutory status through the Thai Higher Education Act and became Mahasarakham University, the 22nd public university of Thailand

Mahasarakham University has since expanded rapidly in academic infrastructure, facilities, and relevant services. It became a comprehensive university, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in three academic clusters: social sciences; pure and applied sciences; and health sciences. In 1988, the Kham Riang Campus, known as the New Campus, was established, approximately seven kilometres from the Old Campus.

With 17 faculties and two colleges, the university has been recognized as one of Thailand's fastest growing. The total student enrolment has increased from thousands in its earlier years to about 40,000 students in 2016.

To extend its academic services to remote communities, MSU has had 15 academic service centers in the northeastern region, later reorganized into two centres in Nakhon Ratchasima province and Udon Thani province. As a regional education center, Maha Sarakham is known as the "Taxila (or Takshashila) (a Hindu and Buddhist centre of learning in ancient India) of Isan".

Budget
The university was allocated 1,096 million baht in federal funding for fiscal year 2021, up from 1,034 million baht for FY2020.

Campuses
The university has two campuses: the Old Campus in Maha Sarakham city center and the New Campus in the Kham Riang Sub-district of Kantharawichai District. The New Campus is now the administrative headquarters of the university.

Downtown campus
The original campus of Mahasarakham University, Downtown Campus, also known as the Old Campus (mor gao — Thai: ม.เก่า), is in the city center. It covers an area of 368 rai. This campus hosts the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, and the Institute of Northeastern Arts and Culture.

Kham Riang campus
The Kham Riang Campus, known as the New Campus (mor mai — Thai: ม.ใหม่), is in the northwest of the city of Kham Riang District, seven kilometres from the city centre. This campus with a total area of 1,300 rai hosts new buildings and facilities to serve the education community and houses the main administrative center and most of the academic faculties, colleges, and research institutes of the university.

Academic divisions
MSU has 18 faculties, two colleges, and nine research centres.

Humanities and social sciences

 * Faculty of Education (คณะศึกษาศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์)
 * Mahasarakham Business School (คณะการบัญชีและการจัดการ)
 * Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts (คณะศิลปกรรมศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management (คณะการท่องเที่ยวและการโรงแรม)
 * Faculty of Cultural Science (คณะวัฒนธรรมศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Laws (คณะนิติศาสตร์)

Applied sciences and technologies

 * Faculty of Architecture, Urban Design and Creative Arts (คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์ ผังเมืองและนฤมิตศิลป์)
 * Faculty of Engineering (วิศวกรรมศาสตร์))
 * Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies (คณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Informatics (คณะวิทยาการสารสนเทศ)
 * Faculty of Science (คณะวิทยาศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Technology (คณะเทคโนโลยี)

Health sciences

 * Faculty of Medicine (คณะแพทยศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Nursing (คณะพยาบาลศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Pharmacy (คณะเภสัชศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Public Health (คณะสาธารณสุขศาสตร์)
 * Faculty of Veterinary Sciences) (คณะสัตวแพทยศาสตร์)

Colleges

 * College of Music (วิทยาลัยดุริยางคศิลป์)
 * College of Politics and Governance (วิทยาลัยการเมืองการปกครอง)

Research institutes

 * Walai Rukhavej Botanical Research Institute (สถาบันวิจัยวลัยรุกขเวช)
 * Research Institute of Northeastern Art and Culture (สถาบันวิจัยศิลปะและวัฒนธรรมอีสาน)
 * Sirindhorn Isan Information Center (ศูนย์สารนิเทศอีสานสิรินธร)
 * Chalermprakiet Agricultural Technology Transfer Center (ศูนย์ถ่ายทอดเทคโนโลยีเกษตรกรรมเฉลิมพระเกียรติฯ)
 * Mahasarakham University Museum (พิพิธภัณฑ์มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม)
 * Natural Medicinal Mushroom Museum
 * Northeastern Leaf-inscription Conservation Center
 * Palaeontological Research and Education Center (ศูนย์วิจัยและการศึกษาบรรพชีวินวิทยา)
 * Silk Innovation Center (ศูนย์นวัตกรรมไหม)

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Talk:User-defined function

Expand for other uses?
SQL is not the only programming language that uses user defined functions. For example ColdFusion also uses them. I’m not sure how many other languages use this term however. Should this article be expanded to include other uses of user defined functions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rwblackburn (talk • contribs) 13:50, April 15, 2005 UTC.
 * Yes... it should :) Unfortunately I don't know enough to do it without some research. —Seqsea (talk) 00:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Obviously, almost any useful programming language lets you re-use your own code. I don't think that is the point of UDF. (Note: I am an Electrical Engineer who can program, not a Computer Science major, so I may be wrong here!) I believe the point is that SQL - Q is QUERY. So if you can get the SERVER to do something for you that is not a query, that's a big deal. The computation is offloaded from the client. I think that this diff should be reverted because if not it is going to explode into a Hello World page showing how to define a function in every possible language, drowning out the uniqueness of the SQL implementation... -- RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib Reverts 17:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

The term "User Defined Function" is rare in modern programming, because it describes almost all code that is written, so there's no need to turn this into an enormous list. I mentioned BASIC because there's a language feature that is generally referred to as "user defined function". You don't talk about UDF in C or Lisp or any modern language, it's assumed. I take the point about the significance client side vs server side processing, but I don't think the phrase "user defined function" really captures it; after all, in SQL all functions (such as arithmetic or string functions) are evaluated on the server. I do agree that there would be no benefit in listing a lo tof languages. Amcguinn 19:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * In fact, I think only ColdFusion and MySQL use this term. Google turns up some uses with Microsoft SQL Server, but only third-party stuff; no official production documentation. This is an uncommon name for a ubiquitous thing. -Slamb 00:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

How about this: move the BASIC section below the SQL section, and rename it as "other uses of the term" with something along the lines of "'User defined function' in some older programming languages was used to describe a function written by the programmer rather than included with the language - such usage has become obsolete since in structured programming virtually all program code consists of user defined functions" - would that be better? Amcguinn 19:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that's a great suggestion. Maybe even massage what I wrote above a little as to why it's a big deal in these two cases...? I'd work on it, but I am out of town for a week starting in the morn... -- RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib Reverts 03:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Stored procedure
I'd been racking my brains to remember what I used to refer to database user-defined functions as, and I remembered "stored procedure". There's already an article there.

The options are:
 * Make this page a redirect to Stored procedure
 * Make it a brief account of user defined functions in different contexts, including a link to stored procedure
 * Delete this altogether.

- Amcguinn 10:18, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * My response. ;) Then redirect.  --  RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib Reverts 11:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

My suggestion: Merge the BASIC portion with the main BASIC article. Merge the database portion into Stored Procedure. Then delete. -- PabSungenis 14:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

BASIC already refers to the DEF FN syntax - I don't think anything here adds to that. It would only really be useful here as an answer to "What does 'User defined function' mean", but that is possibly too dictionary-like for WP. Amcguinn 15:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Stored procedures are very different than user-defined functions. This article was incorrect to say that UDFs are stored procs. I've fixed it up and removed the merge request. -- Mikeblas 21:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Title
Why isn't the title of this topic "User-defined function"? -- Mikeblas 14:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. I'm not a native English speaker, but it only makes sense to use the tightly coupled wording. --Stolze 18:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

SQL Server 2000
Why is there a section specific to SQL Server 2000, when the concept of a user-defined function isn't specific to the SQL Server database manager? Every database manager I can think of -- Oracle, DB2, Postgres, MYSql, etc -- all have this concept. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.246.40.54 (talk) 19:26, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Minor corrections
The samples should use standardized SQL and not some product-specific implementation. For example, the SQL standard does not use the '@' for variable names.

The statement that stored procedures cannot be evaluated on a per-row basis is not correct. First, it is possible to call stored procedures from a trigger and triggers can be declared as FOR EACH ROW. Thus, the body of a trigger is evaluated once-per-row, implying that a procedure call in the trigger body is invoked once per row. Next, some products (like DB2) allow that procedures can be called from within a function. Again, the procedure is invoked on a per-row basis.

The fact and concepts of table functions should be added.

The statement that stored procedures return a "set of rows" is too restrictive. A stored procedure may return result sets (multiple!), but it doesn't have to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.35.14.130 (talk • contribs)
 * Be bold! This is not something I know a lot about, feel free to clean it up! — RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib 20:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, the SQL standard further does not include user defined functions--so variable syntax doesn't seem relevant. You might want to add another example or a description to the article explaining this.
 * The point the article is trying to make is that a function is invoked within a statement once per row within the statement. A stored procedure can't be evaluated once per row within a statement -- unless you wrap it in another function. (Note that the body of a triger, declared FOR EACH ROW or not, is semantically equivalent to a function.) If you can find a more accurate way to express that, let us know! -- Mikeblas 20:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey, I found it -- I forgot that ANSI SQL uses "CALL". The way Melton and Simon explain it (in ISBN 1-55860-456-1) is that procedures are involved exclusive by means of a specific SQL statment: the CALL statement; by contrast, SQL-invoked functions are treated as "values" in an expression of some sort and are invoked exclusively as a means of evaluating that value. You can't use CALL for per-row evaluation within DQL. -- Mikeblas 20:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, SQL:2003 (the current version of the SQL standard) supports UDFs and stored procedures. It does that since SQL3. See subclause 11.50, "".  I understand your point regarding "once per row".  But I think it is not correctly expressed.  Besides, there are table functions (also in the standard) and those have a slightly different behavior when invoked.  (I'll try to incorporate my thoughts later on.) -- stolze 08:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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Vatican Croatian Prayer Book

The Vatican Croatian Prayer Book (Vatikanski hrvatski molitvenik) is a Croatian vernacular prayer book and the example of Shtokavian vernacular literary dialect.

Written between 1380 and 1400 in Dubrovnik as a transcript and transliteration from older texts composed in a mixture of Church Slavonic and Chakavian dialect and written down in Glagolitic with some Cyrillic script, it retained a few phonological and morphological features found in the original manuscripts. The book contains the following parts: Offices of the Virgin Mary according to the rites of the Roman Church; seven penitentiary psalms; Offices of the Holy Cross; Offices for the dead; Offices of the Holy Spirit as well as numerous prayers. The script is the Roman Gothic, embroidered with luxuriantly outlined initials and miniatures. The name of the prayer book reflects the fact that it is held in the Vatican library. The text has become widely known from 1859, when influential Croatian historian Franjo Rački drew attention to it, but the first critical edition did not appear until 1934, published by Croatian literary historian and philologist Franjo Fancev. The book's central importance lies in the fact that it is the first major Shtokavian dialect vernacular text. Although Proto-Shtokavian and mixed Church Slavonic-Shtokavian manuscripts are known to have appeared a century or two before, it is the first text in what can be termed a vernacular dialect. Analyses of the manuscript have shown that recorded morphological and phonological features are transient forms in the development of the dialect, but its syntax is quite archaic, especially compared to the idiom of later prayer books (the Croatian Prayer Book from 1450s, also from Dubrovnik and held in the library of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb) or the syntax of Marin Držić's dramas (early 16th century).

title: Vatican Croatian Prayer Book