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Talk:Battle of Dunbar (1650)

Map and belligerents
- a map has been added to the infobox by VFF0347. I think a map is probably a good thing, but I'm not sure this is the right one - do you think we need to show all of Scotland (all the way up to Shetland) in order for readers to be able to identify where we are? There are various alternatives available: Scotland South and Scotland Southeast jump out at me as being potentially more useful. I also wonder whether we ought to show the relative locations of Dunbar and Edinburgh on the map, but it would probably get too crowded if we also attempted to show Leith and Musselburgh, which are also mentioned in the text. Would be keen to know your thoughts on this.
 * @: A map is a great idea. I am kicking myself for not having thought of it. I have made a few tweaks. What do you think? I reckon that Dunbar needs removing to uncrowd it. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I like your map - I tried knocking something like that this morning, but yours looks better than anything I managed. I see what you mean about being crowded - I've tried using a small battle symbol, which to my eye looks a bit less cluttered - what do you reckon? (I feel that Dunbar would be a very odd omission...) Girth Summit  (blether)  17:37, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , agreed, which is why I left it in. Yes, that's a lot better. I have made a couple of further minor adjustments and I think it's done. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:51, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

thanks for your work on this. You might not have noticed, the article is currently undergoing review at FAC - you would be welcome to offer a review there. I reverted your edit, in which you changed 'Scotland' as a belligerent to 'Scottish Covenanters (supporters of Charles II)'. I appreciate that consistency is desirable, but if there is an inconsistency between our articles, I don't think it's this one which is out of line with how modern scholarship describes the participants in this conflict. The Covenanters had repeatedly purged the Scottish army of anyone suspected of displaying personal loyalty to Charles II, and they had removed Charles' person from the vicinity of the conflict to prevent him from fostering support amongst the troops or being a distraction - it's simply wrong to call them 'Royalists', or 'supporters of the king' just because they were being opposed by a parliamentary army. The Covenanters were indisputably the legitimate government of Scotland at the time, they had raised the Scottish army, and they were entirely in control of it - I don't see why we wouldn't simply describe this force as 'Scotland', which is simple, accurate, and supported by the sources. It may be worth discussing whether Kingdom of England is the right target for the English side - Commonwealth of England might be a more accurate target, since this battle was during the Interregnum, but before the Protectorate had been established. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  11:17, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I suspect that Kingdom of England might be a tad inappropriate. But Commonwealth - possibly. I shall leave that to those with access to more specialist resources. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , it seems to me that either England or England would work - shall I toss a coin? Girth Summit  (blether)  17:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , feel free; although I still lean towards Commonwealth. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:50, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I was reading too much into your 'but' there - I thought you were leaning away. I shall make it so. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:54, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ta. You know anyone who might do the source review? I have put it on request at the top of the FAC talk page, but there are an unusually large number ahead of us in the queue. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , we could beg a favour of - I've seen them do source reviews in the past, and I think I've also seen them doing work on Scottish subjects before, so perhaps they'd be willing to take a look if we smile sweetly.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:03, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * do you fancy doing the honours? Gog the Mild (talk) 18:08, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

 * and - Gentlemen - Thank you for your notes and comments. I defer to you. I am not all that knowledgeable regarding the history of Scotland or England. I made the change as I assumed that the article on the Third English Civil War was the overarching authority for the events that happened after Charles I was executed and England became a Commonwealth. I therefore thought that the articles on Dunbar, Inverkeithing, etc. ought to conform. But I will leave the review and update to you and the FAC. I like the change that you made regarding the English Commonwealth vs the Kingdom of England. I also like your maps with one suggestion... Can the map be a relief map? Thanks so much Virgil FairchildVFF0347 (talk) 23:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'd be willing to try out a relief map and see how it looks (we don't want it to be too cluttered) - certainly the modern county boundaries shown in the location map don't add anything useful in the context of the battle - but I don't believe a relief map exists for this smaller area, and putting a module together to create one is beyond my technical know-how. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:32, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Landing in Fife
The fourth paragraph of the introductions says "the English landed a small force in Fife and were able to cross the Forth and threaten the northern Scottish strongholds". There seems to be something wrong with the geography here. Fife is north of the Forth. If their landing in Fife enabled them to threaten the northern strongholds (which were presumably the likes of Stirling and Perth), they wouldn't have crossed the Forth (unless they went a very long way round). Mike Marchmont (talk) 07:36, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, not sure that I am seeing the issue here, although possibly we have been expressing ourselves poorly. The main article on this is Battle of Inverkeithing. (Which needs work and is on my "When I get time for it" list.) To summarise, Stirling was a choke point, and the English needed to capture or bypass it if they were to threaten Fife, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen etc. They resolved this by landing a small force in Fife, which allowed them to ship a larger force across the Firth of Forth and defeat the Scots at Inverkeithing. They could then cut Stirling's communications and threaten the places listed above, which made the Scot's position untenable.
 * Clear? If not, please say. If this is clear, but we have poorly translated it into the article, again please say.
 * Cheers.
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 11:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Cheers.
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 11:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 11:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Hi . Thanks for your reply. What you say makes perfect sense. But I think the wording needs to be made a bit clearer: something like "the English landed a small force in Fife and this enabled them to transfer a larger force across the Forth to threaten the northern Scottish strongholds." Or, better still, how about simplifying it thus: "the English were able to cross the Forth and thus threaten the northern Scottish strongholds"? After all, this is the article's introduction, which is meant to be a summary of the article. Exactly how they got their men across the firth might perhaps be too detailed for this part of the article.

 * What do you think? I'd be happy to go along with you, if you disagree with any of this.
 * Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:40, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Hi Mike: I have made some slightly more serious changes. I think that it is better explained now. See what you think. Likewise my co-nominator. Thanks for the input. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, Gog is exactly correct. The English forces weren't able to break through the defensive lines at Stirling, but they managed to land a small force in Fife and capture the Inverkeithing. Control of a port on the north side of the Forth allowed them to land much larger forces and threaten the northern strongholds - if Dunbar set the scene for the campaign, Inverkeithing was its crux. I think that Gog's edit sets this out more clearly, hope you agree. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  18:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you and . I am happy with the latest revision. Note that I understood the point about the importance of Inverkeithing and the need to capture or by-pass Stirling. My original comment was merely on the possible confusion between landing in Fife and crossing the Forth, given that Fife is already "across the Forth". But the latest revision removes that confusion. Mike Marchmont (talk) 07:28, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I didn't doubt it. I suspect that it was a case of us knowing just what we wanted to communicate, and so reading that into our prose regardless. Thanks for helping tighten it up. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:50, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Reference to Border
I added a change under the Prelude section to link to article about the actual Scottish Border, not the modern council area. This has been changed since to point to the Scottish Marches article. I'm not sure this is right. That article itself, in it's intro says "The Scottish Marches era came to an end during the first decade of the 17th century" which is before the Battle of Dunbar. In addition, the scorched earth which occurred was surely limited to the general area between Edinburgh and the border in the vicinity of Berwick from which the invasion came? Jp2207 (talk) 19:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * It is not something I would want to go to the barricades over; feel free to revert to your version. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:07, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Gog the Mild, Thanks but on a re-think,  the actual border itself is not the point. How about:
 * Changing the "Accession of Charles II" to remove the last clause "crossing the Tweed", since I'd suggest this info is a key part of the Prelude anyway.
 * Then in the Prelude:
 * "by the time Cromwell entered Scotland, Leslie had..."
 * to
 * "...by the time Cromwell entered Scotland, crossing the Tweed on July 22,  Leslie had..."
 * And then finally this:
 * "Leslie prepared a defensive line of earthworks between Edinburgh and Leith, and employed a scorched earth policy between that line and the border areas. He then allowed Cromwell to advance unopposed."
 * becomes:
 * "Leslie prepared a defensive line of earthworks between Edinburgh and Leith, after employing a scorched earth policy between that line and the invading English army, allowing Cromwell to advance unopposed."
 * Comments welcome. Jp2207 (talk) 00:44, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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Robert van de Geijn

Robert A. van de Geijn is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science (1981) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1987) from the University of Maryland, College Park. His areas of interest include numerical analysis and parallel processing.

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Van de Geijn's has turned toward the theoretical, in particular with his development of the Formal Linear Algebra Method (FLAME). FLAME is an original effort at formalizing the efficient derivation of linear algebra algorithms that are provably correct. This approach benefits from his less theoretical experience; it is designed to ultimately lead to the efficient design and implementation of these algorithms.

He is the principal author of the widely cited book. ''Using PLAPACK—parallel linear algebra package. Scientific and engineering computation.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1997.

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Robert van de Geijn was born on August 14, 1962, in the Netherlands. He later moved to the United States, where he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. He is married to a fellow academic, Margaret Myers. They have three children, and now live in a historic house in downtown Pflugerville, Texas.

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User:66.20.28.21
He seems to have ceased the edits on that particular article. Also, while you need to be an admin to block someone, but adding diffs, pages showing the difference between two edits, is something anyone can do. Also, it saves me the time to go through the entire history. :) He has been warned for these edits and I'll be keeping a close eye on him. Mgm|(talk) 18:49, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

Cluster of differentiation
Hello, Eleassar777. Thought I should let you know that I've posted a reply to your question/suggestion about the page on Cluster of differentiation, of which I was a major contributor last year. .... You have been editing a number of related articles and seem to know your stuffs. Perhaps you may be interested in WikiProject Clinical medicine. Have a look. Ciao ! -- PFHLai 22:06, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)

History of medicine
I say you Edit Summary comment for History of medicine about it needing to be rewritten. If you have ideas about a sweeping rewrite, great! The best way to do this is to create History of medicine/temp as a temporary page and work there, putting a link to it, discussing your thoughts on the History of Medicine Talk page. If after a while, the temp article reaches a form you like and that seems to make people generally happy, you can replace the main page, and kill the temp page. Does that make sense? - DavidWBrooks 14:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Warnings
Please do not add unnecessary warnings to articles. →Raul654 21:16, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * If I would not find it necessary I would not add it. Can you explain why it is unnecessary? Thanks. --Eleassar777 21:18, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, in general, you shouldn't be adding *any* warnings to articles at all. NPOV and factual accuracy disputes (and, to a lesser extent, cleanup) are the exception; on the other hand, just because an article that exceeds 32k, it does not warrant a warning. →Raul654 21:50, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

History of neurology
History of neurology is very good. It prompted me to write recurrent laryngeal nerve, which was still a redlink!

Thanks for all your medical edits. Have you joined the Wikiproject Clinical medicine yet? JFW | T@lk  18:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Africa
You voted for Africa, this week's CSB Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. A list of concerns about the article have been placed on its talk page. Banyan Tree 18:39, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

World Population
(Also added this comment to the talk on the concerned page.)

The table is in thousands. The world population in 2005 is not less than 6.5 millions.

Keep up the good work and Happy wiki-ing Bogfjellmo 18:25, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Trödel's signature
I have no idea why that happened. I certainly didn't get a warning message about an edit conflict, and why on earth would I do it deliberately? I see Trödel has now reinserted their signature, so there is no need for me to fix anything. Please remember to assume good faith on edits - established editors rarely start vandalising Wikipedia. Warofdreams 15:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Slovenia and the Balkans
All major sources list Slovenia and Croatia as lying on the Balkan peninsula. Can you tell me what religion (Roman Catholicism) and being part of the Habsburg Empire have to do with being part or not being part of a geographical entity??? Romania was also part of the Ottoman empire but with the exception of Dobrudzha it is not considered part of the Balkan peninsula on geographical grounds, just as Slovenia and Croatia are considered part of the Balkan peninsula again on geographical grounds. It is really bizarre when politics starts to influence geography. VMORO 15:46, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)~

 * Yes, in the terms of physical geography you are close to what is true, although half of Slovenia is located north of Sava and should be considered part of Central Europe.

 * However, have you ever heard of cultural geography, political geography and historical geography? In this section of the article the distinction between physical and human geography is not at all clear. In the article it is said that "the inclusion of Slovenia and even Croatia is more controversial but it has often been regarded as Balkan due to its association with the former Yugoslavia.". In my opinion mentioning of the Habsburg Empire is even more important than mentioning of former Yugoslavia, as it influenced Slovenian culture more profoundly. --Eleassar777 16:58, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Historical regions of Central Europe
Hi, this is just a blank map I uploaded in case someone needed it for some purpose (like correcting it or translating into some other language). The map with labels is here and it's used in this article. – Kpalion (talk) 20:18, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mummy

 * In the article about mummies, naturally formed mummies should be more emphasized, for example Ötzi and others. The article should also tell something about the scientific meaning of mummies, as they enable us to infer about culture, technology and science in the past. Thanks for your efforts.

Well, I'd like to write more about the process in which natural mummie form, but I didn't really have the info to do so.

What do you mean by more emphasized? There's already a Chinese mummy in the article, which I'd really like to move to a seperate article. Anyway, if I am to write sections about natural mummies, I should do the same for the Egyptian ones. As for the scientific meaning: I've mentioned what it says about culture, but what are you expecting in regard to science and technology? You'd help a lot if you could be a little more specific in your comment. Mgm|(talk) 18:02, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

FYI - User:Rednblu at Talk:Human
You may be interested in this: User:Rednblu/History. Since he's apparently collecting evidence against you, one can only assume that he's trying to build a case. In light of that, you should then be made aware of this: User_talk:Rednblu/Archive2003_07_01To2004_10_30. If push comes to shove there's a pretty strong case to be made for POV warrioring and obstructionism, particularly considering his history here and his self-stated agenda found on the usenet.--FeloniousMonk 22:24, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I enjoyed our conversation
The above message is posted first only because there was an edit conflict.

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I apologize for my exuberance. I enjoyed very much your questions, which I viewed as an excellent homework set on what "human" is. I certainly meant no disrespect. Quite the contrary, I thought your comments extraordinarily thought provoking. I intended to compliment you by calling you "Herrprofessor Eleassar." In my culture, to be called "Herrprofessor" is the highest compliment anyone could get. You made me think and work my understanding about the Human page to a whole new level. All the best. ---Rednblu | Talk 22:29, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Quarto by email
Hi Eleassar777, a new mailing list has been set up to distribute news about the Wikimedia foundation, specifically at the moment to publicise Quarto. I saw your name on the quarto talk page requesting a copy by email, and I think this mailing list is how we're going to do it for the moment. It'll be a html email, which I've added to the Quarto talk page m:Talk:WQ. Mailing list is called Foundation-news-l (We also need translators!) Cheers w:User:Cormaggio

Spelling
Please see John Paul II discussion in regards to the Americanised spelling changes, thank you

Galicnik
I find that your edits on the cheese reduce rather than improve NPOV! Your edits are, from my personal bias, an improvement. Thus I will leave them as you suggested.

Regards,

--Modi 15:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was trying to phrase that bullet item in what seemed to me to be better English; if it is inaccurate, please feel free to correct me. -- Seth Ilys 18:34, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Infobox (Human)
User talk:SEWilco: Great infobox (Human). Can you include the source of info in it? Thanks. --Eleassar777 12:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yanked it out of Template:Planet Infobox/Earth to make it smaller. Look in its history for origin. (SEWilco 19:37, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC))

Exponential growth
I posted my reasoning at Talk:Exponential growth. --Fastfission 14:10, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moving pages
Hi Eleassar777.

I see that you moved Stain (biology) to Staining (biology). One thing to keep in mind if you want to move a page in the future: use the move button at the top of the screen. (It may not appear if you're using a nonstandard Wikipedia skin, however.) This moves the Talk page of the article as well as its editing history to the new location. Otherwise an admin has to come back later and merge the edit history of the old article with that of the new.

Happy editing, --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 20:35, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Patrology
Hi, Eleassar777, I see that you added Patrology to the list of sub-disciplines of Christian theology. Would that more accurately fall as a sub-discipline of Historical theology, listed in the "Methods" section? --Flex 19:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Egypt locator map
Hi... sorry about being slow to respond. I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you mean with your question about the Egypt locator map. Are you saying that Egypt should be shown in green in the small world map in the corner of the locator map? This isn't the way I've done the other locator maps, so I'm not sure if you're asking me to change them all or whether I've misunderstood. -- Vardion 22:06, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Largest number of edits
Er, sorry I didn't explain. The WP:1000 page is supposed to be updated from the CSV. Individiually adding and updating user's edit counts messes up the ranking, since the edit counts are from different times. Unfortunately, the page doesn't get updated often, for various reasons explained on the talk page. -- Scott eiπ  18:35, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Duck
Your mystery bird is a Muscovy Duck, probably a domesticated bird since wild one's don't have white on the neck and front and are sleeker than these. jimfbleak 16:18, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gastric acid and juice
Would it not be more accurate to move everything from acid to juice, and on acid page explain it is just hydrochloric acid secreted by stomach, then combined with enzymes etc. it becomes gastric juice? thanks - Bluemoose 10:57, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Noncommercial use on commons?
I noticed you uploaded and say it's free for noncommercial use. Noncommercial materials are not permitted on commons; see this. Since you checked the box on the upload screen (which states I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to release it under the terms of a free license as defined in Commons:Licensing) you need to rectify this by either changing the license or having it deleted. Cheers. CryptoDerk 19:21, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, in an unrelated note, I see you're using the for images you have the copyright on.  You can use  if it's your image.  CryptoDerk 19:24, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Votes for Deletion: International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo
Hello Eleassar777.

Thank you for assessing favourably my modest entry. I am totally new to Wikipedia and find it a fantastic idea. For this reason, I have offered my contribution with a handful of articles*, trying to follow the guidelines the best I could. I was bound to make scores of mistakes. Now I wonder if and when the "Votes for Deletion" box will disappear: should I do something about it? I have already cleaned it up a few times, added extra information and so on.

You are young and keen and can certainly give me some useful advice. Thanks in advance.

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 * Cervo, Accademia di Cervo, Arnulf von Arnim, David Geringas, Ulf Hoelscher, Jean Sulem, Paul Rosenthal, Klesie Kelly.

COTW
Thanks for the info. I have been voting since the very beginning. Don't really see the point, but meh, won't argue it. Burgundavia 07:34, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

bird-scaring rattle
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article bird-scaring rattle, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Collaboration of the week
I did not see that voting restriction. To what time-frame does it apply? I will then decide which votes I remove.--Fenice 12:51, 8 May 2005 (UTC) This would then mean that every user can vote three times in their lives. Do you know what I mean?--Fenice 13:01, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project
You voted for Culture of Ancient Rome, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Madonna Oriente, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Chemical infobox
Hi, Eleassar, As you added the enigmatic 'and participate' adjunction to note on the very active discussion about the new chembox, may I strongly invite you to give your opinion about it on its discussion page, please? We really would appreciate any feedback you can give. Wim van Dorst 16:04, 2005 May 12 (UTC).

Fair use decision tree
Hi Eleassar, I'm interested in the decision tree you recently added to Fair use. What is your source for this tree, or what reasoning did you use to construct it? --Duk 22:07, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, can you point me to the talk page you mentioned (I didn't see anythin on User talk:Zeimusu.--Duk 22:24, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I still can't find it. I looked through the history of Wikipedia talk:Fair use and didn't see any edits by you or Zeimusu.--Duk 22:31, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I bet this what you were thinking of? Wikipedia talk:Image sleuthing.--Duk 22:40, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: International observance
Nicely done. :-) -- PFHLai 19:00, 2005 May 17 (UTC)

Slovenians vs Slovenes
It'll be my pleasure to detail this argument, but it will take me some time. I'm 'extremely' busy...and stressed this month. I wish I could contribute more right now than minor editing. -BT

Spinifex People
Not 100% in agreement with your move. The reason I created the page with capital letters is because that is the official name of the tribe. You can see an example here: http://www.atns.net.au/biogs/A000197b.htm Cheers SeanMack 12:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I will do as you suggest, although I'm curious why you can change it yourself but I need to request it? Did you go through that process yourself the first time? SeanMack 13:15, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey dude no apologies necessary. I was just trying to make sense of what is protocol and what we can do ourselves. I have now learned how to move or rename a page so it's all good. Keep at it, it was a reasonable edit given normal Wiki naming procedures. Cheers. SeanMack 15:28, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki links

 * Halló Eleassar777! Thanks for your message. I was quite busy the last two weeks and made some thousends edits on two testwiki's and . See 531 about Template:Task . I need to leave and will be back begining of June. Do not hesitate to leave a message before. Best regards Gangleri | [ Th] | T 03:22, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

self refs
They are to be avoided. --mav 12:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

 * They are not to be avoided. They are to be avoided when they're not useful. --SPUI (talk) 10:41, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Human
Hi Eleassar, I reverted your edits to Human, in part because some awkward English was introduced (e.g. "Together with other bodily characteristics, this gives them capacity for a complex and sensitive behaviour ..."); in part because the introduction is a carefully agreed compromise and shouldn't be changed with discussion on talk; and in part because you introduced some material that isn't obviously correct (e.g. that humans in Western countries reach puberty faster because they eat a lot of fat). There were other edits that, while they were okay, were not obvious improvements, and were arguably redundant e.g. replacing "humans are defined by their use of language" to "defined by the ability to develop and use language," and instead of "their organization into complex social structures" you wrote "the ability to organize into complex social structures." But how would humans organize themselves into social structures if they didn't have the ability to do so? It would be helpful in future to add material, if you want to, rather than editing or deleting what's already there without discussing it first. My apologies for the reversions, and I hope you can understand my reasoning. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:28, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, Eleassar, it was the English that was the problem. I didn't realize it wasn't your first language, and I intend no disrespect. I'm willing to help you with the writing aspect, so I'll go back and take a look to see what can be rewritten if it has to be. The problem was that, along with the good edits, you made so many copy-editing changes that weren't right that it would have taken too long to retain the good edits but revert the copy editing edit-by-edit. I'll take another look when I have more time, bearing in mind the points you raised. I hope that's okay. SlimVirgin (talk) 23:32, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've taken another look, but there's too much to go through that's mixed up with copy-editing problems. The language apart, I don't agree that some of your changes are improvements: for example, you changed the cutline "two young girls" to "A girl is a female human child, as contrasted to a male child, which is a boy." I don't see the latter as better than the former. Could you say what you feel is actually inaccurate about the article, and we could start with those parts? SlimVirgin (talk) 02:54, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't agree about the cutlines, and the page you linked to says only that some editors use whole sentences; there's no requirement to do so, and it's often inappropriate and leads to labored descriptions. The intro can't be changed as the one we have is one of two compromise versions that are currently being decided by others. I don't know what references you're referring to. As for the content changes you've introduced, you'll have to link them to sources, as otherwise we have no way of knowing whether they're correct. If you work in genetics (or are studying it), it would help to know that, and perhaps you'd know where to find good sources. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:41, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

Steroid hormone receptor
Steroid hormone receptors and Zn fingers? I have absolutely no idea, but I thought the Zinc finger was just the structural motif that aided in DNA binding, and does not actually determine dimerisation. Correct me if I'm wrong. JFW | T@lk  21:52, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

hello..im ANEM frm MALAYSIA now im study in biomedicine..i need u help to know more about history of giemsa staining.i really appreciate ur help..:) please reply me at my email rhyza_credenza@yahoo.co.uk

 * Reply at JFW's talk page. --Eleassar777 07:22, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * There is an explanation of this in Stryer, fourth edition, p. 1002. The dimerization takes place at a Zinc cluster, a globular domain where Zn is coordinated with four cysteine residues.  This domain has secondary and tertiary structure distinct from a Zinc finger. Osmodiar 09:29, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for information on Boraginaceae
Thank you for information on Boraginaceae

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur:Lviatour

what u talkin about?

SPECT, PET and CAT (CT)
Hi! SPECT, PET and CAT are three different types of tomography, and each of them needs a computer to perform the reconstruction of the slices. SPECT is single photon emission computed tomography where gamma rays are detected at various projections around the patient. PET is positron emission tomography where positrons in the patient annihalate resulting in the emission of two gamma rays at almost opposite directions - these are detected via a ring of detectors around the patient. CAT or CT (the terms are synonomous) involves the transmission of X-rays through the patient. The use of the acronyms CAT and CT for X-ray transmission tomography has pretty much stuck and those are the terms that medical professionals use (in my experience) daily.

Given these are three different types of computed tomography, I think that it's best not to move computed tomography to computed axial tomography. Cheers --AjAldous 19:50, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

i never knew that! --Anon

stuff
Re: Redirects - it's on my list of things to do; I've already generated some new redirects, but I've got to screen-scrape the ones that people had already cross out first, otherwise it'll keep suggesting redirects that have already been rejected... That's on the to-do list, but it's a fair way down; I'll leave you a note when it's ready, but just in case I forget I'd also suggest watching this page, as that's where I'll list them when they're done.

Re: the eight degrees of Wikipedia search - Thanks for updating this - Looks like the link from Bushland to Tracker was bogus (they wanted the tracker the occupation, but had linked to tracker the software) - I've added Tracker (occupation), and changed Bushland to point to this instead.

Also, thank you for the positive feedback for the link suggester. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 23:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Signature
So if you want to have specjal signature, you must first write it like a normal text in article: text_you_want_to_displaymy talk into "text_you_want_to_display" you can place: Eleassar777. it will look like: Eleassar777 in real: Eleassar777. Than you open link preferences (at the top of page). There will be position: "Your nickname (for signatures):". You paste there Eleassar777 my talk and mark also "Raw signatures (without automatic link; please don't use templates for this)". Than choose "Save preferences" button, and than you go to any wiki page and try to use:. -PioM EN DE PL 19:03, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You are welcome-PioM

EN DE PL 21:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, if you want to make link to your discussion page on other wiki, you don't need to make account there, just make:

Eleassar777 - but, you must place this(code) there by yourself at the end of your sentence. -PioM EN DE PL 22:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fear ÉIREANN (talk)

Hi, the commands I used are those above. It was entered in the signature box in preferences. I'm afraid I don't know the different colours you'd need to use. Slan. Fear ÉIREANN (talk) 21:21, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Slovenia, Slovenian, Slovenians
Discussion that took place between 16:00 and 18:00 today has been transferred to Talk:Slovenians. -- Eleassar777 my talk 21:24, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Another thing I want to point out is that actually it does not matter how incredibly odd the word Slovene is.

Oh, really? I think it matters quite a lot, actually. Perhaps you and XJam don't see this because you are not native-English speaking Slovenians. -BT

 * The only important thing is that Slovene is one form of English and is still used by some.

And it will continue to be used, alongside Slovenian, often on the same page, in the same article, even by the same author if we let this nonsense continue. The idea that Slovene is a noun and Slovenian is an adjective may seem like a clever idea to subscribe to. However, the reality is that, in practice, in English speaking countries (even England) very few use the term Slovene. I submit that this is precisely the reason why the vast majority of major widely read English language sites who OFTEN publish new articles about Slovenia and Slovenians stick EXCLUSIVELY to employing the term Slovenian as both noun and adjective. Slovenian sounds better, it follows naturally from Slovenian, and it is used by the vast majority of native-English speaking Slovenians and already by the majority of the world. Sources (and there are many, several of which I have posted earlier) will be provided when time permits. BT2 02:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have another idea; we can ask for opinion of other Wikipedians whose mother tongue is English, they are listed here, here or here. We can have an opinion survey or something like that. Some of them will surely respond. Do you find it reasonable?

Close to reasonable, but I want this power in the hands of native-English speaking Slovenians (i.e. people who actually care about Slovenia's image). That said, the wikipedia arbitrator and native-English speaking Nohat does back Slovenian.

By the way, do you say Croat or Croatian? I honestly don't care much which term wins dominance, since Croatia is not my country. Native-English speaking Croatians have had somewhat more luck championing their preferred term though...thanks to greater numbers and more exposure in the media, no doubt. Croat, to me, doesn't sound nearly as clumsy as Slovene. Nevertheless, Croatians I know (native-English speakers) hate it. BT2 16:45, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Eleassar777, you just made my day!!! You've done Slovenia and Slovenians a great service! Thank you. BT2 20:28, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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''As for XJaM, wait a bit more before reverting him as I expect that he will be able to understand why Slovenian is better when he will have read my last post. If not, we have a bit of a problem.''

Considering past discussions he's had with Nohat and myself (i.e. dismissing all pro-Slovenian evidence as meaningless because a teacher he respects uses 'Slovene'), I doubt he will come around.

Leaving this aside, I'm happy that you have been so persistently and courageously defending your point.

Thanks. I see Slovene as an unnatural and unappealing term today shunned by native-English speaking Slovenians and tomorrow, hopefully, shunned by all Slovenian nationals. I did what I could as a patriotic Slovenian. I do wish I had the resources (patience, time, and energy) to be as gentlemanly as you have been, however. BT2 14:04, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hey BT2 I am also patriotic as you are. I have faught for my country in 1991 and you can't say that I do not love my homeland. You do not live here (of course you are very wellcome here - but you have showed that you are not gentleman at all, because you are constantly reverting other's contributions and such). That's why talk pages are BTW. Why is "Slovene" more clumsy than "Croat" I would like to know. If something is clumsy that it is 'Slovenian' for sure. Nohat is not enough for an arbitrator futher more, because some other English native users said that both terms are equaly valid for this manner. You're leaning against English native speakers, and you think that others can not distinguish a good pronunciation. For me "Slovene" sounds just fine, in fact it sounds pretty well. I have contributed here to English wikipedia a lot, and what do I have now for that. In fact nothing. Not even a slice of contentment, just because of so sublimed users as you are as a native English speaker. If you do not know we are all equal here, the language must not be an obstacle (for me it is - so I invite you to Slovene wikipedia, we can discuss this in my native language or in both languages - English and Slovene, we can also discuss this in Russian or in Romanian if you prefer). Perhaps you'll 'invent' some new terms also in Slovene. --xJaM 23:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Srebrenica massacre
No, I'd have nothing against moving the article. In fact, if it fits the naming conventions I support the move. Asim Led 18:38, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Technetium
Scintium by Hoechst ref:

Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements, by John Emsley (New York; Oxford University Press; 2001) ISBN 0-19-850340-7, page 423, "Medical Element", paragraph 2 --mav 23:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Kangxi radical

The 214 Kangxi radicals, also known as Zihui radicals, were collated in the 18th-century Kangxi Dictionary to aid categorization of Chinese characters. They are primarily sorted by stroke count. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order characters by radical and stroke count. They are encoded in Unicode alongside other CJK characters, under the block "Kangxi radicals", while graphical variants are included with in the "CJK Radicals Supplement".

Originally introduced in the 1615 Zihui, they are more commonly referred to in relation to the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary—Kangxi being the commissioning emperor's era name. The 1915 encyclopedic word dictionary Ciyuan also uses this system. In modern times, many dictionaries that list Traditional Chinese head characters continue to use this system. For example, the Wang Li Character Dictionary of Ancient Chinese (2000) adopted the Kangxi radicals system. The system of 214 Kangxi radicals is based on the older system of 540 radicals used in the Han-era Shuowen Jiezi. Since 2009, the Chinese Government has promoted a 201-radical system (Table of Han Character Radicals) called the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components, as a national standard for use with simplified character forms.

Statistics
The Kangxi dictionary lists a total of 47,035 characters divided among the 214 radicals, for an average of 220 characters per radical, but distribution is unequal, the median number of characters per radical being 64, with a maximum number of 1,902 characters (for radical 140 艸) and a minimum number of five (radical 138  艮). The radicals have between one and seventeen strokes, the median number of strokes being 5 while the average number of strokes is slightly below 5.7.

The ten radicals with the largest number of characters account for 10,665 characters (or 23% of the dictionary). The same ten radicals account for 7,141 out of 20,992 characters (34%) in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block as introduced in 1992, as follows:

Modern dictionaries
Modern Chinese dictionaries continue to use the Kangxi radical-stroke order, both in traditional zìdiǎn (, lit. "character/logograph dictionary") for written Chinese characters and modern cídiǎn ( "word/phrase dictionary") for spoken expressions. The 214 Kangxi radicals act as a de facto standard, which may not be duplicated exactly in every Chinese dictionary, but which few dictionary compilers can afford to completely ignore. The number of radicals may be reduced in modern practical dictionaries, as some of the more obscure Kangxi radicals do not form any characters that remain in frequent use. Thus, the Oxford Concise English–Chinese Dictionary, for example, has 188 radicals. The Xinhua Zidian, a pocket-sized character dictionary containing about 13,000 characters, uses 189 radicals, later (10th ed.) increased to 201 to conform to a national standard. A few dictionaries also introduce new radicals, treating groups of radicals that are used together in many different characters as a kind of radical. For example, Hanyu Da Cidian, the most inclusive available Chinese dictionary (published in 1993) has 23,000 head character entries organised by a novel system of 200 radicals.

In Unicode
In Unicode version 3.0 (1999), a separate Kangxi Radicals block was introduced which encodes the 214 radicals in sequence, at U+2F00–2FD5. These are specific code points intended to represent the radical qua radical, as opposed to the character consisting of the unaugmented radical; thus, U+2F00 represents radical 1 while U+4E00 represents the character yī meaning "one". In addition, the CJK Radicals Supplement block (2E80–2EFF) was introduced, encoding alternative (often positional) forms taken by Kangxi radicals as they appear within specific characters. For example, ⺁ "CJK RADICAL CLIFF" (U+2E81) is a variant of ⼚ radical 27 (U+2F1A), itself identical in shape to the character consisting of unaugmented radical 27, 厂 "cliff" (U+5382).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clandestine operations

 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 and redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

clandestine operations
It's not actually about clandestine operations at all. It's about the "LaCrosse System", which we already have covered in Lacrosse (satellite). There's nothing here worth saving, a redirect from this to Lacrosse (satellite) seems inappropriate, and covert operation explains that the two are not the same. Let the redlink in Requested articles/Social Sciences and Philosophy grow properly, afresh. Uncle G 11:29, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)
 * I would redirect this to espionage, and merge anything new in the Lacrosse (satellite) article. -- Smerdis of Tlön 11:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect as above. — RJH 14:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, Redirect per Smerdis of Tlön's excellent suggestion. -- 8^D gab 15:28, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)
 * delete not all clandestine operations are necessarily espionage so that redirect is not approriate. This information can not be merged with  Lacrosse (satellite) as the two articles seem to contradict each other. Clandestine operations claims the Lacrosse system is a "infared (sic) technology system" while the other article claims the Lacrosse satellite are equipped with a "synthetic aperture radar" which to my, albeit limited, understanding is not the same thing. Dsmdgold 02:07, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

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


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User:Klortho

About me
Here is a list of the help/tutorial/policy/etc. pages that I have found useful (roughly in the order that I think they should be read as one goes from novice to experienced):

 * Citing sources tutorial video
 * Help:Citation_tools
 * Help:Contents - Master help page.
 * WP:Policy - Entry point for policies and guidelines
 * WP:Quality - Quality scale for Wikipedia articles
 * WP:Link, WP:InterWikimedia_links, WP:Overlink, WP:Underlink, WP:REPEATLINK (Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking) - when and how to do linking.
 * WP:Lead (Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section) - guidance on the lead section.

 * Help:Footnotes - Lots of gory details
 * Summary_style - Talks about "main page" links under section headings, as well as other things.
 * Drafts - Use this pseudo-namespace to work on new articles.

 * Syntax / template / wikimarkup
 * My own cheat sheet: /Editing notes

 * Templates and Infoboxes:
 * Help:Templates
 * Help:Sandbox_tutorial - How to create a user sandbox
 * Help:Magic_words - Variables you can use in templates
 * mw:Help:Magic words - More complete reference for magic words
 * mw:Help:Extension:Parser functions - additional parser functions, including conditional expressions

 * Annotated_article - Very nice sample article, with annotations, describing a few of the conventions for how articles should be formatted.
 * Be_bold
 * Cheatsheet - concise page of examples of wikitext
 * References for beginners
 * Tutorial
 * Help:Page_history - Tips and tricks re the "View history" page
 * My rights roles, etc., user rights log, List of defined groups
 * Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (WP:MEDRS)

 * Plagiarism and copyvio:
 * Plagiarism policy
 * Copying material from free sources
 * Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else? - includes list of compatible licenses
 * Where to place attribution
 * Attribution templates

Here are some quick links to key pages in my user space:

 * /Editing notes

Here are *all* the pages in my user space (this uses the "Special:PrefixIndex" template):

 * Fix Article_resources
 * Work on SANT domain (new page)
 * See if we can't clean up articles on microRNA, siRNA, Trans-acting siRNA, etc., to be ruthlessly consistent on the definitions of these molecules.
 * Redirect Public_identifier to Formal_Public_Identifier -- waiting to see if I get any response to my talk page comment (9/1/2012).
 * Steal Mr. Stradivarius's menu box. It looks much nicer than the one I have now.
 * Add PubMedHealth link to Infobox disease; see Hand, foot and mouth disease.
 * Add MESH_mult to Infobox disease. See this comment on the talk page.
 * Improve PMC. Right now it only allows linking to article numbers, not article instances.
 * Investigate Dilberri's template filling tool mentioned in the docs for that template. It is supposed to generate a fully marked up citation from a PMC number, but the link is broken.
 * Improve PubMed. It looks pretty lame.
 * That template links to this citation template generator. How is it supposed to work?
 * Are there any tools that take as input a PMCID or PMID and generate a fully-marked up ?
 * Infobox_disease template OMIM links now go to omim.org (see this discussion); but a lot of other templates are still linking to NCBI. For example, protein.  These should be fixed.  Find all the links to NCBI's OMIM site with this tool.
 * Fix protein RefSeq links to go to NCBI's RefSeq. Right now they go to UCSC.

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True Files

True Files (Chinese: 真实档案) is an English language television docu-drama telecast on MediaCorp Channel 5, with each episode (except the last episode of Season 3, The Unsolved) re-enacting major court proceedings, mostly of murder, in Singapore. When the inaugural season was telecast in 2002, its first episode was re-slotted to be telecast later, when numerous public feedback was received by the station complaining that it was too graphic after watching trailers for the pilot episode. The show was also pushed back to a 10 p.m. time slot from the fourth episode onwards as a result. Nonetheless, the hype helped the show to enjoy favourable viewership ratings. Over five years, a total of five seasons had been telecasted, with the final season airing in 2007.

The show was hosted and narrated by veteran actor Lim Kay Tong from Seasons 1 to 4. In Season 5, the host is Tay Ping Hui, and the narration is done by Brian Richmond.

Currently, the show is viewable on meWATCH (previously named Toggle). 60 out of 62 episodes (except for The Bukit Merah Maid Trial and Girl Thrown To Her Death episodes) is available on the said website from 5 February 2016 onwards.

Season 1 (Thursdays, 10.00 p.m. (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. for 1st to 3rd episodes)

 * 1. (23 April 2002): Gold Bars Triple Murders (Public Prosecutor v Chou Hock Guan Andrew and Others) (See: Gold Bars Triple Murders)
 * 2. (30 April 2002): The Trial of Mimi Wong (Public Prosecutor v Mimi Wong alias Wong Weng Siu and Sim Woh Kum alias Sim Wor Kum) (See: Mimi Wong and Sim Woh Kum)
 * 3. (7 May 2002): Cries of A Child (Public Prosecutor v Ng Cha Boo) (See: Murder of Eva Soh)
 * 4. (16 May 2002): The Trial of Adrian Lim (Public Prosecutor v Adrian Lim and Others) (See: Toa Payoh Ritual Murders)
 * 5. (23 May 2002): Who Killed Winnie Spencer? (Public Prosecutor v Joseph Michael Nonis)
 * 6. (30 May 2002): The Tenant (Public Prosecutor v Michael Tan Teow and Another) (See: Ang Mo Kio family murders)
 * 7. (6 June 2002): The Trial of Sunny Ang (Public Prosecutor v Sunny Ang) (See: Sunny Ang)
 * 8. (13 June 2002): The Sentry (Public Prosecutor v Ong Hwee Kuan and Others) (See: Murder of Lee Kim Lai)
 * 9. (20 June 2002): The Paedophile (Public Prosecutor v Lim Hock Hin Kelvin) (see: Kelvin Lim Hock Hin)
 * 10. (4 July 2002): The Horror! (Public Prosecutor v Ong Li Xia and Another [2000] SGHC 149) (see: Ang Mo Kio Terrors)
 * 11. (11 July 2002): Trusting Your Killer (Public Prosecutor v Shaiful Edham bin Adam and Another [1998] SGHC 364) (See: Murder of Iordanka Apostolova)
 * 12. (18 July 2002): Murder For Coins (Public Prosecutor v Lau Lee Peng [1999] SGHC 315) (See: 1998 Tampines flat murder)
 * 13. (25 July 2002): The Burnt Body Case (Public Prosecutor v Ramu Annadavascan and Another) (See: East Coast Parkway murder)
 * 14. (1 August 2002): Tourist From Hell (Public Prosecutor v John Martin Scripps)

Season 2 (Tuesdays, 10.00 p.m.)

 * 1. (26 August 2003): Murder He Wrote (CC 59/2001 - Public Prosecutor v Anthony Ler Wee Teang and Another) (See: Anthony Ler)
 * 2. (2 September 2003): Triple Murder (Public Prosecutor v Sek Kim Wah) (See: Andrew Road triple murders)
 * 3. (9 September 2003): Maid Abused To Death (CC 39/2002 - Public Prosecutor v Ng Hua Chye) (See: Killing of Muawanatul Chasanah)
 * 4. (16 September 2003): The School Bus Driver (CC 23/1991 - Public Prosecutor v Oh Laye Koh) (See: Murder of Liang Shan Shan)
 * 5. (23 September 2003): Murder Of Inspector T. Maniam (CC 59/1999 - Public Prosecutor v Loganatha Venkatesan and Others) (See: Murder of T. Maniam)
 * 6. (30 September 2003): The Duck Den Murder (CC 53/1997 - Public Prosecutor v Lim Chin Chong) (See: Duck Den murder)
 * 7. (7 October 2003): Murder Of Her Landlady (CC 46/1997 - Public Prosecutor v Mansoor s/o Abdullah and Others) (See: 1997 Kallang landlady murder)
 * 8. (14 October 2003): Murder Of The Italian Lady (CC 7/1992 - Public Prosecutor v Maksa bin Tohaiee) (See: Murder of Clementina Curci)
 * 9. (21 October 2003): Found Insane (Public Prosecutor v Neo Man Lee)
 * 10. (28 October 2003): Child Raped (CC 29/2002 - Public Prosecutor v Peh Thian Hui and Another) (see: Peh Thian Hui case)
 * 11. (4 November 2003): Jealousy Knows No Limit (CC 36/1985 - Public Prosecutor v Vasavan Sathiadew and Others) (See: Murder of Frankie Tan)
 * 12. (11 November 2003): The Male Woman (CC 6/1993 - Public Prosecutor v Chin Seow Noi and Others) (See: Murder of Lim Lee Tin)
 * 13. (18 November 2003): The Story Of Koh Swee Beng (CC 1/1989 - Public Prosecutor v Koh Swee Beng) (See: Koh Swee Beng case)

Season 3 (Mondays, 10.00 p.m.)

 * 1. (25 October 2004): The Pulau Senang Trial (Public Prosecutor v Tan Kheng Ann and Others) (see also: Pulau Senang prison riots)
 * 2. (1 November 2004): Rich Man, Poor Man (Public Prosecutor v Tan Freddy)
 * 3. (8 November 2004): The Fiancée's Father (Public Prosecutor v N Govindasamy) (See: Murder of Mohamed Azad)
 * 4. (15 November 2004): The Trial of Father Joachim Kang (Public Prosecutor v Kang Hock Chai Joachim)
 * 5. (22 November 2004): Killed By His Mother's Lover (Public Prosecutor v Chong Keng-Chye) (see: 1999 Ang Mo Kio child abuse case)
 * 6. (29 November 2004): Death On Pulau Ubin (Public Prosecutor v Harun bin Ripin and Another, Mohamed Yasin bin Hussin v Public Prosecutor [1976] SGPC 2)
 * 7. (6 December 2004): The Tooth Fragment (Public Prosecutor v Nadasan Chandra Secharan [1996] SGHC 228, Nadasan Chandra Secharan v Public Prosecutor [1997] SGCA 3) (See: Death of Ramapiram Kannickaisparry)
 * 8. (13 December 2004): The Moving Mini Murder (Public Prosecutor v Lee Chor Pet and Others) (See also: Kidnapping of Ong Beang Leck)
 * 9. (20 December 2004): Girl Thrown To Her Death (Public Prosecutor v Neville Hensley Anthony) (see also: Kallang Bahru rape and murder)
 * 10. (27 December 2004): Rage (Public Prosecutor v Jimmy Chua Hwa Soon [1998] SGHC 16) (See: 1996 Bedok Reservoir flat murder)
 * 11. (3 January 2005): Fatal Step (Public Prosecutor v Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah [1996] SGHC 138, Public Prosecutor v Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah (1997)) (See: Oriental Hotel Murder)
 * 12. (10 January 2005): Unsolved (Geylang Bahru Family Murders)

Season 4 (Sundays 10.00 p.m.)

 * 1. (2 April 2006): The Bukit Merah Maid Trial (CC 19/2003 - Public Prosecutor v Sundarti Supriyanto) (See: Sundarti Supriyanto)
 * 2. (9 April 2006): Serial Rapist (CC 39/2003 - Public Prosecutor v Suresh Nair)
 * 3. (16 April 2006): Itch To Kill (CC 22/1996 - Public Prosecutor v Ong Teng Siew) (See: Murder of Ng Gee Seh)
 * 4. (23 April 2006): Baby Killer (CC 15/2003 - Public Prosecutor v Soosainathan s/o Dass Saminathan) (see: Anjeli Elisaputri rape and murder)
 * 5. (30 April 2006): Bungled Burglary (CC 12/1991 - Public Prosecutor v Tan Chee Hwee and Another, CCA 14/1992 - Tan Chee Hwee and Another v Public Prosecutor)
 * 6. (7 May 2006): Headless Corpse (Public Prosecutor v Abdul Based Late Nasin Uddin)
 * 7. (14 May 2006): Murder of the Caretaker (CC 8/2004 - Public Prosecutor v Zailani bin Ahmad) (See also: Murder of Chi Tue Tiong)
 * 8. (21 May 2006): Deaf Mute Dead (CC 3/2003 - Public Prosecutor v Tan Chun Seng, CA/CCA 2/2003 - Tan Chun Seng v Public Prosecutor)
 * 9. (28 May 2006): Transvestite Killed (CC 54/1991 - Public Prosecutor v Soosay a/l Sinnappen) (See: Johore Road transvestite murder)
 * 10. (4 June 2006): Death in the Bath (Suit 600211/2000 - Yap Chwee Khim v American Home Assurance Co and Others)
 * 11. (11 June 2006): Fall Of Death (CC 6/2004 - Public Prosecutor v Lee Harith Gary (alias Lee Cheng Thiam)) (See: Murder of Diana Teo Siew Peng)
 * 12. (18 June 2006): Car Boot Murder (CC 35/2004 - Public Prosecutor v Lim Poh Lye and Another) (See: Murder of Bock Tuan Thong)
 * 13. (25 June 2006): Mistaken (CC 12/2002 - Public Prosecutor v Fazely bin Rahmat and Another) (See: Murder of Sulaiman bin Hashim)

Season 5 (Sundays, 10.00 p.m. (Monday for fifth episode)

 * 1. (7 January 2007): The Peeping Tom Trial (Public Prosecutor v Ho Joon Toh)
 * 2. (14 January 2007): Murder by Car (Public Prosecutor v Tan Cheng Eng William)
 * 3. (21 January 2007): Gun Siege (Public Prosecutor v Teo Cheng Leong) (See also: Teo Cheng Leong)
 * 4. (28 January 2007): Death At 13 (Public Prosecutor v Lim Seng Chuan)
 * 5. (5 February 2007): Strangled by Sari (CC 58/2002 - Public Prosecutor v Saminathan s/o Subramaniam)
 * 6. (11 February 2007): The Orchard Towers Double Murder (CC 17/2006 - Public Prosecutor v McCrea Michael) (See also: Orchard Towers double murders)
 * 7. (25 February 2007): Thai Pimp Killed (Public Prosecutor v Singngoi Somsak)
 * 8. (4 March 2007): The Shenton Way Shootout (CC 33/2004 - Public Prosecutor v Khor Kok Soon) (See also: Khor Kok Soon)
 * 9. (11 March 2007): Morbid Jealousy (CC 8/2005 - Public Prosecutor v G Krishnasamy Naidu) (See also: Murder of Chitrabathy Narayanasamy)
 * 10. (18 March 2007): The Maid (CC 31/2004 - Public Prosecutor v Purwanti Parji) (See also: Purwanti Parji case)

Trivia

 * The legal consultant for Seasons 1 and 2 is Senior Counsel R Palakrishnan. After Palakrishnan died in July 2003, the same year as Season 2's first telecast, Subhas Anandan becomes the new legal consultant for this docu-drama from Season 3 onwards, which first aired in the following year (2004).
 * The closing credits for Seasons 1 and 2 flipped from page to page on a black screen, accompanied by random music. In Season 3, the closing credits scrolled from bottom-to-top in a red background similar to a scene in the opening sequence, featuring the allegory of justice found at the entrance of the old Supreme Court building in Singapore; as well as accompaniment by only the opening theme music. This background and music continued to be used for closing credits in Seasons 4 and 5, except that the credits flipped from page to page as per Seasons 1 and 2.
 * The front gate of Changi Prison, despite appearing in the opening sequence throughout the first season (and the opening sequence would remain unchanged throughout the entire telecast), only appeared as a background in one of the last episodes for that season, The Burnt Body Case, when the date of execution for that accused was revealed near to the end of the episode. This background would continue to be used at the end of most episodes in Seasons 2 and 3, either revealing the date of execution or the verdict for the accused, or any important information or records (such as in The Story Of Koh Swee Beng, it mentioned about the number of prisoners on Death Row being pardoned by the President of Singapore over a period of time). It was last used in Fatal Step, the second last episode of Season 3 and the last episode in that season to feature a High Court case (due to the following and last episode, The Unsolved, being a special, did not feature any High Court case as the murderers were never found).

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Electroputere

Electroputere S.A. (which translates as Electropower in English) was a Romanian company based in Craiova. Founded in 1949, it was one of the largest industrial companies in Romania. Electroputere has produced more than 2,400 diesel locomotives, and 1,050 electric locomotives for the Romanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, and Polish railways, additionally producing other urban vehicles and complex equipment.

Products
Electroputere are currently manufactures of:
 * Industrial electrical parts – circuit breakers, transformers etc.
 * Industrial electric motors & Converters
 * Heavy duty power transformers
 * Railway and Urban vehicles.

They also have divisions specialising in:
 * Forging and molding metal
 * Equipment repairing
 * Tools modernisation.

Export orders
A total of 1,105 locomotives were delivered between 1972 and 1991 to railway companies in the following countries:
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
 * 🇨🇳 China
 * 🇬🇷 Greece
 * 🇮🇷 Iran
 * 🇵🇱 Poland
 * United Kingdom
 * Yugoslavia

One of its more notable foreign orders was for the Class 56 locomotives for British Rail. The 30 locomotives were outsourced to Electroputere because Brush Traction could not build them at its own plant; however, upon their arrival in the UK, the machines were deemed to be unsuitable for use, as they suffered from poor construction standards, and had to be withdrawn and extensively rebuilt. (However, they were seen as being perfectly reasonable for use in Romania by the Romanian crews who tested them).

In 1955–1959, Electroputere produced the V54 tram, which was delivered to the cities of Bucharest, Timișoara and Oradea. Unmodified examples ran up to 1989, whilst the largest number of examples ran in Bucharest, serving as the backbone of the city's network in the 1960s (they were later modernized in 1976–1982, and ran up to June 2000). Aside from this, Electroputere modernized multiple V3A trams between 1997 and 2002, with the first three of them receiving Holec (Holland Electric) equipment. Between 1994 and 1996, Electroputere and FAUR modernized multiple Astra IVA sets for operation on the M2 line of the Bucharest Metro, the project eventually failed and the blue IVA sets never entered service.

The most important railway locomotives, as classed by the Romanian railway factory nomenclature were the LDE 2100, LE 5100 and LDE 3000/4000, which were mainly delivered to the Romanian Railways, and a few foreign customers. Apart from the latter, which were withdrawn in the mid-1990s and early-2000s due to their uneconomical nature and increased fuel consumption, the LDE 2100 and LE 5100 form the backbone of the Romanian Railways network.

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User talk:Violetriga/statusdevelopment

Comments
I like the idea, but with constant changes to the messages included, it would be hard to make it into a template. You'd need a template for each possible state of a certain section. For example, how would you deal with articles that've had 4 or 5 FACs? Do you have any ideas on how to solve that? Mgm|(talk) 17:58, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * There are two possible ways:
 * Use header and footer templates for the box, then multiple FAC section templates (with parameters) could be inserted
 * Use an infobox system and separate each nomination with a <BR/>
 * But that's why I'm looking for more comments - would these two both be too complicated over existing solutions? And if so, how could we make it simple?  Cheers for raising the question. violet/riga (t) 18:19, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Alternatively we could just make sure that all the tags are right aligned and of the same style - perhaps they'd match up neatly then. violet/riga (t) 18:25, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template idea implemented. violet/riga (t) 14:10, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * With the way I've tried to do it I'm hoping that it would be both backwards compatible and not require any changes to the existing systems: to highlight something as a FAC you would still just add fac, for example.

 * Talk:Automatic number plate recognition is:
 * oldpeerreview
 * featured
 * iwc1-nom
 * To change to the new system would just require the templates updated and the first two to be swapped around (though even that is a minor aesthetic point). violet/riga (t) 16:42, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Shouldn't the date of a peer review request or a FAC nomination be included in the template too to show better how an article progressed over time? Mgm|(talk) 21:58, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that's a very good idea. Perhaps  would be the best way of implementing this. violet/riga (t) 23:39, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'd like to get clarification on what is being proposed. As I understand it, Violet is proposing to change several of the heavily used talk-page templates (featured, FAC, et al) to give them a consistent look and feel. This would not require re-tagging large numbers of articles, nor would it require people to start doing things differently. If this is true, then yes, this sounds like a good idea. →Raul654 13:25, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's exactly it, and thanks. violet/riga (t) 13:27, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

PS - just make sure that the page looks good no matter what order the templates are used in. In other words, the page should look fine if it has either

OR

Otherwise, you're gonna have a nightmare trying to make sure all the templates are used in the right order. →Raul654 13:29, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, while I am thinking about it, there are some COTWs that use them as well (the crypo project comes to mind) - you might want to talk to them too. →Raul654 13:31, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

I really like the idea (assuming everything works). I didn't liked the idea to put templates for everything (like "this was once on peer review") on the talk-pages, but with a consistent look like this it looks really good IMO. --Conti|✉ 22:12, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thoughts on new layout
I like the idea of consistency, but I'm not very keen on this particular new layout, I'm afraid. My thoughts are 1) It currently takes up too much vertical space. We want tags like this to take up as little vertical space as possible, because of pages that use multiple tags (see, for example, Talk:Caesar cipher). 2) Less serious, I guess, but I dislike the colours — the light blue, really. At least, could there be a way these colours could be customised using user style sheets? — Matt Crypto 12:07, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Everyone who commented on this likes the idea, but not everyone likes the layout, so it was proposed to start a contest on the best design for this proposal. I think that's a good idea, we just need some wikipedians to create a few desings we can vote on. :-) --Conti|✉ 13:00, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I also like the idea, but very much disagree with the sea foam green and lavender motif. Perhaps a move away from conflicting pastels into something earthier? – ClockworkSoul 14:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Much like Matt Crypto, I very much like the idea, but don't like amount of space the templates take on the page. How about shrinking the font size for starters?  —msh210 15:15, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) Nevermind: I just realized this discussion is only about templates that go on talk pages. I don't mind the amount of room templates take up on talk pages.   —msh210 15:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * One problem is that it's helpful to be able to see the Table of Contents, and not have it pushed off page by the tags (particularly on low resolutions like 800x600 pixel displays). — Matt Crypto 15:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I don't like the light blue either. Didn't you have another color before? Anyway, see the template on DYK. It doesn't interfere with the TOC. Mgm|(talk) 20:24, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm with the others above who dislike this design. Consumes unnecessary space (table too wide and high, no need for large bolded "Featured Article" followed by blank line). I personally don't like little specialized table flourishes like the thickened left/right borders-- they make the eye jump and you wonder "what's going on, is there something else to click here?" only to find out it's just something somebody thought was visually cool. Obviously, all these judgments are subjective which is why we need a little contest. But even though everyone seems to agree on the contest, violetr keeps making this design live. Why? JDG 06:27, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Width
I've updated the templates regarding the widths - I think that should help with the TOC and size issues. Thanks for the comments. I think the colours look good, though obviously I'm biased. I welcome people playing around and working towards a new system (including the competition suggestion) - what I really don't like is people just reverting it without discussion or collaboration, as template:featured has seen. violet/riga (t) 15:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My go at templates
Hello, someone said they preferred 'earthy' colours for the templates, so I've had a go at making my own version of the templates Violetriga has done a new version of. I've also changed some of the wording slightly. It's at User:Talrias/Templates. Please give feedback! Talrias (t | e | c) 16:23, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vote on general idea
What about we start a vote whether the general idea is a good one? I'm quite sure that it will pass, but it will hopefully guide more attention to this page. After that, we could start a design contest, Talrias already created a design for this idea. What do you all think? --Conti|✉ 22:39, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * It's a very good idea - I was going to reorganise this one as a vote until the revert war annoyed me too much (best to step away). violet/riga (t) 22:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Sure, definitely! I was going to do some soliciting for feedback on both Violetriga's and my designs, but I wasn't sure where abouts to put it. Since you're both admins you probably have a better sense of where to visit. Talrias (t | e | c) 22:47, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Just for the record, and in response to the comments elsewhere that there is no support for this proposal, I think bringing some consistency to these templates is a fine idea, and I have no objections to either the proposals of violet/riga or Talrias. (People are much more likely to post when they object to something than when they approve; just because there are more "ugh" than "great" posts does not mean that there is universal opprobrium. Keep up the good work.) -- ALoan (Talk) 09:32, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Could we, while waiting for the vote to be put in place and end, revert all affected templates to those people had worked to achieve before. The constant edit wars demonstrate these are not currently wanted (and if they are, the vote will show this). --Oldak Quill 15:11, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Alfred H. Rzeppa

Alfred Hans Rzeppa (January 23, 1885, Gliwice – January 1965) was an American engineer of Silesian descent working at Ford Motor Company who invented a version of constant-velocity joint in 1926. He proposed an improved design in 1936.

Rzeppa's design uses six balls and an inner and outer race to provide almost constant velocity torque transfer regardless of the joint angle. The joint works in a similar manner to a bevel gear with the balls bisecting the joint angle and functioning as the "teeth" to transmit torque.

The description of the two versions of the Rzeppa joint can be found in the US patents 2,010,899 and 2,046,584.

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Andre Markgraaff

Andries Thomas "Andre" Markgraaff (born 23 December 1956) is a retired South African rugby union lock. He matriculated at Diamantveld High School and was a controversial national coach, who resigned after he was taped using the racial term kaffir.

Playing career
Markgraaff was selected for the South African team in 1986 against the Cavaliers but as an unused substitute. Markgraaff also represented Western Transvaal, Western Province, Griqualand West and the then South West Africa in 20 games. He captained the South African Barbarians on a tour to Europe and the Junior Springboks.

Coaching
In 1988, he became coach of Griqualand West. He became president of Griquas in 1991.

In 1996, Markgraaff was appointed as the Springbok rugby coach. In 1997 Markgraaff was forced to quit after his controversial racial statements, when he referred to a black senior rugby administrator Mluleki George as a "kaffir". In his apology, Markgraaff said
 * "I'm not making any excuses. I was very emotional at the time. I apologise to the black people of this country and to the whites for causing them embarrassment."

During his short reign the Springboks won eight and lost five tests.

In 1998, Markgraaff took the Griquas to victory in the Vodacom Cup and then to the semifinals of the Currie Cup, losing by 11–27 to the. He also coached the Cats in Super Rugby and was a founder of the PUK Rugby Institute.

Markgraaff made a comeback in rugby administration and was the Deputy President of SARFU and the convener of SARFU's technical committee.

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Great Seto Bridge

The Great Seto Bridge or Seto Ohashi Bridge (瀬戸大橋) is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Built over the period 1978–88, it is one of the three routes of the Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands and the only one to carry rail traffic. The total length is 13.1 km, and the longest span, the Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge, is 1,100 m.

Crossing the bridge takes about 20 minutes by car or train. The ferry crossing before the bridge was built took about an hour.

The bridges carry two lanes of highway traffic in each direction (Seto-Chūō Expressway) on the upper deck and one railway track in each direction (Seto-Ōhashi Line) on the lower deck. The lower deck was designed to accommodate an additional set of Shinkansen tracks for a proposed extension of the Shinkansen to Shikoku.

History
[[File:Map of Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project.svg|thumb|Green: Great Seto Bridge

Yellow: Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway

Red: Nishiseto Expressway]] When in 1889 the first railway in Shikoku was completed between Marugame and Kotohira, a member of the Prefectural Parliament, Jinnojo Ōkubo (大久保諶之丞), stated in his speech at the opening ceremony: "The four provinces of Shikoku are like so many remote islands. If united by roads, they will be much better off, enjoying the benefits of increased transportation and easier communication with each other."

While it took a century for this vision of a bridge across the Seto Inland Sea to become reality, another of Ōkubo's ideas, mentioned in a drinking song he composed, was accomplished twenty years sooner:
 * I'll tell you, dear, don't laugh at me,
 * a hundred years from now, I'll be seeing you
 * flying to and from the moon in a space ship.
 * Its port, let me tell you, dear,
 * will be that mountaintop over there!

The bridge idea lay dormant for about sixty years. In 1955, after 171 people died when a ferry wrecked in dense fog off the coast of Takamatsu, a safer crossing was deemed necessary. By 1959, meetings were held to promote building the bridge. Scientists began investigations shortly after, and in 1970, the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Construction Authority was inaugurated. However, work was postponed for five years by the "oil shock" of 1973; once the Environment Assessment Report was published in 1978, construction got underway. The ferry disaster also led to the creation of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge.

The project took ten years to complete at a cost of US$7 billion; 3.646 e6m3 of concrete and 705,000 tons of steel were used in construction. Although nets, ropes and other safety measures were employed, the lives of 13 workers were lost during the 10 years of construction. The bridge opened to road and rail traffic on April 10, 1988.

Constituent bridges

Six of the eleven bridges are separately named, unlike some other long bridge complexes such as the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The other five bridges are viaducts. The six named bridges from north to south are listed below.

 * Shimotsui-Seto Bridge: The Shimotsui-Seto Bridge (34.43083°N, 133.80622°W 下津井瀬戸大橋) is a double-decked suspension bridge with a center span of 940 m and a total length of 1400 m which connects Honshū with the island of Hitsuishijima. It is the 45th largest suspension bridge in the world. It is the northernmost bridge of the Seto-Chuo Expressway.
 * Hitsuishijima Bridge: The Hitsuishijima Bridge (34.40972°N, 133.80711°W 櫃石島橋) is a double-decked cable-stayed bridge with a center span of 420 m and a total length of 790 m. It is immediately north of the identical Iwakurojima Bridge.
 * Iwakurojima Bridge: The Iwakurojima Bridge (34.40175°N, 133.80917°W 岩黒島橋) is a double-decked cable-stayed bridge with a center span of 420 m and a total length of 790 m. It is immediately south of the identical Hitsuishijima Bridge.
 * Yoshima Bridge: The Yoshima Bridge (34.39367°N, 133.81256°W 与島橋) is a continuous double-decked truss bridge with a main span of 246 m and a total of five spans with a length of 847 m. It is immediately south of the Hitsuishijima and Iwakurojima Bridges.
 * Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge: The Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge (34.39542°N, 133.82047°W 北備讃瀬戸大橋) is a double-decked suspension bridge with two sections linked by a common anchorage between them. The center span is 990 m and the total length is 1538 m. It is the 19th largest suspension bridge in the world. The nearly identical Minami Bisan Seto Bridge is located immediately to the south.
 * Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge: The Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge (34.36417°N, 133.82528°W 南備讃瀬戸大橋) is a double-decked suspension bridge with a center span of 1100 m and a total length of 1648 m. It is the 13th longest suspension bridge span in the world. It is the southernmost part of the Great Seto Bridge.  The roadway of the bridge is 93 m above sea level.

Sister bridges

 * Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, United States
 * Affiliated from April 5, 1988
 * Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
 * Affiliated from July 3, 1988
 * Øresund Bridge, Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Affiliated from May 24, 2008

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User:Howard Geraint Ricketts~enwiki

This is my user page

Articles
nothing at the moment...

Scientific Publications (incomplete)
This is a list of the scientific publications that I have been involved with. If memory serves me well there are about ten of them dotted about, ranging from solid-state to supra-molecular and computational chemistry...(http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=h.g.ricketts&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N)
 * P. R. Ashton, R. Ballardini, V. Balzani, S. E. Boyd, A. Credi, M. T. Gandolfi, M. Gomez-Lopez, S. Iqbal, D. Philp, J. A. Preece, L. Prodi, H. G. Ricketts, J. F. Stoddart, M. S. Tolley, M. Venturi, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, Chem. Eur. J., 1997, 3, 152
 * R. Ballardini, V. Balzani, M. T. Gandolfi, L. Prodi, M. Venturi, D. Philp, H. G. Ricketts, J. F. Stoddart, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1993, 32, 1301
 * R. Ballardini, V. Balzani, M. T. Gandolfi, L. Prodi, M. Venturi, D. Philp, H. G. Ricketts, J. F. Stoddart, Angew. Chem. 1993, 105, 1362

Stuff I find usefull
There is a good guide to How to edit a page.

 * User:Howard Geraint Ricketts/Test page

The basics and examples of writing Mathematical stuff is found at Help:Formula.

Some Examples

 * $$ H |\psi(t)\rang = E |\psi(t)\rang $$
 * $$ i \hbar {\partial\over\partial t} \left| \psi (t) \right\rangle = E |\psi(t)\rang $$.
 * $$ \left| \psi (t) \right\rangle = e^{-i E t / \hbar} |\psi(0)\rang $$
 * $$|\psi(t)\rang = \sum_n c_n(t) |n\rang \quad,\quad H |n\rang = E_n |n\rang \quad,\quad \sum_n |c_n(t)|^2 = 1$$

$$-{\hbar^2 \over 2m} \nabla^2 \Psi + V \Psi= i \hbar {\partial\Psi\over\partial t}$$

"that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know".

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Marita Covarrubias

Marita Covarrubias is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series The X-Files. She was initially introduced as an informant, leaking diplomatic information to FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder to aid his investigation of paranormal cases, dubbed X-Files. However, she was revealed to be an agent of the secretive Syndicate, although ultimately betraying that organization on several occasions. Introduced in the fourth season opener "Herrenvolk", the character remained a recurring presence until the series' finale, "The Truth".

The character of Marita Covarrubias was portrayed by Laurie Holden in all her appearances. She was introduced as a replacement for Steven Williams' character X, after the latter was killed by a Syndicate assassin. The character has received mixed criticism, being compared unfavorably to similar characters from the series.

Conceptual history
The X-Files' creator Chris Carter felt it would be "more interesting for Mulder's next contact to be a woman", noting that he "wanted there to be some suspicion about whether Mulder would become involved with her romantically. X, the character who had previously filled Covarrubias' role as an informant in the series, had originally been cast as a female character. However Natalija Nogulich, the actress cast in that role, was replaced by Steven Williams after shooting her first scene.

When auditioning for the role of Marita Covarrubias, Laurie Holden was not allowed access to an episode script, instead simply being told that her character worked for the United Nations and had an air of "intelligent seriousness". The actress had never seen the series before she auditioned for the part, and was required to audition using only three pages of scripted material from what would be her debut episode. Holden was required to learn Russian for the episode "Patient X", and commented that roughly fifteen seconds of screen-time took hours to rehearse. The voice coach responsible for instructing Holden and Nicholas Lea in their Russian dialogue tested their proficiency by asking them to speak to Russian-speaking friends of his over the telephone. Holden felt that the two-part episode "Two Fathers" and "One Son" offered her "cold, emotionless, private" character a chance to come across as "vulnerable, exposed and raw".

Character arc

Marita Covarrubias is introduced as an informant to Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) after the death of his former source, X (Steven Williams). X scrawls the letters "SRSG" in his own blood as he dies, leading Mulder to the Special Representative to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Covarrubias uses her diplomatic connections to help Mulder infiltrate the Russian province of Krasnoyarsk, allowing him to reach the site of the Tunguska event. However, it is later seen that Covarrubias is working for The Smoking Man (William B. Davis) and the Syndicate.

During the fifth season, the Syndicate discovered that Covarrubias had betrayed them and was providing information to Mulder. Covarrubias was infected with black oil during her betrayal of the Syndicate, and Syndicate scientists used her to test a vaccine they had been working to create. While the Syndicate-developed vaccine proves ineffective, Covarrubias' infection is ultimately cured by an effective vaccine stolen from a Russian shadow-government group by Alex Krycek. In the following season, Covarrubias is discovered by FBI agent Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens) at a decontamination chamber. She begs him to help her escape the facility, addressing him by name as well as giving him information about the whereabouts of his mother, Cassandra. Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea), a former Syndicate agent now acting alone, is also present at the facility. He declines to help the pair, and leaves Covarrubias for dead.

Covarrubias returns in the seventh season finale "Requiem", restored to health. She makes contact with Krycek at the behest of The Smoking Man, who wishes to resume the work of the now-eradicated Syndicate. Having been given the location of a downed UFO, she and Krycek betray The Smoking Man, instead going to FBI assistant director Walter Skinner and Mulder to inform them about the craft. They later turn on The Smoking Man, pushing him down a flight of stairs and leaving him for dead.

In the series finale "The Truth", Skinner seeks Covarrubias as a witness in Mulder's trial for murder. After Skinner fails to track her down, the ghost of X hands Mulder a scrap of paper with her new address on it. She is called upon to testify, and speaks about her involvement with the Syndicate to some extent. However, when pressed for further information about the continuation of the conspiracy she clams up, and at Mulder's request is dismissed from the stand for fear that if she divulges certain knowledge, she would be killed.

Reception
The character of Marita Covarrubias has been met with generally negative criticism. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that the character was "used so perfunctorily since her introduction" that her appearances added little to the episodes she featured in, describing her as a "bad parody" of the earlier characters Deep Throat and X. Debra Warlick, writing for Cinefantastique, felt that Holden's acting in "One Son" was "heart breaking [sic]", but found that she had "unfortunately" been used simply to convey a plot point to other characters. Also writing for Cinefantastique, Paula Vitaris noted that Covarrubias "is a problematic character", adding that "she never breaks out of her function as a plot device". Zack Handlen, writing for The A.V. Club, felt that Covarrubias' introduction in "Herrenvolk" was ill-timed, noting that it "deflates the importance" of X's death in the episode.

Writer Frank Spotnitz has described Covarrubias, along with Alex Krycek, as "young, attractive, vital [and] dangerous" compared to the other, older, characters working for the Syndicate. Holden has compared the character to Mata Hari, adding that "you can't really read what she's saying or what her intentions are". During the series' initial broadcast run, fans referred to Covarrubias as "UNblonde", a reference to her United Nations posting and her dyed hair.

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User:Bogdangiusca/languages

Languages from Britannica without articles in Wikipedia. (as of 7 May 2005; may include some blue links)

 * 1) Lak-Dargin languages
 * 2) Meso-American Indian languages
 * 3) Avar-Andi-Dido languages
 * 4) Azteco-Tanoan languages
 * 5) Semelaic languages
 * 6) South American Indian languages
 * 7) South Arabic language

Bad redirects
Redirecting to its language family or ethnic group is a bad idea.

 * 1) Lahnda language
 * 2) Macro-Algonquian languages

To check

 * 1) Nakho-Dagestanian languages

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User talk:Charles Godwin

Welcome to the Wikipedia
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

 * Tutorial
 * Help desk
 * Foundation issues
 * Policy Library

For more information click  here . You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~.

(Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 11:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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The Son of Man

The Son of Man (Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork.

Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow.

About the painting, Magritte said: "At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."

Similar paintings
The Son of Man closely resembles two other Magritte paintings. The Great War (La grande guerre, 1964) is a variation on The Son of Man which pictures only the figure from the torso up. The Taste of the Invisible (Le Gout de l'invisible) is a gouache painting of the same subject.

Another painting from the same year, called The Great War on Facades (La Grande Guerre Façades, 1964), features a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea (as in The Son of Man), but it is a woman, holding an umbrella, her face covered by flowers. There is also Man in the Bowler Hat, a similar painting wherein a man's face is obscured by a bird rather than an apple.

In popular culture
In 1970, Norman Rockwell created a playful homage to The Son of Man as a 13 by oil painting entitled Mr. Apple, in which a man's head is replaced, rather than hidden, by a red apple.

The painting plays an important role in the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair. It appears several times, first when Crown and Catherine Banning are walking through the museum and she jokingly calls it his portrait, and particularly in the final robbery scenes when numerous men wearing bowler hats and trench coats carry briefcases throughout the museum to cover Crown's movements and confuse the security team.

The green apple was an ongoing motif in Magritte's work. His use of it in the 1966 painting Le Jeu De Morre, owned by Paul McCartney, inspired the Beatles to name their record company Apple Corps.

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User talk:80.41.227.107

Ship class articles
Nice work on the Evarts- and Buckley-class destroyer escorts!

I took the liberty of renaming the articles and copyediting them a bit so they match the style of other articles on ships and ship classes. In particular, your articles are now at This matches the conventions agreed at Naming conventions (ships).
 * Captain class frigate
 * Evarts class destroyer escort
 * Buckley class destroyer escort

I look forward to seeing more articles from you. Gdr 11:41, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

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