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User talk:Kappa/1

First archive of my talk page.

Falklands war
Why do you think sovereignty issues were settled? Do wars settle sovereignty issues? Galtieri though that, by the way. He was dead wrong. Ejrrjs 21:20, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. let me explain you first why I worded it exactly that way. My first encounter with Wikipedia was on exactly this article. I found it quite biased towards the UK position (to comply with the wishes of its inhabitants is the formulaic expression of their soverignty claim.) From the Argentine POV that point is not relevant; if someone enters illegally into your house, it is not the wishes of the trespasser that should prevail.

I tried to talk about it in the so-called "talk page" but instead of a reasonable discussion, I only found much agitation around the kelpers wishes (which I couldn't care less, as that was irrelevant to the outcome of the war to start with). Over there you'll find 3 facts that weren't affected by the war, but were equally non-relevant. Instead of starting an edit war, I thought for a long time on how to balance that very first paragraph. When I finally found a sensible way to do it...you change it asap.

Ok, let's go back to the exact wording. There is a sovereignty conflict recognized by the UN Committee on decolonization (see here for a random sample). It is NOT just a zany statement from Argentina. So, please, let's revert the phrase, or let's seek a common ground if you disagree for some reason on my edit.

Ejrrjs 21:41, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! Ejrrjs 22:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reply
Well, yes, that is how the Koreans ike to call it in English. In Chinese, it is called <<悄悄愛上你>>. This means Love affair in Chinese. I got all this from my local Singaporean magazine, and I managed to write Kim Jae Won because I saw him starring in the drama. This drama, though not that popular and not written in the empas filmography, do exist. I would also strongly encourage to edit and create any articles about Korean celebrities. You are welcome to do so. Thanks, User:Chan Han Xiang

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 1000 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)

HYP
May I ask you to please read the evidence that I have posted on Votes for deletion/HYP, follow and read some of the links that Google brings up, and consider whether afterwords you still want to merge the article? Thank you. —Lowellian (talk)  09:00, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Kanji
Hi

Thanks for adding the kanji to the Taijin kyofusho article; if you have time could you do the same for Japanese Wolf? Thanks, Ziggurat 20:49, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Ziggurat 20:11, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

West End Theatre
You voted for West End Theatre, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:26, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Rough Japanese (? I'm assuming) to English translations
From the note (that I can't actually read, of course) that you left at Talk:Japaharinet, I'm hoping you could see if this anon, who seems to be mostly comfortable with English and Wikipedia standards, would be willing to help polish the contributions of this anon who's kinda shaky on both. Niteowlneils 04:57, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not too comfortable doing that, but I'll try to polish them a bit myself and hopefully he will pick things up. Kappa 05:38, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

VfD mishap
Hello, could you please move your signed vote from Votes for deletion/IntellNet Software to Votes for deletion/Protex blue, where it belongs. The person who nominated Protex blue messed the entry so that some of the votes went to the subpage preceding it in the main listing. Thanks, jni 12:06, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Lena Park
For Korean Americans:How about the Dean Harold Hongju Koh? Mr Tan, 11.44, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess that's the most common way his name is used in English, try googling it. "Lena Junghyun Park" doesn't get any google hits at all. Kappa 21:43, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Smyslovye Gallucinacii VfD
The article has been expanded by User:Mikkalai. You may want to change your vote on the related VfD discussion. Grue 12:55, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The DDR phenomenon
I am planning to write an article on this topic, see DDR talk. SYSS Mouse 03:53, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Evil Rabid Jigglypuff Of Doom
I'm having trouble with my listing of the Jigglypuff page for VfD. I think the problem is I initially created the section heading with 2 "=" characters instead of 3. It is visible through the "this page's entry" link, but does not seem to show up in today's Table of Contents on VfD. Any ideas how to fix this? Johntex 17:47, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

VfD page
Hi there! We seem to be disagreeing on a lot of VfD issues. But I've noticed that you tend to vote exclusively for keeping just about anything (possibly on the basis of "does the value this brings to our readers ultimately outweigh the cost of disk space to our servers?". I like that argument, I can vote "keep" on almost everything verifiable with that., although I hope that was a joke).

I would like to suggest that Wikipedia is aiming towards quality of information, rather than quantity, and that there are good reasons for deleting a lot of articles. Even speedily deleting them, in some cases. I don't mean to be rude but "It's a finite list" and "It's relevant to corset wearers" aren't particularly valid arguments for keeping an article.

Yours, Radiant! 15:15, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC) Hi :) OK in order, the top one was actually a joke, but the nominator was kind enough to supply that reason, so I used it. I believe that Wikipedia should aim to increase its total quantity of quality information, rather that its average level per article, and that's generally how I vote. I agree with a lot of deletions, I watch the deletion log and I disagree with about 0.1% of them. "Finite list" isn't a reason for keeping, but "potentially infinite list" has been used as a reason for deletion, so I thought it was worth mentioning. "It's relevant to corset wearers" seems entirely valid to me, for those who want to know how safe it is, the biography of the record holder is a valuable piece of evidence.

Votes for deletion/Wan Azizah Ismail
Please see my comments on this article. --Viriditas | Talk 03:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re:Redirect DDR Freak?
If you check the page's history, I did redirect it a day or two ago, but it was reverted because it survived VfD the first time. I think it needs to go through the VfD process or it'll keep being reverted. --Poiuytman 10:51, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Norwegian Wiktionary
Thanks for pointing me to the Norwegian Wiktionary Page. Somehow (stupid me...) I just missed it completely:) Tobyox 20:40, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Jeffdedejeff
Please check your vote in Votes for deletion/Jeffdedejeff. It looks like the vandal managed to trick you. Check the history of the voting subpage. jni 08:30, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

129.177.61.124 reporting
Hello, Kappa. After some votes on the vfd you have urged me to get a username to get my vote fully counted. Is that some vfd-policy? Anyway, I have one now. Sjakkalle 13:09, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: votes for deletion queries
Hey Kappa, thanks for your concern, but don't be worried, I'm not overly emotional about that particular nomination, but objectively unhappy with people using the term "notable" like it has some objective meaning and thus can be a criterion for deletion. If I had the effort, I would similarly query all silly vote rationales which provide no further explaination than "not notable" or something equivocal. Take care, nsh 11:59, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) (Xposted from User_talk:Nsh)

VFD
You "don't believe [my] action was done out of concern for my freedom from spam"? Why, then, do you think I did it? It certainly wasn't because I care about the outcome of the votes. — Dan | Talk 16:48, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Weebl and Bob transcripts
Well, it's not like it's solely my idea, as there were other pages already existing with Weebl and Bob transcripts, so I only felt that it was right to make the list complete. Let me contact Mr. Picking (Weebl) and ask him what he believes is good. MessedRocker 18:17, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Tommy Makem
Very good start on the article. I'd even go so far as to call it a short article rather than a stub. Of course it could use some expansion, so maybe I'll do a little research and see if I can come up with a little more about him, particularly his early days. One thing though, you mention some of his most famous songs, and I was wondering if those were all songs he wrote, or just songs he was famous for singing. I know he wrote "Four Green Fields", and it has to be his most famous. I wasn't sure about the others, but if they are meant to be songs he wrote then does "Farewell to Carlingford" belong? I sort of thought that was older, but I'm really not sure. Anyway, good job. -R. fiend 22:17, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Angel One VFD
Why are you putting Angel One up for deletion? There are plenty of Star Trek synopsis pages just like it. Yes, it'a a boring episode, but Angel One has survived a pervious attempt at deletion, why continue to press the issue. I seen there are plenty of votes to keep it and other users have mentioned the previous VFD and agree it should stay. I've taken the liberty of removing the VFD regardless cause it's a moot point in my opinion. I'm not here to start a flame war over it, since deleting Star Trek pages is obviosuly a losing battle around here. Cyberia23 22:30, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I put Angel One up for Vfd because things are changing around here, and most other fancruft is getting merged and/or deleted. I know we are supposed to value inconsistency, but I think it would be misleading to new contributors to have a big stack of Trek episodes but not allow similar articles for other TV series or mangas or whatever. I have replaced the tag. Kappa 01:52, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is a plethoria of knowledge, both useless and useful. Since there happens to be a bunch of detailed Trek stuff, that means there are more people who happen to be contributing toward it at the moment than other things. I have seen a lot of info on other shows like anime and sci-fi. I'm sure, eventually those will be covered more and more. It takes some time. Just because BOOM it ain't all detailed yet doesn't mean what is started should be trashed. I spent a lot of time on the stuff I written, and I've gotten mostly positive support for it. Thats why I continue to do it, and I'll be more than pissed cause some lamers don't want it around. In my opinion, like everything else in the world, if you don't like something, why is it so damn hard to IGNORE it? Don't like it, then don't look at it. Theres tons of other stuff to read. Cyberia23 07:26, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry that this nomination has caused you stress, but I don't think you understand the situation. The majority view in Vfd is that detail like this should be merged or preferably deleted. The reason that Trek stuff survives is mainly because there are a lot of Trekkie wikipedians, who will all show up and vote "keep". Vfd voters know this, so they don't bother to vote "delete" even when that's what they want. Other fields can never become equally detailed, because there just aren't enough people working on them for detail to survive Vfd. I don't have a problem with Trek stuff being in wikipedia, but the trouble is Trek detail confuses people into thinking they can make detail for whatever other field they are interested in, and they end up wasting their time. That's why I don't want to ignore it. Kappa 11:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Well I don't agree that the deleters will win simply becuase they don't cast a vote. I wonder why Wikipeda even allows votes when they state on the main VFD page; "Wikipedia place is not a democracy". Whats the point in "voting" if that is the case? All I can say is I assure you I won't be "stressed" if my work gets deleted. Yes I'll be annoyed, but I'll live. My thinking about the whole issue is, since there are already established episodes entries, then what harm is there to "fill in details"? Most of those pages are stubs anyway, I was filling the void. I can see the cleaning up other sideline entries, like for certain starships or planets that aren't necessary to have their own entries. I try to cover their information in the episode synopis to where they were featured. I think all those should be taken down. Anyway, this something I enjoy doing in my spare time. Seeing it as "wasted time" is just a matter of opinion. If they are taken down, then thats what happens. I'll probably just leave Wikipedia in protest like so many other sites that were once enjoyable for me, but eventually become screwed over by bureaucratic B.S. I understand what your saying about consolidating and trying to keep things uniform around here. It's a never ending battle. I've been trying to keep the Trek stuff under control where I can, but I can't devote every second of my life maintaining it. I was hoping by getting it organized it would set an example for others who'd like to detail other TV shows, or comics, games, or whatever, in a similar fashon. One thing that is cool about Wikipedia is you can find something on just about anything. It's really amazing. I think my reovation of the Trek episodes would put an end to confusion. Anyway, we'll see what happens. Good luck in your crusade, no hard feelings, but I hope this place can come to a compromise. I am more than willing to help out in any clean up effort, but I wouldn't destroy everything without discussion or coming up with a compromise first. Cyberia23 22:47, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wiktionary tag
Please stop removing the wikitionary tag. Even if you don't think it's a candidate for speedy deletion, you should not be removing wiktionary tags from those article that clearly are candidates for moving to wiktionary. Kevin Rector 19:51, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

The reason they are not redundant is because all the articles marked with the wiktionary tag are going to be transwikied in the near future. After that they are going to be deleted unless they have evolved into an encyclopedia article. There are over 1000 articles that are going to be transwikied.

What I was trying to do was to clean up a few that are already in the wiktionary so that they wouldn't need to be transwikied. But it's no big deal if we don't speedy them (although the vast majority of them have less information than the wiktionary articles). I was just trying to say the wiktionarians some work. Kevin Rector 20:04, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Videopac
Given your improvements to save Golf (Videopac game) from deletion, I thought you might consider helping Laser War (Videopac game) and Morse (Videopac game). -- Cyrius|✎ 03:52, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Power Of Love
I entirely agree with your assessment. However, I'm now unsure as to what my course of action should be. Please could you aid me in doing the right thing so as not to screw this whole thing up? The matter of this subject has dizzied me somewhat. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience. Thank you for your help. Bobo192 20:17, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Sincere thanks. I couldn't have previously wagered upon my confusion, but as I say, that seems like the right thing to do. I think I'll just stick to just doing things which don't get me confused in the future. ;) Bobo192 20:51, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Huh?
I believe consensus holds that Australian grass is pretty much similar to grass anywhere else. Would you care to explain what your point is with this and other veiled statements of discontent you have made over the past week? It's not that I feel particularly attacked by what you say, it's just that I'm entirely unsure what you are trying to accomplish. Radiant_* 21:30, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Certainly. I'm all in favor of articles on Grass and Australia. However, unless there's something special about in  there's really no reason for that cross-sectional article. That would be a non-topic. As a matter of fact, I'm daring you to write an interesting article on Australian grass that does not duplicate existing content at Australia and Grass. I'm also all in favor of consensus, or I wouldn't be here.  Radiant_* 22:06, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Metallic fiber
Why did you pull my speedy delete off Metallic fiber? The article is nonsense. "metallic fiber" isn't something you can write an article about, it's a collection of two words used in a number of industries to describe .. well.. things that are fibrous and metallic. This is like creating an article entitled Plastic spatula. Also, the initial author of the page just made it as part of a trolling run. If we have no further discussion on the matter I will be putting it back up for speedy delete tomorrow.Gmaxwell 07:04, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay I see the EB article... not much relation to the stub, but I guess the subject is okay, thanks for pointing out my errorGmaxwell 14:45, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

GRider
Regarding GRider's 'Socratic' VfD nominations and the ensuing reactions by voters, please read and comment on Requests for comment/GRider2. Thanks. Radiant_* 12:23, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Oh! Mr. Porter! VFD
Hi there--

Another user and I have done a rewrite of the Oh! Mr Porter! article in the hopes of making it worthy of keeping. I'm wondering if you'd take a look at the new article, and reconsider your vote to delete it. Thanks!

Best wishes, Jacobw 18:48, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

More schools on Votes for deletion
As of March 25, 2005, there are an additional (6) articles listed for deletion under the POV notion that schools are non-notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia deletion policy). Please be aware that the following schools are actively being discussed and voted upon:

 * VfD: Blake Junior High School (renominated)
 * VfD: Franklin High School
 * VfD: Lake Dow Christian Academy
 * VfD: Red Lake High School
 * VfD: The Sage School
 * VfD: Toowoomba Grammar School

In response to this cyclical ordeal, a Schoolwatch programme has been initiated in order to indentify school-related articles which may need improvement and to help foster and encourage continued organic growth. Your comments are welcome and I thank you again for your time. --GRider\talk

VfD
Thanks for letting me know about the VfD terms and the rules of it. I voted in one of these, and it was my first one, lasted for a good 3 weeks. If there is anything else that either you and I came come up with, let me know. Zscout370 02:01, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi there! I have a VfD'ish question... in a recent vote I called for the merging of a group of articles, and you responded by stating that deletionists are evil. I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but since when is merging a form of deletion? Deletion means the information is gone. Merging means, in general, that the information is better organized, and found amidst bits of related information. In recent example, I merged half a dozen stubs on Wedgie, Wet willy etc. into a larger article School pranks. I believe the result is more encyclopedically useful.

Yours, Radiant_* 08:48, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point, though having an index in the Graffiti page may help. Would you know why we can't redirect to sections within a page? That would be a useful solution. Radiant_* 09:06, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Chamfer/Champfer
Hi Kappa: Thanks for expanding Chamfer. The article now seems to have two spellings of the topic, however. As I understand matters, Champfer is a Swiss village and an uncommon (not wrong) spelling of chamfer. Should we have a redirect from Champfer and use the "chamfer" spelling throughout this article? Or is the "champfer" spelling more prevalent than I think? --Theo (Talk) 21:11, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Avoid self-references
That was not a strict rule, but rather one of two polar examples (hardly anyone was going to write about wikipedia in the Shakespeare article; although it is quite possible that someone might say something like" "Wikipedia has a broad coverage of Shakespeare's works"). The article in question is something in between: it is not about online communities. Writing about self is considered bad taste. Following my example above, one might squeeze wikipedia as an example into a half of its articles. So a reasonable judgement  is required: whether wikipedia reference is crucial to the topic or not. Let us not pretend that wikipedia is just one of many. It is the greatest! :-) So let's be modest.  Mikkalai 21:35, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Meiji Dairy
Thanks. I created the sub-sub-stub after I noticed that a certain User:Coolcat had removed a red link from the Meiji page. User's primary deletion activities are related to Armenian Genocide denial; see its talk page. — Davenbelle 22:45, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

VfD
Hi there! I know we hold very different opinions on most VfD issues, but will you stop posting personal attacks about me, whether disguised as a joke or not? If you have a point, make it. If all you want to do is complain on how people are evil because they disagree with you, do it somewhere else. I've been patient since I do consider you a good contributor, but I really grow tired of your badgering. Radiant_* 11:14, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * How about recent accusations of censorship and deliberate misinterpretation of policy? Radiant_* 12:01, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't mind dismay (well, it's unfortunate but there's not much I can do about it; see Eventualism and Immediatism). I do mind accusations of censorship, whether or not they're against me personally. Radiant_* 13:21, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Doctor (game)
I've left a comment on Talk:Doctor (game), asking if there are good reasons to keep the article, and explaining why I think it should be deleted (I'd rather not go straight to VfD in case anyone has a good reason for keeping that I've overlooked). I don't know whether you're committed to the article, but if you are, would you like to discuss it there? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 12:01, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I've created an article on Children's games (role play), as I suggested on Talk:Doctor (game). It's a stub so far, and I'm not exactlky happy with what's there so far, but I think that it's better than a lot of stubs on individual games.  Incidentally, I also discovered had also created Doctor (children's game), which I've also made a redirect. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 19:11, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem with Doctor (children's game) is that it looks like little more than personal research (at best), making general claims which at least one other user on the Talk page found dubious; the reference to “parenting professionals” is pretty peculiar — and what source is there for it? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:38, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm, I've just waded through eight pages on Google (doctor + children + game) and found nothing relevant. Anyway, I've placed a request for comment on Talk:Doctor (children's game) to see what people think of making it a redirect.  I hope that you'll give your arguments there.  (If there is anything of value on it, i'm sure that it can be merged with the new article — it's a pretty small stub, after all.) Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:54, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not intended as a provocation
The heading in Sectility was not intended as a provocation. I probably overstepped my bounds. If you think it shouldn't be there I'm willing to drop it. I have a lot of respect for you. I got caught up in the VfD thing for awhile and thought the consensus for deleting questionable material was broader. I have thought about things I have read from you about navigation and keeping anything that was written in good faith. I agree with the latter and would like to learn more about the former. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by navigation, other than disambiguation pages and categories. --Smithfarm 17:29, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Question about --Jonathan Christensen 18:32, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)VfD votes
Kappa, twice now in the past few days you've voted against pages that I put on VfD saying they had the potential to grow. Since you didn't answer my request for clarification there, I'll ask you here--

How exactly do you expect the article on Compromise, and the articles about Tri-Rail stations, to grow into encyclopediac articles? In neither case can I think of anything that might be said in such an articl, except perhaps if someone comes up with the reason the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station is a historic place; I noted that that station in particular may merit its own page in my nomination.

So, would you mind clarifying your position, by giving a couple examples of what might go into these articles? Thanks! Jonathan Christensen 17:39, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm still skeptical, but if compromise does grow into an encyclopediac article, I will be very impressed. As for the stations--once someone decides to go take pictures of all of them, I might support them having their own pages, simply because I don't want that many pictures on a page and I wouldn't want all of that person's effort to be wasted. I don't think the pictures would make them any more encyclopedia, but I suppose compromises must be made. --Jonathan Christensen 18:32, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

re: nonsense
Thanks, I was a too hasty with the nonsense tags there. DDerby 00:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

cruft
Please stop using 'cruft' as a reason to vote 'keep'. It goes against the meaning of the word and has and can confuse the newbies. --InShaneee 04:26, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RFC
You should know that InShaneee has begun an RFC against you (Requests for comment/Kappa). I will be posting there in your defense shortly. —Korath (Talk) 05:29, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks Korath, but actually I don't think this RfC meets the criteria, since it needs two people to try to resolve the dispute and fail. Inshanee may yet succeed in persuading me not to use the word fancruft. It does look like I'll have to do more typing in VfDs though. Kappa 05:48, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Judging by the message InShaneee sent me, it seems he assumed me to be his 'second' for this RfC. Let me assure you that I will not. As Voltaire said, "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". Yours, Radiant_* 19:03, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nitpick: it wasn't Voltaire. It was Evelyn Beatrice Hall, in her book Friends of Voltaire. DS 21:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That's a pretty silly-looking RfC. If I had more time, I'd go through your point-by-point answer, check it all, and probably add my name to its list of backers. But I don't, so I won't. As I've suggested elsewhere on that page, your votes in VfD sometimes irritate me slightly, but I don't suppose they irritate me any more than mine irritate you. I've got no complaints. So let the gentlemanly VfD sparring continue! -- Hoary 11:35, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC) (BTW this week I'm a hardcore, industrial strength deletionist. Yes, I must have deleted tens of kilobytes of my own flabby prose in the WP-unrelated project I'm busy with right now.) "

Sure thing, I'll go easier on InShaneee. It was more the fact that a fine user like RickK could endorse such a RfC which upset me. Sjakkalle 12:47, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * My apologies if I jumped the gun, I suppose I have been a bit wikistressed lately. It was nothing personal, and I really didn't want to see sanctions or anything like that come out of that. I'm well aware you're an honest, hardworking wikipedian. I just didn't quite agree with your use of 'cruft', and I since you didn't seem to respond to my comments about it on VfD, I wasn't quite sure how to proceed. No hard feelings I hope. InShaneee 16:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries
I shall write my edit summaries as I see fit. There are many things here that someone might "not appreciate seeing", and my edit summaries are among the least of them. Chris talk back 18:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Could you take a look at the VfD for Tulsa streets.
Votes_for_deletion/W._21st_St.

The deletionists are trying to get rid of some very nice articles on some streets in West Tulsa.This is part of User:AboutWestTulsa's project to add infomation about West Tulsa to wikipedia. I myself added yahoo maps to these articles.

Klonimus 00:33, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes_for_deletion/List of referential songs
Could you check my comments about Answer songs in this VfD? Your comment indicated you thought it should be retitled because the meaning was like what this "referential songs" definition intended. But in old blues, there was a specific phenomenon "answer songs" which were written as direct responses to then-popular songs. Different. Barno 15:00, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_answer_songs#.22Referential_songs.22_not_equal_to_.22answer_songs.22. Barno 15:03, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * After seeing your response on my talk page, I've edited List of answer songs to fix the overly-broad definition there. I believe the concept "answer song" was significant and (if defined as it was actually used) is more verifiable and more encyclopedic than "referential song".  Fixing that definition (and purging inappropriately listed songs) seems a more valid solution than retitling the article, dropping the actual meaning, just because the list contained a poor def and some merely referential songs.  Barno 19:22, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Please see the "roadster"/"sports car" analogy I added, in attempt at explanation, at

Liberty Belle VFD
Given that the article is now about the pre-existing DC Comics character who was referenced in an episode of Powerpuff Girls, rather than only that reference, can I convince you to change your vote? DS 21:09, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Schoolwatch
To avoid being associated with a user that has now been banned from any kind of activity in the area, as well as POV-pushing, I would advise that you unwatch and unlink User:GRider/Schoolwatch, and instead consider making use of the somewhat less provocative and more open alternative, Watch/schoolwatch, which looks to be coming on nicely as a community project where views on neither side are suppressed. Watch is turning into a useful, NPOV, resource, usable by the whole community, not just one or two users with an agenda to push. Chris talk back 21:47, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hardworking families
Please reconsider your vote for the article hardworking families; I have expanded it a bit more. Cheers. – Kaihsu 14:15, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)

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Acronical place

In astrology, the acronical place is the position of a planet or other celestial body when it is directly opposite the Sun. For instance, if a person's Sun is placed at 10 degrees Leo, the acronical place of the Sun would be 10 degrees Aquarius. Therefore, any planet or celestial body crossing 10 degrees Aquarius by transition or progression would be crossing the Sun's acronical place.

The term acronical is taken from the Greek "akrónychos", meaning "at nightfall".

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Hamme, Bochum

Hamme (Bochum-Hamme) is a part of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Bochum-Hamme is a district in the working-class north of Bochum. So it is the part of Bochum with the highest number of poor families. Bochum-Hamme includes Goldhamme, the south of which borders onto the former town of Wattenscheid. Hamme houses a large Turkish minority. Some parts of Hamme, especially the so-called Speckschweiz quarter, currently experiences some gentrification attracting young middle-class families, students and artists.

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Bidens frondosa

Bidens frondosa is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of Canada, the United States, and Mexico It is known in many other parts of the world as an introduced species, including Europe, Asia, Morocco, and New Zealand. Its many common names include devil's beggarticks, devil's-pitchfork, devil's bootjack, sticktights, bur marigold, pitchfork weed, tickseed sunflower, leafy beggarticks, and common beggar-ticks.

Habitat and range
Bidens frondosa grows best where there is ample soil moisture and sun, especially in areas where something has disrupted the existing plant community leaving bare ground. It can survive in water saturated soils, frequently found growing at the water's edge, in drainage ditches or on flood plains.

According to Plants of the World Online (POWO) the natural range of Bidens frondosa is recorded as the whole of the continental United States except for Montana as well as all of Canada except for Labrador and the three Arctic territories. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS database (PLANTS) agrees with the natural range in America, but lists it as an introduced plant for Canada. POWO lists the areas of the world where it is growing as an introduced plant as all of Europe except for Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Russia, Sweden, and Finland as well as Turkey, parts of Russia, China, Tadzhikistan, and the Caucasus.

Ecology
The defoliating caterpillar of Hadjina chinensis, which is limited to Bidens species, has been observed on this plant.

Morphology
Bidens frondosa is an annual herb, usually growing to 20-60 cm tall, but it may reach 1.8 m. The stems are square in cross-section and may branch near the top. The leaves are pinnate, divided into a few toothed triangular or lance-shaped leaflets usually 6-8 cm long, exceptionally up to 12 cm. The inflorescence is often a solitary flower head, but there may be pairs or arrays of several heads. The head contains many orange disc florets. Most flower heads lack ray florets but some may have a few small yellow rays. The fruit is a flat black or brown barbed cypsela up to a centimeter long which has two obvious hornlike pappi at one end.

The barbed pappi on the fruit help it stick to animals, facilitating seed dispersal.

Invasive species
This plant is invasive in some parts of the world. In New Zealand it is classed as an environmental weed by the Department of Conservation. It is also weedy in its native range, occurring in pastures and fields and along roadsides.

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User talk:Shevek

Welcome to the Wikipedia
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User talk:AndriuZ

Welcome to the Wikipedia
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Category Theory
By all means, merge this material into Category theory and improve that article as you see fit. Gazpacho 09:48, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Could You do this, please, ? because I cant see how to improve --AndriuZ 09:55, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I can't, since I don't know A from B in category theory. Are you saying Category theory already covers the info? If so, you can justredirect the name. Gazpacho 09:59, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm saying that Category theory is dificult to understand. I created by mistake Category Theory because in my preview I saw no article, but now see_&_think, that short version is better, than extended :-/ Also I asked the author Mr. Joseph Goguen to contribute. Let's wait for a while? --AndriuZ 10:25, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
 * I believe Category theory is difficult to understand only because category theory is difficult to understand :) Gazpacho 07:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * yeee:))) we used to say long leave.. long learn.. anyway will die foolish or smth like that --AndriuZ 05:38, 2005 May 18 (UTC)

Lithuanian ISP block
Hi, I've had to block your ISP again because User:Zivinbudas is up to his old revert war tricks again (e.g. here and here)on Baltic pages, and there are now simply too many pages for me to protect them all. I will send you some email about a way for us to use to allow you to continue to edit. Sorry! Noel (talk) 19:43, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Glad to see you're still editing! I sent you some email... Noel (talk) 21:11, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Brainstorming
After looking at the user's other contributions:, it seemed like vanity content to me. For example, the user also created a foreign language page for Mauri Giovanni, and spammed a birthday entry for that person, despite the fact that google gets less than 292 hits for that term. It was poorly written, placed in the wrong section, and seemed like vandalism to me so i reverted it; if you know for a fact that the band was notable, please, by all means, create an article for it. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:33, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

New Engineering Wiki
Engineering Wiki is a wiki entirely dedicated to collecting information about Engineering. I invite you to join this wiki. User:219.65.122.162
 * Thanks, I'll try

Bruce Barton
You did the article on Bruce Barton (advertising guru with BBDO). I am currently looking to contact his great-grandson Brad Barton. Brad was part of the founding group of the Arena Football League and I'm doing a research project on him. If you have any, ANY information as to how or where I can contact Brad I'd be very grateful!!! DOAsaturn 23:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of advertising
Sorry, I had to delete the placeholder in article space. There's nothing wrong with your working a subject up in your sandbox (quite the opposite) but if you want to get external input you're best taking it to the Village Pump or an appropriate WikiProject. Just zis Guy you know? 21:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That's ok. But I think this is small page, I'll handle it to the some good look and put to the article, not worth to create more entities like WikiProject? But othervise it could be some project merging coresponding timelines to management issues? Undecided... --AndriuZ 22:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion thing
I put up for deletion. Just FYI. Ashibaka tock 01:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging
Greetings. From the description and use of Image:TRIZway.jpg, it appears you intended this media to be freely available. I took the liberty of applying a GFDL-presumed tag. Could you confirm this at by replacing my edit with GFDL-self? Regards, Dethomas 03:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheers, thanks --AndriuZ 14:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Post ante
Po Jūsų išėjimo iš lt.wi. gimtojoje enciklopedijoje atsirado naujų "kūrėjų", kurių veiklą Vikipedijoje gerai paanalizavus, gali susidaryti įspūdis, kad "pažeidimai", dėl kurių įvyko "iškilmingas" blokavimas po Jums "iškilmingai" (tačiau garbės administruojantiems nedarančių) įteiktų įspėjimų ( turbūt arogantiška forma), gerokai nublanksta lyginant su post ante įvykiais, sukrėtusiais gležną ir jauną baltiškosios kultūros enciklopediją. Įvykiais, sietais su kuo tik nori - kgb, spec tarn., GRU ir baigiant donskininkais bei socialistais.

Tikėtina, kad veiksmai Jūsų atžvilgiu nebuvo suprasti kaip (negatyvus) asmeninės iniciatyvos sankcionavimas, neproporcingai taikytas, ignoruojant teigiamą indėlį ir nemąstant apie tolesnę Vikipedijos ateitį. Viskam ateina savas laikas... Todėl administravimo kultūra turi greičiau "augti", bet tas augimas negalimas be kritiško paskatinimo iš išorės (ko dar, galima sakyti, iki šiol trūksta po kai kurių dalyvių pasitraukimo). Tad nereikėtų užverti atvirų durų ten, kur tiek daug kurta ir kur buvo sėkmingai sudėti pamatai ištisoms mokslo šakoms (IT, menas, psi ir kt.). 21:39, 29 March 2006 --Veneto

 * ačiū, bet nelabai supratau - jie mane pranoko ar ne? reikia grįžti ir "įvesti tvarką" ? :-))) --AndriuZ 22:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Šiokia tokia "tvarka" jau yra. Apie kultūrą čia visai kita kalba. Pasiskaityti retkarčiais tai tikrai įdomu. --Veneto 12:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Bryan Brandenburg AfD
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 * agree to delete, file is outdated --AndriuZ (talk) 12:43, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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Kruppwerke

Kruppwerke is a part of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Kruppwerke is a district largely inhabited by the working class. Kruppwerke is between the districts of Bochum-Hamme and Weitmar-Mitte.

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Robert Townsend (actor)

Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. Townsend is best known for directing the films Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Eddie Murphy Raw (1987), The Meteor Man (1993), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and various other films and stand-up specials. He is especially known for his portrayal of The WB's sitcom The Parent 'Hood 's main character Robert Peterson, the series he created and directed select episodes of ran from 1995 to 1999. Townsend is also known for his role as Donald "Duck" Matthews in his 1991 film The Five Heartbeats. He later wrote, directed and produced Making the Five Heartbeats (2018), a documentary film about the production process and behind the scenes insight into creating the film. Townsend is also known for his production company Townsend Entertainment which has produced films Playin' for Love, In the Hive and more. During the 1980s and early–1990s, Townsend gained national exposure through his stand-up comedy routines and appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Townsend has worked with talent including Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Chris Tucker, Beyoncé, Denzel Washington, Ayo Edebiri, and many more.

Early life and career
Townsend was born in Chicago, the second of four children to Shirley (née Jenkins) and Ed Townsend. His mother ended up raising him and his three siblings as a single parent. Growing up on the city's west side, Townsend attended Austin High School; graduating in 1975. He became interested in acting as a teenager. During a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in high school, Townsend captured the attention of Chicago's X Bag Theatre, The Experimental Black Actors Guild. Townsend later auditioned for parts at Chicago's Experimental Black Actors' Guild and performed in local plays studying at the famed Second City comedy workshop for improvisation in 1974. Townsend had a brief uncredited role in the 1975 movie Cooley High, but says the film "changed his life" for what he perceived as its true-to-life portrayal of people like him.

After high school, Townsend enrolled at Illinois State University, studied a year and later moved to New York to study at the Negro Ensemble Company. Townsend's mother believed that he should complete his college education, but he felt that college took time away from his passion for acting, and he soon dropped out of school to pursue his acting career full-time.

Career
Townsend auditioned to be part of Saturday Night Live's 1980–1981 cast, but was rejected in favor of Eddie Murphy. In 1982, Townsend appeared as one of the main characters in the PBS series Another Page, produced by Kentucky Educational Television that taught literacy to adults through serialized stories. Townsend later appeared in small parts in films like A Soldier's Story (1984), directed by Norman Jewison, and after its success garnered much more substantial parts in films like The Mighty Quinn (1989) with Denzel Washington.

In 1987, Townsend wrote, directed and produced Hollywood Shuffle, a satire based on the hardships and obstacles that black actors undergo in the film industry. The success of his first project helped him establish himself in the industry. Another of his films was The Five Heartbeats based on 1960s R&B male groups and the tribulations of the music industry. Townsend created and produced two television variety shows—the CableACE award–winning Robert Townsend and His Partners in Crime for HBO, and the Fox Television variety show Townsend Television (1993). He also created and starred in the WB Network's sitcom The Parent 'Hood which originally ran from January 1995 to July 1999. In 2018, Townsend also directed 2 episodes for the B.E.T. Series American Soul which began airing in 2019. The show is about Don Cornelius and Soul Train. Townsend was programming director at the Black Family Channel, but the network folded in 2007. Townsend created The Robert Townsend Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce and help new unsigned filmmakers.

Awards and other credits
Townsend directed the 2001 TV movie, Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story for which Cole won the NAACP Image Award as Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Townsend also directed two television movies in 2001 and 2002 respectively, Carmen: A Hip Hopera and 10,000 Black Men Named George. In 2013, Townsend was nominated for an Ovation Award in the category of "Lead Actor in a Musical" for his role as Dan in the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts production of Next to Normal.

Personal life
Townsend was married to Cheri Jones from September 15, 1990, to August 9, 2001. They have three children, including Skye Townsend.

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HOMR

"HOMR" (styled as "HOMЯ") is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The 257th episode overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 7, 2001. In the episode, while working as a human guinea pig (to pay off the family's lost savings after making a bad investment), Homer discovers the root cause of his subnormal intelligence: a crayon that was lodged in his brain ever since he was six years old. He decides to have it removed to increase his IQ, but soon learns that being intelligent is not always the same as being happy.

The episode was written by Al Jean and directed by Mike B. Anderson. Its plot takes inspiration from Flowers for Algernon and its film adaptation Charly. "HOMR" was viewed in 10.2 million households, and it received positive reviews from television critics.

In 2001, the episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, while Al Jean received a nomination in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production".

Plot
When the Simpson family visits an animation festival, Homer discovers Animotion, a motion capture technology that enables a real person to control a cartoon character with his or her own movements. Homer volunteers to demonstrate this technology and likes it so much that he invests his life savings in the Animotion stock. Two days later, he discovers that the stock has plunged and the company behind the technology has gone out of business. At Moe's Tavern, he tells Barney and Moe about his economic troubles, and Barney suggests that Homer become a human guinea pig to earn money.

Homer gets a job at a medical testing center. During one experiment, while commenting on Homer's stupidity, the doctors find a crayon lodged in Homer's brain from a childhood incident when he stuck sixteen crayons up his nose and sneezed all but one of them out. The doctors offer to surgically remove the crayon, and Homer accepts their offer. Homer survives the operation, and his IQ goes up fifty points to 105, allowing him to form a bond with his intelligent daughter Lisa. Homer's newfound brain capacity soon brings him enemies, however, after he performs a thorough report on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's many hazards, leading to massive layoffs when the plant is shut down until its many problems can be repaired or resolved.

When Homer visits Moe's Tavern, he sees an effigy of himself being burnt by his friends who worked at the plant. Homer realizes that due to his improved intelligence, he is no longer welcome and that his life was a lot more enjoyable when he was an idiot. He therefore begs the test center doctors to put the crayon back into his brain. The scientists refuse to do it, but recommend Homer to someone who can: Moe, who is also an unlicensed physician. At his bar, Moe inserts a crayon into Homer's brain, returning him to the idiot he was before. Lisa is initially saddened that she and her father have lost the new connection they shared. However, she finds a note written by Homer before the operation that reads: "Lisa, I’m taking the coward’s way out. But before I do, I just want you to know being smart made me appreciate how amazing you really are." After reading the note, she gets emotional and hugs her father.

Production
The episode was written by Al Jean and directed by Mike B. Anderson as part of the twelfth season of The Simpsons (2000–2001). The episode is inspired by Flowers for Algernon, the award-winning science fiction work by Daniel Keyes, where an intellectually disabled man also has his intelligence enhanced with an experiment. In particular, the title "HOMR" is a take on the novel's 1968 film adaptation Charly.

Release
The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 7, 2001. It was viewed in approximately 10.2 million households that night. With a Nielsen rating of 10.0, the episode finished 19th in the ratings for the week of January 1–7, 2001 (tying a 2001 Sugar Bowl pre-game show on ABC). It was the highest-rated broadcast on Fox that week. On August 18, 2009, "HOMR" was released on DVD as part of the box set The Simpsons – The Complete Twelfth Season. Staff members Mike B. Anderson, Al Jean, Mike Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Matt Selman, Tom Gammill, and Max Pross participated in the DVD audio commentary for the episode. Deleted scenes from the episode were also featured on the box set.

Critical response
"HOMR" received generally positive reviews from critics.

In 2009, IGN's Cindy White called it a classic and in 2003, The Florida Times-Union writer Soyia Ellison named it one of the ten best The Simpsons episodes.

In 2007, the staff of AOL Television listed it at number eighteen on a list of the top twenty best episodes of the series.

Nancy Basile of About.com enjoyed the episode, commenting in 2005 that the storyline was "solid and didn't go off track" and that the jokes "were clever, just like the old days." She added that she "was surprised to find Homer even funnier as a genius", and praised the many references to popular culture included in the episode, "such as Japanimation, smoking, pipe bombs and planned parenthood, ebay and more that I can't remember." Basile was, however, disappointed that the writers put Moe in the role of the unlicensed physician when they had an opportunity to use the character Dr. Nick.

Jason Bailey of DVD Talk wrote in 2009, that he thought Homer got "hilariously smart" in "HOMR".

DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson was less positive, writing in a 2009 review that one should not "expect a lot of thrills" from the episode as he thought it had "a moderately rehashed feel". He noted that "brainy Homer sure does remind me a lot of loquacious Homer from Season Three’s 'Bart's Friend Falls in Love'."

At the 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, "HOMR" won the award for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)".

At the 29th Annie Awards, Jean received a nomination in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production" for his work on "HOMR". However, he lost to Ron Weiner—the writer of the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish".

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User talk:Samlabrier

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Newfrontiers

Newfrontiers (previously New Frontiers International) is a neo-charismatic church network of evangelical, charismatic churches founded by Terry Virgo. It forms part of the British New Church Movement, which began in the late 1950s and 1960s combining features of Pentecostalism with British evangelicalism. Other streams of the British New Church Movement with which it shares some features include Together, Ministries Without Borders, and Life-Links. Groups like Pioneer, Ichthus Christian Fellowship, and Vineyard are more distantly related. Newfrontiers describes itself as "a group of apostolic leaders partnering together on global mission, joined by common values and beliefs, shared mission and genuine relationships". Its theology is distinctively Reformed. Newfrontiers is committed to building churches according to "New Testament principles". One of the slogans of the movement has been "changing the expression of Christianity around the world", which is based on a prophecy given to the movement in 1990 by Paul Cain, a Latter Rain revivalist.

History
In the early days of the movement a Bible week called "The Downs" was held at Plumpton Racecourse each year. This was replaced by "Stoneleigh Bible Week", which was held at the National Agricultural Centre showground. After the Stoneleigh Bible Week was stopped, a number of smaller more regional events were started, such as "North Camp" which was held in the North of England near Teesside. After running for 10 years "North Camp" was to cease after the 2013 event. Then after two years it started again under a new name, 'Devoted'. Newday is a camping event attended by young people between the ages of 12 and 19.

In 2011, Terry Virgo handed over leadership to a score of leaders worldwide, each of whom is described as being "free to develop his own strategies, training programs, and gospel advance".

Church practice
Every Newfrontiers church has its own unique approach to participatory worship, but most commonly, anyone wishing to contribute during corporate worship must first share it with the leader of the meeting. If it is considered to be potentially beneficial to the whole church body, any worship music being played will subside for a moment, and the individual can address the congregation. In other Newfrontiers churches the expectation is that members of the congregation will speak out if they feel they have received an idea, message, (mental) image or verse of Scripture, and no prior approval is required or expected.

In each local church leadership is expressed in a plurality of local (male) elders (though generally one of the elders takes a leading or senior role), often with multiple staff.

Complementarianism
All Newfrontiers churches hold to a complementarian position on gender similar to that promoted by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. This means that women are not elders or apostolic ministers. However, women are leaders – and in many churches actively preach, teach and are a part of decision making affecting local, regional and national church decisions. Women also hold positions in almost every other area in the church and are encouraged to do so.

Homosexuality
Newfrontiers do not believe that being gay is a sin, but that sexual acts of homosexuality are not acceptable. It strongly condemns homophobia. However, views differ from church to church. There have been claims that at least one Newfrontiers church has attempted to "cure" gay people, though these have been strongly disputed.

Spiritual strongholds
A book by prominent Newfrontiers leader David Devenish on "spiritual warfare", praised by Terry Virgo as a text that "will help to fortify every believer intent on winning this battle", defines spiritual warfare as "The reality that the advance of the gospel and the building of the church involve us in attacking and experiencing counter-attack in relation to real cosmic forces of darkness under the control of Satan who is also described as the god of this world."

Responses
Nigel Wright believes that Newfrontiers and other British restorationists are claiming too much when they speak of "restoring the church".

In 1986, sociologist and church historian Andrew Walker wrote of Newfrontiers that "churches are far more centralised and controlled than those of… mainline charismatic fellowships… The situation seems slightly analogous to Japanese business practices: they… export with great success, but import virtually nothing from anybody else".

In April 2009, the Journal of Beliefs and Values published an article reporting on a 2007 study which "set out to examine the psychological type profile of Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom and to compare this profile with the established profile of clergymen in the Church of England". One of the conclusions: "There is a toughness about this style of leadership that is unlikely to be distracted by opposition. The disadvantage is that this style of leadership can leave some individuals hurt and marginalised for what is seen by the leadership as the overall benefit to the organisation."

In February 2016, musician Joseph Coward wrote an article for Vice Magazine, in which he described a now disbanded Newfrontiers church. He claimed that it had "all the hallmarks of a cult".

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Justice, Inc. (role-playing game)

Justice, Inc. is a role-playing game published by Hero Games in 1984 that simulates adventure stories that appeared in the pulp magazines of the 1930s.

Description
Justice Inc. is a role-playing game in which the players take on the roles of fictional adventurers in the 1930s similar to Doc Savage and Allan Quatermain. In keeping with the pulp theme engendered by Fu Manchu and The Shadow, a vein of the supernatural runs through the game and can be turned to horror similar to Call of Cthulhu.

The game system was adapted from the superhero role-playing game Champions previously published by Hero Games, although superhero "Powers" are toned down to "Talents".

Publishing history
Hero Games published the superhero game Champions in 1981 and subsequently published several expansions and adventures. In 1983, Hero published role-playing in a completely different genre, Espionage!, that used a toned-down version of the Champions superhero rules. Hero followed this in 1984 with Justice, Inc., a game that used the Espionage! rules system. The two-volume set was written by Aaron Allston, Steve Peterson, and Michael Stackpole and includes a rulebook and campaign book. The campaign book discusses the pulp genre, the "Empire Club" campaign setting, a timeline of real-world events of the 1920s and 1930s, and several pulp adventures.

Espionage! and Justice, Inc. were the first non-superhero applications of the point-based game system developed for Champions. The generalized point system would eventually be published as the multi-genre Hero System, following in the footsteps of Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing System but preceding GURPS as a generic game system.

Two supplements were published:
 * Lands of Mystery (May 1985), a critically acclaimed sourcebook describing how to design and run "Lost World" adventures, like those found in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. ISBN 0-917481-60-7
 * Trail of the Gold Spike (August 1984), an adventure set around a Colorado gold mine.

Both were written by Allston and also included statistics for Chill, Call of Cthulhu and Daredevils.

Unlike several other products in the "Hero" line, Justice, Inc. was not revised or republished decades after its release. However, at the end of 2005, Hero Games finally published a "Pulp Hero" genre book that covered much of the same ground.

Reception
In the December 1984 edition of Imagine (Issue 21), Paul Mason stated, "If you like the Champions rules system and want a campaign set in the era of the pulps, then Justice Inc will be perfect for you. Otherwise, I'm afraid I can't recommend it over its competition."

In the January–February 1985 edition of Space Gamer (No. 72), Allen Varney commented, "Justice Inc. is fundamentally solid work, and certainly adaptable to a wide spectrum of pulp-era melodramatics. If your players want lots of variety in one campaign, this is your game! I realize it's a close call, but I'd say that with this publication, Hero Games probably has the strongest roleplaying line on the market."

In the January–February 1985 edition of Different Worlds (Issue #38), Russell Grant Collins gave this game an average rating of 2.5 stars out of 4, saying, "this game is pretty good, although it is marred by a few typos and suffers from incompleteness."

In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan called this game "perfect for ambitious referees who enjoy mixing Indiana Jones with H.P. Lovecraft, or Sherlock Holmes with little green men." Swan concluded by giving this game a rating of 3 out of 4, saying, "Although [the] designers ... bit off a bit more than they could chew — it's unlikely, for instance, that the horror version of the game will make anybody give up Call of Cthulhu — the clean rules and attention to detail make Justice, Inc. far and away the best of the pulp-era RPGs."

Other reviews

 * Shadis #28 (1996)

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Charles S. Dutton

Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is a retired American actor and director. He is best known for his roles in the television series Roc (1991–1994) and the television film The Piano Lesson (1995), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His other accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards.

Dutton has also appeared in many feature films such as Alien 3 (1992), Rudy (1993), Menace II Society (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), and Gothika (2003).

Early life
Charles Stanley Dutton was born on January 30, 1951, on the east side of Baltimore, Maryland. His father was a truck driver and his parents divorced when he was four. He grew up in Baltimore's Latrobe Homes public housing project. In his youth, Dutton dropped out of school before finishing middle school. He had a short-lived stint as an amateur boxer with the nickname "Roc", a nickname derived from "Rockhead", due to rock throwing battles which took place during Dutton's childhood.

In 1967, when he was 16, Dutton got into a fight that resulted in the death of a man Dutton claimed had attacked him with a knife.

Prison convictions, discovering acting, and education
After the knife fight, Dutton pleaded guilty in 1967 to manslaughter and was sentenced to five years in prison, which he began serving at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup, Maryland. Out on parole after 18 or 20 months, he was arrested on robbery and handgun charges. He was sentenced on the handgun violation and sent to the Maryland Penitentiary, near his boyhood home, for three more years. A fight with a guard added on another eight years. In reference to this, Dutton later said, "I got three years for killing a black man and eight for punching a white man."

During his prison term, Dutton was stabbed by another prisoner and nearly died. He became interested in radical movements and the Black Panther Party.

Several months into his second prison term, Dutton was sentenced to six days of solitary confinement for refusing to clean toilets. Prisoners were allowed to take one book and, unintentionally, he grabbed an anthology of black playwrights. He enjoyed the book so much that upon release from solitary, he petitioned the warden to start a drama group for the winter talent show. The warden agreed on the condition that Dutton go back to school and get his GED. Dutton accomplished that and eventually completed a two-year college program at Hagerstown Junior College (now Hagerstown Community College) in Hagerstown, Maryland, graduating with an Associate of Arts degree in 1976.

Dutton was paroled on August 20, 1976. After his release from prison, he enrolled as a drama major at Towson State University (now Towson University) in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978. After his time at Towson, Dutton earned a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama in 1983.

Acting career
In 1984, Dutton made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, winning a Theatre World Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1988, Dutton played Leroy Brown in Crocodile Dundee II and a killer in the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan opposite Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey. In 1990, Dutton earned a second Best Actor Tony nomination for his role in another Wilson play, The Piano Lesson. Dutton co-starred in Alien 3, the debut film of director David Fincher, then co-starred in 1993's Rudy. Other films he has appeared in include Get on the Bus; A Time to Kill; Cookie's Fortune; Cry, the Beloved Country; Surviving the Game; Menace II Society; Secret Window; and A Low Down Dirty Shame.

Dutton won Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy Awards in 2002 and 2003 for his roles in The Practice and Without a Trace. He was previously nominated in 1999 for his guest-starring role as Alvah Case in the HBO prison drama Oz in its second-season premiere episode. For this role, he was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Also in 1999, he starred in an ensemble cast in Aftershock: Earthquake in New York in which he played the Mayor of New York City. Dutton gained acclaim for his comedy show Roc shown on FOX television (but produced by HBO) from 1991 to 1994. His work in this role won him an NAACP Image Award. He co-starred in the popular but short-lived 2005 CBS science fiction series, Threshold.

In 2000, Dutton directed the HBO miniseries The Corner. The miniseries was close to his heart, for Dutton grew up on the streets of East Baltimore. It was adapted from The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Broadway Books, 1997) by David Simon (a reporter for the Baltimore Sun) and Ed Burns (a retired Baltimore homicide detective). The Corner won several Emmys in 2000, including Best Miniseries. Dutton won for his direction of the miniseries. He worked with Simon previously in a 1996 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street.

He starred as Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief Charles Moose in the 2003 made-for-TV movie D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear, and appeared in Season 2 of The L Word. Dutton also appeared in "Another Toothpick," an episode of The Sopranos. He guest starred on House M.D. as the father of Dr Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Also had a small role in First Time Felon alongside Omar Epps and on Sleeper Cell: American Terror as the father of undercover FBI agent Darwyn Al-Sayeed. He also directed two episodes of Sleeper Cell.

On October 9, 2007, HBO announced that it had arranged a deal with Dutton where he would develop, direct, and star in series and movies for the network. He also appeared in the 2007 film Honeydripper. On February 14, 2013, Dutton returned to TV in Zero Hour, playing the role of a priest. In 2013, Dutton played Detective Margolis in the horror film The Monkey's Paw.

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Südinnenstadt

Südinnenstadt is a statistical area of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area, an agglomeration of about 5 million residents in Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Südinnenstadt is a statistical area to the south of the central business district. Südinnenstadt includes the Schauspielhaus, one of the most expensively funded theatres in the Ruhr area. Südinnenstadt has one of the highest percentages of people living alone in the Ruhr area.

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Up Helly Aa

Up Helly Aa ( literally "Up Holy [Day] All") is a type of fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season. Each festival involves a torchlit procession by squads of costumed participants (known as guizers) that culminates in the burning of an imitation Viking galley. The largest festival held in Lerwick, Shetland's capital, involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers who march through the streets of Lerwick on the last Tuesday in January. The other rural festivals (known as the 'country' Up Helly Aas) see lower numbers of participants in accordance with their lower populations.

Origins
The current Lerwick celebration grew out of the older yule tradition of tar barrelling which took place at Christmas and New Year as well as Up Helly Aa. Squads of young men would drag barrels of burning tar through town on sledges, making mischief. According to the Shetland Museum, the catalyst for the establishment of Up Helly Aa was the boredom of young men after their return from fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, which had given them an opportunity to see spectacles abroad. Concern over public safety and levels of drunkenness led to a change in the celebrations, and saw them drawing inspiration from the islands' Viking history. After the abolition of tar barrelling around 1874–1880, permission was eventually obtained for torch processions. The first Yule torch procession took place in 1876. The first torch celebration on Up Helly Aa Day took place in 1881. The following year the torchlit procession was significantly enhanced and institutionalised through a request by a Lerwick civic body to hold another Up Helly Aa torch procession for the visit of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. The first galley was fabricated and burned in 1889. In 1894 Haldane Burgess, a Shetland author, wrote the book The Viking Path which was a major influence in creating the Viking theme of the Up Helly Aa festival. Burgess also wrote the Up Helly Aa Song which is sung at the burning of the replica longship and elsewhere. The honorary role of the 'Jarl' was introduced to the festival in the early twentieth century. In reality, despite many sources claiming these ancient origins, the festival, and many like it, were products of Victorian do-goodery. The Lerwick Up-Helly Aa was first established by the Total Abstinence Society in the 1870s to give the young men who would otherwise drink themselves silly something to do. The name itself derives from Upholiday, the lowland Scots' word for Twelfth Day, and was brought by them to the Shetland Islands in the 19th century.

The modern event
There is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl" (pron. "yarl"). There is a committee which a person must be part of for 15 years before one can be a jarl, and only one person is elected to this committee each year. The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley. The event happens all over Shetland and is currently celebrated at eleven locations – Scalloway, Lerwick, Nesting and Girlsta, Uyeasound, Northmavine, Bressay, Cullivoe, Norwick, Waas, the South Mainland and Delting. After the procession, the squads visit local halls (including schools, sports facilities and hotels), where private parties are held. At each hall, each squad performs its act, which may be a send-up of a popular TV show or film, a skit on local events, or singing or dancing.

Certain aspects of the festival have been changed for the modern day; for example, as of 2020 the use of blackface has been banned at festivals in Shetland. Traditionally the guizers at the main festival in Lerwick have always been male (although some women joined the march in 1901 disguised in their costumes ). However some smaller rural festivals now include women and the South Mainland Up Helly Aa festival appointed a female Jarl in 2015. Starting from the 2023 festival, restrictions on women's participation within squads in Lerwick were removed.

Meaning
According to John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1818), up is used in the sense of something being at an end, and derives from the Old Norse word uppi which is still used in Faroese and Icelandic, while helly refers to a holy day or festival. The Scottish National Dictionary defines helly, probably derived from the Old Norse helgr (helgi in the dative and accusative case, meaning a holiday or festival), as "[a] series of festive days, esp. the period in which Christmas festivities are held from 25th Dec. to 5th Jan.", while aa may represent a', meaning "all".

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Havas Creative

Havas Creative, formerly known as Havas Worldwide and Euro RSCG, is a French advertising agency. It is one of the largest integrated marketing communications agencies in the world, made up of 316 offices located in 75 countries. The firm provides advertising, marketing, and corporate communications services.

In 2010, Advertising Age listed the firm, (then called Euro RSCG), as having more global assignments than any other network for the fifth consecutive year, making the agency the world's largest network by global accounts. Headquartered in New York, Havas Creative is the largest unit of Havas (Euronext Paris SA: HAV.PA), the fifth largest communications group in the world, behind Omnicom, WPP, Interpublic, and Publicis.

Corporate history
In 1970, Bernard Roux and Jacques Séguéla established an agency called Roux Séguéla. In 1972, Alain Cayzac joined Roux Séguéla, and the company became Roux Séguéla Cayzac.

In 1975, Havas Conseil reconstituted as a Eurocom holding company.

In 1976, Roux Séguéla Cayzac merged with Jean-Michel Goudard to form RSCG; each letter in RSCG corresponds to the name of each of their founders: Roux, Séguela, Cayzac, and Goudard.

In 1991, Eurocom S.A. acquired RSCG to form Euro RSCG. In 1997, Euro RSCG Worldwide moved its headquarters from Paris to New York; American executive Bob Schmetterer was named chairman and CEO.

In 2001, the company acquired a minority stake in UK financial public relations firm, The Maitland Consultancy.

In 2012, the firm, having by then been acquired by Paris, France-based advertising and public relations company Havas, was rebranded as Havas Worldwide.

In March 2022, Havas announced the acquisition of Front Networks, an independent creative agency focusing on social and digital marketing in China.

Leadership
In 2014, Havas Group Chairman Yannick Bolloré also became Global CEO of Havas, and Andrew Benett was named Global CEO of Havas Worldwide.

Previous CEO David Jones was named CEO of the firm, then named Euro RSCG Worldwide, in 2005. He also became Global CEO of parent company Havas in 2011.

Mercedes Erra (Managing Director, Havas) is the executive president of Havas Worldwide, and credited with the company's Evian campaign "Roller Babies," which made headlines and a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving over 75 million views.

Key clients
Havas Worldwide works with 78 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Camel Cigarettes, Natural American Spirit, Grizzly Snuff, Vuse, Air France, Citigroup, Danone Group, IBM, Lacoste, LVMH, Merck, Mondelēz International, Pernod Ricard, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi, The Humane Society of the United States, and Unilever.

Divisions
The firm consists of four divisions:
 * Havas Worldwide (Strategy, Creative, Production Automation & Implementation)
 * Havas Worldwide Digital (Digital, Direct, Data & Analytics, CRM, Promotions, Channel Management, Motivation & Education)
 * Havas PR (Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Internal Communications, and Corporate Identity)
 * Arnold Worldwide, an American advertising agency

Controversies
In July 2019, the firm created an advertisement for a Singaporean media company. In the ad, Mediacorp actor and deejay Dennis Chew, who is Chinese, appeared in "brownface" - the act of darkening one's fair skin to mimic that of another race — as an Indian character and as a Malay woman wearing a headscarf. The ad sparked backlash online and Havas worldwide apologized subsequently.

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