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User talk:Chanting Fox

huh

thanks for the revertGeni 21:16, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Ditto. jglc | t | c 18:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for your reverts on vandalism. Here's the Editors'/Deletionist's Barnstar for your hard work on Wikipedia. -- Stevey7788 03:10, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You can put it on your user page. Display it with pride. Cheers, --SqueakBox 01:32, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Javier Solana
I block each IP number he uses, but he may be on dynamic IP. I rely on him getting bored before I do, which I think is a safe bet. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Constance E. Cumbey
If you have a moment check out the above, which is connected and the source of a current controversy, --SqueakBox 02:11, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Japanese nationalism
Please do not repeat edits of your recent type to this page.

 * As far as I can see, there has been no vandalism on the page.
 * Please do not use upper case and emotive terms in edit summaries.
 * Please do not go a long way back in reverting, without giving some indication of where you are going and why.

This page is under active development, and one of those who is contributing has poor English. Labelling his edits as 'vandalism' could easily lose us a valuable contributor.

Looking at your edits, I see that you have been sing this account only for a few days. Please be aware that, while vandals certain operate on WP, for the most part they cause minor nuisance that is easily put right. Our basic principle Assume Good Faith is central.

Charles Matthews 06:58, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Richard Simmons Page
All I am correcting is the incorrect statement that he is African American. I know Richard, and he is not. Hope this goes through, I dont really know how to send these messages on this site. Thank you.

Thank you
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. I appreciate it. Cheers,  BanyanTree 00:43, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Again, thank you for reverting the "delete" tag on the non-sense article about "Jerry Botzko". It seems that 68.33.104.151 and KFP is the same vandal user. Svest 20:37, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in my thanks, I didn't even notice the vandalism until I decided to check for it. Thnaks for the revert. --Scimitar 19:53, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Patna
Hello, I find that several anno. users are vandalising this page. Please assist me in reverting all these silly changes. Thanks. --Bhadani 16:43, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pakistan
Thanks for your revert, but the anon user User:24.126.17.155 (talk • contribs) dropped the section again. Also, the user seems to have gained a new identity User:Whiteking (talk • contribs) (Notice that the new identity comes into being 5 minutes after the last edit by User:24.126.17.155 (talk • contribs)). While I am not asserting any authenticity or fallacy of the user's edits, It really hurts everyone's efforts in keeping consistency in an article when someone repeatedly drops sections without bothering to discuss it. I called for a discussion 3 times, but of no avail. I did reported vandalism, but the user's sockpuppet identity (I am assuming that, not sure) even tried to put some disparaging comments there. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that this page is being reverted just too many times in last 2 days. Thanks for your efforts in finding vandals. --Ragib 06:50, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Guess that guy didn't take kindly to my asking him to stop vandalizing. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:57, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for helping to clean up POV vandalism
Thanks for assisting in reverting the edits of POV vandal User:JoeM = Moral Clarity. Is there anything we could do to block this individual? I tend to agree that he's a sockpuppet. His first day on Wikipedia and he already seems to show a familiarity with NPOV (though no intent to abide by it) and a knowledge of WP:VIP. Hmm... Firebug 23:24, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Nguyen Chau Sa
I'm not sure why you marked this for deletion rather than correcting the redirect; am I missing something? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:52, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Don't know how to redirect... maybe should have marked it for cleanup. --Chanting Fox 04:02, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

A redirect takes the form:
 * 1) REDIRECT target

10:43, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA
You can just say on the nomination that you withdraw your nomination, and an admin will archive it. Welcome, by the way, and hope you enjoy your time here.

I love your handle, by the way. :) RickK 18:32, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Zapatero
Thankyou for defending the integrity of my user page, --SqueakBox 20:03, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

"Impersonater Vandal"
Greetings, Chanting Fox. I was suggesting to User:Zzyzx11 just now that we change the name "Impersonater Vandal" to something like "the Doppelganger" or "the Imitator" since they're more catchy. This is, of course, quite unnecessary, but a catchy name could make a difference after all. He referred me to you, as you coined the name, and not he. Would this be a good idea? -JMBell° 01:36, 8 May 2005 (UTC) Sure, it's fine by me. --Chanting Fox 01:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * How about "DoppeIganger" (note character placement, har, har). – ClockworkSoul 04:51, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

65.10.37.127
I put a warning on his talk page, which I always do except for the most egregious of vandals. If he doesn't respond, I'll block him. RickK 22:39, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, he was duplicating sections on Wikipedia, one of the most obnoxious forms of vandalism. Everyking 00:21, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Nicaragua
He is User:KEITH (talk • contribs). Read his contribs to Talk:Nicaragua. I know he lies, pretending to be a guy from Canada, and Mike from California, but is clearly hispanic. The IP address is from Mexico City. he seems to spam in his own photos, and change the text with unsourced material and mangled English. Both Worldtraveller and I have been reverting all his edits on the basis they are unsound, --SqueakBox 01:26, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page... have you checked out my RC program yet? Might be of interest to you. Cheers. CryptoDerk 02:51, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

I really appreciate reverting the vandalizing on my user page. drini ☎ 02:06, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

DB lag maybe
There's been some database issues recently. Reversions may not show up right in all cases... For real time feedback, you may want to join the IRC channel where admins, developers, etc. can frequently be found. CryptoDerk 20:01, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, I just looked.. it could be a time/cache issue. If you notice, your reversion was logged in 10 minutes before the vandal's edit.. there have been some db time sync issues.. The article appears fine to me, so it could just be a cache issue on your end.  When the time issues are fixed, hopefully the correct time will be fixed.  CryptoDerk 20:03, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Really, the page looks fine. This is a fairly common glitch when there are db troubles.  It's happened to me before, and I know of a couple of instances where it's happened to other people.  CryptoDerk 20:36, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

University of Cambridge Vandal
The Cambridge server used by the person that did the minor vandalism to George W, Bush entry that you caught is attempting to disrupt Votes for deletion/Tess khoo. For details see entry for 131.111.8.96 on Vandalism in progress. Thought you might like to know. --WCFrancis 04:11, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

VfD (RuneScape gods)
Hey, I took the liberty of adding a link to the article on it's VfD talk page and a link on the main VfD page... please do this when adding pages to VfD in the future. See Votes for deletion to read about how it's supposed to be done. Sholtar 05:05, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Speedy tag on Phytoestrogen
Please don't use speedy tags when you only suspect things are spam, unless they are obviously spam please take them to Vfd. Kappa 08:10, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Iasson
I personally have no idea what's wrong with him, but he seems determined to prove that "Iasson" and "Faethon" are different people. It is pretty much guaranteed that the anon is Iasson, trying to convince people that the hundreds of "public" accounts weren't his. — Xezbeth 19:49, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the rv on my user page. The anon user was annoyed at me because I reverted the edits that he had made at Glasgow. He also blanked Sheffield and Millhouses, presumably thinking that blanking pages that I have worked on would somehow annoy me—rather childish really. Thanks again for the rv -- JeremyA 04:14, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

blanking
Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! --W(t) 02:16, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

Mrmohammadjihadderkerderker
His first edits were vandaling User:Sastrawan's userpage --nixie 03:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

reveting vandalism
thank you. some people do not understand that their view is not the only valid POV. Xtra 03:47, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Chess
Yeah, you're right. I'm done, anyway; frankly, this situation just got me annoyed, seeing I helped create it (the chess champ). Linuxbeak | Desk 03:53, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

James Broadwater
Hi, I have taken off the speedy delete tag on James Broadwater. I see that the article you tagged was a joke article, but the author proceeded to rewrite it and it seems sincere enough now. Sjakkalle 07:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism revert
Thanks. I've had my hands full with this "fool" for a while now, like several days. Time to recommend some stronger action me thinks. -- Longhair | Talk 19:13, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism of my user page
To answer your question, I think the IP is dynamic. He has hit mine and Everyking's page. He also hit WP:VIP, mainly to alter my entry on him. I do agree something strong needs to be used against him. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 04:14, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Insulting comment?
Hí!

What do you mean by insulting comment? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:205.173.47.254

"Idiot" or "Idiotic" is the word I am describing the 205.173.47.254's behaviour (= vandal).

Please, do not remove messages that are reasonable. Henri Tapani Heinonen 18:38, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok! Thanks for advices! Henri Tapani Heinonen

Rukario - Type
Thank you for adding the Pokemon type of Rukario. Next time you add in a type, can you please use the Type templates I've set up? They're listed at this page.
 * User142 09:58, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Protection
I hope you don't mind, I protected your user page. Thanks for reverting the vandal for me. BrokenSegue 02:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Rovoam
Hey, I've been reverting Rovoam as I see him over the past few days, blocking, etc. I asked Petaholmes about him and he said to talk to you. I can count at least 7 decent sized ranges he's coming from. Since I haven't really been all involved in his RFAr or anything, but I think it's time to go to the foundation and start calling his ISP, etc. like has been done with prior really bad vandals. CryptoDerk 06:37, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've got him figured out now. He's just using open proxies, many of which I've identified.  Some of these proxies move around a bit, but some are static and the others can be picked up in a range block.  CryptoDerk 23:04, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Shrug, could be. Right now he's too slow, though.  When I'm using my vandal fighter I can catch him and block him in 5 seconds.  Plus now I've just started protecting pages.  CryptoDerk 23:21, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation
Taken care of. CryptoDerk 23:32, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

WAU
Hi, Chanting Fox, I just now noticed your comment (and deletion thereof) ony my talk page history. I did not know what the source for that image was, I find that sorta hillarious! Anyway, I have some advice, which is free, but it's gonna cost you! I don't believe such a short segment counts as a copyvio, for either my low-quality Image:Wau.gif, or the high-quality and longer-duration Racoon.gif one. But I'm far from a copyrights law expert. By the way, for future reference, you can de-inline an image thusly: (i.e. Image:Racoon.gif). El_C 03:11, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism Count
A random thought... if one were to increment the vanadalism counter on your page, would that be a version of the Liar's Paradox... See if it was vandalism then the increment would be justified, in which case it would not be vandalism. But if it were not vanadalism, then the increment would not be justified, in which case it would be vanadalism...

Vandalism by 131.111.8.101 == ==

Hi I've been doing some detective work based on a few isolated incidents of vandalism I've seen, and I discovered a vandal who uses User:131.111.8.101 who may have been vandalizing you. I also x-posted this to User_Talk:MacGyverMagic because he's an admin who's been involved with this vandal a bit.

 * They vandalized the Benedict_XIV page to this. Note the images.  They were uploaded by User:Dmj27.

 * Also note Contributions of User:Darth_Vader. According to his contributions, he modified the Palpatine page to appear like Pope Benedict. (exact opposite of the above)

 * Observe the Votes_for_deletion/James_Cole and Votes_for_deletion/David_Jordan. They've been edited by a Cambridge IP.  Note the references to User:Dmj27, User:Darth_Vader and User:spankthecrumpet.  Also note the obession with "Remis" (whatever that means)

 * Note this.. your impersonator User:Chantin'_Fox added a link to the David Jordan page. He also edited the Darth_Vader page to redirect to you.

My suspicion is that all of these people are sockpuppets of User:Chantin'_Fox who is operating from User:131.111.8.101.

HTH --Robojames 20:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

User:I,
Thanks for the heads-up, all sorted now.-gadfium 00:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

note to self
Speedy tag with reason other than nonsense:

Papal tiara
I've blocked yet another vandal on Papal Tiara *sigh*. Should I protect the page completely for a few hours? Fear ÉIREANN (talk) 19:30, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for changing back Genseiryu
Thank you Chanting Fox for reacting so quickly and realising that our text was an honest input. We are trying to make readers understand that there are two styles in Genseiryu and we are trying to name the differences between both. But the side of Genseiryu Butokukai is deleting one of those sides all the time (over and over again), so that only their side of the story comes on Wikipedia. This is of course dishonest and not neutral. We have to keep Wikipedia as neutral as possible! I think they will try it again and again and again, as they have done before (they have been using names, also on the Dutch Wikipedia, like Thoar, Setia Hati, Saiko, Zzaroc and Peter Lee). Hopefully you can help a little bit and keep an eye on this article as well...Thanks again. Regards! -- Mario R 21:39, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bulldog Communications
Thanks for letting me know. I noticed that DJ Clayworth recently blocked the whole IP range, so hopefully that resolves that problem for today. JYolkowski // talk 23:26, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How to avoid the article (Genseiryu) will be deleted
Dear Chanting Fox, we made an article about the Karatestyle Genseiryu. Other people are changing this article by deleting everything we added, you discovered this yesterday. In Holland they also did this with the result that nothing is published now and the article is blocked. They are happy about that, we are not. We kept their part of the Genseiryu history but they are deleting ours and they don't care they are losing their own (they are saying "rather NO story, then their story!"). What can we do to avoid the article is going to be completely deleted on the English Wikipedia as well??? Regards, -- Members of Genseiryu Karatedo Netherlands.

Discussion
So I can assume you will just delete this. Why can't you be asked questions on your disscusion page? Like I asked why you are bias against men and you just deleted it?

Oops!
Very sorry about the mess just now on the 3RR page. I was desperately trying to repair it when you stepped in. —Ghakko 17:51, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. *Dan* 19:14, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

User:Da7natnarmy
Thanks for letting me know about him. It appeared that he's adding and then immediately removing the porn from the articles, which I thought was sort of weird. I gave him a short block; if he vandalises after coming back from that I'm going to block him indefinitely. JYolkowski // talk 20:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Writing articles
Hello Chanting Fox, thanks for being the volunteer policeman here on Wikipedia. I noticed that you mainly revert edits. I encourage you to also write articles and improve them, as that's what Wikipedia's all about - and it's definitely more fun than reverting edits! — Stevey7788 (talk) 23:24, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:24.238.162.225
Thank you for removing the vandalism on my user page. I don't know who this anonymous user is, but he may have a vendetta against me as he tends to vandalize pages that I edit or create... Ranma9617 06:29, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rex
Sorry if I have caused trouble with Rex. Hes a whiny little bitch who needs to get a life. I was merely saying that they should stop breaking my balls about it. 205.217.105.2 17:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comments from A ghost
I see you've had to revert an Anon on Creationism. He's a bot. Check his contributions. I'll try to cover, can you report?--ghost 20:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

IP addresses for checking
66.69.141.11, 129.7.35.1 User:38.112.194.37, User:136.145.54.123 and possibly 207.241.238.149 and 64.229.186.50

I plan to trace each and every one of these IPs solely for my own information... I have a few personal doubts that need to be addressed.

General WhoIs results

 * User:66.69.141.11 (talk • contribs)
 * OrgName:   Road Runner
 * Address:   13241 Woodland Park Road
 * City:      Herndon
 * StateProv: VA
 * PostalCode: 20171
 * Country:   US
 * Edits on Slate (magazine), Dhimmi and Islamophobia. Vandalism on User:Zscout370

 * User:129.7.35.1 (talk • contribs)
 * University of Houston
 * Address:   College of Business,
 * Address:    University of Houston
 * City:      Houston
 * StateProv: TX
 * Edit warring over sock puppet template on User:Enviroknot

 * User:38.112.194.37 (talk • contribs)
 * Performance Systems International Inc. PSINETA
 * Vandalism on Requests for arbitration/KaintheScion et al./Evidence

 * User:136.145.54.123 (talk • contribs)
 * OrgName:   University of Puerto Rico
 * Address:   Facundo Bueso Building
 * Address:   Office FB 265
 * City:      Rio Piedras
 * StateProv: Puerto Rico
 * Vandalism on Requests for arbitration/KaintheScion et al./Evidence

 * User:213.84.19.247 (talk • contribs)
 * Traced to a static IP address registered to an ISP based in Netherlands.
 * Vandalism and edit warring on Requests for arbitration/KaintheScion et al./Proposed decision. Characteristic bullying tone.

 * User:207.241.238.149 (talk • contribs)
 * OrgName:   Internet Archive
 * Address:   The Presidio of San Francisco
 * Address:   116 Sheridan Ave.
 * City:      San Francisco
 * StateProv: CA
 * Joined in edit war on Requests for arbitration/KaintheScion et al./Proposed decision. Another foul-mouthed bully.

 * User:64.229.186.50 (talk • contribs)
 * Bell Canada BELLCANADA-5
 * Single edit on Islamofascism with edit summary "Revert: Put it up to a PROPER vote not involving multiple strategic blocks on voting day and see what happens, Islamist fucks"

Specific location of IP address according to GeoBytes
207.241.238.149

 * N/A (Unable to locate)

64.229.186.50

 * Traced to Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 * Certainty: 99 percent
 * is not a proxy

38.112.194.37

 * N/A (Unable to locate)

66.69.141.11

 * Traced to Houston, Texas
 * Certainty: 99 percent
 * not a proxy

213.84.19.247

 * Traced to city of Amsterdam, Netherlands

 * Certainty: 98 percent

 * not a proxy

129.7.35.1

 * Same as 66.69.141.11

136.145.54.123

 * Traced to Gerlach, Nevada
 * Certainty: 90 percent
 * not a proxy

Homosexuality
Definite agree on that Homosexuality revert. --KharBevNor 01:23, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Userpage revert
Thanks for the revert on my userpage. JeremyA 01:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Enviroknot, Kainthescion, and all those anons
The thing I find most convincing about the sock puppet allegations is that I can detect absolutely no difference of tone. All of these edits, from all three users and just about all the anon IPs identified to date, have a single voice. It's a foul-mouthed, loser, someone who has only ever gotten his way through bullying. The thought of there being a whole clan of near-twins out there can be discounted, there just aren't that many sociopaths around with exactly the same obsessions who are likely to turn up at precisely the same time and engage in the same activities. The different IPs suggest that this is a script kiddie who has learned how to use backdoor proxies. That would also fit in with the obsessive tone. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:14, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Also look at what he's been up to lately on RFAR (history). Clearly this nutter has no problem obtaining new IPs. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

weasel words on sifu
This is a minor issue, but something I'd like to fix. Since you just copyedited sifu (and I did a bit after you), would you happen to know anything about these "sources", the article seems to cite, and also the "some say that Bruce Lee" sentence as well? Or are you clueless about this as I am? Thanks. -- Natalinasmpf 17:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Nope... just making some minor corrections. I have no knowledge of whether or not the content is verifiable. --Chanting Fox 17:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pope Benedict XVI
You're right the page appeared to be protected but wasn't. I've reverted the changes and blocked the user. I'll unprotect it in a few hours. Thanks --nixie 01:43, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: vandalised noticeboard
What noticeboard? Can you give a link? There are so many, and I can't see anything wrong with the ones I've checked. Shanes 19:00, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Can you please provide a link to the page? I can't find anything wrong with Administrators' noticeboard. Shanes 19:10, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I can't find a problem, either. Joyous 19:11, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Then there's a BIG problem. When I use that link, I can clearly see the vandalism. The problem is that it doesn't seem to show up on the history. --Chanting Fox 19:13, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I accessed the page from the link at Category:Wikipedia administrators, and I still can't see a problem. What are you seeing? Back in December, I experienced seeing weird vandalism on the VfD page that no one else could see, and which didn't show up in the history. Joyous 19:20, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Still not seeing a problem. "TOC" is just the command for the "table of contents." Joyous 19:34, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Well, REMOVING that line seems to get rid of the vandalism... I'm going to try to get rid of that line and see what effect it has... I'll replace it immedietely if something goes wrong. --Chanting Fox 19:35, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I am absolutely floored. Very clever of you to try the TOC command; that never would have occurred to me.  Probably want to mention this somewhere where more people can see it and be aware of the...I dunno...would it be considered a bug?  Joyous 19:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * What browser are you using? I'm on a Mac using Safari, and couldn't see it logged in or out. Also tried IE (blech) logged out, and didn't see it.  Joyous 19:51, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe you should relate a little account of this episode at Village pump (technical), so someone of a tech frame of mind might be aware of it. Joyous 19:58, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * As I've said at the Pump, I'll think you'll find the vandalism was in Administrators' noticeboard/Header and had been reverted earlier in the day. The reason that you were seeing it when others weren't may be cache-related, but I'm not entirely sure. I think is probably a red herring; when you edited WP:AN, that forced the out-of-date cache to reload and the vandalism (long gone from the database) stopped appearing. Does that make sense? --rbrwr± 21:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * ...yes, there's a lot of caching going on behind the scenes in the Wikimedia servers. See Cache strategy, Squid, Memcached. I suspect memcached to be the culprit, as you were seeing the problem when logged in, but I'm not entirely sure. --rbrwr± 08:22, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"Vandalism"
Please do not revert my user talk page like that. I probably would have removed it, but that's for me to decide. --SPUI (talk) 01:14, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

ditto! Apologies to SPUI if it was offensive.--Jondel 01:18, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bizarre, yes
Hi, yes, the below is quite odd, and seems to be based off of this edit for RickK from April.

I would just delete it, as this person seems to be a curious fellow, but not malicious. :) Fuzheado | Talk 29 June 2005 03:25 (UTC)

RfA
It looks like you got it figured out, yes? Joyous (talk) July 4, 2005 02:40 (UTC)

 * I set up the new nom page. I'm still trying to figure out about the move with the old nom. func (talk) 4 July 2005 02:40 (UTC)
 * I reverted your page move of your first RFA. As Func mentioned, new nominations require a new nomination page. Good luck. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 4 July 2005 02:46 (UTC)

Userpage lockdown
CF, do you want me to go ahead and unlock your userpage? Joyous (talk) July 4, 2005 03:28 (UTC)
 * Done. Joyous  (talk) July 4, 2005 03:31 (UTC)

Uh, do you know what you are doing?
Why did you revert my edits on User:Mel_Etitis/JTF claiming it was vandalism? How is it vandalism? What do you know about the JTF? Please be careful before reverting and calling something vandalism. 168.209.98.35 4 July 2005 04:36 (UTC)

While you are reverting for "vandalism", why not finish where you left off in User:/Mel_Etitis/JTF
Seeing how you consider my NPOV edits User:Mel_Etitis/JTF&diff=18109860&oldid=18109796 to be *cough* vandalism, perhaps you can find many more examples of my vandalism in the JTF article? Maybe you can also prove that my claiming that JTF spends entire programs insulting blacks, arabs and mexicans is also vandalism? Or, you can also claim that JTF is, in fact, a civil rights organization and my removal of such a phrase is also vandalism?

Come on, don't be lazy. If my edit that you reverted was vandalism then you have left a heck of a lot of vandalism by me sneak past you.

And seeing how you are the only one who can spot this as vandalism, you should work twice as hard to make up for all of those incompetent admins out there who fail to see what you see!

Good luck! Fishpaste 4 July 2005 05:12 (UTC) (aka: 168.209.98.35)

Self-nom for administration
Hi! Nothing personal, and for the most part I think you do a good job reverting vandalism, but you're a little bit too quick on the trigger for me. Also, (although I think your actions were right), your response to the newbie was a little bit harsh. I have little doubt I would support in a month or two, though. --Scimitar 4 July 2005 22:37 (UTC)

 * You feel calling a NPOV edit to a temporary article page, which we were busy editing to replace an existing, protected, page an act of vandalism was right? Is that vandalism in your view?  I will keep an eye out on RfA and will oppose any nomination for you as well. Fishpaste 5 July 2005 07:25 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for reverting that vandalism to my user page.

James F. (talk) 5 July 2005 00:01 (UTC)

Good catch
Good catch on the Catholic page, removing that spurious link; quick, too. Good job. KHM03 5 July 2005 17:23 (UTC)

Great job!
Dear Chanting Fox,

You've done a really great job doing vandalism reverts on Wikipedia. RC patroling can be a really tiring and tedious job, and you were faithfully laboring along for so long without a rollback feature. I know that some of your reverts have been too quick and sometimes ignorant, but overall you have done such a great job here.

I hereby award you the Working Man's Barnstar, as you have done laborious work since you were a newbie. An Editor's Barnstar just shows that you have been doing reverts, but I am giving you this barnstar because you have been our faithful working man around here. Thank you very much. — Stevey7788 (talk) 00:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

My user page
A belated thank you for reverting vandalism to my user page. I only just now realized that it had been vandalized back earlier this month. --Briangotts 20:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Where is the do I post my help/vandalism request that you deleted from the Vandalism page.

The person stalking me, might fall under the category of Vandalism. Thank you LaLa1 01:56, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Problem User LaLa / LaLa1
Just to clarify, what LaLa has characterised as stalking and vandalism amounts to my having identified four articles he started as unambiguous copyvios. These were tagged as such, but LaLa repeatedly removed the Copvio tags from the articles, as well as warnings from myself and others from his talk page. Having already been in conflict with him about a misguided categorization scheme (other users, including Bearcat, JamesTeterenko, and Pmanderson — who nom'd it for Cfd — also had a problem here), I invited another admin, Jayjg, to examine the situation. He concurred that they were copyvios and warned LaLa against removing the notices. After LaLa chose to ignore this, Jayjg listed the problem at WP:AN/I, and protected the pages in question. Upon reviewing the situation, a third admin, Snowspinner, chose to block LaLa indefinitely. I should point out that I had even requested that Snowspinner reduce the block to a max of 24 hours as a cooling down period. 03:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Carlo Levi
Why did you revert the edit refering to Carlo Levi's association with communism? 69.222.254.7 03:04, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Your barnstar
Would you like to post your new barnstar on your user page? I'd like to see two of them shining on your page. :) — Stevey7788 (talk) 22:52, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry...
I'm sorry I vandalized the Michael Moore page regarding the 4 big macs. I won't do it again. Keep up the good work. -Vinceaso

Asking for trouble
In response to your post, the problem is that Wikipedia isn't even trying to be tough. It makes it patently obvious that it's going to be soft so there's no reason not to cause trouble. Wikpedia behaves like the weakest sort of teacher who asks for trouble and gets it, or even like a child that invites taunting and bullying. Osomec 20:18, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Basilica of Saint Mary (Minneapolis)

Block Party
Seems that the block party should have its own page, as its a fairly substantial music festival with an identity distinct from the church itself. Minnesotasteve 11:42 16 Feb 2018 (UTC)

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The Oldest Basilica in North America is Basilica of Notre-Dame in Québec City, It was designated a Basilica in 1874, by Pope Pius IX and as such is the first church in North America to be designated a basilica. Saint Mary in Minnesota was not built until 1907-1915 and was not elevated to Basilica until 1926 by Pope Pius XI. Bmpower | Talk 10:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The first Cathedral, the * Basilica of Baltimore in the United States of America was built 1806-1821 was later designated a minor basilica in 1937. The Basilica of Baltimore is quite possibly the oldest cathedral in the United States. n3pla2000. Further information: Basilica of Baltimore —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC).

Not the oldest basilica in North America. There are 4 basilicas in Canada older than Saint Mary. They include: Jcmurphy | Talk 05:10, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City - Designated Basilica in 1874 by Pope Pius IX
 * Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame in Ottawa - Designated Basilica in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII
 * Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec - Designated Basilica in 1887 by Pope Leo XIII
 * Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Queen of the World and St. James in Montreal - Designated Basilica in 1919 by Pope Benedict XV

They were not designated as basilicas until AFTER the Basilica of St Mary was built. EdwinHJ | Talk 03:14, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What about St Adalberts Basilica in Buffalo NY it was designated Basilica by the Vatican in 1907? Talk 03:34, 28 Mar 2008 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.207.126.171 (talk)

Beaux-Arts architecture
A source should be added to establish whether the basilica is an example (or even "one of the finest examples") of Beaux-Arts architecture. Apparently the NRHP documentation called it an example of Classical Revival architecture. I didn't try to find a source for either claim, so the conflicting statements remain. 72.244.204.237 (talk) 20:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dogi

 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 redirect. Mackensen (talk) 05:04, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dogi
Dogi is simply a word that mean uniform.
 * Merge to Son Goku or Z Fighters. Mwanner 20:42, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, foreign dictionary definition, cruft. Megan1967 02:21, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The author of this acticle assumes that "Dogi" has some special meaning in the Dragon Ball Z cartoons. It is simplely another word for uniform, like "gi". Is there a way to link to the Wikidictionary for this word? 207.104.145.80 20:25, 2005 Apr 15 (transferred from this discussion page's talk page Uncle G 03:04, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC))
 * Redirect to gi. "Dogi" is in general use in martial arts, has no specific association with cartoons. Wile E. Heresiarch 23:02, 16 Apr 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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Basotho National Party

The Basotho National Party is a political party in Lesotho, founded in 1959 in colonial Basutoland as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. He was Prime Minister from the 1965 general election until the 1986 coup d'état.

In the 1993 general election, the BNP received almost 23% of the vote but did not win any seats in the National Assembly, with all 65 seats going to the party's rival, the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP). It suffered a similar defeat in the 1998 general election, in which it won 24.5% of the vote but only one seat in the National Assembly. Due to its lack of success in winning constituencies, the party sought the introduction of proportional representation in deciding the allocation of seats; as a compromise, a mixed system providing for 40 compensatory seats that would be decided through proportional representation (in addition to the 80 constituency seats) was introduced.

Justin Lekhanya, the leader of the 1986 coup, was elected as Party Leader of the BNP at its Conference in March 1999. In the 25 May 2002 general election, the party won 21 compensatory seats through proportional representation with 22.4% of the vote. Since then, the party has been rocked by internal squabbles which have seen it fail to provide an effective opposition within the Lesotho parliament. In the 17 February 2007 general election, the party won only 3 out of 120 seats. Its headquarters is in Maseru, the capital city.

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Duhamel Broadcasting Tower Angora

Duhamel Broadcasting Tower Angora is a tall guyed mast located at Angora, Nebraska. Duhamel Broadcasting Tower Angora was completed in 2003 and is 450.5 m high.

The tower serves as the broadcasting platform for the Duhamel-owned TV stations KDUH-TV 4/DT 7 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, which is 30 miles (50 kilometers) away.

The tower was built as a replacement for KDUH-TV Mast Hemingford near Hemingford, Nebraska, which collapsed in 2002, killing two tower workers and injuring three.

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Basutoland Congress Party

The Basutoland Congress Party is a pan-Africanist and left-wing political party in Lesotho.

The Basutoland African Congress (BAC) was founded in 1952 by Ntsu Mokhehle and Potlako Leballo. The party was renamed the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) in 1957 and retained this name after independence in 1966, stating that Lesotho was not truly independent. Leballo left the party in 1959 to form the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa (PAC).

The BCP lost the 1965 election but won in 1970. It was denied power by a coup d'état in support of the defeated prime minister Leabua Jonathan.

In 1974, following an unsuccessful rising, the BCP sent 178 men for military training by the PAC in Gaddafi's Libya. In 1979 they began a guerrilla war as the Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA).

The party won a landslide victory at the 1993 general election, and its leader Ntsu Mokhehle became prime minister. Mokhehle left the party in 1997 with his faction to form the Lesotho Congress for Democracy. The BCP was led by Tseliso Makhakhe, Qhobela Molapo, Ntsukunyane Mphanya and (currently) Thulo Mahlakeng.

At the 25 May 2002 general election, the party won 2.6% of the vote and 3 out of 120 seats.

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Lesotho People's Congress

The Lesotho People's Congress is a political party in Lesotho. It was formed as a split from the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) by that party's Lesiba faction after Deputy Prime Minister Kelebone Maope resigned from the government in September 2001, and it was registered on October 8, 2001. Maope became the leader of the LPC; another leading member of the LCD, Shakhane Mokhehle, also became a leading member of the LPC. It gained 27 seats in the National Assembly through defections from the LCD. The new party closely identified itself with former prime minister Ntsu Mokhehle (brother of Shakhane Mokhehle), the founder of the LCD, and used an image of his head as its party symbol. The LCD sought to prevent the LPC from using his head as its symbol, but on December 6 the High Court ruled in favor of the LPC. In the parliamentary election for the National Assembly held on 25 May 2002, the party won 5.8% of popular votes and 5 out of 120 seats. Maope was the only LPC candidate to win a constituency, but the party won four other seats through proportional representation. Maope and Shakhane Mokhehle did not include themselves on the party's list of candidates for proportional representation, expecting to win constituencies, but Mokhehle lost his constituency by nine votes, and therefore did not get a seat in the National Assembly.

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European Union Institute for Security Studies

The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is a Paris-based agency of the European Union (EU) within the realm of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The EUISS is an autonomous agency with full intellectual freedom and researches security issues of relevance for the EU and provides a forum for debate. In its capacity as an EU agency, it also offers analyses and forecasting to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.

History
The EUISS was inaugurated on 2002/01/01. It evolved from Western European Union Institute for Security Studies (est. 1960) following a gradual transfer of powers from the Western European Union (WEU) to the EU.

Mission
According to the Council Joint Action of 20 July 2001, which established the EUISS, the mission of the EUISS is to 'contribute to the development of the CFSP, in particular the CSDP, in coherence with the European Security Strategy. To that end, it shall conduct academic research and policy analysis, organise seminars and carry out information and communication activities in that field. The institute's work shall inter alia contribute to the transatlantic dialogue. It shall involve a network of exchanges with other research institutes and think-tanks both inside and outside the European Union'.

Oversight and Funding
According to the European External Action Service (EEAS) website the institute is funded by member states of the European Union, according to a GNP-based cost-sharing formula, and governed by: the Political and Security Committee (PSC), which exercises political supervision; and the Board, which lays down budgetary and administrative rules and approving the institute's work programme (chaired by the HR/VP Josep Borrell).

Research
The EUISS researches topics related to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), including the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The Institute therefore covers EU relations with the following regions: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Russia and eastern neighbours, Transatlantic relations and Latin America, and Western Balkans.

In addition to these geographical regions, the EUISS addresses the thematic areas of counter-terrorism, migration, non-proliferation, conflict prevention, crisis management, global governance, EU enlargement, cybersecurity, justice and home affairs, and defence industries.

Outreach
Communications and outreach activities are central to the work of the EUISS in fulfilling its mission to contribute to Europe's strategic debate. The EUISS maintains a strong online presence (website re-launched in 2017) and distributes its research via a regular newsletter. Making use of social media tools, the EUISS maintains active Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as Flickr and LinkedIn channels.

European Strategy and Policy Analysis System
In 2011, the EUISS, in its role as the European agency for strategic studies, was chosen by the European Commission to prepare and deliver the final reports of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS).


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Lesotho Workers' Party

The Lesotho Workers' Party is a political party in Lesotho. In the 25 May 2002 parliamentary election, the party won 1.4% of popular votes and one out of 120 seats in the National Assembly. In the 17 February 2007 parliamentary election, the party won 10 seats through proportional representation. It is allied with the All Basotho Convention.

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Marematlou Freedom Party

The Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP) is a royalist political party in Lesotho.

History
The party was established in December 1962 by a merger of the Freedom Party and the Marema-Tlou Party (MTP). Soon after its formation several members of the Basutoland Congress Party defected to the MFP.

When former MTP leader Seepheephe Matete was replaced as party president by Seth Makotoko he broke away to re-establish the MTP as a separate party. Both contested the 1965 general elections, with the MFP winning four seats with 16.5% of the vote and the MTP no seats with 2.2% of the vote.

In the 1970 general elections the party's vote share fell to 7%, resulting in it being reduced to a single seat.

When multi-party democracy was restored in the 1990s the party contested the 1993 elections, receiving 1.4% of the vote and failing to win a seat. It remained seatless after receiving 1.3% of the vote in the 1998 elections. Despite its vote share falling to 1.2% in the 2002 elections, the party won a seat due to the new proportional electoral system. It retained the single seat in the 2007, 2012 and 2015 elections.

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National Independent Party

The National Independent Party is a political party in Lesotho.

The NIP was founded by Anthony Manyeli as a split from the Basotho National Party. It performed poorly in the 1993 and 1998 parliamentary elections, but in the election for the National Assembly held on 25 May 2002, the party won 5.5% of popular votes and five out of 120 seats. The party had previously never won any seats, and its success in winning five seats through proportional representation in the 2002 election was attributed to voter confusion about party symbols: its symbol being that of the dove and the symbol of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) being that of the eagle. NIP party leader Manyeli, expressing surprise at the results, said that this explanation was the only way he could account for them.

In the 17 February 2007 parliamentary election, the party won 21 seats through proportional representation. It is allied with the LCD. Manyeli contested this alliance and won a court ruling against the alliance, but it was then overturned on appeal. He was excluded from the party's list of candidates and therefore did not get a seat in parliament. Opposition parties trying to have the alliance ruled invalid have said that the appeal ruling was in violation of the constitution; they sought for the NIP members of parliament to be replaced by Manyeli and his supporters.

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Uridine diphosphate

Uridine diphosphate, abbreviated UDP, is a nucleotide diphosphate. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside uridine. UDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase uracil.

UDP is an important factor in glycogenesis. Before glucose can be stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles, the enzyme UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase forms a UDP-glucose unit by combining glucose 1-phosphate with uridine triphosphate, cleaving a pyrophosphate ion in the process. Then, the enzyme glycogen synthase combines UDP-glucose units to form a glycogen chain. The UDP molecule is cleaved from the glucose ring during this process and can be reused by UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase.

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National Progressive Party (Lesotho)

The National Progressive Party is a political party in Lesotho. At the last elections for the National Assembly, 25 May 2002, the party won 0.7% of popular votes and 1 out of 120 seats.

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1975 American League Championship Series

The 1975 American League Championship Series pitted the Boston Red Sox against the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics for the right to advance to the World Series. The Red Sox swept the series in three games to win their first AL pennant in eight years, which ended Oakland's pursuit of a fourth consecutive World Series title.

Background
During the regular season, the Red Sox posted a .590 record to win their first American League East division title, while the "Swingin' A's" went .600 to take the American League West for the fifth consecutive season.

The Red Sox had experienced players such as Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, and Dwight Evans, and two sensational rookies – Fred Lynn and Jim Rice. Lynn took most of the headlines by playing a flawless center field, hitting .331 with 21 home runs and 105 RBIs, and was the first major league player to win the MVP and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season. Despite suffering a broken wrist in late September, Rice finished with a .309 average, 22 homers, and 102 RBIs.

Game 1
Boston starter Luis Tiant allowed just one run on three hits to defeat the A's, 7–1, in the ALCS opener. Tiant struck out eight and walked three in a complete game effort, retiring the side in order in four innings. Juan Beníquez went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, Fred Lynn ended 1-for-4 with two RBIs, and Carlton Fisk went 1-for-4 with two runs scored for the Red Sox. Oakland starter Ken Holtzman was saddled with the loss by yielding five hits and four runs (two unearned) with four strikeouts and a walk in $4 1/2$ innings of work.

Game 2
Carl Yastrzemski hit a two-run home run to lead the Red Sox past the Athletics, 6–3, in Game 2. Boston starter Reggie Cleveland was solid through five innings, allowing three runs on five hits with two strikeouts and one walk. Rico Petrocelli also homered, Carlton Fisk went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, and Fred Lynn went 2-for-4 with one RBI for the Red Sox. A's starter Vida Blue lasted three innings and gave up just three runs on six hits. The win went to Roger Moret, who tossed one scoreless inning of relief, and Dick Drago worked the final three innings to close out the contest. Rollie Fingers took the loss, allowing three runs on five hits over four innings. Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer and Sal Bando went 4-for-4 with two doubles and a run for the A's.

Game 3
After three consecutive championships, the Athletics' dynasty came to an end, as the Red Sox took the third game, 5-3, to sweep the series, their first series win since 1918. Boston starter Rick Wise allowed three runs (two unearned) on six hits in $6 1/3$ innings of work. Both Denny Doyle and Carlton Fisk collected two hits with one run and an RBI, and Rick Burleson went 2-for-4 with one run scored to pace the Red Sox. On just two days' rest, Ken Holtzman started for Oakland and was tagged for four runs on seven hits in just $7 1/3$ innings to take his second loss in the series. Dick Drago earned the save for pitching $4 2/3$ innings of shutout ball for Boston while Carl Yastrzemski made two great defensive plays in left field and collected two hits. Sal Bando went 2-for-4 with two RBIs while Reggie Jackson went 2-for-4 with one RBI for the A's.

This game, and Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, were the first LCS games ever played at night; both were regionally televised by NBC.

Composite box
1975 ALCS (3–0): Boston Red Sox over Oakland A's

Batting
Note: GP=Games Played; AB=At Bats; R=Runs; H=Hits; 2B=Doubles; 3B=Triples; HR=Home Runs; RBI=Runs Batted In; BB=Walks; AVG=Batting Average; OBP=On Base Percentage; SLG=Slugging Percentage

Pitching
Note: G=Games Played; GS=Games Started; IP=Innings Pitched; H=Hits; BB=Walks; R=Runs; ER=Earned Runs; SO=Strikeouts; W=Wins; L=Losses; SV=Saves; ERA=Earned Run Average

Batting
Note: GP=Games Played; AB=At Bats; R=Runs; H=Hits; 2B=Doubles; 3B=Triples; HR=Home Runs; RBI=Runs Batted In; BB=Walks; AVG=Batting Average; OBP=On Base Percentage; SLG=Slugging Percentage

Pitching
Note: G=Games Played; GS=Games Started; IP=Innings Pitched; H=Hits; BB=Walks; R=Runs; ER=Earned Runs; SO=Strikeouts; W=Wins; L=Losses; SV=Saves; ERA=Earned Run Average


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This really belongs in the joyo kanji article. — Gwalla | Talk 20:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Prince-abbot

In the Holy Roman Empire, a prince-abbot (Fürstabt) was the cleric who headed a princely abbey. The prince-abbot had a seat and an individual vote (votum virile) in the Imperial Diet alongside the prince-bishops. They ranked higher than the imperial abbots and imperial abbesses who although they were also immediate, held only two collective votes in the Diet.

Actual prince-abbots were:
 * the Abbot of Fulda, "Archchancellor of the Empress", according to a 1220 decree by Emperor Frederick II, elevated to a Prince-Bishopric by Pope Benedict XIV in 1752
 * the Abbot of Prüm, elevated by Emperor Frederick II in 1222, held in personal union by the Archbishop of Trier from 1576
 * the Abbot of Kempten, confirmed by King Charles IV in 1348
 * the Abbot of Murbach, elevated by King Ferdinand I in 1548
 * the Prince Abbot of Saint Gall, elevated by King Philip of Germany in 1207
 * the Abbot of Stavelot-Malmedy
 * the Abbot of Corvey, elevated to a Prince-Bishop in 1792
 * the Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
 * the Princess-Abesses of the Imperial and Royal Theresian Stift for Noble Ladies in the Castle of Prague

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Reasonable suspicion

Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof that in United States law is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual. If police additionally have reasonable suspicion that a person so detained is armed and dangerous, they may "frisk" the person for weapons, but not for contraband like drugs. However, if the police develop probable cause during a weapons frisk (by feeling something that could be a weapon or contraband, for example), they may then conduct a full search. Reasonable suspicion is evaluated using the "reasonable person" or "reasonable officer" standard, in which said person in the same circumstances could reasonably suspect a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; it depends upon the totality of circumstances, and can result from a combination of particular facts, even if each is individually innocuous.

Precedent
In Terry v. Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a person can be stopped and briefly detained by a police officer based on a reasonable suspicion of involvement in a punishable crime. If the officer has reasonable suspicion the detainee is armed, the officer may perform a "pat-down" of the person's outer garments for weapons. Such a detention does not violate the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizure, though it must be brief. Reasonable suspicion does not provide grounds for arrest; however, an arrest can be made if facts discovered during the detention provide probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime. (Note: Probable cause cannot be after the fact. Any added probable cause after the fact would be inadmissible in a court of law.)

In Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada the Court further established that a state may require, by law, that a person verbally identify himself or herself to an officer during a stop; some states (e.g., Colorado ) require that a person detained provide additional information.

However, as of 2020, only 24 states have "stop and identify" statutes on the books.

Traffic stops
A brief, non-custodial traffic stop is considered a "seizure" for the purposes of the 4th Amendment and must therefore be supported by reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The investigating officer must weigh the totality of the circumstances to determine whether sufficient objective facts exist to create reasonable suspicion that the driver is engaged in criminal activity. If the investigating officer witnesses the driver commit a traffic violation (even if they are mistaken about what constitutes a violation, see Heien v. North Carolina), then said violation generally constitutes probable cause for the officer to stop the vehicle. The officer may detain the driver and any passengers of the vehicle for long enough to confirm and/or deny his or her suspicions.

If his or her suspicions are confirmed, then there may be probable cause to either search the vehicle and/or arrest its occupant(s), depending on the nature of the suspected violations. In Illinois v. Caballes, the Supreme Court held that a drug dog may sniff the exterior of a vehicle during a traffic stop so long as any delay in calling the dog to the scene does not unreasonably prolong the traffic stop. The use of a drug dog is sui generis and a dog's sniff is not considered a search in and of itself under the 4th Amendment.

Police may also set up roadblocks and stop drivers without particularized reasonable suspicion that the stopped individual is engaged in criminal activity, so long as the plan for the stop is applied neutrally, for instance, driving while intoxicated – so long as all vehicles are stopped or every third vehicle is stopped, or some other reasonably neutral policy is applied for stopping vehicles. Note that some states also impose additional notice requirements for roadblocks, such as appropriate signage and/or flashing blue or red lights.

Schools
New Jersey has set the precedent that probable cause is not necessary to search a student on school grounds; reasonable suspicion is enough to search a student's belongings. Overly intrusive searches, like a body cavity search, require probable cause.

Government workplaces
A few years after New Jersey v. T. L. O., the Supreme Court held in O'Connor v. Ortega that while government employees do have Fourth Amendment rights in the workplace, administrative investigations conducted by supervisors looking for evidence of work-related misconduct or violations of an employee policy – unlike investigations by law enforcement looking for evidence of criminal offenses – only require reasonable suspicion to justify a search.

Private workplaces
Many private employers also use reasonable suspicion in private workplaces to drug and alcohol test their employees. According to the Department of Transportation (DOT), employers must provide training to all persons who supervise drivers subject to the regulations, in accordance with §382.603. The purpose of this training is to enable supervisors to determine whether reasonable suspicion exists to require a driver or other safety-sensitive employee to undergo testing described in §382.307. The consequences of not completing the mandated minimum training can, at the least, result in fines and penalties and at the worst serious injuries and liability.

Borders
U.S. Customs can do routine suspicionless searches of people and effects crossing the border (including passing through airport customs) without establishing reasonable suspicion. This includes even complicated searches such as the disassembly of an automobile's gas tank. However, there are some more intrusive types of searches, such as body cavity searches of a suspect balloon swallower, that require reasonable suspicion.

Different jurisdictions
Most powers applied by police officers in the United Kingdom are done on reasonable suspicion. Unlike in the United States, police officers in England and Wales can arrest on reasonable suspicion.

Child abuse
Most state child abuse reporting laws employ the "reasonable suspicion" standard as the threshold above which mandated reporters must report the case. However, the definition of this term is not widely understood. As a result, there is large variation in the rates of child abuse reporting in different states.

Examples
A police officer may briefly detain a person, without a warrant, if the officer has reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime, and an officer may use reasonable force to effect that detention. Courts have recognized that an officer's safety is paramount and have allowed for a "frisk" of the outermost garments from head to toe if the officer reasonably suspects that the detainee is armed, and for an officer to stop an individual at gunpoint if necessary. In the city of New York, once a person is released from a reasonable suspicion stop, a "stop, question and frisk report" is filled out and filed with the command in which the stop occurs.

U.S. courts have held that a stop on reasonable suspicion may be appropriate in the following cases: when a person possesses unusual items (like a wire hanger, which would be useful in a crime, and is looking into car windows at 2 am), when a person matches a description of a suspect given by another officer, or a person is seen fleeing from a home or business with a sounding alarm. However, reasonable suspicion does not apply merely because a person refuses to answer questions, declines to allow a voluntary search, or is of a particular race or ethnicity.

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Richard H. Ranger

Richard Howland Ranger (13 June 1889 – 10 January 1962) was an American electrical engineer, music engineer and inventor. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John Hilliard and Emily Anthen Gillet Ranger, He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I, earning the rank of Major. After the war, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1919 to 1923.

Biography
As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in 1924, Richard Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today’s fax machines. A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London in November 1924 became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile. Commercial use of Ranger’s product began two years later.

In 1930, he formed a company, Rangertone, Inc., in Newark, New Jersey. The company, which marketed the electronic 'Rangertone Organ', was sold after his death, and remains privately owned as Rangertone Research, Inc.

In 1932, he invented the NBC chime machine, an automatic device to reproduce the familiar hand-struck NBC chimes used by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network. By connecting his electrically operated chimes with outdoor loudspeakers, he was later able to create the effect of church bells. He also did other work relating to electronic organs.

During World War II, he returned to the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a Colonel and was put in charge of radar and communications at the Radio and Radar Test Labs in Orlando, Florida. He later went to Europe as part of Field information Agency, Technical, an investigative team between 1944 and 1946 to examine German advances in electronics and wrote a series of technical reports on electrical components, communications, television, and (most significantly) magnetic tape recording.

After the war, Ranger's work led to further development of magnetic tape recorders. He developed a product using the German technology, and demonstrated it to potential users, including the members of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the National Broadcasting Company, the Radio Corporation of America, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and individuals like singer Bing Crosby.

His subsequent refinements led to improved synchronization of sound and visual portions of films. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder and synchronization of film and sound.

Richard H. Ranger was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Kazakhstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Kazakhstan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 130 competitors, 86 men and 44 women, took part in 104 events in 17 sports.

Archery
The Kazakh archers won five matches in 2000, three more than they had four years earlier. Two archers advanced to the round of 16 and the men's team made it to the quarterfinals.

Men's Team:
 * Shikarev, Zabrodskiy, and Li – quarterfinal, 7th place (1-1)

Men's Competition
Men's 100 m
 * Vitaliy Medvedev
 * Round 1 – 10.75 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m
 * Gennadiy Chernovol
 * Round 1 – 20.95 (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put
 * Sergey Rubtsov
 * Qualifying – 15.90 (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
 * Sergey Arzamasov
 * Qualifying – 16.70 (→ did not advance)

 * Oleg Sakirkin
 * Qualifying – 16.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump
 * Yuriy Pakhlyayev
 * Qualifying – 2.24 (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault
 * Igor Potapovich
 * Qualifying – NM (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
 * Valeriy Borisov
 * Final – 1:28:36 (→ 38th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
 * Sergey Korepanov
 * Final – 3:53:30 (→ 15th place)

 * Valeriy Borisov
 * Final – 4:01:11 (→ 25th place)

Women's Competition
Women's 100 m
 * Viktoria Kovyreva
 * Round 1 – 11.72 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 m
 * Svetlana Bodritskaya
 * Round 1 – 53.91 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Hurdles
 * Olga Shishigina
 * Round 1 – 12.81
 * Round 2 – 12.66
 * Semifinal – 12.71
 * Final – 12.65 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's 400 m Hurdles
 * Natalya Torshina
 * Round 1 – 56.38
 * Semifinal – 56.22 (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put
 * Iolanta Ulyeva
 * Qualifying – 16.38 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump
 * Yelena Kashcheyeva
 * Qualifying – 6.57 (→ did not advance)

 * Yelena Pershina
 * Qualifying – 6.24 (→ did not advance)

 * Anna Tarasova
 * Qualifying – NM (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump
 * Yelena Parfenova
 * Qualifying – 13.50 (→ did not advance)

 * Anna Tarasova
 * Qualifying – 13.11 (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump
 * Svetlana Zalevskaya
 * Qualifying – 1.94
 * Final – 1.96 (→ 6th place)

Women's 20 km Walk
 * Svetlana Tolstaya
 * Final – 1:35:19 (→ 21st place)

 * Yelena Kuznetsova
 * Final – 1:42:45 (→ 40th place)

 * Maya Sazonova
 * Final – DNF

Women's Marathon
 * Garifa Kuku
 * Final – DNF

Women's Heptathlon
 * Svetlana Kazanina
 * 100 m Hurdles – 14.71
 * High Jump – 1.75
 * Shot Put – 12.97
 * 200 m – 25.04
 * Long Jump – 5.84
 * Javelin Throw – 43.53
 * 800 m – 02:10.45
 * Points – 5898 (→ 16th place)

 * Irina Naumenko
 * 100 m Hurdles – 14.26
 * High Jump – 1.84
 * Shot Put – 11.26
 * 200 m – 25.19
 * Long Jump – 5.88
 * Javelin Throw – 32.53
 * 800 m – 02:18.49
 * Points – 5634 (→ 21st place)

Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
 * Bulat Jumadilov
 * Round 1 – Bye
 * Round 2 – Defeated Kennedy Kanyanta of Zambia
 * Quarterfinal – Defeated Vakhtang Darchinian of Armenia
 * Semifinal – Defeated Jérôme Thomas of France
 * Final – Lost to Winjad Ponlid of Thailand → Silver medal

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
 * Bekzat Sattarkhanov
 * Round 1 – Defeated Bobirnat Ovidiu Tiberiu of Romania
 * Round 2 – Defeated Jeffrey Mathebula of South Africa
 * Quarterfinal – Defeated Ramazan Palyani of Turkey
 * Semifinal – Defeated Tahar Tamsamani of Morocco
 * Final – Defeated Ricardo Mortel of United States → Gold medal

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
 * Nurzhan Karimzhanov
 * Round 1 – Defeated Artur Guevorkian of Armenia
 * Round 2 – Defeated Michael Katsidis of Australia
 * Quarterfinal – Lost to Andriy Kotelnyk of Ukraine (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
 * Daniyar Munaytbasov
 * Round 1 – Defeated Paulus Ali Nuumbembe of Namibia
 * Round 2 – Defeated Leonard Bundu of Italy
 * Quarterfinal – Lost to Sergey Dotsenko of Ukraine (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
 * Yermakhan Ibraimov
 * Round 1 – Defeated Yousif Massas of Syria
 * Round 2 – Defeated Hely Yánes of Venezuela
 * Quarterfinal – Defeated Juan Hernández Sierra of Cuba
 * Semifinal – Defeated Jermain Taylor of United States
 * Final – Defeated Marin Simion of Romania → Gold medal

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
 * Olzhas Orazaliyev
 * Round 1 – Defeated Hugo Garay of Argentina
 * Round 2 – Defeated Isael Alvarez of Cuba
 * Quarterfinal – Lost to Sergei Mikhailov of Uzbekistan (→ did not advance)

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)
 * Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov
 * Round 1 – Bye
 * Round 2 – Defeated Grzegorz Kielsa of Poland
 * Quarterfinal – Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba of Cuba
 * Semifinal – Defeated Rustam Saidov of Uzbekistan
 * Final – Lost to Audley Harrison of Great Britain → Silver medal

Men's competition
Men's Kayak Singles 500 m
 * Sergey Sergin
 * Qualifying Heat – 01:47.253 (→ did not advance)

Men's Kayak Singles 1,000 m
 * Sergey Sergin
 * Qualifying Heat – 03:42.645
 * Semifinal – 03:47.633 (→ did not advance)

Men's Canoe Singles 500 m
 * Kaisar Nurmaganbetov
 * Qualifying Heat – 01:55.422
 * Semifinal – 01:54.465 (→ did not advance)

Men's Canoe Singles 1,000 m
 * Kaisar Nurmaganbetov
 * Qualifying Heat – 04:01.438
 * Semifinal – 04:05.206 (→ did not advance)

Men's Canoe Doubles 500 m
 * Konstantin Negodyayev and Zhomart Satubaldin
 * Qualifying Heat – 01:45.810
 * Semifinal – 01:45.809
 * Final – 02:01.436 (→ 7th place)

Men's Canoe Doubles 1,000 m
 * Konstantin Negodyayev and Zhomart Satubaldin
 * Qualifying Heat – 03:53.366
 * Semifinal – 03:48.756 (→ did not advance)

Road Cycling
Men's Individual Time Trial
 * Andrei Teteriouk
 * Final – 0:58:52 (→ 6th place)

 * Alexander Vinokourov
 * Final – 1:01:34 (→ 27th place)

Men's Road Race
 * Alexander Vinokourov
 * Final – 5:29:17 (Silver medal)

 * Andrei Teteriouk
 * Final – 5:30:46 (→ 46th place)

 * Alexandr Shefer
 * Final – 5:30:46 (→ 53rd place)

 * Sergei Yakovlev
 * Final – 5:30:46 (→ 57th place)

 * Andrei Kivilev
 * Final – 5:30:46 (→ 73rd place)

Track Cycling
Men's Individual Pursuit
 * Vadim Kravchenko
 * Qualifying – 04:40.410 (→ did not advance)

Men's Point Race
 * Sergey Lavrenenko
 * Points – 1
 * Laps Down – 2 (→ 20th place)

Diving
Men's 3 Metre Springboard
 * Alisher Seitov
 * Preliminary – 307.62 (→ did not advance, 42nd place)

Men's 10 Metre Platform
 * Damir Akhmetbekov
 * Preliminary – 75.42 (→ did not advance, 42nd place)

Men's 10 Metre Platform
 * Alexey Gurman
 * Preliminary – 320.13 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Women's 3 Metre Springboard
 * Natalya Popova
 * Preliminary – 234.90 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 3 Metre Springboard
 * Irina Vyguzova
 * Preliminary – 303.30
 * Semi-final – 217.47 – 520.77
 * Final – 310.86 – 528.33 (→ 9th place)

Women's 10 Metre Platform
 * Irina Vyguzova
 * Preliminary – 284.52
 * Semi-final – 157.15 – 441.69 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 10 Metre Platform
 * Natalya Chikina
 * Preliminary – 269.58
 * Semi-final – 162.27 – 458.85
 * Final – 304.53 – 466.80 (→ 9th place)

Fencing
Five fencers, three men and two women, represented Kazakhstan in 2000.

 * Men's foil
 * Andrey Kolganov

 * Men's épée
 * Sergey Shabalin

 * Men's sabre
 * Igor Tsel

 * Women's foil
 * Nelya Sevostiyanova

 * Women's épée
 * Nataliya Goncharova

Swimming
Men's 50 m Freestyle
 * Sergey Borisenko
 * Preliminary Heat – 23.46 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Freestyle
 * Igor Sitnikov
 * Preliminary Heat – 52.57 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Freestyle
 * Andrey Kvasov
 * Preliminary Heat – 1:55.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Butterfly
 * Andrey Gavrilov
 * Preliminary Heat – 56.14 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke
 * Aleksandr Savitsky
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:05.95 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke
 * Pavel Sidorov
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:01.02 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley
 * Grigoriy Matuzkov
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:05.45 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley
 * Grigoriy Matuzkov
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:31.89 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle
 * Igor Sitnikov, Andrey Kvasov, Pavel Sidorov, and Sergey Borisenko
 * Preliminary Heat – 03:28.90 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley
 * Marina Mulyayeva
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:22.72 (→ did not advance)

Synchronized swimming
Duet
 * Aliya Karimova, Galina Shatnaya
 * Technical Routine – 29.12 Did not compete in free routine

Triathlon
Men

Men's Team Competition

 * Preliminary Round (Group A)
 * Lost to Spain (7-8)
 * Tied with Australia (11-11)
 * Lost to Russia (7-9)
 * Defeated Slovakia (9-5)
 * Lost to Italy (7-13)

 * Classification Round
 * Tied with Greece (6-6)
 * Defeated Slovakia (11-8)
 * Defeated the Netherlands (6-4) → Ninth place

 * Team Roster
 * Roman Chentsov
 * Konstantin Chernov
 * Sergey Drozdov
 * Aleksandr Yelke
 * Askar Orazalinov
 * Yevgeny Prokhin
 * Artemy Sevostyanov
 * Aleksandr Shvedov
 * Igor Zagoruykov
 * Ivan Zaytsev
 * Yevgeny Zhilyayev
 * Denis Zhivchikov

Women's Team Competition
Preliminary Round Robin

 * Classification Match

 * Team Roster
 * Rezeda Aleyeva
 * Anastasiya Boroda
 * Irina Borodavko
 * Svetlana Buravova
 * Nataliya Galkina
 * Yekaterina Gerzanich
 * Tatyana Gubina
 * Nataliya Ignatyeva
 * Asel Dzhakayeva
 * Svetlana Koroleva
 * Olga Leshchuk
 * Larisa Olkhina
 * Yuliya Pyryseva

Weightlifting
Men

Women

title: Kazakhstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics


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Talk:2006 Italian general election

Foreign reputation
This paragraph is quite tendentious.

Opinion polling
I would appreciate some link to existing opinion polling taken after 25 march outside Italy.
 * If you read the paragraph, you'll discover the Italian law forbids to publish opinion pollings after March 25, so it's impossible to have any of them. --Angelo 08:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the question was whether there were any opinion polls taken outside Italy for the overseas ballots. I would imagine that the ban on polls would be unenforceable outside Italy.  Kelvinc 09:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Balance
As a voter of the center left myself, I found the article quite unbalanced (on the left). A strong bias vs Mr Berlusconi can be perceived all over the pages. You do not need to love the Leader of Center Right, but if one is just trying to get informed your article looks too much one sided. In my views, of course. Marco Calabrese
 * What is described in the article is just facts, not opinions. And facts aren't usually partisan. Tell us what you think looks unbalanced. --Angelo 12:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

OK: Constitutional reforms: the worst were made in 2001 by the Left (federalism) but you suggest the idea that Mr B is to blame for those as well. Jobs: is shamelessly trumpeting Prodi as an advocate of the youth (see CPE paragraph) whereas other side opinion was not mentioned at all... A third example: there is not a single word about separation of carrers of Judges and Prosecutors, neither about abolishing the power of prosecutors to appeal against the defendant found not guilty. These were 2 very important reforms made by the right: but they do not appear in the long article. Sheer chance? I can go ahead for hours. Bare facts do not exist: nevertheless your personal opinion is well written. Ciao, Best regards Marco Calabrese

 * I don't see the glue behind what you say. The 2001 constitutional reform (which passed a referendum a few years ago, btw) regarded just a few articles, whereas the centre-right reform actually changes the base of the constitution. The paragraph should talk just about the House of Freedoms' one and what it led to in the electoral campaign. Jobs: there's nothing more to say about the House of Freedoms, as it did not claim to change the current system realized in 2003. I just explained about the proposals of the Union on the job issue and the reasons behind. Judges and prosecutors: we could add it, as we could include also conflict of interests, "ad personam" laws, security, pensions, Iraq, USA and EU relations, and so on. Want to help us? --Angelo 18:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

For instance, the external links are all to "Repubblica", a newspaper notoriously and ferociously opposed to Berlusconi. A bit more balance would had been given by providing links to articles on teh same subject from another newspaper like "Il Giornale". I share the opinion the articles is strongly unbalanced in favour of teh center-left coalition. G.--Guido Costantini 09:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * "Il Giornale" is far less balanced, as it is owned by Berlusconi's brother Paolo. And Wikipedia isn't place for par condicio, but NPOV instead. "Repubblica" is the second newspaper of Italy for copies sold. We could replace with the Corriere della Sera articles, if you prefer. Anyway, it's not a problem of external links, which should work just as sources. I don't feel it's unbalanced, just it can be expanded someway. --Angelo 09:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

No, it's not a place for par condicio, but at least, so I thought, for unbiased information and when that's impossible, at least for giving the two sides of the story and let the reader be informed of those in order to get his own point of view. Apparently, I was wrong in thinking that. --Guido Costantini 09:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok people let's stop it here: in the end we are just asking the author not to be so careless about Italy's reputation especially when talking to foreign media. The reason why people like me (and possibly Guido) read the foreign press is the search of unbiased comments. Therefore, to find the fans of one (or other) Party also on an indipendent medium is particularly disappointing.

Marco

English
The English on this page is crap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.201.75.84 (talk • contribs) 19:29, April 15, 2005
 * I've improved it as best I could without altering meaning. -- MrBland 19:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Bush and Putin
Bush and Putin are apparently good friends of Berlusconi and this apparence was erased by the Callipari's controversy with the USA and the Gas cut from the Russian Federation that is higher than in other eurozone countries. So it is neutral to say that they are political friends or only personal friends? If they are personal friends the sentence should be moved on their personal pages. According to the House of freedoms website, the tax cut was of 0.1% of the GDP, since the 2002, when the first tax cut was done. --Trek00 07:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Ministry or Minister
Should "Conservative party led by Ministry for Foreign Affairs and former vice-premier Gianfranco Fini" be instead "Conservative party led by Minister for Foreign Affairs and former vice-premier Gianfranco Fini"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Robinett (talk • contribs) 23:33, March 31, 2006

 * Thank you, I have changed it. Mushroom (Talk) 23:48, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Definition of Rifondazione
"Reformed communist party led by Fausto Bertinotti. Their refusal to join the Union at the last election kept it from winning and allowed Berlusconi to stay in office." is the description you made of Rifondazione and I don't agree about the accuse of other center left parties to Bertinotti of having lost last national elections because of his choice. First of all Bertinotti had no candidate in Maggioritario or plurality voting (75% of seats) and radical left electors gave their vote to left candidates of Ulivo. Center left coalition could not win also in case of alliance in 2001 because in proportional too left votes were 2% less. On the contrary why didn't you write that DS and Margherita allowed Berlusconi to win because they didn't approve a law about Berlusconi interest conflict? Berlusconi could not even be candidate in a true democracy!!! He controls 90% of italian tv and 48% of publishing and is Prime Minister!!! Whose the fault? Who governed until 2001? Bertinotti? Why didn't you say Rutelli program wasn't so different from Berlusconi program? Why don't you talk about Violante's speach at the Deputates Chamber when he said they helped Berlusconi not making a law about tv and interest conflict regulamentetion? Elections were lost in 2001 from Ulivo because of their government failing experience, that's the truth. At that time DS and Marghrita thougth that they could win without Bertinotti and that was time to free from Rifondazione. They even provoqued a split in Rifondazione and allied with Mastella to continue to govern.

The election date
The section about the election date is not very clear (I cannot fix it as I do not speak Italian. First, it does not state when originally should have been election. Second it is not clear how early April election helped to solve the deadlock. It looks like an exact opposite. There is a new parliament but not a new government and president is leaving office in 20 days? (It is not clear when in May but it is ussually the first if not stated otherwise. ) It seems like a deadlock. --Jan Smolik 21:15, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Updating results
Results have been updated from the Interior Ministry web site. Can someone with a more robust knowledge of the Italian language go over anything I might've misunderstood?

From what I can tell: National votes, Chamber National votes by region, Chamber Overseas votes, Chamber National + overseas seats won, Chamber

National votes, Senate National votes by region, Senate Overseas votes, Senate National + overseas seats won, Senate

Can I just add that it's supremely ironic that the election results are being updated by a Canadian of Chinese descent with almost no knowledge of the Italian language? Kelvinc 01:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Haven't you heard? You should be boiling babies to make fertilizer! 18.251.6.240 03:28, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

 * The left won a majority in China and 100% in North Korea .  Seriously, the article is hopeless, full of preliminary fluff but missing the reason why the left has a large majority in the lower house is that the new voting system guaranteed 340 seats to the winning coalition and they also got a seat in Valle d'Aosta.

 * The majority bonus is mentioned in the text on the new electoral system but not in the results themselves, so we should probably add that. Plus the tables look horrendous now with the ad-hoc addition of the overseas results.  I'll see what I can do.
 * PS to 18.251.6.240: well, not according to these results. ;)
 * Kelvinc 20:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Wee tables are nicely formatted and I put in coalition logos too. Kelvinc 21:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Constitutional reform, NPOV?
87.5.178.251 added quite a bit of text for that, but it almost reads like out of some speech and doesn't see very NPOV to me. Can somebody check it, just to make sure? CharonX 16:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and what is all this talk about soccer in the section for Constitutional Reform? And the sudden switch of perspective to "we..." --82.207.214.196 17:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Rollback
I'v rollbacked the consideration toward Calderoli "At the second day of elections Calderoli, the main author of this electoral reform, completely changed opinion, saying it was a "good law". " because, reading the ADN Kronos article, Calderoli hasn't completely changed opinion. It's say that the law isn't perfect but it could be good with same changes. IMHO he hasn't changed the opinion "porcata". In any case a lot of politics change opinion frequently when they take note of their overstatements, and for this reason it's more important the first statement. --Ilario 14:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear User 87.0.180.108 - NPOV
Dear user 87.0.180.108, while I appreciate your contributions to this Article, most of the added content violates the Neutral Point of View Policy of Wikipedia (NPOV). Please read the aforemention policy and try to avoid biased contributions, if possible. CharonX 15:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

ANSWER: The episode of the European Parliament and Schulz ist true, as all the other information, which has historical or legal backgrounds. In the last case there is few to interpret. In addition I think the only violation of Neutrality is saying that all that Berlusconi did is bad. Moreover it was simply false referring to the successor of the Italian Fascist Party. Fascism is forbidden by the Italian Constitution. The politician referred to, the Foreign Minister, defined Fascism as the absolute evil (male assoluto) (the unsinged commmend above was added by 82.58.159.191)

Thanks for your quick answer ('ll assume that you are 87.0.180.108 on an dynamic IP - feel free to create an account and join the community, and don't forget to sign your posts). I'll show you some of the addendums which seem non-NPOV to me (I have bolded the items which represent a possible bias): "Since the opposition coalition is prejudicially against the new constitutional reform, defining it - without any reasonable ground - as dangerous, separatist, and somehow antidemocratic (!)" "which had been badly reformed in 2001 under the left government with just 4 votes of majority." "badly" and "without any reasonable ground" implies that what what one side did was wrong. Of course, this is often the case, but on Wikipedia we try to keep a balanced view with consensus. For example use instead "as some experts claim, without reasonable ground" and add (improtant) citations for those experts. Of course other users might offer conflicting views from other experts, but after a while a consensus should be found. "it was reasonable to change the voting system just nine months before the natural end of the legislature, as the new system would be immediately tested at the general election 2006. The same had been done in 1993, when the electoral law was changed and in 1994 Italians voted the new Parliament." Those, amongst others sound biased to me if I read them, but I'd be happy to discuss this with you so we can reach a good consensus. CharonX 16:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I ANSWER I try to insert a new version without those equivocal adjectives (but 4 votes of majority, this is OBJECTIVE). And the episode of the Parliamnet is a fact. If you want, we can continue the discussion in German, it 'd be easier.

 * anonymous user 82.56.126.242 (probably he/she was 82.58.159.191 and 87.0.180.108) is continuously adding POV to this article. GhePeU 18:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM see http://www.governo.it/governoinforma/dossier/devolution/index.html

 * the problem is that this user are making a cut and paste with errors at end of the article that delete a big part of it... --Ilario 19:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Supporter and/or author
Please Calderoli was not an author but also a supporter of this law. After his resignation from the Berlusconi's cabinet, it's was free to say something about this law but he supported it also in the next period (for this is not only an author because in the next months he had no the powers as minister). --Ilario 17:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

So called POV integrations
Please notice that NOTHING added by me is in any way different from reality. I'm sorry because of the strong adjectives added in my first version. 1. Constitutional Reform: The national interest is explicitely mentioned in the new art. 127 (it's not just "according to its proponents", it's the text of the law!) The previous reform cancelled it. This reform was made by the center left government with 4 votes of majority (without the consensus of the opposition) 2. Electoral law It makes Prodi win, even if he was against. The referendum of 1993 abrogated the former law, which had no thresholds. The elections followed in 1994. (so where is the scandal about the reform of 2005?) 3. Eu Parliament episode Berlusconi was adressed as Godfather (Pate, padrino) which is the equivalent for mafioso, not a compliment I mean. Thank you for your attention

 * About the third point I agree following the NPOV. I know that "Berlusconi was adressed as Godfather" (it's at least the vindication of Berlusconi's party), but surely it isn't "practically unavoidable". This is only a point of view. --Ilario 20:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

POV section
This is the part that really bugs me:

"The incident was considered especially inappropriate, since Schulz is a socialist, a group who themselves were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, while Berlusconi himself is leading a government including the successor of the Italian Fascist Party, and whose deputy once said that Benito Mussolini was a great Italian statesman."

 * 1) The "successor of the Italian Fascist Party" leads a negligible party in the coalition.
 * 2) This article is about the Italian general election, 2006 (gee, who would have guessed), not about Silvio Berlusconi. I fail to see how mentioning Schulz's ideology, in relation to actions that occurred over 50 years ago, is relevant in an article about a general election.
 * 3) The language is POV.

There are other parts of the article that are somewhat POV, as well, but this section jumped out. – ugen64 22:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I wonder how the Berlusconi-Schulz controversy is related to an article about the 2006 election. Very POV in my opinion. – unregistered user 2006-04-12T23:00+0000

 * The whole thing is chock full of hidden and blatant POVness. Heck, we've been spending this whole day doing reverts on unsigned IPs who insist on adding some really POV stuff.  (If you think I'm talking to you, the answer is yes.)  I'm more interested about posting the results than anything else, having little expertise in Italian politics, but there is certainly room for improvement.
 * Kelvinc 23:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I hope we can get this semiprotected asap and create a good NPOV version under it. I don't even dare to attempt any reverts back to NPOV right now, as all is mucked up. I think this one needs a complete overhaul. CharonX 23:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Need section for post-vote controversy
I got started on a section documenting the dispute over uncounted ballots and such after the vote count ended, but it probably needs fleshing out. Kelvinc 21:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Some wrongs in results tables
There some wrongs the sums are wrongs, some parties "votes" are wrongs There is confusion within all italy results (with some uninominal colleges) and proportional results.--Francomemoria 17:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Timing
Reports on many elections omit to say when the new government will take over. In the UK it is immediately but elsewhere there is a timetabled date.
 * Currently, nobody knows when the new Italian government will take office. It is supposed to be in May, but it will depend on which president will appoint the next prime minister (either the current one, Ciampi, or the future one, to be elected in May too). So, I think it is actually meaningless to deepen this topic. --Angelo 17:00, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Berlusconi conceding
Has Berlusconi still not conceded? Piet 14:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * According to the Italian press he said that he will never concede defeat and that he is the real and only political winner. GhePeU 18:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds like him all right :-) Maybe this could go in the introduction, because now it gives the impression that he will concede one of these days. Piet 20:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

About Tax breaks & update needed
The articles draws some conclusions in the section "Tax breaks" or let the reader draw a conclusion, maybe it should be reformulated in a better way so to look more neutral. This is mainly because the article is outdated and for example use the conditional form of events that have later happened. This maybe should be modified or a confirmation of that particular event taking place must be added to keep the neutrality of the article.

While the general feeling reading most of the Italian regarding articles is that they where written by extreme left contributors, their quality is not bad, I hope they can be shifted to a more neutral view where the facts are told and not comments on the events. For example noting that the number of sections in the election was so great compared to the voting difference that to change the result of the voting much less than one error of attribution per section was needed, having the election much under the "precision of the instrument".

I wait for suggestion on how to improve the article with a neutral view, and i welcome anyone to precede me and make the modifications.

Best Regards

Gabriele Dini Ciacci 23:15, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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