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Talk:Intuit

Intuit Canada & Criticism
Its relation to Intuit Canada must be described. Also, the two articles contain contradictory information. Mikkalai 02:51, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I believe I have added the information shortly after your request.

On a related note, I've noticed that a user from IP address 67.174.76.243 has repeatedly and removed references to public criticism of Intuit. I believe he is a Lacerte (i.e. Intuit) employee and should explain his actions. Wikipedia is not a promotional tool for commercial self-interests. Jbetak 07:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC) Criticisms in context are fine. A good example is the mention of the product activation flap described in TurboTax and the subsequent actions of Intuit in response. However, rants for the sake of criticism are as antithetical to neutral reviews as are blatant commercial explotation of the site to post self-serving hype. I have removed this section accordingly. IP address 67.174.76.243
 * The same applies for Qwiki. I have now readded the critisism section. --Sleepyhead81 09:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you have some changes that you think would make the section better fit the WP:NPOV policy, by all means, make them. But removing the criticism section entirely is not appropriate here.  -- Norvy (talk) 05:04, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I can see where IP 67.172.76.243 is coming from and thought that perhaps rephrasing that section would help. I'm glad that we are at least discussing it now - instead of endlessly reverting it ;-)

 * For the sake of comparison, I'd suggest reviewing the article on Microsoft. I'd assume that it's of higher quality since it attracts more contributors. Microsoft also comes to mind due to its overwhelming market position -- not unlike Intuit in its own market. Please note that this article also contains a criticism section. Jbetak 05:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I disagree that the critisicm section should be removed. As Norvy says; removing the criticism section entirely is not appropriate. The section should be kept until a discussion at this talk page results in a decision to remove the section. --Sleepyhead 07:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Some the criticism seems exaggerated. The issues with the upgrade policy are mere restatements of a common policy.  Many software companies like Intuit are sending older versions into de-support.  This may be a criticism of software vendors in general vs. Intuit specifically.  The criticism regarding Vista compatiblity applies to a large number of vendors as well, and would be better placed in an article on backward compatibility.Cander0000 04:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

POV: Puff Piece?
There is a very rudimentary criticism section in an article about a company that is the target of a tremendous amount of vitriol (try to find a review of a recent version of Quicken that doesn't involve the words "class-action" in at least 3 of the comments. What's left is very fluffy and pro-Intuit. It makes sense if the allegations above are true that an Intuit employee is actively trying to promote the company in the article. --Robb0995 09:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Just because people rant online (via comments) about "class-action" doesn't mean anything has proceeded to anything approaching that level, so it's not a real measure of criticism. Apart from a "gripe line" comment that "a class action lawsuit can't be far behind" from 2005, and some discussion of a 2000 class action to do with information and privacy.

 * Personally, I don't consider what's left to be pro-Intuit. It seems to me to be basically factual and neutral.  Perhaps the criticism could be expanded (or, if it's big enough, it's own topic like Criticism of Microsoft), but it should not just become just a collection of complaints, as that's not particularly encyclopedic.
 * "Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong." - Dennis Miller
 * --Bdoserror 06:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh, and I didn't mean to suggest it should be a rant section, but what criticism is there does seem very rudimentary--thrown in as if to say "Look we showed the other side." On the other hand, the description of the products, for example, is peppered with words like "advantage", "discount", "popular", "free", and other breezy, positive language.  Sorry, I didn't mean to focus on the criticism section exclusively.  It just feels like they wrote it; doesn't it?  --Robb0995 08:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

 * True enough, it does have a bit of positive spin there. Not quite sure how to neturalize it though.  Might be worth trying to compare it to Microsoft to see how to word things better. --Bdoserror 23:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

From Rani.... Reading the text left no doubt in my mind that Intuit employees or salespeople were heavily involved in its content. Completely one-sided representations that fail to touch on many serious problems including the terrible tech support, serious privacy risk, the way they basically blackmail people into buying new products that cost hundreds of dollars but are only minimally different from previous versions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rani Lueder (talk • contribs) 01:09, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add documented issues to the Criticism section. I removed the one you added to the TurboTax section as it was 4 years old. -- Bdoserror 06:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry for adding an old link, hadn't noticed. Rani —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.98.58 (talk) 19:09, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

 * A few comments about your latest edit (which I have removed):
 * Please sign in when editing so we know who is making the changes, otherwise we can only see an anonymous IP address. And then please remember to sign your comments on the Talk page with ~, which Wikipedia will automatically convert to you login ID.
 * Your edit, as "personal experience", was removed as it violates the no original research policy of Wikipedia. If you can find independent, verifiable citations to back up your edit then feel free to re-add the change.  Also, the tone of your comment seemed to violate the neutral point of view policy, so it should be re-written without language like "force-feeds".  Thanks. -- Bdoserror 01:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

From --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC) The first POV should be removed at once. It cites no source is easily shown as slanderously wrong. Google has 8,730 links to Quicken + reviews + comments, excluding ones with 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008 (robo said "recent" in 2007). Only 135 (1.5%) mention class action even once. Robo says, "try to find a review of a recent version of Quicken that doesn't involve the words "class-action" in at least 3 of the comments" As this shows, I quickly got not "a review", but 8,595 (98.5%) Quicken reviews, with comments, that did not mention class action. Moreover, no one who reads [software license agreements], to which we agree when installing major programs, should make class action threats. You specifically waive damages if programs do not work or damage data. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I only would add this paragraph in a Talk section. You cannot please all the people all the time. We also interpret facts to support opinions and change opinions over time. I am a very independent CPA, but usually pro-Intuit. Despite this, I twice publicly tried to get users to protest Intuit decisions and boycott, while threatening class action suits (once hiring an attorney to sue). Both times Intuit quickly backed off. A well known writer said, "this major victory... was almost certainly caused by... Block... led the battle against the new fees." I estimate this cost Intuit $40 million, but I got on an Intuit Advisory Council in time to protest again. Instead of dumping me, the CEO wrote, "Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong!" He tripled revenue and quadrupled earnings in 8 years, partly due to continuing the constant Intuit pro-customer approach. The new CEO soon wrote, "You're fantastic Mike. Absolutely fantastic!" Other sections here show most are pro-Intuit. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

FACTS SHOW the main Intuit article is no puff piece or insignificant, so disputes on it should no longer appear. This relates to Net Promoter scores. "Net Promoter is a discipline by which companies profitably grow by focusing on their customers... One simple question - Would you recommend us to a friend or colleague? - allows companies to track promoters and detractors and produces a clear measure of an organization's performance through its customers' eyes. One question can determine your business' future. Many successsfully used Net Promoter, including Intuit. http://www.netpromoter.com/np_conference/agenda-highlights.php] The Economist said this about the author of a related best selling book, "the "high priest" of loyalty." http://www.netpromoter.com/book/index.php] This is the most important single metric determining future success. Intuit has a Net Promoter score that is more than 35% higher than others in its field.[ Therefore, critics are a smaller minoriity for Intuit than for other software companies. In addition, the probable Intuit success is important, rather than insignificant. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Here is one more FACT justifying limiting Intuit critic posts, and ending puff piece and significance notes, is market share. Intuit product market share shows actual votes of all Intuit and comparable software consumers, who tend to vote every one to three years. If you pleased all the people al0l the time you would have a 100% market share. In March, 2008 the QuickBooks share, of small business accounting software sales at retail, was 94.2%. Quicken had an a 80%+ market share, before retail sales ended for its main competitor, Microsoft Money. TurboTax also had around a 70% market share. Therefore, in the way it matters most, this too says that Intuit critics are, as a mater of fact, far less relatively significant than the critics of other companies. People do not simply use Intuit products, but often love or hate them. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Material in this paragraph and the Inside Intuit book proves that Intuit, as opposed to one of its 8,000 employees, never knowingly mistreats customers. Unless a user can say they properly got a case number and repeatedly asked to have a problem "escalate" they cannot say Intuit did anything. The Inside Intuit book begins, "Intuit is tale of missionaries, not mercenaries. It's about a founding team that prevails through tenacity, frugality and an obsession with the customer experience." Its 9 page Intuit Vision, Mission and Operating Values, says, "Intuit was founded on strong principles and has always acted on them ... WOW! Many companies say their most important job is satisfying the customer. We don't. We believe that satisfying the customer is simply the minimum requirement for staying in business. Therefore, we don't seek merely to satisfy our customers, we seek to wow them... Integrity Without Compromise. Intuit is built on integrity. In all we do, we maintain the highest standards, never approaching what could be considered questiona--MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)ble behavior... Afterword. What about results - things like market share, growing our revenue, profits ... Don't we care about results. We do. Market share is a measure of how well we are serving customers ... What's more, if we do our jobs right, its a chain reaction, not a series of tradeoffs ... Simply put, living and working by our operating values will create customer wow and shareholder value." page 291 I most respectfully submit that this is very important to understanding Intuit relative to its critics, puff pieces and significance. Intuit top executives are far easier to reach, and to convince to make changes, than those in any company I have ever seen. I often see where I or Intuit people quickly turn critics into friends. One former critic promptly invested his entire retirement fund in Intuit stock. That is why I believe Intuit critics are those who have not yet gotten to the right Intuit person. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Puff piece and insignificance thought end with the Inside Intuit book subtitle, "How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized and Entire Industry." The book shows this is true repeatedly, so it would be hard to write a puff piece overstating favorable Intuit facts or significance. Intuit tested venture capitalists with, "What should Intuit do if Microsoft entered the personal finance market to compete with Quicken?" When Microsoft did enter it did so badly that its then CEO ended up on Intuit's Board. The 9 or more major Microsoft defeats, without a win, include the recent dropping of Microsoft Money retail sales, so Quicken will go much higher than its prior 83% market share at retail. This [Intuit] - [Microsoft] war now includes Intuit, [Amazon], [Apple], [Adobe], [Dell], [Google], [HP], [IBM], [Sun], [Torvalds] / [Linux], [Yahoo] and others against Microsoft. One key is Intuit Chair [William Campbell (business executive).] Noted industry veteran and venture capitalist [L. John Doerr] said Campbell “is the single best mentor and coach of CEOs, teams, and talent” (The CTO Forum). The Best Story About Google Yet (Silicon Beat) covers, "The heroic role played by Bill Campbell ... Doerr would say Bill Campbell saved Google ... God bless that man ... I don't know where the company would be without him." The Secret Coach (Fortune Magazine) covers many such Campbell jobs. Campbell came from Apple and he or Doerr are on the Board of many of these companies. It will take a book to describe all that these companies have done to work together against Microsoft.--MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The Intuit - Microsoft war may soon enter a decisive stage. Scott Cook, Intuit founder, long ago wrote me that Jefferson, Lincoln and Torvalds (inventor and mentor of [Linux]) were three of our greatest minds. Google long almost shared a parking lot with Intuit and Google now has the biggest Linux server farm. [Sybase] created [SQL Server] and licensed it to Microsoft. In 2004 QuickBooks adopted a Sybase cross-platform database, with excellent Linux benchmarks. It also produced an Apple Mac version with a 4 man team. The Mac can run Linux and uses a variant of Unix (which gave rise to Linux) as its primary operating system. How to Face Off Against Microsoft (Business Week, 2005) says, "Intuit has repelled the software giant six times." It also says Intuit began to fight the ($2 billion dollar) Microsoft QuickBooks-killer when QuickBooks had 74% of small business accounting software at retail. It now has 94% and Microsoft is not even #2, so this is a seventh time Intuit beat Microsoft. The Microsoft Money produst dropped retail sales after Quicken has 83% of the home finance market at retail. In 2006 Intuit released a Linux database server that ran 10% - 25% faster, more reliably, in less memory, that its Windows server. In 2008 Intuit created a website for Linux QuickBooks add-ons. It quickly released articles like, "Linux is the future." It is now making QuickBooks browser independent.--MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

End Runs Around Vista is a good 2008 article, but Business Week left out critical information and had little comment space. Intuit revolutionized accounting, while its usability tests revolutionized software development. Intuit is the expert in creating drop-dead-simple programs, which it can use for Linux. Bill Gates initially paid Intuit to use Internet Explorer, but Cook testified against Microsoft in the anti-trust case. Intuit had big problems with Vista and a bad .Net Framework upgrade. This was either bad Microsoft product testing or a modern version of "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run." It seems inevitable that a simple convertible Linux should be on QuickBooks and Quicken install disks, along with Google-Sun Star Office. This will save many users $500 on Microsoft Vista and Office. It also will save lots of time and money spent on virus and spyware programs and checking.--MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 17:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The remaining missing section relates to a major topic on Wikipedia, usability testing. There is clear evidence that Intuit was the first to really use it, revolutionizing the use of personal computers, the software industry and accounting (all with cited facts, not opinions). It did these usability tests long before those credited in the Wikipedia article, which I will supplement. I must leave now. I hope critics will give me a few hours to finish. The missing part could change minds. --MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 17:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Zipingo
I moved the link to contractor disambiguation to independent_contractor. If you think that general_contractor is a better bet, please correct the link. Please don't link back to the disambiguation page! LeeG 17:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Featuring Google Products?
 I didn't read too much into the article; just putting it here if anyone wants to add it to the article.
 * I'm not surprised. I took the photos of the Googleplex and Intuit headquarters and I noticed that they are very close to each other (the northernmost Google building is across the street from the southernmost Intuit building).  It would have been very easy for their execs to bump into each other while jogging around the block or visiting local restaurants.  --Coolcaesar 02:54, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, those are old Google buildings. The main Googleplex is a few more blocks away.  Still in the area, but not as neighbourly as they once were. --Bdoserror 22:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops, forgot to sign my name. That Jason 22:27, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

The Intuit - Google relationship is not simply a matter of location. L. John Doerr, the noted Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist, helped Google and Intuit. An associate of his said that Doerr would say that William Campbell (business executive), Intuit Chair and former Intuit CEO, saved Google while acting as its top management consultant. MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 03:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Culling criticism and controversies section
I'm culling some of the "Criticism and controversies" section as it flows pretty oddly. Trying to take a look at from an outsider's perspective, if I cracked open an encyclopedia to a page on Intuit, what would I want to learn about them. that "The Microsoft Money converter for Quicken does not convert Money data files to Quicken 2008"?...pretty obscure. Instead, suggest looking at it through this lens: The company profile and product list seem fairly objective to me, I don't think the goal is to have a promotional article for Intuit. Many of these criticism belong on someone's blog. If they reach such a mindshare that 3rd party source begin to cover them, they will be added to the article, perhaps even in the lead area about the company. Cander0000 (talk) 06:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Does each side of the 'criticism' or 'controversy' have Verifiable, reliable sources?
 * Is the 'criticism' or 'controversy' relatively unique to Intuit and not the broader software/financial service industries?
 * Has the 'controversy' (as well as the individual positions) itself been discussed in a reliable source?
 * I concur with your deletions. Much of that text seemed to be in violation of Wikipedia policies, particularly No original research.  If and when those issues actually receive coverage from major news sources (e.g. Facebook's strange account deletion policy was covered today in the New York Times) then they can be restored to the article.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 08:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

The second intro paragraph opens with "Intuit has lobbied extensively against the IRS creating its own online system of tax filing (in most wealthy countries, governments have simplified tax filing for its citizens, thus making software such as TurboTax unnecessary for most citizens)." That whole paragraph doesn't belong in the intro, because it's not a fundamental part of "what is Intuit?" and, specifically, that second half "in most wealthy countries..." is irrelevant to this article, not to mention pretty misleading if you're familiar with international tax--tax return filings are an opportunity to offer up exemptions and deductions; a system of pre-filled tax return filing in the US would, as with those other countries, minimize your ability to, say, write off your medical or school or business expenses. Anyway, that's not a clean enough or notable enough point to justify being in an Intro section rather than a Lawsuits & Controversies section. --Mrcolj (talk) 17:42, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Article issues

 * The article is written like an advertisement: "sales of Quicken grew explosively", "Quicken became a best-seller in its market", "customer support in its early years was legendary.", "with a vast array of features", etc. Spam and weasel words should be removed (nothing new so far, it was already tagged)
 * Notability of the products: The list is too long and notability of each product has to be established. It should not be a list of all products made by the company, but only of those that are notable (all others could be just mentioned on a separate paragraph). If all of them are notable, consider moving the most important ones to separate articles.
 * Criticism section in list format: It could be appropriate to write this section as a paragraph, explaining what the activation scheme from Macrovision is, and why it's use is considered controversial.
 * Citations: Statements like: "It has significant R&D activity", "company wasn't a major success until the advent of Windows 3.0 in early 1990s, when sales of Quicken grew explosively", etc need reliable, third-party sources.   Iunaw    16:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Valid, points, all - what are the thoughts on splitting the products list to a seperate article - 'List of Intuit products'? The list o' products has seemed to overwhelm discussion of Intuit the company.  This might provide a balance between judging whether each of the products is notable in of itself (and deserves an article), and retaining the details of the products Intuit has produced over the years Cander0000 (talk) 04:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest to rewrite the product list rather than moving it. Moving the whole list to a separate article is no improvement if it's still a list of products, but it could be used to improve the article in an encyclopedic way. I believe the best solution would be to put them in the article's context, giving information about the history of the company and their products, the targets they have, how these have changed over time, the success or lack of success of these products, etc. Notable products could have their own article. Look at Apple Inc or Microsoft, their products are mentioned, but from the historical perspective.    Iunaw    15:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * My opinions: (1) It cite sources os many things. The "don't cite sources" should be removed. (2) The article looks like an advertisement. It should be worked to be more NPOV. (3) The POV issue is caused by the advertisement issue. So there is no need of this tag too. (4) Many of Intuit products are notable, and should have their own article. Quicken for example is one of the most used Finance Tool in the world (besides Money). It is a big shame Wikipedia only have a poor, brief, description of it.  SSPecter  Talk  ◆  05:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC).
 * I've created Quicken, culling some content from Intuit and inspired by the format of QuickBooks. There seems to be consensus here that some of Intuit's products are notable in of themselves, namely Quicken at the least.  Article certainly can use further references, but have strived to make in neutral and avoid some of the debates over whether the article is considered advertising.Cander0000 (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ditto TurboTax Cander0000 (talk) 19:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any problem with article length
I removed the "too long" tag. I don't see any problem. I also don't see any rationale or discussion on the Talk page. The 32K limit hasn't been an issue for year and years, and anyway the article is only about half that length. Dpbsmith (talk) 16:17, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Quicken Health Expense Tracker
There's a Quicken Health Expense Tracker application now too. It's web based: http://healthcare.intuit.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.49.160 (talk) 17:08, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Updates to Intuit Page - For Editors' Consideration
Full disclosre - I work for the Intuit Accounting Professionals Divsion. I have some updated information on products and acquisitions for your consideration for the Intuit Wikipedia page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit.

Under the Products section:

[edit] ProSeries ProSeries tax software, an Intuit ProLine Solution, evolved from TurboTax and grew over the years to become a full-fledged professional preparer product and a leader in the market. It serves full-time tax preparers. There are two versions: ProSeries Professional and ProSeries Basic.

[add] Lacerte Lacerte tax software, an Intuit ProLine Solution, was acquired by Intuit in 1998. It serves a wide range of full time tax professionals who serve a high volume of individual and business client needs, including highly complex tax returns. Lacerte Tax includes federal and state tax modules for 1040, 1065, 1120, 1120S, 990, 1041, 709, 706 and 5500, as well as services for firms with staff requiring multiple locations and multi-user access.

[add] ProLine Tax Online ProLine Tax Online, an Intuit ProLine Solution, was first released by Intuit in 2009. It is a web-based tax solution for tax professionals, supporting the preparation of Federal and state tax returns for 1040, 1065, 1120 and 1120S and providing multi-user access for tax firms with multiple employees.

There are several other products that Intuit has released in the last year, but I don't know to what level of specificity you'd like to see in the Intuit article.

Thank you for considering these proposed edits, RWalkerSF (talk) 00:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC) Rich W.

Removed criticism

 * In 2010, Intuit required all users of earlier versions of Quicken to upgrade to Quicken 2011 or they would lose many of the capabilities that existed in earlier versions, such as the dowloading of stock prices. The resulting upgrade lost many of the capabilities of earlier versions.
 * In 2011, Intuit required all versions of earlier versions Quickbooks to upgrade to Quickbooks 2011 or they would lose their ability to directly connect to Merchant Services for Credit Card processing.
 * The EULA for Quickbooks requires all users to permit Intuit to electronically obtain and use their financial data for unstated purposes. This applies to all versions of the product, including the personal and accounting versions. Although the information is supposedly anonymized, Intuit's almost exclusive monopoly in the market means that such information can be sold to data vendors and easily linked to actual entities. In addition, the IRS has recently begun demanding quickbooks files in taxpayer audits.

Someone please find some good sourcing for these claims. hbdragon88 (talk) 23:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

MfD on a related draft
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jakefrdrck/sandbox, for a draft on Chad Frederick, who is mentioned on this page. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:47, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Intro paragraphs and objective notoriety
The intro paragraphs were ported over from the TurboTax article, and are important pieces of context, but they seem to be phrased to push an opinion, rather than relate them to Intuit or other behaviors. Can we get a wording on these which will help readers explain the relation of these pieces to the history of Intuit, or notable features about it, rather than following a timeline. The overview is a sensitive area without much room to give details.

In my opinion it's clear that the notoriety of the reports and other information seems to be on their own. That is, people would know about Intuit/TurboTax from reading or hearing about those. It does not appear that these are centered because they are important to the article on their own.

162.230.224.99 (talk) 00:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 * (i) If you have an affiliation with Intuit, you need to declare it, per WP:COI. (ii) There's nothing notable about the fact that a company simply engages abstractly in lobbying. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 * Okay, will do, very sorry about that and thanks for bringing up that issue. I have worked for a short time for the company, in a role entirely unrelated to the image, and this is a purely personal decision with zero to negligible impact on me. I've had a problem with this article for quite a while in any case, as I have felt it hasn't maintained a neutral point of view. To me, those paragraphs read like a reddit comment, not Wikipedia, or deliberate WP:Advocacy. I want to find a wording which mentions the important facts but does not try to push an opinion.

 * Though independently, on the topic of lobbying, I'm not actually certain I agree with it not being notable. It is mentioned later in the article that Intuit lobbies a large amount relative to its size. I'm definitely open to other improvements. I would also question your reasoning about Rent-Seeking, as this hasn't been a viewpoint that seems directly supported by references, so whether or not you and I believe that is the case, I don't believe it merits enough 162.230.224.99 (talk) 03:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 * Replying so you actually get pinged. Yafwa (talk) 04:12, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

 * I have edited this post above after-the-fact, to clean-up up some ultimately off-topic confusions about Wikipedia's COI definition. I've marked myself as having COI here. This is the same account as the IP above, if it was confusing. Yafwa (talk) 04:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Phone number?
Why does this company have their phone nunmber on the name on the first paragraph? 186.18.3.150 (talk) 16:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

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Its relation to Intuit, Inc. must be described. Also, the two articles contain contradictory information. Mikkalai 02:51, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Its relation to Intuit, Inc. has been included Cindycas 20:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

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This user and his sockpuppets keep adding nonsense to the sandbox. -- Stevey7788 02:52, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Definitions
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 * Beguinage
 * Beguines — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) 02:53, 17 April 2005 (UTC)

What's the point of this? Why not just redirect it to Beguine? Adam Bishop 09:12, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

French name on English wiki?
Why is the English "Beguinage" a redirect to the French "Béguinage"? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Does anybody know how to request the move? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 16:29, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You're right. I'll look into it.  Oreo Priest  talk 17:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Any news? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 22:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope. I asked, an admin, to take care of it, but it looks like he hasn't been online in 3 months.  Oreo Priest  talk 07:11, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Any other admins we could ask? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 13:44, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Does need an admin just to get a name – just tab 'Move'. But there is already a page called Beguines and Beghards. –  Unbuttered parsnip  (talk) mytime= Sun 00:49, wikitime=  16:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It needs an admin to move a page to a name that's already taken. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 19:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Etymology
OED gives the following etymology:

"[From] French béguine (13th cent. in Littré), in medieval Latin beguīna, begīna, beghīna (Du Cange), an appellative derived from the surname of Lambert Bègue or le Bègue (‘the Stammerer’), a priest of Liège, in the 12th cent., the founder of the order. (Compare the annal of 1180, quoted in Du Cange: ‘God stirred up the spirit of a certain holy priest, a man of religion, who was called Lambert le Bègue (because he was a stammerer) of St. Christopher [in Liège], from whose surname women and girls who propose to live chastly, are called Beguines, because he was the first to arise and preach to them by his word and example the reward of chastity.’ The cap béguin derives its name from them, and not vice versâ.)"

Do we have sources for any alternatives? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 12:03, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Geographical Coordinates
I am removing the geographical coordinates from the top of this article. They seem to point to the middle of the railway line near Brussel Zuid station; in past versions they pointed to the begijnhof at Hoogstraten. The article is about a type of institution in several countries, so no coordinates are necessary or suitable. --Frans Fowler (talk) 19:01, 27 September 2016 (UTC) --Frans Fowler (talk) 19:28, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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Cue card

Cue cards, also known as note cards, are cards with words written on them that help actors and speakers remember what they have to say. They are typically used in television productions where they can be held off-camera and are unseen by the audience. Cue cards are still currently being used on many late night talk shows including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and formerly on Conan as well as variety and sketch comedy shows like Saturday Night Live due to the practice of last minute script changes. Many other TV shows, including game and reality shows, still use cue cards due to their mobility, as a teleprompter only allows the actor or broadcaster to look directly into the camera.

History

Cue cards were originally used to aid aging actors. One early use was by John Barrymore in the late 1930s.

Cue cards however did not become widespread until 1949 when Barney McNulty a CBS page and former military pilot, was asked to write ailing actor Ed Wynn's script lines on large sheets of paper to help him remember his script. McNulty volunteered for this duty because his training as a pilot taught him to write very quickly and clearly. McNulty soon saw the necessity of this concept and formed the company "Ad-Libs". McNulty continued to be Bob Hope's personal cue card man until he stopped performing. McNulty who died in 2000 at the age of 77 was known in Hollywood as the "Cue-Card King".

Marlon Brando was also a frequent user of cue cards, feeling that this helped bring realism and spontaneity to his performances, instead of giving the impression that he was merely reciting a writer's speech. During production of the film Last Tango in Paris, he had cue cards posted about the set, although director Bernardo Bertolucci declined his request to have lines written on actress Maria Schneider's rear end. Tony Mendez became a minor celebrity for his cue card work on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Cue cards in video art
Occasionally, cue cards are incorporated into music videos as an artistic element themselves, as, for example, by Bob Dylan in his 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues", by the Australian band INXS in their 1987 song "Mediate" or by the German band Wir sind Helden in their 2005 song "Nur ein Wort" (Just one word).

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Martin Meehan

Martin Meehan may refer to:

 * Marty Meehan (born 1956), former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and current Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell
 * Martin Meehan (Irish republican) (1945–2007), Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Sinn Féin politician for South Antrim

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Michellie Jones

Michellie Yvonne Jones  (born 6 September 1969) is an Australian triathlete. She has won two ITU Triathlon World Championships, an Olympic silver medal, and the 2006 Ironman World Championship. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics as a guide for Katie Kelly, when paratriathlon made its debut at the Paralympics.

Personal life
Jones currently lives in Carlsbad, California. She is a graduate from the University of Wollongong with a Diploma of Teaching in Primary Education in 1990. She has a twin sister, Gabrielle Jones.

Athletic career
Jones started competing in triathlons in 1990. In 1992 and 1993 she won the ITU Triathlon World Championships. In 1996, she won the inaugural XTERRA Triathlon World Championships. Jones would go on to further expand her triathlon résumé by winning the ITU Triathlon World Cup in 1998 and 1999. At the 2000 Summer Olympics Jones took the silver medal in the inaugural triathlon event with a total time of 2:00:42.55, only two seconds behind gold medalist Brigitte McMahon. Her split times were 19:43.88 for the swim, 1:05:32.90 for the cycling and 0:35:25.77 for the run.

After recently expanding into Iron distance competition, Jones took second place in the 2005 Ironman World Championship, losing the lead during the run to Natascha Badmann. This was only the second time that she competed in an iron distance triathlon. Later she won the 2006 Ironman Arizona Triathlon, finishing with a time of 9:12:53, and the Ironman Triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in 9:18:31. With this victory, Jones became the first Australian woman to win a World Ironman Championship and it made her the second Australian in history to win the event, behind 1994 Men's World Champion, Greg Welch.

In May 2015, it was confirmed that Jones would be Australian paratriathlete Katie Kelly's new guide in the lead up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics. With Jones, she won the World Paratriathlon Event held in Yokohama, Japan on 16 May 2015. Kelly with guide Jones won their first World Championship title after a come-from-behind victory at the 2015 World Championships Final in Chicago. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Jones was the guide for Kelly when they won the gold medal in the Women's PT5 event.

Jones reflects on her medal win with Kelly stating: "This is so much better because when I think of everything KK (Katie Kelly) has been through and to be able of doing everything she’s done in such short amount of time,” she said. “To me this is the best thing that I’ve ever done.” Jones expresses further explaining "Disability doesn't define you, it's what you do with it that does" She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017.

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Carmen E. Arroyo

Carmen E. Arroyo (born June 2, 1933) is an American politician and a native of Puerto Rico who is the first Hispanic woman elected to the New York State Assembly. She served the 84th Assembly District, which covers the Mott Haven, Port Morris, Melrose, The Hub, Longwood, Concourse, and Hunts Point sections of the South Bronx.

Early years
Arroyo was born and raised in the town of in Corozal, Puerto Rico where she received both her primary and secondary education. She graduated from Corozal High School and then attended the Sixto Febus Business School where she took Secretarial and Bookkeeping courses and earned a diploma. She married Pablo Arroyo and together they had seven children; she was eventually abandoned by her husband and she then decided to move to the United States.

In 1964, Arroyo moved to New York City with her children and settled down in the borough of the Bronx. While the idea of the move to the United States was a search for a better way of life she was soon faced with racial discrimination and other hardships. Arroyo became dependent on the welfare and public assistance systems of the state.

Arroyo took classes in English and attended Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, of the City University of New York (CUNY) where in 1978 she earned her Associate of Arts degree. Arroyo studied at night and worked during the day while she attended the College of New Rochelle. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from said educational institution in 1980.

First female Puerto Rican housing developer
Arroyo organized a group of welfare mothers and formed the South Bronx Action Group in 1966. She became the group's executive director and with the federal funds which the group received she was able to provide the community with services in employment, health and adult education. In 1978 Arroyo became the Executive Director of the South Bronx Community Corporation where she worked to develop private homes in the South Bronx that were sold to families and residents of the South Bronx Community. She was also instrumental in the construction of 194 housing units for senior citizens becoming the first Puerto Rican woman housing developer in New York State.

New York State Assembly
In a special election held in February, 1994, Arroyo ran and was elected to the New York State Assembly, representing the 84th District which includes the Bronx and thus became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the Assembly and the first Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly in the United States. Among the committees which she has been assigned to are those on:
 * Alcoholism and Drug Abuse;
 * Children and Families; and
 * Education and Aging committees.

Arroyo has also been involved with:
 * The Assembly/Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force,
 * The Black and Puerto Rican Caucus,
 * The Women's Caucus,
 * The National Order of Women Legislators, and
 * The New York City Commission on the Status of Women

Arroyo's daughter, Maria del Carmen Arroyo has followed in her mother's footsteps and ran for a seat in New Yorks City Council and was sworn in on March 21, 2005, representing District 17 of the Bronx. On April 23, 2004, New York State Governor George E. Pataki presented Arroyo with the Champions of Housing Award in a reception held in Albany, New York.

NY State Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo has been sued by the state Board of Elections 21 times since 2006-for a total of $12,700- for failing to file campaign finance disclosures. The nondisclosure is a violation of state election laws that often results in heavy fines, but little else. Arroyo has an established record of ignoring the deadlines.

Board of Elections Officer Risa Sugarman referred Arroyo to the state attorney general in 2015 due to numerous financial irregularities. Including a number of 'loans' allegedly made in 2014" by the campaign committee to Arroyo. At least one of the loans appeared to have been paid directly to Empire City Casino in Yonkers, Sugarman wrote.

In total, $3,322 in campaign funds were either withdrawn from an ATM located at the casino or used to make at least one direct purchase at the facility, Sugarman found.

According to a footnote in the letter, a January 2015 bank statement from Chase indicates that a "loan" of $518 made on Jan. 2 of that year was a "card purchase" made to Empire City Casino.

In addition in 2013, it was found that individuals who worked on Arroyo's daughters campaign in 2013 had forged petition signatures for ballot access in her reelection to council. She also came under fire for paying her son over $55,000 from her campaign account for a part-time advisory role.

Currently
Carmen Arroyo currently continues to hold her political position and has published her autobiography titled "Carmen Arroyo: Puertorriqueña en Nueva York, mujer de armas tomadas" (Carmen Arroyo: Puerto Rican Female in New York). She also published a book of poems titled "Mis Poemas" (My Poems). Assemblywoman Arroyo currently serves as Chair of the Sub-Committee on the Effective Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, Chair of the Sub-Committee on Bilingual Education, Chair of the Assembly Office of State and Federal Affairs, and Chair of the Assembly and Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force.

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Improving America's Schools Act of 1994

The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA) was a major part of the Clinton administration's efforts to reform education. It was signed in the gymnasium of Framingham High School (MA). It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It included provisions or reforms for:
 * The Title 1 program, providing extra help to disadvantaged students and holding schools accountable for their results at the same level as other students
 * Charter schools
 * Safe and Drug-free schools
 * Eisenhower Professional Development
 * Major increases in bilingual and immigrant education funding
 * Impact aid
 * Education technology and other programs.

Sections of the Law
Title I--Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards

Title II—Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program

Title III—Technology For Education

Title IV—Safe And Drug-Free Schools And Communities

Title V--Promoting Equity

Title VI—Innovative Education Program Strategies

Title VII—Bilingual Education, Language Enhancement, And Language Acquisition Programs

Title VIII—Impact Aid

Title IX—Indian, Native Hawaiian, And Alaska Native Education

Title X--Programs Of National Significance

Title XI—Coordinated Services

Title XII—School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement Act

Title XIII—Support And Assistance Programs To Improve Education

Title XIV—General Provisions

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Gerard Arpey

Gerard J. Arpey (born July 26, 1958) is the former chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of AMR Corporation, parent company to American Airlines.

Early life and education
Arpey received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1980 and an MBA in 1982, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds an FAA Multi-Engine Instrument Pilot Rating and is an avid private pilot.

Career
Arpey was elected chairman of AMR Corporation and American Airlines, Inc. in May 2004. Arpey had been president and chief executive officer of AMR and American, since April 2003, when he was first elected a member of the board of directors of both companies. Prior to that, he had served as president and chief operating officer of AMR and American since April 2002.

Arpey led a global organization that included American Airlines, American Eagle and AmericanConnection, serving approximately 250 cities in 40 countries and territories around the world. During Arpey's tenure the combined network offered, on average, more than 3,400 flights a day with nearly 900 aircraft.

Before his appointment as president and COO, Arpey served as American Airlines' executive vice president of operations, senior vice president of finance and planning, and chief financial officer and senior vice president of planning.

As executive vice president of operations, Arpey was responsible for American's worldwide flight operations, including Maintenance and Engineering, Flight Department, Operations Planning, Purchasing, Corporate Real Estate, AA Cargo and American Eagle.

As the company's chief finance and planning executive, Arpey directed the corporation's strategic planning activities, including its scheduling, fleet planning and airline partnership activities. As chief financial officer, he was responsible for the corporation's finance functions including the Financial Planning, Treasury, Accounting, Corporate Development, and Investor Relations groups.

Arpey joined American Airlines in 1982 as a financial analyst. He held numerous management positions during his career at American, including managing director of Airline Profitability Analysis, managing director of Financial Analysis and Fleet Planning, and managing director of Financial Planning. He became a corporate officer in 1989, when he was elected vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis.

Arpey announced his retirement on November 29, 2011, coinciding with the bankruptcy filing of American Airlines parent AMR. He was succeeded by Thomas W. Horton. Some airline industry analysts suggested that Arpey did long-term damage to AMR by not filing for Chapter 11 protection earlier on, something he refused to implement on moral grounds as the process of bankruptcy was intended for the purpose of decreasing pension and other financial obligations made to employees. Arpey declined requests by both the AMR board and Horton to stay on in some management capacity because of his unwillingness to work under a bankruptcy scenario. As per his contract, Arpey did not receive any severance upon retirement.

On December 1, 2011, Arpey joined Emerald Creek Group, LLC as a partner. Arpey is a member of the board of directors of S. C. Johnson & Son. He is also a member of The Business Council and involved in a variety of civic organizations.

September 11, 2001
Arpey was executive vice president of operations at the time of the September 11 attacks during which American Airlines lost two planes. Arpey made the decision to ground all American Airlines flights in Northeastern United States and then across the entire nation before the Federal Aviation Administration directive to do so.

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143 (number)

143 (one hundred [and] forty-three) is the natural number following 142 and preceding 144. It is one less than a gross.

In mathematics
143 is:
 * the sum of seven consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31). But this number is never the sum of an integer and its base 10 digits, making it a self number. It is also the product of a twin prime pair (11 × 13).
 * the difference in the first exception to the pattern shown below:
 * $$3^2+4^2=5^2$$
 * $$3^3+4^3+5^3=6^3$$
 * $$3^4+4^4+5^4+6^4=7^4-143$$.

 * the number of prime numbers have three digits

Every positive integer is the sum of at most 143 seventh powers (see Waring's problem).

In the military

 * Vickers Type 143 was a British single-seat fighter biplane in 1929
 * United States Air Force 143d Airlift Wing airlift unit at Quonset Point, Rhode Island
 * USS Arcade (AM-143) was a United States Navy Admirable-class minesweeper during World War II
 * USS Clermont (APA-143) was a United States Navy Haskell-class attack transport during World War II
 * USS Fiske (DE-143) was a United States Navy Edsall-class destroyer escort during World War II
 * USS General H. B. Freeman (AP-143) was a United States Navy General G. O. Squier-class transport ship in World War II
 * USS Magistrate (SP-143) was a United States Navy patrol boat
 * USS Neosho (AO-143) was a United States Navy Neosho-class oiler during the Cuban Missile Crisis
 * USS Yarnall (DD-143) was a United States Navy Wickes-class destroyer during World War I

In transportation

 * London Buses route 143 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London
 * Air Canada Flight 143, landed at Gimli, Manitoba Air Force Base after gliding 80 mi after running out of fuel on July 23, 1983
 * Philippine Airlines Flight 143 exploded prior to takeoff on May 11, 1990, at Manila Airport
 * Bristol Type 143 was a British twin-engined monoplane aircraft of the Bristol Aeroplane Company
 * British Rail Class 143 diesel multiple unit, part of the Pacer family of trains introduced in 1985
 * East 143rd Street–St. Mary's Street station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway
 * 143rd Street station on Metra's SouthWest Service in Orland Park, Illinois

In media

 * Musicians Ray J and Bobby Brackins wrote the song "143"
 * On Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: "Transformations", 143 is used to mean "I love you". 1 meaning I for 1 letter, 4 meaning Love for the 4 letters, and 3 meaning You for the 3 letters. Reportedly, Fred Rogers maintained his weight at exactly 143 lb for the last thirty years of his life, and associated the number with the phrase "I love you".
 * Jake Shimabukuro released the song "143" based on his experience in high school when 143 was sent on a pager to indicate "I Love You".
 * Sal Governale of The Howard Stern Show had a long running saga on the show about his wife who had an emotional friend. He discovered the severity of their relationship when he read their text messages and emails which included "143", shorthand for "I love you".
 * "Case 143", song by Stray Kids.
 * 143 is a number frequently used in Omori meaning "I love you"

In popular culture

 * 143. A popular pager number to communicate "I love you" (based on the number of letters in each of the three words)
 * 143, 2024 album by Katy Perry

In other fields
143 is also:
 * The year AD 143 or 143 BC
 * 143 AH is a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 760 – 761 CE
 * 143 Adria is a large main belt asteroid
 * 143 Records label of producer David Foster, a sub-label of Atlantic Records
 * Psalm 143
 * Sonnet 143 by William Shakespeare
 * Slovenia ranks #143 in world population
 * The 143, in South Africa, refers to the 143 conscientious objectors who publicly refused to do military service in the Apartheid army in 1988.
 * The song "143" by Musiq
 * The song "Flying Dream 143" by Elbow
 * The atomic number of unquadtrium, a temporary chemical element

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Talk:Human ecosystem

The original
The original contribution by the anonymous author seems to be from: http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Human_ecosystem which states it's covered by GFDL. Samw 02:57, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * That site appears to be a Wikipedia clone! Amazing how quickly we're cloned! So I'm not sure about the copyright status. Samw 03:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This was submitted by a classmate of mine as part of a class project so there is no copyright issue. Apparently the other site is a clone. 24.84.169.90 04:19, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Better definition
It needs a better definition. See, for instance:

"Definition: The ecosystem concept was originally defined as a biological community, consisting of plants, animals, and microbes, interacting with a physical environmental complex, consisting of soils, water, air, and physical conditions such as temperature and wind, all in a specified area. The human ecosystem combines these components traditionally recognized by ecologists with the built environment and the social characteristics, structures, and interactions in the area of interest (Fig 1). The key aspects of ecosystems are 1) the spatial boundary, 2) the physical, biological, social, and engineered and built components, 3) the interactions among the components, and 4) the feedbacks and controls that result from the interactions within the ecosystem or which are imposed by conditions that exist outside the ecosystem boundary." From Urban lexicon. --Polinizador (talk) 14:47, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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Manny Aybar

Manuel Antonio Aybar (born May 4, 1972) is a retired pitcher and coach who has played in Major League Baseball and Korea Baseball Organization. He batted and threw right-handed. Aybar is currently a coach for the Conspiradores de Querétaro of the Mexican League.

Aybar began his professional career in 1992 as a shortstop in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, but switched to pitching in 1993. He made his major league debut on August 4,, with St. Louis in a 4–2 loss to the New York Mets. After that, he was unable to fully establish himself as a major leaguer, spending time in the Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and LG Twins organizations at both the major league and Triple-A levels and in Korean baseball. Aybar played for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League for the 2010 season.

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Universality (dynamical systems)

In statistical mechanics, universality is the observation that there are properties for a large class of systems that are independent of the dynamical details of the system. Systems display universality in a scaling limit, when a large number of interacting parts come together. The modern meaning of the term was introduced by Leo Kadanoff in the 1960s, but a simpler version of the concept was already implicit in the van der Waals equation and in the earlier Landau theory of phase transitions, which did not incorporate scaling correctly.

The term is slowly gaining a broader usage in several fields of mathematics, including combinatorics and probability theory, whenever the quantitative features of a structure (such as asymptotic behaviour) can be deduced from a few global parameters appearing in the definition, without requiring knowledge of the details of the system.

The renormalization group provides an intuitively appealing, albeit mathematically non-rigorous, explanation of universality. It classifies operators in a statistical field theory into relevant and irrelevant. Relevant operators are those responsible for perturbations to the free energy, the imaginary time Lagrangian, that will affect the continuum limit, and can be seen at long distances. Irrelevant operators are those that only change the short-distance details. The collection of scale-invariant statistical theories define the universality classes, and the finite-dimensional list of coefficients of relevant operators parametrize the near-critical behavior.

Universality in statistical mechanics
The notion of universality originated in the study of phase transitions in statistical mechanics. A phase transition occurs when a material changes its properties in a dramatic way: water, as it is heated boils and turns into vapor; or a magnet, when heated, loses its magnetism. Phase transitions are characterized by an order parameter, such as the density or the magnetization, that changes as a function of a parameter of the system, such as the temperature. The special value of the parameter at which the system changes its phase is the system's critical point. For systems that exhibit universality, the closer the parameter is to its critical value, the less sensitively the order parameter depends on the details of the system.

If the parameter β is critical at the value βc, then the order parameter a will be well approximated by

 * $$a=a_0 \left\vert \beta-\beta_c \right\vert^\alpha.$$

The exponent α is a critical exponent of the system. The remarkable discovery made in the second half of the twentieth century was that very different systems had the same critical exponents.

In 1975, Mitchell Feigenbaum discovered universality in iterated maps.

Examples
Universality gets its name because it is seen in a large variety of physical systems. Examples of universality include:

 * Avalanches in piles of sand. The likelihood of an avalanche is in power-law proportion to the size of the avalanche, and avalanches are seen to occur at all size scales. This is termed "self-organized criticality".
 * The formation and propagation of cracks and tears in materials ranging from steel to rock to paper. The variations of the direction of the tear, or the roughness of a fractured surface, are in power-law proportion to the size scale.
 * The electrical breakdown of dielectrics, which resemble cracks and tears.
 * The percolation of fluids through disordered media, such as petroleum through fractured rock beds, or water through filter paper, such as in chromatography. Power-law scaling connects the rate of flow to the distribution of fractures.
 * The diffusion of molecules in solution, and the phenomenon of diffusion-limited aggregation.
 * The distribution of rocks of different sizes in an aggregate mixture that is being shaken (with gravity acting on the rocks).
 * The appearance of critical opalescence in fluids near a phase transition.

Theoretical overview
One of the important developments in materials science in the 1970s and the 1980s was the realization that statistical field theory, similar to quantum field theory, could be used to provide a microscopic theory of universality. The core observation was that, for all of the different systems, the behaviour at a phase transition is described by a continuum field, and that the same statistical field theory will describe different systems. The scaling exponents in all of these systems can be derived from the field theory alone, and are known as critical exponents.

The key observation is that near a phase transition or critical point, disturbances occur at all size scales, and thus one should look for an explicitly scale-invariant theory to describe the phenomena, as seems to have been put in a formal theoretical framework first by Pokrovsky and Patashinsky in 1965. Universality is a by-product of the fact that there are relatively few scale-invariant theories. For any one specific physical system, the detailed description may have many scale-dependent parameters and aspects. However, as the phase transition is approached, the scale-dependent parameters play less and less of an important role, and the scale-invariant parts of the physical description dominate. Thus, a simplified, and often exactly solvable, model can be used to approximate the behaviour of these systems near the critical point.

Percolation may be modeled by a random electrical resistor network, with electricity flowing from one side of the network to the other. The overall resistance of the network is seen to be described by the average connectivity of the resistors in the network.

The formation of tears and cracks may be modeled by a random network of electrical fuses. As the electric current flow through the network is increased, some fuses may pop, but on the whole, the current is shunted around the problem areas, and uniformly distributed. However, at a certain point (at the phase transition) a cascade failure may occur, where the excess current from one popped fuse overloads the next fuse in turn, until the two sides of the net are completely disconnected and no more current flows.

To perform the analysis of such random-network systems, one considers the stochastic space of all possible networks (that is, the canonical ensemble), and performs a summation (integration) over all possible network configurations. As in the previous discussion, each given random configuration is understood to be drawn from the pool of all configurations with some given probability distribution; the role of temperature in the distribution is typically replaced by the average connectivity of the network.

The expectation values of operators, such as the rate of flow, the heat capacity, and so on, are obtained by integrating over all possible configurations. This act of integration over all possible configurations is the point of commonality between systems in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. In particular, the language of the renormalization group may be applied to the discussion of the random network models. In the 1990s and 2000s, stronger connections between the statistical models and conformal field theory were uncovered. The study of universality remains a vital area of research.

Applications to other fields
Like other concepts from statistical mechanics (such as entropy and master equations), universality has proven a useful construct for characterizing distributed systems at a higher level, such as multi-agent systems. The term has been applied to multi-agent simulations, where the system-level behavior exhibited by the system is independent of the degree of complexity of the individual agents, being driven almost entirely by the nature of the constraints governing their interactions. In network dynamics, universality refers to the fact that despite the diversity of nonlinear dynamic models, which differ in many details, the observed behavior of many different systems adheres to a set of universal laws. These laws are independent of the specific details of each system.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenExpression

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

OpenExpression
This article doesn't define its title, and as far as I can tell there's nothing called "OpenExpression". There do appear to be some web sites with that as their domain names that are either under construction or invitations to purchase the domain name. The final two external hyperlinks are suspect, moreover. Uncle G 02:58, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
 * Delete what is it? Vegaswikian 07:08, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless context is given. Gazpacho 08:01, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unnoteworthy babble CustardJack 23:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Magali Messmer

Magali Di Marco Messmer (born 9 September 1971 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), is one of the most seasoned professional elite triathletes and part of the Swiss National Team since 1995. She took part in two Olympic Games, placing 3rd in Sydney (2000) and 13th in Beijing (2008). She lives in Troistorrents in Valais.

Magali Di Marco Messmer started her triathlon career in 1995 when she had already retired from swimming, and she won the Swiss Championships in the very first year of her new triathlon career. In 2000, she crowned her efforts by winning the bronze medal at the Olympics in Sydney, whereupon she retired temporarily from triathlon. Living in Monthey together with her husband and working as a manager in an insurance company, she dedicated herself to family life and gave birth to her son Eliah on 2 November 2001. At the end of the year 2004, however, Magali Di Marco hd her comeback to triathlon and in 2005 she achieved several World Cup top ten positions. At the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 she placed 13th and in the World Championship Rankings of the year 2009 she was the number 8 among 106 female elite triathletes, so for more than 15 years Magali Di Marco Messmer has now been a match for the best elite triathletes of the world.

In the 15 years from 1995 to 2009 Magali Di Marco Messmer took part in 73 ITU competitions and achieved 43 top ten positions. In France, Magali Di Marco represents the Triathlon Club Châteauroux in the prestigious Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux. At the first triathlon of this French circuit in Dunkirk (23 May 2010) she placed 5th and was the best triathlete of her club, at the second triathlon in Beauvais (13 June 2010) she placed 6th and was again among the three athlètes classants l'equipe, and in Paris (18 July 2010) she also achieved an overall top ten position placing ninth and being again the best of the female Châteuroux triathletes.

ITU and ETU Competitions from 1995 to 2010
All the following competitions are triathlons and belong to the Elite category. The list is based upon the official ITU Profile Page.

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Why is there so much detail on this page about Ford trucks and SUVs which are not the Ranger? If they share a platform, they should be listed in "Related" in the infobox, get a brief one or two sentence mention, and links to their respective pages. --Vossanova o< 15:08, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree. The gallery, especially, is excessive. A brief mention of the fact that the Ranger chassis spawned other vehicles is sufficient. --Sable232 (talk) 23:55, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that Mazda B series only features the international version of the truck; it directs to this page for the North American (post-1993) version. I'm not sure whether the Mazda section in this page should be moved to Mazda B series, or kept here, since the post-1993 B series was derived from the NA Ranger.  It would be nice to have all the Mazda info and galleries on one page, but I know we like to keep rebadges in the same place.  Beyond that, the Explorer Sport Trac, Explorer, Bronco II, and Aerostar sections can go for sure. --Vossanova o< 17:37, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Since the B-series article is about a completely different lineage of truck, it would probably be less suitable to include the Ranger-based model there. It's so closely related to the Ranger that I feel it can remain in this article, although whether it's better to have a separate section at the end or have the information interspersed throughout I don't know. --Sable232 (talk) 19:37, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Undiscussed page split
The fourth-generation section was recently split off into Ford Ranger (fourth generation) with no discussion. I don't believe there is enough content there to justify a new article at this time, but I'd like to hear other opinions before considering a revert. --Sable232 (talk) 00:33, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

 * Support I also find it interesting that it showed up out of nowhere. While it should have been discussed further, I do agree with its format (to start with...) for a couple of reasons.  First, a secondary article allows for an expansion of content without stretching the main article out too far in length (for example, think of how long the Ford F-Series article would be if one eliminated all the related secondary articles).  Additionally, the new article performs the same function for the Ford Ranger (T6) article (the vehicle it from which it is derived).  This article creation follows the example of Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Golf (admittedly, these are further evolved...).  It also helps that this is a current production vehicle; a secondary article will likely grow in size and content along the way over the next few years.  --SteveCof00 (talk) 11:00, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

 * Suggestion I believe there is an error in the page regarding the generations. The 2019-2023 is known as the fifth generation, not fourth. Here is a supporting link from a Ford Dealer disclosing that the US did not receive the fourth generation Ranger https://www.fordlincolnofcookeville.com/blog-ford-ranger-generations-and-model-years/

--NewEnglandCivilEng (talk) 14:38, 26 March 2024(UTC)

Generational page split
While the current generation was split off into its own article without discussion, this topic is here for whether or not to do so on the other three generations. I Support the idea for several reasons, although it will be a fairly large undertaking.
 * Doing so will allow some streamlining of the article without an actual loss of content.
 * This has been done with Ford F-Series (admittedly, a model family involving several more articles)
 * The format of the Ford Ranger disambiguation page is a good base for including further article links.

Any thoughts? --SteveCof00 (talk) 11:09, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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Asakita-ku, Hiroshima

Asakita-ku (安佐北区) is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima.

The northern portion contains what was Asa-gun and southern Takata-gun, now defunct districts (see Takata District, Hiroshima). Asa-gun consisted of Kabe-cho, Kōyō-cho, Asa-cho. Takata-gun included Shiraki-cho. After the four towns were merged with Hiroshima in 1973, they were designated a ward and named Asakita-ku.

As of April 1, 2006, the ward has an estimated population of 156,516 and a density of 442.95 persons per km2. The total area is 353.35 km2.

The Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's College is located in Asakita-ku.

Climate
Asakita-ku has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) characterized by cool to mild winters and hot, humid summers. The average annual temperature in Asakita-ku is 14.9 C. The average annual rainfall is 1678.3 mm with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.0 C, and lowest in January, at around 3.5 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Asakita-ku was 38.9 C on 16 July 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was -18.6 C on 27 February 1981.

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Chester River

The Chester River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about 43 mi long, and its watershed encompasses 368 sqmi, which includes 295 sqmi of land. Thus the total watershed area is 20% water. It forms the border between Kent County and Queen Anne's County, Maryland, with its headwaters extending into New Castle County and Kent County, Delaware. Chestertown, the seat of Maryland's Kent County, is located on its north shore. It is located south of the Sassafras River and north of Eastern Bay, and is connected with Eastern Bay through Kent Narrows.

The Chester River begins at Millington, Maryland, where Cypress Branch and Andover Branch join together. It ends at the Chesapeake Bay in a very wide mouth between Love Point on Kent Island, and Swan Point, near Gratitude, Maryland. Cypress Branch rises in southwestern New Castle County, Delaware, and Andover Branch, with its tributary, Sewell Branch, rises in northwestern Kent County, Delaware. Millington is the head of navigation. Sewell Branch and Andover Branch join in a private impoundage of approximately 30 acre about two miles (3 km) above joining with Cypress Branch and then becoming the Chester River.

Its main tributaries are Langford Creek and Morgan Creek on the north side and the Corsica River and Southeast Creek on the south side. There are also several small creeks on the northern shore, including Church Creek, Grays Inn Creek, Shippen Creek, Jarrett Creek, Browns Creek, Broad Creek, Dam Creek, Morgan Creek, Radcliffe Creek, and Mills Branch. On the southern shore the small creeks include Queenstown Creek, Tilghman Creek, Reed Creek, Grove Creek, Hambleton Creek, Rosin Creek, Foreman Branch and Unicorn Branch.

History
Local lore has it that in 1774, colonists boarded a British ship anchored in the Chester River at Chester Town, also called New Town on Chester, and threw its load of tea overboard, mimicking the Boston Tea Party and its act of defiance against King George III. This came to be known as the Chestertown Tea Party.

While primary source documents show that Chestertown residents did have at least one meeting to discuss the presence of tea aboard the locally owned merchantman Geddes, and later the residents sent food to aid the blockaded Bostonians, contemporaneous source material has yet to be found.

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