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Israeli reaction to speech
The information contained in this article about Israel's reaction to Brundage's decision to continue the games directly contradicts the article on the Munich massacre. In that article, it is stated that Israel endorsed the decision, while here it states that they protested it. Since no source is given in the current article, I am deleting the reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BishopOcelot (talk • contribs) 14:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Illegitimate child?
Many years ago I watched the mini-series "King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage" which depicted Avery as having an illegitimate child from an affair. Anyone know if this was true?

I found an August 4, 1980 article in Sports Illustrated that treats Brundage's affair with Lilian Dresden and the resultant two children, Gary Dresden and Avery Dresden, as fact. According to William Johnson, the article's author, Brundage fathered the two boys out of wedlock and acknowledged paternity privately, requesting his identity be withheld because of his public personage. As I understand it, Brundage was generally considered to have women all over the world and married much later in life than most men of his generation.OlympicParadox (talk) 09:36, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I am treating the illegitimate children as true; multiple sources say that Brundage acknowledged and visited them, including Guttmann's bio of Brundage.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Death
Why did he die in Germany? Did he spend the last years of his life there or did he die while travelling?--129.70.14.128 (talk) 18:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

When he was 85, Brundage remarried to Princess Mariann Charlotte Katharina Stefanie von Reuss, the daughter of Heinrich XXXVII of Reuss, a tiny principality in what by then was the GDR. They had met in the 50s, when she was 19 and Brundage was in his 60s. Brundage spent the last few years of his life in West Germany, was married in Farmisch and died there in 1975. 70.247.142.254 (talk) 04:51, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Adam Krieger

1968 Black Power salute
The article previously stated that Brundage had Tommie Smith and John Carlos' medals taken away. While they were indeed punished and made persona non grata, I have seen no evidence that their medals were taken away. As stated in Sports Illustrated, July 14-21, 2008: "Smith and Carlos were suspended from the U.S. Olympic team, cast out of the Olympic Village and given 48 hours to leave the country." There is no mention of losing their medals. (Also, I removed the following sentence about Brundage presiding over the IOC during the era of shamateurism in the Eastern bloc because it was mentioned previously in the article.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:22, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality
We are basically calling this guy a Nazi here, from what I have read it's not clear this was entirely true. In fact, he refuted much of that. So he may have well been pro-Nazi at some point in his life, but this article implies that as WWII started in Europe he changed his tune. The guy was definitely racist, and maybe a Nazi, but we seriously need to look at this closer. Currently the claim he is a Nazi rests on an HBO documentary, not the best source at all for this article. So for these reasons I have tagged this article for being non-neutral. --IvoShandor (talk) 13:35, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

There is also a BBC documentary about the Black Power salute that references Brundages ideology, principaly that he was kicked out of the America First group (an isolationist group that was basically a pro-Nazi solidarity group) for being too PRO-Hitler before the war. It shows how he was instrumental in getting the Olympics to Berlin and how in return his company was given the contract to build the German Embassy in the US. That seems pretty damning to me. The documentary is called 'The 1968 Olympics: Black Power Salute" - it might be on the BBC iPlayer if you want to watch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.14.254.141 (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

this entire article lacks objectivity. Avery Brundage was definitely guilty of being a man of his era, and is thus politically-incorrect in our eyes today. But he was by no means alone: he merely reflected the currents prevalent in his time & place - which were widespread amongst the entire ruling elite of the USA. If you want to paint him as a Nazi sympathiser, you will really need to provide documentation - not merely repeated citings of the same HBO "documentary". A HBO 'documentary' in and of itself is simply not a legitimate source on which to base so much of the the article. It may be that the HBO documentary indeed makes these allegations - but then we need to see what the source HBO used for making their allegations. And I think that it is telling that none of the allegtations of Nazi sympathy cited here involve the only scholarly study of Brundage yet published, namely Allen Guttmann's book. Personally I think Avery Brundage's position on the non-political nature of sport is a lot more nuanced than is made out here, and suspect that he actively encouraged athletic participation from the then newly-emergent nations of the "third world", and that if one bothered, one could stand this article on its head. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptomania (talk • contribs) 13:09, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

He may not have been a Nazi in the sense of being a member of the Nazi Party or the German American Bund, but he clearly agreed with Nazi ideology. 24.214.230.66 (talk) 17:02, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

 * This discussion's a bit stale, but I will add: Guttmann gave an interview when the papers about the German embassy thing were publicized.  He said it was not a bribe because Brundage didn't need to be bribed to try to bring the US team to Berlin.  He was not a Nazi sympathizer, but he did believe that politics should be kept out of sports, and thus a boycott was ill-advised.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:50, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Nazi discussion aside, this article lacks a nuetral POV and looks reads like the work of a biographer (one who liked him and wanted to voice his views), which is unacceptable for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, it's also incredibly bulky and in need of overhaul so the task is nontrivial.130.126.102.58 (talk) 04:42, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Edited the Mexico City Olympics section. If I were to base my opinion on the article, I would conclude that the 1968 Olympics was a violent race riot instigated by black athletes on the US Olympic track team and that Brundage was right to punish the athletes. Wikipedia does not make these judgements. Overall, this problem is rampant, but very difficult to solve due to the bulky nature of the article. Did they just abridge Guttmann?130.126.245.129 (talk) 07:46, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Guttman was unquestionably friendly to Brundage. He is, however, Brundage's only full-length biographer, not counting the hagiography that was done by an East German IOC member in the late 1960s. Brundage is presented neutrally here.  The article passed FAC, our most difficult process, which includes neutrality.  There's no getting around Berlin and Munich when talking about Brundage, and those damn him in the eyes of many.  Those events are presented neutrally and dispassionately, with the arguments on both sides given.  You may not like the balance, but it is what seemed to work.  As for bulkiness, yes, it is long.  Necessarily so, for a man who was in the public eye for sixty years and that for more than one thing.  We have to have sections dealing with his art collecting and building career, because if someone goes to the Asian Art Museum and sees Brundage's name all over, he is entitled to wonder why the mean old man of sports gave so many art pieces.  We must supply that answer.  Same if someone finds out his Chicago building was constructed by Brundage.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

women in sports
The lead sentence of the women in sports paragraph says he didn't want them to be in sports at all. The next sentence seems to indicate that he liked them as divers and swimmers, but not doing track and field. This should be clarified. Also the Eleanor Holm ban sentence may be unsupported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanose (talk • contribs) 01:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Highly Suspect
I just came here through the article on Peter Norman, the Australian involved in the Black Power Salute in 1968 and in each article, including the one specific to the salute it says that it was because Norman was against the political use of the Olympics. This doesn't sit right with his overt views on Nazi's and Jews ... basically what I'm saying is that he was an extreme version of the cultural standard at the time in the USA and Australia. More racist and conservative then the average and was more upset by Black Power salute then the political statement it implied. Assuredly there would be a reference around to support that given everything else here is so well supported.--Senor Freebie (talk) 01:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * After reading the section on Munich I'm now even more confident in my opinion that there will be a reference to this. He wanted to include Rhodesia and mentioned that in his 'commemorative' speech for the Israeli victims of the Munich Massacre. The fact that he would mention his support of fascists in a speech on behalf of Jews seems like the actions of a man hell bent on racist views.--Senor Freebie (talk) 01:40, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Rise to leadership
The first part of this section confuses me. What exactly was the AOA, a rival of the AOC or rather some kind of superordinate body? If they were rivals, why would Brundage be president of both the AOA and the AOC? When exactly did he preside the AOA?

The following sentence is especially confusing: "In response, the AAU founded an American Olympic Association as a separate group, although it was still initially dominated by AAU representatives—it then selected the AOC." What exactly does that mean?

--84.226.157.219 (talk) 10:39, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The AAU was seen as too dominant, especially by the NCAA. With the 1920 scandal over bringing home the athletes on a troopship, they set up the AOA to be something of an arms length, and to pick the AOC.  The AOA was the body which did all the work between Olympics, the AOC was initially set up every four years, administering how the team was picked and how it got to the Olympics.  So it would make sense for the AOA president to be AOC president too.  Later on, the AOC took over the AOA's functions, so it didn't last long having two Olympic organizations.  I am away from home right now and cannot answer your question about when he became AOA president.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:38, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Anti Semitism
The article should have his anti-semtism in the lead that is what Brundage legacy is 1936 in barring Jews and in 72 glossing over the Palestinan terrorism32.178.67.146 (talk) 13:44, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's being judgmental. The facts are stated, both 1936 and 1972, the reader can judge for himself.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:02, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Thefacts are clear he banned two U.S runners because they were Jewish no other reason, he was proud of belong to a club that banned Jews and he did not honored the murdered Israelis athletes166.217.84.238 (talk) 18:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

 * If we are talking about Glickman and Stoller, that is thoroughly discussed in the article. And he did pay honor, the problem was, he brought in the Rhodesian issue and didn't cancel the games.  That's discussed, too.  And I did put "anti-Semitism" in the lede.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:10, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

It is highly unusual to use a term such as "anti-Semitic" in the first paragraph of a biographical article. It's not even done in the Adolf Hitler article. The charges of anti-Semitism are sufficiently mentioned further on in the introduction. ... disco spinster   talk  18:24, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

It seems that some are following the IOC lead and discounting anti-semetism.108.49.112.18 (talk) 20:23, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

 * I'm Jewish, fella. I also have one Jew, one Nazi, one fellow traveler of the Nazis, and Brundage to my FA credit.  Deal with it :). --Wehwalt (talk) 21:06, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Manual of style
According to the manual of style (Manual of Style/Biographies), a biography should first state the nationality and occupation of the subject in the opening sentence (e.g. "was an American labor leader"). A sentence like "Avery Brundage was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee" is not in accordance with the manual of style.

Another issue is the POV and UNDUE attempt to give the impression that his decision to continue the 1972 games has only been "harshly criticized" and even "seen as evidence of anti-Semitism" (an extreme and possibly libelous statement). This is not at all the case; while he may have received some criticism in Israel and occasionally elsewhere, his decision to continue the games has certainly not been universally condemned, and many believe his decision was the right thing to do. At best, opinion on this issue is divided. --Tataral (talk) 12:25, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Legally you cannot libel the dead. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:51, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Brundage was not only a sports official, he is notable in his own right as an athlete, as a businessman, and for his art collecting and benefacting. The MoS is not a straitjacket, and some people do not fit into the provision you cited. Brundage is one.  It's not libelous because Brundage is dead.  Ledes do not have to be sourced if they reflect what is sourced in the body of the article. So your tag is ill-advised.  If there is a split of opinion, I'm happy to work with you on it, but this article is a FA and went through a featured article process where a consensus of editors found the text to meet the FA criteria, which includes being comprehensive. Thus, there is an existing consensus regarding the article (as I recall, the feeling was I was too kind to Brundage) and controversial changes should not be made without consensus.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:44, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

If you have additional information on sources, it might be helpful to beef up the legacy section, which I've felt could use it.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:45, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

 * What about if we were to say that his decision "has been praised but also harshly criticized". The Stars & Stripes article is a slender reed to rest that on, but if you have more sources ...--Wehwalt (talk) 12:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

 * If a subject is notable as a sports official, athlete and businessman, the standard opening sentence according to the manual of style would be "Avery Brundage was an American sports official, athlete and businessman". While his best known office is that as president of the IOC, he was well known as a sports official before he became president as well. The opening sentence doesn't need to be exhaustive, and it would be sufficient to mention art collecting and benefacting somewhere below in the lead, given that he is principally known as a sports administrator.

 * "has been praised but also harshly criticized" would at least be an improvement, in describing how his decision has been met with mixed reactions.

 * Regarding the wording "In retirement, Brundage married a German princess": This is an unnecessarily vague and confusing statement, and doesn't convey any real information. A Wikipedia article would never refer to a British royal in such a vague way as "a British princess"; additionally the wording could confuse American (and other) readers who might think she was a princess of Germany, rather than of the defunct formerly sovereign state of Reuss. --Tataral (talk) 13:14, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The MOS, like all Wikipolicies, is subject to WP:IAR. It is not mandatory. As for the princess, I was simply trying to be comprehensive in the lede by taking it up to the time of his death.  I suppose the difference between a German princess and a British royal is that the British Royal Family actually rules. One solution would be to omit the sentence entirely.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:16, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note also that the guideline you cite has several examples, not all of which follow the format you mention. I would mention that many of our presidential articles establish notability by immediately mentioning that he was the XXth president of the United States.  This simply follows that format, and mentioning that he was the only American to lead the IOC establishes his nationality.  There is considerable discretion as to the manner in which you establish the various things that should be in a lede paragraph. This does that.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:21, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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Radical Reformation

The Radical Reformation represented a response to perceived corruption both in the Catholic Church and in the expanding Magisterial Protestant movement led by Martin Luther and many others. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant groups throughout Europe. The term covers Radical Reformers like Thomas Müntzer and Andreas Karlstadt, the Zwickau prophets, and Anabaptist groups like the Hutterites and the Mennonites.

In Germany, Switzerland and Austria, a majority sympathized with the Radical Reformation despite intense persecution. Although the surviving proportion of the European population that rebelled against Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches was small, Radical Reformers wrote profusely, and the literature on the Radical Reformation is disproportionately large, partly as a result of the proliferation of the Radical Reformation teachings in the United States.

History
Some early forms of the Radical Reformation were millenarian, focusing on the imminent end of the world. This was particularly notable in the rule of John of Leiden over the city of Münster in 1535, which was ultimately crushed by the combined forces of the Catholic Bishop of Münster and the Lutheran Landgrave of Hesse. After the Münster rebellion, the small group of the Batenburgers continued to adhere to militant Anabaptist beliefs. Non-violent Anabaptist groups also had millenarian beliefs.

The early Anabaptists believed that their reformation must purify both theology and the lives of Christians, especially their political and social relationships. Therefore, the church should not be supported by the state, neither by tithes and taxes, nor by the use of the sword; Christianity was a matter of individual conviction, which could not be forced on anyone, but rather required a personal decision for it.

Many groups were influenced by Biblical literalism (like the Swiss Brethren), spiritualism (like the south German Anabaptists) and mainly absolute pacifism (like the Swiss Brethren, the Hutterites and the Mennonites from northern Germany and the Netherlands). The Hutterites also practiced community of goods. In the beginning, most of them were strongly missionary.

Later forms of Anabaptism
Later forms of Anabaptism were much smaller and focused on the formation of small, separatist communities. Among the many varieties to develop were Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites.

Typical among the new leaders of the later Anabaptist movement, and certainly the most influential of them, was Menno Simons, a Dutch Catholic priest who early in 1536 decided to join the Anabaptists. Simons had no use for the violence advocated and practiced by the Münster movement, which seemed to him to pervert the very heart of Christianity. Thus, Mennonite pacifism is not merely a peripheral characteristic of the movement, but rather belongs to the very essence of Menno's understanding of the gospel; this is one of the reasons that it has been a constant characteristic of all Mennonite bodies through the centuries.

The Anabaptists of the Radical Reformation continue to inspire current community groups such as the Bruderhof and movements such as Urban Expression in the UK.

Non-Anabaptist Radical Reformers
Though most of the Radical Reformers were Anabaptist, some did not identify themselves with the mainstream Anabaptist tradition. Thomas Müntzer was involved in the German Peasants' War. Andreas Karlstadt disagreed theologically with Huldrych Zwingli and Martin Luther, teaching nonviolence and refusing to baptize infants while not rebaptizing adult believers. Kaspar Schwenkfeld and Sebastian Franck were influenced by German mysticism and spiritualism. In 17th-century England, the tumultuous climate of the English Civil War and English Revolution saw the emergence of several movements that were influenced by or could be considered part of the Radical Reformation, such as the English Dissenters. One of these dissenting groups that developed along convergent lines with the continental Radical Reformation was the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, led by George Fox and Margaret Fell, among others.

Other movements
In addition to the Anabaptists, other Radical Reformation movements have been identified. Notably, George Huntston Williams, the great categorizer of the Radical Reformation, considered early forms of Unitarianism (such as that of the Socinians, and exemplified by Michael Servetus as well as the Polish Brethren), and other trends that disregarded the Nicene Christology still accepted by most Christians, as part of the Radical Reformation. With Servetus and Faustus Socinus, anti-Trinitarianism came to the foreground.

Beliefs
The beliefs of the movement are those of the Believers' Church. Unlike the Catholics and the more Magisterial Lutheran and Reformed (Zwinglian and Calvinist) Protestant movements, some of the Radical Reformation abandoned the idea that the "Church visible" was distinct from the "Church invisible." Thus, the Church only consisted of the tiny community of believers who accepted Jesus Christ and demonstrated this by adult baptism, called "believer's baptism".

While the magisterial reformers wanted to substitute their own learned elite for the learned elite of the Catholic Church, the radical Protestant groups rejected the authority of the institutional "church" organization, almost entirely, as being unbiblical. As the search for original Christianity was carried further, it was claimed that the tension between the church and the Roman Empire in the first centuries of Christianity was normative, that the church is not to be allied with government sacralism, that a true church is always subject to be persecuted, and that the conversion of Constantine I was, therefore, the Great Apostasy that marked a deviation from pure Christianity.

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Standard-bearer

A standard-bearer, also known as a colour-bearer or flag-bearer, is a person who bears an emblem known as a standard or military colours, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc. This can either be an occasional duty, often seen as an honour (especially on parade), or a permanent charge (also on the battlefield); the second type has even led in certain cases to this task being reflected in official rank titles such as Chorąży, Ensign, Cornet, Fähnrich and Alferes/Alférez.

Role
In the context of the Olympic Games, a flagbearer is the athlete who carries the flag of their country during the opening and closing ceremonies.

While at present a purely ceremonial function, as far back as Roman warfare and medieval warfare bearing the standard had an important role on the battlefield. The standard-bearer acted as an indicator of where the position of a military unit was, with the bright, colourful standard or flag acting as a strong visual beacon to surrounding soldiers. Soldiers were typically ordered to follow and stay close to the standard or flag in order to maintain unit cohesion, and for a single commander to easily position his troops by only positioning his standard-bearer, typically with the aid of musical cues or loud verbal commands. It was an honorable position carrying a considerable risk, as a standard-bearer would be a major target for the opposing side's troops seeking to capture the standard or pull it down.

In the Roman military the person carrying the standard was called Signifer. In addition to carrying the signum, the signifer also assumed responsibility for the financial administration of the unit and functioned as the legionaries' banker. The Signifer was also a Duplicarius, paid twice the basic wage.

In the city militias of the Dutch Republic, the standard-bearer was often the youngest single man, who was shown in group portraits wearing rich clothing in addition to carrying the flag. Chosen ensigns were good candidates for painters to woo with their portrait skills.

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Paper bag problem

In geometry, the paper bag problem or teabag problem is to calculate the maximum possible inflated volume of an initially flat sealed rectangular bag which has the same shape as a cushion or pillow, made out of two pieces of material which can bend but not stretch.

According to Anthony C. Robin, an approximate formula for the capacity of a sealed expanded bag is:

 * $$V=w^3 \left (h/ \left (\pi w \right ) -0.142  \left (1-10^ \left (-h/w \right ) \right ) \right ),$$

where w is the width of the bag (the shorter dimension), h is the height (the longer dimension), and V is the maximum volume. The approximation ignores the crimping round the equator of the bag.

A very rough approximation to the capacity of a bag that is open at one edge is:
 * $$V=w^3 \left (h/ \left (\pi  w \right ) -0.071 \left (1-10^ \left (-2h/w \right ) \right ) \right )$$

(This latter formula assumes that the corners at the bottom of the bag are linked by a single edge, and that the base of the bag is not a more complex shape such as a lens).

The square teabag

For the special case where the bag is sealed on all edges and is square with unit sides, h = w = 1, the first formula estimates a volume of roughly

 * $$V=\frac 1 {\pi} - 0.142 \cdot 0.9 $$

or roughly 0.19. According to Andrew Kepert at the University of Newcastle, Australia, an upper bound for this version of the teabag problem is 0.217+, and he has made a construction that appears to give a volume of 0.2055+.

Robin also found a more complicated formula for the general paper bag, which gives 0.2017, below the bounds given by Kepert (i.e., 0.2055+ ≤ maximum volume ≤ 0.217+).

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=Would it help?= Certain new Speedy Deletion criteria have been suggested to alleviate VFD load. I've done a quick analysis of old VFD pages to count nominations that would fall under these new criteria, and see what happened to them.

Please do not debate here! Feel free to add more examples, or add a brief description why an example is wrong, but actual debate on the speedy criteria goes on the parent page, Deletion_policy/Reducing_VfD_load

The results are summarized below for people wanting more information.
 * "Unanimity for deletion" means just that - the nomination got no keep votes, except possibly a few from obvious sockpuppets
 * ">80% consensus" means that at least 80% of VFD votes was to delete (or, sometimes, to userfy, or to replace with something else of the same name). This is obviously above the threshold to delete, per VFD procedure.
 * "Exceptions" lists those articles that at first glance seem to fall under the criterion, but in actuality do not. The reason why is also explained. Note that none of these were nominated by admins.

Person vanity
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 * Ronald johnson
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 * Jimmy shek
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 * Edward Porter Felt
 * James von Kaenel
 * Chris labosky
 * "arielle baer"
 * Paul and Tilley

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 * Alexander Ramon
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 * Kelly Pillsbury (merged to husband)
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 * Fro Joe Koolaid
 * Janine Tulkens
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 * Skye McMahon
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 * Gypsy Dave

June 1

 * Ian(n) Andrew Marten
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 * David N. Snyder, Ph.D.
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June 1

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 * Vladimir Roslik "several monuments to him stand in his hometown"
 * Cortez peters "set the world record for keyboarding speed"
 * Charles Mason (Revolutionary) simply because it was a very lengthy page
 * Cheryl Campbell "received a British Academy award for best actress"

June 2

 * Sherry Sylvester "former spokesperson for the Republican Party of Texas"
 * Arnold Perey "Biographies of Perey are in Who's Who in Engineering and Science"
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June 1

 * Nemorga
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Websites
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 * SWB
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 * Bibolonious
 * Video Gamers First
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June 2

 * Lol the internet
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June 1

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Exceptions
The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

June 1

 * Urban75 simply because it was very lengthy (>5k) and explanative

Bands
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June 1

 * Frikken Chicken
 * Frozen Solid

June 2

 * Njj (juggling group, to be precise)
 * Funeral Age
 * Hit By An Ambulance
 * Rosie and b

Exceptions
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June 2

 * Camp Lo "released 2 EPs"

Companies
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June 1

 * Racusin & Wagner

June 2

 * Rain Coat Corporation

June 1

 * Weisner

Exceptions
The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

Dicdefs
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June 1

 * Left handed catcher's mitt
 * Vatan
 * Twomp
 * Youth involvement
 * Substantiation
 * Dunch
 * Nobody
 * Mehran (created a new article on the city by the same name)

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The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.
 * Panagia "worn as a vestment by an Orthodox bishop" - from that, one could plausibly add a picture and explain its creation and history

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Herbie

Herbie, the Love Bug is a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle which has been featured in several Walt Disney motion pictures starting with The Love Bug in 1969. He has a mind of his own, being capable of driving himself and often becoming a serious contender in auto racing. Throughout most of the films he is distinguished by red, white, and blue racing stripes from the front to the back bumper, a pearl white body, a racing-style number "53" on the front luggage compartment lid, doors, engine lid, and a yellow-on-black 1963 California license plate with the registration "OFP 857".

Plot
In The Love Bug (1969), Herbie is bought from the showroom of Peter Thorndyke (David Tomlinson) by San Francisco socialite Mrs. Van Luit for her upstairs maid, but returns him shortly afterward due to reliability problems. Race car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) purchases the car after he is accused of stealing him. Tennessee Steinmetz (Buddy Hackett), Jim's best friend, a mechanic and his housemate, names the car "Herbie" after his uncle, a middleweight boxer whose nose was shaped like the hood of a Volkswagen Beetle. Jim notices the car's unnatural performance levels and decides to take him auto racing, to great success. In addition, Jim pursues a romantic relationship with Carole Bennett (Michele Lee), an assistant in Thorndyke's showroom. Carole eventually sides with Jim, Tennessee, and Herbie. In the final El Dorado road race, Herbie is damaged and splits in two, but wins when the rear half (with Tennessee inside) beats Thorndyke's Apollo GT. Fully repaired, Herbie takes the newlywed Jim and Carole on their honeymoon.

In Herbie Rides Again (1974), Herbie is retired from racing and has been left to Tennessee's widowed aunt, Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes). Jim has entered racing circuits, Tennessee resides in Tibet. Mrs. Steinmetz and her displaced neighbor, Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers), try to save her house from being bulldozed by real estate developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) with the help of Herbie and Willoughby Whitfield (Ken Berry), Hawk's nephew.

In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), Jim is reunited with Herbie and enters the Trans-France Race with his mechanic, Wheely Applegate (Don Knotts). Herbie soon falls in love with a sentient Lancia Scorpion named Giselle, while Jim develops a relationship with Giselle’s driver, Diane Darcy (Julie Sommars). Herbie is also pursued by a pair of jewel thieves, Max and Quincy, who have hidden the stolen E’toile de Joie diamond in his gas tank. After rescuing Diane and Giselle from a crash into a river, Jim and Wheely drive Herbie to victory, overtaking their main rival, Bruno von Stickle (Eric Braeden), on the ceiling of the Monaco tunnel.

In Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), Jim has retired from racing and leaves Herbie to his nephew, Pete Stancheck (Stephen W. Burns), who plans to enter him in the Brazil Grand Primeo. In the interim, Herbie befriends an orphan named Paco (Joaquin Garay, III) who gives the Volkswagen the nickname "Ocho" (due to the two digits in Herbie’s number "53" adding to 8). They wreak havoc on board the ship Sun Princess, prompting the overzealous Captain Blythe (Harvey Korman) to throw Herbie overboard. Herbie is rescued by Paco and disguised as a taxi, while they work to stop a gang of con artists from stealing a source of ancient Inca gold.

After returning from Mexico, Herbie is taken back by Jim, who opens a driving school in the TV series Herbie, the Love Bug. In this continuing comic-drama Jim meets a woman named Susan MacLane and her three kids, Julie, Matthew, and Robbie, who become friends with him and Herbie. Businessman Randy Bigelow aims to get Susan back; they had broken up during their wedding. His schemes come to nought as Jim and Susan are married in the series finale.

Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell) becomes the owner of Herbie in The Love Bug, the 1997 made-for-television movie. In it, it's revealed Herbie was created by a German engineer named Dr. Gustav Stumpfel. As he was building Herbie a picture of Dr. Stumpfel's wife fell into a vat of molten metal, giving Herbie life. Stumpfel is duped into building Horace, an evil counterpart to Herbie, from a sample of the original metal. Horace, influenced by the narcissism of his former owner, Simon Moore, Hank's rival, crushes Herbie in an alleyway. Hank buries Herbie, but Jim Douglas' return sets Hank and his friends to rebuild the Volkswagen (with the help of the repentant Dr. Stumpfel) to take on Simon and Horace in a final, one-on-one showdown race.

In several years leading up to Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Herbie is found in an abandoned garage and carried to Crazy Dave's scrapyard where he is to be junked until he is bought by Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan), who dreams of racing in NASCAR. Maggie quickly discovers that Herbie is sentient, upgrades its engine and bodywork, and enters various races, from a demolition derby to the final race of the Nextel Cup Series. In the end of the film, Maggie becomes a NASCAR driver and Herbie builds a relationship with his new love interest, a Volkswagen New Beetle (which is revealed to be sentient as well).

Appearance in media
Herbie has been the central character of five theatrical-release films, a made-for-TV movie, and a short-lived television series.

Television series
A television series, Herbie, the Love Bug, was aired in 1982 on CBS. Dean Jones reprised his role as Jim Douglas for it. Five episodes were made.

Other official appearances

 * In 1990, Herbie made an appearance in the second season of the 1980s revival of The Mickey Mouse Club.
 * An animated version made a brief cameo in two episodes of House of Mouse.
 * Two racing video games starring Herbie were released by Disney Interactive Studios: Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) and Herbie Rescue Rally (2007).
 * Herbie used to make an appearance in the Lights, Motors, Action!: Extreme Stunt Show at Disney theme parks, but was later replaced by Lightning McQueen.
 * Herbie has had numerous appearances in Disney parades, and has taken part in Disney on Ice and Disney on Parade, usually with painted-on eyes and teeth, along with a moving tongue. This Herbie model has been moved to Disney's All-Star Movies Resort at Walt Disney World and is the centerpiece of "The Love Bug" themed area.
 * Herbie appears in a Disneyland 50th Anniversary TV commercial in which No. 53 is used for transportation by Mickey, Goofy, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to get to Disneyland.
 * Herbie made a cameo in 2009 Boom! Studios Cars: Radiator Springs comic series as a character in the background.

Unofficial appearances

 * Herbie has an unofficial appearance along with Ray Peyton, Jr. (portrayed by Fully Loaded actor Breckin Meyer) in a segment of Robot Chicken titled "Horny Robot Redux". In the segment, he is a New Beetle rather than an original one and has animated eyes and a mouth. He also appears in the Kingdom Hearts segment of a Season 11 episode.
 * Herbie has a brief cameo in Episode 195 of American Dad!, "Stan Smith as Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Breakers", in which he helps Stan Smith escape from poachers and wolves. In the episode, he has incorrect stripes and different "53" font.
 * The Herbie film series spawned a knockoff series of Superbug films. A white Beetle, split in half and numbered "53", makes a cameo in the first film, even though its name is never mentioned.
 * Herbie had a cameo in The Simpsons episode "Beyond Blunderdome" in the Movie Car Museum.
 * Herbie makes an appearance in Forza as a paint job for the 1960s Beetle.
 * Two of the liveries available for the "BF Weevil" (the Grand Theft Auto equivalent of the Beetle) in Grand Theft Auto Online are based on Herbie.
 * Herbie makes appearances during a race and other scenes of the "First" music video by Lindsay Lohan, a song featured on her debut album and the Herbie: Fully Loaded soundtrack.
 * A futuristic version of Herbie appears among the crashed vehicles in Futurama Comics No. 82.
 * Detroit Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider chose jersey No. 53 after watching The Love Bug with his parents the night before.

Future
In 2017, it was reported that a new Herbie series was in development at Disney XD. The plot revolved around a child named Lili or Landon Reed, "part scientist, part entrepreneur, part daredevil" who realizes, "when his or her parents go missing, that they've secretly been working on a government project: a talking car named Herbie. He is the key to helping the kid reunite with his or her parents, but a gang of criminals also wants to get its paws on the state-of-the-art vehicle." The concept of this planned series was later developed into Fast Layne without any Herbie references, making his future uncertain.

Guises and paint schemes
Herbie's appearance remained consistent throughout the first four film entries as well as the 1982 television series. There were only minor, subtle changes. The 1997 TV movie and Herbie: Fully Loaded featured major overhauls in appearance, as there were different production crews working for Disney by this time.

To create the effect of Herbie driving himself, Disney concocted a detailed system of sprockets and pulleys connected to a second steering column under the front seat for a rear seat driver. There was also a second set of pedal assemblies, clutch cables and a shifter extension. In The Love Bug, the rear seat driver sat low enough to see over the windshield but still out of the view of the camera. For Herbie Rides Again and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Disney installed a hood-mounted Carello fog light that concealed a small camera which allowed the rear seat driver to view the street and sit lower.

The Love Bug (1968)
In the original film, The Love Bug, the racing stripes differ from those in later movies; they do not cover Herbie's valances or louvers and the blue is a lighter shade. Also, Herbie features color-keyed running boards, while in later films the running boards are standard black.

During the film, depending on the scene, the wheels change from standard VW wheels (although fitted with plain hubcaps with no VW logo) to specially widened wheels on the racing Herbies. During one scene (when Tennessee is hanging out of the window), the number "53" (a.k.a. "gumball") on the passenger-side door is missing. The door is also cut along the lower edge at an angle to enable the car to tilt over to the right on two wheels.

One of the modified racing Herbies featured a Porsche 356 engine, brakes, and KONI shock absorbers. All Herbies in The Love Bug had the VW badges removed from the hood and featured plain non-VW hubcaps. The hood-mounted VW logo was replaced with a plain disc of the same diameter, colored to match the body. All VW logos were removed to avoid any trademark conflicts.

Herbie Rides Again (1974)
In Herbie Rides Again, Herbie features revised racing stripes, with the original blue switched to a dark navy. In addition, they were applied over the valances and louvers, and the front hood was recycled for the 1982 television series Herbie, the Love Bug. Herbie also received a hood-mounted Carello fog light, and the running boards were now the more conventional black.

Additionally, Herbie was running on standard wheels yet again. Volkswagen also promoted the film by having a Type 1 Beetle, complete with Herbie livery, in every showroom. There are various model errors in this film, such as the later "big window" (post-1964) Beetles being used. Also of note is the "cut-n-shut" engine cover after the warehouse break-in. The Beetle used was a late model, having a more bulbous flat-bottomed lid with an earlier rounded bottom edge welded on.

After the success of The Love Bug, it was heavily endorsed by Volkswagen, which was in financial trouble at the time, when Beetle sales in North America were considerably lower than in previous decades. As such, the company insisted that the VW logos appear on Herbie. Both the hub cap VW logo and hood-mounted VW logo were reinstated at the company's request.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie is again fitted with wide racing wheels (Goodyear GT radials), and has an external fuel filler cap. Post-1967 Beetles did feature the fuel tank accessible on the right side behind the fender; the silver cap itself, however, was fake and added for the film's storyline. With the addition of the fuel filler, the antenna is now a retractable unit fitted on the front cowling, near the windshield wipers. Herbie has a roll cage again, and Monte Carlo racing stickers on his windows (one on the front window, two on the left back window, and one on the rear window). The hood-mounted Carello fog light returns with an added black cover sporting the company name. Herbie now has gray bucket seats instead of stitched seats. and an asymmetrical door mirror. There were a total of 9 VWs used in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. Many of them were recycled for use in Herbie Goes Bananas.

Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
In Herbie Goes Bananas, the hood-mounted light, the grey roll cage bar, the Monte Carlo racing stickers, and the silver gas cap were removed. Herbie still had the gray bucket seats, asymmetrical door mirror and Goodyear GT Radial racing tires and rims. The sunroof was the original light gray rather than the dark gray from Monte Carlo. The rust seen on the car in the movie was painted on some of the Herbies. The car that "walks the plank" in the movie was never recovered from the sea. It was tossed overboard from the "M.N. Coromuel" ferry ship (not The Sun Princess cruise ship). The car is somewhere between La Paz and Baja California. The car thrown overboard was not a proper car and had many wooden parts.

Herbie Goes Bananas also featured the same later model door mirror as Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. Herbie set a Guinness World Record as the first car to go through the Panama Canal during filming in 1979. The Herbie name is only mentioned three times in the film by the garage owner, other than the two times Herbie honks his horn at Paco trying to say his name when Paco couldn't understand what he was saying.

Some of these Herbie cars were recycled for Herbie, the Love Bug in 1982.

One of the actual film cars used with its flip wheel chassis in the bullfighting scenes now resides in Sydney. Another one was displayed in the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum until its closure in 2011. Since then, its location remains unknown.

Volkswagen ceased the sale of Beetles in the United States one year before the film's release.

The Love Bug (1997)
In The Love Bug television film there were some significant changes. The graphics used were copied from the 1974 Volkswagen of America decal kit, and the position on the front hood number "53" was higher up. The racing stripes were different sizes, and the shade of blue reverted to the lighter version of the original 1968 movie. The sunroof was a solid white (vs. gray) and missing the racing stripes. The wheels were standard Beetle wheels, instead of the wider Goodyear GT Radial racing tires used in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and Herbie Goes Bananas, and the seats were regular instead of the previous gray buckets..

Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
In Herbie: Fully Loaded, Herbie, who in this film seemed to be able to show emotions through anthropomorphized expressions mimicking a face, went through several "costume changes" throughout the movie, changing his style dramatically from scene to scene.

 * The font of the number "53" is different, and slightly bigger and lower down on the front hood. The racing stripe is missing from the sunroof and the stripes are painted the way they were in the first four Herbie movies. The front license plate is not present.
 * For the "street racer" look, Herbie has brighter white paint, a whale-tail rear spoiler, air intakes in front of the rear fenders, lowered suspension, no rear bumper, wider tires, and a windowed rear engine cover through which blue LED lighting show. A nitrous oxide system is in evidence to boost his speed during the race against Trip Murphy.
 * During the demolition derby, Herbie is stripped down with no vehicle interior panels, vehicle racing seats or special street racing body parts.The sunroof cover has been removed, although the cutout remains to play important roles during the demolition derby. Herbie still retains "53" on the sides but with Targets or Bullseyes sprayed over the logos. All vehicular modifications from Herbie's Street Racer Version were  dismantled and completely thrown away for good. Crash llater spray paints red Bull's-eye targets on the front doors and hood.
 * For the "NASCAR" look, Herbie gets a new, more off-white paint job, NASCAR sponsor decals, a different duck-tail rear spoiler, a roll cage, Goodyear Eagle NASCAR tires, wider fenders, no front turn signals, no back bumper, no passenger seat, no back seat.

More than 30 different Herbies were used during the shooting of this film. Three original cars are known to be on display: one at the Volo Auto Museum in Illinois and two in California from the NASCAR racing segment, a fully motorized version at the Peterson Automotive Museum and a "personality car" at the hobby store Electric Dreams.

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João Gonçalves Zarco

João Gonçalves Zarco (c. 1390 – 21 November 1471) was a Portuguese explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was appointed first captain of Funchal by Henry the Navigator.

Life
Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household. In his service at an early age, Zarco commanded the caravels guarding the coast of the Algarve from Muslim incursions, was at the conquest of Ceuta, and later led the caravels that recognized the island of Porto Santo in 1418 to 1419 and afterward, the island of Madeira 1419 to 1420. He founded the city of Câmara de Lobos. He was granted, as hereditary leader (Capitania), half the island of Madeira (the Capitania of Funchal, being its first Captain-major). Together with his fellow fleet commanders, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, he initiated the colonization of the islands in 1425. As a knight of the House of Avis, he participated in the siege of Tangier, in 1437, which ended in failure. He died at Funchal, Madeira.

Ancestry and descendency
He married Constança Rodrigues, daughter of Rodrigo Lopes de Sequeiros (?) and wife, and had the following issue:
 * João Gonçalves da Câmara (d. Funchal, Madeira, 26 March 1501), married to Dona Mécia de Noronha, daughter of Dom João Henriques de Noronha (bastard son of Alfonso, Count of Gijón and Noroña) and wife Beatriz, Lady de Mirabel and sister of Dom Garcia Henriques, and had issue, and also one son by an unknown mother
 * Rui Gonçalves da Câmara, 3rd Donatary Captain of São Miguel Island, married to Maria de Bettencourt, natural daughter of Maciot de Bettencourt by Teguise, without issue, he had a son by one Maria Rodrigues and three more children by an unknown mother
 * Garcia Rodrigues da Câmara, married to Violante de Freitas, and had issue
 * Beatriz Gonçalves da Câmara, married to Diogo Cabral, and had issue
 * Isabel Gonçalves da Câmara, married to Diogo Afonso de Aguiar, o Velho (the Old), and had issue
 * Helena Gonçalves da Câmara, married to Martim Mendes de Vasconcelos, and had issue
 * Catarina Gonçalves da Câmara, married to Garcia Homem de Sousa

Possible Jewish ancestry
There are discussions as to whether João Gonçalves Zarco could have been of Jewish Converso origin. Zarco was a prominent Jewish family from Santarém and Lisbon. Mossé Zarco was King João II's tailor. There was also a Portuguese doctor named Joseph Zarco, whom some authors claim to be Joseph Ibn Sharga, the great kabbalist, and a sixteenth-century poet named Yehuda Zarco. Augusto Mascarenhas Barreto suggested that Christopher Columbus could have been of Jewish descent from Portugal and his real name was Salvador Fernandes Zarco. Isabel Violante Pereira also attributes Jewish ancestry to João Gonçalves Zarco.

In culture
The novel of Arkan Simaan, L'Écuyer d'Henri le Navigateur (Harmattan, Paris, 2007), deals with Zarco's life.

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User talk:Dawud

Hi Dawud, I was reading the Buddhist Studies article and followed the link of Rosenberg, which led to Alfred Rosenberg, a nazi ideologists. I am not an expert, but from an article I read in internet by John Barlow, the Rosenberg you are referring to is Otto Rosenberg. John Barlow, “The mysterious case of the brilliant young Russian orientalist” - part 2 -  International Association of Orientalist Librarians, Vol.43, 1998 http://wason.library.cornell.edu/iaol/Vol.43/barlow2.htm. Regards Roli51 (talk) 15:42, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Dawud. I want to thank you for your work on the A.R.E. article. I am a longtime member of A.R.E. and it is good to see that someone has done such a good job of representing the A.R.E. on Wikipedia. I would like to hear back from you and find out your other interests, since I note the breadth of your interests from the various articles you have written and editted.

Please reply back to me via email at fdewey@mindspring.com.

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

Fred Dewey Rochester, Ny (not my account)

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This is Paul. I've noticed you editing the Baha'i Faith page - and also noticed that although you've now got an account, no-one has said hello to you yet. So, let me be the first to say Hi. I guess you're not entirely a new user, since from comments you made on the Baha'i article talk page you've made quite a few anon edits to various pages concerning mysticism - but I think it's useful to have one of the welcome templates where you can easily find it - it's got a few helpful links there.

Have fun at Wikipedia! PaulHammond 11:47, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Symbols
Heh Paul beat me to first comment - oh well. First off, whats this about five-pointed stars? And also are you sure that the caligraphy is Persian? I'll write a tidbit about Baha'i caligraphy in a mo, but I suspect its Arabic. -- Tomhab 01:25, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Criticisms
OK re-read the article and agree that much of it can't go on the main page. How about making a Bahá'í social principles page or something. Much of what has been written can be copied almost verbatim to there. Other aspects can go elsewhere. It also means we can shred a fair bit off the main page (which is getting reasonably long).

I hope you understand the reasoning for all this. You obviously know your stuff about the Baha'i faith, but an article with criticisms in the title really isn't appropriate and a little NPOV.

Let me know what you think on my talk page and we can get cracking. -- Tomhab 01:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Well... I'm not entirely sure, but I think voting's pretty much done? maybe give it a few more days. -- Tomhab 10:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, check out the Baha'i apologetics page. Since you started the original criticism page I want to see what you think. And since you seem interested in the subject I think you can do some valuable editing. But please provide references wherever possible! The criticism page barely had any and I ended up just cropping most of it. Cunado19 29 June 2005 14:00 (UTC)

New page
Got any to add? You know you have no life when

Regards Cunado19 16:04, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Cayce
I'm glad to meet another Cayce fan, keep up the good work!--Jondel 00:18, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Jesus
Look, no offense, but that thing you just wrote in Jesus is full of weasel words and was definitely not neutral. Also, it's best not to make the article an essay pushing you POV. As you may or may not be aware, you have stated a position taken by some people. This is most definitely disputed, yet I don't really see the alternate POV being put forward. There is also an article that deals with this, Historicity of Jesus. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Please use edit summaries when making edits so that it is easier for others interested in the articles you are editing to follow what you're doing. This is especially important at articles such as Taoism where you are making large numbers of edits one after another. Another thing that could help keep down the numbers of unsummarised edits would be to use the "Show preview" button to check your work before saving the new page. Thanks, --Fire Star 16:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Taoism
You deleted a whole section of the Taoism article with no comment as to why you thought it was invalid, what for? if you are going to delete whole sections of content because you don't think its relevant you should at least take ten seconds to explain why with a description.

WP:COI/N
Two reports, with the headings "CIIS" and "Baha'i (100+ boards)," were posted on WP:COI/N at 02:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC) by but signed with your username. This note is just to check that it was actually you. — Athænara  ✉  02:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * At 02:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC) you wrote: "Yes, it's me. Dawud"
 * OK, thanks for letting me know. — Æ.   ✉  05:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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COIN
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No trolling please
I noticed the trollish section that you added to Dating, which was reverted (by someone other than me). Satanic messages? Goodness me. While online dating is arguably a risky business, there is no need to blast the point home with a thermonuclear sledgehammer.—greenrd (talk) 15:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Abhisamayalankara
Hi Dawud,

Thanks for the entry on the AA. (It answered my question about who wrote zla-'od.)

However, I would like to draw a few factual errors to your attention.

Asaṅga lived in the 4th century, not the 8th.

Vasubandhu was converted to Yogācāra by Asaṅga, not the other way around.

Asaṅga's commentary is not included in the list of 21 Indian commentaries because no copy exists, not because it comments from the Yogācāra perpective. (In fact, it may never have existed at all, since no other text quotes from it, and the only evidence that it may have existed comes from a cryptic comment by Haribhadra in the verses of praise at the beginning of his "Great Commentary".)

Gelupa writers that I have studied say that the AA is written from point of view of the Yogācāra-svātantrika school. Could you please specify your source for saying that Gelugpas view it as having been written from the Prāsaṅgika perspective.

Haribhadra etc. wrote commentaries on the Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā, not the Dharmasamgitasūtra.

There are a few Tibetan spelling mistakes and inconsistent use of Sanskrit diacritics, but I don't want to nit-pick. On the contrary, congratulations on your effort. And good luck with your AA studies.

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 * Hi back, and thanks for writing, and your good wishes. (Do I know you? What do you mean about "Zla'od"?)

 * I'll try to get to these corrections soon-ish. (I'm particularly embarrassed about the "8th century" blooper.) Please feel free to edit them yourself too--that's kind of what WP is all about. If there are diacritical typos, I'm sure that I will never catch them myself. I know no Sanskrit, and only very bad Tibetan, and in fact only learned what the AA was a few months ago. So do please nitpick.

 * I assumed that being enlightened and all, Maitreya would have taught it as Prasangika, and that the claim was that Asanga (not so enlightened) misunderstood it as Svatantrika. I'm sure you're right, though--this is just the sort of thing I would be likely to get wrong. Dawud (talk) 03:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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FPMT and misc.
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 * An especially pressing lacuna is the lack of information about AY groups in Russia and Eastern Europe. (I am aware of a new monograph on this from the Gregorian Pontifical University Press, and am waiting for my library to receive it.)

I wonder if you could tell me which this monograph is. Coming from the french wikipedia, we have there the same problem as it occured in english speaking wikipedia about "Living Ethics" (translation of the russian article) and "Agni Yoga", which was formerly erased. So, I'm trying to gather kind of a "corpus" in order to write something which could allow us to avoid a POV. French litterature and second works about the Roerich and Agni Yoga are really poor ; I hope to find more interesting things in english language. Thanks for your help ! Best regards, (coming from the french Wikipedia : FR:Utilisateur:Urobore ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.192.9.125 (talk) 13:14, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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