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Wide Angle Search for Planets

WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to survey the entire sky, simultaneously monitoring many thousands of stars at an apparent visual magnitude from about 7 to 13.

WASP is the detection program composed of the Isaac Newton Group, IAC and six universities from the United Kingdom. The two continuously operating, robotic observatories cover the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, respectively. SuperWASP-North is at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the mountain of that name which dominates La Palma in the Canary Islands. WASP-South is at the South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland in the arid Roggeveld Mountains of South Africa. These use eight wide-angle cameras that simultaneously monitor the sky for planetary transit events and allow the monitoring of millions of stars simultaneously, enabling the detection of rare transit events.

Instruments used for follow-up characterization employing doppler spectroscopy to determine the exoplanet's mass include the HARPS spectrograph of ESO's 3.6-metre telescope as well as the Swiss Euler Telescope, both located at La Silla Observatory, Chile. WASP's design has also been adopted by the Next-Generation Transit Survey. As of 2016, the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia data base contains a total of 2,107 extrasolar planets of which 118 were discoveries by WASP.

Equipment
WASP consists of two robotic observatories; SuperWASP-North at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canaries and WASP-South at the South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa. Each observatory consists of an array of eight Canon 200 mm f1.8 lenses backed by high quality 2048 x 2048 science grade CCDs, the model used is the iKon-L manufactured by Andor Technology. The telescopes are mounted on an equatorial telescope mount built by Optical Mechanics, Inc. The large field of view of the Canon lenses gives each observatory a massive sky coverage of 490 square degrees per pointing.

Function
The observatories continuously monitor the sky, taking a set of images approximately once per minute, gathering up to 100 gigabytes of data per night. By using the transit method, data collected from WASP can be used to measure the brightness of each star in each image, and small dips in brightness caused by large planets passing in front of their parent stars can be searched for.

One of the main purpose of WASP was to revolutionize the understanding of planet formation, paving the way for future space missions searching for 'Earth'-like worlds.

Structure
WASP is operated by a consortium of academic institutions which include:
 * Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
 * Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
 * Keele University
 * Open University
 * Queen's University Belfast
 * St. Andrews University
 * University of Leicester
 * Warwick University.

On 26 September 2006, the team reported the discovery of two extrasolar planets: WASP-1b (orbiting at 0.038 AU (6 million km) from star once every 2.5 days) and WASP-2b (orbiting three-quarters that radius once every 2 days).

On 31 October 2007, the team reported the discovery of three extrasolar planets: WASP-3b, WASP-4b and WASP-5b. All three planets are similar to Jovian mass and are so close to their respective stars that their orbital periods are all less than two days. These are among the shortest orbital periods discovered. The surface temperatures of the planets should be more than 2000 degrees Celsius, owing to their short distances from their respective stars. The WASP-4b and WASP-5b are the first planets discovered by the cameras and researchers in South Africa. WASP-3b is the third planet discovered by the equivalent in La Palma.

In August 2009, the discovery of WASP-17b was announced, believed to be the first planet ever discovered to orbit in the opposite direction to the spin of its star, WASP-17.

Discoveries and follow-up observations

 * WASP-9b was determined to be a false positive after its initial public announcement as a planet, and the identifier was not subsequently reassigned to a real planetary system.

Other extrasolar planet search projects

 * Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey or TrES
 * XO Telescope or XO
 * Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope or KELT
 * Next-Generation Transit Survey or NGTS
 * HATNet Project or HAT

News items

 * QUB in April 2008
 * Reaching for the stars in October 2007
 * BBC News report: Planets have scientists buzzing in September 2006

Video clips

 * Keele University

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Ease (programming language)

Ease is a general purpose parallel programming language. It is designed by Steven Ericsson-Zenith, a researcher at Yale University, the Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering in Silicon Valley, California, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, the science department of the Sorbonne.

The book Process Interaction Models is the Ease language specification. Ease combines the process constructs of communicating sequential processes (CSP) with logically shared data structures called contexts. Contexts are parallel data types that are constructed by processes and provide a way for processes to interact.

The language includes two process constructors.

A cooperation includes an explicit barrier synchronization and is written:

 * $$\parallel P \parallel Q ;$$

If one process finishes before the other, then it will wait until the other processes are finished.

A subordination creates a process that shares the contexts that are in scope when created and finishes when complete (it does not wait for other processes) and is written:

 * $$\big /\!\!/ P ;$$

Subordinate processes stop if they attempt to interact with a context that has completed because the parent process has stopped. This enables speculative processes to be created that will finish if their result is not needed.

Powerful replication syntax allows multiple processes to be created. For example,

 * $$\parallel {i}\; \mathrm{for}\; {n} : P(i) ;$$

creates n synchronized processes each with a local constant i.

Processes cannot share local variables and cooperate in the construction of shared contexts. Certain context types, called resources, ensure call-reply semantics.

There are four functions upon contexts:

 * read(context, variable) – copies a value from the shared context to the variable.
 * write(context, expression) – copies the value of expression to the shared context.
 * put(context, name) – moves the value bound to name to the shared context. The value of name is subsequently undefined.
 * get(context, name) – moves a value from context and binds it to name. The value is removed from the context.

Context types are Singletons, Bags or Streams and can be subscripted arrays.

Ease has a semiotic definition. This means that it accounts for the effect the language has on the programmer and how they develop algorithms. The language was designed to ease the developing of parallel programs.

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Abbreviated dialing

Abbreviated dialing is the use of a very short digit sequence to reach specific telephone numbers, such as those of public services. The purpose of such numbers is to be universal, short, and easy to remember. Typically they are two or three digits.

Carriers refer to the shortened number sequences as abbreviated dialing codes (ADCs). Unlike SMS short codes, they are generally not automatically synchronized across carriers. ADCs are provisioned separately for mobile networks versus landline networks.

Examples
The most commonly known examples are emergency telephone numbers such as 9-9-9, 1-1-2 and 9-1-1. Other services may also be available through abbreviated dialing numbers, such as the other of the eight N11 codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) besides 9-1-1. State highway departments in recent years have used abbreviated dialing codes to allow drivers to obtain information about road conditions or to reach the state highway patrol. Examples are *55 in Missouri and Oklahoma, or *FHP which connects to the Florida Highway Patrol. In December 2019, the Federal Communications Commission proposed making 9-8-8 a national number in the United States for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. On July 16, 2022 it was officially implemented as the toll-free, nationwide telephone number for the hotline.

Security
Privileged group-number, system-number, and enhanced-number lists provide access to numbers that typically would be restricted.

Similar concepts
For text messaging, the technical equivalent is a short code; however, these are rented by their private users rather than being universal and for public services.

Vertical service codes may also be considered as abbreviated dialing, though these are often prefixed by the special touch-tone characters * and # (or often 11 for pulse dialing) instead of using only numerals. Most are used to access calling features rather than a called party, and some are specific to each telephone company. Some are used only locally or regionally (such as *FHP (*347) to reach the Florida Highway Patrol); other codes as short as one numeral (like *1) are used to report breaking news or traffic to the newsrooms of local news radio or TV stations.

A mobile dial code (MDC) is a phone number, typically preceded by a * or #, that allows the request and receipt of information directly to a mobile phone. MDCs are also known in carrier terminology as "abbreviated dialing codes" (ADCs). Mobile dial codes are dialed just like a regular telephone number. The caller can be presented with any one of a variety of responses that an advertiser defines: a voice or IVR call, a text message, a video or audio clip, a mobile coupon, game or an application.

These types of dialing options can be used for a number of things. "Pound two-fifty" (#250) is an MDC commonly used in radio & TV advertising. Callers are able to dial #250 for a voice-activated, hands-free connection to a business. Callers are prompted to say a keyword or key-phrase, which corresponds to an advertiser (e.g., "Food For The Poor" causes a connection to that non-profit charity). #250 is the only MDC that is functional on all significant mobile carriers in the US and Canada, including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, cSpire and several smaller regional carriers (in Canada, on Rogers, Bell Mobility, Telus, Freedom Mobile, Eastlink, Sasktel, Fido, and Videotron).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enfant terrible

 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 - kept - SimonP 14:17, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Enfant_terrible
Dict def Wikibofh 19:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Carnildo 21:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, is that what it means? Term used fairly frequently in Metal Gear Solid but is never defined.  Possible redir, but article itself, being an embarrassment to all who know of it, should be deleted.  Marblespire 08:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Expand — An expression that probably deserves some sort of article on cultural ramifications, history, and perhaps some good examples. There are also 2-3 bio pages that link here. — RJH 16:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I too think this could be expanded. Quite common phrase.  Grue   19:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand T h e St ev e  06:36, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

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


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Pauli (crater)

Pauli is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side. It lies about halfway between the lunar equator and southern pole, across the southern rim of the larger walled plain Roche.

This crater has a well-defined outer rim that is only mildly worn by impact erosion. A small crater lies on the inner side along the south, and another on the opposite face of the crater to the north. There is some slight terracing along the southeast inner wall, but the remainder displays more of a radially grooved appearance. The inner wall is narrower along the northern side where it overlies Roche.

The interior floor has been flooded with lava, leaving a low-albedo surface that is darker than the surrounding terrain. In this respect it is similar to the crater Jules Verne located about four crater diameters to the northeast. There is a low ridge structure near the midpoint, and the remains of a ghost crater in the southeastern part of the floor.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pauli.

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Talk:Marianne Cope

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I believe my old newspaper, the Observer-Dispatch, where I was a reporter, still has an online feature for Blessed Marianne. www.uticaod.com. She may be the only good thing to come out of that awful city!

Jumped the gun on canonization
Someone jumped the gun, saying she's now a Saint. It said she was canonized on October 21, 2012. Unfortunately, that was added on October 9, 2012--almost two weeks before the fact. I'll try to get back, when it actually happens, and update it, if nobody else does. Uporządnicki (talk) 21:41, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Who is the vandal?
There's an IP user, 66.91.131.90, who has been sticking bits of obvious vandalism in this article and removing them shortly afterwards. One of those bits might or might not have a clue to the vandal's identity. I don't know what's the procedure for that. Uporządnicki (talk) 11:15, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

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User:Tadanisakari

What's goin' on, brave Wikipedian?

I'm just starting out here,, and I'm stickin' to things that I know a lot about, which is mostly just sumo at this point. I have what some might call an obsession with sumo, so if you're a fan, let me know! We'll chat and update some sumo pages.

Current 'pedia interests

 * Sumo
 * Additions/Edits already made
 * Henka (controversial maneuver at the tachi-ai)
 * Asashoryu
 * Tachi-ai (initial charge)
 * Oshidashi (frontal push out technique)
 * To do
 * The Prince of Sumo, Futagoyama Oyakata, father of the Hanada Brothers who were yokozuna in the mid-nineties, who sadly passed away on 2005-05-30
 * Takamisakari
 * Banzuke (Listing of sumo wrestlers and their rank)
 * Various other kimarite (winning techniques) and their definitions
 * Princeton University
 * Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
 * Council Rock School District

My avatar
One special friend of mine will always think of me as this green dude: thumb|left|It's me!

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Ligue des Patriotes

The League of Patriots (Ligue des Patriotes) was a French far-right league, founded in 1882 by the nationalist poet Paul Déroulède, historian Henri Martin and politician Félix Faure. The Ligue began as a non-partisan nationalist league, supported among others by writer Victor Hugo, calling for 'revanche' (revenge for the French defeat during the Franco-Prussian War) against the German Empire. One of the original purposes of the Ligue was to offer pre-military training, allowing members to participate in gymnastics and rifle shooting.

History
The league was formed with Léon Gambetta's blessing; Gambetta's education ministry included Déroulède in its Military Education Commission, which was also formed in 1882. However, during the Boulanger affair, Déroulède co-opted the Ligue to support the general, alienating many Republican members. After Boulanger's exile in 1889, the Ligue was suppressed by the government.

Upon the discovery that Victoria, the future German Empress, had stayed in Versailles and Saint-Cloud (a town destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War) during her unofficial visit to France in 1891, the Ligue incited a public uproar. The disorder surrounding the visit eventually resulted in the Crown Princess cutting her trip short and being escorted under French military protection, for her safety, to Calais to board a ship to England.

In 1898, the Ligue was revived to become involved in the Dreyfus affair engaging in noisy and often violent anti-Semitic, right-wing protests. At this stage, the Ligue is estimated to have had 60,000 members, largely in Paris.

After a failed coup d'état attempt in 1899 at the state funeral of President Félix Faure, one of the Ligue's founders who later distanced himself from its positions, Paul Déroulède was sentenced to exile from France for 10 years; the Ligue was again dissolved. Nevertheless, the nationalist author Maurice Barrès became again its leader in 1914, at the eve of World War I. Upon Barrès's death, General Édouard de Castelnau became leader, with Alexandre Millerand as president of honour. De Castelnau became head of the Fédération Nationale Catholique, which made him resign the leadership in 1926, as well as the presidency in 1932. The Ligue was definitely dissolved in the late 1930s, after General Denis Auguste Duchêne briefly reformed it in 1939.

Notable members

 * Ernest Boulanger, leader
 * Paul Déroulède, founder
 * Maurice Barrès, nationalist writer

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Santa Monica High School

Santa Monica High School, officially abbreviated to Samohi, is a public high school in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1891, it changed location several times in its early years before settling into its present campus at 601 Pico Boulevard. It is a part of the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District.

As of the 2021-22 school year, the school had 2,806 students and 131.11 teachers of a full-time employee basis for a teacher-student ratio of 21.08, according to data by the National Center for Education Statistics.

19th century
In 1891, the Union High School Law was passed in Santa Monica, thereby establishing a four-year high school for the city. The first graduating class graduated in 1894.

20th century
The new campus opened in 1912 with one building, the current History Building, with an enrollment of 50 students. The school sits on the hilltop between 4th and 7th streets and Pico and Olympic Blvds., from which one can see the Pacific Ocean. Ten years later the campus was expanded with construction of the English building.

In 1921, the Open Air Memorial Theater, now called the Greek Amphitheatre, was built to honor the Santa Monicans who served in World War I. One of the best examples of the classical Greek style in Southern California, the amphitheater was built after Santa Monica passed a $30,000 bond measure to fund its construction. Barnum Hall Theater, originally called the Auditorium, was built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to be the Civic Auditorium of Santa Monica and host school events. The campus added six buildings during this period: the Language, English, Business, History, Administration, and Music Buildings.

In 1952, Santa Monica High School was finally expanded to what it is now, 33 acre, and two new buildings were built, the Science and Technology D.M. Buildings. As the school aged, renovations took place in Barnum Hall and the Music Building was completely rebuilt.

21st century
As of February 2015, a new Science and Technology Building, known as the Innovation Building, has been constructed along with an outdoor gathering space called Centennial Plaza.

On September 10, 2015, during "Back to School Night" the Innovation Building was unveiled to the public.

Houses
In 2003, Samohi adopted a house system, similar to college house systems; each student is part of a house. There are five houses: S, M, O, H and I, with each house assigned a building or a floor of a building. S House is stationed in the Language Building, M and O house are both stationed in the new Discovery Building, H house is stationed in the English Building, and I house is stationed in the Innovation Building. The "A" house was cut due to the California budget cuts to public schools. A principal oversees each of the houses, along with two counselors. Teachers with classrooms in a house building/floor are automatically deemed one of the house teachers with some slight exceptions. Upon enrollment in Santa Monica High School, students are randomly assigned to a house unless the student has already had a sibling in Samohi. In that case, the student has the option to join the house their sibling is in, or to join a new one.

Academics
The school also has an academic team which won the 2008 National Science Bowl competition as well as the 2017 National Ocean Sciences Bowl. Additionally, the quiz bowl team remains competitive in the Southern California circuit.

Orchestral program
In 2005, Symphony Orchestra was labeled the best high school-level orchestra in the nation by the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) at the National Orchestra Festival in Reno, Nevada. The orchestra program is made up of many different ensembles, ranging from the smaller Beginning Strings / String Orchestra to the large Symphony Orchestra. Many of the orchestras from Santa Monica High School have had the chance to travel around the nation and the world. In February 2006, Symphony Orchestra became the first public high school orchestra to perform in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles.

Marching band
The Santa Monica High School Viking Marching Band is one of the oldest high school marching bands in the state of California. The marching band performs for home football games and for many school and community events. The band enjoys a long history of competing in parades and field shows, most notably participating in shows sponsored by the SCSBOA (Southern California Student Band and Orchestra Association). In 2006, the marching band qualified for the first time in the SCSBOA 5A division championship.

Samohi currently offers five concert bands, with the Wind Ensemble recognized as one of the most exceptionally talented high school bands in California. The Wind Ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall in 2007 and 2015, as well as Chicago Symphony Hall in 2013. In 2016, the Wind Ensemble was selected to perform at the California All-State Music Educator's Conference (CASMEC) in San Jose. All ensembles regularly perform in festivals, conferences, and invitational concerts. The program enrolls over 300 students.

Basketball
Girls Varsity team won the 2010 CIF Southern Division 1 championship, defeating Summit High, 69–63. It was the first girls basketball title for SAMOHI; they went on to the Fourth Round of State and lost by two.

Boys Varsity won the 2013 CIF Division 1A Southern Section Championship against El Toro High School 66–56 at the Anaheim Convention Center. They entered the Division 1 State Championship as a #1 seed, losing in the championship game, 73–57, to Pleasant Grove. They also made it to the finals of the 2010 CIF Southern Division 1 Championship, but they were defeated at the Honda Center against Luezinger, and they went on to lose in second round of state.

Cross country
The cross country team informally known as the "XC team" is composed of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. As of 2019, the Cross-country team competes in division 1 of CIF.

Wrestling
The wrestling team won the CIF State Championship in 1986. Also won the CIF State Championship in 152 lb weight class in 2007. For the past 7 years, the team has qualified individuals for the Southern Section CIF Masters and CIF State Championships.

Softball
The lady Vikings have been undefeated in league games since 2004. In 2010 and 2014 the lady Vikings won CIF division IV southern section.

Color guard
Samohi's color guard and winter guard team performs in shows sponsored by Winter Guard International and Winter Guard Association of Southern California (WGASC). Originally a joint drill team with Santa Monica College named the "Coronettes", the team utilizes both wooden guns and flags in their routines that are featured during halftime of every home football game. Additionally, after three years of membership, each participant receives a varsity letter. The team won gold medals in the WGASC championships in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Notable alumni

 * Art Alexakis (class of 1980), lead singer of Everclear
 * Ben Allen (class of 1996), California state senator
 * Lita Albuquerque (class of 1963), artist
 * Sam Anno, former NFL linebacker
 * Lee Arenberg, actor
 * Dirk Blocker, actor
 * Joan Blondell, actor
 * Don Bluth (class of 1955), filmmaker and animator
 * Randolph Bresnik (class of 1985), NASA astronaut
 * Harold L. Brode (class of 1941), nuclear-weapons-effects physicist
 * Dean Cain, actor
 * Carson Daly (class of 1991), television host and personality
 * Ken Darby (class of 1927), composer and lyricist; also composed school's fight song
 * Robert Downey Jr., actor (did not graduate)
 * John Ehrlichman, lawyer and political advisor to Nixon during the Watergate era
 * Emilio Estevez, actor, director, screenwriter, producer
 * Frank Finch, sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times; brother of Gloria Stuart
 * Rhenzy Feliz, actor
 * Paul Fleischman (class of 1970), childrens' author
 * Glenn Ford, actor
 * Henry Fukuhara (class of 1931), painter
 * Lisa Gerritsen, actress
 * Christian Lee Hutson (class of 2009), singer-songwriter
 * Anita Kanter (born 1933), tennis player
 * Jonny Kim (class of 2002), NASA astronaut
 * Lorenzo Lamas, actor
 * Tim Leary, baseball player
 * Chad Lowe, actor & director
 * Rob Lowe, actor
 * Stephen Miller, political advisor
 * Rick Monday (class of 1963), Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
 * Nathan Myhrvold (class of 1974), computer scientist and businessman
 * Gene Nelson (class of 1938), actor
 * William Overgard (class of 1944), cartoonist and novelist
 * Karyn Parsons (class of 1984), actress
 * Sean Penn, actor
 * Holly Robinson Peete, actress
 * Eric Pop, engineer and professor
 * Ronda Rousey, UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion
 * Liane Sato (class of 1982), Olympic volleyball player and current volleyball coach at Samohi
 * Terry Schofield, basketball player and coach
 * Charlie Sheen, actor
 * Tyler Skaggs, Major League Baseball player
 * Cecil Smith (class of 1935), longtime critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times
 * Jan Steckel (class of 1980), poet and writer
 * Gloria Stuart, actress
 * Jubilant Sykes (class of 1972), opera singer
 * Heather Thomas (class of 1975), actress
 * Sandra Tsing Loh (class of 1979), writer and actress
 * Madison Tung, wrestler, military officer, and Rhodes Scholar
 * Robert Wagner, actor

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User talk:Rotring

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Pink Floyd active years
I'm inclined to agree with you and I've been fighting this fight for months, but I think we should leave it as -2006, at least for the time being. The article is currently going through Featured Article review, so I don't want there to be a big edit war about it, and there's a lot more people changing it to 2006 than present after the Gilmour interview.

Sad as it is, though, despite the lack of a managerial statement (and I'm not even sure who manages the band since O'Rourke's death), if Gilmour says they're through, they're pretty much through. He pretty much is the band now - he has the rights to the name along with Mason and Wright, and a Mason/Wright Floyd album is just not a possibility. If they were to cut a new album a few years down the road, the 1965-2006, 2009-present format would be appropriate now. - dharmabum 21:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

PFFF
I added some more evidence about the linkspamming to the noticeboard. Thanks for pointing me towards it. - dharmabum 21:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I noticed that PFFF has now been indefinitely blocked for his link spamming. Nice work on your summary on the noticeboard. - dharmabum 21:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Featured!
Whoo-hoo! Thanks for all your help in the last week, I had no idea what I was getting into when I listed that article for FAC. :) - dharmabum 22:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

P*U*L*S*E
Yup, that's the one... here's a link to the iMDB entry, which you can throw in the article as well. - dharmabum 20:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks great, I added the film infobox and removed the stub category. One thing I was wondering about, though - I haven't seen P*U*L*S*E in a long time, but my distinct memory from the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert is that almost everybody sung together for the "doctor" part - Gilmour, Carin, Renwick, Pratt, Wright, and the 3 backup singers. Was it just Carin on P*U*L*S*E? - dharmabum 01:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, good point. I always particularly liked Rachel Fury's duetting with Dave in the DSoT version of "Comfortably Numb", in the "When I was a child..." part through the end of the chorus. - dharmabum 20:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Portal de Portugal
Já abriu o Portal de Portugal na Wikipedia! Junta-te a nós para trabalharmos em prol de artigos, listas e imagens relacionadas com Portugal. No portal, encontrarás um artigo geral, um artigo biográfico, um artigo geográfico e uma imagem todas as semanas em destaque. Para além disso estão apresentadas também secções de Notícias, Curiosidades, Listas, Citações, Opentasks, informação sobre artigos recentes, etc. Futuramente teremos um WikiProject para geografia de Portugal (de modo a estandardizar todos os artigos relativos às localidades e divisões administrativas portuguesas), história de Portugal, biografias, e possivelmente desporto. Também temos em vista a criação de uma Colaboração Semanal para artigos sobre Portugal. Por isto, e tudo mais, pedimos-te que venhas ajudar-nos. Estamos também à procura de colaboradores, por isso, se estiveres interessado, é só pedires que já estás no grupo de manutenção do portal. Saudações! Gameiro 19:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Roger Waters
Please adhere to WP:NPOV in your editing, and ensure that your edit summaries are accurate (your most recent edit to this page was not, in any way, a reversion of vandalism). PurplePlatypus 02:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Dave Kilminster
Hey, with regard to your last edit at Dave Kilminster, I just believe that his activity dates from 1991, not 1975. In 1975 he began to play guitar, but he actually become a publicly notable musician in 1991, after winning the prize.--Doktor Who 18:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

tfd
See -- it's very similar to the guitarist deletion episode. Muito obrigado y bom dia.

Poll at Syd Barrett
I have a poll going at the Talk:Syd Barrett page. Would you like to participate and help us solve an issue? TheQuandry 01:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Icon and the Black Roses
Sorry if the delete was too quick -- but even if you are going to add more to the article later, you should put something in the original article that indicates that the band satisfies WP:MUSIC ("they had the Top Ten hit "____"), or whatever). There are dozens (probably hundreds) of obscure-band articles created every day, and we would get swamped if we waited several hours on each one to see if notability was going to be asserted later.  Thanks, NawlinWiki 21:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right, notability is not a speedy-delete criterion -- but *failure to assert notability* is (criterion a7). Again, even the first draft of an article should assert notability -- ideally in the first sentence.

It does not appear to me that one interview on a Portuguese-language music website is enough to establish this band's notability, but if you were to recreate the article with a citation to that interview, I would send it to AFD rather than speedily deleting it.

I've copied the content of the articles to your userspace at User:Rotring/Icon & The Black Roses and User:Rotring/Icon & The Black Roses (album). NawlinWiki 21:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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Notification - speedy deletion tag added to Anikin Starkiller
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 * proposal to delete tendered by Fan-1967; notification set here by User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 19:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

 * response to post on my talk page: Regarding 'experimenting' statement ... this text above is a boilerplate insertion related to speedy deletion candidates of a certain type, not my ad hoc interpretation of your stage of maturity as an editor. Regarding 'Anikin Starkiller' ... if this is an early name for the character, you could certainly put that information into Anakin Skywalker and re-create the redirect; the problem with the redirect as it previously existed (now deleted, I see) is that it pointed at an article that did not provide context for the redirect - an unfortunately common occurrence and one that leaves the person following (or interpreting) the link scratching their heads (um, one head per person, that is) as to how the redirecting term relates to the target article.  Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 23:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Pink Floyd Wiki project
Hey, are you still with us? I am going to put a few ppl here. I hope you'll be back soon. Cheers. --Dr. Who 01:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Steven Tyler
Excuse me, but when and where did I ever vandalize anything on the Steven Tyler article? My recent edits include a factoid about the singer appearing in a television commercial, fixing a few years, removing a highly questionable, poorly cited, potentially libelous statement about the singer's personal life, and questioning the OR tag. How does any of that constitute vandalism? I've also been creating articles on Wikipedia for a year now, and the sandbox comment is completely rude and unnecessary. Thank you. Abog 16:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That's OK. Sorry I lashed out initially, just been having some Wiki stress lately. --Abog 18:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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 * Rationale now asserted - Thanks :-) ShakespeareFan00 20:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the quick action. :)  —♦♦ SʘʘTHING  (Я)  12:28, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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Invitation
Hello there

I see you are interested in the Life On Mars Television Series, as I am.

At the moment I have A Life On Mars Wikiproject currently up for approval by the Wikiproject Approval Council. As you are interested in Life On Mars I was wondering if you would be interested in adding your name and joining. If you are interested you can find it on WikiProject Council/Proposals its right at the very bottom you cant miss it as its titled ‘Wikipedia: Wikiproject Life on Mars (Television Series)’. And after your name is added to Wikiproject propsals please add it to the main page Wikiproject Life On Mars

If you are interested by all means feel free to join

Regards

Police,Mad,Jack —Preceding comment was added at 11:29, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello

Welcome to Wikiproject Life On Mars. I hope you enjoy being a part of the project.

Regards

Police,Mad,Jack —Preceding comment was added at 17:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Life on Mars - January 2008 Newsletter
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Ashes to Ashes
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For your information Ashes to Ashes the Spin-off of Life on Mars is airing Thursday 7th February. Don’t miss out it should be good!

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Speedy deletion of ЖЖ
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 * Hi there; thank you for your most civil request. I understand that this abbreviation is standard in Russian, and that is means Live Journal. Do you really feel that this will be used in a search in the English Wikipedia? If this is really a significant likelihood then I will restore it. --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 20:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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Creating an Icon & the Black Roses Article
Hi, I'm still new to Wikipedia and was going to create an entry page for Icon & the Black Roses because they've been one of my favorite bands since I heard them back in 2005 when they're album came out. However, when I tried to create a new article, it said it had been deleted by an adminstrator. Then I saw your page under your user name. So I just wondering how you know the band is back together and is coming out with an album this summer? Because I've read that Johnny Icon went solo and is recording his own album, with the songs he wrote called "Lost" (heard it on youtube), and "Innocence". Is this an official wikipedia page or do I have to create another one to show on the main site instead of your user page? What are your sources for them being back together? Ever since I was blown away from their only major release in the U.S., I've been contacting anyone who knows any info on their next album--any info you can give me is much appreciated...Thanks! Sue Kastle (talk) 22:39, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

I read the conversation of the speedy-deletion of your page and I still don't get why it was deleted so quickly--something about the band not being notable and not having enough sources to list their credibility--but what do I know, I still have to get used to the "rules of Wikipedia", as I've only been a user for 5 months. Anyway, I would love to collaborate with you on a new entry article, including an article for their only major album. However, I don't want the same thing to happen to me since I only have their album and a couple of websites as sources, such as myspace and facebook (that's how I knew about Johnny Icon's new song), so I can format the page to Wikipedia's criteria, but that may be deleted also. How can I get started? Should I just format the entry article and list those websites as references? I was going to start a page like this before I saw yours was deleted. I think Icon & the Black Roses should have their own page especially now that they're suposedly coming out with a new album. Sue Kastle (talk) 01:18, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Courtney Henggeler for deletion
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title: User talk:Rotring


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Talk:Antarctic Technology Offshore Lagoon Laboratory

Comment
Uwe, what is the correct expansion of ATOLL: Laboratories (plural) or Laboratory (singular) at the end? When done, the article should be moved (using the "move"-tab) to the correct fully expanded name (currently, both redirect here). Lupo 19:41, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Generic Cleanup Proejct. I hope.
This article has been around for over 4.5 years and it has seemed to escape much actual evaluation or scrutiny. Worth note is that I'm not particularly doubting the notability of the topic (quite an interesting concept), but there has to be at least some kind of third-party evaluation and the like. Basis from works by one author having no links or verifiable proof of said writings is going to require at least confirmation of existence and I'll AGF on the contents past that. In short, the article reads like it was a homework assignment that was just cut apart in certain areas. One might argue this would be a POV problem, but since I honestly don't know enough about the topic it could well be okay in that regard. It can be looked at later, but if everything is reviewed anyway balance would be obtained in that process if nothing else. Probably going to start there to see what we "actually" have to work with. ♪ daTheisen(talk) 21:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

== there is a mention in the vita of the builder professor Waki Zoellner http://wakiart.de/biographisches.html also we had many newspaper articles on our servers when we made the article long time ago which are all gone now - I am retired - I was asked that time to write an article about the ATOLL by a WIKIPEDIAN. user:kils

The Story behind
In fact, this floating object was built in 1978 in the Hamburg district of Finkenwerder as a bathing pontoon, towed through Kiel Canal to Travemünde and used there for a year for bathing, sunbathing and having a drink. Then no more people came and a winter storm damaged the pontoon so that one component (the one with the pub, too bad) sank. The rest then came to Kiel, where the research described here was carried out. This was cheap, as the wreck could not be sold on eBay for 120,000 euros, nor for 20,000 euros. In the meantime, the wreck is lying in Hamburg's Moorfleet district, rotting away. Just a small addition to the famous and most notable Antarctic laboratory. --united we are strong, says Landkraft 18:49, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


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Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge (colloquially referred to as the Ravenel Bridge and the Cooper River Bridge ) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 ft, the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design–build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.

History
The first bridge to cross the lower Cooper River opened in 1929, eventually named the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge for former Charleston mayor John P. Grace, who spearheaded the project. The main span of the double cantilever truss bridge was the fifth-longest in the world at 1,050 ft and soared 150 ft above the river. The mainspan of the second cantilever was the twelfth-longest in the world. The total length of the structure was about 2.7 mi. Following a 17-month construction at a cost of $6 million, it opened with a three-day celebration that attracted visitors from around the globe. Engineers and critics proclaimed colorful descriptions of the unique structure, deeming it "the first roller-coaster bridge" and citing that "steep approaches, stupendous height, extremely narrow width, and a sharp curve at the dip conspire to excite and alarm the motorist." Privately owned originally, a $1.00 toll was charged for car and driver to cross. In 1943, the state of South Carolina purchased the bridge, and the tolls were lifted in 1946.

By the 1960s, the Grace Memorial Bridge had become functionally obsolete, with its two narrow 10 ft lanes built for Ford Model As and its steep grades of up to six percent. Later, changes to the side rail and curb reduced the lane width further. A new bridge was constructed alongside and parallel to it. Named for the then–South Carolina Highway Commissioner, the Silas N. Pearman Bridge opened in 1966 at cost of $15 million (equivalent to $ million in ). Its three lanes, at a modern 12 ft width, opened to northbound traffic, while its older counterpart carried the southbound traffic into downtown Charleston. One lane was reversible on the Pearman bridge, which led to signs warning "Use lanes with green arrow" and "Do not use red X lane" on the bridge.

The Grace Bridge had become structurally deficient by the late 1970s, and both bridges had become functionally obsolete in 1979. Extensive metal deterioration caused by the lack of maintenance shortly after Grace Bridge's tolls were removed limited the capacity of the older bridge to 10 ST vehicles (later 5 ST), and the reversible lane on the Pearman was eliminated (it had been able to switch to three lanes northbound for rush hour traffic), making that lane southbound permanently diverting all heavy trucks, buses, and recreational vehicles to that lane on the Pearman bridge. Neither of the bridges had emergency lanes as the latter used of the space as a truck bypass, and the Pearman bridge had no median between the northbound and southbound lanes because of its previous use as a reversible lane. Furthermore, the vertical clearance above the river—once among the highest in the world—could no longer accommodate shipping vessels as they grew bigger over time. Three of Charleston's four shipping terminals are situated up the Cooper and Wando rivers, and the limited bridge clearance excluded the access of ships that would otherwise be beneficial to the economy of South Carolina. Now that the old bridges are disassembled, the world's largest modern container ships are able to access all terminals of the nation's fourth-largest container port.

Funding
Raising financial support for a new eight-lane bridge over the Cooper River was a struggle 20 years in the making, prolonged by the state's insistence that it could not afford such a bridge and by Charleston's reluctance to provide any funds for the project. Several proposals were made for a toll bridge, but the mayors of Charleston and Mount Pleasant objected. When officials revealed in 1995 that the Grace Bridge scored a 4 out of 100 for safety and integrity, retired US Congressman Arthur Ravenel Jr. ran for the South Carolina Senate with a goal of solving the funding problem. He helped to establish the S.C. Infrastructure Bank and worked with local, state, and federal officials to create partnerships that helped to materialize the final funding.

The State Infrastructure Bank (SIB) budgeted $325 million to accompany $96.6 million from the Federal Highway Administration. The project did not become a reality, however, until the SIB agreed to commit to a $215 million federal loan, provided that Charleston County would contribute $3 million a year for 25 years, including an 8.33% sales tax increase, to the federal loan, as well as yearly payments from the SCDOT and State Ports Authority. The overall price of the bridge totaled around $700 million.

Due to his efforts in passing laws for the new bridge's funding, fellow lawmakers voted to name bridge the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. Some felt that the bridge should not be named after Ravenel, with the head of the South Carolina infrastructure bank saying in 1999, "Certainly, Arthur Ravenel is a fine, decent person, but that bridge is bigger than any one individual and it should reflect all the qualities of the state and not some state senator who happens to be in the Legislature the time the structure is being built."

Design
The Ravenel Bridge is a cable-stayed design with two diamond-shaped towers, each 575 ft high. The total length of the structure is 13200 ft, with the mainspan stretching 1546 ft between the towers. Suspending the deck 186 ft above the river are 128 individual cables anchored to the inside of the diamond towers. The roadway consists of eight 12 ft lanes, four in each direction plus a 12 ft bicycle and pedestrian path, which runs along the south edge of the bridge overlooking Charleston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

The bridge structure is designed to withstand shipping accidents and the natural disasters that have plagued Charleston's history. The span is designed to endure wind gusts in excess of 300 mph, far stronger than those of the worst storm in Charleston's history, Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Engineers also considered the 1886 earthquake that nearly leveled Charleston. The Ravenel Bridge is designed to withstand an earthquake of approximately 7.4 on the Richter magnitude scale without total failure. To protect the bridge from errant ships, the towers are flanked by 1 acre rock islands. Ships will run aground on the islands before colliding with the towers.

The bridge was designed for traffic of 100,000 vehicles per day, and forecasted to reach that number in 2030. , the bridge was carrying an average of 96,300 vehicles per day. The bridge includes a shared bicycle–pedestrian path named Wonders' Way in memory of Garrett Wonders. Wonders was a US Navy ensign stationed in Charleston and was in training for the 2004 Olympics before he died in a bicycle–vehicle collision. The path was included in design of the new bridge because of grassroots efforts by groups, such as a fifth grade class at a local elementary school.

Construction
Groundbreaking on the bridge occurred in 2001 in Mount Pleasant. The bridge was built as a design–build project, meaning that one contract was signed to both design and construct the bridge. This meant that construction could begin even while the design was not yet finalized. The bridge was built by a joint venture of two major construction firms operating under the name Palmetto Bridge Constructors. The joint venture partners were Tidewater Skanska of Norfolk, Virginia and Flatiron Constructors of Longmont, Colorado. The construction joint venture hired Parsons Brinckerhoff to complete the design. T.Y. Lin International provided design review and construction engineering and field inspection services. For the sake of simplifying labor and equipment resources, Palmetto Bridge Constructors actually managed the building of the bridge as five separate projects (the two highway interchanges at either end of the bridge, the two approach spans, and the cable-stayed span) going on simultaneously.

By the summer of 2002, the foundations for the towers and most of the piers were in place, and the rock islands were completed. The steel and concrete towers began to ascend from the islands soon after. Originally, each of the towers was to be topped with a 50 ft multicolored LED "beacon", but public opinion caused this plan to be scrapped.

The fast-paced construction schedule led to contractors to use a self-climbing form system to build the towers. The formwork, supplied by PERI, provided a solution to meet the tight construction tolerances and provide safe access for workers laboring hundreds of feet in the air. The self-climbing system meant that the tower cranes did not have to spend time raising the forms after each segment of concrete hardened, and instead could be better used to haul material from barges below.

The first cables were hung from the towers in 2004—as a time-saving measure, this was done before the towers were wholly completed. Sections of the deck were built outward from each of the towers as more cables were hung.

The decks of the approaches were taking shape as well. Construction of part of the roadway actually occurred over the top of the old cantilever bridges, which remained open to traffic without interruption.

A ceremony was held in March 2005, when the last slab of the deck was added, thus making the bridge "complete". But paving, installation of lights and signs, and cleanup meant that the bridge would not open for another four months.

Following a week-long celebration that included a public bridge walk, concerts, dinners, and fireworks, the bridge was dedicated and opened on July 16, 2005—one year ahead of schedule and under budget. The bridge was featured on the TV show Extreme Engineering.

Bridge Run
The bridge is home to the annual USA Track & Field 10000 m Cooper River Bridge Run on the first weekend of April. This event attracts up to 50,000 people. The route starts in Mount Pleasant and finishes in downtown Charleston at Marion Square.

In popular culture
In the 2008 video game Need for Speed Undercover, a bridge similar to the Ravenel Bridge was featured but only on the PlayStation 3, Xbox, and PC versions. It was also featured in the 2012 version of Need for Speed Most Wanted (but it only crosses half of the water).

The 2009 movie The New Daughter, starring Kevin Costner, features the Ravenel Bridge in several scenes, as the movie is based in and around Charleston, South Carolina.

The cover of Darius Rucker's 2010 album Charleston, SC 1966 features a picture of Rucker, a Charleston native, with the Ravenel Bridge in the background.

The 2014 television series Reckless features the bridge in its title sequence.

title: Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge


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Moses Morgan

Moses Osbourne Morgan, (August 28, 1917 – April 24, 1995) was a Canadian academic and president of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1973 to 1981.

Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Morgan was educated at Bishop Feild College and Memorial University College. Then he received a bachelor's degree from Dalhousie University and was elected a Rhodes Scholar for 1938. He did not attend the University of Oxford until after the Second World War. From 1940 to 1942, he taught at King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1942, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and saw service in Europe as a platoon commander. He completed a master's degree in Classics at Dalhousie before taking up his Rhodes Scholarship. Returning from his studies at Oxford, he taught at Dalhousie from 1948 until 1950 when he joined Memorial University of Newfoundland, initially as a professor of Political science. He was president, pro tem from 1966 until 1967 and was appointed president in 1973.

In 1973, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University, University of King's College, St. Francis Xavier University, University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, the University of Toronto and Memorial University of Newfoundland.

title: Moses Morgan


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Talk:List of tallest structures in Canada

This page could use some revision
I took out the following structures:
 * 1) Sapphire Tower, Toronto 337.5m (2008?)
 * 2) Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto 325m (2006)
 * 3) Rainbow Tower Hotel, Niagara Falls 228.9m (2008)

because:

1) This is a list of existing structures, not ones that are/might/should be built.

2) Some of these haven't even gotten aproval yet (Saphire Tower, and possibly Trump International).

3) Even if they had been allowed, they aren't neer completion and obviously wouldn't be this tall yet. (but I did leave some others that haven't yet been finished because i'm not sure weither or not they've actualy been started/finished. They could be as tall as stated, just not finished etc...)

mylesmalley 22:11, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

could someone please check the height of the first canadian place becuase it says it is much higher in the list of structures than it does in the actual article about the building.
 * It might have to do with a mast of some sort -- [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] Earl Andrew - talk 21:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

It is not usual to measure the height of office buildings to the top of the antennae. Official databases such as Emporis measure to the top of the structure as this is a much less variable and more realistic indication of building height. Ground to top of structure is what all official data is presented in. I recommend changing this article accordingly, or adding another dataset to go along with the existing. -Tyson2k
 * This article is on the tallest structures, not buildings. Therefore antennae count. -- [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] Earl Andrew - talk 3 July 2005 08:26 (UTC)
 * In that case, it would probably be best if someone were to go through and adjust the rankings to reflect that.--Tellybelly 13:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Move
Shouldn't this article be at List of tallest Canadian structures? Zhatt 02:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure about this but the harbour centre in Vancouver seems to be missplaced from what I have read on its wiki article. There it claims to be the third tallest in Vancouver.

Addition of CJSD Tower
According to this source, which claims to cite the FCC (which keeps a database of towers in the US, and possibly in Canada) but does not link to a source, claims that this tower is 308m tall. This source also makes that claim, for CJSD FM under Thunder Bay.

It is one of two towers located on Mount Baldy in the township of Shuniah, approximately 3 kilometres northeast of the northeast corner of Thunder Bay's city limit (Yahoo Map image of the two towers).

Of the two towers, one is taller than the other. (The red and white one is the shorter tower.) I have heard the numbers 308m and 366m for these towers, but I do not know if 366m is factual, and I do not know what tower CJSD-FM broadcasts from. These towers are also used by Thunder Bay Television and CKPR-FM.

This is an image of the towers.

CBC Tower
According to, CBC Tower was rebuilt. How tall is the rebuilt CBC Tower?

vid 08:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Measurements
Why is this in Imperial when the country the article is about measures in Metric? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.22.172 (talk) 23:36, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

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Possible missing structure (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception)
Not entirely sure about the timeline on this, but the 230 ft. spire of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Saint John was completed in 1871, which (according to this list) would make it the tallest structure from 1871 to 1874.


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i changed somethings becuase they were factuially wrong e.g Samosata was in turkey not syria and i changed some other things becuase they were copy and pasted from sites clearly indicating non-negotiable copyright clauses. (Anon. edit from [[User:159.92.101.19)

 * Samosata was not in "Turkey" in the 2nd century. Similarly, the following is a 20th century concern: His ethnicity is believed to have been Kurdish due to the fact that Commagene the kingdom in which his birthplace was located was a Kurdish state and due to his description of his Suran descent (Soran are one of the main dialectical groupings of the Kurds). Can we have the passage where Lucian speaks of his own ethnicity? it would make a goiod quote to introduce this above text. --Wetman 20:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Turkey may not have existed in the 2nd cent AD but nor did the previously used, Syria. on the other point: Lucian, one of the star of classical Greek literature, a Kurd? Born an raised in Samsat, southeast of Adiyaman, Lucian in his writings takes pride in being able to speak and compose in various Greek dialects, so well, he reports, that in Antioch he passed as an Ionian; in Athens as an Antiochian. Lucian is amused that none suspected that Greek was not his native language, and that he was in fact a Soran Kurd. He learned Greek when hired as a boy to do household chores for a local Roman administrator in whose household Greek served as the lingua franca. Like a true Kurd, Lucian often writes of his preference for his mountainous homeland of Kurdistan over the bountiful plains of the others. from http://www.kurdistanica.com/english/history/articles-his/his-articles-06.html as modified by a thesis by Prof. Izady of Harvard university.

 * I have added the category Syrian people as he did refer to himself as Syrian.Yuber(talk) 04:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I trust that few readers of this page are unaware of Syria as a province of the Roman Empire, as our anonymous contributor above appears to be. Such purely modern contentions over ethnicity generally reveal primitive misunderstandings about history and a desire to apply "spin". --Wetman 00:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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 * I like to urge the editors on this article to look in Lucian book "Goddess of Syria", where he stated that he is an "Assourious", that translate to Assyrian not Syrian. I propose that I change "Syrian" to the proper "Assyrian" by 10/25/06 if no one else has any objections. --Esarhaddon 01:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I found this right here in his own testimony; []  I write as an Assyrian born  Chaldean 04:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

On what grounds can Lucian possibly be considered "one of the first novelists in occidental civilization"? This seems to be an extremely loose conception of the novel. TickleText 22:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The Way to Write History
I notice that this article has nothing on Lucian's important work, The Way to Write History. I'm not very good at writing encyclopaedic articles so if someone else could add a description and brief analysis/evaluation of the work and its significance in understanding ancient historiography, I would appreciate it. Mr. Alcibiades 17:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Works
From el-wiki:

Rhetorics

 * Τυραννοκτόνος
 * Φάλαρις
 * Ἀποκηρυττόμενος
 * Μυίας ἐγκώμιον
 * Δίκη συμφώνων
 * Ἡρόδοτος or Ἀετίων
 * Ζεῦξις
 * Περὶ τοῦ οἴκου
 * Περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου
 * Πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα Προμηθεὺ εἶ ἐν λόγοις

Dialogues
1. Satirical dialogues:

 * Θεῶν διάλογοι
 * Προμηθεὺς or Καύκασος
 * Ἐνάλιοι διάλογοι
 * Νεκρικοί Διάλογοι
 * Κατάπλους
 * Χάρων καὶ Μένιππος
 * Ἰκαρομένιππος
 * Ζεὺς τραγῳδός
 * Ζεὺς ἐλεγχόμενος
 * Δὶς κατηγορούμενος
 * Τίμων or Μισάνθρωπος
 * Τὰ πρὸς Κρόνον

2. Philosophical dialogues:

 * Νιγρίνος
 * Δημώνακτας
 * Ἑρμότιμος
 * Κυνικός
 * Ἀνάχαρσις
 * Τόξαρις
 * Σκύθης
 * Εἰκόνες
 * Ὑπὲρ τῶν εἰκόνων

Satires of philosophers' biographies:

 * Βίων πρᾶσις
 * Ἁλιεύς
 * Συμπόσιον or Λαπίθαι
 * Περὶ παρασίτου

3. Ἑταιρικοί διαλόγοι'' (dialogues between hetaeras):

 * Ἔρωτες
 * Περὶ ὀρχήσεως

4. Other "scoffy" dialogues (written during the last years of his life when he signed as Lycinus - Λυκῖνος):

 * Ψευδοσοφιστής
 * Λεξιφάνης
 * Εὐνοῦχος
 * Δραπέται
 * Φιλοψευδής

Epistles

 * Περὶ τῶν ἐν μισθῷ συνόντων
 * Ἀπολογία
 * Πῶς δεῖ ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν
 * Περὶ τῆς Περεγρίνου τελευτῆς
 * Ἀλέξανδρος or Ψευδόμαντις
 * Ῥητόρων διδάσκαλος
 * Ψευδολογιστής
 * Πρὸς τὸν ἀπαίδευτον καὶ πολλὰ βιβλία ὠνούμενον.

Novels

 * Ἀληθὴς ἱστορία or Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα
 * Λούκιος or ὄνος

Pseudo-Lucianus

 * Φιλόπατρις
 * Μακρόβιοι
 * Περὶ ἀστρολογίας
 * Περὶ τῆς Συρίης θεοῦ
 * Δημοσθένους ἐγκώμιον
 * Ἱππίας
 * Περὶ θυσιῶν
 * Περὶ πένθους
 * Χαρίδημος
 * Ἔρωτες

Methinks that his full ergography should be included in the article. Omnipedian (talk) 07:17, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * We already have this at List of works by Lucian (linked in this article). --Folantin (talk) 08:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I kinda missed that. However, I think that the catalogue above is still useful as an alternative paradigm of how his ergography can be represented (alternative to the mainstream Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) one, I mean). OCT-order may be better from a scholarly point of view, but it is a bit inaccesible (whatever that means) for someone not familiar with this style of non-genre based catalogography (just making an observation, not a serious point!). --Omnipedian (talk) 06:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This would be unnecessary duplication since we already have an entire page dedicated to his works (which took me quite a long time to set up). Also, ordering his works by genre is going to be controversial. As Sidwell writes, "Outside of the small number of works which fall into established rhetorical genres [...] it is extremely difficult to categorize Lucian's writings effectively according to form or theme." --Folantin (talk) 07:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Greek name
His Greek name, Λουκιανός, isn't that simply the Latin name spelled with Greek letters? Would that have been his original Greek name? __meco (talk) 09:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Some Greeks adopted Roman names. The writer of the Gospel of Mark had a Roman name. AnonMoos (talk) 11:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Assyrian
I have reverted this edit that changed his ethnicity to Assyrian based on an article from an Assyrian Newsnetwork ([http://www.aina.org/articles/assyrianidentity.pdf link). While the scholarship presented in that article may be sound (I am not qualified to judge), it is also stated that the view that he self-represents as Assyrian is against common academic consensus (p. 17: "This self-identification is commonly misinterpreted to imply nothing more than that these writers were ethnic Syrians (in the modern sense) speaking Aramaic as their mother tongue (Millar 1993, 460)". So until this view becomes common academic consensus, it should be presented as a minority view, that is explicitly stating that it is the view of Simo Parpola, not presented as generally accepted fact. --Saddhiyama (talk) 12:24, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. --Folantin (talk) 16:14, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Lucian himself said "I that write [this] am "Assourious" [Assyrian]". See Lucian, Translated by A.M. Harmon, Vol. IV, "The goddess of Surrye", London 1925 p.339. So it's not just Parpola who is stating that, Lucian himself explicitly wrote it and his own words should not just be ignored. And your source is from 1971, i.e. 40 years old compared to Parpola's article that was published 2004. Kaldaya (talk) 09:48, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * All I am saying is that the discussion regarding "Syrian" and "Assyrian" is still ongoing, and this should be reflected in the lede. You could perhaps change the wording to express this. "His ehtnicity is disputed and is attributed as Assyrian according to ... and Syrian according to ..." or something like that. It seems this 1992 article by a Richard N. Frye is the disputed item. --Saddhiyama (talk) 10:08, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Simon Swain spends about ten pages discussing the issue in Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World AD 50-250 (page 298ff.). As far as I can tell from a quick reading, he doesn't come to any definite conclusions, but says Lucian was probably Semitic and may have spoken Aramaic. In Lucian, the terms "Syrian" and "Assyrian" appear to be interchangeable (see p.299 and, esp. footnote). --Folantin (talk) 11:18, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, since it's disputed, let's make a compromise. Kaldaya (talk) 12:09, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks fine (though my example was just a rough outline and could possibly need some smoothing in the wording). Also, I wouldn't mind a separate paragraph in the article (not in the lede), going into more detail about both sides of the argument regarding the interpretation of the word. Especially since the lede would possibly make readers wonder what the dispute is all about. --Saddhiyama (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Syrian and Assyrian refer to the same ethnic group historically speaking. One shouldn't confuse them with the modern Syrian Arab Republic. I will keep "Syrian" as ethnicity but will redirect it to Assyrian people.--  R a f y  talk 01:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

The first sentence of the article currently reads "Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – after 180) was an Assyrian[1] satirist..." but the source cited makes no such claim. The sole reference to Lucian in that source describes Lucian as "a Greek writer". There is no mention of the word "Assyrian" or "Syrian" in the book. --Dherbelot (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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For the sake of sanity
I have adressed the formulaic "aging" in the article, namely by replacing it with "middle-aged". @User:Katolophyromai have then reverted my edit with the argument:
 * He would have been between his late fifties to late sixties. Unless you know many people in their 110s and 120s, that is not "middle-aged."

Matemathically I agree, but even in my natural language, which is Danish, the term 'middle-aged' (or "midaldrende") do refer to men and women in their fifties. Maybe because it is such a nice round number. I think you will find most people agree with this, and that it is the proper phrase to use in this context. Sechinsic (talk) 11:21, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The source supporting the statement about Lucian being appointed to a government position in Egypt in his old age is page xiv of the introduction to Lionel Casson's Selected Satires of Lucian, in which Casson provides a brief biography of Lucian. Casson's exact words are: "When he was quite an old man, Emperor Commodus (180-192) appointed him to a lucrative government job in Egypt. This is the last we hear of him." The source explicitly states that Lucian was "quite an old man," so we should follow the source, unless you have another reliable source explicitly stating that Lucian was "middle-aged" at the time.
 * It is worth noting that, on page xiii of the same introduction, Casson estimates Lucian's approximate birth date as "around 120 AD," which is five years earlier than our estimated birth date given in the infobox at the beginning of the article. (Obviously, as with virtually everyone else in the ancient world, we do not really know exactly when Lucian was born, so all dates are approximate.) Casson's estimated birth date would make Lucian around sixty at the time of Marcus Aurelius's death in 180 AD and Commodus's ascension to the status of full emperor. If we assume Lucian was appointed to the position in the later years of Commodus's reign, that could make him potentially as old as seventy-two, since Commodus died in 192 AD. No matter how you break it up, seventy-two is definitely not "middle-aged," especially for a person living in the second century AD. --Katolophyromai (talk) 20:34, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your detail, and I cannot refer to any sources about Lucian, and so the matter is decided. I am not very convinced, though. You mention the relativeness involved, and bring no convincing arguments to better the concrete historical evaluation, here. The case for using "middle-aged" is not good, at all, but on the other hand, I feel that "aging" is not much better, because this term imply what may not be known. Relatively speaking I guess Lucian could have been a very lively 59 year-old government official and fictional writer, or for that matter a very lively 74 year-old government official and fictional writer! Again, thank you for your detail. Sechinsic (talk) 16:26, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

"ancient Greek-speaking" added to first sentence
I do not necessarily object to this change, but I will point out that the article clearly says that Lucian wrote exclusively in Ancient Greek in the very next sentence, which is the second sentence of the article. It therefore seems rather unnecessary and redundant to describe Lucian as "ancient Greek-speaking" in the first sentence when the second sentence already goes into greater detail explaining that he was a native speaker of Syriac but wrote exclusively in Ancient Greek. —Katolophyromai (talk) 01:10, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * You're right, I should have read better again. Actually I started to modify the intro while working on a list of ancient Greek writers, because I noticed the article on Lucian/Lukianos doesn't fit in the common style for writers on WP, i.e. "Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist [...]" / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (/ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist [...] / "Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psáppho; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos [...]". That said, it's not really a big deal, just an unusual style to me when I was switching from one article to another. Azerty82 (talk) 12:00, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It is perfectly fine. Honestly, I probably would not have said anything if it were not for the fact that the subject of Lucian's national identity has attracted a great deal of controversy here in the past. I was somewhat concerned that mentioning the fact that he wrote in Greek multiple times in the first paragraph might come across to some people as a nationalistic attempt to assert a Greek identity for him, which I was concerned might lead to yet another controversy. I am glad we were able to resolve this issue without conflict. :) —Katolophyromai (talk) 18:13, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

The Jesus reference
I have revised the part about Lucian mentioning Jesus in his On the Passing of Peregrinus to read as follows:

"'The speaker in the letter also refers to an individual whom he calls 'Christ', whom he characterizes as the founder of Christianity. The speaker claims that this 'Christ' lived in Palestine just over a century prior, that he taught that his followers would attain immortality, and that he was crucified.'"

Someone would have to be really creative to come up with an excuse for how this description could refer to anyone other than Jesus. Nonetheless, Yabroq has a fair point that Lucian doesn't actually use the name "Jesus," so, for the sake of this article, I have decided it the best compromise to simply state what Lucian himself says. My guess is that any educated reader will be able to easily tell who Lucian is talking about. —Katolophyromai (talk) 06:13, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:Lucian