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Talk:The Science of Things

apocalyptica
i don't know for sure if it's an actual remix, or a cover, or even an unrelated song of the same name, and i don't feel like paying to find out. but unless someone does, i am inclined to accept this as proof enough. http://www.mp3sugar.com/album.dhtml?id=29033&aff=2363 --dan 00:57, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

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Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness

Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness (機動戦艦ナデシコ -The prince of darkness-), also known as Prince of Darkness Nadesico or Nadesico the Movie: Prince of Darkness, is a 1998 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Tatsuo Satō, and it is a sequel to the series Martian Successor Nadesico. The story is a direct sequel to Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years, a video game for the Sega Saturn that takes place immediately after the TV series ends, and before the movie begins. The movie won the prestigious Seiun Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Prince of Darkness also win Anime Grand Prix from Animage magazine for Best Title, Best Female character (Ruri Hoshino), and Best Song ("Dearest" by Yumi Matsuzawa), and It was a nominated for the Animation Kobe for Theatrical Film Award but lost to Pokémon: The First Movie (which later won Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Achievement in Animation). Originally licensed by ADV Films, the movie, along with the TV Series have been re-licensed to Nozomi Entertainment.

Plot
Two years have passed since the third battle of Mars, with the Nadesico taking possession of the Ruin. The Earth and the Jovian Federation have come to an uneasy peace. However, Akito and Yurika have both vanished and are presumed dead. Meanwhile, a new threat to peace is rising in the form of the "Martian Successors" (A splinter group of the original Jovian Federation who wish to continue the war and take revenge on the Earth and Nergal and bring about a new world order). A 15-year-old Ruri Hoshino, is now the new captain of the highly-mobile battleship Nadesico B, and has earned the respect and awe of many in the Military thanks to her unparalleled skill with machines, made her gains the nickname "Cyber Fairy".

Most of the original Nadesico crew return in order to prevent the Earth from experiencing another war. Some of the crew have undergone slight changes; the Aestivalis pilot Ryoko now sports her naturally black hair color, but others (such as the pun-loving Izumi) have not changed at all. Two new crew members from Nadesico B join the original Nadesico crew, the first is a young boy named Ensign Hari Makibi, who like Ruri is a genetically engineered prodigy and has exceptional control over machines. The second is Saburota Takasugi, a former member of the Jovian Federation Defense Force who now serves as the Nadesico B's Tactical Officer, unlike other Jovian's who are generally chivalrous and very respectful of women, Saburota is something of a womanizer.

While at Akito's Grave (it had been two years since Akito's disappearance) Ruri discovers that Akito is still alive. Akito explains that he and Yurika had been captured, while conducting Boson Jumping experiments by the Martian Successors. Akito had been tortured, his brain severely effected to the point of not being able to taste anything (thus being unable to cook) and his skin shining white like a comic book.

Akito gives Ruri his recipe for Ramen Noodles as a way to remember the person he used to be. Akito leaves after fighting the Martian Successors and obtains a high powered battleship from Nergal in order to go to Mars and Rescue Yurika, The Nadesico C also heads to Mars intent on arresting the Martian Successors. After fighting and killing the Martian Successors leader Akito is able to rescue Yurika, meanwhile after taking control of all the Martian Successors' computers, Ruri is able to disable their weapons and force the Successors to surrender. Following their victory Akito departs, not wanting Yurika (who was regaining her consciousness) or anyone else to see how he has changed. When asked by Ryoko if they should go after Akito, Ruri says that Akito will return eventually and if he doesn't then she would go and find him personally because Akito was an important person to them all.

Companion game
Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years, a video game for the Sega Saturn, was released September 23, 1998, one month after Prince of Darkness hit theaters. The game takes place immediately after the TV series ends, and before the movie begins, filling in on details that leads up to the plot of the movie. However, the game was never translated and released outside Japan.

Crew of the Nadesico-B

 * Lieutenant Commander Ruri Hoshino - now sixteen, Ruri is the captain of the Nadesico-B and idolised by much of the military as the Electronic Fairy. She is glad to see Akito is still alive, but hurt to see how much he's changed. She views new crewmate Hari (a product, like her, of genetic engineering) as a younger brother. Her first name refers to.
 * Ensign Hari Makibi (Noriko Hidaka) - a bridge officer aboard the Nadesico-B (and the only major new cast member), Hari is a genetically engineered genius with abilities similar to Ruri's; but unlike her, he's very emotional. He is jealous of her relationship to the first Nadesico crew. His first name refers to . Quartz and lapis lazuli are elements of in Infinite Life Sutra.
 * Saburota Takasugi (Shin-ichiro Miki)- previously seen as an officer in the Jovian Federation, Saburota is now a First Lieutenant in the UESF, and serves as Ruri's Tactical Officer. He has dyed his hair blond.

Other members of the Unified Forces

 * Commander Jun Aoi - now captain of his own ship (the UESF 3rd Fleet battleship Amaryllis), Jun has grown but is still completely overwhelmed by the personalities around him. In particular, he is bullied by Yukina into letting her join the Nadesico-C's mission.

Former crew of the Nadesico

 * Ryoko Subaru - ace Aestivalis pilot, Ryoko now sports her natural black hair instead of green. She is one of the first to learn of Yurika's fate and is enraged that she is unable to rescue her right away. Still fond of Akito, she is teased by her fellows Izumi and Hikaru about her interactions with Saburota.
 * Izumi Maki - Izumi is the hostess of a bar when Mr. Prospector arrives to recruit her.
 * Hikaru Amano - Aestivalis pilot and rabid Gekigangar III fangirl, Hikaru has become a somewhat overstressed manga artist. Before agreeing to join the Nadesico-C, she convinces Ruri & Co. to help her finish an issue before her deadline.

Those with secret fates

 * Akito Tenkawa - thought to be dead, Akito proves to be the Prince of Darkness of the title. One of many Class A Jumpers abducted by the Martian Successors, he was subjected to experiments that have damaged his body, destroyed his sense of taste (a terrible fate for a cook), and hardened his personality; he has no compunction about killing those who block his mission to rescue Yurika.
 * Lapis Lazuli (Yukie Nakama) - A young girl with long, ice-blue hair. Lapis is another product of Nergal's labs, created with the hopes of re-creating the success of Ruri Hoshino, and is part of the One-Man, One-Ship Project. When the Martian Successors betrayed Nergal, Lapis was among those abducted and was experimented on. The experiments ended up destroying her ability to feel emotions. Lapis was later rescued during a rescue operation conducted by Nergal, and given the Nergal-designed Corvette Eucharis, which she controls entirely on her own. Lapis later becomes partnered with Akito, and together, supplements their destroyed senses. (Her name refers to the blue gem, lapis lazuli.)
 * Yurika Misumaru - also thought killed during jumping trials, Yurika was another abductee. The Martian Successors have fused her with the Ruin that controls all Boson Jumps, giving them an unprecedented level of control.  Her rescue is the key objective of both Akito and the Nadesico-C's mission.
 * Inez Fressange - generally believed to be dead, Inez was actually hidden as a Nergal subterfuge when the abduction of Class A Jumpers became apparent. She rejoins when the Nadesico-C is launched, and is key to jumping it to the final confrontation on Mars.

The Martian Successors

 * Jovian Vice-Admiral Haruki Kusakabe - de facto leader of the Jovians during the war, Kusakabe vanished afterward and infiltrated himself and his so-called "Martian Successors" into the Hisago Plan. He and his scientists retrieved the Ruin, intercepted Class A Jumpers during transit, and planned to solidify their position with a monopoly on precision boson jumping. Although his rebellion ends in failure, it is insinuated that he is capable of starting again.
 * Hokushin- A mysterious assassin hired by the Martian Successors to eliminate any high level threats to Kusakabe. It is insinuated that the assassin was responsible for Akito's condition and is obsessed with torturing him. He is a potent bosun jumper and is a master of Martain Swordsmenship. His personal combat unit, the Yatenko, enables to use bosun jumps at will and usually appears with a team of 6 who inferior but still formidable units. He is killed at the end of the movie.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edison high school

 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 - no consensus - SimonP 23:43, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Edison high school now moved to Edison High School, Huntington Beach
School stub. Precedent that high schools need to start out as an article showing notability, no school stubs. CAPS LOCK 00:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quickly expanded, btw. CAPS LOCK 00:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Change to Keep, established notability due to famouse graduates. 01:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)CAPS LOCK
 * Delete, google search doesn't reveal anything immediately noteworthy. -- Barfooz  (talk)  00:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Refer to WP:SCH and stob clogging VfD with pointless school nominations.  Expand or merge school stubs, don't delete them.  --BaronLarf 01:45, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * WP:SCH is not policy, and there is no indication that there is even a consensus of Wikipedia members who approve of it. Don't point to that page as if it were some proof of notability.  RickK 22:08, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well it's true that you don't like it and it isn't policy, but it's being cited a lot, which I guess makes it a guideline. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It's only a guideline because you put the guideline header on it, replacing the notpolicy header I put on it. Just citing it does not make it a guideline, nor is it a valid usage to cite it as a reason why a school should not be listed on VfD.  RickK 23:28, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * The more it's cited, the wider the support the guideline will have. If there's something in the guideline you think is inappropriate, let's work on it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And how do those of us who oppose this "guideline" "uncite" it so that it is not used as a policy? RickK 23:43, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry I can't make sense of that at all. What do you mean? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And as to whether to list schools for deletion, well I should have thought that the manifest reluctance of Wikipedia to delete articles about schools would be deterrence enough, and that is all the guideline does, to reflect our collective experience on this issue. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And all of us who stopped voting on schools because there was supposed to be a consensus, and all we got was this non-policy that the school inclusionists oppose a vote on? RickK 23:43, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * You can always go back to WP:SCH and we'll thrash out any remaining differences. I don't think a vote is appropriate; even Neutrality gave up on that one. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I have stopped discussing it on WP:SCH because you are not using good faith in order to "trash out" anything, but are merely trying to ram your opinion down the throat of everybody else. I have refrained from voting on schools while this was being hashed out, but it appears there is no more hashing out to be done with people who's sole modus operandi is to demand that their opinion carry sway and claim they have consensus support although there is no such thing.  RickK 21:22, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I used WP:SCH to sum up my points instead of making my arguments for the 100th time, in an attempt to prevent this VfD for becoming the umpteenth battleground over schools. I'm not pointing to the page to prove notability; secondary schools are inherently notable, and should not need to prove their notability.  Nowhere in my vote did I claim it was a policy.  Cheers.  --BaronLarf 04:34, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. DS1953 02:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Longhair | Talk 02:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambig. There's also an Edison High School in Fresno, California, which is ranked #329 on Newsweek's 2005 list of the Best High Schools in America. -- BD2412 talk 02:35, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep as is, now that it's been moved. -- BD2412 talk 13:34, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep although article title doesn't look right unless its "Edison High School". Hedley 02:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambig and Move to Edison High School (Huntington Beach, California). When will editors learn to be bold and merge? Disambig page in place, there is also a same name school in New Jersey.  Vegaswikian 02:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, disambiguate and expand. —RaD Man (talk) 03:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep school articles. See Schools/Arguments for reasons.  -- Un  focused  03:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Edison High School (Huntington Beach, California). Verifiable and NPOV. Double Blue  (Talk) 03:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Delete. Is not encylopedia and will never be encylopedic. Neutralitytalk 04:19, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, encyclopedic part of the sum of all knowledge. Kappa 04:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * DELETE - There must be 7,790,345,123.2 Edison High Schools in the United Kingdom, and that squared in the USA. Logic compels the name must then become a disambigulationpage at best.  The humble one line article is OK, but is Wiki going to make an honest attempt to list every High School in the country in the spirit of fair play?  If the answer to that is Yes, then save the hassles later, turn it into a disambigulation stub with a reference to this High School along the lines of naming rulers like Edison III High School of New Mexico (or whatever state that was). It will save time later, and set a precedent for handling the other 7,790,345,122+.   Fabartus 05:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are precisely seven, not 7.7-billion, Edison high schools in the United States and each of them are notable in their own right.  --Bahn Mi 00:55, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * See WP:AN/I. This is a suspected sock of User:GRider, who is banned from VfD. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable School. User:GRider/Schoolwatch. Klonimus 05:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * No vote but please refrain from nominating high schools for deletion unless you have a very good reason (e.g. it doesn't exist). All verified high schools will be kept, see Watch/schoolwatch/Votes_for_deletion_archive. Also, remember that VfD is not meant to be emergency expansion of articles, even though it often is. Sjakkalle 07:05, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Perfectly good article. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 07:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Schools. James F. (talk) 09:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I wish people would stop their vendetta against schools in Wikipedia. It was agreed that schools should no longer be nominated for VfD, let's keep to this. Jamyskis 10:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge||Keep per schools — RJH 16:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete: It "was agreed?" By whom?  See Schoolwatch?  That's dishonest.  Significant and notable Burger Kings are proper topics, and so are significant and notable schools.  Being a school only means that it is a functional box full of students.  That is not sufficient, and I wish people would stop their hysterical and irrational screaming about the sin of deleting substubs with "school" in their title.  A substub should go.  A non-notable topic should go.  A substub on a non-notable school should go.  There's an end on't. Geogre 18:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Huntington Beach, California --TimPope 19:28, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 20:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with the appropriate geographical article to keep the school inclusionists happy. --Carnildo 21:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Deletionists vote merge, not inclusionists.Oliver Chettle 18:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please since it has been established these schools are notable Yuckfoo 21:43, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment cite! Vegaswikian 05:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 03:06, June 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Quale 04:29, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or, at the very least, merge. – ugen64 04:37, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep What baronlarf said above, in short: WP:SCH. If you disagree let's talk in the talk section there, or even make your own wikiproject against schools. Also if you see a school is in need of keep votes please contact me, enough wasting time on trying to delete schools, I'd hoped this would be a resolved issue by now. --ShaunMacPherson 05:31, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No Account
 * Delete or (second choice) Redirect and Merge into Huntington Beach Union High School District or  Huntington Beach, California until this runt grows up.  Blank Verse   ∅   14:28, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'd like to tackle CAPSLOCK's tactics here. He states as his justification: "Precedent that high schools need to start out as an article showing notability, no school stubs." To put it baldly, there is no such precedent--Wikipedia routinely refuses to delete stubs for quite normal high schools. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:40, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. RickK 21:23, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep There is no such "precedent". It is just a fabrication by deletionists attempting to get more school articles deleted. Oliver Chettle 18:52, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; what's next, grade schools? kindergartens? Bill 02:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. All schools are enduring physical and social institutions. --Centauri 08:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 17:28, 10 Jun 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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Talk:List of people from Birmingham

Nick Mason
Idea: change title of page to something like "Famous persons associated with Birmingham"? That would cure the inconsistency between the page title - "...residents..." - and those like Nick Mason who were never, or not for long, residents. RayGirvan 00:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The section already says "Born in Birmingham", Nick Mason WAS born in Birmingham, so what Andy Mabbett is objecting to exactly I havn't a clue. Perhaps he would like to explain. G-Man 22:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * What, again?!? Andy Mabbett 22:11, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem is that there's slippage between "born in Birmingham" (true) and "belonging to Birmingham", "a Birmingham musician", "a talent that can perpetually be cited as a product of Birmingham" (untrue). RayGirvan 22:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * That is why I put the explanitory footnote there, in an attempt to keep Andy happy. Still it is a fact that he was born there, to remove him is to remove valid factual information and is quite wrong. G-Man 22:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It is to include him in a list of residents of Birmingham which is quite - no, totally - wrong. Andy Mabbett 22:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Out of interest, this Camden New Journal interview confirms that "Nick was brought up in Hampstead Garden Suburb, then Hampstead". I'd love to know what twerp started the factoid, which is all over the Web, that the Hampstead address "Downshire Hill" was a district of Birmingham called the Downshire Hills. That no doubt is reinforcing the idea that he has some long-standing Birmingham origin. RayGirvan 02:35, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * That threw me also, I even resorted to my A-Z to see if there was such a place in Brum? How long did he spend living in Birmingham before being taken away though, I have asked this before and cannot find an answer anywhere on the net, the only proof we have that he was taken away immediately after Birth is only by the word of Andy Mabbett who seem sto be pushing his own agenda here as G-man can confirm. Nick Boulevard 13:43, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Bruce Chatwin
User:Pigsonthewing removed Bruce Chatwin from the list as it makes no reference to B'ham in the Wikipedia article. This quotes his birthplace as Sheffield. Fair enough. However, info on the web is mixed. Reviews of Nicholas Shakespeare's biography here and here state Chatwin was born in Birmingham, here it states Sheffield. All agree he was from a middle-class Birmingham family and that he spent some of his childhood here. The Salon.com review quotes Nicholas Shakespeare: - For Bruce, Birmingham was always a place to leave.

Does anyone have any definitive info on either his place of birth or how long he spent in Birmingham? Also posted query at Talk:Bruce Chatwin. Valiantis 13:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Removed
I have removed Michael Checkland from the list as I can find no evidence that he was born in Birmingham. I also removed several entries that looked like vanity or joke entries. Someone really should keep an eye on this. Gem 20:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Name
List of residents of Birmingham, England sounds as if it's a directory showing all the names of people who live in the city. List of famous people from Birmingham also is a bad title as how can we regard what is "famous" or not? Plus famous is also a weasel word according to the Manual of Style. Why not put this under the title of List of notable residents associated with Birmingham or List of notable people from Birmingham, these sound a lot better. Pafcool2 16:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Removed
I've removed Richard Hammond because he was born in Solihull, a seperate borough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.190.172 (talk) 19:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Chess
I'm pleased to see English Chess Champion,Grandmaster Keith Arkell, on the list.I believe he was born in Edgbaston(and,furthermore,he lived for many years in the Birmingham area.)

Does anyone know whether England's first ever Grandmaster,Anthony Miles,was born in Birmingham? He was certainly educated at King Edwards Grammar,and spent the last years of his life living in Birmingham(the Warley/Quinbourne area I believe). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.5.12 (talk) 23:52, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Restructuring
I think the list has reached a size where just having two sections ("born in" and "associated with") is getting a bit unwieldy

Would there be any objections to restructuring under different categories (Entertainment, Politics etc.)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommydes (talk • contribs) 09:26, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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people keep adding themselves and their mates and vandalising this page 😡 Joopfoop (talk) 01:35, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

 * right this is a proper serious issue and i don’t appreciate my city being disgraced like this Joopfoop (talk) 01:46, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human life begins at conception

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Human life begins at conception
Article is a slogan, non-encyclopedic, and can be deleted as POV in accordance with Votes for deletion/Precedents DanP 00:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In general, merging a slogan article with the article that provides its context is certainly preferable to keeping it separate, as that invites misunderstanding. Technically, we should put quotes around phrases used as titles; I suppose we do not because it makes linking rather unintuitive, and makes for awkward titles. But rallying the delete votes with the appeal to fear that what has a POV title now must be eradicated lest it spawns more POV, going so far as to imply even a redirect will be beyond our capacities to manage: now that is what I call defeatist. Oh, and opiate of the masses, eh? I give you, sir, opium of the people, which is admittedly not a declarative statement, a horrible excuse for an article, and not meant to bolster my argument—but just for completeness. JRM · Talk 23:46, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep; article is not a slogan, it is about a slogan and the meaning of the slogan. It is encyclopedic. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   00:50, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Pro-choice or wherever. mikka (t) 01:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as JarlaxleArtemis, but clean up
 * The above vote was by me CAPS LOCK 01:07, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as a subchapter of Pro-life. Alternately, at least change the title to Slogan: Human life begins at conception. (I see that alternate title is already a redirect.) 23skidoo 01:09, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge this and A woman's right to choose into an article on Abortion debate slogans. -- BD2412 talk 02:37, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep. If you click on the category "Political slogans" you'll find that there are already 35 slogans that are categorized.  In that context, I would keep both this slogan and A woman's right to choose as separate articles, although BD2412's suggestion to merge them (and presumably leave the current articles as redirects) is not a bad second choice.  DS1953 02:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per what BD2412 said -CunningLinguist 02:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't Merge Redirect to suggested arty on Abortion controversy slogans, or keep as is. (Otherwise searches won't find it; search engine scans titles, as those of us working historical battle revisions can easily demonstrate.) As an arty is professional, and presents both sides. Fabartus 05:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge implies redirect. So the googles will find it. Merge. Radiant_* 11:38, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as is, especially if we keep A woman's right to choose as is. Nateji77 05:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Pro-life will provide context. Sjakkalle 07:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Abortion. Jamyskis 10:57, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Political slogan which is widespread enough to be notable. --Scimitar 14:25, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — notable political/religious viewpoint/slogan. — RJH 16:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Revolución 16:50, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Are you folks imagining things?  The article is inherently POV, and the title is a declarative statement.  We would not have an article called History Is Bunk or Religion is the opiate of the masses or Pretending to extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit is a horrid thing.  The article simply cannot be kept under this title.  A merge would be ok, but, let's face it, this vote is showing so many socks, so many people not paying attention to the policy, that I'm not in favor of anything that preserves this title as a redirect, as it will soon be recreated in all its gory. Geogre 18:54, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Et tu, Geogre? I hate the phrase "this article is inherently POV". Hate hate hate hate hate it. To see you use it is the last straw, really. You know what articles are inherently POV? None. Individual words can be POV, sure. "Horrible" cannot be used in any neutral context unless attributed. Individual phrases can be POV, absolutely. List of celebrities who suck would, if it lived up to its title, make for a POV article, so the title can reasonably be called POV. Heck, I'd give you that an article with that title would probably get POV content as well. But articles can be moved trivially, and are cleaned up in the POV department as a matter of standard operating procedure. The word inherently implies a finality that seems completely at odds with the wiki nature.
 * Et me, JRM. Let's put it this way:  this title is a statement.  It is a sentence, not a clipping, and not a slogan.  It is a sentence frequently uttered by the Roman Catholic Church in its campaign against birth control and by the anti-abortion legality people in their arguments against allowing anyone to choose what they would not.  It is not, though, a slogan that is a descriptor, like "pro-life" or "pro-choice."  Including this title is to bear a POV statement, not a topic.  That's why it has to go.  The title itself is an expression of POV, and a highly controversial one.  As for whether I think someone, somewhere might RC patrol only this article and never miss when it has been reverted to a proselytizing matter, I do not think that we should have to do so simply to avoid the agony of a move, merge, or deletion.  Geogre 14:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And I do not oppose a move or merge at all. The status as separate article isn't sacrosanct to me. A deletion is another matter, especially on grounds of what we should or should not be required to do. We aren't required to do anything; that's why it's a wiki. This sort of "minimal threshold" argument for what criteria articles should meet in order to not be judged "too burdensome to bear" will never leave the realm of personal opinion. And while I respect yours, I'm equally adamant in not applying such criteria. As far as I'm concerned, the responsibility the collective of Wikipedia editors can bear has not reached its maximum by far. JRM · Talk 16:05, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

 * Delete!. Extremely POV!!! RickK 19:07, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 20:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see a lot of socks here, but I have re-evaluated my decision, and agree that the title makes the article inherently POV. However I find the Extremely POV! statement by RickK interesting, given that he didn't see fit to put a similar statement on the article below, and the contents of either article are, respectfully, not terribly POV in either case. I also would like some verification of the sockpuppet charge, as I don't see any sockpuppets, and sockpuppets generally pop up to serve the purposes of radical users who have some personal affinity for the article. I don't see any of that here. --Scimitar 20:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article title will lead to an inherently POV article. --Carnildo 21:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Pro-life. carmeld1 22:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. as suggested above. M412k 22:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. — Phil Welch 23:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect, as per my long but I hope coherent rant above. JRM · Talk 23:46, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a notable political slogan, and the article has criticism in it. There is no POV. See [Better dead than red]].-LtNOWIS 03:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Morality and legality of abortion or Pro-life. It's already stated in both. --Idont Havaname 07:11, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep — Jesse's Girl | Please talk! 11:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with pro-life.  No reason why the slogan deserves a separate article.  Kaibabsquirrel 04:04, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Abortion debate slogans     16:55, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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I am pissed off that you spoke aainst Joe Biden. 14 million of us se;lected him from a group of candidates. How dare you think you can overrule our vote. You have lost my support. Get behind Joe Biden or get the Hell out of the way.. 173.207.144.212 (talk) 22:30, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A woman's right to choose

 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, could be merged somewhere - SimonP 23:47, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

A woman's right to choose
Article is a slogan, non-encyclopedic, and can be deleted as POV in accordance with Votes for deletion/Precedents DanP 00:48, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is about the slogan, not arguing in favour of it.  Frjwoolley 01:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Multiple meanings. mikka (t) 01:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as Frjwoolley but Clean up CAPS LOCK 01:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge this and Human life begins at conception into an article on Abortion debate slogans. -- BD2412  talk 02:37, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Keep. If you click on the category "Political slogans" you'll find that there are already 35 slogans that are categorized.  In that context, I would keep both this slogan and Human life begins at conception  as separate articles, although BD2412's suggestion to merge them (and presumably leave the current articles as redirects) is not a bad second choice.  DS1953 02:48, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nateji77 05:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per BDA, or at least rename; this is not an encyclopedic title. Radiant_* 10:38, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Abortion, if the more fanatical elements of the pro-life movement aren't going to decide to vandalise it. Jamyskis 10:57, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Political slogan which is widespread enough to be notable. --Scimitar 14:25, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — page is at least as notable as the "Right to life" political slogan page. — RJH 16:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I would support a merge of both this and Right to life into Abortion, except that #1: this is not a declarative statement, but rather a principle invoked by one side of a debate, #2: this can be about the development of this thought. If the article were titled A woman has a right to choose, I'd agree with the nominator and vote to delete, but it isn't; therefore, keep. Geogre 18:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV. — Jesse's Girl | Please talk! 19:09, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as inherently POV, per the reasons cited in the Life Begins at Conception VfD. The title carries a strong emotional connotation, and cannot be anything but POV. In my opinion, this is regardless of whether the article is declarative or not, as is also the case at the previously cited VfD. --Scimitar 20:58, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Pro Choice, a strategy consistent with that of merging the "life begins at conception" article into Right to Life carmeld1 22:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. — Phil Welch 23:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable, and not POV. POV, inflammatory topics can be depicted fairly in encyclopedias.-LtNOWIS 03:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Morality and legality of abortion or Pro-choice. It's already stated in both. --Idont Havaname 07:12, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as disambiguation It is about a slogan but most of the content belongs in other topics, which can be pointed to from this one. --Douglas 21:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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A. B. Frost

Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 – June 22, 1928), usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books.

Frost's work is known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence and for his realistic hunting, shooting and golfing prints. He illustrated over 90 books, produced hundreds of paintings and was a pioneer in the development of comic strips. He was admitted posthumously to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1985.

Career
Frost was born January 17, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the eldest of ten children. His father, John Frost, was a historian, biographer and literature professor. At the age of fifteen, he worked as an intern at a local business that taught him engraving and lithography. He was mostly self taught but did study under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with Gilbert Tucker Margeson in Massachusetts and with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. In 1874 he was asked by a friend to illustrate a book of humorous short stories, "Out of the Hurly Burly", by Charles Heber Clark, which was a commercial success and launched his illustration career.

In 1875, he worked at The Daily Graphic. In 1876, Frost joined the art department at the publisher Harper & Brothers, where he worked with well-known illustrators including Howard Pyle, E. W. Kemble, Frederic Remington and C. S. Reinhart. He published illustrations in other magazines such as Harper's Weekly, Punch and Scribner's. While there, he learned a wide variety of techniques, from cartooning to what later came to be called photorealistic painting. He moved to London in 1877 to study art and work. He was one of the first American illustrators to have success in England when he worked on illustrations for Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. He returned to Philadelphia and studied under painters Thomas Eakins and William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

In 1892, Frost partnered with Joel Chandler Harris and included his drawings of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit and other characters into the book Uncle Remus and His Friend. Frost and Harris published several additional versions of the Uncle Remus books including Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings in 1895 and 1898.

Frost was influenced by the serial photography work of Eadward Muybridge and translated his photographic approach to create successive illustration panels and dialogue which was a pioneering form of comic strips and comic books. In 1884, Frost published Stuff and Nonsense, an anthology of his works that advanced the concept of time-stop drawings and contained other innovations. Although he was never published in newspapers, Frost's work was influential on newspaper comic strip illustrators such as Rudolph Dirks and Jimmy Swinnerton.

Frost incorporated his interest in hunting, shooting and golf into multiple illustrations and publications. He was an avid golfer and a member of the Morris County Golf Club in Morristown, New Jersey, during the initial uptake of the sport in the United States. His sketches of golf players focused on the drama and passion of the players set in detailed backgrounds. His golf illustrations were included in The Golfer's Alphabet (1898), The Epic of Golf (1923) and on two covers of Collier's magazine.

He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Society of Independent Artists and the Society of Illustrators.

Personal life
Frost married another artist, illustrator Emily Louise Phillips, in 1883. He lived at Boisaubin Manor in Convent Station, New Jersey until 1908. From 1908 until May 1916, Frost and his family lived in Paris to allow his children to study art. After his return to the United States, he lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and worked as an illustrator and comics artist, mainly for Life magazine. In 1924, Frost moved to Pasadena, California and died there on June 22, 1928. He is interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia in Section C, plot 63.

Legacy
He was admitted posthumously into the Society of Illustration Hall of Fame in 1985. His depiction of Brer Rabbit from the Tales of Uncle Remus books was included on a commemorative stamp in 2001.

Partial list of works

 * Out of the Hurly Burly, illustrations (1874)
 * Rhyme? And Reason?, by Lewis Carroll (1883)
 * Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton (1885)
 * A Tangled Tale, by Lewis Carroll (1885)
 * Our Cat Eats Rat Poison (titled Fatal Mistake in later editions) (July 1881 in Issue #374 Harper's Magazine)
 * Stuff and Nonsense, anthology (1884)
 * The Moral Pirates by W.L. Alden (1887)
 * The Bull Calf and Other Tales, anthology (1892)
 * Uncle Remus and His Friends, by Joel Chandler Harris (1892)
 * The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1895)
 * Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain (1896)
 * The Associate Hermits by Frank R. Stockton (1898)
 * Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1898)
 * Sports and Games in the Open (1899)
 * The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann, by Joel Chandler Harris (1899)
 * The Golfer's Alphabet, Harper & Brothers, New York and London, (1899)
 * A Book of Drawings, P.F. Collier & Son, New York (1904)
 * Carlo (1912)
 * The Epic of Golf, by Clinton Scollard (1923)

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Zimbelstern

The Zimbelstern (meaning "cymbal star" in German, and also spelled Cymbelstern, Zymbelstern, or Cimbalstern) is a "toy" organ stop consisting of a metal or wooden star or wheel on which several small bells are mounted. When engaged, the star rotates, producing a continuous tinkling sound. It was common in northern Europe, Germany in particular, throughout the 16th,  17th, and  18th centuries. After about 1700, the bells were tuned to particular notes.

The device is probably most effective as a foil to light Baroque counterpoint of an upbeat nature, or hymns registered using a bright principal chorus. In some Christian liturgical traditions, it is rung during the singing of the Sanctus or on doxological stanzas of hymns.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/56 Blows

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56 Blows

 * I have a hard time converting this into a well-written Wikipedia article. Delete if none of you can within a week. Georgia guy 00:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Speedy, nonsense!—User:CAPS LOCK
 * Delete; It's utter nonsense. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   00:54, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, it can't be converted into a well-written article because it doesn't make any sense in the first place. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   00:57, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted. Below is the content (removed, cince the page restored by another guy), if someone disagrees with deletion, I am happy to restore. But now the page occupies the place of a real 56 blows. mikka (t) 01:05, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedily restored and redirected to Contemporary music. A little Googling for "John Cage" "56 Blows" gets 38 Google hits, of which at least two are notable, and he is mentioned in this article. Denni ☯ 01:15, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * Better redirect to Contemporary classical music, where it is at least mentioned. And it has only tangential relation to John Cage. mikka (t) 01:42, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The 56 blows entry is a complete joke. Simply delete it. I say the person who wrote it was high because it wasn't even John Cage who wrote 56 Blows.
 * Delete I first thought it was a HS attempt at a book... but the arty has no consistancy. I almost catagorized as Nonsense, but I'm too new. Someone with more experience needs to weild a non-Damocles' Sword on this. Fabartus 05:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Patent nonsense. Delete, candidate for speedy deletion. - Mike Rosoft 10:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless rewritten. --Scimitar 14:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I thought I knew John Cage's music pretty well, but this is no more than a hallucination. If there is something from Cage's canon that I don't know about that bears this title, this article sure as shootin' doesn't tell us about it.  No rewrite preserving this history.  Delete it and start again, if there is anything valid to say. Geogre 19:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 20:39, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as patent nonsense. --Carnildo 21:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete again. — Phil Welch 23:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 03:07, June 3, 2005 (UTC)

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PRSD

PRSD may refer to:

 * The Social Democrat Radical Party in Chile, also known as Partido Radical Socialdemócrata

 * Education
 * Peace River School Division in Alberta, Canada
 * Pearl River School District in Pearl River, New York, USA
 * Pentucket Regional School District in West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA
 * Pinelands Regional School District in Tuckerton, New Jersey, USA
 * Pine-Richland School District in Richland Township, Pennsylvania, USA
 * PTSD in error, qwerty keyboard

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Discovery of Fiji

Located in the central Pacific Ocean, Fiji's geography has made it both a destination and a crossroads for migrations for many centuries.

Melanesian and Polynesian Settlement
Austronesian peoples, who were from the Lapita Culture have settled in the Fijian islands some 3,500 years ago, with Melanesians following around a thousand years later. Most authorities agree that they originated in Southeast Asia and came via Malay Archipelago. Archeological evidence shows signs of settlement on Moturiki from 600 BC and possibly as far back as 900 BC.

In the 10th century, the Tu'i Tonga Empire was established in Tonga, and Fiji came within its sphere of influence. The Tongan influence brought Polynesian customs and language into Fiji. The empire began to decline in the 13th century.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific (USP) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan. The skeletons are to be sent to Japan for assembling and further research. Obsidian, a rare volcanic glass found only in Papua New Guinea had been discovered there, according to Dr Patrick D. Nunn, USP Professor of Ocean Science and Geography, who theorized that the people could originally have left southern China or Taiwan some 7000 years ago, settling in Papua New Guinea before drifting on to Fiji and other countries. Lapita pottery found on the surface of the graves was almost 2500 years old, he said. Fiji Museum archaeologist Sepeti Matararaba said that the area beside the sea must have been occupied, because a great deal of pottery, hunting tools, and ancient shell jewellery had been discovered. More than 20 pits had been dug following the discovery of lapita in the area.

On 15 July 2005, it was reported that the same teams had uncovered 16 skeletons at Bourewa, near Natadola. The skeletons were found in a layer of undisturbed soil containing pottery from around 550 BC. Professor Nunn said there was now abundant evidence that Bourewa had been the first human settlement in the Fiji archipelago, occupied from around 1200 BC onwards. "Lapita people were the first people to come to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tonga and Samoa. These people left evidence of their existence by mainly their elaborately decorated and finely fashioned pottery," Nunn said. He said the evidence pointed to Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands as the place from where the earliest Fijians came, as the pottery fragments were typical of the early Lapita period in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, but not readily found on Lapita Pottery in Fiji.

Nunn announced on 9 November 2005 that a black obsidian rock discovered near Natadola in southwest Viti Levu had originated in the Kutau-Bao obsidian mine on Talasea Peninsula on the island of New Britain, in Papua New Guinea, some 4500 kilometers away. Although carried throughout the Western Pacific by the Lapita people, it is not often found in Fiji. The obsidian, which showed signs of being "worked," probably arrived soon after the initial Lapita settlement in Bourewa circa 1150BC, Nunn said. He theorized that it was kept by the Lapita settlers as a talisman, a reminder of where they had come from.

Fiji Television reported on 20 March 2006 that an ancient Fijian village, believed to have been occupied by chiefs sometime between 1250 and 1560, had been discovered at Kuku, in Nausori. Its heavily fortified battle fort contained unique features not seen elsewhere in Fiji. Archeologist Sepeti Matararaba of the Fiji Museum expressed astonishment at some of the discoveries at the site, which included an iron axe used by white traders in exchange for Fijian artefacts. Local villages were reported to be rebuilding the site with a view to opening it up to tourists in July 2006.

European discovery (18th century)
Dutch navigator Abel Tasman was the first known European visitor to Fiji, sighting the northern island of Vanua Levu and the North Taveuni archipelago in 1643. James Cook, the British navigator, visited one of the southern Lau islands in 1774. It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and plotted, when William Bligh, the castaway captain of HMS Bounty, passed Ovalau and sailed between the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu en route to Batavia, in what is now Indonesia. Bligh Water, the strait between the two main islands, is named after him, and for a time, the Fiji Islands were known as the "Bligh Islands."

The first Europeans to settle among the Fijians were shipwrecked sailors and runaway convicts from Australian penal colonies. In 1804, the discovery of sandalwood on the southwestern coast of Vanua Levu led to an increase in the number and frequency of Western trading ships visiting Fiji. A sandalwood rush began in the first few years but it dried up when supplies dropped between 1810 and 1814. By 1820, the traders returned for beche-de-mer or sea cucumber. In the early 1820s, Levuka was established as the first European-style town in Fiji, on the island of Ovalau.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canon XL-2

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Canon XL-2
Advertising Alabamaboy 00:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Clean up Advertising but I think the camera does deserve an entry. CAPS LOCK 00:57, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't believe we can single out this article for deletion because of the precedents that we've set with other articles. See Canon PowerShot A75, for example. That being said, I'd like to delete a good number of these product entries. Number one, most are hardly notable, and number two, almost all of the products we list are gadget/technology-oriented. I don't think Wikipedia needs to become a shopping mall, but without deleting all the rest of the cruft, what can we do? Weakest of keeps -- Barfooz  (talk)  01:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I see no reason not to have an article here, as long as it is NPOV and not a sales pitch.    After all, a Honda Prelude is nothing more than a product to be bought and sold. -- Un  focused  03:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * comment sorry guys, didn't mean this to be advertising.--Madkayaker 03:29, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, verifiable, important topic to camera users. Kappa 06:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable camera. Klonimus 06:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. I can't imagine a company as huge as Canon Inc. spamming on here. Sounds like fancruft, but a lot of this could be salvaged to turn it into a nice, clean, NPOV article. Jamyskis 11:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Invalid anon user vote. Too advertising-y now, but can be salvaged. After all, we have an article on the Texas Instruments TI-30.
 * This user just created the above article he references. (one of only three edits) - Tεx  τ  urε  20:30, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 20:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into one article for each series of cameras. Vegaswikian 05:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge sounds good. Radiant_* 11:17, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup or merge. Either would be appropriate. Kel-nage 11:20, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge by line/series (IE start with Canon products--if that gets too big, Canon printers and Canon cameras--if that gets too big, then Canon SureShot cameras and Canons PowerShot cameras, and so on...). Having separate articles for each camera model number is like having separate articles for 1998 Honda Prelude with 250hp 6-cyl. engine with 4-speed automatic transmission, 2001 Honda Prelude with 180hp 4-cyl. engine with 5-speed manual transmission, etc. 24.19.145.84 04:34, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) (User:Niteowlneils, still not logged in)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Satanic Reds Social Realists

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

Satanic Reds Social Realists
Non-notable, nonsense, Wikipedia is Not a Cult (Cabal or otherwise). User:Luigi30 (Υσηρ ταλκ ΛυηγηΛ) 00:53, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Expand CAPS LOCK 00:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is either utter nonsense, or really need rewriting.  Frjwoolley 01:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.nonnotable. mikka (t) 01:07, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 01:48, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Any secret society with a geocities page is one that we don't have to worry about deleting. humblefool® 02:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Nonsense/hoax, also this page is very similar to another page on VfD: Dark Doctrine Satanism -CunningLinguist 03:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Looks like someone is hoping to build a mailing list getting us to follow links. Badly written nonsense if other motive. Cert. non-encyc. Fabartus 06:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. RickK 19:09, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. — Phil Welch 23:19, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and bury in the desert - Tεx  τ  urε  18:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Kraszewski

Kraszewski (feminine: Kraszewska; plural: Kraszewscy) is a Polish noble surname initially given to people originating from a place with red sand. The coat of arms is Jastrzębiec.

People

 * Antoni Kraszewski (1797–1870), Polish politician
 * Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962), American translator
 * Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887), Polish writer
 * Kajetan Kraszewski (1827–1896), Polish writer

Fictional

 * Waldemar Kraszewski, character on Ultraviolet

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User talk:MathewDutra

Welcome!

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Beauty and the Geek (American TV series)

Beauty and the Geek is an American reality television series that premiered on The WB on June 1, 2005. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and J. D. Roth. The show's title is a parody of Beauty and the Beast. This was the first show produced by the Fox Television Studios sub-division Fox 21.

The show follows groups of "Beauties" (people — almost always women — who rely on their attractiveness and outgoing personalities but typically lack intellect) and "Geeks" (people — almost always men — who rely on their intellect, but typically lack social ability) who must pair up to compete in challenges to avoid elimination. The final pair remaining is declared as being "More than just a Beauty and a Geek" and wins the grand prize of $250,000.

While a competition, the show is also billed as a social experiment, in which each contestant typically learns from his or her teammate. During the competition, the contestants live in a mansion and compete in a series of challenges, with the beauties competing in challenges of intellect, and the geeks competing in challenges involving social ability.

Production
The theme song, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" by the Pet Shop Boys (originally released in 1985), is used also on the British, Danish and Belgian-Dutch versions. Commercial promos for the show featured a different theme song, "The Geeks Get the Girls" by American Hi-Fi.

Following the second season, the American version moved to The CW, the new network formed when both The WB and UPN ceased operations in September 2006. The two-hour season premiere for the third season aired Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. EST on The CW. The fourth season premiered on September 18, making BATG the first series to premiere for the CW for the 2007-08 television season. Beauty and the Geek was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on March 12, 2008.

After the fifth season, the show was put on indefinite hiatus in order to stoke renewed interest in the show, and perhaps the addition of innovative twists to the format. In October 2008, casting began for a sixth season, scheduled to air on MTV, with minor celebrities as the beauties. However, a sixth season never materialized.

Episode progress

 * The contestants won the competition.
 * The contestant won the challenge and their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant's partner won the challenge and they were safe from elimination.
 * The contestant did not win the challenge, but their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner survived elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner was eliminated.
 * The contestant or their partner won the challenge and were also eliminated.

Episode progress

 * The contestants won the competition.
 * The contestant won the challenge and their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant's partner won the challenge and they were safe from elimination.
 * The contestant did not win the challenge but their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner survived elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner was eliminated.

Episode progress

 * The contestants won the competition.
 * The contestant won the challenge and their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant's partner won the challenge and they were safe from elimination.
 * The contestant did not win the challenge but their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner survived elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner was eliminated.

Episode progress

 * The contestants won the competition.
 * The contestant won the challenge and their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant's partner won the challenge and they were safe from elimination.
 * The contestant did not win the challenge but their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner survived elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner were eliminated.

Season 5
Season 5 premiered on March 11, 2008, taking over the timeslot of Reaper. For the first three episodes, the beauties competed as a group against the team of geeks. The remaining beauties and geeks then paired off to compete against the other pairs, as in previous seasons.

Cast
Note: John, Amber and Jillian were all eliminated before the teams paired. Jonathan was left without a partner and was therefore eliminated.

Episode progress

 * The contestants won the competition.
 * The contestant won the challenge and their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant's partner won the challenge and they were safe from elimination.
 * The contestant did not win the challenge but their pair was safe from elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner survived elimination.
 * The contestant and their partner was eliminated.

Contestants who appeared on other competition shows

 * Richard Rubin would later appear on 1 vs 100 as a member of the mob.
 * Tyson Mao appeared on Identity as a stranger.
 * Megan Hauserman appeared on the second season of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, finishing in 5th place; the first season of I Love Money, where she quit on the last episode, officially finishing in 3rd place; and Rock of Love: Charm School, getting expelled on the 4th episode. She would later get her own dating game show: Megan Wants a Millionaire.
 * Greggy Soriano competed on the first season of Cake Boss's Next Great Baker, where he was eliminated in 7th place.
 * Jason Prager appeared on season 1 of The Gong Show revival.


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Nordic cross flag

A Nordic cross flag is a flag bearing the design of the Nordic or Scandinavian cross, a cross symbol in a rectangular field, with the centre of the cross shifted towards the hoist.

All independent Nordic countries have adopted such flags in the modern period, and while the Nordic cross is named for its use in the national flags of the Nordic nations, the term is used universally by vexillologists, in reference not only to the flags of the Nordic countries but to other flags with similar designs. The cross design represents Christianity,  and was first seen in the Dannebrog, the national flag of Denmark in the first half of the 13th century. The same design, but with a red Nordic cross on a yellow background, was used as union flag during the Kalmar union (1397 to 1523), and when that union fell apart in 1523 the same design, but with a yellow cross on a blue background (derived from the Swedish coat of arms adopted in 1442), was adopted as national flag of Sweden, while Norway adopted their flag in 1821. From its adoption in the early 16th century until 1906 the background of the flag of Sweden was dark blue, but was changed to the currently used lighter shade of blue in a new flag law that was adopted in 1906, after the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway. After gaining independence the other Nordic countries adopted national flags of the same design, Iceland in 1915 and Finland in 1918. The Norwegian flag was the first Nordic cross flag with three colours. All Nordic flags may be flown as gonfalons as well.

Flags of the Nordic countries
Some of these flags are historical. Also, flag proportions may vary between the different flags and sometimes even between different versions of the same flag.

The Flag of Greenland is the only national flag of a Nordic country or territory without a Nordic Cross. When Greenland was granted home rule, the present flag — with a graphic design unique to Greenland — was adopted in June 1985, supported by fourteen votes against eleven who supported a proposed green-and-white Nordic cross.

Kalmar Union
This is the historical flag of the Kalmar Union, which united Denmark, Sweden and Norway from 1397 to 1523. No pictorial evidence survives of the Kalmar Union's Flag. The flag appearing here is a reconstruction based on references in 1430 letters by King Eric of Pomerania.

Unofficial regional Nordic flags
These flags either do not have official status or represent various private entities. They have not been officially adopted and their use remains limited.

Germany
Nordic flag designs very similar to Denmark's, Sweden's, and Norway's national flags were proposed as Germany's national flags in both 1919 and 1948, after World War I and World War II, respectively. Today, the Nordic cross is a feature in some city and district flags or coats of arms.

United Kingdom
A number of flags for localities in the United Kingdom (primarily Scotland) are based on Nordic cross designs, intended to reflect the Scandinavian heritage introduced to the British Isles during the Viking Age and through the High Middle Ages.

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Talk:Swiffer

MSDS
http://www.pg.com/content/pdf/01_about_pg/msds/fabric_and_homecare/household_cleaners/Swiffer_Wet_Jet_Antibacterial_Cleaner.pdf;jsessionid=4BPTL3LGMMQAVQFIASJHKY4AVACJE3MK

After a cursory search on google, i don't see any links that claim swiffer and the ingredients in them contribute to harmful bacteria resistance. --75.20.207.36 (talk) 06:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

"This line of products is known for being more efficient than conventional alternatives. Swiffer products use less material than it's predecessors." - removed as advertising. Can any of this be backed up? Known by whom? Secretlondon 00:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Razor blade model?
I'm not so sure about that. The basic mop seems reasonably priced at USD$10. The SwifferVac is hardly cheap at USD$35. --24.249.108.133 22:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

The Swiffer Sweep + Vac is now $55 ($54.95 MSRP on http://swiffer.com/en-us/shop-products/sweeping/swiffer-sweepervac-cordless-vacuum-starter-kit ), why is it not in the article as a current product? The article makes it sound like it was renamed to "Swiffer Sweep and Trap" and there's no vacuum any more which is not true, they're two separate products and I don't think the vacuum was ever discontinued, just renamed from "Swiffer SweeperVac" to "Swiffer Sweep + Vac" (I have the old vacuum with the old name). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.172.60.124 (talk) 23:57, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

The pads can also be used between different brands of 'mop' - Swiffer or otherwise. Myself, I use Target's O-Mop but find the 'biodegradable' pads a little lacking on the cleaning power - doesn't help the environment if I fill the trash can with more of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.25.17.169 (talk) 06:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

 * The Swiffer Sweep + Vac picks up dog hair. Shall we mention that in the page? 174.27.4.51 (talk) 18:59, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Environmental Concerns
Would the Environmental Concerns be original research, or is there someone who acknowledged that fact? Allmightyduck (talk) 22:29, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Original Research?
There is a lot of wording that is not properly sourced (i.e. Amazon product pages, which are not reliable sources) or not sourced at all. While the info is well written and mostly accurate AFAIK, there should be more cites to back it up. NinLEGWho (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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This article redirects to Template:Correct title. Is this still neccessary? To have better visual rendering and distinction of „quotes”, articles and synonyms, emphasing and »Titles of Publications and Media«, we're just talking about introducing of a Template:Title in de.wikipedia allowing consistent styling and centralized markup for book-, film- and media-/artwork-titels. The template would be…

…rendering to »name« (additional info) with dedicated css-classes, allowing even client-browser css overload.

If this redirection is not used anymore or could be dereferenced by bots, we could import this template into en.wikipedia.

-- .rhavin;) (talk) 11:05, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

 * @.rhavin: It doesn't seem to be transcluded at all anymore. —SamB (talk) 18:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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