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Wikibreak of Alex Bakharev
Tomorrow, I and my family will fly to Tasmania for a one week vacation. I will be back on March 19. I doubt I would be able to check my mail let alone do some heavy wikiediting. I will appreciate if somebody would do some New Article patrol and report the new Russia-related articles on this board abakharev 08:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Today I am going to Saint Petersburg, Russia and will be there for two weeks. I am not sure if I will be able to edit from there (or even check my Email). If somebody could do the New article patrol at that time, it would be great. If something really urgent, please phone 7-812-235-74-87 abakharev 02:46, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * So where is it that you're going to :)? Petersburg is a long way from Tasmania :). KNewman 05:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Для бешенной собаки сто верст - не крюк. I was a week on Tasmania, now two in SPb abakharev 07:25, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Just an idea
Hi there, my fellow Wikipedians! A few days ago, I noticed that there's no article on the History of taxation in Russia, which could be an essential part of the Taxation in Russia article. I believe that the history part of the article would be an extremely interesting чтиво, especially if we start with Kievan Rus and the Mongols. I just want to hear your thoughts on this one. KNewman 07:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe it is a worthwhile subject although I know nothing about it. -- Ghirla -трёп-  07:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Sokolsky District
To whom it may concern, I came across this orphaned disambig page containing only redlinks. Cheers. --Fang Aili talk 20:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it's actually mine, as well as a few dozen of other similar disambigs. Their main purpose is to alert whoever is going to write an article on, say, Sokolsky District in Vologda Oblast, that the name Sokolsky District is ambiguous and to prevent mounds of incorrect cross-links later on (sorting them out post factum is no picnic, trust me on that one :)).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Problems with URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT sections

 * 1. This section should not be used to blacklist individual users (diff )
 * 2. This section should not be used to influence votes not related to Russia, but dear to the hearts of some users because of personal disputes with other editors (again see and especially ).
 * 3. This section is not a free speech zone, so trying to keep inappropriate comments here on free speech grounds is wrong. (for example, see )Balcer 14:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See your talk for answers by me and Errabee, Balcer. -- Grafikm  (AutoGRAF)  14:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Please move your answers here. This discussion is important, and the issues I presented should be resolved. Balcer 14:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Please check this edit of mine. The section which you keep removing was modeled on the section "Articles vandalized or needing attention", which was introduced by Piotrus on Portal_talk:Poland/Poland-related_Wikipedia_notice_board in order to list articles which were being purged from Polish POV. Hey, physician, why don't you heal yourself? -- Ghirla -трёп-  14:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Ghirla, I've reverted because announcements like that are allowed under WP:SPAM. Please refrain from making your point this way. Errabee 14:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And as I've said earlier, announcements on votes taking place are most certainly allowed under WP:SPAM. And as I said earlier to Constanz, what are you afraid of? We are all sensible people here, quite capable of forming our own opinions and acting upon them. We are not the mindless morons you seem to think we are. Errabee 14:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There is nothing important to resolve. Such announcements are legal on WP per WP:SPAM, which clearly states that "Briefly, I think a reasonable amount of communication about issues is fine." Given that it's not a lengthy list, it fits pretty well into the definition. And if I might add, the Polish portal has the same system (and heck, almost all portals and projects do). -- Grafikm  (AutoGRAF)  14:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Please be consistent then, Ghirlandajo. If you removed those notices from the Polish Noticeboard (which BTW is fine with me), please remove similar notices from the Russian noticeboard.  Otherwise you might be thought by some to be a hypocrite. Balcer 14:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It is you who is not consistent, Balcer, by removing this from Portal:Russia, and not from Portal:Poland. Errabee 15:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Fine, I removed the offending section from Portal:Poland. Apparently the Russian and Polish portals are connected like Siamese twins, and no action on one can fail to have its counterpart on the other. Balcer 15:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The vote in question is not related to Russia! Hence its announcement here might have something to do with a personal vendetta of one user against others. Wars between groups of users should not be encouraged.  Anyway, Ghirlandajo removed the urgent announcement section from the Polish Noticeboard, so it would logically follow the same should occur here. Balcer 14:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Of course the vote in question is related to Russia. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ruled over large parts of Russia, like Smolensk. Errabee 15:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Commonwealth was established in 1569, Jogaila died in 1434. Sure, Lithuania under his rule included territories which are today in Russia.  Does this fact justify giving this vote such prominent play in the "Urgent Announcement" section?  Sorry, but I don't believe that.  And I don't have to, since Ghirlandajo's comments  explain precisely what his thinking here was. Balcer 15:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And Ghirla should not have done that, so I've reverted. Neither should you remove announcements in this section. Errabee 15:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I will restore the section on the Polish Board, because I believe in the freedom of speech in Wikipedia. It's somewhat cheap to "sanction" my removal, after all who read the Polish board had already voted. I think the announcement on this board should stay, unless Halibutt retracts his spamming sallies here, there, and everywhere. -- Ghirla -трёп-  15:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

As of today the Polish board lists the following entries:
 * ''Jogaila - the RM saga, Part X
 * ''Polish-Soviet War, Kiev Operation, Armia Krajowa
 * ''Voting on whether Wawrzyniec Gucewicz should be moved back from Laurynas Gucevicius

As we all know, these are the articles in which the Polish editors currently team up to push nationalist agenda. When I mentioned Jogaila on this board, Balcer unleashed a mad revert warring campaign. Hey, what is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the bull?.. And who is being hypocritic here? -- Ghirla -трёп-  14:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I question the whole basis of Ghirlandajo's argument. Why should questionable practices on the Polish Noticeboard justify similar practices on the Russian Noticeboard?  Wikipedia is not a warzone in which a Polish-Russian war is waged (not yet anyway, I hope). Attempts by users like Ghirlandajo to paint Wikipedia in such terms increase my pessimism about the future of this project.  Balcer 15:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You know Balcer, there is a Christian proverb: "Find salvation yourself, and others will find it around you." So if you want to remove this practice, start with the Polish NB beforehand. Then, you will be able to (and rightly so) set an example. -- Grafikm  (AutoGRAF)  15:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And after this comment, you dare accuse me of hypocrisy? Yawn... -- Ghirla -трёп-  15:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I truly find it puzzling that some Russian editors care so much about what Poles do on their noticeboard. Is this a sign of some kind of an inferiority complex?  Surely, one would think that Russian editors would want their noticeboard to be the best on Wikipedia, a shining example of how a national portal should work.  But instead, the standard seems to be: we must use the same tactics that the Polish noticeboard is using.   Balcer 15:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * But let me present you this mirror: Why do you (and Piotrus) care so much what Russians (and Russian speaking editors from other countries) do on their noticeboard? Removing these announcements makes it look like you've got something to hide. As I said earlier, we're for the most part good editors, who are quite capable of making their own judgement. Of course there will be a couple who are just morons (I haven't met them just yet), but I'm sure there are a couple on the Polish noticeboard as well. Why don't you just have faith in the capabilities of the editors here that they will form an opinion of their own, and if they don't they won't vote. Errabee 15:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Any Wikipedia editor can contribute to any discussion on Wikipedia. There should be no criteria where only users of a given nationality can get involved in a discussion on the portal of that nationality.  So the question that you posed: "Why do Poles write on Russian Noticeboard" is simply not appropriate, as it may be taken to imply that we have no right to write here.
 * What I object to is using questionable standards and practices on the Polish noticeboard to justify similar practices on this one. If the two current questionable announcements are acceptable, provide arguments to that effect.  Saying simply "Polish noticeboard does the same thing" is totally counterproductive, and it implies that the Polish board is the standard setter on Wikipedia.  That might be flattering to some Poles, but it is obviously incorrect.
 * As for users forming their own opinions, that is of course true. At the same time, Wikipedia recognizes that some vote canvassing may be harmful to the project.  It is instructive to read WP:Spam here.  Similarly, blacklisting a user cannot be justfied by stating that "other editors are smart enough to form their own opinions about that user anyway". Balcer 20:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Balcer, I never implied you or any other Polish editor weren't allowed to post here, I simply mirrored your words. If you imply from them that Polish editors aren't allowed to post here, than I'm beginning to worry about your true intentions. Do you feel that Russians should not be posting and even looking at the Polish notice boards?
 * Furthermore, I have already referenced WP:SPAM, in which it is allowed to alert other users via a portal. Read the quoted sentence by Grafikm above. Errabee 23:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, canvassing by mass solicitation of User talk pages, as Piotrus is fond of doing, is really questionable. Errabee 23:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * To answer your direct question and reassure you about my intentions: no, obviously I do not believe that Russian editors (or any other for that matter) should not be posting the Polish Noticeboard. Anyone interested in Poland-related topics should be welcome there.
 * At any rate this discussion has been completely sidetracked. The fact that I am Polish or the practices on the Polish Noticeboard are not the real issue here.  The real issue, again is the question: 1. can the rather prominent URGENT ANNOUNCEMENTS section be used to blacklist an editor? 2. can this prominent section be used to advertise a vote at best tangentially related to Russia, added by an editor who justified his vote as "I am amazed at the tireless activities of some Polish guys ...". Balcer 00:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1. Already answered. 2. Yes. How an editor justifies his vote has nothing to do with the right to post it at the urgent announcements section. Errabee 01:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

To show my good faith and lack of hypocrisy in this matter, I have removed the questionable "articles needing attention" box from the Polish noticeboard. So, now that the childish argument "but Polish Noticeboard does this too" is out of the way, would anyone care to seriously address the three points I made at the beginning? Balcer 15:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * This is the wrong way to proceed. I won't revert you, but that box had every right to be there. Now as for your points mentioned above, I do have a problem with blacklisting the Finnish editor, but he does seem to be very problematic (and not only for Russian, but also Swedish topics). Perhaps removing that announcement and creating a RfC would be a better way to proceed. As for number 2, it is a judgement call by the person who places it. It is not up to you to decide that this topic has nothing to do with Russia, and then deleting it. How would you feel if you placed a topic on the Polish notice board and I removed it because I felt that it had nothing to do with Poland? And about free speech, I don't get your point. If you disagree with something you're welcome to mention that (but please leave the original message intact). Now messages get condensed from time to time, and depending on the conclusion of the discussion the original message may go or may be altered. Errabee 15:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I am glad you agree with me to some extent on the first point. As for the second, Ghirlandajo's motivation is explained perfectly in his vote.  In his judgement the vote is part of the war between Russian and Polish editors, and he calls his troops to arms here.  I do not believe that such a war exists, unless people like Ghirlandajo (but of course not only him) manage to convince us that it does.

 * As for free speech, keep in mind that Ghirlandajo routinely removed comments by other users from the "URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT" section for his own reasons, so trying to justify reverting me on free speech grounds is silly. Anyway, that section has to be emptied regularly anyway, so comments will eventually get deleted whatever happens.  Finally, I do agree that the section should be relatively brief, so on the whole I would agree with removing excessive comments.

 * I have no problem with any user expressing his opinion in the discussion sections, where there is plenty of space for other users to respond. In contrast, the Urgent Announcement sections are clearly special, since by their very nature there is almost no space for discussion there, so one should be careful what goes in there.

 * In short, it would seem to me that new, clearer rules are needed for how the "URGENT ANNOUCEMENT" section is used to prevent its abuse. Avoiding blacklisting users and avoiding vote influencing announcements made to recruit others into one user's war against his Wiki-enemies would seem to be appropriate. Balcer 16:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You say "recruit into war", I call it "invite to join a discussion". Your panic is unwarranted. New and more "Clearer rules" are slowly turning wikipedia into wikilawyering realm. The only rule natural and initially tentatively ofserved rule should be that it is a place for brief announcement and discussion of this announcement (but not the topic in question). Of course, sometimes a discussion there goes over board, but shit happens, what the heck, no big deal. `'mikkanarxi 23:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Call it what you will, but Ghirlandajo's motivation is explained perfectly in his vote. He is not interested in encouraging discussion.  For him, this is all about fighting a group of "Polish guys" who have crossed him.  Fighting this war is his business, but should he be allowed to use the URGENT ANNOUNCEMENTS section on the Russian noticeboard to recruit fighters for it?  I say no, as conflicts of this type should not be encouraged and widened.  Balcer 00:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Let's assume Ghirla is indeed fighting a group of Polish guys who have crossed him (I don't really believe that, but let's assume). Even then should he be allowed to use the urgent announcements section, because it contains useful information for the rest of us. He does not recruit fighters here. You're assuming bad faith on all of us here. As I've said multiple times before, just because Ghirla opposes or supports something doesn't necessarily mean that the rest of us agrees with him. And btw, if we're assuming bad faith here anyway, then Piotrus is recruiting fighters as well by spamming user talk pages, so what's your problem? We don't spam user talk pages here, we just post one message on the notice board.
 * And for another matter, Ghirla's motivation is his motivation on his vote; it does not mean he is recruiting fighters; of he thinks it is a Russian related subject, he has every right to draw attention to it, no matter how or why he votes. Errabee 01:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Really, is it useful information? As I said before, Jogaila is at best only tangentially related to Russia.  Sure, he ruled over some lands which are now in Russia.  But so did all the rulers of Prussia and the German Empire (since they ruled today's Kaliningrad Oblast, now part of Russia).  Would it be justified if I started posting announcements on votes concerning Germany based solely on that kind of flimsy justification?  Hey, according to your reasoning, that is simply useful information and under free speech I should be able to post it.  Besides, the dispute on that page is whether to use the Lithuanian vs Polish name for that article.  The Russian name is not one of the options (if Jogaila had one).
 * There is simply no way to avoiding the conclusion that Ghirlandajo made the URGENT ANNOUCEMENT because he thinks the Jogaila move is supported by "some Polish guys" he does not like. Hence, I simply wanted to register my objection to this kind of tactics.  But since I am not receiving any support in this matter, I will now withdraw from this discussion.  Balcer 02:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * This is visible in most Ghirla's posts, just check the one starting this part of the thread. Alas, I am afraid this is pointless: I have yet to see editors here being critical of Ghirla, so it is my sad conclusion that he will have free reign on pages like this to spread his pers... ah, cynical remarks (because of course 'Polish editors currently team up to push nationalist agenda' is not a personal attack', right?).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Ghirlandajo should check WP:PA. --Jaakko Sivonen 17:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And you should check WP:NPOV. Errabee 17:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And WP:TE, and WP:NOR and WP:V and a lot of other important readings... :) -- Grafikm  (AutoGRAF)  18:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Archiving proposal
Seeing how this page is the most popular of all of P:RUS subpages, I propose to split each month into three periods instead of two. November 2006, for example, would be split into November 1-10, November 11-20, and November 21-30. This would allow for more frequent archiving, thus significantly reducing the page size. I, with unlimited Internet access, often find this page in its existing form cumbersome to access and edit, and I can only imagine how unwieldy (not to mention costly) it is to folks in Russia with low-speed broadband or even dial-up.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * As a representative of "folks in Russia with low-speed broadband or even dial-up" I don't find it cumbersome at all. Thanks, Ghirla  -трёп-  07:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * That statement was not meant to offend, by the way. I just remembered my hellish experience of accessing and updating this page from Ukraine via a slow broadband connection.  Anyway, case closed, I guess.  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

New articles bot
Please support my request at Bot requests. This will save all reporters much time.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Lvov dab page
We need it, so can someone please create a dab page for Lvov? I don't want to mess up Lviv and Lvov family articles and stuff. I'll populate it later. Thanks! KNewman 21:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If you are going to populate it yourself anyway, then what kind of help are you looking for? Just start Lvov (disambiguation), and place dablinks pointing to it at the top of Lviv and Lvov family when you are done; that's all there is to it.  Is there something else you need?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Тормознул немного :). Wanted to wipe out Lvov itself :). Thanx! KNewman 18:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't start to imagine how many new friends you'd make if you did that :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Why this page belongs to the portal?
Why this page belongs to the portal (i.e. the main space) rather than to the project "Russia"?--Planemo 18:29, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Because it was started long before WikiProject Russia was established. Seemed like the most appropriate place at the time.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And another point: projects are by definition temporary, a portal is lasting. We don't want to discontinue this page just because the project stops. Errabee 16:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Non-urgent request
Portal:Russia/Did You Know Articles doesn't seem to be maintained recently ... I'm going through Recent additions to try to find stuff that's been DYK'ed since April 2006. If you're bored, pick an archive number that hasn't been done already and come help =). Will bother sorting by date later maybe. cab 03:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Heroes of the Soviet Union
Should we create a list of such people (approx. 4,500 people) or category is really enough? I'd like to hear your comments on this one. I'll post this question on the USSR Portal as well. Cheers! KNewman 18:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If you have the source such a list maybe worth to have. The redlinks will be inspirations for the authors Alex Bakharev 12:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * See the comparable List of Medal of Honor recipients for a sample format. `'mikka 20:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I support this idea. Also, this list would be constant, since CCCP no longer exists. - Darwinek 20:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Shoot, I'm no good with tables... KNewman 20:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Question on "Fyodor"
Hello. I am planning to write an article on Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov, a Soviet painter. Could you tell me how I ought to transliterate the name into English - Fyodor? Fedor? Feodor? Thank you. - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 20:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Fyodor is the right spelling, since the Russian letter Ё is transliterated as yo. KNewman 20:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * ...in wikipedia. `'mikka 20:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That other encyclopedias have the wrong name, is no excuse for Wikipedia to also have the wrong name. We are here to educate people after all. Er rab ee 20:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot - New Article Bot
Hi, I am in the trial runs of the User:AlexNewArtBot (see Bots/Requests_for_approval/AlexNewArtBot). The bot analyzes the new articles for a day and puts suspected Russia-related articles into User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaSearchResult, the articles are suppose to be manually put into the portal page and/or removed if irrelevant.

The list of rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Russia the first pattern between the slashes on each line is the pattern that should be present in the article to trigger the rule (note the case insensitive match. The other patterns on the same line are suppose to inhibit the rule. E.g. /florida/ inhibits /petersburg/ rule as the article is most probably the American city. If you reasonably familiar with the regular expressions and know what you are doing, you can edit the list straight away, but better ask me. Some rules I had to remove: e.g. there are a lot of non-Russians named Vladimir and Chita, so I had to remove the names of the cities or have to much false positive. If you are interested why an article went to the list there is log on the User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaLog explaining the rule that sent an article there (if it is cleared try to look into the history of the log).

That is all. Any suggestions are welcome. Alex Bakharev 03:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Well done! But it finds too much noise. Colchicum 15:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Still, not bad for a draft version with a surprisingly limited set of rules. I'm sure as the rules base gets expanded, the noise will go down considerably.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope with some tuneup of the rules we could decrease the amount of false positive but there are limits of this technology. The main problems are article that somehow related to Russia (or other topics) but only tangentially: an American musician who made a concert in Russia (among hundreds other places), a footballer who once played against a Russian team, a sporting event with a Russian participation, a Hungarian who emigrated to USA fleding Soviets, An article with reference in Russian, that sort of things. It is easy to decrease the number of false negative - just add more rules, but I do not know how to fight false positives, especially if they not 100% false. Even including articles that only meet two or more rules is not helping. A singer on his visit to Russia may perform in Moscow, SPb and Samara and still have no relations with Russian culture. Still it is much easy to sort out list of 10 articles than the original list of 3000 new articles a day.
 * I think that the rules ror Russia and Moscow are not very useful. Looking at User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaLog, one can see that they are mostly redundant. Wouldn't it be better to delete them to fight false positives? Colchicum 13:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The idea is that one should not move articles out of the "Bot" section unless personally identified as related to Russia. Because of this flooding, I'd suggest to move into the "Dated" section only articles for which one of major categories is a Russia-related category. `'mikka 20:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC) `'mikka 20:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * For example, Jeffrey Manber it is a non-Russian bio, although has significant interaction with Russia. For articles like this one one may want to maintain a separate list of "Articles on topics that interact with Russia or something like this.
 * On the opther hand, Iron Eagles hardly have place here.
 * Please move the list Possible Russia-related articles found by bot to a sub-page. It is very long and disturbing. Kmorozov 06:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It should be better now. Is it still annoying that much ? Alex Bakharev 00:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * One more option: to use hide as in AutoWikiBrowser version history Kmorozov 06:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done Alex Bakharev 07:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Alex, this bot is certainly useful, but at the same time it is making a mess of the New Article Announcements section. It's pumping all the articles with the word "Russia" in them, although a good half of these articles has nothing to do with Russian history or people. Can we do something about it? What do you guys think? Am I alone in thinking like this? Please, voice your opinions at the Talk page. KNewman 19:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I am trying this solution at the Ukrainian board. All the bot's finds are automatically posted not to the mainboard but to the auxiliary Portal:Ukraine/New_article_announcements_2. Processed entries are manually split between the boards (or deleted) according to relevance/importance. You may want to try it. --Irpen 09:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Once in a while we get these "people" who troll on all Chechnya related articles. User:Samian, help me out here...--Kuban Cossack 13:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * WTF is with Zolotaryov's Siberiada? Who knows which strings to pull? It takes ridiculously long time. `'mikka 22:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't think it is worth bothering much about the existence of ru-sib while maintaining en- or ru-WP. As to ru-sib, if they like it, let them care. I see no problem here. If they hadn't this, they would try somewhere else... Colchicum 16:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * As long as the articles in enwiki are clear from interwiki links to this joke this concerns me very little. Most bot owners are notified to amend their software. Here is the new perl. "Батя наш - матьора молитва в христьянсве, котору слекотал сам Исус... Дык Твойо же царство, и сила, и слава, таперича, и завседа" seem to me a blasphemy. --Irpen 09:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * the problem is these links pop up all the time. `'mikka 22:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * When I saw a bot adding them, I notified the bot owner and gave a couple of links to the WP:ANI discussions of the issue. It always worked. If you see some new bots adding them, make sure you leave a message to their owners. Much more effective than trying to fight the bots. --Irpen 22:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * So what? If you don't like reading it, don't follow the links. Anyway, this announcement is hardly appropriate on this board. Colchicum 12:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Besides, apparently unlike you, I neither speak nor understand ru-sib, so I cannot share your impression from this article. And I don't think that it would be wise for anybody to care about Wikipedias that (s)he has no chance to understand.Colchicum 14:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

More on the bot
Could we somehow visually distinguish the articles found by the bot, please? , or make them small, for example?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC) I could do, but what is the point? Is my or say bookworm's article becomes better or worse because it is found by the bot? I was thinking to compress the results produced by the bot as we do manually. So if a user started three articles on a certain day the bot would just put: instead of thre lines: ... ... I think we could save some valuable real estate this way.
 * Highlighting is better, if you ask me. Good idea. KNewman 14:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * art1,art2, art3 by User:X
 * art1 by [[User:X]
 * art2 by User:X
 * art3 by User:X

More radical proposal is implemented by User:Irpen he separated from the P:UKR/NEW Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements 2: "articles that are of lesser interest to Ukrainians". So only interesting articles or articles in desperate need of review are to go to the main board. I am not sure if it is the right way. Topics interesting for some maybe not that interesting for others.

Please make descisions I would like to implement community's suggestions Alex Bakharev 22:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't talk for everyone, but for me the difference between the articles directly announced by our editors and the articles found by the bot boils down to differences between content and maintenance. Editors who announce their articles directly are usually those who have been around for a while and who know what it is to be expected of Russia-related encyclopedic articles.  Such articles are usually already well-written, even though they may be incomplete.  On the other hand, the articles found by the bot are usually written by the people for whom Russia is only a side interest, or by newbies.  Such articles are often in need of heavy copyediting and fact-checking.  They are usually poorely formatted and/or structured and require a lot of work to bring them up to standards.  With that in mind, quickly differentiating between these two sets may be useful.  I suggested highlighting the bot articles so they would stand out as those needing more work.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Question
I would like to create a list of people who have been stripped of the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for whatever reason, but I'm not sure how to name it. It comes out kinda long. How about List of people stripped of the Hero of the Soviet Union title? Or maybe List of people stripped of the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union? Any ideas? KNewman 19:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If there are people who voluntarily rejected the Hero title (I can quite imagine that there might be such ones), I would suggest the article title List of former Heroes of the Soviet Union. `'mikka 23:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Interesting point, I'll look into it. Anyway, even those officially stripped of the title would fit nicely into the Former Heroes category. KNewman 07:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion about this page
While the bot is very useful, it definitely spoiled the fun. :-) To bring some back, I'd suggest to introduce a very rough categorization in this page, the one which can be done looking at the article title, namely: I am suggesting subsections
 * People, to include bios, bands and other topics basically about people, categories of people, people occupations, etc.
 * Places - geography, buildings, etc.
 * Util - images, categories, templates, lists, disambig pages, etc.
 * Other - other things, etc.

Of course, one does not to think hard to place something in a category. Any thoughts? `'mikka 23:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd support this any day. Even without the bot, the number of articles is hard to msnage when it's all in one heap.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 00:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

As an alternative, you may broach the solution implemented at the Ukraine Portal. See WP:UKR/NEW2. --Irpen 07:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Irpen, I don't really like that approach (doesn't mean others won't, though). How do you judge an article as "secondary interest"?  What's secondary to me, may be of primary interest to someone else, and vice-versa.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Of course judging is arbitrary and people who disagree can always move an article from board 2 to board 1. What mostly ends up at the board 2 are current sportsmen, notable enough for wp in general, but not starry enough to raise general interest. Say Oleg Blokhin, Sergei Bubka, Vassily Ivanchuk or any of the Klitschko's belong to board 1. Also articles about something only loosely related to UA and this looseness is judged, yes, arbitrary, but it is easy to move articles between boards and the sorter's judgment was never yet challenged. If anyone ever disagrees with the sorter's judgment that person would just move an article from board two to board one, I can't imagine fights over it.

 * It seemed to me the problem was too many articles, not just lack of categorization. But, then again, it may be me and a handful of users who attend the Ukrainian boards and what works for us may not be the best here where the number of both articles and attendees is much greater. --Irpen 00:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Nothing is happening and the board is gradually loosing any meaningful function with bot's log not getting cleared for two long and even when it is being cleared the board is inundated with articles in such numbers that no one is able to check the new ones, which is the primary function of the board. With all the passingly relevant or unimportant articles dumped to the board 2, look how nice and manageable the Ukrainian New Articles board remains to be. Also, if you look at Ukraine's board two, you will not be able to find a single article of wide interest there. Please, guys, give another thought to my suggestion or find some better way to manage this flood. --Irpen 03:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Citizendium
To answer KNewman's question regarding Citizendium in today's urgent announcements: don't worry about it. Citizendium is too restrictive in accepting editors, so they will never have as many as Wikipedia. Then, there is a question of operating under one's real name—quite a few people (including yours truly) will never agree to that. Finally, the most important point is that Citizendium will operate under the same GFDL license as Wikipedia, which will make it extremely easy to feed whatever articles Citizendium produces back to Wikipedia, thus turning it into yet another source of information (hopefully, high quality). I don't see how they can play on even ground with Wikipedia, yet alone overtake it. Essentially, Citizendium a facelifted Nupedia, and we all now just how much encyclopedic content that one produced.

Of course, I reserve the right to be completely wrong about all this, so don't shovel this post under my nose in five years if things for some reason develop in a completely different way :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Nothing to worry about. Wikipedia gained such big momentum in the past, it is very difficult to compete with it. - Vald 13:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

And competition is a good way to improve Wikipedia. Colchicum 13:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Kosovoy
Stumbled across this "river" in Kamchatka. Is there such a river there? Anyone? KNewman 19:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Prodded. If this river exists, it's probably a pretty small one.  In its current form, the article does not have enough information to start any further research.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about Pomors

 * Please take a look at a rather weird expansion of "Pomors". `'Míkka>t 17:57, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Long answer. First source www.pomor-rus.org, nice site, but does not seem very serious as a source. Blog by Ivan Moseev. As a linguist, I was basically interested in the language bits, but did notice that one of the reasons why Pomors cannot be Russian is that they are not Slavs genetically. Some of Moseesv's language rules had me worried. When did he make them up? As far as I know pronouncing the "g" in the genitive as "v" is standard modern Russian, so it is not a marked difference between the two "languages". The strongest proof for the claim that Pomor is a different language is the assertion that Russian uses Primor'e and not Pomor'e for an area close to the sea (my Dutch-Russian dictionary, a mastodonth that cost me more than 100 euros begs to differ, both seem OK). The fact that many words used by Pomors do not exist in Finnish or Russian is used as an argument for a non-Finnish, non-Slavic ethnic origin. Very doubtful. I thought for a moment that someone was preparing for a Pomor Wikipedia, until I noticed the dates in the Guest book and in the updating line. All pointing to the end of 2007. I therefore suppose that this "source" is connected with this, particularly if you note this. Since there are no sources quoted on the site either, I suppose this does not create any verifiability or notoriety. I still have to look at the other site, quoted once (zbook-pomorland), which seems to have taken over in 2007, with another leader: Pavel Yesilov. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 01:06, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Checked the second one. Obviously identical problems. The chief difficulty for these guys is that when talking in public (and getting into the papers) they are far more moderate than what you see on their website, and how they reply to the guest book visitors is even more radical than their fixed text, so they cannot establish verifiablity for their more extreme views as seen on the blogs used as source in this article now. Russophobes will claim they are afraid of persecution by Vladimir Vladimirovich, but I'd rather think they are afraid of being made into the laughing stock of Archangelsk. So, I am in favour of taking it out of the Wikipedia article and moving their POV to an article about the autonomy group, since it is clear that that group has attained some notoriety (see the article I quoted above). An article about the group may also make it easier to use their blog as source. On Russian census papers both "Pomor" and "Kozak" are subgroups of "Russian", so all the number of people quoted as Pomor actually also said they were Russian. Only FIVE (yes, FIVE, out of 6571) Pomors could be found at the last census who claimed they did not speak Russian (=a lower percentage than among Russians by the way, and counterintuitively you have 4 non-Russian speakers in towns and only one on the countryside, suggesting the limits to the revolt of the "natives"). Mentioning that because I cannot see these facts anywhere, not in the original text either. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 12:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Ossetians in Trialeti is nominated for deletion, as Georgian wikipedists consider them propaganda. They point, that the only reference, Tsutsiev, Artur (2007). Atlas etnopoliticheskoy istorii Kavkaza (1774-2004). Evropa. ISBN 978-5-9739-0123-3, is in fact tendentious work and other sources, written in Russian are OR. So, guys, help me to rescue reliable sources to prove facts, I've placed in article. --Üñţïf̣ļëŗ ( see also: ә? Ә!) 06:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, Evropa is indeed a very... weird publishing house, to put it mildly, and the author is an ethnic Ossetian politologist rather than some impartial historian. In its present form the article has a lot of problems other than verifiability. If the information is verifiable, the article should be about the region rather than about "a term" (otherwise notability should be established much more firmly, as irredentist terms are not inherently notable). Colchicum (talk) 07:01, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I first thought I should agree with you when I found practically nothing through library search. After a lot of library searching, only Halle Uni in Germany (they have a Caucasus Institute there) and Tallinn University (of all places) seem to have a copy of the thing. Then I checked a Japanese university and found one which claimed to have a reserve copy with a different ISBN. ISBN 5973900452 but printed in 2006. Wouldn't the fact that it was reprinted one year later, say something about the way it was received in academic circles? In any case, the 2006 version is better traceable than the 2007 one and I know now that I can even get this book from a Belgian library, and they are not very keen on buying books in Russian, overhere. Üñţïf̣ļëŗ, what do you think about mentioning the older ISBN number, since the value of the book has been questioned? --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 10:01, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think nothing )) I've copied this ISBN from User:Kuban_kazak/sb, but I did not verify it. For me it has no sence. as I havent access to them anyway.--Üñţïf̣ļëŗ ( see also: ә? Ә!) 11:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose it is always better to quote the latest version of a book, but when it is called obscure, the mere fact that it is available at serious universities and other libraries (eg the 2006 book is readily available at Stockholm libraries, but the 2007 version is not found) gives a better impression already. I've corrected the Belgian link above by the way. I can get it in 15 days, if I want. ULB also led me to this reference about the book. I support your re-name by the way. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 12:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Monika Leová
Monika Leová lives in the Czech Republic. Why the hell does the bot display her here? This Czech girl of Vietnamese origin has nothing in common with WP:WikiProject Russia. --Janggun Dungan (talk) 12:06, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


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User:Techraj

Hi, here is a list of my edits and contributions:

 * My Contributions and Edits

Further links:

 * Philosophical Ramblings - my blog
 * Musical experiments - another blog
 * Photographic adventures - yet another blog

My haunts:

 * Federation of American Scientists
 * Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 * Rasikas - A Carnatic Music Forum
 * Karnatik - a Carnatic Music Database

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Anti-prom

Anti-prom, also known as morp (prom spelled backwards), is a social event often staged by high school students as a protest against, or boycott of, their school's official prom, as an alternative celebration. Other times, it may be an unofficial prom, planned by the students themselves so that it is not under the control of the school.

Some of the more common reasons for the creation of an anti-prom include the desire to curb the large cost of a traditional prom, to listen to music other than that expected to be played at the official prom, to have a smaller, more personal get-together, ones that cannot find a date or have been rejected for a prom date, don't like the food, or have looser and less strict rules than the school's (often relating to dress rules or alcohol consumption). Another common anti-prom is an unofficial dance set up by freshmen and sophomores as they cannot go to prom without a junior or senior.

The attendees of an anti-prom usually disagree with the values of the high school in-crowd who, stereotypically, organize the prom from the preparatory stages to the after-parties. In particular, anti-prom attendees protest what they regard as the vanity, excess, and conformity that the prom culture expects from students. Anti-proms do not follow any prescribed format, catering instead to the varied tastes of the large spectrum of students who feel dissociated from prom culture. Nevertheless, anti-prom participants are generally concerned with arranging social activities that are not only fun and enjoyable, but which also serve as an assertion of solidarity and of the legitimacy of social difference.

In the United States, youth belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often attend morps organized through their church or stake. This is true even in the state of Utah, where a substantial percentage of the youth belong to Mormon families. The custom is that the girls may each ask a boy to take them, but the boys may not ask the girls.

Queer proms
Sexual orientation and gender identity sometimes play a role in leading students to form and attend an anti-prom (sometimes referred to as a gay prom or queer prom): lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) students who feel that attending their school's traditional prom with a same-sex partner or not identifying in traditional gender identity fashion would be problematic might choose to hold their own gathering. Gay proms began to form in the 1990s, with one of the longest running and oldest being the Hayward Gay Prom, which was first held in 1995.

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Reconstruction from zero crossings

The problem of reconstruction from zero crossings can be stated as: given the zero crossings of a continuous signal, is it possible to reconstruct the signal (to within a constant factor)? Worded differently, what are the conditions under which a signal can be reconstructed from its zero crossings?

This problem has two parts. Firstly, proving that there is a unique reconstruction of the signal from the zero crossings, and secondly, how to actually go about reconstructing the signal. Though there have been quite a few attempts, no conclusive solution has yet been found. Ben Logan from Bell Labs wrote an article in 1977 in the Bell System Technical Journal giving some criteria under which unique reconstruction is possible. Though this has been a major step towards the solution, many people are dissatisfied with the type of condition that results from his article.

According to Logan, a signal is uniquely reconstructible from its zero crossings if:
 * 1) The signal x(t) and its Hilbert transform xt have no zeros in common with each other.
 * 2) The frequency-domain representation of the signal is at most 1 octave long, in other words, it is bandpass-limited between some frequencies B and 2B.

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Rosa gallica

Rosa gallica, the Gallic rose, French rose, or rose of Provins, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, native to southern and central Europe eastwards to Turkey and the Caucasus. Rosa gallica was one of the first species of rose to be cultivated in central Europe. It is a parent of several important cultivars.

Description
Rosa gallica is a deciduous shrub forming large patches. The slender, straight prickles are various in size and frequency in this species. The leaves are pinnately-compound, with three to seven bluish-green leaflets. The flowers are clustered one to four together, on glandular pedicels. Each flower has five or more petals, sometimes producing double corollas. The flowers are fragrant and deep pink. The hips are globose to ovoid, 10–13 mm diameter, and orange to brownish.

In the field of Food science, rose petal extract from Rosa gallica has been shown to have properties that reduce inflammation and wrinkling in human skin.

Gallica cultivar group
Cultivars of the species R. gallica and hybrids close in appearance are considered as a cultivar group, the Gallica Group roses. Their exact ancestry is usually unknown and other species may be involved. They are easily cultivated. The Gallica Group roses share the vegetative characters of the species:
 * forming low suckering shrubs,
 * flowers can be single, but most commonly are double or semidouble,
 * colours range from white (rare) to pink and deep purple, and
 * once flowering

Apothecary's rose
Plants with semidouble deep pink flowers have been treated as either a variety, under the name R. gallica var. officinalis, or as a cultivar, R. gallica 'Officinalis'. It is also called the apothecary's rose, the crimson damask rose, or the red rose of Lancaster. It is the county flower of Lancashire. A cultivar R. gallica var. officinalis 'Versicolor', with striped pink blooms, is also known as Rosa mundi.

The names Rosa gallica f. trigintipetala or Rosa 'Trigintipetala' are considered to be synonyms of Rosa × damascena.

Cultivation
It was cultivated by the Greeks and Romans and commonly used in mediaeval gardens. Until the 19th century it was the most important species of rose to be cultivated, and most modern European rose cultivars have at least a small contribution from R. gallica in their ancestry.

Rosa gallica is easily cultivated on well drained soil in full sun to semishade; it can survive temperatures down to −25 °C.

The following cultivars and hybrids currently hold the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

 * 'Beau Narcisse' (Mielles pre-1824)
 * 'Charles de Mills' (pre-1790)
 * 'Duc de Guiche' (pre-1810)
 * 'Duchesse de Montebello' (Laffay 1824)
 * 'Président de Sèze'
 * var. officinalis (sometimes listed as a cultivar 'Officinalis', rather than a variety)
 * 'Versicolor' ('Rosa mundi')
 * 'Tuscany Superb'

Other notable cultivars include:
 * 'Cardinal de Richelieu' (Parmentier pre-1847; withdrawn) – this rose was used as a starting point for genetic engineering to produce the first blue rose
 * 'Complicata'

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Sri Aurobindo Ashram (French: Ashram de Sri Aurobindo) is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from politics and settled in Pondicherry in 1910. On 24 November 1926, after a major spiritual realization, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from public view in order to continue his spiritual work. At this time he handed over the full responsibility for the inner and outer lives of the sadhaks (spiritual aspirants) and the ashram to his spiritual collaborator, "The Mother or La Mère", earlier known as Mirra Alfassa. This date is therefore generally known as the founding-day of the ashram, though, as Sri Aurobindo himself wrote, it had "less been created than grown around him as its centre."

History
Life in the community that preceded the ashram was informal. Sri Aurobindo spent most of his time in writing and meditation. The three or four young men who had followed him to Pondicherry in 1910 lived with him and looked after the household. Otherwise, they were free to do as they wished. The Mother and French writer Paul Richard met Sri Aurobindo in 1914 and proposed that they bring out a monthly review; but after the outbreak of World War I, they were obliged to leave India, and Sri Aurobindo had to do almost all of the work on the review himself, helped a little by the young men who were living with him. In April 1920 the Mother returned to Pondicherry, and soon the community began to take the form of an ashram, more because the sadhaks "desired to entrust their whole inner and outer life to the Mother than from any intention or plan of hers or of Sri Aurobindo." After the ashram was given formal shape in 1926, it experienced a period of rapid growth, increasing from around 24 in the beginning of 1927 to more than 150 in 1934. The membership leveled off in 1934 owing to a lack of suitable housing.

During these years there was a regular routine. At 6:00 every morning, the Mother appeared on the ashram balcony to initiate the day with her blessings. Sadhaks would have woken very early and completed a good portion of the day's work including meditation and then assembled under the balcony to receive her blessings.

As the ashram grew, many departments came up and were looked after by the sadhaks as part of their sadhana: the offices, library, dining room, book/photograph printing, workshops, sports/playground, art gallery, dispensary/nursing home, farms, dairies, flower gardens, guest houses, laundry, bakery, etc. The heads of the departments met the Mother in the morning and took her blessings and orders. She would meet the sadhaks individually again at 10 am and, in the evening at 5:30 pm, she would conduct meditation and meet the sadhaks.

In addition, four times a year Sri Aurobindo and the Mother used to give public Darshans (spiritual gatherings where the guru bestows blessings) to thousands of devotees gathered to receive grace.

Present
Once confined to a few buildings in one corner of Pondicherry, the ashram's growth has caused it to expand physically in all directions. Today, Ashramites live and work in more than 400 buildings spread throughout the town. The central focus of the community is one group of houses, including those in which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother dwelt for most of their lives in Pondicherry. This interconnected block of houses—called "the Ashram main-building", or more usually just "the Ashram"—surrounds a tree-shaded courtyard, at the centre of which lies the flower-covered "Samadhi". This white marble shrine holds, in two separate chambers, the physical remains of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Today, Pondicherry has become an important destination for spiritual seekers as well as tourists. Thousands of visitors from all over the world come to the ashram.

The visiting hours for the visitors are from 8 am to 12 noon and then again from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Aims and ideals
The Ashram, according to Sri Aurobindo, "has been created with another object than that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the renunciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness and embody a greater life of the spirit."

The practice of Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo explained, "does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart, and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things."

The complete method of Integral Yoga aims to transform human life into a divine life. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga, the highest aim is the state of being one with the Divine, without the renunciation of life in the world. For such a fulfillment of the consciousness, the urge for perfection must not be confined to a few individuals. There must be "a general spiritual awakening and aspiration in mankind" as well as "a dynamic re-creating of individual manhood in the spiritual type." This would lead eventually to the emergence of a new type of being, the gnostic being, which "would be the hope of a more harmonious evolutionary order in terrestrial Nature".

Publications
Sri Aurobindo Ashram is the primary publisher of the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. As of January 2015 it keeps some 200 publications in English in print, of which 78 are books by Sri Aurobindo, 44 books by the Mother, 27 compilations from their works, and 47 books by other authors. These books are printed at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, which has been in operation since the 1940s. They are distributed by SABDA, the Ashram's book distribution service, which has been in operation since the 1950s. SABDA also carries books relating to Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, and their yoga brought out by other publishers, making the number of English books on their list more than 600. The Ashram also publishes books in 17 other European and Indian languages, for a total of more than 550 publications. SABDA carries these and other non-English titles: in all there are 1678 titles in 23 languages.

The photographs of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are printed in-house and is available from Ashram Reception Service. Sizes are available to suit table-top to large wall frames.

Collected works
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (new edition) are being issued in 37 volumes, of which 36 have been published. The Collected Works of the Mother have been issued in 17 volumes.

Periodicals
The Ashram publishes a number of journals relating to the philosophy and yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. These are currently printed at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, though several were earlier brought out in other cities. Some of Sri Aurobindo's works first appeared in these and other journals, among them The Advent, a quarterly, which has recently ceased publication. The most important journals in English are:
 * Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (English-French, formerly Bulletin of Physical Education), quarterly, Pondicherry, since 1949
 * Mother India (English), monthly, Pondicherry, since 1949

The Ashram press also prints several journals published by other organizations. These include:
 * All India Magazine (English and other languages), monthly, Pondicherry
 * Bartika (Bengali), quarterly, Calcutta, since 1942
 * Srinvantu, quarterly, Calcutta, since 1956
 * World Union (English), monthly, Pondicherry

Governance
During the early years of the community, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother imposed very few rules on the sadhaks, because they wished them to learn to direct their lives by looking for the divine guidance within. After 1926, written rules were circulated. The main rules were an absolute prohibition of alcohol, drugs, sex and politics. There were also a number of guidelines for the smooth functioning of the collective life of the community. These rules were collected in Rules and Regulations of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, copies of which are given to all members.

The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust was established in 1955 to administer the community and its assets. The trust board consists of five Trustees, the first of whom were chosen by the Mother herself. After her passing in 1973, the trustees have chosen replacements by consensus.

The main ashram departments are overseen by department heads who report to the trustees.

The Ashram, a public charitable trust, is open to all. No distinctions of nationality, religion, caste, gender, or age are observed. Members come from every part of India and many foreign countries. A large number of devotees from Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu visit the Ashram every day, and support the activities of the Ashram in various ways. Many say that they have benefited from the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. However, some feel that there is little mingling of ashramites and local people. According to a senior Ashram official, the practice of silence observed by the ashramites may have been misunderstood as rude behaviour.

Controversy
In compliance with the Central Government's Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust constituted an Internal Complaints Committee in April 2014.

In 2001, a female member was expelled from the ashram for violating a "mandatory rule". Thereafter she filed charges of sexual harassment against various members. These charges were dismissed by committees and government agencies, all of which found the charges false. The then chairperson of the National Commission for Women added that there "appeared to be malicious planning behind the complaints".

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Ricky Phillips

Ricky Lynn Phillips (born October 7, 1952) is an American bass guitarist and was a member of the rock band Styx from 2003 to 2024, splitting duties with original bassist Chuck Panozzo. He has also played in Nasty Habit, as a member of the Babys and Bad English, and with Coverdale-Page and Ted Nugent.

Phillips and his former Bad English bandmate Neal Schon also played with former Montrose members Sammy Hagar and Denny Carmassi on a live version of the Montrose song "Rock Candy".

With the Babys

 * Union Jacks
 * On The Edge

With Bad English

 * Bad English
 * Backlash

With Styx

 * Big Bang Theory
 * One with Everything: Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra
 * The Mission
 * Crash of the Crown

With Ronnie Montrose

 * 10x10 - Producer, Bass, Hammond organ, Lead and Backing Vocals, Guitar

With Coverdale/Page

 * Coverdale/Page

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, was a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway. Founded by editor Sean Adams, the site featured reviews, news, interviews, and discussion forums.

History
DiS began as an email fanzine in 1998 called The Last Resort but was relaunched by founder and editor Sean Adams as Drowned in Sound in 2000.

The site was mostly based on contributions from unpaid writers and had an integrated forum to allow for discussion and comments on interviews, news and reviews. It also included a user-rated database of artists and bands as well as details for most live music venues in the UK.

In 2006, the site launched a podcast called Drowned in Sound Radio.

In November 2007, DiS teamed up with ad-supported download site RCRDLBL.com to launch an audio and video blog, entitled "Drownload".

DiS was involved with the Summer Sundae festival since 2008, and in 2010 kicked off their 10th anniversary celebrations with a line-up headlined by the Futureheads and Frightened Rabbit. Previously, they hosted the Friday night billing of the Rising Stage as being presented in partnership with Drowned in Sound.

In April 2019, Pitchfork reported the closure of the site following a Facebook post by Adams. Adams continued to operate a podcast under the site name, which launched in March 2023.

Ownership
A percentage of DrownedinSound.com (the website) and the Drowned in Sound Recordings record label was owned by Silentway Ltd.

DiS had a short-lived partnership with Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, which ended by mutual consent in August 2008, resulting in the majority of staff being laid off.

Awards
On 19 March 2006, The Observer's Music Monthly ranked DrownedinSound.com 9th on its list of top 25 websites. In November 2006, it passed the 150,000 unique readers a week mark and was nominated in the Best Music Website category at the 2007 PLUG Awards and the Best Website category at the 2007 Shockwaves NME Awards. The site and a handful of its writers received nominations at the 2006 Record of the Day awards, held in London on 21 November 2006. The site won in the category of Best Podcast and finished runner-up in the category of Best Website for the second year running. In September 2007, DiS was nominated in two categories at the annual BT Digital Music Awards for Best Music Magazine and Best Podcast (audio). In November 2007, DiS was named Best Online Music Publication at the annual Record of the Day awards. In 2010, Drowned in Sound won Best Publication at the Record of the Day awards.

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Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene Hoiland Peterson (November 6, 1932 – October 22, 2018) was an American Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. He wrote over 30 books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award–winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into modern American English using a dynamic equivalence translation approach.

Background
Peterson was born on November 6, 1932, in East Stanwood, Washington, and grew up in Kalispell, Montana. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Seattle Pacific University, his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from New York Theological Seminary, and his Master of Arts degree in Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University. He also held several honorary doctoral degrees.

In 1958, Peterson married Jan Stubbs. They had three children.

Career
In 1962, Peterson was a founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for 29 years before retiring in 1991. He emphasized the message of Jesus as being communal rather than individual in its nature. He was the James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1992 to 1998.

The Message
Peterson is probably best known for The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language. The stated goal of The Message was to make the original meaning more understandable and accessible to the modern reader. Peterson said: "When Paul of Tarsus wrote a letter, the people who received it understood it instantly, When the prophet Isaiah preached a sermon, I can't imagine that people went to the library to figure it out. That was the basic premise under which I worked. I began with the New Testament in the Greek — a rough and jagged language, not so grammatically clean. I just typed out a page the way I thought it would have sounded to the Galatians."

Peterson worked on The Message throughout the 1990s, translating the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts and paraphrasing them into contemporary American English slang. The translation was published in 2002 and had sold more than 15 million copies by 2018.

Same-sex marriage controversy
In 2017, a Religion News Service interviewer asked Peterson about same-sex marriage, which had been endorsed by his denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA). Peterson spoke positively of gay and lesbian Christians he had come to know in the past twenty years, and he described homosexuality as "not a right thing or wrong thing." Asked if he would be willing to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony, he replied, "Yes." The interview caused an immediate uproar in conservative Christian circles. LifeWay Christian Books announced plans to stop selling Peterson's works. The following day, however, Peterson published a statement affirming "a biblical view of marriage: one man to one woman" and retracting his affirmative answer to the question about officiating at a same-sex wedding. "I regret the confusion and bombast that this interview has fostered. It has never been my intention to participate in the kind of lightless heat that such abstract, hypothetical comments and conversations generate."

Peterson died the following year. In his 2021 authorized biography, A Burning in My Bones, Winn Collier reported that Peterson's retraction statement had actually been written by Peterson's editor and publisher, and released after Peterson reviewed it. Peterson's son, Eric, doubted that the statement accurately reflected his father's convictions.

Death
Peterson had dementia in his later years. He was hospitalized on October 8, 2018, after his health took an abrupt and dramatic turn. "[It] was caused by infection", said his son Eric Peterson in an email. Peterson had retired from public life in 2017 after publishing his final book, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. This was around the same time as the same-sex controversy around him surfaced. Collier, Peterson's biographer, shared the family's poignant memory from the days leading up to Peterson's death: "During [his final] days, it was apparent that he was navigating the thin and sacred space between earth and heaven. We overheard him speaking to people we can only presume were welcoming him into paradise." The family also commented how "[t]here may have even been a time or two when he accessed his Pentecostal roots and spoke in tongues as well." Peterson remained "joyful and smiling" in his final days.

Peterson died at his home in Lakeside, Montana, on October 22, 2018, at the age of 85, a week after entering hospice care for complications related to congestive heart failure.

Books
Praying with the Bible series
 * Growing Up in Christ: A Guide for Families with Adolescents (John Knox, 1976); then as Growing Up with Your Teenager (F. H. Revell, 1987); and then, with an additional chapter, as Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with Your Teenager (Eerdmans, 1994)
 * A Year with the Psalms: 365 Meditations and Prayers (Word Books, 1979); revised as Praying with the Psalms: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words of David (HarperCollins, 1994)
 * Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work (John Knox, 1980); then by (Eerdmans, 1992)
 * A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (InterVarsity, 1980)
 * Traveling Light: Reflections on the Free Life (InterVarsity, 1982); then as Traveling Light: Modern Meditations on St. Paul's Letter of Freedom (Helmers & Howard Publishing, 1988)
 * Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best (InterVarsity, 1983)
 * Earth and Altar: The Community of Prayer in a Self-Bound Society (Paulist Press/ InterVarsity, 1985); then as Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community (Eerdmans, 1993)
 * Forces Concealed in Quiet: Meditations from the Writings of John the Apostle [Gospel of John, 1-3 John, and Revelation] (Thomas Nelson, 1985)
 * Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (Eerdmans, 1987)
 * Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination (Harper & Row, 1988)
 * Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer (Harper & Row, 1989)
 * The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction. The Leadership Library, vol. 17 (Christianity Today/Word, 1989); then (Eerdmans, 1993)
 * Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Eerdmans, 1992)
 * Subversive Spirituality (Eerdmans, 1994); then eds. Jim Lyster, John Sharon, Peter Santucci (Eerdmans/Regent College, 1997)
 * Take and Read: Spiritual Reading, An Annotated List (Eerdmans, 1996); then published jointly (Eerdmans/Regent College, 2000)
 * Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson, ed. Janice Stubbs Peterson (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996)
 * Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians (HarperCollins, 1997)
 * The Wisdom of Each Other: A Conversation between Spiritual Friends (Zondervan, 1998)
 * First and Second Samuel. Westminster Bible Companion, eds. Patrick D. Miller and David L. Bartlett (Westminster John Knox, 1999)
 * The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call. Co-authored by Marva J. Dawn, ed. Peter Santucci (Eerdmans/ Regent College, 2000)
 * The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (NavPress, 2002)
 * The Christmas Troll (NavPress, 2004).
 * Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology (Eerdmans, 2005)
 * Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (Eerdmans, 2006)
 * Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in an Everyday Life (NavPress, 2006)
 * The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way (Eerdmans, 2007)
 * Conversations: The Message with its Translator (NavPress, 2007); as The Message Study Bible: Capturing the Notes and Reflections of Eugene H. Peterson (NavPress, 2012)
 * Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers (Eerdmans, 2008)
 * Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Eerdmans, 2010)
 * The Pastor: A Memoir (HarperOne, 2011)
 * Holy Luck (Eerdmans, 2013)
 * As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God (WaterBrook, 2017)
 * Every Step an Arrival: A 90-Day Devotional for Exploring God's Word (WaterBrook, 2018)
 * Letters to a Young Pastor. With Eric Peterson (NavPress, 2020)
 * This Hallelujah Banquet: How the End of What We Were Reveals Who We Can Be (WaterBrook, 2021)
 * On Living Well: Brief Reflections on Wisdom for Walking in the Way of Jesus (WaterBrook, 2021)
 * Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year (WaterBrook, 2023)
 * Praying with Jesus: A Year of Daily Prayer and Reflection on the Words and Actions of Jesus (Harper San Francisco, 1993) ISBN 0-06-066566-1 ISBN 978-0060665661
 * Praying with the Psalms: A Year of Daily Prayer and Reflection on the Words of David (Harper San Francisco, 1993) ISBN 0-06-066567-X ISBN 978-0060665678
 * Praying with Moses: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words and Actions of Moses (Harper San Francisco, 1994) ISBN 0-06-066518-1 ISBN 978-0060665180
 * Praying with the Early Christians: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words of the Early Christians (Harper San Francisco, 1994) ISBN 0-06-066517-3 ISBN 978-0060665173
 * Praying with Paul: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words and Actions of Paul (Harper San Francisco, 1995) ISBN 0-06-066433-9 ISBN 978-0060664336
 * Praying with the Prophets: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words and Actions of the Prophets (Harper San Francisco, 1995) ISBN 0-06-066431-2 ISBN 978-0060664312

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AWA World Tag Team Championship

The American Wrestling Association (AWA) World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling world tag team championship in the American Wrestling Association from 1960 until the promotion folded in 1991.

History
When the NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club operated by Verne Gagne withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance in May 1960, Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills were the recognized champions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version). At the time, the AWA continued to recognize the NWA champions as their World champions. However, by August 1960, and having recently recaptured the NWA Tag Team championships for a second time, Kowalski and Mills were recognized as the first AWA World Tag Team Champions when AWA stopped recognizing NWA champions.

As the promotion grew, the AWA World Tag Team Championship became one of the most coveted tag team titles in the United States from the beginning until the late 1980s, when the AWA's talent roster was depleted by the World Wrestling Federation and Jim Crockett Promotions. This led to the retirement of the titles when the AWA closed.

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Cessna 188

The Cessna 188 is a family of light agricultural aircraft produced between 1966 and 1983 by the Cessna Aircraft Company.

The various versions of the 188 included the AGwagon, AGpickup, AGtruck and AGhusky, along with the AGcarryall variant of the Cessna 185 Skywagon, and constituted Cessna's line of agricultural aircraft.

Development
In the early 1960s, Cessna decided to expand their already wide line of light aircraft by entering the agricultural aircraft market. They surveyed pilots and operators of other brands of agricultural aircraft to see what features and capabilities these operators were looking for. The resulting aircraft was a conventional single-seat, piston-engined, strut-braced low-wing agricultural airplane.

The Cessna 188 borrowed heavily from the Cessna 180, the initial version using the same tail cone and fin structure as well as the same Continental O-470-R 230 hp (170 kW) powerplant. The 188's airframe is predominantly built from 2024-T3 aluminum, with the chemical hopper constructed from fiberglass. The fuselage is of semi-monocoque construction and is lightly pressurized on later models (using the dynamic pressure resulting from the aircraft's forward speed) to reduce induction of chemicals into the airframe.

The Cessna 188 was first flown on 19 February 1965. The aircraft was certified and entered production in February 1966, with 241 aircraft delivered the first year.

The initial design of the Cessna 188 was so successful that over its 17-year production run the basic airframe remained unchanged. Only the engines and the agricultural products dispensing systems were upgraded, other than some minor changes to the ventilation systems.

The main use for the Cessna 188 series was for agricultural purposes, but many examples were later acquired for use as glider and sailplane tugs.

A total of 3976 Cessna 188s of all four variants were built during its production run, made up of 53 AGpickups, 1589 AGwagons, 1949 AGtrucks and 385 AGhuskies.

Variants

 * 188 AGwagon 230
 * Initial version powered by a Continental O-470-R 230 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 3800 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 14 February 1966.

 * 188A AGwagon "A"
 * Powered by a Continental O-470-R 230 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 3800 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 26 September 1969.

 * 188A AGwagon "B"
 * Powered by a Continental O-470-R 230 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 3800 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 26 September 1969.

 * 188B AGpickup
 * Powered by a Continental O-470-R or O-470-S 230 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 3800 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 20 December 1971, production ended in 1976.

 * A188 AGwagon 300
 * Initial version powered by a Continental IO-520-D 300 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 4000 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 14 February 1966.

 * A188A AGwagon "A"
 * Powered by a Continental IO-520-D 300 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 4000 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 26 September 1969.

 * A188A AGwagon "B"
 * Powered by a Continental IO-520-D 300 hp powerplant, a 200 US gallon (760 liter) chemical hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 4000 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 26 September 1969.

 * A188B, AGwagon "C" and AGtruck
 * Powered by a Continental IO-520-D 300 hp powerplant, a 280 US gallon (1060 liter) hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 4000 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 20 December 1971, production of the AGwagon ended in 1981 and the AGtruck in 1985.

 * T188C AGhusky
 * Powered by a turbocharged Continental TSIO-520-T 310 hp powerplant, a 280 US gallon (1060 liter) hopper, with a normal category gross weight of 3300 lb and 4400 lb in the restricted category. Certified on 8 September 1978, production ended in 1985.

Aircraft on display

 * Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand – Cessna A188 Agwagon ZK-COO
 * Aero Space Museum of Calgary, Alberta, Canada – Cessna AgWagon 1966 C-GXQM

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Mahli

The Mahli are a community in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Basketry is their main occupation. They speak the Mahali language, which belongs to the Munda group, and many of them also know Odia, Santali, Bengali, and Hindi. They are included in list of Scheduled Tribe.

Origin
They are caste who works as palanquin bearers and bamboo workers. They are divided into five endogamous subdivision: the bansphor Mahli, pahar mahli, Sulunkhi, Tanti and Mahli Munda. Their some septs are Barwar (banayan), Bhuktuar, dumriar (wild fig), gundli (a kind of grain), Induar (eel), Kantiar, Kasriar, Kathargachh (jackfruit tree), Kendriar, Kerketta (a bird), mahukal (a bird), Tirki, Tunduar, Turu, Lang Chenre, Sanga. Their four septs Hansda, Hemron, Murmu, Saren also found in Santal tribe.

Culture
Their traditional occupation was making households items of bamboo.

They were also making musical instruments such as Mandar, Dhol, Nagara etc.

Their deity is Surjahi (Solar deity). Other deity are Bar Pahari (mountain deity) and Mansa Devi. Their festival are Bangri, Hariyari and Nawakhani etc.

Official classification
They are listed as a Scheduled Tribe by the Jharkhand government.

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Democratic Union of Hungarians of Croatia

The Democratic Union of Hungarians of Croatia (Demokratska zajednica Mađara Hrvatske, DZMH; Horvátországi Magyarok Demokratikus Közössége, HMDK) is a Croatian non-governmental organization that represents the Hungarian minority. It was established in 1993, and is headquartered in Osijek. It is close to Fidesz and the late Croatian president Franjo Tuđman.

Self-definition
The goals of the Democratic Union of Hungarians of Croatia are the demographic preservation of current numbers of Hungarians in Croatia, respect of Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia and establishment of positive Croatia–Hungary relations. The party was part of ruling coalition in the municipality of Bilje together with the Croatian Democratic Union but it cancelled cooperation with that party in 2011. In 2011 party functionaries stated that they believe they can get into power in Kneževi Vinogradi to, where at the time the main concurrent Union of Hungarian Organisations was in power. They criticized the Union of Hungarian Organisations minority advocacy credentials in the field of protection of Minority languages of Croatia after they failed to introduce Hungarian language into official use into Kneževi Vinogradi at that time.

Electoral results
In the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election, they nominated one Jene Adam in the election for the special seat for the Hungarian minority and won one seat in the parliament.

In the elections of 2007, 2011 and 2015 they nominated Robert Jankovics but did not win the seat. At 2016 Croatian parliamentary election they again succeeded to win one seat in national minorities electoral District XII, represented by Robert Jankovics. He won another mandate at the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election, as the only candidate for the Hungarian minority.


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Qizil

Qizil may refer to:
 * Kizil Caves, in Baicheng County (Bay), Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
 * Qizil, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran

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German People's Union – National Association of Danube Swabians in Croatia

The German People’s Union – National Association of Danube Swabians in Croatia (Njemačka narodnosna zajednica - Zemaljska udruga Podunavskih Švaba u Hrvatskoj) is a Croatian organization representing the German minority, most obviously the Danube Swabians. Established in 1992, and headquartered in Osijek, the organization is active in a number of fields, most prominently culture.

In the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election, they nominated one Nikola Mak in the election for the special seat for the German minority and won one seat in parliament.


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Sasin

Sasin may refer to:

People

 * Dmitri Sasin (born 1996), Russian footballer
 * Jacek Sasin (born 1969), Polish politician
 * Pavel Sasín (born 1950), Czechoslovak triple jumper
 * Paweł Sasin (born 1983), Polish footballer

Other uses

 * Selasphorus sasin, species of hummingbird
 * Sasin Spraymaster, agricultural aircraft
 * Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University
 * SS-8 Sasin, two-stage IRBM of the Soviet Union
 * Sasin, another name for the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)

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Qiongshan, Haikou

Qiongshan District, alternately romanized as Kiungshan, is a district in Haikou City, Hainan.

History
As Qiongzhou, formerly romanized as Kiungchow, the district was formerly a separate city which served as the center of Chinese administration on Hainan Island when it formed a part of Guangdong Province.

The British Consulate in Kiungchow was opened in April 1876, as a result of the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858.

Geography
Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve is located in the district and has an area of 2500 ha. It includes six rivers, an irregular coastline, and a number of bays and tidewater gullies. The mangrove forest on the south coast provides a habitat for birds and other wildlife.

Demographics
Mandarin is the official language of administration and education, but locals also speak Haikou dialect of Hainanese (a Min language), while other ethnic groups also speak the Qiongshan dialect of Lingao.

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Questioning facts is like breathing: -- Jonas Bergsten
 * You should do it all the time without thinking about it.
 * It's absolutely necessary, but it's not impressive and it won't get you anywhere on its own.

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Talk:List of West Germanic languages

languages or dialects?
I'd like to change the following to dialects, not languages, but as it seems a big change I thought it would be polite to ask first if anyone had anything against it!

Frankish language Lower Silesian language Upper Saxon language Kölsch language Mainfränkisch language Pfaelzisch language Swabian language Low Alemannic Alemán Coloneiro (?) Alsatian language Basel German High Alemannic Bernese German ... and I think most of the rest... Saintswithin 12:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Merge
Considering that West Germanic languages has this information and more, this page seems sort of redundant. I propose a merge. Or a deletion. AEuSoes1 08:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Queens Quay (Toronto)

Queens Quay is a prominent street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street was originally commercial in nature due to the many working piers along the waterfront; parts of it have been extensively rebuilt in since the 1970s with parks, condominiums, retail, as well as institutional and cultural development.

History
The road supplanted both Front Street and Lake Shore Boulevard as the most southerly east–west corridor in the city when it was created on reclaimed land in the inner harbour. Sometime after 1919 to the early 1920s the inner harbour was filled in and new slips were created. Queens Quay continues to go through a significant transformation. Originally, it served as an access road for the various ports and slips in the inner harbour. The street between Yonge Street and Parliament Street was home to storage buildings devoted to trade on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, major industries such as the Redpath Sugar Refinery and Victory Mills, as well as small commercial enterprises. However, the mainly industrial uses along Queens Quay were slowly replaced by commercial and residential uses, mainly high-rise condominiums. Between 1975 and 1979, a cluster of large, concrete towers were erected at the foot of Bay Street, south of Queens Quay; these included the Westin Harbour Castle and Harbour Square. In 1990, the 40-storey York Quay towers were built and remain the tallest buildings on Queens Quay. The scale and density of these and subsequent high-rise development along Queens Quay were criticized for blocking the lake and failing to provide a welcoming realm for visitors. In 1997 City School (Toronto) relocated to 635 Queens Quay West. In 1999, the Toronto Transit Commission opened a dedicated streetcar right-of-way in the median from Bay Street to Bathurst Street.

In 2001, the city planners set out to improve Queens Quay by reclaiming public space for pedestrians and cyclists. This resulted in the Waterfront Toronto Central Waterfront Public Realm International Design Competition, which was completed in 2006. In August 2006, the city closed the two eastbound lanes, replacing them with bike lanes as part of the Martin Goodman Trail and additional pedestrian space. The experiment resulted in an improved public realm and more visitors to the overall waterfront area.

In 2009, Waterfront Toronto announced its plans to turn Queens Quay into a grand lakefront boulevard by placing streetcar lanes in the centre, traffic only on the north side and a pedestrian-focused space on the south side. The plan would restrict Queen's Quay to two traffic lanes, on the north side of the streetcar tracks, similar to the design of the 2006 experiment. Additionally, the plan calls for the beautification and extension of the Harbourfront streetcar line along Queen's Quay East between Yonge and Cherry Street. The transit right-of-way will be grass-covered.

In 2013 Ontario Square and Canada Square opened. The former is an open public space and the latter a green area. Both replace the former parking lot, which is now underground.

Transportation
Queens Quay is served by two streetcar lines, operating on a dedicated right-of-way. The 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina both terminate at Union Station and run along Queens Quay from Bay Street, westward. At Spadina Avenue, the 510 heads north to Spadina station, and the 509 continues west, bound for the Exhibition Loop.

Originally there was to have been an underground station in front of the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel and the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, with underground access to the hotel. This plan was cancelled when the hotel management became unwilling to share in the cost, and a smaller station was built around the corner under Bay Street.

Plans to add a Queens Quay East light rail line are the subject of a class environmental assessment. Various bus routes currently serve portions of the eastern portion of Queens Quay: the 19 Bay operates from Bay Street to Sherbourne Street; the 65 Parliament and the 365 Parliament Blue Night operate from Sherbourne Street to Parliament Street; the 72 Pape and the 202 Cherry Beach operate from Bay Street to Parliament Street; the 75 Sherbourne operates from Jarvis Street to Sherbourne Street; and the 320 Yonge Blue Night buses operates from Bay Street to Yonge Street.

Quays and slips along Queens Quay
Listed from west to east
 * Bathurst Quay (Éireann Quay) - see Ireland Park and Canada Malting Silos
 * Spadina Quay
 * Peter Street Slip
 * Maple Leaf Quays - former site of Maple Leaf Mills Silos
 * Rees Street Slip
 * John Street Quay
 * Simcoe Street Slip
 * York Quay
 * York Street Slip
 * Harbour Square
 * Yonge Street Slip
 * Pier 27
 * Jarvis Street Slip - now Corus Quay
 * Redpath Slip
 * Parliament Street Slip

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IB Biology

 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 - moved to Wikibooks - SimonP 20:01, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

IB Biology
Ambitious recreation of the International Baccalaureate syllabus for 2003, really not suitable for an encyclopedia, delete. --nixie 12:54, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Good work but this should be in wikibooks. DS1953 14:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The right place for study guides is the Study guide bookshelf at Wikibooks. Well whaddaya-know? Looky here! ☺ Delete. Uncle G 16:20, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
 * Good idea to move but its should probably go in the separate module of Wikibooks that exists for IB study guides. I left a message earlier today on the author's talk page. DS1953 16:54, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Allen3 talk 01:05, Jun 10, 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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Mawson Trail

The Mawson Trail is a long-distance cycling and walking trail in South Australia starting just east of Adelaide in the Adelaide Hills and extending almost 900 km to Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. It is suitable for mountain bikes.

The Mawson Trail traverses remote areas of the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges, mostly away from bitumen roads, and often off-road on tracks and unmade road or forest reserves. It also passes through a number of country towns. It starts at the upstream end of the Torrens Linear Park on Gorge Road, leading into the Adelaide Hills, so that it is directly connected by dedicated pedestrian/cycleway to the coast at West Beach.

BikeSA hosts a guided two-week tour of the entire length every second year.

The trail is named after explorer Douglas Mawson.

Route
The route is generally described south-to-north, although it can be ridden in either direction. Signage along the route is provided for both directions.

The towns passed through are:
 * Adelaide (outskirts)
 * Lobethal, a historic town with German settler history
 * Birdwood, home of the National Motor Museum
 * Rowland Flat, a town in the Barossa Valley
 * Tanunda, a large town with bakeries, pubs and cafes in the Barossa Valley
 * Nuriootpa, main commercial centre of the Barossa valley
 * Kapunda, with cafes, supermarkets and pubs
 * Riverton, with pubs and cafes
 * Auburn, with a pub and cafes
 * Clare, a large town with a large supermarket, bike shop and cafes
 * Burra, a large historical town with several pubs, supermarkets and cafes
 * Hallett, with a service station/general store and a pub
 * Spalding, with a general store and pub with barbed wire museum
 * (Near Jamestown)
 * Laura, with a supermarket and cafes
 * Melrose, with a bike shop cafe, two pubs, and several cafes
 * Wilmington, with a pub, general store and cafe
 * Quorn, a large historical town with four pubs and several cafes
 * Cradock, a tiny hamlet with a pub
 * Hawker, a small town with a roadhouse/general store and a cafe
 * Rawnsley Park Station, a caravan park with pub and general store
 * Wilpena, a very large caravan and campsite with pub, general store and information office
 * Blinman, a small tourist village with pub and mine tours

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