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User talk:Anonymous editor

Thank you.
There are many few non-Muslim maintining neutral view towards Islamic articles. It is my pleasure to find you. Thank you. --- Faisal 17:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you :). -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 17:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

No personal attacks
Can you explain to me, why you keep restoring a personal attack me on Irishpunktom's userpage? -- Karl Meier 19:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It's his user page, editing it is vandalism. And I don't "keep restoring"; I reverted once. Ask him to remove it or get another opinion, but don't do it yourself. Thanks. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 19:25, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I ask you again to please quit harassing me, by restoring personal remarks regarding me on Irishpunktom's userpage. Nobody own any pages here on Wikipedia, and personal attacks can be removed on sight. If you keep harassing me, and insist on restoring these personal remarks/attacks on Irishpunktom's userpage, then I'll have to make a complaint on the administrators noticeboard about your and Irishpunktoms behavior, and bring it to the attention of a broader range of Wikipedians. -- Karl Meier 19:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * You think that reverting someone's edits to a user's page is harrassment even if if it's done once?

 * About four other editors have also reverted you. I remember you had a very racist link on your userpage once that you absolutely refused to take off even when administators warned you. You can not edit his page, please ask him to remove it. I have nicely responded to your answer. Good bye. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 19:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It is true that there is several members of the "Muslims Guild" that has insisted on readding the personal attacks against me, but until now you are the only administrator that has done it. In my opinion it makes it much more serious, as administrators should be expected to be experienced users, that didn't engaged in such behavior (harassment/personal attacks and remarks). Regarding the external link, I have already agreed to remove it from my userpage a long time. In my opinion it wasn't racist, it was just an angry response to the violent attacks that happend just because of a few cartoons. This being said, I have already admittet that it was wrong that I placed the external link on my userpage, and it surely doesn't give editors such as you and Irishpunktom the right to harass me months after I removed the link. Please end your insults against me. -- Karl Meier 19:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * You aren't allowed to edit another person's page and that's it. Don't do it because if he reports you will be blocked for vandalism. And please stop exagerrating one revert by me as harassment. I might have prevented you from being blocked. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 19:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * You don't own any pages on Wikipedia, and personal attacks can be removed on sight whereever they are. If you feel that I vandalize Irishpunktoms userpage by removing a personal attack against me, then please file a report on "vandalism in progress" or quit your false accusations against me. It's bad enough that you restore these personal attacks. -- Karl Meier 20:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it should be removed but me reverting one of your edits to someone else's user page is not harassment even if you are biased enough to think so. You should have asked another editor or admin to remove them for you. Not do it yourself when three or four different editors have told you not to do so. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 20:03, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * If you where not "biased" as you call it, and if you really believe it should be removed, then I don't think you would have restored it. The plain and simple facts are that Irishpunktom made a personal attack against me on his userpage, and that you insisted that it should stay there. You even used one of your admin tools (the rollback feature) to insist on having this personal attack against me on Irishpunktoms userpage. -- Karl Meier 20:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

IMPRESSED very MUCH WITH YOUR THOUGHTS AND ANALYSIS
I am very much impressed with your thoughts on Islamic Terrorism and on other points.I have gone through the INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS of the problem with the reference at one place, with syrprise. You have good collected the material as well as reference the sites at one place which earlier I have not seen. I will go through because I want to know more about the Islamic Terrorism and Islamic Extremeist. I am with you and support you. Keep this sprit always.

Wikipedia:Deletion_review#User:Raphael1/Wikiethics
Since you previously showed interest in the former proposed policy Wikiethics, I'd like to inform you about this deletion review. Raphael1 15:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Where are you?
Where are you these days. Without you they are becoming stronger and I am missing you. They are going to unprotect Muhammad article. They want to pust their stuff in. Please stop its unprotection and ready for reverting their POVs. I hope to see you soon around. --- Faisal 11:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

undelete
Salam bro. Don't you think we should undelete Articles for deletion/Sahaba's ancestors? I put quite much time on it, and are proud of it, i belive its to usefull to be deleted. Im trying to see what people think before taking it to undeleteANI. What to you think?--Striver 08:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protect South Central Farm
That anon has been making those edits for the last few days. The page was semi-protected for a while which helped, but it was recently lifted. Can you keep an eye on that page and if it happens again, semi-protect again? The Ungovernable Force 06:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! The Ungovernable Force 06:11, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Accusations of personal attacks
I see that you have accused me of calling other Wikipedians "names". That is a very serious accusation and I would like you to substanciate it, or withdraw it. Please provide a diff where I call any Wikipedian any disrespectful names, or quit making any such false accusations against me. -- Karl Meier 11:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Category marked for deletion
You may be interested.

Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_16

BhaiSaab talk 00:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom
Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 10:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!
--Pilot| guy 22:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

fyi
Deletion_review/Log/2006_June_26 --Striver 20:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy Canada Day
Happy Canada Day, though I see you're (hopefully just) on a wikibreak. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 01:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

India -> India + Pakistan + Bangladesh
I and User:Rama's Arrow were discussing linkage of pages to India when refer to pre-1947 India (undivided India). Please have a look at discussion, and comment. You can also invite user interested in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Following is statement to start:

'''India after 1947 consists of three countries, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. When we use word India, in articles, refereeing to whole India, links are such that they bring us to present day India (Republic of India), reducing size of pre-1947 India considerably. Is it possible that when we refer to pre-1947 India we use a term which encompasses whole India not just present day India? Please comment'''.

Following are suggestions:
 * British India
 * Indian Subcontinent
 * Undivided India
 * or disamg page of India.

--Spasage 10:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

i personally suggest undivided india nids 13:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey there
Back again. Hope all is well with you and yours. BYT 10:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I would not say in this case silence is more musical than the music. I trust you are all right. --Bhadani 15:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Does any one has any information about him? --Bhadani 12:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

banu qaynuqa/banu nadir dispute
السلام عليكم

the banu qaynuqa article is currently set to develop into perhaps a full-scale edit war. this is in relation to (the same) content present in both the banu nadir and banu qaynuqa articles. the specific section of focus was something i had offered to discuss and suggest alternatives for (on talk:banu nadir), which could then be modified and analysed for suitability. unfortunately this has not really seemed to work and now this is exactly the same content being reverted back on forth on banu qaynuqa. would it be o.k to request protection of the banu qaynuqa article (which is currently the condition with Banu Nadir), or at least the section, until the dispute is resolved? what other courses of action would you suggest (i'm still pretty much a newbie to WP)?

we tried mediation for the banu nadir article in hopes to settle the dispute but it seems that the opposing party isn't particularly interested in working to build a consensus article. at this point in time.. it seems that the mediation process is stagnating. what is your opinion of this and what steps do you recommend be taken in order to resolve the ongoing dispute? thank you ITAQALLAH   15:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey. Do you have any idea that he has not come to edit from 17th June 2006. I am worried a lot. --Bhadani 16:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * indeed... i realised that a little after posting when i saw his contribs... i do hope nothing's wrong and that he is okay and doing well.. ITAQALLAH   18:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Article
Hi. I have created a new article that will surely be afd'd very soon, and i would appreciate some help improving it before it happens: Controversial Israeli and Zionist quotes --Striver 13:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you have any idea about his whereabouts? --Bhadani 16:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Help request
Hello Anonymous editor, I understand you are an administrator and in that capacity I am requesting your assistance. I have become involved in a very heated debate regarding an article I had previously nominated for AfD. During and after the AfD I have come in frequent conflict with User:Travb who questions my conduct on Wikipedia. I am not requesting assistance in any content dispute but I would very much like an outsider to review this matter and I would appreciate you looking into it. For some of the relevant links pertaining to this please see this and this. The thread on the admin noticeboard is getting to be a rehashing of the entire thing and no admins have responded substantially yet.

My sole concern here is the intimidating tactics employed by Travb, his telling me what to do and think, threatening to know I will be booted from WP (I know it is just intimidation tactics but that's just what concerns me). He uses derogatory terms to describe those who don't share his POV and dismisses them and employs tactics like keeping tabs on how many words I add and delete from articles and implying that when someone doesn't add anything to an article that they cannot delete inappropriate content. I have not been totally civil myself perhaps and I can feel myself getting more and more uncivil in this matter and I do not like that one bit.

Even though I have been on WP almost a year now, I am not too familiar with what steps to take in dispute resolution and I do not know where else to turn but directly to an admin. If you cannot help I would appreciate a nudge in the right direction. Apologies for the length of this post on your talk page. Thank you, Kalsermar 00:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi admin, sorry to drag you into this. This users request was ignored by everyone but User:Jkelly on Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents, who recommended a RfC, which I have started. I also started mediation, and ask two other mediators I worked with before to mediate the article.

 * Kalsermar, If you feel that I have treated you unfairly, and you need support, I strongly suggest an advocate, they have helped me and others before: Association of Members' Advocates. You can also e-mail those who share your POV on the disputed page and work on strategies to counter my work. You are not alone on wikipedia.

 * Sorry again admin for bothering you.Travb (talk) 02:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hateful comments
Hey. I want to report hateful, anti-Muslim comments made by User:Subhash bose on User talk:Haphar. I have no clue what to do with it, since I can't find any policy page on Wikipedia dealing with these types of comments. Thank you, Mar de Sin Speak up! 02:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "I'm not upset about fundamentalism in Islam because there is no fundamentalism in Islam. Islam ITSELF is 'fundamentalist', in the sense of Intolerance, Slaughter, Looting, Arson, Molestation of women, ie I-S-L-A-M. The very word 'ISLAM' means 'submission to God'. Well I, for one, refuse to submit to their god through the UPA government. Sammihit Bharat!"
 * "The claim of Islamic 'fundamentalism' gives rise to the illusion that there is a 'non-fundamental' kind of Islam. There is only one kind of Islam. The kind that blows things up."
 * Also, check out Haphar's anti-Semitic racist comments about the mythical "Jewish Lobby" (which is regarded as an anti-Semitic slur). I confronted him about it here. He has tried to engage in some sort of McCarthyist rally against myself in several talk pages here here and got admonished by other users here. He has frequently engaged in ad-Hominem attacks against myself in my talk pages (I have them archived), as well as various other talk pages throughout wikipedia. His behaviour points to a psycho-pathological leftist fanaticism and a potentially dangerous anti-Semitic obsession with this nonexistent "Jewish Lobby" thing.Netaji 23:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Please give the indivdual edit that Haphar made, instead of pages. The evidence for "some sort of McCarthyist rally against myself" are your own edits, showing your deletion of Haphar's previous edits.  Also, users are entitled to believe what they want about anything (like Haphar to the Israel lobby, which is just a term, not a rigid organization), but they should not make attacks.  You, on your own talk page (Archive 2), made numerous anti-Islamic/Arab comments [User talk:Subhash bose/Archive 2#Look who's talking|here]], while i did not see a single anti-Jewish, -Hindu, -Indian, etc. comment made by others (I haven't read the entire thing, so I may be wrong).  Thank you.  Mar de Sin  Speak up!  01:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi all. Do you know that he has not done any edit from 17th June 2006? Any one having any clue about AE. --Bhadani 14:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Islamic Barnstar Award
Please offer your opinion, vote, or whatever about your choice for the image to be used with the Islamic Barnstar Award at the Barnstar proposals page. Although there is consensus for the concept of an Islamic Barnstar Award, some editors would like to change the image for the award. I was just thinking you should be aware of this discussion because you have contributed to Islamic-related articles, received the Islamic Barnstar Award, or have contributed to the Islam-related Wikiprojects, etc.--JuanMuslim 1m 03:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Info on Islamophobic group
Hello,

What follows are the sentiments, expressed in their own words, and in the 'protest signs', of the obscure, very small, but very vocal 'activist group' known as "Protest Warrior".

"What's becoming clear is how the religion of Islam is addicted to war and mayhem. Not a radical minority, not a rogue sect, but its very essence is about submission and sacrifice and proving your worth by worshipping death in this life to gain a paradise of orgies and drunkenness. Their entire history is of warfare, and any accomplishments of their so-called Golden Age has been proven to be merely parasitic off the cultures they've conquered and reduced to dhimmi servitude. That every country under sharia is corrupt, belligerent, desolate and barbaric obviously gives them no pause, except to constantly drive them into further psychotic rage as they refuse to ever accept any responsibility for their conditions. They are akin to the powers in Orwell's 1984; there must always be an enemy. It's no surprise that women are treated like property in these countries as that's the only way Muslim men can feed their egos, to dominate others rather than ever actually produce something."

Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton, founders of "Protest Warrior"

Their 'protest signs'...

Signs

I thought you might be interested in this group's sentiments. They are currently very actively editing their own article on Wiki and there is a lot of 'group think'. Perhaps you might want to become involved in the editing and discussion process on that page. If you do, please don't vandalize, and try to remain civil. Should you not want to involve youself, please forgive my intrusion.

Protest Warrior

Protest Warrior Discussion

NBGPWS 08:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

FYI
Hi Anonymous, Just to let you know that something has come of your and KI's encouragement earlier this year. Thank you for making the initial suggestion! Best wishes, David Kernow 04:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. that is fine. But I fail to understand the reason for no edit from AE from 17.06.06. I am worried a lot. --Bhadani 13:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This is really disconcerting. Anonymous editor is a great administrator and has made prolific contributions, but he has basically disappeared without even one clue, signal, or message.  I hope AE is alright, and I hope he will come back soon.   Mar de Sin  Talk to me!  20:17, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Dear Anonymous editor
Dear Anonymous editor,

Please come back. Sometime ago, I was looking at the Isa article and felt deeply felt the lack of your taking care of that article. You were doing a great job. I am sorry for the incivil comments I may have made on your talk page. I hope you are well. I wish to see you editing again soon. --Aminz 21:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi I need help
Salaam' User:Hkelkar, keeps adding unnecessary and  tags and also claims I did a personal attack on him when I warned him about his edits and unnecessarily adding the tags when the article "Cheema" clearly cites it sources. It seems anything which shows the humiliating treatment some Hindus dished out to the Jatt then he has to add the tag to that piece of text when there is clearly a reference there. So please can you look into this thanks. --Street Scholar 17:48, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

 * He is on vacation. last edit he did on wikipedia was on 17th June.nids(♂) 17:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * For the record, I have been on irc talking about him and editors agree with me that his sources are false. I will post a record of the chat session if you want me to do so.Hkelkar 18:07, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * On vacation? It seems that AE disappeared from WP without a message/Wikibreak tag at all, and this has been almost 4 months. Mar de Sin  Talk to me!  19:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I am a bit worried. In case, he has some real life issues, I would request him to please put a note here. I wish him all the best! --Bhadani 01:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I also wish him the best and hope he comes back. --Aminz 22:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Me too :( -- ابراهيم 07:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I wonder if he's read Ibn Ishaq or al-Tabari. Arrow740 06:15, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

User talk:203.101.61.10
Hi, I was wondering why you protected the User talk:203.101.61.10 page, since now this user is going around vandalizing articles, and editors are unable to warn appropriately... Wouldn't itbe better to block this obvious sockpuppet before he does any more damage? Sfacets 07:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Help with Significance of Jerusalem in Islam
Peace, I need some help with the article Religious_significance_of_Jerusalem. You can visit the history of the article to witness the edit wars that broke out, or the talk page under /Talk:Religious_significance_of_Jerusalem, for the current debate. Bless sins 02:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Danny Graham
An article that you have been involved in editing, Danny Graham, has been listed by me at Articles for deletion/Danny Graham. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Jerry lavoie 05:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Jerry lavoie 05:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

PICTURE OF MUHAMMAD[SAW]
can it be removed or not. plz answer me. i like your contributions. thanks Zikrullah 11:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Afd: Garry Miller (Abdul Ahad Omar), please vote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gary_Miller_(Abdul-Ahad_Omar)

User:Waqas.usman (Talk) 11:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Strange to find messages when AE has not edited since 17th June 2006, and appears to have left without any clue. --Bhadani 20:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Help
I need your help. I'm now very tired and annoyed reading, since days, advices and pages about wikipedia policies without finding a real solution. Since days I wait for an administrator to cancel my account. I found incredible being in the impossibility to cancel an account I created. "Do I have to make vandalism in Wiki pages to finally found someone clever enough to answer to my request and cancel my account?" I asked.. I had no reply. Please accept my request and cancel definitively my account from wikipedia. Thank you. MDMDMDMD —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MikeMcGD (talk • contribs), 31 March 2007 (UTC).

RE: Help with an article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Morgan
Hey there,

I've been in a reverting cycle with "Someone" (given they do not use a username and just update with an IP I dunno who) in regards to this article. I know that it is a snub but it is clear to me that it is someone trying to use the page as some sort of platform for something. I know and have campaigned for John and yeah he is smart but I don't think that a) His IQ should be listed as it is unverifable and b) his support for a local movement is suspect. So I removed both references and this other person keeps re-inserting them claiming that "I" and not following wiki policy or that using my logic the article wouldn't exist. I believe I am in the right in that arbitaray things like IQ and opinion should be removed if it is unsourced or unverifable. Could you lock this page after my edit or give me some advice in regards to this issue. You helped me once before. Thank you. --Kirkoconnell 17:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Pakistan Army
Dear editor, I added the following on this article: an image of Pakistan Army surrender in East Pakistan, some of the others like mercenary and one other feel this is vandalism, I think it is important as it was the most important time in Pakistans history when it lost through surrender half its country. Furthermore, I made each coup into a sub paragraph, others dont agree. I would invite you to look at it and give your impartial opinion.

trueblood 03:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Question
Am i allowed to remove vandalism warnings, copyright image notices, etc, from my user talk page? User:Yamakiri user has threatened to permanently protect my user talk page so that i cant edit it. Can i remove copyright image notices at least? i hope you see this soon. thx Modelun88 00:23, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Getting of tired of going behind him... Anyways, he's removed block notices, and I'm not an admin so I just requested that his page be protected and that he get a block. P.S. he's copied and pasted this on quite a few pages now.Yamakiri 00:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Help
Can you tell me what is wrong with my infobox on my sandbox?--Arceus fan 17:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins
Hi Anonymous editor. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee    t / c  23:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

?
Teddy?

dissregaurd if you don't know what this is.--ANOMALY-117 (talk) 18:01, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Third opinion
Hi, I and my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of removing a section as subsection under criticism section in Operation Blue Star article, concerns include WP:NPOV, the summary of dispute can be found at, please let us know your views/opinion so that 'alleged' bias may be looked into and a consensual solution may be found. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 06:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

A Problem On The Billy Joel Article
I am writing to you because of a problem on the Billy Joel article. There is an anonymous user with the IP address of 148.4.25.128 that has been reinserting a link to a personal website on the article in the External links section. This user has been doing this for quite some time. He did it on November 20th, 2008 and I just noticed it tonight. I removed the link because I know about Wikipedia's policy on Spam links and that they are not allowed.

Since I saw that you are an administrator, I felt that I should talk to you regarding this rather than me taking care of the matter myself. I also do not want to start any edit conflicts and/or wars. Thanks for taking the time to look into this matter.Frschoonover (talk) 02:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Pakistani television and radio channels
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article List of Pakistani television and radio channels, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * This article's title states that it is a "list of Pakistani television and radio channels", but there is no such list on the article. Even if there were, it would be superfluous because of List of Pakistani television stations and List of Pakistani radio channels. There is no reason to group the two lists together under this title, therefore this article serves no purpose.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Neelix (talk) 21:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I have three questions
I made an edit today--one edit--to the article Carrie Prejean and have not made an edit to the article in days, but yet another editor reversed my ONE edit and then reported me on the 3RR notice board. I find this to be a clear use of Wikipedia to win a debate about article content and direction. Prejean was called a series of negative things by Perez Hilton, most of the words are contemptuous and vile, such as the b-word and c-word. There are editors that believe that each and every one of Hilton's use of those words MUST be included in the article about Prejean. Now, I don't see the need to have an article about Prejean dominated by the words and comments of ONE individual (highly negative words at that) dominate the life story of Prejean. It is tantamount to having the words of Saddam Hussein concerning George W Bush dominate the Wikipedia article about Bush. It violates Wikipedia avowed goal of NPOV and it violates BLP. Now, I know that consensus in Wikipedia editing is one of the goals, but consensus does NOT override other valid Wikipedia ideals such as BLP. There can be a compromise made where the gist of Hilton's highly negative opinion is included in the article, but at the same time it does NOT dominate the life story of Prejean. Prejean is notable for many, many reasons, not just her public fight with Hilton. She is notable for being a successful model; she is notable for participating in Deal or No Deal; she is notable for being the current Miss California USA; and she is now notable for being a TV personality. My first question is: Can you at least review the article and see if the second, third, fourth, and fifth repetitions of the b-word and c-word violates BLP? I believe that it does. And my second question is: Is it appropriate to make a report on an editor for violating 3RR even though that editor has only made one edit? And my third question is: Is misusing 3RR to win a debate on the proper interpretation of BLP appropriate? I don't think so.--InaMaka (talk) 15:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Yula
I am curious as to why the article for Brooklyn musician Yula Be'eri has been deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.250.112.135 (talk) 17:26, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could help me. I made the mistake of vandalism last year on the Elizabeth Swann page. I have never done it since then and I feel very bad about it. I didn't mean to be a pain or anything, I just didn't like what was written and didn't know what else to do about it. I do regret it and I didn't mean any harm.

I wanted to know if you could erase the discussion. I feel so bad about what I've done and I know only an Administrator can erase edits and such. I would be most grateful if you could do this for me. I really feel guilty when I see that page. I've changed and I'll never make an edit again. If you could help me, I'll appreciate it. 71.230.185.202 (talk) 02:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Jesus in Islam
Dear Anonymous, regarding article Jesus in Islam, recently I had a long discussion with other reader/editor/admin on its title to have “Isa” word in it. In the history of 'talk page' of this article in year 2006 there was a long similar discussion regarding title involving name "Isa" and there was editor naming similar to you was very much involved. If it is you, please have a look at discussion on 'title move' there and let me know about your view on the subject on my talk page if you feel so, thanks.--Md iet (talk) 09:52, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Please Peer Review Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
I recently nominated Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for peer review. I request you that if you can spare some time offer a peer review of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Please favourably consider my request. R.Sivanesh ✆ 08:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity
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Talk:Thornlea Secondary School

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Good Job "69.196.105.224" with creating this article with so much detail. Are you a current student at the school? I would only say that you seem to have a bias against student council. As a member of thornlea's student council, I will be taking a more indepth look and revising this article in the near future. --Esto 23:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

The modifications look good, Esto and others. :) As for any slight that may have been perceived in the original article: no offense was intended. I'm an alumnus of the school (class of '02) and during my time there, I had close friends in TSAC and was quite active in the extracurricular community myself, so I would never have deliberately portrayed any particular group in a negative light, nor would I have any reason to. I've tried to emphasize throughout the article that such statements are common perceptions, i.e. not necessarily based in fact, but certainly prevalent enough among students (both former and current), and of enough significance to Thornlea's identity and image in Thornhill, that they merited inclusion. -- 69.196.105.224

I must admit that this article is quite one-sided and does not reflect the views of most students (past and present) of the school. Yes thornlea does have a laid back type attitude but this allows for great student-teacher interactions. I can consider my stay at Thornlea among the best four years of my life. Not only was I exposed to a great academic life but also to a fun and beneficial social life. Do not give the school a bad reputation based on the fact that you live your lives full of complacency and the need to blame others for your problems.

To the above contributor: Your points are well taken. As mentioned, my intention was never to present the school in a negative light, as I too very much enjoyed the time I spent there. This may be a moot point, however, as the current edition of the article seems to be in good shape. P.S. It would be appreciated if in the future you signed your comments (even just with a nickname of some sort), simply as a courtesy to other users, and to make specific lines of discussion easier to follow. Thanks. -- 69.196.105.224

Persistent vandalism
One or more parties seems to be intent on adding livejournal-type content to this entry. Does it need to be temporarily locked? Jasmol 21:44, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Lore
Any opinions on whether the "Lore" section meets Wikipedia standards? I've removed it for now. The various mentions of names and drug busts should probably be sourced if they're to be included.

69.196.105.224: Thanks for helping clear up the Lore section. Jasmol 22:29, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Mike Myers?
The Famous Alumni section claims  Mike Myers attended Thornlea. I've been unable to locate this information anywhere else. Is this claim verifiable? Rrburke 19:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I doubt it, since Mike Myers is a born and bread Canadian. (Narkstraws 23:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC))
 * Thornlea is in Canada. --Rrburke(talk) 18:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Some stuff
I'm a current student at Thornlea, and an odd thing turned up a few months ago. Our principal was surfing Wikipedia and actually stumbled across the Thornlea entry and was not pleased. He passed his displeasure on to our Vice Principal in charge of publications, who then brought it to my attention, as I am currently one of the editors of Ka-Boom, the school's newspaper. This VP has asked myself and our current TSAC president to rewrite the entry and, if possible, lock it for only Thornlea students to write in. I don't know if it is possible to lock it like this, and give the password to VPs to use if they wish to change the article.

Otherwise, I and our President don't want to change the article right away. We intend to write our own entry and get it checked by our VPs and Principal, then put it up when it is done. The only reason we've been asked to do this is because of some of the sarcastic and, obviously not intended negative comments. We only wish for the article to become more neutral, a little more modern (as it has been 4 years since this was written, and there have been changes to the school), and a better representation of the school community.

And Mike Myers never went here. - S.F. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.51.246 (talk • contribs) 23:44, December 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * It is not possible to lock the article so that it can only be edited by Thornlea students. We have had some problems with this article in the past however so we are more than willing to discuss the current content, particularly as you claim that it is not an accurate representation of the school.  If you can email me from a Thornlea email address that is verifiable using the school website (click on the "email this user" link from my user page) we'll discuss this offline.  Many thanks. -- Francs2000 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] 12:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Suffice it to say, our school doesn't have an e-mail server (what we have left of our Portal is all that survived of a big Virus that hit York Region two years ago). The website we have only offers login to our databases, and that's all. As I cannot verify with a Thornlea address, I will speak to my VP and he will send you an e-mail through his YRDSB (York Region District School Board) Address, and this should hopefully be verifiable enough. Once that is done, I suppose we can discuss this offline, through myself and my Vice Principal. - S.F.

 * Indeed. -- Francs2000 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 14:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi S.F. I think its only fair to let the Francs know that you are NOT the person to be re-writing this school's entry on Wikipedia. If Francs knew how racially charged and not neutral your school newspaper is, he would not be considering this at all. I find it hard to believe that the principal or the Vice's can stand by decisions made by you to write an entry for such a multi-ethnic school. If you cant rememebr what I am talking about, you published an article slandering Jewish female, or how you allowed them to be refered to as JAPS causing republication and a public appology for the uproar you created. Another instance I can remember is calling Christmas by a different name, offending and devaluing Christian Religion.

I would feel uneasy about YOU of all people writing a racially neutral entry and I think this idea should be scrapped. But feel free to update the current entry any way you like as you're right, it is a little out of date, but dont you dare re-write it. -T.P

First of all, T.P., that article is far behind us. Second, if you've ever read the Gift Day issue, you'll know that it is not a renaming, nor a devaluing of Christmas. It is a seperate holiday, as we have stated in countless issues. It has nothing to do with Christmas, as we even joke that Gift Day is simply a consumer holiday we created to celebrate winter.

Furthermore, I will not be the one writing this article, as decided by our principal recently. Instead, Mr. Selby, and our three VPs will be writing it together. It will then pass through ALL of the Ka-Boom staff for editing, then it will finally pass through TSAC's president for a final readthrough, before it is once again passed by the administration. The last thing we want is for someone to misread anything as slanderous, as the article you speak of was. I still don't feel you have to bring this up again, considering the e-mails were enough back then. We'll let this go to rest, considering it really, really doesn't make a difference, as I, nor anyone from Ka-Boom will be WRITING the new article.

By the way, this was not my idea. Our administration, fulling knowing about the article you speak of, approached ME and the President, NOT Ka-Boom and TSAC. It was for US to write, as representatives of the school community (which, granted, is not necesserily true). That's why the administration is writing it. So don't worry, T.P., the internet is safe from Ka-Boom's fanatical writing style. - S.F.

"So don't worry, T.P., the internet is safe from Ka-Boom's fanatical writing style. - S.F." - FEWF! -T.P

There are many things missing from this page, most notable is dicussion of the drug culture that existed at Thornlea. Thornlea was a drug mecca for the northern Toronto area during the 70's and 80's. It was not uncommon for people from other schools or neighbourhoods to visit Thornlea regularly to aquire drugs such as hashish, marijuana, LSD, and "magic mushrooms". It is shocking to see an article about Thornlea without any mention of drugs, as their use were so central to the cultural and social activities at the school. - M.W

 * If I recall correctly, one of the teachers mentioned that The Pit was the place to do drugs because it was once out of place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ Rubbie (talk • contribs) 03:07, June 16, 2006 (UTC)

"New Speakers" We're sorry, but only current Thornlea students should be allowed to edit this page, and then each entry has to go through a Vice Principal and TSAC? That's garbage. What about former students who know firsthand about much of the information presented? How on earth can current students present a complete and intelligent image of the school that's not exclusive to it's current state? The school is more than 30 years old, and I would like to be able to hear from its students past, present, and future. The wondeful thing about Wikipedia is that its articles are organic and can grow and be continuously improved by knowledgable contribution. In the case of Thornlea, there are thousands of students spanning those 30+ years who can make this article ever more complete. Who do you think you are to get your back up and prevent anyone who's not a current student to make additions to this page? It's an arrogant and small-minded stance to take. As a member of the press (you are a writer for Ka-Boom, correct?), you above all should realize that there are always other sides to consider and other stories to tell. Ultimately, this article should strive for an NPOV prespective, something that can only be achieved with multiple (not always unified) voices. There's good and bad about Thornlea, and Wikipedia is going to show it no matter how many self-important students or worried VPs try to whitewash the issues.

Bottom line, the content that's in the article is true. If you feel that it's lacking in positive information, then put it in. Unless it's untrue, nobody's going to argue with it.- M.S and B.K. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.63.241.44 (talk • contribs).
 * There is no ownership of articles in Wikipedia. Anyone is welcome to contribute to any article as long as the content is neutral and verifiable.  OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced/unverifiable statements, POV
I've removed quite a bit (though not all) of the unsourced/unverifiable content in this article (much of it also probably in violation of the neutral-point-of-view policy. While it may be argued that the content gives the article some "color," it's still inappropriate in that it is not verifiable. And no, I'm not a student, former student, or staff; I'm just trying to consistently apply Wikipedia policies to an article that is frequently in violation of those policies.  OhNo  itsJamie Talk 21:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I believe you're referring in part to the partial explanation of why Thornlea newspapers tend to fold after a year or so. I was on both Deadline and Volume and can attest what I wrote is indeed fact. I'm curious about what part(s) of my addition you had a problem with- the information itself, or how it was delivered? I belive that the information is relevent. How can I present it so that it won't be considered unsourced/unverifiable/POV? - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Legonovsky (talk • contribs)

 * The Verifiability link explains it well. It may be relevant to the school, but I don't think it's relevant to an encylopedia article.  Most high school articles just state the facts. Occasionally you'll see statements about demographics, but those can usually be backed up with census data or real estate data.  Has a local newspaper written about Thornlea's newspapers? If not, "personal knowledge" is generally not considered to be a reliable source.  Though I did edit a lot out, I also left in a quite a bit of content that wasn't very verifiable. I tried to focus on statements that sounded like axe-grinding.  I'd apply the same types of editing to an article that made glowing statements about a school if they weren't verifiable. (P.S. Use four tilde's to sign your contributions: ~  OhNo  itsJamie Talk 22:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * OhNoitsJamie - according to Verifiability you should have removed pretty much everything on this page. There are no sources cited, so outside the alledged existence of the school nothing more can really be written.  The Wikipedia's Verifiability rule is too restrictive and if it is to be strictly applied most of what I've read on this site is invalid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.50.164.147 (talk • contribs) 17:40, February 9, 2006 (UTC)
 * the school just sucks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.112.98.167 (talk • contribs) 19:45, October 29, 2006 (UTC)

definitely understood
I'm surprised I haven't checked the discussion on this entry in so long (this is S.F. by the way), but I suppose I forgot. And forgetting is exactly what I wanted the administration to do. When I first read this entry back last year, I was surprised how accurate it was (even without the mention of the drug use) and really had minor intention to change it. Granted, some people were adding untrue remarks (which moderators and others have taken off almost immediately as they're added), but in all fact of the matter, it's pretty cool that Thornlea even HAS a Wikipedia entry.

Anyway, as for the editing (that no one from Thornlea will likely ever get around too), it never really was in my power. And true, it shouldn't be up to the administration nor only Thornlea students to decide. Anyone who comes through the school at any time knows what's going on from their perspective, thus completely agreeing with this NPOV thing that y'all are talking about. In summary, I no longer am part of Ka-Boom (as of May, at least), and this will definitely not come up as an issue when we pass the torch next month. I believe it is up to the readers and those who have a good idea of what Thornlea is to decide what will be in the entry and what won't. Technically, this means anyone can make a change, so long as it makes sense.

To tell you the truth, when I realized that it wasn't my job to make the changes, I went straight up to my principal and just said "hey, it's an open-source encyclopedia. You want to make the changes? Do it yourself!" Those were essentially my exact words, give or take a syllable. And none of us seem to see him come on here and make changes. I guess he really didn't care that much in the end.

Signing off, and once again I'm sorry for starting all this kafuffle, -S.F.

Established 1969
Was the School established in 1969? I'm pretty sure that it was 1968 or even 1967. DHR 07:09, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Who appoints appointed TSAC directors?
"TSAC consists of six executive members and three appointed directors as well as three representatives from each grade." DHR 04:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Where did the truth go?
Have not looked at this article in quite some time, but what happened? I cant believe how much it has been edited, and watered down, so to speak. The little insights written into this article were honest and accurate, and now all that has been taken out. For example, Thornlea is very much so a stereotypical highschool environment; social groups are greatly segregated with the white popular kids in the purple hallway, the etnics by the café, the Goths in the carpeted hallway and the music junkies by the music room. Although harsh, this is the reality there. Furthermore, drugs are incredibly abundant at Thornlea, the administration is a mess and TIP kids are idiots. Someone must work on this article and write the truth back in. I loved Thornlea because it was real…. This article has become a bunch of edited crap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.145.185 (talk • contribs) 02:00, September 28, 2006 (UTC)

As a former Thornlea student (graduated this June), I agree on that. Someone really wanted to cover up the negative side of Thornlea. TIP (Thornlea Intensive Program) absolutely gone unmentioned. It is a program designed to assist potential dropouts staying in school. I believe that they don't want to mention this so that people will not have an impression that we have this program because we got a lot of dropouts.

Criticisms about this school exceeds the overpopulation problem. This was not a problem until they shut down the portables due to a fungus crisis in a Marham high school where they found deadly fungus in a portable classroom. The problem is not the number of classrooms, it is the number of teachers that contribute to this problem. Most of the classes are now have over 30 students. If you walk through the hallway during 3rd or 4th period, you can find that many rooms are empty. Another example will be the newly renovated science classrooms (except one physics classroom and one chemistry). One of the science teacher told me that after the renovations, the # of science classrooms increased but the # of classrooms which are able to conduct chemistry experiments decreased as previously one room now cut into two smaller rooms. In my opinion, the physics room should be the top priority in the renovation. The ventilation of the room is bad because there's only a main door which opens outwards. In the past, teachers put something at the door to keep it ajar to allow some air to come in. That's until the fire marshal says it's a fire hazard and forbid anyone from doing so. Overcrowding shouldn't exist in our school. It's only that staff like to teach at rooms which are close to the department (e.g. math teachers teach in math classrooms and reluctant to teach in science classrooms, english teachers won't teach in geography department classrooms even though geograph classrooms are facing towards the english classrooms on the opposite side of the hallway)

According to the article, it mentions that smokers smoke at the pit and at reservoir (res). During my 4 years in the school, I have never heard of such a term call "the pit". Besides, smokers, including a few teachers and staff smoke at the northern boundary fence. If the staff smoke there, then it establishes an unwritten rule to everyone that you can smoke there without breaking the rules.

In summer, the air-conditioning (AC) was rarely turned on even when the outside temperature reaches 30 degrees Celesius. The reason being for that is because the custodians don't repair the AC prior to summer. When they find out something breaks down, they repair it and by the time they finish repairing, it's almost the last day of school. Why can't they check everything before hand?

Finding Ka-Boom and TSAC to read the edits of the article is pointless, really! None of the students in the school is aware of this problem other than a few that monitors this article. It does not represent the voice of the students. You guys may be granted rights to exclusively edit this page, but this is open source so everyone can write it. Oh yeah, there're so many discontinued clubs where their names appear in agenda. Here're some examples (pardon of me if they still exist) - Astronomy Club - Chinese Student Association - Improv Club (what on earth is this club?)

To Mr Selby if he comes across this comment: This is Canada. Freedom of speech is a right stated in Charcter of Rights and Freedom. You can't stop us from posting criticisms. Here's a short quote for you: (quote from MapleWiki admin) "Did you know you will take roughly 30 seconds to vandalize any page and maybe even 30 minutes for a noobish vandalizer? Well, it takes me a mere 10 seconds to revert all your edits regardless if it's 30 minutes or 10 seconds. Don't waste my time or your time, there's nothing to gain in this." (end quote) We got lots of people to revert all your foolish attempts to edit out the negative comments. We know how to watch page and revert edits in 10s. We could have made it worse and bad-mouth the school by posting in forums where only topic creator and the moderators of the forum can modify the topic.

OhanaUnited 02:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Did Gordon Korman go to Thornlea?
I have not found anything regarding Gordon Korman going to Thornlea. His website does not indicate going to school in Ontario. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.108.61.125 (talk • contribs).
 * Yes, he did for at least two school years, 1977-78 and 1978-79. It's quite possible he was there for the full five years, but these two are the only ones I can recall for sure.  But that's WP:OR on my part, and there'd have to be verifiable and citable source offered in order to include it in the article.  --Rrburke(talk) 16:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he went to Thornlea. In the book "Who is Bugs Potter?", the band Vanderboom is named after Thornlea math teacher Diane Vanderboom, while the Falusi emerald is named after science teacher Mr. Falusi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.179.91.5 (talk) 18:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

The Rock
A large rock located near a set of school doors was an active drug trading spot -- namely hashish, marijuana, and LSD were readily available during the late 1980s. 2607:FEA8:F8E0:1520:5EF1:C266:454:A6D0 (talk) 15:53, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Now all we need is some reliable sources.  signed, Willondon (talk)  16:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

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Micallef Tonight

Micallef Tonight was a short-lived Aria Award-winning Australian variety show that aired on the Nine Network in 2003. It was hosted by comedian Shaun Micallef and also featured the talents of Francis Greenslade, Jason Geary, Livinia Nixon and Pete Smith.

Show content
Much like a typical variety show, each episode of Micallef Tonight featured a number of interviews with celebrities bookended by regular segments (such as "Shaun on his High Horse", which featured Micallef ranting against pop culture while straddling a gymnast vaulting horse) and a musical performance. However at times the show also delved into the realm of parody, such as introducing guest Jamie Durie with a long-winded opening only to dismiss him immediately afterwards since there was nothing left to discuss, and requesting that guest Alison Whyte hold an inflatable fish while Micallef himself danced on his desk, in an otherwise unrelated interview.

Other in-show shenanigans included stealing musical guest Delta Goodrem's shoes as she played the piano, deliberately leaving actress Melissa George, live via satellite from Hollywood, on hold for over five minutes (she had guest starred in a supersized episode of Friends earlier that night, effectively delaying the broadcast of Micallef Tonight by several minutes), and requesting singers insert random words in to their musical performances to prove they weren't lip-synching. Notable examples were David Campbell inserting the word "lamington" into his performance and Amiel inserting the word "dolphinarium".

Micallef would end each episode with the line "See you in the Monkey House Australia!" and the show would usually close with a musical performance from Greenslade that was never quite what the audience expected; such as a rendition of Billy Joel's "Piano Man" played on the guitar.

Micallef previously parodied the variety show format with 1998's The Micallef Program.

Cancellation
The series premiered on 12 May 2003 and thirteen episodes were aired. The first episode rated strongly and although ratings declined steadily thereafter, it was announced in June 2003 that the series would be extended for a further 20 weeks.

Episode 12 (28 July) included a segment involving a midget hassling random restaurant patrons; after it screened, guest Tony Martin pointed out that the last show he had been involved in which featured the same midget actor -- (The Mick Molloy Show) -- had been axed. In an example of history repeating itself, Micallef Tonight was cancelled the following week. In addition, on an earlier episode during a live cross to promote the movie Bad Eggs, a visibly intoxicated Mick Molloy warned Micallef to "watch (his) arse" when he learned that the show was on the Nine Network.

Micallef ended his series with an interview with Ricky Martin in which both he and Martin used an expletive on live television, then called Nine Network live on air to complain about the language used on his show. Ironically, the interview was pre-recorded in the previous week to fit in with Martin's schedule, a fact alluded to by both Micallef and comedian Dave O'Neil during the actual live segments of the episode.

At the conclusion of what ended up being the final show, Micallef said that band The Dandy Warhols would be on the next week's show. The camera cut to the band on stage, ready to perform. Micallef informed the band that it was the next week they were meant to be on.

Critical reception
Similarly to the equally short-lived The Mick Molloy Show (also shown on Nine), Micallef Tonight was ostensibly cancelled because of dwindling ratings, in this case against fellow comedian Andrew Denton's interview series Enough Rope. In a memorable parody, whilst Dannii Minogue was performing on Shaun's show, the camera cut to him only to see Shaun watching Andrew Denton's show (which aired simultaneously on another channel).

Critics also claimed that the show may have been too sophisticated for most audiences on the notoriously "mainstream" Nine Network, and was an acquired taste. Others have said that part of the axing was due to a segment which made fun of Alan Jones' morning message segment on Today. The segment began with one video on screen then became two, then four, then eight, then sixteen, and so on until it reached dozens and although nothing said was comprehensible, they all ended at the same time with 'I'm Alan Jones'. This segment apparently angered Nine Network owner Kerry Packer (who was also a close friend of Jones), and he ordered the show to be axed after less-than-impressive ratings for what turned out to be the final episode.

At the time of its airing, the show was critically acclaimed and became a cult favorite, even having followers internationally due to its irreverent humor and absurdity.

DVD releases
The Micallef Tonight show was released on DVD as a "best of" compilation, that included some un-aired material. The Expurgated Micallef Tonight: The Very Best of Shaun Micallef's Short-Lived but Brilliant Tonight Show was released through Shock on 26 November 2007. On 19 October 2008 the DVD release won an ARIA Award for best comedy release. The DVD included a commentary track on part of the contents, featuring Micallef and guest Tony Martin (who appeared in episode 12 and also in the un-aired pilot).

The DVD is also available as part of the DVD box set The Collected Shaun Micallef which was released in 2011 by Shock Records. The set features 10 discs, containing The Expurgated Micallef Tonight, The Incompleat Shaun Micallef (highlights of his work on Full Frontal) and all three seasons of The Micallef Program as well as a bonus audio CD His Generation.

Awards

 * 2008 Aria Award Best Comedy Release - The Expurgated Micallef Tonight: The Very Best of Shaun Micallef's Short-Lived but Brilliant Tonight Show

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L. Raymond Fennell

Leslie Raymond Fennell (December 27, 1893 in Roland, Manitoba – August 29, 1986 in Port Hope, Ontario ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958.

The son of S. E. Fennell and Beatrice May DeLong, he was educated in Roland. He served in World War I, and subsequently worked as a cash grain broker. In 1922, Fennell married Mary Marjorie Douglas; they had daughters Beatrice Carolyn, Nancy Lois, and Leslie Roberta Fennell. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, and was mayor of Fort Garry, then a suburban municipality independent of Winnipeg, from 1946 to 1953.

He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1953 provincial election in the constituency of St. Boniface. This was a two-member constituency at the time, and Fennell defeated Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidate David Turner for the second seat. He served as a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government during his time in the legislature.

The Liberal-Progressives lost to the Progressive Conservatives in the 1958 election, and Fennell lost to future Premier of Manitoba Sterling Lyon by 1,323 votes in the redistributed constituency of Fort Garry. He returned to municipal politics and served as mayor of Fort Garry again from 1960 to 1967.

In 1973, Fennell moved to Port Hope, Ontario. He later died there at the age of 92.

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Dylan Gandy

Dylan Colter Gandy (born March 8, 1982) is a former American football center. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football at Texas Tech.

Gandy earned a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in Super Bowl XLI against the Chicago Bears. He was also a member of the Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears.

Early life
Dylan Gandy attended Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas, where he lettered in football and track & field. In football, he was a two-way lineman, a first-team All-District pick, a first-team All-Central Texas pick, and also the team's long snapper.

College career
Gandy attended Texas Tech University. After redshirting as a true freshman, he started three games the following season. He finished his sophomore year as an All-Big 12 Academic first-teamer, and made the second-team the following year as a junior. Although he played mostly guard and tackle his first three seasons, he switched to center his senior year, where he started 12 games. He was selected to the All-Big 12 honorable mention team by the coaches in the conference.

Indianapolis Colts
Gandy was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round (129th overall) of the 2005 NFL draft. He was released by the Colts on May 2, 2008.

Denver Broncos
On May 16, 2008, Gandy signed with the Denver Broncos. He was released on September 9, 2008. The Broncos re-signed Gandy on September 25 after center Tom Nalen was placed on injured reserve. He was released again on October 7 when the team re-signed tight end Chad Mustard.

Oakland Raiders
Gandy was signed by the Oakland Raiders on November 26, 2008 when wide receiver Javon Walker was placed on injured reserve. He was waived on December 4 to make room for practice squad wide receiver Johnathan Holland.

Detroit Lions
Gandy signed with the Detroit Lions on April 6, 2009. He played with the team until 2013.

Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears signed Gandy to a one-year contract on July 25, 2014. The Bears released Gandy on August 23, 2014.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Grodzinsky

 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 Keep Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Alan Grodzinsky
CV, and not too impressive at that. Denni ☯ 23:46, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
 * Delete. — Phil Welch 00:31, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity. K1Bond007 05:38, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a CV base. Sjakkalle 06:43, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, once I've rewritten it. I think MIT professors have better things to do than post a fractional CV here, and since a quick Google suggest AJ Grodzinsky is the recipient of an NIH Merit Award, he's obviously doing some good research. But the article as it was written was terrible. Average Earthman 13:29, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, and he's a Sc.D, not a PhD, so Grodzinsky clearly didn't write the original. Possibly an undergrad who attends some of his lectures did. I've improved the article. Average Earthman 13:44, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Alan Grodzinsky is a respected researcher in OsteoArthritis.
 * Comment by 18.125.6.52 (talk · contributions)
 * Keep, seems notable. Martg76 21:08, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The version by Average Earthman is a vast improvement over the meaningless original, and the subject certainly seems notable enough. -- Captain Disdain 00:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable. JamesBurns 10:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and kudos to Average Earthman. --Scimitar 21:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep
 * Comment by 24.193.71.230 (talk · contributions)
 * 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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Speedy deletion of ActiveHealth Management
A tag has been placed on ActiveHealth Management requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

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User talk:Vojta

Thanks for catching the mistake on Vysehrad cemetery. Pavel Vozenilek 18:21, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikics template
Hi Vojta! Recently, I created a new template to indicate English Wikipedia users who also contribute to the Czech Wikipedia.

Template:User wikics

Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 22:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of EtText

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IGP

IGP can refer to:

 * IGP, online gifting retailer in India
 * The Immediate Gratification Players, a Harvard University improvisational comedy troupe
 * Indian Gandhiyan Party, a political party in Kerala, India
 * Indication géographique protégée (protected geographical indication), food certification of the European Union
 * Indication géographique protégée (Switzerland), food certification of Switzerland
 * Inspector General of Police, a high rank of police officer; in some countries the highest rank
 * Inspector General of Nepal Police, the highest rank of law enforcement agencies and paramilitary force in Nepal.
 * Integrated graphics processor, a graphics processing unit
 * Interior gateway protocol, an Internet protocol between routers
 * Intraguild predation, an ecological concept describing predatory interactions between competing species
 * Inverse Galois problem, an open problem in mathematics

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User:Namela

im just a teen ager checking out pages at wikipedia.im kind of new to this web site,but namela is not my real name its just my password name.im not telling my real name for reasons.

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Royal Stoke University Hospital

Royal Stoke University Hospital (formerly the University Hospital of North Staffordshire) is a teaching and research hospital at Hartshill in the English county of Staffordshire. It lies in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, near the border with Newcastle-under-Lyme, and is run by the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

History
The first hospital on the site, known as the Parish Hospital, was completed in 1842. This facility evolved to become the London Road Hospital and Institution by the early 20th century and became the City General Hospital in 1945. It joined the National Health Service in 1948.

New facilities were procured under a private finance initiative contract to replace both the City General Hospital and the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in 2007. The works, which were designed by Ryder / HKS and carried out by Laing O'Rourke at a cost of £370 million on the old City General Hospital site, were completed August 2012.

Keele University School of Medicine
It is the main teaching hospital for the Keele University School of Medicine. The clinical undergraduate medical school and postgraduate medical school buildings are in the grounds of the hospital, as well as the Clinical Education Centre and the Keele University Health Library which is the main teaching facility for the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Staffordshire Children's Hospital
In March 2020 the Staffordshire Children's Hospital was launched as a "hospital within a hospital". Paediatric patients have access to specialist clinical teams, who care for children with complex conditions or medical problems.

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Trinity Grammar School

Trinity Grammar School may refer to:

In Australia:
 * Trinity Grammar School (Victoria) located in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, Victoria
 * Trinity Grammar School (New South Wales) located in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill, New South Wales
 * Trinity Grammar School Preparatory School located in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield, New South Wales

In the United Kingdom:
 * Woodside High School, Wood Green, formerly known as Trinity Grammar School

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Talk:Rotary valve

The type of rotary valve I am looking for is not for a musical instrument. The rotary valve I am interested in is used in the Petrochemical industry. I would imagine the concept is similar, but we need a more discriptive illustration showing the mechanics of the operation.

See: www.fielddevices.com item:  Positioners

The diagram of a rotary valve is absolute horrendous and does not in any way lead to a better understanding of what it does, nor does it reveal anything about how it works. Perhaps someone in the know could improve or suggest a more appropriate diagram. Imacdo 19:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Trumpet
So, in the case of the rotary valve trumpet... does this system make it sound different (I know it does) or make it easier to play (not really) or anything else? And there are several things called rotary valves. This article is about the musical ones. I think this article needs a good fixing! 75.48.30.247 (talk) 21:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Scope
There doesn't seem to be enough material in this article to split this into "Rotary valves on musical instruments" and "other Rotary Valves". I don't see why this article should be specific to musical instruments when Piston valve is not. I agree that the article needs a good re-organisation, and I can do this and add some diagrams if necessary. There's also an issue of overlap between this article and Four-way valve (this article has an awful diagram too).

I propose to reorganise this article in generic terms and add it to WikiProject_Chemical_and_Bio_Engineering (there's no reason why it couldn't also remain on musical instruments, or be added to any other project). I'll start work on this in November unless there is any dispute. Wikiwayman (talk) 11:26, 18 October 2010 (UTC)IS A GR

Engine Design.
It would be sensible to split up two stroke and 4 stroke engines as the application is utterly different. 84.92.147.189 (talk) 04:25, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Airlock Internal Link
Is this intended to refer to Rotary Airlocks used for feeding materials in industry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eric Lotze (talk • contribs) 22:52, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Having read both articles, it looks like that was the intention, because only a few airlocks are based on a rotary valve principle. That said, the Rotary Airlock article has some issues with inconsistent naming that are very confusing if a reader is directed from this article to that one. Best thing to do would be to check that the usage of "rotary valve" on the Rotary Airlock page is both correct and commonplace. If so, this article needs to be amended to include that specific use of the term. If it isn't correct, then the airlock article needs some work. Wikiwayman (talk) 13:32, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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Upper memory area

In DOS memory management, the upper memory area (UMA) is the memory between the addresses of 640 KB and 1024 KB (0xA0000–0xFFFFF) in an IBM PC or compatible. IBM reserved the uppermost 384 KB of the 8088 CPU's 1024 KB address space for BIOS ROM, Video BIOS, Option ROMs, video RAM, RAM on peripherals, memory-mapped I/O, and obsoleted ROM BASIC.

However, even with video RAM, the ROM BIOS, the Video BIOS, the Option ROMs, and I/O ports for peripherals, much of this 384 KB of address space was unused. As the 640 KB memory restriction became ever more of an obstacle, techniques were found to fill the empty areas with RAM. These areas were referred to as upper memory blocks (UMBs).

Usage
The next stage in the evolution of DOS was for the operating system to use upper memory blocks (UMBs) and the high memory area (HMA). This occurred with the release of DR DOS 5.0 in 1990. DR DOS' built-in memory manager, EMM386.EXE, could perform most of the basic functionality of QEMM and comparable programs.

The advantage of DR DOS 5.0 over the combination of an older DOS plus QEMM was that the DR DOS kernel itself and almost all of its data structures could be loaded into high memory. This left virtually all the base memory free, allowing configurations with up to 620 KB out of 640 KB free.

Configuration was not automatic - free UMBs had to be identified by hand, manually included in the line that loaded EMM386 from CONFIG.SYS, and then drivers and so on had to be manually loaded into UMBs from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. This configuration was not a trivial process. As it was largely automated by the installation program of QEMM, this program survived on the market; indeed, it worked well with DR DOS' own HMA and UMB support and went on to be one of the best-selling utilities for the PC.

This functionality was copied by Microsoft with the release of MS-DOS 5.0 in June 1991. Eventually, even more DOS data structures were moved out of conventional memory, allowing up to 631 KB out of 640 KB to be left free. Starting from version 6.0 of MS-DOS, Microsoft even included a program called MEMMAKER which was used to automatically optimize conventional memory by moving terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs to the upper memory.

For a period in the early 1990s, manual optimization of the DOS memory map became a highly prized skill, allowing for the largest applications to run on even the most complex PC configurations. The technique was to first create as many UMBs as possible, including remapping allocated but unused blocks of memory, such as the monochrome display area on colour machines. Then, DOS' many subcomponents had to be loaded into these UMBs in the correct sequence to use the blocks of memory as efficiently as possible. Some TSR programs required additional memory while loading, which was freed up again once loading was complete. Fortunately, there were few dependencies amongst these modules, so it was possible to load them in almost any sequence. Exceptions were that to successfully cache CD-ROMs, most disk caches had to be loaded after any CD-ROM drivers, and that the modules of most network stacks had to be loaded in a certain sequence, essentially working progressively up through the layers of the OSI model.

A basic yet effective method used to optimize conventional memory was to load HIMEM.SYS as a device, thereafter loading EMM386.EXE as a device with the "RAM AUTO" option which allows access into the UMA by loading device drivers as devicehigh. This method effectively loads the fundamental memory managers into conventional memory, and thereafter everything else into the UMA. Conventional memory glutton programs such as MSCDEX could also be loaded into the UMA in a similar fashion, hence freeing up a large amount of conventional memory.

Windows
The increasing popularity of Windows 3.0 made the necessity of the upper memory area less relevant, as Windows applications were not directly affected by DOS' base memory limits, but DOS programs running under Windows (with Windows itself acting as a multitasking manager) were still thus constrained. With the release of Windows 95, it became less relevant still, as this version of Windows provides much of the functionality of the DOS device drivers to DOS applications running under Windows, such as CD, network and sound support; the memory map of Windows 95 DOS boxes was automatically optimised. However, not all DOS programs could execute in this environment. Specifically, programs that tried to directly switch from real mode to protected mode would not work as this was not allowed in the virtual 8086 mode it was running in. Also, programs that tried making the switch using the Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) API (which was introduced to allow DOS programs that needed protected mode to enter it from the virtual 8086 mode set up by a memory manager, as described above) didn't work in Windows 95. Only the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) API for switching to protected mode was supported.

Virtual 8086 Mode
Upper memory blocks can be created by mapping extended memory into the upper memory area when running in virtual 8086 mode. This is similar to how expanded memory can be emulated using extended memory so this method of providing upper memory blocks is usually provided by the expanded memory manager (for example EMM386). The application programming interface for managing the upper memory blocks is specified in the eXtended Memory Specification.

Shadow RAM
On many systems including modern ones it is possible to use memory reserved for shadowing expansion card ROM as upper memory. Many chipsets reserve up to 384 KB RAM for this purpose and since this RAM is generally unused it may be used as real mode upper memory with a custom device driver, such as UMBPCI.

IBM XT
On IBM XT computers, it was possible to add more memory to the motherboard and use a custom address decoder PROM to make it appear in the upper memory area. As with the 386-based upper memory described above, the extra RAM could be used to load TSR files, or as a RAM disk.

The AllCard, an add-on memory management unit for XT-class computers, allowed normal memory to be mapped into the 0xA0000-EFFFF address range, giving up to 952 KB for DOS programs. Programs such as Lotus 1-2-3, which accessed video memory directly, needed to be patched to handle this memory layout. Therefore, the 640 KB barrier was removed at the cost of software compatibility. This usage of the upper memory area is different from using upper memory blocks, which was used to free conventional memory by moving device drivers and TSRs into the upper 384 KB of the 1 MB address space, but left the amount of addressable memory (640 KB) intact.

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