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User talk:Mel Etitis/Archive 11

Archive 11

my proposal
Hi,

I just announced I am stepping away from the proposal discussion for several days. I know I have polarized the discussion, which I didn't want to do. If you are willing, I hope you will visit the page periodically and do whatever you can or think is appropriate to facilitate discussion between both sides.

Thanks

Steve

Album Format
Why do you continually revert my edits in which I use the standard album format for albums like Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)? You do not provide any feedback as to why you are violating the standard format, which leaves me no option but to revert it back. How many times do I have to ask you to please please please explain why you revert something? This is just good practice.

--Nabber00 15:48, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

You keep referring to the Naming Convention page as your reason. I don't see how that applies to the page format, can you please be more specific?

--Nabber00 03:41, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Please read my comment from 18 May on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums and respond explaining where my logic is flawed. Unless you explain to me otherwise I'm going to assume I'm right, as is the case with most people. And how come you get to revert articles before a decision but I can't?--Nabber00 01:28, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Universism
Sorry - didn't realize that was a previously vfd'd article! I was trying to fix the redlink in Universalism - I'll unlink it to avoid future recreations. -- BD2412 thi m k act  17:53, 2005 May 17 (UTC)

Don't waste my time
nor your breath. Sam Spade 23:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

 * And don't revert my talk page. Thanks, Sam Spade 23:05, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Titles
Hi. I've looked for any mistakes I might have made in my headers and titles, and only have really found one. I have used "The album" as a non-descriptive header which I should have probably called something else. The titles of my articles for the Donovan albums are simply the name of the album. The only time I add (album) after the title is if someone has created or might create another article with that name. For example, I put "Catch the Wind (album)" because another user may want to write about "Catch the Wind (song)". If this is incorrect or if I'm completely missing the boat, please let me know. --JMDeMai

Lithuanian mythology
Thanks. I know, that my English is too far from good, being influenced by Lithuanian, Russian and other languages, all of them are synthetic, but majority of our  “Lithuanian” users aren't native English speakers, so they simply skip this thing and I almost don't have chances to improve my “Wikipedian” English. (I wrote the article in English anyway, a translation would be better). But when You see this criterion, I see yet another thing: the present article is biased too much. I can add only few notes here: 1) Lithuanian mythology isn't an old mythology anyway (differently from archaic Lithuanian language). Perhaps it have some archaic elements, but it isn't old as whole. 2) Only few details are known from earlier stages of Lithuanian mythology before the 19th century, but exactly these details are the most interesting for many scholars, being a part of “more pagan” heritage than the later ones. 3) Thus many scholars tried to reconstruct (or perhaps we should use the word 'restore' instead of 'reconstruct' in English?) system of these earlier stages of mythology. Their works, including studies of P. Dundulienė, are mostly speculations on mythology, but not an actual mythology. Unhappily there are many different point of view on this problem with no any prevalent point of view. - And I don't think, that my version is perfect, looking from this point too, but I tried to write the main things, that it become more possible to write a future not biased version of the article. This is the second thing, why my version could be less understandable than the earlier one.

And I could also add few ideas there:
 * 1) What concerns term pagan mythology, many users consider this word pagan offensive. But I have more serious reasons to avoid this word. The definition in the article pagan includes not Jewish, not Christian, and not Islamic, but many people understand “monotheistic” under this word. The idea of the supreme God and “a cabinet” of Gods isn't expressed in Lithuanian mythology (except in speculations of one school restorations), and we can't call it polytheistic. It was rather pantheistic than monotheistic or polytheistic and confronted neither with monotheistic point of view nor with polytheistic one. Thats why I'd like to avoid this pagan, that can be misunderstood. I don't want to add pantheistic too, for this word has a bit different sense in Western philosophy, than what I mean, but I think some suitable definition is possible.
 * 2) The all present list of gods in the article is actually alphabetic list of names, mentioned as divine entities, in old (13th - 16th centuries) treatises on history or philosophy. Only few of them are known from known myths. The authors of these treatises often use word 'gods' in the sense of 'idols' or 'worshipped objects', and looking both from the point of the modern mythology and from the point of deeper analyzing of these texts, the objects, meant under these names,  shouldn't be called gods presently, except few specific cases. Deeper analyze of it shows, that not only gods, spirits and other spiritual and superhuman beings but also some holy (ritual or magic) things are mentioned here under the title of god. And the one school only from two or four among Lithuanian mythologists consider, that such approach is similar to the actual understanding of the holy entities in the earlier Lithuanian mythology. So this list gives us some information, but it doesn't characterize Lithuanian mythology, although taking the bigger part of the text.

Perhaps, these two ideas will help You to understand, what did I want, and what improvement the article needs. I also will try to answer Your questions on the article gladly, because my main idea was to improve the article, not preferring my own specific ideas or thoughts. Linas Lithuanus(talk) 09:23, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

James Carter and Wikipedia Style
Hello,

First I must thank you for creating the article on James Carter. I added him to the list of requested musicians several days ago, so I am very appreciative that you took the time to create an article.

My question regards an element of wikipedia style. You recently edited the "Born January 3..." into "b. January 3..." I am a new user (though I have contributed anonymously for a couple of months), so I am not completely familiar with the minute details of Wikipedia style. Is this the correct way to write out the birthdate? Should I always abbreviate the "Born"? I welcome any advice you can offer as an admin.

You're right, sorry I didn't sign what I wrote above. I'm still getting used to this. Anyway, you responded to me about Lithuanian mythology, not the question regarding the James Carter article. I guess that means that someone out there is still waiting for an answer from you regarding Lithuanian Mythology. And, of course, my question still stands. Thanks for your help. --Sophitus 12:53, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * PMFJI, I stumbled over the same problem. From what I have seen, writing out "born" is more common in WP which (unlike traditional reference books) doesn't have to save space by using abbreviations. Personally, I try to use abbreviations only when they seem to make the text more readable (e.g. km²). Rl 15:59, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

 * (I normally reply on my correspondents' Talk pages, as I did with Sophitus, but as there are two of you...)
 * I see the point concerning "born", but we probably disagree concerning when it's more helpful to abbreviate and when not. For example, I go along with the MoS in preferring to spell out "kilometre", partly because the km² is actually rather difficult for many people (because of their monitors or their eyesight); I prefer "c." to "circa" on the other hand because it's the standard abbreviation, and the full term can confuse people who understand the import of the abbreviation, but are unfamilar with what it abbreviates. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:46, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

More sterling scholarship from Trey Stone
Check this out:. Better add that article to your watchlist too. -- Viajero 10:41, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * My first ever experience with him today (in which he managed to get banned for 24 hrs over a 3RR violation, and irritate me over purely minor, technical matters) proved to be... quite something. See the Castro article and respective talk page for more whiney details. El_C 11:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Why I Am Not A Muslim
I did comment on WP:CP - basically, it's unwise to leave a copyvio in the history if we don't have to. There was no rush to redirect, so i thought it better to let the copyvio process run its course. I see you've now speedied the copyvio, but whatever. sjorford →•← 11:29, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * That sounds really snappy, for which I apologise. (I really shouldn't edit while I'm in a bad mood, i.e. from 9 to 5.) And yes, I do love redirects, but I hate copyvios even more. Copyvios are about as far from a "free encyclopedia" as it's possible to get. sjorford →•← 12:02, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Free Will again
Hello Mel, if you're still interested in the article, I have the whole section on free will posted at User:JMBell/temporary. Forgive me if I seem a bit obsessed with the topic; it's normal for me to stick to one topic until it is closed. In this case, I'm not entirely convinced with what you said that they might not have understood the question of free will. I'm posting this article section so that you can take a look, because I think they might actually have understood the question of free will. Cheers - JMBell° 21:20, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Rfc's
It was all getting too much at Solana. I was wrongly accused of being Cumbey's sockpuppet and Kfc was demanding i stop editing Javier Solana when i was in the middle of extended edits to improve the article. I know there has been opposition to my withdrawing the Rfc, and that Kfc wants me to restart it. I am due to talk to him soon, but feel very torn about what to do. I am trying to bring Cumbey back in to wikipedia through a less enforcement approach. She is interested in and knows a lot about Solana, and I just wanted to try to see if she could change her ways. It is a difficult one, and I am not entirely clear about where to go (will chat to Kfc first). I think Whig is a completely different situation. I am not opposed to many of his new styles and was supportive of his style change at Juan Carlos I of Spain, but was also aware of the chaos he was creating in lots of places. Then he made some pretty flaky edits at Rastafarianism and Haile Selassie, and, after thinking about it I reverted some of them, some of which he then reverted, so I just felt I have experienced what the problem creating the Rfc is, and the trickiness of Whig, and as I was in agreement with what I read, I signed, --SqueakBox 22:00, May 18, 2005 (UTC). I have reconsidered after your remarks, and changed my position re Whig, and yes, the Rfc is not the way to go, --SqueakBox 23:42, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * When i signed I had assumed the good faith of those making the Rfc against Whig. I am now not sure, so thanks for flagging it, --SqueakBox 02:20, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:62.254.0.38 - Don't revert what is mere Refactoring_talk_pages
For trifles such as my forgetting a tilde and your pointing it out, my adding the missing timestamp and deleting your pointing it out isn't "rewriting history" (as you accuse on my talk page) but mere Refactoring_talk_pages and "Delete, Don't Justify". Such unimportant trifles didn't mandate your reverting the page (as a minor edit, no less) and thus deleting my answer. I've reverted back to the answered page (and inserted a note about the refactoring). -- Diff to my refactoring, not marked as a minor edit and clearly summarized as "Answered Mel Etitis about bans + Transient trifles: fixed my previous comment's poor wording of "permanent vandalism" and timestamp faux-pas, then deleted Mel Etitis' comment about them.)"

←#6 talk 23:12, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Refactoring isn't policy or widely accepted as several other admins have pointed out to me. Adraeus 23:37, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

"Necessarily"
The problem, Mel, is that very few people actually agree on what is and is not the "mainstream" when it comes to self-defense ideas. That is why I believe NPOV requires the term "necessarily" when it comes to a value judgment on my views. Who decided that they are not "mainstream," and on what basis? Plenty of people view sports as just that -- sports -- and thus do not see MMA bouts as self-defense training. Plenty of firearms advocates believe left-wing supporters of firearms prohibition cannot truly practice self-defense while embracing such a paradox -- and so forth.

I think the vague nature of the term "mainstream" demands the term "necessarily" because so few people can disagree -- and there is no one authority to whom we can go on the subject.

- Phil Elmore

ArbCom
Check this out: Requests for arbitration/Trey Stone and Davenbelle/Proposed decision. The ArbCom, at least based on the initial comments of Fred Bauder, is going further into the content issues than I had expected. Stay tuned. -- Viajero 14:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Planting Fields Arboretum
Hectares are the standard metric measurement for land areas in this size range; also Sequoia can't be grown on Long Island (it isn't winter hardy there); the reference probably refers to either Sequoiadendron or Metasequoia, but I don't know which, so left it out - MPF 14:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * As I've understood the Wiki MOS in the past, hectares are permitted (and advised) in situations where they are the normal metric unit used (i.e., forestry, agriculture, horticulture, etc). I'm well aware that Bobblewik has been running what I can only think of as a personal vendetta against the hectare, trying to remove every reference to it anywhere in wikipedia; he has been taken to task over this repeatedly (see his talk page) but still seems to be pursuing it; I am wondering if he has changed the MOS to reflect his apparent prejudices. I would certainly consider that the hectare is the best unit to use as a "translation" of the acre where that has been used. Of Sequoia, its hardiness is well researched; NY is well (by several hundred km) outside its potential cultivation range. Looking at the website, it almost certainly refers to Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Sequoia), not Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood). As an aside, I couldn't help notice that a lot of the wiki page is copied verbatim from the arboretum website, and is likely in violation of their copyright - MPF 17:47, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note;

"Ah, you mean that I've been hoodwinked? I did check "hectare" (I'm not a complete mooncalf), and found that it is indeed not an offical SI unit, so I just assumed that he was right about the rest. Pish." - I would say yes! :-) It is true that it is a derived unit, not a base SI unit, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used in relevant situations. "On the copyright front, I did originally question the person who created the page, and he admited to lifting the text, but said that he was editing it away from the original. I checked a couple of times, and he was indeed doing that, but then I let it slide. My suspicion is that the arboretum wouldn't object to our article; should I contact them to ask?" - Good idea; I'd suspect you're almost certainly right, they'll be happy to see it there once they know what it's about (after all, it comes down to free advertising) - MPF 18:00, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

deletions
Scanning live RC, I was not sure why you deleted Blood borne pathogen. The content was poor (just a list), but certainly not nonsense, and the topic is clearly encyclopedic and readily expandible. In the future, please make sure that something meets the criteria before you speedy it. Fawcett5 14:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the triplicates, the database was glitchy and I couldn't tell if it was taking the edits at all. You'll notice I fixed it literally within seconds. As for the deletion, I'm not trying to pick a fight — I've certainly been accused by more than one person of being a deletionist myself — but I would argue that that article did NOT meet the very restricted speedy criteria, especially since it had context. Criteria for speedy deletion.  You have to give editors a *chance* to expand a reasonable subject area article before just blasting it off the map within minutes of creation. Deletion policy guidelines suggest such articles should be stub tagged rather than deleted. Fawcett5 14:56, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Essex girl
Essex girl redirects to Stereotype (as you know) which gives not a clue as to what an essex girl is or why the redirect occured.

I followed up and found jokes and a newspaper article and comments that lead me to wonder why essex girls shouldn't be treated the same as Dumb blonde.

Cheers, 4.250.201.64 16:24, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Mel, I have to agree with 4.250.201.64. Redirecting it either to stereotype or to dumb blonde is plain wrong.  Essex girl is far more than dumb blonde - there's a significant cultural aspect, with noted characters, specific fashion, and indeed no requirement that essex girl either be blonde or dumb.  I really don't want to get into an edit war with you over such a trivial matter, but it's difficult not to when you seem intent on making ill informed changes unilaterally, and without the courtesy of discussing them. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 17:16, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Mel, I don't mean to insult you. But none of your edits to the Essex girl article indicate that you understand of the topic.  Maybe I'm mistaken.  Perhaps you'd care to explain why you think Pauline Calf is a dumb blonde? -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 17:23, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

The Image
I found an image identical to the one that Speedway had previously posted in Spice Girls article. This time, I went through all the trouble to find that it can legally be used. And boy, it was not easy. So I hope it makes a good article intro-image. DrippingInk 20:13, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Ratification on honorifics
I put together what I hope is a neutrally presented view - would appreciate if you copyedit it to make it more neutral where possible. I hope that pointing out the issues will help avoid them in the future. However, I am frustrated with the changed presentation of the vote from the Survey to the Ratification and doubt I have been as neutral as I should be. Can you take a look? Trödel| talk 23:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking a look - and making the changes - especially the stylistic ones - they helped the clarity Trödel| talk 11:26, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

I hope this reaches you
Dear Professor of Philosophy;

I am enjoying reading your commentaries in Widipedia and viewing the beautiful photos you have posted, too.

Please contact me at seasonalsusan@yahoo.com

I have several questions about OUPress that I hope you may be able to answer or might suggest where I may find the answers I seek.

Thanks so much.

Susan

Mr Tan
I'm back. Sorry about the delay in repling your message, partially due to my computer problems. Concerning about your attitude towards me, I am currently still analysing about it.

I have already seen your biodata in your userpage. I believe you are currently a philosopher and English teacher by profession, teaching in the University of Oxford.

Would you mind if I call you a professor? I don't want you to be so harsh and violent, and that is exactly what you are, I'm afraid. I am willing to learn from you, however hard it can become. I'm sorry if you think if I'm to arrogant or ignorant, but your edits are too unjustificable. But a teacher like you needs to show is some care and attention to a student.

Can we edit articles collaboratively, rather than reverting every now and then? I have also witnessed that your group have already completed the copyediting of Lahul and Spiti and Kinnaur, but still, the standard of Zanskar and these two articles stated above are considerable.

If you won't mind, can you please sit back patiently, and let me copyedit Zanskar first? Your reverts has not enabled me to prove my capabilities. I will make one more revert--If you still do not agree with the following above, I will explain you until you understand my motives--it seems that you still have a low understanding of it before I revert. (However, it doesn't seem to make sense after my gramatical explanations at the talk page, and you suddenly change your attitude for the worse)

I also like to stress that many of your reverts make things from bad to worse, especially in the context of spelling errors. I would like to notify you that there is no need to use formal English in the context of discussions. My english has its flaws, I understand, and I'm willing to learn.

Ah yes, before I forget, I would like to discuss with you about the arbitration matter. Forget about the response in the RfC, for I think that if-if ever arbitration will be held against you and your fellow buddies, I think that that is the most suitable place.

''You have now placed an (oddly worded) accusation of vandalism on my Talk page. Why do you refuse to learn from your experiences? You're criticised and resisted by every editor on the articles that you edit, you're the subject of a unanimously critical RfC,  I’m afraid, that this statement is made by me in response to Mr Tan, having been assured by a number of editors that the Zanskar article is grammatically and stylistically fine, has placed the "gcheck" template on it and started to "correct" good English to bad (creating verbless sentrences, mangling syntax, etc.). He's done this repeatedly, and is immune to explanation. It's difficult to see that this is less than unacceptable, and it at least comes close to vandalism.''. (Not amounting to insult you), but what the statement above of yours is exactly what you are yourself, for you have reverted many of the edits which you think is bad at the expense of the good edits. I cannot tolerate insults or people with a stiff and stubborn attitude.

If you can change for the better, I can forgive (but not forget) you. I want you, to have a friendly, rather than your current and hostile attitude towards article editing.

tan 19:25, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

I do not comprehend why you have paged my comment in the RfC. Is there anything wrong with it? Or are you trying to threaten against me for the proposed editing of Zanskar? What's the matter? Can you please explain why?

tan 20:19, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe it's time for arbitration. JMBell° 14:27, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. I think we better not give Tan any more bright ideas; he's all too eager to use our own weapons against us. He must be brought to his senses. JMBell° 14:41, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Why is it a PA?
I would like you to explain to me how this is a personal attack. It was left on User:Ungtss's talk page, not on User:FeloniousMonk's talk page, and does not say "Felonious Monk is a bastard" or something. The Australian Democrats have a saying "Keep the bastards honest." They are refering to the 2 main parties in Austalia, the Labor and Liberal parties. No-one finds this offensive, so if Felonious Monk finds what Sam said offensive, then he is being overly sensitive. Sam has told me that he was just trying to give Ungtss encouragement, and was not trying to slander anyone. I'm not claiming Sam is a paragon of good, but if he hasn't actually made a personal attack, then don't try to claim he has. And don't answer to this by dredging up every comment Sam has ever made, I am asking about this particular comment, and why it is thought to be a PA. --Silversmith 11:59, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * So in other words you are throwing our fundamental principle - assume good faith out the window. Also, it is a saying. If he had said, "user x and user y are bastards, don't let them grind you down" or something, that would be a PA. I remain unconvinced. And no, I don't expect you to try and convince me, I am just upset that you are harassing a person who seems to be trying to better himself and his relationship with fellow wikipedians. --Silversmith 12:32, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm sorry I said that, I have retracted it. Here are a couple of examples:

A compliment to SLR, please note SLR's response on Sam's talk page as well. A compliment to SlimVirgin and El C noted that Sam had performed a maintenance task on his talk page. Not to mention I came on to wikipedia severely disliking Sam for his exchanges with my boyfriend. He and I have discussed this. I shouldn't be trying to convince you though, if you want to know more about Sam Spade I suggest you have a conversation with him.

 * Citing El C as support that Sam is "trying to better himself" is off the mark considering that El C was alongside me also alluded to as being a bastard by Sam, a point not lost on him here.

 * As for your suggestion that if Mel wanted to know more about Sam he should have a conversation with him, don't assume he hasn't... most encounters were marked by Sam pointedly insulting Mel, so that idea is a non-starter.

 * I'd think that if Sam were genuinely trying to better himself, he'd start by disarming the situation he created with the abusive personal attack sent in his pissy epistle and subsequent attempts to misuse policy and suppress evidence to cover it up. An apology would have sufficed, but Sam squandered that opportunity, which is likely long passed. FeloniousMonk 14:51, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * My point in making that first post was to ask why Mel thought it was a personal attack, when I couldn't see how it was, and Sam has told me that he did not intend it to be. The reason El C comented on Sam's maintenance task was due to his belief that Sam does not like him, and therefore thought it strange. I already said not to dredge up the past, as it doesn't change whether or not this was a personal attack. By saying that it is a personal attack for no better reason than because of Sam's past behaviour is ignoring our princile of "assuming good faith."  And in regards to my suggestion that Mel should have a conversation with Sam, the examples you've shown are not conversations, they are arguments on a wikipedia discussion page.  When I say conversation, I mean a friendly get to know you conversation not stemming from disagreements over article content. Everyone says stupid things that they come to regret. And have you considered that Sam didn't apologise because he didn't believe he'd made a PA? I'm not here to defend Sam, I'm here to argue whether or not what he said was a PA. That has been done. Sorry for discussing this on your talk page Mel. --Silversmith 18:35, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, and about the email he sent you, that's not what I'm discussing here. If you want my opinion on that, talk to me on my talk page. --Silversmith 18:42, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

What is the point in stubs?
Stagecoach in Chesterfield is a stub article. What do we do with stub articles? We expand them! This afternoon, my brother spent a lot of time expanding it, only to have it reverted to it's original form, by you. If it can't be expanded, then may I why there is a stub there in the first place? Sonic Mew 17:40, May 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I got your reply, and I can see your point. It does seem pretty pointless having a stub, if there is nothing that can be added.  And I can't think of anything other than the routes.  Deletion sounds like the best idea.Sonic Mew 18:28, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
Why'd you use rollback on jnc's archiving of the administrators' noticeboard? It's only for vandalism. He's been archiving that page for ages and is very good at it. silsor 18:44, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem on the mistaken reversion; thanks for the note. Noel (talk) 20:02, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Censoring comment pages.
Good day,

I recently saw that you had reinserted a comment on Sam Spade's talk page that he had censored, only to notice that he censored it yet again. I reverted it yesterday, he objected on my talk page, removed it, and I added it again. I'm sure he'll remove it once again. Can users censor their talk pages? I don't believe that you own your own talk page -- you should be able to select whatever format you like, but you should not be able to remove comments that critique your actions (unless we're just talking about a string of obscenities). Perhaps you know more about this. Thank you for your time, and for your many valuable contributions! --Zantastik 21:56, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It appears this user has posed a lot of problems for quite some time -- see this page. --Zantastik 22:38, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

ok
Sorry. Andycjp 22 May 2005

Reply
Ok not to copyedit Zanskar? My grammar is far from perfect? Professor, please note that I may use colloquial english in my discussions, but not in my article edits! Also, neither you have shown any objections on my proposed gramatical changes (I don't see any).

If you still think Zanskar is good enough, tell me then, how you define the article is good in contrast to the already-copyedited Lahul and Spiti. You have reverted all the edits everytime I make one, always at the expense of good ones.

I also see that you have reverted my edits in Zossen. The words should be in bold, as it is in most other articles, and I'm trying to wikify it. Are you doing this for the sake of sentimental reasons against me? Tell me then, if you have any.

No. I think that you got me wrong. No body is 100% wrong nor 100% good. I may be bad now in your own eyes but who knows when can I change for the better? Also, you have no sense of trust in any of the editors. I will not revert Zanskar for now, nor should you take any actions on asking for an arbitratior to look into our case now, nor take any further legal actions. We're not finished with our discussions in the first place. Wait for my RfC response in a few days' time.

Also, I apologise if you find me rude in anyway (I have some slipoffs sometimes).

Tan 11:15, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for encouraging me. I just need that at that time. Sorry for answer you so late.Jacob grace

Re: Stagecoach in Chesterfield
Yes, I know this isn't Yellow Pages, but the whole point of an article is that there should be as much information as possible about the subject. However, you keep taking bits off this article. Why? Do you have a grudge against Stagecoach? Ted Ted 12:23, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Stagecoach
I found contact details for Stagecoach South in Encarta recently. Ted Ted 12:32, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Theodicy
The reason why I have put this in is expressely because I don't think it is trivial. Norman Pike's philosophical output has served as the backbone of numerous theistic defences of the problem of evil and should not be overlooked. It has in fact suffered less criticism that Plantinga's thesis which you give so much space to. I therefore think it is presumptious of you to assume its triviality. If I dont have a sufficent reason for your exclusion of this piece I will reintroduce it to the article at some point in the future. Of course if you do put a valid case for its removal then I will be happy to agree, but just putting statements like 'it is trivial' as a reason for its non-inclusion I think undermines your credibility.

Contact details
I've just found contact details for Stagecoach in Mansfield in Encyclopaedia Britannica!

Problem of Evil
By the way Augustine's 'privatio boni' is more usually translated as the 'privation of good'. This is just a suggestion, and I won't change it myself, for you seem somewhat protective of these 'evil' entries.

Theodicy & Problem of Evil
Ok, I take your point about the personal appraisal involved, and although not convinced of the argument's marginality, I am willing to concede that it be moved to Talk. I may try and restructure the argument so that it is more appropriate for an encyclopaedic format. Thanks.

Thanks
Thanks for the help with the cleanup of the Electric Fence article yesterday. Tobycat 15:46, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

duplicated article content
Hi - I'm trying to chase down exactly how article content occasionally gets duplicated. There was an instance of this a few days ago on WP:TFD from this edit (an edit of yours). Do you happen to recall exactly what happened? My guess is that an edit conflict window is involved somehow, with perhaps some manual copying and pasting - but no one has remembered yet. Thanks. -- Rick Block 15:54, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Let me know if I have this right. With the latest occurrence, you were adding a new section, ended up with an edit conflict, copied the "your text" box (which I assume at this point included the entire article), pasted it into the top box and hit save.  I think this fits my theory about how this is happening (since the entire article is in the "your text" box, you're led to think that this is the amount of data invovled in the conflict but copying all of it is not the right input for the resultant "save").  I don't know how receptive the developers will be to changing this, but it seems to me like a clear user interface bug.  I hope having a specific instance with a specific user will help.  Thanks very much.  I assume you won't mind if I quote your experience on this? -- Rick Block 20:11, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I think both the top and bottom boxes have the entire article (top "as is", bottom "your changes"), so whether you copy only your portion of the lower box or the whole thing, the upper box ends up with the entire article and I'm thinking hitting "save" at this point when you started by adding or editing a section adds the entire article as a new (or replaced) section. -- Rick Block 00:33, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

 * What I think is going on is the edit conflict page is generated with the granularity of the entire page even when the user is only editing or adding a section, so what the software is showing you in this case is really not that helpful. Depending on how extensive the changes were, I suspect the actual best thing to do is to start over - copy all or part of the section from the bottom box and then reload the current copy of the page and edit the section again (judiciously pasting as appropriate).  I'm not 100% certain, but I think the only alternative is to chop the top box down to just the relevant section (by deleting everything else, before and after) and then merging in the desired changes from the bottom box (which I'm thinking pretty much no one does).  Copying only your section from the bottom box and replacing the entire top box with it will avoid duplicating the article, but I assume will also overwrite the change that caused the edit conflict (i.e. some other user's change will be lost).  IMO, this is a very, very bad user interface - I'd guess close to 100% of users who are editing a section, run into an edit conflict, and end up hitting save from the edit conflict page either duplicate an article or overwrite someone else's changes (or both). -- Rick Block 14:13, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Zossen
Yes, of course, go ahead. I'm just translating from the German; I'll incorporate your edits into the translation when you're finished. JMBell° 17:42, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Polly Samson edits
Hi,

I cleaned up an article on Polly Samson I had started, only to find that you reverted the changes to a version by LongHair. The polishing was under an IP address name (before I had this account). Is your policy to revert any changes made by anonymous users? The changes I made did not alter anything LongHair had written (he/she had only amended the categories) and improved the quality of the article. I am curious as to why this happened - I'll check back here for a response, but feel free to leave a note on my talk page.

Many thanks.--HighHopes 18:24, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your very prompt response! My query was in part motivated by a different article, where it appeared you had also reverted an anonymous edit (seemingly on principle), but I see your point regarding the Polly Samson article. Being my first ever Wikipedia article, I'll no doubt return to it to improve it more thoroughly at a later date. Thanks! --HighHopes 18:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Jeff Gerhardt
You seem to know what to do with the article. Do it. -SV|t 18:28, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Anastas Mikoyan
Thank you for your message. You might want to see Talk:Reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, because it says that there should be an article for the funeral and that page should be just for the reaction. SNIyer12.

 * Thank you for what you said in response to my message. The new article will be started shortly. SNIyer12

User:ElKabong
I've blocked him for 24 hours for the 3RR violation you reported. I saw your report using the diff function, but for some reason I can't see it on the page. Perhaps a cache problem. Anyway, I'll report the block on that page as soon as I can see where to do it. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:57, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

User:KaintheScion / User:ElKabong
Despite the RFC, this user continues to repeatedly engage in personal attacks and violate the 3RR. I've advised him on his Talk page that this behavior is completely unacceptable, and that if it continues, I will ask Arbcom to open a case against him. If this becomes necessary, would you be willing to assist in this process? Firebug 17:23, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

New user template
Hi there! We discussed this a long time ago, but would you please add something about mergism to the new user template? The relevant link is at Merge. Thanks, Radiant_* 17:42, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

minor reverts
Please do not mark your reverts of other's work as a minor edit, per this page. --goethean ॐ 17:56, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. I read the last paragraph on the page. --goethean ॐ 17:59, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Lulu
Please see Requests for comment/Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters. A new issue has arisen. Fear ÉIREANN (talk) 20:17, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Plato dialogues naming survey
As an active participant in the discussions on Category_talk:Dialogues_of_Plato, I wanted to draw your attention to my survey proposal. This would likely bring in a number of outside and (presumably/hopefully) objective views - at the least, a fair enough number to make a consensus at the conclusion. Surveys need to be discussed by the involved parties ahead of time in order to come to an agreement as to their content, and thus make them valid. If you have the time, I'd appreciate if you got involved. Thanks! --Girolamo Savonarola 23:21, 2005 May 23 (UTC)

RFC
Hello, Mel. Persuant to your comment, I have created a second RFC against Lulu. It is at Requests for comment/Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 2. Perhaps you could check it out. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 11:21, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Mel. I'd like to urge you to reconsider your endorsement of Smoddy's newest game in the RfC area.  I  will not participate in it, but I saw the mention of it on my talk page.  You are the only name there who isn't one of the "usual suspects" in the endless "style wars" flame fest, which has spilled over increasingly to "gaming" WP admin procedures.

 * It is true enough that I made some comments (either on my own talk page, or in edit comments, or in a silly VfD attached to an even sillier RfC) that did not treat the whole nonsense as serious and somber—because it is patently not so. Smoddy, with the flush of youth I am sure, decided to stomp his feet and threaten to hold his breath until I acknowledge how very adult and important he is.  His latest RfC is this, and nothing other than this: "I'm so important, I know how to write an RfC!"

 * I reckon it's true that non-admins are not supposed to add the .  Actually, I don't even really know for sure if that is true.  The pages on page protection and stuff are not 100% clear to me; and I've definitely read more pages on administrative procedures this week than I ever hoped to in joining WP.  I do not know if the same is true of , which I tried changing to around the time I tried the "request for page protection."  I guess I would honestly like to know whether there is a user-level page protection mechanism, since I am still unsure.  In any case, as near as I can see, the "issue" with the closest (albeit still remote) connection to an RfC is that I have not yet memorized the arcana of administravia on WP.  I plead guilty to that. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 17:40, 2005 May 24 (UTC)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
You left a message Please don't edit proteced pages. at 09:21, 24 May 2005 (UTC). Apart of the level of rudeness about it you will note that I did not edit a "protected" page there recently. On the 16th I reverted an edit by User:Ed g2s and if you look at his talkpage you will see that I pointed out to him that he had edited a protected page and I was reverting him on that. I suggest that you check your accusations before making them in future. (Your message removed from my talk page therefore) --Vamp:Willow 12:45, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Not everything goes in an edit summary box, especially where a user's talk page is also utilised, however "reverted to original" should have also been clear. 'Moreover, there should be no editing of a protected page at all,no matter how good you think the reason is. is something I quite agree with and, as it appears I must repeat this for you again, I did not *edit* the page, I reverted it. --Vamp:Willow 12:59, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Terrorism in Kashmir/archive1

Terrorism in Kashmir
For over 2 decades now, Kashmir remains as one of the most heavily militarised zones on planet Earth. With more than a million troops of both India and Pakistan deployed in the region and several more terrorists targeting innocent civilians, Kashmir might well be the most dangerous region in the world. I would like fellow wikipedians to review the article and make necessary changes to improve its content. IncMan 13:37, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well it's just my opinion, of course, but the article loses its neutral PoV in the first sentence with the word "vicious". Not to seem trite about it, but all warfare is vicious to varying degrees. It probably goes without saying that terrorism is decidedly vicious by its very nature. Anyway, as this article is a current and on-going event, it needs careful checking for neutrality. It probably also needs an appropriate warning template at the top. Other than that, I noticed a slightly odd formatting tendency with spaces before the commas and periods in some places. The page could also use at least one category. Overall it looks good, as well as informative. Thank you. :) — RJH 15:49, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * As suggested, I have removed the word vicious from the 1st sentence. Well, one can say that the article is not neutral as it critices the militants in certain sections. However, I have tried my level best in maintaing neutral viepoint from both Indian and Pakistani prospectives on the terrorism. I have also tried to correct the odd format of the article. Thanks :-] IncMan 17:49, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * Could you present the "Facts on Terrorism in Kashmir" section a bit better? It looks like a straight copy-and-paste job at the moment. Harro5 22:27, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have copy edited as far as ==Recent Peace Efforts==. When does the "recent past" start in this context? --Theo (Talk) 11:42, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Visit this webpage: to know more about hawala. --IncMan 10:55, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) It needs a copyedit. The language could be improved slightly. 2) The lead-in should be two-three paragraphs. 3) Have you asked for Pakistani opinion on the article to certify that this is not a POV? See Wikipedians/Pakistan. This is a contentious issue and it best not be a POV if it has to get featured. = Nichalp  ( Talk )= 11:40, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * At least the article is better than that on Kashmir. I have tried my level best on representing Pakistani viewpoint also . --IncMan 13:55, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't like the Re-Evaluation section; the whole thing seems POV. I suggest removing it. Ben Standeven 04:13, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Removng it is not a good idea. Prefer if it is edited. --IncMan 12:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

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Uniting Nations

Uniting Nations are a British dance music act formed in Liverpool in 2004. They achieved chart success across Europe. The act was originally made up of Paul Keenan and Daz Sampson as band members, songwriters and producers. After their 2005 hit "Out of Touch", which was the debut and most successful single of the band, Craig Powell joined in as frontman of the band. A number of songs on the Uniting Nations' debut and only album One World, released in 2005 on Gut Records, were also performed by vocalist and session artist Jinian Wilde.

The band had chart success with two initial UK hits, "Out of Touch" and "You and Me". The band's third hit, "Ai No Corrida", a remake of the 1980 song by British musician Chaz Jankel (which was covered by American producer Quincy Jones on his 1981 album The Dude), featured the vocals of British singer and dancer Laura More. Craig Powell left in March 2006, after the release of the One World album, with the band releasing various recordings until 2008.

In April 2019, the act was revived with Daz Sampson and British singer Nona and recorded a new single called "This Love", a cover of the 1986 song "Is This Love" by American band Survivor. It was released on 14 February 2020 on label JF Productions. The act were also working on a new album.

Career
The biggest hit for Uniting Nations was their debut hit "Out of Touch", a cover of Hall & Oates. The video for the song featured the actor Paul Spicer. The single stayed in the UK Singles Chart charts for 21 weeks, peaking at #7. It also peaked at #5 in Ireland, #8 in Norway, #9 in Finland and the Netherlands. It also charted in Australia, Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.

Uniting Nations' follow-up single was "You and Me". The song was written by the band members. The video for the song featured frontman Craig Powell. Powell also performed the songs live in Uniting Nations performances including on Top of the Pops. The single peaked at #15 in the UK charts. It also reached #3 in Finland, #16 in Denmark, also charting in Ireland and Sweden.

Their third single from the album was "Ai No Corrida", which featured the vocals of Laura More and backing vocals of Steve M. Smith and Yolanda Quartey. The single had its UK release on 7 November 2005 which was made to coincide with the band's release of the album. The cover reached the UK Top 20, peaking at #18.

Following the success of the singles on the British charts, the album One World was released on 14 November 2005, and included twelve tracks. The album track "She's Special" carried the vocals of Donovan Blackwood. The album also included an additional extended version of "Out of Touch" titled "Out of Touch (I Love You So Much)", five a cappellas of the album songs and two short samples. Uniting Nations also released various a cappellas as DJ tools and samples for use by remixers. Smash Hits readers and T4 viewers voted Uniting Nations as "Best Dance Act" at their last ever Pollwinners Party in 2005.

Craig Powell left the band in March 2006 for a solo career, with several TV performances as a single released in 2010; he then became a professional mixed martial arts competitor and opened his own gym.

Uniting Nations then released songs that included "Music in Me" and the promotional "High Energy" in 2006 and a fourth official single called "Do It Yourself" in 2007, a cover of American singer Gloria Gaynor's 1975 song of the same name. The band took a break in 2010 to concentrate on writing and producing for other established acts.

Revival
In April 2019, the act was revived with Daz Sampson and British singer Nona and recorded a new single called "This Love", a cover of the 1986 song "Is This Love" by American band Survivor. It was released on 14 February 2020 on label JF Productions. The act were also working on a new album.

Albums

 * One World (2005)

In popular culture

 * British-Japanese media artist Danny Choo used the Jon Dixon remix of Uniting Nations' song "Ai no Corrida" in his 2007 Tokyo Dance Trooper in Shibuya viral video in Shibuya, Tokyo.

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East Sister Island (Ontario)

East Sister Island is a 15 hectare island in Ontario, Canada, located within Lake Erie. It has no long-term human population and is maintained as a Provincial Nature Reserve.

The island is part of the Pelee Archipelago which also includes West Sister Island (in Ohio, USA) and Middle Sister Island.

Flora and fauna
The island has become the home of a breeding colony of double-crested cormorants. Their droppings have threatened the forest, a relict of Carolinian forest in southern Ontario. The forests of the island are dominated by the common hackberry and Kentucky coffeetree. Unusual species on the island include the wild hyacinth and the Lake Erie water snake, Nerodia sipedon insularum.

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Talk:Fundamental theorem of Galois theory

missing logic, or my problem?
I may be missing something, but in the discussion of the cube roots of 2, it was stated that f(x) = w *x is an automorphism. I was under the impression that the automorphism had to map rationals to rationals, so that w = w * 1 = f(1) = 1. How, then could be w be defined as one of the complex roots? Could you clarify this part of the writeup? (or am I being stupid?) CharlesTheBold 01:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

 * It doesn't say that f(x) = w*x for all x; it says that $$f(\theta) = \omega \cdot \theta $$, where $$\theta$$ is a cube root of 2 and $$\omega$$ is a primitive cube root of unity. Plclark (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Missing detail in example section
In the example section it says: "Each such automorphism must send √2 to either √2 or −√2, and must send √3 to either √3 or −√3". Why is this? It seems like sending √2 to √3 and vice versa (simultaneously) would still fix a. Maybe we could add a sentence or link explaining this statement? Luqui (talk) 07:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

 * The automorphisms in G can only permute the roots of any polynomial. (See Lemma 18.3 in Algebra, A Graduate Course by I. Martin Isaacs.) So G permutes {√2, -√2} (the roots of the polynomial X2 - 2) and {√3, -√3} (the roots of the polynomial X2 - 3). I added some explanatory text. Bender2k14 (talk) 05:21, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Example 3 and geometric cross-ratio
The elements of the group described in example 3 take the same form as geometric cross-ratios. I think they should be cross referenced somehow. — Anita5192 (talk) 22:03, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

 * At the moment it is referenced indirectly; if you click on the link J-invariant you'll immediately see the same set G and the reference to cross-ratio. MvH (talk) 13:01, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

 * I added a direct link to six cross-ratios. The link says G isom S3, so the the argument for G isom S3 (the action on 0,1,infinity) is not needed anymore. MvH (talk) 13:11, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

 * Thank you! I think the connection is clearer now. — Anita5192 (talk) 04:05, 10 May 2015 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Proness

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proness
Dictionary definition of slang. Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a slang guide. Best, Meelar (talk) 13:41, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete useless--Sophitus 13:54, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Meelar. Karol 13:58, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Could it mean the degree to which one is a prostitute, too? Useless slang. Geogre 18:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete slang dictionary definition. Megan1967 02:52, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
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Karen Parry

Karen Parry is a dance vocalist who featured on a number of European hits in the 2000s.

She featured with Flip & Fill on chart hit "Shooting Star" in 2001, originally recorded by happy hardcore act Bang!, reaching number 3 in the UK.

She featured with Flip & Fill on "Discoland" in 2004, reaching number 11 in the UK. This was originally a happy hardcore track by Tiny Tot. She featured on Pascal's remake of "I Think We're Alone Now", a cover of the 1960s classic by Tommy James & the Shondells (later covered in the 1980s by Tiffany), reaching UK #23 in 2002.

Parry is signed to AATW Records and regularly features on the Clubland album series. She recorded a cover of Irene Cara's "Flashdance" for the Clubland III album (2003). She collaborated with Pascal on "This Will Be (The Best Days Of Our Lives)" which featured on Clubland 4 (2003).

Both "Flashdance" and "This Will Be" were released on promo only with remixes, and in 2007 were available as digital downloads on iTunes under the misspelled artist name 'Karren Parry'.

Other vocal collaborations include the Dance Assassins (DJ Insy & Matt Troll) for a rework of happy hardcore anthem "Here I Am" in 2004, originally recorded by Ham, Demo and Justin Time. This was followed in 2005 by "Sail Away" which was originally recorded by Bang!.

She has since been recording as a solo artist with Flip & Fill (Mark Hall & Graham Turner) as producers, covering "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins in 2006. Her latest track "I'm In Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (2007) was originally a European chart hit by ATC in 2003.

In 2008 she toured the UK with Flip & Fill on the Clubland Arena Tour with other artists including Scooter, Ultrabeat and Cascada.

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Popular Democratic Union (Portugal)

The Popular Democratic Union (União Democrática Popular,, or UDP) is a Marxist political movement in Portugal. The UDP transformed itself into a political association at its 15th congress due to its merger with other left-wing parties in the Left Bloc.

History
The party was founded in December 1974 as a common mass front of the Committee for Support to the Reconstruction of the Party (Marxist–Leninist) (CARP(ML)), Revolutionary Marxist–Leninist Unity (URML) and Revolutionary Communist Committees (Marxist–Leninist). UDP ran lists in the first free election in Portugal in 1975, and elected one MP in that election. UDP also ran in the subsequent elections until 1983. After that it ran integrated in the electoral lists of the Portuguese Communist Party until 1991.

In 1998 it became part of the Left Bloc after a merger with other small left-wing parties and movements, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, Politics XXI and the Left Revolutionary Front.

The president of People's Democratic Union is Joana Mortágua, who became leader in 2010 at the age of 24. Joana Mortágua was Left Bloc candidate in the national legislative elections of 2009, electoral district of Évora and is member of the current Political Commission of Left Bloc.

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Morgenstern

Morgenstern may refer to:

 * Morgenstern (surname)
 * Morgenstern (band), a music project
 * Morgenstern, song by rock band Rammstein on their 2004 album Reise, Reise
 * Morning star (weapon), a spiked mace, also known as a morgenstern
 * Morgenstern, a thermonuclear device detonated in the Castle Koon nuclear test.

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DMI

DMI may refer to:

Organizations

 * Danish Meteorological Institute
 * Data Management Inc., a time-and-attendance software company
 * Dead Man Incorporated, a predominantly white prison-gang formed in Maryland
 * Development Media International, an organization that runs media campaigns to promote healthy behavior
 * Dhulikhel Medical Institute, in Nepal
 * Digital Manga, Inc.
 * Drum Major Institute, a non-profit American progressive think tank and community action group
 * Dubai Media Incorporated, owned by the government of the Emirate of Dubai

Science and technology

 * Deferred maintenance item, in aviation upkeep
 * Desktop Management Interface, a computer-software framework for managing components
 * Digital Media Initiative, a cancelled technology project run by the BBC from 2008 to 2013
 * Direct manipulation interface, a style of human-computer interaction
 * Direct Media Interface, an interconnection between the CPU and the southbridge in Intel chipsets
 * Dry matter intake, an animal's feed intake excluding its water content
 * Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction, an interaction between neighboring magnetic spins
 * 1,3-Dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone, in chemistry, an aprotic solvent

Other uses

 * Des Moines, Iowa
 * Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom), a department of the British War Office until 1964
 * Dominica, UNDP country code
 * Dunder Mifflin, a fictional paper company on the American television show The Office

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Fingermouse

Fingermouse is a British children's television programme created by Michael Cole for the BBC in 1985. It is a spin-off of the earlier series Fingerbobs. The first episode was broadcast on 25 September 1985 on BBC1. The eponymous star was a paper finger puppet in the form of a mouse, who would play various musical instruments with the help of Music Man, played by Iain Lauchlan. Fingermouse also went adventuring outside, interacting with other paper puppets made by artist Joanne Cole. The episodes were repeated frequently between 1986 and 1994. The series was also shown as part of the CBBC On Choice strand in 2000. For the 2000 repeats, the address to receive a instruction sheet (make your own Fingermouse) was removed.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sparkie

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Sparkie
I don't see how this could ever evolve into an encyclopedic article. It is just a bit of uninformative trivia. Sarg 13:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Another page about a first name. Sjakkalle 13:47, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Sarg. Karol 13:58, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn Xcali 14:22, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well we've got List of British regional nicknames and List of nicknames used by George W. Bush. Why not merge all such pages into a List of nicknames page and lay this dog to rest? Merge — RJH 15:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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Mitchell Point Tunnel

The Mitchell Point Tunnel was a tunnel located towards the eastern end of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Oregon, United States. It existed from 1915 to 1966.

History
The tunnel was designed by John Arthur Elliott, who was inspired by a tunnel similarly set into a cliff face above Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. It was built in 1915 and opened late in the year, the first major roadway tunnel in the United States. The tunnel measured 390 ft long, 18 ft wide, and 10 ft tall. At the time it was one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive, sections of road ever built.

In 1932, the Toothrock Tunnel was opened, and some traffic was rerouted to the new alignment, though Mitchell Point Tunnel remained open to vehicle traffic until the early 1950s, when the road was rerouted to the base of Mitchell Point. The tunnel was subsequently blocked off with debris, and remained closed until 1966 when it was destroyed as part of Interstate 80N construction. As part of the rebuilding of the Columbia River Highway into a network of trails, the Oregon Department of Transportation has considered the possibility of boring a new tunnel on Mitchell Point.

Mitchell's Point is named for Captain Mitchell, an early Oregon settler who was said to have jumped from the point to commit suicide, rather than be captured by natives, during a conflict in 1856 later dubbed the Cascades Massacre. In 1921 there were two proposals to change the name to honor heroes of overseas wars.

In 2021 the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced commencement of a project to build a replica tunnel in the original location. Construction is underway, with a tentative completion date of June, 2024.

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Silverball Studios

Silverball Studios Limited, formerly known as Fuse Games Limited, was a British video game developer known for developing pinball games for Nintendo.

Fuse Games Limited era
The company was founded in 2002 by Adrian Barritt and Richard Horrocks, makers of the award-winning Pro Pinball series of computer games. As an idea to show what they were capable of, they developed a Mario pinball demo and pitched the idea to Nintendo, who then hired the company to make Mario Pinball Land for the Game Boy Advance. The whole game was made by just five people. Later, Fuse Games developed Nintendo DS games, the most notable being Metroid Prime Pinball, a pinball adaptation of the GameCube game Metroid Prime. The studio also became the only developer outside Japan to create a Touch! Generations game, with Active Health with Carol Vorderman.

Silverball Studios Limited era
In 2009, the company nearly went bankrupt after completing Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon for DSiWare, but reformed as Silverball Studios. The company attempted to revive the Pro Pinball series through Kickstarter in 2012. The project's goal was unsuccessful, and the company eventually merged into Barnstorm Games as the in-house development team. Afterwards, the Kickstarter was revived in 2013, but was limited to the single table Timeshock!. This campaign reached its goal and the Ultra Edition of Pro-Pinball: Timeshock! was released for several platforms.

Game Boy Advance

 * Mario Pinball Land (2004)

Nintendo DS

 * Metroid Prime Pinball (2005)
 * Active Health with Carol Vorderman (2009)
 * Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon (2009)
 * Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2010)

Wii

 * Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2010)
 * American Mensa Academy (2012)

iPhone

 * Mensa Brain Test (2010)
 * Frogger Pinball (2011)

Nintendo 3DS

 * BearShark: The Game (2013)

Windows/Xbox 360 Arcade

 * American Mensa Academy (2012)
 * Pro Pinball: Timeshock! - The Ultra Edition (2014)

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Oskar Minkowski

Oskar Minkowski ( 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski.

Life and career
Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski was the son of Rachel (née Taubmann) and Lewin Boruch Minkowski (1825–1884), a first-guild merchant, who subsidized construction of the choral synagogue in Kovno.

Discovery of the role of pancreas in diabetes
Minkowski worked with Josef von Mering on the study of diabetes at the University of Strasbourg. Their landmark study in 1889 in dogs induced diabetes by removing their pancreas. It was Minkowski who performed the operation and made the crucial link to recognize that the symptoms of the treated dogs were due to diabetes. Thus they were able to indicate that the pancreas contained regulators to control blood sugar; they also provided a model for the study of diabetes. Their work led other doctors and scientists to pursue further research on the relation of the pancreas to diabetes, and ultimately resulted in the discovery of insulin as a treatment for the disease.

 * Joseph von Mering, Oskar Minkowski: Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation. Centralblatt für klinische Medicin, Leipzig, 1889, 10 (23): 393–394. Archiv für experimentelle Patholgie und Pharmakologie, Leipzig, 1890, 26: 37. It begins with, After removal of the pancreas dogs get diabetes. It starts sometime after the operation and will persist for weeks continuously until their death...

Minkowski Prize
In recognition of the discovery by Minkowski the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annually awards the Minkowski Prize for outstanding original work of a younger investigator in diabetes research.

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Gibraltar Island

Gibraltar Island (or the "Gem of Lake Erie") is an island in Ohio, located within Lake Erie. This small 6.55-acre (0.026 km2) island is just offshore of South Bass Island. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio.

The rocky island is named for its resemblance to the Rock of Gibraltar.

History
Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the British during the War of 1812. Perry and his men defeated a fleet of British sailing vessels during the famous Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. As a result, the lookout point on Gibraltar Island became known as Perry's Lookout.

Ownership of the island remained with Connecticut until Pierpont Edwards, a New York City banker purchased the deed in 1807. Sandusky, Ohio, native Jay Cooke bought the island from Edwards in 1864 and immediately began construction of a 15-room Victorian-Gothic mansion (now known as Cooke Castle). The Cooke family entertained a variety of notables, such as William Tecumseh Sherman, Salmon P. Chase, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison. John Brown's son Owen, whose brother John Jr. lived on neighboring South Bass Island (Put-In-Bay), was caretaker during the winter and when the Cookes were away. In the early 1880s Cooke's daughter, Laura Barney, sold it to Julius Stone, who eventually gave it to Ohio State University.

Stone Laboratory
Ohio State University has had various research and teaching laboratories on Lake Erie since 1895, when Professor David S. Kellicott created a second-floor lab in a Sandusky, Ohio, fish hatchery. Kellicott served as the laboratory director until his death in 1898. The first courses were offered to students in 1900. The lab moved to Cedar Point and South Bass Island before settling on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay. Julius Stone, a trustee of the Ohio State University, acquired the deed in 1925 from descendants of Jay Cooke. He immediately offered the land to Ohio State. The Board of Trustees resolved that it would be named for his father, Franz Theodore Stone, a Prussian mathematician and astronomical researcher who worked for Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel after attending the Königsberg Albertina University. Though the purchase was made in 1925, the first classes did not begin until 1929, and the F. T. Stone Laboratory (known simply as Stone Lab) was dedicated on June 22, 1929, making it the oldest freshwater field station in the United States. It contains six classrooms, offices, laboratories, computing facilities, and a 100-seat auditorium. It hosts workshops for grade school students throughout the year, and full-credit college courses are offered to advanced high school students, undergraduates, and graduate students over the summer.

Other buildings on Gibraltar include:
 * Cooke Castle, built in 1865 by Jay Cooke, currently being renovated, listed on National Register of Historic Places
 * Barney Cottage, built in approximately 1900 by Jay Cooke's daughter, sleeps 22
 * Dining Hall, built in 1929 by Ohio State
 * Stone Cottage, built in 1930 by Ohio State as quarters for instructors and researchers, slept 10
 * Gibraltar House, built in 1930 by Ohio State as quarters for the caretaker
 * Harborview House, built in 1985 by Ohio State as a dormitory, sleeps 60

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Colin Matthews

Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, Britten, Dowland, Mahler, Purcell and Schubert. Other arrangements include orchestrations of all Debussy's 24 Préludes, both books of Debussy's Images, and two movements—Oiseaux tristes and La vallée des cloches—from Ravel's Miroirs. Having received a doctorate from University of Sussex on the works of Mahler, from 1964–1975 Matthews worked with his brother David Matthews and musicologist Deryck Cooke on completing a performance version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.

Early life and education
Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall, and at the same time with Nicholas Maw. In the 1970s he taught at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a doctorate for his work on Mahler, an offshoot of his long collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. During this period he also worked at Aldeburgh with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst. His music has been published principally by Faber Music since 1976.

Career
In 1975 his orchestral Fourth Sonata (written 1974–75) won the Scottish National Orchestra's Ian Whyte Award. Subsequent orchestral works include the widely performed Night Music (1976), Sonata No. 5: Landscape (1977–81), and a First Cello Concerto, commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Proms: these last two have been recorded by Unicorn-Kanchana. In 1989 Cortège was given its first performance by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Bernard Haitink, and Quatrain by the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas. This was the first of a series of LSO commissions, followed by Machines and Dreams for their 1991 Childhood Festival, Memorial in 1993 with Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor, and a Second Cello Concerto for Rostropovich in 1996. In 1990 he made a setting of three comic poems by Wendy Cope, Strugnell's Haiku. Matthews was Associate Composer with the LSO from 1992 until 1999. The orchestral version of Hidden Variables was a joint commission for the LSO and the New World Symphony Orchestra, who gave the American première in Miami under Michael Tilson Thomas in 1992; in the same year the Cleveland Orchestra gave the American première of Machines and Dreams. Collins Classics released a CD of Matthews' LSO commissions in 1996 to celebrate his 50th birthday.

The BBC commission Broken Symmetry was first performed by its dedicatees, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen, in March 1992, and repeated at the 1992 Proms. It was recorded in 1994, together with the Fourth Sonata and Suns Dance, by Deutsche Grammophon (a Grammy Award nomination); and it forms the third part of the huge choral/orchestral Renewal, commissioned by the BBC for the 50th anniversary of Radio 3 in September 1996. Renewal received the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for large-scale composition. The Dutch première of Cortège was given in December 1998 by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. The ballet score Hidden Variables, incorporating a new orchestral work, Unfolded Order, was commissioned by the Royal Ballet for the reopening of the Royal Opera House in December 1999.

Colin Matthews' chamber music includes five string quartets, two oboe quartets, a Divertimento for double string quartet (1982), and a substantial body of piano music. Between 1985 and 1994 he completed six major works for ensemble: Suns Dance for the London Sinfonietta (1985, reworked for the Royal Ballet as Pursuit), Two Part Invention (1987), The Great Journey (1981–88)—re-released on NMC—Contraflow, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for the 1992 Huddersfield Festival, and two commissions for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Hidden Variables (1989) and ...through the glass (1994), the latter given its first performance under Simon Rattle, who also conducted it in 1998 at the Proms and in Salzburg. Matthews' music was featured at the Almeida Festival in 1988, at the Bath Festival in 1990, at Tanglewood where he has been visiting composer many times since 1988, at the 1998 Suntory Summer Festival in Tokyo, at the 2003 Avanti! Festival in Finland, and the 2004 Berlin Festival.

The year 2000 saw four major premières: Two Tributes for the London Sinfonietta; Pluto, an addition to Holst's Planets, for the Hallé Orchestra and Kent Nagano, now widely performed; Aftertones, for the Huddersfield Choral Society; and Continuum, a large-scale work for soprano and ensemble commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for Cynthia Clarey and Simon Rattle, with performances in London, Cologne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna and Birmingham. In the spring of 2001 the Philharmonia orchestra gave the first performance of Matthews' Horn Concerto, with Richard Watkins and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Also in 2001 he was commissioned to write a Fanfare to open the BBC Proms. Reflected Images, for Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, received its première in October 2003.

Colin Matthews' 60th birthday was marked by 5 performances given at the 2006 BBC Proms. Recent works have included Berceuse for Dresden, written for the rebuilt Frauenkirche in Dresden and first performed there in November 2005 with the cellist Jan Vogler and the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel; and Turning Point, commissioned by the Concertgebouw Orchestra and given by them under Markus Stenz in January 2007. His Violin Concerto was given by Leila Josefowicz and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen in September 2009.

From 2001 to 2010 Matthews was Associate Composer with the Hallé Orchestra, and is now their Composer Emeritus. During this period he wrote a number of works for them, as well as a project involving the orchestration of all 24 of Debussy's Preludes, completed in May 2007 and recorded by Sir Mark Elder on the Hallé label. Alphabicycle Order, a major work for children's chorus, narrator and orchestra to poems by Christopher Reid, was premiered by the Hallé under Edward Gardner as part of the 2007 Manchester International Festival, and is also recorded on the Hallé label, together with the Horn Concerto. Commissioned by the Hallé Orchestra as part of their Mahler centenary celebrations, his Crossing the Alps for Chorus and Organ, on a text by William Wordsworth (The Prelude, Book VI), was first performed by the Hallé Choir, conducted by Markus Stenz, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, in January 2010. Its German premiere, also under Stenz, was in the Philharmonie in Cologne, in January 2011, with the MDR Radio Chorus.

Three works were premiered in 2011 : Night Rides for the London Sinfonietta; No Man’s Land, to a text by Christopher Reid, for the City of London Sinfonia with soloists Ian Bostridge and Roderick Williams; and Grand Barcarolle for the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly as part of their Beethoven cycle presented in Leipzig, Vienna, Paris and London in autumn 2011. No Man’s Land won the 2012 British Composer Award for vocal music. Matthews' Fourth Quartet was given its first performance by the Elias Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in November 2012 and won the 2013 British Composer Award for chamber music. Nowhere to Hide for piano trio was premiered at the 2013 Cheltenham Festival by the Schubert Ensemble. His work Traces Remain, which takes its name and inspiration from a book of essays by Charles Nicholl, was premiered on 8 January 2014 at the Barbican Centre, London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, and was broadcast live by BBC Radio 3.

In 2014 he wrote Spiralling for Spira Mirabilis, The Pied Piper of Hamelin to words by Michael Morpurgo for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, and a Fifth String Quartet for the 75th anniversary of Tanglewood. More recently Matthews has focused on works for voice and ensemble - A Land of Rain (2017) to words by Nicholas Moore and Baudelaire for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, As Time Returns (2018) to words by Ivan Blatný for the London Sinfonietta and Seascapes (2020) to words by Sidney Keyes for the Nash Ensemble.

Music written during the lockdown period (2020 - 22) includes Mosaics for orchestra, first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in May 2023; an arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony commissioned by Leonidas Kavakos, YoYo Ma and Emanuel Ax and recorded by them in 2022; and an opera in collaboration with William Boyd, A Visit to Friends, for first performance at the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival.

Matthews and his wife Belinda, a publishing executive at Faber and Faber, have three children, Jessie, Dan and Lucy.

NMC Recordings
He is founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and has also produced recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Classics, Conifer, Collins, Bridge, BMG, Continuum, Metronome and Elektra Nonesuch (Górecki's Third Symphony, for which he received a Grammy nomination).

Administrative work
He is active as administrator of the Holst Foundation, was Chair of the Britten Estate for many years, and is Music Director and Joint President of Britten-Pears Arts. He was a Council Member of the Aldeburgh Foundation from 1983 to 1994, and retains close links with the Aldeburgh Festival and the Britten-Pears School, particularly as co-director with Oliver Knussen of the Contemporary Composition and Performance Course, which they founded in 1992. He was a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music for over 20 years, and a director of the Performing Right Society from 1992 to 1995. Since 1985 he has been a member of the Music Panel of the Radclffe Trust. He was an Executive Council Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society from 2005 until 2019.

Honours
In 1998 Colin Matthews was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Nottingham, where he has been honorary professor since 2005. He is currently Prince Consort Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music, where he was made FRCM in 2007, and distinguished visiting fellow in composition at the University of Manchester. He was a governor of the Royal Northern College of Music (where he is FRNCM) from 2001 to 2008. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. He was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society/Performing Right Society Leslie Boosey Award in 2005, honouring an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the furtherance of contemporary music in Britain; and the Gramophone 2017 Special Achievement Award in recognition of his work for NMC.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music.

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Interpreter's Bible series

The Interpreter's Bible series is a biblical criticism series published by United Methodist Publishing (Abingdon/Cokesbury) beginning in the 1950s. Each volume covers one or more books of the Old Testament (including the Apocrypha) or the New Testament.

Between 1994 and 1998, an updated 12-volume series was published by Abingdon Press as The New Interpreter's Bible (NIB). The New International Version and the New Revised Standard Version are used in parallel as translations and the series contains the work of 94 authors and 14 consultants.

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Mount St Mary's College

Mount St Mary's College is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, England. It was founded in 1842 by the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits), and has buildings designed by notable architects such as Joseph Hansom, Henry Clutter and Adrian Gilbert Scott. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Catholic Independent Schools Conference.

Its affiliated preparatory school is Barlborough Hall School, which is 2.2 miles away by road.

Foundation
Since 1580, during the English Reformation, there have been Jesuits living and working in Spinkhill, serving the local Catholic population. In 1580, Robert Persons, Edmund Campion, and Ralph Emerson came to England in secret. These first Jesuits were sheltered at Spinkhill Hall, the house that became Mount St Mary's College. In 1620, a clandestine school was founded in Stanley Grange near Derby. When this school was discovered and dispersed by the authorities, it did not cease to exist. It was moved to Spinkhill. The school was in buildings owned by members of the Pole family who were related to those living at nearby Radbourne Hall. During the 1700s, it was recorded that there was a Catholic chapel in Spinkhill, a house for Jesuit priests and that they travelled to serve the Catholics in Holbeck, Nottinghamshire.

Construction
In 1842, after Catholic emancipation, Mount St Mary's College was founded. It was originally called the College of the Immaculate Conception at Spinkhill and it was founded by Fr Randall Lythgoe, the provincial superior of the Jesuits in Britain at the time. Some of the college buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The oldest part of the college is the Sodality Chapel. After soldiers of Charles II raided a Jesuit college in Holbeck Woodhouse, furnishings from that college were taken to Spinkhill. In 1840, the first buildings built for the college were designed by Joseph Hansom. In 1850, the Hopkins wing (girls) was built. In 1876, construction started on the new college building. It was designed by Henry Clutton. It was completed in 1912. The Memorial Chapel was designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott, and was completed in 1924. It is a memorial to at least 100 former pupils killed in the Second Boer War, World War I, and World War II and it is a Grade II listed building.

Developments
In 1939, Barlborough Hall, an Elizabethan manor some two miles from Spinkhill, was acquired to serve as a preparatory school to Mount St Mary's College. On 16 July 1939, the then headmaster, Fr Ralph Baines successfully petitioned the College of Arms to give the college its own coat of arms. This is still used by the college today. During Baines' Headmastership from 1939 to 1945, he was also accepted into the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, thus establishing the college as a Public School. In 1979, girls were admitted as day students. From 1984, girls began boarding in the school.

In September 2006, Mount St Mary's became its own charitable trust. The Society of Jesus transferred the two schools to the Mount St Mary's Trust. While legally separate from the Jesuits, the college still works with them to maintain the Jesuit mission and identity of the college.

School years
Each of the school years are named after different stages of elementary skills, taken from the Jesuit text, Ratio Studiorum:
 * Upper Elements (Year 7)
 * Figures (Year 8)
 * Rudiments (Year 9)
 * Grammar (Year 10)
 * Syntax (Year 11)
 * Poetry (Lower Sixth—Year 12)
 * Rhetoric (Upper Sixth—Year 13)

The school is split into three houses, Loyola named after Ignatius of Loyola, Xavier named after Francis Xavier, and Campion named after Edmund Campion. For each year, there are three forms and each form applies to one of the schools houses.

Facilities and sport
The college takes part in sports, notably rugby, and some of its older students have joined the England Rugby teams along with Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and many other countries. The school also receives rugby honours, winning the NatWest Schools Cup in 1994, after being runners up in 1992. The college repeated this honour, winning the U18 National School's Vase in 2022. The college also won the National Schools Sevens four times from 1988 to 1995. There is a sporting rivalry against fellow Catholic Public Schools, Stonyhurst College and Ampleforth College.

Mount St Mary's Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is over 100 years old. Pupils in Year 10 upwards can join either the Army or (since 1984) the RAF section. According to the Independent Schools Inspectorate, "The school's RAF cadet force became the first nationwide to achieve their 'blue wings' gliding licence," and "pupils achieve high success rates in the Duke of Edinburgh award at all levels." The college has music and drama departments that work together for productions. The college's art department includes design and technology, fashion, fine art, and photography. The college has had exchanges with Notre Dame St Sigisbert in Nancy, France, and with Col·legi Casp and Joan 23 schools in Barcelona. In 2009, the college began an exchange with St. Michel in Saint-Étienne, France and considers Lycée Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert a sister school. The college also holds fund-raising events for the Chikuni Mission in Zambia.

The college has a Grade 1 Athletics Stadium, which was selected as a Pre-Games Training Camp for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. There are also nine rugby pitches, three cricket squares, an astro-turf, two sports halls, and a leisure centre with indoor swimming pool, cardio room, and two weights rooms. The latter is open to the public for use at specific times and is run by Nuffield Health. There is a Sixth Form Centre, and a programme of speakers coming from outside the college. The boarding community comprises UK and international pupils who choose to board either full-time, on a weekly or flexi basis.

Notable alumni
Old boys (or alumni) are known as "Mountaineers".
 * Archie Butterworth, inventor and racing driver
 * Tony Brooks, former racing driver, known as the 'racing dentist'
 * John Butler-Bowdon, 25th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, British peer
 * Sir Paget Bourke, Irish barrister and British colonial judge
 * Aston Chichester, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury, Zimbabwe
 * Fred Dewhurst Preston North End footballer of the 1880s and 1890s
 * Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin KC, Canadian lawyer and politician
 * Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, Irish-born South African photographer
 * Vincent Esch, British architect
 * Sir Denis Henry, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
 * Michael Hills, rugby player
 * Gerard W. Hughes, Jesuit priest and writer
 * David Jennings, composer
 * Paul Lindley, entrepreneur and founder of Ella's Kitchen
 * Hugh Lofting, author, creator of Doctor Dolittle (attended the college 1894–1904)
 * Brendan McGuinness, British Army officer
 * Sir Martin Melvin, 1st Baronet
 * Kevin O'Shiel, Irish politician and civil servant
 * Steve Perez, entrepreneur and rally driver
 * Francis Petre, New Zealand architect
 * Henry Petre DSO MC, solicitor and founding member of the Australian Flying Corps
 * Carlos Reygadas, film director
 * Sir David Rose, former Governor-General of Guyana
 * Joe Tetley, cricketer
 * John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley

Notable staff

 * Sir Norman Adsetts OBE, businessman who sits on the chair of governors
 * Harold Cartwright, cricketer who taught cricket and mathematics
 * James Cullen, mathematician, taught mathematics at the school
 * Paul Fisher, cricketer and classicist who was Headmaster at the school
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, taught at the school from 1877 to 1878.
 * Lesroy Weekes, first-class cricketer, current Head of Cricket

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Takamaka, Seychelles

Takamaka is one of the 26 administrative regions of Mahé, Republic of Seychelles. It is located on the southern part of the island of Mahé. Three other districts cover the two other main islands of the Republic, Grand' Anse and Baie Sainte Anne on the island of Praslin and the inner islands district which comprise the 3rd largest island, La Digue. The population of Takamata is estimated at around 3,000.

Overview
Economic activity is grouped around traditional farming and fishing. There is some tourism-related infrastructure comprising four small hotels (Allamanda Hotel, Captain's Villa (self-catering), Chez Batista). The largest hotel is the Banyan Tree Resort at Anse Intendance.

Most of the population is employed by the services and trade sector, such as public service and private commerce, including tourism.

As with all districts, there is a primary school, health center, police station and District Administration Office, all grouped around or near the local Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary Magdalena.

It takes about an hour to commute by public bus to the capital, Victoria, some 25 km away and centre for all administrative and commercial activities. A regular public bus service runs daily from around 05.30 to 20.00 hours.

Notable people

 * Devika Vidot (1988–), accountant and politician.

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Monnai

Monnai is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of La Ferté-en-Ouche. It had a population of 222 as of 2004.

History
The village was founded as "Moenai" in 1100. Following the tradition, the chapel Notre-Dame-du-Vallet was built after the discovery of a statue; it was rebuilt in 16th century and again in 1862. The old village of Ternant, mentioned for the first time in 1100, was linked to Monnai.

In 2005, the "Carrefour des Cultures" 5-day international gathering occurred in Monnai.

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