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User talk:ChristianEdwardGruber

Welcome!

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Happy editing! -- Tomhab 09:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

bahai covenant breaker
just go ahead and make those changes, your control of language and availabliility of information is excellent. Rick Boatright 13:28, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comments on my talk page
Its really funny, we do get some very aggressive anti-Baha'i contributors on wikipedia. Fair enough to them, but it all tends to be very emotive. That particular comment was from (a complete guess here) a Bayani (modern Azali). Had to clean up a lot of vandalism from him. My favourite contribution from him was a link to a dicussion board between two Baha'is saying they should "vote with their money"... ie hold back contributions until the Universal House of Justice hears their pleas (I think they were unhappy about spending lots of money on the Arc, the Chillean House of worship etc). Its been rather calm for around a month now.

Oh well. Generally speaking, make your changes on wikipedia without seeking approval from talk pages - someone (normally myself, Rick, or Occammy) will have a gander at it and if theres a dispute we can use the talk pages to clarify.

Sorry about the photo of Baha'u'llah at the bottom of his page. Don't try reasoning that it needs removal though - we had a long fight to restrain it to at the bottom of only one article and that was only down to luck. -- Tomhab 15:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Another welcome message
Hi. As you've been looking at Baha'i articles and their discussion pages, I guess you already know a little something about me from my past contributions. I'd noticed you'd being doing a thing or two - now I've finally got around to saying hello properly. Welcome to Wikipedia - hope you'll have fun around here. PaulHammond 07:34, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i page
Ah well don't worry about it. I basically wanted to get a full revert with justification that any attempt to redo it will be considered vandalism. We'll see how it turns out anyway.

I'll leave it a bit and make a few changes. His addition of the Bayani bit (he's a returning Anon who I suspect of being one or at least a sympathiser - I think I mentioned him before to you) is pretty blatent plugging. We'll see what happens. As we're around 1000 times larger than the other sects, I don't think we need such a significant change. -- Tomhab 13:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Previously everything on wikipedia that refered to Baha'i was "Haifan" unless said otherwise. Now it changes the tone where we need to say exactly what Baha'i it is every time the word Baha'i is used. The template is entirely about the "Haifan" Baha'is and will thus need changing. Do we include Abdu'l-Baha and/or Shoghi Efendi as a central personage in the Baha'i faith as the "Baha'i family society" does not recognise them? It gets a lot more complicated. I'd rather just keep it as it was really.... Anyway todays busy for me so I can't really do much until tomorrow. -- Tomhab 15:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

non-Bah%E1%27%ED page
I'm not sure we need it. Just letting you know that I dropped a comment on its talk page. PaulHammond 15:23, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Hi again
Just remembered that I've got a long email from you that I've been meaning to reply to.

I'm planning on getting to it sometime over the weekend, in between watching the Wimbledon finals on the BBC. Give me a nudge if I still haven't written to you by Monday! PaulHammond June 30, 2005 11:37 (UTC)

Greetings
A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 09:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

In case you're interested:
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Cole and the covenant
I'm aware of Cole not being a covenant breaker. An over zealous wikipedian put that up and I felt it wasn't even worth a response. -- Tomhab 18:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

d with a dot
I don't think you can do it in HTML - its not part of the ASCII char set. You have to use unicode: forms Riḍván -- Tomhab 23:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox,
Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Graph
We were editing the graph on Baha'i divisions at the same time. I edited over yours because I made a lot of other changes, and we were actually doing the same thing. Try looking at it now and see if I missed anything that you were just working on. Cuñado  -  Talk  19:28, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Messages on your Wikisource talk page
Hi, there are a couple of messages on your Wikisource talk page. 213.120.56.41 21:02, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

 * Wherefore, O my loving friends! Consort with all the peoples, kindreds and religions of the world with the utmost truthfulness, uprightness, faithfulness, kindliness, good-will and friendliness, that all the world of being may be filled with the holy ecstasy of the grace of Baha, that ignorance, enmity, hate and rancor may vanish from the world and the darkness of estrangement amidst the peoples and kindreds of the world may give way to the Light of Unity. (Abdu'l-Baha, The Will and Testament, p. 14)

I just wanted to thank you for being an admirable example of this exhortation of the Master's, and reminding me what exactly it looks like. You've more than once offered contributions to wording being wrangled over, effectively dissolving the issue. I'm glad to now you're around, offering positive imput wherever you go. Wikipedia is all the better for it <:0) User:Jeffmichaud 06 January 2006

God and Monotheism
I dont see Bahai...if the views are covered in nonspecific subheadings, please create a Bahai section on the pages. KI 21:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. I'm breaking the sections into smaller ones based on individual religions. Thanks for adding Bahai views. KI 21:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Project
Hi, my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating th best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.

The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.

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Best regards, Federico Pistono  ✆   ✍  14:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Templates
But it will take me some time. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 16:44, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

You have a new page in your user space
I stumbled across a personal to do list you created in article space and moved it to your user space as User:ChristianEdwardGruber/Greatest Name/to do. If you no longer need it, you may have it deleted. -- DS1953 talk 18:44, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

E-mail
Hey Christian, just wondering if you got the e-mail I sent to you today? -- Jeff3000 02:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Christian, take a look at this Talk:Juan Cole. -- Jeff3000 16:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Shunning page edits
I'm just glad you left me something to do. I don't always have time for major edits lately, but copyediting is something I can take a few minutes for as time comes up. Sxeptomaniac 16:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, ChristianEdwardGruber! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Computerjoe 's talk 18:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

In future, if you will propose my contributions for deletion...
In future, if you will propose my contributions for deletion, please make a more reasonable attempt to contact me, especially given that my wikipedia page is listed on my wikisource page, and my e-mail is registered in the system. (reference to the Baha'i texts from the Baha'i Library). All of the texts mentioned there, except for one, can be sourced from public domain sources. It's a small courtesy given the hours and hours that went into formatting them. Thank you. --Christian Edward Gruber 16:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC) (en.wikipedia.org talk page)
 * Please notice I did not propose your contributions for deletion.  I did speak up during the disscusion to say there were serious copuright concerns with these texts.  And despite my best efforts at research into issue I could not find the definative answer that was needed.  I truly spent a good amount of time looking into it.  But I could not find out if these were published in the UK or US and who was responsible for the translations to English.  Also the dates of publication I found were not clear if they refered to the original or English translation.  I would love to have these texts on Wikisource but I am afraid they do not meet our stringent license requirements.  I would be happy to temporaly restore them to give you a chance to save your formatting at anytime.  I am sorry your hard work no longer is a part of the project, and that you were unware of that concerns were raised about it.  Please let me know what I can do to help.-- Birgitte§β  ʈ  Talk  16:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I think your tone was simply frustrated and was not at all offended. I believe I have restored everything. Let me know if I missed something or else when you are done with it.  I do not believe anyone would want these deleted if the copyright were worked out.  I can always restore them again if that can be settled.  A trick to finding the disscusion of a deleted article is this.  Go to the page where article used to be and in the left margin there is a link called "What links here".  If you click on that it gives a listing of all the places that page exists as a red link, including the archives of proposed deletions.  Let me know if you need any other help.-- Birgitte§β  ʈ  Talk  17:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Bahai resources
Hi,

If you can show me that the resources are in the public domain or under a GFDL compatible license, I will gladly restore them. But according to the Terms of Use where the texts were taken from, there were restrictions on usage which violated both WS and WMF (more importantly) copyright policy. Sorry you weren't notified about the deletion. Please contact me if we were mistaken about the copyright status/license of those works or if you'd like to save any of your effort put into those texts.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 23:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I see that you have had some trouble with license issues and baha'i materials. I am having the same problem with my spiritual identification. My mother is baha'i and I personally am part of a constituency of individuals known as the brights. If you feel images have been unfairly deleted or are improperly labeled "fair use" "copyrighted" or otherwise then please let me know and maybe we can do something about it. Solidusspriggan 18:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

spelling
Hey thanks ;) I'm usually a master speller, but you really got me on that one. Cuñado   -  Talk  18:07, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox
I hope you don't mind editing your sandbox. It still needs a lot of work. -- Jeff3000 16:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Same to you :) I just got back from a long day in Barrie.  Just checking up on the changes throughout the day. -- Jeff3000 04:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

unsigned
A template does exist, it's unsigned (I'm not that patient to write all that out). You can use it as USERNAME. -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeff3000 (talk • contribs).
 * So ironic, I'm explaining how to use the template, and don't sign my comment myself. -- Jeff3000 22:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Restorationism
The Restorationism article is in terrible shape. Amongst its many problems is a complete lack of citations. Do you have any online resources that you feel might help in a cleanup of that article? Everything from style and form to grammar needs attention; I'm willing to do a chunk of the work in cleanup, but I don't have the source background to do it right. Anything you can direct me towards would be appreciated. Thanks, -Kevin/Last1in 22:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll do the work if you can point me toward sources. Thanks, Kevin/Last1in 01:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject South Park
I have thought of creating a WikiProject for South Park since it is now near its' 10th anniversary and has more articles than ever. I feel we could all do the following things through this project: I have seen your South Park fan template and wondered if you were interested in joining. If so reply to my talk page and I'll get back to you as quick as I can. Thanks, Mr. Garrison
 * Cleanup any short/poorly written/unformatted articles
 * Merge/lengthen the many character articles
 * Improve the South Park main page

Signatures in talk pages
My use of three tilde instead of four is deliberate. Due to my Engrish, I frequently need to revise and correct my comments which make use of four tilde inappropriate. Once someone respond to my comment, I usually don't alter my comment. I'm sorry but use of ":" seems to be enough for most people to follow the flow of the debate. Vapour

Always nice to see you
It's always nice to see you on the Baha'i pages. Clear, lucid, and calm. I don't seem to be able to keep more than two of those balls up at a time. Keep your stick on the ice. MARussellPESE 05:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ahmadiyya pages
Hi, I just wanted to convey my appreciation for the work you are doing on the Ahmadiyya pages. I agree with your vision for three pages and will help out in anyway I can. Best regards, Nazli 01:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I just have seen that you removed and edited alot of information on Ahmadiyya related pages and on Mirza Ghulam Ahmad artical. If you think that the section his claim, should be written in summary style then you should write the section Controversial death in summary style and link it with his Prophecies Page. This section look like full of POV statement given imprssion that because he was wrong so alot of his prophecies did not come true. We can not decide he was right or wrong, this is not our job. phippi46 11:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It is good to see that you want to make these Articals more Enclypodiac and not POV statements. I have just seen another section in Ahmadiyyat Artical about the Prophecies of Ghulam Ahmad .. It is unfit and should be moved to either Mirza Ghulam Ahmad or to Prophecies artical. The Ahmadiyya artical is different and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Artical is different. Also I will like to see any suggestion from you to reduce POVs from Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Artical. phippi46 11:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:Ahmadiyya
The category you wrote, Category:Ahmadiyya, is uncategorized. Please help improve it by adding it to one or more categories, so it may be associated with related categories.Eli Falk 11:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Smile

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
 * Keep up your good work here.--James, La gloria è a dio 20:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikireligion
Since you are a bahai I thought you may be interested in writting for my wiki wikireligion. Peace. --James, La gloria è a dio 19:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Aikido style vs. organizations
Howdy, could you explain the major benefit of having two categories related to Aikido styles / organizations? I don't see there being a big enough distinction to justify it. Feel free to reply here - I'll watch. Thanks! Mrand T-C 15:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, for one, Ki-Society and Ki-Aikido are two distinct things. They have different pages, and the page on Ki-Aikido isn't really an organization, but it's comparable - as a category - to the style practiced by Aikikai, Shin-Budo Kai, etc. It's not a huge thing, but a style and the organization that may primarily be organized around it are different. If there's a name for a category that is more ambiguous and does a good job of organizing both concepts together, then that's cool.

Orphaned non-free media (Image:JoelMarangella-1956.gif)
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Muda (battle cry)
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

CFD
Hi, you previously commented on this CFD, and a similar one is up for deletion here. Please comment when you get a chance. Cuñado ☼ -  Talk  06:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:NPOV DUE
Dear ChristianEdwardGruber,

I thank you for your contributions concerning my proposals to get more clarity on the DUE WEIGHT issue. I've drafted new proposals, and would welcome any improvement or critique you may have! Thx, — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 09:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

CFD
Categories for discussion/Log/2009 October 28. Please comment. 170.160.9.3 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:59, 29 October 2009 (UTC).

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Proposed deletion of Non-Bahá'í

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April - National Contribution Month
Good day ChristianEdwardGruber,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Benoit Rochon (talk) 23:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mish Mash (band)

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Vocxdono pri forigo de la Portalo Pedofilio
Kara mi lancxis cxi-tie vocxdonon pri la forigo de tiu protalo: Baloto pri forigo de la Portalo Peofilio.

ArbCom elections are now open!
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User category proposed deletion
You may be interested in Categories for discussion/Log/2021 August 21. It is proposed to delete this category. SpinningSpark 16:21, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

title: User talk:ChristianEdwardGruber


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List of parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

There are 8 Parliamentary constituencies in the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. From 1974 to 1998 the two counties were administratively and ceremonially one, called Hereford and Worcester, and the constituencies crossed the traditional county boundaries. This continued to be the case up to and including the 2005 general election, but since the 2010 general election two constituencies fall entirely within Herefordshire and six within Worcestershire. There are 2 borough constituencies and 6 county constituencies.

2010 boundary changes
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain 8 constituencies covering the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire for the 2010 election, making minor changes to take account of the separation of the two counties, to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. The constituencies of Hereford and Leominster were renamed Hereford and South Herefordshire, and North Herefordshire respectively.

Proposed boundary changes
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed retaining the current two constituencies in Herefordshire, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries. In Worcestershire, it is proposed to make a small transfer from Mid Worcestershire to Redditch to bring these two constituencies within the statutory range. It is proposed that Mid Worcestershire is renamed Droitwich and Evesham. The other four constituencies would be unchanged.

Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

2024
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the 2024 general election were as follows:

2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Percentage votes
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

2Dr Richard Taylor, standing as the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate

Timeline
Green represents former constituencies, pink is for current ones.

Historical representation by party
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1950 to 1983
The West Midlands Order 1965 transferred the Dudley area from Worcestershire to Staffordshire and part of the Warley area from Staffordshire to Worcestershire. These changes were incorporated into the new constituency boundaries for the February 1974 general election.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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User talk:Mamgeorge

Passerine

 * Discussion moved to Talk:Passerine.

Chinese mythology

 * Chinese mythology discussion moved to Talk:Chinese mythology

 * Shangdi discussion located at Talk:Shang Ti
 * Pangu discussion moved to Talk:Pangu
 * Nüwa discussion located at Talk:Nüwa

Chinese Literature

 * Taiyi Shengshui discussion moved to Talk:Taiyi Shengshui

Formatting
Thanks for adding several missing articles. You don't necessarily have to clear out the clean-up tags - they're there to notify other editors of articles that may need to be formatted to become more suitable as an article. For a general guide to formatting for Chinese-related articles, see: Manual of Style (China-related articles) & Naming conventions (Chinese). See: Du Fu as an example of excellent formatting for Chinese-related articles. Hope that helps--Confuzion 23:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Confuzion, Thanks for the help and advice. I personally would like to see characters and numbered pinyin become the norm (recommendations I made in "MOS for China articles"), but I do not expect this to become the norm!

 * mamgeorge 13:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Notes on Pinyin
Hi, thanks for your contributions on the Chinese mythology page. Just a few notes about Pinyin.

1. The Pinyin for 女媧 is "Nüwa" not "Nuwa". "女" is pronounced "Nü" as in "Nyu", not "Nu" as in "Noo".

2. When denoting a Chinese word or phrase by Pinyin, it is represented with one "word". If it is a proper noun, only the first letter is capitalised. Thus, its "Hanyu Pinyin", NOT "HanYu PinYin", and thus "Shangdi" not "ShangDi".

3. The same for books and authors: it's "Shijing" or "Shi Jing" (depending on whether you think its one or two words), but NOT "ShiJing". "Mozi" not "MoZi".

Hope that helps. --Sumple (Talk) 22:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Sumple, Thank you for your corrections. The mistakes were due to my "greenness". I went back and modified nearly every page I butchered in order to update its conformity. After an edit war with someone committed to preserving Wade-Giles (no joke) I was very willing to use a more standardized practice.

 * mamgeorge 12:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Dispute resolution
Hi, I commend you on being so patient in dealing with the user in question. I'm not sure if I'm the best person to mediate this dispute since I've had some difficulties with this particular user myself in the past. It seems that you've tried to make an effort to communicate on the talk pages, but the other user has not been willing to discuss the issue. I think it's reasonable to assume that there's doubt regarding the validity of Lie Yukou as a real historical figure - I'm sure it's not just Giles.

 * I do find many of this particular user's habits to be rather troublesome; the user in question has also removed information at Sun Tzu that had questioned whether Sun Tzu was a real person (A view shared by many scholars, besides Giles). You might want to check out Wikipedia:Resolving disputes. You can ask for other user's input on this user's conduct by making a request for comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct (Maybe the best step to take at the moment). If that doesn't work, you can also request mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation. Hope that helps--Confuzion 00:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Scuppers The Sailor Dog

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Positron–Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator

The Positron–Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator (PETRA) is one of the particle accelerators at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg, Germany. At the time of its construction, it was the biggest storage ring of its kind and still is DESY's second largest synchrotron after HERA. PETRA's original purpose was research in elementary particle physics. From 1978 to 1986, it was used to study electron–positron collisions with the four experiments JADE, MARK-J, PLUTO and TASSO. The discovery of the gluon, the carrier particle of the strong nuclear force, by the TASSO collaboration in 1979 is counted as one of the biggest successes. PETRA was able to accelerate electrons and positrons to 19 GeV.

Research at PETRA led to an intensified international use of the facilities at DESY. Scientists from China, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the USA participated in the first experiments at PETRA alongside many German colleagues.

PETRA II
In 1990, the facility was taken into operation again under the name PETRA II as a pre-accelerator for protons and electrons/positrons for the new particle accelerator HERA. In March 1995, PETRA II was equipped with undulators to create greater amounts of synchrotron radiation with higher energies, especially in the X-ray part of the spectrum. PETRA II served the Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (HASYLAB) at DESY as a source of high-energy synchrotron radiation in three test experimental areas. In PETRA II, positrons were accelerated to up to 12 GeV.

PETRA III
PETRA III is the third incarnation for the PETRA storage ring, serving a regular user programme as one of the most brilliant storage-ring-based X-ray sources worldwide since 2009. The accelerator produces a particle energy of 6 GeV. There are currently three experimental halls (named after various famous scientists). The largest, named Max von Laue Hall, has a concrete floor over 300 m long that was poured as a single piece in order to limit vibrations. PETRA III delivers hard X-ray beams of very high brilliance to over 40 experimental stations.


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User talk:LuckyBastard

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Anyway, have fun improving this encyclopedia! Lupo 09:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Please do not enter copyrighted sources (images or texts) into Wikipedia! Any such copyright violations will be removed, and continued uploading of copyrighted content that cannot be re-licensed under the terms of the GFDL will get you blocked from editing on Wikipedia. Thank you. Lupo 09:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

i love the pic upi uploaded called Image:CC79.jpg but you failed to mention where you got it from and the copyright status on image page. please edit that page with this info so that we can assure that the image is legal. if i can be of help, please let me know on my talk page thanks and welcome. Cavebear42 21:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Picture source

 * Hello! Where is the source of this picture? Can you licence-indicate?
 * --Sheynhertz-Unbayg 3 July 2005 04:02 (UTC)

Various of your images tagged as no source
I have tagged Image:Helpless.jpg, Image:Splash mountain - nat, daf, vegard & me jpg.jpg, Image:Mk001.jpg as no source. This means they can and will be deleted in 7 days unless you provide a source and a licence allowing Wikipedia to legally use the image for each of them. See WP:IT for more details, or ask me on my talk page. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religion of Gold and Mammon

 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. — Xezbeth 19:27, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Religion of Gold and Mammon
Fancruft from non-notable online game (Googling results in only 769 Google hits. tregoweth 09:39, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete a micro-god for a micronation - total cruft --Doc (?) 12:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep no micro-god and no micronation. You can find the game by looking at the first link brought up by google, plus a link to the game is supllied in "External links". You can find more on the game at . I see no reason to delete this page, and I have no idea why Doc glasgow has an interest in the religion of Gold and Mammon. --Technogiddo 13:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 5th edit. RickK 04:18, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * A fictional religion of a fictional nation from a game which doesn't appear notable (135 unique Google hits for Jottonia, and about 900 total hits ). Even if the game (Jottonia) deserved an article for itself, "Religion of Gold and Mammon" clearly does not in the least. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 13:28, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge if there is a proper place This link is Broken 16:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It seems to be a copy-paste job, with a bunch of headings that are completely blank and no wikification.216.158.31.195 16:57, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or at best if the game Jottonia achieves notability at some point, create an article for the game. --Tabor 18:08, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 02:07, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 04:49, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. Kel-nage 20:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 17:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Common Flash Memory Interface

The Common Flash Memory Interface (CFI) is an open standard jointly developed by AMD, Intel, Sharp and Fujitsu. It is implementable by all flash memory vendors, and has been approved by the non-volatile-memory subcommittee of JEDEC. The goal of the specification is the interchangeability of flash memory devices offered by different vendors. The developer is able to use one driver for different flash products by reading identifying information from the flash chip.

Each flash memory device contains the following information: memory size, byte and word configuration, block configuration, and voltage and timing data.

The specification provides several benefits. No or very little information about flash devices has to be stored in tables within system software. It is possible to use lower cost flash memory devices as they become available without rewriting system software. Adapting current software systems shall be done more easily and quickly than previously.

Support for CFI is implemented in FreeBSD.

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Babraham Institute

The Babraham Institute is a life sciences research institution focussing on healthy ageing. The Babraham Institute is based on the Babraham Research Campus, partly occupying a former manor house, but also laboratory and science facility buildings on the campus, surrounded by an extensive parkland estate, just south of Cambridge, England. It is an independent and charitable organization which is involved in biomedical research, including healthy aging and molecular biology. The director is Dr Simon Cook who also leads the Institute's signalling research programme.

The Babraham Institute is a member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life sciences research centres in Europe. It is also a partner organisation of the University of Cambridge

History
The institute is located on the historic Babraham Hall Estate (now called the Babraham Research Campus), situated six miles south-east of Cambridge University, near the Gog Magog Hills. It is close to where the ancient Roman Via Devana crossed the prehistoric Icknield Way. The estate includes Babraham Hall, designed in the Jacobean style by Philip Hardwick, which was built between 1832 and 1837. The hall was purchased by the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in 1948 at the suggestion of Prof Ivan De Burgh Daly, together with 182 hectares of farm and woodland to become the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham.

A department of biochemistry was established in 1954 by Sir Rudolph Peters FRS, who had just retired from Oxford University. He invited Rex Dawson to join him the following year.

In 1986, The Institute of Animal Physiology was joined with two Scottish institutes based at Roslin, The Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO) and the Poultry Research Centre, to form The Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR) funded by the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC). In 1993, Roslin and Babraham formed two separate institutes, at which time the Babraham Institute assumed its current name. in 1994, The AFRC was disbanded and The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) was formed. All work with direct relevance to agriculture ceased in 1998.

Research
The aim of the research conducted at The Babraham Institute is to study the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions, and to understand how these systems are affected by age. The Institute's work also covers how faults or abnormalities in these systems may contribute to disease. The Institute has the status of a postgraduate department within the University of Cambridge and trains PhD students who are registered with the University's Faculty of Biology. The research laboratories of the Institute are structured around three strategic programmes:

 * Signalling (headed by Simon Cook): focuses on proteins that play a critical role in controlling communication between and within cells. These proteins make up the signalling pathways that organise how cells and organs develop and react to their environment.
 * Immunology (headed by Martin Turner): investigates signal transduction pathways that regulate the survival and activation of lymphocytes.
 * Epigenetics (headed by Gavin Kelsey): studies how epigenetic information is introduced into the genome during early development of an organism, which can in part depend on environmental or nutritional factors acting through cell signalling pathways.

Research breakthroughs made at the Babraham Institute include the discovery of liposomes by Alec Bangham, the role of Inositol trisphosphate in the release of calcium from intracellular stores by Michael Berridge, the discovery that genomic imprinting was carried by DNA methylation by Wolf Reik.

Many of its past and current employees were elected fellows of the Royal Society, including (in date order) Drs Sir Rudolph Albert Peters (1935), Ivan de Burgh Daly (1943), Sir John Henry Gaddum (1945), Marthe Vogt (1952), Richard Darwin Keynes (1959), Sir Barry Cross (1975), Rex Malcolm Chaplin Dawson (1981), Sir Robert Brian Heap (1989), M Azim Surani (1990), Robin Francis Irvine (1993), Jonathan Charles Howard (1995), Wolf Reik (2010), Len Stephens (2011), Phil Hawkins (2013).

Babraham Institute Enterprise Ltd (BIE), the wholly owned trading subsidiary of the Babraham Institute promotes knowledge transfer and translation of the Institute’s research discoveries, actively managing and exploiting the Institute’s intellectual property, promoting and negotiating commercial research partnerships and establishing spin-out companies when appropriate.

Funding
The Institute's research programmes are primarily supported by Institute Strategic Programme Grants (ISPGs) awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation. Additional grant funding comes from other research councils, such as the MRC, the Wellcome Trust, the European Commission, charitable foundations and medical charities. Some industry funding supports collaborative research projects.

Directors

 * 1949-1958 Ivan de Burgh Daly CBE, FRS
 * 1958-1965 Sir John Henry Gaddum FRS
 * 1965-1972 Richard Darwin Keynes CBE, FRS
 * 1973-1989 Sir Barry Albert Cross CBE, FRS
 * 1989-1993 Sir Robert Brian Heap CBE, FRS
 * 1994-2005 Richard Dyer OBE
 * 2005-2007 John Bicknell (acting director)
 * 2007–2020 Michael J O Wakelam
 * 2020-2021 Wolf Reik FRS (acting and then permanent director)
 * 2021- 2022 Simon Cook (interim director)
 * 2022-         Simon Cook (director)

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Talk:Stellarium (software)

Development activity
Has development for this totally died?
 * No, Stellarium is in active development. Stellarium.org
 * Development seems quite active at the present time, they have just done a new release Htaccess 23:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Supposedly realistic
Why is it "supposedly realistic" is it realistic or is it not and if not why? Htaccess 23:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I would assume it was a paranoid POV edit. But since I make those all the time too, I'm not going to critique it. 69.171.44.42 23:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Company "Stellarium"
There is also a company named Stellarium which is unrelated to the software; they make 3D models of the layout of stars in space. At some point in the future, someone may want to make an article about that company and create a disambiguation page. 68.183.232.33 (talk) 18:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

 * For reference, McLaughlin Planetarium links to the existing Stellarium article, but the link is clearly intended to go to an article about the type of product (i.e. 3D star model) created by Stellarium the company. So perhaps there should even be a third Stellarium article about the generic noun. 68.183.232.33 (talk) 18:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed move to Stellarium (computer program)
"Stellarium" is a generic term used to describe devices that show the positions of stars. It is similar to a planetarium, but is not projected; lights are often LED's fixed to a flat surface. This program has used the term as its name, which is fine, but we need an article on the generic concept and this article is sitting in its place. I propose moving it to Stellarium (computer program) or something similar. Maury (talk) 22:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Userbox
If you use Stellarium, please feel free to put this userbox on your user page!

 * nice userbox mate, thank for creating it :)) . -- KaragouniS : Chat  00:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

 * No problem, glad that you like it! I seem to be making lots of free software userboxes lately! Complete list - Ahunt (talk) 00:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

stellarium mobile
there also is a mobile version http://stellarium-mobile.org/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.36.2.159 (talk) 16:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Why is edit by6 me undone ?
I added Android and iOS and it is reverted by Maury (talk). Android and iOS are also operating systems and the term 'mobile' has actually no meaning. A Windows laptop or Macbook is also 'mobile' so why not just make one single article about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skatebiker (talk • contribs)

 * It wasn't, it was reverted by me. As my edit summary stated "contradicts http://www.stellarium.org/, you need to cite a ref to add these". The project website only shows Mac, Linux and Windows versions available. To add more you will need to cite a source. - Ahunt (talk) 11:51, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Influenza A virus

Jargon in 'Genetics' section
Just reading though this page on avian flu, and found the section headed 'Genetics' to be completely incomprehensible to the lay-person (i.e., someone without a higher degree in chemistry or biology). Would be nice if someone translated it into regular English. Moschopsthedinosaur

This article is about Influenzavirus A. The information you are lacking exists in other wikipedia articles. Click existing links in the article, or type unfamiliar words into the search field. If you have specific questions, please ask them. Specific questions can help us improve the article. WAS 4.250 18:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Death Toll of Annual Flu
Seasonal influenza does not kill 36,000 people a year. The CDC fact sheet says it does, but the statistics say differently. Page 31 of the 2001 mortality report (from the CDC website) says that only 257 people were killed by influenza in that year. Page 16 the 2003 preliminary mortality report has it listed as 727 and 1,605 for 2002 and 2003, respectively. That works out to an average rate of 863. I sent them a letter about this 2 months ago, they have yet to reply. - unsigned

I suppose the 36,000 number for "number dying from flu per year in the United States" is a guesstimate for how many would not have died the previous year if no flu viruses existed. Suppose a 99 year old woman forgets to get her flu shot because of alzheimers, gets the flu, is hospitalized, gets pneumonia, is put on life support, has a bacteria X infection due to the life support, has heart failure as a result, has lack of oxygen to the brain as a result, dies as a result. Did she die of old age, alzheimers, flu, hospitalization, pneumonia, bacteria X, heart attack, or oxygen deprivation? WAS 4.250 22:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Where'd you come up with that? That isn't even hinted anywhere on their website. They quite clearly state on their fact sheet that 36,000 people die from the flu each year. And in your example, it would probably be listed as dying from bacteria X. User:INH

It's commonly known that annual flu normally kills by weakening a person, especially the elderly, who then die of a secondary infection that they would not have died from if they didn't come down with flu in the first place. That makes flu's deadliness measurable by more than the numbers that die from flu directly, but also those that die from flu indirectly. Whether to include the indirect deaths or not entirely depends on what the number is supposed to be good for. If the number is supposed to indicate the usefulness of vaccines, the indirect deaths must also be counted. WAS 4.250 19:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

If it's commonly known, why isn't it said on Wikipedia? Again, that isn't even hinted on their factsheet. The factsheet isn't about the usefullness of vaccines, it just provides information about the disease. Also, the Hong Kong Flu killed 34,000 people over a period of 2 years. If the 36,000 a year figure is true, then normal garden variety flu is more than twice as deadly as some pandemic flus. That's ridiculous. User:INH

 * 1) "If it's commonly known, why isn't it said on Wikipedia?"  If you think it should be on wikipedia someplace it currently is not, then put it on Wikipedia. Don't blame eveyone else for something you can do youself. Or maybe you think it isn't true? Google it.
 * 2) "Again, that isn't even hinted on their factsheet." So? It is commonly known.
 * 3) "The factsheet isn't about the usefullness of vaccines, it just provides information about the disease." You have evidence vaccine useage wasn't their motive?
 * 4) "Also, the Hong Kong Flu killed 34,000 people over a period of 2 years. If the 36,000 a year figure is true, then normal garden variety flu is more than twice as deadly as some pandemic flus.  That's ridiculous." I read that as 34,000 above and beyond what a normal flu season would kill. (I'm having a hard time believing you aren't a troll. If you are for real, show some indication of researching and learning from the research.) WAS 4.250 02:11, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I was out of line. I've done a little research, and it looks like you're probably right. User:INH

Former talk
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Avian_influenza for talk prior to move here. I was going to move it, but I noticed none of it seems relevant anymore, and it's most recent additions were never relevant. WAS 4.250 19:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The old talk is now in /Archive2. - BanyanTree 17:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Who can post about Bird Flu?
I am confused, being new at this. Who can post on Avian Influenza? Are there some restrictions? The external link I have posted has now disappeared on 2 occasions. Now it sems like the whole topic has disappeared. Looks like user WAS 4.250 moved only part of it to an influenza-virus-A topic instead. What is the motivation and idea? Will the topic come back, including my link - or do I have to post another one? Thanks. User:Anernelson

WAS 4.250
You asked me:
 * 1) Who can post about Bird Flu? - answer:anyone
 * 2) Who can post on Avian Influenza? - answer:anyone
 * 3) Are there some restrictions? - answer:no
 * 4) The external link I have posted has now disappeared on 2 occasions. - answer:anyone can add, anyone can delete
 * 5) Now it sems like the whole topic has disappeared. - I moved it to a new heading.
 * 6) Looks like user WAS 4.250 moved only part of it to an influenza-virus-A topic instead. - I moved all that existed at the time of the move.
 * 7) What is the motivation and idea? - "Avian Flu" is a poorly conceived title. H5N1 is what most people mean. Influenzavirus A is the topic most the content was about. Influenza is the disease.
 * 8) Will the topic come back, including my link? - I really don't know what link was "yours". Add it and see what happens. If it is about the disease, add it to Influenza. Cheers. WAS 4.250 04:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

The suite of articles

 * Flu vaccine
 * The flu vaccine is a vaccine to protect against the highly variable influenza virus.

 * Influenza
 * Influenza (or as it is commonly known, the flu or the grippe) is a contagious disease of the upper airways and the lungs, caused by an RNA virus of the orthomyxoviridae family. It rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, imposing considerable economic burden, in the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Three influenza pandemics in the 20th century, each following a major genetic change in the virus, killed millions of people.

 * Orthomyxoviridae
 * The Orthomyxoviridae are a family of RNA viruses which infect vertebrates. It includes those viruses which cause influenza.

 * Influenzavirus A
 * Influenzavirus A is a genus of the family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae. Influenzavirus A has only one species in it; that species is called "influenza A virus". Influenza A virus causes "avian influenza" (also known as bird flu, avian flu, influenzavirus A flu, type A flu, or genus A flu). Variants are sometimes also labeled according to the species affected; such as "human flu" or "swine flu".

 * H5N1
 * H5N1 is an avian influenza virus. It is a pandemic threat. H5N1 flu is what is commonly meant when talking of "bird flu" or "avian influenza" and is a viral disease that causes illness in many species including humans.

 * Transmission and infection of H5N1
 * The transmission and infection of H5N1 is a concern due to the global spread of H5N1 that constitutes a pandemic threat. This article is about the transmission of the H5N1 virus, infection by that virus, the resulting symptoms of that infection (having or coming down with influenza or more specifically avian flu or even more specifically H5N1 flu which can include pneumonia), and the medical response including treatment.

 * Global spread of H5N1
 * The global spread of H5N1 (an avian virus) is a pandemic threat."Since 1997, studies of H5N1 indicate that these viruses continue to evolve, with changes in antigenicity and internal gene constellations; an expanded host range in avian species and the ability to infect felids; enhanced pathogenicity in experimentally infected mice and ferrets, in which they cause systemic infections; and increased environmental stability."

 * Influenza pandemic
 * An influenza pandemic is a large scale epidemic of the influenza virus, such as the 1918 Spanish flu. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is a substantial risk of an influenza pandemic within the next few years. One of the strongest candidates is the A(H5N1) subtype of avian influenza. WAS 4.250 05:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

the move
It looks like this page was created in a partial cut-and-paste from avian influenza. I am not going to argue about the need to trim it down, but the actual page history that is needed for the GFDL license has been broken, as well as it being very confusing to figure out what happened. Hold on while I merge histories. - BanyanTree 16:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Done, but I had a caching issue where I couldn't see the merged article for a bit. Many thanks to the anon for getting rid of the ugly tail recursive redirect that the article had turned into while I was trying to figure out why I couldn't see the merged history.  I've also moved /Archive1 under this talk and put the most recent contents of Talk:Avian influenza into /Archive2. - BanyanTree 17:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Bechamp
Since some of you are re-directing all searches for "bird flu" and "avian influenza" to this topic, which is about a virus - what choice do I have but add the link I find valuable to the original topic here? Which is "How to survive avian flu with an natural alternative method - by AJ Penepent, MD, MPH" - exemplifying Bechamp's germ theory. You have deleted it 4 times by now. But please, can't you see the problem?

Please re-direct Avian flu and Bird Flu searches to "Avian Influenza" instead. It is not proven that the virus is a cause, it could instead be an effect .....

There has been 2 competing scientific theories about flu and virus for over 100 years. And the battle isn't resolved yet. Is it really democratic to only allow theory A (= Pasteur), and not allow even one mention of theory B (=Bechamp)? I am ok if 99% is theory A, and only 1 % theory B. But why 100% versus 0%?

Isn't Wikipedia an idealistic project? I am just trying to understand what's going on, am somewhat confused by this. If I dislike one theory, which is contrary to my own, (in a longstanding scientific dispute) can I just delete it....? Or shouldn't all theories have a right to be exemplified and mentioned? Thanks, User: Anernelson

Wikipedia doesn't do "truth", we do "verifyable": placing sourced data in linked articles. Wikipedia is NOT a link farm. Perhaps you would like to add to one or more of these articles: Antoine Bechamp, Homeopathy. Or create an article like The Blood and the Third Anatomical Element. Or maybe you would like to read the below subsection and discover a few facts about why viruses are not a "theory" but a "fact". It IS proven that "avian flu" is caused by the "avian flu virus". We have pictures of it, detailed knowledge of its molecular structure, know much of its family tree, and have detailed knowledge of its physical and biological effects. Researchers have synthesized a key molecule on its surface, created a vaccine with it, using it prevents chickens from dying from H5N1, and the US government is now considering human trials with it. Please use wikipedia to learn as well as to teach. Thank you. WAS 4.250 16:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

immune system
In mammals and in birds a second line of defense is established during the individual development of an organism. It is called adaptive immunity. B-lymphocytes and T lymphocytes are specialized cells of the adaptive immune system, charged with the protection against protein antigens. Phagocytes like macrophages and dendritic cells act as antigen presenting cells (APC). Within these cells proteins derived from engulfed digested viruses and bacteria, but also from the metabolism of the cell itself are broken down into peptides. Immunodominant peptides are those, which can be embedded in a cleft of a MHC protein molecule and then be brought to the cell surface for presentation where they act as coded address of the APC. The term MHC stands for “major histocompatability complex” because these molecules were first found in tissue transplantation studies. MHC proteins are found in all nucleated cells of mammals.

The main players on the immune scene are derived from self renewing stem cells. They share the genes with all other cells of a multicellular body. The lymphocyte stem cells live in the bone marrow. The differentiation of B cells takes place in bone marrow, while the T cells move to the thymus gland. During development into prelymphocytes a drastic change of the genes responsible for the expression of antigen receptors occurs. Only a selection of small parts of these genes are transcribed and translated in various genetic recombinations in each individual cell. The variety of antigen receptor proteins produced is so big, that practically all possible antigen matches are realized. During maturation, the cells proliferate and those that cannot express the antigen receptors die. At the end of maturation, one finds an enormous number of genetically different lymphocytes with structurally different antigen receptors. Since the production of receptor molecules happens independently from the presence of antigens, many of them will produce antigen receptors, which are of no later use and die. Immature lymphocytes bind strongly to self-antigens (antigens derived from cells of the host himself) and will die by apoptosis (regulated cell death). Lymphocytes that do not bind strongly are selected to survive. The mature lymphocytes multiply and move from their place of origin into the periphery of the lymphatic system where they meet antigen presenting cells like macrophages and dendritic cells, which have during their voyage through blood and lymph systems collected antigens and present them now. There are most probably several slightly different antigen receptors which may recognize the same antigen presented by a MHC.

The recognition of antigens on an APC by mature leucocytes induces the immune response. Various receptors on the surface of the T cell join corresponding molecules on the surface of the antigen presenting cell. Together they organize an immunological synapse. Molecular interactions in the synapse induce a signal to genes of the T cell which start to secrete cytokines. The T cell then differentiates into either T helper cells or T killer cells and launches a clonal expansion, each clone with its own antigen specifics properties. The T killer cells kill the infected cell to which their TRC molecule has attached; Helper cells activate macrophages and B cells. The immune responses of the B cells are the production of antibodies. They are glycoprotein molecules that a secreted by the B cells and are able to neutralize antigens in the body fluids. B cells are able to deal with protein and non protein antigens. In order to handle protein antigens however they have to contact T helper cells. While active leucocytes are short lived, each type of T and B cells produce also long-lived memory cells, which survive for many years in different tissues, where they respond readily to secondary attacks of the same antigen that caused their selection at the end of their maturation. As new native T and B cells are continuously formed, the genetic differentiation keeps on producing specific antigen receptor proteins. The genetically newly rearranged receptors represent the storage memory of the immune system. The final selection of antigen receptors out of the many possibilities offered by the storage memory serves as the working memory. The key element in an information system is the code. The role of the code is played in the immune information system by the immunological synapse. It mediates between the cell on which it is displayed and the cell carrying a corresponding receptors. The recognition represents the process of decoding. It triggers the required immune responses (data processing). The development of each leukocyte is in itself the development of a small information system. The memory cells form a reservoir of the working memory. The whole system would not work, if the cells involved would not move at the right time to the right place. This is made possible by addressin molecules expressed on endothelial cells in different atomic sites and homing receptors (members of the Ig super family) on the lymphocyte. from

FOX NEWS
Fox News just aired a documentary concerning this matter on 2-19-06 @ 22:08:00 EST. It was about the Bird Flu. Do a Google Search on FOX News. Martial Law 03:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

It was called "Big Story Primetime:Avian Flu/ " 'The Bird Flu' " on this network. Martial Law 03:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

What about maps?
Hello there, this is my first entry in the wiki so I want to discuss first before editing. Why don't we put in a map of the reported cases of bird flu like the german wikipedia has here. Especially the link to this WebGIS seems very good to me. To be true its my company who built that thing. But thats not the most important fact about it, this map is just like a wiki where everybody can add cases. The WMS can be used in own project and the whole thing is under GNU GPL. So whats your meaning about this? And please don't argue too much abut my language, I'm no native speaker in English. --Fester franz 17:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

See H5N1 and Global spread of H5N1. WAS 4.250 19:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Will humanity even survive this thing
Hello. I was at another discussion forum at http://www.Avianflutalk.com. They said that the death rate for H5N1 is 78%. Will humanity even survive this thing???

Avianflutalk.com was created November 15, 2005, by founder Ryan Evans as the first ever website and online discussion forum to track the potential threat of an avian flu pandemic. Ryan Evans also founded the website and online forum at swinflu.org April 10, 2009. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.184.99.118 (talk) 18:57, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes. We will. WAS 4.250 14:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes. It's all been blown out of proportion. TruthCrusader 16:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

 * "Will we survive" headlines are way out of proportion. What is not out of proportion is the cost to governments and poultry farmers (including poor people with just a couple of now dead chickens). What is not out of proportion is the bonanza in massive new funding to research scientists and research corporations. What is not out of proportion is the announced threat of a pandemic. What is not out of proportion is the predicted massive social disruption and the millions of human deaths IF it becomes a pandemic before researchers figure out a solution to the problem. What is out of proprtion is the idea that it is any kind of a real threat to human life prior to mutating into a form that tramsmits easily from person to person. WAS 4.250 20:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Humanity will survive. But if it develops into a human virus as deadly as the avian virus, many human beings will not survive. A leading scientist on the Avian Flu said on World News Tonight that a human strain could wipe out as much as 50% of the human population. Perhaps more. Alexander 007 04:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

When will it die out in the bird population?
I have been looking for this information, but have been unable to find it. Does anyone know how long H5N1 is likely to continue in the bird population? Before too long, the birds must become immune to it, as those that cannot are selected out of the population by infection. - unsigned

 * No one knows. No one has a good guess. There is no data whatsoever on the issue. Your last statement is in error in many respects:

 * 1) it can survive for decades in very cold tundra and reinfect when new generations of birds are born without immunity
 * 2) just cause it is immune in some bird species doesn't make all bird species immune from it
 * 3) typically, avian flu is endemic in birds and doesn't cause sickness in the species it is endemic in but can cause death in other species
 * 4) it is continually mutating, so even being immune to an old varient says nothing about immunity to the next varient
 * 5) this varient of avian flu virus is behaving differently than any other ever ever know, so no data on prior avian flu viruses applies with regard to projections for the future.
 * Beginning to get a glimpse of the magnitude of the problem? Kills 50% of humans. Getting worse. No indication it will ever go away ("permanently endemic"). Infects more species than any avian flu ever before. Kills more birds than any avian flu virus ever before. Kills more humans than any avin flu virus than any ever before. No vaccination is even possible with prior existing techniques (so new techniques are being researched at breakneck speed). The experts are very scared. WAS 4.250 15:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmmmm... the important question is whether the virus adapts to passing between humans before it dies out in the bird population. Given the high proportion of birds that are susceptible to it that die, it seems to me more likely that this virus will die out in the bird population first.--New Thought 10:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * You are assuming it is deadly to all bird species it is endemic in. This was true for all HPAIs prior to H5N1. It is NOT true for H5N1. Further prior HPAIs were only endemic in farmed birds, not wild birds. Because this exists in numerous wild birds (Endemic in which wild birds? We don't know yet.) it can exist frozen in northern tundra and thaw out years from now and spread again even if it were to die out in birds. WAS 4.250 17:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Spreading panic in order to fill Rumsfeld's wallet?
Is there anything serious in allegations the "pandemic paranoia" about a flu that in fact has killed only some dozen people in about a decade is spread in order to increase the profit of the vaccine's patent holder Gilead Sciences which is mainly owned by Donald Rumsfeld? ROGNNTUDJUU! 00:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything serious about "death"? It has only happened in the past, never in the future. WAS 4.250 00:36, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

A serious answer requires a serious question. The experts on the subject are scared shitless. Rummy is making plenty of dough on his military-industrial investments. This is real. People make money on real things all the time. People made money on Katrina. Therefore Katrina never happened????? H5N1 is a real THREAT. It is NOT actually a present pandemic. How will Rummy benefit if you gather three months of water and food? It is a prudent move. Believe what you like. WAS 4.250 00:36, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Rummy was right. The 2020–2024 H5N1 outbreak started in birds and went on to kill baby seals and minks. Now it's getting cows and the occasional human sick. Not to mention the positive test in penguins. Let's hope it doesn't end up doing human-to-human transmission before Rummy gets the human shots ready. Artoria2e5 🌉 03:26, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Why not redirect Bird Flu to H5N1?
I know it is strictly more correct to redirect Bird flu to Influenzavirus A, but most people searching for Bird Flu today are surely only interested in H5N1? Currently it is very tricky to find the right link onwards to the information you actually want.

Besides H5N1 contains a link to the "Main article" with the words "Avian influenza", which also brings you to "Influenzavirus A". I cannot see that "Influenzavirus A" would be the "main article" for Avian Flu, but even if it were, I suggest the link should be labeled "Influenzavirus A", so people know that they go back to the article they just came from.

This may break some sacred rule of Wikipedia, but rules are there to be broken. If, during a limited time frame, most people will look for information A with a particular search term, I think we should give them information A. Not information B, which contains information C, which points to information A.

Any other suggestion to give people the information they actually want? Mlewan 11:48, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I made some changes. Better? WAS 4.250 17:05, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Shouldn't this be merged with the page for Avian flu? I see that Bird flu redirects to Avian flu, while Avian influenza redirects to Influenzavirus A.

 * Thanks. I corrected the redirect of avian influenza to now go to avian flu. But merging iss indeed an option. The one we were useing. But dog flu horse flu and human flu have articles. "Avian flu" or "bird flu" is used to mean:

 * influenza A virus
 * flu from influenza A virus
 * influenza A viruses that are adapted to birds
 * flu from influenza A viruses that are adapted to birds
 * H5N1
 * H5N1 flu WAS 4.250 01:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Numbers
Just out of interest, where do you get the figures for the numbers of neuraminidase, hemagglutinin and M1 proteins within the influenza A virion from? 129.67.116.31 (talk) 15:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't know what you are talking about. If there is a reference after the information, click on it. If not, quote here what is in the article that you are asking about. WAS 4.250 (talk) 01:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

bird flu
tats good —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.51.12.42 (talk) 13:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Question about section: Variants and Subtypes
In the first paragraph in this section, there's discussion of the naming convention for virus types, as in "A/Fujian/411/2002(H3N2)".

I don't see how the listed components map onto this example. Is it -- Major type [A] -- Location [Fujian] -- Species?? [411] -- Year of incidence [2002] -- Subtype [H3N2]

Suggestions: 1) Improve correlation between the attribute list and the example. 2) Insert a link to an article on naming conventions for viruses.

Answer:

Naming convention runs like:

[Influenza Type] / [Species of isolate (if human, none listed)] / [Location of Isolate] / [Isolate number to distinguish from others of same locale and year] / [Year of isolation] / [H and N subtype]

For example: A/chicken/Hong Kong/3/1998(H5N1). --Udorn1972 4/23/18 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Udorn1972 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

F16
This section sticks out like a sore thumb. There's no good reason to talk about this antibody or reference it so heavily. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.226.190 (talk) 15:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Indeed; it should be rewritten in a way that more broadly concerns the development of a much-hoped-for universal flu vaccine. Artoria2e5 🌉 03:29, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Cap-snatching and viral mRNA synthesis
After PA cleaves cellular mRNAs' 5'-terminal nucleotides (including cap) this oligo is used as a primer for virus RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (complex of NP, PA, PB1 and PB2, the latter binds m7G-cap). Snatched cap is not added to viral mRNA, contrary to what is written here. Molecular biologist is requested to remove stupid stuff from the article!

Fixed. -- April 22 2018

Asian Flu of 1966
My brother died in 1966 of the Asian Flu on the West Coast in California. He was 2yrs old 4months and 3weeks old. I beleive my mother and father were living in Los Angeles during the time. My mother had told me in great detail what had happened during this time and I have found only a few old news articles referencing the Asian Flu of 1966. During the time my mother also was very poor and had to watch other young children during the day when my brother was in the hospital so could not travel to see him very often. She would then have to travel on two bus routes to get to the hospital. The flu was highly publicized during the time but I see no mention of it in the websites except to mention Asian Flu of 1957 which was almost a decade earlier. He had gotten sick at home after 5 days he was in the hospital and 5 days later he was dead. My mother has a meticulous memory of these events but I cannot find the history of this strain from the websites. What made matters worse was the fact that the nurses were on strike. She would find him soaked from head to toe as they used to wrap the oxygen tanks with ice and the bag would then leak onto his pillow and sheets where he was also wearing a dirty diaper that would need to be changed. The nurses did not want to attend to his needs. I have read that there were treatments given for outbreaks with certain drugs that were available. I just want to find the information about this strain and I cannot find it. Your website does not mention it.

206.169.66.181 (talk) 13:49, 11 March 2012 (UTC)Regina Vargas

Segment numbers
What is the criteria behind number the segments starting with HA? Any source available for that system? Every publication I see orders them by size as shown below.
 * PB2
 * PB1
 * PA
 * HA
 * NP
 * NA
 * M1 + M2 (nuclear export of vRNPs)
 * NS1 + NEP/NS2

- Usually they are ordered by size in base pairs. Hrodrik (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Number of encoded genes
Research in recent years shows that flu encodes more proteins than previously thought. Up to 14 (http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v13/n1/abs/nrmicro3367.html) I forgot how to edit stuff properly, citations and all. Can someone update? Hrodrik (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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Silver City

Silver City may refer to:

United States

 * Silver City, California
 * Silver City, Georgia
 * Silver City, Idaho, a ghost town
 * Silver City, Iowa
 * Silver City, Michigan
 * Silver City, Mississippi
 * Silver City, Montana, a community in Lewis and Clark County
 * Silver City, New Mexico
 * Silver City, North Carolina
 * Silver City, Nevada
 * Silver City, Oklahoma, a ghost town
 * Silver City, South Dakota
 * Silver City, Utah, a ghost town

Canada

 * Silver City, Yukon

Australia

 * Silver City Highway, a highway in New South Wales
 * Silver City, Christmas Island

Nicknames

 * Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
 * Cuttack, Odisha, India
 * Tong'an District, Fujian, People's Republic of China
 * Aberdeen, United Kingdom, the "Silver City with the Golden Sands"
 * Sheffield, United Kingdom
 * Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
 * Meriden, Connecticut, United States
 * Taunton, Massachusetts, United States
 * Silver City Galleria, a large two-story indoor shopping mall in Taunton, Massachusetts
 * Schoonhoven, Netherlands

Films

 * Silver City (1951 film), starring Edmond O'Brien
 * Silver City (1984 film), an Australian film
 * Silver City (2004 film), written and directed by John Sayles
 * Albuquerque (film), a 1948 American film titled Silver City in Australia

Music

 * Silver City (Falling Up album), 2013
 * Silver City, an album by Brian Cadd, 2019
 * Silver City, an album by Joe Ely, 2007
 * The Silver City, an album by Jeremy Messersmith, 2008
 * "(Theme from) Silver City", a 1961 song by the Ventures

Other uses

 * Silver City Airways, a British airline
 * SilverCity, a Canadian movie theater chain run by Cineplex Entertainment
 * The Silver City, a 1956 memoir by Ion Idriess
 * Silver City, a 2004 book, second in The Silver Sequence by Cliff McNish
 * Silver City, fictional megacity in the 2023 Indian film Ganapath

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South Franconian German

South Franconian (Südfränkisch) or South Rhine Franconian (Südrheinfränkisch) is an Upper German dialect which is spoken in the northernmost part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, around Karlsruhe, Mosbach and Heilbronn. Like closely related East Franconian it is a transitional dialect, which unites elements of Central German and Upper German.

The language area is located in the transient zone between Rhine Franconian dialects (Hessian and Palatinate German) in the north and Alemannic German (Low Alemannic and Swabian German) in the south. South Franconian is one of the High German dialects with the lowest number of speakers. South Franconian is not considered a separate dialect by some observers. The scope of South Franconian is disputed.

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PowerLinux

PowerLinux is the combination of a Linux-based operating system (OS) running on PowerPC- or Power ISA-based computers from IBM. It is often used in reference along with Linux on Power, and is also the name of several Linux-only IBM Power Systems.

IBM and Linux
In the late 1990s, IBM began considering the Linux operating system. In 2000, IBM announced it would promote Linux. In 2001, IBM invested $1 billion to back the Linux movement, embracing it as an operating system for IBM servers and software. Within a decade, Linux could be found in virtually every IBM business, geography and workload, and continues to be deeply embedded in IBM hardware, software, services and internal development.

A survey released by the Linux Foundation in April 2012 showed IBM as the fifth-leading commercial contributor over the past seven years, with more than 600 developers involved in more than 100 open-source projects.

IBM established the Linux Technology Center (LTC) in 1999 to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. The LTC collaborated with the Linux community to make Linux run optimally on PowerPC, x86, and more recently, the Cell Broadband Engine. Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects as well as projects focused on enabling Linux to use new hardware functions on IBM platforms.

Linux has run on IBM POWER systems since 2001, when a team created a new, 64-bit port for the Linux kernel to allow the OS to run on PowerPC processors. The first system to fully support the 64-bit Linux kernel was IBM's POWER5, created in 2004. It was followed by POWER6 in 2007 and the current POWER7-based systems in 2010.

PowerLinux Servers
Linux was first ported to POWER in June 2000. Since then PowerLinux was used in a number of supercomputers including MareNostrum 2004 and Roadrunner 2008.

Beginning in April 2012, IBM introduced three POWER7 processor-based Linux-specific systems for big data analytics, industry applications and open-source infrastructure services such as Web-serving, email and social media collaboration services.

The IBM PowerLinux 7R1 and IBM PowerLinux 7R2 systems are one- and two-socket, rack-mount servers that support either 8 or 16 POWER7 microprocessor cores in 3.55 GHz (7R1 only) or, with the 7R2, 3.55 and 3.3 GHz options with 128 GB maximum memory (for the 7R1) or 256 GB maximum memory (7R2) that can be configured with 8, 16 and 32 GB dual inline memory modules (DIMMs). Both systems run Linux operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and include a built-in PowerVM [for PowerLinux] hypervisor that supports up to 10 VMs per core and 160 VMs per server.

The IBM PowerLinux 7R4 is a POWER7+ processor-based system in a 5U package with two or four sockets and 16 or 32 cores. It can accommodate up to 1 TB of 1066 MHz DDR3 Active Memory Sharing. PowerVM for Linux dynamically adjusts system resources to partitions based on workload demands-across up to 640 VMs per server (20 micropartitions per core).

In a study on systems and architecture for big data, IBM Research found that a 10-node Hadoop cluster of PowerLinux 7R2 nodes with POWER7+ processors, running InfoSphere BigInsights software, can sort through a terabyte of data in less than 8 minutes.

IBM also introduced the IBM Flex System p24L Compute Node, a Linux-specific two-socket compute node for the recently announced IBM PureFlex System, which contains 12 or 16 POWER7 microprocessor cores, up to 256 GB of memory, the option of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems and built-in PowerVM for PowerLinux.

In addition to these specific products, Linux is capable of running on any Power series hardware.

PowerLinux versus Linux/x86
The April 2012 releases by IBM of PowerLinux were designed specifically to run the Linux OS on the company's POWER7-based systems. Unlike servers built on the Intel Xeon processor, an x86 descendant with two threads per core, the POWER7 processor provides four threads per core. POWER-based servers are virtualized to provide 60 to 80 percent utilization, compared to a typical 40-percent rate for x86 processors. The PowerVM virtualization program has a Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance (CC) level of 4+, with zero security vulnerabilities reported, as well as unlimited memory use.

About PowerVM virtualization
Power-based IBM systems have built in virtualization capabilities derived from mainframe technology. On System p, this virtualization package is referred to as PowerVM. PowerVM includes virtualization capabilities such as micro-partitioning, active memory sharing and deduplication, a virtual I/O server for virtual networks and storage, as well as live partition mobility.

Systems
PowerLinux runs on:
 * AmigaOne
 * AmigaOne X1000
 * Cell blade server from Mercury Computer Systems
 * IBM Power Systems
 * JS43, JS23, JS20, JS21, QS20, QS21, QS22 Blade Center
 * Linux on the PlayStation 3
 * Pegasos
 * Sam440ep
 * Sam460ex

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Barry

 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. — Xezbeth 19:27, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Patrick Barry
Delete until more information. There's a page on Navar. Karol 09:47, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge into Navar if the info isn't there. Not notable enough for his own article (yet). --Etacar11 17:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 04:50, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and I hope he jumps off a bridge. SchmuckyTheCat 20:48, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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