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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (album)

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is the seventh album by The Moody Blues, released in 1971. The album reached No. 1 on the British album chart, in addition to a three-week stay at No. 2 in the United States, and produced one top-40 single, "The Story in Your Eyes".

Background
The album is largely a continuation in style from its predecessor, with no grand concept or theme. Bassist John Lodge explains, "Our new album would become a continuation of what we had done on A Question of Balance. We thought if you get things right you should continue on that road." Guitarist Justin Hayward further reflects on the album: "I think that Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a kind of a searching, seeking record. It was made at a time of tremendous success for us, and that brought on all of the feelings of guilt, inadequacy and self-doubt that accompany that kind of success. It's a bittersweet record that pointed the direction of the next album which was the full stop."

Writing
The title is taken from the student mnemonic for the lines of the treble clef: E-G-B-D-F. These notes are heard on piano during "Procession" and the theme is carried out through the rest of the album.

The opening track "Procession" is the group's only song to be written by all five members. It was intended to describe the history of music from the beginning of time until the album's recording. The only three words heard in this track—"desolation", "creation", and "communication"—are similarly used (along with many other "-ation" words) in "One More Time to Live". Drummer Graeme Edge remembers, "We had nerve in those days! We decided that we could create a piece that would show the history of musical evolution. We began by making grunting sounds and hitting hollow logs, this evolved into both Eastern music and eventually Western music."

"The Story in Your Eyes" opens the album and was a natural choice for a single. Hayward remembers writing the song: "The song just sprung out of my acoustic guitar one day while I was at home. I was just playing my Martin D-28...and the first thing that came to me was the middle-eight section. And from there, the rest of the song came together. I deliberately saw it as a more harder-rocking song from the outset. Only a couple of weeks before entering the studio, I had done a version of it with Mike at his place, with just me playing the guitar and him working out the piano part for the outro. Mike then did eight or 12 tracks of Mellotron, bouncing from one machine to another. And it only sounded good when he had done it and multitracked it." The lyrics were inspired by a relationship, but also the personal dynamics of the band. He explains, "It's always about a love affair, isn't it? I wish I could tell you more, but some of that is private. Despite its personal nature, "The Story in Your Eyes" is also kind of about the band. 'We're part of the fire that is burning, and from the ashes we can build another day.' There's a kind of confession in it, as we were soon about to go through a rather awkward phase."

The track "Emily's Song" was written by John Lodge for his newborn daughter.

"Nice to Be Here" is a whimsical Ray Thomas song where he imagines witnessing a concert performed by woodland creatures on makeshift instruments. The song was inspired by Thomas' lifelong admiration of nature with additional inspiration from the children's books by Beatrix Potter. Thomas recalls, "I've loved fishing ever since I was a little kid. I used to camp out by a lake a week at a time fishing. At first all the wildlife buggers off but after you've been there for a few days they realise that you're not any threat to them. They run all over your feet, I've even had kingfishers landing on the end of my rod. So I got a great kick out of writing 'Lovely weather must climb a tree.' I was a little kid again. And I just went through a band really, 'Silver minnows were devising water ballets so surprising'." He remembers the session fondly: "The song was great fun to record. Particularly trying to get Justin to play a guitar solo using only one string, like the frog in the lyrics. He actually managed to get it down to two strings!"

The contemplative "You Can Never Go Home" was inspired by grief. Hayward remembers in a later interview, "I remember what I was going through emotionally then – I was losing people and there was a lot of grief around my life. It was a difficult time for me, those early years of the Moodies. It's worth remembering to value what there is now."

Recording
Sessions ran from November 1970 to March 1971, with a break in December for an American tour where they played Carnegie Hall. The sessions were again overseen by producer Tony Clarke and engineer Derek Varnals. The bulk of the album was recorded at Wessex, London instead of their usual Decca studio in West Hampstead. Hayward explains the change in setting: "It was almost a kind of rebellion by us. It was really change for change's sake as we wondered if the grass would be greener recording elsewhere. We were also trying to come to terms with the fact that our music was no longer 'underground' but had taken on a life of its own and we were having to perform in large arenas in America. Our new material was almost apologetic in its approach at that time."

For "Procession", Graeme Edge uses a recently invented electronic drum kit, which Edge developed with Brian Groves of Sussex University. Its use likely represents the first use of an electronic drum kit on record. Edge describes the technology: "I had a control panel in front of me. There were pieces of rubber with silver paper on the back, with a coil that moved up and down inside a magnet which produced a signal. When it worked it was superb, but it was very sensitive to any surge or change in electricity. When I tried to use it on stage the whole kit would go bananas as soon as anyone turned stage lighting on and off. It was okay for studio use as if it went haywire you could turn it off and start all over again!" He continues, "This was before silicon chips, you see, and I was using transistors. I had something like five thousand transistors in there and it used to set up some really weird fields. Just about anything would set it off. It used to work great at home. And it worked great in rehearsal, but the first time we tried to use it on stage - every time we tried to use the spotlights - they'd set it off, so I just retired it." He reflects on his motivations for trying the new technology: "I was always conscious of the drum's ring being out of tune. So I wanted a drumkit that you could tune to the key of a song. That's why people started to tape cigarette packets to drums and all that—to eliminate that ring so it wouldn't mess with the guitars. And that kit was a dismal failure—but a heroic failure."

On "The Story in Your Eyes", Hayward plays acoustic guitar on the backing track, with electric guitar later overdubbed. He explains, "I first put the acoustic guitar down using the Martin D-28, with myself and Graeme Edge on drums, and then worked on it from there. I also double-tracked the acoustic. When it came time for the electric guitar part, I used a Cherry Red 1963 [Gibson] ES-335 that I've had since 1968. The electric guitar that opens the song — including feedback that's in tune to an A note — and goes all the way through the song is the ES-335 direct into the Normal channel of an AC30 Top Boost turned up full. In the solo and at the end, that's the ES-335 again through a Marshall Reverb-Fuzz Unit."

Hayward reflects on Mike Pinder's influence in arranging their songs and how he helped drive the rhythm when recording songs in the studio: "His contribution was also in the rhythm of the band, because if you listen to the early records, the main rhythm is held by a tambourine, which was always being played by Mike. Mike would never play piano or anything on the first track. We'd do drums, bass, guitar, and Mike on tambourine. And it was Mike who we would follow - all of us, even Graeme on drums, would follow Mike, and so his was always the tempo. You listen to the early records, you see how far up front the tambourine is, like in "The Story In Your Eyes". You listen, it's carried by a tambourine, it's so simple." "

In recording Mike Pinder's "My Song", the artist desired that his vocals sound like he was outside the world, looking down on it, like an astronaut on a spacewalk. To achieve the effect engineers Derek Varnals and David Baker constructed him a large carton to wear over his head. Varnals remembers, "I then filtered the signal to make it sound like a transmission from space. We were trying to create something serious, but everyone was laughing hysterically—everyone except Mike, who was the only person who couldn’t see what we were seeing: a quite Monty Python–like image of someone standing perfectly still with a box covering his head. It eventually ended up sounding a bit like Darth Vader, but this was several years before Star Wars was made."

Album cover
The cover art created by artist Phil Travers was inspired by the work named Der Kristall (The Crystal) by German artist Sulamith Wülfing.

Release
The album was mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic. In April 2007, the album was remastered into SACD format and repackaged with the two extra tracks.

In 2008, a remaster for standard audio CD was issued with the same bonus tracks.

The Moody Blues

 * Justin Hayward – vocals, guitars, sitar
 * John Lodge – vocals, bass, cello
 * Ray Thomas – vocals, flute, tambourine, oboe, woodwinds, harmonica
 * Graeme Edge – drums, percussion, electronic drums and vocals on "Procession"
 * Mike Pinder – vocals, Mellotron, harpsichord, Hammond organ, piano, celesta, Moog synthesizer, cello

Production
Source:
 * Tony Clarke – producer
 * Derek Varnals – recording engineer
 * David Baker – assistant engineer
 * Harry Fisher – cutting engineer
 * Phil Travers – sleeve artist
 * J. Randall Nelson – lyrics sheet photograph

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Interesting topic
This is an extremely complex area of law and, rather than go into any real detail, I have contented myself with the briefest listing of relevant laws, and a few principles. Any reader who really wants to know had better go to a specialist source. -David91 20:29, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Night-watchman state

Definitely Not a Correct Association
From the article...

As a term, night-watchman state (German: Nachtwächterstaat) was coined by German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle in an 1862 speech in Berlin. He criticized the bourgeois liberal limited government state, comparing it to a night-watchman whose sole duty was preventing theft. The phrase quickly caught on as a description of capitalist government, even as liberalism began to mean a more involved state, or a state with a larger sphere of responsibility.

From me...

How could minarchy possibly be confused with any capitalist government? There is nothing minimal about capitalist governments, as they are all massive bureaucracies. LOL.

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Jack Edward Oliver

Jack Edward Oliver (19 June 1942 – 26 May 2007) was a British cartoonist. He is more usually known as J. Edward Oliver (or JEO, or Jack).

Biography
JEO achieved fame in the 1970s with a long-running strip in the UK music paper Disc (and Music Echo), later Record Mirror. The strip had many fans including John Lennon. It included characters from TV, film and music, with a large section for readers' contributions (Win a Plastic Warthog). Jack provided other material, including a pop-based strip called The Nose, stories and numerous graphics.

One character proved particularly enduring, a dinosaur called Fresco-Le-Raye. Up to his death, J Edward Oliver continued to create Fresco strips which can be seen on his official website. (The site also features other strips, such as The Invisible Man, a staple of his Record Mirror years.) Other work at that time included promotional art for a single by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs and UK records.

In November 1977, the Record Mirror strip was deemed not contemporary enough and was ended. Oliver went to work for IPC Magazines Ltd, creating comic strips including Buster's Master Mind (1980-1983), Cliff Hanger (1983-1987) and Vid Kid, as well as drawing The Champ in Whizzer and Chips from 1979 to 1981. Many of his strips included puzzles and games. In 1984, Oliver also wrote the words for a musical called Swan Esther which was performed at London's Young Vic and on BBC radio.

When Buster ceased publication at the beginning of 2000, Oliver was the last artist left, and drew the only non-reprint material in the comic's final issue ("How It All Ends", which looked back at how all the Buster characters ended).

With Buster gone, Oliver investigated other work, including newspaper strips and first day covers. In 2000, together with his cousin Steve, he created Phil Stamp Covers, unique first day covers for stamp collectors.

Among Oliver's trademarks in his strips were little signs reading "Abolish Tuesdays" and regular sightings of a tiny cube with a crank handle attached. The latter was never explained. Oliver also had something of an obsession with the British actress Madeline Smith, drawing several appearances by her into his work, which she later complained about. Oliver reacted characteristically, producing a strip about her complaint.

In 2000, a website appeared celebrating JEO's early work in Disc and Record Mirror but later JEO contributed new material, as well as obscure historical stuff and a new, e-mailed (and free) weekly strip of Fresco-Le-Raye, which eventually had hundreds of subscribers and ran for several hundred episodes.

In 2007 Oliver announced he was suffering from cancer, but he continued to create new material. In March 2007 he married his girlfriend of many years, Liz Hales. He died peacefully on 26 May 2007.

Archaeological find
A rare collection of early Middle Bronze Age (c. 13th century B.) tools and weapons was discovered by Oliver's father John whilst digging the footings of an extension to his home in Dartford, in 1986. The four implements comprised two axe-heads, a knife and a tanged shaving razor and are known as the Leyton Cross Bronzes. The items were purchased by and are on display in Dartford Museum.

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Atoll (disambiguation)

An atoll is a type of island.

Atoll or ATOLL may also refer to:

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 * Atoll (band), a French progressive rock band
 * atoll (programming), a function in C programming language
 * ATOLL programming language, used for automating the checking and launch of Saturn rockets
 * Antarctic Technology Offshore Lagoon Laboratory, a floating oceanographic laboratory
 * Vympel K-13 (NATO reporting name), a Soviet and Russian air-to-air missile

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Pol-e Dokhtar

Pol-e Dokhtar is a city in the Central District of Pol-e Dokhtar County, Lorestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 22,588 in 5,131 households. The following census in 2011 counted 25,092 people in 6,496 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 26,352 people in 7,563 households.

Location
Pol-e Dokhtar is approximately 100 kilometres from Khorramabad, the provincial capital. Just north of the city resides the remains of an ancient bridge, which, along with others in this area, has been submitted as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Climate
Pol-e Dokhtar has a hot semi-arid climate(BSh) in Köppen climate classification with precipitation being higher in winter months than summer. Summers are dry and severely hot with very little precipitation from June to September. Winters are cool and relatively wet. Compared to other cities in the province such as Aligudarz, Dorud and Khorramabad, Pol-e Dokhtar observes higher temperatures and lower precipitation.

Kalmakareh Cave
In 1989 a unique treasure in Kalmakareh Cave was discovered, according to Mehr News Agency; it can take into account the six treasures of the ancient world.

Kogan Cave
Kogan cave is located in Ashkanian, eastern Pol-e Dokhtar city.

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Victor Hănescu

Victor Hănescu (born 21 July 1981) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world no. 26.

Professional career
Hănescu attained a career-high singles ranking of No. 26 on 6 July 2009. In a Davis Cup match against the United States, he suffered a severe rib injury, and a subsequent injury sidelined him further in May 2006. By January 2007, his ranking had plummeted to No. 759, before he finally began making progress on a comeback.

1999: Pro career begins
Hănescu earned his first ATP singles ranking points in August 1999, with first-round wins two weeks in a row at the Romania F1 and F2 Futures tournaments. Although he played four more tournaments from September through December, he did not earn any additional points and finished the year ranked No. 1231.

2000: Success in Satellites and Futures
In 2000, Hănescu played Satellites and Futures tournaments. His fourth-place finish at a Satellite in Croatia in April/May and third place at a Satellite in Portugal in October/November provided him with 36 of the 45 ATP singles ranking points he earned in 2000. He finished the year ranked No. 477.

2001: Futures wins and Challenger successes
Hănescu won his first pro tournaments in May 2001, taking the singles titles in consecutive weeks at the Slovakia F1 and F2 Futures events. A quarterfinal finish at a Challenger in Budapest two weeks later put him in the top 400 for the first time. In July, as the top seed in consecutive weeks in Bucharest, he reached the final at Romania F1 and won the F2 Futures event to improve his ranking to No. 319. In August in Challengers in three consecutive weeks, he reached the semifinals in Poland and Germany, and then the final in Germany to improve to No. 209. He broke into the top 200 for the first time in October, but went just 4–7 in Challengers after August and finished the year ranked No. 212.

2002: First ATP quarterfinal, first Challenger win
Hănescu did not make much career progress in 2002. His highlights were reaching his first career ATP-level quarterfinal at Umag, Croatia in July, and then winning his first Challenger in Portugal in September. He finished the year ranked No. 172.

2003: Top 100, French Open and Wimbledon third rounds
Moderate success in Challengers improved Hănescu's ranking to No. 150 by April 2003. He then qualified for the ATP tournament in Estoril and reached the third round of the Rome Masters in May and beat No. 31 Mikhail Youzhny, his highest-ranked win to that point. At the end of May, he qualified for the French Open and reached the third round, losing to Jarkko Nieminen, to break into the top 100 for the first time. He was a lucky loser entry at Wimbledon and reached the third round there also, beating No. 34 Juan Ignacio Chela before losing to No. 12 Sjeng Schalken, improving his ranking to No. 85. He had limited success the rest of the year, losing in the first round at the US Open to No. 6 Lleyton Hewitt, before reaching the quarterfinals in Bucharest in September. In October, he qualified for his second Masters' event of the year in Paris, upsetting No. 49 Rafael Nadal and No. 69 Anthony Dupuis, and then upsetting No. 27 Wayne Ferreira in the first round, before losing to No. 2 Andy Roddick. He finished the year ranked No. 70.

2004: Grand Slam failures, first ATP semifinal, first top-10 win
Hănescu played almost exclusively at the ATP level in 2004, but with very limited success. He was ranked high enough for direct entry into all four Grand Slams and the Olympics but won only one match total in those five events. His successes were his first career ATP semifinal in Scottsdale in March, and several more ATP quarterfinals, including Bucharest again in September and Estoril in April, where he recorded his first win over a top-10 player, No. 6 Rainer Schüttler. In October, he went back down to the Challenger level and won in Rome, his second career Challenger title. He finished the year ranked No. 92, down 22 spots from 2003.

2005: Best year, French Open quarterfinals, ATP semifinals
2005 was Hănescu's best year to date. At the French Open, he beat Michal Tabara in the first round then No. 32 Juan Ignacio Chela in the second round, and then Luis Horna in the third round before he came back to beat No. 11 David Nalbandian in five sets 6–3, 4–6, 5–7, 6–1, 6–2, in the fourth round. He lost to No. 1 Roger Federer in the quarterfinals. He reached the ATP semifinals in New Haven (beating No. 58 Nicolás Massú and No. 20 Tommy Robredo, before losing to No. 67 James Blake) and in Bucharest to reach the top 40 for the first time in September. He also had his second career win over a top-10 player, beating No. 10 Mariano Puerta in July, and finished the year with a career-high ranking of No. 35.

2006: Lost to injuries
The rib injury in the Davis Cup match and a subsequent back injury in May sidelined him for most of the year, and after starting the year out at No. 35, he finished up at No. 646. His lone success was winning the ATP-level exhibition tournament in Houston in April, beating Vince Spadea and Juan Mónaco.

2007: A comeback year, first ATP final
His ranking continued to plummet due mainly to inactivity, as well as poor results when he did play, until March, when he qualified for a Challenger event in Italy and beat No. 126 Björn Phau to reach the second round. His protected ranking status gave him direct entry into a couple ATP events in April, with little success. So he continued to play Challengers, reaching a semifinal and a quarterfinal in May, and then a final in June to get back into the top 300. Finally, in August, he won two consecutive Challengers in Romania and Austria to improve to No. 151 by the start of his home ATP stop in Bucharest in September, where he was a semifinalist in 2005; he went one step further this time by making the finals, losing in three sets to Gilles Simon. It was his first career final.

In December, the ATP entered Hănescu into the 2007 Centuries Club for advancing hundreds of spaces to regain a spot in the top 100 rankings. Hănescu climbed more ranking positions than any other player in the top 100. He finished the year at No. 77.

2008
Hănescu reached the fourth round of the French Open, where he lost to Fernando González 2–6, 4–6, 2–6. He reached the final of the Stuttgart Outdoor in July, only to lose to Jérémy Chardy 6–2, 3–6, 4–6. He reached the quarterfinals in St. Petersburg, losing to Igor Kunitsyn 3–6, 6–3, 6–7. He finished at No. 50.

2009: Wimbledon third round
Hănescu started off the year by reaching the quarterfinals in Doha, where he lost to Andy Roddick. In Auckland, Hănescu lost in the first round to Juan Mónaco. He reached the second round of the Australian Open, after defeating Jan Hernych, but then fell to Dudi Sela. Hănescu reached the second round in Zagreb. In Dubai, he lost his first-round match. In Miami, he lost to Michael Russell in the first round. Hănescu reached the quarterfinals in Casablanca. He competed at the 2009 French Open. In the first round, he eliminated Steve Darcis 7–6, 7–6, 7–6, in the second round Mikhail Youzhny 7–5, 7–5, 7–5, and in the third round he upset seventh seed Gilles Simon 6–4, 6–4, 6–2. He next played Fernando González and lost 2–6, 4–6, 2–6.

At Wimbledon, he was seeded 31st. In the first round, he won a grueling match against Iván Navarro 6–3, 6–7, 6–4, 6–7, 12–10. Then he played Nicolas Devilder and won 6–2, 6–3, 6–1, to advance in the third round, where he lost to eighth-seeded Gilles Simon 2–6, 5–7, 2–6. At the 2009 MercedesCup, he reached the final by defeating Dominik Meffert, Rainer Schüttler, Alexandre Sidorenko, and Fabio Fognini in the semifinals. He lost in the final to Jérémy Chardy 6–1, 3–6, 4–6.

2010 : Consecutive Wimbledon third round
At the 2010 Australian Open, he won his first-round match against Juan Ignacio Chela 6–4, 6–3, 7–6, but then lost in the second round to World No. 1 Roger Federer 2–6, 3–6, 2–6.

He then played at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open, where he won his first-round match against Juan Ignacio Chela 6–3, 7–6, and then lost again to Roger Federer 3–6, 7–6, 1–6.

At the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, he defeated Michael Berrer 6–2, 6–7, 6–3, in the first round, then Juan Mónaco 7–6, 6–4, to lose in the next round to eventual winner Rafael Nadal 3–6, 2–6.

In Casablanca, Morocco, on April 5, 2010 he was runner-up, losing in the final to Stanislas Wawrinka.

2011: Fifth ATP final
Hănescu reached the semifinals in Casablanca, losing there to Potito Starace, 1–6, 7–6, 6–7. He reached the final in Nice, where he lost to Nicolás Almagro, 6–7, 3–6, 3–6. He went out in the second round at the French Open and Wimbledon and had little success for the rest of the year.

In July, he broke an 11-match losing streak to beat then-world No. 7 and top seed Gaël Monfils at the MercedesCup, after saving two match points in the second-set tiebreaker.

2012
Hănescu was defeated in the second round in Chennai by Canadian Milos Raonic, 1–6, 4–6. He also went out in the second round in São Paulo to Nicolás Almagro, who had beaten him in the final in Nice the previous year. He was defeated in the second round in Buenos Aires by upcoming Japanese star Kei Nishikori in three sets.

He reached the semifinals of the Challenger in Marrakech, going down against Slovak Martin Kližan, 5–7, 4–6. He reached the quarterfinals in Barletta, losing to Potito Starace, 5–7, 2–6.

He qualified in Monte Carlo and Madrid but went out in the first round. He failed to qualify in Rome.

Controversy
At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Hănescu was booed and taunted by a group of spectators during his third-round loss to Daniel Brands of Germany. The group allegedly called him a gypsy, a highly derogatory term in Romania. Frustrated due to the injury and crowd behavior, he responded by spitting toward some spectators and received a warning from the umpire. He then deliberately made four service foot faults to lose two points, giving Brands a 3–0 lead in the final set, before retiring. Four spectators were later arrested by police under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. Hănescu was fined US$15,000 for his behavior, the first of its kind in his career.

Singles
Current through 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

Doubles
Current till US Open.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Singapore/Maps

Impressive
Whoa!!! This is amazing work. All I can say is that you've renewed my faith in Wikipedia as a growing, collaborative project. I look forward to the day when these maps are put to use!

Just one nitpick that I have: is it possible to show the coast as it exists today? The large oblong island off East Coast Park, for example, doesn't yet exist. And we don't know if it's going to exist. -- ran (talk) 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, but I now realised it was a partial "false-start", as I later found out there is a Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps, that established some guidelines on maps. There's also a group of professionals at Wikipedians/Cartographers with helpful samples of maps. Luckily, I haven't start the mass production yet :P. I need some time to digest the discussion in these pages. I also realised that a map of the current land status is still required, otherwise funny things might happen (for example, Map of Election 2001 showing non-existent futuristic land). I will prepare this later, then we can decide collectively which profile base-map to use for the locator-maps.
 * As for the region boundaries (Figure D2), some places seem odd. For example, Lim Chu Kang is not where I thought it is, and I'm also not sure about Bukit Merah. Hopefully, I can get lots of help from others to check and highlight any error in the areas they are familiar with, and provide further references if available. Ran, as you had experience with locator-maps, if you have any advice, please let me know, thanks. -- Vsion 22:37, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Central Area, Downtown Core, etc.
I have a few requests to make. I need some locator maps for the Downtown Core, the Central Area (and its compoenents)...just to illustrate the concept that the Downtown Core is part of the Central Area, which is part of the Central Region, etc. makes it clearer to readers. I keep on having to use long-winded language to describe this concept (such as how Marina South and Marina East are not part of the Downtown Core, but part of the CBD, etc. and all these other classifications)...if we could just have some locator maps for each part of the Central Area (that has an article), and the Central Area itself, that would be good. -- Natalinasmpf 02:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Request noted. However, this is a pretty bad time for me, but I will look into this next-next-weekend. I may not be too sure about the boundary of these areas, but will try to search for the information myself. If you have some good references ready, please list it here. Because of the relative small size of these areas, I'm thinking of a zoom-in locator map, that cover just the Central Area instead of the whole island, then we can highlight the specific areas, CBD, chinatown ,etc. which otherwise would be too small in the current locator map. --Vsion 03:01, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * To clarify: right now I'm using the 1994 Master Plan http://www.ura.gov.sg/landuse/devtguide.htm as my guide for the boundaries. So if anyone has better and more updated resource, please let me know. --Vsion 03:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, that's no problem, I can wait a few weeks. And yes. I was thinking zoom in - something along the lines of the locator map for Singapore, where it "zooms in" to the appropriate region as well, but the context of overall location is kept. I currently use the 2003 one, it's kind of inconvenient as it uses a plugin you have to download (eventually compatible in all browsers if you tweak it right, but IE requires the least tweaking to run it, but I guess it's useful for contractors who went to see what area their individual buildings fall in (as its interactive and you can zoom in and out). It's right here, I believe. -- Natalinasmpf 03:49, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


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Ibn Qudamah

Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī Muwaffaq ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad  (ٱبْن قُدَامَة ٱلْمَقْدِسِي مُوَفَّق ٱلدِّين أَبُو مُحَمَّد عَبْد ٱللَّٰه بْن أَحْمَد بْن مُحَمَّد; 1147 - 7 July 1223), better known as Ibn Qudāmah (ٱبْن قُدَامَة), was an Arab Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, and ascetic from the Palestine region. Having authored many important treatises on Islamic jurisprudence and religious doctrine, including one of the standard works of Hanbali law, the revered al-Mughni, Ibn Qudamah is highly regarded in Sunni Islam for being one of the most notable and influential thinkers of the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence. Within that school, he is one of the few thinkers to be given the honorific epithet of Shaykh of Islam, which is a prestigious title bestowed by Sunnis on some of the most important thinkers of their tradition. A proponent of the classical Sunni position of the "differences between the scholars being a mercy," Ibn Qudamah is famous for saying, "The consensus of the leaders of jurisprudence is an overwhelming proof, and their disagreement is a vast mercy."

Life
Ibn Qudamah was born in Palestine in Jammain, a town near Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdīs in the Arabic vernacular, whence his extended name), in 1147 during the Crusades to the revered Hanbali preacher and mystic Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Qudāmah (d. 1162), "a man known for his asceticism" and in whose honor "a mosque was [later] built in Damascus." Having received the first phase of his education in Damascus, where he studied the Quran and the hadith extensively, Ibn Qudamah made his first trip to Baghdad in 1166, in order to study law and Sufi mysticism under the tutelage of the renowned Hanbali mystic and jurist Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d. ca. 1167), who would go on to become one of the most widely venerated saints in all of Sunni Islam. Although Ibn Qudamah's "discipleship was cut short by the latter’s death ... [the] experience [of studying under Abdul-Qadir Gilani] ... had its influence on the young" scholar, "who was to reserve a special place in his heart for mystics and mysticism" for the rest of his life.

Ibn Qudamah's first stay in Baghdad lasted four years, during which time he is also said to have written an important work criticizing what he deemed to be the excessive rationalism of Ibn Aqil (d. 1119), entitled Taḥrīm al-naẓar fī kutub ahl al-kalām (The Censure of Rationalistic Theology). During this sojourn in Baghdad, Ibn Qudamah studied hadith under numerous teachers, including three female hadith masters, namely Khadīja al-Nahrawāniyya (d. 1175), Nafīsa al-Bazzāza (d. 1168), and Shuhda al-Kātiba (d. ca. 1175). In turn, all these various teachers gave Ibn Qudamah the permission to begin teaching the principles of hadith to his own students, including important female disciples such as Zaynab bint al-Wāsiṭī (d. ca. 1240). Ibn Qudamah fought in Saladin's Army during the battle to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. He visited Baghdad again in 1189 and 1196, making his pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year in 1195, before finally settling down in Damascus in 1197, Ibn Qudamah died on Saturday, the Day of Eid al-Fitr, on July 7, 1223.

God
In theological creed, Ibn Qudamah was one of the primary proponents of the Athari school of Sunni theology, which held that overt theological speculation was spiritually detrimental and supported drawing theology exclusively from the two sources of the Quran and the hadith. Regarding theology, Ibn Qudamah famously said: "We have no need to know the meaning of what God—Exalted is He—intended by His attributes—He is Great and Almighty. No deed is intended by them. No obligation is linked to them except belief in them. Belief in them is possible without knowing their meaning." According to one scholar, it is evident that Ibn Qudamah "completely opposed discussion of theological matters and permitted no more than repeating what was said about God in the data of revelation." In other words, Ibn Qudamah rejected "any attempt to link God’s attributes to the referential world of ordinary human language," which has led some scholars to describe Ibn Qudamah's theology as "unreflective traditionalism," that is to say, as a theological point of view which purposefully avoided any type of speculation or reflection upon the nature of God. Ibn Qudamah's attitude towards theology was challenged by certain later Hanbali thinkers like Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 1328), who broke with this type of "unreflective traditionalism" in order to engage "in [bold and unprecedented] interpretation[s] of the meanings of God’s attributes."

Heresy
Ibn Qudamah seems to have been a formidable opponent of heresy in Islamic practice, as is evidenced by his famous words: "There is nothing outside of Paradise but hell-fire; there is nothing outside of the truth but error; there is nothing outside of the Way of the Prophet but heretical innovation."

Intercession
Ibn Qudamah appears to have been a supporter of seeking the intercession of Muhammad in personal prayer, for he approvingly cites the famous prayer attributed to Ibn Hanbal (d. 855): "O God! I am turning to Thee with Thy Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy. O Muhammad! I am turning with you to my Lord for the fulfillment of my need." Ibn Qudama also relates that which al-’Utbiyy narrated concerning one's visitation to the grave of Muhammad in Medina: "I was sitting by the grave of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when a bedouin man [a‘rābī] entered and said, “Peace be upon you, oh Messenger of God. I have heard God say [in the Qur’an], ‘Had they come to you [the Prophet] after having done injustice to themselves [sinned] and asked God for forgiveness and [additionally had] the Messenger asked for forgiveness on their behalf, they would have found God to be oft-turning [in repentance] and merciful.’ And I have come to you seeking forgiveness for my sin[s], and seeking your intercession near God.” He [the bedouin man] then said the following poem:""''O he who is the greatest of those buried in the grandest land, [Of] those whose scent has made the valley and hills fragrant, May my life be sacrificed for the grave that is your abode, Where chastity, generosity and nobility reside!''""Al-’Utbiyy then narrates that he fell asleep and saw the Prophet in a dream and was informed that the bedouin man had indeed been forgiven."After quoting the above event, Ibn Qudamah explicitly recommends that Muslims should use the above prayer when visiting the Prophet. He thus approves of asking the Prophet for his intercession even after his earthly death.

Mysticism
As is attested to by numerous sources, Ibn Qudamah was a devoted mystic and ascetic of the Qadiriyya order of Sufism, and reserved "a special place in his heart for mystics and mysticism" for the entirety of his life. Having inherited the "spiritual mantle" (k̲h̲irqa) of Abdul-Qadir Gilani prior to the renowned spiritual master's death, Ibn Qudamah was formally invested with the authority to initiate his own disciples into the Qadiriyya tariqa. Ibn Qudamah later passed on the initiatic mantle to his cousin Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (d. 1217), another important Hanbali jurist, who became one of the primary Qadiriyya spiritual masters of the succeeding generation. According to some classical Sufi chains, another one of Ibn Qudamah's major disciples was his nephew Ibn Abī ʿUmar Qudāmah (d. 1283), who later bestowed the k̲h̲irqa upon Ibn Taymiyyah, who, as many recent academic studies have shown, actually appears to have been a devoted follower of the Qadiriyya Sufi order in his own right, despite his criticisms of several of the most widespread, orthodox Sufi practices of his day and, in particular, of the philosophical influence of the Akbari school of Ibn Arabi. Due to Ibn Qudamah's public support for the necessity of Sufism in orthodox Islamic practice, he gained a reputation for being one of "the eminent Sufis" of his era.

Relics
Ibn Qudamah supported using the relics of Muhammad for the deriving of holy blessings, as is evident from his approved citing, in al-Mug̲h̲nī 5:468, of the case of Abdullah ibn Umar (d. 693), whom he records as having placed "his hand on the seat of the Prophet's minbar ... [and] then [having proceeded to] wipe his face with it." This view was not novel or even unusual in any sense, as Ibn Qudamah would have found established support for the use of relics in the Quran, hadith, and in Ibn Hanbal's well-documented love for the veneration of Muhammad's relics.

Saints

Ibn Qudamah staunchly criticized all who questioned or rejected the existence of saints, the veneration of whom had become an integral part of Sunni piety by the time period and which he "roundly endorsed." As scholars have noted, Hanbali authors of the period were "united in their affirmation of sainthood and saintly miracles," and Ibn Qudamah was no exception. Thus, Ibn Qudamah vehemently criticized what he perceived to be the rationalizing tendencies of Ibn Aqil for his attack against the veneration of saints, saying: "As for the people of the Sunna who follow the traditions and pursue the path of the righteous ancestors, no imperfection taints them, not does any disgrace occur to them. Among them are the learned who practise their knowledge, the saints and the righteous men, the God-fearing and pious, the pure and the good, those who have attained the state of sainthood and the performance of miracles, and those who worship in humility and exert themselves in the study of religious law. It is with their praise that books and registers are adorned. Their annals embellish the congregations and assemblies. Hearts become alive at the mention of their life histories, and happiness ensues from following their footsteps. They are supported by religion; and religion is by them endorsed. Of them the Quran speaks; and the Quran they themselves express. And they are a refuge to men when events afflict them: for kings, and others of lesser rank, seek their visits, regarding their supplications to God as a means of obtaining blessings, and asking them to intercede for them with God."

Works
( a documentation of a debate he had with the Ash'aris on the subject of the Qur'an ) ( المنتخب من العلل للخلال ) ( الـصـراط الـمـسـتـقـيـم في إثـبـات الـحـرف الـقـديـم )
 * Lum`at ul-I`tiqād ( The Illuminating Creed )
 * al-Mughnī ( The Enricher ) مجلدات كتاب المغني.jpg
 * Kitāb ut-Tawwābīn
 * Ithbāt Sifat il-`Uluww
 * Dhamm ut-Ta'wīl
 * Al-Burhān Fī Bayan Al-Qurʿān
 * Al-ʿUmdah (“the support”), a beginner's guide to Ḥanbalī Fiqh. A number of commentaries have been written on this including "Sharh Al-`Umdah" of Ibn Taymiyyah.
 * Al-Muqniʿ Fi Fiqh Al-Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal Ash-Shaybānī
 * " Kitāb Al-Hādī " or " Umdatul-Hazim fi-l Masail al-Zawa-id 'An Mukhtasar Abi-l Qasim "
 * Al-Kaafi
 * Rawḍat al-Nāẓir, a book on the Usul al-Fiqh significantly influenced by Al-Ghazali's work, Al-mustasfa.
 * Al-Waşiyyah (The Advice)
 * Ar-Riqqatu wal-Bukāe (sensibility and tears)
 * Taḥrīm al-Naḍar fī Kutub al-Kalām ( The Censure of Speculative Theology )
 * Hikāyat ul-Munādhara Fil-Qur'an
 * Muntakhab min al-'ilal lil-Khallāl
 * As-Sirāt ul-Mustaqīm fī Ithbāt al-Harf al-Qadīm ( The Clear Path on Affirmation of the Eternal Letters )

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Singaporean places

Infoboxes
It seems that two separate and parallel systems of articles are being written about various places in Singapore.

The first one is more general:

The second one is about new towns specifically:

There is a very high level of duplication between these two series of articles. I think they should be merged together, e.g. Jurong East New Town -> Jurong East.

What does everyone think? -- ran (talk) 22:37, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge them. They all seem to direct to the same place anyway. --khaosworks 22:51, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand they look similar now, but there is a plan soon to develop them all as seperates pages. I explained before that Ang Mo Kio, for example, is not the same as Ang Mo Kio New Town. Jurong East is only relevant when talking about a new town, but it is not exactly a general place name. Rather, Jurong is. I will change that link now.--Huaiwei 15:29, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I see... so why not merge the two boxes together? I understand what you mean, but the current arrangement is really confusing. -- ran (talk) 23:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * For example, the current Ang Mo Kio article starts with: "Ang Mo Kio is a heartland new town...". To further complicate matters, there's another article called Ang Mo Kio Planning Area.

 * The truth is, although there may be differences between say Tampines and Tampines New Town, right now pairs like these (Tampines, Bishan, etc.) are little better than duplicates of each other. I say we should merge them together for now. Specific information about new towns can be explained within each article. -- ran (talk) 02:14, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * I know. The Tampines one is actually one of the many examples in which the articles were "wrongly" writtern. The text in Tampines should be in Tampines New Town instead. How about this...gimme about 3 weeks from now (I am going overseas soon, so thats one week gone at least), and I will try to clear the mess up and develop on the pages? Hopefully by then, it will become clearer why the pages are arranged as such? Of coz, anyone is open to emback on this project at anytime too. In fact, I am considering making this a collaborative wikiproject considering the amount of work and content involved. ;) --Huaiwei 05:46, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmm, but the templates should have a form of being linked/recognised to each other (maybe in finer print)? Ie. if you see here where I brought up taxonomy and interlinking - just for even farther into the future so that since we're doing all this work now, we should work with some degree of foresight so we don't have to redo the entire thing in the years to come. ;-) -- Natalinasmpf 04:50, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject setup
I just managed to do up the WikiProject Singaporean places page, although it needs refining coz I wrote it in like 15 minutes or less? :D Feel free to look through, edit and comment. I am loking for folks to join me in the project of coz! ;) --Huaiwei 11:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, I'm joining in! Although I'm currently "out-of-state" and don't have much resources. However, I have prepared some maps (see WikiProject Singaporean places/Maps), originally intended for Singapore general election, 2001, but may also be useful here. The maps are very much in drafting stage, also cannot vow for its precision (Spore's land keeps changing anyway). The map is derived primarily from URA Development Guide plans for planning areas, but has been significantly modified and augmented with other maps; therefore should be safe for use. Unless better maps are available, we can build the locator maps from these: first need to select the color scheme and double-check the boundaries, etc. Some places seem odd to me, but I may have been away for too long ;-) --  Vsion 01:43, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh my god...finally someone does it!! :D But one issue, and that is it is using a very old base map, and shows reclaimation plans which are no longer accurate now. See for an example of current reclamation profiles, although some small changes are neccesary on the Tekong side thanks to the recent Malaysia-Singapore land reclamation dispute resolution agreements....I am so sorry if this means you have to rework it. Or can you show us how you did this? We need maps for new towns as well! :D --Huaiwei 06:41, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm just using simple tool from ACDSee (similar to photoshop) and Windows Paint (no kidding), using alot of "fill" and contrast-control operations. I just uploaded the outline-map of "concept plan 2001" for comparison (see WikiProject Singaporean places/Maps). Major differences in Tuas and Changi sides. I'm totally ignorant of these plans; was seriously wondering why there is an island along East Coast; and Tekong is beyond recognition. Is there any map/description about the foresee change in Tekong side? It shouldn't take long to make these changes. For the new towns, what are the good reference maps available online? -- Vsion 08:11, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I didnt know you are not even in Singapire. Not bad! ;) I might have to end up manually tracing the maps on my pc, to help you in this one, and yeah, I do believe in the power of the numble Microsoft Paint as well. ;) (Heck, I might end up using Microsoft Powerpoint to do the MRT system map!). For Tekong, we have to wait a while more, because the last time I saw the changes was in an ST article, and I might have to either dig it up, or we have to wait for the next country map to be produced by the authorities. Btw, these plans do indicate profiles which are pending reclamation, such as the one at Pulau Ubin, which was delayed thanks to Chek Jawa. The profile off Pasir Panjang may be changed too, as I saw plans to reconfigure the port outline. Man...this is just irritating! :D As for new town maps, how about the (low quality) ones in (page 87)? Oh btw, shall I move this discussion to WikiProject Singaporean places?--Huaiwei 09:38, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, please move the discussion, but leave some portion here. When I google-image "Singapore Map", every map looks different, and really the Land is alive and growing. As I haven't found a decent-looking map of the current land, I actually prefer the map from "concept plan 2001". We should be forward looking anyway, also the map seems less distorted (URA won't get it wrong, right?); but not sure if there will be any objection to include the future reclaimed lands. Hopefully there will be consensus on which base-map to use, but if we do need to use different maps for different projects; at least the maps should be rectified to each other, so that we can combine different data, (e.g. MRT lines with New Towns, etc). I have some idea how to do the rectification (Affine_transformation). For the MRT map itself, it is really tough and not sure if Powerpoint is the correct tool. But I'm not familiar with vector drawing tools and can't really give any suggestion now. -- Vsion 19:50, 30 May 2005 (UTC) hey dudes it is awsome!

Maps

 * There is a prototype locator map for Ang Mo Kio in WikiProject Singaporean places/Maps. An outline map of current coastline (without futuristic land) is available, together with boundaries of Singapore regions. Greatly appreciate if you guys can take a look and give any comment (error, mistakes, etc) and suggestion (new features, labelling, resolution, color scheme, etc). The framework is already there, so addition modification is usually very simple and easy. Once the prototype design is firmed, we can move on to the mass-production stage, create the locator maps for the 40+ regions and upload to their respective articles. :-) -- Vsion 12:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC).
 * I like it...other then it having the old outline. :D As promised above, I will try to get you a better map. Meanwhile, the Ang Mo Kio map is actually on the wrong page...it should be in Ang Mo Kio Planning Area! :D
 * Thanks for the feedback. I also hope you can check if all the yellow islands belong to Singapore (don't want to create a diplomatic row here). I am using a layered approach, i.e. the coastline, JB, interior water bodies, and the regional boundaries, etc. are placed at different layers and later combined. So, if you give me a new coastline profile map, I only need to replace that layer, as long as it is not too distorted and I can do the rectification. Once the layers are ready, combining is just automatic. The base map I used for the prototype is figured from the mid-1990s, pretty recent in geological time-scale, except in Singapore, :P . As for Ang Mo Kio, man ... this is totally confusing. May I know where can I get the boundary for Ang Mo Kio? Is it a subset of the sub-zones in the URA plan? I should have work on a west coast region first, where I'm more familiar with. Also in progress now is the new towns and estate, using the hdb reference you give me; that layer will soon be ready for inspection. -- Vsion 19:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. Btw I think I forgot to answer yr queries above...so allow me to get to them soon. What you are doing sounds exactly like what I did in my GIS study..haha...but did you do it using Photoshop or what? ;) Yellow islands? Where? Oh btw, do note that the map you derived from is so outdated, that the boundaries for the downtown area is slightly wrong now thanks to changes in reclamation alignment plans. Also, you can safely delete "Jalan Jayu" from the map, as the whole area there comes under Sengkang.
 * As for the thing on Ang Mo Kio, the interesting thing about most articles in this wikiproject is that they actually have fluid boundaries. Only HDB towns, URA planning areas, postal districts, political consituencies, etc, have fixed boundaries we can map. Therefore, how about a set of maps with a topographic background (or any other background to "beautify it", and with the place name alone indicating the approximate location for these, totally devoid of internal boundaries?
 * For the new town maps, I am trying to find time to get to the library so that I can possibly scan a better map. But I suspect the resources in NUS is much better then the one at NLB. Since I wont be able to go to the NUS library soon, I would suggest that you try to sap as much resources from the NUS library as you can for the rest of your NUS career...some thing I wished I had done. Too bad I discovered wikipedia too late! :D--Huaiwei 20:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "topographic background"? haha ... do you have the DEM? And how about a map of land usage, which is very useful. For the New Towns, I may just upload what is currently available, then KIV while waiting for your better map. Maybe will start thinking about expressways (what would be the higher priorities ?). The yellow islands may appear as white on LCD monitor (i.e. same color as singapore mainland), it's pretty yellow on my CRT. I am thinking about using a darker blue for the water. Also I did not include some indonesian islands on the far bottom right, is that ok? Yeah, I'm aware that the downtown area is in a mess and don't know what to do about it. I'm mainly using ACDSee (similar functionality as photoshop) to extract the layers, and I wrote a program to do the rectification, coloring and combining automatically. The text labelling is currently in powerpoint. -- Vsion 21:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * New maps are uploaded to WikiProject Singaporean places/Maps (Figure A1, A2, D1 and E1). Is this the current coastline? There is some confusion in the changi area, hence the difference between A1 and A2. Also I'm puzzled by the tuas end. According to my reference, the tuas end has a perfect-vertical coastline; but I'm not sure if this is due to image clipped off. Please take a look and comment, thanks. -- Vsion 05:11, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hierarchial organisation
If you see from here, I lamented about some of the confusion I had in organising the places and articles. However, what I plan to do is eventually create a new template for Singapore's places that eventually breaks down into sections. What I propose is Region => Planning Area => Town (if its the Central Area, this would include the subdivision)...this would especially resolve the fact that Little India, Singapore and Chinatown, Singapore, Raffles Place and Kampong Glam are not specifically referenced in both Districts and places in Singapore and List of neighbourhoods in Singapore - they are districts within those towns. After some extensive research, I'm assuming the Downtown Core is the former European Town of Singapore, west of the Singapore River, and Kampong Glam is part of Rochor, while Chinatown is in Outram, west of the Singapore River, but they are all part of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. Gah, all the different historical names! It reminds me of Huaiwei finding out that Kent Ridge used to be Pasir Panjang Ridge! ;-)

The New Towns of Singapore seems quite specific, so I will leave that as a specific thing to be referenced in a higher template, rather than placing it under a hierarchy. Any idea on how to incorporate this, especially into the main Singapore article, as taxonomical breakdown and mention of urban planning I think is highly important? -- Natalinasmpf 05:50, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dormant?
Apparantly this wikiproject has become sort of dominant after some time. Any collective interest in igniting work on it once again?--Huaiwei 12:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

new link for master plan
The old one I gave Vsion seems to have been broken: I restore it now: http://spring.ura.gov.sg/dcd/eservices/sop/main.cfm?view=mpview....might have a tad of trouble in Firefox where ActiveX isn't enabled, but might work for Konqueror users in Linux et al. -- Natalinasmpf 21:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Revival
Looks like we need to revive this inactive WikiProject. --Ter e nce Ong 11:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * We should just reform it into a task force, eh? Ariedartin JECJY Talk 02:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:11, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
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Revival of WikiProject
Hello all. If you haven't noticed, the last discussion ended a year ago. I think this WikiProject should be revived. Indeed, there are still some places in Singapore without an article.

I think one way of reviving this WikiProject is to invite people from the Sgpedian's notice board. What are your comments on this? Angcr (talk) 14:47, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1 Location
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 * 3 Features
 * 4 Facilities
 * 5 Infrastructure
 * 5.1 Public Services
 * 5.2 Education
 * 5.3 Recreation
 * 6 See also
 * 7 References
 * 8 External links

Template suggestion for content. Feel free to comment/suggest Xaiver0510 (talk) 01:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!

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Gene Kan

Gene Kan (September 6, 1976 — June 29, 2002) was a British-born Chinese American peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer who was among the first programmers to produce an open-source version of the file-sharing application that implemented the Gnutella protocol. Kan worked together with Spencer Kimball on the program called "gnubile" licensed under the GNU General Public License. Kan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a major in electrical engineering and computer science, and was a member of the student club the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF).

In June 2000, when Kan was 24, he formed a distributed search engine known as InfraSearch.com with Steve Waterhouse and another friend. Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen was an investor in the start-up. InfraSearch was purchased by Sun Microsystems on March 6, 2001 for $12.5M USD in Sun stock options. The acquisition became part of the JXTA project at Sun. Kan joined Sun as an employee, and continued to work with the technology.

Kan was relatively well known in internet circles for a testimony he gave in July 2000 at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age". Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, Sony CEO Fred Ehrlich, and others also gave testimony at the hearing. In his account, as the United States Senate decides the fate of companies like Napster, he stressed that "technology moves forward and leaves the stragglers behind," and that "the adopters always win, and the stalwarts always lose". Kan was advocate of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing and some credit him, along with other Gnutella pioneers, as its originator. He argued that it is part of an emergent technological area called distributive computing.

On June 29, 2002, he committed suicide. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. Kan was 25 years old. Prior to taking his life, Kan updated an electronic copy of his resume hosted on a University of California, Berkeley server to read "Summary: Sad example of a human being. Specializing in failure." An independent documentary film was planned for Gene Kan after he died, but it never started production.

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Talk:Amália Rodrigues

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What is the story behind Don Byas and Amalia Rodrigues?? There must be a good story behind that??

Problems with article

 * "She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development" - she gets half a sentence on the fado article which makes no mention of her importance.
 * "Amália also remains the sole truly international star to have ever come out of Portugal" - unless the editor is trying to say truly international 'fado' start then this is an outrageous claim.
 * I went thru & fixed all the familiar firstname references to the more formal lastname references per wp style. Manual of Style (biographies) --LQ 21:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The claims are typical hyperbole. Amalia was very important, but Portugal as a country and Fado as a culture are too big for a single person to be considered all there is to them. The closing mention of other artists betrays having been written by someone whose mind was concentrated on a very small part and period of portuguese culture.
 * The portuguese standard is to use the first name for females when just one name is used. It's very strange for portuguese ears to relate the surname to a female antecedent. Nelly Furtado's article sounds strange for much the same reason. It has nothing to do with sexism, the underlying motive may be that surnames are usually masculine in gender. Males are usually only referred to by a single name (either the first name or a surname) if that name is not very common. Yes, the text is english and as such english rules apply, but I wonder if they are universally applicable, especially when one begins to drift out of european space. She was a widely known person, and it would be best to use the same rule used by the community at large when it referred to her. That would be 'Amalia' in all the portuguese spesking countries, I'm not sure how it would be internationally.85.240.124.131 (talk) 23:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I cannot agree with the observations on Amália Rodrigues' fame and importance, especially when the page on fado is mentioned. On that page, and reading it carefully, there are several sentences about the importance of Amália Rodrigues, which culminate with the sentence, and I quote: "Surpassing the cultural and language barriers, Fado would definitely become a national culture icon with Amália. For decades and until her death, in 1999, Amália Rodrigues was its national and international star.".
 * Moreover, it is a well-documented fact that Amália was the only name mentioned abroad on hundreds of press news, releases and television documentaries and pieces on 'fado' and the singer. They are all over the internet, you can find them on Youtube. Modern fado singers with international careers are now mentioned abroad, but for decades (between 1950 and 1990) only the name of Amália surpassed international borders and made the genre fado well-known in other countries. The mention of other artists is important of course, but they were known only in Portugal and within it's borders, except for the names mentioned as more recent and current artists and singers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.181.136.127 (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Performance Queen Elizabeth II
My grandparents tell me she performed for Queen Elizabeth II at one stage. Couldn't find anything on it, but thought that someone more knowledgeable than me about her would be able to verify, and, if true and important enough, add to the article. 59.101.24.180 (talk) 02:29, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Bad article
Full of adjectives and personal opinions, like 'Her personality and charisma, her beauty', typical of the overall bad Wikipedia in Portuguese Language that is even a vehicle of self promotion. This article just looks like that. Even Amalia said in interviews that she didn't think of herself as beautiful or ugly but something in between. --Good Hope Phanta (talk) 16:27, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The article style is subjective and lacks sources for most statements. --Erik den yngre (talk) 16:17, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

inappropriate sections
Moved here for reference: "Her personality and charisma, her beauty and her extraordinary timbre of voice gave depth and intense life to her singing: the impression she made on the public, her immediacy and the natural way she empathized with her public were tremendous and attracted more and more admirers throughout the world." If this subjective statement can be attributed to a reliable source, then can be a quote in the article, if not remove. --Erik den yngre (talk) 16:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

This is not very informative and perhaps private: "Amália's estate was never exactly valued, but she left two houses, (one mansion in Lisbon), antiques, works of art, a collection of jewels and other important items, decorations, and an amount of money." --Erik den yngre (talk) 16:58, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

This is OK if proper source: "She became ill again in 1984, and went to New York in order to attempt suicide, but she couldn't go through with it and instead sought and got medical care." --Erik den yngre (talk) 12:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Vague sections
Too vague to be informative (perhaps usable if made more specific):
 * "She refused a proposal to appear in the movies in 1954."--Erik den yngre (talk) 12:50, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * "She became first the toast of Lisbon and then the toast of Portugal, attracting friends and admirers both from the people, then from the aristocracy. Artists, poets, politicians, former Kings and bankers were attracted by her personality and charisma." --Erik den yngre (talk) 17:06, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * "and from 1991 to 1994 it was felt that she was saying good-bye to her public, who still attended her performances..." --Erik den yngre (talk) 08:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Surname
Use surname in article per name conventions on English WP. --Erik den yngre (talk) 19:28, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

WP standard
I have now removed or rewritten a lot of the text. Please note that material is removed because it does not conform to WP policy. Please do not insert material without reference to a reliable source, do not insert opinions. The text still needs improvements with regard: --Erik den yngre (talk) 09:37, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * sources
 * clarity (timeline, specificty of statements)
 * structure (artistic accomplishments should be sorted by topic and/or time)
 * facts vs judgements/opinions
 * (and more)

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