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User:JMBell/Lost Library/Archive1

Archive #0001 Talk page April 16 - June 6 A.D. 2005

Hello
And hello to you too, JMBell. Shall I take your questions one by one? 1) I am indeed 16. 2) No, I'm not yet a sysop, but if you want to nominate me ;) 3) Um, one at a time, I guess. Actually, no, I use Mozilla Firefox's tabbed browsing. That's the key. 4) If you say so. I didn't think so myself, but you clearly have all the answers.  5) Yep, I have a lot of time. It's called revising for exams ;). 6) You assume I do manage. How do you know I'm not totally insane, addicted to Wikipedia, do nothing else, survive on Doritos and Easter eggs, and go around with a chainsaw when taking a WikiBreak? 6) The fact that I am answering these questions would imply, on a biological level, that I have a life. On a social level, you'd better ask my girlfriend.  That I don't have one is beside the point.  No offence taken, and welcome to Wikipedia... Smoddy (tgeck) 19:51, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, Smoddy, I believe you, as the speed of your reply supports your claim. I suppose you froze your Easter eggs into a near-absolute-zero hibernating state, as you are still able to eat them by now. Or you boiled them to a superhigh temperature to rid them of the bacteria. Or they are unusually resistant to all kinds of bacteria. You should take care that you do not eat Clostridium botulinum along with them, or Wikipedia will lose a great contributor. The fact that you are answering me quite normally implies that you are not insane, as does your posts on such places as the Help Desk. Your social life would be tremendously interesting to analyze, like my brother's. He spends entire days in front of his computer. Do you come from Germany, by the way? Your surname sounds distinctly German. I would suppose that every little thing you pick up at school, you post on Wikipedia (or it could always be vice versa :)). I find Firefox's tabbed browsing a bother, but as they say, to each his own. I must say, if you're addicted to Wikipedia, it would be a great gift to humanity. Imagine, a man (rather boy) like you pulling out all the weeds in the garden. How responsible. Do you specialize in pulling out the typos, opinions, vandals, or others? Surviving on Doritos is a marvelously unique way to sustain yourself. Not even the strongest man on Earth could do that. I say, the wonders of youth are amazing. Which university did you say you want to go to? And what will you take up? Just a bit curious, if you mind answering, don't bother answering then. No offence meant. Thanks for the welcome. JMBell 20:23, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Smoddy's Easter egg preservation method: go on holiday for a fortnight. They'll still be there when you get back!  I shall do my very best to be immune to Clostridium, if you say so.  Not being a microbiologist, I haven't the first clue what I just said :).  Your judgement of my sanity very happily reflects my own, so thanks!  And I am very happy that my Help Desk contribution is appreciated.  As for my social life, I can only say: thank goodness for MSN Messenger.  I don't come from Germany, no, though my name does, as you point out.  Your vice versa is quite right, by the way.  Wikipedia is a far better learning source.  Well, I regularly edit with 10 windows open at a time, on various policy and guideline pages, so my editing does tend to be a little slow, but Firefox speeds it up.  Maybe you should look at Wikipediholic, which is very instructive on my disorder.  I guess the next step on that analogy would be to give me admin status and let me catch and kill (overreaction? maybe) those little pests, the aphids if you will, that come and ruin the beautiful garden of Wikipedia.  Opinions and vandals are the most fun, I find, but correcting grocers' apostrophes are also fun (see User:Smoddy for my somewhat sad targets).  OK, OK, I eat Indian curries as well.  Occasionally. ;)  Well, Oxford by preference, Exeter or Edinburgh next.  Arabic would be my ideal (I've been holidaying in Sinai in Egypt)  Well, curiosity never hurt anyone (other than the cat), and I don't mind answering at all. Anyway, cheers.  Back to not-real life.  Smoddy (tgeck) 21:21, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Your preservation method must be very effective. I leave my Easter eggs for a week, and when I get back, boy, you should see them (or smell them ;)). Even when cryogenically frozen, they still rot. Weird. Now Clostridium botulinum is a highly dangerous bacterium which produces a toxin so fatal, that one dies within 24 hours of ingesting it. It paralyzes the muscles, esp. of the lungs and heart. That's where they get Botox from. The substance of your lessons must be somewhat questionable if you find Wikipedia a better learning tool. Good luck on your entrance exams into Oxford (if you have to take any, I'm unfamiliar with the school system in G.B.). As an aside, what word do over half of Oxford graduates spell wrongly? Give up? The answer is "wrongly", of course. I know, it's a somewhat lame joke, but it's the only one I have in context. :) I've always wanted to go to Egypt. Love the pyramids and the ancient culture. Are there many terrorists there? I read an article that said they disembowel tourists (esp. in Luxor). Well, I guess that's it for now. Back to my analyzation of Wikipedia. If I have any questions that aren't covered by the FAQs, can I ask you for help? Sorry to bother you (if you're bothered) again. :) See you around, Smoddy. JMBell 14:01, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Clearly so. I'll do my best to avoid the clostridium, sounds nasty!  On the other hand, it could be a reflection of Wikipedia's excellence!  Nah, no entrance exams: it all depends on school grades.  I'll probably take a year out to give me my best chance of getting in.  The only entrance exams we have are for law and medicine.  I'm guessing that joke works as well for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Seoul...  I'm afraid I've been in the Sinai, in Dahab.  I've been diving.  :)))  I didn't see any disemboweling, no...  Sure, ask away.  I've been here quite a while now, so I know my way around.  Ask whatever you like.  Just one suggestion at the moment: when you're on a talk page, you can precede each paragraph with a number of colons.  This indents the text, so giving the conversation some structure, as you can see from how I've organised this one.  Tara for now (how British!), Smoddy (tgeck) 15:06, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Smoddy! At the moment I'm analyzing Wikipedia and might not have questions for some time. One thing's bothering me though: that article I was talking about on the help desk (Across_the_River_and_Into_the_Trees) which was an abridged version of an external source. It was originally placed by an anon (IP 68.something, I forgot) and was subsequently edited by several users, who did not alter its form. It's mostly the same as the orig, but with a few words changed or moved around or whatnot. It looks like plagiarism to me, but I'm not sure. I edited it a bit, but it seems as if I added more "plagiarized" material (horror of horrors). What would be the custom when encountering this sort of thing? And what would be the custom in friendly discussions (like this one), reply on the sender's page or the recipient's? I mean, our discussions can't always be quantum-entangled. :) See you around, Smoddy! JMBell° 19:30, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi again. Firstly, in regard to that article, it doesn't appear (to me) to be a copyright violation.  I can't actually find any text which appears in both places, or at least not significant portions.  It is poorly written, but doesn't (to me) seem to be a violation.  In future, as you asked, copyright stuff can be noted at Copyright problems, by using the  syntax with the source URL.  Generally, it's nice to keep a conversation flowing.  I personally don't like breaking up conversations by separating them between user talk pages, so I either keep them going on one page or on both.  It depends on my energy levels.  I shall keep this convo solely on your page now.  The problem with this is that it necessitates keeping the other user's page on your watchlist, which can result in an out-of-control watchlist (like mine – 850 pages and growing).  See Talk page for more infomation on the matter.  Anyway, must dash.  Cheers, Smoddy (tgeck) 19:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
This conversation is not yet fully transcribed.

Cheers for the support; that's very kind. I'm glad I've been a help :). I'll have more to say later, I'm sure.  Oh, and I think I preferred your first version :p. --Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * You're very welcome. Your help is always appreciated, I must say (although it's somewhat obvious :p). Hoping to see you soon as a sysop exterminating all the pests in the Beautiful and Colourful Park of Wikipedia :). In reply to your statement, first version of what exactly? I've been editing my message to you and my userpage and my articles and whatnot, and I'm not quite sure what you're talking about (I have a pretty accurate guess, though, but I just want to be sure). Do you eat rabbit and pork? :) --JMBell° 18:23, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I meant the very effusive message you left and struck out. I think that was what you meant, no?  Rabbit and pork is cockney rhyming slang for talk.  It is the root of the term to rabbit – do you have that term in New Jersey?  --Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 22:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, it was. I have heard the phrase "to rabbit" before; however, I didn't know it came from "rabbit and pork". Please excuse my ignorance. Although I know fairly much about the British Isles, my knowledge of the dialects (as well as slang) is somewhat crude. Thanks for the explanation :). BTW, what tags should I put when uploading a picture? --JMBell° 12:26, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi again JMBell (btw, is there a more personal way of referring to you?). Thanks for what you said, I'll do my best to do what is expected of me.  32 is great, but not that special: Requests for adminship/Fvw2.  You'll see me getting into a bit of a muddle with my voting...  I don't think, in reference to the above comment, that an American not knowing the intricacies of Cockney rhyming slang is "ignorance"!  Actually, I don't think many Britons would.  I just happen to have a Cockney father (how I ended up in South Wales is anyone's guess).  Anyway, thanks again for your kind words.  In reference to the picture, I generally simply use  to keep matters simple.  Another would be {{PD-user)) if you want to release the photo into the public domain.  I much prefer the GFDL.  Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 22:33, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, call me James. Never, ever, call me Jamie (it's a personal thing, see). That would be most humiliating. Anyway, you're welcome. Try not to burn out so quickly like poor Frank, if that's his name. It'd be useless if you were nominated and then left after a month or so. Take it easy, but do the best that you can. Thanks for the copyright tip. Just got in a bit of a problem with copyright and so, but fixed it up already. Cockney rhyming slang looks (and sounds) interesting; maybe I'll analyze it someday. Do you speak Welsh, btw? I know it sounds stupid, but who knows? :) Anyway, gotta go. Till next time - JMBell° 23:53, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * LOL. I won't burn out.  I have the bug, good and proper.  I'll take a ball and chalk to the rub-a-dub to have a Ruby Murray and a pig's ear with the dustbin lids and the trouble and strife.  I'll pay with a Gregory Peck, then toddle off down the frog and toad, say hallo to the Johnny Hopper.  Back at the Mickey Mouse, I'll climb the apples and pears for a good night's kip.  And no, I cannot speak Welsh, beyond borei dar (sp – good morning) and araf (slow; it's on all the road signs).  Nor do I want to.  Calling an Englishman a Welshman (or vice versa) is like calling a Canadian an American New Zealander an Australian.  --Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 11:17, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the sample. Will translate. Please tell me if it's correct if you have time. I wonder what an Englishman like you is doing in South Wales. Why did you move (or why are you living) there, if you don't mind my asking. Is your mother or any of your relatives Welsh? Or are you studying at a boarding school? (Of course, you are not obliged to answer any of these questions if you do not want to or feel like it) In any case, it's really puzzling. At least you can speak English, and that's what matters. After all, there is no Welsh Wikipedia (or is there). :) No offence meant. Good luck once again, Smoddy. Cheers - JMBell° 20:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * And it would appear I am an admin! Hooray.  I promise to use my powers for evil, not good.  As to how I ended up in Wales: you'd do better to use tarot.  I certainly don't know.  I am at a boarding school, but I don't board.  cy:Hafan.  None taken.  Takes more than that to give me offence.  Cheers, and thanks again, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 21:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll take a walk to the pub to have a curry and a beer (no big) with the kids and the wife. I'll pay with a check, then toddle off down the road, say hallo to the copper (=policeman – do you use copper?).  Back at the house, I'll climb the stairs for a good night's kip.  The fiend comes when you have the second word taken off, giving I'll take a ball to the rub-a, to have a Ruby and a pig's...  You are right, Welsh is an appalling language.  I promise not to delete you!  Or any of your pages...  Ta for the vote; I'm really pleased at the level of support I got.  Anyway, tara. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks

 * Thanks for your adivce.

 * The major problem lies in the fact that only a portion of the article content is contributed by me. I do not see much gramatical errors, the styling are much better. Never mind about that; forget about the "gcheck" template; it is a trival matter.

 * However, what made me extremely concerned is that by reviewing the standard of the Zanskar article, it is unacceptable. I have explained to Mel, but however hard I explained, it seems that 60% of the it fell on deaf ears with the remaining 40% needs a long, exhausting explanations and reverts to get him convinced. I do not intend to provoke him, but in comparison with Sikkim, Zanskar is much poorer in terms of styling, sentence construction and language usuage, and that is my main concern. I cannot force him to help me ractify it, but he has showed a lack of participation not by finding another person that can replace me to ractify the article standard, as it really needs polishing. If you do not understand, go to Pushing to 1.0, Featured articles

 * I never admitted that my English is superior, but it is at least at an passable, sometimes good standards, which all depends on my mood. To prove to you, look at how a cleanup Lahul and Spiti, at least by its styling. --Tan 23:17, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lahul and Spiti
Nice work!

If you do have the time and patience, could you possibly also clean-up the Kinnaur article?

You will find the major issues I have with this article in its talk-page.

Given the grief that Mr Tan has already caused me with the Zanskar article, I am loath to correct this article myself. (and it would only add french-english to the chinese-english that Mr Tan slapped over the original Indian english). --Moumine 22:37, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Mr Tan
I'm afraid that nothing seems to get through to this editor. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, he believes himself not only to have an adequate (even a good) command of English, but to be in a position to criticise others, and to gauge the standard of an article. I've presnted him on at least three occasions with a breakdown of his numerous grammatical and spelling errors, and others have done the same, but he simply ignores us. I'm giving him one last chance; after that, the only option will be to open an RfC, and hope that that experience will bring him to his senses. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:54, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * As you'll probably have seen, I've now opened Requests for comment/Mr Tan. I think that it's best to post there, and to break off arguments with Mr Tan on his Talk page or here. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:24, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your message. If Mr Tan begins to make bad edits on Zanskar, he can be rveerted.  If he makes good edits, then they can stay.  I think that, until there's a problem, the page should stay open.  Let's see if the RfC has any efect on the situation. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:45, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Myself
Nice try, but no, I am swiss.

Btw, I did some more work on Lahul and Spiti (halas concurrently with Mel Etitis) but it really is an up-hill struggle. Not only is the syntax deplorable, but the facts are dubious and the article construct is a catastrophy (repetitions under different headings, contents do not match the headings...) and the same goes for kinnaur --Moumine 00:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Tan
All right, I will sit back and watch first, doing nothing even an edit that doesn't suit my taste. I let you all do everything, but hopefully finish it by middle May. When you have finished, please inform me, and I will see what kind of satisfactory work you all produce. If it is not above standard, I am afraid that I will have to ractify your sentences. To judge how a Singaporean writes his sentences, please go to User:Huaiwei to judge on me as well.

I'm telling you:

 * There is no progress on Zanskar since the last few days. I want the styling something like Sikkim.
 * Try to break down sentences by using commas and other signs rather than using words.
 * Reduce the usuage of brackets if possible (Writing storybooks uses little brackets, and I don't accept too much of it)
 * There is no problem regarding the geographical facts of Tsushima. I want you to change it back. They are not isles, but Islands.

For your information, my first language is English, followed by Chinese. My command of english is not as bad as you think. --Tan 19:52, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

To Mr Tan: 1. Sikkim is OK, though its language is unencyclopædic at times, tending towards the tourist brochure. However, first, baldly stating what you want (in a way that sounds very much like a command, especially after "I'm telling you") is not good manners, and secondly, there's no reason for every article to be organised in the same way. 2. & 3. You must stop giving other editors instructions in how to write English; your command of English is simply too poor for such instructions to be useful. 4. Look up "isle" in a dictionary: it means "island". My only objection to it is that it's rather archaic/poetic.

To JMBell: Thanks for the information. You don't have to sign anywhere else on the RfC; each person either signs the summary with which she agrees, or adds a new summary. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:23, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

 * My own feeling about the RfC is that Mr Tan is simply demonstrating the case against him with all his flailing about and accusations. It's probably best to leave it alone unless he does anything serious like libelling you.  I've just added another bit of evidence from his editing session today, adn you could do the same if you see anything — but I intend to leave my comments to stand. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:33, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Tan user page
Before I start, perhap's I'd better mention that: A) I am not a puppet of any sort, B) I have no ulterior interest in this matter, and C) Before I checked a random change on the 'Recent Changes', I have had no involvement whatsoever with Tan or any thing he has edited, or the RFC, or indeed this whole mess. That said, I don't particularly care for you/your sock puppet (or at least, so Sir James' page assures me) embedding invisible comments onto Tan's very User Page.  That's not its purpose. The Talk page is there for a reason. I suggest you use it.  If you have no particular objection, I shall move your comment into the talk page under a new heading. Please reply. --maru 21:05, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * And incidentally, I've done some formatting here. (It's a habit.)

 * /me is much mollified/gratified/obliged. Now, don't you be doing that agin', you naughty person. --maru 22:59, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Problem... Resolved!

 * I'll give you two hints: I live on an area adjacent to the city Sinatra memorably sung about; and our local baseball team is quite... foul. (I'm sure you can get it.) --maru 15:10, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

 * That's the general area, yeah. But we usually refer to ourselves more specifically as?... (Think back to the clues) --maru 21:38, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Close enough. But now I'm off to edit Dune- Slate mentioned that article in one of their articles. --maru 11:27, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Nanyang
Would you mind explaining this revert? Thank you.--Huaiwei 11:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You make it sound as thou I chose to have the conversation on my page. My conduct is well explained, and well supported by the disamg policy, and no one above has been able to explain their conduct in comparison. You are coming in with preconceived notion that Mel is somehow automatically right. How familiar are you with the use of the word Nanyang in Singapore? I would like to see that demonstrated, and if this persists, I will list if for page protection. Again, I express my utter surprise that an admin can engage in a revert war.--Huaiwei 11:29, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Tsushima
Quote from User talk:Nanshu.
 * Before you make large edits, please discuss them first on the article's talk page and wait until a consensus is reached.

Yeah. I did discuss them first. But something that can be regarded as a consensus cannot be reached unless others join discussion. I really welcome your comments on each point I presented. --Nanshu 15:00, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes for Deletion
if proposing something for WP:VfD then you need to follow the instructions at Template:VfDFooter. I have sorted Raymond feilner for you. --Henrygb 11:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

English Garden
Hi, James. I wasn't entirely sure what you were asking, so I had a look at the page and fixed the double redirect (you can do this: just click on the link immediately below the title of the target of the redirection and edit that page as normal). Incidentally, if you want to have a redirect deleted, go to WP:RFD. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:44, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Imposter
Hello. I am here to inform you that a user, by the name of User:JMBeIl, is trying to impersonate you. The vandal copied your user pages and everything else. This vandal has done so to a few users, so this is (somewhat) an ongoing problem. If you have any questions, come see me. Zscout370 (talk) 21:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * FYI: I did not name him. User:Chanting Fox did. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is part of a problem, since a small group of users were hit, and your name has been used about three or four times, but with different spellings. Zscout370 (talk) 02:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Comments
Please do note that my response is imcomplete and maybe biased. I'm telling the plain truth, on every detail of the case. I will also tell on my way of my styling of English. I do not like Mel's usuage of English, and our fight is caused by our our differences in our English, not anything else. I will also explain why Zanskar is not acceptable, following which I will copy-edit it. Mel has abused me of my right to edit, in which he should have given the right to let me edit the article before he swerves into action.

I am not going to let this matter rest until everything is solved. Never for the sake of wikipedia and dignity.

Also, I have seen that you have strange features in your english, ommiting necessary words which makes it look strange. The most notable of all is that you have a tendency to use brackets in a wholesale sentence, which is not deemed appropriate for a good article. Brackets are not encouraged, but if they were to be used, they are only meant for short phrases and individual words such as

Example: I am going to Kinnaur (Kinnner) and Korea (Koria).

I hope you understand the use of brackets. More to come in Requests for comment/Mr Tan. Do not touch the artiles for the time being unti I give a prper explanation.

Tan 09:45, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

This boils down to one fact: Let me explain and sort out everything at the Rfc, preferably within a time span of ten days with effect from tommorow (It's nearly midnight now in Singapore). I see strange features in your english, especially in the usage of English.

Furthermore, passable English doesn't means good english. What I want is an article which lets all readers comfortable to read.

Pass this message to Moumine as well.

Tan 00:02, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Tan again
I think that protection may be the way to go eventually, but there are a few of us able to revert his peculiar butchery of that article, so perhaps we should wait to see if that does the trick for the moment. I cetainly can't protect it, as I'm too havily involved, but anyone can ask for protection at Requests for page protection. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:19, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I see that Mr Tan is still leaving his aggressive and ill-mannered messages on your page; mmine too. By all means bring in extra help; the motre people who know about this and are willing to help the better. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:27, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Pong!
Just want to mention that I've replied to Bell on my talk page. Pong! --maru 21:00, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Put my summary in Outside Views section. If it is too short/long/wronglocation, just mention it on my talk. --maru 16:32, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Singapore Wikipedians
Hi James,

While I understand that you have quite a number of issues to deal with my fellow Singapore Wikipedians, may I request you to be more amicable and friendly towards them. There is little point in being so hard up on them.

I shall assume good faith on your continued dealings with them, and I hope that you will do so as well. :)

- Best regards, Mailer Diablo 13:35, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi James, thanks for the reply. One was Huaiwei indeed, although I'm glad to hear that the matter is now at rest. If I am correct, Mel also had a few incidents with other users, which I hope it should be ressolved by this time. Another that I'm still quite concerned about is Tan. I know you are quite upset over his spelling and grammar, but (to be blunt) your comments on him seem too harsh.

 * You may be interested to know that Asians (me included) see pride and shame as an important part of culture, which they will strongly defend it at all costs so "fighting fire with fire" is a bad idea. Oh yes, I hope you didn't have any impression that Singaporeans are generally "poor in English" (let me do if you feel so, I suddenly thought of this because I was surprised hours ago someone from UK commented on my blog that my English was also atrocious over a few errors) because of the notoriety of Singlish in other English-speaking countries.

 * - Best regrads, Mailer Diablo 16:29, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * That's a long one ;) I need a bit of time to digest the message.

 * I may or may not respond to the RfC, depending on if I am able to express my views clear enough (because I just can't seem to find the correct choice of words to bring my point across the last time round in outside view and seem to end up looking like immaturity).

 * - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 14:00, 12 May 2005 (UTC) :)

Response
If you wish, Mr Bell, it is the fault with your POV.

Firstly, I see few problems with my English, which includes occasional (accidental) spelling errors. In fact, you are more erronous, especiallyt in the wrong usuage of brackets and paragraphing. I am not condemning you, but the fact is the fact. I will explain in the RfC.

Secondly, I would like to remind you that you should not remove appropriate relavant facts such as those of Wally Kaname Yonamine. Since Yonamine is a Japanese American, so be the ategory in it be there? Why remove?

Thirdly, the fault lies in you and Mel in the fact that both of you are people who are extremely impatient. Just becuase seeing that Zanskar seems depreciated in terms of article quality in your POV while I'm copy-editing, that doesn't mean it will look bad after I have done everything. Furthermore, I am not finished, so why revert for no reason? This is hoolinganism. I cannot control you on protecting the page or blocking me, but I will do in accordance to the right ways. To me, if the article needs copyediting to me, so be it. Let me finish up everything before you proceed.

Also, I would rather you address me as Mr Tan rather than all the Sirs. Thanks. --Tan 15:00, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Mr. Tan: I am so astonied at this I simply must jump in: you yet persist in your sad delusion that your English is at all accpetable, and indeed, superior to that of many a native? It is not. Deal.  (I feel justified in giving this assesment since I am a third generation native English speaker, scored an 800 on the verbal portion of the SAT, recevied like scores on other tests, and am looked upon as an authority when it comes to vocabulary due to being a bookworm.  So I think I know what I am talking about here.)
 * Mr. Bell: I suggest you add Tan's words to the RFC as an example of his incorrigble arrogance. In fact, you are more erronous, especiallyt indeed!  --maru 10:18, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Wee Kim Wee
Hi, I appreciate your participation in the discussion and trying to calm things down. In the discussion you stated: "FYI, the Pope was not cremated and so has no problems with being "interred." Irrelevant support above, please provide something that could help us more. ". While, here is a list of articles in wikipedia, with the word "interred" : User:Vsion/temp. You can look at them to see the scope of usage of the word. (Mel's argument of genteelism and journalistic-English, does not seem to hold.) Some of the usage in the list involved cremation. If you wish, I can point out the exact articles for you later; but right now I feel that we are presented with a shifting goalpost by Mel.

As mentioned before, I'm not involved in the other "debate"; but would like to know your honest opinion on this specific issue. Also, just out of curiosity, did you read the article in full, and understand what the article is about? or have you just look at the controversial part? Vsion 17:16, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Mr Tan's temp page
Allow me to interject regarding a "/temp" page. I have used the /temp page to create a few of my Featured Articles. My current (its paused) work is on the Maharashtra page. I put up a notice requesting it not to be edited. Most editors accede to my request and any issues on the topic are commented on on the temp's talk page. Once finished, I copy the same to the main article, deleting the temp page. I use the temp page to compare the changes to the original [and often admire my work ;)]. Its perfectly legal to do this. Allow Tan to do what he wants with the temp page. Once he finishes editing, sufficient copyediting can be done to the article to improve its English. == 18:05, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Philosophy
Well, I'm much too modest (and wedded to anonymity here) to recommend my own work, but I'd suggest the following:

 * Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean? (this is really for pre-university students, but it's very clear, and I'd say that it was interesting for all ages)
 * Simon Blackburn, Think (more substantial than the Nagel, and aimed at a slightly more advanced audience)
 * Peter J. King, One Hundred Philosophers (as the title indicates, it's mainly about individual philosophers, but there's material on topics, schools, different cultures' philosophies, and philosophy in general)

The journal Think is also good (its Web site – – has archives of some of its past articles).

I hope that that's useful. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:23, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Unporection
For future references make unprotection requests at WP:RFPP. I'm willing to try unprotecting this article. I just gave Tan a 12 hour block, that might cool him down for a little while. Hopefully some sanity can return to that article. BrokenSegue 18:53, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Mr Tan
Good message regarding Wee Kim Wee; I've just added User:Vsion to the list of editors, as he's been very much involved on the main article. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 19:25, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

I understood, and accept my shortcomings if I can detect and analyse any. However, my behaviour inevitably slips away a little, especially along a long dispute like this. Forgive me for my "slip-away" behaviour, and if you know my character, my English seems bad on the first wave of cleanup, but it gets better after waves and waves of cleanup, even it may be done by me, for the slower I do things, the more perfect the things can be done. The matter is really going downhill; I don't want that to happen anymore.

Tan 10:50, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Whatever You Say
Refer to header. DrippingInk 23:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Once again, uh-huh. DrippingInk 12:53, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Free will
Hmmm... I'm sceptical (as freedom of the will surely isn't the sort of thing that can be empirically tested), but I'd be interested in the reference, thanks. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the text from the article. I'm not convinced, because I think that the article misunderstands the problem of free will. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:33, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm back
Hi. Thanks for your wishes. My reports are now clear and so won't have to take those horrible medicines. Regards, == 06:11, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Reply
I have witnessed that you have given me a short grammar exercise, and currently I'm doing the work exercise that you have given me, and I will not edit too actively on the articles. (See my response on Mel's page as well)

Forget about the response that I've planned. I feel that arbitration is more suitable for his case (you and Moumine have to be included if I ever open one for your involvement). I have also witnessed copyediting work in Lahul and Spiti and Kinnaur, in which I'm quite satisfied. However, the article standard of Zanskar is still not quite up to standard of the above articles.

Tan 19:34, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Exercise
Original version:

Exercise cautioun in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strove for high ideals, and everywere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the councel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strenght of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be genteel with yourself. You are a children of the universe, no less than the tres and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is cleare to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Edited version:

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strove for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is just as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counseling of the years, gracefully surrendering the possessions of youth.

Nurture the strength of your own spirit to shield yourself from any sudden misfortunes. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginations, for most fears are born out of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a children of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, there is no doubt that the universe is expanding as it should.

Here are a few of the reasons of why I changed the English of certain parts:

Spelling errors:

 * cautioun should be caution.
 * councel should be counseling
 * tres should be trees

Context errors:

...the universe is expanding as it should.
 * ...the universe is unfolding as it should. changed to

Reason:

If you notice, by scientific logic, I have never heard of the Universe unfolding, only expanding.

 * things of youth sounds redundant; possesions is a better alternative

etc..(See for yourself if you have more questions to ask about my changes)

Thanks.

Tan 19:44, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Correction on the response on the RfC. I will try to write a response, but probably a short and brief one.

Tan 20:23, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Please be patient for my answers: I promise you that I will answer them up to a few days' time.

Tan 03:05, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Answers:

 * 1) You are a children of the universe --> You are the children of the universe
 * 2) ..many persons strove for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. --> ..many people are striving for high ideals, and you can see heroism everywhere in life.

 * 1) Nurture the strength of your own spirit to shield yourself from any sudden misfortunes.---> Nurture the strength of your own spirit to shield yourself from any misfortunes.

Tan 10:31, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration and Mr Tan
I've asked a member of the arbitration committee to review the situation, including the RfC, in order to advise me on whether arbitration is the best next step. There may be some intermediate course of action that should be followed. I had thought of mediation, but I don't think that that is appropriate in this case. As soon as he comes back to me, I'll let you know what he says. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:34, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Zossen
Hello! Are you still editing this? I thought that I'd join in, but spotted your notice at the last moment. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've just tidied the first paragraph a bit, and added some Wikilinks.  It's all yours now. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:52, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
 * When the history shows that an article marked "inuse" hasn't been edited for a while, the template's liable to be removed (and even if it isn't, editors are likely to consider that it lacks its conventional force). It's best to remove it when you're not actually engaged in editing, so that it doesn't lose its force when you are (see Mr Tan's current tantrum because it was removed from two articles that hadn't been touched for a while). Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 13:28, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Temp pages
Replying to your query on the temp pages. I've shared my view on Village pump (policy). You may read follow up there. Regards, =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:36, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Answers
Concerning about the following exercises; I'm sorry for the delay, but I have managed to answer your questions (though it is quite a challenge to me)

Questions   Answers (option)

2a          b

2b          c

1a          b

1b          a

1c          d

Also, please proceed to User Talk:Mr Tan to see my reply.

Thanks.

Come to User Talk:Mr Tan

Tan 20:39, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Mr Tan (again)
When Mr Tan does things like leaving the message on Jimbo Wales' page, the best thing to do is to ignore it; he does his case far more harm on his own than if others join in. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:34, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

 * With regard to Zossen, by the way, I removed the personal "in use" message. It's not so much that such things aren't really allowed (though they're not; there's a time-indexed "inuse" template that you might use instead, but that Mr Tan is trying to using it to justify his personal "don't touch" notices (though, as usual, he's got the wrong end of the stick). Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 09:15, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I hope that everything's OK. Speak to you when you get back. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:05, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Seconded. We may have irritated each other, but at this point I'm not even feeling slightly grumpy. Enjoy your sojourn in the real world, but do come back in the forseeable future. -- Hoary 07:01, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, Mr Bell, I have read your message. I will either leave now, or settle my dispute by and by before reconsidering on leaving. Anyway, please do not worry about me. Farewell.

Tan 15:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Bye
I'm not sure if you're really going on a break (you've been saying that for a month now :) ). Anyways, if you do decide to escape to the middle ages without the internet, I wish you a happy vacation. Regards, =Nichalp (Talk)= 08:01, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Diplomats' Guild
I'll have a proper look at at later in the week, and get back to you. I hope that you're OK. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I hope that this may greatly help in disagreements and misunderstandings with User:Mel Etitis, especially Zanskar. Does your guild help in reconciling diplomatic relationships?

Tan 22:05, 2 June 2005 (UTC)

re "Wherefore"
Hello, we've never met before, but I just want to say that "wherefore" means not "where" but "why," as is shown by numerous Shakespearean plays other than Romeo and Juliet. JMBell° 12:04, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh dear! I did know that, but somehow it slipped my mind. I very stupid now, especially considering the great depth I studied Romeo and Juliet in! Not that our attacking friends will be able to tell the difference... hehehe... Master Thief GarrettTalk 13:08, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hehe :) Quite right... Say, what do you think would happen if the attackers were a bunch of admins and a bureaucrat? Would Wikipedia survive the devastating attack? Not that I think these guys to be admins (of course they're not), but what if... JMBell° 20:12, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Um, er, um... nah, they'd just be banned. Very little would stop us forever short of Jimbo taking an axe to the servers. And even then we've got the Yahoo! backups... Master Thief GarrettTalk 01:52, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pope Benedict XVI/Archive04

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete, but keep the talkpage. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Pope Benedict XVI/Archive04
Strong Delete No reason for "archive". Amicuspublilius 23:19, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

very interesting and entertaining turn it into a flash video for ebaumsworld.com im telling u it will work
 * Delete. Gazpacho 03:31, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete interesting, but unencyclopedic, and as far as I can tell original research. Uber nemo 05:19, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, tinfoil-hattery --Doc (?) 08:49, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I see the fnords. --User:Merovingian (t) (c) 09:17, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If you read every tenth symbol backwards, it spells P-O-P-E-C-R-U-F-T. Fernando Rizo T/C 09:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - The 16th Pope to bear the mark of the beast? --Irishpunktom\talk 11:33, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * delete--Scimitar parley 18:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the talk page. The talk page was mainly used as an archive when the talk page of the Pope Benedict XVI article got too long. I had no idea someone used the article space to write that. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 20:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. Or crazy talk.  Tempshill 21:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Careful Delete per Zscout. Now, if the name added up to 616, I'd be worried... humblefool® 22:23, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but keep the talk page, which is a genuine archive. Ann Heneghan 23:47, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Jim Breech

James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956) is an American former football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Oakland Raiders in 1979, and for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1980 to 1992. Breech played college football for the California Golden Bears. He was notable among kickers for wearing a different size cleat on his kicking foot. He wore a smaller size 5 cleat on his right kicking foot (his normal size was 7) which he felt gave him more control and stability kicking the football.

Early life
Breech was the starting kicker for the California Golden Bears from 1975 to 1977, making 58 of 59 extra points and 32 out of 51 field goals (62%) in his final two seasons. Breech was selected in the 8th round of the 1978 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, but was cut by the team before the start of the season. He spent the 1979 season with the Oakland Raiders, but they cut him in the 1980 pre-season in order to sign Chris Bahr, who had just been cut by the Bengals. Breech was later asked by Cleveland Browns personnel director Paul Warfield to possibly join the team as a replacement for injured Don Cockroft. However, not hearing back from Cleveland, he received a phone call from the Bengals assistant personnel director Frank Smouse. Breech was signed by the Bengals, and ended up staying there for the remainder of his career.

NFL career
In his 14 NFL seasons, Breech made 243 of 340 field goals (71.4%), 517 of 539 extra points (95.9%), and scored 1,246 total points. His 1,151 points with the Bengals are a franchise record. He is second all-time scoring in consecutive games with 186 consecutive games, and he was a perfect 9 for 9 in overtime field goals, an NFL record. Breech played in 9 postseason games during his career. In all of them combined, he missed just 2 field goals out of 11 attempts and never missed an extra point. Breech also played in Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIII, was perfect in both games, not missing a field goal or extra point in either one. In Super Bowl XXIII, he kicked 3 field goals and scored 10 of Cincinnati's 16 points in the game. When his third field goal gave the Bengals a 16-13 lead over the San Francisco 49ers with just 3:10 left in the game, it appeared there was a strong possibility he would become the first kicker ever to win the Super Bowl MVP award. However, the 49ers ended that chance by driving 92 yards and scoring the winning touchdown with 34 seconds left in the game. In 1999, he was inducted into the University of California Athletic hall of fame.

Career regular season statistics
Career high/best bolded

After football
Breech is a sales executive for the Hauser Group, an insurance firm in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash, Ohio. He also heads the Cincinnati chapter of NFL Alumni and is also on the board of directors for Kicks for Kids, an organization to help needy kids started by fellow former Cincinnati Bengals kicker Doug Pelfrey.

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Leslie Halliwell

Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, Filmgoer's Companion (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies (with credits) and technical terms, and Halliwell's Film Guide (1977), which is dedicated to individual films.

Anthony Quinton wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: "Immersed in the enjoyment of these fine books, one should look up for a moment to admire the quite astonishing combination of industry and authority in one man which has brought them into existence."

Halliwell's promotion of the cinema through his books and seasons of "golden oldies'"on Channel 4 won him awards from the London Film Critics' Circle, the British Film Institute and a posthumous BAFTA.

Early life
Born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1929, Halliwell enjoyed films from an early age. He grew up during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a period when film production was at its peak, with new releases debuting in cinemas with great regularity. Halliwell went almost nightly to the cinema with his mother, Lily, which provided an escape from the at times tough reality of their mill town. In 1939, Halliwell won a scholarship to Bolton School. After national service, he went on to study English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

The Rex Cinema, Cambridge
After graduating with a 2:1 honours degree from St Catharine's, Halliwell worked briefly for Picturegoer magazine in London, before returning to Cambridge to manage the Rex Cinema from 1952 to 1956. Under his management, the cinema became extremely popular with the Cambridge undergraduate community, showing classic films such as The Blue Angel, Citizen Kane and Destry Rides Again. The Cambridge Evening News reported that "students felt their periods at Cambridge were incomplete without the weekly visit to the Rex." In 1955, after the British Censor had banned the Marlon Brando film The Wild One, Halliwell arranged for Cambridge magistrates to assess the picture. They subsequently granted him a special licence, and so the Rex became the only cinema in Britain to show the film.

Television career
After leaving The Rex, Halliwell joined the Rank Organisation in 1956 on a three-year trainee course. He was then employed as a film publicist for the company. In 1958, he joined Southern Television, and was seconded to Granada Television a year later, where he remained for the next thirty years, at their offices in London's Golden Square. He married Ruth Porter in 1959 and they had one son. Initially appointed as Cecil Bernstein's assistant, Halliwell gained the role of Film Adviser to Granada's show Cinema, which was the most popular arts programme on television during the 1960s.

Halliwell was given responsibility for buying TV shows and in 1968 became the chief film buyer for the ITV network, a role he maintained throughout the 1970s and most of the 1980s. Travelling to Hollywood twice a year to view the latest TV pilots and film offerings and to trade fairs in Cannes and Monte Carlo, Halliwell became a major player in the television industry. In his capacity as chief buyer for the ITV network, he was responsible for bringing to British television screens some of the highest rated shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels, The Incredible Hulk, and The A-Team, as well as the James Bond film series, Jaws, and Star Wars.

In 1982, at the invitation of Jeremy Isaacs, he became buyer and scheduler of US films for Channel 4. In keeping with the channel's intention to appeal to specialist audiences, Halliwell focused primarily on films from the 1930s and '40s. Over the next few years, the channel showed hundreds of vintage movies in seasons, with many titles introduced by filmmakers such as Samuel Goldwyn Jnr, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Isaacs later wrote that Halliwell had made an "unsurpassed contribution" to the channel's success. The British Film Institute gave Halliwell an award in 1985 'for the selection and acquisition of films with a view to creative scheduling.' Author and film historian Jeffrey Richards wrote: "For lovers of the golden age of the cinema like myself, Channel 4 became a source of unalloyed delight as time and again one encountered films one had only ever read about and never expected to see."

During this period, Halliwell also presented two television series celebrating the British wartime documentary movement: Home Front, for Granada in 1982 and The British at War for Channel 4 two years later. Both featured Ministry of Information productions such as Listen to Britain, Desert Victory and The True Glory.

The Filmgoer's Companion
First published in 1965, The Filmgoer's Companion sold ten thousand copies on its first run, including four thousand in the United States. In all, Halliwell edited nine editions of the Companion, which is now known as Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies. The book was highly influential and critically acclaimed, with TV presenter Denis Norden comparing the companion to the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Gene Siskel wrote in 1975: "There is a well-developed consensus among film scribes that Leslie Halliwell's The Filmgoer's Companion is the single most valuable reference book on film.'"

Others were less enthusiastic, criticising Halliwell's subjectivity and occasionally reactionary opinions on the films included, as well as the bias towards older films. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1979 that "the referrer needs an iron will to look up only one fact," in reference to the perceived density of the book.

Halliwell's Film Guide
First published in 1977 and regularly updated, Halliwell's Film Guide originally incorporated capsule reviews and information on over 8,000 English-speaking titles. He used a four-star rating system similar in appearance to the system used by Steven Scheuer and (with slight modification) Leonard Maltin. However, in Halliwell's system even a one-star rating was a definite recommendation. Poor or mediocre films which other critics would rate one or two stars were equally missable to him, so they received no star. By the time of Halliwell's death in 1989, the Film Guide had doubled in size. He acknowledged his predecessors in the introduction to the first edition,

"I salute especially the work of Leonard Maltin, James Robert Parish, Denis Gifford, Douglas Eames and the unsung anonymous heroes who compiled the reviews of the BFI's Monthly Film Bulletin during the fifties and sixties."

This second work also came in for as much criticism as it did praise. Halliwell came under fire from journalists and critics for the brevity of his assessments, and his dismissive stance on more modern films. His devotion to the Golden Age of Hollywood left him increasingly out of touch with modern attitudes. Observer film critic Philip French wrote that Halliwell "isn't a scholar, critic or cineaste, but rather a movie buff, a man who knows the credits of everything but the value of very little". Jim Emerson of the Orange County Register called Halliwell "something of a grumpy old English fuddy-duddy [who] rarely has anything good to say about any movie made after 1960".

Halliwell's Television Companion
Halliwell's third encyclopaedic work began life as the Teleguide in 1979. Disappointed with the first edition, he joined with Sunday Telegraph critic Philip Purser to produce Halliwell's Television Companion, which ran for a further two editions in 1982 and 1986. The third edition, published by Grafton in 1986, included over 12,000 entries.

Retirement and death
Halliwell retired from the television industry in 1986 but continued to edit his film guides. He wrote a regular TV article for the Daily Mail beginning in 1987, and published a number of historical and critical works about the cinema. He also published three volumes of ghost stories inspired by M. R. James.

Halliwell died of esophageal cancer at the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher, Surrey, a month before his 60th birthday.

Halliwell's favourite films
This list of Leslie Halliwell's favourite films was originally published in the fifth edition of the Film Guide.
 * Citizen Kane (1941)
 * Trouble in Paradise (1932)
 * Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
 * Le Million (1931)
 * A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
 * Lost Horizon (1937)
 * Sons of the Desert (1933)
 * The Philadelphia Story (1940)
 * The Maltese Falcon (1941)
 * The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Biography
A biography, Halliwell's Horizon, written by Michael Binder, was published in 2011.

Books authored

 * 1965 – The Filmgoer's Companion. – ISBN 0-00-255798-3 (editions 1–9 by Halliwell)
 * 1973 – The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes. – ISBN 0-583-12889-0
 * 1975 – The Clapperboard Book of the Cinema. – with Graham Murray, ISBN 0-246-10814-2
 * 1976 – Mountain of Dreams: the Golden Years of Paramount. – ISBN 0-246-10825-8
 * 1977 – Halliwell's Movie Quiz. – ISBN 0-905018-42-7
 * 1977 – Halliwell's Film Guide. – ISBN 0-00-714412-1 (editions 1–7 by Halliwell)
 * 1979 – Halliwell's Television Companion. – ISBN 0-586-08379-0
 * 1982 – Halliwell's Hundred. – ISBN 0-246-11330-8
 * 1984 – The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes: Seventeen Supernatural Stories. – ISBN 0-586-05995-4
 * 1985 – Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies. – ISBN 0-246-12478-4
 * 1986 – Halliwell's Harvest. – ISBN 0-684-18518-0
 * 1986 – The Dead that Walk. – ISBN 0-8044-2300-8
 * 1987 – A Demon Close Behind. – ISBN 0-7090-2932-2
 * 1987 – Double Take and Fade Away. – ISBN 0-246-12835-6
 * 1987 – Return to Shangri-La. – ISBN 0-586-07081-8
 * 1988 – A Demon on the Stair. – ISBN 0-7090-3181-5

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Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King (born 21 May 1948), known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian actor. Hyde is perhaps best known for roles as Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury in the comedy film Richie Rich (1994), Samuel Parrish and Van Pelt in the fantasy adventure film Jumanji (1995), J. Bruce Ismay in the epic romantic film Titanic (1997), Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in creature feature film Anaconda (1997), Dr. Allen Chamberlain in the adventure horror film The Mummy (1999), and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain. Although an Australian citizen, he has mostly lived in the United Kingdom since 1969, after his family left Australia.

Early life
Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to a middle-class family. His father was Stephen Geoffrey King, a solicitor. Hyde's interest in law took him to university to study the subject but his passion for performing and the theatre led him to pursue a career in acting. Leaving for London in 1969, he was awarded a coveted place at RADA and won the Bancroft Gold Medal for excellence in his graduating year of 1972. In a 2007 interview with The Age, Hyde said he did not make a conscious decision to lose his Australian accent after moving to Britain, and that it still "comes and goes."

Career
Hyde is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He was an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. Hyde played J. Bruce Ismay, the arrogant managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy, and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein and Anaconda.

He appeared in the 1989 BBC drama series Shadow of the Noose in which he played barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett in which Hyde played Culverton Smith and Midsomer Murders as Frank Smythe-Webster.

In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear.

In the final series of BBC's popular series Spooks, Hyde played Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister.

Hyde appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre.

From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.

In 2019, he starred as Beau in Gently Down The Stream at London's Park Theatre, and himself earned an Olivier Award Nomination: Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre - Jonathan Hyde.

Personal life
Hyde married Scottish operatic soprano Isobel Buchanan in 1980. They have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company

 * First Season (1980/81)
 * Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Ron Daniels, RST, Aldwych)
 * Second Season (1982/83)
 * Edgar in the Michael Gambon King Lear (Adrian Noble, RST, Barbican)
 * Octavius in the Gambon/Helen Mirren Antony and Cleopatra (TOP, Pit)
 * Oliver in As You Like It (Terry Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
 * Richmond in Richard III (Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
 * Aumerle in Richard II (Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
 * Tom Nightwork in The Swan Down Gloves (Ian Judge/Hands, RST, 1981, Aldwych, 1981–82)
 * Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (John Barton, RST, Aldwych, 1981)
 * the Porter in Macbeth (Howard Davies, RST, 1982, Barbican, 1983)
 * Laxton in The Roaring Girl (Barry Kyle, Barbican, 1983).

Return to Stratford as Associate Artist

 * Vasques in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (David Leveaux, Swan, 1991)
 * Face in The Alchemist (Sam Mendes, Swan)
 * Brutus in Julius Caesar (Steven Pimlott, RST)
 * Columbus in Richard Nelson's Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (John Caird, Barbican, 1992)
 * Kent in King Lear and Dorn in The Seagull (Trevor Nunn, Courtyard and International Tour, 2007).

Other theatre work

 * Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (Philip Prowse, NT Lyttelton, 1985)
 * Muldoon in The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard, NT Olivier, 1985)
 * Mr Sneer in The Critic (Sheila Hancock, NT Olivier, 1985)
 * Yasha in The Cherry Orchard (Mike Alfreds, NT Cottesloe, 1985)
 * Valmont in Christopher Hampton's Les liaisons dangereuses (Davies, Ambassadors, 1987)
 * the Doge of Venice in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution (Ian McDiarmid, Almeida, 1990)
 * the Count in Anouilh's The Rehearsal (McDiarmid, Almeida, 1990)
 * Charles in Hanif Kureishi's Sleep With Me (NT Cottesloe, 1999)
 * Creon opposite Tara Fitzgerald in Sophocles's Antigone (Declan Donnellan, Old Vic, 1999)
 * Archie in Stoppard's Jumpers (David Leveaux, NT Lyttelton, 2003).
 * Captain Hook in Peter Pan (Three Sixty Entertainment) (Neverland Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, 2009).
 * Isaac Newton (BBC Docu-Drama).
 * Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar (Robert Hastie, Crucible Theatre, 2017)
 * Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon (Kate Hewitt, Crucible Theatre, 2018)
 * Beau in Gently Down The Stream (Park Theatre, 2019)
 * Claudius in Hamlet (Sean Mathias, Theatre Royal Windsor, 2021)

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Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman (born 23 April 1950) is a RADA trained British actor. He has appeared on television and radio, in film and in the theatre.

Early life
He attended the Central Foundation Boys' School and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, in 1969.

Television
In 2003 Goodman guest starred in the ITV series Foyle's War as corrupt American industrialist Howard Paige in “Fifty Ships”, the opening episode of Season 2 of the British TV crime drama set in WWII. In 2013 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the remake of Yes, Prime Minister which was launched on the Gold television channel.

Theatre
In 1991, he originated the role of Roy Cohn in the world premiere of Angels in America.

He portrayed Charles Guiteau in the London premiere of Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse in 1992. He starred as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Royal National Theatre in 1996. The next year, he portrayed Billy Flynn in the West End revival of Chicago.

Goodman appeared on Broadway in three shows. He briefly replaced Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in The Producers in 2002, but was fired after one month due to creative differences with Mel Brooks. The following year he returned to Broadway in Tartuffe.

In 2007, he starred as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End.

In 2010 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister at the Chichester Festival Theatre and later at the Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.

In 2012 he played the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in Chichester and then in the West End to critical acclaim.

In 2015 he played the title role in Ben Jonson's Jacobean comedy Volpone at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Trevor Nunn and co-starring Matthew Kelly and Miles Richardson. His previous RSC appearance was in 2003 as Richard III.

In 2017 he played Lucian Freud in Looking at Lucian, written by Alan Franks, at the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal, Bath. Of this part, he said "I share an intense hunger to want theatre to be as meaningful as he wanted painting to be."

In 2022, he played Hercule Poirot in Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Bath. He was nominated for a UK Theatre Award for his performance.

Film
In 1999 Goodman played a memorable cameo role as the Ritz concierge in Notting Hill. He portrayed a Hydra doctor in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though he was not listed in the credits. He played the character again, now named Dr. List, on the second season of the TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and in the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Radio
Goodman is also a respected radio actor. He portrayed Pierre Beaumarchais in the BBC Radio 4 series Beaumarchais in 1996, "Melvin" in The Attractive Young Rabbi (BBC Radio 4, 1999-2002) and Leopold Bloom in BBC Radio 4's all-day adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses for 'Bloomsday' in 2012. He has also played author and chemist Primo Levi and a large number of other, often Jewish, characters on Radio 4.

Goodman is the narrator in the premiere recording by the Hallé Orchestra of the complete stage music Vaughan Williams wrote for the 1909 Cambridge University production of The Wasps by Aristophanes.

Awards and reputation
His awards include the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing Charles Guiteau in Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Sam Mendes in 1993, and the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn in 2000. He has also been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1998 for Chicago, London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (The Merchant of Venice), and Theatre Awards UK for Best Performance in a Play in 2012 (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui).

In his autobiography, Antony Sher says Goodman's Shylock is "quite simply the best". He reprised his role for a television film which was released in 2004.

Personal life
Goodman is Jewish. He has five siblings. He is married to Sue Parker, a choreographer and dance director.

Television

 * The Golden Bowl
 * Bust
 * This is David Lander
 * London's Burning
 * Three Up, Two Down
 * Gentlemen and Players
 * Rules of Engagement
 * After the War
 * Act of Will
 * Capital City
 * Screen Two
 * El C.I.D.
 * Chain
 * The Bill
 * The Gravy Train Goes East (1991)
 * Maigret
 * Zorro
 * Lovejoy
 * Rides
 * 99-1
 * Performance, BBC — Measure for Measure, 1994
 * Smith & Jones
 * Cold Lazarus  (1996)
 * American Voices
 * Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
 * Masterpiece Theatre — Broken Glass, TV film, 1996
 * Dalziel and Pascoe
 * Arabian Nights (2000) – Sultan Billah
 * Spooks, (2002, "The Lesser of Two Evils")
 * Trust
 * Foyle's War (2003)
 * Keen Eddie, (2004, Rabbi Mendelssohn, "Who Wants to Be in a Club That Would Have Me as a Member?", Episode 11)
 * M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team
 * Murder in Suburbia , "The Wedding", Series 2 – Episode 3
 * Mumbai Calling, (2007, Pilot)
 * Falcon
 * Yes, Prime Minister, (2010) 6 episodes
 * Midsomer Murders , (2013)
 * New Tricks, (2013, "Cry Me a River", Series 10, Episode 5)
 * Playhouse Presents , Nixon's the One, (2014)
 * Penny Dreadful, (2014, "Grand Guignol")
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Dr. List
 * Snatch – Saul Gold
 * The Reckoning - Sir Ludwig Guttman

Film
Sources: Rotten Tomatoes TCM AllMovie

 * Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
 * Secret Weapon
 * Son of the Pink Panther
 * Degas and Pissarro Fall Out
 * Mary Reilly
 * Private Parts
 * The Saint
 * Notting Hill
 * Arabian Nights
 * Dirty Tricks
 * The Final Curtain
 * Hamilton Mattress
 * The Mayor of Casterbridge
 * The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
 * Churchill: The Hollywood Years
 * Green Street
 * Shakespeare's Happy Endings
 * Colour Me Kubrick: A True...Ish Story
 * Out on a Limb
 * The Damned United
 * Taking Woodstock
 * The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
 * The Road to Coronation Street
 * Codebreaker
 * The Half-Light
 * Wonder
 * The Challenger Disaster
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dr. List
 * Woman in Gold
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron – Dr. List
 * De Surprise
 * Altamira
 * Love is Thicker Than Water
 * El Elegido
 * Their Finest (2016)
 * The Limehouse Golem (2016)
 * Two Words (2018)
 * Sundown (2021)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. Gamaliel 03:08, 8 June 2005

Wiktionary
Vanity. Delete. Ketsuban (is 1337) 23:35, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not vanity. Bogus nomination. Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.   — Gwalla | Talk 23:57, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * How is it not vanity? Ketsuban (is 1337) 00:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. -- BD2412 talk 00:27, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Keep the wikicruft. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. Same user as Votes for deletion/Godzilla. Deliberate disruption. --Tabor 01:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable online dictionary. Capitalistroadster 02:02, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a sister project of Wikipedia is a sister project. --Chill Pill Bill 02:13, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And vanity is vanity. Would there be an article on Wiktionary if it weren't a sister project of Wikipedia? Of course not. Ketsuban (is 1337) 02:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep of course. Antandrus  (talk)  02:16, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Do you really think it's appropriate to waste everyone's time to prove a point?  Go gripe on irc or the pump. Gamaliel 03:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Wikinick~enwiki

This is where you talk about me. Fantastic.

Welcome!!
Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Pufferfish101 04:31, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Religious?
Religion?

Chriskelvie 05:20, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

What about it?
wikinick 06:49, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

What Religion?
Chriskelvie 23:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

¿Qué piensas tú?
¿Nada nada limonada? wikinick 10:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Confused
I've never heard of the verb penser. Are you sure you don't mean pensar?

Uh... yeah... ehe...
Of course I mean pensar. I was just guessing, you know. By the way, I figured out what you meant by the religion stuff. I don't actually check my own userpage that often, you know, and it turns out that a wikipedia bot went by and changed my "Flying Spaghetti Mosterism Believer" userbox into a standard "religious user" box. I'll have to fix that... Oh, and thank you for the charming comment...  "It has been said Wikipedia is simply a mirror of my brain". If so, then my brain includes: That list was made simply by clicking the random article button about twenty times – interesting, eh? Warbonnets, porn stars, Joseph Ratzinger, Australian highways, Godzilla, Christian conservatives, and physics. Imagine being my therapist.... bwa ha ha. (Actually, it's pretty cool that I got physics – probably the most "normal" article I've gotten using the random button).
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 * wikinick 10:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Everything
Thanks for the edits on my userpage. I've been putting off commenting on your userpage till I could come up with something clever, but I'm not feeling particularly creative today.

On a completely different note, would you be interested in making a Wikipedia bot? I'm not talking about writing the code and such, but simply using another person's scripts and modifying them for our own uses.

Chriskelvie 02:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Bwa Ha Ha
We can make one which will search all of wikipedia for places where "less" is used instead of "fewer" and bring salvation to all those damned to misgrammatical hell!

On a saner note, yeah, that sounds interesting. Will we actually do anything with it, or will it end up like the Hillview wikipedia article?

wikinick 03:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have two ears
Hmmm! It might go somewhere, it might not. It'll be a learning experience, I suppose!

I like your new user page. Always remember, "He who controls the past controls the future." Now to go edit all the pages regarding the new Emperor of the World, Chris Kelvie...

Image copyright problem with Image:Hillview_satellite.jpg
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Your report on WP:RFI/201.143.x
Rotating IP addresses are a pain, as it is hard to block them (blocking an individual IP doesn't work as it will change, blocking an IP range is only done with great caution because due to the risk of collateral damage). You could put up a request on WP:RFPP for article semi-protection, which will stop IP's editing that article. However as the editing seems to be quite slow, it might be better just to watch the article and revert when needed. To help people watching the article could you please add the sources you quote on the talk page to the main article? (see WP:CITE). Any questions feel free to get back to me on my talk page. Cheers, Petros471 11:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Julieta Venegas
Thanks for contacting me about the Julieta Venegas article. There was no haste, it appeared to be an unofficial link which was why it was removed (and the other edits were not). If it is agreed that this link, even though unofficial, is reliable and helpful to the article, then there is no reason not to have it, but that is more often not the case. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 15:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 06:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Wikinick. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Wikinick~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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Sean Brown (ice hockey)

Sean P. R. Brown (born November 5, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career
Brown was drafted late in the first round, 21st overall, in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins following a successful career in the Ontario Hockey League as a defenceman with the Belleville Bulls and the Sarnia Sting. Less than a year later, he was dealt, along with Mariusz Czerkawski and a first-round draft choice to the Edmonton Oilers for Bill Ranford. Brown played parts of six seasons for the Oilers.

In March 2002, Brown was dealt back to Boston to provide defensive depth for a playoff run that never materialized. Going the other way in the trade was marginal defensive prospect Bobby Allen. After one more season with the Bruins, he was signed as an unrestricted free agent by the New Jersey Devils, and he has played for them and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Albany River Rats.

On March 9, 2006, Brown was dealt by the Devils to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick. He featured in 12 games with the Canucks to conclude his NHL career.

He signed a contract with the Düsseldorf Metro Stars of the DEL on July 27, 2006. In summer 2007, the Nurnberg Ice Tigers, also of the DEL German League, signed Brown away from the Metro Stars. In March 2008, Brown was signed by EC KAC of the Austrian Hockey League.

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Rafael of Makuria

Rafael (Old Nubian: Ⲣⲁⲫⲁⲏⲗ, Raphael; c. 1002) was a ruler of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria.

Reign
Contemporary writers, such as Abu al-Makarim in a work attributed to Abu Salih the Armenian, record that he constructed a palace with several domes built of red brick in the capital city, Old Dongola, around 1002, which excavations have yet to identify.

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