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User talk:Zyzzy

Snowball_Earth
You did this: but left no justification for removing the liquid-at-tropics. Could you justify it please? William M. Connolley 08:46, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC).

ps: your talk page redirects to your user page. I assume this is a mistake, and I've undone it. If it wasn't, apologies.

 * WishI could figure out some of the Wiki-communication. I pulled the sentece and depersonalized the idea a bit because I think we should introduce the concept in the first paragraph. I don't mind the liquid water comment, bt it doesn't really belong in the first paragraph.  -Bob

 * OK, I'll take another look. I've taken the liberty of reformatting your answer - its usual to indent (one or more colons) in "conversation". And you can sign your words with four tildas: like this: ~ (skip the nowiki tags when you do it, of course). Oh, and Welcome to Wikipedia. If you have any other questions about wikiworks, put them here or on my talk page and I'll try to answer William M. Connolley 16:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC).

Re: Image:AFAR-MODIS.jpg
Please remember to include the source information, copyright tag, etc. when uploading images to Wikipedia. Thanks! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Arabian-Nubian Shield
I've been watching you unfold this outstanding page, with increasing pleasure. Will you give some explanation of the granite formation labelled "Typical exposures of granite in the southern Arabian Shield. Courtesy Peter Johnson" —which actually seems quite astonishing! All one piece, an eroded extrusion?--Wetman 00:14, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Wetman, your compliments are much appreciated. I'll add a few comments about the beautiful granite exposure. I'm in dallas, where are you? -Zyzzy

 * Hah! That's it exactly! (I'm a New Yorker born and bred.) I hope my edits in paleogeography, etc, which you'll find here and there, aren't too irritatingly amateurish. Sharpen them anywhere you see misleading waffle. Once you've finished Arabian-Nubian Shield without being distracted, I wish you'd go through it again, after a rest, and briefly identify some of the purely technical vocabulary—appositives and dashes help— for the well-meaning amateur. The best Wikipedia articles are complete in themselves, without a reader having to pursue hyperlinks to follow the meaning. The trick is, to explain without breaking the flow. --Wetman 02:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WM; I'm hoping to attract other flies to my pile, so it will let it steep for a while. If there is no triage then I will jump back in. I do appreciate your advice, I am mostly writing about what I know and an audience, er...another perspective, is useful. Did you take that amazing Cholula photograph of pyramid and church? Wow. You know, Johnson's granite and your pyrachurch would make a stunning pair Zyzzy

Welcome!
I see that no one has welcomed you officially yet, so... welcome, Zyzzy, and thank you for your high quality contributions! Here are a few good links for newcomers (although your editing shows that you must have come across some of them already): I hope you continue to enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes like this: ~~~~. It produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! — mark ✎ 11:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks Mark, I am enjoying being a Wikiholic and meeting new friends. Zyzzy 11:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy
 * Your maps and images are superb, and it's great to have an expert contributing. By the way, I gather that you created Image:AfarGEOLOGY.jpg yourself; you might want to tag it accordingly by adding something like GFDL-self on the image page (if you want to release it under the GFDL license, that is).
 * I, for one, release my maps and images under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license (cc-by-2.0). In any case, make sure they get a copyright tag, otherwise the 'image police' will eventually come along and your images would run the risk of getting deleted. — mark ✎ 11:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * See Image:African language families.png for an example of how I tag my images. — mark ✎ 11:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'll try to figureout the damn tag thhingsometime. 01:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy
 * It's pretty easy really. Pick a license (I can recommend the one I mentioned above) and add a tag, that's about it. All you have to do is typing . Adding some source info on the image description page is also a good thing to do, since in general it is Wikipedia practice to attribute images on their description pages, not in articles.I've added the cc-by-2.0 copyright as an example at Image:AfarGEOLOGY.jpg.  Regards, — mark ✎ 20:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Turin papyrus
In case you were wondering why Turin papyrus is attracting so many editors — it's been featured in the 'Did you know' section of the Main Page. Cheers, — mark ✎ 01:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cool! I have a couple of jpegs to add when I get to work Monday. I got these and the text from james harrell at U. Toledo, who knows more about Pharonic and Roman use of stones and mining in Egypt than anyone else in the world. Zyzzy 02:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)Bob

Watchlist
Hi Zyzzy. Yesterday, a bug surfaced in the new Mediawiki 1.5 software which caused the watchlist functionality to stop working for a few hours. It's been fixed now, as far as I know (my watchlist is working again). More information about the problem can be found here. The bug report over at Mediazilla can be found here.

Text appears in a 'typewriter' font and in a dashed box when you put a few spaces in front of the line. (This is actually a feature of Wikipedia; see Help:Editing.) If you want to have an indentation, you can use colons, one for each level.
 * just
 * like
 * this (edit to see the code)

Hope this helps! Kind regards, — mark ✎ 2 July 2005 20:06 (UTC)

Image:Icdp themes.jpg
License, source, anything? --Saperaud 01:58, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't have anything more than what is listed with the figure. Zyzzy 12:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy

Image Tagging Image:Ophiolite1.jpg
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And Image:Ophiolite2.jpg and Image:Oroville1.jpg Thanks. Secretlondon

Help! I mde the ophiolite image! But I don't know how to add gfdl can you do this for me? also Orville1.jpg! Help! Zyzzy

Image:Trench.jpg
Please add some license or the image has to be deleted. --Saperaud 13:13, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, I made it myself but I don't know how to add the right tag. - zyzzy

Cape Mendocino
I added a brief article on the triple junction of Cape Mendocino, which I hope you'll look over and re-edit, if it requires it. --Wetman 07:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

OK Wetman, I went over it - hope it's OK. - Zyzzy

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Talk:List of male mixed martial artists

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this list is totally unruly as well as being alphabetized by first name ... it hardly seems worth it to rearrange it. it would be nice as a category except many/most of these fighters dont have pages. it isnt linked from much of anywhere important -- some pages of fighters, and the main MMA article. i am having trouble imagining how this list would be useful to someone -- even if you are trying to find a specific fighter but dont know his name, it wont necessarily help as it is far from complete and quite difficult to keep up to date.

thoughts? Burgher 12:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Standards?
I have serious reservations about this article - what are the standards for inclusion here? Frankly, there's not way we can verify virtually any of these people. Can anyone help me out here? --Haemo 11:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

There are several ways to check MMA credentials. The easiest is probably to go to www.sherdog.com and type the person's name into the fightfinder on the upper left hand corner - all major sanctioned professional fights outside of the former USSR areas are recorded on Sherdog and they are doing their best to catch up on the Eastern European stuff. The standard here seems to just be having fought in a sanctioned professional fight in MMA and being a male. Of course, this list is eventually going to end up huge and will need to be reorganized but for the time being, I don't seen anything wrong with it. (RookZERO 04:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC))

As far as standards go I would suggest a basic requirement of somewhere between 10-15 fights and/or a period of 2-3 years as a professional minimum. Beyond that the fighter should have participated in a major organization, you can see the List of current mixed martial arts champions page that I have been overseeing lately, and it's talk section for a list of what could qualify an organization as major. This would tighten this list up a little at least to only busy fighters who are fighting at a reasonably high level. Without guidelines like that this article is close to useless.Thaddeus Venture (talk) 19:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've begun a cleanup effort, albeit it's going to go slowly, of course. I'm adding refs to all the red-links (the blue links should be sourced already within their respective articles) and am filtering out those not in Sherdog and those with unnotable records--ie, only fought in unheard of small shows. hateless 07:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Obviously I did a lot of cleaning up through the summer... I removed loads of non-notable fighters, cited some, added some, and to help show notability I added notable organizations they have fought for. I'm going to continue keeping an eye on the list to keep it clean. Thesaddestday 09:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Sherdog.com?
Why is Sherdog.com the only citation used here? And why is it used so much? As many google ads as that site has, I am sure they appreciate all the accidental clicks, but this is kinda spammy. Pharmboy (talk) 03:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Look out
there's a lot of wannabes adding their names to the list because they think they're hot stuff!173.29.148.123 (talk) 05:05, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Hitler..?
So apparently Adolf is a male mixed martial artist :D Someone needs to clean up this article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.30.86 (talk) 15:48, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That was vandalism. Along with a lot of other names (Ima Faggot for example). I redid it to a version where i didn't see any.

Unmaintainable list?
We currently have 1708 names in the list (almost half, 817, are from the USA), and no criteria for deciding who can be added or removed.

I doubt the quality of this list, as well as its usefulness. We have categories that provide most or all of this info. Great floors (talk) 23:47, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

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Blackout (Dropkick Murphys album)

Blackout is the fourth studio album by Dropkick Murphys, released in 2003. A music video for "Walk Away", the album's first official single, was also released. The song went on to become a minor radio hit and received some minor airplay on MTV. "Fields of Athenry" was also released as a single. The album was released with a DVD, which contained live videos for "Rocky Road to Dublin" and "Boys on the Docks", a music video for "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight", and a trailer for their then upcoming untitled full-length DVD, which became On the Road With the Dropkick Murphys and was released the following year in March 2004.

History
"The Dirty Glass" was originally featured on the 2002 split Face to Face vs. Dropkick Murphys and re-recorded for the album with the band's then merchandise seller, Stephanie Dougherty, who shared vocals with Ken Casey and also appeared on the album's final track, "Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced". The track "Time to Go", a homage to the Boston Bruins, was released as a promotional CD for the Bruins and also featured in Tony Hawk's Underground and NHL 2005. The track "This Is Your Life" was featured in the 2003 video game Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home.

The song "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight", with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, was composed when Nora Guthrie's son, a fan of the Dropkick Murphys, approached his mother about letting the band use some of Woody's lyrics. Bass guitarist Ken Casey was familiar with the Mermaid Avenue albums by Billy Bragg and Wilco that had also used lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, and had enjoyed those works. The band decided to make the Woody Guthrie track the "hardest song on the record" in order to make it as different as possible from the folk music that Woody Guthrie sang.

In 2005, the band released a two-song CD single for the family of Andrew K. Farrar, Jr., a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps who was killed on January 28, 2005 in Al Anbar, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Farrar, who was a big fan of the Murphys, made a request to his family that if he did not survive his tour of duty, he wanted their version of "The Fields of Athenry" to be played at his funeral. The single features a slower version of "The Fields of Athenry" that was originally recorded and placed in Farrar's casket, although the band decided to release the alternate version. The disc also features the track "Last Letter Home," which was written about Farrar and was featured on the Murphys' 2005 album The Warrior's Code. All of the proceeds for the $10 single go to the Sgt. Andrew Farrar Memorial Fund and can be purchased through the band's website or at one of their shows.

The song "Buried Alive" deals with the Quecreek Mine Rescue which occurred in July 2002, describing the plight nine Pennsylvania coal miners faced while trapped underground for four days.

Reception
Allmusic gave Blackout a score of four stars out of five, saying that the album was the band's "tightest material to date" and that it combined the "intensity" of earlier albums with "a bit more polish." PopMatters praised the album by saying "What makes the album work is the band realizing that no song should be filler on a record." They also compared “World Full of Hate” (which they called the highlight of the record) to Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and called "Dirty Glass" a 'modern day' "Fairytale of New York." Punknews.org's review commented on the band's more stripped-down sound on this record: "On their latest effort the band have dropped most of the Irish instruments and arrangements from their sound and focused more on a punk sound with a folksy edge to it." It also pointed out the band's lyrical maturity. "The songwriting also seems more mature than before and the lyrics have matured to deal with a variety of topics including the plight of the working class, changes in life, life’s failures, and the loss of loved ones," they noted.

Track listing
All songs by Dropkick Murphys unless otherwise noted.
 * 1) "Walk Away" – 2:51
 * 2) "Worker's Song" (Ed Pickford) – 3:32
 * 3) "The Outcast" – 3:10
 * 4) "Black Velvet Band" (Traditional, arranged by Dropkick Murphys) – 3:03
 * 5) "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" (Woody Guthrie, arranged by Dropkick Murphys) – 2:39
 * 6) "World Full of Hate" – 2:22
 * 7) "Buried Alive" – 1:57
 * 8) "The Dirty Glass" – 3:38
 * 9) "Fields of Athenry" (Pete St. John) – 4:24
 * 10) "Bastards on Parade" – 3:50
 * 11) "As One" – 3:01
 * 12) "This Is Your Life" – 3:43
 * 13) "Time to Go" – 2:53
 * 14) "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced" – 5:34

10" and 7" track listing
All songs by Dropkick Murphys unless otherwise noted

"Blackout 10" (Limited to 6,000 copies. First 250 released online and autographed by the band)"

Side A Side B
 * 1) "Walk Away" – 2:51
 * 2) "Buried Alive" – 1:57
 * 3) "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" (Woody Guthrie, Dropkick Murphys) – 2:39
 * 1) "Fields of Athenry" (Pete St. John) – 4:24
 * 2) "Bastards on Parade" – 3:50
 * 3) "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" (Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott) – 4:43

"The Fields Of Athenry 7" (Limited to 2,000 copies)"

 * 1) "The Fields of Athenry"
 * 2) "I'm Shipping up to Boston"
 * 3) "If I Were a Carpenter (Live)"

CD singles
"Walk Away (European release only)"

 * 1) "Walk Away"
 * 2) "We Got the Power"
 * 3) "Victory"

"The Fields of Athenry (Limited to 600 copies)"

 * 1) "The Fields of Athenry"
 * 2) "I'm Shipping up to Boston"
 * 3) "If I Were a Carpenter (Live)"

"The Fields of Athenry Promo (Given away at Soccer match in Glasgow, Scotland)"

 * 1) "The Fields of Athenry"
 * 2) "Buried Alive"

"Time to Go (Limited to 12,000 copies - released at Boston Bruins game)"

 * 1) "Time to Go"
 * 2) "The Dirty Glass"

Dropkick Murphys

 * Al Barr – vocals
 * Ken Casey – bass guitar, vocals
 * Matt Kelly – drums, bodhrán, vocals
 * James Lynch – guitar, vocals
 * Marc Orrell – guitar, accordion, vocals

Additional personnel

 * Joe Delaney – bagpipes
 * Stephanie Dougherty – vocals on "The Dirty Glass" and background vocals on "Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced"
 * Jim Siegel – engineer

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Talk:Selsey

Is there a Cathedral out at sea or is this urban legend? I know the Cathedral used to be at Norton in the 11th Century, but have not heard any fact surrounding the sea based cathedral, any ideas?

 * There's been significant sea level change in the English channel, and/or erosion, over the last 2000 years. They found a chapel off the south coast of Hayling Island (underwater) recently, and looked through the medieval documents; discovered it as listed as being in the middle of the island. Also, Julius Caesar wrote about his invasions, and specifically mentions that his soldiers could wade across the Solent to the Isle of Wight (try that today!). I don't think there's been much investigative archaeology off Selsey (digging underwater is hard work) but I encountered some references to the settlement being lost a couple of years back. Its mostly inferred from a fair amount of documentary evidence, I think, with the geography supporting it.

Norton (The Mount; Pagham Harbour) is listed as "Earthwork remains of an C11 ringwork castle; traces of possible Iron Age occupation were found; Neolithic scrapers and other worked flints were found during excavations. Roman tile and pottery may indicate the site of a villa. Had been identified as an Elizabethan battery. Excavated in 1911, 1965 and 1980."

Graldensblud 23:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Inundation
Your article refers to inundation and also speaks of erosion. Apparently there are underwater ruins, too? It would be nice if you would tell us the story! I got here through the article on Ys that mentions the fact that many of the lands around the English Channel have been inundated, so I am looking for info on that. Was it flooded, or eroded? When did this happen? What do the underwater ruins, if any, consist of?

Amity150 06:16, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't have specifics, but i read not long ago of an early mediaeval church being found off the south coast of hayling island, where the only documentary reference to a church in such a position was to it standing in the middle of the island. This was claimed at the time i read it to be representative of the sort of sea level change we know has to have occurred re the wading across the solent the romans undertook. 82.10.108.49 (talk) 10:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Southern Britain is still slowly sinking after being lifted during the last ice age, in response to northern Britain being pressed down by the huge weight of ice on the north. I forget how fast, maybe half a centimetre per year, but significant over two thousand years. Some alleged buildings in the sea have been shown to be natural rock outcrops, and wave action is likely to have destroyed anything that had not allready been salvaged by the locals.--Charles (talk) 11:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

They are currently pioneering some interesting technology for seabed scanning at Dunwich, one to watch I suspect. 82.10.108.49 (talk) 20:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Manhood School
Manhood is now the only secondary school in West Sussex without an article. I am about to create a stub article, but it really will be that as I can find little evidence of the school's history online. Anyone with local knowledge, and access to local sources might be able to improve the article considerably, hopefully. Tafkam (talk) 23:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The stub article now exists at Manhood Community College. Tafkam (talk) 04:14, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Wave sculpture
''controversial ... has irked local residents on account of its cost, content (see reference) and artistic representation. In particular, a smaller wave can be seen apparently travelling in the opposite direction to the main wave, which is not likely to happen in reality and is a feature not present in the original print. ''
 * Citation for residents plural being irked, and for this analysis of the work? The cited newspaper article says "one Selsey resident, John Napper" criticised it. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 09:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Bunn Leisure
It seems madness that there is an article about Selsey which doesn't even mention the massive holiday camp which must take up 1/4 of the land area. Could anyone add something referenced? 81.103.233.194 (talk) 02:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

There's not much on modern Selsey in the article really. As well as Bunns,could do with something on Langmeads, the high street conservation area coastal erosion etc. Wilfridselsey (talk) 09:33, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * A quick look at a map suggests less then 5% of the area SovalValtos (talk) 17:03, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Quite Good
I would now say that this is a "quite good" article, and have moved up the rating to B Class. A little more work, such as expanding the lead and addressing a few of the above points, and it might stand a good chance at GA. Good luck. Rob (talk) 19:14, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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Climate Edit War
I am not totally sure who is right or wrong but we need a concensus here. It isn't going to happen in one line edit descriptions. A revision with it in is here. I have currently removed it. This does not mean I am for or against it, I might be marginally in favour but I'd like to see the arguments for and against. I think everyone is trying to act in good faith. I see how discussion is going in a couple of days time Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC) Adding a few notes: Overviewing these points I conclude on balance the climate data should not be included for Selsey but I am open to other arguments. Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This article is under WikiProject UK geography (amongst others) with WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements relevant
 * A list of (current) weather stations here []. The nearest to Selsey is Bognor.  Guidence seems to be to use Template:Climate chart (however use of Template:Weather box seems quite prevalent.
 * From a quick glance round the practice for local coastal resorts without a weather stations does appear to be not to published climate tables. Worthing is a similar 'B-Class' article with an approach similar to that for Selsey (without the climate table).
 * The climate data will usually be available at the next regional level up (usually county), in this case West Sussex, though Hampshire takes a different (possible better) approach showing a spread of results from weather stations. Interestingly the 'See also' goes to the UK climate article skipping the county section article.
 * The case for the climate tables are that visitors intending to Holiday to Selsey and checking Wikipedia might be interested in the climate data
 * I believe the climate table contributor would indicate the data is properly sourced on the basis of the 5km grid data published from the Met Office. I have only a hazy understanding of how this works but is apparently interpolates between weather stations and is supplemented by other sources and they are fairly confident most spurious readings have been eliminated.
 * My though is longer term not automated manual maintenance of such climate tables is probably unsustainable.

 * I my experiance consensus is that covering climate is best done at county level. Unless there is an official weather station in the settlement the data is going to be extrapolated and not verifiable in such fine detail. Local factors can not be factored in with certainty. Such a mass of detail is probably undue for an encyclopedia article on a settlement. If we use anything I would favour the climate chart because it conveys sufficient information for the average reader in an easily digestible form.
 * There is also the question of original research as the data is copied from a primary source database, and one that requires login.
 * As to informing visitors Wikipedia is not a travel guide. We have Wikivoyage for that function, and that can be linked to. In this country the weather we actually get has little relation to averages anyway.Charles (talk) 10:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The main climate points about Selsey is that it is in the sunniest part of the UK and in a tornado hotspot ('The Isle of Wight and South Coast Anomaly'), the article now provides that information. The citations include links to quite comprehensive Met office  climate tables for Selsey. The weather detail on the West Sussex page is quite limited, hence the See Also to the UK Climate page.  I think the section now works with or without the climate tables. But as you say, the problem with climate tables is that they have to be manually updated. Wilfridselsey (talk) 10:27, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The current version without a weather box seems to be going in the right direction by using text and cited sources. One advantage of Wikipedia is the ease of linking information. Just because the Met Office do a synthesis of data does not mean we need to use it in all settlements a few miles apart giving it undue weight. Wikilink(s) to the appropriate regional level or nearest weather station site article would hit the mark. Introducing material with an unsustainable maintenance requirement does not seem a good idea. Incidently would it not be better to have the climate content as part of a Geography section?SovalValtos (talk) 11:13, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

I am open to having a discussion about the weather box. What I do not agree is that the weather box must not be included until we reach a consensus. I added the data back in the Autumn and added the record highs and lows in the following months, until recently all of that data has gone unchallenged. Soon as the weather box was there before this dispute had begun, then arguably it should remain in place until we reach a consensus. The primary reason I added the weather box was because Selsey is located in the sunniest grid square of the UK according to the Met Office. So because of this, a climate chart will not do as it does not display the sunshine hours. Selsey does not have significantly different weather to most other parts of the UK with the exception of its sunshine totals.

I also do not agree that weather boxes bear little resemblance to the actual weather conditions. Most likely this is used as a cover up to claim things like there are more sunny days in the winter or the south coast of England is not sunny in the summer, both of which are undisputedly false.10 December 2017 (talk) 16:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Given content arguments so far I'd recommend removal of weather box and move climate section to subsection of geography. I am personnally not undoing that last edit (821130566) at the moment to avoid warring.Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

 * I am beginning to think concensus is unlikely to be reached. And there have been no updates in 24 hour to that revert re-inserting climate data with a weatherbox the which is not in my opinion consistent with WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.   Unless someone feels confident to back the weatherbox out we will need to go to Dispute resolution / WP:Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests which gives a number of directions and I would appreciate comments on which way to go.  19:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Being involved through my revert 11 januari 2018, after which I double checked the sources, and actually didnt find anyhting supporting the mentioned weather box. I therefore agree with, that a removal of weather box and move climate section to subsection of geography. I would therefore back the weatherbox out, but still think that its a good idea, to bring the issue to Dispute resolution, in order to support later, similair actions of removing claims which are not really supported by relevant sources. Dan Koehl (talk) 11:01, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Please be aware I have raised this issue at Dispute_resolution_noticeboard. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 14:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Responding to comment by charlesdrakew: ''If Selsey is outstandingly sunny that can be stated in prose with a suitable source. It does not justify including a mass of detailed data not even specific to the settlement'' As I said before, the data is specific to the settlement--10 December 2017 (talk) 21:45, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

 * The permanent link to the discussion is at WP:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Archive_160 whereupon resolvement was reached on to form of the climate section for Selsey.Djm-leighpark (talk) 13:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Licensing and attribution of datasets from Met Office
Possible license breach in publishing 5km data (UKCP09 gridded observation datasets) : Believe applicable license is http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. see https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/data/ukcp09, http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a & Citable as: ''Met Office; Hollis, D.; McCarthy, M. (2017): UKCP09: Met Office gridded and regional land surface climate observation datasets. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. 'http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/'UUID''. I may have this wrong but believe there may currently be a possible license breach.Djm-leighpark (talk) 07:28, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

It says you are free to: copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. I did check before I made the weather box--10 December 2017 (talk) 16:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 * My reading of the public references above indicate you are free to do that providing you attribute in the prescribed manner (and perhaps link back to the open government license?). However the Met office site seems a little messy and ambiguous and you may have been able to get to the data without going through that license condition.  Also you may have downloaded from the Met office site whereas the pages I an reviewing indicates it was migrated to CEDA.  (I have logins to neither).  So overall quite confusing.  But license conditions are important so I have brought this up.  I have put this in a different section as it is a separate issue.Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:02, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Comment: It appears to be Template:OGL-attribution is useful if it proves necessary to refer back to OGL, and I personally would use it if downloading from here: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/87f43af9d02e42f483351d79b3d6162a ... however your download road may have been different.

 * @User:10 December 2017 I have considered this some more. It appears you seem to be saying you are using this under the Open Government Licence (OGL)  probably version 3 but possibly version 2.  It is important to know which is/was applicable for your download .  This is a Copyleft license.  If this is the case the OGL states "You must, where you do any of the above:

acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;". - I must also apologise as something personal has come up for me that I need to attend to with some urgency and I don't have this in as friendly manner as I like. Djm-leighpark (talk) 10:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * My understanding is it is possible to provide a link to an OGL license via use of the Template:OGL-attribution and failure to do so is a breach of the OGL license.
 * I cannot seem to get a login from the Met Office website but only to the CEDA website where the attribution used is very explicit. However you may have a login to the Met Office website and have directly downloaded from there in which case the current attribution is sufficient (Your source seems to imply this).
 * I can't wrap/add the OGL-template myself because I do not at this time have sufficient certainty it was used and at which version (2/3). However I will remove the data in 48 hours as I reasonably feel there is a license breach unless we make progress in discussions here.  (I'd dont want to remove it and am hoping OGL-template can be used but I will as licensing is critical for Wikipedia).

NB: I have experimented with the OGL-Citation template at User:Djm-leighpark/sandbox7 (may be volitite) ... this will subjected to change and page may be deleted in due course.Djm-leighpark (talk) 19:34, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

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Ad?
Is this no more than an advertisement? Ted Wilkes 07:33, 13 June 2005
 * not really, this is pretty factual —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.77.219.113 (talk • contribs)
 * Yes, the tone is as if the resort did all the writing and it's not even up-to-date at this point. Someone says it "is pretty factual" and that's not untrue, but one can plainly see valid criticisms have been left out. At best the article is not objective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4998:EF60:1B:0:0:0:1093 (talk) 20:42, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Bear Vally Schools
From the Main Article: "The town of Bear Valley is one of the few towns in California to have what is effectively a one room school house. It is a K-8 public school whose largest student body on record was 36 students, in 1976."

Couldn't find the name of the school or verify its size. Only listed public schools in Caleveras County with fewer than 36 students are high schools. No record of any K-8 schools of any size. Maybe it's not listed because of its size? Anyone know the name of this school? Vary 05:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I will verify size and name next time I drive up. But it's true... one building (perhaps more than one room) houses K-12. [Tony, 11 Nov 2005]

Bear Valley is in Alpine County. Here is a reference to a total school population of 14 students. http://ca.localschooldirectory.com/schools_info.php/school_id/5636 there are some lessons that are from age 4. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.188.96 (talk) 10:31, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

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Spellbinder (DC Comics)

The Spellbinder is the name of four fictional supervillains who appear in comic books published by DC Comics. Versions of the character have appeared on the animated series Batman Beyond and The Batman.

Delbert Billings
Spellbinder (Delbert Billings) first appeared in Detective Comics #358 (December 1966), and was created by John Broome and Sheldon Moldoff. He was a painter who used optical illusions and hypnotic weapons to commit crimes.

Delbert was a forger of pop art who decided to put his talents to use as a supervillain. He created the Spellbinder identity, designed hypnotic weapons, and assembled a team of henchmen. He ran into Batman during his first robbery, but hypnotized the crimefighter into believing he was involved in an entirely different situation, as his gang made their getaway. This ploy worked twice, but on his third robbery, Batman was able to overcome it and send him to jail.

After leaving prison, the Spellbinder faced off with Superman in Superman #330 (1978). Using a miniature turntable, he was able to create sonic blasts that would make targets more susceptible to his hypnotic suggestions. The addition of a shock absorbing chin-guard to his helmet protected him from being knocked out by Superman, and special lenses protected him from hypnosis by the Man of Steel. He was finally defeated when his own sonic blasts were echoed back on him (rendering him unconscious). This issue also revealed how Superman uses sub-conscious hypnosis (heightened by the Kryptonian lenses in his glasses) to successfully disguise himself as Clark Kent.

The Spellbinder joined a loosely knit conglomerate of crime organized by the Monarch of Menace. He was the first member of the group to be captured by Batman, who later disguised himself as the Spellbinder to infiltrate the group and capture the Monarch.

Later, the Spellbinder was on the run from the law with his new girlfriend, Fay Moffit, when he was confronted by the demon-lord Neron. Neron offered power in exchange for the Spellbinder's soul, but he rejected it. Fay, however, thought it sounded like a great idea, so she killed the Spellbinder by shooting him in the head and took the deal for herself. Neron was not surprised and explained that he had never actually been addressing the Spellbinder with the deal; he had been addressing her all along.

Real name unknown
A second Spellbinder (real name unknown) appeared in Justice League International (vol. 2) #65 (June 1994) as a member of the government-sanctioned "League-Busters".

Fay Moffit
During the Underworld Unleashed crossover event, Delbert Billings (the original Spellbinder) rejected Neron's deal of immense power in exchange for his soul and was shot in the head and killed by his girlfriend, Fay Moffit, who then took the deal for herself and became the third Spellbinder (also known as Lady Spellbinder) as a result.

Neron granted her the ability to induce genuine hallucinations. She was followed by Batman and Robin, but they did not know the scale of her illusion-casting abilities, which extended to making absolutely everything disappear. She escaped from the heroes due to her ability to create a total illusion in her immediate vicinity, which remained even if they closed their eyes. They realized that the only way to be able to approach her safely is if the approach is controlled by someone outside her immediate area of influence. Robin acts as Batman's eyes once the Spellbinder is tracked down by the police, guiding him using a version of virtual reality technology. Once captured, the Spellbinder discovers that her deal with Neron was not all she had hoped — if her eyes are covered or closed, her illusion-casting abilities no longer function.

She subsequently appeared in Birds of Prey, where she created an illusory world in which Barbara Gordon was Batgirl (although she did not realize this had once been true). She had been hired by the Blockbuster to kidnap Barbara. Barbara was able to defeat the Spellbinder when she attacked Moffit with a fire extinguisher (to blind her and prevent her from casting illusions) and a club, and then tied her up and left her for the police.

The Spellbinder returned to Birds of Prey when Black Canary and Catwoman were kidnapped by the rogue Parademon Pharzoof. She was being transported with several other villains when their train was hijacked and taken to Apokolips. The villains battled the Parademons and eventually were returned to Earth, where they were taken to the Slab.

The Spellbinder returned again in the miniseries Joker: Last Laugh. In Birds of Prey #36, she battles the Black Canary, who is trapped inside Slabside Penitentiary along with a host of villains infected by the Joker's Joker venom, making them even more crazed than ever. The Black Canary's sonic cry is able to give most of them pause, but the Joker sends the Copperhead and the Hellgrammite after her, as neither one of them have ears. After dealing with them, she is briefly confronted by the Shadow Thief before meeting, to her great relief, the Batman, Superman, and Mary Marvel. However, the Black Canary soon notices that Marvel's lightning bolt is backwards, and the heroes are revealed to be an illusion created by the Spellbinder, who was the first of the female villains infected by the Joker's Joker venom.

The Spellbinder was apparently killed alongside the Trigger Twins by a group of gun-toting superheroes during Infinite Crisis.

The New 52
A fourth Spellbinder appears in The New 52 under the name of Viktor Mironov. Mironov, as the Spellbinder, was a Russian magician known for his ability to use magic to attack a person's psyche. When John Constantine contacted him to recruit him in a plan to fight the Cult of the Cold Flame, the Spellbinder initially reacted by attacking Constantine and rummaging through his mind. When the Spellbinder discovered that Constantine was sincerer, he agreed to the plan.

However, a spell gone wrong by Papa Midnite sent the entire plan into a shambles. Constantine was sent to the wrong time period to fight the Cult and, not knowing their leader was not there to guide them, the Spellbinder and another mage were killed fighting the Cold Flame.

Infinite Frontier
During Infinite Frontier and after Fear State, a classmate of Barbara Gordon named Charles Dante became Spellbinder.

Powers and abilities
The original Spellbinder used a number of optical and aural devices of his own invention to hypnotize others. His fighting skills were minimal.

The second unnamed Spellbinder had genuine mystical abilities.

The third Spellbinder, also known as Lady Spellbinder, can create realistic illusions that cause real pain to the recipients. However, she is unable to use this ability if she is blinded or otherwise has restricted vision.

Television

 * A futuristic incarnation of Spellbinder appears in Batman Beyond, voiced by Jon Cypher. This version is Ira Billings, the school psychologist of Hamilton High who wears a suit featuring an orange-and-black swirl design and uses a large floating "eyeball" that allows him to project mental illusions via hypnosis and virtual technology. Additionally, he constructs the addictive VR Rooms, which creates the user's greatest fantasy and eventually renders them catatonic the more they use it, for use in his crimes.
 * The unnamed incarnation of Spellbinder appears in The Batman, voiced by Michael Massee. This version has a third eye, which he acquired while meditating in the Far East and gives him the ability to induce hallucinations.

Video games
Spellbinder and Lady Spellbinder appear as character summons in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

Miscellaneous
Spellbinder makes a cameo appearance in Wayne of Gotham, by Tracy Hickman.

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Talk:Eric Burdon

Hendrix' "suicide"
I read a biograsphy of Hendrix and it said that Eric Burdon told a newspaper that Hendrix had intentionally commit suicide, can anyone corroborate this?

In Eric Burdon's biography called "dont let me be misunderstood" i think he wrote about Hendrix being "accidentally" given too many sleeping pills by this parisian girl... He blamed the girl for Hendrix' death, and if im not mistaken the girl was investigated.

No. Hendrix died while sleeping by choking in his own vomit. This was due alcohol plus barbiturates simultaneously. Normally, when a human is sleeping and a vomit (e.g. due alcohol) is coming up, the person awakens. This way the vomit comes out in a controlled way. But sleeping pills prevent the person from waking up. Therefore, if vomit comes up due alcohol or whatever,the breathway clogs and he chokes.

The post-mortem confirmed that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturate. This is a common knowledge, and is reported e.g. in Hendrix' wikipedia article. 188.238.3.211 (talk) 20:56, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

The Eric Burdon Band
The article has a discrepancy on when the group was formed. Is it 1971 or 1973? Senator2029 【talk】 19:27, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Victor
The original BBC iPlayer programme here is no longer available. There is a copy here. Burdon makes the claim at approx. 1:23. Perhaps it's a fiction. Perhaps there is a better source. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:21, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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Arabian-Nubian Shield

The Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) is an exposure of Precambrian crystalline rocks on the flanks of the Red Sea. The crystalline rocks are mostly Neoproterozoic in age. Geographically – and from north to south – the ANS includes parts of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Somalia. The ANS in the north is exposed as part of the Sahara Desert and Arabian Desert, and in the south in the Ethiopian Highlands, Asir province of Arabia and Yemen Highlands.

The ANS was the site of some of man's earliest geologic efforts, principally by the ancient Egyptians to extract gold from the rocks of Egypt and NE Sudan. This was the most easily worked of all metals and does not tarnish. All of the gold deposits in Egypt and northern Sudan were found and exploited by Egyptians. The earliest preserved geologic map was made in 1150 BCE to show the location of gold deposits in Eastern Egypt; it is known as the Turin papyrus. New gold discoveries have been found in Sudan, Eritrea, and Saudi Arabia.

Pharonic Egyptians also quarried granite near Aswan and floated this down the Nile to be used as facing for the pyramids. The Greek name for Aswan, Syene; is the type locality for the igneous rock syenite. The Romans followed this tradition and had many quarries especially in the northern part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt where porphyry and granite were mined and shaped for shipment.

Precious and industrial metals, including gold, silver, copper, zinc, tin, and lead, have been mined in Saudi Arabia for at least 5,000 years. The most productive mine in Saudi Arabia, Mahd adh Dhahab ("Cradle of Gold"), has been periodically exploited for its mineral wealth for hundreds or even thousands of years and is reputed to be the original source of King Solomon's legendary gold. Today, mining at Mahd adh Dhahab is conducted by the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Ma'aden. Deposits of iron, tungsten, mineral sands, copper and phosphates have been found in many locations. Mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan is limited due to a shortage of water and infrastructure.

Development of the Arabian-Nubian Shield
The Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) is the northern half of a great collision zone called the East African Orogeny. This collision zone formed near the end of Neoproterozoic time when East and West Gondwana collided to form the supercontinent Gondwana. The East African orogeny extends southward to the Mozambique Belt, and is a subset of the overall Pan-African orogeny. The assembly of Gondwana coincided with the breakup of Rodinia, closure of the Mozambique Ocean, and growth of the shield at 870 million years ago (Ma). This shield growth extended for the next 300 million years, and included island arc convergence and terrane suturing at 780 Ma, with final assembly by 550 Ma. At this time, the East African Orogen became a passive margin and the southern shore of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.

The shield is divided into crustal blocks or tectonostratigraphic terranes delineated by ophiolite shear zones or sutures. These terranes are paired across the Red Sea, starting from the south, these include Nakfa (870–840 Ma) with Asir (785–720 Ma, 850–790 Ma), Haya (870–790 Ma) with Jiddah (870–760 Ma), Gabgaba (735–700 Ma) and Gebeit (832–810 Ma) with Hijaz (870–807 Ma), and Eastern Desert (810–720 Ma) with Midyan (780–710 Ma). In addition the Halfa (2600–1200 Ma, 750–718 Ma) and Bayuda (806 Ma) terranes are in the western portion of the shield, and the Hulayfah (720 Ma), Ha'il (740 Ma), Afif (750–695 Ma, 840–820 Ma, 1860–1660 Ma), Ad-Dawadimi (695–680 Ma), and Ar-Rayn (667 Ma) terranes in the eastern portion.

Key amalgamation events, starting 780–760 Ma, with the formation of the Tabalah–Tarj Shear Zone, the gneiss Afaf Belt, and the 600 km long and 565 km wide Bi'r Umq and Nakasib Suture (780–760 Ma), an ophiolite-decorated fold-shear zone, between the Jiddah–Haya and Hijaz–Gebeit Terranes. Then between 750 and 660 Ma, the Atmur–Delgo Suture formed as Halfa Terrane ophiolite nappes were thrust onto the Bayuda Terrane. Simultaneously, the Allaqi–Heiani–Sol and Hamed–Onib–Yanbu Suture formed, consisting of nappes and portions of ophiolite along an east-trending shear zone between the Gebeit–Hijaz and Eastern Desert Terrane and Midyan Terranes. Between 680 and 640 Ma, the 600 km long and 5 – wide Hulayfah–Ad-Dafinah–Ruwah Suture formed between the Afif Terrance and terranes to the southwest. Simultaneously, the Halaban Suture formed between the Afif and Ad-Dawadimi Terranes as a nappe of Halaban ophiolite thrust westward. In addition, the Al-Amar Suture, consisting of the Al-Amar Fault zone with ophiolite lenses, between the Ad-Dawadimi and Ar-Rayan Terranes, while the Nabitah Fault Zone formed in Asir Terrane. The final amalgamation event occurred 650–600 Ma, when the Keraf Suture, consisting of ophiolite folded and sheared rocks, formed between the Bayuda–Halfa and GebeitGabgaba Terranes.

Post-amalgamation events include the formation of the Huqf Supergroup (732–540 Ma) in Oman and western Saudi Arabia, which accumulated in basement basins, the first 1100 m of which include glaciomarine deposits with diamictites and dropstones from the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations. Gneiss belts and domes forming in the Late Neoproterozoic include the Kirsh gneiss in the Arabian shield and the Meatiq gneiss dome in the Eastern Desert. Late Neoproterozoic shear zones include the Hamisana Shear Zone (665–610 Ma), the Ar-Rika–Qazaz Shear Zone (640–610 Ma) within the Najd Fault System, and the Oko Shear Zone (700–560 Ma).

A number of features have been ascribed to late stage extensional tectonics including a widespread northeast trending dyke swarm, northeast–southwest trending normal faults and northwest–southeast trending sedimentary basins filled with post-orogenic molasse deposits

Crustal weaknesses before 500 Ma influenced continental rifting, as the Arabian peninsula moved away from Africa, and the formation of the Red Sea Basin at the start of the Oligocene. By then, some of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks had been eroded, if ever deposited. In fact, the 1200 km wide ANS orogenic belt, has a present-day layered crustal structure, with a uniform Moho depth of 35 –. Post-rift deposition of evaporites occurred until the Pliocene, when a marine environment took over.

Gold deposits in Egypt and Nubian Sudan
As Rosemarie and Dietrich Klemm point out, "...gold deposits exploited in antiquity occur almost exclusively in the Neoproterozoic sequences of the ANS in the Eastern Desert in Egypt and Northern Sudan." The shield in this part of Africa consists of a cratonic African basement or "infrastructure", overlain by a pan-African overthrust "superstructure". The infrastructure consists of migmatite gneiss and gneiss domes such as Gebel Hafafit and Gebel Meatiq. The metamorphism is associated with overthrust tectonics, but bear no relationship to the ancient gold mines. The superstructure consists of an ophiolite-like sequences with island arc volcanics, Hammamat sediments, and post orogenic granites. The ophiolite sequences range in age from 746 to 832 million years (Ma) and are mainly serpentite with elevated gold values of 25 parts per billion. The Hammamat sediments, common in Wadi Hammamat and referred to as "bekhen" stone, consist of greywackes and siltstones, which are slightly enriched in gold. The Hammamat sediments include dike intrusions and the dacite to rhyolite Dokhan volcanics, which formed in the early stages of orogeny at 625–600 Ma. These volcanics include the Roman imperial porphyry quarries. The granite intrusions include two sequences, an older one 709–614 Ma, and a younger sequence at 596–544 Ma, which includes the Aswan granite at 565 Ma. The margin of the includes granodiorite and diorite, and most importantly, auriferous quartz veins. These veins mineralized from hydrothermal flow inside tectonic extensional gaps, or within cavities from shearing. These characteristics were exploited by New Kingdom of Egypt prospectors. This is especially true for ancient gold exploitations oriented in north-northwest–south-southeast shear zones, such as the sites at Hammama, Abu Had North, Wad Atalla el-Mur, Atalla, Umm el Esh Sarga, Fawakhir, El-Sid, Umm Soleimat and Hamuda.

Wadi el-Sid was the chief mining area for the New Kingdom of Egypt, with high gold grades of 30 grams per tonne in the mineralized quartz veins within sheared ophiolite sequences of serpentinite and metabasalt, imbricated with Hammamat sediments, in direct contact with the tonalite margins of the Fawakhir granite pluton. The ophiolite nappe dates from 850 to 770 Ma, while the Fawakhir pluton dates from 574 Ma. These gold-rich veins are oriented according to post-tectonic extension, something the Egyptian prospectors understood.

The well of Umm el-Fawakhir area includes a Large Ptolemaic settlement and round stone mills dating from the Roman or Early Arab Period to the oval stone mills of the New Kingdom. Even fist hammers from the Old/Middle Kingdom are present. Tailings were reworked by the Louison Company from the 1930s until 1956.

Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit external links

 * Hamama VMS deposit in Egypt
 * Bisha VMS deposit in Eritrea
 * Hassai VMS deposit in Northern Sudan
 * Jabal Sayid VMS deposit in Saudi Arabia

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Alan Mullery

Alan Patrick Mullery (born 23 November 1941) is an English former footballer and manager. After enjoying a successful career with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, and the England national team in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a manager working with several clubs. He is now employed as a television pundit. He is also known for being the first ever England player to be sent off in an international match.

Playing career
Mullery was a passing and defensive midfielder for Fulham (1958–1964, 1972–1976), Tottenham Hotspur (1964–1972) and England (1964–1971). He appeared in 364 games for Fulham (scored 37 goals), 312 for Tottenham Hotspur (scored 25 goals), and 35 for England (scored 1 goal).

Mullery was a key player for the Spurs teams that won the FA Cup in 1967, and skippering them to victory in the 1971 Football League Cup Final and the 1972 UEFA Cup Final. In the '72 UEFA Cup Final, his header in the 2nd leg was the decisive goal in a 3–2 aggregate victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Mullery was also in the Fulham team that lost the 1975 FA Cup Final to West Ham United.

Mullery was not included in England's squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup but was selected to play in UEFA Euro 1968. In the game against Yugoslavia, Mullery committed a foul against Dobrivoje Trivić, and became the first England player to be sent off in a full international match. He was an integral member of England's 1970 World Cup squad, playing in all the side's games in what proved a bitterly disappointing campaign. England, the defending champions, lost 3–2 to West Germany in the quarter-finals, having been up 2–0 in the second half. In that game Mullery scored England's first goal, the only time he tallied for his country.

Playing primarily as a deep midfielder, Mullery did not get many goals. Two he did score (the 1970 World Cup strike against West Germany; a 1973–74 volley from outside the penalty area against Leicester City, voted the BBC's goal of the season) are well known and still talked about decades later.

Managerial career
Mullery was Brighton & Hove Albion manager between 1976 and 1981, and took the club from the third tier to the top flight of English football. When Mullery was appointed manager of Brighton's biggest rivals Crystal Palace in 1982, it prompted anger and a short-lived boycott from some of the Palace fans.

Mullery became QPR manager in 1984 and guided the club to a 7–0 aggregate win over KR Reykjavik in the 1st round of the 1984–85 UEFA Cup, but he was then involved in an extraordinary 2nd round UEFA Cup tie against FK Partizan. In the first leg, which was played at Highbury because of UEFA's ban on the artificial plastic pitch at Loftus Road, QPR beat Partizan 6–2, despite being 2–1 behind at one stage and down to ten men after QPR defender Warren Neill was sent off. In the second leg, Partizan won 4–0 in Belgrade to win the tie on away goals. Partizan's victory was only the second time in the history of European competition where a team has overturned a four-goal first-leg deficit.

Mullery's QPR side were also involved in an extraordinary home league match in September 1984 against Newcastle United. At half-time Newcastle were 4–0 up after a hat-trick from Chris Waddle. But QPR came back after the break to draw the match 5–5. Mullery was sacked after six months in charge at Loftus Road just hours after QPR had beaten Stoke. In 1985, Mullery said that his time at QPR "turned me into a monster". He suggested that the players couldn't overcome their disappointment that Terry Venables had left the club. Mullery blamed what he called "the moaning, groaning bunch of players who treated me, themselves and their profession with contempt" for killing his love of football.

After leaving QPR, Mullery stayed out of football management for 18 months until the summer of 1986, when he took over for a second spell as manager of Brighton. He lasted seven months before being sacked in January 1987. Mullery said of his sacking by Brighton: "You love the game, then it kicks you in the guts."

In the early 1990s, Mullery coached ATM FA in the Malaysian Premier League. He later served Barnet as Director of Football during 1996–1997.

Mullery had a brief stint as manager at Sussex non-league side Southwick F.C. He has worked for a number of years as a pundit for Sky Sports, and in September 2005 also briefly took a role with Conference club Crawley Town as a 'football consultant'.

Personal life
After leaving QPR, Mullery entered into a deep depression, worsened by an unsuccessful business venture; he converted to Christianity, though his financial and emotional troubles continued until he began working in the media in the mid-1990s.

Mullery was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1976 New Year Honours.

Mullery married June (née Schofield) in 1962. They have two children, Samantha and Neal.

Mullery stated back in 1972 that he was a Conservative.

Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
 * FA Cup: 1966–67

Fulham
 * FA Cup runner-up: 1974–75

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Hœdic

Hœdic or Hoëdic ( Edig) is an island off the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France. Its bigger "twin sister" island is Houat.

Administratively, Hœdic is a commune in the Morbihan department.

Geography
Hœdic is located in the heart of, a bay in the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Brittany (Rhuys and Quiberon peninsulas), 13 km east of Belle-Île and 5 km southeast of Houat. It is part of a line of granite crests that includes the Le Croisic peninsula, Dumet Island, Houat, Quiberon, and Groix.

Hœdic is a low, undulating plateau, 800 m wide by 2500 m long. Its peak, at an altitude of 22 m, is located in the middle of its eastern part, on the road that leads from the village to the hamlet of the Phare. The island's base consists essentially of granite and less often of schists. The coast is an alternation of sandy coves and rocky points of variable height, generally more marked to the north (Beg Lagat, the Old Castle) than to the south (Beg Er Faut, Kasperakiz). There are two marshes, one modest, behind the dune of the new harbor, the other about twenty hectares behind the dune of the old port. In addition to the main island, the town has several small islands, including Roc'h Melen, Madavoar, Cardinals, Mulons, and others.

Human geography
Hœdic has long been associated with familial polyculture of livestock and crops—that is, in farms owned by people and families rather than heavily industrialised farms —along with their fishing resources. The former disappeared in the middle of the 20th century, while the latter had a second wind in the 1980s but is currently declining. Currently, Hœdic is largely dependent on tourism, even more significantly than its neighbour Houat. Similar to Houat, the majority of its land is being invaded by brush.

Hœdic is a car-free island with around 100 inhabitants in the wintertime. During the summer, its population can reach 3,000, including boaters, tourists, and campers coming to the island. The island is connected to the mainland via Compagnie Océane boats year-round and Compagnie des Iles boats during the tourist season (connections from Quiberon).

Demographics
Inhabitants of Hœdic are called Hœdicais.

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Talk:Eurobanana

Although this article has a link to Euromyths, the main text presents the Eurobanana story as if it was entirely true. I thought it was one of the most famous (in the UK) examples of a Euromyth. Am I right? Unless I hear otherwise, I'll edit this article appropriately and perhaps put a link to it from Euromyths. --Plumbago 12:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ambiguity
I'm confused. What is meant by "other bananas are not allowed in the European Union?" Are they not allowed for commercial sale, or is their mere presence in an EU country considered illegal? --InformationalAnarchist 00:21, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * As I noted above, I don't think there's any truth in this article. However, that said, I think the thrust of the Euromyth was that non-conforming bananas wouldn't be allowed to be sold.  I don't think even the rabid Europhobes who made up the myth were suggesting that the presence of a non-conformer was actually illegal.  --Plumbago 29 June 2005 21:29 (UTC)

Tried cleaning-up the stub a bit. Does it look cleaner now? Haven't been able to find any real information on the subject in the news, so I can't really expound on the idea, but I hope that the wording and all that is a bit more Wikipediaish. --InformationalAnarchist 29 June 2005 22:22 (UTC)

Verification
I've have been unable to find any really authoritative source for this term. If anyone has any decent references then please add them, otherwise I guess I'll AfD it in a week or so. Kevin 13:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

There's been no takers so I have redirected to Euromyth. Kevin 11:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Eurobanana