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Talk:William Hope Hodgson

Older Comments
I've made some corrections to the list of Works. Whoever did it, had everything italicised, which means everything is a novel or book, which is incorrect. Hodgson only wrote 4 novels. The rest are short stories or collections. The Derelict is a short story, yet this person setup a future connection as "The Derelict (Novel)".

Last Edit / Overhaul
The last edit done was to add a link to an article written by another key fantastic horror / speculative fiction author in appreciation of Hodgson.

Over time, I hope to overhaul this article to insert more information about Hodgson's life, work and influence.

 * You know I wish people would sign and date entries such as these. I don't know whether this was written yesterday or 5 years ago, or if the author is STILL going to do what he said, has already done it, or been run over by a bus. Myles325a (talk) 07:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

The link for Online editions
The link for Online editions wasn't dead but it was reverting to a main index page for authors. I traced the link for WHH and replaced the old address with the new, correct one.

New Link, plus typo correction
I've added a link for a Dr. Prune's Apothecary and corrected a typo on Nigh[t]shade Books.

Link to Bibliography
I've also added a link to a bibliography at Andy Robertson's Night Land site.

"Failed body builder"?
I admit I'm not an authority on Hodgson's life but was it his body building or the gymnasium he was running that failed? I believe it was the business that didn't succeed. Without objection, I'll alter the line to reflect that.

Going back over it, I noticed that the bodybuilding was mentioned again in the second paragraph, so I dropped the line in the first altogether. Nothing is lost.

Hodgson-Houdini controversy
I've added a link to a story that describes Hodgson's challenge to Houdini.

Place/Date of Birth
Added.

"classic of the first water" citation
Added.Hodgson 15:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

"most potent" citation
Added, but the phrase was modified to be an exact quote--"most potent" rather than "most powerful", etc. Although I'm not sure both these quotations from Lovecraft need citations since they come from the same essay.Hodgson 15:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Expanding & re-organizing
I have been adding works and expanding on Hodgson's use of genre, and broken out his stories by recurring characters, which are getting separate pages, and to mention a few more of his notable standalone stories. I would like to expand the biography a bit, and plan to add some information on his poems, a number of which were recently published for the first time, and references to the recent "Lost Poetry" and "Wandering Soul" books. Paul R. Potts 15:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Needs more biographical information
I've done just about all I can with the works section but the biography is pretty weak. Can anyone expand it, especially if you have access to the biographical essays in the Moskowitz collections? (Please cite them, of course, if you use information from these essays)... Paul R. Potts 23:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Derelict, Eloi, Story List
I have added to the list of standalone stories most of the stories from the 5-volume Collected Fiction. These don't have dates or alternate titles yet and are not ordered yet. I have also contributed summaries of Eloi, Eloi and The Derelict. It is not my intention to provide summaries of every story (many of them are little known and don't especially stand out) but if any editor wants to highlight a particularly well-regarded or important story please feel free to either provide a page for the story or request it and I'll see what I can do. Paul R. Potts 20:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Removing Motifs
The motifs section is not turning well, so I'm removing it, possibly to add it back in a different form later. Paul R. Potts 16:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikification and original research
It seems to me that this page is in dire need of Wikifying. Especially the sections on Genre and Theme in Hodgson's works seem to fit the bill of original research. This shouldn't be a collection of essays but an encyclopedia article. Elrith 05:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Removed Genre and Theme Sections
I (Paul R. Potts) (the author of the Genre and Theme sections) have removed them entirely. I would still like to find some text I can cite about genre in Hodgson's work since his genre-crossing is one of his most interesting characteristics as a writer. I will see what I can come up with from the Moskowitz essays.

This entry could still use a photo.

The biography needs some moderate expansion.

If you have access to his stories and would like to contribute, the following stories could use your assistance:

- The Sargasso Sea stories need to be completed

- The Capt. Gault stories could use slightly expanded summaries.

I'm happy with Jat/Cargunka story summaries although editing is always welcome.

- On the Carnacki page, "The Hog" needs expansion.

- Also on the Carnacki page, "The Ghost Pirates" needs a plot summary, even a short one.

- The rest of the 427 Cheyne Walk stories could use brief summaries.

- On the page for The Night Land, there needs to be a section on "The Dream of X," publication information and how it differs from the original novel (or, make this a separate page and link it in appropriately).

Biography
Paul R. Potts 00:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC): I have expanded the biographical section to about the level of detail that I think is appropriate. Almost all of this information comes from Sam Moskowitz's essay "William Hope Hodgson," which is taken from the first edition of the Out of the Storm: Uncollected Fantasies story collection from 1975.

I could use help with:

- Fact checking. Moskowitz often scrambles dates and there are a lot of typos in his essay. He also freely wanders backwards and forwards chronologically. So he is slightly dubious to use as a source, although there isn't very much else that is readily available!

- Citing this work properly to Wikipedia standards.

- Adding and/or integrating _other_ biographical sources besides this one essay.
 * Could you at least take the trouble to format your edits properly, italicizing the titles of novels and magazines, for instance. It's rather presumptuous to expect other folk to do these things for you. Deor 01:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Paul R. Potts 01:12, 6 July 2007 (UTC) Deor: I'm working on it. I am not trying to be "presumptuous" -- it is simply unfinished.

Paul R. Potts: Deor: I have done this and linked in the short stories and added more intra-wikipedia links.

Paul R. Potts 19:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC) I have access to another source, the "Wandering Soul" book and will use this to flesh out the biography a little bit more. I have some notes made, so will work on this as soon as I get a chance... also, there is a particular photo in that book which I would like to scan for the Hodgson article. There are various photos floating around that might be suitable but I think this one is the best -- it shows Hodgson full-face, and is clearer and more detailed than most of the others. He is also showing off his muscles; it was a promotional pic for his bodybuilding business. It should be free of copyright concerns, I believe -- am I wrong? -- but I lack a scanner. I will try and find someone to scan it for me.

 * I seem to recall a photo of Hodgson previously appearing in this article -- a head shot in profile. Was it deleted at some point?  This is the most frequently reprinted photo of him; I've seen it in a number of sources.  The entry for Hodgson in Wikisource/authors has it as well. Z Wylld 20:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

"a career cut short at age 40"
Is this really worth including? After all 40 was about the average life expectancy in this time period. Claidheamohmor (talk) 08:06, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Paul R. Potts (talk) 03:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)Of course, it is difficult and a bit pointless to speculate about how much longer he might have lived and how much he would have written. Average life expectancies only apply to populations and don't necessarily imply that a given individual would live to a certain age. Given Hodgson's well-documented obsession with fitness and his prolific output as a writer personally I imagine the answers to be "at least another ten years" and "a lot," but I'm just playing "what if."

I guess your objection is that we can't know whether his life and career were "cut short" or just "ended?"

Makes sense, so I have changed the biographical summary to remove the "cut short" wording, although I personally would think of every victim of WWI as having a life "cut short..."

Copyright
This article has 2 lines that I have a problem with. "Some of Hodgson's poems were first published in 2005, when they appeared in The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson. Some may be still under copyright protection." "Copyright protection has now expired on most of Hodgson's work, with the exception of some of the works published posthumously, including many of his poems." http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm The copyright for unpublished works is Life plus 70, which is also the maximum otherwise. So as WHH has been dead for about 93 years, all of his works, published or unpublished, fell into the Public Domain 23 years ago or before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.36.118.195 (talk) 02:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have now added a request for a source for the statement that some work are still under copyright. --Bensin (talk) 06:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The Cornell Copyright Chart you linked to says that works published 1923-1977 have a 95 year copyright terms in the US, and Hodgson works first published 1977-2002 are under copyright until 2047. And copyright laws vary around the world; in much of Europe, there's a 25 year effective copyright on recently first published public domain works.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:34, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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Wife's name and date of death
'Spouse Betty Farnworth (m. 1913; died 1918)'

'Bessie Hodgson died in 1943'

Which? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.240.173 (talk) 01:45, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Clearer now? They were married in 1813, he died in 1918 (which obviously ended the marriage), and she survived until 1943. Deor (talk) 03:06, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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J. Peters

J. Peters (born Sándor Goldberger; 11 August 1894 – 1990) was the most commonly known pseudonym of a man who last went by the name "Alexander Stevens" in 1949. Peters was a journalist, political activist, and accused Soviet spy who was a leading figure of the Hungarian language section of the Communist Party USA in the 1920s and 1930s. From the early 1930s, Peters was actively involved in the espionage activities of the Soviet Union in the United States, fabricating passports, recruiting agents, and accumulating and passing along confidential and secret information.

In October 1947, Peters was served with an arrest warrant for alleged violation of the Immigration Act of 1924, which required alien immigrants in America to possess a valid visa. On August 3, 1948, while appearing under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Whittaker Chambers identified Peters as a spy. Later that month, Peters appeared under subpoena before HUAC but did not cooperate. He invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer sensitive questions. On May 8, 1949, Peters left for communist Hungary to avoid imminent deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Peters adopted the name "József Péter" and remained in Hungary until his death in 1990.

Early years
Sándor Goldberger (or Alexander Goldberger ) was born August 11, 1894, in the town of Csap, Ruthenia, in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Hungary. There were about 3,000 people in the town at the time of Sándor's birth, including a substantial number of ethnic Jews like the Goldbergers who had fled from official and popular repression in the Russian Empire.

Many of the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Hungary attempted to assimilate into society by the adoption of local language and customs, speaking Hungarian rather than Yiddish and, in general, attempting to become, in the words of one scholar, "more Magyar than the Magyars themselves." Peters's biographer notes that this seems to have been the case with the Goldberger family, who apparently spoke Hungarian in the home and who gave all three of their sons (Sándor, József, and Imre) ethnic Hungarian names.

Like most other Jewish families in Csap, the Goldberger family was poor, with Sándor's father working as a train brakeman before leaving to join his wife running a restaurant. The family seems to have been secular rather than actively religious members of the Jewish faith, but it remains possible that they held nominal membership in a local synagogue.

In 1899, Sándor was sent to the large city of Debrecen to live with his grandfather, where educational opportunities were brighter than those of Csap. Sándor attended and graduated from primary school and gymnasium in that city. He apparently developed an affinity for the workers movement at a similarly early age, influenced by his grandfather and an uncle who were active participants in the railroad and machinist unions.

Following his graduation from gymnasium in 1912, Sándor decided to become a lawyer, enrolling in the law school at the University of Kolozsvár in Transylvania. He did not attend courses in that city, however, instead studying law on his own in Debrecen and returning only to take examinations. (Whittaker Chambers stated in his memoirs that, "He had studied law at the university of Debrecen in Hungary." ) To support himself, Sándor worked briefly in an office job before taking a position teaching at the gymnasium in Debrecen.

With the coming of World War I in the summer of 1914, Sándor was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army, receiving training in the infantry. Sándor was selected for officer training and early in 1915, he received a commission as a Lieutenant in the infantry reserve. Sándor was assigned to the Italian Front, where he remained for the duration of the war.

Europe
With the war coming to a close, Sándor returned to his hometown of Csap, where he came into contact with radicalized friends espousing Marxist ideas about the imperialist nature of the war and touting the new social system in the process of being established in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Sándor was won over to the Bolshevik cause and, together with four former prisoners of war who were released from Russian captivity in 1918, became one of the founders of the first local group of the Communist Party of Hungary in Csap.

During the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic headed by Béla Kun in 1919, Sándor served briefly on the governing council of Ung County. He managed to escape repression during the so-called White Terror after the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet regime, apparently benefiting from the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which made Carpathian Ruthenia part of Czechoslovakia.

America
Peters emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became an organizer for the Communist Party USA, concentrating his efforts in the party's Hungarian language section. Peters was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow in 1928 and was appointed head of the party's National Minorities Department in 1929.

By 1929 Peters (using the name "Joseph Peter," with no "s" at the end) was living in New York City and the Secretary of the Communist Party's Hungarian Bureau. He attended the CPUSA's 6th National Convention in March 1929 as the official representative of the party's Hungarian Bureau. He was also an alternate member of the governing Central Executive Committee of the party.

Espionage
As organizational secretary for the Communist Party in New York state in 1930, Peters was put in charge of building an illegal apparatus, or network, designed to support Soviet foreign policy. CPUSA and Comintern documents at the RGASPI archive in Moscow show that he headed the CPUSA underground apparatus from the early 1930s until Whittaker Chambers's defection in 1938. Peters was sent to Moscow for training with the Comintern in 1931 and was made a senior intern in the Anglo-American Secretariat. Returning to the US in 1932, the Central Committee assigned him to work in the secret apparatus, where he remained until June 1938.

Around 1933 or 1934, Peters took over from Chambers's previous rezident handler. Chambers ascribed central importance to Peters' role:   "The Soviet espionage apparatus in Washington also maintained constant contact with the national underground of the American Communist Party in the person of its chief. He was a Hungarian Communist who had been a minor official in the Hungarian Soviet Government of Bela Kun. He was in the United States illegally and was known variously as J . Peters, Alexander Stevens, Isidore Boorstein, Mr. Silver, etc. His real name was Alexander Goldberger and he had studied law at the university of Debrecen in Hungary. In addition, I had myself, during my entire six years in the Soviet underground, been the official secret contact man between a succession of Soviet apparatuses and the Communist Party, U.S.A. Both the open and the underground sections of the party were under orders to carry out, so far as they were able, any instructions I might give them in the name of the Soviet apparatuses." In 1935, Peters penned The Communist Party: A Manual on Organization, which includes the following:    The Communist Party puts the interest of the working class and the Party above everything. The Party subordinates all forms of Party organization to these interests. From this it follows that one form of organization is suitable for legal existence of the Party, and another for the conditions of underground, illegal existence...     The secret apparatus, under Peters, carried out surveillance, exposed infiltrators, protected sensitive party records from seizure, and disrupted rival communist and leftist movements such as the Trotskyists. Another of his duties included maintaining contact with the Ware group in Washington, D.C., and he took over direct supervision of that group in 1935. The head of the CPUSA, Earl Browder, instructed Peters to co-operate with Soviet intelligence.

About 1936, Peters recognized that some members of the Ware group had potential for advancement within the government so a decision was made to separate them from the group. Chambers became the courier between the GRU and the new group. The members separated included Alger Hiss, Henry Collins and Lee Pressman.

Testimony by former Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers tied the 1937 disappearance of American Communist Party founder and OGPU Agent Juliet Stuart Poyntz' disappearance to the shadowy Soviet Comintern agent J. Peters. As an inside member of the Soviet Comintern and OGPU espionage network, Peters is believed to have participated in the planning of the kidnapping and alleged murder of fellow CPUSA member Poyntz by a Soviet assassination squad.

Peters was removed as head of the secret apparatus two months after Chambers broke with the espionage ring in 1938 and was replaced by Rudy Baker.

In September 1939, Adolf Berle noted just after meeting that Chambers had told him Peters worked with Alexander Trachtenberg, whom Chambers called "member of the Exec. Committee [CPUSA], Head of GPU in U.S."

In 1940, Paul Crouch (later an FBI informant) met with Peters (also Jack Stachel and William Weiner) in Memphis, Tennessee, regarding "underground matters," according to his SSIS testimony on October 26, 1951. Of Peters, Crouch said:   Mr. CROUCH: I came to Memphis because I had just had discussions in New York with Fred Brown, alias Alpi, J. Peters. Senator EASTLAND: J. Peters was the Communist boss of this country who was over Earl Browder, was he not? Mr. CROUCH: On underground matters, things of that kind, yes. Senator EASTLAND: In fact, he was a Soviet military agent? Mr. CROUCH: Yes, an intelligence agent. He was in charge of all the intelligence work in this country for the international Communist movement. Senator EASTLAND: A direct representative of the Communist International in Moscow? Mr. CROUCH: Yes. Senator EASTLAND: On their payroll? Mr. CROUCH: Yes. Senator EASTLAND: On the payroll of the Russian military secret service? Mr. CROUCH: That is correct. He represented them in this country. Peters continued to work on the CPUSA's Central Committee staff on what a 1947 Soviet Communist party personnel report, called "special assignments." An examination of the Comintern's records turned up two 1943 messages from the GRU referring to a GRU officer in Washington as having come across "a group of workers singled out by the American Comparty CC [Central Committee] for informational work and headed by the CC worker 'Peter.'" Though usually called "Peters" in the United States, in Comintern archives, his name is often rendered as "Peter." "Informational work" was GRU parlance for clandestine activity.

Investigation
On August 3, 1948, in testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Chambers publicly stated that Peters was, "to the best of my knowledge, the head of the whole underground United States Communist Party."

On August 30, Peters, under the name "Alexander Stevens" and represented by Carol Weiss King, was subpoenaed to appear before a congressional investigating committee. He refused to answer any questions and left prior to deportation procedures for Hungary.

In 1948, Louis Budenz wrote that he knew "J. V. Peters" as "Jack Roberts" in 1936.

In 1949, Hede Massing testified during Hiss's second trial about meeting Peters and described her involvement in greater detail in her 1951 memoir.

In 1952, Nathaniel Weyl, another member of the Ware Group, named Peters as head of that spy ring.

In his 1952 memoir, Chambers refers mostly to "J. Peters" but also states that he knew him as "Steve" while serving in the underground.

In 1953, Bella Dodd testified that she knew of Peters' manual and also someone named "Steve Miller," though it took her a long time to put the two together. Asked whether she knew him, she responded:    Well, that is an interesting question, because I knew the J. Peter manual before; I had read it. It had been given to me to read and study, and I knew a man by the name of Steve Miller, but Steve Miller was an insignificant little fellow who used to help with mimeographing at party headquarters. He was attached to the New York County committee. He was assigned to teach communism to some of the teachers, kind of take individual teachers who were rising in the party movement and give them special instructions. I thought he was just an insignificant little fellow until one day the authorities picked him up and I discovered he was J. Peters. He was engaged in using teachers throughout the United States for maildrop purposes, for revolutionary mail that was going back and forth from the Soviet Union to the United States. They would approach a pretty innocent teacher who came close to the movement and say, "Would you mind if a letter comes to your address?" Some mail would come to someone in Columbus or Cleveland or in California or in my section of New York, and the person would have no more relationship to that mail than the man in the moon. Peters is identified as assisting Soviet espionage in deciphered KGB cables and in the KGB documents listed in The Haunted Wood by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev. Many years later, he was located by Weinstein in Hungary and interviewed for Weinstein's book Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case.

Later years
After his return to Hungary in 1949, Peters served in official Party capacities without prominence. In the 1980s, he wrote a secret Party memoir for the Hungarian party's secret files, which become available to the public and formed an important basis of Red Conspirator by Thomas L. Sakmyster.

Death and legacy
Peters died in Budapest in 1990, "barely noticed in Hungarian newspapers."

In Red Conspirator, Sakmyster concludes that, as far as the Ware Group and related secret groups relate to Peters, they were "conducted by largely on his own initiative.... No Soviet agent ever served directly as his handler."

Works

 * The Communist Party: A Manual on Organization (1935)

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Talk:Opthamologist

Why is this a separate page, instead of a re-direct? Squidd 21:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Agreed -- would be better! WBardwin 00:36, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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Richie Richardson

Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, KCN GCM (born 12 January 1962) is a former West Indies international cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team. He was a flamboyant batsman and superb player of fast bowling. He was named, in 1992, one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year. Richardson was famous for his wide-brimmed maroon hat which he wore against even the fastest bowlers, though in his later career, he started wearing a helmet instead.

Richardson, who skippered the Leeward Islands, also featured for Yorkshire and Northern Transvaal in his career. Richardson assumed the role, in January 2011, of West Indies' manager for an eventual five year period. Since then he has continually worked as an ICC match referee.

Early days
Richardson was born in Five Islands Village, Antigua. He began his career with the Leewards Islands in 1982 as an opener.

International career
After his second season he was called up by the West Indies to tour India in the 1983–84 season. Richardson joined a successful West Indies Test team captained by Clive Lloyd batting in the middle order. His first tour started inauspiciously when Richardson lost his luggage and was left with few clothes. Veteran fast bowler Andy Roberts felt that Richardson was not getting enough practice as in the nets even bowlers were given a chance to bat ahead of him and by the time Richardson had an opportunity the main bowlers had finished. Roberts went out of his way to bowl at Richardson during the tour to make sure he had some preparation.

On 24 November 1983, Richardson debuted in the fourth match of the six-Test series, at which point the West Indies had a 2–0 lead, replacing Gus Logie who had bagged a pair in the previous Test. In his first innings Richardson too failed to score a run when was the victim of a poor umpiring decision. He was given out leg before wicket off the bowling of off-spinner Shivlal Yadav though he had hit the ball. He was more successful in the second innings, making 26 before he was bowled, and the match ended in a draw.

1985 World Championship of Cricket
Australia hosted the World Championship of Cricket in February and March 1985 to commemorate the founding of Victoria. During the group stages the West Indies faced Sri Lanka at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on a pitch with uneven bounce. Though the West Indies won the match, a delivery from Ashantha de Mel reared and hit Richardson in the face; with Larry Gomes, he was one of two West Indian batsmen to retire hurt during the game.

Captaincy
Late in 1991, West Indies captain Viv Richards informed the West Indies Cricket Board of his intention to relinquish the Test captaincy and retire after the 1992 World Cup. Though Richards had publicly picked Desmond Haynes as his successor, the board chose Richardson to take over the captaincy and Richards was dropped from the team. Richardson supported the board dropping his predecessor, which led to ill-feeling towards him in Antigua, the home of both men. The West Indies never lost a series under Richards' leadership, so there was a great deal of pressure on Richardson. Under his captaincy, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh led the bowling attack and Brian Lara emerged as a world-class batsman. In the 4 years of his captaincy, the West Indies only lost one series – versus Australia in 1995 which was the West Indies' first series defeat since 1980.

Trivia
Richardson played 86 Test matches until 1995 scoring 5,949 runs and 16 centuries. He was very successful against Australia, hitting 9 centuries against them, and scored his highest score of 194 against India in Guyana in 1989. He also played 224 One Day Internationals including 3 World Cups. As well he was named, in 1992, one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year.

Late career
Coming into the 1996 World Cup Richardson was under pressure as captain, and the tournament would prove to be his last in international cricket. In the group stages the West Indies suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Kenya, prompting the Caribbean media to call for Richardson's resignation. Despite the setback, the team progressed to the semi-final where they lost to Australia; it was his last match for the West Indies.

Reflecting on his decision to retire years later, Richardson remarked "I resigned and retired because I was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, I was burnt out and it was a struggle to continue playing cricket. Every day was stressful, everybody wanted a piece of you and I had no time for myself. I was training harder and trying hard on the field but I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I felt like I was selling myself and my fans short. They wanted me to continue, but if I had I would have got ill so it was time to move on."

Domestic career
Richardson captained the Leeward Islands, to a Red Stripe Cup title in 1994. As well he skippered to Leewards, in 1993 and 1994, to consecutive Geddes Grant Shield titles. Richardson also played for English County Championship side Yorkshire in both of those said seasons. In 2009 he was signed to Thames Ditton Cricket Club in Surrey.

After his retirement from international cricket, Richardson became the first high-profile signing by the English all-star club cricket team Lashings World XI, also going on to captain the side. In 2006 he smashed a double hundred with included four sixes of a hapless Robert Saunders over. Since 2001 he has also played bass guitar in reggae band Big Bad Dread and The Baldhead, alongside Curtly Ambrose and the band has released several albums.

Cricket administration
He was bestowed, in 2003, with a Grand Cross of the Most Illustrious Order of Merit (GMC) from the State of Antigua and Barbuda. In January 2011, Richardson was appointed the West Indies' team manager, assuming the role until January 2016. He was later awarded a Knight Commander of the Order of the Nation (KCN) by the Antigua and Barbuda government on 28 February 2014. On 8 October 2022, Richardson was bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from the University of the West Indies.

Richardson was appointed to the Elite Panel of Match Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 21 September 2015.

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Talk:Hubert Walter

Opposition of Herbert Poore to his election
Removal of pertinent, sourced info: Generally speaking, don't. — Llywelyn II   13:51, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You didn't give any resolution to it. Nor is it relevant at all ... ALL elections in this time period get challenged - it's only when the challenge drags on or becomes embroiled in controversy that it needs to be put into the article. And for the sake of all the gods - do NOT use outdated sources like the old DNB and if you add something to a featured article .... use the refrencing style already in use. It's common courtesy. Also - WP:BRD - you were bold, I reverted, we then discuss ... you don't get to revert back in while we discuss. It's not courteous. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The pope's provision of the pallium is the resolution. As below, yes, it is relevant.

 * The reference style is ugly, but you have a point. As for the dated DNB, you're welcome to source it to the new one but I don't have a free membership and can't verify its content. — Llywelyn II   13:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

[ec] Specifically, in this case,
 * He was chosen as archbishop without consultation from the bishops, who normally claimed the right to help decide the new archbishop.[34]

is the less pertinent information, as it is just vague editorializing.
 * This caused Herbert Poore, his archdeacon, to appeal the election to Pope Celestine III.[35]

is specific, sourced action that speaks both to the depth of the distaste (his own archdeacon) and to his relationship with Herbert (whom he effectively bankrupted and forced into exile a few years later.) If we're removing things, remove the fluff. — Llywelyn II   13:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Would appreciate some outside voices as to the relevancy of a recent sourced edit to the page. (Specifically, a papal appeal that speaks to the seriousness of some opposition and bad blood that eventually caused one cleric to bankrupt and exile another... but the appeal itself failed.) — Llywelyn II   14:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

 * (You know, you could like wait for me to reply to your points but whatever) BUT... it's trivia. Nothing came of it. The appeal was basically rejected. Nothing came of it. The bishops whined and complained but the actual appeal to the pope didn't do a thing ... so mentioning it here without giving the resolution is not helpful on two counts - it doesn't give the lack of actual impact it had and it is trivial. It may be pertinent in Poore's bio - but its trivia here. And from an outdated source and all the other issues. It gets absolutely no mention in the ODNB entry on Walter - where Poore isn't mentioned at all. Nor is Herbert Poore mentioned in Young's biography of Walter. NOr is Poore mentioned in Cheney's biography of Walter. Both of those biographies are full length book treatments of Walter's life, so if it's not important there, it's certainly trivia here. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:08, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Further - Young's bio of Walter states (p. 45) "On May 29, 1193, the monks of Canterbury elected Hubert, anticipating by one day the same action by the suffragan bishops of Canterbury, who claimed to have a right to participate in the election of an archbishop. The deputation of monks sent to ROme to secure the pallium returned without incident in October to complete the formalities of election and papal approval." There is no sign that anything held things up - no appeal at all. The Fasti entry for Walter as Archbishop makes no mention of any appeal by Poore - "Hubert Walter: Bp. of Salisbury (1189-93). King orders an el. to take place, in letter dated 30 March1193 (Epp. Cant. p. 364). Postulated by monks 29 May 1193 (Gerv. Cant. 1 518; Diceto11 108); and by bps. 30 May (Gerv. Cant. 1 519; Diceto 11 109). Royal assent given byjusticiar 30 May (Diceto 11 109). Enthr. and received pallium 7 Nov. (Gerv. Cant. 1522). (fn. 18) Temps. prob. by 12 Dec. 1193 (see C. R. Cheney, Hubert Walter (1967) p. 51and n. 4). Appd. papal legate for England 18 March 1195 (Epp. Cant. pp. 368-9), butlegation lapsed on d. of Celestine III, 8 Jan. 1198 (Gerv. Cant. 1 551). D. 13 July 1205(ibid. 11 413; Rad. Coggeshall Chron. Anglicanum, ed. J. Stevenson (Rolls ser. lxvi)p. 156). Commem. 13 July (Canterbury obits. II fo. 34r, III fo. 201r)." (here) Whether it is relevant to Poore's biography is immaterial whether it's relevant here. But I note that in Poore's ODNB bio, the information is given as "According to Roger of Howden, in May 1193 he appealed to the pope against the election of Hubert Walter (d. 1205) as archbishop, on the ground that the king was in captivity and the English bishops were not present at the election." ... this usually means the writer of the bio is not totally sure that this information actually happened. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:21, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ealdgyth on this one. We do not need this information here. It has been correctly included in Poore's article. If you really must, the following would be more coherent and less undue. "and soon after Walter's return to England, he was duly elected archbishop of Canterbury, having been transferred to the see on 29 May 1193." => " Walter returned to England and after an appeal by Poore he was duly elected archbishop of Canterbury, having been transferred to the see on 29 May 1193." Op47 (talk) 16:25, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with Op47 here. I think it's worth a link to Poore's article and mentioning there was at least some attempt to stop his election. Ealdgyth, you say that "ALL elections in this time period get challenged", but you're assuming readers know this already. That said, simply refer to an appeal taking place, nothing more. If his biographers didn't think it warranted a mention at all, then it definitely doesn't warrant an entire sentence on here. SamWilson989 (talk) 00:10, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * But if the biographers don't think it merits a mention in almost 200 pages, why should we mention it here where we're much more constrained. Young's biography of Walter does not mention Poore at all in regards to the election. Nor does Cheney in his bio of Walter. So why should we, with much less space? Neither Cheney nor Young say an appeal took place. Nor does the ODNB entry for Walter. It's not considered notable. It doesn't belong here, quite honestly. None of the biographies of Walter think there was an attempt to stop his translation (there wasn't an attempt to stop the election, because it'd already taken place.) Ealdgyth - Talk 00:32, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The way I see it is that this article is supposed to be a comprehensive biography of Hubert Walter, and as such, all notable events should be here. So the issue is that is the appeal by Poore notable. Personally, I think that in my own opinion it's worth showing there was some opposition, and is notable (the boundary between notable and otherwise is a rather large grey area though). That said, I think that his biographers are more qualified to decide and they have. I think I'd agree with you then, Ealdgyth, the appeal is not notable enough to be included. Possibly a compromise with User:LlywelynII could be putting it in a footnote? SamWilson989 (talk) 00:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for having performed that research, Ealdgyth. I do agree with Mr Wilson that Wikipedia isn't a print book with limited space, that we should be aiming for comprehensiveness rather than curated terseness, and that your research suggests that there's little question that any opposition was fruitless and  there's some question that it occurred at all. My own edit at this point would be to move the information from the running text to a footnote reading something like:

Personally, I think that's helpful without giving attention to the point but Op seemed to agree with you. (Note also some minor changes to include or not: your sources clarify that his delegation of monks received the pallium from the pope rather than a personal visit, which is worth noting; removal of the gloss on pallium (it's uncommon, sure, but it's linked for the curious) ; inclusion of a link to treatment of episcopal enthronement (most people associate it with kings but would confuse that with coronation); the caveat about Roger being our source but spelling his name according to our article on him.) — Llywelyn II   02:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd lose the gloss on pallium also except I would then have to add it back ... it gets asked for with every single archbishop FAC. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:32, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That's nuts. From the phrasing, it's perfectly clear (whatever it is) it's the papal go-ahead for assuming the office, which is all it's important for the reader to understand (or that the gloss even addresses). Lemme know if you need a second voice at any future FAC to help explain that to the reviewer. (I'll work on my tact and combativeness beforehand.) — Llywelyn II   02:44, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * And if we must have the footnote (I'd prefer not) .. please let's use the modern ODNB instead of the outdated DNB. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:33, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with that but it's inaccessible to me: I couldn't verify it or format the cite properly. I reïncluded the pallium gloss as needful. With or without the footnote, are the other changes fine? — Llywelyn II   02:44, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've cleaned it up - better to stick with the symbol wording than saying vestment. (there's another fun guy that shows up from time to time that insists on this wording). Still prefer no footnote - it's not really important that Roger of Hoveden (who isn't the most reliable of people relating anecdotes) says this. The fact that both Young and Cheney dismiss the Poore bit completely and that the ODNB entry for Poore qualifies it by stating it came from Roger says that most historians now don't put much reliance on the incident as reported by Roger. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:54, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree the incident is worthy of mention as there was obviously a controversy (and still is apparently). A footnote seems to be a good compromise here.Lozen8 (talk) 00:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Recent edits
LlywelynII, I'm not expert on this topic, but I'll watch the discussion here and see whether I can make a sensible contribution. However, I wanted to post here to comment on your approach. It's fine to edit featured articles; they can always be improved, as we all know. But please follow BRD. If you're reverted, don't start an edit war; please come to the talk page instead. There are lots of reasons to do it that way, and very few good reasons to re-insert your edit. There's no deadline. Please consider changing your approach, and as a matter of politeness I'd suggest you revert your own edits and make the case for them here. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Ead was obviously overprotective of her pages, performing blanket reverts over her personal preferences, sometimes regardless of improvements such as needful links or grammar corrections. We should be aiming for informative: true and sourced details that might be are things for her to discuss on the talk page, not to revert. I likewise object strenuously to the idea that there was any edit warring going on: it's the  rule, not the  rule and it's both silly and rude to act otherwise.

 * Now, that said, Ead was right to take some umbrage at my having mentioned in regard to these pages: I've more recently met some editors who fully abuse process, rather than going through it, and who just hurl abuse, rather than providing reasoned and well-sourced argumentation, as she has done. Since it was sourced and well-meant, she let the information stand in the page rather than taking it personally. You're quite right that I should be more like she's been. We're all just trying to improve the content here and any right version will eventually win out. —  Llywelyn II   01:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * EALD, not Ead. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:31, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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tkorrovi vs. Paul Beardsell
You or some other arbitrator should have interfered earlier, when Paul Beardsell started to change other users' edits of the Arbitration page. It's senseless to ask a sysop, when it happens on the Arbitration page. And Paul Beardsell should have asked you, or another arbitrator to change the title. It would have been much more easier to discuss before making these changes. I didn't see any evidence in what I'm accused before starting the case, why the case was made against me, in addition to Paul Beardsell?Tkorrovi 02:06, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * All cases involve investigation of all involved parties. The case is named as it is because there are only two major involved disputants, and allegations are directed at both. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 02:10, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
 * You talk about investigation, but I asked about accusation. person1 vs person2 means that both parties are accused, but in the majority of cases here there is only one user name in the title, and that means that only one person is accused, and accusing and making a judgement against the plaintiff, requires a separate arbitration case with an accusation against that person. Is it so or is it not?Tkorrovi 02:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The title "User A vs. User B" usually implies that User A is bringing the case against User B and that there are accusations being brought forward by both sides during the course of a request. Evidence is permitted in support of specific actions if it has merit to the dispute central to the case, and may result in remedies being passed that are not against the original respondent (see e.g. Snowspinner vs. Lir, where Lir filed the original request and was subsequently banned for a year, or Requests for arbitration/Robert the Bruce, where the petitioners themselves were warned against making personal attacks). -- Grunt 🇪🇺 02:33, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
 * Then the case submitted by me is different from person1 vs person2 cases, because before opening the case there was no evidence provided on the arbitration page explaining in what I am accused. Therefore I ask to remove my name from the title, and if some finds an evidence to accuse me, start a separate arbitration case against me. I understand that the result may not be different, but it's necessary for the matter of correctness, just otherwise starting the case that way means that there was an evidence of accusation brought against me just because of the fact of opening the case that way, but there was no such evidence before opening the case. Such arbitration gives a possibility to judge a person without guilt, because the way how the case was opened implies that he is potentially guilty, this is formally wrong.Tkorrovi 03:02, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * lol Matt Stan 20:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
Wow! That was an excellent April Fool's Day hoax. It really had me worried. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   04:19, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

Damn, that was quite a brilliant joke .. lmao but the price tag of $140 million is a big giveaway, wikimedia foundation is NOWHERE near that number. LG-犬夜叉 04:47, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

Pictures in the Pope John Paul II article
Please consider contributing your opinion in this Talk section dealing with the perceived preference of one lead picture over another. Thanks. --AladdinSE 05:35, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

different section
I'd like to ask you to account for your votes on the proposed decision talk page of my arb case. Thank you. Everyking 21:55, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Unanswered questions re Tkorrovi vs Psb777
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Tkorrovi_vs._Paul_Beardsell/Proposed_decision. I have suggested a preliminary sifting of the allegations be done. I have also asked for info re appealing the composition of the ArbCom for my case. Paul Beardsell 22:18, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

GRider's arbcom case
I think you may have corrected the wrong proposed decision in this case. As it currently stands you are saying that a 1 month ban might be too harsh, but that you support a 3 month ban if thst doesn't pass. It would make more sense if the 1 and 3 months were swapped. Thryduulf 02:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * A one month ban may be too harsh. A three month ban is defintely too harsh and I will only support it if there is no alternative. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 02:12, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)

Template:Requests for arbitration/Coolcat vs. Fadix
I'm very interested in your reaction to an ArbCom request via a template. — Davenbelle 00:12, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Sandbox in user namespace
I couldn't find an answer to the questions I had about a sandbox in a user's namespace, so I thought I would ask you. I read About_the_Sandbox and thought I would try making my own sandbox. I made /sandbox, and then moved the page to /Sandbox. Do these two pages get cleared every 12 hours? Are these two pages really the sandbox, or are they really just an extra page that is labelled as "sandbox"? Thanks for your help! HappyCamper 15:13, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's your userspace. Do whatever you want with it. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 15:14, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)

Mediation
I am in arbitration becuase I had no sign of mediation or anything over a month. My dispute is not why what is POV or NPOV, my problem is users not following No Personal Attacks, at a point the discussion was completely about how horible I was and why I should be ignored. I want them to present their cases one by one. I declare unverifiable information as NPOV on contraversial articles. I just dont want to be unsulted or pushed around anymore. Two users have been declareing almost everything I add to wikipedia as POV and reverting. Spelling fixes are declared pov. --Cool Cat My Talk 01:22, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The arbitration request is not related to the conflict of ideas between me and fadix but his general ownership of the article and his general communication with me. If user stops, no need to do anything. Also two other users Stereotek, and Davenbelle have been reverting my edits ever since they met me in Armenian Genocide, their user contribution together is based around mine. Call me a paranoid if you like, but I think they are trying to punish me for my views. --Cool Cat My Talk 10:26, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Why don't you leave people to read and judge by themselves? Why have you to to go over members pages one by one and lobbying for your cases?

 * This is not your dispute, this is my dispute and other peoples dispute. Talking of “unverifiable” material, you have yourself reverted and added unverifiable materials yourself, but when I quote works etc. you claim historians are irrelevant and their words should not be taken as truth in what regards history. When they are verifiable, you don't want them, when they are unverifiable but are your POV, you play with peoples nerves with editing and reverting wars. Like just recently when you've been blocked for 24 hours.

 * I apologize to Grunt for having answered in your members page. I just have enough of this cheap trick to go track members, mediators, arbitrators etc. and lobby against people whom disagree with him(Coolcat). Fadix 20:17, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I still think you should reconsider your vote. or At least confirm what your standing is so I dont bother you. :) --Cool Cat My Talk 01:41, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Skyranger
Mmmm.... Smells X-com, is that the case? --Cool Cat My Talk 10:26, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tkorrovi vs Paul Beardsell
User Chinasaur moved comments from Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Tkorrovi vs. Paul Beardsell, remaining his there and moving mine , just after I put a link on an evidence page to that page  because it contains important information. Also, he moved a question about his nationality to my talk page . I understand the reason, but I demand for me an equal right, to remove mentioning my nationality against my will by Matthew Stannard from that page (unfortunately cannot provide diff, as the commentary was moved that after).Tkorrovi 02:43, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Timetable
Hi Grunt. I have a question about the WMC RfA. I noticed half of the RfA's under "voting" were started later than the WMC one, and I was wondering on what kind of timetable that RfA would move into voting. It's still a daily problem to deal with all the aggressive reverts that endorse particular POVs, and I've been waiting for some sort of arbitration action to resolve this matter. So I'd appreciate if you could give some sort of estimate of when it would move into voting. Thanks. — Cortonin | Talk 17:39, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for your tip about being able to use double-quotes in article names! I decided to put this to use for Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar", Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther", and Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". :) - Brian Kendig 23:01, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Self-ban of Rex071404 has been imposed
Notice from Rex on 04.15.05: In regards to Arb Case #3, last night, I took the time to read the associated project page, talk page, evidence page and proposed decisions page. Additionally, I also went back and read carefully the originally ArbCom ruling which is now being cited as in violation. In reading these, I concede that I have transgressed by reverting several articles over the last few weeks. Rather than make excuses or argue my viewpoint, I am content to accept the complaint as valid that several of my recent edits do count as reverts and as such, should have waited until several more weeks had past, so as not to transgress the 6 month "no reverts" issue. That said, I am pretty sure that other than these reverts, I had reasonably well complied with the prior ArbCom ruling. Even so, the Arbcom and community is deserving of better respect than I have shown by my failure to mind that previous ArbCom ruling carefully. For this reason, I am hereby imposing a sanction on myself. Effective at the completion of this edit, (and it's posting on Grunt's 🇪🇺 talk page), I am "banning" myself from any edits for 6 months, until October 15th, 2005. During this time, I will neither log-in nor edit from by Rex071404 account, nor will I edit anonymously from any IP only activity. This is a complete and total ban. This being the case, should anyone wish to contact me, I will be unable to reply except by email. To do that, you can log-in and email me. My email address which is on file is accurate. Thank you. Regards,

Rex071404  216.153.214.94 16:28, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Grunt, I do not believe this block is justified. Merely stating that one will spend some time away from Wikipedia is not sufficient cause for blocking someone. Has he committed any other blockable transgressions? Or has he asked to be blocked? — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:09, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Rex071404
Did User:Rex071404 commit a blockable offense or did you just block him because he said he wouldn't be editing? -Frazzydee|✍ 17:41, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I've unblocked Rex because I there seems to be no indication that they've commited a blockable offense- neither in your blocking summary or in your post to the noticeboard. The blocking policy states that: "self-blocking to enforce a Wikiholiday or departure are specifically prohibited." I think that this applies to syops blocking other users to enforce a departure also.  But even if not, the policy says "Blocking should not be used in any other circumstances, unless there is exceptional widespread community support." Blocking to enforce Rex's departure is neither sanctioned in the policy, nor does it have widespread community support.  If you have any objections, feel free to post them at the noticeboard or on my talk page. -Frazzydee|✍ 17:51, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Very well. I'll wait for the arbcom case to file through. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:33, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

Good Job!
I have to thank you for doing quite a nice job fixing vandalism in the Benedict XVI article, most of the time the only trace I could ever find of vandalism was seeing the history, rather then in the article itself. Good job! --Rangeley

192.139.27.18
I've noticed that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of instances of vandalism by anonymous users at 192.139.27.18. I was going to suggest some sort of long-term ban on the user, even though it was a common IP of Calgary schools, until I noticed that this is the same IP as the one you sometimes use. Has there been a previous discussion of the anonymous users' edits? What would you suggest? --BaronLarf 16:33, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Rex arbitration
I don't understand the basis for your "Decided" edit to Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 3, embodying the six-month ban as the only remedy. There was a clear majority of votes for the one-year ban as well. Most of the arbitrators supported both remedies. Three arbitrators who supported both (mav, Fred Bauder, and the Epopt) expressly stated their preference for the one-year ban. Only two arbitrators (you and Sannse) preferred a six-month ban. Under these circumstances, it seems to me that the one-year ban, adopted by a vote of five in favor and one opposed, should be in effect. JamesMLane 23:25, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The official sanction of Rex's ban recieved more simple support votes than any of the other proposals; as such it is the remedy which has been implemented based on past arbcom proceedings. I've already cleared this with the other arbitrators. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 00:00, 2005 Apr 24 (UTC)

 * If you've discussed it with the committee, I'll take it as set for this instance. For the future, though, I think this is a bad voting procedure.  Someone taking the viewpoint of mav-Fred-Epopt, that six months is good but a year is better, is put in a difficult position, in which voting for the second-best remedy might undermine the chance of getting the best, yet voting against the second-best remedy might undermine the chance of getting anything at all.

 * Things would be more complicated if there were multiple remedies that weren't subsets of each other (e.g., some voters favor a fine but with imprisonment as a second choice, while others rank those remedies the other way). Here, though, it's easy enough to deal with.  There were more votes in favor of a six-month ban than against.  There were more votes in favor of a one-year ban than against.  Absent any additional information, both should be deemed adopted, and of course they run concurrently.  (No one favored an 18-month ban.)  An exception could be made for instances in which some voters stated a preference for one remedy over another.  If three members said that six months was better than a year, and only two preferred a year, then the ban should be for only six months, even if a one-year ban had more supporters than opponents.

 * I hope the Committee improves its procedures in time for Rex071404 4, which I predict will begin in early November 2005. JamesMLane 01:47, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SummerFR & BaronLarf arbitration
Please let me know if there is something more or less that I should add in my response; I'm trying to answer a nebulous charge of "harassment" without any one specific incident shown to me to respond to. I've compiled an admittedly lengthy page at User:BaronLarf/Arbitration with SummerFR to try to show that I have nothing to hide and have indeed communicated with SummerFR until she told me "Leave me alone" and removed messages that I left for her.

This is my first involvement in arbitration, so let me know if there's anything I can do to help the process along. How long does this usually last? Thanks much. --BaronLarf 17:35, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, well, it lasts until either we reject the case (which seems likely) or until we accept the case and reach a decision - the latter of which can take quite some time. Right now, the best thing for you to do is wait and see if this case will be accepted or not. If it is, then you can worry about providing more specfic evidence. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 00:31, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)

Arbitration page moves
I moved the two cases so there would be consistency in grammar (one had the period in "vs." and the other did not). Using "and" is better because the Arbitration Committee considers the actions of all people involved in a case. I really see no problem with the moves - the redirect is automatically created, and I fixed the links at Template:ArbComOpenTasks. Warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 18:35, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * I wasn't even aware of the existence of Template:ArbComCases. Thanks for showing me it; I'll keep it in mind --Neutralitytalk 18:45, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

User:Grunt/Trash
The listing of your trash template on the page Category:Candidates for speedy deletion may lead to it being deleted. You might want to keep a backup copy without the link somewhere else just in case. --Henrygb 23:56, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Account Deletion
I have an account that I no longer want, User:Henry Williams. I would like to transfer the old edits to the new account, which I'm currently using. I understand that this is impossible at the moment because of a lack of developers, but would I be able to delete the user page for Henry Williams, and all associated pages, such as the talk page, and so you have any idea when the service will be back. Thanks, -WóCoill 10:46, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Xiong vs Netoholic RfArb
Netoholic is listed as an involved party at Requests for arbitration. You are noticed as Netoholic's mentor.

Please note that this is not a hostile request for further findings against Netoholic. I am content with ArbCom's current findings and am happy that he and I go peacefully and do not tread on each other's toes. — Xiong熊 talk* 01:57, 2005 May 1 (UTC)

Netoholic's page move from Transclusion costs and benefits back to User talk:Xiong/TC
Personal opinion: I think that this page move crossed the line. User:Xiong's article deserves to be in the Wikipedia namespace as a Wikipedia thinktank article just as much as his Meta-templates considered harmful. It is long-winded, and it does cover things that probably don't belong in the article. On the other hand, for those who are visually oriented, it gives a good idea of how transclusion works, and it does a better job of covering the problems of using templates instead of just focusing on the problems of meta-templates. Blank Verse  ∅ 01:29, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Netoholic/Mentoring
Please add this page to your Watch list, and feel free to bring any relevant discussion there. -- Netoholic @ 00:18, 2005 May 5 (UTC)

 * And check the history, as he reverts anything critical of his actions. - Omegatron 01:27, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Personal attacks by JonGwynne
User:JonGwynne is engaged in a series of personal attacks against me and other users. He is on Personal attack parole as a remedy in the Arbcom case against him. See this section from Talk:Kyoto Protocol Also see the history of that talk  beginning on 23:00 2 May 2005 through current. You may find this quote of his Because of local politics and a handful of biased administrators, I am not allowed to revert Global warming-related articles more than once. from this edit interesting. I can provide other edit summaries and talk comments from other pages if needed. Thank you. -Vsmith 00:34, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * We the Arbitrators do not enforce our own decisions; take it up on the administrator's noticeboard for enforcement actions, please. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 01:05, 2005 May 5 (UTC)
 * OK Thanks Vsmith 01:27, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * A note: VSmith's description of my comments is factually inaccurate.  What he describes as "personal attacks" are merely my pointing out his violation of wikipedia policy in the hope that he will curb his incivility.  I have repeatedly advid him that that pointing out where another users actions violate wikipedia policy is not a personal attack but he seems unwilling or unable to accept this view and insists on referring to these reminders as "personal attacks" as well as repeatedly censoring my identification of his violations on the relevant discussion board.  --JonGwynne 05:11, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * As I said, I do not make this decision; if you have a case to make present it as a counterpoint to Vsmith's accusations on the noticeboard. Thank you. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:46, 2005 May 6 (UTC)

User:Netoholic
Netoholic, who is currently under your mentorship, is currently engaging in repeated revert wars with several different users in Avoid using meta-templates. He is repeatedly moving the notice further down the page, despite the consensus of other editors that this notice belongs prominently at the top. None of these alterations were discussed on the Talk page. Netoholic is also altering User:Xiong's user page, which I see as a clear attempt to re-energize the long-standing war between these two users. In both cases, Netoholic has used multiple reverts. He has also removed all comments other than those from his mentors from User:Netoholic/Mentoring and stated that he has withdrawn the invitation for everyone except he and his mentors to edit it. I do not feel that any of this behavior is at all conducive to harmonious editing, nor do I believe that this is Netoholic's intent at this point. Firebug 01:29, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

What e-mail?
What e-mail? Everyking 02:14, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not at liberty to discuss the contents of e-mail sent on the mailing list without express permission of those who post it to the list; I will however say that the e-mail in question did not originate with you. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:14, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
 * But if I didn't write the e-mail, how can it convict me of bad faith? Everyking 18:32, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I never said anything about you assuming bad faith. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 03:04, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

Arbitration case against LevelCheck
Hi, regarding the arbcom case against LevelCheck: recently, he's returned to editing after a 9-day hiatus, and immediately commenced disrupting again (see List of people who have used the word "Islamofascism"). In light of this, I hope the arbcom will take a look at my request for a temporary injunction. Thanks, Meelar (talk) 22:37, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration rationale
Don't turn this into another unilateral revert war, please. There are people monitoring your actions on IRC and they are not impressed with what they are seeing. It's clear that you're being opposed in adding this tag; as I've stated previously revert warring is not the approach to take when you are being opposed if you do not want to start conflicts. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 21:31, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I'm out there doing some much need maintenance, and this page was reverted. I am the one that made first contact with the other party, and explained why the historical tag was appropriate.  If James F. wants to live out his ArbCom glory days, that's one thing, but he should be up front about it.  The page only saw activity in Feb 2004, is incomplete, and out-of-date.  If {(historical}} doesn't fit, I dunno what does. -- Netoholic @ 21:37, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I'm just making sure that people aren't going to get worked up about this for little apparent reason. Revert warring on your part would do little to help your (already ruined) reputation in the eyes of the community, so I want to make sure it is not going to happen. I am certain that there are other people in the community that share this view; go out there and get them to back up your position by drawing community attention to the page if you really think this needs to be done.  Better yet, get them to help you with your maintenance work, too. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 21:41, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I agree, there is little reason for James F. to have reverted me without first asking my rationale. This tag is fine on the page, and appropriate, until someone want's to update this.  In fact, the tag and the category only aid people in finding such pages.  Frankly, the page isn't worth all this, and it's not worth anyone's time.  It's ArbCom-cruft. -- Netoholic @ 21:46, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I respect your belief in this, but there are clearly others that disagree with you in this respect. I aim to prevent needless effort being wasted over what (I view) is a trivial matter. If I were you, I would let this slide for a couple of days; in the meantime put a note up on RfC to the effect that there is some disagreement as to whether or not the page should be classified as historical. With luck, that will get enough people to throw their voices in to get a clearer idea of what the consensus is. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 21:53, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I'm looking at the history now. You added the historical tag.  James reverted it with a short explanation in the edit summary.  At this point, if you disagreed with his reversion, you should have brought it up on either the article talk page or his talk page.
 * This should be thought of as a general rule; the sort of cooperative/consensus-respecting attitude we want of you all the time. - Omegatron 21:56, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Wow, Omegatron, thanks for your help.
 * * 20:12 - I tag it
 * * 20:44 - Jdforrester reverts
 * * 20:59 - I post on User talk:Jdforrester about this.
 * * 21:02 - James replies on his page.
 * * 21:06 - I reply (modified at 21:09)
 * * 21:08 I revert for the one and only time today
 * Seems as though I did it right by your book, and most everyone elses. I made first contact, I kept him informed, I wasn't a dick.  He did the opposite.  I should get a fucken gold star for following all the rules in this. -- Netoholic @ 22:08, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * Oh. That's better than I accused you of.  You proved me wrong: [[Image:Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png|30px|fucken gold star]]
 * You still reverted it without consensus, though.
 * (Check those links. I tried to fix one but the history for this page is out of order?  I'm really confused by that.) - Omegatron 22:49, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * If you're going to criticise Neto's actions, please do so elsewhere. Thank you. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 23:40, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

 * I won't; it's alright. I only saw this because your talk is on my watchlist. - Omegatron 00:16, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

>unindent< Putting this on RFC is more trouble than it's worth. Geez, talking like this is more trouble. It's a page of no consequence, and I doubt it ever was, considering it's only been edited for two weeks 15 months ago by two people, had no Talk page before today, and is minimally linked. I'll give some time for someone to take a stab at it, since I think everyone sees my point that it's out-of-date... if that doesn't happen, I'll try and add the tag again. -- Netoholic @ 22:08, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
 * If it's a page of no consequence, why worry about it as much as you seem to be? Maybe it would be best to just go concentrate on something else unlikely to draw the ire of others, and if people seem to get upset at what you're doing - even if it seems unimportant - just drop the matter. And there must be something that some people view as consequential about this page, or they wouldn't be reverting you.
 * I'm not criticising your actions - in fact, they seem to be completely unobjectionable - and just am stepping in here to make sure something does not go wrong. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 22:47, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell
Paul Beardsell edited the Proposed decision page of the arbitration case. My comment, diff , please read it before voting on case, the last principle was added by him.Tkorrovi 12:03, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Netoholic's continued template revert warring
Please read and consider the concerns that I have posted on User talk:Netoholic/Mentoring. I have concerns about Netoholic's actions during this mentoring period. In particular, he has continued the bad behavior described in Findings of Fact #5 and #7 - attempting to push Avoid using meta-templates as policy despite the lack of community consensus for this. He has repeatedly engaged in revert warring on approximately a dozen templates, continually reverting them to his preferred version (without meta-templates). During the time that he has engaged in this revert warring, he has been reverted by at least four users (myself, Itai, KingofallPaperboys, and Suslovian). In contrast, no other user has reverted to his preferred version, indicating that community consensus on these pages is that the meta-templates should stay. I hereby request that Netoholic be prohibited from engaging in any meta-template related reverts for the duration of his mentorship. This narrow limitation is the only effective way to prevent his bad behavior in this area. Firebug 09:07, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Looking for help on a major wiki project
Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point.  It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested!  aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

Serious objection -- punishing a user for attacks made against him
In the finding of fact (Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell case) only 1 out of 10 personal attacks mentioned was by me and even this was about how I named his Paul Beardsell's personal attack against me. And as a remedy, I was proposed to be indefinitely banned from editing the article. This is severely unjust, any punishment must be proportional to the misconduct. You give me an indefinite ban for a single comment, equal to indefinite ban to Paul Beardsell for numerous personal attacks against me during a year, which, as you see, I did not reply with personal attacks, except maybe only once (I'm human), in spite of everything which I might feel, I think this is civil behaviour. I'm going to be punished for attacks made against me.Tkorrovi 17:37, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Background on User:Jguk RfA
I am not involved in the current RfA against Jguk relative to the BCE/CE vs. BC/AD usage issue. I have not modified any pages in regard to that issue, nor expressed any opinion on best usage. However, I have had some experience with Jguk that is likely to be illustrative.

Jguk was the most active participant in the recent "style wars"—i.e. the issue of whether styles ("His Holiness", "Her Majesty", etc) should be used in biographical articles, particularly prefixed to the initial mention. Jguk vociferously advocated their use (but only among his favored European Christian figures); modified many pages to match his desired usage; unilaterally changed the MoS to declare his usage correct; continually reverts pages to match his usage; and acted as a general obstructionist to the conduct of a survey around the issue. Moreover, Jguk has tried to "game" WP in several ways to act vindictively against people who disagree with him on this issue (a spurious VfD on an article about me; spurious RfC's against myself and User:Whig for advocating a different MoS policy).

Continuing on the same line, I have also noticed that Jguk has a tendency of inserting commonwealth spellings into articles, even to the point of revert wars around the issue. I have seen a number of cases where he has made edits that consist of nothing other than a spelling change or two from USA to UK spelling of a few words, in articles that otherwise use USA spellings. While the choice of spelling is pretty well trivial, I think Jguk's obsession around this characterizes his editing pattern. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 17:11, 2005 May 22 (UTC)

JonGwynne
(William M. Connolley 21:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC)) Hello. You were the first arbitrator to sign up to the person-attacks parole for JG at Requests for arbitration/JonGwynne/Proposed decision. I've recently posted to the admin incidents re an attack by JG - one of several, he is pushing further at the boundaries. Sadly, this hasn't got a yeah or nay answer just comment, so I request you (who presumably knew what level of insult was required to trigger bans) to take a look.

 * (William M. Connolley 15:49, 26 May 2005 (UTC)) Request renewed.

User 24.122.51.203
Hi grunt, i see you've had many conversations with this fellow before and told him he would be banned if he added any more commercial links, and he's added about a billion of them since then. He quickly added the link again to Omega point after i got rid of it. put him up at long term alerts and requested a long term ban, but figured i'd tell you since you so clearly warned him that he would be permanently banned if he ever did it again, and he's done it dozens and dozens of times since then. . . --Heah (talk) 03:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Internodeuser ArbCom
You note in my recent submission to the ArbCom that you require to see more evidence before you could make a decision on acceptance. I'm compiling evidence at User:Longhair/Internodeuser if this is of assistance to you. -- Longhair | Talk 14:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

vote tally
You forgot to change the vote tally in in the longhair/Internodeuser request.--Tnzkai 20:18, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

KaintheScion/ElKabong RFAr
I have left my comments in the KaintheScion/ElKabong RFAr. Please be advised that I have yet to be convinced that these two are actually sockpuppets. I also object to being named in this RFAr at all, as it is an obvious indication to me that the whole thing has been enacted in bad faith by editors pushing a political agenda. Enviroknot

WikiProject Theatre
Hi! This is a note to let you know that I have just established WikiProject Theatre. Please come and join us in building up Wiipedia’s articles relating to theatre! Ganymead 17:57, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Tkorrovi et al - admissibility of evidence
I note that you identify in your list of supposed personal insults by me of Tkorrovi that some of your references are not to what was said at the time, that of which Tkorrovi complains, but of some things I have said in discussing this case or in my evidence to the ArbCom. This is unfair for the reasons I discuss here. As one plank of my defence is that the things I said were true, I must be allowed to repeat them during the proceedings before the ArbCom. Practically all legal and quasi-legal bodies (in the free world) consider the evidence before it and submissions made to it to be privileged in that respect. All I am asking is that you find those of the original instances which are properly listed by Tkorrovi (see his list if you don't want to trawl thru all the Talk page archives). Paul Beardsell 21:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

For illustration of this point, I repeat here my admonition of the ArbCom to look at what actually happened rather than Tkorrovi's often warped and sometimes dishonest take on matters. If you disagree with my admissibility point then I imagine you could identify the previous sentence as a "personal attack" on Tkorrovi and add it to the list. Paul Beardsell 21:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

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Meadows Center for Water and the Environment

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, formerly Aquarena Springs and later the Aquarena Center, is an educational center in San Marcos, Texas. It seeks to preserve the unique archeological and biological resources of Spring Lake.

Formed from more than 200 artesian springs, Spring Lake is one of the world's largest aquifer fed systems. A state antiquities landmark, this site is also believed to be one of the longest continuously inhabited places in North America.

The Meadows Center provides educational programs, recreation, hands-on activities and collaborative projects that encourage visitors, scientists and students to learn about Spring Lake's habitat, endangered species and water/environmental resource management issues.

There are glass-bottom boat rides, and the Discovery Center provides educational displays allowing people to view native animals and fish. Snorkeling and diving programs are offered with an educational emphasis and interpreter led field trips.

The Meadows Center develops programs and techniques for ensuring sustainable water, economic resources as well as ecosystem health. The center is used by Texas State University, and its multidisciplinary departments are involved with water resource management studies and research.

The Meadows Center at Spring Lake Hall houses the Texas Stream Team, a volunteer program that monitors the water quality of freshwater systems throughout the state.

The center was established in 1994 when Texas State, formerly Southwest Texas University, purchased land that was previously used as an amusement park, including Spring Lake, then an artificial freshwater reservoir.

Natural habitat
The San Marcos Springs are the headwaters of the San Marcos River.

Aquarian Center was designated as a "critical habitat," subject to the Endangered Species Act, because the springs are home to the fountain darter, the Texas Blind Salamander, the San Marcos Salamander, the San Marcos gambusia, and Texas Wild Rice. The San Marcos gambusia may be extinct as none have been seen since 1983.

Early settlements
The site contains more than 200 springs with water from the Edwards Aquifer and that discharge an average of 123 e6USgal of water daily, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in North America. Artifacts discovered in digs conducted from 1979 to 1982 date back 12,000 years.

The first Europeans to visit the springs were probably Spanish explorers in 1689. The springs were an important stop on the Old San Antonio Road and the Chisholm Trail. In 1847, former Republic of Texas vice president Edward Burleson purchased the land surrounding the headwaters of the river and built a cabin on the hill overlooking the headwaters. Two years later Burleson built a dam just below the springs to power a mill. This dam, which created Spring Lake, still exists today.

Spring Lake has been visited by notable individuals including Robert E. Lee, Jay Gould, and Helen Miller Shepard.

Aquarena Springs
A.B. Rogers purchased the property in 1926 and his son, Paul, developed a hotel there in 1928 and introduced glass bottom boats to the lake.

In the 1950s, construction of a submarine theater and large spillway at one end of the lake to produce a swimming pool led to the opening of Aquarena Springs, an amusement park, at the site in 1951. Other features of the park were the Alpine Swiss Sky Ride (a Von Roll skyride), an Intamin 220 foot Sky Spiral that moved vertically above the lake and rotated 360°, and "Ralph, the Famous Swimming Pig" and "mermaid" performers that could be viewed from the submarine theater. The park also included a coin-operated arcade in which human visitors would "compete" in games like Tic-tac-toe against chickens, whose "moves" in the game were determined by pecking lights which appeared only on the chicken's side of the machine. At its peak, Aquarena Springs attracted 350,000 visitors annually.

Aquarena Springs was on the cover of Popular Mechanics and was featured in Life.

Since Aquarena Springs' closure, a documentary, Aquarena Springs and Ralph the Swimming Pig, was created in 2011 by Bob Phillips.

The Mermaid Society of Texas, founded in 2016, now hosts an annual promenade and festival for the river, celebrating Aquarena's mermaids.

In 2021, the Texas Congress passed Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 9, recognizing Aquarena Springs, the Aquamaids, and Ralph the Swimming Pig, and San Marcos as the Mermaid Capital of Texas.

Environmental center
The site was acquired by Texas State University-San Marcos in 1994. Soon after, the demolition of Aquarena Springs' facilities commenced, finally concluding with the Submarine Theater and Sky Spiral in 2012.

The new Meadows Center was created with an emphasis on habitat reclamation and environmental goals, adding a Wetlands Boardwalk in a shallow area of Spring Lake. The boardwalk, made of recycled plastic lumber, floats on the water and circles a marshy area that showcases the flora and fauna of a wetland ecosystem.

Research
The main aim of the center is research.

The MCWE participates in underwater archaeology. It led the search for Henry Morgan's lost fleet, and played a role in rediscovering the Satisfaction in 2011. while exploring caves in Mexico, Spring Lake, and shipwrecks.

The center uses unmanned aircraft (Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle) to capture photos and gather information for projects related to fisheries, wildlife, and watershed management and restoration.

International watershed studies
The Meadows Center is dedicated to the sustainable management of the world's freshwater resources.

Spring Lake management
They oversee the Spring Lake Management Plan, which is designed to protect healthy ecosystems, provide research and educational opportunities, and offer access for service activities. As active partners in the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan, they help ensure minimum continuous spring flows of the Comal and San Marcos Springs.

Filmography
The Aquarena Springs Amusement Park was the actual location of the resort in the 1978 film Piranha, directed by Joe Dante.

authors: Ἀλέξανδρος Ζεύς


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KTRU-LP

KTRU-LP (stylized as ktru) is the college radio station of Rice University, a private university in south-central Houston, Texas, United States.

KTRU-LP broadcasts a freeform-eclectic music format on 96.1 FM; its programming includes modern classical, reggae, indie rock, chopped and screwed, spoken word and local experimental noise bands. During evening hours, the station broadcasts shows geared to particular musical genres and themes. The station is owned by the university, which maintains an FM transmitter atop Rice Stadium, and is managed by its students.

The current KTRU-LP license dates to 2015, but Rice's first foray into FM radio began in 1971, and radio at the university has a history dating to 1967.

KTRU at 91.7
The roots of KTRU began in February 1967 in a residential college at Rice, Hanszen College, where several students broadcast music in the Old Section part of the dorm using an unlicensed 2-watt AM station, using the call sign KHCR (Hanszen College radio) and the wiring of a buzzer system. The next fall, the station transformed into an AM carrier current station with wires running through the steam tunnel system connecting the dormitories to a studio located in the basement of the Rice Memorial Center using the call sign KOWL, a nod to the Rice University mascot.

The station moved to FM after a license was granted by the FCC to the Rice University Board of Governors. Since KOWL was already in use at the time, KTRU was chosen as a substitute. KTRU began operations in 1971 with a transmitter located in Sid Richardson College. Initially broadcasting at 10 watts, the students engineered an increase to 340 watts in April 1974 and 650 watts in October 1980. The broadcast day also increased from the initial evening-only hours to 10 to 12 hours a day on weekdays and most of the weekend. In 1981, KTRU expanded its broadcast hours to 24 hours per day. In 1987, a major expansion of the student center was completed, and KTRU's studios were relocated to the 2nd floor of the Ley Student Center.

In 1991, KTRU's transmitter was moved to the north of Houston, increased in power to 50,000 watts and was presented with an operating endowment by Mike Stude, the owner of Houston-area radio station KRTS (now KROI) and an heir of the founders of Brown & Root. This move enabled Stude's KRTS to increase from 3,000 watts to 50,000 watts and improve its own coverage without interfering with KTRU's signal on the second adjacent channel. While KTRU gained a significant increase in overall coverage area, the signal was weakened tremendously around the Rice campus, leading to the request and subsequent grant of a low-power translator broadcasting from the top of Rice Stadium on 91.5 MHz in 1999, in order to restore a strong signal around the entirety of the campus.

In 1997, a university committee released a report recommending expanding coverage of university programs to 12 hours of the broadcast day, the hiring of professional staff, and increasing marketing of the station, in addition to studio expansion and technology upgrades. At the recommendation of the committee, a professional General Manager was hired in 1998 with the Station Manager still staffed by a student volunteer.

In 2000, university administrators threatened to withhold financing and other resources KTRU received through student fees unless the station increased the broadcast air time devoted specifically to Rice University sports. As a result, KTRU more than doubled the number of sports games it broadcast per week. On November 30, 2000, student volunteers entered the station to host their weekly punk show and found that their slot had been preempted by a sports game without prior notice and they were expected to operate the board during the broadcast. The DJs protested by playing punk rock music concurrently with the game during its last hour. A university administrator called the station manager and demanded that he discipline the DJs. When the station manager refused, the university administration responded by physically locking students out of the station and replacing its programming with a satellite feed from the World Radio Network. The administration cited the station's by-laws which gives the university president ultimate authority over the station. Students protested the shut-down, including a silent protest outside the University Board of Governors meeting. The station shutdown and protests received coverage in the press and students submitted a petition in support of the student-run station with over 700 signatures. The lockout lasted 8 days before the station was returned to student control with joint oversight from the university administration.

Sale of 91.7 and move online
On August 17, 2010, Rice University announced that it had been in negotiations to sell KTRU's broadcast tower, FM frequency and license to the University of Houston System in order for 91.7 to become a full-time classical music and fine arts programming station, relieving KUHF from all music programming and allowing it to become a full-time news station. The new station at 91.7, KUHA (since resold and now KHVU), would be operated as a not-for-profit outlet, with listener support funding the new classical music home. The FCC approved the sale and granted the transfer of license to the University of Houston System on April 15, 2011.

On February 14, 2011, Pacifica Radio's KPFT (90.1 FM) began broadcasting KTRU's programming on its HD2 channel.

KTRU ceased broadcasting on 91.7 FM at 6 a.m. on April 28, 2011.

In the aftermath of the sale to the University of Houston, KTRU's programming continued to be broadcast, through an agreement with station owner Pacifica, in a digital-only format as the HD2 subchannel of 90.1 KPFT.

Return to the air
KTRU returned to an over-the-air FM broadcast in Houston when it acquired a construction permit to build a 41-watt low-power FM at 96.1 MHz, licensed as KBLT-LP, and signing on October 2, 2015. Concurrent with the launch of KBLT-LP, Pacifica removed KTRU programming from its HD2 subchannel. The current signal has a coverage radius of 5 mi from Rice Stadium, covering southwest Houston within the Interstate 610 loop. As a result, the station relies heavily on online streaming to reach listeners outside of its limited broadcast range.

Call letters
The KTRU call letters, used by Rice FM radio from 1971 to 2011, had been claimed on May 17, 2011 by a new radio station owned by Grace Public Radio in La Harpe, Kansas (near Iola), after Rice abandoned them in the sale to the University of Houston. Grace Public Radio made it clear there was no desire to share the call sign with the university, for the new low-power facility to use; therefore, Rice accepted a random call sign given to the new facility by the Federal Communications Commission. There was no meaning behind the KBLT-LP call sign this facility initially used to legally broadcast.

In early 2019, the Kansas station was sold to new ownership who were more receptive in allowing Rice to reclaim use of the KTRU call letters. On August 21, 2019, Rice University acquired the right, through purchase, to once again utilize the KTRU calls as KTRU-LP; the $10,000 cost was fully funded by an anonymous donor. (The full-powered KTRU facility remains in Kansas.)

The station has promoted and sponsored independent and local music through sponsoring shows at local venues and on its university campus. The station organizes a Rice battle of the bands every year as well as an annual outdoor show featuring local and touring bands.

Notable station alumni

 * Rob Sides, music industry executive who worked for Warner Brothers, Electra, WEA, Giant and Revolution Records
 * Stan Barber, significant contributor to Network News Transfer Protocol, and chair of the Texas IPv6 Task Force
 * John Doerr, venture capitalist with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
 * Kyle Henry, film director and editor whose work has premiered at Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival
 * Scott Hochberg, representative to Texas House District 137 since 2003 and co-founder of Logitek Audio
 * Tim Holy, Ph.D., neurobiologist at Washington University School of Medicine and NIH Pioneer Awardee
 * Ray Isle, Wine Editor at Food & Wine
 * Sarah L. Keller, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Washington and winner of numerous awards including the 2010 Avanti Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award her work in cell membrane lipids.
 * Bruce Mast, former mayor of Albany, California
 * Michele Wucker, executive director of the World Policy Institute and 2007 Guggenheim Awardee
 * Clayton O. Finney, aka "The Outlaw Philatelist", renowned expert on preservation of early-American Methodist Chapels, World Champion Golf Ball Retriever, aficionado of fine cigars and spirits, author of “The Clayton Finney Lifestyle” and other lesser known novels, Chairman, Repentant Sinners Social Club and BBQ Cooking Team, staunch supporter of BlackBerry technology, and frequent contributor to “The American Philatelist”, “Linn's Stamp News” and “Schweizer Briefmarken Zeitung”

In popular culture

 * In Jonathan Franzen's Strong Motion, protagonist Louis Holland attends Rice University where he is station manager of KTRU. He also has a brief affair with a female KTRU DJ.

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