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Talk:Al-Muqanna

Al-Muqanna' is the title used by Britannica] I suppose the ' reflects an Ayn? Which title is better? gren 05:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I remember reading a short story called "The Veiled Prophet of Khorasan" in a small American anthology of short stories. 19th century, someone like Hawthorne, Melville.Marcin862 (talk) 18:21, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Um, hello, NPOV? This article reeks of Iranian Nationalism POV.. 74.140.137.57 (talk) 03:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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Poisoned himself?
Actually, Muqanna didn't poisoned himself, but jumped into fire.Bek98 (talk) 20:51, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Neutrality
"Zarrinkoob states that al-Muqanna was originally a goldsmith, who later studied material sciences. He also learned magic, spells, and trickery."

An arab author cannot be neutral about Muqanna. Arabs in order to discreditate Muqanna claimed that he was a triccer. Bek98 (talk) 20:59, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Hakim
"Hakim is a title for a learned or sage." Actually, Hakim is a name of Muqanna's father. Hashim ibn Hakim. "Ibn" is used before father name. Bek98 (talk) 21:04, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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These editions by 82.36.156.18 might need some attention. I'll start with the wrong translation of Hāshem (instead of al-Muqanna‘) as The Veiled. --Pablo Tornielli (talk) 21:55, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Neuroscience and intelligence

The validity of supposed "racist pseudoscience"
Studies have found that on average, blacks have smaller brains (especially frontal lobes) relative to body size AND shorter childhoods than East Asians or Caucasians. In fact, their frontal bones can often be found with frontal eminences in adulthood--a childhood trait. Their cranial bones are very thick (right behind Australoids; an even more robust and small-brained group), yet their craniums usually appear much smaller than other groups, relative to size.

Other studies have shown that while short childhoods have a fast rate of development of the brain, ultimately the person with a longer childhood develops a more complex brain. Theory is a primitive African society with inadequate protection from wildlife and heat made short childhoods advantageous.

Other supporting evidence is the fact ancient Subsaharan populations interbred with hominids a lot less related to us than Neanderthals or Denisovans. A study has found that up to 20% of subsaharan DNA is derived from this distant human relative.

One explanation for a larger brain is colder climates simply require better planning and creativity to survive, hence the large brain and long childhood of most of the non-Subsaharan populations. Agriculture provided the reliable, abundant supply of food for a growing brain.

Before their arrival to their recent homelands, I'm sure Caucasians and Asians looked very much like modern blacks and by that I don't mean in the superficial ways like color or hair but a robust build, which compensates for a smaller brain that impedes sophisticated technology, cooking, and agriculture. Basically on a lower rung on the human evolutionary ladder.

The brain is incredibly draining on essential resources of the body. Such a size increase must have been such a huge advantage to offset this disadvantage or else natural selection would have bred it out very quickly. My point is large brains have a huge tradeoff. If the trait is common in some groups, it served an important purpose. Undoubtedly, it's related to intelligence as all throughout human evolution, larger brains for intelligence has been the general trend. It's our defining characteristic and the only justicification for a brain size increase. Also proven by Caucasians' and Asians' history of building sophisticated societies.

If brain size size is indeed responsible for intelligence in part, what will become of society when it is universally accepted some races have adapted to be generally intellectually superior? I'm aware I'm venturing into taboo territory here so sorry if my inquiry is offensive.

Please read it and create an audio file
If you are a native speaker please read it and create an audio file. Thanks! :-)

Cortical convolution
Might is written correctly in the text. Mora data-citations needed.

What makes a brain intelligent?
tell me about this 2409:408D:3D4D:F8D4:0:0:A0B:720B (talk) 09:09, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

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Council of Ten

The Council of Ten (Consiglio dei Dieci; Consejo de i Diexe), or simply the Ten, was from 1310 to 1797 one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice. Elections took place annually and the Council of Ten had the power to impose punishments upon patricians. The Council of Ten had a broad jurisdictional mandate over matters of state security. The Council of Ten and the Full College constituted the inner circle of oligarchical patricians who effectively ruled the Republic of Venice.

Origins
The Council of Ten was created in 1310 by Doge Pietro Gradenigo. Originally created as a temporary body to investigate the plot of Bajamonte Tiepolo and Marco Querini, the powers of the Council were made formally permanent in 1455. The Council was composed of ten patrician magistrates elected by the Great Council to one-year terms. Until 1582, an additional zonta of around 15 to 20 members also served on the Council. No more than one member of the same family could serve on the Council at any one time, and members could not be re-elected to successive terms.

Composition
Elections took place annually in August and others in September. The Council, which met at least weekly, had the power to impose punishments upon nobles, including banishment and capital punishment. On the council's orders, Doge Marino Faliero was executed in 1355, and the Count of Carmagnola in 1432. The body's deliberations were highly secretive, and members of the Council of Ten took an oath of secrecy. Thomas Madden wrote: "The three capi of the Ten served for a month at a time and, to avoid any opportunity for bribery, were forbidden to leave the Ducal Palace during their tenure of office."

Powers
Historian Edward Wallace Muir Jr. wrote: "The Council of Ten stood somewhat apart from the hierarchy of offices but was proverbially powerful. With its secret funds, system of anonymous informers, police powers, and broad jurisdictional mandate over matters of state security, the members of the Council of Ten, along with those of the Collegio, rotated offices among themselves and constituted the inner circle of oligarchical patricians who, in effect, ruled the republic." During the War of the League of Cambrai, for example, the Council had responsibility for finding ways to pay for the state's military expenses.

From the 1490s through the 1530s, the Council of Ten and other Venetian authorities enacted sumptuary laws. In 1506, the Ten enacted an anti-banqueting law, seeking to prevent ambitious noblemen from engaging in vote buying by hosting lavish dinner parties at the compaginie della calza (exclusive social societies). The law specifically prohibited women other than the wives of members from attending such dinners.

The Council was formally tasked with maintaining the security of the Republic and preserving the government from overthrow or corruption. However, its small size and ability to rapidly make decisions led to more mundane business being referred to it, and by 1457 it was enjoying almost unlimited authority over all governmental affairs. In particular, it oversaw Venice's diplomatic and intelligence services, managed its military affairs, and handled legal matters and enforcement. By the end of the sixteenth century, the Council of Ten had become Venice's spy chiefs, overseeing the city's vast intelligence network.

The Council utilized bocche dei leoni (lion's mouths) placed around the city which allowed Venetians to report suspected illegal activities by placing a written note into the mouth. The lion's mouths were seen by later observers such as Mark Twain to represent an oppressive autocratic government that spied on its citizens, but in reality the reports placed in lion's mouths were examined and only credible reports were investigated.

State Inquisitors
In 1539 the Council established the State Inquisitors, a tribunal of three judges chosen from among its members to deal with threats to state security. The Inquisitors were given equal authority to that of the entire Council of Ten, and could try and convict those accused of treason independently of their parent body. To further these activities, the Inquisitors created a large espionage network of spies and informants, both in Venice and abroad. Inquisitors could conduct secret trials with a low standard of proof, and the inquisitors' practices bore strong similarities to those of the Roman Inquisition, which was established three years later. From 1624 onward, the Council of Ten was charged with the prosecution of all crimes involving the private lives of Venetian patricians.

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Pin Oak Fountain

The Pin Oak Fountain was built in the U.S. state of West Virginia by the West Virginia State Road Commission and local artisans in 1932 on land given by H.R. Edeburn. The crystal quartz used in construction was quarried from behind nearby Bloomery Iron Furnace on Diamond Ridge, and the stone from the hillside behind the fountain. The fountain's spring water is gravity fed from the hill above and continues to supply area residents and travelers. The fountain is a popular site for picnics, dances, courting, and auctions. Pin Oak Fountain was restored in 1988 and is maintained by the Pin Oak Extension Homemakers Club.

The fountain and its historical marker are located on West Virginia Route 29, eight miles southeast of Paw Paw in the community of Pin Oak. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

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Trollius europaeus

Trollius europaeus, the globeflower, is a perennial flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae. The plant is native to Europe and Western Asia and is a protected species in Russia and Bulgaria.

In Udmurtia, this plant is one of the national symbols of the republic, with many different objects named after it.

Description
Trollius europaeus grows up to 60 cm high with a bright yellow, globe-shaped flower up to 3 cm across. The colourful petaloid sepals hide 5–15 inconspicuous true petals with nectaries at their base and, typically for the family, a large number of stamens. Each flower produces a large number of wrinkled follicles. The leaves are deeply divided into 3–5 toothed lobes.

It grows in damp ground in shady areas, woodland and scrub, flowering between June and August.

This species is pollinated mostly by seed-eating flies belonging to the genus Chiastocheta (Anthomyiidae).

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User:Mohamed Hossam

About me
I'm interested in heraldry, royalty, vexillology and cryptozoology. I speak Arabic, English, and French.

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WUMB-FM

WUMB-FM (91.9 FM) in Boston, Massachusetts, is the radio station of the University of Massachusetts Boston. It broadcasts a mix of Americana, blues, roots, and folk hosted by its staff weekdays. On weekends the station concentrates on traditional folk, Celtic, blues, and world music including syndicated programs. Overnight programming starting at midnight and usually through 5am is a repeat of a portion of the previous day's programming; an announcement of this fact is made at midnight. The station has received many awards for its folk music programming.

Programming
WUMB-FM operates as a noncommercial public radio–style station which carries some NPR programming. HD Radio technology allows WUMB to transmit a high-quality digital signal. Due to the crowded state of the noncommercial end of the FM dial in New England, WUMB operates at a modest 160 watts, effectively limiting its coverage area to Boston itself and its innermost suburbs. To widen its signal, it operates a network of eight repeater stations across eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. WUMB-FM can also be heard on the Internet at both low bit rate for those with dial up connection and in stereo for those with broadband service.

Since 1998, WUMB has sponsored a live music festival, called the Boston Folk Festival through 2009, but renamed to WUMB Music Fest in 2010 and 2011. The first festival was held at scattered sites in Boston's Back Bay. Since then, it has taken place on the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus. The event is currently in hiatus, however WUMB does continue to participate in music festivals around New England like the Lowell Summer Music Series and the New Bedford Folk Festival.

Until 2013, WUMB broadcast with 660 watts, with a height above average terrain of 63 meters; after the station lost its then–transmitter site, the station moved to a new site and began broadcasting with its present 160-watt facility.

Original materials from WUMB have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Repeater stations
In addition to the main station, WUMB is relayed by eight repeaters and one translator to widen its broadcast area.

Notes:

In addition to its primary repeaters, starting in 2007 WPNI (1430 AM) in Amherst temporarily repeated WUMB by arrangement with WFCR while Pamal Broadcasting sought a buyer for the station; this ended when Pamal shut WPNI down on November 30, 2013. WHRB (95.3 FM) in Cambridge and WLYN (1360 AM) in Lynn have also offered temporary WUMB simulcasts in the past during transitions to either new studios or new ownership.

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National Unity Party (Northern Cyprus)

The National Unity Party (Ulusal Birlik Partisi, UBP) is a political party in Northern Cyprus. The UBP party was founded by Rauf Denktaş on 11 October 1975. The party was in power from its creation until the 2003 elections with the exception of the period from 1994–1996. Ideologically, it has been variously described as conservative, Turkish nationalism, liberal conservative, and national-conservative. The party is positioned on the right-wing of the political spectrum, and it supports a two-state solution to the Cyprus dispute. Until April 2022, the party was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, which it had joined in April 2017.

In the 2005 Northern Cypriot presidential election, the party's candidate Derviş Eroğlu amassed 22.8% of the votes. In the 2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, the party won 44% of the popular vote and 26 out of 50 seats, forming a majority government led by Eroğlu. The party also won the 2010 Northern Cyprus presidential election with Eroğlu as its candidate, and the 2020 Northern Cypriot presidential election with Ersin Tatar as its candidate. From 2016 until 2018 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, the party was the senior partner in a minority government with the Democratic Party, with its leader Hüseyin Özgürgün serving as prime minister. It had previously been a junior partner in a coalition government with the Republican Turkish Party, preceded by a period as the opposition party between 2013 and 2015. Since January 2023, the party has been led by Ünal Üstel, who replaced Faiz Sucuoğlu.

Party leaders

 * Rauf Denktaş (11 October 1975 – 3 July 1976)
 * Nejat Konuk (3 July 1976 – 2 March 1978)
 * Osman Örek (18 April 1978 – 7 January 1979)
 * Mustafa Çağatay (7 January 1979 – 30 November 1983)
 * Derviş Eroğlu (18 December 1983 – 11 February 2006)
 * Hüseyin Özgürgün (11 February 2006 – 16 December 2006)
 * Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu (16 December 2006 – 29 November 2008)
 * Derviş Eroğlu (29 November 2008 – 23 April 2010)
 * İrsen Küçük (9 May 2010 – 11 June 2013)
 * Hüseyin Özgürgün (31 August 2013 – 30 October 2018)
 * Ersin Tatar (30 October 2018 – 23 October 2020)
 * Ersan Saner (20 December 2020 – 31 October 2021)
 * Faiz Sucuoğlu (31 October 2021 – 1 January 2023)
 * Ünal Üstel (since 1 January 2023)

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User talk:Melanarchy

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Kingturtle 05:07, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Subbs

Mounting a JFFS image.

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Talk:American Family (artwork exhibition)

Related Links
   Sir Jimmy 05:10, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Just googled the title and artist, found some interesting articles on the painting, but currently extremely busy to improve the article, will work more on it soon. Here's the links
 * Those links help establish why this article is notable, it really needs expansion however. --  At am a chat 21:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JeremyA

JeremyA
final (30/0/0) ending 5:07 16 June 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm pleased to nominate JeremyA. I keep running into him on RC patrol, as he reverts vandalism by hand faster than I can do it with the rollback button.  He seems active in all areas of Wikipedia: fighting vandals,  beginning articles, expanding others.  And all this with a near-religious use of the "edit summary" function.  Joyous 05:10, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I accept the nomination, thank you.  JeremyA 05:16, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support Oppose
 * 1) Support happily. Joyous 05:11, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Sure. Everyking 05:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Definitely. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 05:18, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Looks good to me: Support Kelly Martin 05:25, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) We need RC cola, patrol work! Keep it up!--Jondel 05:27, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. I have great admiration for dilligent janitors on RC Patrol. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:26, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Looks good, JeremyA. You seem like a clear-headed and responsible editor, and I like what I'm seeing with the RC patrol. You have made more than your share of substantial new articles, and I think that we need people who are both article-writers as well as janitors. Unless I've overlooked something major, your record looks clean, and I have no second thoughts about giving you my support. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 11:52, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. Good history reverting vandalism. Bluemoose 14:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Looks a good user, and would make a fine admin.  smoddy 20:47, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:47, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support.-gadfium 02:41, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Absolutely. Like Joy, I'm quite impressed by Jeremy's vandal-fighting kung fu. -- Hadal 04:02, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Of course. Joyous has a good taste for admins ;-). Shanes 05:09, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support --Spangineer (háblame)  16:08, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. JYolkowski // talk 20:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. El_C 23:41, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. JuntungWu 03:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support - RC patrol 4 lyfe. --FCYTravis 03:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. Someone should design an RC Patrol insignia, or perhaps even a uniform. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 05:23, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support 100% I've always stated that a person with the makings of a great administrator should have a balance between working behind the scenes doing chores and contributing written articles. JeremyA has proven that he is an asset to the Wiki project and therefore, can be trusted with admin powers.  Marine 69-71 04:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Awesome RC patrolling. Awesome. Bratsche talk  5 pillars 03:03, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support. Very impressive RC patrolling.  Great admin material. --Canderson7 01:52, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. Good edit history. func (talk) 03:24, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. --Kbdank71 16:21, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. No doubt. utcursch | talk 06:06, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. --Theo (Talk) 11:25, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:37, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   03:18, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support; everything I have seen is good. I bump into him on RC patrol a lot; give the man the keys to the mop room. Antandrus  (talk)  03:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Shiri — Talk 03:46, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments
 * Edit counts, for those who care: Main 1980/50, User 149/190, Wikipedia 231/0, Image 191/0, Template 13/2, Category 4/0; total 2810. Kelly Martin 05:25, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. I do a fair amount of RC patrol already, and being an admin would help me with this. I also anticipate helping in closing VfD debates and cleaning up CSD.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. There is no one article that I would hold up as my best. However, I am pleased with my contributions to the group of articles about the Districts of Sheffield. When I started editing these were mostly short stubs, or just non-existent articles red-linked from the main Sheffield page. This is still a work in progress, but I feel that the 28 articles that I created to group all the district articles into have progressed well—of these Ecclesall is probably the best so far.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?
 * A. I haven't had any large conflicts so far. I have some minor disagreements with other editors. Sometimes looking back at these situations I feel that initially I react badly, but so far I think that I have managed to make ammends whenever I have made mistakes. I think that I have learnt a lot from watching other conflicts from the sidelines, there are definitely some editors who are gifted at dealing with conflicts and I hope that I can learn from them. In particular, I have noticed on a number of occasions how a well written edit can satisfy all parties in a conflict.


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Madeleine Dupont

Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark ) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Jasmin Lander, My Larsen, and Denise Dupont (Madeleine's sister).

Dupont has competed in three Olympic Games and 13 World Championships, winning medals at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship (silver) and the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship (bronze). She won a gold medal at the World Junior-B Curling Championships in 2004 and a silver medal in 2002 at the European Curling championships as an alternate for Dorthe Holm's team. She also won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships. She won two bronze medals at the European Championships, throwing last rocks for Denmark, in 2008 and 2009. In 2022 she became European champion after an extra-end win over Switzerland in the final.

At the Olympics, Dupont threw last rocks for her country at the 2010 Vancouver Games, where the team finished in fourth place. She skipped the Danish team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang to a 10th place finish, and again at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, finishing 9th. On the World Curling Tour, she won the Yi Chun Ladies International event in Yichun, Heilongjiang in December 2011 and the 2021 Women's Masters Basel.

As of August 2023, Dupont is a coordinator for the Danish curling elite programme.

Personal life
Dupont was featured topless in a calendar to promote curling. About the picture, she stated, "If a picture of me can get more people to watch curling on TV, that's a good thing." Dupont is a client manager at TV 2 in Denmark. She is married and has one son.

Dupont is part of a curling family, her father Kim Dupont competed at two World Junior Championships, and her brother Oliver Dupont won a silver medal at the 2016 World Men's Championship, and her sister Denise Dupont has been a long-time teammate.

Teammates

 * 2007 Aomori World Championships
 * 2009 Gangneung World Championships
 * 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
 * Denise Dupont, Third
 * Angelina Jensen, Skip
 * Camilla Jensen, Lead
 * Ane Hansen, Alternate

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Talk:High school boys ice hockey in Minnesota

Information
Teams list is comprised of the 156 teams that competed during the 2004-05 season. This needs to be adjusted yearly. --Schulte 04:55, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reconcile
There are instances where teams that won championships were joint efforts between multiple schools. There are other instances where schools have merged or split (Edina and Edina East in particular). --Schulte 04:55, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VFD debate
This article has been kept due to consensus to delete at this VFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:43, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cooperative Schools
Removing the notation on the St. Paul Senators. The St. Paul Senators are notated below, with the schools in the co-op listed, but no other co-op teams are notated. Either all need to be listed or none. Since there are many co-op teams it is easier to list none. Limasbravo 19:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Under the team column, which is listing the mascots, there are a few where there is just a number listed. Clicking the number brings up the MSHSL team page, which all the others do the same. I'm not seeing any notation below the table, so I'm standardizing them with the rest of the list. Limasbravo 14:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * What do you mean by standardizing them, Limasbravo? --Schulte 14:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Now that I'm looking a little further at them, it appears that the ones where they have the numbers that have the numbers on the mascots are ones where the mascot is unknown. It just looks a little weird having numbers, but no notation below the table. Any idea the easiest way to solve this? Maybe have all of them the same number and then below the table say "mascot unknown" or something like that? I did update a couple of the mascots. Any ideas you have? What I meant by standardizing is just making those entrys the same as the others, but since we don't know the mascot names this isn't possible. Limasbravo 14:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * All we need to do is track them down. Some are more difficult to discern unless you know about a team...such as MAML...cooperative teams are not as easy sometimes...multiple high school team names, but when they play together, they sometimes go with another team name, like the Stars. St. Paul Senators, the Senators I assume? Only 9 to go...Tri-City will likely fade. Just takes a little diligence to get the rest. --Schulte 14:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

We will have to find out for sure about the Senators, but I would guess Senators as well. Limasbravo 15:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Girls
Are there plans to added information about girls hockey? if not than the page should be retitled Minnesota high school boys hockey or something like that Smith03 20:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe that is what the page use to be called, and then it got changed to this for some reason. I think we should just rename it what is used to be called, Minnesota high school boys hockey , and then we could create a separate page for girls if desired.--Gephart 03:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * See the June 11 edit in the history. We should quickly review the naming conventions before making another article name change... --Schulte 17:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think we should just rename the article to the above stated name. It was changed without consensus or even a vote and seemed to be unjustified.  I would go ahead and just change it.--Gephart 18:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I made the move. We should probably clean up the old redirects so that they some in cleanly to this new article name. --Schulte 18:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Grammatically, shouldn't this be called High school boys' ice hockey in Minnesota ? - Reidgreg (talk) 19:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC). Ah, sorry, I've been schooled on noun adjuncts; no apostrophe required. - Reidgreg (talk) 19:25, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Deletion?
I think this article, along with all other articles about high school hockey should be deleted. Here's my logic. A few admin decided to delete the article on Washington State High School Hockey. Based on that, if we should delete one state, we should delete them all.SJHAGoalie (talk) 12:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Pennsylvania high school hockey which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —DJSasso (talk) 19:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Removing current conferences
This page has gotten unnecessarily messy. Breaking out each conference into it's own table seems unnecessary, as this info should be captured on each schools individual Wiki page. Proposing deleting and cleaning up to represent key data. Thoughts? Gephart (talk) 23:40, 21 February 2020 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flippy

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Redirect; no information to merge, main article already contains it all. Golbez 19:04, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Flippy
I love the Happy Tree Friends as much as the next guy, honestly...but I really don't think individual characters deserve their own articles. Merge to main article? Bearcat 05:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree, merge into main article...the HTF article is short enough as it is, and individual characters about which usually no more than two or three sentences can be written do not need their own articles -- Ferkelparade π 10:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Happy Tree Friends as per WP:FICT. -- Lochaber 10:59, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete minor character. JamesBurns 11:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge nearly all fictional characters. There is no need to put this through a VFD. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:32, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect only: I know merging is nice, but I'm not. Minor characters of ephemera really shouldn't be tossed into the 9 mile long merge queue, IMO.  Redirect only. Geogre 14:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The merge could have been done by the nominator, and probably with less effort than vfd. Feel free to do so on your own recognizance in the future. Meelar (talk) 15:41, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've gotten into enough scraps with fancrufters who disagreed with me on that kind of thing that I will not merge without a VfD consensus unless an article actually duplicates an existing one. Just FYI. Bearcat 00:27, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .

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Globularia

Globularia is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen mat-forming perennials or subshrubs, with leathery oval leaves 1–10 cm long. The flowers are produced in dense inflorescences (capitula) held above the plant on a 1–30 cm tall stem; the capitula is 1–3 cm in diameter, with numerous tightly packed purple, violet, pink or white flowers.

Globularia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora virgatella.

Several members of the genus, such as Globularia cordifolia and Globularia punctata, are cultivated and sold for garden use.

Under the old Cronquist system of plant classification, they were treated in their own family, Globulariaceae, but genetic evidence has shown that the genus belongs in the family Plantaginaceae.

Most species are known as globe daisies or globularias.

Species
Species include:

 * Globularia alypum
 * Globularia amygdalifolia
 * Globularia ascanii
 * Globularia bisnagarica
 * Globularia cordifolia
 * Globularia dumulosa
 * Globularia greuteri
 * Globularia incanescens
 * Globularia meridionalis
 * Globularia nudicaulis
 * Globularia orientalis
 * Globularia repens
 * Globularia salicina
 * Globularia sarcophylla
 * Globularia stygia
 * Globularia trichosantha
 * Globularia vulgaris

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buddhist Monkey

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Merge. Golbez 19:07, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Buddhist Monkey
I love the Happy Tree Friends as much as the next guy, honestly...but I really don't think individual characters deserve their own articles. Merge to main article? Bearcat 05:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Happy Tree Friends as per WP:FICT. -- Lochaber 11:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete minor character. JamesBurns 11:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect only, reasoning above. Geogre 14:17, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge, not really worth worrying about. Kappa 14:04, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Genesis 1:2

Delete
This was a Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Genesis 1:2 in 2005 as a VfD

Please reconsider deleting this article. Thanks,  —  Jasonasosa  03:36, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

No I don't consider deleting this as reasonable, the goal of Wikiproject Bible is emphasised in this article to delete it would be a disaster in our goal. This makes it easier to understand the Bible and it doesn't need that. As some need it to better understand the Bible Logawinner (talk) 19:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

 * Logawinner, you're responding to a comment from nearly seven years ago in connection with a deletion discussion that was held at that time, which concluded with the article being kept. Also, it was useless for Jasonasosa to post his request here as such commentary, in the case of an article that has been submitted for a deletion discussion, is considered only if posted to that discussion  Largoplazo (talk) 21:29, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

bohu or vohu?
Shouldn't it be "tohu va-vohu", since there is no dagesh on the letter bet/vet? --91.115.11.41 (talk) 16:19, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Raise to B quality
Should we raise it to B quality I don't think it's a C Logawinner (talk) 19:01, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * For assessment, we follow this quality grading scheme to determine it is B or C. Peace. JohnThorne (talk) 22:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Transliteration
Could someone please possibly look at the method used for transliteration at the top of this article please? I understand the need for tonal changes, etc, but the transliteration for someone who has never read Hebrew before, is near impossible to understand. I saw the example on the top of Genesis 1:1, and it was simple, easy to read...a whole world away from this one. It would be helpful to find a way to standardise transliteration across these articles, if you don't have an agreed standard already. Shalom to you all, Dane | Geld  10:36, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:2005 Bolivia protests

Is it clear that this is a seperate topic? I think this might be better folded into Bolivian Gas War?

Also, there are many, many countries with corporations that have interests in natural resource exploitation in Bolivia, including Spain, Argentina, Brazil. It's not just the U.S. DanKeshet 05:15, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Some of the language used here is way to biased.

"At issue is Bolivia's large natural gas reserves and the prospect for their future sale and use, as benefitting the local economy or benifitting foreign investors."

This for instance seems POV. Also, the page fails to talk about Bolivians in the Eastern part of the country seeking more autonomy and the fact that the protesters also argued against that as well. The article also fails to show why these protests started in the first place. They began because of a new law which raised taxes on foreign gas companies from 18% to 32%, the protesters felt that this was inadequate and called for all out nationalization. Furthermore, it fails to point out that parties like MAS have toned down there populist approach with regards to this issue. Evo Morales, who wanted taxes raised to 50%, even called the new law "middle ground". I will make the needed changes, but please try and keep this NPOV and based on facts. Jersey Devil 17:19, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gas reserves value
"Bolivia's reserves are worth over 1.2 billion USD".

It must be a mistake. I won't correct it because I don't know the correct value but it sounds definitely too low. I understand it as 1.2 E+9. Poszwa 01:31, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Merged with Bolivian Gas War
The merge has been done but i don't know why the edit line doesn't work. Tazmaniacs 05:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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2002 Metzer attack

The 2002 Metzer attack occurred on 10 November 2002 in Metzer, Israel by a Palestinian who infiltrated the Kibbutz and murdered five Israeli civilians, including a mother and her two children.

Attack
Sirhan entered the Kibbutz of Metzer on November 10 and fatally shot 5 residents, including two children. Additionally, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Victims
The attacker murdered filmmaker Revital Ohayoun, 34, and her two young children (Matan, 5, and Noam, 4), who were killed in their beds. Additionally, Tirza Damari, 42, and Yitzhak Drori, 44, the kibbutz secretary, were shot while responding to the gunfire.

Assailant
Sirhan Sirhan (سرحان سرحان, died 2003) was identified as the assailant. He was reportedly a member of the Tanzim, an armed wing of Fatah.

Despite initial claims to the contrary, he was not related to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian American Christian who assassinated United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

His house was demolished on December 19, 2002, by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

On October 3, 2003, Sirhan was killed by the Yamam, an IDF counter-terrorism unit, during an attempt to arrest him.

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This page was created as Sirhan Sirhan (militant), and moved to a page on the crime he committed as per usual practice with criminals known for a single event.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

"Terrorist", "Massacre" Is POV
Why is the Palestinian Sirham Sirham responsible for killing 5 settlers labled as "terrorist" and the attack a "massacre"?

If there are no objections "terrorist" should be changed to "militiant" or "activist" and the conclusion drawing "massacre" to "battle" or something similar. - Greenguy

 * Here's why. Because both are inherently POV.  To ignore the fact that this guy killed 5 innocent civilians (Don't tell me that people building houses are threats to Palestine; its absurd) by calling him simply a "militant" and certainly an "activist" (unless you mean actively pursuing murder as a reasonable course of political action with no moral justification, which, if you make clear, I'm ok with) you degrade what he did and insinuate in some way that it isn't vile and despicable.  The same goes toward "battle" because that implies that say, the people he killed were armed, or were commiting acts of violence which they were not (see Mother and her two CHILDREN ages FOUR and FIVE).  Both suggested changes are completely unacceptable.--The Grza  08:20, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

" Because both are inherently POV. " Militiant or activist is the term that the mainstream media uses. There are countless sources. Terrorist is a Israeli or Zionist POV. "Don't tell me that people building houses are threats to Palestine; its absurd) " It doesn't matter what they were doing specifically that is not why they died. What they were doing doesn't change the context of the act which happen as part of the overall Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And that has to be respected to maintain a neutral POV. If every murder of Palestinian children and unarmed civilians by IDF is labeled a massacre there would be a massive protest and cry of anti-semitism. Not to mention the significance of the word is decreased. Greenguy

This wasn't every act of aggression, this was the slaughter of 5 unarmed people, including two children. "Militant" has been used, but almost never for those who kill innocents. See the Iraq War coverage; Militants attack U.S. Troops, Terrorists blow up innocent people even though they are the same people. Sirhan Sirhan's attack was a purely terroristic one, designed to strike fear into the hearts of settlers, making him a terrorist by his own motives.--The Grza 01:03, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Try the Google test. Terrorist attack civilians brings up a page of rightwing, zionist and Israeli sites. "Militant Attack Civilians" Brings up a much broader range of American, British and world sources. "Militant Sirhan Sirhan kibbutz" as well brings up more diverse sources than "Terrorist Sirhan Sirhan kibbutz" which returns Pro-zionist and Israeli sites. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22sirhan+sirhan%22+kibbutz+militant&btnG=Search

Finally, Sirhan Sirhan was a militant of Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, a militant group recognized as a terrorist group only by Israel at the time. Not to mention the US recognized it as a terrorist group only later when they began attacking Israeli cities in response to Israel's occupation. --Greenguy 01:19, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Just to try mediating a truce before the flames start flying - I've got to say I see both your points. By all means, I think blowing up innocents is a terrorist act, and this might well be labelled terrorism. However, using the term 'massacre' is taking it much too far. For one, Greenguy has a very good point when he brings up how Palestinian children and innocents are being slaughtered by the IDF, which is never referred to as massacres (unless you're moving around in the palestine-scarf waving communities). Second, 50 people is a massacre. 5 is a multiple murder. I suppose Fox News would use the term 'massacre', but that's because 'massacre' sounds more dramatic, thus raising their ratings. So:
 * This was a "terrorist attack", if we're to be somewhat neutral. It was not a "militant massacre", as that sounds ridiculous. Nor was it a "militant battle", as that would imply, wrongly, as TheGrza already brought up, that the 5 dead Israelis were armed. Further, it was not a "terrorist massacre", as not only can it be interpreted as a lot of terrorists getting killed, it is also inherently pro-Israel POV.
 * If this is acceptable to both parties, which it really should - it is, after all, as close to middle ground as any flame war could get it - then you just go ahead and change it. I'm just a self-proclaimed negotiator in this particular case. --TVPR 16:35, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MOve
I realize the large problems with (militant) as the sub name to differentiate... feel free to change it but I didn't know what was better and I felt this deserved to be separated and not just shoved at the bottom of the other article. gren 05:16, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cut and paste move from Sirhan Sirhan (terrorist)
Here's the history for GFDL:
 * (cur) (last) 05:14, 22 September 2005 Aaron Brenneman (Copy edit, NPOV changes)
 * (cur) (last) 05:13, 22 September 2005 Jwissick m (Do not remove the db. This page is redundent)
 * (cur) (last) 05:09, 22 September 2005 207.195.255.158
 * (cur) (last) 05:06, 22 September 2005 Jwissick
 * (cur) (last) 05:03, 22 September 2005 207.195.255.158

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Messy
Which I now realize was a cut and paste from this, or perhaps just a page move without moving the talk page or something else I don't see.

Here's a short answer: quit stuffing around! Leave the page here, argue the content here, and quit with the tags which reference the totally irrelevant Sirhan Sirhan. Grrr. brenneman (t) (c) 05:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Tagged
Who called him as such WP:RS need or else this stub is WP:OR and the word should be removedRaveenS 19:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Personal blogs are not WP:RS it is not correct to use such referencesRaveenS 16:45, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The referenced blog says ->Note: Comments on articles are unmoderated, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Jihad Watch or Robert Spencer. Comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying may be summarily deleted. However, the fact that particular comments remain on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Robert Spencer of the views expressed therein.) Clearly not a WP:RS But any way moving on 18:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced claim of Christian affiliation
As of 23:36, 3 July 2006, IP 69.143.253.186 inserted the word Christian in front of "Palestinian …", thereby labeling Sirhan Sirhan as a Christian. Though 69.143.253.186 provided no source for this claim, it remained uncontested until now. Respecting AGF I suspect that 69.143.253.186 simply confused this Sirhan Sirhan with the RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan, though the latter was only born as a Christian but later changed his religion several times. The CBS article (see external link 1) clearly states: “The Sirhans in the Tulkarem refugee camp are Muslims.” Therefore I have replaced the word Christian by Muslim. --Túrelio 09:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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Scary Godmother

Scary Godmother is a series of children's books and comic books created by artist Jill Thompson and published by Sirius Entertainment beginning in 1997.

Main

 * Hannah Marie - Hannah is scared of monsters, but then she realizes monsters don't eat kids. Hannah's very kind and friendly, and it's implied that she has a crush on Orson, a young male vampire. In the first TV-special, her older cousin, Jimmy, and his friends scare her, but the monsters on the Fright Side help her get back at them in the end. Dresses as a fairy princess. She is voiced by Britt McKillip.
 * Scary Godmother - a tall, skinny and pretty-looking fairy-witch with long curly red hair, pale green skin, small bat wings on her back, and purple and green leggings. She lives on the Fright Side (a world where scary Halloween monsters live). She befriends a little girl named Hannah Marie, who was scared by her older cousin Jimmy into holding the doorknob to the haunted house Scary Godmother and her "broommates" were in. She also rides a broom and has a pet ghost cat named Boozle. Thompson has acknowledged that the character bears a resemblance to its creator. Her voice was done by Tabitha St. Germain in the TV adaptation.
 * Jimmy - Hannah's cousin who has little affection for her. Since he didn't want to take her trick or treating, he and his friends instead plan on scaring her. However, his plan backfires after Hannah befriends Scary Godmother and her broommates, all of whom give Jimmy and his friends a taste of their own medicine. A year later, he was so traumatized by that ordeal that he tried to stop Halloween from happening (by destroying all Halloween-related items, like pumpkins, costumes and candy), but is otherwise touched when he stumbles into a party that Scary Godmother, Hannah, and their friends were celebrating. Often dresses in a Devil sweatsuit on Halloween. He was the antagonist of the first and second books, but in the ending of second and the rest of the series he became good.
 * Jimmy's friends - Jimmy's three companions, whom he talked into scaring his cousin, Hannah, when she first went trick-or-treating. Unlike Jimmy, they aren't bad children, just easily influenced. They were content with Hannah's company, and even helped her save Halloween when Jimmy tried to ruin it once.
 * Bert - a boy and the most imaginative of the three. Dresses as a baseball player wearing a cardboard SUV around his body.
 * Daryl - sweet and naïve, dresses as a piece of candy and has a crush on Katie.
 * Katie - she's the most empathic of the three. Katie has a crush on Daryl, which is revealed when she tells him she'll trade him chocolate bar for a kiss, though also at times it seems she likes Jimmy. Katie dresses as a black cat. She is voiced by Britt Irvin.

Monsters

 * Mr. Skully Pettibone - one of Scary Godmother's "broommates". He's the skeleton that hides in people's closets to keep their secrets safe, and, as he puts it, just rattle around. Come Halloween, there's nothing Skully likes more than to cut loose and roll the bones at a good party. His characterization in the books, and to a greater extent in the animated specials, is to a large extent that of a stereotypical "female lead's gay best friend", as suggested by his repeatedly coming out of closets. His voice was done by Scott McNeil.
 * Bug-A-Boo - a huge, round monster with multiple yellow eyes, fur, a pointy tail, horns and a huge mouth with sharp teeth. He is the type of monster that lurks in places like basements, under beds, in closets, and other deep, dark places (and knows what children are scared of, even Jimmy and his friends). Frightened of him at first, Hannah perceived him as the "monster in the basement" that Jimmy told her would eat children lest she feeds him candy. While she does that, Bug-A-Boo tells her that his job is to scare children, not eat them! ("If I went around eatin' all the clients, I'd be out of work!"). They have since become great friends. His voice was done by Garry Chalk.
 * Harry - a talkative werewolf who wears a blue, lamb-patterned shirt. He hails from Ackerman Forest (a pun on horror honcho Forrest J Ackerman) which is somewhere in the Fright Side. With a hammy, self-absorbed and pitying personality and an insatiable appetite for food (especially candy and snacks), he is a huge nuisance to Scary Godmother and her broommates. Harry is a big fan of the TV "skelevision" show The Spectral Six. It is notable however that while annoying, Harry is still a full-grown male werewolf possessing razor-sharp claws and fangs, incredible strength, and highly acute lupine senses. It would be unwise to get between Harry and something he wants, especially if it's anything food-related. His voice was done by Garry Chalk.
 * Count Max - a tall, thin and bald vampire dressed in black. The most famous vampire on the Fright Side, he is the "King of the Night". Usually very old-fashioned, Max feels awkward for being so out of touch with the times. His visual design is suggestive of that of Count Orlok in Murnau's Nosferatu as played by Max Schreck, his vocal characterization of Béla Lugosi impersonators. His voice was done by Scott McNeil.
 * Ruby - Max's beautiful wife who is also a vampire and the "Queen of the Night". She is more "modern" than her husband, which drives him batty. She has long, black hair and is clad in a satin dress. Her appearance recalls that of 1950s horror show hostess Vampira. Her voice was also done by Tabitha St. Germain in a Russian accent.
 * Orson - Max & Ruby's preteen son who is a vampire like his parents. He is the "Prince of the Night". Orson wears modern goth clothing, thin round glasses and has blue dyed hair. In the TV-specials, it's implied but never confirmed that he has a crush on Hannah (and that she may reciprocate his feelings). In the book versions, it's confirmed that Orson does in fact have a crush on Hannah. His voice is done by Richie Warke.

Development
Thompson described the work and the character this way: "Scary Godmother is like your fairy godmother, but for Halloween. There's really nothing scary about the Scary Godmother. She's fun and macabre; reminiscent of childhood with a little bit of social commentary mixed in". She said that "comics are so segregated now" and that she wanted to create something that both young readers and adults could enjoy. She decided to create something with a Halloween theme after looking for a Halloween-themed children's book for her niece and not finding anything that she liked. The books employ a combination of storybook/comic formats. Thompson does the interiors as well as the covers for Scary Godmother, and she said that planning ahead and meeting deadlines can be a challenge.

Comics

 * Scary Godmother. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1997. Book.
 * Bloody Valentine Special. SIRIUS Entertainment. 02/1998. Comic.
 * Revenge of Jimmy. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1998. Book.
 * Holiday Spooktacular. SIRIUS Entertainment. 11/1998. Comic.
 * The Mystery Date. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1999. Book.
 * Wild About Harry. SIRIUS Entertainment. 02/2000 - 04/2000. Comic miniseries (3 issues).
 * The Boo Flu. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/2000. Book.
 * Activity Book. SIRIUS Entertainment. 12/2000. Comic.
 * Wild About Harry TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/2001. Collecting Scary Godmother:Wild About Harry #1–#3.
 * Scary Godmother. SIRIUS Entertainment. May 2001 - February 2002. Comic miniseries (6 issues).
 * Ghoul's Out for Summer TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 07/2002. Collecting Scary Godmother mini-series #1–#6.
 * Spooktacular Stories TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 08/2004. Collecting Scary Godmother Summer Preview 1997, Bloody Valentine Special, Activity Book, Holiday Spooktakular.
 * Scary Godmother HC. Dark Horse Comics. 10/2010. Collecting Scary Godmother, Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu.
 * Scary Godmother Comic-Book Stories TPB. Dark Horse Comics. 06/2011. Collecting Scary Godmother #1–6: Ghoul's Out for Summer; Scary Godmother: Holiday Spooktacular; Scary Godmother: Bloody Valentine Special; Scary Godmother: Activity Book; Scary Godmother: Wild about Harry #1-3; Scary Godmother and Friends Ashcan; Scary Godmother: Six Feet South of the Border from Action Girl #13; and more.

Awards

 * The original book Scary Godmother was a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Novel for 1998.
 * 1998 - nominated for the Lulu of the Year Lulu Award
 * 1999 - won the Lulu of the Year Lulu Award
 * 2001 - Eisners for Best Title for a Younger Audience and Best Painter/Multimedia Artist(Interior)

Film adaptations
Two films have been produced based on the series. The first, Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular, premiered on television in Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Canada in 2003. Later, it premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network in 2004. The film was the first one Mainframe Entertainment used its new software/animation pipeline for. Jill Thompson co-wrote the script, and had some creative control over the project. When she was shown early character designs for the film which resembled the watercolor illustrations in her books, she requested that the characters instead be fully computer-generated. In an interview, Thompson stated that she wanted them to go with CGI because "I'm doing 2D. Nobody else should be doing 2D, just me". However, the mostly static backgrounds used in the film more closely resemble traditional cel animation or the illustrations in Thompson's books. Because of that, the 3D characters often appear to "pop out" from their backgrounds. The visual style of the film has been described as resembling that of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas rather than that of computer-animated films such as Finding Nemo. A review of the film in School Library Journal, however, described the film as "Toy Story meets Tim Burton", and thought that the animation closely resembles Thompson's watercolor illustrations.

The second, Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (based on the second book), premiered in 2005.

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Sorry to bother you, but as an Inclusionist wikipedia things are getting desperate and I need to appeal to your for help. We are facing a situation where a deletionist admin is free to declare inclusionist arguments "absurd" and ignore them at will. If you don't agree with this situation, please share your opinion here. Kappa 02:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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you just wrote in ECT talk: "ADHD is a neurological disorder..."

Have you read the recent discussion in the talk page of the ADHD article? Not even the DSM-IV claims that!

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The Great Mike Sparks Debate.
I just wanted to put in my tuppence worth in on the saga; alas, I cannot find an option to PM or find an email link. (OK, so I'm new here)

If you wouldn't mind, please drop me a line at (and then delete the email address from this page!)

Thanks much. Nicholas Noran 17:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Sent you the E-mail --Kazuaki Shimazaki 08:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

M113 vs. Stryker
Hello,

I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your tireless work on the Stryker controversy page. I'm a German, btw, and I can't understand why and how such an apparently flawed vehicle like the Stryker could ever make it into service and mass-production for the US Army. It's not even an American design. I needn't tell you all its flaws, you know them better than I - it's so ridiculous an IFV - and it would be a good joke if there weren't the millions of tax dollars gone to waste, and, even more important, the soldiers who had to lose their lives due to this inadequate, fundamentally flawed concept car. This is so sad. Anyway, keep up the good work.

 * To the Anon: Not really. I used to maintain it, but now I just leave it run by itself. It is surprising the negative points hadn't been all demolished by the zealous defenders of Stryker. Anyway, to be fair to the Stryker, there is one very positive thing about it: The soldiers really do seem to like it, even after factoring in the propaganda factor. So I guess they at least fought and died happy (their last thoughts were not "Oh the US Army gave us this Piece of Sh*t to ride in."). That in itself is a positive, given the importance of morale to a unit. --Kazuaki Shimazaki 09:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Alfa sub article
The part that is bullshit is that the adjustment they are referring to does not affect a PWR operationally. The power changes to meet demand almost instantaneously in a PWR.

Typo
I wanted to inform you of an unfortunate typo you appear to have made (here). I surely hope it was not intentional, but you called him "Dickhunter" instead of "Duckhunter." I just want you to know, so you can fix it and avoid saying something like that by accident. Regards. --Cheeser1 08:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Arrgh. Stupid mistake. Thanks for telling me. --Kazuaki Shimazaki 09:13, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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Leader of the Opposition (Manitoba)

The Leader of the Opposition (Chef de l'Opposition) in Manitoba is the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba who leads the party recognized as the Official Opposition. This status generally goes to the leader of the second largest party in the Legislative Assembly.

William Alexander Macdonald was the first officially recognized Leader of the Opposition in Manitoba, although Rodmond Roblin is considered to have been the de facto opposition leader from 1890 until he lost his seat in the 1892 provincial election.

, the Leader of the Opposition of Manitoba has been Wayne Ewasko, the interim head of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

List of Opposition Leaders
Below is a list of parliamentary opposition leaders in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, from 1870 to the present.

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Talk:Playboy Playmate

Headshots and data sheets
For some one who has time, headshots (which appear to be fair use) can be obtained for each PMOM's article by googling  site:http://www.perfect-models.com headshots . (Direct links are disabled.) Data sheet statistics are also available at this site.

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Talk:Cardium pottery

Article Title
Even though I added this article to the Category:Pottery - I have reservations. Most of the article deals with the culture that produced this neolithic pottery. I think the culture would be more appropriate for the title with a redirect for the pottery style. Of course, more material on both subjects could make the article go either way. Opinions? WBardwin 05:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This is definitely primarily about the culture, but such cultures are superficially characterized by the pottery, a convenient tag. Six of one half-dozen of the other. The issue is more work than the article.Dave (talk) 12:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

When ?
I dno't recall reading when the culture first appears in Eastern Adriatic fringe ? Hxseek (talk) 05:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Genetics section
I see someone removed reference to "E3b" (more recently known as E1b1b1a) but they inserted a reference to Y haplogroup J being common in Catalonia. Sorry, but it is common in Asturias, but not Catalonia. The biggest survey is Adams et al.. So I have removed it. E1b1b1a has been associated with the Cardial in Italy, see Battaglia et al., so maybe it could be discussed in this more specific way (not referring to Catalonia). Otherwise the section is now effectively empty and meaningless and needs to be removed. The only connection I know of ever being suggested between IBERIAN Y Haplogroups and a possible Cardium connection is in a review I wrote, and the haplogroup was E1b1b1c (E-M123), which is found in unusual levels and types in Portugal and Galicia. See http://www.jogg.info/51/. I leave to others to decide whether this is a relevant reference for this article.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 12:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Further: I corrected a typo of the village to correct "Kargadur", and smoothed somewhat the style.HJJHolm (talk) 13:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Lousy article
This article discusses only the origin of this culture, but it says nothing about the characteristics (other than the pottery), the predecessors, the successors, etc. It does not even say when the culture ended. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.33.113.252 (talk) 07:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it has been some time since anyone spent time on this article and in a way probably most editors who have worked on it have only made quick efforts. It is clear this is an important subject that deserves better discussion. Someone just has to do it. Are you able to help?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 10:39, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree! such an article costs a lot of time and deserves all respect instead of a critque in such form. It cost me alone one hour to update two sentences to make them better understandable. So do it!HJJHolm (talk) 14:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

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KLAV

KLAV (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Owned by Lotus Communications, the station airs a betting-focused all-sports radio format featuring programming from the locally based Vegas Stats & Information Network. Its studios are located in the unincorporated community of Spring Valley in Clark County and its transmitter is located in North Las Vegas.

History
KLAV ran a middle-of-the-road (MOR) format until the late 1970s. In early 1979, at the peak of the disco craze, the station endeared itself "Disco 1-2-3 KLAV". KLAV evolved into a Top 40 format in the early 1980 under then program director Ted Ziegenbusch.

It played a lot of R&B/Urban music that key rival Top 40 station, 98.5 KLUC, would not play at the time. KLAV was the first commercial station to play rap/hip-hop music in Las Vegas. In 1985 the station briefly switched to an easy-listening format and changed its call letters to KEZD but returned to its traditional KLAV name and time-brokered format by 1987.

KLAV previously broadcast from atop the former Bob Stupak's Vegas World Hotel & Casino until its closure in 2000. The station broadcast in a few locations around the Las Vegas Valley but eventually settled down at its current West Sahara Avenue location.

In August 2012, KLAV was sold by Hemisphere Broadcasting to Lotus Broadcasting. In April 2015, KLAV flipped to a Regional Mexican format as La Caliente.

In April 2017, while announcing that it had acquired the radio rights to the Vegas Golden Knights, Lotus announced that KLAV's FM transmitter K255CT would switch to a simulcast of KRLV.

In 2019, KLAV relaunched as "La Ranchera 1230 AM", emphasizing ranchero music. In August 2020, the station switched to all sports betting when the former programming and branding from KBAD/KRLV was moved to the station. KLAV subsequently relaunched as 1230 The Game. Later that month it was announced that KLAV would be the flagship station for the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League.

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Talk:Dow University of Health Sciences

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This article goes into quite a lot of detail about the construction of the college, but I'm not sure whether it should be left as-is or condensed into something else. Also, the timeline-ish format may paraprhase the source website a little too closely. Jeeves 05:27, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Research & development at Dow University
Contents of subject topic is being deleted without any established logic. Neither Primary nor self-published source is cited. Research contents qualify the No original research and content-material mainly derived from reliable secondary sources, no original publication such as provided. In order to avoid labelling of promotion only secondary sources adopted for general awareness and promotion of hope in the larger interest of human being especially Pakistani nation. This is not a promotion it is the very basis of each and every encyclopedia to encompass beneficial research to promote further development. As far as my understanding this Sharing of knowledge is the core of WP. Research work of Dow University or any other institute of Pakistan is a global teamwork on Plasma basis therapy

My dear deleting expert this bio research is a beneficial material for advancement and hope to future life saving efforts in the COVID-19 pandemic combating. Nannadeem (talk) 10:57, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate re-action of GorgeCustersSabre. Nannadeem (talk) 13:49, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The information about COVID 19 research seems to be news reporting and fail WP:NOTNEWS. This section will likely be be obsolete in a few months. Spike 'em (talk) 14:09, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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Squround

A squround (or scround ) is a container with a shape between a square and a round tub. It resembles an oval but is sometimes closer to a rectangle with rounded corners. These allow the contents to be easily scooped out of the container. The name is a portmanteau for "square round" (cartons), referring to a compromise between a square and a round carton.

As an adjective, squround has been applied to other objects, such as watches or swimming pools.

Ice cream squround containers
The term applies mostly to ice cream packaging design, where the switch to a squround from paperboard bricks, cylindrical half-gallons and other containers is motivated by consumer preference, as well as cost effectiveness. These packages are more rectangular than square, but the side edges are rounded, while top and bottom surfaces are completely flat. Squround packaging affords some of the consumer appeal of traditional cylindrical packaging, while also packing tightly like brick-shaped square cartons.

The container is usually made of paperboard but can have thermoformed or injection molded plastic components. There is usually a separate lid made of paperboard, plastic, or both.

It offers several advantages over other ice cream packages:
 * it can be easily scooped out
 * it packs more tightly than previous designs
 * it allows more efficient use of retail shelf space and home freezer space
 * it has allows for better brand recognition (over the round half-gallon) since the flatter front is a more legible "billboard" for each flavor
 * the lid can have tamper-evident features, usually in the form of a tab to break before the lid can be removed
 * The lid has a tighter seal

Although squrounds are available in traditional half-gallon sizes, there exists a trend toward marketing non-traditional 56-ounce, and in recent years, smaller 48-ounce sized cartons. The downsizing in carton size has not seemed to negatively affect unit sales.

Mayfield Dairy, which announced the switch to squround cartons in January 2003, told Food Engineering in April that they expect to sell the same number of 56 oz. units in 2003 as it sold 64 oz. cartons in 2002. Breyers, which in 2000 was an early adopter of the smaller package for its "Ice Cream Parlor" brands, uses the smaller package across all its ice cream flavors. In 2008, they changed to a smaller 48 oz container.

Other squround containers
Outside the sector of Ice-Cream, Nestlé have also produced squround containers for its Nescafe range of large instant coffee tins. They attributed the new design to make the containers "simple to hold, pour and store". In a separate interview, they also stated that the design will help reduce losing lids and make their tins easier to grasp.

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Talk:Number of words in English

I hold the copyright to this material and have changed the notification on the webpage in question to reflct this fact. Therefore, WP does indeed have explicit permission to use the papge in any form or format: Paul Payack.
 * Thank you for the clarification; I've "de-copyvio'd" (?) the page accordingly. -- Hoary 06:21, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

The current content has no substance at all. It mentions a "proprietary algorithm" which by definition is undocumented, and therefore can't be reviewed. And then gives a ridiculously accurate number. Is this someone's attempt at humor? Or just some sort of linkspam to get higher pagerank for languagemonitor.com? This content has previously been deleted on English language with discussion on the Talk page which was never answered by the author. --Macrakis 06:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I wouldn't miss the current version of this article one bit if it were deleted. The whole concept of "number of words in English" is too vague to be very meaningful.  To make it precise, the notion of "word" would have to be rigorously defined first.  But even then one can come to radically different conclusions about the total vocabulary size, depending on one's prior assumptions.  It's possible, though, to discuss these issues properly, which is the only excuse for not nominating this article for deletion. --MarkSweep 23:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The fact that the question is difficult to answer makes the page even more interesting. Most would not grasp how difficult and meaningless the counting can be before he even tried. Before trying or giving up answering the question, one has to wonder whether he wants to include scientific vocabulary, slang, and other variations of the language. Do we count both British and American English words ? In that case, what about typically Australian words ? Canadian ? Cajun ? And what about variations of a single word ? Do create and recreate count as two different words ? And then of course there is the question of what the count is worth. By that I mean, what can we compare it to ? French language officially counts 60,000 entries. However, the specific Duval's Dictionary for Coloring Materials (in french language) counts alone more than 100,000 entries. Other languages such as German can combine words to create new ones at will. How do you take that into account ? Finally, the politically correct attitude created new words as well. Is "little person" a word of its own or a combination of existing words ? If it is a combination, what do we do with hotdog ? We probably can come up with a hundred different counts, and yet all of them are interesting for they show us how many different ways there are to consider the issue. -- Jean-Frederic Boisdet 9:30, 02 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Number of words
It's not correct to consider internationalisms and loanwords as being English words. Greek, Latin, French, Spanish etc loanwords ar not English words. So any language can borrow thousands of words from other languages and say that it`s the richest language in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberts7 (talk • contribs)

 * I disagree that internationalisms and loanwords cannot be English words. That is a prescriptive appoarch, which was used by old dictionaries to prescribe the proper use of words. But even old dictionaries regarded words obtained from other languages as English words, only specifying their derivation. I prefer the descriptive approach used by modern dictionaries. They only describe how a word is actually used, not how it should be used. If a word, from any source whatsoever, is used in ordinary English conversation, spoken or written, then it is an English word. Here I include words used between educated professionals who will frequently use words which would otherwise be rare if the totality of all English discourse was considered.

 * If you exclude foreign loanwords from English, then English cannot exist. Old English included a large percentage of Latin words, so many that most conversations could not occur without them (Britain was a Roman colony before Old English existed). Middle English became so in part due to a large influx of Old Norse and French words after the Viking invasions and the Battle of Hastings. Indeed the Norman conquerors were Viking settlers in the Normandy area of France, and French is a mixture of Latin and the Germanic language of invading Franks. Both Old English and Middle English are foreign languages relative to English because neither would be intelligible to a native English speaker, who easily understands your 'foreign loanwords'. — Joe Kress 21:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

"Global Language Monitor"
This article started as a puff for the "Global Language Monitor". Luckily it's that no longer, but it still has links to the "Global Language Monitor", whose "proprietary algorithm", whatever its value may be, starts work on a list of words that treats "nut" as two words (one for the thing that screws onto a bolt, one for what squirrels treasure) or one, that treats "nuts" as one word (crazy) or two or three (that plus the plurals), etc etc; we're not told.

To me, the Language Log article (which seems to have had no effect whatever on "GLM") makes it very clear that "GLM" is junk. I don't think it even merits a link, let alone serious discussion. May I remove it? -- Hoary 07:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Number of headwords in OED?
It says 500,000 here and 300,000 in the headword entry. Someone should clarify this... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.174.137 (talk) 21:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Noti, Oregon

Pronunciation
I think this could use a pronunciation ogg file for the city name. In case people who are not familiar with the town read the article. Same for other Oregon town names like Tigard, Willamette, Aloha, Couch, Glisan. Kristinwt 12:50, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:15, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Doutel
Sub-stub about a French surname, probably unexpandable as it probably ought to go in a dictionary of names and their meanings. Transwiki (to Wiktionary?) or just delete. Jeeves 05:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Oneliner 08:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, doesn't provide origins of the name which wiktionary would want. Mgm|(talk) 09:26, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless some showing of historical notability is made, or unless it is shown that there are enough notable persons sharing this name to require a disambig. I abide by the outcome of our earlier discussion of names/surnames. -- BD2412 talk 14:55, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Anyone who can tell us how this family name is pronounced, what its etymology is, what its meaning as a word is, alternative spellings, and translations, is welcome at Doutel. Anyone who wants to construct family trees for people with the family name Doutel is welcome at Wikitree. Uncle G 18:56, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopedic. RickK 21:15, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
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Aura cheese

Aura is a type of blue cheese produced in Äänekoski, Finland, by the Finnish dairy company Valio. Aura is made of cow's milk and takes its name from the Aura River, which runs through the city of Turku. The cheese is available in two varieties. The regular variety is aged for six weeks, whereas the stronger 'Aura Gold' variety is aged for 12 weeks. It is marketed in the United States under the name Midnight Blue by Valio's import company, Finlandia Cheese.

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Buck Bumble

Buck Bumble is an action video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by British video game company Argonaut Software and released by Ubi Soft in 1998. A special Buck Bumble rumble pack was packaged with the U.K. version.

Plot
The year is 2010, and as the result of a previous spill at a chemical factory in London, England, the insects in the surrounding area have mutated. Several different types of these mutated insects gather together becoming the evil "Herd", who are bent on taking over the garden, and eventually the whole world. The game casts the player as a Buck Bumble, a volunteer bumblebee that gets implanted with cyborg technology. He is part of an organization known as "The Resistance", which is trying to stop the evil Herd Army. Buck's missions send him on multiple tasks, such as defending the resistance base, attacking Herd supply lines while traveling through sewers, and eventually fighting the Herd's mantis-like Queen.

Gameplay
The game features full-on 3D graphics. Buck can be armed with up to eleven different weapons, including such realistic weapons as a stun gun, a laser, a rocket launcher, and a guided missile launcher. While the levels are height-restricted, Buck can fly around in nineteen missions, some requiring the placement of a bomb without bumping it into anything. The player or players in two player mode can also perform various aerial acrobatics, similar to a fighter plane, in fact it was originally programmed as a flight game before it "evolved into a flying bee". The player controls the bee with moves such as loops and banking to the sides. At the top of the screen the player is given a radar screen which can be used to locate enemies within the level, a damage metre, and the player's current weapon. One level can have multiple locations which the player can reach by passing through teleporters, or gates. There are several items the player can collect while in each level, such as weapons, nectar from flowers to regain energy, and even point bonuses. Several of the game's enemies such as beetles and wasps have special generators that release another enemy when the first enemy is destroyed, requiring the player to destroy the generator itself to defeat the enemies and clear the stage. Besides the enemies, the player can also be drowned if in water for more than a couple of seconds.

Multiplayer
Buck Bumble has two multiplayer modes. The first, Buck Battle, allows up to two players to engage in an airborne dog-fight on a preset map. The second is a football-style game called Buzz Ball. The goal is to hit a giant soccer ball into the opposing player's net. As in Buck Battle, the player has the ability to kill the opponent in the process. Players are able to use two weapons from the game: a simple zapper, which gently moves the ball along, and a rocket launcher, which sends the ball flying in a different direction.

Development
The game was built with the rumble feature in mind, allowing the player to feel the impact of getting hit, supposedly increasing the sense of realism. This feature of the game was capitalized on by the company Joy Tech, which made an official "Buck Bumble Pack" which was sold with the game exclusively at Dixons and Currys, however it was a third-party peripheral not licensed by Nintendo. The game's soundtrack was composed by Justin Scharvona and consists entirely of speed garage. "I've intentionally tried to go for something that fits in with the futuristic, and not cutesy, something a bit harder", Scharvona explained. "We didn't want to do sort of boring techno stuff as well, or jungle, so we picked speed garage, it's funkier than house and garage".

Reception
While not heavily praised, and widely regarded as below contemporary N64 standards, Buck Bumble was met with generally positive reception from various gaming critics. Narayan Pattison of the Australian magazine N64 Gamer gave the game several compliments, comparing it to Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which was also partly developed by Argonaut Software, saying that it avoids Star Fox's "restricted preset paths that had to be followed." They also compliment the game's designers for the added features, like the player being able to hover in the air, and drop down and walk across the ground, thus giving the player "the ability to try some new gameplay techniques that have never been used before." He describes the game's main theme as being a "very catchy dance beat that even has clear vocals." However, he was disappointed with the game's thick fog, repetitive textures, and that the save feature after each level, "makes the game too easy".

Next Generation reviewed the Nintendo 64 version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Overall, Buck Bumble is most like a diamond in the rough. There are a few edges that need to be polished, but as a whole, it still shines."

Matt Casamassina of IGN called it "the epitome of 'first generation' Nintendo 64 products" and compared it to a lower-quality version of the bee level in Banjo-Kazooie. This is largely due to its heavy distance fog, low frame-rate, and low-resolution graphics. Casamassina also considered the single-player levels too short and too easy. However, he praised the flying controls, the design of the title character, and the addictiveness of the Buzz Ball multiplayer mode.

Fabian Blache, III, of Dimension Publishing's Q64 magazine, compared the game's shooter style to the PlayStation game WarHawk. His first response to seeing the game was: "I was almost dreading having to labor through (what I perceived would be) inane gameplay at the hands of a childish premise." Praising the game's sound and graphics, he excused the fog because the game was "set in England". He finishes the review with "There aren't many games of this quality on the market today, and Argonaut should be proud to have this one as their own."

Another positive review came from Nintendojo. They stated that while fog makes navigation difficult, "the graphics do not disappoint." In terms of multiplayer, the "extremely difficult" Buzz Battle was considered much less enjoyable than Buzz Ball. The review summarized stating, "Buck Bumble is definitely worth playing. While it isn't perfect, it's a fun game, and that's what really counts."

GameSpot's Lauren Fielder gave the title a significantly lower review than most publishers and echoed the belief that it "missed the boat" of lower-quality first-generation N64 games. She criticized the flying and walking controls and deemed the multiplayer modes "seemingly quite literally thrown in." She closed by saying "In spite of all the obvious flaws, Buck Bumble is not a terrible game. It's just not a good game, and the rewards do not make up for the dull, tugging experience it quickly becomes."

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