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Talk:1976 in television

Why change?
The main reason for the proposed format change is the massive amount of information in the "years in television" articles, which is not easy to manage. The sheer number of shows in the "Television shows" section makes the article almost unreadable. It was not uncommon to find duplicates of the same show, and the users often added missing shows to the "Debuts" and "Ending this year" sections of corresponding years, altogether ignoring the "Television shows" section for the years in between.

The proposal is to limit the "xxxx in television" articles to the following sections: "Global television events", "Births", and "Deaths". Country-specific information is proposed to be moved to separate articles. Not only would it make the shows information more readable and easier to manage, it would also resolve the problem when a show by the same name is on TV during different time periods in different countries (a good example of such show would be The Office, which had two seasons in the UK in 2001–2002, but only one season (with a different cast but the same plot) in the US in 2005).

Please do not perceive this proposed format as final. This is a rough draft only. There are no plans to apply this new format to current "Years in television" articles until all suggestions and objections have been heard out.

Please add your comments on this page.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:52, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Use of sub-pages
It's generally frowned upon to use sub pages. I'd link the WP page if I knew where it was stated.

If it's agreed upon spliting country-specific TV events, then I'd recommend starting: OR or some other variant (non-sub-pages). I like the 2nd choice as I could see it as more of a disambiguation instead of a separate "group" of articles. Cburnett 05:11, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1976 in Australian television
 * 1976 in Canadian television
 * 1976 in Irish television
 * 1976 in South African television
 * 1976 in British television
 * 1976 in US television
 * 1976 in television (Australia)
 * 1976 in television (Canada)
 * 1976 in television (Ireland)
 * 1976 in television (South Africa)
 * 1976 in television (UK)
 * 1976 in television (US)

 * I should have mentioned this above, but I did not. The subpages in this example are there just to avoid creating test articles in the main namespace.  Actual articles, of course, should be on their own pages, just like in the examples you listed above.  Still, thanks for bringing this up, as it my intent to not use sub-pages was not really all that obvious.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 05:48, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Event star
It looks a good idea to me. However, there may be problems using the template to denote shows that have a related event in the Events section, as when you hover your mouse over the star image, it says 'Featured article' which could be confusing. Instead of the template, try just adding links to Image:Featured article star.png at 16px on the page.

Also agreed with Cburnett's comment about the subpages, with 1976 in television (UK) preferred. BillyH 05:49, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The FA star was just a quick and dirty way to illustrate the marker idea. It will, of course, not stay as it is now.  By the way, if anyone has an idea for a better marker, feel free to post it here.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:49, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Just to say I like it
I've long thought that some of the 'Years in Television' pages were a tad US-centric, although of course that's understandable given the number of US users of Wikipedia and the fact that the country has so much TV history to get through. I think that the dividing of the pages into country-specific sections is a good one, and will be very helpful for people searching for TV events relevant to their own countries, or interested in seeing what was happening in other nations rather than it all being lumped together. The layout looks good too, and all-in-all I fully support this idea. Just one minor point - if we're doing major English-language nations, where's New Zealand? Nonetheless, yet again fantastic work on the 'Years in Television' pages from Ezhiki. Give that man a medal! Angmering 10:12, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliments, of course, but I've already got a medal courtesy of MikeH :) As for New Zealand, there was nothing New Zealand-related in the "1976 in television" article, so I forgot about it altogether (in a kind of George W. Bush kind of way :)).  Also, I wanted to note that non-English-speaking countries can easily be added with this format as well.  With the way things are now it would be somewhat problematic.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:49, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

OK, now...
...if no one else has any objections, I will start working on the actual format/layout and will gradually start converting the years in television over to the new format. Please continue listing your comments/ideas/objections here, if you have them. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:08, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Template
I would highly recommend an additional template for television that links all the countries so that they can stay consistent among the soon-to-be many many years in tv articles. Cburnett 21:18, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * You are reading my mind, aren't you? :) See User:Ezhiki/Temp.  It's a very rough draft; I did not have much to play with it today, but it's a start.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 02:46, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Article names

 * Please also see User talk:SimonP and User talk:Ezhiki for additional views on the article naming issue.

The previous names were inappropriate. On Wikipedia brackets in titles indicates disambiguation, which is not what is intended. You are not pointing to different meanings of "1976 in television" but to subpages. Moreover creating subpages in this manner is also banned because it hard wires hierarchies, see Do not use subpages. With the previous names the articles could only be a subpage of "1976 in television" but the Canadian one is equally a subpage of 1976 in Canada and the title "1976 in Canada/television" would be just as valid. Using natural language titles, which is policy anyway, helps remove this problem. -SimonP 13:30, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but are you just complaining without offering a solution? Maybe it's too early and I'm glancing right over it, but I'm not seeing anything....not to mention you could have continued the article name discussion above instead of starting a new heading. Cburnett 14:17, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I do offer a solution, I support having "1976 in Canada televions" rather than "1976 in television (Canada)". - SimonP 15:11, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I assume it was "1976 in Canad a ian television s ". I, for one, do not like this variant, and I suppose Cburnett does not either (correct me if I am wrong).  If you wish to draw a quick poll regarding the naming issue, you are most welcome to do so.  Hopefully others would voice their opinions on this as well; it is not unlikely that your variant is going to be the winner, in which case we'll use it.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:57, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry I did of course mean 1976 in Canadian television. As I outlined on Ëzhiki's talk page putting television in the main title while relegating country to a note ignores that the country/television formation is just as valid. 1976 in Ireland (television) is just as valid a heading for this content as 1976 in television (Ireland). Using your title makes it seem as though the page could only ever be considered a subdivision of 1976 in television ignoring that it will also be a subdivision of 1976 in Ireland. Do you have any reasons you dislike the "1976 in Irish televison" format? So far you have just stated that you dislike it. - SimonP 16:11, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Realizing that not everyone is going to read through the very thourough discussion on my talk page, here is a summary of what I said to this particular argument:
 * I do not see anything preventing us from using 1976 in television (Ireland) as the main article location and 1976 in Ireland (television) as a redirect to that article. Or the other way around.
 * This naming convention does not really create an impression that "the page could only ever be considered a subdivision of 1976 in television ignoring that it will also be a subdivision of 1976 in Ireland". To deal with these issues, categories should be used, not the article names.
 * The only reason I (and only I personally; I do not speak for anyone else here) dislike the "1976 in British television" format is because to me it does not look as clean and consistent as "1976 in television (UK)" (or, for that matter, as "1976 in UK (television)"). In the end, it will all boil down to the preferences of the majority; if the "-ish" format is preferred by most, I am not going to make a fuss out of it or (*cough*) move articles to locations that I like better.  I was unable to find anything stating that the parentheses format violates any policies (for more on that, see my talk page).
 * Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 17:32, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * If it is consistency that is you main concern then shouldn't the pages also be consistent with the other year subpages? It is 2003 in Canadian politics, not 2003 in Canada (politics), 1978 British leaders, not 1978 leaders (Britain), 2004 in baseball, not 2004 in sport (baseball). Not to mention the entire rest of the encyclopedia. We have British television not televison (UK), List of French people, not List of people (France), Demographics of Uganda not Uganda (demographics). - SimonP 18:06, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Good points I can agree with and which did not immediately occur to me. Let's see what others will say.  I just wish you came up with this reasoning, about, say, five hours ago.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:04, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've found a couple other things. The music series has run in to similar size problems and they now have 2005 in music (UK) and 2004 in music (UK). I have raised the naming issue on Talk:Music of the United Kingdom to see if they have a good reason using these names. I also found that there is a pretty explicit prohibition on "using an article names that suggests a hierarchy of articles" in the Naming conventions. - SimonP 22:45, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Would you please not start with the technicalities again? Naming conventions explicitly prohibit article names that suggest a hierarchy of articles, that's true, but they say nothing of the cases other than subpages (such as using parentheses or other means).  This particular section only gives a forward slash syntax as an example of what's not to do; I do not see how other cases are implied.  By quoting irrelevant policies, all you do is create confusion among the users who would not bother to read the actual policy wordage (especially considering the fact that you conveniently omitted a direct link to the quoted section in an enormous policy document), and I simply fail to see why you do that.  You, as an administrator, should probably know better than that.  It is one of your responsibilities to educate users, and you are doing just the opposite.  I may very well agree that some may see the parentheses as a disambiguator to be avoided, but explaining why they are seen as such is a much better course of action that trying to back your reasoning with policies that describe a completely different set of problems.
 * As for the subpages that I originally used, I already explained that the use of subpages is acceptable for temporary or draft versions of the articles. Not labeling them as such was my mistake, which I already had admitted.
 * Apart from this, thank you for checking with the "years in music" folks. Only one person commented so far, but it looks like they do not have a compelling reason for keeping the paretheses-based naming system either.
 * Finally, as a subtle reminder, how about cleaning up around here a little? So far all I see is you coming in, making a fuss out of minor and temporary issues, and creating a mess with the articles moves.  You don't have to do it, of course, but since your contributions show that you've been up to cleaning up lately anyway, how about doing something positive for us, too?  I promise that it will be appreciated.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 01:56, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Need input
As some of you might have already noticed, I added a template to the bottom of some of the country-specific articles (e.g., 1976 in Canadian television). While the purpose of the template is quite obvious and useful, I am a bit stuck as I cannot think of a good way to handle the countries for which no events exist. For example, the template lists South Africa. National television was not introduced there until 1976, and there was no television at all prior to 1971. As such, the link is going to show up as red on templates of all years before 1971. This is not good, because these unexisting articles (like 1955 in South African television) should stay that way—unexisting.

The only solution I have so far thought of is to create redirects to the main television article for that country (in this case, it would be a redirect to Television in South Africa. This way, all "XXXX in South African television" links (where XXXX<1971) will redirect to "Television in South Africa".  The drawback is that the template will be somewhat misleading.

It would be perfect if it were possible to filter the countries for which no television existed for a given year out of the template altogether, but as far as I know it is not possible. Please correct me if I am wrong.

If you have a better solution, by all means post it here. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 21:24, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * A couple of templates. One pre-1976 and one post-1975.  Templates have no functional capabilites beyond an extremely primitive printf command.  Conditional statements in templates would add huge amounts of versatility, but we just as well jump to full-fledge PHP... Cburnett 04:48, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

 * South Africa is just one example. With your method, we will need seven templates just for the seven countries listed, and that number will only grow when more countries are added.  I am not saying it's necessarily bad, but I certainly hope there is a more optimal solution.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:46, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

 * I had an idea, but can't get it to work. I created Template:TV countries/1976 (and 1976 in television/Countries) and changed the last row of Template:TV countries to:

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 * but the year in isn't getting substituted in to pull in the content in  .  Perhaps that gives you an idea to work with. :/ Cburnett 21:30, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * That't actually a pretty neat idea, except that I am going to have one hell of a time figuring out why it's not working :) I'll try anyway.  Thanks!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 22:49, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems that you never actually saved the changes you made to the Template:TV countries. Your idea did not work because you probably looked at the template in the preview mode.  When it is saved, it seems to be working quite well.  If you do not have any objections, I will delete the 1976 in television/Countries, which is no longer needed.  I would also appreciate SimonP commenting on this solution—it does use the subpages, after all.  Thanks!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:13, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * You are correct, I didn't actually save it. I deleted 1976 in television/Countries.  Regarding subpages: I don't see a problem with it since it's directly being used for the xxxx in television question and, on it's own, isn't really an article. Cburnett 17:26, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Disco Dog
Also, one needs to explain the deletion of the 1974-1978 cartoon TV series in the years of television to 1974 in 1978.

User:Jeff Schiller lied, User: Ezhiki lied, insisting they both never saw the show, or the pictures. Forget it.
 * See User talk:Ezhiki/2005 if you are at a loss as to what the anon meant.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:44, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Table usage
I'd like to recommend using tables. Something like 2005 in film. I went ahead and changed the /Temp page to show it.

My basic argument for tables is this: the data is inherently tabular and having them in freeform (just a bulleted list) makes it harder to read. Additionally, to me, it looks more professional/cleaner looking than a page of bullets and dashes. Cburnett 19:23, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I really like the idea of such tables, but not the way they are currently formatted (although I am having trouble coming up with what exactly I do not like about the format currently used—somehow it does not look quite right).—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:42, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well the table style is widely used. See .  I think it looks better with more entries (like on 2005 in film), especially the month/day ones. Cburnett 19:59, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hm. Maybe I am having a problem with it because the right edges are misaligned.  But then, you are probably right that it will look better with more entries and without the list.  Also, maybe if the month and date are listed in the same column ("July 1" instead of "July" and "1") it would look even better.  What do you think?—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:08, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Check out 2005 in film. I think if each row had the "month day" notation then it'd be crowded.  If there's multiple things with the same date then it reduces repetition (like the months themselves).

 * Ultimately, I highly suspect people come to a page like this to find something, not browse it or read it (like a normal article). You want to see who died in January or what shows debuted in this specific year.  So organization and ease-of-use seems paramount, to me, for tabular data.

 * Re: right-edges. As the tables fill up they'll push the border to the edge.  We could force it to the right by adding a width="100%" though. Cburnett 21:04, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Additionally, I think the table colors don't really match with the colors of the TV Countries template placed below. Which is, to think of it, probably the template's problem.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:10, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Since this page is entirely about trying something new, I went ahead and change it to ccccff. Both are web safe colors.  For me, it's a toss-up. Cburnett 21:04, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it looks better now. I will let know if I find something else to complain about (and I will) :))—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 21:17, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Tables and occasional contributors
I have another concern about these tables. Yesterday, I formatted Before 1925 in television using tables, and I can now say that the experience was less from ideal. While the prettytable template certainly helps, there is still too much manual formatting to take care of when entering information. For me, it was just a little nuisance to get used to, especially when the end result really looks better than a vulgar list, and I am sure that most of people working on this project view it pretty much in the same light. I am, however, afraid that this table may turn potentials editors away. Judging from my over a year experience working with the "years in television" articles, quite a few edits/additions come from anonymous or relatively new users. These are often people who have a problem understanding how to format data as a list, yet now we expect them to add lines to a table. Any insights?—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) June 29, 2005 13:30 (UTC)

 * I've seen anonymous users edit tables just fine. I've also seen people just slap a request on the talk page for someone else to fish.  I've also seen people attempt it and leave it.

 * Your concern was the same as that of why 2005 doesn't have tables. I basically refuse to cater to the lowest common denominator on the assumption that people are too stupid to figure it out.  That's my take. :) Cburnett June 29, 2005 17:19 (UTC)

 * Well, that's mostly my take too, but I would hate to see potential editors go away just because formatting style was too difficult for them to understand. I guess let's see how this is going to work then.  This is probably more of a general policy question, anyway.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) June 29, 2005 17:26 (UTC)

 * Look at the flip side: WP is a collaborative effort. Not everyone has to know all of it. Cburnett June 29, 2005 17:48 (UTC)

Update
The following articles have been converted to the new format: Before 1925 in television, 1925 in television, 1926 in television, and 1927 in television. Country-specific events were carved out into 1926 in American television, 1927 in American television, and 1927 in British television. Please feel free to review, comment, and, of course, expand.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:51, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Temp space
I was thinking about moving the 1976 in television/Temp to the main article space, replacing 1976 in television. If you think this should not be done, please let me know A.S.A.P. Histories of both pages will be preserved.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 22:44, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

A personal preference for columns in biographic tables
I think the dates in the tables of births and deaths would be easier to read if the month and day columns were merged, but that's just me. --Jacj 06:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The discussion of this format is listed above. After having compared both versions, I personally no longer have a preference for either way, but maybe Cburnett would have something to add to this?—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 13:04, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

1976 in television
Ezhiki will never understand that this page was incongruent with similar ones.71.222.124.79 03:09, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

If Ezhiki tries to revert this page back again, I'd like to revert EZHIKI!! Such pages ought to be Protected!!71.222.124.79 03:12, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Dear anonymous contributor, thank you for your concern, but please calm down. I did not revert you just for the heck of it; there were quite good reasons to do so, although, admittedly, I could have stated them after the first revert of mine instead of waiting till now.
 * Anyway, you seem to be operating under assumption that this page is inconsistent with the rest of the pages in series. However, if you just scrolled up and read the discussions that took place here before, you'd see that this page is the pilot page for the re-design of the entire series.  While the re-design was never completed (currently only this page, the first articles in the series (before 1925 in television through 1930 in television), and, partially, 2006–2007 in television conform to it), the consensus, nevertheless, had been that it was generally a good idea to split the page into country-specific articles, if only to avoid over-bloated pages listing TV events and shows from dozens of countries in one messy list.  The information you are trying to re-instate here is already duplicated (and in some cases much expanded upon) in the 1976 in Australian, Canadian, Irish, Japanese, New Zealand, South African, U.K., and (especially) 1976 in American television articles.  A navigation box with links to all those articles was at the bottom of the version which you reverted.  So, if consistency of the whole series is your concern, you should be converting the articles formatted the old way in the image of this one, not the other way around.  Re-instating the long-abandoned version, as you did, leads to losing the links to all those articles and to orphaning them, which is completely unacceptable.
 * As for your request to have this article protected, I'm afraid that is not a wise thing to do. We do not lock articles just because of minor content/formatting disputes between two editors; protection is reserved to cases where editors are unable to reason with one another in a civil way.
 * Hopefully, this is a sufficient explanation of why I am going to restore this article to the version that had prior consensus. You are welcome to contact me should you have any questions.  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe that all country-specific pages pertaining to this subject should be speedily deleted so that this entry conforms to the entries for 1975, 1977, and similar years. I also believe that Ezhiki is a professional "Wikivandalist" and not an administrator. 149.175.37.107 23:02, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I see. Now, let's re-trace.  Your incivility aside, since you are a new user, let me show you what the situation really is.
 * First and foremost, there is nothing wrong with you wanting to re-design this article or to get rid of the other articles that you see as redundant. However, barging in ignoring existing consensus, pushing your point without even listening what others have to say, not providing any counter-arguments, and accusing people who stand in your way of being vandals and impostors is not the wiki way.  You want to get rid of country-specific articles, fine.  Please kindly follow the procedure outlined in WP:PM (proposed mergers).  You will need to add a proposal suggesting that 1976 in Canadian television & Co. are merged into 1976 in television.  If (and only if) that proposal passes (i.e., most of the people who express their opinions vote for the merge), then all of the content in the country-specific articles would need to be merged into this one (and you will likely have to be the one who completes the merge).  If the proposal fails, you will have to respect that.  Same goes for the re-design: as I showed above, this particular article is a pilot page for the new structure.  Several other articles in the series currently have exact same structure as this one (and for some reason I don't see you attacking those).  As discussions on this very page show, there was a consensus to proceed with the re-design—it's a pity that nobody found time to face-lift the whole series, but it does not mean people still do not intend to do so at some point.  If you believe that the consensus no longer exists, please kindly contact the people who participated and ask them to voice their current opinions here.  If it is found that no one favors a re-design any longer, you'll have this page looking the same way as (most of the) others in no time.  Until then, you are expected to respect the consensus that existed before you showed up.
 * Now, the bottom line. I am now going to restore the most recent stable version of this page again.  I fully expect you to respect Wikipedia procedures and go with the options I outlined for you above.  If you continue revert-warring (i.e., reverting the page to your preferred version without providing any rational arguments), I will have the article semi-protected.  As always, if you have any questions or if anything in the procedures above is unclear to you, you are very welcome to ask me (or any other experienced editor of your choice).  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Adding countries
Suggest adding France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, and West Germany to template. 71.222.124.79 15:10, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The actual list of countries that shows in the 1976 template is available here. Feel free to add what you need.  If you are not sure how to do that, let me know.  Once the countries are added, they will show as red links in the template—you can click on any red link as usual to start creating that article.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Status update
Well, a year went by and I haven't heard from Ezhiki, so once again I suggest that this page be reorganized to conform with the years surrounding it.192.220.136.97 (talk) 00:04, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Frankly, in the past year I was expecting others to show more interest to this set of pages as well. Since obviously you are one of the few people who are interested, and since I have no time to work on this (and unlikely to have time any time soon), it makes no sense for me to continue insisting on using this particular format, even though I still believe it is better organized and easier to maintain than the format used by the rest of the pages, and that it'd be great to have all remaining pages formatted in the same way (so far only before 1925 in television through 1930 conform).  I'd recommend you bring this to someone's attention (WP:TV?) one last time before boldly plunging into major re-organization, but otherwise feel free to write me off of this project.  Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

If Ezhiki is self-righteously adamant about deconsistencizing this place, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to request protection. 97.120.134.232 (talk) 05:42, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, just ask me, I'll protect it for you :)
 * Anyway, like I said in the edit summary, I am not against merging everything back to one page. I am, however, against a blind restoration of an age-old page while at the same time the rest of the subpages are just left there hanging and orphaned.  This is not the way a proper merge is done.  If you require assistance with doing the merge properly, please contact an appropriate WikiProject, or ask someone's help, or something.
 * In the long run, instead of torturing this particular page, and if you really care about this series, it would help to devise a uniform approach to how these pages are supposed to be formatted. Right now we have about a dozen pages which are split by country, and a bunch which are not.  It makes no sense to insist on reverting this one to "all-in-one" format while there are still quite a few articles in the series which are split by countries.
 * As stuff gets added, one could imagine that eventually the pages will need to be split somehow anyway (this is already happening to some other "year in..." series), but that is not a decision I want to be involved with. Please seek outside help and point to this discussion—at this point it is obvious that two of us cannot agree on how this page should look.  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:16, July 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, here is my final take on this situation. I'm breaking it down so it's as clear as possible:
 * Whether in the end the page lists all countries together or just global events with the country-specific information listed on separate subpages, I don't care. This is not something two of us can (or should) decide—situations like this are best handled by the appropriate WikiProject (in this case, WP:TV)
 * I don't mind all country-specific pages being merged into this one as an interim solution; providing the situation is brought up with the WikiProject.
 * I do care about the interim solution being done properly and cleanly.
 * Reverting the page to an age-old version while leaving all the subpages orphaned and hanging is not a proper and clean approach. It leaves tons of mess that would eventually need to be cleaned up by someone in the future.
 * With that in mind, insisting on keeping a messy revert like this is nothing short of disruption.
 * Disruption can be taken care of by protecting the page or by dealing with the person doing the disruption. Since the disruption comes from only one source (you), protecting the page makes no sense, as it deprives other editors of a chance to make useful contributions to it.
 * If you are prepared to do the page merge in a constructive manner (i.e., make sure that every last bit of information the subpages contain is transferred to this main article), please start working on it in a sandbox or in your user space (you'll need to create an account first, of course).
 * I will start imposing blocks for disruption if you keep insisting on further mindless reverts which do not improve the overall situation.
 * If you have any questions or need help with following the process, please feel free to comment here, or drop me a note, or seek outside help.
 * Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:35, July 22, 2009 (UTC)

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I hope you're all right. You might remember me by the handle Rebel.Crusader when we used to edit (and fight) for the Minnie Riperton article in Wikipedia. I suggest you take a look at it now, aside from mentioning her five and a half octave range it is completely devoid of information about her vocal talents. I'd like to discuss this with you at your convenience to coordinate editing the article again. Please feel free to contact me whenever you want.

Here we go again! Rebel.crusader (talk) 11:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

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Mid-America Center

The Mid-America Center is an arena and convention center located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States, five minutes from downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The arena's maximum capacity is about 9,000 for concerts and 6,700 for ice hockey and arena football. The arena continues to provide free parking. Caesars Entertainment began managing the Center in 2012, taking over from SMG.

It was the home of the Iowa Blackhawks of the APFL. From 2002 to 2009, it hosted the Omaha Lancers of the USHL. From February 19, 2011, to February 2013, it hosted roller derby bouts for the Omaha Rollergirls of the WFTDA.

The arena has hosted events including family shows, USHL hockey, and community events. Many top names in the music industry have performed here. The center has hosted the Omaha Press Club Show, Peel's Salon Shows, OWH Bridal Ideas Shows, River City Hunting & Fishing Expo, and Nebraska State Bridge Tournament, which hosts Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Features

 * Arena: 30,000 square feet (pillar free), 12 luxury suites, 2 party rooms
 * Convention center: 24,500 sqft exhibition hall, 120-150 exhibit trade show booths, 23,000+ square feet of ballroom/meeting space, 90-112 exhibit trade show booths in ballroom, 8 meeting rooms, 15,000 sqft in pre-function area
 * Free parking: 2,600 open-surfaced spaces surrounding the complex

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Misprision of treason

Misprision of treason is an offence found in many common law jurisdictions around the world, having been inherited from English law. It is committed by someone who knows a treason is being or is about to be committed but does not report it to a proper authority.

Australia
Under Australian law a person is guilty of misprision of treason if he:

"(a) receives or assists another person who, to his or her knowledge, has committed treason with the intention of allowing him or her to escape punishment or apprehension; or

(b) knowing that another person intends to commit treason, does not inform a constable of it within a reasonable time or use other reasonable endeavours to prevent the commission of the offence."

The maximum penalty is life imprisonment.

Canada
Under section 50(1)(b) of the Canadian Criminal Code, a person is guilty of an offence (although it is not described as misprision) if: "knowing that a person is about to commit high treason or treason [he] does not, with all reasonable dispatch, inform a justice of the peace or other peace officer thereof or make other reasonable efforts to prevent that person from committing high treason or treason."

The maximum penalty is 14 years.

Republic of Ireland
Under section 3 of the Treason Act 1939 a person is guilty of misprision of treason if "knowing that any act the commission of which would be treason is intended or proposed to be, or is being, or has been committed, [he] does not forthwith disclose the same, together with all particulars thereof known to him, to a Justice of the District Court, or an officer of the Gárda Síochána, or some other person lawfully engaged on duties relating to the preservation of peace and order."

New Zealand
Section 76(b) of the Crimes Act 1961 provides that any person who "knowing that a person is about to commit treason, fails without reasonable excuse to inform a constable as soon as possible or to use other reasonable efforts to prevent its commission" is guilty of an offence.

A person guilty of this offence is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

Russia
Russia has no specific offence of misprision. However Article 275 of the Criminal Code of Russia encourages people to come forward with information by providing them with a statutory defence to treason and other offences:

"A person who has committed crimes stipulated in this Article, or by Articles 276 and 278 of this Code, shall be relieved from criminal responsibility if he has facilitated the prevention of further damage to the interests of the Russian Federation by informing the governmental authorities of his own free will and in due time, or in any other way, if his actions contain no other corpus delicti."

United Kingdom
Misprision of treason is an offence under the common law of England and Wales and the common law of Northern Ireland. By statute, the offence of misprision of treason under the common law of England has been made an offence which is cognisable under the law of Scotland. This offence was formerly known as misprision of high treason in order to distinguish it from misprision of petty treason, before that offence was abolished along with its parent offence in 1828.

The crime is committed where a person knows that treason is being planned or committed and does not report it as soon as he can to a justice of the peace or other authority. The offender does not need to consent to the treason; mere knowledge is enough. Concealment of treason was itself a treason at common law until the Treason Act 1554 deemed it merely misprision of treason, which was a felony.

Difference from treason
In R v. Tonge (1662) 6 State Tr 225, it was said that:

"Where a person knowing of the design meets with the others and hears them discourse of their traitorous designs and says or acts nothing; this is high treason in that party, for it is more than a bare concealment, which is misprision. But if a person not knowing of their design before, come into their company and hear their discourses, and say nothing, and never meet with them again at their consultations, that conduct is only misprision of high treason."

(For more information about the "Tonge Plot", see Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660–1685 (Marshall, 1994)).

Similarly, in R v. Walcott (1683) 9 State Tr 519 at 553, Pemberton, LCJ. said:

"For a man to hear of treason accidentally or occasionally and conceal it is but misprision, but if a man will be at consult where treason is hatched and will then conceal it he is guilty of treason therein."

Penalty
It is punishable by imprisonment for life.

Procedure
The procedure on trials for misprision of treason is the same as that on trials for murder. It is classified as an indictable-only offence.

Limitation
A person may not be indicted for misprision of treason committed within the United Kingdom unless the indictment is signed within three years of the commission of that offence.

Scottish Parliament
Misprision of treason is a reserved matter on which the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate.

United States
In the United States misprision of treason is a federal offense, committed where someone who has knowledge of the commission of any treason against the United States, conceals such knowledge and does not inform the President, a federal judge, a State governor, or a State judge (). It is punishable by a fine and up to seven years in federal prison. It is also a crime punishable under the criminal laws of many states.

California
Misprision of treason in California consists of: "...the knowledge and concealment of treason, without otherwise assenting to or participating in the crime."

Treason in the aforementioned quote only refers to treason against California, not treason against the United States or any other entity.

The crime is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 in a county jail for 16 months, or two or three years.

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Talk:Rings of Power

A modern perspective
An editor has now twice seen fit to remove a reliably-cited paragraph from the article without obtaining consensus, and the second time of course knowing that at least one editor did not agree. That is by definition edit-warring.

Here is the text:

 * "In a 2019 article published by Kaspersky Lab, Nikolay Pankov analysed Sauron's efforts to dominate or ensnare the bearers of the Rings of Power from a modern perspective, with reference to the context of Tolkien's enthusiasm in the field of cryptanalysis as well as his participation in a language course run by the Government Code and Cypher School during the late 1930s.   Pankov used analogies to real-world information security terms such as supply chain attacks, phishing techniques, and botnet software to describe the struggles between Sauron and the various Ring-bearers who are representatives of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth. "

 * Editors are invited to discuss a) whether this is relevant to this article, and b) if so, where it should be placed in the article; or c) whether other claims from the Kaspersky source are worth mentioning here; or d) whether the cybersecurity aspect on Tolkien should be in another article, such as Influences on J. R. R. Tolkien. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:19, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

 * While the sources show that Tolkien was interested in cyptography, the primary source for linking this interest with the rings of power specifcally in the discussed passage is a blog opinion post, not an scholarly article. The text in question has no connection to the section "power and morality" and is not even in the "read further" article. The text also does not talk about the Rings of Power at all, hence WP:IRI.
 * Would also appreciate a more civil tone going forward with good faith, instead of assuming malice/edit warring. Posting on my talk page that I'm disruptive and can be banned after making a single revert is also against the spirit of Civility. Thank you. Beestax (talk) 17:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Two reverts, actually: see WP:BRD. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:54, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Initial edit was incorrectly tagged as revert. One edit, and one revert as my initial edit on relevance was not addressed.
 * Initial deletion is a revert, policy is clear on the matter, and BRD means BOLDLY (ONCE ONLY), REVERT (ONCE ONLY), DISCUSS, it has no other meaning. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Regardless, what is your suggestion for the passage? Beestax (talk) 18:14, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I've suggested alternatives above. I think we should await input from project members. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:19, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don’t think that Karpersky Lab blog meets the bar for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. Some blog posts are allowed, of course: If the blog were purely about a topic that Kapersky is expert on, then WP:BLOG would permit it. However, without having high credibility on matters Tolkien or literary critique, it’s hard for me to accept as notable or reliable enough. Strebe (talk) 19:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It's all a bit over-egged. Tolkien attended a course at Bletchley. His passing 'with flying colours' is assumed (per Telegraph - was it even assessed?) and his 'enthusiasm' is scarcely shown by his declining to take the job. There is no carry-over from Tolkien's GCHQ connection to Sauron's strategies, especially not in terms of modern cyber warfare. After that, any parallels that may arise need a more notable reliable source than the rather tongue-in-cheek blog that is offered (krimpatul = crimping tool?!). -- Verbarson talkedits 10:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Enderby, British Columbia

The City of Enderby is in the North Okanagan region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, between Armstrong and Salmon Arm. It is approximately 80 km north of Kelowna and 130 km east of Kamloops. Highway 97A passes through Enderby and the Shuswap River marks the eastern and northeastern limits of the City. There are two major schools in Enderby: M.V. Beattie Elementary School and A.L. Fortune Secondary School. M.V. Beattie Elementary School was rebuilt in 2012.

The rural area surrounding Enderby is made up of the communities of Ashton Creek, Grandview Bench, Grindrod, Kingfisher, Mara, Splatsin Reserve, Springbend and Trinity Valley. The rural area is 2,108.46 square kilometres. Several smaller lakes, including Gardom Lake and Hidden Lake, are also located in the area.

History
The first name used for the area was Fortune's Landing after the first landowner in the area and the steamboat stop at his farm. From 1876 the steamboat stopped at the new Lambly brothers' warehouse, and the town became known variously as Lambly's Landing or Steamboat Landing despite the provincial government having named the townsite Belvidere.

In 1887, plans were made for a post office at the town and townsfolk began debating what its formal name should be. That year, the snow melt in the mountains caused a particularly high flood of the Shushwap river in the area. It coincided with a meeting of the town's literary group, and one of the members read the poem "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571" by Jean Ingelow about a flood in Lincolnshire, England, of which local inhabitants were warned by the bells of Boston Stump ringing a peal titled "Brides of Enderby". Although others were suggested, Enderby was chosen as the most appropriate name. There are three places called Enderby in Lincolnshire, all in East Lindsey district: Bag Enderby, Mavis Enderby and Wood Enderby.

Geography
Latitude-Longitude: 50.55083°N, -119.13964°W elevation: 360 metres

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Enderby had a population of 3,028 living in 1,436 of its 1,508 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 2,964. With a land area of 4.26 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Religion
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Enderby included:
 * Irreligion (1,755 persons or 58.9%)
 * Christianity (1,185 persons or 39.8%)
 * Buddhism (10 persons or 0.3%)
 * Other (20 persons or 0.7%)

Economy
Agriculture, industry, retail, and tourism are the main components of the economy.

A variety of agricultural and industrial enterprises are located in the area, including dairy farming, cattle ranching, fertilizer and feed production, mills, and value-added wood products. Farms include diverse livestock such as llamas, bison, and deer.

Sports and recreation tourism
Enderby is known for the variety of outdoor activities, including tubefloating, hiking, canoeing and kayaking, golfing, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing. It is home to the Enderby Memorial Arena and Curling Rink, ball diamonds, and an outdoor public pool.

The Enderby Cliffs, a BC Provincial Park, is a popular hiking destination. Other hiking destinations include Mara Provincial Park and Larch Hills. The Shuswap River is known for its tubefloating, canoeing, and kayaking. It hosted the Canoe Nationals in 2008. The Kingfisher Kayak Rodeo is held annually. There are two golf courses in the area: Mabel Lake Golf & Country Club and Birchdale Golf Course. To the east of Enderby is Hunters Range Trail System, a snowmobile range with approximately 200 square kilometres trails. Also in the area is the Larch Hills Cross Country Ski Trails.

In 1921 the original Enderby Arena was constructed. It was converted to a curling rink when a new steel frame arena was opened in 1975. In January of 2024 the arenas refrigeration system suffered a major component failure. This pushed a bid for Kraft Hockeyville. Enderby was a runner up and received $25000

Places of interest
Enderby and the surrounding area is home to the world's largest reel lawnmower, built and hosted by the Deep Creek Tool Museum, and the largest drive-in movie theatre screen in North America at the Starlight Drive-In Theatre. Also located in the area is the Enderby Museum & Archives and the Kingfisher Interpretive Centre, a salmon hatchery and watershed learning centre.

Splatsin Band
The Splatsin Band is the original inhabitant of the area. It is the southernmost tribe of the Secwepemc or Shuswap Nation. The Splatsin Band, occasionally anglicized as "Spallumcheen," is governed by an elected Chief and Council.

In popular culture
On February 17, 2015, Miss P, a 4-year-old Beagle from Enderby, won Best in Show at the 2015 Westminster Kennel Club all-breed dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Notable people

 * John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, (later became an Anglican priest), was born in Enderby in 1921

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User:Jam2005

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YNJ

YNJ may refer to:

 * Yanji Chaoyangchuan International Airport (IATA: YNJ), an airport serving the city of Yanji in Jilin province of Northeast China
 * Yanji (Division code: YNJ), a county-level city in the east of China's Jilin Province

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Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott (15 July 1775 – 1 September 1856) was a British sculptor.

Life and career
Westmacott studied  with  his father, also named  Richard Westmacott, at his studio in Mount Street, off Grosvenor Square in London before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova. Westmacott devoted all his energies to the study of classical sculpture, and throughout his life his real sympathies were with pagan rather than with Christian art. Within a year of his arrival in Rome he won the first prize for sculpture offered by the Florentine Academy of Arts, and in the following year he gained the papal gold medal awarded by the Academy of St Luke with his bas-relief of Joseph and his brothers. On returning to England in 1797, he set up a studio, where John Edward Carew and Musgrave Watson gained experience.

Westmacott had his own foundry at Pimlico, in London, where he cast both his own works, and those of other sculptors, including John Flaxman's statue of Sir John Moore for Glasgow. Late in life he was asked by the Office of Works for advice on the casting of the relief panels for Nelson's Column. He also had an arrangement with the Trustees of the British Museum, which allowed him to make moulds and supply plaster casts of classical sculpture in the museum's collection to country house owners, academies and other institutions.

Westmacott exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1839. His name is given in the catalogues as "R. Westmacott, Junr." until 1807, when the "Junr." was dropped. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1805, and a full academician in 1811. His academy diploma piece, a marble relief of Jupiter and Ganymede, remains in the Academy's collection. He was professor of sculpture at the Academy from 1827 until his death. He received his knighthood on 19 July 1837. In 1852 when contacted by the Corporation of London about a possible sculpture commission, Westmacott replied that he had not been active as a sculptor for some years.

Works
Among Westmacott's works are the reliefs for the north side of Marble Arch, the pedimental sculptures of figures representing The Progress of Civilisation on the British Museum, the Achilles of the Wellington Monument, London, and the Waterloo Vase now in Buckingham Palace Gardens. This enormous urn was sculpted from chunks of marble earmarked by Napoleon for a trophy commemorating his anticipated victory in the Napoleonic Wars and then given to George IV as a gift from the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

His statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham was the first statue of Nelson unveiled in Britain. There are other monuments to Nelson by Westmacott at the Bull Ring, Birmingham, in Barbados, while that at Liverpool was modelled and cast by Westmacott, to a design by Matthew Cotes Wyatt. In Liverpool there is also an equestrian statue of King George III sculpted by Westmacott, which was unveiled in 1822. He was responsible for the statue of the agriculturalist and developer Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford in Russell Square, and the one of the Duke of York on top of the column in Waterloo place. His Achilles in Hyde Park, a bronze copy of an antique sculpture from Monte Cavallo in Rome, is a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, paid for by £10,000 raised by female subscribers.

Westmacott's sculptures of poetical subjects were in a style similar to those of the contemporary Italian school:  his works of this type included Psyche and Cupid for the Duke of Bedford; Euphrosyne for the Duke of Newcastle; A Nymph Unclasping her Zone;  The Distressed Mother and The Houseless Traveller.

Westmacott also sculpted the memorials to William Pitt the Younger, Spencer Perceval, Charles James Fox and Joseph Addison in Westminster Abbey; the statue of Fox in Bloomsbury Square; and those to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord Collingwood and Generals Pakenham and Gibbs in St Paul's Cathedral. The Abercromby monument is considered by some critics as the most original composition of Westmacott's entire career. The idea to create a memorial to a British military hero by showing his death in action was a bold departure from the more common use of allegorical figures and personifications of virtue. The memorial, a free-standing marble group on a oval base, showed Abercromby falling dead from his charging horse into the arms of soldier and established Westmacott's reputation for originality. His memorial to Pitt in Westminster Abbey, commissioned in 1807, shows a male figure representing anarchy writhing in chains at Pitt's feet, a reference to Pitt's suppression of revolutionaries by press censorship and other means.

Westmacott's other church monuments include those to Lt. General Christopher Jeaffreson (died 1824) in St.Mary's Church in Dullingham;  to Commander Charles Cotton (died 1828) at St. Mary's Church in Madingley; to William Pemberton (died 1828) at St Margaret's Church  in Newton, South Cambridgeshire; to Sir George Warren (died 1801) at St. Mary's Church, Stockport in Greater Manchester, depicting a standing female figure by an urn on a pillar; to  Rev. Charles Prescott  (died 1820), in St. Mary's Church, Stockport, showing a seated effigy and to Mary Henson (died 1805) in Bainton parish church, showing a seated figure against an urn. A bust of David Garrick by Westmacott is in Lichfield Cathedral.

He created a sculptural group for the marble arch of the Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park.

Personal life
Westmacott lived and died at 14 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London where he is commemorated by a blue plaque. Two of his brothers, George, who was active between 1799 and 1827, and Henry, (1784–1861) were also sculptors. In 1798 Westmacott married Dorothy Margaret Wilkinson. Their son, also called Richard Westmacott, followed closely in his footsteps also becoming a notable sculptor, a Royal Academician and professor of sculpture at the academy.

Westmacott is buried in a tomb at St Mary's Church, Chastleton in Oxfordshire, where his third son Horatio was rector in 1878.

Other works

 * Life-sized marble relief monument to John Yorke, 1801, St Andrews Church, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
 * Memorial sculpture group, erected 1821, to Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, died 1808, Church of St Tegal, Llandygai, Wales
 * Memorial to Rev. John Chetwynd Talbot, 1827, St Mary's Church, Ingestre, Staffordshire
 * Memorial to Dr. John Wooll, c. 1833, Utah
 * Memorial plaque, with portrait medallion, to Francis Bauer, 1840, St. Anne's Church, Kew,

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WPCX-LP

WPCX-LP is an FM college radio station run by students of Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, and is broadcast from the Thomason Library on PC's campus.

The radio station relies on volunteers from the student body, college staff, and faculty to DJ in one-hour blocks. Though the station has only been transmitting radio waves for a few years, its history dates back further when the broadcasts would air on an on-campus cable television channel.

Began in 1990 as "Radio Free PC", a four-hour broadcast on WPCC 1410AM, the operation moved to the basement of the library in 1992 to operate on the campus cable TV. The campus-cable operation kept the name "Radio Free PC" and began an expanded nightly four-hour broadcast from 8 pm to midnight.

As a registered student organization, or RSO, WPCX has a faculty member as an advisor. Through 2003, Dr. Eric Johnson fulfilled this function; after his death, though, the station facility was named in the professor's memory.

In 2018, WPCX relocated to new studio space in the Media Services department at Presbyterian College. Dr. Philip Perdue, Director of Communication Studies, is currently the station's faculty/staff advisor.

In addition to the 97.1 FM frequency, the station can be accessed through live stream http://ingest2.cdnstream1.com:7080/2319_128.mp3 and also through the WPCX mobile app (Apple / Google).

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Elizabeth Davis

Betty, Bette, Bettye, Bettey, Eliza or Elizabeth Davis may refer to:

Performers

 * Bette Davis (1908–1989), American actress
 * Betty Davis (1944–2022), American funk, rock and soul singer
 * Elizabeth Davis (bassist) (born 1965), American songwriter and musician
 * Elizabeth A. Davis (born 1980), American actress and musician

Writers

 * Eliza Davis (1866–1931), English fashion writer and gossip columnist known as "Mrs Aria"
 * Eliza Davis (letter writer), Jewish English woman notable for her correspondence with the novelist Charles Dickens
 * Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis (1811–1863), American letter writer and wife of Joseph Emory Davis
 * Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (1885–1944), African-American teacher and activist
 * Elizabeth Gould Davis (1910–1974), American librarian and feminist writer
 * Elizabeth Davis (midwife), American author and women's health care specialist since 1977
 * Elizabeth Davis (TV writer), American producer during 2010s, a/k/a Elizabeth Davis Beall

Others

 * Elizabeth Davis (Mormon) (1791–1876), American Latter-Day Saint and wife of Joseph Smith
 * Elizabeth Peke Davis (1803–1860), Hawaiian high chiefess, a/k/a Betty Davis
 * Betty Davis (film editor), American film editor during 1920s
 * Bettye Davis (1938–2018), American politician, social worker, and nurse
 * Bette Davis Eyes, 1974 song by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon
 * Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, American academic specializing in international affairs

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Gardiner

 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. CDC  (talk)  18:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Jeff Gardiner
This appears to be a fantasy biography. Jeff Gardiner is supposedly a U.N. peacekeeper, master juggler, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, member of the Hosplitar Order of St. Johns, published poet, and CEO of an ISP. Yet, there's not a single source for any of it. A request for sources on the article's talk page resulted in the admission by an anon editor that it was all original research. I think "research" it the wrong word. This is appears to be nonsense. Willmcw 21:00, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain. There appears to be some foundation for this article. I withdraw my (implied) vote to delete. If the article can be stripped down, cleaned up, and sourced over (quickly) then I might vote to keep. I'm not sure that this individual is notable for his verifiable information, and his moderately-successful military and business careers seem to have been uneventful. The article appears to be the product of vanity or sycophancy (such admirable qualities in other contexts). Are middle-aged IT professionals as notable as Pokemon characters? Well, in this case.....I abstain. -Willmcw 06:29, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sholtar 21:01, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not verifiable. --W(t) 21:17, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * Comment - UN Peacekeepers in general won the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize. The poetry anthology appears to be real (BookFinder.com).  Idologic Inc. seems legitimate (Idologic.com).  We have an article on the Turbot War.  In short, all of the claims are reasonable, though I haven't been able (in a cursory Google search only, actual contact with Idologic, the Order of St. John, the UNDOF, any of the named universities, the Canadian Chamber of Contemporary Poetry might be able to turn up more) to find any verification that a specific person named Jeff Gardiner was connected with any of them. -- Jonel 02:47, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I tried to verify him - I can't find a list of contributors to the anthology. Gardiner, according to this bio, was born in 1968, so it is possible that he was in the Canadian armed forces in 1988. Idologic do4es exist, but they don't mention Gardiner. Ditto for the other company. This guy would possibly be notable if any of this were verifiable. -Willmcw 03:45, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. Megan1967 03:19, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and inform the woman he picks up tonight that the guy's not everything he claims to be. — Phil Welch 05:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Confirmed pg. 276 does contain a peom by a Jeff Gardiner. Recommend contacting Idologic.com via contact page.  Was able to find brief Bio on Biomarkimaging.com "Contact Us" page.  Megan1967 what deteremines "notable"?  Phil Welch your comment is non-substantial and petty.
 * Thanks for providing this bio. Unfortunately, it does not support all of the info in the article. Do you know the source for the other info? Is Gardiner himself invoved in this editing? Thanks, -Willmcw 23:02, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Entries like this on, in the "births" section of March 20, make me wonder about the good faith of the editors involved in this article. "*1968 - Jeff Gardiner, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize". Obviously it was the U.N. which received the Peace Prize, not Gardiner. -Willmcw 23:09, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Another odd mention of Jeff Gardiner is in Gay rights, where someone added this sentence: "In May 2005, Jeff Gardiner supported the same sex union act by starting a flame." No idea what that is supposed to mean, and a question on the talk page hasn't elicited any answers. -Willmcw 23:10, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * I checked Biomark Imaging's site and found no mention of Gardiner on their contacts page or elsewhere. I have no way of checking the poetry (or is that peotry?), but I wouldn't take this source's word for it. --Michael Snow 23:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Just wanted to confirm that I can verify this: "Jeff CO-founded Idologic Inc. and currently holds the position of CEO of Idologic Inc. and Director of Information Technology at Biomark Imaging Inc." to be true. You can call the toll free number on the site idologic.com and there's contact information on biomarkimaging.com. Disclaimer, I am involved with both companies, but am not Jeff. "While employed with the Imaging Laboratories at Robarts Research Institute, a research Institute named after John Robarts" this is verifiable too at robarts.ca. Can't confirm any of the other things.
 * If we boil the article down to that bare minimum it's gonna be kinda dry. The company bio from Biomarkimaging.com appears to be a rewrite of his resume and neglects any details of his military career. The article seems as if it were written by a family member or employee. Has any newspaper ever done a profile of him, or otherwise reported on him? Thanks, -Willmcw 04:54, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * retracted
 * That URL didn't work, could you paste the relevant text into the talk page of the article, with a publication date? Thanks!  Talk:Jeff_Gardiner  -> or here is good too. -W.
 * Delete vanity
 * Delete vanity CDC   (talk)  05:07, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - if this helps, the University of Western Ontario Alumni Directory lists a Jeffrey T. Gardiner graduating in 1996. (And, as above, the Robarts Research Institute is a real place at UWO.) Adam Bishop 05:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity. Ambi 16:37, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, even if the content of this article is factual it is almost impossible to verify its accuracy and neutrality. - SimonP 17:12, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as vanity. --NormanEinstein 17:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unverifiable. --Michael Snow 23:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 22:22, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Unverifiable due to lack of notability. -- JamesTeterenko 23:08, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Nancy Kelsey

Nancy Kelsey (August 1, 1823, in Barren County, Kentucky – August 10, 1896, in Cuyama, California) was a member of the Bartleson–Bidwell Party. She was the first white woman to travel overland from Missouri, seeing Utah and Nevada before crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains into California on November 25, 1841. Wife of Benjamin Kelsey, and the mother of eight surviving children, she is sometimes referred to as the "Betsy Ross of California" for her role in creation of the original Bear Flag from which Bear Flag Rebellion got its name.

Personal life
Born in Barren County, Kentucky, her family moved to Jackson County, Missouri, when she was three years old.

Nancy married Benjamin "Ben" Kelsey on October 25, 1838, in Henry County, Missouri. Her husband and his brothers, David, Samuel and Andrew had settled a section in the Hoffman Bend area of what would become St. Clair County, Missouri, and had already been in some trouble with the authorities. There were some shady dealings in real estate; Samuel was indicted for murder, and a lawsuit was filed against Andrew in 1841. After his brothers left for the west, David remained behind as David Kelso in Missouri, taking care of their elderly father, Samuel Kelsey Sr.

Overland to California
Nancy Kelsey was 17 years old in 1841 when Ben decided to travel west after reading doctor John Marsh's letter extolling the California climate and crop-growing advantages. As early as 1837, Marsh realized that owning a great rancho was problematic if he could not hold it. The corrupt and unpredictable rulings by courts in California (then part of Mexico) made this questionable. With evidence that the Russians, French and English were preparing to seize the province, he determined to make it a part of the United States. He felt that the best way to go about this was to encourage emigration by Americans to California, and in this way the history of Texas would be repeated.

Marsh conducted a letter-writing campaign espousing the California climate, soil and other reasons to settle there, as well as the best route to follow, which became known as "Marsh's route." His letters were read, reread, passed around, and printed in newspapers throughout the country, and started the first significant immigration to California. He invited immigrants to stay on his ranch until they could get settled, and assisted in their obtaining passports.

Before they left Missouri, Nancy Kelsey's second child, named after his uncle Samuel, died after only eight days. Shortly thereafter on May 18, 1841, Ben and Nancy with their one-year-old daughter, Martha Ann, and Kelsey's brothers joined John Bidwell as members of the first wagon train to California. The group had at least one wedding on the trail. Father Pierre-Jean De Smet performed the ceremony for Nancy Kelsey's sister "Betsey Grey" and her new husband Richard Phelan before the two emigrant groups and the priest's parties split up in August 1841.

One emigrant group, including some of the Kelsey family as well as Nancy's sister and new husband, went directly to Oregon. The other group—including Nancy, Martha Ann and Ben Kelsey—took the route detailed in Marsh's letter, which Marsh had never seen, through Utah and Nevada.

Many years later, an interview with Nancy Kelsey was published in the San Francisco Examiner where she recollected the trip across the continent; she said the group had no guide and no compass. Nancy Kelsey was the first white woman to see the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The emigrants had been told to not go too far south or north of the lake, but to strike westward from it. On September 16, the wagons and most of their contents were left on the west face of Nevada's Ruby Mountains, near Owens Lake and the present day Oasis, Nevada.

After abandoning the wagons, the party proceeded on foot with pack horses. The party was attacked several times, witnessed the fatal remains of other ambushes, and had their provisions and horses stolen. Nancy was quoted: "We left our wagons and finished our journey on horse-back and drove our cattle. I carried my baby in front of me on the horse. At one place the Indians surrounded us, armed with their bows and arrows, but my husband leveled his gun at the chief and made him order his Indians out of arrow range."

On September 24, they found the Mary's River that was in Marsh's description; now called the Humboldt River, it ends in the Humboldt Sink, an intermittent dry lake bed and by October 15, they were at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The 34 members of the party arrived in California via the Sonora Pass and followed the Stanislaus River down hill. They reached the confluence with the San Joaquin River on November 3, and several members of the group, including the Kelsey's, stopped at Doctor Marsh's ranch at the foot of Mount Diablo on November 4, 1841. The Kelseys stayed a month with Marsh before proceeding to Sutter's Fort. Subsequently, several of the group wrote of Nancy's patience, heroism and kindness on the journey. She is credited with being the first white woman to see Utah, Nevada, the first to cross the Sierra Nevada and the first to travel overland from Missouri to California.

Life in the west
During 1842, Nancy and Ben Kelsey worked for John Sutter collecting elk hides at Clear Lake, California. In 1843, while she was pregnant, they left Sutter's employ and drove cattle north along the California–Oregon Trail east of Mount Shasta, past Klamath Lake, and on to Oregon City. Along the way, they were attacked nearly constantly by Native Americans, one of whom was shot dead very close to Nancy. While in Oregon, Nancy delivered Sarah Jane Kelsey, who died after eight days. Nancy became pregnant almost immediately and delivered daughter Margaret September 14, 1843, in Oregon. After selling their cattle, the family loaded up with goods and returned to California where they settled on 2000 acre at Calistoga, neighboring General Vallejo's property to the south. Ben's brothers Isaac and Samuel with their families arrived in northern California at the end of 1843; they had started with the Bidwell party but branched off for Oregon. David Kelsey arrived separately, but died in 1845 of smallpox.

In 1844 the Kelsey home about 1 mi south of Calistoga was attacked by Native Americans. Nancy Kelsey rolled her daughter into a blanket; both survived. While tensions were growing in the spring of 1846, Nancy delivered son Andrew Kelsey on April 7, bringing the total of living children to three.

Bear Flag Rebellion
During the Bear Flag Rebellion in 1846, while the Kelsey brothers joined John C. Fremont in declaring California's independence from Mexico, Nancy Kelsey, Mrs. John Sears, and Mrs. Benjamin Dewell sewed the original "Bear Flag" from a pattern drawn by William L. Todd, a nephew of Mary Todd Lincoln. Nancy Kelsey has been referred to as the "Betsy Ross of California" for her contributions to the flag, after which the Bear Flag Rebellion was named. The words "California Republic" were inked in pokeberry juice, the fabrics borrowed from the little available and many said the bear looked more like a pig but it only had to serve for twenty-four days from June 14, 1846, until the U.S. Navy claimed California for the U.S. and raised an American flag at Monterey. On June 28, 1846, Fremont and Ben Kelsey became enemies when Kelsey refused to kill José de los Reyes Berreyesa, a Mexican neighbor and the twin sons of Francisco de Haro; they were killed by Kit Carson.

The Sonoma Gang
In 1848, Nancy delivered Mary Ellen Kelsey on June 26 at Sutter's Fort. Ben left Nancy and the four children behind when he took fifty Pomo men from his brother Andrew's ranch southwest of present-day Kelseyville, on Rancho Lupyomi at the American River, in the Sierra foothills to mine for gold. They established a mining camp called Kelsey Diggings in the Sierra foothills near Sutter's Mill.

Once at the diggings, he sold all the company's supplies to other miners and returned home to Sonoma, ill with malaria, but with a $16,000 profit. At this time, while still sick, he shot a Native American dead for "accosting" Nancy who had ridden from home to town to get him medicine. Only one or two of their abandoned Pomo workers survived in hostile territory, suffering from starvation and malaria. Andrew Kelsey and another partner, surnamed Stone, had forced the wife of one of their workers into concubinage and sent her husband off to live with Nancy and Ben Kelsey. When the mistreated husband returned to his people, he was tortured. Shortly thereafter, Stone and Andrew Kelsey were killed, but the details are highly variable among sources. This event provoked the Bloody Island Massacre, although the 60–100 Pomo Indians who were killed on Bloody Island by the U.S. Army and volunteers were not the ones responsible for the deaths of Stone and Kelsey.

Seeking revenge, Ben Kelsey and a group of vigilantes called "The Sonoma Gang" murdered "dozens of innocent Native Americans in Napa and Sonoma counties" in retribution for Andrew's murder. Seven of the vigilantes—but not Ben Kelsey—were captured and charged with murder, but bailed for $10,000 in the first-ever decision by the Supreme Court of California. Abandoning their bail, at least three of the seven sailed for Humboldt Bay aboard the schooner Ryerson.

Northwestern California
In April 1850, the Union Company was formed by 33 members—including survivors of the Josiah Gregg expedition to Humboldt Bay—with the goal of finding and settling lands around Humboldt Bay to supply the inland mines. Of the 33, ten were part of the Sonoma Gang, including Ben Kelsey.

In September 1850, Ben and his brother Samuel came to Humboldt County, California, rejoining the other members of the Union Company, including five of the seven released members of the Sonoma Gang. Ben had killed a Native American chief on their overland trip to Humboldt Bay and his reputation got to town before they did, a Eureka correspondent wrote: "Kelsey of Sonoma (the Indian killer) is on his way here with his own and several other families." Nancy and Ben built a fancy house at the northwest corner of the Arcata Plaza, at 9th and H streets. The Kelsey men burned two Wiyot villages and killed several Native Americans. They were in northwestern California about twenty-two months during which time Kelsey's brothers had injured and killed natives and caused harm to intercultural relationships that would lead to the 1860 Wiyot Massacre, while Ben opened up wagon trails to the mining areas from Crescent City, California. The Kelsey National Recreation trail follows 8 mi of the route between Scott River Road and Paradise Lake.

Nancy delivered Nancy Rose on February 14, 1851, in Sonoma at about the same time as Ben Kelsey became sick with tuberculosis. They lost their fancy house in Arcata to foreclosure after which Ben, Nancy and the four children moved around a lot through Sacramento and San Joaquin to Mariposa for two months, then lived for eight months in San Jose. On March 18, 1855, Nancy delivered Georgia Ann. The family lived in Oakland for one year, moved to Gilroy for fourteen months, and moved again to the Kern River mines where Kelsey mined and operated a toll bridge for 18 months. From there, the family moved to Four Creeks for two years and finally to Mexico in late 1859 after Nancy delivered her last child, William Wallus Kelsey, on October 22 in Arizona, bringing the family to eight surviving children (out of 10 pregnancies), six girls and two boys.

Surviving the Comanches
Seeking drier weather for her husband, the family moved to Mexico in 1859, and then to Texas in 1861 where Nancy, Martha Ann and two younger daughters survived an attack by Comanche. Nancy loaded guns and told the children to hide. Her two oldest girls hid, but 12-year-old Mary Ellen was captured and found the next day scalped, stabbed and with a fractured skull which she survived but suffered mental illness until her death six years later

Final moves
In 1864, the family returned to California, at first in San Luis Obispo, then settling near Fresno in 1865. The wandering continued; the family moved to Inyo County, survived the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake, which Ben said was the only thing that ever frightened him. Ben worked in the Cerro Gordo Mines, and finally the family moved to Los Angeles where Ben Kelsey died on February 19, 1889, aged 76.

Nancy Kelsey outlived her husband and spent her final years on farms in Santa Barbara County, California, where she was a midwife and an herbalist. Her vocabulary was described by one newspaperman as such that "would have given any genteel hostess the vapors." She told her interviewer of her eventful life "I have enjoyed riches and suffered the pangs of poverty. I have seen U.S. Grant when he was little known; I have baked bread for General Fremont and talked to Kit Carson. I have run from bear and killed most all other kinds of smaller game." She had borne eight surviving children, out of 10 pregnancies. while moving over much of the American west and in and out of Mexico. In 1937 the Native Daughters of the Golden West put a bronze plaque on Nancy Kelsey's grave at the head of Cottonwood Canyon in the Cuyama River Valley. On April 1, 1995, Oregon–California Trails Association placed a commemorative marker on her grave.

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Yae Fujimoto

Yae Fujimoto (藤本 八恵), known as Yae, is a Japanese singer, mainly known outside Japan for having performed the theme songs for the GameCube role-playing video game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.

Biography
Yae is the second daughter of the singer and musician Tokiko Kato (加藤 登紀子) and the activist Toshio Fujimoto (藤本 敏夫).

She studied modern dance during high school, and decided to become a singer in 1999. She started singing in restaurants and bars, by which time she had formed a band and expanded her musical style. In June 2000, she debuted with the album "new Aeon".

In March 2018, as a member of the activist team "MOTHER EARTH", she was appointed as an ambassador for the Ministry of the Environment's "Let's connect and support Mori Satokawa Sea project".

Albums

 * 2000 new Aeon
 * 2003 Blue Line
 * 2004 Yae -flowing to the sky-
 * 2004 aloha nui
 * 2006 Yae: Live

Singles and extended plays

 * 2000 Kaze No Michi
 * 2003 Na mo naki Kimi he
 * 2003 Kaze No Ne and Hoshizukiyo (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, opening and ending theme songs)
 * 2005 Koi no Sanbusaku
 * 2010 あいをよる おもいをつむぐ

Other appearances

 * 2001 Blasa, The Legend of Condor Hero (神鵰俠侶 コンドルヒーロー)
 * 2004 and, Nitaboh, the Shamisen Master (NITABOH 仁太坊-津軽三味線始祖外聞)

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Harrison Township, Logan County, Ohio

Harrison Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,061.

Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
 * McArthur Township - north
 * Lake Township - east
 * Liberty Township - southeast
 * Union Township - south
 * Pleasant Township - southwest
 * Washington Township - west

Part of the city of Bellefontaine, the county seat of Logan County, is located in eastern and central Harrison Township.

Name and history
Harrison Township was organized in 1836. It is one of nineteen Harrison Townships statewide.

Government

The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

Transportation
U.S. Route 33 and State Route 47 are the major highways in Harrison Township. As well, Bellefontaine Regional Airport is located in the township's center.

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Atagün Yalçınkaya

Atagün Yalçınkaya (born December 14, 1986) is a Turkish boxer in the bantamweight (54 kg) division best known for winning the silver medal in the light-flyweight category at the 2004 Olympics.

Amateur
Yalçınkaya started boxing from a young age and won six titles in the schoolboy and cadet categories in Turkey.

He was successful as a teenager at international tournaments with a 2003 1st place win in the Balaton Tournament in Hungary, a 3rd place in Green Hill Cup, Pakistan and a 1st place in European Students Boxing championship, Italy.

Yalçınkaya qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. He competed at light-flyweight in Athens, Greece and won a silver medal for Turkey on August 29, 2004, by beating Italy's Alfonso Pinto and reigning world champion Sergey Kazakov of Russia. At age 17, he was the youngest medal-winning sportsman in Turkish Olympics history.
 * Defeated Jolly Katongole (Uganda) 22-7
 * Defeated Jeyhun Abiyev (Azerbaijan) 23-20
 * Defeated Alfonso Pinto (Italy) 33-24
 * Defeated Sergey Kazakov (Russia) 26-20
 * Lost to Yan Bartelemí Varela (Cuba) 16-21

He went up to flyweight (51 kg) afterwards and won the Mediterranean Games in Almeria, Spain at the 2005 world championships (Mianyang, China) he defeated Andrzej Rzany (Poland) 20-13 but lost to Georgy Balakshin (Russia) 15-36.

At the European Championships 2006 he lost early to Englishman Stuart Langley.

Later he competed at bantamweight.

Yalçınkaya, 1.65 m tall, is a member of Fenerbahçe SK and is coached by Enver Yilmaz.

Pro
In 2008 he signed a contract with German-based Ahmed Öner and turned pro in March 2008.

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (,, ; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign (under Napoleon beginning in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service) and pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets. Parmentier also founded a school of breadmaking and studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration.

Life and career
While serving as an army pharmacist for France in the Seven Years' War, he was captured by the Prussians, and in prison in Prussia was faced with eating potatoes, known to the French only as hog feed. The potato had been introduced from South America to Europe by the Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century. It was introduced to the rest of Europe by 1640 but (outside Spain and Ireland) was usually used only for animal feed. King Frederick II of Prussia had required peasants to cultivate the plants under severe penalties and had provided them with cuttings. In 1748 France had actually forbidden the cultivation of the potato (on the grounds that it was thought to cause leprosy among other things), and this law remained on the books in Parmentier's time, until 1772.

From his return to Paris in 1763 he pursued his pioneering studies in nutritional chemistry. His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when he proposed (in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Besançon) use of the potato as a source of nourishment for dysenteric patients. He won the prize on behalf of the potato in 1773.

Due largely to Parmentier's efforts, the Paris Faculty of Medicine declared potatoes edible in 1772. Still, resistance continued, and Parmentier was prevented from using his test garden at the Invalides hospital, where he was pharmacist, by the religious community that owned the land, whose complaints resulted in the suppression of Parmentier's post at the Invalides.

In 1779, Parmentier was appointed to teach at the Free School of Bakery to help stabilize Paris' food supply by making bread in a more cost-efficient fashion. In that same year, he published Manière de faire le pain de pommes de terre, sans mélange de farine, in which he described how one can make potato bread that still has all the characteristics of wheat bread.

In 1800, Napoléon Bonaparte appointed him the first army pharmacist. He succeeded Pierre Bayen: he continued his fight to place pharmacy on the same level as medicine and surgery.

Potato publicity stunts
Parmentier then began a series of publicity stunts for which he remains notable today, hosting dinners at which potato dishes featured prominently and guests included Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier. He gave bouquets of potato blossoms to the king and queen, and surrounded his potato patch at Sablons with armed guards during the day to suggest valuable goods, withdrawing them at night so people could steal the potatoes (the same story exists in Germany about Frederick the Great). These 54 arpents of impoverished ground near Neuilly, west of Paris, had been allotted him by order of Louis XVI in 1787.

Acceptance of the potato
In 1771, Parmentier won an essay contest in which all the judges voted the potato as the best substitute for ordinary flour. This was before a time when France needed a replacement for wheat, so Parmentier continued to face criticism and lack of acknowledgment for his work. The first step in the acceptance of the potato in French society was a year of bad harvests, 1785, when the scorned potatoes staved off famine in the north of France. In 1789, Parmentier published Treatise on the Culture and Use of the Potato, Sweet Potato, and Jerusalem Artichoke (Traité sur la culture et les usages des Pommes de terre, de la Patate, et du Topinambour), "printed by order of the king", giving royal backing to potato eating, albeit on the eve of the French Revolution, leaving it up to the Republicans to accept it. In 1794, Madame Mérigot published La Cuisinière Républicaine (The [Female] Republican Cook), the first potato cookbook, promoting potatoes as food for the common people.

Parmentier's agronomic interests covered a wide range of opportunities to ameliorate the human lot through technical improvements; he published his observations touching on bread-baking, cheese-making, grain storage, the use of cornmeal (maize) and chestnut flour, mushroom culture, mineral waters, wine-making, improved sea biscuits, and a host of other topics of interest to the Physiocrats.

Dishes named after Parmentier
Starting in the 1870s, many dishes including potatoes were named in honor of Parmentier: potage, velouté, or crème Parmentier, a potato and leek soup; hachis Parmentier, a cottage or shepherd's pie; brandade de morue parmentier, salt cod mashed with olive oil and potatoes; pommes or garniture Parmentier, cubed potatoes fried in butter; purée Parmentier, mashed potatoes; salade Parmentier, potato salad.

Death and legacy
Parmentier died on 13 December 1813, aged 76. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in a plot ringed by potato plants, and his name is given to a long avenue in the 10th and 11th arrondissements (and a station on line 3 of the Paris Métro). At Montdidier, his bronze statue surveys Place Parmentier from its high socle, while below, in full marble relief, seed potatoes are distributed to a grateful peasant. Another monumental statue of Parmentier, by French sculptor Adrien Étienne Gaudez, is erected in the square of the town hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

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Talk:USS Baltimore (CA-68)

"Returning to the United States in July 1944, she embarked President Franklin D. Roosevelt and..." the ship got onto the president? Use plain English. "When the ship returned to the USA president whatever embarked and blah yadda"

 * Check your dictionary - this is a valid use of "embark" and common in nautical circles. Stan 05:53, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

USN ensign
After discussions, the advice is to use naval ensigns, not jacks - see WikiProject Ships/Tables. The correct US flag has been selected by a template - see the US entry in WikiProject Ships/Ensigns. Folks at 137 17:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

CA-68
Does anyone know what the ship motto was for the US Baltimore CA-68? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.255.66.25 (talk) 01:45, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Armaments list error
The secondary armaments are listed as 5in guns, which is correct, but when converted to metric, the diameter is incorrectly displayed as 130mm. The correct conversation results in 127mm. I’m not quite sure how to fix this through syntax editing, but it needs to be fixed. Sky0023 (talk) 03:21, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

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