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i wouldn't recommend blanking this.
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 * I do not blank constructive criticism. I blank BS. -Rchamberlain 05:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey what's up. You didn't like my "formerly James" Akin? Hee hee. Actually he is a "formerly James" since his first books have the author as James Akin. I'm not sure if you knew this, but he changed his name back to his birth name Jimmy in 2002. From 1993 to 2001 or 2002 or so with Catholic Answers and This Rock everyone knew him as James Akin. That's why I said "formerly James" since he was formerly known as James Akin not Jimmy Akin. Another thing: he is not now known as James Akin. That is not his name. His name is Jimmy (formerly James) Akin. James Akin is not now his name. Anyway I'll accept your minor edit! Thanks! PhilVaz 04:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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If you would like to know, this page is designed for fun, and as a personal sandbox to specifically test table layouts and styles. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:07, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I like it :) Radiant_ >|< 09:22, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, have there been any unsuccessful RFA nominations with 50+? Just from memory, the closest I can find is Uncle G's first pass, where he got 45 support. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:59, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats to Func, who surpassed my vote by... 1 :-) Ta bu shi da yu 08:54, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * So, now, can you convert raw scores into % of active users? :) Now, the next step you need to do is extend this list down to people with 40 support votes, or at least to 41 ;)- Guettarda 17:46, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * 41's the perfect number. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 23:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * % of active users is a little hard because I do not have the raw stats for the number of active users, especially for the RFAs prior to January 2005. Also, I am hesitant because I have not found a way to effectively sort out vandal or sockpuppet accounts that would skew the data. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Would it be too much to ask who the nominator was?, I could make a separte column and help you if you wanted. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 00:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you are willing to do the research and fill that column in for the previous entries on the table, I'll be willing to include that data on future ones. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:41, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Idea?
Maybe to keep this thing workable, you might want, in the future, to limit the list to people with 60 support votes, not just 50. Today, it would eliminate 30 people from your little list. Just something to keep in mind. -- LV (Dark Mark)  21:35, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * For me, it is not a problem to update it yet. However, I might consider your suggestion after I start getting the warning message that the page is over the recommended size limit. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't figure it was bad now, but the scalability issues people always seem to talk about might lead this to be very large (some may already consider the list too long), very quickly. It's just something to keep in the back of your mind. Cheers. -- LV (Dark Mark)  21:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course, this page is small compared to WP:LA... Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Tis true. My, how that list has grown in my short time here. See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark)  21:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

 * On second thought, I will try your idea as an experiment, but the mark will be 70 and up since users getting into the 60s are also becoming more common. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I like it. I don't really see a point of being able to say, "Hey look, I am the 46th most supported RfA." or, "Man, one more support vote and I would have been the 38th most supported RfA instead of the 39th." I think it puts things in better perspective. (My apologies to whomever actually is the 46th or 39th most supported... it was just an example) See ya. -- LV (Dark Mark)  15:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Important note on late votes
For your information, I am being strict on disregarding the counting of all late votes made after the voting deadline. Most of the late votes occur between the time when the vote ends and when a bureaucrat processes the nominations. This period does vary and thus gives may give an unfair, inflated advantage. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * For example, Ann Heneghan's RFA, was closed by a bureaucrat almost a full day after the deadline – 4 late votes were made. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind that I normally add new enties to my User:Zzyzx11/RFA nomination records after each RFA is processed. Since bureaucrats cannot de-sysop once one is promoted, I would really only make the adjustments when I definitely know it will not affect the outcome. For extermely close calls, I would probably add a footnote to my page instead. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:23, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Linuxbeak's RfB?
Will Linuxbeak's RfB be listed here? He's already topped 100 votes, and is still rolling along. BD2412 T 01:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have no plans to list RFB nominations. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Why not? There's so few, and fewer still with 70+ votes. BD2412  T 16:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not interested. There have been only 19 successful RFB nominations with most of them barely reaching 30 support votes. And at the rate that bureaucrats are promoted, I would probably forget about any RFB records page. Of course, you can always create User:BD2412/RFB nomination records... Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:32, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Here you go. User:Ashibaka/RFB nomination records Ashibaka tock 05:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Until further notice...
... this page will only list those who acquired 70 support votes or above. Please see the discussion above. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Unsuccessful nominations
I always thought that this list should include nominations that were not successful, so I have created a list that does just that at User:NoSeptember/RfA voting records, and I added a few sublists (such as a list of record setting unopposed nominations). Note that the recently closed Karmafist RfA fell just two votes shy of tying the BD2412 RfA for most votes cast. NoSeptember  talk  06:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I never was interested in unsuccessful votes when I first created this page... come to think of it, this page for me has kind of lost its allure after the number of admins have exponentially increased since about this time last year. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, if you lose interest, there are those of us happy to keep it updated for you. These charts have a definite bias for recent nominations due to the growth of Wikipedia. Maybe the way to show record nominations would be by year (40+ for 2004, 50+ for 2005, 70+ for 2006, etc.) NoSeptember   talk  13:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * When I broke my list into date ranges I found out that there have been more record RfAs in the first 2½ months of 2006 (24) than in the last 6 months of 2005 (19). NoSeptember   talk  15:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Robert A. Heinlein
I'm nominating this as a featured article because I think it meets the criteria, and I'm proud of it -- I've worked on it a lot myself, so this should be considered a self-nomination.--Bcrowell 21:08, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Support Very detailed and comprehensive. One thing that I think might make the article better would be something on the public perception of Heinlein: the way that some people thought his support for the military marked him as a fascist. Besides that, great job. Stilgar135 16:50, 30 May 2005
 * Refer to peer review - Overwhelming TOC, bad section organization (find better ==Level 2== themes and organize the current sections under those), no references, lack of inline cites, and goes into more detail than needed (the more detailed text could be in daughter articles). --mav 17:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you put your objection where you intended? Phil s 20:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Opps! Damn slow wiki made me do it. :) --mav 21:28, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments, Stilgar135! The lead section now contains some remarks on public perception.--Bcrowell 17:58, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Support, excellent biography, great use of explanatory notes. The grainy photo Robert Heinlein (photo by Virginia Heinlein) doesn't add much, have you got anything you could replace it with?--nixie 23:57, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your support! I think the selection of photos may have to do with legal issues. The book Grumbles From the Grave does contain a lot of photos of him, but the ones before 1923 are likely to be of interest only to fans, and I'm not sure how far we want to stick out necks out in terms of fair use for post-1923 images.--Bcrowell 17:58, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Support, wow! amazing. However, tricky as they are, the lead section should be expanded somewhat - this article is large enough for it. Right now it doesn't have that catch-your-eye-and-hold-the-reader feel to it. There is some wikification to be done still I think (no time to do it myself, sorry!). - Ta bu shi da yu 08:02, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Good comment on the lead -- it was very vanilla, and would probably not have interested people who didn't already know about Heinlein. I've expanded it to two paragraphs, and tried to add some zip to it.--Bcrowell 17:58, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... a lot better, but would still suggest that more summarisation be done of the main article. That's what I tried to do for Windows 2000, and though that article's lead section may be a little long I think that it might be helpful. As I'm really interested in reading about this individual I will attempt to assist. My vote is still to support. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:58, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Object. Expand lead to at least two paragrahps (see Lead). Format online references so they have 'last accessed on' date. Biography and 'Ideas and themes' sections are impressive, but I'd like to see a subsection dealing specifically with his influence on other writers, culture, and homage paid to him by next generations of sf writers. A few more pics (book covers) wouldn't hurt as well, although this one is just a comment, not an objection. I am pretty sure you can easily adress those points - let me know then and I will change to support. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 11:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments! I've tried to make the suggested changes regarding references, influence, and more pictures.--Bcrowell 17:58, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Support -- although I _still_ think the bio echo's way too closely the bio from the Heinlein society web page. But considering just how LITTLE biographical material there is available, I don't know we have a choice at this point. (which is, in and of itself amazing. Ginny did an ASTONISHINGLY GOOD job of protecting his privacy.) I looked through all my old files for a better snapshot.  -- Nothing comes to light, which is sad. Some comment may be appropriate about the Heinlein's and now the estates _vigorus_ defense of it's IP rights, -- to the extent of reclaiming ARC's that were offered up for sale.  Rick Boatright 18:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to say I must object--there was one flaw in this article (but it's easily fixed). The article says in his "works" section that "There has been speculation that his intense obsession with his privacy was due..."--but prior to this, there had been no indication that he was obsessed with his privacy. Add detail on this, and I'll support. This flaw is so glaring precisely because the rest of the article was so good. Very, very fine work--just one minor fix is needed. Meelar (talk) 15:02, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent comment, Meelar! I've added some documentation in a footnote.--Bcrowell 04:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Support although I would like to see more about his early life; is nothing known of his parents? --Theo (Talk) 22:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the only on-line source is the bio on the heinlein society web page. We're already treading dangerously close to a copyvio on that source...  Rick Boatright 23:29, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a much, much longer online biography of him, by the same author, at . I've added it to the references. I've added the names of his parents.--Bcrowell 04:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed the citation of the Patterson Bio to the original publication in the Heinlein Journal, with an "available here" link to the aol.com page. Rick Boatright 22:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, on the topic of "treading dangerously close to a copyvio" on the Patterson biography, I just found a long phrase in the article that was lifted verbatim from there by an anonymous user on 28 Dec 2004. I've deleted the phrase. Baylink helped me find another couple of those a few days ago, and I edited them out --- they were put in there by an anonymous user in February 2004. I hope this is the last of them. --Bcrowell 04:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Object. I see significant problems with details here. Examples -- RAH not first sf writer to hit "mainstream" magazines, what about HG Wells? View of RAH as "fascist" not just based on Starship Troopers, probably as much if not more from Farnham's Freehold and nonfiction writings and speeches.  I don't know what the source is for the story about why Rocket Ship Galileo was rejected, but it'e either wrong or summarized in a misleading way -- lots of stuff that was further out had been published at the time. RSG not RAH's first published novel, but his first that was an original hardcover rather than a magazine serial.  Starship Troopers wasn't his last juvenile, but the last he submitted to the Scribners line, it was published as a standard trade. If ST is a juvenile, so is Podkayne. The division between early and "mature" work strikes me as dead wrong; RAH wasn't publishing the Scribners juveniles because his work wasn't sufficiently mature, but because he was reaching a larger/more lucrative market than the sf mags allowed him too. I think the comments about critics and Heinlein's later work aren't sufficiently NPOV; much of the technical criticism of the novels is well-founded, and  there are serious questions as to whether the self-parodic elements are designed virtues or inherent conceptual failings. I don't think the article distinguishes sufficiently between his earliest work (mostly for Campbell, as I recall), particularly the "Future History," and the post-Astounding phase; lumping everything from 1939-1960 together as a coherent grouping strikes me as thoroughly misconceived.  I'm not saying this is a bad article -- there's a lot of good work in it -- but execution doesn't match ambition yet. Monicasdude 14:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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This was too hard, but it had useful material if it could be simplified to the point where a person, who is not a medical student, could understand it:

 * After dentinogenesis begins preameloblasts differentiates into ameloblasts which deposit enamel. Ameloblasts are tall column like cells with a nucleus away from the secretory end of the cell. The ameloblasts develop a Tome's process after starting amelogenesis. This process is responsible for the production of enamel in the form of rods.

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Hablot Knight Browne

Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was a British artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.

Early life
Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot Knight Browne was born in England, in Lambeth (near London) on Kennington Lane. He was the fourteenth of Catherine and William Loder Browne's fifteen children. According to his biographer Valerie Browne Lester, Phiz was in fact the illegitimate son of his putative eldest sister Kate and Captain Nicholas Hablot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. There is some uncertainty regarding the exact date of birth. 10 July 1815 is the date given by Valerie Browne Lester, his great-great-granddaughter. John Buchanan-Brown in his book Phiz!: Illustrator of Dickens' World says 12 July 1815. The date on his Christening record of 21 December 1815 at St Mary's Church, Lambeth, Surrey, England gives 11 June 1815, as does the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and 15 June 1815 (Dictionary of National Biography). A copy of the programme from his burial service, which is still owned by the Browne family, says he was born 10 July 1815.

When he was 7 years old, his father William Browne abandoned the family, changed his name to Breton and sailed with embezzled funds to Philadelphia where he became known for his watercolour paintings. William Browne was then declared dead by his wife Catherine.

Thomas Moxon, husband of William's sister Ann Loder Browne, helped to support the family, who were left badly off.

Browne was apprenticed to William Finden, an engraver, in whose studio he obtained his only artistic education. However, he was unsuited for engraving, and having during 1833 secured an important prize from the Society of Arts for a drawing of John Gilpin, he abandoned engraving in the following year and began other artistic work, with the ultimate object of becoming a painter.

Career
In the spring of 1836, he met Charles Dickens. It was at the time when Dickens was looking for someone to illustrate Pickwick. Browne became the illustrator of his little pamphlet Sunday under Three Heads. In the original edition of Pickwick, issued in shilling monthly parts from early in 1836 until the end of 1837, the first seven plates were drawn by Robert Seymour, who committed suicide in April 1836. The next two plates were by Robert William Buss.

Browne and William Makepeace Thackeray visited the publishers' office with specimens of their work for Dickens's inspection. The novelist preferred Browne. Browne's first two etched plates for Pickwick were signed "Nemo", but the third was signed "Phiz", a pseudonym which was retained in future. When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from "Nemo" to "Phiz" was made to harmonize better with Dickens's "Boz".

Phiz developed the character Sam Weller graphically just as Seymour had developed Pickwick. Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became the hero. They later made several other journeys together to facilitate the illustrator's work. Other Dickens characters illustrated by Phiz were Squeers, Micawber, Guppy, Major Bagstock, Mrs Gamp, Tom Pinch and David Copperfield.

Of the ten books by Dickens which Phiz illustrated, he is most known for David Copperfield, Pickwick, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House. Browne made several drawings for Punch in his early days and also towards the end of his life. He designed the wrapper which was used for eighteen months from January 1842. He also contributed to Punch's Pocket Books.

In addition to his work for Dickens, Phiz illustrated more than twenty of Charles Lever's novels (among them The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon, Jack Hinton, the Guardsman and The Knight of Gwynne). He also illustrated Harrison Ainsworth's and Frank Smedley's novels. Mervyn Clitheroe by Ainsworth is one of the most accomplished of the artist's works.

Most of Browne's work was etched on steel plates because these yielded a far larger edition than copper. Browne was annoyed at some of his etchings being transferred to stone by the publishers and printed as lithographic reproductions. Partly with the view to prevent this treatment of his work, he employed a machine to rule a series of lines over the plate in order to obtain what appeared to be a tint; when manipulated with acid this tint gave an effect somewhat resembling mezzotint, which at that time it was found practically impossible to transfer to stone.

Death
Browne was in continual employment by publishers until 1867, when he suffered an illness that caused a degree of paralysis. After recovering, he produced many woodcuts. In 1878 he was awarded an annuity by the Royal Academy. His health gradually worsened until he died on 8 July 1882.

Legacy
Four of his illustrations were issued as stamps by the Royal Mail in 2012 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

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Licensing
Cover of Vanilla Ninja's Blue Tattoo album.

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