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Talk:Demons & Wizards (Demons & Wizards album)

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Brazillian issue track list?
I've never actually seen a copy of the Brazillian issue. The bonus tracks on it seem like they should be similar to the Argentinian release (White Room and three demo tracks), but what the article lists is almost pick-and-choose (White Room, two demo tracks, and Whistler (alternate ver), the last being, to my understanding, a Japanese-exclusive track). I've temporarily removed the references to the Brazillian copy until it can be sorted out. Can someone confirm the tracklist?

Also, regarding the vinyl release, I have conflicting information regarding The Whistler (alternate ver). According to the corresponding entry on Discogs, the track appears on the album, however an entry for it on Amazon.co.uk does not list the track. I don't know which source is more legit, so I'm removing the reference to the track on the vinyl copy just to be safe. I'm also removing the track from the track list of the European Digipak due to lack of information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmalinoski (talk • contribs) 18:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Django (web framework)

Used for adverts?
This article seems to be more used for advertising stuff surrounding the Django project rather than the project itself, such as books, bibliography and applications built on Django. 194.54.31.24 (talk) 16:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

 * but 103.152.157.186 (talk) 04:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Can we find a good source saying Django is the most popular?
As a professional Python developer, I have the distinct impression that Django is the most popular Python web framework. It seems to be the most popular by a rather wide margin, in fact. Lots of blogs say this, and I can't find any blogs that say otherwise, but those aren't Wikipedia-quality sources.

I think we should find a good source and then mention in the introduction that Django is the most popular Python web framework.65.96.213.231 (talk) 17:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

 * There's HotFrameworks, but it lists Flask before Django -- and even before Ruby on Rails. The score is misleading though, because Flask gets its score only from the number of Github watchers, but Django and RoR lose their score from the traffic and inbound links. It's also debatable whether HotFrameworks really is a reliable source. -- intgr [talk] 10:42, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Needed Edits
Django has deprecated FastCGI support since 1.7 and completely removed support for it in 1.9 and above. I could find no mechanism for its use with the Hiawatha web server. See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/deployment/fastcgi/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.233.26.78 (talk) 23:21, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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The creation of Django
I find it odd that the creation of Django is attributed to the Lawrence Journal-World in the infobox, but is described as an independent effort by two web developers working for the publication in the article. Is there a reason it has been kept this way? 58.234.230.198 (talk) 10:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PSNA College of Engineering and Technology

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Dmcdevit·t 23:33, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

PSNA College of Engineering and Technology
An article to promote a business apparently written by someone with vested interest Ajithkumar 11:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Comments only, no vote - several articles pertaining to schools and colleges exist in wikipedia, and I think any exception for this article is not required to the extent of a plain "delete". The contents require modification. I will change my vote to "Keep", if blatant promotional style of the content is suitably modified.--Bhadani 14:45, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete if the article is not cleaned up or notability established, otherwise, Keep. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 14:50, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — Needs cleanup, not deletion. — RJH 15:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup to remove advertising tone. Dcarrano 16:36, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep per my edits. royblumy 03:02, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per last edits. But do we need the list of Directors and Library Assistants? Vegaswikian 05:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete borderline notable at best. JamesBurns 07:38, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Sort, Lleida

Sort is the capital of the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, in the country of Spain. It is located at 692 metres above the sea, by the river Noguera Pallaresa, a tributary to the Segre. Population 2,113 (2005).

It was once capital of the County of Pallars.

The origin of the name predates the Roman period and has a different origin from the concept of sort -Catalan for “luck”-. Sort is a toponym of Basque origin, from the word sort, or suert, which meant bridge, referring to the only important bridge that crossed the Noguera Pallaresa river.

The municipality includes the small village of Olp.

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Ralf Sieckmann v Deutsches Patent und Markenamt

In trademark law, Sieckmann v German Patent and Trademark Office (case C-273/00) issued on December 12, 2002, is widely recognised as a landmark decision of the European Court of Justice on the graphical representation of non-conventional trademarks under the European Trade Marks Directive.

The case involved a "methyl cinnamate" scent, which the applicant had described "as balsamically fruity with a slight hint of cinnamon". The ECJ ruled that (a) a chemical formula depicting this scent did not represent the odour of a substance, was not sufficiently intelligible, nor sufficiently clear and precise; (b) a written description was not sufficiently clear, precise and objective; and (c) a physical deposit of a sample of the scent did not constitute a graphic representation, and was not sufficiently stable or durable.

The case illustrates difficulties with the graphical representation of scent marks, as the ECJ held that these representations, whether individually or collectively, could not satisfy this requirement.


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Talk:List of biodiversity conservation sites in the United Kingdom

("in use")
This atrticle has been "in use" for two days, with no edits. I'm removing the tag. Andy Mabbett 11:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Title
Have tried to make this article's title more succinct, but perhaps further reduction possible; if recognition of biodiversity usually implies conservation efforts, maybe "List of UK sites recognised for their biodiversity"...? Regards, David Kernow (talk) 00:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


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Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson may refer to:

 * Robert Lawson (architect) (1833–1902), Scottish architect who emigrated to New Zealand
 * Robert Lawson (author) (1892–1957), American author and artist
 * Robert Lawson (British Army officer) (died 1816), Royal Artillery officer
 * Robert Lawson (cricketer) (1901–1974), Australian cricketer
 * Robert Lawson (racing driver), runner-up in the 2008 SEAT Cupra Championship
 * Robert Lawson (screenwriter), screenwriter of What Goes Up
 * Robert Lawson (South Australian politician) (born 1944), Liberal member of the South Australian Legislative Council
 * Robert Lawson (Victorian politician) (born 1927), Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Robert Lawson (Virginia) (1748–1805), American Revolutionary War militia general and politician
 * Robert C. Lawson (1883–1961), American clergyman, founder of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ
 * Robert G. Lawson (born 1938), American law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law
 * Robert R. Lawson (c. 1872–1934), New York state senator
 * Robert W. Lawson (c. 1889–1960), British physicist
 * Bob Lawson (Robert Baker Lawson, 1875–1952), baseball player

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Muckle Skerry

Muckle Skerry is the largest of the Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland. It is home to the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse.

Muckle Skerry lies in the Pentland Firth at. It is the westernmost of the skerries. At 1 km long and rising to an elevation of 20 m above sea level, it is sizable enough to be considered an island. However the notoriously bad weather of the firth has historically rendered Muckle Skerry uninhabitable and as such it is more often thought of as a skerry.

Pentland Skerries Lighthouse
Pentland Skerries Lighthouse was constructed in 1794 by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights. The engineers were Thomas Smith and his stepson Robert Stevenson (this was the first light that Stevenson officially worked on).

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User:Javirl

My full name is Javier Rodríguez Laguna. I got my PhD in theoretical physics in may 2002 in Madrid. I have taught in secondary schools for nine years in Spain, worked at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA, in Trieste) and at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Now I work at the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO, in Barcelona).

You may take a look at my main webpage.

I have contributed (seriously) to

 * Article on Critical phenomena (fully rewritten from a stub).
 * Article on the Renormalization group (fully rewritten from a stub).
 * Article on the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (fully rewritten from a stub).
 * Article on De Arte Combinatoria, a work of Gottfried Leibniz (created).
 * Items at the List of publications in physics.
 * Article on Surface reconstruction, started.
 * Article on Alexander Nahum Sack, the father of the term odious debt, started.

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User:Unit66~enwiki

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About Me
Age: 18

Residence: South Germany

Occupation: Student (at a "economical high school")

Favorite Music Styles: Techno and Hardcore Techno (sometimes Trance, too)

Other:
 * Active supporter of Open Source in every kind.

 * Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Fan

Why I've created a user at en Wikipedia
I've created a User-Account in the englisch Wikipedia because of several reasons. The first one is for improving my knownledge in the english language and the second for translating articles into German for the german Wikipedia and also the other way back again - if I could. If anything isn't write please correct me or teach me for doin' it a better way!

Me and the english language
I met English for the first time when I was in elementary school's fourth class. I'd loved it from the first lesson on. Now in these times I'm watching DVDs in English first and then in German, reading John Grisham and Ken Follet in the original and listening to BBC Radio 1 mostly.

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User talk:K madhu kar

Let us consider the set of alphabets in any language. Then take cartesian product of the set. let us define a relation on such a set by claiming that such an ordered pair of elements would give a meaningful word when spelt or read. Similarly one could extend this sought of a relation over various cartesian products of the same set or the family of such a cartesian product to give a relation that a sentence could be framed. hence languages is just a relation.

Welcome
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. I am pleased with your contribution to Luzin's theorem. You might have noticed that it has been edited to conform with our style, as explained in our Manual of Style. Particular guidance for mathematical articles can be found in How to write a Wikipedia article on Mathematics. You might also be interested in the WikiProject Mathematics, which is just a bunch of people that like to write about mathematics.

Unfortunately, I do not understand what you tried to do with Euler's theorem on homogeneous functions. Could you please explain why you created a new article there which just copies part of the homogeneous function article?

Most importantly, I hope you decide to stay and continue contributing. Don't care too much about all the rules and guidelines, at least initially, since there are enough people around who will fix that. Of course, you can ask me any questions on my talk page, which can be found at User talk:Jitse Niesen.

Best wishes, Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Prazosin

Prazosin, sold under the brand name Minipress among others, is a medication used to treat high blood pressure, symptoms of an enlarged prostate, and nightmares related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is an α1 blocker. It is a less preferred treatment of high blood pressure. Other uses may include heart failure and Raynaud syndrome. It is taken by mouth.

Common side effects include dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, and heart palpitations. Serious side effects may include low blood pressure with standing and depression. Prazosin is a non-selective inverse agonist of the α1-adrenergic receptors. It works to decrease blood pressure by dilating blood vessels and helps with an enlarged prostate by relaxing the outflow of the bladder. How it works in PTSD is not entirely clear.

Prazosin was patented in 1965 and came into medical use in 1974. It is available as a generic medication. In 2021, it was the 183rd most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 2million prescriptions.

Medical uses
Prazosin is active after taken by mouth and has a minimal effect on cardiac function due to its α1-adrenergic receptor selectivity. When prazosin is started, however, heart rate and contractility can increase in order to maintain the pre-treatment blood pressures because the body has reached homeostasis at its abnormally high blood pressure. The blood pressure lowering effect becomes apparent when prazosin is taken for longer periods of time. The heart rate and contractility go back down over time and blood pressure decreases.

The antihypertensive characteristics of prazosin make it a second-line choice for the treatment of high blood pressure.

Prazosin is also useful in treating urinary hesitancy associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia, blocking α1-adrenergic receptors, which control constriction of both the prostate and urethra. Although not a first-line choice for either hypertension or benign prostatic hyperplasia, it is a choice for people who present with both problems concomitantly.

During its use for urinary hesitancy in military veterans in the 1990s, Murray A. Raskind and colleagues discovered that prazosin appeared to be effective in reducing nightmares. Subsequent reviews indicate prazosin is effective in improving sleep quality and treating nightmares related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Prazosin is used off-label in the treatment of insomnia for its sedative effects. Prazosin is an inverse agonist at α1-adrenergic receptors; these receptors are expressed on dendrites that noradrenergic neurons synapse onto in the brain. Some of the noradrenergic pathways in the central nervous system form part of the ascending reticular activating system, which promotes arousal when stimulated. Prazosin inhibits the output neurons of the noradrenergic pathways in that system, in turn causing sedation.

The drug is usually recommended for severe stings from the Indian red scorpion.

Adverse effects
Common (4–10% frequency) side effects of prazosin include dizziness, headache, drowsiness, lack of energy, weakness, palpitations, and nausea. Less frequent (1–4%) side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, edema, orthostatic hypotension, dyspnea, syncope, vertigo, depression, nervousness, nasal congestion and rash. A very rare side effect of prazosin is priapism. One phenomenon associated with prazosin is known as the "first dose response", in which the side effects of the drug specifically orthostatic hypotension, dizziness, and drowsiness  are especially pronounced in the first dose.

Orthostatic hypotension and syncope are associated with the body's poor ability to control blood pressure without active α-adrenergic receptors. The nasal congestion is exacerbated by changing body positions, because α1-adrenergic receptors also control nasal vascular blood flow and alpha blockers inhibit this, in the same way that alpha-adrenergic agonists have the opposite effect of being a decongestant.

Pharmacodynamics
Prazosin is an α1-blocker that acts as a non-selective inverse agonist at α1-adrenergic receptors, including of the α1A-, α1B-, and α1D-adrenergic receptor subtypes. It binds to these receptors with affinity (Ki) values of 0.13 to 1.0 nM for the α1Α-adrenergic receptor, 0.06 to 0.62 nM for the α1B-adrenergic receptor, and 0.06 to 0.38 nM for the α1D-adrenergic receptor. It has much lower affinity for the α2-adrenergic receptors (Ki = 210–5,012 nM for the α2A-adrenergic receptor, 13–398 nM for the α2B-adrenergic receptor, and 10–200 nM for the α2C-adrenergic receptor). The α1-adrenergic receptors are found in vascular smooth muscle, where they are responsible for the vasoconstrictive action of norepinephrine. They are also found throughout the central nervous system. α1-Adrenergic receptors have additionally been found on immune cells, where catecholamine binding can stimulate and enhance cytokine production.

Pharmacokinetics
Prazosin has an onset of action of 30 to 90 minutes, the elimination half-life of prazosin is 2 to 3 hours, and its duration of action is 10 to 24 hours.

Research
Prazosin has been said to be the only selective α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist which has been used in the treatment of insomnia to any significant degree. It is used at doses of 1 to 12 mg for this purpose. The combination of prazosin and the beta blocker timolol may produce greater sedative effects than either of them alone.

Prazosin has been shown to prevent death in animal models of cytokine storm. As a repurposed drug, prazosin is being investigated for the prevention of cytokine storm syndrome and complications of COVID-19 where it is thought to decrease cytokine dysregulation.

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User talk:Victor01

Victor01 is a Brazilian Wikipedian. Most of his contribution is in english.

Basically his favorite articles in wikipedia includes cosmology, compsci, fun related and other stuffs.

Usercategorization
You were listed on the Wikipedians/Brazil page as living in or being associated with Brazil. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Brazil for instructions. Rmky87 07:21, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

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Child, Youth and Family (New Zealand)

Child, Youth and Family (CYF; in Māori, Te Tari Awhina i te Tamaiti, te Rangatahi, tae atu ki te Whānau), was the government agency that had legal powers to intervene to protect and help children who are being abused or neglected or who have problem behaviour until it was replaced by a new Ministry for Vulnerable Children in April 2017. CYF worked with the Police and the Courts in dealing with young offenders under the youth justice system. It provided residential and care services for children in need of care and protection and for young offenders. CYF assessed people who wished to adopt children and it reported to the Family Court on adoption applications. CYF facilitated the exchange of identifying information for parties to past adoptions. The agency also funded community organisations working with children, young people and their families to support the community's role in protecting and helping children.

History
Child, Youth and Family had its origins in the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Education. On 1 April 1972, the division was merged with the Social Security Department to form the Department of Social Welfare. That department was reorganised on 1 May 1992 into business units, including the New Zealand Children and Young Persons Service (CYPS), which was subsequently renamed the Children, Young Persons and their Families Agency (CYPFA), to align its name with the legislation it was administering. On 1 October 1999 it was established as a separate Department of Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS). Then, on 1 July 2006, it was amalgamated back into the Ministry of Social Development as a business unit under the name Child, Youth and Family (CYF).

Child, Youth and Family became a functional unit of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), following the 2006 merger of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS) and MSD. Until April 2017, CYF fell under the portfolio of the Minister for Social Development. In April 2017, after the passage of enacting legislation, CYF was replaced by the Ministry for Vulnerable Children (now Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children).

Legislation
MSD administered, or was involved in administering, the following CYF-related legislation:
 * Adoption Act 1955,
 * Adult Adoption Information Act 1985,
 * Adoption (Intercountry) Act 1997,
 * Care of Children Act 2004,
 * Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989,
 * Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975,
 * Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988.

Responsibilities
Protecting children and young people who were at risk of or who had been abused or neglected, or who were at risk of offending, was the service's primary responsibility, and it carried out investigations when a child or young person was believed to be "at risk". Where there was a risk of serious harm, it could exercise powers to ensure that the child was kept safe from that risk. The department also dealt with youth justice, a section of the law that dealt mainly with offending by young people aged 14–16 years, and adoption through the Adoption Information and Services Unit (AISU).

In addition, the department provided residential and care services for children and young people who required placing away from their parents, guardians or usual caregivers, and funded a wide range of community-based social services, with a focus on children, young people and families in need of support.

CYFS Watch blog
In January 2007, a controversial blog "CYFS Watch" appeared on Google's Blogger. The blog's stated aim was unveiling examples of alleged incompetence by the Child Youth and Family Service and published the personal details of several CYFS social workers. The Ministry responded by complaining to Google. In late February, the blog's anonymous author made death threats towards Green MP Sue Bradford as a result of her Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill 2005. Google responded on 22 February 2007 by deleting the site as a breach of their terms of service.

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Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party

The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a state political party in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The PDP was headed and founded by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. His daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, succeeded him as party leader and as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir following his death in January 2016. The party is a member of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration electoral alliance. The party is also a member of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance since its founding on 18 June 2023.

Currently Mehbooba Mufti remains as the President of the party, with Ghulam Nabi Lone and Mehboob Beg serve as its General Secretary and General Secretary (Org) respectively. Prominent youth leader, Waheed Para currently serves as its Youth Wing President

History
The PDP was founded in 1999 by the former Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. It captured power in Jammu and Kashmir in October 2002 Assembly elections. In 2004, it had one member each in the Lok Sabha and in the Rajya Sabha. It was a member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance until the 2009 general election.

Sayeed headed the PDP-Indian National Congress Coalition Government between October 2002 and November 2005, and he was the party's Patron until his death on 7 January 2016. The PDP is now headed by Mehbooba Mufti, Sayeed's daughter.

The PDP operates on the ideology of self-rule, as distinctly different from the issues of autonomy. It believes that self-rule as a political philosophy, as opposed to autonomy, ensures the empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while further engaging in debates over new political territoriality of Jammu and Kashmir.

In the 2014 general election, three of its members were elected to the Lok Sabha. Its strength in the Legislative Assembly is 28 and in the Rajya Sabha is two. The party ran a Coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir with the Bharatiya Janata Party until the BJP abandoned the coalition on June 19, 2018, due to concerns about terrorism and radicalization in Kashmir.


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User:Ajithkumar

Works as a film editor. Interests wide.

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Talk:Michael Bay

Average
There was a long discussion about made up averages of Rotten Tomatoes scores in film articles. Talk:The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(film_series)/Archive_2 The consensus of that discussion was that film articles shouldn't do made up averages, and as a result made up averages were removed from most film articles. I was surprised to see this article contains a made up average. I recommend removing it from this article too. -- 109.77.193.159 (talk) 16:04, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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User:Victor01

Victor01 is a Brazilian Wikipedian. Most of his contribution is in english.

Basically his favorite articles in wikipedia includes cosmology, compsci, fun related and other stuffs.

Contributions by Victor01

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Adalat

Adalat or Adaalat may refer to:

 * Adalah (Islam), the word for justice in Islam
 * Adalat, a brand name for the heart drug Nifedipine
 * Adalat (1958 film), a Bollywood drama
 * Adalat (1976 film), a Bollywood action drama
 * Adaalat (TV series), an Indian TV courtroom drama anthology series

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People's Power Party

People's Power Party may refer to:

 * People's Power Party (Malaysia)
 * People's Power Party (Singapore)
 * People's Power Party (Thailand)
 * People's Power Party (Ukraine)

Also:
 * Lakas ng Bayan (People's Power), (Philippines)
 * PDP–Laban (Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan) (Philippine Democratic Party–People's Power)
 * Lok Janshakti Party (lit. '"People's Power Party') (India)
 * Lok Satta Party (India)
 * Bharatiya Janshakti Party (lit. 'Indian People's Power Party')
 * Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi (lit. 'National People's Power Party') (India)
 * People's Political Power Party of Canada
 * People's Power Action Party (Solomon Islands)
 * United Democratic Sabah People's Power Party (Malaysia)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosh

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. humblefool®Deletion Reform 01:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Bosh
Neologism or vanity. Or simply nonsense? At least non-understandable - and something "indefinable" has no place in a encyaclopedia. andy 11:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Surely it is vain to say a word cannont be defined. "Bosh" is commenly used britsh slang and it has the right to a definition. Who are you to question this? dan
 * This user has so far only edited Bosh and this VFD, with a total of 7 edits at time of count - User:Morwen
 * Welcome to Wikipedia, User:B0sh. Please familiarize yourself with our Wikipedia is not a dictionary policy. Uncle G 14:33, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Im not saying wikipedia is a dictionary, true bosh has been defined, by we are also trying to communicate it place in society, and that it is part of the make-up of uk lifedan
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.0.7 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 18 July 2005 UTC
 * Very Weak Keep but only after wiping everything there from the face of wikipedia and salting the earth. It does in fact appear that "bosh" is a bit of English slang here's the definition. It also does not appear to be very "neo", purportedly used since 1834, according to this.  And as both of the image links at the bottom of the page may indicate, of some provenance in graffiti circles.  That noted, the number one google hit  for "bosh graffiti" is talking about a graffiti artist with the tag "bosh".  If there is more demonstration of its relevance, I'd be happier.    brenneman (t) (c)  12:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * UrbanDictionary is an unreliable source, by the way. Uncle G 23:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to fiddle, which it's a Romany word for. Just like in the old song,: "Can you kil the bosh?" Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  12:15, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia doesn't (or at least, isn't supposed to) have dictionary definitions, so it's not that we don't like "bosh" in particular. Delete. Morwen - Talk 12:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Bosh is a term in common usage throughout the UK, especially the North East of England, so it's place in Wikipedia is only right and proper. Andy
 * This is this user's first and (so far) only edit - User:Morwen
 * Whilst there are secondary exclamatory uses of "bosh!", albeit not as described here, it's primary sense (ironically, given Ahoerstemeier's question above) is indeed synonymous with nonsense, as per the Book of Bosh (a re-titling of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense), for example. Aaron Brenneman is right about salting the Earth.  However, my vote is the same as it was in March. Revert . Uncle G 14:33, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Dcarrano has made the very good point that this is also a surname. I therefore change my vote to Keep if rewritten as a conventional name disambiguation article (with the normal interwiki links to both Wiktionary articles) disambiguating Chris Bosh and nonsense.  Uncle G 23:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete bad dicdef Dunc|☺ 15:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC) Keep the dab page. Dunc|☺ 21:36, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * How can you call for deletion of something you blatantly do not understand. Bosh is a multi-faceted term, synonymous with the student community of the England. It is not only a positive expression, but an outlook on life. Andy
 * Users 2nd vote on this topic. You can only vote once! - User:Morwen
 * This is pretty clearly a comment. You can comment all you like! (But it's good form to start with the word "comment".) -  brenneman (t) (c)  04:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a comment now Check the edit history. Morwen - Talk 06:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't throw a hissy-fit about it Morwen. Andy
 * Redirect per Dcarrano. royblumy 02:52, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambig, because of the multi-use of the word, as per Dcrrano. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It is certainly not "nonsense", but i see there is some grounds from disambig
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.0.7 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 18 July 2005 UTC
 * Keep !!!! Just because the Deleters have not yet understood or participated on a conversation on which the word is used, does not give them the right to kill it prematurely. The definition according to the creators was given, the word usage is clear, examples of said usage are also given, and the promise that the word could and is spreading rapidly among users is clearly shown! what else is expected? it is not a random, non-sensical word! it has a cult following 5 years old and deserves a chance. BOSH! (MIMI13)
 * - potential sockpuppet. Dunc|☺ 19:43, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Surely simply saying "User's first edit" is a better demonstration of faith? - brenneman (t) (c)  04:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The definition according to the creators was given, [...] and the promise that the word could [...] spreading rapidly among users is clearly shown! — In other words, this is original research, an invention made of whole cloth, in violation of no original research policy, that a group of students is attempting to use Wikipedia to spread, in violation of the Wikipedia is not a soapbox policy. Uncle G 19:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is a word in BE e.g. "bosh! - job done", however the ultrarubbish that is in this is utterly deletable. -Splash 20:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That's one of the secondary uses that I was thinking of. I've looked for an etymology for it, to put into bosh, but haven't yet found one. Uncle G 23:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Nor me. It's not among the 8 definitions the OED gives, either, which was disappointing. -Splash 16:29, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That's yet further incentive for Wiktionary to have it. ☺ Uncle G 15:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, the article as written is part nonsense, part hoax. Since "bosh" is a word, the article could in theory be rewritten, but even then it would still be a dicdef, and so would belong in Wiktionary, not here. --Angr/undefined 07:13, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I have read Uncle G's rewrite as a disambig page, but although the disambig is a lot better than it was before, but I still don't think it's necessary. I now vote redirect to Nonsense, where there can be a little note at the top saying "'Bosh' redirects here; for the basketball player see Chris Bosh." --Angr/undefined 12:03, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable slang dicdef. JamesBurns 07:38, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - People wishing to dismiss 'Bosh' as a meer dictionary definition are both missing the point and are out of touch with the popular culture of today. Bosh represents a way of life to many people, it is the core of a belief system and deserves to be documented as such!Aidan
 * User's first edit. User's second edit was to vandalise my userpage, with a link to a forum post inciting such actions. Morwen - Talk 08:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - How can people like Morwen dismiss this phrase, she is obviously a complete twat and doesn't understand the true meaning of the word. John
 * User's first edit. Morwen - Talk 09:53, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * If bullshit is allowed in a definition so is bosh, bosh is much more than bullshit, it is an attitude,an expression, a way of life, where as bullshit as it says in the definition is "nonsense". Which all u have been labeling bosh which and saying it does not deserve a definition. If bosh should be removed so should bullshit dan
 * it is an attitude,an expression, a way of life — You've cited no sources that would allow readers to verify that. There are no sources to be cited.  That assertion is pure rubbish. Uncle G 19:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Dcarrano and royblumy have mentioned a surname redirect. Zscout370, 62.252.0.7, and I have in turn suggested a disambiguation.  No-one has cited sources for the article content as it stood, with Mimi13 pretty much telling us outright that it was original research.  I've therefore Rewritten the article as a name disambiguation. Uncle G 10:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * is reverting to xyr own version. here's the rewrite. Uncle G 10:58, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambig as per Uncle G. Without any solid evidence of a lifestyle type word, it is merely a dicdef/slang. The graffiti, I believe is only referring to its dicdef of nonsense, see bosh, and it has no encyclopedic value otherwise. Btw Uncle G, bosh is also a program bosh.   ∞ Who ? ¿ ?  11:34, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep — it's an improvement, but there's not all that much of note there. But something is better than nothing. However, I've removed Bush from see also - it has no more to do with Bosh than do Bash, Bish, Besh, or Bghjhsh. -Splash 16:29, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the improvement. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 18:28, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Uncle G improvements. royblumy 21:58, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the rewrite/disambig. Xoloz 04:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Why oh why would you rather have the definition of a surname (this is an Encyclopedia, not a list of surnames) over the perfectly valid definition of Bosh, which is a widely used term and an integral part of modern British youth culture. I fear our identity is being repressed by people who would rather see the surname of an American basketball player over something they do not understand.Andy
 * It's not the definition of a surname. That is happily sitting in Bosh.  This form of article is a name disambiguation.  It is a navigational aid, not a definition.  People with the family name Bosh can be commonly referred to by that family name alone.  (e.g. "Bosh, Bowen named players of the week.") Name disambiguation articles list all of the encyclopaedia articles that would otherwise, because of that common form of reference, have a redirect from the family name. Uncle G 15:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The actual article as written,  The rewrite is fine, but it completely ignores the original definition of BOSH (yes, definition, because a definition was clearly given), If is only as a supplementary aid,ok, but emphasis should be given to the word first defined and which created all this commotion in the first place, Isnt the main purpose of this Wikipedia to introduce readers to words and definitions they are not familiar with or have heard in passing and would like more information on?? I have personally seen the word in its original context and i live thousands of miles away from its birth place, I actually came to this Wikipedia to find out more about it and was satisfied with its definition, What are future readers going to do when the word goes global and a suitable and original definition is needed?  Many words have started their careers this way, deleting it now would be the equivalent of deleting "cool" in the 1940 or "phat" in  the 1990's, Sure there are other definitions for it and they may seem non-sensical to first readers, but they mean something to many and eventually will be vindicated. Not knowing the word is not a valid excuse to delete it, Now you know it, use it, live it and leave it alone, MIMI13 (and no, im not a sockpuppet and yes, it is my first edit)
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi13 (talk • contribs) 18:19, 20 July 2005 actually this user's 8th edit, and moreover this user's 2nd vote in this discussion
 * the main purpose of this Wikipedia to introduce readers to words and definitions, no: Wikipedia is not a dictionary. As for the stuff given in the article, it's just so much nonsense. It most certainly wasn't invented in the year 2000, it's been around vastly longer than that. The list of names at the bottom? I can barely make sense of what it's supposed to be a list of let alone why I'd be interested in them. The rewritten article, however, which the author insists on dismissing, actually tells me something verifiable (which this version does not; prove the claims in article). -Splash 18:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * keepI fail to see how Chris Bosh has a greater right in an entry under bosh than "bosh" does. Sure he can have his own page and the two can co-exist. Its like saying 'bush' cannont deserve a definition because George Bush exists. Also you cannont label something a nonsence just because it is not used by your friends/community/town/nation, bosh exists FACT, it has a right to an explaination of its meaning, an explaination of its place in society and an explaination of its use FACT. Sure the definition is thin on the ground in places, but it will improve if we allow it to mature, by no removing it!!! It deserves to stay if not fully aleast as an disambig. dan
 * This user's 2nd vote.
 * In the rewritten version of the article, "bosh" is covered. It is covered by the link to nonsense, because that is what bosh actually is.  Yes, bosh exists.  Indeed, as has been pointed out, it has existed for far longer than your article claimed.  Please familiarize yourself with the verifiability policy.  Your completely unverifiable article, a self-admitted invention of a group of students, has no place here. Uncle G 19:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP. so basically, what Splash is saying is that since the word BOSH already existed before 2000 and is already someone's name, it cannot be possible that a new definition and/or another usage can emerge? maybe the article is nonsense to some people, it seems to me that is simply stating how and why and by whom did this new way of using the word first came to be. New words appear every day, some out of the blue with crazy spellings (D'oh!), some are simply new twists on existent words (the word "brilliant" actually means reflector of light, and im sure those who refered as something good or amazing as "brilliant" in the early days were laughed at.). Both the surname and the original definition are valid of course, but as you said, this is not a dictionary, so the new usage of the word should be given a proper stage and see what happens. No one person has the right to delete the word because it seems "nonsense " to them and deprive the general public from seeing it. that is bordering censorship. Mimi13
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi13 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 20 July 2005 UTC Who is only allowed to vote once! Dunc|☺ 20:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * i only voted once, the rest was a rebuttal. Mimi13 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi13 (talk • contribs) 20:30, 20 July 2005
 * You've voted three times 1 2 3 so far. Uncle G 19:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * New definitions and new usages of words matter to a dictionary. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, it is an encyclopaedia.  Even were it allowed to use these projects to promulgate newly invented meanings for words, as you are attempting to do, an encyclopaedia would not be the place for doing such a thing. Uncle G 19:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the disambiguated version I see now. Andre ( talk ) 22:55, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP. The original, minus the 'we love ourselves' bit... Boshing envelopes a state of mind too great to confine to a dictionary. At the end of the day, there are potentially thousands who Bosh gleefully yet fail to understand the greater concepts.  Where do you look for the history of a culture? a dictionary? : ChrisBosh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.240.229.3 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 22 July 2005 UTC.
 * This vandalism was that user's very next edit.
 * well said, it belongs in a ancyclopedia, which is more adept at trying to explain the universal truth the word implies, is more than just a word, is an attitude, and to understand it one needs to see its origins and its developement. That cannot be found in a dictionary. Mimi13 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi13 (talk • contribs) 18:34, 22 July 2005 UTC
 * There is no "universal truth" to be explained here. Bosh is just a surname, some writings by Edward Lear, and nonsense — the items listed and linked to in the disambiguation. Uncle G 19:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * nonsense. Bosh is a word used in the UK to mean "nonsense". It is regarded as excessively polite and upper-class, and so has dropped out of fashion quite a bit, but is still widely used, particularly in mocking upper-class accents and so forth. Bosch is a surname. Bosh should be transwikied to wiktionary, and the article should only redirect to Bosh the book by Lear.     18:16, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary has an article already, note. In fact it has two, one on the common noun and one on the proper noun.  There are links to both of them in the name disambiguation version of the article and in the discussion above. Uncle G 19:12, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is fine as a disambiguation page. I'm sure wiktionary doesn't wish to be the VfD dumping ground. I have no idea which in-jokes we are missing here - 6th form humour? Secretlondon 08:19, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is already a Wiktionary entry.  As to the stuff about bosh being the core of a way of life, a page containing a full write-up for that way of life would serve the purpose better.  Adding such a page would be better than keeping this one. Tygertyger 18:04, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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USB On-The-Go

USB On-The-Go (USB OTG or just OTG) is a specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices, such as tablets or smartphones, to also act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mouse or keyboards, to be attached to them. Use of USB OTG allows devices to switch back and forth between the roles of host and device. For example, a smartphone may read from removable media as the host device, but present itself as a USB Mass Storage Device when connected to a host computer.

USB OTG introduces the concept of a device performing both Host and Peripheral roles – whenever two USB devices are connected and one of them is a USB OTG device, they establish a communication link. The device controlling the link is called the Host, while the other is called the Peripheral.

USB OTG defines two roles for devices: OTG A-device and OTG B-device, specifying which side supplies power to the link, and which initially is the host. The OTG A-device is a power supplier, and an OTG B-device is a power consumer. In the default link configuration, the A-device acts as a USB host with the B-device acting as a USB peripheral. The host and peripheral modes may be exchanged later by using Host Negotiation Protocol (HNP).

The wiring for the ID pin defines the initial role of each device.

Overview

Standard USB uses a host/device architecture; a host acts as the Host device for the entire bus, and a USB device acts as a Peripheral. If implementing standard USB, devices must assume one role or the other, with computers generally set up as hosts, while (for example) printers normally function as a Peripheral. In the absence of USB OTG, cell phones often implemented Peripheral functionality to allow easy transfer of data to and from computers. Such phones could not readily be connected to printers as they also implemented the peripheral role. USB OTG directly addresses this issue.

When a device is plugged into the USB bus, the host device sets up communications with the device and handles service provisioning (the host's software enables or does the needed data-handling such as file managing or other desired kind of data communication or function). That allows the devices to be greatly simplified compared to the host; for example, a mouse contains very little logic and relies on the host to do almost all of the work. The host controls all data transfers over the bus, with the devices capable only of signalling (when polled) that they require attention. To transfer data between two devices, for example from a phone to a printer, the host first reads the data from one device, then writes it to the other.

While the host-device arrangement works for some devices, many devices can act either as host or as device depending on what else shares the bus. For instance, a computer printer is normally a device, but when a USB flash drive containing images is plugged into the printer's USB port with no computer present (or at least turned off), it would be useful for the printer to take on the role of host, allowing it to communicate with the flash drive directly and to print images from it.

USB OTG recognizes that a device can perform both Host and Peripheral roles, and so subtly changes the terminology. With OTG, a device can be either a host when acting as a link host, or a link peripheral. The choice between host and peripheral roles is handled entirely by which end of the cable the device is connected to. The device connected to the "A" end of the cable at start-up, known as the "A-device", acts as the default host, while the "B" end acts as the default peripheral, known as the "B-device".

After initial startup, setup for the bus operates as it does with the normal USB standard, with the A-device setting up the B-device and managing all communications. However, when the same A-device is plugged into another USB system or a dedicated host becomes available, it can become a device.

USB OTG does not preclude using a USB hub, but it describes host-peripheral role swapping only for the case of a one-to-one connection where two OTG devices are directly connected. Role swapping does not work through a standard hub, as one device will act as a host and the other as a peripheral until they are disconnected.

Specifications
USB OTG is a part of a supplement to the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification originally agreed upon in late 2001 and later revised. The latest version of the supplement also defines behavior for an Embedded Host which has targeted abilities and the same USB Standard-A port used by PCs.

SuperSpeed OTG devices, Embedded Hosts and peripherals are supported through the USB OTG and Embedded Host Supplement to the USB 3.0 specification.

Protocols
The USB OTG and Embedded Host Supplement to the USB 2.0 specification introduced three new communication protocols:
 * Attach Detection Protocol (ADP): Allows an OTG device, embedded host or USB device to determine attachment status in the absence of power on the USB bus, enabling both insertion-based behavior and the capability to display attachment status. It does so by periodically measuring the capacitance on the USB port to determine whether there is another device attached, a dangling cable, or no cable. When a large enough change in capacitance is detected to indicate device attachment, an A-device will provide power to the USB bus and look for device connection. At the same time, a B-device will generate SRP (see below) and wait for the USB bus to become powered.
 * Session Request Protocol (SRP): Allows both communicating devices to control when the link's power session is active; in standard USB, only the host is capable of doing so. That allows fine control over the power consumption, which is very important for battery-operated devices such as cameras and mobile phones. The OTG or embedded host can leave the USB link unpowered until the peripheral (which can be an OTG or standard USB device) requires power. OTG and embedded hosts typically have little battery power to spare, so leaving the USB link unpowered helps in extending the battery runtime.
 * Host Negotiation Protocol (HNP): Allows the two devices to exchange their host/peripheral roles, provided both are OTG dual-role devices. By using HNP for reversing host/peripheral roles, the USB OTG device is capable of acquiring control of data-transfer scheduling. Thus, any OTG device is capable of initiating data-transfer over USB OTG bus. The latest version of the supplement also introduced HNP polling, in which the host device periodically polls the peripheral during an active session to determine whether it wishes to become a host.
 * The main purpose of HNP is to accommodate users who have connected the A and B devices (see below) in the wrong direction for the task they want to perform. For example, a printer is connected as the A-device (host), but cannot function as the host for a particular camera, since it does not understand the camera's representation of print jobs. When that camera knows how to talk to the printer, the printer will use HNP to switch to the device role, with the camera becoming the host so pictures stored on the camera can be printed out without reconnecting the cables. The new OTG protocols cannot pass through a standard USB hub since they are based on electrical signaling via a dedicated wire.

The USB OTG and Embedded Host Supplement to the USB 3.0 specification introduces an additional communication protocol:
 * Role Swap Protocol (RSP): RSP achieves the same purpose as HNP (i.e., role swapping) by extending standard mechanisms provided by the USB 3.0 specification. Products following the USB OTG and Embedded Host Supplement to the USB 3.0 specification are also required to follow the USB 2.0 supplement in order to maintain backwards compatibility.  SuperSpeed OTG devices (SS-OTG) are required to support RSP.  SuperSpeed Peripheral Capable OTG devices (SSPC-OTG) are not required to support RSP since they can only operate at SuperSpeed as a peripheral; they have no SuperSpeed host and so can only role swap using HNP at USB 2.0 data rates.

Device roles
USB OTG defines two roles for devices: OTG A-device and OTG B-device, specifying which side supplies power to the link, and which initially is the host. The OTG A-device is a power supplier, and an OTG B-device is a power consumer. In the default link configuration, the A-device acts as a USB host with the B-device acting as a USB peripheral. The host and peripheral modes may be exchanged later by using HNP or RSP. Because every OTG controller supports both roles, they are often called "Dual-Role" controllers rather than "OTG controllers".

For integrated circuit (IC) designers, an attractive feature of USB OTG is the ability to achieve more USB capabilities with fewer gates.

A "traditional" approach includes four controllers, resulting in more gates to test and debug:
 * USB high speed host controller based on EHCI (a register interface)
 * Full/low speed host controller based on OHCI (another register interface)
 * USB device controller, supporting both high and full speeds
 * Fourth controller to switch the OTG root port between host and device controllers

Also, most gadgets must be either a host or a device. OTG hardware design merges all of the controllers into one dual-role controller that is somewhat more complex than an individual device controller.

Targeted peripheral list (TPL)
A manufacturer's targeted peripheral list (TPL) serves the aim of focusing a host device towards particular products or applications, rather than toward its functioning as a general-purpose host, as is the case for typical PCs. The TPL specifies products supported by the "targeting" host, defining what it needs to support, including the output power, transfer speeds, supported protocols, and device classes. It applies to all targeted hosts, including both OTG devices acting as a host and embedded hosts.

OTG mini plugs
The original USB OTG standard introduced a plug receptacle called mini-AB that was replaced by micro-AB in later revisions (Revision 1.4 onwards). It can accept either a mini-A plug or a mini-B plug, while mini-A adapters allows connection to standard-A USB cables coming from peripherals. The standard OTG cable has a mini-A plug on one end and a mini-B plug on the other end (it can not have two plugs of the same type).

The device with a mini-A plug inserted becomes an OTG A-device, and the device with a mini-B plug inserted becomes a B-device (see above). The type of plug inserted is detected by the state of the ID pin (the mini-A plug's ID pin is grounded, while the mini-B plug's is floating).

Pure mini-A receptacles also exist, used where a compact host port is needed, but OTG is not supported.

OTG micro plugs
With the introduction of the USB micro plug, a new plug receptacle called micro-AB was also introduced. It can accept either a micro-A plug or a micro-B plug. Micro-A adapters allow for connection to standard-A plugs, as used on fixed or standard devices. An OTG product must have a single micro-AB receptacle and no other USB receptacles.

An OTG cable has a micro-A plug on one end, and a micro-B plug on the other end (it cannot have two plugs of the same type). OTG adds a fifth pin to the standard USB connector, called the ID-pin; the micro-A plug has the ID pin grounded, while the ID in the micro-B plug is floating. A device with a micro-A plug inserted becomes an OTG A-device, and a device with a micro-B plug inserted becomes a B-device. The type of plug inserted is detected by the state of the pin ID.

Three additional ID pin states are defined at the nominal resistance values of 124 kΩ, 68 kΩ, and 36.5 kΩ, with respect to the ground pin. These permit the device to work with USB Accessory Charger Adapters that allows the OTG device to be attached to both a charger and another device simultaneously.

These three states are used in the cases of:
 * A charger and either no device or an A-device that is not asserting V$BUS$ (not providing power) are attached. The OTG device is allowed to charge and initiate SRP but not connect.
 * A charger and an A-device that is asserting V$BUS$ (is providing power) are attached. The OTG device is allowed to charge and connect but not initiate SRP.
 * A charger and a B-device are attached. The OTG device is allowed to charge and enter host mode.

USB 3.0 introduced a backwards compatible SuperSpeed extension of the micro-AB receptacle and micro-A and micro-B plugs. They contain all pins of the non-Superspeed micro connectors and use the ID pin to identify the A-device and B-device roles, also adding the SuperSpeed pins.

OTG micro cables
When an OTG-enabled device is connected to a PC, it uses its own USB-A or USB Type-C cable (typically ending in micro-B, USB-C or Lightning plugs for modern devices). When an OTG-enabled device is attached to a USB device, such as a flash drive, the device must either end in the appropriate connection for the device, or the user must supply an appropriate adapter ending in USB-A. The adapter enables any standard USB peripheral to be attached to an OTG device. Attaching two OTG-enabled devices together requires either an adapter in conjunction with the device's USB-A cable, or an appropriate dual-sided cable and a software implementation to manage it. This is becoming commonplace with USB Type-C devices.

Smartphone and tablet implementation
BlackBerry 10.2 implements Host Mode (like in the BlackBerry Z30 handset). Nokia has implemented USB OTG in many of their Symbian cellphones such as Nokia N8, C6-01, C7, Oro, E6, E7, X7, 603, 700, 701 and 808 Pureview. Some high-end Android phones produced by HTC, and Sony under Xperia series also have it. Samsung Android version 3.1 or newer supports USB OTG, but not on all devices.
 * Host-powered: Sony Ericsson Xperia pro
 * Needs external USB-power: Motorola Droid 4

Specifications listed on technology web sites (such as GSMArena, PDAdb.net, PhoneScoop, and others) can help determine compatibility. Using GSMArena as an example, one would locate the page for a given device, and examine the verbiage under Specifications → Comms → USB. If "USB Host" is shown, the device should be capable of supporting OTG-type external USB accessories.

In many of the above implementations, the host device has only a micro-B receptacle rather than a micro-AB receptacle. Although non-standard, micro-B to micro-A receptacle adapters are widely available and used in place of the mandated micro-AB receptacle on these devices.

Backward compatibility
USB OTG devices are backward-compatible with USB 2.0 (USB 3.0 for SuperSpeed OTG devices) and will behave as standard USB hosts or devices when connected to standard (non-OTG) USB devices. The main exception is that OTG hosts are only required to provide enough power for the products listed on the TPL, which may or may not be enough to connect to a peripheral that is not listed. A powered USB hub may sidestep the issue, if supported, since it will then provide its own power according to either the USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 specifications.

Some incompatibilities in both HNP and SRP were introduced between the 1.3 and 2.0 versions of the OTG supplement, which can lead to interoperability issues when using those protocol versions.

Charger compatibility
Some devices can use their USB ports to charge built-in batteries, while other devices can detect a dedicated charger and draw more than 500 mA (0.5 A), allowing them to charge more rapidly. OTG devices are allowed to use either option.

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Wikipedia:ACF Regionals answers

This is a list of quizbowl packets from http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ (Specifically, packets from ACF tournaments) The purpose of this list is to provide red links for topics not covered by Wikipedia as part of the Missing encyclopedic articles wikiproject.

This list was originally created on 18 July 2005 by User:DavidLevinson. It originally contained 257 red links. It was completed on 6 October 2011. A new list was generated by User:Raul654 on 14 October 2011, using the same page title.

Substitutions (case insensitive)

 * "[or" -> "]] or [["
 * " b. " -> "]] b. [["
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 * ".]]" -> "]]"
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Michael Brian Schiffer

Michael Brian Schiffer (born October 4, 1947, in Winnipeg, Canada) is an American archaeologist and one of the founders and pre-eminent exponents of behavioral archaeology.

Schiffer's earliest ideas, set out in his 1976 book Behavioral Archeology and many journal articles, are mainly concerned with the formation processes of the archaeological record (cultural and noncultural). His most important early contribution to archaeology was the rejection of the common processualist assumption that the archaeological record is a transparent fossil record of actual ancient societies. He argues that artifacts and sites undergo, respectively post-use and post-occupational modification by diverse formation processes.

In his 1972 American Antiquity article Schiffer, using flow models, explained that artifacts generally pass through numerous social contexts of procurement, manufacture, use, recycling, and disposal and that the same kind of artifact can enter the archaeological record at many points through this life history. As societies become more sedentary, the archaeological record typically seems to be one of garbage disposal.

Schiffer's body of theory and method is based on the idea that cultural and noncultural processes (whose patterns are described by generalizations: c-transforms and n-transforms) convert the 'systemic context' (the original dynamics between societies and material objects) into the 'archaeological context' (the record of artifacts examined by archaeologists). Although this approach has been criticized, notably by Lewis Binford, it has permanently affected how archaeologists interpret the archaeological record.

Schiffer is also known for his early contributions to cultural resource management studies, co-editing in 1977 with George J. Gumerman, Conservation Archaeology: A Guide for Cultural Resource Management Studies.  In that work, the editors and authors strove to demonstrate that cutting-edge research is a requirement for crafting rigorous arguments about the significance of archaeological resources.

In the 1980s Schiffer's interests expanded to include technological change, and he and James M. Skibo built the Laboratory of Traditional Technology at the University of Arizona. Their experiments in ceramic technology revealed, for example, previously unsuspected techno-functional performance characteristics of traditional surface treatments and temper types. Together, Schiffer and Skibo published around a dozen articles based on their collaboration in the laboratory, which included a different way to think about experimental archaeology and a framework for studying technological change.

During the 1990s and later, Schiffer returned to an old interest in historic electric and electronic technologies. These works uniquely combine an archaeological perspective with the use of historical materials and have led to four books and numerous articles, many of the latter aimed at archaeologists with behavioral models for studying technological change. The behavioral approach to technological change has been synthesized in Schiffer's 2011 book, Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach. His works on early modern and modern technologies have been largely favorably reviewed by historians of science and technology, but in archaeology he remains best known for publications in behavioral archaeology.

Schiffer was also the founding editor of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

Schiffer retired from the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona in 2014. He once said, “Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.” Hence his fascination with making information public. He is currently a Research Associate in the Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and a research professor, the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland.

References and select bibliography

 * Binford, L.R. 1981. Behavioral archaeology and the "Pompeii premise". Journal of Anthropological Research 37(3): 195–208
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1972. Archaeological context and systemic context. American Antiquity 37(2): 156–165
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1976. Behavioral Archeology. Academic Press.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1987. Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1991. The Portable Radio in American Life. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1992. Technological Perspectives on Behavioral Change. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1995. (editor) Behavioral Archaeology: First Principles. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. This book reprints a selection of writings on behavioral archaeology from 1972 to 1987.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1991. The Portable Radio in American Life. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1992 Technological Perspectives on Behavioral Change. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1994. (with Tamara C. Butts, and Kimberly K. Grimm) Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. Won the 1995 Cugnot Award of Distinction from the Society of Automotive Historians.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 1999. (with Andrea Miller) The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior, and Communication. Routledge, London.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2001. (editor) Anthropological Perspectives on Technology. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2003. (with Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell) Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment. University of California Press, Berkeley.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2008. Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison.  MIT Press, Cambridge.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2010. Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Equinox, London.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2011. Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
 * Schiffer, M.B. 2013. The Archaeology of Science: Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge. Springer, New York.
 * Skibo, J.M. and M.B. Schiffer. 2009. People and Things:  A Behavioral Approach to material Culture.  Springer, New York.
 * Trigger, B.G. 1996 Review of Behavioral Archaeology: First Principles Michael Brian Schiffer. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2(4): 725–726.
 * Graves-Brown, P. 2013 Review of Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach Michael Brian Schiffer. European Journal of Archaeology. 16(4): 739–742.

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Asano Nagaakira

Asano Nagaakira (浅野 長晟) was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period who served as daimyō of Wakayama Domain, and was later transferred to the Hiroshima Domain.

Biography
Born Asano Iwamatsu, he was the son of Asano Nagamasa, who was a senior retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1594, Nagaakira was made a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and awarded a stipend of 3,000 koku. Allying his forces to Tokugawa Ieyasu six years later at the Battle of Sekigahara, he was subsequently awarded with the 24,000 koku Ashimori Domain. As his brother Yukinaga died heirless in 1613, Nagaakira succeeded him, becoming daimyō of Wakayama Domain. At the Siege of Ōsaka, he commanded a portion of Tokugawa Ieyasu's army. In the summer of 1615, Toyotomi Hideyori's Western Army moved to attack Asano's castle at Wakayama. Though most of Asano's forces were at Ōsaka, besieging Toyotomi's fortress, the remaining garrison outnumbered the Western warriors, and Asano led his men in sallying forth to meet the enemy in the Battle of Kashii.

Asano also fought in the Battle of Tennōji, the decisive final battle in the Siege of Ōsaka, where he commanded Tokugawa's rear guard. In 1619, he was granted the lordship of Hiroshima Domain in Aki Province, which would be the home of the Asano family until the Meiji Restoration. Nagaakira was married to Furihime, the widow of Gamō Hideyuki and third daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Family

 * Father: Asano Nagamasa
 * Mother: Cho-Sei-in (d.1616), daughter of Asano Nagakatsu
 * Wife: Furihime (1580-1617), third daughter of the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Children:
 * Asano Nagaharu (1614-1675)
 * Asano Mitsuakira by Furihime

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Consumer service

Consumer services refers to the formulation, deformulation, technical consulting and testing of most consumer products, such as food, herbs, beverages, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hair products, household cleaners, paints, plastics, metals, waxes, coatings, minerals, ceramics, construction materials plus water, indoor air quality testing, non-medical forensic testing and failure analysis.

It involves services in a wide variety of fields such as biological, chemical, physical, engineering and Web based services.

Web-based consumer services
Evolution of Web has changed itself from the information orientation to Service orientation. Every physical service one can think of, has its web counterpart today, be it retail selling, supply chain, customer care, banking, auction and more of b2b, b2c, c2c businesses. Online appointments, online consultation, online bill-pay have become the order of web based consumer services...

Mergers and acquisitions
Between 1985 and 2018 around 90,700 deals within the consumer service sector have been announced. These deals cumulate to an overall value of around 2,031 bil. USD.

There have been three M&A waves in 2000, 2007 and 2016 with a current all time in 2017, where 5,839 deals with a value of 152 bil. USD have been announced.

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Palm IIIc

The Palm IIIc was the first color PDA made by Palm, Inc., released in February 2000 for $449USD. It ran Palm OS 3.5, the first Palm OS version to have native color support and supported paletted 8-bit color modes. Using the Palm OS Upgrade Install CD, the Palm IIIc could be updated to Palm OS 4.1. The machine has a TFT LCD that is bright indoors. The Palm IIIc features the classic III-series connector, 8MB of RAM and a 20MHz DragonBall EZI CPU. The unit also has a lithium ion rechargeable battery and a slightly modified version of the original Palm III chassis.

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User talk:Figaro

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Answer
''Can you please let me know whether it is compulsory for archived user talk pages to be linked to the user's talk page. Thanks.''

No. Its not. :) Glen 12:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Just to clarify, you can "remove" messages from your talk page at your leisure. After all, its all in the history - in fact, some administrators remove messages from their talk pages without even archiving at all! And, you're welcome. Glen 12:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Further, other users doing this is unnacceptable. If you remove content from your talk page, we can safely assume you've read it - and other users reverting your removal is not on. As such, if you find this happening again, please contact me; however, I presume my comments should be enough that you wont be bothered about this again. Talk care, Glen 12:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I've commented here Glen 13:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

And I've updated WP:ARCHIVE to delineate this. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Admin
Hi Figaro! I would like to nominate you for adminship, let me know if it's ok for you ;-) Happy editing,  Snowolf (talk) CON COI  -  13:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

P G Wodehouse template
Very nice job on the template, Figaro -- it was much needed. Hope you don't mind but I've taken the liberty of expanding it a bit. Jimmy Pitt  talk  14:26, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Figaro, listing the individual screen adaptations is a good idea: I have Brian Taves's "P G Wodehouse and Hollywood" and will try to add more from that as time permits.
 * I've made a few changes that I hope you'll agree with:
 * I've renamed "BBC Radio 4" back to "Radio"; I'm fairly sure that when I dig into my reference material I can find radio performances on other radio channels, and the Briers/Hordern series was definitely re-broadcast elsewhere.
 * I've renamed the Briers/Hordern series to the generic title, "What Ho, Jeeves!", that was used for the series and wikilinked it to the Jeeves article.
 * I've added (and wikilinked) the radio adaptation of "The Code of the Woosters". There are quite a few other radio adaptations; I'll try to dig out the details when I have a spare moment.
 * I've added in "The World of Wooster" TV adaptation: the BFI website indicates that this was the title for the series of 20 J&W adaptations in 1965-67 and that "The World of Wodehouse" was the title for a series of 6 Blandings and 7 Ukridge stories, broadcast in 1967-68. Jimmy Pitt   talk  12:15, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

State Library of Queensland Photos on wikimedia commons
I'm pretty sure you might know this, so if this is old news feel free to ignore (I just don't want things to fall between the cracks). The State Library of Queensland just recently donated 50,000 historic photographs to the Wikimedia Commons, and all of them are in the public domain. I used one for Southern Cross (aircraft), an entry in which you appear to be an active editor. Anyway, the SLQ photographs are a great opportunity to add images to Australian related articles, and since you're (obviously) an Aussie you'll have more expertise in using them than I ever could. Here's some of my (probably clumsy) attempts to integrate these photos into wikipedia. I was particularly proud to add a photo of William MacGregor where one previously didn't exist. Hope you find this useful and the SLQ photos are just worth browsing for the fun of it all. I'm still trying to figure out where could be used. Cheers! --Quartermaster (talk) 17:28, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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Lyrebird
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SIA project!
Hey Figaro! So happy that you came by the Smithsonian Institution Archives project and signed up to participate! We've got a great list of subjects that need to be improved upon or written about. I do hope you'll visit the to-do list and dive in - do let me know if you need anything. And of course, your contributions can earn you the official oh so fancy SIA barnstar :) Thanks again! So happy to have you on board! SarahStierch (talk) 23:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for tweaking the appearance on the Sugar glider page :)
 * ~Eric F 74.60.29.141 (talk) 19:23, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay ... WikiLove for you →

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Sugar gliders as pets
Hello, Figaro,

Quoting the article: "In Australia, sugar gliders can be kept in Victoria, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. However, they are not allowed to be kept as pets in Western Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland or Tasmania."

Either edit the article about sugar gliders, if the information above is incorrect, or allow it to be added to category "Pets in Australia".

I am mostly aiming to collect those native to Australia species which can also be kept in Australia as pets, to show that cats-and-dogs are not the only kind of pets kept in Australia. Before this category was created, the only way to look for the animals which can be kept as pets in Australia was to search by keywords.

Best wishes.

Wikiwide (talk) 23:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)  Wikiwide has given you a salamander! Salamanders promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Your salamander must be fed daily and will be your faithful companion for life! You can brighten someone's day by giving them a WikiCritter on their talk page with a friendly message, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. To give a salamander:

ISIRTA plays
Hi. I'm not really convinced about the naming of these articles, but I certainly think that having the subject (ISIRTA) first was better than having the letter of the alphabet first. Is there a reason for your current set of changes? Perhaps you could stop until there is agreement about what they should be called? --Mirokado (talk) 13:18, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I won't rename any more of the pages until a decision has been made (I have only renamed five of the pages so far).
 * There is one problem - if it is decided to return to the previous names for the pages, there will be some difficulty doing this (because of the names having already been used). I apologize for any problems or inconvenience I may have caused by renaming the pages.  Figaro (talk) 13:34, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * (please let's keep the conversation in one place, it will be easier to refer to it elsewhere if necessary)
 * There is no need at all to apologise, particluarly if you stop and discuss when asked to do so!
 * There will be no problem with the redirects unless somebody edits them subsequent to the move (in which case an admin would have to do any reverse move for us).
 * I have started a section Talk:I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. It is better to discuss article improvements on the article talk page, then others can contribute and an evolving consensus is clear.
 * Thanks for your quick response. --Mirokado (talk) 14:48, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

No response to the thread at Talk:I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. I have updated that with a detailed suggestion for merging and explain that I will leave any further action to you since I'm not convinced the prod or AFD would be defensible. --Mirokado (talk) 22:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for requesting feedback on may talk page following your merge of A–C. Nicely done so far... Please see the update to Talk:I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again --Mirokado (talk) 22:59, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi again. The renames to the remaining articles are fine (clearly I got the table wrong while counting in from either end!) Thanks for doing that. I will be away for a while now, so I'll wish you good luck with any further changes you are able to make. --Mirokado (talk) 18:44, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Main Page appearance: koala
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The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and is recognised worldwide as an iconic symbol of the country because of its distinctive appearance. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body, round, fluffy ears and large, spoon-shaped nose. It is popularly known as the koala bear because of its bear-like appearance. The koala has a body length of 60 – and weighs 4 –. Pelage colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas typically inhabit open Eucalyptus woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet provides them with only low nutrition and energy, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep for up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding only exists between mothers and dependent offspring. They have few natural predators and parasites but are threatened by various pathogens, as well as by bushfires and droughts. The biggest threat to their existence is habitat destruction due to agriculture and urbanisation. UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Great Barrier Reef
I'm trying to understand this edit. "coauthors" is not a parameter that can be used like that, it creates a cs1 error, which my edit fixed. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 21:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

 * Answered comment Figaro (talk) 09:47, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. I was just trying to understand. You don't have to apologize to me. Yes, they are normally called coauthors, but the "coauthors" parameter for the cite template doesn't work by itself like that. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 09:49, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Hello, can you review the edits made to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers by Spencer Maverick? The editor has made a lot of edits without any edit summaries and without ever talking to another editor. I reverted them at Edge of Tomorrow (film) out of POV concerns, but I was not sure if the edits made to Seven Brides were valid. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 01:04, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

 * Thank you for letting me know what is happening. I will check out the page.  Once again, thank you.  All the best.  Figaro (talk) 10:10, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

 * I have now checked the page and found that, while some of his edits were good, there was also POV edits, which I have now removed (citing them as POV). I also changed his POV heading of 'Accolades' back to the previous correct heading of 'Awards and nominations.

 * I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the edits I made to your own talk page - where I originally made my first comment. When I was about to make my second comment, to give an update about what was happening, I noticed that you had requested replies to your comment to be made on my own talk page.  Then, when I transferred my original comment to my talk page, I left a comment apologising for what had happened - only to discover that my apology was unfortunately 'tacked onto' the end of another discussion altogether (so I removed my  apology comment as well).  All the best.  Figaro (talk) 10:56, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

 * Hey, it's alright! :) I just like for other editors to reply to me in the same place since it makes for a coherent discussion. If it doesn't happen, that's fine. Thanks for checking on Seven Brides. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 11:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

 * Thank you for explaining. All the best.  Figaro (talk) 06:48, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

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Global account
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The Man From Snowy River (poem)
Please stop removing the short section about the film adaptation from the article The Man from Snowy River (poem). That a movie adaptation was made of the poem is highly notable, and there are plenty of reliable sources for the film.

In fact, you twice removed the brief section entitled 'Film adaptation' along with a short sentence about it in the lede (here and here). The fact that the article about the 1982 film is linked to from the nav template at the bottom of the article is certainly no justification for not including something about it in the article body. Films and other adaptations are routinely mentioned in articles about literary works, typically in sections called 'Film adaptation' or the like, regardless whether a nav template also has a link or not. This article is no different. Despite your edit summary stating, mentioning the film in the article is completely in line with the convention of mentioning notable derived works and adaptations, and is totally appropriate for this article.

Please revert your last change to The Man from Snowy River (poem) to restore the last version containing the Film adaptation section (or change it to 'Film adaptations', if you prefer to mention both films).

Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 21:56, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

 * Btw, I'll just add a note of appreciation and commendation for those who don't already know: virtually anything having to do with The Man from Snowy River on Wikipedia, including the disambig page, the poem, the 1982 and 1920 films, sequels, spectaculars, and tv series, and three soundtrack articles were all created by User:Figaro along with tireless follow-up modifications to improve those articles. Thanks! Mathglot ([[User

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