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Classics Selected by Brian Wilson

Classics selected by Brian Wilson is a compilation of songs by The Beach Boys and released through Capitol Records in mid-2002. It was compiled by Brian Wilson himself that February. It includes a new recording of an unreleased 1970s track, "California Feelin'" not by The Beach Boys but Wilson and his live band.

Brian wrote in the liner notes:

"Picking just 19 Beach Boys favorites is one of the hardest things I ever had to do. If you asked me tomorrow I would probably want to include "Kiss Me, Baby", "Salt Lake City", "Girl Don't Tell Me", "The Little Girl I Once Knew", "At My Window" and, from Holland, "Funky Pretty" & "Mount Vernon and Fairway". Blondie Chaplin's vocal on the fadeout to "Funky Pretty" is sensational. But here's my list as of today... Brian Wilson's 19 favorites on February 11, 2002."

Wilson's choices tend to favor his ballads, from "Surfer Girl" and "The Warmth of the Sun" to his Pet Sounds and Smile material. Later song selections include "'Til I Die" and "Sail On, Sailor".

Classics selected by Brian Wilson briefly made the US charts, reaching number 159 during a chart stay of 1 week.

Track listing
All tracks use stereo mixes available at the time. Thus, tracks 3, 9 and 10 are in mono.

 * 1) "Surfer Girl" (Brian Wilson) – 2:26
 * 2) * "I have to include this one. The first song I ever wrote. I started humming it in my car, then finished it when I got home. It’s a very spiritual song. We recorded it a few times, but this version comes from the Surfer Girl album."
 * 3) "The Warmth of the Sun" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:52
 * 4) * "I wrote this in honor of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and that night, Mike and I got together at my office in Hollywood and wrote the song."
 * 5) "I Get Around" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:12
 * 6) * "The Beach Boys' very first Number One hit. To me, it has a special social lyric, a dynamic arrangement. It's a very commercial record."
 * 7) "Don't Worry, Baby" (Brian Wilson, Roger Christian) – 2:47
 * 8) * "The b-side for "I Get Around". When I wrote this one, I was inspired by "Be My Baby". A special, sweet song. My voice sounded very young on that one."
 * 9) "In My Room" (Brian Wilson, Gary Usher) – 2:11
 * 10) * "My brothers Carl and Dennis and I used to sing three-part harmony in our room when we were kids. Songs like "Come down, come down/From your ivory tower". "In My Room" was a song that I taught them to sing, and it really has the feel of what it was like in our room when we were kids."
 * 11) "California Girls" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:45
 * 12) * "My favorite Beach Boys records. A wonderful bass line... I would say that it's probably the Beach Boys anthem."
 * 13) *Uses Endless Harmony Soundtrack stereo remix, 2000 Mark Linnet version
 * 14) "God Only Knows" (Brian Wilson, Tony Asher) – 2:52
 * 15) * "This song was written really quickly... probably in less than an hour. It's an honor to have written this one. It was also a pretty controversial record in that, as far as I know, it was the first rock song to have "God" in the title. It's a love song, but not a love song to a person."
 * 16) *Uses The Pet Sounds Sessions stereo remix
 * 17) "Caroline, No" (Brian Wilson, Tony Asher) – 2:17
 * 18) * "This was the last cut on Pet Sounds. It represents the sweetest I can sing."
 * 19) *Uses The Pet Sounds Sessions stereo remix, without the passing train/barking dogs coda
 * 20) "Good Vibrations" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 3:36
 * 21) * "Derek Taylor called it a "pocket symphony". To me, it was really a production achievement."
 * 22) "Wonderful" (Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks) – 2:21
 * 23) * "A happy, beautiful song that makes you feel enlightened."
 * 24) *Smiley Smile version
 * 25) "Heroes and Villains" (Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks) – 3:38
 * 26) * "I'm so proud of Van Dyke Parks' lyrics, and I think the music is inspiring to listen to."
 * 27) *Uses Hawthorne, CA stereo remix
 * 28) "Surf's Up" (Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks) – 4:12
 * 29) * "Another amazing lyric from Van Dyke. Pure poetry set to music."
 * 30) "Busy Doin' Nothin'" (Brian Wilson) – 3:03
 * 31) * "I wrote that song about a typical day in my life – a special lyric and Brian Wilson vocal."
 * 32) "We're Together Again" (Ron Wilson) – 1:46
 * 33) * "This song was recorded in the late 1960s, and for some reason, it didn't get onto an album. I always liked it a lot and was glad when it was included on the 'Friends/20/20' two-fer. By the way, that's me singing the lead up high."
 * 34) *Non-album B-side, available on Friends/20/20 twofer CD
 * 35) "Time to Get Alone" (Brian Wilson) – 2:37
 * 36) * "This is one that I wrote for Redwood, the vocal group that I signed to Brother because I thought they were gonna be the next big thing. After it was cut, The Beach Boys decided that they should do it instead. Redwood changed their name and their version finally came out a few years ago on a Three Dog Night "Best Of" CD."
 * 37) "This Whole World" (Brian Wilson) – 1:56
 * 38) * "A very special vocal by Carl, and the lyrics are very spiritual. The melody and chord pattern rambles but it comes back to where it started."
 * 39) "Marcella" (Brian Wilson, Jack Rieley) – 3:53
 * 40) * "It represents one of the first times we tried to emulate The Rolling Stones. In my mind, it was dedicated to the Stones, but I never told them that. It's one of the rockingest songs I ever wrote."
 * 41) "Sail On, Sailor" (Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Tandyn Almer, Ray Kennedy, Jack Rieley) – 3:18
 * 42) * "Van Dyke really inspired this one. We worked on it originally; then, the other collaborators contributed some different lyrics. By the time the Beach Boys recorded it, the lyrics were all over the place. But I love how this song rocks."
 * 43) "'Til I Die" (Brian Wilson) – 2:41
 * 44) * "Wow. This is a really sad one. I was going through some tough times and this song just came out. I think it really speaks for itself."
 * 45) "California Feelin'" (Brian Wilson, Stephen Kalinich) – 2:49
 * 46) * "California Feelin'" is a special song written in the early '70s, originally for the Beach Boys; although never officially recorded or released by the Boys, it has always been a favorite of mine. So a few months ago, I took my new band into the studio and I think we accomplished what we set out to do, that being putting a lot of love in this song with our voices. I hope you like it as much as I liked recording it for you. Brian Wilson."
 * 47) *Written in 1974 and unreleased by The Beach Boys, this new version is by Brian Wilson in 2002 and backed by his live band

Personnel

 * Herb Agner – Project Manager
 * Kevin Flaherty – A&R
 * Joe Gastwirt – Mastering
 * Mark Linett – Compilation Engineer
 * Kazunori Uemura – Package Design
 * Brian Wilson – Producer, Selection
 * Carl Wilson – Producer
 * Satoru Yonekawa – Package Design

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Talk:Mi Fang

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The majority of this article could be used to write an article on Fu Shiren, don't you think? DengMao

I rewrote the article, so Mi Fang's and Shi Ren's will be quite different. -EkmanLi (talk) 05:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Congress of the United States

Congress of the United States
Self-nomination. Emsworth 17:38, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

--Gpyoung talk 00:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Support It could do more to trace the power and instiutional development of Congress by engaging in the recent American political development literature on the subject (e.g., Fenno, Fiorina, Sinclair et al.-- authors at top of just about any course syllabus on the politics of Congress), but this is not essential, since the article is still awaiting a branch like History of the Congress of the United States. 172 | Talk 18:40, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, but as per 172, this could use some expansion of, e.g., the role of Congress in relation to the presidency, or the day-to-day operations of Congress (role of staff, constituent service, etc.) But overall, well-written and informative--it's what I'd expect to see in a good Brittanica article. Meelar (talk) 20:48, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. This article is in desparate need for more pictures. Only 3 pictures in a 31kb article is definitely inadequate. Deryck C. 09:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I've added another picture, and I personally think that 4 or even 3 is sufficient. What more should be shown? Meelar (talk) 14:39, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Good solid work.  I'm pleased to see a bibliography from solid sources.  PedanticallySpeaking 15:22, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral – great work, but I'd really like to see inline references. It doesn't help me much to have a bunch of references listed when I want to verify a specific claim of the article—I'd have to look through all of them until I found what I was looking for.  I realize it would be time-consuming to add them after the fact, but it would greatly improve the quality and verifiability of the article. --Spangineer  (háblame)  23:09, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support-This article has come a long way in the last few weeks. I have added to the history section to mkae it more in-depth, especially about how the idea for COngress in the form that it currently is came to exist, and other people have made great strides in inproving the rest of the article (ie. Adding Prose). I now feel confident that it fully covers the basics of Congress, and the article covering the house and senate are also featured article which cover more in-depth the functions of each house.
 * Support, but as 172 mentioned, could be branched off into "sub-articles". Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 19:28, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


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Paul M. Hebert Law Center

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center, often styled "LSU Law", is a public law school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System and located on the main campus of Louisiana State University.

Because Louisiana is a civil law state, unlike its 49 common law sister states, the curriculum includes both civil law and common law courses, requiring 94 hours for graduation, the most in the United States. In the Fall of 2002, the LSU Law Center became the sole United States law school, and only one of two law schools in the Western Hemisphere, offering a course of study leading to the simultaneous conferring of a J.D. (Juris Doctor), which is the normal first degree in American law schools, and a D.C.L. (Diploma in Comparative Law), which recognizes the training its students receive in both the common and the civil law.

Until voting in April 2015 to realign itself as an academic unit of Louisiana State University, the Paul M. Hebert Law Center was an autonomous school. Its designation as a Law Center, rather than Law School, derives not only from its formerly independent campus status but also from the centralization on its campus of J.D. and post-J.D. programs, foreign and graduate programs, including European programs at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 School of Law, France, and the University of Louvain, Belgium, and the direction of the Louisiana Law Institute and the Louisiana Judicial College, among other initiatives.

According to the school's 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 81.3% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners.

History
In 1904, LSU constitutional law professor Arthur T. Prescott, who earlier had been the founding president of Louisiana Tech University, became the first to propose the establishment of a law school at LSU.

The law school came to fruition in 1906, under LSU president Thomas Duckett Boyd, with nineteen founding students. Since 1924, the LSU Law Center has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools and approved by the American Bar Association. The Law Center was renamed in honor of Dean Paul M. Hebert  (1907–1977), the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School, who served in that role with brief interruptions from 1937 until his death in 1977. One of these interruptions occurred in 1947–1948, when he was appointed as a judge for the United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg.

Demographics
In 2011, the Law Center received 1,437 applications for the J.D./C.L. program for an enrolled class of 239. The current first-year class includes graduates from 80 colleges and universities throughout the nation. Women make up 49% of the class, 51% are men. Approximately 35% of the class of 2014 came from outside Louisiana representing 19 others states, United States Virgin Islands, France, and China.

Louisiana Law Review
The Center publishes Louisiana Law Review, the flagship law review for the State of Louisiana. The first issue of the Louisiana Law Review went into print in November 1938. The Law Review currently ranks in the top 200 student-edited journals, and among the top 100 journals for the highest number of cases citing to a law review.

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources
The Center publishes the biannual open-access LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources that focuses on the law of energy development, energy industries, natural resources, and sustainable development.

Employment
According to the Law Center's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 89% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment 10 months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners. The school's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 11.6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2018 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

Costs
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at the Law Center for the 2014–2015 academic year is $39,880.75. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $160,966.

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Talk:Timeline of the Plame affair

Wikify complaints
I addressed the wikify complaints, I think, and removed the template. Please restore it with comments if you disagree. --agr 17:40, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Plame affair
Opened article at Plame affair which takes material very various other articles, but, like Watergate or Iran-Contra affair and others, details this major issue apart from any specific person or persons. Articles on individuals are too limited to deal with these matters. Excellent time line here -- most useful and intersting, well done. Calicocat 05:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Suggest name change
I'm wondering if the editors of this timeline might consider changing its name to "Plame affair timeline" so as to run parallel with Plame affair? I think the word "scandel" can be a bit charged and perhaps be called "POV" etc. Thoughts? Calicocat 15:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * My dictionary defines "scandal' as "an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage." I think that is appropriate for this story. At the time the leak happened, both sides of the political spectrum in the US expressed strong outrage and there are laws against disclosing classified information in general and agent identities in particular. People with security clearances sign contracts not to reveal classified information even by confirming newspaper stories. "Affair," on the other hand has a strong sexual connotation, at least in American English, and there is more than a whiff of sexual politics in this matter. (Wilson's report is to be discounted because his wife may have gotten him the assignment. Huh?) --agr 13:28, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Totally incorrect. The word "Affair" means -- 1) Something done or to be done; business. 2) affairs Transactions and other matters of professional or public business: affairs of state. 3)a) An occurrence, event, or matter: The senator's death was a tragic affair. 3)b) A social function. 4) An object or a contrivance: Their first car was a ramshackle affair. 5) A matter of personal concern. 6) affairs Personal business: get one's affairs in order. 7) A matter causing public scandal and controversy: the Dreyfus affair. 8) A romantic and sexual relationship, sometimes one of brief duration, between two people who are not married to each other. (emphasis added). Many press accounts have adopted the Valerie Plame Affair, so Plame affair is just a bit shorter and more in keeping with Wikipedia policy on article names. The assertion that Plame sent Wilson is a debunked GOP talking point.  Historical precedent in the U.S. -- Iran-Contra Affair. Plame affair is more neutral than "Rovegate" or other such "gate" slang term harkening back to Watergate. An existing article with the name Plame affair is related to this article, so in the interest of parallelism, Plame affair seems a logical, neutral, natural selection. Calicocat 19:52, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course "his wife sent him" is a discreditd talking point, but what was its subtext? What difference would it have made if it were true? Note that this article appeared first. Plame affair should consider changing. Compromising an agent who was trying to stop the spread of WMDs is a scandal if there ever was one. --agr 20:23, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I did some Google and Google News searches. Plamegate narrowly edges out 'Plame Affair' in the general search, but 'Plame Affair' is ten times more common in recent news reports. The 'Plame Scandal' form is comparitively rare. The 'CIA Leak' bit runs into trouble in that it is fractured into 'CIA Leak Case', 'CIA Leak Probe', 'CIA Leak Scandal', et cetera. Simply 'CIA Leak' is more common than any of the 'Plame' titles, but lacks specificity. Overall I'd say that the media haven't 'settled' on a final name for this imbroglio yet and suggest we don't bother synching up our nomenclature until they do. --CBDunkerson 18:59:13, 2005-07-26 (UTC)

"Plamegate" (in quotation marks) in a Google search on Jan. 10, 2008, turns up 215,000 hits (many of which are dated 2005 and earlier and hence reveal obsolescence); "Plame affair" (currently title of what used to be CIA leak scandal--see --in Google search turns up over 100,000 hits but also dated and many of them to that Wikipedia article and other Wikis based on it [hence not citable]; "CIA leak scandal" (once more appropriately [in my view] keyed to this article "CIA leak scandal timeline") turns up enough hits (over 34,000) with more recent dates to suggest that it is more recognizable at this point in time (more "current usage"). The earlier comments written in 2005 need updating in view of these changes in current usage over time.  See request move proposal(s) in Talk:Plame affair, which used to be Talk:CIA leak scandal and other various names. Still being discussed. --NYScholar (talk) 06:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Plame's Identity Marked As Secret
Plame's Identity Marked As Secret Memo Central to Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst

By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, July 21, 2005; Page A01

A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials. Calicocat 12:43, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * On page 10, paragraph 2 of the Amici Curiae Brief filed by 36 major news organizations Robert Novak reports he called the C.I.A. to determine whether Valerie Plame is an agency employee and received confirmation that she was.

 * If this information was classified, Robert Novak did not have the security clearance required to receive that information.

 * Furthermore, on the surface it appeared the C.I.A. failed to protect her identify as required by the statutes to prosecute someone for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by providing this information to Robert Novak.

 * Novak admits his source at the CIA asked him not to publish Plame's identity. It would seem reasonable for that source to conclude from Novak's question that a leak had already occurred and that the CIA's best course of action was to to ask Novak to cooperate in the matter by not publishing her identity. It's called damage control, and it's hard to do that without confirming the information. Given Novak's reputation as a super patriot and supporter of the U.S. defense establishment, the source could well have assumed that such cooperation was a forgone conclusion. In other words, it sounds like the CIA did everything it could under the circumstances to protect Plame's identity from public disclosure. And public disclosure is the test under the Act. --agr 16:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I agree with you that "something" was (and should have) been done, unfortunately, it does not seem to be a compelling case that sufficient protection was undertaken (at least from the information available to date). For example, is a request by a C.I.A. spokesman (by definition down in the chain of command) really conveying the full seriousness of the protection effort versus a call from the C.I.A. Director which has often happened in the past.  While some might argue yes and it would be difficult to definitively refute that, there can be no arguing that a call from the C.I.A. Director or Deputy Directory does a far superior job.  Also, not being a lawyer, is it possible that some sort of legal move could have been initiated to prevent or delay the publication?  Finally, what's wrong with saying (to Mr. Novak) "If she really is a C.I.A. operative, you are exposing that person, that person's relationships (both personal and professional) to uncertain dangers by publishing this." in the hypothetical rather than explicitly confirming the fact and thereby participating in the "outing"?

 * For my two cents, if the only thing the spokesperson did was to say, "Yes, she is an employee and we don't want you to publish it because...", I would label that as a bit shoddy relative to other options discussed above.

 * It would have been nice to have a transcript of that recorded event to determine what was actually discussed. It would not surprise me if the C.I.A. actually has a mechanism in place to do that nor would it surprise me if they wouldn't release it either.

 * Well, to begin with, I think you are reading too much into the term "spokesman." In the journalistic charade of hinting at confidential sources, that could be anyone form a junior press officer to the Director of Central Intelligence himself. Recall Libby's request to be identified as a "former congressional aid." Novak had undoubtedly cultivated high level sources at the CIA and I strongly suspect those are the people he would call on to confirm such a leak. They would be angry with him if he didn't and he would be insulted by an "if it were true, it would be bad to publish" kind of answer.  And, again, I think they may well have trusted him as a patriotic citizen to do the right thing.

 * As for the Director making calls (assuming he wasn't Novak's source), there is also the likelihood that Tenet knew perfectly well where the leak was coming from and why. I'm sure the White House had already made clear its displeasure with the Wilson stories. Tenet would be a pretty poor DCI if he couldn't figure out what was going on.

 * Finally, the law does not require the CIA to do a perfect job in protecting an agent. The law merely requires knowledge "that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent’s intelligence relationship to the United States." --agr 16:30, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Why TWO Timelines?
Currently this article has a time-line for 'major events' and another for 'reactions'... yet in many cases the reactions ARE the major events. For instance, the White House denials of involvement appear in both timelines. Likewise, numerous entries in the 'major events' timeline ONLY describe the reactions and statements of various people. I think we should combine these into a single time-line. --CBD 14:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

What did the president know?
An article in the Washington Post gives summary of where things are in Plame affair. Several points herein should be useful to Plame scandal timeline and Plame affair article development. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/25/BL2005072500724_pf.html What Did the President Know? Washington Post, Mon. 23 July 2005] Calicocat 00:18, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Period summary, overall summary.
I think it would be helpful to have sections of summary notes for each major section of the case and then a kind of overall, brief summary of all the events. We have a date index, I'd like to also see some functional index,-- FBI interviews, CIA calls for Special Prosecutor, Fitgerald appointed...and so on. This might compliment work being done at Plame affair and other related articles, such as Karl Rove, Yellowcake forgery. What do you think? Calicocat 13:27, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

'CIA outed Plame' claim
The amicus brief can be found here. The relevant text is on page 31;

"An article in the Washington Times indicated that Plame's identity was compromised twice prior to Novak's publication. If this information is accurate - another fact a court should explore - there is an absolute defense to prosecution."

Note that they do not state this to be 'true'... they indicate that the claim had been made and IF true would provide a defense against violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act... though obviously not perjury, conspiracy, obstruction, espionage, and other possible charges. The referenced Washington Times article can be found at.

However, the claims made in that article by 'US officials' (*cough* Rove *cough*) are contradicted by the CIA... who say only that they had concerns that Plame's cover MIGHT have been blown by Aldrich Ames.

Walter Kansteiner
What is the fascination with Walter Kansteiner? Is there some conspiracy theory I'm not aware of? As I read Wilson's book, Wilson got routine clearance from Kansteiner, Kansteiner's boss, and the ambassador before going over, but the repeated references to him make it sound as if Kansteiner played some important role in the timeline. If he did, I sure can't tell what it is.

--TheronJ 03:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Nigerien Embassy Burglary
The information on the Nigerien embassy burglary is poorly sourced and conflicting. The Christian Science Monitor says that an actual burglary occurred in 1991, during the Presidency of the George H.W. Bush.  A muckraking piece in Republica says that a 2001 burglary never occurred at all, but was staged by Nigerien conspirators as an excuse to report letterhead stolen, if the following blog translation is accurate.. Both are too speculative to include in a definitive timeline without a contemporaneous source. However, if someone can find a contemporaneous news account of either the 1991 or 2001 burglary, or thinks that they're relevant and wants to take a crack at qualifying how believable the sources are or aren't, that's fair.

-- See the correction to this article in the Washington Post. The Post has clearly examined the issue of the two different dates and come to the conclusion that the 1991 date is wrong and the 2001 date is right. I think the Post can be considered to be credible, so I re-inserted the item in the timeline.

-- JPMcGrath, 2005-12-01, 04:45 UTC

 * So should we remove the 1991-date source? Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 03:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

David Kelly?
Why on earth is David Kelly's mysterious suicide included on a timeline of the Plame affair? Unless someone can make sense of this it should be deleted.

 * The connection certainly seems very remote to me:

 * 1) Someone leaked the name of Valerie Plame.
 * 2) Valerie Plame is married to Joe Wilson.
 * 3) Joe Wilson went to Niger to investigate possible attempts to purchase Yellowcake.
 * 4) The Yellowcake was supposed to have been for Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
 * 5) Iraq involvement in biological weapons was also being investigated.
 * 6) David Kelly participated in that investigation.
 * 7) David Kelly committed suicide.
 * Can anyone suggest a closer relationship? -- JPMcGrath 02:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Missing sources for items in this timeline?
Many of the items in this timeline do not have sources after them (see Dec. 2002 through Mar. 2003, e.g.). What are the verifiable and reliable sources for each item in the timeline? Every item, not just some items, needs verifiable documentation. Otherwise, it is not possible for readers to verify the accuracy of the entire timeline. Due to the considerable number of missing citations, and the inability of other readers and editors to check the verifiability of many items listed in this timeline, I have added a tag to the article today. --NYScholar 22:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I just looked at some of the coding for some of the dates in the timeline: there are external links embedded in the dates that are not properly coded and are therefore not showing up. The final external link brackets are placed after the double brackets for the dates and the external links are therefore not visible. Much editing needs to be done (by others; I haven't time to do it) to correct this problem. Sorry to be the one to point it out, but it explains why so many citations of sources are not visible. The external links need to be converted to notes format following the use of notes as references in the article. The "References" section needs to be retitled "Notes" section, and the format throughout for citations needs to be consistent. The present problematic coding is hard and often impossible to follow in order to verify the sources throughout the whole article (timeline). Many of the sources are blogs and not-always substantiated news reports and therefore not necessarily factually reliable sources according to WP:Reliable sources as well; some things listed as facts in the "timeline" are conjecture, claims, based on POV of authors of blogs, and not necessarily proven facts. The title "timeline" implies historically-chronological (undisputed) facts, and what is listed in a "timeline" needs to be verifiable (in every instance, or item). --NYScholar 22:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I've done some work on moving mis-coded links to ends of sentences that they seem to relate to. The links in the notes still have multiple typographical errors; they all need to be converted to proper documentation format (names of authors, titles, places and dates of publication, etc.). I'm afraid that I do not have the time to do more. Perhaps others can work on fixing this article so that its documentation format is consistently using notes (not just numbered external links or URL adresses). Very few of the notes are currently formatted correctly. There may still be some stray typographical errors that need correction throughout as well. See the embedded editorial notes re: need to re-organize and weed out duplication and repetition throughout the so-called "timeline"; the format needs to be streamlined and made more like a "timeline" and less like an "article."--NYScholar 14:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Organization (Re-organization) of the "Timeline"
After spending a lot of time trying to work on this "timeline," it emphatically strikes me that it needs much re-organization into one coherent bulleted list of dates, organized chronologically throughout (not topically). The topical organization after the initial chronological organization is confusing. It should read as a complete chronological "timeline." I would appreciate others attempting to cut and paste the timeline so that it is not repetitious and reads fully chronologically, as a "timeline" should read. In doing such revision, please do not lose the sources and please try to develop the notes fully. Many of the sources cited by earlier editors are now broken outdated links and URLs that have either been deleted from website archives or changed. Better sourcing is needed for this "timeline" throughout. If people can work collaboratively (without editing wars or further controversies) on correcting these problems, thank you. --NYScholar 01:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Missing citations, cleanup still needed
The citations format is not up to Wikipedia standards. There are missing citations throughout and statements have no sourcing at all. Sources given need proper identification (author, title, publication, date published, date accessed, and so on) and verification as well as evaluation in terms of notability and reliability. This article still needs much editorial work. I do not have time to do any more. I suggest that others step up to do this work. This article is not currently reliable. --NYScholar 22:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Originally posted in November 2006 and still pertinent in February 2007. --NYScholar 00:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Ditto. --NYScholar 20:59, 23 June 2007 (UTC) Ditto: Two years later, the citation formatting of this article is still very inconsistent and problematic and needs cleaning up. I don't have time to do it; I hope that others will provide full citations for every source used in this article. Please see: WP:CITE relating to Guidelines for controversial articles, as well as WP:BLP. Full citations (author, title, work, date of publication, date accessed) needed throughout, still; unnecessary repetitions and incoherence of organization need clean up too. --NYScholar (talk) 07:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Please see updated comments in and request move proposal(s)--and archived discussions and archived talk pages re: the names--at Talk:Plame affair. Thank you. --NYScholar (talk) 07:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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Identity of the leaker
Regarding "the Bush Administration's action in leaking Plame's identity", who then was the leaker? Was it Richard Armitage? Or Karl Rove? (Surely not Scooter Libby?)

This article gives a mountain of data, but (even allowing for increased dimwittedness as I approach my 50s) I don't think it's easy to find a molehill of useful knowledge. --Uncle Ed (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:56, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

CIA leak scandal timeline → Plame affair timeline –

There have been many, many "CIA leaks" over time. For example, Aldrich Ames. Every one of them that is criminally prosecuted begins with a grand jury investigation. Thus, the name 'CIA leak grand jury investigation' is very vague and could apply to many, many different events. The actual article is referring to only one of these cases: the Valerie Plame affair. By renaming it, the specificity will be improved and confusion between this 'leak case' and other cases (like the Sterling case) will be clarified. Decora (talk) 16:15, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

 * Support: current name is too vague. –CWenger ( ^ •  @ ) 20:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

 * Support the current name is stupidly vague; consider how many leak scandals there have been in the CIA over the years. The related article CIA leak grand jury investigation should also be renamed. This suffers from WP:RECENTISM 65.94.47.63 (talk) 05:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:Commonname and agree with 65.94.47.63. Flamarande (talk) 16:59, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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N13 road (Ireland)

The N13 road is a national primary road in Ireland, running in County Donegal in Ulster from Stranorlar to just outside Derry. This road connects Letterkenny to Sligo, Derry and onwards to other destinations.

Route
The route diverges from the N15 (from Sligo) at Stranorlar. The route north through Kilross includes a T Junction with the R236 and then runs, via the townland of Drumnacross, over the Burn Dale (a burn or small river, also known as the Burn Deele) just outside the village of Drumkeen and on to the Dry Arch Bridge, located east of Letterkenny with a roundabout. The N56 runs along the Port Road to Letterkenny town centre. A section of dual carriageway runs east to bring the N13 (and traffic from the N14) to Corkey, where the N14 begins, and heads southeastwards linking Lifford from the roundabout with the N13. The N13 continues near Lough Swilly passing Manorcunningham northeast as single carriageway, passing along a bypass of Newtowncunningham and passing through Speenoge. The route turns east (with the R239 linking Buncrana) southeast at Bridgend to end at the border with Northern Ireland becoming the A2 road northwest of Derry and linking the city centre, and over Craigavon Bridge to Waterside Railway Station in the Waterside.

As originally designated, the N13 continued along the present N56 into Letterkenny, the section from Stranorlar to Letterkenny being part of the N56.

Upgrades
no upgrades of the N13 were planned. The majority of the route is demarcated by the National Roads Authority as "upgraded" on their National Roads 2006 Status map.

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Talk:Nicky Crane

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I can find no source for the claims about the S/M club. Is there one? Dogville 15:26, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Dogville:

While I can't substantiate the claims about S/M clubs I can give first hand warranty that between 1983 and 1986 (the dates fixed in my mind by other events in my life - 1986 by being at the Gay Pride post-march rally in Kennington) Nicky Crane was around in Soho. At some point I would guess in early 1983 I saw him at the Craven Club near the Strand and close to Heaven night club and on later occasions I know he was "on the door" (ie security) at the Golden Lion during it's last days with "Lady Jack" as landlord before he moved on to take over Comptons. Since at the time I was active on the left around London I found Crane's presency intimidating to say the least but rumour was that he had given up his fascist activity. Not a reference that can be verified I'm afraid and alas I have no intention of of identifying myself.

86.129.184.245 17:17, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Dogville replies: Thanks very much for the reply. I fully understand that you don't want to identify yourself, but I'm researching NC for a project of my own and would be extremely interested in any more memories you have at the time. If you're prepared, say, to email me from an anonymous webmail account, I'd be very grateful. You can contact me on dogville.2006@mac.com. Dogville 00:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Attention Marioat9
I don't know if this is the place for this but I can't see another way to do it. I'm doing some research on a topic related to this article and would like to get in contact with Marioat9, who contributed the since-deleted addition of 26 September. Unfortunately Marioat9 hasn't enabled email contact. If s/he reads this, or anyone knows how I can get in touch with him/her, please email me via Wikipedia (click on my username and then on 'email this user) in the toolbox at the bottom of the left-hand bar. Thanks. Dogville 15:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

ITALIAN?
Did Nicky Crane have Italian heritage? By his name it sounds like he did.

Yes he did, though obviously he was born in the UK.

Too many photos
This article has way too many photos. They are not all necessary, and most of them don't have any copyright information listed. This page is starting to look like a fan site, so some of those images should be deleted in order to make this a more formal, encyclopedic article. Spylab 11:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * problem solved Nicky Crane Fan Club 13:27, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

CRANE TAKES A BEATING I seem to recall that shortly before his death,Crane was given a severe beating by Red Action activists who were jailed for the attack, after Crane was caught at a bus stop after an abortive counter demo to a Troops Out demo in London in the late 80s. Streona 23:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

THROWN THROUGH BUS SHELTER

I thought NC had "retired" from street politics by the end of his life. Mind you another source on the Net referred to him "being thrown through a bus shelter...". Wonder if this was the same incident? Also it can't be "shortly before his death" in the "late-80s" if he lived 'til the early-90s! Bowroaduk 23:31, 31 October 2007

Streona -you are completely wrong and you dont recall anything, the site you refer to and have obtained the info is full of made up hearsay. the quotes on the site are exagerated by persons who have had very limited involvement.the person at the bus shelter was a nobody, please do not quote on what you know nothing about Zalok (talk) 21:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

EXCERPT FROM NICKY CRANE VIDEO

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bCjqvsAt9j0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.93.198 (talk) 15:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't recall it from a website- I recall it that a mate of mine called Fat Tony did it.--Streona (talk) 22:52, 5 October 2008 (UTC) i do recall the event i knew the person involved nothing to do with the Simpsons Zalok (talk) 19:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

If you recall the event, Zalok, then are yiu confirming that it did happen?--Streona (talk) 16:48, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

The Sun article
what does the word "panzi" mean? I'm german and I never heard that word and found nothing on the internet,except this article. --87.174.65.39 (talk) 02:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't know what article you are referring to, but it must be a Portmanteau word made up from "pansy" - a homophobic term - and Nazi.--Peter cohen (talk) 09:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it's more likely that it sounds similiar to "panzer" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.31.111 (talk) 10:52, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

another gay neo-nazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K%C3%BChnen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.108.8.136 (talk) 02:43, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Bike messenger category
A person's ocupation is a defining characteristic, even if it is not what they are notable for. Fred Housego and Alan Henning are both in the British taxi cab drivers category even though they are notable for other things. Unknown Unknowns (talk) 11:10, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Not seeing any indication in the article that the subject's cause of death is significant to his notability. could you explain why you believe it is? Nikkimaria (talk) 22:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Crane died of AIDS in 1993 when it was a predominantly gay disease. He had also been a member of homophobic Neo-Nazi organizations, prior to his expulsion for acknowledging his homosexuality. Unknown Unknowns (talk) 11:51, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * These statements make the situation ironic, but not significant to his notability. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:36, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Aeolian colonies

Colonies in antiquity founded by the Aeolians.

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International Extension College

More commonly referred to as the IEC, the International Extension College is a defunct non-profit organization that was based in Cambridge in the UK. Its primary aim was to help set up and manage distance learning educational initiatives in developing countries.

In the years since its inception, the IEC helped to set up many organizations, and often worked in partnership with a variety of others including NGOs, educational establishments and governments. Some of the projects include:
 * The Women in Fishing Industry Project (WIFIP), working with fishing communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya, using radio education to improve health.
 * The Building Literacy in Sudan Project (BLSP), working with refugees in camps and settlements across Northern Sudan.
 * The Building Capacity at Kyambogo University Project, working towards improvements in teacher education in Uganda by providing access to quality teacher training.
 * Various other projects.

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SEAT 1200 Sport

The SEAT 1200 Sport is a two-door, four-seater coupé developed by the Spanish car maker SEAT. First presented in December 1975, and sold commercially from February 1976 to September 1979, it was the first car developed entirely in the company's newly opened Martorell Technical Centre. Its initial version was powered by the bigger 1,197 cc engine of 67 PS (developed for the SEAT 124), transversely mounted and canted forward by 16°, giving the little 2+2 a top speed of 157 km/h via its four-speed gearbox transmission. Despite its sporting aspirations, its power output was limited by a relatively low compression ratio, reflecting the fuel octane levels available in its home market.

The 1200 Sport's sharp-edged body design had a drag coefficient (cd) of 0.37. It was purchased from NSU of Germany, after the German firm abandoned its plans to launch the NSU Nergal, its own small sports car based on the rear-engined NSU Prinz, presented as a prototype in the 1970 Turin Motor Show and designed by Italian designer Aldo Sessano. Antoni Amat, technical director of Inducar (Industrias de la Carrocería, an external provider for SEAT) proposed the 1200 Sport project to SEAT, with the mediation of Günter Óistrach, after the former's visit and contacts at the Turin Motor Show. The Terrassa-based Inducar company undertook the production of the car's chassis. To fit the platform SEAT planned for the car, the Nergal design was modified to include elements of another of Sessano's concept cars, the OTAS KL112, as it was based on the Fiat 127. A characteristic of the original NSU Nergal design that remained in the production model was the air-vents in the third pillar, just above the rear wheel arch, likely indicating the presence of the rear-mounted engine in NSU's design. SEAT's engineers examined the possibility of keeping the rear-engine layout, but ultimately chose a front engine. The car's boot featured remote opening through a handle on the driver's door, and had a fuel capacity of 339 litres.

In 1977, the SEAT 1430 Sport Coupé was introduced, using the same body, but with a retuned version of the engine from the SEAT 1430. In this application, the 1,438-cc engine provided a power output of 77 PS and a top speed of 164 km/h.

The Sport versions were offered mainly in the Spanish market, but also some cars were officially offered in other European countries such as Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. Both models, 1200 and 1430, were discontinued in 1979, along with the SEAT 128, SEAT 133, and CKD-built Lancia Beta and Beta HPE, as part of the important restructuring of the SEAT range for 1980. A total of 19,332 units was sold in the Spanish market, with 11,619 cars being equipped with the 1200 engine and some 7,713 units with the more powerful but late-launched 1430 motor.

The car was widely known as the "Boca negra" ("black mouth" in Spanish) because of the color and shape of its always black plastic front panel, which embraced the front grille and the headlights and incorporated, by 1970s standards, a prominent front bumper. In 2008, SEAT presented the SEAT Bocanegra concept car at the Geneva Motor Show. It received this name as a homage to the classic 1200 Sport, as it also had a black front end. It is sold as a special-edition Ibiza model from the second half of 2009, based on the SEAT Ibiza FR and Cupra versions.

Production figures
Since its launch in 1975 up to 1981, 19,332 SEAT 1200 and 1430 Sport cars have been sold and produced (11,619 units for the SEAT 1200 Sport and 7,713 for the SEAT 1430 Sport version).

The total production per year of SEAT 1200 Sport and SEAT 1430 Sport cars is shown in the following table :

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Intro

The king walks into the tavern called Doodles Inn. Demands the story of the land The nervous bard begins the tale of the “Forever 6” Cast: (Doodle, “the bat” Lex, Wenth, Claveron, D/Dee-Dee, Scott (elf thief)

Chapter 1 Doodle/bat

Chapter 2 Claveron/wench

Chapter 3 d/scott

Chapter 4 The meeting of the duo’s

Chapter 5. Mission #1 the easy sorceress keep heist.

Chapter 6. Oops./torture

Chapter 7. The escape/gold stream/town.

Chapter 8 Free your (gold)MINE Mr. Quaid

Chapter 9 the Orb reward/town bonding

Chapter 10 Trip to waterdeep/encounters dragon…

Chapter 11 Doodles girlfriend, claverons first mistake, the Con.

Chapter 12 The trip across the sea, battle with undead,

Chapter 13 encounter with odd creatures, meet princess, learn secret

Chapter 14 fake assassination, escape on black ship.

Chapter 15 D’s new lover, back to wateredeeeeescape from waterdeep

Chapter 16 back to town, to rebuild, again. Attacked by devils.

Chapter 17 Revenge on the gnolls, discovery of the gems. Claveron dies, gnoll replacement.

Chapter 18 Doodles druid friend. Back to town, make ship fly

Chapter 19 heist on the paladins and the cost. Invasion on Bats home

Chapter 20 Off to Sorceress keep, invasion at dawn, Loss of tattered mane, and Scott.

Chapter 21 Doodle explores room and disappears, the rest continue on afraid of the room, and hear doodle’s screams from below, they enter the main chamber and come face to face with a demon(with doodle beside him). The team attempts to charge, wentch gets one hit in before becoming overcome with fear and flees. Yellow fang and D flee immediately from fear, but D set’s off a trap on the way out ending his life (and the ship will flee from the rest of us for that reason) first from fear. Peaches stays paralysed in fear, but as bat falls dying, she breaks free to full him to safety. Doodle, baltor and a mysterious ally defeat the devil, revive bat, wait for the return of wentch/yellowfang and the report of d’s death and the ships disappearance…they look for the sorcerers.. they enter 1 unexplored tunnel leading to the sorcerous, as the party’s bloodlust causes a moments hesitation, the gnoll and new ally charge into the room to dispatch the sorceros almost too easily…the sorcereress was talking with a old man, who disappeared at the start of the battle. After the battle and the found baby, and found treasure in the room, after accidentily setting off a trap of two gargoyles. After surviving this battle, they decided to re-aquaint themselves with the newcomers.

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User talk:Allan jenkins

my name is allan jenkins. I am the editor of the observer magazine in the UK. In the course of meeting a new writer (who googled me), I discovered there is an entry for me on wikpedia that is pretty wildly inaccurate and malicious. It states for instance that I am a deputy editor of the paper. untrue. it states that I was brought up in a Barnardos home. Untrue. It further states that I have two children by two different mothers. Also untrue. It also published my wife's name and profession. She is extremetly uncomfortable that this is posted at all let alone with this inaccurate information. The entry also contains some extremely damaging and libellous information about alleged affairs with contributors. naming one from the london Times, which were deleted after a vote though the inaccurate information still stands and the libels can be easily accessed. I have posted a message on adjudicator Sam Spade's talk page but had no response probably my own fault as have no real way of knowing how to navigate this site. have no great problem with appearing but wish the inaccuracies and libels and my wife's name and profession to completely wiped. any help in this would be very gratefully received. do not want to appear humourless but want it fixed. please help. allan jenkins

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Chania (regional unit)

Chania (Περιφερειακή ενότητα Χανίων), also spelled Hania, is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania. Chania borders only one other regional unit: that of Rethymno to the east. The western part of Crete is bounded to the north by the Cretan Sea (part of the Aegean Sea) and to the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Libyan Sea. The regional unit also includes the southernmost island of Europe, Gavdos.

Geography
Chania regional unit, often informally termed 'Western Crete', is a part of the island which includes the capital Chania, and the districts of Platanias and Apokoronas in the north, and Sfakia and Selino in the far south west corner. Other towns in the Chania prefecture include Hora Sfakion, Kissamos, Palaiochora, Maleme, Vryses, Vamos, Georgioupolis and Kalives.

The natural park of Samariá Gorge, a tourist attraction and a refuge for the rare Cretan wild goat or kri-kri, is in the South of the regional unit.

The White Mountains or Lefka Ori, through which the Samaria, Aradena, Imbros and other gorges run, are the limestone peaks topped by snow until May that occupy much of Chania regional unit. They contain more than 40 peaks over 2,000 meters high. The highest peak in this area is Mt Pachnes, at 2,453 meters above sea level (Crete’s second highest peak). Other prominent peaks are Mt Agkathes (1,511 m) in the eastern Lefka Ori, and Mt Agios Dikaios (1,182 m) in the far west.

The regional unit also includes three headlands, known as the "three heads" of Crete. From west to east, they are: Gramvousa peninsula (with a peak of 762 m), Rodopos peninsula, also known as Spatha (with a peak of 749 m), and Akrotiri (with a peak of 523 m). The Apokoronas region also has a prominent peak (527 m).

Western Crete is popular with tourists for its spring flowers that linger on into early May in the mountains. Birdwatching is also common, with the lammergeier and golden eagle especially sought for. As an island, Crete has many endemic species of plant and animal.

Crete's only freshwater lake, Lake Kournas, is in the regional unit close to the border with Rethymno regional unit, 47 km from Chania. It is relatively large, with a perimeter of 3.5 km. The lake used to be called 'Korisia' after ancient 'Korion', a city thought to be in the area with a temple to Athena. The lake used to be reportedly full of eels but now is better known for its terrapins and tourists. Tavernas and bicycle rental shops line part of the shore.

Chania is the regional unit of Crete that receives the most precipitation. The Exkursionsflora von Kreta by Jahn & Schoenfelder has a precipitation map and text confirming that in general, western Crete (Chania prefecture) has more precipitation than any other region on an average basis.

Administration
The regional unit Chania is subdivided into seven municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox):

 * Apokoronas (2)
 * Chania (1)
 * Gavdos (3)
 * Kantanos-Selino (4)
 * Kissamos (5)
 * Platanias (6)
 * Sfakia (7)

Prefecture
The Chania prefecture (Νομός Χανίων) was created while Crete was still an autonomous state, and was preserved after the island joined Greece in 1913. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the Chania regional unit was created out of the former prefecture. The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below.

Provinces
The provinces were:
 * Apokoronas Province - Vamos
 * Kissamos Province - Kissamos
 * Kydonia Province - Chania
 * Selino Province - Kandanos
 * Sfakia Province - Chora Sfakion

Communications

 * Kydon TV

Notable people

 * Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), prime minister of Greece
 * Michael Bletsas, Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab
 * Constantinos Daskalakis, Assistant Professor at MIT

Maps

 * Map of Chania region
 * Wikimapia Chania Region
 * Explore Chania – Travel Guide – Vacation & Trip Ideas—guide

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A Walk on the Wild Side

A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, also adapted into the 1962 film of the same name. Set in Depression era, it is "the tragi-comedy of Dove Linkhorn", a naive Texan drifting from his hometown to New Orleans.

Algren noted, "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."

It is most often quoted for Algren's "three rules of life": "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

Chapter 1
Fitz Linkhorn barely managed to make a living pumping out cesspools, but his consuming vocation was "Born Again" preaching from the courthouse steps in 1930 Arroyo, Texas; it was a small, mostly Hispanic, and heavily Catholic town in the Rio Grande Valley. Fitz denounced all sins except drinking; because, being a drunk himself, he made sure he was both eloquently, and tastefully drunk as often as possible. He had two sons, Byron, who was weak and sickly, and Dove.

Dove had no education because his father had not wanted to send him to a school with a Catholic principal (And what else could there have been in Arroyo?). Instead, he was supposed to see movies with Byron to learn about life, but Dove never got to go; his brother did not have the price of a ticket. Dove got his education from the hoboes who hung around the Santa Fe tracks, telling one another what towns, lawmen, jails, and railroad bulls (deputized railroad police), to avoid.

Dove began hanging around the La Fe en Dios chili parlor in the ruins of the Hotel Crockett on the other side of town. The hotel was the place where Fitz had met the mother of his boys. The hotel was closed, but the seldom-visited café was run by Terasina Vidavarri, a wary woman traumatized by her marriage, aged sixteen, with a middle-aged ex-soldier who raped her with a swagger stick on their wedding night. She continued Dove's education by teaching him how to read from two books. One of the books was a children's storybook; the other was about how to write business letters. When he was old enough (to enjoy her teaching); Terasina broadened Dove's education, by her and him becoming lovers.

Byron blackmailed Dove into stealing from the café, and Terasina knew that Dove had taken money out of the cash register. She kicked him out, but not before he raped her. Dove then left Arroyo on a freight train in early 1931. Dove took up with a girl named Kitty Twist, a runaway from a children's home, and saved her life when she was about to fall under the wheels of a train. When they attempted a burglary in Houston, Kitty was caught. Dove got away on a freight to New Orleans. One of the first things he saw in New Orleans was a man cutting the heads off turtles that were to be made into turtle soup and throwing the bodies into a pile. Even with the heads cut off, the bodies tried to climb to the top of the pile. One turtle was able to reach the top of the pile before it slid back to the bottom.

"Dove didn't hesitate. 'I'll take the tarpon soup.' He didn't yet know that there was also room for one more at the bottom."

Chapter 2
In the port city, with its many different influences and cultures, Dove experienced his most interesting adventures. He worked as a painter on a steamship (but did not paint anything), fooled a prostitute who was trying to rob him, sold coffeepots and "beauty certificates" (which supposedly entitled the bearer to a treatment at a beauty shop) while seducing the women to whom he was selling, and, in his most memorable escapade, worked in a condom factory. The condoms, which were called O-Daddies and bore interesting names and colors, were made in a house by a mom-and-pop firm, Velma and Rhino Gross.

Dove's lengthiest stay was with the people who inhabited the twin worlds of Oliver Finnerty's brothel and Doc Dockery's speakeasy. In the brothel he found, in addition to his old friend Kitty Twist, who had become a prostitute, Hallie Breedlove, a onetime schoolteacher who was the star of Finnerty's string of girls. Hallie was in love with Achilles Schmidt, a former circus strongman whose legs had been cut off by a train. "Legless" Schmidt's upper body was still powerful and every day he surged into Dockery's bar with the air of one who could beat up anyone there—and he could. Dove's main job at Finnerty's was to couple with the girls in the place, who were pretending to be virgins being deflowered, while customers watched through peepholes. Hallie, who still retained vestiges of her former life as a teacher, was interested in Dove's mind and helped him to continue to learn to read. Then she left town.

Chapter 3
Dove drowned his sorrow in alcohol. Finnerty fled with the money after calling the cops. Dove spent five months in jail with the colorful petty criminals of "Tank Ten". Once out, he ran in Dockery's bar into Schmidt, now wise to Dove's affair with Hallie. Schmidt beat Dove until he became permanently blind, then people threw out Schmidt whose platform rolled downhill to his death. Dove made his way back to his hometown for 1932, where his brother was now dead and his father now a joke, and went back to Terasina.

Use of materials
Algren reworked some of his material from his first novel Somebody in Boots (1935) in this later work. He also borrowed from his short stories "Kewpie Doll" (for the death scene of the little girl), "Mr. Goodbuddy and the Mighty Dripolator" (for the gift dripolator scene), "Lovers, Sec-fiends, Bugs in Flight" (for the jail scene with that quote), and "The Face on the Barroom Floor" (for the fight scene between Dove and Schmidt).

According to Algren, the title refers to the 1952 song "The Wild Side of Life".

Film adaptation
In 1962 Algren's novel was adapted for the film Walk on the Wild Side, directed by Edward Dmytryk. The screenplay was written by John Fante, with Edmund Morris and Ben Hecht (the latter uncredited), and the film starred Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck.

References in other works
In 1970, Lou Reed was approached about a project to turn A Walk on the Wild Side into a musical, a story he tells during his song of the same name on his 1978 Live: Take No Prisoners album. The project never materialized, but he used the title for his song, "Walk on the Wild Side", describing the lives of Warhol superstars he saw at The Factory.

It is referred to in Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels (1966) in the context of the mobility of certain elements of society, like the main characters, and how the Angels are a manifestation of that principle. He believed that the Angels were metaphorically the sons of Linkhorn and dustbowl hillbillies who were born in the great California migration.

It is referenced in the film Vertical Limit (2000) but the third rule is given as a joke about never climbing with someone you don't know.

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Federico García Lorca
I reckon this is now a reasonably complete account of this famous poet and playwright's life and work. Would value any further comments or contributions. --Ngb 17:45, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Overall, good article. A few things thought: Personaly, I prefer seeing articles without red links in - at least some stubs should be made in my opinion. The list of major works read like a, well, list. Could each entry perhaps be expanded somewhat? Perhaps something like:
 * El maleficio de la mariposa ("The Butterfly's Evil Spell")
 * A symbolist work drawing inspiration from Yeats and Maeterlinck, especially the latter's L'Oiseau Bleu (1905), the play deals with an injured butterfly, temporarily stranded amongst other insects, which flies away despite the cockroach's love for her.
 * Just a thought off course - but I think it'll give people a better overwiev of his works. WegianWarrior 18:44, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a good point. I have written very basic stubs for all but one of Lorca's plays, which I will get round to fleshing out properly at some point -- is it general practice for information from these to be reproduced in articles about their authors? --Ngb 19:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I don't know if it's common or not - however, I think it will make the article easier to read. WegianWarrior 06:57, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Image of Lorca has unverified copyright status. Borisblue 01:51, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


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Queensrÿche (EP)

Queensrÿche is the debut EP by American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released independently in 1982 through 206 Records and reissued later that next year through EMI America Records. A remastered edition was reissued in 2003 through Capitol Records.

Background
In the early 1980s, Queensrÿche was known as The Mob, a cover band that played songs from popular heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Their line-up consisted of guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, drummer Scott Rockenfield and bassist Eddie Jackson. Without a singer, they performed several shows with Geoff Tate, who at the time was the front man of the local band Babylon, and later of Myth. Tate chose not to join The Mob, because he was not interested in performing heavy metal covers.

Inspired by the positive responses from their performances at local rock festivals, The Mob decided to switch from playing cover songs to writing original music. The four members, who were between 17 and 19 years old, rehearsed five days a week in the basement of Rockenfield's parents, and took on at least two jobs each to earn enough money to record a 24-track demo tape. They booked the graveyard shifts from Monday through Friday at Triad Studios in Redmond, Washington, to record four songs. Tate was asked to join the band for the recording sessions, and in the same week write the lyrics to one unfinished song, which became "The Lady Wore Black". The whistle at the beginning of "The Lady Wore Black" was unintentional, as Brett Miller recalls: "Geoff needed to set the mood, so he had the lights turned off and sang with a single candle burning in the studio. While waiting for his first verse to come up, he whistled along with the opening guitar not realizing they were taping him. He told them it was a mistake, but everyone agreed it was cool, so they kept it."

Attempts to be signed to a label through the demo were unsuccessful. Kim and Diana Harris, the owners of Easy Street Records, ultimately offered The Mob a management contract. As the band name "The Mob" was not available, it was changed to "Queensrÿche". Kim Harris sent the demo tape and a band photo to a friend at the British music magazine Kerrang!, resulting in a glowing review and causing a growing buzz in both the United States and Europe, following which the Harrises released Queensrÿche's demo tape as a self-titled EP on their independent 206 Records label in 1983. After the EP garnered international praise, receiving much airplay and selling an unusual number of copies for a small independent release, Tate agreed to leave Myth and become Queensrÿche's permanent lead singer.

Kim Harris convinced EMI-America A&R manager Mavis Brodey to see Queensrÿche perform as the opening act for Zebra in Portland and Seattle on June 29–30, 1983. Brodey offered Queensrÿche a contract with EMI, spanning 15 years and encompassing seven albums. To support the EP, the band toured with Quiet Riot through the south and with Twisted Sister to the East Coast and Canada, and played in Seattle opening for Dio. After the tour had ended in November 1983, the band began preparations for their first studio album, The Warning.

Reissues
Shortly after Queensrÿche were signed, EMI re-released the EP Queensrÿche to moderate success, peaking at No. 81 on the Billboard charts. "Queen of the Reich" was released as a single.

The 1988 reissue by EMI saw the addition of a bonus track, "Prophecy", which was recorded during the Rage for Order sessions in 1985–86. This song was performed live by the band circa 1983, and was included on the 1984 Live in Tokyo home video. A demo version of "Prophecy" appears on the soundtrack for the movie The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, and on the deluxe edition of Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensryche.

On the 2003 remastered edition, tracks 5–14 were live recordings of Queensrÿche's second performance in the tour supporting The Warning, held August 5, 1984, at the Nippon Seinenkan in Tokyo, Japan. The performance was previously released on VHS in 1984 as Live in Tokyo, but is now out of print.

Critical reception
In 2005, Queensrÿche was ranked number 336 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia noted an "obvious Iron Maiden influence" and the "'dungeons and dragons' lyrical themes" of the EP's songs. Rivadavia praised the song "The Lady Wore Black" for "display[ing] more maturity – a sign of things to come." Rivadavia concluded his review by saying "this is a must-have release for Queensrÿche fans."

Track listing
Tracks 5–14 recorded live at Nippon Seinenkan in Tokyo, Japan on August 5, 1984

Personnel

 * Queensrÿche
 * Geoff Tate – lead vocals
 * Michael Wilton – lead guitar
 * Chris DeGarmo – lead guitar, backing vocals
 * Eddie Jackson – bass, backing vocals
 * Scott Rockenfield – drums

 * Production
 * Queensrÿche – production
 * Tom Hall – engineering
 * Ron Luder – mastering
 * Evren Göknar – 2003 remastering
 * Neil Kernon – production (track 5)
 * Wes Griswold – cover art, concept, illustrations

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User:Lazygate

Great concept, great project. Wanna help if and where I can Lazygate 17:45, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Nancy Wilkinson

Nancy Wilkinson (29 September 1919 – 21 November 1999) was the winner of the first BBC TV Mastermind quiz series in 1972.

Nancy Wilkinson was born Nancy Barbara Constance Bird in London in 1919. She studied modern languages and music at Cambridge from 1937 to 1941, and during World War II worked for the intelligence service at Bletchley Park. On 13 July 1945 she married John Wilkinson, and after some years in Cornwall they lived in Kingston, Cambridgeshire, for the rest of her life. She taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now the Anglia Ruskin University).

She was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England from its inception in 1970 until 1989.

In the 1972 Mastermind series her specialised subjects were French literature, European antiques, and the history of music 1550–1900. In 1975 she went on to win a Supermind contest between the first four Mastermind Champions.

Wilkinson died in 1999 at the age of 80.

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Murray Louis

Murray Louis (November 4, 1926 – February 1, 2016) was an American modern dancer and choreographer.

Life
Louis was known as one of the most influential American modern dancers and choreographers. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in Manhattan near Henry Street where he would later attend class at the Henry Street Playhouse and also start his company. He was one out of five children and his mother died when he was eight years old. He was then sent to an orphanage until he was twelve. At this time his sister Ethel, who was studying dance at the time, took him to many modern dance concerts. He graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in 1944.

Louis was discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1946 and began to live in San Francisco, California. He then enrolled at Colorado College for a summer session conducted by Hanya Holm in 1949. It was there during one of their workshops where he met Alwin Nikolais, who would later become his mentor and lifelong partner. That year he moved back to New York to pursue a Dramatic Arts degree at New York University and attend class with Nikolais at Henry Street Playhouse. Louis made his debut as the lead soloist in Nikolais' newly formed Playhouse Dance Company (which would later be renamed the Nikolais Dance Theater). He died in New York City on February 1, 2016, at the age of 89.

Career
Louis was chosen as Associate Director to Nikolais and together they created the Nikolais/Louis dance technique, which would go on to become a major influence on modern dance and is still taught by his students. Louis founded his own company in 1968 known as the Murray Louis Dance Company. His company was then chosen to represent the U.S. State Department on a two-month tour of India in 1968. In 1972 he piloted the "Artist in School" program. He also created two works for Rudolph Nureyev which premiered on Broadway in 1978. Louis additionally worked in television in the United States and Europe. For example, in the 1960s his artistry as both a dancer and choreographer were showcased on live network television for the CBS Repertoire Worhshop. In 1984 the Murray Louis Dance Company collaborated with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and had four very successful seasons, which were broadcast in the United States, Europe and Japan. Some of his choreographed works produced for television station outside of the United States include; Pulcinello for the Batsheva Dance Company on Israeli television and The Tales of Cri-Cri for Mexico City television. In July 1987 PBS televised Nik and Murray, an award-winning documentary film by Christian Blackwood, in their American Masters series. The Princeton Book Publishing Company released a video called Murray Louis in Concert, a collection of solos in 1989.

Louis also had his collection of essays, Inside Dance, published by St. Martin's Press and released a five-part film series, Dance as an Art Form, which is now used as an introduction series for Educational Arts programs in the United States. A Cappella Books published his second book of essays, On Dance. Louis's and Nikolais' dance companies merged in 1989. On May 8, 1993, Louis's most influential mentor and partner, Alwin Nikolais, died. Louis did not dance for 2 years after Nikolais' death. In 1995 his company performed at Carnegie Hall for 10,000 children during their "LINK" program and in 1996 he completed a five-part video series titled, The World of Alwin Nikolais.

Work and accomplishments
Louis had many accomplishments and received copious numbers of awards, recognitions, and honorary degrees. He received the Dance Magazine award in 1977, which was presented to him by his former dance instructor Hanya Holm. He also received a Thank You letter from President Harry Truman, the Colorado Contemporary Dance Award, two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships and the Scripps/American Dance Festival award (June 18, 2006). In 1998, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for a "distinguished lecture" tour of twelve universities and colleges in the United States. Louis received his first Honorary Degree from Indiana University in 1970, his Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from Ohio University in 1999, his second Honorary Degree from Rutgers University in 2000, and his third Honorary Degree from the Boston Conservatory in 2004. In 1998 Louis started assembling his archives and they are now available at the Ohio University's Vernon R. Alden Library in Athens, Ohio. He created more than one hundred works (including 70 ballets), performed in 20 nations and every state of the United States, and toured five continents. He is one of the few choreographers to have danced in his own creations and a variety of composers produced music for him and his performances. He also choreographed to the music of Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and many others composers. Some of the companies he choreographed dances for include; the Royal Danish Ballet, the Jose Limon Company, the Hamburg Opera Ballet, the Scottish Ballet, the Berlin Opera Ballet, and the Cleveland Ballet.

Louis speaking of his choreography once said, "I don't have a style. I come out of dance itself. I operate the principles of dance the way I talk. I get a point of view. Each piece has its own identity. It's what choreography is all about."

Murray Louis lived and worked in New York City, New York.

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Talk:Sylph

You should notice that most japanese media use "shirufido" for speaking Sylphid (check the japanese version of Record of Lodoss Wars). I think "Sylph" is not the complete word, but "Sylphid".
 * "Sylphid" is an occasionally encountered derivative. If you take it to be a Greek root, which it isn't, you can add the "-id" suffix, so that it can mean "sylph-like" or "descendant of a sylph." Paracelsus definitely says "sylph" though in the underived form. I'm reasonably sure he intended it as a vernacular abbreviation of the Latin sylvestris, which he uses as a synonym, but as I haven't written that in a book, that's not citable. The form and spelling are probably influenced by "nymph." That brings up the even odder question why he chose sylvestris to refer to an air spirit, since it means something like "woodsy." At any rate, sylph is the correct headword. Tarchon 01:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It is odd, and I've personally figured that alchemy was the explanation. I know virtually nothing of their symbology, but I could easily imagine either ethanol -> spirit or an analogy based on supposed astrological/alchemical families that led him to conceive of the sylv as an air spirit.  That's a pure guess on my part, but it helps me sleep at night (both the guess and the ethanol).  Geogre 01:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Definition of Sylph
pene This article is really shoddy! The description is just some random persons idea. Its really bad. needs to be FIRXED! I know nothing about this at all, are there no experts who can provide proper refrences?! - best, Anna — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.53.181 (talk) 12:43, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm quite disappointed with encyclopedia knowledge in general, since it tends to take things for granted in such a positive, affirmative way, that it leaves no space whatsoever for doubt. Actually, it completely discards the notion of doubt. And that's just not healthy.

So just ask yourself... Are there certain kinds of energies and forces yet to be understood by science? Yes, even the gravitation force is explained but not fully understood. So when these energies manifest themselves through elements, like air, thus becoming material, would they become real?

What if Paracelsus was only geting a glimpse of a certain unknown force? It is an encyclopedic fact that he invented them, giving them a name, and that, under that light, Sylphs are a product of his imagination. But is not the human imagination another mystery to be solved?

If you can admit other possibilities it will make this a better article. (abysmal grammar, spelling and typos have now been edited for this post)

Duh!

 * Golly! You know, this is supposed to be an encyclopedia, and encyclopedias only report what is most attested, most agreed upon, most empirically established.  When there are references, citations, and proof of the other energies, encyclopedias will report it.  Until then, it's unencyclopedic to mention them, as Wikipedia is a tertiary source of information, and not by any means a platform for negotiating ultimate truth or revelation.  The world, and the world wide web, abound with platforms for such revelatory truth, but Wikipedia is not really one of them.  Geogre 14:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Categories and recent edits
Most of the edits lately have had to do with the fantasy authors' uses of the sylph. That's fine. I'm certainly no expert on it. However, don't let the disagreements over whether the anime term is this or that, the AD&D creature is this or that, etc. blind you to the fact that most of the article is about the concept of the sylph, where it came from, and how it has been made popular in literary sources. Paracelsus invented them, and they were sort of forgotten. Pope used them as a joke. Then some of the Romantics and Victorian poets (I didn't put this stuff in the article, as I don't know all those poems) tripped on the fantasy and used them some more. This lead to the original Monster Manual folks, who had read a great deal of literature, plugging them in (but being vague). So, if the question is whether "pseudoscience" belongs as a category, remember that the article is about their origin in alchemy and parody science. The main article is about this stuff, not the fantasy author stuff. Anyway, those are my 2 cents. Geogre 10:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

There is no mention in this article (or in the one on the actual poem, or in the one on Pope I guess, I don't care enough right now to read into the whole thing) about the address Pope wrote to Arabella Fermor which prefaces some editions of The Rape of the Lock. As he goes on about the revisions he'd made after the initial publication, Pope writes
 * These Machines I determin’d to raise on a very new and odd Foundation, the Rosicrucian Doctrine of Spirits [...]
 * The Rosicrucians are a People I must bring You acquainted with ... according to these Gentlemen the four elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Daemons of the Earth, delight in mischeif; but the Sylphs whose habitation is Air, are the best-conditioned Creatures imaginable.

He also mentions the "French book called Le Comte de Gabalis" as something he was familiar with or something used as a basis for the spirits in his poem. I'm not trying to be pedantic or obscurist, I just read the dedication today (in an edition with the Aubrey illustrations), but I figure this is something obvious enough to put in the wikipedia articles, instead of implying that Pope was directly parodying Paracelsus simply because the term Sylph originated with him (sources?). The article here about the Rosicrucians doesn't have anything about the Gabalis book specifically but it does have many references to alchemy. If someone cares enough they could persue thisssss.. ? 72.60.88.172 06:20, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, yes, Pope didn't go straight from Paracelsus, but you mustn't read the Preface as altogether straight. Paracelsus is the father of alchemy for westerners, and Rosicrucianism comes out of alchemy, so it was a going concern.  The Rosicrucians were arguably active in England as late as Pope, but they were certainly active in the previous generation, with Dees and, arguably, even Aphra Behn and Pepys.  As for Pope's view of the Rosicrucians, you have only to look at the satire in the parody of their system of the Sylphs.  As for the source of Paracelsus inventing Sylphs, I got that from Lempriere 1843 and The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1970, so it sort of qualifies as "fact that needs no citation" since multiple sources agree.  I did not mean to alledge, though, that Pope got them from Paracelsus.  Instead, my intent was:
 * Paracelsus invents them.
 * No one plays with them except alchemists.
 * Pope mentions them.
 * They are then mainstream.
 * Later poets invoke them in the Pope, not the alchemical, sense.
 * They are then well known.
 * Contemporary culture incorporates them in fantasy.
 * An article on Rape of the Lock should mention the sources Pope used. For my part, I'm staying away, and I'm staying away because the article is far too shallow, and I need to be all the way in or not at all.  Geogre 13:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I've now added some sentences to explain that there wasn't a vaccuum between Paracelsus and Pope. I haven't included the specific book, as I still feel that's a little out of the way, but it certainly could be mentioned, and there is a nice linguistic hanger to insert it, if you'd like to do so. Geogre 14:07, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

 * D'oh! I see where I had confused things, before.  When I said that Pope was, in some ways, parodying Paracelsus, that lead the reader to believe that I was saying that Pope had Hermes Trismegisthus in one hand, Paracelsus, in the other.  No.  I meant that it was a parody of Paracelsus and alchemy, whether it was intended or not.  For example, if you do a parody of a lounge singer doing "Mack the Knife" today, you are parodying Bobby Darren, even if you haven't heard him before.  It's a parody of the whole systemetizing of the body and soul that alchemists did and that Paracelsus had done.  Geogre 15:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the subsection entitled "Videogames" which contains biographical information (albeit brief) of a gaming organization. I believe that this violates the purpose of Wikipedia and bears no significance to the purpose of this article as well. 70.177.65.42 18:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree with you. In fact, I tend to try to avoid "owning" articles I write, and that can lead me to being overly tolerant.  I think much, if not all, of the "pop culture" material is irrelevant.  Since the article says that pop culture mythographies use the sylph, there is no point in trying to have a list of every game, book, TV show, and anime (with arguing back and forth) that has a sylph in it -- this is even more to the point because what they're really incorporating is the La Sylphide sylphs rather than the alchemical/Popian ones.  Geogre 03:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

was unsure of where to place this information, however; "Wilder sylphs are intense and direct, like the birds of prey they resemble. They soar endlessly through the skies, looking for something to attract their interests and allow them to prove their worth" the above quote comes from a site of questionable credibility, the author of said site has written a biography stating her belief that she has befriended some kind of alien spirit. basically i think this quote should be removed as it seems to me to be the result of someone's imagination, not significant historical documentation or modern media references —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.104.18.225 (talk) 11:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Chinese
May I ask whether people feel the reference to Ancient China is at all relevant to this article? The shenxian certainly cannot be equated to Paracelsus' sylphs and already occupy a separate article. I move this this section be deleted. --Gak (talk) 18:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Agreed. The section was added by one Rakibe, who signed it as if it were a comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sylph&oldid=184575767), and has been barely touched since. It was that user's only edit, and the account seems to have been deleted. Since the section is unsubstantiated and confusing, and nobody has objected to its removal, I'm deleting it. 87.16.194.100 (talk) 01:12, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Article needs more material and to be rewritten with a neutral point of view.
Not really, absolutely no. Wikipedia never was and never will be about most people agree, because Wikipedia it is not a religion. Wikipedia it is about democratically divulge notable ideas to everyone. More specifically, Wikipedia focus in what finds some notability at past or current time. Doesn’t matter if that thought it is constricted to a sector of society, or to a group of scientists, or scholars. The goal it is to make accessible to the world those concepts from past and present. If Wikipedia was about most people think, therefore would be a return to Medieval Age. No scientific study could be divulged through Wikipedia. No fiction work could be divulged through Wikipedia. No cultures of minorities could be exposed through Wikipedia; and etc., etc., etc.. Don’t’ confuse third party reference with accepted ideas. Tertiary sources only mean that the issue may have found some notability in some level of the society. By the way Wikipedia has not rules engraved on rock, it welcomes secondary sources too, but, of course, third parties always supply more grounding. At last my personal opinion: I have an academic formation on physics, so I scientifically cannot believe in such sylph creature. On the other hand I will not deny a room in anywhere, exposing what was spoke or studied about this subject. On the contrary, I have scientific curiosity over the issue, I want read any point of view because I want to enlarge the possibilities. Researching what still is unknown, this it is science; other way we have radicalism and narrow minds, something not at all good for none.

Conclusion: Unfortunately this article widely lacks of information and clearly doesn’t show a neutral point of view. It urgently needs improvement.VirtuousWorld (talk) 14:43, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Agreed. This is a very poor article--far too much Pope, and not nearly enough Paracelsus, or other material on the sylph, per se. It should be re-written or deleted.Pernoctus (talk) 15:13, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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User:ParaDox

 * Wikimedia "HOME"
 * Wikipedia
 * ( Deutschland / Germany )
 * ( Benutzer / User )
 * ParaDox(de)

Came to Wikipedia initially to work on (List of) transgender-related topics.
 * Registered in German Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc.,
 * and a personal blog exists too.

Perhaps worth mentioning are –
 * – my translations of articles into German
 * “Autogynephilia” (revision January 26, 2006) (current “Autogynephilia”)
 * Translation February 12, 2006
 * What I was trying to make of it (till March 18, 2006) – and later with Beate_r
 * The German article it's more or less become part of
 * “Bahuchara Mata” (translation March 8, 2006) (current English “Bahuchara Mata”) – (current German “Bahuchara Mata”)
 * “Men's liberation” (translation March 14, 2006) (current English “Men's liberation”) – (still no German ''“Männeremanzipation” article 2007-11-14)
 * – 4 out of “a new series of transgender symbols”:

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Lino

Lino may refer to:
 * Lino, short for linoleum, a common flooring material
 * Lino, slang for linesman, the former name (still in widespread common use) for an assistant referee in association football

Given name

 * Lino (footballer, born 1971), Brazilian footballer
 * Lino (footballer, born 1976), Guinea-Bissauan footballer
 * Lino (footballer, born 1977), Brazilian footballer
 * Lino (rapper), French rapper; part of the rap duo Ärsenik
 * Lino Cayetano, Filipino politician
 * Lino Donoso (1922–1990), Cuban baseball player
 * Lino Facioli, Brazilian actor
 * Lino Lacedelli (1925–2009), Italian mountaineer
 * Lino Rulli, American talk radio host
 * Lino Saputo, Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian-based cheese manufacturer Saputo, Inc.
 * Lino Tagliapietra, glass artist
 * Lino Urdaneta (born 1979), Venezuelan baseball player
 * Lino Ventura, an Italian actor who starred in French movies

Surname

 * Pascal Lino, a French former road racing cyclist
 * Paulo Rui Lino Borges (born 1971), Portuguese footballer known as Lino

Politics

 * Libertarian In Name Only
 * Liberal In Name Only
 * Labour In Name Only

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User talk:Lazygate

Hello - Tell me what you think I need to know Lazygate 17:46, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Somebody replied to you at Talk:Religious persecution by Jews - I guess they think you know what you're talking about. I myself am intrigued. Uncle Ed 17:48, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

persecution of Persecution Pages
Hi, Lazygate. We had worked with user:Irishpunktom on religious persecution of other religions. Are you still interested in that? Uncle Ed 15:24, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Montana

 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. After discounting the reduser, there is near unanimous consensus to keep. -Splash 01:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Tony Montana
Merge with Scarface (1983 movie), and redirect to that article. abelson 17:47, July 19, 2005 (UTC) Comment. This should've been added on the 19th but was not. --Woohookitty 07:57, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per WP:FICT, the Scarface (1983 movie) article is probably long enough as it is. -- Lochaber 11:14, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Montana (I seem to recall) will also be in the Scarface video game. Also, the article establishes that the character himself has impacted popular culture somewhat independent of the movie. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:05, 2005 July 27 (UTC)
 * Delete. It basically parrots information already contained in the Scarface article. CranialNerves 18:21, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect. -Sean Curtin 06:16, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Wohoo & Lochaber.--Jpbrenna 17:01, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, the character is a semi-cult figure with multiple parodies. McPhail 13:53, 1 August 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.