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Te Vaka

Te Vaka (English: The Canoe) is an Oceanic music group that performs original contemporary Pacific music or "South Pacific Fusion". The group was founded in 1995 by singer and songwriter Opetaia Foaʻi in New Zealand. They have toured the world consistently since 1997 and have won a number of awards including the "Best Pacific Music Album" award from the New Zealand Music Awards for their albums Tutuki (2004) and Olatia (2007) and "Best Pacific Group" in the 2008 Pacific Music Awards According to the BBC, they are "the world's most successful band playing original contemporary Pacific music."

History
Te Vaka is a group of musicians and dancers with origins from various Polynesian backgrounds (including Tokelau, Tuvalu, Samoa and New Zealand) that formed in 1997, under the leadership of award-winning songwriter, Opetaia Foaʻi. That year, they released their eponymous debut album through ARC Music, a UK/European record company. The album gained immediate success and recognition, being distributed to over 80 countries. Their follow-up album, Ki Mua, was released through Warm Earth Records, and went #1 on world music charts and mainstream radio in the South Pacific.

In 2002, the band released their third album, Nukukehe. The album gained the group a nomination in the New Zealand Music Awards and the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Their next albums entered the European World Music Charts, as well as winning numerous awards.

Through their career, Te Vaka has performed extensively around the world, performing in London's Royal Festival Hall and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, as well as headlining music festivals throughout Europe like WOMAD. They have also performed at the APEC ministerial dinners and America's Cup events in Auckland, the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, the Rugby World Cup in Paris and the Olympic Games in Beijing.

In 2010 and 2011, the band completed two tours in North America. That same year, Te Vaka released their seventh album, Havili.

In 2015, the band was selected by Walt Disney Pictures to contribute to the soundtrack of the 2016 animated film Moana.

Musical style
Te Vaka uses traditional musical instruments from the Pacific region like pate (single and double log drums), paʻu (indigenous goat skin conga), and bass drums.

Most of their songs are written in the Tokelauan language, reflecting the heritage of band founder, singer, and main songwriter, Opetaia Foaʻi. Foaʻi was born in Western Samoa, to a Tokelauan father and a Tuvaluan mother, and raised in a Tokelauan community in New Zealand. He has said that the inspiration for his music comes from his multi-cultural upbringing. However, some songs are also written in Samoan and Tuvaluan languages, which are the native tongues of most of the other band members.

As a result of this mixture of sounds and diversity of influences, their music has been referred to as "a truly pan-Pacific sound".

Current lineup

 * Opetaia Foaʻi: vocals, guitar, percussion
 * Olivia Foaʻi: vocals, dance
 * Matatia Foaʻi: percussion
 * Sulata Foai-Amiatu: vocals
 * Douglas Bernard (a.k.a. D.Burn): vocals, keyboards, percussion
 * Joe Toomata: electric guitar, percussion
 * Neil Forrest: bass, flute, percussion
 * Etueni (Edwin) Pita: dance
 * Dave Kuresa: dance

Awards and nominations

 * style="text-align:center;"| 2002
 * BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 2003
 * Te Vaka
 * BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music - Audience Award
 * Nominated
 * Nukukehe
 * New Zealand Music Awards - Best Roots Album
 * Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;"| 2004
 * Tutuki
 * New Zealand Music Awards - Best Pacific Music Album
 * Won
 * style="text-align:center;"| 2005
 * Opetaia Foaʻi
 * Senior Pacific Artist
 * Won
 * rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| 2008
 * Te Vaka
 * Pacific Music Awards - Best Pacific Band
 * Won
 * Te Vaka
 * Australian Songwriters Association Awards - Best Live Performance of the Night
 * Won
 * "Tamahana"
 * Australian Songwriters Association Awards - International
 * Won
 * rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| 2010
 * Haoloto
 * New Zealand Music Awards
 * Nominated
 * Te Vaka
 * Pacific Music Awards - Best Pacific Group
 * Won
 * Haoloto
 * Best Pacific Language Album
 * Won
 * style="text-align:center;"| 2011
 * Haoloto
 * Hawaiian Music Awards - Polynesian
 * Won
 * rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 2012
 * Havili
 * Pacific Music Awards
 * Nominated
 * "Lovely World"
 * ISC Awards - World Music
 * Nominated
 * Won
 * style="text-align:center;"| 2011
 * Haoloto
 * Hawaiian Music Awards - Polynesian
 * Won
 * rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 2012
 * Havili
 * Pacific Music Awards
 * Nominated
 * "Lovely World"
 * ISC Awards - World Music
 * Nominated
 * "Lovely World"
 * ISC Awards - World Music
 * Nominated

Studio albums

 * 1997 Te Vaka
 * 1999 Ki Mua
 * 2002 Nukukehe
 * 2004 Tutuki
 * 2007 Olatia
 * 2009 Haoloto
 * 2011 Havili
 * 2015 Amataga
 * 2017 Te Vaka Beats: Percussion Album Vol. 1
 * 2020 Te Vaka Beats Vol. 2

Compilations

 * 2017 Greatest Hits: Songs That Inspired Moana

DVDs

 * 2003 Live at Apia Park
 * 2007 Live in Concert 2006

Singles

 * "Lakalaka"

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I'm just wondering as to what constitutes a 'decent size'. Does anyone have guideline? I've been adding quite a few articles here as I go though and put infoboxes in, so if any of them are less than decent size please feel free to remove them. Raven4x4x 07:47, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:01, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Mark Chen
Non-notable student. Delete. jni 07:50, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable student vanity. JamesBurns 09:33, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non notable vanity. --PrologFan {Talk} 18:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 18:48, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Portal:Writing/Categories

Writing • Calligraphy • Penmanship • Writing implements • Inks • Alphabetic writing systems • Abjad •  Abugida • Kanji • Logographic writing systems • Writing systems • Cyrillic alphabets • Hellenic scripts • Script typefaces

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Singapore Post

Singapore Post Limited (sgx: S08), commonly abbreviated as SingPost, is an associate company of Singtel and Singapore's designated Public Postal Licensee which provides domestic and international postal services.

It also provides logistics services in the domestic and international markets, warehousing and fulfillment, and global delivery services. SingPost also offers products and services including postal, agency and financial services through its post offices, Self-service Automated Machines (SAMs) and vPOST, its internet portal. Its headquarters is located in Paya Lebar, Singapore.

Today, Singapore has 13 operating offices worldwide, over 7,000 PopStation lockers, 269 Self-service Automated Machines (SAMs), and 56 Post Offices.

Early history
Postal Services were available in Singapore since the island was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. Initially, mail services were handled by the military authorities and then by the Master Attendant in 1823. The volume of mail was very small in those days and letters were collected and delivered from a single mail office. The Post Office, as it was then known, shared a room with the Master Attendant's Marine Office and the clerk to the Registrar of Import and Export. The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon.

To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River. Although it was more spacious, there were frequent complaints regarding its location. The Commercial Square (business sector) was on the opposite side of the river, so going to the Post office was inconvenient as one had to cross the river by boat. After 1856, a footbridge was constructed across the river and a toll of $1/4$ cent was levied.

As trade flourished in Singapore and both postal and marine traffic grew heavier, the Post Office was separated from the Marine Office and it became a separate department in October 1858. During the period 1819 and 1858, letters for posting had to be handed in at the Post Office. No postage stamps were used but a register was kept of all letters received at the Post Office and of the names of sailing ships on which they were conveyed.

Stamped receipts were also given for all letters sent to the Post Office for dispatch. For the convenience of the residents, a register was kept of their individual postage accounts on the understanding that all postage due would be regularly settled every month. The first postage stamps were introduced for payment of postage only in 1854. In the early days, the flagstaff at Government Hill (now Fort Canning) was eagerly watched as flying of a flag at daylight, or the firing of a gun at night, signified the arrival of a ship with mail. This infused new life into the quiet community.

On receipt of letters from incoming ships, the Post Office sorters would proceed to register alphabetically all the letters before sending them out through the postmen for delivery. Postal delivery services by means of bullock cart, horse carriage or on foot, were first restricted to the town area. Posting boxes were later installed in the town area for the posting of mail which were then collected by horse-drawn mail coaches.

In 1873, a new General Post office was built on the site of the former Fort Fullerton, a location which was much nearer to the commercial centre of the town. However, the British Government failed to foresee the needs of the future, with the result that the building had to be replaced by another on practically the same site. The new General Post Office was completed in 1885, three years after approval was obtained.

The General Post Office was closed on 23 April 1921. All the equipment were moved to a building on the recently reclaimed land at Collyer Quay, and staff worked at this temporary post office during the construction of Fullerton Building. The post office was transferred back to Fullerton Building on 23 July 1928 and has remained there since.

The latter part of the 19th century marked the modern phase of the development in the history of the Singapore postal service. Services were extended to include a parcel post service, money order and postal order services and a post office savings bank. 1897 saw the establishment of the first sub-post offices, and by 1938, some 20 sub-post offices were already providing decentralised postal facilities on the island. The horse-drawn mail coaches were withdrawn and replaced by motor vans in 1914 as the mail traffic handled steadily increased.

Modern history
In 1979, it was reported that the Postal Services Department would be merged with Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS). In 1980, Communications Minister, Ong Teng Cheong announced that a consideration was done to merge the Department and TAS. The merger was scheduled to be done by April 1982 but was postponed to be completed in July 1982. The department and TAS was finally merged on 1 October 1982.

In 1992, Telecoms was split into three entities, the reconstituted TAS (later becoming Infocomm Media Development Authority), Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Singapore Post Private Limited, an associated company of Singapore Telecommunications.

In 1993, Singapore Post introduced Q-TV, a video-based "advertising medium" which shows post office information and commercials, targeting customers waiting for the next available counter.

Singapore Post Limited was then incorporated on 28 March and then listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST) on 13 May 2003. It was then granted the first Public Postal License by TAS. As a licensee, Singapore Post is allowed to operate postal services - receiving, collecting and delivering letters and postcards from one place to another until 31 March 2037.

SingPost was fined S$100,000 in 2017 and S$300,000 in 2018 for failing to meet mail delivery standards by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).

Mobile post office
The Mobile Post Office was introduced in November 1952 and was operated by Postal Services Department. It provided on-the-spot postal services to residents living in rural areas where there were no post offices. The vans followed fixed routes and time schedules which were announced in the newspapers and each visit only lasted about one to two hours. As more postal facilities were set up across the island, the mobile post offices were used as temporary post offices while a permanent post office is being built. The mobile post office were withdrawn from service in 1980.

Growth
SingPost has made several acquisitions to strengthen and grow its business. In 2009, it acquired the remaining 50% stake in G3 Worldwide Aspac (G3AP), thereby giving the company presence in 10 countries (including Singapore). It also raised its stake in Malaysian Logistics company GDEX to 27% in 2011.

In 2009, SingPost bought Quantium Solutions, a joint venture between SingPost, Dutch TNT and Britain's Royal Mail. In 2014, its whole-owned subsidiary Quantium Solutions (Australia) acquired 100% of Couriers Please Holdings, an Australia-based last mile delivery company, from New Zealand Post Group.

Alibaba bought a 10.35% stake in SingPost for S$312.5 million in May 2014. Both parties also signed an agreement to pursue a joint venture in the business of e-commerce logistics. In 2018, SingPost chose to integrate AI-assisted route planning software from LogiNext into its logistics platform, dubbed LaMP.

In October 2015, SingPost acquired a 96.3 per cent stake in TradeGlobal for US$168.6 million (S$210 million), thereby expanding its e-commerce footprint in the United States. SingPost also trialed a drone delivery system, using a commercial drone modified by a joint team from SingPost and Infocomm Development Authority Labs.

In December 2020, SingPost acquired a 28% stake in Freight Management Holdings (FMH), a leading 4th party logistics (4PL) service company in Australia. Its stake was increased to 51% in November 2021 and in January 2023 it acquired an additional 37% interest, bringing its total stake in FMH to 88%.

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Peucedanum ostruthium

Peucedanum ostruthium or Imperatoria ostruthium, masterwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native to the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, but has been widely introduced outside its native range.

Distribution
Masterwort is native to the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, including the Carpathians, Alps, northern Apennines, Massif Central and isolated occurrences in the Iberian Peninsula. It has, however, been widely introduced and cultivated and its native range is therefore not entirely clear.

Use
Masterwort is used as a flavouring for various liqueurs and bitters. Its roots and leaves have been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally (as tea, liqueurs and wine) and externally (as fumigation, tincture or incense) for treatment of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, skin, respiratory tract, cardiovascular system, infections, fever, flu and colds.

Chemical constituents
The plant is a source of coumarins, including oxypeucedanin, ostruthol, imperatorin, osthole, isoimperatorin and ostruthin.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wing Cheung

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Wing Cheung
Non-notable (probably created by the same person who did Mark Chen, which is also on VFD. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:53, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as attack page or nonsensical vandalism. jni 07:55, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No, the person who wrote the article also wrote the "US ILLEGALLY! INS, PLEASE ARREST THIS BASTARD!!!" bit. But it does not matter when the article gets whacked, as long as it is whacked, I am not worried. Also, thanks for restoring the vfd tag. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:57, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV nonsense/prank. JamesBurns 09:34, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non notable vanity. --PrologFan {Talk} 18:50, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Nestor Makhno

Châtelain film
Hélène Châtelain's 1996 documentary Nestor Makhno, un paysan d'Ukraine might have some answers to the Makhno FAC image copyright discussion. Here's a quote from an interview:

If it's possible to find some detail on this published film, I imagine many of the Makhno images will clearly be proven as public domain. The source of this St. Petersburg film wasn't clear from the film's credits sequence. czar 19:07, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

 * This article by Châtelain is freely available but doesn't appear to mention the footage. Might want to double check. (It would, however, serve as a good source on cultural depictions of Makhno over the years, apart from her own.)  czar  19:20, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Czar: Having seen the documentary, I actually already know which photo this is talking about. This is the still from the film. I imagine that means that this photograph may also be from the film (or taken at the same time), judging from all the people in the shot, how they're dressed and positioned. --Grnrchst (talk) 19:22, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Any ideas on who the St. Petersburg director might be? czar  19:54, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * "Director from Saint Petersburg" isn't much to go off tbh. We're still trying to find a needle in a haystack, that haystack is just slightly smaller now. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:03, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Noting for posterity that it looks like File:1919. Повстанцы и батька Махно. Юг Украины. Кинохроника гражданской войны..ogv is a portion of the Romanian reel in question. czar  15:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I've found a high-quality version, unlisted on the YouTube account of Seance Magazine. The clip bears the watermark of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, and the high-quality scan was posted in 2017, so it's probably still in there somewhere. I've tried to trace it back through their online resources (which unfortunately do not provide complete transfers for everything), but my knowledge of Russian is perhaps not good enough for this task. 144.82.8.11 (talk) 19:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Brief update: located it. Archival material No. 30501, 'Selected Scenes from a Soviet Newsreel' (Отдельные сюжеты советской кинохроники). The archive listing says it's from a film institute in Hungary, with intertitles in Hungarian. Makhno appears at the end of the listing: "Southern Ukraine, spring 1919. Leader of the insurgent movement in southern Russia Nestor Makhno, one of the leading commanders of Makhno's army Semyon Karetnik, and other leaders of the insurgent movement standing by a train carriage, walking on the railway tracks." There's no other information on the archive's website on who took the footage or where it came from. 144.82.8.11 (talk) 20:28, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Nicely done. Thank you! czar  00:35, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for looking into this! --Grnrchst (talk) 12:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Public domain: 1928
Just checking in as yesterday was public domain for works published in 1928. I would like to reinstate the image of Nestor Makhno and his daughter in Paris, which was published in Ogoniok on 27 May 1928. Is this now safe to add back into the article? I wanted to make sure through a mini-image review before going ahead. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:07, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Has anyone seen the image in context in Ogoniok to see if it credits another photographer or publication for the photo, which could be evidence of earlier publication? If none is listed then the Russian PD tag (for works with unknown authors) and the US PD tag (for works published before 1929) together cover what Commons needs. I think we can remove France and Ukraine's copyright rationale as the image in Ogoniok wasn't first published there. czar  09:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Czar: Wikicommons actually has an archive of Ogoniok, with the specific issue in question. Reading over it, I can't find any information about the photographer, although it does say that the photograph was sent by Makhno to his relatives in Huliaipole - I'm assuming the newspaper then published this. Nothing indicates to me that there was an earlier publication. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:18, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Nice! Sounds safe to add back to the article to me czar  10:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Cheers pal. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 10:42, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

'anarcha-feminist Lucile Pelletier'
I'm sure she was both an anarchist and a feminist, but also that she wasn't quite so illiterate as to describe her convictions by means of this morphological monstrosity, which I'm sure is of much more decent coinage - from the time when the creation of neoclassical compounds by people who don't understand or don't care how they work, and/or the use of distorting all rules of the language in childish wordplay for dead-serious purposes had become normal. The idea that the -o- in anarcho- is somehow masculine and must be made feminine by replacement with -a- is surreally silly. I suppose the same people would make gynaecologists into gynaecalogists and mammography into mammagraphy, perhaps also democracy into demacracy (or, say, demecracy to include both genders?). Further, a female adherent of socialism must presumably be a sacialist, and a decidedly male one is necessarily a sociolist? I suppose the idea is that a true anarchist rejects all rules, including the rules of grammar (and presumably also those of logic, mathematics, the laws of physics etc.) Anyway, given that the term 'anarcho-feminist' is still 'allowed' by the relevant Wiki article, arguably it's the one that should be used for people from the time before the current level of intellectual and linguistic degeneration had been reached. 62.73.69.121 (talk) 23:12, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The more important question, I think, is whether scholarly secondary sources characterize her this way. That sentence is supported by Skirda (1982, 2004), and it's possible that qualified scholars could retroactively apply this neologism to a figure from the 1920s. If, on the other hand, it's not used by expert sources, we as WP editors shouldn't either, even if we think it would fit. We just need to figure out which is happening here. I see her described more often as a "libertarian feminist." Still, I don't have access to the Skirda source.--MattMauler (talk) 13:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @MattMauler: Skirda also describes her as a "libertarian feminist", so I've changed it to that. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:30, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I also think "anarcho-feminist" would be perfectly reasonable.--MattMauler (talk) 13:05, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of past VfDs

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 07:49, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

List of past VfDs
Apparently there have only been four articles on VFD... Someone was confused; we have Archived delete debates and this is redundant/irrelevant/unused/useless. No point, so delete. --Dmcdevit·t 07:53, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Completely redundant. The standard way of archiving is superior. jni 08:03, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above, then consider the paradox of listing this page on List of past VFDs. Radiant_ >|< 09:34, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant page. JamesBurns 09:35, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not needed, redundant. Kaibabsquirrel 00:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 15:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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KYC

KYC may refer to:
 * Know your customer, guidelines in financial services
 * Kyaka language of Papua New Guinea (ISO code: kyc)

Yacht clubs

 * Kaiserlicher Yacht Club, Kiel, Germany
 * Kamini Yacht Club, Hydra, Greece
 * Kenosha Yacht Club, Wisconsin, United States
 * Kieler Yacht-Club, Kiel, Germany
 * Kingston Yacht Club, Ontario, Canada
 * Knysna Yacht Club, Western Cape, South Africa

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WikiProject Austria Hungary

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Austria Hungary
I propose deletion, since project inactive since creation in April 2004, with information moved to WikiProject Historical states/Austria Hungary, admittedly an also inactive project but a better place to archive what material is here Hiding talk 07:55, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this project never had any participants or contributions. Radiant_ >|< 09:35, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, skeleton. Pavel Vozenilek 00:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Radiant. Xoloz 05:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Economy of Chad

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The article is not imported I just checked it is written quite differently, this is the CIA Economic Overview "Chad's primarily agricultural economy will continue to be boosted by major oilfield and pipeline projects that began in 2000. Over 80% of Chad's population relies on subsistence farming and livestock raising for its livelihood. Cotton, cattle, and gum Arabic provide the bulk of Chad's export earnings; Chad began to export oil in 2004. Chad's economy has long been handicapped by its landlocked position, high energy costs, and a history of instability. Chad relies on foreign assistance and foreign capital for most public and private sector investment projects. A consortium led by two US companies has been investing $3.7 billion to develop oil reserves estimated at 1 billion barrels in southern Chad. Oil production came on stream in late 2003."

Though I would advise it be improved as I am trying to expand/improve African articles.

Resources?
Other than subsistence farming and a bit in the article (and main article) about oil development, does Chad have any economically significant resources? Mineral, agricultural, cultural, tourism, anything? The article seems to indicate no, but I find that difficult to believe. 04:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Templates
Should "Template:Economy of Chad" be merged with "Template:Chad topics". Biscuittin (talk) 11:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

ITC external link on trade data
Hello everyone, I am working for the International Trade Centre (ITC). I would like to propose the addition of an external link that could lead directly to the specific country’s trade data held by ITC. I would like you to consider this link under the WP:ELYES #3 prescriptions. Moreover, the reliability and the pertinence of this link can be supported by the following facts 1) ITC is part of the United Nations 2) No registration is required 3) Trade data (imports/exports) are regularly updated 4) The link gives direct access to the trade database of the specific country 5) The addition of reliable trade data to the Economy section of the country could provide an appropriate contribution to the information therein contained. Thank you for your attention.Divoc (talk) 19:15, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Chad 0.01mi² — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.95.6.46 (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:Real World

The invention of the steam engine by the great engineers of the eighteenth century heralded the coming of the industrial age and with it child labour and pollution, it is the age of production even when there are no consumers. It is the age of the false choice and fake freedom; where men and women receive pay unproportional to their work, because their effort is stolen from them.

In this time the poets dreamed of better days and brighter skies. They saw the joyful child and wondered why the he was not sad. The poet sees innocence in the child and he sees his salvation. “What is joy? What is laughter? When the world is ever burning” cried the Awakened; the romantics did not know the answer but they believed it was good.

They concluded that at birth the child has already achieved perfection; the rest of his life is a great fall into darkness. When he is old and too weak to work he begins to live again. He sees that he has fallen into a pit and tries to claw his way out, but after being told for his life that he is meaningless he cannot reach the top. And so he falls once more into the pit and into death.

The life of a romantic poet is a search for a flower in the desert, which he finds just when he is running out of water. He knows he will thirst before he can get back to the world and as a poet he gives his last water to the flower, so beauty may remain in the world – even if he – even if no one can experience it no more.

The poem Auguries of Innocence by William Blake Below is a cry of despair from a determined man. He struggles to portray the beauty that can be seen in the world if one is able to let their mind go free from the rigid constructs of a soulless society. In a crescendous conclusion he declares that the story of a life is decided on whether a child is born in ‘night’ or ‘light’; and yet, he seems to feel that only those born in night can truly see the ‘Beams of Light’ emanating from God’s creations. Below is an excerpt:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

What perfection cried the clockmaker to the night! Upon this he leapt for his hammer, for what would he have to live for if his work was complete? “It is done” he cried amidst the absence of the light, his safety was found in the rubble of destruction.

Blake lived during the height of the industrial revolution, when society seemed to have lost all connection to the lofty goals of achieving happiness. He looked and saw innocence in the eyes of the child who is yet to be caught by the Great Hunter; an innocence he could not find in the eyes of the captured.

Lord Byron, another romantic, also lived in this age. He was affected in a similar manner to Blake and on several occasions publicly defended the Luddites; a group who were opposed to the continued advancement of technology. Byron was a widely recognized opponent to the industrial age and an advocate of returning to a life of innocence and purity. This attitude can be seen in the following excerpt from the poem entitled “She Walks in Beauty”:

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

The poem tells of a young woman, who seems to be uncorrupted by the misery that would have surrounded her life. Byron clearly sees this as a very desirable state of being, as shown by lines such as “A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!”

References

Lord Byron, (April 1815), The Hebrew Melodies

William Blake, (1789), Songs of Innocence

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Principal Officials Accountability System

Principal Officials Accountability System, commonly referred to as the Ministerial system, sometimes the Accountability System, was introduced in Hong Kong by chief executive Tung Chee Hwa in July 2002. It is a system whereby all principal officials, including the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Secretary for Justice and head of government bureaux would no longer be politically neutral career civil servants. Instead, they would all be political appointees chosen by the chief executive.

Under the new system, all heads of bureaux would become ministers, members of the Executive Council, a refashioned cabinet. They would report directly to the chief executive instead of the Chief Secretary or the Financial Secretary.

POAS was portrayed as the key to solving previous administrative problems, notably the lack of co-operation of high-ranking civil servants with the chief executive. The changes were introduced by Tung at the beginning of his second term, with the hope of resolving difficulties he faced in governance.

It was expanded and superseded by the Political Appointment System in 2008.

Background
After the transfer of sovereignty, Hong Kong inherited the colonial system that all positions in the government were filled by civil servants. The historical bureaucracy was necessitated by the nature of colonial rule. Government policies and legislations were all dominated by the bureaucracy, led by the Governor, with the executive and legislative councils, all of whose members were appointed by the Governor. A web of advisory boards and committees, served to support and supplement policies, thereby giving the system some sense of elite participation and endorsement.

The Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law had assumed the continuity of a bureaucracy-led government to preserve continuity of the government machine. Under this system, only the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary and Secretary for Justice were ex-officio members of the Executive Council (EXCO); Unofficial members were majority in the council. Thus principal officials during the last British administration stayed in their original portfolios. In effect, the first non-colonial administration was a coalition government with top bureaucrats headed by then Chief Secretary for Administration, Anson Chan.

The change rationale
Since the reversion to China, there has been an erosion of the running principles of the Executive Council (Exco) – some Exco members have violated the "collective responsibility" principles, namely being unsupportive to the decisions made by Exco. See this as the cause of many of his policy failures such as the "85,000 Housing Reform", Tung introduced POAS in 2002 to remedy the weaknesses as he perceived of the Hong Kong government.

The "short pile" scandal shows that the government and the chief executive fail to hold top civil servants, namely permanent secretary, accountable. Being the top of bureaucracy, permanent secretary no longer maintain political neutrality as they are bridging public and lower civil servants’ suggestions and giving advice to directors and executives; practically they are holding power for policy-making. Political neutrality is seen as an unwritten convention to promote impartiality within government and it is “the fundamental value for good governance ” as bureaucrats are not elected, they are not meant to represent popular interest and do not capture the mandate to exert any kind of power. Yet, power is exercised and no mechanisms of accountability can hold them fully accountable as, firstly, the Legislative Council can hold answerability by inviting them into enquiry sessions,passing a motion for non-confidence does not entails dismissal nor disciplinary action as it is not stated in the Basic Law or any statute; secondly, they are not members of the Executive Council and not administratively accountable to the chief executive.

On 10 October 2001 Tung outlined an accountability system under which principal officials would serve no longer than the chief executive who appointed the official. Sixteen government bureaux would be consolidated into 11, and bureau heads not appointed as ministers would be retitled 'Permanent Secretaries. The principal officials would be the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Secretary for Justice and Directors of the 11 Bureaux, who could be selected from within or outside the civil service. Under this system, the chief executive is able to appoint the Secretaries of department and the Directors of Bureau directly and they are withdrawn from the civil service and would be employed on contract. They would be appointed by the Central Government on the recommendation of the chief executive. To allay fears of the threat to civil service neutrality, the Secretary for Civil Service would be a civil servant.

After the introduction of the POAS, the chief executive would appoint all principal officials to Exco under the new accountability system, and Exco would become a small enough to be an effective decision-making body, a de facto 'cabinet', bearing collective responsibility for all policy decisions. Only a few full-time non-officials retained as "ministers-without-portfolio", thus aiming to achieve policy coherence and co-ordination within government.

The system is aimed at raising the accountability of the civil service, so the political appointees are responsible for all their job aspects and will step down if they make any failure. "Certainly, the officials should be responsible for the success and failure for the policies for which they are responsible," Tung said

Implementation
Tung presented a framework for the system to Legco in April 2002. It was announced that the appointees would report directly to the chief executive. They would leave the civil service, and be employed on contract. The civil service would remain permanent, meritocratic and politically neutral. The highest-ranking civil servants would be re-titled "Permanent Secretaries", would work to their respective principal officials under the accountability system, and would not have to shoulder the public responsibility for the performance of the bureaux. Cash remuneration package for principal officials under the accountability system would be in the region of $3.74 million, $3.87 million, $4.01 million and $4.15 million per annum for Directors of Bureau, SJ, FS and CS respectively.

On 24 June 2002, Tung announced the composition of his new cabinet, to be in place for the start of his second five-year term on 1 July. Tung heralded this as the "dawning of a new era for the governance of Hong Kong... and more accountable to the people of Hong Kong." He added: "Ours will be an open, enlightened and progressive government."

Concerns
The proposals raised concerns that Tung was moving the system towards one man rule. Dr Anthony Cheung, professor in public administration at the City University, suggested that it may be a silent political revolution in disguise. Professor DeGolyer of Baptist University echoed concerns that the proposals would severely weaken Hong Kong's system of checks and balances. He feared that as bureau heads would no longer report through the Chief Secretary and Financial Secretary, senior civil servants' career protections would be more vulnerable to the chief executive's pressure. The chief executive is required, by Article 56 of the Basic Law, to state for the record his reasons for rejecting a majority opinion of Exco members. The changes sought to Exco, previously dominated by civil servants, would remove one further constraint to the power of the chief executive. Furthermore, as Political secretaries would also have a say over who will become their permanent secretaries, a toadying culture among civil servants towards their political masters would be created.

Lack of public consultation
There were criticisms from political observers of a lack of public consultation, then the legislation was rushed through.

Political alliances
In preparation for the introduction of POAS, the Tung allied himself with the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and the Liberal Party, resulting in a clear division of the political spectrum – the pro-government camp, and the anti-government camp led by the Democratic Party (DP).

As a result of the appointment of the heads of the Liberal Party and DAB to the Executive Council to form a "ruling alliance, the pro-democracy parties and individuals were marginalised.

Public perception
The protection Tung offered to his beleaguered officials was one of the factors that led to the 1 July protest in which hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people participated. Only after the protest did Tung reluctantly accepted the resignation of Regina Ip and Anthony Leung.

In 2004, academic think-tank headed by Anthony Cheung published a survey on POAS. Overall, many respondents felt "regression in the governance of the Tung administration, with no significant improvements being made in the past 12 months," Cheung said. Alex Chan, social science lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said the survey results showed the accountability system remained a mystery to the public, particularly among the middle class and professionals. In the wake of the forced resignations of Yeoh, Ip and Leung due to public pressure, Tung said that the POAS history was very short, but vowed to strengthen the system.

In 2008, political commentator Frank Ching remarked: "six years after the system was introduced, we have yet to see a minister voluntarily resign to take political responsibility for anything."

Management of SARS, 2002/3
Firstly, the former CE ordered the former Secretary of Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong to "investigate himself" after SARS, as a way to hold the secretary accountable, yet, absurdly, the government's later report declared that no officials should step down for the outbreak of SARS. He resigned solely because of public pressure.

Penny stock delisting proposals, 2002
Secondly, in July 2002, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. made a proposal to cancel listings of companies trading below HK$0.50 for 30 straight days. On the day of its announcement, panic selling caused a loss of HK$10 billion in the local stock market. Seventeen companies' shares lost more than 30 per cent of their value, and about HK$6 billion in market capitalisation was wiped off 105 listed companies. While a government enquiry absolved the ministers, and put the blame on HKEx chief executive, legislators criticised the government for avoiding responsibility, and cast doubt on the effectiveness of the accountability system. Lee Cheuk-yan said: "[l]imited by the authority and terms of reference, the report did not make a detailed study of the accountability for the incident."

The Standard revealed that some government officials argued there was no need to apologise because the report did not single Ma out for criticism. Government legal experts had cautioned that such an apology would set a bad precedent and could spark litigation. Ma did apologise, under clamour of public pressure.

"Lexusgate"
Then Financial Secretary Anthony Leung came under severe criticism in March 2003 when it was revealed that he bought a HK$790,000 (US$101,282) Lexus LS 430 vehicle, just weeks before he raised the tax on new vehicles in his budget.

Leung denied that he was trying to avoid the new tax, which would have cost him an additional HK$50,000. Leung claimed that he had decided on the tax increase after buying the car. News of the car purchase sparked fury at Leung's conflict of interest, and concerns over his integrity for failing to declare his purchase to Exco. When it was revealed that James Tien, Stephen Lam and Yeoh Eng-kiong had also declared their purchases at the relevant meeting while Leung had not, Legislators were suspicious of a cover-up.

Tung Chee Hwa defended Leung's integrity, saying that although Leung had breached the Code of Conduct under the accountability system, but believed Leung did not intend to cover up. Tung did blame Leung for failing to tell him when or after he bought the new car, but added that "[w]hether or not he made a declaration at the Exco meeting was relatively unimportant." Leung tendered his resignation, which Tung refused to accept.

Harbour Fest, 2003
The Hong Kong Harbour Fest, held from 17 October to 11 November 2003, was part of a HK$1 billion program to revive the economy after SARS. The event was a Government underwritten, and organised by InvestHK, under the auspices of the Economic Relaunch Working Group, in collaboration with the American Chamber of Commerce. The event and its organisation, which resulted in massive cost overruns and $100 million in government underwriting, was heavily criticised in the media.

According to Christine Loh, the changes to civil servants' responsibilities and accountability a result of political appointments did not stop Mike Rowse, a senior civil servant from being made a scapegoat of political failure in the case. Frank Ching pointed to the huge credibility gap of the government. He decried the attempt by Henry Tang to shift political responsibility from himself, as the relevant minister, to a senior civil servant, as a travesty of justice, and said it went against the Accountability System.

Further development of political appointments
On 26 July 2006 the government released the Consultation Document on the Further Development of the Political Appointment System. Two new posts, deputy directors of Bureaus (DAB) and Assistants to Directors (AD) would be added to the political appointment layer. Each Director of Bureau would be assisted by the two new appointees and constitute the political team while the civil servants carry out the administrative and executive tasks of the Government. Like for the heads of Bureaux, these 2 new posts can also be drawn from within or outside the civil service, and appointees may be with or without political background.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blank page vandalism

 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 delete. Eugene van der Pijll 18:12, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Blank page vandalism
I'd vote delete as this seems to be a neologism. At the very least, there doesn't seem to be articles on different types of vandalism, so it could be a merge candidate. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:57, July 19, 2005 (UTC) Comment: I thought you weren't to create redirects across namespaces so perhaps merge with vandalism instead of WP:VAND? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 15:12, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree, it should be merge, but not sure where. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to ... namespace. —  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  08:58, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to WP:VAND. Radiant_ >|< 09:34, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Reduce to a single sentence and merge with the list in WP:VAND, the rest is redundant with other information in the Wikipedia namespace. Funnily enough, the creating user has been blocked for vandalism in the past, so it might have been written by a real expert... --IByte 11:17, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It could be moved to the Wikipedia namespace, merged with WP:VAND, and the article space redirect deleted. That would preserve the article history, get the self-referential stuff out of the article space, and avoid a cross-namespace redirect.  Of course, this doesn't actually seem to be worth all the effort—so I'm going to say just DELETE this.  TenOfAllTrades(talk) 19:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not worth the effort of merging. --Carnildo 22:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, self-referential. Gazpacho 01:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing to merge. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:06, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing to merge. JamesBurns 07:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, if the person feels WP:VAND doesn't adequately explain this, he/she can discuss it there. Dcarrano
 * Delete (as above) - The Time Killer

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Talk:I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Bass
Does anyone know if the bass is a Double bass or a Bass guitar? -Acjelen 00:05, 1 September 2005 (UTC) I believe there is both on the album... NZHC 07:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Into
I wish I could write well about music (you should see how I dance about architecture, though) because this article has an sad lack of information in the introductory paragraph. -Acjelen 21:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

And by information, I mean information on the album of an introductory or comprehensive manner. -Acjelen 21:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)
Some one added a comment to the New York section of the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest article about the single Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)which appears on this album cliaming it contains the lyrics; "We walked the forty blocks to the middle/Of the place we heard that everything would be/And there were barricades to keep us off the street/But the crowd kept pushing forward/'til they swallowed the police/Yeah, they went wild/Yeah, they went wild..." and that they are about the demonstration in NY. This sounds pluasable, however the poster provided no ref's. Can any one here confirm that these are the lyrics and that they relate to the event in question. Thankyou. --JK the unwise 15:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * When I saw Bright Eyes live that song was introduced as being about that protest if that counts for anything. --Cherry blossom tree 23:08, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I've heard this several times from different places, so I'm assuming it's correct...I don't know if this article counts as citation or whatever...someone helllp. (Hilarious, they called him Colin Oberst) NZHC 07:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Double Release Explanation
This (and possibly the Digital Ash in a Digital Urn article) needs a paragraph about why there are two albums, and the concept behind it. --Evisruc 11:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Chronology with Digital Ash...
I am going to put the album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn as releasing at the same time as this album in the chronology, instead of after it. They came out the same day so I don't think you can put one before the other. --Andland 20:25, Feb 8, 2006

AMG
Should we mention Stephen Thomas Erlewine's unbelievibly negative review, or is that violating the NPOV?

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Review Suggestion
As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this review. However, I would like to recommend it on its merits, and hope that an editor will find the time to examine the review and—if he or she sees fit—post it to the professional reviews section. I appreciate your time. Crawdaddy! (favorable) 2008 Asst. Editor, Crawdaddy! FenderRhodesScholar | Talk 18:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Misrepresented Village Voice Citation
I have removed a quotation from the Critical Response section, stemming from a Village Voice review. The quote used in the article, taken from the citation is very clearly referring to the album Digital Ash In a Digital Urn, but was presented as being about I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. 71.164.220.52 (talk) 21:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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User talk:Bud001

User Page
Hey there. Love your BU edits. I am in the progress of making my user page and i am having problems with the placement/alignment/design of that page. I am pretty useless with compouter codes, so i hope you can help. thanks. --Bud 20:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! I feel like we've only scratched the surface of what the BU articles could be, but it's certainly off to a good start. As for your user page, it looks pretty good to me!  -Pjorg 22:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject LGBT studies
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Comment requested
Greetings, I wanted to invite you to leave a comment at Talk:Nova Southeastern University. Another user and I disagree on the use of a POV tag, and I think a third opinion could help us with this. Thanks for taking the time! Best, -Anthony Krupp 14:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Automobiles Notification
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To add yourself to the category just add the userbox to your user page by putting   where you want the userbox. Alternatively if you don't like the userbox you can add   to your userpage.

If you no longer wish to be a member of the project, simply don't add the userbox or category, there's no pressure. Thanks for your time, James086Talk 04:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Motto of the day
Hello, I notice you're using one of the motd templates, run by Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

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Looking for Wikipedia Ambassadors
Hi! I'm leaving you this message because you are listed as a Wikipedian associated with Boston University. The Wikipedia Ambassador Program is currently looking for Campus Ambassadors to help with Wikipedia assignments at schools in Boston and Cambridge, which will be participating in the Public Policy Initiative for the Spring 2011 semester. The role of Campus Ambassadors will be to provide face-to-face training and support for students on Wikipedia-related skills (how to edit articles, how to add references, etc.). This includes doing in-class presentations, running workshops and labs, possibly holding office hours, and in general providing in-person mentorship for students.

Prior Wikipedia skills are not required for the role, as training will be provided for all Campus Ambassadors (although, of course, being an experienced editor is a plus).

If you live near Boston and you are interested in being a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador, or know someone else from the area who might be, please email me or leave a message on my talk page.

If you're an experienced and active Wikipedian, you might be interested alternatively in becoming an Online Ambassador. The role of Online Ambassadors is to serve as mentors for students; it doesn't require any in-person outreach. Take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Bud! Thanks for your interest in the Wikipedia Ambassador Program.  For Online Ambassadors, we're looking for people with a consistent high activity level on Wikipedia, since being a mentor is a sustained role over several months.  But if you're interested in maybe being a Campus Ambassador for a university in your area later on, you can sign up as an interested ambassador on this page: Campus Ambassadors.  Cheers--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

MOTDs (This space for rent)
You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! –p joe f (talk • contribs) 18:53, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014
Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

 * This message has been sent by p joe f on behalf of Motto of the Day to all editors of the English Wikipedia who are showing MOTD's templates on their pages, and to all the participants to MOTD: (page, template, and category).

Thanks from MOTD and Happy 2014!
Thank you for your help and support at Motto of the Day in 2014. Our best wishes for the New Year. We hope to see you around in 2015. –p joe f (talk • contribs) 11:26, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:05, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:32, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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