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Response: Indeed, I should not have changed taken out the tags (thanks for the revert). On the Department of the Treasury's page (see the google cache of the page because treas.gov is currently down), the letter includes a space inbetween the paragraphs. I have added more tags in order to keep this. Is this a proper correction? If no, you may revert my edit. --Fotinakis 22:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. -- MrBland 22:56, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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What notes can you use when you are playing Scarecrow's Song in Zelda? - Zyqwux

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Blockage
Hey, Lucky 6.9, unblock me, and I'll do almost anything. I would like to think that we should be forgiven for the things we do. If you too would wish to see a world like this, unblock me and not only will i not repost the articles, I will make it worth your while. And, as you can see, I have helpes to expand Wikipedia, and I would make a great addition for the video game categories.

"Pages I have made"
How the heck do you claim to have "made" Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker??? The page was added to the system in March '03, years before you were even active.

Administrator votes
I'm not really sure what you mean with "administrator", but since you asked on your user page, I'll vote against you becoming an administrator. You seem to be making quite a few typos and therefore unnecesary amount of edits of pages (if you notice said typos). This leads me to believe you may not be precise enough, not enough of a perfectionist, to have an administrative function here. I also notice you have made a number of small pages on relatively minor items in the Zelda series. Wikipedia is intented to be an encyclopedia, not a resource to help gamers acquire items on a specific game, there are other sites for that. Wikipedia readers probably aren't interested in a whole page about Link's left sock for instance. "Sticking up for the little people" or "deleting articles" in a heartbeat isn't what administrating is about. Finally I noticed you have been (at least what seems like) vandalizing pages repeatedly without explanation. In short, in my opinion you're not suited. I'm sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear, but you're welcome for the vote.

Content blocker
Something just occured to me. Do you make some of your edits from a school or library computer with a content filter? Maybe censorware like NetNanny? Because you need to stop using that computer. At least use the "Show changes" button to check what you're doing before you submit( also, it wouldn't kill you to preview your work). Because when you make edits to certain pages, that filter is removing words and phrases like "bomb" or "adult link" from the article too. Assuming( and this is admittedly a significant, though reasonable, assumption) that the vandalism which is angering other wikipedians is not intentional on your part, this should help stop that.

Still, as mentioned above, your tendency to create and link to unencyclopedic articles about every tiny detail of a game is frowned on by the Wikipedia community. This behavior is not appreciated, and it's clear from comments and reverts that a growing number of other editors regard you as a nuisance.

The best article you've created is probably Woodstock, Portland, Oregon. I can't speak for other wikipedians, but it seems to me that the best thing would be for you to stop creating pages for a while, and focus on improvement of existing articles. If you feel a component of a large article might deserve to be spun-off, make a note suggesting it on that article's talk page. Eventually, you'll get a feel for the sort of things which most people will agree deserve their own articles.

Perhaps I'm overstepping my bounds by somewhat contradicting Wikipedia's policy of encouraging editors to be bold. But the fact of the matter is, you've been blocked before, and taking a conservative approach for a while is probably in your best interest. I would much rather see your eagerness put to good use improving existing articles, than see you blocked or banned for irritating and unproductive behavior. But at the same time, your current pattern simply can not continue. In addition, you might benefit from checking out the links Poli left in the first comment on this page. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 10:37, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Advice
Thank you for the advice. I will definently use it. And by the way, you were right, i do have a blockage thing. Sorry. [unsigned comment by DiddyKong1234 on WikidSmaht's talk page 02:54, September 10, 2005 (UTC)]
 * You're quite welcome. :-) If you have are unsure of whether a contribution is suitable, you will find many editors, including myself and the admins, willing to help, so don't hesitate to ask questions. I also recommend you use the article talk pages, particularly if you are restoring an edit which someone else had reverted. Don't forget to type four tildes( ~ ) when you leave a comment, this will automatically sign your username or IP, and the time and date. That way we don't have to check the history to figure out who left a comment. In case you didn't know, the key with the tilde( ~) is to the left of the number 1 on most keyboards in the US, and you'll press shift to use it. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 03:58, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * DiddyKong, just recently you created a page called Song of Storms. I think that is a good example of a page that needn't really be on Wikipedia. It it is a mere 3, short paragraphs, which is in this case a clear indication about the importance of the subject, and by extension an indication on how useful a page could be. It's also only relevant to a couple of games (one could argue only 1), so it doesn't warrant an entire article. An article on Link makes more sense, since he features in numerous games, has a story about him (multiple ones even), and it's more general. All the different Zelda song pages are closer to walkthroughs. I'm obviously not an authority on Wikipedia, and this is just my opinion, but I think the majority of Wikipedians would agree. Retodon8 01:57, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I second that. Really, these articles are not the sort of thing to make you popular or respected, which is what will be necessary to accomplish your stated goal of becoming an admin. Please consider whether something is really significant and encyclopedic before creating an article. The information, however, is usually( not always) accurate and valid, so you should consider learning to write for Wikibooks, as I and others suggested on the AfD for one of your strategy-intensive articles. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

You did it again, your content blocker removed stuff from the Link (Legend of Zelda), article and probably others. Preview. Your. Edits. BEFORE. Saving. Use the "Show changes" button, too, so you can catch alterations you might have missed. Also, it's really not a good idea to overload an article with images. I'm not saying you should remove it, but makes sure each image you use really warrants inclusion in an article. Consider shrinking your images to be more in line with other screen shots on the page. And remember: all images are supposed to have an image copyright tag. You need to add those to all the images you've uploaded. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 18:12, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Administrator question
You left me a message a few days ago, asking how to become an administrator. I'm glad to see that you've opened up a user page, and you're editing under that name, rather than an anonymous IP address. That helps. I want to say, though, that (in my opinion), it will be an uphill climb to be an admin right now. Your history of vandalizing articles is pretty recent, and it will take many quality edits to overcome that. The note on your userpage indicates that you want to be an admin partly because you want to contribute to the videogame articles. You can do that without being an administrator. I also get the feeling that one of the reasons you want to be admin is so that you can try to resurrect some of the articles you've written that have been deleted. I don't think that's an appropriate use of admin powers.

My advice is to edit carefully for a while, watching out for your grammar and spelling so others don't have to clean up after you. Listen to some of the other advice that has been given on your talk page. Work on building a good reputation, rather than rushing toward adminship. Joyous (talk) 02:46, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

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Influencing Clapton, etc
This is something that has become garbled over time.

Albert King was one of those artists that influenced British Blues.

But THIS ALBUM was released five years after British Blues started, and long after British Blues had become arguably the major pop music format (aka "The Rolling Stones" etc).

The wiki page cites AMG where Stephen Erlewine states about "Born Under a Bad Sign":

"..allowing to him to unleash a torrent of blistering guitar runs that were profoundly influential, not just in blues, but in rock & roll (witness Eric Clapton's unabashed copping of King throughout Cream's Disraeli Gears)."

Again, this is confusing King influencing Clapton with "Born Under a Bad Sign" influencing Clapton and "Disraeli Gears" - which is obviously impossible because Disraeli Gears was recorded before the release of Born Under a Bad Sign.

Oops !

I haven't bothered to edit the wiki page, because it just points to the AMG page which would be a lot harder to correct.

1000 years would be too short to correct all the lazy errors in the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.122.69.141 (talk) 20:50, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

 * but many of the tracks of Born Under A Bad Sign were released before as a single,so before Disraeli Gears 62.98.138.76 (talk) 15:59, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Homer Simpson
As funny as it is I'm afraid I have to delete this. Homer Simpson isn't an artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trefalcon (talk • contribs) 19:13, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation

I searched for "born under a bad sign" and got here, but I meant this: Born Under a Bad Sign (Supernatural)

What about a Disambiguation page? --Janzomaster 15:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I've added a disambiguation link to the top of the article. Unless there are more pages to disambiguate, I think it is enough. Fbergo 15:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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Compilation album?
Why is this classified as a compilation album? I've never heard it referred to like that before. D1119 22:00, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the wait, I just saw this comment. I could have sworn one of the sources called it a compilation album, but I can't find it. So I'm just going to edit it to call it a normal studio album. This is also something you should be aware of. Famous Hobo (talk) 14:26, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It meets the normal definition of a compilation album: eight songs on the album (out of 11) were previously released as singles and recorded over 15 months; a studio album is usually recorded and released as "a single work". Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote is his AllMusic review "Initially, these sessions were just released as singles, but they were soon compiled as King's Stax debut, Born Under a Bad Sign. [emphasis added]" —Ojorojo (talk) 15:06, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

it is not a compilation album:it is the first Albert King LP, like many blues albums of the '50/'60 collects songs released before as singles,but it doesn't mean it is a compilation album — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.98.138.76 (talk) 14:16, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

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Mel Odom (author)

Mel Odom (born December 16, 1957, in California) is an American writer known primarily for science fiction and fantasy novels set in existing properties.

Education
Odom graduated from Byng High School in Byng, Oklahoma in May 1976, and later graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He teaches undergraduate courses at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication in the Professional Writing program at the University of Oklahoma.

Career
Odom sold his first book in January 1988 and wrote dozens more books over the next ten years. He wrote two novels for the F.R.E.E.Lancers campaign setting for TSR's Top Secret/S.I. role-playing game, F.R.E.E.Lancers and F.R.E.E.Fall. He followed these with his first Forgotten Realms novel in 1998, The Lost Library of Cormanthyr, and then his Threat from the Sea trilogy.

Odom has written dozens of novels in several fields – action-adventure, computer strategy guides, fantasy, game-related fiction, horror, juvenile, movie novelizations, science fiction, and young adult – as well as comics.

Odom wrote several novels in the Forgotten Realms series, including the trilogy The Threat from the Sea, and two short stories. He has gained renown with his The Rover and Left Behind Apocalypse series, and two novels for the NCIS franchise.

He has published original novels for popular TV shows, including Roswell and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. The most popular show for which he has written original novels is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also written novelizations of movies, including: Blade starring Wesley Snipes, and xXx starring Vin Diesel.

One of his best known fantasy novels is The Rover (2001), which in 2002 won the Alex Award, an American Library Association award given to novels written for adults that would also appeal to young readers (see the link below). Three sequels have appeared since then: Destruction of the Books (2004), Lord of the Libraries (2005), and The Quest for the Trilogy (2007). These stories are high fantasy in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings.

In 2003, he published Apocalypse Dawn, a military spin-off of the enormously popular Left Behind Series; Odom's book made the Christian bestseller list.

Odom also writes DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray reviews for Audio Video Revolution.

He is known to have written under several pen names, among others Jordan Gray. Additionally, under the pseudonym of Don Pendleton, Odom has written several Mack Bolan novels, an action-adventure series.

On February 7, 2015, it was announced that Odom would be writing the new companion novel to the upcoming Shadowrun: Hong Kong game. The novel was scheduled to be released in December 2015, coinciding with game. Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the third crowdfunded game set in the Shadowrun universe by game developer Harebrained Schemes.

Personal life
He lives in Moore, Oklahoma, with his wife and five children. By 1998, he had begun playing an AD&D Forgotten Realms campaign with the two oldest.

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Reference to general Février?
In the article there is a sentence under the section "First world war": Général Février put her in charge of the ambulances at Messimi Hospital. If the person mentioned is the French general Victor Février, he died in 1908 and couldn't possibly put her in charge of anything. Can somebody confirm who this General Février was? Viktorhauk (talk) 07:59, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

 * The reference is probably from this website, although that may not be the source article. General Février had something to do with the French military healthcare system. He is partially responsible for helping the American Field Services relocating to the building of the Lycee Pasteur, which had been appropriated by the French Military in the mobilisation for World War I. It became known as the American Ambulance Section of Paris. This is probably the section that she was in charge of. As a matter of interest, this quote (from Samuel N. Watson; Those Paris Years; 1936; Book II, Chapter 12): "The word ambulance in French has as its primary meaning a military hospital, a mobile unit of hospitalisation which follows the army; and from that came the secondary use of the word as meaning any military hospital, as also the vehicles used for the transport of the wounded." Ambulance in this sense probably means mobile as in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Where Messimi comes from, I have no idea. There are of course the Messimy hospitals, but they are located near Lyon, which does not fit with the story. The history of "The American Ambulance" is older. It was initially a volunteer service set up in the Franco-Prussian War. If you want to know what that looked like, have a look at this picture. JHvW 16:10, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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Uzi Even

Uzi Even (עוזי אבן, born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament).

Biography
Uzi Even was born in Haifa during the British Mandate era. He earned a BSc and MSc in physics at the Technion, and a PhD at Tel Aviv University. His specializations are spectroscopy of super cold molecules, molecular clusters and cluster impact chemistry, and the quantum properties of helium clusters. He then worked as a scientist at the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona. He was officially a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces during his work as a nuclear scientist, and eventually reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1968 he abandoned his job at the reactor and joined Lekem, an Israeli intelligence agency responsible for collecting scientific and technical information from abroad.

In May 1981, Even leaked the news of preparations to carry out "Operation Opera" to opposition leader Shimon Peres. Peres subsequently wrote a letter of protest to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and the operation was delayed for a month.

In 1993, Even participated in the first Knesset hearing on gays and lesbians, and revealed that the IDF had dismissed him and revoked his security clearance after it discovered he was gay. His testimony led to Yitzhak Rabin's government changing the law and regulations to allow homosexuals to serve in the army in any position, including one requiring a high security clearance. In 1996, after Even's employer, Tel Aviv University, refused his then-partner, Amit Kama, spousal rights equal to those it granted to the spouses of staff in heterosexual marriages, he sued the university with help from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Even won the case, setting a legal precedent.

In 2004, Even and Kama married in Canada. On 10 March 2009, the Family Court ruled that Even and Kama could legally adopt their 30-year-old foster son, Yossi Even-Kama, making them the first same-sex male couple in Israel whose right of adoption was legally acknowledged.

In December 2012 Even set yet another legal precedent by divorcing Kama. The divorce was granted by the Family Court, since the Rabbinical Court does not recognize same-sex marriages. This might lead the way for straight couples to bypass the religious establishment as well, which - in Israel - holds monopoly on marriage and divorce affairs.

Political career
A member of Meretz, he narrowly missed out on being elected to the fifteenth Knesset in 1999, but as the next placed candidate on the party's list, he became an MK when Amnon Rubinstein resigned in 2002, making him the first openly homosexual member of the Knesset. For the 2003 elections he was placed 15th on the party's list, and lost his seat when they won only six seats.

In 2006, Even announced he was leaving Meretz and joining the Labor Party, feeling comfortable doing so after he noticed that Labor promised equality to all citizens in its election manifesto.

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Bistro

A bistro or bistrot, in its original Parisian form, is a small restaurant serving moderately priced, simple meals in a modest setting. The term has also become used by more pretentious restaurants.

Style
In a 2007 survey of national cuisines, a bistro is characterised as typically:

A Paris newspaper in 1892 referred to dishes served at a bistro, including escargots, veal with sauce ravigote, navarin of lamb, hachis Parmentier, eggs, sausages and hot roast chicken.

The Oxford Companion to Food comments that the idea of simple inexpensive food served in a French atmosphere has wide appeal, so that by the end of the 20th century the term had "begun to be annexed by more pretentious premises".

Etymology
The etymology is unclear. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word from the 19th century term, bistro, "innkeeper", and suggests that it may be linked to the Poitevin word bistraud ("little servant"), or to bistrouille ("cheap liquor"). It recommends the spelling "bistrot" in preference to "bistro".

The word was used to describe a drinking establishment, estaminet or small popular local restaurant where alcoholic beverages were served. This is also what Emile Zola called an "assommoir" in his famous novel, L'Assommoir.

In the early part of the 19th century, the term "gargote" signified a basic style of restaurant, but the term "bistro" or "bistrot" is not recorded until towards the end of the century. An early appearance of the term in print is in Les deux gosses by Pierre Decourcelle, published in 1880.

A popular folk etymology, not attested by the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, claims that the word originated among Russian troops who occupied Paris in 1814 following the Napoleonic Wars, who used to visit these tiny places to drink a coffee. They might have shouted ''bistro! bistro!'' when they wished to be served quickly. This etymology has been dismissed by linguists, because there is no attestation to the occurrence of the term until the late 19th century.

Evolution
The bistro became familiar in France throughout the 19th century. At this period, the Auvergnats (French people originating from the Auvergne region), often called the "bougnats", transformed and developed the French bistro. Indeed, they started to offer meats with their choice of wines and spirits.

In the 20th century, these places became very popular and widely represented the diversity of the Parisian life. More than that, bistros became the hallmark of the French lifestyle and inspire a multitude of artists (photographs, writers, etc.).

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Health
People keep adding things about how bistro food is healthy. The current section is called "bistro eating". Has any one heard of this term? Does it really belong I enjoy bistro food very much, but I don't think the fare finds in one could be considered "healthy eating" under current dietetic guidlines; look at the quintessential dish, steak frites--red meat and deep fried starch.

I have added citation tags to the health claims, but perhaps they should be removed? If there is a legitimate food trend called "bistro eating" that is sourceable and verifiable, this section should either be expanded or given its on article.

 * This section was completely POV, there are many many many non-healthy bistro dishes. This POV concept has mostly come from its usage in commercial product sales and chain menus, not in terms of traditional bistro fare.  In addition, if the information is added back, it needs citation from a reliable source, otherwise I will remove it again.  Steak frites btw, is a brasserie dish more than it is a bistro dish.--Christopher Tanner, CCC 01:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

NPOV
I removed all the bits about the restaurant (not so creatively named "Bistro") and merged the bits concerning the origin of the word "Bistro". I removed the NPOV tag as I believe that those bits have been purged. Please amend this entry if you feel otherwise. RobLinwood 00:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I would like to offer that the Russian word, "bistro" and the French word, "bistro" have the same pronounciation. (The only difference being that Russians stress the last syllable as is common in Slavic idioms.) It would be truly remarkable if this word was not of Russian origin and I find the doubtful tone of its's etymology in this article weak. Does anyone doubt if the English word, "no" comes from the Latin/Norman word, "no?" It is the same word.

Could we amend this weak passage to reflect the more obvious conclusion of etymology? Thanks, Dynamisto —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.128.25 (talk) 09:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Cannot post this because it is first-hand knowledge from my education in France. Bistrot came from Cossack mercenaries in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Now find the reference... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.237.12 (talk) 11:30, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

 * That should not be added to the article, as it is entirely false. The Russian vowel ы is quite different from the French i.184.75.103.172 (talk) 19:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

 * Also important to point out that English 'no' does not originate from Latin/Norman 'no', but rather from Old English 'na'. Antman -- chat 01:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

There are countless false cognates (word X in language A that resembles word Y in language B -- and the two words are etymologically unrelated to each other). See for example, this article:

Alonso de La Fuente, José Andrés. 2010. “Urban Legends: Turkish kayık ‘ boat’ and “Eskimo” qayaq‘ kayak’. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. No. 127. Pp. 7-27.

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The main goal of this paper is to show that the proposed relationship between Turkish kayık ‘boat’ and Eskimo qayaq ‘kayak’ is far-fetched. After a philological analysis of the available materials, it will be proven that the oldest attestation and recoverable stages of these words are kay-guk (11th c.) < Proto-Turkic */kad-/ in */kad-ï/ ‘fir tree’ and */qan-yaq/ (see Greenlandic pl. form kainet, from 18th c.) < Proto-Eskimo */qan(ə)-/ ‘to go/come (near)’ respectively. The explicitness of the linguistic evidence enables us to avoid the complex historical and cultural (archaeological) observations related to the hypothetical scenarios concerning encounters between the Turkic and Eskimo(-Aleut) populations, so typical in a discussion of this issue. In the process of this main elucidation, two marginal questions will be addressed too: the limited occasions on which “Eskimo” materials are dealt with in English (or other language) sources, and the etymology of (Atkan) Aleut iqya-x ‘single-hatch baidara’.

The entire article is available here free of charge: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Urban-legends-%3A-Turkish-kay%C4%B1k-%27boat%27-and-%22Eskimo%22-%2F-Fuente/96a43a9520bb3f4cd9d1e6d55148fd29a05b08df

See there (pp. 18-19) the author's list of eleven more pairs of false cognates in the world's languages.S. Valkemirer (talk) 02:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Architect?
What does a Bistro have to do with an Architect? --Matejhowell 16:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

New subject?
The arg. band bistro should maybe be on it's own page?

Etymology
I just moved the etymology to Wiktionary, which is the appropriate place. Further, the Russian origin hypothesis is rejected by linguists (see discussion and links there).

Nbarth (email) (talk) 04:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

What about this book from 1818, where this word appears? 23:52, 18 December 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:808B:E100:F6BC:C912:6BBC:E59F (talk) I suggest that you call the book of 1818 to the attention of Dr. Gold (davidlgold.com), who published the 39-page article debunking the alleged Russian etymology of the word. Let us see what he says.S. Valkemirer (talk) 02:19, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Description
I don't what it's like in other places, but where I live bistro means really small portions of food. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blaylockjam10 (talk • contribs) 05:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure how accurate this article is; "Bistro" around here (Australia) is usually a synonym for "Trendy and a bit on the expensive side". I certainly wouldn't associate the term with small, quick, moderately priced meals. Commander Zulu (talk) 11:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

American understanding of Bistro
It seems to me that in American English, there is a very different understanding of what bistro means. While the French consider bistro to me a moderately priced restaurant, in American English, bistro seems to suggest a somewhat fancy and small restaurant that is usually French or if not usually European. Americans wouldn't consider a moderately priced Chinese restaurant to be a bistro. Can someone help clarify this or add to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.30.255 (talk) 22:41, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

 * As one of the editors of this article, I totally agree that a Chinese restaurant is not a bistro on either side of the Atlantic. However, thinking of a few places in San Francisco in particular, I don't see that there's a specifically American interpretation of the term. To me, the essence of it is that the menu is very restricted and the waiters are not in uniform. The chalk-board menu as opposed to the printed version is also a common feature but not a sine qua non. --El Ingles (talk) 01:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Im North American, and all the Bistros I've seen, Look more like small compact med-high priced restaurants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.244.226.58 (talk) 19:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Bistro prices are typically 50% higher than a diner or pub. In Seattle there are may restaurants large and small with most entrees under $9, but one rarely sees a bistro under $13. The difference is the chef. A bistro chef often buys the ingredients and oversees the kitchen personally, and adds unique touches or unusual side dishes to impress the guests, and may change the menu daily or frequently. In a diner, the cooks have less training and the menu is simpler and more standardized. Are there really other places nowadays where bistros are inexpensive, or is that just a historical anachronism? Sluggoster (talk) 03:53, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 50% higher than a diner or a pub *is* moderately priced. That means they are not the cheapest places, but cheaper than a restaurant. So it seems the view of what is a Bistro is the same on both sides of the pond. --OpenFuture (talk) 05:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

In Montreal, my experience is that French bistros generally offer more generous plates than other French Fine-Cuisine restaurants, with often a similar quality, sometimes at a slightly lower price and in a less impressive atmosphere/setting. Perhaps this is where "cheaper" may still make sense... but of course, any French specialty restaurant (bistro or not) is more expensive than Deli-type or fast-food ones. 66.11.179.30 (talk) 20:54, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Chinese Bistro???
What is the picture of that chinese dump of a "bistro" doing in this article???--24.85.68.231 (talk) 06:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

The photograph of the plaque in Paris and its caption
An English translation should be added in the caption to the photograph. I suggest:

ON 30 MARCH 1814 THE COSSACKS UTTERED THEIR FAMOUS WORD “BISTRO” HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ON THIS KNOLL WAS THUS BORN THE WORTHY ANCESTOR OF OUR BISTROTS / 180th ANNIVERSARY / OLD MONTMARTRE TOURIST OFFICE

The caption should be modified in another way too: mention should be made there that the plaque perpetuates the unsubstantiated story about the origin of the word.S. Valkemirer (talk) 06:40, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

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Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer is a Sunday talk show hosted by Wolf Blitzer on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. The show's slogan was The last word in Sunday talk and comments made on the show were often featured in the following Monday's news headlines.

The show, launched on October 3, 1993, was moderated by Frank Sesno until January 11, 1998, and by Wolf Blitzer from January 18, 1998 to January 11, 2009.

The program aired at 11:00 AM ET and thus was the last of the Sunday talk shows to air in most East Coast markets, hence the name "Late Edition." (It was, however, the first to air on the West Coast, at 8:00 AM PT, since its other broadcast network competitors, including Fox News Sunday, aired on same-day tape delay on the West Coast at various times).

On December 8, 2008, CNN announced that the show would end the following month to make way for a new 4 hour news block hosted by John King. The final Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer aired on January 11, 2009. The new newsblock, called State of the Union with John King, began airing on January 18, 2009.

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Circuit Ricardo Tormo

Circuit Ricardo Tormo, also known as Circuit de Valencia and officially named Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo, is a 4.005 km motorsport race track located in Cheste (Valencian Community, Spain) and built in 1999. The track is named after Spanish, two-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer Ricardo Tormo (1952–1998), who died in 1998 of leukemia. It has a capacity of 165,000 and a main straight of 0.876 km.

The track hosts the MotoGP Valencian Community Grand Prix. Also, the FIA GT Championship had a race there in 2000 and 2004, the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 to 2012, the European Le Mans Series in 2007, and the DTM from 2010 to 2012. It has also been Formula E's pre-season test venue since the 2017–18 season, having moved from Donington Park, with the circuit also considered a replacement venue for the 2019–20 season because of the COVID-19 crisis cancelling numerous rounds. It was also the GP3 Series (now FIA Formula 3 Championship) pre-season test venue until the 2017 season. The series also hosted a one-off event at the track in 2013. The GP2 Series (now FIA Formula 2 Championship) also held rounds at the track in 2006 and 2007. Valencia has also hosted the season-opening round of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series since 2014. The circuit will also host the third edition of FIA Motorsport Games in October 2024.

Formula E
The circuit has been used by Formula E as a pre-season testing venue since 2017. On 28 January 2021, it was announced that the circuit would host the Valencia ePrix as the 5th and 6th round of the 2020–21 Formula E World Championship, to be held on 24 April 2021, replacing the cancelled Paris ePrix. It was the first time an ePrix has been held on a permanent race circuit, albeit on a unique configuration. One of the differences between the normal track for pre-season testing and the track used for the race was the installation of a temporary chicane in the start/finish straight. The track then turns right immediately after the exit of turn 8.

In other media
The track has been recreated in the videogames Tourist Trophy and Gran Turismo PSP. The track also appears in other video games like Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano, GTR Evolution and rFactor as well. As it is a MotoGP round host, the track has appeared in every MotoGP game since its début in 1999.,  and the SBK games during 2006–2013. The latest recreation of the track was in Assetto Corsa Competizione in 2023 ''.

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 * November 22–24: FIM JuniorGP World Championship, FIM Moto2 European Championship, European Talent Cup

Future

 * GT World Challenge Europe (2021–2023, 2025)
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Former

 * Auto GP (2001, 2008–2009, 2011–2012)
 * British Talent Cup (2018)
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 * 1000 km Valencia (2007)
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 * Superstars Series (2008, 2011)
 * TCR International Series (2015)
 * Ultimate Cup Series (2019)
 * World Series by Nissan (1999–2004)
 * World Touring Car Championship
 * FIA WTCC Race of Spain (2005–2012)

Lap records
Anthony Davidson holds the unofficial lap record, set in 2006 while testing a Honda RA106, with a time of 1:08.540sec. As of June 2024, the fastest official race lap records at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo are listed as:

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jamaica bay riding academy

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD✉ 00:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Jamaica bay riding academy
Non-notable business. CDC  (talk)  23:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn horse business vanity. --TheMidnighters 00:12, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, since they only get 180ish unique Googles. However, this is the sort of thing that Google can mistake: I wonder if it could be small, but notable in its thing? -Splash 01:34, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn and a thinly disguised advertisement. --Maustrauser 05:09, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete since it reads like an advertisement so that could be why it was created. Not notable from what information is provided.  Vegaswikian 05:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn advertising. JamesBurns 08:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Olivier Magne

Olivier Claude C. Magne (born 11 April 1973 in Aurillac, Cantal) is a French former rugby union footballer and a current coach.

Magne was a rugby back row forward, known especially for his speed and handling in open field play. He represented 89 times, scoring 14 tries.

He joined his hometown team, Stade Aurillacois, as a boy in 1979. He later played for Brive and US Dax, before joining AS Montferrandaise for the 1999–2000 season.

He made his international test debut at the age of 23 on 15 February 1997 as a replacement against Wales during the 1997 Five Nations Championship. The game was won 27–22 and France went on to win the tournament with a Grand Slam. He played a starring role in the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cups, playing in all France’s matches in both tournaments. The highlight of his career was probably the 1999 Rugby World Cup final, where he ended on the losing side as France were beaten 35–12. He also played a barnstorming role in the 1999 semi-final defeat of the All Blacks. He is only one of two French forwards to have participated in four Grand Slam-winning teams.

He was a regular member of Bernard Laporte’s squads, playing in all France's matches in the 2004 Six Nations Championship. Magne played in the mid-year Tests against and  but missed the November internationals through injury. His last international appearances were against the All Blacks during France's mid-year tour to New Zealand in June 2007. He was not selected in the French squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup; he was placed on the reserve list but was not called upon.

In June 2005, Magne signed a two-year contract with London Irish. At the end of his contract, in 2007, he returned to France and took up a coaching position with his former club, CA Brive. On 1 June 2008 Magne declared that he won't be the coach for the next season.

On 9 November 2009 the Greek Rugby Federation announced that Magne would be taking over as the new coach of the Greece national team.

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Aaron Fike

Aaron Fike (born November 24, 1982) is an American racing driver, a former competitor in NASCAR and USAC. The younger brother of A. J. Fike, he was suspended from NASCAR competition from 2007 to 2012 due to a drug-related arrest.

Open-wheel career
Fike began racing in 2001 in the USAC Silver Crown Series, where he became the youngest driver to win a Silver Crown race (breaking Jeff Gordon's record). He finished tenth in points, earning him the Rookie of the Year award.

In 2002, he won seven midget feature races in addition to winning the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association championship. He also raced in the IRL Infiniti Pro Series for Hemelgarn Racing, finishing fifth with a win at Chicagoland.

In 2003, Fike won the World Championship Midget Feature in Auckland, New Zealand, and the USAC Night Before the 500 race. He competed in the full Infiniti Pro Series schedule, with a win at Pikes Peak on route to a sixth-place finish.

NASCAR career
Fike made his stock car debut towards the end of 2003 in an ARCA RE/MAX Series race at South Boston Speedway, where he finished 9th.

He began racing part-time in the Busch Series in 2004 in the #43 Curb Agajanian Performance Group car, and for GIC-Mixon Motorsports. His best finish that year came at the Stacker 200 Presented by YJ Stinger, where he finished 17th.

For 2005, Fike signed a driver development contract with Brewco Motorsports, and split time in their #66 Duraflame Ford Taurus with Greg Biffle. He recorded his first top-ten finish at the Salute to the Troops 250 Presented by Dodge, where he finished eighth. He also ran 17 races with the #43, his best finish in that car being a 14th at Homestead. At the end of the year, he was released from his contract at Brewco.

He started 2006 driving the #43 for Curb, but soon signed with Kevin Harvick Incorporated for a limited schedule. He was released after two races.

Fike drove for Red Horse Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2007, where he had four top-ten finishes. He was arrested in the parking lot of Kings Island in July 2007, and subsequently suspended by NASCAR and released from his contract.

Legal troubles
In March 2003, Fike was arrested for driving under the influence in his home town of Galesburg, Illinois, being eventually eventually released.

On July 7, 2007, Fike and his long-time girlfriend and fiancée, Red Horse crew member Cassandra "Casi" Davidson, were arrested in the parking lot of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Fike attempted to evade police when asked to exit his truck, striking an officer with the mirror of the vehicle; upon being stopped and searched, syringes containing brown liquid, which Fike admitted were heroin, were found within the vehicle. Davidson stated that the heroin was used by both her and Fike. Both were arrested on charges of possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia.

On July 11, 2007, Fike (as well as Davidson) was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) of the 2007 NASCAR Rule Book. Red Horse Racing released Fike from his contract the following day. On August 29, the misdemeanor possession of drug abuse instruments charge was dropped by prosecutors.

Though he initially pleaded not guilty, in November 2007, Fike pleaded guilty to possession of a drug abuse instrument and a reduced charge of attempted possession of heroin, both misdemeanors. He admitted that he'd spent 4 months in treatment for the addiction, and publicly stated that the habit almost killed him at least once. He was sentenced to two years of probation after agreeing to establish a non-profit anti-drug group, Racing Against Drugs.

In an April 2008 interview for ESPN, Fike admitted to years of painkiller abuse, as well as heroin use on race days.

Fike returned to racing midget cars at Angell Park Speedway and the USAC national tour after his NASCAR suspension; he was tested upon arrival at the track for every race.

Fike was reinstated by NASCAR on August 21, 2012, upon his successful completion of NASCAR's Substance Abuse Policy Road to Recovery Program. Fike has not competed in NASCAR since.

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NASCAR
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User:Dpbsmith/Boosterdampers

I'm withdrawing this proposal; see below.

PROPOSAL for a committee to be called the Academic Boosterdampers

Whereas Academic boosterism is a problem due to the existence of positive feedback mechanisms, and cannot be solved on an article-by-article basis because an increase in boosterism in one article is often followed by increases in boosterism in other articles... I propose the formation of a damping mechanism.

The Boosterdampers place an "Academic boosterism" tag on any article with excessive boosterism, and remove it when the boosterism has been adequately toned down.

Boosterdampers will follow a VfD-like/VFU-like procedure. Proposals to add a tag require a 2/3 majority of valid votes. Proposals to remove a tag require a simple majority of valid votes.

Anyone wishing to vote must declare all of the institutions of higher education they have attended. Nobody may vote on
 * an article about an institution they have attended, or
 * an article about any other institution in the same athletic conference as an institution they have attended, or
 * an article to which they've made significant edits.

Voting proceeds for X days (I provisionally suggest five) before action is taken.

Action is taken by anyone on a list of Boosterdamper moderators. The list of moderators is to be determined... how?

Comments encouraged. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:02, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, yes. Obviously this won't work if we can't Assume good faith to some degree. My assumption is that we can... and that people will respect the tags if reasonable number of people agree before the tag is placed or removed—and that sysops will enforce that to some degree. And that addressing the problem in this way might work better than having it be addressed a) in individual articles by b) people involved both in the school and in the editing of the article.

Comments
The only thing I worry about here is the high level of subjectivity involved and the tendency for angered stakeholders in one school to "retaliate" against others. -- MITalum 05:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea, but we need to clarify criteria for what is acceptable. For example, I think that the threshhold for deserving mention in the list of a school's alumni is probably lower than threshhold for meriting an article of one's own; others may disagree. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:45, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm, a good point. My thoughts run like this:  suppose I want to establish that Lake Wobegon University is a notable institution, so I start listing its alumni.  One of these alums, Clayton Chiclitz, founded the Yoyodyne aerospace company.  Now, this is just about all Chiclitz has ever done, so his biographical article is a stub at best, while the article on the company is pretty substantial.  Therefore, I add a bullet point to my alumni list, saying
 * Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz, founder of Yoyodyne.
 * If a person is notable because of a single invention, artistic work, company or whatever, I'd say they're probably noteworthy enough to go in the list. However, their entry on the list should clearly direct to the article which establishes their notoriety.
 * Anville 17:17, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that's about right. Of course, Mr. Chiclitz is more notable for who has written about him than for what he actually did... -- Jmabel | Talk 04:48, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Why not start with a simple to-do list of problem articles, it would save a lot of bureaucracy... Physchim62 11:33, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that my proposal is too bureaucratic. However, the issue is not a "list of problem articles," it is a continuous and ongoing problem. All of these articles have been repeatedly fixed, but the problems recur. I can't give you a list right now because I haven't bothered to look, but I'll bet that if you just go through the Ivy League and/or check any fairly well-known university you'll see problems.

 * I'm going to put that to the test right now. I'm going to look at: Cornell University and Stanford University. Yeah. Stanford says right in the first paragraph that its campus is "expansive and picturesque," its medical center is "world-renowned," and "Stanford is considered to be one of the most prestigious and well-known universities in the world, combining top-notch academics with winning athletic programs." Bleeaagghhhh! Cornell is better: the boosterism is deferred to the "about Cornell" paragraph and says merely that Cornell is "well known" for its research and education, that its students "hail from all corners of the globe" and that "Cornell consistently ranks in the top decile in college and university rankings; it ranked 14th in the 2005 U.S. News and World Report ranking." I'd say Cornell is tolerable.

 * Personally, I think that with regard to boosterism, Cornell University is tolerable ("all corners of the globe" and all), but that Stanford University rises to the actionable level. What do others think about these two specific examples?

 * My feeling is that we need some fairly simple ongoing way to keep the enthusiasm within reasonable bounds, that has enough group consensus and community support that boosterism can be damped down without starting an edit war every time.

 * Nunh-huh and others have pretty much convinced me that article tagging is not the right approach. See User_talk:Dpbsmith. MITAlum's concerns are appropriate. I have another idea which I'll probably get around to writing up fairly soon, which is a scoring system for evaluating the degree of boosterism in an article, a la User:Dpbsmith/BEEFSTEW. If the word "prestige" appears in the article, one point. But subtract one point if it is within quotation marks. If it appears more than once, another point. If it appears within the first three paragraphs, another point. And similarly for: U. S. News and other "rankings"; words such as "leading" or "preeminent;" and vague phrases such as "generally regarded as."

 * The scoring system would be used on the talk page to add moral weight to whatever changes are proposed. The hope is that "boosterism score 7, editing first paragraph to reduce it to 2" would then tend to get more community support and stick better than "I don't like the first paragraph."

 * The reason why it will take a little while to write it is that in order to validate the scoring system itself, I want to write up the scoring system first, otherwise I'd be too tempted to tailor it to articles that I particularly dislike; then score some of our articles, and for comparison purposes score some articles from traditional encyclopedias. But if anyone wants to start on it before me, feel free. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:03, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Snap, snap, as they say in stuffier places than this. I agree that the scoring "metric" should be written first so that it is not skewed by a particular school's article.  Furthermore, I agree that boosterism "points" (demerits, really) should be given for U. S. News and suchlike rankings, since they are right up there with the SAT and ACT on the list of Evil Things I Hate. Anville 15:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Whilst there is something of a 'boosterism' problem, I don't think there is much needing to be done about things like U.S. News. My equivalent, being from the UK, would be The Times' League Tables. I would have no problem with an article including verifiable fact relevant to the Uni. Giving out demerits for things you hate is a bit POV, really. Moreover, I'd be concerned at some blanket scoring of articles like this: we'd need to tailor it to every country if it were to be useful without having systemic bias. -Splash 17:25, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travis Boone's Left Hand of God

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Travis Boone's Left Hand of God and Cotton Incubus Night
Probably non-notable, and certainly unverifiable play. I know Google is not the final arbitar but cf. --Doc (?) 23:02, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable until proven otherwise. -Splash 01:32, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable; not on Amazon . Septentrionalis 01:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both, unverifiable. JamesBurns 08:34, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Joseph Arch

Joseph Arch (10 November 1826 – 12 February 1919) was an English trade unionist and politician, born in Barford, Warwickshire, who played a key role in unionising agricultural workers and in championing their welfare. Following their enfranchisement, he became a Member of Parliament.

Biography of an agricultural labourer
Joseph Arch came from a family that had lived in the Warwickshire village of Barford for three generations and had owned their own cottage there since the 18th century. He started work at the age of nine as a crow-scarer, working 12 hours a day. Afterwards he became a plough-boy, progressing to mastery of all-round skills, which enabled him to move around the Midlands and South Wales, earning a reasonable wage. At the same time he observed the terrible conditions in which the majority of agricultural labours lived. These were later described by the Countess of Warwick in the introduction she wrote to his autobiography.
 * Bread was dear, and wages down to starvation point; the labourers were uneducated, under-fed, underpaid; their cottages were often unfit for human habitation, the sleeping and sanitary arrangements were appalling … In many a country village the condition of the labourer and his family was but little removed from that of the cattle they tended.

Returning home, Arch married in 1847 and eventually had seven children. He also became a Primitive Methodist preacher but was discriminated against in the village by the parson and his wife, with whom his family had always been at odds. During this period he educated himself politically from old newspapers and became a supporter of Liberalism. It was therefore to him as a well-respected and experienced agricultural worker, that his destitute fellow workers eventually turned for help in their fight for a living wage. Called to address an initial meeting held on 7 February 1872 in the Stag's Head public house in Wellesbourne, Arch had been expecting an attendance of fewer than thirty. Instead, he found on his arrival that over 2,000 agricultural labourers from all the surrounding area had arrived to hear him speak. The meeting was therefore held under a large chestnut tree opposite on a dark, wet, winter night, with the labourers holding flickering lanterns on bean poles to illuminate the proceedings.

After further meetings, it was agreed to elect a committee, which met at the old farmhouse of John Lewis in Wellesbourne. Then on Good Friday, 29 March 1872, farm workers from all parts of South Warwickshire met in Leamington to form the Warwickshire Agricultural Labourers Union and after agitation up and down the country, the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was established on 29 May with Arch as its president. Following the withdrawal of their labour, when farmers and landowners found their reprisals were no longer effective, there was a temporary rise in the workers' wages, whereupon they ceased to organise. Later lock-outs of union members by farm owners became widespread and the union finally collapsed in 1896, although it was replaced a decade later by the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers in 1906.

Public life
During the high point of the union agitation, Arch was identified with the popular cause and many agricultural labourers would display his portrait in their homes. He also became the subject of such rallying songs as
 * Joe Arch he raised his voice,
 * 'twas for the working men,
 * Then let us all rejoice and say,
 * We'll all be union men.

In 1873 he was invited over by the Canadian government and examined the suitability of the country for British emigration. Impressed by his report, during the next few years his Union helped over 40,000 farm labourers and their families to emigrate there and to Australia.

Arch also turned to agitating for the widening of the voting franchise, which until then only included property owners, and this resulted in the passing of the 1884 Parliamentary Reform Act. In the ensuing 1885 General Election, Arch was returned as the Liberal Party MP for North West Norfolk, the first agricultural labourer to enter the House of Commons. Losing his seat with William Gladstone’s defeat in June 1886, he was re-elected to the same constituency in 1892, when he was one of twelve labouring class MPs in parliament. Though he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor in 1893, he seldom spoke and his former supporters came to perceive him as pompous and out of touch. Now they sang about him
 * Joseph Arch he stole a march,
 * Upon a spotted cow.
 * He scampered off to Parliament,
 * But where is Joseph now?

In 1898, Arch published a pugnacious and opinionated autobiography, upon which The Spectator commented at the start of its long review that "One cannot help wishing that this book were more of an autobiography, and less of a polemic against Mr. Arch's adversaries, political and social. Retiring from Parliament before the 1900 General Election, Arch returned to his home in Barford, where he continued to live until his death nineteen years later.

Legacy
The old ‘Wellesbourne Tree’ died in 1948 but the spot was marked by a commemorative stone at the old meeting place, now renamed Chestnut Square. In 1952, the National Union of Agricultural Workers erected a bus shelter there and set up inside it a commemorative plaque which still remains. A replacement tree was also planted where every year union representatives once gathered on 7 February and then went on to Barford to lay a wreath upon Arch's grave. Though the unions no longer do this, the Wellesbourne Action Group organises a walk from Barford to Wellesbourne in June each year along the footpath known as the Joseph Arch Way. There is now also a Joseph Arch Road in the village which runs off the A439 roundabout, while in Barford the old coaching inn has been renamed the Joseph Arch pub.

The Museum of English Rural Life has an archive with holdings relating to Arch which include personal diaries and ledgers and the Union collecting boxes. There are also curious plaster casts of his hands and wrists (Object number, 75/16/1-2).

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