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User talk:Freedman

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Haku
Haku is transgendered. Perhaps this offends your sensibilities, or perhaps you were simply ignorant of the fact. But that's no reason to remove factual information from an article and then be rude about it. In the future, at least read the discussion page on a topic before you tamper with it. Perceive 01:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Risa Harada
Is this a real person or a character from a book or something? CambridgeBayWeather 05:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok what you need to do is go back and add more context (as per below), I added a bit to stop it from getting deleted. At first I thought that she was a friend of yours and was going to delete it myself. Think of it as if you were looking at it and had never heard of her or DNAngel. Good luck. CambridgeBayWeather 05:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Kosuke Niwa
Brittany, if you are going to write articles about fictional characters could you please give some context? Otherwise our fellow esteemed Wikipedians will think these articles are about non-notable real people and have the articles deleted. Thanks. Reyk 05:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature
When you leave a comment on somebodys page use ~ and it will give your name and the date. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather 05:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It sort of worked. I got your name and date but your name came out black instead of a blue clickable link. Don't worry about errors they will all get corrected in time.

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Angels
Hello! You articles on Angels are lacking in source information. You must cite your sources for articles, where appropriate. Which reference materials are you using to obtain this information? Other researchers may want to pursue further research and your providing details will help them. Regards, -- (aeropagitica) 02:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! You must cite your sources for the reasons given above. See Citing_sources for further details. Until then I suggest that you lay off contributing articles where the information contain cannot be checked. Regards, -- (aeropagitica) 02:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
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Cheers

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Image copyright problem with Image:2dstand6bs.jpg
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Krad Hikari and Rio Hikari
Since Krad & Satoshi are like one, shouldn't Rio be Krad's mom too? And they even look alike. Blond hair...you know what I mean.

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Image:2dstand6bs.jpg listed for deletion
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Sorry
It was my little sister. I'll talk to her. Thanks for reverting it.

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Kyo Kara Maoh
I've reverted your edit to this article that changed Yuri's name to Yuuri. This is not correct. Wikipedia convention is to refer to characters using their official English names, and in the official English version of the show the character is called Yuri (see http://www.kyokaramaoh.com/ ). The original Japanese names are already given in the Characters section.

In addition, 'Yuri' isn't actually wrong, even as a transliteration of the Japanese. There are a number of different romanisation schemes that treat long vowels differently, and both 'add u after the vowel' and 'use a single vowel' are commonly used. There's a fairly good overview at Hepburn_romanization if you want to read more. In fact, it's probably more common for Japanese people with that name to romanise it as 'Yuri' - check out http://www.google.com/search?q=yuri+有利 (12,800 hits) compared to http://www.google.com/search?q=yuuri+有利 (561 hits).

Ironfrost 09:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Eiri.gif
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How I am supposed to add information that it should be deleted? The author, Maki Murakami, obviously has her art and manga all over the internet, and there's no copyright saying that it can't be. I'm just saying, so you can add that on, if it helps. Brittany 20:49, 9 August 2006 (UTC) PS: I honestly don't think that there's enough copyright tags to cover ALL subjects of pictures.

 * Image:Eiri.gif has no information in what way Maki Murakami have released the rights to that picture. Lack of a copyright message does not say it's free for anyone to take. What we need is something ssying that we are allowed to use that picture. If you want the image to be kept you need to go to Possibly unfree images and state your case there. // Liftarn

Addition of 'South Park' character to Hermaphrodite article and removal of 'noise band' disambiguation
Hello! I disagree with your recent edits (addition of South Park trivia and removal of disambiguation) to the Hermaphrodite article. I think the former is unencyclopedic and the latter unnecessary. Care to chime in with your opinions on the article's talk page? I'd like to see if we can come to an agreement. Thanks! -- User:RyanFreisling @ 00:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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Three more images that I've tagged tonight for the same reason: ~ Bigr  Tex  06:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Romantic attraction, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Erotic attraction
I have added a "" template to the article Erotic attraction, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. – Tivedshambo (talk) 18:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

May 2007
Please stop. If you continue to ignore our policies by introducing inappropriate pages, such as Benjamin Coffin III -Rent, to Wikipedia, you will be blocked. Lil' Dice (yeah, I said it!) - talk 00:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Jazz Fenton
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Fair use rationale for Image:Daichii3.jpg
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AfD nomination of Daiki Niwa
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AfD nomination of Risa Harada
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Jon-Erik Beckjord

Jon-Erik Beckjord (April 26, 1939 – June 22, 2008) was an American paranormal investigator, photographer, and cryptozoologist interested in UFOs, crop circles, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot. Throughout his life, he owned three separate, small-scale museums that featured displays, mostly photographs, of alleged UFO, Nessie, and Bigfoot sightings. He made guest appearances on national radio and television shows, but was criticized by skeptics and fellow cryptozoologists alike for not providing substantive evidence to back up his claims of the existence of paranormal beings.

Personal life
Born Cedric Jon Beckjord in Duluth, Minnesota, he was the son of Col. Philip Beckjord, a World War II army physician, and Margaret (née McGilvry) Beckjord. He had three siblings: Ross, Peter, and Pam. His family came from Oslo, Norway.

Education
Beckjord attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado for two years.

He studied sociology at Tulane University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1961.

He studied law for one year at Boalt Hall at University of California, Berkeley. He later graduated with an MBA from U.C. Berkeley in 1966.

Career
After graduation, Beckjord became a city planner in the Bay area, but wearied of a traditional job and decided to hunt for Bigfoot instead. "I don't do what most MBAs do," he said, "Most people in my class are bored to death or dead. The object in life is not simply to make money." Rather, he believed his most important task was to "find out why we're here (on Earth)"

Beckjord collected photographs, castings, and other memorabilia that, to him, represented evidence of the existence of UFOs and alien life, the Loch Ness Monster, as well as Bigfoot. He appeared on several nationwide radio and television shows, including Coast to Coast AM, The Tonight Show, and Late Night with David Letterman. In reference to his explorations, Beckjord compared himself to Galileo, Louis Pasteur, and the Wright brothers.

In 1983, Beckjord, then director of the Crypto Zoological Society, spent a week in Scotland videotaping what he believed were three monsters in Loch Ness.

In February, 1989, Beckjord opened the Crypto-Zoology Museum, housed in the corner of Trancas Restaurant in Malibu, California. The museum had its start on October 31, 1986, when he opened his home to visitors to see his collection. The display primarily consisted of photographs from Beckjord's research into the phenomena of the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the Mokele M'Bembe of Africa. According to Beckjord, the museum focused on "creatures of fact or fancy" that "to the best of our knowledge appear to be verified, or haven't at least been debunked."

When Trancas Restaurant went out of business, Beckjord put the museum's contents in storage. Most of it was lost to fire in 1993.

On October 31, 1996, Halloween, Beckjord opened the in San Francisco, California, which featured crop circles. He charged a nominal entrance fee ($3 for adults; $2 for children), but the museum's closing, reportedly, was "due to lack of any substantial evidence."

After this museum closed, Beckjord repaired electrical appliances for a company called Captain Neon.

In 1997, Beckjord opened a third museum in North Beach, California, which he called the Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum. It was billed as the city's "strangest museum" and consisted of photographs, drawings, and articles devoted to such topics as the Roswell Declaration, Bigfoot, and a sea serpent named "Sassie" which, allegedly, lived in the San Francisco Bay.

Cryptozoology
Beckjord defined cryptozoology as "the search for mysterious creatures." His searches included hidden "animals"—those that could, theoretically, exist in nature—and hidden "critters" or those that looked like animals, but resisted capture: the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, and Quixacotal Big Bird.

Bigfoot or Sasquatch
Beckjord became intrigued with the idea of Bigfoot after seeing an article in the newspaper about alleged sightings of the creature. On an expedition to find evidence, he claimed he saw a Bigfoot cross the road in front of him from about 200 feet away. Beckjord was convinced of its existence, even as he failed to photograph Bigfoot. He also purportedly saw Bigfoot standing 6 feet tall and walking in a "loose, limbo-dance style", and, at another time, eating apricots in an orchard around Vacaville, California. He frequented a camp with other researchers, an alleged "window site" in the Bear River Reservoir area of Eldorado National Forest where he asserted that "evidence of Bigfoot is almost routinely seen." While he insisted that the exact location not be revealed to the public, Beckjord did agree to take skeptic Robert Sheaffer on a five-day expedition there in 1999. It was only after Sheaffer left the site, having seen nothing unusual, that Beckjord reported manifestations of Bigfoot.

Beckjord said he heard Bigfoot's voice telling him "We're not what you think we are, we're here, but we're not real, like what you think is real." Along with the photographs of leaves and shadows Beckjord believed showed images of Bigfoot, he also reported having seen Bigfoot footprints that turned into deer tracks, confirming for him that the creature had the ability to shift its shape. He theorized that Bigfoot creatures share a "space-time origin and connection with UFOs and come from an alternative universe by a wormhole."

Beckjord explained away the need for physical evidence, such as hair, blood and bones, to prove the existence of Bigfoot by arguing that the creature is an "inter-dimensional shape-shifter that can warp in and out of physical reality." He theorized that they may be "the product of tulpas or thought forms created by people or other entities." In an editorial for the journal Current Anthropology, Beckjord argued that the study of the "wild man", Sasquatch, was "the proper study of either parapsychologists or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scientists, not anthropologists."

Loch Ness Monster
To Beckjord, the Loch Ness monster (Nessie) was a space alien pet left on Earth in a form of energy that could interact with human beings. He described Nessie as a cat-like faced creature, 15–30 feet long, 7–10 feet thick with a body that "looks like a cross between Halley's Comet and the Concorde jet." He claimed to have videotaped three, which he named Faith, Hope and Charity, on a visit to Drumnadrochit, Scotland in 1983. Beckjord admitted that the images might not be "exactly and positively" Nessie, but asserted that "90 percent of the people who have viewed the films believe the images are alive."

Loveland Frog
Beckjord speculated that the Loveland Frog might be the extinct 10-ft.-long bipedal dinosaur, Coelophysis.

Ri
In response to a Roy Wagner article, published in the ISC annual journal Cryptozoology (and later reprinted in Fate Magazine, August 1983), Beckjord traveled to Papua New Guinea to search for ri, or mermaids. Wagner's article described eyewitness accounts and sometimes daily sightings of "an air-breathing mammal, with the trunk, genitalia, and arms and head of a human being, and a legless lower trunk terminating in a pair of lateral fins or flippers." After his own investigation and determining that the locals were killing, butchering and eating dugongs—and not mermaids--, Beckjord concluded that no unknown animal was being seen in that area.

UFOlogy
Beckjord believed in space alien visitations to Earth, crop circles and creative forces that sculpted rock, lava and sand on Mars to resemble people on Earth like Ted Kennedy, Tammy Faye Bakker and others. He tried to sell his Kennedy-on-Mars photos, which Beckjord discovered while analyzing NASA satellite photos of the planet, to raise money to investigate crop circles in England.

Beckjord took images of what he described as three "blobs-of-light" UFOs and witnessed two instances of unexplained light over Malibu and Sepulveda Pass, respectively. Beckjord believed in a government cover up of the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence and advocated making that information available to the general public.

"A lot of this weirdness is right under our noses. We may belong to aliens. We may be experimental animals. But I can't prove it."

Criticism
Beckjord's firm belief that Bigfoot and similar entities were inter-dimensional shape-shifters who could "manipulate the light spectrum so that people can't see them" brought him into conflict not only with skeptics, but other Bigfoot researchers as well, who argued for proof of physical remains. He had what is described as "well-publicized arguments" with writers of the Skeptical Inquirer and certain members of the International Society of Cryptozoology and was considered "a person non grata among more conventional Bigfoot researchers." He would, literally, fight for his beliefs with his fists and was banned from contributing to online forums because of postings that were allegedly abusive.

Robert Sheaffer, a founding member of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, asserted that Beckjord "doesn't have one bit of proof. To allay Beckjord's proclamations that "all skeptics were too timid and closed-minded to actually go out into the woods and confront the Bigfoot evidence for themselves," Sheaffer accompanied Beckjord on a 5-day Bigfoot expedition in 1999. He was disappointed at Beckjord's continued lack of evidence and attributed Beckjord's interpretations of rock formations, leaves and shadows as Bigfoot faces or skulls to "the workings of an overzealous imagination."

CNN correspondent Rusty Dornin wrote in 1997 "Faces on Mars, the Loch Ness monster, or an alien with a name tag (Andy)--if it's far-fetched and unproved, Beckjord buys it. And it's all on display at his storefront 'museum'."

Beckjord maintained that "With the card-carrying skeptics, we will never win. There are more people who have seen UFOs than voted for President Clinton."

Death
After battling prostate cancer, Beckjord died at the age of 69 on June 22, 2008, near his home in Lafayette, California, where he was a caretaker for the Crosses of Lafayette, a monument to casualties of the Iraq War before his death.

Memberships

 * Crypto Zoological Society
 * Mensa
 * National Cryptozoological Society
 * Project Bigfoot

Awards

 * Esquire Magazine's 1991 'Dubious Achievement Award' for "the discovery of a volcanic formation on Mars that resembles Senator Edward Kennedy."

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:41, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

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Vanity band page Hansonc 04:35, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. --PhilipO 04:35, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ditto.--Madchester 04:39, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable band vanity. JamesBurns 08:53, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. -- Etacar11  23:30, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Almost empty article PhilipO 04:33, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy since all it says is Porn Pic. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 04:35, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * For whatever it's worth, this is the name of one of the porn studios, so it would be better recreated properly and protected than any of the countless articles on the countless women who have performed in these largely interchangeable "films." That said, I have no interest in recreation of the article, as its title does act as an invitation to feebs to add their own examples of pictures they consider wicked.  Geogre 16:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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List of years in rail transport

Lists of events in the history of rail transport are organised into the yearly lists below.

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Reissert indole synthesis

The Reissert indole synthesis is a series of chemical reactions designed to synthesize indole or substituted-indoles (4 and 5) from ortho-nitrotoluene 1 and diethyl oxalate 2.

Potassium ethoxide has been shown to give better results than sodium ethoxide.

Reaction mechanism
The first step of the synthesis is the condensation of o-nitrotoluene 1 with a diethyl oxalate 2 to give ethyl o-nitrophenylpyruvate 3. The reductive cyclization of 3 with zinc in acetic acid gives indole-2-carboxylic acid 4. If desired, 4 can be decarboxylated with heat to give indole 5.

Butin modification
In an intramolecular version of the Reissert reaction, a furan ring-opening provides the carbonyl necessary for cyclization to form an indole. A ketone side chain is present in the final product, allowing further modifications.

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Night of the Hunter

Night of the Hunter may refer to:

Books

 * The Night of the Hunter (novel), a 1953 thriller novel by Davis Grubb
 * Night of the Hunter, a 1989 novel by Jennifer Greene
 * Night of the Hunter, a 2014 Forgotten Realms novel by R. A. Salvatore

Films

 * The Night of the Hunter (film), a 1955 adaptation by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum
 * Night of the Hunter (1991 film), a television film adaption by David Greene, starring Richard Chamberlain

Music

 * "Night of the Hunter" (30 Seconds to Mars song), 2011
 * "Night of the Hunter (Remix)", a remixed version of the theme from the 1955 film, by Fantômas from their 2001 album The Director's Cut

Television

 * "Night of the Hunter", an episode of The Baron
 * "Night of the Hunter", an episode of World of Quest
 * "Night of the Hunters", an episode of Bounty Hamster
 * "Night of the Hunters", a two-part episode of DreamWorks Dragons
 * "Night of the Hunters", an episode of Jumanji

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