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Jim Kimsey

James Verlin Kimsey (September 15, 1939 – March 1, 2016) was the co-founder of AOL. He was the first chairman of the company and its CEO until 1995. Although Kimsey is best known for having helped to create AOL, he also spearheaded many other business, military and philanthropic endeavors.

Early life and education
Kimsey was born in Washington D.C. in 1939 and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.

After being dismissed from Gonzaga College High School, he attended St. John's College High School, followed by Georgetown University for one term on an honors scholarship, and then the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which he graduated in 1962.

Military
Kimsey served in the U.S. Army, becoming a lieutenant and seeing active participation in U.S. interventions in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam. He served three combat tours as an Airborne Ranger, two in the Vietnam War, earning various awards for service and valor.

In July 2005, Kimsey was inducted into the U.S. Army Rangers Hall of Fame, which recognizes the United States' most extraordinary Rangers. In 2008, he received the Distinguished Graduate Award for Outstanding Service to the Nation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Business
In 1970, after eight years in the military, Kimsey bought a building in downtown Washington, D.C., renting out the top floor. On the ground floor, he built and opened a bar known as The Exchange. He "became successful and opened other bars in the 1970s."

In May 1983, Kimsey was brought in as a manufacturing consultant for Control Video Corporation by his West Point friend Frank Caufield, an investor in the company. CVC was founded by William von Meister to market an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console. Von Meister had previously hired Steve Case as a marketing consultant on the recommendation of Case's brother, investment banker Dan Case. Von Meister quietly left the company in early 1985.

Shortly thereafter, Control Video was reorganized as Quantum Computer Services, with co-founders Kimsey as CEO, Marc Seriff as CTO, and Steve Case. Quantum Computer Services was later reorganized as AOL. Kimsey served as CEO until 1995, when Steve Case took the helm.

Kimsey was a key investor in, and a director of Triple Canopy, a private military contractor.

Philanthropy
Kimsey was Chairman Emeritus of Refugees International, an independent advocacy group that works to protect refugees and end the cause of displacement. Kimsey also was a member of the board of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and as a Senior Fellow to the Department of Defense Business Board.

He was a member of the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. In 2010, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Kimsey to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, which oversees the investment of all gifts for the benefit of the Library’s collection and services. He served on the Executive Committee of the National Symphony Orchestra.

His philanthropic endeavors also included the Kimsey Athletic Center at West Point, which he established in 1995. Kimsey also funded internships for military academy students through the Kimsey Scholarship. Cadets and midshipmen from West Point, the Air Force Academy, and the Naval Academy were competitively selected to serve in significant offices of government such as the Supreme Court, State Department, and Congress through the scholarship.

Honors
Kimsey received Presidential appointments to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees and the West Point Board of Visitors. In 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell named Mr. Kimsey as Chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons, an organization dedicated to identifying hundreds of thousands of missing from conflicts and natural disasters around the world, through DNA research.

One of the office buildings on the former AOL Campus in Ashburn Virginia, now demolished, was named The James Kimsey Center in his honor.

Death
Kimsey died in McLean, Virginia of cancer on March 1, 2016, aged 76. Kimsey had three sons and four grandchildren.

Personal
Kimsey resided in McLean, Virginia and had three grown sons: Mike, Mark and Ray.

In 1995, Kimsey established The Kimsey Foundation. His philanthropy includes the Kimsey Athletic Center at West Point.

In 2000, Kimsey purchased Marden House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, for $2.5 million.

In 2001, Kimsey was named Chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia by Colin Powell.

On October 30, 2006, Kimsey was appointed to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President George W. Bush.

In May 2018, after his death, Kimsey's house in McLean was listed for sale for $62.95 million.

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Legends Field (Kentucky)

Legends Field is a ballpark in Lexington, Kentucky. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Lexington Legends of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an official Partner League of Major League Baseball. It was built in 2001 and holds 6,994 people.

Features
The ballpark is modeled after larger minor-league and major-league stadiums. It features the "Pepsi Party Deck" over the right field wall. This area is available to rent by groups. Along the first base line is the "Budweiser Stables," where fans can order beer and watch a game from an area of picnic tables. Behind home plate and accessible from the stadium's main entrance, the "Kentucky Ale Taproom" restaurant caters to members and guests with passes. The third base line features a small but popular area for families to watch the games. This area includes a kids area with a playground, bouncer and obstacle course. The bleachers, behind left field, holds more fans. There are two videoboards and one manual out-of-town scoreboard. The ballpark contains 785 club seats and 24 luxury suites.

The stadium's largest crowd to date came on June 6, 2006, when a standing-room-only crowd of over 9,300 was on hand to witness what the team dubbed "Rocket Relaunch" — Roger Clemens's first stop on his return to the Houston Astros.

Naming
From 2001 until 2010, the stadium was named Applebee's Park. In January 2011, it was announced that the naming rights to the stadium had been bought by Whitaker Bank Corporation, and the stadium was renamed Whitaker Bank Ballpark. The deal ended in 2021.

In February 2022, the Legends announced that the stadium would be renamed Wild Health Field following a new naming rights agreement with Wild Health, a Lexington-based health clinic specializing in genomics-based precision medicine and wellness, and that the stadium would host a second Atlantic League team, the Wild Health Genomes. The Genomes only played one season.

In March 2023, the Lexington Legends were renamed the Lexington Counter Clocks. During that season the stadium was known as Counter Clocks Field.

In February 2024 the team announced a return to the Lexington Legends brand and the ballpark was renamed Legends Field.

Ballpark firsts

 * Game: April 9, 2001 (7:16 PM EST)
 * Attendance: 8,037

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Mott's

Mott's is an American company involved primarily in producing apple-based products, particularly juices and sauces.

The company was founded in 1842 by Samuel R. Mott of Bouckville, New York, who made apple cider and vinegar. In 1914, the company merged with the W. B. Duffy Cider Company to become Duffy-Mott. In early 2006 all of Mott's beverage brands were folded into Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages. In 2008 Mott's was demerged from Cadbury Schweppes plc, to operate as a separate unit of Keurig Dr Pepper.

History
The Mott's company was founded in 1842 by Samuel R. Mott of Bouckville, New York, who made apple cider and vinegar. Mott products were exhibited at Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876 and Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

After the death of one of his sons, Samuel retired from the apple business altogether and sold the company to his remaining sons, John and Frederick, with the company being renamed to Genesee Fruit Company. Following John’s death, Frederick sold the company to the W.B. Duffy Cider Company in 1900, with the two companies merging in 1914 to become Duffy-Mott.

Eventually, during the mid-1970s, the company was acquired by the American Tobacco Company (later American Brands) and became its subsidiary. In 1982, Cadbury Schweppes purchased the Duffy-Mott Company. Four years later, the company shortened its name to simply Mott’s Inc.

In 1991, Mott’s introduced fruit-flavored apple sauces, which would eventually evolve into the Mott's Fruitsations brand.

In 1999, Cadbury Schweppes acquired the Hawaiian Punch brand for $203 million, giving Mott's responsibility for producing and marketing the shelf-stable portion of the business, and giving the rest of the business to Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, one of Cadbury's other subsidiaries.

In early 2006, all of Mott's beverage brands (Hawaiian Punch, IBC Root Beer, Mr & Mrs T Bloody Mary mix, Orangina, and Yoo-hoo) were folded into Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages. In 2008 Mott's was demerged from Cadbury Schweppes plc, to operate as a separate unit of Keurig Dr Pepper.

Key Dates

 * 1842: Samuel R. Mott starts making and selling cider and vinegar in Bouckville, New York.
 * 1900: The company (then called Genesee Fruit Company) is sold to the W.B. Duffy Cider Company.
 * 1914: Mott's merges with the W.B. Duffy Cider Company, creating Duffy-Mott, incorporated in New York.
 * 1933: Duffy-Mott begins producing prune juice.
 * 1938: Duffy-Mott introduces Mott's Apple Juice.
 * 1958: Duffy-Mott completes its initial public offering of stock.
 * 1982: Cadbury Schweppes acquires Duffy-Mott.
 * 1986: Duffy-Mott shortens its name to Mott’s Inc.
 * 1991: Mott’s introduces fruit-flavored apple sauces, which would eventually evolve into the Mott's Fruitsations brand.
 * 1999: Cadbury-Schweppes acquires the Hawaiian Punch brand and partially integrates it with Mott's.
 * 2001: The company introduces Mott’s Healthy Harvest, an unsweetened apple sauce blended with other fruits.
 * 2002: During the previous four years, annual sales for Mott's double.
 * 2008: Cadbury Schweppes divests Mott's as part of Keurig Dr Pepper.
 * 2008: Motts sources all of its apple juice from China, violating recommended FDA levels of arsenic.
 * 2010: The company introduces Mott’s Fruit Snacks

Acquisitions

 * 1929: Standard Apple Products Company
 * 1953: Clapp's Baby Foods
 * 1960: Pratt-Low Preserving Corporation
 * 1960s: Cherry Growers Co., Inc., of Michigan
 * 1966: Lord Mott Canning Company
 * 1966: Tilghman Packaging Company
 * 1966: Clamato
 * 1987: Mr & Mrs T
 * 2001: ReaLime and ReaLemon

Labor issues at Williamson, New York plant
On May 23, 2010, 305 workers at the Mott's plant in Williamson, New York, represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 220 (RWDSU), voted to strike after Mott's parent company at the time, Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS)—despite healthy profits, an increase in market share and stock price—proposed serious cuts to employee benefits.

The proposal from the company included a $1.69-per-hour wage cut for all employees, a pension elimination for future employees, and a pension freeze for current employees, a 20% decrease in employer contributions to the 401(k) and increased employee contributions toward health care premiums and co-payments. DPS came under criticism for proposing cuts to worker pay at a time when not only was the local economy in turmoil, but the top three executives at DPS had doubled their pay between 2007 and 2009.

Then-State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wrote to Mott's on June 25, 2010, urging the company to return to the bargaining table and come to a "fair and equitable solution."

In a letter to Fang Li, President and CEO of Keurig Dr Pepper, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer expressed concern that,"… with unemployment in the Rochester area nearly 10 percent, the ongoing labor shortage is not only harming the 305 workers of the RWDSU Local 200 who work in the facility, but can harm the entire Wayne County economy due to the facility's centrality to the regional and state apple market."This sentiment was echoed by the New York Apple Association, Inc., in a statement urging Mott's to continue negotiations:

 * The current impasse between the valued work force at the Williamson plant and management not only threatens the growers' and workers' future, but places more than 150 years of building brand recognition and consumer loyalty for Mott's products at risk.

On Monday, September 13, 2010, the strike ended after Mott's workers voted to approve the company's most recent proposal. The new agreement included a wage freeze, but not the pay cuts the company had demanded. The contract also preserved pensions for existing workers.

Brands

 * Clamato
 * Hawaiian Punch
 * Mr & Mrs T
 * Orangina (North America)
 * ReaLemon and ReaLime
 * Yoo-hoo

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Stacey Nelkin

Stacey Nelkin is an American film and television actress.

Acting
Nelkin starred as Bonnie Sue Chisholm in four episodes of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms (1979). When the miniseries resumed in 1980, she was up for the role in the miniseries but turned it down to take a role as Candy on Up the Academy. Delta Burke starred in the role of Bonnie Sue instead of Stacey.

She appeared in the horror film Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) as Ellie Grimbridge. Around the same time, Nelkin was scheduled to appear in the film Blade Runner. She had been cast as Mary, a sixth Nexus-6 replicant that escapes from "off-world" and comes to Earth, but budget constraints resulted in her part being cut from the film early in the period of principal photography. Before being cast as Mary, she had done a screen test for the role of Pris but the role ultimately went to Daryl Hannah. Nelkin's screen test appears on Disc 4 of the collector's edition DVD set. Nelkin has made guest appearances in several TV series, including The Paper Chase, The Waltons, CHiPs, The A-Team, Eight Is Enough, 1st & Ten and Hunter.

Her best-known TV role was on the soap opera Generations (1990) as Christy Russell.

She starred in the 2022 horror film, The Shed after responding to a posting about a movie that was going to be shot locally, and calling the number on the poster.

Relationship expert
Nelkin is a self-styled "relationship expert" and has her own YouTube channel and a website. She wrote a book called You Can't Afford to Break Up: How an Empty Wallet and a Dirty Mind Can Save Your Relationship. For a time, she was a frequent guest on the program Fox & Friends.

Substance abuse professional
In 2008, Nelkin began a career in drama therapy and today is a substance abuse professional and Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC).

In February 2016, Nelkin began treating dually diagnosed individuals with mental health and substance abuse issues through the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Program (OASAS), since serving as an intake and CASAC counselor at The Bridge, a New York-based $65 million agency that provides housing and behavioral health services to 4,000 New Yorkers annually.

Personal life
According to Nelkin, Woody Allen's film Manhattan (1979) was based on her romantic relationship with the director, whom she met when she was 16 on the set of Annie Hall. Her bit part in that film ended up being cut, and their relationship began when she was 17 years old and a student at New York's Stuyvesant High School, and Allen was 42. Allen has said that they dated for a time, but that Nelkin was not underage.

As of 2014, Nelkin is married to Marco Greenberg, having two children together and adopting a third. She was married to actor Barry Bostwick from 1987 to 1991. She has been married three times. Nelkin is Jewish.

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Watt Powell Park

Watt Powell Park was a stadium, primarily used for baseball, in the Kanawha City neighborhood of Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1948, and was home to several Charleston minor-league franchises: the Charleston Senators of the Class A Central League (1949-1951) and the AAA American Association (1952-1960), the Charleston Marlins of the AAA International League (1961), the Charleston Indians of the AA Eastern League (1962-1964), the Charleston Charlies of the AAA International League (1971-1983) and Charleston Wheelers, later the Charleston Alley Cats of the Class A South Atlantic League (1987-2004).

Watt Powell Park held 4,474 people, and was known for the scenic view of nearby hillsides. Watt Powell also was known for the CSX railroad line hard by the south wall of the stadium; some fans were known to watch games from there rather than pay to enter the stadium. Watt Powell Park was bounded by MacCorkle Avenue on the front (North) side, 35th Street on the east, and South Park Road on the west. On the south side of the park, a ridge of hills formed a natural boundary.

The stadium earned a reputation as a pitchers' park due to the lack of power hitting over its lifespan. Part of this can be attributed to its dimensions; the field was 340 feet from home plate to the wall in left field, 330 feet in right, and a daunting 420 feet in deep center field. The outfield walls were also 12 feet high the whole distance around, higher than walls seen elsewhere in baseball. The center field wall included a 90-degree, inward facing angle, reminiscent of the old Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC.

Watt Powell Park closed in 2005 after the opening of Appalachian Power Park in Charleston's East End, near downtown. The Alley Cats moved to the new stadium and renamed themselves the West Virginia Power. The stadium was sold to the University of Charleston which then sold two thirds to the region's largest hospital, Charleston Area Medical Center, whose largest facility is a few blocks away. Demolition of the stadium began in late 2005 and in 2015 a new CAMC cancer clinic opened on the site.

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User:MrMiscellanious

More beer!

The dog got out, ate a bunch of trash, and puked in his own bed. Ha ha!

Maybe I should do the same.

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Talk:Sport pilot certificate

Sport pilot is NOT the only certificate in the U.S. that doesn't require medical certificates... glider and balloon pilots require no medical certificate. From http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/pilotfaq.cfm, the first question under "Medical Certificate Requirements" reads:

 * Q. When do I need a medical certificate?

 * A. You need a medical certificate before flying solo in an airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, or airship. We suggest you get your medical certificate before beginning flight training. This will alert you to any condition that would prevent you from becoming a pilot before you pay for lessons.

 * If you are going to pilot a balloon or glider, you don’t need a medical certificate. All you need to do is write a statement certifying that you have no medical defect that would make you unable to pilot a balloon or glider.

(emphasis added)

To this end, I inserted the qualifier "for powered aircraft" into the article's opening paragraph.

Merge

 * I support the idea if you want to merge this article with the main one. —Cleared as filed. 23:40, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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Totally Games

Totally Games was a video game developer located in Marin County, California. Their titles included the X-wing series of games based on the Star Wars universe, a series of PC-based World War II flight combat simulations (Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe) and Bridge Commander based on the Star Trek universe. They created Secret Weapons over Normandy in 2003 for the PS2, Xbox and PC. They broadened their scope to create products for the PSP and the Wii (Alien Syndrome) and an interconnected theme park/internet experience, Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland. The company was originally founded in 1985 as a sole proprietorship, incorporated in 1993 as Peregrine Software and soon thereafter renamed Totally Games by Lawrence Holland, a Cornell University graduate.

History
Lawrence Holland began developing games in 1983, beginning with Spike's Peak, then Super Zaxxon and Project Space Station, with publisher HESWare. He went independent in 1985 and contracted with Lucasfilm Games to do the Apple II and Commodore 64 versions of naval simulations PHM Pegasus and its sequel, Strike Fleet for publication by Electronic Arts. From this point, Holland proposed the design for Battlehawks 1942 and hired his own team while working closely with Lucasfilm Games. That small sole proprietorship was the precursor to Totally Games which was incorporated in 1993 as Peregrine Software and renamed Totally Games in 1994.

Totally Games changed its business model in October 2008 to a virtual model and continued developing innovative projects beyond the traditional game publishing environment. Lawrence Holland continues to design games and related software, working with a close-knit team developing on traditional and new platforms including the web, iPhone, and social media platforms.

List of games

 * 1988 - Battlehawks 1942
 * 1989 - Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
 * 1991 - Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
 * 1993 - Star Wars: X-Wing
 * 1994 - Star Wars: TIE Fighter
 * 1997 - Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
 * 1998 - Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series
 * 1999 - Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
 * 2002 - Star Trek: Bridge Commander
 * 2002 - Knights of Decayden (cancelled)
 * 2003 - Secret Weapons Over Normandy
 * 2005 - Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
 * 2006 - Special project for DARPA
 * 2007 - Alien Syndrome
 * 2008 - ''Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids
 * 2008 - PBR: Out of the Chute
 * 2009 - Cisco Mind Share Game (for Cisco Systems)
 * 2009 - Oceanis (downloadable PC game with Nickelodeon)
 * 2010 - GoldWalker (iPhone)
 * 2011 - Beachtown (Facebook)

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Toni Grant

Toni Grant (April 3, 1942 – March 27, 2016) was an American psychologist and talk radio host.

Personal life
Born Toni Gale Glickman in New York City in 1942, Grant received her B.A. degree from Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Syracuse University. While in college, she married Dr. Neil Holland, an internist, and they had two daughters, Kimberly and Courtney, before divorcing after 14 years of marriage. Grant's radio success occurred mainly in Southern California, where she had moved with her family in 1970.

Radio career
Prior to getting into broadcasting, Grant maintained a private practice, counseling former Vietnam veterans and later working with autistic children and people with schizophrenia. She first got started in radio as a guest expert on psychology on controversial Los Angeles talk show host Bill Ballance's Feminine Forum, in 1972 on station KGBS, and then on KABC. Grant was so well-received that in 1975, she got her own call-in advice show on KABC radio. Almost immediately, she gained a sizeable following and received critical acclaim for her ability to handle the advice-giving genre, while being both informative and entertaining. Said Los Angeles Times media critic James Brown, "Grant... is a soothing, reinforcing sounding board for people with problems." In fact, in a world of increasingly angry and confrontational talk hosts, Grant came to be known as "the Doctor who tells it like it is, but in a nice way."

Beginning in 1982, Grant and several other KABC personalities, were syndicated nationally via satellite, on the ABC Radio Network. This brought her show to a much wider audience on talk stations around the country. That year, it was reported that she was earning more than $100,000 a year, more than other radio psychologists. She was also considered more credible than some radio advice-givers because not only was she a licensed clinical psychologist but she was also a member of the American Psychological Association. From 1986 to 1988 her program was heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System, another national radio network.

Later years
In 1988 she remarried, to business executive John McCulloch Bell, CEO and chairman of the board of Bell Packaging Corporation. She also wrote a best-selling book called Being A Woman, in which she advised women to return to more traditional roles and embrace the idea of home and family. In 1989 she took a "sabbatical" from her radio program, which by then was originating at Los Angeles radio station KFI. During the following years she and her husband traveled extensively, and she also assisted him in his business ventures. In 1991, she and her husband relocated to Dallas, Texas, where she continued to write and do speaking engagements. In 1997, she returned to the air with another syndicated radio call-in program.

Grant died on March 27, 2016, in Beverly Hills, California, from complications from dementia.

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Lake Olmstead Stadium

Lake Olmstead Stadium is a baseball park in Augusta, Georgia, United States. It was built between the 1994 and 1995 seasons to replace Heaton Stadium on the same site and can hold 4,822 people. The stadium also serves as an outdoor-arena style event venue.

Lake Olmstead Stadium was primarily used as the home field of the Augusta GreenJackets of the Class A South Atlantic League from 1995 to 2017, after which the GreenJackets moved to the new SRP Park across the Savannah River in North Augusta, South Carolina, in 2018.

Lake Olmstead Stadium was the home field of the Augusta University Jaguars baseball team for most of their games from 2009 to 2013 and all of their games from 2014 to 2018; however, the team elected to return to Jaguar Field on the Forest Hills campus full-time starting in the 2019 season.

Features
The stadium has nearly 1,000 box seats, 830 reserved seats and over 2,500 general admission seats. In 2006, the Budweiser Party Pavilion was built down the right field line. This new area can host picnics anywhere from 20 people to as many as 500 people.

Improvements
Before the 2007 season, the Cintas Cool Zone was constructed and the Fun Zone playground area down the left-field line was revamped.

Future
With the GreenJackets' departure, the Augusta-Richmond County commission faces questions on how to utilize the ballpark. One proposal was leaving the ballpark as-is with Augusta University as the primary tenant while another proposal was to renovate the ballpark into an amphitheater. In August 2018 it was reported that the issues hadn't been resolved yet, but that, regarding the interest of Augusta University or Paine College, "it doesn't look like that's the route we're going to take." In October 2018 Recreation officials recommended to city commissioners that they do modest repairs to the facility to begin holding events, short of a full-scale renovation estimated to cost $640,000.

In 2020, the city reached an agreement with concert promoter C-4 Live to manage the stadium and cover the costs to make it a state-of-the-art outdoor venue in exchange for hosting events there for free for a limited time. The first event scheduled, a concert series during Masters Week in March 2022, was cancelled a month ahead of the event, and stadium work was stopped, citing soil instability.

As of March 2023, the stadium is unusable and the city is pursuing a lawsuit against the company they contracted with for repairs. In April 2023, the company filed a countersuit against the city. In April 2024, the city was granted a default judgement by a Richmond County judge against C-4 Live, dismissing the concert promoter's counterclaim due to their failure to retain a lawyer on court order.

Notable events
Bob Dylan performed at the stadium during his 2006 North American Tour on August 17, 2006.

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Aubrey De Vere

Aubrey De Vere may refer to:

 * Aubrey de Vere I (died c. 1112/13), tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror in 1086
 * Aubrey de Vere II (c. 1085–1141), master chamberlain of England
 * Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (c. 1115–1194)
 * Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (c. 1163–1214)
 * Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford (c. 1338–1400)
 * Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627–1703), Royalist during the English Civil War
 * Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet (1788–1846), poet, of the De Vere baronets
 * Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902), Irish poet, son of the preceding

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Wikipedia talk:List of WikiProjects

Pseudoscience
Should the "Intelligent Design" WikiProject be placed in "Pseudoscience", as it is now, or should it be put under "Religion"? I would argue for a move and deletion of the "Pseudoscience" heading. Courtland 01:30, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Putting it under "religion" would only inflame people who want to claim that's not what it is. The whole issue should be sidestepped by putting it under something neutral sounding like "Non-falsifiable hypotheses".  ;-)  Or even "definition of science" or "philosophy of science" where questions of scientific method and the question chain should be discussed.

 * 'Pseudoscience' is a WP:NPOV violation, since it's a pejorative Cynical 20:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I support putting it under "philosophy of science". Balso Snell 21:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I thinks it should be put with a title "Crackpot Theories", cause my sensee is that crazy dudes like Rick Perry and the chick Michelle Bachmann are into it. And they make a bunch of stuff up when they be talking.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.36.165 (talk) 22:21, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Reorg
Just a heads-up - there is a reorganisation discussion going on about this and a few related pages over at WikiProject Manning 01:43, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Media project discussion
We've opened up WikiProject Media and are seeking editors, advisors and input. At present, we are developing our list of articles, creating templates and looking at the initial stages of the project. We've added other projects where they seem to fit the various suggestion categories. In some cases we might reduce the number of added to those lists and focus to the ones most relevant and likely to prove complementary or helpful to our project. A related project that also needs editors and advisors is WikiProject Journalism. Calicocat 23:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Journalism project discussion
This is a new project that needs editors, advisors and input. We have a good list of articles to look and some improvements to the Journalism articles have already been made as a result. There has also been some disagreement about a couple of articles but even those are progressing with good faith discussions and some new voices to add to the expansion and development of the various articles. Please see and sign up for WikiProject Journalism if so minded. Thanks, Calicocat 23:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

 * A good thing would be to list all conventions derived from journalism which Wikipedia uses, e.g. as of, and those that should be used in referring to say future events, e.g. election. In some ways WP leads journalists in how it does these things.

Norms of listing
Hello all - I have a question about appropriate listing here. We are starting WikiProject Game theory, about the interdisciplinary study of game theory. While game theory is traditionally studied in economics, it is used by evolutionary biology, mathematics, and others. Should I list the wikiproject in several different places on this list? Or just under economics? Thanks! --best, kevin · · · Kzollman | Talk · · · 17:39, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * I would suggest that you list it once and cross-reference to other page sections, but I wouldn't add a lot of cross-references. For instance, the evolutionary biology and mathematics are both in the major science column. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 18:30, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Why not have a separate section for 'interdisciplinary studies'? --Fenice 18:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Almost anything that is general (about 30% of the wikiprojects, I'm guessing) could conceivably go into such a section. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 22:32, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Which other project would you see as an interdisciplinary field? --Fenice 07:55, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * For instance, many things under "Games and Recreation" are cross-postable under "Entertainment"; all "encyclopedia" topics (such as "Music encyclopedia topics") are cross-postable under "Wikipedia:Content"; many of the "Transportation" items are cross-postable under "Geography"; "Computer science" items are cross-postable under "Technology"; "Sociology" items are cross-postable under "Science"; "Philately" is cross-postable under "Games and Recreation" (as a hobby). Thirty-percent is high, but it's not unreasonable if this list is considered saying "a couple of dozen".  The term "interdisciplinary" has both a formal and an informal definition and I do not expect people to use the formal one. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 14:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I believe most wikipedians will tend to understand the term in its formal meaning. And Game theory would as of yet be the only subject in this field. Let's give it a try.--Fenice 16:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

"Building" vs. "Trolling"
User:Phroziac said on Wikipedia IRC channel that "I'm going to make a WikiProject Wikipedians for Encyclopedia Building", despite many objections such as this from User:Alkivar: "writing articles! why that takes time away from chatting on IRC!"

He also suggested a parallel WikiProject Wikipedians for Trolling to ensure that those who support the conflict theory are not left out by all this silly "building" talk.

Both are good ideas. It would be bad to reinforce the absurd conceptual metaphor that what goes on at Wikipedia is some predictable "building" process, and there has been enough use of the term "trolling" to describe a wide variety of activities, many of which have been shown to be essential to make Wikipedia work (for instance, baiting, distracting and causing departures of the worst sysops, or, offering principled challenge to shibboleths using obscure sources). For more on the history of this see Young Jacobins and Cabal. It seems the Red Faction is not much engaged any more using "standard channels". Evidence:

 * "03:53, 29 August 2005 Anthere deleted "Red Faction" (content was: 'Victory to the Red Faction!' (and the only contributor was '24.167.137.235'))"

Perhaps power has shifted to the Young Jacobins and User:Snowspinner whose motto is:
 * "All we are saying is give jackbooted fascism a chance."

But all this fascism doesn't seem to be helping much, as User:karynn says of EN that "the wiki is collasping into a morass of personal attacks, edit wars, and vandalism." (on #wikipedia Oct 17). Perhaps the time has come to desysop more, and maybe the trolls are the only ones who can say who needs this treatment.

A Trolling project would get supporters of trolls and trolling out into the open at least...

Listing of Wikiportals on this page
I've added Portals to the listing here (one even earlier today), as have others (within the past hour or so the last one appeared), but I'm thinking that maybe these should be removed because there is a place to list them: Portal:Browse. We could reference this portal listing page in the introduction to this list. What would best influence this decision is the actual relationship between Portals and WikiProjects. Is there one? Are most Portals the spawn of a WikiProject? Do WikiProjects with a like-named Portal use the Portal as a presentation or organization tool? Thanks for your thoughts on this matter. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 22:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Update?
Seems to me, there are a lot of inactive Wikiprojects here that need to be archived appropriately. Anyone want to help me find those that are inactive and move them to List of inactive WikiProjects? Gflores Talk 20:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've gone through the Wikiprojects up to Science. Gflores Talk 20:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Olympic project?
I am an avid watcher of the olympics and it is an impoortant part of world history. While there are already many articles out there, I believe they can be stronger, and maybe more organized. I suggest making this a WikiProject. If anyone aggrees with me and is willing to help out, say so here and drop me a message! Thanks. --Jared 23:02, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Never Mind there already is one

What is a "blatant copy?"
Some of the Wikiprojects are "blantant copies" of other Wikiprojects. What on earth does that mean? Evan Robidoux 18:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know, where did you read that? My guess would be either two Projects with the same goals?  Or one copies another's page, then plugs in the necessary words to make it different? Esquizombi 19:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Blatant copies of other projects tools/techniques/approaches/templates seem a good idea to me (subject to modification to fit project specific needs)... WP:Beatles was started as a blatant copy of the standard wikiproject template, then blatantly copied the article classification stuff from Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, and when that needed a little tweaking, shamelessly ripped off WP:MILHIST techniques...  Meanwhile other stuff like infoboxes and project message boxes were ripped off too... (always with credit where due, we think) It's all good. Am I missing something?  + +Lar: t/c 19:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Countering systemic bias in religion
The talk page for this one is there, and the history of the Project Page is there, but the page itself is not and I can't tell why. Esquizombi 19:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Intentional communities
A group of us is investigating the possibility of a project on the technical and agricultural aspects of operating intentional and sustainable communities. It is not to be limited as to location nor climate but will exclude the social, governance and spiritual aspects of such.

This fits "Humanities" or "Science" poorly and "International Development" is, for some reason, limited to the improvement of the lot of third world countries. All other international development seems to be eliminated. Where to put this project?

Dynamic list of WikiProjects
Since this page is out of date someone may want to have a look at this report by Interiot. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 02:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Problems with organization
Now that I and some other users have pretty much finished recategorizing Category:WikiProjects to make it more navigable, I'm beginning a review of the organization system used on this page to try and make it more up-to-date, consistent, clear, efficient, and accurate. I'll begin with the "Arts" section, and will list some of my problems with this section here first, rather than diving straight into editing, in case I've misunderstood some aspect of the list that necessitates one of the "errors" noted below. So, feel free to discuss any of the below changes, either to dispute my reasoning, agree with it, or make comments or suggestions on the best way to resolve some of these problems (particularly which of the options for dealing with the "Entertainment" section you think would be best).

 * 1) "Entertainment" is being misused here to refer to "Film, radio and television". (For some silly reason "Professional Wrestling" is neither listed under "Television" nor under "Sports", though it would fit much better in either; if we're taking it as a sport, there's no reason to put it under "Entertainment" except to insult it, and if we're taking it as a type of TV show, I see no more reason to not categorize it under "Television" than if we had a "WikiProject Reality TV".) This is obviously inaccurate, and a relic of a very much unused WikiProject Entertainment which misused the term accordingly. Not only are there obviously numerous forms of entertainment outside of film, radio, and television, such as the performing arts and games, but it is also a fact that not all film, radio and television is "entertainment": labeling news programs and documentaries "entertainment" would be like labeling a newspaper as such. Most importantly, though, the very vague title "entertainment" simply doesn't help users who are new to WikiProjects and want to find TV/radio/film-related projects; it will likely confuse and lead astray more users than not, and the primary purpose of this organizational system should be to be accessible to as many users as possible through clear and consistent categorization. I propose that either "Entertainment" be replaced with "Film, radio and television", or "film" and "professional wrestling" be moved to "performing arts" (in keeping with the Wikipedia categories themselves) and "TV" and "radio" be merged with Internet-based arts (like Flash animations) into a "broadcasting" section. The former would probably be simplest, though I also like the latter because it would help balance out the different sections more by greatly expanding the "performing arts" section. Either way, though, the current situation is very bad; "entertainment" should, if anything, be moved to "hobbies and recreation".
 * 2) "Comics" (and all its subprojects) should be moved from being primarily listed at "Literature" to being primarily listed at "Visual art". Why? Because all comics are visual art, but not all comics are "literature". To explain: though obviously most comics combine words and text, it is not this interplay of word and text that makes something a comic (else this would be a comic!); rather, it is the sequencing of images that makes something a comic (hence the comics paging listing "sequential art" as a valid, though rarely-used, synonym). In reality, many comics do not use any words at all (thus making there "literary" existence rather slim indeed :)), but all comics are visual art, as a requirement. The main source of this confusion is probably the phrase "comic books" and the very superficial facts that they're often printed as "books"—but not all "books" are literature (we may also want to address this problem with including "WikiProject Books" in the "Literature" section, as though dictionaries and etc. were not "books"), and certainly not all comics are books. Misrepresenting a common correlation (that comics typically have words, are printed in book format, etc.) as a part of the term's definition is extremely misleading and sloppy organization. Plus the "visual arts" section is currently much smaller than the "literature" one, making a move from the former to the latter the most practical decision as well.
 * 3) A minor point on the "Literature" section: why is "Novels" a subproject of "Books", while "Children's literature" (which I've only ever seen in book format) is not? Also, why are all the subprojects of "books" other than "novels" not subprojects of "novels", considering that they're all both books and novels? (Assuming one interprets "Middle-earth" to be a series of novels by Tolkien, rather than a fantasy world; if it is actually the latter case, "WikiProject Middle-earth" should probably be moved out of the "Books" section altogether and put under a genre-based section, like "Fantasy"). Also, it's obviously a huge mistake that the "Inheritance Trilogy" project is not listed under "Books" or "Novels".
 * 4) A more important note: why on earth is "mythology" listed here as a type of "literature"? "Mythology" is obviously a subproject of "religion", not of "literature" (Category:Mythology attests to that). I doubt anyone will look for "mythology" WikiProjects in the literature section, so even including a pointer to "religion" there would be useless; including the primary, bolded entries for the mythology projects in "literature" is beyond unhelpful. Most mythology throughout human history hasn't even been written down, so how could it be "literature"?
 * 5) Why is "The Beatles" not a subproject of "Musicians"?
 * 6) It is worth noting here that "Opera" is actually a subtype of "Theatre" (and also of "Music"). I bring this up only to clear up a misunderstanding of Wikipedia's categorization system (see Category:Opera) that resulted in a user exchanging some rather unkind words with me recently; there's no reason to be ambiguous about such things. However, I have no problem with WikiProject Opera's current placement (mainly because "Performing arts" is such a small section at the moment that moving "Opera" to being an indented subproject of "Theatre" would have little effect); I'm just making a note for future reference.
 * 7) Why does this organization scheme (and, less importantly, WikiProject Drum Corps itself) list "Drum Corps" as a "performing art" rather than as a "music" subcategory? Certainly performance is an aspect of Drum Corps, but not the key defining aspect: heck, Wikipedia's own "drum corps" articles don't categorize this activity under "performing arts" in any way, but instead categorize it as a type of "music group"! So I don't really understand this placement; it almost seems deliberately designed to confuse. If "Drum Corps" is a performing art, then couldn't one, by the same logic, say that just about all music, and especially live music, is a type of "performing art", since it requires "performance" to create? I don't think such a counterintuitive placement, which seems more designed to push some unspecified point than to help new users navigate through this mountain of WikiProjects, is helpful.
 * Uh, what's a "child project"? Sounds vaguely disturbing. Is this meant to refer to children's books?
 * 1) Why segregate inactive projects from the rest of the pack? That just makes it harder to find and restart them. Instead, just leave them unbolded so it's easy to tell them apart! This separate "inactive" section has also caused unfortunate inconsistencies in the organization, such as "entertainment" being listed twice (both under the "inactive" section and under the "entertainment" section).
 * 2) Lastly: um, why isn't anything alphabetized? Architecture, then Visual arts, then Contemporary art, then Graffiti? What's the point of such haphazard placement?

-Silence 07:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

More:

-Silence 17:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Why not shorten "Hobbies and recreation" to just "Recreation"? Most hobbies are already recreational by nature, and the "Hobbies" subsection of "Hobbies and recreation" is currently complete nonsense anyway: the only articles it lists are "Food and drink" ones, and last I heard, eating and drinking were necessities for life, not just "hobbies"! "Food and drink" should really be moved to "Culture" or something, and the "Hobbies" section should be done away with altogether—and good riddance, since it's too vague to be very useful and most of its potential entries would be better placed elsewhere. Also, looking over the "Inactive" list, I'm not sure "hats and headgear" or "fountain pens" can be considered "recreation" either.
 * 2) Ethnology is a subfield under Anthropology, so rename "Anthropology and Ethnology" to "Anthropology".
 * 3) With the exception of "WikiProject Biography" itself, all the subprojects of the "Biographies" section belong better under some other section: "Athletes" should be under "Sports", "Musicians" should be under "Music", "Jesus" and "Saints" should be under "Religion", "Philippine Writer Biographies" should be under "Countries: Philippines", and "Police Officer Biographies" should be under "Law". Such a vague and inconsistent section isn't really useful, and I'd debate whether "Biographies" is truly one of the "Humanities"; I recommend deleting the section.
 * 4) "Culture" must be deleted. End of story. Half the WikiProjects on this page belong under "Culture"; to use it as it's currently being used is to misuse it as some sort of nondescript "etc." section. "Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants" is already listed under the "Drugs" section, and there's no need (or reason) to double-list it, so that leaves only a single WikiProject under "Culture": WikiProject Deaf. And categorizing this WikiProject is actually extremely simple: list it under "Language" because part of its scope encompasses sign language, and list it under "Health sciences" (where it actually already is listed) to cover the fact that deafness is a medical condition. And then, begone, uselessly generic "Culture" section!
 * 5) I recommend removing "WikiProject Jesus", as he's important primarily in a religious context; if we had a "WikiProject Pope John Paul II", he'd be listed under "Religions" rather than "History" because his historical significance is almost entirely religious, or at least connected to religion. So listing him under "Biography" or "History" is unnecessary, even as a crossreference: This is the same reason "WikiProject Saints" is not listed under "History", even though obviously such a topic deals almost entirely with historical figures. If "Jesus" belongs under "History", then so does every other religious topic, and I think that degree of repetition would be doing a disservice to our readers; let's not apply a double-standard by treating Jesus differently than we would Gautama Buddha, Moses, Muhammad, or John Paul II, even though the influence and significance of all those figures, like Jesus, extends behind solely the religious.
 * 6) Why are "Military" and "Military history" both listed under "History"? If "Military history" is where "Military" and "History" meet, shouldn't "Military" be in a different section, like, uh, Warfare? (Doi?)
 * 7) Is Journalism really one of the Humanities? And couldn't we merge this section into "Media"? (Which also isn't really one of the Humanities...)
 * Ah, philately. Here would have been a perfect entry to add under "Hobbies", rather than the generic and inaccurate "Humanities". But, too late now. Let's find somewhere else to better fit it, if we can.
 * 1) "Politics, law, and government" is under "Humanities"?! What's the world coming to? I'm starting to come to the conclusion that "Humanities" is a pretty damned useless categorization scheme for these sections; "Culture", "Society", etc. are much more meaningful modern distinctions to use for broad, overarching fields of knowledge, and much more consistent with Wikipedia's own categorization scheme (see Category:Culture, Category:Society).
 * 2) "Sociology" - Sillier and sillier. Sociology and politics and law are disciplines under the Social sciences, not the Humanities! If we wanted to create a truly accurate system, we'd have had to include the entirety of the "Arts" section there as well, so it's becoming clear that we need to replace "Humanities" with some more useful and clear sections. For starters, create a top-level "Society" section and move Sociology, Politics, law, and government (and possibly Journalism and Media, since they relate to the spreading of information and news within a society) there. Then strongly consider renaming "Humanities" to simply "Culture".
 * 3) As for the other poorly-organized (or not organized at all) entries at the bottom of "Humanities": "Holidays" can go under "religion" about as easily as "mythology" can (both holidays and mythologies are not necessarily "religious", but there's certainly a strong correlation, and that's probably where the ideas originated). "Calendars" doesn't really belong under Society or Culture; timekeeping should be discussed under "Science" or "Technology". "NLP Concepts and methods" belongs under "Psychology", and can also possibly be cross-referenced as "Linguistics". As for the inactive projects: "Family and relationships" under "Society" (social interactions), "Geologic timescale" under "Geosciences" (don't understand why it was under "Humanities" to begin with), "Hats and headgear" under "Fashion" (an aspect of culture), "Historical figures" under "History" (which can go under either society or culture, or can be a top-level section of its own), "Leaders by year" under history and/or society, "School Years" under education, "United Nations" under politics, "Wars" and "Falkland War" under warfare (a subsection of "technology") and/or history, "Time" under physics, "years in science" is already listed under "science", "historical states" under politics and history, and "monarchs" and "u.s. politicians" under government.
 * 4) "International development" belongs under "Society", obviously. I don't understand why it was placed as a top-level section; it's pretty easy indeed to place under "politics" and/or "economics" (see Category:Development).

 * While I agree with many of your comments above, I think you need to reign in your "Doi?", "obviously" and similar comments. This is important, but can do without your "I just can't believe no one has done or thought of this before." attitude. You'll be much more likely to attract like-minded people to help out if you keep from trashing everything right at the start. Please keep in mind that this is meant as constructive criticism, not as a personal attack on you. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 18:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I appreciate the constructive criticism, and will take it to heart, but would prefer if you directed such critiques to my Talk page, where I can discuss such matters in more depth; this page is for talking about "List of WikiProjects", and I imagine it will be difficult enough to get feedback and criticism on some of the above suggestions (due to their unfortunate length; my apologies) without a digression on my behavior, justified though it may be. Thanks again for the response.
 * (Though I'm afraid I'll have to stand by my "Doi?" comment. :) Not listing "Military" itself under a section dedicated to "Warfare" is just funny; I did not mean any of my comments as attacks or insults, however, and was only pointing out the amusing absurdity of considering military more significant to history than to war. C'mon. It's funny. :3 Cheer up!) -Silence 19:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that that's amusing. Even more amusing is the fact that it took me a minute to figure out what you meant by "Doi?" as "Doi" is a surname in Japanese (土井), and that's what I thought of first when I read that: "Who's this Doi person from whom Silence wants comments?" Heh-heh... (^_^) --日本穣 Nihonjoe 03:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * ... You mean you thought I wasn't asking for someone named Doi to come over? :/ I'm confused. -Silence 10:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Silence, that's an impressive program of rationalisation! I skimmed through it and the proposed changes look sensible. I'm the person who added the Deaf WikiProject to it's three sections (language, culture, health) so I'll just comment on the proposed removal of the "culture" section. It seems to me that there's a need for a place for projects on cultural groups, such as "Indigenous peoples of North America" (currently classifed under "Anthropology and ethnology"), LGBT (currently under "Sociology"), and the Deaf community (currently under "Culture"). Members of these projects are generally interested in anything relating to their cultural group, not just the anthropological or sociological aspects. How about renaming "Culture" as "Ethnic and cultural groups", which is broad enough to cover various aspects but not so broad as to include Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants? ntennis 01:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * The problem is that if we bend over backwards to create a category like "Ethnic and cultural groups" just to fit a single WikiProject (WP Deaf) in it, we'll end up with inconsistencies when we refuse to cross-reference dozens of over projects there: in particular, many of the Religion WikiProjects can be considered "cultural groups" by that definition. I think two listings on the page is sufficient; we can't list everything everywhere, and if the reorganization I talked over above ends up going through, "Language" will be a subcategory of "Culture" in any case. -Silence 10:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Combatting clutter: WikiProject Descriptions
As I've started editing this page, I've come to the conclusion that one of the biggest problems with navigating and using this page, both for people editing the page and for people reading it, is the monstrous amount of space consumed by WikiProject descriptions. Even worse, the majority of these descriptions are redundant, unnecessary, and repetitive: is it really necessary, for example, to describe WikiProject Star Wars' goal as "...to organize, clean, and improve Star Wars information on Wikipedia"? The same applies to dozens and dozens of other WikiProject descriptions. Moreover, all that text ends up generating countless stylistic inconsistencies (i.e. whether "..." is used or not, whether it starts with "to" or something else, whether quotations are used at all, etc.), and overall just generates way too much clutter and chaos, something unsustainable on a page of this size. I'm betting that those descriptions are one of the big reasons this page is so badly out-of-date and underused: it's just too much information, when combined with the already-huge list of projects itself.

Therefore, I propose that we remove all descriptions, mission statements, etc. from WikiProjects expect where they are needed to clarify something important that was left ambiguous in the WikiProject's own name (e.g., WikiProject Tree of Life should explain that it's really a "WikiProject Taxonomy", because otherwise some people may be confused by what "Tree of Life" means on its own; they may think it's a Kabbalistic reference, for example). By restricting descriptions to where they're absolutely necessary, not only will it clean up 90% of the text cluttering up this page, but it will also make it much easier to find the descriptive text that is important for the sake of understanding a WikiProject's scope. This List should seek only to provide enough information that users will understand what each project is about: that's enough to tell a user whether or not he might be interested in the project, and he can then follow the link to learn all about the project's specific goals, history, relationships, standards, etc. By cutting down on the amount of depth we explore for each Project, I think we'll make it infinitely easier to keep this page up-to-date, comprehensive, consistent, and useful. What do you think? -Silence 10:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge?
Since this page doesn't seem to be very active these days, and since the few comments thus far have been mostly positive, I'm going ahead with most of the changes I've outlined above; they can easily be reverted if someone turns up who doesn't like 'em, and in the meantime I can give a demonstration of the page layout I think would be a significant step up from the previous version. I'm also expanding the list greatly with the dozens of WikiProjects that haven't been added to this list yet due to oversights, and I'm making one more much-needed change that I'd like some feedback on, since I expect some to disagree:

I propose that we merge List of WikiProjects and List of inactive WikiProjects into a single page. The current system is overly bureaucratic and laborious: one has to both remove an entry from one page and add it to another to turn a project from being active to being inactive, or vice versa, even though, as both pages note, the distinction between active and inactive is largely arbitrary and ill-defined, and has no real significance other than to say "noone's doing much here at the moment", which can change at any time for any inactive project should anyone wish to change it. Separating the lists makes the distinction seem more "real" than it really is, and thus discourages reactivation of important and well-established old WikiProjects just because they haven't had much activity lately.

Additionally, the current way (or rather, the way before I made my changes) we deal with WikiProjects is incredibly inconsistent: the top half of the list included inactive projects in a "List of inactive projects" at the bottom of each section (even though I thought the whole point of having a separate page was to keep those entries from cluttering this one up? why create a whole other page and then list them anyway on this one, consuming just as much (nay, even more) space but providing infinitely less valuable information, even lacking a simple link to the WikiProject in most cases?), while the bottom half either listed them with an ambiguous red "I*" next to the inactive projects, or didn't bother to make any distinction at all between active and inactive ones (as was the case for the entire "geography" section, which doesn't even have any entries on the "List of inactive WikiProjects" page despite the huge number of clearly inactive ones listed here).

To solve both problems, the inconsistency as well as the complexity of the previous system, and furthermore to address the simple fact that List of inactive WikiProjects is, relatively speaking, really really short! (I'd have expected it to be at least three times as long to conceivably justify its own page!), and also to make it much easier to keep the page(s) updated and cohesive, I propose that we simply denote active WikiProjects with bold and inactive WikiProjects without it. For a list as long and intricate as this, simplicity is best, both for the purposes of our readers (who must navigate a huge amount of information to find what they're looking for, and who we must do our best to aid in that end with a clear, consistent listing) and for the purposes of our editors (who must keep the list updated and consistent despite the huge amount of pages they have to deal with, and must be assisted in making that task as easy, simple, and quick as possible). So, what do you think? -Silence 13:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree, except that merely bolding or unbolding an entry will not make it obvious that a project is inactive. I think it would be better to have the only difference between an active and inactive WP would be to put (inactive) after it.--Jonathan Kovaciny 14:57, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Why would it not make it obvious? As long as we leave a very clear, distinct notice at the top of a page indicating that the bolded projects are currently active and the unbolded projects currently inactive, it should be very easy for anyone to learn what the boldness signifies, and even for the lazy ones who skip the top of the article and move right in, it will require very little link-following at all to determine the meaning of the bold text, since all the unbolded entries will presumably have "this project is inactive" tags at the top of their pages. Either way, I think the bold/unbold method is a near-ideal mix of being obvious (for users who care wheter the article is active/inactive) without being obtrusive (for users who don't care much) or needlessly complicated.
 * I don't like adding (inactive) much mainly because it would consume a lot more space, wouldn't be immediately obvious while scrolling down the list (you'd have to go all the way to the end of the line to figure out whether or not a project is active, whereas with bolding/unbolding even an extremely quick scroll down the page will reveal instantly how many projects are active and inactive), and would surely be very difficult to distinguish from the dating scheme, which also uses italics and also comes after the WikiProjects' names. For example, which of these is easier to quickly and accurately deduce, this:

 * Music genres March 2004
 * Classical music March 2004
 * Ragas July 2004: For articles on ragas, musical modes in Indian classical music.
 * Computer music February 2004
 * Electronic music November 2005
 * Hip Hop March 2006
 * Indie music February 2004
 * Metal February 2006: For articles on heavy metal music.
 * R&B and Soul Music February 2005
 * World music September 2004: For articles on world music, cultural and regional "folk" music in various parts of the world.

 * or this:

 * Music genres March 2004
 * Classical music March 2004
 * Ragas July 2004: For articles on ragas, musical modes in Indian classical music. (inactive)
 * Computer music February 2004 (inactive)
 * Electronic music November 2005 (inactive)
 * Hip Hop March 2006
 * Indie music February 2004 (inactive)
 * Metal February 2006: For articles on heavy metal music. (inactive)
 * R&B and Soul Music February 2005 (inactive)
 * World music September 2004: For articles on world music, cultural and regional "folk" music in various parts of the world. (inactive)

 * ? To me, at least, the bolded version stands out much more easily and clearly, and even more so on List of WikiProjects itself. It also keeps the page simpler and the lines shorter in general, which is always a good thing, as it preserves a very high text-to-important-information ratio, encouraging users to pay attention to what information is there rather than to get bored by all the repetitive (inactive)s or cookie-cutter descriptions and stop paying attention. Also I just think it's prettier. :3

 * However, the merge is the main change being made, so I'm glad you agree that merging is a good idea; once that's established, it makes less difference which specific method of signifying "inactive project" we use, and I do agree that there might be some better way to signify "active/inactive" in a clear and meaningful way than the bolding method, though I don't think anything like "(inactive)" is the way to do it. Let's brainstorm some more, then? -Silence 15:32, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree Will make browsing and editing much easier.Lcarsdata Talk 17:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Please go ahead - will be useful for me. TheGrappler 03:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I say we should It would be less complicated, and save time if merged Wootking

 * Is the proposal to have a section at the bottom of the WikiProjects page for the inactive projects? Or will the inactive projects be blended into the main list with some type of "inactive" tag attached? — RJH (talk) 21:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Lists of spaceflights by year
Which category would WikiProject Lists of spaceflights by year best fit into? --GW_Simulations 21:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Category:WikiProject Astronomy. -Silence 21:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Alternative ways to browse WikiProjects
I've added a comment to the top of this page (and to the Category blurb at Category:WikiProjects) describing alternative ways to browse WikiProjects. IMO, this page should have short descriptions, as the All pages link here (with modifications depending on your search) is what I use when I want a list. Carcharoth 09:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Merger!!
The idea of merging the inactive WikiProjects article with this one is a good idea. Someone needs to start doing that! I agree with the above post (Alternative ways...) Auroranorth 12:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Merge completed. — RJH (talk) 23:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject User Page Help
Can someone add this in the right place please. Thanks -- Lost 10:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub Makers
Is there a good reason why the stubmakers aren't on this page? Dessydes 18:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Umm, is that really a WikiProject, in the normal sense of the term? It seems more like a simple list of Wikipedians than any sort of organized group.  Kirill Lokshin 19:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Add a wikiproject
How do i add a wikiproject to this page? I already made it (but I should add more info to it): WikiProject Linkification --Shanedidona 15:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Tool to keep the list updated
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/en_wikiprojects automatically generates a list of active and inactive projects, also those that haven't listed themselves manually at Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects. When discrepant entries are discovered, perhaps it would be useful to have a talk page header template that would encourage the project participants to have the project listed here with an accurate project description? This would alleviate the current maintenance chores quite a bit. __meco 17:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It is a good idea, however the toolserver's database itself is lagged, so it doesn't pick up the newest Projects, or even activity in the existing ones after the toolserver's replication was turned off sometime in June. Tito xd (?!?) 22:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Someone Please Add WikiProject Biography to the list
I have no idea where it would fall in the categorization scheme, but I am certain WikiProject Biography should be mentioned somewhere on the list. Badbilltucker 13:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it's listed under "History". Kirill Lokshin 15:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right. Please forgive my mistake.  And my constant drooling.  Us Cro-Mags do that a lot.  I feel real stupid right now.  Badbilltucker 18:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Unique Identifier
I propose to assign a Unique Identifier (a numeric or alphanumeric code) for any word / concept of Wikipedia. The UID is unique for a Language so We can create links between multiple translations of the same Word that have the same UID. For Example the word: Red (en) = Rouge (fr) = Rosso (it) = UID:1234 I hope this type of classification can be usefull! Marco Cattaneo
 * This might not be the right place to suggest this.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 22:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

US Governor Wikiproject
Im am looking for support on my new WiKiProject page. can it be added as a featured or on a list of WikiProjects? Here is the page WikiProject:US Governors --[[User:Zonerocks|Zonerocks] 03:56, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Science Fiction and Fantasy project?
I'm wondering why there is not a project of this type? It seems like the genres are pretty popular on wikipedia, what with all the books, movies, games, and what-not. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 15:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm guessing that the problem with a project of this type would be the fact that it's so generalized. I mean, it would have to be gigantic if it to include stuff such as the complete history of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth (which is huge in itself) or Dune, or other stuff. However, im a huge sci-fi and fantasy fan, so let me know if you want to get something like this started, and I'll help out. I'm sure a lot of other people will want to be in on this if it starts up. So in conclusion, I vote for a start. PinkSombrero SugarTitön | PinkSombrero 21:49, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Reorganisation
The List of WikiProjects totally lacks uniformity. Under some headers, WP's are organised alphabetically, or hierarchically, or worse by date or totally random. If nobody objects, I (maybe with some help from WP:COUNCIL) plan to organise everything hierarchically, 'cause this is the most obvious way IMO. Please comment. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * How about this plan to obsolete this page in favor of a more sophisticated directory structure? Kirill Lokshin 23:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Kirill Lokshin, you are both wise and omnipresent :-) No seriously that's just a thing of beauty over there. But it would need a broad consensus.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup list
As you can see, this page is full of ideas on how to better organise this page. Maybe it would be best if we reached consensus on an idea and implement a different system, instead of many editors trying to keep this page up-to-date. Below is a small list of discussions on this matter (add others if you can).
 * discussion on WikiProject Council

Freemasonry Project
I would like to add WikiProject Freemasonry to this list... but I can not find a category that it would fit into. It sort of fits under philosophy, or under history, ... but not completely. Any suggestions? Blueboar 02:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Aint masons got to do with something like building houses or something? Put it in the constructions category and be done with it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.36.165 (talk) 22:22, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

New Articles Wikiproject
I have had peeks at the various extensive pages on Wikipedia like Most wanted articles, Requested articles and Articles requested for more than a year, and have seen the pages upon pages of redlinks. I am not aware if such a project is already out there but I do think that one dedicated to creating stubs, if anything on all these topics would be a great idea. Per WP:IMPERFECT, I think that at least making these articles would go a long way. It is not something that hard to do, and anyone who wishes to contribute can contribute in their own way as per their own proficiency in using Wikipedia. The original intention of Wikipedia (WP:DEV) was that after the articles are made, a slow and steady article progress would commence including many contributors until a final perfected product had been completed. I think that this spirit should continue in a project to build the foundations before building our way up. Obviously improving articles will still be of it most priority, but I do think that getting these many backlogged articled out of the way and de-redlinked is a good idea.

Any thoughts?--Coin945 (talk) 09:25, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

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Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park

Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park is a baseball stadium located in Charleston, South Carolina. The stadium is named after Charleston's longest-serving mayor, Joseph P. Riley Jr., who was instrumental in its construction. The stadium replaced College Park. It was built in 1997 and seats 6,000 people.

Nicknamed "The Joe" by locals, Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Charleston RiverDogs baseball team of the Carolina League and The Citadel Bulldogs baseball team, whose campus is located nearby.

History
The park has hosted 15 Southern Conference baseball tournaments through the 2014 season. On March 2, 2012, the venue hosted the neutral-site game of the Clemson–South Carolina baseball series. The game, which South Carolina won 3–2 in 11 innings, was attended by 5,851 spectators. The Citadel defeated the Gamecocks 10–8 on April 16, 2014 before 6,500 fans, setting a new record for a college baseball crowd in Charleston.

The Citadel holds lifetime playing rights at the ballpark and has its own clubhouse in the stadium. The land that the stadium is built on once belonged to the school, and was a part of the land-swap negotiations that resulted in the City of Charleston taking over the land and giving The Citadel title to College Park.

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Synovus Park

Synovus Park is a 5,000-seat baseball stadium in Columbus, Georgia, United States, that opened in 1926 and has undergone many rebuilds and repairs. Baseball has been played near Synovus Park since 1909, but in 1926, the current location has been used. In 1951, the park was significantly rebuilt, then in 1995 for the 96' Olympics. The park was damaged in 2006 causing part of the outfield wall to collapse and then strong winds (tornado) hit the stadium in 2012 and knocked the light stands off the roof, causing more damage. Located on the Chattahoochee River in Downtown Columbus, it is currently home to the Columbus Chatt-a-Hoots as of 2021 and new in 2023 the Chattahoochee Monsters, a team relocated from Oxford, AL. The exterior of the Synovus Park is a red brick façade and has many well-landscaped sidewalks that connect to the Chattahoochee RiverWalk.

Synovus Park was formerly named after Theodore Earnest Golden SR, co-founder of Goldens' Foundry and Machine Co. Golden led the effort in Columbus for the city's first South Atlantic League team. Synovus Park was renovated in 1994 in anticipation of the softball events of the 1996 Summer Olympics that were held in the city of Columbus. In 2013, Synovus Park was the home of the Beep Baseball World Series Championship game. The Taiwan Homerun Team beat the Austin Blackhawks by a score of 5-2. It also was the home field of the Columbus Catfish from 2003 to 2008.

In June 2021, the park opened back up with the home team being the Columbus Chatt-a-Hoots of the Sunbelt Baseball League.

In 2024, the Mississippi Braves announced that they would be moving to Columbus after the conclusion of their 2024 season. With the announcement of the relocation, Columbus Council members voted and approved the lease for the team to use Synovus Park. In June 2024, the naming rights were sold to the financial and banking service company Synovus.

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Capital City Stadium

Capital City Stadium is a stadium in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Originally built in 1927, it is primarily used for baseball and was the home for more than 20 years of the Capital City Bombers. It is situated in the Olympia section, near the old Olympia Mill.

While playing at "The Cap" the Bombers enjoyed a rich history of success with numerous South Atlantic League Championships, including the memorable years of 1986, 1991, and 1998.

The stadium was rebuilt in 1991, but in 2005 lost its main tenant, the Bombers. The Coastal Plain League's Columbia Blowfish used the stadium from 2006 until their new stadium was opened in 2015. It had also been used for college baseball by the NCAA Division II Benedict College Tigers, but they left around the same time. Hank Aaron played his last game as a minor league player at Capital City Stadium in 1953 before moving up to the Milwaukee Braves.

In 1995, Capital City Stadium hosted a concert by Hootie & the Blowfish (with Greenville's Edwin McCain, Clemson's Cravin' Melon, and Cowboy Mouth). In 1999, there was the Rock 93.5 Fallout concert there with UK's Bush, Sponge, and Train.

On February 4, 2019, City of Columbia officials announced that the stadium would be torn down "within the next two months" though it remained standing as of June 2019 and the demolition was still in the future as of September 2019. The "closing day event" was finally announced in March 2020 for April 4, with demolition to follow. The event was then postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and had not been rescheduled. In October 2020, the Columbia City Council extended the deadline for developers to purchase the property until May 1, 2021, with demolition to follow.

The site developer plans to build a mixed-use development of retail and residential and restore Rocky Branch Creek, which runs through the site.

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Ploce

Ploce may refer to:

 * Ploce (figure of speech)
 * Ploče, a city in Croatia

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Fluor Field at the West End

Fluor Field at the West End is a 6,700-seat baseball-only stadium in Greenville, South Carolina, that opened on April 6, 2006. Designed by architectural firm DLR Group, it was built as a new home of the Greenville Drive baseball team, the High-A East affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

Features
Fluor Field nearly replicates the dimensions of Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. The ballpark has its own "Green Monster" replica, a 30-foot high wall in left field as opposed to the 37-foot one found at Fenway, and contains a manual scoreboard. Every other dimension is to the same specifications as Fenway Park, including "Pesky’s Pole" in right field. Other than the tribute to Fenway, Fluor Field also pays tribute to the Greenville area as the ballpark's nostalgic look utilizes reclaimed bricks from local mills. As is the tradition in Fenway Park, Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" is sung in the middle of the seventh inning. Fluor Field is adjacent to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum.

In 2007, the Greenville Drive privately funded the enhancement of Fluor Field at a cost of approximately $1.5 million. One of these enhancements include a display regarding Greenville's baseball heritage with information about players who were either born or played in the upstate region.

On February 26, 2008, the stadium was officially renamed to Fluor Field at the West End. The field was named for Fluor Corporation, a major local employer.

Events
The field hosted the 2009, 2012 and 2013 Southern Conference baseball tournaments as well as the 2016 and 2017 editions. It will continue to do so until at least 2019.

Since 2010, the field has hosted a neutral site game of the Reedy River Rivalry between the Clemson Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks. The lone exception was in 2012, when that year's neutral site game was played in Charleston. Fluor Field hosts the second of three games spread out over a weekend on a Saturday, as the Friday and Sunday contests rotate yearly between the respective home fields for the two schools. The Gamecocks, as of 2017, hold a 4–3 advantage over the Tigers in games played at Fluor Field. The field has also hosted several regular season collegiate baseball games for South Carolina-based schools since its opening.

Milestones and notable moments

 * First pitch: Phil Seibel, on April 6 at 7:35 pm
 * First hit: Jesús Soto, on April 6, 2006, in the 4th inning
 * First Drive hit: Jeff Natale, April 6, 2006, in the 4th inning
 * First home run: Jesús Soto, April 6, 2006, in the 4th inning
 * First Drive home run: Jeff Natale, April 6, 2006, in the 4th inning
 * On December 9, 2023, at around 3:00 a.m. EDT, 3 juveniles broke into the stadium and stole items from the press box. They were identified by their parents and turned themselves in.

Attendance records

 * Highest season attendance: Over 350,000 (2012)
 * Highest single game attendance: 7,839 (April 24, 2022, (Greenville Drive vs. Winston-Salem Dash)

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Ploce (figure of speech)

A ploce is a figure of speech in which a word is separated or repeated with a delay in order to emphasize a statement. Similar to epizeuxis which denotes an immediate repetition, ploce deliberately adds an intervening word between repetitions for a distinct rhetorical effect.

Examples

 * "I am that I am." - Exodus 3:14
 * "Make war upon themselves - brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self." - Richard III, by Shakespeare
 * "My lovely one I fain would love thee much, but all my Love is none at all I see." - Edward Taylor, "Preparatory Meditation 12"

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Grayson Stadium

 William L. Grayson Stadium is a stadium in Savannah, Georgia. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team. It was the part-time home of the Savannah State University college baseball team from 2009 to 2011. It was also used from 1927 until 1959 for the annual Thanksgiving Day game between Savannah High School and Benedictine Military School. Known as "Historic Grayson Stadium", it was built in 1926. It holds 5,000 people. It also served as the home of the Savannah Sand Gnats from 1984 to 2015 (known as the Cardinals until 1996).

History
Originally known as Municipal Stadium, it first served as the home field of the minor league Savannah Indians. In 1932, it hosted the Boston Red Sox for spring training. The park underwent major renovations in 1941, following a devastating hurricane in 1940. Spanish–American War veteran General William L. Grayson led the effort to get the $150,000 needed to rebuild the stadium. Half of the funds came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In recognition of Grayson's work, the stadium was renamed in his honor.

The first integrated South Atlantic League game took place at Grayson Stadium on April 14, 1953.

The park went through a two-year renovation process that started prior to the 2007 season. Under the Bananas, another round of renovation happened in 2023-24 giving the stadium an additional 1,000 outfield seats - for a total of 5,000 overall and a modernized classic grandstand appearance in preparation for its centennial in 2026. At home plate level, the old bleacher seats in the grandstand used for many years were replaced by stadium-style bucket seating.

Grayson Stadium was the venue for the 2017 GHSA Baseball Championships for Class 1A Private, Class 2A, Class 3A, and Class 5A. It was also used for the 2018 and 2019 GHSA Baseball Championships.

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