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Re : Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list
This arbitration case has been closed, and the final decision may be viewed at the link above.

 * User:Piotrus resigned the administrator tools during the case proceedings and may only seek to regain adminship by a new request for adminship or by request to the Arbitration Committee.
 * User:Piotrus is banned for three months. At the conclusion of his ban, a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed, shall take effect.
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 * User:Digwuren is placed on a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed. This shall take effect following the expiration of both above mentioned bans.
 * The following users are topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for one year:
 * User:Biruitorul, User:Dc76, User:Martintg, User:Miacek, User:Radeksz, User:Vecrumba, User:Tymek

 * User:Jacurek is topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for six months.
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 * The editors sanctioned above (Piotrus, Digwuren, Martintg, Tymek, Jacurek, Radeksz, Dc76, Vecrumba, Biruitorul, Miacek) are prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with Russavia on any page of Wikipedia, except for purposes of legitimate and necessary dispute resolution.
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For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 17:41, 22 December 2009 (UTC) - Discuss this

Jan Dzierzon
Imie i nazwisko Dzierzona zostalo zmieniona na Johann Dzierzon, to jest pisownia niemiecka. Britanica podaje Jan Dzierżoń (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/175400/Jan-Dzierzon) i tak powinno byc. Rowniez tu (http://bees.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=bees;idno=5017629) angielskie tlumaczenie pracy Dzierzona podaje Dzierżon, Jan. Czy skontaktowales sie z museum w Kluczborku, albo przeczytales dowody i fotokopie w podanych pracach Brozka, Gladysza i ks. Mazaka? Pomijanie zrodel polskich jest niedopuszczalne. Ci ktorzy chca zmieniac artykul powinni uznac wage zrodel polskich wage a nie lawirowac na drugorzednych przekladach i niepelnych zrodlach. Podane tez sa wspolczesne artykuly w prasie polskiej i napisane przez Polakow. Trzeba je wniesc do tekstu. Niech chociaz bedzie widoczne ze spoleczenstwo polskie ma silne zdanie na ten temat. Podaje Ci e-mail jezeli chcesz powaznie pracowac bez udzialu szpiegow: erudra@hotmail.com. --Soujdspo (talk) 22:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Bierz zawsze pod uwage ze: 1) w okresie Bismarck'a zniemczano imiona celowo 2) Poszukiwania liczbowe zapisu imion na internecie sa falszywka - autorzy wtedy i dzisiaj powtarzaja to co zostalo zniemczone i wprowadzone w pismie, clowo, przez nieuwage lub niewiedze. Jedyna droga czy jego imie powinno byc pisane Jahann czy Jan jest stwierdzenie ze Dzierzon uwazal sie za Polaka i kultywowal polskos, i tak jest zgodnie z dokumentami opisanymi w pracach Brozka, Gladysza i ks. Mazaka etc. --Soujdspo (talk) 02:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC) --Soujdspo (talk) 02:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list
Following a motion at Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Remedy 20 of Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Miacek topic banned") is lifted.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, NW ( Talk ) 00:14, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Thanx for the notice. Unfortunately, for certain reasons I do not wish to contribute to the Czech wikipedia in the near future. Happy spring :-) --Radouch 19:22, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor is a 1998 book by historian and economist David Landes (1924–2013). He attempted to explain why some countries and regions experienced near miraculous periods of explosive growth while the rest of the world stagnated. The book compared the long-term economic histories of different regions, specifically Europe, United States, Japan, China, the Arab world, and Latin America. In addition to analyzing economic and cliometric figures, he credited intangible assets, such as culture and enterprise, to explain economic success or failure.

Landes was Emeritus Professor of Economics and Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University.

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In The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Landes revives, at least in part, several theories he believes have been incorrectly discarded by academics over the previous forty years:

He also spends a good deal of effort to debunk claims that the Asian miracle did not happen, was not significant, or was financed by European colonialism, and he draws a correlation between the economic level of a country and the way it treats its women.
 * The 'cultural thesis' or Protestant work ethic of Max Weber, whereby the values imposed by the Protestant religion on its adherents would have pushed them to value hard work, timeliness, enterprise, free market and free-thinking to a much greater extent than for their Catholic brethren, which would explain the great success of northern Protestant regions such as the Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark and parts of Germany as compared to southern Catholic nations such as Spain and France.
 * The 'hydraulic thesis' in Karl A. Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, in which despots would control the use of water in order to submit the population to its will.
 * The 'climate thesis' that posits that tropical climes are, ceteris paribus, poor candidates for development.
 * Many of the theories of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations is borrowed from for the title.

In short, he argues that the vast economic growth of the Industrial Revolution was no accident but instead resulted from several qualities of Europe, including its climate, political competition, economic freedom and attitude towards science and religion, more specifically from certain countries in Western Europe, primarily England.

Criticism and response
Critics have charged Landes with eurocentrism in his analysis, a charge which Landes himself does not deny; in fact, he embraces it explicitly, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe (though he deals with the later "Asian miracle" in Wealth and Poverty) must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis, thus siding at least at some level with thinkers such as Bernard Lewis. Following Daniel Bell, knowledge is the necessary link between "The European miracle" and the American post-industrial society.

Landes and Andre Gunder Frank, author of ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (ISBN 0520214749), are noted for having come to very different conclusions about the long-term significance of economic developments in "the West" during the modern era and publicly debated their findings in 1998 at Northwestern University.

Additionally, an alternate theory relies on literacy and the gap between Protestants and Catholics as an explanation for the difference in economic results.

The economist Paul Krugman remarked in "The Trouble with History", an article published on his MIT-hosted blog, that the book, while containing an enormous amount of information, offered very few ideas. "What [does]... Landes actually believe? And the answer, which seems to me to be damning, is that I am not sure. [...] So I am still waiting for a book that helps me understand what really happened in this utterly perplexing century.... Whoever writes that book will have to be a person unafraid of offering theories as well as facts, and therefore of saying things that might turn out to be wrong."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Per capita income of islands in the tri-island area

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 07:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Per capita income of islands in the tri-island area
Little or no context, borderline for speedy, not sure this is going to be encylopedic or ever fruitful, useful and worthwhile. Delete. Natalinasmpf 15:36, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Doesn't even specify which fiscal year these figures belong to? Delete Telesque 15:48, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: That would be because it is from the Monkey Island adventure game series.  (I would support a merge to Tri-Island Area, but I will abstain from voting until this can be verified.)  Sonic Mew | talk 15:51, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * deleteThe page is bogus, should be deleted. (Unsigned vote by )
 * deleteThere's no such thing as onkey island, a fictional place can't have a per capita income, duh - 172.131.39.121 16:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Being fictional is not a deltion criteria. If this information is found somewhere in canon, then there should be no problem with the merge I suggested above. Sonic Mew | talk to me 16:39, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * More fun with the per-capita income/population hoax guy. Delete and sanction user.  Dcarrano 16:34, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * According to this, it was actually the user's first contribution: Sonic Mew | talk to me 16:39, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 17:11, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as nonsense - this editor has been throwing these up all over the place. -- BD2412 talk 18:08, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Despite it being their first contribution... Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:25, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I have put it in Talk:Tri-Island Area, so that it can be verified there.  It cercainly isn't woth its own article, anyway. Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:25, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 04:59, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- sounds like something The Onion would publish. Haikupoet 05:08, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Mudcat Grant

James Timothy "Mudcat" Grant Jr. (August 13, 1935 – June 11, 2021) was an American baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1958 to 1971. He was a two-time All-Star.

In 1965, Grant became the first black pitcher to win 20 games in a season in the American League and the first black pitcher to win a World Series game for the American League. He pitched two complete-game World Series victories in 1965, hit a three-run home run in game 6, and was named The Sporting News American League Pitcher of the Year.

Early life
Grant was born in Lacoochee, Florida, on August 13, 1935. He was one of seven children of James Sr. and Viola Grant. His father died when Grant was two years old. He attended Moore Academy in nearby Dade City, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. Grant was awarded a scholarship to play football and baseball at Florida A&M University. However, he dropped out during his sophomore year in order to support his family through financial difficulty.

Professional career
Grant signed as an amateur free agent with the Cleveland Indians before the 1954 season. He played four seasons in the minor leagues from 1954 to 1957. Grant played winter baseball in Colombia in 1956 and in Cuba with Almendares in 1957. He made his MLB debut on April 17, 1958, at the age of 22, winning a complete game against the Kansas City Athletics. His best season in Cleveland was in 1961 when he had a won-loss record of 15–9 and a 3.86 earned run average. In June 1964, he was traded to the Minnesota Twins and had a record of 11–9 for the remainder of the season. In 1965 Grant had the best year of his career. He was 21–7 for the Twins, helping to lead the team to the 1965 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1965, Grant hosted a local Minneapolis variety television program, The Jim Grant Show, where he sang and danced.

Grant finished 6th in voting for the 1965 American League MVP for leading the league in wins, won-loss percentage (.750), and shutouts (6). He also started 39 games and had 14 complete games, $270 1/3$ innings pitched, 252 hits allowed, 34 home runs allowed, 107 runs allowed, 99 earned runs allowed, 61 walks, 142 strikeouts, 8 wild pitches, 1,095 batters faced, 2 intentional walks issued, and a 3.30 ERA. Grant's home run in the 6th game of the 1965 World Series was only the second by an American League pitcher during a World Series game. Grant's last year as a full-time starting pitcher came in 1966. He spent his next five seasons in baseball as a reliever and occasional starter for five different big-league clubs. He and Zoilo Versalles were traded by the Twins to the Dodgers for John Roseboro, Ron Perranoski, and Bob Miller on November 28, 1967.

Grant was the starting pitcher for the Montreal Expos in their first-ever game on April 8, 1969. He pitched 1.1 innings while allowing six hits and three runs, starting his season off with a 20.25 ERA, although the Expos would later win the game in an 11–10 shootout that had nine combined pitchers in the game. He played his final major league game on September 29, 1971, at the age of 36.

In a 14 season MLB career, he had a 145–119 record in 571 games, while starting in 293 of them and throwing 89 complete games and finishing 160 of them, 18 shutouts, 53 saves, with 2,442 innings pitched, and posted a 3.63 ERA. Grant's home run during Game 6 of the 1965 World Series was the only one he hit that season and one of only seven he hit during his entire career. As a hitter, Grant had a .178 batting average (135-for-759) with 80 runs, 6 home runs, 65 RBI and 37 bases on balls. Defensively, he recorded a .966 fielding percentage.

Post-playing career
After retiring as a player, Grant served as the Publicity Director for the North American Softball League (NASL), one of three men's professional softball leagues active in the pro softball era. He later worked as a broadcaster and executive for the Indians, and also as a broadcaster for the Athletics.

During his later years, Grant dedicated himself to studying and promoting the history of Black people in baseball. On his official website, Grant paid tribute to the black major-league pitchers (including himself) who won 20 or more games in a season.

In 2007, Grant released The Black Aces, Baseball's Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners, featuring chapters on each of the then-13 black pitchers to have at least one twenty-win season, and also featuring Negro league players that Grant felt would have been twenty-game winners if they had not been excluded by the baseball color line. The book was featured at the Baseball Hall of Fame during Induction Weekend 2006. In February 2007, during an event to honor Black History Month, President George W. Bush honored Grant and fellow Aces Ferguson Jenkins, Dontrelle Willis, and Mike Norris, and the publication of the book, at the White House.

Grant threw out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day at Progressive Field in Cleveland on April 14, 2008, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his major-league debut; he was also awarded the key to the city to honor the occasion. He was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2012. Four years later, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College in 2016.

Grant died on June 11, 2021, at the age of 85.

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User:Article6

Article6 is a Wikipedian from Ireland. He is a frequent browser, an occasional editor, and a supporter of the WikiProject Missing articles.

Trinity College, Dublin

 * Senior Freshman, B.A.(Mod.) in Economics and Mathematics.
 * Hon. Secretary, University Philosophical Society, 322nd Session, 2006.
 * Member of Executive, Dublin University Central Societies Committee, 2006.
 * Ex-Member of Council (and alleged overlord), University Philosophical Society, 321st Session, 2005-2006.
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 * Ex-Chair, DU Chess Club, 2005-2006
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Erfurt Union

The Erfurt Union (Erfurter Union) was a short-lived union of German states under a federation, proposed by the Kingdom of Prussia at Erfurt, for which the Erfurt Union Parliament (Erfurter Unionsparlament), officially lasting from March 20 to April 29, 1850, was opened at the former Augustinian monastery in Erfurt. The union never came into effect, and was seriously undermined in the Punctation of Olmütz (November 29, 1850; also called the Humiliation at Olmütz) under immense pressure from the Austrian Empire.

Conception of the Union
In the Revolutions of 1848, the Austrian-dominated German Confederation was dissolved, and the Frankfurt Assembly sought to establish new constitutions for the multitude of German states. The effort, however, ended in the Assembly's collapse, after King Frederick William IV refused the German crown. The Prussian government, under the influence of General Joseph Maria von Radowitz, who sought to unite the landed classes against the threat to Junker domination, seized the opportunity to initiate a new German federation under the leadership of the Hohenzollern monarch. At the same time, Frederick William IV acceded to his people's demands for a constitution, also agreeing to become leader of a united Germany.

A year before the convention of the Erfurt Union Parliament, on May 26, 1849, the Alliance of the Three Kings was concluded between Prussia, Saxony and Hanover, the latter two of which explicitly made the reservation of departure unless all other principalities with the exception of Austria joined. From this treaty sprung the Prussian policy of fusion, and thence the ambition of the Erfurt Union, which in its constitution abandoned the universal and equal male franchise of the Frankfurt Assembly in favour of the Prussian three-class franchise, which gave almost all men the right to vote but weighted the votes to favour the wealthy. The constitution itself, however, was only to come into effect after revision and ratification by an elected Reichstag, as well as approval by the participating governments. 150 former liberal deputies to the German national assembly had acceded to the draft at a meeting in Gotha on June 25, 1849, and by the end of August 1849, almost all (twenty-eight) principalities had recognised the Reich constitution and joined the union, due in varying degrees to Prussian pressure.

Inceptive problems
Despite this, elections to the Erfurt parliament, held in January 1850, received very little popular support, or even recognition. Democrats universally boycotted the election, and with electoral participation below 50%, Saxony and Hanover exercised their reservation to leave the Alliance of Three Kings. No government in the end agreed to the constitution, and even though the document was readily accepted by the Gotha Party (incidentally narrowly defeated in the elections), it never took effect. The Erfurt parliament never materialised.

Meanwhile, Austria, having overcome its difficulties – the fall of Metternich, the abdication of Ferdinand I, and constitutional revolts in Italy and Hungary – began a renewed active resistance against Prussia's union plan. The Saxon and Hanoverian withdrawals from their alliance with Prussia can also be attributed in part to Austrian encouragement. Vienna contemplated restoration of the German Confederation recalling the German Diet, and rallied the Prussian nobility and feudal-corporate and anti-national groups around the Prussian General Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach to increasingly successfully oppose Union policy.

In Prussia itself, a congress of princes held in Berlin in May 1850 explicitly decided against the merits of introducing a constitution at the point in time. Following the Prussian king's (and his ministers') weakening volition for German unification, Radowitz's influence declined. Prussia's union policy was further weakened by Austrian urges for the restoration of the Federal Assembly in Frankfurt in September the same year.

Autumn crisis of 1850
The Prussia–Austria conflict worsened by autumn that year, as disagreements over the question of federal executions in Holstein (dispute with Denmark) and the Electorate of Hesse almost escalated into a military conflict. Since 1848 the Austrians had been allied with the Russian Empire; after the Berlin government refused Austrian demands at the Warsaw Conference of October 28, 1850, the souring relations degenerated further on Prussia's November 5 announcement that it was mobilising its army and preparing for war, in response to troops of the German Confederation advancing into the Electorate of Hesse. War was avoided when Prussian leaders closely associated with the nobility threw their support behind Gerlach with the Prussian Conservative Party, known informally as the Kreuzzeitungspartei after the Kreuzzeitung newspaper, which supported Austria in advocating a return to the Confederation.

On November 29, 1850, the Punctation of Olmütz was concluded between Austria and Prussia with Russian participation. The treaty, seen by many as a humbling capitulation on Prussia's part to the Viennese Hofburg, saw Prussia submitting to the Confederation, reversing tack to demobilise, agreeing to partake in the intervention of the German Diet in Hesse and Holstein and renouncing any resumption of her union policy, and hence abandoning the Erfurt Union.

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User talk:Hv

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Named anchors not working...
Hi Hv - the new bug referred to in bug #383 was reported as bug #399. The resolution was that this was a bug in Internet Explorer (5.5 and possibly earlier versions). --HappyDog 14:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, ok, that isn't it then - this is to do with in-page links when previewing a subsection edit, and I'm using Mozilla. Thanks, Hv 14:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Category:Integer sequences
Hi, replied to your question on my own talk page; it was housecleaning, and if you have better ideas, let me know. linas 16:47, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Wiktionary: WS:TR
Thanks for your response. Yes, I had forgotten about dick. I've reworded my question there. --Connel MacKenzie 03:14, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

OEIS linking syntax
Sorry for my delay replying, I was having connection problems. I've replied to your question at Talk:On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. PrimeFan 19:36, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool, I've responded there. Hv 02:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

quasi-Open Source games
Hi, there!

I'm not entirely sure what term to use for that kind of software. I've been pondering that question for the last couple of days, actually. :) The games are certainly "freeware," but that term doesn't express the fact that the source is available.  At the moment, I can't do any better than "freeware games with available source code."  Maybe somebody should start a discussion of this on the category talk page, because I know there are still more games in there that need to be looked at.

For the record, it's actually not the FSF that defines the term "open source"; it's the Open Source Definition from OSI:. The two groups are somewhat at odds with each other, and they have competing definitions (there is a Free Software definition). In practice the definitions are basically the same, although rarely one group will deem that a license meets their definition while the other will not. Apple's Darwin was like this for a short time: the Open Source Group certified the license as meeting their definition, but FSF did not certify it as meeting the Free Software definition. Eventually Apple addressed whatever FSF's concern was, and met both definitions.

Yes, there is definitely a vernacular since of open source. Microsoft tried to paint their "Shared Source" initiative as being open source for a while, I believe, or at least they encouraged everyone to think it was the same. But the official Open Source people are as concerned about the rights to what you can do with the source code as they are about just seeing the source code itself. One thing that specifically is allowed in the definition is commercial use (or any other field of endeavor). Jdavidb 15:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls
Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 11:02, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Dirichlet prime deletion debate
I see you once asked for a reference on "Dirichlet prime" at User_talk:Giftlite. I just wanted to inform you of the ongoing Articles_for_deletion/Dirichlet_prime. 195.82.216.113 15:49, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Prynne and London
You're right; the typo's been fixed. Ugajin 04:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW
Hey Hv, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 21:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Gray code
Hello, Hv. I put up a possibly nicer iterative construction of Gray codes in the talk page for that subject, if you want to look at it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.26.161.144 (talk) 20:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Gregwilkins

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Your recent edits
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Comet article
Firstly, pay attention to the part of the message above reading 'don't let the grumpy editors scare you off' (or whatever it says, I forget), but also try not to become a grumpy editor yourself.

You are unfortunately suffering from guilt by association; the article as Jacob wrote it, while obviously sounding great to the writers of cometdaily, was way out of line for a wikipedia article...and his attitude since then has been unhelpful to put it mildly. This combined with the mysterious appearance of a few cometdaily people who had never (or very rarely) edited wikipedia before two days after Jacob threatens to get people to come to the article and agree with him....has generated a lot of understandable hostility towards 'cometdaily people'.

Try not to get pissed off in return, be polite and try to follow the policies as best as possible and (hopefully) the editors on that article can start working together instead of fighting.

The article has made next to no progress since I hit the reset button, I've previously been trying to calm things down as I didn't feel I could easily do anything helpful to the article with Jacob reverting everything, it seems he's left us to it now so I'll be working on it tonight. (after the footie of course) I'd appreciate anything you'd like to contribute so long as you can source it, WP:RS should help you work out whether a source is acceptable or not. There will always be exceptions and borderline cases, try the Reliable Sources Noticeboard WP:RSN if you think a source is fine but damiens and IP guy reject it; I'll go with whatever the guys at RSN say.

As for 'senior editors'....there aren't any.

There are admins who enforce wikipedias policies, but in this case I can't see one doing anything except telling damiens (and you tbh) to be polite, and probably warning or possibly blocking jacob....although you never know with admins, I'm certainly not one and I can't tell you for sure whether it would be helpful or not or what one would do, I came pretty close to fetching one myself before jacob agreed to back off.

Much more suitable to the current situation are the various help boards, where you can ask for assistance with specific problems, the applicable ones here are the Conflict Of Interest one, where the article has already been mentioned which is how you've got me...and the civility one. Jacob could almost certainly benefit from civility advice, and to a lesser extent damiens and possibly yourself. But I'd rather not do anything that might get inspire jacob to come back yet, damiens has calmed down since I asked him to and you're only reacting to the hostility you're being shown...so I'd say don't go there either.

Also definitely don't take this to ArbCom....I assume you're american, so think of ArbCom as the supreme court...there's a lot of other options to go through first. If I had to guess at the motivations of someone recommending you go there, I'd say they were hoping the committee came down very hard on jacob.

I'd say the best option for you would be a request for comment WP:RFC, but I'd ask that you wait a week, and only go there if you're still not happy with how things are going then. It's up to you though.

So in summary: Don't mind the grumpy people and try to understand that they do have reason to be grumpy, your contribution is very welcome even if it doesn't seem like it from some people, and don't take things any further just yet...I think we can work this out ourselves if Jacob sticks to what he says about leaving things alone for a while.

Also, I've be extremely interested to hear who owns/runs cometdaily.com, and what their relationship to Jacob is.

Have a nice day. Restepc (talk) 16:50, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

 * All good advice. I will definitely try to be less grumpy.    But it does not look like damien.rf and anonymous IP dude are standing down.   They insist on reverting a simply change on server push that is just wrong - linking comet to a specific technology rather than a general technique.  Even the agreed text on the comet page now says that comet is not a specific technology.      Their chat continues to push their POV that "comet" is a meme being pushed for advertising or google rank and that it is not in common usage - even though ample citations have been provided.    Indeed the citations provided of different commercial companies using the term "comet" to self described have been discounted because "wikipedia is not a link directory".    So I think I'm going to give up instead as the current content is a least only a little bit wrong and misguided..... yes I feel less grumpy already! Gregwilkins (talk) 15:44, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Greg I am definitely guilty of putting you into the same box as Jacobolous, but I hope I could explain that my edits in the push article were based on my technical understanding of Comet (which might be wrong, however based on what was agreed on in the current Comet article). To underline my interest in the topic, I reduce my numbers of edits if someone had the impression that I would push my personal POV instead of contributing from a technical POV? I am sure we can work this out and you are very welcome with your technical knowledge! - M - 83.254.208.192 (talk) 16:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Ah, just seen your new user page. I'll make a couple of points...one, I'm very much under the impression that comet isn't a specific technology...in the same way that AJAX isn't a specific technology. Secondly...the talk page is just that...talk, as I said before, there are no official 'senior editors' here...just because Damiens or IP guy object to adding something, doesn't mean that's what will happen on the article itself...they're not in charge of it any more than you are. When...whoever first said it....says that wikipedia isn't a link directory, they're very probably thinking of Jacobs article, which not only listed but linked to about 40 applications (or whatever) that use comet. That's right out...but as I said, a few notable examples in the article would be a good thing and will be put in eventually....in my experience it's best to work on an article slowly, a bit at a time, when there's a lot of disputes going on about it.
 * You have jumped right into an argument on wikipedia...and not only that but an argument targeting you and a website you're involved in, so I can understand why you're not feeling good about wikipedia, but I'm going to give you a few bits of advice if you do decide to persevere.

 * > Remember it's what the article says that's important, not what personal views editors express on the talk page.

 * >You can add to the end of any sentence or factoid in the article that you dispute. If a citation can't be found backing it up within a week or so (or months for articles which aren't edited often, or for really big articles (greenhouse effect, Hitler etc) unsourced material is usually removed immediately and left out until a source can be found), you can remove it with wikipedias policies blessing.

 * >Stick to discussing content that is on the article, or is being proposed for the article, rather than other editors conduct or hypothesising about other editors motivations. Not only will avoid you getting in trouble if an admin is called in, it's much better for progressing the article.

 * >Try not to think people are organised against you or have ulterior motives just because they disagree with you. Always be prepared to consider that you could be dead wrong.

 * >Be Bold, don't re-add or revert to something that's already been roundly rejected by the consensus, but if you think something should be in the article...put it in. The worst that could happen is someone takes it out again...and it's much more likely that at least some aspects of it will be kept. You talking about contributors vs editors was more accurate that some thought, and for this article I'm definitely an editor...I don't know what I'm talking about; as far as I'm concerned a comet is either a big rock in space or an electronics store....or possibly a reindeer??? Either way I can't write this article, I can just try to keep what is written to a high standard.

 * >finally....relax; it's not the end of the world. Restepc (talk) 17:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Restepc, if the editors that are more experienced with wikipedea indeed acted how you say wikipedia should work, then I think things would be much more constructive. If they believe that contributed text is unsubstantiated, then I thought they would have just added a  and given the contributors (or others) a change to source suitable citations, document opposing view etc. etc..  Helpful questions about phrasing, grammer and points that are unclear or contradicted elsewhere would also be good.   But that has not been the process.  There is no 2 or 3 week grace period to allow a contribution to be improved and justified, you just wake up the next morning to find that your contributions have been deleted.
 * It does little good to ask newbies to exhibit patience and tolerance when there appears to be little of that exhibited by veteran editors. You say that I shouldn't think in terms of "people are organised against you or have ulterior motives", yet those are exactly the sort of reasons given when my contributions are deleted (ie that I'm a member of the cometdaily mafia in organized heist of wikipedias google ranking)!
 * There is an implied arrogance of the wikipedia veterans in their obvious assumption that newbie contributors are simply seeking advantage FROM wikipedia (google rankings,advertising etc.). Surely the default assumption should be that contributors are do exact that: contributing their time and expertise TO Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the wikipedia culture appears to be exactly the opposite, and telling newbies to be simply have thicker skins is only going to re-inforce this bad culture.
 * I am very active in the open source software movement. I can't imagine somebody contributing code to OS projects being treated with the suspicion and name calling that wikipedia editors have (ok I can believe it for some apache projects).  The people who have contributed time and text here have been roundly abused (and then responded in kind)  The most reasoned response for wikipedia veterans is that you should simply ignore the abuse and try to continue in some level headed state of zen serenity and understanding.   If anybody contributes code to my projects - even if the code is not eventually accepted and/or obviously for their own financial benefit - it is still a welcome contribution and is received with grace. If any existing contributor was to belittle new contributors for their lack of knowledge of proceedures or for the unsuitability of their contributions, then that existing contributor would be told to pull their head in.
 * Note - There has been some good progress on the comet page: "Like DHTML and Ajax, Comet is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies." - Excellent! Yet every attempt I have made to move the comet link on the Push page from the specific technology section to the general section has been immediately reverted.   It's time for the wikipedia veterans to exhibit some patients and tolerance.   Your advice is good,  I just think that it should be given to all involved. Gregwilkins (talk) 11:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Sometimes when you are new to a community it takes a while to get familiar with the culture and habbits. Apologies if I have not been friendly enough and have used too much scepticism! Well, I cooperated your suggestions into the server push article and now take a step back, so you and other editors can work on it for a couple of days. My biggest wish, if I get one granted, would be to get a better definition of what Comet is (e.g. "Comet is a combination of" and list the involved technologies). Have a good time! :) - M - 83.254.208.192 (talk) 18:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I understand completely that new communities take time to get used to. But a community that treats newbies badly is a bad community, specially for one like wikipedia that is only successful because of contributions.  Newbies should be couched not treated with suspicion. Just saying to newbies: "get used to it", is not really a good way to encourage good behaviour within a community.
 * The change to the server push article is a reasonable compromise - as it is at least no longer incorrect. However I do not understand why an umbrella term like "comet" is not deserving of a mention in the general section, while a long dead specific technology from a commercial vendor is?  I'll add some coments to the comet talk page about the current definition of comet Gregwilkins (talk) 00:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Treatment of newbies on wikipedia is a concern, see WP:don't bite the newbies, but in general I think wikipedia is very friendly to newcomers (look at the scarily friendly welcome message you got). There are cases where noobs get bitten though....usually it's if they jump straight into articles such as global warming or abortion.
 * I didn't intend to give the message 'get used to it'....but more to explain that this is an unusual situation where the suspicion is understandable. Jacob threatened to fetch people to the article who would agree with him (something he knows is extremely banned on wikipedia) and two days later 3 or 4 cometdaily people turn up and jump into the argument, all newbies to wikipedia. Jacob denies canvassing but...there is a policy here WP:assume good faith....sometimes sticking to that policy requires suspending all logic and common sense.
 * I believe (hope), that what you've experienced isn't the norm, and you wouldn't feel the same way if you'd started on an article where people weren't already there waiting for you with the impression that you were going to be a Jacob clone. I find that in general wikipedia is a very friendly place (and I have the civility help board on my watchlist, so in theory I see the worst of it). So in summary my intended message isn't 'get used to it', but rather 'try not to let what has happened put you off, we're quite friendly really'.
 * with regards to you saying I should give the same advice to the other editors, it's generally accepted that people who've been here a while will already know....in fact I think there's a policy somewhere about it (wikipedia has rules for everything)...and I have actually warned damiens and IP guy about a couple of things during this. Restepc (talk) 00:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Verifiability
Please make yourself more familiar with Wikipedia culture and habbits, especially with verifiability. Your advice for other editors on the Comet talk page wasn't according to accepted Wikipdia policy. Here a quote from Jimmy Wales a cofounder of Wikipedia: "I heard [...] pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced". Hope this helps. - 83.254.214.192 (talk) 12:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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John Filan

John Richard Filan (born 8 February 1970) is an Australian football coach and former professional player.

As a player, he was a goalkeeper from 1989 until 2008 and notably played in the Premier League for Coventry City where he was a specialist at kicking the ball out of the stadium when under pressure, Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic, having also been contracted without playing for Nottingham Forest in England's top division. He also played in the Football League for Cambridge United and Doncaster Rovers, and in his native country for St. George Saints, Wollongong Wolves and Sydney F.C. He was capped three times by Australia.

Following retirement, Filan has worked as a coach and held a role with Sydney FC before a spell as assistant manager with both Macclesfield Town and Shrewsbury Town.

Club career
He played for St. George Saints and Wollongong Wolves in the old National Soccer League in Australia before moving to England to join Cambridge United in 1993, after an unsuccessful trial at Southampton. In 1995, he signed for Coventry City, then moved on to Blackburn Rovers in 1997.

He joined Wigan Athletic in December 2001 for £600,000. Prior to the start of Wigan's debut season in the Premier League he had missed only one match for the club but was injured at the start of the 2005–06 season with Wigan's new signing Mike Pollitt taking his place in the side. Filan, however signed a new contract which kept him at the club until 2007. Seeing out his contract with Wigan, he was released at the end of the season. Whilst at Wigan he appeared as a substitute in the 2006 Football League Cup Final when Pollitt had to come off early in the first half with an injury. He is also remembered for saving a Nolberto Solano penalty in a 1–0 win over Newcastle United in February 2007.

International career
Filan was a member of the Australian team that competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and finished in fourth place. As he has an Irish passport through his ancestry, he once sought to play international football for Ireland. However, FIFA ruled against it in February 1999 because he had played for the Australian Olympic team.

Coaching career
Filan returned to Australia in semi-retirement, resettling in his home town of Sydney. In August 2007 agreed terms with A-League side Sydney FC as backup to Clint Bolton, however the deal fell through citing outside issues.

Filan was appointed as assistant manager to John Askey at League One side Shrewsbury Town in June 2018, having previously worked with Askey during his managerial tenure at Macclesfield Town. This role lasted only five months, with the whole management team departing after only four wins in seventeen league matches.

Honours
Blackburn Rovers
 * Football League First Division runner-up: 2000–01

Wigan Athletic
 * Football League Championship runner-up: 2004–05
 * Football League Second Division: 2002–03
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 2005–06

Individual
 * PFA Team of the Year: 2002–03 Second Division

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siriporn Ampaipong

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. Postdlf 07:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Siriporn Ampaipong
not notable 209.137.173.69 15:37, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep After a little searching, she looks like an established figure in Thai music. Deleting this may be a bit ethnocentric.--Slac 16:45, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per above. royblumy 00:04, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. She is one of the biggest acts in Thailand.  I suspect that the nominator meant to say not American. ;) Mark1 03:26, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Just because she is not well-known in America doesn't mean she is not notable. See WikiProject Countering systemic bias. andy 07:41, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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'''(espetially people like Chowbok!): If you have deleted or have set an image of mine that I put on up for deletion due to impropper tagging and such, don't inform me! I do not give a care! I seriously would rather not bloody know. Keep it to yourself. Got it? Get it? You can read, can you? '''

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WP:NPA
Please tone down some of your language and try to remain civil with other editors, as I'm sure you hope they would do for you. Thanks. Luna Santin 00:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ack. Misread the page history, thought you posted that section. Sorreh! Luna Santin 06:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikilogos
I've noticed you are a graphic designer, you might be interested in my proposal for Wikipedia use logo variations created by members of the wiki community to mark national and international awareness days, Remembrance Days, notable anniversaries, and observance days. Please comment on Village_pump_(proposals) and on my talk page. Thanks! FrummerThanThou 05:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Reply
I'm not disputing User:Acalamari's right to remove that section from the talk page, either. Reading through WP:BLP might help you understand why such removals happen. I would suggest you move on from the issue. Steve block Talk 21:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Removing sections from your talk page
If you wish to reduce clutter on your talk page you should really do so through archiving, not simply removing. There are bots which will archive your talk page for you and so reduce any clutter, see User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Howto. If you need any help with installation then ask, and if I can't help I'll track down someone who can. See Help:Talk page, especially the section on User pages, where this guidance may prove instructional: "Actively erasing non-harassing personal messages without replying (if a reply would be appropriate or polite) will probably be interpreted as hostile. In the past, this kind of behavior has been viewed as uncivil, and this can become an issue in arbitration or other formal proceedings." Steve block Talk 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * It is better to archive your talk page instead of deleting it. If you need help doing so, just ask on my talk page. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 21:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks mates, but I'll just keep what I need. --Mudel 22:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Trolling Deleted
I deleted more trolling from the Paris Hilton Talk Page like you said. I removed trolling from several months ago, and several things that you added. However, I have responded to the message you left at the bottom, as that message wasn't trolling. Acalamari 00:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

psychostick
There is a review of their album on allmusic which could be quoted as a source, and their tour would seem to favour their inclusion under the guideline at Notability (music)... Tim! 17:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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Shavo
Hey, that image is awesome. Thank you for creating it so I could put it on my userpage. Why they removed it I dont know —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ssd175 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

oh and im gonna fight to put that shavo image of yours back on the SOAD page. (Ssd175 03:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC))

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User:Alasdairking

Alasdair King
Alasdair is a software developer working in the field of accessibility - specifically software for blind and visually-impaired people.

 * WebbIE, the web browser for blind people

He lives and works in Manchester, UK, and enjoys performing, crewing and producing amateur dramatics.

 * Alasdair's website.

title: User:Alasdairking