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Proto
In find your attempt to hide my complaint (less than one hour old) about your and Proto's recent behaviour, by archiving it, disingenuous to say the least. Andy Mabbett 5 July 2005 14:36 (UTC)

 * I am sorry that you feel that way. Was the matter not closed? —Theo  (Talk) 5 July 2005 15:02 (UTC)

 * No. Andy Mabbett 5 July 2005 15:28 (UTC)
 * What do you wish me to do?—Theo (Talk) 5 July 2005 15:30 (UTC)
 * Ditto. Andy, what do you want to happen?  My comment was removed (by me) as it was stupid and ill-judged. Again, could you take this to my talk page, instead of clogging up Theo's. Thanks. Proto t c 5 July 2005 15:37 (UTC)

Category:Quebec culture
I've updated links to point to the new category; there are still several links, but they are part of discussion pages which mention the transition between old and new. The category can be deleted now. (Note that Wikiportal/Quebec reads a template that has been updated, but the cached version of the article may contain info from the old template.) Mindmatrix 5 July 2005 19:00 (UTC)

Deletion help
Hey, thanks for the offer. At the moment, I know of Conlon. But part of the problem is that looking up a VfD ruling for the 10+ articles that need transwiki to Wiktionary alone every day is a big hassle. If you're really bored, you could check out WP:TL and look through those for previous rulings. It seems like the entire maintenance of the page is me. And I just finished resolving the old archive from the initial burst of transwikis when it was just getting going (2003), so the current page is a rather long and unfinished mess. --Dmcdevit July 5, 2005 19:28 (UTC)
 * Disambigs for names are good. May I ask you some advice? Yogananda Image Gallery, (see the discussion here), was decided to transwiki and delete (although now that I look at it again, it looks like it was never closed...) But when I look at all the images that are supposed to be transwikied to commons, thy are all marked as "fair use." But Commons doesn't accept "fair use" images, I think they're deleted on sight. So what do we do? --Dmcdevit July 5, 2005 20:39 (UTC)
 * Ah thanks. (PS, there's also a redirect hanging around in the article namespace, Yogananda Image Gallery). You know, if you transwiki an article a day, may I suggest you start with this list, as those can probably be considered the most urgent. Oh yeah, and I don't know if you know this, but you don't need to to any Wiktionary ones, as I've got the bot to do that (at least I will if I can ever get it back online since the upgrade), and hopefully I'll have a bot that can do all transwikis soon. Anyway, thanks for your hard work! --Dmcdevit July 5, 2005 22:08 (UTC)
 * Okay, take a look at Hydraulics demonstration (there's a redir, too). Has been transwikied to Wikibooks per the VfD. --Dmcdevit July 8, 2005 23:11 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Now give me some chocolate! (testing out that "your wish is my command thing," maybe I should have asked for money...) --Dmcdevit July 8, 2005 23:56 (UTC)
 * Oh, great! Now you got drool all over my computer screen! Well, I guess I did, but it was your fault! --Dmcdevit July 9, 2005 00:02 (UTC)
 * Ey up! (Votes for deletion/Ey up!), Navarose (Votes for deletion/Navarose), Percussive maintenance (Votes for deletion/Percussive maintenance), Pulsen (Votes for deletion/Pulsen), Serous (Votes for deletion/Serous- looks like it was never closed but I see a majority of delete/transwiki votes), and I'll keep looking. Thanks. --Dmcdevit 22:20, July 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I delinked pulsen, (except for the logs and talk pages) is that right? Also found Verboten and Rolf (not closed?), Choda, Ego surfing, Meh, Automagic, Copacetic (never closed?), Cheche, and I think that's all for now. Now I guess I'll have to look into helping to close "keep" VfD's as penance. Thanks again. --Dmcdevit 00:02, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

CSD Proposal 3-B
You voted or commented on Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or  Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A or both. I have proposed a revised version, at Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal refers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 06:12 (UTC)

re: Redlinks in dab
That's an interesting question - do redlinks belong in disambiguation pages.

Let me start by saying that I did check every one of the redlinks using "What links here". (Thankfully, that feature works even if the article hasn't been created yet.) At the time that I did the check, I can say with certainty that three of them had exactly one inbound link - the Conlon disambiguation page. Of the other redlinks, only one had more than three inbound links.

What's the harm of allowing a redlink to stay in place? Well, there are several arguments. How you weight them or whether you believe them at all depends on your assumptions about the user experience. I'll lay out a few that I find compelling. Note that these arguments are in some ways independent - some of the underlying assumptions even contradict each other. Agreeing with any one argument can be sufficient.

First, the redlink is an implied request for the article. Finding lots of inbound links can be evidence that the article is a requested article which will be valued by the community. Finding very few inbound links can be evidence that the creation of the link was the opinion of a single editor whose edit(s) will be quickly reversed in the source article(s). (To be honest, even a lot of inbound links can be a link-spam from a single editor. To really show that it's a desirable article, you have to check history and make sure that the redlinks came from different authors and that they have been in the source articles for a reasonable period of time.)

Why do we care? Because that request may or may not be appropriate. If it's an person who others in the community find to be non-notable, the article is very likely to be deleted. Deleted articles too often lead to ill-will and frustration on the part of the new user who just thought they were doing what we asked. The redlink after all takes you to a page which explicitly asks you to start the article.

Why doesn't that apply to all redlinks? Well, it does. We worry about it less on article pages because we trust that the people writing, reading and editing the source articles tend to weed out the irrelevant links. Since those people have content knowledge to contribute to the source article, they are able to make an informed decision about whether the drill-down article will be appropriate. Unfortunately, the disambig pages don't/can't get the same scrutiny. While many people have Guildford Four on their watchlists and presumably some subset are watching the redirect Gerry Conlon, they are unlikely to watch the disambig page - it's just not close enough to their core interests. So if someone adds an irrelevant link to the source article, it will get reverted quickly but if the irrelevant link is in a disambig page, it can sit unfound for a long time.

Second, until the article is actually created, there is a fair chance that the title will change. Will Patrick Conlon (politician) ultimately be created there, at Patrick A Conlon, Patrick A. Conlon, Patrick Conlon (city councilman), Pat Conlon, etc? Until the article is created, we don't really know. The redlinks in the articles are much more likely to be changed before or as the article is being created. The links on the disambiguation page are unlikely to be updated.

Third, when the redlink turns blue, will it really be the same subject? Will Patrick Conlon (politician) be about the Australian politician or some minor US politician? If you guessed wrong, you can be sure that no one will remember to update the disambig page. Both these last two effectively argue that it is better to wait until you know for sure what article you are really disambiguating.

Fourth, it's pretty clearly stated in the third paragraph of Disambiguation that "Adding links to non-existent articles should be done with care." The section goes on to discuss more guidelines and best practices. The Talk page archives have much more on the topic.

Will users return to the disambiguation page to add their article to the list once it has been created? All evidence says that the answer is yes. Users interested enough to create the first article will usually create links to it in other articles. One of those links will almost inevitably be malformed and will take them (or another reader) to the disambig page. Once there, it gets added to the list by the first person who sees it (and, if it's working right, the source link corrected so the disambig page is again an orphan).

To me, that says there's no harm to deleting the redlink but a small harm (magnitude depends on your philosophy and assumptions about the user experience) to leaving the redlink in place on a disambig page. It's a close judgment call, though. I hope that helps. Rossami (talk) 6 July 2005 15:33 (UTC)

Limewire
I don't understand what you doing ???? YOu remove NPOV template but leaving article FULL LOADED with SPYWARE words  - your edit !!!!!!!!!! Thats what you call NPOV ?????

LimeWire is a free/shareware Gnutella peer-to-peer network client, with an open protocol network. '''When released in 2001 the software included spyware elements and gained a reputation for destabilising other applications. With the removal of the spyware in May 2004 (Release 4), these objections have been addressed.'''

The program allows users to share files using the Gnutella peer-to-peer protocol. It was the first file sharing program to support firewall-to-firewall file transfers, a feature introduced in version 4.2, which was released in November 2004.

The client is proprietary, which until recently was "distributed with many spyware/adware products bundled in"  and is well-known to computer experts as a source of computer problems.'

LimeWire is written in Java and hence runs on any computer with the Java virtual machine installed. To facilitate installation for casual users, the developers release installation packages for Microsoft Windows, the Mac, and for Linux, in rpm format.

LimeWire uses the SHA1 hashing algorithm to ensure that downloaded data is uncompromised. Ed Felten and others have identified possible vulnerabilities in this algorithm that have adverse implications for the security of LimeWire.

The Windows version of LimeWire installer includes a stripped-down version of Sun's Java installer which will download and install version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) if it detects the machine doesn't have Java, or has a version of Java below version 1.4.1.

LimeWire LLC, the developer of LimeWire, distributes two versions of the program; a basic, free version, and an enhanced version sold for a small fee, which is said to offer faster downloads. Prior to April 2004, the free version of LimeWire was distributed with a bundled program called "LimeShop" (a variant of TopMoxie), considered by computer security experts as malicious spyware.

According to a 28 June 2005 report in the The New York Times LimeWire LLC may stop distributing LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster.

Category:Spyware

Vorash 8 July 2005 16:41 (UTC)

I still don't understand why are you removing NPOV template on disputed article, which is a subject for frequent Edit wars !!??? Vorash 8 July 2005 16:54 (UTC)

You talking about bold text, but i am talking about violation of official Wikipedia policy - NPOV. Removing NPOV template on article, whose actual accuracy is desputed is violation of Wikipedia policy ! Vorash 8 July 2005 17:02 (UTC)

I don't believe that this was an "error". I see it as a case where two Administrators trying to enforce their opinion on other "regular" users. One Tanin - rudely violates 3RR rule, the second one - you - rudely violates NPOV rule ! Vorash 8 July 2005 17:30 (UTC)

Well, you ashamed of me, but i ashamed of Wikipedia where article about absolutely clean program can be overloaded with the word SPYWARE !!! Vorash 8 July 2005 17:54 (UTC)

The bold text was used in order to underline dispiuted POVs. Why are you calling it "Shouting" ?? About what exactly "error" are you talking about ? Here is your edit Revision as of 15:57, 8 July 2005 . In your edit you added addtional info about Spyware and said qoute "Focus on the present whilst acknowledging the past in attempt to restore "NPOV" and in your attempt to "restore NPOV" you removed an NPOV template . THis is what you call "ERROR" ????? You also accused me of accusing the User:Milk of sockpuppetry. I didn't accuse anyone of sockpuppetry !!! Using wrong word is not an accusation !! The correct world would be "Annonymous" IP address. I am the one who was accused of Vandalism for doing nothing but "too much edits" !! THis is an additional violation of Civility policy. Calling for Blocks on Disputed article is considered a violation of official Wikipedia policy ! Vorash 9 July 2005 16:33 (UTC)

Congratulations
On all the work you did to get David Helvarg on to the main page. All the best! --Scimitar 8 July 2005 21:47 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I'm hiding the fact that I'm a baboon. I went through a somewhat gloomy phase after reading RickK's user page, and found myself in a couple of bitter vfd events. (I wasn't bitter, but some vandals were, and made it known on my user page). I've since tried to minimize information about myself, and reformatted the page, because I'm not sure I'm going to stick around.--Scimitar 8 July 2005 22:18 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Theo, for the encouragement. I know there are a lot of good people here; one only has to look at the project to see the vast amount of good faith and near-super human effort put into it. I'm simply unsure as to whether it is enough to counteract the dark underside of the project, which may render it unworkable. I suppose only time will tell.--Scimitar 8 July 2005 22:37 (UTC)

Congratulations on taking David Helvarg from VfD to featured article. --Dcfleck July 9, 2005 01:15 (UTC)

Wikibreak
Hey Theo! No, I don't think I'm going to give up on Wikipedia just yet. Refreshed or not, I plan to be around for a good long while. --Scimitar 13:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Fred Conlon
Great article! Notjim 23:27, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Help again Theo
Hey there....

Listen, I've run into a Mike Garcia-type problem again, and I was wondering if you could help sort it out....

There's this rather persistent (and incorrigible) user named User: Monicasdude who has become a real self-righteous thorn in my foot. I have spent the last several days fixing (in some cases, literally creating) loads of album articles for The Beach Boys (please go to that page to find the studio album discography). This anonymous user has repeatedly vandalized my work, by reverting it to before I had even touched it. He has done this twice now (and likely will continue to do so) starting with Smiley Smile to Love You. His reasons are really because I improved upon his Bob Dylan pages (because, you see, I learned over the last few days that those album articles actually belong to him, not Wikipedia - no one can edit his work without it being reverted it seems). He'll maintain that I've got loads of POV in the Beach Boys articles now, when in actual fact I'm merely summarizing the general impressions of the albums based on official reviews or historical views. I'm not putting MY view on things. The laughable part is that he's reverting everything I do (it's almost like I'm being targeted on purpose) and what remains are short and, in some cases, badly written blurbs with POV to begin with! Which leads me to consider this to be petty vandalism. I've explained and offered my authorized sources and told him I was open to collaboration, discussion, etc... but it's to no avail. He stubbornly wants the Dylan pages HIS way, and now has seen fit to come over to the Beach Boys pages to purposely fuel the fire (and pages which I had previously discussed fixing with another user, User:Bobo192). Theo, I've put LOADS of time into these BB articles and I feel they are well-written, informative and as objective as possible. I fixed song timings, album timings, song credits, added improved album graphics and even created whole new pages. What's more - I've had fun doing this and have had possible feedback. Look for yourself and see if what I've done is so awful that the whole page needs to be wiped from all my articles and compare them to what the other fellow is subtituting them with (in particular Wild Honey or 15 Big Ones). Surely, they can't be better?

Also, he persists in harrassing me on my home page by resubmitting an immature and self-righteous message.

Thanks Theo.... Sorry to imposition you...

PetSounds 03:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Please stop posting personal abuse about me (or any other user) on the talk pages of individuals who are not involved in the disputes. You comments about me are demonstrably dishonest. You have posted false claims about me being a 3RR violator in several locations, although you know they are not true. This matter began when I asked you, a bit brusquely given the problems you were creating, to stop revising the Dylan album pages, as it was apparent you were unfamiliar with the extensive, well-documented, and reliable references available online and in print, and citing in some detail the errors you have introduced. In response, you have cited only the AllMusic Guide and an anonymous, wholly unsourced page regarding unidentified British popular music charts, initiated a revert war, and posted personal abuse on my talk page and on the talk page of uninvolved admins and editors. Every other editor who commented on the Dylan pages disagreed with most or all of your changes. It is an undeniable NPOV violation to describe an album as "hilariously sub-par." It is an undeniable NPOV violation to describe an album as "wonderful." It is an undeniable NPOV violation to describe an album as "Without a doubt the strangest album ever released by a major group." Virtually every page you have worked on seems to defy the applicable standard in the NPOV guideline:

 * "Wikipedia articles about art, artists, and other creative topics (e.g., musicians, actors, books, etc.) have tended toward the effusive. This is out of place in an encyclopedia."

 * You also devote an astonishing amount of space to entirely unsourced and undocumentable speculation about the motives of various musicians. This led you, for example, to construct an entirely fictive history of one Bob Dylan album (Greatest Hits II) even though an accurate history was well documented in several Dylan interviews and in Clive Davis' autobiography. None of such material that you have invented/presented is appropriate for an encyclopedia.

 * And for all your whining about being open to collaboration, etc, etc, your initial response to my edits was not to address substantive claims, but to call for interventions by various admins because I was a bad character and a 3RR violator. It was only after your requests were ignored that you even pretended to be open to compromise, and your offer was conditioned on my promising to leave all your edits in place unless we agreed on alternatives. That is not a good faith offer.

 * Other people, myself included, have worked hard on the contributions they have made to Wikipedia. You place a unique and excessive value on your own contributions, and do not show an appropriate regard for the efforts of others.

 * And you have no right, as you have done at least once in the last day, to unilaterally edit a third party's talk pages to remove my comments. That is appalling misbehavior. Monicasdude 06:50, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Theo, I apologize for any wrongdoings.... Won't happen again. PetSounds 13:31, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Archiving
Yes please. I don't know yet how to do that, and I don't want it to look like there's anything to hide, although I resent being pestered by certain people on my own page (you excluded, of course). Thanks... PetSounds 14:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your archiving help... It's appreciated. PetSounds 15:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Reply to advice
Thanks for your response, and I hear you and will be more conscious of my actions. I suppose it's fine with The Beach Boys articles, but if they are reverted again then I will contact you. Actually, have a look - just so you can see my frustration - at the Love You history page and click on his reversion to see how he wiped everything back what was really a stub - without discussing anything with me first. And it was done to at least 12 album articles. Thanks for your help, Theo. I appreciate it... PetSounds 17:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Theo, thanks for the lookover on the article. I've modified elements to make them more specific and less POV (even though I didn't have that many POV's in there, as you witnessed). I do hope others can improve on the pages - I just think reverting back to album stubs is a bit harsh, and I'm glad you can understand where I'm coming from.... Thanks for your assistance... PetSounds 18:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

PetSounds renews misbehavior
Your "little buddy," as he seems to think of himself, couldn't go a day without returning to his old ways. He made a series of small but significantly incorrect changes to the John Wesley Harding page, trying to cover up his actions with deliberately misleading edit summaries. No talk page activity whatever. Among other things, he tried to sneak a disputed reference back into the article by marking the edit "fix typo errors." The issue isn't who's right on the disputed points, or how important the disputed matters are. It's that he doesn't behave honestly, and that he's not editing in good faith. Monicasdude 06:07, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Theo,

I saw your message at Monicasdude's talk page, and while I admit I could have waited to make the additions, I'm pleased that you acknowledged the fact that my clear attempts to improve the article by adding song timings and fixing a glaring typo (it's "Basement Tapes" with an "s" - just click on the faulty link and it'll take you right there) and compromise on album length timings were instantly wiped, mostly without just cause. As I mentioned before, these pages appear to belong to someone else - or, I'm merely being targeted. Nonetheless, I'm going to stay away from those pages for a bit. Thanks Theo PetSounds 13:56, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * After reflection, I have posted a reply on my talk page to your comments there, which also addresses some of the matters discussed here. Monicasdude 21:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Ward Churchill
Dear TheoClarke: I have never made any pretense to be non-biased. I clearly am biased and I have never, ever claimed to be objective. And that is the difference between myself and most of the Wikipedians that have beeen editing the Churchill article. All of the other Wikipedians either attempt to be objective or they claim that they are objective and they are truly biased. However the problem with this situation is that no one can maintain complete and total objectivity (no matter how hard they try) or they are just faking being objective while they bend some article to the right or the left. I however am being honest and straightforward in with my bias however I try to edit with my personal experience in my mind while I work on the material. In my personal experience I know that he is FAKE Indian and I am going to edit the article with that personal experience in mind. While you on the other hand do not have personal experience with man and you are attempting to maintain what you believe to be objectivity--which may seem admirable--however for someone who has first hand knowledge of the person and has been involved in Indian politics and Indian Country for 30 years I find your attempts to "clean up" the the man's arrogance, smugness, hatred of those who disagree with him to be just another well-meaning but ultimately hurtful actions of the do-gooder liberal paternalism. You find it objective and professional but I find it degrating to the all of the real Indians that are working in the worlds of academics, law, medicine, etc. that deserve the kind of attention that Churchill steals from real, hard-working Indians. You and SlimVirgin's attempts to pretty up the criticism of Churchill makes him look like the date-stamped, pre-approved liberal Indian that the Amy Goodman's of the world want to be believe that all Indians are like--when in truth Churchill is far from the normal Indian. Why? Because he is not an Indian at all but a radical (not even liberal) white guy pretending to be an Indian--his fake Indian-ness provides him with a platform to criticize America and the Left applauds him as if he has some kind of insight into the Native world, which he doesn't. Let's face it. You don't have respect for my opinion. You never have. You and SlimVirgin and the others who have been attempting to take the FAKE Indian issue completely out of the article do not believe the issue should even be mentioned because it puts a dark cloud over the myth that you want to believe that Churchill is: The mighty Indian warrior fighting America, fighting the conservatives, fighting Bush, etc. You and SlimVirgin have more respect for the words of Churchill and his nasty comments that the people in the WTC deserved to die, comparing them to Eichmann, etc than you do with the perspective that quite possibly your mythical Indian just might be a FAKE Indian. Don't lecture me. Of course you and SlimVirgin are biased. I just have the honesty to admit it.-Keetoowah 20:32, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

''I am not surprised that SlimVirgin has concluded that you hate Churchill. You have repeatedly denigrated the man as much as his behaviour. One example of this is your repeated use of the appelation "the FAKE indian" [the use of uppercase is yours]. TheoClarke''

Since you feel compelled to fight the fight of SlimVirgin, let me response to this nonsense that you have put forward. First of all there is a difference between the words that I have used in the actual article and the words that I have used on this Talk Page. I have never, ever attempted to put into the article the phrase, "Churchill is a FAKE Indian" even though I want to see it in the actual article, but I know that it will never be accepted and is clearly over the top. What we have here, my friend, is an example of a Red herring argument or, if you will, a Straw man argument. You are diverting attention to the comments that I have made on the Talk Page to attempt to censor the writing in the actual article. If we go back to the original issue that brought on this discussion it was about the proper quotation of the Tribe. I never, ever wrote any hateful speech in the article about Churchill I was just attempting to make sure that the article quoted the Tribe properly. If you review the changes  it is abundantly clear that I was merely quoting directly from the Tribes's official Web site and I did NOT add my own commentary at all. It is abundantly clear that SlimVirgin repeatedly reversed me even though I was not violating any Wikipedian rules--I was NOT engaging in non-NPOV commentary, I was not engaging in original research or commentary and I was being completely factual, professional, and I was providing a citation for the changes that I was attempting to make. And finally it is abundantly clear that SlimVirgin did not attempt to explain the wholesale reversals and it is clear to me that SlimVirgin, and SlimVirgin admits as much, that SlimVirgin simply liked the sound of the second statement of the Tribe better, not that it was the definitive point of view of the Triber but it sounded less mean--taken out of context of the first statement. Is that the proper way to decide how to quote the Tribe? Being accurate or what SlimVirgin finds subjectively less mean sounding??? That is a non-objective way to decide. It is clearly subjective and bias. It is based upon the standard--if I can loosely use that word--what does SlimVirgin feels today? What mood is SlimVirgin in today?? That is biased and it is NOT objective like your and SlimVirgin like to claim. It was NOT even my comments, but the comments of the Tribe of which Churchill claims to be a member. I want to know where you see in the article or in the changes to the article where I was engaging in "hate speech" Where??? Show me when and where I did this. Also, ask SlimVirgin when and where I was engaging in this behavior--since you have decided to defend SlimVirgin also. The only hate speech that is in the article is the hate speech of Churchill towards the people that were trapped in the WTC on 9-11-2001.-Keetoowah 21:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your extensive comment. I will respond at Talk:WArd Churchill, where you psoted the same text. —Theo (Talk) 23:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Petsounds again renews misconduct
Despite his promises, this user has resumed his misconduct with regard to both the Bob Dylan and other pages. Aside from his inexplicable determination to assert that the album called "Dylan" is not available in the US (despite the album being offered for sale at bobdylan.com and the main Sony site), he has, inter alia:

deleted a lengthy paragraph devoted to prominent criticism of album lyrics, tagging the edit as "minor" and inaccurately characterizing the deleted material as "redundant";

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smile_%28album%29&diff=prev&oldid=19331244

Without explanation, fully reverted another user's revision of an album page, restoring obvious NPOV violations and deleting all links in the personnel section, tagged, of course, as a "minor" edit;

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opel_%28album%29&diff=prev&oldid=19332781

He continues to mark virtually every edit as minor, and rarely if ever accurately identifies substantive changes. The examples are from a random sample of this afternoon's "contributions."

And, of course, he has restarted the John Wesley Harding edit dispute, again directing the "Basement Tape" link to a page which it does not refer, and insisting that the original form of the album is not available, even though it is listed on the official Dylan and Sony sites. (Sony has kept the pre-SACD versions of the 1960s albums in print, although it currently offers them as CDs only in 3-album packs in the North American market.)

This is getting tired very quickly. A user who consistently refuses to provide sources or provide factual explanations with regard to disputed changes, and misrepresents the nature of a significant number of his substantive changes in his edit summaries, should not be encouraged in his misbehavior. Monicasdude 03:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Theo,

I have fixed my default setting for editing (it was checked). Also, thanks for initiating a compromise on the JWH page. God knows I've compromised (on the BD discography page and many others). It's too bad some people's arms have to be twisted to do likewise. That's what I consider misbehavior.

Thanks... PetSounds 12:13, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Your John Wesley Harding edit doesn't reconcile the differences; it misses the central point. It's inappropriate to designate a particular version of the album as canonical, since it remains available in different forms, with tracks of different lengths. The original version remains on sale -- Petsounds' comments otherwise are contradicted, once again, by the official Sony and bobdylan.com sites.

 * And I once again find Petsounds comments disingenuous at best, and fairly described as deliberately misleading. His idea of a "compromise" is to accede to changes that are not subject to any good faith factual disputes (in the cited case, whether a particular list was complete) only after lengthy and abusive reistance, and to reintroduce other disputed language sub rosa after annoucing the arguments over.  Monicasdude 15:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Here's the proof that the original 1990 edition of JWL is deleted: link. If it's only available from amazon as a used item, that means Sony has stopped pressing the outdated CD. Having just checked the sonymusicstore site link, JWL is only available in its 2003 SACD and regular 2004 CD release (as well as cassette).  The 1990 version is undebniably out of print.  I don't know what else to say. PetSounds 17:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * And here is the proof that it is still availble as part of a three CD set: Amazon page for Dylan Box Set. So, the 1990 version is not (yet) out of print. Either way, there is still merit in including the durations from the original vinyl release in the article. —Theo (Talk) 17:34, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Again, thanks for interceding Theo. I know dealing with difficult people who only see things in a one-sided manner can be frustrating. PetSounds 16:21, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Alert of petty revisions once again
Theo, as you indeed suspected and pointed out to Monicasdude, he appears to be targeting my edits and undoing them with harshness. Have a look:link. These works are either providing historical backgrounds/critical opinions (as per reputable sources, not my own) or presenting better layouts, all which are repeatedly being undone. I am not propogating my POV. I find all this repetitive pettiness to be counterproductive and deliberately provoking, and clearly I'm not the only one that has been bothered by his lack of consult in the past. Have a look at this: link. I find User: JDG's comments to be interesting (dated 01:06, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)). The 3RR rule has already been broken by him as well (see "Younger Than Yesterday" & "The Byrds' Greatest Hits" in his special contributions page). In addition, I've tried discussing things in the past, as you already know, but to no avail. In light of that, I have to follow protocol and bring this to you in order to protect my work, since you are - perhaps unfortunately - quite familiar with the history involved.

My apologies... PetSounds 23:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * This is getting very tired. User:Petsounds' claims of 3RR violations are plainly false; he knows they are false; and he makes these claims only to harass.  As for targeting, User:Petsounds, according to his special contributions page, came online and spent most of an hour doing nothing but reviewing and reverting pages I'd recently worked on.  If you review my special contributions page, you will note I spent time today working on a variety of pages related to 1960's musicians related to Dylan, and I have no idea what percentage of them Petsounds has worked on, or what his specific contributions were.  If you review the pages, I expect you will find that I have not treated whichever pages he worked on the substance of any differently than the ones to which he had not worked (or had made no substantive contributions).

I note that if you review these items from today's activities, you will find specific guideline/policy/practice violations by User: Petsounds

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sticky_Fingers&diff=prev&oldid=19404195

Misleading edit summary. Edit summary refers only to conforming the spelling of Keith Richard(s). Edit also deletes an extensive set of annotations by a third party editor, as well as a reference to a restaurant owned by Bill Wyman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Out_of_Our_Heads&diff=prev&oldid=19369391

Revert not properly identified; no substantive explanation provided.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Rolling_Stones_discography&diff=prev&oldid=19369282

Revert not properly identified; no substantive explanation provided.

And so forth. It is clear from User: Petsounds comments in recent edit summaries that he either does not understand or is unwilling to comply with NPOV policy/guidelines. It is inappropriate to write my esthetic opinions, his esthetic opinions, the esthetic opinions expressed in the AllMusic Guide, a supposed public consensus of esthetic opinions, or any other set of esthetic opinions into Wikipedia entries as though they were factual. I am certainly not the only user who has objected to his inserting such comments.

As for the cited dispute regarding the Bob Dylan page (which spilled over into the FA and Be Bold guideline pages, I note that, if I remember correctly, not a single editor supported user JDG's position, and when a consensus was established that his procedural position was incorrect and that he should address substantive matters, he withdrew.

Frankly, and bluntly, I believe that User:Petsounds sustained refusal to abide by NPOV guidelines is a greater act of incivility and disrespect toward the many, many users who refrain from writing their own opinions into articles, respect the consensus process, and work scrupulously toward accuracy.

I see no way in which this dispute will be resolved by discussion. Monicasdude 00:08, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Edit Conflicted: Brian: I have been working through Monicasdude's edits and I find that in many cases I agree with the changes that he made. For example, I cannot verify your assertion of rumours about Rock of Ages coming from soundchecks.  I think that you could help yourself by citing inline sources for every assertion that you make. I have a feeling that I may have mentioned it before, but if I repeat it, this is because you did not take up the suggestion when first made. Reading Monicadude's detailed rebuttal, which edit conflicted with the first part of this paragraph, I must concur with him.  If you do not start citing sources for assertions (particularly for assertions of opinion) I will initiate an RFC about this. —Theo  (Talk) 00:19, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I never made any assertions about Rock of Ages recordings coming from soundchecks. You must be mistaken. PetSounds 00:22, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, yes, I see that that was a statement by someone else that Monicasdude deleted (quite correctly, in my opinion). Perhaps the suggestion that "Why" was included on Younger Than Yesterday at David Crosby's insistence is a better example, since you reintroduced it through reverts. —Theo  (Talk) 00:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Because that is what's stated in the CD booklet of Younger Than Yesterday. I wouldn't have placed that interesting bit of info in there otherwise. PetSounds 01:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Excellent! Now cite that as the source in the article and include the information. You should cite the booklet as a "Reference" and use Template:Inote or something similar to cite it inline. —Theo  (Talk) 03:05, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I've re-added all the pertinent info - and officialized it with the sourcing. I'm currently in a rush, so I probably didn't do it right, but the point is, it's there. PetSounds 13:22, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Also, please see the YTY talk page where I proved the validity of the contemporary works of the time. PetSounds 13:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Younger Than Yesterday
I've put some comments relating to a factual issue on the article's talk page; I don't believe one paragraph you restored, which on its face certainly appears pertinent, has a sound factual basis. Monicasdude 07:09, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

IP 'registering'
Why are you going around anonymous users' talk pages, including the IP that I am currently inhabiting, and claiming that they are 'registered' with Energis? I must unwittingly be an employee of Energis, then? --195.92.67.74 00:20, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Because, according to WHOIS, those IP addresses are owned by Energis. Thus they are made available to employees and customers of Energis (who include some ISPs). More significantly, a range of addresses of that nature are often assigned dynamically and individual addresses may be shared by several users. The template draws this to the attention of admins who should, in consequence, be more cautious with blocks than they might be for a static IP address. Blocks are applied for repeated violation of policy. One of our policies is Civility. Sarcasm to a stranger is one form of incivility. —Theo  (Talk) 09:11, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Another round of NPOV violations from User:Petsounds
The early Byrds pages have beeen substantively returned to their previous condition, with virtually all the NPOV violations reinstated. Long citations of opinion from a CD's album notes are not NPOV, whether or not they are cited to a named author, and obvious value judgments about the relative merits of particular albums. Occasionally a critical superlative may be appropriate -- it's probably worth noting, for example, that Lester Bangs said "Love You" was the Beach Boys best album in a discussion of the album's critical reception -- but presenting the comments of what is, typically, a hired hand for the label or the artist/band as the principal evaluation of a release is so plainly inappropriate that it should require no discussion.

This is simply one facet of the user's modus operandi; he is apparently determined to introduce a conclusive value judgment on the clear majority of pages he works on. Some of the more egregious excamples from the few days:

Yesshows: "a fitting live momento of their late 1970's era."

Drama: "It was an unlikely partnership, but it worked - for one album, at least."

Tales From Topographic Oceans: "Tales From Topographic Oceans's unconventional nature truly challenged their audience (and continues to), and separated the true believer from the casual fan."

Pacific Ocean Blue: "this album, alongside his pioneering work with The Beach Boys, remains a focal point of Dennis Wilson's legacy."

The Madcap Laughs: "The Madcap Laughs stands as a highly inventive album, full of melody and playfulness, though underscored by a sense of personal torment that makes the listener feel almost guilty for enjoying the recording."

The Beach Boys Today: "Still, with The Beach Boys Today!, Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys had joined the rock revolution, and they would never look back."

Little Deuce Coupe: "For an album recorded so quickly, the quality was amazingly high."

And so forth.

18:04, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Theo,

May I point out that I added a fresh round of chart and sourcing info on The Byrds' pages, which were all wiped deliberately on the pages cited? Is that not a source of vandalism? Also, I have returned Younger Than Yesterday to the way it was. The anecdotes on the album being overshadowed commercially and Crosby's insistence on including an old track on the LP were verified by you and OK'd, since I sourced them.

Secondly, for what's supposed to be a friendly and co-operative site, I don't appreciate that Monicasdude is using, for lack of a better word, stalking measures, by disecting the articles I've worked on (some from DAYS ago). I don't need to be chaperoned by someone who has already driven a user away for his tunnel vision and holier-than-thou character, which is in evidence even in the way he has talked with you (i.e. "your little buddy"). Not all of his input is 100% correct (I've seen a good share of POV but I don't want to be petty), so perhaps he could be more productive by working on articles in a constructive fashion, rather than - clearly - stirring the pot.

If I'm truly appreciated here, as you stated earlier, then I shouldn't be made to feel targeted the way I am. I can find much more satisfying ways to spend the time I freely give here. PetSounds 21:41, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I take it you have no response to the substantive claims and believe that pointing out your sustained practice of refusing to comply with NPOV policies and guideline justifies personally abusive responses. There's no statute of limitations on correcting errors, certainly not three "DAYS ago." And for someone who not so long ago spent an entire online sessions reviewing and substantively vandalizing articles I've worked on, any comments about stalking are dishonest at best. Monicasdude 17:50, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

YTY re-edit.
I really like what you've done by incorporating my input instead of discarding it outright. Seeing as the CD now has a new catalogue number (the old one being discontinued in 1997) and the fact that I've arranged dozens of articles in the same format, could I poosibly move the chart/bonus track info beneath the tracklist as it was before? Otherwise it tends to clash with every other article. Thanks... PetSounds 00:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Goodbye.
That's it. I'm tired of constantly being harrassed especially when those who accuse me have committed the same "crimes". Why don't you go look at Monicasdude's first post to me again? Didn't you call it "overly harsh" yourself? It was certainly far stronger than what I wrote to that other user who repeatedly re-introduced redundant info that I explained SEVERAL TIMES - and nicely - had already been inserted into the text - for at least a week. When it's done repeatedly (thus, on purpose with disregard for others' point of view), I consider it a form of vandalism. God knows some of the reverts of my work by that self-righteous MD were labelled "vandalism". Go look yourself.

I also gave a strong indication yesterday of feeling purposely harrassed, yet I see the antagnoizing is continuing - with your full blessing apparently. Funny how it's OK for MD to attack me, but the minute I express sentiments with a user who has repeatedly (and anonymously) re-introduced info, without attempting to reply or discuss things, suddenly I'm the asshole again.

How would I feel about being bullied that way, Theo? I've been feeling it for the last 2 weeks. What a hyprocrite MD is to talk about breaking civility codes! He is the last one who should be admonishing others for rude and narrow-minded behavior. Just laughable.... Perhaps he's scared to look into his mirror.

Don't bother replying Theo.... I won't be back here - not in this antangonistic atmosphere anyway. I have far better ways to spend my time then being attacked over petty issues, when others break the same rules and are backed up. This site just lost a good contributor.

PetSounds 21:53, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

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Peter Feaver

Peter Douglas Feaver (born December 17, 1961) is an American professor of political science and public policy at Duke University and a civil-military relations scholar.

Feaver has served as director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies since 1999, and founded Duke University's Program in American Grand Strategy. He served in the George W. Bush administration, where he served as a special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council. Prior to working on the National Security Council of George W. Bush, he served as director for defense policy and arms control at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He was also a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Early life and education
Feaver was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a professor of classics at Lehigh University and later a Youth With a Mission missionary at the University of the Nations. His mother was a homemaker. He graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem in 1979.

Feaver attended Lehigh University, where he graduated summa cum laude in international relations in 1983. He obtained a A.M from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1990. His dissertation at Harvard was "Guarding the Guardians: Civil-Military Relations and the Control of Nuclear Weapons." Samuel Huntington, Ashton Carter, and Joseph Nye were all on his dissertation committee, which Nye chaired.

Career
Feaver's is a professor at Duke University, where he writes on civil-military relations, American foreign policy, American defense policy, nuclear operations, nuclear proliferation, information warfare, and international relations theory. He also served in the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and has consulted with various policy think tanks and research organizations. Feaver also co-moderates the Shadow Government Blog of ForeignPolicy.com.

He arrived at Duke University in 1991, received tenure in 1998, was promoted to full professor in 2003, and then was the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy from 2004 to 2009.

Feaver's government positions include serving on the National Security Council staffs of two different U.S. presidential administrations. He served as the director for defense policy and arms control from 1993 to 1994 under the Bill Clinton administration and was special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform from 2005 to 2007 under the George W. Bush administration. During his time on Bush's NSC, he was involved in several Iraq strategy reviews, including one that led to the 2007 surge strategy. Feaver is among the national security leaders who signed the March 2, 2016 "Never Trump" open letter.

As a professor, Feaver has been the recipient of several teaching awards. In 2001 he received the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. He also received the 1994–1995 Trinity College Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and was nominated for the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award for 1992–1993 and 1994–1995. He received the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for 1985–1986 and 1986–1987 and a Navy Commendation Medal in 1994. He was a visiting professor of strategic studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in 2011.

Publications
Feaver is the author or co-author of five books, including Getting the Best Out of College: A Professor, A Dean, and a Student Tell You How to Maximize Your Experience (2012) ISBN 978-1607741442, Paying the Human Costs of War (2009) ISBN 978-0691139081, Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (2004) ISBN 978-0691124278, Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (2004) ISBN 978-0674017610, and Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (1992) ISBN 978-0801426759.

His most recent academic publications or co-publications include "Brass Politics: How Retired Military Officers are Shaping Elections" (November 2012), "Military Campaigns: Veterans Endorsements and Presidential Elections" (October 2012), and "American Grand Strategy At the Crossroads: Leading from the Front, Leading From Behind, or Not Leading at All" (May 2012).

Personal life
Feaver is married with three children and attends Blacknall Presbyterian Church. He sang in the Harvard Din & Tonics from 1984 to 1986.

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Jean Théodore Delacour

Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He established very successful aviaries twice in his life, stocked with birds from around the world, including those that he obtained on expeditions to Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. His first aviary in Villers-Bretonneux was destroyed in World War One. The second one that he established at Clères was destroyed in World War Two. He moved to the United States of America where he worked on avian systematics and was one of the founders of the International Committee for Bird Protection (later BirdLife International). One of the birds he discovered was the imperial pheasant, later identified as a hybrid between the Vietnamese pheasant and the silver pheasant.

Life and work
Delacour was born in Paris into an aristocratic family and grew up on the family estate at Villiers near Amiens where he was fascinated by the orchids and ornamental birds in the castle park. With the money he received from his family (his father died in 1905), he established a private zoo in Picardy. He attended schools in Paris where he spent time in the natural history museum and received a doctorate in biology from the Université Lille Nord de France. He maintained 1,345 birds of 344 species in 1916.

Delacour served in the French Army during World War I, a war which devastated the family estate, as well as killing his only surviving brother. He was so shocked by the inhumanity that he swore not to have a family and moved to England for its peace. He however decided to return to France and bought the Chateau de Clères in Normandy where he set about making a menagerie. It was so well known that the 9th International Ornithological Congress was held in 1938 in the nearby town of Rouen. One of the visitors to his aviary was Pierre Jabouille, the French administrator for Annam, a part of Indochina. On the latter's invitation, Delacour went on numerous scientific expeditions to Indochina, particularly Vietnam, as well as to Venezuela, the Guianas and Madagascar.

During World War II Chateau Clères was bombed by the German Luftwaffe on 7 June 1940. Most of his library, animals in his collection and the castle were destroyed, but his manager Frank E. Fooks escaped. Delacour was saved by Belgians and Frenchmen and escaped to Vichy. Erwin Stresemann, a good friend and admirer of Delacour heard of the fate of the zoo and attempted to ensure the safety of the remaining animals through the Wehrmacht. Delacour meanwhile fled through Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier and Lisbon, reaching New York City on Christmas Day 1940. His American friends found him a job, his first, at the Bronx Zoo and the Museum of Natural History at New York. Delacour lived in the United States, working as a technical adviser for the New York Zoological Society (now known as the Wildlife Conservation Society) as well as on avian systematics at the American Museum of Natural History examining many enigmatic genera such as Hypocolius and Picathartes. In 1952, he became director of the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, retiring in 1960. After the war ended he divided his time seasonally, spending every summer from 1946 at his estate at Clères where he organized the rebuilding of his zoo through his assistant F. E. Fook and with assistance from Sir Peter Scott, Alfred Ezra and the Duke of Bedford. It was opened in May 1947 with the French Prime Minister taking part in the inauguration. The collection was eventually donated to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1967. He was a co-founder of the International Council for Bird Preservation, serving as its president from 1938 to 1958. Delacour spent his winters in the United States, mainly in Los Angeles where he served from 1952 to 1960 as the director of the County Museum of History, Science and Art. Spending all his time and resources on his bird collections, he never married. He had trained as an operatic singer and was particularly fond of Moussorgsky's compositions.

Delacour was reliant on a wheelchair in later life. He lived with his mother who died in 1954 at the age of 94. In his autobiography "The Living Air" he wrote that humans would eventually annihilate all life on earth.

Delacour is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Southeast Asian snake, Plagiopholis delacouri.

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Shirley Abrahamson

Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson (December 17, 1933 – December 19, 2020) was the 25th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. An American lawyer and jurist, she was appointed to the court in 1976 by Governor Patrick Lucey, becoming the first female justice to serve on Wisconsin's highest court. She became the court's first female chief justice on August 1, 1996, and served in that capacity until April 29, 2015. In all, she served on the court for 43 years (1976–2019), making her the longest-serving justice in the history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Early life and career
Abrahamson was born Shirley Schlanger in New York City, the daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Leo and Ceil (Sauerteig) Schlanger. She graduated from New York's Hunter College High School and in 1953 received her bachelor's degree from New York University. She continued her education at Indiana University Law School, earning her J.D. in 1956 with high distinction and graduating first in her class. At Indiana, she met her husband, Seymour Abrahamson, and moved with him to Madison, Wisconsin, for his post-doctoral work in zoology.

In Madison, Abrahamson joined the University of Wisconsin faculty as a lecturer in constitutional law and political science, and worked as a research assistant at the law school. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin Law School and earned a S.J.D. in American legal history in 1962, writing her doctoral thesis on the legal history of Wisconsin's dairy industry.

Also in 1962, at age 28, Abrahamson became the first female lawyer hired by the Madison law firm La Follette, Sinykin, Doyle & Anderson. Within a year, she was named a partner in the law firm. She practiced law at the firm (later known as La Follette, Sinykin, Anderson & Abrahamson) for the next 14 years and continued teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Judicial career
On August 6, 1976, Governor Patrick Lucey appointed Abrahamson to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, filling the vacancy caused by the death of justice Horace W. Wilkie. On September 7, she was sworn in as the first woman to serve on Wisconsin's highest court. Lucey said he hoped her appointment would encourage more women to become involved in law and government, adding, "It is appalling that currently there are no women serving on any level in the state judicial system." Abrahamson was elected to a full term on the court in 1979, with 65% of the vote. She was reelected in 1989, 1999, and 2009—one of the few Wisconsin judges to face an opponent in each of her elections.

Under the Wisconsin constitution, from 1889 until 2015, the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was determined by seniority—the longest-serving member of the court would become the chief justice until death or retirement. In 1994, longtime chief justice Nathan Heffernan announced he would retire at the end of his term, set to expire July 31, 1995. His successor by seniority was Justice Roland B. Day, who, at age 76, was also planning to retire at the end of his current term, ending July 31, 1996. Abrahamson was the next most senior member of the court. On his ascension to chief justice, Day told Abrahamson, "I'm going to be chief for a year. You're going to be chief for a long time." On August 1, 1996, Abrahamson became the Wisconsin Supreme Court's first female chief justice. True to Day's prediction, she became the second longest-serving chief justice in Wisconsin history.

Abrahamson authored more than 450 majority opinions and participated in more than 3,500 written decisions of the court. She was involved in deciding more than 10,000 petitions for review, bypasses, certifications and lawyer and judicial discipline cases.

Abrahamson was a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and served on the board of directors of the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law. She has been president of the Conference of Chief Justices and chair of the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts and has served on the Board of Visitors of several law schools. She served as a member of the United States National Academies Committee on Science, Technology and Law, and was chair of the National Institute of Justice Committee on the Future of DNA Evidence.

In 1997 Abrahamson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1998 she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, two scholarly societies in the United States. She was a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 she was awarded the first annual Dwight Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence by the American Judicature Society. She has received the Margaret Brent Award from the American Bar Association.

Abrahamson has received numerous other awards and 15 honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the U.S. She is featured in Great (Top 100) American Judges: An Encyclopedia (2003), The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2005), and The Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America (2006).

Chief Justice amendment controversy
In the April 2015 spring election, voters narrowly approved an amendment to the Wisconsin constitution that changed the way that the chief justice of the Supreme Court was selected. Since 1889, the justice with the most seniority held the position, but the amendment allowed court members to choose the chief. According to Abrahamson's opinion in the 2002 case State v. Gonzalez, "[U]nless a constitutional amendment provides otherwise, it takes effect upon the certification of a statewide canvass of the votes." Thus on April 29, 2015, the same day the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board certified the vote canvass, the conservative majority on the court elected Patience D. Roggensack as the new chief justice.

Abrahamson filed a federal lawsuit challenging the immediate implementation of the constitutional amendment, contending that she should remain chief justice until the expiration of her term in 2019. Her lawsuit was heard on May 15, 2015. Five of the seven justices asked the federal judge to dismiss Abrahamson's lawsuit. That day, the federal court denied Abrahamson's request for immediate reinstatement as chief justice. U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson determined there was no harm in Roggensack serving as chief justice while Abrahamson's lawsuit continued. Abrahamson appealed that decision to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, but dropped the lawsuit on November 10, deciding that no matter what happened in her lawsuit, her term would be close to ending by the time the litigation finally ended.

Retirement
On May 30, 2018, Abrahamson announced she would not seek reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2019. She left office July 31, 2019, having served for 43 years—the longest term in the Court's history. She was the only woman on the high court from 1976 until 1993; in her final three years, the court had a 5–2 female majority.

Personal life
Shirley Schlanger took the last name Abrahamson when she married Seymour Abrahamson in August 1953. Seymour was a professor of zoology and a world-renowned geneticist. They had one son, Daniel, who followed his mother into the legal profession. The Abrahamsons had been married nearly 63 years at the time of Seymour's death from cancer in July 2016.

In August 2018, Justice Abrahamson announced she had been diagnosed with cancer. Following her retirement, she moved to Berkeley, California, to be closer to her son and his family and went into hospice care in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was mostly only able to interact with her family through a window or via video call, but was able to see her son in person shortly before her death. She died of pancreatic cancer on December 19, 2020.

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List of refugees

This is a list of prominent people who fled their native country, went into exile and found refuge in another country. The list follows the current legal concept of refugee only loosely. It also includes children of people who have fled. The people are ordered according to the field in which they made their names.

Advertising

 * Lord Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi – British citizens and founders of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency. Their family fled persecution in Iraq for Britain in 1947.

Architecture

 * Eva Jiřičná – British artist and architect, designed the Faith Zone in the Millennium Dome. Born in Czechoslovakia and took refuge in the UK after the Prague Spring in 1968.
 * Daniel Marot – British architect best known for Hampton Court Palace. Born in France, he sought refuge in the UK in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
 * Richard Rogers – British-Italian architect best known for the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome. Fled Trieste in 1939 and took refuge in the UK.

Art

 * Marc Chagall – Jewish-Russian painter. Escaped Bolshevism for asylum in France in 1922. Fled France between 1941–48 to reside in the US.
 * Jacob Epstein - British modern sculptor. Child of Polish-Jewish refugees.
 * Lucian Freud – British figurative painter. Born in 1922 in Germany (grandson of Sigmund Freud); came to England in 1933 as refugee from Nazism.
 * Peter Carl Fabergé – Russian jeweller for Russian Imperial Court, fled Russian Revolution for Switzerland in 1917
 * Mona Hatoum – British-Palestinian sculptor, performance and installation artist; Palestinian refugee born in Lebanon, forced into exile in London in 1975 when war broke out in Lebanon.
 * Josine Ianco-Starrels – Los Angeles curator and museum director. Born in Romania, her family escaped to British (or Mandatory) Palestine in 1941. (see her father Marcel Janco)
 * Marcel Janco – Romanian artist and architect, best known as the co-founder of Dadaism. Fled persecution in Romania for British (or Mandatory) Palestine in 1941.
 * Anish Kapoor - British-Indian sculptor. His mother's family was Iraqi-Jewish and took refuge in India in 1920 after the Iraqi revolt.
 * Piet Mondrian – Dutch painter, and contributor to De Stijl. World War II refugee who settled in New York City in 1940.
 * Camille Pissarro – Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, took refuge in London from France during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–1871
 * Alfred Wolmark – British Post-Impressionist painter and decorative artist; Polish-Jewish refugee whose family came to the UK in 1883

Business

 * Sir Montague Burton – British citizen, founded the British clothing business Burton retail in 1903. Jewish refugee from Lithuania.
 * Sir John Houblon – British citizen, first Governor of the Bank of England. Child of Huguenot refugees.
 * Manubhai Madhvani – Ugandan businessman, son of Muljibhai Madhvani and head of the Madhvani Group. Expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, returned in 1982.
 * Michael Marks – British citizen, one of the founders of Marks & Spencer. He was a Polish-Jewish refugee from Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) who fled to the UK in 1882.
 * Aristotle Onassis – Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Left Smyrna, Turkey for Greece after the Great Fire of Smyrna in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish war.
 * Thomas Peterffy - Developed electronic trading of securities. Hungarian refugee who arrived in the U.S. in 1965.
 * de Portal – founder of British paper firm Portal, which for 270 years (until 1995) held the only license to print British money. Huguenot refugee who arrived in the UK in 1685.
 * Sieng van Tran – British citizen, founder of the educational website www.iLearn.to. Vietnamese refugee whose family were given refuge in the UK in 1981. (see also Vietnamese Boat People)
 * George Weidenfeld – British citizen; publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist. Jewish-Austrian refugee, fled Nazi annexation of Austria (see Anschluss) in 1938 and found refuge in the UK.

Fashion and design

 * Sir Alec Issigonis – British car designer, best known for designing the Mini. His family was evacuated from Smyrna following the end of the Greco-Turkish war.
 * Tanya Sarne - British fashion designer and creator of the Ghost label. Her parents were refugees (her mother was Romanian, her father French-Jewish who met in London at the end of WWII.
 * Alek Wek – British supermodel. She fled Wau for Khartoum, Sudan to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War, then made her way to the UK with her family.

Manufacturing

 * Lakshmishankar Pathak – British citizen and founder of Patak's. Fled Kenya for the UK during the Mau Mau uprising.
 * Rashmi Thakrar – British citizen and founder of Tilda Rice Company Fled Uganda for the UK during the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972.

Music and dance

 * Béla Bartók – Hungarian composer and pianist who went into exile in the US in 1940 as a result of his opposition to Nazism.
 * Norbert Brainin – British citizen, Austrian-Jewish violinist, first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, fled to the UK where he eventually began playing with fellow violinists and refugees Siegmund Nissel and Peter Schidlof.
 * Gloria Estefan – American-Cuban pop star. Fled Cuba for the US in 1960 after her father became a political prisoner.
 * Justine Frischmann – British lead singer of Elastica. Her father was a Hungarian refugee and Holocaust survivor who was liberated from Auschwitz.
 * Wyclef Jean – Haitian-American, best known as member of the Fugees. Left Haiti during the Duvalier regime and re-settled in New York City.
 * K'naan (Keinan Abdi Warsame) – Somali-Canadian songwriter, rapper and hip-hop artist, best known for his song Wavin' Flag. Fled Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War at age 13, settled in Toronto.
 * Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Czech-born Jewish composer, working in U.S. when Nazis came to power in Austria and could not return
 * Fritzi Massary – US citizen. Austrian-Jewish operetta singer and actress. Despite her conversion to Protestantism in 1903, she was persecuted in Germany for her Jewish heritage, and fled the country in 1933, ultimately settling in the US.
 * Freddie Mercury - British pop singer, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead singer/songwriter for the rock band Queen. Born a British citizen in the British Protectorate of the Sultanate of Zanzibar (now Tanzania), he and his family fled during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution. He and his family resettled in the UK.
 * Mika – Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 to a Lebanese mother and American father; his family relocated to Paris in 1984 after attacks on the American Embassy during the Lebanese civil war.
 * M.I.A (Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) – British-born Tamil rapper, singer. Six months after her birth, her family relocated from the UK to Sri Lanka at the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. As a result of her father's political activism, she and her family fled the war for London in 1987.
 * Siegmund Nissel – British citizen, Austrian-Jewish violinist, member of Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, sent to the UK via Kindertransport, where he met fellow violinists and refugees Norbert Brainin and Peter Schidlof.
 * Rita Ora – British singer and actress. She was born in Pristina, Kosovo to Kosovar Albanian parents. Her family fled the Kosovo war for the UK when she was 1.
 * Laleh Pourkarim – Swedish-Iranian singer. Fled persecution in Iran in 1982 (her father was a prominent opponent of the regime after the Iranian Revolution), eventually found refuge in Sweden.
 * Peter Schidlof – British citizen, Austrian-Jewish violinist, member of Amadeus Quartet. Driven out of Vienna after the 1938 Anschluss, fled to the UK. The Amadeus Quartet was formed with fellow refugees Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel.
 * Arnold Schoenberg – US citizen, Jewish-Austrian composer and painter, associated with Expressionism. Persecuted as a "degenerate" artist, in 1933 he fled the Nazi occupation and resettled in the US.
 * Claude-Michel Schönberg - French composer whose works include the musicals Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. He is the son of Hungarian-Jewish refugees.
 * Chaim Witz (Gene Simmons) – Israeli-American rock bass guitarist, best known as co-lead singer of the rock band Kiss. His mother was a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor.
 * Regina Spektor – American singer-songwriter and pianist. Came to the U.S. with her parents at the age of 9 from Soviet Russia.
 * György Stern (Sir Georg Solti) – British citizen, Hungarian-Jewish conductor. Fled anti-semitic laws in Hungary to work in Germany, left Germany in 1938 after the Anschluss.
 * Oscar Straus (composer) – Austrian-Jewish composer of operettas and film scores. He fled Austria in 1938 after the Anschluss, first for Paris, then Hollywood.
 * Robert Stolz – Austrian composer/conductor. Prior to the Anschluss he aided the escape of Jewish and political refugees across the Austro-German border, before escaping to the US himself in 1940.
 * Richard Tauber – Austrian-Jewish singer, composer. He began his career in Germany, but in 1933 he was assaulted by Nazi Brownshirts, and left Germany for Austria. Nazis revoked his passport and right of abode while he was on tour in London in 1938, forcing him to apply for British citizenship.
 * Felipe Andres Coronel (Immortal Technique) – African-Peruvian rapper and activist. Fled to the United States with his family in 1980, due to outbreak of internal conflict in Peru.
 * Georg Ludwig von Trapp and Maria von Trapp – Austrian singers. Maria's autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired the musical The Sound of Music. They fled Austria through the Italian Alps after the Anschluss, ultimately settling in the US.

Politics, economics, and political economy

 * Madeleine Albright – Former U.S. Secretary of State. She and her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 and came to the US as refugees.
 * Hannah Arendt – Jewish-American author and political theorist. Born in Germany, in 1933 she fled persecution by the Nazis for Czechoslovakia and then Geneva, eventually becoming a naturalized citizen of the US in 1950.
 * Adrienne Clarkson – Canadian journalist and 26th Governor General of Canada. Her parents fled Hong Kong with her in 1941 and found refuge in Canada.
 * Alexander Gerschenkron – Russian-born American economist. Fled Russia during Russian civil war and settled in Austria, fleeing again to the United States after the rise of fascism. He is best known for his book of essay, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, which became one of the foundational texts of development economics.
 * Albert O. Hirschman – German development economist and political economist. He was an active resistance fighter during the Second War World and Spanish Civil War, helping to rescue many of Europe's leading artists and intellectuals. He is best known for his work on unbalanced development and his book in political science: Exit, Voice and Loyalty.
 * Michaëlle Jean – Canadian journalist and 27th Governor General of Canada. Her father fled Haiti's Duvalier regime in 1967, she and the rest of their family arrived in Canada in 1968.
 * Henry Kissinger – American diplomat and political scientist who fled Germany with his family in 1938.
 * Karl Marx – German philosopher, writer and journalist best known for "inventing" the political concept of Communism. He spent much of his adult life in exile as a result of his political views, but became truly stateless in 1848 when he gave up his Prussian citizenship, and was expelled from France. He remained stateless till the end of his life.
 * Thandika Mkandawire – Malawian-Swedish economist, best known for his work on 'transformative social policy'. He was targeted by the regime of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda and found asylum in Sweden.
 * Maryam Monsef – Canadian politician. In 2015 she became Minister For Democratic Institutions. She and her family fled the Afghan Civil War in 1996, resettling in Canada.
 * Ilhan Omar – Somali-American politician. Born in Somalia, her family fled the civil war there, and spent four years in a refugee camp. They immigrated to the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representative in 2018.
 * Karl Polanyi – Hungarian economic historian and political economist and a refugee from fascist persecution in the Vienna of 1934. He is known for his book The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market-based societies in modern Europe was not inevitable but historically contingent.
 * Edward Snowden – American computer security specialist, leaked information about U.S. National Security data collection, fled U.S. and received asylum in Russia.
 * Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull) – Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. Took refuge with his followers in Canada in 1877 for four years, where they petitioned the Canadian government for land and food. The Canadian government refused their request, and ultimately Sitting Bull and his people were forced to return to the United States.
 * Deborah Carlos Valencia Filipino refugee who founded four migrant-support organisations in Greece.
 * Clara Zetkin – key leader in German Communist movement, chiefly remembered for establishing March 8 as International Women's Day; fled Nazi Germany in 1932 and took refuge in the Soviet Union.

Psychology and philosophy

 * Michael Balint – British citizen, Jewish-Hungarian psychoanalyst, best known as a proponent of Object relations theory. Fled persecution by Nazis for the UK in 1939.
 * Sigmund Freud – Jewish-Austrian neurologist, best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK.
 * Anna Freud – daughter of Sigmund, also a psychoanalyst. Fled persecution by the Nazis in Austria in June 1938, took refuge in the UK.
 * Ernest Gellner – British citizen, Czech-Jewish philosopher and social anthropologist. Came to England in 1939 after the German occupation of Prague.
 * Stephan Korner – British citizen, Czech-Jewish philosopher. Came to England in 1939 after German occupation of Czechoslovakia.
 * Claude Lévi-Strauss – French-Jewish anthropologist and ethnologist. Stripped of his citizenship in 1940 under the Vichy anti-semitic laws for his Jewish ancestry, Levi-Strauss took refuge in the United States until 1948, when he returned to France.
 * Karl Popper – Austrian-Jewish philosopher; fled from rise of Nazism in Austria to New Zealand in 1937.
 * Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) – Jewish German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and former Haganah sniper who fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland as a 10-year-old in January 1939, as part of the Kindertransport. Both her parents were killed at Auschwitz.

Religion

 * Jesus and the Holy Family, according to Matthew's gospel account of their flight to Egypt due to Herod's threat
 * Pope Gregory the Great was driven from Rome in 550 as a child with his family, along with most of the remaining population of the city by King Totila, during the Gothic war
 * Theodore of Tarsus fled his home for Constantinople during either the Persian or Arab invasions of the Eastern Byzantine Empire in the 7th century
 * Adrian of Canterbury fled from North Africa to Italy during the Muslim invasions of North Africa in the 640s
 * Sophronius of Jerusalem fled during the Persian-Byzantine war of the early 7th-century, but returned later
 * Maximus the Confessor fled from the vicinity of Constantinople for Crete and later to Carthage around the time of the Persian siege of Constantinople during the Persian-Byzantine war
 * Isaac Abravanel – rabbi and politician – fled from Portugal to Spain
 * Rabbi Leo Baeck – Reform rabbi and holocaust survivor
 * Rabbi Hugo Gryn – Reform rabbi and holocaust survivor
 * Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama) – a refugee, fled from Tibet Autonomous Region, China during the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
 * Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits – Chief rabbi of Great Britain – fled from the Nazis to Britain
 * Paul Kahle – Christian Hebraist – fled from the Nazis to Britain
 * Mullah Krekar – Iraqi Kurdish mullah, lives in Norway
 * Vincent Nguyen – Canadian, Auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Toronto. Fled Vietnam in 1983 and settled in Canada. (See also Vietnamese Boat People)
 * Dieter F. Uchtdorf – First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, refugee from Czechoslovakia and subsequently from East Germany

Science and technology

 * Sergey Brin – Co-founder of Google – Russian-Jewish refugee
 * Gustav Victor Rudolf Born - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
 * Max Born - Nobel Prize for physics - German-Jewish refugee
 * Edith Bulbring - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
 * Constantin Carathéodory- Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. Taught in Turkey until the 1922 Great Fire of Smyrna, when he fled with books he had saved from the university's library to Athens.
 * Carl Djerassi - the inventor of the first contraceptive pill. He was an Austrian refugee
 * John Dollond - inventor of the achromatic lens. He founded Dollond and Aitchison; descended from Huguenot refugees
 * Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1921) for his theory of relativity; German-Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Germany by taking a post at Princeton in 1938.
 * Enrico Fermi – Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1938) for his work on nuclear reactions; member of the Manhattan Project; moved with his family to America in 1938 to escape Italy's anti-semitic laws.
 * Robert Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee
 * Ugo Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee
 * Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – a Romanian American progenitor and paradigm founder in economics, whose work was seminal in establishing ecological economics – fled when the communists took power in Romania in 1948.
 * Alexander Grothendieck – mathematician – German-Jewish refugee
 * Erik Jorpes – Finnish biochemist who fled to Sweden after the Finnish Civil War.
 * Bernard Katz – Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist – German-Jewish refugee
 * Walter Kohn – theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize (1998) in Chemistry for Density-Functional Theory; left Austria for England via Kindertransport
 * Sir Hans Krebs – Nobel Prize-winning scientist – German-Jewish refugee
 * Sir John Krebs – zoologist – son of Sir Hans Krebs
 * Liviu Librescu, physicist; fled from Romania to Israel
 * Lord (Claus) Moser – British professor of statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service – Austrian-Jewish refugee
 * Charles Proteus Steinmetz – mathematics and electrical engineering – German-Polish refugee. he identified and explained, through a mathematical equation that later became known as the Law of Hysterisis, or Steinmetz's Law, phenomena governing power losses, leading to breakthroughs in both alternating- and direct-current electrical systems.
 * Dame Stephanie Shirley – British information technology pioneer and philanthropist, best known for founding Xansa. Arrived in the UK in 1938 as an unaccompanied child refugee from Germany as part of the Kindertransport.

Sport

 * Alexander Alekhine – chess world champion, who moved from communist Russia to France
 * Ossip Bernstein – chess grandmaster, who escape from Communistic Ukraine to France
 * Efim Bogoljubow – chess grandmaster, who moved from the Soviet Union to Germany
 * Fedor Bohatirchuk – chess grandmaster, who moved from Ukraine to Canada
 * Joel Casamayor – former Lightweight champion in boxing, fled from Cuba to U.S.
 * Luol Deng – Chicago Bulls basketball player and NBA All-Star. Moved from Sudan to Great Britain
 * Mebrahtom Keflezighi – Olympic marathon silver medallist, Eritrean refugee to U.S. (via Italy)
 * Lomana Tresor LuaLua – a striker/winger who plays for Blackpool, he migrated from Kinshansa, DR Congo to the U.K.
 * Yusra Mardini – Syrian swimmer who was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team during the 2016 Summer Olympics, she moved from Syria to Germany
 * Fabrice Muamba – Congolese refugee in the United Kingdom, became a football player for Bolton
 * Ashot Nadanian – chess player, who moved from Azerbaijan to Armenia
 * Kwity Paye – American football player, Liberian refugee born in Guinea
 * Mario Stanic – former footballer with Chelsea. He used to play for Sarajevo F.C. who were targeted during the Bosnian War
 * Christopher Wreh – former Arsenal footballer and Liberian refugee

TV and film

 * Zohra Daoud – former Afghani actress and model, now settled in Malibu, California
 * Omid Djalili – comedian and actor. He and his family are Iranian refugees
 * Anh Do – Australian comedian, Anh Do and his family fled in a boat to Australia as refugees in 1980
 * Ben Elton – comedian and grandson of a Czechoslovakian refugee
 * Andy Garcia – actor and director fled Castro's Cuba with his parents when he was five
 * Baron Lew Grade – television mogul and uncle of Michael Grade. He was a Russian refugee
 * Fritz Lang – film director, and a half-Jewish refugee
 * Jerry Springer – talk show host. His parents were German refugees
 * Rachel Weisz – actress. Both her parents are Jewish refugees
 * Billy Wilder – film director and writer, and a Jewish refugee
 * Dagmara Domińczyk – actress. She fled to the United States with her parents and sisters in 1983 due to her parents' political associations (her father's involvement with Amnesty International and the Solidarity movement)
 * Zoltán Buday – actor. He and his family were Hungarian refugees who fled to Canada due to the Hungarian Revolution.

Writing and publishing

 * Brownkey Abdullahi – Dadaab born blogger
 * Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – journalist and author, and a Ugandan refugee
 * Isabel Allende – author of The House of Spirits. She is a Chilean refugee who fled after receiving death threats following the overthrow of her father's cousin, Salvador Allende
 * Akuch Kuol Anyieth – South-Sudanese-Australian writer.
 * Reinaldo Arenas – Cuban novelist. Became a refugee in the US after years of persecution for his sexuality and political ideas. His autobiography, Before Night Falls, was on the New York Times list of the ten best books of the year 1993 and was made into a film in 2000
 * Bertolt Brecht – German playwright, refugee from the Nazis during World War II
 * Elias Canetti – a Bulgarian refugee, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981
 * Joseph Conrad – author of Heart of Darkness and a refugee.
 * Anne Frank – German-Jewish teen who fled with her family to the Netherlands during WWII. Her book The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most widely known and poignant accounts of the refugee experience.
 * Karen Gershon – as a child she fled from Nazi Germany to Great Britain
 * Michael Hamburger – as a child he fled from Nazi Germany to London
 * Lord Paul Hamlyn CBE – a Jewish refugee from Germany. He was the founder of Octopus Publishing Group
 * Victor Hugo – author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Due to his political beliefs, he was forced to flee France several times
 * Guillermo Cabrera Infante – Cuban writer and journalist. Became a refugee in the UK. Honoured with the Cervantes Prize in 1997
 * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – novelist and film screenwriter – German-Jewish refugee
 * Ismail Kadare – Albanian novelist and poet. Claimed political asylum in France in 1990.
 * Judith Kerr – children's writer – German-Jewish refugee
 * Rigoberta Menchú – an author and Guatemalan refugee. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992
 * Thomas Mann – winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. He moved from Germany to Switzerland and from there to the US
 * Vladimir Nabokov – Russian author and lepidopterist. Escaped to Europe from the Russian Civil War and then to the United States from the advance of Nazi Germany
 * Ursula Owen – editor of Index on Censorship. She was a German refugee as a baby
 * Felix Salten – author of Bambi – Hungarian-born Jewish refugee from Nazis
 * Joe Schlesinger – Austrian-born Canadian television journalist and author was a Jewish refugee. In 1938, he was sent to England from Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis as part of the Kindertransport that rescued 669 Jewish children. His parents, who couldn't escape with him, were later killed in the Holocaust.
 * Shyam Selvadurai – Canadian novelist, refugee from Sri Lanka as a teenager
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Russian writer, winner of 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. Deported from the USSR in 1974 as a result of his criticism of the Soviet system, returned to Russia from the United States in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet System.
 * Samuel Ullman – German-born poet
 * Loung Ung – a survivor of the Killing Fields of Cambodia, is an activist and author of the books, First They Killed My Father and Lucky Child

Miscellaneous

 * Alina Fernández – daughter of Fidel Castro, fled Cuba to Spain, now lives in the United States. Former model, now hosts a talk show
 * Otto Kahn-Freund – lawyer – German Jew who fled Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
 * Maya Ghazal – pilot and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
 * Moud Goba – LGBTIQ+ human rights activist, fled Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom
 * Christoph Meili – whistleblower – fled from Switzerland to the United States, because an arrest warrant was issued against him
 * Merhan Karimi Nasseri – an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 – July 2006. See also the film The Terminal (2004), directed by Steven Spielberg, and the opera Flight, by Jonathan Dove.
 * Daria Khrystenko – a Ukrainian teacher and humanitarian who fled to Poland due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Steamboat Rock

Steamboat Rock can refer to some places in the United States:

 * Steamboat Rock, Iowa, a town in Hardin County, Iowa
 * Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building, historic school building in Steamboat Rock, Iowa
 * Steamboat Rock (Garden of the Gods), a rock in Colorado Springs
 * Steamboat Rock (Dinosaur National Monument), a large rock at the confluence of the Green River (Colorado River) and Yampa River in the state of Colorado
 * Steamboat Rock State Park in Grant County, Washington (state)

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"The 10" was then re-released as a hot-pink vinyl on June 5, 2012 with 1,500 copies in North American and 1,500 copies elsewhere. A vibrant red edition of 1,000 of the 10" was also available from Hot Topic stores." It is impressive that it was done in the future.--184.80.140.146 (talk) 13:42, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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All Right Now

"All Right Now" is a song by English rock band Free, released on their third studio album, Fire and Water (1970). It was released by Island Records, a record label founded by Chris Blackwell. Released as the album's second single, "All Right Now" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In July 1973, the song was re-released, peaking at number 15 on the UK chart. In 1991, a Bob Clearmountain remix of the song was released, reaching number eight on the UK chart.

"All Right Now" was a number-one hit in over 20 countries and was recognised by American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1990 for garnering over 1,000,000 radio plays in the U.S. by late 1989. In 2006, the BMI London awards included a Million Air award for 3 million air plays of "All Right Now" in the USA. The song remains as a staple track of classic rock radio.

It was covered by artists such as Mike Oldfield, Witch Queen, Rod Stewart, Pepsi & Shirlie (All Right Now), and GNR. A version arranged by the Stanford Band is the de facto fight song of Stanford University athletic teams.

Composition
According to drummer Simon Kirke, "All Right Now" was written by Free bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers in the Durham Students' Union building, Dunelm House. He said: "'All Right Now' was created after a bad gig in Durham. We finished our show and walked off the stage to the sound of our own footsteps. The applause had died before I had even left the drum riser. It was obvious that we needed a rocker to close our shows. All of a sudden the inspiration struck Fraser and he started bopping around singing 'All Right Now'. He sat down and wrote it right there in the dressing room. It couldn't have taken more than ten minutes." Fraser has agreed largely with this history.

Reception
Billboard called it a "funky beer blues swinger" that's a "mover from start to finish." Record World said that the song "lays a hunk of heaviness on your head" and "will establish [Free] once and for all."

Free

 * Paul Rodgers – vocals
 * Paul Kossoff – guitar
 * Andy Fraser – bass, piano
 * Simon Kirke – drums

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