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User talk:Jguk/Archive7

A question about your admin criterion
Hi Jguk. I have put a question about your admin criterion on its talkpage. Can you please respond? Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for answering. I have also made my own admin criterion page even though it's a bit vague... Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

2005 English cricket season (8-30 April)
I found your immmediate withdrawal of that article from peer review, your reasons given for it, and your comments on Mav's talk page to be odd. For one, I found Mav's comments on PR to be correct, and even if they weren't how does one comment make immediate unfair treatment? Maybe there's a larger issue going on I am unaware of, but if there is, that should be separated from this issue. This seems to be a case of making a much greater issue than there is and being way over sensitive about (all I can see as) one comment. Forgive me if the issue is resolved, but there seemed to be a disconnect between your comments and what occurred. Specifically, you asked for peer review, got it, and in response asked for mediation regarding the comments. I think you should heed the comments, discuss it where appropriate, and leave it at that. If you want peer review, list it and keep it there, and listen to those comments too. - Taxman Talk 16:54, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Some questions and suggestions
Q: Hi. I was watching a TV programme today &: What does "removed 4 points of his [driving] licence mean"?

Sugg: I saw your image of UKCTax. =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:09, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Please apply all windows updates from the microsoft site. A newer version of IE is available which corrects the bugs that you saw recently in Gangtok. My version is 6.0.2900.2180. Alternatively use Mozilla or Opera (I use that).
 * 2) I saw many instant messengers open. Go to Run> and type "msconfig" (without quotes). Once open navigate to the "Startup" tab and disable all the unnecessary stuff such as yahoo, win messenger etc. Keep AVG on and a firewall on too.  restart comp. It saves a lot of memory.
 * 3) Why do you watch the main page?

Instantnood and the MTR
Hello, I found your name on the arbitration committee briefing on Instantnood. I found the evidence presented disturbing, as a very similar situation is developing over on the MTR page. Instantnood has taken it upon himself to change the formatting for all the article names without discussion, and to also change the bolded name in the articles to create redundancy. I am attempting to engage him in discussion, although after reading the evidenece presented on the ArbCom page, it may perhaps be futile. Discussion over this is taking place at here, and any support you could lend would be appreciated, as I cannot seem to find what the final verdict of the ArbCom was. Thank you! Páll 09:23, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Away - no cricket updates
Thought I'd mention it here - I'll be away for the weekend, so I'm afraid you'll have to update all the cricket articles for this round of matches. Won't be back editing until Monday probably. Cheers, Sam Vimes 22:16, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Australian national cricket captains
Thanks for the heads up, but I was reading it when I got your message! - Ian 13:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Parthia
Honestly, are we going to play this game forever, or are you going to actual discuss the issue on the talk page one of these days? Don't make enemies where there needn't be any. siafu 18:38, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why don't
you just stick to editing articles, and stay away from the Wikipedia: namespace? The importance of all the goings-on in there is often vastly over-inflated; no-one who's just working on content cares, really. The place just seems like a breeding ground for bad feelings, with little or nothing constructive coming forth. Dan100 23:43, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, OK, I've now read all the RfAr etc. Soooo, why don't you just stay away from contentius issues? Just stick to what is fun? I know it's a shame to see the thing you like being harmed, but is it worth the aggro, and spoiling the good stuff? Dan100 00:07, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Left?
Have you left because of the CE/AD debate / cricket categories? Regarding the CE-AD debate, its so trivial, I don't see why you have to get so flustered about it. I don't have any idea on what the majority ruling was as you say on your page. Take a wikibreak, enjoy the short English summer (come here to India; some of my India-related Featured Articles might help ☺); and resume after a month or so. Anyways, if you choose not to return to wikipedia, then I wish you all the best in your endeavours. Without you we may not have so many cricket articles, so please do review your choice to quit. Regards, =Nichalp (Talk)= 08:03, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I echo what Nick said Tintin 08:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm hoping the "cricket categories" thing wasn't a major part of the decision, it certainly wasn't my intention to drive you off Wikipedia. You've done tons of good contributing here. Although I disagreed with you quite vigorously at times, I've always tried to stick to consensus - I thought that this time around there was general agreement on the Wikiproject talk page when I started moving category tags into talk. (oh, and in case you might have thought I was deliberately following you around by getting involved in the 2005 season transclusion debate, I actually stumbled across that one on my own and it reminded me to check up on the category situation). Bryan 16:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeh mate its sad you chose to leave... You did an incredible job on so many cricket articles. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 10:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * OMG. Please reconsider this decision. This place will be the loser for it and it does seem (to me anyway) to be over a trivial matter from which you should just take a step back from.  Have a wikiholiday.  Otherwise, all the best to you and thanks for your help. - Ian 13:15, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ouch. Really sorry to see you go, especially over something as trivial as this. Thanks for all your contributions :( Sam Vimes 18:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm also going to add my voice to those sad to see you leave from a cricket enthusiast's point of view. I'm going to stay out of the minutiae of the controversy that caused you to leave, since I don't know all the details, but from a purely WikiProject Cricket persepective, you'll be sadly missed. I hope you'll return at some point in the future. Loganberry | Talk 23:36, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh gracious me. Please don't go - we need people like you! Take some time off, watch some cricket, enjoy the weather and come back with recharged batteries. You will be missed enormously. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:41, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I echo the above statements – a good contributor should never be allowed to leave. Wiki or death? violet/riga (t) 11:46, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"For all sad words of tongue and pen / The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" (John Greenleaf Whittier). Farewell, jguk, wherever life may take you. I hope you come back someday soon. Take a break. --Neutralitytalk 06:39, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Jguk, I would also ask you to reconsider. I've been consistently on the opposite side from you on the CE/AD and style debates, and, yes, I think that your method of achieving your preferences wasn't the right way to go, but I have no wish to see you leave. There's no point in having discussions if everybody agrees, and more importantly, there's no way of achieving any semblance of NPOV if people that don't agree leave. Zocky 08:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am deeply sorry to see the Wikipedia bullies claim another victim. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 12:24, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Take a well-deserved Wiki-break, and come back in a couple of months. — Chameleon 12:55, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Zocky - I think you are a valuable contributor, and I am sad to see you go. Guettarda 13:07, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I do, so very much so, hope that you will return. A deeply valued member of the community.
 * James F. (talk) 21:36, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * My deepest sympathies. Your voice and constructiveness will be sorely missed. Radiant_ >|< 22:35, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

I had not realised that you had left. I am new to WP. I am not that familiar with how WP operates. Knowing, now, what happened to you is a warning to me and to others. The lesson is that NPOV is just hypocrisy. You have my sympathy. You tried to defend WP and we can see the result. There are a group of bullies here, and bully is the appropriate word. They will have their own way, come what may. I can understand your sentiment “well, it's not worth the hassle, is it?” As for me, I will take some time off. I admire the stand you took.--ClemMcGann 10:54, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I just learned of your departure, and am deeply sad to know that Lulu et al drove you away. I hope you will find the time to return, and continue to make Wikipedia a better place. Regards, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 14:11, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

I myself just found out that you have left, and the news saddens me. Too many good wikipedians have left recently. Please come back. Mackensen (talk) 23:39, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Jguk, even though this is a bit late, I want to thank you for supporting me in my RFA. Thanks to all of my supporters, I am now an admin and I have been using (... I just blocked a vandal!) my powers to help further Wikipedia. Thanks! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:31, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Come back we need you!
I've only just noticed your departure -please reconsider and return - we need you! A curate's egg 17:45, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Madge = Cunt?
In Hambledon, Hampshire, I saw the link Madge. My first reaction was vandalism. Can you justify this odd link? Perhaps a note on the article's talk page if you meant it. -- RHaworth 23:26, 2005 Jun 26 (UTC)

Welcome back
Might be inspired to put up my Twenty20 write-ups now. I've really been falling behind without your help :) Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 20:54 (UTC)

 * Hard worker, you are :) Think I won't be writing as detailed write-ups of the Sri Lankan games, somehow. Good to see West Indies A doing well, though. On another note, our match template with the flags and scores seem to be messed up, as shown by England v Bangladesh 21 June 2005 (oh, and please don't move all of them back to 2005 English cricket season/England v Bangladesh 21 June 2005, it's not worth edit warring about) Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 21:07 (UTC) PS: Worked out what was wrong with the match templates. Apparently they all need a space before valign="top". Stupid MediaWiki 1.5. ;) Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 21:09 (UTC)

 * I think that should be okay. Individual TV episodes have their own articles, after all. There's hardly any doubt over the notability - a few hundred people actually going to WATCH a four-day long game should attest for that. Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 21:17 (UTC)

Cricket matches on VfD
Although I did not realize that the specific matches were part of a series, I also think that the VfD process should be allowed to work - you can make a case for keeping these articles there. I am, quite frankly, uncomfortable with the idea that individual matches would have articles of their own, unless the particular matches had some greater historical noteworthiness (e.g., if one of the athletes were to collapse and die on the field). I am imagining this being used as the justification for articles on the 2400+ 1200 yearly NBA basketball games, or the nearly 5000 2500 MLB baseball games. Would you consider something along the lines of merging them by date? -- BD2412 talk June 28, 2005 21:53 (UTC)
 * I truly understand your point of view, having had to justify articles I've written on vfd before (one is up there right now) - and occasionally having seen my own fair labor undone in the process. However, I do not think I will come around to the point of view that a non-championship meeting between teams is generally noteworthy enough to merit an individual article. Then again, I also think that TV episodes should generally be merged by season as well, and the consensus of Wikipedia does not follow my view on that. -- BD2412 talk June 28, 2005 22:09 (UTC)
 * I'm not trying to be unreasonable, but there is nothing in the articles themselves that would lead a casual observer to believe that these games had any special significance above that of any other meeting between any two professional sports teams. I'm afraid I don't see how they can all be championship games - maybe Cricket determines its champions in a way to which I'm unaccustomed, but in my experience a championship game only includes the single game or series played by the two top teams in the sport to determine which one will wear the crown for the season. Please have faith in the VfD process - you can continue to make the case for keeping the individual articles there. -- BD2412 talk June 28, 2005 22:30 (UTC)
 * Small comment. In American terms, cricket only has a regular season, and the tables at the end determine who is the champion. Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 22:31 (UTC)

Portal links
Please see the discussion on Talk:Cricket and give your input. Sam Vimes 28 June 2005 22:17 (UTC)

Hi mate. You've been adding a lot of links to the Cricket Portal to articles. Good -- but would it not be a better idea to do this with a template, rather than adding text to each article? --Ngb 28 June 2005 22:27 (UTC)

Hiya, chipping in here. I removed the Cricket portal link from the top of A. E. J. Collins as, to be honest, it diverts attention away from the article. If you want to have it in the article, may I suggest you add it in a more unobtrusive space (perhaps the See also section)? Talrias (t | e | c) 28 June 2005 23:02 (UTC)

Welcome back
Nice to have you back in action. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  June 29, 2005 13:13 (UTC)
 * Ditto. :) Squash 30 June 2005 01:56 (UTC)

 * Tritto! Radiant_ >|< June 30, 2005 17:44 (UTC)
 * Welcome back, Jguk! Glad to see you haven't let controversy keep you away for good. You didn't get to oppose my RFA though... Sjakkalle (Check!)  1 July 2005 07:56 (UTC)

Move
Please consider responding: 24.224.153.40 30 June 2005 12:15 (UTC)

Arbitration case - final decision
A decision has been reached in the arbitration case: Requests for arbitration/Jguk. All involved users are warned strongly to abide by our policies. Please see Requests for arbitration/Jguk for further details and the full decision. -- sannse (talk) 30 June 2005 15:37 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 20:11 (UTC)

Cricket season
Note: I've got match reports on the last four days stored on my computer, so you don't have to worry about them, I'm just not uploading them out of respect for the VfD process. :) Sam Vimes 30 June 2005 21:12 (UTC)

Welcome back
Hi Jon good to see you back - thank goodness for that! :). I have had a go at some articles on the Studd brothers etc. If you can add anything to these that'd be great.

 * The Studd Brothers
 * Charles Studd
 * Kynaston Studd
 * George Studd
 * Peter Malden Studd

Kind regards A curate's egg 1 July 2005 15:01 (UTC) - Missing_Wikipedians: seems you are back; might want to delist yourself.

England v Australia 23 June 2005
Yeah, wrote that a fair while ago. On that note...do you want to do the final report? Astonishing game, I chose to watch cycling instead (git that I am), and came back to see cricinfo on 194 for 9 with two balls to go... Sam Vimes 2 July 2005 18:05 (UTC)

 * Feel free to do it yourself. I've been WP'ing all day and need a break from it! Shame we couldn't quite make it (but at least the Aussie's can't gloat either)! jguk 2 July 2005 18:09 (UTC)

Another welcome
This might be a bit late, but welcome back! I was quite saddened when you decided to leave, but it's nice to have our resident cricket... "expert" (*cough* geek *cough*) back. Cheers, 140.247.23.44 (I recently left too, and am only editing anonymously - I'll leave it to you to figure out who I am)

Irreligion
Hello. I have updated a dead external link at Irreligion to the New Zealand census. The figures I get are 30% os 93% of replies. How did you get your figures? Cheers. Alan Liefting 3 July 2005 06:21 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. Now that you're back if you are at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. I had you marked as "inactve", but just removed the inactive indication. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) July 3, 2005 17:59 (UTC)

No
I don't want to delete the category, I want people who are not verifiably pedophiles removed from it. Is WP:RFC for that? 24.224.153.40 3 July 2005 19:55 (UTC)
 * There. 24.224.153.40 3 July 2005 20:26 (UTC)

VfD on Jesus/Rewrite
I believe you started Jesus/Rewrite, you may wish to at least cast a vote at Votes_for_deletion/Jesus/Rewrite. Tomer TALK July 4, 2005 00:33 (UTC)

Hey chap, welcome home
SchmuckyTheCat 4 July 2005 01:47 (UTC)

Newsgroups
You've added a cricket newsgroup on the links page. Only I can't see how to access it - I clicked on it and it took me to some Outlook Express wizard thing (and I don't use Outlook Express although it's installed). How do I as a basic user, with a yahoo email account and not computer-minded access it? (I just feel there's a cricket-loving world out there I've never entered;) ). By the way, if you ever want to MSN Messenger me, I lurk on there under the address thagudearbh.yahoo.co.uk, jguk 3 July 2005 20:25 (UTC)

 * To access newsgroups or bulletin boards, you will need to know your ISP news server. It goes something like this: news.ISP NAME.com OR nntp.ISP NAME.com. I'm not sure (but I think) there are free news servers out there too. Will have to query in Reference Desk. Outlook Express is the default news reader for windows. I think its selected via the Tools> menu of Internet Explorer when you surf. If you wan't to avoid the hassle of Outlook Express to read a post, then Google groups has enabled access to the usenet servers, so all you have to do is to create an account and start posting there. [news:rec.sport.cricket] is the most popular. I hope this was useful to you. PS. MSN requires a hotmail account right? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  July 4, 2005 06:37 (UTC)

 * Hi, sorry to bring up an old topic, but could I add you to my MSN list? It would be useful to have a quick method of conversation outside of WP Sam Vimes 09:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thanks for not opposing my adminship. I realize that I have perhaps never complied with your criteria, which I do regard as sensible. In my post-hoc defense, I'd like to say that I have contributed to several featured articles after they'd achieved featured status. I have high regard for featured articles and also recognize that they are only one aspect of the project. (To improve the average quality of the encyclopedia it is as important, if not more important, to improve the minimum quality than the maximum quality.) Cheers, -Willmcw July 4, 2005 10:30 (UTC)

Cricket poetry
Any ideas on how to take Cricket poetry forward ? I have a few more proper cricket poems in stock but they are not famous by any means and I am not good enoguh to judge their quality.

We may add more into the 'miscellaneous verses' - stuff which are more famous than good. Tintin 4 July 2005 12:16 (UTC)

What bot?
I'm not using a bot. I did not use a bot. I am botless. 24 at 4 July 2005 21:07 (UTC)

Ashes
One assumes I deleted it because I'm an idiot, although it's equally possible that I deleted it because i was on a different tab than I thought I was. I've restored. Snowspinner July 6, 2005 05:27 (UTC)

VAT thanks
Thanks for the info on VAT. Cleared some of my doubts now. Do you poach ALoan's pages? ;) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  July 6, 2005 06:44 (UTC)

Ok
Hmm I see you're OK. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  July 7, 2005 18:34 (UTC)

Your opinion sought
I have re-opened the issue of the royal stub at. I think having it produce a noble link is farcical. Those who did it originally were no doubt well meaning but I don't think they really understood what they were doing. Nobility and royalty are not the same. Your opinions would be welcomed.

Fear ÉIREANN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON\(caint)  7 July 2005 23:25 (UTC)

7 July 2005 London bombings
Hi. I notice when you did your copyedit of this article you overwrote most of my own work from about 15 minutes before, and some other people's edits. Was this intentional? I wouldn't mind about that, beause individual changes can be discussed, although I thought a lot of them were surely beneficial, such as making sure we didn't have present tense "a bomb explodes" everywhere, and various rearrangements I did. I suspect what happened though is that you had an edit conflict and chose to overwrite my edits instead of merging them, as I did with others' edits when I made my own copyedit. If you did, this means I've wasted my time really. I just wondered if you planned to reincorporate any of the edits you overwrote. Thanks. — Trilobite (Talk) 8 July 2005 17:49 (UTC)

2005 English cricket season
Sure. Feel free to help me, though, they're all up on User:Sam_Vimes/Cricket_reports (gotta love user-space :)) Sam Vimes 8 July 2005 19:20 (UTC)

 * To be honest, that thought never even crossed my mind! :) This is a collaborative effort, not one to take personal credit out of. If it was, I'd have applied for a job as cricket correspondent of a newspaper instead. Sam Vimes 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)

 * Never mind, finished it now. Linked everything in Twenty20, too. There's two matches (Derbys v Notts, Worcs v Glam) that's not got match reports, along with the first ODI of the NWC, and tonight's NL games. Sam Vimes 8 July 2005 21:47 (UTC)

SCG image
Re: your note in User_talk:Dmmaus: There you go, cropped. I kind of liked the people in the foreground, but the crop looks nice too. -dmmaus 08:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

New cricket collaboration of the fortnight
Hi jguk, glad you decided to come back. Just to let you know that West Indian cricket team, which you voted for, is the new Cricket Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please come along and help improve it! Stephen Turner 10:02, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Cricket COTF
Sure, though I am not a die-hard fan, I'm quite interested in the Bangladesh cricket team's endeavors. I'll try my best. --Ragib 11:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Intercontinental Cup
If you move a page, then you are supposed to take care of all the double redirections. But if you move the page to make a disambiguation page, then you MUST do so!!! Intercontinental cup was a very popular page (around 70 wikilinks), and it's mainly known under that name, not as European/South American Cup. I think it would have been a lot wiser to make comment at the beginning of the article, such as in the Napoleon I of France article reading:
 * if you are looking for the first-class cricket see ICC Intercontinental Cup.

Links should mow point to European/South American Cup as Intercontinental cup or, if it had already a different phrase as old text.

-Mariano 10:38, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Irish cricket team
Nominated it, ended up on the front page :) Now to work on the CC reports... Sam Vimes 15:40, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Another VFD debate
Just thought I'd let you know, in case you didn't spot it, that someone has put another of the individual English 1st Class matches up on VFD again: Votes for deletion/Essex v Glamorgan 15 May 2005. David | Talk 15:43, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: History of Cricket
Actually, I got that info from the external link to CricInfo at the bottom of the page. I'm not sure of the accuracy of the pre-12th century theories, which is why I included them with a "some theories" disclaimer, making sure to point out they were speculative rather than established facts. But the 1183 description by Joseph of Exeter is well-documented in many places. In fact I was spurred to check the article today by a mention of Joseph in today's Sydney Morning Herald. -dmmaus 11:21, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Dawood club cricketers
There is a category called 'Dawood club cricketers' which includes Imran and Zaheer. Dawood Industries is a team that played one season of first class ckt in 1975/6 and is no longer around. Shall I delete this category from the pages of these cricketers ? Tintin 16:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't know much about Pakistan domestic cricket either, but Cricketarchive scorecard oracle helped in checking this team's matches. Tintin 10:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Two polls you may be interested in
Tomer TALK 20:58, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Bible source text
 * Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses

Hi
Hi Jon. I'm not sure I ever welcomed you back. If I didn't, sincere apologies! As it is, I was away doing work experience the last two weeks, so Wikipedia fell by the wayside. It's good to see you orchestrating the cricket world again! I was watching the match in the old style (i.e. Cricinfo), and I went away when it was first announced... Ah well, I missed the excitement. Ah well. You may be interested to know that my history master played in the first ever bowl-out in professional cricket — James Boiling. Yep, I haven't got all that much to do over the summer, so you can expect to see a few cricketer biographies from me, I think. I just have to work out how to get photos... You don't happen to have any of Alec Stewart hanging around, do you? Would be a great help. Anyway, cheers for the note. Here's to Surrey! smoddy 23:08, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Surrey v Warwickshire 18 July 2005
Dunno whether I did it justice (it must have been way too exciting for comfort!), but it's up, anyway. Almost twice as long as the other reports! Sam Vimes 13:03, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Cricket!
Hi, first off - thanks for coming back. I had only just found the excellent Cricket portal but was disappointed that you had left just as I had hoped to get involved in it (which I have now anyway and happily discovered you're back to help run the good ship). But sycophanticism aside, I've left a message on the talk page for the Cricket project regarding how I might contribute to the project despite my limited knowledge. While I'm not pressing for an answer, I thought I'd flag it up anyway as I hope my suggestion can come in handy. And on that note, here's to some thoroughly reckless batting by Australia's tail order tomorrow morning. -- High (Hopes) 20:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Wettin
Please stop removing references to the Royal Family surname of Wettin pre-1917. It is 100% correct. I double-checked the information some time ago with Buckingham Palace who confirmed it. The Royal House name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but Queen Victoria was informed that that was not her marital surname. She had her Private Secretary research the question of what was Albert's (and so by marriage her) surname. She was informed it was Wettin. So all the Royals descended from her until 1917 had a personal name of Wettin, and a Royal House name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In 1917 George V changed both Royal House and personal surname to Windsor. Or as the Columbia Encyclopædia says
 * The name Wettin, family name of Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria, was changed to Windsor by George V in 1917.

Fear ÉIREANN \(caint) 05:31, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

2005 Ashes
Are the 2005 Ashes being covered in Wikipedia anywhere? Commander Keane 09:03, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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Out of My Mind (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Out of My Mind" is episode 4 of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on October 17, 2000, on The WB.

Plot
At a cemetery, Buffy stalks her vampire prey, killing several new vampires with a little unwanted help from both Riley and Spike. Riley demonstrates quite a bit of enthusiasm and new strength while fighting, while Buffy simply orders Spike to stay out of her way.

Buffy arrives at The Magic Box to train and is pleasantly surprised to see that the backroom has been transformed into an amazing training room. Harmony seeks Spike and his help because she is frightened that Buffy is out to destroy her. The two conspire to kill the Slayer. Joyce is chatting while making breakfast for Dawn, and, in the midst of a sentence, suddenly asks, "Who are you?" before collapsing onto the floor.

At the hospital, an intern, Ben, informs Buffy and Riley that Joyce will be fine, but that doctors are not sure what caused her to collapse. Dawn is playing with a stethoscope and when she listens to Riley's heart, she finds that it is racing much faster than normal. After listening to Riley's heart, a doctor recommends that he stay in the hospital, as tachycardia puts him at high risk of a heart attack, but Riley disregards their concerns. Buffy tries to think of a way to help Riley and finally resolves to go to Riley's place and contacts the Initiative via the bugs in his room. Still part of the government, Graham tries to force Riley to see a doctor, but Riley is stronger than Graham and the other agents and gets away. After speaking with Graham later that day, Buffy takes it upon herself to get Riley to a doctor before he dies. Buffy gives Spike information about the doctor that can help Riley hoping that the vampire could help find Riley and bring him there. Instead, Spike and Harmony kidnap the doctor in order to force him to remove Spike's chip.

Searching for Riley in the ruins of the high school, Willow uses a "Fiat Lux" ("Let there be light") spell to create light rather than use a flashlight. Tara is concerned by this.

Buffy finds Riley in the Initiative caves, punching into rock because he cannot feel any pain. He tells her that he is afraid he will not be enough for her once he lets the doctors operate on him. After convincing Riley to get medical attention, Buffy brings him to the hospital and finds Dr. Overheiser gone. Just after Overheiser finishes sewing up Spike's skull, Buffy arrives with Riley and a fight ensues. As he tries to bite the Slayer, Spike finds that the doctor only pretended to remove the chip from his head. When Riley suffers a heart attack and collapses while fighting Harmony, Buffy and the doctor immediately turn their attention to him. With the humans distracted, an enraged Spike escapes with Harmony, ranting about his disgust with Buffy and his weariness with how she is seemingly the source of everything wrong with his life. The doctor is able to operate successfully on Riley. Later, Graham talks with Riley and releases him from the Initiative.

Afterwards, Buffy goes to Spike's crypt with the intention of staking him; however, when she confronts him, he angrily tells her to kill him. Spike angrily berates Buffy as the source of his torment and yells that he would rather die and be free of her. However, Buffy cannot bring herself to do it and the pair kiss. Suddenly Spike wakes up beside a still sleeping Harmony; he has merely suffered a nightmare, but Spike is mortified at the thought of having feelings for Buffy.

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Johnny Byrne (writer)

John Christopher Byrne (27 November 1935 – 2 April 2008) was an Irish television screenwriter and script editor. He travelled extensively in his youth as a travelling poet. During the 1960s he worked as a literary editor, and wrote short stories that were published in Science Fantasy magazine.

Byrne's other works include the novel Groupie (1969, co-written with Jenny Fabian), the BBC "Wednesday Play" Season of the Witch (1971), and the scripts for the films Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972, co-written with original author Spike Milligan and Norman Cohen), and Rosie Is My Relative (1976). He was script editor of the TV series All Creatures Great and Small (1976, 1978, 1985, 1988–1990), writing 29 episodes, and also produced scripts for One by One (1987). Byrne was the creator of the TV drama series Heartbeat (which was loosely based on the Constable books by Nicholas Rhea), writing 23 episodes for 17 series between 1992 and 2005. He also created and wrote for Noah's Ark (1997–98).

Space: 1999
Byrne was the most prolific scriptwriter for the first series of Space: 1999 (1973–75), and was initially assigned the role of creative consultant for the second season (1976–77). However, hoping to make a greater impact on the American market, the producers desired a consultant from the United States, and the job was subsequently given to Fred Freiberger.

Byrne's scripts for series one of Space: 1999 were "Matter of Life and Death" (based on a draft by Art Wallace), "Another Time, Another Place", "Force of Life", "Voyager's Return" (based on an idea by Joe Gannon), "End of Eternity", "The Troubled Spirit", "Mission of the Darians", and "The Testament of Arkadia". For series two, he wrote "The Metamorph", "The Immunity Syndrome", and "The Dorcons".

Doctor Who
Byrne is also known for his contributions to the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. The first of his three scripted and screened stories was The Keeper of Traken (1981), which resurrected the Master and served as the first instalment in a trilogy of stories (continuing with Logopolis and Castrovalva) involving the character. For the same story, Byrne created the character of Nyssa, who would later become a companion to the Fifth Doctor.

Byrne's second story, Arc of Infinity (1983), featured the Time Lord villain Omega, who had first appeared in The Three Doctors a decade earlier. His final screened story was Warriors of the Deep (1984), which saw the return of monsters the Silurians and the Sea Devils.

In 1991, Byrne wrote the final draft script for an unmade Doctor Who movie called Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords.

Personal life
Byrne left Ireland for the United Kingdom in 1956. For a time, he worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language in various cities in Europe. In 1975 he married Sandy Carrington-Mail, with whom he had three sons.

Death
Byrne died on 2 April 2008, aged 72. He last resided, and is buried, in the Norfolk village of Heydon.

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I don't think this article is really necessary. Thoughts? --SFoskett 13:34, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * It is not necessary, like many other articles we have. Maybe someone will flesh it out sometime down the road. But you can just merge it into BMW 3 Series and make this article a redirect. Rl 14:19, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

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Tynesoft

Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.

History
The company was originally set up in 1983 by Colin Courtney and Trevor Scott to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time. It developed numerous games for a wide variety of 8-bit micros, particularly those less well catered for by other publishers such as the Commodore 16, BBC Micro and Atari 8-bit computers. They also had a budget label, MicroValue, that issued compilations, reissues and some original games.

They had most success with their multi-load games such as Summer Olympiad, Circus Games and Rodeo Games. They also released licensed ports to smaller systems such as Software Projects' Jet Set Willy (Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16/Plus/4, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron), First Star Software's Boulder Dash (BBC, Electron) and Spy vs. Spy (C16/+4, BBC, Electron) and Mindscape's Indoor Sports (C16/+4, BBC, Electron). From the late 1980s, they released games for the 16-bit computers Amiga and Atari ST as well as PC but failed to capture a large share of this new market and with the demise of the 8-bit games scene, their sales fell. The company went bankrupt in June 1990 when its sister printing business incurred massive debts.

Legacy
Programmer Brian Jobling left the company in 1988 to set up Zeppelin Games with programmer and journalist Derek Brewster.

Colin Courtney set up a new company, Flair Software, which continued to use the MicroValue label for budget releases. Flair published one title that had originally been scheduled for release by Tynesoft, Elvira: The Arcade Game, but a reported conversion of Games Workshop's Blood Bowl never appeared. The company currently operates under the name Casual Arts and releases games for PC, Mac, Nintendo DS/3DS, iOS, Android and Kindle.

Select titles

 * 1984 Auf Wiedersehen Pet (Electron, BBC Micro, C64, ZSpectrum)
 * 1984 Bingo (C64, Spectrum)
 * 1984 Rig Attack (Electron, BBC, C16, Plus/4
 * 1984 Olympiad (C16/+4)
 * 1984 US Drag Racing (Electron, BBC, C16/+4)
 * 1985 Ian Botham's Test Match (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, C16/+4, Amstrad CPC)
 * 1985 Super Gran (C64, Spectrum, C16/+4, CPC)
 * 1985 Super Gran: The Adventure (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, C16/+4)
 * 1986 Future Shock (Electron, BBC, C16/+4)
 * 1986 Commonwealth Games aka European Games (Electron, BBC, C64, C16/+4,[MSX)
 * 1986 Mouse Trap (Electron, BBC, C64, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Amiga)
 * 1986 Winter Olympics (Electron, BBC, C16/+4, Atari 8-bit, MSX)
 * 1986 The Big KO (Electron, BBC, C64)
 * 1987 Phantom (Electron, BBC, C64, C16/+4, Atari 8-bit)
 * 1987 Mirax Force (Atari 8-bit)
 * 1987 Who Dares Wins II (Atari 8-bit)
 * 1988 Summer Olympiad (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, ST, Amiga)
 * 1988 Winter Olympiad '88 (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, Atari 8-bit, ST, Amiga)
 * 1989 Circus Games (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, CPC, ST, Amiga, Apple II, MS-DOS)
 * 1989 Superman: The Man of Steel (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, CPC, ST, Amiga, MSX, Apple II, PC)
 * 1989 Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games aka Buffalo Bill's Wild West Rodeo Show (Electron, BBC, C64, Spectrum, CPC, ST, Amiga, Apple II, PC)
 * 1989 Roller Coaster Rumbler (C64, ST, Amiga, PC)
 * 1989 Mayday Squad (C64, ST, Amiga,PC)
 * 1990 Beverly Hills Cop (BBC, C64, Spectrum, CPC, ST, Amiga, PC)

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USS Yarborough

USS Yarborough (DD-314) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy.

Namesake
George Hampton Yarborough, Jr. was born on 14 October 1895 in Roxboro, North Carolina. He graduated from The Citadel in 1916 and enrolled in class no. 4, United States Marine Corps Reserves, on 7 April 1917, the day after the United States entered World War I. After instruction at the Marine Barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina, he reported to the Marine Barracks at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 4 June 1917 for duty with the 16th Company, 5th Marine Regiment. Taken to New York on USS Seattle (CA-11), he embarked on USS Henderson (AP-1) on 14 June 1917 sailed for France that day; and reached St. Nazaire on 27 June.

He was promoted to first lieutenant on 11 August 1917 and served two tours of detached duty while assigned to the 5th Regiment, first at Cosne, France, between 8 December 1917 and 4 January 1918 and then at Gondrecourt, between 22 February and 29 April 1918.

On 23 June 1918, the height of the Battle of Belleau Wood, he arrived on the front lines. The next day, intense enemy fire from skillfully placed machine guns pinned down Yarborough's platoon in a support position in the American lines. He dashed from one shell hole to another, in the open, steadying his men, until a burst of machine gun fire hit him. Severely wounded, he refused aid until other wounded men in his unit received medical attention. Finally moved to shelter, he succumbed to his severe gunshot wounds on 26 June 1918. Cited for his bravery, He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Navy Cross.

History
Yarborough was laid down on 27 February 1919 at San Francisco, California, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Union Iron Works plant; launched on 20 June 1919; sponsored by Miss Kate Burch, the fiancée of the late Lt. Yarborough; designated DD-314 on 17 July 1920; and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, on 31 December 1920, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl – later the Navy's pre-eminent authority on airships – in command.

Following commissioning, Yarborough was fitted out at Mare Island into late January 1921 and departed the yard on the 25th, bound for Port Richmond, California, where she fueled. After trials in San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and San Pedro Bay, the new destroyer tied up at the Reserve Dock at San Diego, California, on 2 February. Outside a trip to San Pedro with liberty parties embarked, the ship remained pierside through mid-April.

One event was noteworthy during the ship's largely port-bound routine in 1921. She embarked Marine detachments from the cruisers USS Charleston (CA-19) and USS Salem (CL-3), both units under the command of 1st Lt. J. K. Martensteen, USMC, and transported them to Santa Catalina Island on 18 April. Underway from San Diego at 0615 on the 18th, she stood into Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island at 1145, anchoring at 1205. After landing the marines, she got underway and hove to briefly to embark a passenger - Capt. Franck T. Evans, the chief of staff to Commander, Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet and the son of the famous admiral Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans - before she resumed her passage. Unfortunately, Yarborough collided with a buoy at the entrance to San Pedro harbor - an embarrassing occurrence in view of the ship's high-ranking passenger. Fortunately, the ship sustained only minor damage to a propeller blade, and no disciplinary action was taken.

Yarborough remained alongside the Santa Fe dock at San Diego until 30 June, when she headed for the Mare Island Navy Yard. After a drydocking, the destroyer ran trials off the southern California coast, during which she shipped heavy seas over the forecastle that caused some damage to her bridge on 11 July. Visiting San Francisco briefly, the destroyer returned to San Diego on the 13th, where she remained into mid-October.

Yarborough subsequently ran gunnery exercises and drills in company with her sistership USS Wood (DD-317) late in October, after receiving on board a large draft of men from USS Jacob Jones (DD-130). Yarborough apparently joined the operating segment of the "rotating reserves" at that point because the rest of her career was largely one of operational activity.

She spent the majority of 1922 operating from San Diego, touching at ports in the Pacific Northwest like Port Angeles and Seattle, Washington, and familiar California ports like San Diego and San Pedro. Upon occasion, she operated with the battleship forces and conducted drills and exercises in antisubmarine screening, torpedo firings, and, of course, the staple, gunnery.

The following year, however, Yarborough began her voyages beyond what had become the usual west coast routine. After maneuvers out of San Pedro with the Battle Fleet, Yarborough departed that port on 9 February 1923, bound for Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Arriving there on the 6th, in company with Destroyer Squadrons 11 and 12 and the destroyer tender USS Melville (AD-2), she was underway again two days later this time bound for Panama.

In the succeeding days that February, Yarborough took part in the first of the large United States Fleet exercises - Fleet Problem I. Staged off the coast of Panama, Fleet Problem I pitted the Battle Fleet against an augmented Scouting Fleet. Yarborough screened the Battle Fleet's dreadnoughts, often serving as a picket in a special defensive screen arrangement ahead of the heavy units. The exercise continued into March; and, during a lull in the maneuvers, Secretary of the Navy Edwin C. Denby, embarked in USS Henderson (AP-1), reviewed the assembled forces on 14 March.

After further exercises, Yarborough departed the Panama area on 31 March as part of the screen for the northward-bound battleships. She arrived at San Diego on 11 April. For the remainder of the year, her schedule remained routine, operations within the vicinity of San Diego, San Francisco, or San Pedro, with a period under repairs at Mare Island and dry-docked on a marine railway at San Diego.

On 2 January 1924, Yarborough got underway for Panama to participate in the next series of fleet exercises - Fleet Problems II, III, and IV - conducted concurrently. Problem II simulated the first leg of a westward advance across the Pacific; Problem III tested the Caribbean defenses and the transit facilities of the Panama Canal; and Problem IV simulated the movement from a main base in the western Pacific to the Japanese home islands—represented in that case by islands, cities, and countries surrounding the Caribbean.

Yarborough's role in the maneuvers was similar to those she had performed before. However, there was one exception because, during one phase of the exercises, she operated with USS Langley (CV-1)—the Navy's first aircraft carrier. She screened Langley on 25 January and witnessed an air attack upon the ship by planes of the "black" fleet. The destroyer also performed those tasks for which she had been designed (torpedo attacks and screening maneuvers) both with and against battleships. Yarborough and her sister-ships participated in the intensive exercises through late February, after which the destroyer paid a brief call upon New Orleans, Louisiana, her only visit ever to that port, between 1 March and 11 March.

After further exercises off Puerto Rico, Yarborough headed for home; transited the Panama Canal on 8 April; and arrived at San Diego on the 22d. For the remainder of the year, she operated in and around her home port.

The Scouting Fleet once more "battled" the Battle Fleet in March 1925, in Fleet Problem V, off the coast of Baja California. After that series of exercises which trained the Fleet in protective screening, seizing and occupying an unfortified anchorage, fueling at sea, and conducting submarine attacks, the Fleet set its course westward.

Yarborough departed San Francisco as part of this movement on 15 April 1925. Her log noted: "underway in company with the United States Fleet to engage in joint Army and Navy Problem No. 3 and proceed to the Hawaiian Islands." Screening Battleship Division 5, as a unit of Destroyer Division 34, she proceeded via Mamala Bay, Oahu, and arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 28 April. When the Fleet later concentrated in Lahaina Roads, Maui, Yarborough served a brief tour as guardship, patrolling off the entrance to the Fleet anchorage.

During subsequent maneuvers out of Lahaina, Yarborough and her mates performed as "Cruiser Division 1" for the sake of the exercise, acting in that guise from 19 to 29 May, before returning to Pearl Harbor for upkeep.

After visiting Hilo, Yarborough departed Pearl Harbor on 1 July 1925, bound for the South Pacific as part of the Fleet's Australian cruise. Yarborough subsequently visited Pago Pago, Samoa, from 10 to 11 July; Melbourne, Australia, from 23 to 30 July; Lyttelton, New Zealand, from 11 to 21 August; and Wellington, New Zealand, from 22 to 24 August. Returning via Pago Pago, Yarborough and her division mates were pressed into service on 7 September as part of the dragnet searching for the downed PN-9 No. 1 - a flying boat which attempted to make a flight from the west coast to Hawaii. Destroyer Division 34's ships steamed at eight-mile (13 km) intervals in a scouting line and searched over the next three days before word reached them that PN-9 No. 1 had been found, her crew having stripped the plane's lower wings and used the fabric to rig a sail that had taken them close to Oahu.

Yarborough eventually returned via Pearl Harbor to San Diego on 19 September and remained in the vicinity of her home port for the remainder of 1925. Early the following year, 1926, she took part in Fleet Problem VI, off the west coast of Central America, operating with the Battle Fleet and its train convoy against the "enemy" forces as represented by the Scouting Fleet and Control Force. Yarborough later visited Port Aberdeen, Port Angeles, Washington, and the Puget Sound Navy Yard before she rounded out the year operating locally from San Diego.

The year 1927 proved to be a busy one for Yarborough, one that she began, as usual, at San Diego. Departing that port on 17 February, the destroyer transited the Panama Canal on 5 March, Atlantic-bound. The loss of the German steamship SS Albatross, however, forced a change in plans. Yarborough re-transited the canal four days later, on 9 March, and headed for the Galápagos Islands in company with the rest of Destroyer Division 34. Forming a scouting line, the flush-deckers combed the seas for survivors of the Albatross. During the search, Yarborough often operated in sight of her sisterships USS Sloat (DD-316) and USS Shirk (DD-318) but found nothing. Abandoning the search on the 13th, the ship retransmitted the canal and rejoined the Fleet.

Participating in Fleet Problem VII later that month, Yarborough operated off Gonaïves, Haiti, and visited Staten Island and New York late in May and early in June. While in the New York area, the destroyer participated in the presidential review, when President Calvin Coolidge inspected the Fleet from the decks of his presidential yacht, Mayflower, on 4 June.

Yarborough subsequently headed for Panama, arriving at Colon on 9 June. She shifted to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, soon thereafter, due to an outbreak of unrest there. She joined USS Denver (PG-28) and USS Robert Smith (DD-324) in guarding American interests in that port before heading back to Colon, retransiting the Panama Canal, and undergoing a drydocking at Balboa. She returned to Puerto Cabezas on 9 July and found USS Tulsa (PG-22) and Shirk in port.

Yarborough remained at Puerto Cabezas into early August, drilling her landing force in light marching order early in the deployment to be ready for any emergency. The destroyer sailed for the Panama Canal on 5 August, transited the canal on the 7th, and arrived at San Diego on the 23rd. She exercised out of San Diego and off San Clemente Island for the rest of 1927.

The following spring, Yarborough again operated in Hawaiian waters, taking part in Fleet Problem VIII which was staged between San Francisco and Honolulu. Returning to the west coast upon completion of that group of maneuvers, the destroyer continued her regular schedule of operations in tactics and gunnery out of Port Angeles, San Diego, and San Pedro.

Yarborough participated in her final large-scale maneuvers in January 1929, operating between San Diego and the westward side of the Panama Canal Zone, in Fleet Problem IX. That problem - significant in that the new aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) participated in the Fleet's war games for the first time - pitted the Battle Fleet (less submarines and Lexington) against a combination of forces including the Scouting Force (augmented by Lexington), the Control Forces, Train Squadron 1, and 15th Naval District and local Army defense forces. The scenario studied the effects of an attack upon the Panama Canal and conducted the operations necessary to carry out such an eventuality. As before, Yarborough's role was with the Battle Fleet, screening the dreadnoughts of the battle line.

After alternating periods in port and operating locally, Yarborough was moored at the Destroyer Base at San Diego that autumn and prepared for decommissioning. Simultaneously, she participated in the reactivation of ships that had been in reserve during the past few years. Two of those ships were USS Upshur (DD-144) and USS Tarbell (DD-142).

Fate
Yarborough was decommissioned on 29 May 1930; and, on 3 November 1930, her name was struck from the Navy List. Scrapped on 20 December of the same year, her remains were sold as scrap metal on 25 February 1932.

As of 2019, no other ships have been named Yarborough.

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Wildman Whitehouse

Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse (1 October 1816 – 26 January 1890) was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. He was recruited by entrepreneur Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the pioneering endeavour to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to eastern Newfoundland. This pioneering project of the Victorian era began in 1854 and was completed in 1858; however the cable functioned for only three weeks. While Whitehouse sent the first telegraph communications on 16 August 1858 to the United States of America, he was ultimately held responsible for the undersea cable failure after he applied higher voltages in an effort to boost declining signals.

Life
Born in Liverpool to a merchant, he qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1840 and established a successful practice in Brighton.

First transatlantic cable
In the 1850s, Whitehouse conducted experiments that, he held, showed that feared problems with practical data rates on underwater cables would not prohibit a commercial service. Though his claims were disputed by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), he was an able propagandist for the proponents of a proposed transatlantic cable. Cyrus West Field recruited Whitehouse as chief electrician to the Atlantic Telegraph Company; Thomson subsequently became scientific advisor, convinced that Whitehouse's theories were wrong but believing him to have the practical skill to make the scheme work. When the cable finally opened for business, it was beset with the problems that Thomson had foreseen.

Whitehouse's inadequate apparatus had to be replaced by Thomson's more sensitive mirror galvanometer but Whitehouse then ruined the cable by delivering massive shocks of 2,000 volts in an attempt to rectify the problems. Whitehouse continually maintained that the cable and his equipment were a success. Though he put up a desperate public defence of his conduct and was more than ready to apportion blame among all other parties, an 1861 enquiry concluded that he should bear the majority of the responsibility. It has been argued that the manufacture, storage and handling of the 1858 cable would have led to premature failure in any case.

Whitehouse was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, founding member of the Society of Telegraphic Engineers, and a member of the Royal Institution, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Physical Society, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Talk:The Bias Against Guns

This does not belong
Ok, I'm going to put this up for discussion. In my opinion, the following does not belong in the article."Under this rubric, another problem arises, however: The householder or other putative victim has a strong incentive to shoot the intruder or accoster fatally, so as to foreclose the possibility of future lawsuits or prosecutions. 'Dead men tell no tales,' not even to the police. A pro-gun person added this parenthetical item to the problem description: '(assuming the incentive of defending one's life and property wasn't enough)'. The discussion was not, however, about stopping the intruder with a disabling shot, or, like the Lone Ranger, shooting the gun out of his hand; it was about killing him versus disabling him." My reasoning is this. Discussion of whether or not it's even feasible to shoot to disable an intruder/attacker does not belong in an article about a book that primarily is about statistics. In my opinion, that entire section should be taken out. If the above paragraph belongs anywhere, it should on the discussion page. In my humble opinion, that is.Al Lowe

I'll also add that the idea of shooting to disable or aiming at the hand like the Lone Ranger is MUCH more dangerous than shooting to kill. I assume that most people take "shooting to disable" as shooting at the arms or legs. Let me tell you, trying to hit someones hand, arm or leg is not just hard, it's down right near impossible to do so on a consistent basis when you're under stress, and possibly being shot at yourself. That is why most firearms instructors worth anything will teach you to aim for the center of mass. Basically, the center of of the torso. Therefore, by default, you should be shooting to kill. For a person attempting anything else, when defending themselves, their family and/or their home, is near suicide.Al Lowe

 * I was always taught to shoot Center of Mass. No warning shots, no trying to wing him.  Shoot CoM, and let the cop who arrives on scene know that's where you aimed.  It helps prevent lawsuits over "excessive force" or causing undue pain.  Anyways, yeah, I don't think that part belongs in the article.  It's a decent point, but outside the scope.  Izuko 19:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

 * All the comments in this discussion seem to centre around shooting someone. Has no-one yet considered the scenario where just pointing a gun at the attacker or intruder and telling them to freeze actually works? No bullets required and no physical attempts to incapacitate them are needed. There is then no chance that you fatally injure them. By the way, burglars don't prowl around with guns out like they do in the movies - so it's far from a certainty that they will shoot back. 195.153.45.54 12:17, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Another opinion
I agree. I'm taking it out. This is just an anti-gun editorial.

I noticed the problem, so decided to add a neutrality disputed tag, rather than try to re-write the whole article, because I am not very good at re-writing.

 * Well, for starters, the statistics can be used both ways but the original article author did not put in references to books which disputed this one (of which there are many as I'm sure you've guessed). There isn't even a critical analysis of the method used by Lott in the book or on the relevancy or on the authors commentary itself.

A good example of this is that there are places in the book where the author departs from statistics and facts and instead tells stories and anecdotes which prop up his point - however, the book is still presented as undisputed fact. Statistics can be manipulated and stories can be selected to illustrate a point. The book is not NPOV and that is critical information in any review or synopsis. 195.153.45.54 12:36, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

NPOV?
Reading this article, I can't help feeling that it spends too much time repeating Lott's arguments rather than documenting the notable aspects of the book in an encyclopedic way. His main arguments should be mentioned, but arguing them should be left to him, rather than the enyclopedia.

I'm not sure I'd be happy making those changes myself; I've never read the book, or even heard of the man before... I just drifted here off 'Recent Changes', so I'd hate to step on the toes of those active on this page. However, when I read the page I got the definite feeling that the author(s) strongly agreed with Lott's arguments whereas I wouldn't expect to get any vibes either way from a truly encyclopedic article. TimTim 22:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

 * If you could point out more specifically what you think is not NPOV that would be helpful. You are right that there should be more content about the history of the book, the literary responses to it, and its societal/political impact.  Kborer 00:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, in 'Government against gun ownership' for instance, the article uses sentences like: "The first is that government funded studies of guns in society are heavily biased. One reason is that politicians control the quesions that are investigated.". I think perhaps there's not quite enough distinction between information that is being presented as 'fact' and information that is being presented as an example of Lott's opinions. Perhaps the tone should be closer to paragraph on 'Shall Issue' laws in the article on More Guns, Less Crime, which gives a rough overview of his findings without stating them in the authoritative encyclopedic tone. I'm not here trying to dispute the factual accuracy of his book (I don't really know enough about the subject), but I guess factual statements about gun control probably belong on the Gun Control page anyway. TimTim 20:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Which is to say nothing of the fact that the authors own argument in the book can be used against him very simply. Other commentators have already pointed out that omitting questions that show gun control negatively is equivalent to omitting examination of the imaginary scenario "guns are not available to anyone at all" 195.153.45.54 12:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Where is the criticism section? Most articles of this type tend to have such a thing. --aciel (talk) 01:54, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Bias
U.S. government studies on gun control have titles like "Firearms and Violence" or "Weapons, Crime and Violence in America." Even anti-gun Robert Sherrill pointed out that at the most, crime represented one of 400 guns. The NSPOF survey showed that self-defense was a primary reason to own a gun for less than half of gun owners. The focus of government studies on firearms as weapons involved in crime and violence, when guns are owned mostly for sport, slightly less commonly for self defense and statistically very few are actually used for crime or violence, demonstrates a bias so pervasive it is not perceived. Naaman Brown (talk) 13:49, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Not a conclusion
This is not a conclusion of the book itself, but is unsourced recitation of pro gun control talking points, some of which are out of date; e.g.: by latest figures firearms injuries (suicide, homicide, accident) are the fifteenth (not eighth) leading cause of death in the United States. It might be worked into criticism of the book, if sourced, updated and tied to arguments made in the book.

 * The damage caused by guns in the United States is unique among developed nations. The rate at which children under 15 years of age are murdered with guns in the US is 16 times higher than in the 25 other wealthiest industrialized countries combined. Almost 350,000 violent crimes were committed with firearms every year. Firearms injuries are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, and a leading cause of injury-related death. The economic impact of this violence is staggering. The medical costs of gun-related fatalities and injuries are estimated to exceed $2.5 billion each year. In addition, work loss costs are estimated at $20 billion or more per year. Every year, 10 times as many people die from guns than were killed on 9/11. Every 15 minutes a person dies by the gun.

--Naaman Brown (talk) 23:16, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort

Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort (ポータブルアイランド 手のひらのリゾート) is a game for the PlayStation Portable handheld system. It was shown at Sony's PlayStation Meeting on the 22 July 2005. It involves the player spending time on a tropical island. The game's clock is based on the PSP's internal clock, so if its day in the real world it will be day in the game world and if its night time it will be night time in the game. Other features include an alarm clock and also interaction with the objects in the game. For example, if the player character picks up a ukulele on the beach, the PSP can then be used as a ukulele with the buttons being the chords and the analog pad is used to strum.

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 * Expand the Research section to such an extent that it requires its own article, and more effectively highlight the key breakthroughs that Duke researchers have taken part in.

 * Replace cloudy photos with sunny ones.

 * Add a section on school traditions.

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Oblation

Oblation, meaning "the act of offering; an instance of offering" and by extension "the thing offered" (Late Latin oblatio, from offerre, oblatum, to offer), is a term used, particularly in ecclesiastical use, for a solemn offering, sacrifice or presentation to God, to the Church for use in God's service, or to the faithful, such as giving alms to the poor.

Bible use
The Latin Vulgate, and following this many English versions such as the KJV, 1611, uses the word to stand for the meal offering under the Law of Moses.

Ecclesiastical use
It is thus applied to certain parts of the Eucharistic service in Christian liturgies. The rites of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some Lutheran churches employ an oblation: gifts of bread and wine are offered to God.

Liturgically speaking, there are two oblations: the lesser oblation, sometimes known as the offertory, in which the bread and wine, as yet unconsecrated, are presented and offered to God, and the greater oblation, the oblation proper, in which the Body and Blood of Christ are offered to God, the Father.

The word oblate is also an ecclesiastical term for persons who have devoted themselves or have been devoted as children by their parents to a monastic life. Oblate is more familiar in the Roman Catholic Church as the name of a Religious Congregation of secular or diocesan priests, the Oblate Fathers of St. Charles. They are placed under the absolute authority of the bishop of the diocese in which they are established and can be employed by him on any duties he may think fit. This congregation was founded in 1578 under the name of Oblates of the Blessed Virgin and St. Ambrose by St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan.

A similar congregation of secular priests, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was founded at Marseilles in 1815.

Annualia
In Catholicism, annualia were a specific type of oblation made for a deceased person by their family, though sources disagree on the nature of the offering. The 1728 Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences defines the annualia as a solemn Mass celebrated yearly on the date of the deceased person's death. Other sources state that the annualia comprised a series of Masses performed each day for a year on behalf of the deceased, at the behest of their family, who would pay a stipend to the clergy member performing the rites. The annualia could be extended to a (daily mass for three years) or shortened to a  (daily mass for thirty days) depending on the needs of the family.

Mandaeism
In Mandaeism, an oblation blessed by priests is called zidqa brikha.

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Talk:Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici

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Up to my knowledge he did study in the UK. Did he retain the position as a Minister of Education between 1984-1986?

Why was this deleted. Maltesedog UTC 13:49

Some person removed the reference that he is known as KMB.

Here is the proof

  Maltesedog 08:18, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes and that he likes cornflakes for breakfast. Do you think that the Enciclopedia Brittannica would state that George W. Bush is known as "Dubya"? Stop being frivulous if you want to be taken seriously. (Unsigned)

Again the reference to his nicknames were removed. Is deletion of such references as per wikipedia policy? Maltesedog 15:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I still think the "nicks", are of importance. Maltesedog 07:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

In view that the nick of George W Bush is included.. it should be included here as well in the same manner Maltesedog 11:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

"Nicks"
Maltesedog insists on inclusion of a reference to Mifsud Bonnici being known as "KMB" or even "Iż-Żero" ("The Zero") and charges me with vandalism on having removed them without comment.

Comment I did as can be seen from the history page and I would have assumed that one sentence would have sufficed. It seems it was not the case.

"KMB" is not a nick. It's obviously the initials and only those particularly skulled would not have drawn the conclusion that for "Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici" the initials are precisely those. Reference would have been superfluous.

Except in Maltese policial culture where such references are intended in a derogatory sense. Ever noted that "KMB" was never used in Union Press papers and "EFA" (for "Eddie Fenech Adami") in the Independence Press papers?

So "KMB" is either irrelevant or derogatory. One or the other, it would have no place in Wikipedia.

Now, to "Iż-Żero". I'm sorry to note I have to argue again this inclusion. It is obviously derogatory. Someone who removed the nicks asked whether there are references to "Dubya" in the entry for George W. Bush. The analogy is unfortunate: it should have asked why there are no references to "Bushhitler" or (Michael Moore's favourite) "Shrub". Wikipedia is no place for shrill partisanship but if Maltesedog insists maybe he'd also care to include the very personal and very nasty nicknames attributed to other Maltese politicians such as Guido de Marco and George Borg Olivier. Demdem 21:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I tend to disagree. KMB is a nick, though it is his initials. People on the street refer to him as il-KMB! Did you see the references? Even newspapers refer to him by those nicks. So why not? Come on. This is not a matter of partisanism.

I usually refrain from contributing to polticial articles deu to partisanship, but this is not the case. I tend to be a member of the Wikiproject biography. I contribute daily to this wiki, and I do not understand why such a controversy over to well known nicknames in the Maltese Islands should arise. I also argued that nicks of George W Bush where shown in the artcle so why not?

Maltesedog 06:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I see no problem in including nicknames, even derogatory ones, in the article. It is information that is relevant to the subject of the article. They should be included and identified for what they are, e.g.,
 * "He is sometimes referred to by his initials, KMB, which may be considered to be derogatory in Malta. He is also sometimes called "Iż-Żero" by his opponents."

This is an encyclopedia article, not a hagiography. It must include both the good and bad about a person, as long as it is true and verifiable. Can references be provided showing that these monikers are actually used to refer to him? If so, then they should go back in. Ground Zero | t 19:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I already gave some references on 18th September 2005. Thanks for your help and continuous support Ground Zero, in improving Malta articles. Maltesedog 20:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici is neither KMB nor Iz-Zero. That would be Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici - maybe you'd like to move this argument to that talk page? Omgplz (talk) 07:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

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