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mobile phone culture
I removed the following sentence from culture:

 * According to a survey conducted by Merryl Lynch in September 2004, subscribers in the US talk 619 minutes a month on their phones.

I think we should have this kind of info in this section. I would like to see a source reference first though so we can check and potentially expand with other related info ChrisUK 21:57, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Substantial new material to be edited
The following text was pasted into the article. I think that it needs a rewrite and cutting down in order to merge better with the rest of the article. I propose we do it here and paste back in when ready. ChrisUK 6 July 2005 22:43 (UTC)

New text
Though mobile phones vary significantly from Telecom Company to Telecom Company, and even nation to nation (most noticeably the United States,) all mobile phones, and the other technologies that support them must generally accomplish the same tasks, regardless of the technology that drives them.

Mobile phones must be connected to the system of land-line phones in order to be not only useful, (so that land-line telephones can contact mobile phones, and vice-versa,) but so that two mobile phones can also connect with each other just as easily.

Consequently, all mobile phone systems are (somewhat abstractly,) comprised of two components; the handset, and the tower.

The handset is the portable, and typcially phone-shaped device. The tower is a high-yield radio tower that the mobile phones direct their radio communications toward for routing to their destination.

The handsets feature a (comparatively) low power transceiver that is typically designed to transmit either digital audio, or analog audio only up to a few kilometers (under ideal situations,) to where the tower is (also ideally) located.

The handset generally seeks out an available tower, informs that tower of its unique identifier, and alerts the mobile phone network that the it is ready and standing-by to receive (and send) telephone calls. It then periodically repeats this information to the tower, as well as seeks out new towers, over the duration it is powered on.

This is called “Stand By,” though no active calls are being made, the phone is simply informing the mobile phone network that it is available. This time is considered to be “standby time” when comparing mobile phone battery lifespan, because the phone does consume power to keep this minimalist “I’m alive” dialog with the mobile phone provider.

Towers are radio towers that feature a series of high power radio transmitters designed to broadcast both their presence and other information the mobile phones can use to determine if it can utilize that tower, as well as the actual conversations and other data.

This is one reason mobile telephone service is considered to be so sporadic in rural areas. Though a tower has the power to broadcast its presence much further than a mobile phone can, the mobile phone might perceive the tower in communications range, but not have enough power to establish a communications dialog with the tower.

In other words; the tower can be heard, but the phone isn’t loud enough to shout back to the tower.

The tower itself is connected to the landline telephone infrastructure by a high-capacity phone line, and may also be connected to a dedicated data line (and/or both depending on the technology.)

The tower can then route calls between the mobile handsets its serving, and telephone calls over the landline. Because the tower tracks what mobile handsets it is servicing, and informs the mobile network provider of this information; at any given time a call to a mobile phone can quickly be traced to the appropriate tower that will broadcast the conversation to the handset.

However, if the handset is not on the network (powered off, out of service area, etc) the call is either routed to voicemail, or otherwise not connected, as that the mobile phone network cannot “find” the handset.

The connection to landlines ensures that a person on a landline can call a mobile number without worrying that the mobile phone is not directly connected to the land-line infrastructure vice-versa; a mobile user needn’t know or care that their mobile phone is only indirectly connected to the landlines; they can just make a phone call.

Towers have a finite capacity, that is to say, there are only so many mobile handsets it can service simultaneously. This limit comes from a wide variety of sources including governmental restrictions on EM communication, technological barriers in communication standards and other technological limitations. These problems are usually resolved by adding more towers (which, through various means negotiate the workload amongst themselves,) to handle more mobile handsets, as well as to expand the geography in which a mobile phone will work.

Rename Article
I think that the name of the article "Cell Phone" ought to be changed to "Cellular Telephone." As it is, "Cell Phone" sounds un-professional and depthless. The telephone is cellular in its operation--which isn't quite as clear from the word cell. Further, telephones are designed to send long-distance messages, which is what tele means (far in Greek).
 * I think a more relevant issue is that the accepted name to most English speakers (outside the US at any rate) is "mobile phone", and that cellular phones are logically a subset of mobile phones anyway. Haikupoet 03:13, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It was at mobile phone until some anon copy/paste moved it here. Reverted back. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:04, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

= Topics from 2009 =

Mobile-phone article botched 20 days
12-Jan-2009: Currently Formerly, the name "cell phone" redirects redirected to article "mobile phone" which is often viciously hacked. The term "cell phone" is a major target-name for vandalism. Of course, multiple editors could not cope with the stampede of vandalism, and on 23Dec08, the article "mobile phone" was hacked and botched by an IP address, in a series of edits, to omit 6 whole sections of text about the features, applications and setup of cell phones. Next, additional hackings and advert-links were reverted for another 2 weeks. However, the prior vandalism went uncorrected for 20 days, as people could no longer cope with daily corrections to long complex articles. It is not always obvious how to merge old hacked text into an article with 3 weeks of new changes. -Wikid77 (talk) 02:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I have converted name "cell phone" into a short article, see below: . -Wikid77 (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia have multiple ways of dealing with vandalism. There is absolutely no need for creating new article, protect old one from vandals. There is procedure for that. And multiplying articles do more harm then good - primarily by confusing readers and editors. Vitall (talk) 11:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Limiting vandalism target-name
12-Jan-2009: The term "cell phone" is a major target-name for vandalism (similar to "search engine"). To limit the complexities of embedded vandalism, any target-name articles should be kept to a brief overview of the subject, which can be easily reverted & checked when vandalism is detected. For indepth coverage, spin-off articles should be linked as "see-also" entries, which can contain more detail without hiding frequent vandalism. Much like the total chaos of the search-engine articles, the redirection article "mobile phone" has become hideously hacked with numerous embedded problems by the stampede of vandalism, buried in a mass of detailed text. Although many people attempt to revert vandalism, it is easy to become overwhelmed trying to merge 3 weeks of changes with large sections of hacked text. Consequently, most broad-scale vandalism in large articles is fought by simply removing the whole sections of hacked text, period.

Instead, the article name "Cell phone" should be was re-converted from a redirection into an actual article, but as a short overview, to introduce the subject, with links to article "mobile phone" as low-profile links found by serious readers. Hacking of the article "cell phone" could continue, endlessly, but be more easily reverted by containing less text to scan & verify. Meanwhile, other spin-off articles, under less targeted names, could contain the massive details about the various cell-phone topics. With less (daily) vandalism to the large articles, then hackings can be more easily reverted, without the problem of cross-merging for all the other rapid vandalism. Simply put: Wikipedia can have large articles, and Wikipedia can have multi-vandalized articles, but Wikipedia cannot cope with large, multi-vandalized articles. The two must be kept separate: a vandalized target-name should be limited to containing a small article, not redirected into a large article. -Wikid77 (talk) 02:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't know what you mean by saying [t]he term "cell phone" is a major target-name for vandalism. There were no edits of any kind to older ≠ wiser 20:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I was thinking people typed "cell phone", got redirected to "Mobile phone" and started vandalizing. However, with article "Cell phone" as separate now, it will be easier to see which article gets more hackings (such as "Jonnhy doez phonesex" & "Bush is teh gay" etc.).
 * 11-Feb-2009: After 30 days, the article "Cell phone" was attracting daily vandalism in February 2009. The average in January 2009 had been hackings made about once every 2 days. See topic below: Rate of vandalism. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:07, 11 February 2009

Cell-phone article as overview
12-Jan-2009: I have converted the name "cell phone" (from being a February-2008 redirection to "mobile phone") into being an overview article with see-also links to article "mobile phone". The term "cell phone" has been a target-name for vandalism. However, the term "mobile phone" has been accessed by Wikipedia readers 10x more often (read 5,000 times per day) than "cell phone" (read 500 times per day). It might be the case that the name "mobile phone" is actually tied to more vandalism, in which case, the article roles should be reversed. Perhaps, article "mobile phone" should be the small overview article, catching all the daily vandalism, and "cell phone" or some other name should be the large article that contains the many details where vandalism gets buried after the numerous edits. It should only take a few weeks, of watching the edit-histories, to see whether "cell phone" or "mobile phone" gets more of the daily hackings/reverts. -Wikid77 (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * This issue was also placed in Talk:mobile_phone. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:32, 12-Jan-2009

 * I'm not at all clear why we now have two articles (Cell phone and Mobile phone) each covering the same thing. Surely these are now WP:Duplicate articles?  If they cover the same concept, all the material should be in one article or the other (I don't care which).  We need a very good reason to go against established usage on this, and I can't see any such reason yet.  The solution to persistent vandalism is protection, not creation of duplicate articles.  Richard New Forest (talk) 18:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I would prefer to see Mobile phone merge/redirect to Cell phone. Makes sense to use the most WP:Common name. Besides, the majority of folks nowadays say "cell phone" or "cell" and not "mobile phone" or "mobile". Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 18:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't see any advantage to having two articles with such substantive overlap. I suggest going back to cell phone redirecting to mobile phone. Moving mobile phone to cell phone can be raised at WP:RM. older ≠ wiser 20:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Or just perform a history merge, saving us the trouble of WP:RM. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 20:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * No, I think some discussion would be needed before moving as it is not at all obvious that one or the other is the primary topic. older ≠ wiser 21:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * See below: "Not all mobile phones are cell". -Wikid77 (talk) 00:31, 14 January 2009

People read Mobile-phone 91% Cell-phone 9%
12-Jan-2008: Although, in conversations, more people might be saying "cell phone" rather than "mobile phone", when counting Wikipedia readership data, the extreme reverse is the case: during 2008, nearly 91% of phone readers read article "Mobile phone" versus 9% reading article "cell phone" (even though they were directed to the same article text). As of 12Jan2009, the articles have been separated now, so readers will see 2 different pages. Perhaps people who say "mobile phone" are more likely to read Wikipedia, or perhaps some navboxes are directing most people to click for "mobile phone" while "cell phone" is not in those navboxes. The readership levels are based on massive data: during 2008, article "mobile phone" was read about 5,000 times every day, while "cell phone" was read nearly 500 times every day: the ratio is basically 10x to 1. So, some major factors are keeping "mobile phone" as being the Wikipedia favorite, 91% of the time. -Wikid77 (talk) 20:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * This seems to be a US/UK thing (see List of words having different meanings in British and American English). "Cell phone" is now almost never used in the UK – everyone here just says "mobile", and "cell" on its own would not be understood.  As I said above, I don't care what the article is called, but it should stick where it is, as per WP convention.  Richard New Forest (talk) 21:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Not all mobile phones are cell
13-Jan-2009: Several times, on talk-page Talk:Mobile_phone, people have mentioned concerns over calling all "mobile phones" as "cellular". Someone even noted the article "Mobile phone" has apparently been kludged (or twisted) into re-wording cellular phrasing by word-replacement, just putting "mobile" for former word "cell" regardless of actual meaning. Others have predicted that "cellular will become dead technology", with the implication that "cell phone" will become like "galleon" compared to a modern "battleship", possibly with a consumer-driven preference to rapidly migrate to new technology. Anyway, there are numerous, impending factors that seem to prefer separating article "Cell phone" from "Mobile phone" in the near future. I had just wanted to compare vandalism between the 2 articles, as separated for a few weeks, to see if "cell phone" attracted significantly more daily hacking or not. However, this is a great time, for Wikipedia organization, to help determine if "Cell phone" should become a spin-off article of "Mobile phone" as it becomes broadened to cover more technologies. -Wikid77 (talk) 00:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is pracitularly nice how "mobile phone" article contradicts this one while calling mobile phone a cell phone too. I think both articles should be merged and the difference should be made clear in some history section or so (if there is a difference at all).--Kozuch (talk) 09:35, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Studying vandalism is not an appropriate reason to fork an article, nor should vandalism ever affect how we organize material. This article should be redirected back to mobile phone, in the absence of a clear rationale for a separate article.--Srleffler (talk) 23:39, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 11-Feb-2009: Excuse me? The problem that occurs in the organization of large articles is: hidden vandalism. There is an old expression, "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones". It very much matters how houses are built, and it matters how articles are organized to limit vandalism.  The problems of hidden vandalism, or hacking, have persisted for over 4 years.  Forking the article "Cell phone" has diverted daily vandalism that would have been redirected into "Mobile phone".  This article should not be redirected back, as it is a separate type of phone ("cellular") and catches it's own share of daily vandalism. It would be great if Wikipedia did not have to worry about vandalism, but reality has proven otherwise. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Rate of vandalism
11-Feb-2009: After 30 days of being a separate page, the article "Cell phone" was attracting daily vandalism or spamlinks in February 2009. The term "cell phone" had been suspected as being a major target-name for vandalism, and the evidence shows, absolutely, that was still the case in February. The average rate in January 2009 had been hackings (or vandalism) made about once every 2 days. The article had not been protected against IP-user or new-user edits, so the data reflects worldwide editing of the article "Cell phone" with daily hacking. Because the article is so short, corrections have been easy to make, most within one minute or some in 3 hours, never lasting for 20 days as happened with "Mobile phone". -Wikid77 (talk) 12:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikid77's unconstructive revert
This won't fly. Wikid77, please give an exceptionally good reason as to how a month's worth of changes didn't improve the article. Far as I can tell, your edit was bordering WP:VANDALISM, pure and simple. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 20:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

 * To User:Sesshomaru: I am EXTREMELY upset at your behavior. I did not revert the article, I merged prior text with the existing content. Please read the ENTIRE PRIOR 30-DAYS of talk-page entries above. How dare you even begin to suggest that my actions are "bordering WP:VANDALISM". Hello? I wrote that ENTIRE article. That's right, every word. Who's the vandal now? Did anyone even consider opening the slightest dialog with me prior to hacking whole sections out of that article? NO, OF COURSE NOT. Sorry, but I don't respond well to Rude-ipedia. Please stop your disgusting, foul accusations. I hope to God you don't inflict these types of accusations on other users. Please read WP:CIVIL and seriously consider what is your agenda with regard to the article. Thank you. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Read up on WP:CIVIL yourself. Do you even know what WP:BRD is? Oh and FYI, the junk you're referring to was original research. User:Kozuch was the one who initially took it down. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 15:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Splitting this off as a separate article, and merge
Wikid77 and all, As a reader who stumbled on this, quite frankly splitting off cell phone into an article separate from mobile phone is ridiculous, particularly as a "solution" to vandalism. The thing to do, if an article is getting a lot of vandalism, is request semiprotection for it -- not start another "magnet page"! What about all the readers who go to this article and don't realize that we have a much better article on the topic under a different name? I appreciate your trying to be helpful, but this is not the way to go and is unhelpful for the encyclopedia. I'm requesting comments on a merge of this page back into mobile phone. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 06:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

 * To user:phoebe: Actually, the article stub as you saw it was not the original, intended content. It had been hacked so much, that the text recommending to read article "Mobile phone" had been axed weeks ago. Ironically, I had tried to restore that text as the "unconstructive" edit discussed above. In similar cases, where key links to related articles are easily hacked out of existence, the trick has been to link major articles in a sidebar navbox, as a separate template file: a sidebar navbox is not so easily hacked as would be article text linking "mobile phone". Also, splitting articles is a preferred method of fighting vandalism, as opposed to thinking that a large, overall article can be made "unsinkable".  I was the one who restored the missing 6 sections into article "Mobile phone" after they had been hacked away 20 days earlier. Moreover, other editors have even recommended duplication of article text: not only is Wikipedia not paper (WP:NOTPAPER), but also Wikipedia won't crater because duplicate information is stated in 2 separate articles. So, yes, splitting or even repeating information is, on the contrary, very helpful for the encyclopedia. In fact, other users are currently discussing multiple splits to article "Mobile phone".  Then, when such multiple, split sub-articles are linked using sidebar navboxes, then everyone wins. It is rare for vandals to disable an entire set of articles in the manner that they killed those 6 sections about mobile-phone features and applications (on 20Dec08). As for semiprotection, I suspect that you realize that it has been considered an avenue of last resort against vandalism, because anonymous-IP or new-user edits account for half of Wikipedia's user base. Instead, split a large article into logical sub-articles (linked by navboxes), use semiprotection on as few subs as possible, and then let everyone contribute to the rest, while even duplicating information to some extent (to avoid "putting all eggs in one basket"). This is similar to Wernher von Braun's Mars Project, designed to send multiple manned spaceships to Mars, avoiding a single point of failure. Each sub-article can act as a lifeboat to the others; there is no longer an "unsinkable" gigantic article. That is a workable plan proven to reduce vandalism, spamlinks, and hacking as often occurs in large articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I really do appreciate your enthusiasm in trying to protect the articles. But splitting is not and has never been a solution to vandalism problems. (See the Manual of Style for more on this). Semi-protection, on the other hand, is quite common -- in fact, the mobile phone article is currently semiprotected. We do try to keep topics together; duplicate articles are not considered a good thing. Best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I have to support Phoebe on this one -- Wikipedia's defense against single point of failure is the page history, not having duplicate content. Semi-protection can aid against drive-by issues, and warning and blocking individual troublesome users from continuing to cause problems.  Forks of content inevitably cause more problems than they solve.  :)  — Catherine\talk 00:39, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Forks are not really a problem any longer, with the use of search-engine lookup in modern times; see below: "How redundant content survives vandalism". -Wikid77 (talk) 14:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I still don't get why this page may be better off as a redirect to mobile phone. Who uses "mobile phone" nowadays? The common terminology for the device is "cell phone". Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 00:55, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The term "mobile phone" seems to be a British preference; see above . -Wikid77 (talk) 14:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * As I believe I've said already above, I don't understand why two articles on what is basically the same topic is better than one. As for which title is better, that would need a bit more discussion, but in my experience cell and mobile are both in common use. older ≠ wiser 02:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * The term "cell phone" is based on "cellular phone" as using cell sites; compare to "WiFi phone" and "wireless phone", "portable phone" & "cordless phone".... The question is also whether "mobile phone" includes "WiFi phone" or if mobile phone will become synonymous with the old technology using cell sites. Also, consider how UK English differs on the terms: in the U.S., talking about a "lift" typically means a "facelift" or "catching a ride" and rarely the UK concept of lift as the American word "elevator". Hence, OED & Webster definitions should also be considered. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:17, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * For most cases there are NOT separate articles for regional/national spelling variations that treat the same subject. For instance, To use your example, there are not separate articles for lift and elevator. However, linguistic variants for the same or very similar topics are a different issue than whether differing technologies should be treated in separate articles -- and both are different issues than whether having separate articles in some way helps prevent vandalism. By jumping about from one rationale to another, it rather gives the impression of grasping at straws. older ≠ wiser 16:38, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

How redundant content survives vandalism
16-Feb-2009: Unfortunately, when a lone article gets hacked, there is no other article containing the lost information, and few people scan the history page back through 20 days of revisions to recover the hacked 6 sections about mobile-phone features. So yes, duplication is better, such as an overview of features in one article, then detailed features in another. That type of duplication is very common in Wikipedia. A search-engine or wiki-search lookup will list 2 articles formerly describing handset features; one article will still be okay, while the other article will have been hacked (or vandalized) as the 6 sections about handset features will be gone. However, that's okay to the reader, because the search-results listed the other article which can be read (because it did not get vandalized during the same period as the first article), and so, still describes handset features. Although in the past, forking of text often led to outdated variations, with the "advent" of search-engine technology (during the past 20 years), more people are learning to scan for similar content, and update all variations to reflect current information. In reality, information is forked hundreds or thousands of times in Wikipedia, as in every time someone mentions a similar phrase about a topic or event: such as the September 11 attacks occurred in year "2001" or Albert Einstein was a "theoretical physicist" as duplicate data. Plus, that redundant content survives vandalism, as well as providing direct information in the sections where it is duplicated. -Wikid77 (talk) 14:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Content forks are not a useful method for fighting vandalism. Summary style splits between main articles and sub-articles or related topics is not the same as forking. While good summary style may duplicate a few salient points, it should not reproduce substantial content. Excessive duplicate content is inherently more difficult to maintain and should be avoided. older ≠ wiser 14:29, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate the phone details only in limited amounts
16-Feb-2009: While duplication of redundant content can help survive hackings and vandalism, there are WP examples of duplication gone awry. Perhaps, the most obvious problem is the giant navboxes. Formerly, template-based navboxes were auto-updated in most articles within 10 minutes of changing, but now articles contain old navbox revisions even a week after updating. Some navboxes have grown to have 200-500 wikilinks, in effect forking the content as "boxified articles" appended to other articles. In February 2009, when a navbox template was modified, only the articles next-edited would be instantly updated to show that template revision. If the navbox template is revised 30 times in one week, then 30 different variations of that navbox could appear in the various hundreds of articles that use it. This problem should be avoided in telephone articles: limit the navbox to a handful of articles (perhaps 50), rather than split "Mobile phone" and link those sub-articles in a navbox tacked onto 500 other articles. Keep telephone navboxes in only limited sets of articles (such as 50). That will avoid the impact of the "30-revision" navboxes forking different versions of content into hundreds of articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:17, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * First, I do not think what you say about navboxes not updating is actually true. It is true that some information such as What Links Here are not updated for some time after template is modified, but users that load a page containing a template will generally see the latest version of any transcluded templates. But in any case, that is rather tangential to whether cell phone and mobile phone should be merged. older ≠ wiser 16:26, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 18-Feb-2008: I understand your shock and disbelief that the navbox articles are no longer updated (for days) to reflect a modified navbox. It has always been a problem of wiki-illusions as to how articles are really formatted. An article, in display form, to be seen by thousands of readers, has already been stored in canned form, already pre-formatted for all the templates of infoboxes, navboxes, etc. It was only an illusion that the article appeared to be instantly formatted, "live", for the exclusive viewing of the next reader. Instead, the canned copies are shared, all users see the same copy. Wikipedia, on the wiki-servers unseen in the background, has been desperately queueing articles to be quickly reformatted when their templates change. Modify a template used by 6,500 articles, and all 6,500 articles are queued to reformat those canned-copies for future display. And yes, the article-formatting queues often contained more than a million article names to reformat. I hope that explains why various articles can contain many different revisions of a navbox. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, but I've seen no evidence of your claims and have not noticed it turn up in discussions on WP:VP(T). Do you have actual evidence to support your assertions? Or can you point to some places where this supposed problem has been discussed by wikitechnologists?

Limiting forked content about phones
19-Feb-2009: Many people have expressed an idealistic standard for avoiding forked content in articles, but unfortunately, far more than 500,000 Wikipedia articles already contain forked content. The forked-content "horse has already left the barn", and currently, vast herds of articles contain forked content. The situation now requires a more realistic approach, as to how forked content can be kept within manageable limits.

Although many paragraphs are duplicated between some articles, the most common forking is to duplicate navboxes in every article conceivable. The navbox acts as the "boxified contents" of an overview article, appended repeatedly, over and over (and over and over) to every possible article, over and over. This problem should be kept limited in phone articles.

To understand the impact, consider the baseball article "Adrian Burnside" (Australian baseball player). That article had only 9 typical wikilinks in early 2008, but 2 baseball-team navboxes were appended to increase the wikilinks to about 75, expanding the wikilinks by a factor of 8x times more wikilinks by duplicating the content. Those navboxes link over 50 articles, generating about 50x65 or 3,250 wikilinks where, formerly, only 2*50=100 wikilinks were needed. To indicate a player is a member, of a team, requires only one wikilink to that team article, not a "boxified version" of that team-article appended to every team member and their brothers. The impact is enormous: those articles generate more than 3,250 wikilinks where 100 had been sufficient to link the team articles: that's a factor of 32x times more wikilinks (3250/100) generated for Wikipedia to store, format and display on an article page. It's like saying a family was comfortable in a 3-bedroom house, but now they've moved up to the navbox-lifestyle as 32x better, in a 96-bedroom house.

When splitting "cell phone" from "WiFi phone" and "mobile phone" or "mobile device", avoid creating those monster navboxes as forked content in every possible phone article. Keep the duplication of information limited to just a few copies, not a 150-item navbox appended to 200 articles. I think a navbox of perhaps 30 links would be sufficient in most cases. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

 * unfortunately, far more than 500,000 Wikipedia articles already contain forked content.  Your discussion of the possible impact of navaboxes is interesting, but this article's talk page is not the appropriate forum to address issues that are much larger than this article. older ≠ wiser 12:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes: please post on the village pump if you want to talk about infoboxes in general. This page is not the place to do it. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:31, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DFTA

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

The result of the debate was delete. Joyous (talk) 23:18, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

DFTA
Non-notable local band --TheParanoidOne 16:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Friday 17:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep User:Bancroftian We should work on expanding the entry not deleting it. This band has relative fame, I've heard of them.  We should get started on the expansion instead of deletion.
 * You are free to expand on the article. If you can establish notability, then it may encourage others to a) change their vote and b) add to the article. --TheParanoidOne 05:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable band. Fails WP:MUSIC guidelines. JamesBurns 09:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. --KFP 15:42, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I seem to recall hearing of DeinitelyMaybe, but this band is a dissolved local band. Not notable. --Scimitar parley 16:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There are numerous examples on Wikipedia of bands that only have local fame and don't meet some of the criteria that are allowed to be kept up. User:Bancroftian
 * You are free to use examples of such, as demonstrations of an existing precedence. --TheParanoidOne 19:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete no proper album releases, no evidence of notability. CDC   (talk)  22:35, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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User:Moheb

Moheb Mamdouh (born in october 7, 1986) (Arabic: محب ممدوح ) in cairo, Coptic Orthodox Christian Egyption boy studing civil engineering in the higher technological institute (H.T.I.) since 2003.

Hany Ramzy is his favorite football player, he designed his page on Wikipedia web-site (I hope you like it Hany :) ). He collected more than 850 pictures for him from online.

One of the few persons he respect is Pope Shenouda III, he read almost all his books during the high school, "Comparative Theology" and "15 parables said by our lord Jesus Christ" are books he likes to read it always. The most liturgy he likes to listened is the coptic liturgy of Saint Gregory the theologian by father Youssef Asaad.

About the music, Evanescence, Korn, Nickelback and Linkin Park are his favorite music bands, Avril Lavigne and Rihanna his favorite music artist. "One Of Us" for Joan Osborne and "Jesus, take the wheel" for American Idol winner Carrie Underwood songs like to listened to it.

FIFA 2003 and Hitman (Hitman 2 & Hitman Contracts) are the games which he spend almost all his time playing it.

Joan of Arcadia, Prison Break and Lost are the television series that he liked to watch, Nicolas Cage is his favorite actor. Playing soccer, bowling in the IBC, listening to music, reading and watching TV are his hobbies.

His motto in the life is "what would Jesus do?" (W.W.J.D.), The countries he wishes to visit are Canada and Lebanon.

His Nicknames are Diesel or Beloved usually called by it through his closer friends.

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Kris Holmes

Kris Holmes (born 1950, Reedley, California) is an American typeface designer, calligrapher, type design educator and animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs. She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.

Early life
Holmes grew up on a farm in Parlier, California. The nearest hospital was in Reedley, so she was born there. At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Holmes studied calligraphy with Calligrapher Laureate of Oregon Lloyd J. Reynolds and modern dance with Judy Massee. In New York, she then continued her education by studying lettering with Ed Benguiat as well as modern dance at the Martha Graham and Alwin Nikolais schools. She later studied calligraphy and typeface design with Hermann Zapf at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received a B.A. from Harvard University and an MFA from UCLA Film School in Animation.

Teaching
Holmes has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology in both the Graphic Design and the Film Departments, Portland State University, the Museum Art School (Portland), Rhode Island School of Design, Santa Monica College, and the Otis College of Art and Design.

Design
By far the most well-known typeface design created by Bigelow & Holmes is Lucida. Bigelow and Holmes have written extensively about its original conception and subsequent evolution.

Notable projects include the design of Lucida Grande, at one time the system font for Apple Computer's OS X Operating System and the creation of the core fonts of the Java 2 language and developer kit for Sun Microsystems. These multilingual fonts cover five scripts, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic, and twelve styles, comprising 10,000 characters in all. Other computer platform clients include the Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems’ Solaris division, and Lucent Technologies. Font designs include: Microsoft Wingdings (Windows 95 and 98), Lucida Console (Windows NT), TrueType Chicago, Monaco, Geneva, New York, Apple Chancery, Textile, Capitals (Macintosh OS), Lucida Unicode (Java, Solaris, and Lucent Inferno). Font designs have been additionally licensed by Adobe Systems, Agfa Corporation, ITC, Hewlett-Packard, Linotype Library, Monotype Typography, and the TeX Users Group. Lucida is also available from Bigelow & Holmes' own web site.

As the principal artist at Bigelow & Holmes, Holmes is responsible for the creation of over 100 digital typefaces, including conception, research, drawing, computer input, digital editing, and production management. Her illustrations have appeared in Scientific American, The Seybold Report, Computer Graphics, Fine Print and other publications. She has designed signage for Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco and Walter Lantz Studio, UCLA. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Klingspor Museum, Germany and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Kris Holmes received the 2012 RIT Frederic W. Goudy Award for excellence in typography and gave the keynote address at the 2012 RIT Reading Digital Symposium.

Film
Her screenplay, Vavilov, won a 2002 UCLA Sloan Foundation Student Film Award. She is the creator of the animated film La Bloomba, which was awarded a First Prize in the ChloroFilms 2009 contest. She has created many other animated films.

Designed fonts

 * Lucida Family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Console, Lucida Bright, Lucida Handwriting, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Casual (along with Charles Bigelow)
 * For Apple, Inc:
 * New York
 * Monaco
 * Geneva
 * Chancery
 * Textile
 * Kolibri
 * Leviathan
 * Isadora
 * Go
 * Wingdings (along with Charles Bigelow)

Samples of many of these typefaces are available online.

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Weetamoo

Weetamoo (pronounced Wee-TAH-moo) (c. 1635–1676), also referred to as Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of Pocasset tribe, which occupied contemporary Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1620. The Pocasset, which she led, was one of groups of the Wampanoag.

In the Algonquian language of the Indigenous Peoples of the Northeastern United States and Canada, Weetamoo's name means "speak to them". She lived in Quequechan, now called Fall River, Massachusetts.

Early life
Weetamoo was born in the Mattapoiset village of the Pokanoket or at Rhode Island's Taunton River area. She was also close friends with another female sachem Awashonks. Weetamoo was also close friends with brothers Wamsutta and Metacomet as young girl. Weetamoo went on a vision quest that "kills the child soul" which is a right of passage for males.young Weetamoo is an early example of gender fluidity. She performed duties of both male and female Native Americans. Weetamoo learned the ways of agriculture, building permanent and temporary shelters, prepare hides, hunting small animals, fishing, and cooking. Weetamoo was also trained to fight and learned diplomacy and leadership by observing her father and other elders like Massasoit. Her father was Corbitant, sachem of the Pocasset tribe in present-day North Tiverton, Rhode Island, c. 1618–1630.

Husbands and children
In her lifetime, she had five husbands: Winnepurket, Wamsutta (Alexander), Quequequanachet, Petonowit, and Quinnapin.

Her first husband, Winnepurket, was the Sachem of Saugus, Massachusetts and died shortly after they were married.

Wamsutta (alternatively known by the English as Alexander, a name which he retained until his death ), her second husband, was the eldest son of Massasoit, grand sachem of the Wampanoag and participant in the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. They were married in or before 1653, and [it is speculated that] she had one child with Wamsutta, although the date of birth and name are unknown. During their marriage, the tribe allied with the English against the Narragansett, though the English later broke their treaty with the tribe. Wamsutta became sick and died during negotiations with the English and his brother Metacom (Philip) succeeded him as Chief of the Wampanoag. Metacom's wife was Weetamoo's sister, Wootonekanuske.

Little is known about Weetamoo's third husband Quequequanachet, while she ended the marriage to her fourth husband Petonowit (called "Ben" by the English ) when he sided with the English during King Philip's War.

Her final marriage was to Quinnapin, the son of Niantic Narraganset sachem Ninigret and grandson of powerful Narragansett sachem Canonchet. He was described as "a handsome warrior" and they were married in September or August 1675. This marriage was designed to strengthen and reinforce the Wampanoag-Narragansett alliance against colonists. The marriage appeared to have been strong and the pair had at least one child together, who died in 1676. Quinnapin was captured in 1676.

Political career
Because her father had no sons, she became sunksqua between the death of her husband Wamsutta and her remarriage to Quequequanachet. Being a woman did not diminish her authority, despite many colonists' lack of understanding of her position. Weetamoo was depicted "as potent a Prince as any round about her, and had as much corn, land, and men, at her command" as King Philip.

Weetamoo's leadership arose from her role as a cultivator of diplomacy.kin It has been theorized that some of the lesser-known sachems assumed to have been male may have been female sunksquas, especially since female leaders were not unheard of among the Algonquian tribes. As a leader of her people Weetamoo traveled to different nations as an ambassador for the Wampanoag people. She was entrusted to represent Pocasset intertwined interests and sovereignty. By 1663, Weetamoo, had learned the colonial "deed games".Brooks

As tensions grew prior to King Philip's War, Weetamoo, was a highly sought after ally from both Metacom and the English.Martino-Trutor Many believe Weetamoo sided with Metacom was out of revenge for the death of Wamsutta. Another reason she may have sided with Metacom is a group of English soldiers attacked her canoes in June 1675. The group of soldiers thought the canoes were Metacom's.Martino-Trutor This solidified Weetamoo's decision to ally with Metacom. In addition, Weetamoo forged alliances to fortify her authority and territorial integrity. Her strategy intertwining with other leaders and their families to protect those who depended on them.Brooks

Her role in King Philip's War was significantly decreased by the English particularly by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. In reality, by 1675 Weetamoo was the leader of all allied tribes in the Wampanoag Confederation. In February of 1676, Weetamoo led a raid on the English in the Battle of Blood Rock that resulted in the capture of Mary Rowlandson. At the Battle of Blood Rock Weetamoo commanded an army of more than 300 warriors.

Death
Weetamoo drowned in the Taunton River while leading a charge against the English in 1676. Her body washed ashore in Swansea which was a prominent English colony. The story of her corpse being beheaded comes from the writings of minister Increase Mather. The English were so afraid of Weetamoo’s power, they cut off her head and mounted it on a pike. They left her head on display in front of a settlement in order to prove she really had died.

When the remaining Wampanoag people saw what the English had done Increase Mather stated:

"They made a most horrible and diabolical lamentation, crying out that it was their queen's head. If to lament the sad end of their queen was diabolical on the part of the Indians, what was this cruel mockery of their grief by a Christian minister, and what had the heathen to gain by listening to his teachings, or adhering to his practice?"Peirce

Legacy
Weetamoo/Wattimore appears in Mary Rowlandson's The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. In 1676, Weetamoo and her relative Quinnapin, the sachem of Narragansett, attacked a colonial settlement in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Rowlandson, who was captured and held by Quinnapin for three months, left a vivid description of Weetamoo's appearance as well as personality:

A severe and proud dame she was, bestowing every day in dressing herself neat as much time as any of the gentry of the land: powdering her hair, and painting her face, going with necklaces, with jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads.

Only women of rank were allowed to produce "Girdles of wampom and beads", and Weetamoo's production of these items reinforced her status. Wampum belts would be strung together with shells and were often used among Native Americans to deliver messages accompanied by speeches. Many places in the White Mountains of New Hampshire are also named after her, such as Weetamoo Falls, Mount Weetamoo, the Weetamoo Trail (which includes Weetamoo Glen and Weetamoo Rock), and the Six Husbands Trail, a reference to her marriages. However, there is no evidence that Weetamoo ever went to the White Mountains, and the area's focus on her may come from John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Bridal of Penacook," which names her as being from the area.

Weetamoo's adolescent life is depicted in the young adult historical novel, Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocasetts, in The Royal Diaries series.

Weetamoo Woods Open Space in Tiverton, Rhode Island is named after Weetamoo. A 50-foot vessel, Weetamoo, built in 1902, "was named after the daughter of an Indian Chief in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Bride of Penacook." The vessel served on Lake Sunapee for 25 years before being scuttled. Lowell YWCA Camp Weetamoo is located on Long-Sought-for Pond in Westford, MA.

To the Wampanoag people Weetamoo was a sunksqua, a bead worker, a dancer, a war chief, a storyteller, and so much more. Weetamoo was one of the best examples of a smart and intelligent sachems. She is also remembered for her remarkable beauty. Weetamoo was known as "Squaw Sachem." Weetamoo gained status among the Wampanoags by virtue of her having been the Wampanoag queen as the wife of the sachem Wamsutta.

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John Desko

John Terry Desko is a retired lacrosse head coach. Desko coached the men's lacrosse team at Syracuse University for 22 seasons from 1999 to 2021. Desko took over as head coach in 1999 from Hall of Fame coach Roy Simmons Jr.

Early life
The Desko family grew up in Camillus, a suburb of Syracuse. He played high school lacrosse at West Genesee, the 15-time state champions.

College career
Desko started out in the midfield but was switched to defense by assistant coach Jay Gallagher. He earned All-America honors as he helped Syracuse to a 10–5 record in 1979 and the school's first NCAA playoff berth. His two younger brothers, Dave and Jeff, were also All-American lacrosse players at Syracuse.

As Coach
Simmons offered Desko an assistant job when assistant coach Jay Gallagher decided to leave Syracuse. Desko made only $1,000 a year as a coach, and waited tables in his spare time. He stayed on as an assistant for next 19 years. After taking over the top job from Roy Simmons Jr. in 1999, he became the first person outside of the Simmons family to coach Syracuse lacrosse since 1931.

Desko won five NCAA Championships as head coach and six more as an assistant coach. In his first eleven years as head coach, he coached the Syracuse lacrosse team to seven NCAA finals appearances and nine Final Fours. The most recent championship came in May 2009, when Desko led the Orange to their 10th National Championship with a 10–9 overtime comeback victory over Cornell.

Under Desko, Syracuse won 4 straight Big East championships from 2010 to 2013. After joining the ACC in 2013–14, Syracuse won back-to-back ACC Tournament championships in 2015 and 2016. Syracuse was also the regular season champion in 2018.

Desko also coached Team USA to a runner-up finish at the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship.

On June 6, 2021, Syracuse Women's Lacrosse team head coach Gary Gait was named as head coach of the Syracuse Men's Lacrosse team, replacing Desko, who retired after 22 seasons as head coach.

Awards
Desko was named USILA Division I Coach of the Year for 2008 after guiding the Orange to a title over Johns Hopkins.

He was the ACC coach of the year for the fourth straight season from 2015 to 2018.

Desko was inducted into the Upstate Chapter of the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame as of 1997, Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, and the Camillus/West Genesee Hall of Fame in 2011. He was the FieldTurf Coach of the Year in 2013.

Desko was elected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in May 2020. Desko is the third Syracuse head coach to be inducted into their respective sport's hall of fame after Jim Boeheim and Gary Gait.

Personal life
Desko resides in Syracuse with his wife, Cindy, and their four children; Tim (Timothy), Nicole, Casey and Ryan. Three of his four children attended Syracuse University (Nicole attended Hobart & William Smith Colleges). Tim played on the lacrosse team for 5 years, the first being a redshirt season (winning back-to-back national titles in 2008 and 2009), and has been a lacrosse coach at several colleges, including Rollins College.

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Talk:Shirley Franklin

Endorsement removal
I removed who she endorsed for president. Her endorsement is merely an opinion and fact not opinions belong in the article. She was among those who might be a candidate for president IS a relative fact, WHO she is going to vote for or chooses to endorse is just her opinion and does not belong in a fact based encyclopedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.26.92.212 (talk) 07:12, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

List?

 * 1) 59 on Bernard Goldberg's list of 100 people screwing up America?  What could she possible have done?  Was it making a real dent in taking care of the debt her Republican predecessor left her?  Or attempting to fix the sewer system?  I'm baffled, and I'll be danged if I'll waste good money on Goldberg's screed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.218.52.219 (talk • contribs).
 * What "Republican" debt? Bill Campbell was and is a Democrat, not a Republican.  Democrats have had Atlanta's mayoral seat for decades. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jonas Salk (talk • contribs).

Alma mater is Howard University, not Morehouse College. Refer to CityMayors article.

I live in Metro ATL and I rigorously keep up with the local news headlines about Shirley Franklin. This page should mention both the former and present controversies involving Franklin, as she is alleged by many as corrupt, indigent for a mayor, and deceitful to the citizens of the city. This link shows the controversy involving her and her entire immediate family's allegations of crime - http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=108145 ^^ And this link proves what I mentioned that Franklin's code of ethics (or maybe lack there of) is a true concern for Atlantans. http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=108145 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.28.136.22 (talk) 03:39, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Should there be an infobox on this page?
There is no infobox for this page, as well as no pictures at at all. Chris Brack :P 02:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

New picture
Can someone please post a better picture? The current one is obviously a two-shot with the other person rather awkwardly cropped out. Patricia Meadows (talk) 14:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

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Charles Bigelow (type designer)

Charles A. Bigelow (born July 29, 1945) is an American type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002, and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio.

Bigelow received a BA in anthropology in Reed College and was a professor of digital typography at Stanford University from 1982 to 1995. As president of the Committee on Letterform Research and Education of ATypI, he organized the first international seminar on digital type design: "The Computer and the Hand in Type Design", at Stanford in 1983.

In mid-2006, Bigelow was appointed to the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology. At RIT, he co-organized the 2010 international symposium on "The Future of Reading" and the 2012 "Reading Digital" symposium, in which type designers, publication designers, and vision scientists discussed the present and future of reading on digital devices. He retired from teaching at RIT in 2012, and is currently Cary Scholar in Residence at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection of the RIT Wallace Center.

Designed fonts

 * Leviathan
 * Syntax Phonetic
 * Lucida
 * Lucida Grande
 * Apple Chicago TrueType
 * Apple Geneva TrueType
 * Apple Monaco TrueType
 * Apple New York TrueType
 * Wingdings
 * Go

Publications

 * The design of a Unicode font
 * Notes on Apple 4 Fonts
 * Notes on typeface protection, TUGboat 7:3, 1986
 * Oh, oh, zero, TUGboat 34:2, 2013
 * A letter on the persistence of ebooks, TUGboat 35:3, 2014
 * About the DK versions of Lucida, TUGboat 36:3, 2015

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Westfjords

The Westfjords or West Fjords (Vestfirðir,, ISO 3166-2:IS: IS-4) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative region, the least populous in the country. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of Iceland by a seven-kilometre-wide isthmus between Gilsfjörður and Bitrufjörður. The Westfjords are very mountainous; the coastline is heavily indented by dozens of fjords surrounded by steep hills. These indentations make roads very circuitous and communications by land difficult. In addition many of the roads are closed by ice and snow for several months of the year. The Vestfjarðagöng road tunnel from 1996 has improved that situation. The cliffs at Látrabjarg comprise the longest bird cliff in the northern Atlantic Ocean and are at the westernmost point in Iceland. The Drangajökull glacier is located in the north of the peninsula and is the fifth-largest of the country, but the only glacier of the region. Westfjords is certified by the EarthCheck Sustainable Destinations program.

Population
The lack of flat lowlands in the area limits the potential for agriculture, which is mostly restricted to low-intensity sheep grazing near the fjords. Good natural harbors in many of the fjords and their proximity to fishing areas are vital for the local economy. The Westfjords are very sparsely populated, even by Icelandic standards: the total population in 2020 was 7,115. The district capital and by far the largest settlement is Ísafjörður (population around 4,000).

Main settlements in the Westfjords

 * Reykhólar
 * Bolungarvík
 * Brjánslækur
 * Ísafjörður
 * Tálknafjörður
 * Flateyri
 * Suðureyri
 * Hnífsdalur
 * Súðavík
 * Bíldudalur
 * Þingeyri
 * Patreksfjörður
 * Skálanes
 * Hólmavík
 * Drangsnes

Climate
The box is for Göltur, at the tip of the peninsula 20 km (12 mi) northwest of Ísafjörður. Westfjords is generally the coldest area at sea level in Iceland, because of the East Greenland Current.

Law
In 1615, 32 shipwrecked Basque whalers were killed by locals, after which the magistrate made it law that any Basque person seen in the region should be instantly killed. This law was repealed in May 2015.

Wildlife
The Westfjords are famous for their large Arctic Fox population. The density of Arctic Fox in some parts of Hornstrandir nature reserve (such as Hornvik) is the highest in the world.

In addition, Látrabjarg cliffs in the south-west of the peninsula are the most important seabird nesting site in Iceland, and one of the most important in Europe. The most common birds in the Westfjords are the Arctic tern, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, Atlantic puffin, common guillemot, black guillemot, red-necked phalarope and ducks such as the common eider and harlequin duck.

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Talk:Fentynyl

Misspelled article name
This article is incorrectly titled, "Fentynyl" (with a "y") is actually "Fentanyl" (with an "a"), which has its own article, containing the information cut-and-pasted into this article as well as a great deal else. I'm converting this to a redirect, given that "fentynyl" could be considered a common misspelling, and since there's no conflict with any other thing in the world really named "fentynyl". --Tarnas 16:26, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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