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John Dolan (writer)

John Carroll Dolan (born July 1955) is an American poet, author and essayist. He has been identified as the once-secret identity behind the pseudonym Gary Brecher, fictional author of the War Nerd column for the newspaper the eXile which has ceased publication. John Dolan writes as the War Nerd, but no longer "in full character" as Brecher, the two identities having merged.

Dolan formerly also wrote for and co-edited the eXile under his own name. After the newspaper's demise, he was a regular contributor to NSFWCorp and then from 2013 to 2015 to PandoDaily, again both as Dolan and Brecher. He is now featured on the left-wing geopolitics podcast "Radio War Nerd", which he co-hosts with Mark Ames. He also writes the podcast's subscriber newsletter and contributes to the eXiled Online.

Biography
Dolan was born in Denver, Colorado in 1955. Dolan taught and studied at UC Berkeley, where he completed a PhD thesis on the literary works of the Marquis de Sade. He has published poems in many U.S. and New Zealand literary journals and his first collection won the Berkeley Poetry Prize in 1988.

In 1993, he moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he lectured at the University of Otago. During his time in Dunedin, Dolan contributed to the Otago literary journal Deep South. He is married to his former student, the New Zealand author, reviewer, poet and essayist Katherine Liddy.

In 2001, Dolan resigned his academic post, and moved to Moscow to become co-editor of the eXile, a bi-weekly English-language publication based in the Russian city. He relocated to Canada to teach at the University of Victoria in Canada in 2006. He claims to have been fired for encouraging students to criticize British environmentalist George Monbiot in 2008.

Until spring 2010, Dolan was an associate professor of English composition and literature at the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani.

He subsequently taught English as a Second Language in Najran, Saudi Arabia, until he was fired for one of the War Nerd Articles, and shortly after from East Timor, where he was fired for writing an article on the Indonesian occupation of Timor. Recently he has been living in Europe, where he was finishing work on his now-published retelling of The Iliad.

Gary Brecher
Gary Brecher is a character invented by Dolan to be the pseudonymous author of The War Nerd column, which first appeared in The eXile, discussing current wars and other military conflicts from the perspective of a "war fan", and later for NSFWCorp, and PandoDaily. "Crude, scatological, un-P.C., yet deeply informed", he analyzes military strategy, tactics, and contexts of ongoing and past conflicts. A collection of his columns was published by Soft Skull Press in June 2008 (ISBN 0979663687).

Brecher's identity was mostly secret throughout the run of The eXile from 1997 to 2008. He was suspected to be Dolan as early as 2005 and by 2010 Dolan was openly discussing his alter ego.

Revelation of identity
The fictional version of Brecher's identity, referenced from his first column, was that he was employed as a data entry clerk in Fresno, California and deeply unsatisfied with his job. Mark Ames, editor of The eXile offered Brecher a column as a "war reviewer". Brecher wrote that life in Fresno was a "death sentence" and that he spent 15 hours a day in front of a computer ("6 or 7 hours entering civilian numbers for the paycheck and the rest surfing the war news").

In a Dolan article in The eXile about the newspaper and "the strange being known as the War Nerd" (mythologizing Brecher as a separate person to Dolan), Brecher is described as a community-college dropout, and "fat, miserable, and incidentally brilliant". The first hint that Brecher was Dolan was perhaps in a 2001 eXile article, "Cleanse the World", in which Dolan openly admitted to being a "war nerd": "Oh, my poor naive war-nerd brothers, how could you ever have dreamed that Bush."

The columns were the only source of information on Brecher until an email interview with him conducted by Steve Sailer was published by United Press International. Brecher's reclusive nature and the lack of information about him raised speculation during the interview that Brecher was a pseudonym for another eXile contributor. The use of invented characters was not unprecedented for the eXile.

Researchers of the original Wikipedia Gary Brecher page found the photo on which the illustration at the top of each War Nerd column, supposedly representing Brecher, was based. It was actually that of Roger Edvardsen the tour manager of the Norwegian rhythm & blues band Ehem. One of the page authors emailed the band, and they confirmed the image was of Edvardsen.

Brecher participated in radio interviews including a April 5, 2008, interview by Chuck Mertz on the Evanston/Chicago radio station WNUR and a May 25, 2008 interview by Steve Paulson on Wisconsin Public Radio.

A review in the Buffalo Beast of Dolan's novel/memoir Pleasant Hell stated that "a faithful eXile reader [would] have to be as dense as young John Dolan not to realize you're reading about the birth of "Gary Brecher" – nome [sic] de guerre of the famed "War Nerd"." In the memoir, Dolan writes of obsessively studying military history and Jane's manuals while binging on junk food in the basement of a UC Berkeley library building in the mid-seventies. In one War Nerd column, Brecher writes, "I used to spend every free hour, back before there was an internet, going over those big heavy reference books in the library: Jane's Tanks, Jane's Missile Systems, Jane's Combat Vehicles."

On June 25, 2008, the following revelation was published within a short book review on Philadelphia CityPaper.net: "But the War Nerd is, in fact, neither of those things. He is not even Gary Brecher! Brecher is the creation of John Dolan, a poet, novelist, lecturer in English at the University of Victoria, and The eXile co-editor. That's very exciting news for the War Nerd's regular readers: The columns you've been dissecting and debating for the last six years were written by an English professor who writes poetry!"

On November 2, 2010, in an interview with Scott Horton for Antiwar Radio, John Dolan spoke for the first time about his Gary Brecher alter-ego which he described as being strongly based on his younger self. During the interview, he described Gary Brecher "as a more honest version of who I really am".

War Nerd writings
Every two to five weeks, Brecher published his War Nerd column in The eXile. In each installment, Brecher offered his idiosyncratic analyses of armed conflict from a military, political, or (rarely) social standpoint. In his first eXile column, Brecher declared that The War Nerd was to be "a column on how all the wars are going, kind of a war reviewer". He has since migrated to the subscription-only Radio War Nerd podcast,
 * "American peace truly sucks (That's what I live in and work in: American peace. Fresno. Townhouses in a dry riverbed. Scrub acreage with fancy British names. America the hot and stupid)."
 * "That's why we need a war now and then. You can drain your dick at every bondage site on the web, but you can't really drain your head there, it takes something bigger like a decent war and some of those guncamera shots. I figure about one a year. Which is why this was already a good year."

Following publication of Brecher's article, "Victor Hanson: Portrait of an American Traitor", Hanson responded with an article accusing Brecher of being an anarchist.

In the September 9, 2005 of The eXile, the editors announced that the War Nerd would be suspended without pay for one issue as a result of these accusations. It is doubtful that this was a serious reprimand. Nonetheless, the subsequent issue of The eXile did not contain Brecher's regular column. Another similarly themed Brecher article, "It's All Greek to Victor Davis Hanson", appeared in the December 19, 2005 issue of The American Conservative.

Brecher has summarized his view of modern warfare as follows:
 * 1) Most wars are asymmetrical/irregular.
 * 2) In these wars, the guerrillas/irregulars/insurgents do not aim for military victory.
 * 3) You cannot defeat these groups by killing lots of their members. In fact, they want you to do that.
 * 4) Hi-tech weaponry is mostly useless in these wars.
 * 5) "Hearts and minds," meaning propaganda and morale, are more important than military superiority.
 * 6) Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL: "my gang yay, your gang boo!" It really is that simple. The rest is cosmetics.

Radio War Nerd
Dolan is currently the co-host of the popular podcast Radio War Nerd with Mark Ames, which has more than 4,800 subscribers on Patreon. Started in August 2015, the podcast covers current geopolitical events and ongoing military engagements, as well as specific analysis of historical wars, such as the American Civil War, the Chechen War, and the Iraq War, among others.

Non-fiction

 * Erdogan Pizza (Caltrops Press, December 2023) ISBN 979-8218167455
 * The War Nerd (as Gary Brecher) (Soft Skull Press, 2008, ISBN 0979663687)

Novels

 * Pleasant Hell (Capricorn Press November 2004, ISBN 0-9753970-4-4).

Short fiction

 * Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Dead Cat" and "The Very Moment When The Camera Left Me," Deep South v.2 n.3 (Spring 1996).

"Children's book"

 * Neighbors from Hell (Feral House 2015, ISBN 978-1627310123), with Jan Frel and illustrations by Taras Kharechko.

Poetry

 * People With Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes (Paul & Co Pub Consortium September 2003, ISBN 1-86940-287-1).
 * Slave (Occident Press, January 1988, ISBN 1-4006-3100-9).
 * Stuck Up : Poems from Great Central Lake (Paul & Co Pub Consortium April 1995, ISBN 1-86940-120-4).
 * "Collage," a poem by Dolan appearing in Double Jointed, a compendium of poems compiled by Jenny Powell-Chalmers (Inkweed Press, Titahi Bay, NZ 2003).
 * "A Couple of Mongols," published the New Zealand literary journal, Sport (v.10 1993).
 * "An Angel Reports to Darwin," Deep South v.1 n.1 (February 1995).
 * "What Happens to a Cyanide Molecule? A Ballet," Deep South v.1 n.2 (May 1995).
 * "HOW I KILLED THE MOUSE".

Translation

 * A Young Scoundrel (Russian: Молодой Негодяй), a novel by Eduard Limonov (to which Dolan wrote a translator's note).
 * The War Nerd Iliad (Feral House 2017, ISBN 978-1627310505).

Criticism

 * "Books," a review of The Paris Review Book appearing in New York Press (v.16, n.30).
 * Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth (Palgrave Macmillan June 2000, ISBN 0-333-73358-4)
 * , a lecture given May 22, 2004 at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, during an international conference entitled "Dissolving and Emerging Communities – The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age". The title of Dolan's talk was originally listed in the conference's program as "Our Friends From Frolix 8: Offending, Attracting and Ignoring the Reader from Afar."
 * "Attack Ships on Fire off the Shoals of Otago: Arguing about Starship Troopers," Deep South v.4 n.2 (Spring, 1995).
 * "The King's Bow: Review of Rick McGregor's Per Olof Sundman and the Icelandic Sagas," Deep South v.1 n.3 (Spring, 1995).
 * , originally appearing in eXile May 29, 2003. This was the first review to expose James Frey's memoirs as fraudulent.

War Nerd archives

 * Archive of Brecher's columns at The Exile (April 2002 - May 2008)
 * Archive of Brecher's columns at The Exiled Online (April 2011 - September 2012)
 * Archive of Brecher's columns at NSFWCorp (September 2012 - November 2013)
 * Archive of Brecher's column in PandoDaily (November 2013 - November 2015)

Other publications

 * Masculinities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Aotearoa Dunmore Press: Palmerston North (1999). In addition to co-editing with R. Law and H. Campbell, Dolan collaborated on the introduction, one chapter of original material, and an interview. The table of contents is available online.
 * Writing Well, Speaking Clearly, University of Otago Press 1997, ISBN 1-877133-69-8. A textbook.
 * Dolan has acknowledged writing The War Nerd column for The eXile, under the pseudonym Gary Brecher.
 * While this has not been publicly acknowledged by Dolan, critical reading reveals that the club reviews of one "Denis Salnikov", in The Exile, are very probably his own work as well.

Archives

 * Archive of Brecher's columns at The Exile (April 2002 - May 2008)
 * Archive of Brecher's columns at The Exiled Online (April 2011-September 2012)
 * Archive of Brecher's columns at NSFWCorp (September 2012-November 2013)
 * Gary Brecher profile, pando.com (his articles after November 2013 have appeared here)

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Thomas Egerton

Thomas Egerton may refer to:

 * Thomas Egerton (mercer) (by 1521–c. 1597), Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint
 * Thomas Egerton (killed 1599) (1574–1599), MP for Cheshire
 * Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540–1617), Lord Keeper 1596–1616
 * Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton (1749–1814)
 * Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton (1799–1882)
 * Thomas Egerton Hale, recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Thomas Egerton (publisher), publisher of Jane Austen's first three books
 * Thomas Graham Egerton, British Army officer

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2001 Oceania Club Championship

The 2001 Oceania Club Championships was held in January 2001. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship; however that Club World Championship tournament was cancelled by FIFA. The competition was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, with all matches held at the Lloyd Robson Stadium. The tournament was won by Australian club Wollongong Wolves.

Participants
A total of 11 teams from 11 OFC member associations entered the competition.

Group stage
The eleven participants were placed in two groups, where each team played the other teams once. The group winners and second placed teams progressed to the semi-finals.

Match schedule
Note: The OFC disciplinary committee ruled that 7 of PanSa's 18 players were not registered according to international transfer rules, some of which had been fielded in their first two matches. The first two matches were thus awarded 2–0 to the opposition, whilst PanSa were unable to field a team in the 3rd match (which was not played, and subsequently awarded 2–0 to Tafea). PanSa then withdrew from the competition, causing their fourth match to be awarded 2–0 to Titavi.

Semi finals
The top two teams from each group progressed to the semifinals.

Champion
Wollongong Wolves are the 2001 Oceania Club Champions and qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship. However, the Club World Championships were cancelled that year.

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John Spencer (mayor)

John Spencer (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician and former mayor of Yonkers, New York (1996–2004). He was the 2006 Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from New York and lost to the former first lady and 2016 presidential candidate Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Early life, military service and education
Spencer was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Edward and Ann McGlinchy Spencer. He was adopted and raised by Patrick and Nora Ginnane, who had eight children of their own. His adoptive mother died when he was eight, his adoptive father six years later. His sister Noreen Ginnane raised him.

He attended high school at Sacred Heart High School and after two years at Westchester Community College, he dropped out to join the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He earned an officer's commission as an infantry lieutenant and served a tour in Vietnam during 1968 through 1969. He holds the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Bronze Star.

Early career
Spencer married Eileen Looney in 1971, and the couple went on to have two children.

Spencer worked in construction, real estate property management with Cushman & Wakefield, and as vice president of real estate management with Bankers Trust Co.

He then entered politics as a member of the Yonkers City Council in 1991. He served 6 years on City Council, with 4 years as Republican majority leader.

Spencer also was the founder of Spencer Consulting Group, where he uses his personal experience of overcoming alcoholism to help others defeat their addictions.

Mayor of Yonkers
In 1996, John Spencer was sworn in as mayor of Yonkers. The city's finances had been under the oversight of a State Emergency Financial Control Board for more than a decade. Mayor Spencer insisted that the city had met its obligations and called for the removal of the New York State Control Board.

In 1998, control of the city's finances was returned to the city. The city was under a Federal Desegregation Order from a landmark decision of the federal Courts (Judge Sand, c. 1984), and Mayor Spencer had said that it was time to end Federal Control of Housing and Education in the city. Judge Sand agreed and after negotiations gave control back to the city on both issues, thus ending the Federal role in Yonkers. Mayor Spencer presided over development in Yonkers. Retail and housing were built on the downtown waterfront, a new library was completed, along with the Austin Avenue development of Costco, Home Depot, and Stew Leonard's. As part of the New State Control Board leaving, Mayor Spencer also went on to cut the Income Tax Surcharge by 2/3 and cut the Real Estate transfer tax from 3% to 1%, thus forcing the city to raise property taxes to make up the difference.

His mayoral chief of staff Kathy Spring bore him two children and later had a third in 2005. Spring's annual salary started at $52,000, and increased to $138,000 by the time Spencer left office.

In November 2003, Spencer could not run for re-election as mayor due to the term limits law that he himself championed and then tried to rescind. Mayor Spencer's deputy mayor Phil Amicone sought the office of Mayor with the support of Spencer, and successfully defeated Assemblyman Michael Spano in a Republican primary, and then went on to defeat Democratic candidate Joe Farmer in the general election.

2006 New York Senate race
In 2005, Spencer announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Hillary Clinton, who was seeking re-election to a second term. Politically, Spencer is opposed to abortion and gun control, and a supporter of tighter border security. His support for the Bush administration and its policies is well known, including but not limited to the war in Iraq.

On August 18, 2005, Spencer gave a radio interview where he said Westchester County, New York District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, another candidate for the Republican nomination, didn't have a "Chinaman's chance" of getting the Conservative line. Spencer was asked to apologize for the comment after an outcry from the Asian community that the statement was derogatory. Pirro dropped out of the race in December 2005.

On May 31, 2006, Spencer won the endorsement of the state Republican Party organization but did not achieve the threshold of 75 percent he needed to exclude his rival, former Pentagon aide Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland, from the primary ballot. He received 63 percent, and thus faced McFarland in the September 12, 2006 Republican primary, which he won by a margin of almost two to one. Spencer called on McFarland to step aside after the vote, but McFarland told CQPolitics.com she had no intention of withdrawing from the race.

In a June 2006 radio ad, Spencer expressed his disappointment in the national Republicans for not helping his Senate campaign.

In his 2006 election campaign, Spencer came out in favor of a New York Court of Appeals decision rejecting the claim of 42 gay and lesbian couples that same-sex marriage as constitutional right. On Kevin McCullough's talk radio program, Spencer said marriage is "between a man and a woman" and that a constitutional amendment is needed to enshrine that.

Clinton spent $36 million for her re-election, more than any other candidate for Senate in the 2006 elections. Polls during the general election campaign generally showed Clinton with a 20-point lead or better over Spencer. On November 7, 2006, Clinton won easily, garnering 67% of the vote to Spencer's 31%.

In 2006, former mayor Spencer was sued in civil court by a former City of Yonkers employee, Joan Gronowski, who later served as a city council member, who stated that she was told not to engage in political campaign activities while working for the city. Following a jury verdict, a $75,000 judgement against the city was narrowly affirmed in a 3–2 split decision.

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Operation Blackcock

Operation Blackcock was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War. It was conducted by the British Second Army between 13 and 26 January 1945. The objective was to drive the German 15th Army back across the rivers Roer and Wurm and move the frontline further into Germany. The operation was carried out by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie's XII Corps by three divisions: the 7th Armoured Division (Major-General Lewis Lyne), the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (Major-General Ivor Thomas) and the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith). The operation, named after the Scottish male black grouse, is relatively unknown.

Dispositions along the Roer Front
By the end of 1944, the frontline in Dutch Limburg was stable along several natural barriers. The most difficult barrier to cross was the River Maas running along the Dutch–Belgian border. The next barrier was the River Roer, running from the German Eifel area through Heinsberg towards Roermond, where it joins the Maas. From Heinsberg, southwards the Siegfried Line or 'West Wall' was formed along the banks of the Rur. Dutch South-Limburg was already liberated in September by the First United States Army, but the area above the Sittard–Geilenkirchen line was still in German hands. Here, the front had settled along the "Saefeller Beek", a small creek that also seemed difficult to surpass. These obstacles formed a triangular area, referred to as the Roermond Triangle, which protruded into the frontline like a bulge. As a result of the German offensive in the Ardennes (the Battle of the Bulge), the Allies withdrew resources to stop the German advance in the American First Army's sector. Therefore, the British Second Army's XII Corps guarded the frontline north of Sittard for the US Army. The Maas front was guarded by the British VIII Corps.

The British XII Corps was facing the German XII SS Corps, commanded by Günther Blumentritt, which had two infantry divisions present along the frontline between Geilenkirchen and Roermond. In the Roermond area these divisions were strengthened by the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Hübner.

Blackcock
The clearing of the Roer Triangle was planned along three axes. The left axis, formed by the 7th Armoured Division, was aimed at capturing the bridge across the Roer in Sint Odiliënberg (51.14886°N, 6.0035°W). For the 7th Armoured Division, the operation would start with bridging the creeks south of Susteren. The centre axis, formed by the 52nd Infantry Division, was aimed at the capture of Heinsberg. In order to do this, a break-through at the German defence line was to be undertaken near Hongen in order to open the road between Sittard and Heinsberg for moving troops. The right axis, formed by the 43rd Infantry Division, was aimed at clearing the area south-east of Dremmen. This axis would use the break in the German defence line that was to be created by the Lowland Division.

VC Actions
The Victoria Cross was awarded twice, both posthumously, for actions during Operation Blackcock.
 * Fusilier Dennis Donnini of the 4/5 Royal Scots Fusiliers, 52nd Lowland Division, received the VC after his heroic actions in the village of Stein in Selfkant on 18 January. Fusilier Donnini is buried at the Sittard War Cemetery (Netherlands).
 * Lance Corporal Henry Eric Harden of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), a medical orderly attached to 45 Commando, was awarded the VC for his heroic action during the bitter fighting at the Dutch villages of Brachterbeek and Linne on 23 January. Lance Corporal Harden is buried at Nederweert War Cemetery (Netherlands).

Hübner's defeat at Sint Joost
The Battle for the Dutch village of Sint Joost was a turning point in Operation Blackcock. After four days of fighting, the Germans knew that the armoured division that was facing them relied heavily on the roads to manoeuvre their vehicles, especially due to poor winter conditions. The small village of Sint Joost was on the route of the 7th Armoured Division's drive north towards Montfort.

On 20 January, infantry and cavalry units of the Desert Rats launched a first attack on the (assumed) two German companies of the 2nd Battalion Fallschirmjäger Regiment Hübner in Sint Joost. It took four attacks to clear the village, the final assault taking place on Sunday, the 21 January.

In total, sixty Fallschirmjäger were taken prisoner. The 9th Durham Light Infantry and 1st Rifle Brigade suffered heavy losses in Sint Joost. The DLI suffered 33 casualties, of which eight were killed in action. The Rifle Brigade counted 34 casualties, of which three men from I Company were killed in action. More than one hundred German soldiers died. German paratroopers who were not killed only left the cellars under civilian cover, afraid that they would be shot by the victors. Hübner had lost one company and a second had been nearly destroyed.

Bombing raids on Montfort
Between Friday evening the 19 January and Tuesday the 23 January the Dutch village of Montfort was shelled or bombed on seven occasions. The village was hit by more than 100 bombs overall, and most of these fell in the centre of the village. Nearly all of the 250 houses were damaged. During these raids, the Germans took shelter in the cellars among the civilians, and in the wooded areas just outside the village. The bombing raids that struck Montfort on the 21st and 22nd were carried out by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 2nd Tactical Air Force - No. 83 Group - 143 Wing. This Wing consisted of 438, 439 and 440 Squadron, based at Eindhoven. The squadrons were equipped with the Hawker Typhoon 1B fighter bomber. 143 Wing lost six aircraft during Operation Blackcock, two of which crashed in Montfort. When Montfort was finally liberated by the Desert Rats on 24 January, 186 civilians died in the raid.

Aftermath
The operation was a success for the Allies since all its objectives were met. The German divisions were thrown out of the Roer Triangle except for the area immediately south of Roermond. Here, Hübner's paratroopers stayed in control. The 52nd Lowland British Division fought the toughest battles and received 752 casualties. Of these, 101 were killed. 258 soldiers were transported from the front because of sickness, mostly as a direct result of the adverse weather conditions. The 7th Armoured Division counted just over 400 casualties. The Desert Rats' losses in vehicles were rather light, with only 20 tanks knocked out by the enemy and a further 23 broken down due to mechanical problems. Of the knocked-out tanks 10 were damaged beyond repair. The number of German casualties was approximately 2,000. During the operation, 490 prisoners were taken by the Desert Rats, amongst them were six officers. The Lowland Division took more than 1,200 prisoners, the Wessex Division took some 400 soldiers captive.

Once Operation Blackcock was completed, the plans for the capture of the Rhineland could commence. Operation Veritable, by the First Canadian Army, was launched on the 8 February and was aimed at breaking through the German defences in the Klever Reichswald, some 60 km north of the Roer Triangle. Operation Grenade, the southern part of the pincer movement, by the US Ninth Army was launched on 23 February. General William Hood Simpson's US Ninth Army crossed the river Roer south of Heinsberg in the early hours of 23 February 1945. Twelve hours later Simpson had 16 battalions on the east bank, together with seven heavy bridges, and several light assault bridges. American losses were light on the first day; 700 prisoners were taken. A task force was formed by Ninth Army's XVI Corps which rushed towards Venlo to meet up with the British in the north. On 1 March Roermond was captured by the reconnaissance troop of the US 35th Infantry Division (the "Santa Fe" Division) without a single shot being fired.

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Vimala Thakar

Vimala Thakar (born 15 April 1921 Ramnavmi day at Bilaspur and died on 11 March 2009 at Falgun Poornima at Mt. Abu) was an Indian social activist and spiritual teacher. Born into a middle-class family living at Akola city in Maharashtra state in India, she was interested in spiritual matters from an early age. She pursued this interest with meditation and spiritual practices throughout her youth. She post graduated in Eastern and Western philosophy, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was one of her professors.

Later she became active in the Bhoodan (Land Gift) Program. This program, led by Vinoba Bhave, persuaded landlords to give land to poor farmers. Through the 1950s, several million acres of farmland were so redistributed. She travelled India to its length and breadth.

In 1958, Thakar attended talks given by, and met with, the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. This meeting was to change her life. She left the Land-Gift movement to dedicate herself to what she called "the internal problem"—the spiritual liberation of the individual. She dedicated herself to teaching meditation and philosophy, traveling between India, the U.S. and Europe. In 1979, she rekindled her passion for social activism, traveling through India and founding centers to educate villagers in agro-centered industries, sanitation, local self-government, and active democratic citizenship. Her teachings came to emphasize balancing 'inner' spiritual development with 'outer' social development, an evolution reflected in her 1984 book "Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach." After 1991, she curtailed her travel outside India.

She died on 11 March 2009, on the day of Holi, the festival of colour in India. She was living at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India during her last years.

Philosophical views
Vimala Thakar’s philosophy was influenced by the spiritual teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti and the nonviolent social change philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and Vinobe Bhave. She sought to reconcile the often separated worlds of spirituality and social action, arguing that in fact each is indispensable to the other: “In this era, to become a spiritual inquirer without social consciousness is a luxury that we can ill afford, and to be a social activist without a scientific understanding of the inner workings of the mind is the worst folly. Neither approach in isolation has had any significant success. There is no question now that an inquirer will have to make an effort to be socially conscious or that an activist will have to be persuaded of the moral crisis in the human psyche, the significance of being attentive to the inner life. The challenge awaiting us is to go much deeper as human beings, to abandon superficial prejudices and preferences, to expand understanding to a global scale, integrating the totality of living, and to become aware of the wholeness of which we are a manifestation.”

She has also pointed out that intense self-education and transformation are naturally, in themselves, valid and very significant forms of social action. She recognized that some of us have a more inward, meditative orientation. She addressed these issues in depth at times, including with the book Vimalaji on Intensive Self-Education.

Publications

 * 1) Glimpses of Raja Yoga: An Introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (Yoga Wisdom Classics), (Rodmell Press, 2005)
 * 2) Insights into the Bhagavad Gita (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2005)
 * 3) Why Meditation? Five Talks Delivered at the Blaisdell Institute Claremont University, California, 1974 (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2005)
 * 4) Blossoms of Friendship (Rodmell Press, 2003; New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2004)
 * 5) Totality in Essence Talks in Ceylon, 1971 (2002), with Sogyal Rinpoche, Mind Our Greatest Gift (Mananam Series) (1995)
 * 6) Vimalaji and Her Perspective of Life (Vimal Prakashahan Trust, 1998)
 * 7) From Intellect to Intelligence (Holland: Vimala Thakar Foundation, 1976)
 * 8) On an Eternal Voyage, (Bombay: R. Raman, at Inland Printers, 2nd ed., 1972)
 * 9) Voyage Into Oneself (Holland: Vimala Thakar Foundation, 1970)

 * 1) The books by Vimala Thakar in Gujarati, Hindi, English and Marathi languages are available at, Vimal Prakashan Trust-"Vimal Saurabh", vaniawadi St no-9, Rajkot-360002, Gujarat India. Contact No: +91 99255 29096, +91 9825416769
 * 2) "The Eloquence of Living" (Berkeley, CA 94701: Vimala Programs. 1981)233 pgs.

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User:AmanitaMuscaria

I use Wikipedia for quick reference, and I started editing pages so that others can use it too. I usually do small edits (changing word order, using different words, spelling/punctuation mistakes, vandalism, etc) but I will also rewrite a section if it's beyond repair. I enjoy creating pages but I'm still trying to learn things (like how to do tables... I still don't understand it). Apparently I can somewhat do tables, but only when I have extremely easy instructions. I am computer stupid.

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Iranian Hazfi Cup

Hazfi Cup (, lit. 'knockout cup') formerly known as Pahlavi Cup  is an Iranian knockout football competition held annually by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Iranian football league was not held during the 1980s, hence the winner of Hazfi Cup represented Iran in the Asian Club Championship. After the revival of the league system, the champion of Iranian league qualified for Asian Club Championship and the winner of Hazfi Cup for Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The Asian Cup Winners' Cup merged with the Asian Champions Cup in 2002–03 to form the AFC Champions League and Iran was initially given two (and later four) slots in this competitions. The FFIRI decided to award one of Iran's AFC Champions League spots to the winner of the Hazfi Cup, and since then, the winners of Hazfi Cup have always been allocated a spot in the AFC Champions League. Since 2024 and with the rebranding of the Asian club competitions, the FFIRI decided to send the winner of the Hazfi cup to the AFC Champions League Elite Qualifying play-off.

The competition was founded in 1976 as Pahlavi Cup but after the revolution continued as Hazfi Cup. Esteghal and Persepolis are the most successful clubs with seven titles each.

Format
The rules for the final were exactly the same as the one for the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that). Since the 2011–12 season, the final is always held as a single match.

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Talk:Alnwick

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Two points to call to attention:
 * I'm sure there should be a mention somewhere that the Harry Potter films use Alnwick castle for the exterior shots (with extra towers CGI'd in, of course). I'm not sure where it should go, though...
 * Probably in the Alnwick Castle page. Which is where it can be found. Does Wikipedia have a principle of subsidiarity? Who knows.--Tagishsimon (talk)

 * Alnwick isn't well within commuting distance of Newcastle unless you habitually get up at 6AM. I don't want to change it since I don't commute from Alnwick to Newcastle, but if someone else can confirm this then it should be changed.
 * It's 30 miles. One hour by car at peak times. 25 minutes by train from Alnmouth. I used to commute occasionally. The council considers it well within. What can I say. Take out the word Well if you want. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Thanks. Tyrhinis 21:31, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Population Problem
this article contradicts itslef it says POPULATION 7100 and POPULATION 7600 i was looking at some population statistics, however, from a statistician based in the NE, Yan Che Shek, and neither of these figures add up with his data available on his webpages. Can some one fix this error, and provide some citation to the appropriate geographical literature. Many thanks.

Odinel de Umfraville
I have some info in my family tree that I am trying to verify about the capture of William The Lion. I have found conflicting stories about who was there. Could someone please help me out. The info I have places Ralf de Glanvil (Ralph De Glanville) and troops as the capturer but the Alnwick page names someone else. if anyone has any info could you please forward it to me. thx Randywilliams1975 23:09, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

County Town Controversy
Alnwick is not the county town of Northumberland. Morpeth is the administrative centre of Northumberland as the County Hall offices are located in Morpeth. Furthermore, the law courts were formerly in Morpeth and therefore Morpeth also has a historical judicial function. The law courts are now in Bedlington. In summation, Alnwick has no claim to the title of county town based on the definition of a county town.

Country Life magazine for October 2002 was not sourced correctly.

The following news article explains why Morpeth is county town. http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/The-title-belongs-to-Morpeth.979686.jp

Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911
Here (http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Alnwick) is the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 article for Alnwick, which suggests "historic County Town" is about right. 92.238.177.48 (talk) 11:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Dirty Bottles
Is there a reason that these don't get a mention? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.78.139 (talk) 22:16, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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Matvei Golovinski

Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski (alternatively, Mathieu) (Матвей Васильевич Головинский) (6 March 1865 – 1920) was a Russian-French writer, journalist and political activist. Critics studying The Protocols of the Elders of Zion have argued that he was the author of the work. This claim is reinforced by the writings of modern Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhine, who in 1999 studied previously closed French archives stored in Moscow containing information supporting Golovinski's authorship. Back in the mid-1930s, Russian testimony in the Berne Trial had linked the head of Russian security service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky, to the creation of The Protocols.

Life
Matvei Golovinski was born into an aristocratic family in the village of Ivashevka (Ивашевка), in the Syzransky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasili Golovinski (Василий Головинский) was a friend of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both were members of the progressive Petrashevsky Circle, sentenced to the capital punishment as conspirators and both were pardoned later. Vasili Golovinski died in 1875 and Matvei Golovinski was reared by his mother and the French nanny.

While studying jurisprudence, Golovinski joined an antisemitic counter-revolutionary group Holy Brotherhood ("Святое Братство"). Upon graduation, he worked for the Okhrana, secretly arranging pro-government coverage in the press. Golovinski's career almost collapsed and he had to leave the country after his activities were publicly exposed by Maxim Gorky. In France, he wrote and published articles on assignments of the Chief of Russian secret service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky.

After the October Revolution of 1917, Golovinsky switched sides and worked for the Bolsheviks until his death in 1920.

Authorship of the Protocols
On 19 November 1999, Patrick Bishop reported from Paris: Research by a leading Russian historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, in recently opened archives has found the forgery to be the work of Mathieu Golovinski, opportunistic scion of an aristocratic but rebellious family that drifted into a life of espionage and propaganda work. After working for the czarist secret service, he later changed sides and joined the Bolsheviks. Mr. Lepekhine’s findings, published in the French magazine L'Express, would appear to clear up the last remaining mystery surrounding the Protocols.

In his 2001 book The Question of the Authorship of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a Ukrainian scholar Vadim Skuratovsky offers a scrupulous and extensive literary, historical and linguistic analysis of the original Russian language text of the Protocols. Skuratovsky provides evidence that Charles Joly, a son of Maurice Joly (on whose writings the Protocols are based), visited Saint Petersburg in 1902 and that Golovinsky and Charles Joly worked together at Le Figaro in Paris. Skuratovsky also traces the influences of Dostoyevsky's prose (in particular, The Grand Inquisitor and The Possessed) on Golovinsky's writings, including The Protocols.

In his book ''The Non-Existent Manuscript. A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion'', Italian researcher Cesare De Michelis writes that the hypothesis of Golovinski's authorship was based on a statement by Princess Catherine Radziwill, who claimed that she had seen a manuscript of the Protocols written by Golovinsky, Rachkovsky and Manusevich in 1905, but in 1905 Golovinsky and Rachkovsky had already left Paris and moved to Saint-Petersburg. Princess Radziwill was known to be an unreliable source. Also, the protocols had been mentioned already in the press in 1902.

Golovinski had been linked to the work before; the German writer Konrad Heiden identified him as an author of the Protocols in 1944.

Books

 * A New English-Russian and Russian-English Dictionary. London, 1912. (Many later editions.)

Published under the pen-name of Doctor Faust:
 * From a Writer's Notebook. M. M. Levin edition. Moscow, 1910. [Belles-lettres and autobiographical prose]
 * The Black Book of German Atrocities. Saint Peterburg, 1914.
 * An Experience of Criticism of Bourgeois Morals. A. Karelin's translation from French. With a preface by the author. 1919. (The supposed 1910 French original has not been discovered.)
 * Conversations with My Grandfather about Typhus. Published by V.M. Bonch-Bruevich (Velichkinoj).

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Talk:Film (band)

Merging of Jura Stublić with Film_(music_group)
It can't be merged because jura stublić is a croatian rock legend and he is more that Film's singer

I agree. Jura Stublić played with Johnny Štulić in first lineup of Azra, not only in Film, and he is also a very important figure in Croatian music. Article about him should be expanded, not merged! (added a stub notice to Jura Stublić) I'm definitely against merging. --Dijxtra 12:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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Stop Climate Chaos

Stop Climate Chaos is a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Kingdom that focuses on climate change. It was established in September 2005 and is known for running the "I Count" campaign from 2006 to 2007. In addition, the coalition organized 'The Wave" on 5 December 2009 as a lead-up to the UN talks in Copenhagen.

The primary goal of the coalition is to encourage individuals to adopt their own measures and advocate for what they consider to be positive climate change policies from the government of the United Kingdom. From 2005 to 2010, the coalition was led by Ashok Sinha, an environmental campaigner. Although closely affiliated with Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, the coalition operates as a separate organization.

The movement's primary objectives include pressuring governments to implement effective environmental policies, transitioning to renewable energy sources, and curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Through a series of campaigns, protests, and educational initiatives, "Stop Climate Chaos" aims to foster a sense of shared responsibility for the planet's well-being. Notable achievements include influencing policy changes, mobilizing mass demonstrations, and encouraging businesses to adopt eco-friendly practices. However, the movement has not been without its critics, who raise concerns about its methods, effectiveness, and potential economic implications. Overall, "Stop Climate Chaos" remains a prominent force in the ongoing battle against climate change, inspiring people worldwide to take meaningful actions to secure a sustainable future.

'I Count' Campaign
The 'I Count' campaign had the objective of urging world leaders to address the increasing global greenhouse gas emissions and keep the annual global temperature rise below 2°C (3.6°F) to mitigate the severe consequences of global warming.

In 2006, the campaign concentrated on influencing the government to introduce a climate change bill during the upcoming parliamentary session. The proposed bill aimed to enforce legally binding reductions in emissions (3% per year and 50% by 2050) and establish an annual carbon budget.

On 4 November 2006 the 'I Count' Climate Change Rally took place in London. Approximately 20,000 to 25,000 individuals participated, coinciding with the release of the Stern Report, which emphasized the need for more decisive action by the government to address climate change.

The rally commenced with an initial gathering at Grosvenor Square, outside the US Embassy, where George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas, and Norman Baker delivered speeches to the attendees. The rally then proceeded to Trafalgar Square, joining a pre-existing crowd. The campaign further focused on the provisions of the Climate Change Bill, critiquing the initial proposals for failing to consider the 'global warming danger threshold' of 2°C.

The Energy Campaign
Towards the end of 2008, following the successful passage of the Climate Change Act in Parliament, the coalition shifted its focus towards energy policy. The revised campaign objectives called for increased investment in renewable energy and the abandonment of proposals for a series of coal power stations, starting with Kingsnorth. Through their website, the coalition facilitated a pair of e-actions, resulting in the delivery of numerous emails to Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, and local MPs, urging a reconsideration of energy policy. Additionally, the coalition collaborated with the Age of Stupid team on their Not Stupid campaign.

The Wave
On 5 December 2009 supporters and members of Stop Climate Chaos convened in London and Glasgow to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 held in Copenhagen. The objective was to urge the British Government and representatives from other political parties in the United Kingdom to take action on three key issues: discontinuing the use of coal, safeguarding the most vulnerable communities, and implementing swift and equitable measures to mitigate the severe consequences of climate change. Estimates of attendance range from 40,000 to 60,000 individuals, making it the largest climate change demonstration to date.

Lobby of MPs
In November 2010, the coalition arranged the "Big Climate Connection", an event where individuals met with Members of Parliament to discuss the Cancún climate summit and the upcoming Energy Bill. The purpose was to engage in a constructive dialogue and provide input on these important matters.

Members
The members of the coalition include:

 * Airport Watch
 * A Rocha
 * CAFOD
 * Campaign against Climate Change
 * Carplus
 * Christian Aid
 * Climate Outreach and Information Network
 * Come Off It
 * Environmental Justice Foundation
 * Ethical Consumer
 * Friends of the Earth
 * Greenpeace
 * IFEES
 * Islamic Relief
 * Justice and Peace Scotland
 * Medact
 * National Trust for Scotland
 * National Union of Students of the United Kingdom
 * Operation Noah
 * Oxfam
 * People & Planet
 * Plan B
 * Practical Action
 * Road Block
 * RSPB
 * Scottish Action on Climate Change
 * Save our World
 * SCIAF
 * Shared Energy
 * SPEAK network
 * Surfers Against Sewage
 * Sustrans
 * Take Global Warming Seriously
 * Tearfund
 * The Wildlife Trusts
 * Transport 2000
 * UNA-UK
 * UK Youth Climate Coalition
 * UNISON
 * Women's Institute
 * Womens Environmental Network
 * Woodland Trust
 * World Development Movement
 * WWF-UK
 * Youth Against Climate Change

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Talk:The Millionairess

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"Also of note is that the film contains the song Goodness Gracious Me"

Does it? I remember watching the film explicitly expecting to hear the song, and it never occurring. I got the impression the song was recorded as an afterthought to take advantage of the popular pairing of Sellers and Loren... Paul Magnussen 21:33, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you are correct...the song does not appear in the film.67.154.254.115 (talk) 18:47, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Stub?
This article is pretty long to be tagged as a stub. I think that should be reconsidered. 67.154.254.115 (talk) 18:47, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

15K?
Sagamore buys the papers for 30K - half goes to Kabir, half to Muriel Pilkington. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.255.115 (talk) 01:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation Link
Useful if there were a disambiguation link to the play at the top ixo (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune

Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune is a co-educational engineering college in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune. The college is affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University. It was ranked 172th in the engineering category by the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021.

The college is named after D. Y. Patil, former governor of Bihar in India.

Academics
Undergraduate
 * Civil engineering
 * Mechanical engineering
 * Electronics and Telecommunication engineering
 * Instrumentation and control engineering
 * Computer engineering
 * Electrical engineering
 * Information Technology
 * Artificial intelligence and data science (since 2020)
 * Automation and Robotics

Postgraduate
 * Computer engineering (computer science engineering)
 * Machine design (mechanical engineering)
 * Heat and power (mechanical engineering)
 * Environmental engineering (civil engineering)
 * Management (civil engineering)
 * Manufacturing engineering and automation (production engineering)
 * Communication networks (electronics and telecommunication engineering)


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Skarface

Skarface is a French third wave ska band that started in 1991.

Their music includes influences from ska, punk rock and other genres. They have produced one CD almost every year of their existence. They have performed more than 1,200 concerts, in countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, United States and Canada.

Discography

 * Cheap Pounk Skaa! (1992)
 * Hold Up In Skacity! (1993)
 * Live, Panic & Chaos (1994)
 * Sex, Scooters and R'N'R (1995)
 * Skankuat Nec Mergitur (1996)
 * Skuck Off! (1997)
 * Full Fool Rules! (1998)
 * Best & Next (1999)
 * Last Music Warriors (2000)
 * Merci (2002)
 * Mythic Enemy No. 1 (2003)
 * Longlife Legendary Bastards (2008)

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Harvey Simpson

Harvey Cathcart Simpson (February 11, 1862 —January 29, 1928 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1909 to 1914, as a member of the Conservative Party.

Simpson was born in Ashton, Canada West (now Ontario), and educated at Ashton and Carleton Place. He came west in 1882, settling in Virden, Manitoba. In religion, Simpson was a Methodist. In 1882, he married Rhodella Armstrong Irwin.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election for the Virden constituency, held on January 11, 1909. He defeated Liberal candidate Robert Forke by 206 votes, and served in the legislature as a backbench supporter of Rodmond Roblin's administration. He was re-elected in the 1910 election.

Simpson lost to Liberal George Clingan by 85 votes in the 1914 election.

He served overseas as a captain during World War I.

Simpson died in Point Grey, British Columbia at the age of 65.

His brother James also served as a member of the Manitoba assembly.

Simpson was married to Rhodella Armstrong Irwin on May 31, 1892 in Virden, MB. Together they had 5 children; Fred Irwin Simpson, Edith Frances Simpson, Mary Olive Victoria Simpson, Alice Rhodelle Simpson, and Hattie Mills Simpson.

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Newbridge, Wolverhampton

Newbridge is a suburb of the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands in England. It is situated north-west of the city centre, on the A41 Tettenhall Road.

Name and origins
The earliest known mention of the area came in 1286 as Novo Ponte - Latin for New Bridge. The name indicates a yet earlier bridge at this location. The bridge took the London-Holyhead road (the modern-day Meadow View) over the river Smestow and later, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal. On Yates's map of 1775, the name can be seen as two words, New Bridge, though the contracted form was in use by 1332 - (atte) newebruge.

History
In the early 19th century the London-Holyhead road was realigned to cross the valley on an embankment over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal of 1771 and the river Smestow ran through the suburb in a SW-NE direction. The 19th-century canal bridge had to be replaced by a more modern structure, capable of carrying increased traffic, built by Wolverhampton's County Borough council in the 1930s.

Today
The area is home to Spurgeon's Child Care, Newbridge House care home and was the location of the headquarters of Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country. A shopping parade exists around the north western entrance to Newbridge Crescent, with shops and amenities including branches of Domino's Pizza, Costcutter and was the location of a Co-operative Food, as well as individual stores and eateries such as Newbridge Wines, Chopsticks Cantonese take away, Newbridge Fryer fish and chip shop, Iridium Spa, Ego and Headley hairdressing, and The Newbridge pub and carvery. The Co-op store closed on 10 June 2022 and re-opened as a One Stop. Bernard Savage Bespoke Kitchens, the York Hotel and Mother India restaurant are all positioned slightly further to the south east on the A41 Tettenhall Road.

Education
The Newbridge Preparatory School is based on Newbridge Crescent.Wolverhampton Girls High School is situated on St Judes Road West. Newbridge Preparatory School has been an Independent Day School in Wolverhampton since 1937 and moved to its present site in Newbridge Crescent in 1949. The school was originally founded by an eminent local surgeon and initially operated as a member of the Parents’ National Education Union.

Sport
The Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis and Squash Club is based on Newbridge Crescent, as is pedestrian access to the new Wolverhampton Wanderers FC training ground at nearby Compton via Newbridge Avenue.

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KRSP-FM

KRSP-FM (103.5 MHz, "103.5 The Arrow") is a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is owned by Bonneville International, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, the for-profit arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. KRSP-FM maintains studio facilities located at the KSL Broadcast House building in Salt Lake City's Triad Center (which also houses KSFI and the KSL (radio)-TV partners), and its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.

It plays classic rock music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and features blocks of artists during the weekends.

KRSP-HD2, the station's digital second channel, plays "Deep Tracks", lesser-known songs from well-known artists.

Top 40 (1967–1980)
Brothers Art and Ralph Carlson (who operated A&R Meat Company) signed on KRSP (AM) in 1966 and KRSP-FM in 1967 as vehicles to advertise their meat company. Until about 1980, KRSP-FM was a top 40 competitor to KCPX.

Rock (1980–1994)
In the early 1980s, "Rock 103" was an album rock competitor to KCPX-FM. It was not until the mid-1980s, however, when the station had an established morning show (Jon and Dan) and, with virtually no rock competition, KRSP became a consistent ratings winner.

Classic hits/classic rock (1994–present)
When the Carlson family began selling their broadcast properties, the station passed into the hands of Simmons Media Group, and on February 11, 1994, adopted an "All Rock and Roll Oldies" format. Over time, the format shifted to classic rock. The station was sold to Bonneville International in 2003, and its studios are currently located in the same building as KSL.

Translators
In addition to the main station, KRSP is relayed by an additional three translators to widen its broadcast area.

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User:Mistercow

No info on me yet. I am an enigma! And I'm too lazy to make a user page just yet. Why say this in this space? I can only say that some questions were not meant to be answered.

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Hi, thanks for your comments on these info boxes. They are still in development at the moment. I don't know if they are that useful or not but I've seen many other transport articles that have really good infoboxes. I'm open to suggestions/constructive critism on this. I can see that the major stations one may be a bit over-sized. Just to answer your points:
 * A major station is defined as one of the stations on the major stations list managed by Network Rail []. There are other very significant stations like St Pancras railway station that are not on the list.  Network rail simply call this list "managed stations" but under the old "Railtrack" regime, they were called "Major Stations".  My thinking about minor stations is all stations that are not staffed and do not have ticketing facilities, i.e. the very basic stops.  Medium stations are stations are all the other stations in between, i.e. they are staffed, have ticketing facilities but are not on the major stations list.

 * Upon privatisation, each station was allocated to a particular train operating company (usually the one which operated most services calling there, but not always), with the exception of 17 "Major Stations": often these were ones served by several TOCs (e.g. Gatwick Airport, Birmingham New Street). However, some relatively important ones (e.g. Bristol Temple Meads, London St Pancras) were still run by TOCs, while some "Major Stations" (e.g. [[Cannon Street station|Cannon Street) are just served by the one TOC, so don't really need to be run "neutrally".  "Managed stations" is perhaps a better description of these stations.

 * The direction is a bit tricky. On the london underground, many signs state eastbound, northbound, southbound etc.  This is sort of what I'm trying to do with this.  Do you have any suggestions yourself?
 * This is a bit of a minefield. I suggest not including this information at all.  Quite often on the London Underground, the "eastbound/westbound" descriptions can be confusing, especially when they talk about the "eastbound Circle Line".  As the National Rail network is much more complicated than the Underground, this is best avoided I think.

 * With primary destination, I am thinking of both important terminuses and overall network regions. What would your suggestions be?  This can get quite complicated.
 * Another minefield. Also best avoided - this information is probably better inlcuded in the text rather than an infobox, as it can be better explained there.

 * Yes, I may have over-done it a bit by including post boxes and first aid points. I think bicycle storage is a useful bit of info though.

Some other considerations of mine:
 * on the station details, would it be useful to include a O/S grid reference?
 * Some people like that sort of thing, although the / templates already give a map reference. But it's less problematic than some of the other things.

Also, don't be afraid to say I am wasting my time with these info-boxes. I've had a go at applying them to a couple of London major stations but I get a feeling that I have accidentally trod on someone else's turf and have had them taken off. I'd much rather work on the basis on consensus with fellow Wikipedians - easier life that way. The articles on stations in UK vary hugely and info-boxes are a good way to encourage consistency. Also many articles on UK stations emphasize history and say nothing about the contemporary station. What's your take on this? I would say that articles need to be concise but also well rounded, since readers of Wikipedia ecompass a wide spectrum - train spotters and historians included. (Sloman 17:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC))
 * I don't think they're a complete waste of time, and your point about the inconsistency of the articles on UK stations is quite valid. People will argue, though, about what any proposed standard should be.  However, I don't think we should be attempting to become a travel information service!  --RFBailey 15:06, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, just to clear up a few points:
 * This may be a bit pedantic, but I think I'll rename it "Network Rail" stations to make it clear. Would you agree with this?
 * The pedant in me agrees with this, however, there is already a "major stations" template: this includes all of the Network Rail stations, all London termini, but some others as well (e.g. Bristol TM, Newcastle, Sheffield, etc.). It might be better to follow this standard, although I'm not sure why Doncaster or Exeter St Davids made it onto this list, for instance.  As for staffing levels as a measure, stations with one person sat in a ticket booth probably should only count as "minor".

 * Point taken about primary destination and direction, I've removed primary destination and direction and replaced them with "trains head towards" for final destinations of train services as I still think something like this is handy.
 * Yes, but to take Paddington as an example, Greenford looks a bit out of place when compared with Bristol, Cardiff, etc.

 * The / is good; but it is using postcodes which are subject to occasional changes - leading to a lot of potential future work for editors. I've already corrected one and I'm sure there are more, plus these updated postcodes are difficult to detect.  Wouldn't the OS reference be better? Wikipedia already has an excellent template for this linking to a number of map sites.
 * Fair enough, although as far as I know postcodes don't change that often.

Finally, it is really tricky what the proposed standard for railway stations should be but we should at least try and develop some guidelines. Obviously for the bigger stations, there is a lot of topical and historical material to write about. I've noticed that a lot of railway stations have a lot written about their facilities. While this is useful reference material; it makes for very very dull prose and that's where I think infoboxes would be most appropriate. I agree that Wikipedia is not a travel service but where do we draw the line, i.e. should minor railway stations be included at all? (Sloman 00:36, 24 October 2005 (UTC))

 * Perhaps we should invite others to participate before deciding on a standard. Try Our Phellap, RHaworth and Mrsteviec - they seem to be involved in a lot of the UK railway-related articles.  Maybe suggesting a WikiProject is the way to go: have a look at WP:UKPC, for instance (although my own contributions to that have been rather limited, as I got caught up in the railway stuff first!).  --RFBailey 10:09, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Leeds City station
Thanks for your note. I'd checked all the northbound journeys and assumed that the Harrogate service was no longer running - as it still is, thanks for the addition. On the other hand, the boxes are designed to show the next station served on the line, even if some trains run fast and do not stop at it, so I've removed Keighley, as Shipley is the next stop on line, even if some trains do not stop there. Warofdreams talk 10:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Wirral
Hi. For whatever reason, we seem to have articles about metropolitan boroughs at Metropolitan Borough of X (see Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens), etc, so I've moved Wirral (borough) again to Metropolitan Borough of Wirral for the purposes of consistency.

(For non-metropolitan boroughs we do have them at places like Congleton (borough) and the like, so its not 100% consistent, but at least its partly so). Morwen - Talk 08:39, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Future Constituencies (and again and again...)
Hey - saw the comment on future constituencies. I have replied on the article, but just want to say I fully support your proposals. I created Constituencies in United Kingdom General Election and update the table as and when the Commissions declare. Next update is Jan 11. I have created a few new articles - Wyre and Preston North (UK Parliament constituency) is one which springs to mind.

Hope we can get all these new ones up by 2009 =)

doktorb | words 19:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Liverpool
Sorry about being a prat over the liverpool table. It should prbaley go as you had it, for consistancy with other articles. --IanDavies 18:49, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

London railway station
Hi. Thanks for your observation. I entirely agree with your suggestion and will make the change. Kind regards. Mrsteviec 14:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Greater Nottingham Partnership
http://www.gnpartnership.org.uk/about-us

They seem to be a mixture of official and community based organisations. I must admit I had never heard of them before I found Wikipedia even though I've lived near Nottingham since I was born. Due to work etc. I probably won't be visiting Wikipedia much in the near future you were lucky to catch me (Wikipedia popped up on a Google search I was doing) but I do think an article would round a lot of other articles off. Bevo74 14:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Wolverhampton
It was really out of place - was being randomly defensive and wasn't really verifiable. It looked like it was taken out of context from an argument. I perhaps shouldn't have deleted it outright but as it stood it wasn't appropriate. If we can find cites saying that places like Bilston were considered part of Wolverhampton and had been prior to 1966, that's great. Morwen - Talk 09:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Right. I've now rewritten this using census information, which counts the settlement of Wolverhampton as bigger than the Metropolitan Borough, but the settlement of Dudley as much less than its Borough.  Morwen - Talk 10:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandal
I think you will find that it is you that is the Vandal.--IanDavies 14:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Note to anyone who may read this: the user who posted the above comment was blocked for being a sockpuppet of an indefinitely banned user about an hour later! --RFBailey 20:36, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * So. There is a difference between being a Vandal and being called a vandal. I've been called one and you are one. Your also a sheep.--84.9.193.129 01:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Hullo ;-)
Hiya - thanks for the heads up on the semi-colon issue. Of all the things to have a blind spot on, that's the one I still cannot fathom!

On the ward list issue, I know what you mean about the need for a geographical description but as this is the first [and if rumoured changes to the local government system go ahead, the only] opportunity for such a "full" explanation of constituency boundaries to go ahead. There is no harm in keeping the ward lists, but you are right to suggest a more general description is required in some cases. I'll gladly start doing this for the seats in Lancashire where I live, as that is the easiest for me.

There are a lot of seats left to do - Wales and notably Scotland are appalling - so I'll continue ahead and see what comes of it. And [oops, don't start a sentence with and, Liam =)] I'll keep a note on the semicolon issue =)

Thanks for the note,[Liam] doktorb | words 06:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:Mais oui! and Owain
I've replied on my talk page to keep thread together. Cheers, Petros471 17:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Liverpool
Thanks for the re-write, it flows much better now. At least you have got the article going in the right direction. Thanks. --Rjm 01:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Rail Stuff
Hey RFBailey, thanks for the msg, sorry about the edit, thanks for RVing it, do you know any sites to get info about railway stations such as platform nos (National Rail is useless for this), thanks Danny (Djm1279)

 * And on another note, I do apologise for that, Im too pedantic, and w/o knowing the users theselves, I thought it was a phrase, and Ive learnt it pays to read the body of text, Ive read it now and it makes it obvious, Sorry! Danny (User:Djm1279) 09:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

County flowers
Following the AfD debate, you may wish to join in a discussion taking place at Talk:Plantlife. SP-KP 18:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

SW...ern
In essence though it is going to be a new franchise, therefore it deserves a new article. Look at South Eastern Trains and Southeastern (train operating company). Also, the info should be moved from SW trains and Island Line on IOW to the South Western article.
 * (unsigned comment left by Simply south 16:45, 11 April 2006 (UTC))

Sorry, i thought i did leave it but obviously i didn't leave my name... Never mind

Anyway, the new franchise has been currently named as South Western, currently mentioned by - DfT and - Guildford City Council, for examples. At least the article should be kept until the new franchise (with its future name). Simply south 18:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Query to above
Are you related to User:Hammersfan? Or is the South Eastern point just coincidence? Simply south 20:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hammersfan
No, that's me simply using different computers and just forgetting to login. Hammersfan 12/04/06, 23.55 BST
 * I am confused now. The reason i asked was that (purely coincidental?) Hammersfan used the same South Easterm & SouthEastern TOC example as i did to illustrate your\my point. Simply south 09:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Apology
I am sorry for the mix up and all. Keep your hair on. Simply south 16:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

STOP
id like to know why every fokes around with my contributions. the portsmouth metro was a proposed sceme before it was replaced by a monorail. the southerner 17:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC) leave me alone before i will start to foke abrout with your contributions to.

TfD Question
Yes you are correct in your thinking, where would be ideal for you?, message me back when its most convinient for you Danny 18:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Doesn't matter, I was wondering where you wanted me to put the comment you reqested, thanks for the response. Danny 08:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Shrewsbury
No problem about the edit. As a resident, I pounce on my home town's articles. ;) Samluke777 22:56, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm Grateful
I'll admit I have a tendency to be headstrong at times, and I'm grateful for your attempt to rein me in and warn me. I think "frustrating" is an understatement in regards to the situation we find ourselves in. I'm just annoyed that certain people seem to be able to get away with "things" while the rest of us suffer. Hammersfan 27/04/06, 11.15 BST

Infobox style
Was there a discussion to change the style from the standard infobox style, that is used by almost all infoboxes on Wikipedia? ed g2s • talk 14:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually the .infobox class in the monobook stylesheet makes sure the infoboxes are fairly consistent. There is no reason to override it for these boxes, in the same way we don't override the style of image thumbnail boxes. ed g2s • talk 15:04, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah I see this now after reverting the templates. This editor no more decides what infoboxes should look like than anyone else so it was wrong of them to change them for no good reason, especially as the design had been discussed on the template talk page. Mrsteviec 15:16, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Message
Received, understood, considered and replied. A q  uilina  22:11, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Merseyside/NW England template
Hi. I noticed you left a message at User talk:RunningMan about his new Merseyside template. It's a nice idea, but I think it unnecessarily duplicates material from the NW England template. As a compromise/improvement, would it be possible to group the districts in the NW template by metropolitan county (ie county name in italics on left, districts in plain on right)? I haven't worked on these district templates before and wanted a more experienced opinion on the matter. Thanks in advance! A q  uilina  19:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I created MerseysideNonCity template, to see if I could tidy it up a bit by grouping boxes together. Ideally the system should group together all the footers for asthetic reasons, this is just the templates being called from another template.--TrackInspector 20:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I've had a look at TrackInspector's suggestion, and don't think it's the way forward, to be honest. As for Aquilina's suggestion, it wouldn't necessarily work, because it also includes non-metropolitan counties (e.g. Cheshire).  That has the potential for yet another Traditional Counties argument, which I really, really don't want to start, especially since the NW England etc. templates have been around for a couple of years with little fuss.  I'd rather let sleeping dogs lie, I think.

 * I suggest we stick with the NW England template regardless, and keep the Merseyside one separate if it's included at all. --RFBailey 21:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Oops, my terminology was a little slack there. Instead of metropolitan county read " "county" as defined in 1974 LGA": i.e. split Greater Mancheser, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria.  I can see your point about the potential for another traditional county showdown (sigh) if it were to be changed, but I still think the dual box is overly unwieldy for the small amount of extra info it adds.  I would agree with RFBailey - revert to use of the single NW England template for now at least.  A  q  uilina  22:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Totems
It's cool. The pages look nice after your changes! I reserve the right to fiddle to see if I can fit any of my favourites back in neatly, but I suspect you're right and they won't fit (in which case I won't save the changes). Thanks for letting me know! ➨ ≡ Я Ξ  DVΞRS ≡ 12:49, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Station passenger movements stats
Has there been a recent release of new stats? I'm surprised by how big the jump in traffic at Bletchley is. --Concrete Cowboy 20:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * ok, that makes some kind of logic, though not as we know it Captain --Concrete Cowboy 22:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Are we Agreed?
Was there an agreement reached on the British TOCs template that I never heard about? It seemed to me that, given the discussion had gone quiet, everybody seemed ok with the idea of leaving NIR and Enterprise there, but with the Irish train operators left on those pages. If it's the case that this was agreed unacceptable then fair enough. However, if this isn't the case, then it seems that someone has reached an agreement on their own and proceeded to alter the British template YET AGAIN without consulting anyone. Hammersfan 08/05/06, 17.05 BST

British TOCs
I realise you're probably getting bored silly with the whole template issue, but I've rejigged it (now that it's been unprotected) and included a note to say the Irish operators operate on the Irish network. Undoubtedly it will get changed even before I've finished writing this message, but I'd like to know what you think. Also, I'm sorry that everything has gotten so out of hand. Hammersfan 10/05/06, 18.35 BST

Returned?
Hi. Today we have had a number of incidents on UK articles, most likely caused by socks of User:Irate - I've left a notice at AN/I, and as you have previous contact with this user you may wish to leave a comment there. Thanks for your time, A  q  uilina  14:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Judging by his comment on his main page. He probably understand my position far better now, the he probley has changed his opinion.--84.9.210.134 19:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Regional rail templates
I was simply testing out these new templates. I created them following the debate on Derby and also the two topics above which i suggested, so each area would have regional templates. There are still a few more cities\areas i can think of. Is there anwhere where i can consult and ask for advice before implementing further templates? Sorry, i am new to this Simply south 22:23, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Well i am not going to edit the above message now. Please can you look at my reply on the West Midlands template page. It is not just about the suggestion. It is about my trial templating in general. Simply south 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Just ...
I had made my point, pretty much made it obvious, but you have still taken it upon yourself to proposal a merger of Val de Loire and Scandinavia. Since your proposal is utterly pointless for reasons you have yourself established on your user page. The opposite merger proposal tag was edited in to reflect the notable history of the ship. Captain scarlet

 * The reverse merger proposal is ridiculous. Having two conflicting merger templates is just going to confuse anyone who looks at it.  The way the mergeto/mergefrom templates work (specifically which talk page the "Discuss" link points to), your reverse proposal could cause the discussion to be split across two different pages.  For the sake of avoiding such confusion, I have removed the duplicate "merge" notices.  Why not just leave a comment on the article's talk page instead, suggesting the reverse proposal?

 * The comment you have left on the talk page, combined with your reverse proposal, doesn't make it at all clear whether you oppose the articles being merged at all (leaving two different articles), or whether you think they should be merged but named MV Val de Loire. Please clarify this.

 * I have made my point on the article's talk page and not done anything unreasonable. Please explain exactly what it is about my proposal that you oppose.

 * For the record, I don't see why the Val de Loire/King of Scandinavia is any more notable than any other similar vessel (especially its sister ships, which have an equally interesting history).

 * Finally, please date-stamp your comments on talk pages to indicate when they were made. --RFBailey 22:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I've opposed the merger, or existence of the MS Scandinavia since you made the first move. My reasons are well documented on my talk page as stated on one of the articles' talk page, if you haven't read them, I suggest you take notice of them. The reverse merge proposol is merely the opposite of your proposition. There are two, or more exactly were two merge to and merge from tags as I see the Scandinavia as not being notable, (see whichever Wikipedia article on notability) compared to the Val de Loire. If you cannot see why one ship's name is more notable than the other maybe you should edit articles were you possess a certain expertise?

 * The Val de Loire's sister ship all warrant an article if they have had a full life, I'm not here to actually edit their articles as I have no interest in these ships. I'm not going to create articles on everything existing for the sake of it. The other Similar ships that have not yet got an article describing their existence await anyone who wishes to edit an article concerning them, I'm not disputing that. What I am disputing is that King of Scandinavia does not have a history warranting an article with that particular name. The ship is known as the Val de Loire, jsut as much as the now called Norway is known as the France, see its article named SS France. Many railway companies have been renamed and equally, there are articles named after the older name, or two articles for particular parts of their history. I was not making any point concerning what I wished to see happen, but what I did not wish to see happen, answering to the proposal of merger as you put it, the answer was I oppose'. I don't make a habit of going off topic so replied to the question asked in the merger proposal.

 * I have not said you are unreasonable, I have said your thinking is flawed and erronous and one cannot arbitrarilly move articles with that nomanclature in mind.

 * I've signed the talk pages in accordance to Sign your posts on talk pages. Captain scarlet about quarter to midnight.

 * If you cannot see why one ship's name is more notable than the other maybe you should edit articles were you possess a certain expertise?
 * Please don't go passing judgements on my "expertise": I don't do that to you. I know enough about ferries to contribute sensibly to the articles: I just have not done so before this.  (If I have to put up with this sort of thing every time I do so, I'm not likely to again, either.)  I may make further contributions about ferries in the future, but my ferry books are in a box a hundred miles away from where I am right now, and some of my knowledge is a few years out of date.  Besides, if I contributed to every subject where I "possess a certain expertise", then I would be writing about combinatorics, coding theory and group theory, for instance.  I just choose not too, or haven't got around to it yet.  I'm sure there are topics which you could write about as well, but choose not to.

 * I've made this point before: I did not move the page arbitrarily. Believe it or not, I did actually think about what I was doing, and I'd be grateful if you'd acknowledge that.  When I moved it, most of the content of the Val de Loire article was just as relevant to the King of Scandinavia (build date, naming history, technical specifications, etc.), so because that was the current name of the ship, I moved it.  After you barged into the middle of me doing that (as I have said, I wasn't expecting this to be such a controversial move, so wasn't careful about timing the move with the necessary edits), we ended up with two articles, which I think is absurd.  After leaving it alone for a bit (I had better things to do, on- and off-wiki), I proposed a merger.

 * As for if you cannot see why one name is more notable than another then I see little point in your participation in the debate, that's precisely the point. You have yet to provide a satisfactory explanation of the notability of one over the other.  I suspect that it's because it had the name Val de Loire for longer: you haven't stated this explicitly anywhere.  And yes, I have read through our previous discussion.  I take exception to your suggestion that I have not.

 * As regards notability, I would not regard SS France as a fair comparison: there are notable things about that ship which don't apply here. I wouldn't regard railway companies as a fair comparison either: they are not usually single, discrete objects (like ships); they can merge, be taken over, etc., as well as renamed.  Also, there may also be sufficient content to justify articles about different periods in their history.  In this instance, there is not (as far as I can tell, we agree that there is not enough content to justify more than one article here).  --RFBailey 23:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * In which case I can't see use being in accord and it pretty much ends the conversation. Captain scarlet 05:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice
I really will keep that in mind and maybe i should ask more for community consensus before implementation. Simply south 20:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Back to the talk page
Could you please review a new template i am thinking of implementing (perhaps i should have done it as a sub-userpage first). Does this one clash with your Merseyrail Wirral Line template?

See: Template talk:Merseyside major railway stations

Simply south 15:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

The small print in your templates of the centre stations. Simply south 12:46, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate template
Thanks for creating Template:Infobox Ferry but it seems an existing template Template:Infobox Ship already exist, do you think you can justify differences between generic ships and ferries to warrant the existence of a specific template for this type of transport ? Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 21:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have added a notice to merge both templates (to or from) in order to limit the number of templates in use for the same articles. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 21:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough: I wasn't aware of the Infobox Ship template. A separate "ferry" template isn't really needed.  However, the "ship" does seem geared towards naval vessels at the moment, rather than merchant ships.  If suitable fields (such as passenger/vehicle capacities) can be added to the ship template, I'd recommend using it.  Given that template's "esoteric" nature, I think someone better versed in its eccentricities make the modifications.  --RFBailey 22:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have purposely proposed a merger rather than a deletion. both templates offer specific information that is important. Whichever name is retained information from your template should be merged into Ship. Indeed if you agree, there is no need for a merge notice, you may discuss the matter on Ship's discussion page or add information.
 * All fields should be optional as to not have blank fields and as there are subtle differences between types of ships passengers (paying customers) on a contianer ship will be off-topic. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 22:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC).

Re:Dudley by-election
Hey... noticed the alterations you are making to the Dudley West by-election page, thanks for finding them and sorting the article out! Always helpful for me, I still make ommissions even after all this time, heh.

Just in case you haven't spotted it yet, I created Epping Forest by-election, 1988 tonight, too.

Cheers for the help, doktorb | words 21:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Irate
It's obviously him; here's another set of edits he made using that range:  I'll just block the range for a while. Jayjg (talk) 22:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the other IPs he's been using as well, and semi-protected the page. Jayjg (talk) 17:18, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

A decision on the Merseyside major rail stations template (and possibly others)
See: Template talk:Merseyside major railway stations

Just to note, i am note thinking about putting the template up for VfD. I have not done this yet. I may also follow suit with the others in the "major railway stations" templates in the series. What do you think? Also, should i post this same message on the other relevant users' talk pages?

I am not sure if i am allowed to do this. I have also copied and pasted comments from the talk page to a user sub-page. Do you know if this is okay?

Simply south 17:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Oasis Shopping Centre
I'll see what I can do. --WikiCats 08:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. --WikiCats 12:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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