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User talk:JRM/Archive6

Deleting VfD
Sorry, I realise it must have been a real both for the people who had to clean up after it, but seriously, it gave me the first real laugh of the day. It was amusing in it audacity, and in David's response. But I didn't think much about juxtaposition and didn't mean to belittle your (valid) concern. Guettarda 20:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

AOL and user blocks: ongoing pattern.
Below is a copy of my note to Inter regarding yet another block on my AOL/IP number (due to vandalism by other users assigned that number). Although the note below indicated you had researched and placed the number on "the list," Inter is not aware of it. Appreciate any followup possible. Thank you. WBardwin 19:13, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

 * User:Inter: I believe there was already research done on that IP number and that it was decided by User:JRM to put the number on "the list."  Below is a copy of a discussion taken from my User File - User:WBardwin/AOL Block Collection.  I would appreciate a followup, if the number was ultimately not listed as indicated here.  I will copy this message to JRM as well.  Thank you for your help.   WBardwin 19:13, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Jayjg, Linuxbeak had blocked 207.200.116.132 and WBardwin wrote a message on User talk:Linuxbeak. I noticed it—I'm watching the pages because Linux is doing some heavy vandal-fighting—and unblocked the IP shortly afterwards, say 20:15 UTC. I interfered because I figured Linux might be gone for the weekend, as he hasn't been editing, and WBardwin and maybe others too would have an unconscionable wait. Perhaps you checked for the block after I'd already removed it? I was a little uncertain, since the range wasn't listed on Special:Blockip, but I checked with JRM on IRC and he told me to go ahead and unblock (and then he put the range on the list, too). Thanks for your patience, WBardwin. I bet it is an annoyance! :-( Bishonen | talk 21:53, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)"
 * "The IP mentioned is an AOL cache proxy and should not be blocked for any length of time. I did some probing in the range and it seems to be wholly or mostly comprised of caches, so I added the range to the exclusion list. We can always narrow it down if that should be necessary, but better safe than sorry. JRM · Talk 22:31, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)"

Responded on your "trophy page". This is a continuing problem that could be fixed (or rather mitigated), but nobody's done it yet. JRM · Talk 17:06, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your response and your interest in resolving the problem. It will be difficult to change the practices of "front line" admins as the vandal wars will always be with us.  Hopefully, someone will make your software suggestion a priority in the future.  It sounds like it would work well.  Peace.  WBardwin 17:20, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

One more time -- "user name or IP address has been blocked by Zoe. The reason given for Aesculapius75's block is: "repeated vandalism of Michael Parodi". IP address is 207.200.116.67." Has Wiki thought about a "admin sandbox" to train people on how to block, including using "the list" of common IPs? Can we get this resolved in any fashion. Thank you. WBardwin 21:43, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In this case, Zoe was completely innocent. Administrators cannot see IP addresses of registered accounts, for privacy reasons. What happens here is another excellent feature: the autoblocker. If a registered user who edits under an AOL proxy is blocked, the associating IP address will be autoblocked for 24 hours on the next edit. That could either be the original vandal or an innocent bystander. The autoblocker knows no remorse, or restricted IP lists. This cannot be solved without updating the software. JRM · Talk 21:54, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Complicated issue -- I just tried to edit and was accepted. Thank you, if you took some action to release me.  Appreciate your help.  WBardwin 21:58, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes, I did unblock the addresses. Sorry for not revealing that little unimportant tidbit of information. :-) JRM · Talk 22:02, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Zoe's block just hit me again. If you are still online, how about another release. Appreciate the favor. WBardwin 04:06, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

JRM --
 * Another block do the admins want me to work here? WBardwin 16:52, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Rhobite.

The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "DotSix". The reason given for DotSix's block is: "vandalism. glad to see you got yourself an account though.".

Your IP address is 207.200.116.199. Please include this address, along with your username, in any queries you make.

 * I'm as frustrated by this as you are, but the administrators simply can't help it. We can petition the developers for changes in the software, but this is by no means a fast process. You are, of course, unblocked. JRM · Talk 17:06, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you -- appreciate your emotional support and attention, even if we can't do anything else. WBardwin 18:25, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Back again -- are you by chance still hanging around? Blocked again -- new record, two different blocks in one day.  Thanks.  WBardwin 04:45, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Make that three -- I don't think I'm going to get to Martha Washington at all today. If you have the opportunity, please release this block as well.  Thanks.  WBardwin 06:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Dmcdevit. The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Donald R. Alford". The reason given for Donald R. Alford's block is: "dotsix sockpuppet, vandalism". Your IP address is 207.200.116.74.

Hi -- me again. Can you please release the block? Thank you. WBardwin 23:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Your user name or IP address has been blocked by JRM. The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Mickey670". The reason given for Mickey670's block is: "Repeated vandalism despite warnings". Your IP address is 207.200.116.130.

 * Thanks. Since you are the grand assigner of titles, perhaps you could come up with one for me?  Some kind of reward for this persistance in the face of "falling" blocks should be in order.  Bless you!  WBardwin 23:50, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Ohmy very first barnstar!! :-)  Thank you so very much.  WBardwin 01:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

August 25th -- different IP address this time. Are you available for another release? Thanks. WBardwin 22:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Ryan Delaney. The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Mickey663". The reason given for Mickey663's block is: "Sock puppet". Your IP address is 64.12.116.7.

 * Thanks again. I love all the attention -- I'll have to come up with something more complicated for you two to compete over.  Appreciate you.  WBardwin 00:21, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

IP blocks
I'll be one of those ignorant types. When I became an admin, I noticed a severe lack of instruction in most corners of Wikipedia. So I thank you for that notice on AN. I'm not very technically adept, so I the IP stuff kind of baffles me. A few days ago I blocked User:69.111.161.69 for 48 hours for some rather bad personal attacks and racism. A few questions: What is the proper procedure when doing such a block? Was this too long a block? Should I have checked the IP number for something? Actually, how do I glean any information from the number? Er, stuff like that. I just want to know generally how I should go about it. Thanks again. --Dmcdevit·t 20:41, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * There seems to be a real lack of documentation out there, and administrators are expected to pick up this thing by magic...
 * Here's a very brief checklist that usually works well.
 * Check if the IP address is in a proxy range. In this case, that's easy enough: 69.111.161.69 is nowhere near any range on Special:Blockip. No ranges start with 69. To really know whether an IP address is in a range you'll have to read up a bit on their format, but for most of the ranges listed, looking at the bold numbers to see if they match is enough.
 * Then use a WHOIS service to find out where the IP is coming from. Direct link: ARIN WHOIS. This yields:

Pac Bell Internet Services PBI-NET-0803 (NET-69-104-0-0-1) 69.104.0.0 - 69.111.255.255 PPPoX Pool - Rback11 PLTN13 SBC06911116000022040322224055 (NET-69-111-160-0-1) 69.111.160.0 - 69.111.163.255
 * Ignore all the funky numbers—this is an IP address operated by Pacific Bell for PPP. Checking out their website, it appears to be a dialup address, as that is all they have.
 * Google is your friend in obtaining this sort of information—a WHOIS record is often cryptic. Googling on PLTN, I find this! Small world, eh? You can also try a traceroute—this will often give you a clue where, approximately, the address is in cyberspace, and often where it is in meatspace as well. Look for certain keywords in the hostname, like "proxy", "dialup", "pool". They often reveal directly what the address is assigned for. In this case, we don't see much.

 * Summing up, we've found it's a dialup address. What does that mean? Two things:
 * It's unlikely someone else who edits Wikipedia will be assigned the exact same dialup address in 48 hours. Dialup addresses are only handed out when users call in to their ISPs.
 * Unfortunately, it's also unlikely the person who made those edits will be assigned the same dialup address the next time they login. The block you handed out probably didn't stop the person from accessing Wikipedia for 48 hours—but it did make them go away, which was enough.

 * Now, do you really need to go through all this trouble every time you want to block an IP address? No. Blocking IP addresses is generally safe. Collateral damage, if it occurs at all, is very mild. A few basic guidelines are enough:
 * First, ensure that you really need to block. Revert and warn the user first: test, test2, test2a, test3, test4, test5 (not all of them apply all the time, and you're free to come up with more specific warnings). Many vandals just do one stupid thing and leave. Blocking them is a waste of time. Most others stop after being informed they will be blocked if they do whatever they did again. Of course, some folks just won't listen—and others are deliberately pissing people off to see how quickly they get blocked. This is where personal judgement comes in.
 * Check if the IP address is in a proxy range. If it is, and you've decided that you really need to block to put an end to it, make the block short. Try 15 minutes, and after those 15 minutes check if the vandal is still at it. If they are, you can reblock, possibly for a slightly longer time. But always aim for the shortest block time possible.
 * If it isn't, then you can block for up to 24 hours. For non-proxy IPs, you can usually safely assume that no innocents will get hurt by such a block.
 * Longer blocks are usually not effective, because the original vandal will be long gone, or they will have returned under another address. If you notice the same guy keeps coming back making the same edits from the same address over and over again, longer blocks make sense. In general, try to estimate how long someone has kept a single address—the longer this is, the safer long blocks are.
 * You'll often see an IP address with unrelated "bouts" of vandalism over different periods. These are usually dialup addresses or school computers that have seen multiple vandals pass by. This typically does not warrant handing out longer blocks; just block, rinse, repeat.

 * Whew! This is not an exhaustive guide, but it covers a lot of ground. In general, don't worry too much about it—blocking ISP proxies is Bad, but when you've established it's not an ISP proxy, it's usually safe. JRM · Talk 21:36, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, that explains a lot. Actually, I've stored it in a personal subpage so I can refer back to it for eternity, and treasure and cherish it! One more question, that'll probably sound stupid. It's my understanding that when username (not an IP) is blocked, their most recent IP is also blocked. If this is true, why doesn't the same caution hold with all blocks, not just IPs, since all will block an IP. If, let's say, I block a user indefinitely, isn't their IP autoblocked indefinitely as well, bringing up all these same problems. I have a feeling my whole premise is wrong. Anyway, thanks for your valuable help. Dmcdevit·t 09:08, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, your premise is pretty accurate. The autoblocker will kick in and block an IP address associated with a blocked account, but it will only block the address for a period of 24 hours, and (I assume, this part I haven't checked) it will only do so once. So the IP is free to come back and edit after that period even if the account remains blocked indefinitely, and you can also manually undo a block placed by the autoblocker.
 * The autoblocker does mean collateral damage is a real possibility if a user editing under AOL proxies is blocked. If they return when logged out the IP address of the proxy can get blocked, which is, as is hopefully established by now, Bad. This is why the autoblocker is a mixed blessing at best: it ensures users can't just log out and continue, but the automated blocks can do more damage than the blocking administrator intended.
 * Thanks for the trashcan! So much more inspiring than that flower. :-) JRM · Talk 13:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I thought it was more original. And I thought it was more appropriate to the subject to blocks and vandals than a flower. Anyhow, that really clears up a lot. I didn't realize the autoblocker was only 24 hours, I had assumed it it took on the same sentence as the original block (so that's WoW's secret). By the way, having not had much communication with you before now, I should probably tell you that whenenver I see your name I pronounce it in my mind as "germ," that's how you meant it, right? :) Erm, anyway, thanks again. --Dmcdevit·t 21:39, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * *sigh* It seems everyone eventually settles on the "germ" pronunciation. I don't care. I like those initials. I'm not going to sign everything with Joost R. Meerten 22:13, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Oops
You get the same treatment as Ed, for that... [[smoddy ]] 22:28, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You mean I'll get praised, reviled, awarded barnstars, RfC'ed, taken to arbitration, threatened with blocks and blocked for one minute?! Ouch. :-D JRM · Talk 22:34, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

thanks for your suggestions and help
Hi! I caught my mistake and moved notices from the article talks to the user talks. I did indeed post the notice on Village Pump and would appreciate your input Wikipedia:Proposed update of MediaWiki:Tagline and your letting anyone else know who's likely to be interested. Thanks -- Sitearm | Talk 18:55, 2005 August 6 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Hi Joost, my fellow "wiki asshole"! Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". Cheers, --MarkSweep 01:44, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Fnord~s
ok, how about just a few in the title of articles then? then everyone would see and not see them?Gavin the Chosen 20:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Ill keep them out of the main body texts, and keep them to blank space and subesads.Gavin the Chosen 20:59, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Introduction vandalized
this page has been vandalized:

Wikipedia:Introduction

I don't know enough to confidently fix it. -- Sitearm | Talk 03:55, 2005 August 8 (UTC)

 * Never mind: RasputinAXP fixed it. -- Sitearm | Talk 03:58, 2005 August 8 (UTC)

What should I do?
You said that voiceofall.jpg was in copyright violation. I want to use the image so what do I do? Should it just be the link http://www.rkpost.net/magic/magic.htm or http://www.rkpost.net/magic/voiceofall.jpg with no visable picture(unless you open it). Thanks.Voice of All(MTG) 00:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, I just have a link now. But I am confused; how do sites like www.findmagiccards.com have thousands of pictures of cards withought copyright issues(I also noticed that they don't let you copy and past,....but I can still press print screen, he..he...). Anyway, is this something unique to open source stuff like wikipedia? What if I upload the image and have it say:

''This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. It is believed that screenshots may be exhibited on Wikipedia under the fair use provision of United States copyright law. See Copyrights.''

''This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.''

Voice of All(MTG) 01:02, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm continuing the discussion on this page, now, since it's getting interesting. The reason other sites get away with copyright violations (and they are getting away) is simple: nobody goes after them. As long as sites aren't trying to make money off of the pictures or try to discredit the artists, they are likely fine with it.
 * Wikipedia can't work that way, for two reasons: first, we are much more vulnerable to copyright damage claims if we don't act on them, since we're very big, very easy to target, and we have no money to spare on lawsuits. Second, and more importantly, the GFDL applies to images as well as it does to article text. That means that by putting an image on Wikipedia, we are giving all our readers permission to copy and alter the image, and they must give other people the same rights, in perpetuity. We can't give away rights we don't have, and those rights rest with the copyright holder. We would be much worse than sites that just copy pictures if we allowed something like that.
 * So yes, it is mostly our unique nature that makes it important to remove copyvios. We can't expect to get away with things others routinely do, because it would come back to hurt us. And we're quite vulnerable.
 * Now, about fair use images. Those shouldn't really be on Wikipedia. We allow them because they're typically of things we're almost never going to get licensed images of, but they are not universal (it might simply be copyrighted with no special exemptions granted by the law in other countries). Fair use does not give you the same rights as the GFDL, so we're really walking the edge when we're including an image because it's fair use. It clearly doesn't apply in this case, either: a complete, full-resolution copy of artwork is not fair use. In fact, no version of that image would be fair use if it was placed on your user page, because this is not educational. See fair use for the relatively narrow criteria an image must meet to qualify. JRM · Talk 01:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that was a good link(Fair Use). The GFDL page is a bit confusing though.Voice of All(MTG) 01:30, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd go into more detail, but it's really late over here and I have to go to bed. :-) Please feel free to ask around on the help desk if anything is still unclear. JRM · Talk 01:33, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Requesting assistance in handling disruptive behavior.
I would greatly appreciate if you look into the mess created in the article Rohingya. This is quite an interesting issue; a few months ago, I removed the copyvio and then organized the article into sections and cleaned up the links. For some reason, several anon editors in the block 212.138.47.* seem to take offence at my "touching" "their" article, and started vandalizing my user/talk pages. Some of these vandals were blocked by other admins.

Last week, these vandals created several sockpuppet accounts, including. You can see from the account name what its purpose was. The user vandalized my user/talk pages besides leaving abusive comments. The user was blocked immediately.

Yesterday and today, there has been a parade of sockpuppets all directed at either launching personal attacks, or avoiding 3RR. You can find several incoherent rants in Talk:Rohingya, my talk (User talk:Ragib and Mel's talk User talk:Mel Etitis. The language constructs and the irrational attitude ("how-dare-I-touch-their-article-being-a-Bengali" etc) points out a single user behind all these.

I find the following accounts as sockpuppets of the same vandal from the ip block 212.138.47.*, especially (212.138.47.13/14/15/16/17/18/21).

I urge everyone to take a look at the page history, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rohingya&curid=1918632&action=history. This is not even a dispute over content! I have not added or deleted any content other than the initial copyvio. I simply organized the article with sections, and cleaned up the external links. One of the links point to a blog, which the vandals ferociously object to as being termed a blog. I've gotten literally tired of the abuse these vandals launched on me. The level of racial and personal abuse is quite hard to take. Since it would be a conflict of interest in my part to take actions against these vandals, I would request you to look into this issue and decide.

Thanks a lot. --Ragib 13:26, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Day of Oats and Hay
You DOUBT that the Day of Oats and Hay needs a separate page?! Heathen! Blasphemer! ;-)

Actually, what drew me to that article was something my grandfather said a long time ago. He said to me "Always remember that if your faith can't take criticism, if you find yourself growing angry, then the problem isn't the person talking to you, it's you. You need to examine why you believe." I've met a lot of people online since then who think the IPU is heretical - particularly when the Holy Horn is used to make an imitation of the Christian Cross. And I remember what my grandfather said, and just shake my head. It doesn't offend me, it challenges me, and makes me think about why I believe. Well, as such, I thought the article could use a bit of work, expanding on the known (and more-or-less commonly agreed) bits of the IPU dogma. Xaa 03:59, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Expansion is fine, but (indeed, without investigating if this is really so, my apologies) it's unlikely enough of this Day of Oats and Hay is inven... known to warrant an article separate from the main article on the Unicorn (mhhnbs). If I'm wrong, by all means write the article and link it, but consider expanding the main article instead and splitting off a new article only when it becomes necessary. Otherwise it looks like one of those redlinks that will always remain red, or "expand" into an eternal single sentence, or just draws anons who will type random nonsense and leave. My evaluation is of a purely technical nature and not meant to be a value judgement. :-) JRM · Talk 11:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No, no! You don't understand.  The above wasn't argument or complaint - it was humor, and conversation.  You're right - the Day of Oats and Hay doesn't deserve it's own page. =) Xaa 17:48, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry. Taking professional attitude too far. So... how's the weather over on your end? :-D (No, no, don't answer that... before you know it my talk page will look like this one, and I wouldn't want that.) JRM · Talk 17:54, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The day of Oats and Hay should most definitely have a page of its own. The notion af an ultimate divine purpose that is not negative (cast down the arch enemy and all his followers to the nethermost pits) but is instead positive and uplifting (make friends with the POoD that all may live happily together ever after) is so new and revolutionary that AFAIK no other religion have a goal equally worthy of a good and loving divinity. The closest I guess would be buddism with the oneness of nirvana.

Forest?
So you're saying that those discussions were a waste of time, and they should continue anyway? That doesn't make sense. Radiant_ >|< 13:35, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Continued on your talk page. JRM · Talk 13:46, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Curds of holy cows
Thanks for the reversion, I guess. Is this cheese supposed to be the cheeselover? Oddness, and exactly what I'm not getting involved with these days, lest I loose my wrath. (Also, since I am a Christian (although one that fundamentalists call "fake Christian scum"), you know that was a spam message. As if I were going to get upset at an accusation that someone has religious faith.)  Geogre 17:10, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * CheeseDreams had a fallout with Eequor... A very hostile and unproductive fallout. In fact, you might say CheeseDreams went completely nuts. Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2 has the conclusion of this sad story. JRM · Talk 17:15, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Still dreaming
Heya. Even after you blocked her earlier, CheeseDreams has come back yet again, as User:Menses. She's left another of those weird sockpuppet statements on my talk page (most bizarre accusation ever... I don't even know Rienzo).  ‣ ᓛᖁ  [ ᑐ ] 20:34, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah. So she finally succeeded in addressing the person it was addressed to? No mass-spamming of other talk pages? Good. :-) JRM · Talk 21:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Vandal User:Mickey670
has ignored our warnings and has continued to vandalize pages. If you could block him, that would be great. Thanks -- MicahMN | Talk 01:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Actually:
 * 03:57, 21 August 2005 Thunderbrand blocked "User:Mickey670" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandalism; was warned)
 * 03:57, 21 August 2005 Changlc blocked "User:Mickey670" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Repeated vandalism of articles and AIV page)
 * 03:57, 21 August 2005 JRM blocked "User:Mickey670" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Repeated vandalism despite warnings)

We never sleep. :-) JRM · Talk 02:03, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

could you check?
There is my reports of blind reverting by Jtdirl etc, and violatioon of 3rr, at Administrators' noticeboard/3RR and Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, today. Do people usually accept here such pretexts as now were presented in Jtdirl's defense? 217.140.193.123 12:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency
Hi, could you please protect this page? It's already been protected once, but the edit war is continuing. ‣ ᓛᖁ  [ ᑐ ] 00:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency
Thanks for the heads up about the anon signing my name on the VfD closure. This first closure was not me, but I have taken it as a request that I close the VfD. The VfD has been closed with a No consensus default to keep (the anon claimed a keep consensus). --Allen3 talk 02:51, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

SLMM - Link removal
Hi,

In the article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SLMM, user "Ulflarsen" removed a description and URL that was levelling alegations against Norwegian ex-forces provding training to the LTTE.

"Norwegian ex-special forces have allegedly trained LTTE members to launch underwater demolition attacks against the Sri Lankan Navy "

I am of the view that this news was reported in many international news sources, and the original contribution had qutoed a URL reference, it shouldn't have been removed.

AOL Block/August 24th
If you happen to be on, I'd appreciate another release. Best Wishes. WBardwin 16:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Olivier. The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "WikiNazi". The reason given for WikiNazi's block is: ""i am WikiNazi. i want you all to join me in vandalizing wikipedia"". Your IP address is 205.188.117.69.
 * The entire gamut of addresses the unfortunately named "WikiNazi" polluted has been unblocked. JRM · Talk 17:04, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * JRM and Bishonen -- Thank you, valiant warriors. Good luck against the threat of the Hun!  WBardwin 17:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Supercilium

The supercilium is a plumage feature found on the heads of some bird species. It is a stripe which runs from the base of the bird's beak above its eye, finishing somewhere towards the rear of the bird's head. Also known as an "eyebrow", it is distinct from the eyestripe, which is a line that runs across the lores, and continues behind the eye. Where a stripe is present only above the lores, and does not continue behind the eye, it is called a supraloral stripe or simply supraloral. On most species which display a supercilium, it is paler than the adjacent feather tracts.

The colour, shape or other features of the supercilium can be useful in bird identification. For example, the supercilium of the dusky warbler, an Old World warbler species, can be used to distinguish it from the very similar Radde's warbler. The dusky warbler's supercilium is sharply demarcated, whitish and narrow in front of the eye, becoming broader and more buffy towards the rear, whereas that of the Radde's warbler is diffusely defined, yellowish and broadest in front of the eye, becoming narrower and more whitish toward the rear. The supercilium of the northern waterthrush, a New World warbler, differs subtly from that of the closely related (and similarly plumaged) Louisiana waterthrush. The Louisiana has a bicoloured supercilium which widens significantly behind the eye, while the northern has an evenly buffy eyebrow which is either the same width throughout or slightly narrower behind the eye.

A split supercilium divides above the lores. In some species, such as the jack snipe, the divided stripes reconnect again behind the eye. In others, such as the broad-billed sandpiper, the divided stripes remain separate.

A supercilium drop is a feature found on some pipits; it is a pale spot on the rear of the which, although separated from the supercilium by an eyestripe, can appear at some angles to be a downward continuation of the supercilium.

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Talk:Valdres Folkemuseum

Untitled
Some new images, have to add names on the buildings later. Agtfjott 00:27, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Thoughts on the edit
Pretty well written; interesting and informative to read. As you suggested, I made some minor changes. Please check to make sure it still makes sense. Questions follow: Thanks for inviting a copyedit Williamborg 03:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * When you mentioned Vinje, I presume you meant Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. If this is correct, then do you know if Eidsbugarden is the village from which "Rognebygningen" was relocated?
 * Was Sars the Michael Sars about whom a Wiki article is written?
 * You used 1th floor. In American English this would be 1st floor, meaning ground floor. I'm unsure whether the English use the first floor for what Americans call the 2nd floor (in this case the top floor). For clarity I'd suggest we use either top floor or bottom floor; this should be clear to the readers regardless of their English speaking region.

 * I assume it is Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Sars I'm not shure about. "1th floor" I was a bit unsure about. Top floor should be okey I guess.. — John Erling Blad (no) 03:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I think you are right about Sars.
 * no:Eidsbugarden isn't really a village, more like a farm up in the Jotunheimen mountains. Now its mostly a ski resort.
 * — John Erling Blad (no) 04:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Need help
Hello, is Elisabeth Kværne an employee at the museum? Her WP article in Norwegian says something about this. Badagnani 17:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Adolf of Altena

Adolf of Altena, Adolf of Berg or Adolf of Cologne, (c. 1157 – 15 April 1220 in Neuss) was Archbishop of Cologne from 1193 to 1205.

Biography
Adolf was born about 1157 as the second son of Count Eberhard of Berg-Altena and his wife Adelheid von Arnsberg.

About 1177 he became a canon in Cologne. Later, in 1183, he became Dean of the Cathedral, and in the year 1191 Cathedral Provost. After the abdication of his uncle Bruno III of Berg he became Archbishop of Cologne in 1193, as Adolf I, or Adolf I von Altena.

In March 1194 he received his episcopal consecration by Hermann II of Katzenelnbogen, Prince-Bishop of Münster. In the same year Adolf was instrumental in arranging the release of King Richard I of England, whom he received with considerable solemnity in Cologne shortly afterwards, at the beginning of February 1194. He was a declared opponent of the plans for a hereditary empire of Emperor Henry VI and at Christmas 1195 refused Henry's wish for the election of his son Frederick Roger. He gave up his opposition in August 1197 for the secondary election of the candidate chosen in the meantime by the other Electors in Boppard. However, after the death of Henry VI, Adolf declared the election invalid, as the candidate was not baptised and the Emperor had put the Electors under pressure.

In the ensuing dynastic struggle for the throne between the Hohenstaufen and the Welfs, he crowned on 12 July 1198 the Welf Otto of Brunswick in Aachen as King of the Romans (or German king). Shortly afterwards, Pope Innocent III, who had an interest in weakening the Hohenstaufen and in breaking their power (particularly in Italy), confirmed the election of Otto. On 6 January 1205 however Adolf then crowned the Staufen competitor for the crown, Philip of Swabia, as German king. Philip had already been crowned in 1198, although only in Mainz Cathedral, but he had nevertheless been crowned with the genuine Imperial Regalia and especially the Imperial crown.

The Pope, who had reserved himself the king's question himself, was irritated by the rumor of the page change and asked Adolf himself for a report. Since Adolf did not want to sacrifice his just hard-won right of the decisive vote in the royal election, a papal presentation, he did not respond to the papal request. However, he overestimated its importance by far.

On 19 July 1205 Adolf was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III and declared deposed. Already in July, a new archbishop was elected in Cologne. Since one was still in the Rhineland but still in the Hohenstaufen line, his successor could barely prevail against him, so that it came to a schism in the archbishopric of Cologne.

In 1207 Adolf von Altena was in Rome, where he tried against his successor and fought for his reinstatement as archbishop - without success. Only the murder of Philip of Swabia (21 June 1208) and the changed political situation led to a submission to the pope and a recognition of his successor for himself and his followers, for which he received an annual pension of 250 marks. Adolf, from then until his death, was active in the archdiocese of Cologne as an auxiliary bishop. However his see was not returned to him.

Dietrich I von Hengebach was deposed by the papal legate, and in March 1212 he was appointed to head the diocese. While initially holding this to be reinstated, he soon realized that it was just a provisional lead. In fact, the Archdiocese was again in the schism, especially since Adolf now argued with Dietrich von Hengebach before the Pope for reinstatement. The verdict was in 1216 and in Cologne it came again to the election of the bishop. The new archbishop became his successor as cathedral provost, Engelbert II of Berg. He was one of his relatives and had always supported him during the time of the schism, including by handing over goods from the cathedral chapter.

Until his death, in 1220, Adolf was again active as auxiliary bishop in the archbishopric of Cologne. He died on 15 April 1220 in Neuss.

Literature

 * Wilhelm Janssen: Das Erzbistum Köln im späten Mittelalter 1191–1515. Erster Teil (Geschichte des Erzbistums Köln, Zweiter Band). Bachem, Köln 1995, ISBN 3-7616-1149-8.
 * Hugo Stehkämper: Der Kölner Erzbischof Adolf von Altena und die deutsche Königswahl (1195–1205). In: Theodor Schieder (Hrsg.): Beiträge zur Geschichte des mittelalterlichen deutschen Königtums. Oldenbourg, München 1973, S. 5–83.
 * Alfred Winkelmann: Adolf I. (Archbishop of Cologne). In: (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 115–117.
 * Genealogische Handbuch des Adels, Gräfliche Häuser A Band II, 1955;
 * W. Gf v. Limburg Stirum, "Stamtafel der Graven van Limburg Stirum", 's Gravenhage 1878;
 * A.M.H.J. Stokvis, "Manuel d'Histoire, de Genealogie et de Chronologie de tous les États du Globe", Tome III, Leiden 1890-93;
 * W. K. Prins v. Isenburg, "Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten", 2. Aufl., Marburg/Lahn, 1953.
 * A.M.H.J. Stokvis, "Manuel d'Histoire, de Genealogie et de Chronologie de tous les États du Globe", Tome III, Leiden 1890-93;
 * W. K. Prins v. Isenburg, "Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten", 2. Aufl., Marburg/Lahn, 1953.

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Marco Antonio Regil

Marco Antonio Regil (born December 27, 1969) is a Mexican television personality, public speaker and activist. As the host of the Spanish versions of Family Feud (100 mexicanos dijeron and 100 latinos dijeron), The Price Is Right (Atinale Al Precio), Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (Todo el mundo cree que sabe), and Generation Gap (Recuerda y Gana), Regil is a constant fixture in Latin households.

In 2018, Telemundo announced Marco Antonio Regil as the host of the Spanish-language version of NBC's The Wall. The game show is set to premiere in 2020.

Career
Named as Reader's Digest's most trusted TV personality in Mexico, Regil has used his expertise to become a central figure in America's emerging Spanish-language entertainment industry. He has hosted the Mexican versions of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, The Price Is Right, Family Feud, and Zodiac's Beyond Boundaries, as well as the Teletón (Mexican National Telethon) for which he has raised over half a billion dollars. He is also the voice of Metro Man (played by Brad Pitt in the U.S.) in the Mexican release of Megamind. A sought-after spokesman, he has also appeared in advertisements for such companies as McDonald's, H-E-B, Telmex and PepsiCo. For his contributions in both Latin America and abroad, he was invited by United States President George W. Bush to host the Cinco de Mayo celebration in the White House in 2004.

Activism
As a political contributor to the Huffington Post, Regil has written on major issues from the 2016 Presidential election to environmental law, and other breaking news. In 2016, he joined forces with the Los Angeles Mayor's Office to launch their business portal website. He gave financial lectures throughout Los Angeles and was honored for his efforts by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Personal life
In 2023, he openly declared he is sapiosexual, saying that he is not interested in the physical, but that he is brought by intelligent conversations and people who work on themselves.

Awards and honors

 * 2016 – City of Los Angeles Certificate of Appreciation Presenter at LA Startup Business Tour Expo
 * 2015 – PeTA Humanitarian of the Year
 * 2010, 2014–2015 – Most Trusted Television Host- Mexico's Reader's Digest
 * Mexico's No. 1 TV Host – The Price Is Right, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, Family Feud, Minute to Win It, and Mexican Telethon

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Carla Collins

Carla Collins (born April 30, 1965) is a Canadian comedian, actress, television host, and writer.

Collins performs across North America. She has been a regular at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles and toured with the renowned "Hot Tamales". In January 2015, Collins was awarded with Comedian Of The Year by the Southern California Motion Picture Council, an inaugural honour created to recognize Collins' talent.

Early life
Collins was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, until moving to Guelph, Ontario and attending Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute where she was Prom Queen and Valedictorian, Collins pursued her education at the Université de Franche-Comté in France and the University of Western Ontario.

1990s
She joined The Weather Network in 1990 as an on-air host, and subsequently moved to CFTO to host Eye on Toronto. In 1995, she began hosting Baton Broadcastings's Entertainment Now, which she cohosted with Dan Duran. She also hosted the Canadian variety series Sonic Temple and the sketch comedy series Chez Carla. In 1998, Collins played an anchorwoman in Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Donna Jean in When Husbands Cheat.

Earlier in her career, she was a morning radio personality on Toronto's Mix 99.9 from 1992 to 1994, co-hosting with Tom Rivers along with Larry Fedoruk. Rivers left in 1993 and Fedoruk and Collins continued as a duo. She returned from 2001 to 2003. For the latter stint, following a short period co-hosting with Steve Anthony who then moved to afternoon drive time, Collins became the first woman in Canada to be billed as the sole regular host of a morning radio show on a commercial station in a major media market, as opposed to co-hosting with one or more men.

2000s
Collins had her first solo stand-up special, The Wonder Bra Years, on The Comedy Network in 2001. It was one of the highest rated in the Comedy Now series.

Collins starred in 50 episodes of Paradise Falls a soap opera on Showcase Television as Rusty Sinclair (2001). She also appeared in: Deep in the City as a Sex-Shop Owner (2000), The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Degrassi: The Next Generation as herself (2002), two episodes of Doc as Felicia Brand (2002–2003), Recipe for Murder as a Glam Reporter (2002), Tracker as Dr. Janet Sullivann (2002), and Show Me Yours as Tammy (2005).

In 2003, she began to lend her voice to the PBS animated show Cyberchase as Erica Ram, a reporter who reports on events in Cyberspace.

Collins was a writer, star and host of Chez Carla (2000), Sonic Temple (2001), 2 Smart Blondes (2003) and E-Now (1995).

In 2006 Carla teamed up with producer Frank Sicoli for an unscripted television sitcom titled The Visionary Position. This series (released on DVD) is described as Curb Your Enthusiasm meets Sex and the City meets Bewitched. Collins says, "I prefer to think of it as The Ghost Whisperer on crack."

In 2006, she workshopped a one-woman show called The Visionary Position in Toronto and Los Angeles.

She is also a freelance writer for Inside Entertainment.

In 2007, Collins married Tyrone Power Jr., an actor from the United States.

Collins' reality show Carlawood debuted on TVtropolis in April 2009. The show follows her attempt to find work after her move to Hollywood, and satirizes reality shows.

2010s
Collins' filmed season two of her docu-soap/comedy Carlawood, and is working on the movie The Hack, a comedy/horror film in which she stars as a comedian who kills other performers for their material.

She also completed her first book "Angels, Vampires and Douche Bags" published by Burman Books.

She also lent her voice to a special from the hit Canadian animated series, Total Drama, in its second season, Total Drama Action‘s special, "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", as the host of the show-within-a-show, Celebrity Manhunt, Blaineley. Then she lent her voice for the next season in Total Drama World Tour, once again playing Blaineley, the co-host of Total Drama Aftermath, and then she became a late-coming contestant that same season and ending in either seventh or sixth place. This was her first voice acting role, a role which also required her to sing.

2020s
After performing at various locations doing standup comedy, Collins found that many venues were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, she performed some "Quarantine Queen" comedy programs on Facebook and began streaming "Comedic Meditation" from Los Angeles, at no charge to the public; she also offered private sessions. By autumn 2020 some venues were open and she performed at the El Mocambo in Toronto and began streaming her Meditation program in Canada, again free of charge.

A September 2020 article added that Collins's program "Carlawood" was streaming on Amazon Prime and she also performed on SiriusXM. She was waiting to film a comedy special produced by David Steinberg and she was also producing "Hump Day Howl" a monthly streaming program from the Whitefire Theatre.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luan Begeti

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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 15:33, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Luan Begeti
Not notable. Google name with "g" 15 hits, with "xh" gives 57. IMDB not impressive. Delete. brenneman (t) (c) 00:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep verifiable screen actor with multiple credits. Pburka 01:49, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the nominator. Looks like an extra. -- Etacar11   03:57, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator.Dottore So 18:34, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  21:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn, vanity? --tranquileye 12:15:37, 2005-08-30 (UTC)
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Blas Ruiz

Blas Ruiz de Hernán González or Blas Ruiz de Fernán González was an explorer from Ciudad Real, Spain.

Travels
In the last decade of the 16th century, along with the Portuguese adventurer Diogo Veloso from Amarante, Blas Ruiz was the first European to ever set foot in Laos.

Ruiz's journey to Laos started in Cambodia. In Cambodia, Ruiz met and befriended King Satha of Lovek and Veloso of Portugal. During 1594 Veloso and Ruiz both met in Chordemuco (Phnom Penh), capital of Cambodia and the former Khmer empire, and entered the service of King Prauncar Langara (Satha I on Spanish sources); They obtained from him a promise to become a vassal and tributary of the king of Spain if the Spanish Empire (including Portuguese Empire on the Iberian Union) protected him from the aggressive king of Siam, even was willing to convert to Catholicism. When Lovek was invaded by Ayutthaya, Satha was overthrown by his son and other nobles who allowed Ayutthaya to take control, forcing Ruiz to flee to the Spanish colony of the Philippines, the place where he began his adventure in Southeast Asia. Eventually Ruiz returned with Veloso, who had fled to the Portuguese colony of Melaka, to Lovek. When they arrived they learned Satha had fled to Lan Xang, an empire centered in modern-day Laos and consisting of Isan, Stung Treng, and small areas of Southern China and Vietnam. Ruiz and Veloso decided to journey to Laos and bring back Satha to restore his reign over Lovek.

However, first both tried to negotiate with the usurper Preah Ram I and offering themselves as mediators on the dynastic disputes, and also develop trade relations between Spain and Cambodia, giving exotic gifts to the king (like american silver, but specially a donkey, very rare for the zone). But, the encounter went bad, because they were treated as merely barbarians (due to China influence, that was also against the former Cambodian dynasty and worried over their own business interests in the country, threatened by the Europeans), and also the king was angered because the gifted donkey make troubles in the king’s elephant corral. Finally, during a dispute after playing cards, several Chinese killed two Spaniards and a Japanese in their service (with the total indifference of the new authority), which provoke an end to the patience of Blas Ruiz, who caused a skirmish in the capital that ended with more than 300 Chinese dead, while the Iberians seized all the ships in the port. On May 1596, the king was alerted by the Chinese community about the incident, so he demanded the return of the ships and that the Spanish captains appear at his palace to negotiate. Fearing a trap, they did not attend the meeting and, after 2 days camping at the city gates, the Iberians crossed to the royal residence during the night. Reduced to only 40 Spaniards (including Portuguese) and 20 Japanese combat troops, they set fire to the stores and broke into the royal apartments, where they fired their muskets and killed the king with a bullet to the chest, also burning the royal chambers and ransacked the capital of all valuables. After that, both sailed back to Manila, while also recruited locals to swell their ranks (specially if they were still loyal to the former dynasty), and continued with their plan to go to Laos and find the rightful king and friends.

Then, Ruiz and Veloso arrived in Vientiane, Lan Xang's administrative capital, in the summer of 1596. They were met with a procession showing off the city's immense wealth consisting of Asian elephants, gold, jewels, silk, exotic snakes, bouquets of tropical flowers, chanting monks, Buddhist treasures and relics, music, and beautiful women. Ruiz and Veloso were also received with a great feast. But while they were in Vientiane they learned Satha had died from an illness he caught on his way from Cambodia to Laos. Saddened and angered by the news, Ruiz and Veloso returned to Lovek and started a rebellion to put one of Satha's political allies on the throne and free Cambodia from Ayatthaya. Also, they knew that the two firstborn sons of Satha also died (including the heir Chey Chettha I), and that a 12-year-old boy, Barom Reachea/Ponhea Ton, was the actual heir, who was assisted by a council of regency constituted by his stepmother (also Blas Ruiz’s lover), his grandmother and two of his aunts, as Cambodia had matrilineal customs. Both tried to gain influence on the boy by winning the women’s favor, achieving that the king named them as governors of Ba Phnum (modern Prey Veng Province) and of Treang (modern Takéo Province), as part of the contemplated Spanish protectorate.

They managed to drive out Ayutthaya forces from parts of Cambodia and create a new state but led the new Cambodian state into a brief period of chaos. Eventually Ruiz returned to the Philippines. It is not known whether he died there, Spain, or somewhere else.

In July 1593 king Satha I sent an embassy to Manila asking for Spanish military help to defend Cambodia. The embassy consisted of Portuguese Diogo Veloso, who had been living in his court since 1583, and Spanish Gregorio de Vargas Machuca. Satha I kept Spanish Blas Ruiz de Hernan Gonzalez as captain of his bodyguard. Veloso came back in February 1594, alone and without help. After Ayutthaya's attack on Cambodia, Veloso, Blas Ruiz and de Vargas Machuca found themselves in Manila. They continued to ask for help, and at last, Spanish Manila agreed to send 3 ships with 120 Spanish and Mexican soldiers, some Japanese and Filipino auxiliaries and some friars, under the commander Suarez Gallinato. The ship with Blas Ruiz was the only one that reached Cambodia. The one with Veloso was wrecked off the Mekong delta and Gallinato's ship was forced to go to Malacca due to the weather. Veloso rejoined Blas Ruiz at Phnom Penh in March 1596. At this point there is no evidence of their fate. They could be killed at Phnom Penh in July 1599 during a fight between Christians (Spanish and Filipinos) and Muslim Malay mercenaries of Barom Reacha II, who was Satha's son. Or they could return to Philippines. Satha had died in October 1597 after contracting disease after he fled to Lan Xang.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leon Weber

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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 15:31, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Leon Weber
While I was very interested to find out who our youngest admin is, it seems like information that belongs somewhere in the Wikipedia namespace rather than in the article namespace. — Laura Scudder | Talk 00:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No notability beyond being an Wikipedia admin. This is what we have user pages for. Angela. 00:45, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as nonsense vanity. Above anyone else, an admin should know not to write an article about themselves!  From the looks of his user page, he doesn't seem to be an admin either. --Idont Havaname 00:48, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WHY? Ryan Norton T 01:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete apparent hoax. What user page? User:Leon Weber? Article was created by anonymous editor at IP address 24.125.58.113 which has no user page and no talk page either. Searching the list of admins found no "Leon" and no "Weber". Without knowing what the username might be, there is no way to verify the claim. --WCFrancis 02:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The user page is at User:LeonWeber. He's an admin on the German Wikipedia. See de:Special:Listadmins. Angela. 02:54, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete he should know better. -- Etacar11   03:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * you should know better than blaming him for the entry. --Elian 07:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: I know of at least one other admin on the English Wikipedia who's 14. Zoe 05:41, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * delete - There are so many more records (in each language). The youngest admin, the oldest admin, the admin with the longest history, with most edits, ... We would end up with several hundred articles about wikipedians in wikipedia. -- 84.132.137.21 07:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Dottore So 18:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. However, I will vouch anytime for Leon, who is indeed the youngest admin on de. He is a fine and intelligent young man, who definitely never wrote this entry, and probably never would have made such comments as have been made here without prior verification. Whoever made this entry must have read this. It would be good if we did not so easily forget that there are people behind nicknames. notafish }<';> 22:53, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I had the opportunity to meet Leon at Wikimania, and he is a very fine person, who immediately began helping out with everything that needed to be done as soon as he arrived. While I don't believe he should have an article about him (perhaps one day ...), I do think that Leon has proven himself beyond a shadow of a doubt in the German Wikipedia and should be treated with respect for that. While the article should likely be deleted, I do want to thank Leon for everything that he has done for Wikipedia, and particularly for showing that maturity and an ability to contribute competently are far more important than a person's age. Danny 23:27, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Thanks a lot for all the compliments :-) I am quite happy without that article, and IMHO I am not relevant enough for an encyclopedia (not yet ;-)). Thanks again, Leon ¿! | de:WP de:WP ¿! 21:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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A GFDL rewrite of this article is at Pejman Akbarzadeh/Temp. --Tony Sidaway Talk 00:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC).

This article was nominated for deletion here on 22:59, August 23, 2005. The article was tagged as a copyvio, and the debate led to no consensus, so no action was taken. Bratsche talk 03:57, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Copied from the talk page of the rewrite, at Talk:Pejman Akbarzadeh/Temp:

 * This article was nominated for deletion here on 22:59, August 23, 2005. The debate led to no consensus, so a default keep decision was reached.  Bratsche talk 03:53, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Note that, more than seven days having elapsed since the original was listed on WP:CP, I have deleted it and moved the rewrite here. So the second notice applies to the current content and history, not the first. --Tony Sidaway Talk 12:31, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

1959/1949
سلام، خواستم بدونم اینکه شما نوشته‌اید در سال ۱۹۵۹ شاه گفت هر دو نام ایران و پرشیا می‌تواند به کار رود، آیا منبع معتبری برایش دارید؟ چون من در چند جا دیدم که نوشته بود از تاریخ ۱۹۴۹ شاه این را گفت!؟ اگر به منابع معتبر دسترسی داشتید و هر کدام درست بود، آن را در مقالهٔ «ایران» در ویکی انگلیسی بیفزایید یا اصلاح کنید. سپاس --Wayiran (talk) 07:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

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Category talk:Massachusetts

Individual municipalities
Should cities and towns each link to this page or is that overkill? I linked two pages, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I'm not convinced, however, that this is the right wiki policy. --Markles 00:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * They are already linked to Towns in Massachusetts, so they do not belong here. Only articles that are related to the state but do not fit into the sub-categories should be here. -- LGagnon 01:03, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I'm beginning to understand.  --Markles 10:58, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a semi-autobiographical book written by American economist and essayist John Perkins, first published in 2004.

The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Perkins claims that the NSA arranged for him to be hired by the firm, and that he was subsequently seduced and trained as an "economic hitman" by a businesswoman named Claudine Martin, who worked for Chas. T. Main. Perkins writes that his primary role at Chas T. Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects, thus trapping them in a system of American influence and control.

The book was a commercial success, but critics expressed doubts about the accuracy and validity of claims Perkins made in the book. Perkins was referred to as a conspiracy theorist by one reviewer, while a number of former colleagues at Chas T. Main disputed or disagreed with some of his allegations. Several reviewers discussed a lack of documentation or verification for Perkins' claims.

Content
The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Perkins claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job prior to joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening that led to his subsequent hiring as an 'economic hit man' by Einar Greve, vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison). Perkins claims that he was seduced and trained as an "economic hitman" by a Chas. T. Main businesswoman named Claudine Martin, who used his NSA personality profile to manipulate and control him.

According to Perkins, his job at the firm was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects. Ensuring that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies, such loans provided political influence for the US and access to natural resources for American companies, thus primarily helping local elites and wealthy families, rather than the poor.

The book heavily criticizes U.S. foreign policy and the notion that "all economic growth benefits humankind, and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits." Perkins suggests that, in many cases, only a small portion of the population benefits at the expense of the rest, pointing to, as an example, an increase in income inequality, whereby large U.S. corporations exploit cheap labor, and oil companies destroy local environments.

Perkins describes what he calls a system of corporatocracy and greed as the driving forces behind establishing the United States as a global empire, in which he took a role as an "economic hit man" to expand its influence. In this capacity, Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an economic hit man as follows: Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.

Reception
Although "the veracity of some of his dreamier contentions" has been questioned, the book did well in terms of sales, placing on the best-seller lists of both the New York Times and Amazon. The New York Times wrote that Perkins' book followed "a rich literary tradition, spanning more than 80 years, of corporate insiders writing books in a confessional vein that puncture the secretive, less seemly aspects of their professions". Columnist Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post wrote "This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller." Mallaby said that Perkins' conception of international finance is "largely a dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong" because "the poor don't always lose" when developing countries borrow money. Mallaby wrote that Indonesia reduced its infant mortality and illiteracy rates by two-thirds after economists persuaded its leaders to borrow money in 1970. He also disagrees with Perkins' statement that 51 of the top 100 world economies belong to companies.

A press release issued by the U.S Department of State (DOS), said there was a lack of documentary or testimonial evidence to corroborate Perkins's statement that the NSA was involved in his hiring by Chas T. Main. The DOS release stated that the NSA "is a cryptological (codemaking and codebreaking) organization, not an economic organization" and that its missions do not involve "anything remotely resembling placing economists at private companies in order to increase the debt of foreign countries."

Economic historian Niall Ferguson discusses some of Perkins's statements in the 2008 book The Ascent of Money (2008). According to Perkins, the leaders of Ecuador (President Jaime Roldós Aguilera) and Panama (General Omar Torrijos) were assassinated by U.S. agents for opposing the interests of the owners of their countries' foreign debt. Both men died in air-plane crashes in 1981. According to Ferguson, Perkins's allegations "seems a little odd." Ferguson wrote that, in the 1970s, the amount of money that the US had lent to Ecuador and Panama accounted for less than 0.4% of the total U.S. grants and loans, while in 1990, exports from the US to those countries accounted for approximately 0.4% of total U.S. exports (approx. US$8 billion). Ferguson contends those "do not seem like figures worth killing for."

Boston Magazine wrote that, when asked for evidence for his statements, Perkins produced "a "flimsy package of materials", including an article related to Chas. T. Main's former vice president, Einar Greve. Greve, who first offered Perkins a job at the firm, agreed that foreign debt represented a poor economic strategy for developing nations: "Basically his story is true.… What John's book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never been able to repay the loans."

Greve said that he knew no one from the NSA and that Perkins "has convinced himself that a lot of this stuff is true". Frank Fullerton, one of Perkins' supervisors at MAIN, said that Perkins left Chas T. Main because he "thought he was worth more than he was."

Other works
Perkins continued with writing four other books on the 'economic hit man' topic, focusing on other aspects:

 * A Game as Old as Empire: the Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (2007);
 * The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World (2007);
 * Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded – and What We Need to Do to Remake Them (2009); and
 * The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2016).

Documentary film
In 2009, Stelios Kouloglou directed a Greek–U.S. co-produced documentary titled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, featuring interviews with Perkins filmed between 2007 and 2008. The film was shown at movie festivals around the United States.

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Culture of Ann Arbor, Michigan

The culture of Ann Arbor, Michigan includes various attractions and events, many of which are connected with the University of Michigan.

University of Michigan attractions
Many performing arts groups and facilities are located on the University of Michigan campus, including Hill Auditorium, the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, and the Power Center for the Performing Arts.

The University Musical Society (UMS) presents approximately 60 to 75 performances and over 100 free educational activities each season. One of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, UMS is affiliated with the University of Michigan and housed on the UM campus. However, UMS is a separate not-for-profit organization that supports itself from ticket sales, grants, contributions, and endowment income.

The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, affiliated with the university's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, has put on two fully staged performances of a Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera every year since 1947, once in fall semester and the other in winter semester. The society is student-run. Performances take place at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.

Institutions and venues
Ann Arbor has a number of performing-arts institutions that are not affiliated with the University of Michigan. They include the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre (a nonprofit community theater group), Ann Arbor Ballet Theater, Ann Arbor Civic Ballet (the first chartered ballet company in Michigan when it was founded in 1954), Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and Arbor Opera Theater.

Theaters in the city include:
 * Michigan Theater - A live-performance venue and movie house. It hosts live performances, independent films, and classic movies while also serving as home to the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
 * State Theatre - Independent movie theater located on State Street.

Ann Arbor also has a number of concert halls and nightclubs serving up jazz and other live music: There are several religious sites in Ann Arbor, including:
 * Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase
 * The Ark - Ann Arbor's folk and acoustic music venue.
 * The Blind Pig -  A small venue for rock, hip hop, and electronic music. It is known for early performances by Dave Matthews Band, Verve Pipe, and Nirvana, among others.
 * Kerrytown Concert House
 * St. Patrick's Parish Complex

Sites of interest
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located in a renovated and expanded historic downtown fire station, contains more than 250 interactive exhibits featuring science and technology. Artrain, located on North Main Street, is a traveling art museum located on a train.

A number of other art galleries exist in the city, notably in the downtown area and around the University of Michigan campus, notably the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which has a variety of outdoor sculptures, including Orion and Daedalus.

A mural located on the corner of Liberty Street and State Street downtown, colloquially referred to as The Bookstore Mural, is one of the city's most well-known pieces of public art.

Several buildings throughout the downtown area, like Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea and The Ark, showcase pieces of independent installation art in the form of small "fairy doors". Maps of their locations can be found at Sweetwaters or the Chamber of Commerce.

Spring

 * Ann Arbor Film Festival - The oldest continually operated annual experimental film festival in North America, this event attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences at the Michigan Theater during six days in March.
 * Hash Bash - First Saturday of April. The event is a collection of speeches, live music, street vending, and the occasional civil disobedience centered on the goal of revising federal, state, and local marijuana laws. The first Hash Bash was held in 1971 to protest the 10-year prison sentence given to cultural activist John Sinclair for possession of two marijuana joints.
 * Naked Mile - An infamous event where students would run naked through the streets once a year at the end of the University of Michigan winter semester in mid-April. The last "Naked Mile" was in 2004 after the university ended the tradition through arrests and threats to students who ran. Participation in the event also reportedly suffered as it attracted the attention of internet pornography operations.

Summer

 * Shakespeare in the Arb presents one play each June. Sixteen performances, four a week, take place in Nichols Arboretum, a large natural park near downtown. The plays are performed in the open, moving from site to site, and subject to the weather, other park visitors, and the occasional low flying helicopter. They all begin fours hours before sunset, at 6:30 p.m. local time (EDT). Each performance takes about 2.5 hours. The production travels from spot to spot within the arboretum to create the different scenes. "As one critic commented, 'The actors used the vastness of its Arb[oretum] stage to full advantage, making entrances from behind trees, appearing over rises and vanishing into the woods.'"
 * Summer Festival - A three-and-a-half-week event typically held from mid-June through early July at the Power Center and atop the adjacent parking structure (host to the free "Top of the Park" events). Each night offers internationally known entertainers inside the Power Center, Mendelssohn Theatre or Hill Auditorium, while Top of the Park showcases local, regional, and occasionally national talent starting at 7 p.m. nightly, and movies at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. A variety of local food vendors offer limited menus while the non-profit festival organization offers soft drinks, beer and wine for sale to support the costs of offering free admission. Top Of The Park was moved to street level in 2006 due to construction on the parking structure. The move to Washington Street in front of Rackham Hall has proved to be a big success and has become a permanent place for Top Of The Park.
 * Art Fairs - Held in the third week of July from Wednesday to Saturday. There are actually five separate juried fairs, and many other artists and retail booths anywhere they can rent space. Disgruntled townies and University students and staff and anyone generally involved in town life long ago adopted the slogan "It's not art and it's not fair" to decry the fairs' inconveniences.
 * Shopping Cart Race - Held sometime late August, the race is not "official". Information is spread by word of mouth and stencil art. Participants have brought everything from decorated shopping carts to two-man bicycles that incorporate shopping cart elements into the design. The race is part of Punk Week, a series of events held annually.
 * Taste of Ann Arbor - A one-day event held during the first week of June in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor. Local restaurants open concession stands to the public. Local bands, schools, and performers hold free shows and concerts. The event is sponsored by the Main Street Area Association, the Downtown Development Authority, Ann Arbor Jaycees, WEMU 89.1, and the Michigan Theater.
 * Dexter-Ann Arbor Run - A running race from Dexter to downtown Ann Arbor along the Huron River.

Fall

 * Blues and Jazz Festival - Held in mid-September at Gallup Park, the festival showcases blues and jazz musicians from around the nation. The event was first organized in 1972 by counterculture impresario John Sinclair, suspended from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, and held again in the 1990s. The 2007 Festival was canceled and the 2008 Festival is scheduled for September.
 * EdgeFest - Multi-venue festival of avant-garde and progressive jazz, held each autumn since 1997.

Winter

 * Ann Arbor Folk Festival - An annual benefit concert for the Ark (Ann Arbor's folk and acoustic music venue). Held late in January, it consists of many folk musicians.

Literary culture
Among U.S. cities, Ann Arbor ranks first in the number of antiquarian booksellers and books sold per capita (although the per capita calculations may not include the large student population). The Ann Arbor District Library maintains four branch outlets in addition to its main downtown building, with a fifth branch set to open in 2008. The city is also home to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

Ann Arbor is also known within the performance poetry scene. The Neutral Zone, a local teen center, is home to the Volume Youth Poetry Project which holds a competition every year to send a team of six youth poets to the national youth competition Brave New Voices. The city hosted this competition in 2001 and 2002, and has sent a team each year across the U.S.

Films and fictional writing set in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor (or its surrounding region) is also the setting (or the presumed setting) for a number of novels and short story collections.

Books

 * Justin McCarthy, Dear Lady Disdain (1875)
 * Karl Edwin Harriman, Ann Arbor Tales (1902)
 * Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Magnificent Obsession (1929)
 * Allan Seager, A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction (1964)
 * David Osborn, Open Season (1974)
 * Marge Piercy, Braided Lives (1982)
 * Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See (1985)
 * Susan Holtzer, Something To Kill For (1995)
 * Susan Holtzer, Curly Smoke (1996)
 * Jerry Prescott, Deadly Sweet in Ann Arbor (1996)
 * Susan Holtzer, Bleeding Maize and Blue (1997)
 * Susan Holtzer, Black Diamond: A Mystery at the University of Michigan (1998)
 * Charles Baxter, Feast of Love (2000)
 * Susan Holtzer, The Silly Season (2000)
 * Susan Holtzer, The Wedding Game (2001)
 * Jeff Kass, Takedown (2017)

Films
Ann Arbor is the setting for much of the film The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995), as well as The Five-Year Engagement (2012). Parts of the film Jumper (2008) are set in Ann Arbor, using both footage shot locally and footage using Peterborough, Ontario as an Ann Arbor stand-in. Ann Arbor is also frequently mentioned in the television series Lost.

Starting in 2010, the Michigan Film Incentive lead to several major films shooting in and around Ann Arbor including Conviction. The film's offices and post-production were headquartered in Ann Arbor, using many area landmarks as backdrops. Shooting took place around Ann Arbor as well as smaller towns like Pittsfield Township, Chelsea and Dexter.

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Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2

Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 is Ringo Starr's second official compilation album, released in the US in 1989.

Content
The successor to 1975's Blast from Your Past, it rounds up Starr's highlights from 1976's Ringo's Rotogravure to 1983's Old Wave and encompasses label stays with Polydor, Atlantic, Portrait, and RCA. Consequently, it saw the first release of four tracks from Old Wave which had not been issued in the US up to that time. The CD edition features four additional tracks that were not present on the vinyl edition: "Attention", "Who Needs a Heart", "Hopeless" and "You Belong to Me". The cover photo was originally for the unreleased version of Stop and Smell the Roses (1981), entitled Can't Fight Lightning.

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The album was issued on 24 February 1989 by Rhino, only in the US. Never charting anywhere, Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 went out of print during the 1990s.


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Diogo Veloso

Diogo Veloso, or Diego Belloso in the Spanish historical accounts (1558 – 1599), was a Portuguese adventurer active in Southeast Asia in the last quarter of the 16th century, acting sometimes in the service of the Spanish Governor of the Spanish East Indies during the Cambodian–Spanish War and sometimes as a freelancer. He and the Spanish explorer Blas Ruiz were the first Europeans to ever set foot in Laos.

Veloso's journey to Laos started in Cambodia, where he met and befriended King Satha of Lovek and Ruiz of Spain. When Lovek was invaded by Ayutthaya, Satha was overthrown by his son and other nobles who allowed Ayutthaya to take control, forcing Veloso to flee to Portuguese Malacca, the place where he began his adventure in Southeast Asia. Eventually Veloso returned with Ruiz, who had fled to Spanish Philippines, to Lovek. When they arrived they learned Satha had fled to Lan Xang, an empire centered in modern-day Laos and consisting of Isan, Stung Treng, and small areas of Southern China and Vietnam.

Veloso and Ruiz decided to journey to Laos and bring back Satha to restore his reign over Lovek. They arrived in Vientiane, Lan Xang's administrative capital, in the summer of 1596. They were met with a procession showing off the city's immense wealth consisting of Asian elephants, gold, jewels, silk, exotic snakes, bouquets of tropical flowers, chanting monks, Buddhist treasures and relics, music, and beautiful women. Veloso and Ruiz were also received with a great feast. But while they were in Vientiane they learned Satha had died from an illness he caught on his way from Cambodia to Laos. Saddened and angered by the news, Veloso and Ruiz returned to Lovek and started a rebellion to put one of Satha's political allies on the throne and free Cambodia from Ayutthaya. They managed to drive out Ayutthaya forces from parts of Cambodia and create a new state but led the new Cambodian state into a brief period of chaos.

Eventually Veloso returned to Malacca.

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List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia

Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was classed as a full-fledged penal colony in 1850.

Voyages transporting Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia
Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas", but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not then a penal colony, contemporary documents studiously avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts", and the ships that brought them were not officially recognised as convict ships there. English records were not so reticent, classing as convict ships the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

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List of terms used in bird topography

The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:

Plumage features

 * Back
 * Belly
 * Breast
 * Cheek
 * Chin
 * Crest
 * Crown
 * Crown patch
 * Ear-coverts
 * Eye-ring
 * Eyestripe (or eye line)
 * Feather, see category: Category:Feathers
 * Flanks
 * Forecrown
 * Gorget
 * Hood (or half-hood )
 * Lateral throat stripe
 * Lores
 * Malar
 * Mantle
 * Mask
 * Moustachial stripe
 * Nape
 * Nuchal collar
 * Operculum (on pigeons).
 * Pennaceous feathers
 * Postocular stripe
 * Remiges
 * Rump
 * Spectacles
 * Submoustachial stripe
 * Supercilium
 * Supraloral
 * Parts of the tail include:
 * Rectrices
 * Tail corner
 * Terminal band
 * Subterminal band
 * Throat
 * Undertail coverts
 * Upper mandible (or maxilla)
 * Uppertail coverts
 * Vent, crissum or cloaca
 * Vent band
 * Parts of the wings include:
 * Alula
 * Apical spot
 * Axillar
 * Bend of wing
 * Carpal covert
 * Emargination
 * Greater coverts
 * Leading edge of wing
 * Lesser coverts
 * Marginal coverts
 * Median coverts
 * Mirror (on gulls)
 * Primaries
 * Primary projection
 * Primary numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)
 * Scapulars
 * Scapular crescent (on gulls)
 * Secondaries
 * Speculum
 * Tertials
 * Tertial step (on gulls)
 * Trailing edge of wing
 * Upper scapulars
 * Wing bar
 * Wing coverts
 * Wing edging
 * Wing linings
 * Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint)

Bare-parts features

 * Beak or bill
 * Cere
 * Culmen
 * Gape
 * Gonys
 * Gonydeal angle
 * Gonydeal spot
 * Nail (of beak)
 * Nares
 * Rhamphotheca
 * Gnathotheca
 * Rhinotheca
 * Tomia
 * Brooding patch
 * Caruncle (bird anatomy)
 * Comb, or Coxcomb
 * Orbital skin, or orbital ring
 * Tarsus
 * Tibia
 * Wattle

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Walsh University

Walsh University is a private Roman Catholic university in North Canton, Ohio. Founded in 1960 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction as a liberal arts college, it currently enrolls approximately 2,100 students. The university offers more than 70 undergraduate majors and seven graduate programs, as well as multiple global learning experiences.

History
The school's namesake is Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.

Walsh University was founded as LaMennais College in Alfred, Maine in 1951 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction to educate young men as brothers and teachers. In 1957, Brother Robert A. Francoeur of LaMennais College and Monsignor William Hughes of Youngstown, Ohio discussed the Brothers' wish to move LaMennais College from Maine, and Bishop Walsh invited the Brothers to choose Canton, Ohio, as the new location. Bishop Walsh donated $304,000 to the Walsh College project. In 1959, the present location of Walsh University began as 50 acres of farmland on which two buildings were constructed, College Hall and LaMennais Hall, which continues to house the Brothers and international priest-students. The Brothers have played an active role at the institution, serving as faculty during the original years and playing a part in the growth and development of facilities and programs. Several have served as president.

Walsh College became Walsh University in 1993. In 2013, Walsh University joined Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Walsh previously competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as a member of the American Mideast Conference, while its football team competed in the Mid-States Football Association.

Presidents
On July 1, 2019, Walsh University announced that Timothy J. Collins was appointed to serve as the university's seventh president.

Presidents:
 * Thomas Farrell, 1960–1970
 * Robert Francoeur, 1970–1977
 * Francis Blouin, 1978–1992
 * Richard Mucowski, 1992–1996
 * Kenneth Hamilton, 1997–2001
 * Richard Jusseaume, 2002–2019
 * Timothy Collins, 2019–present

Campus
The campus covers 136 acre and is made up of 27 buildings along East Maple Street in North Canton. Buildings include: The campus includes dormitory residences named: The Walsh University Peace Pole outside Farrell Hall represents visitors including Willy Brandt, Coretta Scott King, Mother Teresa, and Elie Wiesel who came to Walsh University to advocate for peace.
 * Farrell Hall (1960) - This was the first building on campus. Construction started in 1959 and finished in 1960. It was initially named College Hall and was later renamed in honor of Br. Thomas Farrell in 1977, the first president and one of the founding Brothers of Christian Instruction.
 * LaMennais Hall (1960)
 * Gaetano M. Cecchini Family Health and Wellness Complex (1971/2009) - Formerly called the Physical Education Center. A major update and renovation occurred in 2009.
 * The Don and Ida Betzler Social and Behavioral Sciences Center (1972)
 * Hannon Child Development Center (1990)
 * Aultman Health Foundation Byers School of Nursing and Health Sciences Center (2000)
 * The Paul and Carol David Family Campus Center (2001)
 * Timken Natural Sciences Center (2005)
 * Barrette Business and Community Center (2005) - The Barrette Business and Community Center is the former site of the Rannou Center (1966-2004) and opened in 2005.
 * Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel (2006)
 * Birk Center for the Arts (2012)
 * Saint John Paul II Center for Science Innovation (2015)
 * Father Matthew Herttna Counseling Center
 * St. Katharine Drexel House
 * The Marlene and Joe Toot Global Learning Center (2018)
 * Menard Hall/Betzler Towers (1966/2006) - Menard Hall was the first dormitory on campus and opened in 1966. The Betzler Tower was added in 2006.
 * Seanor Hall (1968) - Seanor Hall was initially named Alexis Hall and had been named for Br. Alexis Guilbeaut, one of the Founding Brothers of the university.
 * Lemmon Hall (1995)
 * Brauchler Hall (1999), Meier Hall (2000), Stein Hall (2002) - colloquially called "The Grove Apartments"
 * Marie & Ervin Wilkof Towers (2004)
 * Olivieri Family Towers (2007)
 * The Commons (2012).

Walsh also oversees the Hoover Historical Center which they acquired in April 2004.

Academics
The university offers over 60 undergraduate majors. It is the only college governed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.

Walsh University offers the following graduate degrees: Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT); Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT); Master of Science in Nursing (MSN); Master of Arts in Education (M.A.Ed); Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.); Master of Arts in Counseling and Human Development; Master of Arts in Theology, and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Several graduate programs are offered in online and in an accelerated format.

Walsh University offers several opportunities for professional development, including a certificate in healthcare management, FNP certificate, and several educator certificates or licensures.

Athletics
Walsh has 20 varsity athletic teams, with two more to be added in 2023–24, and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level as a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The university's football team formerly played their home games at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, now playing on campus at Larry Staut Field.

Varsity teams
Walsh sponsors 10 men's varsity teams: baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, soccer, lacrosse, tennis, and track & field. The school also sponsors 10 women's varsity teams: basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.

In 2023–24, Walsh will add one new sport for each sex. For men, sprint football will be added. This is a variant of American football played under standard NCAA rules but governed outside the NCAA structure, with player weights restricted to a maximum of 178 lb. The new team will play in the Midwest Sprint Football League. For women, the cheerleading discipline of STUNT, also not governed by the NCAA, will be added.

Mascot and colors
Walsh University sports teams compete as the "Cavaliers". School colors are maroon and gold.

The school mascot is Sir Walter the Cavalier, who also makes appearances at various school events outside of athletics. A carved replica of Sir Walter stands outside the Cecchini Family Health and Wellness Complex and was created from an oak tree in 2016. The name Cavalier was chosen after the school newspaper, The Spectator, ran a contest in 1963, awarding Sean Keenan, Class of 1964, a $15 prize for his submission.

National championships
The Women's Basketball Team won the 1998 NAIA National Championship and the men's basketball team won the 2005 NAIA National Championship.

Alumni

 * Bob Shearer, 1974, former president and COO of Shearer's Foods
 * Louis Zacharilla, 1978, co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum
 * Michael Skindell, 1983, former assistant attorney general of Ohio and State Representative for the 13th House District of Ohio
 * Bishop Isaac Amani Massawe, 1988 and 1990, former Bishop for the Diocese of Moshi, Tanzania from 2007 to 2017 and current archbishop of Arusha, Tanzania
 * Christopher Remark, 1992 and 2008, CEO of Aultman Hospital
 * Jeff Dolan, 2001, first openly gay player in NAIA football.
 * Penny Roberts, 2002, selected as America's Next Top Photographer by Tyra Banks
 * Brian Rogers, 2005, professional football player, professional mixed martial artist.
 * Rayshaun Kizer, 2006, gridiron football player
 * Joe Morgan, 2011, professional football player. Morgan transferred to Walsh in 2009.
 * Ramona Hood, 2012, President and CEO of FedEx.
 * Ric Sayre, Elite Distance Runner.

Faculty and staff

 * Bob Huggins, basketball coach at Walsh from 1980 to 1983. He led the Cavaliers to a perfect 30–0 regular season. (They finished 34–1 overall).
 * Jim Dennison, football coach at Walsh from 1993 to 2012

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

 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 Speedy deleted - creator blanked it. FreplySpang (talk) 01:41, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
Appears to be a chunk of someone's term paper. While it might be the basis for an article on pathos (or maybe not), it is certainly irrelevant to the stated topic. Denni ☯ 00:38, 2005 August 26 (UTC)
 * Delete. Is there a speedy rule for "utterly irrelevant"? N (t/c) 00:58, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be a report on some unspecified work of fiction. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would create such an article. ManoaChild 00:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I hope they didn't think this was how they were supposed to submit their assignment. Actually, they probably mistook WP for a repository of sample essays - how that could happen, I've no clue... N (t/c) 01:06, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Ryan Norton T 01:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Jaxl | talk 01:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say you can Speedy that under A1 for a lack of context. I don't even think a rewrite is an option here -- aren't Lang and Comp two separate AP tests? — Lomn | Talk / RfC 02:11:31, 2005-08-26 (UTC)
 * Nope, the other English test is Language and Lit. Christopher Parham (talk) 02:49, 2005 August 26 (UTC)
 * Delete Amren (talk) 02:57, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to human beans. -EDM 04:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; | Hatter 04:40, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; this is just someone's bizarre and long-winded essay.IINAG 13:53, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this has nothing to do with APLC, and my mind can only express puzzlement bordering on awe as to how this could fit. A Shortage of Chairs 15:46, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. *drew 21:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied. Original creator recognized his mistake and blanked the page. FreplySpang (talk) 01:39, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
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