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Ricardo, I am interested in purchasing one your images for commercial use. Where can I find your contact information?
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Additions to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Great shots that you've added to this article, thanks very much for doing so. ''' Tijuana Brass ¡Épa! - E@''' 08:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Placing this on my Talk page so that I can be unblocked (I was blocked erroneously)  Ricardo630 21:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Ricardo. Today I patrolled Pala Velho, a new article you created on 30 July. I noticed the article was completely unreferenced. On Wikipedia, any information that is challenged, or likely to be challenged, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. Please do not create new articles and leave them without in-line citations to show the source of your information. Please see WP:REFBEGIN and WP:Verifiability for information about how, and why, we show the sources of information in Wikipedia articles. Happy editing! Dolphin ( t ) 06:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Verifying commercial use guidelines of File:Colorado City, AZ.jpg
Dear Ricardo,

I'm writing in regard to the usage guidelines of File:Colorado City, AZ.jpg I ask only because of the unclear guidelines I have read in the licenses displayed. It is my intention to use this image with altered color, contrast and brightness. Fundamentally, the photo remains intact for its use as an EP cover of a new heavy metal project in Brisbane, Australia

One of the guidelines states that bypassing the system and going straight to the author invalidates the license use (but doesn't break any laws or use guidelines with anyone or anything else) based on an agreement reached with said author, hence my inquiry. If you wish to speak off of Wikipedia regarding this matter, I can be contacted via e-mail at ross.chessher@gmail.com alternatively, I can be reached via the user signature listed below.

I look forward to hearing from you soon, Thank you in advance

Ross C xXSouthern SlayerXx (talk) 16:25, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture. I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely, Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com --75.169.8.9 (talk) 13:53, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Moved discussion
Miscellany for deletion/TimedText:Gaucho eu sou.ogg.en.srt You wrote:
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Taft School

The Taft School is a private coeducational school located in Watertown, Connecticut, United States. It enrolls approximately 600 students in grades 9–12.

History
The school was founded in 1890 as Mr. Taft's School (renamed to The Taft School in 1898) by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of U.S. President William Howard Taft. Horace Taft's friend Sherman Day Thacher (the founder of California's Thacher School) inspired Taft to start his own boarding school. The school was initially headquartered in Pelham Manor, New York, but moved to Watertown, Connecticut in 1893.

Along with Lawrenceville, Groton, Milton, and its athletic rival Hotchkiss, Taft was one of the first New England schools founded during the great boom in boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century. In the school's first generation, around half of the student body came from Connecticut and New York. However, Horace Taft came from a famous Ohio political family, and the school developed a reputation for preparing children of the Midwestern gentry for Yale's entrance examinations.

The school's admission rate was 16% in 2023.

In 2015, Business Insider ranked Taft the 14th-most 'elite' boarding school in the US, based on a formula that equally weighted financial endowment, average SAT scores, and acceptance rate.

Student body
In the 2023–24 school year, Taft enrolled 580 students in grades 9–12, including 100 freshmen (in academy jargon, "lower mids"), 145 sophomores ("mids"), 155 juniors ("upper mids"), and 180 seniors ("seniors").

That year, 82% of the student body lived on campus. 45% of students identified as people of color and 18% came from abroad. 35% of students were on financial aid; 7.6% were on full scholarships; and 55% had previously attended public schools.

Campus
Taft is located on the grounds of a former hotel in Watertown, Connecticut; the school demolished the original hotel building in 1930. The Watertown campus began with six acres and has since grown to 226 acres. In 2018, Architectural Digest named Taft the most beautiful private high school campus in Connecticut.

The school owns several homes within the Watertown Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, Taft's core campus is not part of the historic district.

Tuition and financial aid
In the 2023–24 school year, Taft charged boarding students $72,000 and day students $53,500, of which financial aid covered, on average, $58,250 for boarders and $34,250 for day students. 35% of the student body received financial aid; 195 of those students (33.6% of the school) were U.S. citizens.

Taft commits to meet 100% of an admitted U.S. citizen student's demonstrated financial need, "according to [its] financial aid methodology." In the 2023–24 school year, after financial aid, boarders with family incomes under $100,000 paid an average of $700, and boarders with family incomes between $100,000 and $200,000 paid an average of $9,200. The school does not disclose income or financial aid statistics for its international students.

Endowment and expenses
Taft's financial endowment stood at $299.6 million as of June 30, 2023. In its Internal Revenue Service filings for the 2021–22 school year, Taft reported total assets of $447.9 million, net assets of $382.3 million, investment holdings of $283.8 million, and cash holdings of $24.1 million. Taft also reported $49.2 million in program service expenses and $10.4 million in grants (primarily student financial aid).

Athletics
Taft offers seventeen varsity sports and an intramural equestrian program. The school's athletic facilities include an 18-hole golf course, 16 tennis courts (four indoor), eight squash courts, two field houses, two tracks (one indoor, one outdoor), two ice hockey rinks (one Olympic-sized and one NHL-sized), and more than 10 playing fields.

Taft and its athletic rival Hotchkiss compete in the Founders League, a group of prep schools mostly located in Connecticut. Taft's athletic teams are known as the Rhinos (or the "Big Red Rhinos"), and its school colors are Yale blue and Harvard crimson.

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David Axelrod (musician)

David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer. After starting out as a staff producer for record companies specializing in jazz, Axelrod became known by the mid-1960s in soul and jazz circles for his recording skills. In 1968, Axelrod embarked on a solo career and released several albums during the 1970s that showcased his characteristic sound, which combined heavily microphoned drums and baroque orchestration, and avant garde themes ranging from the environment to heightened mental awareness.

With his early solo projects, Axelrod was one of the first recording artists to fuse elements of jazz, rock, and R&B. One of his most important records, Song of Innocence (1968), featured instrumental interpretations of 18th-century poet William Blake's poetry collection of the same name done in a contemporary musical vein, leading one critic at the time to coin the term "jazz fusion" and numerous hip hop producers to sample the album's music decades later.

Early life
Born in Los Angeles, California, David Axelrod was raised in its South Central neighborhood, where he grew up listening to R&B and jazz. He graduated from Dorsey High School. His father was active in radical labour union politics.

Career
After a stint as a boxer, Axelrod found studio work in the film and television industry, and was soon in demand as a drummer, producer and arranger. He produced his first album in 1959, saxophonist Harold Land’s The Fox.

In late 1963, Axelrod joined Capitol Records as a producer and A&R man. He encouraged the label to develop their black musicians. He began working with Lou Rawls, producing his successful Live album and a succession of gold albums and hit singles including "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing", "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" and "Dead End Street", which Axelrod wrote and produced. He also began working with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, one of the most successful jazz crossover artists of the 1960s. Axelrod produced Adderley's 1967 album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club', which spawned the jazz hit "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”, written by the band's pianist Joe Zawinul, which reached No. 11 in the US pop charts.

Around this time Axelrod also began working with a regular group of leading session musicians, including Howard Roberts (guitar), Carol Kaye (bass) and Earl Palmer (drums). In 1968, Axelrod wrote Mass in F Minor and Release of an Oath in a contemporary rock vein for the Electric Prunes; they were released under the band's name, but because of their complexity were recorded by other musicians. The Electric Prunes disbanded during the recording sessions and Axelrod's team completed the albums. Axelrod's success also encouraged Capitol to allow him to produce solo albums, the first two of which, Song of Innocence (1968) and Songs of Experience (1969), were homages to the mystical poetry and paintings of William Blake. These used sweeping strings, booming sound and heavy beats in a way that was unique for the time and became highly influential many years later. His third solo album, Earth Rot (1970), warned of the impact of environmental pollution and degradation.

At the same time, Axelrod continued to work with Adderley and Rawls, and with the South African singer Letta Mbulu, bandleader David Rose, and unsuccessful psychedelic groups The Common People and Hardwater. In 1970, he left Capitol and over the next few years issued a rock version of Handel's oratorio Messiah and further solo albums, as well as continuing to work with Adderley on several albums until the latter's death in 1975. His approach fell out of fashion for a while, and three solo albums he recorded in the 1980s went unreleased.

His work as arranger and composer began to be rediscovered in the early 1990s, and to be sampled by artists such as Dr. Dre, DJ Shadow and Lauryn Hill. In 1993, he released his first album for over a decade, Requiem: Holocaust. Several compilations of his earlier work were also released. In 2000 he released David Axelrod, which used rhythm tracks originally recorded for a proposed third Electric Prunes album, with new arrangements. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ("The Edge") for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Masta Ace also used a cut from "The Edge" in his song, "No Regrets" from the 2001 album, Disposable Arts. In addition, "The Edge" was heavily sampled on the Emperor Penguin track "Burnt Sienna and Avocado".

Axelrod appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 17 March 2004 as part of the Ether festival where he conducted a performance of his solo work. He was joined onstage by Richard Ashcroft who sang "Holy Are You", originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. During the intro of his song "The Edge", he spoke on the subject of sampling, saying "I'm such a hypocrite, I hate sampling because it takes jobs away from musicians, but it allows me to have fun. It's screw-you money. So I love this, naturally. Thank you Dre.". At the end of this rare concert he informed the audience that he was suffering from ill health. Axelrod signed with Blue Note Records in 2005. In 2006, Live at Royal Festival Hall was released as a DVD and CD.

Axelrod died of lung cancer on February 5, 2017, at the age of 85.

Compilation

 * The Edge: David Axelrod At Capitol Records 1966-1970 (Capitol Jazz, 2005)

Singles

 * "Gumshoe" / "The Lost Lament" (Decca, 1972)
 * "The Leading Citizen" (Decca, 1972)
 * "The Dr & The Diamond" (Mo' Wax, 2001)
 * "Holy Thursday" (Stateside, 2002) (split)
 * "The Signs" (Capitol Jazz, 2005) (split)
 * "London" (Stateside, 2006)

As arranger
With Hampton Hawes With The Electric Prunes With Gene Ammons
 * Northern Windows (Prestige, 1974) - also producer
 * Mass in F Minor (Reprise, 1968)
 * Release of an Oath (Reprise, 1968)
 * Brasswind (Prestige, 1974)

As producer
With David McCallum
 * Music...A Part Of Me (Capitol ST 2432, 1966)
 * Music...A Bit More Of Me (Capitol ST 2498, 1966)
 * Music...It's Happening Now! (Capitol ST 2651, 1967)
 * McCallum (Capitol ST 2748, 1968)

With Donna Loren
 * Beach Blanket Bingo (Capitol T-2323, ST-2323, 1965)
 * "Blowing Out the Candles" b/w "Just a Little Girl" (Capitol 5250, 1964)
 * "Ten Good Reasons" b/w "Ninety Day Guarantee" (Capitol 5337, 1964)
 * "New Love" b/w "So, Do the Zonk" (Capitol 5409, 1965)
 * These Are the Good Times: The Complete Capitol Recordings (Now Sounds CRNOW-47, 2014) (tracks: "Just a Little Girl", "So, Do the Zonk", "Good Things" [previously unreleased], "Leave Him to Me" [previously unreleased], "Ten Good Reasons", "Ninety Day Guarantee", "Blowing Out the Candles", "Drop the Drip" [previously unreleased], and the tracks from the Beach Blanket Bingo album).

With Cannonball Adderley
 * Cannonball Adderley Live! (Capitol, 1964)
 * Live Session! (Capitol, 1964))
 * Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol, 1964)
 * Domination (Capitol, 1965)
 * Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' (Capitol, 1966)
 * 74 Miles Away (Capitol, 1967)
 * Why Am I Treated So Bad! (Capitol, 1967)
 * In Person (Capitol, 1968)
 * Accent on Africa (Capitol, 1968)
 * Country Preacher (Capitol, 1969)
 * The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra (Capitol, 1970)
 * Love, Sex, and the Zodiac (Capitol, 1970)
 * The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Capitol, 1970)
 * The Happy People (Capitol, 1972)
 * The Black Messiah (Capitol, 1972)
 * Music You All (Capitol, 1976)
 * Inside Straight (Capitol, 1973)
 * Pyramid (Capitol, 1974)
 *  Walk Tall: The David Axelrod Years (Stateside, 2006)[2CD] – compilation

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Wikipedia talk:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 1

I created this Archive just now. I have the impression none of this is the least active anymore. Fred-Chess 16:21, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Sweden cities and maps
I don't want to clog up your talk page about these matters that do after all concern Sweden in general, so I write it here. Working on the most recent suggested project, Sweden geo stubs, I noticed Swedish wikipedias fine maps, e.g.: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trelleborgs_kommun. Maps are something we are in the need of. I've noticed User:Mic doing some maps, but more are needed. We really have no maps of where cities are located and I think it sucks. Not even Malmö has a map of its location.

I did a check with lantbruksmäteriet and their maps are copyrighted, and they charge a lot for the use of them, and would probably not allow them on wikipedia anyways. So do you have any other suggestion?

As another examples of usefulness, I would have liked a map of Sweden where the monasteries in the medieval age are marked. --Fred chessplayer (talk) (edits) 12:19, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * There might be older (PD) publications to use for historical maps; if they are not up to date with later research, scanning them may at least provide a good departure point for editing in an image program with the aid of newer reference works. Likewise, for historic parts of cities which remain unchanged, the Nordisk familjebok maps may be used. I was thinking of using a cropped version of the NF Uppsala map for the area around the cathedral and the old university buildings, which looks more or less the same today as in 1920. The NF Stockholm map can probably be used for Gamla Stan in Stockholm, but it is obviously useless, except as a historical map, for large parts of Norrmalm. Central Lund probably looks familiar from the NF map. Uppland 10:44, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sweden geo stubs
There is currentl a page for all muncipalities. However, ther is not a page for the cities with the same name. Should we write info about the city Ystad at Ystad Muncipality? There is currently no page about the city Ystad, (nor about many other cities: Trelleborg, Kiruna, Karlskrona...) --Fred chessplayer (talk) (edits) 10:08, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The cities should get their own pages, but there is probably no reason to separate the material until it gets large enough to be more than two stubs, unless there is a good structural reason to do so. At this time, even the largest Swedish cities/municipalities have relatively small articles which need a lot of expansion.

 * BTW, a couple of historical geographical units which should be entered:
 * the historic parishes (socknar)
 * the hundreds (härader)
 * This is a lot of work and may not need to be done manually. I am wondering if there might be a few good, freely usable databases somewhere which could be tapped into Wikipedia with the help of a bot. Uppland 10:59, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

tätort
I will skip the notion of tätort from now on, until anyone provides a similar English term that is actually in use. It is too confusing to explain that Sundbyberg borders to Stockholm and is part of Stockholm tätort, especially since tätort is only used for administrative purposes. --Fred-Chess 14:58, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe that the proper translation would be: Sundbyberg is a town(ship) which is part of Stockholm's conurbation.--Wiglaf 19:24, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Translation of "Församling"
The Church of Sweden administrative unit "församling" is sometimes translated to "congregation" here in Wikipedia. This seems to be incorrect. "Parish" should be used instead, and frequently is (as in Category:Church_of_Sweden_Parishes), but after encountering a number of examples of "congregation", I'm adding a note here to alert you to the problem. Please fix it when you encounter it. (I just fixed it at Östermalm, but Spånga-Tensta borough is another example.)

If anyone wonders what the difference between the terms is, the Wikipedia articles pretty much explain it all. The parish article specifically mentions that the word is used in the Church of Sweden (and it is indeed the translation used on their own web page). Although "congregation" can also be translated into Swedish as "församling", the article congregation (worship) indicates that this mainly refers to a group of individuals attending a church, rather than an administrative unit. / Alarm 13:13, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Swedish popes?
Could anyone explain why List of popes appear in the Resources section? / Alarm 29 June 2005 14:05 (UTC)

 * I suspected this question would pop from you :-)
 * Well the reason is of course that all popes are Swedish! Combine the word pöbel and pappa and you will see that they both mean Pope. The Swedish King appoints all Popes in a cermony at Drottningholm and then directs their actions. So we need to include them. Also important because popes are so cool!!!!!!!!!!!
 * Ok seriously, the list was used while writing Archbishop of Uppsala and may not be needed anymore.
 * --Fred-Chess June 29, 2005 14:18 (UTC)

New sections
I've added several new sections on the project page. I hope you find them useful. Under "News", please list any ongoing debate, vote and decision concerning Sweden-related issues, such as COTW nominations, naming discussions and VfDs. / Alarm 29 June 2005 14:15 (UTC)

Swedish nobility

 * First message moved from User_talk:Radiant! to Uppland's talk page and then from there to here.

Since you are the only one to vote on my nomination of Category:Euler on the CfD page, I'll ask you for your opinion on a related issue before bringing it up on a more public discussion page. I question the value of categories such as Category:Swedish nobility as applied to biographies. This could be a useful category if it were applied to institutions associated with the Swedish nobility, but would end up too large to be meaningful if consistently applied to biographical articles, at least for some countries. There are several similar categories (Category:German nobility, Category:Italian nobility etc), and neither the "nation" part of the category nor the "nobility" part is that simple to define or delimit in a longer historical perspective. Uppland 06:12, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, this slipped below my radar. I believe you're saying that people shouldn't be in those categories, but instead in subcategories, such as Dukes of Foo. Is that correct? If so then I'm afraid I disagree, since there doesn't exist a subcat for each particular class of nobility, and many of those are rather small to begin with. Yours, Radiant_ >|< 10:11, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * No, actually, my point is that I am skeptical about using Category:Swedish nobility for individuals at all. And if we really want to classify people this way, we have to
 * make sure we use historically meaningful categories, i.e. those based in historically existing legal and social systems (rather than on anachronistic use of nationality and generalizations about class), and
 * make sure people thus categorized actually belong to the group in question, and aren't categorized just because of a "von" or some other spurious reason. For instance, categorizing Max von Sydow as "Swedish nobility" just because he is Swedish and has a name with a "von". Someone did this, but I later removed the category - the problem is that the von Sydow family is not noble, despite the name, but actually encompasses an ennobled but now extinct branch. How is anyone to know this without detailed genealogical information?
 * It sems to me that this category is doomed to be misused. And still, compared to some other countries, the Swedish nobility is very well-documented and (in theory) easy to delimit, at least from 1626 and later. Categorizing "Italian" nobility is probably even more difficult to get right. (Venetian? Papal? Florentine? Napolitan? Italian families with nobility from the HRE or Austria or the Napoleonic empire?) I am not sure if I am making myself any clearer... --Uppland 11:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Revamp of Suggestions section
As you can see, I've messed around quite a bit with the Suggestions section. I basically divided it into sub-sections for "Requested articles", "Requests for improvement/expansion" and "Requests for attention/review", plus a link to the new Image requests page (thanks, Tup!). Then I added a selection of red links from the sub-articles of List of Swedes and Geography of Sweden. I think an extensive list of requested articles serves a purpose as a source of inspiration, but if it takes up too much space we could always move it to a subpage. / Alarm 30 June 2005 16:14 (UTC)

IPA
I have never been able to see the IPA as much else than boxes; however when I was a n00be here I didn't bother; I didn't think it was possible to solve. But apparently it is possible to force all browsers to render IPA characters as they should be, which I have noticed on many pages, and now lately on de:Stockholm. So I propse we should do it too. If you guys just state some support of this, I can request Peter Isotalo to do it as he has I think inserted a lot of IPA transliterations. --Fred-Chess July 5, 2005 23:20 (UTC)

One more subpage
I noticed that a few of the red links on "Suggestions and requests" had turned blue. This is of course a cause for celebration, so rather than simply removing them, I created the subpage Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Completed requests and finished projects in order to record our achievements for posterity. I think this might be a useful list and I will personally try to keep it updated. If nobody objects, I'll move the "Finished projects" section of the project page there as well. / Alarm 12:26, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I would feel honoured if you did. --Fred-Chess 13:51, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Naming discussion II: SÄPO
Excuse me if I bore you, but there's another one: In my opinion, SÄPO definitely ought to be moved to Swedish Security Service. I doubt the SÄPO acronym is much used in an English language context. It isn't even the official Swedish name/acronym. Swedish government sources seem to use the Swedish Security Service in English translation. The same here: please comment on Talk:SÄPO. / Alarm 15:07, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Since there were no objections to this, I've moved it now. / Alarm 18:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


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James Pond 2

James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod, also known as Super James Pond on SNES and Game Boy in North America and Super James Pond 2 in Europe, is a 1991 platform video game. It is the second installment in the James Pond series after James Pond: Underwater Agent and was developed by the same British teams as the original. The title music by Richard Joseph is a marimba-heavy rendition of the RoboCop film theme.

James Pond 2 was originally released on the Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Genesis in 1991 by three different publishers. It was next ported to Amiga AGA, Amiga CD32, Game Gear, Commodore 64, Master System, PC, Acorn Archimedes, Game Boy and SNES. It was later redeveloped and released as a budget title for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, as a download on the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network store, and the Nintendo Switch.

Gameplay
James Pond starts outside Santa's toy factory. There are many doors, each of which leads to a stage with many differently-themed levels, 50 in total. Meanies lurk in these levels, and they come in many forms. There are no weapons in the game, so James Pond must jump on them to defeat them. After completing two "doors", James Pond goes on to another door where a guardian awaits.

James Pond's body armor enables him to extend his body vertically to incredible lengths and grab hold of the ceiling or platforms above him. This allows him to travel along with the ceiling and drop down on the top of an unsuspecting enemy, or to get to otherwise inaccessible areas. James Pond can also pick up items that provide points. Power-ups include extra lives and wings that grant James the ability to fly. From time to time, James Pond may enter vehicles, namely cars, planes, or flying bathtubs.

Plot
The game takes place immediately after its predecessor. Although Acme Oil Company has been destroyed by James Pond, his arch enemy Dr. Maybe survived and has retreated to the North Pole where he has taken over Santa's workshop. Dr. Maybe is holding Santa's workers hostage (in most versions of the game they are penguins, in some, they are elves), and has turned many of Santa's helpers into his own twisted and dangerous assistants. James Pond is recruited to infiltrate Santa's grotto, free the captive penguins, retrieve the stolen toys for the children of the world, and defeat Dr. Maybe once and for all. This time, however, due to the greater risks involved in this mission, James Pond is given a robotic suit and the code name "RoboCod" (a play on RoboCop). This suit gives Pond superhuman strength and agility as well as enabling him to stretch his midsection almost indefinitely and reach otherwise impossibly high areas.

Product placement
In the original UK version of the game, the penguins featured as in-game product placement for the McVitie's biscuit company's Penguin Biscuits. The 1991 EA release in the U.S. and Euro market featured the penguin in a Christmas scene in box art by illustrator Marc Ericksen. According to a 1994 article in the UK edition of PC Gamer, Penguin outsold arch-rival KitKat for the first time in the product's history soon after the release of the game.

Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation versions
James Pond: Codename Robocod was released for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation in 2003, the Nintendo DS in 2005, the PlayStation 2 in 2006, the PlayStation Network in 2009, and the Nintendo Switch in 2019. The handheld and PlayStation releases are identical except for the DS version, which features a map on the second screen. All these versions of the game are largely different from that of the original. The graphics have been improved to take advantage of the consoles' newer hardware, and while the levels retain some of the themes of the originals, their layout is entirely different. In the new versions, McVities' sponsorship branding has been removed from the game, and RoboCod must rescue Santa's elves, rather than penguins. In addition, the hidden levels have been omitted entirely. These recent iterations are remakes rather than ports of the original game.

Reception
UK magazine ACE gave the Amiga version a score of 934 out of 1000, calling it "polished, playable and (...) fun" and "completely excellent". Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the SNES version a 5 out of 10, commenting that "James's ability to make himself tall is quite interesting, but that is really the only special thing about him. Fans of JP may be better off with his Aquatic Games". They gave the Amiga CD32 version a 5.5 out of 10. Though they praised the soundtrack, they remarked that the garishly colorful graphics tend to cause eye strain, the gameplay is mildly fun but unexciting, and that aside from the "extremely pixelated" full motion video intro, it is identical to the version on the less powerful Sega Genesis. Mega Action gave the Genesis version a score of 92% writing: "Better than the original and a massive playing to boot. This features all the ingredients that its predecessor offered, plus plenty more." Power Unlimited gave the SNES version a score of 75% commenting: "The only remarkable thing about Super James Pond is that it is a wacky parody of James Bond. Unfortunately, there is very little of this in the game. Furthermore, it is a usual, beautifully designed and musical platformer."

Mega placed the game at number 20 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cause and effect theory

 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 redirected to Causality. --Canderson7 17:30, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Cause and effect theory
A fictional theory, I assume, and not one used by physicists or philosophers. See Causality Austrian 16:22, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A less-eloquently written version of butterfly effect. Delete with a possible redirect. Quicksandish 16:27, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Causality. No need to delete first. Pburka 16:32, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this junk, please.  Paul Klenk 21:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Causality per Pburka --WCFrancis 23:17, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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


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Waterloo, Fauquier County, Virginia

Waterloo is a village in Fauquier County, Virginia, in the United States, straddling the Rappahannock River at its confluence with Carter's Run.

History
The village has existed since at least 1749, when the decision was made to build a road from Warrenton (about 8 mi east) to serve the growing number of farms along the river. With Fauquier County on the north side and Culpeper County on the south side, Waterloo is surrounded by relatively flat tracts of arable land.

In 1829, construction began on a canal to eventually connect Waterloo with Fredericksburg, about 58 mi to the southeast. Finished in 1849, the canal included 44 locks and 20 dams, with 14 mi of dug canal.

Commercial activities in Waterloo began to thrive as the canal was constructed, because the water also could power mills. Eventually there was a sawmill, a clothing mill, a blacksmith, and a plan for a group of shops and factories on the Fauquier side to serve the community and the canal. However, when the Orange and Alexandria Railroad commenced operation in 1852, canal traffic rapidly declined, and venture ceased to operate in 1853.

During the Civil War, both Northern and South soldiers at various times occupied Waterloo. In 1861, CSA General Stonewall Jackson defeated USA General James Shields in an early skirmish; Shields' troops crossed the Waterloo Bridge from Culpeper to Fauquier on his retreat back to Washington, and in March 1862 he would return to help hand CSA General Jackson a rare tactical defeat at the Battle of Kernstown I (about 50 mi to the north). On August 22, 1862, General J. E. B. Stuart's army started its ride around the army of USA General John Pope Pope in Waterloo. Stuart's force captured Pope's headquarters wagons and destroyed Union supplies and army material, shortly before the second battle of Manassas. By war's end, all but a couple of Waterloo's buildings were destroyed or dismantled. See also "Battle of Rappahannock Station I".

The current Waterloo Bridge was constructed in 1878 for $7,050 by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company. A one-lane, wrought iron bridge, it may be the oldest such bridge in Virginia. The counties of Fauquier, Culpeper, and Rappahannock all contributed to the funding, in order to enable local farmers and merchants to deliver goods to market. U.S. Route 211 was routed across the bridge from 1926 until about 1930.

Modern
Today, all that remains of the once busy nexus of commerce is a one-lane bridge, a home built around 1830 by John Spillman Armstrong, and the Waterloo Post Office (now a private residence) built on the Culpeper side in 1870 by Armstrong under contract to the U.S. Post Office. Local residents believe the post office was built by the U.S. government as a way of re-establishing its authority following the Civil War.

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List of Greek flags

This is a list of flags used in the modern state of Greece or historically used by Greeks.

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Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka (born December 2, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Mickey Kostmayer on The Equalizer, Daniel Holtz on Angel, Gerard Stephens in The Dark Knight and Adam Engell in Argo. He has also voiced Dr. Terrence Kyne in Dead Space, Joshua Graham in Fallout: New Vegas, Harbinger in Mass Effect 2, Herschel Biggs in L.A. Noire and the Didact in Halo 4.

Early life
Szarabajka was born in Oak Park, Illinois on December 2, 1952, the son of Anne, a school teacher, and Edward Szarabajka, a savings and loan officer. His father was a much decorated veteran of World War II. He fought in North Africa and Italy until the end of the war. He received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart.

He attended Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and the University of Chicago, as well as Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He studied acting further at the Organic Theater in Chicago from 1972 to 1978. During this time, he co-wrote "Bleacher Bums" along with, among others, Joe Mantegna and Stuart Gordon. In 1982 he had a supporting role in the Costa-Gavras film Missing.

Career
His acting resume is extensive, appearing in numerous television programs including The Equalizer, Profit, The X-Files, Becker, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Roswell, 24, Max Steel, The Inside, and Law & Order. In 1994 he portrayed Matthew Stoner in Babylon 5 episode "Soul Mates". He is known for his role as Mickey Kostmayer in the 1980s show The Equalizer, as well as for his recurring role as vampire hunter Daniel Holtz in the cult series Angel, the spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He played the lead role in Stephen King's Golden Years. In 2016, he began the recurring guest role of Donatello Redfield in Supernatural, appearing in nine episodes before the show's conclusion in 2020.

Szarabajka has contributed his voice to several audio books, notably Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins, for which he won the 2001 Audie Award for Best Fiction, Unabridged; Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz; several roles in a Grammy nominated audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton; Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wild Side; and The Mark of Zorro opposite Val Kilmer. Szarabajka is the voice of Russman in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Additionally, he provided the voice for antagonist Dmitri Yuriev in the Xenosaga series and for The Master of Whispers in the game Guild Wars: Nightfall and for Emile Dufraisne in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent. He played the role of Detective Gerard Stephens in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight and voiced Dr. Terrence Kyne for the animated sci-fi horror film Dead Space: Downfall based on the Dead Space video game. He also voiced a minor character in Condemned 2: Bloodshot named Inferi.

He is the Archangel Azrael in Darksiders: Wrath of War and played a very small role in Dragon Age: Origins as a nameless dwarf collecting nugs, a voiceset for male dwarf characters, and several minor characters. He plays the Reaper Harbinger, the main villain of the video game Mass Effect 2, as well as a few minor characters. In 2008, he voiced Venom in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. In 2010, he voiced the Autobot Ironhide in Transformers: War for Cybertron as well as its 2012 sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Mr. Freeze in Young Justice. He provides the voice for Gilgamesh in the video game, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. He also provided the voice for Joshua Graham in Honest Hearts, downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas.

His most recent roles include the narrator Detective Herschel Biggs in the video game LA Noire, the Chaos Advisor and Captain Apollo Diomedes in Relic Entertainment's Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, Laserbeak in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Bastion in X-Men Destiny, several voices in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Ronan the Accuser in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Living Laser in Ultimate Spider-Man, Azrael The Narrator in Darksiders, the Crowfather in Darksiders II, the Witch-king of Angmar in Guardians of Middle-earth, Russman in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the Ur-Didact in Halo 4, General Spencer Mahad in Dead Space 3, and Cornelius Slate in BioShock Infinite.

He is also voiced Flameslinger in the Skylanders reboot of the franchise.

On Broadway, he originated the role of B.D. in Doonesbury.

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User:Nine Tail Fox/Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club (Durham CCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

Granted first-class status in 1991, Durham is English cricket's youngest first-class county. The County Ground at the Riverside is also the newest addition to the English test match circuit; hosting its first match, England v Zimbabwe in the second npower Test, in June 2003.

Early cricket in the north-east
The first recorded match of representative cricket in the county took place in 1848 at Sunderland, between an All England XII and a Bishopwearmouth 22. Despite their extra numbers the cricketers of Bishopwearmouth were comprehensively outplayed as All England's scores of 129 and 143 dwarfed their own 56 and 59.

The first team to carry the name of 'Durham County' played an MCC team in 1876, and went on to take on the touring Australians in 1878, winning by 71 runs, and again in 1880, losing by an innings and 38 with the great Fred Spofforth taking 17 wickets for 66.

Founding of the club
Durham CCC was founded as an official entity on May 23, 1882 at a meeting of representatives of sixteen representatives of the county's clubs convened by the South Shields Cricket Club. Membership subscriptions were set at £1 1s. The nascent club played its first competitive match on June 12 of that year, beating Northumberland by 4 wickets at the Ashbrooke Ground, Sunderland, with new club captain Arthur Mewburn returning his career best bowling figures of 7 for 59 and scoring 47 not out to shepherd his side to victory.

The club established an enviable record as a minor county: becoming the first minor county to beat a first-class county in the Gilette Cup; winning the Minor Counties Championship a record-equalling nine times between 1900 and 1984; and putting together a record of 65 matches without defeat between 1976 and 1982 that remains unbroken to the present day.

Early in 1989, the Club began the process of applying to become a first-class cricketing county and join the County Championship. First-class status was awarded on December 6, 1991, with Durham becoming the first new first-class county for 70 years. Their first season in the County Championship was the 1992 season.

Durham have not been distinguished by marked success as a first-class county. They finished bottom of the County Championship in their first two seasons and continued with finishes in the bottom three until 1999, when a fine season saw them finish 8th and gain a place as one of nine teams in Division One of the newly reorganised Championship. However, 8th place in 2000 sent them down to Division Two where they have remained since, finishing in the bottom two in every year except 2003, when they reached 6th.

The Riverside

The club's acceptance into first-class cricket was made conditional on the building of a new test match-standard cricket ground. Work began on the new ground at the Riverside, a spectacular location in Chester-le-Street overlooked by Lumley Castle, in 1990, and development has continued in phases until the present day. Work on the outfield and playing surface began in 1993. In its first three seasons in the Couny Championship, the Club played in a variety of locations around the county, but the Riverside ground was pronounced ready for cricket in time for the 1995 season, even though many of the buildings were still temporary or unfinished. The ground hosted its first game, Durham v Warwickshire, on May 18, 1995. Other facilities at the ground continued being built over subsequent years, and the club's Don Robson Pavilion was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. The full ground capacity, including permanent and temporary seating, is 15,000.

The development of the Riverside into a significant cricketing venue was underscored in 1999, when it hosted World Cup involving Pakistan, Scotland, Australia and Bangladesh, and then in 2000 when it staged the first One-day International match in the NatWest Triangular Series between England, Zimbabwe and the West Indies. In 2003 the Riverside Ground was raised to test match status, and it hosted its first test match, England v Zimbabwe in the second npower Test, on June 4, 2003.

Players
Since Durham's induction as a first-class county, each player has been allocated a unique squad number. The first 11 numbers were allocated in batting order from the club's first game, and subsequent numbers have been awarded in order of debut.

The current Durham squad consist of:

 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] David Barrick
 * [[Image:Flag of South Africa.svg|20px|South African]] Dale Benkenstein
 * [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|20px|Jamaican]] Gareth Breese
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Graeme Bridge
 * [[Image:Flag of Scotland.svg|20px|Scottish]] Kyle Coetzer
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Paul Collingwood (Vice-captain)
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Mark Davies
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Michael Gough
 * [[Image:Flag of Scotland.svg|20px|Scottish]] Gavin Hamilton (on loan to Scotland during June and July 2005)
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Stephen Harmison
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Mike Hussey (Captain)
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Neil Killeen
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Jonathan Lewis
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] James Lowe
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Jimmy Maher (as cover for Mike Hussey during September 2005)
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Gordon Muchall
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Philip Mustard (Wicket keeper)
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Ashley Noffke
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Graham Onions
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Nicky Peng
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Andrew Pratt
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Gary Pratt
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Gary Scott
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Callum Thorp
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Mark Turner
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Alan Walker
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Brad Williams (as cover for Ashley Noffke during August 2005)

Other notable cricketers who have played for the club include:

 * [[Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg|20px|New Zealander]] Nathan Astle
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] David Boon
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Ian Botham
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] David Graveney
 * [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|20px|English]] Simon Hughes
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Dean Jones
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Simon Katich
 * [[Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg|20px|Pakistani]] Shoaib Akhtar
 * [[Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg|20px|Australian]] Shaun Tait


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The Women's Ashes

The Women's Ashes is the perpetual trophy in women's international cricket series between England and Australia. The name derives from the historic precedent of the Ashes in male cricket and, until 2013, was similarly decided exclusively on the outcomes of Test matches.

Since the Australian tour of England in 2013, the competition is decided on a points system, taking account of One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 International matches as well as Tests. Four (previously six) points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in a limited-overs game.

History
Heralded in 1931, the first women's Test series between England and Australia—the first women's Test series anywhere—was played in 1934–35. At that time, according to the English captain, Betty Archdale, women played only "for love of the game" and did not wish to be associated with the male concepts of Tests and Ashes.

A total of 24 series have taken place, with 51 Test matches played (and one scheduled Test abandoned). The length of series has varied between one and five Tests. Series have been played biennially since 2001, with only one or two tests played in a series. Since the 2013 series, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 International matches have counted, as well as Tests, toward the trophy result. , a Test victory is worth four points (two to each side for a draw), and two points are awarded for victory in a limited-overs match. In February 2007, England Women travelled to Australia to defend the Women's Ashes, doing so successfully by winning the one-off Test in Bowral by six wickets. In July 2009, England retained the Women's Ashes after the one-off test at Worcester ended in a draw. In January 2011 Australia was victorious, winning a one-off test in Sydney. England regained the trophy on the new points system in August 2013, and successfully defended it in a series played in Australia in January–February 2014. Australia succeeded in regaining the trophy during the 2015 series played in England.

Australia has retained the Ashes for three consecutive series - 2017-18, 2019 and 2021–22 - making them the current holder of the trophy.

Trophy
Before the ODI series in July 1998, the president of the Women's Cricket Association, Norma Izard devised a way for the women to have a trophy of their own, like the men's Ashes urn. The England and Australia players both signed a miniature cricket bat which was burned at Lord's in a wok alongside a copy of the WCA constitution and rulebook, as the WCA had voted 4 months earlier to merge with England and Wales Cricket Board. Izard had commissioned a trophy to hold them: a wooden cricket ball carved from yew.

Following the 2001 series, the Australian team took an empty replica home with them and the ball containing the ashes remained in the Lord's museum. However, in the intervening years, one of the two wooden balls went missing. When the ECB and Cricket Australia commissioned a new trophy, the remaining ball became the focal point of the new trophy, inside nine stumps. Because of this, it remains unclear if the modern trophy contains those original ashes or not.

In July 2023, to mark the 25th anniversary of the trophy's creation, the MCC unveiled a plaque at Lord's.

Series
Series decided on Test results:

Series decided on a points system:

Batting

 * Most runs

Bowling

 * Most wickets

Multi-format (from 2013)
Player names in bold text are current international players.

Batting (all matches)

 * Most runs

Updated to include 2023 Women's Ashes, however some matches for the 2021-22 Women's Ashes are missing from the records.

Bowling (all matches)

 * Most wickets

Updated to include 2023 Women's Ashes however some matches for the 2021-22 Women's Ashes are missing from the records..

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Talk:Politics of China (disambiguation)

Why not a disambiguation page?
Why is this page protected to be a redirecting page to Politics of the People's Republic of China? I think it should be changed to a disambiguation page to distinguish Politics of the Republic of China. --Neo-Jay 10:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Because dab pages exist where there is ambiguity. Nobody refers to the RoC as simple "China". SchmuckyTheCat
 * Politics of the Republic of China also covers the history of China from 1911 to 1949. The Republic of China in this period is of course referred to as simple "China". Politics of the People's Republic of China only talks about the politics of China after 1949. I hope that a comprehensive article Politics of China will be created to cover the whole political history of China. But for now, a disambiguation page is necessary.--Neo-Jay 06:52, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Politics of X articles tend to be fairly current (to within a few decades) because old politics are history. Users who are looking for "politics of China" are not looking for the RoC. SchmuckyTheCat
 * How can you say that Users who are looking for "politics of China" are not looking for the RoC? I am such a user. If your argument is valid, why not rename Politics of the People's Republic of China to Politics of China? --Neo-Jay 09:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Let's create a disambig page OR a comprehensive page - this redirect should not point to PRC alone. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:41, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Guys, we now have a separate page for 'China' and the PRC, why is there not a separate page for the politics of China as distinct from the politics of the ROC and the PRC? I haven't tried editing this page, but I think it it is probably protected anyway. I'll give it a try now. FOARP (talk) 17:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

There, no doubt people are going to find this objectionable, but the fact is there are two bodies which claim to govern China, just are there are two bodies which claim to rule Korea and Cyprus - to simply redirect this link to the politics of the PRC means that this article only represents the China=PRC POV FOARP (talk) 17:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Common names. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Proper names of the pages represented. You go to the 'politics of the Republic of China' page and try to change it to 'the politics of Taiwan' if you like. Anyway, I'm sure you've seen this from the project page for naming conventions:

"As a general rule of thumb, the official political terms "People's Republic of China" or "PRC" and "Republic of China" or "ROC" should be used in political contexts (that is, to describe the existing governments or regimes) rather than the imprecise and politically charged terms "China" and "Taiwan." For example, "Hu Jintao is the President of the People's Republic of China" is preferred over "Hu Jintao is the President of China." Likewise, one should write "one must be an ROC citizen to vote in the ROC presidential election" as opposed to "one must be a Taiwanese citizen to vote in the Taiwanese presidential election."" FOARP (talk) 15:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The naming conventions, that section specifically, are disputed and unreliable.
 * The key question for a dab page is not politics, it is reader convenience. Throw the politics away and you are left with the question of what readers expect to find at any given title.  Do any general readers refer to the RoC as "China"?  No, they do not.  If they type "Politics of China", are there any general readers (ie, those not already well-versed in RoC/PRC nomenclature) that are expecting to find information about the RoC?  No, there are not.  That is why this is not a dab page. SchmuckyTheCat (talk

But we have the example of the Korea page, the Irish page, the Congo page etc., plus the fact that there is already a separate page for China - why shouldn't there be a page for Chinese politics? PRC=China is POV, the separate political systems are both ones which hold power in more than one province of China and both claim to rule China. YOu may not like the naming convention, but it does seem to have been stable now for quite some time. You already seem to have had a revert war on this one, so can we find a way of avoiding another? FOARP (talk) 19:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I also note that in lots of places there are separate links for 'PRC politics' and 'politics of China' FOARP (talk) 19:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Important notice
The government section of the "Outline of China" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

Please check that this country's outline is not in error.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist.

Thank you.

Semiprotection review
This article was semiprotected during the career of a banned user who has now apparently been inactive for well over a year. I would like to hear opinions from regular editors on whether semiprotection can now be lifted. I have also contacted the protecting sysops, and.

--TS 16:44, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

 * There's positively no reason to keep the protection on. I removed it. Grand  master  ka  17:09, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

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