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Ashlee Simpson
This article was the subject of many edit wars in the past. Things seem to have settled down now. Me, Everyking, and ExtraordinaryMachine have restored a NPOV to the article and I think it's on its way to becoming a FA. Any suggestion would be helpful :). Ryan Norton T 07:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * If the article is going to make "featured" status, you'll need to get the image copyrights in order. The "fair use" rationales for the images are pretty generic: they cover why the image can be used under fair use, but not why it can be used in Ashlee Simpson.  Try for something more specific than "is meant to put a face on a stage in the person's life": the claim is particularly weak for Image:ASHL078.jpg and Image:1267457-Full.jpg.  Also, the copyright holders need to be indicated for Image:1267457-Full.jpg, Image:ASHL078.jpg, and Image:A-simpson-shadow-sitting.jpg.  Image:Album ashlee simpson autobiography.jpg needs a fair-use rationale for its appearance on Ashlee Simpson, since the rationale in the tag really only covers its use in Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album).  Also, has anyone contacted Ashlee Simpson's agent to ask for a photo under GFDL or another free license? --Carnildo 07:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks as always Carnildo :). I've reworked all the image fair use claims to be specific and better. Let me know what you think.  Also, I browsed the site for Ashlee for a couple of hours and couldn't find any contact info for anyone at the site (even got an account and logged in). Ryan Norton T 09:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good. You've done a better job of indicating copyright holders than most pop-culture articles I've seen. --Carnildo 20:08, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


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User:Driekie

I am a 24 year old South African, currently doing a Masters degree in language studies at UCT in Cape Town.

Interests:

 * Languages, linguistics and literacy studies
 * Children's literature
 * South African entertainment industry (i.e. television, films, actors, etc).
 * South African literature

To do:

 * start Gunther Kress article
 * start Justin Nurse and Laugh It Off articles
 * start Frank Opperman article
 * start Anrich Herbst article
 * add to RSG article
 * add to K. M. Peyton pages
 * add to SA TV
 * add to SA soapies
 * add to SA movies

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Willem Jacob van Stockum

Willem Jacob van Stockum (20 November 1910 – 10 June 1944) was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity.

Biography
Van Stockum was born in Hattem in the Netherlands. His father was a mechanically talented officer in the Dutch Navy. After the family (less the father) relocated to Ireland in the late 1920s, Willem studied mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he earned a gold medal. He went on to earn an M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1937.

In the mid-1930s, van Stockum became an early enthusiast of the then new theory of gravitation, general relativity. In 1938, he published a paper which contains one of the first exact solutions in general relativity which modeled the gravitational field produced by a configuration of rotating matter, the van Stockum dust, which remains an important example noted for its unusual simplicity. In this paper, van Stockum was apparently the first to notice the possibility of closed timelike curves, one of the strangest and most disconcerting phenomena in general relativity.

Van Stockum left for the United States in hope of studying under Albert Einstein, eventually in the spring of 1939 gaining a temporary position under Professor Oswald Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The outbreak of the Second World War occurred while he was teaching at the University of Maryland. Anxious to join the fight against Hitler, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, eventually earning his pilots wings in July 1942. Because of his advanced knowledge of physics, he spent much of the next year as a test pilot in Canada. After the Netherlands was invaded by Hitler, van Stockum sought to join the war as a pilot. Finally, he was able to transfer to the Dutch Air Force (in exile), and in 1944 became the only Dutch officer posted to No. 10 Sqron of the RAF Bomber Command, which was stationed in Yorkshire and flew combat missions in the Halifax heavy bomber over Europe before and after the Normandy invasion. On 10 June 1944, van Stockum and his crew of six took off on their sixth combat mission, as part of another 400-plane raid. Near their target, the plane was hit by flak, and all seven crew members were lost, along with seven from another bomber on the same mission. The fourteen airmen are buried in Laval, near the place where the planes went down.

By van Stockum

 * Doctoral thesis Edinburgh.
 * The original paper presenting the rediscovery of Lanczos' 1924 dust solution, nowadays referred to as the Lanczos-van Stockum solution.
 * Essay written by van Stockum published under the byline "a bomber pilot", due to wartime security restrictions.

By others

 * Translated reprint of Van Stockum rediscovered Lanczos's result.
 * Translation of an article by a historian published in the Dutch Air Force magazine "De Vliegende Hollander".
 * Historical fiction by Robert P. Wack, set in Normandy in June 1944. Van Stockum's life and work inspired this book. Also available as
 * Historical fiction by Robert P. Wack, set in Normandy in June 1944. Van Stockum's life and work inspired this book. Also available as

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Aberhafesp

Aberhafesp is a small village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. The hamlet of Bwlch-y-Ffridd is within the community.

It is situated about five miles west of Newtown on the B4568 close to the River Severn.

The church of St Gwynog dates back to the 13th century but was largely rebuilt in 1857.

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Aberhosan

Aberhosan is a village in the Welsh principal area of Powys, located between the town of Machynlleth and village of Dylife. It is in the historic county of Montgomeryshire.

History
The village school closed before 1971, and is now the village hall. The village has a chapel but its shop has closed.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
In 1990 a memorial was unveiled at the Cadair viewpoint (at 52.5489°N, -3.7183°W) to the broadcaster and writer Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. It is a toposcope, looking out over the rolling hills and mountains, with a depiction of Vaughan-Thomas pointing towards Snowdon, Wales' highest peak, which is just visible on a clear day.

Internet issues
In September 2020 the BBC reported that the village had had serious issues with its broadband internet connectivity for the previous 18 months. BT Openreach engineers investigated the problem using a spectrum analyser and found that the issue was caused by a resident who was using an old television. After the TV was disposed of the issues ended.

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Lauren Goodnight

Lauren Goodnight (born May 19, 1980) is an American radio host, voice actress,  sex educator, and occasional singer.

Career
Goodnight has been the host for the call-in show 8-bit Sex on the 8bitx.com website and Celestia Radio, Fridays at 10pm EST. She is a professional member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. She is based in South Carolina. Goodnight used to be a voice actress who worked for Section23 Films, most notably as Natsue Awayuki in Prétear. She also worked with Antarctic Press and Fred Perry on the animation of Gold Digger, in the role of Brittany Diggers. From 2004 to 2006, Goodnight was a music reviewer for Anime on DVD. She was the voice of Twilight Sparkle, the co-star, among other voices, in the My Little Pony/Doctor Who crossover radio program Doctor Whooves Adventures, which aired on YouTube.

Personal life
Lauren has been a sex educator and equal rights advocate for over 20 years. While active, she was a regular at conventions, such as Anime Weekend Atlanta, Anime Boston, MetroCon, AnimeNEXT, and BronyCon. She frequently takes vacations to the United Kingdom, as she is an anglophile.

Roles

 * Angelic Layer – narrator
 * Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution – Arayashiki West, Sarashina
 * D.N.Angel – Girl A (ep 21), Little Girl (ep 25)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion Director's Cut – additional voices
 * Noir – additional voices
 * Pretear – Natsue Awayuki
 * RahXephon – additional voices
 * Sorcerer Hunters OAV – Shiorena (ep 3)
 * Super GALS! – various minor roles
 * Gold Digger: Time Raft – Brittany Diggers
 * Nana's Everyday Life – Nana
 * Dr. Whooves Adventures – Twilight Sparkle (ongoing); Derpy Hooves ("Wrong Way Backwards", "DWA Short: Express Delivery: An April Fool's Day Sketch"); Rarity ("Number 12: Part One", "DWA Short: Fashionably Late", "Wrong Way Backwards", "DWA Short: Lovestruck"); The Professor (Alternative Universe Doctor) ("DWA Short: Crossed Wires", "Pony in a Box Extras: She's the Professor"); Celestia ("Shadows of the Lunar Republic")
 * Dr. Whooves and Assistant – Twilight Sparkle (crossover episode "Wrong Way Backwards"); Herself (2013 April Fools Special "The Vampire Hazard")
 * 8-bit Sex – co-host

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Lender's Bagels

Lender's Bagels is a brand of bagels that pioneered the pre-packaged bagel industry in the United States. Established in 1927 in New Haven, Connecticut, by the Lender family, it became a North American leader in the marketing, distribution and sales of bagels. Lender's introduced frozen bagels and sold the first packaged bagels in supermarkets, eventually becoming the world's biggest bagel producer. The company was sold to Kraft Foods in 1984. In 2003, it became part of Pinnacle Foods. In 1994 it began production of room-temperature fresh bagels. In 2012, Lender's revenue was about $70 million.

In 2018 Pinnacle foods was sold to Conagra, which then sold Lender's Bagels out of Pinnacle to Bimbo Bakery.

Beginnings
Lender's Bagel Bakery was established by Harry Lender, a Jewish baker originally from Chelm, Poland. He had immigrated to the United States from Lublin in August 1927. His surname is a transliteration of the Yiddish word meaning "countryman" or "person living in a rural area" (cf. modern German Länder). After first working in a bagel bakery in Passaic, New Jersey, Lender purchased his own bakery on Oak Street in New Haven, Connecticut, for $600. He arranged for his family to join him in the United States, and they arrived on December 30, 1929.

New Haven then had a population of over 162,000, many of them new immigrants. The Jewish population of 25,000 made up almost one-sixth of the population. Lender's bagel bakery, called the "New York Bagel Bakery", was one of the first bagel bakeries in the United States to be established outside New York City. In 2007, the site of the first Lender's bagel bakery was dedicated as a playground; it was named after one of Harry Lender's sons: “Murray Lender Playground”.

In 1934, Lender moved to a large former Italian bakery, in a multi-ethnic neighborhood of New Haven. Aside from sales to individuals, Lender sold his bagels to other bakeries, as well as to delicatessens and restaurants. As the largest sales of bagels came on Sunday morning, Saturday night was the busiest time at the bakery. People of all ethnicities, even from out of town, began to stop by the bakery on Saturday nights to purchase fresh bagels.

New processes lead to growth
By the mid-1950s, the logistics of producing as many as 6,000 bagels for sale on Sunday morning, in contrast to relatively low activity the rest of the week, began to demand a solution. As a result, in 1954 Lender perfected a method of freezing the bagels, so that the labor could be spread more evenly throughout the week. He kept this process a secret, but after two years, the bakery accidentally delivered frozen bagels, and the secret was revealed. Customers were initially angry, but were won over, when they realized that these were the same bagels they had been satisfied with for the previous two years. The New York Bagel Bakery started to market the frozen bagels, including delivery outside New Haven, for instance to resorts in the Catskills that were popular among Jews.

Lender developed further refinements, such as pre-slicing the bagels and packing them in polyethylene bags to keep them fresh after thawing. The bakery began selling the packaged frozen bagels in supermarkets. To introduce bagels to an unfamiliar public, the Lender family would prepare and distribute them in supermarket aisles. The plastic bagged, frozen six pack of pre-sliced Lender's Frozen Bagels began to gain market share, and by 1959 supermarket sales accounted for half of the sales. His business created new varieties of bagels, and production was switched to rotary ovens, rather than the labor-intensive open, flat ovens.

In 1960, Harry Lender died. His sons Sam and Murray, who had been running the bakery with him, continued. (The oldest son Hyman had previously left the family business.) When youngest son Marvin graduated from college, he became a partner as well, and shortly thereafter Sam retired. The two brothers teamed up to expand operations, with Marvin managing the bakery and Murray in charge of sales.

In 1963 the Lenders leased the very first Thompson Bagel Machine, invented by Daniel T. Thompson. Until then, according to Thompson: "Sam Lender mixed the bagel dough and one man cut it into small slabs and fed it into an Italian breadstick machine. The Italian breadstick machine made bagel dough strips that were then distributed to workstations where six to eight men rolled them by hand into bagels. With this system they averaged 50 dozen bagels per hour per man. The first Thompson machine, with three unskilled workers, was able to do the work of eight skilled workers."

Large-scale expansion
In 1965 the bakery, now renamed "Lender's Bagel Bakery", moved to a 12000 sqft plant on the Boston Post Road in West Haven, in order to have ample reserve capacity for expansion. Business increased so quickly that the bakery was working at full capacity within a year. The Lenders began flash-freezing the bagels and produced softer and sweeter bagels than was traditional.

In 1974, Lender’s had bought their major competitor, Abel's Bagels in Buffalo, New York. In 1978 the family opened a bagel restaurant in Orange, Connecticut, under the name “H. Lender and Sons”; two years later they opened a second one in Hamden. After Lender's Bagels was sold to Kraft Foods, the name of the restaurant was changed to S. Kinder Restaurants. The name is derived from Yiddish esst, kinder, meaning eat, children.

Under Marvin and Murray Lender, Lender's Bagels eventually grew to a highly automated 25000 sqft bakery, pioneering the modern automated bagel bakery. The company grew from six employees when it moved to West Haven to 600 in 1984, selling about $60 million worth of bagels from four bagel factories producing more than 750,000,000 bagels a year, becoming the world's biggest bagel producer.

Marketing
Murray Lender's marketing promotions put bagels into the public consciousness. He was traveling throughout the United States marketing Lender's Frozen Bagels to a country which was disdainful of frozen foods and unfamiliar with bagels. In response to observations that March was the slowest month for sales of frozen foods, Murray Lender led an effort to declare March as Frozen Foods Month, raising sales dramatically. In recognition of his contributions to the industry as a whole, he was elected chairman of the National Frozen Food Association, nominated to the Halls of Fame of the International Deli-Bakery Association, and the Frozen Food Association. In response to the public's growing consciousness of health foods and the drop in popularity of white bread, he began to stress bagels as more natural baked goods, and Lender's Bagels became one of the first products to voluntarily include nutritional information on the package.

In a 1997 New York Times article, Eric Asimov described what he called the "informal border separating the land of fresh bagels from the frontier of the frozen assembly-line product made by Lender's Bagels" as "the Lender's Line." Murray Lender appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He created green bagels for Saint Patrick's Day, oval bagels for President Lyndon B. Johnson to be photographed eating in the Oval Office, and "bagel heads", miniature decorated bagels, in the likeness of the world leaders attending the 9th G7 summit in 1983. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a cartoon mascot, "BagelBird", was featured on t-shirts and other mail-order merchandise to promote the brand. When he died at age 81 on March 21, 2012, the Washington Post called him "the most important man in the modern history of bagels," adding "Lender’s bagels may taste like white bread with a hole, but what they lack in authenticity they make up for in meaning."

New ownership
In the spring of 1984, the Lender family sold Lender's Frozen Bagels to Kraft Foods, with the stipulation that Marvin would remain president and Murray spokesman for the next two years. Murray Lender publicized the sale in characteristic form, by holding "the marriage of the century", with Murray and Marvin escorting a 6 ft Lender’s Bagel, "Len", down the aisle to meet his new bride, "Phyl", a Kraft Philadelphia brand cream cheese. In 1987, Lender's had three plants in West Haven, a plant in New Haven, one in Buffalo, New York, and one in Mattoon, Illinois; the last is the site of the annual "Bagelfest", and also the only surviving Lender's Bagel plant in operation today. Kraft, which reportedly spent $12 to $15 million annually to advertise Lender's bagels, sold the company to Kellogg Company in 1996 for $455 million. Analysts criticized Kellogg's investment in a frozen product at a time when the popularity of fresh bagels was rising. Kellogg's introduced a $20 million television campaign for Lender's in Fall 1997. In October 1999, Kellogg's sold the business to San Francisco based Aurora Foods for $275 million, and ceased production at the New Haven factory in March 2000. In 2003, Aurora was bought by Pinnacle Foods, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group since 2007.

As of 2013, the Lender's Bagels brand is in production with a wide variety of bagels, including a Healthy Grain bagel brand containing more dietary fiber and protein than the company’s other bagels. In 2011, Lender’s revenue was $40.9 million from the sale of 23.4 million six-bagel packages, $12.7 million from the sale of 7.6 million units of frozen bagels, and $28.2 million from the sale of 15.8 million units of refrigerated bagels. According to SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago-based market research firm, Lender’s is the top selling brand in each segment. In 2012, Lender's Bagels sales increased to more than $70 million.

In May 2012, Consumer Reports magazine rated Lender's Original as one of the best bagels sold by American fast-food chains and grocery stores, an assessment criticized by many commentators – especially in New York – who argued that only fresh bagels are real bagels.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KTF

 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 KEEP. Since we prevail on placing articles at the most common usage, and the companies website itself refers to it as KTF, I'm not going to move it myself. I will, however, create the full-name as a redirect. Since that redirect will have a trivial history, anyone can WP:BOLDLY move the existing article over it if they want to. -Splash 01:08, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

KTF
This was previously deleted as blatant advertising. However, on VFU it was pointed out that the article was rewritten just before its deletion, and not all voters had been aware of that. So, it was decided to give it another chance. Abstain. Radiant_ >|< 07:09, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Large company and the article seems to be fairly neutral. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see a problem now. --Apyule 07:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, the rewrite solved the problem. - Mgm|(talk) 08:24, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Looks alright to me __earth 08:55, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. It's a very poorly written article. As it stands, it is a two-paragraph summary of the company's alleged business dealings. Complete contravention of the NPOV policy: everything written about it is from the company's point of view. What do its competitors think of the company? How do its customers feel about it? Any studies on customer satisfaction? If so, how well has it done? Who do the governments, local and national, think about it? Has it had legal troubles? What is its economic history? What role has it played in its industry? Is it merely one of several players? Are those claims about its finances accurate? Why is it notable, aside from having a lot of customers, which is something millions and millions of companies around the world have? What particular notability has it a claim to that warrants mention in an encyclopedia? The fact that it introduced ring tones (I don't know, I'm just asking, as that seems to be the only claim of uniqueness I can see)? These questions pertain to WP:NPOV and WP:N. Next, we have questions pertaining to WP:V. To write a good encyclopedia article, the subject must be eminently verifiable from multiple reputable, independent sources. What sources were used to write this article? I see links to the company website. What primary or secondary sources were used to write this work? Or can be used by us if we wish to expand it? Do any exist? WP articles cannot be products of original research, they must be based on multiple reputable primary or secondary sources. See WP:RS. Like thousands of other articles currently on WP, this one seems to contravene some major WP policies and guidelines. Problem is what to do with articles that may indeed be about a notable subject (and this one may well be, I don't know; not enough is said about it for one to know), but which are in their present state really weak (and will likely always be weak)? After studying the policies, it seems to me this conundrum is open to interpretation, and is in fact the source of much dispute on AfD. My vote here is to delete (mainly because I think it will be near impossible for WP editors to source the material (what exists, that is) to write a good article per WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NOT, WP:NOR), but equally many well-meaning editors will vote the other way. Kind regards— Encephalon |  ζ   09:35:19, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
 * One last issue: The page is currently called KTF, the abbreviated form of the company's name. As it will likely be kept, could someone check if the title is in keeping with WP:MOS? Regards— Encephalon |  ζ   09:38:16, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
 * Delete Not NPOV. DV8 2XL 13:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, "not NPOV" is not a reason for deletion, feel free to edit the article. Kappa 14:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * weak keep POV, needs some more verification Roodog2k 14:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - It's Wiki-worthy enough... UniReb 21:19, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep significant company. -- DS1953 00:57, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable enough Dottore So 01:55, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable company. Capitalistroadster 01:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The company appears to have annual gross revenue over US$5 billion, and is listed on its country's main stock exchange -- clearly notable.  Google reveals a variety of articles referencing the company.  The article should be kept at KTF as that appears to be the way the company refers to itself in English. --Metropolitan90 02:48, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Sensible votes people. I checked WP:MOS, which astonishingly does not appear to have a section on abbreviations, but does have one on acronyms. Cheers— Encephalon |  ζ   04:19:55, 2005-09-02 (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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KTF

KT Freetel Co., Ltd. (Korea Telecom Freetel, 주식회사케이티프리텔) was a South Korean telecommunications firm, now merged into Korea Telecom, specializing in cellular, or mobile, phones. Since 1999, it has also developed extensive overseas operations. The company is credited with developing customized ring back tones. On 1 June 2009, KTF was merged with KT.

In 2003, KTF received an order from PT Mobile-8 Telecom of Indonesia for a comprehensive consulting service. KTF also signed a contract for the export of its CDMA network management system and invested $10 million in the Indonesian mobile provider.

KTF commercialized the world first nationwide HSDPA service with the brand of "SHOW" on 1 March 2007.

In India, the firm completed the first stage of its contract with Reliance for $2.65 million worth of the CDMA network construction.

KTF also holds a 25% stake in CEC Mobile of China, after investing a sum of 4.5 billion won in 2002. The two major shareholders of KTF are KT(52.99%) and NTT DoCoMo (10.03%). KTF sponsors a professional StarCraft team.

Merged into KT
KT officially declared the merger on January 14 2009. KFTC approved merge on February 25, 2009. The Korea Communications Commission finally approved the merger on Mar 18 2009.

A special meeting of shareholders was held on Mar 27 2009. KT finished the merge on May 31, 2009.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northern Ireland naming dispute

 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 keep. -- BD2412 talk 04:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Northern Ireland naming dispute
This is fundamentally a [POV] issue, not something worthy of academic or encyclopaedic record. So long as the "occupation" continues, one side will insist on pan-Irish nomenclature. So long as one "Ulster loyalist" lives (in Derry, Glasgow or the farthest reaches of Antarctica), the other side will insist on nomenclature to reflect its belief that the counties are at the heart of the English suburban sprawl. Politics will solve this, not rational argument. The answer may also lie with EU decress, since both England and the Free State have joined the Union, and therefore have abrogated the final say on their nationhood to Brussels. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.196 (talk • contribs) 08:07, 1 September 2005
 * The point of the article isn't to "solve" the issue, just to catalog it. I found the article interesting.  Have you seen the treatment of other "POV" issues on wikipedia?  MisterSheik 09:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. There's no reason to delete this article. It doesn't try to say what the place in question should be called, merely to document that there is a dispute. It seems to do that pretty well, and (though I'm not an expert in the area) there doesn't seem to be anything here that either side would object to. I found it interesting. PeteVerdon 09:52, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep. I can't see any big bias in it Bolak77 10:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I created this article in order to document a major part of the conflict in Northern Ireland. As PeteVerdon said, this article is documenting the naming dispute and of course will not take a particular side. Talrias (t | e | c) 13:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The page describes the various POVs, it doesn't endorse them. Derry/Londonderry name dispute is a precedent. Demiurge 11:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this is a good example of how NPOV can be achieve by a balanced demonstration of all the different POVs. -Splash 21:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article can be kept NPOV, and it's informative. Punkmorten 21:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Exemplary way of treating a touchy subject in an NPOV way. −Woodstone 17:14:55, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
 * Delete. As a citizen of the Republic of Ireland I never knew that a naming dispute existed (apart from that of communists and facists making) until I read this article, it is of little note and not worthy of wikipedia. Djegan 20:45, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment moreover its no wonder that the only article that points to the article is Sinn Féin. Whilst I don't doubt the committment and sincerity of those who have so far assisted in the article I must conclude that it only serves as a kind of media hype of something very abstact. Djegan 21:02, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is quite new. I imagine links from appropriate articles will be added in the future. Talrias (t | e | c) 21:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. This has long been a major point of dispute and needs documenting. Timrollpickering 21:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Reasonable article on noteworthy topic. Capitalistroadster 23:30, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. As the originator of Category:Geographical naming disputes, I could hardly say otherwise.  I think the nominator misunderstands what WP:NPOV means; we certainly do discuss various POVs, we just don't take one.--Pharos 01:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - a big bone of contention!!! --MacRusgail 14:42, 7 September 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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ALF

Alf or ALF may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * ALF (TV series), American sitcom
 * ALF: The Animated Series, based on the TV series
 * ALF Tales, based on the TV series
 * ALF (video game), released by Sega in 1989
 * Alf (album), a 1984 album by Alison Moyet

Fictional characters

 * ALF (character), the title character of the American sitcom
 * Alf Garnett, from the BBC's Till Death Us Do Part
 * Alf Thompson, a character in BBC's stop motion named Postman Pat
 * Alf Mason, character in American animated television series Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates
 * Alf Mushpie, in the comic strip Bloom County
 * Alf Roberts, from the British television program Coronation Street
 * Alf Stewart, from the Australian television program Home and Away
 * Alf Tupper, in the comic Victor
 * Alf Wit, in the comic The Beano
 * Sir Alf, in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, eaten by the Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh
 * 'Unlucky' Alf, in the BBC's The Fast Show
 * One of the title characters in Alf, Bill and Fred, a 1964 American animated short film

People

 * Alf (name), given name, nickname or surname, including a list of people with the name
 * Adam Le Fondre, English footballer whose nickname is ALF or Alfie due to his initials

Places

 * Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, a local municipality in Zell, Germany
 * Alf (river) or Alfbach, a tributary of the Moselle River in Germany

Companies and organizations

 * ALF Products, former personal-computer products manufacturer
 * Afar Liberation Front, an Ethiopian political party of the Afar people
 * Africa Leadership Forum, a Nigerian organization
 * American LaFrance, a former emergency and vocational vehicle manufacturer
 * American Legacy Foundation, the former name of the modern-day Truth Initiative
 * American Liver Foundation, an American organization for liver health and disease prevention
 * American Lighthouse Foundation, an American organization
 * Animal Liberation Front, a name used by animal liberationists
 * Arab Liberation Front, a Palestinian group

Health

 * ALF (psychology), a group therapy model
 * Acute liver failure
 * Assisted living facility, facility providing assistance to aged, infirm, or disabled adults

Mythology

 * Alf, the son of Alrik, of Yngvi and Alf
 * Alf, the son of Sigar, of Alf and Alfhild
 * Alf, one of the álfar

Technology

 * alf, ISO-639-3 code for the Alege language
 * ALF (proof assistant), dependently typed programming language/theorem prover
 * Action Language for Foundational UML
 * Advanced Library Format, an ASIC databook
 * Algebraic Logic Functional programming language
 * Algorithms for Lattice Fermions, a Quantum Monte Carlo package
 * Application layer framing
 * Application Lifecycle Framework, integration framework for ALM tools
 * Atomic line filter, an advanced optical filter

Transportation

 * ALF, vehicle license plate prefix for Hildesheim (district), Germany
 * ALF, IATA airport code for Alta Airport, Norway
 * ALF, National Rail code for Alfreton railway station, UK
 * Alf (barque), a barque wrecked on Haisboro Sands in 1909

Other uses

 * Atlas linguistique de la France, a dialect atlas published between 1902 and 1910

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The Last Days

The Last Days is a 1998 documentary film directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper; Steven Spielberg, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation, was one of the film's executive producers. The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust (also known as the Shoah), focusing on the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportations of Jews in the country to concentration and extermination camps, primarily Auschwitz. It depicts the horrors of life in the camps, but also stresses the optimism and perseverance of the survivors.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 71st Academy Awards. It was remastered and re-released on Netflix on May 19, 2021.

Content
The film includes archival footage, photographs, and documents, as well as new interviews with Holocaust survivors Bill Basch, Irene Zisblatt, Renée Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Tom Lantos, Randolph Braham, and Dario Gabbai. The filmmakers take the first five of those, who all immigrated to the United States after WWII, back to visit their hometowns and the sites of the camps to which they were sent. Former Representative Lantos (D-CA) was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the United States Congress. He was saved by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who hid Lantos in Budapest.

There are also interviews with U.S. army veterans Paul Parks and Katsugo Miho, G.I.'s who helped liberate Dachau concentration camp. Former SS doctor Hans Münch, who was acquitted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials, is interviewed about his experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Release
The Last Days was first released in 1998, and it was remastered and re-released worldwide on Netflix on May 19, 2021. It was produced by June Beallor, Kenneth Lipper, Steven Spielberg, and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Critical response
The Last Days received positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 92% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 85 out of 100, based on 25 critics.

According to Radheyan Simonpillai of The Guardian: "The film’s thesis is that the Nazis were so fueled by hatred that they would sacrifice their position in the war in order to carry out the genocide, deporting 438,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz within a six-week period." Roger Ebert wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times that the film "focuses on the last year of the war, when Adolf Hitler, already defeated and with his resources running out, revealed the depth of his racial hatred by diverting men and supplies to the task of exterminating Hungary's Jews." In New York Magazine, John Leonard wrote: "It is a story told by five survivors of that fast-forward genocide, all of them naturalized American citizens, who return to the cities and villages from which they were seized, and to the camps to which they were committed."

Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle wrote: "Moll's film is a far cry from the elegiac poetry of, say, Night and Fog; it's a document more than an examination, and its power of record is inarguable and incorruptible." Barbara Shulgasser-Parker, former film critic for the San Francisco Examiner, wrote for Common Sense Media that "The horrors described by survivors of the death camps, the soldiers who liberated them, and historians, as well as photographs and archival footage, make this important and educational but best suited to teens and older."

Experimental psychologist George Mastroianni discussed The Last Days and a 2010 essay by independent scholar Joachim Neander in a 2021 article posted to The Times of Israel's "The Blogs", in which he wrote that "Neander analyzed Zisblatt's testimony and raised concerns about the factual accuracy of some of the elements of her story." However, in this same article he notes that "we should never dignify the outrageous claims made by (Holocaust) deniers by taking them seriously" and that it is common to "mistakenly adopt information" as our own "when the public square was flooded with films, books, and speeches about the Holocaust." Neander adds that "There is no shame in misremembering (the details of) events, or in misattributing other’s experiences as our own."

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Vermont Square, Los Angeles

Vermont Square is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. The Vermont Square Branch library, a designated Historic–Cultural Monument, is located in the community.

History

The name Vermont Square appeared in newspaper ads in 1909, advertising the community as "the largest subdivision ever put on the market in Los Angeles".

In the 1920s, the neighborhood was home to lower-middle-class white families. After World War II, African Americans began moving into the community. In the 1980s, Latino families began moving in.

As late as 1969, the name Vermont Square was still being used by local businesses.

In 1996, the community got a LANI (Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative) grant to install trees, streetlights and bus shelters.

In the 1997, in an effort to distinguish the area from South Central Los Angeles, residents of Vermont Square met with historian Gregory Fischer to discuss neighborhood signage. Fischer had helped design historic signage for the Victoria Park neighborhood. Vermont Square signage is installed on Vermont Avenue at King Boulevard.

In December 2000, Vermont Square Park was refurbished at a cost of $20,000. Lights were repaired, trees were trimmed, sandboxes graded and gazebos freshly painted. On April 19, 2002, the Vermont Square Community Garden was dedicated, with Councilperson Jan Perry in attendance. Funded by an $80,000 grant from the S.Mark Taper Foundation, it was the first community garden in South Los Angeles.

Geography
In 1997, The Los Angeles Times defined the neighborhood as a 3-mile area, approximately bounded by Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on the north, Hoover Street on the east, Slauson Avenue on the south and Arlington Avenue on the west.

Demographics
A total of 42,284 people lived in Vermont Square's 2.54 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 17,798 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in the city as a whole. Population was estimated at 47,555 in 2008. The median age was 26, considered young when compared to the city as a whole. The percentages of young residents, aged birth to 18, were among the county's highest. Within the neighborhood, Latinos made up 58.5% of the population, with black people at 39.2%, whites 1.4%, Asian 1.1%, and other 1.8%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 38.5% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.

The $29,904 median household income in 2008 dollars was considered low for the city and county. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 3.4 people was high for the city. Renters occupied 63.2% of the housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest.

In 2000, there were 2,519 families headed by single parents, or 26.7%, a rate that was high for the county and the city.

Vermont Square residents with a four-year college degree amounted to 5.3% of the population aged 25 and older in 2000, which was a low figure when compared with the city and the county at large; the percentage of those residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county.

Education
LAUSD has 12 schools within Vermont Square. They are:

 * Manual Arts Senior High School, LAUSD, 4131 South Vermont Avenue, a high school just across the street from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
 * Manual Arts Community Adult School, LAUSD, 4131 South Vermont Avenue
 * Barack Obama Global Preparatory Charter Academy, LAUSD, 1708 West 46th Street
 * Lou Dantzler Preparatory Charter Middle School, LAUSD, 5029 South Vermont Avenue
 * Global Education Academy, LAUSD charter, 4141 South Figueroa Street
 * Menlo Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 4156 Menlo Avenue
 * Normandie Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 4506 South Raymond Avenue
 * Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center, LAUSD, 1017 West 47th Street
 * Garr Academy of Math and Entrepreneurial Studies, LAUSD charter, 5101 South Western Avenue
 * Fifty-Second Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 816 West 51st Street
 * Western Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1724 West 53rd Street
 * Lou Dantzler Preparatory Charter Elementary School, LAUSD, 1260 West 36th Street

Parks and Libraries

 * 49th Street Park - 670 E. 49th Street. It features a children's play area and benches.
 * Vermont Square Park - 1248 West 47th Street. It is opposite the Vermont Square branch library. It contains barbecue pits, basketball courts, a children's play area and picnic tables.
 * The Vermont Square Branch library - 1201 W. 48th Street. The oldest branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system, it was built in 1913 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie and is one of three surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles. It is a designated a Historic–Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To direct visitors, there is city-installed signage on Vermont Avenue at 48th Street, on King Boulevard at Budlong Avenue, and on Normandie Avenue at 48th Street.

Notable people

 * Will H. Kindig, City Council member
 * Maxine Waters, member of Congress
 * Jackson Pollock, Painter

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Alaska/archive1

History of Alaska
I paid attention to the tips given in the previous tips in the FACs and Peer Reviews my previous state history articles have gone through. I think all the comments at peer review have been addressed and this article meets all the criteria for FA-ship now. The people in #wikipedia majorly helped me out with the pictures, and I thank them for that. Toothpaste 07:10, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The beginnings of the intro and the first section are identical, or close to it. Everyking 08:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed! Thanks. Toothpaste 08:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain | Object per nixie; I didn't check the history. Its too new. Support =Nichalp   «Talk»=  08:43, September 1, 2005 (UTC) See below:
 * Comment, I think the article is great, but it was only created on the 25th of last month, I can think of one article that was passed over recently due to "freshness", should that criteria also be applied here?--nixie 08:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment the age of an article isn't an actionable objection. We have several featured articles that have spent very little time being edited before they were nominated and promoted.  However, while I don't consider an article's age a valid objection, an article's stability is a valid objection (but I don't see that being a problem here like it was for the Papal progression earlier this year). slambo 16:06, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * If its a collaboration, then there shouldn't be a problem with the time period. But in this case, the bulk of the material was added on 30-Aug, and submitted here two days later. And a huge chunk of the material was added by Toothpaste. If I can get an assurance from a resident of Alaska that this is fine, I'll withdraw my objection. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:39, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have to ask why we need permission from a resident of Alaska to feature this article. Rob Church Talk 10:49, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Quite good, but I have a few open questions and points I think could be improved: Support; it's now good enough for me. The "contemporary" section could still profit from some more work, and I still don't know whether Cook "bought pelts in Alaska at relatively expensive prices" or "sold pelts in Canton at relatively expensive prices" (or maybe both?). On the Bering Land Bridge and the "original" location of settlement: did you mean "initially" instead of "originally"? Also, there is now some duplication between the sub-section on "the transfer" and the beginning of the section "department & district". Lupo 10:48, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Lead": Intro is too "choppy"; third sentence mentions "this route", which refers to the Bering Land Bridge, but the intervening mention of eventual settlement breaks the connection. Vitus Bering appears out of nowhere. Last sentence is a jumble of assorted factoids. Exxon Valdez mentioned in an unrelated run-on sentence, should be a separate sentence, if anything. "spilling ... over 1,100 miles"—"of coastline"? Or surface? But then it would need to be an area measure... Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Pre-history": should be titled "prehistory". If the Coastal indians had originally settled in Canada, how could they have come over the Bering Land Bridge? (Where in Canada anyway?) Does the migration of the Tsimishian in the 1800s really belong into a section on prehistory? (Darn, that's back!) Do the descriptions of the society of these people really belong here or rather into articles on these tribes? The mention of capitalist society strikes me as very strange (I'm not saying it's wrong, but I connect the word "capitalism" with 19th century and later theory of economics, not exactly with anthropology). Word choice: "existed in temperatures of -50°F"; I would use "persisted" or "survived". Who settled the Aleutian Islands? (I know about the Aleuts, but are they connected to some other mainland tribe, and where did they come from?) Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Russian Alaska": when did the first Russians arrive? It wasn't Vitus Bering! Did Cook sell or buy the pelt for "unusually high prices"? Who is this Shelikof character, and is "Grigor" indeed the accepted transliteration? Normalize spelling to "-ov": Shelikov, Baranov. (Other articles use that spelling.) Rezanov gets one mention and even an image, but the article makes Baranov appear far more important. "The Aleut population began to increase"—"again", I suppose. What happened to the settlements of Mikhailovsk and New Archangel? Do they still exist, and if so, what's their name now? Were there any non-Russian settlers during that period? Did all Russians leave when the U.S. bought Alaska? What was the population during the Russian settlement? Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Much better now! Lupo 10:48, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Department and District": "between 1867 and 1884 the name was changed to the Department of Alaska", and later "between 1884 and 1912 was renamed the district of Alaska"—is it unknown when exactly these name changes took place? Why is "the Interior" capitalized? Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Alaska Territory": why did the bowhead whale population rebound? Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "World War II": could use an introductory sentence, it currently jumps right in. What is a "banzai charge"? How many people died at Attu? Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Good Friday Earthquake": needs a better title, half of it is about completely unrelated stuff. What does this mean: "an Alaska Steamship Company was lifted by a huge wave over the docks and out to sea, but most hands survived"—a company was lifted? Can we get rid of the red tint in Image:GoodFridaySeaLevelChange-NOAA.jpg? (Fixed that last one myself.) Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Contemporary": as always, writing about the recent history is the most difficult. Nothing of interest in the political world of Alaska after 1980? Some parts of this read a bit out-of-place (USS Alaska, Iditarod race). I think the Exxon Valdez oil spill is over-emphasized, more interesting than the clean-up would have been its political effects. What did politicians and legislators do to try to avoid such an incident in the future? Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Endnotes" should be renamed to "references".
 * Lupo 08:49, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Did you use any books to write this article? If so, they should be given in the "references" section. Lupo 07:00, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Nothing in the article is bad, few complaints remaining other than the age of the article (would it appease the objector if we travelled to the past in order to create this earlier?). - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:20, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Phroziac  ( talk ) 21:34, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Great pictures and an overall great article. The fact that the article was created recently shouldn't even matter. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Toothpaste has done good work on past articles, and I see nothing but what makes Toothpaste a great of a Wikipedian. As for time, I am not worried about that, since I felt the same way as Toothpaste did when I created Belarusian Republican Youth Union and nominated it for FAC days later. It does not matter how much time the article has spent on here, if it meets WP:WIAFA, it deserves to be a FA. Time is not of the essence, and nor it is a requirement to be a FA. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 06:02, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Absolutely great article. -- AlexR 13:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Lead section is poorly written. No mention of Alaska's system of political subdivisions, which is unique in the United States.   Insufficient references (must use something other than websites), and the ones that are there [references] are poorly formatted (I want to see what the source is without mousing over the links).  Statehood and an earthquake have nothing to do with each other, they should not share a section title. This is indicative of a fundamental problem with this (and similar) articles -- the article suffers because historical eras and historical events are mishmashed together.  I also object to the apparent bloc voting going on here. - Bantman 01:35, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * I fixed it up based on your objections. What do you think now? Toothpaste 01:53, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I still feel that the period from statehood on is poorly organized, and that the lead section could be much better written. Sorry for the delay in response. - Bantman 03:38, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. Comprehensive and well-written. Disclaimer: I am a member of WP:FAD. Andre ( talk ) 02:24, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Alaska-sized support. It's coherent, accurate, and contains no red links!  --Merovingian (t) (c) 08:03, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Baked-Alaska support. It's perfect in every way.  —RaD Man (talk) 19:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Denali-sized support. Well written, all. References are well done, picture placement is good, stable, and proof that an article doesn't have to have been edited for a year to be a good example of work at Wikipedia. - [[User:Mysekurity|Mysekurity ]] 21:29, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Coincidental, or is The History Channel watching Wikipedia? Today the History Channel ran a 3-hour long special on the history of Alaska prior to statehood. I turned it just as they had finished the Russian Era, seeing it on TVGuide.com. I added it as a video reference to the article. By the way, Lupo, the article already did have book references, even before I added the four extra ones. They're in the notes section. Toothpaste 01:31, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Object—I can't agree with Toothpaste's view that it's well written. Let's take an example of the prose:

'The coastal Indians believed that fish and animals gave themselves willingly to humans, and strove to honor their sacrifice. The believed that the bones of a consumed salmon should be returned to the river where they had been caught, to allow for reincarnation, or else the fish would return deformed. They lived in a capitalist society that allowed private ownership. Each household owned anything they had made themselves, while the clan owned religious titles and objects, such as the right to practice a certain dance or profession.'

The fish and animals strove to honor their sacrifice? Whose sacrifice? If 'The believed' is meant to be 'They believed', the referent is still unclear, and of course there's another 'they' later in the sentence to confuse matters. There should be no doubt about the referent of pronouns. 'or else the fish would return deformed'—I presume you mean that if the bones were returned to another river, this would be the case. It's unclear.

The prose is OK in parts, but too often looks like an unthinking first draft. Fix it all thoroughly and it won't be an embarrassment as a FA. Tony 13:20, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I fixed the article based on your suggestions, but is there anything else now? Toothpaste 22:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well yes; the whole text needs a good edit. I've done another section, and inserted a few invisible queries. I'll work through it over the next few days. Tony 01:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC) PS It's very densely linked, which makes it harder to read, especially for children and non-native speakers. Many of the links are dictionary stuff, and should be delinked. The page should not be 'covered in blue' to the extent that it is. Make the valuable links stand out, and readers are more likely to hit them. Tony 01:26, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Support: Providing that the first paragraph is fixed up (it seems too much like a cold start into the topic.  Even something like "The History of Alaska goes back to when it was settled by humans in blah..."  Toothpaste assures me that this will be fixed.
 * This was me...erm, I'm an idiot.  Ral  315  23:17, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Support with reservations: The article currently waffles between saying "Eskimo" and "Inuit", terms which are part of a P.C. controversy. Canadians object to "Eskimo" because they feel it is a racist slur. Alaskans object to "Inuit" because they feel it refers to the Canadian Arctic peoples, not to Alaskans. The article should pick one, probably "Eskimo" since it's about Alaska, and stick to it everywhere. If Canadian or other non-Alaskan people object simply point out that it's about Alaska, where the term "Eskimo" is considered appropriate and non-denigratory. I will make some edits to the parts about the Coastal Indians. There are various minor inaccuracies that are easier to fix than to explain. Other than that I think the article is very well written and accurate for a short historical summary. — Jéioosh 19:01, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed all mentions of Inuit to Eskimo, as you have requested. Thanks for helping out with the article. Toothpaste 19:37, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll continue to work through it, adding queries here and there as invisible text. Nice pics have been added, but it's not ready yet for FA status. Give it another 10 days? Tony 09:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Object. While clearly superior to the prior state history FAC candidates, this still seems to depend on too narrow a range of sources and has conspicuous omissions -- most notably, Seward's motive(s) for buying Alaska and the reasons the purchase was controversial; for recent years, the original pipeline controversy needs development, and Hickel merits some mention. User:Tony's comments about prose quality remain well taken. The "Contemporary Alaska" section is a collection of information that doesn't fit into other sections; some of it isn't historical, and the rest indicates the historical framework needs further work. And one detail seems particularly incorrect: "the first military campaign on U.S. soil since the War of 1812." There were quite a few military campaigns on U.S. soil between 1861 and 1865, for example, and G.A. Custer wasn't part of a territorial police force . . . . Monicasdude 02:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I thought "the first military campaign on U.S. soil since the War of 1812" alluded to a foreign military campaign. I fixed this and will continue to work on your other reasons for objecting tomorrow. Will you please continue to check this article to see if it becomes supportable for you? Thanks. Toothpaste 03:07, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Support BUT I think the lead has too much information, some should be moved IMHO as they are details. --Cool Cat Talk 23:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. Well written, comprehensive, and informative. Nufy8 04:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  09:21, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Object – The page size is on the higher side. Please read Summary style. The History of Arizona article is much more readable. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:28, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support with Comments from an Alaskan Resident. Very fine article. The prehistory seems a little New Agey. The British Presence section is a little odd. It says Cook found the Bering Straits impassable, but that Cook "left the Northwest Passage." Wouldn't it be more correct to say he left the straits? RPellessier | (Talk) 06:55, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed. I addressed many of Nichalp's comments, too. I don't think it's too long just yet. Toothpaste 06:56, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Its still a very long read. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:55, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * I reduced it to 38KB. Now it's three-fourths the size, but hopefully not three-fourths the quality. Toothpaste 11:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support – I've changed to support (post its promotion) Reasons:
 * Sufficient collaboration has gone into improving this article
 * The length has been shortened and sections have been summarised
 * All my concerns have been addressed by Toothpaste.


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Talk:Wumo

Name pronunciation
What is the correct pronunciation of the name? 217.132.64.45 (talk) 00:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * vulf(flat, short u)-morgen(german sounding)-thaler(long a, again german sounding) 77.212.64.36 (talk) 13:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Name changed
The comic changed its name to Wumo. Can someone help change the name of the article and add a redirection from the old name? 93.173.29.43 (talk) 15:15, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

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User:Xen 24

Hi! My name is Xenia.

Don't have any contributions yet in wikipedia but I'm working on it...

Feel free to post any message for me. :)

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Talk:Tixotropy

the correct term is thixotropy. Any content here should be merged there.

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Aberlady

Aberlady (Aiberlady, Gaelic: Obar Lobhaite) is a coastal village in the Scottish council area of East Lothian. The village had an estimated population of in.

Etymology
The name Aberlady has Brittonic origins. The first part of the name is the common naming element aber, meaning "confluence, estuary". The second part is a river name, an earlier name for the West Peffer Burn, derived from either *lẹ:β, which in river names may mean "glide smoothly", or *loβ, a verbal root associated with "peeling away, decomposition, decay" (Middle Irish lobour, "leprosy").

History
There is archaeological evidence of a significant and wealthy Anglo-Saxon settlement dating from 7th to the 10th centuries.

In the Middle Ages, Aberlady was an important harbour for fishing, sealing, and whaling and was designated "Port of Haddington" by a 1633 Act of Parliament. However, its origins are much earlier.

Aberlady had strong links with the monasteries at Iona and Lindisfarne from the 7th century, and its role was to facilitate the pilgrim traffic between the two sites. Previous archaeological excavations have shown traces of a Culdee chapel, and Pope Gregory X made reference to the church which he called "Aberlefdi". The 8th century Aberlady Cross fragment can be seen at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. A reconstruction of this finely carved cross was erected in 2011 by Aberlady Conservation & History Society.

Aberlady Parish Church dates back to the 15th century. It was re-built in 1887. In 1986, the parishes of Aberlady and Gullane were merged, and the Manse is now in Gullane.

The "Aberlady Heritage Project" is a community-led project, and in 2008 it surveyed three sites — the medieval harbour quay commissioned in 1535, the Iron Age fort and associated souterrain at Kilspindie, and the Anglo-Saxon site at the Glebe. Aberlady boasts the largest collection of stray Anglo-Saxon finds yet discovered in Scotland.

Conservation
In 1952, Aberlady Bay became the UK's first Local Nature Reserve or LNR. Amongst its other conservation designations are: Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI; Special Protection Area or SPA; and Ramsar site. East Lothian Council provides Reserve Wardens.

Waterston House, overlooking Aberlady Bay, is the headquarters of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club (SOC). It is named after George Waterston, joint founder of the SOC, and Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Scotland.

The Library holds over 3,500 items and is said to be the largest ornithological library in Scotland.

The art gallery space is named after wildlife artist Donald Watson who was President of SOC. The gallery specialises in bird-related paintings, but in May 2008 it had a textile exhibition named "Flights of Fancy".

The author Nigel Tranter was inspired to write on his daily walks on the nature reserve. A cairn in his memory stands at the car park by the wooden footbridge; Nigel Tranter referred to it as "the bridge to enchantment".

Aberlady Conservation & History Society is the local focus for conservation in the built and natural environment of the village and its surroundings.

Nearby places of interest
Aberlady is close to several well-known golf courses including Luffness, Kilspindie and Craigielaw.

Aberlady Bay, between Aberlady and Gullane, holds the wrecks of eight 19th or early 20th century fishing vessels, which have been designated as maritime scheduled ancient monuments, and two wrecks of XT-craft, training versions of the X-class submarine.

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Jousting at the Golden Gate Renaissance fair, San Francisco, California. Both combatants have just broken their lances.

Taken 8/27/05 by User:Pretzelpaws with a Casio Exilim EX-Z750 camera. Cropped 9/1/05 using the GIMP.

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User:Osh41

Just a bum in New Jersey who can't resist a good forum for obscure knowledge and mass nitpicking. :)

I usually stick to moving around in biology and fandom-type articles. For the latter I mostly work on animanga stuff, although I don't make new articles too quickly if I can help it. I have a bad tendancy to sniglet, but so far people add to the articles without issue, it seems.

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