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User talk:Brian Olsen

I find when I click on someone's else talk page, I get annoyed having to go back and forth between someone else's talk page to follow a discussion. So on my own talk page, I include my own comments (lifted from whoever's talk page I posted them on) in italics. In case you're just that fascinated by my conversations.

Your Welcome
Hey Brian,

Thanks for your welcome note - good to get some encouragement. I've been using Wikipedia for a while, but hadn't looked at any of the theatre pages before. Then I did, and they irritated me sufficiently to prompt a re-write (not the best of motivations, perhaps, but whatever works :) ). Even the main Theatre page is pretty shoddy, notwithstanding all that bickering about theater/theatre - it reads like the academic equivalent of a thrift store clear-out...

Anyhow, thanks again.

DP

DionysosProteus 22:16, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

"Lawrence Mays" The man himself!
Hello Mr. Olsen,

My name is Lawrence Mays and I am the author of the now deleted page for Lawrence Mays. I hate to say that I am a rookie of sorts at this Wikipedia thing. I was under the assumption that wikipedia encouraged people to create pages of people who have made some significant progress in their own personal careers and mankind. I am in no way saying I am a humanitarian but I have accomplished much and I have helped many. With that said I assumed that My page would meet the criteria for wikipedia. As you stated in your "report" you googled my name and nothing came up. Well is that what makes a page credible? The world is full of new emerging playwrights and although they may not be in any book you have read, they exist. Shouldn't they be remembered? Shouldn't their story be told?

I am not a professional at these wiki pages (by far). So along with work, writing, and normal life I found time write that page alone and I was "winging it" the best I knew how. While I was making the page, someone (who I now know to be Malathos) stuck a bio-notability tag on it. I was confused at what this was. I clicked the link and it explained. So I made, what I believed was the correct changes to the page and removed the tag. Then you noticed that my page violated wikipedia: biography notability guidelines, and you concluded that is also reads as an advertisement. Now you are correct that it included links to my info pages and being a member of the Dramatist Guild is not noteworthy accomplishments but what is? But in no way was it advertising. I have nothing to sell.

As a fellow Thespian you understand how vast this business is and how many writers, directors, actors, producers, etc. come and go. What makes them worthy of Wikipedia? Is it up to you to say? What are the guidelines that say who and what is important in this world? There are wiki pages for many things, some significant and some insignificant. But who is the judge? I am not writing this to cry and complain about you or wikipedia and this is not my bitter words for not being on wikipedia. I am not bitter, nor am I angry because I deleted my own page and I am a big fan of wikipedia.

But I am writing this as a question for all the wikipedians such as your-self. This is the same site that lists Tupac Shakur as a gang member, that Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X had a rift about Muhammad sleeping with various NOI women (Which is hearsay and not fact), and many other pages with hipocrital comments and contradictions. My friend, how important is it to keep out people like me? When you have many other people who alter facts and change history with their own personal opinions. Many times these pages are tagged for lack of sources, as was mine. But the lack of sources are not hurting wikipedia, it's the opinions. In my case as Malathos stated I deleted his tag after adding what I assumed to be sources. Even you list on your user page that you take credit for rewriting many pages. Why did no one attempt to salvage my page? Was it because google proved that I wasn't important or was it you?

Thank you for your time. I hope you have read the whole thing and what I wrote will have an effect on the decisions and "reports" you make in the future. I also hope that I make some sense to you and I commend you for helping to clean up wikipedia, which is not even an acceptable source in most elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges in America. You have a lot of work ahead of you.

Sincerely, Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, and former wikipedian...:) Lawrence Mays —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Poettruth (talk • contribs).

 * Hi - I appreciate the comments you left on my talk page. Please understand that it was nothing personal, and the decision to remove your page was not made by me. I flagged it for deletion, and what that does is draw the the attentions of an administrator. If that person doesn't agree with me that the page is worthy of deletion, it won't be deleted. I posted a notice on your talk page when I added the tag - it described the steps you could have taken to defend the page, and have it sent to Articles for Deletion instead, where a consensus of Wikipedia editors would have been required in order to delete the article.

 * Nevertheless, I believed the article was worthy of speedy deletion. I looked up all the sources you added, and they seemed to be either from your own company, or simply your entry on the Dramatists Guild page, and yes, being a member of the Dramatists Guild page in and of itself doesn't make you notable, any more than being a member of Actors' Equity makes me notable. I couldn't rewrite your page in order to save it, because I couldn't find any reputable sources that established notability.

 * Another big problem is that Wikipedia has a guideline against conflict of interest, and in creating a page about yourself, you are violating that guideline. The general assumption is that if you are notable enough to have a page in an encyclopedia, someone else will create it. If you create a page on yourself, it comes across as self-promotion (perhaps a term I should have used instead of advertising). Still, conflict of interest isn't the main reason your page was deleted; violating the guidelines on biographies was.

 * You ask if it is up to me to decide who is notable; no, it's not. But here on Wikipedia, it is up to the consensus of editors. And consensus defines who and what is notable enough for inclusion. I didn't decide that policy, but I did bring a page that violated it to the attention of an administrator.

 * You said, "The world is full of new emerging playwrights and although they may not be in any book you have read, they exist. Shouldn't they be remembered? Shouldn't their story be told?" Absolutely they should be - I'm a director, and I work primarily with new emerging playwrights to help them tell their stories. But Wikipedia isn't the place for that.

 * You're right that a lot of pages have a lot of problems, but all that does is encourage me to fix what I can, not throw up my hands and ignore the problems I see. I hope you stick around and contribute; read some of the main guidelines:

 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

 * and dive in; we can always use more editors. --Brian Olsen 00:16, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Cite serial template
''Just wanted to mention I made that change to the template. Thanks for pointing it out - I never would have thought of it, but it makes so much sense, and I think makes the template much more useful. Plus, I enjoy the excuse to muck about with the syntax! I think it's working all right, but please let me know if you spot any bugs. --Brian Olsen 03:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)''

 * Thanks for taking care of that, Brian! It looks moist and lovely.  (Can you tell I've just watched a documentary about Stephen Fry?) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Lawrence Mays again...
Hello Mr. Olsen,

Thank you for responding to my message. First I want to clarify that if I seemed upset or offended you in any way, I do apologize. My attempt was not to come across as a bitter wiki reject. Reading my message again I think that I seemed as if I was blaming you personally, which I shouldn't have done. You honestly brought light to most of the misconceptions I had about Wikipedia.

I understand what you mean when you say, "The general assumption is that if you are notable enough to have a page in an encyclopedia, someone else will create it." lol. You are correct, that is a general assumption. But it's amusing that in order for you to be in an encyclopedia, someone else has to create it. I understand that I (At age 21) actually may not qualify as a candidate for an encyclopedia article. But I have done some very notable things in my lifetime (which is my personal opinion). I have alot to learn...lol, but I guess as a writer, I wanted to be remembered. I would like to consider myself "A Great Writer" (Whatever that means). If I said I won a Pulitzer Prize would that make me notable enough? (Just kidding)

I do pose a question; where is the place for emerging playwrights tell their stories? I have yet to find a forum to tell my story and promote my work. A site that can serve as a catalyst for people who are some years away from being notable enough to have an article in the encyclopedia. A place alot more professional than myspace, facebook, etc. Another common assumption is that writing is no longer a formidable career unless you are in journalism. I believe that has some truth to it. I've been a playwright for more than seven years and in my journey I have been rejected for more reasons that I can write. On the other hand, I have accomplished much as a playwright.

Where does a 21 year old, African American, poet, playwright, novelist, struggling writer get a chance to be noticed? Something besides the common playwriting contest, where writers have to compete for recognition. I don't believe it exists and maybe it's meant to be that way; but hey, you can't blame a guy for dreaming. I'm sure you have come across some dreamy eyed writers with more ambition than merits. Don't we all deserve a break? But, I do want to help with the improvement of this site. I am a lover of knowledge and understand the importance of publishing the pure unadulterated truth. I think Wikipedia is a great resource for the human community and I honestly respect your commitment to authenticity of the knowledge, so that we all may understand the reality that we like to refer to as life. Maybe one day you will have the pleasure of writing my wiki article and I might have the pleasure of writing yours. Thank you for the helpful links. I will be sure to study and hopefully become a wiki editor, much like you.

Sincerely, Lawrence Mays —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poettruth (talk • contribs) 09:37, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Brief torch
''Hey - I've been cleaning up the external links for the Doctor Who episode articles. I had created a bunch of new templates to use for individual episodes, which would use quotation marks instead of italics. Since then, I've learned a bit more template syntax, and today I went back and instead added a parameter for quotation marks to the original templates, then went and changed all the pages using my templates to use the originals, and nominated mine for speedy deletion. Anyway, while I was at it, I added parameters to Brief so that it can be used for Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and changed the Torchwood episode pages to use the original template. Since you created Brief torch, I wanted to check in before nominating it for deletion. Are you cool with that? My goal is to cut down the total number of templates we're using. Thanks. --Brian Olsen 16:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)''

Sure, go ahead. I only created it because I couldn't figure out how to make it work with the other one anyway. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 01:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. --Brian Olsen 17:44, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:Vojvodina-geo-stub fixed
''Hi, I think I fixed the template you were asking about. The tags for the table (like, , ). I'm guessing that with the template by itself on its own page, that didn't matter, but with other text, the page didn't know where the table was supposed to end, causing the weird spacing. I checked a few pages and they seem fine, but let me know if what I did causes any other problems. --Brian Olsen, 05:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

That's great. It's just something I noticed when I was editing a page for some other reason, and I had no idea how to fix it. Seems to work fine now on the pages I looked at. Thanks for following up. -- Shelf Skewed  Talk  05:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Help for template
Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! I'm sorry, I'd like to help but I'm not exactly sure what kind of template you're looking for, and what you want it to do. Could you provide a link to an example on the French wikipedia? --Brian Olsen (talk) 23:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello thank you for answering. I'm looking for the same template corresponding to the command { {Portail:Grand Lyon} } on the french wiki. in English it would be { {portal:Lyon} } because we called the portal Lyon. You can see what I mean on the french page of 1st arrondissement of Lyon for example. or here [[image:examplelyon.jpg|100px]]. Lulu97417 (talk) 00:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I think I understand what you're looking for - you want a template that would link to Portal:Lyon, that would be placed at the bottom of Lyon related pages, yes? I see how this is done on the French Wikipedia, but it's not done that way on the English Wikipedia. Instead, links to Portal pages are on the Talk pages, and are usually included in the template for the related WikiProject. For example, if you look at Talk:Arc de Triomphe, you'll see the box at the top of the page saying that the page falls under the scope of WikiProject France, and inside that box is a link to Portal:France. Below that is a box for WikiProject Architecture, and a link to Portal:Architecture. My suggestion would be to talk to the people at WikiProject:France, and see if there is interest in setting up a sub-project for Lyons; that seems to be the best way to spread a link to the Lyons Portal. I hope that's helpful! --Brian Olsen (talk) 22:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, Thank you for the reflexion about the problem. You are totaly right about asking the french portail. I'm passing exams now. I'll do it next week end. I'll keep you in touch. Thanks again :) bue Lulu97417 (talk) 01:38, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Flag of Washington, D.C.

DC vs Wash
Is this the DC flag or the flag of the city?
 * It is the flag for both. D.C. and Washington, D.C. are two names for the same thing. Legally, it is "the District of Columbia." Washington, D.C. is merely the mailing address and the colloquial name for the same place. Because most people call it Washington, D.C., that is what Wikipedia should use. Washington, D.C. discusses the various names for the city in detail. --Polynova 15:13, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * If it's legally the flag for the district, the name of the article, and the article contents are wrong. Even if it is colloquially known as the Washington flag, it's not. As for the equivalence of DC with Washington DC, that's wrong too. 132.205.45.110 09:04, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * An entity's legal name is not its only name. "Washington, D.C." may not be the legal name, but it is clearly a correct name and the most commonly used name as well. --Polynova 14:45, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Same thing. Like how "Commonwealth of Kentucky" and Kentucky is the same thing. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 05:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

On proposed move by anonymous user 132.205.45.110

 * I am opposed to the move. From the introduction to Naming conventions:
 * Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.
 * Hence the article Jimmy Carter, not "James Earl Carter, Jr." Or for that matter, Washington, D.C. and not "District of Columbia". See Naming conventions (common names). --Polynova 14:45, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Being that I am the only one to vote on this issue, I'm declaring the vote closed after one week and removing the proposal. Result: no change. --Polynova 21:39, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * Just to add my thoughts, even tho the move isn't an issue at present...I think that Flag of the District of Columbia sounds more natural to me, altho I'm from near DC. But I think I'd agree that Washington, DC is more common elsewhere. I'm fine with either name for the article, anyway. --Mairi 03:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Official specs
Is there an official (DC government?) source for the dimensions etc.? I couldn't find one. PRRfan (talk) 22:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Flags of the World has construction details here. Construction details should be incorporated into the article. --D. Monack | talk 22:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks, done. PRRfan (talk) 19:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The definition on crwflags.com is straight from DC Code, but there appears to be an oversight in the statute in that the aspect ratio of the flag isn't defined. This article lists proportions as 1:2, but I'm curious about where that comes from. (I just bought a new DC flag and was curious about the dimensions. Theoretically, the flag could be 20 feet by 1 foot, and, as long as the stripes and stars are laid out correctly in the proportions in the statute, it would be an official DC flag.)  Adamskj (talk) 15:58, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Three stars three axees of Empire?
Is this true?>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5L_x6RHE4s&feature=related —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.164.52.89 (talk) 15:30, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

 * The flag is based on the medieval British Washington family coat of arms, so it's hard to imagine how it could be true. AnonMoos (talk) 19:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Interesting coincidence
Three dots and two bars is the Aztec number 13. Is there an apropriate way to put this in the article without "original research" or a "trivia" section?

Virginia-American (talk) 16:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC) (who lives in the District)

 * It's really just a vague coincidence without meaning (and the Maya numeral has three circles, not stars, anyway), so I think it would really better be left off the article. AnonMoos (talk) 19:08, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

flag of the district, not of the city
This is the flag of Columbia, the federal district, not of Washington City. Common usage is about evenly divided, but facts count for something in an encyclopedia. — kwami (talk) 05:57, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Washington City doesn't exist. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 16:41, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Pantone colors?
What's the Pantone number of the red used in the flag? --108.60.36.58 (talk) 18:13, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Requested move 6 October 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved as unopposed. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000  ( talk,  contribs ) 16:53, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Flag of the District of Columbia → Flag of Washington, D.C. – Old title, matches main article. Also, page was moved without discussion. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 16:43, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
 * The flag is from the District of Columbia, according to the Code of the District of Columbia -> https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/titles/1/chapters/1/subchapters/III/index.html.Napleabeau (talk) 20:57, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Flags, coats of arms, and the like represent the federation unit that in this case is the "District of Columbia".177.176.96.231 (talk) 17:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Can an administrator move the page back to Flag of Washington, D.C.? User:Napleabeau moved the page without discussing first, and now I am unable to move the page back. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you able to help? -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:10, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Done. - BilCat (talk) 22:18, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:21, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

 * I believe the name should continue Flag of the District of Columbia, since the flag represents the government and the entity of the nation, which as was previously mentioned is the - District of Columbia -.196.202.194.127 (talk) 22:41, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Actually, Wikipedia doesn't use official or legal names, but the most common name. - BilCat (talk) 23:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Problems with heraldry section of expanded article (law of arms / heraldry)
The supposed principle that "No two individuals can have the same coat of arms" has been enforced much, much more strictly in Scottish heraldry than in English heraldry. In English heraldry, some authors of books on heraldry think that's the way theoretically should have been in England, but as a matter of attested history, it's simply not the way that things actually worked in English heraldry for long periods of time. This section of the article unfortunately appears to contain a lot of dubious facts and original research... AnonMoos (talk) 14:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

 * No reply after a week, so I'm removing the content based on the ostensible principle that "No two individuals can have the same coat of arms". The truth is that this is not a universal principle -- it's in fact completely irrelevant to some national traditions (such as Polish heraldry), while it has been fairly strictly enforced in a few others (most conspicuously in Scotland).  England is an intermediate case -- in the special case of "Arms of sovereignty" (the national royal arms), displaying the undifferenced arms is equivalent to claiming to be the king or queen, so only the actual monarch can have the undifferenced arms, and other members of the royal family must have differenced arms.  However, below the level of the royal family, the alleged "No two individuals can have the same coat of arms" principle simply has not been consistently applied.  Some people have thought that it should be consistently applied, but the historical fact is that it hasn't been... AnonMoos (talk) 02:15, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * P.S. Differencing is sometimes used in English heraldry to distinguish the arms of sons from that of their father while the father is still alive, but such differencing marks are not usually hereditary. Non-royal English heraldry conspicuously lacks the concatenated marks (a crescent on a mullet on a label or whatever) which would result from cumulative differencing of that type.  In the case of noblemen, the coat of arms  of the inheritor of the title would be differentiated from those of his younger brothers by the fact only the nobleman's had supporters... AnonMoos (talk) 02:40, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

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Dahalik language

Dahalik (ዳሃሊክ [haka (na)] dahālík, "[language (of)] the people of Dahlak"; also Dahaalik, Dahlik, Dahlak) is an endangered Afroasiatic language spoken exclusively in the Dahlak Archipelago in Eritrea. Its speech area is off the coast of Massawa, on three islands in the Dahlak Archipelago: Dahlak Kebir, Nora, and Dehil.

Dahalik belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family's Semitic branch, a member of the Northern branch of the Ethiopic group, and is closely related to Tigre and Tigrinya. It is said to be not mutually intelligible with Tigre and, according to Simeone-Senelle, is sufficiently different to be considered a separate language. However, there are those who disagree.

Status
Dahalik is spoken on the Dahlak Archipelago, an island group belonging to Eritrea in the Red Sea. On the archipelago, most people are speakers of Dahalik with smaller populations of Arabic and Afar native speakers. The situation is different for every village: Durrubishet and Dasquo have almost universal use of Dahalik, while other villages have a greater mix of languages. Most islanders are multilingual in Dahalik, Arabic, and Afar, while the language of education is Arabic. Most Dahalik men have regular contact with Arabic, Tigre, and Afar, and any mixed marriages usually result in the children learning two mother tongues. Dahalik speakers also consider their language to be a mix of Arabic, Tigre, and a small amount of Tigrinya. Overall, there are only a few elderly monolingual speakers of Dahalik. However, Dahalik speakers do have positive attitudes towards the language and see it as an essential part of their cultural identity.

Vowels
might be another vowel. The vowel only occurs in unstressed syllables.

Consonants
Dahalik has 21 consonants.

 * The voiced uvular fricative is the most common articulation of  in the intervocalic position, while the voiceless uvular fricative  is used after a fricative.
 * The velar fricative and the voiced alveolar sibilant  are only used in loanwords from Arabic.
 * Except for in a few cases, there are no ejective consonants in Dahalik, and the degree of pharyngealization in  is weak.

Pronouns
Dahalik has two different forms for second and third person pronouns, one masculine and one feminine.

Dahalik also has dependent (object) pronouns, suffixed to the end of the word.

Verbs
The word order of a simple sentence in Dahalik is subject–object–verb. For conditional subordinate clauses, the subordinating marker ('if' or something similar) is at the end of the clause or just before the verb in the subordinating clause.

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User talk:146.126.51.51

January 2013
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June 2014
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April 2015
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September 2016
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September 2017
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January 2019
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March 2019
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February 2020
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Talk:Westside Community Schools

Underwood Hills
Oh well, I went to Underwood School. It was torn down years ago. –Shoaler (talk) 20:57, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:Westside Community Schools


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1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum

A referendum on introducing prohibition was held in Norway on 5 and 6 October 1919. Partial prohibition had been in effect since 1917, and the prohibition proposal did not include all types of alcohol, only spirits. The proposal was approved by 61.6% of voters. A second referendum on whether the prohibition should be maintained was held in 1926, resulting in an overturning of the law.

title: 1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum


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Bryan Murray

Bryan Murray may refer to:

 * Bryan Murray (actor) (born 1949), Irish actor
 * Bryan Murray (ice hockey) (1942–2017), Canadian ice hockey coach and executive

title: Bryan Murray


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Bearer of the Sword

Bearer of the Sword can refer to:

 * Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern Philippines
 * An office at the coronation of English Kings and Queens
 * Bearer of the sword (Hungary), an office at the coronation of the Hungarian monarch
 * Miecznik, an office in the Kingdom of Poland and after Union of Lublin in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

title: Bearer of the Sword


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Talk:Reference implementation

Proposal to merge with reference implementation

 * Merge Delete. Go ahead, obviously I did not check closely enough before creating this article.  However I do think the title should disambiguate computing, because it is possible to have reference implementations in non-computing contexts.  The Hokkaido Crow 20:58, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Merge done. The Hokkaido Crow 21:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

This article is basically unreadable. Simpler English needs to be used.

What
WTF? I'm a third year CS student and I can't make sense of this dense jibberish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.0.203 (talk) 13:43, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I attempted to clarify the text - anyone want to check if it makes sense? Lekro (discuss) 23:25, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved with history-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:01, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Reference implementation (computing) → Reference implementation — The article doesn't have to reside under a bracket title, when the non-bracket version just redirects here. (While there is the point that there is more types of reference implementations than the software ones: As long as we don't have any content on that...) Dvaer (talk) 12:09, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

 * Comment there's a problem with edit histories, with this move, since the target location was merged here in 2005. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 04:56, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Current GeoServer website suggests otherwise
This page: GeoServer functions as the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service standard, and also implements the Web Map Service, Web Coverage Service and Web Processing Service specifications.

Geoserver page: GeoServer is working with the OSGeo Foundation to be certified as compliant and we need your help. Thanks for your sponsorship and donations we are working towards restoring OGC testing into our nightly builds.

Im not that knowledgable about the standards but it seems as though their testing has been taken out and they are currently not OSGeo certified? And so they cant be a reference implementation?

 * You probably should discuss this on Talk:GeoServer rather than here. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 12:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Of course, I made a mistake adding it here... my apologies

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1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.

A total of 9 CONMEBOL teams entered the competition. Chile was banned by FIFA due to the 1989 Maracanazo incident. The South American zone was allocated 3 direct places and 1 play-off places in the final tournament.

Format
The 9 teams were divided into 2 groups. The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The number of teams and spots for each group were as follows:
 * Group A had 4 teams. The group winner would qualify. The runner-up would advance to the CONMEBOL / CONCACAF / OFC Intercontinental Play-off.
 * Group B had 5 teams. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.

Group A
Colombia qualified. Argentina advanced to the CONMEBOL / CONCACAF / OFC Intercontinental Play-off.

Group B
Brazil and Bolivia qualified.

Qualified teams
The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.

 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

 * 7 goals

 * 🇧🇴 Luis Ramallo

 * 5 goals

 * 🇧🇴 Erwin Sánchez
 * 🇧🇷 Bebeto
 * 🇨🇴 Freddy Rincón

 * 4 goals

 * 🇦🇷 Ramón Medina Bello
 * 🇧🇴 Marco Etcheverry

 * 3 goals

 * 🇧🇴 Milton Melgar
 * 🇧🇷 Ricardo Gomes
 * 🇧🇷 Raí
 * 🇪🇨 Eduardo Hurtado
 * Alfredo Mendoza

 * 2 goals

 * 🇦🇷 Gabriel Batistuta
 * 🇧🇷 Branco
 * 🇧🇷 Palhinha
 * 🇧🇷 Romário
 * 🇨🇴 Faustino Asprilla
 * 🇨🇴 Adolfo Valencia
 * 🇨🇴 Iván Valenciano
 * Daniel Fonseca
 * Enzo Francescoli
 * Fernando Kanapkis
 * Ruben Sosa
 * 🇻🇪 Juan Enrique García

 * 1 goal

 * 🇦🇷 Abel Balbo
 * 🇦🇷 Fernando Redondo
 * 🇧🇴 Alvaro Peña
 * 🇧🇴 Luis Cristaldo
 * 🇧🇴 Marco Sandy
 * 🇧🇷 Dunga
 * 🇧🇷 Evair
 * 🇧🇷 Müller
 * 🇨🇴 Alexis Mendoza
 * 🇨🇴 Wilson Pérez
 * 🇪🇨 Cléber Chalá
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Muñoz
 * 🇪🇨 Raúl Noriega
 * 🇪🇨 Byron Tenorio
 * José Luis Chilavert
 * Catalino Rivarola
 * Estanislao Struway
 * 🇵🇪 Darío Muchotrigo
 * 🇵🇪 Roberto Palacios
 * 🇵🇪 José del Solar
 * 🇵🇪 Jorge Soto
 * Gabriel Cedrés
 * José Oscar Herrera
 * 🇻🇪 Luis Morales
 * 🇻🇪 Oswaldo Palencia


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Sword of God

Sword of God may refer to:

 * Sword of God (novel), 2007 novel by Chris Kuzneski
 * Sword of God (film), 2018 Polish film
 * The Sword of God (album), a 2001 album by Quasi
 * "The Sword of God" (novelette), a 1996 novelette by Russell Blackford

title: Sword of God


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Team Hyperstrike

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

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 03:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Team Hyperstrike
Delete nn forum/clancruft. A group of people recording video games. TheMidnighters 20:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A Google search of "Team Hyperstrike" returns 0 results and the forum only has 14 registered users. --TheMidnighters 22:14, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep - Do not delete, this is a producton studio, and the article details the history and workings of said studio. It does not endorse a clan, a forum, nor does it contain bias shedding a fair nor poor light on the studio. It only gives descriptions of members, movies, and projects that the studio puts forth. ---This wiki is about a studio just formed within the past two weeks, so therefore, predetermining that this is an unreasonable entry when the studio and its users (myself included) are relatively new in scheme and new to Wiki, is an unfair judgement. The two users defending its relevance are both users to Wiki who registered today to create an article about our studio.  The forum has 14 users, but the users have grown in size recently.  In just three days, the forum grew to its present size.  Going into the future, a reference guide to the history of our studio would be helpful to new members.  While it is sure that a giant number of users wont access this information, niether will many people reference what the national bird of Andorra is either.  This article clearly does not endorse, advertise, or promote the studio, it is an article doing exactly what an encyclopedic article should, explains an organization with a  NPOV and in an informative way.  And the remark about a certain 'xCRAZ3SN1P3Rx' is irrelevant, that has no bearing on this article's delete status.  Coldradio 02:37, 19 August 2005 (UTC)  (Unsigned vote and blanking of VFD page by Coldradio. Fixed by FCYTravis)
 * User's only edits are at Team Hyperstrike and here. --TheMidnighters 22:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep - Do not delete because this is unbiased and is only a documentation of a movie studio. SkiBumRacer6
 * User has 3 edits, all of them here. --TheMidnighters 22:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Team Hyperstrike does have xCRAZ3SAN1P3Rx as a member. NN Master-Chiefcruft.  Delete. JDoorjam 22:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator. / Alarm 22:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. --PhilipO 23:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. -- Etacar11   00:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

(An article should not be dismissed as "vanity" simply because the subject is not famous. There is presently no consensus about what degree of recognition is required to justify a unique article being created in Wikipedia (although consensus exists regarding particular kinds of article, for instance see WP:MUSIC). Lack of fame is not the same as vanity.

Furthermore, an article is not "vanity" simply because it was written by its subject. Articles about existing books, movies, games, and businesses are not "vanity" so long as the content is kept to salient material and not overtly promotional. ) Coldradio 17:14, 19 August 2005 (UTC) (An article should not be dismissed as "vanity" simply because the subject is not famous. There is presently no consensus about what degree of recognition is required to justify a unique article being created in Wikipedia (although consensus exists regarding particular kinds of article, for instance see WP:MUSIC). Lack of fame is not the same as vanity.
 * Keep- this entry doesnt present any negative for Wiki, it doesnt show that wiki is accepting clan information, it isnt a misuse, it just provides information on a group of people making movies in a virgin and underused medium. Tiburon78 02:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * User has two edits, both here. -- Etacar11   05:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Martg76 03:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Furthermore, an article is not "vanity" simply because it was written by its subject. Articles about existing books, movies, games, and businesses are not "vanity" so long as the content is kept to salient material and not overtly promotional.)clarification by Coldradio 17:22, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You guys... lol. Points for effort and a dizzlete vote for vanity. FCYTravis 18:12, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

(An article should not be dismissed as "vanity" simply because the subject is not famous. There is presently no consensus about what degree of recognition is required to justify a unique article being created in Wikipedia (although consensus exists regarding particular kinds of article, for instance see WP:MUSIC). Lack of fame is not the same as vanity.

Furthermore, an article is not "vanity" simply because it was written by its subject. Articles about existing books, movies, games, and businesses are not "vanity" so long as the content is kept to salient material and not overtly promotional) Coldradio 01:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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Gazi University

Gazi University (Gazi Üniversitesi) is a public university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey. It was established in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute. In 1982, it was reorganized by merging with the Bolu Academy of Engineering and Architecture, Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, the Ankara College of Technical Careers, the Ankara Girls' College of Technical Careers, and the Ankara State Academy of Engineering and Architecture to form a large metropolitan university as part of the act which created the Board of Higher Education. Prior to 1982 when the Board of Higher Education Law came into effect, institutions of higher education in Turkey were organized under different structures as universities, academies, institutes, and schools. In 1992, the faculties and vocational schools in Bolu became Abant Izzet Baysal University.

Gazi University consists of 21 faculties, 4 schools, 11 vocational schools of higher education, 52 research centers and 7 graduate institutes. The student enrollment of Gazi University has reached approximately 77,000 in total of whom about 1,500 come from the Turkic states of Central Asia. Five thousand students are enrolled in graduate programmes. The total size of the teaching faculty exceeds 3,000 persons.

Ranking
Gazi University was ranked 6th by URAP Turkish University Rankings in 2021. URAP also ranked Gazi in the fourth place in "Engineering" and "Technology" subjects in Turkey. According to CWUR, Gazi is ranked 844 in 2022 World University Rankings. In QS Rankings Gazi was placed between 801-1000 category in 2021. In QS Rankings 2022, Gazi is ranked 21st in education subject worldwide and ranked 1st in Turkey in the same subject. In RUR 2022 Gazi is ranked 653rd in World University Rankings.

Faculties
Some former faculties have been separated from Gazi University. They are now operating under AHBV University.
 * Faculty of Architecture
 * Faculty of Engineering
 * Faculty of Fine Arts
 * Faculty of Health Sciences
 * Faculty of Medicine
 * Faculty of Pharmacy
 * Faculty of Sciences
 * Faculty of Technical Education
 * Faculty of Technology
 * Gazi Faculty of Education
 * Industrial Arts Education Faculty

Graduate schools

 * Graduate School of Educational Sciences
 * Graduate School of Fine Arts
 * Graduate School of Health Sciences
 * Graduate School of Informatics
 * Graduate School of Research and Prevention of Accidents
 * Graduate School of Sciences
 * Graduate School of Social Sciences

Schools

 * School of Banking and Insurance
 * School of Foreign Languages
 * School of Land Registry and Cadastre
 * School of Physical Education and Sport

Vocational schools

 * Ankara Vocational School
 * Atatürk Vocational School
 * Beypazari Technical Sciences Vocational School
 * Distance Education/Learning Vocational School
 * Gazi Vocational School
 * Ostim Vocational School
 * Polatlı Vocational School of Social Sciences
 * Vocational School of Health Services
 * Vacational School of Land Registry and Cadastre
 * Vocational School of Law
 * Vocational School of Public Finance

University governance
The rector of Gazi University is Musa Yıldız.

Campuses
Gazi University is a city-university which has a multitude of campuses around Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. Its main campus is situated in Beşevler.

The university's campuses are almost directly inside the city, which makes it easier to find houses to live and centers for shopping, for students. There are many activities at these campuses for students, such as the Spring Festival, free concerts, opening concerts, sports tournaments, theatre performances and performances by student clubs as well as scientific and cultural seminars.

Gazi University Central Library
Gazi University library has 150,000 books, 62,000 bound periodicals, and 10,000 master theses. The library subscribes to 700 periodicals in foreign languages and 600 in Turkish, and provides access to 20,000 on-line journals and 30 on-line databases. Collections are predominantly in Turkish, English and German. Library orientation programs are organized for new Gazi students.

Achievements
Turkey's third face transplant, a partial face transplant, was performed on March 17, 2012, on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman, at the university's hospital by a team led by surgeon Selahattin Özmen. The patient from Kahramanmaraş had lost her upper jaw six years prior, including mouth, lips, palate, teeth and nasal cavity by a firearm accident, and was unable to eat. She had undergone in the past around 35 reconstructative plastic surgery operations. The donor was a 28-year-old woman in Istanbul, who committed suicide.

Alumni (including graduates of former colleges)

 * Abbas Güçlü - Journalist, writer, TV programmer, educator
 * Abdullatif Sener - Associate Professor of Finance, former Parliament deputy, former Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister and former founder of Turkey Party
 * Adnan Binyazar - Author, critic, educator
 * Ahmet Telli - Writer and educator
 * Ali Palabıyık - Football referee and teacher
 * Aziz Yıldırım - Businessman, civil engineer and former president of Fenerbahçe Sports Club
 * Bekir Küçükay, guitar player
 * Beşir Göğüş - M.E.B. Chief Inspector, critic
 * Biket İlhan - Cinema producer, director, founder of Sinevizyon film company, director
 * Bülent Bezdüz - State Opera and Ballet lead soloist, 2 Grammy award-winning musician
 * Cemil Demirbakan Musician, former soloist of the Yüksek Sadakat group
 * Coşkun Ertepınar - Poet, M.E.B. inspector and counselor
 * Çiğdem Batur - Actor, voice actor, presenter
 * Devlet Bahçeli - Politician, economist, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi leader and former deputy prime minister
 * Emin Özdemir - Academic, linguist and literary researcher
 * Erman Toroğlu - Former football player, football commentator
 * Fakir Baykurt - Author, trade unionist
 * Fatih Uraz - Manager, former professional football player
 * Ferman Akgül - Rock artist, soloist of the MaNga band
 * Fikret Bila - Journalist, presenter, former TCA auditor
 * Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil - Poet and humorous story writer
 * İbrahim Melih Gökçek - Former Ankara Mayor, journalist
 * İlhan Berk - Poet, translator, writer, teacher
 * İnci Aral - Story and novel writer
 * İsmail Altınok - Painter, writer, instructor
 * İsmail Küçükkaya - Journalist, news presenter, writer
 * Kamer Genç - Deputy of Republican People's Party, former Council of State Investigation Judge and Council of State Prosecutor
 * Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - Bureaucrat, Chairman of the Republican People's Party
 * Kemal Unakıtan - Former Minister of Finance
 * Kenan Işık - Actor, presenter, main news presenter, former journalist
 * Metin Yurdanur - Sculptor
 * Mustafa Balel - translator, story and novel writer
 * Mustafa Erdoğan - Artistic director, journalist
 * M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu - President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
 * Naim Süleymanoğlu - Professional weightlifter
 * Nihat Özdemir - Turkish businessman, Former president of the Turkish Football Federation, Limak Holding CEO
 * Nurcan Taylan - Olympic Champion weightlifter
 * Ömer Çelik - Politicians, journalists, former Minister of Turkey and the European Union, former Culture and Tourism Minister
 * Özdemir İnce - Poet, writer, journalist
 * Rıfat Ilgaz - Poet, novelist, story writer
 * Sina Koloğlu - Keyboardist of Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, critic
 * Sinan Şamil Sam - Professional boxer
 * Süleyman Saim Tekcan - Painter, film actor, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, engraver and academician
 * Şeref Eroğlu - Professional wrestler
 * Tahsin Saraç - Poet, one of the Teachers' Union of Turkey founder
 * Tarık Daşgün - Manager and former national football player
 * Tuncay Özkan - (Republican People's Party) Deputy Chairperson, journalist, writer, broadcaster
 * Zafer Çağlayan - Former Industry and Trade Minister, former Foreign Trade Minister, former Minister of Economy, former ASO and former TOBB vice president.
 * Zekai Tunca - Turkish Classical Music artist

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The Look

"The Look" is a song by Swedish pop duo Roxette. It was released in early 1989 as the fourth single from their second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988). It became an international hit, and was one of the most successful singles of 1989. It topped the charts in 25 countries, and was the first of their four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics.

Background
The duo released their second album Look Sharp! in October 1988. It was an immediate commercial success in their home country, spending seven weeks at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart. "Dressed for Success" and "Listen to Your Heart" were released as the album's first two singles in Sweden, both becoming top three hits there. "Chances" was released in Germany and France as the first international single from the album.

Composition and style
"The Look" was written by Per Gessle as an exercise while learning how to operate the Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer he had recently purchased, using a repeated A–G–D bass line as the song's core. The track's sixteenth-note rhythm was inspired by the work of ZZ Top. The first two verses are composed of guide lyrics, with Gessle explaining he "scribbled [them] down instantly just to remember the rhythm. But they stuck in my head. 'Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer...', it all had a great groove. And in some pseudo-psychedelic way à la 'I Am the Walrus', it all seemed to make sense." He found it "impossible" to replace the lyrics when trying to rewrite them later, and said he sought to balance the lyrical content by making the "rest of the lyrics intelligent in some way."

A demo for the song was recorded at the Tits & Ass Studio in Halmstad in March 1988. The original title was "He's Got the Look", with the lyrics using male pronouns. Gessle said this was done because he initially wanted Marie Fredriksson to sing the track. Both he and EMI Sweden had chosen to highlight Fredriksson as Roxette's lead vocalist. However, when recording the demo, Gessle realised the song "didn't fit her style that well, so I had a go and it sounded OK." He said the song immediately had a "special power", saying that the demo "stood out; it was a great song. Everyone loved it. The only negative thing I could think of was that I was singing it, because that wasn't the idea [behind Roxette]."

Anders Herrlin, the bassist in Gessle's former band Gyllene Tider, was integral in the recording of the song's electronic components. Gessle sought to avoid the "live band" sound present on Roxette's debut album Pearls of Passion; Herrlin programmed eight digital snare drums in the intro alone, and "maybe 20 or so other effects" throughout the track. According to Gessle, guitarist Jonas Isacsson also had a "big impact" on the song, saying: "We asked him to play something in the style of George Harrison's "I Want to Tell You" and "Taxman" from Revolver, and off he went. Great cocky riffs." Isacsson said the main guitar riff was written several days earlier while composing songs with then-girlfriend Marianne Flynner. Upon playing the riff during the recording of "The Look", Isacsson said Gessle, producer Clarence Öfwerman and engineer Alar Suurna "went bonkers", and that Gessle "instantly wanted it as opening riff for the song."

According to Ultimate Guitar, the track features an unusual song structure. Each verse is composed of an A–G–D–A sequence, followed by a chorus of A–A–C–G–A–C–G–A–A–F–G–A, with the second chorus containing an additional A at the end. The second chorus is proceeded by a guitar solo of E–A–G/A–E–A–E–A–E–A–G–D–A–G–D–A–A. The song then descends to a spoken bridge consisting of an A–G–A–G sequence, building back up with a pre-chorus of Marie Fredriksson singing an additional "Na na na na na" refrain, which repeats the same sequence from the initial verses albeit modified up by almost two octaves. An abbreviated outro consisting of C–G–A–C–G–A–A–F–G then follows, before the song abruptly stops. A coda of A–G–D–A then repeats until the song fades out.

Commercial performance
"The Look" was issued in Sweden on 12 January 1989, as the third single from Look Sharp! in that country. The track was an immediate commercial success there, peaking at number six and spending almost two months in the top ten of the then-fortnightly Sverigetopplistan chart. The song was certified gold by the Swedish Recording Industry Association for shipments in excess of 25,000 units. Around the same time, an American exchange student from Minnesota named Dean Cushman returned from Sweden and gave his copy of the album to his local Top 40 radio station, KDWB-FM in Minneapolis. The station's program director Brian Phillips initially ignored Cushman's request to play a song from the album, leaving the CD unplayed in his office for several weeks. Phillips eventually listened to it after learning Cushman had come to the office requesting the return of his CD. Immediately impressed by the album's opening track, "The Look" was played by the station for the first time on US radio less than an hour later, and the response from listeners was overwhelmingly positive; the station immediately began receiving phone calls to replay the track.

KDWB began distributing the track to their sister radio operations, sending 500 copies to other stations throughout the United States. EMI America promptly signed the duo to a recording contract as a result of the airplay. The label had previously rejected Roxette as "unsuitable for the American market". The song had already entered the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 before official promotion began, peaking at number one on the chart eight weeks later. This made "The Look" the third number one single by a Swedish act on the Billboard Hot 100, following Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" in 1974 and ABBA's "Dancing Queen" in 1976.

The track went on to top the charts in 25 countries. It spent three weeks atop the New Zealand Singles Chart, and six weeks at number one in Australia, where it was certified platinum for sales in excess of 70,000 copies. It also topped the charts throughout Scandinavia, peaking at number one in Denmark, Finland and Norway,  and was certified gold in the former country for shipments in excess of 45,000 units. The song spent five weeks at number one in West Germany, and an additional five weeks at number two. The song was a massive success in Spain and Switzerland, spending eight weeks at number one in both countries. In the United Kingdom, where "The Look" was released on 13 March 1989, it reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

After the song became a hit in the United States, rumours circulated within the American press that Cushman had been paid to bring the song to the attention of KDWB. Fredriksson categorically denied these rumours in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1990, saying: "If you hear that we paid that exchange student to take our record to that radio station, don't believe it." Gessle later said: "I wish we were that clever! It was a complete fluke." Phillips said of Cushman: "He did what great promotion men in the music business do. He was persistent. He kept calling. And finally he shows up at the radio station and sits in the lobby: 'Listen, what are you gonna do about my CD?' And without that persistence, it's a very different world for Roxette." Cushman eventually befriended Gessle and Fredriksson, who autographed the same CD he had submitted to KDWB.

Critical reception
While reviewing the track, several publications favourably compared Roxette to fellow Swedish act ABBA. Music & Media dubbed it the single of the week, and said the vocal harmonising in the refrain was the best part of the song. They went on to comment: "Time will tell if they manage to be as productive as the legendary foursome, but this tense, atmospheric Beatle-esque song definitely marks a step in the right direction." People Magazine also compared the duo to ABBA, saying the song has "bounce and kick", while AllMusic called the song "bright" and "shiny".

Bill Coleman from Billboard said "The Look" was "too catchy for words", describing it as a "pop track that incorporates an eager rock edge and funky rhythm underpinnings." A writer for Stereogum noted an inability to define the genre of the track, saying that despite its disparate influences, the song was neither rock, dance or funk. Although they commented on the lyrics, which they described as "nonsense", they went on to say the song "sounds colossal. After the fake ending, when everything goes silent for a couple of seconds and then comes rushing back, it sounds even more colossal. You can waste all your effort on trying to write lyrics that make sense, or you can focus your energy on making something like that happen. Roxette chose wisely."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in a 2019 report for Billboard, said the song was "glam rock for the age of George H. W. Bush: stylized and stylish on the surface, yet classically structured at its core. Equal parts craft and trash, it was the platonic ideal of a hit pop single." He also commented on the route the song took to commercial success, saying: "It was a hit single lying in wait, ready for the right ears to recognize [its] potential. That it was discovered by an exchange student and a programmer from the Midwest (KDWB in Minnesota) remains one of the minor miracles of late-'80s pop." In a 2021 article for Stereogum Tom Breihan called it "an insidiously catchy synth-rock jam".

Music video
The music video was directed by Peter Heath and filmed in a studio in New York City. The duo perform the song in a messy, colorful room, while interacting with a group of women.

Formats and track listings
All songs were written and composed by Per Gessle.

 * 7-inch single (Sweden 136336 · UK EM87 · US B-50190)
 * Cassette (UK TCEM87 · US 4JM-50190)
 * 1) "The Look" – 3:56
 * 2) "Silver Blue" (demo) – 4:05

 * International 12-inch single (Sweden 1363336 · UK 12EM87 · Australia ED408)
 * 1) "The Look" (Head Drum mix) – 7:22
 * 2) "The Look" (7-inch version) – 3:58
 * 3) "Silver Blue" (demo) – 4:05

 * US 12-inch single (V-56133)
 * 1) "The Look" (Visible mix) – 6:03
 * 2) "The Look" (Power Radio mix) – 4:09
 * 3) "The Look" (Big Red mix) – 7:33
 * 4) "The Look" (Invisible dub) – 5:11
 * 5) "Silver Blue" (demo) – 4:00
 * CD single (Sweden 1363332 · UK CDEM87)
 * 1) "The Look" (Head Drum mix) – 7:22
 * 2) "The Look" (7-inch version) – 3:58
 * 3) "Silver Blue" (demo) – 4:06
 * 4) "Sleeping Single" (demo) – 3:46

Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of The Rox Box/Roxette 86–06.

 * Recorded between May and August 1988 at EMI Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
 * Mixed at EMI Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)

Musicians
 * Per Gessle – lead and background vocals, mixing
 * Marie Fredriksson – lead and background vocals
 * Per "Pelle" Alsing – hi-hat
 * Anders Herrlin – programming and engineering
 * Jonas Isacsson – electric guitars
 * Clarence Öfwerman – keyboards, programming, production, mixing
 * Alar Suurna – mixing, engineering

1995 remix
"The Look" was remixed in 1995 and re-released exclusively in the United Kingdom in conjunction with the release of their first greatest hits compilation, Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! Roxette's Greatest Hits. This version of the song does not appear on the album, but two of the versions from this were eventually included on the European single "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1996).

Formats and track listings

 * UK CD1 (CDEMS406)
 * 1) "The Look" (Chaps 1995 remix) – 5:08
 * 2) "The Look" (Chaps Donna Bass mix) – 6:53
 * 3) "The Look" (Rapino club mix) – 5:22
 * 4) "The Look" (Rapino dub mix) – 5:14

 * UK CD2 (CDEMS406)
 * 1) "The Look" (Chaps 1995 remix) – 5:10
 * 2) "The Look" (original version) – 3:59
 * 3) "Crazy About You" – 3:59
 * 4) "Dressed for Success" (U.S. mix) – 4:53

2015 remake
"The Look" was remixed again in 2015 and released as a non-album single under Cosmos Music Group on 17 July 2015. This "2015 Remake" was produced by Gessle, Clarence Öfwerman and Christoffer Lundquist. Additional production was credited to Swedish duo Addeboy vs Cliff, who had recently contributed material to Roxette's then-upcoming tenth studio album Good Karma, later released in 2016. Swedish fashion label KappAhl approached Gessle about using a medley of Roxette songs for an upcoming advertising campaign in Scandinavia, although Gessle instead decided to create an exclusive remix for "The Look". This new version was recorded over the course of two days at X-Level Studios in Stockholm, formerly EMI Studios—the same studio where the track had originally been recorded in 1988. It features new vocals from Gessle and Marie Fredriksson.

Formats and track listings

 * Digital download and 7-inch single (334–43545)
 * 1) "The Look" (2015 Remake) – 3:58
 * 2) "The Look" (2015 Remake) (Instrumental) – 3:55

Cover versions

 * Candlelight Red included a modern rock cover of the song on their 2011 album The Wreckage, and released the single "She's Got the Look" in March 2012.
 * Breaking Benjamin guitarist Keith Wallen covered this song in 2019, in addition to releasing it as a single.

Appearances in other media
The first appearance of "The Look" on a television show was during a montage featuring Erika Eleniak and Chris Gartin in the Baywatch episode "The Cretin of the Shallows" from the first season broadcast on 1 December 1989. In 2009, the song was prominently featured in a marketing campaign for Grand Theft Auto IV Episodes from Liberty City.

The song was covered by Taiwanese artist Luantan Ascent (亂彈阿翔). It was used as an insert song for the film Second Chance (逆轉勝) and was also featured in its promotional teaser trailer.

The season 2 premiere episode of the FOX series Scream Queens featured the song in a scene where the Chanels see Dr. Brock Holt showering in the hospital locker room.

The song was used as the opening theme of episode 2 of the 2017 Netflix TV series GLOW.

An a cappella version is used in a commercial for the 2018 Toyota Camry.

The song is featured in the trailer for the 2019 film 47 Meters Down: Uncaged as well as a scene in the movie.

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Jane Green (author)

Jane Green (born in 1968) also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg, is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers. As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages, making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction. With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors, and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit."

Biography
Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968. She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University. and Ravensbourne School of Art.

Career
Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s. She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties, writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, and  Cosmopolitan'' magazine.

Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking seven months later, for which there was a bidding war, and which became a best-seller. The book launched her career as "the queen of chick lit". Her novels include Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (1998), Life Swap (UK; Swapping Lives in the US, 2006), Second Chance (2007), The Beach House (2008), and Saving Grace (2015), five of seventeen novels through 2016 that became New York Times best-sellers. As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print, and many global best-sellers. "Jane Green" is the name she continued to use in her writing career, including after she married Ian Warburg of the Warburg banking family, her second spouse, and legally took his name.

Green has taught at writers' conferences, and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Parade magazine, and The Huffington Post. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she is publishing a cookbook, Good Taste. As of this date, Green is also writing as a weekly column for The Lady magazine in the United Kingdom. Her contribution of an e-book on the marriages of English royals for ABC News, Green became an ABC News Radio correspondent, and covered the 2011 wedding of "Kate" Middleton to England's Prince William.

Green contributed a story on the virtue of marital fidelity for The Moth Radio Hour, which was recorded in November 2015, and aired in September 2016.

Personal life
As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut, with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg (grandson of Mary and Edward Warburg), whom she married 6 March 2009. Green has four children from her first marriage to American investment banker Davide Burke and two stepchildren.

Books

 * Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (1998)
 * Mr. Maybe (2001)
 * Bookends (2002)
 * Babyville: A Novel (2003)
 * Straight Talking: A Novel
 * Spellbound [UK] / To Have and to Hold [US]
 * The Other Woman: A Novel (2005)
 * This Christmas (2005)
 * Life Swap [UK] / Swapping Lives [US] (2006)
 * Second Chance (2007)
 * The Beach House (2008)
 * Girl Friday [UK] / Dune Road [US] (2009)
 * The Love Verb [UK] / Promises to Keep [US] (2010)
 * The Patchwork Marriage [UK] / Another Piece of my Heart [US] (2012)
 * The Accidental Husband [UK] / Family Pictures [US] (2013)
 * Tempting Fate (2014)
 * Saving Grace (2015)
 * Cat and Jemima J (novella) (2015)
 * Summer Secrets (2015)
 * Falling: A Love Story (2016)
 * Good Taste [a food & entertaining/nonfiction book] (2016)
 * The Sunshine Sisters (2017)
 * The Friends We Keep (2019)
 * Sister Stardust (2022)

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