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VfD Nazi or German Occcupation?
Check this VfD vote: --Ttyre 19:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Polish Wikipedians' notice board
zapraszam.--Witkacy 13:19, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening
Requests for arbitration/Zivinbudas has been accepted and is now open. Please bring evidence to Requests for arbitration/Zivinbudas/Evidence. Thank you. -- sannse (talk) 10:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

History of the Jews in Poland
Halibutt, once you have mentioned having some pics related to History of the Jews in Poland. Since the article is developing quite nicely, some pics would be appreciated. --Ttyre 21:00, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Krzyżacy
Please take a look at Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights and feel free to change the maps your way. You know! Thanks. Space Cadet 23:03, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Medals Wikiportal
Since I noticed your interested in military medals, I wanted to let you know I created a Wikiportal about it. Located at User:Zscout370/ODM Portal, it is coordinate all users on articles associated with Orders, Decorations and Medals (OMD). All nations medals can be discussed. It mainly just has a listing of OMD articles on Peer Review, Featured articled candidates and those who becamed featured. Of course, I can add a listing for stub articles, request for pictures, requests for comments, and of course, votes for deletion (which should be rare). If you have any questions, just let me know. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 29 June 2005 02:18 (UTC)

PKWN
Hey. I created their article at Polish Committee of National Liberation. I welcome your input, since my knowledge about this article is zero. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 29 June 2005 23:18 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions
Zagłosowałeś dwa razy - lepiej popraw zanim ktos zrobi awanturę. I dalej czekam na twoj komentarz na Featured_article_candidates/History_of_Poland_%281945-1989%29 - support, object, czy co uwazasz za sluszne. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 30 June 2005 12:36 (UTC)

anon user spreading Polish names randomly
Hi Halibutt, could you please look at contributions by anon user. He spread several Polish names around into several articles in what I see an attempt to make a point or smth. Anyway, instead of myself choosing what to revert using my own judgement, could you please look at it first and revert or correct in whatever way that seems to make sense. Thanks! -Irpen June 30, 2005 20:06 (UTC)
 * So, someone is randomly "spreading Polish names around" in "an attempt to make a point" - and you are turning to our friend Halibutt of all people? :O Seems like a typical case of setting a thief to catch a thief I would say... :D (just kidding). --Thorsten1 30 June 2005 20:38 (UTC)

 * Well, I didn't follow closely the battles on the Western Front, but on the Eastern front things weren't bad, save the recent edit war at Kiev on June 9-10 (in wich Halibutt took no part). While Kijow ended up not making it to the very first line of the article (this was what it was all about), that rv war resulted in an actual improvement of the article thanks to the editors' cooperation. I don't object to inclusion of Polish names to Ukrainian cities when the context warrants and the anon editor have simply done it sloppy. Once these are ordered, I could judge them by actual merit and decide whether I would like to revert and modify them. Regards, -Irpen June 30, 2005 21:48 (UTC)

Warsaw uprising pictures
Witaj, w dyskusji zadales pytanie: ''How to incorporate all of those into the article? :) ''

Mozna na przyklad przerzucic na Commons (chociaz nie wiem czy wszystkie sie da, po te z licencja chyba nie>), utworzyc tam artykul-galerie ze zdjeciami dotyczacymi Powstania, a tu (i w innych wikipediach) dac w artykule link do galerii. Pozdrawiam Meteor2017 3 July 2005 17:29 (UTC)

censae
W jęz. angielskim liczba mnoga od census to chyba nie jest censae, ale nie mam pod ręką współczesnego słownika. --Lysy (talk) 3 July 2005 18:24 (UTC)

 * Sprawdziłem, wg słownika Longmana liczba mnoga to censuses. Może pomyliło Ci się z łaciną ? ;-) --Lysy (talk) 3 July 2005 18:28 (UTC)

 * Wolę censae :-)

Image:Warszawa Ursynow.png
You tagged this image for speedy deletion. Unfortunely, because of how Template:Infobox Warsaw is currently coded, I am going to have to delete Image:Warszawa Ursynów.png instead. The template uses the parameter no_diacrite to render both the map and the coat of arms. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 3 July 2005 19:15 (UTC)

Reply to Talk:Polish Army

 * The matter is pretty clear to me. We have several names here.
 * Wojsko Polskie - used officially, Polish
 * Polish Army - used officially, English, used in English since times immemorial, unambiguous
 * Polish Armed Forces - same pros as above, with the difference that it doesn't sound
 * Military of Poland - not used officially, not used in English outside of wikipedia, ambiguous
 * User:Halibutt July 1, 2005 11:23 (UTC)
 * But #2 is ambiguous, because "Army" in English means a primarily land-based force --- which is historically what most military forces were. If we're talking about medieval, Wojciech Kossak subject matter, then it's pretty clear what "Polish Army" means.  Poland didn't have an air force, blue-water capable navy etc. in that era.  Now it's a bit more prolematic.  A literal translation of Wojsko Polskie leads to a confusing situation in English.  Aside from that, there are consistency issues.  Every other article (except Canada) is titled "Military of X."  I can't find any official Iranian websites using the term Military of Iran (which the Iranians call Artesh in Persian), and ditto for Military of Greece, but maybe that's because their staff have better things to do than write Wikipedia articles.
 * What this issue really boils down to is the problem of literality in translation. If I were to translate the native name for the Greek language (η Ελληνική Γλώσσα) liteally, it would be "The Greek Tongue." If I translated the colloquial name for the language, the neuter plural Ελληνικά, it would translate as  "Greeks."  Both look bizarre to a native English speaker, which is why we translate it as "Greek language" instead.
 * Slippery slope: Calling the armed forces of Poland together the "Polish Army" will lead lead to a perception of cluelessness and, inevitably, to dumb Polak jokes. Suppose there is a Wikimeet and someone brings this up, saying "Can you believe those dumb Polaks?" I, being partly of Polish descent, will be forced to demand satisfaction for this insult, and could be drawn into a fistfight or duel over the issue, which could lead to mine or another's death or a prison sentence.  Is that what you want Halibutt?  No, of course not.  So change your vote!  --Jpbrenna 4 July 2005 02:20 (UTC)

You win
I hate to admit it, you little fascist/ communist/ racist/ anti-semite/ biased person/ revisionist/ philo-Semite/ Semite/ anti-Semite/ trouble user/ uncivilised barbarian/ nationalist/ placename fetishist/ German revisionist / Polish pan/ Ukrainian nationalist / Polish Nazi/ Slavic monkey/ native of Lower Dneper/ stupid slave/ Polish fascist/ chauvinist/ falsificator (sic!)/ slave / dumb Polak / Jew / Slav / Sclavonian /ape-man / salamander/ fish, but you have a point. I changed my vote at Talk:Wojsko Polskie. --Jpbrenna 4 July 2005 21:50 (UTC)

anti-Polonism

 * Moglbys dac glos na zostawienie - Votes for deletion/Anti-Polonism dzieki--Witkacy 4 July 2005 22:29 (UTC)

 * Rozpoczalem zbieranie materialu na rozbudowe artykulu--Witkacy 8 July 2005 17:16 (UTC)

nalepki
Rzuć okiem na stikery. Space Cadet 5 July 2005 03:15 (UTC)

Polish Army
hi halibutt, i am confused, where am i supposed to vote in the discussion board on Wolsko Polskie? there are so many comments and i am slightly confused... or am i just supposed to add to the discussion? i am all about originality, so i think the polish name is fine Antares911 5 July 2005 12:24 (UTC)

Polish Army
hi halibutt, i am confused, where am i supposed to vote in the discussion board on Wolsko Polskie? there are so many comments and i am slightly confused... or am i just supposed to add to the discussion? i am all about originality, so i think the polish name is fine Antares911 5 July 2005 12:30 (UTC)

Tsk, tsk...
 Exercitus Polonus would have been the far better choice. For properly classicizing military propaganda, see Francis Glass, Washingtonii Vita   J.N. Reynolds, Ed. CAPUT NONUM:
 * ...Exercitus Americanus jam ex septem hominum millibus constabat, etsi, dum sese per ... eodem, tamen, temporis puncto, omnes in hostium conspectum venere...

Polish Latin must have been tainted by the vulgar idiom of those Dacian hordes dwelling beyond the Carpathians, who say Armata polonă Well, all I have to say is "Daci non supra grammaticos!"

Let me know when the dust settles on the Polish Army naming issue and I'll start a Latin Wikipedia stub based on whichever name finally prevails. I see you've been mustering your troops on the discussion page to march to the sound of the guns. Well, good luck and Godspeed! Be BOLD in your edits! L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace! Vae victis! Gott mit uns!  --Jpbrenna 6 July 2005 02:44 (UTC)

Jewish German history
Surely "Jewish German history" is the history of German Jews? Not the history of what the Germans did to Polish Jews? Adam 8 July 2005 06:19 (UTC)

Prokudin-Gorsky images
I uploaded some pictures of Prokudin-Gorsky in English Wiki. As you formerly added such pictures to Commons, I think you would be interested to add these as well. The images are as follows: Image:Prokudin solovki2.jpg Image:Kem prokudin.jpg Image:Vytegra.jpg Image:Vladikaukaz.jpg Image:Ufa prokudin.jpg Image:Gagry.jpg Image:Staritsa.jpg Image:Vladimir demetrios.jpg Image:Vladimir assumption.jpg Image:Ladoga1911.jpg Image:Belozersk09.jpg Image:Prokudin still life.jpg Image:Lugano prokudin.jpg --Ghirlandajo 10:07, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Defleta est anima mea

 * O, vos omnes, qui transitis per viam,
 * attendite et videte, attendite et videte
 * si est dolor similis, sicut dolor meus.

Seriously — I think that "Armed Forces of Poland" was the worst possible choice! It is a sad day for Wikipedia.

We must, however, move on. What should the Latin article be called? You said that the Polish Army was called the "Armata Polona" in the interwar period, at least on recruiting posters. I said exercitus was better, but of course, if we are talking about the combined-arms service, then armata is the better choice; either it is a substantive npl adjective "Armed Poland" or, interpreting it as the Greek npl αρμάτα "Polish Arms." Both fit the Polish system better than "exercitus," which would just be the Land Forces. So, I'm off to create a stipula. Look for it in the "other languages" tab. --Jpbrenna 21:42, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Ukrainian language
Be bold, but don't be reckless. Sashazlv 18:53, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

zdjęcie [Image:Harcerki.png]
To zdjęcie z całą pewnością przedstawia HArcerski z ZHR a nie z ZHP - charakterystyczną cechą jest białoczerwona plakietka nad prawą kieszenią munduru, podobne nosili też w ZHP-1918, ale od kilku lat są wszyscy razem w ZHR. Dlatego należałoby to poprawić, czyli przenieść zdjęcie z ZHP do ZHR. Jka bys potrzebował jeszcze jakieś zdjęcia o tematyce harcerskiej służe pomocą :) Pisz na stronie dyskusji polskiej bo na angielską nie zagladam często. Szumyk 08:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration case - final decision
A decision has been reached in the arbitration case relating to Zivinbudas. He has been banned from Wikipedia for one year. Please see Requests for arbitration/Zivinbudas for further details and the full decision. -- sannse (talk) 15:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Nasze zuchy
Co do kategorii harcerzy, mozna sie kierowac kategoria na pl wiki, i wstawiac tylko wybitnych instruktorow harcerskich jak i rowniez ludzi w ktorych zyciu harcerstwo odgralo duza role.--Witkacy 10:30, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

IPN o harcerzach --SylwiaS 16:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Adminowanie
Co do uzywania przywilejow dla wlasnych potrzeb - sledze dyskusje na bordzie adminow, 3rr, mailingliscie i od czasu do czasu rozne wojny edytowe... i powiem Ci ze osoby obsypane bernstarami jawnie uzywaja przywilejow do przepchniecia wlasnych pogladow.

Jestes tu juz starym wyjadaczem, napisales mase artykulow - idealny kandydat na admina :)

Co do Sylwii i Logologisty - owszem, ale narazie przez zbyt mala liczbe editow, te kandydatury by nie przeszly. Trzeba jeszcze poczekac :)

Co do glosowania na RfA - zdaje sobie z tego sprawe ze klub fanow polskich edytorow bedzie Ci wiele zarzucal (co oznacza ze zrobiles tu kawal dobrej roboty) ale wydaje mi sie rowniez, ze wiele osob by glosowalo pozytywnie. Co do sporow czy jestes bardziej Polakiem, Zydem, polskim nacjonalista, rusofobem - psy szczekaja karawana jedzie dalej. Zastanow sie jeszcze ;)--Witkacy 11:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Wczoraj przyszlo mi to tez do glowy niezaleznie od propozycji Witkacego. Mysle ze Polscy admins sa tutal underrepresented. Twoja kandydatura bylaby idealna - goraco namawiam. A ze jest to ciezki kawalek chleba to juz inna sprawa. Ttyre 16:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Halibutt, bedziesz bardzo dobrym adminem. Masz autorytet na Wiki i doswiadczenie = 90% sukcesu. P.S. Dzieki za mile slowa, ale Witkacy ma racje, ja tu jestem za krotko. --SylwiaS 18:08, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Odezwij sie do mnie jeszcze na gg, ale jesli dalej jestes za, to cie nominuje :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 09:47, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Harghita Survey
Hello Halibutt! In case you are interested, there is currently a survey at Talk:Harghita/Vote regarding whether or not Hungarian names should be included in articles for Romanian places. Your input would be valued if you'd like to talk a look. Olessi 16:25, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Black booki
Wiesz, ze masz dwa? :D User:Halibutt/Black Book i User:Halibutt/Black book. Moze by je zmerdzowac? Jimbo ma tez dobry pomysl z ta strona edukacji. Ew. oficjalnie odsunac to do lamusa. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 09:50, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

My problems with your obscene "black book"
The "black book" was legitimately deleted via VfD, at which time it was moved by Nohat to your user space at User:Halibutt/Black Book. After it was moved to your user space, several admins going as high as User:Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia itself, registered their disapproval of the entire idea, if your memory fails you, please review User talk:Halibutt/Black Book. Thereafter, the entire disgusting thing was copied over to User:Halibutt/Black book, a dispicable but sneaky way to remove the glaring eye of criticism while maintaining this little trollish trove of animosity for users who have fallen out of grace with Polish wikipedians. By all accounts, for what it's worth, it appears that the primary mastermind behind this whole grotesque miscarriage of civility is the unforgivable troll User:Witkacy, who seems to think that anything related to Poland is his personal domain, and that any wikipedian who even dares glance askance at his ludicrous ideas is guilty of "anti-Polonism". That diatribe aside, I see NO evidence whatsoever that you've attempted in any way whatsoever to have this trollishness removed from your userspace. I asked of you nearly 5 days ago why I was listed in this obscene "black book" and have YET to receive anything in the way of a response. If this repulsive and revolting miscarriage of the Wikipedian spirit you call a "black book" is meant to serve any "good" purpose, although with such an obscene name I fail to see how it could possibly do so, I DEMAND that you address my inquiry at User talk:Halibutt/Black book. If you have no explanation, then I DEMAND that you address how such an egregious charge could be levied against me in YOUR user space without so much as a whimper of protest from you. If you truly aren't aware that you were being used by that obscene troll Witkacy, I submit to you that you are either incompetent or a liar. In any case, I am EXTREMELY offended that my name has been befouled in your userspace and if you truly were unaware of the extent to which I was abused by the godforsaken troll Witkacy, you should at least offer me your humblest apologies. As I've said elsewhere, the grotesque denizen of the underside of bridges, the troll Witkacy has been reverted (see this edit), but the fact remains that you have done NOTHING to prevent your userspace from being used to besmirch my name for nearly a month. I am horribly appalled and grossly offended. Tomer TALK 11:55, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * I take it back. I see the obscene troll Witkacy has relisted me as an offender of all things Polish.  I'm sure my friends of Polish extraction (including 2 of my uncles) would be very surprised to learn that I'm one of the foremost proponents of this ludicrous notion of "Anti-Polonism".  Thank you very much for your time and attention. Tomer TALK 12:16, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Your claim that you are absolved of all responsibility through ignorance is ludicrous. THE PAGE IS IN YOUR USERSPACE.  I have already admitted my ignorance in assuming that the widespread notion of "Antipolonism" was a result of brainwashing by the Polish educational system (which was NOT meant as an assault on Poles by any far stretch of the imagination, rather it was meant as an assault on the Soviet-dominated educational system that ruled Polish education for 45 years).  Your insistence on allowing this to continue rather than engaging me in discussion, however, indicates that you're more than willing to allow yourself to be used in an effort by others to to besmirch the names of wikipedians with whom they disagree.  This is foul in the extreme.  If you have an issue with me, talk to me about it.  Don't allow yourself to be abused by others as a middleman in a trollish attack on my character.  To do so lends your support to the attack, and I don't honestly believe that's the kind of person you are.  If I've said something to offend you, you should address it, not allow someone else to ride like a monkey on your back using your username to denigrate me, while you say "I can't do anything about it".  If you don't approve, demand that an admin delete the page.  If you DO approve, address the problem, in this case, "ME", as I've asked you to THREE TIMES NOW.  If, on the other hand, you're happy to lay down and let Witkacy use you as a pawn in his game of denigrating other Wikipedians, in clear violation of Wikipedia policy, so be it.  If that's the case, I'll be more than happy to include you in my impending RfC concerning him and his obscene behavior.  Tomer TALK 12:30, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * Cyknij czarna ksiege, przenioslem do siebie. I sorry za tworzenie problemow przez tego wyzej :)--Witkacy 21:43, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Halibutt, the Black Book (two copies of it, at least) are in your User space. Consequently, you do have to take some responsibility for those pages. From the discussions above and elsewhere, it should be painfully obvious that the Black Book model does not help with dispute resolution—rather, it serves to further inflame. It is fully within your power to remove the names from the list or take down the page entirely—this is your User space. I don't really want to have to run through the flame wars and unpleasantness that were associated with retiring the Black Book the last time. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

3RR violation
I have posted notice of your 3RR violation at Administrators' noticeboard/3RR. Gene Nygaard 15:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Polskie samoloty
...mam nadzieję, że żartujesz z tym przenoszeniem?.. ;-) Pibwl ← «  19:44, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

 * To jak przeniesc Messerschmitt do Knifesmith ;)--Witkacy 10:30, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Widzę, że sarkazm przez Ciebie przemawia... Pibwl ← «  21:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Przez sarkazm chodziło mi o pomysły tłuamczenia nazw samolotów (niemniej jednak, jak pewnie się domyślasz, ja byłbym raczej zwolennikiem tytułów: "medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś" ;-)

 * Szkoda, że wcześniej nie wiedziałem o tej dyskusji. Moim zdaniem, niepotrzebnie się unosisz. Znam zresztą ten ból, kiedy człowiek wpada na jego zdaniem, genialny pomysł, lub ma jedynie słuszne rozwiązanie, ale reszta go za cholerę nie chce podzielić... Według mnie jednak, forsowanie na siłę całych polskich zwrotów na zasadzie "a niech się uczą polskiego", mija się z celem. Pibwl ← «  23:19, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

w czym oryginalna nazwa jest gorsza od tej, którą raczyłeś wymyślić? - nie wymyśliłem, tylko przetłumaczyłem z zachowaniem oryginalnego dla polskiego sprzętu oznaczenia "wz.". Gorsza jest niestety w tym, że czytelnik anglojęzyczny połamie sobie na niej język, nawet jej zapewne poprawnie nie przepisze, a przede wszystkim nie będzi miał pojęcia o czym jest artykuł.

dlaczego polski sprzęt wojskowy jako jedyny ma być tłumaczony? Nie jestem za tłumaczeniem nazw własnych i oznaczeń, tylko opisów. Poza tym wg mnie, dla jasności, np. "PzB 39" (o którym na razie nie ma artykułu) też miałby lepszy tytuł "anti-tank rifle PzB 39". Nie widzę innych przykładów nie tłumaczenia sprzętu, niż powszechnie przyjęte skróty (nie całe nazwy) niemieckie.

Dlaczego przeniosłeś artykuł poza procedurą Sorry, istotnie nie wnikałem bliżej w procedury przenoszenia. Ale chyba musiałem uznać tłumaczenie nazwy za oczywiste na angielskiej wikipedii (zresztą, zrobiłem to chyba w miesiąc po próbie rozpoczęcia dyskusji na stronie artykułu). W każdym razie, teraz możemy to naprawić. Pibwl ← «  10:54, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Forgot to say it. --Ttyre 22:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Katyn records
I want to find out more about one of the names on the Katyń Memorial Wall - he might be a relative. Are there any military records available on the executed, or are they sitting in a Russian vault somewhere? The Wikipedia article says: Despite earlier declarations, 116 out of 183 volumes of files gathered during the Russian investigation, as well as the decision to put an end to it, were classified. So I know what the answer will probably be, but I was just wondering if you know of any sources (even if they are written in that bourgeois capitalist patois known as "Polish"). --Jpbrenna 00:45, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, I was going to ask Wiktacy about this, but I'm not sure where on his page to post non-"Black Book"-related discussions. http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/szczegoly.asp?id=10244  It says that man died 1940, but then it says "camp?"  Does that just mean he died was murdered in the camp of Ostashkov and was buried in Miednoye?

 * Franciszek Kaliszewski was my great-grandfather's name, and my great-uncle's -- but both first and last are so common in Poland that I'm not sure he's a relative. I don't know as much about that side of the family, just his parents' first names.  I don't have immigration records for them like I do for his wife's family. I think his family were from somewhere in the Prussian partition (based on the fact that he left behind a book about the German-Polish frontier).  And I think his Ciotka Fushie(she was his aunt, but they were the same age) who used to keep track of the relatives and visit them when she owned a travel agency tried to reinitiate contact after the war but had no luck.  Contact with bourgeois capitalist relatives in America was probably officially discouraged at that time, so it's not surprising.  Doesn't mean anyone died.  So, no proof that this is a relative, just the distressing possibility.

 * The record I was originally looking for was Ignacy Kalka, but he's not in that database, just on the wall. I don't suppose there are any other databases I could try? --Jpbrenna 07:12, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Dzieki
Za obrazek. Nominujesz i podmienisz, gdzie trzeba? A ja na prawde myslalem, ze to mialo byc czerwone... ciekawe, skad sie wziela ta czerwona wersja? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 09:39, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Car theft
Hi Halibutt, thanks for your well-intentioned edit regarding car thefts on Anti-Polonism. Reasonable edits are few and far between in the history of this article. Still, I decided to remove it; let me explain why. Although I am easily upset by anti-Polish stereotypes, and even wrote to the German foreign office once and asked them to remove overstated traveller warnings on crime in Poland, I can't discuss away the fact that a disproportionately high number of Poles were involved in organised car theft in Germany throughout the 1990s. Police statistics speak a clear language here. That German public opinion elevated "car thief" to being almost synonymous with "Pole" is regrettable. That's how stereotyping works, like it or not, and we should certainly work against such stereotyping wherever possible and necessary on within the scope of an encyclopedia. Having said that, we should also stick to facts, and not let political correctness go at the expense of factual correctness. No offence, --Thorsten1 19:36, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Małe pytanie ;)
Cześć. Napisałem pare stubów o polskiej broni z września 1939 roku. Żeby ułatwić nawigację wstawiłem do wszystkich odpowiedni szablon. Po dwóch godzinach przyczołgał się do mnie Gene Nygaard i napisał że tytuły Kb wz.98a, Kbk wz.29 czy Ckm wz.30 są złe bo po polsku. Można go olać (ma uczulenie na język polski) czy naruszyłem jakąś regułe i trzeba poprzenosić (słabo znam angielski i w dyskusji z gościem jestem na straconej pozycji)? --Nemo5576 16:06, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Przeżyje :) Na en jestem tylko gościem, a na pl-Wiki na szczęście nikt mi nie bruździ ;) A jeśli chodzi o dyskusje na temat kb ppanc wz.35 to bardzo zajmująca lektura(z czytaniem tekstu angielskiego sobie radze, z pisaniem jest gorzej), na marginesie teraz na pl-Wiki jest pl:Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35. --Nemo5576 17:23, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Vistula.jpg
Hi, can I ask you where you got it? I started working on Lithuania rivers and thought I could use some maps. Besides, you got a warning there that you need to show copyrights there. Cheers! Renata3 05:48, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. Renata3 17:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

wz.30
Wyszła mała wojna edycyjna :) No cóż lepiej znasz angielski więc pewnie masz racje. Ale pierwsze Hotchkissy w Polskiej Armii były orginalnymi Mle 14 i miały kaliber 8 x 50 mm R Lebel, dopiero wz.25 były 7,92. Tak na marginesie naprawde masz instrukcje do kb ppanc wz.35 ? --Nemo5576 08:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ech, a już myślałem że jestem w niebie i skan od ciebie wyłudze :| Ale nie trace nadziei że kiedyś zdobęde :) Z przedwojennymi instrukcjami polskimi strasznie krucho. --Nemo5576 18:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

moze Cie zainteresowac

 * , po messerschmicie nastalo pobudzenie :)--Witkacy 22:15, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations
I hear you've been named an "immature schizophrenic." I know it takes millions of hours on Wikipedia to reach that level, and it's good to see that your hard work has not gone unrewarded. As someone who is merely a puerile maniac at this point, it is good to have someone like you to look up to. (Sorry for ending that sentence with a preposition - I'm sure they taught you not to, but when you're a native speaker you're allowed to get away with such violations once-in-awhile).

So, anyway where are the pictures of your incredible girlfriend of whom I keep hearing so much? And does she have a sister? --Jpbrenna 07:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't understand. "My part of the field?"  You mean she's studying over here in the States?  Well, don't worry about me tracking her down to seduce her.  Some time ago, I responded to a message on a genealogy website from a Polish woman who I believe to be my relative.  She was living in Texas, and wanted to find the descendents of her relatives who had emigrated to the United States.  I replied to her message, but I am still waiting to hear from her.  I added her to my Yahoo buddy list, but she never signs-in.  Her Yahoo name is a combination of Polish and macaronic Latin, which makes me certain she is my cousin, but alas, I cannot get in touch with her.  Anyway, the point  is, if I cannot even track down my own flesh-and-blood, there is very little reason to worry about your girlfriend.  I don't even know what she looks like.  Besides, how could I hope to compete with your Kirk Douglas jaw and dashing  No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron scarf? ;) --Jpbrenna 18:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I can't compete. I might be able to find an appropriate scarf, but I can't afford a chin job.
 * I'm not a big fan of the oversized "theme" restaurants either, but you shouldn't be so hard on country music. Some of the old stuff is very good.  I don't remember Eco writing about American chain restaurants - I thought he wrote about monks solving murder mysteries and Italians going on adventures to Constantinople and the Middle East.  I think he stole a fair ammount of material from Herodotus in Baudolino, but there are apparently no Herodoteans left to initiate a lawsuit against him.
 * Actually, you never did mention your girlfriend directly to me. Somehow in one of our exchanges, I accidentally added your talk page to my watchlist.  I resisted commenting on earlier entertaining exchanges that I was eavesdropping on, but the temptation overcame me at last.  I think it was seeing the schizophrenic comment added to your userpage that finally pushed me over the edge ;)--Jpbrenna 03:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

New section
Ok, I should get to bed, but I have a few more questions:
 * 1) Is your gf a pilot?  Why is she wearing that headeset?
 * 2) What the ____ is she doing in Rocky Top, TN?  She could have at least moved to Nashville, or scenic Gatlinburg.  If she came to America to learn how to speak English, why did she move to a part where the natives probably don't speak it that well?  I've had to work with people who come from them thar hills, and most times, t'aint set right with me t'all.  If I'd hadn' mah druthers, I wouldn'ta done it.
 * 3) Can you make more money teaching English to adults in Poland than you can as a pilot?  If so, where do I sign up?
 * 4) Somebody really created a 3-D of the Last Supper? I never even heard about that, but I'm not surprised.  But if you really want to see something bizarre, you should go visit your neighbors in Germany and check out the weird sound-and-light show you are forced to take in at the Frankfurt airport as you ride the people mover to your connecting flight.  Lights reflect off of bizarre cutouts while something resembling the sound of a man urinating (and in fact, it probably is a recording of a man urinating) echo off the walls, and unfortunately, it's all 3-D and very real.  So, to paraphrase that wise old Jewish carpenter: "European, remove the urine from thine own eye before thou remarkest the mote in thy brother's!"  Of course, that's "Old Europe," right, so I shouldn't have even brought this up. --Jpbrenna 08:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Enigma pic
Hi, I think we don't need that additional Enigma pic, particularly as it's non-free. See Talk:Enigma machine. — Matt Crypto 17:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Poljani
This is one of the Lechitic tribes whence the Poles get their name. On the other hand, the name of the tribe isn't exclusively Polish. --VKokielov 22:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * As you will. :) --VKokielov 05:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Kgwinðbunt
Hello, There's an oddly named article Kgwinðbunt with an Icelandic letter in it. I tried to Google based on the names of the father and son mentioned in the article, and I came up with an article in Polish. I can read some Russian, so I can guess some what it says, but not fully understand it. If you have time, can you briefly take a look? I ask because you're active on Lithuanian/Polish historical issues. -- Curps 09:30, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I see User:Naive cynic has already moved the article to Gimbut. I added that link to it as an external link, but decided not to add any additional text to the page itself. Thanks for your help. -- Curps 08:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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KPXE-TV

KPXE-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Oak Street and Cleaver Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, and its transmitter is located in the city's Brown Estates section.

Prior channel 50
Channel 50 in Kansas City first signed on the air on October 29, 1969, as KCIT-TV. Founded by Allied Broadcasting, it was the first independent station to sign on in the Kansas City market and the first new commercial station to sign on in the area since the short-lived DuMont Television Network affiliate KCTY (on channel 25) debuted in 1954. Channel 50 programming primarily consisted of shows that the three network-affiliated television stations in Kansas City preempted, as well as some local programming.

Allied Broadcasting, owned by 20 local stockholders, could not survive a downturn in the economy and competition from a new independent station that signed on a year later, KBMA-TV (channel 41, now NBC affiliate KSHB-TV). KBMA-TV had wealthier owners and a stronger signal than channel 50. KCIT-TV cut programming hours in June, only to go silent July 8, 1971, after several days of bare minimum programming. The station's technical facilities were acquired for use in relaunching KCPT (channel 19) with color capability. KBMA-TV became the sole independent station in Kansas City for several years afterward until KEKR-TV (channel 62, now KSMO-TV) signed on in September 1983 (the KCIT call letters are now assigned to a Fox-affiliated station in Amarillo, Texas).

Relaunch
The channel 50 allocation remained dormant for several years. On July 2, 1976, Kansas City Youth for Christ, Inc., filed for a construction permit for a new channel 50 TV station, which was granted by the FCC on April 29, 1977. The new station signed on December 15, 1978, as KYFC, named after its owner. Operating as a noncommercial independent station, its lineup largely consisted of religious programming through the 1980s, however a few "family-friendly" secular shows had been added to its schedule. The station ran newscasts from CNN Headline News at least once a day for several years, replacing the commercials during breaks within the simulcasts with other announcements.

Pledges to support the station declined during the 1990s. Station managers also grew concerned about the cost of converting to digital operations, something they were reluctant to pass on to their financial supporters. In 1997, the station was sold to Paxson Communications, and began to air infomercials from the Infomall TV Network (inTV) and programming from The Worship Network shortly thereafter, along with some religious programs. On April 28 of that year, the station also changed its call letters to KINB. On January 13, 1998, the station changed its callsign again, this time to KPXE; then eight months later on August 31, the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV when that network launched.

In 2001, KPXE entered into a joint sales agreement with NBC affiliate KSHB, as part of an agreement between Paxson Communications and three stations owned by the Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps Company (which also involved KSHB sister stations WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida, and KJRH in Tulsa, Oklahoma).

Sale to Scripps and resale to Inyo
On September 24, 2020, Scripps (owner of KSHB-TV and KMCI-TV) announced that it would purchase Ion Media for $2.65 billion, with financing from Berkshire Hathaway. With this purchase, Scripps divested 23 Ion-owned stations to Inyo Broadcast Holdings, including KPXE-TV (as Scripps already owns two stations in the Kansas City market). The divestitures allowed the merged company to fully comply with the FCC local and national ownership regulations. Inyo has agreed to maintain Ion affiliations for the divested stations.

Newscasts
In September 2001, as part of its joint sales agreement with that station, KPXE-TV began airing tape delayed rebroadcasts of KSHB-TV's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (the latter beginning shortly before that program's live broadcast ended on KSHB). The news rebroadcasts ended on June 30, 2005, when the network's other news share agreements with major network affiliates throughout the United States were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of the network's financial troubles.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Prior to January 31, 2010, KPXE offered The Worship Network on digital subchannel 50.4. KPXE began broadcasting its main 50.1 channel in high definition in late spring 2010.

Analog-to-digital conversion
KPXE-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel 50.

In early 2015, KPXE was granted a construction permit by the FCC to move its signal to channel 30, as the FCC is selling off the high UHF spectrum for wireless communications. The move to channel 30 took place in the early morning hours of May 30, 2015, with the FCC issuing the license to operate on channel 30 on July 6, 2015.

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John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard

Harry John Neville Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, (21 September 1923 – 3 April 2016), was an English peer and landowner in Northumbria and County Durham.

Life
Born at Raby Castle in County Durham, the son of Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, the young Vane was educated at Eton College. On leaving school in 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, training in South Africa, although he would never see combat. In the aftermath of the war he was commissioned into the Northumberland Hussars. From 1952 to 1961, as John Vane, he was a county councillor for County Durham and also, from 1956 to 1970, a Deputy Lieutenant of Durham.

In 1960, Vane was awarded the Territorial Decoration, and in 1961 he became a Justice of the Peace for County Durham.

In 1964, on his father's death, he succeeded him as Baron Barnard, with a seat in the House of Lords, and inherited an estate of some 60,000 acres.

He was Lieutenant Colonel of the Northumberland Hussars between 1964 and 1966, Lord Lieutenant of Durham between 1970 and 1988, and Honorary Colonel of the 7th (Durham) Battalion, Light Infantry, between 1979 and 1989.

At the age of 63, Lord Barnard, who had missed his university years in his youth because of the war, surprised friends by enrolling at Durham University Business School and taking an MSc in Management Studies.

He was initiated into freemasonry in Agricola Lodge No. 7741 in 1961. He served as Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham from December 1969 until January 1998, and served as Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1970–1971.

On his death in 2016, he left an estate valued at £94 million.

Family
He married Lady Davina Mary Cecil (1931–2018), daughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, on 8 October 1952 at St Margaret's, Westminster. They were divorced in 1992. They had five children; Henry, who succeeded as the 12th Baron, and four daughters.

Lady Barnard retired to Barningham, where she died in 2018.

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WYLD (AM)

WYLD (940 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and it broadcasts an urban gospel radio format, known as "Hallelujah 940" Some Christian talk and teaching programs are also heard.

By day, WYLD is powered at 10,000 watts. Because 940 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A stations XEQ in Mexico City and CFNV in Montreal, WYLD must greatly reduce its power at night to 500 watts to avoid interference. It uses a directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is off Tullis Drive in the Algiers district of New Orleans.

History
When it signed on in 1948, the station's call sign was WTPS. It was owned by the New Orleans Times-Picayune daily newspaper (the call sign stood for "Times-Picayune Station") and was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System.

In 1958, it became WYLD. WYLD was a successful rhythm and blues (R&B) outlet in the 1960s and 1970s, serving New Orleans' large African-American community. When it added an FM sister station in 1975, the urban contemporary format shifted to 98.5 WYLD-FM. The AM station evolved to a community-oriented R&B and soul music sound in the 1980s to its current format in the 1990s.

On May 24, 2017, WYLD rebranded as "Hallelujah 940".

On April 27, 2020, the station began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo using a new Nautel NX-10 transmitter, installed under the direction of then iHeartMedia Engineering Manager, Christopher Boone, WB5ITT. It is the only AM station in Louisiana currently broadcasting with the technology. It also uses MDCL, Modulation Density Carrier Level, during the daytime hours only.

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Talk:Navel gazing

This is a real
this is a real word, but probably belongs in wiktionary and not in wikipedia. >>sparkit| TALK << 00:53, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

If omphaloskepsis does not belong here then neither does omphalology

 * Well, it has an actual application as a meditative technique, and is a source of much sophomoric humour at the expense of meditators, so it has potential to be a proper article. Fire Star 01:14, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The first sentence on the article page is lifted right out of Merriam-Webster, word for word.

Forgive the idiocy, but having no idea what this term meant when I first heard it, I assumed it was a euphemism for someone giving a man a blow-job. Because that's where the eyes would look. Still, such silliness is to be expected with a silly phrase, I suppose. --El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 15:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to know where the actual phrase "navel gazing" comes from. Who first coined it? I once thought it was from a science fiction short story (unfortunately I forget what it was) but later I realised that the story was referencing something already known - but what, exactly? The Bible perhaps, or another ancient text... or something more modern? Stuff like this would make the article more useful. 203.87.74.230 (talk) 22:35, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merriam-Webster gives 1925 as the date of the first recorded use of omphaloskepsis. It's also a fact that Aldous Huxley uses it in his novel Those Barren Leaves, published in 1925. So my guess is that that's the origin of the word. Huxley did invent his share of new words, so I wouldn't be surprised if he coined it, but I'm not 100% sure. If somebody can confirm or deny this, that would be great. 67.171.39.251 (talk) 07:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

The correct way to write the word is "omphaloskopisis"Amadeus webern (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 11:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC).

From some rock/boulder in Greece. Where life sprang fourth, considered the navel of the world, contemplating it was something you did/do while in Greece. Someone should find a pic, then we could comtemplate it. Sounds wiki worthy, if a bit silly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.20.93 (talk) 07:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Um...I think you are referring to the omphalos; however, that is not related to omphaloskepsis. The latter term is derived from the spiritual practice of Eastern Orthodox monks, in practicing hesychasm.

Negative usage?
I had heard that, historically, the term omphaloskepsis ("navel-gazing") has been used in the past by Roman Catholics as a criticism of the Orthodox Church's practice of the Jesus Prayer. But I can't find a source for this. Does anyone have any information about this?

Too Wordy
This seems like it was written by a smug high school student enjoying their use of obscure words for the sake of it. When people think navel gazing, they think navel gazing. I believe the term occurs far more than Omphaloskepsis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.173.179.250 (talk) 11:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 28 July 2020

 * 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:43, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Omphaloskepsis → Navel gazing – "Navel gazing" is by far the more commonly known and used term. For empirical data, see this Google ngram search. Afterwards, the article should be edited so it's less about the word "omphaloskepsis", though, of course, that should be given as the alternate term. Largoplazo (talk) 12:33, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Dixie Carter (wrestling)

Dixie Carter-Salinas (born October 6, 1964) is an American businesswoman. She is best known for her time as president of the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

Carter was in a backstage role during her early time with the company, though began to appear on TNA programming from 2009, and became an on-screen storyline character in 2010. In 2012, Carter purchased the majority share of TNA from Panda Energy International, making her the majority owner. In 2016, Billy Corgan succeeded Carter as president, with Carter becoming chairwoman of the promotion. Following a restructuring period, Anthem Sports & Entertainment purchased the majority of the promotion from Carter. The promotion was subsequently renamed Impact Wrestling in 2017, and Carter would remain a minority owner until she left.

Early life
Carter was born in Dallas, Texas to parents Robert W. and Janice Carter. She graduated from The Hockaday School in 1982 and subsequently attended the University of Mississippi, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Business Administration. While a student, Carter was active on the Student Programming Board, and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma women's fraternity. In addition, Carter worked as an intern with Levenson and Hill, a marketing and advertisement firm in the Las Colinas suburb of Dallas, Texas. Upon graduating, Carter became a full-time employee of Levenson and Hill, receiving a promotion to the position of vice president at the age of 32. In 1993, she started her own business in Nashville, focusing primarily on sport and music representation.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002–2017)
In 2002, the president of Monterey Peninsula Talent (a booking agency) contacted Carter and informed her that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion, required a marketing and publicity outlet. Carter began working with TNA, but, two months later, was informed by Jeff Jarrett (a part-owner of TNA) that a key financial backer (HealthSouth Corporation, which was having financial problems due to its being investigated for accounting irregularities) had withdrawn support from TNA, and that the company was in dire straits as a result. Carter, claiming to "[See] the potential in a marketplace that had one company WWE with a US$900 million market cap and no competitor", contacted her parents, the owners of Panda Energy International, a Dallas-based energy company. In October 2002, Panda Energy purchased 71% of TNA from the HealthSouth Corporation for $250,000. On October 31, 2002, TNA (which originally traded as "J Sports and Entertainment") was renamed "TNA Entertainment". Carter was appointed president of TNA Entertainment in spring 2003. In December 2007, Carter voluntarily appeared before United States Congress to be interviewed regarding professional wrestling in the wake of the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide. Carter served as the president of TNA until August 12, 2016, when she was announced as the new chairwoman of the promotion, with Billy Corgan taking over the presidency. Soon after, however, it was announced that Corgan would sue the company and Carter, as he was lied to about when he would get his money back. On November 30, it was reported that Corgan had settled his lawsuit against TNA, with Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. acquiring the loans Corgan made to Carter in the process. In late November 2016, it was reported that, once Corgan's lawsuit was settled, TNA would go through a restructuring period that would see ownership change, with Anthem taking 85%, Aroluxe 10%, and Dixie Carter retaining 5%, making Carter the minority owner and leaving her with no decision-making power in TNA going forward. On January 4, 2017, Anthem Sports and Entertainment purchased 85% majority stake of TNA Wrestling and Carter resigned as chairwoman after fourteen years in charge. Ed Nordholm of Anthem took over as president. Carter joined the Advisory Board of Fight Media Group, the division of Anthem that deals with the combat sports-related assets of the company where she would focus on the global growth of the brands in that division, while also remaining as a minority shareholder of the company until she left in the same year.

Sporadic appearances (2009–2012)
After making only occasional appearances on pay-per-views, Carter made her first appearance on TNA Impact! on August 27, 2009, interviewing new signee Bobby Lashley.

In early 2010, after the debuts of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, Carter became a regular authority figure on Impact!, before losing her on-screen power to the two of them, on the October 14, 2010, edition of Impact!. However, Carter would make another appearance on the November 25, 2010, edition of Reaction when, in storyline, she informed Hogan and Bischoff that a judge filed an injunction against the two on behalf of Carter over not having signatory authority.

On the March 3, 2011, edition of Impact!, the result of the court battle between Carter and Hogan was revealed, with Hogan declaring himself as the new head of TNA Wrestling. Carter returned to TNA on October 16 at Bound for Glory, when Sting defeated Hogan to bring her back to power. Carter made an appearance on the December 8 edition of Impact Wrestling, along with Sting to confront TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Roode. The segment ended with Roode spitting in Carter's face.

In the summer of 2012, Carter was also the focal point in a storyline where Kazarian and Christopher Daniels accused her of having an affair with company TNA mainstay A.J. Styles. The duo provided compromising footage of Carter and Styles entering a hotel together as well as photographs of them embracing. Carter's real-life husband Serg Salinas made a televised appearance on Impact Wrestling where he knocked Styles to the ground. It was ultimately revealed that Carter and Styles were merely helping a mutual friend, Claire Lynch, work through drug addiction issues.

Dixieland (2013–2014)
Carter appeared at the ending segment of Impact Wrestling on September 19, 2013, to (in character) confront AJ Styles over the remarks he has made about the way she was running the company. Carter responded by saying that Styles was not a great wrestler and claimed that she was the one who created the Styles' persona to get marketing for the company. She added that Styles would still be living in poverty if her father didn't pay him, and she was the one who created this house (TNA). She was about to leave when Styles was going to respond, she decided to end the show by cutting off the microphones and turning off the lights, thus turning into a villainess in the process. On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Carter ripped up AJ Styles' new contract as awarded by Hulk Hogan, then gave Hogan an ultimatum to join forces with her by next week. Hogan declined her offer and quit, Carter initially begged him to reconsider, but then claimed Hogan could not quit because she had fired him, though Hogan had already walked off camera by this point. At Bound For Glory, the evil Dixie interfered in the main event and ordered referee Earl Hebner not to count Styles' pin; however, Styles would ultimately defeat Bully Ray to become the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Next week, she tried to convince Styles to sign a new contract with TNA, but Styles refused, leaving the company with the title. On October 29, 2013, Carter vacated the title. However, Styles announced a title defense in Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración promotion. When Dorian Roldán, AAA owner, announced Judas Mesias as AJ's rival, Carter said that she talked with Roldán attempting to cancel the match. Meanwhile, she announced a tournament to crown a new TNA Champion, as she refused to recognize Styles' reign. Magnus eventually won the tournament and the championship at Impact Wrestling: Final Resolution by defeating Jeff Hardy in the eponymous Dixieland match, with the help of Rockstar Spud and Dixie's storyline nephew Ethan Carter III. They formed "Team Dixie" in the process.

On January 9, 2014, Magnus defeated AJ Styles upon his return to TNA, unifying the titles. Styles left TNA after the match. On January 30, 2014, Montel Vontavious Porter debuted in TNA as an investor and entered into a feud with Carter. At Lockdown 2014, Dixie Carter's team of Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, and BroMans (Robbie E and Jessie Godderz) lost to MVP's team of himself, The Wolves, and Willow in a Lethal Lockdown match after interference from the special referee, Bully Ray, who was initially intended to be the "insurance" for Dixie's team. As a result of her team's defeat, MVP took control of TNA as the (storyline) Director of Wrestling Operations. Following the events of Lockdown, Dixie feuded with Bully Ray, who promised that he would put her through a table. On the June 27 tapings of Impact that aired August 7, Carter was put through a table by Bully Ray.

Various appearances (2015–2016)
At the June 26, 2015 tapings for the July 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, Carter made her first televised appearance after a nearly year long absence. After her nephew, Ethan Carter III, finished his match with Kurt Angle, Carter admitted that she was on a power trip whose ego got the best of her, and that the company doesn't belong to her or her nephew, but to the fans and apologized for her actions for the past year and a half saying that she would not make those same mistakes again, this would turn Dixie into a babyface once again.

On the January 5 live debut of Impact Wrestling on Pop TV, Dixie opened the show feuding with Ethan Carter III and ended up leaving abruptly when Eric Young attacked Matt Hardy, who was confronting Carter.

Personal life
Carter is married to Serg Salinas, former music producer for TNA with whom she has two children; a daughter Reese and a son Tanner. In November 2019, Carter appeared on Ant & Dec's DNA Journey as it was revealed that she is a distant cousin of British television host Declan Donnelly. She has also appeared on WWE's Kurt Angle: Homecoming episode of the WWE Network series WWE 24.

Legacy
Carter has been criticized due to her decisions about TNA. AJ Styles, once dubbed as "The Face of TNA", said that Carter ruined TNA because of her "not knowing what's best for business". Konnan claimed Carter is "incompetent" and "she doesn't know what she is doing". Vince Russo has also been critical of Carter's management style stating, "Dixie just did so much more damage than good, just not being upfront and not being honest and everything was underhanded and behind people's back. I can't tell you how many times as my boss, she would tell me something and then it always ended with, 'but you can't say anything, you can't tell anybody' and that was just so hard to work under that umbrella".

Kurt Angle praised Carter as a "great boss", stating, "Sometimes, having a woman in charge is a lot better than a man, because they're so much more understanding, more compassionate". Hernandez praised Carter as "smart" for delegating responsibilities to others with more knowledge of the professional wrestling business. Eric Bischoff also praised Carter as an "intelligent woman" who could sell her product to corporate executives but criticized her for not having an overall vision for the company. Meanwhile, Bruce Prichard described Carter as "very gullible", and criticized the corporate structure within TNA.

Various women who performed for the Knockouts division criticized Carter. Velvet Sky said that Carter "ruined it for all of us". Sky also stated that Spike TV canceled Impact Wrestling after they got tired "of Carter's shit". Angelina Love, Velvet Sky's tag team partner, said that working with her was "a disaster". Tara ended on bad terms with TNA, complaining of that the company was disorganized under Carter's leadership.

Awards and accomplishments

 * Women Superstars Uncensored
 * WSU Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)
 * WrestleCrap
 * Gooker Award (2013) – Heel turn angle

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Talk:Sonoma, California

Sonoma
I am a resident of Sonoma. It is a great tourist site, but if your a teen looking for something to do, this town is NOT for you. The movie theaters or the square are your two places you can "hang" as the youngsters all it. I love Sonoma being an elderly women. There are lovely people and it gives you a safe feeling.

 * Such is life in smalltown America; if I were a teen, I'd still much rather live in Sonoma, CA than some comparable town in the blank middle of Kansas. Say, did you happen to take some photos of the recent flooding; one would make a good addition to this article. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

History section
The editor decision to add back "unexplained or lost history right after the flag section literally just repeats several paragraphs that are better worded right before the flag section. In other words they were never lost just moved up now they are repeated.   I shall remove  the repeats after the flag section.  Goldenrowley 04:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Flag Section
The complete flag section (about governments of California) is currently on both on Sonoma County page and Sonoma Town page. I proposed to remove it from the town page and leave it on the COUNTY page because towns usually dont discuss statehood. However this is unique the state formed in the town of Sonoma 2 times .... I deleted it once, but someone wanted back. I am neutral can go either way just note it is duplicating government info on town and county page Goldenrowley 05:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The identity of the town is pretty closely tied to its history, and the rest of the county really didn't have anything to do with that historical episode. It makes the most sense in the article on the town (although it probably should be moved to its own article). 50n0m4 22:59, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Except the English and Russian governments never claimed the town, but did make claims in the county. And the mission wasn't founded until after the Mexican revolution, so the Spanish never really claimed any town at this location. Four flags have flown over the town. On top of that, this table isn't entirely accurate. See the corrected version on the county page.Ibadibam (talk) 10:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 50n0m4's comments don't really address the relevance of the entire flag section...just the Bear Flag Revolt. Since I've seen no further comments in the past month I'm going to take the section out again.Ibadibam (talk) 09:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

The Plat in Points of Interest
I have taken the initiative of deleting the reference to the Plat under points of interest. It seems to me as indefensible as a point of interest for the town. Perhaps the inclusion of the Sonoma Overlook trail would be in order. Please respond with a citation of the Plat before reversing the deletion. Thanks. FluxFuser (talk) 23:37, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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Alternative names for Northern Ireland

There are a number of alternative names for Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland consists of six historic counties of Ireland, and remains part of the United Kingdom following the independence of the other twenty-six counties as the Irish Free State in 1922 (now the Republic of Ireland, officially named "Ireland"). In addition to, and sometimes instead of, its official name, several other names are used for the region. Significant differences in political views between unionists and Irish nationalists are reflected in the variations of names they use for the region. A proposal to change Northern Ireland's legal name to Ulster was seriously considered by the UK and Northern Ireland Governments in 1949 but in the end, the name "Northern Ireland" was retained.

Legal name
The official and legal name of the region is Northern Ireland. The legal name is used by both the British and Irish governments, internationally by governments around the world, and by most of its inhabitants.

Unionist-associated names
Ulster is often used by unionists and some media outlets in the UK. This is the Hiberno-Norse form of the province of Uladh (Irish Uladh and Old Norse ster, meaning "province", yields "Uladh Ster" or, in English, "Ulster"). Examples of official use of this term are the Ulster Unionist Party, the University of Ulster, and the BBC Radio Ulster.

This term is disliked by some nationalists because the whole of the Province of Ulster consists of nine counties – three of which, County Monaghan, County Cavan and County Donegal, are in the Republic of Ireland. Unionists have argued that because Ulster's size has changed much over the centuries, Ulster can be applied to Northern Ireland alone. The Government of Northern Ireland once considered a proposal to change the official name to Ulster. Some also reject the claim of the Republic of Ireland to have inherited the tradition of the Irish Republic of the Irish War of Independence, because it excludes the north east, and refer to the Republic variously as the Free State or The Twenty-Six Counties.

The Province is also sometimes used, referring directly to the status of Northern Ireland as a "province" of the United Kingdom. This also, however, could be obliquely used to refer to the province of Ulster; and since no other constituent part of the United Kingdom is known as a province, a less controversial usage is "the region".

In 1949, members of the United Kingdom parliament debated how best it was to respond to Ireland's decision to terminate its last connection with the British King. Ireland also adopted a law saying that the state could be described as the Republic of Ireland. Some British MPs did not consider this was appropriate. Lieut-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore M.P. said that "Ulster has as much right to be called the "Kingdom of Ireland" as Southern Ireland has to be called the "Republic of Ireland." However, Northern Ireland was never renamed the Kingdom of Ireland.

Nationalist-associated names
Nationalists in the region and their supporters elsewhere commonly refer to it as The North of Ireland, The North-East or The North. This can be used to implicitly deny British sovereignty by placing it into the rest of Ireland, at least linguistically. It does, however, contain the same geographic anomaly as it does not contain Ireland's most northerly point.

The Six Counties is another popular name among republicans, as it can portray the region as a mere collection of Irish counties, rather than a legal political entity.

The Occupied Territories or The Occupied Six Counties are phrases sometimes used by some republicans, especially since the arrival of additional British Army soldiers, but originally employed simply to suggest the illegitimacy of the British presence in Northern Ireland. This is sometimes rendered as The Occupied Zone or The OZ.

Other names
In the Republic of Ireland, people typically refer to the region simply as the North. Similarly, and more commonly, in Northern Ireland, the South is sometimes used (by both unionists and nationalists) as a shorthand term for the Republic of Ireland.

Obviously, this explanation does not hold for parts of the Republic such as County Donegal giving rise to the joke that while further out in a boat on Lough Foyle, "the South is north, and the North is south".

A colloquial name for Northern Ireland which has grown in popularity in recent years is "Norn Iron", derived from an exaggerated pronunciation of 'Northern Ireland' in a broad Belfast accent. This name is often used by fans of the football team both on banners and in conversation.

Northern Ireland is literally translated to Tuaisceart Éireann in Irish (though it is sometimes known as Na Sé Chontae 'The Six Counties' as well as Tuaisceart na hÉireann '[the] North of Ireland' by republicans) and Norlin Airlann or Northern Ireland in Ulster Scots.

Government proposals to rename Northern Ireland as Ulster
Ulster unionists often use the name Ulster as a synonym for Northern Ireland. Sometimes there are calls to formally change the name of Northern Ireland to Ulster.

UK and NI Government discussions about name change
Ahead of the renaming of the Irish Free State to simply Ireland in 1937, the British Prime Minister and the Home Secretary discussed the matter with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon when he was in London in July 1937. It was reported to the Cabinet that:

Later, the British Home Secretary discussed the new name for the Irish state (and other matters) with the Acting Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, J. M. Andrews on 10 December 1937 just under three weeks before the new Constitution came into effect. Since the earlier discussions with Lord Craigavon, the Law Officers have given their opinion that local legislation changing the name of Northern Ireland to Ulster would be ultra vires, and that legislation by Westminster would be necessary if the change of name were to be made. It was this which the Home Secretary wished to discuss with Mr. Andrews. The Home Secretary reported on the discussions to his Cabinet colleagues noting the following:

Parliamentary discussions about name change
The parliamentary reports of the Parliament of Northern Ireland record an instance in 1937 where the proposal to rename Northern Ireland as Ulster was given formal consideration. On 1 December 1937, Thomas Joseph Campbell, MP (Nationalist) asked the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland whether the Government was considering changing the name of Northern Ireland, and, if so what name was being considered. Responding, the Minister of Finance J. M. Andrews MP said "the matter has been under discussion amongst Members of the Government, but no Cabinet decision has been taken".

This exchange followed speeches in parliament the previous month by two Independent Unionist MPs, Tommy Henderson and John William Nixon, raising the possible name change. Both regretted the name change was not mentioned in the King's Speech. Mr. Henderson criticised the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland's handling of the matter. He said that "the Attorney-General suggested recently that the name of Northern Ireland should be changed to Ulster". However, according to Mr Henderson, it was "absolutely impossible to change the name of this area from Northern Ireland to Ulster without amending the 1920 Act" (the Government of Ireland Act 1920). That Act could only be amended by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and not the Parliament or government of Northern Ireland. He concluded that in making the suggestion, the Attorney-General had tried to "throw dust in the eyes of the Ulster people".

This exchange had followed a statement made by the Attorney General, Sir Anthony Babbington KC on 15 November 1937 in Belfast in which he criticised the new Constitution proposed for Ireland. In particular, he was critical of its claim to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland. He said:

The Attorney General continued by saying that it was of "great importance" that the "cumbersome name" of Northern Ireland that came into the Act of 1920 alongside Southern Ireland should be changed. He continued further remarking that "The name of Southern Ireland has been changed and it was time that the name of Northern Ireland should be changed to Ulster".

1949 Ulster proposal
At a British Cabinet meeting on 22 November 1948 it was decided that a Working Party be established to "[consider] what consequential action may have to be taken by the United Kingdom Government as a result of Eire's ceasing to be a member of the Commonwealth". At the time the Irish parliament was soon expected to pass the Republic of Ireland Act, by which Ireland (formally referred to as "Eire" by the British authorities) would shortly become a republic, and thereby leave the Commonwealth.

The Working Party was chaired by the Cabinet Secretary, Norman Brook. Its report dated 1 January 1949 was presented by Prime Minister Clement Attlee to the Cabinet on 7 January 1949. Among its recommendations was that the name of Northern Ireland should be changed to Ulster. In this regard, the Working Party's report noted:

The Working Party's report appended draft legislation (a draft of the Ireland Act) including provision for the "Ulster" name change. With respect to the arguments against the name change, the report noted in particular that the UK's "Representative" (effectively Ambassador) in Dublin believed taking the name "Ulster" would "give fresh opportunities for anti-British propaganda by Eire". The report also noted that the Commonwealth Relations Office also held that view and its representative on the working party had asked that before a final decision be taken:

A Downing Street Conference between the UK and Northern Ireland governments was held on 6 January 1949. The Conference was held on the initiative of the Northern Ireland Government. Its purpose was to consider possible legislation to give statutory effect to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's assurance that Northern Ireland's constitutional position would not be prejudiced by the Republic of Ireland Act by which Ireland had decided to leave the British Commonwealth and any other possible consequences for Northern Ireland arising from the Irish decision. The UK government was represented at the Conference by the Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary, and the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations while Northern Ireland premier Sir Basil Brooke led the Northern Ireland delegation. Brooke said to Attlee:

Prime Minister Attlee reported to his Cabinet colleagues the following day that he had discussed relevant Working Party proposals with the Northern Ireland delegation. "As a result of that discussion", Attlee reported that he would "recommend that the title of Northern Ireland should not be changed to Ulster".

On 10 January 1949, Prime Minister Attlee presented a memorandum of his own to his Cabinet. With respect to his recommendation that the name for Northern Ireland should not be changed, he said:

The proposed name change was the subject of some reportage in the media with The Times reporting shortly before the conference:

The fresh proposal to change the name to Ulster drew protest from the Nationalist Party MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone, Anthony Mulvey. He sent a telegram to Attlee to strongly "protest against any proposal to change the title Northern Ireland to Ulster". Mulvey argued that "[a]ny assent to the suggestion proposed can only be regarded as a calculated affront to the Irish nation and still further embitter relations between the peoples of Great Britain and Ireland...". Mulvey sent a telegram in similar terms to the Irish Minister for External Affairs, Seán MacBride who responded as follows:.

The UK government cabinet minutes of 12 January 1949 noted that "N.I. [Northern Ireland] Ministers accepted the name “N.I.” eventually" A few days after the Conference The Times also reported that "[i]t is not thought that the suggestion to rename Northern Ireland "Ulster" has found much support." In a somewhat colourful but not too accurate explanation of events, in the run up to the General Election in Northern Ireland in 1949, Thomas Loftus Cole declared that the British Government had refused to allow the name change "because the area did not comprise the nine counties of the province. We should demand our three counties [Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan] so that we could call our country Ulster, a name of which we are all proud".

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Brita Granström

Brita Granström (born 1969) is a Swedish artist who graduated from Konstfack Stockholm in 1994 and now lives and works between Great Britain and her homeland as a painter and illustrator.

Painting
In 2011 Granström's self-portrait Mother of Four was bought by The Ruth Borchard Collection. A major solo exhibition Life in Landscape opened in London at Kings Place Gallery and toured to The University Gallery in Newcastle in 2012 under the title A Breath of Fresh Air. Recent exhibitions include The Night Swimmer (2014) at The University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sea Salt & Sourdough (2015) at The Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh. She is represented by Thompson's Galleries Aldeburgh.

Illustration
Granström was shortlisted for the ALMA (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award), in 2013 and 2014 for her children's books. The ALMA is the largest children's literature award in the world. She was elected as a Fellow of the English Association in May 2011. As a children's book illustrator, Granström often collaborates with her associate and partner, Mick Manning. They have produced various children's titles, such as Charlie's War Illustrated (Frances Lincoln) - winner of the 2014 English Association Award. Taff in the WAAF, their book about Manning's mother's war service for Bletchley Park, won the English Association Award in 2011. In 1998 The Scotsman newspaper wrote: "Mick Manning and Brita Granström's approach to non-fiction for younger children has revolutionised our bookshelves".

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