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Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 3

Melasma Redirect
Please help me revert a redirect (I don't know how). Right now, the original melasma article is redirected to melasma praegnans, and there is a new article as melasma. The problem is, there isn't a "melasma praegnans" - it's a made up name. The accepted medical name for this condition is melasma, or chloasma, or mask of pregnancy. This person also wrote other nonsensical articles melasma suprarenale and Atromeroptic Law (no such optics law). All his edits are suspect (as I noted on VfD page on his invention called the Wehner blower and its various redirects). Hfwd 23:12, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

where to buy
i want to know of there is anyware to buy wikipedia on dvd's, i live in the uk and can not seem to find anyware although i found one site that sold them in the US.

Please stop a vandal
Please see user:ScapegoatVandals edits and make your own judgements. He is making all the time modifications which are based on unsure claims, even racist ideologies. I cant talk him all the time and try to correct the pages. Tuohirulla 18:20, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmm, you are telling them to do the opposite things at once and it should prove inconclusive. I am learning to handle this myself, after recognising that I don't need others to vilify for me or pretend that my innaccuracies are somehow glistening with truth and glamour.  ScapegoatVandal 18:27, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * These problems should not be handled by edit wars, but by open discussion. You force your opinions in the articles all the time, and i have no time to undo them. Still this does not mean i am wrong, as you seem to think. Tuohirulla 18:31, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hahaha, talk about hypocrisy! You are doing just the same as you libeled me.  I call for neutrality based upon the sources, since they are inconclusive.  You prefer to call it absolute truth with a Midas touch!  ScapegoatVandal 18:34, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I request neutral intervention from other users. This can not be handled like this. Tuohirulla 18:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * All it takes, is for you to see it from an outer perspective. Ancestry.com doesn't think your Morton guy is Finnish, but Swedish along with most online sources!  This is THE prevalent and commonest belief!  Oh and another thing...don't casually call people racist in ideology.  Don't play the race card and people will respect you far more than they do now.  ScapegoatVandal 18:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * As an argument to prove your claims you tell me to look my "mongol eyes" at the mirror, and you say I user race card :) As an agrumuent of your comment you "analyze" my racial outlook, and you decide my opinions are caused by my racial features, and you say, I use race card. LOL!! Come on, you know you are a racist as well as anyone else who looks what you have wrote. Tuohirulla 19:02, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Acknowledging the differences between us, does in fact show that I do not wear "rose-coloured-eyeglasses". I see things for what they are and don't bullshit anybody.  I mince no words.  Perhaps you can use this to your advantage when pushing your special brand of truth in articles.  ScapegoatVandal 19:08, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * So you "know" my racial appearance. Gimme a break!!! I dont think you are worth to be discussed with. You should be bloced for your personal mockery and continuing vandalism Tuohirulla 19:16, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know all about you except what you tell me and that is speculative at best. It is indeed absolute fact that the Swedes introduced their phenotype to Finland by colonisation and also from Tornedalians intermarrying with local Swedes.  Finland-Swedish carry this physique, far more than Ethnic Finns.  This is general knowledge to anybody even with rudimentary educations from any Europeanistic society.  What you call my vandalism is in fact an attempt to keep neutrality afloat.  No need to get upset that the NPOV truth of history is contained within the blood that pumps your veins.  Just because Uralics may have possibly lived in Arctic Europe for longer than other Europeans, doesn't make them White.  We already know that much of early White European civilisation was concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea basin, which would count Uralic peoples out of the question.  Blonde hair is not a native-natural trait of Finns, while Sweden-Finnish often are darker than regular Swedes.  ScapegoatVandal 19:41, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Trying to revert vandalism
It's still not working, just a link to hotniss.com, which I assume is either a prank site or a porn site.

Somebody trashed the Community Portal pages, so I tried to revert it, following the instructions I found at How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version but the revert doesn't seem to be taking. Weirdly, though, the markup text in the edit box seems to be the correct, reverted version, but that's not what's displaying on the page. Now I'm hoping that nobody sees my revert and thinks I'm a vandal. 69.160.182.110 11:23, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ditto 219.176.166.29 11:29, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ok, got it fixed. 219.176.166.29 11:34, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What did you do differently, to make it work? I just noticed that not only did my reversion not take, but my edits aren't even showing up in the page history...(that's me at 11:23, forgot to log in)Rwlane 11:38, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I just went one step further back in the history to do the reversion. And it took. Also, I think the history page may have been altered to remove vandalism. Which explains why, even though we were just trying to fix it, our edits also showed up as vandalism, and were subsequently removed. MikeDockery 03:41, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I had to use the flush cache link (c.f. the link near the top of the page) Mr. Jones 17:48, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyedit pages
Can the talk pages be shortened - getting long enough for the system to complain.

Could some form of date-system for queries etc be returned to - present system too cumbersome (especially when Wikipedia is slow, and there is limited time available).

A link to the encyclopedia listings again would be useful - I was going to extend some of them, but can't find them.
 * I've archived discussions from December 2004 and earlier. — J3ff 02:49, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Suggest
 * Automated addition of some reminder warning to a talk page that is over some size thresh hold, and also have a category that they are in.
 * This addition to include both links to tutorial on how to do Here/New+Topic, Move, etc. and Date that the warning got added.

AlMac 5 July 2005 09:38 (UTC)
 * The category directory also show Date of addition, and number of times that page has been accessed, so the most popular that are too large, might get some help.

I'm not sure where to post this...
there is someone, they don't have a username, just IP address...they're putting inappropriate language under different articles...i've seen one under the St. Valentine article. (I was trying to find out some info on St. Valentine and up pops this curse word message!) i'm not sure what to do, or where to post this. i'm sorry if this disscussion doesn't fit under a community portal comment.

 * The Wiki way to report this is to post the user's IP address on the Vandalism in progress page. (You just edit the page like any other.) There's a template you can copy that shows you how to format the new entry. An administrator will see your entry and take appropriate action. By the way, on Wiki, it's usual to sign your discussion posts by putting in four tildes, like this: ~

 * And welcome to WIkipedia!

 * Atlant 01:47, 20 Feb 2005. (UTC)

Why the black boxes?
Should we dump those? Looks pretty horrid. I know I can change it meself, but I'm wondering if htere's a reason for them? --62.255.64.9 03:53, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems someone recently included an extra variable to the and  templates to specify the background colour. This user neglected to actually specify the background colour on this page after making the change, which caused the templates to render an unreadable black. I've specified a white background colour, which should make things readable again. -- Hadal 04:10, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I did that. What browser are you using? Not specifying it resulted in the default to me. 119 04:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * IE (yes, laugh if you will). It's not the best browser, but a significant number of surfers use it. That's why I keep it installed; to make sure any changes I make won't crap things up. You made your changes to those templates without any prior discussion; this was improper. I can't easily test on other browsers, but without specifying the variable the templates render with a black background colour. So, on every page featuring the templates without a specified variable, they're now unreadable to a sizeable portion of users. This is why it's important to discuss non-trivial changes to major templates before making those changes. I've half a mind to undo your edits, but I hope you might do so voluntarily. -- Hadal 04:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Having identified a problem that affects a 'major template', you're just sitting on your hands hoping it will be fixed? I didn't know there was a problem, I've now fixed the problem. A friendly reminder that you shouldn't order or lecture. 119 04:31, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I would have reverted immediately, but I wasn't aware your changes were undiscussed until after I fixed the rendering on this page (which is the most visiible page using the templates). Fixing one's own mistakes is a good learning experience, I've found. As for "lecturing" you: I'm sorry if my perceived tone bothered you (it was not intended to be hostile), but without pointing out your faux pas, you may easily have repeated it in future. We all make mistakes; we can only hope to learn from them. -- Hadal 04:43, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

More COTW's
Has anyone ever wondered why only the main COTW is featured. I think we could add under that just a short list of the other COTW's (there are really only about three others that are active) and their current articles. I think this would give them more attention and spark interest, not to mention the overall goal which is to improve the articles. Any suggestions? --Dmcdevit 04:39, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Replace link to Wikipedia:Boilerplate text?
Looking for suitable templates to use, I noticed that there is no link to Template messages on the Community Portal; only Boilerplate text is listed. The latter page seems to be deprecated and suggests using the former instead. Shouldn't the link therefore be updated to point to the Template message page instead? --Plek 00:10, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Added: I just discovered that the "Custom messages" link actually points to the Template messages page (via a redirect)! That's rather confusing. How about deleting the "Boilerplate text" link and rename "Custom messages" to "Template messages"? --Plek 00:15, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

more Things To Do?
Has anyone ever thought of adding the Countering Systemic Bias Open Tasks to the "Things to do" section? Especially since they are discontinuing the CSBCOTW, so it will no longer be on the COTW section. It looks like this. --Dmcdevit 04:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay I boldly did it. Whatcha all think? --Dmcdevit 04:58, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * There's some excess angle brackets at the top of the template. I took a quick look and couldn't see where they were coming from. Apart from that, it looks good.-gadfium 05:35, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The Community portal should be at least remotely aware that there is an Independant WikiProject Community with a plan to liberate this portal toward a broader context via Community hash being developed. You should join this project.
 * There is also a place called WikiProjects that appears not on Things To Do. . Just thought someone here should know. Wikipedia is intended to be open. Thanks Quinobi 4 July 2005 09:58 (UTC)

Proposal: Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week
I have started a page on Meta for a Wikimedia-wide collaboration of the week: Wikimedia COTW. As most of you will know, Wikimedia is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia. It also operates many other sister projects: Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikispecies, the Wikimedia Commons, and the Meta-Wiki itself, which is used for cross-project coordination, documentation, brainstorming, etc.

Many of these projects need more exposure even within our community. Furthermore, there are tasks which all projects would benefit from which simply do not get done. An example of this is the MediaWiki documentation on Meta, which is out of date and poorly structured. Another example would be an inter-project collaboration, e.g. "add appropriate Wikinews links to current events coverage and write articles for events that don't have Wikinews aricles yet".

The Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week is an attempt to focus the energy of the community on one such task every week, similar to the regular Collaboration of the Week.

I would like to replace the existing Tip of the Day box on the portal with the box below. The reason is that, ever since I stopped updating the TOTD, it has been very poorly maintained (the last "tip of the day" is from February 16). True, that could be changed, but I'm not sure how valuable the section is in any case. It may be more useful to spend the energy on structuring our help so people don't have to read tips to find random goodies.

So, here is what I would like the first Wikimedia COTW to look like:

The text would obviously be changed once the first COTW has been chosen. The idea is that a similar box would go on practically all the Wikimedia projects (though not necessarily on the Community Portal).--Eloquence* 23:54, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * I would like it if the English Wikipedia participated in this. silsor 03:24, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Urgent help needed
I need help! Someone has redirected my talk page to a pornographic image. Can someone fix this for me? → Jarlaxle Artemis   00:21, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Shortcut?
Is there some reason the Community Portal doesn't have a shortcut as almost all major pages do? Surely this is one of the most common. --Dmcdevit 04:32, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * It's in the left-hand side menu (in the default MonoBook skin), so it probably doesn't need one. -- Curps 04:55, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh duh! (you mean we don't have a shortcut to the Main Page?) :) Disregard that. --Dmcdevit 04:57, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Updating entries
Can we please have a "latest entries" as well as "old entries" link - as otherwise gets too fiddly to add requests for development, queries etc.

Reporting vandalism
AlistairMcMillan is continualy removing sections of the Prometheus Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prometheus_class_starship

He has been told to stop repeatedly and its been pointed out the information he is removing is canon and he has no position to remove it.

-Alyeska

 * It isn't vandalism, it's a content dispute. The term "canon" has no established  meaning on Wikipedia, which is an encyclopedia and not a fan site.  Please continue to discuss the matter with this user, who as far as I can see is offering perfectly reasonable arguments supporting his removals.  Perhaps a good compromise would be to have a separate section for specifications and the like which are from sources that are not considered canon, or are disputed.  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I've tried to suggest a compromise on this issue. We can hope that this will stop the edit war Bluap 15:54, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Updates page
Can we please have the link to the relevant pages again - I want to put some queries etc on. If there is no such page, I (and others) will find other things to do.

Speedy deletes
Far out!!! Speedys are taking forever to be deleted tonight. netbux has been around for about half an hour! i mean i wrtoe a good article about netbux, and it got deleted via vfd. which i'm cool about - but then some bad guy goes and writes a crappy ad for netbux, using a referal number. plus there is a heap of other shit on speedy that hasn't been deleted yet. we need more admins from Aus, cause they can be on wiki about now, its like 6 oclock here. THE KING 07:58, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Feel free to remove the referral number when this happens. If the article is constantly recreated, then we may have to have a protected redirect to pyramid scheme, as you or someone else suggested, but we try to avoid having protected pages.-gadfium 08:31, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Help?
could someone talk to me? I have... I guess the equivalent of an Apple Pie recipe, that I want to put on Wikipedia. I read everything, but I'm still not sure where I should be editing, or if I need a new category. I have 1 original source and 2 primary sources, I also have 50 anti-sources (sources that confirm that said source exists and is possible, and are radically against the existance or knowledge of my chosen interest.) because of this my exact topic of interest is nearly impossible to find any documentation about on the internet, and because of the culture surrounding it's development, I cannot find any books or published reference material directly on it.

-SkaldSircha

responded at SkaldSircha.

Current Events page redirected
The main Current events page has been redirected to Weird events by User:Shade1. Help? Rlw 00:08, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * It was moved back shortly after your post. Thanks for reporting it, but the most appropriate place to report such vandalism is at Vandalism in progress. You can also undo most vandalism yourself, see How to revert. For a page move, you have to move the page back to the original name.-gadfium 01:40, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have reverted vandalism in the past, but was unsure how to revert a redirect. I was afraid moving the page back would cause an infinite redirect or other weirdness. Rlw 16:37, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Airport on Collaboration of the Week
As grand poobah of WikiProject Airports, I recently listed airport on Collaboration of the Week. This article is about to fall off the page due to lack of votes, beaten by an article on ancient rome. You know what to do Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 22:44, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Deleted everything, it won't come back
Just to see if it would let me, I cut everything from this page. It did, so then I pasted it back. But it didn't take. The source shows the change but it isn't showing up.

Copyright on this page's format?
Is there any restriction on taking this page's format to a public domain wiki? The page in question is http://libertarianwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libertarian_Wiki:Community_Portal, and while I'd be more than willing to provide whatever credit is necessary, the founder seems pretty adamant about wanting to avoid "infecting" his wiki, which is understandable I suppose. -- PhilipR 00:10, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Updating Wikipedia
Can we have some more of the lists of pages (including the encylopediac listing) to be updated variously leading off the community portal page? The more pointers to gaps and omissions the quicker they can be resolved.

I have noticed with some of the French language canton entries the map and the information box overlap, obliterating part of the former. Can "someone" (who knows more about layouts than me) rejig them please.

Format
I think that the COTW information should be moved to the left side of the page. Phoenix2 20:44, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Requests for changes
Can someone put a link to requests for updates/rendering into Wikistandard etc back into the community portal area: and put Hautefaye onto it. I do not have the time at present to turn it into the correct standard.

WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
Is there any way we can advertise the newly created but very important WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles on this page? thanks Bluemoose 21:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I put it in at the bottom.--Zxcvbnm 12:01, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nooks and corners of Wikipedia that should be frequented
I found out about the WP:NAC here at Community Portal. I don't know how I would have found otherwise. Can we get it back or was it removed for good reason? hydnjo talk 20:50, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It was removed because it gets very little use, is poorly updated, and the Community Portal was piling up with too many of different people's pet projects in the featured boxes, so some had to be dropped. I've suggested that this be merged with Goings-on, as the two have similar functionality now and combining them would leave fewer pages that need to be maintained. --Michael Snow 05:39, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

IP blocked?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've been at 211.58.237.50 for the past few months uploading anywhere from ten to a hundred articles a day (on Wiktionary too) and suddenly it looks like I can't access anything Wiki-related through that number. Anywhere I can check to see what's going on? PS this is a Korean IP.
 * No this isn't the place to ask, I am not sure either, maybe the village pump? Phoenix2 03:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Blocked IP addresses and users can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist Leenewton 3 July 2005 11:54 (UTC)
 * The right place to ask is Village pump (technical), and if you cannot get to any of the projects it's not a blocked user (since the blocks on the projects are independent). Either it's been blocked at the firewall level (unlikely and it's not on the list), or there is a network connectivity issue. --cesarb 3 July 2005 14:30 (UTC)

Spanish translation
Why does the spanish translation project get such a prominent place? Am I missing something? r3m0t talk 15:00, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Collaborations of the week have always gotten a prominent place on the Community portal, because that's what Wikipedia is all about. (Most other announcements on this page are static, some outdated and in boring list format.) On the contrary, all collaborations should get better and more prominent space on this page.--Fenice 15:12, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone took the time to create a nice template that can be displayed next to the improvement drive template. If you would like templates for the other collaborations they can be created, but in the end not all of them would be displayed on the CP page. --[[Image:PhoenixSuns 100.png|20px]]Phoenix2[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|20px]] 02:05, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * But why the Spanish one? Actually, I can answer that - one of the people from the project decided to give it a more prominent place. Never mind that it is just one of 20 or so topical/regional collaborations. In fact, I previously removed it and now it's recieved a prominent place again. I don't know why, but this really annoys me. How about a simple rotation system? Then, a new one can be there every day. Then again, the large "Open Tasks" cell means that people have to scroll down to see it anyway, and the effectiveness is highly reduced. r3m0t talk 16:04, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Village Pump
How are people supposed to find the Village Pump now? Kaldari 1 July 2005 17:31 (UTC)

Yup. Fixed it. Soundguy99 5 July 2005 16:27 (UTC)

What is the Village Pump, anyways? --Simple Man 6 July 2005 02:28 (UTC)

The Village Pump "is used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia." El_C 6 July 2005 02:32 (UTC)

General discussion
Is there a "village pub" or commons area for editors just to chat with each other about their efforts and love of writing and editing on Wikipedia? I wanted to brag about getting up to 100 edits in my first week here, but this doesn't seem to be the appropriate place for that. (Ooops...sorry!) DavidH July 6, 2005 04:25 (UTC)

 * The IRC chat room? r3m0t talk 15:58, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

African Collaboration of the Week
I'm interested in starting an African COTW. Anyone interested in helping with the launch? African Collaboration of the Week Revolución 7 July 2005 00:46 (UTC)
 * I'll help although I will be gone soon. (The 12th or 13th not really sure). I don't know how much I will be able to contribute as I am finding myself overwhelmed trying to edit, the COTWs,USSCOTW,USNCOTW,BioCOTW,PLCOtW,UKCOTF(depending on topic), and will on teh next month  topic the LDSCOTW . I can help with its creation if you want. Falphin 7 July 2005 01:10 (UTC)
 * Great idea, I will help where I can. The WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias will probably also be interested in helping out.--Fenice 7 July 2005 06:36 (UTC)
 * Might want to alert the Wikiportal/Africa and Africa-related regional notice board (if they're even active anymore). I'll contribute if anything strikes a fancy (maybe history/current events) but I don't have much expertise. --Dmcdevit July 7, 2005 07:18 (UTC)

Science Collaboration of the Week
I've resurrected the old Science Collaboration of the week, given it new templates, a voting system, a nomination system, and a history page. I guess it could be considered new since it never got off the ground in the first place, partly, I'm guessing from the lack of the forementioned. WP:SCOTW Toothpaste 7 July 2005 08:29 (UTC)

This page needs to be protected
Due to the large amounts of vandalism I feel that this page should be protected. Alan Liefting 10:20, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I would second that...Key information pages need to be protected Tim Graff 14:20, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Then how would we update it? Key information pages need to be updated.--Fenice 14:24, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Could the information be automatically transferred from other locations like the main page? Or do we just accept that there will be the occasional village member or visitor who, for whatever psychotic reason, must destroy rather than build up?  Thank God for all the people who participate in this project with good intentions.  Wikipedia would never have become what is today.  Tim Graff 14:43, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * The kaey information on this page caould be updated by administrators. Alan Liefting 08:07, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * As an adsministrator who would be able to edit the page either way, I think this is a bad idea. We need as many hands as possible to work on the Community Portal; if it's just admnins I fear updates may lag seriously.  Anyway, the Community Portal is not the Main Page; the Main Page is our face to the world, while the Community Portal is just our face to ourselves-- it's not a tragedy if it gets vandalized sometimes, that just proves it's an open wiki.  It would also set quite an unfortunate precedent to protect this page-- how many more pages other than the Main Page would then be found equally deserving of protection?--Pharos 18:43, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Where is the page? --Sourduck 15:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

How to set up a vote
A few times I have seen disputes settled by a vote. But I can't find information on what procedure to follow to set-up a vote. If such a procedure has been written-out, it should be in the 'How to resolve conflicts' section. On the other hand, if matters should be settled by some other means instead of a vote, that should be explained somewhere. Ravenswood 16:08, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Wikification week?
I've heard some of the other-language projects occasionally declare periods of collaboration on particular backlogs. Several people on en seem to have proposed that we do such a thing, but not much has come of these suggestions. Our wikification backlog seems like a good candidate, since it's gotten quite large, and almost anyone can participate, whether or not they're familiar with article content. So, would anyone object if I added this box to the top of the Community Portal for the appropriate period? Feel free to improve it if you like. -- Beland 04:05, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I moved the code to Template:wiki-week (which is what is now shown above), and am adding it to the portal now. -- Beland 00:34, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Images
could anyone explain why non-commercial and by permission images are being deleted?

 * See Image_copyright_tags. -- Beland 00:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

African COTW
Please contribute. Revolución 03:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Next wiki-week
starting a discussion as to what will be the next wiki week. Circeus 00:47, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * Category:Articles to be merged is also absolutely overflowing, and I was pondering whether or not it should be the subject of the next declaration. It does take a bit longer to merge articles, though, and sometimes having some clue about the subject helps.  Plus "merge month" is pleasantly alliterative.  But a week might be enough time to devote to a single cause.  I was also wondering whether there should only be one "wiki week" per month, to give people a rest.  Kind of like how there's only one "bug day" a week for bugzilla collaboration.  There are some other backlogs that I can think of, like cleanup or expansion.  But I think it would be most efficient to wait on those until someone has a chance to go through the existing lists and purge the entries that have already been fixed.  Requested articles of one kind or another might be good for the second-next wiki week though...I think it's more important to tidy up the articles we already have before making new ones.  Especially because we want to avoid the duplication of effort which results from having two versions of the same content sitting around. -- Beland 02:35, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Why don't we create a page similar to the Collaboration of the Week, where suggestions on wiki-weeks (If that's what you call it) are voted and picked in the end of the week? CG 08:06, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * I actually made this proposal at Village pump (proposals). Maybe we should continue the discussion there? Circeus 14:39, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, I'm starting Maintenance collaboration. See you there. Maurreen (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

History of South America CotW
The CotW is apparently History of South America, but the description still points to last week's South America article. I'm not sure if this is something an Admin needs to fix. :) — RJH 15:15, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Ease of use
It should be easier for users, new and old, to find the information they need. And we should not delete anybody's questions without trying to answer them.

Do not shoot the messenger, fix the problem. Be helpful, not bureaucratic and stubborn.

I am willing to manage the help desk, if it's a question of manpower and time. Uncle Ed 14:56, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure what you are referring to. Could you explain what the problem is, because your comment seems a little cryptic to me. What do you mean manage the help desk? It's doing fine, basically all the questions get answered pretty quickly. So I'm confused why you asked a question here and not the help desk. I see this as more of a reference guide for help and collaboration. After all, we don't go asking questions about style on the MoS page itself. Of course if someone has a real question, I don't think it should be reverted without comment, it could be answered, or at least referred to the help desk. Other than that, could you tell me what changes you have in mind? (I do agree with you about helpfulness not stubbornness). Dmcdevit·t 21:51, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Art/Architecture Collaberation of the week
Anyoe else think this would be a good idea? I don't have the skills or time to do this myself, but hopefully there'd be enough support that someone would be able to set this up. Richy 14:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Its worth a try. Falphin 01:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Epitaxy

Remove additional citation template?
The article seems to be adequately cited. Should this template be removed? Sabih omar 19:03, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Combine
Suggest combining this article with the distinct articles on homoepitaxy and heteroepitaxy, neither of which have more than a sentence to add to the topic, and all of which contain substantially the same information. 144.213.253.14 04:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, agree. I've worked in epitaxy for some years and the terms home and hetero seem rarely used in this context. Its just "epitaxy"

Errors ID'd by Nature, to correct
The results of what exactly Nature suggested should be corrected is out... italicize each bullet point once you make the correction. -- user:zanimum

Reviewer: Max G. Lagally, Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Third paragraph: I’m not sure that “outgassing” is the proper word. I think “diffusion” is meant. 2.  The big problem with this one is that it really hardly says anything about epitaxy, but more about manufacturing the starting point for Si device manufacture. It fails to mention epitaxy in GaAs and other III-V compounds, where it is much more important, and it fails to mention why epitaxy occurs at all and in what systems it is possible.

First stab at the problem
I moved most of the silicon stuff to the CVD page and added a ton of "See also" links. My background is chemical engineering, so I have a skew. Does anyone else want to try to help? -- Pinktulip 09:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

epi
greek; "epi" "equal"

epi doesn't mean equal but above. There is a confusion with equi which does mean equal.

Yes, or 'upon'

Liquid phase epitaxy
The text in Liquid phase epitaxy seemed to have been copied from Epitaxy. The epitaxy article has slightly more info than Liquid phase epitaxy had, so it seems like this is the one which gets attention from editors.

For this reason I have changed Liquid phase epitaxy to a redirect to epitaxy.

Let me know if you think this is wrong. Pre1mjr 11:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hybrid vapour phase epitaxy
A new article was created recently Hybrid vapour phase epitaxy. I have done some tidying up, but wonder if it should be merged with this article. Could someone who understands this topic take a look and take care of it please? -- Derek Andrews (talk) 12:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Electron Beam Epitaxy
I was looking for info on EBE. Is there such a process? If so, Wiki needs an article or link. LorenzoB (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Recording tape
For many years, Maxell used the term 'epitaxial' to describe their tape formulations for audio and recording tape. Indeed, most of the general public will only recognise the word from that context. It would improve the article if a section was added discussing this usage. --Ef80 (talk) 11:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Excessive disambiguation
Propose we remove link to epistaxis. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 20:43, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I've removed it, since there have been no objections. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 04:34, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Simplifying the text.
Frankly, the first sentence is horrible!

"Epitaxy refers to the deposition of a crystalline overlayer on a crystalline substrate, where the overlayer is in registry with the substrate"

For a layman who just stumble across the word "epitaxy" this sentence does not answer the question what it is instead it raises additional questions.

What is meant by "crystalline overlayer"? What is a "substrate"? What does it mean that "the overlayer is in registry with the substrate"?

The first defining sentence should be possible to understand by almost anyone. Also, the words mentioned above such as "substrate" should be linked to their corresponding Wikipedia articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.48.87.196 (talk) 00:22, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Unclear
What does 'registry' mean?--عبد المؤمن (talk) 16:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Михаи́л Фёдорович Ларио́нов; June 3 1881 – May 10, 1964) was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. His lifelong partner was fellow avant-garde artist, Natalia Goncharova.

Life and work
Larionov was born at Tiraspol, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. He was suspended three times for his radical outlook. In 1900 he met fellow avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova and formed a lifelong relationship with her.

From 1902 his style was Impressionism. After a visit to Paris in 1906 he moved into Post-Impressionism and then a Neo-primitive style which derived partly from Russian sign painting. In 1908 he staged the Golden Fleece exhibition in Moscow, which included paintings by international avant-garde artists such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Other group shows promoted by him included Tatlin, Chagall and Malevich.

Larionov was a founding member of two important Russian artistic groups Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911) and the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913). He gave names to both groups. His first solo show was for one day in Moscow in 1911. Larionov was influenced by the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani.

He then became influenced by the Cubo-Futurist art movement, and in 1913, with Natalia Goncharova, he invented Rayonism, which was the first creation of near-abstract art in Russia. He had a one-man show at the Omega Workshops. In 1915 he left Russia and worked with the ballet owner Sergei Diaghilev in Paris on the productions of the Ballets Russes. He spent the rest of his life in France and obtained French citizenship. He died, aged 82, in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.

The highest price paid for a Larionov painting at auction is 2,200,000 British pounds.

He is in the highest category "1A – a world famous artist" in "United Artists Rating". He is buried at Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vesa Ahonen

 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 01:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Vesa Ahonen
This article is in Finnish, which is my native language. It's about some school child born in 1990, who apparently plays the guitar in a band. The article goes to great lengths to advertise how well Vesa Ahonen can play, and it practically reads like a review from a rock'n'roll magazine. This is obvious vanity. Delete. — J I P | Talk 06:35, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as vanity. Martg76 15:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Apart from the vanity, this is the English language Wikipedia. --Lomedae 16:26, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — Belongs in Finnish wikipedia, if anywhere. — RJH 17:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, vanity written by a 15-year-old (born 1990) in very broken Finnish, and claiming for instance that his record has sold a million copies. Total and utter BS. - ulayiti (talk)  22:56, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, based on assessment on Pages_needing_translation_into_English, which gives the same basic reasoning as ulayiti Mamawrites 12:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Regular delete as vanity, does not meet speedy deletion criteria. Sietse 13:29, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, as above, it's utter screed with no basis in fact. --Agamemnon2 15:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 31

 * I intend to add the Battle of Colachel to this list. How do I go about doing that? mkamat 20:39, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * SHouldn't this go on August 10 ? -- PFHLai 11:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Quotes
From the list:
 * Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to develop a final solution to the Jewish question.

"Jewish question" or "the Jewish question" should be in quotes, IMO. (That's usually how I've seen it written.) --L33tminion | (talk) 05:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I've added the quotation marks. Thanks for the suggestions. -- PFHLai 14:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hawaii
"Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day in Hawai'i" should be "Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day in Hawaii" The name of the day is in Hawaiian (so italics), but the name of the state is in English (so no okina). —Noisalt (talk) 02:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Actually, because the term is a proper name, the MOS advises against this. Primergrey (talk) 23:16, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:03, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Miami Showband killings; Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
 * Omitted: John Komnenos the Fat; Battle of Passchendaele; Final Solution; START I; 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties
 * Included: Aurangzeb (first appearance); Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (3rd consecutive appearance; moved from June 13); K2 (2nd appearance, last in 2004); Free Derry/Operation Motorman (first appearance for both); Hebrew University bombing (first appearance)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Lunar Roving Vehicle (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Aurangzeb (ineligible—maintenance); Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; K2; Free Derry/Operation Motorman
 * Included: Daniel Defoe (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Battle of Passchendaele (8th appearance, last in 2011); Final Solution (13th appearance, last in 2011); Miami Showband killings (first appearance); Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts (first appearance)

Edit request on 31 July 2013
The word "pamphlet" in the entry for Daniel Defoe should link to The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, an article that was created recently and which is the pamphlet being referred to. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 12:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 12:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Cheers, MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 20:15, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:21, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Ignatius of Loyola (ineligible—maintenance); Daniel Defoe; Battle of Passchendaele; Final Solution; Miami Showband killings; Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
 * Included: John Komnenos the Fat (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Cravant (first appearance); John F. Kennedy International Airport (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); K2 (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 60th anniversary); 2006–08 Cuban transfer of presidential duties (5th appearance, last in 2011)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Battle of Cravant; John F. Kennedy International Airport; K2; 2006–08 Cuban transfer of presidential duties
 * Included: Ignatius of Loyola (rescued from Ineligible); Daniel Defoe (6th appearance, last in 2013); Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (7th appearance, last in 2012); Miami Showband killings (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 40th anniversary); START I (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
 * Repeats: John Komnenos the Fat (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 08:16, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Omitted: John Komnenos the Fat; Daniel Defoe; Miami Showband killings
 * Included: Battle of Cravant (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Final Solution (14th appearance, last in 2013; 75th anniversary); 2006–08 Cuban transfer of presidential duties (6th appearance, last in 2014; 10th anniversary)
 * Repeats: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total); START I (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 25th anniversary)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 02:58, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Daniel Defoe (maintenance); John F. Kennedy International Airport (maintenance)
 * New articles (unused): David Norris (politician); Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd
 * Omitted: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; Final Solution; START I (ineligible—maintenance); 2006–08 Cuban transfer of presidential duties
 * Included: John Komnenos the Fat (4th appearance, last in 2015); Battle of Passchendaele (9th appearance, last in 2013; 100th anniversary); Free Derry (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Hebrew University bombing (2nd appearance, last in 2012); William Courtenay (first appearance); Doris Zinkeisen (first appearance); J. K. Rowling (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Battle of Cravant (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 17:04, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Daniel Defoe (moved to May 21, the date of his arrest, and retargeted to The Shortest Way with the Dissenters)
 * New articles (unused): David Norris (politician)
 * Omitted: Battle of Cravant; Battle of Passchendaele; Free Derry/Operation Motorman; Hebrew University bombing; William Courtenay; Doris Zinkeisen; J. K. Rowling
 * Included: Sovereignty Restoration Day (first appearance); Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (9th appearance, last in 2016); K2 (4th appearance, last in 2014); Miami Showband killings (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Roger Wilbraham (first appearance); Jean-Gaspard Deburau (first appearance); Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (first appearance)
 * Repeats: John Komnenos the Fat (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 18:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Gubby Allen; Bill Brown (cricketer)
 * Omitted: Ignatius of Loyola (ineligible—maintenance); John Komnenos the Fat; K2; Miami Showband killings; Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts; Roger Wilbraham; Jean-Gaspard Deburau; Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd
 * Included: Battle of Cravant (4th appearance, last in 2017); Final Solution (15th appearance, last in 2016); Apollo 15 (first appearance); 2012 India blackouts (4th appearance, last in 2017); William S. Clark (first appearance); Fred Keenor (first appearance); Hilary Putnam (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 17:24, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Battle of Cravant; Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; Final Solution; Apollo 15; 2012 India blackouts; William S. Clark; Fred Keenor; Hilary Putnam
 * Included: John Komnenos the Fat (6th appearance, last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible); Second Anglo-Dutch War/Treaty of Breda (1667) (both: first appearance); Battle of Passchendaele (10th appearance, last in 2017); 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 (first appearance; blurb previously featured K2, which in ineligible, and is making its 5th appearance, last in 2018); Operation Banner (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Friedrich Wöhler (first appearance); Gubby Allen (first appearance); David Norris (politician) (first appearance)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:43, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Apollo 15 (TFA for 2021-07-30)
 * Omitted: John Komnenos the Fat; Second Anglo-Dutch War/Treaty of Breda (1667); Battle of Passchendaele; 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2/K2; Operation Banner; Friedrich Wöhler; Gubby Allen; David Norris (politician)
 * Included: Mount Fuji (2nd appearance, last in 2011; previously appeared on December 16); Battle of Cravant (5th appearance, last in 2019); Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (11th appearance, last in 2019); Final Solution (16th appearance, last in 2019; 80th anniversary); Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts (3rd appearance, last in 2018); William Courtenay (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 625th anniversary); Jean-Gaspard Deburau (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 225th anniversary); J. K. Rowling (2nd appearance, last in 2017)

Visual glitch in Main Page
On the main page, the links to Flag Day and Sovereignty Restoration Day do not work. Instead, they show up as  Lā Hae Hawaiʻi (Flag Day)  and  Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) , as though tags were placed around them. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 00:41, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

I see it too. Urbanracer34 (talk) 00:43, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:59, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Mount Fuji (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Cravant (ineligible—maintenance); Final Solution; Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts; William Courtenay; Jean-Gaspard Deburau
 * Included: Loss of MV Darlwyne; Operation Motorman/Free Derry/Claudy bombing (Motorman/Derry: 3rd appearance, last in 2017; Claudy: first); 50th anniversary); Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (first appearance); 2012 India blackouts (5th appearance, last in 2019; 10th anniversary); William S. Clark (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Cho Ki-chon (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total); J. K. Rowling (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2023 notes
 Heart  (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Isamu Kamikokuryo
 * New articles (ineligible): Electoral system of Australia (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; Loss of MV Darlwyne; Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery; 2012 India blackouts; William S. Clark; Cho Ki-chon; J. K. Rowling
 * Included: Pope Sergius IV (first appearance); Treaty of Breda (1667) (2nd appearance, last in 2020); 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties (7th appearance, last in 2016); 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions; 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions (first appearance); Feng Xingxi (first appearance); Marion Talbot (first appearance); José Santamaría (first appearance); Nabarun Bhattacharya (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Operation Motorman/Free Derry/Claudy bombing (2nd consecutive appearance; Motorman/Derry: 4 total; Claudy: 2 total)


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Luca Bassani

Luca Bassani Antivari is the Italian founder and president of the Monaco-based maritime design company Wally Yachts.

Biography
He was born on 24 November 1956 into a wealthy Milanese family. As a child he learnt to sail while staying at their house in Portofino on the Italian Riviera. Later he studied economics at Bocconi University, where he was awarded a Ph.D., before working in his father's electrical supply business.

He formed the Wally Yachts company after having directed the design of a yacht for his own use in 1991. He founded the company headquarters to Monaco in 1994.

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Beanbag (band)

Beanbag was an Australian Christian alternative metal band that formed in 1995 in Brisbane and broke up in late 2002. The group consisted of Phillip "Hirvy" Hirvela on bass guitar, Michael Mullins on lead guitar, Hans "Hunz" Van Vliet on lead vocals, and Phil Usher on drums. In 1999 the group relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. Steven Lewis-Driver assumed the bass position when Hirvy left the band in early 2002. Jesse Palmer also filled in on guitar after Mullins returned to Australia a couple months before the band's demise. They released two albums on United States label, Inpop Records, Free Signal (2000) and Welladjusted (2001).

History
Beanbag formed in Brisbane in 1995 as a "hardcore Christian rock group" by Phil "Hirvy" Hirvela on bass guitar, Michael Mullins on lead guitar and Hans "Hunz" Van Vliet on lead vocals. A year later Phil Usher joined on drums.

Guttersnipe, a seven-track extended play, was released on independent Australian label Toupee Records in June 1998. It was recorded at Groundswell studio with co-production by the group and Mark McElligott, it was engineered at Sunshine Studios by McElligott.

In mid-1999 they were the first act signed to United States label, Inpop Records, which was established in Nashville by Peter Furler (of Newsboys), his manager Wes Campbell and Brisbane-based businessman, Dale Bray. Their debut album, Free Signal (2000) included five tracks from Guttersnipe and new material recorded at Sunshine Studios with McElligott co-producing. Hirvy described how "Some of the newer songs are a bit more melodic but still intense. We've also got a bit of electronica, some Indian tablas (drums) and upright bass. We've always written music with groove in mind, so the new stuff is still old Beanbag, but with some new sounds and more melodic intensity."

John Dibase of Jesus Freak Hideout rated Free Signal at three-and-a-half stars, and explained that it is "a solid album with intricate, and down-right intriguing songs that may seem unorganized and spontaneous at first, but further listens reveal the method behind the madness."

During their time in the United States, Beanbag toured extensively (including touring with Newsboys and Sonicflood during the LoveLibertyDisco AirDome Tour), were nominated for two GMA Dove Awards, and had songs featured on several television soundtracks. Their second album for Inpop, Welladjusted (2001), was also produced by McElligott.

The band broke up after a van accident occurred while driving back to Nashville. The driver swerved to avoid a deer on the interstate, and the van and trailer filled with their gear ended up in a ditch. Van Vliet was hospitalised for three days with lung damage. With no vehicle, no gear, and no vocalist, they had decided to disband.

Discography
Source:

 * Welladjusted (2000, InPop)

 * Free Signal (1999, InPop)

 * Guttersnipe, EP (1998, Toupee)

 * Chubb, EP (independent)

 * The Dodgey Demo Tape (independent)

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Glenunga, South Australia

Glenunga is an inner southeastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It is located in the City of Burnside, five kilometres southeast of the Adelaide city centre. The name Glenunga is a composite of Aboriginal and Scottish words, "unga" meaning near and "glen" from the nearby Glen Osmond Bounded on the north by Windsor Road, the east by Portrush Road, the south-west by Glen Osmond Road and the west by Conyngham Street, the leafy suburb forms a rough triangular layout.

History
Glenunga, along with its neighbouring suburb of Glenside, were once known as 'Knoxville'. The first European settlers of the area (in the 1840s) took up farming, and wheat grown in the area was awarded first prize in the Royal Adelaide Show. The area now occupied by Glenunga International High School and Webb Oval were previously home to slaughterhouses established in 1882. At one point, the slaughterhouses were exporting overseas and at the same time providing half of Adelaide's lamb requirements.

A number of coach companies, notably those of William Rounsevell, Cobb & Co and John Hill, were set up in the 1870s and 1880s. Up to 1,000 horses grazed the land. At this time most of the streets were beginning to be named, and most were named by the inhabitants after their original homes in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the United States. However, one street was named after an Aboriginal word - "Allinga", meaning sun.

In the early 20th century, a number of businesses were located in Glenunga. The South Australian icon, the Hills Hoist, was invented by the Hill family in Glenunga. Other notable businesses were the Symons & Symons glass merchants on Windsor Road, and one involved in "Bland Radios".

A church was established in 1926, and a larger church was built in 1956 and dedicated to St Stephen. The suburb's transition from a largely rural area to a residential suburb began after World War II, with migration to the area from the United Kingdom and other countries. St. Stephen's Church was demolished in 1999, with the church community moving to the growing St. Saviour's Church in Glen Osmond. A plaque was left as a reminder of where it had once stood.

Geography
The suburb is very leafy with many trees which make up for the lack of parks and reserves. There are more parks in nearby Glen Osmond, such as the popular Ridge Park. Glenunga Uniting Church is located on the corner of L'Estrange Street and Bevington Road.

Transport
Public transport services to the suburb are by buses which service Glen Osmond Road every 15 minutes until 6pm, and there are other bus routes into the city, and the cross-city circle line along Portrush Road. The buses are provided by the Adelaide Metro.

However, the majority of commuters still use motor cars and Glenunga is well placed for this, bordering Portrush Road and Glen Osmond Road. Glenunga residents can reach the Adelaide CBD by various routes, and the Adelaide Hills by way of Glen Osmond Road and the South Eastern Freeway.

Residents
The suburb is home to a number of families and retirees of predominantly Anglo-Celtic background.

Attractions
Due to the small size of the suburb, there is only one main park, Glenunga Reserve, which also contains Webb Oval. More than anything else in the suburb, the Glenunga International High School brings it prominence both in Australia and overseas. The school campus is an easily identifiable part of Glenunga, being situated roughly in the middle of the suburb. The school's expansion and development have aided in the once-quiet L'Estrange Street being clogged with both traffic and students at peak hour and other times.

A number of businesses and shops are located along Glen Osmond Road and Conyngham Street. These include a McDonald's, Chinese and Mexican restaurants, and a number of small businesses and motels. Conyngham Street contains the headquarters of DECS and empty commercial blocks are waiting to undergo development.

Politics
Glenunga is in the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral District of Bragg and the Federal Division of Sturt, and is a solid Liberal-voting area.

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Farkas' lemma

In mathematics, Farkas' lemma is a solvability theorem for a finite system of linear inequalities. It was originally proven by the Hungarian mathematician Gyula Farkas. Farkas' lemma is the key result underpinning the linear programming duality and has played a central role in the development of mathematical optimization (alternatively, mathematical programming). It is used amongst other things in the proof of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker theorem in nonlinear programming. Remarkably, in the area of the foundations of quantum theory, the lemma also underlies the complete set of Bell inequalities in the form of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a local hidden-variable theory, given data from any specific set of measurements.

Generalizations of the Farkas' lemma are about the solvability theorem for convex inequalities, i.e., infinite system of linear inequalities. Farkas' lemma belongs to a class of statements called "theorems of the alternative": a theorem stating that exactly one of two systems has a solution.

Statement of the lemma
There are a number of slightly different (but equivalent) formulations of the lemma in the literature. The one given here is due to Gale, Kuhn and Tucker (1951).

Here, the notation $$\mathbf{x} \geq 0$$ means that all components of the vector $$\mathbf{x}$$ are nonnegative.

Example
Let $m, n = 2$, $$\mathbf{A} = \begin{bmatrix}6 & 4 \\3 & 0\end{bmatrix},$$ and $$\mathbf{b} = \begin{bmatrix}b_1 \\b_2\end{bmatrix}.$$ The lemma says that exactly one of the following two statements must be true (depending on $b_{1}$ and $b_{2}$):
 * 1) There exist $x_{1} ≥ 0$, $x_{2} ≥ 0$ such that $6x_{1} + 4x_{2} = b_{1}$ and $3x_{1} = b_{2}$,  or
 * 2) There exist $y_{1}, y_{2}$ such that $6y_{1} + 3y_{2} ≥ 0$, $4y_{1} ≥ 0$, and $b_{1} y_{1} + b_{2} y_{2} < 0$.

Here is a proof of the lemma in this special case:
 * If $b_{2} ≥ 0$ and $b_{1} − 2b_{2} ≥ 0$, then option 1 is true, since the solution of the linear equations is $$x_1 = \tfrac{b_2}{3}$$ and $$x_2 = \tfrac{b_1 - 2b_2}{4}.$$ Option 2 is false, since $$b_1 y_1 + b_2 y_2 \ge b_2 (2y_1 + y_2) = b_2 \frac{6y_1 + 3y_2}{3},$$ so if the right-hand side is positive, the left-hand side must be positive too.
 * Otherwise, option 1 is false, since the unique solution of the linear equations is not weakly positive. But in this case, option 2 is true:
 * If $b_{2} < 0$, then we can take e.g. $y_{1} = 0$ and $y_{2} = 1$.
 * If $b_{1} − 2b_{2} < 0$, then, for some number $B > 0$, $b_{1} = 2b_{2} − B$, so: $$b_1 y_1 + b_2 y_2 = 2b_2 y_1 + b_2 y_2 - By_1 = b_2 \frac{6y_1 + 3y_2}{3} - By_1.$$ Thus we can take, for example, $y_{1} = 1$, $y_{2} = −2$.

Geometric interpretation
Consider the closed convex cone $$C(\mathbf{A})$$ spanned by the columns of $A$; that is,

C(\mathbf{A}) = \{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x} \mid \mathbf{x} \geq 0 \}. $$

Observe that $$C(\mathbf{A})$$ is the set of the vectors $b$ for which the first assertion in the statement of Farkas' lemma holds. On the other hand, the vector $y$ in the second assertion is orthogonal to a hyperplane that separates $b$ and $$C(\mathbf{A}).$$ The lemma follows from the observation that $b$ belongs to $$C(\mathbf{A})$$ if and only if there is no hyperplane that separates it from $$C(\mathbf{A}).$$

More precisely, let $$\mathbf{a}_1, \dots, \mathbf{a}_n \in \R^m$$ denote the columns of $A$. In terms of these vectors, Farkas' lemma states that exactly one of the following two statements is true:
 * 1) There exist non-negative coefficients $$x_1, \dots, x_n \in \R$$ such that $$\mathbf{b} =x _1 \mathbf{a}_1 + \dots + x_n \mathbf{a}_n.$$
 * 2) There exists a vector $$\mathbf{y} \in \R^m$$ such that $$\mathbf{a}_i^\top \mathbf{y} \geq 0$$ for $$i = 1, \dots, n,$$ and $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y} < 0.$$

The sums $$x_1 \mathbf{a}_1 + \dots + x_n \mathbf{a}_n$$ with nonnegative coefficients $$x_1, \dots, x_n$$ form the cone spanned by the columns of $A$. Therefore, the first statement tells that $b$ belongs to $$C(\mathbf{A}).$$

The second statement tells that there exists a vector $y$ such that the angle of $y$ with the vectors $ai$ is at most 90°, while the angle of $y$ with the vector $b$ is more than 90°. The hyperplane normal to this vector has the vectors $ai$ on one side and the vector $b$ on the other side. Hence, this hyperplane separates the cone spanned by $$\mathbf{a}_1, \dots, \mathbf{a}_n$$ from the vector $b$.

For example, let $n, m = 2$, $a_{1} = (1, 0)^{T}$, and $a_{2} = (1, 1)^{T}$. The convex cone spanned by $a_{1}$ and $a_{2}$ can be seen as a wedge-shaped slice of the first quadrant in the $xy$ plane. Now, suppose $b = (0, 1)$. Certainly, $b$ is not in the convex cone $a_{1}x_{1} + a_{2}x_{2}$. Hence, there must be a separating hyperplane. Let $y = (1, −1)^{T}$. We can see that $a_{1} · y = 1$, $a_{2} · y = 0$, and $b · y = −1$. Hence, the hyperplane with normal $y$ indeed separates the convex cone $a_{1}x_{1} + a_{2}x_{2}$ from $b$.

Logic interpretation
A particularly suggestive and easy-to-remember version is the following: if a set of linear inequalities has no solution, then a contradiction can be produced from it by linear combination with nonnegative coefficients. In formulas: if $$\mathbf{Ax} \le \mathbf{b}$$ is unsolvable then $$\mathbf{y}^\top \mathbf{A} = 0,$$ $$\mathbf{y}^\top \mathbf{b} = -1,$$ $$\mathbf{y} \ge 0$$ has a solution. Note that $$\mathbf{y}^\top \mathbf{A}$$ is a combination of the left-hand sides, $$\mathbf{y}^\top \mathbf{b}$$ a combination of the right-hand side of the inequalities. Since the positive combination produces a zero vector on the left and a −1 on the right, the contradiction is apparent.

Thus, Farkas' lemma can be viewed as a theorem of logical completeness: $$\mathbf{Ax} \le \mathbf{b}$$ is a set of "axioms", the linear combinations are the "derivation rules", and the lemma says that, if the set of axioms is inconsistent, then it can be refuted using the derivation rules.

Implications in complexity theory
Farkas' lemma implies that the decision problem "Given a system of linear equations, does it have a non-negative solution?" is in the intersection of NP and co-NP. This is because, according to the lemma, both a "yes" answer and a "no" answer have a proof that can be verified in polynomial time. The problems in the intersection $$NP \cap coNP$$ are also called well-characterized problems. It is a long-standing open question whether $$NP \cap coNP$$ is equal to P. In particular, the question of whether a system of linear equations has a non-negative solution was not known to be in P, until it was proved using the ellipsoid method.

Variants
The Farkas Lemma has several variants with different sign constraints (the first one is the original version):
 * Either $$\mathbf{Ax} = \mathbf{b}$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{x} \geq 0,$$ or $$\mathbf{A}^\top\mathbf{y} \geq 0$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{y} \in \R^m$$ with $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y} < 0.$$
 * Either $$\mathbf{Ax} \leq \mathbf{b}$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{x} \geq 0,$$ or $$\mathbf{A}^\top\mathbf{y} \geq 0$$ has a solution $$ \mathbf{y} \geq 0$$ with $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y} < 0 $$
 * Either $$\mathbf{Ax} \leq \mathbf{b}$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{x} \in \R^n,$$ or $$\mathbf{A}^\top\mathbf{y} = 0$$ has a solution $$ \mathbf{y} \geq 0$$ with $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y} < 0$$.
 * Either $$\mathbf{Ax} = \mathbf{b}$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{x} \in \R^n,$$ or $$\mathbf{A}^\top\mathbf{y} = 0$$ has a solution $$\mathbf{y} \in \R^m$$ with $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y} \neq 0.$$

The latter variant is mentioned for completeness; it is not actually a "Farkas lemma" since it contains only equalities. Its proof is an exercise in linear algebra.

There are also Farkas-like lemmas for integer programs. For systems of equations, the lemma is simple:

For system of inequalities, the lemma is much more complicated. It is based on the following two rules of inference:
 * Assume that A and b have rational coefficients. Then either $$\mathbf{Ax} = \mathbf{b}$$ has an integral solution $$\mathbf{x} \in \Z^n,$$or there exists $$\mathbf{y} \in \R^n$$such that $$\mathbf{A}^\top\mathbf{y}$$ is integral and $$\mathbf{b}^\top \mathbf{y}$$ is not integral.

The lemma says that:
 * 1) Given inequalities $$a_1^T x \leq b_1,\ldots, a_m^T x \leq b_m$$ and coefficients $$w_1,\ldots,w_m$$, infer the inequality $$\left(\sum_{i=1}^m w_i a_i^T\right) x \leq \sum_{i=1}^m w_i b_i$$.
 * 2) Given an inequality $$a_1 x_1  + \cdots + a_m x_m \leq b$$, infer the inequality  $$\lfloor a_1\rfloor  x_1  + \cdots + \lfloor a_m \rfloor x_m \leq \lfloor b \rfloor$$.

The variants are summarized in the table below.
 * Assume that A and b have rational coefficients. Then either $$\mathbf{Ax} \leq \mathbf{b}$$ has an integral solution $$\mathbf{x} \in \Z^n, x\geq 0$$, or it is possible to infer from $$\mathbf{Ax} \leq \mathbf{b}$$ using finitely many applications of inference rules 1,2 the inequality $$0^T x \leq -1$$.

Generalizations
Generalized Farkas' lemma can be interpreted geometrically as follows: either a vector is in a given closed convex cone, or there exists a hyperplane separating the vector from the cone; there are no other possibilities. The closedness condition is necessary, see Separation theorem I in Hyperplane separation theorem. For original Farkas' lemma, $$\mathbf{S}$$ is the nonnegative orthant $$\R_+^n,$$ hence the closedness condition holds automatically. Indeed, for polyhedral convex cone, i.e., there exists a $$\mathbf{B} \in \R^{n \times k}$$  such that $$\mathbf{S} = \{\mathbf{B}\mathbf{x} \mid \mathbf{x} \in \R_+^k \} ,$$ the closedness condition holds automatically. In convex optimization, various kinds of constraint qualification, e.g. Slater's condition, are responsible for closedness of the underlying convex cone $$C(\mathbf{A}).$$

By setting $$\mathbf{S} = \R^n$$ and $$\mathbf{S}^* = \{0\}$$ in generalized Farkas' lemma, we obtain the following corollary about the solvability for a finite system of linear equalities:

Further implications
Farkas's lemma can be varied to many further theorems of alternative by simple modifications, such as Gordan's theorem: Either $$\mathbf{Ax} < 0$$ has a solution $x$, or $$\mathbf{A}^\top \mathbf{y} = 0 $$ has a nonzero solution $y$ with $y ≥ 0$.

Common applications of Farkas' lemma include proving the strong duality theorem associated with linear programming and the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. An extension of Farkas' lemma can be used to analyze the strong duality conditions for and construct the dual of a semidefinite program. It is sufficient to prove the existence of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions using the Fredholm alternative but for the condition to be necessary, one must apply von Neumann's minimax theorem to show the equations derived by Cauchy are not violated.

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Aleksandr Golovin (artist)

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Голови́н, ; 1 March 1863 – 17 April 1930) was a Russian artist and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Born at Moscow, Golovin initially studied architecture, later switching to painting. He also attended the Académie Colarossi. Due to financial difficulties, upon graduation he worked as an interior painter and decorator. He also tried his hand at various artistic fields such as furniture design. In 1900 he took part in designing the Russian Empire pavilion at the Paris World's Fair together with his friend K. A. Korovin. He studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris. In 1901 he moved to the Saint Petersburg region from Moscow. It was here that he came into his own as a stage designer, combining symbolism and modernism on operatic and dramatic productions for Diaghilev, Meyerhold and others. After the Revolution of 1917, Golovin found work in theatre less and less often, and so delved into painting and graphic illustration.

Golovin provided the set design for the 1910 original production of Stravinsky's The Firebird ballet.

Golovin provided the scenic design for an important production of Pierre Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro at the Moscow Art Theatre. The seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski directed the play in fast and free-flowing production that opened on 28 April 1927, having been rehearsed since the end of 1925. Stanislavski re-located the play's action to pre-Revolutionary France and trimmed its five-act structure to eleven scenes; Golovin employed a revolve to quicken scene-changes. It was a great success, garnering ten curtain calls on opening night.

Golovin was appointed a People's Artist of the RSFSR. He died in Detskoye Selo on 17 April 1930.

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The result of the debate was Redirected by someone else. Redwolf24 01:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Meng
WP:ISNOT a webhost. --Ryan Delaney talk 06:47, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, blatant vanity and no assertions of notability. It's just a group of friends. Don't forget to delete the image as well. - Mgm|(talk) 08:35, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Uliuli Fafita, Meng was his name when competing in WCW. I am ashamed to know that.  Proto t c 12:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, redirect to Uliuli Fifita to avoid double redirect. Don't look at me like that, I didn't know who he was until i clicked on your link above. :) --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Going to go ahead and make the redirect. Page creator deleted content. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 20:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Proto & Dark Mark, ROFL! Alf 21:56, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alright, I wish people wouldn't do that during a Vfd. It says not to on the tag for a good reason. In this case, it is because it should be a redirect to Master of Engineering which goes by the abbreviation MEng. -Splash 02:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Well the content probably should have just been userfied, but since he said that he didn't want it up anymore, and blanked it himself, I felt there was no need to see this whole VfD out. Aren't we trying to slim the VfD process? What is wrong with making a valid redirect if the current page is useless? --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 13:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * There are lots of discussions on trying to slim the VfD process, but they are not taking place here. Making the redirect suggestion here would be fine, simply making the redirect circumvents any disucussion. In some cases, people also merge during a VfD and that means that, even if a debtae concludes the page should be deleted it can't be because of the GFDL. So drastic action on the page should wait until the conclusion of the VfD, as it says on the tag. -Splash 16:13, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand that, but there was nothing on the page. The creator of the page himself says he doesn't want it anymore. No one else was supporting the content, so there was no harm in just creating the redirect. Oh well, I'm done with this page. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 16:24, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it should go to Uliuli Fafita, with a line on there stating 'This article is about the wrestler, Meng. For information about the MEng degree qualification, go to Master of Engineering'.  Meng != MEng. And I have an MEng, so I should know, nyah. Proto t c 09:46, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * So do I. -Splash 16:13, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Teng (surname)

Teng is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng (Imperial clan descendants) in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in Hokkien and Teochew. It is "ddàng"in Wenzhou.

"Teng" can also be used as an alternate spelling of the Chinese surname Deng (鄧/邓, Dèng) used especially in Taiwan based on the Wade-Giles transliteration of Mandarin Chinese. This spelling is used in many English language sources on China written before the widespread adoption of the pinyin transliteration system in the 1980s. For example, Deng Xiaoping was written "Teng Hsiao-p'ing."

Notable persons with the surname Teng
Persons surnamed Teng (滕) include:

 * Teng Biao (滕彪; born 1973), formerly Beijing-based human rights lawyer now in exile
 * Dr. Rev. Philip Jinhui Teng (滕近輝), Christian theologian and author
 * Teng Haibin (滕海滨; born 1985), gymnast from Beijing, China
 * Joyce Tang (滕麗名; born 1976), Hong Kong celebrity
 * Teng Xiu (滕脩; died 288), Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
 * Teng Yin (滕胤; died 256), Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
 * Empress Teng (滕皇后; 258–284), empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China
 * Shanghua Teng (滕尚华, born 1964) Chinese-American computer scientist
 * Teng Zhiqiang (滕志强; born 1991 in Gaocun, Mayang, Hunan), a Chinese male slalom canoeist
 * Kai-Wei Teng (born 1998), Taiwanese baseball player

Unknown

 * Tara Teng (born 1988), Canadian activist
 * Vienna Teng, (stage name) born Cynthia Yih Shih (史逸欣; born 1978), American singer-songwriter and pianist

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User:Tiffanicita/AXO

Alpha Chi Omega (ΑΧΩ) is a sorority founded on October 15 1885.

Alpha Chi Omega was formed at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Professor James Hamilton Howe, Dean of the Music School, invited seven young women from the school to attend a meeting for the purpose of forming a society. Alpha Chi Omega’s Founders chose "Alpha" (Α), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, because they were forming the first fraternity in the school of music. Since they thought they might also be founding the last such fraternity, "Omega" (Ω) seemed appropriate. "Kai", meaning "and" was added to form the beginning and the end. "Kai" was soon changed to "Chi" (Χ), a letter of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha Chi Omega's colors of scarlet red and olive green were chosen to commemorate the sorority's autumn founding. Their symbol is a lyre and their official flower is a red carnation.

Notable alumnae

 * Deidre Downs - 2005 Miss America winner
 * Laura Innes - actress, ER
 * Agnes Nixon - TV writer and producer
 * Condoleezza Rice - U.S. Secretary of State
 * Trista Rehn Sutter - participant in The Bachelorette
 * Sherron Watkins - Enron whistleblower
 * Dawn Wells - actress, Gilligan's Island

External link

 * Alpha Chi Omega's official website

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Matara

Matara may refer to:

Peru

 * Matara District, Cajamarca, Cajamarca Province, Peru
 * Matará, Cangallo Province, Peru

Sri Lanka

 * Matara, Sri Lanka, a village on the coast of Southern Province
 * Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
 * Matara fort, built in 1560 by the Portuguese on a promontory which separates the Niwala Ganga lagoon from the ocean
 * Matara railway station, Sri Lanka

Other places

 * Matara, Eritrea, an archaeological site near Senafe

Other uses

 * Matara (Martian crater)
 * Matara Bodhiya, a sacred fig tree in Matara, Sri Lanka
 * Matara SC, a Sri Lankan football club
 * Matara Sports Club, a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka

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User:Tiffanicita/Resonance

Res(((o)))nance is a group of a cappella singers who are students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is one of several such groups that give fairly frequent free on-campus performances.

(See also resonance.)

External link

 * Resonance official homepage

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The result of the debate was COPYVIO, with no offer of a rewrite. -Splash 01:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

ObjectWeb consortium
Compadres! It is imperative that we crush blatant advertising in Wikipedia before the start of the rainy season. And remember, a shiny new donkey for whoever brings me the head of the ObjectWeb consortium article. CanadianCaesar 06:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, señores. If SourceForge and OpenOffice.org are notable, so's this one. It could do with cleanup to make it look less like advertising copy though, I agree. And I already have a donkey. Tonywalton | Talk 10:33, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a copyvio of - I'll put it through the right channels. ESkog 02:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:John White (colonist and artist)

Nonsense
John White was actually very important and smart. What happened was that when he left for supplies, the rest of his group was attack and killed by an Indian tribe. I'm doing a report on him so that's how I know all this stuff.

 * Give me credit for that!!!!
 * Every time I put down something of value on your pages here, your server logs me out and posts whatever IP I'm on at the time instead.
 * For the record, WB2 is the person who wrote the following paragraph, infra:
 * The IP "207.214.244.173" is where he sent it from at "23:45, 17 August 2005"
 * A Bridgett White was also the second wife of a Robert Wight (1578–1617) of Hareby, Lincolnshire, England whom he married on November 25, 1613 at Alford. As Robert was also the son of an obscure John Wight (b. abt. 1552) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte (1606–1671) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts; there is a strong possibility that Bridgit White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related.
 * WB2 06:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Please correct this glitch!!!!

Am going to change the B and D dates

 * I don't know who did all the original references here, but its obvious to me that there have been a lot of scared "nine-to-fivers" who just simply copied, or "plagerized", off of other people and didn't do any research of their own.
 * I'm going to (eventually) change this to: John White of Stanton St John (1540 – before September 30, 1618) the son of John White and Mildred Weston, and nephew of Dr Thomas White (1514 – 1588) the Warden of New College, Oxford.
 * It's obvious to me that these are one and the same people.
 * WB2 06:57, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Because? Its such a rare name? Johnbod (talk) 04:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As promised, but I'm not going to change the month and day dates as yet.
 * WB2 03:14, 12 September 2005 (UT fuck gdgfdljgjkfdjkgljdklgjklfdjkgfjdkslgjfkdljgklfdjsgklfdjsklgfdjkljgkdfsjkgfjgjfdksjgkfdjgkfd that was the longest word he could pronouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history John White was actually very important and smart. What happened was that when he left for supplies, the rest of his group was attack and killed by an indian tribe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.31.221 (talk) 21:29, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The location of Croatoan is clearly indicated on John White's own map
I dispute this assertion: "Croatoan was the name of a nearby island (likely modern-day Hatteras Island)". John White's own map shows an island called Croatoan, it is coloured pink, and it appears to correlate with modern-day Ocracoke. White's map is understandably inaccurate, to a degree, but the easternmost point of the easternmost island on his map is triangular and correlates remarkably well with the area round modern-day Buxton/Cape Hatteras. If we orientate White's map around so that his north should actually be closer to northeast, or even east-northeast, we can see that he misconstrued the length and orientation of Hatteras Island, but he correctly positioned Croatoan/Ocracoke, which is the next island in the chain going south west from Hatteras. I assert that the artice text should be changed to: "Croatoan was the name of a nearby island (likely modern-day Ocracoke Island)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanPeterG (talk • contribs) 15:20, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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Zhivkov (disambiguation)

Zhivkov (Живков) is a Bulgarian masculine surname; its feminine counterpart is Zhivkova. It may refer to:
 * Todor Zhivkov (1911–1998), Bulgarian head of state
 * Lyudmila Zhivkova (1942–1981), Bulgarian Communist Party functionary, daughter of Todor
 * Hristo Zhivkov (born 1975), Bulgarian actor
 * Nikola Zhivkov (1847–1901), Bulgarian educator

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User:MaxMahem

I'm just getting into Wikipedia editing, but I have been perusing the encylopedia for some time now. My current goal is to make at least one minor improvment in some artical every time I use it. Although re-reading it now, if this page is any indication, I probably leave a long trail of gramatical and spelling errors in my wake. Oh well, some other Wikipedians enjoy cleaning those up from the looks of things...

Hi! How are you doing?

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User:Wikinerd/JnanaBase

Dear Wikipedia user,

I manage a wiki which accepts deleted articles from Wikipedia, as well as any article which is threatened with deletion at Votes for deletion. My wiki is GFDL and allows everyone to do as they please as long as they stay within the minimum possible legal and decency limitations. We do not accept copyright violations, but most other stuff is generally welcome.

The URL of the wiki is: http://www.jnanabase.org/

JnanaBase is a project of the Wikinerds Community. We are an independent group and we have absolutely no relation to Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

Thank you,

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Talk:Mark Six

I am going to clean up the English a bit when I get a chance. Should happen within the next week(end) or so. novacatz 07:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Largest prize
What the largest prize ever won in the game. If anyone knows, then please mention it in the article. 124.106.200.221 (talk) 03:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC) The largest prize was just won yesterday, with 3 winners each getting 44.5million HKD. 203.218.114.40 (talk) 02:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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