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Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel is a German music band formed in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing, and drummer Gustav Schäfer. Starting from the foundation, the band's music genres were pop rock and alternative rock; since 2014, the band began to perform electropop and synth-pop.

After recording a demo album under the name "Devilish" and having their contract with Sony BMG Germany terminated, the band released their first German-language album, Schrei, as Tokio Hotel on Universal Music Germany in 2005. Schrei sold more than half-a-million copies worldwide and spawned four top-five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German-language album, Zimmer 483, and their first English-language album, Scream, which have combined album sales of over 2.5 million copies worldwide and helped win the band their first MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former, Zimmer 483, spawned three top-five singles in Germany while the latter, Scream, spawned two singles that reached the top-twenty in new territories such as France, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

In September 2008, they won their first MTV Video Music Award, for Best New Artist. Tokio Hotel became the first German band ever to win an award at the MTV VMAs and to also win awards at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. They also picked up the Headliner award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 and the award for Best Group at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. They won for Best World Stage Performance on 7 November 2010 at the MTV Europe Music Awards. In July 2011, they became the first German band to win an award at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan. The band has sold more than 10 million records worldwide.

Their most recent work is the 2022 album 2001.

Formation, early years, and debut album (2001–2006)
Twin brothers Bill Kaulitz and Tom Kaulitz along with drummer Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist Georg Listing formed the band in 2001 under the name Devilish, and they soon began playing in talent shows and small concerts. After Bill Kaulitz participates in a children's Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen (which he lost in the quarter-final), he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann. Devilish changed their name to Tokio Hotel: "Tokio", the German spelling of the Japanese city Tokyo, due to a love of the city, and "Hotel" due to their constant touring and living in hotels. Soon after Sony BMG took them under contract, Hoffmann hired David Jost and Pat Benzner into the team of creators and authors, and had them give the teens instruction on songwriting and instrument playing; most of the songs of the first album were written by Hoffmann, Jost and Benzer (including the singles "Scream" and "Rescue me" which were completely written by them); only the single "Unendlichkeit" was written completely by Tokio Hotel themselves. Shortly before the release of their first album, Sony terminated their contract.

In 2005 Universal Music Group took Tokio Hotel under contract and developed a marketing plan. Their first single, "Durch den Monsun" ("Through the Monsoon"), quickly rose in the charts, appearing on the German official Media Control single chart at No. 15 on 20 August 2005 and eventually reaching No. 1 on 26 August 2005; it also reached No. 1 on the Austrian singles chart. Their second single, "Schrei" ("Scream"), climbed to the No. 5 position in the German charts. These two songs were written by singer Bill Kaulitz and their group of producers Peter Hoffmann, David Jost, Pat Benzer, and Dave Roth. Their debut album, Schrei, was released on 19 September 2005, and was certified triple gold by the BVMI in 2006 for selling over 300,000 copies in Germany. In 2006, a third and fourth single, "Rette mich" ("Rescue Me") and "Der letzte Tag" ("The Final Day"), were released; both reached No. 1 as well. "Der letzte Tag" contained a B-side called "Wir schließen uns ein", which was also accompanied by a music video.

Zimmer 483 and Scream (2006–2008)
The first single of their second album Zimmer 483 (Room 483), called "Übers Ende der Welt" (later re-released in English under the name "Ready, Set, Go!"), was released on 26 January 2007 and quickly reached No. 1 in Germany and Austria, and No. 2 in France. Zimmer 483 was released in Germany on 23 February 2007, along with a deluxe edition of the album containing a DVD. The album's second single, "Spring nicht" ("Don't Jump") was released on 7 April. The tour accompanying the release of the album, The Zimmer 483 Tour, scheduled to start in March 2007, was delayed by two weeks because the band members wished to have a different stage design. A third single, "An deiner Seite (Ich bin da)" ("By Your Side"), was released on 16 November. The single contains the B-side "1000 Meere" ("1000 Oceans"), for which a music video was also produced. On 28 April 2008 Tokio Hotel released their single "Heilig" but no music video for the single was released, because of the tight schedule they had.

Tokio Hotel's first English-language album, Scream, was released on 4 June 2007 throughout Europe. In Germany, the album was released as Room 483 in order to emphasize the continuity with their last German album Zimmer 483. Scream contains English versions of a selection of songs from Tokio Hotel's German-language albums Schrei and Zimmer 483. "Monsoon", the English-language version of "Durch den Monsun", was the first single from the album. "Ready, Set, Go!" (the translation of "Übers Ende der Welt") was released as the album's second single and "Don't Jump" (the translation of "Spring nicht") as the third single. A video for "Scream", the English-language version of their 2005 hit "Schrei", was also recorded, and was released to the iTunes Store in early March 2008.

Tokio Hotel gave their first concert in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2007. "Ready, Set, Go!" was released in the UK as the band's first single on 27 August 2007. The song reached No. 77 in the UK Singles Chart.

Tokio Hotel won an MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct on 1 November 2007 and were also nominated for Best Band. They performed "Monsoon" at the event.

Tokio Hotel released their first US single, simply called "Tokio Hotel", in late 2007. The single contains the tracks "Scream" and "Ready, Set, Go!", and was available exclusively at Hot Topic stores. Their second US single, "Scream America", was released on 11 December 2007. The single contains the track "Scream" and a remix of "Ready, Set, Go!" by AFI's Jade Puget. In February 2008, the band toured North America for five dates, starting in Canada and finishing up in New York. After Tokio Hotel had appeared and performed live on MuchMusic while touring in Canada, "Ready, Set, Go!" entered the MuchOnDemand Daily 10, a countdown of videos chosen by viewers. It remained there for over a week, then returned to the top of the MOD Daily 10 chart on 8 April. "Scream" was released in Canada on 25 March and in the US on 6 May.

The "1000 Hotels" European Tour began on 3 March 2008 in Brussels and continued through locations including the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Serbia and Scandinavia. It was scheduled to finish on 9 April; during the concert in Marseille, France, on 14 March, Bill started to experience vocal problems. He let the audience sing more frequently than normal, and instead of the original 21 songs on the set list, the band played only 16 songs. Bill apologized, in German, for his bad singing and explained that he was sick. Two days later, the band cancelled the Lisbon, Portugal concert minutes before it was supposed to commence. The rest of the "1000 Hotels" Tour and a scheduled North American Tour were cancelled after the band's manager announced in Bild that Bill Kaulitz had to undergo surgery to remove a cyst on his vocal cords.

Bill Kaulitz had been putting strain on his voice after playing 43 concerts in the 1000 Hotels tour without a break. He had to undergo larynx surgery on 30 March to remove a cyst that had formed on his vocal cords. The cyst resulted from a throat infection that had gone untreated. Following his surgery Bill could not speak for ten days and had four weeks of vocal rehabilitation. If Bill had continued singing the rest of the tour, his voice would have eventually been permanently damaged. Tokio Hotel started performing again in May 2008 and after that they embarked on a second part of their 1000 Hotels European Tour, adding many open-air concerts and wrapping up the tour on 13 July in Werchter in Belgium.

Humanoid, Humanoid City Live, Best Of (2008–2012)
In August 2008 Tokio Hotel embarked on a second tour of North America, including a performance at the Bamboozled festival in New Jersey. The band's music video for "Ready Set Go!" was nominated for Best Pop Video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, where they won the award for Best New Artist. They returned to North America in October 2008 for a month-long tour of concerts and record-store signings. In December 2008 a behind-the-scenes DVD called Tokio Hotel TV – Caught on Camera was released. It contains footage from Tokio Hotel TV and backstage feature-stories of the previous year on disc one entitled "History – The very best of Tokio Hotel TV!". A deluxe edition contains a second disc entitled "Future – The road to the new Album!" which features footage of the band on promotion tours and preparing for their third studio album.

In between the North American tours, the band returned to their record studio in Hamburg to record their third studio album, Humanoid, which was released on 2 October in Germany and 6 October 2009 in the U.S.,  despite earlier statements predicting a March/April 2009 release or a May/June 2009 release. The album was recorded in both German and English, with both versions released simultaneously worldwide.

On 10 August, it was announced on MTV News that the first German single would be "Automatisch" and that its English counterpart, "Automatic", would be released as a first single in the United States. On 20 August, MTV Buzzworthy released a video which previewed "Automatic" and Cherrytree Records announced that the English version of the song would be released in the US on 22 September. Nevertheless, the video for the single was released on 3 September.

On 2 November 2009 Tom's blog announced that the second English single would be "World Behind My Wall" and that its German counterpart, "Lass uns laufen", would be the second German single. The music videos for both versions were released on 14 and 15 December.

The group toured thirty-two cities in Europe from 22 February to 14 April 2010. On 24 June 2010, the live music-video for their single, "Dark Side of the Sun", was released on the band website.

On 20 July 2010, they released their second live album, Humanoid City Live, from Milan, Italy. On 22 November 2010, their new song "Hurricanes and Suns" premiered on the Greek radio-station Mad Radio. It was included in the bonus track on all versions of Tokio Hotel: Best Of, a compilation album of their most successful songs.

On 13 December 2010 their Best of was released in Germany. It was released internationally the next day. 2 December was the World Premiere of the video for "Hurricanes and Suns" on the official Tokio Hotel website.

Tokio Hotel performed their first concert in Asia (excluding their concert in Israel) at the Audi Showcase in Singapore, followed shortly by the TM Connects With Tokio Hotel event in Malaysia, promoting the sales of their album Humanoid. They concluded the series of mini-concerts with Taiwan. They returned to Malaysia a couple of months later to perform at MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2010. They performed in Tokyo on 15 December 2010, after their South American tour concluded in Distrito Federal, Mexico on 2 December 2010. In February 2011 Tokio Hotel travelled to Japan to complete a second promo tour. A number of television appearances and media interviews took place between 8 and 11 February.

On 28 April 2011 they received the "Fan Army FTW" award at the MTV O Music Awards, the network's first online award-show. A clip of Bill and Tom thanking their fans played after the winner was announced.

On 24 June 2011 Tokio Hotel performed in Japan at "The Next Premium Night Tokio Hotel in Tokyo". Audi A1 presented the event, and 150 fans were chosen to win tickets to attend the show. The event was the band's first acoustic performance in Japan. On 25 June 2011 the band performed live at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan in Tokyo. The show, formerly called the "Video Music Awards Japan", was used as a music benefit to raise money for the Japanese Red Cross in order to help those affected by the 2011 earthquake.

Not long after finishing the "Welcome to Humanoid City Tour", Bill and Tom, with their manager David Jost, moved to Los Angeles and continue to live there.

On 18 May 2012 Far East Movement released an album named "Dirty Bass", featuring the song "If I Die Tomorrow", which includes vocals by Bill.

Kings of Suburbia and touring (2013–2015)
On 5 January 2013, Tom Kaulitz confirmed on the "BTK Twins" app (which was recalled in November) that a new album would be released in 2013. During MTV's Musical March Madness 2013 Tournament, Tokio Hotel promised to release their new album "if they repeat as March Madness Champs". Although they did not win the award, and despite inactivity, the band managed to gather a considerable amount of support from their fanbase. Once again, Tokio Hotel announced that they were planning to release a new single on 27 October 2013 and the album the following month. However, neither the album nor any new singles were released during that year.

On 22 January 2014, the band's producer, Peter Hoffman, announced that recording for the new album had been completed and that they were in the process of selecting the track list. He stated that there was no release date yet, but the album would come out later in 2014. On 3 April, the band informed their fans via Facebook and Twitter about their recent website update, which included an official video teaser of them working on their upcoming album and never-before-seen photos of the members.

After the comeback of Tokio Hotel TV, the band announced on Twitter that the album had been finished and was currently in the hands of the label. On 3 September 2014 Bill Kaulitz announced via his Instagram account that the name of the new album would be Kings of Suburbia and it would be released on 3 October.

On 12 September, Tokio Hotel released a music video for the song "Run, Run, Run" from their new album. "Girl Got a Gun" was also released as a second promotional song on 19 September, followed by a music video on 23 September. The lead single from the album, Love Who Loves You Back, was released on 26 September, followed by a music video on 30 September. The album was released in three versions on 3 October 2014 and was number one in 30 countries and in TOP5 in 17 more countries.

Tokio Hotel's new world tour "Feel It All World Tour" started 6 March in Europe with "Part 1: the Club Experience", giving fans an exclusive personal encounter with the band in special club-sized venues. Part 2 will commence with dates in the United States, followed by dates in Latin America (Part 3) and Russia (Part 4). The second official single from the album is the namesake of the tour, "Feel It All". The video for it was released 27 March 2015, and the "Feel It All" EP was released for sale 3 April 2015.

Dream Machine album and tour (2016–2017)
During an interview in May 2016, Bill Kaulitz announced that there would be a new album titled Dream Machine and a new world tour in 2017. In late December 2016 as promotion for the album, the band released the first two songs from the album on YouTube. The first, "Something New", was released on 23 December and the second, "What If", was released on 29 December.

On 2 January 2017, the band announced via their official Facebook page that Dream Machine would be released on 3 March 2017. While they are no longer with Universal Music, they have since signed with Starwatch Music.

On 25 September 2017, Tokio Hotel announced their North America tour dates for 2018, however these dates were later cancelled due to technical issues with the band's equipment.

The third single, "Boy Don't Cry" was released on 20 October 2017 along with its accompanying music video, with also three remixes; "Regi Remix", "Tiefschwarz Remix" and "Drangsal Edit".

The fourth single, "Easy", was released on 22 December 2017 along with its accompanying music video.

Melancholic Paradise, Durch den Monsun 2020 and Monsoon 2020 (2018–2020)
On 29 October 2018, the band announced via their official Facebook page that they would be embarking on a new tour in 2019 named "Melancholic Paradise" wherein they would perform both familiar songs and new ones from their then-upcoming album. Only Europe dates were announced at that time. The singles "Melancholic Paradise", "When It Rains It Pours" and "Chateau" were respectively released on 1 February 2019, 5 April 2019, and 17 November 2019.

In October 2019, Bill Kaulitz announced via his Instagram account that the upcoming Tokio Hotel album had been finished with the recording sessions and that it would be released in 2020. Also, the next day, he announced via his Instagram account that the band had added North America and Latin America legs to their "Melancholic Paradise Tour" for the same year with the release of the band sixth studio album. The band had completed three venues on their North America and Latin America tour before the rest of the tour was since cancelled at the last minute due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns worldwide.

All photos, videos and content were removed from Tokio Hotel's official Instagram account early August 2020, and older photos of the band were uploaded instead. This was later revealed to be due to the 15th anniversary of the release of the band's debut single "Durch den Monsun" on 15 August 2005.

During a live chat on Spotify, the band confirmed that new versions of "Durch den Monsun" and "Monsoon" would be released some time in Autumn 2020 as a celebration of the single's 15th anniversary. "Durch den Monsun 2020" and "Monsoon 2020" were respectively released on 2 October 2020 and 16 October 2020. Bill also confirmed that a new German-language song would be released later that year, and that a new tour was planned in 2021 for Europe and other continents. On 1 September 2020, Tokio Hotel revealed to have signed a new record deal with Sony Music Germany and Epic Records Germany throughout their official Instagram account.

Tokio Hotel announced on 4 December 2020 via Instagram their new single "Berlin", featuring a guest appearance from Canadian singer VVAVES, which was released on 11 December 2020.

Beyond the World Tour, collaborations and 2001 (2020–2023)
On 7 December 2020, the band announced via their official Facebook page and Instagram account that they would be embarking on a new tour in Autumn 2021 named "Beyond the World", promoting "Durch den Monsun 2020" and "Monsoon 2020", whilst wishing to perform more songs from their upcoming album. Only Europe dates were announced at that time.

Via their #AskTokioHotel livestream on Twitter, the band announced a new single called "White Lies", featuring a guest appearance from German EDM duo VIZE. This was released on 15 January 2021.

On 16 December 2020, the band appeared on MDR Sputnik's talk show Friends of Sputnik, where they were interviewed by host Sissy Metzschke, and later performed the songs; "Durch den Monsun 2020", "Love Who Loves You Back", "Black", "Melancholic Paradise" and "Berlin". On 7 February 2021, the band appeared on Super Bowl LV on ProSieben, on which they performed the songs; "When It Rains It Pours", "Covered in Gold", "We Found Us", "What If", "White Lies" and "Stormy Weather".

On 19 March 2021, the band started a social media contest called the White Lies Cover Challenge, where they asked fans to create their own cover of "White Lies" on video and to submit it by 4 April 2021 on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #WhiteLiesCoverChallenge. The winning covers would then be used by the band in a fan video version of the song, which was uploaded to their official YouTube account on 15 April 2021.

The band had a new Instagram livestream on 25 March 2021, on which they announced a new song would be released on 28 May 2021. The new song was a dance cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" by classic rock legend The Who, and like "White Lies", the cover also featured a guest appearance from VIZE. The band also announced a remix version of "White Lies" with German DJ NOØN, which was released on 2 April 2021. Another remix version of the song with German DJ duo HBz was released on 7 May 2021.

On 14 May 2021 the band postponed the European leg of their Beyond the World Tour until Spring 2022. This was due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, global lockdowns and restrictions.

Instead of the planned date of 28 May 2021, "Behind Blue Eyes" was released on 27 May 2021 to coincide with the band's live performance of the song on ProSieben's Germany's Next Topmodel on the same day.

On 7 June 2021 the band started a social media contest called the Behind Blue Eyes Cover Challenge, where, like with "White Lies", they asked fans to create their own cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" on video and to submit it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #BBE_challenge. The winning covers would then be used by the band in a fan video version of the song.

On 9 August 2021 Bill Kaulitz has revealed on a post on his official Instagram account that a new single would be released on 27 August 2021.

A new single called "Sorry Not Sorry" was released by German rapper Badchieff on 27 August 2021 with Tokio Hotel making a guest appearance.

On 27 August 2021 the band appeared on Spielesause 2021 (the German livestreaming event of Gamescom), where they performed "White Lies", "Behind Blue Eyes" and "Sorry Not Sorry" with Badchieff.

On 4 October 2021 the band announced a new single called "Here Comes the Night" via Instagram. This was released on 22 October 2021 along with an official lyric video on YouTube, which features Bill Kaulitz singing the song with lyrics popping up on the screen.

On 22 October 2021 the band performed in the restaurant China Club Berlin to promote the release of "Here Comes the Night", which was played after "White Lies" and "Behind Blue Eyes". A video of this was uploaded to the band's official YouTube channel on 28 October 2021.

On 18 December 2021 the band announced a new single called "Bad Love" via Instagram. It was originally to be released on 21 January 2022; however the band posted a message on 18 January 2022 via their Discord server announcing their record label Sony Music Germany decided to postpone the release due to Bill and Tom Kaulitz being unable to travel to Germany in time for the promotion of the single. This was eventually released on 4 February 2022 along with its accompanying music video.

On 6 March 2022 the band postponed their Beyond the World Tour until Spring 2023 in the wake of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. A message written on their official Instagram page reads: "Dear Aliens, we are currently discussing on a daily basis what is appropriate to share and how to carry on with our music. It just doesn't feel right to do business as usual and we won't. At the same time music has always been a place of love, hope and unity and we're trying to find ways to keep sharing this with you. We're sure everybody understands that we can't pursue our upcoming tour as planned but we can announce today that we have successfully moved a majority of the shows to new dates in 2023. More to follow. All tickets remain valid. Sending love to each and everyone of you. George, Gustav, Tom and Bill."

On 16 March 2022 the band announced a new single called "HIM", which was released on 8 April 2022 along with its official music video.

On 28 April 2022 the band uploaded a "spoiler alert" snippet on their official TikTok account showing the vocals for their new single "When We Were Younger", which was released on 27 May 2022. An official snippet of the song was also posted on their official Discord server, and its official lyric video was uploaded onto their official YouTube account.

The band recorded a new single with German indie rock band Kraftklub called "Fahr mit mir (4x4)". This was released on 8 July 2022.

On 19 July 2022 the band announced their seventh album 2001 would be released on 18 November 2022.

On 24 August 2022 the band uploaded a snippet of their new single "Happy People", featuring a guest appearance from Icelandic musician Daði Freyr, to their official YouTube channel. This was released on 21 October 2022.

On 18 November 2022 the band released the new album called 2001.

Your Christmas new music and The Tour 2025 (2023–present)
On 4 November 2023, the band started teasing a potential Christmas song by posting photos of Bill and Tom Kaulitz on a Christmas-themed set on their official Instagram page.

On 7 November 2023, the band released an Amazon Music Original song called "Your Christmas" along with a Behind the Scenes video on their official YouTube account.

On 4 December 2023, the band performed a live concert on Amazon Music DE's official Twitch account, where the songs "White Lies", "Just a Moment" and "Durch den Monsun" were played.

On 5 December 2023, the band announced a new tour called The Tour 2025. Only European dates have been announced at that time.

On 2 May 2024, the band announced a new single called "The Weekend" on their official Instagram account and a preview of the song was uploaded to their official YouTube channel. It was released on 10 May 2024.

On 7 June 2024, the band announced a new movie exclusively to Netflix called Kaulitz & Kaulitz, which is about Bill and Tom's early life, road to success and their most recent work. A trailer was released, not only showing clips of the movie, but it also teased a new upcoming song called "Home". Kaulitz & Kaulitz was released on the Netflix streaming platform on 25 June 2024, and "Home" was released on 28 June 2024.

On 20 June 2024, the band announced their LATAM leg of their Beyond the World Tour, which will take place at the end of November 2024 and through December 2024, which is only a few months before The Tour 2025 is due to take place. Dates have been announced in the United States, Canada, Mexico and parts of South America.

Musical style
Since 2001, the band's musical genres have included pop rock, alternative rock, pop-punk, post-grunge, emo pop, glam rock,   and electronic rock. Since 2014, the band began to perform electropop and synth-pop.

Other activity
On 19 January 2010, lead singer Bill Kaulitz teamed up with twins Dean and Dan Caten of DSquared to walk the runway at a fashion event in Milan. Kaulitz made two appearances, as he opened and closed DSquared's Menswear Autumn/Winter 2010 show to Tokio Hotel's songs "Scream" and "Screamin'" respectively.

Car maker Audi hired the two frontmen to star in their new advertising campaign to attract the younger generation. They were featured in an episode of Tokio Hotel TV (on Tokio Hotel's website) and also in a commercial.

On 4 August 2010, Tom Kaulitz got his own Reebok shoe commercial. Reebok signed the 20-year-old Tokio Hotel guitarist and sneaker addict to model shoes for the company. "At home, I created a little room like a little storage room," he said of his sneakers. He also said that he gets 10 new pairs a week.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz released an app named "BTK Twins" for Android on 19 December 2011 and iOS on 16 January 2012 to keep in touch with their fans. On the app Bill and Tom posted photos, videos and text messages and fans could leave messages which the twins often responded to. In November 2013, the app was removed from both the Android and iOS store due to the imminent release of Tokio Hotel's new album.

Bill and Tom appeared as jury members on the 10th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, which was broadcast from 5 January until 11 May 2013.

In 2023, Bill and Tom appeared as a duo coach on the thirteenth season of The Voice of Germany. Their final artist, Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp, won the season, which made Bill and Tom the winning coaches.

Band members

 * Bill Kaulitz – lead vocals
 * Tom Kaulitz – guitars, keyboards, piano, percussion, backing vocals
 * Georg Listing – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
 * Gustav Schäfer – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Discography
Studio albums
 * Schrei (2005)
 * Zimmer 483 (2007)
 * Scream (2007)
 * Humanoid (2009)
 * Kings of Suburbia (2014)
 * Dream Machine (2017)
 * 2001 (2022)

Videography
Music videos
 * List of Tokio Hotel music videos

Live albums
 * Schrei – Live (Universal, 2006)
 * Zimmer 483 – Live in Europe (Universal, 2007)
 * Humanoid City Live (Cherry Tree, 2010)

Documentaries
 * Leb' die Sekunde – Behind the Scenes (2005)
 * Tokio Hotel TV – Caught on Camera (2008)
 * Tokio Hotel – Hinter Die Welt (2017)
 * Netflix Exclusive: Kaulitz & Kaulitz (2024)

Awards
Since the release of the single "Durch den Monsun" in 2005, Tokio Hotel have gone on to win 110 awards in various categories and countries.

 * 2005

 * 2006

 * 2007

 * 2008

 * 2009

 * 2010

 * 2011

 * 2012

 * 2013

 * 2014

 * 2015

 * 2018

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Intro5pect is an American political electropunk band from Southern California.

The band was officially formed in 1997 as a reaction to the apparent commercialization of the punk genre. Their first demo was released in 1998 and their first official release came in 1999 when newly founded indie label Geykido Comet Records released the band's song "Education" as a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl.

In 2002 the band signed to Anti-Flag's label A-F Records, which released their self-titled full-length album in the spring of 2003.

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In the summer of 2008, the band embarked on their second tour of the United Kingdom alongside Moral Dilemma and this time played several headline shows at such venues as the Camden Underworld, finishing the tour at White Rabbit in Plymouth with a special rendition of rock and roll featuring Craig Temple of Moral Dilemma on guitar and Joey Blues of Kill Youth Culture on mandolin. Further support came from Mike Davies who this time had the band in to do a live session at the Maida Vale Studios. The show was broadcast the following week on BBC Radio 1.

Upon returning home from this tour, the band and bassist Gregg parted ways due to creative differences. After an extensive search LandonHell was drafted in to fill the void.

In a 2009 interview with PunkCDSampler, Sara declared that "The new album sounds like the self-titled one, to the extreme". The EP Record Profits was released later that summer.

On February 24, 2019, the band performed for the first time since 2011 at the Observatory in Santa Ana with the addition of new singer Dani. "Pro-Control", the first new track since 2009's "Record Profits", was released on December 6, 2019.

Discography

 * 1999: "Education" 7"
 * 2003: Self-titled full-length album
 * 2007: Realpolitik!
 * 2009: Record Profits

Compilations

 * 1999: We're Not Generation X
 * 2000: You Call This Music?! Volume 1
 * 2001: Your Machinery Is Too Much for Me 7"
 * 2002: You Call This Music?! Volume 2
 * 2002: Dropping Food on Their Heads Is Not Enough: Benefit for RAWA
 * 2003: Go Kart MP300
 * 2005: This Just In... Benefit for Indy Media
 * 2005: Voices of Discontent
 * 2008: Chemical X DVD (music video compilation)

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Horipro (株式会社ホリプロ) is a large Japanese talent agency.

History
It was founded in 1960 as Hori Productions (ホリプロダクション Hori Purodakushon) and changed to its present name in 1990. Horipro has two locations in the United States: Nashville and Los Angeles.

In the 1970s, one of Hori Productions' most famous stars was singer Momoe Yamaguchi.

In 1989, Horipro purchased the publishing assets of famed rock band Kiss. Next, the company moved on to invest in more catalogs. A year later, HoriPro Entertainment Group opened their first U.S. location in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years, Horipro's songwriters would go on to write many hits for some of Country music's most recognized voices.

In the late 1990s, Horipro planned to create a "virtual idol", an electronic rendition using motion capture methods of Kyoko Date. The virtual idol based on Date charted in Tokyo in 1996, and provided inspiration for the character of Idoru in William Gibson's eponymous novel.

In 2006, Horipro's first Los Angeles location opened. The company's catalog has expanded to include over 13,000 songs in each major genre. HEG's Los Angeles location is in partnership with Horipro Music Academy, a music enrichment school for children. Additionally, HEG Los Angeles began MusicTaste, a boutique artist development label that is placed within the publishing company. MusicTaste's artists include Matt Palmer, Dori Caymmi, and more.

Horipro contracted with MediaHorse, an American music licensing and marketing firm, in 2015 for synchronization licensing in the United States. Horipro sold HoriPro Entertainment Group to Mojo Music & Media in 2019.

Female talents

 * Rika Adachi
 * Kazu Ando
 * Kei Aran
 * Ineko Arima
 * Haruka Ayase
 * Minori Chihara
 * Kyoko Date
 * Kyoko Fukada
 * Shoko Haida
 * Minami Hinase
 * Aya Hirayama
 * Miyuki Imori
 * Anna Ishibashi
 * Haruka Ishida (former AKB48)
 * Satomi Ishihara
 * Tomomi Itano (former AKB48)
 * Kazue Itoh
 * Nagisa Katahira
 * Tomomi Kasai (former AKB48)
 * Yuu Kashii
 * Ibuki Kido
 * Haruka Kinami
 * Erika Mabuchi
 * Akira Matsu
 * Akane Matsunaga
 * Yurie Midori
 * Ayame Misaki
 * Karen Miyama
 * Miho Miyazaki (former AKB48)
 * Sae Miyazawa (former AKB48 -> SNH48 -> SKE48)
 * Mao Ichimichi
 * Seira Nagashima (former Nogizaka46)
 * Aoi Nakabeppu
 * Mami Nakamura
 * Chiharu Niiyama
 * Yui Ninomiya
 * Ayaka Ōhashi
 * Ito Ohno
 * Megumi Ohori (former AKB48 -> SDN48)
 * Rin Okabe (AKB48)
 * Itsumi Osawa
 * Mai Oshima (former AKB48)
 * Ayana Sakai
 * Ikue Sakakibara
 * Hinako Sano
 * Hitomi Sato
 * Sheila
 * Azusa Tadokoro
 * Hitomi Takahashi
 * Mitsuki Takahata
 * Naho Toda
 * Akiko Wada
 * Suzuran Yamauchi (former AKB48 -> SKE48)
 * Erii Yamazaki
 * Yoon Son-ha
 * Yuka
 * Mio Yūki
 * Nagisa Sekimizu
 * Rin Aira
 * Yuko Natori
 * Yoshiko Nakada
 * Yoko Kurita
 * Yoshiko Tokoshima
 * Mitsuko Oka
 * Mayumi Oka
 * Tomoko Fujita

Male talents

 * Tsuyoshi Abe
 * Motomu Azaki
 * Bandō Minosuke II
 * Chen Bolin
 * Tatsuya Fujiwara
 * Eiichiro Funakoshi
 * Masachika Ichimura
 * Sosuke Ikematsu
 * Yuma Ishigaki
 * Takeshi Kaga
 * Ryo Kimura
 * Kin'ya Kitaōji
 * Gōki Maeda
 * Tsuyoshi Matsubara
 * Kenichi Matsuyama
 * Akiyoshi Nakao
 * Shunya Shiraishi
 * Kenta Suga
 * Kazuma Suzuki
 * Ryohei Suzuki
 * Shinji Takeda
 * Ryoma Takeuchi
 * Yoshitaka Tamba
 * Satoshi Tsumabuki
 * Shingo Tsurumi
 * Yasutaka Tsutsui
 * Asahi Uchida
 * Jundai Yamada
 * Kotaro Yoshida
 * Hiroshi Katsuno
 * Shinya Owada
 * Toshinori Omi

Solo

 * Hori
 * Hikaru Ijūin
 * Masanori Ishii
 * Kick☆
 * Ijiri Okada

Duo

 * Bananaman (Osamu Shitara and Yuki Himura)
 * Summers (Masakazu Mimura and Kazuki Ōtake)
 * Speed Wagon (Jun Itoda and Kazuhiro Ozawa

Musical artists

 * Aidan James
 * Ami Wajima
 * Atlantic Starr
 * Ayumi Shigemori
 * BEST FRIENDS!
 * Fake? (through Music Taste)
 * Fujioka Fujimaki
 * Liyuu
 * May'n
 * Nano
 * Shino
 * Takumi Mitani

Athletes

 * Sho Aranami (baseball player)
 * Yukiya Arashiro (road bicycle racer)
 * Yuichi Fukunaga (jockey)
 * Shinjiro Hiyama (former baseball player)
 * Junichi Inamoto (football player)
 * Naoya Inoue (professional boxer)
 * Takuma Inoue (professional boxer)
 * Takeomi Ito (rugby player)
 * Shinji Kazama (motorcyclist)
 * Yusei Kikuchi (baseball player)
 * Manabu Kitabeppu (former baseball player)
 * Hirotoshi Kitagawa (former baseball player)
 * Yu Koshikawa (volleyball player)
 * Tomoaki Makino (football player)
 * Karina Maruyama (former football player)
 * Kenta Matsudaira (table tennis player)
 * Kazutomo Miyamoto (former baseball player)
 * Junichi Miyashita (swimmer)
 * Takeshi Mizuuchi (former football player)
 * Toshinori Muto (professional golfer)
 * Motoko Obayashi (former volleyball player)
 * Shohei Ohtani (baseball player)
 * Kairi Sane (professional wrestler)
 * So Taguchi (former baseball player)
 * Hisanori Takahashi (former baseball player)
 * Nobuhiro Takeda (former football player)
 * Dai Takeuchi (football player)
 * Yoshinori Tateyama (former baseball player)

Others

 * Kon Arimura (Film critic)
 * Tatsuya Egawa (Manga artist)
 * Péter Frankl (Mathematician, street performer)
 * Fumi Hirano (Voice actress, essayist)
 * Shimako Iwai (Writer, adult video director)
 * Shoji Kokami (Playwright)
 * Shinichiro Kurimoto (Economist)
 * Ayako Nishikawa (Doctor)
 * Takayuki Ohira (Engineer)
 * Girolamo Panzetta (Essayist)
 * Kosuke Takahashi (Journalist)
 * Takashi Yuasa (Lawyer)
 * Akiko Iwata (Journalist)
 * Fusaho Izumi (Lawyer)

Former Horipro artists

 * Ryuji Sainei (left 31 December 2014)
 * Kiwa Ishii (Announcer, left 31 July 2017)
 * Misaki Momose (left 31 May 2018)
 * Takurō Ōno (left 31 July 2019)
 * Mariko Seyama (Announcer, left 31 January 2020)
 * Suzuka Morita (former Idoling!!!, left 30 June 2020)
 * Sei Ashina (died 14 September 2020)
 * Daisuke Kikuta (left 30 September 2020)
 * Sawa Suzuki (left 30 September 2021)
 * Ryota Ozawa (left 30 November 2021)
 * Yuka Ogino (former NGT48, left 31 May 2022)
 * Miki Sato (retired 30 September 2022)
 * Machico (left 30 November 2022)
 * Ruriko Kojima (left 28 February 2023)
 * Karen Iwata (former AKB48, left 30 June 2023)
 * Shigeru Izumiya (left 31 August 2023)
 * Yu Abiru (left 31 December 2023)
 * Yuki Furukawa (left 6 April 2024)

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User:POds/Rugby league/Strategy

Categories
A lot of the categories have been fixed, somewhat. There still remains the ambiguity with categories named Australian Rugby League. There is however now easy way to deal with these as of yet. Perhaps it is better, to just state that articles with similar names shall contain information for the organisation. On the other hand, categories with the same name shall be used more generically, for articles that relate to that country.

Rugby league playing nations
The creation of a set of articles for all the rugby league playing nations (or areas) of the world. These pages shall provide information about rugby league in a specific area, such as a nation or a group of nations with a common name.

The following is a list of headings each of these articles should provide. In no particular order, but consistency is our friend :)

 * History
 * If a history article exists for this country, follow the summarise and link guidelines set out in the project page. Other wise write the most detailed history on this country that is possible.

 * Governing Body
 * If an article already exists for the Governing Body of rugby league in this country, follow the summarise and link guidelines set out in the project page.

 * Competitions
 * For many countries there will most likely be many competition; for each competition, follow the summarise and link guidelines set out in the project page.

 * Popularity
 * Broken up into the major demographic characteristics which might include: Ethenticity, Sex, Age, Location and other. This is normally country specific, so this section shall most likely vary for each article.

 * The National Team
 * Most of the worlds national rugby league teams already have a wiki page. Follow the summarise and link guidelines set out in the project page.

 * See Also
 * All pages should at least have an inclusion of the template Rugby League playing nations links

 * External Links
 * A good place to keep links to websites the discuss a certain topic also discussed with in the article

 * References
 * When using statistics or information to describe the demographics, it may be necessary to provide links to your sources. This is most true when providing details, such as figures or percentages of people who participate in the sport and the like.

title: User:POds/Rugby league/Strategy


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User talk:Deb/Archive 2

Clémentine of Orléan
Thanks for the feedback. It never ceases to amaze me that while Wikipedia has swathes of information on obscure fictional characters, there are people who either ruled or held great influence over nations that have been ignored. Cheers. --Roisterer 03:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry About That Chief
Salve, Deb! Sorry to see so few sympathized with you wanting to protect your user page. Don't understand how that could be so controversial. But so much that goes on this world is a mystery to me. Saw Shania Twain's new video for her song "Party for Two", which is shot in London for some reason. (The Royal Albert Hall serves as a backdrop to one sequence.) That made me wonder, is country music popular in Britain? And by country, I mean real country music, e.g. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Jr., Marty Robbins, Buck Owens, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, et alia. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:26, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Sweepstakes
Did you move Sweepstakes to sweepstake? I know all about the plural rule, but in this case it's incorrect to place it at sweepstake. The word only exists in plural as far as I know and even if it isn't it is used far more often in its plural form. If you know more than I do, then please let me know. -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:53, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

 * I barely know some of the Wikipedia conventions such as this plural rule! But in this case I believe that the non-plural form is clearly a back-formation. The term originated with horse-racing where each entrant put up a stake, and the winner would sweep all stakes. Compare famous horse race names such as the Belmont Stakes. Wait, I should add that as a note, shouldn't I? Anyway, thanks for both your input. I've wiki'ed before but only recently decided I couldn't stand using the Wikipedia and skipping over known elisions .... --Dhartung 21:52, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Moving French nobles
Could you hold off for a moment on moving the French nobles' pages I'm working on? I'd like to discuss what you're doing rather than get in a tug-of-war ;) --Tkinias 22:55, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. If you have concerns about anything else, just let me know on my Talk page. I'm friendly :) --Tkinias 11:22, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I put some thoughts up on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles). Comment away! --Tkinias 11:56, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Deb, thanks for leaving your welcome message. --Frankie Roberto 00:29, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)  23:42, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

English Civil War reversion
Understood and accepted. Benn M. 17:48, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

soap opera
I did a major overhaul of the article, and now most of it is skewed toward the US soap form. Could you possibly add (a lot) more about British soaps? Mike H 05:24, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * Another thing that got my attention was the tacky purported "webcam picture" of Leslie Grantham. Please tell me what you think of its placement in the article. I find it purely disgusting and not at all encyclopedic. Mike H 02:05, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Deb. It's a common mistake (as a matter of fact I was searching on yahoo and I got several hits that had nothing to do with Governor John Sparks. By the way I LOVE your website! :)--[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 00:39, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Need your help with horns and drums again...
Hi Deb. A full-blown revert war seems to have broken out on Drum and bugle corps (modern) and Drum Corps International... Various anonymous IPs are constructively vandalizing the page. Could these pages perhaps be protected in their current state, and, well, where do I go from here in dealing with the problem?

Thanks, Matt.

MattJ 20:00, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of songs with brackets in their titles
I noticed you've contributed to this page in the past. It is now on Votes for Deletion. Would you consider taking part in the vote? Thanks. David 5000 16:01, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Roman-Latin work by Cicero
Hi Deb -- I just wanted to confirm that it was I who sent you an email today regarding The Swan and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Warm regards, —RaD Man (talk) 23:18, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Any leads on the Cicero concrete poetry? :-)  (Happy New Year by the way)  —RaD Man (talk) 10:09, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * For what its worth, I wanted to touch base with you once more — were you able to find anything regarding The Swan and Cicero? —RaD Man (talk) 08:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

article Carl Drega
Hi Deb, thanks for your interest in this article. Your help is appreciated. But the problem is: The article as it was first created was a direct copy-paste job from a homepage, and again, the text there seems to be the copy of a mailinglist posting, and it isn't clear how the site owner is related to the original poster. Now that text is in the history forever. I thought policy was to avoid such things? I know it's my fault, i should have listed it as copyvio first and ask then, but i was in a hurry ahd had the faint hope that i can avoid the hassle with listing a copyvio this time. What do i do now about this? My proposal: save your text to my disk, revert to copyvio version, list as copyvio, copy your text int carl derga/temp. What do you think? Sorry for all this. Lady Tenar 22:54, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adminship Again
Salve, Deb! Well, after my unsuccessful candidacy back in September, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. I'd appreciate your vote at Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 18:53, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Salve, Deb! I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate.  And as someone who has run for office in the real world, I can't accept your statement that perhaps I didn't need your vote.  Every vote is important, contrary to what some elements would have us believe.  Ave!  PedanticallySpeaking 17:34, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:33, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Archaeology wikiproject
Thanks for signing up Deb. I've got no set ideas about what we should be covering and just sketched out the current page to make it look busy. Any suggestions you have will be gratefully received even if you don't feel like writing anything. There's certainly lots of Welsh stuff that could be added and categorised like all those lovely megalithic and Roman sites. As a side thought, could you check the English translation of Bryn Celli Ddu if you have a moment? Cheers adamsan 13:54, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

WP:VfD
Heya Deb -- good finds for VfD, but I note you pretty consistantly do the header wrong on your VfD entries. Please remember it is ===Title=== -- three equal signs -- otherwise one or another of us has to go in and fix it. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Leonora
Hi Deb. Some time ago I wrote an article entitled "Leonora". You moved it to Leonora, Western Australia and made Leonora a disambiguation page. However your entry "Leonora is a girl's name" will never have a link and could be argued against from the "wikipedia is not a dictionary" point of view; and your link to "original name of, and name of character from, Fidelio" appears to be incorrect, since the article on Fidelio refers only to "Leonore" not "Leonora". I left it as a disambig page for a couple of weeks to see if any other links got added, but they haven't. I have now converted Leonora into a redirect to the Leonora, Western Australia. Hesperian 02:20, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My comment that it will "never have a link" was poorly expressed. What I meant was that Wikipedia does not, and is unlikely ever to, have an article on Leonora in the sense of a girl's name; therefore the entry "Leonora is a girls' name" will never be wikified to point to an article.

Granted Leonora, Western Australia is a very minor and largely unknown town, but I still find it a little difficult to accept that people who search for "Leonora" on Wikipedia are more likely to have have intended "Leonore" than what they actually typed. And regardless of their intentions, "... Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora" is a false statement.

Since I'm pretty new around here, I'll leave the final decision to you. If you revert to a disambig page, I won't argue. But if you do revert, I think the Leonore/Leonora issue should be addressed. Something like "The name Leonora may be confused with Leonore, the original title of Beethoven's opera, Fidelio" would do the job. Hesperian 22:41, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Port of Napier
Hi Deb, I'm in the process of creating a substub and adding links as we speak. Thanks. Christiaan

Abraham Goldfaden
I don't necessarily object to your removing the stub notice from Abraham Goldfaden (which is mostly my work) but it still has almost nothing about his life after 1876: the bio currently cuts off before he founded the first professsional Yiddish theater. I'm planning to work on it over the next few weeks, but I didn't feel I was yet out of stub territory. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:04, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

Stupid Newbie Tricks
Hi Deb: I'm a newbie and you left a welcome note on my page. Hope I'm not bothering you. I uploaded an image, Image:Hebron.jpeg that needs to be deleted. The image is of Hebron, Labrador. After hitting the key, I realized like a dolt that there is a much more famous Hebron in the world. I re-uploaded the image as Hebronlabrador.jpg, but I couldn't get rid of the earlier version. Thanks, and sorry to make work for you... wiegee 02:10, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

re: disambig
I should have checked first. Thanks. Inter 21:36, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Gangtok
Hi! On Dec 31, you had marked Gangtok as a geo stub. Well the page is now fully mature and on Peer Review. If you want you may check it out. Regards, Nichalp 19:39, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

styles
Hey Deb,

I've made a proposal for dealing with the issue of using styles on the talk page about Naming Conventions (names and titles). I'd welcome your imput. FearÉIREANN 17:25, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LCOTW
Hi deb, nice to find a fellow Celt (my username is the Irish word for poetry). I like your external user page; fortunately I do so little around here, and most of it on such minority interest subjects, that nobody has ever vandalised my user page, but if they did, I'd want to protect it thereafter. I've updated the LCOTW to Scottish literature; sorry for the delay and the lack of activity. The lesson seems to be: beware of Greeks bearing candidates. I will try to do some work on the Scottish artice, but most of my time here is currently going into The Cantos, which involves a lot of reading and care, especially as, by my standards at least, this is a controversial subject. I'm also trying to cut back on my wikiwork so as to leave some time for my own writing.

Anyway, I've taken up enough of your time. Thanks for the prod, I'd actually been meaning to change the collaboration but just not getting around to it. Take care. Filiocht 08:40, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the kind words. I still have a lot of work to do on the Cantos article. Two more volumes to read through and write up, a Legacy section to add and a re-write of the introductory sections, plus a general tidy-up. And lots to add to List of cultural references in The Cantos, the sort of thing that does actually show the strengths of the Wikipedia model (so few red links so far!). I hope to take my volumes of Scottish Chaucerians off a shelf over the next few days and see if I can write anything useful on them. Filiocht 13:06, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Mary Ann Caws
Thanks for the copy edit. Stirling Newberry 22:05, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wisin y Yandel
Sorry, I guess right after you deleted I had saved my edit where I added the speedy deletion template. Aequo 17:47, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Palace Theatre disambiguation
Thanks for disambiguating! I will write a stub for Palace Theatre, Manchester soon. –– Constafrequent (talk page) 22:23, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Long Time No See
Salve, Deb! Hope this message finds you well. We haven't communicated lately, but I've not been as busy as I once was, plus the library cut down the time patrons can spend on the computers. When I stood for admin, I was pleased to say I'd never been involved in an editing kerfuffle. And now I'm in my first one. See Julia Stiles and Talk:Julia Stiles. I wonder if you might give me your opinion of the objections on the talk page? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:05, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Deb, Thanks for your reply. This morning I went and created a nice bibliography in anticipation of incorporating new material in the Julia Stiles article and he just completely deleted it, said it wasn't necessary, Cite your sources notwithstanding. See Talk:Julia Stiles for what I'm talking about. Articles are supposed to have bibliographies, right? PedanticallySpeaking 19:32, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yaraborough/Yarborough
Somebody (not you) just created a short, inadequate page on Ralph Yaraborough. We already have a good one on the real Ralph Yarborough. If I knew how to do it, I'd put this new page out of its misery. Perhaps you can. 24.126.41.116 13:15, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) (aka Italo Svevo when I'm able to log in.

Richard III
You wrote: Just to let you know, out of courtesy, that I reverted your latest changes to this controversial article, because they seemed to infringe the NPOV rule. Ironic, since both the things I wrote (which are easily verifiable facts) were put there because what was already there seemed to be non NPOV. The article mentioned that he was frequently referred to as deformed, but made no attempt to show that this was almost certainly untrue. It also referred to the fact that he had means available to kill the princes, but made no attempt to mention that he was not the most likely culprit (in fact, he had to put measures in place after the deaths in order to maintain his position) Grutness|hello? 22:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Shock to the System
Several months ago you suggested that Shock to the System (a plot summary for a Static Shock episode) be deleted, but that never happened. It's currently under consideration for deletion, and I thought you might want to cast a vote for it. Tverbeek 12:57, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

FAC check
Salve, Deb! After completely rewriting the Julia Stiles article we discussed previously, I've posted it as a WP:FAC candidate here. I'd welcome any comments and (hopefully) your vote supporting it. Hey, did you see my article Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad got Featured status? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Alrosking
Put it back.--The person who made "Alrosking" 17:34, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Translating English articals into Welsh
Hello! I do not myself speak Welsh- but am atempting to learn. I have recently discovered Wikipedia and have contributed to some articals. I would really want these articals translated into Welsh, with the hope fo indirectly contributing to the Welsh side. I recognize that you are a prolific contributer yourself, but I was hoping that you might translate some of my articals for me. Or maybe direct me to someone who might like to translate?

Arwel Perry offered yorself as someone who might be able to assit me... or know someone who would want to increase the Welsh Wikipedia by translating good articals.

Though I do not yet know Welsh enough to write in it, I do want to contribute to Welsh Wikipedia, even if indirectly. Any help you might be able to give will be greatly appreciated! Drachenfyre

Denholm Elliott
Hi, Deb. Way back in Jan 2003 you wrote the initial Denholm Elliott article. The claim that he was gay is now being debated, so I was wondering if you could remember where you got this info from? Thanks! Jihg 08:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

65.39.159.10
Thank you for blocking 65.39.159.10. Great help --Bucephalus 17:43, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh dear, these "naming conventions"! Thanks anyway Peter Shearan 05:25, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

El Salon Mexico;
My apologies — I didn't realise that I'd overridden your edits. The History shows that we were three minutes apart, so I don't see how it could have been an edit conflict, yet I was completely unaware of what you'd done. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:21, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Holman Fred Stephens
Hello Deb In much the same vein as one of the comments above I cannot quite see why you moved the article entitled Colonel H.F. Stephens to Holman Fred Stephens. As a fan of Col Stephens (and although I knew his full names) I know he would never be recognised as such within the context of his railways (see Colonel Stephens Railways article). In fact his whole life was tied up with "his" railways, and I was about to merge his name with the much longer (and in some cases inaccurate!) article on them when I came across your redirect. Indeed, if the new article were re-entitled Colonel Stephens and his railways it would make much more logical sense: we could then include his full name within the biographical details which need doing anyway. Peter Shearan 12:17, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chocolate chips
I'd be happy to feature this in DYK, but it's still stubby. Could you please expand it first? Mgm|(talk) 11:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

MJ Coldwell
Deb, why did you move this article from Major James Coldwell to James Coldwell? As the article says, he was commonly known as MJ, not James. Ground Zero 21:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks muchly. But don't be so hard on yourself, being a Corrie fan makes you alright in my books. Ground Zero 21:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello, yourself
Thanks for the note. I've had a wiki account for months and months and months, but um, it's only now that I have dared make a real live edit to a page that is not a sandbox :) Telsa 17:07, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And yes, that's me (wince). Haven't touched that page though. Whilst I know you're there, can I ask a quick question? I have just got side-tracked following links, and ended up reading an argument about "frequent edits", which some people seem to consider a bad thing. Is what I have been doing to the Swansea page (a series of changes one/a group at a time) a bad thing? I have read about 20 pages on wikipedia policy and almost-policy today trying to find out, but I can't find anything about it. I'm not trying to get my edit count up; it's just old habit so that if any single change is a problem, it can be removed singly. Erm. Only perhaps wikipedia doesn't work that way? Telsa 17:30, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Phew, thanks! Ymlaen, 'te, and onto the further splendours of Swansea... Telsa 17:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Deb!
Hey,

Long time no see. I hadn't seen you around. I was worried you had gone. Don't know how long I'll be on, but I have been bitten by the wikipedia bug and 'tis a hard bug to shed! Hopefully I'll be around for the long haul. I am already getting my teeth into it. Even spending 'all nighters' :( I was working last night on Papal Tiara til the wee hours. BTW I've nominated it for as a featured article candidate. I'd welcome your views.

So what have you been up to?

I've realised that kicking wikipedia is like kicking smoking. I haven't the willpower to do both!!!

Lots of love, Fear ÉIREANN  19:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Possible impostor
I've been doing some impostor hunting lately, seeing as how we've had a rash of them lately and all, and you got the following hits:. Of course, this may be nothing, but I thought I would let you know. – ClockworkSoul 04:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Quick advice?
Hey, I want to make a major proposal — to replace AD/BC with CE/BCE. I am not asking if you agree (though of course I appreciate your views) but I wonder if you have any idea how I should make this proposal? There has been a long debate on the Jesus page, and my explanation for my proposal is very very long. It affects many pages, not just Jesus. And my proposal is I think too long to put on all the relevant talk pages. Is there any convention? Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk  20:54, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Bastard on Wheels
Please block. Sjakkalle 12:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Removal of blank category only pages.
I disagreed with your "It's not a good idea to create pages consisting of a template and no content. These will be deleted.". I think it is a good idea, as the incomplete page then appears in more places and thus more people will see it and increase the chance of people editing. blob 15:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Misspelling and Miscategorization of Adolph Wagner
To place the entry for Adolph Wagner under Adolf is certainly wrong, it is ill-advised and makes research more difficult; I wonder why it was done, and apparently without checking the facts? The German "ph" in names does not mutate into, or is ever transliterated into, "f", in proper names. It is not a general rule, neither in English nor in Wikipedia (I don't see an entry on "Fotografy". In this case, it is especially counter-productive, because the name exists in both spellings.  Adolph Wagner always spelled his name the correct way, in all letters, in all publications.  And finally, there actually exists an economist (of minor importance, but still) by the name of Adolf Wagner.  I hope someone can revert this. Clossius 11:01, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Photographs of Siegfried Sassoon
Deb please review the talk page on the above subject. Wjbean 18:45, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

Welsh people section?
Hi again. I've been plodding through the "What links here" stuff for Welsh and trying to disambiguate a lot of links. Looks like you're doing exactly the same at the same time. I was wondering about some of the remaining ones. It's easy to redirect some links to Welsh language or Wales, but I was starting to wonder whether it was worth creating some sort of category or page for Welsh people, too, for the pages where the links aren't really relevant to the language or the place..? --Telsa 00:13, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I have now found a whole heap of other places to send them: Welsh mythology, Welsh literature, Welsh poetry, Culture of Wales and the rest, which is helping. I don't know much about how to make categories, and Welsh and Wales already seem to suffer from a lot of "Welsh something" and "Something of Wales" articles which aren't heavily linked-to and overlap as it is. When I saw the Welsh people article (pre-redirect) I did think of actually giving it some content. If that helps, I could do that. Or does the removal of the redirect mean you're working on that? Failing that, I start to think that unwiki'ing Welsh where there's no useful link might be simplest, although not the ideal solution! --Telsa 16:22, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Eep. I'll see what I can do :) --Telsa 16:45, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the greeting!Yo Mama 5000

User 217.140.193.123
hey wow, thanks alot that´s really nice of you. i don´t understand what that user´s problem is, did you have a similar experience? i mean we can talk about anything, but he´s written a couple of nasty stuff on my talk page that i had to delete as well...

which part did you not like about the discussion? i would love to hear your opinion as well, again i´m trying to build consensus here because alot of the naming rules are really all over the place. thanks again for offering your help, really appreciate it. Antares911 29 June 2005 18:34 (UTC)

User:Antares
The comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AManual_of_Style_%28Thailand-related_articles%29&diff=17848782&oldid=17835375 shows clearly that user Antares has erased my relevant comment from a TALK page. That of course is a reason to ban Antares. 217.140.193.123 29 June 2005 22:42 (UTC)

If I could reply to the above user, who doesn't have a login name, I would say, "Have you checked with Antares that he doesn't have a valid reason for removing these comments?" Deb 30 June 2005 15:54 (UTC)

You can read the commentary I wrote and which is in question now. There I made a detailed explication of reasons to take into account when naming such articles. Quite objectively. The reason why Antares opposes those is obviously that Antares disagrees. Thar is presumably Antares' REASON to removal. There clearly exists no VALID reason, as talk page is intended for precisely such comments and arguments. Perhaps Antares felt that my reasons are too good to rebut effectively, and decided therefore to remove. 217.140.193.123 7 July 2005 09:08 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 19:12 (UTC)

User page
Hi Deb. Thanks for the comment :-), but I won't take credit lol - it's stolen (with permission) from User:ClockworkSoul as html code rather scares me. Craigy (talk) June 30, 2005 21:05 (UTC)

The Swansea page
Hi Deb,

I'm sorry that the counties issue has spilled over onto the Swansea page (and other pages about UK places, too).

For my part I'm going to try to kill the debate by simply not adding to it any more. The Swansea talk page should be for the editors of the Swansea article as an aid to improving it.

You may already be aware that the UK county names debate continues to rattle on. It should have been wrapped up a year ago but frustratingly it refuses to lie down :-( Chris Jefferies 1 July 2005 10:31 (UTC)

I can be rather bitchy and tongue-in-cheek sometimes. Glad my comments can amuse sometimes. :-) Fear ÉIREANN (talk) 1 July 2005 22:51 (UTC)

Hey
Hey,

I'm sure like everyone you are stunned by today's bombing. It is the talking point in Ireland. Everyone is disgusted. President McAleese was on the 9 O'Clock News expressing her horror at what was happened. My sympathy to all British people on this outrage.

Fear ÉIREANN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON\(caint)  7 July 2005 21:07 (UTC)

opinion sought
Hey Deb,

I have re-opened the issue of the royal stub at. I think having it produce a noble link is farcical. Those who did it originally were no doubt well meaning but I don't think they really understood what they were doing. Nobility and royalty are not the same. Your opinions would be welcomed.

Fear ÉIREANN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON\(caint)  7 July 2005 23:41 (UTC)

naming conventions
Someone added in a sneaky edit into the Naming conventions (names and titles) last April changing the rules to be used for the Queen Mother. Another user spotted it and pointed it out to me yesterday. I removed the offending edit, which had no consensus behind it, merely a unilateral edit. (It may not have been noticed because Lulu was messing around later and had his changes reverted. People may not have noticed that before then another more serious change was made. However User:Antares911 is not happy and is accusing me of changing Wikipedia policy, whereas in fact I was restoring it to the agreed convention. Your opinions would be welcome. Fear ÉIREANN  SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON\(caint)  18:22, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh dear god
Oh dear God. What the hell is he doing? *sigh* AAaaAGH! I'll see what I can do. Fear ÉIREANN \(caint) 20:13, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Deb, please do not do such high-handed moves. That resulted in an impractical heading. You know very well that there was no consensus on such renaming. Having seen what you wrote on a talk page, your behavior also leaves a lot to be desired. Arrigo 00:43, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Elizabeth II renaming (round XXXIV)
You may have noticed *mega sigh* that yet another user has dragged up the lets rename Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom farce, only 9 days after the last vote ended. (What next? A vote every day on the issue next?) I have proposed instead this vote on Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom page:

That Wikipedia stop wasting time on endless revoting on this goddamned issue and ban votes on this issue from this page for at least six months.

Hopefully this will put this nonsense to bed for at least 6 months. Your (hopefully final) vote would be welcome. Fear ÉIREANN \(caint) 21:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Dear old DW
How could I forget? :-) I am however having a bit of fun myself. A pillock called Skyring (or should be be Possessive Pete - you'd swear he had a crush on me or something!) has been stalking me for a few weeks. The arbcomm banned him for a month for it. Now he is appearing as a set of sockpuppets! Obviously the spawn of DW!!! Fear ÉIREANN \(caint)  23:14, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Is it possible?
Hi Deb, I was wondering, is it possible to have a user account deleted? What it is I plan to concentrate more on the Welsh version of Wikipedia and I do not want to come back to this English version. I do not want to leave this account unused. I was wondering if it is possible to have my account deleted at a certain time?

Draig goch20 23:55, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

This is how I see it. Since I can use my I.P. Address (If not blocked), I can use that to    place the Cy links into the English project. I would enjoy using the Wicipedia Cymraeg experience to keep up with my Welsh. I have not had a good experience with the English project and my time on here has not been a good experience. It would be nice to cancel my account forthwith and concentrate more on what I enjoy, the good environment of the Welsh Wicipedia.

Draig goch20 17:07, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

If you can, and allowed to, you could lock my user-page. Don't do it if you can't that would be alright. Let me know beforehand in the Welsh wikipedia.

Draig goch20 21:09, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Allech chi amddiffyn fy tudalen ond ymadael fy tudalen sgwrs fi.

Draig goch20 22:19, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Note from Deb: See below for the kind of thing he's referring to.

Request to you to refrain from misrepresentation
When making a RM regarding article Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, you Deb represented the case in the page Requested moves by alleging that the move would be "back" to Alix of Hesse. However it is very clear that is misrepresentation of the issue. The article was never at Alix of Hesse and such address does not yet exist. Thus the proposed move cannot be "back" to that and it is not "previous" address. And, you claim as your apparently only reason for move, by the brief presentation space in general page RM that "The present article title is untenable. However, being "untenable" is an opinionated allegation and does not have any place in proper representation of renaming need. There you fail to present the proposal in neutral terms. Moreover, in the Talk page (Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse) when giving your grounds for proposed move, you wrote "Arrigo, who carried out the move to the present name, evidently has no understanding of these standards". That is clearly a personal attack. And moreover, has no solid grounds. The answer, predictably, was "In my opinion, evidently Deb has no understanding of these standards. In that short space, you have apparently misrepresented a case in general RM page, also used only an opinionated opinion in general RM page as the only reason for move, and also made a personal attack. Could you kindly refrain from such behavior in the future, and could you kindly amend and correct those you made. 217.140.193.123 16:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Those who know Deb and have admired her fairness and calmness know that the charges are grossly inaccurate and simply wrong. Fear ÉIREANN [[Image:Ireland coa.png|20px]]\(caint)  17:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * If I could understand what he's on about, it might be worth responding. But it's fairly obvious that English isn't his first language, and he's just trying to get a rise out of me.  It won't work. When you've been baited by Isis and survived, anything less is just a joke.  Deb 20:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

re message on my talk page: I'm not suprised that you didn't remember what the original title was correctly, there have been so many. I haven't got a clue what the correct name is I just like to try and help sort out messes! Thryduulf 22:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Sossal and the Realms
Hello

I'm doing articles for all of the Forgotten Realms. It takes time and I'm doing it one thing at the time. For now on, for efficiency, I'm just doing the basics. The main page is List of Faerûnian countries. Reply to David Latapie 17:50, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Great :-) I know there is a template is a template for work in progress. Do you know it name? Reply to David Latapie 18:09, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse
Yep. vote early and vote often. That is how the mung we have on WP:RM and Approval voting works. Just add your prefrences to the bottom of the list and vote for them. If you look at Talk:Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden you will see an example of a really nasty vote where I learnt a lesson or two! But on the second vote, to get my compromise option in I waited until it was clear that my first option would not be accepted and voted for a second option because I did not want the other name which had more votes than my first option getting in. Philip Baird Shearer 17:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

thank you for your support
hi Deb, thank you for your kind words. i´m honestly at a loss sometimes. of course I make mistakes too i admit that, i just don´t know how to work all the rules properly because i am new and it takes alot of time to learn everything properly. but the way i am just barraged sometimes... anyways. thanks again, your words give me some hope :-) Antares911 16:50, 23 July 2005 (UTC) btw i was going to post some new revised rules on the naming conventions. you have voiced your objections, if you want i can send them to you and you can give me your input if you care?

Tudor style
Hi as you have contributed to the above page perhaps you would like to comment on the idea proposed here. Regards Giano | talk 21:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

My thoughts
Regarding user:Arrigo's comment on my talk page, I thought you might want to read my reply. Long story short - please be more careful about these kinds of things, to avoid the appearance of impropriety. →Raul654 04:37, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Wrong IP address
The 69.whatever address looks like it's registered to Psb777, hence the literacy. Arrigo's dial-up account is with dnafinland.fi, and most of their dialup pool is in the 62.78.*.* range. He mostly alternates between logged-in and his DSL IP, but he used the dialup acct. to canvass for votes recently: see 62.78.105.68 contributions. The comment on Raul's page, though, just appears to be some random reflexive anti-admin ax-grinder. Choess 23:08, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, the technical evidence is ironclad. 69.10.141.71 resolves to a server acknowledged on the webpage of the user of the Psb777 account...who seems of late to have developed an enduring grievance against The System and the representatives thereof. The business certainly aggravates my temper as well; but when lawyers go to sea, if you take my meaning, I think it's best to be scrupulous to the point of being punctilious in return. Disarms 'em, and they may feel constrained towards propriety. (Oh, and I doubt the Maltese gentlemen have aught to do with this, as I can't see them dialing-up a Finnish ISP regularly. Odd coincidence, though.) Choess 00:33, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Lindisfarne Castle
Hi Deb, Brookie here - I've had a go at strengthening this article a bit. :) A curate's egg 15:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Deb - thanks for the note; unfortunately the bottom picture isn't mine - I just knicked it from the Lindisfarne article page! :) A curate's egg 19:06, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi, Deb. I just wanted to thank you for your support and your words in my RfA. Nice touch of practicality in your user page, by the way. Thanks again! Redux 01:39, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Wendy Hiller is laden in POV
Congratulations. :) I randomly selected you from a list of contributors to the Wendy Hiller article.  The biography is excellent, but heavily laden in POV.  Would you be interested in working together to help correct this?  Hall Monitor 22:39, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmm, I see what you mean, but why do you need help? You seem pretty capable.  Are you saying you don't know much about her?  Or do you just want to present a united front?  Deb 22:42, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * All of the above-- by no means am I an expert on Hiller, and there appear to be several editors who are actively engaging in reinserting POV corrections. Any help you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.  :)  Hall Monitor 22:46, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I fiddled a bit. Did it help at all? Deb 19:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it looks wonderful! Thanks for all of your help, Deb.  Hall Monitor 20:25, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Welshipedia
Hi, thanks for the invite but the fact is that my Welsh is so abysmal I couldn't possibly contribute anything. I'm cy-1 in reading (passive understanding) but have zero writing skills. --Angr/undefined 17:56, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Hello
Hello, Deb. Thanks for the message. It's nice to know that people still think of me, even if I am being an evil skiver. :) I've just popped in this morning to undo a whole load of vandalism that I noticed, as it looked as if the active sysops were having a nap at the time. ;) But I don't know about coming back properly. I became quite cross with Wikipedia, and it takes me a while to get over things! But I am feeling left out of all the developments to the project that have appeared over the past year, or however long it's been. How are you finding life at Wikipedia these days? -- Oliver P. 10:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, not good, then... I'm sorry to hear it. :( I might sort of partly come back, but I've finally got round to getting a proper job, which seems to have had the effect of eating all my time! But maybe. And let's hope that some other people come back, too. Or you could always just join us in leaving... ;) -- Oliver P. 13:03, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Biography Collaboration of the eek: Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein was listed as a candidate for the Collaboration of the week recently. Unfortunately, the nomination dropped out. I have renominated it on the Biography Collaboration of the week however - come and support the nomination there!--Fenice 16:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

crowns and paranoia
Hey, Deb

I had a message typed up for your page a couple of days ago but my browser crashed and I lost it. I forgot to reply again. Re consort crowns — I have a booklet from the Tower of London with pictures but they are all crown copyright. I searched the net to see I could find any non-copyright or fair use images but there are none of the consort crowns. It is a pity. The Crown of Queen Mary is particularly beautiful, while the image I could find of the Crown of Queen Alexandra is pretty poor. It is a particularly odd-looking, European-style rather than British-style crown. The Crown of Mary of Modena is rather theatrical — it looks like something from a Gibert and Sullivan operetta, or a 1940s Hollywood film rather than a real crown. Luckily the Crown of Queen Elizabeth does have images from her funeral that can be used.

Re User:Fenian Swine — oh goody. Another paranoid Irish republican, to join the handful of others and the paranoid unionists on here. No wonder most Irish people are heartily sick and tired of both of them, their in-your-face POV and their self-righteous attitude. Both sides are as bad as each other sometimes. Well if he wants to get himself banned for having an offensive username he is going the right away about it. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 22:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

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Border War (Colorado State–Wyoming rivalry)

The Border War is the name of a college rivalry between the athletic teams of the Colorado State University Rams and the University of Wyoming Cowboys/Cowgirls.

Background
Colorado State University is a public university in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the University of Wyoming is a public university in Laramie, Wyoming. The two campuses are around 65 miles apart via U.S. Route 287. Both teams have been inaugural members of the Mountain West Conference since 1999, and were previously both members of the Western Athletic Conference from 1968 to 1999.

Football
The football rivalry between the two schools dates back to Thanksgiving Day, November 30, 1899. In the first ever matchup between the two schools and the first game that Colorado Agricultural (now known as Colorado State) ever played outside of Colorado, a disagreement between officials from the two schools resulted in a controversial ending to the game.

At the time, officials were provided by the schools competing in the game. The game concluded with a Wyoming forfeit being called after Colorado Agricultural official Edward House ruled that Wyoming official E.D. McArthur and the Wyoming team were refusing to abide by the rulebook. After the forfeit was called and the Colorado Agricultural players began leaving the field, official McArthur reportedly exclaimed that he "did not give a damn for the rules" and instructed the Wyoming team to run in a touchdown. This action reportedly set off a brawl between the teams. Following the game, Colorado Agricultural President Barton Aylesworth declared that his school would not play Wyoming in any athletic event until he received a written apology from Wyoming. The two schools played again the following year, and there has remained bad blood between the two programs since. The series is also the oldest and most-played in the Mountain West, and one of the most-played in the nation.

Bronze Boot
As the main component of the Border War rivalry, the football rivalry series revolves around the Bronze Boot - a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the CSU-Wyoming football game each year.

In 1968, the ROTC detachments of the respective schools initiated the Bronze Boot. The boot was worn in the Vietnam War by Cpt. Dan J. Romero, an Adams State College graduate and Army ROTC instructor at CSU between 1967 and 1969. Each year leading up to the Colorado State–Wyoming game, the game ball is carried in a running shuttle relay by the ROTC detachment of the visiting team along US 287 to the Colorado–Wyoming border, where the home team's ROTC detachment receives it and runs the game ball to the stadium hosting the game. The trophy is guarded by the ROTC unit of the past year's winning school during the game.

Game results
† = This game is controversial, but was ruled as a Wyoming forfeit per rule.

Men's basketball
The "Border War" between Colorado State and Wyoming also extends to men's basketball. The ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia considers Colorado State to be Wyoming's "fiercest rival". Wyoming leads the series 137–102 over Colorado State as of 2023.

Notable men's basketball games

 * January 27, 1951: Colorado State beat AP No. 20 Wyoming 62–38.
 * February 14, 1987: Wyoming won 81–78 in triple overtime. Wyoming's Reggie Fox made a tying three pointer to force the second overtime, and Turk Boyd also hit a three to force the third overtime. The ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia considers this the greatest Border War game of all time.
 * January 23, 1988: Colorado State upset AP No. 17 Wyoming 54–49.
 * March 11, 1988: No. 14 Wyoming beat Colorado State 60–58 in the WAC men's basketball tournament semifinal and would eventually become tournament champions. With two seconds left and the game tied at 58, Eric Leckner caught a three-quarter-court-length inbounds pass at the top of the key, turned, and made a 19-foot buzzer-beating jumper falling down, to win the game for Wyoming.
 * March 9, 2000: In both schools' first seasons in the Mountain West Conference, Wyoming beat Colorado State 74–68 in quarterfinal round of the inaugural MWC basketball tournament, held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
 * March 13, 2003: In the quarterfinal round of the MWC tournament, No. 6 seed Colorado State beat No. 3 Wyoming 74–71. Colorado State would go on to win the tournament and a berth in the NCAA tournament.
 * March 6, 2013: Colorado State won at Laramie, 78–56. However, this game became controversial because Wyoming students chanted "alcoholic" at Colorado State coach Larry Eustachy, a recovering alcoholic. At the game, fliers created by interns at the Wyoming athletics marketing office were distributed and made light of an infamous 2003 photo showing Eustachy, then the head coach at Iowa State, partying with University of Missouri students after the Missouri Tigers beat Iowa State. Wyoming's athletic director apologized for the students' behavior.
 * January 31, 2018: 14–7 (5–3 conf) Wyoming beat 10–13 (3–7 conf) Colorado State 91–86 in double overtime in Fort Collins. The Rams had two players record double-doubles — Deion James, who recorded 24 points and 14 rebounds and Nico Carvacho, who recorded 10 points and 13 rebounds. Hayden Dalton led Wyoming with 26 points.
 * February 23, 2019: Colorado State won in Fort Collins, beating Wyoming 83–48. The 35 point differential became the largest margin of victory in the history of the Border War series.
 * January 31, 2022: 16–2 (6–2 conf) Colorado State traveled north to Laramie to take on 16–3 (5–1 conf) Wyoming on January 31, 2022. Regulation ended with the Rams and Cowboys tied at 70, and the Cowboys outscored the Rams 14–8 in overtime to hand the Rams their first back-to-back loss of the season. David Roddy led the Rams in scoring with 23 points before fouling out in overtime. Roddy made 9 of 15 shots — including 4 of 5 three-pointers — but struggled at the free-throw line, missing 2 of 3 shots including one that would've won the game at the end of regulation. Hunter Maldonado led scoring for the Cowboys by recording a new career-high 35 points, which marked the second consecutive game where the Rams allowed an opposing player to set a new career-high. Graham Ike recorded 16 points and 8 rebounds for the Cowboys before fouling out in overtime along with Roddy.

Game results
Rankings are from the AP Poll. Source for results:

Women's basketball
University of Wyoming records list two women's basketball games played against Colorado State University during the 1973–1974 season, prior to Colorado State's inaugural season. According to Colorado State records, the first game played against Wyoming was on January 29, 1975, in Laramie.

Game results
Source for results:


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Combine with wayback?
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avedis

 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. --Ryan Delaney talk 15:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Avedis
Pokemon fanfiction character. Not remotely notable. -- Bobdoe (Talk) 22:33, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft to the max. --Howcheng 23:58, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I delete you, pokecruft JDoorjam 02:13, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete—Wow. Fanfic character. Wow. This makes me lose faith in the wiki concept. --Tysto 06:49, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sliggy 11:55, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this piece of crap. Fanfiction character? We don't need that. Optichan 17:13, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Groeck 15:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Rakeela

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
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Oh, and I'd appreciate further information to resolve the debate on Talk:Otherkin.

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List of apologetic works

This is a list of books in the field of religious apologetics.

Buddhism

 * Dharmasiri, Gunapala. 1988. A Buddhist Critique of the Christian Concept of God. Golden Leaves Publishing, Antioch, California.
 * De Silva, A. L. 1994. Beyond Belief: A Buddhist Critique of Fundamentalist Christianity. Three Gem Publications, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
 * Thelle, Notto R. 1987. Buddhism and Christianity in Japan: From Conflict to Dialogue, 1854-1899. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
 * Young, Richard Fox., and G.P.V. Somaratna. 1996. Vain Debates. The Buddhist-Christian Controversies of Nineteenth-Century Ceylon. Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vienna, Austria.

Christianity

 * Conway, Bertrand L. 1929. The Question Box: Replies to Questions Received on Missions to Non-Catholics. New ed. Paulist Press, New York.
 * Douglas, Scott, 2016. OrganicJesus: Finding Your Way to an Unprocessed, Gmo-free Christianity. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, Michigan. ISBN 978-0825443923
 * Geisler, Norman L., and Ronald M. Brooks. 1990. When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook of Christian Evidences. Victor Books, Wheaton, Illinois.
 * Geisler, Norman L. and Frank Turek. 2004. 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist'. Crossway Books, Wheaton, Illinois.
 * Gore, Charles, Bp. 1889. Roman Catholic Claims. Rivingtons, London.
 * Keller, Timothy. 2008 "The Reason for God"
 * Kreeft, Peter. 1982. Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois.
 * Lewis, C. S. [1940] 1957. The Problem of Pain. Fontana, Glasgow.
 * Lewis, C. S. [1947] 1960. Miracles: A Preliminary Study. Fontana, Glasgow.
 * Lewis, C. S. [1952] 1955. Mere Christianity. Fontana, Glasgow.
 * Little, Paul E. 1968. Know Why You Believe. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove.
 * McDowell, Josh. 1979. Evidence That Demands A Verdict. Revised Edition. Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California.
 * McDowell, Josh. 1981. The Resurrection Factor. Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California.
 * McDowell, Josh., and Don Stewart. 1980. Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the Christian Faith. Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California.
 * Montgomery, John Warwick. 2002. History, Law and Christianity. Canadian Institute for Law, Theology & Public Policy, Edmonton, Alberta.
 * Montgomery, John Warwick. 2003. Tractatus Logico-Theologicus. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers.
 * Philip, Johnson, 2003. Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Textbook. Wise Men Books, Kochi, India. Online English Version
 * Richardson, Alan, Christian apologetics, London, S.C.M. Press, 1947.
 * Schaeffer, Francis A. 1982. The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer. 5 Volumes. Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois.
 * Strobel, Lee. 1998. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
 * Turek, Frank. 2014. 'Stealing from God: why atheists need God to make their case' NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO.

Mormonism

 * McDonald, A. Melvin. 1963. The Day of Defense. Rev. ed. Sandy, Utah: Sounds of Zion, 1994, cop. 1963. N.B.: One of numerous editions and printings of this work. ISBN 978-1-886472-53-2

Hinduism

 * Shri-hindu-dharma-sthapana (1831)
 * Svadesha-dharmabhimani (1834)
 * Works written in response to Mata-parīkṣā:
 * Mata-parīkṣā-śikṣā (1839) by Somanātha, apparently a pseudonym for Subaji Bapu
 * Mataparīkṣottara (1840) by Harachandra Tarkapanchanan
 * Śāstra-tattva-vinirṇaya (1844-1845) by Nilakantha Goreh
 * Swamikal, Chattambi. 1890 (approx). A Hindu Critique of Christianity. English translation of Krista Mata Chedanam.

Islam

 * Bucaille, Maurice, 1993. The Bible, The Qur'an and Science: The Holy Scriptures examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge. Taj Publications, Delhi, India.
 * Leirvik, Oddbjørn. 2001. "History as a Literary Weapon: The Gospel of Barnabas in Muslim-Christian Polemics." Studia Theologica 54: 4-26.
 * Watt, William Montgomery. 1991. Muslim-Christian Encounters: Perceptions and Misperceptions. Routledge, London & New York.
 * Westerlund, David. 2003. "Ahmed Deedat's Theology of Religion: Apologetics Through Polemics." Journal of Religion in Africa 33 (3):263-278.

Neopaganism

 * DiZerega, Gus. 2001. Pagans and Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience. Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota.

title: List of apologetic works