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Abu Dhabi Aviation

Abu Dhabi Aviation Co. (شركة طيران أبوظبي) is an airline based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It serves oil-fields and economic facilities in the United Arab Emirates and other Arab states. Its main base is Zayed International Airport. Abu Dhabi Aviation is the largest commercial helicopter operator in the Middle East, operating and owning 58 aircraft in total comprising 51 helicopters. (16 AgustaWestland AW139s, 22 Bell 412s, 12 Bell 212s, 1 EC-135), and 7 fixed-wing aircraft (DHC-8). The company employs over 1000 personnel, including 130 pilots and 250 engineers. The bulk of the company's business activity is in support of Abu Dhabi offshore oil and engineering and construction companies. Other business activities include medical evacuation, aerial construction, survey, photography, charter, and providing VVIP passenger transportation services. All aerial spraying of crops in the UAE and the majority of aerial spraying in Oman is carried out by ADA.

Abu Dhabi Aviation Group companies are: Maximus Air, ADA Millennium, ADAIRE, Abu Dhabi Aviation Training Center, Royal Jet, Agusta Westland Aviation Services LLC, ADA Real Estate Management and General Maintenance LLC.

Abu Dhabi Aviation Training Center (ADATC) is a pilot training service provider for commercial and military pilots utilizing CAE full flight level "D" simulators; AW139, Bell 412, EMB 145 and King Air 350.

History
The airline was established in 1975 and started operations in March 1976. It began with helicopter operations and added fixed-wing aircraft in 1991. A third-party maintenance facility was opened in 1994. It is owned by Abu Dhabi nationals (70%) and the Abu Dhabi government (30%) and has 960 employees (at March 2013).

By 1983, the fleet size had increased to a total of 34 aircraft, flying over 38,800 hours annually, an average of over 100 hours per day. In 1985, Abu Dhabi Aviation was authorised to operate fixed-wing aircraft and to conduct third-party aircraft maintenance. In 1991, Abu Dhabi Aviation was awarded its first fixed-wing aircraft contract. This contract, with the largest oil company in the UAE, is now operated with three new DHC-8 aircraft.

Abu Dhabi Aviation has completed contracts throughout the Middle East and beyond, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Republic of Yemen, Spain, Pakistan, Eritrea, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Australia, India, Afghanistan and Indonesia. Seismic surveys in search of oil and other natural resources have been completed using specialist underslung load techniques using a 100 ft "long line", thus enabling the helicopter to remain clear of obstructions. The same technique has been used to conduct other work, such as erecting pylons, as part of government schemes to bring electricity to remote areas, and construction of microwave towers.

ADA has operated one Bell 212 helicopter in support of long-term contracts for a major oil company in the Republic of Yemen. The company has a firefighting contract in Spain.

ADA is approaching 1,000,000 flight hours in helicopters and over 55,000 hours in fixed-wing aircraft. Bell Helicopter awarded Abu Dhabi Aviation with a plaque to commemorate the completion of 700,000 helicopter hours. The high intensity of offshore oil support work has required an annual average of approximately 200,000 landings and take-offs. In an average month, 15,000 passengers and 162,000 kg of freight are transferred to and from offshore areas. In addition, over 11,000 passengers are moved between offshore locations.

Fleet
The Abu Dhabi Aviation fleet includes the following aircraft:
 * 2 Bombardier Dash 8 Q200
 * 3 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300
 * 2 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
 * 17 AgustaWestland AW139
 * 12 Bell 212
 * 22 Bell 412 EP & EPi
 * 1 Eurocopter EC 135
 * 2 AgustaWestland AW169

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Madurai Tamil

Madurai Tamil (மதுரை தமிழ்), known as Madurai Bashai, is the dialect of Tamil spoken in the region of Madurai and over a vast geographical area of South Tamil Nadu, the area once ruled by the Pandiya kings. It differs substantially from Nellai Tamil, a region which was also part of the Pandiya domain.

Region of Madurai Tamil
The common dialect has made the term Madurai refer to a much larger area than it actually is. It is not uncommon for people from any of the above cities to introduce themselves as people of Madurai.
 * Madurai
 * Theni
 * Virudunagar
 * Dindigul
 * Ramanathapuram
 * Sivagangai

Words of Madurai Tamil

 * (மறுத) = Madurai
 * (வராய்ங்க) = They're coming
 * (போராய்ங்க) = They're going
 * (அங்கிட்டு) = There
 * (இங்கிட்டு) = Here
 * (எம்புட்டு) = How much?
 * (ராவுறான்) = He is boring
 * (வீயாக்கானமா பேசு) = Speak properly
 * (குண்டக்க மண்டக்க) = Irrelevant
 * (முண்டகலப்ப) = Plough
 * (பட்றைய போடு) = Sit and relax
 * (கொக்க மக்க) = Collective term for cousin
 * (கோலாரா போயிட்டு வா) = Take care
 * (பொசகட்ட பய) = Useless fellow
 * (சீமை எண்ணை = சீம்மண்ணை) = Kerosene
 * (இம்புட்டுகூண்டு) = Very little
 * (ரூட்ட குடுக்காத) = Don't tell lies
 * (வைய்யபோறாய்ங்க) = They are going to scold
 * (பேலாத) = Don't fear
 * = Only for that
 * (இதுகாண்டிதான்) = Only for this
 * (குடிக்காரமட்டை) = Drunkard
 * (ஜாரி) = Beautiful woman
 * (ஆட்டைய போடு) = Steal, thieve
 * (அண்ணே) = Elder Brother
 * (எக்கோய்) = Elder Sister
 * (போடா ங்கொய்யால) = Get out of my way
 * (டுபுக்கு) = Fool (which is derived from kanniyakumari)
 * (மண்டகனம்) = Headweight
 * (சோலிய பாரு) = Mind your own business
 * (லந்து) = Kidding
 * (காப்ரா) = Fashionable
 * (அலப்பறை) = Fashionable
 * (அலும்பு) = Showy, showing pride
 * (ஏழரைய கூ்ட்டாத) = Don't create a scene
 * (ஆட்டும்) = Okay
 * (சூதானமா இரு) = Be careful
 * (கொங்கா பய) = Ignorant (derogatory for Kongu)
 * (காவாளி) = Waste fellow
 * (களவாணி) = Thief
 * (வெள்ளனே) = Early morning
 * (பைய) = Slow
 * (ஒசக்க) = Up
 * = Loft
 * (ஏணி மரம்) = Ladder

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Eileen Pollock

Eileen Pollock (18 May 1947 – 19 December 2020) was a Northern Irish actress whose work included political theatre, pantomime, and the role of Lilo Lil in television series Bread.

Early life
Pollock was born in Belfast, and studied languages at Queen's University Belfast. Before her acting career she was a technical translator, working in London. Her first theatrical work was as ASM at the Bush Theatre, London.

Career
She is probably best known for playing the part of 'Lilo' Lill in Carla Lane's television comedy Bread in 1986-1991, and in 2004 she said: "I like it when someone says in a supermarket 'you know who you remind me of, don't take offence, that tart from Bread'."

She was involved in the political theatre company Belt and Braces, but felt it provided too few roles for women so founded Bloomers and later Camouflage, writing several plays for the latter. She also worked with Irish companies Field Day, Charabanc and DubbelJoint, among many other touring and repertory companies.

She has also appeared in such productions as Easter 2016 in the Play for Tomorrow series (1982), After You've Gone (1984), Far and Away (1992), and Wild About Harry, in 2000. She appeared in the film version of Frank McCourt's book, Angela's Ashes, and played "Molly", the landlady in Far and Away (1992) with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, director Ron Howard. In 2010 she played Miss Kessler in Reg Traviss's Psychosis, and in 2016 she played the mother of a child with Down's syndrome in Duncan Paveling's My Feral Heart.

Stage productions in which she has had roles include The Government Inspector, Women on the verge of HRT by Marie Jones, Three Sisters (translation by Brian Friel) as well as Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa. In 2016 at The Print Room she played Bridget in Peter Gill's As Good a Time As Any, an all-women play.

Pollock performed a one-woman show Now I'm Sixty at Liverpool Academy Of Art Actors Studio in 2007, and in 2010 directed and "took a scene stealing guest credit" in The Irish Wake of Paddy McGrath at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London.

In 2004 she played the wicked witch in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk in Middlesbrough. This was her fifth pantomime, fulfilling a childhood ambition to appear in panto. She said "The wicked witch is wonderful because I can't stand children and making them want to cry and scream is a wonderful battle of wits."

In 2009, she appeared on The Justin Lee Collins Show.

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Eugen Kumičić

Eugen Kumičić (11 January 1850 – 13 May 1904) was a Croatian writer and politician. Kumičić is one of the most prolific Croatian novelists of the realism era and is considered a pioneer of naturalism in Croatian literature.

Biography
Kumičić was born in Brseč, Mošćenička Draga (now in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County), a small town in Istria, then part of the Austrian Empire.

After majoring philosophy at the University of Vienna, he returned to Croatia and worked as a teacher in high schools in Split and Zadar. From 1875 to 1878 he spent two years in Paris and six months in Venice, preparing for his French and Italian teaching examinations. While in France, he came into contact with naturalist writing, primarily through the works of Émile Zola.

Upon returning to Croatia, he spent the period from 1879 to 1883 teaching French and Italian in a Zagreb high school. During that time, he became actively involved with the Croatian literary scene, as well as political activism. An ardent supporter of Ante Starčević's political program and one of his closest associates, he quit the civil service in 1883 in order to pursue a political and literary career. With Matko Laginja and Erazmo Barčić he launched the Primorac magazine in Kraljevica. He also worked as the editor of the Croatian Party of Rights' magazines Hrvatska vila (1882–1883) and Hrvatska (1887–1888), and published essays, opinion pieces and short stories in them. In 1884 he was elected to Croatian Parliament and he spent most of his political career opposing the Hungarian nationalists.

Literary work
He wrote many novels and short stories, mostly dealing with working-class people in his native Istria. He also tried to introduce elements of naturalism to Croatian literature in his novels dealing with urban life and Croatian history, but his efforts were often hampered by national romantic tendencies. His works were therefore primarily influenced by realist and romanticist writers of the era such as August Šenoa, Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue. Nevertheless, as he published an influential and controversial Zolaesque literary essay about the poetics of writing (''O romanu, (Eng. On Novel)'') in 1883, he was seen by his contemporaries as the pioneer of naturalist writing in Croatian literature. Kumičić's plays were not as successful as his prose, and are described as being of modest artistic value.

His literary work is usually divided into three thematic periods: the first period of his writing is marked by novels and short stories that involve romanticized descriptions of hard working Istrians' life - primarily fishermen, farmers and seamen; the bulk of his next literary phase typically deals with urban settings (the so-called city novels), where his naturalist tendencies are most prominent and which mostly involve themes of financial and moral chaos that Croatian bourgeoisie was depicted as caught up in. His last works were historical novels loosely based on important figures of Croatian history.

Works

Novels
 * Olga i Lina (1881)
 * Primorci (1882)
 * Začuđeni svatovi (1883)
 * Gospođa Sabina (1883)
 * Sirota (1885)
 * Teodora (1889)
 * Urota Zrinsko-Frankopanska (1893)
 * Kraljica Lepa ili propast kraljeva hrvatske krvi (1902)

Short stories

 * Slučaj (1879)
 * Jelkin bosiljak (1881)
 * Neobični ljudi (1882)
 * Ubilo ga vino (1884)
 * Preko mora (1889)
 * Saveznice (1889)
 * Otrovana srca (1890)
 * Broj 84 i 85 (1890)
 * Crn Božić (1890)
 * Tri mučenice (1890)
 * Mladost-ludost (1891)
 * Pobijeljeni grobovi (1896)

Plays
 * Sestre (1890)
 * Obiteljska tajna (1890)
 * Poslovi (1898)
 * Petar Zrinski (1900)

Essays and other non-fiction
 * O romanu (1883)
 * Ivan Turgenjev (1883)
 * Pod puškom (1886)
 * Zablude naše kritike (1890)
 * Petar Zrinski, Fran Krsto Frankopan i njihovi klevetnici (1899)

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Babuji

Babuji, a variant of Babu, is an Indian honorific. It may refer to:

 * Sudhir Phadke (1919–2002), Indian singer-composer
 * Jagjivan Ram (1908–1986), former Deputy Prime Minister of India
 * Ram Chandra (Babuji) (1899–1983), Indian spiritual leader
 * Ramsevak Singh (Babuji) (born 1953), Indian politician
 * "Babuji", a song from the 2007 film Salaam-e-Ishq
 * Babuji, a fictional character portrayed by Amrish Puri in the 1995 Indian film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

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AvonLink

The AvonLink is a rural passenger train service in Western Australia operated by Transwa between Midland and Northam.

History
The consideration of revitalising passenger services in 1993 saw the Avonlink Ministerial Committee formed by Minister for Transport Eric Charlton.

The first AvonLink service departed Northam for East Perth on 24 September 1995, and was significant, as it was the first new country passenger rail service in Western Australia for 47 years. From July 2001, the Perth terminus moved from East Perth to Midland where a connection is made with Transperth Midland line services.

In June 2004, the AvonLink was extended to Merredin on three days a week, operating as the MerredinLink. In September 2006, Transwa trialed a day trip Sunday service to Northam. The six-week trial proved popular with each service being fully booked out weeks in advance. However, due to overall lack of passengers at other times the service was discontinued.

In August 2013, Transwa announced the AvonLink would cease on 30 December 2013 due to poor patronage and be replaced by a road coach. However, this announcement generated significant criticism. On 19 November 2013, two Wheatbelt region MLAs, Mia Davies and Shane Love, presented petitions to the WA State Parliament calling for the retention of the AvonLink. The petitions bore a total of more than 3,000 signatures of Avon Valley residents.

On 3 December 2013, Minister for Transport Troy Buswell announced the AvonLink service would be retained, initially for a period of six months, while Transwa and the Wheatbelt Development Commission worked through the funding solution required to keep the service running beyond that initial period.

In May 2014, it was announced that an enhanced service would continue until at least June 2017.

In December 2014, an enhanced service was introduced with services increased from one to three trains on certain days. From July 2017, the AvonLink was reduced back to one service in each direction on weekdays only.

Services
As at June 2022, one Avonlink service operates on weekdays in each direction between Midland and Northam stopping at Toodyay.

Rolling stock
The service commenced with WCA/WCE railcars built in 1971 to operate The Prospector.

In December 2000 Westrail awarded a contract to United Goninan, Broadmeadow for 9 WDA/WDB/WDC railcars to replace the 1971 built stock. 3 WDA/WDB and 1 WDC were for The Prospector and 2 WEA/WEB were for the AvonLink and MerredinLink services. The new train entered service on 1 August 2005.

Ridership
The AvonLink had 7,057 passengers in the year leading up to June 2022.

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Joseph Méry

Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 – 17 June 1866) was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.

Career
An ardent romanticist, he collaborated with Auguste Barthélemy in many of his satires and wrote a great number of stories, now forgotten. Nowadays he is perhaps best remembered as the co-librettist of the original version in French of Verdi's Don Carlos, which premiered in Paris in March 1867. Also, he was the author of the play La Bataille de Toulouse which Verdi had earlier adapted for his opera La battaglia di Legnano in January 1849.

He was noted in his time for his wit and ability to improvise. He produced several pieces at the Paris theatres, and also collaborated with Gérard de Nerval in adaptations from Shakespeare and in other plays. A friend of Offenbach, he wrote libretti for three of the composer's works.

His novella Histoire de ce qui n'est pas arrivé (1854) is a significant exercise in alternate history, in which Méry imagined that Napoleon's life took a different turn in Egypt in 1799. It was translated by Brian Stableford in 2012 and is available in a collection of Méry stories entitled The Tower of Destiny.

Alexandre Dumas, père, in 1864, invited all the poets of France to display their skill by composing to sets of Bouts-Rimés selected for the purpose by Joseph Méry. Later in life Méry received a pension from Napoleon III.

Novels, short stories and prose

 * Le Quartier général des jésuites, ou la Ligue à Marseille et à Aix (1829)
 * Le Bonnet vert (1830)
 * L'Assassinat, scènes méridionales de 1815 (1832)
 * Scènes de la vie italienne (2 volumes, 1837)
 * Les Nuits de Londres (2 volumes, 1840)
 * Un amour dans l'avenir (2 volumes, 1841) Text online 1 2
 * Le Siège de Marseille par le connétable de Bourbon, chronique du XVIe (1841)
 * Anglais et Chinois (1843) Text online
 * La Comtesse Hortensia (1844)
 * Héva (1844) Text online
 * La Floride (1844) Text online
 * L'Éden, mystère en 2 parties (1844)
 * La Guerre du Nizam (1847)
 * Un mariage de Paris (2 volumes, 1849)
 * André Chénier (3 volumes, 1850)
 * La Juive au Vatican, ou Amor e Roma (2 volumes, 1851) Text online
 * Muses et fées. Histoire des femmes mythologiques, with Louis-Françoi Rabans (1851)
 * Salons et souterrains de Paris (3 volumes, 1851)
 * Trafalgar (4 volumes, 1852–1853)
 * La Ferme de l'Orange (1853) Text online
 * Le Dernier Fantôme (1853)
 * Nouvelles nouvelles (1853) Text online
 * Les Nuits anglaises, contes nocturnes (1853)
 * Les Nuits italiennes, contes nocturnes (1853) Text online
 * Les Nuits d'Orient, contes nocturnes (1854) Text online
 * Les Nuits espagnoles (1854)
 * Saint-Pierre de Rome (2 volumes, 1854) Text online 1 2
 * Un amour dans le crime (2 volumes, 1854)
 * Une histoire de famille (2 volumes, 1854)
 * Le Paradis terrestre (2 volumes, 1855)
 * Trois bluettes : Le Voile. La Pèlerine. Le Manchon (1855)
 * Les Nuits parisiennes (1855)
 * Histoire d'une colline (1855)
 * Le Bonheur d'un millionnaire (1855)
 * Le Château d'Udolphe (1855)
 * Les Damnés de Java (3 volumes, 1855)
 * Les Matinées du Louvre : paradoxes et rêveries, entretiens de salons (1855)
 * Un carnaval de Paris (1856)
 * Les Amants du Vésuve (1856)
 * La Circé de Paris (2 volumes, 1856)
 * Les Deux Amazones (1857)
 * Ems et les bords du Rhin (1858)
 * Monsieur Auguste (1859)
 * Le Château vert (1859)
 * Napoléon en Italie (1859)
 * Le Château des trois tours (1860)
 * Marseille et les Marseillais (1860) Text online
 * Contes et nouvelles (1860) Text online
 * Ursule (1860)
 * Un crime inconnu (1861)
 * Une nuit du midi (1862)
 * La Comédie des animaux, histoire naturelle en action (1862)
 * Les Amours des bords du Rhin (1864)
 * Les Uns et les Autres (1864)
 * La Vie fantastique (1864)
 * La Prima Dona. Précédé du Bonheur des grandes artistes (1866)
 * La Chasse au chastre (1860)
 * Les Journées de Titus (1866) Text online
 * La Vénus d'Arles (1866)
 * Les Fleurs mystérieuses (1867)
 * Le Château de la favorite (1874)
 * Marthe la blanchisseuse. La Vénus d'Arles (1874) Text online
 * La Cour d'amour (1875) Text online
 * La Comtesse Adrienne (1876)

Poetry

 * 1836: Une revanche de Waterloo, ou Une partie d'échecs, poème héroï-comique
 * 1847: L'Arbitre des jeux, accompagné de petits poèmes historiques, Paris, Gabriel de Gonet
 * 1853: Mélodies poétiques
 * 1858: Les Vierges de Lesbos, poème antique
 * 1864: Poésies intimes, mélodies

Theatre

 * 1836: La Bataille de Toulouse, ou un Amour espagnol, three-act drama, in prose, Paris, Théâtre Beaumarchais, 11 April
 * 1846: ''L'Univers et la Maison, comedy in 5 acts and in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 3 November
 * 1847: Le Quinze Janvier, ou Comédiens et parrains, comedy in one act and in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 15 January
 * 1847: Le Paquebot, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 4 April
 * 1848: Le Vrai Club des femmes, comedy in 2 acts, in verse, Paris, Comédie-Française, 19 August
 * 1850: Une veuve inconsolable, ou Planète et satellites, comédie en 4 actes et en prose, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 5 April
 * 1851: Raphaël, historical comedy in 3 acts, in verse
 * 1852: Le Sage et le Fou, three-act comedy, in verse, with Bernard Lopez, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 6 August
 * 1853: Gusman le Brave, drama in 5 acts and in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 19 September
 * 1854: Aimons notre prochain, one-act parabole, in prose, Paris, Salle Herz, 2 May
 * 1855: L'Essai du mariage, one-act comedy, in prose, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 6 March
 * 1855: Frère et Sœur, five-act drama, with Bernard Lopez, Paris, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 14 June
 * 1858: Les Deux Frontins, one-act comedy, in verse, with Paul Siraudin, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 10 June
 * 1864: La Fiancée aux millions, three-act comedy, in verse, with Bernard Lopez, Paris,, February
 * 1861: Théâtre de salon : Après deux ans. La Coquette. Aimons notre prochain. Le Château en Espagne. Être présenté. La Grotte d'azur. Une veuve inconsolable Text online
 * 1865: Nouveau théâtre de salon : La Comédie chez soi. Une éducation. Comédiens et diplomates. M. Rousseau. Gloire et amour. Le Récit de Théramène. La Soubrette de Clairon. Le Prix de famille

Librettos

 * 1854: Ernest Reyer: Maître Wolfram, one-act opéra comique
 * 1855: Jacques Offenbach: Le décaméron, ou La grotte d'azur; Entrez, messieurs, mesdames; Trafalgar – Sur un volcan (one-act comic operas)
 * 1859: Félicien David: Herculanum, four-act opera
 * 1860: Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide, four-act opera
 * 1862: Ernest Reyer: Érostrate, two-act opera, with Émilien Pacini
 * 1865: G. Duprez: Jeanne d'Arc, five-act opera, with prologue, with Édouard Duprez
 * 1867: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos, five-act opera, with Camille Du Locle

Publications in collaboration with Auguste Barthélemy

 * 1825: Sidiennes, épîtres-satires sur le dix-neuvième siècle
 * 1826: Biographie des quarante de l'Académie française
 * 1826: Les Jésuites, épître à M. le président Séguier
 * 1826: La Villéliade ou la prise du château Rivoli. Poème héroï-comique en cinq chants Text online
 * 1827: Une soirée chez M. de Peyronnet ou le seize avril. Scène dramatique
 * 1827: La Censure, scène historique
 * 1827: Rome à Paris, poème en 4 chants
 * 1827: Le Congrès des ministres, ou la Revue de la garde nationale : scènes historiques Text online
 * 1827: Peyronnéide, épître à M. de Peyronnet
 * 1827: La Corbiéréide, poème en 4 chants Text online
 * 1827: La Bacriade, ou la Guerre d'Alger, poème héroï-comique en 5 chants
 * 1828: Napoléon en Égypte, poème en 8 chants
 * 1829: Le Fils de l'homme, ou Souvenirs de Vienne
 * 1829: Waterloo. Au général de Bourmont
 * 1830: L'Insurrection, poème dédié aux parisiens
 * 1831: Œuvres de Barthélemy et Méry
 * 1834: Les Aygalades et Fontainieu

Publications in collaboration with Gérard de Nerval

 * 1850: Le Chariot d'enfant drama in verse, in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, traduction du drame indien du Roi Soudraka Text online
 * 1852: L'Imagier de Harlem, ou la Découverte de l'imprimerie, drame-légende à grand spectacle, in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, in prose and in verse, with Gérard de Nerval and Bernard Lopez, ballets by Adrien Text online

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Thank you for your excellent and diligent work in the Mini Mammoths page. Ordinary Person 04:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, but I can't keep reverting the vandalism all night as I have to go to bed at some point. --TheFarix (Talk) 04:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * What are the de facto rules with regard to reversion? Can I really anticipate being punished for reverting to correct vandalism more than three times in a 24 hour period? Ordinary Person 04:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Reverting vandalism is the only thing that is an exception to the WP:3RR. Just be sure that what you are reverting is vandalism. BTW, a semi-protection request has already been filed for this page. --TheFarix (Talk) 04:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

RE:THanks
No problem. Its a shame to see such utter crap in the encyclopedia. Keep going like you are and I thin you will make a fantastic editor. Viridae Talk 04:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Unsigned template
I think you might find this useful: unsigned. Viridae Talk 10:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, probably. :-) Does it work pretty automatically? Got it sorted. Thanks. Ordinary Person 10:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

No probs. Viridae Talk 10:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
And justly so, your adminship. Ordinary Person 05:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, but I am not sure wether Quarl will still submit it considering I have only been here for three months. I am leaving it up to him to decide. That said, I am flattered that people think I am a worth contributor. Crossposted from my talk page Viridae Talk 05:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Article requests
I just piddle here and there. I can't keep up with it. But you're very industrious. :) Maurreen 08:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Aged requests
I first would like to compliment you on some of the work you have been doing on the WP:AR1 page. I do have some interest in that page, I created it and do the updating. To answer your question, I would not consider the pages linked from a person's user page to be their project. In most cases those user pages are archives of projects long abandoned, other times they themselves might have made the requests. In my view, if a request has sat unfilled for over a year that is proof that no one is doing much work in that area. - SimonP 06:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Article requests
Hi, just letting you know, if you had not noticed, I've been putting stubs and categories on all the blue links. It's a good idea to at least put a stub tag because if the deleters see it, and it looks too short, they will give it a Speedy Delete --meatclerk 07:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Yes, it's a good thing. :) You are most welcome and deserving. WP even has a couple pages about barnstars and Barnstars. Maurreen 08:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Western New Guinea
You wrote that: "The article makes some fairly serious claims about the Indonesian armed forces that really should be backed up by references or removed. To say that there are claims they are still committing genocide implies that there was a time when they definitely were committing genocide. I think I'll put up some "citation needed" tags for a while and if nothing comes through, I'll "be bold" in my editing of this piece. Ordinary Person 05:03, 17 August 2006 (UTC)"

Although I scrupulously avoid any of the political aspects related to this article, and none of the text in question originated with me, I think as someone new to the issues involved, you might consider a bit more cautious approach to be well-advised. To wit: 1. The article did not say that genocide was or is being carried out, but rather that asylum seekers made that claim. Unless the newspapers in Australia are complicit in an anti-Indonesia conspiracy, this is a true statement. 2. There is a link in the External Links section to a paper by Yale University that concluded there is "evidence [of] a strong indication that the Indonesian Government has committed genocide against West Papuans".

I am decidedly agnostic on this issue (genocide), but at the very least your assertion that a reference is absent is not accurate. (I would agree with you and Konstable, however, that the article in general needs a lot more in the way of references inserted into the body of the text. (Btw, the link is apparently no longer correct; it has been removed from the Yale website and thus should be changed to http://www.westpapua.net/docs/papers/paper12/yale-wphr.pdf#search=%22west%20papua%20application%20of%20law%20of%20genocide%22.) The other material suggesting that the military has been involved in abuses is a matter of record; the Indonesian government itself acknowledges that these have occurred in the province.

There are strong feelings (on both sides) about the issues here, and presumably some people who know what they are talking about have contributed to the article. I would agree that the pro-Indonesian side is not fully articulated, but this is an open-source project so it only awaits someone who wishes to do that. Bottom line is please read the article carefully next time before asserting that the characterizations therein are insufficient. Cheers. Arjuna 09:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

 * OP, thanks for your helpful comments. I understand your point and I agree. Hopefully removing the word "still" solves the problem. Aloha. Arjuna 01:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Coal energy
Although you've provided references, I think the 290 ZJ estimate for the energy of coal reserves is an order of magnitude too low.

Any published estimate of current coal reserves is roughly 10^15 kg, with an energy density of 24 MJ/kg. These are indeed the figures published in the current WP article. This gives 24 ZJ in total.

I refer you to this table by the National Academy of Engineering, which estimates the coal reserves at 30 ZJ. This seems to gel more with the energy density of coal and the mass of current reserves. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309087325&page=72

I don't have a copy of Tester's book so I can't check his working. The URL you have given to Wes Hermann's paper just goes to the front page of the Exergy.com site. I can only think that either a mistake has been made somewhere, or the energy value given refers to ultimate recoverable resources, not reserves.Ordinary Person 00:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

 * You are right the 290 ZJ is the world's resources as estimated by Tester on page 303 of his book. It is MIT's book on Energy and a pretty serious study. Resources, rather than reserves, is in line with the title of the article. The second reference is Wes Herman from Stanford. I really like his work and like Tester he is also a nice person. On his site http://www.exergy.org/  click on Global Exergy Resources and then click on the graph where it says coal and it will give you a detailed explanation of how he reached his number. So with two independent high quality sources I think the 290 ZJ number is pretty good. In fact all the numbers in the article are pretty good. I have one request; please delete the entry you made on my talk page. I am no longer a Wikipedia editor. I do hope that others like you will carry on the flame; I think Wikipedia is a great project.  I will check your talk page in a few days to see if you have other questions. Good Luck - Frank

 * Thank you for your response, Frank. I am thinking of including an estimate of total resources (in kg) in the article. Ordinary Person 06:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Takashi Yamamoto
I got your message; I tagged the article as unreferenced because none of the statements are cited and have reference to back them up. The databaseolympics.com site functions as an external link since it is not used as a reference for any of the statements within the article. --Ozgod 14:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I tagged the article as unreferenced because none of the statements are cited and have reference to back them up. I don't understand. ALL of the statements in the article come from information provided by the databaseolympics.com page. Is it just that I have made a formatting error or something? Ordinary Person 23:30, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion comments: NOPEC
I'm disappointed with your comments on the deletion discussion page for NOPEC.

''There is no organization known as NOPEC; it's apparently just some sort of clever, little-used jargon term that amazingly rhymes with "OPEC" and means "everybody else." Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day's corollary is that "Wikipedia is not for something our consultants made up one day."''

Yes, NOPEC is an industry jargon term denoting the non-OPEC oil producing countries. I don't know who made it up [for all I know, it was a consultant], but it is not new and is quite well-established. Here are some examples.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/mckillop021807.html

"CAN OPEC AND NOPEC STOP THE OIL PRICE SLIDE ?"

It is clear from the context of the article that NOPEC means the non-OPEC oil exporting countries.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sati07032401.htm

"Continued and sustained oil demand growth inside OPEC and NOPEC exporter countries, specially Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela, Mexico, Algeria combined with physical depletion and erosion of oil production capacities in the majority of these countries, ensures a tight supply context. "

http://www.clingendael.nl/publications/2004/20041100_ciep_vanderlinden.pdf

"It is generally assumed that world energy demand will grow, that import dependence grows, that there will be a growing competition among major net-importing coutnries and that the number of net-exporting countries will decline due to a relative shift in balance between OPEC-NOPEC producers."

http://www.sav.sk/journals/ekoncas/ekon203.htm

"Even though the high oil prices after two oil shocks raised oil revenues in OPEC member countries, they also gave rise to start the production in non-OPEC (NOPEC) countries."

Ordinary Person 09:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

 * While my comments may have been somewhat flippant (judging from the timestamp, it was late and I was tired), I still stand by my comments' substance, if not their tone. The term is a neologism of vague definition, and the sources you have left on my Talk page merely demonstrate evidence of the term's use, not that the term itself has received the kind of substantial coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that would allow it to pass muster under WP:NOTE.  The external links in the article aren't any better.

 * I was unaware that the article had been resurrected. I will not personally nominate it for deletion, in order to avoid the appearance of dickishness, but if the article does not improve substantially in buttressing its subject's claim to notability and someone else sends it back to AfD, I would call for its deletion again.   --Dynaflow   babble  02:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Energy policy in Australia
Talk items go at the bottom of the page not top - and if you have a problem with the article - your edits and or contributions would be appreciated - please note that if you use a living persons name like that in wikipedia - it might be moved if in fact you are making claims against that person without reasonable effort to  substantiate your accusations - open ended comments like that are neither of benefit to you or the encyclopedia - dont be suprised if someone reverts your talk page item. The best way to go would be to edit and contribute to make the article more even handed if that is your point SatuSuro 02:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - no big deal - just a warning if someone does take issue with your comment - you know whats happening - have a good weekend anyways SatuSuro 03:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Typo
Why you were looking through my page for typos, I will not know, but thanks for finding it, I guess. Mr. Vitale (talk) 18:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of A. Rafiq
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 * As of now, the article fails WP:RS. I have done many google searches and can only find trivial mentions of this singer. The name seems to be an extremely common name, especially among doctors, which makes searching for it tougher.

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Re:White Latin Americans
Thanks. I'm trying.

I saw your reply to my last comment there and began to write a reply right away, but I decided I'll wait until I review some info on the subject first.

If you change your mind, know that you'll be welcome to participate.

Another user began the practical joke on his user pages. After I fell victim to it, twice, and vowed revenge, he put the banner on my talk page himself. I decided (especially after his was taken down) that my revenge would consist of keeping it there until he himself would fall its victim: poetic justice I thought. It worked. But your case is collateral damage. My apologies! SamEV (talk) 19:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

WP:BLP
When creating articles about living people it is a very good idea to add the WP Bio project and have living=yes on the talk page SatuSuro 22:35, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
—/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 13:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Appreciate the effort for tagging Indonesian tennis players - thanks for that SatuSuro 13:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Please do not worry about the low Indonesia assessment - and request for more WP:RS - it is a standard response I give to most Indonesian articles - SatuSuro 11:55, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Inline refs for database stuff
Can you give an example? I tried to look up Rafael Nadal in the ITF database and the link I got was perfectly specific for inline use. (like this) - Mgm|(talk) 09:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes, I've been giving links like that, to individual player pages, in the External links.
 * However, individual pieces of information on playing activity are obtained clicking further. e.g., if I want Nadal's full playing activity, I'll click on Activity, then change the date range to a range that contains his whole career and then clicking Apply Filter: the information is displayed on the screen but the URL in the address field is "http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/activity.asp?player=100007935". If I were to give that as an inline ref, someone clicking on it would only see the default range (the last year), and they'd need to enter the appropriate date range.
 * I don't think this situation lends itself to inline refs, and it is the lack of inline refs that led Oniongas to put the tag on.
 * I've contacted him and will wait to hear what he says, but I really think I am justified in taking it off: I mean the article is a set of facts pulled from the databases: if I was going to put inline refs on things, I'd have to put a ref to the WTA player page after every statement in the article. The lack of inline refs can't be helped.

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WTA Tour
Hi OrdinaryPerson, thank you for the message on my talk page about the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit. Unfortunately, I know very little about the history of either the circuit or the WTA tour, and certainly almost nothing about that period (way before my time!). I plead ignorance, I haven't the first clue why the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit either might or might not be considered WTA Tour 1971. Sorry!  Mae din \talk 07:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

RfC commencing regarding Tennis expert
Hi Ordinary Person; thought I'd let you know that a user conduct RfC is about to commence regarding User:Tennis expert, particularly regarding the issue at Serena Williams which you had attempted to help resolve back around April 17. I hope you can take a look into this and possibly provide a view on the issue. See Requests for comment/Tennis expert —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 22:27, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Regarding your thoughts about tennis article guidelines, I wholeheartedly agree, and have started a discussion at WT:TENNIS regarding that matter. You're absolutely right, the tennis article authors should be focusing on content. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 12:51, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Tennis bio "template"
Hi Ordinary Person, good stuff on getting this up and running. I've added my 2 cents/tuppence. Look forward to it progressing, and maybe even comparing it to how we're going with the Serena article. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:47, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your help, TRM. Obviously there is no mad rush to get these things finalised and it would be good to hear from as many Tennis contributors as possible. The real pain will start once we try to get articles up to code: "Articles don't have feelings" but I suspect they'll wail like banshees once we start snipping off the In popular culture and Miscellaneous sections.Ordinary Person (talk) 06:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Too true. But if it makes for better and more engaging, professionally presented articles then what has to be done, has to be done.  The Rambling Man (talk) 06:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Finders Keepers
Did you get those excerpts from Powell yet? thanks. --Bureaucracy (talk) 02:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

 * not yet.Ordinary Person (talk) 22:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Still waiting for the excerpts?--Bureaucracy (talk) 22:16, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes.Ordinary Person (talk) 03:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for finding, scanning, and posting those.   Will Beback    talk    23:37, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

2009 Sony Ericsson Open
I remember interacting with you on general improvement of Tennis-related articles. I've recently worked on this article and have requested PR which can be found here. I'd appreciate you comments on the PR. Leave  Sleaves  19:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

 * No worries, I'll take a look.Ordinary Person (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Damir Dokić
FYI I have recreated Damir Dokić as you mooted here. Mark Hurd (talk) 04:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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Cricket World Cup Table
Hi, you seem to be adding red highlight to the World Cup Point table. This is not needed as the table is here to tell who has qualified. Everyone else has not qualified. If you have a different view, please discuss first in compliance with WP:BRD. Thanks. ashwinikalantri talk 16:28, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course, it is needed, and it is widely done so in sports articles for current events.--Anaxagoras13 (talk) 16:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Not done in previous articles also (2007_Cricket_World_Cup). Please discuss before making such bold changes. Thanks. ashwinikalantri talk 18:23, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * "This is not needed as the table is here to tell who has qualified. Everyone else has not qualified". Um, Ashwini, do you have a reference for this claim? The table exists to provide several different kinds of information. This is the standard for group table for sports articles in Wikipedia. If you want to change to a non-standard format, then please give a clear reason why you think the table is superior without this extra information, showing the teams that have been eliminated. Ordinary Person (talk) 09:46, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, please note that the matter _has_ been discussed on the Talk page. Please read the discussion.Ordinary Person (talk) 09:58, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Again, 2007, 2003, 1999! All dont have highlights on the unqualified teams. So, as for as I can see, you are trying to make a change. please discuss it before. The talk page shows a comment, not discussion. I see no reply to my comments there. Please head over to the talk page and stop making reverts (WP:3RR) till there is a agreement. Thanks. ashwinikalantri  talk 19:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It is discussed on the talk page already, and the consensus is clear in favor of using pink, and it is WP convention in every article for an ongoing sporting event!!! Accept the convention and the consensus.--Anaxagoras13 (talk) 21:03, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

9/11 conspiracy theories
Hi. Tthanks for working to improve the site with your edit to 9/11 conspiracy theories. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept unsourced material or original research. The New York Times source you added, for example, does not mention that the cleanup took six months, nor does it make any argument for or against 9/11 conspiracy theories. In fact, that article was written before the cleanup was even finished, as indicated by the following passage at the top of Page 2 of that article: "...construction will have to wait for the removal of tons of debris from the site and surrounding blocks, a process that most estimates suggest will take about a year."

In any event, even when a source does corroborate such a point, it must do so in service to the point for which it is added to the article. In other words, you cannot add such a source in order to argue against the preceding passage, which mentions the accusation that the debris was removed without forensic examination, unless that source makes that argument itself. For an editor to add material for the purpose of making his or her own observation or argument (as with the additional passage you added without a source about the NIST preserving evidence from the site that formed the basis of its findings)is synthesis, which is a form of original research, and is not permitted. (Indeed, the accusation of cover-up points only to the fact that the debris was disposed of without examination, which is not falsified by the time it took to clean remove it from the site.) Let the sources make the arguments; we may only report and summarize them. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 03:08, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I understand what you're saying, and just so you know, I'm not an advocate of 9/11 conspiracy theories (I'm actually a big fan of the work of people like Michael Shermer, James Randi, etc.). When we find such arguments, though, it's important that we look in the skeptical literature for responses to those arguments by the skeptical community, so that we can just relate those. Thanks again. :-) Nightscream (talk) 08:25, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Well, you pretty much summed up the arguments used by the community, which fall into one of those two categories. Most people answer on the other person's talk page (so I guess that's the "standard"), whereas some respond on their own. I understand the desire to keep it all on one page, but like you said, the other person might not know you responded, and I'm sometimes irritated when people do that without notifying me that that's how they do it. There are some people who will respond on the other person's talk page, but will cut and paste the original message from their own talk page onto the interlocutor's page in order to keep a full record of the exchange. Me, I just respond on the other's person's talk page. And then there are some who will respond on their own page, but leave a note on the other person's change notifying them that they did so. Nightscream (talk) 17:08, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Peak oil "supply"
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The link you added to the article doesn't say anything about "record highs", and it uses "supply" in the technical jargon sense rather than the more colloquial sense of that article section. As "peak coal", "peak tar sands", and "peak natural gas" are very different problems, "peak oil" should necessarily be confined to the production (or colloquially "supply") of conventional crude oil. In my opinion, it is premature to discuss any figures have been released for less than a year.

As for the use of the term "supply" in the section you edited, perhaps some clarity is required. "Supply and demand" are easy concepts for readers to follow, so I hesitate to consider removing the term altogether. You thoughts? 67.0.58.250 (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for assuming good faith. Give me a couple of days to collect my thoughts. Feel free to delete the paragraph in the mean time. Ordinary Person (talk) 12:46, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm not trying to be difficult at Redback spider, but to write that the bite killed a person needs more than a newspaper report, in my view. You could use more cautious wording, e.g. "it has been claimed that one person, ..., has been killed ..." The scientific study used as an additional ref in the bit you added to the body of the article doesn't say there were any deaths. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:24, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

 * There are dozens of news articles about the death of Jayden Burleigh from redback spider bite. It was widely reported in many mutually independent news outlets. I can stack the article with about 20 such refs if you think it will help. There's no need for caution: it was fairly major news, because it was so unusual.
 * I didn't add the scientific study ref. That was already there.Ordinary Person (talk) 14:21, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Were there any reports that refer directly to medical/scientific evidence published separately?
 * I know you didn't add the scientific study ref. It's what's called "reference capture" – when you add something and retain an existing ref in a position that appears to support the addition. In this case it doesn't at all. So at the least, the death report needs to be added differently and separately referenced.
 * The problem is that there are criteria to be applied – see Spider bite – and there should be a ref that demonstrates that they were applied in this case. There are many reports of spider bites in popular sources without adequate diagnosis. News reports copy from one another, and aren't always reliable. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:49, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Fine, how about "It was widely reported that..."Ordinary Person (talk) 09:11, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I would be happy with this. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:33, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Bills-> bonds
I changed "treasury bills" or "bills" into bonds, though I'm not sure. I think "bonds" are better, because "bills" can be confused with banknotes. If you are sure that it should be "bills", then feel free to revert it. Crocodealer 09:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Expand or translate title
How strongly-entrenched is the three-letter name "GKO"? Wikipedia conventions would favour expanding the abbreviation and translating the name, if appropriate. Should this article be moved to "Russian State Short-term Bonds" or "Gosudarstvennoe Kratkosrochnoe Obyazatelstvo"?

 * I worked on the trading systems for MICEX at the time. They are definately called GKO and no one ever expanded it out in conversation or the specs for the trading system writing as far as I ever saw. We called them 'Geckos'. 203.158.49.170 mianos

Scale of default
Can we say how many roubles the 1988 default was, and who ended up loosing by the default. Rod57 (talk) 19:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

No Ponzi scheme
Issuing new debt to pay off old debt doesn't make the Russian Finance Ministry resemble a pyramid scheme or Ponzi scheme. That is how most sovereign debt works. I'm deleting the fourth paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.56.161.30 (talk) 22:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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Burgundavia 10:59, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, copyrights are fun. Quick lesson. If it doesn't specifically list a licence that we can use (see Copyrights for this), basically public domain or something you created, then it is copyrighted and cannot be used. Thus your image, while freely available is NON-free in the software liberty sense. The English language is so confusing regarding this. Hopefully this clears things up. Burgundavia 19:10, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Indian navy pictures
Thanks for the heads up. For future reference, they need to be listed on Possible Unfree Images, which has a howto at the top of the page. I will list these images there. Cheers. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 05:58, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Fruit-stub
Hi Idleguy - just thought you'd like to know that fruit-stub's just been created :) Grutness...  wha?  11:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Cool. thx for the info.--Idleguy 12:06, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

India Pakistan 1965 war mess
Idleguy,

Just wanted you to know that I have asked User:Texture, who is an administrator to block User:Napoleon12 and all his sockpuppets eminating from London, Ontario. This guy will just plain not listen to reason. He has reverted edits 15 times in under 24 hours. I have reported him again on WP:AN/3RR and on vandalism in progress but nothing has been done about it so far. Meanwhile this guy is merilly concocting his own version of the India Pakistan War with ever passing hour, complete with copyright infringed images and all. If you have any other ideas as far as how to deal with this vandal, let me know.

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Image tags
Please add the image tag to Image:Chicken biryani.jpg else it may be put up for deletion. = Nichalp ( Talk )= 15:38, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Nilgiri Langur
Primate taxonomy has undergone some significant changes in the last 5-10 years. The taxonomy presented on Wikipedia is according to Groves' contribution to the (soon to be published) revised edition of Mammal Species of the World, but is very similar to what Groves published in 2000 in Primate Taxonomy. - UtherSRG 11:07, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I forgot to mention I have a copy of Groves' MSW contribution in a Word doc if you'd like a copy. - UtherSRG 17:37, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Benazir Bhutto
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Breguet Atlantic
Hi Idleguy. This edit by you seems to contain material copied-and-pasted from this website. Do you have permission to use this material? Cheers --Rlandmann 02:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

India flag
Do you have proof that the Union cabinet plans to ammend the code? Without a credible reference, I'm sorry, but I'll have to revert your edit. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  July 6, 2005 06:04 (UTC)

 * Sure, it's in the newspapers and media. I'm adding it in the article to. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7242_1421463,00180007.htm and http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=73942 are one of the many newspapers with the news.--Idleguy July 6, 2005 06:12 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ...but that's not the correct way to put an inline reference. Don't worry, I'll be correcting it anyways. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  July 6, 2005 06:20 (UTC)

Indian Air Force
Hi Idleguy - just wondering whether you're able to add the Hindi for the Indian Air Force to its article and the List of air forces? At present, the latter article says that it's transliterated Bharatiya Vayu Sena, but it would be nice to include the Hindi script for this, the way that we have for air forces named in other non-Roman scripts. Cheers --Rlandmann 6 July 2005 12:41 (UTC)

 * No problem, but I'll need to reinstall the fonts since my PC crashed and I had to reinstall Windows. Probably it'll be done in a few hours time. Cheers --Idleguy July 6, 2005 13:37 (UTC)

Your help
Hi, Saw your changes from Devnagari to Hindi - that was fine, thnaks. I also require your help -I will soom write my name in Hindi on the user page soon, and I will request you to write the same in other scripts like Tamil/Telgu which you know. Please. Thanks and bye.--Bhadani 11:04, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem with Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil. But Telugu despite being my mother tongue I can't read or write. I had that Telugu in my babel just to say that I'm telugu by origin. Sorry :( Other 3 languages pl. feel free to contact me. Cheers. --Idleguy 11:15, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

About the Pakistani Airforce during the 6-day war
I've read about those claims somewhere, I don't remember where. During the war, only 5 Israeli aircrafts were downed in air battles (rest by AA guns and Ground to Air missiles), and I know 4 were downed above Egypt, and 1 above Syria. About the pilots.. I have no idea.

Filetypes
Hi! Please do not upload .gif filetypes. Please convert them to .png. Use the gif only for animations. I have converted the same to PNG, and deleted the gif. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  12:02, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, thx for the tip. will do that in the future. --Idleguy 12:35, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Monsato and Corporate Terrorism
I just saw your edit to the Monsato article. I'm sympathetic to your point of view, but I think there's a better way to put it. Could you perhaps expand on why they are associated with corporate terrorism. For example, their involvement in spraying crops of farmers in Colombia might qualify as an example of corporate terrorism. Would it be safe to be more specific about the way they are mentioned. For example: Monsanto is often listed as an example of corporate terrorism. This wording might be less likely to be labeled as weasel words. I'd be glad to do some editing myself, but I don't want to step on your toes. mennonot 21:48, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to edit it to make it NPOV. The reason why is that they were directly responsible for many deaths. Many crop failures and related problems of using GM seeds have resulted in the deaths of many farmers in the developing world faced with bankruptcy. this type of terrorism is subtle and under the cloak of a corporation quite well disguised. the term "terrorism" might bring images of someone holding a gun or a bomb strapped to his body, but economic control and the threat of lawsuits against halpless farmers is an equally if not more potent a weapon. The references are from offline sources like "THE HINDU Review on Agriculture, India" and other local newspapers as well some online sites mentioning Monsanto in the same breath as corporate terrorism. I have also included a section on India and the failure of GM cotton seeds to explain the problem.

 * And like I said I wouldn't mind you editing it to have a consistent and clear presentation. Thanks.--Idleguy 06:55, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Kashmir
I have unlocked the page. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  09:24, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Aircraft specifications survey
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Just to say hello
I saw some of your edits, and comments on discussion page/s, and I felt to say you hello and thanks. In case, you feel so, we should do something about the article Indian banking - to begin with, we may commence a discussion on the article's discussion page about the structure of the article. Please suggest. Thanks. --Bhadani 06:18, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * You're welcome, tx. in sofar as the indian banking topic is concerned i have data on the history and will start work on it immediately as i've posted in the article's talk page. cheers. --Idleguy 07:10, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Sri Lankan 1990-Prsent
Thanks for the input but I have somethign to clear up. You stated

"Till the emergence of LTTE, there was little for the army to do with relative calm. But with the tigers gaining popular and military support, the army was faced with a guerilla fighting force that was considered one of the biggest for its limited area of operations. The LTTE soon began to capture territories of the government and despite all the efforts of the army, very little by way of victories could be achieved. While they were bolstered by the IPKF for a brief period, the overal scenario changed little."

What about the JVP, they brought the country to its knees in 70's 80's except for independance until 1965 the Army has been constanly active. Except for that period I dont think there has been a solid relative calm. My parents are from Sri lanka, I have family in india and still have relative in Sri Lanka. Im interested on your take on this. I mean no disrespect by question what you wrote, nor do I claim that I know more but I just wish to know where you got this information? I'm hoping we can come to agreement a I really want to get the Sri Lankan Military articles up to standard.

CooldogCongo 12:15, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey thanks for the info. Actually the para I put in was more like a rough draft gleaned because I'd learnt about the LTTE when they became particularly active during the 80s and because the IPKF was also involved. It is by no means comprehensive and was just meant as a starting point. Feel free to put in what you know about pre 1980s since I know only the names like JVP but not what they did etc. I'd b glad if you can bring it up to date and would assist in whatever info I can chip in. Cheers. Idleguy 14:35, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Sri Lankan Army
Ok thanks for clearing that up, I will leave it how it is for now as I am very busy with last year of school at the moment but I will try and get around to it soon.

Hoping we can get this article going Thanks CooldogCongo 22:03, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Guha station
Do you have a reference to the Guha station text you just added? And what do you mean by a 'conventional' station? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  16:26, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ooooops. I mentioned that by mistake. It is actually Ghum railway station. Sorry for the error and that I didn't add the reference along with the edit as I normally do for most such additions. The reference is from a Discovery channel video on the Darjeeling Railway programme that mentions this fact. I think what they meant by "conventional" was steam locomotive. I'm adding the reference in the article accordingly backed up by the Indian Railways site. Thanx for bringing it to my attention. Idleguy 04:51, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

my RfA
Hi, I have been nominated for Wikipedia Admin-ship ... I'd be delighted if you participated in the vote at Requests for adminship/Ragib. Thanks a lot. --Ragib 19:09, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, thanks for your vote and the support you showed there. --Ragib 18:58, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

 * You're welcome. Idleguy 19:00, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Cox's Bazar
Hi, I was wrong about the shelling. But the port there is not a sea port, its more of a fishing wharf. By sea port I mean where sea-going ships dock, and the one at Cox's Bazaar doesn't have them going there. There are proposals for setting up an outer anchorage near Kutubdia Island off the coast of Cox's Bazar, but that hasn't been implemented yet. But anyway, I guess the terminology aside, I agree on the content you placed about shelling by Pak Forces in 1971. I think I need to work on the history section of the article .... --Ragib 19:03, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Donkeys
What exactly do you have against donkeys? Why do you keep removing donkey from the see also of Parading on donkey? Babajobu 10:44, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I see you're a deft touch at providing plausible rationalizations for your hateful behavior. One criticism and the Idleguy spin machine flies into gear. I think it's clear that you detest donkeys. Babajobu 13:20, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

 * ???????!!!!!! Either you didn't understand the first line was a joke or you can't comprehend what I wrote. Why in the world would I hate donkeys? As a matter of fact I was one of the main contributors in the donkey article and the subspecies section in onager wild donkey listing was based on what I added to the original donkey article. I can't comprehend why you'd say that I detest donkeys or any animal for that matter. The reasoning has been clearly explained in your talk page.

 * Maybe you're drunk? If so I'd be glad to take ur comments jovially. Thanx. Idleguy 13:32, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't worry, you won the edit war. The additional link to the donkey article has been purged, and your facile argumentation and spin has preserved your reputation as someone who bears no ill will toward the world's donkeys. I understand what is going on here now. This is some sort of a onager vs. mainstream donkey pissing contest. You are an onager partisan. Babajobu 13:53, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

 * "You are an onager partisan" : What else can i say except :-| I'm lost for words. There's no "pissing contest" FYI. Cheers. Idleguy 14:16, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * I forgive you. Babajobu 17:19, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Images
Idleguy I was wondering, if images are from agovernment site can I use them? E.g. Sri Lankan Government? I have read all that copyright stuff but I dont understand it completely. Any help or info would be good thanks. CooldogCongo 14:06, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Images Again
Thanks for the help but can I confirm what I am using with you my the pictures I want to use are from http://www.army.lk/Image_Gallery.htm, can I use them provided I state where i got it and why i am using it? Is that pretty muc the fair use rationale? Sorry if I am being a pain.

Thanks for voting on my RfA
Hi, Thanks for voting on my RfA. Having been elected, I hope to justify your faith in me. Thanks again. --Ragib 05:43, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Basantar
>> Pakistan Army generally regards this as the most humbling defeat, next only to the Battle of Longewala

Just curious. Is this an opinion or quoted from somewhere ? Because I think Battle of Khemkaran/Asal Uttar would be very near the top. As an aside, the Khemkaran article says little about the war. It needs to be improved sometime. Tintin 10:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Bangladesh Liberation War
It seems that an anon is adding links to the disputed claim of Sarmila Bose on denying the genocide in East Pakistan/Bangladesh in 1971. Although the paper by Ms. Bose is disputed, and mostly discounted by independent observers and accounts from that time (e.g. Archer Blood, the US envoy in Dacca in 1971), the anon has used the study to remove the figure of casualties and replace it with an amazing figure of 26,000. I am collecting scholarly references on the war, such as books I could gather from a local library. Would you help with the research? The main thing is, the anon has only the disputed paper from Ms. Bose to cite, while I already gathered several accounts from that time (books published in 1972). Any help in research and references would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Ragib 05:00, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Good job!!
Great job in writing about the main war in Bangladesh Liberation War. I'm too busy writing a couple of papers, and have neglected to expand the article, but seeing your work in that section, I must admit it is a great job of summarizing. I'll add some more details on the organization of the Mukti Bahini's war, and some tidbits. One thing we can mention is the part where Tikka Khan was replaced by Niazi, some other setbacks etc. In any case, I really like the enormous task of summarizing a 9 month war into that section you added ... not a trivial task at all. Keep it up. --Ragib 22:17, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I'll try to expand the end of war section too in the near future. Idleguy 13:21, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

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The Mystery of the Silver Spider

The Mystery of the Silver Spider is a book in the Three Investigators series by Robert Arthur Jr.

Plot
In this episode, the Three Investigators almost run into Prince Djaro with their car. Djaro is the soon-to-be ruler of the fictional European state of Varania, a country which is still very conscious of old traditions and fashions (around the 17th to 19th century). The Investigators form an instant friendship with him. Soon afterwards, they are asked by the United States Secret Service to travel to Varania to keep an eye on Djaro; there are rumors and indications that Djaro is to be dethroned. An important role in the plot is played by the title's Silver Spider, a piece of jewelry which is the most treasured item of Varanian history (comparable to the English Crown Jewels).

Soon, the Investigators find themselves actively involved, as the conspirators—headed by Duke Stefan, an ambitious nobleman and interim ruler of Varania—attempt to frame them for stealing the Spider, and by implication sully the name of Prince Djaro and endanger his coronation. Djaro cannot be crowned unless he is wearing the Silver Spider around his neck; Stefan and his men have stolen the real Silver Spider and left an imitation in its place. Bob suffers amnesia in their subsequent flight, and the Silver Spider goes missing. The Three Investigators and a pair of Djaro loyalists hide out, while scheming to expose Stefan's plot and help Djaro to prevail.

Despite the fact that all seems hopeless, they finally prevail when Jupe recalls an important piece of Varanian history, which allows them to alert and rally Varania's loyal citizenry. The effort is wrapped up when Jupiter finds the Silver Spider as "nothing more than a spider", hidden ingeniously by Bob in a real spider's web.

Foreign publications

 * The German version (titled: Die drei ??? und die silberne Spinne), first published in 1981, vastly changes the story's background: the name of the Varanian characters are altered into Swedish; the adventure is set in a place called Magnusstad in Texas; the local traditions (also patterned after Sweden) are passed off as mere tourist attractions; and the historical facts which lead to the happy ending are changed to accounts from a fictional novel, leading to logical plot holes. This alteration was effected by translator Leonore Puschert because of her personal affection for the Swedish language.

title: The Mystery of the Silver Spider