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User talk:Digfarenough

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Hi,

I notice you've been linking to the Help:IPA for English key. We have a couple templates that are preferred for this. For English, there's IPA-en, and for other languages there's IPA-all. (Common languages such as -es Spanish, -de German, -fr French etc. also have their own IPA-xx templates, but IPA-all works fine if you forget. The template pages have the details.) If you wouldn't mind using them in the future, that would make it easier for us to manage the tens of thousands of transcriptions we now have, so we can better keep them in shape and make sure they're using the symbols the same way.

Thanks! kwami (talk) 14:36, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I will keep this in mind. Thanks for the tip! digfarenough (talk) 01:27, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Publishing Hippocampus in WikiJournal
Hi,

Would you like to join as an author in the project of having the article Hippocampus published in WikiJournal of Medicine? WikiJournal of Medicine is an open-access journal with no publication charges of any kind. Published articles will be given standard citation formats and DOI codes so that they can be cited by external works. Before publication, all articles undergo peer review, so after this is done I would like you to join the task of amending any issues that arise from it. I found you among the most active contributors to the article. To be displayed among the main authors of the publication in WikiJournal of Medicine, you need to agree and sign the "Submission letter", and you should also write your real name. In any case, we'll attribute contributors by a link to the article history of Hippocampus.

Cheers,

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Mark Howard (footballer, born January 1986)

Mark James Howard (born 29 January 1986) is an English football coach and former player. He works as an assistant coach for American club Oklahoma City Energy, for whom he played for a season before retiring from playing.

Career
Born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Howard attended Hope High School, Salford, with fellow Manchester United players Phil Bardsley and Mark Redshaw. Howard began his career playing for the Barr Hill Lads Club in Salford. He signed for Manchester United as a junior player, and played a number of years in the youth and reserve teams of the club. Having failed to make an impact in the first team, Howard was amongst seven United players given a free transfer at the end of the 2005–06 season.

Howard moved to Danish Superliga champions Brøndby IF, that had recently hired Manchester United reserve team coach René Meulensteen as manager. Howard participated in training sessions and played a friendly match against German team 1. FC Nürnberg, before signing a three-year contract with Brøndby on 28 July 2006. He made his senior debut for Brøndby in August 2006, and played 13 of 18 league games as Brøndby finished in seventh place after the first half of the 2006–07 Superliga season.

When Meulensteen left the club in January 2007, new manager Tom Køhlert brought in Danish defender Mikkel Bischoff in contention for Howard's place in the central defence. When Bischoff suffered an injury, Howard proved himself once again and continued in the starting 11 for the rest of the season. He was also a part of the Brøndby team which won the 2006–07 Royal League cup on 15 March 2007. In the final match of the cup, Howard received a penalty kick, which Martin Ericsson converted to a goal, securing Brøndby a 1–0 win over F.C. Copenhagen.

Having secured his place in the starting eleven during the first half of the 2007–08 season, Howard was awarded the player of the year in Brøndby on 1 December 2007. On 10 December 2008, he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with AGF.

Howard signed with the Oklahoma City Energy on 11 March 2014 for an undisclosed amount until the end of the year. On 29 June 2014, he scored his first goal in America and was named in the team of the week for his performances

Club

 * Danish Cup: 2007–08
 * Royal League: 2007

Individual

 * Brøndby Player of the Year: 2007

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Greatest Hits (The Jackson 5 album)

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation by the Jackson 5 released on the Motown label in late 1971. The top 10 single "Sugar Daddy" is included as a new track alongside hits such as "I Want You Back" and "I'll Be There". The album has sold over 5.6 million copies worldwide since its release

A quadraphonic mix was released in Japan in 1975 (this quadraphonic mix was released as a folddown to stereo on an LP in November 2019), marking the first and only release of the band's material in surround sound.

Track listing
Side one
 * 1) "I Want You Back"
 * 2) "ABC"
 * 3) "Never Can Say Goodbye"
 * 4) "Sugar Daddy" (recorded April–October 1971, during Maybe Tomorrow and Lookin' Through the Windows sessions, at the Motown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California)
 * 5) "I'll Be There"
 * 6) "Maybe Tomorrow"

Side two
 * 1) "The Love You Save"
 * 2) "Who's Lovin' You"
 * 3) "Mama's Pearl"
 * 4) "Goin' Back to Indiana"
 * 5) "I Found That Girl"

Tracks 1, 8 from Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5. Tracks 2, 7, 11 from ABC. Tracks 5, 9, 10 from Third Album. Tracks 3, 6 from Maybe Tomorrow.

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Frogmore House

Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building. The house is located on the Frogmore estate, which is situated within the grounds of the Home Park in Windsor, Berkshire. Half a mile south of Windsor Castle, Frogmore was let to a number of tenants until the late 18th century, when it was used intermittently as a residence for several members of the British royal family.

Queen Charlotte spent much time on the estate, and it was later the home of Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathern (whose large mausoleum is in a part of the estate's 33 acre gardens). Although occasionally used as a retreat into the early 20th century, the house has been largely unoccupied since 1872. Queen Mary often stayed there early in her marriage and for the rest of her life in the 20th century took a special interest in furnishing the house with family mementos. Keepsakes from the royal yacht HMY Britannia following its decommissioning were placed there in the late 20th century by Prince Philip. In the 21st century, it is used by the royal family to host both private and official events.

Early tenants
The Frogmore estate has been under royal ownership since the 16th century and was then leased to a series of Crown tenants. Construction on Frogmore House was not begun until 1680 for tenants Anne Aldworth and Thomas May. Work continued until 1684 and is thought to be the work of Hugh May, an architect employed by Charles II at Windsor Castle and uncle of tenant Thomas May.

The house's first royal resident was George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, the illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. The duke died in 1716, but his wife continued to live at Frogmore until her death in 1738. There were a number of successive tenants, including Edward Walpole, until 1792 when George III purchased the house for his wife, Queen Charlotte.

Royal retreat
Queen Charlotte used the house as a country retreat for herself and her unmarried daughters. They used Frogmore as a "refuge" away from court life where they could practise their pastimes of "painting, drawing, needlework, japanning, reading and 'botanising'". The Queen's interest in botany is reflected in a number of the rooms at Frogmore, including a room decorated with painted flowers by the artist Mary Moser. Great attention was paid to the gardens, where the queen planted a number of Spanish chestnut, laburnum and birch trees and installed a number of follies.

The house was in good condition, but to make it fit for royal inhabitants, James Wyatt was employed to enlarge and modernise Frogmore House. Between 1795 and 1804, Wyatt enlarged the second floor, added flanking pavilions to the north and south of the house and extended to make room for a new dining room and library. As part of developing Frogmore's gardens, Queen Charlotte had built a simpler retreat house in 1801, now known as Frogmore Cottage. When Charlotte died in 1818, she left the house to her daughter Princess Augusta Sophia, who lived there until her death in 1840.

Following Augusta Sophia's death, Queen Victoria gave Frogmore to her mother, the Duchess of Kent. During this time, the house was subject to a number of alterations. The Duchess's taste differed greatly from Queen Charlotte's and much of the decoration from her time was lost. The house was used regularly between 1841 and the death of the Duchess of Kent in 1861, with Queen Victoria often visiting and a number of private family functions being held there. Victoria wrote of the house: "All is peace and quiet and you only hear the hum of the bees, the singing of the birds and the occasional crowing and cackling from the Poultry Yard!"

Recent history
Frogmore was used intermittently for the remainder of the 19th century. Princess Alexandra (then Princess of Wales) gave birth to her first child (Prince Albert Victor) at the house in 1864, after which it was the home of Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria, and her husband Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Helena and her husband moved to Cumberland Lodge in 1872. Queen Victoria's great-grandson Louis Mountbatten was born on the estate in 1900. From 1902 to 1910, the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary) were frequent residents. From 1925 until her death in 1953, Mary collected and arranged in the house souvenirs of the royal family, describing it as "a 'family' souvenir museum as well as a museum of 'bygones' and of interesting odds and ends."

During this time, George V allowed his first cousin Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia to live at Frogmore Cottage by 1925 after she escaped the Russian February Revolution. Xenia was "very grateful" that her cousin let her stay at Frogmore. By March 1937, Xenia had moved from Frogmore Cottage to Wilderness House in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. Since 1928, most members of the royal family, except for sovereigns and their consorts, have been interred at the Royal Burial Ground, on the Frogmore Estate.

In 1997, following the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht Britannia, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, furnished what had previously been Queen Charlotte's library and the Duchess of York's dining room with a selection of items from the vessel. This included a mahogany table constructed for Britannia c. 1950.

The house continued to be used by the royal family for entertaining and it was used as a venue for the wedding reception after the marriage of the Queen's grandson, Peter Phillips, to Autumn Kelly in May 2008. It was also used for the reception after the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018, and for the wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor with Thomas Kingston in May 2019.

Restoration
During the 1980s, the house underwent extensive restoration, revealing the lost early 18th-century wall paintings by Louis Laguerre. Work was also done on the Green Pavilion, in an effort to restore it to its appearance during the occupation of Queen Charlotte. Work was done on the cornice, dado and chimneypiece, which retain Wyatt's "characteristically crisp detailing." The restorations cost a total of £2.5 million by the time they were completed in 1990.

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Talk:Phase difference

0 or 360
Just wondering what the convention was when waves are in phase, whether they are said to have a phase difference of 0 or 360 degrees, or if both are used interchangeably in general speech. -- postglock 05:35, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

0, I would say. 360 would be odd.--Patrick 09:57, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Universal motor

The universal motor is a type of electric motor that can operate on either AC or DC power and uses an electromagnet as its stator to create its magnetic field. It is a commutated series-wound motor where the stator's field coils are connected in series with the rotor windings through a commutator. It is often referred to as an AC series motor. The universal motor is very similar to a DC series motor in construction, but is modified slightly to allow the motor to operate properly on AC power. This type of electric motor can operate well on AC because the current in both the field coils and the armature (and the resultant magnetic fields) will alternate (reverse polarity) synchronously with the supply. Hence the resulting mechanical force will occur in a consistent direction of rotation, independent of the direction of applied voltage, but determined by the commutator and polarity of the field coils.

Universal motors have high starting torque, can run at high speed, and are lightweight and compact. They are commonly used in portable power tools and equipment, as well as many household appliances. They are relatively easy to control, electromechanically using tapped coils, or electronically. However, the commutator has brushes that wear, so they are less suitable used for equipment that is in continuous use. In addition, partly because of the commutator, universal motors are typically very noisy, both acoustically and electromagnetically.

Working

Not all series-wound motors operate well on AC current. If an ordinary series-wound DC motor were connected to an AC supply, it would run very poorly. The universal motor is modified in several ways to allow for proper AC supply operation. There is a compensating winding typically added, along with laminated pole pieces, as opposed to the solid pole pieces found in DC motors. A universal motor's armature typically has far more coils and plates than a DC motor, and hence fewer windings per coil. This reduces the inductance.

Efficiency
Even when used with AC power these types of motors are able to run at a rotation frequency well above that of the mains supply, and because most electric motor properties improve with speed, this means they can be lightweight and powerful. However, universal motors are usually relatively inefficient: around 30% for smaller motors and up to 70–75% for larger ones.

Torque–speed characteristics
Series-wound electric motors respond to increased load by slowing down; the current increases and the torque rises in proportion to the square of the current because the same current flows in both the armature and the field windings. If the motor is stalled, the current is limited only by the total resistance of the windings and the torque can be very high, and there is a danger of the windings becoming overheated. The counter-EMF aids the armature resistance to limit the current through the armature. When power is first applied to a motor, the armature does not rotate. At that instant, the counter-EMF is zero and the only factor limiting the armature current is the armature resistance. Usually the armature resistance of a motor is low; therefore the current through the armature would be very large when the power is applied. Therefore the need can arise for an additional resistance in series with the armature to limit the current until the motor rotation can build up the counter-EMF. As the motor rotation builds up, the resistance is gradually cut out. The speed-torque characteristic is an almost perfectly straight line between the stall torque and the no-load speed. This suits large inertial loads as the speed will drop until the motor slowly starts to rotate and these motors have a very high stalling torque.

As the speed increases, the inductance of the rotor means that the ideal commutating point changes. Small motors typically have fixed commutation. While some larger universal motors have rotatable commutation, this is rare. Instead larger universal motors often have compensation windings in series with the motor, or sometimes inductively coupled, and placed at ninety electrical degrees to the main field axis. These reduce the reactance of the armature, and improve the commutation.

One useful property of having the field windings in series with the armature winding is that as the speed increases the counter EMF naturally reduces the voltage across, and current through the field windings, giving field weakening at high speeds. This means that the motor has no theoretical maximum speed for any particular applied voltage. Universal motors can be and are generally run at high speeds, 4000–16000RPM, and can go over 20,000RPM. By way of contrast, AC synchronous and squirrel-cage induction motors cannot turn a shaft faster than allowed by the power line frequency. In countries with 60Hz AC supply, this speed is limited to 3600RPM.

Motor damage may occur from over-speeding (running at a rotational speed in excess of design limits) if the unit is operated with no significant mechanical load. On larger motors, sudden loss of load is to be avoided, and the possibility of such an occurrence is incorporated into the motor's protection and control schemes. In some smaller applications, a fan blade attached to the shaft often acts as an artificial load to limit the motor speed to a safe level, as well as a means to circulate cooling airflow over the armature and field windings. If there were no mechanical limits placed on a universal motor it could theoretically speed out of control in the same way any series-wound DC motor can.

An advantage of the universal motor is that AC supplies may be used on motors which have some characteristics more common in DC motors, specifically high starting torque and very compact design if high running speeds are used.

Disadvantages
A negative aspect is the maintenance and short life problems caused by the commutator, as well as electromagnetic interference (EMI) issues due to any sparking. Because of the relatively high maintenance commutator brushes, universal motors are best-suited for devices such as food mixers and power tools which are used only intermittently, and often have high starting-torque demands.

Another negative aspect is that these motors may only be used where mostly-clean air is present at all times. Due to the dramatically increased risk of overheating, totally-enclosed fan-cooled universal motors would be impractical, though some have been made. Such a motor would need a large fan to circulate enough air, decreasing efficiency since the motor must use more energy to cool itself. The impracticality comes from the resulting size, weight, and thermal management issues which open motors have none of.

Universal motors are also very noisy compared to other types of AC and DC motors.

Speed control
Continuous speed control of a universal motor running on AC is easily obtained by use of a thyristor circuit, while multiple taps on the field coil provide (imprecise) stepped speed control. Household blenders that advertise many speeds frequently combine a field coil with several taps and a diode that can be inserted in series with the motor (causing the motor to run on half-wave rectified AC).

Shunt winding
Universal motors are series wound. Shunt winding was used experimentally, in the late 19th century, but was impractical owing to problems with commutation. Various schemes of embedded resistance, inductance, and antiphase cross-coupling were attempted to reduce this. Universal motors, including shunt wound, were favoured as AC motors at this time as they were self-starting. When self-starting induction motors and automatic starters became available, these replaced the larger universal motors (above 1 hp) and the shunt wound.

Repulsion-start
In the past, repulsion-start wound-rotor motors provided high starting torque, but with added complexity. Their rotors were similar to those of universal motors, but their brushes were connected only to each other. Transformer action induced current into the rotor. Brush position relative to field poles meant that starting torque was developed by rotor repulsion from the field poles. A centrifugal mechanism, when close to running speed, connected all commutator bars together to create the equivalent of a squirrel-cage rotor. As well, when close to approximately 80 per cent of its run speed, these motors can run as induction motors.

Domestic appliances
Operating at normal power line frequencies, universal motors are not often found in a range less than 1000 watts. Their high speed makes them useful for appliances such as blenders, vacuum cleaners, and hair dryers where high speed and light weight are desirable. They are also commonly used in portable power tools, such as drills, sanders, circular saws, and jigsaws, where the motor's characteristics work well. An added benefit for power tools used by welders is that classic engine-driven welding machines may be a pure DC generator, and their auxiliary power receptacles will still be DC, even though a typical NEMA 5-15 household configuration. The DC power is fine for typical jobsite (outmoded) incandescent lighting and the universal motors in some drills and grinders. Many vacuum cleaner and weed trimmer motors exceed 10,000 RPM, while many Dremel and similar miniature grinders exceed 30,000 RPM.

Universal motors also lend themselves to electronic speed control and, as such, were an ideal choice for domestic washing machines. The motor can be used to agitate the drum (both forward and in reverse) by switching the field winding with respect to the armature. The motor can also be run up to the high speeds required for the spin cycle. Nowadays, variable-frequency drive motors are more commonly used instead.

Rail traction
Universal motors also formed the basis of the traditional railway traction motor in electric railways. In this application, the use of AC to power a motor originally designed to run on DC would lead to efficiency losses due to eddy current heating of their magnetic components, particularly the motor field pole-pieces that, for DC, would have used solid (un-laminated) iron. Although the heating effects are reduced by using laminated pole-pieces, as used for the cores of transformers and by the use of laminations of high-permeability electrical steel, one solution available at the start of the 20th century was for the motors to be operated from very-low-frequency AC supplies, with 25 Hz and $16 2⁄3$ Hz operation being common.

Starter motor
Starters of combustion engines are usually universal motors, with the advantage of being small and having high torque at low speed. Some starters have permanent magnets, others have one of the four poles wound with a shunt coil rather than series-wound coils.

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Weird Tales of the Ramones

Weird Tales of the Ramones is a box set compilation by American punk band the Ramones. It was released on August 16, 2005. There are 85 songs on 3 CDs, plus a DVD containing the feature "Lifestyles of the Ramones", a documentary featuring several of their music videos up to 1990 interspersed by interview clips with the band and figures in pop culture, plus the music videos released by the band (including an MTV-banned version of "Substitute") after the release of the main feature on the DVD. The set was compiled by Johnny Ramone and released by Rhino Records.

The boxset also contains a special oversize comic book, focusing on the legend of the band, written and illustrated by multiple contributors, a 3D pair of glasses and a postcard to dedicate to Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee.

The cover art is a likely parody of the 1920s and 1930s horror magazine Weird Tales, where the title of the album likely gets its name from.

DVD track listing

 * 1) "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?"
 * 2) "Rock 'n' Roll High School"
 * 3) "We Want the Airwaves"
 * 4) "Psycho Therapy"
 * 5) "Time Has Come Today"
 * 6) "Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)"
 * 7) "Something to Believe In"
 * 8) "I Wanna Live"
 * 9) "I Wanna Be Sedated"
 * 10) "Pet Sematary"
 * 11) "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)"
 * 12) "I Believe in Miracles"
 * 13) "Strength to Endure"
 * 14) "Poison Heart"
 * 15) "Substitute" (MTV banned version)
 * 16) "I Don't Want to Grow Up"
 * 17) "Spider-Man"
 * 18) "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Live)

Personnel

 * Joey Ramone - lead vocals
 * Johnny Ramone - guitar
 * Dee Dee Ramone - bass guitar, backing and lead vocals
 * Marky Ramone - drums
 * C. J. Ramone - bass guitar, backing vocals (disc 3: tracks 9 - 25)
 * Tommy Ramone - drums (disc 1: tracks 1 - 25)
 * Richie Ramone - drums (disc 2: tracks 14 - 26, disc 3: tracks 1 - 4)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fox and the Hound Steal Money

 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 Speedily deleted. --Golbez 22:42, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

The Fox and the Hound Steal Money
No entry on IMDb, supposed release date in the future, nudity in a cartoon, nothing on Google. Smells like a hoax. Zoe 05:35, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy delete - more nonsense from RyanCahn. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * del --Irpen 06:35, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, speedy as hoax if possible. Dom Rem  | Yeah? 12:06, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as this is clearly nonsense. There is a scheduled sequel to the Disney adaptation of The Fox and the Hound, but this is not it. - Che Nuevara, the Democratic Revolutionary 19:15, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is is still here? Jeff Knaggs|Talk 21:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied. --Golbez 22:42, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Dodgers–Giants rivalry

August 25, 2005 edits
re: Aug 25 revert by JamesMadison

C'mon Wahkeenah that wasn't an addition, it was a sermon. Your points are good and well written (if somewhat turgid) but you deleted other contributor's works in the process. Yes, the Giants and Dodgers started in New York, but they have been in California for over half a century. And New York is not the "cradle of baseball." That's not neutral, and it's not true either. You can write better than this, and you have.

ADD to this article, okay? (And I hate reverting). I'll leave it to you to add your otherwise valid contribution appropriately.

Cheers dude (and all other contributors). JamesMadison 07:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks like you clobbered everything I wrote. I don't have a clue what you have a problem with. Maybe you're trying the keep the article short. Whatever. Wahkeenah 13:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * There is plenty of evidence that organized baseball springs from New York City. And reviewing the history of this article, I don't see where I deleted what anyone else wrote.  And not knowing what parts you liked and didn't like, I dare not add anything back.  >:(  Wahkeenah 14:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * It was a good contribution, Wahkeenah. It just lacked neutralness. It would be a great addition to an article explicitly about New York baseball (and maybe you should write one - it was well written). But it just had too many "odes" in there; try giving the exact same info in a more neutral tone. But don't mistake me, the New York era is crucial to understanding the whole history of the Giants/Dodgers. Do recontribute this section, and share your knowledge of the NY years of these teams.

 * The deleted material I cited was from "Pennant Race Drama," but I can believe that you might have done that accidentally. I've done it too.

 * And don't take it personally, either. We're all sportswriters in need of editors here. Go for it dude.

 * Cheers to all

 * JamesMadison 07:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

If you bother to look closely at the history, you will see that I did not delete anything, I just created a new section for some of it called "Spoilers", to distinguish head-to-head "Pennant Race Drama" (such as 1951 and 1962) from situations where one team, out of the race itself, knocked the other team out of the race (1934, 1982, 1991, etc.) Maybe the early history portion sounded a little too gushy. Maybe you're not interested in anything historical prior to the Clinton administration. I've got news for you... I don't even like New York City or its teams, especially the f'ing Mets. But I know a thing or two about the game's history, and the 1880s are "alive" to me. Evidently that's a minority report. So how about if you put back whatever you think is worthy, if anything. Meanwhile, I'll look around for another hobby. >:( Wahkeenah 12:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Here, as a neutral 3rd party I'm going to don my fire suppression gear and attempt to reintegrate some of the the contributions. To me at least, article flows better and someone who is from Japan stumbling on it may actually get the rivalry.  Tempted to compare it to the Yankees-Red Sox but not in the mood to plagarize Caple after he and I have traded nice emails. Old64mb 00:02, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Bless you, my son, for thou hast done good. d:) Wahkeenah 00:04, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, great content adds on your part, just needed a wee bit of integration. I tried to streamline the article to focus on Giants-Dodgers specifically (e.g., we know there are other teams in the NL West, but does their short history have anything to do with Giants v Dodgers?).  If there's any content I cut that seems essential to the rivalry and flows with the article, go for it.  Probably someone should add something to the rivals section about the boos Lasorda/Bonds and former-Dodgers/Giants (Kent anyone?) get in their opposing stadiums, as well as one reason the O'Malleys moved the Dodgers out West was to continue the rivalry (and how in 1992 they were adamant against the Giants moving to Tampa for the same reason).  I may do so myself if I can find the sources for all of this. Old64mb 02:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Wahkeenah, you were right and I was wrong. I see now that you didn't delete, you moved it. An apology is given where an apology is due. You don't have to tell anyone here that you know baseball history; anybody who has read your other works already knows that. And Old64mb, that was great re-edit for flow. Your fire suppression gear has served you well. JamesMadison 04:42, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Giants v Dodgers
I moved this section from its root on both the Dodgers and Giants pages.

Sorry, BlueMoonlet, I didn't mean to leave out your excellent additions from the original Dodgers' page version. Good to see you added them back; I was merely a victim of technology. My bad there.

I'm doing some cleanup now that this is a brand new page (linking, etc.) as I see others have done as well.

Let's all make this a great page about a great rivalry in a great game.

JamesMadison 05:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Renaming Page and Merging with a (smaller) Existing Page
Seems to me like it would be good to rename this to simply "Giants-Dodgers rivalry", in keeping with other articles such as Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry and White Sox-Cubs rivalry. Wahkeenah 05:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, and it should be Giants-Dodgers Rivalry (or Dodgers-Giants Rivalry) since the rivalry was carried over from the New York-Brooklyn days. Zoe 06:07, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hm, looks like we have duplicate articles. We need a merge and redirect somewhere.  Zoe 06:08, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * A Google search reveals that, though D comes first in the alphabet, "Giants-Dodgers rivalry" is the more common phrasing. —Wiki Wikardo 16:25, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree too. This page evolved from the team's pages. It should stand against "Yankees-Red Sox", etc. JamesMadison 06:14, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm with you on the name change. --BlueMoonlet 03:49, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

So, who wants to make the "move"? And is it Giants-Dodgers or Dodgers-Giants? It probably doesn't matter, as long as a redirect is set up from one to the other. Wahkeenah 14:01, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, there's already a Giants-Dodgers Rivalry page (should the R really be capitalized?), and if that's consistent with Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry and White Sox-Cubs rivalry, might as well move this page's stuff over to it, merging inf0z where redundant. Yeah?
 * Don't come any closer... I'll do it, man... I'm crazy like that!
 * um, Yeah. —Wiki Wikardo 16:05, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I would say that, in keeping with other wiki conventions, the R should be an "r". Actually, I don't agree with that. But that's the wiki convention. And if there is already a rivalry page, it should all be merged. As far as the name order, I would speculate that "Giants-Dodgers" rolls off the tongue easier than "Dodgers-Giants". However, on the Dodgers page, you would say "Dodgers-Giants" and then redirect to "Giants-Dodgers". Wahkeenah 16:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm necroing this part of the discussion, since when I was fixing an edit it struck me that I couldn't find a professional journalist who refers to this as the "Dodgers-Giants" rivalry; rather, they use "Giants-Dodgers". There is one book that has that title, and one website, but beyond that the professionals seem to use the latter phrasing; in fact, this article shows up as one of the few unique ones with this phrase. It may be that we're all imitating Vin Scully, who I can't recall ever saying the "Dodgers and the Giants" when referring to the rivalry - it's always reversed, and I ain't smart enough to go against Vin. Not sure if this needs to go up for a vote or not. Thoughts? 21:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Old64mb (talk • contribs)

"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22giants-dodgers+rivalry%22+-wikipedia" shows 5240 results. "https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dodgers-giants+rivalry%22+-wikipedia" shows 4980 results. Wikipedia influenced the results in the other direction. Anecdotally, I never hear "Dodgers-Giants" and it is unusual and jarring to refer to this article by its current name, so I would support changing it a la Yankees-Red Sox.73.170.127.191 (talk) 23:44, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Add History Section
Add a history of the Giants v Dodgers (or vice-versa) to this page to put all the numbers and anecdotes currently contained into perspective. How would someone from England or Estonia (or Japan or Niger) read about this rivalry? Would they get it?

JamesMadison 06:19, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Somebody from Japan probably would, but the=at's off the subject. ςפקιДИτς 21:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Sox vs. Yankees vs. Giants vs. Dodgers
I took out a rather non-NPOV add by 72.78.41.101 regarding how this rivalry is better than the Sox-Yankees one. Part of it was simply in error as Yankees fans do in fact hate Sox fans - witness the old 1918 chants let alone the attendance at Yankee stadium for the games - but more importantly the evidence presented to support the argument wasn't effective, making it a strongly POV addition. Jim Caple's article is probably the best of the bunch comparing the two, and even he admits there's no real way to validate either claim. If someone wants to add more substantial facts arguing how one rivalry is better than the other to that section, be my guest! - Old64mb 21:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Your points are well taken. However, for the most part, Yankee fans have little of the directed anti-Red Sox sentiment that comes from the other direction.  Furthermore, during some historical eras, the Red Sox were virtually irrelevant to the Yankees in competition.  In the 1950s, the main rivals were the Cleveland Indians and then the Chicago White Sox.  I myself attended a Red Sox-Yankee game at Yankee Stadium during the late '50s, with Ted Williams in fact playing in the game, and the stands were still pretty much empty (maybe 12-15,000 of the 60,000+ seats filled!).  In addition, during the past several decades, it is very apparent to me that the venom of Boston fans towards the Yankees is in no way matched by New York fans towards the Red Sox.  I live in the northeast and know hundreds of Yankee fans and hundreds of Red Sox fans.  The quality of Yankee fan involvement in the rivalry is more like haughty contempt, really.  The problem with Sox fans, and Sox management, is that they focus all their wrath on one rival, and in doing so, merely become second-rate emulators.  Note that the two highest payrolls in baseball are these two franchises, but of course Boston still fall short.  Meanwhile, despite the comeuppance of 2004, the Yankees remain the dominant (and I hate to say this because I do despise the Yankees) and classier franchise.  And Yankees fans can claim to be elite even while they act boorish because there is always the symbolism of the pinstripes.  But Red Sox fans degenerate into pathetic behaviour on a regular basis.  The Sheffield incident is but one example of that but there are other forms as well.  Finally, the Red Sox ownership is utterly without class in its dealings with such players as Manny Ramirez, Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Belhorn, and Johnny Damon.  The real rivalry is between the Red Sox top brass and the crass George Steinbrenner!  It is telling that the Sox management acts more despicably towards the hired hands than does the ex-con!

 * My own opinion is that the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is nowadays an intense one overall--this is obvious--but very skewed, and in a lot of ways, uninteresting because not only does it emanate predominantly from one camp, but it has taken on a media-concocted quality and I don't much care for that unspontaneous artificiality. Moreover, I find the culture of both teams rather insipid at best and contemptible at worst, because these were two of the most racist franchises during earlier eras.  Check into the history of Elston Howard other Yankees, and numerous racial problems on the Red Sox.

 * By contrast, the Dodgers and Giants were at the forefront of furthering opportunity for African-Americans and foreign-born players, not only in recent years, but throughout the second half of the 20th century. (Jackie Robinson led the way for the Dodgers, of course.  Monte Irvin, Hank Thompson, Willie Mays formed the first all-black outfield in ML history.  This is not coincidence.

 * In any case, I find no comparison in the rivalries. One is earnest, in its way quite dignified, and deeply-rooted in urban and regional cultures.  The other is partially fake, hysterical, and an imitative construct.  I know my words manifest a heavy POV, but some more dispassionate writer may be able to come up with the requisite NPOV language to express the reality better than I can. TrueC 16:27, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I also happen to now live in the Northeast and have been to many games at both Fenway and Yankee Stadium, hence have been experiencing the rivalry close up. As much as I'm more than tired of experiencing the world revolving around the nuclear arms race that is those two teams - and go to Norwich to watch the Giants minor leaguers instead to give myself a break from it - I'm not sure I'd agree with you on the Yankee fans.  Nevertheless, it's going to be very near impossible to make a good hard comparison of the rivalries on feelings like that regardless and maintain NPOV, although I look forward to the effort! Old64mb 01:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no knowledge firsthand of Yankees-Sox. Like others feel, the whole "sports/baseball-revolves-around NY-BOS" attitude prevalent on ESPN and other media revolts me, but I am otherwise not exposed to them and don't care. I don't think either rivalry merits ANY mention whatsoever in the other's article (i.e. keep the Yankees out of Giants-Dodgers and the Giants out of Yankees-Bosox, period.) As a Giant fan since 1959 who lives in Ohio but thru the miracle of the internet listens to every Giant broadcast, I can say the intensity of the rivalry from a Giant perspective is very real and very strong. I have a grown son who has never been to California yet loathes Dodger blue more than me! (Wonder where he picked that up?) Needless to say i lack the objectivity to contribute to these particular articles unless I find a factual error, which is rare. You guys are good.--Buckboard 22:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this is just a lack of info on my part, but it seem as though a lot of sports wtiters tend to build up the yanks-sox rivalry as the biggest in baseball. I always here them gabbin' about that on ESPN. But, it's not true. The Dodger-Giant rivalry has lasted longer and is just as heated as any other rivalry. I doubt that the Yanks and Sox want to beat one another any more badly than the Dodgers and Giants.

Possible Bias(?)
I think that there might be some Giants bias on the page. If you look it over, every time it lists the two teams as having done something, it puts it as "the giants and dodgers". The dodgers never come first. (Which, alphebitically speaking, that dosen't make sense.) Also, in the Pennant Race Drama section, it only list Giant victories. So, I am currently doing my best to switch some the names around and get rid of as much bias as possible.

New York Section
Their have been a lot of edits over the past two days on a brand new 'yew york' section. To the writer, I must say this: the idea in itself is fine, but I don't beleive that it's really been implemented correctly. For example, the same paragraph had been put in twice. The one about 'For four years...'. That was in the first section and the New York section. Also, there was too much on the Yankees. This page is a Dodgers and Giants rivaly page, and any other team info would disrupte the flow of the page. I still think a New York section would work, but only if it deals with the rivalry between those two teams. Thanks.

"Are they still in the league?"
I was always taught that that statement really started the rivalry. If this is the case shouldn't it be categorized on its own.--Seventy-one 06:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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BEAT LA!
Is there actual evidence of "Beat L.A." being coined by fans of the Giants, or is this just a dubious claim?Redsox00002 (talk) 19:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

It is definently used in San Francisco, however it was coined by San Diego. The Padres hate the Dodgers much more than the Giants do. 119.73.244.190 (talk) 04:05, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

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For those who continue to re-add the Dodgers and Giants logos: Please read and understand WP:NFCC. The dueling logos may be a typical image you'd find on a sports web page describing the rivalry, but they fail criteria 8 (the logos do not substantially increase the reader's understanding of the Dodgers-Giants rivalry) and 10{c} (the image description pages lack a fair use rationale for this article). A user who wants to see the logos can easily click on the article's helpful links to Los Angeles Dodgers or San Francisco Giants. szyslak ( t ) 19:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree with this assessment of free use. The Red Sox, Yankees, Cardinals, and Cubs all have their logos displayed for their respective rivalry pages. If they can use their logos, why can't the Dodgers or the Giants?--Jkfp2004 (talk) 04:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I believe Szyslak is misinterpreting the rationale and JKFP is 110% right Purplebackpack89  (Notes Taken)  (Locker) 09:05, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Matt Williams
Wasn't there an incident that made Matt Williams angrily tell TV reporters, "They'll [the Dodgers] be lucky to ever win here ever again!!!". JAF1970 (talk) 01:51, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

1965 brawl info
My recollection of this brawl from seeing it on video tape contradicts several of the claims. Additionally, the cite used for most of this information does not back up almost any of it that purports to. If no one cleans it up/provides more valid cite, I'll remove the unsourced stuff. "Marichal Hits Roseboro With Bat and Starts Brawl as Giants Top Dodgers" is the repeated cited article that does not verify any of the material it claims to.Whatzinaname (talk) 06:07, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

First Meeting
Does someone have a source for the first meeting in 1883? I've also seen it posited as the same date (April 18), but in 1884. Bchaosf (talk) 23:15, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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Subcategories
Both the "Bryan Stow beating" and the "Death of Jonathan Denver" were fan violence incidents, so they're "Fan Violence" subcategories in addition to "Notorious Incidents" subcategories. Categorizing the incidents as 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 would have a consistent logic to it. I'm not sure how to do that.

Also, man, these people are extreme. It's really not important.

Liberty5651 (talk) 19:52, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Bispectrum

In mathematics, in the area of statistical analysis, the bispectrum is a statistic used to search for nonlinear interactions.

Definitions
The Fourier transform of the second-order cumulant, i.e., the autocorrelation function, is the traditional power spectrum.

The Fourier transform of C3(t1, t2) (third-order cumulant-generating function) is called the bispectrum or bispectral density.

Calculation
Applying the convolution theorem allows fast calculation of the bispectrum: $$B(f_1,f_2)=F(f_1)\cdot F(f_2)\cdot F^*(f_1+f_2)$$, where $$F$$ denotes the Fourier transform of the signal, and $$F^*$$ its conjugate.

Applications
Bispectrum and bicoherence may be applied to the case of non-linear interactions of a continuous spectrum of propagating waves in one dimension.

Bispectral measurements have been carried out for EEG signals monitoring. It was also shown that bispectra characterize differences between families of musical instruments.

In seismology, signals rarely have adequate duration for making sensible bispectral estimates from time averages.

Bispectral analysis describes observations made at two wavelengths. It is often used by scientists to analyze elemental makeup of a planetary atmosphere by analyzing the amount of light reflected and received through various color filters. By combining and removing two filters, much can be gleaned from only two filters. Through modern computerized interpolation, a third virtual filter can be created to recreate true color photographs that, while not particularly useful for scientific analysis, are popular for public display in textbooks and fund raising campaigns.

Bispectral analysis can also be used to analyze interactions between wave patterns and tides on Earth.

A form of bispectral analysis called the bispectral index is applied to EEG waveforms to monitor depth of anesthesia.

Biphase (phase of polyspectrum) can be used for detection of phase couplings, noise reduction of polharmonic (particularly, speech ) signal analysis.

A physical interpretation
The bispectrum reflects the energy budget of interactions, as it can be interpreted as a covariance defined between energy-supplying and energy-receiving parties of waves involved in an nonlinear interaction. On the other hand, bicoherence has been proven to be the corresponding correlation coefficient. Just as correlation cannot sufficiently demonstrate the presence of causality, spectrum and bicoherence also cannot sufficiently substantiate the existence of an nonlinear interaction.

Generalizations
Bispectra fall in the category of higher-order spectra, or polyspectra and provide supplementary information to the power spectrum. The third order polyspectrum (bispectrum) is the easiest to compute, and hence the most popular. A statistic defined analogously is the bispectral coherency or bicoherence.

Trispectrum
The Fourier transform of C4 (t1, t2, t3) (fourth-order cumulant-generating function) is called the trispectrum or trispectral density.

The trispectrum T(f1,f2,f3) falls into the category of higher-order spectra, or polyspectra, and provides supplementary information to the power spectrum. The trispectrum is a three-dimensional construct. The symmetries of the trispectrum allow a much reduced support set to be defined, contained within the following vertices, where 1 is the Nyquist frequency. (0,0,0) (1/2,1/2,-1/2) (1/3,1/3,0) (1/2,0,0) (1/4,1/4,1/4). The plane containing the points (1/6,1/6,1/6) (1/4,1/4,0) (1/2,0,0) divides this volume into an inner and an outer region. A stationary signal will have zero strength (statistically) in the outer region. The trispectrum support is divided into regions by the plane identified above and by the (f1,f2) plane. Each region has different requirements in terms of the bandwidth of signal required for non-zero values.

In the same way that the bispectrum identifies contributions to a signal's skewness as a function of frequency triples, the trispectrum identifies contributions to a signal's kurtosis as a function of frequency quadruplets.

The trispectrum has been used to investigate the domains of applicability of maximum kurtosis phase estimation used in the deconvolution of seismic data to find layer structure.

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Crocker End House

Crocker End House in Nettlebed in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England is a spacious Victorian home built to replace Nettlebed's prosperous rectory in about 1870. It was bought by the Duke and Duchess of Kent in December 1989.

Owner-occupiers
The house was bought by the minor royals, the Duke and Duchess of Kent in December 1989 who occupied from February of the following year, having left Anmer Hall, their Norfolk home of eighteen years. The Duke and Duchess, with their family, used the house as their country retreat and in the early 21st century moved and sold the estate.

Former owner-occupiers are Lord Campbell of Eskan and the Earl of Arran.

Grounds and woodland
Crocker End House sits in a plot of 4 acre: the east half containing the house is garden which has a tennis court; the west half is a woodland known as Crocker End Green, part of the larger Chilterns woodlands. Its grounds compare to the quite large mainly rural civil parish of Nettlebed which measures 6.13 km2. Of relevance to the former rectory on the site and in Anglicanism, the ecclesiastical parish is near-identical in area.

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Talk:Sengkang MRT Station

I'm wondering, should it be considered an interchange (on the map and on the next/previous box) for the LRT line, which should then be coloured? -- Natalinasmpf 05:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it should be highlighted as an interchange. For the locator map, I used it's standard dark-grey color for the Sengkang lrt rail to be consistent with the system map, but it is not showing up well. Probably need a zoom-in map. Any better suggestion? --Vsion 06:18, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In a way it depends. Sengkang is more of a "multi-modal" interchange such as a bus-train connection, rather than being something similar to City Hall MRT Station. Actually, I once made it such that there are two articles: one for the Sengkang MRT and one for the LRT station, but others prefer to do redirects. What do you guys think about this? Perhaps after we settle this, the above issue will also fall into place a little more readily...--Huaiwei 07:42, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Parry Shen

Parry Shen (born June 26, 1973) is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and producer. Shen's first major acting role was in Better Luck Tomorrow as Ben Manibag, the film's leading character. He also starred in another Asian American film, Surrogate Valentine. He has since starred in the horror film Hatchet and its sequels Hatchet II, Hatchet III, and Victor Crowley. He had a recurring role as Tyler Li in the television series Tru Calling. From 2013 to 2023, he portrayed the role of Brad Cooper on General Hospital.

He is also known for his voice acting in the video games Sleeping Dogs and Mortal Kombat X.

Early life
Shen was born June 26, 1973, in New York City, in the borough of Queens. He went to Archbishop Molloy High School, then an all-boys (but now co-educational) Roman Catholic school in Briarwood, in Queens, New York, and at the University at Buffalo. His mother is from Hong Kong. His father is from Shanghai. When he moved to California, he worked as a dorm parent at Villanova Preparatory School, a private college preparatory school in Ojai. Shen is of Chinese descent and can speak Cantonese.

Acting
Shen is best known as the lead character, Ben Manibag, in Justin Lin's seminal Asian American film, Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). Shen was also a main part of the cast of Hatchet, in which he also returned for Adam Green's Hatchet II and Hatchet III. Shen has appeared in Ed Decter's The New Guy (2002) opposite DJ Qualls and Zooey Deschanel (as Glen). Shen also appears as the lead husband character, Luke, in Richard Wong's Yes We're Open opposite Lynn Chen and in Dave Boyle's Surrogate Valentine (2011) as Bradley, Pearry Reginald Teo's The Gene Generation (as Jackie, the brother of Bai Ling's character), and Eric Shapiro's Rule of 3 (2008) (as David).

Shen has appeared on the TV shows NCIS: Los Angeles (as Ty), MADTv (as Chin-Hwa Dak), Criminal Minds (as Bobby Kim), Brothers & Sisters (as Dan Silk), Veronica Mars (as Hsiang 'Charleston' Chu), Thief (as Billy 'Shrimp Boy' Kwan), Without a Trace (as Steven Park), Tru Calling (as Tyler Li), Holliston (as Trent), NCIS (TV series) (as Ben Richmond), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (as Seth), Party of Five (as Kyle), Cousin Skeeter (as Billy Blowfield), Chicago Hope (as Harry Lensky), The King of Queens (as stockboy), Malibu, CA (as Kip), Beverly Hills 90210 (as Staffer), Suddenly Susan (as Robert), Caroline in the City (as Tim), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as student). Shen also played various characters on the TV series Asia Street Comedy (2004).

Shen also voices the character Takeda Takahashi in "Mortal Kombat X" (2015), Winston Chu in Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs (2012), Mogu Zai in Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (2012), and Tang/Privateer/Thug in Far Cry 3 (2012).

On May 6, 2013, Shen debuted in the recurring role of Brad Cooper on General Hospital. He also appeared in the feature film Automation.

Author
Shen is Managing Editor of Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology, published by The New Press in April 2009. Its sequel, Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology, was published in November 2012.

Screenwriting and producing
Shen has written and produced the feature film entitled Unidentified (2013), directed by Jason Richard Miller.

Speaking engagements
Shen speaks at numerous universities about the entertainment industry and shares his experiences as an Asian American in the media.

Personal life
Shen has been married to his wife, Kim, since August 2, 2002, and they have two daughters.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boo Party

 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 Speedily deleted. --Golbez 22:42, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Boo Party
Deleted sveral times, user continues to recreate it despite no evidence that any such game exists. User has a history of creating hoax articles, and has been blocked in the past for this activity. Creator of bogus The Fox and the Hound Steal Money article. Zoe 05:44, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy delete - more nonsense from RyanCahn. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- not verifiable, as far as I a google search indicates, the subject does not exist --Mysidia (talk) 05:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * del. --Irpen 06:18, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, speedy as hoax if possible. Yet another non-existant video game. Dom Rem  | Yeah? 12:09, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * If this has already been deleted several times, isn't it eligible for a speedy as recreation of deleted content? If not, I vote delete at any rate. ESkog 14:21, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is this still here? Why is he not blocked? Jeff Knaggs|Talk 21:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied. --Golbez 22:42, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
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Anmer Hall

Anmer Hall is a Georgian country house in the village of Anmer in Norfolk, England. Built in the 19th century, it was acquired by the Sandringham Estate sometime after Queen Victoria purchased the property, and has previously been leased to business owners, civil servants, and members of the British royal family. It is currently the country residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, given to the couple as a wedding gift by Elizabeth II.

Design and location
The Georgian house was built in 1802. It has two storeys and an attic with dormer windows. The long south front comprises 13 bays, and was refaced with red bricks c. 1815. It has 13 ground-floor windows set in blank arches and a semicircular porch on two Tuscan columns, with 11 windows on the first floor. The three central bays are topped by a pediment. The north front is of rubble carrstone and includes four c. 17th-century ogee-headed sashes on the first floor. Renovations c. 1900 added a brick-dressed skin to the north front, together with a projecting entrance porch and a tower towards the eastern end, in the corner formed with a carrstone service wing also added c. 1900. The house was registered as a Grade II* listed building in 1984, but was later de-listed.

Anmer Hall has ten bedrooms. The interior style has been described to be "a mixture of contemporary designs and well-loved antiques", decorated with gilt picture frames and houseplants. The walls have been reported to be painted in cream colours, while the dining room is a "bold jewel green". The house has an outdoor swimming pool and a tennis court.

The surrounding estate became a scheduled monument in 2003, and includes earthworks marking the sites of buildings from the medieval village of Anmer. The village church, St Mary, lies close to the house, but a short distance away from the modern village. The house is 12 mi northeast of King's Lynn, 2 miles east of the King's residence at Sandringham and 2 miles west of Houghton Hall.

History
Originally the seat of the Coldham family, the Anmer Hall estate was purchased in 1896 at auction for £25,000 by the famed serial fraudster Ernest Terah Hooley before his first bankruptcy. The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) had attempted to purchase the property prior to Hooley's acquisition, and, through an intermediary, Prince Edward requested to purchase the property from Hooley. Hooley agreed, allowing him to buy it at cost in 1898, after which it became part of the Sandringham Estate. The reason given was that the Prince wanted the house for the use of his daughter, Princess Maud. A further motivation for the Prince's action was to avoid the possibility of Hooley's business promoter Alexander Meyrick Broadley, whom the Prince had implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal, from becoming a constant guest on the estate.

Anmer Hall was leased to John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby who served as Governor-General of Sudan, and held diplomatic posts in the Colonial Office and Ireland. His daughter, Penelope Aitken, socialised with the royal family and reportedly walked spaniels around the estate with George V.

From 1972 to 1990, Anmer Hall was leased to the Duke and Duchess of Kent as their country house. It was subsequently rented for the next decade by Hugh van Cutsem, a close friend of King Charles III. During his residency, the house was often visited by Prince William and Prince Harry in their childhood. The house was then leased to the family of James Everett, owner of kitchen timber company, Norfolk Oak.

The lease to the Everett family was terminated early following the allocation for Anmer Hall for The Prince and Princess of Wales, then known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The country home was given as a wedding gift to the couple from Elizabeth II. A £1.5 million refurbishment programme was put in place, paid for by private royal family funds. Renovations included a new roof, new kitchen, the addition of a conservatory, complete internal redecoration; and an extensive tree-planting programme to afford the Duke and Duchess greater privacy. The couple also keeps bees to produce honey on the estate.

The then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children moved into Anmer Hall in 2015, and used it as their main residence until 2017. It continues to be their private country home, and the family have been reported to spend weekends and school holidays at Anmer. William and Catherine's annual Christmas card has featured photographs of the couple outside the home alongside their children. The family isolated at the residence during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. A montage video of the family, filmed within the grounds of Anmer Hall, was released to celebrate the Duke and Duchess's tenth wedding anniversary.

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Jiutian Xuannü

Jiutian Xuannü is the goddess of war, sex, and longevity in Chinese mythology.

Etymology
This goddess was initially known as Xuannü (玄女). The name has been variously translated as the "Dark Lady" or the "Mysterious Lady" in English. In the late Tang dynasty, the Daoist master Du Guangting (850–933) created the title Jiutian Xuannü (九天玄女), adding Jiutian (meaning "[of the] Nine Heavens"), to refer to the goddess.

She and Sunü are divine sisters. Both their names combined, as xuansu zhidao (玄素之道), signify the Daoist arts of the bedchamber.

Stories
The Yongcheng Jixian Lu (墉城集仙錄), written by the Daoist master Du Guangting (850–933), contains a biographical account of Jiutian Xuannü. It mentions that Jiutian Xuannü is the teacher of Huangdi and the disciple of Xi Wangmu. The work relates a story about the goddess appearing before Huangdi during a time when the latter was in conflict with Chiyou. Chiyou had caused a great mist, which was so impenetrable that it obscured day and night. Huangdi would dwell in the mist for several days. Jiutian Xuannü rode a cinnabar phoenix, holding phosphors and clouds as reins, into the great mist. She wore variegated kingfisher-feather garments of nine colors. Huangdi greeted her and received her command. Jiutian Xuannü said: "I base myself on the teachings of the Grand Supreme. If you have any doubts, you may question me." Huangdi responded: "[Chiyou] is cruelly crossing us. His poison is harming all the black-haired people. The four seas are sobbing. No one can protect his own nature or life. I want the art of winning a myriad victories in a myriad battles. Can I cut the harm facing my people?" Thereupon the goddess bestowed various objects and artifacts. The following is a few of the listed items:

 * The Talismans of the Martial Tokens of the Six Jia Cyclicals and the Six Ren Cyclicals (六甲六壬兵信之符)
 * The Book by which the Five Emperors of the Numinous Treasure Force Ghosts and Spirits into Service (靈寶五帝策使鬼神之書)
 * The Seal of the Five Bright-Shiners for Regulating Demons and Communicating with Spirits (制妖通靈五明之印)
 * The Formula of the Five Yin and Five Yang for Concealing the Jia Cyclicals (五陰五陽遁[甲]之式)
 * Charts for Grabbing the Mechanism of Victory and Defeat of the Grand Unity from the Ten Essences and Four Spirits (太一十精四神勝負握機之圖)
 * Charts of the Five Marchmounts and the Four Holy Rivers (五[嶽]河圖)
 * Instructions in the Essentials of Divining Slips (策精之訣)

It was subsequently noted that Huangdi was able to defeat Chiyou and ascend to heaven on the basis of the items bestowed by Jiutian Xuannü.

In the novel Water Margin, Jiutian Xuannü is a deity whom Song Jiang encounters on two separate occasions. The first time, he takes shelter in a temple while evading soldiers trying to arrest him, and encounters the deity, who presents him a set of three divine books to aid him in his quest to "deliver justice on Heaven's behalf". The second time, she appears in his dream when he is leading the Liangshan forces to resist the Liao invaders, and teaches him how to break the Liao forces' battle formation.

Warfare
The association of this goddess with warfare is derived from the Longyu Hetu (龍魚河圖), presumably produced during the Xin dynasty. This text describes the manifestation of the goddess herself in front of Huangdi (黃帝) during his conflict against Chiyou (蚩尤): ""The Yellow Emperor came into power. Chiyou and his brothers, a total of 80 people, all had the bodies of beasts and spoke like human beings; they had bronze heads and iron foreheads. They ate sand and rocks, built military weapons, and intimidated the world. They killed at will and without principle, showing no mercy. The Yellow Emperor governed the state, and he looked at the sky and sighed. Heaven dispatched the Mysterious Woman down to earth to deliver military messages and sacred talismans to the Yellow Emperor, enabling him to subjugate Chiyou. The returning statesman (the Yellow Emperor) therefore used them to suppress the enemy and seized control of the eight directions." 「黃帝攝政. 蚩尤兄弟八十人，並獸身人語，銅頭鐵額. 食沙石，造兵杖，威震天下. 誅殺無道，不仁不慈. 黃帝行天下，仰事天而歎. 天遣玄女下，授黃帝兵信神符， 而令制伏蚩尤，歸臣因使鎮兵以制八方. 」" Her intervention in warfare is a common narrative in Daoist texts, such as in texts from the Zhongshu Bu (眾術部) in the Daozang (道藏).

Martial magic
A set of Daoist texts, produced after the Tang dynasty, associates the goddess with magical capabilities, such as the skill of invisibility (隱身) and the method of mobilizing the stars of the Northern Dipper to protect the state. The Lingbao Liuding Mifa (靈寶六丁秘法) specifies that Jiutian Xuannü's magic is martial in origin.

Jiutian Xuannü has the ability to magically conceal the body and her power is exercised through the Six Ding Jade Maidens (六丁玉女) who are her acolytes. According to the Lingbao Liuding Mifa, the Jade Maidens perform specific tasks during the concealment: the Jade Maiden of Dingmao (丁卯玉女) conceals one's physical body, the Jade Maiden of Dingsi (丁巳玉女) conceals one's destiny, the Jade Maiden of Dinghai (丁亥玉女) conceals one's fortune, the Jade Maiden of Dingyou (丁酉玉女) conceals one's hun soul, the Jade Maiden of Dingwei (丁未玉女) conceals one's po soul, and the Jade Maiden of Dingchou (丁丑玉女) conceals one's spirit. Achieving invisibility is seen as a military strategy to defeat enemies and protect the state, as the text claims that practitioners must first learn to conceal their bodies if they hope to expel evil and return to righteousness. The goddess and the six maidens together represent the yin force in the universe, which is the means to concealment of the body. Herein, their magic and their femininity are intertwined with each other.

The Micang Tongxuan Bianhua Liuyin Dongwei Dunjia Zhenjing (秘藏通玄變化六陰洞微遁甲真經), written in the early Northern Song period, gives an incantation associated with Jiutian Xuannü. By reciting this incantation and performing the paces of Yu (禹步), invisibility to others was said to be achieved. In the Baopuzi (抱朴子), written by Ge Hong (b. 283), the paces of Yu are described as elements of the divinatory system of dunjia (遁甲, translated "Hidden Stem") from which the immediate position in the space-time structure of the six ding could be calculated. The six ding are the spirits who are responsible for the position of the irregular gate (奇門), which represents a rift in the universe. The irregular gate must be approached by performing the paces of Yu and serves as the entrance to the emptiness of the otherworld in which invisibility to evil influences is achieved.

The Beidou Zhifa Wuwei Jing (北斗治法武威經) states that Jiutian Xuannü taught the method to mobilize the stars of the Northern Dipper to Yuan Qing (遠清), an official during the transition from the Sui to the Tang dynasty. The method is known as Beidou Shi'er Xing (北斗十二星, translated "Twelve Stars of the Northern Dipper"). The Shangqing Tianxin Zhengfa (上清天心正法), produced in the Southern Song period, gives an incantation entitled Tiangang Shenzhou (天罡神咒, translated "Incantation of the Heavenly Mainstay") that accompanies the method.

Longevity
The goddess Jiutian Xuannü appears in several works of physiological microcosmology in which the human body is seen as a microcosm of the universe and where the gods are present within. These texts locate Jiutian Xuannü along the central median of the body and associate her with the circulation of breath, which nourishes the vital spirit and provides longevity.

Jiutian Xuannü appears at least three times in the Huangting Jing (黃庭經), where the adept is instructed to send down his breath to enter the goddess' mouth.

The Taishang Laojun Zhongjing (太上老君中經), probably dating to the 5th century, mentions that she is "located between the kidneys, dressed only in the white of Venus and the brilliant stars. Her pearl of Great Brilliance shines to illuminate the inside of the adept's whole body, so that he can extend his years and not die."

In the Laozi Zhongjing (老子中經), Jiutian Xuannü is described as one of the three deities who are sitting on divine tortoises. The author comments: "The Mysterious Woman is the mother of the Way of the void and nothingness." The text gives instructions to adepts: "Close your eyes and meditate on a white breath between your shoulders. In its centre is a white tortoise. On top of the tortoise is the Mysterious Woman." There are two governors beside her, which adepts are instructed to summon by saying: "Governor of Destiny and Governor of the Registers, pare so-and-so's name from the death list and inscribe it on the Life List of the Jade Calendar." This ritual therefore points to a procedure in which a long life is promised.

Since the 3rd century AD, Jiutian Xuannü has been associated with alchemy. In Ge Hong's Baopuzi, it is noted that the goddess Jiutian Xuannü helps prepare elixirs with other deities, that adepts erected altars to the goddess when they create elixirs of metal, and that she had discussed calisthenics and diet with Huangdi. During the Song dynasty, the goddess was closely associated with neidan (inner alchemy).

Sexuality
While most books bearing Jiutian Xuannü's name were about warfare, books that focus on her link to sexuality also exist. The Xuannü Jing (玄女經) and the Sunü Jing (素女經), both dating to the Han dynasty, were handbooks in dialogue form about sex. Texts from the Xuannü Jing have been partly incorporated into the Sui dynasty edition of the Sunü Jing. From the Han dynasty onwards, these handbooks would be familiar to the upper class. On the other side, during the Han dynasty, Wang Chong had criticized the sexual arts as "not only harming the body but infringing upon the nature of man and woman."

During the Tang dynasty and earlier periods, Jiutian Xuannü was often associated with the sexual arts. The Xuannü Jing remained a familiar work among the literati during the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Dongxuanzi Fangzhong Shu (洞玄子房中術), which was likely written by the 7th-century poet Liu Zongyuan, contains explicit descriptions of the sexual arts that was supposedly transmitted from Jiutian Xuannü.

The sexual practices that Jiutian Xuannü supposedly taught were often compared to alchemy and physiological procedures for prolonging life. In Ge Hong's Baopuzi, there's a passage in which Jiutian Xuannü tells Huangdi that sexual techniques are "like the intermingling of water and fire—it can kill or bring new life depending upon whether or not one uses the correct methods."

Development

The goddess Jiutian Xuannü was actively worshiped by the ancient Chinese, but the extent of the worship diminished after the Han dynasty. Over the following centuries, she was gradually assimilated into Daoism. During the Tang dynasty, contrary views about Jiutian Xuannü coexisted. In this period, the rise of Daoism gave way to a new imagery of a high goddess of war who won by magical and intellectual means, and who transmitted the arts of immortality. The aspects of sexuality, victory over enemies in warfare, and everlasting life was slowly modified to fit this new image. Moreover, the Daoist Du Guangting attempted to expunge all the heterodox and crude elements from Jiutian Xuannü's popular legends, such as the erotic and sexually-empowering nature of the goddess, to create a new image of a martial goddess that was appropriate for the Shangqing school of Daoism.

In the Ming dynasty, Jiutian Xuannü officially became a celestial protectress and was venerated as a tutelary goddess of the state. In 1493, Empress Zhang (1470–1541), who was the wife of the Hongzhi Emperor, was ordained and her ordination was certified in a scroll entitled The Ordination of Empress Zhang, which contains numerous images of deities (but not Jiutian Xuannü) and an inscription composed by the Daoist master Zhang Xuanqing (張玄慶, d. 1509) of the Zhengyi school. This inscription ranks Jiutian Xuannü above all other celestial warriors by placing her ahead of the divine categories Generals, Marshals, Heavenly Soldiers, the Six Ding Jade Maidens, and the Six Jia Generals. Furthermore, it granted her the expanded official title Jiutian Zhanxie Huzheng Xuannü (九天斬邪護正玄女, translated "Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens who Slays Evil and Protects Righteousness"). The Lingbao Liuding Mifa associates the phrase "slaying evil and protecting righteousness" (斬邪護正) with the goddess and emphasizes that "in order to slay evil and return to righteousness, one first needs to know how to become invisible" (斬邪歸正，先須知隱形).

The veneration and elevation of Jiutian Xuannü may have had an underlying political rationale, as it positioned an aristocratic family over another. The relationship of Empress Zhang and Jiutian Xuannü closely paralleled the relationship of the Ming emperors and Xuanwu, another important deity in Daoism, which promoted the empress and her family's position in the imperial court. This was during a time of strife between the Zhang family and Zhou family (of Empress Dowager Zhou, the grandmother of the Hongzhi Emperor), the latter who adhered to Buddhism. Jiutian Xiannü is a fertility goddess, which also may have contributed to Empress Zhang's worship of the deity.

In contemporary times, she has also been considered a patron of marriage and fertility, and is regarded by believers to have been responsible for the customs in Chinese culture by which people with the same surnames have been forbidden to marry.

Appearance
In the Taishang Laojun Zhongjing, Jiutian Xuannü is described as being dressed only in the white of Venus and the brilliant stars, with her pearl of Great Brilliance shining in illumination. When Jiutian Xuannü appeared before Huangdi as narrated in the Yongcheng Jixian Lu, she wore variegated kingfisher-feather garments of nine colors and rode a cinnabar phoenix with phosphors and clouds as reins.

The physical appearance of Jiutian Xuannü has been described in a poem that appears in the Rongyu Tang (容與堂) edition of the novel Water Margin (published in the Ming dynasty): ""On her head, she has a nine-dragon and flying phoenix topknot, and on her body she wears a red silken gown decorated with golden thread; blue jade-like strips run down the long gown and a white jade ritual object rises above her colored sleeves. Her face is like a lotus calyx and her eyebrows fit naturally with her hair. Her lips are like cherries, and her snow-white body appears elegant and relaxed. She appears to be the Queen Mother who hosts a saturn peach banquet, but she also looks like Chang'e who resides in the moon palace. Her gorgeous immortal face cannot be depicted, nor can the image of her majestic body." 「頭綰九龍飛鳳髻，身穿金縷絳綃衣，藍田玉帶曳長裾，白玉圭璋擎彩袖. 臉如蓮萼，天然眉目映雲環﹔脣似櫻桃，自在規模端雪體. 猶如王母宴蟠桃，卻似嫦娥居月殿. 正大仙容描不就，威嚴形像畫難成. 」"

Popular culture
Jiutian Xuannü appears as a character in the 2007 Hong Kong film It's a Wonderful Life, the 1980s Chinese television series Outlaws of the Marsh, and the 1985 Hong Kong television series The Yang's Saga.

She is featured in the mobile game Tower of Saviors.

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Signature
You can copy someone else's signature, and then experiment with changing it on the "preferences" page (using the sandbox is the best way) — see Signature. The Greek characters (without diacritics) are available on the ordinary editing page (down at the bottom, under the "save page"/"show preview" buttons; for other character sets you can use HTML Unicode; have a look at meta:Help:Special characters. I hope that this helps. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 09:47, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Edit counter
Thanks for the heads up. I haven't checked my edit count in a while. I found this tool that works very well. You also mentioned that you're not sure how to link it in your signature. You can view my signature template here if it's something you're interested in. Thanks again! Jtrost (T | C | #) 15:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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Broken link
Thanks - I appreciate you catching the broken link to the edit counter. I've repaired it. Cheers! --Ckatz chat spy  20:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Republican Party (United States)
Glad I could reword it to make everyone happier. I would be careful though about labeling something vandalism. Try to assume good faith of other editors. There is a Wikipedia policy somewhere about this, though I'm not willing ot look it up. Thanks for spotlighting the original edit though! Rkevins82 - TALK 22:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Alright
It's ok, I just don't like to be accused of things that I didn't do. If I had done it then I wouldn't have a problem with accepting my mistake. Granted, I should have paid a bit more attention to what it said originally, I probably would have made the same changes you did. I was only seeing the capitals altered to lowercase. Bignole 22:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Not Contrived
You might be surprised to find out that neither example is contrived. They both come out of number theory. happy number and birthday paradox are both legitimate terms. Now placing the number of letters in happy in front of the 6, may have been a bit of discordian numerology, but I suspect I was practicing discordianism before you were born. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RDates (talk • contribs) 22:46, 10 May 2007 (UTC).

Can't Count
The 60's were rough...sometimes counting is difficult. Enjoy college, have a good life, have fun, and don't get too messed up.Richard Dates 14:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

SVG table
Thanks, I appreciate it. I think the real problem is with the thumbnail generation from SVGs. It seems to work only 3/4 of the time or so. Once there's a bad thumbnail it seems to stick around forever (though sometimes cache purging works). So switching the thumbnail sizes is probably what did it, but I appreciate having the gallery working! — brighterorange  (talk) 15:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
Thanks for fixing the vandalism on my User Talk page! - SigmaEpsilon → ΣΕ 20:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the reply; if you want to take a look at the problem (it's totally off-Wikipedia), it's at http://www.mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Gamebox (I'm Mr.Flay there). -- nae'blis 04:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

HappySlip
Hi, I don't understand why you removed part the HappySlip article I wrote saying it had no reference; the link provided was bringing to a page listing the cumulative views of YouTube users, and that was the reference. I'm reverting the change, tell me if there's anything wrong. bye --Outspan 22:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

 * 2M are the channel views, not the total views. this is the reference and she is at the bottom of the page, they are cumulative views and it says 17M :P bye! --Outspan 22:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

RE:Userboxes
Go right ahead. I would love it if you would cleanup the excess code. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor ( tαlk ) 02:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:HD
When you intend to help someone, read their post, don't just skim over it and go with whatever seems like the quickest fix -- lucid 20:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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Committed identity
The committed identity scheme came up during a spat of compromised admin accounts earlier this year. The committed identity works by changing a phrase of your choice into a cryptographic hash that (as of now) cannot be broken. If and when your account is compromised (leading to its indefinite block), you can reclaim it (theoretically) by verifying your identity with this scheme. You provide the phrase to a trusted user or the Wikimedia Foundation and they will see if the hash resulting from the phrase matches the one you had given (posted on your user page, as many have done). — Kurykh  22:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes
Hey, SigmaEpsilon. Awhile back you cleaned up my [[User:The Random Editor/Userboxes. I changed it so feel free to clean it up again. --Thε Rαnδom Eδιτor ( tαlk ) 23:37, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: (User talk:ais523) Your signature
I customized my signature by adding the timestamp to the signature's code itself, and I sign with three tildes (~~~) rather than four to prevent the software adding a second timestamp automatically. Here's the code for my sig, if you're interested: --ais523,   (UTC) Hope that helps! --ais523 15:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Heroes
You weighed in this summer about the Helix, and which appearances should be included. the topic has come up again. If you still have an opinion on this, it would be welcomed. ThuranX 05:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for the template code
Works great. Louis Waweru  Talk 02:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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Bill Nye Stop the Rock Elevator Music
Hey, I just spent half an hour ripping the elevator music from Stop The Rock, if you were still looking for that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91u6dtwYm8

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Linking nationality
The article now links his Czech nationality to Czech Republic, which didn't exist until about 50 years after his death. That seems wrong to me. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:51, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

AGREED, I have attempted to clarify this --- please read the first sentence and see if you think it is more correct. The problem seems to be that hundreds of editors seem to be having an argument over all sorts of political "stuff" relating to the prior history of this nation. I prefer to avoid this shooting match, so hopefully my modification here conveys where this artist was born without getting involved in what is was called then. This link to Czech Republic needs clarified and decided upon... but to do so requires concensus above my pay grade.. It mentions the nation formed in 1918, but not the name of the nation (Bohemia??) before then when Simon was born.Printguy 04:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Restrikes
Please list sources regarding possible recent restrikes. I can locate no other discussions regarding modern editions of the atrists New York prints, though there do seem to be places in Prague selling various recently restruck smaller etchings and woodcuts. Printguy 16:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

TFSimon.com
I have for at least the second time restored indication that this is a commercial site. If someone -- I presume related to the site -- keeps removing this without (unlikely) consensus on talk page, I will regrettably have to remove it entirely. - Jmabel | Talk 03:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure that www.TFSimon.com is a commercial site? It seems to be the only plaace to locate photographs of the prints as well as a listing of the full catalog raisonne published by Novak as well as the later works of Simon after Novak published the partial catalog raisonne. This link would seem to be very valuable to those interested in Tavik Simon.Printguy 04:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that it is useful — that's why I didn't remove it — but it is obviously commercial (it has prints for sale) and we should always clarify that in a link: that is very different from (say) an academic site about an artist. - Jmabel | Talk 04:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

 * It looks like the vending links are now gone from the site. - Jmabel | Talk 04:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:Tavík František Šimon


text:
Confessionalism

Confessionalism may refer to:
 * Confessionalism (poetry)
 * Confessionalism (religion)
 * Confessionalism (politics)

title: Confessionalism