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Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private for-profit Christian university in Phoenix, Arizona.

The university offers degrees in over 200 areas of study and is administratively divided into 9 colleges. As of September 2023, more than 100,000 students were enrolled online and in person, making it one of the largest Christian universities by enrollment.

The Arizona Southern Baptist Convention established the institution in 1949 as Grand Canyon College. In 1999–2000, the university ended its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention.

The university competes as the Grand Canyon Antelopes in NCAA Division I athletics as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

Founding
Grand Canyon College was founded as a nonprofit institution in 1949 in Prescott, Arizona. Southern Baptists felt the need to establish a faith-based institution that would allow local Baptists to obtain a bachelor's or master's degree without going east to a Baptist college in Texas or Oklahoma.

On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College relocated to its current location in Phoenix.

In 1984, the college's trustees voted to transition the college to a university for the school's 40th anniversary in 1989, becoming Grand Canyon University. At this time, it also changed governance from the Southern Baptist Convention to the GCU Board of Trustees.

For-profit restructuring
Suffering financial and other difficulties in the early 21st century, the school's trustees authorized its sale in 2004 to California-based Significant Education, LLC, making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States. Significant Education was a subsidiary of education entrepreneur Michael K. Clifford's company. Clifford became managing director of the privatized institution, with the former board of trustees serving in an advisory role. Significant Education became a corporation in 2005, publicly traded under the name Grand Canyon Education, Inc in 2008. GCE trades on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LOPE".

After the infusion of capital, Grand Canyon University's size increased. After having fewer than 1,000 students enrolled in 2008, the university had 17,500 students in the spring of 2017. A 2015 economic impact study revealed that the university was adding about $1 billion into the state's economy each year during its expansion. In February 2017, then Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said that the neighborhoods surrounding the university had experienced a 30% increase in housing values and a 30% decrease in crime rates.

By 2014, GCU students' accumulated student loan debt was estimated at more than $5.9 billion.

Due to GCU's for-profit status (and various other reasons), Arizona State University had refused to play against GCU in any sport, even though both are NCAA Division I schools and only 16 mi apart. ASU eventually reversed its position, and sporting events between the two universities recommenced in 2020.

Attempts to return to nonprofit status
In fall 2014, the college announced the exploration of a return to nonprofit status. GCU's regional accreditation body, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), rejected the university's petition for conversion to nonprofit status in 2016, saying that the school's proposed strategy, particularly its plan to outsource some of its activities (such as curriculum development and student support services) to outside vendors, did not meet the criteria for such a conversion. In 2018, GCU submitted another application to HLC to change to nonprofit status. This application was accepted on July 1, 2018. Although some organizations have approved this transition, the U.S. Department of Education still classifies the university as a for-profit university. The government specifically says that GCU is a captive client to Grand Canyon Education and operating for the benefit of a for-profit company's shareholders. Grand Canyon Education has also been accused of engaging in securities-law fraud with its relation to GCU.

Grand Canyon University was alleged to have switched from for-profit to nonprofit status due to its yearly $9.2 million property tax bill. Numerous school officials said this was unsustainable and a key reason the switch was made. Some critics of for-profit education criticized the relationship between GCU and GCE as too intertwined.

In 2021, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by GCU that claimed the university didn't receive all the coronavirus relief funds to which it was entitled because it was a nonprofit entity. The same year, GCU sued the U.S. Department of Education after being denied nonprofit status twice. The suit was dismissed in 2022 after a federal judge rejected the university's claims.

In October 2023, a GCU press release alleged that there was a concerted effort by the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Veterans Affairs to punish the school for attempting to gain nonprofit status.

Regulatory sanctions
In 2008, the federal government sued GCU for paying enrollment counselors according to how many students they had enrolled while at the same time accepting federal financial aid, a violation of the Department of Education's incentive compensation ban. GCU reached a settlement in the case, and was forced to pay a $5.2 million fine to a former employee and the government.

In 2023 the Department of Education fined the company $37.7 million for deceiving students about the cost of doctoral degrees. The department alleged that 78% of students graduating in those programs paid about 25% more than the cost that GCU represented, with much of the extra charges accumulating from additional "continuation classes" for completing the dissertation requirement. Only 2% paid the represented cost. The school disputed the allegation, claiming in addition that it provides more information than is legally required. GCU is the largest recipient of federal student aid. In addition to the fine, the department imposed conditions on the school to continue participating in the federal student aid programs.

Also in 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a federal lawsuit alleging that GCU deceived prospective doctoral students about the cost of its program and its for-profit status. The suit asserted that GCU paid 60% of its revenues to the for-profit Grand Canyon Education company and was the company's most significant source of revenue. The university and company had the same CEO.

Main campus in Phoenix
In 2006, the college spent $150 million to renovate the campus, adding a brick promenade, an aquatics center, and a café.

In 2009, GCU began work on a $60 million campus expansion project, including a 500-bed dormitory, a 55,000 sqft fitness and recreation center, 125-classroom facility, food court and bowling alley, and a 5,000-seat arena. The GCU Arena, which opened on September 2, 2011, is used for concerts, speakers, and other events. The arena is also home to the college's men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball games. The arena was expanded to 7,000 seats in 2014. GCU offers several fast food restaurants, coffee shops, student union, cafeteria, video game room, and six-lane bowling alley for student recreation. In August 2016, the university announced the establishment of the GCU Police Department

In August 2016, GCU announced its 10 in 2 initiative, the building of 10 on-campus athletic facilities in a two-year span. Highlights of the project included new facilities for the university's soccer, baseball, softball, tennis and beach volleyball programs. It also included a sports medicine expansion, an equipment room expansion, practice facilities for the basketball and golf programs, and a student-athlete academic center.

Accelerated Nursing (ABSN) learning sites
In 2020, the university opened its first two ABSN locations, in Sun City and Tucson.

On May 9, 2022, GCU opened an ABSN location in Sandy, Utah.

On September 7, 2023, GCU announced the opening of its 5th ABSN location in Chandler, Arizona.

GCU's 4th ABSN location is in Henderson, Nevada.

GCU opened its 6th ABSN location, in Phoenix's West Valley, with a grand opening ceremony on September 18, 2023.

Another ABSN satellite campus is in Meridian, Idaho.

The 8th most recently opened ABSN location is in St. Louis, Missouri.

Academics
Grand Canyon University offers over 200 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs through its 10 colleges.
 * Colangelo College of Business
 * College of Doctoral Studies
 * College of Education
 * College of Engineering, and Technology
 * College of Arts and Media
 * College of Humanities and Social Sciences
 * College of Nursing and Health Care Professions
 * College of Natural Sciences
 * College of Theology
 * Honors College

In August 2016, the university announced that it was opening a seminary.

In April 2017, Arizona nursing board officials censured GCU after the school's nursing programs fell below 80% graduation rate for two consecutive years. GCU said it would implement a plan to increase graduation rates. Three months later, the nursing board announced it was pleased with the "tremendous improvements" the university had shown to addressing all concerns. In 2018, the Arizona State Board of Nursing censured GCU's nursing program due to the number of first-time students failing to pass the registered nursing exam and after numerous complaints by students and faculty. In the second quarter of 2018, GCU nursing students posted a 95.65% first-time pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). This leads to a year-to-date rate of 92.86%, higher than the Arizona Board of Nursing's year-to-date statewide average of 91.89%.

Grand Canyon University's undergraduate entrance requirements are either a 3.0 high school GPA, or a high school GPA of 2.5 with either an SAT score of 1,000 or ACT score of 19. In 2021, the university acceptance rate was 76.9%; of those admitted, 23% enrolled. The university does not report scores of matriculating students, while high school class rank, high school college preparatory classes, and letters of recommendation are neither required nor recommended.

Athletics
GCU Roller Hockey Inaugural Season

GCU Roller Hockey's inaugural season took place during 2022-2023. The team and program were established by Aydin Schwetz in the summer of 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBR5VSNoiDc ).

League Membership

GCU Roller Hockey is a member of the NCRHA Division 1, with the majority of their games played in the Western Collegiate Roller Hockey League (https://ncrha.org/page/about ).

Championship Victory

In only its second season (2023-2024), the GCU Lopes emerged as the NCRHA Division 1 Champions. They triumphed over the Lindenwood Lions, who had an undefeated season record of 16-0, (https://lindenwoodlions.com/news/2024/4/22/roller-hockey-falls-in-epic-3ot-national-final.aspx) with a 2-1 victory in triple-overtime. This dramatic win has been dubbed “The Miracle On Tile”(https://twitter.com/hockeyhousepod/status/1794013121729708301) (https://www.instagram.com/narchplayers/reel/C6AqAYCOZv_/) (https://lindenwoodlions.com/news/2024/4/22/roller-hockey-falls-in-epic-3ot-national-final.aspx). The championship game was held on April 20, 2024, at the Norway Savings Bank Arena in Auburn, Maine.

Facilities

The on-campus roller hockey rink at Grand Canyon University was fully funded by the NHL Arizona Coyotes (https://gcuclubsports.com/facilities/dek-roller-hockey-rink/6).

External Links

 * GCU Roller Hockey Creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBR5VSNoiDc
 * Division 1 Information: https://ncrha.org/page/about
 * Western Collegiate Roller Hockey League: https://wcrhl.com
 * Lindenwood Lions Championship Game Report: https://lindenwoodlions.com/news/2024/4/22/roller-hockey-falls-in-epic-3ot-national-final.aspx
 * Twitter Announcement of "The Miracle On Tile": https://twitter.com/hockeyhousepod/status/1794013121729708301
 * Instagram Coverage: https://wcrhl.com/news/grand-canyon-university-is-your-2024-ncrha-division-1-champion/58031
 * Local News Article: https://gcuclubsports.com/facilities/dek-roller-hockey-rink/6

Men's volleyball competes in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and beach volleyball competes independently.

Rankings, recognition, statistics, and accreditation
Grand Canyon University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). According to the HLC, Grand Canyon College entered candidacy for accreditation in 1961. By 1968 the school was regionally accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, HLC's predecessor, and remains accredited, successfully renewing its 10-year comprehensive evaluation in 2017. GCU colleges and programs also holds additional accreditations from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Arizona State Board of Educations, and the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). The university teachers and administrator preparation programs are approved by the Arizona Department of Education.

In 2021, the university acceptance rate was 76.9%, and, of those admitted, 23% enrolled. The freshman retention rate was 61%. U.S. News & World Report classifies the university among "National Universities", wherein it was classified in the 2022 Best Colleges as a Tier 2 institution (meaning it is placed in the bottom 25 percent of institutions in its ranking category).

Notable alumni

 * Anthony Birchak, wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * Henry Cejudo, mixed martial artist
 * Bill Engvall, comedian
 * Efrain Escudero, wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * Bayard Forrest, professional basketball player
 * Grandy Glaze, professional basketball player
 * Steve Green, musician
 * Niki Jackson, Major League Soccer player
 * Killian Larson, professional basketball player
 * Horacio Llamas, professional basketball player
 * Randy McCament, professional baseball player
 * Josh McDermitt, actor and comedian
 * Moriah Peters, musician
 * Cody Ransom, professional baseball player
 * Tim Salmon, professional baseball player
 * Randy Soderman, professional soccer player
 * Rachel Mitchell, attorney
 * Quentin Stanerson, member of the Iowa House of Representatives
 * David Stapleton, professional baseball player
 * Kevin Warren, professional football executive and college athletics commissioner
 * Christine Weidinger, operatic soprano
 * James White, theologian and minister
 * Jacob Wilson, professional baseball player

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Pirelli Calendar

The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as "The Cal", is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli since 1964. The calendar has a reputation for its choice of photographers and models and featured glamour photography from the 1980s until the 2010s.

The calendar is produced with limited availability (20,000 are printed annually). Copies do not go on sale, but are instead given as corporate gifts to celebrities and select Pirelli customers. The annual production cost was about US$2 million in 2017. Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli's CEO from 1992 to 2022, commented that the purpose of the Cal is "to mark the passing of time" by recording the zeitgeist.

History
The Cal was originally created by the British art director Derek Forsyth. After an unpublished mockup in 1962, it became an annual publication from 1964. In some of the earlier calendars Pirelli tyres featured prominently, though this marketing aspect was later dropped. The first woman photographer to shoot the calendar was Sarah Moon in 1972. Publication was discontinued after the 1974 issue as an economizing cutback in response to the world recession resulting from the 1973 oil crisis. It was resurrected 10 years later and has been published regularly since then except for 2021.

For the first ten years of the calendar's existence, it included photographs of fully clothed women, but an emphasis on nudity developed during the 1980s. The 1987 calendar, photographed by Terrence Donovan, was the first to feature only black models, included a bare-bottomed 16-year-old Naomi Campbell. The models were photographed topless in Savannah-like settings and styled in tribal fashion. The calendar continued to use mainly eroticised images until the mid-2010s, although in some instances the pictures taken by the photographers were considered by the editors to be too risqué to use.

From the mid-2010s the calendar moved away from eroticism, and around this time diversity began to be addressed. The 2008 calendar was photographed by Patrick Demarchelier in Shanghai and included a number of Asian models. At the same time a book, The Complete Works: The Pirelli Calendar 1964–2007, was published by Mondadori. The 2010 calendar, photographed by Terry Richardson, used similar imagery to that which was used in the calendar in the 1960s. In 2014 Pirelli released an unpublished calendar from 1986 shot by photographer Helmut Newton. A 50th anniversary book, Pirelli - The Calendar: 50 Years and More, was published by Taschen in 2015.

The 2016 calendar, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, aimed to celebrate women for their accomplishments rather than their physical attributes. It included Fran Lebowitz, Mellody Hobson, Serena Williams, Yoko Ono and Patti Smith to represent inspiring women of diverse ages in almost entirely clothed portraits. The 2017 calendar was photographed by Peter Lindbergh and the women in the photographs were fully dressed and wore minimal makeup. It was the first calendar in which the photographs had not been retouched. The women photographed included Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore. For the 2018 calendar, photographer Tim Walker chose to feature only black models, including Duckie Thot, Adwoa Aboah, RuPaul, Whoopi Goldberg, and Thando Hopa.

The 2021 calendar was cancelled because of the global coronavirus pandemic but is returning for 2022, featuring musicians and titled On The Road. In 2024, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cal, Prince Gyasi became the first black photographer to produce an edition of the calendar.

Models
Appearance in the calendar has become a mark of distinction for those photographic models who are chosen, as well as for the photographers commissioned to produce the images used. Between 1997 and 2015 casting director Jennifer Starr also influenced the look and direction of each calendar. Over the years, the models and celebrities who have appeared in it include Alessandra Ambrosio, Bianca Balti, Ana Beatriz Barros, Malgosia Bela, Elsa Benítez, Mariacarla Boscono (3), Lauren Bush, Gisele Bündchen, Naomi Campbell (5), Gracie Carvalho, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Emanuela de Paula, Waris Dirie, Yamila Díaz, Lily Donaldson, Isabeli Fontana (8), Magdalena Frackowiak, Saskia de Brauw, Sonny Freeman Drane, Gigi Hadid, Duckie Thot, Bridget Hall, Filippa Hamilton, Miranda Kerr, Karlie Kloss, Heidi Klum, Karolína Kurková (3), Noémie Lenoir, Adriana Lima (3), Daisy Lowe, Angela Lindvall, Lakshmi Menon, Kate Moss (3), Petra Nemcová, Sasha Pivovarova, Natasha Poly, Frankie Rayder, Coco Rocha, RuPaul, Anja Rubik, Joan Smalls, Lara Stone (3), Fernanda Tavares, Caroline Trentini, Christy Turlington, Guinevere Van Seenus, Edita Vilkeviciute, Natalia Vodianova (5), Alek Wek (3), Daria Werbowy and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Actresses: Patricia Arquette, Nadja Auermann, Monica Bellucci, Selma Blair, Laetitia Casta (3), Jessica Chastain, Yao Chen, Maggie Cheung, Aurélie Claudel, Lily Cole, Rachael Leigh Cook, Penélope Cruz, Lou Doillon, Julia Garner, Whoopi Goldberg, Shalom Harlow, Neith Hunter, Milla Jovovich, Nicole Kidman, James King, Nastassja Kinski, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Doutzen Kroes, Jennifer Lopez, Sophia Loren, Audrey Marnay, Sienna Rose Miller, Julianne Moore, Bridget Moynahan, Brittany Murphy, Carolyn Murphy, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlotte Rampling, Eva Riccobono, Amy Schumer, Elisa Sednaoui, Léa Seydoux, Jenny Shimizu, Amy Smart, Julia Stiles, Hilary Swank, Uma Thurman, Ai Tominaga, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Robin Wright, and Zhang Ziyi.

Athlete: Serena Williams.

Dancer: Misty Copeland.

Singer: Patti Smith.

Photographers
Peter Lindbergh produced three editions of the calendar and Annie Leibovitz two.

For Patrick Demarchelier, the Cal is "the most prestigious calendar in the world".

In the trend of the MeToo movement and Weinstein effect, the Cal 2019 by Albert Watson featured Laetitia Casta in lingerie without teasing nudity.

Filmography

 * The Pirelli Calendar Saga (2010) by Emmanuel Le Ber

Exhibitions

 * 2014: The Cal – Collezione Pirelli at Palazzo Reale in Milan: photos of Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Steve McCurry, Steven Meisel, Herb Ritts, and Bruce Weber.
 * 2016: during the New York Fashion Week Fall 2016, inside Skylight at Moynihan Station: photos by Hans Feurer, Inez and Vinoodh, Peter Lindbergh, Steve McCurry, Mert and Marcus, Herb Ritts, and Bruce Weber
 * 2018: 2017 Pirelli Calendar By Peter Lindbergh And More.., Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow, the Vasnetsov brothers art museum of Kirov, Kaliningrad museum of fine arts, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Abakan picture gallery

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Reginald I, Count of Bar

Reginald I (also called "the One-eyed", Reinald I, Renaud I; c. 1080 – 10 March 1149) was Count of Bar (1105–1149). Barrois, during the Middle Ages, was the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar, in the eastern part of present-day France, bordering Lorraine.

He was the son of Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard and Ermentrude of Bourgogne, the daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy.

Reginald's first wife is unknown. He later married Gisele de Vaudémont, widow of Rainard III, Count of Toul, and daughter of Gérard I, Count of Vaudémont, and his wife Heilwig von Egisheim. Reginald and Gisele had eight children: Reginald was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade in 1145. He was drowned somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea on his return voyage to Europe on or before 10 March 1149.
 * Hugh de Bar (d. 29 September 1141)
 * Reginald II, Count of Bar
 * Drogo de Bar
 * Dietrich III de Bar (d. 8 August 1171), Bishop of Metz
 * Agnes de Bar (d. after 1185), married Albert. Count of Chiny
 * Clemence de Bar (1123–1183), married first Alberic II, Count of Dammartin, second Renaud, Count of Clermont, and third Thibaut III de Crépy
 * Mathilde de Bar, married Konrad I, Count of Wildgraf von Kyrburg
 * Stephaine de Bar (d. 1178), married Hugh III, Seigneur of Broyes and Châteauvillain

Reginald I of Bar succeeded Theodoric II of Bar (r. 1092–1105) who was succeeded in turn by Reginald II of Bar (r. 1150–1170) in 1150.

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Talkback
o hai andyzweb (talk) 01:32, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Your question

 * Hi Robert KS, Power.corrupts ask me to give you some advice.
 * You could contact all relevant wikiprojects with the following:
 * Hello, Currently their is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete all 50,000 articles about a living person without references.
 * The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person:Editor Jehochman's position
 * opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person:Editor Collect's position
 * Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.
 * Thank you all for your valuable contributions to Wikipedia.
 * Let me know if you are interested, I can show you how to do this very quickly, sending a message to each wikiproject in a list in three or less clicks.
 * The conversation about this will be centralized on my talk page: >>> User_talk:Ikip <<<. Ikip 17:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

I think we have the same ambitions and goals, for example, Power.corrupt praised my section on RFC/BLP. You maybe very interested in the petition which inspired me to create this: User:Ikip/iar, which you are welcome to add to your talk page. Thank you for your dedication to the project. Ikip 17:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow, Ikip is faster than me. Enjoyed you user page. Thanks for your comment anyway. Power.corrupts (talk) 18:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Let me know Robert :) Ikip 19:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to share your valuable opinion. "I don't see why unsourced BLPs shouldn't have the same prod or AfD process applied to them as any other article." amen to that. Ikip 23:36, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

ENIAC downgrade
Robert, a reasonable question, you may know a lot of this already. An article doesn't have to have the same grade for all projects. I'm not signed-up with the computing or Philadelphia projects. Both those projects use the same criteria for A-class assessment including, should "be well referenced". A lot of the paragraphs in the article and two sections, patent and reliability, have no inline citations. This was my reason for downgrading. there are a few other minor issues with article e.g. authors not in alphabetical order, duplicate links e.g. edvac, honeywell and external links is quite long, which i'll have a go at.

There is a broader policy issue that good article status is not a requirment for A-class which causes problems and i'll endeavour to pursue, cheers Tom B (talk) 00:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

John Reilly (actor)
Um, that edit was nearly a year ago. I can't remember what I did yesterday let alone something I did in March 2009. I'm guessing it probably just a simple mistake on my part. I do make those from time to time.  Pinkadelica ♣  23:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
 * 1) Proposal to Close This RfC
 * 2) Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip  02:04, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Heather Tallchief
Accusatory much? You assume bad faith from me all the time. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:30, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You know what? That was just rude of me and I apologize. We have been reconciling some differences after all, haven't we? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 00:39, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Frances Elizabeth Holberton
Hi Robert,

I had contact to the daugther of Frances Elizabeth Holberton, (namely to Priscilla), and she asked me to write her full name to her mothers article, because Frances Elizabeth Holberton used to sign documents not with her nickname but her full name. I would like you to respect her wish. -- ThePacker (talk) 22:48, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Since you moved the discussion to my talkpage: please see my update. -- ThePacker (talk) 16:28, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Jeopardy! "to date"
Oh, okay. The original phrasing had both "to date" and the date of April 1. I thought I was removing a redundancy. Sorry. JTRH (talk) 01:33, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Eytan Mirsky
Hi. I thought perhaps you were a very new user, but I see you're not. How can the fact that there is no reference to Jeopardy! in the entire article be irrelevant to categorization? Whoever wants to prove he was on Jeopardy! is responsible for supplying the information to that effect, not us wikignomes. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 22:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Ancient issue
from 2006 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.34.167 (talk • contribs) 2010-04-28T22:53:43

Episode status
Hi Robert, thanks for the response. You weren't the editor I was concerned about, but I appreciate your input nonetheless. Over the years, I've read about NBC's wiping practices in several places both in print and on the Web, so I'm certain (a) that it's true, (b) that it's relevant to the article, and (c) that there's a reliable source to corroborate it. What I'm concerned about is the use of an unsourced statement like "the tapes are believed to have been wiped." Believed by whom? The author of the article? The producer of the show? Someone at the network? On what basis is it believed? The warlike metaphor that I used was unfortunate; in a subsequent conversation with another editor, I toned it down to a more appropriate "weed-whacking." I was planning to use gardening tools, not napalm. :) JTRH (talk) 01:26, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * If you don't like "believed to be", "likely to have been" does the trick, though both are perfectly acceptable in scholarly contexts. It's impossible in most cases to prove that something doesn't exist.  Though on the face of it "believed to be" or "likely to have been" seem like more ambiguous statements, they are preferable over a firmer statement that cannot be indisputably proven. Robert K S (talk) 02:59, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Robert, I have some new information posted on Sottolacqua's talk page. Let me know what you think. JTRH (talk) 19:29, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

re: "Episode status"
Please continue this discussion on your own talk pages. I appreciate your consideration for my opinion, but I am not interested in helping with the project. Thanks for understanding Sottolacqua (talk) 19:35, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Robert, I reposted the new info on my talk page. JTRH (talk) 19:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Height Help
Robert,

In the article on Callas, in the section dealing with weight loss, I expanded a quote where Callas states her height. I'm having trouble figuring out how to properly write five eight and a half. Could you help with that? Thanks!!Shahrdad (talk) 22:24, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it should just be 5'8 1/2". Alternately you could write it with the special symbol 5'8½". Robert K S (talk) 03:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I think i'll do it the second way. I like the way the 1/2 looks in smaller letters, but still not sure how you did it!!Shahrdad (talk) 13:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Whenever you go to edit a page, beneath the "Save page" button there's a dropdown to select from a variety of special symbols to insert. Robert K S (talk) 14:20, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

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Wheel of Fortune merge proposal
Hey – I'm curious to see if you have any opinion you'd like to share related to a merge proposal I'm making with Wheel of Fortune articles (Talk:Wheel of Fortune (U.S. syndicated game show)). The two of us haven't always agreed on article content, but I think we both have the same general goal here on Wikipedia. Feel free to weigh in. Sottolacqua (talk) 16:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Renoir (Surname)
Jean Renoir (the movie director son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir) was as innovative and famous in his field as the painter was in his. I believe he should be included in the "Renoir (Surname)" page for that reason. Perhaps Pierre and Claude should not, but Jean definitely should.

I did not clarify any source documents for the other writer regarding the two Gabrielle Renoirs since neither has achieved the noteworthiness of being included in Wikipedia. I felt it was a moot point.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiWriterandEditor (talk • contribs) 17:17, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Jeopardy!
Well, I could have explained the Jeopardy! podium rules better: This is not very reliable, because neither me nor anyone I know has been a contestant. Us441(talk) (contribs) 01:02, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Returning champions are always on the left.
 * 2) Contestant coordinators draw for the other two players in regular play.
 * 3) In the first game, the contestants drew numbers.
 * 4) In tournament quarterfinals and kids weeks, the podiums are done by surname.
 * 5) In tournament semifinals and finals, podiums are done by score in previous round.
 * 6) In early ToCs, podiums were done by previous earnings.
 * 7) I do not know the order the podiums are done in Celebrity games.
 * At least that makes sense, whereas what you wrote originally did not... Robert K S (talk) 04:54, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Critical mass / About template
Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 23:50, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Super Jeopardy!
Sorry for adding that Super Jeopardy! uses points. I added that because the failed GA review said that that was necessary to add. Us441(talk)(contribs) 12:10, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's weird. The article regularly gets pruned of factoids by cruft-busters, and little factoids sprinkled throughout the article are the frequent target of such editing.  Anyway, a footnote, or the Super Jeopardy! article, is probably the right place for that information, if it's not found elsewhere in the article already, rather than putting it in the "episode status" section, which is intended to say which episodes of Jeopardy! are likely destroyed and will therefore never be viewable, vs. which episodes are known to be safely archived (as evidenced, for example, by their having been rerun).  Where is this failed GA review? Robert K S (talk) 21:33, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It is on the talk page. Us441(talk)(contribs) 20:44, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback correctly, and for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. A l is o n ❤ 20:41, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I want rollback. I believe I can be trusted to use rollback.  I haven't changed my position on our earlier disagreement.  Wherein a user is clearly editing articles merely to promote an ethnic or political agenda, and wherein that agenda is unmistakably clear from that user's edit record and talk contributions, that user's edits in pursuit of that agenda constitute vandalism to the encyclopedia when they are repeated again and again without consensus .  The proper test to apply in determining vandalism is the dual "bad faith"/"article harm" test using the "careful thought" standard as elaborated on WP:VANDALISM; incareful thought may lead to incorrect conclusions on either or both of the tests and/or yield a conclusion of "content dispute", "NPOV violation" or "disruptive editing" even when "vandalism" is the proper conclusion.  That said, I'll probably only use rollback sparingly at this point.  It's safer not to use it as long as there are administrators who disempower as a punitive measure.  On a more personal note, I hope you're well.  And, um, thanks for remembering me, I guess?  Cheers, Robert K S (talk) 21:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Corrections
I see you are a founding J! Archive archivist. Because I can't use "suggest correction" on player pages, those corrections will come here.

 * 1) Dane Garrett was not a 2-day champ. If he was, he would have been with a co-champ in Chuck Forrest game 1. He could have been a 4-day champ, as Gary Palmer was the last one into the ToC and had more money than Dane.
 * 2) 5-day champ Richard Perez-Pena had a total of 40,300 rather than 40,303 like Richard Cordray.

Us441(talk)(contribs) 00:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi... the proper course of action when submitting corrections on a player is to just submit a general correction suggestion on a game that includes that player. I will look into your suggestions... Thanks, Robert K S (talk) 00:43, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (1) Why could Dan Garrett not have been a 2-day champ? He could have tied in his first game and then again in his second game, then lost his third game against Chuck Forrest.  (2) What is your source for Richard Perez-Pena's total? Robert K S (talk) 00:54, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (1) There would be returning co-champs in Chuck Forrest's game.(2) It was a Jeopardy! Tournament Montage video on YouTube. Us441(talk)(contribs) 00:57, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (1) That's a good point. (2) Link, please? Robert K S (talk) 05:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (2) See this video. Richard Perez-Pena happens to be very early on. Us441(talk)(contribs) 11:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry the link doesn't work. The URLs are identical. I checked carefully. Us441(talk)(contribs) 11:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I hope I fixed it this time. I misread 1 character in the URL. Us441(talk)(contribs) 11:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It worked. Us441(talk)(contribs) 11:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

A random stranger looked at your userspace and said...
You seem to have had a very interesting life.

-Random Stranger —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.10.240.88 (talk) 22:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

J! Message Board
I have tried to register to the J! Message Board on two dates. Both days, it said "Sorry, we are unable to register your account at this time. What is wrong? Us441(talk)(contribs) 20:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm the wrong person to ask. Robert K S (talk) 00:04, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Recent edits
Please remain civil and do not make personal attacks on me as you have in Articles for deletion/Chuck Forrest, Articles for deletion/Jerome Vered (2nd nomination), Articles for deletion/Brad Rutter, and Articles for deletion/Dan Pawson. Please keep discussion on-topic with the subject listed in the nomination. If you feel I am acting in bad faith, open a case rather than using a deletion discussion as a forum for voicing your own opinion about the edits and contributions I make.  Sottolacqua  (talk) 16:07, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Let me get this straight. It's your belief that, for me to say that for my part the presumption of good faith does not apply to you since I have observed your editing behavior over a number of years, is a personal attack?  As WP:AGF points out, GF is a rebuttable presumption rather than a necessarily permanent state: "This guideline does not require that editors continue to assume good faith in the presence of contrary evidence."  (1) You made a blanket AfD of numerous articles.  (2) That AfD was shut down because there were too many differences between articles.  (3) Rather than create individual AfDs addressing each article individually, you created a "template rationale" and cloned the old AfD to a bunch of individual AfDs.  That is a prima facie bad faith move on your part.  I respectfully asked you to withdraw certain of those AfDs and start afresh.  This is not too much to ask, it is merely following proper procedure and proceeding ethically.  You in response slap my talk page with an incivility template.  Give me a break.  Straighten up and fly right.  If you're going to mass AfD articles, do it right, don't make misrepresentations, and don't plant unattributed quotations in them--that's all I ask. Robert K S (talk) 19:39, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Please do not make personal attacks as you did at User talk:Sottolacqua. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images, especially those in violation of our biographies of living persons policy, will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. Please stop attempting to instigate conflict by provoking me on my talk page. Again, if you feel I am acting in bad faith, open a case.  Sottolacqua  (talk) 18:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * No, thanks, I haven't the time to be wiki-suing you. If you want to open a case, I suggest you open one on yourself.  My asking what mischief you're up to this week isn't a "personal attack".  You do mischief.  This point is incontrovertible.  I would just prefer to be notified of it, when you do it, so that I may most effectively counter it with what little time I have on the encyclopedia.  Yes, I could hunt through your contributions log.  But this is time consuming and I would prefer you just post a notification to my talk page whenever, in the future, you decide to work yourself up into a senseless mass-AfD tizzy. Robert K S (talk) 03:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Super Jeopardy!
May I suggest the close to merge in Super Jeopardy! was an incorrect result, and that the result should be reversed or relisted? I didn't even see this AfD. Sottolacqua has been nominating Jeopardy!-related articles in stealth en masse over the past couple weeks and some of them I've missed without seeing. In this case we have a pretty clear error. The entire deletion rationale was bogus. Super Jeopardy! was related to Jeopardy by name, host, set, and basic style of gameplay, but it was not the same series, was not syndicated, aired on a different day and time, etc. Television series meet notability requirements. There's nothing more that needs be said. If I had seen this AfD, I would've been a keep vote, but that's immaterial. No number of differing votes can present an appropriate delete rationale in this particular instance. Robert K S (talk) 12:26, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * While I'm happy to answer questions, it looks like your question is answered in my FAQs. They're linked at the top of my talk page and in the editnotice. Why not check them out next time?
 * My role is to close the deletion debate in accordance with consensus there. I'm sure you'll understand that I can't be expected to know, less still evaluate, all the possible reasons that people who didn't see the debate could possibly have given. Deletion debates are open for at least a week to give everyone an opportunity to post their comment, and there has to be a fixed window for this otherwise nothing would ever get done. Stifle (talk) 14:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Isn't the mover of an AfD supposed to notify contributors to the article so that they know about the discussion and can participate in it? JTRH (talk) 15:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's strongly recommended that they nominate the person who created the article (and this is automatically done in Twinkle and other AFD nominating scripts); it's encouraged that they contact other contributors, but this is often wildly impractical. Stifle (talk) 11:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It sounds like you're saying, in essence, "I went to the AfD, I saw three 'keep' suggestions and four 'merge' suggestions, I deemed that to be a consensus for 'merge', and I closed the AfD." Is that accurate?  Do you understand why this is not a satisfactory answer?  The rationale proffered in the first 'keep' suggestion is dispositive: "Not technically a tournament; it was a prime-time network show, unlike its syndicated parent. So this AfD is based on a false premise."  Given that it was a 4-to-3 participation and that the "merge" suggestions offered no countervailing rationale, was there really consensus in this case?  I understand there is some amount of quasi-automated bureaucracy involved in Wikipedia administration, but some minimal amount of attention and thought has to be paid when closing AfDs.  Otherwise, what we have is chaos.  Cheers, Robert K S (talk) 20:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, AFDs really only have two possible outcomes, which are "delete" or "not-delete". Anything that happens after a "not-delete" closure (e.g. merging, redirecting, etc.) is at editorial discretion, and you can raise the question at the talk page if you want to revise a merge to a keep. So I'm happy with my closure of this discussion; you're welcome to raise a deletion review request if you wish although they will just tell you the same thing, that revising from a merge to a keep can be done on the article talk page. Stifle (talk) 11:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

J! Archive
Hey, I noticed you're one of the head archivists at J! Archive. I happen to have three episodes that aren't yet archived. How can I get them submitted? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 17:49, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * bpmod has graciously offered to DVD-itize your tapes for you. I would recommend corresponding with him privately.  Thanks. Robert K S (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Jeopardy! origins
Please participate in a discussion here before making any other reversions.  Sottolacqua  (talk) 02:24, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't like tags either
Seems like we could do a lot of the same benefit with some sort of bland "page header", not the dropped box, that just reminds that this is user-created content of varying quality, that anyone may edit and that the talk page has more info.

Perhaps with the article "grade" listed prominiently (like GA and FA): knowing the grade is actually relevant content to the reader. Also if so displayed prominently, think there would be a little more energy and motivation around taking a C to a B or the like.

I'd be fine, just cleaning the page up, though, and not having the disclaimer either. I think the icon in left top corner is enough for people to know that this is not the New York Times. I mean do we REALLY need to remind readers that Wikipedia is not an RS? And what if there is a page out there that is untagged? The horror! What if some reader looks at it, without a tag to repel him and remind him the unfinished nature of WP?

It really seems like the whole attitude of leaving the tags reflects and attitude of the project not being designed to create usable product, but a place to play (for the editors, not for the knowledge dissemenation.) This isn't even getting into the psychology of leaving the tags and battling over them and all that. And of some of the worst editors in terms of good writing, in terms of researching real information, lording it over the content creators, with textbox turds.

On the Talk page having some section for issues, could be helpful, and instead of various boxes, have fields in a table or something, and some justification and date info.

I routinely come across pages where the tags are out of date, either because a page was upgraded (like has 70 refs now, instead of none) or because no-one is working on the page for 4 years and likely may never do so. In one case, the windsheild is cleaned, but noone has removed the spraypaint. In the other, people have shown that the spraypaint hasn't motivated washing. Really in both, can see that (as the tag not removed).

We need to get that stuff out of the article text space. It's discussion of the article drafting. Needs to go in talk!

I don't really like the rationale of the taggers saying no one uses talk either. That's coming from generally non-content heavy folks. Maybe they should really dig into some real content discussions. Not just use talk for user messages and policy battles.

TCO (talk) 07:29, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your comments. Will you allow me to reprint excerpts from them on my user page? Robert K S (talk) 17:26, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

OK. TCO (talk) 17:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Even moving the tags to the bottom of the page would be an improvement
Although, they really ought to go in a penalty box in the talk page.TCO (talk) 08:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

coupla ideas
If you really care about it that much,

1. Write an essay on the topic, including some of the offsite criticisms.

2. Set up some template for use on talk pages (penalty box for tags, but maybe a section for "type of English" and "type of footnotes" also). And just start using it. do it on articles you create. See if it goes viral...

TCO (talk) 06:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikiquette alert
Hello,. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikiquette alerts regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.  Sottolacqua  (talk) 19:55, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Diff, for the record. Robert K S (talk) 20:39, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Frank Capra
When there are errors in formatting or in the use of sources, they are corrected, in the most economical and effective means; typically, it is easier to rewrite malformed citations rather than wrestling with malformed citation templates on top of that. FWiW, the Capra cite in question directly links to a notation in the bibliography. Bzuk (talk) 19:03, 19 December 2010 (UTC).

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