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Garbahare

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}} Garbahare (also: Garbaharey) (Garbaharey, Maay: Garbiharey, جربهاري) is the capital of Gedo, an administrative region in southern Somalia. It is the third largest and most populous city in the Gedo region after Bardera and Luuq.
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History
During the Middle Ages, Garbahare and its surrounding area were part of the Ajuran Empire that governed much of southern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, with its domain extending from Hobyo in the north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south.

In the early modern period, the Garbahare area was ruled by the Geledi Sultanate. The kingdom was eventually incorporated into the Italian Somaliland protectorate in 1910 after the death of its last Sultan Osman Ahmed in 1910. After independence in 1960, the city became the capital of Gedo region.

Insecurity of the 1990s
During much of the 1990s, the city of Garbahare was the seat of the Somali National Front militia in the early days of the civil war. Facing pressure from the local population, the militia left.

By early 2001, Garbahare came under the control of the Transitional National Government. All activities shifted to Luuq and Beled Haawo, and Garbahare had a new role in the region. Neighboring regions such as NFD welcomed the new leadership, as a safer Gedo is also good for the neighboring regions in Kenya and Ethiopia.

During the 2009 phase of the civil war, al-Shabaab militants captured the city, but were pushed out in 2011 by government forces commanded by Nur Matan Abdi.

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Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia

Cobbs Creek is a neighborhood located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, named for the creek which forms part of Philadelphia's western border. Cobbs Creek is generally bounded by Market Street to the north, Baltimore Avenue to the south, 52nd Street to the east, and the border of Upper Darby along Cobbs Creek to the West.

In 1998, the Cobbs Creek Automobile Suburb Historic District was created, with Cobbs Creek Parkway, Spruce Street, 52nd Street, and Angora Street its boundaries. The District protects 1049 buildings, with Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow/Craftsman architectural styles contained within the district.

Fires from the 1985 bombing of the MOVE headquarters at 6221 Osage Avenue spread to 64 other buildings in the neighborhood. The destroyed homes were hastily rebuilt by the city, but were later condemned after years of attempted repairs to the shoddy construction.

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The School District of Philadelphia operates public schools. Andrew Hamilton Elementary School located at S.56th St. & Spruce St., Sayre High School (formerly a middle school) is located at S.58th St & Walnut St. and West Philadelphia High School.

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Public libraries
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Talk:Bryan Reffner

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Do you think it's safe to change his template to "CTS Former Driver?" It's been a couple of years since he's raced, and a driver doesn't need to be retired in order to warrant it. -- D -Day I'm all ears How can I improve? 21:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I say wait till the end of this year, before we want to retire him, but you can change him over to "CTS former driver" template. He attempted a Busch race this year, and as I know, is looking for a ride. Things could change. Casey14 22:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Flipped SU(5)

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Would someone dumb this down for a layperson like myself? I have some vague general understanding of string theory as a GUT candidate. What is Flipped SU(5)?

Whaaaaa?????
Yeah, this thing needs a What the Bleep Do We Know? version. Can anyone translate this into something that makes sense to a Discover reader? This is the Scientific American Grad Student version.

Revert of Stenger/Origins
You do not remove reliably-sourced information. If you think that the source is wrong, then go find a source that suppports what you think and put it in with a reference. Just because you disagree with the source is no basis to remove it!!!Fladrif (talk) 16:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Does the source say that Barr invented it? Also, there are very different versions of this model. I don't think this article describes Barr's model. Whoever wrote it cited the 1987 version. I think you should have a better source than a popular book by a debunker who has no expertise in this area and who did little more than observe that the term flipped SU(5) appeared as early as 1982. Doesn't he simply say that that's the first appearance he could find? He's careful not to say it's THE first. I just don't see how you can interpret what he says to say that Barr invented flipped SU(5). And I don't think your addition is relevant to the article, unless you find a better source that knowledgeably describes the history of Flipped SU(5). By the way, look at WP:TALK, which says not to use a person's username in a heading. TimidGuy (talk) 20:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If Barr is the first, then he's first. Again, as I said on the Hagelin talk page. Accordng to who are there two different versions of the Flipped SU(5) model? Nothing in the article on Flipped SU(5) says anything about two different versions. You cite no sources, so I can only assume that you are relying on your own opinion? You claim that Stenger is a "debunker" with no expertise. According to who? Stenger is a prominent physicist in his own right. You cite no sources, so again I must assume that you are relying solely on your own opinion. Who are you to claim to know better? And regardless of who you are, that's not how Wikipedia works. You don't get to substitute your opinion for reliably-sourced secondary sources. If you think Stenger is wrong, go find a reliable, verifiable, independent source and cite it.  And, I didn't know about not using a username in talk subheadings. Seems a sensible policy. Fixed it.Fladrif (talk) 21:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Does your source say Barr invented it? It only says that Barr's paper was the FIRST HE COULD FIND, right? TimidGuy (talk) 21:32, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * First described would more accurately reflect the source. Changed it. Fladrif (talk) 15:42, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I provided a more complete discussion of the historical context based on   I think these resources help explain Stephen Barr's contribution, while doing justice to the supersymmetric version of the theory, which gave it prominence as a leading GUT. I hope these edits give the needed perspective. And I think that until some of the principals take the time to write a definitive history, the resources I referenced are probably the best we have at this time.Hickorybark (talk) 00:03, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Hickory. This is great. I took out some of the info about Hagelin's primary role. It seems too major of a claim to include in Wikipedia based an the source. I would think that we'd need a stronger source for this kind of claim. TimidGuy (talk) 18:35, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I've deleted The Iowa Source. It's a free magazine focused on popular culture and local events, and is closely associated with Hagelin's university. It's not a suitable source for an article of this type, unless we describe as giving Hagelin's opinion.   Will Beback    talk    22:21, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Plagarism removed
Parts of this article appear to have been directly plagarized from an non Reliable Source - an article by MUM Physics professor David Scharf on DO-J's self-published website. Fladrif (talk) 05:37, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The editort who added the unattributed, copied material was Hickorybark. I was just compiling evidence concerning other instances of plagiarism in other, related articles. This is inappropriate, especially in a scientific/academic topic.   Will Beback    talk    10:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * There was more plagarized text from Hickorybark, which I also removed.Fladrif (talk) 16:13, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Still more from Scharf article at Orme-Johnson website removed.Fladrif (talk) 17:14, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * What's particularly disturbing is that what is being plagiarized is a ranting, emotionally-charged screed against Victor Stenger that Scharf posted in various incarnations all over the interwebs, but apparently can't get published anywhere legitimate. Scharf, sporting his philosophy degrees (how he get on a science faculty?) displays a depth of comprehension of the hard science comparable to March's infamous Physics for Poets while claiming that Stenger, a prominent and well-respected real physicist has everything wrong. Fladrif (talk) 20:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

--- Re. "Scharf not scientist" --- Well, except that Philosophy of Physics (PhD) uses the ultimate tool of science, in the most precise ways possible -- ie. logic. It is the only true science, that can actually make sense of discoveries. Only logic can do that, and that is what philosophy of science is. Not only do all university science departments have philosophers of science on their faculty, but the credibility of such an institution is lowered if they do not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.63.125.98 (talk) 21:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

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Excised the entried of fictitious histories of Discordians:

 * The Curse of Greyface and the start of the Discordian calendar (1166 BC)

The Wikipedia historical calendar is intended to record actual events, not artificial ones. You're welcome to create a Fictional timeline as a separate article. LeFlyman 19:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry but no, Discordianism exists, the calendar exists, ergo it is not a fictional calendar & it is not a fictional fact that within Discordianism the Curse of Greyface is dated as 1166 BC, it is in fact a factual fact and that's a fact.Number36 01:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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Al Kolyn

Albert Kolyn (November 13, 1932 – January 17, 2024) was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Background
Kolyn was born in Fort William, and was educated in the city. He later moved to Toronto, where he worked as a businessman. Kolyn was an active freemason, and a member of the Ukrainian National Federation. He died on January 17, 2024, at the age of 91.

Politics
Kolyn ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, and lost to Pat Lawlor of the New Democratic Party (NDP) by 5,295 votes in Lakeshore. He then contested Etobicoke—Lakeshore in the 1979 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and lost to Liberal Ken Robinson by only 747 votes in a close three-way race. He campaigned federally again in the 1980 election, and this time lost to Robinson by 4,694 votes.

Kolyn was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, defeating NDP newcomer Don Sullivan by 1,232 votes. He served as a backbench supporter of the William Davis and Frank Miller ministries for the next four years.

The Progressive Conservatives lost several seats in the 1985 provincial election, and Kolyn was personally defeated in Lakeshore. He finished third out of three candidates, losing to New Democrat Ruth Grier by 3,653 votes. He attempted a comeback in the 1987 election, and finished a distant third against Grier.

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Talk:Gravis UltraSound

I changed some info in the 'History' part. IIRC Protected Mode is not the same as EMS386, even if EMM386 uses a Protected Mode function to switch the processor into Virtual x86 mode. This article is also in need of a separation of technical info from history... 141.35.8.33 19:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Anyone got a GFDL image of the GF1 to use instead? I'll take a pic soon and use that unless another GUS owner beats me to it. The current pic is effectively unlicenced. Riflemann 13:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm rmentat from Spain. There are some incosistences on the text. As my english is not very fluent I ask someone else to make the changes. Thank you very much.

First GUS used the GF1 wavetable chip for playback instead of a codec. The wavetable channels can be used for MIDI or tracker instruments, or as standard playback channels for games. Each channel is 16 bit mono; two are needed to playback a stereo sample. Up to 14 channels can be mixed at CD quality (16bit, 44.1KHz); more channels degrade the frequency up to 19KHz when using all 32 channels. The direct competitor of the GUS when it reaches the market was the Sound Blaster 16, wich was capable of stereo playback and recording at 44.1KHz, 16bit. The GUS was capable of recording only at 44.1KHz stereo 8 bits, so it has an important weak point in front of SB16, because 8 bits recording has much less quality than 16.

Later Creative Labs reacted launching the AWE32 soundcard, wich was very similar to the GUS or slighty better on some aspects (has 32 channels mixed at 44.1KHz, cut-off filters and chorus/reverb, for example).

For its part, Gravis launched the mentioned daughterboard with a Crystal codec wich gives the GUS the ability to record at 16 bit,48KHz. The next soundcard of the serie was the Ultrasound Max wich comes with the same Crystal codec.

Last GUS was the Ultrasound Plug'n'Play, wich came with the Crystal codec but replaced the GF1 with an AMD Interwave chip. It's 100% compatible with original GUS and has very little improvements (32 channel playback at 44.1KHz, basic reverb).

The GUS was not easiest or more difficult to program than other soundcards. It was just very well documented. That's the reason it has so many followers on the demoscene. The other really great reason was Fasttracker II. On the ages of the 386 it was a complete revolution.

Audio CD and MP3 finally ended with MIDI and modules on games, and with non-professional wavetable soundcards. --81.202.244.104 01:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

The history section is ridiculously long-winded. Ultrasound doesn't even enter the picture until past the fourth paragraph or so.

I think parts of the history section should be fork off into its own page on the evolution of PC sound capabilities (if such a page doesn't already exist). The history section then needs to be summarized on the parts that are not directly related to Gravis.

I'm busy at the moment but will proceed with said changes over the next few days. I will also attempt to incorporate other suggested changes mentioned above.

131.107.0.106 02:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite
This article sure needs some restructuring. I owned three consecutive cards from Gravis (GUS Classic v3.74, GUS MAX v 2.1 and GUS PnP Pro) so I will try to rewrite it with some more technical details and clarifications, but I need to refresh me memory because I've sold the last card back in 1998 as you may imagine, after Gravis got out of the market and it was clear that no further developments will be made. --DmitryKo 00:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Copyedits
I have some concerns about the changes introduced by User:68.122.29.151 in [ his copyedits].
 * 1) Reference to ICS11614 is right on the photo of the chip
 * 2) Hardware analog mixer is intended for analog inputs; you could control the volume of digital sources, i.e. wave and MIDI, because the driver worked around it
 * 3) GF1 is not "sample mixer", it's digital sample-based synthesizer, so no need to explain the entire concept of sample-based synthesis here
 * 4) SoundBlaster emulation was important, but there's no need to repeat it so many times - most GUS buyers knew what they get
 * 5) Whether or not GUS could fare better if it was released in Windows 95 timeframe is a POV - I personally believe it could have changed much, because the DOS gaming was abandoned almost instantly, but the failure of AMD InterWave speaks for itself.

Yeah the "fare better in Windows 95" part is POV, and ironic. Back in the day I had a GUS classic, (actually, I still have it...) and the #1 reason I eventually stopped using it was the fact that only mostly unusable beta Windows 95 drivers were released, that did not even support the wavetable features, and were never developed past beta. I ended up popping a cheapo SB16 clone in beside it for Win 95 use. I don't know if the reasons better drivers never came about were technical, or just lack of effort. (As noted, later GUS revisions basically came with the SB16 clone "built in"...) Linux was able to use the GUS as a straight DAC just fine. And incidentally, the current ALSA driver stack in Linux, derived directly from the Linux Ultrasound Project. (Which also ironically, once it became ALSA, no longer supported my GUS worth crap, last I checked. Which was sometime around 1999...) The old Linux Ultrasound Project page still seems to be up... http://www.perex.cz/~perex/ultra/ Last updated in 1998!

I still don't quite feel [ the difference] is for good. --Dmitry 09:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Dmitry, I made those edits. I apologize for not double-checking my edits before commiting them. My terminology was probably wrong. I was trying to convey the idea that the GUS mixed PCM pre-recorded samples in real-time -- i.e., it did not 'synthesize' them using mathematical-means (such as the Yamaha DX-7, Roland MT32/LAPC1.)

When you say "GF1 has no codec, so samples need to be downloaded to sample-RAM prior to playback." What does that mean? I was under the impression that the GUS could not play (DMA) direct from main-memory. CPU PIO was possible, but the overhead was horrendous (and sound-quality was terrible, too, because the GF1 wouldn't apply its usual linear-interpolation for sample-rate-conversion.)

You are definitely correct about the analog-mixer. I had the original (v2.2?) GUS Classic, and the line-in/mic-in had NO digital volume-control whatsoever. (On the plus side, the GUS did have stereo MIC-IN -- a novelty for its time!)

 * Digital sampler circuitry typically has the ability to control the volume of its voices, and does it in realtime because it's a requirement for a musical instrument. It probably doesn't even deserve explaining here.
 * Codec usually reflects a chip that does some coding/decoding. In regard to soundcards, most of them could play precompressed samples, and CS4231 was specifically the chip used in Wndows Sound System sound card from Microsoft. It supported sample rates up to 16 bit 48 kHZ, playback of IMA ADPCM compressed samples, and was able to DMA sounds from system memory just like SoundBlaster.
 * The GF1 could also DMA from system memory - if you remember the defaults for SET ULTRASND=220,5,1,11,7  command, the second and the third numbers define DMA channels used by GUS itself and its SB emulation - but it could not play back sample data simultaneously with DMA operations as SB-compatibles did, it was just moving it to local sound RAM (remember, it was just an adopted digital sampler chip) so the developers needed to allocate a buffer in local memory and "stream" sample data from system memory as needed.
 * This was the main source of developer's complains, so the CS4231 codec was added to the daughtercard option and the GUS MAX, making it WSS-compatible. It's also the reason why the beta of DirectSound "accelerated" (i.e. "non-emulated") drivers were only released for the GUS MAX), because DirectSound is all about cyclic wave buffer in the system memory (see WaveCyclic port class in WDM).
 * InterWave cards had "accelerated" drivers right from the start, becase the GFA1 had the CS4231-compatible circuitry inside). --Dmitry 11:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * InterWave cards had "accelerated" drivers right from the start, becase the GFA1 had the CS4231-compatible circuitry inside). --Dmitry 11:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Developer Support POV
Anyone care to rewrite the Developer Support section? It's quite POV-biased. --Trixter 05:44, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Compaq InterWave card has a RAM slot
I had one of the Compaq cards mentioned in the AMD InterWave section of the page. It had a single 30-pin RAM slot on it, despite the article text saying that the clones had no RAM slots.

Tagged fact as dubious. --Powerlord 04:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Before someone else asks, I've tagged it as dubious because I don't have another source to confirm this with. In fact, I only remember it because it was extremely hard to find a 30-pin 4MB RAM chip. --Powerlord 04:43, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I have two of the Compaq Interwave cards in front of me right now, and they most definitely have an expansion SIMM socket: You can even use Gravis' drivers, provided the TEA6330T output is enabled. Whotookplasma (talk) 06:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm removing the whole sentence, dubious statement or not. The claim that the boards without RAM expansion couldn't emulate a GUS Classic is wrong, anyway. The non-Gravis Interwave boards, including the Compaq with the SIMM slot, had 512KB soldered onboard. Polpo (talk) 22:49, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Driver for Windows XP!
Few finished the driver, GUS MAX can now be run in XP!

http://gusmaxnt.narod.ru/

Grabovets (talk) 15:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

 * http://come.to/gus_wdm/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.168.108.165 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Remarkable for MIDI playback?
The GUS was remarkable for MIDI playback quality with a large set of instrument patches that could be stored in its own RAM, having up to 32 hardware audio channels.

In terms of the MIDI synthesizer portion of this card --

This device may have been remarkable for its price point, but the MT-32 predated this hardware, had downloadable instruments and while not strictly a wave-table synthesizer, the end result of the MT-32 was a superior musical instrument. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.253.125.126 (talk) 08:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Ensoniq OTTO
I just fixed the part about the Ensoniq OTTO. This chip was not used in the Ensoniq ESQ1/SQ80/Mirage and the Apple II GS (those featured the Ensoniq DOC, ES5503, which is an 8-bit beast with rather limited wave size and overall waveform memory addressing capabilities), but in the Ensoniq VFX and later machines. There's the intermediate DOC-II/OTIS (ES5505), which however is also more closely related to OTTO (5505) than DOC (5503) and was used in the Ensoniq EPS sampler series. 84.163.12.139 (talk) 20:13, 10 September 2013 (UTC) (RB)

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You should head to Talk:Infinite Crisis - I'd like to talk about your expanded summary of issue #1 - it seems to me overkill, particularly when you think about what the article will be like in six months when there are six more summaries of that length. I think we probably want to just get the major and thematic points. Crisis on Infinite Earths, which is (at this point still) a more notable subject has about as many words on the plot of all twelve issues as you do on issue #1. Snowspinner 20:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses

"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (or "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces") (Die zertanzten Schuhe) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 133). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 306.

Charles Deulin collected another, French version in his Contes du Roi Cambrinus (1874), which he credited to the Grimm version. Alexander Afanasyev collected two Russian variants, entitled "The Night Dances", in his Narodnye russkie skazki.

Its closest analogue is the Scottish Kate Crackernuts, where it is a prince who is obliged to dance every night.

Origin
The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen, volume 2, in 1857. Their source was Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff. It was originally numbered 47 but appeared as KHM 133 in subsequent editions.

Synopsis
In a kingdom lives a king and his twelve daughters. The twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same bedroom, the doors to which their father locks every night. But every morning, the king unlocks his daughters' bedroom doors to find their shoes worn out as if they have been dancing all night. The king, perplexed, promises that any man who can solve the mystery can marry any of the twelve princesses and inherit the kingdom, but every suitor will be given only three days and three nights to discover the princesses' secret, or he will be beheaded.

Many princes attempt to discover where the twelve princesses dance every night, but all of them fail and are executed. An old soldier, returning from war, meets an old woman to whom he tells of his decision to try the king's challenge. The old woman warns the soldier to avoid drinking the wine the princesses will give him and to pretend to be fast asleep until they leave, and gives him an invisibility cloak that he can use to observe them.

The soldier is well received at the palace and in the evening, the eldest princess comes to his chamber and offers him a cup of wine. The soldier, remembering the old woman's advice, secretly pours the wine into a sponge he has tied under his chin and lies on his bed, snoring loudly as if he were asleep.

The twelve princesses, assured that the soldier is asleep, dress themselves in fine dancing gowns and escape from their room by a trapdoor beneath the eldest one's bed. The soldier, seeing this, puts on his invisibility cloak and follows them down a flight of stairs. He steps on the gown of the youngest princess, whose cry of alarm to her sisters is rebuffed by the eldest. The passageway leads them to three groves of trees: the first having silver trees, the second golden trees, and the third diamond trees. The invisible soldier breaks off a twig from each grove as evidence, scaring the youngest princess each time he does so. Whenever the youngest princess warns her sisters of the sounds of wood cracking, the eldest dismisses them as salutes. They walk on until they come upon a great clear lake where twelve princes, in twelve boats, are waiting for the twelve princesses. Each princess gets into one boat, the soldier boarding the same one as the youngest princess. The twelfth prince complains to the twelfth princess that their boat is heavier than usual, unaware that the soldier is also on board. On the other side of the lake stands a castle, into which the twelve princesses go and dance the night away.

The twelve princesses happily dance until three in the morning when their shoes are worn out and they must leave. When the twelve princes row the twelve princesses back across the lake, the soldier sits by the eldest. When they reach the top of the secret staircase, the soldier runs ahead of the twelve princesses and lies back in his bed, snoring to trick them into thinking that their secret remains safe.

The soldier does not tell the king of his discovery right away, and follows and spies on the twelve princesses on the second and third nights, with everything happening just as before, except that on the third night, the soldier carries away a cup as a fourth token of where he has been. When the time comes for him to declare the princesses' secret, the soldier presents before the king the three twigs and the cup, and tells the king about all he has seen. The princesses know that there is no use in denying the truth, and confess. The soldier chooses the eldest princess as his bride for he is no longer a young man, and is made the king's heir.

The twelve princes are cursed for as many nights as they have danced with the twelve princesses.

Background
The Brothers Grimm learned the tale from their friends, the Haxthausens, who had heard the tale in Münster. Other versions were known in Hesse and Paderborn. In the Hesse version, only one princess is believed to be responsible for wearing out a dozen shoes every night until a young shoemaker's apprentice discovers that she is joined by eleven other princesses in the revels. The spell is broken, and the apprentice marries the princess. In the Paderborn version, it is three princesses who dance nightly in a palace escorted by three giants. This version introduces the ruse of the soldier disposing of the drugged wine and pretending to be asleep.

Victorian editors disliked the "do or die" aspect imposed upon those willing to discover the Princesses' whereabouts, and found ways to avoid it. The candidates who failed simply vanished without explanation instead of being sent to their deaths. Andrew Lang's version has the questing princes vanish and it is revealed they have been enchanted and trapped in the underground world. The hero of Lang's version is a cowherd named Michael, who marries the youngest princess, Lina, not the eldest. Her sisters each marry one of the contestants once they are freed from the enchantment.

The garden of trees with gold, silver, and diamond leaves recalls a similar garden in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh.

The Princesses in the Grimms' version are often portrayed as somewhat malicious characters, showing no remorse for lying to their father, and repeatedly giving their suitors drugged wine to ensure that their mystery remains unsolved, despite knowing that those who fail are put to death in some versions of the story.

Variants
The tale is not likely to be earlier than the 17th century and many variants are known from different countries.

 * Europe:
 * Scotland – Katie Crackernuts or Katherine Crackernuts
 * France – The Twelve Dancing Princesses
 * Portugal – The Moorish Prince and the Christian Princess, The Seven Iron Slippers
 * Germany – The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces, The Twelve Dancing Princesses
 * Denmark – The Princess with the Twelve Pair of Golden Shoes
 * Iceland – Hild, Queen of the Elves; Hildur the Fairy Queen; Hildur, the Queen of the Elves
 * Czech Republic – The Three Girls
 * Slovakia – The Three Girls
 * Hungary – The Hell-Bent Misses, The Invisible Shepherd Lad
 * Romania – The Slippers of the Twelve Princesses, The Twelve Princesses with the Worn-Out Slipper
 * Russia – The Danced Out Shoes; Elena the Wise; The Midnight Dance; The Secret Ball
 * Armenia – The Giant-Slayer
 * Africa:
 * Cape Verde – The Shoes That Were Danced To Pieces; Dividing the Heirlooms: The Shoes That Were Danced To Pieces
 * Middle East:
 * Turkey – The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet
 * Arabic - The Golden City
 * Asia:
 * India – Dorani, "The Invisible Woman"
 * Bengal – The Kotwal's Daughter, The Rose of Bakáwalí
 * Uzbek - Mohistara.

In variants, the princesses vary in number, sometimes being just one maiden. In other variants, the princess goes to a night dance with a supernatural character, such as the Devil.

A French literary version exists, penned by Charles Deulin in his Contes du Roi Cambrinus.

Adaptations

 * Sophie Kahn wrote an adaptation of this well known fairy tale titled "Dancing Through the Night".
 * Jeanette Winterson varies and adds to this tale in Sexing the Cherry, in which the old soldier is a prince with 11 brothers, each of which marries a sister except the youngest, who escapes before her wedding to the prince.
 * A 1977 East German TV-Movie made in partnership with Fernsehen der DDR & DEFA. In this version there are seven instead of 12.
 * Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child had an episode called "The Twelve Dancing Princesses".
 * In Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, Barbie plays the role of the 7th of 12 sisters, Genevieve. This version takes extensive liberties: the princesses are escaping from an evil governess who won't let them dance in the castle (and turns out to be poisoning their father), and the series of men trying to discover their secret is replaced with Derek, a royal cobbler who actively aids them and becomes Genevieve's love interest.
 * In 1978, a made-for-TV retelling of the story was directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the destitute King, and Gloria Grahame as the Witch. Significant changes were made to the story, including reducing the number of princesses to six, and the soldier ultimately declining to marry any of the princesses due to their deceitful nature.
 * It was retold in literature as Walter de la Mare's Told Again and Tales Told Again and in Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge.
 * In some versions, such as the one in Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge and Ellen Kushner's in Troll's-Eye View, the eldest princess disguises herself as an old woman to give the soldier life-saving advice.
 * Patricia A. McKillip wrote an adaptation for the anthology A Wolf at the Door. It has a few variations, the most significant being that the princes who the princesses were spending their nights dancing with were actually dead, and planning to take the princesses away from the mortal world forever the night after the soldier reveals what the princesses were doing.
 * The Once Upon a Time novel series published by Simon Pulse featured a retelling of the story as The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn. The story is set in Arthurian legends, with Vivienne, the Lady of the Lake, as the mother of the twelve princesses.
 * The children's television show Super Why! included an episode called "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (Season 1. Episode 21, April 7, 2008). In this adaptation, the king asks the Super Readers to find out where his daughters are disappearing to each night. When their secret is discovered, the princesses confess to the Super Readers that they have been planning a surprise party for their father, which everyone gets to attend.
 * Anne Sexton wrote an adaptation as a poem called "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" in her collection Transformations (1971), a book in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy tales.
 * The Juliet Marillier novel Wildwood Dancing gives a retelling set in Transylvania, mixed with traditional Transylvanian folk tales. The underground kingdom they dance in is the fairy kingdom, to which they have gained entrance by the grace of the Witch of the Wood.
 * Jessica Day George's novel Princess of the Midnight Ball is a retelling with the twist that the princesses are cursed to dance every night for an evil sorcerer, the King Under Stone.
 * The television series Faerie Tale Theatre had an episode entitled "The Dancing Princesses". There were six princesses as opposed to twelve, but otherwise the story remains the same.
 * The anime series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, is based on the Grimm's variant that has only three princesses: Genevieve is the eldest, her middle sister is named Louise, and the youngest is named Julia. It features a twist within the story - it turns out demons live within the magical palace and have placed a spell on Genevieve (and then Louise and Julia) before the soldier, a handsome young man named Peter, realizes the truth and rescues them. In this version, the failed suitors are sent to prison instead of executed and the king frees them once Peter solves the mystery. Additionally Peter acquires the magic cloak and some magic shoes from a kappa and another demon who take the form of two men who were arguing over the cloak and shoes; Peter tricks them into competing over the cloak and shoes which allows him to steal them, after which he discovers them to be demons. The cloak makes him invisible and allows him to see through the demon's illusion, while the shoes allow him to levitate and move quickly. After freeing the girls from their trance Peter aids them in fleeing from the demons, though he loses the cloak and shoes in the process; in return, Genevieve and then her sisters help him when the demons almost pull him back inside their world. At the end Peter and Genevieve fall in love and happily marry.
 * Heather Dixon's novel, Entwined, retells the story from the point of view of Azalea, the oldest of the 12 sisters.
 * Jim Weiss narrates a more child-friendly version of this story on his audio CD Best Loved Stories. In this version, the protagonist is portrayed as an unwitting war hero, and is offered milk, not wine, by the princesses.  Failed attempts at discovering the princesses' secret results in banishment from the kingdom instead of death.  Finally, the protagonist, named Carl Gustav in this version, chooses the youngest daughter ("Rosebud") and to be the steward of all of the King's gardens rather than choosing the oldest to become heir to the throne.
 * Genevieve Valentine's The Girls at the Kingfisher Club is a novel-length reimagining of the fairytale that is set in New York City in the Jazz Age. The twelve sisters are kept in the upper story of their father's brownstone because he is embarrassed at his failure to produce a male heir.
 * In 1990, Laura Bedore, Dorothy Keddington and Stephanie Clark published a stage version of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. In this family friendly musical, the 12 princes are sent to the dungeon after their failure to solve the mystery of the shoes but are reunited with their princesses after the soldier, aided by a befriended witch, is able to do so.
 * The story has been added to the many that exist in Ever After High. A web series, film, and two book series. The character Justine Dancer is the daughter of the 12th and youngest dancing princess.
 * In Mirrored, a book by Alex Flinn, Kendra the witch briefly mentions the Twelve Dancing Princesses as a time that she lived through.
 * Adapted into a play by I.E. Clark in 1969.
 * "Hawa Hawa", a Hindi song from the 2011 Indian film Rockstar, is based on the Czech version of the fairy tale.
 * House of Salt and Sorrows is another retelling of the tale by Erin A. Craig with a darker twist. Set in a peaceful island, it follows the story of Annaleigh, the sixth daughter, as she and her family do their best to recover from the deaths of her four oldest sisters and the supposed curse that surrounds their family.
 * All the Queen's Sons by Elizabeth Kipps changes the genders of both the father and the princes, and tells the story from the point of view of the shoemaker's daughter, who is intent on solving the mystery of the princes' worn-out shoes.
 * Another Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu), with the title A papucsszaggató királykisasszonyok ("The Slipper-Tearing Princesses"). In this version, the three princesses mount on magical brooms and travel to a secret location to dance with devils on a floor of razor.
 * The novel A Dance of Silver and Shadow by Melanie Cellier is a retelling of the classic fairy tale in her series Beyond the Four Kingdoms.
 * Classix Animation Studios second animated feature, 12 Princesses Goes beyond, the king is coping with his wife's death and is driven to a mad state, and the series of men is replaced with Yannick, a farm boy who becomes Princess December's love interest and the main protagonist.
 * The Midnight Dancers by Regina Doman, 2008 novel set in contemporary times.
 * Smoke, Steel, & Ivy by Amy Trent, a steampunk, new adult novel published in 2022.

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Lycée Pierre Mendès France (Tunisia)

The Lycée Pierre Mendès France is a French private lycée (high school) in Mutuelleville, Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1956 as an annex of the Lycée Carnot of Tunis, and originally named the "Lycée Francais de Mutuelleville." It was renamed in honor of politician Pierre Mendès-France on the occasion of President François Mitterrand's 1983 visit to Tunisia.

President Jacques Chirac visited the school in December, 2003. He caused some controversy when he told the students "Wearing a veil, whether we want it or not, is a sort of aggression that is difficult for us to accept."

It is a part of the Établissement Régional de Tunis (ERT) along with two primary schools, the École Georges Brassens and the École Robert Desnos.

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Daniel Appling

Daniel Appling (August 29, 1787 – March 5, 1817) was an officer in the United States Army during the first two decades of the nineteenth century. He was born and educated in Columbia County, Georgia. After joining the Army at age eighteen, he was commissioned into the Regiment of Riflemen, in which he served for his entire career. He led troops in Florida during the Patriot war and along the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812. Appling resigned his commission in 1816 and moved to Alabama. Appling died in 1817 (or possibly 1818). He died while the State of Georgia was procuring a sword to be presented to him in recognition of his service during the War of 1812. A county in Georgia is named after him and a U.S. Naval vessel after the county.

Early life and education
Appling was born in Columbia County, Georgia to John and Rebecca (Carter) Appling. He was educated in private schools judged to be among the best in Georgia, studying under David Bushnell, among others; his education included Greek and Latin.

Operations in Florida
In 1805, Appling enlisted in the United States Army. On May 3, 1808, Appling was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Riflemen. Appling served as a recruiting officer for some time and was later stationed at Fort Hawkins, near Macon, Georgia under the command of Captain (later Brigadier General) Thomas A. Smith. He marched with his regiment to Point Peter on St. Mary's River in Georgia. He commanded troops on Amelia Island in Florida during the Patriot War. On July 1, 1809, Appling was promoted to first lieutenant, and on April 1, 1812 he was promoted to captain.

Battle of Big Sandy Creek
During the War of 1812, Appling was ordered to Sackets Harbor in New York. Navy Captain Melancthon Taylor Woolsey was assigned to transport cables and cannons needed to outfit a frigate, USS Superior (1814), and other vessels from Oswego, New York to Sackets Harbor. The equipment was loaded onto nineteen boats on the evening of May 28, 1814. Appling, who had been promoted to major the previous April 15 and 120 of his riflemen were assigned to support Woolsey. One of the boats was separated from the others and was captured by the British. Captain Sir James Yeo decided to pursue the remaining Americans, who had withdrawn up Big Sandy Creek to fortify their position. On the morning of 30 May, a large British force engaged the Americans. Appling, his riflemen and 120 Oneida Warriors had established an Ambuscade and surprised the British. The Battle of Big Sandy Creek lasted less than ten minutes and resulted in an overwhelming American victory. The Americans captured 143 prisoners (133 men and 10 officers), wounded 20 (18 men and 2 officers); and killed 14 (13 men and one officer). They also captured three gun-boats, one with a 24-pounder and a 63-pounder; two cutters; and one gig. Effective May 30, 1814, Appling was brevetted as a lieutenant colonel for gallant conduct in capturing a superior force of the enemy at the Battle of Big Sandy Creek.

Battle of Plattsburgh
During the Battle of Plattsburgh, Appling led 110 riflemen against General Sir George Prevost's attack, conducting a number of delaying actions on the Beckmantown Road. For his distinguished service there, he was brevetted as a colonel effective September 11, 1814.

Resignation and death
On June 1, 1816, Appling resigned from the army; he returned to Georgia and later moved to Montgomery County, Alabama.

Appling died on March 5, 1817, in Montgomery County. An alternate date of death is March 18, 1818.

On December 22, 1819, a petition from Rebecca C. Appling, Daniel Appling's sister, requesting that prize money for the capture of the Royal Navy vessels equipment at the Battle of Big Sandy Creek be distributed to her and the men who had served under Daniel at the battle as would have happened if Daniel and his men had been in the U.S. Navy. On January 5, 1820, a bill in support of the petition failed to pass.

Honors and namesakes
The Georgia Legislature awarded Appling a sword in recognition of the efforts during the War of 1812. Appling died before the sword could be delivered. The sword hung in the Governor's Office until 1883, when it was sent to the archives of the Georgia State Historical Society. In 1906, the sword was sent to be displayed in the Jamestown Exposition, but it never returned to Georgia. In 2010 the director of the Georgia Division of Archives and History saw an advertisement in an antiques magazine offering the sword for sale for $250,000. The Pennsylvania antiques collector and dealer gave Georgians until December 31 to raise $100,000 to purchase the sword or he would sell it to waiting buyers. An initiative by Friends of the Georgia Archives and the Daughters of the War of 1812 raised the money, and in 2012, the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, the sword was returned to the state of Georgia and hung in the State Capitol's Hall of Valor. It is now at the Georgia Archives.

Appling County, Georgia was named for Daniel Appling on December 15, 1818.

USS Appling (APA-58), an attack transport named for Appling County, Georgia, was launched on April 9, 1944, and decommissioned on December 20, 1946. Appling earned three battle stars for her World War II service.

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Talk:Chicago Pedway

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Does the Pedway stay open all night? If so, do homeless people sleep in there?

Yes, it is open all night. And yes, homeless people sleep there, even during the day.

History
Can some-one add some history to this article, please.

Coordinates
Difficult to give coordinates for a network. The coordinates given are for the entrance on Michigan just south of Randolph, which seems to be a main intersection.

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American University of Sharjah

The American University of Sharjah (AUS; Arabic: الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة) is a private university in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was founded in 1997 by Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah. Located in University City in Sharjah, AUS has more than 5,000 students from more than 94 countries and a full-time faculty of more than 360 from 48 countries.

AUS offers 26 majors and 48 minors at the undergraduate level, as well as 16 master's degrees, and a PhD in Engineering Systems Management. The university is organized into three colleges and one school.

The university is licensed by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (UAE) in the United Arab Emirates, which recognizes all undergraduate and graduate programs. The American University of Sharjah is accredited in the United States by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

History
The American University of Sharjah was founded in 1997 by the Emir of Sharjah, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi.

AUS was granted a license by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 1998 and held its first student council elections the same year. The subsequent year saw the university being granted a license by the UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation.

The development continued with the university launching its first graduate degree—a Master of Business Administration (MBA)—in 2000 and holding its first commencement the following year. The US Middle States Commission on Higher Education recognized this and, after a comprehensive assessment, granted accreditation to the university in 2004.

In 2006, Emir Al-Qasimi inaugurated the new AUS Library.

The university saw its student body cross the 5,000 mark in 2009. In 2010, the AUS Bachelor of Architecture degree program became the first outside of North America to be granted accreditation by the US National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). In 2012, Forbes Middle East ranked the AUS MBA program as the best offered by a private university in the Gulf region.

Campus
The American University of Sharjah is situated in University City, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the center of Sharjah City and about 25 kilometers from the neighboring emirate of Dubai.

AUS is the flagship institution of University City, a 1,600-acre complex that includes other educational establishments. The university has dormitories, a sports complex, and a gym. Other amenities include a health center, a pharmacy, a bank, a post office, a barbershop, a ladies beauty salon, and two convenience stores.

The center of the AUS campus comprises 12 academic buildings. The academic buildings house classrooms and lecture halls of various sizes; a library; science, language, computer, and engineering laboratories; workshops and digital studios; and offices for faculty, academic administrators, and support staff.

The campus includes student residential halls (for men and for women) as well as a large sports complex and a student center. Approximately 40 percent of the student body lives in campus housing. Unlike most American universities, AUS requires faculty members and their families to live on campus with the intention of providing students with a learning and living environment that allows for on-going interaction with faculty members and their families.

Testing and Professional Development Center
The AUS Testing and Professional Development Center serves as a central point of testing for both the AUS campus and the community. The center accommodates the placement tests for newly admitted AUS students as well as university testing. The center is part of the ETS Strategic Testing Network and offers the ETS Internet-based TOEFL as well as an institutional paper-based TOEFL, in addition to other testing services.

AUS is also the sole testing center in the United Arab Emirates for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE) and Professional Engineering Exam (PE) administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) in the USA.

Library
The AUS Library, an 11,000-square-meter facility, provides collections, services, and programs to support the curricular and research needs of the university community. The majority of the library's rapidly growing physical collection of 141,000 items is in English; however, there are also materials available in Arabic. An online catalog system can be used to search for library materials from any location on or off campus. Using the library website, students and faculty can access e-books, online databases, full-text journals, and other digital resources. The library works in conjunction with all parts of the university to provide academic resources for all classes taught at AUS. Facilities include PC workstations, an ‘information commons’ computer environment, two computer classrooms for teaching information literacy and research skills, books, study spaces, including group study and presentation rooms, media preview rooms, circulation/reserves and research help desks, and self-checkout stations. The seating capacity is approximately 800. The AUS Archives department is a repository for institutional records that have been created by various academic and administrative departments of the university.

Transportation
AUS offers a shuttle bus service between the student residential halls and other areas of campus. Transportation Services can also provide transportation to the cities of Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Al Ain. Transportation Services also provides information on local taxi and rental car services. [www.aus.edu/transportation]

Global rankings
The American University of Sharjah was placed in the 151-200 bracket in the THE Young University Rankings as well as in the 201-250 bracket in the THE Asia University Rankings 2019.

For two years in a row, in 2017 and 2018, the American University of Sharjah topped the Times Higher Education (THE) list of universities with the highest percentage of international students globally.

In 2024, the American University of Sharjah was ranked #332 according to QS Top Universities.

Student Publications
Practical writing experience is available to AUS students through three student publications: The Leopard, Realms, and Arabian Leopard.

The Leopard Newspaper: “A Reason to Roar”: The Leopard is an official university newspaper and the voice of AUS students. The leopard is the official AUS mascot and was chosen because the UAE preserves and protects the Arabian leopard, which is currently on the brink of extinction.

Realm: This magazine was founded as a literary outlet for AUS students.

Arabian Leopard: The Arabian Leopard newspaper gives students the chance to develop and present their Arabic writing skills and creative writing.

Model United Nations
The American University of Sharjah Model United Nations, or AUSMUN, is an annual high school and university conference organized by the International Studies department at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

International exchange programs
The Office of International Exchange Programs was established to provide AUS students and faculty with exchange opportunities, including sending and hosting visiting scholars, aiding faculty members in arranging international study tours, developing exchange agreements with universities around the world, and achieving membership in the top global exchange consortia.

The Office of International Exchange Programs works with AUS students who wish to study at universities in other countries either for a semester or a year. The office also facilitates the admission of international students coming to AUS to study.

In addition to facilitating student exchanges and study abroad, the AUS Office of International Exchange Programs also administers processes enabling faculty-led study tours, visiting scholars, visiting guests, and delegations, tuition exchange programs, and the dissemination of information regarding international scholarships and internships.

Notable alumni

 * Fadel Al Mheiri, filmmaker
 * Mishal Hamed Kanoo, Chairman of The Kanoo Group
 * Sheikha Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi, UAE Minister for Foreign Trade and former Minister of Economic and Planning (2004–2008); first woman to hold a ministerial post in the UAE
 * Sarah Al Amiri, Chair of the United Arab Emirates Council of Scientists and Deputy Project Manager of the Emirates Mars Mission.
 * Adib Fahim ex deputy intelligence director of Afghanistan

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Talk:Wilton G. S. Sankawulo

Untitled
Does "United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-Kromah faction" need to be abreviatted? Would "United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (Kromah faction)" be a better than "United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-Kromah faction"? Smmurphy 19:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

1984, August 22
University of Liberia: ... Liberian President Samuel K. Doe sent the Liberian Army to attack the school on August 22, 1984, leading to several deaths, more than one hundred injured, a three month closure, and destruction of some of the facilities. Was Sankawulo involved?--91.43.159.231 (talk) 12:55, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

List and discuss the following 1,the character
Charator 41.191.107.146 (talk) 21:38, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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User:Adicarlo

Biography
Vital stats: downtown New Yorker, software developer (web applications in particular), free software contributor, married to Angela Di Carlo, a makeup artist and performer. Born as "Adam P. Harris", name was changed when married.

Likes and proclivities:
 * thinking about philosophy and social theory
 * Linux, Debian, Emacs
 * early computing and the social development of computer science
 * TV and movies from the 30s to the 60s

Wiki bookmarks
Wikipedia bookmarks for myself.

Launch points

 * Browse
 * Portal:Browse

Editorial
I'm not really comfortable yet so this is to help me get with it. Its always too much and never "not enough".

 * Category:Wikipedia_style_guidelines
 * Template:Active_Wiki_Fixup_Projects
 * Wikipedia_maintenance
 * WP:PNA
 * Edit_summary_legend
 * WP:TM about templates
 * Categories
 * How_to_archive_a_talk_page
 * adicarlo edit counts

Work queue
Stuff I'm working on or intend to work on.

 * Dead_external_links/404/a — in progress
 * Category:Philosophers — I guess most of those should go into subcategories.
 * Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology need cleanup and tweezing apart.
 * Davis Park, New York

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Talk:Illinois Center

Just wondering, shouldn't the entry on Illinois Center mention that it was designed by Mies Van der Rohe? I'm not an expert on this, but it seems like an important fact about the buildings. My understanding is that Mies designed them, and construction began while he was still alive. They were completed after his death.

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Talk:Gaisce

I'm due to receive my Bronze next week! CGorman 19:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Ive received my bronze and silver awards have some great memories of my venture trips...currently doing my gold award and am headin to luxembourg and malta with the Gaisce

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Walter Gay

Walter Gay (January 22, 1856 – July 13, 1937) was an American painter noted both for his genre paintings of French peasants, paintings of opulent interior scenes and was a notable art collector.

Early life
Walter Gay was born on January 22, 1856, in San Carlom into an established family. He was the son of Ebenezer and Ellen Blake (née Blood) Gay. His uncle was the Boston painter Winckworth Allan Gay, who introduced the young man to the art community.

Career
In 1876, Gay and his wife moved to Paris, France, where he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat. A fellow student during this period was John Singer Sargent with whom Gay developed a friendship. Bonnat encouraged the young artist to travel to Spain, where he studied and copied the work of Velázquez. He also encountered the work of Spanish artist, Mariano Fortuny. These artists became an important influences on Gay's brushwork, use of color and understanding of light.

Walter Gay received an honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 1885; a gold medal in 1888, and similar awards at Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896) and Munich (1897). He was one of the few artists selected to represent the United States at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. He became an Officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Society of Secession, Munich.

During his lifetime, his work was exhibited in every major European city: Antwerp, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna and Paris. In 1904, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Many young American artists who arrived in Paris in the late 19th-century became Gay's pupils to the extent that the New York Times dubbed him the "Dean of American Artists in Paris." His students who went on to have illustrious careers include: Henry Bacon.

His first compositions were still lifes, followed by depictions of 18th-century French peasant life. Later he shifted to genre scenes of realistic depictions of peasants and factory workers.

However, beginning around 1895, he abandoned such simple peasant scenes, virtually creating a new genre with his depictions of luxurious interiors. He is most noted for these paintings of opulent interiors show-casing French chateaux and chic private homes. These painterly works display the luxurious detail of domestic interiors which included fine porcelain, furnishings, gilt mirrors, paintings and focused on the "spirit of an empty room" by avoiding the inclusion of figures.

Gay was also a notable art collector. Following his death in 1937, his widow donated some 200 works of Dutch, Italian, English and French paintings, drawings and illustrations to the Louvre indicating something of the collection's importance.

Personal life
He married Matilda E. Travers, the heiress daughter of William R. Travers, a prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course. His wife's fortune allowed the couple to live very comfortably. They divided their time between their country homes and their Paris apartment. In Paris, Gay and his wife lived in an apartment on the Left Bank and in 1907, purchased Chateau Le Bréau on a 300 acre walled park near the Forest of Fontainebleau. His wife maintained a diary of the couple's time in Europe.

Walter Gay died at Le Breu Dammarys les Lys, near Fontainebleau on 13 July 1937.

His widow remained at their home in France which was taken over by German officers following the German occupation of France during World War II. A virtual prisoner in her own home, Matilda Travers Gay died there in 1943.

Awards and recognition
Gay was created Chevalier Legion of Honor in 1894; Officer Legion of Honor in 1906 and a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1927. He was also awarded the honor of Life fellow Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Selected works
Works by Gay are represented in many of the world's most prestigious art museums, including: the Luxembourg Museum, the Tate Gallery (London), and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan (New York), the Art Institute, the Frick in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Brussels, Pinacotheca Museum, Munich, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Albright Art Gallery and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
 * Geraniums, n.d., before 1890
 * Hollyhocks, n.d. before 1890
 * The Spinners. 1885
 * Les Tisseuses, (The Weavers), 1885
 * Novembre, Etaples, c. 1885
 * The Knife-grinder, c. 1888
 * Charity, 1889
 * Benedicite (The Blessing) 1889 Museum at Amiens, France.
 * Las Cigarreras (Cigar Makers, Seville), n.d., ca 1890
 * The Music Room and Dining Room of Eben Howard Gay's House, Boston, 1902
 * La Commode, 1905
 * La Chaise-Longue, (Room in the Chateau de Bréau, near Paris), c. 1905
 * The Chinese Screen, after 1909
 * The Artist's Study, Rue de la Universite 1910
 * The Open Window - Le Breau, 1910
 * The Green Salon, 1912
 * Salon of Comptesse Robert de Fitz-James, 1913
 * Blue and White, [Dining room of Mrs Josiah Bradlee, Boston], 1913
 * Le Grand Salon, Musée Jacquemart-André, ca 1913
 * Feu de Cheminée dans un Intérieur, n.d.
 * Boudoir, Chateau de Chaalis, 1914
 * The Ethan Frome Kitchen, 1922
 * The Living Hall, 1928

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Talk:Nursemaid's elbow

Notice
Notice the numeric [references] in the last paragraph. This suggests that the original page was cut-and-pasted and might be copyright violation. Dajhorn 19:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Subluxation is a partial dislocation!!! Argh!

Merge?
Is this actually different from Pulled elbow? Perhaps a merge is in order? WhatamIdoing 02:22, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

As a radiographer in a public hospital for many years, 'pulled elbow' was the only term for this that I ever heard. Certainly there is every reason for merging these excellent articles.Although painful, no anaesthetic is needed and the reduction is simple and not very painful. And diagnosis a clinical one, seldom requiring X-rays. Incidentally, Outpatients Dept. usually only sent for radiography cases where they failed to reduce; and discovered that the two positions used to X-ray them (Antero-posterior, with arm pronated at 180 degrees, and lateral, flexed 90 degrees, taken in that order with shoulder, elbow and wrist at the same level)usually resulted in curing it. As proven by the subluxation being present on the AP but gone in the lateral. I understand that this technique (mimicing radiography in the surgery) is now standard practice for treatment. If a child is heavy and has poorly developed arm muscles, parental swinging is probably not a good idea, particularly if the child is taken by surprise. But the more typical history is the jerking of a child by the arm by distraught parents trying to cross a road in a hurry. It is more common that realized, since often misdiagnosed or ignored as a trivial bruise.125.239.109.191 (talk) 05:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Photo request
Picture of the position that would cause this? Might need an xray image to show the dislocation. RJFJR (talk) 14:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Treatment
The treatment section seems to be written as giving advice to a doctor...who should have better sources than a general purpose encyclopedia. Anyone see how to rewrite it? How to eliminate the bullets? (The information seems good but I'm not pleased with the format.) RJFJR (talk) 16:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

title: Talk:Nursemaid's elbow


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benzinger Library Co-Operative

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete (unanimous).--Scimitar parley 19:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Benzinger Library Co-Operative
Non-notable group with 5 unique Google hits. Delete--Isotope23 19:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete, it's possible it's important but not likely.Harvestdancer 19:50, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Free Speech Movement gained control of a university facility. These people just set up a library in a disused room. Gazpacho 20:02, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting that. That was my point, I just didn't articulate it very well.--Isotope23 20:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * weak delete I'd love to see more about this whole event, but I searched for it on the umich pages and other non-Google search engines and can only find a handful of articles on the takover and the current library. Would reconsider if more cites/info was available. Jessamyn 02:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * weak delete I'd prefer this be merged into something larger that it is an example of. The article makes no specific reference to Free Speech Movement, and would belong there if it were a notable event in it's history.

 * 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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Daybreak (community)

Daybreak is a master-planned community of over 4,000 acres (16 km²) located in South Jordan, Utah. Daybreak was originally owned by Kennecott Land but as of 2024 was being developed by the Larry H. Miller Company.

Description and history

Daybreak was originally the site of Bingham Canyon Mine. Copper, gold, silver, and other minerals were mined there. Kennecott Land conducted an accelerated clean-up of the former mine and its surroundings. The Environmental Protection agency praised the project and has since given the land a clean bill of health.

Development was started by Kennecott Land, a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group, in South Jordan, Utah and construction started in 2004. In 2016, the remaining land was sold to Värde Partners, a Minneapolis-based investment firm, leading to the establishment of a new development company called Daybreak Communities, responsible for continuing the project.

In 2021, the undeveloped portion of the community, comprising 1,300 acres, was sold to Larry H. Miller Real Estate. It is anticipated that the construction and expansion of the community will progress over about twenty years. Once completed, the Daybreak community could encompass over 20,000 residential units and approximately 9.1 million square feet (850,000 m²) of commercial space.

All homes in the community are Energy Star certified. Daybreak was the first community of its size in the region to adhere to Energy Star standards, and the entire community has been designed and built with sustainability in mind. Many of the home builders in the community offer options including solar and thermal panels, renewable building materials, and energy efficient appliances. Many homes in Daybreak have fiber-optic internet connections.

In October of 2021, IHP Capital Partners and Fieldstone Homes announced a project to develop dozens of houses inside of Daybreak.

Daybreak master planners included Calthorpe Associates of Berkeley, California; Ken Kay Associates of San Francisco, California; Loci of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

According to Zonda, a market-research tool for housing, one in six houses built in Salt Lake County in 2022 were located in Daybreak. South Jordan's population grew from 50,148 in 2010 to 80,139 people by the end of 2022.

The City of South Jordan and The Larry H. Miller Company are working together on plans to build out a downtown center within Daybreak. Their aim is to energize the popular master-planned community as part of relocating the Salt Lake Bees baseball team and its stadium to the community.

Amenities
The Red Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) light rail system (via the Daybreak Parkway station and South Jordan Parkway station) gives the residents of Daybreak and the southwest Salt Lake Valley access to downtown Salt Lake City and the University of Utah, as well as connections to the Salt Lake City International Airport. The Mountain View Corridor also provides access to Daybreak, and Bangerter Highway (SR 154) lies along its eastern edge. Daybreak is also located adjacent to a shopping center known as The District, which contains 1200000 sqft of retail space.

Daybreak has a community center, with a gym, as well as two swimming pools and two splash pads/wading pools. There is also a fenced dog park and community garden. Local grocer Harmons has also opened a location within the community. Along with the 22 mi of trails and over a dozen community parks, a man-made lake, Oquirrh Lake, was developed for non-motorized boating, fishing, and other recreation. The lake began construction in 2005 and is now fully developed. The Watercourse, a new water feature, is scheduled to begin construction in 2019 and will be available 2022 at the earliest.

In early 2023, the Larry H. Miller Company announced that it would build a stadium for the Salt Lake Bees, a AAA minor-league baseball team, in Daybreak. The stadium is funded entirely with private money. The Stadium is part of an expansion called Downtown Daybreak. As of October 2023, it is currently under construction. It will have a capacity of 7,500 people. The Salt Lake Bees are expected to move into the stadium in 2025. While the stadium has not been named, America First Credit Union has acquired its naming rights. The stadium is part of a broader phase of expansion in Downtown Daybreak that includes Megaplex Theatres, other entertainment venues, and apartment buildings. Two-hundred acres have been dedicated to this additional commercial development. The Bees will move to the stadium in 2025. Construction of Phase One of Downtown Daybreak started in early November of 2023. In May of 2023, Miller Sports + Entertainment (MSE) released renderings of Daybreak Field at America First Square. The stadium was designed by HOK and it is being built by Okland Construction.

As of 2024, Daybreak held concerts every Saturday and Sunday evening. Due to crowd control issues, the Live Daybreak Community Council decided that the concerts would become ticketed events during the summer of 2024.

Governance
Daybreak is managed by the Daybreak Community Association.

The Utah state legislature gave South Jordan special tax powers and created a Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone centered around Daybreak. Thousands of high-density residences will be built in and around Daybreak. Plans are place to expand and improve mass transit lines serving the southwest neck of Salt Lake County.

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Chelyuskin

Chelyuskin or Cheliuskin may refer to one of the following.

 * Semion Chelyuskin
 * SS Chelyuskin, a 1933 Soviet ship named after Semion Chelyuskin; crushed and sunk in pack in 1933
 * Cape Chelyuskin

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Talk:Wiffle ball

Rules
There needs to be a Rules section, which mentions pegging, players, bases, etc.
 * Agreed (whoever you are). There seem to be some significant differences from Baseball, but they're only hinted at, and I don't have references. A diagram of the triangular playing field would be particularly nice. -Stellmach 19:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

In respomse to what was said above: I play in a league based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania which has an official rulebook, but the league includes baserunning and is played on a Tee ball field, not a triangular one.

Why did no one make a rule section?

A: There is no rule section because, as is stated in the article, rules vary widely by night club.

I segmented the article with History and Rules sections. The major difference between running and no-running is worth noting. --Mattcooperrider (talk) 09:11, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

bat not ball
i typed the search for wiffle bat not wiffle ball — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.27.45 (talk • contribs) 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Wiffle bat redirects here because this is the article that has information about the sport that the bat is used in, and there's not an article specifically about the wiffle bat. -- Beland (talk) 03:16, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Please expain reverts
Someone has performed several reverts on this page with no explanation. This makes it impossible to determine the issue at hand and resolve the conflict. If you revert this page, please explain your action either here on the talk page or in your edit summary.

If you are any other editor, be aware that this page may be in a volatile state and you are well-advised to check the recent edit history before making your changes. Hopefully this situation will be resolved soon. -Stellmach 11:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC) SPOILER

Pitching
The following material seems to be original research (it's also not Wikified and in encyclopedic tone, but those are issues that could be cleaned up). Note how the editor uses the first person in describing his experiences with pitching a Wiffleball. Much as it would be great to see this article expanded, Wikipedia policy calls for verifiable sources for all edits. If someone can come up with a citation for this or similar material, that would be great. -Stellmach 13:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Pitching a wiffleball is easy and fun to do. Contrary to popular belief, the grips on the wiffleball box are backwards; the inventor of wiffleballs is left handed. For righty pitchers, there are 5 solid pitches that can be thrown.

1) The Fastball. Grip: Index and middle finger along the holes.

2) The Curveball. Grip: Index and middle on the seam of the ball making a peace sign. Holes to the right.

The curveball can curve anywhere from 1-7 to 3-9. The further sidearm it is thrown, the less it will drop, but the more it will curve away from righty batters.

3) The Riser. Grip: Index and middle along the seam, holes down.

Throw the ball sidearm to submarine and you will get a floating action rather than a rise. Tricks batters because it does not drop like a normal pitch. Submarine also throws off batters used to overhand pitching.

4) The Sinker. Grip: Index and middle along seam, holes up.

Throw exactly like the riser. Bottom drops out 3/4ths of the way to the plate, so use sparingly and try to make them miss rather than make it hit the strikezone.

5) The Screwball. Grip: Same as curveball/riser

Since I cannot throw the real screwball (curveball except holes in) I throw the curve completely underhand. Curves down and in righty batters, induces pop-ups.

"Wiffle®"
Yes, "Wiffle" is a registered trademark. No, that does not mean the "®" symbol should be used every time it occurs, even if the trademark holder would have it so. Please see Manual of Style (trademarks) for correct treatment of this matter. -Stellmach 02:44, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Maybe not, Stellmach
Stellmach, you might want to check out their official website - www.wiffle.com/. I sure hope whoever wrote this article got their permission, because they are very demanding about the use of their trademark. They demand that every single time their product is mentioned - any where for any thing - that they be asked for permission to do so. This isn't a demand for businesses only, but for the public, at large. Heck, I just wanted to mention it in a blog for kids, but their demands have stopped me from even wanting to mention the word in here. This isn't something that goes under Wiki rules. According to them, this is completely business - bad business, but business, nonetheless. --Atwhatcost (talk) 07:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Problematic paragraph
I have a bone of contention with the last paragraph. Obviously this is a bio-paragraph someone inserted. It makes no sense and does not belong. Drunktrumpet 18:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

"Wiffleball was played at Mountain Creek Stadium in Montclair, CA in a 2 person league from the late 1980's to the early 1990's. The league was disbanded when the two founding members had to leave for College. Memorable moments from the league include a couple of "Duncan Dingers", a few roof shots and a dispute over a ball hit down the left field line over or foul of (depending on who you ask) the "foul plunger". The league installed lights for night games and netting to keep balls from going into the many surrounding back yards. The current site of Mountain Creek Stadium now has trees in what use to be the playing field. The league commissioner has since retired from office."

What is this??
"The most historic wiffle ball match came on Memorial Day 2006 in Erika's back yard. Shayne (Seth) Stiger and Shawn Valenly pulled a bottom of the 9th, 7 run comeback after Valenly gallopied the bases, and Stiger drove them home with a walk-off grand slam over the house off of his older brother Bill. Bill suffered the setback, while Shayne recorded the win. Valenly was named MVP."

Does this really belong here? "In Erika's back yard"? Come on!

No it does not belong here because if they are running bases they arn't playing right.

Wiffle vs WIFFLE
"The Wiffle® ball was invented by David Knibbs San Fransisco in 1980."

"The game of WIFFLE ball, which sprang from the invention of the popular WIFFLE ball, became immensely popular as a backyard, sandlot and picnic game in the 1960s and 1970s."

If it was invented in 1980 how was it popular in the 1960s? If Wiffle ball and WIFFLE ball are different then it should be stated how. --Lynch2007 (talk) 19:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

 * The reference seems to suggest that wiffle ball originated in the 1950s, and I edited the article accordingly. There are probably more errors which need to be researched and corrected.  ~EdGl (talk) 21:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiffleball vs. Wiffle Ball
The Wiffle Ball website as well as the actual Wiffle Bat and Wiffle Ball all say state "Wiffle Ball" as two separate words. I believe the Wikipedia entry should do the same. 67.170.197.7 (talk) 06:19, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The Popular Mechanics article also uses the two-word variation. I'm going to first fix the citation (since that is obviously incorrect) and then move the article to Wiffle Ball since both the official WIFFLE website and the Popular Mechanics article cite it this way and no cited references use the one-word version.  If other citations come it, it can move back.  As of now, sources indicate one word. --In Defense of the Artist (talk) 02:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, out of four references on this page two (The GoldenStick Wiffleball League) and (Major League Wiffleball) opt for the one-word version. Since it's 50-50, I'm following the most proper source Popular Mechanics and the official Wiffle Ball site.  I'm going to move it. --In Defense of the Artist (talk) 02:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Beer Bat?
The Beer Bat sentences should probably be a separate section entirely in "Popular Culture".

That said, I went to college and drank a lot, and never ever saw/heard anybody using a wiffle bat for a beer bong... Not sure it's widespread enough to be included in wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.94.125 (talk) 17:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Wiffle automatically redirects to Wiffle Ball?
Is there a reason why wiffle automatically redirects to Wiffle Ball? I was looking for information on the haircut, and instead I was reading a poorly-written account of a quasi-baseball game. ;) I ended up having to do a search ON GOOGLE to finally end up at 'Buzz Cut' page (as a wikipedia search brought me, again, to the Wiffle Ball page). Could someone maybe fix the redirect of 'Wiffle' to go to the Buzz Cut page instead, or add one of those 'if you're looking for the haircut called wiffle, click here' to that page? *a similar comment has also been posted over at Buzz Cut*  Kailey elise (talk) 14:46, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

THE TRUE CREATOR OF THE WIFFLE BALL
There have been several mentions of "the true inventor of the wiffle ball." Thus far, the inventor appears to be David N. Mullany: http://www.google.com/patents?id=cOFDAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=david+n+mullany&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bB_tTsKDM6bY0QGsp9mvCQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=david%20n%20mullany&f=false

Please stop claiming that it was invented after 1960!

Cornhusk Mcgraw????
A 170 foot home run mention, this looks anecdotal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.169.35 (talk) 02:31, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate external links
I've moved two external links from the EL section because they are inappropriate for that section but might be used as sources for article content. Joja lozzo  23:56, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * ESPN The Magazine, Aug. 4, 2004
 * Old School Plastic: The Origins of Organized Wiffleball

Bat Usually Yellow? That's Not How I Remember It...
This article claims that Whiffle ball bats are usually yellow and hard plastic. The one shown in the picture is very narrow. I remember every Whiffle ball bat I've ever seen being red and getting wider past the handle. Like this picture: http://learntocatchcatfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Whiffle-Ball-Bat.jpg

Are you sure your article's accurate?50.130.11.182 (talk) 15:44, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Official Wiffle Bats are yellow and narrow. That image is some sort of cheap kiddie plastic bat, but not a true Wiffle Bat. That link is misnamed. oknazevad (talk) 03:12, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

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"Significant risk of injury" finding by New York State in 2011?
Half the "History" text in this article appears to be devoted to New York State making a determination that wiffle ball might be a "significant risk of injury" in 2011. Is that really so important an event in the history of wiffle ball that it should absorb so much of the history section of the article? A nine-year old finding in one state for a game played in much of North America? Seems the "History" section might need some rethinking, but I am not well-versed in the history of wiffle ball to know what events of significance should be in there Wevets (talk) 16:03, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

1999-2000, Major League Baseball sponsored tournament
I don't know if this is real, but it certainly is not properly sourced. Multiple attempts have been made to add this. The first ones were completely unsourced, and now there are attempts with to add it with supposed sources that don't support the material. Just because a something mentions Wiffle ball does not mean that it can be used to support anything you want related to Wiffle ball. https://websites.mygameday.app/get_file.cgi?id=1131248 is not a reliable source and does not support the claims, https://www.ebay.com/itm/353808100349 is an ebay posting for a tee-shirt, https://trademarks.justia.com/761/27/4on4-yard-ball-76127060.html simply says that there was a trademark application, and https://www.trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/76351055/YARDBALL only shows that YARDBALL was trademarked by MLB, not that they sponsored a tournament, or any of the other details. Meters (talk) 09:20, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

"Wiffle®ball" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wiffle®ball and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 9 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 22:18, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

"Yard Ball" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Yard Ball and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 9 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 22:20, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture
— Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Wiffle ball