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Penang cuisine

Penang cuisine is the cuisine of the multicultural society of Penang, Malaysia. Most of these cuisine are sold at road-side stalls, known as "hawker food" and colloquially as "muckan carts". Local Penangites typically find these hawker fares cheaper and easier to eat out at due to the ubiquitousness of the hawker stalls and that they are open for much of the day and night. Penang island. On February 22, 2013, Penang was ranked by CNN Travel as one of the top ten street food cities in Asia. Penang has also been voted by Lonely Planet as the top culinary destination in 2014.

Indian

 * Apom (Tamil: அப்பம்)—Indian-style pancake with a thin skin. It is crispy outside but soft and thick in the middle. Unlike apom balik (ban chean kuih), it has no fillings.
 *  Appalam (Tamil: அப்பளம்)—a thin, crisp disc-shaped cracker typically based on a seasoned dough made from black gram (urad flour), fried or cooked with dry heat. Flours made from other sources such as lentils, chickpeas, rice, or potato, can be used.
 * Samosa (Tamil: சமோசா)—fried or baked pastry with a savoury filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, lentils, macaroni, noodles, and/or minced meat
 * Bhajji (Tamil: பஜ்ஜி)—a spicy Indian snack similar to a fritter.
 * Vadai (Tamil:வடை)

Chinese

 * Eu char kuih (Chinese: 油炸粿) - Chinese-style deep-fried bread sticks usually eaten with congee or almond cream.
 * Lor bak (鹵肉) - marinated minced pork, rolled in thin soybean sheets and then deep-fried. Usually served with a small bowl of loh (a thick broth thickened with corn-starch and beaten eggs) and chili sauce.
 * Phong pneah (Chinese: 清糖餅) - Chinese light brown pastry filled with melted white sugar.

Peranakan

 * Popiah (Chinese: 薄餅) - Teochew style spring roll with a filling which consists of turnip, beancurd, egg bits and a dash of chilli paste and sweet sauce.

Malay

 * Otak-otak - fresh fish fillets are blended with light spices, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves and other aromatic herbs, into a sort of fish mousse. The fish mousse is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed or grilled. It is stated that the dish originated from Johor.

Main dishes

 * Banana leaf rice (Tamil: வாழையிலைச் சோறு கறி) - white rice (or parboiled rice in authentic South Indian restaurants) is served on a banana leaf with an assortment of vegetables, curried meat or fish, pickles, and/or papadum. Is very much part of the few favourite local food in Penang particularly along Little India within the George Town Heritage zone.
 * Satti sorru (Tamik:சட்டி சோற்று or சட்டி சோற்று) - also known as Indian claypot rice.Gravy from a curry is mixed into rice, to clean out the pan or the wok the curry was cooked in.
 * Biryani (Tamil: பிரியாணி) - also known as nasi beriani and has many different variant.
 * Fish head curry (Tamil: மீன் தலை கறி) - head of the red snapper stewed with vegetables such as okra, tomato and brinjals in a curry, usually served with rice. Passion of Kerala at New World Park, Burmah Road, is famous for this dish.
 * Mee Goreng Mamak (Tamil: மாமா வறுத்த மி) - it is made with thin yellow noodles fried with garlic, onion or shallots, fried prawn, chicken, chili, tofu, vegetables, tomatoes, egg and spices, giving this fried noodle dish a distinctly unique Indian flavor.
 * Mee Rebus (Tamil: அவித்த மி) - a rich gravy made out of sweet potatoes, is ladled over fresh yellow egg noodles and bean sprouts. It is garnished with cooked squid, prawn fritters, boiled egg and fried shallots. A squeeze of a fresh local lime before serving.
 * Nasi Kandar (Tamil: நாசிக் கண்டார்) - a meal of steamed rice which can be plain or mildly flavoured, and served with a variety of curries and side dishes . Among the most well-known is a place called Line Clear, off Penang Road.
 * Pasembur (Tamil: பசெம்பூர்) - a spicy salad dish consists of fried titbits and shreded vegetable sold by Indian Muslims.
 * Penang Acar (Tamil: பினாங்கு ஊறுகாய்) - Indian pickles. Known as Urukai in Tamil language, made from certain individual varieties of vegetables and fruits that are chopped into small pieces and cooked in edible oils like sesame oil or brine with many different spices
 * Bak kut teh (Chinese: 肉骨茶) - literally translates as "meat bone tea", the soup dish consists of meaty pork ribs and meatballs simmered in a complex broth of herbs and spices.
 * Bee Tai Bak or Mee Tai Mak (Chinese: 米苔目) - silver needle noodles served with clear soup and minced pork.
 * Char Koay Kak (Chinese: 炒粿角) - stir-fried rice cake.
 * Char Koay Teow (Chinese: 炒粿條) - fried flat rice noodles with chilli spices with seafood typically prawns and cockles (and typically with fried eggs). (A stall at a corner along Chulia Street which uses distinctive narrower noodles than other vendors.)
 * Claypot chicken rice (Chinese: 砂煲飯) - another popular hawker food in Penang comprises chicken cooked in a claypot over a fire, served with Chinese sausages, egg, salted fish and mushroom.
 * Duck soup noodles (Chinese: 鴨腿麵線) - a complex savoury herbal soup served with Thin vermicelli and topped with a duck drumstick.
 * Fried Oyster Omelette or Oh Chien (Chinese: 蚵煎) - an oyster omelette dish available at many hawker stalls and coffee shops in Penang. Garnished with coriander or parsley, the omelette is served with a dip made of chilli sauce and garlic paste.
 * Hainanese chicken rice (Chinese: 海南雞飯) - a dish of Hainanese origin consists of rice cooked in chicken stock, and served with either roasted or steamed chicken, sometimes with sliced cucumber, bean sprout, spring onions and parsley.
 * Hokkien mee or Hae Mee (Chinese: 福建麵 in Penang, 虾面 in Kuala Lumpur) - rice and egg noodles, served together with hard boiled eggs, small prawns, meat slices, bean sprouts and kangkung (water spinach) in a spicy prawn & pig bone (Chinese: 肉骨) stock.
 * Lor mee (Chinese: 鹵麵) - rice and egg noodles in broth thickened with corn starch and beaten eggs, served with eggs (some feature duck eggs), meat slices and bean sprouts. The noteworthy stall is located next to the Goddess of Mercy Temple, with branches in Jones Road and Pulau Tikus
 * Wan Than Mee (Chinese: 雲吞麵) - also known as Tok-tok Mee from the sound of knocking bamboo sticks made by the vendors in former times to draw attention to their food, of a dish of egg noodles and wontons with sliced barbecued pork and vegetables.
 * Penang Laksa (Malay: Laksa Pulau Pinang), a dish of thick round rice noodles in a spicy and sour tamarind-based (or assam fruit-based) fish soup. The dish is garnished with mint, cucumber, onions, shreadded lettuce and pineapple.
 * Nasi Lemuni - A rice dish that blended with daun lemuni, garlic, ginger, fenugreek, lemongrass, onion and salt.

Dessert

 * Almond cream - a local dessert available at Restoran Traditional Home of Dessert along Kimberley Street which has been operating at the road side stall for three decades. Many people who have tasted it have described it as having the smell of cockroaches and a bitter aftertaste. It is usually served with eu char koay (fried bread fritters).
 * Cendol - a dessert with green noodles in coconut milk, brown sugar and shaved ice.
 * Tau Foo Fah or Tau Hua (Chinese: 豆腐花) - Chinese pudding made with soft tofu in sugar syrup.
 * Ice kacang (Malay: Ais Kacang) - sweet red beans, seaweed jelly, barley pearls, sweet corn and fruits are covered with shaved ice, then laced with rose syrup, brown sugar syrup and sweetened condensed milk.
 * Pulot tartal - a Nyonya glutinous rice dessert
 * Rojak - a fruit and vegetable dish in shrimp and chilli paste.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vietnamese Boyz Gang

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Vietnamese Boyz Gang
This has no references and no meaningful google hits. If deleted, also remember to remove from List of street gangs. Thue | talk 09:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as very short article with little or no context. --Angr/undefined 09:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy as per Angr/undefined  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   10:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy this one is obvious. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 10:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd love to speedy this, not least because it is being continually vandalised - but I can't see a WP:CSD that it obviosly falls under. (delete, btw) --Doc (?) 13:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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User:Phorteetoo

Me
I am a Kansan, Aquarian, and an INFP.

I play a lot of games, mainly CRPGs and various types of sims.

I build on Natural Selection, one of the three Athen MUDs, and am currently developing Soul of the Warrior, which is based on an old pencil-and-paper RPG I helped to create.

I like music... everything from Ozzy to Tori Amos to Tchaikovsky. If it sounds good in my ears, I'll listen to it. Blah to genre classifications.

Wiki
I'm still trying to find a subject that I both know enough about and hasn't yet been thoroughly covered in Wikipedia. This is proving to be quite the challenge. :)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CURNOACKS

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CURNOACKS
Not verifiable, no Google hits. Wrong name or possibly hoax. --Vsion 09:23, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete-- Exir  Kamalabadi Esperanza  13:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Isn't a windward blowing wind an oxymoron? Or at least a tornado. Pburka 19:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - "Curnoack" is the Cornish for Cornish person (also spelt Kernewek) or Cornish language. It could be renamed "Curnoacks". --MacRusgail 13:07, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Position (finance)

In finance, a position is the amount of a particular security, commodity or currency held or owned by a person or entity.

In financial trading, a position in a futures contract does not reflect ownership but rather a binding commitment to buy or sell a given number of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.

Trading and financial assets
In derivatives trading or for financial instruments, the concept of a position is used extensively. There are two basic types of position: a long (holding a positive amount of the instrument) and a short (holding a negative amount of the instrument). Generally speaking, long positions stand to gain from a rise of the price of the instrument and short positions from a fall (but with options the situation is more complicated).

Options will be used in the following explanations. The same principle applies for futures and other securities. For simplicity, only one contract is being traded in these examples.

Long position

 * When a trader buys an option contract that they are not short, they are said to be opening a long position.
 * When a trader sells an option contract that they are already long, they are said to be closing a long position.

Short position

 * When a trader sells an option contract that they are not long, they are said to be opening a short position.
 * When a trader buys an option contract that they are already short, they are said to be closing a short position.

Bull position
A trader holding a bull position will benefit when the price of the underlying goes up. This is equivalent to holding a long position on most financial instruments, but also a short position on put options, inverse ETFs or similar.

Bear position
A trader holding a bear position will benefit when the price of the underlying goes down. This is equivalent to holding a short position on most financial instruments, but also a long position on put options, inverse ETFs or similar.

Net position
Net position is the difference between total open long (receivable) and open short (payable) positions in a given asset (security, foreign exchange currency, commodity, etc.) held by an individual. This also refers to the amount of assets held by a person, firm, or financial institution, as well as the ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.

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Britain in the Iron Age, before the Roman conquest.

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Lodovico Castelvetro

Lodovico Castelvetro (c. 1505–23 March 1556) was an important figure in the development of neo-classicism, especially in drama. It was his reading of Aristotle that led to a widespread adoption of a tight version of the Three Unities, as a dramatic standard. Castelvetro was born in Modena, Italy, and died in Chiavenna.

Biography
Castelvetro was born into a noble family of Modena. He was carefully educated, attended the universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, and Siena - in that order - and to please his father took the degree of Doctor of Laws at Siena. Poor health compelled him to retire to Modena, where he became an active encourager of literature. In 1553 began his bitter quarrel with Annibale Caro, arising out of Castelvetro's criticism of Caro's canzone: Venite a l'ombra de gran gigli d'oro; in the course of this controversy each was charged with attempting to get the other murdered.

The Roman inquisition became a force in Modena during the papacy of Pope Paul IV, who opposed the softer policy exercised by Bishop Foscarari and his patron, Cardinal Giovanni Morone. Foscarari had not favored the persecution of individuals like Agostino Gadaldino, Bonifacio and Filippo Valentini and Castelvetro. Already in 1542 Castelvetro, with the rest of the Academy of Modena, had been obliged to sign a formulary protesting orthodoxy in matters of faith. In 1557 the persecution was renewed. Castelvetro is thought to have taken refuge in Ferrarese territory. At any rate he soon appeared at Rome for the purpose of clearing himself. He was specifically charged with having translated a work of Melanchthon. After several examinations, learning that the decision was likely not to favor him, he made his escape from detention, and by night fled from Rome.

He found a haven at Chiavenna. Together with his brother Giovanni Maria, who thus suffered for aiding his escape, Castelvetro was condemned and excommunicated as a hardened heretic (1561). Later he applied for permission to present himself to the Council of Trent for justification; the pope required him to come to Rome. Instead Castelvetro withdrew to Lyon. He was now busy with his Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. At Lyon he was persecuted; his house was set on fire, on which occasion the scholar was only heard to cry: 'Save my Poetics!' He was obliged to leave Lyon. He went to Geneva, and then followed his brother to the Court of Maximilian II. The plague soon drove him from Vienna; and he returned to Chiavenna, where he died.

Works
His Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata e sposta ("The Poetics of Aristotle translated in the Vulgar Language and commented on") was called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. His Giunta, a commentary on the Prose della volgar lingua by Pietro Bembo, is one of the earlier texts on Italian grammar, and linguistics in general; his contemporaries objected to him that his theories were a little too philosophical for their time. After Castelvetro's Poetics (Vienna, 1570) his best-known work is a commentary on the Italian poems of Petrarch: Le Rime del Petrarca brevemente sposte, Basel, 1582.

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Talk:Soma Cruz

White? Ritual drink?
"Soma" is 蒼真.

Look that up in any Japanese dictionary.

蒼い: Blue.

真: True, real.

His surname was originally "Kurusu" (来須), which is also Japanese, which was changed to "Cruz" in an attempt to make the first game more accessible to non-Japanese.

This is true. "'Soma Cruz' means 'cross of a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures, and specifically in Hindu mythology!' isn't. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.156.6.61 (talk • contribs) 04:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Also...
"...and depending on the player's actions you enter a mirror into the chaotic realm (the normal ending of the game can be attained here if the player doesn't fulfill certain requirments to enter the mirror). In here, Soma comes across Celia finally, who tells Soma to meet her in another area."

There is no "chaotic realm". Soma encounters Celia in the throne room after exiting the mirror world where he fights Dario's inner demon, Agni.

"Julius, Arikado, and Yoko fight through all of the normal games area's but with new bosses, essentially being a totally different game in itself."

There is only one new boss- Souma himself. There is also no dialogue at all, except for when you encounter Yoko and Alucard, and before the final battle.

"While this is a very dark ending and followup storyline, it is considered the favorite ending by far due to its unusually tragic atmosphere and how eerilly well it wraps up the Soma Cruz storyline."

Julius mode has no ending. Upon defeating Souma's second form, you see the castle collapse, and then the credits roll.

"Demitri absorbs a great deal of Dracula's power for himself and enters the Chaotic realm once more, killing Celia in the process."

There is no "chaotic realm" in the game, and Celia dies later in the abyss as a sacrifice to the Menace.

"As the game has been recently released, it is unknown which ending will eventually be the Canon ending. Some argue that the fact Julius Mode, a whole new game in itself is unlocked by the Bad Ending show this as proof that Igarashi intends to have the tragic ending be canon, although it is impossible to say at this point"

As I've said before, Julius mode has no ending, no new bosses aside from Souma, and almost no dialogue at all.

Unless all of this blatant misinformation is removed, I should think that the article is better off without the whole Dawn of Sorrow plot section. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.156.6.60 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I have personally played the game myself, and while many of the small details were wrong the general flow of what was said was generally correct. I'll leave it as is for now as it was pretty messy to begin with, and maybe I'll make a new entry for his Dawn of Sorrow role if someone else doesn't eventually.

 * I have to say though sir, the way you handled this was rather destructive, unconstructive and offensive. There's no need to resort to cursing and personal insults. Also, while the thing did need cleaning up I don't think it was necessary to delete the whole thing. If you know so much more information than you should add some in yourself. I have to say this almost borderlines on wiki vandalism but its not that big of a deal in the end. Just please keep in mind that you are free to change whatever you want as long as its within reason, so really there's no need to get all huffy and offensive to other posters. That just doesn't lead to anything but pointless bickering. --Kiyosuki 08:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've removed the entire Allusions to Dracula section as it's all OR. Jtrainor 19:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge with Dracula?
Soma and Dracula ARE pretty much the same person, so would it be a good move if this page was merged into Dracula (Castlevania)? Soma could still have his biography in a section, if so. 66.63.86.156 18:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Two distinct characters. Soma is the protagonist of his own set of games also. Separating them is best. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 19:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Failed GA nomination
The article doesn't present any real out of universe information, and its content is only plot summary, thus it fails WP:WAF. If the OOU content can be found, and this is slightly compacted and rearranged, I'm sure it will pass next time. TTN 18:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Transfer Student
The article states that Soma is a transfer student; while Aria's prologue states this, it is a mistranslation. Should it be removed or not?
 * This is not a mistranslation. I remember IGA once said in an interview that Soma is Japanese in the original version, but had his ethnicity changed in the overseas version to make the game more marketable. I can't remember the exact source, but it was a Japanese strategy guide for Aria of Sorrow. Jonny2x4 07:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I just added that detail. 88.161.129.43 (talk) 03:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Tone
I think it is MOS convention to refer to a character by his or her surname. hbdragon88 (talk) 08:23, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I think that's just for real people. See Jason Voorhees, Padmé Amidala, and Aerith Gainsborough, which all use the character's first name. That and it would sound awkward using "Cruz" continuously, seeing as he's never referred to by his surname in either game. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 22:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

 * O RLY? Hmmm.  I just thought it was, and was changing them on the Yu-Gi-Oh! pages and such, the most recent being "Duke" to "Nukem" on on DN3D.  Looking at WP:VG/GA, the problem is that quite a few of them have no surname – Kirby, Nicole, etc. hbdragon88 (talk) 23:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

GA Review

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 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS):
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
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 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
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 * 1) It is stable.
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 * 1) It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
 * 1) Overall:
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 * 1) It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
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Wow, this is about as close as I've ever gotten to passing an article without putting it on hold first. One tiny problem though:
 * 1) The lead needs to conform to WP:LEAD. Specifically it must address all major points/headings made in the body of the article. Currently, there's nothing on the "reception" section.
 * 2) And while you're at that, sentence should never begin with however, as they can always be re-worded more appropriately without the "however" at the beginning. There are several examples of this throughout the text.

After that, I'll be more than happy to pass this as a Good Article. To allow for these changes to be made, I will sacrifice the corneas of a vampire to the dark gods place the article for on hold for a period of up to seven days, after which it may be failed without further notice. Which would suck. Thank you for your work thus far. Cheers, CP 09:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixes made. Regards, Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent, no hesitation in passing this article as a Good Article. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Cheers, CP 22:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

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Romanian?
I've found no source on his being Romanian online except a couple of other wikis which also give no source. As far as I can tell, in the English version he's only 'an exchange student from Europe' (I assume Spain based on his last name, but we can't put assumptions in the main article), and in Japanese he's purely Japanese. Dracula being Romanian does not make Soma Romanian. 94.194.105.123 (talk) 09:29, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

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Castelvetro

Castelvetro may refer to:

 * Lodovico Castelvetro (1505–1571), Italian writer and humanist
 * Giacomo Castelvetro (1546-1616), expatriate Italian humanist, writer, and teacher
 * Castelvetro di Modena, Italian municipality of the Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna
 * Castelvetro Piacentino, Italian municipality of the Province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna

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This term has no google hits. Thue | talk 09:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Geoff Horsfield

Geoffrey Malcolm Horsfield (born 1 November 1973) is an English former professional footballer and football coach. He made more than 300 appearances in the Football League playing as a striker.

He was a "strong and forceful" player, able to hold the ball up to bring other players into the game. Horsfield made his Football League debut with Scarborough as a teenager. Released by the club, he returned to part-time football with Halifax Town, Guiseley and Witton Albion, before a second spell at Halifax saw him help the club regain their Football League status. He moved on to Fulham, with whom he achieved promotion to the First Division, before joining Birmingham City for a club record fee. He played in the final of the 2001 League Cup with Birmingham, and the following season helped them reach the Premier League.

After a short period at Wigan Athletic in 2003, he joined West Bromwich Albion, with whom he again won promotion to the Premier League. In 2006, he moved to Sheffield United, but much of his time there was spent on loan to other clubs, namely Leeds United, Leicester City and Scunthorpe United. Horsfield announced his retirement from football in 2008 after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, but after successful treatment, he resumed his career, signing a six-month contract for Lincoln City in January 2009. In July of that year, he was appointed player-assistant manager at Port Vale under Micky Adams, and the following summer, he took up coaching full-time before leaving the game completely in May 2012. In March 2013, he returned to playing football for Alvechurch.

Early career
Horsfield was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. His father, Terry, was a coal miner, as was his grandfather. While still a schoolboy he started playing football for a men's team, Athersley Recreation, in the Barnsley Sunday League, and had an unsuccessful trial with home-town club Barnsley F.C. On leaving school, Horsfield took a college course in bricklaying. He continued playing football part-time, with Athersley, with Worsbrough Bridge in the Northern Counties East League, and with Football League club Scarborough, where he turned professional in July 1992. Given his league debut in March 1993 by manager Ray McHale, he was released after playing 12 league matches and returned to bricklaying and part-time football. After a nine-game spell with Halifax Town in 1994, he rejoined manager McHale at Guiseley, where his goals helped the club to reach third place in the Northern Premier League Premier Division in the 1994–95 season. During the following season he moved on to Witton Albion, where he scored 6 goals in 26 appearances in all competitions. However, he also sustained a potentially career-threatening knee injury; after making a full recovery he returned to Halifax for a fee reported as £4,000.

Horsfield made his second debut for Halifax in October 1996. On the last day of the 1996–97 season, needing to beat Stevenage Borough to avoid relegation from the Conference, Horsfield scored the goal that clinched a 4–2 victory. The following season, Halifax won the Conference title by a nine-point margin, thus regaining their Football League status. Horsfield's 30 goals in 40 league games, including hat-tricks against Yeovil Town, Telford United and Hereford United, made him that season's Conference top scorer. Together with teammate Mark Bradshaw, Horsfield was selected for England's semi-professional representative team for a match against their Dutch counterparts, but injury prevented him from playing. In the Conference, Horsfield had still been working in the building trade while playing football part-time, but promotion to the Football League meant he had to give up his job to become a full-time footballer. Seven goals in his first ten games in the Third Division attracted a bid from Fulham, then in the Second Division and managed by Kevin Keegan.

Fulham
An initial fee of £300,000 was agreed, plus an additional £50,000 depending on appearances, and in October 1998 Horsfield joined Fulham. A clause was also included in the contract which would allow Halifax a share of the profits from any future sale. The remainder of his 1998–99 season produced 15 goals from 28 games as Fulham won the Second Division title by 14 clear points. He was also named in the PFA's Second Division Team of the Year. Though less prolific in the First Division, seven league goals and another seven in the cups still made him the club's top scorer for the 1999–2000 season. After new manager Jean Tigana made it clear that Horsfield's aggressive style and perceived lack of pace and mobility would not fit the way he wanted his new team to play, and brought in Louis Saha as his main striker, the player agreed to join Fulham's First Division rivals Birmingham City.

Birmingham City
In July 2000, Horsfield signed a five-year contract with Birmingham, who paid a club record fee of £2.25 million, £350,000 of which went to Halifax Town under the sell-on clause. He was their top scorer in his first season, finding the net on twelve occasions, and his two goals in the second leg of the League Cup semi-final helped the club reach their first major final for nearly 40 years. In the starting eleven for the final against his boyhood heroes Liverpool, Horsfield had been substituted by the time Birmingham lost in a penalty shoot-out.

In the 2001–02 season, Horsfield was chosen Player of the Year both by Birmingham's fans and by his teammates. His strike partnership with Stern John proved crucial in the unbeaten run which helped Birmingham reach the First Division play-offs, and he scored the equaliser against Norwich City in the play-off final, which the club went on to win on penalties to earn promotion to the Premier League. Horsfield had promised a donation to his first club, Athersley Rec, if he ever reached the Premiership; a few days after the play-off victory he gave them £25,000 towards improving their facilities.

Horsfield's first Premier League goal came in the September 2002 local derby defeat of Aston Villa. He also scored in the return fixture at Villa Park, an eventful game in which he ended up keeping goal when Nico Vaesen was injured after Birmingham had used all their substitutes. Horsfield missed games through suspension and surgery, and was frustrated by manager Steve Bruce preferring to use him as a specialist substitute; after he came on to score a late winner against local rivals West Bromwich Albion, Bruce described him as "a manager's dream", saying that "when you're tiring, the last thing you need is Big Horse rampaging at you". Starting alongside World Cup-winner Christophe Dugarry late in the season, the pair formed "an unlikely combination, brilliance from Bordeaux alongside a brickie from Barnsley, but Horsfield's robust approach has complemented Dugarry's more delicate touches"; their partnership produced four wins and a draw from the last six games.

Wigan Athletic
Horsfield played in three Premier League matches for Birmingham City at the start of the 2003–04 season. When Bruce could not guarantee him a regular place in the team, Horsfield moved on to Wigan Athletic, signing a three-year contract in September 2003. A transfer fee of £500,000 was agreed, though this could have risen to £1 million if the player had gone on to make enough appearances for Wigan. Horsfield said of the move, "I could easily have sat out the last two years of my contract at Birmingham, but that's not my style – I just want to play football." He scored on his debut for Wigan, in a 4–2 win against Wimbledon on 13 September 2003. He continued to live in the West Midlands even after his transfer from Birmingham City, and after just three months at Wigan moved to West Bromwich Albion for £1 million.

West Bromwich Albion
Horsfield made his Albion debut in a 1–0 defeat away to Coventry City on 20 December 2003. The following month, he scored his first goal for the club in a 2–0 win against Albion's local rivals Walsall. It was the first of three goals he scored during January 2004, earning him the PFA First Division Player-of-the-Month award. In all he scored seven goals for Albion during 2003–04, including a vital winner in a 3-2 win against fellow promotion chasers Ipswich in April, helping the club to achieve promotion to the Premier League.

The team struggled in their first season back in the top division, while Horsfield scored just three goals in 29 league appearances. His contribution on the final day of the season against Portsmouth however, proved vital to the club's survival. Coming on as a second-half substitute, he scored with his first touch, before setting up a goal for teammate Kieran Richardson. Combined with results from other matches, the 2–0 win ensured Albion's escape from relegation as the first club to survive in the Premier League after being bottom at Christmas. Horsfield said of the achievement, "Even though I have been promoted with every club I have been at this is the best moment of my career."

Horsfield enjoyed a good start to 2005–06, signing a new two-year contract and scoring twice in each of Albion's first two home games, but these proved to be the last goals he would score for the club. He made a total of 20 appearances in league and cup during his final season at West Bromwich Albion.

Sheffield United and loans
Horsfield signed for Sheffield United on loan in February 2006, but appeared in just three games under manager Neil Warnock in the four months. Horsfield and Warnock wanted to terminate the loan prematurely, but West Bromwich Albion had already agreed to sell the player to United at the end of the season and refused to return on the deal. The permanent transfer went through in May 2006 for a fee of £1.2 million, with Horsfield commenting that he and Warnock had resolved their differences.

On 3 August 2006, Horsfield signed for Championship club Leeds United on loan until Christmas with a view to a permanent move. He made his debut on the opening day of the season, against Norwich at Elland Road, and scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw away at Queens Park Rangers three days later. When Dennis Wise took over as Leeds manager, Horsfield was in and out of the side, and his loan was terminated in January 2007. At the end of the January 2007 transfer window, Leicester City took Horsfield on loan for the rest of the season. He made his debut for the club in their 1–1 draw with Luton Town on 3 February and scored his first goals for them in their 3–0 victory over local rivals Coventry City two weeks later.

Horsfield's former West Bromwich Albion manager Bryan Robson became manager at Sheffield United at the start of the 2007–08 season, but Horsfield remained out of the side. His only appearances came in the League Cup, playing against Chesterfield in the first round and scoring against Milton Keynes Dons in the second. On 31 January 2008 he moved to Championship club Scunthorpe United on loan for the remainder of the season. He went straight into the Scunthorpe squad and made his debut against Charlton Athletic at Glanford Park; the team won 1–0 and Horsfield won the sponsors' "man of the match" award. He played twelve games while on loan and was released by Sheffield United at the end of the season.

Horsfield had a trial at Chesterfield during the summer of 2008 but rejected a move to Saltergate because he wanted to join a club closer to his home in Leicester. He then had a trial with Kettering Town and in September began training with Walsall.

Lincoln City
On 10 October 2008, Horsfield revealed that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer, and was advised that his playing career was finished. By December, after receiving successful treatment, he was reported to be considering a return to football, either as a player or in a coaching role. He linked up with Lincoln City, managed by former Halifax Town teammate Peter Jackson, for a week's training to assess his fitness levels, and after an extended trial period, signed a short-term playing contract to run from 2 January 2009 until the end of the season. He would also be involved with coaching the reserve team. Horsfield made his debut on 12 January against Brentford, setting up the equaliser for fellow debutant Anthony Elding in a 2–2 draw. After the game, he declared he was "glad to be back playing". He scored his first goal for the club on 27 January 2009, in a 2–1 win against Gillingham, describing the long-range shot "one of my sweetest strikes". Horsfield played regularly during his time with Lincoln, but scored only that one goal, and at the end of the season the club decided not to renew his contract.

Port Vale
In July 2009, Port Vale's Micky Adams appointed Horsfield as player-assistant manager. He aimed to play a majority of Vale's games in the 2009–10 season while learning the ropes of management. He played in the opening four games of the season despite needing painkillers for a cracked rib and a cracked bone in his hand, the first broken bones he had ever suffered. The club reached the third round of the League Cup, but after three consecutive defeats, Adams placed the entire squad on the transfer list. He suffered from niggling injuries, in addition to a tore hamstring, which limited his appearances. This caused him to consider his retirement in the summer of 2010. Port Vale did not offer him a new playing contract, but did retain him on the coaching staff.

Alvechurch
In March 2013, he joined Midland Football Alliance side Alvechurch after agreeing to an offer from the Alvechurch chairman to play until the end of the season.

Coaching career
Twelve months after he joined Port Vale as player-assistant manager in July 2009, Horsfield was offered a contract at the club as full-time assistant manager. Adams said that Horsfield would have a heavier workload over the 2010–11 season, which would include many hours of scouting to "formulate a catalogue of players [and] get to know all the leagues at all levels", and he would retain his playing registration for emergencies.

In December 2010, he was made joint caretaker manager at Vale, along with Mark Grew, following the departure of Adams. Vale were beaten 5–0 by Rotherham United in his first game in charge, but rallied to beat Burton Albion 2–1, before Jim Gannon was appointed manager. Gannon retained Horsfield as his assistant. On the way to a match at Aldershot on 25 February, Gannon left the team bus after an apparent bust-up with Horsfield. The national media reported that Gannon granted Horsfield's request for a day off for family reasons but then wrote to the board complaining about his conduct. Having been shown the letter by a director, Horsfield confronted Gannon over the issue. After an internal inquiry, during which Horsfield stayed away from the club, no disciplinary action was taken against either party. Gannon was sacked on 21 March, and Grew was appointed as caretaker manager with Horsfield as his assistant.

In July 2011, Horsfield stepped down as assistant manager to concentrate on his coaching qualifications, remaining at Port Vale as a coach. Later in the month he scored in a friendly against Stone Dominoes, but dismissed speculation that he would make a return to the playing side of the game. In December 2011, loan striker Guy Madjo celebrated his first goal for the club by running over to Horsfield on the touchline, "to say thank you for all the finishing (practice) that we have been doing. He has shown me a lot of things that I haven't done in the past. In seven years, I have been so many places, to so many clubs and I haven't done that with anyone else, so I just feel it was a good dedication for him." Horsfield retired completely from football in May 2012 to pursue business interests.

Personal life
He is married to Tina and has four children: Chris, Chloe, Leah and Lexie-Brooke.

In October 2008, Horsfield was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and advised that his playing career was over. As the disease was discovered in its early stages, no chemotherapy or radiotherapy was needed, surgery proved successful and less than two months later he was given the all-clear. Horsfield decided to make his illness public to help spread awareness of the disease and lent his support to a Premier League-backed project launched in 2009 to promote men's health issues. He said: "Getting cancer was something I had to get over. I got it, wanted to beat it and I did. Now I am just glad that I've got another chance in football."

Shortly before he joined Port Vale, Horsfield fell victim to the swine flu pandemic. In January 2013, he received emergency treatment for blood clots on both lungs.

After retiring from football, he began his own building business. He also established the Geoff Horsfield Foundation, a charity which offers accommodation to homeless people.

Honours
Halifax Town
 * Football Conference: 1997–98

Fulham
 * Football League Second Division: 1998–99

Birmingham City
 * Football League First Division play-offs: 2002
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 2000–01

West Bromwich Albion
 * Football League First Division second-place promotion: 2003–04

Individual
 * Football Conference top scorer: 1997–98
 * PFA Team of the Year: 1998–99 Second Division

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Talk:University of Wales

History section
At the end of this section, the sentence

The University of Wales welcomes the coming to full maturity of these institutions and will continue to work with, in particular, the newer university institutions in Wales, to assist their further development.

appears. This looks like a press release, and seems to me to have no place in an encyclopaedia. Unless somebody can come up with a reason for keeping it, I propose to remove the sentence.

Eebkent (talk) 16:22, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

No comments were forthcoming, so I have now removed the sentence. Eebkent (talk) 07:50, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Associated Colleges
For what I've read, I guess the Greenwich School of Management (www.greenwich-college.co.uk) is also an associated college? It does offer MSc Programmes from the University of Wales... --Pinnecco 15:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The Greenwic Shchool of Management is not an associated college but would come under 'Validated Insititutions'. The school itself is not part of the university of wales, but as you have pointed out its MSc. programs are validated by the UoW. AlexD 16:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Validated institutions
Link to the validated institutions (http://www.wales.ac.uk/defaultpage.asp?page=E7056) is broken and I can't find the replacement one. I think they probably removed this page and they did the search instead: http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/InstitutionsAndCourses/Institutions.aspx Please help! Dumbo 777 (talk) 15:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I strongly suspect that there is no single replacement page giving a list of courses. On page http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/AboutUs/WorkingwithInstitutions/InstitutionswithValidatedProvision.aspx they say they have validated courses in 30 countries, and the page (http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/InstitutionsAndCourses/Institutions.aspx) quoted by Dumbo777 shows, for example, that they have validated courses in 7 institutions in Switzerland alone. If anybody wants to include a link to institutions with validated courses, that page is probably the one to quote. But it does seem to me to get close to advertising, so reaching the boundaries of what's appropriate in an encyclopaedia. My instinct would be just to mention that there are currently such courses in 30 countries. Eebkent (talk) 17:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities. Timrollpickering 21:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Splitting Up?
I'd heard that the University of Wales is going to be splitting up. Is this simply an unfounded rumour or is there something in it? Anthropax 20:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

 * An unfounded rumour, I'd say. Cardiff University's merger with the Wales College of Medicine in/around 2004 has generated many rumours that instititions like UW Swansea and UW Aberystwyth are going to follow suit. Whilst it is generally accepted that UW Swansea wish to style themselves as 'Swansea University', they are still officially UW Swansea. As with so many with re the University of Wales, much of the rumour is down to bias. 15:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * it wasn't a rumour, and in fact happened. Cardiff, Aber and Bangor left the federal table, having become appalled at the stinky reputation of UoW's overseas affiliates. But this needs cross-checking and including into the article, which is eerily silent on why it all happened (except to say that they exercised their powers to award their own degrees).  There are plenty of sources, go get.  Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:18, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Scarf colours
The colours shown here and on Academic scarf are a little out of sync, being miror images (I can see how this can arise) and having different thicknesses. Is anyone able to get both the correct way round and the thicknesses onto both articles? Timrollpickering 14:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)  It must have been corrected in the last 10 years! It now (correctly) shows the colours blue-0red-yellow-blue-red.ExpatSalopian (talk) 00:17, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Scarf colours 2
are the colours correct? when I was an undergrad at UC Cardiff in 1984 the college colours were red, navy and gold and the UW colours were green and turquoise. --PetuniaS (talk) 12:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC) Petunia, I think you might be mistaken. I was a student at UCNW in the 1960's, and I (of course!) had (and still have) a scarf. The UW colours are blue, red, yellow (narrow(, blue red. The Bangor college colours are green, yellow (narrow), green, yellow (wider), green, yellow (narrow) and green. ExpatSalopian (talk) 23:50, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Number of Students at each institution
Whilst I have no reason to doubt the stated total numbers of students for each accredited institution, the figures stated are misleading.

According to their own website ''"Lampeter is one of the smaller universities in Europe with around 1,000 students on its campus and with a total student population of under 10,000." . Presumably the rest are distance learners?

Wouldn't it reflect the institutions concerned more accurately if distance learning students are reported as a separate column? As it currently stands, it makes UW Lampeter appear a similar in scale to other larger universities within Wales which is a clearly false impression.

--Afgyork1 12:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * distance learners are learners too! By all means divide them into a category, but don't forget them.  As far as academic activity and revenue are concerned, it matters not to the institution.Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:38, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Endowments
I havent checked these thoroughly, but some of the figures are clearly wrong. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the two largest in the UK behind oxbridge (which I do know for a fact) at £200million and £135million. So a figure of 12billion for all of Wales and £140million for Aberystwyth is clearly wrong. Can someone verify this before it is removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.203.242 (talk) 14:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Cardiff
Cardiff University is now a separate institution awarding its own degrees. Could someone either from Cardiff or from the University of Wales please edit the page accordingly?Kranf (talk) 22:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Wales University the mother and Gland mother of University
This University is very Great right from its foundation down to its performance and importatnce to the past,today and feture generation not only in Britain or Europe but all over the world.for me its the mother of Education and gland mother of many Universities that exist on this globe of ours.Congs and Dedications to founders and the entire staff who still looking in every corners such possible means to let WALES University achieve more betters hence maintain its popularity to the world. my question is this, Is what means can an african purson like me can be amdmitted in this University on my understanding i see this could prove as a crime or miracle!

Elias Kavuna Rwanda email adress:ekavuna@yahoo.ci.uk

God bless WALES University and entire staff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.197.57.2 (talk) 10:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

New logo for this school
I see this school's new logo when I studying in Lingnan Institute of Further Education at Hong Kong. See their official website: http://www.ln.edu.hk/life/uow/index-2.html

Can anyone add it please? Pierce (talk) 13:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Out of date
This fails to include the recent scandals which have put the very existence of the University in doubt, and have drastically changed its structure, as it now offers no outside validation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15157119 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15171830 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15191954 86.** IP (talk) 14:51, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd added the briefest of comments, and waswaiting for the news to calm down before writing anything indepth. Please go ahead and make any contributions to the article you'd like, wikipedia works best that way :) Jamesd (talk) 13:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I have updated the article as best i can to take into account its abolition and merger into Trinity St David.Bleaney (talk) 15:28, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks good! Of course, we'll probably need a new article once the merger finalises. 86.** IP (talk) 15:52, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It may be more relevent for that to happen in conjunction with either the Swansea Metropolitan Uni article or Trinity St David. As it stands, Trinity St David is the one that actually has degree awarding powers, so im guessing that will be the primary institution when and if Swansea Met and Trinity merge formally. All it says on trinity's own website at the moment is that they are 'working with' Swansea Met to create a new univerity in Wales. On a separate point, im sure that many articles that link to the University of Wales article will need to be updated as well to take account of its abolition, but I bet its a big task. I might have a go soon if I can be bothered, but any help would be greatly appreciated! Bleaney (talk) 18:53, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's such a major shakeup that it may be worth giving it a little time to see what's happening first, particularly for validated courses. There's so much uncertainty that it's hard to know what to say. I'll gladly help once I know what on earth I'm doing. 86.** IP (talk) 21:00, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Bleaney (Bleaney) seems to have misunderstood the current situation. The University of Wales still exists, and will until it merges with another institution or its charter is revoked. To describe the institution in the past tense is incorrect - and tantamount to vandalism. The BBC reports listed have misrepresented the situation. The University has made its own announcements which should be cited rather than these misleading news reports. I suggest that the page is reverted and reedited after studying the facts. IoloMorg (talk) 00:36, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * First off, you are wrong; it's not vandalism. Secondly, if the BBC is incorrect, please provide references to the contrary so that we may assess them.  Until then, we can't cover what you think "the truth" is.  We're an encyclopedia and cover what is verifiable and to no extent has anyone shown that the BBC article is incorrect.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  00:45, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * How about this, then: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417921 ? Does this not suggest that the editing is a bit premature? If no-one objects I shall modify the entry accordingly. IoloMorg (talk) 17:55, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with that but this needs to be in addition to what's already noted. This is a report from the University itself meaning and counters what the BBC article claimed and does not negate it.  Thanks for bringing the article here for discussion.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  19:05, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

New article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15810980
If there's anything worth including... 86.** IP (talk) 09:24, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

I might add some stuff later - looking at it, at some stage in the future, this article should become historical and a new article about the new university formed from the merger should be created...but not quite yet...--Cameron Scott (talk) 11:22, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

 * That's just it: It's NOT a new Univesity. University of Wales, Trinity Saint David has been known as that since 2009, when Trinity Saint David merged with University of Wales, Lampeter. Since it's going to be awarding Trinity Saint David degrees, this is pretty much the University of Wales being, well, effectively abolished, as the reports say, with its responsibilities going elsewhere. The comments about how the "name will still live on" are little more than spin, since what it's merging into, by chance, already had that prefix to its name (just like probably 3/4ths of the Universities in Wales). 86.** IP (talk) 12:30, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Request
there's a request on OTRS to say in the article that the university is not being abolished, just merged. As I understand it, the merger is in the nature of terminating the existence of the present institution, while providing for some degree of administrative continuity. I'd appreciate posting here on the talk page some relevant sources.  DGG ( talk ) 05:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In case you haven't had the time or desire to read through the whole situation, here's my summary.
 * A close connection was reported at WP:COIN, a noticeboard that I frequent. After reviewing the situation, the close connection and conflict was obvious.  Students and employees have been attempting to remove information about the university being abolished but were met with some resistance, namely a BBC article that claimed in no uncertain terms that the university was abolished.  Other editors and I have invited them to discuss the issue on the talk page but haven't had much luck.  For months, no one was able to provide a reliable source that claimed that the university was merging to counter the BBC reference.  It seems now that the University's website discusses the merger but the editor who attempted to add that reference, tried to remove all information about it ever having been shut down.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  16:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * that is indeed my understanding.I have been following the affairs of the University from time to time, mainly from editing the articles on the many institutions with which it was previously connected, some of which were such as caused me to wonder at such a connection. I observe that eventually the national educational authorities recognized the same thing: the extensive promotionalism of some of those institutions would indeed have been likely to call it to notice. What I am now trying to resolve is the exact nature of what has occurred. The BBC source is a summary & the conclusions of a general news source about the exact nature of  administrative arrangements in the bizarre world  of higher educational organization may not be altogether accurate; the university's website is perhaps a little too subject to the needs of PR to be trusted in a controversial situation. Typically, much of the material is written so everybody can save as much self-respect as possible, I'm looking for some more exact documentation from the various UK sources on educational concerns.   Before I search for them myself, I was hoping someone  would have identified them. I would know where to find such sources for the US & I imagine there are similar in the UK, though the Googles may not crawl them. Controversies such as this are not uncommon, and there are several much disputed pages on Wikipedia  about such situations.  DGG ( talk ) 00:30, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

FORMER ACCREDITED COLLEGES
The former accredited colleges section now makes no sense. I know it is a relict from trying to salvage the entry after the Universtiy of Wales collapsed in ignominy but now it has gone the two biggest former accredited colleges are Swansea University with 18 thousand students and Cardiff with 31 thousand. I think Cardiff and Swansea should now be added and the number of students column and names of vice chancellors which, again are a relict from when the Univerity of Wales did exist, should be deleted. If no-one objects in the next month or so I will make those changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.185.144.123 (talk) 15:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

University of Wales Page - Advice on correcting inaccuracies
Sources, including the BBC article which claims the University is “effectively abolished”, have been used to suggest that the University of Wales is no longer in existence.

This is an inaccurate description of the University as it is in fact still operational with many students still completing their studies for University of Wales awards, within Wales and at collaborative centres worldwide. The University is currently proceeding with a merger with the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David and Swansea Metropolitan University, but this is an on-going process.

There have been many articles since which have referred to the University as fully functioning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17147094, http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education-news/2011/11/10/experienced-campaigner-has-steadied-the-uow-ship-that-was-teetering-on-the-brink-91466-29749722/, http://www.business7.co.uk/business-news/scottish-business-news/2012/06/12/prince-s-foundation-agrees-collaboration-with-the-university-of-strathclyde-106408-23894945/

The University of Wales announced its commitment to merge last October and also announced that it was planning on bringing its current Validation activities to a close and design its own new academic model: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=417649, http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/UniversityofWalesannouncesnewacademicstrategy.aspx

Once the three universities have merged, the unified institution will be merged under the historic 1828 Royal Charter of Trinity Saint David, rather than under the 1893 University of Wales Charter. New students enrolling on the new courses will graduate with a University of Wales: Trinity Saint David degree: http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/Academic/Asenseofhistoryandanewbeginning.aspx, http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/currentstudents/universityofwalesdegrees/

Until that time all current students who are studying for a University of Wales degree will be fully supported until their studies come to an end and will graduate with a degree awarded by the University of Wales. To suggest that the University is no longer fully operational is not correct and not only damaging to the University itself, but also has the potential to create a lot of confusion and upset to prospective, current and past University of Wales students.

I would like to change any reference to the University being in the past tense to create a more accurate article of the University, clearly explaining that the University is still very much in existence as it supports all current students through their studies, and correct the information regarding the Merger as we are still following due diligence and the merger is not yet completed.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.Jocelyn88 (talk) 14:57, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

As I have had no comments on this, I will proceed next week to amend certain parts of the article. I will avoid deleting any existing links but will correct it to show the University in the present tense, and  also add additional information regarding the merger. Jocelyn88 (talk) 15:16, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I meant to leave a note but forgot to until the article popped back up in my watchlist. I think everyone here wants this article to be as accurate as possible.  That being said, the University hasn't exactly been clear and forthcoming about its true status.  Please be aware that the sources you use will be under scrutiny and there's a good chance that anything coming directly from the university will be discarded if it is in any way contrary to what reliable sources are publishing.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  15:24, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I've now corrected parts of this article and added more information regarding the merger and academic strategy. I have made a point not to deleted any existing links. I would be more than happy to discuss any part of my changes to the article. Jocelyn88 (talk) 15:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned in my reverting edit summary, this still feels whitewashed. I'm rereading through the whole article now.  I'll report back here momentarily.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  15:26, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I reverted myself. This change is much better than I originally thought.  It can be hard to interpret change summaries, sometimes.  I'll read through a few more times to make sure it's all good but this is definitely a good start.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  15:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I appreciate you taking the time to re-read throught the article again, and that you see i have made a point not to delete any existing links but offer a balanced and comprehensive portrayal of the current changes. Many thanks. Jocelyn88 (talk) 15:36, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Rereading the sources, they do not support the current contents of the article. According to the BBC article cited above, even the former vice-chancellor said that "the three institutions would now be "recreated" under a new brand." From, the new degrees will bear all three names. From the material above, the school will continue under the  1828 Royal Charter of Trinity Saint David," not the charter of University of Wales. That means the UW has been merged 'ínto'' Trinty-SD.  Is there evidence from 2012 that outside sources refer to the merged institution as University of Wales?   DGG ( talk ) 04:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * "recreated under a new brand" read as "Trinity may or may not mention UoW in its offerings when it feels it's safe to do so." Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:27, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

BBC News in 2011
A BBC Wales investigation had previously found the university's overseas links included one run by a Malaysian pop star with bogus degrees and a college in Bangkok said to be operating illegally.

The QAA's report found the university had not run proper checks while setting up partnerships with the colleges in question - a process known as validation.

It said the university "missed the opportunity to be circumspect" about Fazley Yaakob, a Malaysian pop star who claimed to have a doctorate in business administration.

The University of Wales then stopped validating courses at all other institutions in the UK and abroad.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15157119 Musiccafeangela (talk) 04:34, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

 * I find it intriguing that the whole 2011 debacle has now been reduced to barely a sentence mentioning that there was some publicity. This is something of an understatement when investigations revealed links to dodgy evangelical colleges, an illegal fashion college in Thailand, a business college in Malaysia run by a pop star with bogus degrees, a college teaching traditional Chinese medicine, and a dubious college in Singapore. There is no mention of the criticism from the media and the Welsh Government. So why have these crucial bits of information been excluded? 90.218.126.153 (talk) 10:43, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * glad I'm not the only one! There needs to be a whole Section on this passage of UoW's history (its death scene, if you wanna know my opinion). Be Bold! Be Truthful! etc.  Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:23, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

This is UoW's own [| FAQ sheet] (PDF) on the post-merger arrangements, which may be useful to editors. Matt Whyndham (talk) 10:33, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Vice Chancellors
Is there a list of the Vice Chancellors of the institution? MultipleTom (talk) 22:29, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Only University in Wales until 1992?
Shome mishtake shirley? As the University of Wales, Lampeter was a good sixty years older... I'm amending eth text. -Stub Mandrel BSc. (Wales) Stub Mandrel (talk) 22:03, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * No, St David's College, Lampeter, was not a university at its foundation. It tried to force its claim to be one in 1951 by taking the Ministry of Education to court, and ended up with the court ruling definitively that it wasn't a university. Robminchin (talk) 01:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Arms
Although it appears that the arms are not much used, it would be nice to get them right. The key colour isn't blue, but murrey, a "stain", which should be rendered as a dark purplish "mulberry" colour.

I'm not sure if there's "official values anywhere, but possible RGB values could be: Snori (talk) 04:18, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 140-0-75 as per page http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/vxt-h1.html
 * 144-45-71 as per the arms currently on article University of Canterbury
 * 132-47-70 as per the official University of Canterbury colours

 * You're right, the current image of the shield looks more like purpure. Does anyone here know how to edit a .svg file? Robminchin (talk) 00:40, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

 * You can change the colours in an SVG file by editing it with a text editor. The syntax is described in Scalable Vector Graphics. The purple colour in File:University of Wales.svg is defined by the code fill="#672178". The six-digit number gives the levels of the red, green and blue components in hexadecimal, see Web colors.

 * I have tried changing the 672178 numbers to 990033 (the HTML code number given in the University of Canterbury document), and the resulting file still opens with the Chrome browser with the purple colour showing much redder. Curiously, the file uses 892CA0 for the holes in the lamp handles.

 * I have repurposed the Colort/Color template to show these colours here:

 * }

 * Is UC Murrey Red the colour we need?

 * I am sure that software tools are available for editing SVG files, but in this case it is probably easier to use a text editor than to learn how to use a tool. I can make this change if we can agree which colour code to use. If we could find an example on the University's website then we could match it.

 * I am puzzled that the HTML codes given in the University of Canterbury document are not simply the hexadecimal equivalents of the RGB colours thy give. Are they in a different colour model?

 * Should I replace the file at c:File:University of Wales.svg with my version, using colour code 990033? I would prefer to cite a reliable source for the change.

 * However, the fact that we cannot find an image of the arms on the university's website is a clear indication that they are not using them. I think it would be better to use the university's logo, as shown at the bottom of the infobox.

 * Verbcatcher (talk) 03:11, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

 * The best reference for the arms is . Colours used in heraldry are down to artistic interpretation, so there is no 'right' shade for murrey - the Murrey page uses #800040 (r=128, g=0, b=64), so using this would be consistent with heraldry elsewhere on Wikipedia. However, the version used on UoW degree certificates (or on mine at least) is redder than this, probably even redder than the UC Murrey Red - the dragon is also the same shade, despite the fact it is supposed to be Gules! Another version - closer to the shade used on the Murrey page, but darker - can be seen on the cover of the 2013 UoW alumni magazine.
 * The arms as shown in UoW publications and as defined on the UoW page also have "Scientia Ingenium Artes" on a scroll beneath the shield. Unusually, this isn't the motto (which is shown written on the book held by the dragon). This is missing from the current file. Robminchin (talk) 19:54, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I have changed the colour in c:File:University of Wales.svg to #800040, to match the Murrey page. However, the new image will not be displayed on your computer until the the caches for the page have been purged, see Purge. One way to do this may be to click here. Verbcatcher (talk) 23:51, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Robminchin (talk) 18:06, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

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University of Wales being cancelled on Wikipedia?
Came here after hearing a BBC radio report just now about the University of Wales apparently being "cancelled" on Wikipedia?! Doesn't do much for Wikipedia's reputation in the real world.

The University of Wales very much still exists! There are dozens of news references to it in the last month alone. []

Perhaps an admin could keep a watch on this page?

Tonyinman (talk) 13:33, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 * It would be helpful if you could point to some actual corrections needed in the article. Most of the news stories are in actuality about the University of Wales Trinity St David, not the University of Wales. Robminchin (talk) 21:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

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Eirene White, Baroness White

Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White (née Jones; 7 November 1909 – 23 December 1999) was a British Labour politician and journalist.

Early life
White was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr Thomas Jones, commonly known as "TJ", a noted civil servant, educationalist and friend of the establishment. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She spent a year in Heidelberg before working for the New York Public Library. Back in England, she studied housing policies and the problems of the homeless.

Career
During World War II, White joined the Women's Voluntary Service and became Welsh Regional Secretary. She was recruited by the Ministry of Labour to help with the training of workers in Wales, particularly women, for the war effort. She also worked as a civil servant at the Board of Education until 1945 and after the War as a political correspondent for both the Manchester Evening News and the BBC. In 1948, she married fellow House of Commons lobby correspondent John Cameron White.

White stood in the 1945 general election in Flintshire without success. She was elected a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee in the women's section in 1947. She was elected Labour MP for East Flint in 1950, one of the first female MPs in Wales. An early private member's bill encouraged the government to relax divorce laws. Annoyed by fights between left and right, she stepped down from the NEC in 1953 but returned in 1959 until 1972.

When Labour came to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, White became parliamentary under-secretary at the Colonial Office, in 1966 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and in 1967 Minister of State at the Welsh Office for three years. White managed to hang on to her marginal constituency for 20 years, at one election by just 72 votes.

White served as chairman of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party NEC 1968–9. She was a governor of the British Film Institute and a member of the board of Trade Films Council.

In 1970, she retired from the House of Commons and was created a life peer on 12 October 1970 taking the title Baroness White, of Rhymney in the County of Monmouth. Later posts included president of Coleg Harlech and governor of the National Library of Wales. She was chairman of the Land Authority for Wales (1976–80), deputy chairman of the Metrication Board (1972–76), and a member of the Royal Commission on Environment Pollution (1974–81). She was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1979 to 1989. She was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath in 1983.

On 10 June 2022, a purple plaque was unveiled at Flint Town Hall in her honour, recognizing the fact that she was one of the first three women to represent Wales in the UK Parliament, and indeed Wales's only female MP for ten years.

Personal life
In 1948, she married fellow House of Commons lobby correspondent John Cameron White (1911–1968). They had no children.

Death
She died, aged 90, in Abergavenny.

A viewfinder monument was erected on the summit of Allt yr Esgair 393 metres/1290 feet (Grid Ref SO126243).

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Kat Ashley

Katherine Ashley (née Champernowne; circa 1502 – 18 July 1565), also known as Kat Ashley or Astley, was the first close friend, governess, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. She was the aunt of Catherine Champernowne, who was the mother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert from her first marriage and Walter Raleigh by her second marriage.

Parentage

Katherine Champernowne's parentage is not known for certain. There are two principal candidates for her father.

One is Sir Philip Champernowne, although there is a 1536 letter from Kat to Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex which makes reference to her father as having "much to do with the little living he has". At the time of her birth, Sir Philip's wife, Catherine Carew, was sixteen years of age. However, no contemporary records refer to Kat Ashley and Joan Denny - Sir Philip's daughter - as being sisters.

The other candidate is Sir John Champernowne, whose wife was approximately 43 at the time of Kat's birth, which some people believe to be too old, but Catherine Knollys had her last child at 38. Sir John died a year after her birth, but the fact that Kat wrote to Cromwell in 1536 mentioning her father in the present tense suggests he isn't her father, unless an unknown stepfather is meant. If Kat was the child of Sir John Champernowne, then her niece was beforementioned Joan Champernowne, who married Sir Anthony Denny, Groom of the Stool and most trusted servant to King Henry VIII.

On the other hand, Katherine may have been from another branch of the Champernowne family altogether.

Royal governess
After Prince Edward's birth, Elizabeth lost her governess, Lady Margaret Bryan, who was transferred to her half-brother's service. She was placed in the care of Lady Troy, who remained Elizabeth's governess until she retired in late 1545 or early 1546. Katherine Champernowne was appointed as gentlewoman in waiting to the then Lady Elizabeth in July 1536.

In 1537, Katherine became four-year-old Elizabeth's third governess. Sources state that she accustomed the little girl to the "elaborate code of politeness and respect to her elders". In addition, she taught her charge pursuits such as needlework, embroidery, dancing, and riding. By the age of six, Elizabeth was able to sew a beautiful cambric shirt as a gift for her younger half-brother. Evidently, Katherine had been well educated for she effectively taught the precocious princess mathematics,  geography, astronomy, history, French, Italian, Flemish, and Spanish. Elizabeth herself praised Katherine's early devotion to her studies by stating that Kat (as the future Queen called her governess) took "great labour and pain in bringing of me up in learning and honesty".

Lady-in-waiting
In 1543, Henry VIII had married Catherine Parr, who gave Elizabeth a more stable family life, restored her right to succession, and brought her household to the royal court. In 1545, Katherine married John Ashley, Elizabeth's senior gentleman attendant and cousin of Anne Boleyn. She was over 40 years old at this date. However, King Henry died in 1547 and was succeeded by Edward VI, whose uncles Edward and Thomas Seymour tried to get control of him. Shortly after Henry VIII died, Thomas Seymour investigated whether he could be permitted to marry either the Princess Mary or Princess Elizabeth, but he was refused. Seymour immediately began courting Parr as they had been romantically linked before she became Queen. In her early 30s and still childless, Parr agreed to marry Seymour only two months after her husband's death and was able to secure royal approval to take young Elizabeth to her new home in Chelsea with Kat as the princess' Chief Gentlewoman.

After Thomas Seymour began a flirtation with the 14-year-old Elizabeth, Kat first thought this amusing. However, this changed after he entered the girl's bedroom in the morning in his nightshirt and tried to tickle her while she was still in bed. Kat became concerned and advised Parr, who was later accused of taking part in holding down Elizabeth while Seymour slashed her gown "into a thousand pieces." There was a major incident in which Kat said that the Dowager Queen had caught Elizabeth in Seymour's arms, which caused both stepmother and governess to lecture the princess about the need to protect her reputation. Shortly afterwards, Elizabeth and her household moved to Hatfield House, but gossip already spread. After Parr died after childbirth on 5 September 1548, Ashley tried to convince her mistress to write to Thomas and "comfort him in his sorrow", but Elizabeth claimed that he wasn't so saddened by her stepmother's death as to need comfort. Indeed, Thomas renewed his attentions towards Elizabeth with intent on marrying her.

The rumours about Thomas Seymour's "flirtation" towards Elizabeth emerged in 1548 as his other political manoeuvres were revealed. On 21 January 1549, Katherine was arrested and taken to the Tower for possible involvement in Seymour's activities. She told her story, was found to have done nothing treasonous, and was released thirteen days before Seymour's execution. Despite detailed questioning, Katherine didn't implicate Elizabeth in Seymour's schemes. Blanche Parry, second in the household, was Elizabeth's Chief Gentlewoman while Katherine was in prison.

By August 1549, Katherine had returned to Hatfield, where she was in charge of Elizabeth's linen and supplied head dresses called "crippons". She stayed with Elizabeth until her mistress was imprisoned in the Tower by Queen Mary I in 1554. Katherine was held in the custody of Sir Roger Cholmeley until May 1555. She was allowed to rejoin Elizabeth in October 1555, but was arrested in May 1556 following the discovery of seditious books. She spent three months in Fleet Prison and was forbidden to see Elizabeth again after her release.

Favourite of Queen Elizabeth
After Mary I died in 1558 and Elizabeth became Queen of England, Katherine was appointed First Lady of the Bedchamber while her husband was appointed Master of the Jewel Office. Katherine became very influential as a source of information for the Queen and as means of asking favours for the nobles. She helped to form a strict aristocracy, which helped to maintain the Queen's dominance over government for most of her reign.

In May 1561, Queen Elizabeth made Katherine a gift of an old French velvet gown lined with taffeta and wide sleeves cut up to make cushion covers. In 1561, she discussed patterns for jewels drawn on parchment with a merchant John Dymocke. This led to involvement with Dorothy Bradbelt in a scheme for Elizabeth to marry Eric XIV of Sweden. This angered Elizabeth, and Kat and Dorothy were briefly sent to the Tower of London or put under house arrest.

In 1562 she was given a pewter metal doll for the use of Ippolyta the Tartarian, a young woman brought from Russia by Anthony Jenkinson. Katherine peacefully died in the summer of 1565 possibly at the age of 63, to Queen Elizabeth's great distress since her dear friend was not in attendance at court when she died. Parry succeeded her as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. When on her death bed, Elizabeth continually visited her and mourned her sincerely and unaffectedly.

Portrayal in popular culture

 * Elizabeth R (1971 mini-series) – Rachel Kempson
 * Blackadder II (1986 sitcom) – Patsy Byrne as Nursie
 * Elizabeth (1998 feature film) – Emily Mortimer
 * Elizabeth (2000 TV documentary) – Jan Winters
 * The Virgin Queen (2005–2006 mini-series) – Tara Fitzgerald
 * The Tudors (2007–2010 TV series) – Maude Hirst
 * Becoming Elizabeth (2022 TV series) – Alexandra Gilbreath
 * The Virgin Trial (play) by Kate Henning
 * The Queen's Governess, a novel written by Karen Harper
 * The Lady Grace Mysteries, a series of novels written by Patricia Finney
 * The Queen's Handmaiden, a novel written by Jennifer Ashley
 * My Lady of Cleves , a novel written by Margaret Campbell Barnes
 * The Lady Elizabeth , a novel written by Allison Weir
 * Three Queens, a play written by Rosamund Gravelle, and first played by Sally Sharp.

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