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In Sweden, Tornedalen/Torne valley does not refer to the actual river valley but to the originally Finnish-speaking parts of the most northern parts of the country. It is IMO confusing to say that it is an area on both sides of the river, in both countries. Is the concept "Torne Valley" used in Finland at all regarding the Finnish part of the valley? If not, maybe we can remove the "Finland related stub"-tag. If an equivalence of the word is used in a different way in Finnish, though, then things are different. / Habj 21:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * No, it definately applies to the Finnish side as well, the finnish name is Tornionlaakso. 64.173.240.130 17:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

City of Tornio and muncipalities of Ylitornio, Muonio and Kolari are refered as Torniojoenlaakso in Finland. Also there is an official subregion called "Torniolaakson seutukunta" or "Tornedalensregionen" consisting of Pello and Ylitornio. So, this is not a "Swedish only" thingie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.156.118.211 (talk) 20:05, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

It is my experience in researching my genealogy in the Torne Valley that the article is accurate. I have edited links to the article, including one to a well known and established genealogist in the article (to Nils Johan Fosli's website.) Nils Johan Fosli is well regarded internationally as an expert on Troms, Norway genealogy, which includes Kvaen folk who migrated from Torne Valley to Troms in the mid-1700's.  He is also related to those Kvaen migrants.

As for the question about the "tone" of the article, I cannot see anything negative or demeaning in the article. I presume this question arose purely because of the use of Finnish and Norwegian language and placenames.--Rgsundin (talk) 15:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC) --Rgsundin (talk) 15:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Suggesting move
Although we follow the principle of WP:UE, I suggest this article be moved to Tornedalen. I've heard that name frequently enough in English while I've never encountered "Torne Valley" outside this article. Using English for a place like Gothenburg is obvious, but let's not overdo it either :) JdeJ (talk) 09:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Why should it be Swedish name? It could as well be Tornionjokilaakso (Finnish) or Meanmaa (Meankieli). --PauliKL (talk) 10:38, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Due to the complications of a cross border geographical feature I think that the current name is OK. If it had been completely located within Sweden, a move to Tornedalen had been more motivated. Tomas e (talk) 15:57, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest it would be moved to only Meänmaa because it as its name suggests, it's directly linked to Meänkieli. McLennonSon (talk) 07:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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Chettinad cuisine

Chettinadu cuisine (Setti Nadu in tamil) is the cuisine of a community called the Nattukotai Chettiars, or Nagarathars, from the Chettinad region in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu state in India. Chettinad cuisine is perhaps the most renowned fare in the Tamil Nadu repertoire. It uses a variety of spices and the dishes are made with fresh ground masalas. Chettiars also use a variety of sun-dried meats and salted vegetables, reflecting the dry environment of the region. Most of the dishes are eaten with rice and rice based accompaniments such as dosas, appams, idiyappams, adais and idlis. The Chettiars, through their mercantile contacts with Burma, learnt to prepare a type of rice pudding made with sticky red rice. The chefs of manapatti village near Singampunari are experts in cooking Chettinad cuisine. They always used to cook in bulk orders for marriage functions, political functions, etc. though manapatti cooking is portrayed as madurai cuisine because it is located near to madurai district, it comes under chettinad cuisine only and it also comes under the chettinad region of sivagangai district. The entire village people is famous in the art of cooking.

Dishes
Chettinad cuisine offers a variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Some of the popular vegetarian dishes include idiyappam, paniyaram, vellai paniyaram, karuppatti paniyaram, paal paniyaram, kuzhi paniyaram, kozhukatta, masala paniyaram, aadikoozh, kandharappam, seeyam, masala seeyam, kavuni arisi, maavurundai, and athirasam.

Spices
In Chettinad food, major spices used include anasipoo (star aniseed), kalpasi (a lichen), puli (tamarind), milagai (chillies), sombu (fennel seed), pattai (cinnamon), lavangam (cloves), punnai ilai (bay leaf), karu milagu (peppercorn), jeeragam (cumin seeds), and venthayam (fenugreek).

Historical influences
In the 2014 book The Bangala Table: Flavor and Recipes from Chettinad by Sumeet Nair and Meenakshi Meyyappan, historian S. Muthiah writes:"The Chettiars have traditionally been vegetarians. Their feasts at lifestyle ritual functions remain vegetarian. But trade once had them criss-crossing the southern reaches of peninsular India and absorbing non-vegetarian influences from the Malabar Coast, where Christians of the Orthodoxy of West Asia and Muslims lived in large numbers and Hindus too tended to non-vegetarianism. Further non-vegetarian influences became entrenched in Chettiar food habits from the late 18th Century after they established businesses in Ceylon, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, French Indo-China and what is now Malaysia and Singapore. So did non-vegetarian fare from other parts of India through which they traveled en route to their overseas businesses."Writer Guy Trebay adds in the foreword of the same book:"One is lucky to eat like a Chettiar, they say in South India. Chettiars say it themselves. They say it because a Chettiar table is a groaning board but also because the cuisine is uncommonly subtle and aromatic, a heritage of Chettiar participation in the centuries-old spice trade, the global import and export of pungent seeds and fruits and barks from places like Cochin and Penang, the Banda Islands, Arab ports in the Straits of Hormuz. To the coconut and rice and legumes that are staples of South Indian cooking they added Tellicherry pepper, Ceylon cardamom, Indonesian nutmeg, Madagascar cloves and blue ginger, or galangal, from Laos and Vietnam.""In places like Penang, in what is now Malaysia, the Chettiars developed a liking for the sweet-sour piquancy of Straits Chinese cooking, In Saigon, they adapted their cuisine to absorb the herbs that perfume Vietnamese food. In Buddhist Ceylon, they relaxed their dietary prohibitions typical of orthodox Hindus and came to enjoy meat.""Thus, the Chettinad region—a semi-arid zone comprising scores of villages, sleepy and agrarian, studded with important ancient temples yet far from major commercial centers—became an unlikely locus of internationalized tastes."

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Phil O'Donnell (footballer)

Philip O'Donnell (25 March 1972 – 29 December 2007) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Motherwell, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday. He also earned one international cap for Scotland and twice won the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year award. He died after suffering cardiac arrest while playing for Motherwell against Dundee United on 29 December 2007, aged 35.

Motherwell
O'Donnell was born on 25 March 1972 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, a few miles away from Motherwell's Fir Park ground. O'Donnell began his career with his local team, making his first team debut in the 1990–91 season against St Mirren and soon became a regular first team player. He won a Scottish Cup winner's medal after scoring with a diving header to put Motherwell 2-1 up in a 4–3 victory over Dundee United in the final that year. Ally McCoist commentating on the match describing him as being "brave as a lion". That result earned Motherwell entry to European competition for the first time and O'Donnell became the club's youngest player in Europe, playing a tie against Polish side GKS Katowice.

He won the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year award in 1992 and 1994 and earned one cap for the Scotland national football team, playing for 15 minutes as a substitute against Switzerland on 8 September 1993, replacing David Bowman. This form made him a target for bigger clubs and he moved to Celtic in September 1994; the fee of £1.75m was the highest Motherwell had received for a player, a record that lasted until the same club signed David Turnbull in 2020.

Celtic
O'Donnell scored two goals in his debut for Celtic against Partick Thistle and went on to win another Scottish Cup in 1995. He also earned his sole league winner's medal with the club in 1998, but injuries proved to be a major concern and his appearances for the club were limited. In 1999 O'Donnell was among a number of players who failed to agree terms on a new contract with Celtic chairman Fergus McCann and instead moved on.

Sheffield Wednesday
After leaving Celtic as a free agent, O'Donnell signed for Sheffield Wednesday later that year. He made his debut against Everton on 11 September 1999, but injuries continued to curtail his career and he played just one match during his first season (when the club were relegated from the Premier League). He went on to play just 20 times in four years for Sheffield Wednesday (scoring once in a League Cup quarter final tie against Watford) and was given a free transfer at the time of their relegation to Division Two in 2003.

Return to Motherwell
O'Donnell returned to Scotland, where Motherwell offered him the chance to train with them again. The Fir Park outfit re-signed him in January 2004, allowing him the chance to appear alongside his nephew, David Clarkson and earning him the club nickname, "Uncle Phil". He was also the uncle of St Mirren midfielder Stephen O'Donnell and Brian Dempsie, who had also played for Motherwell. In his second spell at Motherwell, he appeared in another cup final, this time being on the losing side as Rangers defeated them 5–1 in the 2005 Scottish League Cup. The following season, he replaced Scott Leitch as club captain.

Death
On 29 December 2007, O'Donnell collapsed during a game against Dundee United just as he was about to be substituted. He was treated on the pitch for about five minutes by the Motherwell and Dundee United club doctors before being taken by ambulance to Wishaw General Hospital. However, he was pronounced dead at 17:18 hours. He was 35 years of age.

A postmortem examination was carried out on 1 January 2008 and it was revealed O'Donnell died of left ventricular failure. His funeral was on 4 January, at St Mary's Church in Hamilton. He was then buried in the town's Bent Cemetery.

He was survived by his wife Eileen, their daughters Megan and Olivia and sons Christopher and Luc, aged twelve, six, ten and four years respectively.

Tributes
Former Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, was among those to pay tribute. He hailed the midfielder as a "great professional."

Motherwell and other fans laid flowers, scarves, strips and other mementos at the gates of Fir Park. The club's scheduled SPL game against Hibernian at Easter Road the following Wednesday was postponed, along with the club's home game with Celtic the following Sunday out of respect. Scottish Premier League chairman Lex Gold said: "We understand from Phil's family that they would appreciate it if the Motherwell v Celtic game scheduled for 6 January 2008 could be postponed. Both clubs are happy to meet the request and we have called the game off." On 31 December the SPL postponed the Celtic v Rangers fixture scheduled for 2 January 2008, following a request by O'Donnell's former club Celtic, which was agreed by Rangers. These postponements contributed to fixture congestion at the end of the 2007–08 season, which required the 2007–08 Scottish Premier League season to be extended when Rangers reached the 2008 UEFA Cup Final.

Players on 30 December in Premier League matches between Derby County and Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City and Liverpool, wore black bands in his honour. Sheffield Wednesday's matches at Hull City and at home to Preston North End were preceded by a minute's applause as a mark of respect to their former player, with the Hillsborough flags flying at half mast. All Premier League matches in the New Year programme were preceded with either a minute of applause or silence in O'Donnell's memory. While playing for Everton, James McFadden, a former Motherwell player, dedicated his goal to O'Donnell in Everton's 2–0 win at Middlesbrough by pointing solemnly to his black armband and then towards the sky.

Nottingham Forest opted not to show their respects before their Football League One match with Huddersfield Town on New Year's Day. Forest manager Colin Calderwood, himself a Scottish former international with 36 caps, explained: "The fact that it was a boy in Scotland, does that make it any different to a boy in Colombia?" Calderwood later apologised for any offence caused by the comments, after he had been appointed manager of Hibernian in the SPL in November 2010.

Thousands of tributes from around the world were posted on the Internet. The club received hundreds of written tributes from fans as far as Korea and Ukraine, as well as many emotional messages from Sevilla FC, comparing O'Donnell's death to the similar fate of their player Antonio Puerta that August. Sevilla director of football Monchi said, "This is terrible news. Right now, my thoughts are with Phil's family and everybody at Motherwell. Unfortunately, with the death of Phil O'Donnell, Motherwell have suffered a similar tragedy to ours. Antonio Puerta died at the beginning of the season and I know how terrible the whole experience is. Sevilla will be available to help in any way that we are able, to heal the pain and sadness of this tragic loss."

Motherwell announced the Main Stand at Fir Park would be renamed the "Phil O'Donnell Stand" as a permanent tribute and his team-mates paid their own personal tribute by having his signature embroidered on their strips for the remainder of the 2007–08 season. In November 2011, a permanent memorial to O'Donnell was erected on the side of the stand bearing his name.

On 25 May 2008, a benefit match was held at Celtic Park in memory of O'Donnell with the proceeds going to various charities. The match was between a Celtic side drawn from their 1998 title-winning squad and a Motherwell side drawn from their 1991 Scottish Cup win. Other players such as David Clarkson and James McFadden played in the game. Henrik Larsson described the match as "a sad occasion but at the same time it's a kind of celebration for everything." The match finished 5–1, in front of 60,000.

There is an annual sponsored walk, started on 29 December 2008, to honour O'Donnell's memory. The walk starts from Fir Park and ends at Celtic Park, the homes of two of O'Donnell's former clubs. The money raised from the walk goes directly to charities such as the British Heart Foundation and Mary's Meals.

In December 2010, a number of fellow Scottish footballers that had played alongside Phil had thought of his family announced they would trek up Cotopaxi in Ecuador in memory of Phil to raise £100,000 for the British Heart Foundation.

Since O'Donnell's death in 2007, his nephew David Clarkson is the only player to have worn the number 10 shirt, which he had up until his departure in 2009. Since then this number, although not retired, has not been issued to any subsequent player.

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Motherwell
 * Scottish Cup: 1990–91

Celtic
 * Scottish Cup: 1994–95; runner-up: 1998–99
 * Scottish Premier Division: 1997–98

Individual
 * PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year: 1991–92, 1993–94

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Lilac-breasted roller

The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula. It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, amphibians and small birds moving about on the ground. Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs are laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to a fair height (69 to 144 metres), descending in swoops and dives, while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes do not differ in coloration, and juveniles lack the long tail streamers of adults. This species is unofficially considered the national bird of Kenya. Alternative names for the lilac-breasted roller include the fork-tailed roller, lilac-throated roller (also used for a subspecies of purple roller) and Mosilikatze's roller.

Taxonomy and systematics
The lilac-breasted roller was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Coracias caudata. Linnaeus based his description on "Le Rollier d'Angola" that had been described and illustrated in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The specific epithet caudatus is Latin meaning "tailed".

The lilac-breasted roller is one of nine species in genus Coracias, a group native to the open woodlands of western Eurasia and Africa.

Two subspecies are recognized: Though not parapatric (their breeding ranges do not meet) there is no evidence of behavioural or ecological differences that would support C. c. lorti as a separate species.
 * C. c. caudatus Linnaeus, 1766, the "lilac-breasted roller", is found from central Kenya to northern South Africa, and westwards to the Atlantic coasts of Namibia and Angola
 * C. c. lorti Shelley, 1885, the "lilac-throated roller" or "blue-breasted roller" was originally described as a separate species, and is found from Eritrea to western Somalia and northeastern Kenya

Description

In the field, these robust, large-headed birds are often perched alone on a tree in a grassy clearing, and are almost unmistakable with their colourful plumage tones. The lilac throat of the nominate subspecies C. c. caudatus deepens into a darker lilac breast. The crown to mantle is olive, and the cheeks and ear coverts a lilac-rufous. In subspecies C. c. lorti however, the crown to mantle is greenish blue instead of olive, and the breast azure. The throat is lilac, and some lilac-throated rollers have a lilac patch or rufous-brown tinges on the lower abdomen. Both subspecies have long, black outermost tail streamers that are absent in juveniles. Lilac-breasted rollers are not sexually dimorphic though males may be slightly larger than females. Juveniles, immatures and adults have the largest alula feather dark blue, but the primary coverts and rest of the alula azure. The proximal half of the remiges are also a brilliant azure, and the distal half black on the inner web, and dark purple blue on the outer webs. Juveniles have the throat and breast rufous-tawny with broad diffuse buffy-white streaks with mauve margins on some feathers. Immatures have the breast buffy with occasional lilac feathers and diffuse pale streaking.

The average mass is 104 grams, and length ranges from 36 to 38 centimeters (inclusive of the tail streamer of 8 to 9 cm). These acrobatic fliers have an average wingspan range of 50 to 58 cm. Unique to rollers (family Coraciidae) are syndactyl feet, in which the second and third digits are fused.

They may be confused with the sleeker Abyssinian roller in the Turkana Basin of Kenya, which however has dark blue upper tail coverts, an azure breast and distinctly spatulate tail streamers. Besides spatulate tail streamers, pinkish-breasted racket-tailed rollers have darker greater regime coverts and darker blue primary coverts.

Vocalizations
The call of a lilac-breasted roller is a harsh, sawing "rak rak rak" that is given during flight. Usually, the bird will perch to sing.

Distribution and habitat
Lilac-breasted rollers are found throughout eastern and southern Africa, and occurs locally at sea level, and up to 2,000 metres above sea level or over. Their range extends from the Red Sea coast of Eritrea through East Africa (including Zanzibar) to southern Africa, where they occur commonly in Namibia (excluding the Namib Desert), Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northeastern South Africa. The nominate subspecies C. c. caudatus is non-migratory, but a measure of post-breeding dispersal occurs into miombo woodland or sandy areas, before they return to the breeding areas at the start of the rains. Its counterpart, the lilac-throated roller (C. c. lorti) migrates from northeast Kenya to northwest Somalia to breed from late April to mid-September. The latter subspecies is also a vagrant to Eritrea, Oman and Yemen. Lilac-breasted rollers are most abundant in Kenya, though the species is less abundant than in former times.

Both subspecies live in open savannah habitats with scattered trees and shrubs, as the birds require higher perches for feeding and nesting. Less often they frequent riverine vegetation and light forest, and may enter subdesert steppe or open grassland where any elevated perches may be used. In protected areas, lilac-breasted rollers are among the bird species that frequent the verges of roads, especially during fires, when the small animals and insects that emerge from cover are easily predated. However, lilac-breasted rollers avoid other human-influenced areas and are not found in urban or rural areas unless they are abandoned. Outside of protected areas such as national parks, lilac-breasted rollers may infrequently be seen when farmers burn land for agricultural use. Such brush fires stir up insects and other invertebrates, and birds can be seen swooping in for easy prey.

Breeding
Both subspecies are probably monogamous and nest solitary. The sexes are not readily distinguishable, and their displays have not been definitively linked to either male or female. Pairs are protective of their nest and one of the pair will fly in a rolling pattern as a territorial display against intruders or to detract nest predators. During courtship, a lilac-breasted roller will fly upwards and then tip forward with the wings closed, before flapping to gain speed towards the ground. While leveling out at highest speed the bird will roll to the left and right a few times, uttering a harsh, raucous "kaaa, kaarsh", before swooping up again. The display may end with a harsh chuckling. If another male enters another territorial ground, they are presume to be rivals and would fight one another by thrusting, beating each others wings, and claw one another while flying upwards.

Lilac-throated rollers breed from late April to mid-September in Somalia, while lilac-breasted rollers breed at various times of the year, depending on the location. They build flat nests of grass in a baobab, dead coconut, casuarina or Terminalia tree. The nest is situated in a hollowed out tree cavity some 5 meters off the ground, or even in the side of a termite mound. Lilac-breasted rollers do not create the cavities themselves, but take over nest spaces that have been previously hollowed out by woodpeckers or kingfishers.

Typically, lilac-breasted rollers in Somalia will lay three to four eggs per breeding season. In southern Africa, the average clutch size ranges from two to four eggs. Male and female partners will take turns incubating the eggs for 22 to 24 days. Hatchlings are born altricial, becoming fully feathered after 19 days.

Feeding
The diet of the lilac-breasted roller consists of arthropods and small vertebrates, including ground-dwelling insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and millipedes, snails, and a variety of small vertebrates, including small birds. Slow-moving lizards, chameleons and snakes, and the blind, burrowing Afrotyphlops and Leptotyphlops  species are especially vulnerable to them when crossing roads. In East Africa, they join other perch hunters like Taita fiscals and pale flycatchers to make opportunistic use of grassland fires, and in South Africa are likewise seen in association with kites, storks, swallows and bee-eaters when burning of firebreaks drives small animals unto roads.

Because they feed mainly on terrestrial prey, lilac-breasted rollers will perch to scout from a higher vantage point (including from atop of large herbivorous mammals ) before swooping in and grabbing prey with their beaks. If their prey is small, they will swallow it on the ground. These aggressive birds will carry larger prey back to a perch and beat it until it is dismembered.

Status
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the lilac-breasted roller is of least concern. The large range and stable population size contribute to this assessment.

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Luísa de Bragança, Duchess of Cadaval

Luísa of Braganza, Duchess of Cadaval (9 January 1679 in Lisbon – 23 December 1732 in Évora) was a natural daughter of Portuguese King Peter II and a Portuguese lady named Maria da Cruz Mascarenhas.

She was raised among the family of the Secretary of State, Francisco Correia de Lacerda and after that at the Monastery of Carnide with her aunt Maria of Braganza (natural daughter of John IV of Portugal). Luísa married D. Luís and after his death married D. Jaime de Melo, respectively the 2nd and 3rd dukes of Cadaval.

She died in Évora, Alentejo, and was buried at the Convent of Saint John the Evangelist in the same city.

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Talk:U.S. Route 111

Details of last pre-freeway route

 * Presumably Maryland Route 45 all the way
 * LR 127 - State Route 3001, partly local through York
 * LR 250 - partly local through York, State Route 3065
 * old LR 333
 * LR 333, LR 66003, LR 66003 Spur, LR 66042 - local south of US 30, State Route 4005, Pennsylvania Route 238 (bypassed after 1991)
 * T 956 - partly Pennsylvania Route 295
 * LR 66002 - Pennsylvania Route 295
 * T 686
 * LR 250 - Pennsylvania Route 382
 * T 686
 * LR 66030 - State Route 4053, Pennsylvania Route 392
 * T 686
 * LR 66113 Spur E, LR 66003, LR 66215 - Pennsylvania Route 177, Pennsylvania Route 262, State Route 1003
 * LR 250 - State Route 1003, State Route 2035
 * and then along old US 11 to reach current US 11
 * LR 34 - State Route 1010
 * LR 30 - State Route 1027

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helpmebot
Hi pgk, I keep missing you on IRC so I'll leave a note here.
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C:\>cd pgkbot

C:\pgkbot>c:\python24\python.exe CVUBot.py en 2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Log opened. 2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Starting factory  2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Starting factory  2006/02/08 23:49 GMT Standard Time [IRCConsole,client] Traceback (most recent ca ll last): File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347 , in doRead return self.protocol.dataReceived(data) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1472, in dataReceived basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', '')) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line 232, in dataReceived why = self.lineReceived(line) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1480, in lineReceived self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params) --- ---         File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1492, in handleCommand method(prefix, params) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG self.privmsg(user, channel, message) File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg for processor in self.channeltoprocessor[channel]: exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration

2006/02/09 05:01 GMT Standard Time [IRCConsole,client] Traceback (most recent ca ll last): File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347 , in doRead return self.protocol.dataReceived(data) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1472, in dataReceived basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', '')) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line 232, in dataReceived why = self.lineReceived(line) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1480, in lineReceived self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params) --- ---         File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1492, in handleCommand method(prefix, params) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG self.privmsg(user, channel, message) File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg for processor in self.channeltoprocessor[channel]: exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration

2006/02/09 17:16 GMT Standard Time [RCReader,client] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347 , in doRead return self.protocol.dataReceived(data) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1472, in dataReceived basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', '')) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line 232, in dataReceived why = self.lineReceived(line) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1480, in lineReceived self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params) --- ---         File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1492, in handleCommand method(prefix, params) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG self.privmsg(user, channel, message) File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg self.factory.RCProcessors[lang].doRCEvent(rcEvent) File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent self.processBlockEditor(rcevent) File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group( 3).lower] exceptions.KeyError: 'january 2017'

2006/02/09 17:42 GMT Standard Time [RCReader,client] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347 , in doRead return self.protocol.dataReceived(data) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1472, in dataReceived basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', '')) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line 232, in dataReceived why = self.lineReceived(line) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1480, in lineReceived self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params) --- ---         File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1492, in handleCommand method(prefix, params) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG self.privmsg(user, channel, message) File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg self.factory.RCProcessors[lang].doRCEvent(rcEvent) File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent self.processBlockEditor(rcevent) File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group( 3).lower] exceptions.KeyError: 'fortnight' —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Benon (talk • contribs).

ah good, just thought i might be something you needed to know about :)Benon 23:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Latest Definitions?
Titoxd] asked me to ask you for the latest definitions of pgkbot for windows... I assume you know what I am talking about *crosses fingers* I have my own bot set-up now so that's why I asked. --Pilotguy (  talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 19:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Also if you have a copy of pgkbot and a copy of the list files, so I can possibly sync it with the other CVU bots. I realise you're releasing another one soon but it'll be most helpful to me. --Pilotguy (  talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 21:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Hello Pgk, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl
Hi pkg, thanks for participating in my AFD, which succeeded. While you voted oppose, I hope I will not disappoint you. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl (talk) 2006-02-16 12:27Z

Reverts to my talk and userpage
Thanks for reverting the nonsense on my talk and user page. The vandal appears to be slightly confused; calling me a fascist because I "follow the philosophy of "Resistance is Futile"". Apparently history is now taught in school using the Star Trek films. Anyway, cheers.Leith p 18:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

rfa
"On various occassions I have seen him take actions which show lack of familiarity with process and policy."

Indeed. Even though I've read upon many policy pages, and gone through pages petaining to important aspects of wikipedia, I still haven't gotten to all of them. I must admit, I do sometimes construct an action if I am ignorant; such is my nature. However, I can assure you it will never be disruptive. Perhaps I could suggest an addmenneum...? If I am ever in the gray area again, I'll make sure to make an inquiry before the desision, hopefully avoiding a negative situation. Do you think it's a good idea..? I'd like to hear your humble opinion. Please respond on my talkpage. -ZeroTalk 18:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've replied on my talkpage. -ZeroTalk 19:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Help with writing a bot
Hi, I'm rather skilled programmer with 0 expirience in coding bots. I asked for some basic start-up help on #wikipedia-en, and Cool_Cat pointed at you. So, here's what my question is: where can I found some quick and dirty howtos for writing bots? Or, if there isn't any, can you help me by answering few fairly simple questions? I'm quite sure that I won't take you too much time. Just to tell me few very basic things, I'll manage from that point on by my self. --Dijxtra 17:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * A bot for updating Wikipedia. To be more precies, a bot which would help me maintain WP:AID. So, I need to get the page, do some parsing and then upload it back. I think I saw some wiki interfaces for PERL and python.... I did dome work in PERL, so PERL's fine. I never coded in python, but I worked a lot with C++, C# and PHP, so I think that learning python wouldn't be a problem (if I got it right, python isnt that much different, but even if it is - I love learning new languages). It would be beauuuuuuutiful if that could be done in PHP, so I could make a web interface for the bot or with Java applet (which too could be accessed via web)... --Dijxtra 11:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, it all finally started to make some sence (I spent some time reading other bots' code). If I got ith right, all I need to access the wiki, get the page and post the page back is in wikipedia.py? OK, OK, now I started to realize that everything can be picked up from the code provided in the framework... --Dijxtra 10:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I have a problem which I hope you can help me with. I wrote a beauuuutiful bot which does wonders to my local offline copy to WP:AID. I retrieved this offline copy with the code I use in this script. So, yesterday the wikipedia.Page.get method worked just nice, but today it throws exceptions: C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia>python AIDbot.py Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the curr ent process. Getting page Article Improvement Drive [Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused') WARNING: Could not load 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AA rticle%20Improvement%20Drive&action=edit'. Maybe the server or your connection i s down. Retrying in 1 minutes... Then I do ctrl+c, and here's what I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "AIDbot.py", line 122, in ? main File "AIDbot.py", line 92, in main page=p.get File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 3 74, in get self._contents, self._isWatched, self.editRestriction = self.getEditPage(get _redirect = get_redirect, throttle = throttle, sysop = sysop) File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 4 16, in getEditPage text = self.site.getUrl(path, sysop = sysop) File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 2 177, in getUrl time.sleep(retry_idle_time * 60) KeyboardInterrupt

C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia> So, ti obviously chokes at wikipedia.Page.get method. Have you had any similar problems?

My RfA
Hi. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support.  Soothing R  20:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Block 212.135.1.184
I noticed you were involved in previous blocks on User 212.135.1.184, which is assigned to a publc school in the UK. The user is at it again, today invoking large vandalism on 2006 Winter Olympics highlights. It might be worth another warning or block. Crunch 12:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
--Matth e w UND (talk) 05:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - from HSchickel
Thank you

blah blah blah
you should be less concerned with cussing and more concerned with crazy people rewriting facts with doubletalk.

now maybe i could behave a little more politely. then again, nobody was ever polite to me when they erased my articles or reverted my changes to the dozens of articles i have worked on in the past... for purely POV reasons. erasing my plain statements of fact and saying facts are 'too pov'. erasing my reference links. things like that.

and i never saw a wikipedia 'administrator' come to my rescue either. and ive done it from many different IPs so dont go looking for history. but it happened and thats why i dont trust this thing.

Help
DR doesn't work with him, he's already had 2 RFC's. Ardenn 19:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot suggestion/request
I've been in #wikipedia-en-vandalism for the past few days, and I've noticed one thing that I find faintly irritating and/or improveable.

Specifically, I find it a little hard to, with the colors you're using, locate and click on the diff links - could you consider either uncoloring for them, or setting them to a somewhat more contrasting color? (In case you don't know, in mIRCScript, if you want to just end a color and allow it to revert to the default color for everyone looking at it, you just use control+k without a number after it.) Michael Ralston 06:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC) koj

Thanks!
Many thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. One of our long time vandals is having a bad day, it would seem, and has graduated from "subtle" to "outright". Kuru  talk  00:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
My request for adminship ended with a tally of 39/5/4, and I am now an admin.

I must say that yours was the most well-reasoned of my oppose votes, and it made me stop and think about why I want to be an admin. I really do plan to, for the most part, just get on with editing. However, I still see adminship occasionally being useful in my editing, and it is those occasions that made me apply.

To contradict my last statement somewhat, though, I've just come across the huge backlog at WP:PROD. It looks like I do have some chores I'll be doing soon.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  06:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support in my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA succeeded with a final consensus of 52/17/7, and receiving comments including having 'excellent potential to become a great moderator', and I am now an administrator. It did however only just pass, and I shall do my very best to rectify any of my errors, including the general belief that I should do more article work. If you have any concerns, or if you ever feel that I may be able to help you, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you! Ian13/talk 19:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks
for your unbelievably speedy help on my "help me" request! elizmr 18:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Bailing out
I am bailing out from the vandal fighting project. I will no longer develop or host my bot. Thought you'd want to know. It really isn't worth the effort. -- Cool CatTalk 10:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

This morning's events have reminded me that this is long overdue. Thank you for all the hard work you do. Essjay Talk • Contact 11:46, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank You.
Thanks for the help on the Wilcox County page. Your advice worked! CharlesM 13:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

chrs m8
Only joking. Thanks for the info. --Dan|(talk) 17:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

You are named in an ARBCOM Proceeding regarding Jeffrey Vernon Merkey Article
See WP:ARBCOM for the details. Waya sahoni 04:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Can helpmebot service the Norwegians?
I have translated the Helpme template for the Norwegian WP – no.wikipedia.org – as {{hjelp}}. Do you think it would be possible to have helpmebot notify the channel #Wikipedia-no (chanmode "+n") when this feature is evoked and the user appears in the category no:Kategori:Wikipedianere som trenger hjelp ? --meco 11:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Saving my user talk page
Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 17:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Hash nonsense.
No real need to follow up on Jeff's nonsense. It fails at the first post. The hashes are salted. Because of the salt, every password hash is unique, even if they are the same password, and the chance of any two of them being the same, here or anywhere is close to zero. Probably at least in the order 1 in 2^128. Or birthday paradox might reduce that to 1 in 2^64, but it is a big bloody number (or should that be a small bloody number?), depending on the implementation.

In any case, no-one could use the wikipedia hash to 'pass the hash' on wikigadugi or anywhere else.

Reverting cruft off my user page
Hey, thanks for getting that junk off. I have absolutely no idea why Peelo did that, but it's nice that someone's around to help the rest of us out. --Sporkot 07:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * My userpage sends [[Image:wiki-thanks.png]] as well. ←Humus sapiens ну? 21:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

from 0Waldo
Why did you just revert my link? Please put it back. 0waldo 15:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC) The link has been there FOREVER until my friend JeffQ had it axed because he was pizzzed at me! It needs to be there because it is a good link! 0waldo 15:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up after that vandal on my user page! --MJ( ☎ 17:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot
Is it intentional the amount of regexes in the new user reporting?  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 19:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Pusselbiten för goda gärningar
I Grönsv present you with this "barnstar" of the swedish wikipedia for all your help with the swedish CVU tools. The name means "the puzzlepice for good deads" and is given to people who have done that lite extra to be generus and helpfull. /Grönsv 09:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Your taking a little time to | respond nicely is appreciated. You are the first to not impugn or take punitive action. Thank you. PunchingBag 13:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Croatian historian
Your block of this user is dubious at best. It seems to rest on the fact that he removed messages from his Talk page; this is not a blockable offence. The claim that he has engaged in personal abuse isn't backed up by the examples at which I've looked, though he's been involved in slanging matches in which both sides have been hot headed. I've unblocked him; please don't block again unless there are genuine grounds. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that his watchlist is confrontational, and I've commented it out and asked him if he'd delete it as a sign of good faith; it's also not a blockable offence, though, as has been established in many such cases (I'm doubtless on a fair fe wsuch lists myself, together with most active admins). The first bit of advice at WP:TALK struck me as good, but the reference to WP:VAND is peculiar; I don't know when it was included, but I've raised it at the Talk page.  Vandalism of the encyclopædia is obviously a serious issue, and article Talk pages need to be protected too, but I think that extending the notion to user talk pages is going too far (making the process as important as the product).
 * Note that some, at least, of the warnings on his page were placed there without any good reason by people who opposed him in disputes at articles, and he was perfectly within his rights to delete them. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I agree that genuine warnings shouldn't be removed (this is, of course, more often a problem with anons, and there I have no hesitation in replacing the warnings, and even blocking and protecting if they're removed, because no-one "owns" and anon IP Talk page); I think, though, that when a named editor does it, it's important to check the validity of the removed warnings before taking action (in the past I've deleted mischievous and fake warnings from my own User page).

Anyway, I hope that things have sorted themselves out now; it's certainly going to be worth keeping an eye on all these editors (though I've protected the main focus of their warring, Serbophobia, which might take some of the heat off for the moment). --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 09:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

206.208.133.233
Thank you for blocking 206.208.133.233. What a jerk. Boofox 21:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry about that. I'm trying to answer questions on Special Relativity and can't do them and am getting very stressed. Just then I lost my temper completely. Sorry--84.71.2.100 15:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Obvious violation of policy, abusive behavior.
Pages on Deletion Review should remain for a minimum of 5 days. Please read Undeletion_policy. Also don't mark reverts as "minor", a total page change like that obviously is not a Minor edit. Bob, just Bob 19:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Please also see Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates. Bob, just Bob 20:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
For reverting my user talk page after vandalism. DavidFarmbrough 06:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Anon you just blocked
I suggest you semi-protect or protect his talk page so he doesn't keep removing warnings. JoshuaZ 18:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The help I need
I'm trying to get the Community Portal changed back to the version I spent many weeks working on. The page has been reverted to a version months ago, and an admin came along and locked that version. I called for a vote to get the page changed back! What I need to know is how to get the talk page system changed so that it actually promotes general feedback rather than being a mere criticism network. 'Cuz it sure seems like complainers are more likely to post on talk pagers than praisers/encouragers. It wasn't until I called for a vote that any supporters showed up on the talk page at all! How can we change this??? Can we add buttons to every page for this? --Go for it! 20:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything else I missed in my efforts to get the Community Portal restored? What else can I do to promote its restoration? --Go for it! 20:45, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Jedi6 Userpage
Thanks for reverting the vandalism done to my userpage! Jedi6 -(need help?)  21:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot
Hi, I noticed that pgkbot wasn't saying anything anymore in #vandalism-en-wp-2. Any specific reason or did it broke? Was thinking about letting Vandalfighter listen to that channel as well, rather then the #vandalism-en-wp, since that one is more complicated with userchecks and the like as well as containing general users who might feel uncomfortable with a bunch of vf... nicks :) Henna 06:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It just needs someone to make is speak  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 13:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

test
--pgk( talk ) 07:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

helpmebot
For the moment the helpmebot seems to go unattended in the norwegian channel. The original poster seems to have posted a request for this service yet he isn't around. How do we control it? What does it log, if anything, how can we shut it of in case of vandalism, who's in charge of the bot, and who is the controlling part on the norwegian channel? Thanks. I would prefer if you responded at no:Wikipedia:Tinget, or at no:User talk:Agtfjott or at #wikipedia-no. — John Erling Blad (no) 09:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

 * There has been a vote about the continued practice involving the template and the bot. The decision was to abolish. There were mentions that maybe at a later time it will be more welcome, but this time has not yet arrived. __meco 09:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The Masterpiece
The user in question has reposted the content a couple of times after the deletion (and repeatedly removed speedy tags noting it as reposted) - do you think that the page needs to be protected? --DMG413 18:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

What did I do, exactly...
Wow.... what did I do?

Is it safe for me to test the bot on my user subpages?, Or will I trigger the block agian? Thank you very much!!

Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:10, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

fact template usage
I urge you to look at the situation closely. Please, please have a look at the history of the relevant articles. I am not getting a fair hearing here. Mel Etitis was blocked himself for 24 hours on the day in question for 3RR, and he clearly feels very frustrated that others were able to work on these articles while he was blocked. Please look into this case properly and in detail: it is not as has been presented. --Mais oui! 10:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't believe this: I have just read Mel Etitis accccusations in detail and found this:

 * "While the AfD discussion was continuing (and it was obvious from the outset that the overwhelming consensus was to keep the article) the nominator deleted all references to the county flowers from the relevant county and city articles, citing the AfD."
 * That is just not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was User:Bwithh who did that: . This allegation is unbelievable. Where on earth is a single shred of evidence to back up Mel Etitis allegations????? --Mais oui! 10:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for at least trying to be nice. I appreciate it. Please, please request from Mel Etitis at least some links to back up his allegation. Look very carefully at what he wrote: it is 100% opinion and 0% evidence. Please look into this, because we cannot have admins coming to immediate summary justice without even a shred of evidence. I urge you, this is most unjust. --Mais oui! 10:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

 * You say "not to stubbornly push forward but to stop and discuss". Please see the Talk page message I left on MelEtitis Talk page 2 days ago! He chose to ignore the opportunity to discuss, and a few moments ago "archived" that message. I wonder why? Is it because he wants other Admins, like you, to believe that I will not communicate? The truth is quite the opposite, it is him that brushes off all opportunities to discuss. I demand that that bullying message he left on my Talk page is removed forthwith. He has behaved, and is continuing to behave, appallingly, and I will not let this matter rest until he has been reprimanded. --Mais oui! 12:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Mel Etitis has just made a claim that you "support his view". Is that still true? I would appreciate it if you clarified you current stance on the matter at AN. --Mais oui! 15:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

IP block: Slashme
Hi, thanks for your post on my talk page. It seems the block has either expired, or has been removed. --Slashme 11:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Matt Leinart
I see the infamous Matt Leinart vandal is back. I also see that he has fallen back on one of his many sockpuppets, "mattleinartfan" or some such, which for some reason apparently wasn't blocked, and is probably old enough to be able to get around the semi-protect option. Wahkeenah 07:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind, an Admin blocked him. He's a persistent little devil. He was blocked for a week, from the 2nd, and within a day of being unblocked, he was back at it. The one user has now been permanently blocked, so he'll have to find another sockpuppet to add to his list of 2 or 3 dozen. What a looney. Wahkeenah 09:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Ta for the revert :) --Alf melmac 17:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

PS Conclave
How come my article for PS Conclave was deleted? (just curious)

(No assertion of notability) --Elliotgoodrich 22:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A same person
But, he it is the same person with many accounts and he rev. all my works. Sorry but this is key point. And Im wrkin in Albanian Wiki I dont have so much time. He is doing servel time in this year with differen accounts.

Hipi Zhdripi
Hipi Zhdripi has been breaking his 3RR 24h ban. See here, here and here. Please, let me know if you can do anything about it. Regards, Asterion 01:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Kosovo
See: Talk:Serbia --Hipi Zhdripi 19:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

sprotect remove
You can remove the

Is there any doubt that Sint Holo is Jeff?
Seems pretty obvious to me. --Vryl 05:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Pgkbot oldconfig files
Are there any updated versions?

Rich nffc
Hey Pgk. As you were the first to reply to Rich nffc's request to be unblocked, thought you should know he also emailed me (as I was the one who blocked him), and I've decided to give him a last chance (reduced his block to a week). He was very apologetic, and perhaps his vandalism was more a case of not really understanding what Wikipedia is, rather than an outright attempt to ruin things for others. I say perhaps, because he may just be an outright vandal. But, WP:AGF and all that, so he's on his last warning, and I'll be keeping a very close eye on him when he returns. Cheers,  Proto  ||   type   14:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

hmm

Unblock Request
Hi, sorry for not including all the details. Here is all the information:

You were blocked by Curps for the following reason (see our blocking policy): "Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Paul2001". The reason given for Paul2001's block is: "vandalism"." Your IP address is 195.93.21.103

The block is still in place and I cannot upload images. The reason I can still edit certain pages is due to the AOL dynamic IP I am using (I think...). Thanks for your help. NepGrower 17:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Much appreciated. NepGrower 18:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Unprotect and Unblock Please
You said: "The tone and nature of your edits were to persuse and harass another editor. No if's not buts. You're the rules lawyer, point me to where the blocking policy allows for creation of multiple socks to dispute a block you disagree with. It doesn't. The block page gives you a few options, email one of the many many admins, use the mail list etc. Since you've used another sock to evade the block I'm very tempted to extend it again. --pgk(talk) 13:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)"

 * The purpose of all posts have been to get an answer to a simple question "What is the basis for the block?" No user has been pursued, if you review the history you will see that Nlu is the pursuer. In your terms Nlu is being 'harrassed'. There has been no 'harrassment' since 03:54, 8 April 2006 FriendlyFriend (Indication of support). I think reading that post will show that there is nothing aggressive. However the 'harrassed' Nlu pursued today despite the offensive treatment you allege they have received. Typically those with power are the ones with the ability to harrass. Let's just say that it depends on your perspective in who is harassing who.

 * In regards to posting using sockpuppets, it appears that you are using the wrong time frame for reference. Your position appears to be that if a user is blocked and they create a sockpuppet, then they have violated policy. I agree that WP:BP does not contain reference to using socks to communicate, it is actually silent on the use. (Emails have been sent to admins, which have not ever been returned to date.)

 * If you change your frame of reference you will see that the block should never have occurred in the first place. Look at the issue outlined on PoolGuy's talk page.  GoldToeMarionette was not created while PoolGuy was blocked (check for yourself).  GoldToeMarionette was blocked for being a sockpuppet (which is not a violation of policy per WP:SOCK).  PoolGuy was blocked for having sockpuppetswhich is not a violation of policy per WP:SOCK).  Therefore there was no legitimate block in place.  As stated twice on PoolGuy's talk page "Per Sockpuppet "Users who are banned from editing or temporarily subject to a legitimate block may not use sock puppets to circumvent this." Since there was never a legitimate block all use of the sockpuppets are permitted by Wikipedia policy."

 * If you assume that the block is legitimate, then using a sockpuppet to post is a violation of Wikipedia policy. The problem with that is the assumption.  The original block is just not legitimate.  Lbmixpro finally saw that and unprotected the page. You had not realized it yet and denied the unblock request and protected the user talk page falling prey to a false assumption.

 * Unprotecting the talk page will allow dialogue there. If you can now see the issue at hand please process the unblocks and unprotects.  VerifyYesVerify 01:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Moving Pages

 * Thanks, that helps. kgw 21:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter

Everyone else seems to have stolen all the good Easter pictures and stuff, but I wish you a Happy Easter all the same. — FireFox • T [16:10, 16 April 2006]

WP:AN complaint
You responded to my complaint on WP:AN. I think you may be interested in Requests for comment/Geo Swan. KI 21:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for unblocking me
Thank you for your assistance. Lady Jane Grey 23:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Indeed. Good work, excellent patience, too.  Had I been online, I'd have been happy to take care of it - thanks, too, from me, for helping her out.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

And the Winner Is ...
Greetings,. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Sango123 for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. (^'-')^ Covington 03:23, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for undoing the autoblock of a shared ip which blocked me along with the vandal. -- so U  m  y  a  S  ch  07:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Known Wikipedian
This is User:Known Wikipedian. Do you think you can get away with blocking me from accessing Arbcom to address my legitimate greivances?

User:Dannyisme
Greetings! I've unblocked User:Dannyisme... who has confirmed in IRC that it is really him. :-) Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocked IP
Well, 83.19.130.66 has a proxy, but it's configured exclusively for our local use. Maybe some time ago it was misconfigured, but now it's not open. Please, check it once again (with nmap or something like this). kocio 23:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

User:SimplePilgrim
Thank you for your prompt review of this situaiton. Johntex\talk 07:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Trollwatcher
No, I don't really know much about that. I did not encounter myself during the fiasco. Looking at Trollwatcher's block-log, it seems blocked Trollwatcher with an expiry time of indefinite with the summary "Has been posting links to sites that attack other users and that claims to identify them by name. Seems to be here for the purpose of making "case studies" about other users' behaviour (and adding external links). Block to be reviewed at WP:AN/I after Eas". I assume that that means "After Easter", since the website was taking issue with editors who identify as Christian or edit Christian topics and since the attack was occurring on Good Friday when many of them might have been away from wiki. I suggest you post a request to Musical Linguist to follow up with posting the block for review at WP:AN/I. Then we can post to Trollwatcher with the link to the original WP:ANI discussion and the new WP:ANI discussion that presumably Musical Linguist will start. Trollwatcher's talk page is not protected, so he can make any clarification/defence he wants to make there - or we could temporarily unblock him to allow him to post to WP:ANI. Johntex\talk 19:36, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Pgk. Please see the message I posted on Johntex's talk page. Yes, "after Eas" meant after Easter, but the box only allows a certain number of characters. Trollwatcher, as his name suggests, was on Wikipedia to study the trolls, which he identified as several of the Christian editors. The Christian editors had been opposing a new user who used sockpuppets (established by usercheck and by an accidental signing of a post while forgetting he was logged on as someone else) in voting and reverting. Trollwatcher and John1838 (and a few IPs) began to post stuff on the talk page about how they were making case studies about the trolls. The website, which gave (what claimed to be) real names, photos, and the link to a personal website of users, while attacking them, was very obviously based on Trollwatcher's contributions, and John's. Location and name of spouse, children, etc. could be found from the website which Trollwatcher spread, and which he certainly contributed to. We have lost an excellent editor as a result. I e-mailed a bureaucrat with checkuser access about this block, and copied my message to Jimbo and to the Foundation lawyer. I cannot stress strongly enough what a serious attack and violation of privacy this was, and in fact the bureaucrat I contacted, who saw the website at the time that it had the photo, real name, etc. of the main victim of harassment (there are others), has already denied the unblock. Trollwatcher, contrary to what he says on his talk page, is well aware of that website, and of the connection with John1838. See here for an edit he made, signed TrollSpotter, from before he registered his account. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 22:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for restoring Str1977's talk page, by the way. I deleted it and restored one version just before Easter, with the intention of carrying out the full restoration job after Easter. I knew he wouldn't mind waiting. When I went back to do it, I saw you had already done it for me. Many thanks. AnnH ♫ 23:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Approvals group
Just wanted to let you know that I have removed references to the approvals group from both the main bots page and the approvals page. See Wikipedia Talk:Bots for my reasoning. Pegasus1138 Talk 00:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

South Dakota abortion law controversy(2)
Sorry about the confusion relating to this page -- even though there's history listed on that page, I am effectively the "sole author". That page is a junk page that was created due to a disagreement between myself and another user. That disagreement has since been settled. Nothing links to that page, all content on that page is already mirrored elsewhere, and it serves no useful purpose. Can't we just SD it? If not, then I'll AfD it. Struct 17:55, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Rampant Deletionism at Work, Yet Again
I would like my page back...it was actually relatively well-written. To delete it as "nonsense" is ignorant and stupid...it said that is was under onstruction and it is inconsiderate and rude to delete a page that someone is actively in the process of editing, as you DO NOT know what it will become. I would like it returned and userfied, if possible, since there was hard work put into a genuinely true article...there was to be an external links section also, to prove the existence of such a page.back...it was actually relatively well-written. To delete it as "nonsense" is ignorant and stupid...it said that is was under onstruction and it is inconsiderate and rude to delete a page that someone is actively in the process of editing, as you DO NOT know what it will become. I would like it returned and userfied, if possible, since there was hard work put into a genuinely true article...there was to be an external links section also, to prove the existence of such a page.

pgk( talk ) 07:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * pgk, I'm still here... If you can't recognise it's not nonsense, then could you please at least return it and userfy it so I could improve upon it? I have made a grave error, starting an article under construction in the main body of the encyclopædia...dangling there helpless. I will not do this the next time I create an article. Please, from the bottom of my heart, could you restore it?

Sincerely, yours truly, cross my heart and hope to die, signed, X, sealis officialis, etcetera etcetera, Flameviper12 14:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Sildenafil?
Hi Pgk; we've already put a request on the semi-protection page, but it'd be nice if we could get it s-protected sooner than later. It appears that a persistent user or a bot is jumping from proxy to proxy adding the same spam link.  OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! On the bright side, the affair has boosted my edit count considerably....  OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Will try to give you details of any block in the future; the AOL "patch-arounds" don't seem to work for me, & of course I know it isn't cool to unblock yourself. Blocks usually only seem to affect one or a few pages in my case. Rlquall 09:56, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Greier
Hi, the 3RR violation Greier was blocked for is at Administrators' noticeboard/3RR - the article Vlachs of Serbia has nothing to do with it. Telex 09:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Unblock
Yes! The unblock works! Thank You! -- George Mon  e  y Talk   Contribs 16:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Kaspersky Trust
Hi, I suspected this user of being a sockpuppet of banned User:Zephram Stark, and asked User talk:Jayjg (who has checkuser access) to check it out. I don't know if he was definitively proved to be a sockuppet or not...it looks like he was blocked and then unblocked. Kaspersky's style of pleading innocence/pointless argumentation does seem to match Zephram's modus operandi. --JW1805 (Talk) 21:43, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Pgk. It looks like Jayjg himself was unsure whether this user were a sockpuppet or not. Apparently, he unblocked him two minutes after blocking him, but did not clear all autoblocks. I only found a few remaining autoblocks, which I removed, but the user still seems to be blocked (I can't figure out why, though). The whole thing looks like one huge misunderstanding. I communicated with this user, and am 99.9% sure there is no way in hell he is Zephram Stark. He is genuinly interested in continuing editing Wikipedia, and so far all we did is bit him. I'll leave a message to Jayjg, but could you please re-check for more autoblocks and let me know what I missed? I am taking full responsibility for this user. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 01:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Inanna
Thanks for helping me out with her, but now she's back as ! :( —Khoikhoi 00:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Gateware
Hi, Pgk. I'm requesting a new AfD rather than a deletion review because no evidence was presented in the original AfD. With no evidence on the table, the deletion certainly made sense. With the evidence currently on the talk page, the deletion needs to be reconsidered (rather than simply examining whether or not the deletion followed process, which all that an Undeletion Review is).

If the page goes through the 5-Day AfD process now and is deleted, I will not recreate it. But I regard the current page as a separate article from the one which was (originally) deleted, and I do not believe that the original deletion applies to the new expanded, justified version. Megacz 16:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. --Shizane 18:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

your help regarding dispute
thanks for your help on my talk page. I replied back on my talk page.Sarreau 22:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Blocked User Circumventing Blocks
Per User:McNeight, I'm writing to let you know that an edit made today by User:68.115.72.93 suggests continued sockpuppetry by User:Braaad. (You were the one who unblocked User:68.115.72.93 as "collateral damage".) User:McNeight also suggests User:Lady Jane Grey is involved (if nothing else, WP:CIVIL certainly applies), but the evidence there is circumstantial, so I'm going to suggest to User:McNeight that we WP:AGF until the WP:RCU comes back. Let me know how you believe I've handled this. :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Terrific, you're on it, then. :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Pgkbot setup on #vandalism-pt-wp
Hey Pgk, when you get a chance, can you setup a bot on #vandalism-pt-wp. I've got LDBot running there in the meantime. When he's all setup, please shutdown LDBot; I've added you to it's aclo (incase you can't get op in the channel). Thanks so much. -- light darkness (talk) 01:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank-You for your help! JP 16:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Nonsense?
That isn't nonsense, and you know it.

Moronic Fascism
You sir have acted in a moronic, iron fisted and fascist way. It took me half an hour of trying to find a name not in use and then you block the one I finally register. I was going to help out on the Mobilization page using my expertise, but I don't think I'll bother now.

You didn't even give a reason for the "block". I suggest you give people a chance to contribute, instead of blocking them for no apparent reason, but to rack up your ban tally. Perhaps the criticism I hear that most Wikipedia Admins are more concerned with the oppression of real editors than ever contributing to articles themselves is correct. From what I hear, people only "revert vandalism" to the extent they get a high enough edit tally to get some admin capabilities around here.

Well I won't stick around to confirm it. I'm not going to be contributing to a project, which doesn't assume new members are going to contribute with integrity and faith, but instead are treated with suspicion and undue hostility.

Good day to you.

Mr Mike Broom

Users accounts
Out of general interest, why are you creating accounts that seem to be relating to duck noises? Like, User:Quackquackkcauq and User:Quackquackquackquack? And this: User:Quackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquack  K ilo-Lima|(talk) 13:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Unblock
Thanks for unblocking me a couple of days ago. :) A. Shetsen 17:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hello Pgk, Thanks for helping me find that symbol (ʊ)! Bye, Jean-Paul 18:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Unblock Request
When trying to edit from a school computer, I get the block message, even if I log in to my Wikipedia Account.

I'm not entirely sure what an 'underlying IP address' is, but if you could ask me what you need from me to lift this block, I'd be more than happy to comply.

Will 17:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not currently using the computer I'm blocked from, but I think the reason was 'Repeated Vandalism', which makes sense as it was a school IP address, although I've never noticed anybody using Wikipedia but me.

 * I subscribed to the Wikipedia mailing list from school, thinking that it may help in the unblock, and the confirmation email contained my IP address at the time, which was 195.92.163.130.

 * Hope this helps.

 * Will 17:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I will try and talk to the system administrator, but I'm not sure it will be very high on his agenda. Is there no way of allowing preregistered accounts, originating from trusted IP addresses, the chance to edit Wikipedia without letting what seems would be the whole school, edit?

 * Will 18:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, thanks. I'll get back to you.

 * Will 18:04, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandal block overlap
You may want to reinstate your block of 150.176.182.29, we appear to have hit the button at the exact same moment. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 18:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind. 8-)  Can't sleep, clown will eat me 18:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism, IP 167.206.185.194
Look, yes, it is a problem. But you can't cut it off for all of us just becuse some idiots in the school are vandalising. That's just wrong. If it is possible, it would make sense to only allow edite from that IP by logged in users. (once again, if it is possible.)   User:Aido2002 20:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * First of all, I got your attention by putting the message there, didn't I? And nobody "suffers", because you, the admin, is supposed to come in, fix it, and then it's done. Also, how do you propose the network admin deal with this? What can he do? But you don't answer my (implied) question. Can you block any non-logged in edits from the IP? If you can, the problem is sloved. You can then block the offending users.   User:Aido2002 21:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Look, I'm not trying to start an argument with you, but really, why did you become a sysop if you didn't want to, as you put it, "put up with the vandalism," and also, the network admin has better things to do, such as... maintain the network! Look, I know you are annoyed by this, I took a look at the contrib logs. But, based on the content of the contribs, I can tell that 99.99999% is by this one group of kids, who, while I'm giving estimated statistics, make up about .1% of the school. Once again, punishing everyone for what a few kids do is just wrong. I want to come to some agreement, becuse you are depriving Marlboro Memorial Middle School of a valuable resource. And, if I am correct, the entire Marlboro K-12 distict has 1 IP. So, you are also deprivin many teachers, school staff, superintendents, etc. of the same thing. You are not only blocking a school, but an office. So, I want to make some agreement with you so that we can resolve this, and allow us to make edits at school.   User:Aido2002 22:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * OKay, how about this: unblock the IP, but I will personally check every day for new edits from it. If I find vandalism, I will revert it, and you sysops won't have to worry about it. If I don't get to read your reply, bu tomorow, I can edit at school, I will assume you accept my offer. User:Aido2002 03:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, first of all, I emailed the help desk and got the whole IP thing taken care of. And like I said yesterday, I wasn't trying to start an argument with you, so I hope you aren't annoyed with me.    User:Aido2002 20:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, that's not exactly what I think admins' jobs are, but it doesn't matter anymore. I will try to see what I can do, and get done, abou this issue, but it's not exactly the netowrk admin's highest priority... Although, I do know the kids dong this, and I'll tell them to stop. Thanks for your help in this issue.   User:Aido2002 20:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Unblock
Thanks for removing the autoblock.-- digital_m  e  ( Talk  ) (  Contribs  ) 17:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

copyright
it wasn't copyrighted! Bugman 20:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Batman Returns
Thanks for the fix

Lemoncat edit
I was trying to remove it as vandalism, but found that it wouldn't let me. --Mhking 22:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I was trying to remove the original offensive statement; apparenly I either stepped on your toes or overstepped my bounds. Please accept my apologies. --Mhking 22:31, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah. OK. Thanks... I appreciate the heads-up... --Mhking 22:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Karatekid7
I think you locking those two pages from editing and not unblocking the two alternative accounts was foolish. As I have stated the two accounts would not be used ever and leaving them indefinitely blocked is unfair. Could you explain your reason for your mistake and back it up with wikipedia policy? --Karatekid7 23:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I would be happier if you allowed me to edit the talk pages and unblocked the two users. As I was recently castigated as being the sockpuppet of a indef blocked user, I honestly will never use either of these accounts again. I can understand that the power of being an admin can be overwhelming but it is not much I ask for. --Karatekid7 00:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiLove

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}} or {{subst:smile2}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

boo!

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}} or {{subst:smile2}} to their talk pages. Happy editing! Benon 19:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...
...for reverting the vandal in my userpage! (I'm sure all he wanted was to remove my catchy edit summary comment...) Feel free to step in my shop, I'll be glad to give you a gift... N i k o S il v e r  (T) @ (C) 21:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Hello PGK, My name is Michael and I am new to Wikipedia. I learned that you are a admin and I hope that you and I will be friends and hopefully sometime, I will be an admin too! Thanks, Scoobydude94 22:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...
...for the help you gave, its much appreciated! Ollie 17:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

unblock details
The next time I'm blocked, I'll be sure to forward the details to you Pgk, but I'll need your email address. When you're blocked, you can't leave messages for people because... well, you're blocked. Thanks. Knowmoore 10:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Autoblock
Thanks for removing the autoblock for me. Something is screwy with my computer being that the autoblock was on my personal laptop, but oh well. Thanks again, Mahoga <b style="color:red;">ny</b>

Stco23
There is a message in User Talk:64.80.222.26 since i can not put anything thing in my talk page. I am sorry for abusing the unblock thing. I did not know that i could go offline and back online would help me get unblocked. I have a dial-up connection. So i hope you check out User Talk:64.80.222.26 for my message. By the way delete my emails they ment nothing. Thank You.--Stco23 09:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Admin
Would you be willing to add reference to your admin status on your user page. I imagine it would save people a lot of time (: Myciconia 03:54, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I only say that because it would help people understand that when you do actions (such as removing a request for unblock) it is an administrative decision. Myciconia 00:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Dante7777
I told User:Dante7777 that I'd unblock him if he reads and agrees to our basic rules. I'll take responsibility for watching his edits closely and will reblock at the first sign of trouble. Is that OK with you? Cheers, -Will Beback 07:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Moved from userpage
hi pgk where shall i edit because i find it interesting isnt there a special certain page that is made especially for editing? Marksandspecer 10:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

please respond to my question on my talk page Marksandspecer 10:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

marksandspecer
yes i understand now but how about my question of isnt there a special place where i can edit without getting blocked Marksandspecer 10:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

thankyou for your help and by the way you spelt editing wrong it is not double T when adding ing Marksandspecer 10:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

hiya again would you mind me advertising my sandbox on this page? please reply to my my talk page there is a link for it Marksandspecer 10:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I now think I have developed a lead in my school's block...
There are un-suspecting people at my school who think all games are all right. So they download them, and get a trojan.--Gangsta-Easter-Bunny 12:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yogi tea

 * 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 redirect to Yogi Tea. Jitse Niesen (talk) 00:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Yogi tea
Transwikied to cookbook - can now remove from here. Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk   21:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination in favour of maclean25 new content. Thanks guys.   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   05:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Chai. Pilatus 23:13, 1 October 2005 (UTC) Keep, popular brand Pilatus 01:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC) Redirect to Yogi Tea. Pilatus 00:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, brand of herbal teas. Kappa 00:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, popular and unique brand of herbal teas. Yogi Teas Website --maclean25 00:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Yogi Tea. --maclean25 22:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect per maclean25. Ilmari Karonen 23:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleanor Dall

 * 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. — J I P | Talk 05:18, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Eleanor Dall
granddaughter of Franklin Roosevelt, no notability of her own established TimPope 21:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn granddaughter. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

PLEASE DO NOT DELETE! "No notability of her own established"? She is a direct descendant of one of our country's presidents. That alone garners interest. User:Mdiane ← user's only edit is this comment --TimPope 20:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Being descended from a President is not a claim to notability. They need to have done something of their own.  User:Zoe|(talk) 21:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom. Really.  We're probably all descendants of Charlemagne — does that entitle me and everyone else to a vanity page? Ilmari Karonen 22:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Ilmari Karonen. In a few generations, the number of descendants of any given person is likely to be numerous. MCB
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List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland

This is an incomplete list of statutory rules of Northern Ireland.

Statutory rules by year

 * List of statutory rules and orders of Northern Ireland (prior to 1974)
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 1986

1990–99

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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 1999

2000–09

 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2000
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2002
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2005
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2006
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2007
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2008
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2009

2010–19

 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2010
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2012
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2014
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2015
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2016
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2017
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 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2019

2020–present

 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2020
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2021
 * List of statutory rules of Northern Ireland, 2022
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L-notation

L-notation is an asymptotic notation analogous to big-O notation, denoted as $$L_n[\alpha,c]$$ for a bound variable $$n$$ tending to infinity. Like big-O notation, it is usually used to roughly convey the rate of growth of a function, such as the computational complexity of a particular algorithm.

Definition
It is defined as

 * $$L_n[\alpha,c]=e^{(c+o(1))(\ln n)^\alpha(\ln\ln n)^{1-\alpha}}$$

where c is a positive constant, and $$\alpha$$ is a constant $$0 \leq \alpha \leq 1$$.

L-notation is used mostly in computational number theory, to express the complexity of algorithms for difficult number theory problems, e.g. sieves for integer factorization and methods for solving discrete logarithms. The benefit of this notation is that it simplifies the analysis of these algorithms. The $$e^{c(\ln n)^\alpha(\ln\ln n)^{1-\alpha}}$$ expresses the dominant term, and the $$e^{o(1)(\ln n)^\alpha(\ln\ln n)^{1-\alpha}}$$ takes care of everything smaller.

When $$\alpha$$ is 0, then

 * $$L_n[\alpha,c] = L_n[0, c] = e^{(c + o(1)) \ln\ln n} = (\ln n)^{c + o(1)}\,$$

is a polylogarithmic function (a polynomial function of ln n);

When $$\alpha$$ is 1 then

 * $$L_n[\alpha,c] = L_n[1, c] = e^{(c + o(1)) \ln n} = n^{c + o(1)}\,$$

is a fully exponential function of ln n (and thereby polynomial in n).

If $$\alpha$$ is between 0 and 1, the function is subexponential of ln n (and superpolynomial).

Examples
Many general-purpose integer factorization algorithms have subexponential time complexities. The best is the general number field sieve, which has an expected running time of

 * $$L_n[1/3, c] = e^{(c+o(1))(\ln n)^{1/3}(\ln \ln n)^{2/3}}$$

for $$ c = (64/9)^{1/3} \approx 1.923$$. The best such algorithm prior to the number field sieve was the quadratic sieve which has running time

 * $$L_n[1/2, 1] = e^{(1+o(1))(\ln n)^{1/2}(\ln \ln n)^{1/2}}.\,$$

For the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, the fastest general purpose algorithm is the baby-step giant-step algorithm, which has a running time on the order of the square-root of the group order n. In L-notation this would be

 * $$L_n[1, 1/2] = n^{1/2+o(1)}.\,$$

The existence of the AKS primality test, which runs in polynomial time, means that the time complexity for primality testing is known to be at most

 * $$L_n[0, c] = (\ln n)^{c+o(1)}\,$$

where c has been proven to be at most 6.

History
L-notation has been defined in various forms throughout the literature. The first use of it came from Carl Pomerance in his paper "Analysis and comparison of some integer factoring algorithms". This form had only the $$c$$ parameter: the $$\alpha$$ in the formula was $$1/2$$ for the algorithms he was analyzing. Pomerance had been using the letter $$L$$ (or lower case $$l$$) in this and previous papers for formulae that involved many logarithms.

The formula above involving two parameters was introduced by Arjen Lenstra and Hendrik Lenstra in their article on "Algorithms in Number Theory". It was introduced in their analysis of a discrete logarithm algorithm of Coppersmith. This is the most commonly used form in the literature today.

The Handbook of Applied Cryptography defines the L-notation with a big $$O$$ around the formula presented in this article. This is not the standard definition. The big $$O$$ would suggest that the running time is an upper bound. However, for the integer factoring and discrete logarithm algorithms that L-notation is commonly used for, the running time is not an upper bound, so this definition is not preferred.

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