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Revision of Cenepa war article
I have checked into your receint modifications of the article referred to Cenepa war. Here are some highlights. It would be nice if rework for this article may include pictures.HappyApple 02:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Although war after World War II did not always included an official declaration of war (i.e.Korean War), were considered to as conventional warfare, and it would be proper to state on the article Cenepa conflict was an undeclared war.
 * Task force, i was referring to as conscript force, and toll military draft during the war.
 * Logistics; arms used by both sides, including, repeating rifles, machine guns, or any other kind of military equipment used by ground or airbone forces and Technology involved on this conflict.

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messages
Debated whether to put this in the talk page or not, but i did not know if you watch that page actively. Just thought i'd give you a heads up-Messhermit is at it againDragonlord kfb 16:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Accurate sources?

 * Accurate sources? Have you provide links? or any other way to verify the books? Once again, I'm not gonna do that for you, it's your job. Regarding the last rv that you have done to the page, please take a look at my previous edition and you will realice that your so called Facts were not removed, but just separated in smaller paragraphs in order to make it easier to read. Messhermit 18:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * So, according to you, I should ignore the fact that Jose Abelardo Quiñones is one of the main heroes of the PEruvian Air Force?
 * The monument is a monument. It is dedicated for those who fought in the war. What other picture are you planning to put then? I have look for any other, but there is none. Messhermit 20:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

options a,b,c,d
I would choose option "d and a half". As a result of the treaty Ecuador received 5,000-plus km2 and Peru received 14,000 km2. Vivaperucarajo 20:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

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Request for Mediation
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POV
Andre, I went back and read my edit and I see your point. I attempted to make it sound a little more NPOV. I hope that it acceptable. I fear that calling out either the Ecuadorans or the Peruvians may be inflammatory. Cheers! --Scaife   (Talk)   Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 19:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Grr Wikipedia formatting stinks...
I dislike how things are organized on wikipedia talk pages sometimes. I just replied to a message that was posted LAST YEAR, thinking it was this year... <_< Oiy. All the Peru/Ecuador fights are confusing me because the format of everything is so horrible. What do you think? Pvt Mahoney 21:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Heh, don't worry. I wasn't deleting anything from your page that you needed. Someone posted a comment on your userpage instead of takepage, so I deleted it off your userpage. It had been there for about two weeks, so I didn't think it really contributed to your userpage anymore.

 * And my comment was actually confusion ^_^;; I misread the date, thinking it was from this recent rev-war, but realized it was from way back in October... Oopsies. I deleted it after I realized that I was basing that statement on outdated information. Pvt Mahoney 23:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I understand what you are talking about, but its in mediation right now, so we don't need more advertising to solve the issue at hand. If anything, more people who join in may cause more issues. Pvt Mahoney 03:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ''I have added the section back. Pvt Mahoney 03:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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I did not mean to come down on you. I have been trying to mediate on the Falkland Islands page for a month or so now, and everytime it seems it settles down, another argument erupts. You comments were not inflammatory, and would probably have been useful earlier in the discussion. So I apologize if my comment seemed rude -- I really didn't mean it that way. -- Gnetwerker 20:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Stalking
This is the only official warning that I am giving to you. Stop following me trough all my editions in both Wikipedia:EN and Wikipedia:ES. What you are doing can be labeled as stalking and could lead you to serious consequences here in Wikipedia. If you proceed with this deviant behavior, I will start actions against your person. This is a serious issue and a clear attempt by your part to take this dispute to a personal level. Messhermit 03:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps you have not read what wikistalking is? All your user contributions are public for a reason. As for your warnings, I suggest you to take immediate action. I will post this threat of yours in your Talk Page and in the ArbCom Evidence page. Andrés 04:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I have just stated what I believe was "deviant behavior" against my person. That is, I will accept that you use this as evidence against my person due to the fact that I did not use any form of language that can be declare "offensive".
 * Moving aside from the personal issues between the two of us, I believe that if we want to solve this problem once and for all we must discuss this without letting our personal views (that is, nationalism or grudges against each other) to interfere.
 * I'm ready and willing to discuss in a civilized way the main disputes regarding the Ecuadorian-Peruvian topics. However, I must insist once again that it only has to involve the two of us. Having already too many people in this discussion is confusing sometimes.
 * By this, I am not asking to put aside the RFA against my person. That is still another issue that some important people in Wikipedia must decide, not us.
 * I will be waiting a reply. If you are willing to work with me, that is fine. If not, I guess that this whole thing can go on forever, which I do not desire. Messhermit 19:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

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Per wikipedia policy, i am letting you know that you are one of the designated mediation parties for a current article disputeDragonlord kfb 15:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

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Mirage F.1
''Hi Emt147. As the Mirage F.1 article lacks images, I began to include pictures from my own collection. I did think about putting the one you saw today inside the infobox, but I decided otherwise as the image gets too small. I'll post one or two more which are perhaps better suited to be put inside the box. Regards. Andrés C. 00:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)''

 * You don't want the images to be much bigger than 250 px anyway. Remember, 250 px is small if your monitor is at a high resolution. If you are at a library or low-income facility/country and your monitor is at 640x480, a 250 px photo will take up half the page. This is less of a problem when the adjacent text is narrow (i.e. specs) so the 3-views have been in the 350 px range, but it gets oppressive if it squishes all the text. There are no hard guidelines but use your best judgement. - Emt147 Burninate!  07:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

IP
Quoting:
 *  I strongly believe that the IP address 147.70.124.109 was used by Messhermit.

 * 1) I demand to know why you did not protest the vandalism that IP 84.71.145.217 did to the Paquisha War article, since it deleted 1 important source. Also, the fact that the IP is not located in Ecuador does not imply that you "may not" be the author of those actions.
 * 2) "I strongly believe" that you were behind those modifications, since you are applying this same principle against my person. Messhermit 14:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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French military history
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Category:Military people from France...
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Re: Category:Military people of France
I'm not sure if it's worth arguing at this point, since we'll probably have the entire set proposed for renaming in a few days; what do you think? Kirill Lokshin 11:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Relative to this, I moved it to a full cfd (its on today's list near the top) but if you'd like to withdraw it for now in favor of the above I'm amenable to that. :) Syrthiss 15:33, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

 * It's ok. Let's leave it on the CFD list. Andrés C. 19:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Pétroleuses
Hello there, I thought I should let the French Military TaskForce people know that I've updated the page on pétroleuses, not sure if it counts as "military" history, but thought I should let you know anyway :)  Rusty2005 10:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Flag of Ecuador
Greetings Andres.

I'm a bit confused, but you might be able to help me out. I checked with the flag of Ecuador which states that the official size ratio of the Ecuadorian flag is 1:2 The image I used had exactly this ratio. Is this information incorrect? Flags of the World also mentions the 1:2 ratio. The image you are using has a size ratio of 2:3

My knowledge about South America is extremely rusty, but I think I once read something about the size having to do with making the flag easier to distinguish from the one of Colombia, but I'm no expert on the matter. Regards. Valentinian (talk) 21:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your message, it was very interesting. No need to apologize: I am the one asking the stupid questions, remember? I've read a bit about the issue since yesterday, and I've found a few pieces of information, but they seems to make the picture more muddy.

 * The Flag of the World page (I know it is not an ideal source):

 * "On September 26, 1860, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, Supreme Chief of Government, decreed the flag change to its present (and ancient) colours, adopting the ratio 1:2 which differentiates Ecuador flag to that of Colombia (which would adopt the same distribution of its tricolori the following year)." Does the note about 1860 seem familiar at all? The post looks like it was made by a person with a Spanish name, but unfortunately no nationality or source is listed.

 * I've tried the webpage of the Ecuadorian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden: ; no specification and they use a third ratio. The Embassy of Ecuador in the United States uses a fourth (3:5) I've also tried the interwiki versions of Flag of Ecuador and the Dutch version lists these ratios: "Civil flag" (1:2), Merchant flag (on ships) (2:3), Naval flag (2:3) and Presidential flag (1:1). The images seem to have been drawn by User:Huhsunqu from Peru, but no source is listed. The official images I can find of Ecuadorian presidents definitely didn't show a flag with a 1:1 ratio.

 * Btw, before we started communicating, I'd been replacing a redundant image (Image:Flag of Ecuador (state).svg) with Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg, but both of them use the 1:2 ratio and are vitually identical - nevertheless I somewhat regret doing so now. If no proper specification exists, then by all means use the image you feel is the most correct. Remember that we have both Ecuador-stub, Ecuador-geo-stub, and Ecuador-geo-stub For some time, Ive been considering a stub template for Ecuadorian politicians as well and in fact we have enough material, but unfortunately it will cut down the "people" category too much, so I've put that plan on hold for the time being.

 * Anyway, this has been a nice opportunity to learn a bit about your country which I knew next to nothing about. Ecuador certainly looks like a beautiful place (but I can't really imagine living in a country with mountains.) Best regards and sorry for cluttering up your user page. Valentinian (talk) 00:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the info. Interesting story and the pictures look pretty. What I meant was: the highest point in Ecuador is: c. 6,267 m Geography_of_Ecuador. The highest point in Denmark is 171 meters - so Denmark is as flat as a pancake. But Danes refer to a point of c. 147 meters as Himmelbjerget (= Sky Mountain) Himmelbjerget. Virtually all of Denmark is farmland (although the land in Western Jutland is too sandy to grow grain so they grow potatoes). We have a few forests (12% or so), which have basically all been replanted, since they were all cut down before 1800. And you may call your country small, but it is more than six times larger than mine. Happy editing. Valentinian (talk) 09:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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Foot-in-the-door technique

Foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique is a compliance tactic that aims at getting a person to agree to a large request by having them agree to a modest request first.

This technique works by creating a connection between the person asking for a request and the person that is being asked. If a smaller request is granted, then the person who is agreeing feels like they are obligated to keep agreeing to larger requests to stay consistent with the original decision of agreeing. This technique is used in many ways and is a well-researched tactic for getting people to comply with requests. The saying is a reference to a door to door salesman who keeps the door from shutting with his foot, giving the customer no choice but to listen to the sales pitch.

Classic experiments
In an early study, a team of psychologists telephoned housewives in California and asked if the women would answer a few questions about the household products they used. Three days later, the psychologists called again. This time, they asked if they could send five or six men into the house to go through cupboards and storage places as part of a 2-hour enumeration of household products. The investigators found these women were more than twice as likely to agree to the 2-hour request than a group of housewives asked only the larger request.

More recently, people were asked to call for a taxi if they became alcohol-impaired. Half of the people had also been asked to sign a petition against drunk driving (which they all did) and half had not. Those who had signed the petition (complied with a small request) were significantly more likely to comply with the larger request of calling a taxi when impaired compared to those who had not been asked to sign the petition.

Numerous experiments have shown that foot-in-the-door tactics work well in persuading people to comply, especially if the request is a pro-social request. Research has shown that FITD techniques work over the computer via email, in addition to face-to-face requests.

History
The Foot in The Door Technique (FITD) was first coined by Johnathan Freedman and Scott Fraser of Stanford University in 1966, when they conducted a study to try and prove this theory of granting smaller requests can lead to agreeing to larger requests. Their findings supported what they had thought was to be true. There was controversy over whether the same process that is involved in the self-perception theory, was similar to that of FITD. Researchers thought that because both theories have to do with maintaining an attitude/agreement that one had in the first place that maybe the processes were similar. In 1999, Jerry M. Burger from Santa Clara University conducted a study to see what the process of this technique is and how it works, he found that there this is just a simple technique and does not relate to self-perception theory.

Enhancing the technique
The foot-in-the-door technique is also used in many commercial settings and can be illustrated using the door-to-door salesperson who eventually builds up their requests to a final purchase request. In an experiment, subjects were initially asked to have signs in their windows to promote recycling along with varying amounts of incentives ($0, $1, $3) for doing so. This study found that the FITD technique was more effective than any of the incentive strategies in producing behavioural persistence. This is supported by the self-perception theory, which states that the FITD technique is effective only because internal thoughts are what drive people's behaviour. That is, external pressure (such as indebtedness) for compliance is not as effective in increasing compliance.

In another study, participants were given a request that included a "but you are free" statement which reminded the participant that s/he could refuse the request to participate. This condition along with the FITD technique increased the compliance of the participants. These are two extensions to the foot-in-the-door technique that help increase compliance in participants. These techniques can be used in the political, commerce and public awareness environments. For example, a study showed that having a questionnaire about organ donation increased the willingness of participants to become organ donors. It was found that increasing the number of items in the questionnaire did not necessarily affect the compliance to becoming a donor, that is, having a questionnaire alone was enough to increase the compliance.

A study by Guéguen showed that the foot-in-the-door-technique is not only effective in person, but also online. In his study, he found that asking students for help saving a document as an RTF file via email increased their willingness to complete an online survey emailed to them by the initial requester. This information coupled with work by Swanson, Sherman, and Sherman, which found that students' compliance to an initial, neutral and small request not only increased their willingness to comply with a subsequent larger and anxiety-producing request, but also indicated that the anxiety-producing request was deemed less anxiety-producing than did the control group, has very large implication for possible online uses of the FITD technique. With the privacy and anonymity provided by the internet, the technique could be used online to gather information about anxiety producing incidents in a manner that would not produce as much anxiety as in-person questioning would. Further research in this domain is needed.

Examples
When someone expresses support for an idea or concept, that person is more likely to then remain consistent with their prior expression of support by committing to it in a more concrete fashion. A common example undertaken in research studies uses this foot-in-the-door technique: two groups are asked to place a large, very unsightly sign in their front yard reading "Drive Carefully". The members of one group have previously been approached to put a small sign in their front window reading "Be a Safe Driver", and almost all agreed. In one study, in response to the "Drive Carefully" request 76 percent of those who were initially asked to display the small sign complied, in comparison with only 17 percent of those in the other group not exposed to the earlier, less onerous, request.

Having already shown 'community spirit' by taking part in the campaign to reduce the nation's road carnage – 'stepping forward' as a "good citizen" by giving prominence to the "Be a Safe Driver" sign, a statement to the world – there is social pressure to also agree to a grander, if more inconvenient, version of the same exercise and in order to appear consistent in one's beliefs and behaviour. There may well be other contributors, but it is likely that commitment and consistency play a significant role.

 * "Can I go over to Suzy's house for an hour?" followed by "Can I stay the night?"
 * "Can I borrow the car to go to the store?" followed by "Can I borrow the car for the weekend?"
 * "May I turn in the paper a few hours late?" followed by "May I turn it in next week?"
 * "First six months interest free", or "No interest for two years".

In all four cases, it is actually easier to remain consistent with the first request by denying the second than by accepting it. For example, in the first request, the requestee has already agreed to a precise one-hour time period and if immediately asked, likely will not agree to a different time period. However, if there is a delay of days or weeks between the requests, they are more likely to be received favorably.

Applications to everyday life
There are a number of studies concerning the foot-in-the door technique and charitable donations. For example, Schwarzwald, Bizman, and Raz (1983) investigated the effectiveness of the FITD technique for door-to-door fundraising. In their study, some of the participants were first asked to sign a petition before being asked to make a donation to the organization (foot-in-the-door condition). Others were not asked to sign a petition before making a donation (control condition). The request to sign a petition was made two weeks prior to the request to make a donation. They found that a greater percentage of people made a donation in the foot-in-the-door condition than in the control condition. Also, they found that making the small request to sign a petition resulted in more money being donated than not making this request.

The findings from scientific studies on the foot-in-the-door technique have been mixed. Although some studies have found that the FITD technique can increase donations, other studies found no statistically significant effect for the technique on donations.

Chan and colleagues (2011) conducted a study in order to assess the efficiency of foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique versus the door-in-the-face technique (DITF) among 2nd-grade students in an after school center in Hong Kong. Sixty 2nd-grade students were the participants of their study, who were asked to fill out arithmetic exercises. Experimenters asked students to fill out the arithmetic worksheets in either two conditions, the foot-in-the-door condition, or the door-in-the-face condition. The experimenters' goal was to have to students complete a 20-item worksheet. In the foot-in-the-door condition, 12 out of 20 students agreed to complete the 20-item worksheet. In the door-in-the-face condition, 18 out of 20 students agreed to complete the 20-item worksheet. After analysis of the data, the DITF technique appeared to be a more favorable motivator for completing the arithmetic task. These results suggest that while FITD and DITF techniques are successful means for task compliance, DITF may be better suitable for children in an academic setting. Door-in-the-face may be a more effective means of compliance for children not only in this particular setting but also potentially for children in general. While previous findings have shown that both FITD and DITF techniques may be successful in task compliance, these techniques might not be applicable in every compliance setting. This hypothesis can be seen as a limitation to FITD techniques.

A study conducted in 1989 by the Indiana University Southeast and California State University showed that people were more willing to become organ donors after completing a questionnaire about donating organs. It did not matter whether the survey had 5 or 20 questions, it is proven to be just as successful. This survey was conducted with young college students, and the scholars mentioned doing another study with older, less-educated individuals to further support these findings and to broaden the population.

Psychology
With all the research supporting that the Foot-In-The-Door Technique is a successful compliance technique, there is a big question as to why humans tend to follow this pattern. The most well-known theory explaining the reasoning behind this is the self-perception theory. When a person has originally agreed to something, they will ask a question to themselves about why they agreed to these questions and when they come to the decision that it was truly their desire and nothing else influenced the answer, they will feel the need to stay consistent with their decision and will agree to a larger request. The self-perception theory was developed by Daryl Bem, a social psychologist and retired professor from Cornell University, and claims two things: One is that people come to their beliefs and attitudes based on what they enjoy doing and if there is a positive or negative outcome on an experience. The second is that when people do not enjoy something, there is no reasonable explanation of why they would take an interest in it. This theory is the most well known for explaining self-knowledge.

Alternatives
In the foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique smaller requests are asked in order to gain compliance with larger requests, while door-in-the-face (DITF) works in the opposite direction, where larger requests are asked, with the expectation that it will be rejected, in order to gain compliance for smaller requests.

An alternative postulated by Dolinski (2011) is the foot-in-the-face (FITF) technique: compliance is greater when a second request of similar difficulty is made immediately after the first is rejected, or after a time lapse of two or three days if the first request is accepted. Researchers found between 63% and 68% compliance rates when using the FITF technique, while traditional techniques showed lower rates of around 50%.

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Emporer Han Li
Joke; BJAODN maybe?--Shanel 03:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete as non-extent emperor of a non-existent nation which existed when the dinosaurs were still around. Capitalistroadster 04:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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Dyclonine

Dyclonine (Dyclocaine) is an oral anaesthetic that is the active ingredient of Sucrets, an over-the-counter throat lozenge. It is also found in some varieties of the Cepacol sore throat spray. It is a local anesthetic, used topically as the hydrochloride salt.

History
The product Sucrets was introduced in Baltimore, Maryland, by Sharp & Dohme in 1932.

In 1966 the Federal Trade Commission ordered Merck and Company to discontinue the false claims of germ-killing and pain-relieving properties for its Sucrets and Children's Sucrets throat lozenges. In 1977, it was acquired by Beecham, later merging with SmithKline Beckman in 1989 to form SmithKline Beecham. By 1994 the brand switched from a metal container to a plastic container. SmithKline Beecham, after announcing a merger with GlaxoWellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline, sold the brand in 2000 to Insight Pharmaceuticals. In 2011, Sucrets reintroduced their product back into the familiar tin due to popular demand and nostalgia.

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As it stands, this is just text moved over verbatim from the beginning of the History of Film article, where a lot of this didn't comfortably fit. Could use plenty more development. Michael Wells 03:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Ambiguities of reference make bullet points unreadable

 * "Mo-Ti, a Chinese philosopher ponders the phenomenology" "phenomenology" is to technical for general history reader, especially since it has a meaning in philosophy that is related but not what Mo-Ti was pondering. maybe use "phonomenon"? Tautologist (talk) 21:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

 * "Alhazen experiments with the same... " - It is not clear whata the "the same" refers to, espeically if someone inserts an unrelated historical development before this. Need to change "the same" to what is specifically referred to.  I would do it, but I can't tell which of the precursors was being referred to. Tautologist (talk) 21:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

 * "Leonardo ... describes... a structure that would produce this effect" - "this effect" could refer to anyting that precedes this, which could change with any edit.  Need to specify what "this" refers to. Tautologist (talk) 21:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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WHRK

WHRK (97.1 FM "K97") is a commercial radio station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and it airs an urban contemporary radio format. The station carries the nationally syndicated weekday morning show, The Breakfast Club, from co-owned Premiere Networks and based at WWPR-FM in New York City. The rest of the schedule is hosted by local DJs.

WHRK's studios and offices are located on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Southeast Memphis. The transmitter site is off Benjestown Road in North Memphis.

WHRK broadcasts in the HD Radio format, with its HD-2 subchannel carrying Christian radio format, branded as "Radio by Grace".

Classical WMPS-FM
On December 2, 1959, the station first signed on as WMPS-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WMPS (now WMFS) and ran at only 6,600 watts, a fraction of its power today.

WMPS-AM-FM were owned by the Plough Corporation, a pharmaceutical firm founded in Memphis that also had a radio division, with stations in Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and other cities. At first the two stations mostly simulcast. But during the 1960s and 1970s, WMPS-FM was separately programmed with a classical music format. In the 1970s, WMPS-FM got a boost to 100,000 watts, and then made a transition to a Progressive Rock format in a effort to take on then-Rock rival WMC-FM.

Switch to Rhythmic, CHUrban/Crossover, and Urban
In October 1976, the station flipped to a Rhythmic Contemporary format that featured disco, utilizing the same formula that its counterpart in Philadelphia, WCAU-FM, was using at the time. The call sign was changed in 1977 to WHRK, to honor Harold R. Krelstein, who had been the President and CEO of Plough Broadcasting, Inc. Krelstein retired in 1976. In 1977, he was awarded the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to broadcasting and especially, radio. He died in July 1977.

WHRK's success with disco also paid off ratings-wise during the last four years of the genre's period. By 1981, a year after disco's demise, the station moved in a CHUrban/Crossover direction (what would now be considered rhythmic contemporary), featuring hip hop, freestyle, new jack swing, dance, pop, and R&B hits. When Billboard introduced its Crossover Chart in February 1987, WHRK was added to the panel as one of its reporters. By the end of 1989, WHRK had evolved into an Urban Contemporary format.

New Ownership
In 1985, Adams Communications bought the top AM and top FM stations in Memphis, aimed at the African American community: WHRK and WDIA, which airs a full service format for black listeners, including R&B, soul music and gospel, plus news, sports and talk. In 1988, noted African American radio executive Regan Henry bought WHRK and WDIA for $13 million.

In 1996, WHRK and WDIA were purchased by Chancellor Broadcasting. Chancellor also acquired WHRK's former urban competitor, KJMS. To avoid format overlap, KJMS moved to an urban adult contemporary direction, while WHRK continued as a more youthful urban station. A short time later, Chancellor was renamed AMFM, Inc., and was acquired by Clear Channel Communications in 1999. In 2014, Clear Channel became iHeartMedia.

Station management

 * General Manager: Michael Oppenheimer
 * Program Director: Devin Steele
 * Community Affairs Director: Jae Henderson

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Gentle

Gentle may refer to:
 * Gentleness

People

 * Johnny Gentle, stage name of John Askew (born 1936), British pop singer who once toured with the Silver Beetles (later the Beatles) as his backing group
 * Peter Gentle (born 1965), Australian rugby league footballer and coach
 * Mensur Suljović (born 1972), Austrian darts player, nicknamed "The Gentle"

Arts, entertainment and media

 * Gentle (film), a 1960 Russian drama
 * Gentle (character), a mutant in Marvel Comics

Biology

 * GENtle, free molecular biology software
 * Gentle (maggot), the larva of a blowfly

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A Journey Into Psychosis
nom&vote delete as appears to be nn and vanity. I found the link to the actual text at http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2313325/1/ the link to the author's bio appears to be dead. Does not appear remotely encyclopedic. Daniel Lotspeich 03:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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Postage stamps and postal history of Kazakhstan

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Kazakhstan.

Under the Soviet Union, the Kazakh SSR postal service was an integral part of the Soviet system. The republic was periodically recognized in sets of stamps honoring the different parts of the USSR.

Kazakhstan became independent in December 1991, and organized its own post. Its first stamp, depicting a warrior's suit found at the Issyk mound in 1969, was issued 23 March 1992. Overprinted stamps of the USSR are also known from this early period, but the Philatelic Club of Almaty has concluded that their official status is uncertain; although some saw postal usage, they were not generally available in post offices, nor do their values reflect actual postal rates in effect.

The first definitive stamps were a set of five issued on 24 January 1993, four of which were a stylized design consisting of a yurt and spaceship (alluding to the country's Baikonur Cosmodrome), along with the higher value of 50 rubles depicting the flag of Kazakhstan.

The currency changed to tijn and tenge around the end of 1993. Existing stamps, all denominated in rubles and kopecks, were then sold as if they were in the new currencies. New stamps issued in the first half of 1994 were initially sold as denominated in tijn, then later in tenge. The yurt-and-spaceship design was re-issued in the new currency beginning in July 1994.

Kazakhstan has since followed a moderate pattern of issues, averaging 30 to 40 types per year. The space theme is frequent.

In 1997, a set of stamps with images of tulips was released including; Tulipa regelii, Tulipa greigii and Tulipa alberti.


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Maria of Tver

Maria Borisovna of Tver (Мария Борисовна; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467. She was the daughter of Boris of Tver.

Biography
When Vasili II, Ivan III's father, was getting ready to attack Dmitry Shemyaka, he found an ally in the person of Boris of Tver. The two decided to seal the alliance by arranging a betrothal between the future Ivan III and Maria of Tver in 1452. It appears that she died from poisoning in 1467. However, if one is to believe Joseph Volotsky, she had been suffering from "infirmity" since childhood. She gave birth to Ivan the Young in 1458.

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Go Out policy

Go Out policy or the Going Global Strategy (zho chu qu),  is the People's Republic of China's current strategy to encourage its enterprises to invest overseas. The policy was announced as a national strategy by Jiang Zemin in March 2000.

History
Jiang Zemin first began encouraging domestic enterprises to "go global" and enter foreign markets in 1996, a time when the domestic market was showing signs of stagnation. In Jiang's view, Going Out into foreign markets was necessary to advance China's development. In February 1998 at the Second Plenary Session of the Fifteenth Central Committee, Jiang stated that as part of the policy on responding to the Asian Financial Crisis, leaders should encourage exports and support powerful state-owned enterprises in setting up factories overseas. Jiang formally announced it as a national strategy in March 2000. The policy was implemented top-down from central government leadership. The policy it was incorporated into the report of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. During Jiang's tenure, the policy greatly expanded China's investment and influence in global South countries, especially those in Africa and Asia.

Pursuant to the Go Out policy, by the end of 2001, China was participating in more than 195 overseas resource projects, invested more than US$8.4 billion to establish more than 6,610 overseas enterprises, and signed a total of US$26.8 billion for foreign labor services. In the early 2000s, Chinese enterprises were generally unable to compete with enterprises from the more industrially developed countries and frequently accepted projects in which those enterprises were not interested.

State-owned enterprises have been some of the most high-profile entities investing overseas as part of the Go Out policy. Significant SOEs involved in Going Out include China National Petroleum Company.

China's sovereign funds have supported efforts to Go Out, including by helping Chinese enterprises finance mergers and acquisitions abroad. In 2015 for example, China Investment Corporation turned one of its divisions into the wholly-owned subsidiary CIC Capital. This move was intended to support the Belt and Road Initiative including by conducting foreign direct investment and by supporting state-owned enterprises of China engaged in mergers and acquisitions in economic sectors prioritized by the state.

In 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the Strategic Plan for Agricultural Going Out, providing state subsidies to enterprises that invested in various overseas locations.

As of at least 2024, and unlike the early days of the Go Out policy, many Chinese enterprises are internationally competitive and able to competitively in the more developed markets.

Examples
Emerging markets have been an important part of China's going out strategy. For example, in Africa Chinese direct investment rose from $1 billion in 2004 to $24.5 billion by 2013. Within Africa, Ethiopia is a particularly emphasized place where Chinese companies should "go out" to, with Chinese top leadership describing Ethiopia as a "bridge" between the Belt and Road Initiative and Africa's development, as well as "a pilot country for China-Africa production capacity cooperation."

Overseas SEZs
From 1990 to 2018, Chinese enterprises established eleven SEZs in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East including: Nigeria (two), Zambia, Djibouti, Kenya, Mauritius, Mauritania, Egypt, Oman, and Algeria. Generally, the Chinese government takes a hands-off approach, leaving it to Chinese enterprises to work to establish such zones (although it does provide support in the form of grants, loans, and subsidies, including support via the China Africa Development Fund). These zones fall within the Chinese policy to go out and compete globally.

The first Chinese overseas SEZs facilitated the offshoring of labor-intensive and less competitive industries, for example in textiles. As Dawn C. Murphy summarizes, these zones now "aim to transfer China's development successes to other countries, increase business opportunities for China manufacturing companies, avoid trade barriers by setting up zones in countries with preferential trade access to important markets, and create a positive business environment for Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises investing in these regions."

Agricultural enterprises in Africa
Since the mid-1990s, China has encouraged its agricultural enterprises to seek economic opportunities abroad as part of its go out policy, including to Africa. Chinese policy guidance has specifically encouraged such efforts in rubber, oil palm, cotton, vegetable cultivation, animal husbandry, aquaculture, and assembly of agriculture machines. The encouragement for agricultural enterprises to go out has also resulted in the creation of Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers in African countries. The function of these centers is to transmit agricultural expertise and technology from China to developing countries in Africa while also creating market opportunities for Chinese companies in the agricultural sector. China is motivated to establish these centers out of both an ideological commitment to fostering South-South cooperation and sharing its experience with less developed countries and by a pragmatic desire to increase its long-term food security.

China first announced its Agricultural Technology Demonstrations Centers at the 2006 meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. It launched 19 of these centers between 2006 and 2018, all in sub-Saharan Africa. As of 2023, ATDCs have been established in 24 African countries.

Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia has been a major recipient of Chinese investment prompted by the Go Out policy. Chinese foreign direct investment in southeast Asia is primarily in sectors like mining, energy, industrial parks, and infrastructure. As of 2024, Chinese investment in agriculture in southeast Asia is comparatively small but growing.

Energy
Because the more accessible oil resources had already been claimed, when China National Petroleum Company and other enterprises went out, they tended to enter less politically stable countries with greater political and security risks.

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Keléstia Productions

Keléstia Productions publishes role-playing materials for use with Hârn, a fictitious setting. Keléstia Productions was created by N. Robin Crossby, the original creator of Hârn, after a contract dispute with publisher Columbia Games proved irresolvable.

Keléstia Productions is known for the incredible detail and high design standards of its online products. As of this writing, Kelestia Productions produces no printed materials. A community of dedicated fans produces additional highly-detailed supplements.

Despite disagreements between Keléstia Publications and rival Columbia Games, the products produced by both entities are completely compatible either "as-is" or with the use of simple conversion information available freely through the fan community. The fan community produces additional high-quality supplements that are compatible with both Columbia Games and Kelestia Productions products.

Since the death of N. Robin Crossby, Keléstia Productions has continued as company owned by Crossby's estate, principally producing products describing the wider world beyond Hârn.

History
N. Robin Crossby left Columbia Games in 1994, after the company published material for his Hârn setting for more than a decade. Columbia initially maintained that they had the rights to Hârn, but Crossby eventually self-published Hârnmaster Gold (1998) as a competitor to the Hârn role-playing game that Columbia was publishing.

Crossby ended his contract with Columbia Games in 2003 and formed his own company called Keléstia Productions so he could continue publishing Hârn, although Columbia would not recognize his ability to terminate their agreement. Keléstia published only in PDFs, beginning with a new edition of the Hârnmaster Gold Player Edition (2003) and followed by additional rule books and supplements about other islands near Hârn, such as The Kingdom of Chelemby (2005) and Hârbáaler Kingdom of Lédenheim (2008), and Kèthîra (2005) which included an overview of the whole world.

Crossby became ill around 2006 and died in 2008, and his oldest daughter Arien has continued publication of his "Hârn Canon" through Keléstia including supplements such as Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia (2010) about the wider Hârn world

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office granted Keléstia a trademark to the name Hârn in September 2009 by.

Publications
Keléstia Productions Ltd has produced a range of publications which detail the world of Hârn, including:
 * Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia - describes the whole region of the continent of Lýthia where the island of Hârn is located. The region of 'Venârivè' is broadly analogous to Europe.
 * Venârive Player Guide - a guide for players of characters in the region of Venârivè.
 * Kingdom of Chélemby - a guide to the realm of Chélemby, an island trading-state somewhat analogous to historical Visby.
 * Chéler Player Guide - a guide for players of characters from or visiting the realm of Chélemby.
 * Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings - a detailed description of the city of the same name.
 * Evánekin: Naval Port of Chélemby.
 * Kolâdis: Castle Town of Chélemby.
 * Hârn Interactive Regional Map.

In addition, Keléstia Productions provides the following components of the HârnMaster system:
 * HârnMaster Gold: Player Edition
 * HârnMaster Gold: Gamemaster Edition
 * HârnMaster Gold: Bestiary
 * HârnMaster Gold: Shèk-Pvâr

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Summary
My Cat Cooper

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Tim Stryker

Timothy J. Stryker, better known as Tim Stryker or Stryker (9 December 1954 – 6 August 1996) was a computer programmer who created MajorBBS, a computer bulletin board software package. With Ken Wasserman he wrote the 1980 game Flash Attack for the Commodore PET, then he created the color vector arcade video game Aztarac (1983) for Centuri.

Education
Stryker graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1972, and received his bachelor's degree in physics from Brown University in 1977.

Game development
Stryker and Ken Wasserman wrote the real-time strategy game Flash Attack (1980) for the Commodore PET personal computer. It is written in a custom Forth-derived programming language called RPL. Stryker developed a cable so that two PET computers can be linked to play against each other. The game was later rewritten for MS-DOS, allowing up to four players in real time, interconnected by modems dialed into MajorBBS.

Stryker authored arcade vector game Aztarac released by Centuri in 1983. It was not a commercial success, and its rarity has made it sought after by collectors. During the attract mode of the game, quickly spinning the spinner control reveals a message in the starfield: "Designed by T. Stryker".

The MajorBBS
Stryker founded Galacticomm in 1985 and created The Major BBS. It supports real-time teleconference, gaming, discussion forums, user profiles (registry), and file transfer sections.

Later, Stryker hired Scott Brinker, originally of Moonshae Isles BBS, who created many of the early games available for MajorBBS, including Kyrandia.

Personal life & death
Tim Stryker was a staunch advocate of electronic democracy, and began a movement called Superdemocracy to computerize voting and help people follow politics in cyberspace. He dreamed of creating the "perfect society based on compassion and love".

Stryker suffered from severe depression, and was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in the mountains of Colorado on 6 August 1996 at the age of 41.

Art

 * STRYKER ART (1993-1994) - Stryker produced several computer art images, from which only 150 prints each were made, and each one was numbered, signed and dated by the artist. The printing technique took the digital output of the artist's custom computer software directly to transparencies, from which each print was lovingly created, direct-to-positive on ultra-high-gloss Fuji film. STRYKER ART was distributed by Consensus Systems, Inc. in Plantation, Florida.

Unpublished

 * What Goes Around (1995 - preliminary copy available)

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User talk:Ryan Norton/Archive3

Common Ground
I respect you at least you are not an anonymous coward. I think we should together. But arent you the least upset that you are not working at software house cos society cannot accept you for who you are???? I am. I can regale with stories of simple anoyances that was purposely inflicted on me to outright abuse. I am sure you probably could as well. For example, I have an out of whack startle response. I would focus on work, my co workers would sneak up on me and scare me cos I would yelp and shake and they would then laugh riotously. I could not get back to work for hours if at all for the day. JoeMele 17:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

The charter is here. (Relating to Esperanza)
Hello RN, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:55, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Explanation of gap
Greetings. I did not take a voluntary break from editing Wikipedia from June to August of this year. My husband and I had been sharing a house with a (now former) friend from January; in early June, relations with her began to deteriorate, culminating in my husband and I needing to flee our former residence at half past midnight on a Sunday, after our roommate flipped out and started making threats of violence against us. We then needed to find a new place to live, extract our possessions from the crazy woman's house (still not entirely complete—she refuses to turn over some of our more precious possessions, like my husband's wedding ring), and get our Internet connection hooked back up, in the middle of a telco strike. IceKarmaॐ 23:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for participating and supporting me in my RfA, I hope I will not let you down. I will also take that tip on the edit summary section. Molotov (talk)  18:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza made less bureaucratic
Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:27, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff
Hello RN. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:51, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Asperger's syndrome
Hi,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asperger%27s_syndrome#removed_link Thanks. Apokrif 21:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Mario
Hey, I undid the changes you made to mario, because I feel it is better to keep all the images in the article wrapped by text. By pulling it out of the text it doesn't integrate very well with the words describing Mario's Mushroom ability. Fine, the text on the right is cramped, but is that such a problem? We are only used to having images on the right, but in other cultures images are commonly on the left. Still, take a good look and make the changes that you feel will improve the article. Jacoplane 00:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for your (eventual) support in my RfA. I'm glad you took the time to look into the matter; I think you made some pretty valid points in your initial criticisms. I'm also glad I was able to reassure you on the matter. I guess we will have to agree to disagree on minor edit summaries, but if you see me make an edit you regard as significant that I have marked as minor, do let me know. -R. fiend 15:44, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support
I would like to thank you for your support of my adminship nomination. --Mb1000 22:37, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Just to say thanks for supporting my RfA. Please let me know if you see me screw up anytime. --Doc (?) 19:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Hyperlexia
I was wondering why you removed all references to autism/AS from the hyperlexia article? Most of what I have read about hyperlexia indicates that hyperlexia is probably on the spectrum, though of course there is some dispute over it. (This Google search lists a lot of articles discussing the connection between hyperlexia and autism.) I think that, given this background, it is inappropriate to remove autism from the hyperlexia page; instead, we should perhaps expand the article to address the on-spectrum/off-spectrum perspectives. I am going to post this to the hyperlexia Talk page as well, so if you want to respond there, that would be good. :) ManekiNeko | Talk 20:27, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Responded at the article's talk page :). Ryan Norton T 20:54, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

That deletion you mentioned
Just to keep the tangential stuff off of VfU: That deletion of Blogosophy was one of several out-of-process speedied executed by Neutrality that day. At the time, I asked why on his talk page, but he's never responded. Interpret that as you will. Since no-one has actually challenged those deletions (which would almost certainly have been overturned at VfU), he could now perhaps cite WP:IAR but it would seem rather retrospective. -Splash talk 23:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It was? So it was. Well, a few weeks ago Neutrality did some other ones that weren't speedies. However, that particular article, from looking at the deletion log was probably an A1 speedy "Blogosophy means the philosophy of blogging.", with three ext links. However, to delete it citing the afd is not correct. He's an Arbitrator. I rather think they consider themselves to Have Powers at times. -Splash talk 23:47, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah - I'm glad to see the articles go but I doubt I could pull that off I was an admin. Neutrality has special powers :) Ryan Norton T 23:51, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah, they were obvious enough deletes. Just that not-technically-a-speeies cause upset when it might be more easily avoided. Incidentally, Netrality just replied: apparently they were A1/A7 speedies (which that one above was, I agree, but the other was a nursery school). -Splash talk 00:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah - the nursery school thing reminds me of the first time I tried to speedy a band that didn't assert notability :). Some day we will have an A7 rule for bands!!! Ryan Norton T 00:05, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Some day that cannot come too soon. It might actually be worth prodding talk pages of those who were in Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C after the poll. It was stopped because it was too soon, but it isn't anymore. I did try prodding watchlists, but that rarely works. -Splash talk 00:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Great Year
I don't know about the rest of it, but the Great Year, narrated by James Earl Jones, does exist. The DVD is for sale on Amazon. Cheers. 23skidoo 17:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I did a quick Google search and found plenty of references to it being a PBS program, including the Amazon listing itself and several discussion websites where users make comments such as "I saw The Great Year on PBS last night." That's good enough for me. Cheers! 23skidoo 18:07, 25 September

Fair enough - the sources seemed dubious.... but if you think its good I'm not one to disagree :). Thanks! Ryan Norton T 18:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Disneyfication
Ryan, I've attempted a rewrite of the stub at Disneyfication. I haven't tried to merge in anything from Disneyization yet, though. What do you think? Joyous (talk) 21:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Joe's Talk Page== ==

While I disagree, vehemently, with a lot of Joe's recent comments and actions (oh, you'd noticed), it is my view that he can do what he likes with his own talk page, so long as he does not actually misrepresent what anyone said. Make no mistake, I don't like the big blanking he did, especially as some of my comments (one semi-unfortunate one but also several that I wholeheartedly stand by) were among those deleted. I would prefer that he'd simply archived it, and I would not do the same if our positions were reversed. But as much as I think it was in some respects a poor decision, I think he was nevertheless within his rights. PurplePlatypus 06:20, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

 * My understanding was that Talk page content (other than vandalism) should not be deleted. So I have been reverting Joe's deletions. I will gladly give way to more experienced editors on this issue. But I am uncomfortable with the apparent whitewashing that is occurring. ManekiNeko | Talk 06:35, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

It's a grey area. In general some people here blank their talk page like that - it's considered poor form but it's not worth edit warring over (rather disappointed that he removed my comment too...). Article talk pages though are a bit less grey and its pretty bad if he just removes it. He should probably put something like "personal attack removed" or something. Ryan Norton T 06:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks! If you need any help with those articles or any others, just drop me a note on my talk page. Also, when I make the final push towards FA status on Extraordinary Machine, I would be ecstatic if you were to give a helping hand on the next peer review. Thanks again! :). Extraordinary Machine 15:14, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Journalist's RFA
I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Jo urna list |  huh?

Reversing
Can't rollback. Have to revert manually. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:47, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

My sandbox
Would you mind keeping an eye on my sandbox? My bot is dumping info right now, and I'm going to bed. If you could, please offset the amount of data that it is loading into the page. Thanks! --AllyUnion (talk) 08:15, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * So far, I've moved January off to: User:AllyUnion/January 2005. There is at least 8 more months of data.  --AllyUnion (talk) 08:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ya, because the amount of data per page is reaching up to around the ballpark of 200k. Splitting it up would be helpful, but I can't do that since I have to bed.  <- PDT time zone. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

MDAC
Great work! Those are most valuable contributions - I really think the lead is in much better shape now :-) Thanks for helping out on this one... - 203.134.166.99 07:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Ryan-- Thank you so much for your support of my RfA. I'm a little afraid it may end up as "no consensus", but appreciate your support nonetheless. And don't worry... the personal attacks are far behind me. I now appreciate what WP is trying to do and am working to become a valued contributor. Thanks again. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark)  17:02, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Palazzo Pitti
I've responded to your comments here. Regards Giano | talk 09:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Who's RfA
Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:53, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

RFA proposal
The proposal was indeed archived (and brought up a variety of views, including the idea that RfA works fine as it is). However, I don't consider the idea dead, just in need of refinement. The outcome of Kappa's RfA has redoubled my conviction that something needs to be done to deflate the vitriol that occasionally arises in this process. I'm developing a proposal for a two-step (as opposed to my original four-step) process, with the first step giving limited admin powers and the second giving full admin powers, with a mentoring element included. I'll invite input when I have a more concise description in place. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 21:23, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * btw, no harm done - it's just the internet, for corn's sake! :-) -- BD2412 talk 21:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to give it a shot
... can't hurt :-) Hopefully all the issues were resolved... might be others. - 211.30.173.157 01:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I like it! That makes it look better, for sure. Have also updated MDAC. - 211.30.187.224 02:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Brian's RFA
Hey, thanks for this nomination. I thought he was... well you know... so I never looked him up at WP:LA. In all of my interactions with Brian he seemed to exude Adminship so I just thought he was. I hope he gets a BIG vote of confidence, he is certainly deserving. --hydnjo talk 05:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Do you think he even knows about this? Did you send an E-mail? One of us should. :-) --hydnjo talk 05:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Nevermind. I see that he has posted today. --hydnjo talk 06:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the idea - I went ahead and e-mailed him :) Ryan Norton T 06:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm clearing up after him. Do you mind dropping a polite note on his Talk page explaining that WP does not accept linkspamming? Regards— enceph alon  09:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Jaxl's RfA
Thank you very much for your support vote in my RfA!  Rob e  rt  15:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hey Ryan, I just wanted to let you know that I'm working on your concerns about Federalist No. 10, but more importantly I wanted to thank you for getting to so many of the peer reviews in general. The page was becoming very overloaded and lots of article weren't getting looked at. Thanks bro. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:02, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Rogerd RfA
I wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. Unfortunately, it did not reach the required level of support and failed. Apparently, some didn't feel that I had participated enough outside the article namespace. I may try again in a few months. Thanks again. --Rogerd 21:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

My dear Ryan
Hi, my dear Ryan! First of all, allow me to thank you wholeheartedly for your nice words (and for adhering to that barnstar!). But I mostly come to visit you because I'm concerned about what you said about feeling guilty. As I already told you at my RfA, you have nothing to feel bad for. I would have felt guilty myself if I had made you break your principles. I praise that you didn't, and that you acted according to your conscience. So put your mind at rest, because what really matters to me is that you actualy took the time to express your motives with honesty and truth, and they were constructive and objective.That, not to mention that you came to my Talk page to send your good wishes, and beat me to come and visit you before!

By the way, I must thank you too for your input at the Peer Review for Texas Ranger Division. That's very valuable information. Your advices sound great, and I feel a little dumb for not noticing some of the points you correctly raise before. Thank you! I'll work on the article as soon as I can, and if you don't mind, I'll ask you to review it again once I'm done, sounds ok?

You'll always have a friend over here. Oh, and you'll have the dubious honor of being the owner of the first test of my new signature... hope you don't mind ;) Smoochs! - Shauri    smile!  23:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Gyrofrog RfA
I just wanted to thank you for your vote of support in my request for adminship! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:58, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikiversity vote
You might want to read rule #2 of the Wikiversity voting rules. - As it is your vote does not count. --Krischik T 07:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Mediation application
RN, I would recommend to you that you don't try to become a mediator until you pass an RfA. Note that every mediator is an admin, not that this is required, but partly as mediators should at least have some authority. For example, mediators should be able to set boundaries, and if there was way too much attacking after warning, the mediator should be expected to block that user. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna nominate you for adminship. And I recommend that you take down the medcom application until you pass your adminship. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:08, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Go here and accept. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:08, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * k NOW go. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern
I added a mean but very true comment in response to your question on Fvw's talk page. Thanks. Molotov (talk)  04:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foot-in-the-door technique

 * 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 in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP Marskell 15:28, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Foot-in-the-door technique
Original research, non-verifiable RoySmith 03:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Based on changes made, I (the nominator) change my vote to Keep. --RoySmith 16:56, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep and expand - the sales technique it's talking about is certainly real. It's not the best article it could be, but this is an amateur encyclopaedia after all. If someone wants to take a crack at cleaning them up, sources for usage of the term can easily be found with a Google for 'foot in the door "sales technique" ' or similar. I'll do it myself if no-one's done it by the time I get some free time (probably tomorrow evening). --Last Malthusian 14:10, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, keep. This is a valid sales technique. The article itself isn't in great shape, but that's what the cleanup tag is for. -- Captain Disdain 22:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've expanded the article. Comments welcome. --Last Malthusian 13:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree that the article is much improved, but I still have my concerns. My initial reaction was, but this still sounds like Original Research to me, and I'd like to see some references, when I notice the link at the bottom of the page and followed it.  I'm not sure how to react to the linked article, however.  The first part of it is a very reasonable explanation of the technique, but near the end, it turns into a demonstration of the technique; the article is not really about a sales technique, it's a religious sermon, but the fact that it is indeed a sermon is hidden until the very end, by which time the reader is hooked on reading the article.  I'd be much more inclined to vote to keep the wikipedia article if you could find some other external references to cite and ditch the sermon.  --RoySmith 13:53, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How about this one: ? It's pretty detailed, and directly addresses the issue in a way that the first reference didn't. Frankly, since it's been verified that the term exists, I agree that more and better references would be 'nice', but don't think they're essential to keep the article on WP. --Last Malthusian 15:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm ashamed to say I only just read the article all the way through and saw the bit about Billy Graham. Guess that shows 2 things: a) FITD doesn't always work and b) I should read articles all the way through before referencing them. Good thing it wasn't about the miracle of Goatse :-) --Last "Foot-in-the-mouth" Malthusian 16:01, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * While I'm at it, I do think the original reference is rather cute and should stay in; the fact that it's a demonstration of the technique makes it quite an interesting external link, even if it shouldn't be the sole reference. --Last Malthusian 16:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You should add this new reference, and I still think the sermon citation should be removed, but in any case I agree that with the rewrite it should be kept. It might also make sense to move it to Foot in the door, or at least make that a redirect to here.  --RoySmith 16:56, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. And I've kept the sermon, but changed the text of the link to 'An example of foot in the door technique'. I know it's a bit dodgy, especially as the irony of an article about foot-in-the-doormanship being a 'foot-in-the-door' to talking about Jesus is apparently unintentional (look at the other articles on the website). But Wikipedia isn't a scholarly work, and I think we can have the odd idiosyncratic external link. --Last Malthusian 18:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep notable technique; I've seen listed in an advertising manual published 1948. Sadly, my chances of recovering the reference are close to zero. :( Xoloz 17:16, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Keep, but for God's sake get rid of the 'sermon' link per RoySmith. -- Cactus.man  ✍  09:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - as the creator of this article, I will say that my amateurish summary came from paraphrasing of my psychology text. I'm not really sure how exactly I could cite that, can we provide documentation without an external link? Also i came across to the article because it was linked from one of the psych articles, and I thought it was a shame that there was actually nothing there! So I decided to put in a stub just to get the ball rolling, which I guess it did. So can we reference a textbook? Lensovet 00:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.