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Orleans Parish School Board

The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), branded as NOLA Public Schools, governs the public school system that serves New Orleans, Louisiana. It includes the entirety of Orleans Parish, coterminous with New Orleans.

The OPSB directly administers 6 schools and has granted charters to another 18. Though the Orleans Parish School Board has retained ownership of all the assets of the New Orleans Public Schools system, including all school buildings, approximately 93% of students attending publicly-funded schools post-Katrina in Orleans Parish attended charter schools.

Schools previously operating under the Recovery School District umbrella within Orleans Parish after Katrina were, as of the fall of 2014, publicly funded and privately operated charter schools. The RSD returned all its schools to the OPSB in 2018.

The headquarters of the OPSB is in the West Bank neighborhood of Algiers.

Jim Crow Era
Like virtually all areas in the South, New Orleans had a segregated public school system for most of its early history, as government officials (who were all White, due to Black disfranchisement) did not want their children in the same schools as Black children.

In 1960, the schools were integrated, which caused a national scandal and crisis. Katy Reckdahl of The Times Picayune wrote that at the time, "outside observers expressed shock that desegregation provoked such strife in heterogeneous, easy-going New Orleans."

Reorganization of school system following Hurricane Katrina
NOPS was wholly controlled by the OPSB before Hurricane Katrina and was the New Orleans area's largest school district before Katrina devastated the city on August 29, 2005, damaging or destroying more than 100 of the district's 128 school buildings. NOPS served approximately 65,000 students pre-Katrina. For decades prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, the OPSB-administered system was widely recognized as the lowest performing school district in Louisiana. According to researchers Carl L. Bankston and Stephen J. Caldas, only 12 of the 103 public schools then in operation within the city limits of New Orleans showed reasonably good performance at the beginning of the 21st century.

In Katrina's immediate aftermath, an overwhelmed Orleans Parish School Board asserted that the school system would remain closed indefinitely. The Louisiana Legislature took advantage of this abdication of local leadership and acted swiftly. As a result of legislation passed by the state in November 2005, 102 of the city's worst-performing public schools were transferred to the Recovery School District (RSD), which is operated by the Louisiana Department of Education and was headed for a key period (2008-2011) by education leader Paul Vallas. The Recovery School District had been created in 2003 to allow the state to take over failing schools, those that fell into a certain "worst-performing" metric. Five public schools in New Orleans had been transferred to RSD control prior to Katrina.

The NOPS system was trying to decentralize power away from the pre-Katrina school board central bureaucracy to individual school principals and charter school boards, and allow for school choice, allowing them to enroll their children in almost any school in the district. Charter school accountability is realized by the granting of renewable operating contracts of varying lengths permitting the closure of those not succeeding. In October 2009, the release of annual school performance scores demonstrated continued growth in the academic performance of New Orleans' public schools. By aggregating the scores of all public schools in New Orleans (OPSB-chartered, RSD-chartered, RSD-administered, etc.) to permit a comparison with pre-Katrina outcomes, a district performance score of 70.6 was derived. This score represented a 6% increase over the equivalent 2008 metric, and a 24% improvement when measured against the equivalent pre-Katrina (2004) metric, when a district score of 56.9 was posted. Notably, the score of 70.6 approached the score (78.4) posted in 2009 by the adjacent, suburban Jefferson Parish public school system, though that system's performance score was itself below the state average of 91.

The current RSD superintendent is Patrick Dobard, while the diminished, OPSB portion of NOPS has been led since 2015 by Henderson Lewis.

The conversion of the majority of New Orleans' public schools to charter schools following Hurricane Katrina has been cited by author Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine as an application of economics shock therapy, and of the tactic of taking advantage of public disorientation following a disaster to effect radical change in public policy.

Reunification
According to Senate Bill 432, passed by the Louisiana State Legislature on May 10, 2016 and signed into law by Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards on May 12, 2016, all public schools in New Orleans will return to supervision by OPSB by July 1, 2018.

Surveys of public opinion
A 2009 survey conducted by Tulane University's Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives, which is listed as a "Key Partner" of New Schools for New Orleans, a charter school advocacy group, indicated that the state's takeover of the majority of NOPS and the subsequent spread of charters was viewed with strong approval, by both parents of students and by citizens in general. Specifically, a poll of 347 randomly selected Orleans Parish voters and 300 randomly selected parents of children in the NOPS system indicated that 85% of parents surveyed reported they were able to enroll their children at the school they preferred, and 84% said the enrollment process was easy - findings that surprised the researchers. Furthermore, 82% of parents with children enrolled at charter schools gave their children's schools an "A" or "B", though only 48% of parents of children enrolled in non-chartered public schools assigned A's or B's to the schools their children attended. According to the survey, clear majorities of parents and of voters overall did not want the Orleans Parish School Board to regain full administrative control of the NOPS system.

Curriculum
In the mid-1800s the German American community of New Orleans attempted to have the German language supplant French as a subject in school. The German Society made efforts to have German introduced into the school system. In 1910 the German language was added to the NOPS curriculum, making it a regular subject in high schools and, at the elementary school, an afternoon elective. At the time, 10% of high school students selected German. In 1918, because of World War I propaganda, German was discontinued. German was re-introduced in 1931. The Deutsches Haus, the successor to the German society, made efforts to reintroduce German. German was discontinued in 1938 as World War II began.

Push for desegregation
In the late 1950s, Dorothy Mae Taylor, the president of two chapters of the Parent Teacher Association who in 1971 became the first African-American woman to serve in the Louisiana House of Representatives, organized a march to the school board to demand equal resources for black children in public schools. The board eventually acquiesced, and the parish increased funding to historically black schools to a level comparable to their white counterparts. Then came the national push for desegregation, particularly through the federal courts and later in the U.S. Congress with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racial barriers were dropped, and a new generation of African American leaders won most of the public offices in Orleans Parish.

Schools
Fifty-three public schools opened in New Orleans for the 2006–2007 school year. This number included schools directly administered by the OPSB or the RSD, or schools chartered by the OPSB or the RSD. By November 2006, the system was approaching half of its pre-Katrina enrollment, with 36% of the students enrolled in independent charter schools, 18% in the Algiers Charter School Association charter network, 35% in schools directly administered by the RSD, and 11% in the few remaining schools directly administered by the OPSB. Within fourteen months of Katrina, the majority of students in the NOPS system were, therefore, attending charter schools, a condition that has persisted to the present and is cited with approval by national advocates of charter schools.

For the 2013–2014 school year, the Orleans Parish School Board directly administered 4 schools and oversaw the 16 it chartered. The RSD directly administered 15 schools and supervised the 60 it chartered. Additionally, two schools were chartered directly by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

Since the 2014–2015 school year, all public schools operating under the RSD umbrella within Orleans Parish are independent charter schools.

OPSB-chartered schools

 * Audubon Charter School (French Immersion & Montessori)
 * Benjamin Franklin High School
 * Edward Hynes Charter School
 * Encore Academy
 * Einstein Charter Middle School at Sarah T. Reed
 * Harte Elementary
 * Edna Karr High School
 * Lake Forest Elementary Charter
 * Willow Charter School (formerly Lusher Charter School) (Grades K-12)
 * New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School
 * Sarah T. Reed High School
 * Warren Easton Fundamental High School
 * Robert Moton Elementary

OPSB-operated schools

 * Benjamin Franklin Elementary Mathematics and Science School
 * Eleanor McMain Secondary Magnet School
 * Mary Bethune Elementary
 * McDonogh 35 High School
 * Mahalia Jackson Elementary

RSD-operated schools
(Outdated: For the 2014–2015 school year, the RSD directly administers no schools within Orleans Parish.)
 * A.P. Tureaud Elementary (Marie Couvent)
 * Benjamin Banneker Elementary School
 * George Washington Carver High School (Grades 9-12)
 * James Johnson Elementary
 * John McDonogh High School
 * Landry-Walker College and Career Preparatory High School (Grades 9-12, after phasing-out of grades 7 and 8)
 * Mary Coghill Elementary
 * Murray Henderson Elementary
 * Paul Habans Elementary
 * Reed High School
 * Schaumburg Elementary
 * Walter L. Cohen High School

RSD-chartered schools

 * Akili Academy of New Orleans (Grades K-4)
 * Andrew Wilson Charter School
 * Arise Academy (Charles Drew Elementary campus - Grades PreK-2)
 * Arthur Ashe Charter School (Agnes Bauduit Elementary campus - Grades K-8)
 * Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory School (G.W. Carver Elementary campus)
 * Crescent Leadership Academy
 * Dr. King Charter School
 * Edward P. Harney Elementary
 * Eisenhower Elementary (Operated by the Algiers Charter School Association)
 * Esperanza Academy (Operated by Community Academies of New Orleans Network)
 * Excel Academy (Grades 9-12)
 * Fischer Elementary (Operated by the Algiers Charter School Association)
 * Foundation Preparatory (Operated by Community Academies of New Orleans Network)
 * Gentilly Terrace Elementary (Operated by the Capital One - New Beginnings Charter School Network)
 * Greater Gentilly High School (Grades 9-10)
 * Harriet Tubman Elementary (Operated by the Algiers Charter School Association)
 * Intercultural Charter School (Mary Queen of Vietnam campus)
 * James M. Singleton Charter School (Dryades YMCA)
 * KIPP Believe College Prep (Grades 5-8) - Ronald McNair campus
 * KIPP Central City Academy
 * KIPP Central City Primary
 * McDonogh 15 Creative Arts Magnet School (Grades PreK-8)
 * Lafayette Academy Lower (Operated by Community Academies of New Orleans Network)
 * Lafayette Academy Community Middle(Operated by Community Academies of New Orleans Network)
 * Langston Hughes Academy Charter (Operated by NOLA180)
 * Martin Berhman Charter Academy (Operated by the Algiers Charter School Association)
 * McDonogh 32 Elementary (Operated by the Algiers Charter School Association)
 * McDonogh 42 Charter School (Grades PreK-8)
 * McDonogh City Park Academy (McDonogh #28) (Grades K-8)
 * Medard H. Nelson Charter School (Operated by the Capital One - New Beginnings Charter School Network)
 * Miller-McCoy Academy for Math & Business (Edward Livingston campus)
 * Morris Jeff Community School (Grade PreK-2nd)
 * New Orleans Science & Math Academy (Edward Livingston campus)
 * New Orleans College Prep
 * Pierre A. Capdau Charter Elementary School (Operated by the Capital One - New Beginnings Charter School Network)
 * Pride College Preparatory Academy (F.W. Gregory campus)
 * ReNEW Accelerated High School
 * ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy
 * ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Academy
 * ReNEW SciTech Academy
 * S.J. Green Charter School
 * Sophie B. Wright Charter Elementary School
 * Success Preparatory Academy (Wicker Elementary campus)
 * Thurgood Marshall Early College High (Operated by the Capital One - New Beginnings Charter School Network)

BESE-chartered schools

 * International School of Louisiana (Foreign language immersion)
 * International High School of New Orleans( Formerly R.E. Rabouin Vocational School for Women "Founded in 1936 and Donated to the New Orleans Public School Board by Louise Jouet Rabuion" Later on a became New Orleans Public High School for all "L.E. Rabouin High School")
 * Milestone SABIS Academy of New Orleans
 * New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy
 * Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle Orleans (French Immersion)

Algiers Charter Schools Association
The Algiers Charter Schools Association is a system of six charter schools, all RSD affiliates.
 * Eisenhower Elementary Academy of Global Studies
 * Fischer Elementary
 * Martin Behrman Charter Academy for Creative Arts and Sciences (Grades PreK-8)
 * McDonogh #32 Literacy Charter School
 * L.B. Landry-O.P Walker College Preparatory High School
 * Algiers Technology Academy

Schools that may or may not be open in 2015

 * Ray Abrams School
 * Avery Alexander Elementary (McDonogh #39)
 * Henry W. Allen Elementary (now New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School)
 * Alternative High
 * Louis Armstrong School (McDonogh #19)
 * Israel Augustine Middle (S. J. Peters)
 * Agnes Bauduit Elementary (now Arthur Ashe Charter Elementary)
 * Andrew J. Bell Jr. High
 * Bienville Elementary School
 * Stuart R. Bradley School
 * Florence J. Chester School
 * Charles Colton Middle School
 * A.D. Crossman Elementary (now Esperanza Charter School)
 * Edward Livingston Middle - as of the 2014–15 school year, is now Edward Livingston High School
 * KIPP Renaissance High School, formerly Francis T. Nicholls High School
 * Alcee Fortier High School
 * Jean Gordon Elementary
 * Oretha Castle Haley School (Gayarre)
 * John W. Hoffman School
 * Andrew Jackson School (now the International School of Louisiana)
 * Morris F.X. Jeff Elementary (McDonogh #31)
 * Valena C. Jones Elementary
 * Barbara C. Jordan School (McDonogh #40)
 * John F. Kennedy High
 * Thomy Lafon School
 * Lake Area Middle (H.C. Schaumburg Elementary)
 * Alfred Lawless High
 * Little Woods School
 * Johnson C. Lockett School
 * McDonogh 7 (housing Andrew Wilson charter through early 2010)
 * George O. Mondy Elementary
 * George O. Mondy School (William O. Rogers)
 * Ernest N. Morial Elementary
 * New Orleans East Educational Center
 * NOPS Technology Center
 * Mildred Osborne Elementary
 * Parkview Fundamental Magnet (Claiborne)
 * Edward H. Phillips Jr. High
 * Julius Rosenwald Accelerated Elementary (now Algiers Technology Academy)
 * John A. Shaw School
 * Sherwood Forest School
 * Mary Church Terrell Magnet
 * Urban League Street Academy
 * Village De L'est Elementary School (now Einstein Charter School)
 * Booker T. Washington High School (scheduled to become a vocational trade school, pre-Katrina)
 * O. Perry Walker College and Career Preparatory High School and Community Center—Effective with the 2013–14 school year, the school merged into the Landry-Walker College and Career Preparatory High School, on the new Landry campus
 * Vorice Jackson Waters Elementary
 * Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
 * Sylvanie Williams School
 * Carter G. Woodson Middle

Former schools
RSD chartered:
 * Sojourner Truth Academy

Pre-Katrina:
 * German High School, in the early 1850s the German American community of New Orleans made plans to establish the school in the Third District of New Orleans. It was nonsectarian and had no religious instruction. The school closed during a yellow fever epidemic in 1853

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Talk:Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

What's a "Sand Dune"?
Sleeping bear dunes were created by wind erosion. the wind lifted the sediment/sand and dropped it to create sand dunes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.209.185.183 (talk • contribs)
 * Erg nope, they were created by glacial activity but modified by wind erosion. --Cody.Pope 08:19, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, they were in fact created by wind. Glacial activity created the sand, and the bluffs on which the dunes sit, but by definition, a dune is an eolian landform.  Trust me on this, it's the subject of my masters thesis :). Triphook 08:51, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I think that then confounds the issue with semantic nonsense. The bluffs are colloquially referred to as the "dunes" (by not just locals but by the park service).  Saying that the large piles of sand of the "dune climb", for example, were created by wind-erosion is very misleading.  The top most features of those bluffs may be the only technical dunes, but the prescriptive and/or academic use of the term, doesn't followed the descriptive use -- still, I'm an anthropologist (with a linguistic background) and not a geologist. :) --Cody.Pope 09:49, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh and PS, I went to UofM, go MAIZE and BLUE (sorry this comment is entirely inappropriate, but I couldn't help myself). --Cody.Pope 09:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this really needs a few sources! That would end all argument.  (Go Blue)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dachande (talk • contribs) 13:59, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Why is there no section on how the Dunes formed? I retitled the section called History into 2 more accurate titles. Still waiting for history of Dune, geology, lake actions that mice the sand. The only sentence on the topic says the “bear” is being made smaller by “wind and erosion”. - - Prairieplant (talk) 00:35, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

More/better pictures
The historic farm is nice and all, but it's hardly representative of the park as a whole. We need more shots of the dunes themselves. The winter one is interesting, but some summer ones would be nice too, since that's when the vast majority of visitors come. Funnyhat 19:08, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I see that new ones have been added. Nice work! Funnyhat 19:35, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Actually, they are old ones that had gotten removed/replaced along the way. older ≠ wiser 19:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

 * The primary photo doesn't really show off SB's beauty. I'm not sure what the etiquette is for replacing that image, but I think the second image down the page would be a better choice, as would this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Michigan_Immense_Public_Park.jpg --Ladybugz8 (talk) 00:06, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Lakeshore vs. Park
According to the National Park service, the Sleeping Bear area is officially classified a "National Lakeshore" and not a "National Park". Please see here:. I've reverted the page once more, but will not revert again, per the 3 revert rule. --Cody Pope 20:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The following coordinate fixes are needed for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The current coordinates are for a point in Lake Michigan's Good Harbor Bay that is outside the park boundaries. Since the park covers over 71,000 acres the best coordinates to direct people to is the park visitor center. This is the best place for visitors to start their park experience. The address for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore's Philip A. Hart Visitor Center is 9922 Front Street, Empire, MI  49630.

—165.83.133.249 (talk) 19:28, 26 June 2017 (UTC) Merrith Baughman Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park Ranger
 * It appears to me that the visitor center is not actually within the boundaries of the protected area, so that using those coordinates might be problematic. Since the protected area seems to consist of several disconnected parcels, I've changed the coordinates to less precise ones that are relatively central and are clearly within the boundaries. Does this make sense? Deor (talk) 20:42, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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Pelle Petterson

Pelle Helmer Petterson (born 31 July 1932) is a Swedish sailor and yacht designer. He is the son of Helmer Petterson and Norwegian-born Borgny Petterson (born Holm), and studied design at the leading Pratt Institute in New York from 1955 through 1957. His father was also a designer who developed wood gas aggregates and Volvo PV444, strongly influencing his son to go in his footsteps. He is probably best known for designing the Maxi brand of sailing boats, which are still among the most common sailing boats in Swedish waters. He also designed Volvo's successful sports car, the P1800, while he was a student of Pietro Frua.

There is a line of sailing clothing and sports wear bearing the name Petterson, under the Brand Name Pelle P. which are designed by his daughter, Cecilia. His other daughter, Ulrika "Icka", lives in the U.S. and is married to Paul Cayard, an American yachtsman and professional sailor.

Olympic medals and other yacht racing awards
Competing in the Star class, Petterson won two Olympic medals: a bronze in 1964 and a silver in 1972. He held the world title in this event in 1969.

He also won World Cup medals in the Soling class and participated in the America's Cup several times, skippering the Swedish America's Cup Challenges in 1977 and 1980.

Awards
Petterson was the first person to be inducted into the Swedish Sailing Hall of Fame. On 14 May 2004 he received the Swedish Business Award for Outstanding Achievements of the first grade from the West Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Amongst previous recipients are Arvid Carlsson Nobel laureate, Ingvar Kamprad founder of Ikea and Pehr G. Gyllenhammar former CEO of Volvo.

On 19 November 2004 he received the KTH's Stora Pris from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

On 8 June 2010 Petterson received from Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden the King's Medal (12th size bright-blue ribbon ) for outstanding contributions as a yachtsman and boat designer.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lightning War

 * 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. All keep votes, despite appearing to be by noted Wikipedia users, are by sock puppets. See edit history. — J I P | Talk 04:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Lightning War
Not notable group with one? release. Doesn't meet WP:MUSIC. feydey 14:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep "6. Has become the most prominent representative of a notable style or the local scene of a city (or both, as in British hip hop)"... Looks like it does to me, the article mentions that they "found infamy in the local area". Wahoofive actually posted by 172.200.189.73 — Lomn | Talk / RfC  17:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for correcting the record, Lomn. No vote. —Wahoofive (talk) 06:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Without citation, the above "found infamy" quote reeks of band vanity. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 17:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I also like the clean redirect to blitzkrieg per Marskell. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 19:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Almost reads like a hoax. Vanity and not up to WP:MUSIC in any case unless notability better asserted. After deletion re-post as a clean re-direct to Blitzkrieg (note if this is kept it should be a disambig between Blitzkrieg and the band). Marskell 17:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, they do not meet WP:MUSIC. An unsourced assertion of "finding infamy" is so very not an indication of meeting criteria 6.  Give me something verifiable to suggest they meet the guideline, and I could change my mind.  A redirect to Blitzkrieg per above sounds OK by me.  Friday (talk) 18:23, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete content and redirect to Blitzkrieg. Djbrianuk 22:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Changed 'infamy' to 'much opposition' because for some reason people around here have an aversion to the former.Anonymous, 10:49, 6th October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:MUSIC. Prozak, 12:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As Above. User:Piccadilly, 11:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity. No evidence of notability. Should be redirected to Blitzkrieg as per above [[User:Consequencefree| Ardent † ∈ ]] 10:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per Marskell. --JoanneB 10:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, No evidence of vanity. Jonny2x4 19:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. 23skidoo 22:46, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, does meet WP:MUSIC as stated. I added a bracket after "(or 'cybergrind' band" where it is clearly required.
 * Comment: I just read the article again. I still see nothing to indicate that this band meets WP:MUSIC guidelines.  Can anyone explain?  Friday (talk) 22:28, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it does meet WP:MUSIC as has been explained previously. Death, 09:21, 12 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Father Marquette National Memorial

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He was born on june 1st 1637 in laon frace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.75.208 (talk) 01:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:67124etc

Welcome,

I noticed your message on Kate's page, and appreciate your logging in.

Regarding the bullies, liars, and just plain unwik people on the Coulter page, I do not know what Kate can actually do about it except stop by and tell them to play nice. Perhaps she can take their charges seriously, and either have them investigated (although sock checks are not easily done), or block the accusers for making specious and obviously disingenuous and inflammatory accusations. From what I have observed, neither of those things will happen. It doesn't matter how nice you are to them, they will still revert your edits. I have been nice, and have had my edits treated exactly like those of Big Daddy. This in itself completely exposes their intentions and, of course, their bad faith.

Of course, they are all leaving an unforgiving edit history behind them, so it's not like one can't review it and see their patters of behavior, and study their tactics. They are much more transparent in their motives than the conceits they utter.

Keep up the good work, and let me know if you need assistance from an intelligent and fair user. If you're wrong about something, I won't lie and say you're right, but if you're right, I will defend you.

Also, try to get some work done on non-disuted pages, if you haven't already (I haven't checked your history). The uncollaborative and ungracious folks at Coulter are not interested in contributing to those, so you will get some work done there, unless they stalk you.

Regards,

paul klenk talk

From the Other Big Daddy :)
Welcome! I think you're great and am terribly sorry you had to endure the scorn that was specifically intended for me. lol! I appreciate your courageous move and hope this puts an end to the slanderous charges bandied about. Keep doing the excellent work you have to remove POV from conservative columnists articles. I GUARANTEE you we will succeed as this is what founder Jimmy Wales wants. Don't let the humorless or the hateful deter you. I still get the biggest kick out of Wikipedia. It's an ingenius idea and will prevail as Jimmy envisioned it. A FAIR encyclopedia, not a breeding ground for people of just one single distorted view of the world. Ps Paul Klenk is right. You will not find a fairer, more even handed editor here. He cares passionately about his excellent work at Wikipedia. I observed with my very own eyes how, though he literally bent over backwards for these people, they just spit on him like he was refuse. Something's got to be done about this...Big Daddy 14:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Your message
I agree that everybody working on the Ann Coulter article should try to calm down a little bit and start talking about content instead of endlessly discussing each other. There's only so much I can do, though -- what we have, functionally, is an editing conflict over content, and while that is frustrating, there's not much I am empowered to do to solve that. I can't make people agree with one another.

Paul implied that I will only be taking your concerns seriously if I either "have them investigated" or block them for being uncivil, which I take issue with. The fact of the matter is that you yourself are empowered to "have them investigated" by using Dispute resolution, you don't need me to do it for you and in fact it would be highly irregular if I did, since I've not been involved in the issues myself. There's not really been anything that I can block anyone over, quite frankly -- although personal attacks and incivility are considered against policy, administrators are strongly discouraged from blocking users for violations of these policies unless they are particularly egregious (racial slurs, physical threats, lawsuit threats). And if I was going to block folks for making "inflammatory comments," practically everybody editing on that page would end up with a block, and that certainly wouldn't help discussions. Basically, everybody needs to calm down and try to work together. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make everybody sit down and listen to one another, but I can't. Try opening an RFC or engaging a mediator. · Katefan0(scribble) 15:46, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I am glad you opened an account. Much of the time anon contributions on Wikipedia are not given as much credence as those from registered users. So this was a good step if you're serious about contributing to Wikipedia. Good luck · Katefan0(scribble) 15:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ohh, I see; I thought you were referring to the fireworks on the Ann Coulter talk page. Well, as for sockpuppetry -- checking takes a heavy toll on the servers, so typically only developers are able to perform those checks. The only user that can perform them is User:David Gerard. Your only option really is to make a request to him; it's far beyond anything I can deal with myself. · Katefan0(scribble) 16:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

From Paul to 67124 and Kate: Actually, Kate may have misunderstood what I was getting at -- maybe because I was not very clear. I know she takes your concerns seriously. If you read what I wrote, I was referring to taking the accusations of sock puppetry seriously, in addition to her other actions (among which are 1] keeping an eye on the page and 2] telling people to play nice). What I mean(t) by the "seriously" remark is:
 * 1) When people speciously (or stupidly) throw around such accusations, it is highly disruptive. Calling people's bluff and asking for real, not imagined, evidence (this is what I mean by "taking seriously") should either shut them up or get them to spill their evidence, if indeed they have any.  This should quell some of the disruption.
 * 2) If it then becomes obvious that there is no real evidence, the user needs to own up to this. The accusations I have read are rarely even qualified as "suspicions" -- they are out-and-out statements of "fact", and is making it harder to edit the page, get along, calm down, and collaborate.  It is, I believe, an ugly tactic to attack other users, sully their reputations, and drive them away.

Kate is also correct to point out the many other options. I didn't mean to imply that anyone's options are so restrictive. However, I did mean to imply that, judging from the increasing incivility and recklessness of that page, there isn't a whole lot that Kate can do (not judging her intent or quality of work, just the outcome so far). She has tried her best to keep her eyes on that page, and it is getting worse.

It is informative, Kate, to hear the prevailing thinking about blocking. I respect admins' reluctance to block, but I do think that a one-hour block, from time to time, can send the right message. It need not be punitive; it can just tell the accuser to cool off and be ready to stop the accusations and apologize when they return. Calling someone a sockpuppet is an extremely serious charge; in the context of this talk page, could be construed as gaming the system. Inflammatory comments are one thing; the inflammatory and false accusations in question are, imho, outrageous and a more serious matter. paul klenk talk 17:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, it appears that the accusations were in fact not false. So I guess that takes care of that. · Katefan0(scribble) 17:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * no. still wrong. 67124etc 03:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about that.
Here's what Katefan posted on my talk page about two weeks ago -

Be careful...

...you are coming perilously close to being blocked. Please read my comments at Talk:Karl Rove. Best · Katefan0(scribble) 04:38, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

And I might add I was still pretty much a newbie at this point (I began Sept 1.) The incident was INSTIGATED by ryan freisling unilaterally ERASING my commentary in an ARTICLE talk page!! (I know...it's never happened before or since.) Being new and completely clueless as to whether that was kosher or not, I thought, 'If Ryan can do that to me, I'll do that to her', so it went back and forth for a little bit until Kate stepped in within minutes I might add... with the above threat. Big Daddy 19:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * That was over 3RR, not over personal attacks. Blocking policies for 3RR are swift and sure, unlike with personal attacks or incivility. · Katefan0(scribble) 17:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

To 67.124.etc.
This is the editor who uses 64.154.26.151. I would like to ask for your help to foil those who would wish to profit in confounding our identities. I case you didn't know, beyond the childish slurs others have come up with (and others have ignorantly, disingenuously or dishonestly validated) to halt reasonable changes to the Coulter article, there is a kind of preliminary to a roundup going on on Big Daddy's arb page. One arb has made a list of presumed aliases of Big Daddy and some of your and my IDs are on it (there is much more to this, I will get to it in a minute), so I think if they come up with sanctions against Big Daddy, it will affect us as well.

I think the Admin, who I read you tried to send an e-mail to (and who was now himself reprimanded for breaking the 3RR rule ) has a weak case against us, if he wants to prevent us from collaborating on the page in the future (that is if you still have the stomach to confront the nauseatingly tedious charges that will be bound to follow should the collaboration resort to reverting). It substantially amounts to "How could three reasonable people all have something more than negative to report about such a woman?"

The potentially serious complication to this, is that this 64.154.26.151 account is now being accused of misuse in a manner in which I do not understand. On October 4, 2005 about 10:30 (UTC) David Gerard, the admin whose page you visited to inquire on allegations of sockpuppetry against you, blocked three users:  BarneyGumble, PaganViking, and LEONARDWATSON for infinite time. Only one of them has an edit history. All three users were accused of sockpuppetting the other two accounts and all three were accused of sockpuppeting 64.154.26.151. This admin is unavailable for comment, since he will not respond to Gator1 for a half a day now. I have no idea when this sockpuppeting happened. This week? Six months ago? A year? I have occasionally looked at the 64.154.26.151 history page, which belongs to a network I share, and saw no talk page references that would indicate any kind of edit disputation or back and forth discussions other than my own very recent ones. I am responsible for roughly 75% of the edits of that user ID. I have certainly never seen the names BarneyGumble, PaganViking or LEONARDWATSON before today.

Once that obstacle is overcome, and it can be determined that I can continue or refrain from using that account, if we could clear this up with the offer to meet a representative arbitrator in Yahoo chat or some other large public chatroom, it would be greatly appreciated. I think many would agree we are owed an apology should it have to come to that, so the offer would be a powerful disincentive for the line of attack that has been used to cloud the issues in the Coulter article.

If you live in an area distant from the network I use, perhaps what you suggested, a telephone call, can accomplish the same thing.

If either is agreeable to you (and BigDaddy if he is still being accused) we can begin a request for comment to start to clear our reputations from these juvenile accusations that have stuck due to the questionable actions of an admin who exhibited a political bias in his very response, and broke the very same rule he was authorized to enforce. 216.119.139.73 06:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * yeah the whole thing has gotten stupid. I'm not planning to give in. I emailed Fvw, and now Fred Bauder (the arbiter that put up ) about telephone conversations just like you suggest. Unless that kind of thing is "improper" or something (which would just figure wouldn't it), I will keep trying for someone impartial till I get one willing to inject some sanity here. I wouldn't worry those who are unhelpful or use the rules in a wildly one-sided way against us. We do have the truth on our side. It just might take some time.

 * I live in Carlsbad, CA area btw. I understand from what Fvw posted you're in Houston? I'm kinda surprised Gerard didn't point at least this much out. Ah well the hunt continues. 67124etc 07:18, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't want to reward the kind of attempts at invading my privacy by Fvw with info, should he choose to list out my edits and make more trouble for me. I'll reveal my location on a need to know basis.  Someone on my network isn't pleased he revealed the node I used, though.  If you go to  you can type in your ip address and find out the location of where the network is based.  But I can tell you, we're not in the same area code.

 * Big Daddy says Fvw keeps redoing the block so he can only edit his own page. The abuse here seems to have gotten pretty serious, and I am afraid of being framed again.  The block list indicates someone using an IP address Big Daddy uses trying to log in and then Fvw blocking him for another 24 hours (it hides the IP under another number).  So what?  Someone sharing Big Daddy's IP address is causing him to get blocked?  That's why I'm afraid of my IP address being on that block list.  What kind of manipulation is going on there?  I don't know if it's automatic or what.  Well have a good day anyway.  216.119.139.73 08:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi, are yall talking about 64.154.26.251? Cause I also have edited with that IP. I did the edits to The Dead Zone and Newt Gingrich. I just registered this username to avoid future confusion. That address is the address for my work proxy. I did a google search and came up with 2,300 results, so it would seem there are more than just us using it. Anyways, I dont edit much at all, but I am still going to try and get this mess sorted out.--Viper Daimao 00:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, do you work for the same company I work for? I only have the conflicting IP address because of my proxy server at work.--Viper Daimao 02:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Tagging
Please don't use for discrete sections. You should use for discrete sections. The NPOV template is for the top of the page, meant to suggest that the entire article is under dispute. Thanks · Katefan0(scribble) 20:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

CfD
If you got a minute can you take a look at Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 7. This is a challenge to the sourcing of Venona project materials & direct related article series. Thank you. nobs 20:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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Yoredale Series

The Yoredale Series, in geology, is a now obsolete term for a local phase of the Carboniferous rocks of the north of England, ranging in age from the Asbian Substage to the Yeadonian Substage. The term Yoredale Group is nowadays applied to the same broad suite of rocks. The name was introduced by J. Phillips on account of the typical development of the phase in Yoredale (now generally known as Wensleydale), Yorkshire.

Properties and condition
In the Yorkshire Dales the Carboniferous rocks assume an aspect very different from that which obtains in the South. Beds of detrital sediment, sandstones, shales and occasional ironstones and thin coals separate the limestones into well-defined beds. These limestone beds have received various names of local significance (Hardraw Scar, Simonstone, Middle, Underset, Main and many others), and owing to the country being little disturbed by faulting and being much cut up by the streams, they stand out as escarpments on either side of the valleys. The first indication of the intercalation of thick detrital deposits within the massive limestone is seen in Ingleborough and Penyghent; but as the rocks are traced north the detrital matter increases in quantity and the limestones diminish, until in Northumberland the whole Carboniferous series assumes the Yoredale phase, and consists of alternations of detrital and calcareous beds, no massive limestone being seen.

Fossils
The Yoredale limestones are characterized by the presence of Productus giganteus and the brachiopod fauna usually associated with it. The main limestone of Weardale is full of corals, including Lonsdaleia floriformis, Dibunophyllum sp., Cyclophyllum pachyendothecum, etc., and has a typical Visean fauna; it would therefore correspond, palaeontologically, with the upper part of the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire.

On Ingleborough the limestone is not very fossiliferous, but the Main Limestone contains small corals of a zaphrentoid type and an upper Visean fauna. Posidonomya Becheri occurs fairly low down in the series in the Shale above the Hardraw Scar and Gayle limestones, but it is not accompanied by any of the goniatites or other cephalopods and lamellibranchs which characterize the Posidonomya Becheri beds of the Pendleside Series, the faunas of the Yoredale and Pendleside phases being very distinct.

The Red Bed Limestone of Leyburn, the uppermost limestone of the series, is very rich in fish remains, which are identical in many cases with those found in the topmost beds of the massive Carboniferous Limestone at Bolt Edge quarry in Derbyshire. The shales between the limestones are rich in fossils and contain abundant single corals referable to Zaphrentis enniskilleni, Cyclophyllum pachyendothecum, and others; these, though high-zonal forms, occur low down in the Yoredale strata, even in the shale above the Hardraw Scar limestone. In the Derbyshire area and farther north these corals would indicate the uppermost beds of the limestone series of those districts, and their early appearance in the Yoredale area is probably entirely due to conditions of environment.

Attempts have been made to correlate rocks in a number of widely separated areas with the Yoredale strata, but on wholly insufficient grounds. It is clear that the exact relationship which the Yoredale series of the type area bears as a whole to the lower Carboniferous rocks of the Midlands, north and south Wales, etc., on the one hand, and to the Pendleside series on the other, has yet to be established on a firm palaeontological basis.

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Pharnuches of Lycia

Pharnuches (Φαρνούχης or Φαρνούχoς) was a Lycian appointed by Alexander the Great to command the force sent into Sogdiana against Spitamenes in 329 BC. The result of the expedition was disastrous, with the destruction of the whole army. Pharnuches had been entrusted with its superintendence, because he was acquainted with the language of the inhabitants of the region, and had shown much dexterity in his intercourse with them. According to Aristobulus he was conscious of his deficiency in military skill, and wished to cede the command to the three Macedonian officers who were acting under him (Caranus, Menedemus and Andromachus), but they refused to accept it.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fruitpunch

 * 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.  Rob e  rt  23:43, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Fruitpunch
article does not pass WP:music standards Qaz  ( talk ) 14:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. I believe it does pas WP:music, just the page needs to be expanded a bit. Karol 18:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC) Delete. I tried :) Karol 19:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom, unless Karol can provide some indication on how it does pass the notability requirements, it's an unsigned band without as yet an album release. Mallocks 20:43, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination; the article and band's web site indicate that they have released an album, but one independently distributed album is not enough to meet the WP:MUSIC criteria. If they actually do qualify under WP:MUSIC and the article is revised to prove this, I will reconsider. --Metropolitan90 19:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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NEC μPD7720

The NEC μPD7720 is the name of fixed point digital signal processors from NEC (currently Renesas Electronics). Announced in 1980, it became, along with the Texas Instruments TMS32010, one of the most popular DSPs of its day.

Background
In the late 1970s, telephone engineers were attempting to create technology with sufficient performance to enable digital touch-tone dialing. Existing digital signal processing solutions required over a hundred chips and consumed significant amounts of power. Intel responded to this potential market by introducing the Intel 2920, an integrated processor that, while it had both digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, lacked additional features (such as a hardware multiplier) that would be found in later processors. Announcements for the first "real" DSPs, the NEC μPD7720 and the Bell Labs DSP-1 chip, occurred the following year at the 1980 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits conference. The μPD7720 first became available in 1981 and commercially available in late 1982 at a cost of ¥20.000 (around $82 and inflation corrected for 2023 dollars around $304). Beyond their initial use in telephony, these processors found applications in disk drive and graphics controllers, speech synthesis and modems.

Architecture
Detailed descriptions of the μPD7720 architecture are found in Chance (1990), Sweitzer (1984) and Simpson (1984). Briefly, the NEC μPD7720 runs at 4 MHz frequency with 128-word 16-bit data RAM, 512-word 13-bit data ROM, and 512-word 23-bit program memory, which has VLIW-like instruction format, enabling all of ALU operation, address register increment/decrement operation, and move operation in one cycle. The stack area, which is distinct from the main memory address space, is allocated in a separate address space. The stack, utilized during subroutine calls and interrupts, has a depth of four.

Variants
The NEC μPD77C25, which succeeded the μPD7720, runs at 8 MHz frequency with 256-word 16-bit data RAM, 1,024-word 16-bit data ROM, and 2,048-word 24-bit program memory. The stack, utilized during subroutine calls and interrupts, maintains the same depth of four as that of the μPD7720.

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User talk:Frecklefoot/Archive6

Game article updates
OK, I have to ask -- are you just obsessively updating all of the videogame articles, or are you intentionally trawling the list of things i've worked on and cleaning up my messes? (I don't mind at all if you are, I'm just curious). --Nandesuka 16:05, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I watch a lot of video game articles and just stumble across your new articles. While they are generally good content-wise, they lack wiki-markup for lead sentences.  For example, you are correctly italicizing game titles, e.g. War Wind, but for the first sentence of an article, the object needs to be bolded as well, e.g. War Wind.  Objects which don't need to be italicized should just be bolded, e.g. Mark Allen.  Reading through Guide to writing better articles might help you out.  Keep up the good work, I really like your articles! Some I even know something about (such as Sabotage). :-)   — Frecklefoot | Talk 16:16, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Game designer
Very well-written article and well-reasoned explanations on the Talk page. --Habap 19:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Golly, thanks! I hardly ever get compiments. :-)   — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:50, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Since an anon just alleged a PC Games prejudice in the Game Designer article, I just wanted to weigh in here that the articles/edits I've seen from you have seemed well balanced. If you've had some bias I haven't noticed it, and you are obviously not defensive about others editing you. So please accept compliments for your balance and ignore the criticism on Talk:Game Designer. Coll7 01:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I try to remember the compliments and forget the insults, but sometimes the compliments are few and far between.  Thanks, it's appreciated!   — Frecklefoot | Talk 01:54, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Gary Gygax
May I ask why the second picture of Gary Gygax was "unsuitable for Wikipedia"? The man exemplies RPG gaming. The first picture is pointless without the second. I don't think all shots should have to be boring and drab, no? K.Nevelsteen 21:12, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Not all pictures have to be boring and drab, but, frankly, I thought the second one was stupid, even if it was created by Gygax himself.  The first picture is a photo of Gygax.  How is that pointless without the second?

 * If you disagree with me, bring it up on the talk page for the article. Wikipedia articles are a joint effort; see what other editors think.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:54, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Sleep Paralysis shows separate states - comments
Dear Frecklefoot,

My name is M. van Veen and I am not a Wikipedia user with an account; only a guest who is able to post. And yes, it was my personal experience, in which I was fully conscious as you are now.

True, it is original in the sense that there is no reference to any reputable source or publication. My addition was intended to complement an article that has partly no proper conclusion other than the reputation of its sources, so partly no proper conclusion regarding to its contents.

The statement I gave (From the personal...the same time) was originally written in first person by myself, and later altered by someone else. During this experience I was an observer of what was happening, which automatically meant that I was in fact separated from this happening. That is all, not really different than the fact that you, when you read this, know that you are awake right now.

I just read the latest change in this article, made by someone who undoubtly is a fan of poetry, but perhaps does not have the means to cope with something that does not support his own personal ambitions. His reaction shows the lack of scientific ability to address this subject fully all too clearly, which is exactly my point in my apparently contoversial addition. The article of "Sleep paralysis" as a whole has many gaps that need to be resolved by 'science', and therefore cannot hold temporary statements in the form of valid conclusions, such as calling "awareness during sleep paralysis" a "disorder" by definition.

See for yourself what you do with my addition, it does not matter to me, it might matter to those who want to understand more about this subject without falling into the trap of accepting merely temporary conclusions that are based on unfinished business.

Regards, M. van Veen

 * Mr. Veen (or whoever you are, I have no idea if you are who you claim to be), you apparently were not aware that Wikipedia is not a place for original research. This includes personal experiences which is exactly what the section you added was.  I reverted it again because it is totally inappropriate material.

 * Yes, there probably is too little research on sleep paralysis, but Wikipedia is not the place to champion your cause. I personally suffer from SP as does my daughter (though we both experience it very infrequently).  If you want to discuss your findings or research on SP, start your own website.  Don't try to promote it on Wikipedia.  Wikipedia has a strong mandate of neutral point-of-view (NPOV).  Forbidding personal experiences and original research is in line with this policy.  If you want to discuss this further, do it on the articles Talk page, not here.  I am just one editor and you'd benefit from the input of more editors.

 * It appears you had difficulty coming up with exactly the right wording for your comment above. You made changes no fewer than 11 times.  Apparently you didn't like the way your statement sounded after making the changes.  Here's a tip: the "Show preview" button shows you what your post will look like before submitting it.  Maybe it'll save you some time in the future.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:19, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

And a personal sneer afterward! congratulations, Mr. Frecklefoot, or whoever you are you claim to be... What does it matter if I add or change my post, even if it is a 1000 times... Just because you have full support from Wiki, that does not mean you are morally justified as well... but of course, I am a troll and you are the gnome isn't it? Well, I am fed up with this political internet nonsense, so I urge you to delete my addition!

 * Well, I certainly didn't mean to make a sneer—I was sincerly only trying to help. The "Show preview" button has saved me a great deal of time in my own postings.

 * How am I morally unjustified for trying to abide by the Wikipedia standards? They've been honed and modified over the years and I'm just trying to make sure articles abide by them.  I even suggested you take your beef to the Talk page so you wouldn't have to deal with just me, but could get comments from other editors (i.e. just normal people who enjoy Wikipedia).  If you truly thought your addition had merit, you would have brought the topic up there.  I even started a discussion on it there and you didn't bother responding there.  Instead you came back here, to blast me personally.

 * Lastly, no, I will not remove your post here. It's considered bad form.  But wait a while, and eventually it'll be archived.  Take care.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:02, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Dune II
I noticed you revert on Dune II. Wasn't Dune 2000 a rewrite though, I think it was completely new code. Certainly the graphics engine was new. Multiplayer was new too. Not a straight port no? Jacoplane 21:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Portions of it may have been new code, but a substantial part of it was re-used code from Dune II. It would've been ridiculous for them to totally throw away the DOS code for the Windows port.  So, unless, you can find someone from the original dev team that states it was all new code, I think it should state it was ported.  You could mention the new features, however.  If it gets too long, Dune 2000 will need its own sub-section.

 * Actually, a lot of the home versions of arcade games are called "ports", even though the only thing ported might be some of the art. Sometimes not even that, as in the case of Pac-Man, for one.  So the term port is often mis-used in video game parlance.  But in this case, I think it is used correctly.  A lot of the code (and art) was ported, but they also added new featues.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 13:53, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Plastic Surgery Discussion Forum Issue
Dear Frecklefoot,

I am writing to you regarding a link you removed from the plastic surgery site under Wikipedia. The link was to a plastic surgery discussion forum, which do not receive any form of funds from anyone and is therefore completly impartial. I understand that Wikipedia is not a link farm etc, however it might be relevant for people reading about plastic surgery to know that you have the possiblity to talk about issues that might concern you prior to an operation and share your experiences. I would be grateful the site could be added to your links or if you could advise how it might be possible to add it.

Many thanks for your help.

Kind Regards,

Thomas Sylvest ts@d-raw.com

 * Links of that nature, even if "impartial" and non-commercial are often reverted outright. Wikipedia's always had a problem of having marketers or well-meaning but misguided individuals trying to tout their own businesses or their pet sites.  I'm not implying that you are either of the preceeding, but we can't evaluate every link that is added to an article and decide on it's relevance.  Unfortunately, the plastic surgery article you added a link to has been, as of late, a big target for "spam links."

 * If you want to add your link and think it's worthy, first discuss adding it on the article's talk page. Note, since this is a wiki, you don't have to discuss every edit you make to every article (though a summary of your changes is appreciated when you save the page).  But in this case, in an effort to reduce spam, the link warrants some discussion first.

 * Also, the correct way to sign your posts is with 3 or 4 tildes ( or ~ ).  The latter is preferred since it also adds a timestamp.  I notice that you included your email address in your "hand" signature.  I hope you don't expect me to email you, because I won't. Thanks.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Sleep paralysis
Just thought I'd draw your attention to a Help desk query about your edit summary "whack-job" in the Sleep paralysis article. The question is here. --Commander Keane 12:47, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Um, thanks. I hope he stops asking people to email him, it won't happen.  We've responded several times to him, but he keeps insisting that we email him.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:48, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Frecklefoot, FYI, I've responded to your post over in the AMA area - Jord 16:57, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

D&D Module Info Box
Please come see the template I created trying to balance everyone's comments; Template talk:DnDmodule Thanks for your suggestions Wendell 05:24, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Extended warranty
I just made a service plan page. Yeah, I work for CompUSA, so feel free to de-bias it, it's my first article. I made it to clarify the difference between those things electronics retailers spam you with and extended warranties, and there ARE actually some important differences. --Riotgear

Fan sites against policy?
You reverted an addition of a fan site claiming linking to fan sites was against policy. However, External_links states: "including a link to one major fansite is appropriate". What policy were you referring to? Thanks for being active in pruning external links though - it's a never ending and tiresome problem. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:23, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, right where you pointed to it says "including a link to one major fansite is appropriate, marking the link as such." I guess that is open to interpretation, but it says (1) just one link to a fansite and (2) it says "major."  That is very ambigious wording.  What constitutes "major"?  Number of hits?  Amount of content?  Members?  Google score?  I personally don't find any of these numbers compelling.  I generally only leave fansite links if they are official, such as "The Official Fan Club of Roy G. Biv".  Otherwise, they're just noise.  Wikipedia is not a link farm.  So, however well intentioned an extern link to a fan site may be, if it's not official, I don't think it can be considered "major".   — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:34, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Billy Joel
re: Billy Joel spam I noticed that you re-added a "spam" link in the Billy Joel article. I assume you did this without knowing that link—pianofanman.com—is a known spam link and should not be in the article. An anon user keeps adding it and we keep deleting it. Just FYI. If you see it deleted again in the future (which it most likely will be since the anon user is rather relentless), it shouldn't be re-added. Thanks. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:34, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. What's a spam link. I went to the link and I don't recall it having any popups, if that's what you mean by spam link. I certainly won't add it back, but if you could explain the term it'd be helpful. Looked like quite a good site to me.

Best wishes, -- User:matt.whitby

 * Discussion continued here.

Redirecting a redirct
Thank you for working on "Editing digital images." and for leaving me a message so I can talk to you. I am a newbie. You changed the name of my newly posted article "Editing digital images" to "Digital image editing". When I search "Editing images" a redirect comes up that points to: "Digital image editing". How can I avoid going to the redirect and instead go directly to: "Digital image editing"? Phil 19:15, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what you mean. If you go to a redirect page, it should automatically redirect you to the real article.  Your URL will have the name of the redirect page, but if you go to edit the article, you will edit it and not the redirect page.  Could you give me some more details?   — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:06, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Internet Games
I am curious as to why you removed the links in the section Internet Games "Examples" and denoted them as linkspam. They are all valid internal wiki references, why would they be considered spam when they redirect to (mostly) purposeful examples of browser based games? Everquest, Planetside and Runescape are mentioned in MMORPGs, so I don't see the difference in internet games. -Moocats 20:03, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

 * My removal may have been a bit rash. I saw someone who had been adding spam links to several articles add his game to the "Examples" section.  I figured that whoever put those links there, just did it to promote their own games, even though they were internal wikilinks.  I figured that section would just attract more self-promoters.  But, if they really are valid, maybe we can just prune the list from time to time (as if most we didn't have enough to do already...).  Go ahead and restore the list if you like, I won't revert it.  But italicize the game titles if you do (game titles should always be ital).    — Frecklefoot | Talk 21:49, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I figure as long as they have their own wiki page and the page isn't just a stub with a homepage link in it, they would be ok. I'm also double checking to make sure they HAVE a wiki page, not just a link to their homepage.  And I'll cap the names too, thanks for the info :) I also removed two of the links, one was definitely spam and the other was a link to an article that was a NPOV stub.  I wrote a message in the discussion are of the article in question telling them why I removed the link to it and how to fix it :) -Moocats 12:34, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry!
Hello Frecklefoot!

I want to congratulate you for your nice work inside Wikipedia and I'm sorry of adding a new link to the sims 2 section, I thought that I could add a sims 2 list of fansites. I don't think I will appear here again, so if you wanna contact, "webmaster (a) simsextremos.com" You may wanna delete this ;)

 * Since the link already existed in The Sims article, I didn't think it was needed in The Sims 2 article as well. Fan site links are discouraged on Wikipedia, and I wanted to nip things in the bud.  IMHO, all the fan sites on The Sims article should be trimmed.  A link to a list of fansites would be fine, though.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 16:04, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Requested move: game tester -> game testing
Your participation is requested at Talk:Game tester. Thank you. Adraeus 22:05, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic wikibook
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 07:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, but I really don't know all that much about Visual Basic. Plus, I'm not a huge fan of it, so I'll leave it to the experts...   — Frecklefoot | Talk 13:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Romero's picture
I noticed John Romero's picture has no source and may be up for deletion. Did he ever respond to your comment? Tfine80 00:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Do you mean the talk page of his article? No, he hasn't.  I think he uploaded the new picture of himself, but neglected to add the copyright status for it.  Someone should probably post a note on his talk page.   — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Jimmy Buffett caption
Looks good to me, not too POV :) Turnstep 22:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Cornamuse

The cornamuse is a double reed instrument dating from the Renaissance period. It is similar to the crumhorn in having a windcap over the reed and cylindrical bore. The only evidence for the cornamuse comes from a description and a few comments by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma musicum II, published in 1619. Since the paragraph by Praetorius is the only clear description of the cornamuse and no period specimen or picture has been found, all reconstructions of the instrument rely on a certain amount of conjecture.

The text in German reads "Die CornaMuse sind gleich aus/und nicht mit doppelten/sondern mit einer einfachen Röhre/gleich den Bassanelli[…] aber unten zugedackt / und uff der seiten herumb etliche löcherlein / dadurch der Resonanz herausser gehet. Am klang seynd sie gar den Krumbhörnern gleich / nur dass sie stiller / lieblicher und gar sanft klingen […]"

(The cornamuse are similar to/and do not have a double, but rather a single tube (bore)/like the bassanelli.) This statement differentiates it from double bore instruments of the period like the sordun, kortholt and curtal. Another clue to its appearance is given in Praetorius' description of the schryari: ("They...are nearly the same as the cornamuse in size and appearance".)

The name is not to be confused with cornemuse, which is the French word for bagpipes.

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Information on this guy is very scarce. Anybody have more details, especially about his current whereabouts? --Scooper12 14:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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Ralph T. Smith

Ralph Tyler Smith (October 6, 1915 – August 13, 1972) was an American lawyer and politician from Illinois, who served as a United States Senator from Illinois from 1969 until 1970. A member of the Republican Party, Smith previously served in the Illinois state house from 1955 through 1969, including two years as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969, prior to his appointment to the senate by governor Richard Ogilvie. He lost re-election to Adlai Stevenson III in the 1970 special election.

Early life and education
Ralph Tyler Smith was born in Granite City, Illinois on October 6, 1915. Smith graduated from Illinois College in 1937 and from Washington University School of Law in 1940. He began the practice of law that same year. He worked as an attorney for C. & I.M. Railway Company in Springfield, Illinois.

Military career
Shortly after the start of World War II, Smith enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve, and commissioned an Ensign. He served as an instructor in the Naval Midshipman School at Notre Dame University. He was then transferred to the USS PC-1182, a PC-461-class submarine chaser, which escorted convoys. He then went to Guam to take command of the USS PGM-28, a PGM-9-class motor gunboat in 1945. After a period of minesweeping in Okinawa, Smith was released into inactive duty as a Lieutenant.

Illinois general assembly
After his active navy service, he moved to Alton, Illinois and resumed the practice of law. In 1954, he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of Illinois. He was re-elected for seven succeeding terms between 1954 and 1968, before becoming majority whip in 1963, and later speaker in 1967.

United States Senate
Upon the death of Everett Dirksen, Governor Richard B. Ogilvie appointed Smith to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate. He served from September 17, 1969, to November 16, 1970. He ran for re-election in the 1970 special election, but was defeated by Adlai E. Stevenson III, the son of former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson II. When Smith ran against Stevenson, the Utah College Republicans sent a 19-year-old student, Karl Rove, to work on Smith's campaign.

Later life and death
Following his defeat in 1970, he returned to practicing law. He died on August 13, 1972, in Alton.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/367 (number)

 * 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. --Doc (?) 08:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

367 (number)
I thought Atlas Shrugged was a great book, but that doesn't warrant an article about the number. Trovatore 22:19, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete --Trovatore 14:29, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Number articles typically grow as more trivia is attached to them and nonsense (such as the info currently listed) eliminated, but per precedent (I believe) they are limited and this falls outside the boundary. Delete Dottore So 23:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You are thinking of our notability criteria for numbers which we have because Wikipedia is not infinite. Uncle G 00:37, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unencyclopedic trivia. MCB 00:36, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. How about Infinity plus 1 (number)? Andrew pmk | Talk 01:28, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Wikipedia is not infinite — Paul August ☎ 01:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, keeping this and establishing a precedent would logically make the current American school Zerg rush look like a drop in the ocean. --Last Malthusian 08:42, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Egil 13:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I thought Atlas Shrugged was a terrible book, so delete this article out of spite for me having read all that bologna. Also, an unenyclopaedic number. Lord Bob 15:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to 300 (number). — RJH 22:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, that's not bad. I didn't know it had all the nums 300-399. --Trovatore 05:46, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, do not merge. The factlets on that list go down to the area code of Wyoming. This, however, is less important. Septentrionalis 03:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. linas 00:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect.--Kross 06:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn -- Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep real number keep and allow for organic growth. Klonimus 02:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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Lambeth Group

The Lambeth Group is a stratigraphic group, a set of geological rock strata in the London and Hampshire Basins of southern England. It comprises a complex of vertically and laterally varying gravels, sands, silts and clays deposited between 56-55 million years before present during the Ypresian age (lower Eocene). It is found throughout the London Basin with a thickness between 10m and 30m, and the Hampshire Basin with a thickness between 50m and less than 25m. Although this sequence only crops out in these basins, the fact that it underlies 25% of London at a depth of less than 30m means the formation is of engineering interest for tunnelling and foundations.

History
The formation was first known as the Plastic Clay by T. Webster in 1816 after the Argile plastique of Georges Cuvier and A. Brongniart. It was called the Mottled Clay by Joseph Prestwich in 1846, but in 1853 he proposed the name Woolwich-and-Reading Beds to emphasise the differing local aspects of the series. This name received widespread usage, but it was in turn deprecated in 1994 in favour of the Lambeth Group by the British Geological Survey, to conform with new standards and to allow scope for more detailed subdivisions.

Subdivision
The Lambeth Group consists of three formations:
 * The Reading Formation: a series of lenticular mottled clays and sands, here and there with pebbly beds and masses of fine sand converted into sandstone. These beds are generally unfossiliferous. They are found in the north of the London Basin, mid-west of the Thames Basin and in the Hampshire Basin.
 * The Woolwich Formation: grey clays and pale sands, often estuarine shells comprise a great deal, in places including a well-marked oyster bed (strata). It overspills borders of west Kent, is found in edges of east Kent, in south Essex and at Newhaven, Sussex. At the base of the shell-rich clayer lay in southeast London are pebble beds and lignitic layers.
 * The Upnor Formation: light-coloured false-bedded sands with marine fossils occurs in east Kent. Where it rests on the Thanet beds it is an argillaceous greensand with rounded flint pebbles; where it rests on the chalk it is more clayey and the flints are less rounded and are green-coated.

In Dorset the Reading Formation appears on the coast at Studland Bay and at other points inland. The Hertfordshire puddingstone is a distinctive rock from near the base of the formation; a flint pebbly conglomerate in a siliceous matrix. The fossils, estuarine, freshwater and marine, include Corbicula cuneiformis, C. tellinella, Ostrea bellovacina, Viva parus lentus, Planorbis hemistoma, Melania (Melanatria) inquinata, Neritina globulus, and the remains of turtles, crocodiles, sharks, birds (Gastornis) and the mammal Coryphodon. Bricks, tiles and coarse pottery and occasionally firebricks have been made from the clay beds in this formation.

Stratigraphic relationship
Except in the Hampshire Basin, the Lambeth Group usually rests on the Thanet Formation of the Montrose Group, but is found on the Chalk Group near Bromley, Charlton, Hungerford, Hertford and Reading. It is usually covered by the Harwich Formation, the oldest formation of the Thames Group.

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User talk:PhoenixF2B

Jack McKeon
Here's the deal. What you did was basically copy and paste copyrighted materioal onto Wikipedia, where even if you cite your source, it is still illegal to do. Besides, a lot of the material you posted for his managerial career with the Marlins was already in the article. You can contribute to the article as long as you don't post copyrighted material word-for-word onto it. And I don't know if the media guide material about his playing career was copied word-for-word, but you can post the material without directly copying from it, like I just said. ErikNY 14:31, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

The article Fade 2 Black Productions has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. See also WP:COI. NawlinWiki 12:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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