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User talk:Tambourine~enwiki

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Ridin' Thumb

Ridin' Thumb is a Danish soul/funk orchestra formed in 1989 by the two guitarists Martin Finding and Nicolai Halberg. In 1997, Jonas Winge Leisner replaced Niels H.P. as the lead vocalist. Their style can be compared to artists such as Tower of Power and Jamiroquai. The group has released four full-length albums and one EP.

Members

 * Jonas Winge Leisner – vocal
 * Stine Hjelm Jacobsen – vocal
 * Joakim Pedersen – keyboards
 * Martin Finding – guitar
 * Nicolai Halberg – guitar
 * Jens Kristian Uhrenholdt – bass guitar
 * Thomas Jepsen – drums
 * Martin Pedersen – scratch
 * Bjørn Ringkjøbing – trumpet
 * Hendrik Jørgensen – trumpet
 * Mik Neumann – tenor saxophone
 * Ole Himmelstrup – baritone saxophone

Concerts
The band usually unites for an annual concert between Christmas and New Year's Eve. The concerts are held at the Copenhagen Jazz House.

EPs

 * 1993: Ridin' Thumb

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Summary
Scan of November 2005 'Personal Computer World' magazine (CD edition, cover-mounted CD not shown)

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Alcazarén

Alcazarén is a town and municipality in the Province of Valladolid, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. with a population of 702 (as of January 1, 2004 census). Its name originates from the Arab "al-qasrayn" which means "the two castles". In the Tierra de Pinares region it is located 35 km South of the province's capital (41.3725° N, 4.6714° W). It occupies an area of 48 km² with a 33.51 km perimeter.

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Minesweeper Suite

Minesweeper Suite is the second mixtape by breakcore DJ and producer DJ /rupture released in 2002 on the Tigerbeat6 record label.

Track listing

 * 1) "Jibal Al Nuba/Gemini Dub" (J Boogie, MahmoudFadi) – 4:37
 * 2) "High Resolution/Tectonic" (DJ /rupture, Heat Sensor) – 3:14
 * 3) "Rumbo Babylon/Limb by Limb (Acappella)/Latoya: Version/Tables Will Turn" (Baby Cham, DJ /rupture, Foxy Brown, General Degree, Cutty Ranks) – 4:16
 * 4) "Untitled A1 {From Nubus}/Ruff Enuff [Instrumenta]/Tables Will Turn [Mega Mix]" (Akrobatic, Baby Cham, Foxy Brown, So Takahashi) – 2:22
 * 5) "Serranito/Froggy/Maffe Rhythm" (Kazamix, Rober Kimou, Nettle) – 4:03
 * 6) "62 Ouf" (Mad Killah, Mister Faycal) – 2:28
 * 7) "Bad Man Lighter [Jump Up Mix]/Drums Conductor/Angels: A cappella" (DJ Rush Puppy, Elastic Horizons, Wax Poetic) – 2:37
 * 8) "In Front of You" (DJ /rupture) – 4:18
 * 9) "Fallen Angels/Same Time: A cappella/3.37/I Remember Nothing More [DJ /rupture's needlepoint mix]" (Cul de Sac, DAT Politics, Mentol Nomad, Missing Linx) – 3:31
 * 10) "Ballad of Jimmy Hollin [Disco Mix]/Dub Warming/Untitled B2 {From Docile #4}/I Don't Invite" (D. Wulle & A. Garcia, DJ 007, Fish & Goat at the Controls, Nettle) – 2:40
 * 11) "Ziggurat/Plain Gold Ring" (Gregory Whitehead, Nina Simone) – 5:02
 * 12) "Police State (Acappella)/Babomb/Crossing Kingston Bridge/Tanzila/Untitled b1 from "Nubus"" (Dead Prez, DJ Mutamassik, Joshua Abrams, Music of The Pearl Divers, So Takahashi) – 3:27
 * 13) "Igbal Jobi and Party" (Sorath) – 3:05
 * 14) "Ruled By The Mob/Apna Sangheet Sings Apna Sangheet (Speedy Gonzalez Mix)" (Bodysnatcher, Sardara Gill) – 3:02
 * 15) "Up from the Underground (Instrumental)" (The Temple Of Hiphop Culture) – 1:08
 * 16) "Enemy/Up from the Underground" (Rotator, The Temple of Hiphop Culture) – 2:46
 * 17) "Discipline of D.E./Trasn 'n Ready" (DJ Scud, Rotator) – 2:27
 * 18) "From Alright Reverse Vol.2,/Untitled from "L'Atlas des Galaxies Etranges"/Show 2 Show (DJ /rupture Remix) /Associations Libres" (BlackJewishGays, Borbetomagus, DJ Mutamassik, Gilles Gobeil) – 1:49
 * 19) "Bloody Nora/Rough & Rugged" (Aphasic, Shinehead) – 1:55
 * 20) "Masturbator/Killing Me Softly" (Eiterherd, Roberta Flack) – 2:50
 * 21) "Are You That Somebody? (Instrumental)/Brother Hunter/Dandy/Degradmentation/Other Voices 1" (Aaliyah, Djivan Gasparyan, Kid 606, Nettle, Rik Rue) – 4:48
 * 22) "MHh04" (The Kat Cosm) – 1:15
 * 23) "I Am Soundboy/Big Work/We Started This (Acappella)/Everlasting Life" (Cex, Donna Summer, Eightball & M.J.G., Jingles) – 2:23

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Dialect

 * 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. Little debate, but it was a recreation (non-verbatim) of Lake dialect. -Splash talk 22:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Lake Dialect
An article about this entirely unverifiable "dialect" was already deleted in February. The current incarnation is no more verifiable than the previous one was. The edit summary of the first edit even says "this information was passed to me by word of mouth", making it original research. Delete. Angr/undefined 14:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Having grown up in "The Lake", I am very aware of a very distinct set of words used exclusively there. Whether this qualifies as a "language", a "dialect", an "ideolect" or just an interesting vocabulary is not for me to decide. I can only say that this might be linguistically interesting. I have found only few brief references online so far refering to it. For now, I vote to keep it.
 * Speedy Delete: per speedy delete tag. Solarusdude 19:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - per --Danleone 15:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The question is not whether the dialect/accent exists or whether it is linguistically interesting. The question is whether the information is verifiable from published sources. --Angr/undefined 16:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Foo Fighters/Vote

This is a poll that would decide whether the Foo Fighters article should include the Singles chart as devised by Xinger or continue to list simply the songs that were singles. The survey is being carried out under Wikipedia's Dispute Resolution guidelines.

To support either case, add a comment under Option of your choice, and please sign the comment with your username and the time and date of the comment.

Option Include Chart
This option would include the chart as devised by Xinger. article with chart included

 * Xinger's Singles chart should be included. It's visually more appealing than a list of singles.  The dashes represent information unknown or if they did not chart.  I guarantee they did chart, but I am not able to verify what their peaks were at this moment.  The Modern Rock Chart and the Mainstream Rock Chart are both very important charts (along with the Hot 100, R&B/Hip-Hop, Rap, Country & Latin charts).  They are actually considered more important to rock bands and artists than the Hot 100 because the Hot 100 shows airplay from all genres, including Pop, which outnumbers all other genres.  As a result, a rock song's popularity is best shown by the rock charts. Xinger 16:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Works for me. -Ravedave 00:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Option No Chart
This option would keep the simple list of Singles. original version of article

 * Xinger's Singles chart should not be included. It's glaringly large visually.  More than HALF of the chart consists of dashes because the songs have not charted.  Furthermore, the Modern Rock Chart is a niche chart, not one that denotes major popularity, and it's the only one of the four that contains a substantial number of Top 20 results.  The Foo Fighters are a popular band, but it's not something that is accurately reflected in the chart.  The list of Singles is more than enough to demonstrate the long history of the band. -- ChrisB 14:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Option Chart, but not Xinger's

 * I believe the Foo Fighters have enough singles to warrant a table, but as I have mentioned to Xinger previously (only to be shrugged off), it is the formatting of the template Xinger uses which makes it look incredibly sloppy. There is no need for a "Mainstream Rock" column since it's almost all dashes, and especially since the column header is a red link (i.e. de-link it or write the article for the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart before putting it in a discography table).  The columns themselves are too wide and of varying widths.  The numbers within the columns should be centered for easier reading and the dreaded "#" symbol is completely unnecessary (it's redundant, plus the "#" symbol is not an internationally-used abbreviation for the word "number").  Most of the Foo's chart activity has been on Modern Rock Tracks so I agree with Xinger's assessment that Modern Rock chart peaks should stay.  Perhaps the table could include US Hot 100, Modern Rock and UK Singles chart.  The over-wikifying of the album titles is not necessary either. -- eo 16:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I just recently looked at the Singles links and nearly every single has charted on the Mainstream Rock chart, so instead of just changing the hyphens to the correct numbers, ChrisB decides to be stubborn and try to use that against my argument. As for the red link, a Mainstream Rock page has been recently done and the link should no longer be red.  And if the country speaks english, they'll know what the # symbol means.  As for the wikifying: agreed.  There doesn't need to be any wikifying in the table aside from the year, chart titles and single names (if there's a page for them).
 * Xinger, you have to admit that you are being a bit stubborn as well. As I have said on your own talk page, your table format does have aspects that are good, but also things that are not good (such as the #'s), but you refuse to compromise or change them.  As far as the FF's having a lot of Mainstream Rock enties - this (I believe) is where you sometimes run into trouble with people.  Before publishing your table to an artist's page (such as the FF's), research all that you can first.  If all of the individual singles pages have Mainstream Rock Tracks chart peaks, then gather that data into your table template and publish it to the page after you have all of it.  Then that way you will have fewer dashes and one less gripe about your tables from other Wikipedians.  Don't be in such a rush to get a billion tables put on a billion pages in the quickest amount of time.  Slow down a bit and research first and work with the other people in this community so that everything is as comprehensive and accurate as possible.  There is no time limit on this stuff; we're supposed to be working together on this, not competing with each other. -- eo 21:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Current one ok for me. --Monkbel 19:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

The Old version of the page is way better, and there is a table on each page for the charts for that particular single, aswell as a table of singles charts on each album page aswell. I actually added them on there myself. The problem with having that big chart on the main page is there will be way to many gaps that will never get filled and it looks stupid! For example: There is usually 4 to 5 singles from each album, normally the first single from each album makes it onto the Billboard chart, but then you have all of those gaps which makes the Foo Fighters look crap. With the exeption of the UK not every Foo Fighters single makes the chart, so there will be permanent gaps on the table, no what I mean ?

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Category:Interstellar travel

''Methods of Interstellar travel proposed in real-life situations. See also Interstellar probe & Starship''

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Talk:Prewar Gibson banjo

WP:DEL-REASON — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.0.42.191 (talk) 18:57, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

VegavoxIV 14:13, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Very well written! Thank you for the infos added.

Does this entry really need to exist? It really seems that this same information could be gathered elsewhere on Wikipedia, and in a less confusing manner. messor (talk) 21:45, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Sole Survivor

A sole survivor is a person who is the only survivor of a deadly incident.

Sole Survivor may refer to:

Film and television

 * Sole Survivor (1970 film), an American television film starring Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart and William Shatner
 * Sole Survivor (1984 film), an American horror film by Thom Eberhardt
 * Sole Survivor (2000 film), an American television film based on the 1997 novel of the same title by Dean Koontz (see below)
 * Sole Survivor (2013 film), an American documentary film
 * Sole Survivor, a title conferred on any winner of the reality television show Survivor

Other media

 * Sole Survivor (novel), a 1997 novel by Dean Koontz
 * "Sole Survivor" (Asia song)
 * "Sole Survivor" (Helloween song)
 * "Sole Survivor", a song by Blue Öyster Cult from Fire of Unknown Origin
 * Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor, a computer game in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian series
 * The player character in Fallout 4 is canonically referred to as the Sole Survivor

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Otherkin

 * 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 KEEP. -Splash talk 22:49, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Otherkin
This is an obscure topic, as discussed in WP:V. To quote that section, ''Subjects which have never been written about in published sources, or which have only been written about in sources of doubtful credibility should not be included in Wikipedia. One of the reasons for this policy is the difficulty of verifying the information. As there are no reputable sources available, it would require original research, and Wikipedia is not a place to publish original research. Insistence on verifiability is often sufficient to exclude such articles.''

The sources here are various websites of dubious credibility. I think Otherkin would be a great topic for a Wikinfo article, but I don't see enough verifiability for this to be included here. Friday (talk) 14:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * No vote (changed to keep, below). I'm confused. Doesn't a website count as a published source? There's no rule saying we have to use scholarly sources. N (t/c) 14:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That's not what the nominator said. The article's sources are websites of dubious credibility, and the article seems to be built up from a lot of first-person stories on the Web. The veracity of those primary sources cannot be verified by Wikipedia readers, who are thus required to take the article on faith. Wikipedia needs to report the results of other people who have studied otherkin; right now, this article collects the experiences of otherkin, which makes it original sociological research. WP:NOR notes that it is rare for an article to be built from primary sources alone, especially if it is a contested topic. Ideally the article would be severely stubified but given its history I don't think the regular authors would be willing to do so, so delete to send the NOR message, and possibly write a new stub based on secondary sources until more can be found to expand the article reliably. I'd consider changing my vote if the article is cleaned up to not take primary sources at face value. — mendel ☎ 14:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think deleting an article to send a message is an appropriate course of action. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 16:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't imagine how deleting an article could not send a message, unless the contributors are known to have left Wikipedia. The message is "Do not put this sort of thing in Wikipedia". Sometimes the message is even made explicit with the "This article is deleted, please don't recreate it" template that I can't find right now. — mendel ☎ 23:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The issue is not that deleting it will not send a message, but that it is not the appropriate way to send the desired message. It seems kind of agreed upon that otherkin is a real topic, just that there is the issue of getting proper sources and an article that reflects those sources.  So wouldn’t deleting the article and putting up a warning to not recreate it be effectively hiding from the issue instead of trying to fix the issue itself?  And if you intend to replace the article with something else, then I don’t see the point of deleting the article instead of normal editing. AtomicDragon 00:32, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What sociological truths is the article offering on Otherkin? I don't see how it's original sociological research if it's not making any sociological claims. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What's a "sociological truth"? I'm not saying it is/was reporting the results of an experiment, just that it was original research: concepts and ideas that have not been published in a reputable publication. But like "patent nonsense", "original research" is one of those things whose Wikipedia-specific definitions tend to be forgotten.. — mendel ☎ 23:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A sociological truth is one that we need a sociologist to declare before we can acknowledge it as a truth. =P  You seem to be working so hard to make sure the Wikipedia-specific definitions are remembered you're forgetting the functions they were intended to serve; we follow the "no original research" policy not as an end in itself, but to keep Wikipedia free of crackpots and cranks who want Wikipedia to publicize their pet theories.  To say that people are not credible sources for statements about what their own beliefs are and that we must wait until a "reputable publication" has covered them and then take that publication's word over the word of those they're reporting on just shows the hazards of taking any policy and following it too literally too long. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:35, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * WP:NOR says: "In some cases, where an article (1) makes descriptive claims that are easily verifiable by any reasonable adult, and (2) makes no analytic, synthetic, interpretive, or evaluative claims, a Wikipedia article may be based entirely on primary sources (examples would include apple pie or current events)". This seems to fit that description - "Otherkin say A, B, and C; people say X and Y about otherkin". Keep. N (t/c) 02:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Its credibility or lack thereof aside, it's a belief system which has a great many adherents. Even when you eliminate otherkin.com, otherkin.net, and Wikimirrors, Google still returns >125K hits. DS 14:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - strange, even weird, but encyclopedical. JoJan 14:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: Maybe I wasn't clear.  I'm not saying this should be deleted because the belief system isn't credible.  Young Earth creationism isn't credible (to me) either, but clearly it's appropriate to have an article on it.  If this article used reputable sources, I would have no issue with it.  Some websites are reputable sources, some are not.  Anyone can have a website and claim whatever they want.  I invite anyone who's interested to read the websites listed as sources.  These are personal websites, not cnn.com.  Please, let's make this discussion about verifiability, not the irrelevant-to-our-purposes question of the merits of the Otherkin belief system.  Friday (talk) 15:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Encyclopedias are the repository for obscure articles. Joaquin Murietta 16:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC) PS, why delete an article that cites  ^  "Dealing with the Bloodthirst". Sanguinarius: Vampire Guide. as a source? Joaquin Murietta 16:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep. Good article about encyclopedic topic. I'd consider the FAQ and otherkin.net to be credible sources, especially because they are written by the community of "otherkin". It's easy enough, given that citations are provided, for the reader to make up his own mind about the veracity of the article. — brighterorange  (talk) 16:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep If you go to the Talk:Otherkin/Archive 3 you'll find quite a few published sources. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  17:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup -- There are core facts that are easily verifiable here: a number of people consider themselves to be otherkin, the exact specifics of which change depending upon who you talk to. The only parts that are unverifiable are whether what these people claim to be true is actually true (though common sense should tell us otherwise). The fact that these claims are made is undeniable, well-documented, and widespread. I severely question the rationale in interpreting the No original research policy in such an exaggerated way. If we keep things down to object facts and avoid the weirdness we get periodically where certain editors claim it's real, that certain otherkin are better than others, that they are psychic and reinarnated and have animal DNA and yada yada yada as if they were proven, then there is no problem. Documenting nutty fringe beliefs is quite verifiable, as this particular one is not so small that there's any problems involved on that end, assuming we can get past the people constantly inserting their own POV and making false claims that rewriting for NPOV is "disrespectful" shos "bad faith" and whatever other nonsense they come up with. DreamGuy 20:12, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I've never heard the term Otherkin before, but conceptually I will agree that as a sub-culture these people do exist... albeit in small numbers. I used to work night stock at a grocery store and the "vampires" would come in occasionally around 3 am.  I guess blood goes down easier with an EZ-Cheez chaser.  No vote yet though... I want to research the usage of this term more first.--Isotope23 21:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I'm satisfied that this is not a neologism. Article does need a cleanup tag after the AfD is complete though.--Isotope23 16:22, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but clean up. I think this is more common than nom would like. --Jacquelyn Marie 22:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with cleanup as Jacquelyn Marie stated. >:  Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 00:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up. The dubious sources are not being cited for their dubious veracity, but as products of a subculture. There's a significannt, if fringe, subculture of people who think they are elves or vampires or whatnot, and the existance of a market in books and such about and being sold to such people is evidence that such a subculture exists. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 01:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The main problem with the article (not just this version, but anything about the topic) is that it needs, perforce, to lump together a very broad spectrum of beliefs, ranging from simple alternate spirituality to pseudoscience to outright lunacy. So some of it is verifiable as much as anything in the realm of religion, spirituality, or philosophy; while other parts are very difficult to source reliably or at all. But it is worth keeping as, at least, a verifiably notable phenomenon (although until reading the article I had never actually heard the term "otherkin", even though instantiations of the belief system had been related to me). MCB 01:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per User:A Man In Black, User:MCB. I've added a reference from a print source as well.  Crypticfirefly 05:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Being self-admittedly very odd, I've been familiar with this sub-culture for sometime, and am surprised at the variety of places I encounter it. I'm somewhat taken aback to see editors here unaware, which is more reason for an article.  Furries alone are more numerous than anyone suspects. Xoloz 07:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Likability is not a criterion; the subculture's existence is demonstrable, and the term is in common (if not mainstream) use as a quick Google will show without effort. Coren 21:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up. -Sean Curtin 00:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm a part of the Otherkin community, and it's more widespread than you might think. This page is dead-on for the common issues.69.110.12.6 16:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I am also a part of the Otherkin community. It grows every day. It saddens me that editors here can not see how numerous we really are. This article is a broad but accurate description of our beliefs. Why delete it? I am sure Several Otherkin would agree. --Jwaf725 14:54, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: There may be little point in commenting further, but I still want to clarify.  Of course there are lots of them; what does that have to do with anything? I know there are also lots of people who, for example, like to eat jello.  However, if someone wrote an article describing these folks and giving information about them, I'd want verifiability there also.  There is a difference between what exists and what's verifiable.  In theory, WP is meant to include only things that are verifiable.  Friday (talk) 15:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Same old Communists vs. people with red hair distinction. Self-described "otherkin" have a shared culture and influence each other (unless you want to get anal about whether there's a larger "otherkin" culture or if it's a series of distinct, discrete subcultures, but then you're into content issues and not whether or not this article should be deleted), instead of just having a shared attribute (a belief/delusion, depending on your POV). - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 15:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * As for the content question of one subculture v multiple, that's a good, valid question. I'd be tempted to consider the spiritual side of the Otherkin movement to be a subset of modern shamanism.  The problem with these kinds of content questions is, there has been no way to resolve them.  With no proper sources, it's just up to editor's opinions.  Thus, this article functions as a magnet for original research.  We haven't even been able to resolve fundamental questions, such whether "Otherkin" is the proper blanket term for things like "Vampyres", "Dragons", "Elves", and "Therianthropes".  When the Otherkin community has a variety of different definitions and beliefs, there's little hope of consensus on this article.  Friday (talk) 17:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * By itself, the number of othrekin means little, but combine with their self-describing nature yields a lot of material written on the group from within. Many attempt to describe the group as a whole, noting various observations.  To me, that seems to be the point most of the original research is being done, even though WP has to attempt to combine information from several such sources (doesn’t this happen, to some degree, for most subjects?).  Looking at the bigger picture, in my opinion, an article on this would add to WP’s encyclopedic value, as many people do stumble upon it and can benefit by seeing a general overview of the subject that is confirmable at the basic level in various otherkin sources.  The details are much harder to work out, and as MCB already mentioned, such a diverse group is very hard to talk about as a whole, but that is a matter of cleaning up and not deletion in my opinion.  I may be misinterpreting policy though, so I’ll only comment instead of vote for now. AtomicDragon 17:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This entire nomination seems to me to be a complete misunderstanding that we only demand verification, and bar original research, to the degree that a claim is questionable.  To delete this article implies that we cannot verify any of the claims contained therein, not even "people who describe themselves as Otherkin exist"; to say that we cannot verify that, despite being able to go to hundreds of websites where people are describing themselves as Otherkin, because we cannot quote some professional source who has also read the websites affirming that yes, Otherkin exist -- if the nominator didn't appear to be entirely serious I would suspect an attempt at reductio ad absurdam. -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I think it's rather clear from even a casual reading that the WP:NOR rule exists for preventing wikipedia from becoming a platform for cranks or pet theories; the Otherkin article is neither. Otherwise the article describing Brights would need to be deleted as well: it also explains the nature of a term used by a group to describe itself, and from primary sources at that. I'm sure it wouldn't take much effort to find other examples. Coren 21:54, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but cleanup. Robert McClenon 18:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Mighty Keep Gimmiet 02:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Strong Delete This article is full of misinformation, original research and crank. Agriculture 05:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * have you researched the topic?Gimmiet 05:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I challenge you to find peer reviewed and respected journals substantiating the beliefs posited in the article. Agriculture 05:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Peer-reviewed? Vampire? Joaquin Murietta 06:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * In otherwords, no scientist worth his salt will substantiate the ridiculous claims made on the page by angsty teens looking for an outlet fantasy world. Otherkin is bullshit. Agriculture 06:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * So all of the people claiming to be otherkin simply do not exist? Are all such accounts that come up in my web-browser an optical illusion, since you seem to claim that they don't exist?  And you are right that no scientist would likely write a paper on this in a science journal, since this is a cultural topic, not a science one. AtomicDragon 16:55, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I realize you are trolling, but I will bite. I never say people who suffer from dellusions do not exist, simply that the dellusion is just that with nothing to back up the claim but angsty blogs.  FYI: Sociologists write plenty of scientific papers on cultural topics, it's their job.  Psychologists likewise write plenty of papers on similar dellusions, their job as well. Agriculture 17:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, all I am suggesting is that as long as this group actually exists, there is reason for this page to not be deleted as an actual factual article can exist on it. If the article simply states verifiably what the people are (and hence listing what they claim, as claims not fact) and any recorded counterpoints to it, then that would appear to be a factual article to me.  At the moment, the word trolling appears it can go both ways, so please avoid such attacks and so that we can move on and actually discuss a compromise on this.AtomicDragon 17:26, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If the article could be reworked, I'd agree, but the POV pushers have so far prevented any factual additions to the article. On the issue of trolling, I am simply posting my opinion and stating it as such.  You're making shit up and wildly and purposefully exaggerating my statements so you can troll for defenses to your strawman arguements.  Nice to meet you AtomicDragon, now stop trolling because I have no tolerance for trolls.  I will not respond to your trollish statements again. Agriculture 17:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * We have both made some exaggerations in the end as an attempt to illustrate a point. That worked out poorly, so it is at least a mistake on my part.  Nonetheless, we will need to have some actual discussion to work this out, and simply not state that our own view on the situation is clearly the correct one.AtomicDragon 17:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please remember civility, Agriculture, and stop making personal attacks. Neither your original argument nor your subsequent argument hold up.  Your first argument was 'no reputable source will ever say "Yes, what Otherkin claim about themselves is true"; therefore, we must delete this article as unverifiable.'  The enthymeme there is "all articles about Otherkin must describe their claims as truth, rather than as their claims."  This is not the case.  Your subsequent argument is that "POV pushers will always prevent the article from being maintained in an NPOV state."  The number of articles that are actually worth deleting simply because we cannot come to agreement on them is minimal.  Since you yourself have only edited Otherkin twice and one of those edits was simply to place three cleanup tags on it at once, I question whether you have sufficient knowledge of what happens when you try NPOVing the article to declare that it could never possibly work.  By the way, speaking of verifiability, would you mind giving us details on the University of Minnesota study you refer to in this edit?  Since much of the discussion here has been made under the assumption that no professional study of those who believe themselves "otherkin" has been made, and since your edit (which I'm sure you marked 'minor' by accident) contradicts that, I'm sure providing details would be appreciated. -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: I think an important distinction was made: scholarly treatment of Otherkin is NOT going to amount to a scientific effort to prove or disprove their beliefs.  That would just be silly.  Christianity (or any major religion) is obviously verifiable as a belief system without needing to prove or disprove their beliefs.  FWIW, the closest thing I've seen to a scholarly treatment of this is over at Clinical lycanthropy.  Friday (talk) 17:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep: Article is controversial and certainly has its problems caused by warring POVs, but this is a topic not covered by other encyclopedias but worthy of inclusion in this one. Kit 22:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Stong Keep But Clean Up For many, this is a spiritual path. No religion on the planet is independantly verifiable and yet there's nothing wrong with providing a basic set of information on what it's follower's believe. Writing a book on the subject doesn't make it true, it just makes it published. There are significant and serious sites which address the subject which act in the same manner of highlighting and defining the term. It doesn't matter if you share the belief or not. What wiki is supposed to be about is giving information on a variety of subjects. Why is otherkin not a valid subject to give information on? One need not share it's view to still acknowledge it is a valid viewpoint/belief/path for some people. It is, therefore, it should be discussed. You can't simply remove something because you don't believe it personally.
 * 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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Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office

is a leading case in English tort law. It is a House of Lords decision on negligence and marked the start of a rapid expansion in the scope of negligence in the United Kingdom by widening the circumstances in which a court was likely to find a duty of care. The case also addressed the liability of government bodies, a person's liability for the acts of third parties that he has facilitated, and liability for omissions.

Facts
On 21 September 1962, ten borstal trainees were working on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour under the control of three officers employed by the Home Office. Seven trainees escaped one night, at the time the officers had retired to bed leaving the trainees to their own devices. The seven trainees who escaped boarded a yacht and collided with another yacht, the property of the respondents, and damaged it. The owners of the yacht sued the Home Office in negligence for damages.

A preliminary issue was ordered to be tried on whether the officers or the Home Office owed a duty of care to the claimants (plaintiffs, before the Civil Procedure Rules of 1999) capable of giving rise to liability in damages. It was admitted that the Home Office would be vicariously liable if an action would lie against any of the officers. The preliminary hearing found for the Dorset Yacht Co. that there was, in law, a duty of care and that the case could go forward for trial on its facts. The Home Office appealed to the House of Lords. The Home Office argued that it could owe no duty of care as there was no precedent for any duty on similar facts. Further, it was argued that there could be no liability for the actions of a third party and that the Home Office should be immune from legal action owing to the public nature of its duties.

Court of Appeal
Lord Denning MR held that the Home Office should be liable for the damage on grounds of public policy. He stated,

What then is the right policy for the judges to adopt? On whom should the risk of negligence fall? Up till now it has fallen on the innocent victim. Many, many a time has a prisoner escaped - or been let out on parole - and done damage. But there is never a case in our law books when the prison authorities have been liable for it. No householder who has been burgled, no person who has been wounded by a criminal, has ever recovered damages from the prison authorities; such as to find a place in the reports. The householder has claimed on his insurance company. The injured man can now claim on the compensation fund. None has claimed against the prison authorities. Should we alter all this: I should be reluctant to do so if, by so doing, we should hamper all the good work being done by our prison authorities... I can see the force of this argument. But I do not think it should prevail. I think that the officers of Borstal institutions should be liable for negligence.

House of Lords
The highest court held 4–1 likewise. Lord Reid held,

...the well-known passage in Lord Atkin's speech should I think be regarded as a statement of principle. It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition. It will require qualification in new circumstances. But I think that the time has come when we can and should say that it ought to apply unless there is some justification or valid explanation for its exclusion. Viscount Dilhorne gave a dissenting judgment.

Significance
The case is perhaps relevant not only for its clear elucidation of the 1930s-established Atkinian notion of neighbourhood (a proximity or sufficient nexus) but also for its expression of a thoroughly incrementalist approach to the development of the duty of care. Lord Reid held:

"‘there has been a steady trend toward regarding the law of negligence as depending on principle so that when a new point emerges one should ask not whether it is covered by authority but whether recognised principles apply to it. Donoghue v Stevenson may be regarded as a milestone, and the well-known passage in Lord Atkin’s piece should I think be regarded as a statement of principle … it ought to apply unless there is some justification or valid explanation for its exclusion. For example, causing economic loss is a different matter’"

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Nydalen metro station

Nydalen is a rapid transit station on the Ring Line of the Oslo Metro. It is located at Nydalen in the Nordre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. The station opened on 20 August 2003, as part of the first section of the Ring Line to Storo. The station is served by lines 4 and 5 of the metro, as well as several local bus services. Artistic effort was put into the construction of the station, and the escalators were built into the Tunnel of Light exhibition. Close by the station is the BI Norwegian Business School (BI) campus and several large working places.

History
The process of establishing a Ring Line to serve the northern parts of Oslo started in the late 1980s. The plans were passed by the city council in 1997, and financing was secured in 2000 through Oslo Package 2. Construction started in June 2000, and Nydalen was opened on 20 August 2003, at the same time as Storo.

The background for building the rapid transit system to Nydalen, was the urban redevelopment from an industrial to a mixed residential and commercial area during the 1990s and 2000s. About 200 companies have moved to the vicinity of the station, and by 2007 there were 14,800 jobs in the area. The area has several large information technology and telecommunication companies, including ErgoGroup, Agresso, EDB Business Partner, Visma, TDC and NetCom. Large cultural institutions in the area include the national touring theater Riksteatret and the national touring concerts Concerts Norway, the publishing companies Hjemmet Mortensen, De Norske Bokklubbene and Schibsted's printing press. Public offices include the offices of the Nodre Aker Borough and the Norwegian Police Security Service.

In 2005, BI Norwegian Business School moved into their new campus across the street from Nydalen Station. Seven thousand students plus faculty work at the school, of which 85% use public transport. From 2011, the new Nydalen Upper Secondary School will also be located in Nydalen.

Facilities
Nydalen Station is an underground station located on the tunnel section of the Ring Line between Tåsen and Storo. The 4000 m2 station was drawn by architect Kristin Jarmund. The station's center platform is located 12 m underground, with an entrance pavilion at street level. The pavilion has a composition of horizontal and vertical levels and planes. Between these, which are dynamically cast in relation to each other, are the modes of descent down to the platform area: i.e. elevators, escalators and staircases. The planes were built of black basalt, supplemented with large glass spaces that opens up the pavilion. A red glass box, that symbolizes the red trains, stands as a "signal". The platforms is 110 m long, allowing for six-car trains, and is covered with white granite and a paneled ceiling. The rail area has black concrete walls. There is effect lighting around the columns and recessed spotlights horizontally along the platform. The station is owned by Kollektivtransportproduksjon.

The Tunnel of Light is an artistic display of color and sound surrounding the escalator at the station. 1800 fluorescent lamps and 44 speakers are installed behind a layer of glass along the corridor, steadily changing color and mood. The theme is based on different experiences of travel in time and place. There are light and sound combinations for all seasons and all phases of life. The project was initiated by Kristin Jarmund. The light system was developed by Per Åge Lyså at Intravision System, and the software that mixes sound and color was developed by Yngve Sandboe. The music was composed by Bjarne Kvinnsland, mainly based on recorded samples. Among these are text written and performed by Beate Grimsrud.

Service
Lines 4 and 5 of the Oslo Metro operate to Nydalen, each with a 15-minute headway. Lines 4 and 5 operate counterclockwise through the ring via the western part of town into the Common Tunnel, while line 6 operates clockwise via the eastern part into the Common Tunnel. Line 5 continues eastwards only to Storo before stopping; lines 4 and 6 swap numbers between Nydalen and Storo. Travel time from Nydalen to Stortinget is 13 minutes clockwise and 12 minutes counterclockwise. Therefore, any traveler heading for the city center can get on the first train, independent of its direction (except line 5 to Storo), and can be certain it will be the quickest connection to the downtown area.

There is a railway station on the Gjøvik Line also called Nydalen, that is served by NSB Gjøvikbanen as part of the Oslo Commuter Rail. It is located many hundred meters from the metro station, and the two do not offer interconnections. There is a shorter connection to the Gjøvik Line at Storo (that connects with Grefsen Station). Nydalen also serves several bus routes. Line 37 via the city center to Helsfyr operates from across the street at Nydalen, while additional buses are located somewhat further away. They consist a feeder service to Lillo Terrasse (line 55) as well as lines 30 to Bygdøy, 51 to Maridalen and 58 to Helsfyr.

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Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh (born 16 February 1937) is a painter, poet and art critic from Gujarat, India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1983 and Padmabhushan in 2014 for his contribution in field of art.

Early life
Sheikh was born on 16 February 1937 in Surendranagar (now in Saurashtra region of Gujarat, India). He matriculated in 1955. He completed B. A. in Fine Art in 1959 and M. A. in 1961 from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He received ARCA from Royal College of Art, London in 1966.

Career
In 1960, he joined as a professor of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. His teaching positions have included teaching art history in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1960–63 and 1967–81,) and as Professor of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1982–1993). He has been a Visiting Artist at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987 and 2002, and a Writer/Artist in Residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (1998), at the University of Pennsylvania (2002), and at Montalvo, California (2005).

Sheikh has been a major figure in the world of Indian art for more than four decades. He has participated in major exhibitions all over the world and his works are displayed in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, USA. Ghulam has been active not merely as an artist but also as a teacher and writer.

His collection of Gujarati surrealistic poems, Athwa (1974) won him considerable critical acclaim. He has also written a prose series, Gher Jatan and edited special issues of Kshitij as well as Vishwamanav and Sayujya magazines. American Chitrakala (1964) is his translated work.

Style
"Sheikh's art is by its nature," writes Chaitanya Sambrani, "one that takes on task of narrating, and therefore, recreating the world. There is a close tie-in between this narrative and an act of mapping the world, which gives to the speaking subject the possibility of addressing the world as his/her own". Recently Sheikh had been working on the Mappa Mundi series where he defines new horizons and ponders over to locate himself in. Sheikh construes these personal universes enthused from the miniature shrines where he urges the audience to exercise the freedom to build up their Mappa Mundi.

Personal life
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh lives with his artist-wife Nilima in Vadodara, India.

Awards

 * National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1962.
 * Padmashri by Government of India, 1983
 * Kalidas Samman, Madhya Pradesh Government, 2002.
 * Padma Bhushan by Government of India, 2014
 * Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati, 2022

Exhibitions

 * Solo Exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, 1960
 * National Exhibition, New Delhi, 1962
 * The VII Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan, 1963
 * Cinquieme Biennale de Paris, Paris, 1967
 * 25 Years of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1972
 * Contemporary painting of India, Belgrade, Warsaw, Sofia, Brussels, 1974
 * III Triennale (India), Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1975
 * Place for People (6 artists), Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981
 * Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London, 1982
 * Returning Home, Solo Exhibition (a retrospective selection of work from 1968 to 1985) at Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris, 1985
 * Timeless Art, exhibition and auction, Times of India sesquicentennial at Victoria Terminus, Bombay, 1989
 * Realism as an Attitude, IV Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan, 1995
 * Two-person show (with Bhupen Khakhar), Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2002

Publications
2017, 'Nirkhe te Nazar', a collection of writings on visual arts in Gujarati, Samvad Prakashan, Vadodara & Khsitij Sansodhan Prakashan Kendra, Mumbai.
 * Athwa (poems in Gujarati), Butala, Vadodara 1974.
 * Laxma Goud, monograph on the artist, Hyderabad, A. P. Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad 1981.
 * Contemporary Art of Baroda (ed.), Tulika, New Delhi 1996.
 * Essays, articles and papers in 'Marg', 'Journal of Arts & Ideas', 'Lalit Kala Contemporary' as well as Hindi and Gujarati journals.
 * Exhibition catalogues of K G Subramanyan, Jeram Patel, Laxma Goud, DLN Reddy, D Devraj, etc.

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Alison Holloway

Alison Holloway (born 2 February 1961) is an English journalist and producer, now living in the United States. She was the original presenter of Sky Television's Sky World News Tonight and is now a network television entertainment show producer based in Los Angeles.

Early career
Born in London, she grew up Battersea, and attended the nearby Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

Holloway began her television career as a continuity announcer and newsreader at Westward Television at Plymouth in January 1979, aged only 17. She moved from Westward to HTV West in Bristol, in early 1981, as did Gerald Hine-Haycock soon after. She was a reporter-presenter, then, anchoring HTV News. Holloway remained with the station through most of the 1980s, combining her news duties with presenting many other local programmes for HTV West, including the Good Neighbour Show and the networked Animal Express.

She co-presented ITV's Olympic Games coverage in 1988, and moved to Sky at the launch of Sky News in 1989. She helped launch the Southeast edition of Meridian Tonight in 1993. She also hosted the current affairs show Newsline, as well as numerous news, game, and quiz shows, and was correspondent for the 1994 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race and ITV's Rugby World Cup, and London-based correspondent for the American syndicated newsmagazines Hard Copy (Paramount Television) and A Current Affair (Fox).

In 1994, she moved from Britain to America to anchor a news magazine, Premier Story and covered the O. J. Simpson murder case and trial. Remaining in Los Angeles, she later hosted programmes for Court TV, ABC, UPN, Showtime and other channels.

Network producer
As of August 2015, Holloway was co-executive producer of Little Big Shots, an NBC variety series produced by Warner Bros-Horizon. She was consulting producer on American Idol XV, and co-executive producer of two seasons of the Shine America reality competition series, Fake Off for truTV (2014-2015). Also in 2014, she was co-executive producer of the high-rating two-hour NBC television special, The Sing-Off Holiday Special.

From 2007 to 2013, she was senior supervising producer of the NBC series, America's Got Talent.

She has also worked as director or producer on many series and specials, including Fox's network primetime series The Swan and Kitchen Nightmares, Moochers on CBS, Court TV's documentary film, Death of a Beatle; Fox Television's Bizarre World specials; produced specials for Court TV and Animal Planet. In 2005, she was supervising producer and on-air talent for a short-lived revival of Twentieth Television's A Current Affair. In 2010, she was executive producer of the TLC series, Inedible to Incredible, starring chef John Besh.

Personal life
Aged only 21 she married Alistair Watson, son of actor Jack Watson, on April 30 1982 at Bristol Register Office. They had planned to marry in Bath. They moved to St Andrew's. She met Jim Davidson in December 1986, and he moved to Bristol in mid-February 1987, when she was 26. The previous week she had been living on Pembroke Road with 24 year old Bill Haynes of Rickford. Davidson married her at Bristol at 11.10am on Thursday 19 February 1987. Whilst there may have been immense chemistry (lust) in the early stages, a marriage between such a career woman presenter and errant bed-hopping Davidson was not one likely to last. The marriage lasted seven months, due to Davidson's volatile character, heavy drinking, and constant fraternising with other women. They divorced on 31 August 1988. Aged 28 she married 34 year old television producer Andy Ward at Wandsworth Register Office on Saturday 9 December 1989 and at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham. She married for a fourth time to a 35 year old American in April 1996, the television and film producer Burt Kearns. They have two children.

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Frieda Friedman

Frieda Friedman (born 1905, date of death unknown) was a writer of children's literature who, from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, published several short, illustrated novels primarily intended for preteen and adolescent girls. Her works enjoyed republication and numerous printings through the 1970s, and in some cases until the late 1980s.

Biography
Friedman was born in Syracuse in 1905. After earning a B.S. from New York University, Friedman entered into graduate study at Columbia University and New York University. In the course of her professional career, she was employed by New York American and several other newspapers and magazines. In 1930 she began writing poetry for the Norcross Greeting Card Company, and was eventually promoted to editor.

Friedman lived in New York City, and set some of her fiction there. She wrote often about girls in supportive, working-class or middle-class families. Illustrators of Friedman's work include Valeria Patterson, Carolyn Haywood, Mary Barton, Mary Stevens, Jacqueline Tomes, Vivienne Blake, Ulrike Zehe-Weinberg, Erich Hölle, Leonard Shortall, and (the pseudonymous) Emmo. On three occasions, the New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival recognized her work in adolescent fiction with an Honor Choice award: in 1947 for Dot for Short; in 1949 for A Sundae with Judy; and in 1956 for The Janitor's Girl.

Franz Schneider Verlag of Munich published German localisations of some of her titles. Auf Dotty ist Verlaß (1959) is based on Dot for Short (1947), and has new illustrations by Ulrike Zehe-Weinberg; Ellen hat die besten Freunde (1965), illustrated by Erich Hölle, derives from Ellen and the Gang (1963). Scholastic Book Services republished Dot for Short, Carol from the Country, and The Janitor's Girl with new illustrations by Mary Stevens; Carol from the Country is retitled Carol.

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Kateb al Shammary

Kateb al Shammary is a Saudi Arabian lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in Camp Delta in the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of his clients is Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry, who was just 15 years old when captured.

Al Shammary has called on the United States to allow the detainees to face a fair trial:
 * “As the United States wants its prisoners in Iraq to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions, we also demand and expect that our prisoners (at Guantanamo Bay) would receive similar treatment,”

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Talk:Timeline of photovoltaics

Page needs more non-cell tech info
There is a lot of info on this timeline related to photo-electric effet, photovoltaics, etc. The page has some info about solar water heating, steam production (and solar steam engine), etc. Much more is needed on the innovations in passive and active space heating (i.e., solar architecture), etc. - J.R.

 * I think this editor is asking for a timeline of solar power. On the question of merging this article with timeline of solar cells, I say merge.

 * What the bloody hell is the use of spamming this page up with KCC data? Almost completely irrelevant.

Merge with Timeline of solar cells
Agree, merge. Greenman 14:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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Amandine potato

' Amandine' is a cultivar of early potato, descended from the varieties 'Charlotte' and 'Mariana'. First bred in Brittany, France, in the early 1990s, it entered the French national list of potato varieties in 1994. 'Amandine' typically produces long tubers with very pale, unblemished skin. Their flesh, firm and also very pale, contains comparatively little starch. Amandine potatoes have become popular in Switzerland.

Characteristics
Amandine is a variety that matures very early to early. It has a yellow flesh, a shallow eye depth, a long shape and a white to yellow skin colour. This variety is relatively poor for storage. It also has a low to medium resistance to late blight on foliage and tubers and is field immune to wart. It has medium to high resistance to scab, low to medium resistance to potato leaf roll virus and it has a very low to low resistance to potato virus Y.

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User talk:Kjwhitefoot

= VB WikiBook =

I might consider contributing to the VB book later, but right now, I only have time to monitor the wikipedia page and provide some minor tweaks every so often. Thanks for asking, though. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) - Talk 14:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Although I've edited the article, it was probably only in a janitorial capacity (i.e., vandal reversion). I'm afraid my programming knowledge is limited at best; but I thank you for contacting me regardless. If I ever bone up on the subject, I'll drop by the wikibook. Best of luck! -- Hadal 03:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Any assistance, however seeeming minor, will be gratefully received! --Kjwhitefoot 21:24, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

No thanks, I hate Microsoft and any of their products, I believe in free software/open source and freedom. Long live the US Constitution & Bill of Rights. JanusPaul 18:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * So why bother making so many edits to the VB page? --Kjwhitefoot 22:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Absurdity of undergraduate degree
Re Absurdity of undergraduate degree, I agree with you that the phrase is a misnomer, which I added to the article, but others might try to remove it, so you might want to help me. Korky Day (talk) 21:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Category
Hi there. For info, Category:Alumni of the University of Exeter is intended to be used on biographical articles, not user pages - if you look at the category you will see yourself listed alongside the likes of J.K.Rowling. Can I suggest you use Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Exeter. Alternatively the userbox   automatically adds you to this category and displays as. Pterre (talk) 13:36, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

 * And where is this rule available? If the page is to include only famous or somehow worthy alumni then it should have a title that says or implies that.  And a user box that is part of another user's pages seems a little odd, what happens if that user is deleted?  I don't have any problem with distinguishing myself from Rowling.  Kjwhitefoot (talk) 14:36, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, can't answer that - ask Ben? Note that Category:Alumni of the University of Exeter has no other members who do not themselves have an entry, and that other contributors who choose to identify themselves do so via Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Exeter. Pterre (talk) 18:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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Space Rangers

Space Ranger, or Space Rangers, can refer to:

Dramas

 * Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954), a U.S. science fiction (space opera) television serial that lasted for two seasons.
 * Space Rangers (TV series) (1993), a television series about a small police force in 2104 at Planet Avalon's Fort Hope.
 * Buzz Lightyear (from 1995), a space ranger in the Toy Story series.
 * Power Rangers in Space (1998), which introduced the "Ranger" incarnation to the franchise.

Comics

 * Space Ranger (from 1958), a comic book hero by DC Comics.

Video games

 * Space Rangers (video game) (2002), a video game by the Russian game developer Elemental Games.
 * Space Rangers 2: Dominators (2004), a sequel to the 2002 Space Rangers video game.

Music

 * "Space Ranger" (1976), song by Can from I Want More (Can song)
 * "Space Ranger" (2008), song by Scandal (Japanese band)

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Cane rat

The genus Thryonomys, also known as the cane rats or grasscutters, is a genus of rodent found throughout Africa south of the Sahara, the only members of the family Thryonomyidae. They are eaten in some African countries and are a pest species on many crops. The family name comes from the Greek word thryon, meaning a "rush" or "reed" and mys meaning "mouse".

Characteristics
Cane rats range in body length from 35–60 centimetres. They attain weights of around 3-6kg and in some cases up to 10kg. They are heavily built rodents, with bristly brown fur speckled with yellow or grey. They live in marshy areas and along river and lake banks, and are herbivores, feeding on aquatic grasses in the wild. In agricultural areas they will – as the name suggests – feed on sugarcane in plantations, making them a significant crop pest.

Females give birth to litters of 2–4 young at least once a year, and more frequently in some areas. Cane rats are sexually mature and able to reproduce at 6 months of age.

Relationship with humans
Cane rats are widely distributed and farmers expend substantial energy fencing the rodents out of their fields, but they are also valued as a source of "bushmeat" in West and Central Africa. Like the guinea pig, their meat is of a higher protein but lower fat content than conventional livestock; it is also appreciated for its tenderness and taste.

In the savanna area of West Africa, people have traditionally captured wild cane rats and fattened them in captivity. More recently, intensive production of cane rats has been undertaken in countries such as Benin and Togo and agricultural extension services in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo have also encouraged farmers to rear these rodents in rural and peri-urban areas. Research carried out over the last two decades has allowed the selection and improvement of stock for captivity and much of the knowledge and techniques for cane rat breeding has been determined from work carried out at the Benin-Germany breeding station, which was established in the mid-1980s. Practical information is now more readily available for farmers interested in cane rat breeding, but training is still advised.

Cane rats are not the most prolific of rodent species, but the high demand, attractive market price, and the small amount of investment required makes cane rats a suitable mini-livestock activity for income generation in many parts of West and Central Africa.

Conservation status
There are areas where they have been over-hunted, and savanna habitat is often at risk during the dry season from bushfires, which are lit during bushmeat hunting expeditions. However, the high exploitation of cane rats in the wild has not had a serious effect on their numbers, and in fact some researchers believe that their populations may actually be increasing due to deforestation and changing land use patterns in West Africa as they have adapted to deforested areas and occur in close proximity to farmlands and people.

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Thryonomyidae

Thryonomyidae is a family of hystricognath rodents that contains the cane rats (Thryonomys) found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and a number of fossil genera.

Taxonomy
Thryonomyidae was formerly more diverse and widespread, with fossil relatives found in India and Arabia as well. The extinct genus Sacaresia from the island of Mallorca off Spain may also be a member of this family, though its position remains uncertain.

 * Genus †Epiphiomys
 * †Epiphiomys coryndoni
 * Genus †Gaudeamus
 * †Gaudeamus aegyptius
 * Genus †Kochalia
 * †Kochalia geespei
 * Genus †Monamys
 * †Monamys simonsi
 * Genus †Neosciuromys
 * †Neosciuromys africanus
 * Genus †Paraphiomys
 * †Paraphiomys afarensis
 * †Paraphiomys hopwoodi
 * †Paraphiomys knolli
 * †Paraphiomys occidentalis
 * †Paraphiomys orangeus
 * †Paraphiomys pigotti
 * †Paraphiomys renelavocati
 * †Paraphiomys shipmani
 * Genus †Paraulacodus
 * †Paraulacodus indicus
 * †Paraulacodus johanesi
 * Genus †Protohummus
 * †Protohummus dango
 * Genus †Sacaresia?
 * †Sacaresia moyaeponsi
 * Genus Thryonomys
 * Thryonomys gregorianus
 * Thryonomys swinderianus
 * †Thryonomys asakomae

Former fossil members of the family include the genus Apodecter and two species of Paraphiomys (australis and roessneri), which have now been transferred to the related Petromuridae.

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Désirée potato

The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned main-crop potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962. It has yellow flesh with a distinctive flavour and is a favourite with allotment-holders because of its resistance to drought, and is fairly resistant to disease. It is a versatile, fairly waxy variety which is firm and holds its shape, and is useful for all methods of cooking, from roasting to mashing and salads.

It is immune to potato wart and it is resistant to skin spot. It has good resistance to PVY, tuber late blight and blackleg. It also has moderate resistance to PVA, PVX and fusarium dry rot. It is found to be moderately susceptible to leaf late blight and leaf roll, also it is susceptible to common scab.

Description

 * Habit: Medium height, later spreading
 * Foliage: Medium to dark grey-green, strong purple colour throughout plant
 * Stems numerous, purple
 * Leaf rigid, open, slightly arched
 * Leaflets oval, pointed
 * Secondaries few
 * Buds/flowers: Buds large, red-purple on hairy stalks, flowers red-violet fading to white

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Talk:Space Rangers (video game)

Article move
Moved the article to Space Rangers (video game) as there is also a Space Rangers (TV series) that will be the subject of an article shortly if it doesn't already exist. 23skidoo 14:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * My bad. Thanks. --Kizor 15:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I've played the first game and it also was a huge succes, but since only few Russians game were realeased in other countrys (Russian video games considered lame and dumb). I think there should be an article about the first game or at least an article that talks about Space Rangers game in common. Like Counter-Strike article.

Whoever wrote thet both games are extremly identical haven't played the game at all. when in first game you can go around the known universe and play text-type games, and completing other sorts of mission with one main of destroying the enemy, in second player gets the same features and also many other features are added, such as riding the bike or robot fight. Kniaz
 * That would be me. I disagree; both have virtually the same concept, setting and goal. The basic gameplay is very much the same, though the second one enriches it with more goodies and missions. --Kizor 18:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * And I'd agree with Kizor; having both games on my hard drive right now, I can say that the underlying plot - defend a multi-species civilization against a radically alien aggressor - is the same, only the exact nature of the invader is different. Also the 'turn-based space travel' mechanic is unchanged.  The second game is an enhancement on the features of the first, with some significant new elements (RTS planetary battles).  Personally, I would go so far as to say that the second game kept what was successful and built on it (something that doesn't always happen in sequels).  Oh, and the 'known universe' of the first game may be the 'settled portion' of the galaxy, but it's certainly not known to the player - with only a few sectors revealed, and the rest needing to be uncovered by exploration/map purchase. Empath 23:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Cite Tags
When putting forth theories, opinions or presenting non-obvious facts, these statements require citations or references or they fall under WP:OR--Crossmr 01:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Here's one reference for the Star Control + Elite bit: http://www.elementalgames.com/eng/r_all.php  If you're feeling cynical, there is a review to back it up.  http://pc.gamedaily.com/game/features/?gameid=4905&id=246  -- Solberg 08:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)Solberg

 * Not cynical, just like to ensure articles are up to standards. Those references are solid for that point--Crossmr 16:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Content merge = terrible
Someone merged all the content of SR1 and SR2 and treated the games as indistinguishable. They are similar, but not THAT similar. In particular the 2nd adds an RTS and FPS mode, has a different plot, probably different system requirements, and so on. Also obviously reviews of the 2nd game do not apply to the 1st game. So in short this article as it is right now is crappy. I fixed a tiny bit of it, whoever screwed it up earlier should fix the rest. -- Solberg 23:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)Solberg

 * It seems like their intent was to make the article solely about the first one, and I presume to create an article for the second one, which actually is usually what happens. Only expansion packs are generally kept within the articlef or the game (unless the game is huge like The Sims).--Crossmr 23:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I've created a separate article for Space Rangers 2; can somebody who's played both games please de-merge content that no longer belongs here? --Muchness 07:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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