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1939–40 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1939–40 Yugoslav Football Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1939/40 / Државно првенство 1939/40) was the 17th, and last, season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition. The season lasted from May 2 to June 19, 1940.

The league played a contracted season. In 1939, as the Second World War began in parts of Europe, Croatian and Slovenian clubs began leaving the Football Association of Yugoslavia and joining the Croatian Football Federation, in protest of the supposed sports' centralization among Serbs in Belgrade.

The league included now two separate leagues which would function as qualifying leagues for the final stage, the Serbian Football League and the Croatian-Slovenian Football League. The top three clubs from each league will qualify for the final stage of the Yugoslav Championship. The Croatian-Slovenian League was formed by the clubs of the newly formed Banovina of Croatia and the Drava Banovina (corresponding to Slovenia and whose only participant was NK Ljubljana), while the Serbian League was formed by the rest of the Banovinas, namely the Danube, Drina, Morava, Vardar, Vrbas and Zeta ones. BSK, Slavija and Jugoslavija qualified through the Serbian one, while Građanski, Hajduk and HAŠK through the Croatian-Slovenian. At the end of the season Građanski won the national title. The Yugoslav First League continued on, soon to be renamed the Serbian First League. The split was eventually rectified with the promise of more representation for Croats and Slovenes, with the national football association being restructured as the Supreme Football Association of Yugoslavia. A short, ten-game season was played.

Having been invaded by the Axis Powers on April 6, 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was dismembered and this would be the last Yugoslav Championship. In 1940 the qualifiers for the Yugoslav Championship were played split in three qualifying leagues, the Serbian League and, instead of the Croato-Slovenian there was now a separate Croatian and Slovenian League. The three leagues were supposed to be the qualifiers for the 1940–41 Yugoslav Championship, however the championship was never played. Instead, the 1940–41 Croatian First League became the national championship of the newly created Nazi puppet state Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which enjoyed peace per se as an Axis member and continued to hold national competitions until 1944, while the Serbian Football League became the national championship of the occupied Serbia.

In 1946, the Yugoslav First League was reestablished.

Qualifiers for the final stage

 * 1939–40 Serbian Football League
 * 1939–40 Croato-Slovenian Football League

Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.
 * 1 - 10 goals - Svetislav Glišović (BSK Belgrade)
 * 2 - 9 goals - August Lešnik (Građanski Zagreb), Aleksandar Petrović (Jugoslavija)

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Napoleon Solo

Napoleon Solo is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series format was notable for pairing the American Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, and the Russian Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War.

Background

Solo possesses a charm, sophistication, efficiency, and weakness for beautiful women comparable to James Bond's. But Solo is considerably less intense and also less brutal than the British Secret Service agent, and he possesses a laid-back ease that recalls the young Cary Grant. The show's original concept had Solo as a Canadian; but he is consistently American in the show.

Solo is Number One in Section Two (Operations and Enforcement) at U.N.C.L.E. (In the first season he wore a badge with the Roman numeral II designating him as head of Section Two. During the switch to color in the second season, new badges were created and Robert Vaughn, mistaking the earlier II for an eleven, chose the wrong badge number for Solo.) It was originally intended that Solo would be the primary focus of the series, however the unexpected popularity of the Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, saw McCallum elevated to co-star status. Most of the episodes devote equal screen time to Kuryakin and Solo, and much of the success of the program was based on the chemistry between McCallum and Vaughn.

Personality
The two characters are, in many ways, polar opposites. Solo is urbane, self-assured, sociable, charming, and laid-back. Kuryakin, on the other hand, is reserved, intellectual, and intense. Although little was revealed about his background or his partner's, Solo comes across as the more accessible and straightforward of the two men.

He dressed well and had a taste for expensive suits and ties. His hairstyle and his clothing did not change in the first three seasons but in the fourth and final year, Vaughn (like McCallum) grew his hair somewhat longer and wore modish clothing, such as double-breasted suits, in order to reflect evolving 1960s fashions that the show itself had influenced.

In "The Secret Sceptre Affair", it is stated that Solo served in the Korean War. Nothing much is known about his immediate family, although it appears one of his grandfathers was an admiral, the other was an ambassador ("The Green Opal Affair"). He is college-educated. Like his partner Kuryakin, he has a wide knowledge of English poetry. Unlike his partner, he lacks a broad knowledge of science and technology. He is skilled in martial arts; he can fly a plane and a helicopter.

Like Bond, Solo is a serial womanizer. In the first season's press guide, Solo's democratic view of women is described in words paraphrased from George Orwell's 1947 allegorical novel, Animal Farm: "Solo believes that all women are created equal, only some are more equal than others." We rarely see him treat a woman with anything other than respect and affection on screen; however, he is involved with countless women and does not sustain a single long-term relationship throughout the four years of the show. Although it is never mentioned in the series, one of the original suggestions for Solo's background had him marrying young and losing his wife in a car accident after only one year of marriage (referenced also by David McDaniel in his "The Rainbow Affair" tie-in novel). The only ex-girlfriend of Solo's who is given any extended screen time is Clara in "The Terbuf Affair", in which it is hinted that Solo may be nursing a broken heart as a result of the end of that relationship. In "The Deadly Games Affair", it is revealed that he has a long standing on-off relationship with the THRUSH femme fatale, Angelique. He also seems familiar with other THRUSH female operatives like Serena in "The Double Affair" and Narcissus in "The Project Deephole Affair", as well as various U.N.C.L.E. female agents like Wanda (played by actresses Leigh Chapman and Sharyn Hillyer). He sometimes takes an interest in other people's romantic affairs and plays matchmaker on more than one occasion. In "The Deep Six Affair", he objects to Mr. Waverly's trying to call off the wedding of another U.N.C.L.E. agent.

His charm and social skills are his most potent weapons, allowing him to manipulate almost every situation to his own advantage. He is keenly aware of his abilities in this area. When in "The Candidate's Wife Affair" Kuryakin sees him romancing a woman and asks in exasperation, "Don't you ever turn it off?" Solo responds, tongue in cheek, "When you've got it, you've got it; I've got it." But there is a certain idealism at the heart of his character. In "The Giuoco Piano Affair", an enemy operative offers this assessment of Solo's character – For a man like you, if there's the smallest doubt in your mind, no matter how insignificant the cause, you have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Your respect for what you think is right is your weakness.

Solo is also an indefatigable optimist who rarely, if ever, countenances the idea that he might not succeed in everything he attempts. He also keeps a cool head at all times and is utterly unflappable, even in the most dire or life-threatening situations. Unlike his Russian associate, he rarely exhibits anger or loses his temper.

Afterlife
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was cancelled mid-way through its fourth season in 1968. Vaughn reprised the role of Solo for the television film Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair, in 1983.

The character has enjoyed a rich afterlife in fandom, particularly in fan fiction. In the 1988 comic Shattered Visage, made as a sequel to the Patrick McGoohan series The Prisoner, Solo and Kuryakin both make cameos at the funeral of a spy, along with John Steed and Emma Peel.

The Danish SKA band Napoleon Solo and Spanish indie-pop band Napoleon Solo are named after him, while El Paso post-hardcore band At the Drive-In have a song named "Napoleon Solo" on their album In/Casino/Out.

In the CBS television series NCIS, the character Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (played by David McCallum) owned a Corgi dog named "Solo" (a reference to Napoleon Solo).

Film
In The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a 2015 feature film, Henry Cavill portrays Napoleon Solo. This version of Solo is a former World War II soldier from an extremely wealthy family. He remained in Europe after the war, discovering that he could profit greatly from it as a specialist in classical art and architecture, becoming an unequalled art thief. He was eventually caught and prosecuted for his crimes and given a fifteen-year prison sentence. Solo doesn't spend any time in prison, however, as he is recruited by the CIA in exchange for his physical freedom.

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i read web comics occasionaly and when bored, i enjoy rocketry and computers

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Linuxbeak | Talk 19:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Saxotone
non-notable; the technique described is feasible but the article itself seems to have been introduced as a prank (link). Gyrofrog (talk) 05:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I would have instead proposed merging this with Hybrid instrument if such an article (or list) existed. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as per nom. --Dvyost 05:41, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not sure about feasibility. You need to lower the resonance of the reed--by making it bigger--in order to sound the built-in resonance in a longer-bored instrument.  Right?  Chick Bowen 23:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agreed with all of the above.Rhetoricalwater 22:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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Caporal

Caporal may refer to:

 * Caporal, a type of strong dark tobacco
 * Caporales, a Bolivian dance
 * Caporal (military rank) in French, equivalent to Corporal
 * Kaporal, Angolan footballer

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Michael Quatro

Michael Quatro (born 12 June 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA) is a keyboard player and songwriter who has released eleven albums since 1972. He specializes in keyboard-driven progressive rock.

Career
Quatro's music gained popularity in Detroit, Michigan, where he was popular in clubs and received airplay on FM radio. Quatro's 1972 album Paintings contains the single "Circus (What I Am)", which reached No. 8 on Billboard Magazine's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and No. 91 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. Ted Nugent played guitar on one track on his second album, while his third album featured Rick Derringer on guitar and Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan from The Turtles.

Quatro is an independent entertainment executive and the older brother of musician Suzi Quatro. When record producer Mickie Most was in Detroit, Quatro persuaded him to see Cradle featuring his sisters Suzi, Patti, Arlene and Nancy. Most waited for Cradle to break up before signing Suzi as a solo act. As a result, she became the first female bass player to become a major rock star.

Albums

 * 1972: Paintings (Evolution) as Michael Quatro Jam Band
 * 1973: Look Deeply into the Mirror (Evolution) as Michael Quatro Jam Band
 * 1975: In Collaboration with the Gods (United Artists) - AUS #73
 * 1976: Dancers, Romancers, Dreamers, and Schemers (United Artists)
 * 1977: Gettin' Ready (Prodigal Records, a Motown label)
 * 1980: The Selections Of Paintings (Koala, a Tennessee label) 1979 re-recordings of the Painting album
 * 1980: Into The Mirror (Koala) 1979 re-recordings of the Look Deeply Into The Mirror album
 * 1980: Selections of Dancers, Romancers (Koala) 1979 re-recordings of the Dancers, Romancers, Dreamers & Schemers album
 * 1980: It's Only A Love Song (Koala) as Mike Quatro; remixed reissue of Gettin' Ready
 * 1980: Mirage (Koala) as Mike Quatro, mini-album of new songs; also released as Michael Quatro Band with added previously released tracks (Quality Records)
 * 1981: Bottom Line (Spector International Records)
 * 1995: Vision (Quatrophonic Music USA)
 * 2004: Romantic/Classical/New Age (Quatrophonic Music USA)
 * 2005: The Shadow of the King (Reiwan)
 * 2006: Heavenward (Reiwan)

Singles

 * 1972: "Circus (What I Am)"
 * 1995: "Song of the Sea"

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Vernon Ransford

Vernon Seymour Ransford OBE (20 March 1885 – 19 March 1958) was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Test matches between 1907 and 1912.

Ransford was a smooth and stylish left-handed batsman who could score with ease all round the wicket or defend patiently as the situation required. He played for Victoria from 1904 to 1928. He was also an outstanding fieldsman, who could pick up and throw the ball in one movement and with great accuracy.

Ransford's best Test series was the 1909 tour of England when he topped the Australian batting averages, helped by a career best score of 143 not out, finishing with 353 runs at an average of 58.83. On the whole tour he made 1783 runs at an average of 43.48, and hit six centuries. The following year he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year.

He toured New Zealand with Australian teams in 1913-14 and in 1920-21, when he captained the side. He also toured New Zealand with Victoria in 1924-25.

After retiring from playing Ransford served as President of the Melbourne Football Club in 1927/28, and secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club (where he had played his domestic cricket) from 1939 to 1957, ably steering the club and its ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, through the ground's use as a military camp in World War II and its later use as the chief venue for the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was awarded the OBE in the 1954 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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Edward Edson Lee

Edward Edson Lee (September 2, 1884 – September 28, 1944), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children's literature author in the 1920s and 1930s.

Biography
Lee had a difficult childhood, dropping out of school to go to work in his early teens. He got his start as a writer writing serialized stories, most notably in The American Boy magazine. His first book, Andy Blake in Advertising, was published in 1922 (reprinted in 1928 as the first volume in the Andy Blake series).

He wrote five series of books: the Jerry Todd series of sixteen books; the Poppy Ott series of eleven books; the Trigger Berg series of four books; the Andy Blake series of four books; and the Tuffy Bean series of four books. All of the series were interrelated in some way; the Todd and Ott stories took place in the town of Tutter, Illinois, a fictional town modeled on the town of Utica, which Lee experienced in his childhood. The supporting characters in the Todd and Ott books — "Red" Meyers, "Scoop" Ellery, and "Peg" Shaw — were real boys that Lee befriended around the time he began writing the stories while living in Shelby, Ohio.

Edward Edson Lee is buried in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Legacy
Initially forgotten after his death, Lee's books (most of them graced by the gaudy and idiosyncratic illustrations of Bert Salg) have become highly valued by juvenile book collectors.

The end of each Jerry Todd book had the unusual feature of printed letters from readers and Lee's warm, informal responses to them. This tradition — and intimate tone — was later imitated by Marvel Comics editor/publisher Stan Lee (no relation) in the "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins" pages printed in the pages of all Marvel comics.

The 1990s power pop band Cockeyed Ghost took its name from one of Edwards' more obscure books, Trigger Berg and the Cock-Eyed Ghost.

In his autobiography, "Where's the Rest of Me?" Ronald Reagan wrote that, growing up in Tampico, Illinois, he had a boyhood much like Jerry Todd.

Andy Blake series

 * 1) Andy Blake (originally Andy Blake in Advertising) - 1922, republished 1928
 * 2) Andy Blake's Comet Coaster - 1928
 * 3) Andy Blake's Secret Service - 1929
 * 4) Andy Blake and the Pot of Gold - 1930

Jerry Todd series

 * 1) Jerry Todd and the Whispering Mummy - 1923
 * 2) Jerry Todd and the Rose-Colored Cat - 1924
 * 3) Jerry Todd and the Oak Island Treasure - 1925
 * 4) Jerry Todd and the Waltzing Hen - 1924
 * 5) Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog - 1925
 * 6) Jerry Todd and the Purring Egg - 1925
 * 7) Jerry Todd in the Whispering Cave - 1927
 * 8) Jerry Todd, Pirate - 1928
 * 9) Jerry Todd and the Bob-Tailed Elephant - 1929
 * 10) Jerry Todd, Editor-In-Grief - 1930
 * 11) Jerry Todd, Caveman - 1932
 * 12) Jerry Todd and the Flying Flapdoodle - 1934
 * 13) Jerry Todd and the Buffalo Bill Bathtub - 1936
 * 14) Jerry Todd's Up-The-Ladder Club - 1937
 * 15) Jerry Todd's Poodle Parlor - 1938
 * 16) Jerry Todd's Cuckoo Camp - 1940

Poppy Ott series

 * 1) Poppy Ott and the Stuttering Parrot - 1926
 * 2) Poppy Ott's Seven-League Stilts - 1926
 * 3) Poppy Ott and the Galloping Snail - 1927
 * 4) Poppy Ott's Pedigreed Pickles - 1927
 * 5) Poppy Ott and the Freckled Goldfish - 1928
 * 6) Poppy Ott and the Tittering Totem - 1929
 * 7) Poppy Ott and the Prancing Pancake - 1930
 * 8) Poppy Ott Hits The Trail - 1933
 * 9) Poppy Ott & Co., Inferior Decorators - 1937
 * 10) The Monkey's Paw - 1938
 * 11) The Hidden Dwarf - 1939

Trigger Berg series

 * 1) Trigger Berg and the Treasure Tree - 1930
 * 2) Trigger Berg and His 700 Mousetraps - 1930
 * 3) Trigger Berg and the Sacred Pig - 1931
 * 4) Trigger Berg and the Cock-Eyed Ghost - 1933

Tuffy Bean series

 * 1) Tuffy Bean's Puppy Days - 1931
 * 2) Tuffy Bean's One-Ring Circus - 1931
 * 3) Tuffy Bean At Funny Bone Farm - 1931
 * 4) Tuffy Bean and the Lost Fortune - 1932

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Caporales

The Caporales is a traditional Bolivian dance originated in Los Yungas of La Paz. Caporales were created and presented to the public for the first time in 1969 by the Estrada Pacheco brothers, who were inspired in the character of the 'Caporal' who is the overseer of the black slaves and was usually mixed race, wore boots and held a whip, a dance that belongs to the region of the Yungas, Bolivia. The dance, however, has a prominent religious aspect. One supposedly dances for the Virgin of Socavón (patroness of miners) and promises to dance for three years of one's life. Caporal or caporales today is a folklore dance very popular in the festivities of not only Bolivia, but also Argentina, Chile, Peru, Spain and the United States.

In June 2011, through a Supreme Decree, Caporales along with other dances were declared Cultural and Intangible Heritage of the Plurinational State of Bolivia; according to the government entity, this measure was taken to curb the attempts of appropriation by neighboring countries.

There are many groups founded in US that participate and spread the culture, such as F.F.C.C. Universitarios de San Simón, Alma Boliviana, Renacer Boliviano, Sangre Boliviana, Centralistas San Miguel Virginia, Orgullo Boliviano, San Simon Universitartios Virginia, Fraternidad Folklorica Cultural Ruphay VA, Kantuta Ballet Folklorico de Bolivia and much more.

A male caporal dress depicts an old Spanish military guard (overseer of slaves). Wearing heeled boots bearing large bells known as "cascabeles", a male dancer carries a hat in his left hand and a whip in his right (sometimes). Even some girls will dance in a male role, as girls used to be relegated to wearing extremely short skirts and do less impressive steps; some may refer to them as "chinas" (literally: indigenous American women) or "machas" (literally: women). A female caporal dress consists of a minidress (representing a peasant woman) with matching panties (representing a newborn infant), skin-color pantyhose, fancy high-heeled shoes and a round top hat (resembling a traditional Bolivian bowler hat) pinned to her hair. The style and colors of the dress are maintained the same for both the men and women of a certain group, but can vary drastically between groups. Men and women usually dance separately in a progressive march style dance. Caporales is a dance where one jumps a lot and is very active in this way.

The dance is often mistaken for Saya music, a confusion partly due to popular Caporales song texts like the ones composed by the popular Bolivian group "Los Kjarkas"; this group makes many Bolivian songs. Also, this is due to an international ballet version of Saya Caporal being danced as "Modern Saya" (Afro-Bolivian Saya). However, caporales derive from 'Saya': as the 'caporal' was a character in 'saya' when the Caporales dance was created in the late 1960s by the Estrada Pacheco family, they claimed to have been inspired by the performance of some Afro-Bolivian dancers from the Yungas region. The music is clearly of both African and European origin and the bit of the drums are the steps of the mixture of 'saya' and 'negritos'. The costumes in caporales were of modern European origin. The rhythm is slightly different from the 'Saya'. This dance became one of the most popular dances in Bolivia, especially appreciated by young people of the middle and upper class who identified themselves with 'the caporal' and the macho antics of the dance, they form huge Caporales groups for Carnival, Gran Poder and other "entradas".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/China History Forum

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China History Forum
I understand that this page was put on and survived a previous AfD, however the previous vote was inconclusive with 1/1/1, with myself neutral. After reviewing various guidelines I have concluded that this article meets none of the criteria for inclusion in wikipedia. In particular, this article is I hope this AfD can stay open until a sufficient number of inputs can be gathered. -- Миборовский U 05:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) non-notable. Alexa ranking 1,034,594. I've seen 300,000 ones get speedied. Google test comes up with 13,400 hits, but bear in mind that this is an EXTREMELY generic name, just like "Rover" is anyone's dog.
 * 2) original research. Written by the forum owner himself.
 * 3) vanity. As above, written by forum owner himself.
 * 4) advertising. Blatantly promotes this forum. Tone and diction like one giant advertisement campaign.
 * Delete, for reasons outlined above. -- Миборовский U 05:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as per nom.--Dvyost 05:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It was close but I decided it was too much like badvertising. Qaz  ( talk ) 05:45, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete What's the Mandarin word for Cruft? Karmafist 16:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as 香 (Mandarin for "cruft"). paul klenk talk 22:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I don't think that's the word for it... :D -- Миборовский U 00:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, nn. Alex.tan 04:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Kingsland railway station, Auckland

Kingsland railway station is a station on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. The station sits parallel to the Kingsland township, and is located 400m from Eden Park, the major rugby and cricket stadium in Auckland, and the home ground of New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks.

The station's proximity to Eden Park means that it often functions as a terminus for stadium-goers, with dedicated services utilising both tracks to shuttle people into and out of Kingsland. Signalling was upgraded in 2011 to assist with this.

Kingsland Station used to consist of a single platform, and was situated further east of its present location, but in 2004 it was relocated as part of the Auckland rail network's double-tracking project. The old station's platform was demolished, but its shelter was retained and is now used by the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.

The station now utilises a side platform configuration for each direction of travel and is accessible from New North Road and Sandringham Road. An overbridge enables transfer between platforms, and a subway links the northbound platform to the Eden Park end of Sandringham Road.

History

 * 1880: Opened on 29 March, with the North Auckland Line.
 * 1993: Platform upgraded to meet the requirements of ex-Perth diesel multiple units.
 * 2003: Old station removed.
 * 2004: Rebuilt with two platforms as part of the Western Line double-tracking project, for $4 million.
 * 2009-2010: Platforms lengthened to 115 m for six-car trains, and new stairs and an underpass from Sandringham Road to the northbound platform constructed, for $6 million. Signalling was upgraded to allow trains to leave from both platforms in the same direction to meet the needs of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, where it was expected that 15,000 fans would use the station in 70 minutes. Groups of 1,000 fans at a time were to board trains, departing every five minutes.
 * 2011, June–August: shelters upgraded for the Rugby World Cup, made from the same materials as when building The Cloud on Auckland's waterfront.

Bus transfers
Bus routes 20, 22N, 22R, 24B, 24R, 64 and 209 pass near to Kingsland station on either New North Road or Sandringham Road.

In media

 * In the film Mr. Pip, Kingsland railway station appears as Gravesend station in England.
 * The eighth season of The Block NZ features restoration and transformation of an apartment block formerly being a fire house overlooking Eden Park's Outer Oval, and is situated near the station.

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Cap lamp

A cap lamp is a lamp worn on the head or helmet. It is mostly used in an underground environment, like mines or during outdoor activities, e.g. climbing.

Patent
A patent for a self-adjusting bracket for use with cap lamps was awarded in 1985.

GEN 4 and GEN 5
The two most recent variants of the cap lamp are the GEN 4 and GEN 5 models. The GEN 4 model, approved for use by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MHSA), uses the headpiece of existing cap lamps, but retrofitted with new LEDs and electronics. The GEN 5 model is very similar to the GEN 4 model except with a more intense spot beam that can illuminate objects that are more than 40 feet away. Since GEN 5 is very similar to GEN 4, it has not been separately approved by MHSA. These lamps will last up to 50 hours with a six-cell battery pack. Energy-saving variants of these models, GEN 4E and GEN 5E, use a single lithium-ion battery.

These new cap lamp variants that use LEDs follows research done by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the United States, comparing LEDs to traditional incandescent light bulbs, where they found that the LEDs improved hazard detection.

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John Darragh

John Darragh (1772 – May 14, 1828) was a U.S. politician. He served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1817 to 1825.

Early life
Darragh was born in Ireland, the son of John Darragh and Margaret Oliver. In 1774, the Darragh family, including young John, his older brother Daniel, and at least one sister, emigrated to Nottingham Township, Pennsylvania, in the Pittsburgh area. Two more brothers, Neal and Archibald, would be born there.

Darragh began his career as a merchant on Fourth Avenue between Wood Street and Smithfield Street in the city. Darragh eventually parlayed his success as merchant into becoming the president of the Bank of Pittsburgh.

He married Margaret "Peggy" Calhoun and together they had six children, Their son Cornelius Darragh would become prominent in state politics and served as U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district from 1844 to 1847.

Pittsburgh politics
Darragh served terms as Justice of the Peace and Burgess of the Borough.

John Darragh became mayor of Pittsburgh on January 14, 1817 on the sudden retirement of Ebenezer Denny because of health concerns. His tenure as mayor saw the construction of sidewalks and street drainage systems. The start of a citywide water system also took root during his service.

John Darragh also hosted world leaders for the first time in Pittsburgh's history. U.S. President James Monroe visited Pittsburgh on September 5, 1817; he toured military installations around the area, including the Allegheny Arsenal.

French statesmen and general Marquis de Lafayette also visited Pittsburgh with John Darragh as host on May 30, 1825.

Later life
On Wednesday May 14, 1828, Darragh died after a long fight with consumption. Originally interred in the churchyard of Pittsburgh's First Presbyterian Church, his remains were reburied in 1861 at Allegheny Cemetery.

Honors
Darragh Street near the University of Pittsburgh is named for John Darragh.

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Hamilton Masakadza

Hamilton Masakadza (born 9 August 1983) is a Zimbabwean former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for Zimbabwe. He captained the national team during 2016 ICC World T20, but was relieved of his duties following an indifferent team performance in the tournament, where they failed to get past the qualifying round. In February 2019, Zimbabwe Cricket confirmed that Masakadza would captain the national side across all three formats for the 2019–20 season.

He was a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. His brothers, Shingirai Masakadza and Wellington Masakadza, also played for Zimbabwe; all three have played domestically for the Mountaineers.

He became the first player to score multiple 150-plus scores in a series or tournament, where he achieved the feat against Kenya in 2009. In October 2018, during Zimbabwe's tour to South Africa, Masakadza became the fourth cricketer for Zimbabwe to play in 200 One Day International (ODI) matches.

In September 2019, Masakadza announced that he would retire from international cricket following the conclusion of the 2019–20 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series. On 20 September 2019, he played in his final international cricket match for Zimbabwe, against Afghanistan. In October 2019, Masakadza was appointed as Zimbabwe Cricket's director of cricket.

Early and domestic career
In February 2000, aged just 16 and still a schoolboy at Churchill School, Masakadza became the first black Zimbabwean, and the youngest player to score a first-class century. He made his Test debut soon after, in July 2001, against the West Indies in Harare. In his team's second innings, he made 119, thus becoming – at the age of 17 years and 354 days – the youngest player to make a century on his Test debut. However, he held this record for less than two months, before it was broken by Bangladesh's Mohammad Ashraful.

After briefly putting his professional cricket career on hold to study at the University of the Free State, Masakadza was recalled to the national team in late 2004 following the rebel crisis, and has maintained a regular presence since.

He was the leading run-scorer for Mountaineers in the 2017–18 Pro50 Championship, with 317 runs in six matches.

International career
During the team's six-year exile from Test cricket (2005–2011), he increased his ability in One Day Internationals. His first century in this format came on 14 August 2009, against Bangladesh in Bulawayo, and in October 2009 he made scores of 156 and 178 not out in a home ODI series against Kenya – thus becoming the first Zimbabwean to make two scores of 150 or more in ODIs, and the first player from any country to make two such scores in the same series. He has the record for scoring the most runs in a five-match ODI series (467)

When Zimbabwe made its return to Test cricket in August 2011, playing a one-off match against Bangladesh in Harare, Masakadza made 104 in the first innings – thus making his second Test century ten years after his first. In 2015, he made his first appearance in the senior Cricket World Cup, having previously made two appearances in the Under-19 version (in 2000 and 2002).

In 2014, he along with Sikandar Raza, set the record for the highest ever partnership for Zimbabwe in ODIs. (224 for the first wicket)

As of November 2015, Masakadza is Zimbabwe's sixth-highest Test run-scorer and fifth-highest ODI run-scorer. He is also the country's leading Twenty20 International run-scorer, becoming the first Zimbabwean to reach 1,000 runs in this format on 29 September 2015.

In Zimbabwe's tour of Bangladesh in January 2016, Masakadza set a world record for the most runs scored in a T20I bilateral series, with a total of 222 across four games.

Following India's tour to Zimbabwe in June 2016, Masakadza became the first Zimbabwean cricketer to play in 50 Twenty20 International matches.

Post retirement
In August 2019, Zimbabwe Cricket initiated a new role called director of cricket with the intention of restructuring its management, and Hamilton Masakadza was appointed as the first director of cricket at Zimbabwe Cricket. In October 2019, Hamilton assumed his duties as Zimbabwe Cricket's director of cricket. He was given the task of defining policy, strategy, and programs of best practice by all of Zimbabwe's teams during his tenure.

In March 2024, after serving as Zimbabwe Cricket's director of cricket for five years, he resigned from the position as a result of Zimbabwe's failure to qualify for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

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The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship is a 1943 American black-and-white psychological thriller film starring Richard Dix and directed by Mark Robson. It was produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures as part of a series of low-budget horror films. The film can be seen as a "low-key psychological thriller", a "suspense drama", and a "waterlogged melodrama"., Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard and Edmund Glover in support.

The film is about a young merchant marine officer who begins to suspect that his ship's captain is mentally unbalanced and endangering the lives of the ship's crew. The ship's crew, however, believes the vessel to be haunted and cursed and several mysterious deaths occur.

Upon its theatrical release on Christmas Eve, 1943, the film was a box office success but received a mixed critical reception. In February 1944, Lewton was sued for plagiarism by playwrights Samuel R. Golding and Norbert Faulkner, who claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. Because of the suit, The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from theatrical release and not shown for nearly 50 years. It was not until the film's copyright was not renewed and it entered the public domain in the 1990s, that it began to be available again, and was released as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD set in 2005.

Plot

Tom Merriam (Russell Wade), a young merchant marine officer, joins the crew of the ship Altair. At first, all seems well and Merriam bonds with the captain, Will Stone (Richard Dix). The ship, already shorthanded due to the death of a crew member before it left port, almost loses another ("the Greek") when he develops appendicitis. Taking direction over the ship's radio, the captain is to perform the appendectomy, but he is unable to make the incision. Instead, Merriam successfully removes the sailor's appendix, but – feeling he should be loyal to the captain and spare him embarrassment – swears the radio operator to secrecy. Afterward, the captain has a self-serving explanation for his failure.

One of the crew, Louie, tells the captain he should pull into port and take on new crew. Shortly after the captain closes the hatch to the chain locker. Louie is inside, and crushed to death by the chain. Merriam believes that Captain Stone, who is obsessed with authority, did it intentionally. When they dock at the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" Merriam attempts to expose the Captain's madness at a board of inquiry. The crew all speak favorably of the captain, including the Greek, who credits the captain with saving his life. Merriam states his intention to leave the Altair.

After the inquiry, the captain admits to a female friend (Edith Barrett) that he fears he is losing his mind. Soon after, Merriam is involved in a fight in port and knocked unconscious. One of his former shipmates – unaware that he has left the Altair – brings the unconscious man back aboard ship before the vessel departs. Merriam wakes up on the ship and fears that the pathologically insane Captain Stone may now attempt to kill him.

Merriam, scorned by the crew, finds that he can no longer lock the door to his cabin. Fearing for his life, he tries to steal a gun from the ship's weapons locker, but is confronted by Captain Stone. Stone dares Merriam to try to get the support of the crew, but Merriam is rebuffed by them. This changes when Radioman Winslow (Edmund Glover) receives a radiogram asking if Merriam is on board, and Captain Stone orders Winslow to lie, replying that Merriam is not. The radioman shows Merriam the captain's reply radiogram and says that he now mistrusts the captain and will send a message to the company expressing his concerns about Stone's mental health. However, as he leaves Merriam's cabin, Winslow encounters the captain. As the two walk side-by-side, Winslow drops the captain's radiogram to the deck, and it is picked up by an illiterate crewman, Finn the Mute (Skelton Knaggs), whose internal monologues serve as a sort of one-man Greek chorus throughout the film.

Captain Stone now orders Merriam to send a radio message to the corporate office advising them that Winslow has been washed overboard. Merriam accuses the captain of murdering Winslow, and the two fight. Crew members intervene, and the captain has the crew tie up Merriam and put him in his bunk. The captain then has First Officer Bowns (Ben Bard) administer a sedative to Merriam. Finn finally delivers the captain's radiogram to Bowns. After reading it, Bowns becomes deeply alarmed. The first officer talks to several other crew members, all of whom now begin questioning the captain's sanity.

Captain Stone overhears Bowns' conversation with the crew, and goes insane. He takes a knife and enters Merriam's cabin to kill the young officer, but Finn arrives to try to stop him. While the crew is up on deck singing, Finn and the captain engage in a desperate struggle in the dark, during which Finn kills the captain. After the captain's death, Merriam is reinstated and the ship returns to its home port of San Pedro.

Cast

 * Richard Dix as Captain Will Stone, the possibly insane captain of the Altair
 * Russell Wade as Tom Merriam, Third Officer on the Altair
 * Edith Barrett as Ellen Roberts,
 * Ben Bard as First Officer Bowns
 * Skelton Knaggs as Finn, the mute / The Narrator
 * Edmund Glover as Jacob "Sparks" Winslow, radioman
 * Lawrence Tierney as Louie Parker
 * Paul Marion as Pete a.k.a. "the Greek"

Production
RKO had scored a major financial success with Cat People (1942). The film cost only $141,659, yet brought in almost $4 million in its first two years and saved the studio from financial disaster. RKO wanted to move quickly on a sequel to build on the success of Cat People, but producer Val Lewton wished to make the fantasy-comedy story "The Amorous Ghost" instead. As Lewton and studio wrangled, Lewton commenced production on The Seventh Victim, a horror-murder mystery film, and on May 12, 1943, RKO announced it was delaying production on the sequel The Curse of the Cat People due to the unavailability of key performers. RKO production chief Charles Koerner did not want Lewton to be idle once filming on The Seventh Victim ended nor did he favor the idea of Lewton working on comedy, so Koerner suggested that Lewton direct a horror film set at sea, utilizing the studio's existing ship set, built for Pacific Liner (1939). According to Robert Wise, a longtime collaborator with Lewton, it was this set that gave Lewton the idea for the film. "He would find what we call a 'standing set,' and then tailor his script to the set, whatever it was. That's how he made The Ghost Ship. He walked onto a set and saw a tanker, then cooked up the idea for this ship with a murderous captain." One scholar has suggested that Lewton accepted the assignment in part because, as an amateur sailor himself, the ship captain's behavior mirrored Lewton's own views on how to manage a ship, but also because Lewton saw the plot as a way of criticizing his micro-managing superiors at RKO. The budget, as with all of Lewton's films, was set at $150,000.

At the time screenwriting began, Lewton claimed that the idea for the film was an original one attributable to himself. Leo Mittler did the treatment and Donald Henderson Clarke wrote the script, although Lewton significantly revised the screenplay and wrote many lines of dialogue himself.

Mark Robson was assigned to direct in June 1943. Robson was the RKO director "most in tune with [Lewton's] idea of psychological terror". Robson had just finished editing Orson Welles' Journey Into Fear, and there are distinct stylistic similarities between the two films. Robson and Lewton chose to use single-source lighting throughout the film in order to make the sets and performances more interesting, and sets were designed to utilize this type of lighting. The two men also agreed to continue Lewton's emphasis on unseen and implied terror. Cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, art directors Albert S. D'Agostino and Walter E. Keller, and composer Roy Webb all regularly worked with Lewton, and did so on The Ghost Ship as well. Richard Dix was cast because he was already on contract with RKO to do several "quickie" pictures at a set fee per film, and doing The Ghost Ship would help fulfill his contract without much effort. Russell Wade had provided a disembodied voice in The Leopard Man, and this was his first starring role in a Lewton production. His performance here led him to be cast in Lewton's later The Body Snatcher (1945). Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Dewey Robinson, and Charles Lung all had worked with Lewton before. Future film noir star Lawrence Tierney, whom Lewton had seen modeling clothing in a Sears, Roebuck catalog, made his motion picture debut in the movie. Sir Lancelot, a well-known calypso singer, who later influenced the career of Harry Belafonte, had already appeared in singing roles in three prior films (including I Walked with a Zombie). Atmosphere is created in the film by the contrast between murder and the joviality of the calypso songs sung on board.

Production began on 3 August 1943. Many details about the performances, lighting, camera angles, action, and effects were worked out ahead of time in order to not only keep the film under budget but also help achieve suspense on such a low budget. Dr. Jared Criswell, former pastor of the Fifth Avenue Spiritualist Church of New York City, served as a technical consultant on the film regarding psychic phenomena. The picture's final fight scene between the Finn, Pollo, and the mad Captain was shot on a dimly lit set to heighten the suspense and keep the audience from guessing who the victor might be, similar to the way Jacques Tourneur and Lewton had shot a similar scene in Cat People.

Release and lawsuit
The film was released in theaters on Christmas Eve, 1943. The poster art was most likely painted by William Rose. The film did well at the box office until Lewton was sued for plagiarism in February 1944 by playwrights Samuel R. Golding and Norbert Faulkner, who claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. Because of the suit, The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from theatrical release. Lewton disputed the claim, but the court ruled against him. RKO paid the authors $25,000 in damages and attorney fees of $5,000, and lost all future booking residuals and the right to sell the film for airing on television. Elliot Lavine, a film historian, says that losing the lawsuit deeply disturbed Lewton, leaving him depressed for a significant period of time.

The film did not see release for nearly another 50 years due to the suit. The Ghost Ship did make it into a package of RKO films sold by "C & C Television Films" to local TV stations, but it was quickly withdrawn. It was not until the film's copyright was not renewed and it entered the public domain in the 1990s, that it began to be available again. The film was released as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD set in 2005. In 2021, it was released on Blu Ray by Warner Archive, sharing a disk with Lewton's film Bedlam.

Reception
At the time of its initial release, the film had a mixed reception, with both positive and negative reviews. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times enjoyed the film, calling it "... a nice little package of morbidity, all wrapped around in gloom." Paul Meehan calls it "a tepid potboiler of malfeasance and murder on the high seas." John Brosnan described The Ghost Ship as "a more conventional mystery-thriller involving a number of deaths on board a ship, but was produced with Lewton's customary attention to atmosphere." The script has come in for significant praise, with Captain Stone being compared to Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick, and Captain Wolf Larsen in The Sea-Wolf. Other critics have pointed out that Stone and Merriam seem to have a father-son relationship, but that the perverseness of the script is that the father-figure becomes so enraged at his "son's" failings that he seeks to murder him.

Modern film critics have also praised the picture's acting, cinematography, and lighting, as well as its ability to scare. Actor Richard Dix is almost uniformly praised for bringing a depth of character, moodiness, and pathos to the role of Captain Stone. The film's direction, cinematography and lighting, too, display a depth of artistry not usually seen in cinema. Cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca won high praise for his chiaroscuro lighting design. Film historian Edmund Bansak has written one scene in particular which is highly effective:

"An excellent set-piece early in the film showcases Robson's underrated directorial skill. Robson creates a dynamic sense of menace from a physical object: a massive giant hook hanging from upon an enormous chain, pendulumlike, inches above the deck. ... [The] hook remains unattended and unsecured. ... In a tightly directed, genuinely exciting scene, the monstrous hook sways back and forth in a direct path toward the camera, making one wonder how cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca, kept his camera (and head) intact during the shooting. ... The lighting is also used to great advantage, the shadows and fog accenting the terror. Half the time the swinging hook is so hidden in the darkness that aside from the creak of its sway, there is no telling which direction it will take."

The set design, too, has been praised for being "suitably claustrophobic." Robson's direction has earned kudos for heightening the suspense by leaving certain actions and motives vague. In the scene in which Seaman Parker (Lawrence Tierney) dies, crushed by the anchor chain, Robson left it unclear whether Captain Stone committed murder by trapping Parker in the anchor chain locker or whether he merely shut the door. The vagueness leaves the audience unsure whether to believe Merriam's accusations against the Captain, and builds an atmosphere of paranoia and doubt which is critical to the picture's success. Contemporary critic Gary Giddins has pointed out that the film incorporates classic Lewton scare tactics but in new ways. "His trademark scare tactic, a high point in practically all of his films, is a long, dark, nightmarish walk, where every sound is magnified and every object threatening. In The Ghost Ship, that "walk" is transferred to the cabin of the victimized third officer ..." Others have pointed out another Lewton device, the gradual stalking of a main character by a murderer, as another deft touch in the film.

Modern critics have also pointed out that the film, unlike so many motion pictures of the 1940s, has an almost exclusively male cast and avoids the trope of a man "redeemed by the love of a good woman." The picture is "entirely concerned with male conflict", one critic noted, and at the end of the film a woman appears only in shadow and fog "as the possibility of salvation" rather than bringing emotional closure. Other film critics have made sustained arguments that the film is a lengthy if coded study of repressed homosexuality, similar to that in Herman Melville's novel, Billy Budd. Indeed, the focus on men and men's problems has led one modern critic to declare the film "one of the most homoerotic films Hollywood ever made."

Contemporary film programmers seem to have a high opinion of the film as well. A 1993 Film Forum series, "Val Lewton: Horror Most Noir", screened The Ghost Ship 42 times, while I Walked With A Zombie screened only 10 times and Cat People a mere eight. Film director Alison Maclean chose The Ghost Ship for a retrospective of classic RKO films, arguing that the film was "genuinely eccentric" and a cinematic revelation. When The Ghost Ship was shown on French cable television in the late 1990s, it was introduced as a prime example of Val Lewton's genius at presenting "unseen horror."

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More English county geo-stubs
I've just done a re-tally of the UK and England geography stub categories (now thankfully a lot smaller than they used to be, but still very big - 2500 stubs rather than 3900). The following seven counties have now reached 100 geo-stubs and are probably worth splitting off with their own stub categories: Any objections to me splitting these off? Grutness...  wha?  11:20, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Berkshire and Buckinghamshire (both over 125)
 * Cumbria, Devon, Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk (100-125 each)
 * Strongly encourage. Alai 13:54, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Small Business
I propose a small business and entrepreneur stub category. --Arithmomaniac38 23:49, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * At what point would a small business stop being a small business and need to drop into the main Category:Business stubs? Same question with entrepreneurs and Category:Business bio stubs. GeeJo (talk) 00:19, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Kenya stubs
I propose kenya-stub and kenya-geo-stub. Uganda already has equivalents and has far less represented on wikipedia. Google searches in en.wikipedia.org show 13,000 references to Uganda and 17,600 references to Kenya. TreveXtalk 15:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Uganda-stub and Uganda-geo-stub were created by someone not aware of this project and only narrowly survived being sent for deletion, since there were nowhere near enough items for either category. Since then, there have been many more stubs created, since the person who created the stub types was actively working on Uganda articles. The size of a parent "main" category is irrelevant as far as the creation of stub categories is concerned - the number of stubs is far more important. There could be 1000 articles on a subject but none of them stubs - in which case there is no need for a separate stub cqategory. In the case of Kenya, there were - at last count (today!) 50 geography stubs related to the country. Geo-stub categories are only created when there are more than about 65-70 - and preferably closer to 100 - stubs, especially when the parent stub category is not heavily populated (and is not heavily populated). As far as Kenya-stub is concerned, if you can show that there are 60 currently existing stubs that could take the template, then there's no problem (the non-geographic region-related stubs are not regularly talled by us). With the geo-stub, it may well get created when the number of geo-stub articles relating to Kenya increases - but it isn't needed yet. It's not too far away, though. Now if you were to create 15-20 new stub articles on Kenyan geography and add AfricaE-geo-stub to them, suddenly the creation of a Kenya-geo-stub would look more viable (don't tell anyone I suggested that! :)  Grutness...  wha?  10:40, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * By my count, there are now 66 stubs in {AfricaE-geo-stub} that could become Kenya-geo-stub. However, I tally only a little over 30 stubs at the moment that could use a Kenya-stub  Unless I hear some objections, I'll create the geo stub in about a week. Caerwine 00:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Heh. By my count, there are 67! Did you count the one shared with Tanzania? :) (see note at bottom of page, and newly updated tallies on User:Grutness/Geo-stub tallying) Grutness...  wha?  00:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * See compromise suggestion under Sudan-stub, below. Grutness...  wha?  06:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Kenya-geo-stub has been made, at least. Grutness...  wha?  05:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Drug Stubs
I am think it would be cool to categorize drug stubs first of all marijuana stubs, then uppers, hallucionegens, downers, inhalants, etc. I love to draw and design and would love to volunteer to design a whole bunch of drug stubs. I already have a bunch of good ideas for "Cocaine" based stubs. What about a crack stub? too.Wiki brah 04:58, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * There's already hallucinogen-stub. Anything else could go under med-stub, plant-stub and/or inorganic-compound-stub/organic-compound-stub (depending on the nature of the drug). Or perhaps culture-stub, if it's more about the affect on society. --Mairi 06:11, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Jewish Actresses?
I dont know about you but did you see my sample work on the "hot jewish actress" stub i did I mean I'd make a whole bunch more if it was ok. I love jewish women they are sooo exotic just check out my "Cherie Fleur Juive," Lisa Kushell (I made that stub for her)
 * Yes we did notice - it's currently on "Stub types for deletion", because it isn't a category that makes any sense to use. Actresses are classified with actors - since the same editors will be likely to know about both - and sorted by nationality. "Jewish" isn't a nationality, and "hot' in this case is firstly very point-of-view and secondly a fairly dubious way of describing people. If you want to make more stub types, then coming here and proposing them (by name - don't just say you want to make "a whole bunch more") so that they can be debated before possible creation. Also note that templates are only made when they'll be useful to editors - that's the whole purpose for them, not as decoration! Grutness...  wha?  07:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you very muchb ut one thing I love decorations I mean I have a talent for design and drawing and graphic design can't you tell I would be happier if i could like design professional stubs for you guys. I know the categories might be a little rare but can you agree my Scarface Stub and jewish Acress stubs did ast least look really nice?Wiki brah 18:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hip-Hop Stub
A stub for all things Hip-Hop that are stubs. It fulfills everything necessary to warrant it becoming a stub.Urthogie 17:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've come across so many hiphop stubs recently that I wholeheartedly support this proposal. Aecis 18:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Good idea - may I suggest that hiphop-music-stub, or perhaps just hiphop-stub, would be the best way to hyphenate it? Grutness...  wha?  01:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * hiphop-stub for now, cus i think almost all of the hip hop categories's articles have to do with the music-- thus, theres no need to alienate the other articles relating to hip hop. definitely hiphop-stub.Urthogie 01:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * -i approve: this stub category would help tremendously in reducing the number of musician stubs. (as would a rap category). what's the next step, is anyone creating it? J. Van Meter 15:58, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

U.S. bio stub sorting
How about subdivisions of the U.S. bio stubs? I imagine there are plenty that would fit into new york, california, etc...others can be done either by state or by region as needed. I'll work on it if someone gives the OK (not sure what protocols should be followed to create new stub templates.) Thanks... Paul 14:50, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It would correspond with UT-bio-stub (shouldn't that be Utah-bio-stub?). So this proposal has my support, provided ofcourse the threshold can be reached. Aecis 21:15, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It should be Utah-bio-stub (and I think I might just move it there...). Sounds like a reasonable scheme. I'd suggest following the same sort of pattern as I've been doing with the geo-stubs, both in terms of the naming (and please note GeorgiaUS-geo-stub!) and sorting. If you can, as you go, keep track with a spreadsheet, literally listing each article alongside the state. That way not only will you know which states have enough to split off (maybe a threshold of about 70?) but also which ones should be tagged with the new templates. Grutness...  wha?  01:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Not 100% about this one. We already have several US- -stub templates, wouldn't continuing that pattern be more useful?  Any number of the profession sub-cats look big enough that this would be sustainable for them.  Alai 05:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmmm. You could be right, maybe with the exception of things where there is a specific state relevance (like politicians). As far as Utah goes, the main resson that was created was that there is a separate WikiProject for it. Grutness...  wha?  00:20, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the exceptions, though somewhat on a "cross that bridge when we come to it" basis; much better to split on the country-profession-stub in the first instance, then see what we're "left with".  If US-politician-stubs (say) are already big enough to require re-splitting, then certainly I'm all in favour of doing that on a per-state (or per region) basis.  Alai 06:32, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * An anon user has also just created Florida-bio-stub and its category. --Mairi 05:06, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Writer Stubs
I finished going through all the current writer stubs.

Stats
Thresholding at 50 known stubs and combining into larger groupings where feasible I get the following.
 * 85 stubs in Africa (less Egypt, see discussion below)
 * 75 stubs in the Americas (less US and Canada which have their own cats)
 * 18 stubs in Asia but not a subcat
 * 158 stubs in East Asia (includiong China and Japan)
 * 69 stubs in China
 * 87 stubs in Japan
 * 63 stubs in Middle East (not including Armenia, Egypt, or Turkey)
 * 77 stubs in South Asia
 * 35 stubs in Europe but not a subcat
 * 116 stubs in Central Europe (less Germany)
 * 81 stubs in Germany
 * 121 or 162 stubs in Northern Europe (Nordic + Baltic states + possible Ireland)
 * 112 stubs in Nordic states (Iceland, Scandanavia, Finland)
 * 170 stubs in Southern Europe
 * 57 stubs in Southwest Europe (Spain, Portugal and Andorra) [Could be in Western Europe]
 * 54 stubs in South central Europe (Italy and Malta) [Could be in Western Europe]
 * 52 stubs in Italy
 * 59 stubs in Balkans (less Turkey and Romania, see discussion below) [Could be in Eastern Europe]
 * Western Europe (Benelux + either Ireland, SW Europe, or both needed to reach 50 stubs, might also include Italy)
 * 34 stubs in Benelux
 * 41 stubs in Ireland [could also be in Northern Europe]
 * 48 stubs in Eastern Europe (could also include Romania, Balnkans, Baltic, and Armemia)
 * 66 stubs in Oceania (including Australia)
 * 55 stubs in Australia
 * Miscellaneous
 * 2 stubs in Armenia
 * 8 stubs in Egypt
 * 8 stubs in Turkey

Proposal

 * 1) Africa-writer-stub - At 85 stubs it's large enough and obvious enough to use.
 * 2) no Americas stub - At 75 stubs its large enough, but possible confusion with US-writer-stub leads me to suggest waiting until we have enough stubs to make a SAm-writer-stub is feasible.
 * 3) EAsia-writer-stub - China and Japan are large enough for cats os their own, but with the hanja common to all East Asian writing, it makes a good choice for an icon and no matter how we slice it, will be no Asia-writer-stub for the Korean stubs to go into, if go country specific here.  Could also house the few Vietnamese wrier stubs.
 * 4) MEast-writer-stub - With 63 to 81 stubs its large enough.  Culturally and historically Egypt, Turkey, and Armenia belong here, despite the possibility of their being placed elsewhere on geographic or political grounds.
 * 5) SAsia-writer-stub - The only question I see is should we also include the Southeast Asian stubs from other Brahamic script using languages?
 * 6) no Oceania/Australia stub - By itself, Australia is too small, and Oceania is likely enough to be unobvious as a place for Australian stubs that I don't see the value.  I prefer to wait until a Australia-writer-stub is feasible and then create that.
 * 7) Euro-writer-stub, Nordic-writer-stub or NEuro-writer-stub, CEuro-writer-stub - Western and Southern Europe are just too fragemntary to be obvious or significantly more useful that stucking them in Europe.  Eastern Europe just has too few stubs.  None of the Nordic countries exceeds 40 stubs so there's no likelhood of restubbing the Nordic countries anytime soon.  While Germany has enough stubs to justify a cat of its own if it was needed, the cultural interaction with the rest of Central Europe and the difficulty of deciding between Germany and Central Europe for pre-20th century German language authors residing outside the current German borders makes it best to just simply use only Central Europe as a cat for now.  The Southern European sub groupings are all so close to being creatable that rather than making one large SEuro-writer-stub, I'd prefer to wait a bit and see if Iberia-writer-stub, Italy-writer-stub, and Balkan-writer-stub become feasible.

Discussion
Well I've outlined what I think, now I await your comments. If I hadn't promised to be a good boy after my earlier transgression, I'd go ahead and create Africa-writer-stub as I see no likely objections there, but these can all wait until the 19th to be created if there is consensus. Caerwine 04:01, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Whoo. Well researched! My thoughts on your proposals: Africa-writer-stub, MEast-writer-stub, Euro-writer-stub yes. The others, maybe, but I'd prefer to wait for separate countries, simply because of the problems of definition - already several are close (Germany, Italy, China, Australia and Japan are probably already worth splitting). An overall Asia-writer-stub might also be a good umbrella category. That would give the following:
 * Africa-writer-stub (including Egypt) - 93
 * Asia-writer-stub - 97, plus subcats
 * China-writer-stub - 69
 * MEast-writer-stub - 63
 * Japan-writer-stub - 87
 * Europe-writer-stub - 523, plus subcats (Includes Turkey and Armenia - which are usually regarded geographically as Europe, althout MEast would be another possibility)
 * Germany-writer-stub - 97
 * Italy-writer-stub - 52
 * Australia-writer-stub - 55
 * The Europe category's still pretty big, but is likely to get more splits relatively soon by the sound of it, and it wouldn't surprise me if India also had quite a few by itself. Grutness...  wha?  05:45, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * India won't split for quite some time. Only about 30 of the existing South Asia writer stubs can be clearly attributed to India.  Anyone living pre-partition in Bengal, Punjab, or Kashmir can't be easily pinned down to the current borders so by the time we have enough India stubs for a separate category, there likely will enough of the undifferentiatable South Asia ones as well (especially after one adds in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.  South Asia's fairly easy to define, so long as we don't try to split SE Asia between E Asia and S Asia, so I'll concede the point and leave Burma and the like out of it.
 * For the most part, individual European countries don't go over even 35 stubs. Lowering the bar below 50 would separate out Spain at 46, Ireland at 41, Russia at 37, and Poland and Croatia at 36 each. Given that it looks like someone has been actively creating Croatian related stubs, I think that country's total is a bit bloated and not likely to grow further anytime soon.  The Nordic stubs are pretty much evenly split beteen the individual countries, so unless we get a whole lot more writer stubs, we aren't going to get per country writer stubs for them.  With the Nordic countries being easily defined, a Nordic stub makes sense and we can even use the Nordic Council logo for the little picture found stage right in many stubs. Caerwine 07:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, not to sound overly local-patriotic, but in comparison .hr and .ie have a similar population (including diaspora, even) so it cannot be strange that they have a similar number of writers. If anything, it is strange that we have so few .es and .ru writers (or their articles aren't stubs, which would be good but unlikely) because those are much larger nations. --Joy [shallot]
 * I don't know if you can read too much into that. It could be that there are far more writers from those countries that are beyond the stub level, or it could simply be a language bias. Ireland is, after all, a largely English-speaking country. That explains why there are nearly as many Australian writer stubs as Chinese ones, whereas China has a few more people. Grutness...  wha?  10:49, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I think the number of editors have a lot to say. I've been working on surveying the stub too (although Caerwine did it all in a fraction of the time I've used to get a quarter of the way though), and a LOT of the stubs barely two sentences, usualy just a name and the name of a book they have written (in fact a lot don't even mention nationality so they are not sorted into any of the sub-stubs, but going by the names I bet 90% of them are or US or UK origin, but I'd rather not guess so they have been left in writer-stubs). Given some time I could easily add 300+ stubs on Norwegian writers alone with more info than that, so there is no doubht plenty of untapped potential for other nations too. Incidentaly someone knowledgable might want to consider going though the writer stub list and weed out the most un-notable writers, I've been adding the {{Importance}} warning to the worst ones recently, but writers are not realy my area of expertise, I've been just working on them since the stub cat was so horrebly bloated, so I can't realy say who's non-notable and who just had a lazy editor. --Sherool 20:19, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the stubs outlined by Grutness abowe. Not too crazy about the idea of splitting Europe up into west center or whatever. The argument for using Central Europe instead of Germany to accommodate historical writers might have some merit, but I think (and I am no expert) it's a minor problem. Personaly I'd prefeer to see them split by nation rather than region whenever possible, mostly because the "propper" writer categories are split by nation (then again categories don't need that many articles to make sence as a stub type does). --Sherool 01:24, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, hazy subgroups will be avoided. Unless I hear differently, here is what I intend on creating come Monday:
 * Africa-writer-stub
 * Americas - no stub for now
 * Asia - no overall stub
 * China-writer-stub
 * Japan-writer-stub
 * MEast-writer-stub
 * SAsia-writer-stub
 * Euro-writer-stub The other European wide stubs use the abbreviation Euro, so that form is prefered for consistency.
 * Germany-writer-stub
 * Italy-writer-stub
 * Nordic-writer-stub (well defined area with no likelyhood of individual country stubs anytime soon)
 * Spain-writer-stub Mining generic Spanish biography stubs should easily bring this up to the threshold.
 * Oceania - no overall stub
 * Australia-writer-stub
 * - Caerwine 05:29, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Please do not use Nordic, use NEuro or Scand (and, yes, I believe usage will show that Finland is "Scandinavian" even if it's not on the peninsula; neither is Denmark.) Someone will scream if you do; "Nordic" is perfectly respectable, but, like "Aryan", it should be avoided where possible. Septentrionalis 20:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd be very interested to see some evidence for that assertion. I've usually seen Scandinavia include Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Iceland and Føroyar are sometimes included - but never Finland. Grutness...  wha?  08:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I've already been chided for suggesting Scandanavia as a possibility, North Europe is too vague. (Does it it include the British Isles or the Baltic states as some usages do?) Nordic has the dual advantages of being precise and having a ready to use logo of the Nordic Council which is an organization that includes only the countries intended to be covered by the tag. Caerwine 08:21, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Does Europe really need separating by region? 520 stubs is quite a few, but splitting Spain off will drop it below 500 - we're not talking thousands of stubs. And before long some of the other countries are going to get to splittable levels - especially as bio-stub is being emptied out. Grutness...  wha?  08:25, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll hold off at least a week before creating Nordic so that the generic bio-stubs and the individual Country-bio-stubs in question can have a bit more time to sort out. Caerwine 09:17, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Recatting of the writer stubs is done. The category now being only large instead of very large I took the tag off the cat, but added it to US-writer as it's a 7 page cat now. None of the European countries are even close to having 60 stubs in European writer stubs at the moment. It is possible that if one were to sort the individual country bio stubs that Ireland, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Sweden might have enough, but I'm all tuckered out from recatting, and it will be a while before I feel like making that sort of effort again. Caerwine 01:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Radio-bio-stub
Radio personalities are very hard to categorize currently.--Carabinieri 16:47, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I was just about to propose this. Sounds like a good idea. Radio-stub should be for programs and stations.--Rayc 22:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Sounds good. I think there are enough stubs to fit that category. Jaxl | talk 02:17, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

This is already discussed above in. --Joy [shallot]

Historical regions/countries bio stubs Ancient-Rome-bio-stub
While sorting bio-stubs, I have found that there is a need for stub categories for inhabitants of countries that no longer exist. It is very hard to categorize inhabitants of Ancient Rome, I dont think it is adequate to categorize them as Italians. A similar although slightly easier case is the Soviet Union; you could categorize them under the country, which now lies in the part of the Soviet Union where they were born (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus, etc), or categorize them all as Russians, but I feel both options are inadequat.--Carabinieri 16:47, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We'ver gone through exactly this argument before for mediaeval Europeans. There is a separate Roman-stub - a Roman-bio-stub might well be useful, if it was made clear that it was for anyone from the ancient Roman Empire (remember that many famous "Romans" actually came from places well beyond the city itself - some of them as far away as modern Britain, Spain, and Tunisia). Grutness...  wha?  01:01, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * What do you think of a Soviet-Union-bio-stub or USSR-bio-stub?--Carabinieri 16:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Apparently there already is a USSR-bio-stub, created about a month ago. Aecis 19:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ooops!--Carabinieri 12:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Then I guess this proposal will be just for Ancient-Rome-bio-stub. It could be named Rome-bio-stub, but I think that could be problematice, because people form modern Rome might be put into this category.--Carabinieri 06:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * As far as the name is concerned note that the non-bio temp[late is simply Roman-stub, so I'd recommend Roman-bio-stub. Grutness...  wha?  08:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Given that we have Ancient-Egypt-stub and Ancient-Greece-stub, I'd much rather see Roman-stub renamed Ancient-Rome-stub for consitency that way. Caerwine 10:05, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That's not a bad idea, actually... perhaps it should be taken to sfd for renaming. You want to? I've been putting far too much on there lately... Grutness...  wha?  10:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Croatia-party-stub
This one is tricky. There are (in this moment) 78 Croatia-stub stubs, and this is about to grow since that Category is still expanding. 31 out of that 78 are stubs about Croatian political parties. I strongly doubt this number will rise significantly. Is 31 articles enough for a brand new stub category? Secondly, I don't se regional political stubs. It might be that all politicaly stable countries have rather small number of parties or something, but Croatia-party-stub would be first of that kind. That's why I ask you guys: should I create the category? --Dijxtra 17:17, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest not. The parent is still significantly too small to split, much less in danger of having to be split, which it's short of by a factor of 10.  I have no reason to doubt you that the category is growing, but it's never a sure thing how fast, plus they might perhaps be fleshed out into non-stubs faster than expected, etc.  Plus, I'm very much inclined to stay with the "clear and present" splitting criteria, otherwise it opens us up to the pleas of "I know it only has three stubs in it, but it has enormous scope for expansion!" arguments that we already see from time to time.  Also, delaying the split will hopefully also make it much clearer on what basis to split;  for example, there may be a much larger number of politics stubs in general, in future, than political parties per se.  Alai 01:14, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, you're right. We wait and see. --Dijxtra 16:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

fashion-bio-stub
There was an identical proposal to this one in October; although there were no major objections, the stub was not created. While sorting people stubs, I noticed the necessety for a stub for people involved in the fashion industry: designers, etc. As to the question which was raised during the August proposal of this stub tag: I don't have a problem with including photographers into this category, but they fit into the photographer stub category better.--Carabinieri 17:47, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There are quite a few marked with Fashion-stub that could take this as well. Grutness...  wha?  06:07, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I created it now. I don't think we needed to open a whole new section about this, a reminder at the old one would have sufficed. --Joy [shallot]   18:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

A handful more geo-stubs
The following have now reached a splittable level: This is what I was checking with User:Guettarda about the other day. He says that the name Trinidad-geo-stub shouldn't cause problems with any wikipedians from Tobago (much in the way we use Newfoundland-geo-stub for Newfoundland and Labrador). Grutness...  wha?  13:23, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Trinidad-geo-stub (Trinidad and Tobago) - 71 stubs
 * SouthDakota-geo-stub (South Dakota) - 77 stubs
 * Wiltshire-geo-stub (Wiltshire) - 94 stubs
 * Manchester-geo-stub (Greater Manchester) - 93 stubs
 * Lancashire-geo-stub (Lancashire) - 90 stubs
 * Leicestershire-geo-stub (Leicestershire) - 84 stubs and growing fast

 * Split away. Let's hope the hate-mail from Tobagans does indeed remain at manageable levels...  Alai 17:50, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Heh - you made the same mistake I did. It's "Tobagonians", apparently! Grutness...  wha?  01:24, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, here comes that hate-mail, I guess. I went ahead and "bolded" Wiltshire, I suggest the rest be done whenever anyone has the notion -- the basis for such a split is already agreed in principle, subject to viability, as I understand it, and on the evidence above, they're all viable.  Alai 05:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The other three English counties are going to be a few days away, sadly - I got a glitch in the spreadsheet I keep the list of those articles in and lost about half the data. Luckily I keep separate files for the different regions, so I've got the data from all the other geo-stub groupings, but I've got to go through about 500 England-geo-stubs to see where they refer to. Hopefully by the weekend. Grutness...  wha?  08:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Let's add Arizona-geo-stub to the list. It, too, is above 70 stubs. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 15:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Grutness...  wha?  02:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Australia
Darwinek's pointed out to me that Australia-geo-stub also needs splitting, and although I haven't done a full check, it should be easy to split off four of the states at least. Just going by the article titles there are at least the following numbers - I've added an estimate based on the same proprtion of stubs with less clear-cut titles: As to the names... I think Victoria-geo-stub will be understandable enough, despite the faint possibility of confusion with Victoria, British Columbia. NSW is a bit less certain - NewSouthWales-geo-stub is a better name, but a bit long. Advice, comments, etc. welcome! Grutness...  wha?  05:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * WesternAustralia-geo-stub - at least 291 (estimate about 560 in all)
 * NSW-geo-stub - at least 183 (estimate about 350 in all)
 * Victoria-geo-stub - at least 159 (estimate about 300 in all)
 * Queensland-geo-stub - at least 139 (estimate about 260 in all)
 * I think it would be better as NewSouthWales-geo-stub, which is still shorter than WesternAustralia-geo-stub and SouthAustralia-geo-stub and shorter forms of them using WA and SA will be confusing. There are at least 50 in that category for South Australia, too. --Scott Davis Talk 07:02, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There are - and about 60 Tasmanian ones as well. I'd prefer to stick with the big four states for now, though, otherwise the main category will have just half a dozen NT and ACT stubs and that's it. Grutness...  wha?  08:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Create 'em, no strong opinion either way on exact names. Alai 05:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll stick with the full names as per Scott's suggestion. Grutness...  wha?  08:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I created a Victoria-geo-stub but for some reason articles with this stub aren't showing up in Category:Victoria geography stubs. - Diceman 15:16, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * You modified the category on the template after it had been added to the articles. In situations like this, while the article may have the new category listed, the category itself won't have the article (I have no idea why!). I did a null edit on Baw Baw National Park which pushed it into the category. Null edits on the rest should fix the problem. --TheParanoidOne 18:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll put the articles I know the location of on my User:Grutness/Ongoing geo-stub splits page - but I'm still going through the category checking this one. I'd hoped to have it done by the time these categories were meant to be created - on the 24th (remember waiting a week?) Grutness...  wha?  01:51, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Update: The final count, state-by-state, shows that Tasmania has 120 stubs and South Australia has 91... but, given that just removing the four states that are due for splitting will reduce from 1743 stubs to 295 stubs (a mammoth 83% reduction), that should do the trick for now. Tasmania is probably worth proposing in the next tally-up of geography stubs in general in a few weeks' time, though. My geo-stub split page now has the full lists for the four states to be split. Grutness...  wha?  09:01, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Regional X-related stubs
Category:Stubs by region shows that most regional stubs have names which follow the pattern "X-related stubs". It has been mentioned that these should be changed to remove "-related". I propose such a change, to remove "-related". If the change is done, a bulk Stubs for Deletion entry will be used. This proposal only applies to regional stubs and not other Categories which happen to contain "related". (SEWilco 19:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC))

Possible issues: "Norway stubs" implies it is directly related to Category:Norway, while "Norway-related stubs" specifies the stub might be indirectly related to Norway. Also, country-referencing grammar rules suggest "Norway stubs" perhaps should be "Norwegian stubs" (which already exists), but "Norwegian" is the name of the language of Norway and thus might be reserved for language-related stubs. (SEWilco 19:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC))

 * But "Norway stubs" ARE connected to items in Category:Norway, or certainly should be. Every other section of stubs predominantly uses the formula "Category:Noun stubs", with the stubs connected to items in "Category:Noun". The reasons for this are two-fold. One of these reasons was clear when Category:Historical stubs was changed to Category:History stubs recently. Using an adjective makes for a description of the stubs themselves, rather than a description of the subjects to which they are referring. In many cases, this makes little difference, but in others it definitely does (these were stubs about history, not old stubs). Also, we are frequently told that the names of the stub categories should reflect the names of their parent non-stub categories. So, for example, "Category: Iceland" should have Category: Iceland stubs as its child, not Icelandic stubs, nor Iceland-related stubs.
 * Adjectival usage does cause confusion, and not just as far as the names of languages are concerned. Would Dominican stubs be about Dominica, the Dominican Republic, or a holy order? Then there's Nigerian and Nigerien... and would many intuitively realise what adjective should be used for Monaco (Monegasque), Kiribati (Gilbertese), or Shropshire (Salopian), to name just three examples?
 * All in all, using the same "Noun stubs" formula as used on the vast majority of other stub categories is the most logical answer. Note too that most of the new discoveries (e.g., the recently discovered Category:Saudi Arabia stubs) follow this pattern. Grutness...  wha?  01:45, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

(Since writing all this I have re-read SEWilco's original comments, and notice that I had originally mis-read them. For this reason, I seem to be arguing aginst him even though we are largely in agreement. Sorry for that! Grutness...  wha?  01:32, 6 August 2005 (UTC))

Standardise to X stubs

 * 1) Approve: Standardize all these.  (SEWilco 02:45, 4 August 2005 (UTC))
 * 2) Standardise to the same as other stub categories. Grutness...  wha?  05:56, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) The simplest solution. -- grm_wnr  Esc  08:10, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) I've hated the x-related stub categories, but was too lazy to propose changing them. They were awkwardly worded and irrregularly formed. Get rid of the danged things and give the categories much more reasonable names that matches their stubs and their "parent" categories. Blank Verse   ∅  14:08, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) I find the comments of Grutness above persusive. DES (talk) 15:34, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) At last... Lectonar 10:50, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Yep. --Spangineer (háblame)  15:18, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Simplest, clearest solution. --Mairi 19:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) This seems like a much better idea. --ScottDavis | Talk 11:48, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Reorganisation of People stubs subcategories
I've been bold and started to reorganise the subcategories of by making two umbrella subcategories:  and, in order to clear the huge mess on the first page of the people stubs category and to make it more in line with the Stub types page. If there are strenuous objections, I'll put it back the way it was, but something needed to be done there... Grutness...  wha?  10:17, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds entirely sensible to me. Alai 20:01, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

West Africa/Central Africa
There has been a considerable discussion over on the Talk:West Africa page over what should be counted as West Africa and what Should be counted as Central Africa and a consensus has been reached there to shift the boundary westward. (The text in the West Africa article has been changed to match the consensus, but the pics are as of yet unchanged. Fortunately, this won't require us to change any stub types as the affected countries don't have any country level stub types yet, but this will involve moving some articles from AfricaW-geo-stub to AfricaC-geo-stub. The affected counties are:
 * Equatorial Guinea
 * Gabon
 * Republic of the Congo (which won't even get to keep a light green tint on the West Africa map when the change is complete.)
 * Sao Tome and Principe

I'm in the middle of doing a sweep through the Africa geo stubs anyway so as to see if there are any viable new stub types to propose. Shall I go ahead and make this change while I'm at it? Caerwine 02:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I'll put what stubs I know from those countries on my User:Grutness/Ongoing geo-stub splits page. I had actually just started going through all the geo-stubs anyway (it's probably easier for me, since I have them all on database except for any created in the last couple of weeks). I must admit I was surprised by the original boundaries for West Africa anyway. The info in the header of the two categories will need changing too. Grutness...  wha?  04:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Re: the tally - there's been quite a bit of activity as far as several African countries are concerned, and there are now eight unsplit countries with 50 or more stubs. Ghana has 70, and Kenya and Sudan are probably close enough to consider splitting (67 each). Grutness...  wha?  05:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC) (updated again 01:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC))


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Rānui railway station

Rānui railway station is located on the Western Line of the Auckland rail network in New Zealand. It serves the communities of Rānui and Pooks Road, in the West Auckland suburb of Rānui.

The station was opened on 16 November 1925.

Services
Western Line suburban train services, between Swanson and Waitematā, are provided by Auckland One Rail on behalf of Auckland Transport.

In 2017 local residents complained about the number of assaults at the station and the threatening characters "hanging around" the station, which led to security staff being stationed there for a period.

Stabling project
As part of upgrades to Auckland's urban rail network, ARTA had proposed building a stabling yard to store up to 11 trains to the west of the station. The yard was to be used to clean trains when out of service, and there were to be staff car parking and welfare facilities. Due to opposition from locals this was abandoned and the stabling yard was moved to Henderson.

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Yue Yi

Yue Yi, enfeoffed as Lord of Changguo , was a Chinese military general. He was a prominent military leader of the State of Yan during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was the son of the prime minister of the state of Zhongshan, but when Zhongshan was destroyed by King Wuling of Zhao, he was forced to wander from country to country. His talents were recognized by King Zhao of Yan, and he was made a minister. He served with great skill and helped forge alliances with the states of Zhao, Wei, Chu, Han and Qin against the threat posed by Qi. He led the allied armies and crushed the Qi forces. The cruel King of Qi was driven away, and, except for two cities, the entire territory of Qi was brought under control. Soon thereafter, King Zhao of Yan suddenly died. Due to the scheming of Tian Dan of Qi, King Hui of Yan mistrusted him and he fled to the state of Zhao, where he was enfeoffed as Lord of Wangzhu. His son Yue Jian (樂間) inherited his title Lord of Changguo in Yan.

Popular culture
Yue Yi is one of the 32 historical figures who appear as special characters in the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI by Koei. In the Chinese classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang often compares himself with Yue Yi and Guan Zhong.

In the Manga series Kingdom, he was a highly respected Great General of Yan known as "Gaku Ki" and considered as the "Military God" for his feats on the battlefield. In the past, he served as Commander-in-Chief of a Coalition Army that successfully invaded the state of Qi reducing considerably the power of the state.

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Elbert Lee Trinkle

Elbert Lee Trinkle (March 12, 1876 – November 25, 1939) was an American politician who served as the 49th Governor of Virginia from 1922 to 1926.

Biography
On March 12, 1876, Trinkle was born in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, as the youngest son of the prominent Trinkle family. After graduating from Hampden–Sydney College in 1895, he studied law at the University of Virginia, where he was manager of the Virginia Glee Club, and later opened a Wytheville law practice.

Trinkle served as the chairman and an elector of the Democratic Party in 1916. He served two terms in the Virginia Senate before his election as governor in 1921. Trinkle boasted of his support for woman suffrage and some newspapers credited his victory in the primary in part to the women's vote. Trinkle also acted as a delegate for Virginia to the Democratic National Convention in 1924 and 1928. On November 25, 1939, he died in Richmond, Virginia, and was interred in East End Cemetery in Wytheville.

Trinkle Hall (formally known as Trinkle Library) on the campus of the University of Mary Washington and Trinkle Hall on the campus of the College of William and Mary were both named in his honor, as he helped secure funding to construct the buildings. However, due to the historical treatment of minorities during the Jim Crow segregation era in which he served, the University of Mary Washington elected to rename the hall, as it runs against the university's ASPIRE policy of inclusion among all students. On July 24, 2020, Mary Washington renamed Trinke Hall to James Farmer Hall, after the prominent civil rights activist and former professor at the university. At William and Mary, Trinkle Hall was renamed in September 2020 to Unity Hall. Trinkle Hall on the Radford University campus is also named for him.

Election
1921; Trinkle was elected Governor of Virginia with 64.6% of the vote over Republican Henry W. Anderson and Black-and-tan Republican John Mitchell, Jr.

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All Alone (Frank Sinatra album)

All Alone is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1962.

Originally, All Alone was going to be called Come Waltz with Me. Although the title and the accompanying specially written title song were dropped before the album's release, the record remained a stately collection of waltzes, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins. The original title track is included as a bonus track on the 1992 compact disc release of the album. This was the first studio album from Sinatra not to make the U.S. Top Twenty since 1950.

All of the tracks on the album are torch songs, hence the lonely name of the album. Five of the tracks were written by Irving Berlin.

The cover is a trimmed portion of a painting that hung in Sinatra's Palm Springs home.

Track listing
Side 1:
 * 1) "All Alone" (Irving Berlin) – 2:42
 * 2) "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:18
 * 3) "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (Roy Turk, Lou Handman) – 3:31
 * 4) "Charmaine", (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack) – 3:17
 * 5) "What'll I Do?" (Berlin) – 3:15
 * 6) "When I Lost You" (Berlin) – 3:43

Side 2:
 * 1) "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" (Benny Davis, Joe Burke, Mark Fisher)  – 3:21
 * 2) "Indiscreet" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:52
 * 3) "Remember" (Berlin) – 3:23
 * 4) "Together" (B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Stephen Ballantine) – 3:21
 * 5) "The Song is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)" (Berlin) – 3:25

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1962 release:
 * 1) "Come Waltz With Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:53

Personnel

 * Frank Sinatra - vocals
 * Gordon Jenkins - arranger, conductor

title: All Alone (Frank Sinatra album)


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Sturges Road railway station

Sturges Road railway station in Henderson is on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network. It has a park and ride facility available.

History
The station was opened on 30 April 1934, with other improvements to the Northern Line services.

For many years this station's name was mis-spelt as Sturgess Road. The road was named after a local family living in the area in the 19th century called Sturges, but the incorrect spelling remained in use for many decades until it was corrected in the 1990s.

Services
Western Line suburban train services, between Swanson and Waitematā, are provided by Auckland One Rail on behalf of Auckland Transport.

title: Sturges Road railway station