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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California State Routes

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy keep. No reason for deletion was given, and the nominator voted to keep the article. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

List of California State Routes
I did not nominate this article but the nominator did not create this page. --Rschen7754 05:04, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * note: The person who added the afd template, and then readded it after it was deleted, but who did not follow through on the AFD procedures to create this subpage, was . Because of his keep vote below, it is obvious that this user is making a WP:POINT in response to a vote at Templates for deletion. Blank Verse   ∅  05:45, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

California is a big state- over 300 primary routes, and the most people in the nation, not to mention what may be the country's most complicated roads system. --Rschen7754 05:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP The nominator was making a WP:POINT, see Templates for deletion (the section called VA Highways). Also, look at how many highways there are- wouldn't that be a huge template? --Rschen7754 05:04, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It is a very good page here. A lot of good information. On the Edit Page it states "This page is 90 kilobytes long. This may be longer than is preferable" There is a very simiple way to solve this. Switch the List to a Template.
 * It will make the page more compact
 * It will bring it in to Wiki Compliance
 * The Template will make Navigation easier
 * No data should be lost! You have to much work for that. I'd be happy to offer my time to create the template if it would help. --71Demon 05:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No data should be lost? What about the descriptions of the routes? And how big would the size of this template be? --Rschen7754 05:11, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The descriptions on the List of California State Routes are all redondant. Each of the individual links have detailed descriptions carry much more info than the brief one, next to the list.  A template would only need to be 10x40 to contain the listing and these [[Image:CA-371.gif|25px]] could populate the template making it colorful and easier to navigate. --71Demon 05:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How long would this page take to load on dial-up? There are over 300 of these highways, and besides, who wants to put the template on all 300 articles? --Rschen7754 05:32, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point, I'm on a T-1 line and it loads slow for me. Even if you vote to keep the list, then you should probably remove all the images to make it load faster.  That would help, but would that bring it under the size Wiki wants it to be?  I still think the Template is the way to go to loading and ease of navigation --71Demon 05:36, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, there are a whopping 3 states that use the template system, and 1 of them is being converted through TFD to the list and category system. (A second is on TFD already). Meanwhile, all the other states (California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Alaska, Alabama, Kentucky, just to name a few) use the list and category system. --Rschen7754
 * Not only did the nominator not complete the AfD, he has voted keep as well. If no reason is given for deletion, and no one votes to delete the article, I will plan to close this nomination early. Deletion policy has a list of reasons articles can be nominated for deletion. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Extremely large nav boxes are frowned upon.  I had a template deleted just today :-)  Template:Virginia Higher Education—which made perfect sense at the time, but I understand the reasoning now.  Categories and Lists are much prefered to large, unwieldly templates.  Even if it is somehow desired to generate a template from said information, there is absolutely no reason to delete the list.  Presedence is overwhelming across Wikipedia on this matter.  >:  Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 05:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful article with non-redundant info. I don't understand how converting to template would help. The route sign images aren't needed if size is a concern. -Willmcw 05:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I quote from the VA highways debate: WV doesn't have over 100 Primaries, and only a handful of connectors. So it works well for us being a small state.--71Demon 05:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, no valid reason for deletion given. --Angr/undefined 05:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, of course, nothing even remotely controversial about this. You need the list in order to redlink, and a template would be way too cumbersome.  Antandrus  (talk) 05:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep this list. Lists like this can be very useful because they can be organized and annotated. Absolutely do not create a template for the California State Routes, either as a substitute or a supplement for this list, because that template will only be a bunch of numbers that is going to absolutely meaningless for anybody but a California road geek. Blank Verse   ∅  05:45, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * When I created this afd and voted to keep it was to cause discussion. Now you got some good --71Demon 05:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)discussion going. I still think the Template is the better way to go, and easier to Navigate.  But the listing methode is combersome, and you have an entry that is larger than Wiki wants.  What about splitting off 0-99, 100-199, etc into seperate entries.  That would bring the size down into managable numbers without the template.

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


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Hamid Estili

Hamid Reza Estili (born 1 April 1967 ) is an Iranian football coach and former player. Estili was a member of the Iran national team and is mostly remembered for his memorable goal and goal celebration against the United States at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Early life
Estili was born on 1 April 1967 in Nazi Abad, Tehran. His father was a businessman and his mother a nurse. He began his football playing career with Pas Tehran in 1982.

Club career
Estili played for Al Qadisiya Kuwait, Bahman, Esteghlal Jonoub, Geylang United and Pas. His best years were spent at Persepolis.

After the 1998 FIFA World Cup he signed for FK Austria Wien, however due to unforeseen circumstances, he returned to Iran and played the remaining six years of his career at his beloved Persepolis FC.

In the famous Tehran derby played in 2000, he fought with Mohammad Navazi at the end of the match and was arrested by police. They were imprisoned in Qasr Prison for three days. He was suspended for the rest of the season.

He retired from competitive club football in 2004.

International career
Estili started playing football from an early age and was able to impress, eventually being called up the Iran football team. At age 23, he made his debut versus the USSR. He was known as the workhorse of the national team, but is mostly remembered for his memorable goal and goal celebration against USA at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In 2015, he donated the jersey he wore in that match to the FIFA World Football Museum in Zürich, Switzerland.

Estili retired from international football after match against South Korea in 2000. He had 82 caps and 12 goals for the national team.

Assistant coach of Persepolis
Estili was appointed as assistant coach for Persepolis FC in 2004, as the assistant of Ali Parvin, and then Rainer Zobel. A few months after Arie Haan was chosen as the Head coach, he was sacked by him. After Haan left the team in August 2006, and Mustafa Denizli was signed as the head coach, Estili returned to his former position. On 13 January 2007, during the 2006–07 mid-season break, Estili left the team being sacked again, this time by Denizli due to problems with him. Denizli later stated that "It would be better for him to take some professional trainings", and Estili Compared Denizli's contract with the Treaty of Turkmenchay.

Estili was the assistant coach to Afshin Ghotbi, the head-coach of the club in the IPL 2007/08 season. However, with a lot of tension between the two coaches over the team selection, players, and other decisions it was foreseen that one of them will have to leave Perspolis F.C. at the end of the season. Ghotbi left at the end of the season, and Estili was touted as the new Perspolis manager. However, with Ghotbi's return, Estili left Perspolis.

Steel Azin
Estili was appointed as the head coach of the new promoted team Steel Azin in summer of 2009 and had many starts such as Ali Karimi, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Hossein Kaebi, Fereydoon Zandi, Amir Shapourzadeh and Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht but after failing to progress in Hazfi Cup and totally missing the chance of winning the league he was sacked on 19 April 2010.

On 20 September 2009; in the half time break of the match against Esteghlal, he experienced a squeal with Fereydoon Zandi. Zandi threw a bottle toward him, and Estili then slapped Zandi. The incident led to a fight.

Shahin Bushehr
Estili was appointed Head Coach of Shahin Bushehr on 1 June 2010 and was fired on 4 April 2011, replaced by Mahmoud Yavari. at the time he was sacked, Shahin were in 17th place out of 18, achieving 16 points in 18 matches.

Return to Persepolis as head coach
On 1 June 2011, it was announced that Estili was one of the candidates for coaching Persepolis, alongside Hamid Derakhshan and the current coach, Hazfi Cup winner Ali Daei. Chairman of the club, Habib Kashani, launched a "Technical Committee" consisting of Bijan Zolfagharnasab, Mohammad Panjali and Mohammad Zadmehr to select the next coach among the three. Daei exposed his proposal for 2011–12 season to the club, but he was unable to remain in the club due to tensions with Habib Kashani. Technical Committee stated a condition for Daei: "Daei Should communicate properly with Kashani", which he rejected. On 21 June 2011, Estili was selected as head coach of Persepolis by "The Technical Committee".

Some fans believed that the Technical Committee was a show from Kashani to pull over Daei, and select his "beloved friend" Estili. In a Poll by Navad, 68% believed that "Estili won't be successful with Persepolis".

In the opening match of the season against Malavan, which ended 1–1 after the weak performance of Persepolis and late tying goal by Hossein Badamaki, fans started screaming the name of Ali Daei since 60th minute, showing their displeasure. protests continued in next matches by Booing Estili and Kashani, and slogans wanting them to leave the club. In a poll by Navad on 15 August 2011, 51% believed that the way Estili was chosen is the main reason of protests. Other reasons included weak performance by players (36%) and impatient fans (%13).

He led Persepolis in the 15 matches with five won, five defeats and five draws. He finally resigned on 9 December 2011 after a 3–0 home defeat to arch rivals Esteghlal in quarter-finals of 2011–12 Hazfi Cup.

On 27 November 2012, he was appointed as Persepolis Academy's Director by Mohammad Rouyanian.

Rah Ahan
On 26 June 2014, Estili was named as new manager of Rah Ahan.

Personal life
His younger brother, Masoud, was also a footballer and died in April 2011 after an accident.

Estili is an Iranian Azari. His father was born in Baku, Soviet Union and his mother is from Sarab. He was married in 1999 with Anahita Zahraee and has two daughters, Atena (born 2002) and Anita (born 2005). They are currently living in Saadat Abad.

International

 * Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Estili goal.

Honours
Pas
 * Iranian Football League: 1991–92

Bahman
 * Hazfi Cup: 1994–95

Persepolis
 * Asian Cup Winners' Cup: runner-up 1992–93
 * Iranian Football League: 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02
 * Hazfi Cup: 1998–99

Iran
 * Asian Games Gold Medal: 1998

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1958 NFL season

The 1958 NFL season was the 39th regular season of the National Football League.

The Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants, 23–17, in the first sudden-death overtime in an NFL Championship Game. The game became known to American football fans as "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

Draft
The 1958 NFL Draft was held on December 2, 1957 and January 28, 1958 at Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel. With the first pick, the Chicago Cardinals selected quarterback King Hill from Rice University.

Highlights

The 1958 season is regarded as a watershed year in which the popularity of professional football in the United States began to rival that of baseball in the public imagination. "Professional football was beyond coming of age in 1958," one writer enthused, "it was on an even plane with baseball as the game of the people."

Stadium attendance was robust throughout the league, with crowds in excess of 100,000 twice filling the Los Angeles Coliseum to see the Los Angeles Rams, while the Detroit Lions managed to sell a staggering 42,000 season tickets in advance of the 1958 campaign, ensuring home sellouts at Briggs Stadium.

At the other end of the attendance spectrum, the Chicago Cardinals faltered with the live gate, overshadowed again by the legendary Bears. The team ultimately moved two of their home games for 1959 to Minneapolis before permanently departing for St. Louis the following year. Similarly, the Pittsburgh Steelers were disappointed with their attendance in their new home at Schenley Field, which proved difficult to access and provided a particularly windy and inhospitable place to watch a game. The team sought to remedy its problems by opting out of its two year lease.

Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown electrified football fans around the league by gaining more than 1,500 yards on 257 carries, an average of 5.9 yards per carry. The powerful Cleveland runner smashed the previous NFL record of 1,146 yards in a 12 game season, set by Steve Van Buren in 1949. He also nearly doubled the total of the second leading ground-gainer of 1958, fullback Alan Ameche of the Baltimore Colts. Brown's 17 touchdowns scored similarly dwarfed the tallies of any other player, with Colts end Raymond Berry second on the list with 9 scores.

Young wide receiver Del Shofner of the Los Angeles Rams led all receivers with 1,097 yards gained on 51 catches — a bountiful average of 21.5 yards per completion. Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas made use of a plethora of offensive weapons, connecting with halfback Lenny Moore for nearly 950 yards and wide out Ray Berry for nearly 800 more, leading the league with 2,875 yards passing. Unitas' interception percentage of 2.7% was also a league low among starting quarterbacks. San Francisco 49ers QB John Brodie led the league with a completion percentage of 59.9%.

On the defensive side of the ball, defensive back James Patton of the New York Giants lead the league with 11 interceptions in the 12 game season, followed by Pittsburgh Steelers defender Jack Butler with 9. Quarterback sacks were not an official statistic in this era, but the league-low 183 points allowed by the New York Giants (15.25 per game) give testimony to the stoutness of their defensive unit.

Conference races
The 1958 Colts–Giants title game was a milestone in the popularity of pro football, but the Giants almost did not qualify. The Cleveland Browns led the Eastern Conference title race up until the final week. On December 14, the 9–2 Browns visited the 8–3 Giants. As a snowstorm swept over Yankee Stadium, the Browns' 10–3 lead gave way to a 10–10 tie game on Frank Gifford's pass to Bob Schnelker, which would still have suited Cleveland. The Giants' Pat Summerall missed a 31-yard field goal with 4½ minutes left. With two minutes to play, Summerall had another opportunity from 49 yards out, in inclement weather and connected for a 13–10 win. The Browns and Giants finished with 9–3 records, and in the playoff the next week, the Giants won again at Yankee Stadium, 10–0.

The Western Conference race was over after ten games, with the Colts at 9–1, and the Bears and Rams mathematically eliminated at 6–4. The Colts lost their final two games on the road in California to finish at 9–3, a game ahead of Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Green Bay Packers finished with a league-worst record of 1–10–1 and hired Vince Lombardi, offensive coach of the Giants, as head coach in January 1959. Philadelphia finished tied for worst in the East, at 2–9–1. Two years later, both the Eagles and Packers would play for the championship.

Playoffs
1958 NFL playoffs
 * Home team in capitals

Eastern Conference Playoff Game NFL Championship Game
 * NEW YORK 10, Cleveland 0

 * Baltimore 23, NEW YORK 17 (OT)

Coaching changes

 * Chicago Bears: Paddy Driscoll moved to the team's front office, while George Halas returned as head coach after a two-year break.
 * Chicago Cardinals: Ray Richards was replaced by Pop Ivy.
 * Green Bay Packers: Lisle Blackbourn was replaced by Ray McLean.
 * Philadelphia Eagles: Hugh Devore was replaced by Buck Shaw.

Stadium changes

 * The Pittsburgh Steelers started to split their games between their original home Forbes Field and Pitt Stadium
 * The Philadelphia Eagles moved from Connie Mack Stadium to Franklin Field

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Torkan

Torkan is a heroic fantasy comic strip written and illustrated by Roger Fletcher. The strip debuted in June 1976 in the Sunday Telegraph and has appeared continuously in the paper to the present day, with over seventy stories having been published.

During the early 1970s, Fletcher began developing a comic strip about an Australian soldier-of-fortune, titled Nathan Cole—until he was introduced to the world of sword and sorcery by science-fiction writer Fritz Leiber that would have a profound impact on his future. In particular, the pair of characters called Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser influenced Fletcher greatly.

Fletcher worked on a fantasy comic strip called Orn the Eagle Warrior in 1974, but the strip received no attention from publishers. Fletcher subsequently started drawing Torkan.

Torkan continues to win new generations of readers; something which Fletcher believes is attributable to the character's enduring appeal. Fletcher claims; "the paradigm for heroic adventure was first written in the Bible, as David and Goliath. Whether it's in Arthurian legend or Harry Potter, the paradigm itself doesn't change much - but fashions do change."

Levels of violence in the stories have dropped since the strip's early years.

Torkan has ended on 3 March 2019, with the last strip published in the Sunday Telegraph after 43 years of continuous publication. Refer to Page 21 of the TV Guide section of Sunday Telegraph where the last strip appeared

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Waka-jumping

In New Zealand politics, waka-jumping is a colloquial term for when a member of Parliament (MP) either switches political party between elections (taking their parliamentary seat with them and potentially upsetting electoral proportionality in the New Zealand Parliament) or when a list MP's party membership ceases.

In 2001, legislation was enacted that required list MPs to leave Parliament if they waka-jumped; this law expired after the 2005 election. In 2018 a similar law was passed which requires a defecting MP to give up their seat on the request of their former party leader. Electorate MPs may re-contest their seat in a by-election, whereas list MPs are replaced by the next available person on the party list.

Waka is a Māori language word that originally meant a large Māori canoe (although it can also mean any other vehicle). Hence, the term waka-jumping is a variant of the seafaring term "" – to leave a ship's crew abruptly and against the terms of a fixed-term contract (or naval enlistment).

A 2013 Fairfax-Ipsos poll found that 76% of those surveyed oppose MPs staying in Parliament if they leave their party.

Legislation
The implementation of the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system after a referendum in 1993 led to a series of defections and re-alignments as the former two-party system adjusted to the change. This led to the rise and fall of a number of political parties in New Zealand, including the creation of New Zealand First and ACT. The new political climate tended to favour the establishment of new political parties since in former times, dissidents had often simply become independent MPs. In the two previous parliaments before the 2001 act had been passed, 22 MPs defected.

Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2001
The frequency of waka-jumping made New Zealand enact the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2001, which had been introduced by Labour Party associate justice minister Margaret Wilson in 1999 but had been promoted by Labour's coalition partner Alliance ahead of that year's general election. The act expired at the 2005 election, when the sunset clause came into effect. It required MPs who had entered Parliament via a party list to resign from Parliament if they left that party's parliamentary caucus.

However, parties were still able to find ways around this law. When the Alliance split in 2002 over how to respond to the invasion of Afghanistan, Jim Anderton nominally remained the leader of the Alliance inside Parliament while he campaigned outside Parliament as the leader of the newly-founded Progressive Party. The resulting uncertainty around the Alliance’s position contributed to Prime Minister Helen Clark's decision to call an early general election in 2002. While the law was in force, it was used once to expel a list MP from Parliament (an electorate MP who changed parties could still fight a by-election, as Tariana Turia did ).

In December 2003, the ACT Party caucus voted to expel Donna Awatere Huata, an ACT list MP who became an independent after she had been charged with fraud. The expulsion became the subject of litigation, and Awatere Huata was not expelled from Parliament until a Supreme Court decision handed down in November 2004. A proposed bill to replace the act in 2005 failed.

Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018 and repeal attempt
The Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018 received Royal Assent on 3 October 2018 and entered into force in New Zealand the next day. The provisions on waka-jumping now appear as section 55A of the Electoral Act 1993. Under those provisions, members of Parliament who choose to leave their party or are expelled from their party are also expelled from Parliament if the leader of the party under which they were elected issues appropriate notice to the Speaker that the MP should be expelled, with the seat becoming vacant. Unlike the 2001 act, the 2018 act did not have a sunset clause and so remains in force until it is deliberately repealed. The act was passed as part of the coalition agreement between New Zealand First and the Labour Party and supported through Parliament "begrudgingly" by the Green Party under the terms of its own confidence-and-supply agreement with Labour.

A member's bill in the name of National Party MP David Carter with the intent of repealing the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018 was introduced into Parliament in July 2020. The Green Party defied other government parties to support the repeal bill, with the first reading in Parliament passing by 64 to 55 votes. Carter's Electoral (Integrity Repeal) Amendment Bill was then referred to the justice select committee. After the 2020 New Zealand general election, the bill's second reading was held on 12 May and 14 June 2021, and the Labour Party used its majority of 65 seats to block its passage.

List of waka-jumpers
Below is a list of notable waka-jumpers:

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