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Alta Vista (disambiguation)

AltaVista is search engine company, which is now owned by Yahoo!.

Alta Vista (Spanish and Portuguese expression that literally means "a view from above") or Altavista may also refer to:

Belize

 * Alta Vista, Belize, a village in Stann Creek District, Belize

Canada

 * Alta Vista, Ottawa, neighbourhood in the country's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario
 * Alta Vista Drive, suburban road in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Ottawa
 * Alta Vista Ward, municipal election ward which includes the Alta Vista neighborhood, along with others in Ottawa

Mexico

 * Altavista (Zacatecas), a Mesoamerican archaeological site in Zacatecas
 * Altavista petroglyph complex in Nayarit
 * Altavista (Mexico City Metrobús), a neighbourhood and a BRT station in southern Mexico City

United States

 * Alta Vista, California
 * Alta Vista, Iowa
 * Alta Vista, Kansas
 * Alta Vista Township, Minnesota
 * Alta Vista, Missouri
 * Alta Vista High School (Arizona), in Tucson, Arizona
 * Alta Vista High School (California), in Mountain View, California
 * Alta Vista Terrace District, a historic district in Chicago, Illinois
 * Altavista, Virginia
 * Altavista High School, Virginia
 * Altavista Downtown Historic District, Virginia

Other uses

 * Juan Carlos Altavista (1929-1989), Argentinian actor
 * AltaVista Firewall, discontinued firewall product from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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Talk:Comma splice

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Untitled
My understanding is that a run-on sentence is not the same as a comma splice; a run-on sentence has no punctuation between the two independent clauses.

E.g.,

Correct: It is nearly half past five; we cannot reach town before dark.

Comma splice: It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.

Run-on sentence: It is nearly half past five we cannot reach town before dark.

Chuck 22:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * My understanding is that a comma splice is a type of run-on sentence, with some grammarians using the term "fused sentence" to distinguishing run-ons with no punctuation. --Muchness 18:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The following quotation from the Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers clarifies this point. "A run-on occurs when no punctuation at all separates two independant clauses." (5th ed., p. 509) --Davidstrauss 22:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Where is the comma?
I'm confused. Shouldn't there be a comma in this example of a "comma splice"?
 * A run-on sentence is a sentence that contains a comma splice.

--hydnjo talk 13:29, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

User comma-splice template
If you're interested in helping Wikipedia fix comma splices or you find them annoying in general, you can use Template:User comma-splice to your userboxes. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 02:14, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Grammar stub
Why did someone change this to a typography stub? It's a grammar and linguistics stub. has mainly fonts in it. bCube.talk(contribs); 00:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

 * No it isn't grammar, it's style, as reflected by the content at this point. English grammar isn't controlled that way there's no Academie Englais oder. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 22:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

British as well
The article said the comma splice was considered an error "especially in American English". But I'm pretty sure there's no 'especially' about it; it's definitely considered an error in British English too. So I've changed it, but if anyone disagrees, let me know. (I don't know if the term 'comma splice' was coined in The Elements of Style — if it was, that should probably be mentioned.) Spandrawn 10:51, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

 * It seems that having comma splices are less taboo in British English...or it could be a coincidence that all the authors cited on this page who use them use British English. Justbobdanish (talk) 22:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've read almost every style guide (for English) produced in the last century or so (used to have a massive book collection, including hundreds of style guides, as one of WP:MOS's main shepherds), and I've never seen a British or other one recommend comma splices, so "especially in American English" appears to be someone's original research. It's a trivial matter to cherry-pick through published materials to find examples of writers doing it, and select just those from a particular country to give a false impression of acceptance in a particular dialect. The recent edit to remove the "especially in American English" claim was the correct move, pending some astoundingly good sourcing that proves a well-accepted dialectal split on this matter. The very fact that our own editors hunt down and eliminate comma splices in our material regardless where they are from is strong internal evidence against this notion. More anecdotally, I have lived for extended periods in the US, the UK, and Canada, and comma splices are as common in low-quality American writing as they are anywhere else, and are not common in high-quality writing anywhere, in my experience.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Example
But I found the quote from the Jerusalem Bible in this week's mass readings, which is much better!

Mhkay 12:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Eats shoots and leaves
There is no way that Lynne Truss should be cited as an authority on punctuation or grammar on Wikipedia. Can I suggest that the reference to her book be removed? There must be proper textbooks which this article can refer to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.106.225.127 (talk) 13:03, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

 * You know, I have to agree with you. Truss is a popular author, not an authority on grammar. I removed the paragraph, which is unnecessary, because it muddies the waters, is written quite flippantly and sillily, and is talking about literary and poetic use, not standard English usage. Here's the removed paragraph, which I have tidied up considerably in case for some reason there's a consensus it should be re-inserted:
 * Very occasionally, some popular writers are less prescriptive when it comes to well-known very literary authors, though not when it comes to standard English usage. Lynne Truss observes: "so many highly respected writers observe the splice comma that a rather unfair rule emerges on this one: only do it if you're famous." She cites Samuel Beckett, E. M. Forster, and Somerset Maugham. "Done knowingly by an established writer, the comma splice is effective, poetic, dashing. Done equally knowingly by people who are not published writers, it can look weak or presumptious. Done ignorantly by ignorant people, it is awful."
 * Softlavender (talk) 03:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you are trying to remove opinions that happen to differ from your own. In a matter such as grammar and punctuation, the views of a respected modern journalist are as relevant as those of the authors of dry textbooks written 100 years ago. And it's certainly worth citing respected authors such as Beckett, Forster, and Maugham who have ignored the textbooks (I'd be happier if we could find actual examples from those authors rather than quoting them second hand, but by leaving the Truss quote here, perhaps we can encourage someone to find them). Truss's observations here are pertinent and challenging, and that has a place in the article.
 * Mhkay (talk) 23:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I also agree with not citing Truss as an authority. Her book is popular because it has a cute title, and is a very short read in very simple English, but she is not a linguist or an English-language scholar. She's a sports journalist (and an unpopular novelist); the simplistic style she recommends heavily reflects this, being entirely derivative of other British news/journalism style guides and of fiction writing style, which have little in common with style guides for other forms of writing, or general works on the grammar and punctuation of English. Her work is basically an oversimplified opinion-piece monograph. The quote above be WP:DUE as an attributed direct quotation from someone who is basically a pop-culture commentator on usage (of particular sorts), but we should not be citing Truss's book for statements of linguistic fact, because it is not a reliable source for them. But even the quote above is questionable to use at all; it's simply a regurgitation of the saying "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" attributed to Pablo Picasso and various others (and existing in other forms, like "Know the rules well so you can break them effectively" attributed to Dalai Lama XIV, and "Learn the rules first so you can break them with style", etc.) I'm skeptical that it adds anything encyclopedic.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I think you are trying to remove opinions that happen to differ from your own. In a matter such as grammar and punctuation, the views of a respected modern journalist are as relevant as those of the authors of dry textbooks written 100 years ago. And it's certainly worth citing respected authors such as Beckett, Forster, and Maugham who have ignored the textbooks (I'd be happier if we could find actual examples from those authors rather than quoting them second hand, but by leaving the Truss quote here, perhaps we can encourage someone to find them). Truss's observations here are pertinent and challenging, and that has a place in the article.
 * Mhkay (talk) 23:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I also agree with not citing Truss as an authority. Her book is popular because it has a cute title, and is a very short read in very simple English, but she is not a linguist or an English-language scholar. She's a sports journalist (and an unpopular novelist); the simplistic style she recommends heavily reflects this, being entirely derivative of other British news/journalism style guides and of fiction writing style, which have little in common with style guides for other forms of writing, or general works on the grammar and punctuation of English. Her work is basically an oversimplified opinion-piece monograph. The quote above be WP:DUE as an attributed direct quotation from someone who is basically a pop-culture commentator on usage (of particular sorts), but we should not be citing Truss's book for statements of linguistic fact, because it is not a reliable source for them. But even the quote above is questionable to use at all; it's simply a regurgitation of the saying "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" attributed to Pablo Picasso and various others (and existing in other forms, like "Know the rules well so you can break them effectively" attributed to Dalai Lama XIV, and "Learn the rules first so you can break them with style", etc.) I'm skeptical that it adds anything encyclopedic.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I also agree with not citing Truss as an authority. Her book is popular because it has a cute title, and is a very short read in very simple English, but she is not a linguist or an English-language scholar. She's a sports journalist (and an unpopular novelist); the simplistic style she recommends heavily reflects this, being entirely derivative of other British news/journalism style guides and of fiction writing style, which have little in common with style guides for other forms of writing, or general works on the grammar and punctuation of English. Her work is basically an oversimplified opinion-piece monograph. The quote above be WP:DUE as an attributed direct quotation from someone who is basically a pop-culture commentator on usage (of particular sorts), but we should not be citing Truss's book for statements of linguistic fact, because it is not a reliable source for them. But even the quote above is questionable to use at all; it's simply a regurgitation of the saying "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" attributed to Pablo Picasso and various others (and existing in other forms, like "Know the rules well so you can break them effectively" attributed to Dalai Lama XIV, and "Learn the rules first so you can break them with style", etc.) I'm skeptical that it adds anything encyclopedic.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

removed poetry sample
I removed the poetry sample, which is not applicable to standard English prose usage. Here is the removed text:

 * The editors of the Jerusalem Bible had no qualms about using a comma splice in poetic contexts. They translate Isaiah 11:4 as:
 * His word is a rock that strikes the ruthless, his sentences bring death to the wicked. (Cited extract available online at )
 * His word is a rock that strikes the ruthless, his sentences bring death to the wicked. (Cited extract available online at )

I have removed this because this text is poetry (and not only that, a tramslation, and one which attempts to match an ancient language). Poetry does not follow standard usage -- there are infinite numbers of comma splices in English poetry, and rarely a semi-colon to be found. Therefore, this has no relevance. Softlavender (talk) 03:01, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but I'm going to put it back again. I think you are trying to remove views simply because you happen to disagree with them. Arguing that these views aren't relevant to "standard English prose usage" seems irrelevant - why should this article be concerned only with standard English prose usage? There is no reason why an article on grammar and punctuation should not explore a variety of usages including poetic usages and translations. The things you have removed meet all the criteria for inclusion: they provide cited evidence that there are writers who disagree with the standard rules, at least in particular well-chosen circumstances, and that is relevant information to include.
 * Mhkay (talk) 22:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Mhkay (talk) 22:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The Buckley Addition
I'm not happy with the way the Joanne Buckley reference was added. I've toned it down a little, but I think more work needs to be done.

Firstly, views on what is right and wrong in grammar are opinions: they need to be reported as opinions, not as factual statements. This is especially true when there is cited evidence of reputable authors who break the rules.

Secondly the list of seven conjunctions is remarkably rigid. This seems to suggest that I can say "He went to bed, for he was tired", but not "He went to bed, since he was tired". I'm sure this isn't what the text means to say, but that's what it says, so it needs to be clarified.

Finally, I don't think the checklist for use "in your own writing" is encyclopaedic material. I think it should be removed for this reason. If it isn't removed then it needs to be greatly improved, e.g. (a) spelling "appices", (b) reference to "the next question" when there aren't any questions.

Mhkay (talk) 09:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree with your comments Mhkay. I fixed the errors you pointed out in the checklist section and re-worded it so it sounds less like a how-to guide.  Going by the term "Neither of the errors applies" in the checklist as added by 873ddr, I suspect 873ddr's addition was only part of a larger original checklist; what's here could probably be pared down to a sentence or two for this article. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to see the "Identifying" section removed as well, but I also wanted to note as it stands now that it would also identify a run-on sentence (with neither punctuation nor a conjunction joining the independent clauses) as a comma splice. I'm not aware of any authority that sanctions this definition, although I haven't seen the Buckley reference. Chuck (talk) 23:25, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I see that you are right, Chuck. I'll remove the section. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I see that you are right, Chuck. I'll remove the section. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I see that you are right, Chuck. I'll remove the section. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I added a comment about although and since to the Buckley paragraph, and User:Muchness removed them on the grounds that these are "subordinating conjunctions" rather than "coordinating conjunctions". A subtle distinction, no doubt. But how does it affect their use in comma-spliced sentences? Are we to understand that it's OK to write "I resign, for I am defeated" and "I resign, yet I am not defeated", but it is not OK to write "I resign, since I am defeated" or "I resign, although I am not defeated"? It seems to me that there is no tenable grammatical distinction between these four sentences, and if the first two are OK, then the last two must also be OK. In fact, it appears to me that ANY conjunction is OK in this grammatical context. Mhkay (talk) 18:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The practical distinctions between the two groups of examples may resolve to shades of meaning so subtle as to be semantic hairsplitting, but if we're writing an encyclopedic article, in my opinion we need to be precise about the use of formal terminology. The use of subordinating conjunctions to make one clause dependent on the other is of course a perfectly fine way to fix a comma splice, and it's given as an example in the Corrections section.
 * I don't have the Buckley reference to hand, but as I read the article's referenced passage, she's only offering one common scenario; she's not saying that there are no other valid ways to repair a comma splice. If it's felt that this section is misleading or ambiguous, we should rewrite the Buckley paragraph with reliable sources that give a more comprehensive treatment of the various ways comma splices occur and are repaired. --Muchness (talk) 01:30, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've made another attempt to fix this by adding a note that other kinds of conjunctions are OK too. Mhkay (talk) 22:33, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Is this acceptable?
"I would argue that copying is not a criminal offence, it is merely irresponsible."

I would write this sentence without compunction, but it seems to be against the rules, and not within the scope of any of the acknowledged exceptions. Using a semicolon or dash in place of the comma seems far too strong in this situation; it seems to encourage the "it is merely irresponsible" to be contrasted with the "I would argue" rather than with "copying is not..." Mhkay (talk) 09:59, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Actually, a colon would be the traditional choice in this example. The second clause elaborates or explains the first clause, a classic use of the colon. I think the tendency to use a comma here is an overgeneralization of the construction "Not this, but that." There is a sense of contradiction, but as the conjunction cannot be used, neither can the comma. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.44.72 (talk) 00:26, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

"However" is postpositive, I believe.
It shouldn't start a sentence. Ifnkovhg (talk) 04:31, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There is no such rule. However, if you can supply a source for your claim, we will consider it. Heron (talk) 09:47, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Speech determines grammar ...
particularly in living languages. This is purely a matter of writing style and a pretty trivial one at that. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 22:30, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what speech has to do with it, since commas don't occur in speech; this is obviously just a writing matter. If you're implying some action should be taken because of that fact, please state as much explicitly.  Telanis (talk) 22:20, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Stylistic Observation
Wouldn't it be grammatically correct to correct a comma-spliced sentence by adding a comma, a space, and an ellipsis to its end? — RandomDSdevel (talk) 14:28, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I doubt it, very much so. I think this sentence I just split is a good example of a blatant comma-spliced run-on sentence which even more tolerant readers might frown upon.
 * Just try it yourself, take a random paragraph out of somewhere (the longer, the better) and glue all sentences in it together demarcated only by commas, and read the result out, I don't think it's going to look particularly nice, by the way, I've just demonstrated it here, it looks breathless and like telegraphese at best, I don't think your suggestion makes it any better, it just reads like inept stream of consciousness, an inexperienced writer might write like this, it comes across as very unprofessional, ... --Florian Blaschke (talk) 03:16, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, and technically, you are suggesting to add a comma after the sentence-ending punctuation!, ... Nitpicky, but this is to be expected here. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 03:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Better style guide source?
In the world of professional editing, The Chicago Manual of Style (16th) is one of several modern comprehensive style guides that are in wide use. Strunk & White is extremely old-fashioned and increasingly condemned in professional editorial circles (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/strunk-and-white.aspx, https://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497), and it isn't even used a style guide by any known English-language publisher, so at least adding the advice given in modern style guides like CMOS would be more relevant and more helpful for this article. 71.227.163.196 (talk) 02:52, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes, it would be great to summarise what CMOS has to say on the subject. Go ahead and do it! Mhkay (talk) 16:53, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Correcting comma splices
Simply removing the comma does not correct the error, but results in a run-on sentence (if the sentence is not one already). There are several alternatives to using a comma splice:

 * Change the comma to a semicolon, em dash, or colon:
 * It is nearly half past five; we cannot reach town before dark.
 * It is nearly half past five—we cannot reach town before dark.
 * ''We cannot reach town before dark: it is nearly half past five.
 * In the last example, the two clauses must be transposed. A colon often introduces a reason or explanation: the colon becomes a substitute for "because".  The clause giving the reason ("it is nearly half past five") must follow the clause that needs explanation ("We cannot reach town before dark").

 * Write the two clauses as two separate sentences:
 * It is nearly half past five. We cannot reach town before dark.
 * Insert a coordinating conjunction following the comma:
 * It is nearly half past five, so we cannot reach town before dark.
 * It is nearly half past five, and we cannot reach town before dark.
 * Make one clause dependent on the other:
 * Because it is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.
 * It is nearly half past five, which means we cannot reach town before dark.
 * Use a semicolon plus a conjunctive adverb:
 * It is nearly half past five; hence, we cannot reach town before dark.
 * Make the sentence a conditional statement:
 * If it is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.

I've because Wikipedia is not a usage guide. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 01:16, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Part of understanding what is a comma splice is understanding what isn't a comma splice. I agree the wording and title could use a tweak per WP:NOTHOWTO, but the article is less informative and incomplete if it doesn't provide alternative sentence forms that are not comma splices. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:34, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * In that case, the best thing would be to find a source that explicitly contrasts comma splices with not-comma-splices for purposes of commenting on the topic of comma splices – not simply extrapolating from a source saying "do this – not this". That would produce an article that's simply a usage guide in disguise. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:45, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I have to agree, this page is much less useful without the section on correction. Elliot321 (talk) 01:04, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Please have a look at WP:NOTTEXTBOOK: "The purpose of Wikipedia is to present facts, not to teach subject matter". The removed content is simply an adaptation of examples from Strunk's original The Elements of Style arranged in order to instruct readers in punctuation and grammar. That's not the purpose of an encyclopedia. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:14, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe we should add that section to a site like WikiSource then, and link it from this page with the usual "There is a page related to this at WikiSource" template Elliot321 (talk) 13:57, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Original research
I added the original research message box – a significant part of the article's content, including additions already discussed on this talk page, is evidently based on analysis, synthesis, or interpretation that may or may not be directly attributable to an existing, published source. I've listed some examples below. Any help finding reliable, published sources that explicitly support these and other statements would be appreciated.

—Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:04, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 * This seems a very extreme interpretation of the rules on original research. You seem to be suggesting that if we find 17 people who all say X, and two who say otherwise, then reporting "most people say X but some disagree" is unacceptable synthesis. That surely can't be what's intended by the rules. Equally, you seem to be saying that if an authority describes a grammatical rule, we can't explain the rule with a simple example unless that authority (or some other authority) used the same example. If we were to follow that principle, it would become impossible to explain complex concepts to a general audience, which is surely what Wikipedia is intended for. Mhkay (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is actually intended to be a summary of accepted knowledge. For Wikipedia's purposes, "accepted" means, at minimum, "published". Any explanations of concepts – indeed, all material – must be attributable to reliable, published sources. Wikipedia's policies are very clear about not allowing any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated by the sources. This applies to examples as much as anything else, which is necessary to avoid undue weight. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, we have not found 17 sources who say "X", or anything close to it, so that's a straw man argument. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 20:08, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with Mhkay. Regarding the first bullet point Sangdeboeuf has listed above, there's nothing wrong with citing a few style guides to support a statement about what style guides say; there's no need to find some meta-source that has already summarised style guides for us.   you might be interested in These are not original research, which describes common-sense limitations about what is considered prohibited original research. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:30, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Some points: First, one of the sources in the first example is not actually a style guide. Second, the phrase "Some English style guides" doesn't indicate anything about the relative weight that the cited opinions carry; it would be equally true – and no more encyclopedic – to write, "Some authors have stated that the Earth is flat". Secondary and tertiary sources are absolutely needed to establish due weight, per WP:BALANCE. Third, These are not original research doesn't address vague qualifiers like "Some", which could just as verifiably be changed to "few" or "hardly any" (since only two sources are cited); and finally, that essay doesn't necessarily indicate what is "considered" original research by the Wikipedia community – it is only an essay, not a policy. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:30, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Regarding statements in the article that are or  and therefore don't need citations: once again, all material must be attributable to a reliable, published source, even if you're sure it is true, especially when it contains interpretation or analysis such as describing a particular example of something as. However, even ordinary examples must be properly sourced to reflect proportional coverage in reliable sources and avoid original interpretations. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 09:16, 10 April 2017 (UTC) (Updated 13:21, 14 April 2017 (UTC))
 * Just to clarify,, are you saying that describing "I came, I saw, I conquered" as "famous" is interpretation or analysis that must be cited? Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 09:47, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * In the context of comma splices, yes. It's also the kind of loaded word that might be described as puffery. But if the phrase is so famous, then finding a reliable source that discusses it in grammatical terms should be a trivial matter. If there is no such source, then the statement's inclusion here is a red flag indicating original research. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 10:37, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Calling a famous quote "famous" is not puffery. Did you understand this excellent advice from ? Perhaps you could resolve the tag you keep insisting on yourself using one of these sources? Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 11:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * "Famous" according to whom? How many times do I have to point out that all material must be attributable to a reliable, published source? That is one of the fundamental principles of Wikipedia. But now that you've gone to the trouble of identifying sources, there's nothing stopping you from adding one to the article yourself. A few clicks and you're done. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 11:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussion continued at user's talk page. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 01:37, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

New section re: "I came, I saw, I conquered" is below. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:58, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I've removed most of the above examples and. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 21:30, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Recent edits
Looking at the changes made to this article over the last couple of months I find them very disappointing. The whole structure and flow of the article has been lost. A new structure has been imposed (by changing the headings) which doesn't fit the content, and the whole thing now feels random and disjointed. I'm very tempted to revert it back to where it was at the beginning of February. Mhkay (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * What specific actions/problems are you proposing? Describing some would be more helpful than simply saying "I don't like it". —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 20:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * My personal preference would be to roll back the article to where it was. A lot of people put a lot of effort in and I think you have spoiled it. But that's Wikipedia; nothing has permanence, whatever its quality. I'm not going to start an edit war, and I have no desire to redo work that I did five years ago just because someone with more energy has their own views. I will just sigh, and learn the lesson that working on Wikipedia can be very unrewarding. In particular, the constraints you are suggesting of not allowing any kind of analysis, comparison, or evaluation of sources to my mind eliminate any motivation to take part at all. Great encyclopaedias were never written by copy-editors, they were written by experts. Mhkay (talk) 23:11, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Great encyclopedias may be written by experts, but even experts are expected to adhere to the fundamental principles of Wikipedia. See Five pillars: "Editors' personal experiences, interpretations, or opinions do not belong". Also, if you will look at my comments under above, you will see that I am not suggesting "not allowing any kind of analysis, comparison, or evaluation of sources" – I am asking for secondary sources that can be used to support said evaluation. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 14:12, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

"I came, I saw, I conquered"
I'm not seeing any sources that explicitly place "I came, I saw, I conquered" in the same category as Strunk's joining of clauses that are "very short" and "alike in form", so I removed the statement to that effect. Usually this sentence is treated as a special example of rhetorical style rather than punctuation. Consider this excerpt from Follett's Modern American Usage:

—Sangdeboeuf (talk) 13:13, 14 April 2017 (UTC) (updated 05:13, 23 May 2017 (UTC))

comma splice in German
Does everyone know a German translation for comma splice? --Worm&Virus (talk) 23:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC) In German, the comma splice may be bad style, but it is not wrong grammar. Pls excuse my weak English :-)

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In the middle we have the front runner for me. Modified from the original. No value slot (I feel value line is redundant with Dollar coin heading one line above), with production years, alloys abreviated. In center; min mods, number in circulation (bottom) I don't care to much about, but it is a nice fact. The one on the far left is the original.

Main articles, ones that have more than one major mintin design, shouldn't have this table, such as United States dollar coin. It should be reserved for more specific articles such as Sacagawea dollar. Just my two cents (hehe I love links). Lemme know what your thoughts are. The tables caught my eye last night, so I figured I'd do something. Joe I 20:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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St Cuthbert's High School

St Cuthbert's Catholic High School is a boys-only Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status located on Gretna Road in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Admissions
St Cuthbert's is a seven-form entry school. The school admits students of all faiths, but Roman Catholic children take priority.

History
St Cuthbert's Grammar School was opened in Westmorland Road, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 16 August 1881, largely due to the efforts of Bishop James Chadwick and his successor Bishop John Bewick building upon the foundations of the Catholic Collegiate School established in 1870 in Eldon Square. Shortly afterward the School moved to larger premises in Bath Lane in the centre of the city. In 1922 the School transferred to the present site on Gretna Road. Part of the school (1922 Block – now demolished) was built directly over the Vallum (rear ditch) of Hadrian's Wall. During WWII, boys were evacuated to Cockermouth in what is now Cumbria. In 2011 the School again became single site on the completion of the Building Schools for the Future work, the former Lower School buildings on Fox & Hounds Lane having been demolished.

It was a direct grant grammar school until September 1977, then began to take a comprehensive intake.

The school converted to academy status in March 2012.

Principals
Since 1881 there have been seven clergymen as head: and three lay headteachers: The incumbent is Daniel P. Murray.
 * Canon Wickwar
 * Fr. Magill
 * Monsignor Horace K. Mann
 * Monsignor Jeffrey
 * Monsignor Canon Cunningham
 * Canon M. Cassidy,
 * Fr. M. Walsh
 * Mr E. Lovell
 * Mr J. G Murphy
 * Mrs C. Davison

Academic statistics
St. Cuthbert's was 662nd in the Financial Times Top 1000 Schools 2008 – 17th of 34 schools in the North East to make the list.

Notable alumni

 * Kenneth Allott – poet
 * Flt Lt Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM MA KSG RAF – World War II Escaper, the 'medium-sized man' of Colditz Castle
 * John Carver – football player and coach
 * Ryan Donaldson – footballer
 * Declan Donnelly OBE – Dec of Ant & Dec
 * Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh – First Sea Lord from 2001 to 2002 of the Royal Navy
 * Sir Terry Farrell – architect
 * Sir Anthony Grabham – President from 2002 to 2003 of the British Medical Association, and chairman from 1993 to 2005 of the BMJ Group
 * Mick Herron - mystery and thriller novelist
 * Paul Kennedy – historian and writer
 * Jack Lambert - professional footballer
 * Rt Rev Hugh Lindsay – Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle from 1974 to 1992
 * Rt Rev Joseph McCormack – Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle from 1937 to 1958
 * Cecil McGivern CBE – BBC executive, and Controller of BBC One from 1950 to 1957
 * Lawrie McMenemy – football coach
 * John Middleton – Vicar Ashley Thomas in Emmerdale
 * Lee Novak – footballer
 * Gordon Sumner (Sting) – bass player & singer in The Police and solo artist
 * Neil Tennant – Singer in the band Pet Shop Boys
 * Rt Rev Joseph Thorman – Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle from 1925 to 1936
 * Tom Tuohy CBE – put out the Windscale fire in October 1957
 * Rt Rev Frank White – Assistant Bishop of Newcastle (Anglican)
 * Liam Noble – Professional footballer
 * John Nichol (RAF officer) - Royal Air Force navigator
 * Joey Batey – Actor
 * Michael Ndiweni – Professional footballer

News items

 * Chemistry explosion in 2003

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Talk:WIPX-TV

This is a Bloomington TV station?
Perhaps, the station could add more entertainment programming in the daytime hours, old dramas and old shows for example, Matlock is possible, which other people want to see, and possibly a afternoon slot devoted to old cartoons, which many stations have gived up on, and parents are to blame for this, and has only "independent" network programming from 6 P.M. until about 11:30 P.M.

Unknown IP

Move WIPX-TV to WIPX
The proper call sign for this station is WIPX. WIPX in the FCC TV station database. The "sister station", WIPX-LP, is just a repeater of WIPX. AlexDW 19:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This article has been renamed as the result of a move request.

Vegaswikian 08:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch! --AlexDW 11:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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The Cat's Pajamas: Stories

The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The name of its title story comes from a phrase in English meaning a sought after and fancy thing. Another collection by the same name was published in the same year by fellow science fiction author James Morrow.

"Chrysalis"
A black boy is visiting one of his relatives in a beachside town for the summer. He befriends a white boy. They spend much time together in the sun, and the white boy grows darker. At the end of the summer the white boy's skin is darker than the black boy's skin. The black boy is very happy at this, until he peels the tan skin off of the white boy.

"The Island"
A paranoid family lives on the outskirts of a town. One night, they hear a person enter the house. They are all in separate rooms, and are too scared to collect in one room. The narrator hears a gunshot in each room where one of her family members is hiding. She hears the intruder try her door, and she dives out the window. A later investigation shows that the intruder walked calmly in and out of the house. The narrator is the only survivor.

"Sometime Before Dawn"
At a boarding house somewhere in the Midwest, two travelers stop and rent a room. They are not like all the other people there. Their clothes are futuristic. The narrator describes them as sad, and recalls hearing them crying in the night. The reader is led to believe that they are from the future, and that they are fleeing a horrifying future that is destined to arrive.

"Hail to the Chief"
The United States is gambled away by senators to a Native American tribe. The president rushes to the chief to try to bargain for the whole country back, and wins, but with one cost.

"We'll Just Act Natural"
A black woman and her mother are waiting for a grown white man who was raised in part by the old black woman. He has become a famous author and has promised to stop for a visit while en route to his play opening on Broadway. She insists that he will come, while her daughter is pessimistic about it. They watch his train arrive from afar. After a while, the younger black woman leaves as she assumes that he won't show. The older woman waits until the train leaves the station. She is phoned by her daughter later and lies about how she had a great time with him, with everything as perfect as she had imagined.

"Ole, Orozco! Siqueiros, Si!"
An art connoisseur is taken to a funeral for an artist. He is driven past some graffiti on the way there. During the service, he realizes that the artist was a graffiti artist and that the images displayed in the church are pictures of his graffiti. He then goes back with his friend to the original graffiti. He is convinced to help whitewash the originals so that it is never discovered that the art is graffiti.

"The House"
Maggie and William, a married couple, decided to move into an old house. William loved the old house and started to clean up the house. On the other hand, Maggie was not as enthusiastic as William. Maggie was not used to such a dirty house, because for most of her life she lived luxuriously. William had begun to notice that Maggie was not satisfied with the house and grew sad. William made a final decision and told Maggie that they weren't going to stay in the house. Then Bess, William's friend, comes for a visit and falls in love with the house. Maggie knew that William really loved the house and noticed how happy he was when he saw that he was not the only one who loved the old house. Finally, Maggie started to clean the house and convinced herself that if William was happy here, so could she. A stained glass window upstairs in the old house, diffracting sunlight, is representative of how an object can appear differently if viewed from another angle.

"A Careful Man Dies"
A hemophiliac, who is an author, presumably gets tricked by his former love in the process of writing a novel about her and her new love.

"Triangle" (in some editions this story is missing from the Table of Contents)
In a small town, a pair of aging sisters live together. Every day they pass a store where the third protagonist lives. One of them has a crush on him, and the other can't stand him. One day he comes over to talk to the sister with a crush on him. He asks her if he has any chance of having her sister's hand in marriage. She replies that he doesn't, but that she loves him. He tells her that he can't stand her, but loves her sister. So there is a love triangle that remains unsolved. Time passes them by.

"The Mafioso Cement-Mixing Machine"
A man decides to go back in time to save Scott Fitzgerald from himself. He wants Fitzgerald to finish writing The Last Tycoon. He plans to carry medicine through time, bribe some people, threaten others. The overall intent is to let Fitzgerald finish his masterpiece. The man goes back in time. After a while, the friend he let in on the secret goes to a bookstore and buys the completed Last Tycoon.

"The Ghosts"
Three girls think that some teenagers who have sex in their lawn are ghosts. They see their outlines in the grass in the morning. Their father does not like the intrusion and threatens to go out and shoot them. He moves poison ivy so that it is where the teenagers lie at night. The girls are distressed that the ghosts have stopped coming. They remove the ivy, and when "the ghosts" come the next time, one of them goes out. She finds out that there are no ghosts, just "nasty people". The girls believe that the ivy permanently scared away the ghosts and that the people only came after they removed the poison ivy.

"Where's my Hat, What's my Hurry?"
A man is leaving his wife because of all the times they were in Paris, they never had sex. He is sad that they never did it in the city of love. He gets two tickets to Paris and finds someone to go with him. He then leaves with no regrets.

"The Transformation"
A white man rapes a black woman. He is captured by several white men, unhappy with him for his transgressions. They take him to the carnival tattoo parlor. They then turn his skin all black. Then they leave him on his own to find his own way. They laugh about how ironic it would be if he ended up lynched.

"Sixty-six"
A police officer finds five people murdered and strewn along a stretch of Route 66 dressed in clothing that he classifies as 'dust bowl' era. As the investigation continues, he happens to see a picture of the five Okies in a magazine and discovers that they are just actors in period clothing. Riding his motorcycle into a dust storm back on the same stretch of Route 66, he finds a man who looks like he is from the Great Depression. The man admits to running over the people and wants to turn himself in, but the police officer says that he isn't going to take him in. The police man thinks the people who were killed deserved to die, and it was fitting that an Okie killed them for epitomizing the suffering the Okies went through.

"A Matter of Taste"
This is the only science fiction story in this collection. It is narrated by a seven-foot tall spider. A group of astronauts travel to a far away planet that is inhabited by a race of intelligent peaceable spiders. The captain gets a great scare the first day and is unable to represent the humans, so that responsibility falls to his underlings. The humans learn that the spiders are very peaceable and smart. Despite this they hint towards killing them simply because of the human fear of anything different.

"I Get the Blues When it Rains (A Remembrance)"
This is simply Ray Bradbury describing a night very special to him. He and a group of other writers got together and sang songs they all know. The magic of the night could never be recreated.

"All my Enemies are Dead"
A man learns that his last enemy has died. He gives up living, and is ready to die. Then one of his friends and employees starts telling him about all the terrible things he did to him. He becomes his employer's enemy, and in doing so, saves his life.

"The Completist"
A very rich man spends his life collecting books and art. He has dinner with a couple. He greatly enjoys talking continuously about his collection, and its great expansiveness. At the end of dinner, he bitterly asks, "Why did my thirty-five year old son kill his wife, destroy his daughter and then hang himself?"

"Epilogue: The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express"
Poem by Bradbury about riding a train in the afterlife with G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw.

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Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers

The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers were an Americana group formed by songwriter Mark Olson and his wife, Victoria Williams, after Olson left his previous band, the Jayhawks. The group has also been called Rolling Creekdippers as well as just Creekdippers.

For their first three albums, the band consisted mostly of Olson, Williams and multi-instrumentalist Mike "Razz" Russell, with drummers Don Heffington and John Convertino. These were all recorded at the couple's home in Joshua Tree, California, and were distributed by mail order, with little touring to support them.

In 2000, the group picked up touring multi-instrumentalists Joshua Grange and David Wolfenberger as well as long-time Creekdipper "Razz" Russell, dropped "Original Harmony Ridge" from the name and began a two-continent touring schedule in support of three full band recordings: My Own Jo Ellen, December's Child and Mystic Theatre, which featured the touring quintet along with Greg Leisz, Danny Frankel, Don Heffington, and Jon Birdsong. December's Child included a duet by Olson and former Jayhawks bandmate Gary Louris.

Olson and the Creekdippers have toured in several different combinations without Williams, Grange and Wolfenberger but with drummer Ray Woods and Russell. In 2004 Olson and Louris reunited for a tour with Woods and Russell.

The Creekdippers issued their final recording in 2004. Olson and Williams divorced in 2006 which also led to the dissolution of their musical partnership.

Albums

 * The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers (1997)
 * Pacific Coast Rambler (1998)
 * Zola and the Tulip Tree (1999)
 * My Own Jo Ellen (2000)
 * December's Child (2002)
 * Mystic Theatre (2004)
 * Political Manifest (2004)

Other contributions

 * "In My Hour of Darkness" on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (1999)

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Cover of the Frank Zappa album Joe's Corsage (2004)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Germanía

 * 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 no consensus. Rob Church Talk 23:57, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Germanía
Unverifible, dictionary definition that belongs more suited for the Wiktionary maybe. Prior nomination was no consensus, see: Talk:Germanía. Hardly anyone touches the article either. --AllyUnion (talk) 22:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Transwiki to Wiktionary. Maybe if there were some examples of Germaniac words it would be encyclopaedic, but all I see is a definition and etymology: hence, dicdef. Anyone care to translate the second reference given? Germanía --Last Malthusian 22:35, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this far from being a dicdef, as it includes history of the argot's usage. It needs expanding and maybe a bit of cleaning up, but it's an encyclopedia article, not a dictionary entry. --Angr/undefined 07:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable criminal argot. Kappa 23:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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I have not yet decided what to put on my user page. I am just writting this to make the link on my signatures blue instead of red. Martin-C 22:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:CTC

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If somebody do an article CTC de chile, the title is Telefónica CTC Chile, you can translate from Here 22:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

How to calculate CTC when applying for the job? some company asks current CTC and expected CTC? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.42.95.89 (talk) 04:45, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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Maynas Province, Peru

Maynas is one of the eight provinces in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru. Its capital, Iquitos, is also Loreto's regional capital and the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.

History
A decree signed on 26 April 1822 signed by the Marquis of Torre Tagle, transformed what once was the General Command of Maynas into the Quijos Department, allowing it to also choose deputies. In 1925, Maynas was integrated into the Department of La Oroya.

In 1822, Joaquín Mosquera travelled on behalf of Colombia to request the restitution of the province. On July 25, 1824, the Congress of Gran Colombia issued a law of territorial division intending to include the Canton of Quijos in the Pichincha Province of the Department of Quito, according to the limits it had at the time of creation as the Viceroyalty of New Granada. It also intended to incorporate the Provinces of Jaén, Matamoros and Maynas into the Department of Azuay. The Peruvian refusal to give up the territories escalated tensions between the two countries, culminating in the Gran Colombia–Peru War.

Due to a law made effective on November 21, 1832, Maynas was integrated into the territory of the new Peruvian department of Amazonas, from which it separated in 1853, when a political government was created in the Loreto region.

Boundaries
The Maynas Province is bordered by Ecuador on the northwest, Colombia on the north, northeast and east, the Mariscal Ramón Castilla and Requena provinces on the south, and the Loreto Province on the southwest.

Population
According to the 1993 Census, the Maynas Province has a population of 393,496 inhabitants, 50.6% of which (199,209) are male and 49.4% (194,287) are female.

As of 2005, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática estimates the province's population to be 536,423.

Languages
The majority of the province's residents (96%) speak Spanish at home; other languages spoken are Quechua (2%), Aymara (150 speakers, 0.0%), other indigenous languages (0.8%) and foreign languages (0.2%).

Immigration
Persons originating from other regions of the country make up 8.4% of the population and 0.3% of residents were born abroad.

The largest immigrant groups are from the San Martín Region (2.9% of the total population), the Lima Province/Lima Region (1.8%), and Ucayali Region (1.3%).

Age
The population is spread out, with
 * 54.1% under the age of 20,
 * 8.9% from 20 to 24,
 * 24.6% from 25 to 44,
 * 9.5% from 45 to 64, and
 * 3% who are 65 years of age or older.

Education
Secondary education has been attended by 28.8% of the population and 2.5% also have graduated from non-university higher education, while 2.6% have complete university studies. 46.7% only have attended primary education and 8.5% have not had any education.

The illiteracy rate in the province is 13.1%.

Political division
The province is divided into eleven districts (distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts, with their capitals in parentheses, are:

Districts

 * 1) Iquitos (Iquitos) (seat)
 * 2) Alto Nanay (Santa María de Nanay)
 * 3) Belén (Belén)
 * 4) Fernando Lores (Tamshiyacu)
 * 5) Indiana (Indiana)
 * 6) Las Amazonas (Francisco de Orellana)
 * 7) Mazán (Mazán)
 * 8) Napo (Santa Clotilde)
 * 9) Punchana (Punchana)
 * 10) San Juan Bautista (San Juan Bautista)
 * 11) Torres Causana (Pantoja)

Mayors

 * 2019-2022: Francisco Sanjurjo Dávila.
 * 2015-2018: Fernando Meléndez Celis (Movimiento Integración Loretana).
 * 2013-2014: Adela Esmeralda Jiménez Mera (Movimiento Integración Loretana).
 * 2011-2012: Charles Mayer Zevallos Eyzaguirre (Movimiento Integración Loretana).

Places of interest

 * Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve
 * Sunkaruqucha

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Talk:Vernon Jordan

Alleged Cover-Up Claim
"In 1998 he was accused of aiding in a cover-up of the President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky."

This claim is empty without information about who accused Jordan of aiding in a cover-up and what the evidence was.

 * The current version reads

 * "He is well-known for his purported involvement in the Monica Lewinsky scandal."

 * which is no better. I marked it with a label. If no one can locate a source, I'm removing it.Aardvark92 16:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Claim about being a former member of the board of Xerox
According to Xerox's web site, he's still a director, so I moved Xerox from the "former" section to the "current" section.

Ethnicity
How is it relevant pointing out his ethnicity? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.32.91 (talk) 06:55, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Murder Attempt
What in the world does the quote about the Reagan administration have to do with the attempted murder of Jordan?74.138.45.132 (talk) 03:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

I moved this to the related section above. Joel S Bateman (talk) 22:04, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Rockefeller Foundation
Vernon E. Jordan is a former executive and board member of Rockefeller Foundation, from 1971 till 1983. http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/annual-reports/1970-1979 http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/annual-reports/1980-1989

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alkerism

As mentioned on the Talk page...

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The result of the debate was delete. Denelson83 19:16, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Alkerism
Is Alkerism a "real" thing? I refer you to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_publisher_of_original_thought Mrdini 22:20, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Neologism. All Google hits are to Wikipedia mirrors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denni (talk • contribs) 05:28, 13 October 2005
 * Delete as above. --Apyule 06:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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User:NickHodges

Nick Hodges is the Chief Technology Officer for Lemanix Corporation (http://www.lemanix.com), a Borland Solutions Partner in the Twins Cities of Minnesota. Nick is a member of TeamB (http://www.teamb.com), a Founding Editor at CodeFez (http://www.codefez.com) and a frequent speaker at the annual Borland Conference. Nick lives in St. Paul with his wife and three children. He can be reached at

Nick was born in Baltimore, MD in 1962. He spent his early years in Rochester, NY. In 1972 he moved to Minnetonka, MN, which he considers his "hometown".

Nick graduated from Wayzata Senior High School in 1980, and then attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He graduated from there in 1984 with a BA in Classical Languages. In 1985, he moved to Pasadena, TX, where he spent two years teaching High School Latin.

In the summer of 1987, Nick joined the US Navy and spent the summer under the close, personal tutelage of a USMC Drill Instructor. Commissioned as an Ensign in October, 1987, he was first stationed as the Intelligence Officer for Strike Fighter Squadron 195 on board the USS Midway in Atsugi, Japan. That tour was followed by a stint as the Intelligence Officer for the Pacific Fleet Replacement Squadron, VFA-125 in Lemoore, CA.

Following that tour, Nick attended the Naval Postgraduate School, where he received an MS (with distinction) in Information Technology Management. He was then stationed at the Joint Intelligence Center, US Transportation Command, Scott AFB, IL. His final year in the Navy was spent in Seoul, South Korea, at the US Forces Korea Combined Intelligence Center as the Naval Analysis Branch Chief.

In 1990, Nick bought his first copy of Turbo Pascal for Windows, and became a self taught programmer, releasing a few entirely forgettable shareware applications. However, Nick's love for programming grew, and he soon earned a coveted spot on Borland's TeamB, a group of volunteers that provide support and answers on Borland's newsgroups.

In 2001, Nick left the Navy and went to work for Xapware Technologies as a Lead Developer. A year later, he struck out on his own, eventually forming Lemanix Corporation with two other developers.

Nick has spoken at 6 Borland Conferences and three times been on the Borland Conference Advisory Board. Nick is also a well-known writer, publishing chapters in various Delphi books, and numerous articles for The Delphi Magazine, the Delphi Informant, and the Borland Developer Network.

Nick currently lives in St. Paul, MN.

Nick's Blog is found at Nick's Delphi Blog

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Manuel Joël

Manuel Joël (or Joel; October 19, 1826 – November 3, 1890) was a German Jewish philosopher and preacher.

He was born in Birnbaum (Międzychód), Grand Duchy of Posen. After teaching for several years at the Breslau rabbinical seminary, founded by Zecharias Frankel, in 1863 he became the successor of Abraham Geiger in the rabbinate of Breslau. He made important contributions to the history of the school of Aqiba as well as to the history of Jewish philosophy, his essays on Ibn Gabirol and Maimonides being of permanent worth. But his most influential work was connected with the relations between Jewish philosophy and the medieval scholasticism. He showed how Albertus Magnus derived some of his ideas from Maimonides and how Spinoza was indebted to the same writer, as well as to Hasdai Crescas. These essays were collected in two volumes of Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie (1876), while another two volumes of Blicke in die Religionsgeschichte (1880-1883) threw much light on the development of religious thought in the early centuries of the Christian era. Equally renowned were Joel's pulpit addresses. Though he was no orator, his appeal to the reason was effective, and in their published form his three volumes of Predigten (issued posthumously) found many readers.

Joël was the chief rabbi of the reform Jewish congregation when the New Synagogue was completed in 1872. He died in 1890 in Breslau.

Secondary literature

 * George Y. Kohler, “Manuel Joel in Defense of the Talmud – Liberal Responses to Religious Antisemitism in Nineteen-Century Germany”, Hebrew Union College Annual 79, (2008/2010), p. 141-163
 * Görge K. Hasselhoff "Manuel Joel and the Neo-Maimonidean Discovery of Kant", in: James T. Robinson (ed.) The Cultures of Maimonideanism, Brill (2009)

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