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House?
Basement Jaxx is not House, or at least not exclusively House.

Dude, basement jaxx is house, what else could it be? And for the love of god don't say disco,    Jrschro

No they're not pure house or garage; they're decent dance music, I'd call them electronica mabye modern disco/funk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.176.70 (talk) 11:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Critism
Recent comments in the press by the Basement Jaxx have lead some believe that the group represents part of the decline of the dance/electronic scene. Ignoring the fact that Kraftwerk, the original Chicago House scene and techno scenes of Detroit all considered themselves "avantgarde" at one point, Basement Jaxx have made it clear that "progressive" or more artistic types are not welcome at their shows. This type of attitude as well as the hardening of incidental fracturalization shows that the dance/electronic scene of today bears little resemblance to the bold, adventurous, inclusive and openminded scene of earlier days. Today's dance scene looks more like the American Republican party or a frustrated soda pop company guarding shrinking market share.

Quite Complaining!!

How come theres no mention of the old skool hardcore tunes they used to produce under the name 'Ephemeral'?

 * Yeah there's no way that can go in the article. Especially toward the end...  Ventifact63.226.230.76 21:41, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Remixes
'They are rumoured to have been approached to remix "Hung up", the first single of Madonna's new album Confessions on a Dancefloor.' -- Did they? It's now four months later, surely now they either have or they haven't?

Missing EPs
there's a bunch of Jaxx EPs listed here: Should they be added? I don't know the years, etc Macdougal 18:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

"do your thing" currently theme song for Telus tv commercial - Dec. 2006. "do your thing" also played in "CSI:Miami" one episode.

What are they currently doing?
"They are currently developing their next album, which is yet to be titled and will be released in early 2006."

...

"Basement Jaxx are currently on tour with Robbie Williams and will headline their own UK arena tour this winter."

Both? Recording the album while on tour with Robbie?

...

New album out soon called Scars (May-June 2009)

Mis-advertised?
I checked through the number one US dance singles, and i found no basement jaxx tracks listed. Is this a misprint on that article or the basement jaxx article? Joschro

Temporary list of singles/EPs
Since the gallery of singles/EPs was removed due to the images being unsourced, I have added a list in place of it. I suggest however this should only be temporary, and swapped back once the image sourcing issue is sorted. Cheers Starguitar 16:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Merged trivia section with main content
I had a go at merging the trivia section into the main content. A few bits which I didn't feel particularly notable were removed - I've copied all of the old trivia section below, just in case.

Sidasta 20:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * "Red Alert" was used in a Nickelodeon (TV channel) commercial.
 * "Red Alert" was used in a Coca-Cola commercial in the late 1990s.
 * "Red Alert" was also used in the movie Bend It Like Beckham all though it is not on the official movie soundtrack, but is listed in the credits.
 * "Where's Your Head At?" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2001 'Tomb Raider' movie, was used for a Pringles commercial, featured in the Xbox video game Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 3, and Traktor's video for "Where's Your Head At?" (monkeys with human faces) has been praised by Mixmag as the best dance music video ever made. It relies on a sample of Gary Numan's "M.E." for its hook
 * "Good Luck" is also in the soundtrack of Just Married, and Appleseed, an anime movie released in 2004.
 * The video for "U Don't Know Me" featured a drunken, carousing, and violent Queen Elizabeth II lookalike and was banned from daytime rotation on MTV.
 * The Jaxx Club Remix of 'Do Your Thing' was included in the video game SSX 3. Do your thing was also used in an episode of Heroes.
 * The video for the song "Romeo" from the album "Rooty" is based on a Bollywood movie.
 * "Where's Your Head At?" was featured on a Promo for Gorden Ramsey's (Hell's Kitchen) on the channel MBC4.
 * Buxton's Father is the padre for 1181 ATC squadron in Syston, Leicestershire.

Recent history
Needs clarification of recent history - Scars has been released, was it on Atlantic Jaxx, did it feature Grace Jones? No mention of Zephyr either. Murkeychris (talk) 06:12, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the last paragraph in the history section needs to be removed as its still speaking in future tense and that album is now 3 years old. --  RND    T    C   09:57, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

The Heartists
The page The Heartists redirects to this article. But, what's the link? I think that the members of The Heartists were Savino Martinez and Claudio Coccoluta, not Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton. Elfast (talk) 15:51, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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Dick Ruston

Richard Fletcher Ruston (August 28, 1919 – May 19, 2002) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Liberal Party.

Background
Ruston was born in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, and educated in the area. He was manager of the Essex County Medical Co-op. He and his wife Shirley lived in Essex where they raised five children.

Politics
Ruston was a councillor in Maidstone Township from 1960 to 1962, reeve of the community from 1963 to 1968, and an Essex County councillor.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Fred Cada by 991 votes. He was re-elected in the 1971 election by roughly the same margin, and won with larger majorities in 1975, 1977, and 1981. He served as Liberal Party whip for a period. The Progressive Conservative Party governed Ontario during this period, and Ruston was an opposition member for his legislative career. He was primarily a defender of farmer's interests.

Ruston announced that he would retire from the legislature in mid-1985, and was not a candidate in that year's provincial election.

Later life
He died in 2002 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Fellow MPP and friend Sean Conway described him as a follower of Ontario's Clear Grit tradition, and a believer that "the best government [...] is the smaller unit closest to the people".

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Tyne Dock Metro station

Tyne Dock is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving South Tyneside Hospital and the suburb of Tyne Dock, South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network, between Heworth and South Shields.

History
The station was opened as Jarrow Dock on 1 August 1856, by the Stanhope and Tyne Railway. It was later resited and renamed Tyne Dock on 1 January 1861.

The resited station was situated to the east of the divergence of the Brandling Junction Railway and the Stanhope and Tyne Railway route via Chichester. The current Tyne and Wear Metro station is built to the east of the divergence, but on the former Stanhope and Tyne Railway route.

The route via High Shields was closed in June 1981, with the Tyne and Wear Metro line to South Shields following the former route of the Stanhope and Tyne Railway.

The station was refurbished in 2018, at a cost of £350,000. The refurbishment project involved the installation of white vitreous enamel panels, new seating and lighting, and improved security and accessibility, as well as resurfaced platforms. The station was also painted in the new black and white corporate colour scheme.

Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Tyne Dock. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.

There is a free car park available at the station, with 34 spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with two cycle pods available for use.

Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.

Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar

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Talk:Southend Pier

Minder end titles
Surely Arthur Daley has lost his (valuable) wallet and not his (replaceable) cigarette lighter which causes the duo to proceed the 1 mile or so back up the pier looking for it. Exactly what is lost from inside one of his pockets isn't explained but he doesn't go to light his cigar just before noticing and he has the cigar in one hand or the other all the way down the pier (indicating that it is already lit) though it never enters his mouth. They weren't using the railway to come down and nothing occurs to indicate that they should use it on the way back up either - in fact its very existence on the pier is often obscured by the written credits.

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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was conceived on Southend Pier in August 1974. removed by Chowells: Trivia - this sounds very much like a hoax, if someone can provide a verifiable source feel free to add it back

Fair enough to delete this piece of nonsense but I would be intrigued to know what would count as a "verifiable source" in this case! Flapdragon 23:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Lol. Good point. No idea. It really does sound extremely unlikely to me. AFAIK there is no hotel on SOuthend Pier. So how would he be conceived there? How would his parents know for sure that it defeinitely occurred there? Why and who would have publicised it? Why can't it be verified on the web (using google), the source of all rumours? I'd be very hesitant about adding it back, to be honest. chowells 23:32, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually I thought I had heard that rumour somewhere, but thinking about it realised it was almost certainly in this very Wikipedia article. (Incidentally I believe it is actually possible for conceptions to take place even where there is no hotel, but we needn't go into that here...) Flapdragon 23:41, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

There is no earthly reason why this couldn't be true, but there are probably only two (or perhaps three, if you include Jamie himself) that could verify it! My parents both came from Southend, and I know from their reminiscences that such events weren't unheard of :\ Lynbarn

I like reading this article without all the Rs in pier. -Wagner, Denmark

rail route diagram
I'm not convinced that this article really needs the rail route diagram, but if it is to be there, should the station names not be reversed, with the (northern) shore station at the top? Regards, Lynbarn 14:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I second both points.Jimjamjak (talk) 13:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I think the diagram should be removed as it conveys no information that can not be described by the text of the article, and does look rather like a joke.  J Rawle  (Talk) 22:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I just took WP:BOLD and removed it today. Si Trew (talk) 15:42, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Progreso, Mexico,
The longest pier in the world is in Progreso, Mexico. Its 6.5 KM long. This article needs to be corrected.

 * NO - The article states: it is the longest pleasure pier in the world I don't believe there is any amusements or recreational activities provided at the end of Progreso pier, although it is an impressive structure. Technically, Progreso isn't actually a pier, it is at most a mole, possibly a caisson breakwater (the newer section,at least).  Perhaps you could add an article on Progreso pier? Regards,Lynbarn (talk) 18:48, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Ernest Turner
Is the information about Ernest Turner's accidental death in any way notable? I'm not denying that to local historian this may be of interest, but to a reader of Wikipedia, I think that this may just be trivia. I haven't looked, but I imagine that there have been several deaths on the pier since 1931 - I don't think that a list of all of these would be any more interesting, unless they resulted in some change to the pier structure etc. It seems that in the case of poor Mr Turner, no changes were made to the railway or the pier - I suggest removal of this item.Jimjamjak (talk) 22:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

 * It may be notable as the first and only death on a pier railway - certainly on this pier railway. I would therefore suggest that it stays. Regards, Lynbarn (talk) 18:14, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks Lynbarn. By was it "the first and only death on a pier railway". I'd suggest referencing that, and then it may be notable. I'm not currently satisfied that the information on Turner's death meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability. Please provide evidence that it does meet these criteria.Jimjamjak (talk) 10:52, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Pier head station reopened
I'm not sure of the actual date of re-opening but by August 2010 the pier head station had been rebuilt and put back into operation as an island platform with a track on either side though, like the passing loop, the points are padlocked and only the western track and one train were operational. 83.104.249.240 (talk) 00:42, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

 * The new station opened lastSeptember -I've updated the article to that effect. regards, Lynbarn (talk) 16:54, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

V2 Missile attack on pier
I have heard from a couple of sources that during WW2, a V2 rocket struck the shore-end pier pavilion, went straight through, and embedded in the mud under the pier without exploding. Does anybody know if and when this actually occurred? There was also mention of damage to one of the railway stations, and that some rolling stock was destroyed. This may have been a separate incident, but either or both - if true - are probably notable enough to include in the article.

Regards, Lynbarn (talk) 20:55, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Length of pier
I note that the length given in the lede differs from that in the infobox by about 20m - which is correct? Geopersona (talk) 20:36, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Probably the infobox as the other will be a rounding error. And a further figure (2100m) in the text (plus extension of 99m) gives a third different length. Geopersona (talk) 20:41, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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Breastwork (fortification)

A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it from a standing position. A more permanent structure, normally in stone, would be described as a parapet or the battlement of a castle wall.

In warships, a breastwork is the armored superstructure in the ship that did not extend all the way out to the sides of the ship. It was generally only used in ironclad turret ships designed between 1865 and 1880.

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Apian-Gymnasium Ingolstadt

The Apian-Gymnasium Ingolstadt is a Gymnasium (high school or grammar school) in Ingolstadt, Bavaria established in 1971. It was named after Peter Apian (1495–1552) and his son Philipp Apian. Peter Apian was a mathematician at the University of Ingolstadt, Bavaria's oldest university (which was later moved to Munich). His son Philipp (1531–1589) was his successor as the professor of mathematics at Ingolstadt University and the first cartographer to produce a complete map of Bavaria.

The Apian-Gymnasium is one of Bavaria's centres of excellence. It offers a wide variety of subjects, an inventors' club, a number of exchange programs with France, Scotland and the US, but also playful facilities like a terrarium with snakes and spiders and a large toy train room with to-scale electric toy trains and stations.

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Moses Gill

Moses Gill (January 18, 1733 – May 20, 1800) was an American merchant and politician who served as the acting governor of Massachusetts from 1799 to 1800, when he died in office, the only acting governor to do so. A successful businessman, he became one of the most prominent colonists in Princeton, Massachusetts, entering politics shortly before the American Revolutionary War. He served on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress's executive committee until the state adopted its constitution in 1780, after which he continued to serve on the state's Governor's Council.

Elected lieutenant governor in 1794, he served in that office under Governors Samuel Adams and Increase Sumner until the latter died shortly after winning reelection in 1799. Gill served an apparently undistinguished term as acting governor until his own death in 1800, ten days before his successor, Caleb Strong, assumed office. Gill was a significant benefactor and founder of Leicester Academy, and supported the congregational church in Princeton, where the family had a large estate.

Early life and family
Moses Gill was born January 18, 1733, to John and Elizabeth (Abbot) Gill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was one of the younger sons in a long line of children which included John Gill, who would become well known in the colonies as printer of the Boston Gazette. Gill entered business as a local merchant in Boston. In 1759 he married Sarah Prince, daughter to pastor Thomas Prince of Boston's Old South Church. Upon her father's death the couple inherited Prince's lands in western Worcester County, one of the largest tracts in what became the town of Princeton. In 1767 he retired from his business activities, and the couple divided their time between Boston and Princeton. Sarah died childless in 1771. Gill remarried in 1772 to Rebecca Boylston, a scion of the influential Boylston family and sister of Harvard College benefactor Nicholas Boylston. They were also childless; when his brother John died, Gill adopted one of his sons. The Gills were known to own several slaves.

Political career
In 1774 Gill entered politics, winning election to the provincial assembly. The assembly was dissolved by Governor Thomas Gage under the terms of the Massachusetts Government Act (a punishment of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party), but its members met shortly afterwards and reconstituted themselves as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Gill served on this body's executive council, which functioned as the de facto executive of the state until its constitution was adopted in 1780. When the American Revolutionary War broke in April 1775, Gill became involved in the early military organization of the Siege of Boston, heading the provincial congress' supply committee. He was also delegated, along with General Artemas Ward, to meet George Washington in Springfield and escort him to the army camps outside Boston.

Because of his prominence in Worcester County Gill was appointed to the county's district court when it was reorganized after the revolution began. In this role he sat on the panel that heard the preliminary cases in 1781 involving Quock Walker, an African American seeking a declaration of his freedom. Gill's panel decided in Walker's favor, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court eventually confirmed the judgments on appeal, declaring that slavery was incompatible with the state constitution.

He continued to serve in the General Court (state legislature), winning election to the state senate annually from 1780, and being chosen by that body to serve on the Governor's Council. He stood for election to the United States House of Representatives in the 1789 election (the first after the adoption of the United States Constitution) but was defeated by Jonathan Grout. After the death of the immensely popular Governor John Hancock in 1793, the state's gubernatorial election of 1794 was a wide open race. Gill was one of several nominees for lieutenant governor, and received more votes than all nominees except the winning gubernatorial candidate, Samuel Adams. With no candidates for lieutenant governor receiving a majority, the General Court decided the election, choosing Gill. He thereafter won annual reelection to that post. In 1796 the aging Adams announced he would not run for reelection the following spring, and again the election was a wide open affair. The party system was still taking shape in the state, and the Federalists nominated Increase Sumner, while more populist factions that had previously supported Hancock and Adams nominated Gill and James Sullivan. Although Gill polled well in Boston and the eastern counties (present-day Maine), the Federalists won a decisive victory over the divided opposition. Since he was also nominated by one faction as lieutenant governor, Gill was again returned to that post. The principal issues in this and subsequent elections were over federal policy: specifically the national response to threats of war with Revolutionary France, and the consequent need for increased taxes to arm the nation. Gill's politics are unclear: historian Anson Morse is of the opinion that his popularity was not sufficient to head the ticket of either the Federalists or the Democratic-Republicans. Historian John Barry observes that Gill's term as acting governor, even though it was for essentially a full year, was "too short to be particularly distinguished".

Sumner easily won reelection in 1798 and 1799, but was ill during the 1799 race, which he won by a landslide. Constitutional issues were raised because he was on his deathbed and it was uncertain that he could even take the oath of office. Sumner finally took the oath of office in early June, but died a few days later, at which point Gill became acting governor. Gill served out Sumner's term, and was considered a candidate for the governorship as the 1800 election approached. The election primarily pitted Federalist Caleb Strong against Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry, and was won by Strong. Gill was derided by his opponents as the preferred candidate of the wealthy, and Federalists were accused of promoting him as a candidate in order to divide the opposition. Gill died on May 20, before Strong was informed of the victory, resulting in the only time in the state's history when the offices of governor and lieutenant governor were both formally vacant. As a result, the Governor's Council ruled the state for ten days. (The council had governed several times during the colonial period under similar circumstances; the state constitution was amended in 1918 to remove the council from the gubernatorial succession.)

Charitable concerns and legacy
Gill was a member and major supporter of the Congregational Church in Princeton, and a founding trustee and benefactor of Leicester Academy. He was also for many years president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians. Gill, Massachusetts is named in his honor.

Gill also made civic contributions to the town of Princeton. Land he donated became the town's original center (located about one-half mile from the current town center). This land includes one the town's earliest cemeteries, which is where Gill and other members of his family are interred. His estate, located near the town center, was reputed to be one of the largest and most magnificent of its time in Worcester County. His second wife's nephew, Ward Nicholas Boylston, inherited the estate; in addition to many other charitable works, Boylston was a major contributor to the establishment of Princeton's present town center.

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Nippo jisho
Considering the dictionary was published under the Portuguese title, it doesn't make sense to move it to the Japanese name. If it was going to be moved anywhere, the Portuguese name was the obvious candidate. --DannyWilde 23:09, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The Library of Congress and most other libraries in the USA use the Japanese title. Assuming anyone actually wanted to find a copy of the book, one would NOT find it by searching for the Portuguese title. Jb05-rsh 23:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I do not mind you mind you changing the links in articles to "Vocabulario de Lingoa de Iapam." However, since anyone who would want to find the book needs to know the Japanese title, how about references to the book which contain a link to the article mention BOTH titles? Afterall, it has both titles, and the Japanese is the title used for listings in library catalogs, and the Portuguese is the title of the printed object. Would you agree to that? Jb05-rsh 23:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your insight into this. If this is the recognized name in English, then it is certainly OK to change the article into that title. I thought that you were changing it into that title because it represented the Japanese, rather than the English, name, but clearly you know more about the correct title in English than I do. Excuse me for raising this objection. Let's use "Nippo jisho" for the title. --DannyWilde 23:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I tried to move it back, but I couldn't move over the redirect page. To move it to "Nippo jisho" you'll need to ask an admin. In the meantime, I have moved it to "Nippo Jisho" with a capital J. --DannyWilde 23:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I suppose that is OK. Wikipedia is case sensitive so if both titles exist, one will redirect to the other. On a certain note the Libray of Congress guidlines on Japanese titles state that proper nouns like "Nippo" which means "Japan and Portugal" should be capitalized, but that nouns like "jisho" which means Dictionary should be uncapitalized.  But I am not picky, as long as people can find the article and the book. Jb05-rsh 00:06, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * No, Wikipedia does not do that automatically. The redirect from Nippo jisho to Nippo Jisho was one I made manually. If you think that "Nippo jisho" is the correct name, we'll have to ask an admin to move it, because the move function won't allow it. By the way, let's copy this discussion onto the talk page of Nippo Jisho, so people can see the reason for the move of the page name. --DannyWilde 00:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Peg Phillips

Peg Phillips (born Margaret Linton, September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress best known for playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the television series Northern Exposure.

Early life
Phillips was born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, to Charles and Myrtle Linton. She wanted to be an actress from the age of four and performed in dinner theater as a hobby. She was the wife of Daniel Greene, a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. She was married to Chester Phillips in the 1950s, during which time she suffered a near-fatal bout of "polio and a serious abdominal infection".

She lived with her children Kathy, Virginia and Arthur in Santa Cruz, California, in the early to mid-1960s. Her oldest daughter, Elisabeth, had left the household. She worked as an accountant at Sweet Service in Santa Cruz during that time. She was involved with local theatrical groups; her favorite play was Bell, Book and Candle. After retiring from accounting, Phillips moved back to Washington to enroll in drama school at the University of Washington, but never completed her degree "because I started getting so much work."

Career
She started acting professionally in her late 60s. Her first film performance was in the TV movie Chase in 1985. In 1990, she originated the role of Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure. The character had been intended to be intermittent, but gradually appeared more frequently until she became a regular. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993. After the fifth season of the show was wrapped up in 1995, she was undergoing heart surgery when an aortic aneurysm ruptured. Had she not already been on the operating table, it probably would have been fatal.

After Northern Exposure, Phillips played several guest roles, especially on 7th Heaven. She played the dude ranch-owning godmother of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in How the West Was Fun. Her last role was a guest spot on ER in 2000. She also founded the Woodinville Repertory Theatre in 1998,

Death
She died in 2002 from pulmonary disease in Seattle, aged 84. Like her Northern Exposure character, she was a smoker from an early age, having started at 13.

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Talk:Softball/Archive 1

 * This is an archive of the Talk:Softball page for 2004. This page is no longer live; please add any comments to Talk:Softball instead.

POV
Could someone rewrite the intro from a non-US POV? I don't know a thing about baseball, so saying softball is like baseball except x, y and z is a very poor introduction to the sport for me. Fabiform 15:29, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I think this was written from an Australian POV to begin with, and now it's written from an Australian-Canadian one. I've defined a few of the terms, but writing an extensive article would require too much time at the moment. You can get a pretty good idea of the sport by reading about baseball first. Trontonian 14:29, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well I told you I didn't know anything about softball, so here are questions I have which this article doesn't answer. (Marvel at my lack of knowledge!)
 * "softball is a team sport in which the object is to score runs by advancing around a circuit of four bases"
 * I'm assuming two teams of how many people?
 * it's a bat & ball game, right?, what kind of bat, what's the ball made of (is it really soft?)
 * who advances around the bases (the batter?, and under what circumstances?)
 * do the four bases include where the batter stands?
 * what is the plate?
 * what do players wear (padding?), do they all play in one colour (like cricket whites) or does each team have distinctive colourful strips, different colours for home/away, and do they wear shorts, or tight trousers/pants, hats?
 * the two teams are fielders and batters? and there's a bowler?...
 * "The infield is a sixty-foot square with bases at each corner"
 * but it's called a diamond (is that the correct term?)
 * I see the question of how many bases there are is answered later
 * the catcher is from the fielders team, and the bowler/pitcher?
 * I got lost in the detailed description of the field. We need a diagram!
 * nice explanation of innings, so every member of each team gets to bat until they are somehow caught out, then you do that all 6 more times, how long do these games last?
 * I got lost again in the detailed description of gameplay. I think this needs to be a section by itself with a snappy intro, I was plunged into the details a bit too quickly.  How is a batter caught out exactly, and is that what you call it (to be caught out)?
 * umpires... do they have special clothes, a whistle, red and yellow cards, hand signals, etc? do they send people off (and do you go back to the pavillion, the benches, etc?)
 * what might a typical score in a game be? (2-0), (23-12), (165-98)? How are points awarded?  What's nought called (nil, love, etc?)
 * can you run round all the bases at once, or do you have to do it one base per pitch? Is there a special name for running round them all in one go (a home run?)
 * is this played on grass/dirt/what?
 * the history section looks good to me :)
 * are there big world championships/competitions? Which are the most famous teams/players, from which countries?

I think that'll do for now. I hope you find my novice questions useful. :) Fabiform 04:05, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I suspect the softball rover article could really be merged/redirred to here, but I know so little about the topic I'm not 100% certain. Niteowlneils 01:10, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

"the ball is larger, softer, and less dense than a baseball"

Is the softball actually softer than the ball used in baseball? A common misconception among non-softball people is that the ball is "soft", and perhaps squishy, almost like a tennis ball or something, however the softball itself is rather hard. If you get hit by it, it hurts a lot. --Sonjaaa 10:18, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

Softball history in the Olympics
When was the game of Softball first introduced into the Olympic Games?

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