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Naturwissenschaften
I deleted this because it didn't actually refer to Fulcanelli. --Justificatus (talk) 14:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Implausible Possibilities
I deleted this because it was unreferenced, unscholarly, and complete load of codswallop. --Justificatus (talk) 14:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Possibly promotional material
This chunk appears to be POV original research ("an almost certainly definitive article about the true identity of Fulcanelli" - who says?) as well as much of it being completely irrelevant. Tearlach 15:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I totally agree with Tearlach's estimation. This article reeks of self-promotion. If you look at the external links, the first two are to electronically published articles by the same people-- Laura_Knight-Jadczyk and Patrick Riviere-- who seem most "self-served.". The second two are actual books which appear in libraries. Could Wikipedia find a Fulcanelli expert other than Ms. K-J or Mr. R. to check out what is going on here?

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Following in Fulcanelli's footsteps, as did his teacher and guide - Eugène Canseliet - is Patrick Rivière. Rivière - alchemist, historian, philosopher and writer - has utilized his vast knowledge gained through research, experiment, experience, and study under Fulcanelli's disciple, Canseliet - to author numerous books on Alchemy, the Holy Grail, the Templars, Paracelsus and Spagyric medicine that have been published in France and translated into several languages.

Patrick Rivière's colleague, friend, and fellow historian, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, frequently refers to Fulcanelli and his two works The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers in her 800 page tome, The Secret History of the World.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk has also published an almost certainly definitive article about the true identity of Fulcanelli: where she writes:

"After living in the Gers for 11 months, we found a more permanent - and safer - house with all the features we needed for our work. We moved in and shortly discovered that one of our neighbors was Patrick Rivière, a noted historian and author of many books on the subject of comparitive religions, alchemy and the Holy Grail. He is also an expert on the "Rennes-le-Chateau" phenomenon. Patrick also happened to be a student of Eugene Canseliet, the disciple of Fulcanelli. We dispatched a note to him and were very happy to receive a call a couple of days later suggesting a meeting. [...]

"I was very anxious to query Patrick about any clues to the true identity of Fulcanelli. I had read many theories about this, but due to a particular clue that was dropped almost casually by Eugene Canseliet in his description of his visit to the “enclave of the alchemists” in Spain, I was convinced that Fulcanelli was a single individual, not a “committee” as some materially minded thinkers propose, and that he had, indeed, achieved the “Great Work.” Patrick agreed and responded that he knew the identity of Fulcanelli, and that he had written a small book on the subject in French that was not yet available to English speaking audiences, Fulcanelli in the “Qui suis-je?” series. [Red Pill Press will be bringing out Patrick's work in English soon.] [...]

Jules Violle was a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure at Paris, he taught at the University of Lyon (1883), then at the École and, from 1891, at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris. He made the first high-altitude determination of the solar constant on Mont Blanc in 1875. The “violle” is a unit of light intensity equal to a square centimeter of platinum, glowing at its melting temperature of 1769 °C (3216 °F). It was the first unit of light intensity that did not depend on the properties of a particular lamp. [...]

As I began to dig into the background of Jules Violle, I discovered another significant clue: he was closely associated with Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and popular author. Flammarion was the founder of the French Astronomy Society, and he served for many years at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau of Longitudes. Flammarion set up a private observatory at Juvisy (near Paris) in 1883 and his studies were particularly focused on double and multiple stars - a particular focus of the Cassiopaean Transmissions - and of the moon and Mars. It is easy to see that Violle and Flammarion had a lot in common, particularly their interest in stars. Double and multiple Stars gives Fulcanelli's dedication “To The Brothers of Heliopolis” an all new level of meaning!

When examining the life and associations of Camille Flammarion, additional clues began to finally fit together: he was an associate of, and greatly influenced by, Allan Kardec, the French Pedagogue, medical student, linguist and researcher of “spirit communications.” [...]

Camille Flammarion remarked: “I have no hesitation in saying that he who states that spiritist phenomena are contrary to science does not know what he is talking about. Indeed, there is nothing super-natural in nature. There is only the unknown: but what was unknown yesterday becomes the truth of tomorrow”.

Victor Hugo, another advocate of scientific spiritualism said: “Turning a blind eye to the spiritist phenomena is turning a blind eye to the truth”.

The Societe Parisienne was similar to the Society for Psychical Research in London, a body devoted to unbiased inquiry. Kardec’s efforts were largely focused on promoting the impartial and rational study of spiritual matters. The Spiritist views of Kardec were scientific, not mystical; and he promoted objective discovery over intuitive insight just as the Cassiopaean Transmissions and our own work does.

Turning now to the comments on millenarialism in the works of Fulcanelli, it is interesting to note that Kardec’s final book, La Gazette selon le Spiritisme, appearing in 1868, strongly reflected the millenialist view. The work closed with a series of communications and commentaries declaring that “the time chosen by God has come,” stating that a new generation of highly-evolved souls was in the process of being incarnated on Earth.

This is precisely what Fulcanelli stated in the mysterious Hendaye chapter of Mystery of the Cathedrals as well as in the final chapters of Dwellings of the Philosophers. We also note that Fulcanelli emphasized the role of science in the so-called “End Times” as being crucial. [...]

Finding a well established link between Flammarion and Jules Violle, followed by a well established link between Flammarion and Kardec, gives an entirely new perspective on the work of Violle as Fulcanelli. It also leads us to the very important question: Is it possible that Fulcanelli made use of “superluminal communication techniques” as I had myself? Was this why Fulcanelli insisted as follows:

"Furthermore, in our opinion, it seems insufficient to know how to recognize and classify facts exactly; one must still question nature and learn from her in what conditions and under the control of what will her manifold productions take place. Indeed, the philosophical mind will not be content with the mere possibility of identifying bodies. It demands the knowledge of the secret of their elaborations. To open ajar the door of the laboratory where nature mixes the elements is good; to discover the occult force, under whose influences her work is accomplished, is better. […]

"Alchemy is obscure only because it is hidden. The philosophers who wanted to transmit the exposition of their doctrine and the fruit of their labors to posterity took great care not to divulge the art by presenting it under a common form so that the layman could not misuse it. Thus because of the difficulty one has of understanding it, because of the mystery of its enigmas and of the opacity of its parables, the science has come to be shut up among reveries, illusions and chimeras. […]

"With their confused texts, sprinkled with cabalistic expressions, the books remain the efficient and genuine cause of the gross mistake that we indicate. For, in spite of the warnings... students persisted in reading them according to the meanings that they hold in ordinary language. They do not know that these texts are reserved for initiates, and that it is essential, in order to understand them, to be in possession of their secret key. One must first work at discovering this key.

"Most certainly these old treatises contain, if not the entire science, at least its philosophy, its principles, and the art of applying them in conformity with natural laws. But if we are unaware of the hidden meaning of the terms - for example, the meaning of Ares, which is different from Aries - strange qualifications purposely used in the composition of such works, we will understand nothing of them or we will be infallibly led into error.

"We must not forget that it is an esoteric science. Consequently, a keen intelligence, an excellent memory, work, and attention aided by a strong will are NOT sufficient qualities to hope to become learned in this subject.

Nicolas Grosparmy writes: 'Such people truly delude themselves who think that we have only made our books for them, but we have made them to keep out all those who are not of our sect.'

"Batsdorff, in the beginning of his treatise, charitably warns the reader in these terms: 'Every prudent mind must first acquire the Science if he can; that is to say, the principles and the means to operate. Otherwise he should stop there, without foolishly using his time and his wealth. And so, I beg those who will read this little book to credit my words. I say to them once more, that THEY WILL NEVER LEARN THIS SUBLIME SCIENCE BY MEANS OF BOOKS, AND THAT IT CAN ONLY BE LEARNED THROUGH DIVINE REVELATION, HENCE IT IS CALLED DIVINE ART, or through the means of a good and faithful master; and since there are very few of them to whom God has granted this grace, there are also very few who teach it.'" [Fulcanelli, The Dwellings of the Philosophers (Boulder: Archive Press 1999) pp. 49, 65, 84]

In view of this question, it might be useful to look at excerpts from an article written by Camille Flammarion, the friend and associate of Jules Violle and Allan Kardec which reflects our views exactly:

"Spiritism is, in general, in bad repute, and deserves to be. Most of its disciples are unmethodical; they are often lacking in mental poise, are often dupes of illusions. They prefer a belief and a religion which merely console, to the impartial and critical investigation without which we can be sure of nothing. These are bad conditions for research; adequate safeguards are lacking".

"In Allan Kardec’s time (in the course of the speech which I made at his grave on April 2, 1869) I believed it helpful and even necessary to proclaim, at this very grave, that “spiritism is not a religion but a science,” and to add that “we are now at the dawn of an undiscovered science.” During the fifty years which followed the utterance of these words, the continued progress of our research has lent them greater and greater emphasis, confirmed them more and more fully".

"It is by the scientific method alone that we may make progress in the search for truth. Religious belief must not take the place of impartial analysis. We must be constantly on our guard against illusions".

"Apart from deliberate deception, dishonest and inexcusable, there is autosuggestion leading to involuntary deception. [...]"

"There are also dishonest exploiters of credulity, who give “séances,” promising apparitions and posthumous manifestations to the simpletons who listen to them. Those who have been gulled then complain, laughably, of having been robbed! The human race, supposedly intelligent, is truly strange. One must have a great deal of courage to work perseveringly, surrounded by these impostors; one must be sustained by the conviction that there are truths to be discovered. […]"

[Camille Flammarion’s Death and Its Mystery - After Death. Manifestations and Apparitions of the Dead; The Soul After Death Translated by Latrobe Carroll (1923, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. London: Adelphi Terrace.]

Best Available Evidence
If you're going to remove references to or by Laura Knight-Jadczyk then in the sense of fairness and openness you also need to remove references to and by Vincent Bridges, Jay Weidner, and Storm Bear Williams as they too speculate, however with far less evidence and information than that held by Patrick Rivière.

Rivière was Cansiliet's only student, who in turn was Fulcanelli's only student. Therefore it stands to reason that the closet we can get to Fulcanelli is via Rivière, who has what remains of Canseliet's notes, who had what remained of Fulcanelli's notes. No one else alive can be considered a better expert on this subject than Rivière.

pmoney 11:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Was Fulcanelli Really An Alchemist?
I was told about Fulcanelli by someone in Spain. I've done a lot of digging and reading around the subject and there are two things I wonder about:

1) All the original Alchemists - Fludd, Maier et al - all insisted that Alchemy was NOT a science to do with materials but with the soul. The quasi-scientific thing with the Alchemists - the idea that it was the study of how to turn base material into gold - was a front whereby they were able to sniff out who was genuine and who was not. Alchemy was an Esoteric movement, not actually a scientific one. So why is there so much in the Fulcanelli story about laboratories etc?

 * It does have to do with the soul (the mind, the spirit) but it has to do also with things to be done; one thing changes the other. It is not about transmutations of materials, but of oneself, the material transmutation occruriing (if it ever does!) as proof of the correctness of the personal transmutation. On the other hand, emphasis was put in the "living" metals in the "laboratory" of the brain, the mind; Morienus having been one of the first to point in that direction clearly. You can find partisans of the strictly psychological way, of the strictly material way, of the middle way, etc. Jung's appraisal of the development of the Self demands the middle way; the solve et coagula, ponder and do, do and ponder. Xyzt1234 21:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

2) Alchemy was supposed to work on what was called the Great Work or Royal Art, which was 'the perfecting of mankind' in Silberer's phrase. The Fulcanelli story seems to focus around predicting Armageddon and an elite group of Alchemists who were working to save themselves. This was not Alchemy's traditional goal which was the furtherance of humanity in spirit and other things. The Fulcanelli story seems to be primarily a dark one. How does this accord with the history of the movement?

 * It apparently doesn't, but the end of the world helps people in working faster? Omnia festina ex diaboli, all hurry comes from the devil? I suppose you're talking about Fulcanelli's supposed third book. Xyzt1234 21:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

My point is - what is the real significance of this story? There are fascinating elements to it - the stay in the secluded house in Spain and the sighting of Fulcanelli as a woman, all suggesting something deeply hallucinatory which seems to connect with some of the deeper imagery of the Alchemists - androgyny etc. But my point is this: Alchemy's cause was a spiritual one and one aimed at the spiritual development of everyone. This was the basis of the words of Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet which is regarded as having started Alchemy. It was also the professed aime of Fludd, Maier, Dee, Boehme, the Rosicrucians and all the other such movements. Fulcanelli appears to be completely independent of this tradition. there is a dark, elitist element to this story which does not sit easily with what Alchemy was supposed to be.

Any thoughts? ThePeg 15:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Alchemy is elitist. It's not for the common man. You couldn't milk the cows, have a beer and do alchemy too. You had to be a very learned person, buy loads of very expensive books, set up your laboratory (if only to do away with it after ten years), have people to feed you in the meantime and all that, and moreover you would have to be a chosen one to succeed. It still wouldn't be inexpensive today, and it is definitely time-consuming.

 * I think you mean the Armageddon aspect and the saving of the chosen ones. I went across these notions in a xeroxed alch. book I found, dated 1989, by some "Solazareff", obviously French. It did suggest a millenarian guns and militia approach to Alchemy I never saw before. Xyzt1234 21:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Entry updated for accuracy using best available EVIDENCE.

Vincent Bridges on Fulcanelli
Bridges' work on Fulcanelli is the basis of Laura Knight-Jadczyk's work. A great many concepts and whole swaths of text have been lifted from Jay Weidner's and Vincent Bridges' two volumes on Funcanelli The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time and A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross to create Knight-Jadczyk's writings. Vincent Bridges is a historian specializing in esoteric European History and is a talking head for the History Channel for all things Nostradamus including Nostradamus: 500 Years later and a new History Channel show on Nostradamus that just wrapped in San Antonio and will air this fall on HC.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk, on the other hand, runs a UFO Cult from France - yes they talk to alien space lords via a Ouija Board.

And allow me this time to do full disclosure - I am an armchair fan of Fulcanelli plus Bridges/Weidner and Knight-Jadczyk has had a long time feud ongoing with the cult. Most of which can somewhat be chronicled here: Somehow I got targeted by the cult via by guilt by association (I knew Bridges and his work on Fulcanelli). The sheer insane level the cult has gone to investigate Bridges and everyone associated with him can be evidenced by the cult's "dossier" file on Bridges, Weidner and me at this link:.

To sum up, the cult sincerely believes Vincent Bridges is a COINTELPRO agent for the Bush Administration and I am his CIA handler.

You just can't make this stuff up.

Yes, I could be biased in this affair (they have caused me no small amount of misery), but I do ask that you verify Knight-Jadczyk's credibility, plus Bridges and mine before you support one or the other.

Stormbear 00:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Stormbear, If a linked site contains plagiarized material, please remove it. I only skimmed most of the links and evaluated them on basic WP:EL standards.  In general, blogs are not acceptable as WP:V sources or external links.  Some of the links I left could also be removed, as they do not cite sources.  There is no reason for an article to have external links, so if you think any or all of the ones remaining should also be deleted, I would have no problem with that. -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 00:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Life
I think I remember that the Abwehr thing that requires a reference came out first in Louis Pawels and Jacques Bergier's "The Morning of the Magicians". Xyzt1234 21:46, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Canseliet
As an example of the erudite puns, the very name of Canseliet:

--Xyzt1234 17:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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Richard Rush (director)

Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. His film Color of Night won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. Rush, whose directing career began in 1960, also directed Freebie and the Bean, a police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film Air America.

Early life
Rush spent his childhood fascinated by Marcel Proust and Batman comics. He was one of the first students of UCLA's film program, and after graduation showcasing the nation's involvement in the Korean War. While he agreed with the military's involvement in the region, Rush's participation in this conflict can be seen as a defining event for the director who later explained: There's a recurring theme that I keep getting attracted to in film. . . . Being unable to accept truth, we have a tendency to accept systems, and to believe in a series of learned homilies and arbitrary rituals of good and evil, right and wrong. Magic, king, country, mother, God, all those burning truths we got from our early bathroom training from bumper stickers and from crocheted pillow cases. When it's right to kill. When it's not right to kill. Under what circumstances. Arbitrary rules invented for the occasion. And we really dedicate ourselves to them ferociously. And they tend to obscure any real human feeling or any real morality that might emerge to substitute for it. After his military-related work, Rush opened a production company to produce commercials and industrial films.

Early Features
At the age of thirty, inspired by the neo-realism of French director François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Rush sold his production business to finance his first feature Too Soon to Love (1960), which he produced on a shoestring budget of $50,000 and sold to Universal Pictures for distribution for $250,000. It featured an early film appearance by Jack Nicholson (who starred in two later Rush films, Hells Angels on Wheels and Psych-Out).

Rush wanted to follow it with an adaptation of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? but did not end up making the film. He was also attached to Kitten with a Whip early on.

Rush then directed Of Love and Desire (1963) with Merle Oberon.

Exploitation Films
Rush's third movie was a spy picture, A Man Called Dagger (1966) which was his first collaboration with cinematographer László Kovács.

Rush directed a car racing film for American International Pictures, Thunder Alley (1967) starring Fabian Forte and Annette Funicello.

He did The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967) for Sidney W. Pink starring Tab Hunter, then did a biker movie for Joe Solomon, Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), starring Nicholson.

Rush was signed by Dick Clark to make two more films for AIP: Psych-Out (1968), a film about the counter culture starring Nicholson and Susan Strasberg, and a biker movie The Savage Seven (1968).

Studio Films
Rush signed a deal with Columbia Pictures. His first studio effort was 1970's Getting Straight, starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen. The film did well commercially and was deemed by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to be the "best American film of the decade."

Rush's next movie, in 1974, was Freebie and the Bean. For the most part, Freebie was critically panned; however, it was enormously popular with audiences, grossing $12.5 million at the box office on a $3 million budget in the two years following its release.

Rush was hired to direct One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) after its original director Miloš Forman was placed under increasing censorship and StB surveillance by the normalization-era Communist Party government of Czechoslovakia. However, he was replaced by Hal Ashby after he was unable to secure studio funding, and Ashby was later replaced by Forman after he fled to the United States.

The Stunt Man
In 1981, Truffaut was asked "Who is your favorite American director?" He answered, "I don’t know his name, but I saw his film last night and it was called The Stunt Man." The film, which took Rush nine years to put together, was a slapstick comedy, a thriller, a romance, an action-adventure, and a commentary on America's dismissal of veterans, as well as a deconstruction of Hollywood cinema. The film also features Rush's typical protagonist, an emotionally traumatized male who has escaped the traditional frameworks of society only to find his new world (biker gangs in Hells Angels on Wheels, hippies in Psych-Out) corrupted by the same influences. The Stunt Man won Rush Oscar nominations for best director and best script (co-nominated with Lawrence B. Marcus).

Later career
Rush originally wanted to direct the horror comedy Love at First Bite (1979) as his first film after The Stunt Man, but was replaced by Stan Dragoti. In 1985, Rush was hired by Carolco Pictures to direct Air America (1990) with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner starring. When the film was delayed to avoid competition with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) and when Connery and Costner's salaries became too expensive, Rush was paid full salary to walk away from the project by Daniel Melnick. This allowed the studio to cast Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr. and turn the film into a success, grossing nearly double its budget.

Rush did not direct another film for four years, until the 1994's box office failure Color of Night. However, Color of Night also won "Best Sex Scene in film history" award from Maxim magazine; Rush was very proud of the award, and he kept the award in his bathroom.

Afterward, Rush retreated from the world of commercial cinema. As Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times wrote, Rush's career seems to be "followed by the kind of miserable luck that never seems to afflict the untalented."

His last project was a DVD documentary on the making of The Stunt Man entitled The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2001).

He resided in Bel Air with his wife Claudia. He had an older brother, Dr. Stephen Rush who also resided in Los Angeles.

On April 8, 2021, Rush died a week shy of his 92nd birthday at his Los Angeles home after long-term health problems.

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Glasgow Anniesland (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Anniesland was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 until 2005, when it was replaced by the larger Glasgow North West, with the exception of Kelvindale which joined Glasgow North.

It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system, and was represented by Donald Dewar until his death in 2000.

Boundaries
The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Drumchapel/Blairdardie, Jordanhill/Kelvindale, and Yoker/Knightswood.

Anniesland was situated on the north western outskirts of the city of Glasgow, stretching from Drumchapel on the boundaries with Clydebank to the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow's West End.


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Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Moray (Moray; Moireibh or Moireabh) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering most of the council area of Moray. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies within the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The seat has been held since 2006 by Richard Lochhead of the Scottish National Party. Lochhead won the seat in a by-election held following death of the previous incumbent, Margaret Ewing of the SNP, from breast cancer.

Electoral region
The Moray constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Inverness and Nairn, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries and council area
The Moray constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly.

The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Moray council area; the rest of the council area is covered by the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region. The Moray Westminster constituency has covered the whole of the council area since 2005.

The electoral wards used in the creation of the Moray constituency are:

 * In full: Elgin City North, Elgin City South, Fochabers Lhanbryde, Forres, Heldon & Laich, Speyside Glenlivet
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This article, to which you contributed, will be featured on the Main Page on January 5, 2008. Risker (talk) 17:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I am just the messenger here, I think you can guess who has asked me to pass this on, in accordance with the reasoning described in the link. That particular talk page is not available for editing at this time, but you can be assured the editor involved is aware.  Risker (talk) 18:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)  (PS - you did some copy editing on the article)

Why thank you kind sir/madam
Thanks very much for the Barnstar! Happy new year Victuallers (talk) 15:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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FOUR DYKs!
Wow, amazing. Keep up the good work! -- Wizardman 05:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Brick Romanesque
Wow! Very nice and informative article. Just a micro style note. Subsections should have titles not in capitals... i.e., "Brick Romanesque churches", not "Brick Romanesque Churches". Ciao and good work. --Attilios (talk) 10:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Language in Brussels
Hi Athinaios. I note that you have replaced the German pronunciation of the name of Brussels in the lead section. In the article itself and in documents I have read, German is not the official language of Brussels. We generally try not to clutter the lead section with too much minor information. I have considered that you might include a statement that there are some (what is it - less than 1%?) German speakers in Belgium, and a few of these may live in Brussels, in the Language section of the article further down. Though that section is already considered questionable. Do you have any figures for the amount of German speakers in Brussels - is the percentage significantly higher than any other non-German city in Europe? If the figure is not significant then even mentioning it in the Language section might be regarded as too trivial. It would be a good idea to get a reference to support mentioning the German language. In the meantime I would like to remove the German pronunciation from the lead section. Would you have any continued objection? Regards  SilkTork  *What's YOUR point? 18:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been looking for information on German speakers in Brussels and I can't find anything to help you. This BBC source does indicate that the German speakers in Belgium are a significant minority and are in the Wallonia region, which doesn't include Brussels. Regards  SilkTork  *What's YOUR point? 18:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied on User Talk:SilkTork. athinaios | Talk 18:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear Silk Tork. I am unsure what kind of information you are seeking. Brussels is the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium. That state has three, not two, official languages. To me, it would appear sensible to include the name of the city in all official languages of the country run from it (as is the case, e.g., on French wikipedia). I don't think the number of German-speakers who live in the city or region is relevant here, as opposed to the official status of the language in question in the country in question. (edit conflict) That's why my edits summary stated German is one of the official languages of Belgium, of which Brussels is the capital. athinaios | Talk 18:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

 * That's fine. But the article is about Brussels. It's not about Belgium. In the same way that London is about London, not the United Kingdom, which has several languages. In addition it is Wiki policy to use IPA, and articles are moving toward that. Check Help:Pronunciation. I find that for articles on places which will have a distinct regional pronunciation that using the regional pronunciation is helpful. However, as the chances of hearing Brussels pronounced in German in Brussels is as likely as hearing Paris, London, or Rome pronounced in German there is a limit to how useful that information actually is. If you feel strongly that the information is useful (as opposed to simply a matter of political stance, for an encyclopedia doesn't follow any political bias) then let us take this to the talkpage and get a wider perspective.  SilkTork  *What's YOUR point? 19:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Ok, if that's what you prefer. I don't think I understand your issue. From my point of view, this is not political, nor is it anything to do with pronunciation. The article is about Brussels, which is, amongst other things, the capital of Belgium, and should give the name of that city in all official languages of that country. The German name is not a different pronunciation, but a slightly different name in the same way that, say, Copenhagen is not just a different pronunciation of København. It is the norm for articles on country capitals to give names in all relevant national languages (look at Edinburgh, Helsinki or Berne, also at Leuven and Liège (city)). The London article is unusual in that regard, perhaps because the multi-lingual character of Britain is less strongly felt than that of Belgium? If this needs to go on the Brussels talk page, I'd like to stress it's not because I feel the information is useful (which I do), but because you feel it is necessary to remove ca. 30 characters and a piece of information that has been part of the article since January 2003. athinaios | Talk 19:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I've placed the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cities, and linked it to your talkpage as that's where our conversation started. I hadn't moved over your last comment above, but will do so now. It might be useful to direct all further comments on this to the Project talkpage or to your own talkpage to save us having this conversation in multi-locations!  SilkTork  *What's YOUR point? 19:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK
I've really been enjoying your recent architecture DYKs. I did the DYK update with all the brick nominations and I think the update was late because I spent too much time reading and looking at all the great illustrations, particularly in Brick Gothic. Thanks for the care you've put into these articles! --JayHenry (talk) 06:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Fayum mummy portraits
I've put the article's nomination on hold for seven days to allow folks time to address these issues. If you have questions, or disagree with something I've detailed, feel free to contact me on the article talk page, here, or on my talk page to discuss. If you need more time to address the concerns, but progress is being made, I have no problems with extending the time limit. Please don't be discouraged by the length of the list above, I found the article very interesting and informative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ealdgyth (talk • contribs) 21:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow!
Ich bin je richtig begeistert, in welchem Tempo hier die Übersetzungen "meiner" Vasenmalerei- und anderer Artikel zustande bringst. Doppelt erfreulich. zum einen für mein Ego ;) - zum anderen ist es sicher nicht schlecht, wenn dieser Bereich in der en:WP noch etwas ausgebaut wird. Ein paar Infos. Nachdem ich die Artikel zu Antikensammlung und zum Pergamonaltar endlich fertig habe (sollte in diesem monat hoffentlich alles soweit fertig sein), wird mein nächster größerer Schritt der Ausbau des Artikels zum Schuwalow-Maler zum nächsten Schreibwettbewerb in der de:WP (März) sein. In dieser Woche habe ich verstärkt an einer Liste der Vasenmaler und Töpfer gearbeitet, die, sollte es dich interessieren, aber noch nicht übersetzt werden sollte, da sie noch nicht fertig ist. Fertig wird sie zwar eh nie, aber der Grundstock sollte dann fertig erstellt sein. Sollte dich das interessieren (wäre dann aber sicher eine Heidenarbeit) laß' es mich wissen, dann gebe ich dir Bescheid, wenn das einigermaßen soweit ist. Grüße. Marcus Cyron (talk) 22:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC) PS: Ich werde im rotfigurigen Artikel die restlichen Rotlinks in nächster Zeit noch bläuen.

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User:Ling.Nut/Funerary art
Hi... uh, would you be interested in helping with User:Ling.Nut/Funerary art? many thanks! Ling.Nut (talk) 16:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Greek temple
Dear Athinaios, I just noticed that you've translated my article "Griechischer Tempel". Well done, I'm really impressed to find my work here again. Thus it was double worth to be done. Thanks a lot. Cheers, Tusculum. 217.111.34.38 (talk) 09:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Categorization
Just wanted to let you know that I've created the category, corresponding to the category "Notname (Antike)" on the German Wikipedia and good for collecting articles about all the Greek painters whose names are unknown. Thought you might find it useful. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Großmarkthalle and Talk:Großmarkthalle
We just had the same troubles on de-wiki with the German version of the article, and I've just found the same edits in no-wiki and es-wiki and reverted it. As the user had been blocked for a month on de-wiki, he spreads his activities to other Wikipedias and plays l'enfant terrible there. --EvaK (talk) 08:39, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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Black forest pottery
Hi, I see our German friends now have a most impressive looking article on Black-figure pottery, though I have no idea what it says the quantity of it is clearly luxurious. I'd be glad to help with the reference checking and proof-reading if you are up for translating it. Twospoonfuls (ειπέ) 14:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

culture
Hi, I would really appreciate it if you would look over this article. As of a few days ago, I think it was a trainwreck - tangential material, lots of repetition, no contextualization. I did a major overhaul of it (but my approach was relatively conservative: I deleted fringe material and redundancies, and reorganized what was left according to distinctive points of view or approaches). It still needs work (I describe all this in greater detail on the talk page). One thing I did was provide a very abbreviated summary of how cultural anthropologists talk about culture. One thing that is sorely lacking is a section on material culture and archeology. Off the top of my head I think that something should be said about the first appearance of tools in hominan history, how archeologists study material culture (explaining words like matrix and assemblage), theories of material culture and the relationship between material culture and social organization/social life etc. Right now I am trying to focus on the core concepts/ways of conceptualizing/frameworks for study. But I do not have the knowledge of archeology to do this. So I am hoping that you can help out ... thanks Slrubenstein  |  Talk 19:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Question on Greek History
Hello Athinaios. A new user by the name of Bobbobbob12345 (talk) has found a book claiming that the conquests of Alexander the great were 17.5 million km2. He says it was a Readers Digest atlas of world history that said that a so-called Greek empire under Alexander the great was larger than the Achaemenid Empire. (He didn't spell it correctly, either.) If you know the facts about the history about the history of ancient Greece and Persia, can you tell him at his (talk) page? Thanks, Rustyfence (talk) 00:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Woe is me
I am bereft! Where are you, Mr Athinaios?

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Pottery articles
Wow, love the Greek pottery painter articles, they're absolutely wow! Could you add Category:Ancient Greek vase painters to all of them, as you create? -- Zanimum (talk) 00:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Please be patient and help me. There's more vase painting stuff in the pipeline (I translated these for a non-wikipedia related reason and thought I might as well add them, after appropriate changes, as they are in many ways rather important and interesting) and I'll try to get it all out here within the next 10 days. I'll try to add the link you mention, but tweaking comes after that - but please help if you can, e.g, in case I overlook something.
 * If anyone's checking: I have prepared an array of articles on Greek vase painting and shall release them over the next few days. I don't have time to do it all in one go (I'd love to unleash them all at once, but I just can't - DYK anyone?). Many of the dead links will eventually connect. The remaining ones are, as always, asking to be made non-dead. So please be patient for a little while.
 * DYK, anynone?

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Athinaios,

Thanks for all these superb Greek  pottery  articles -  it's exactly  what  the encyclopedia needs. Please be sure to add inline references wherever possible,  and categories if you  can. Happy editing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:32, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

White ground technique
Your expansion of this article is much appreciated. Please look over my edits, which have to do with layout and the organization of material, not content per se, to make sure I haven't done a disservice. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:47, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Telephus
Hi, 'Athinaios'! I believe you are something of an expert on Greek pottery. Maybe you would like to consider my request at Talk:Euripides. Thanks. 'McRap'. McRap (talk) 23:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

inline citations
Please dont forget to provide inline citations for articles you are adding to Wikipedia. This makes it much clearer to readers where the references were used.--RadioFan (talk) 12:09, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Great work
I've just gone through and patrolled all the pages you've created recently. Great work! Thanks for contributing your expert knowledge to Wikipedia. I've put up a request on Request for permissions asking for you to be granted autopatrolled permission. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:21, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

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Wikiversity's WikiJournal of the Humanities needs you!
Hi Athinaios!

I'm the editor-in-chief of the WikiJournal of the Humanities. Given your experience with Wikipedia and understanding of academia, I'm emailing to ask whether you might be interested in getting involved as an editor for the WikiJournal of Humanities. It's modelled on the successful Wikipedia-integrated journals, the WikiJournal of Medicine, and the WikiJournal of Science. Our editorial board covers a range of fields and expertise, aiming to cover disciplines across the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Our approach combines the rigour of academic peer review with the extensive reach of an encyclopedia. Consequently, it is an excellent way to achieve public engagement and outreach while impacting public understanding of complex scholarly topics. Articles undergo peer review and are subsequently published in both standard academic PDF format and directly onto Wikipedia, often getting over 100,000 views annually. This enhances the encyclopedia's scientific and factual accuracy and offers academics citable, indexed publications. Moreover, it enables significantly broader dissemination compared to traditional scholarly publishing methods. The time commitment is flexible. An editor would generally dedicate 2-10 hours per month to a range of activities. Please let me know if this aligns with your interests, or if you'd like to know more. Your experience and expertise would be highly appreciated. Fransplace... Let's talk 23:14, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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Lunglei

Lunglei, formerly known as Lungleh, is the second-largest town in Mizoram, northeastern India, situated in the south-central part of the state. The town served as the capital of British Mizoram from 1889 to 1898. It is situated 729 metres (2,392 feet) above sea level and is situated on a ridge surrounded by hills. Lunglei has an estimated population of 80,000 residents as of 2023.

History
Lungleh was the capital of South Lushai Hills for 10 years from 1880, as was Aijal for the North Lushai Hills. The two were united in 1898. Lunglei is the second-largest town in Mizoram and was an important town until the partition of India as it had direct access to Chittagong, a big city in Bangladesh which made Lunglei the commercial and education centre. As of 1912, there were only 2 shops in Lunglei 1922 which increased to 4 shopes in 1922. The first Jeepable road to Lunglei was made only in the 1950s. on 1 March 1966, the MNF declared unilateral Mizo Independence and attacked Assam Rifles post at Lunglei, captured the SDO and seized Rs 18 Lakhs from the Govt Treasury.

Geography
Lunglei is located at 22.88°N, 92.73°W.

Demographics
Lunglei is one of the prominent districts of Mizoram. Encompassing a total area of 4538 km2, the district of Lunglei has a population of 137,155. The district of Lunglei is 235 km from Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram and is easily accessible by well maintained roads. The district is bounded on the north by Mamit and Aizawl districts, on the west by Bangladesh, on the south by Lawngtlai district, on the southeast by Saiha district, on the east by Myanmar and on the northeast by Champhai district.

As of the 2011 Census of India,

Administration
The district of Lunglei has been further divided into major sub divisions of Hnahthial SDO (S), Lunglei SDO (S) and Tlabung SDO (S) and 4 R.D. Blocks, Bunghmun, Hnahthial, Lunglei and Lungsen. The district has 7 assembly constituencies. These are South Tuipui, Lunglei North, Lunglei East, Lunglei West, Lunglei South, Thorang and West Tuipui for the administrative convenience of the district officials. Lunglei town is the administrative headquarters of the district.

The Lunglei town is managed by Lunglei Municipal Council.

Education
The Major Educational Institutions of Higher Learning in Lunglei are:
 * Lunglei Government College, Lunglei
 * J.Buana College, Lunglei
 * Kapthangi College Lunglei. Electric Veng
 * Higher and Technical Institute of Mizoram
 * Mizoram Polytechnic offering Engineering diploma courses.
 * Lunglei Nursing College
 * Christian Hospital Serkawn Nursing College
 * Mizoram Engineering College
 * District Institute of Education and Training (DIET)

Tourism
Some of the notable tourist spots of the district of Lunglei are:
 * Zobawk Sports Academy
 * Kawmzawl Park
 *  Khawnglung Wildlife Sanctuary
 * Saikuti Hall where most of the concerts and celebrations are held. A unique museum has also been established in the hall where local painters demonstrate their skill and exhibit their works.
 * Thuamluaia Mual - is the second football stadium with Artificial turf in Mizoram.

Newspapers

 * Hnamdamna
 * Zochhiar
 * Lunglei Times
 * Daifim
 * Ralvengtu
 * Vulmawi
 * Lunglei Tribune
 * MAKEDONIA (Sunday)
 * Daily Post
 * Zunzam

Transport
The closest route to Lunglei in the 1890s was through Tlabung, a town about 35 kilometers from Lunglei where Karnaphuli River connects to Chittagong, a distance of about 90 kilometers. In the 1940s, a trip from Lunglei to Shillong or Kolkata passed through Chittagong rather than Aizawl.

A Helicopter service by Pawan Hans has been started between Aizawl and Lunglei. The distance between Lunglei and Aizawl is less than 200 km, and the cities are connected by regular service of buses and jeeps. There are also plans to construct a small airport at Kawmzawl, about 25 km from Lunglei.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stargate Wars

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

The result of the debate was Delete Jtkiefer  T - 22:43, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Stargate Wars
Non-notable fan-made (unauthorized/unlicensed) online game. It's one of many more-or-less interchangable "Build an army by paying us money or recruiting other players" online games, and doesn't, as far as I can tell, have any sort of news coverage or other impact. Google backs this up, with 133 unique links, many of which are people spamming to try to recruit other players. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 15:50, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable game.--Isotope23 18:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree that it is unauthorized but, I my self have been getting help on improving it and a number of new players said that they saw the page and they liked it because it was actually more helpful than the actual site. If it is deleted now, before it can even get a chance to gain some traffic, some will be mad, and others will be disappointed until someone trys to make it again. Please just give the page a little bit longer.
 * Which not only makes this non-notablem unauthorised and fancruft. I'm pretty sure that an article designed partially as a walkthough and partialy as a recruiting advertisment has no place in an encyclopaedia. Delete Saberwyn 07:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Dottore So 11:45, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not-notable game. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:30, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

What exactly defines a game as non-notable? Whether authorized or not, the game has attracted almost 40 thousand users since it was put online 8 months ago, more than 16 thousand of which are still active in the game and/or the forums. The administrator of the game has constantly made updates to the game to please users, as well as improve gameplay. The administrator is currently developing the 4th version of the game, giving all users a gaming experience that they can look forward to on a daily basis. To call the game non-notable is arrogant and pompous, and the current article does a great job of defining the game's brief but storied history, as well as giving new users an idea of what they need to do to excel in the game.
 * Almost 40,000 usernames, in a game where gaming the system to make false usernames for the referral bonus is rewarded? That's less than you'd think. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Cheaters who create double accounts are found and baned by Admin and Mods of StargateWars, many cheat fixes are implimented to prevent multi accounting. 40k players NOT 40k usernames. More players are joining every day and unactive accounts are deleted. Stargatewars is most popular Stargate game on all the web.

First of all, the game does give limited referral bonuses, but as it seems you haven't done more than give it a cursory glance you don't seem to realise that these bonuses are essentially useless for anyone trying to do even marginally well at the game. Link clicks from the referral links are limited to 50 per day, which in the grand scheme of things would count for about 1% of the growth a player can realise in a day through actual gameplay (i.e. nobody bothers with the link clicks anymore). Furthermore while there are bonuses for supporting the game people can play (and be quite successful at it) without paying a cent. In fact some top players have received supporter bonuses FOR FREE from the admin for their excellent gameplay. A few players known for their excessive donations have been singled out and targeted as the practice of donating to achieve rank is strongly frowned on. The game appears to be initially based on Kings of Chaos (which has it's own wiki) and expanded the concept to create a far richer more engrossing gaming experience. So it's non-notable why? Because there are no media articles on it? Much that is noteworthy fails to appear in the media and even more that is not noteworthy appears in the media with all too much frequency. Perhaps to you it's not, but to the stargate fans out there this game is noteworthy and considering that it is the longest running sci fi show in US history and second only to Doctor Who all time globally, I think that it's a testament to how Stargate has entered into various different facets of culture outside of television.--Freeside 07:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It's a blatant clone of another game, not very popular as free online games goes, has gotten absolutely no press coverage despite an entire industry devoted to covering games, hasn't even been around very long, and isn't even terribly significant in the context of the Stargate fandom. (I'm not disagreeing that Stargate is notable; but, then again, we're not talking about deleting the Stargate SG-1 article.) When this game is as popular and influential as Kings of Chaos, it will merit its own article, but until then it doesn't. Sorry. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

2: Has anyone actually read 'What wikipedia is not' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information)? I quote: "Wikipedia should not offer first-hand news reports" - thus, why does an article need to be about media? I quote again, from the same source: "Subjects [people] of encyclopedia articles must have a claim to fame besides being fondly remembered by their friends and relatives." However: no where in that OFFICIAL article by the wikipedia admin does it say that non-human subjects need to be 'notable'. So there! Keep or put yourself at the mercy of all Stargate nerds And I am just about to add an external link to my own walkthrough guide; this article will act as a brief summary of the game, but not a walkthrough (whoever suggested it was). ZPMMaker 08:38, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "I'm pretty sure that an article designed partially as a walkthough and partialy as a recruiting advertisment has no place in an encyclopaedia. Delete Saberwyn 07:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)". Two things: 1: This article does not contain any recruitment links AT ALL! Have you even bloody read the article?!
 * Are you threating Wikipedia in your vote? How absolutely silly. As for claims of notability, as a matter of practice all things need to assert notability, unless (and this a very controversial exception) that thing is an inherently notable thing (and online web-based games aren't even close). - A Man In Black  (conspire | past ops) 08:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

No, that was not a threat (what made you think it was?). Also, it does not say that it needs to be notable. If you know where it says it must, please point it out to us.ZPMMaker 11:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Unofficial, unlicensed, and non-canon. (And this is coming from a Stargate nerd.) slab 13:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can gather there are two main points supporting deletion. First that the game is unlicensed, hence not fully legal, and second that the game's popularity is deemed too limited to warrant inclusion. Correct me if I'm wrong. Now the first point is actually irrelevant. Something being authorized/sanctioned is not a pre requisite for relevance. I think you would agree after a moment of thought that unsanctioned/unauthorized work can often be equally or more relevant. So saying "Unofficial, unlicensed, and non-canon" is essentially moot. As for the second point, if using Kings of Chaos (KoC) as a metric, a comparison between the two shows that KoC has about 10 000 users online at this moment compared to about 500 for Stargate Wars (SGW). Now this indicates that SGW has about 5% of the usage that KoC has. This is notable. KoC has been around for almost 5 years whereas SGW has been around for a matter of months. In any other arena, say for example web browsers, Firefox developping a user base that was about 5-10% the size of IE was certainly considered notable. --Freeside 19:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Unofficial, unlicensed, and non-canon is subject to "foxing". Don't laugh-- MGM has already gone after others for similar. SGW is also charging money for support, which could be construed as the use of MGM's copyrighted material in order to turn a profit. You know, something which MGM's legal department wouldn't take too kindly to. A cease-and-desist means that the game would likely no longer exist, making the need for an article on a short-lived web-game "essentially moot." Hence, my objection.
 * Back to the current article, though: Your argument seems to basically be 'there isn't a huge userbase yet... but there might be someday! And then we'll be glad we had this article!' By that math, I could write up a web-game and have it online for five minutes... sure, it might have one user now, but if it lasts for five years like KoC, then there'll be 525 600 users! (I'd better get started with that article.)
 * As far as the Firefox analogy goes, it's apples-to-oranges. In the web-browser arena, IE has something like 90% marketshare; thus 5-10% is notable, as that makes it the second most popular browser. Stargate Wars is one in how many different web-games (each with how much share of the market)? slab 23:22, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Who cares how notable it is?! Like I said before, no where in the official wikipedia rules site does it say a subject need be notable!!! ZPMMaker 07:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-encylopedic, non-notable. Pete.Hurd 05:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

What exactly defines an encyclopaedia? According to Encyclopedia, it is a 'Compendium of knowledge'; this article provides knowledge about a game, and thus, is encyclopaedic. It also need not be notable, as I have said before (see my second post on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Archangels_Of_Destruction)... Pete.Hurd, I believe your claims are invalid (not to mention the claims of everyone who claimed it was not-notable)...ZPMMaker 08:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, just because its author said we "would not be able" to delete it. — J I P | Talk 09:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * JIP, that's not a real reason! ZPMMaker 07:57, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, in that case, delete because it's a non-notable online game. — J I P | Talk 07:58, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

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


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User:SPUI/merge

 * Such a minor branch of a subject that it doesn't deserve an article: Merge the useful content into a more comprehensive article [] and redirect

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Zawyet el-Maiyitin

Zawyet el-Maiyitin or Zawyet Sultan or Zawyet el-Amwat is a small village in Egypt, located in the Minya Governorate.

The site has a small step-pyramid of the late 3rd Dynasty, remarkable for being the only pyramid built on the east bank of the Nile. It also comprises rock-cut tombs of the late Old Kingdom.

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Ray Crooke

Ray Austin Crooke (12 July 1922 – 5 December 2015) was an Australian artist known for his landscapes. He won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with a portrait of George Johnston.

Early life
Ray Crooke was born in Auburn, Victoria in 1922. He spent time in Townsville, Cape York and other parts of northern Australia joining the Australian Army during World War II, service number VX88344 between August 1941-July 1946.

Career
After the war, he enrolled in Art School at Swinburne University of Technology and later travelled to New Guinea, Tahiti and Fiji. In 1949 he travelled to the Torres Strait, returning to Melbourne in 1951 to marry June Bethell. A diary of his time in the Torres Strait is held by the State Library of Queensland.

His portrait of the novelist George Johnston won the Archibald Prize in 1969, and the University of Queensland owns three of Ray Crooke's portrait paintings: Portrait of Xavier Herbert (1977), Portrait of Professor Emeritus Sir Zelman Cowen, (1919–2011), Vice-Chancellor 1970–1977 (1977) and Portrait of Sadie Herbert (1980). However, he is not known usually for portrait painting. He is known for serene views of Islander people and ocean landscapes, many of which are based on the art of Paul Gauguin. He was responsible for the dust-jacket for Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert.

During the sixties, the Crooks lived in Sydney and Melbourne, making regular trips to Thursday Island, New Guinea, Cape York and Fiji. He frequently exhibited his work at the Johnstone gallery in Brisbane and the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. For Crooke, the Johnstone Gallery was pivotal to his success, beginning with his first solo exhibition there in 1960, and continuing, largely unabated, ever since. His Island Journal is dedicated "to the memory of Brian and Marjorie Johnstone", an indication of their influence on his life as an artist.

His painting The Offering (1971) is in the Vatican Museum collection. Many of his works are in Australian galleries.

"North of Capricorn" was an Australian touring retrospective exhibition in 1997 organised by the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville), initiated and curated by Grafico Topico's writer and curator Sue Smith.

He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1993 Australia Day Honours, "in recognition of service to the arts, particularly as a landscape artist".

Crooke died on 5 December 2015 at the age of 93.

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María de los Ángeles Moreno

María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas (15 January 1945 – 27 April 2019) was a Mexican politician who was the first woman to be elected president of a Mexican political party.

Personal life and education
Born in Mexico City, Moreno Uriegas was the daughter of Manuel Moreno and Amalia Uriegas Sánchez. She held a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Political career
Moreno Uriegas became an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1960. She served in the cabinet of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Secretary of Fisheries from December 1988 to May 1991. She was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where she served as President in 1992. In December 1994, Moreno was elected President of her political party, becoming the first woman in Mexico to hold that position. From 1994 to 2000, she served in the Senate, representing the Federal District; in 1997, she was the President of the Senate and in 1999, President of the Permanent Commission of the Congress. From 2000 to 2003, she served as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District. In 2006, she returned to the Senate through the proportional representation (PR) mechanism.

Moreno died in Mexico City on 27 April 2019, at the age of 74.

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Grint
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, nor is it a place for original research, which is what "grint" appears to be. Please refer to Avoid neologisms for other related info. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 15:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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The Kids (Norwegian band)

The Kids was a Norwegian rock band from Trondheim, formed in 1979. Their best known song is Hun Er Forelska i lærer'n ("She's In Love With the Teacher"), in 1980. Norske jenter ("Norwegian Girls") is another hit. The band released music in Sweden with Swedish language versions of the songs.

The Kids became known for their platinum blonde hair, and were the first in Norway to produce a music video. The video was aired by Zikk Zakk, the only rock music program on NRK. The Kids sold to platinum. After the band broke up, Dag Ingebrigtsen took part in the founding of TNT. Meanwhile, Torstein Flakne founded Stage Dolls. They had a reunion tour in 1996, and released a greatest hits album in the same year.

Last lineup

 * Dag Ingebrigtsen – vocals (1979–1981)
 * Torstein Flakne – piano, guitar, backing vocals (1979–1981)
 * Svein Morten Lunde – bass (1979–1981) (died 1996)
 * Ragnar Vigdal – drums (1979–1981)
 * Arild Samstad – keyboards (1979–1981)

Discography

 * Norske jenter ("Norwegian Girls") (1980)
 * Sønner av Norge ("Sons of Norway") (1981)
 * Sønner av Norske Jenter/Greatest Hits (1996)
 * Hits fra Kids (2007)

Known hits

 * "Hun er forelska i lærer'n" (1980), certified Platinum in Norway in 2021.
 * "Vil du værra me mæ hjæm i natt" (1996), certified Platinum in Norway in 2021.

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Campo Santo

Campo santo is a word for cemetery in Italian and Spanish and may refer to:

People

 * Andrés del Campo Santos (born 1980), Spanish footballer
 * Henrique Campos Santos (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
 * Rayllan Campos Santos (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
 * Thiago Campos Santos (born 1984), Brazilian footballer

Places

 * Campo Santo, Salta, a town and municipality in Salta Province, northwestern Argentina
 * Camposanto, a comune in the Province of Modena, Italy
 * El Campo Santo Cemetery, City of Industry, California
 * Campo Santo, Ghent, a Roman Catholic burial ground in Belgium
 * Campo Santo de La Loma, a cemetery in Manila, Philippines
 * San Joaquin Campo Santo, a cemetery in Iloilo, Philippines

Other uses

 * Battle of Campo Santo, part of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought in Camposanto, Italy in 1743
 * Camposanto Monumentale, or Campo Santo, or Camposanto Vecchio, a historical edifice in Pisa, Italy
 * Campo Santo, a former cemetery beside Perpignan Cathedral, France
 * Campo Santo Teutonico, a Catholic college in Rome
 * Santa Maria della Pietà in Camposanto dei Teutonici, a Roman Catholic church in Vatican City
 * Campo Santo, a book by W. G. Sebald
 * Campo Santo (company), video game developer of Firewatch

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Hot cathode

In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic emission. This is in contrast to a cold cathode, which does not have a heating element. The heating element is usually an electrical filament heated by a separate electric current passing through it. Hot cathodes typically achieve much higher power density than cold cathodes, emitting significantly more electrons from the same surface area. Cold cathodes rely on field electron emission or secondary electron emission from positive ion bombardment, and do not require heating. There are two types of hot cathode. In a directly heated cathode, the filament is the cathode and emits the electrons. In an indirectly heated cathode, the filament or heater heats a separate metal cathode electrode which emits the electrons.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, a wide variety of electronic devices used hot-cathode vacuum tubes. Today, hot cathodes are used as the source of electrons in fluorescent lamps, vacuum tubes, and the electron guns used in cathode ray tubes and laboratory equipment such as electron microscopes.

Description
A cathode electrode in a vacuum tube or other vacuum system is a metal surface which emits electrons into the evacuated space of the tube. Since the negatively charged electrons are attracted to the positive nuclei of the metal atoms, they normally stay inside the metal and require energy to leave it. This energy is called the work function of the metal. In a hot cathode, the cathode surface is induced to emit electrons by heating it with a filament, a thin wire of refractory metal like tungsten with current flowing through it. The cathode is heated to a temperature that causes electrons to be 'boiled off' of its surface into the evacuated space in the tube, a process called thermionic emission.

There are two types of hot cathodes:
 * Directly heated cathode: In this type, the filament itself is the cathode, emits the electrons directly and is coated in metal oxides. Directly heated cathodes were used in the first vacuum tubes. Today, they are used in fluorescent tubes and most high-power transmitting vacuum tubes.
 * Indirectly heated cathode: In this type, the filament is not the cathode but rather heats a separate cathode consisting of a sheet metal cylinder surrounding the filament, and the cylinder emits electrons. Indirectly heated cathodes are used in most low power vacuum tubes.  For example, in most vacuum tubes the cathode is a nickel tube, coated with metal oxides. It is heated by a tungsten filament inside it, and the heat from the filament causes the outside surface of the oxide coating to emit electrons.   The filament of an indirectly heated cathode is usually called the heater.

The main reason for using an indirectly heated cathode is to isolate the rest of the vacuum tube from the electric potential across the filament, allowing vacuum tubes to use alternating current to heat the filament. In a tube in which the filament itself is the cathode, the alternating electric field from the filament surface would affect the movement of the electrons and introduce hum into the tube output. It also allows the filaments in all the tubes in an electronic device to be tied together and supplied from the same current source, even though the cathodes they heat may be at different potentials.

To improve electron emission, cathodes are usually treated with chemicals, compounds of metals with a low work function. These form a metal layer on the surface which emits more electrons. Treated cathodes require less surface area, lower temperatures and less power to supply the same cathode current. The untreated thoriated tungsten filaments used in early vacuum tubes (called "bright emitters") had to be heated to 2500 °F (1400 °C), white-hot, to produce sufficient thermionic emission for use, while modern coated cathodes (called "dull emitters") produce far more electrons at a given temperature, so they only have to be heated to 800–1100 °F (425–600 °C).

Oxide-coated cathodes
The most common type of indirectly heated cathode is the oxide-coated cathode, in which the nickel cathode surface has a coating of alkaline earth metal oxide to increase emission. One of the earliest materials used for this was barium oxide; it forms a monatomic layer of barium with an extremely low work function. More modern formulations utilize a mixture of barium oxide, strontium oxide and calcium oxide. Another standard formulation is barium oxide, calcium oxide, and aluminium oxide in a 5:3:2 ratio. Thorium oxide may be used as well. Oxide-coated cathodes operate at about 800-1000 °C, orange-hot. They are used in most small glass vacuum tubes, but are rarely used in high-power tubes because the coating is degraded by positive ions that bombard the cathode, accelerated by the high voltage on the tube.

For manufacturing convenience, the oxide-coated cathodes are usually coated with carbonates, which are then converted to oxides by heating. The activation may be achieved by microwave heating, direct electric current heating, or electron bombardment while the tube is on the exhausting machine, until the production of gases ceases. The purity of cathode materials is crucial for tube lifetime. The Ba content significantly increases on the surface layers of oxide cathodes down to several tens of nanometers in depth, after the cathode activation process. The lifetime of oxide cathodes can be evaluated with a stretched exponential function. The survivability of electron emission sources is significantly improved by high doping of high‐speed activator.

Barium oxide reacts with traces of silicon in the underlying metal, forming barium silicate (Ba2SiO4) layer. This layer has high electrical resistance, especially under discontinuous current load, and acts as a resistor in series with the cathode. This is particularly undesirable for tubes used in computer applications, where they can stay without conducting current for extended periods of time.

Barium also sublimates from the heated cathode, and deposits on nearby structures. For electron tubes, where the grid is subjected to high temperatures and barium contamination would facilitate electron emission from the grid itself, higher proportion of calcium is added to the coating mix (up to 20% of calcium carbonate).

Boride cathodes
Lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) and cerium hexaboride (CeB6) are used as the coating of some high-current cathodes. Hexaborides show low work function, around 2.5 eV. They are also resistant to poisoning. Cerium boride cathodes show lower evaporation rate at 1700 K than lanthanum boride, but it becomes equal at 1850 K and higher. Cerium boride cathodes have one and a half times the lifetime of lanthanum boride, due to its higher resistance to carbon contamination. Boride cathodes are about ten times as "bright" as the tungsten ones and have 10-15 times longer lifetime. They are used e.g. in electron microscopes, microwave tubes, electron lithography, electron beam welding, X-Ray tubes, and free electron lasers. However these materials tend to be expensive.

Other hexaborides can be employed as well; examples are calcium hexaboride, strontium hexaboride, barium hexaboride, yttrium hexaboride, gadolinium hexaboride, samarium hexaboride, and thorium hexaboride.

Thoriated filaments
A common type of directly heated cathode, used in most high power transmitting tubes, is the thoriated tungsten filament, discovered in 1914 and made practical by Irving Langmuir in 1923. A small amount of thorium is added to the tungsten of the filament. The filament is heated white-hot, at about 2400 °C, and thorium atoms migrate to the surface of the filament and form the emissive layer. Heating the filament in a hydrocarbon atmosphere carburizes the surface and stabilizes the emissive layer. Thoriated filaments can have very long lifetimes and are resistant to the ion bombardment that occurs at high voltages, because fresh thorium continually diffuses to the surface, renewing the layer. They are used in nearly all high-power vacuum tubes for radio transmitters, and in some tubes for hi-fi amplifiers. Their lifetimes tend to be longer than those of oxide cathodes.

Thorium alternatives
Due to concerns about thorium radioactivity and toxicity, efforts have been made to find alternatives. One of them is zirconiated tungsten, where zirconium dioxide is used instead of thorium dioxide. Other replacement materials are lanthanum(III) oxide, yttrium(III) oxide, cerium(IV) oxide, and their mixtures.

Other materials
In addition to the listed oxides and borides, other materials can be used as well. Some examples are carbides and borides of transition metals, e.g. zirconium carbide, hafnium carbide, tantalum carbide, hafnium diboride, and their mixtures. Metals from groups IIIB (scandium, yttrium, and some lanthanides, often gadolinium and samarium) and IVB (hafnium, zirconium, titanium) are usually chosen.

In addition to tungsten, other refractory metals and alloys can be used, e.g. tantalum, molybdenum and rhenium and their alloys.

A barrier layer of other material can be placed between the base metal and the emission layer, to inhibit chemical reaction between these. The material has to be resistant to high temperatures, have high melting point and very low vapor pressure, and be electrically conductive. Materials used can be e.g. tantalum diboride, titanium diboride, zirconium diboride, niobium diboride, tantalum carbide, zirconium carbide, tantalum nitride, and zirconium nitride.

Cathode heater
A cathode heater is a heated wire filament used to heat the cathode in a vacuum tube or cathode ray tube. The cathode element has to achieve the required temperature in order for these tubes to function properly. This is why older electronics often need some time to "warm up" after being powered on; this phenomenon can still be observed in the cathode ray tubes of some modern televisions and computer monitors. The cathode heats to a temperature that causes electrons to be 'boiled out' of its surface into the evacuated space in the tube, a process called thermionic emission. The temperature required for modern oxide-coated cathodes is around 800 - 1000 C.

The cathode is usually in the form of a long narrow sheet metal cylinder at the center of the tube. The heater consists of a fine wire or ribbon, made of a high resistance metal alloy like nichrome, similar to the heating element in a toaster but finer. It runs through the center of the cathode, often being coiled on tiny insulating supports or bent into hairpin-like shapes to give enough surface area to produce the required heat. Typical heaters have a ceramic coating on the wire. When it's bent sharply at the ends of the cathode sleeve, the wire is exposed. The ends of the wire are electrically connected to two of the several pins protruding from the end of the tube. When current passes through the wire it becomes red hot, and the radiated heat strikes the inside surface of the cathode, heating it. The red or orange glow seen coming from operating vacuum tubes is produced by the heater.

There is not much room in the cathode, and the cathode is often built with the heater wire touching it. The inside of the cathode is insulated by a coating of alumina (aluminum oxide). This is not a very good insulator at high temperatures, therefore tubes have a rating for maximum voltage between cathode and heater, usually only 200 to 300 V.

Heaters require a low voltage, high current source of power. Miniature receiving tubes for line-operated equipment use on the order of 0.5 to 4 watts for heater power; high power tubes such as rectifiers or output tubes use on the order of 10 to 20 watts, and broadcast transmitter tubes might need a kilowatt or more to heat the cathode. The voltage required is usually 5 or 6 volts AC. This is supplied by a separate 'heater winding' on the device's power supply transformer that also supplies the higher voltages required by the tubes' plates and other electrodes. One approach used in transformerless line-operated radio and television receivers such as the All American Five is to connect all the tube heaters in series across the supply line. Since all the heaters are rated at the same current, they would share voltage according to their heater ratings.

Battery-operated radio sets used direct-current power for the heaters (commonly known as filaments), and tubes intended for battery sets were designed to use as little filament power as necessary, to economize on battery replacement. The final models of tube-equipped radio receivers were built with subminiature tubes using less than 50 mA for the heaters, but these types were developed at about the same time as transistors which replaced them.

Where leakage or stray fields from the heater circuit could potentially be coupled to the cathode, direct current is sometimes used for heater power. This eliminates a source of noise in sensitive audio or instrumentation circuits.

The majority of power required to operate low power tube equipment is consumed by the heaters. Transistors have no such power requirement, which is often a great advantage.

Failure modes
The emissive layers on coated cathodes degrade slowly with time, and much more quickly when the cathode is overloaded with too high current. The result is weakened emission and diminished power of the tubes, or in CRTs diminished brightness.

The activated electrodes can be destroyed by contact with oxygen or other chemicals (e.g. aluminium, or silicates), either present as residual gases, entering the tube via leaks, or released by outgassing or migration from the construction elements. This results in diminished emissivity. This process is known as cathode poisoning. High-reliability tubes had to be developed for the early Whirlwind computer, with filaments free of traces of silicon.

Slow degradation of the emissive layer and sudden burning and interruption of the filament are two main failure modes of vacuum tubes.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grint : A new word in the English language

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 07:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Grint : A new word in the English language
per the title, a neologism of no encyclopedic merit. Delete — Lomn | Talk / RfC 15:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not everyday you see an article justify itself for deletion in the title! Sonic Mew | talk to me 16:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: A new vote from a Wikipedia editor. Jkelly
 * Delete neologism (obviously).--Isotope23 18:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I suspect that this is an attack page aimed by the author at someone they know with the surname Grint, whom they think to be somewhat miserly. As per the article's title, delete. Uncle G 18:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are proposals existing that would allow obvious ones like this one to be taken care of quickly. However, like this AFD page, those proposals are filling with signatures too slowly to take care of the problem. --Jacquelyn Marie 21:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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