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CHLT

CHLT may refer to:

 * CHLT-DT, a television station (channel 7) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
 * CKOY-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, which formerly held the call sign CHLT-FM from 2007 to 2011; originally on AM as CHLT from 1937 to 2007
 * CITE-FM-1, a radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, which formerly held the call sign CHLT-FM beginning in the 1960s

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Manga Sewa

Manga Sewa (died 1884) was a Yalunka King of the Solimana who blew up a magazine and much of Falaba, the capital of Solimana, killing himself, his family and other leaders, rather than let it fall to Samori Toure's army.

Early life and career
Manga Sewa was born in Falaba, Solimana chiefdom, in the Northern Province of British Sierra Leone to Yalunka parents. His father was a Yalunka paramount chief of Solimana, a prosperous chieftaincy. Its capital, Falaba, was on the rich trading routes leading to the coast. Manga Sewa's father had a number of wives and dozens of children.

Touré 1884 attack
Manga Sewa became paramount chief of Solimana, a state in Northern Province. He was from one of the ruling families of the chieftaincy and would have been chief for life.

In the Beyla region of Guinea, Samori Toure (c.1830-1900), of the Touré clan, had expanded his influence; by 1878 he proclaimed himself faama (military leader) of his own Wassoulou Empire. In 1884 he took the title of Almany, commander of believers. In February of that year, he swept into north-east Sierra Leone, with his Mandinka army, bent on conquest.

N'fa Ali, Toure's general, destroyed many villages in the Yalunka Kingdom and ultimately laid siege to the capital, Falaba. The Yalunka held out for five months and, in the end, were reduced to eating rats and the boiled leather of their sandals and mats. Sewa finally sent his younger brother, Dugu, on a secret mission to obtain aid from the Kuranko people, but Dugu was captured and executed on a nearby hill in full view of his country-men.

Manga Sewa called his elders, his wives, and the community into the powder magazine. He plunged a flaming torch into the great barrels of gunpowder. An enormous explosion shook the town, and the Mandinka breached the walls and charged inside.

Toure opened contacts with the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone. He also built a working relationship with the Fulbe (Fula) jihad state of Fouta Djallon. He sold slaves to that state in exchange for cattle, horses, and, most importantly, French rifles. Later he was integral to resistance to French colonial efforts.

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Yardımlı

Yardimli (Yardımlı) is a city in and the capital of the Yardimli District of Azerbaijan. It is in the Talysh Mountains, a northwestern subrange of the Alborz (Elburz) mountain range, about 286 km to the south from Baku and 76 km to the south-west from Masallı.

History
During the Soviet times, it had a status of a township. At those times, a carpet-weaving factory, which doesn't work at present, functioned in Yardimli. There are a museum, mosque and military memorial in the city.

Etymology
They explain the toponym in different ways. According to a possibility, it was created from the word "Yardam". The people are explained as part of the Ulus. They say the root of the name "Ardabil" is "Yard." According to the second assumption, "Ertim" was caused. Historian G.Gullayev closes this toponym in the name of the Pecheneg tribes. "Ertim" is the name of one of the Pecheneg tribes. It is interpreted in ancient Turkish, melting, knight. In 1924, Archaeologist I.Azimbeyov explained the toponym in the meaning of "helpers" in Turkish. According to people, a noble person named "Əli" came here and helped people living in the In mountainous conditions. He straightened a lot of water mills. And this place was called "Yardım Əli".

Demographics
According to Caucasian Calendar of 1915, 145 people, mainly the Azerbaijanis shown in the calendar as Tatars, lived in Yardimli village of Lankaran Uyezd of Baku Governorate in 1914. According to a census of 1979, 3114 people and according to a census of 1989, 3438 people lived in Yardimli. According to a census of 2010, the city's population consists of 6700 people.

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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette), is a 12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien did not complete the text himself. It is one of the first stories of the Arthurian legend to feature Lancelot as a prominent character. The narrative tells about the abduction of Queen Guinevere, and is the first text to feature the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere.

Chrétien's writings impacted the Arthurian canon, establishing Lancelot’s subsequent prominence in English literature. He was the first writer to deal with the Arthurian themes of the lineage of Lancelot, his relationship to Guinevere, secret love and infidelity, and the idea of courtly love. The text also deals with the Christian theme of sin.

Plot
The story centers on Lancelot's rescue of Guinevere after she has been abducted by Meleagant, the malevolent son of King Bademagu, the righteous ruler of the nearby Kingdom of Gorre. It deals with Lancelot's trials rescuing Guinevere, and his struggle to balance his duties as a warrior and as a lover bound by societal conventions.

The book begins with Guinevere being abducted by Meleagant, who has tricked Arthur into allowing him to do so. After Gawain protests Arthur’s decision to let them go, Arthur allows Gawain to pursue them. While Gawain is searching for the pair, he runs into the (then unnamed) Lancelot who, after riding his horse to death, convinces Gawain to lend him a horse in pursuit of the queen. Lancelot then speeds after Guinevere. When Gawain catches up to him, Lancelot has worn out his new horse to death just as he did his previous one. Lancelot encounters a cart-driving dwarf, who says he will tell Lancelot where Guinevere and her captor went if Lancelot agrees to ride in his cart. Lancelot boards the cart reluctantly as this is a dishonorable form of transport for a knight. Gawain, unwilling to demean himself in this manner, chooses to follow on horseback. Along this journey they encounter many obstacles. Lancelot is regularly derided by locals along his journey for having reduced himself to such a lowly stature by riding in the aforementioned cart. His first trial comes when a maiden offers a bed for the knights, but refuses to let Lancelot lie on it. It is then revealed to be a trap to kill the knights, but it does not faze Lancelot, as after escaping the trap, he returns to sleep in the very bed in which the trap was set.

After many more encounters with beautiful women and rude knights, Lancelot and Gawain decide to part ways so that they may cover more ground. Lancelot endures many trials, including battling three axe-bearing men, lifting a heavy slab of stone from a mysterious tomb, battling a foreign army from Logres, settling a dispute among those loyal to him over who may host him for the night, fighting against an overly prideful knight, and crossing an extremely sharp "sword-bridge". Lancelot finds Guinevere in the castle of Gorre, and rescues her from Meleagant. However, he is subsequently driven away by her coldness, which is later revealed to be caused by his initial hesitation to enter the cart. Lancelot leaves to find Gawain but is drawn back through his misadventures, and Guinevere apologizes for turning him away. Lancelot breaks into her tower and they spend a passionate night together. He injures his hand during his break-in, and blood from this injury stains Guinevere's sheets. Lancelot sneaks out of the tower before sunrise, and Meleagant accuses Guinevere of committing adultery with Kay, who is the only wounded knight known of nearby. Lancelot challenges Meleagant to a fight to defend Guinevere’s honor. After Meleagant’s father interferes, Meleagant and Lancelot agree to fight in a year's time. During this year, Lancelot is tricked by another dwarf and forced into imprisonment while Guinevere is allowed to return home. When it comes time to duel, Lancelot bargains with his captors to let him go and fight, and he promises to return. When Lancelot fights in the tournament, Guinevere asks him to lose in order to prove his love. He obliges, but when he begins to intentionally throw the battle, Guinevere changes her mind, now instructing him to win instead. Lancelot complies and beats the other tournament competitors, returning to his captors following the battle. Meleagant finds out from the captor's husband that the captor's wife was the one who agreed to release Lancelot temporarily (to fight at the tournament). Meleagant orders Lancelot to be locked away in a master craftsman's castle and Lancelot is imprisoned.

In a continuation, we learn that the woman whom Lancelot had much earlier saved from kidnapping (she ordered Lancelot to sever her stalker's head) was actually Meleagant's sister. She searches for Lancelot in order to return his favor. She finds an axe, and the rope used by Lancelot to pull up food, and sends up the axe instead. Lancelot chops his way out and escapes with her to a secluded home that she owns. Meanwhile, Gawain prepares to battle Meleagant, since Lancelot is missing (a one-year rematch after the second duel was established). Lancelot arrives on time and, at last, fights Meleagant, who loses his temper and his arm (to Lancelot's sword), and is subsequently beheaded by Lancelot. Guinevere tepidly embraces Lancelot (they are in public) in the end.

Development
It is unknown exactly when the poem was composed, only that it would have been between 1175 and 1181 (most likely 1177), and before or at the same time as Chrétien de Troyes' own Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, (Le Chevalier au Lion), the two serving as companion pieces with overlapping narratives. While little is known definitively about the life of Chrétien, many speculative theories exist based on his work. He was employed as a writer by aristocrats of Champagne, explaining the champenois dialect detected in his work, and he usually crafted stories based on material that was presented to him.

No recorded mention of an Arthurian knight named Lancelot precedes Chrétien, but he is believed to be derived from a Celtic myth. Chrétien first mentions a character named "Lanceloz del Lac" in Erec and Enide, who he lists third among Arthur's knights after Gawain and Erec. He next mentions him in Cligès where he is defeated by Cligès in a joust. An abduction of the queen is one of the oldest motifs in Arthurian legend, appearing also in Caradoc of Llancarfan's Life of Gildas, and carved on the archivolt in Modena Cathedral. After Chrétien's version became popular, it was incorporated into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and eventually into Thomas Malory's influential Le Morte d'Arthur.

Marie de Champagne
The Knight of the Cart contains a preface explaining how the story was assigned to him by Marie de Champagne. Marie de Champagne was well known for her interest in affairs of courtly love and is believed to have suggested the inclusion of this theme into the story.

Chrétien credits Marie with providing the matiere e san (matière et sen in Modern French). Matiere is a cognate of the English word "matter". It has been translated as meaning the well-known story (in this case, the story of Lancelot). San is harder to translate. It's generally agreed to refer to the twist, the addition, or derivation (in this case, the affair).

Godefroi de Leigni
The Knight of the Cart contains a postface explaining that the story was completed not by Chrétien himself, but by the clerk known as Godefroi de Leigni. A 12th-century French writer usually functioned as a part of a team, or a workshop attached to the court.

It has been suggested that Chrétien did not finish the story himself because he did not support the adulterous themes.

Influence
Courtly love was coined by the medievalist Gaston Paris in 1883 to help understand the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere in Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart. Alexander J. Denomy describes courtly love as, "… a type of sensual love and what distinguishes it from other forms of sexual love, from mere passion… is its purpose or motive, its formal object, namely, the lover's progress and growth in natural goodness, merit, and worth." In the Knight of the Cart, Lancelot has become entranced by Guinevere and in more ways than one, is ruled by her. As the queen, Guinevere maintains power over the kingdom as well as Lancelot. When Meleagant questions their love and her adultery to the king, Lancelot challenges Meleagant to a battle to protect Guinevere’s honor. Lancelot has no shame in showing his affair with the queen: "Lancelot’s love explodes into romance without any beginning revealed or end foretold, fully formed and symbolized by the extraordinary fullness of his heart." This introduction of the love affair between Guinevere and Lancelot appears in many other stories after this poem was written.

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Zangilan

Zangilan (Zəngilan, ; Կովսական) is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Zangilan District. It is situated along the Voghji (Okhchuchay) river.

Etymology
According to the Armenian historian Hovhannes Gharagyozian, the town's historical name of Pirchivan, which it held until 1957 when it was renamed to Zangilan, originates from the settlement of Ashtarak mentioned by Stepanos Orbelian in his list of villages in the Kovsakan county of Syunik. The word ‘Ashtarak’ is seen as a synonym for ‘burj’ (tower/fortress) in the Armenian language. The name of the settlement next to the fortress comes from the joining of the words “Burj” + the Armenian suffix “-avan” (settlement). Thus creating “Burgi avan>Burjevan>Brjevan,” which was transformed into Pirchivan under Turkic phonetic influence.

History
Soviet-Armenian historian Suren Yeremian states that the area of present-day Zangilan was part of the Kovsakan gavar (county) of the Syunik province within the Kingdom of Armenia. According to Armenian historian Konstantin Khudaverdyan, the area that would become Pirchivan was originally an Armenian settlement named Verjnavan (Վերջնավան). In the 14th century, Verjnavan was mentioned as being a part of the Kovsakan gavar of the province of Syunik, during the period of Mongol Armenia.

After the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the nineteenth century, Zangilan (then called Pirchivan) became part of the Zangezur Uyezd of the Russian Empire's Elisabethpol Governorate. According to 1886 census data, there were 50 homes and 211 Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census) of the Shiite branch of Islam in Pirchivan. According to the 1912 Caucasian Calendar, the village of Zangilan was home to 762 people, the majority of whom were Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census).

Pirchivan I and Pirchivan II were part of the village council of the same name in the Zangilan District of the Azerbaijan SSR during the early Soviet period in 1933. Pirchivan I was the administrative centre of the district, with 574 residents and 95 farms, while Pirchivan II had 148 residents and 35 farms. The village council's population, which also included the villages of Genlik, Malatkeşin, and Tağlı, was 98.7 percent Azerbaijani.

Pirchivan was classified as an urban-type settlement and renamed Zangilan by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic on 31 August 1957. It was given city status in 1967. The city had a railway station on the Baku-Nakhchivan branch line, three schools, a music school, two public libraries, a cultural centre, a movie theatre, and a hospital. The population was 6,968 people, according to the Soviet Census of 1989.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Armenian forces occupied the village on 29 October 1993, forcing the Azerbaijani population to flee. It was later incorporated into the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, where it was known as Kovsakan (Կովսական). Following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, Armenian refugees from Syria, mostly farmers, settled in the city. Azerbaijan protested and described the settlement of Syrian Armenians on its internationally recognised territory as a violation of international law that impended the peace process.

Azerbaijan recaptured the city on 20 October 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. On 23 December 2020, President Ilham Aliyev raised the Azerbaijani flag in the city.

Historical heritage sites
Among the historical heritage sites in and around the city is the "Imam Huseyn" mosque, built between the 17th and 18th centuries.

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WAGR Msa class

The WAGR Msa class was a class of Garratt articulated steam locomotives. The class was built at the Midland Railway Workshops and operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1930 and 1963. It was the first Garatt type to be designed and constructed entirely in Australia.

History
The class was preceded on the WAGR system by the M/Ms class Garratts. The class were used extensively on WAGR lines with light rails and sharp curves, as a consequence many of the smaller older branch lines on the Darling Scarp; as well as those with steep inclines such as those on the Mundaring Weir, Nannup, and Flinders Bay lines. In their later years, the boiler pressure was reduced to match that of the M/Ms class. By this stage they had been concentrated on the Bunbury to Boyup Brook and Pinjarra to Boddington lines.

Hearsay evidence suggests that the poor quality of the boilers in the Msa rendered some inoperable by the late 1940s. The last remaining Msa was awaiting moving to a preservation status in the adjacent to the Midland Railway Workshops, when instructions were misunderstood by a scrap metal company employee, and it was cut up.

Class list
The numbers and periods in service of each member of the Msa class were as follows:

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Omul

The omul, Coregonus migratorius, also known as Baikal omul (байкальский омуль), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It is considered a delicacy and is the object of one of the largest commercial fisheries on Lake Baikal. In 2004, it was listed by an unknown group in Russia as an endangered species.

Taxonomy
The omul has traditionally been regarded as a subspecies of the Arctic cisco Coregonus autumnalis. However, recent genetic studies have shown it actually belongs to the circumpolar Coregonus lavaretus-clupeaformis complex of lake whitefishes, which also has other members in Lake Baikal, and it is now considered its own species within Coregonus. The four or five traditionally accepted subpopulations of omul within Lake Baikal are: North Baikal (северобайкальский), Selenga (селенгинский), Chivyrkui (чивыркуйский) and Posolsk (посольский). These vary in size, feeding behaviors and preferred spawning habitats. The extent of their reproductive isolation is debated.

Description
The omul is a slender, pelagic fish with light silver sides and a darker back. It has small spots on its dorsal fin and larger ones on its head, a terminal mouth position and a large number of gill rakers, typical of fish that feed in the pelagic zone. The mean size of adults is 36–38 cm and 0.6 to 0.8 kg, though the maximum reported length is 56 cm weighing about 2.5 kg. The subpopulations on the northern end of the lake tend to be smaller.

Behavior
The omul feeds primarily on zooplankton, smaller fish, and occasionally some benthic organisms. It feeds primarily in the rich pelagic zone of Lake Baikal up to 345–450 m. It is a relatively long-lived, iteroparous species that attains reproductive maturity at five to 15 years of age. The omul only enters the rivers that feed Lake Baikal to spawn, like the Selenga, initiating short spawning migrations, usually in mid-October, broadcasting 8000–30000 eggs before returning to the lake.

Consumption and fishery
Omul is one of the primary food resources for people living in the Baikal region. It is considered a delicacy throughout Russia, and export to the west is of some economic importance. Smoked omul is widely sold around the lake and is one of the highlights for many travelers on the Trans-Siberian railway, and locals tend to prefer the fish salted. A popular Siberian salad called stroganina consists of uncooked frozen omul shaved thinly and served with pepper, salt and onion.

Due to its high demand, the omul is the object of one of the most important commercial fisheries in Lake Baikal. The highest recorded annual landed catches occurred in 1940s and amounted to 60-80 thousand tonnes. A subsequent crash in the population led to a closing of the fishery in 1969, followed by a reopening with strict quotas in 1974 after some recovery of the stocks. Currently, the omul fishery accounts for roughly two-thirds of the total Lake Baikal fishery. Fluctuations in the population and intensive fishing make sustaining the fishery one of the highest priorities for local fisheries managers.

Conservation
The omul's main food source is an endemic species of alga, melosira.

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 * You know, there was some news floating around about how Boost juice contained a lot of sugar moreso than a 1.25L bottle of Coke. I believe it was on the news one time. I'm not sure if that's true, but I think that should be included.  -dj.tuBIG.MaliceX

I started this page. Could someone please continue to add to it. A great start would be paraphrasing the rest of the Success Story which can be found on the Boost website. Also could someone check out the license for the logo? --Djone2121 05:56, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Added Menu. Could someone please make it look a bit better? And also add the various details. Also does anyone know how many employees Boost has? --203.206.92.193 09:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, looks like you already got started on the "making it look better". I'm not a big Boost fan, so I won't be able to add all the details in, but I will try and do some work on it. I also just counted the number of stores from the official homepage "national map", and I'll add this to the article now. But I don't know if my counting was 100% accurate, I did check briefly, but someone may want to double-check this. s p l i n t a x  (talk) 03:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * My opinion is that the menu clutters the page - these items don't have the iconic status that e.g. those on the McDonald's menu do have and are thus not encyclopaedic. But good start anyway. Jammo (SM247) 20:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I was wondering about putting stuff about Boost's popularity? I mean, it's practically a fashion accessory! . . . Or mayne it's just me=]--Bitbitz.xx 08:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Noteable employee?
Excuse my ignorance, but exactly why is Anthony Nappa a noteworthy employee? I just did a quick search on Google and on here and came up with nothing. Explanation please? Shaybear♥
 * Removed it. There is nothing to state why that employee/employer is notable nor is it relevant to the article. --Blindwaves 06:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Essay help
I'm not really sure how to make a comment/request, so.. sorry if this is stepping on anyone's toes, i'm writing an essay on Boost Juice Bars and was wondering if anyone knows how to find out a bit about the Styrofoam cups incident??.. i can't seem to find anything!?! but it was kinda huge at the time.. just on a side note, there seems to be heaps of people complaining that Boost Juice is using 'Just Juice' in their smoothies, and having worked there, Yes we use 'Just juice' in the smoothies, but u can ask for fresh juice as well, hence the difference between smoothies and fresh juice. Also considering the amount of customers during lunch rush, if u want every single smoothie to have fresh juice in it, it wouldn't really b fast food then would it? 220.239.107.124 02:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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Boost Juice or Boost Juice Bars?
Would it be better to move the article to the full "Boost Juice Bars" name instead of the current "Boost Juice"? Is the current name the most common or not? AnimatedZebra (talk) 13:52, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Water

2019 discussion
Hello. I happen to stumble across some articles relating to water supply, and wanted to see what WikiProjects they come under, and needless to say I am confused...
 * 1) WikiProject Water (this page) was created on 14 June 2005, by 68.110.237.166. - "to improve understanding of the underlying significance of water to geography and resulting distribution of life"
 * 2) WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country was created on 24 November 2007, by User:Mschiffler. - "to improve and expand articles related to water supply and sanitation"
 * 3) WikiProject Sanitation was created on 3 December 2014, by User:Doc James. - "to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's article that touch on sanitation-related topics"

In view of all three projects being rather inactive (based on their respective talkpages), may I suggest 2 and 3 be merged into 1? To preserve page history, "Water supply" and "Sanitation" could be directly moved and made as two 'taskforce' under WikiProject Water. Leaving these three in the current state discourages folks from joining. Comments? Tagging those that seems to be involved in this topic previously: User:EMsmile, User:WhatamIdoing, User:Bobrayner, User:Thewellman, User:Andy Dingley. Thanks, Reh  man  12:51, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Support although I've had negligible involvement in them so far. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:57, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Oppose. I was involved in setting up wikiproject sanitation.  Its scope goes far beyond just water. There is solid waste, drainage, reuse, feces, medical aspects, worms etc. I think merging the 3 under a new name could be possible but would be a lot of work and I doubt that it would attract any additional contributers. EMsmile (talk) 13:36, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. Then perhaps we need to exclude water-related subjects (i.e. drainage) from that WikiProject, and move it under WikiProject Water? And maybe also update the Sanitation project's scope? Comments from others? My goal here is to clearly differentiate the projects; as you can see there currently seems to be a significant overlap and confusion. Reh  man  13:57, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, what are your views on #2 and #3? You do see the overlap there, right? Reh  man  13:59, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * "WikiProject" means "group of people". If the same group of people are working on all of these, then they might find it more convenient to have one page to check, rather than three.  IMO there is no need to worry about different groups having overlapping interests.  But if people did want to merge, then I think a title such as "WikiProject Water and sanitation" might be a clearer way of expressing the resulting group's areas of interest. Finally, if you want to find people who are currently working on articles tagged by each of these groups, then you might be interested in the automated lists at WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Water, WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Sanitation, and WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country.   WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Hmm I'd also advocate we merge the three projects to the title WikiProject Water and sanitation or WikiProject Sanitation per the second half of 's comment above. This is assuming that folks interested in sanitation topics would likely have some interest in water topics and vice versa. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country and this talk page seem fairly dormant, so hopefully merging the projects would increase the chances that interested editors find each other, and that editors looking for assistance with one of these topics find a live human editor to respond. Happy to help with the merging if that's what folks want to do. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 00:14, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Neutral I perceive differences in project foci which seem of greater significance than the commonality of the single substance water.
 * -- WikiProject Water focuses on when and where rain falls and water flows in response to atmospheric circulation and geography, and how that distribution regulates populations of the various species which depend upon water within specific ranges of temperature and salinity with various tolerance for periods of deprivation. This Wikiproject seems a potential cover project for WikiProject Rivers and WikiProject Lakes.
 * -- WikiProject Sanitation focuses on how the health of our single species of great apes is influenced by our waste disposal practices. There is heavy emphasis on water because our dependence on water makes us vulnerable to contamination of our water supply by our wastes.  This WikiProject seems a potential sub-project of WikiProject Chemical and Bio Engineering.
 * -- WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country focuses on how the water circulation pattern within specific geographic areas has been modified to meet human needs with minimal consideration for needs of other species. This WikiProject seems a potential sub-project of WikiProject History.
 * These foci seem sufficiently divergent to limit effective coordination of the limited number of individuals working on these project; and I wonder what other goals might be realized by the proposed combination? Thewellman (talk) 06:50, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Your description seems to contradict with the project description. On WikiProject water, it states "For the wikiproject about water in weather and the atmosphere, see WP:WikiProject Meteorology". Reh  man  07:38, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I perceive a difference between WikiProject Meteorology's focus on the thermodynamic properties of atmospheric water and WikiProject Water's focus on the flow patterns of water after it has left the atmosphere. Thewellman (talk) 08:24, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The current (i.e., changeable) descriptions on the various pages are ultimately unimportant. What actually matters is:  Which editors are in these groups, and do those editors want to all work together, or not?  This fact cannot be over-emphasized:  WikiProject is a group of people.  It is not a subject area.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:20, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Just some more inputs on the background: the WikiProject "Water supply and sanitation by country" ran for a distinct project because it had funding by World Bank some years ago. During those times, a small dedicated group of (paid) consultants created those country pages. Each page was called "Water supply and sanitation in XXX". There was a strict template that was used. When the funding ended, some more work was done here and there (unpaid) but in general the energy levels dropped off. Those pages are still useful even though they are now in need of updating. I think it's better to keep it as a separate project because you won't gain anything by merging it (i.e. I don't think it would re-awaken those editors who worked on it originally). The WikiProject Water is a bit dormant as far as I can tell. The WikiProject Sanitation was created by User:Doc James. Would be good to hear his views. How many pages are tagged with WikiProject Water? We have 630 tagged with WikiProject Sanitation. I would not necessarily oppose a merger under a new title of "Sanitation and water" (sanitation should go first) but I think it's a fair bit of work for someone with probably very little benefit. Note that all articles tagged by WikiProject Sanitation are also inluded in the offline version of Wikipedia health articles, see here. EMsmile (talk) 13:45, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the info about the World Bank funded project. I did not know that, and I'm sure it's the same with most others. IMHO, such a project, although very valuable, should not have been the sole reason for creating a separate single-use WikiProject. It could have easily fit within the existing projects, as a special project or taskforce. The intention of merging is not really to re-awaken old editors, but rather to have a clear and understandable platform for existing and future editors. I was a potential new contributor in this area, and boy was I confused.
 * "WikiProject Sanitation and Water" seems like a fine title, as long as the other terms are redirected to this. With regards to finding people to do the task, I'll agree it may not be done overnight, but it definitely will be done if there is consensus. Ajpolino offered to help (above), and I would be happy to work on it too. This is a wiki after all, someone will join in from somewhere. :) Reh  man  14:31, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Oppose or merge to "Sanitation and water" but not sure it is worth the work. Based on position of User:EMsmile who is the leading force behind Wikiproject Sanitation. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 14:06, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Doc James: If the two, or possibly even three, existing WikiProjects would be merged into a newly titled WikiProject Sanitation and water, then all their tagged pages would automatically be added to the offline version of Wikipedia's health content, right? Would you see this as a positive or a negative? As a starting point, could someone please add the table of current articles tagged with WikiProject Water? How many are there? Hundreds or thousands? I haven't seen this yet and don't know how to do it. For WikiProject Sanitation it looks like this: . EMsmile (talk) 04:23, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I'm interrupting. Just want to mention that changing template usage is a very simple task. It could be done with a few edits (by redirecting the template altogether), updating usages via bot, or by altering the most used template. All of which doesn't take much human effort. Reh  man  04:36, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

 * If someone can do the merge into a "Sanitation and water" project with breaking anything sure... Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 04:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Rehman which template did you mean? I still haven't seen an answer to how many projects are currently tagged with WikiProject Water? I don't know how to find that out. EMsmile (talk) 08:09, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm referring to templates such as Template:WikiProject Sanitation. Are you referring to something else? Reh  man  11:40, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Consensus to merge
Hi all. It seems to me that the current consensus is Merge all three WikiProjects to "Sanitation and water" for the purpose of creating "a clear and understandable platform for existing and future editors". Even though both and  wrote "oppose", they have indicated they are okay with this merger. Water supply and sanitation by country should have been created as a task force instead of its own WikiProject (and, I will note, has a very awkward title), and can be recreated as a task force in order to bring all of the "Water supply and sanitation in XX" articles up to date. The only significant step toward merging the three WikiProjects is updating all of the relevant templates, which and  have offered to do. I can request assistance with these technical tasks from the WikiProject Council if needed.

Please respond if you think this assessment is inaccurate. Otherwise, I will assume you are go to merge. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 06:18, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

 * User:Qzekrom, how would you go about it in practical terms? My assessment is that the WikiProject Sanitation page is the best out of the three. Therefore, when merging the three projects, I would say the other two are merged INTO WikiProject Sanitation. Afterwards you just have to rename that project to WikiProject "Sanitation and Water". Is that also how you were planning to tackle this? You'd also have to modify the project's tag and ensure that the tools related to click rates still work afterwards, for example this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sanitation/Popular_pages EMsmile (talk) 08:17, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We need a clearly idea of how this will work before the merge occurs. We do not merge just for the sake of merging if problems are going to be created. How many articles are in the other projects? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 11:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:WikiProject Water articles currently has 568 pages and no subcategories (it currently lacks a rating system). Category:WikiProject Water supply and sanitation has at least 318 articles across its subcategories. Category:WikiProject Sanitation articles has 643 articles. I have marked Category:WikiProject water supply and sanitation for speedy deletion. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 16:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Content from "WikiProject Sanitation" can be prioritised, yes. It depends on what exactly is needed (by you and other members of the projects), while cutting down on unnecessary/duplicate content, if any at all. Reh  man  11:40, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not involved in this proposal, just here to tie up loose ends and get things moving. Though I'm willing to help, you call the shots.
 * Sidenote: WikiProject Water's scope is confusing, as it's mostly about ecological and social aspects of water use but not hydrology. The rat's nest of hatnotes at the top of the project page is a testament to its convolutedness. If a new water-related WikiProject were to be created in the future, I would recommend that its scope include both hydrology and water ecology. Perhaps "Sanitation and water use" would be a clearer name for the new WikiProject? Qzekrom 💬 theythem 15:38, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Update: WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography covers water ecosystems broadly, so I guess that base is covered. We can keep the Water page but replace it with a hub for all water-related WikiProjects instead of its own project. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 15:51, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

I assume we need to: Am I missing anything obvious? If folks don't have any major misgivings, and are happy with "WikiProject Sanitation and water" or just "WikiProject Sanitation" as the final title, then I can start doing those things. Alternatively, if folks want more discussion or to hold off on this, I'm certainly in no rush. Thoughts? Ajpolino (talk) 16:30, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Tweak the talk page template so it says "Sanitation and water" or whatever we want to call it.
 * 2) Redirect the title to  (or we can just move the old template to the new name. Or make a new  template. Or whatever. Either way the effect will be the same).
 * 3) Replace all instances of and  with  (unless a Sanitation tag is already on the page). That way editors who are interested in a page will be directed to the correct project from the talk page (that's how I initially learned about WikiProjects when I got here). We can file a bot request to handle that.
 * 4) Mark the old WikiProject Water and WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country as historical (since they would then only be linked from folks' user pages or old talk pages).
 * 5) Move the actual WikiProject Sanitation page to whatever name we like.
 * 6) Make sure whatever tools currently work with the WikiProject Sanitation pages work with the new page set (per 's concern above).
 * Looks like you got everything. As I said above, just "water" is ambiguous, so it might be a good idea to rename to "Sanitation and water supply" or "Sanitation and water use" instead of just "Sanitation and water". We can then recreate "WikiProject Water" as a separate project with the broader scope I described above, so it's less confusing to future participants. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 17:07, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

 * User:Qzekrom: thanks for supplying the number of articles currently tagged with WikiProject Water. Can you please also provide a link to WHICH articles are tagged with that project? I think this would help us to see what the scope of the project really is/was. Because looking at the goal description, it is very, very vague but then later it focuses on water supply. I have the suspicion that the real or former title of this project was WikiProject Water Supply and that most of the tagged articles deal with water supply in actual fact. Personally, I prefer short Wikiproject titles, which is why I think I'd favour "WikiProject sanitation and water". I think this would imply that it's about water supply and usage, not about water in the atmosphere and oceans etc. (because it comes after "sanitation" which already provides a focus). If you insist that the project title needs to be more precise then we could discuss whether "use" or "supply" is the right term. I'd say in the literature the term "water supply" is more common and would probably imply also its use. Do we think it should be limited to drinking water? In that case it could be "WikiProject Sanitation and Drinking Water" - but then it wouldn't include all the topics around irrigation. Is that what we want? I am not sure. That's why it would help to have a list of the 600 or so tagged articles so that we can grasp what the original intention was of those people who tagged articles with WikiProject Water. EMsmile (talk) 01:42, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The project was created as "WikiProject Water purification". It was subsequently moved to "WikiProject Water and sanitation" and then to just "Water". At the time of that move its scope was "water supply, sanitation, and water purification." Also, I did link to the project category – here. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 01:58, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Qzekrom, oh surry I didn't realise that such a list could be generated via a category list. I had a quick look and it's a complete mess. What I can offer is that I go through those tagged articles and remove the tags from articles where they don't belong. This is provided we have agreed that for this new project called "Sanitation and water", we mean the water part to focus on water supply (which would include water purification) and water use but not things from the natural atmosphere, i.e. all those things that are listed in the hatnotes, e.g. For wikiprojects for natural bodies of water, see WP:WikiProject Rivers, WP:WikiProject Lakes, WP:WikiProject Glaciers, WP:WikiProject Oceans, and WP:WikiProject Waterfalls. When the projects are merged, then the part that is currently under "goals" needs to be completely rewritten.EMsmile (talk) 02:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to lodge my opinion here: I also prefer the short project title WikiProject Sanitation and water (though I'm equally fine with merging everything to WikiProject Sanitation, which we can clarify on the project page includes all things related to water use as well). If folks get confused and start adding all kinds of pages on oceans, et al. we can split the project. Otherwise I don't think we need to bend over too much to avoid potential confusion. keep us updated on your progress through Category:WikiProject Water articles. I'll try to help out over the next few days as well. Once we're happy with the list, I can request a bot flip the tags (bonus points if we've decided on a final name by then). Thanks all! Ajpolino (talk) 06:00, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Which project should be the base of the merger?

 * Just to share my views. I'm fully with the above proposal. Just a quick question to Ajpolino, User:Qzekrom, and whoever is leading the merge, is it possible to update the scope of WikiProject Water (this page) instead, while marking the other two historical? There is barely a visible difference, other than that we would then continue to use the original project (created 14 June 2005), rather than a spinoff (if you want to call it). It's just for historical purposes. If it's too much trouble, then you may let it go, but I just want to know if you're willing to take that route instead? Thank you for your help. Reh  man  09:05, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It's certainly not too much work. I have no strong feeling on which project should be left standing. None of them are particularly active (I think when I had looked earlier, none of the talk pages have ever needed archiving? Could be misremembering). I think the rationale for Sanitation as the home of the merged project was that it is currently somewhat more active than the others (thanks largely to EMsmile's efforts I believe). That said, whatever makes folks happy is fine with me. Anyone else have a problem with having this page be the final one (we would just move the project page to WikiProject Sanitation and water and update it from there. The other two would be marked historical)? Ajpolino (talk) 22:31, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ajpolino, having the oldest page standing seems like a sensible way to go and is what I support in this case, considering that all 3 are similarly inactive. Any needed changes could be made over that. Reh  man  01:25, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * oppose. I strongly oppose using WikiProject Water as the base (which only User:Rehman is pushing for strongly at this point). Like I said above it makes more sense to use WikiProject Sanitation as the base. Just for "historical" reasons is not a good argument for favoring WikiProject Water in my opinion. Also I disagree that "all projects are similarly inactive". The WikiProject Sanitation is far more active than WikiProject Water (thanks mostly to me, but still). We haven't heard from any of the members of WikiProject Water, have we? Also there are at least two tools that we set up for WikiProject Sanitation and that work but don't have for WikiProject Water (namely this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sanitation/Popular_pages and also this one: https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Sanitation&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=250&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality ). Let's not create more work than necessary just for "historical" reasons. Furthermore, keep in mind that the WikiProject Water was already renamed 3 times in the past. So it is obviously "ill fated". The WikiProject Sanitation has never been renamed and was better thought out from the start (I think). It is also included in the offline version of WikiProject Medicine (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/App). This is another sign that WikiProject Sanitation is the more important one at the moment and this should be recognised by making it the base of the merger. EMsmile (talk) 02:47, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Um, could you please elaborate as to why you oppose this other than because of the project being "ill fated"? It was created in 2005 - much earlier than the others; there would obviously be more history in that. The is no additional work as you claim, as one of them needs to be moved anyway. At the end of the day, you still get exactly what you wanted. Like I said, the action does not have a visible result. Reh  man  02:57, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I gave several reasons above. Like I said above, the fact that at least two of the tools not working for "WikiProject Water" is important as it will create extra work for someone to make them work. Why waste that person's time. I call it ill-fated because like someone said above the project started as "water purification" then was changed to "water supply and sanitation" then "water". That last move was perhaps the silliest one as "water" is so broad and it would overlap with all the other water wiki projects (hence the long list of hatnotes what this project is NOT about). You really wonder what this project WAS meant to be about exactly (the goal description is completely warped in my opinion). It is also ill-fated because all its original members seem to have gone silent, or have you seen any of them write here? Actually, looking at that short list under "sign me up" I see one user name that I recognise. I wonder if he/she has been following this discussion. If not, let me ping User:Thewellman. Your only reason for wanting WikiProject Water to be the base of the merger is that it's older. How does that make it more important? And I think it IS important which one the base is, as it makes a difference for the amount of work involved (like getting those above mentioned tools to work) and merging the project descriptions into one. - Anyhow, none of the history from 2005 onwards would get lost, as probably all the talk pages would also be merged, right? EMsmile (talk) 15:32, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for soliciting my opinion. I favor a broader focus on water; but there seem to be few others who share my view, and even fewer actively involved with the project, so I suggest conforming to the preferences of more actively involved editors is the best way of encouraging continuing effort from those editors. I'm uncertain what will be gained by merging these projects, and I see nothing to be gained by expanding project scope beyond the interest of active project members. Thewellman (talk) 21:24, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Tidying up the tags
Further to what I just wrote before, I have now gone through the letter A and removed tags from articles where they no longer fit under the new definition of the WikiProject Water. Take a look at my user contributions and you'll see where I have removed them. We have agreed that articles on water resources do not belong with WikiProject Water anymore, right? Check here to see if those that now remain under A are correct: Category:WikiProject Water articles. If folks agree with my approach then I will continue through the alphabet. By the way, Ajpolino, I don't understand why I couldn't use this tool as well?: wmflabs tool. If I put in WikiProject Water then nothing comes up. Is it because it's been renamed a few times? It works for WikiProject Sanitation.EMsmile (talk) 02:39, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * LGTM. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 04:03, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You can't use the tool for WikiProject Water because it's not in the list of participating projects. I'm not sure how to add a project to the tool, though I suspect the answer is somewhere in this guide? As for where we draw the line on reservoirs, water regions, and other things only peripherally associated with the drinking water supply, I have no strong opinion. Thanks for taking the time to go through those articles. Ajpolino (talk) 06:00, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I have removed some more tags, I am now up to the letter E. You can see here what I removed today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?hidepreviousrevisions=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&limit=250&days=30&damaging__likelybad_color=c4&damaging__verylikelybad_color=c5&urlversion=2 But it's rather tricky. My approach is that all reservoirs and canals stay in. When it comes to lakes, I am thinking if the lake doubles up as a reservoir for drinking water supply then it should keep the tag. If it just a natural water body then not (?). How about rivers? I have removed articles about particular waterfalls and also "Blizzard". I am undecided about the water resources type topics and the hydrology type topics. Ultimately it's all part of the water cycle so everything is related to drinking water supply in one way or another but I thought we had narrowed down the scope of this project so it's no longer about all water topics. Please correct me if I am wrong. EMsmile (talk) 15:57, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I am slowly and carefully continuing with this task and am now up to the letter H (see here). I am leaving all the iffy ones and only removing the clear-cut ones. So I have left the water resources pages tagged for now. EMsmile (talk) 13:16, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I have finished with tidying up the tags now. There are 538 articles remaining that are tagged with WikiProject Water (see here). EMsmile (talk) 03:53, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Confusion around new scope of Wikiproject
Hi all, I noticed that tags were removed fAlaska water resource region and  Arkansas–White–Red water resource region,  due to the project scope change. Water resource regions are hydrological mapping datasets produced by USGS. To the best of my understanding, this data is used for a variety of water use planning purposes, santitation among them (see here and here. Does the new project see itself as covering this mission statement to improve understanding of the underlying significance of water to geography and resulting distribution of life (in addition to the two others discussed above)? If so, I would think this project still covers water resource regions, but regardless, I'm definitely interested in a succinct presentation of the new, merged project's scope. -Furicorn (talk) 07:23, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert on water use, but I think it's useful to keep these articles in scope, even if they should be also part of a "WikiProject Hydrology" or . Qzekrom 💬 theythem 03:17, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Qzekrom what do you mean by "to keep these articles in scope"? And in answer to Furicorn above, no the new project would not be there to improve understanding of the underlying significance of water to geography and resulting distribution of life; it is more narrow than that, which I thought we had agreed on above. It's basically about water supply and use.EMsmile (talk) 15:35, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

 * Is there any objection to holding off on reverting the wikiproject taggings until a succinct mission statement is created? It seems like there might still be some clarification needed for everyone to get to consensus. I have a slight argument that water has to come from somewhere, an,d at least in the US, and these maps are part of that system of figuring out water supply, however at the end of the day I'm perfectly happy with whatever consensus you all come to. -Furicorn (talk) 21:26, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

FYI: New template
You can now use proj to link to a WikiProject page. For example, use to link to WikiProject Water. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 03:28, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't understand when I'd use that? There was already a shortcut, like this one WP:SANI. Isn't it the same thing? EMsmile (talk) 15:59, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, I often feel like writing out the full name of a WikiProject. Qzekrom 💬 theythem 18:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

2020 discussion
It seems that a merger has stalled. I am new here and I looked around. Here are the pros and cons of merging that I see:
 * In favor of merging
 * There are multiple engaged communities with some highly active editors developing content on sanitation and water. Most WikiProjects have low activity, and these WikiProjects have relatively high activity.
 * New people are coming to these projects, which are for popular topics
 * These WikiProjects have a lot of overlap in the articles they tag
 * WikiProject Water especially could use the clarity, because it is a project more closely related to sanitation than to geography of water (WP:WikiProject Rivers, oceans, lakes, etc) or (WP:WikiProject Meteorology, or WP:WikiProject Water Sports. I might be in favor of the page for "WikiProject Water" being a directory to these various other WikiProjects since there are so many.
 * Against merging
 * There is little harm in waiting and letting the current WikiProjects develop as they are
 * The more time and engagement that passes, the clearer it will become how a merge should look, if we merge at all.
 * The current consensus is not solid. Doing a merge is easy but undoing is a lot of work. We should be sure before doing a merge.
 * There is a March 2019 request for a vision statement about the scope
 * "Sanitation" includes things like chemical cleaners and might include things like environmental toxicity. WikiProject Water has less of these articles in its currently tagged articles and the sanitation projects have more of these things.

I wish I knew how to manage data better to be able to compare the overlap in WikiProject Water's 915 articles versus WikiProject Sanitation's 750 articles. I think that all the WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country articles are merged into water, but that wikiproject could probably be converted to a flagship project of a final merged WikiProject. It seems like an amazing effort.

Going forward
 * 1) useful regardless of merge
 * 2) Draft a 1-3 sentence vision?
 * 3) Compile a list of current projects, like "Water supply and sanitation by country"
 * 4) useful only if planning a merge
 * 5) draft the merge plan?
 * 6) call everyone back for a vote to adopt the vision and implement the merge?

I am not in a hurry but I think it would be nice to be able to show newcomers a single clean project page if we are all in agreement about this.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  17:58, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm not a content editor in this area, so I don't have much sense of where the active communities of editors in this topic are or prefer to organize. That said, if a merge is uncontroversial, I'm happy to help out with the nuts-and-bolts of it. Thanks for bringing this back up! Ajpolino (talk) 21:03, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I just glanced over the discussion we had a year ago. Did we reach a conclusion of the title of the merged project, and which project would be the "base" that the others would be merged into? I am happy for WikiProject Sanitation to be the base, get a new name and then have the other projects merged into that (like I said in the earlier discussion). By the way, the link where we could see which projects are tagged with WikiProject Water that I had used above seems to no longer work? Oh wait, I can see there is now a new link: https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Water Again, we would probably have to untag some of the articles once we have agreed on the new scope of the merged project. EMsmile (talk) 02:49, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

2022 discussion
Arlo James Barnes 15:43, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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Banda people

The Banda people are an ethnic group of the Central African Republic. They are likewise found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and South Sudan. They were severely affected by slave raids of the 19th century and slave trading out of Africa. Under French colonial rule, most converted to Christianity but retained elements of their traditional religious systems and values.

Demographics
Estimated to be around 1.3 million people at the turn of the 21st century, they constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the Central African Republic, traditionally found in the northeastern part of the country.

The Banda people speak languages belonging to the Niger-Congo family, known as Banda or Ubangian languages. The Banda languages have variations; nine distinct geographically distributed vernaculars are known.

Slavery
The Banda people were severely affected by slave raids from the north, particularly from Wadai and Darfur, in the early 19th century, and later by Khartoumers led by al-Zubayr. These captured and sold the Banda people into slavery. Many migrated south and west along the Ubangi River.

According to Ann Brower Stahl, a professor of Anthropology specializing in Africa studies, the medieval towns of Banda people such as Begho were probably a source of slaves between 1400 and 1600 CE, with slaves going to Islamic North Africa, the primary trade being in women and children before 1500 CE. By the 16th century, slaves from the Banda regions were in use as production labor in Sudanese Islamic states, and this trade in slaves remained fairly steady in the centuries that followed. Dennis Cordell, a professor of History specializing on Africa, places the slave raiding and trade practices earlier to the 11th- and 12th-century raids in southern Libya, then to Lake Chad area, which he states thereafter expanded south into the Banda people's region.

The killing, enslavement and carrying away of the Banda people by slave raiders from regions that are now part of Chad, South Sudan and southeastern Central African Republic led to their depopulation, a situation further worsened when European colonialists gave weapons to the slave-raiding states. In the late 19th century, they were raided by "slave hunters" from the south by armies of the Zande states now part of Congo and South Sudan, led by Arab traders who had set up Zariba (slave trading centers). The slave raiding of the Banda people was suppressed when the French Ubangi-Shari colony was established in this region.

According to American history professor Richard Bradshaw, the Banda people along with their neighbors, the Gbaya people, lived a generally peaceful life before the 19th century, after which Kevin Shillington states "African slave traders and then European colonialists introduced unprecedented violence and economic exploitation into their lives". Greek social anthropology professor G. P. Makris states that the Banda people, along with the Nuba and Gumuz ethnic groups, were also a major victim of slave trading by Turco-Egyptians.

Structure
The Banda are a patrilineal ethnic group, who traditionally have lived in the Savannas north of the Congo, in dispersed home groups guided by a headman. They sustain themselves by hunting, fishing, gathering wild foods and growing crops. During times of crisis, to resist slave raids and to respond to wars, the Banda selected war chiefs. After the crisis was over, they relieved their warriors of their powers.

Culture
The ethnic group is locally famous for craftsmanship, specifically carved wooden objects used for rituals and general utility, as well as their large animal-shaped slit drums. These drums, now attributed by various names such as Banda-Yangere, were used by the Banda people for musical celebrations and as tools for transmitting messages. The Banda-Linda group is known for their music using wooden pipes, also called Banda-Linda Horns.

In contemporary times, the Banda people are settled farmers in the Savannas. Cotton and cassava farming was promoted among the Banda people by the French colonial officials, while Christian missionaries won many converts during the French rule. Most Banda people are now Protestants (52%) or Catholic (38%). However, they have retained many of their traditional beliefs alongside those of Christianity, such as making sacrificial offerings to ancestral spirits for seasonal success for crops.

The Banda people have their rites of passage, such as Semali which recognizes the crossing into adulthood. At weddings, dowries in the form of bridewealth have traditionally included iron implements for the family. Polygyny was practiced historically among the Banda people, but this practice has declined in modern times.

Notable People

 * Ginette Amara, former Minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation
 * Henri Pouzère, Central African politician and lawyer.
 * Marie Solange Pagonendji-Ndakala, former minister of tourism and social affairs

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Talk:Royal Governor of the Philippines

This is a list of all the 103 - Head-Spanish Governors of the Philippines, from 1565 to 1898. - Gonzalo, (UTC) 1:29 P.M, 2 October 2005 ]
 * Nice. But can it be compared with this source? There could be some minor errors that we should root out. Just making sure. :) --Noypi380 17:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

The source mentioned above is from my website. Ths list of Spanish Governor-Generals on my site was reproduced (with permission of course) from Ben Cahoon's own site. I have brought the Wikipedia list to his attention so prehaps we can get some answers to the minor differences. Is it possible though, on this Wikipedia list to mark or note which governors were Spanish and which were Mexican? Presumably, Mexican as in administering the Philippines from Mexico rather than the Spaniards ruling in Manila?

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 * Okay, I have been reading up, and I made some revisions based on the distinctions between New Spain, and the King/Queen of Spain itself. Pls review. I also plan to move this article to the Royal Governor of the Philippines. Any complaints? --Noypi380 11:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

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Untitled
It says in the first section that he is haitian, whereas in the second section it says 'he is not of haitian descent'. Somebody should fix that.

"Weak" career?
What is a "weak" career? Perhaps the author could use a different word to clarify the meaning here.

Sentence commuted?
"Bush also commuted the prison sentences of John Edward Forte of North Brunswick, N.J., and James Russell Harris of Detroit, Mich. Both were convicted of cocaine offenses." From the Associated Press, as seen on Yahoo at this link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_pardons;_ylt=AtKF7EZC2HqZACmKkdMPGjxg.3QA on 24-Nov-2008 Pinball fan (talk) 23:33, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Drive by tag
This article has recently been tagged with the following:
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yet the tagger has left no sign here on the talk page of what items he or she believes are outdated! What if there are no "recent events" of significance to include? Not everyone who has an article in Wikipedia does something every year that warrants inclusion in their article, dude. And if the tagger knows that something important has happened, why not just include it instead of whizzing a tag on here?

I will remove it until such time as the tagger gives us some guidance here. HuskyHuskie (talk) 09:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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The Top Yacht Builders and Innovation in the Industry
This article is missing the main yacht builders in the industry. This is helpful for the user to know who the "household name" brands are such as Azimut, Sunseeker and Ferretti.

Also it's missing a thorough account of the innovation in the industry, how the models began and the significant technological milestones as the industry has progressed.

And it would be useful to list the cities of the world that have the biggest yacht chartering presence. (Greendragon23 (talk) 22:50, 1 February 2018 (UTC))

spam redacted — Rhododendrites  talk \\ 18:36, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Dutch yachts
Currently seem to have no home on Wikipedia at all. Was it not a specific class of ships? This page and/or Yacht (disambiguation) should link to the classes covered by the original Dutch sense, prior to the word simply coming to be a synonym for "pleasure craft".

For example, Lamey Island Massacre discusses the yacht Beverwijck, whose crew were massacred by the Liuqiu Islanders. Where should "yacht" link? It was a wind-powered pirate-chaser, not a motorized toy. — Llywelyn II   23:52, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Yacht a Ship?
Is a yacht a ship, or sometimes a ship? If sometimes a ship, when?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 18:23, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

 * , some superyachts are big enough to be considered ships. There is no distinct border between a boat and a ship. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 14:23, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Disused section on naphtha engines
I took the following out of the text, because it wasn't sufficiently important:

External combustion
The steam engine continued as a means of yacht propulsion until the 20th century. In the 1880s the naphtha engine made its appearance in boats. The naphtha engine is an external combustion engine, where the working fluid and fuel are both naphtha, which unusually is also used as a liquid fuel to power the boiler. As with a steam engine, the naphtha boils into a gas to drive a piston and then is recovered as a liquid through condensing coils. Such engines had low power and high fuel consumption.

HopsonRoad (talk) 03:06, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

"Yaugt" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Yaugt. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 22 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Talk 17:34, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Why ist it pronounced 'yaht', when the original term has a strong 'ch' in it? KhlavKhalash (talk) 11:47, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * same reason reason why we don't pronounce "chew" as "kew". Seriously speaking, language was not created in one day, it was evolved. Also, this is a borderline WP:NOTFORUM question, but not entirely. —usernamekiran (talk) 13:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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