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User talk:Donald Albury/Archive 2

Trying to keep up with the Joneses

 * I created a Jones College disambiguation page and moved Jones College to Jones College (Rice University) (after a foolish move to Jones College (Houston)), as other of Rice University colleges are done the same way. I've changed all links to the Florida college to Jones College (Jacksonville), which I'm sure that Dalbury will soon make into an article.

Love ya. ℬ astique▼ parℓer♥ voir♑ 04:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

SR 908/"Redland" vs. "Redlands"
I've found some conflicting information that I didn't want to put on the SR 908 talk page until I can (somehow) find a way of resolving the discrepancy. First, as stated on the talk page, it is likely that the anon's account is an accurate one, for Newton Rd. (SW 157 Ave) was built by C. M. Newton (I think I have the initials right - I forgot to write them down in my brief time in the MDC-NC library today) about 1910 so that his children would have access to the Silver Palm School, and in the first half of the 20th Century, schools were usually named for the community they served. But I still haven't found documentation that clinches the settlement of Silver Palm at Silver Palm and Newton Road, but I'll keep looking, job permitting. When/if that happens, I may need assistance for reporting the source here as I'm looking through books that are at least 60 years old (and ISBNs were not added to books on a regular basis until at least the 1960s). But so far, there's no conflict - I haven't found a "smoking gun" here.

On the other hand, I am finding quite a bit of conflicting information on the present name of the region to the north of Homestead, west of Naranja, and south of western Goulds. Sources do agree that the original name was Redland; but the discrepancies occur over the past 30-40 years. The Miami Herald consistently uses "The Redlands" in all articles and sections referring to the region (the committee for Redlands incorporation has "Redlands" in its proposed incorporation papers), but the Community Newspaper serving the area justifies the use of the original name, Redland (this paper has been in publication for less than five years, the Herald 102). So, we have a dispute between papers (none really as far as I'm concerned: I consider the Herald the definitive authority on the matter, and I favor their version as a result. Should they change to "Redland", so shall I).

One last look to quell the curiosity: a visit through the business White Pages in the Miami-Dade County telephone book. By first word... "Redland" 6 entries (including Redland Farms and Redland Supply Inc.), "Redlands" 5 entries (including Redlands Academy and Redlands Food & Fuel), for what they're worth. B.Wind 04:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't even try it== ==

 * Your Washington, D.C. edits fail all possible Wikipedia standards. Stop wasting bandwidth with this "sister city" nonsense. Danny Lilithborne 12:55, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Dal, perhaps you might consider adding a referenced footnote to the sister cities project with the Washington information - it may be that Danny L is unaware of this practice and how well known it is. Many cities have a sign at the city limits with the information on their sister city - a source with such a sign might help his misconception that this is not geramane to the Washington article. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:02, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just reverting User:Danny Lilithborne's removal of information without an explanation. I do know that sister cities are very common (Delray Beach, where I live, has two). Everything in an article should be sourced, but I don't remove unsourced material without giving a reason in the edit summary, and usually a comment in the talk page. Deletions with no explanation in the edit summary or talk page look like vandalism to me, and I will revert them. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  13:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I applaud your consistent use of the talk page to explain the removal of unsourced content when you are doing the removing. I myself often use the edit summary, although I try to be civil and clear when I do so. A source would still be a good idea - I will go look for one. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:40, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've put sources on the Washington talk page, as I don't want to get into an edit war with User:Danny Lilithborne. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  13:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Quick work, well done. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * My explanation was in the hyperlink. Danny Lilithborne 13:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Calling unsourced content "nonsense" is unecessary where there is a question of whether the content is nonsense or not. Simply stating you are removing unsourced content, possibly mentioning WP:CITE and/or WP:V makes the reason clear without calling anyone's contribution nonsense, which may be perceived as hostile. You may wish to consider that next time you remove unsourced content from an article. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:40, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I find your flippancy less than helpful, especially when it looks like an insult. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  13:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * btw I moved your comment for KillerChihuahua from her userpage to her talk page, which is what I think you intended --Syrthiss 13:53, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Dalbury/Key West Light
Hello. In regards to placing a stub notice on this article (I assume this one, you didn't say), you made mention of this article being in your user space. This article is in the main encyclopedia namespace, not personal user space. The same article in your user space would be located at User:Dalbury/Key West Light. I can move the article there and delete the draft if you like until you're ready to move it back to the main namespace. Please clarify if my understanding is incorrect. Thanks. -- Longhair 13:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I've since moved this draft article to your personal user space and deleted the article from the encyclopedia namespace. Feel free to add the article again to the main namespace when you feel it is ready for publication. You may find your draft at User:Dalbury/Key West Light. Please note articles in your user space begin with URL prefix of User: -- Longhair 14:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Lights and lighthouses
We may not have a Project Lighthouses but currently you are the closest thing we have to a Project Florida Lighthouse - please send me a list (can be plaintext) via email of how the lights and lighthouses in FL should be named, so I don't make any errors, especially after the Reef Light disagreement. Do it when you can, I'll work through the other states first. Thanks much! KillerChihuahua?!? 14:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Hotel links
Hi. Thanks for quickly clearing up that linkspam issue in Albany, New York. Is that the general practice? Because I've seen hotel web site links in several other cities and I'll be happy to start removing them. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 14:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Florida county images
When I went to write the previous note, I saw the link here to the Florida project which I'd never heard of. I was bored a while back and created some Florida county maps showing where towns are in Pasco County. Would those be suitable for Category:Florida maps or is there a different category in place that would make more sense? (See User:Wknight94 for the list. I only did towns near where I currently reside and then got tired of it). Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 14:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

To Dalbury
Do you know what does it mean GNU/Linux? GNU/Linux is a nonprofit operation system, so it cannot be a part of any commercial actions. Every GNU/Linux site are nonprofit organization. Okay maybe the link of www.linux.com is a commercial site ;) But if I realized well you haven't any problem with linux.com Why you have a problem with LinuxBazis? http://www.linuxbazis.hu/?nyelv=en is an international NONPROFIT GNU/Linux links collection. It's not my site. It's just my favorite that's all. If you can't understand that, that's your problem, but I'll fight with you in every day, every hours, every minutes, and secconds. LinuxBazis has every right be present on the external links of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Why??? Because the WikipediA is a qualified online LEXICON which is built by the people of the Internet (not only by your registered members). http://www.linuxbazis.hu/?nyelv=en is GNU/Linux knowledge base like the other international GNU/Linux sites (www.linux.com for a sample). LinuxBazis is not my site, and I don't know who are the editors and I don't care, but I wanna see my favorite GNU/Linux search engine on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

 * I have copied your comment to Talk: Linux, so that the editors who regularly contribute to the Linux article can comment. I was deleting commercial linkspam that you had added to other articles, and I had no reason to believe that what you added to Linux was not linkspam. I also notice that the same link has been removed many times before by other editors as linkspam. There seems to be a consensus of the editors who regularly edit Linux that the linuxbazis link does not belong in the article. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  02:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome to the project! And now...
Dal, I'd like to join the project but I have a request first. Since I've started editing I've been working on SPUI's "Florida State Roads" project, which (as I understand) is not an official Wikiproject. Recent events now make it clear that the informal FSR project needs to be made an official one (as at least one regular contributor - guess who - is not "playing nice"). It seems to me that it might be best to incorporate FSR into the Wikiproject: Florida with you (as administrator) overseeing it. It definitely needs an objective, guiding hand as this person would neglect his incomplete stubs on the way to rewriting stand-alone articles by others (and in my view vandalizing with either the removal of references or insisting on the length of each FSR be reported to the nearest five feet). If you agree to this, I'll happily join up (and have at least three others "sign up") and start adding the templates indicating this. If it's separate, I'll first concentrate on FSR and tolerate the boorishness (et al.) until all the red links on the Florida State Roads page are blue and linked to legitimate articles that are not simply exit lists. B.Wind 00:52, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I must say 'no'. I literally have 100 articles on my todo list, and I am easing up on the amount of time I spend on Wikipedia. I really am not interested in road articles, anyway. Why don't you make state roads one of the tasks in WikiProject Florida? Current tasks on the list include cities, state parks and ports, so state roads would fit in. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  03:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

RFC/KM
You commented on Kelly Martin's second RfC. it is up for archival. you may vote at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Kelly_Martin. CastAStone|(talk) 03:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Boca Rotten (affectionately)
I think what happened is that you made your edits about the same time I made mine, and yours overwrote mine. It happens once in a while.  ℬ  astique ▼ par ℓ er ♥ voir ♑  14:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Jennifer Arroyo
First of all, I'm going to start off by saying that even after reading the FAQ and how to's on this site, i still don't quite get the format. On the discussion of the Jennifer Arroyo article, you said that you could not find mention of two of the three sites besides her own. You must have just barely glanced at them. On their Purevolume, it says her name as the bassist on the main page, as it does with the myspace over on the side under the "members" catagory. Also, on the Suicide City Official Site, her name is under the bio and there is some information about her there. It is just bad luck that her site is down, but Arroyo's career has taken a large step recently. Since her departure with Kittie and her touring with Suicide City, she must redo her page to accomodate all of the new and to get rid of the old. Ex. new tour pictures, new media section, new overall layout, so on and so forth. i hope this was helpful in convincing you that, in the metal world of women, Jennifer Arroyo is a prominant figure, and one that respects her fans. She actually posted when the Not My Year page was up for deletion. Of course, she had never used Wiki before, so her post wasn't in the best format, but she did try. Tom 23:14, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I did look at all of the sites linked from her page, and if her name appears on all of those pages, I couldn't find it. The point is moot, however, as I did not remove the links from her article, but only the unsourced puffery that had been added to it. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  23:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Minor correction
Just thought you should know that you put the vandalism warning on the user page of 151.198.210.30, rather than the talk page. I didn't want to move someone else's warning, but you might want to shift it over when you get the chance, especially since he'd already vandalized and been warned for hitting that same page earlier today. -Colin Kimbrell 17:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll go fix it.  Dalbury ( Talk )  18:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Theoretical Linguistics Project

 * Re: Welcome to the Theoretical Linguistics Project, such as it is. We're trying to get this off the ground.  Are there particular topics that you want to work on?  I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics from 30 years ago, but have not worked in the field since then, so I'm not up to writing on current theory.  --   Dalbury ( Talk )  11:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * JA: Hi, the project page somehow fell off my watchlist. I took an interest in what they used to call "mathematical linguistics" early on in my undergrad years, sitting in on some grad courses, and hanging out a lot at the then-new "artificial language lab", which was mostly devoted to what later became "augmentative communication", and several of my decade long projects in programming were incited by observations that I first made there.  Much later took the standard grad year of "formal languages and automata theory" from a computer science department and did some work on the same from a combinatorics angle as a grad student in math.  But also kept up with the natural language and cognitive science literature through the middle 90's or so, as a parallel grad student in psych.  Talk to you later.  Jon Awbrey 15:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:NOT
You were kind enough to offer your comments on my proposed tweaking of What Wikipedia is not. I've clarified at What Wikipedia is not exactly what I had in mind, and I would appreciate your further thoughts. Thanks. JHCC (talk) 15:12, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Removing user pages et al.
Thought this was more appropriate on your talk page. Understand that I'm not actually advocating removing user pages, but just trying to bring a different point of view; it's become entrenched in the community that user pages are a place for unrestricted free expression of the editor's personal life, rather than a page about an encyclopedia editor with information relevant to their work on the encyclopedia. I'm just trying to encourage other people to think about what goes on user talk pages by asking what the effect of removing them entirely would be.

I've actually redone my entire user page, as I'd never really thought about this before; I was just emulating most other user pages I've seen. People don't really need to know I'm an anarcho-capitalist in order to judge my contributions to James Joyce's biography.

I certainly don't think that things like edit and page vandalized counts are vanity, as they are the kind of relevant information that tells other Wikipedians about you as an editor, which is important information (especially in the case of a RfA, for instance). - dharmabum (talk) 00:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think we disagree about anything substantive. When I first became active (just four months ago) I looked at other user pages and decided I'd put some userboxes on my page (although I felt a little uneasy about using too many). I did create a few of my own. After a while I moved some of the userboxes to a sub-page, and more recently I decided get rid of most of them (it's obvious I speak English, my ability to program in BASIC, Pascal and plain ole' C doesn't seem relevant to Wikipedia, and I don't need userboxes proclaiming that I delete vanadalism and am a Vietnam War veteran and a veteran of the 1970s anit-war movement). The edit count is vanity. I (or anyone else) can look up my edit count at any time. As for AfD, I thought at first that I wanted to be an admin (I have been a SysOp elsewhere), but I've decided now that there is no hurry. I have enough to keep me busy now without having to commit to more tasks in an attempt to win votes in an RfA. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  00:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

www.spanish-translator-services.com
I do not understand why you erase www.spanish-translator-services.com from the Dictionaries section at Spanish Language. You said it is a comercial site and it is a free site, with 50.000 pages of unique content that we are offering for free to Internet, more than 20 people works for years building this, and we are offering this for free to evrybody, really I do not understand.

Could you please explain me wich is the criteria ?

Could you please explain me why other comercial dictionaries are listed and this one that is free is not ?

Thank you, I will be very happy to understand this.

Best regards

Gustavo Lucardi
 * I do not believe that a site offering translation services, whether free or not, fits the in the quidelines of acceptable external links as set out in External links. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  17:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear Dalbury:

The site is offering exactly the same kind of content than the sites listed there: tomisimo, diccionarios.com, wordreference, spanishdict, my-spanish-dictionary, websters; but with just one difference, without advertisement, so could please you explain me why you consider this site commercial and no appropriate to be listed there. I know that you receive a lot of spam, but this was not the case, because I know the effort and quality of this site I was waiting a thank you from Wikipedia to share this content, and instead of that I have to be fighting to be listed.

I think that the site accomplish at least on of the criteria for the external links:

 “Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article.”

If the site doesn’t accomplish the criteria, neither tomisimo, diccionarios.com, wordreference, spanishdict, my-spanish-dictionary, websters do.

And in any case, the site is not commercial, and it is not offering translation services it is offering services for translators and other people interested in translations between Spanish and English, and has 50.000 entries of unique content.

May be I have to sign before do a contribution to show I was more real, but I am new as a Wikipedia contributor of content and I didn’t do it other times without problems, and usually I saw that when the content was appropriate it was accepted by the editors, and I think that this is the case.

In any case now I registered as a user. Hope you review your decision because I am really disappointed, thanks.

 Iuspatex ( Talk) 1 February 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.127.70.37 (talk • contribs)
 * It's Wikipedia policy. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  18:17, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Dalbury:

Wich policy? Why you applied that policy to one dictionary and no to the others... ?

If the site doesn’t accomplish the criteria, neither tomisimo, diccionarios.com, wordreference, spanishdict, my-spanish-dictionary, websters do. .... ?

Also my site was listed as a reference at the Spanish Division of the American Translator Association and at two different categories at DMOZ.

I think I deserve an answer, I do not understand the decision, thanks

 Iuspatex ( Talk) 7 February 2006

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PBCC

 * Current edit is fine. my problem with your initial edit was that it said main campus. Good to see that this article is moving along. Captaintruth 23:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The initial edit wasn't mine. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  00:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, OK....change that to "the" initial edit...sorry for not doublechecking before attributing that initial edit to you...Captaintruth 00:05, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. :-) --  Dalbury ( Talk )  00:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
Thank you for the support. Would you like to second the motion? Durova 16:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Categories on the Native american project
Why did you just undo everything i did? I fyou have a certain scheme in mind please share it. I was making sure that categories that are subcategories of others were listed indented under the top category and that everything was in alphabetical order. psch e  mp  |  talk  03:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * um ok in your last edit, you just redid half of what I did and then you undid. Please expalin your logic here. psch  e  mp  |  talk  03:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I replied on your talk page. The history not match what I remember doing. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  03:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is probably edit conflicts which for some reason aren't shown when you save. It happens when two people edit the same thing quickly and has happened to me too.  Don't worry about it.  psch  e  mp  |  talk  03:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Florida High School List
I would like to disagree with you on your policy for internal wiki-linkage. I know that you have removed others' wikilinks because they link to no page. However there are some good and very valid reasons for adding, and leaving these wikilinks.

1. Discourage external linking. If there's already a link going somewhere (article or not), people will be more apt to see that there is a need for an article for that school, and if they're active enough to add the external link, they may be active enough to create an article for the school they were linking for.

2. It's worked for other state's list pages. I saw this done on Idaho, New Jersey and Oklahoma for example. When I looked at these to remove external linking, there was none to remove. The reasons given in number 1 work.

3. How are we going to know if Joe Schmo creates a page on such-and-such high school in some county that happens to be on the list? Easy, we won't. I know, because when I started adding wikilinks, I found two that had pages written about them that no one linked to the list.

I hope that I have in some way swayed your views on wikilinkage. I think that adding even red wikilinkls is not only good but necessary for orderly expansion of articles and information in Wikipedia.

Jake -- Bladeswin 19:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not the only one who feels this way. Best to discuss on the article's talk page. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  22:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
I find your comments on WP:V to be a very sensible and accurate understanding of Wikipedia content policies. As coming across editors that have such an understanding is rare, I feel compelled to thank you for taking the time and sharing your understanding with others. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 04:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * And thank you for the kind words. I haven't been an active contributor to Wikipedia for very long, but I think it is an important project, and I want to see it done right. Part of my commitment to seeing Wikipedia succeed is helping other editors understand why verifiability is so important. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  17:55, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your response to the proposal that I submitted to the Village Pump yesterday on how to attract older, experienced conributers. I really appreciated your kind remarks. mbeychok 16:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Saxe-Meiningen
I noticed that you reverted the categories that I had added to the articles of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Saxe-Meiningen. While the Holy Roman Empire can be considered as one of the former countries of Europe, since it was in itself a sovereign state the same does not apply to its component parts. The category was added to the articles because apart from being components in the Holy Roman Empire and surviving its demise in 1806, they even more importantly were confirmed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. That fact that Saxe-Meiningen once were a component part of another state does not unmake that it later attained sovereignty on its own, and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was not even created until after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire. At present there doesn't seem to be any strict criterias applied to what and what does not fit inside category, but sovereign European states after 1815 should be able to make the cut. -- Domino theory 02:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Point taken. In that case you will also be interested in Saxe-Altenburg (1603 to 1672; 1826 to 1918) and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826 to 1918). Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1735 to 1826), Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1681 to 1826) and Saxe-Hildburghausen (1680 to 1826) would also be at issue if their articles existed. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  02:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you. At present I'm also thinking that there might be a better way to categorize them than in a big European catch-all category. Regarding Saxe-Coburg and Gotha it's not obvious whether it should be treated as one sovreign state or the two separate states of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha under a common ruler. It might be better to have one article just on the dynastic family and separate articles on the states. -- Domino theory 11:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I started the Ernestine duchies sub-category because the States of the HRE category currently has 199 articles, and I'm sure there are still more HRE states than that. As for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, there actually is no family/dynasty with that name. They were/are all Wettins, unless they changed the name, like the Windsors did. In any case, if you are so inclined, there is a lot that needs to be done with the Ernestine duchies. I only get back to them occasionally. There is material in the German and Spanish Wikipedias, but my German and Spanish are both weak, and I have struggled with the translations. Finding decent sources in English is also a problem. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  12:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the German Wikipedia sums it up pretty nicely with separate articles for each of the two separate states, one article for the personal union, and one article for the princely house. -- Domino theory 20:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Volusia Bar lighthouse
Where are you intending to list this light that you removed from the list of lighthouses? Even if it is a redirect to a multi-light article, there is good reason to leave every light in the list. Rmhermen 03:53, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The one decent source I knew of for this lighthouse has disappeared from the web. A Google search tonight gave little more than activated and deactivated dates. I don't even know where in the St. Johns River it was located. "Near Deland, Florida, at the mouth of the St. Johns River" doesn't resolve very well. As it was a river light, and was deactivated in 1916, details will be hard to come by. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  04:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * But it can still be listed in the list - even if an article can't be made for it. Rmhermen 05:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * True. I'll put it back. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  12:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

AFD problems
Although I think there are a lot of problems with AFD (like the ones I mentioned), I think that the root of the problems is our basic deletion system, which makes both deletion and undeletion into such big deals. I think that we should reform it into a system in which deletion and undeletion are just like any other edit to an article, with old versions remaining available and anyone easily able to revert to them. While that might sound like a recipe for chaos, we basically use that system for the deletion and recreation of sections within articles; overall our current dispute resolution process has handled it fine. I see no reason why it wouldn't handle the inevitable revert-wars and disputes over entire articles just as well. Of course, 'hard' speedy/copyvio deletions would remain available to admins for things like copyvios, our current speedy system, or the new prod-thingy; those things seem to be working well. Only disputed (and disputable) deletions would need to use the new system. Anyway, something like this is present in the Pure Wiki Deletion System. --Aquillion 00:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

LeConte vs. Le Conte
Hi Dalbury, I've just been whizzed about this for a while...It's hard to believe that the New Georgia Encyclopedia, C.M. Thomas of the US Navy (who named the LeConte Glacier and LeConte Bay and seemingly knew LeConte personally) were all wrong about the name. Yes, I took a look at the autobiography, but perhaps we can make note on LeConte pages of the alternative spelling but maintain the articles with the new, far-and-away more widely used and recognized spelling, and use that. Also, I think it is unfair to extrapolate just because Joseph Le?Conte did it, all of the other members of the LeConte family did as well. For all we know it could've been and idiosyncrasy and he decided that he liked that spelling better; we really need a source directly addressing this (which I have not been able to find).

Regardless, if you continue to plan on using the new spelling I think you should move all the content of the pages to that spelling (i.e., .org/wiki/Joseph_Le_Conte). Jarfingle 02:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

 * There are Le Conte's Thrasher and Le Conte's Sparrow, the latter of which, at least, was named by Audubon for his friend, Dr. Le Conte, usually thought to be John Lawrence Le Conte, Joseph's cousin, but possibly for John Le Conte, Joseph's brother. There is the Le Conte pear, named after Joseph's uncle, John Eatton Le Conte. As for places presumably named after members of the family, the USGS GNIS lists eight with LeConte (LeConte Bay, LeConte Glacier and Stikine-LeConte Wilderness in Alaska, LeConte Glacier and LeConte Lake in Washington; LeConte Hall in California and LeConte Hall in Georgia and LeConte Lake in Utah), and twelve with Le Conte (Camp Le Conte, Le Conte Creek, Le Conte Lodge and Mount Le Conte in Tennessee, Joseph Le Conte Middle School, Le Conte Canyon, Le Conte Divide, Le Conte Falls, Le Conte School and Mount Le Conte in California; Le Conte Crater in Oregon; and Le Conte College in South Carolina). The The Darwin Online Correspondence Database lists John Eatton Le Conte, and Virtual American Biographies has an entry for Joseph's father as Lewis Le Count (it should be Louis).
 * There are plenty of spelling variations (like Lewis for Louis). One 't' is sometimes dropped from Eatton in John Eatton Le Conte. I find it easier to believe that the space between 'Le' and 'Conte' was often left out by writers unfamiliar with the name, rather than that an extraneous space was inserted. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  03:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It'd be good if you moved the actual articles to the new spelling instead of redirects...I don't know how to do it or I'd do it.Jarfingle 04:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * That will require an admin, as existing redirects would have to be deleted. I'll put in a request. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  10:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Question
Have you been to look at Rfa recently? KillerChihuahua?!? 19:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added it my watchlist, in a manner of speaking. :-) --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  22:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

related
hi im related to george gordon meade my name is caitlin mede im 10 years old and in 5th grade i have to do a history report on civil war but george is my great great great great uncle

 * Do you have a question? I'm not an expert on George Gordon Meade. --  Donald Albury (Dalbury) ( Talk )  17:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Psst
Please check out this page. Pass it on! — Catherine\talk 01:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

date links
Hi,

You asked about how to join the effort re date links. If you want to use my tool, just copy User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Dalbury/monobook.js (if you know what you are doing, just copy the relevant bits). Then clear the cache by pressing Control-Shift-R (Firefox) or Control-F5 (IE). Then when you edit, you will get another two tabs at the top for date pruning and unit formatting. Caveat emptor.

In addition, I have made a new proposal about date links at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29. Feel free to support or oppose it. Regards. bobblewik 14:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Project on American Indians
I'll consider your invite to join the group. I've been involved as a 'seminole re-enactor' and been studying the southeastern native cultures in general, and the tribes in Florida, both pre- and post- contact in particular, for some time. --Emb021 16:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

user page revert
no problem on the vandalism revert on your user page. at first I thought it might be a legitimate edit, but I ended up being convinced it was not so i hit the rollback. keep up the good work, Alhutch 05:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiethics - Vandalism
Please review carefully what is talked on the page. I archived the page based on a consensus including the person who started the poll. Reverting without discussion is considered as vandalism. Thanks Resid Gulerdem 19:22, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I have been following the discussion. I think it was wrong to archive an active discussion. It is not up to you to decide that by yourself. And don't accuse me of vandalism. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  21:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Archival materials
If you want me to review Wikipedia policies, I would ask that you review WP:CIVIL. Please do not assume I am attempting to circumvent discussion over a policy change by... Holding a discussion, because that is both an odd assertion and insulting to what I'm actually trying to do, make Wikipedia as good and factual as it can be. Second, please realize that I actually did exactly what you wanted me to do, only at Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources as that was the place that seemed most obvious to me. I've also added on to your accusatory posts on the talk pages for WP:NOR and WP:V. Please do not assume the worst in people who are doing nothing more than discussing something. Staxringold 02:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks
For your input on the List of archaeological periods (North America) page this add significant informatino formating to what I was able to produce. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  08:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you like it. I need to do some more touching up to the chart, and some of the entries are subject to change as I continue my research. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  12:39, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding The Change History Topic
Yep Excatly.

Thanks.

Please reply.

Thanks.

24.70.95.203 21:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Re: Danny Lilithbourne
''Your charge of vandalism against Danny Lilithbourne was highly inappropriate. Please do not describe good faith edits as vandalism. If you have a content dispute with another editor, take it to the talk page, but do NOT call it vandalism. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 16:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)''
 * Seemed like vandalism to me. Running all over the site removing content he doesn't immediately agree with and citing "fancruft" as a blanket statement to cover his actions sure as heck doesn't seem like good faith editing to me.  The section on Millia Rage that he deleted would've been gone a LONG time before he came along if it had truly been fancruft, and it's been verified anyway.  Take it up with him, not me.  teh TK 20:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

user conduct RFC
Requests for comment/-Lumière FeloniousMonk 23:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that...
You recently warned my friend Matt that Wikipedia is not a free host or a blog. Mr. Turcotte is one of my friends in real life, and I will make sure that he discontinues his abuse of Wikipedia. (This is like, the third time that I introduced a friend to Wikipedia and wished I didn't. I better stop.) Jared W!!! | Write to me, why don't you? 13:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, he wasn't vandalizing, and he didn't start it. I just wanted to stop his talk page from becoming a chat room. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  13:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

My most sincere apologies. It will not happen again. M.T. | Mr. Turcotte 21:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you for saying that. I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  21:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I will. Thanks again. M.T. | Mr. Turcotte 01:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

your comments on my talk page

 * Just which type of vandalism, as defined on that page, do you think has been committed against your talk page? --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  14:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

As described above.pat8722 19:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * As you are not answering my question, I guess that means you can't actually find what you call vandalism in the policy. Now, please stop calling things vandalism when you can't even cite what kind of vandalism they are. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  23:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

"The most common type of vandalism is the ... insertion ... nonsense". 3rr warnings for the reversion of vandalism is "nonsense", at best.pat8722 01:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Also, please read Patent nonsense, which is what Nonsense redirects to. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  01:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, what we see at the Nonsense page is that the nonsense advocates have a substantial foothold in the wikipedia policy pages, as the vandalism page says nonsense is vandalism, and the Nonsense page says it isn't. So we see that the "nonsense" people have even turned the vandalism and nonsense pages into nonsense. So you've really got to use your brain. pat8722 02:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Archives
Please don't be needlessly offensive in discussions. I posed a perfectly valid discussion, and you attack it on the face as though it will hugely undermine Wikipedia without even helping in the creation of an actual proposal. Then, when the proposal is put to a vote, you act as though this was a personal attempt by me to sneak some information in on one article under the radar (which is odd, as the article is already featured). Finally, please do not act snotty when your position is replied to. "I've had my say. It looks like this proposal is failing, for which I am thankful. I need to get back to adding content (from published sources)." I'm terribly sorry to have torn you away from what you judge to be more important than making Wikipedia as gooas it can be, but when you post a comment you should expect it to be replied to. If you can't handle defending a position, you probably shouldn't voice it. Staxringold 11:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Let me be clear: I see an attempt to gut two of the most fundamental policies of Wikipedia just so someone can write a nice article about their favorite school. My preference is to contribute to Wikipedia, and every substantive contribution I make to articles includes a verifiable source. I take the policy on verifiability very seriously, and I defend it vigorously. I get irritated when I have to take time away from creating content to defend Wikipedia against ill-conceived schemes that would weaken its integrity, if not destroy it. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  11:26, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That is the attitude I'm referring to. Acting as though this is a scheme is really offensive. Have you never ever in your life, either in reality or here on Wikipedia, had something that needed fixing in your opinion brought to your attention while working on something unrelated? Staxringold 11:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * But, I don't think the Verifiability and No original reseach policies need to be 'fixed', especially not the way you want to 'fix' (I would say 'break') them. So, yes, I am irritated because I have been interrupted by people who want to break (in my opinion, and that of many editors much more experienced than I am) fundamental policies of Wikipedia. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  11:52, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I hope no one minds me commenting here, but I couldn't agree more with Donald. I mean no disrespect by that, James, and I know nothing about how your proposal got off the ground, but it's very dispiriting to see an attempt to undermine two of our most important policies. NOR and V are literally the only things that stand between us and being drowned in nonsense. In fact, I almost certainly wouldn't contribute to Wikipedia if they weren't in place, because in the absence of an editorial board and qualified encyclopedists, those policies are the only protection we have — where we're effectively parasitic on other publications' quality controls. Without that defense, and heaven knows it's inadequate enough, we simply wouldn't be worth reading or writing for. SlimVirgin (talk) 12:07, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Pile-on to support Dalbury's position, which I also share. To misdirect to the use of the word "scheme" is to argue semantics when the key policies are at stake; whether you refer to the attempt to undermine and rewrite them as a "scheme" a "plan" an "attempt" or a "misguided effort" is immaterial. KillerChihuahua?!? 12:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If the community consensus is that this policy would harm Wikipedia, then by all means stop it. Semantics are important however, as "misguided effort" correctly describes the situation. I tried to do something helpful, but did not realize whatever reasons the community brings up that undermine the policies overall. "Scheme" implies I am this guy sitting in my lair trying to dream up ways to ruin Wikipedia. I don't much appreciate being accused of trying to undermine something I was trying to improve simply because this particular proposal gets shot down. Staxringold 14:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You started Requests for comment/Archival materials with this post:

"The use of technically unpublished archival materials recovered from an official archivist has come up recently on Hopkins Schools' FAC. Reliable sources' opening sentence states that 'Wikipedia articles should use reliable published sources,' but archival materials often aren't technically 'published' as they are for the school/organization's own history and are most certainly reliable if recovered from the archivist him/herself. In addition, the definition of primary sources under No original research includes historical documents (which I would think archival information is), and since the materials were researched by the archivist they are not OR. I believe that under Interpret all rules one should be able to interpret WP:RS as including unpublished archival materials as a reliable source. Staxringold 14:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC)"
 * On April 1, I pointed out that this 'interpretation' of the guideline on Reliable Sources would be a violation of the policies on Verifiability and No original research, and asked that the discussion be moved to those policies' talk pages. If you had done so, you would have found out much sooner that the community would not accept it. Trying to reinterpret the guideline on Reliable Sources to get around the policies on Verifiability and No original research looks like a scheme to me. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  14:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * James, it does seem odd to have raised this issue in the form of a poll without involving the editors who wrote and now maintain the relevant policy pages. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I posted on all the relevent talk pages as soon as Dalbury pointed out the involved policies. Given that the policies have been written over years by dozens of editors, I didn't know who were the "primary" editors to give notice of the RFC for (which is how I started this, not a poll). I also specifically asked Kmf164, an admin, what to do next. I'm done being insulted, and I want to remain civil. It was not a scheme, and if you can't see that I apologize but it wasn't. Staxringold 15:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

E-mail
E-mail for you, Donald. SlimVirgin (talk) 12:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

RFC started on Merecat
I noticed you have met Merecat and therefore I would like to inform you that in light of recent events (not discussing disputed edits, disruptive behaviour, edit warring and making personal attacks) this Requests for comment/Merecat has been started. I trust should you want to contribute, you will be an objective bystander. If you do not want to comment that's OK. Sincerely Nomen Nescio 18:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for kind support
I appreciated the bother you took to advice me on the matter of Civility and Development at the Village Pump where I also expanded my viewpoint. --Profero 01:27, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  02:04, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Tampa reversion
Thanks for catching that. I live near that mall and JCPenney left because the rent on the store was simply cheaper in Wesley Chapel, across the county line. What part of Florida are you from again? Mike H. That's hot 01:59, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm in Delray Beach. I was going on the tone of the comment, which didn't seem fitting for an encyclopedia. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  02:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I suppose it didn't, but even then, it simply wasn't true. I've had problems with people adding to University of South Florida-related articles going on about how "ghetto" it is around the area. It isn't the nicest neighborhood, but it's not especially NPOV to call it a ghetto, when what you mean is "poor and black." You can have things be poor and black and not be a ghetto. Mike H. That's hot 09:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be OK to cite a source that called tje area a 'ghetto', but disparaging (or praising) comments that don't have a source are a problem in many articles. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  10:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * What do you make of the comments "praising" the International Plaza as an "upscale mall"? I live in Tampa, and if you do, or if you have visted, I think you would agree that it is such-- but there is no way in the world to cite such a qualitative opinion. Please note that my comments on the University Square mall did not mention any of the following terms: ghetto, black, poor. I spoke merely to the high crime levels in the area, as well as the economic depression which has hit the area, but somehow missed many other parts of Tampa. University may not be the most dangerous neighborhood in Tampa (based on City of Tampa crime statistics) but it IS the most dangerous neighborhood containing a mall; that is, while Tampa Heights or College Hill may be more dangerous in terms of crime volume, those neighborhoods do NOT contain a shopping center- University does have a shopping center. There was no intention to make the comments sound polemic, and they do need further sourcing and research, but you can agree the comments are not "made-up" or flat-out lies, no matter how poorly sourced. Rellman 03:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I reverted a new edit to the Tampa, Florida article because it included the following unsourced opinions:
 * "Many blame this on the neighborhood the mall is located in; Tampa's 'University' neighborhood remains one of the most dangerous parts of the city, and this section is known as 'suitcase city' due its large transient population."
 * Wikipedia's policy on Verifiability states that Editors adding new material to an article should cite a reputable source, or it may be removed by any editor. If you want to re-add the material I removed, please include a citation of a reliable published source for the material. Please read Verifiability, No original research, Neutral point of view, Reliable sources and Citing sources for more information.

Unblock request for Rgulerdem
NO ONE deserves to be indefinitely blocked. Please please please unblock Rgulerdem from Wikipedia. He intentions are not to harm anyone. Netpari 20:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not an admin, so it's out of my hands. Moreover, I'm not anxious to see Rgulerdem back, and will not support lifting the block without good indications from him that he will avoid the kind of behavior that got him blocked. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  21:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

re- legal threats
whereabouts in palm beach county are you from? I'm a palm beach gardens guy myself, though I originally lived in North Palm. ⇒  SWAT  Jester    Ready    Aim    Fire!  11:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been in Delray for 18 years, in Lake Worth for 8 years before that, and WPB for 3 years before that. I'm originally from Miami, but lived in Gainesville and Tallahassee for many years. (As you might guess, I'm as old, as some folks say, as the hills.) --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  11:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Response to legal threat
My first reasoned response to the legal threat at User talk:209.214.14.138 was to disengage, report it on WP:ANI, and then stay away from the user (I won't say what my emotional response was). As I now have a pretty good idea who the user is, the question arises as to whether I could, or should, do anything more. I would appreciate any advice anyone is willing to offer me. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  14:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Donald Albury, I started the Claudia Emerson page, but ran out of time to enter the external links I'd  already compiled a list of via Google for my own blog. When I returned to the page to add the list of links, as the only other editor at the time, I removed the blog links because I found them suspicious. Anon. had added the blog twice in the "External links" section.

First, anon had linked to a blog page of links, giving an advertisement-like description. The links on the blog were sometimes duplicative (i.e. two links for one poem or multiple links for news stories with the same content) and not in a helpful bibliographic form. Second, he linked to the blog for a Ted Kooser article that had been reprinted. I replaced the latter with a link to Kooser's page, thus allowing the reader to see additional content by the Poet Laureate, who writes a column on poetry).

When the link reappeared, I deleted it a second time, adding a note to the discussion page with my explainaton and asked an admin I find helpful to take a look, rather than start an edit war. The discussion page for the IP was blank or I might have suggested that he register and link to the blog on the user paper and/or the article discussion page, if he wanted others to see the blog. I even looked up the email address for the blog owner and considered writing him, but went on to other things.

Today I returned to see that anon had reverted the link deleted by others again and again and again and threatened you. There now seem to be more entries in the history for the link than for other additions to the article. Sorry you got caught up in this. Like you, given his wrath, I want nothing further to do with him.--Beth Wellington 02:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Purdy has set up a new blog http colon //vgs-wiki-watchdog dot blogspot dot com/ Wiki Watchdog solely to decry his mistreatment, but promising more to come. He mentions you by name. Sigh.--Beth Wellington 03:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Beth, Thanks for that link. That confirms his identity. I have no intention of replying to him, but he is also attacking Wikipedia. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  09:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Seduction Community links
Hi Dalbury,

I've reverted your changes to the Seduction Community pages - as you can probably see by the page itself, and the supporting pages, there's a fair number of authors working to keep these pages updated! The page itself was deleted a while ago, and we got together to rewrite it, to basically try and convince the powers that be that the community existed, and was noteworthy.

One thing we were asked to do was to cite and reference any claim that was made. One of these claims is the existance of more than 100 groups worldwide. The two sites linked to are direct competitors of each other (while sharing mostly the same list of links) - there's a wealth of debate (that you can read on the talk pages) about which to link to - the current linking to both seems to have won consensus. They also support the claim mentioned previously. The thing to note is that every (I believe) link onward from them, to one of the groups, links to a primarily non-commercial website - neither really constitutes a link farm, in my opinion - although I can see how it might appear that way to someone outside of the community!

If you'd like to discuss this further, please do start a discussion on the Talk:Seduction Community, or leave a message on my talk page.

Thanks!

WoodenBuddha 21:55, 25 Apr

Wikiwthics
Hi Dalbury, Thanks for the note. I believe that ethics and standards are very important for Wiki. So, I will try to improve the policy gradually while it is marked as rejected. When I feel that it is ready, I will ask for community approval. Since it is not active this time, I am not expecting any editwars... Thanks. Resid Gulerdem 17:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Date proposal
Hello Dalbury,

I'm not sure if you're still following Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). I have made a proposal to completely rewrite the Dates section in the Manual of Style, with the hope that people from both sides of the debate can agree on a text. I noticed you contributed to the previous discussions on this topic, but I don't think you've commented on my proposal yet (unless I just missed it!). Please do come along and discuss it if you're interested. I would like as many people as possible to comment, so that we can truly say we've reached a consensus.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 19:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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List of Japanese artists

This is a list of Japanese artists. This list is intended to encompass Japanese who are primarily fine artists. For information on those who work primarily in film, television, advertising, manga, anime, video games, or performance arts, please see the relevant respective articles.

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Talk:Paris–Tours

Plurals
From the Manual of Style (dates and numbers): Bart l 19:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Do not append an s for plurals of unit abbreviations. For example, kg, in, yd, lb not kgs, ins, yds, lbs.

 * That, of course, is precisely the problem with the image as well. Since the one who keeps reverting and putting those "kms" back in is also the creator of the image (User:Mick Knapton), it would be easiest for that user to fix the image.  I imaging there is some way I could crudely paste a correction over it and upload that, but I just as soon not have to. Gene Nygaard 01:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:EMD GP20

Turbochargers
See Don Strack's article on turbocharging the GP9 that led directly to EMD's GP20 here: http://utahrails.net/webpubs/up-gp9-turbo.php --SSW9389 00:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Traction motor limitations
"Power output of the turbocharged SD24 was 33 percent higher than the 1,800 hp (1,340 kW) of the concurrent Roots blower-equipped SD18s with the same engine displacement, 400 hp (298 kW) per axle, but the power output of the turbocharged GP20 was only 11 percent higher than the 1,800 hp (1,340 kW) of the concurrent Roots blower-equipped GP18s with the same engine displacement 500 hp (373 kW) per axle, due to the limitations of the traction motors then available (this limitation was eliminated in the 40-Series). "

No, this limitation was eliminated with the 35 series. The four motor EMD GP35 shared the same horsepower rating as the six axle SD35 counterpart, 2,500 horsepower. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:A645:2100:357B:E726:8525:6B0E (talk) 00:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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Danny Tickle

Danny Tickle (born 10 March 1983) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who plays in the for Workington Town in Betfred League 1, Tickle is also a noted goal-kicker.

During his career Tickle played for several clubs including Halifax (Heritage № 1141), Wigan Warriors, Hull FC (Heritage № 1038), Widnes Vikings, Castleford Tigers (Heritage № 969), Leigh Centurions and Hull Kingston Rovers.

Background
Tickle was born in Golborne, Greater Manchester, England. He learned rugby league at local amateur club, Golborne Parkside.

Halifax (2000-02)
At the start of his career he played for two-seasons at Halifax in the Super League. Tickle then went on to sign for the Wigan Warriors for a fee of £100,000, despite interest from other Super League sides that included St Helens.

Wigan Warriors (2002-06)
Tickle played for the Wigan Warriors at, scoring a try in the 2003 Super League Grand Final, which ended in a 25–12 victory to the Bradford Bulls. He performed well enough to earn a new two-year contract in July 2004. The following season, Tickle was outstanding in an injury-hit Wigan squad. He went onto pick-up the Wigan Supporters' 'Player of the Year Award'. He was released at the end of the 2006 season.

Hull (2007-13)
During his time at Hull F.C., Tickle enjoyed an incredible début season with the West Hull outfit in 2007, picking-up the Players,' Supporters' and Coaches' 'Player of the Year Awards. Whilst also finishing as the club's top points scorer in both the 2007 and 2008 Super League seasons. Tickle played for Hull F.C. in the 2008 Challenge Cup Final, in a 28–16 defeat by St. Helens. Tickle also represented the club in the 2013 Challenge Cup Final.

Widnes Vikings (2014-15)
Tickle was linked with a move to the Widnes Vikings for the 2013 Super League season, but the move never came to fruition. Until 12-months later however, Tickle joined the Widnes club for the 2014 season onwards. In November 2015, Tickle was assaulted outside a nightclub in Ashton-in-Makerfield. Tickle suffered a fractured skull as a result of the incident, and it was initially believed that the injury would bring his playing career to an end. He was released by Widnes in March 2016.

Castleford Tigers (2016)
After his release from the Widnes outfit, he was signed in April 2016 by the Castleford Tigers on a short-term contract, before being released three months later so he could sign for the Leigh Centurions.

Leigh Centurions (2016-17)
Tickle represented Leigh for two seasons, helping the club win promotion to the Super League in 2016. Tickle unfortunately suffered relegation from the Super League with Leigh in the 2017 season, due to losing the Million Pound Game against the Catalans Dragons.

Hull Kingston Rovers (2018)
In 2018, it was revealed that Tickle had signed a one-year contract to play for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League. Tickle scored a try on his Hull Kingston Rovers début against the Catalans Dragons. The game took-place on 15 February 2018, Hull Kingston Rovers won the game 23–4 at Craven Park. Following only one year as a player at Hull Kingston Rovers, Tickle took the decision to join Workington Town ahead of the start of the 2019 rugby league season.

Workington Town (2019 - present)
On 11 December 2018, it was announced that Tickle had signed a one-year deal with League 1 outfit Workington Town, to play for the club on a part-time basis.

Workington Town Head Coach Leon Pryce said, “Danny is a fantastic addition to the squad.”

“He has many years' experience in the Super League and he is a top professional.”

“Playing at the highest level will be of benefit to the squad in what is a tough league.”

Tickle made his début for Workington Town on 17 February 2019, in a 28–32 victory over Oldham.

A week later on 24 February 2019, Tickle scored his first try for Workington Town in a 48–18 victory over the Crusaders.

Representative career
Tickle represented England A in the 2003 European Nations Cup, recording three appearances, scoring two tries and kicking 23 goals, posting 54 points in total.

He also earned one cap for the senior England team, appearing against Wales in 2009.

Club (Wigan Warriors 2002-06)

 * 2005: 'Supporters' Player of the Year Award'

Club (Hull F.C. 2007-13)

 * 2007: 'Players' Player of the Year Award'
 * 2007: 'Supporters' Player of the Year Award'
 * 2007: 'Coaches' Player of the Year Award'

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Isochilus

Isochilus is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) with 13 recognized species. They are lowland epiphytes mainly found in Central America, from Cuba and Mexico to Argentina.

Characteristics of this genus include slender canelike stems with narrow distichous flat leaves and small sessile tube flowers carried at the tip of the cane.

Species

 * I. alatus
 * I. amparoanus, syn. I. chiriquensis
 * I. aurantiacus
 * I. bracteatus
 * I. brasiliensis, syn. I. linearis
 * I. carnosiflorus
 * I. cernuus, syn. Jacquiniella cernua
 * I. chiriquensis
 * I. crassiflorus, syn. I. carnosifloruu
 * I. dubius, syn. Scaphyglottis livida
 * I. elegans, syn. Dimerandra elegans
 * I. fusiformis, syn. Epidendrum fusiforme
 * I. globosus, syn. Jacquiniella globosa
 * I. graminifolius, syn. Maxillariella graminifolia
 * I. graminoides, syn. Dichaea graminoides
 * I. grandiflorum
 * I. grandiflorus, syn. Maxillariella cassapensis
 * I. lancifolius
 * I. langlassei
 * I. latibracteatus
 * I. leucanthus, syn I. linearis
 * I. linearis
 * I. linifolius, syn Elleanthus linifolius
 * I. lividus, syn. Scaphyglottis livida
 * I. major
 * I. oaxacanus
 * I. pauciflorus, syn. Scaphyglottis dunstervillei
 * I. peruvianus, syn. I. linearis
 * I. pitalensis
 * I prolifer
 * I. proliferus, syn. Scaphyglottis prolifera
 * I. proliferum
 * I. ramosus, syn. Epidendrum ramosum
 * I. smithii
 * I. teretifolius, syn. Jacquiniella teretifolia
 * I. unilateralis

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Charles M. Floyd

Charles Miller Floyd (June 5, 1861 – February 3, 1923) was an American merchant, and manufacturer, and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire who served as the 51st governor of New Hampshire from 1907 to 1909.

Biography
Floyd was born in Derry, New Hampshire on June 5, 1861. He graduated from Pinkerton Academy and became a successful businessman, including ownership interests in retail clothing stores, farms, a shoe factory, a furniture making factory, a door and window blind factory, a construction company, banks and commercial real estate.

A Republican, Floyd served in the New Hampshire State Senate from 1899 to 1901. He was a member of the state Executive Council from 1905 to 1907.

In 1906 Floyd ran for Governor. He defeated popular novelist Winston Churchill for the Republican nomination, and finished first with a plurality in the general election. In a four-way race which included Socialist and Prohibition candidates, Floyd finished with slightly less than the majority required by the state constitution. The election then moved to the New Hampshire General Court, which chose Floyd.

Floyd's term included: attempts at ethics reform, including the elimination of free railroad passes for state legislators; creation of the state tax commission; and continued construction and improvement of state and local roads as automobiles became more prevalent.

After leaving office Floyd returned to his business interests. He was a Delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention, was the state's World War I fuel administrator, and chaired the state tax commission from 1921 to 1923.

Floyd died in Manchester on February 3, 1923. He was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Manchester.

Derry's Charles M. Floyd Elementary School, which closed in 2006, was named for him.

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Thomas Baines

(John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 – 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia.

Life and work

Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 27 November 1820, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at the age of 16. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.

In 1855 Baines joined Augustus Gregory's 1855–1857 Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition across northern Australia as official artist and storekeeper. The expedition's purpose was to explore the Victoria River district in the north-west and to evaluate the entire northern area of Australia in terms of its suitability for colonial settlement. His association with the North Australian Expedition was the highpoint of his career, and he was warmly commended for his contribution to it, to the extent that Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in his honour.

In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia.

From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman's Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines' Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other's practice.

Baines made some of the drawings for the engravings illustrating Alfred Russel Wallace's 1869 book The Malay Archipelago.

In 1870 Baines was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation.

Thomas Baines died in Durban on 8 May 1875 and is buried in West Street Cemetery.

Legacy and Honors
Baines is today best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa and Australia. Most of his work is held in London. Many of his pictures are held by the National Library of Australia, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Maritime Museum, Brenthurst Library and the Royal Geographical Society. There are also numerous paintings at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The Thomas Baines Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa was also named after him.

Baines is also commemorated in the Aloe bainesii T.-Dyer, Albuca bainesii Baker, Iboza bainesii N.E.Br and many others.

Publications

 * Thomas Baines, Explorations in South-West Africa: being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864).
 * Thomas Baines, The gold regions of south eastern Africa (London: Edward Stanford, 1877).
 * J.P.R. Wallis (ed.), The northern goldfields diaries of Thomas Baines (London: Chatto & Windus, 1946).
 * Fay Jaff, They came to South Africa (Cape Town: Timmins, 1963).
 * J.P.R. Wallis, Thomas Baines, his life and explorations in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia, 1820–1875 (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1976).
 * Russell Braddon, Thomas Baines and the North Australian Expedition (Sydney: Collins in association with the Royal Geographical Society, 1986).
 * Jane Carruthers and Marion Arnold, The life and work of Thomas Baines (Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 1995).
 * Historic Houses Trust, Cape Town, halfway to Sydney 1788–1870: treasures from The Brenthurst Library Johannesburg (Sydney: Historic Houses Trust, 2005).
 * William Barry Lord lavishly illustrated by Thomas Baines Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration (1876)
 * "Thomas Baines of King's Lynn, Artist and Traveller". by Henry J. Hillen. serialised in "The King's Lynn News and Norfolk County Press" published between 12 March and 10 September 1898. Transcribed copies are in the King's Lynn Library, and Museum.

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Old Quebec

Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) is a historic neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Comprising the Upper Town (Haute-Ville) and Lower Town (Basse-Ville), the area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Administratively, Old Quebec is part of the Vieux-Québec–Cap-Blanc–colline Parlementaire district in the borough of La Cité-Limoilou.

The area is commonly referred to as "the Old City" or "Quebec's Old City" in English. It is sometimes referred to as the Latin Quarter (Quartier latin) as well, although this title refers more to area around the Séminaire de Québec, the original site of Laval University.

Upper Town
Samuel de Champlain chose the Upper Town as the site for Fort Saint Louis in 1608. It has remained the city's military and administrative centre because of its strategic position atop the promontory of Cap Diamant. It was occupied mainly by British government officials and Catholic clergy after the British Conquest, while French and English merchants and artisans lived in Lower Town. Military use did hamper growth in the Upper Town for many years, and a movement arose in the late 19th century to demolish the fortifications as obsolete and as an obstacle to urban development. It was Lord Dufferin who successfully persuaded officials to preserve and rebuild them.

The area declined and fell into disrepair in the 1950s but new building construction began in the 1970s. Most of the buildings date to the 19th century, although some date to the 17th and 18th centuries. The area has several commercial streets like Saint Jean, Sainte Anne and De Buade. Some public administration and other institutions in the Upper Town are the Quebec City Hall (Hôtel de Ville), the Séminaire de Québec, the Ursulines Convent, and the Augustinian Monastery and l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. There are many hotels, including the Château Frontenac, the Old City being a very popular tourist destination.

Parks in the Upper Town include De l'Esplanade, Artillerie, Des Gouverneurs and Montmorency parks as well as the grounds of l’Hotel-de-Ville.

Lower Town
The Lower Town is a historic district located at the bottom of Cap Diamant. During 1608, Samuel de Champlain built a habitation where its remains can be found with Place Royale as its centre. It was restored with the goal of reconstructing the French flair from its origins. Construction of the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires started during 1687 at this location and was completed during 1723. The Musée de la civilisation, the Musée naval de Québec, the caserne Dalhousie and the Théâtre Petit Champlain are among some of the museums, performance halls, theatres and exhibition venues in Lower Town. Places such as the Louise Basin, Brown Basin, La Pointe-à-Carcy, the Gare du Palais and the Marche du Vieux-Port can be seen from the Port of Quebec.

Other places of interest include:
 * Place de Paris,
 * Parc Ulric-Joseph-Tessier,
 * Saint-Pierre Street,
 * Saint-Paul Street,
 * Sault-au-Matelot Street and
 * Saint-Vallier Est Street, previously called Saint-Charles Street, the first paved road in Quebec.

A funicular (Old Quebec Funicular) allows for easy transportation up Cap Diamant connecting to Upper Town from the narrow Petit-Champlain road at the foot of the Cape to the top with a marvelous view of the city. Côte de la Montagne is another option for hikers.

The Historic District of Old Quebec
The Old Quebec heritage site is located in Quebec City although it is administratively recognized as a part of the borough La Cité-Limoilou. It has gained recognition as a part of Quebec's cultural heritage and is also among UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.

Background
During 1956, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada was given the authority to acquire or expropriate any "site, building or other place of national historic interest or significance".

The historic district was established following public debates from 1945 to 1965, concerning the preservation of Old Quebec and the restoration of Place Royale. The historic district of Old Quebec is a UNESCO World Heritage List since 1985.

The district was established by the National Assembly of Quebec on July 10, 1963 after an amendment to the Historic Sites and Monuments Act. The act made the area in the historic area of the city a "Declared Historic District" (Arrondissement historique décrété) by the province of Quebec, and was expanded the next year to an area of 135 ha. It includes 1,400 buildings within the neighbourhood of La Cité, including the promontory of Cap Diamant and a strip of land below the cliffs, between the Saint-Charles River and the Saint Lawrence River. The protected perimeter of the area was delimited in two stages. The initial layout included the fortified area as well as its periphery. The second and final layout added other surrounding areas to the plan on May 7, 1964. The whole district covers a total area of 1.4 km.

On December 3, 1985, UNESCO declared the Historic District of Old Quebec a World Heritage Site.

Rail
Old Quebec is serviced by Gare du Palais train and bus station. Opened in 1915 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the châteauesque station is similar in design to the Château Frontenac. Via Rail operates regular services to Montreal via Drummondville. The station is also serviced by the private coach company Orléans Express.

Air
Old Quebec is 16 km east of Quebec's Jean Lesage International Airport.

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Juhani Kaskeala

Admiral Pauli Juhani Kaskeala (born 26 July 1946, Kuopio) is a senior Finnish admiral and was Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces from 2001 to 1 August 2009.

In 1982, Kaskeala was appointed as Third Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic, Mauno Koivisto, eventually serving as First Aide-de-Camp from 1987.

From 1989 to 1991, he was commander of a missile squadron in the Coastal Fleet. Kaskeala was then a military attaché in London, The Hague and Brussels between 1991 and 1994, before serving as principal secretary to the Defence Council 1994–1997, and as Commander of the Turku And Pori Military Province 1997–1998.

He served as Director General for Defence Policy at Finland's Ministry of Defence from 1998 to 2001, and was then the Finnish Military Representative to the EU and NATO in Brussels, before being appointed Chief of Defence on 4 June 2001.

Kaskeala resigned from the Finnish Ships' Officers' Association in 2005 after an incident involving a search by the government.

In 2006, Kaskeala was chosen as the most positive person of the year because of his work to improve Finland and its interest, while still showing a "positive attitude and bright character".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apollo Chocolate Cranberry

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Apollo Chocolate Cranberry
Fancruft. It's a fictional chocolate bar from the TV series Lost. KeithD (talk) 19:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I love Lost, but this isn't even notable in the context of the show.--Isotope23 19:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Very, Very Weak Keep w/ Major Expansion Abrams seems to have been drawing a lot of attention to these candy bars--they appear in the hatch and in the flashbacks, and Rose has taken one to give to her husband upon their reuniting. The author really should have gone into much more detail, but, because of how the candy bars have been portrayed thusfar in season 2, there is a good possibility that they could become almost as important as "The Numbers." Frag 19:44, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Update: Apparently, the show's creator, J.J. Abrams, borrowed the name from a popular bite-sized candy made by the Japanese candymaker, Meiji Seika. I tried wikifying the introduction and providing a bit more context, but found that my knowledge on its signficance is fairly limited, due to its so-far very limited exposition on the show. However, if Lost maintains the patterns that it has established in the past, the fact that they have made a particular point of mentioning the candy several times in the show means that it will have some strange significance later on. Frag
 * Better article after your edit Frag, but I still stand by my vote because WP:NOT a crystal ball. JJ and Damon love misdirection... there is no evidence this will ever be of any significance in the context of the show.--Isotope23 20:28, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mention this in the Lost article, but this doesn't need its own article. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Switching vote to: Merge - This is going to be too sigificant to just let it go unnoticed. Here's another example of its significance not previously noticed: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/board/thread/27583807. Frag
 * Care to explain for those of us without and uninterested in IMDB accounts? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 23:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone has made a screencap of a season one episode where Boone is eating an Apollo chocolate bar. At the IMDB boards, some people are speculating that it means something, some people are speculating that it's just a prop, and it's nothing more than the chocolate bar in the Lost world, like Oceanic Airlines is the airline in the Lost world. In terms of Wikipedia, I think it may well become significant, and require its own article, but at the moment it's not significant, and we have nothing to go on beyond our own speculation. KeithD (talk) 07:34, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry, I have my IMDB account info saved in Firefox, so I completely forget that you have to be logged in to view the threads. My apologies. Anyway, let's just merge this into Lost (television) for the time being. Frag

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David E. Rowe

David E. Rowe (born August 11, 1950) is an American mathematician and historian. He studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, and took a second doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He served as book review editor, managing editor, and editor of the journal Historia Mathematica. In 1992, Rowe was appointed Professor of History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research has mainly focused on mathematics in Germany, but in recent years he has been concerned with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and the broader cultural and political impact of Einstein's ideas. As part of this effort, he and Robert Schulmann have co-edited a source book entitled Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb, published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

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Literary redaction

In literature, redaction is a form of editing in which multiple sources of texts are combined and altered slightly to make a single document. Often this is a method of collecting a series of writings on a similar theme and creating a definitive and coherent work.

Forms

On occasion, the persons performing the redaction (the redactors) add brief elements of their own. The reasons for doing so are varied and can include the addition of elements to adjust the underlying conclusions of the text to suit the redactor's opinion, adding bridging elements to integrate disparate stories, or the redactor may add a frame story, such as the tale of Scheherazade which frames the collection of folk tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

Sometimes the source texts are interlaced, particularly when discussing closely related details, things, or people. This is common when source texts contain alternative versions of the same story, and slight alterations are often made in this circumstance, simply to make the texts appear to agree, and thus the resulting redacted text appears to be coherent. Such a situation is proposed by the documentary hypothesis in the academic field of biblical scholarship, which affirms that multiple redactions occurred during the composition of the Torah, often combining source texts with different narratives, which have rival political attitudes and aims, together; another example is the Talmud.

Redactional processes are documented in numerous disciplines, including ancient literary works and biblical studies. Much has been written on the role of redaction in creating meaning for texts in various formats.

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Kevin J. O'Toole

Kevin J. O'Toole (born October 5, 1964) is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate. O'Toole represented the 40th legislative district, which included parts of Bergen, Essex, Morris, and Passaic counties from 2008 to 2017.

O'Toole was elected to the Assembly in 1995 and re-elected five times. He served in the Senate from May 2001 to January 2002, and was elected to the Senate again on November 6, 2007. O'Toole serves in the Senate on the Budget and Appropriations Committee and on the Senate Judiciary Government Committee. He also served as the Senate Minority Whip.

In January 2016, O'Toole announced that he would not seek re-election in 2017. In February 2017, Governor Chris Christie nominated him to a six-year term on the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to succeed Pat Schuber. The State Senate confirmed his nomination in March 2017, though O'Toole indicated that it would take a few months to wrap up his time in the Senate before he took office as a commissioner.

O'Toole resigned from the State Senate on July 1, 2017, to begin his term as Port Authority commissioner. The following month, he was selected as the chairman of the agency's Board of Directors by his fellow commissioners, succeeding John J. Degnan, who had served in that position since July 2014.

Early life and career
O'Toole was born in Cedar Grove, New Jersey to an Irish American father and Korean mother who met during the Korean War. He graduated from Cedar Grove High School and earned a B.A. in Political Science / Public Administration and a J.D. in 1989 from Seton Hall University. He later passed the bar exam in 1989 and served a clerkship in the office of the State Attorney General. At the age of 25, O'Toole began his political career by serving on the Cedar Grove Township Council from 1989 to 1996. He was elected as its Mayor from 1990 to 1991, 1993 to 1994 and from 1995 to 1996. O'Toole was later elected as Chairman of the Essex County Republican Committee from 1997 to 2011. He replaced incumbent Chair Jeanne Parke.

In 1995, O'Toole was elected to the General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey State Legislature, representing the 21st Legislative District. He was appointed as the Assembly's Deputy Republican Leader from 2004 to 2008 and was the Assistant Majority Leader from 1998 to 2001. O'Toole was briefly appointed to the State Senate in 2001, where he served for eight months before redistricting forced him into a different legislative district.

In 2007, O'Toole defeated Democrat John Zunic to win election to the New Jersey Senate seat in the 40th District, filling the seat vacated by Henry McNamara, a fellow Republican who had represented the district since 1985. O'Toole's running mates David C. Russo and Scott Rumana also won election.

After his brother's death in 2011, O'Toole retired from his position as Chairman of the Essex County Republican Committee and recommended that County Party Executive Director Al Barlas from Bloomfield succeed him. Barlas serves as O'Toole's Chief of Staff.

By profession, O'Toole is an attorney with the firm of O'Toole Fernandez Weiner Vanlieu LLC. Senator O'Toole and his wife, Bethany, have two children, Kevin Jr. and Ryan Marie.

State legislator
O'Toole has sponsored laws to reform welfare, strengthen domestic violence statutes, increase penalties on businesses and individuals who engage in discrimination, mandate insurance coverage for mammography and for treatment of breast and cervical cancer, preserve the state's drinking water supply through the preservation of Sterling Forest, and create more government transparency. In the state legislature, O'Toole has been a proponent of ethics reform in New Jersey government. He was the original sponsor of legislation creating pension reform in New Jersey. He has sponsored legislation to streamline government, promote education, protect the environment, and lower property taxes. O'Toole was one of the primary sponsors of pre-paid college education expense program (529 college savings plan) and legislation that would prohibit campaign contributions from vendors who have government contracts.

In 2013, O'Toole challenged Thomas Kean Jr. for the leadership of Republicans in the Senate. O'Toole was backed by Governor Chris Christie, reportedly because of disagreements with Kean in regards to strategy during the elections that year, where no gains occurred during the Senate elections despite Christie winning re-election with over 60% of the vote. Kean held on to his position of Senate Minority Leader in a 10–6 caucus vote. In the following session, Kean removed O'Toole from his position as Minority Whip.

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Talk:Jan Henryk Dombrowski

Merge
This article should be merged with Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. Appleseed 19:08, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UN Convention on Migrants Rights

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UN Convention on Migrants Rights
Resolved. See Talk:United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. BD2412 talk 19:42, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Song of Moses

The Song of Moses is the name sometimes given to the poem which appears in Deuteronomy of the Hebrew Bible, which according to the Bible was delivered just prior to Moses' death on Mount Nebo. Sometimes the Song is referred to as Deuteronomy 32, despite the fact that Deuteronomy chapter 32 contains nine verses (44–52) which are not part of the Song.

Most scholars hold that it was composed between the tenth and eighth centuries BCE, although dates as early as the twelfth century or as late as the fifth have been proposed.

Biblical narrative
According to verses 16–18 of Deuteronomy 31, YHVH met with Moses and his nominated successor Joshua at the "tabernacle of meeting" and told them that after Moses' death, the people of Israel would renege on the covenant that YHVH had made with them, and worship the gods of the lands they were occupying. YHVH told Moses to write down the words of a song and teach it to the community, so that it would be a "witness for Me against the children of Israel." Verse 22 states that Moses did as he had been instructed, and in verse 30 he then "spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended".

The Song opens with an exordium (verses 1–3) in which heaven and earth are summoned to hear what the poet is to utter. In verses 4–6 the theme is defined: it is the rectitude and faithfulness of YHVH toward His corrupt and faithless people. Verses 7–14 portray the providence which conducted Israel in safety through the wilderness and gave it a rich and fertile land. Verses 15–18 are devoted to Israel's unfaithfulness and lapse into idolatry. This lapse had compelled YHVH to threaten it (verses 19–27) with national disaster and almost with national extinction. Verses 28–43 describe how YHVH has determined to speak to the Israelites through the extremity of their need, to lead them to a better mind, and to grant them victory over their foes.

In a Torah scroll the song is written with a special layout, in two parallel columns.

Critical view
The parallelism is unusually regular.

The general plan of the poem resembles that of Psalm 78, 105, and 106, and the prose of Ezekiel 29, as well as the allegories of Ezekiel 26 and 33.

The poem opening verse is also echoed in the opening of Isaiah.

Scholarly views
According to the modern documentary hypothesis the poem was an originally separate text that was inserted by the deuteronomist into the second edition (of 2), of the text which became Deuteronomy (i.e., was an addition in 'Dtr2').

The poem, cast partly in the future tense, describes how Yahweh is provoked into punishing the Israelites due to their apostasy, resulting in the Israelites being destroyed. Dtr2 is believed to have been produced as a reaction to the Kingdom of Judah being sent into its Babylonian exile, and thus to Dtr1's (the hypothesised first edition of Deuteronomy) positive outlook, and suggestion of an upcoming golden age, being somewhat no longer appropriate. Consequently, the poem fits the aim of Dtr2, in retroactively accounting for Israel's misfortune, and, indeed, may have been composed at a similar time.

Though both Jewish and Christian sources have traditionally attributed the Song to Moses, the conditions presupposed by the poem render the Mosaic authorship of it impossible according to critical commentary. The Exodus and the wilderness wanderings lie in the distant past. The writer's contemporaries may learn of them from their fathers (verse 7). The Israelites are settled in Canaan (verses 13–14); sufficient time has passed for them not only to fall into idolatry (verses 15–19), but to be brought to the verge of ruin. They are pressed hard by heathen foes (verse 30); but Yahweh promises to interpose and rescue his people (verses 34–43).

Dating the Song
There are differences of opinion as to precisely when and by whom the song was written. George E. Mendenhall from the University of Michigan assigns it to the period just after the defeat of the Israelite militia at the battle of Eben-Ezer, and its authorship to the prophet Samuel:

 * "The poem cannot have originated at any time than after the destruction of Shiloh" and "... there is an impressive number of linguistic correlations in this text with the language and idioms of the syllabic texts from Byblos; those correlations also cluster around Exodus 15, Judges 5, Deuteronomy 33, and Genesis 49".

When all of Deuteronomy 31:14–23 was referred to JE, the poem was believed to be anterior thereto, and was believed to be contemporary with the Assyrian wars under Jehoash and Jeroboam II (c. 780 BCE). To this period it is referred by August Dillmann, Schrader, Samuel Oettli, Heinrich Ewald, Adolf Kamphausen and Edouard Guillaume Eugène Reuss. Kuenen and Driver, who believe that the expression "those which are not a people" in verse 21 refers to the Assyrians, assign the poem to the age of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (c. 630 BCE); while Cornill, Steuernagel, and Bertholet refer it to the closing years of the Exile, i.e., the period of the second Isaiah.

Similarity to other places in the Old Testament
Isaiah 1:2 begins similar to Deuteronomy 32:1 by calling on heaven and earth as witnesses, making Isaiah's introduction in the style of the Song of Moses.

Psalm 50 in Psalm 50:1 and Psalm 50:4 will also begin the same as Deuteronomy 32:1, making that Psalm poetically also in the style of the Song of Moses.

Musical settings

 * Disambiguation; for Cantemus Domino see Song of the Sea.

 * Audite cæli quæ loquor, grand motet, S.7 by Michel Richard Delalande.
 * Audite caeli by Francesco Provenzale.

Both Songs of Moses, as with Habakkuk 3 (Domine Audivi), and 1 Samuel 2 (Exultavit Cor Meum) are counted as canticles in church use.

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Leabharcham

Leabharcham was charged by the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa with nursing Deirdre in seclusion until the girl was old enough to be his bride, after it was prophesied at Deirdre's birth: "The infant shall be fairest among the women of Ireland and shall wed a king but because of her shall death and ruin come upon the province of Ulster."

When the time came for Deirdre to wed the king, Leabharcham, having raised and educated the beautiful maiden, dutifully returned her surrogate daughter to Conchobar's court at Emain Macha (now Navan Fort, county Armagh). There the old poet unwittingly helped fulfill the druid Cathbad's prophecy by providing Deirdre with information about Naoise, being asked by the prospective queen to identify a handsome young warrior, "his hair like the raven's wing, his cheek the hue of blood and skin as white as snow". With Naoise, a hunter and singer at Conchobar's court, and his two brothers, Deirdre escaped to Alba (Scotland). Years later, when the young lovers were tricked into returning to Ulster, the king sent for Leabharcham to discover whether or not Deirdre was still the fairest woman in Ireland. Leabharcham, in an effort to protect Deirdre, and discourage the bitter old king from taking vengeance against Naoise, reported back to Conchobar that she had lost all of her beauty. Only after the king sent a second spy did battle break out, ending tragically with the death of Naoise and his brothers and the king's seizure of Deirdre, who leaped out of a carriage after word of her arranged marriage was given, and burst her head into fragments.

She appears as "Lavarcham" in Synge's 1910 play Deirdre of the Sorrows. Her character delivers the last line of the play: "Deirdre is dead, and Naisi is dead; and if the oaks and stars could die for sorrow, it's a dark sky and a hard and naked earth we'd have this night in Emain."

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Talk:EMD GP35

Demonstrators and others
EMD Demonstrator GP35s #5652 and 5654 were built in July and August of 1963 respectively. These two units were part of the GP35/DD35/DD35/GP35 Demonstrator set for Union Pacific. Production of GP35s started in October 1963 with Atlantic Coast Line #909-914. EMD Demonstrator #5661 was RE# 1964 to NYC #6155.

See http://community-.webtv.net/ajkristopans/ROADSWITCHERS567/ for serial numbers and production data. --SSW9389 00:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)]]

There were two L&N GP35 #1101s. The first was built in February 1964 as EMD Serial #28656 on EMD Order #5664. The second L&N 1101 was built in March 1965 on EMD Order #8071. Sources conflict on the serial number of this second #1101. One source has it as Serial #28656 and another source has it as Serial #30260. Both sources agree that it was a wreck rebuild. --SSW9389 20:40, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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Collier Twentyman Smithers

Collier Twentyman Smithers (1867 – 7 December 1943) was a portrait, figure and rustic painter. He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Arthur Edward Smithers, a banker.

In 1892 Smithers was living at 5 Primrose Hill Studios off Fitzroy Road, north London. This may account for his stylistic similarity to John William Waterhouse, who also lived at Primrose Hill Studios.

From 1892 to 1936 he exhibited at the Royal Academy; the Royal Society of British Artists, Birmingham; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; New Gallery; and the Royal Hibernian Academy and his work received popular reviews. He was a Freeman of the City of London, being admitted to the Worshipful Company of Turners in 1893.

He died in 1943 at 36 Roland Gardens, London.

Paintings

 * R. Norman Shaw, Esq., R.A.—1892
 * Surg.-Lieut. Leopold Hudson, Duke of Cambridge's Hussars—1894
 * A Race with Mermaids and Tritons—1895
 * The Theft of the Princess's Swan Skin—1896
 * Angel of Fortune—1901
 * Walking up grouse (photogravure)—1904
 * Portrait of Joan Helen Furneaux Dawson—1913
 * The princess permits—1915
 * Portrait of Adam Alexander Dawson—1918

title: Collier Twentyman Smithers