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Wikipage
Good job on assembling this page and connecting related company pages. Christopher Mahan 23:56, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * This appears to be fixed as per http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3ALogo_s.gif&diff=196751047&oldid=196749836 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.110.109.30 (talk) 10:16, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Subsidiaries
The list has been tidied up, whilst someone put in a lot of time + effort many years ago, the list was too long, very clumsy + had no sources. Devoke water  13:23, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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Surrender of Japan
user:Wwoods wrote most of this, with Taku and myself making some minor tweaks. I think it's a wonderfully well-written article. →Raul654 23:56, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Object.
 * The image Image:Hiro2.jpg has no source or copyright information.
 * Some other minor points: The intro says the day is called "Shusen-kinenbi" in Japan. What does that mean in English?  Also, IIRC, the last military action of the US against Japan was a thousand-aircraft bombing raid after the decision to surrender was made, but before the Emperor made his broadcast.  I see no mention of this in the article.
 * --Carnildo 00:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Erm, I could be wrong, but thousand-bomber raids were confined to the European theatre of operations. The pacific saw smaller raids of B-29s flying much longer distances. You might be thinking of the Tokyo firebombing (consisting of 330 bombers on March 9-10, 1945) →Raul654 00:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I found the reference I was looking for. It was a raid targeting eight cities, carried out by 800 bombers and 200 fighters. I've added it to the article. --Carnildo 05:53, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object, from a preliminary scan (1) no cats (2) ex link not not descriptive (or realted? It's a blog) (3) no ex or wikisource links to the source documents which are heavily quoted from (4) There should be a summary section at the end to better lead into Occupied Japan putting the surrender in context with what followed, main link should probably also be made more obvious for the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (5) Are all quotes in MoS sytle- the indentation seems to switch around, as do the quotation marks.--nixie 02:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object – seems more like an anthology of quotes rather than brilliant prose. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  04:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object – too many quotations, and not enough prose between them. Potsdam Declaration, for example. Decide which quotes are unnecessary and reword them as general statements. KingTT 05:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:Ababyseal

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. --fvw *  23:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --fvw *  00:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wilmington Hundred

Wilmington Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly, and while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, they presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographical point of reference.

Boundaries and Formation
Wilmington Hundred is that portion of New Castle County that surrounds the confluence of the Christiana River, and Brandywine Creek, where they enter the Delaware River, and is one and the same as the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington. It was formed from Christiana Hundred, Brandywine Hundred and New Castle Hundred in 1855 and was named for the city of Wilmington, under which name the entire area is incorporated.

Development
Wilmington Hundred has been a fully urbanized area since the late 19th century, including residential, commercial, and industrial areas.

Geography
The important geographical features are the Christiana River, Brandywine Creek, and the Delaware River, which forms its eastern boundary. It is in the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions with several low hills overlooking the Delaware River. The Fall Line cuts through the hundred.

Transportation
Important roads include portions of Interstate 95, Interstate 495, U.S. Route 202, Market Street (U.S. Route 13), which is the old main highway between Philadelphia, Wilmington and Dover, Concord Avenue (Delaware Route 202), and the old main highway between Wilmington and Baltimore, now Maryland Avenue (Delaware Route 4). A portion of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, subsequently the main north–south line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, and a portion of the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX Transportation's Philadelphia Subdivision, both cross through Wilmington.

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Enide

Enide (Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance. She is married to Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, and to Geraint in the Welsh romance of Geraint and Enid analogous to Chrétien's version. Some scholars believe the French and Welsh tales derive from a lost common source, but it seems more likely Geraint derives directly or indirectly from Erec, though Chrétien may have had a Welsh or Breton source.

In the common story, Enide and her lover meet while the hero is on a mission to defeat a cruel knight, and her family provides him with armor and food. They fall in love and marry, but the hero begins to forsake his social and chivalric duties for domestic bliss. Rumors spread, and Enide blames herself. One night, her husband overhears her crying about damaging his reputation.

In Chrétien's version, Erec begins to question Enide's love, but in Geraint the protagonist misunderstands her sobs and thinks she has been unfaithful to him. In both romances, the hero makes her accompany him on a long and dangerous trip, and forbids her to talk to him. Enide ignores this command several times to warn her husband of impending danger. Over the course of the trip, Erec/Geraint proves his abilities as a knight have not faded and accepts that Enide's love and loyalty are genuine, and the couple is reconciled.

In Geraint and Enid, Enid's father is Yniol, an earl who was ousted from his earldom by his nephew Yder, the "Knight of the Sparrow-Hawk". Yder is compelled to restore his land when bested by Geraint.

This tale was not retold in many variants. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, the hero is named Geraint, and Tennyson conforms to that version of the tale.

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Taylor Slough

Taylor Slough, located in the southeastern corner of the Florida Everglades, along with the much larger Shark River Slough farther to the west, are the principal natural drainages for the freshwater Everglades and the essential conduit for providing overland freshwater to Florida Bay.

Description
Taylor Slough is a 247 square kilometer wetland system. The slough stretches from the east everglades, to the northern portion of Florida Bay. In its natural form, Taylor Slough is the primary source of overland, freshwater flow into the north eastern part of Florida Bay. A major portion of the Taylor Slough resides in Everglades National Park. Taylor Slough crosses over part of the C-111 basin.

History
The term slough (pronounced slew) is used to describe areas of the Everglades where there is slightly deeper water than in the surrounding marshes and where a slow, but measurable, current is present. In essence, sloughs are the broad, shallow rivers of the Everglades. Sloughs occupy areas of slight depressions in the limestone bedrock underlying south Florida and generally remain wet during the seasonal dry period (November to May). Sloughs are important refuges for aquatic wildlife during these dry periods.

Dredging
The famous Anhinga Trail in the eastern section of Everglades National Park leads into a section of the Taylor Slough that was further deepened during the construction of the old Ingraham Highway from Florida City to Flamingo, Florida.

Animals
Most animals can be found in Taylor Slough in the dry season.

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Manuel Camacho Solís

Víctor Manuel Camacho Solís (March 30, 1946 – June 5, 2015) was a Mexican politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas. Born in Mexico City to Manuel Camacho López and Luz Solís, he belonged to the Frente Amplio Progresista. At first he was affiliated with the PRI, later with the Party of the Democratic Center and then with the Party of the Democratic Revolution.

Political career
Camacho Solís joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1965, and in 1988 he became that party's general secretary. Camacho met Carlos Salinas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where they became close friends. Camacho followed Salinas's trajectory in the Planning Ministry under the administration of Miguel de la Madrid. In 1985 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1986 he was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Urban Development. When Salinas took over the presidency in 1988, Camacho was appointed Head of Government of the Federal District (1988–1993), an important political post with jurisdiction over the nation's capital. In 1997, the post became elective. He was a contender within the PRI to be the presidential candidate, but Salinas chose Colosio instead. Salinas told Camacho that he would be appointed the Head of Government of the Federal District, a powerful post, but Camacho sought to be Minister of the Interior. Before he accepted the appointment, he made demands: complete control of the district attorney's office and the police, the right to participate in political reforms, and complete authority over the city, which Salinas acceded to. According to political scientist Jorge G. Castañeda, "Salinas ... perhaps did not realiz[e] the danger of being suddenly left without an effective minister of the interior and with an overqualified mayor in charge of the country's main city." He became famous because he delivered 9000 millions (old pesos ) to Andrés Manuel López Obrador in order to take away the protest on the zocalo in 1992 in Mexico City. This money never was clarified by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he took the decision for the final destination for this money.

The Zapatista uprising
On November 13, 1993, Camacho was designated Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Due to the Zapatista uprising, Luis Donaldo Colosio's assassination in March 1994, and Camacho's failed attempt to clinch the party's presidential nomination, Camacho broke with the PRI. The complicated relationship between Camacho, Salinas, Colosio and Ernesto Zedillo (who was selected to replace Colosio as the PRI's presidential candidate) was the source of many rumors surrounding Colosio's assassination. Salinas appointed Camacho as the negotiator for the government in peace talks with the Zapatistas. He resigned as Chiapas Peace Commissioner on 16 June 1994 claiming that the PRI presidential candidate, Zedillo, sabotaged his efforts.

Later career
During Zedillo's presidency, Camacho stayed away from politics until 1999 when he announced his candidacy for the presidency for the Party of the Democratic Center, a party that he had co-founded with Marcelo Ebrard.

In 2003 he became a federal deputy in the Chamber of Deputies representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He was selected to serve as a plurinominal deputy through an indirect election. In 2012 he was elected to the Senate.

In 2004 he joined Andrés Manuel López Obrador's political campaign. He wrote a column in the Mexico City daily El Universal.

He died in Mexico City on 5 June 2015, after a long battle with brain cancer.

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Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive information to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Stephen Burnett 08:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Gonzalo Soltero

Gonzalo Soltero is a barely known underground Mexican writer, who has kept himself outside of the limelight and literary cliques. He seemed obsessed with conspiracy theories which plan to take over Mexico City, and then the World.

He graduated from the UNAM with a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies. He also studied the Diploma in Creative Writing at SOGEM and an MA in Creative and Media Enterprises at the University of Warwick. His first novel, Sus ojos son fuego, was awarded the Jorge Ibargüengoita National Novel Prize.

Soltero is currently working on his second novel, The Black Seed of Writing.

Books

 * Crónicas de neón y asfalto (1996, short stories)
 * Tocha (2000, children's story)
 * Sus ojos son fuego (2004, novel)

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User talk:Stettlerj

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WP:CP
Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:23, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Do Mennonites drive horse and buggy's? Scott 20:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Scientz here. Would you mind checking the argument at the bottom of Talk:Jesus regarding my attempt to create a page called Yehoshua ben Yosef. Just weigh in and tell me if I'm totally out of line here. Keep in mind, I haven't had a chance to finish the Yehoshua article due to constant deletes. 14:24, 1 November 2005, (EST)

odd page moves
Hello,

You made a rapid series of odd page moves of your own user and talk pages, and I blocked you. Can you explain what the purposes of those moves was?

To request unblocking, you can edit this talk page and add:

to it, which will alert other administrators. -- Curps 06:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, it was an indication that your account could have been compromised; someone perhaps could have guessed your password, or used your computer while you were away from it. So the prudent thing to do was to block.  I'll unblock (I hope I'm talking to the rightful owner of this account and not a possible impostor).  If you wish to change your username, you should contact a Wikipedia bureaucrat from the List of bureaucrats.

 * Simply moving your user page doesn't work, since a redirect is created from the previous page and anyone could simply following the chain of redirects. Also, simply moving your user page doesn't actually change your username; all your future contributions are still under your existing name. To actually change your username, contact a bureaucrat as described above. -- Curps 03:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok. thanks.

Weavertown AM Ch
Thanks for adding to Weavertown article! EdK 00:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Stettlerj, thanks for your comments on my talk page. I generally agree with you. The Mennonites I have experience of don't shun, and even the Old Orders round our area are much more moderate than Anacapa would like to portray. I would recommend that you said exactly what you said to me on the Talk:Mennonite page. It sometime happens that an editor arrives at a page with a very fixed idea about something, usually based on a strong (but sometimes very limited) experience they have had. Helping them see the wider perspective is generally helpful. DJ Clayworth 17:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

French language
Stettlerj, je ne comprende pas is the only French I remember. Seriously, your last comment on Excomm discussion is in French. Is there some automatic translation or do you know French fluently?

Also while I am here I cannot resist commenting on DJ's comments above. His POV is his POV. He has no idea how I see things. My experience is much less limited that he would have you believe. As I hope you can see from comments on my discussion page I am quite able to see the big picture here. I detest this kind of covert relational aggression behind my back and I will call him on it. Please also back me by calling him on it and refraining from making or listening to personal innuendos behind my back. The place to discuss POV's is on the appropriate discussion pages right out in the open so no one's character or POV is assassinated behind their backs. This precise issue is why I fight so hard about Anabaptist shunning. It is vicious! NO offense to you or any other nice Anabaptist. So far you seem to being up front with us all. I hope to see that continue and I promise to respect your reputation too Anacapa 03:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Psst
I'm trying to build support for this nomination in its last few days. Please check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 20:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting Vandalism
Stettlerj, thanks for reverting User:Tremo5775's vandalism to the Mennonite and Daniel (name) pages. In the future, I'd encourage you to leave a signed warning on the user talk page. In this case the Tawkerbot2 had already left a message before the user made the changes you reverted. I went ahead and left a second message since I think its useful to have a human do it too.

In case you haven't seen them, the vandalism warning templates make it easy to leave a simple but specific message. Thanks, mennonot 16:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

thank you for keeping a lid on User:Anacapa.
i was taking a wiki-break for about 6 weeks and thought i was never coming back, but i did come back. it is clear that Anacapa is using WP to grind an axe and is using WP for a soapbox and WP needs more people to stand up to her so that her denial of such is not enabled. BTW, i like your userboxes. i think i might be 3 times your age, but you're cool by me. Rbj 01:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

also, just FYI, i noticed that you tried to attribute Anacapa's unsigned comments. there is a nifty template for it:

and it comes out: —Preceding unsigned comment added by UserName (talk • contribs) 03:40, 27 April 2006.

of course, you get the UserName and time from the history page and that might take some effort to figure out who and when they edited the unsigned comment. just thought you'ld like to know. Rbj 04:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I think when we stand up to Ana. it is the best way to handle her/him. After he/she started editing I stopped editing anything for almost a month and figured he/she'd have been kicked out, forgot about it by then. When I came back, I looked at how other editors handle her on the other pages and the only way to deal w. is by not letting ana. dictate. It is important that the information remain truthful, their are school children doing projects on Mennonites etc. Stettlerj 15:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Stettlerj, you normally don't have to respond on the talk page when someone initiates a conversation on yours. they normally should be watching your talk page until they think the conversation is "over". this way we have context and word flow.
 * BTW, i think your practical joke is a riot.
 * i was just examining the history of Excommunication and it looks like to did a decent edit to it that Anacapa wiped out. if there are points that you think should be wiggled in, do so.  also i invite you to clean it up.  as DJ or someone noted, there is entirely to much space taken for Anabaptists.  the only way i can think of to reduce space would be to remove the Amish, Menno, Hudderite subsections and do a brief description of the historical practice, what might happen in a "mainstream" church, and some mention of what some of these more fringe groups might occasionally do.  including the ugly.  do to the article what you think best.  the worst that can happen is it gets reverted, but not likely by me. Rbj 20:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Thank-you very much.—Argentino (talk/cont.) 18:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The Amish
Hi there. I have been working on the Amish article quite a bit lately, with the goal of getting it to feature status. You have provided a number of helpful comments, and I would like to encourage you to add more material to the article. Do you have accurate, recent population estimates? I enjoy editing the writing, but don't really want to go back to library and check out Hostetler's and Kraybill's books again. If you want to rewrite any parts of the article I will be glad to polish them. Thanks. Wachholder0 15:03, 1 June 2006

Rusty Plow Award
Thank you for your recent thoughts on the Amish article. I hereby bestow the Rusty Plow for your contributions. Wachholder0 02:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey
I thought I had a new message but then when I clicked it the joke article came up, that is funny. Seadog--fly on....littlewing 14:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Questions on Pennsylvania Dutch words
Hello again. Recently you answered a question about the word "Grossvatihaus" in the Amish talk page, a word which I believe I stumbled across on David E. Yoder's webpage. Would "Daadihaus" or "Grossdaadihaus" be a more appropriate or more commonly utilized term? Should we include both? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Wachholder0 14:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Amish Tax Burden and Benefits
I am curious why you detagged my request for verification of the statement in the Amish article, to wit: The Amish therefore likely pay more in tax than the value of the benefits they receive. This statement is by no means obvious, nor a commonly known fact. Given its shades of NPOV, and the fact that it is essentially empirical in nature, the statement must be verified before inclusion (on at least NOR and POV grounds). I am restoring the tag, pending compelling reasons to remove it, if those prove to be forthcoming. 64.5.98.6 23:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Withdrawn. 64.5.98.6 23:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't have any idea what you are talking about. Stettlerj 00:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

your user page...
... is hilarious. I love it. Tvoz 21:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Request for help.
I am requesting your help in making the Northkill Amish Settlement page more encyclopedic. Reidhoch 15:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Dutch
Hi.I noticed you wrote "see Don Yoder, Pennsylvania German expert" in an edit summary for that article on November 30. If you have a proper reference could you add that to the article to prevent further deletion. Thanks.--Caranorn 23:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Pennsylvania
Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:
 * Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
 * Join our mailing list
 * Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com

Thanks and I hope you join up!  Cbrown1023   talk   04:34, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Amish GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Amish and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are several issues that need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left this message on your talk page since you have significantly edited the article (based on using this article history tool). Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix with the assistance of multiple editors. I have also left messages on the talk pages of a few other editors and several related WikiProjects to spread the workload around some. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

April - National Contribution Month
Good day Stettlerj,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Amqui (talk) 00:47, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

New mailing list for Wikimedia Canada
Good day, this message is to inform you that Wikimedia Canada has created a new mailing list operated by Mailman. This mailing list is for all discussions related to the Wikimedia movement in Canada, in both English and French. Announcements from Wikimedia Canada will always be bilingual, but you are welcomed to discuss in any language of your choice. The old google group will be abandoned. To join this mailing list, please go to. To send messages to the list, write to general(at)discussions.wikimedia.ca. Also, please forward this message to anybody who may be interested. Thank you and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. JP Béland (WMCA) (talk) 14:04, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Archive - Through July 31, 2006 Archive - Aug 06 - Dec 08

Eh?
You said something about me "formally stamping my comment"... what comment? o.0 -Aguyuno (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC).

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandal on my talk page :D  Matt  (  Talk  )   03:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiLove

Jake Wartenberg Talk has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page! Cheers, Jake Wartenberg Talk 19:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Jason Chong
thanks for your help with disambiguating Jason Chong.

PabloZ (talk) 02:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Protected and unprotected DYK pages
Hi Vary, I'm not sure if you are still watching the ANI thread or not, so just so you know, I tried to answer your questions about DYK (and why the Next update page is not protected) here and here...I hope that makes things a bit clearer. Best, Polit i zer talk / contribs 06:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

page blanking is not always BAD, think before revert
When the only content author of a page blanks the content, it is considered to be a request for deletion, and should be dealt with by placing a ((db-author)) speedy delete tag, NOT by reverting, as you did at BrightHouse.

Please check edit histories before reverting, it only takes a few seconds using popups.

(please, no excuses about how huggle doesn't allow this or that, you are just as responsible for your script based (huggle/twinkle, etc) edits, as you are for your manual edits) Wuhwuzdat (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * For the record, the above is regarding a page that I deleted under G7 shortly after the revert in question. Lest anyone should think I don't follow up on script-assisted edits.  -- Vary  Talk

Proposed deletion of Velcro dog
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Velcro dog, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * dicdef of a slang term; no potential for expansion

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Psychonaut (talk) 13:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk page
Thank you for reverting it :D cf38  talk  19:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

fictional age regression
I admit I was just using an experienced guess when I told you to look, but i just now did find quite a few.DGG (talk) 04:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kevin Covais
An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Kevin Covais. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Articles for deletion/Kevin Covais. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:51, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

3R Warning
Please read the talk page of the article you are referring to. I AM attempting to resolve the matter peacefully, and you will see my post there pre-dates your warning. If you would care to participate, perhaps even to mediate the dispute, you would be welcome to do so. Rain City Blues (talk) 15:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Again, before you start throwing accusations, lets try to keep the focus on the topic, not on the people you disagree with. If the best you can manage is a personal attack, I'd be happy to bring in an admin that is not quite so biased to resolve the matter according to wiki guidelines.

About that revert . ..
. . . had to undo it. Crafty (talk) 15:12, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Discussed on ANI
Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents Ikip (talk) 15:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * He continues to make his assumptions on the ANI, and I continue to revert them. Ikip (talk) 16:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Over the line comments
That's not for you to decide. Step off.Rain City Blues (talk) 15:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Rjanag Conduct RfC
A Request for Comments has been opened concerning the conduct of Rjanag. This follows the suggestion of a number of arbitrators at the Rjanag RfA. I am contacting you because you previously participated in the underlying referenced Ottava Rima AN/I.

The RfC can be found here.

Editors (including those who certify the RfC) can offer comments by:
 * (a) posting their own view; and/or
 * (b) endorsing one or more views of others.

You may certify or endorse the original RfC statement. You may also endorse as many views as you wish, including Rjanag's response. Anyone can endorse any views, regardless of whether they are outside parties or inside parties.

Information on the RfC process can be found at:

 * RfC Conduct
 * RfC Guide
 * RfC Guide 2
 * RfC Rules

Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:10, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

The Holocaust
Vary, please don't make changes based on your preferences prematurely. There is no consensus for this at this stage. The discussion is ongoing. Thank you. Bus stop (talk) 19:06, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree, as I outlined on the talk page. And who said anything about my preferences?  I'm just trying to bring a discussion that hasn't gone anywhere to a close based on the opinions of those who have already commented.  I'd prefer to keep further discussion on this at the article talk page, thanks.  -- Vary | (Talk) 19:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert GAR
Stephen Colbert has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Thank you for the following answer in the help page. It helped me solve my problem:
 * I'd like to put a comma in the title of an article. Specifically, I would like to change the article Trinidad Sanchez Jr. to read "Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.", to reflect wikipedia's preferred practice. How can I make that edit? Thank you.Hammerdrill (talk) 16:27, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Try Help:Moving a page. The title you want to use is currently a redirect with no other edits, so you should be able to move it yourself (iirc). If you have trouble, let me know and I'll take care of it. -- Vary | (Talk) 16:40, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Now I have another question. The article on Mr. Sanchez has one category, American poets. When I click the link and try to find his name listed among the American poets, I can't find it. I think I must be doing something stupid, for which I apologize; but in case there really is a problem, could you please go to his article and click the category link to see? Thank you.Hammerdrill (talk) 22:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for dealing with the problem. It didn't occur to me he would show up under the "T's," but I see the sense of it.  You had to fix that with a template?  Do you mind telling me how to do it?  By the way, adding the Slam category was excellent.  Having written the article and given it over to the improvements of future editors, I shouldn't have the right to feel grateful, but I do.  Thank you!Hammerdrill (talk) 15:33, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Reagan on Prop 6
Thanks for correcting that part. I switched his position on the basis that the rest of the section appeared to imply that he was anti-equality. Total brainfart... I knew something was off. Anyway, thanks. GnarlyLikeWhoa (talk) 08:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Asperger's/Autism - Wikiquette Alert
My advice, from someone who started caring way too much? Stop feeding the troll. Thanks for the support though! :) Doniago (talk) 04:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Already said buh-bye to him after the first comment, but thanks. -- Vary | (Talk) 04:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The scary/funny thing is that he's still going. Heh. Doniago (talk) 05:10, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hah, let him rage, maybe he'll tire himself out. -- Vary | (Talk) 05:14, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Gotta say, though, carefully misworded comments like "A usercheck, whatever the guy called it." are a red flag; at first I thought he was just belligerent and a little clueless about how things work around here, but he's an experienced troll who thinks he's being clever, isn't he? -- Vary | (Talk) 05:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I suspect he'll find his way here at some point...after I thanked the Admin(?) who closed the merge discussion on their talk page, he commented as well. I suspect a block may be in someone's future. Doniago (talk) 05:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

twitter a reliable source?
Are you telling me that twitter is now an official reliable source? Off2riorob (talk) 13:08, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * There is no consensus there at all, there isn't even a head count. IMO such a weak situation will create a snowball effect where multiple comments are supported by unconfirmed claims on a site that has only recently been easily hacked to the detriment of comments relating to a bunch of politicians. Off2riorob (talk) 13:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. Per the current discussion on WP:RSN, as well as multiple past discussions, Twitter is acceptable as a self-published source per WP:SELFPUB, just like a blog or personal website, and an account that can be clearly linked to a subject can be used for basic biographical information on that subject as outlined in our policy on verifiability.  Obviously accounts with weak passwords can be 'hacked' easily, but that's true of any service that uses a password.  Please continue this discussion on that noticeboard or on the talk page of the article, and not here.  Thanks. -- Vary | (Talk) 14:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Arthur Firstenberg
An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Arthur Firstenberg. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Articles for deletion/Arthur Firstenberg. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to note my appreciation for being one of the people that helped to raise the quality of the Stephen Colbert article.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:56, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Vary,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar

Happy Adminship Anniversary
Wishing Vary a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 00:53, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 07:18, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 05:15, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — JJMC89 bot 00:08, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to return to active editing
Hello, Vary. I note that it's been some years since you've been fully engaged with the project and that some of your recent edits have been in response to the inactivity warning. I can see you make some solid contributions to the project years ago, including some RC patrolling with an early version of Huggle as well as in many other areas. I'd like to see you return. I've put together some resources at WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators that you may find helpful. I'm also happy to chat either on my talk page or via email if there's anything on your mind.

Best regards,  Uninvited Company 17:38, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Refund for Labster?
Hi, would you please restore Labster to Draft:Labster if it hasn't been by the time you see this? Both of the deleting admins haven't been active this year, but perhaps you get email pings for talk page messages. The rationale is at Requests for undeletion. Thanks in advance! EllenCT (talk) 17:04, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

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Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

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Alert Records

Alert Music was a recording, publishing, producing, and artist management company founded in 1984 by W. Tom Berry, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was home to Alert Records, an independent record label. The company has no current roster and has been dormant since 2014.

Past recording artists

 * Michael Kaeshammer
 * The Box
 * Roxanne Potvin
 * Gino Vannelli
 * Andy Curran
 * Johnny Favourite
 * Universal Honey
 * Eric Andersen
 * Michael Breen
 * Bündock
 * Crystal Pistol
 * Holly Cole
 * Kim Mitchell

title: Alert Records