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User talk:AllyUnion/Archive15

Archive for September 2005.

Botting
Thanks for your help with the Vote/Article conversion.

If I may be so bold as to ask something else... would it be feasible for NekoDaemon to occasionally look through a list of Categoryredirects, and move any articles in the redirecting category, into the category it redirects to? For instance, such categories as American painters and United States painters come in redundant pairs and all articles should be in either, not spread arbitrarily among both. Such cat redirs are generally instated by CFD consensus. Yours, Radiant_ >|< 18:03, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bot page
No problem, of course, although I'm positive there was already one on there. Rob Church Talk 08:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Requests for page protection
Since you're an admin, you can protect pages against vandalism yourself. Just press "protect" and add the template. Andre ( talk ) 17:58, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi. On the theme of above (in relation to USS Missouri (BB-63), make sure you do add that template so that people don't get a shock when they try to edit the page, and so that new users can understand why the page is protected (and if necessary, dispute that it should be). Slac  speak up!  20:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Sandbot
Whee... the Sandbot has a set of tools to play with. It can rake the sandbox for you now! --AllyUnion (talk) 18:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, glad to see it back. --fvw *  22:03, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Re: en:Wikipedia:Bots
As requested i've added my bot to the list. Mostly running interwiki's, but as it will not always be limited to that function i've placed it in the general 'bots with flag' section. CyeZ 13:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

HasharBot
I'm uncertain and unclear how your bot got a bot flag without going through Wikipedia talk:Bots, but it is required that your bot gets approval at Wikipedia talk:Bots before running your bot before applying bot flag status. I know that you might have added it yourself, as well intended that maybe, but I personally didn't see it, and I don't want you to get any trouble or problems when someone comes running up complaining that your bot is doing such and such when it shouldn't be. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:33, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I though it was on that page at a time :) Going to readd it. Hashar 14:02, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

me and my bots
I'm just barely around. I occasionally make edits here and there, but I'm not very active anymore. My bots don't work anymore either (probably), and I don't have the time (or inclination really) to make it work.

But, I'm the kind of person who gets bored with stuff and then goes back to it eventually, so I might do that. But I'll never write another bot unless a bot friendly interface for wikimedia is written because they'd make changes to Wikimedia and then suddenly my bot didn't work anymore, and that got frustrating. Kevin Rector (talk) 20:09, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Good points about the changing interface, that gave a lot of bot writers a lot of pain. But Media Wiki upgrades of the caliber of version 1.5 will not happen that often I think. Oleg Alexandrov 23:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

re: WP:GVFD
Good evening. I have been working on a top-to-bottom rewrite of the Guide. My goals were, in order, to:
 * 1) Reduce the size of the page
 * 2) Remove the references to "voting" and return the tone to one of discussion
 * 3) Clean up the order and flow

My current draft is 7 screens long (down from 13 screens in the "live" version. I think that I have kept all the relevant lessons, instructions and good advice.  I did sacrifice some of what, in my opinion, were rare or secondary situations.

Before I post this for wider discussion, I wanted to ask the opinion of a few people like you who have been intimately involved with the existing process. When you have a minute, would you mind commenting on the draft? Did I cut too much? Have I changed the actual intent of any instruction? Do you consider this better, worse or neutral? By the way, I'd also appreciate any help with format and clean-up. I'm getting bleary-eyed. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 01:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Bots
No, never used the framework. =Nichalp «Talk»=  04:11, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * I have both, but I can't access wikipedia through linux. So I use Windows. I think I do have the python framework setup files somewhere in an old CD. What should I do now. Install the latest one, or will the old version suffice? =Nichalp «Talk»=  04:18, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Forgive my ignorance, but what's CVS? =Nichalp «Talk»=  04:26, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

So I've got to download this: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93107&package_id=98691&release_id=261054 ? I can't private message you on IRC. I've got to register or something like that. =Nichalp «Talk»=  05:03, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Done. A series of files are contained in the zip. So what do I do now? =Nichalp «Talk»=  05:17, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. That will keep me occupied setting things up for a while. =Nichalp «Talk»=  05:25, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Wikifun
I would be interested in writing the questions but I don't know if I have time to really sit down and commit any time to it until next month. I don't know how quickly these usually turn around (this was really the first one I discovered) so just let me know if that's ok or if you want to go with someone else for some/all of them. ESkog 12:24, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm out for the most of September as well. But I think there is nothing wrong with waiting for October...  Grue  16:09, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Recategorization bot
Awesome. I updated the CFD pages to document this excellent contribution. Thanks! -- Beland 22:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Bot update.
Keeping you updated:
 * I have installed python.
 * copy the config.py to user-config.py, edit user-config.py to modify the settings to: I hope I did this correctly:
 * Made a copy of config-py and named it as "user-config.py" (should this be Nichalp.py?)
 * replaced the content of the file with what you mentioned on my talk.
 * 'USERNAME_HERE' : Do I have to replace this with "Nichalp" or "User:Nichalp"? (Currently used 'Nichalp').

 * In wikipedia.py: Do I have to replace the text of the file with the modifications you've done?
 * The customised script mentioned, where do I add it to? Do I append it at the bottom of wikipedia.py or user-config.py?

Thanks. =Nichalp «Talk»=  10:51, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've created a bot account User:Nichalp-bot. Have I to append the below text to user-config.py? =Nichalp «Talk»=  18:05, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

f = file('something.csv') text = f.readlines for line in text: items = line.replace('\n','').split(',') name = items[0] state = items[1] population = items[2] ..... =Nichalp «Talk»=  18:05, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Just in case:
I wrote a big paragraph on a peer review for your "Chinese Art" request. But when I looked, it didn't seem to be there. So just incase, I thought I'd put it on here as well, just to be safe:

 * Well I saw your request sitting there patiently, waiting for someone to look at it. I happily obliged. Well... My personal opinion is: The opening paragraph "Chinese art is art....etc", needs major reworking as it is both irrelevant in some places & confusing on the whole. It should either be deleted all together or start with a brief overview of the timeline of Chinese art or something similar. The content is very broad & covers a wide range of Chinese art. Some areas, such as performing Chinese arts, need a bit more depth & research to delve deeper into the subject. Some internal links need creating so that every red link is blue. I would also suggest some horizontal bars to separate the performing arts, sculpture, painting etc, areas more clearly. Although it may be a problem, I would like to see a couple more pictures towards the beginning, just to spice it up. But other than that, you could add a simple timeline to the begininning (E.G: ???? BC- This painter was born. ???? BC- This guy created this piece of art. ???? BC- This artist died. ???? BC- This city reached a golden age. ???? AD- This event influenced Chinese art.). I think the article is very well done, but with these & possibly a few more tweeks & adjustments, it will be a FA in no time. Good work. Spawn Man 14:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

That was my response. Spawn Man 14:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Bots
Hey Beland. I'm beginning to feel that it necessary for a group of people who are willing to commit themselves to review bot proposals on the English Wikipedia. I really dislike that I seem to be the only one handing down the judgments on Wikipedia talk:Bots. Such a group or committee should be formed of technical and non-technical Wikipedians who can determine whether a bot's usefulness is harmless and useful. While bots are useful on the Wikipedia, I do feel that it is the responsibility of the bot owner to maintain and check what its bot is doing and whether their bot is doing the job correctly. Failure to do so, to me, violates the harmless and useful part. Non-technical members of such a community is necessary for the judgment of character of a bot owner and whether the bot owner is responsible enough to keep their bot well maintained. What do you think? --AllyUnion (talk) 05:51, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll add Wikipedia talk:Bots to my "actively monitoring" list and try to check there more often and opine on others' proposals. Actually, I've been meaning to go through the proposals there and archive resolved ones.  I added a link from "Things to watch" on Maintenance, and a link from the "Get involved" section of the Community Portal. I also added the page itself to Category:Wikipedia proposals.  Something could perhaps be added to WP:RFC.  If you'd like to make a list of active participants on Bots or Cleaning department or whereever, fine by me, and feel free to add my name.  But I've noticed that simply making a list of participants doesn't seem to keep people involved.  People (including myself) tend to forget they've signed up as soon as something else catches their attention.  And certainly adding a layer of bureaucracy that takes time to manage would only make the problem worse.

 * Personally, my watchlist is too big to monitor on anything but the timescale of months, but other people might be more active if they were encouraged to watchlist the page. Increased visibility may also help, by reminding participants that the page exists, and by attracting new participants.  Occasionally posting on the Village Pump or filing RFCs for interesting bots may help do that.  And certainly it's good of you to remind us bot operators on our personal talk pages of our civic duty to participate. 8) -- Beland 06:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Arilou screenshot
The game was originally closed-source, and although the code was released under the GPL, the art is still copyrighted and used by permission of the creators. Andre ( talk ) 22:46, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you very kindly for your support of my nomination. I promise your trust hasn't been misplaced; I will only be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0(scribble) 21:36, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

User:NotificationBot
Hello, AllyUnion. I've placed a message, cron, and user list at User:NotificationBot/Mind Benders and the respective pages. I just wanted to notify you and let you know, as it appears that I am the first to use this wonderful bot (thanks for designing it, by the way!) I only had a bit of trouble with the cron, but I think I've figured it out. It should deliver the message at 22:06 UTC time today. When I want to deliver a new message, all I have to do is to change the message and the cron, right? Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

User:SubstBot
Hi, thanks for offering your help. Right now I just started a new school year, and since IRC is blocked, my ability to edit Wikipedia has been limited until I can get a VPN working here. As such, my Wikipedia projects, including SubstBot, are on hold. Once I have gotten these things sorted out I would greatly appreciate if you would feel qualified and available to be my Wiki-bot guru, though. Thanks again --Ryan Delaney talk 22:08, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Bot help
I need to code a bot that basicaly coruires what my irc bot dictates. It is hard to explain here, please msg me on #wikipedia --Cool Cat Talk 19:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Done and placed in root. Whats next? --Cool Cat Talk 01:10, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

NotificationBot
Cool! Thanks for designing a wonderful bot! I think you enabled it or something, but it sent out the messages successfully. Will it be operational now? I probably will send another message in a day or two. Thanks for your help! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:08, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks for the info. Would you mind letting me know when it's back up again so I can notify the WP:MIND list about the round three opening? Thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:54, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

European Parliament in Strasbourg
Congratulations. Raven4x4x 11:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Kakashi Bot
This bot is making edits a little fast, I think. --Ryan Delaney talk 04:32, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

RE: FPC Bot
Thanks for that, I'll remember to tell you if it ceases to work for any reason. (unsigned comment from: Raven4x4x)

Bot request
Can you help me make Bot_requests a reality? Zach (Sound Off) 20:40, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Your view is requested
I am contacting logged-in users who have taken an interest in, or edited, Wikipedia_talk:Assume_good_faith, and asking them to respond to a question I have placed on that page which goes to the policy of WP:AGF.

Thanks in advance. paul klenk 23:49, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

More bot help
I made the modifications and am dealing with a few errors. can you catch me on IRC? --Cool Cat Talk 19:32, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Notification Bot
Hello, AllyUnion. Just to let you know NotificationBot didn't run yesterday; I think you may have been developing it but I just wanted to let you know. In either case, I've rescheduled the cron so that it should run today at 21:26 UTC time. Thanks for this wonderful bot; your work is appreciated! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Rewriting an article
A while back I recall you were involved in rewriting Star Trek. If completed I'm curious what you would have done to add that new rewrite to the main article. Would you just do a straight copy and paste or would you merge page histories or what? Just curious because a rewrite was done at Lost by a handful of editors and there seems to be (or will be soon enough anyway) a consensus that that version should replace what is current there and I'd like to know ahead of time how to go about this... properly. Thanks K1Bond007 04:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Notification bot bug
Hi AllyUnion, the notification bot you designed for User:Flcelloguy, ie. MindBenders, seems to have sent the latest message three times to everyone (for me at 06.19, 06.21 and 06.22 UTC). You may want to take a look. Cormaggio @ 09:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me - no problem about it. Cormaggio @ 22:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, I got the message thrice over as well. Just letting you know. Bratsche talk 12:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * As it did for User:Acetic Acid (at 06:19, 06:22 and 06:24). --Celestianpower hab 15:25, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * And me (at 7:19, 7:21 and 7:22) -- the wub  "?!"  15:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Eyjafjallajökull
Two in three days, well done! Raven4x4x 09:43, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

KnightRider bot
As requested in the edits that the bot was removing were reverted and the bot is working well since that. It was my mistake.

Now, the removes that the bot does are manual. The autonomous bot only adds or modifys the interwiki links from the es wikipedia.

I notified User:DrBob in. I will wait for your answer for turn on the bot.

Thanks, --KnightRider 10:21, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, sir. --Armin76 19:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Automatic Notification 20:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
This is an automatic sample notification from AllyUnion using NotificationBot. --AllyUnion (talk) 02:12, 9 September 2005 (UTC) Adding something hideous to try and screw up the bot, as per AllyUnion's instructions. Hm. . I assume recursive templates are handled, but we'll see. JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:52, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Automatic notification done by NotificationBot ((talk). To change, or remove yourself from notification, please edit this page.  Any bugs or errors, please report to bot owner. --NotificationBot 20:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

NotificationBot placed message three times on talk page
NotificationBot placed message three times on talk page. See this revision. Please look into it. — Ambush Commander (Talk) 21:36, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Unclosed parenthesis
Hey, AllyUnion, just wanted to let you know that your notification bot's message has an unclosed parenthesis: there is a left parenthesis before the talk link, and paired parentheses as part of the link. Just wanted to let you know! — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Cool Cat's bot
Hi, I have set the bot up with the code you gave me, it seems to be not working properly. I do not see whats wrong with the code avalible at: User:Cool Cat/Counter Vandalism Unit

Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "defcon4.py", line 3, in ? mypage = wikipedia.page(wikipedia.getSite, 'Template:Wdefcon') AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'page' --Cool Cat Talk 19:55, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Everything in Python is case sensitive. If you changed it to wikipedia.Page it should fix your bug. --AllyUnion (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I did that the updated code is @ User:Cool Cat/Counter Vandalism Unit/defcon4.py. I still get the same error message.

Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "defcon4.py", line 3, in ? mypage = wikipedia.page(wikipedia.getSite, 'Template:Wdefcon') AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'page' --Cool Cat Talk 22:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Congrats
Broken S 21:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

any more taft building images?
hi, i was looking for a few images of hollywood's taft building and think yours are the best so far... do you have any others that i may be interested in to drop into my site @ nine9design.com under the contact page? i know, after you see the site you'll wonder why i don't take the image myself? i guess it's because i just want to drop the image in now, instead of later! :)

thanks! celiece

Bot
Sorry for the delay in contacting you, but I'm still a little confused. I've archived the discussion at User:Nichalp-bot. Is my Current config correct? See here: User:Nichalp-bot. Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»=  14:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Defcon bot
Try this: User:Cool Cat/Counter Vandalism Unit/defcon.py. It's one file. --AllyUnion (talk) 19:50, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

...\wiki\Python24>python.exe defcon.py 4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "defcon.py", line 28, in ? mypage = wikipedia.Page(wikipedia.getSite, 'Template:Wdefcon') AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Page'

 * Still same error about "page" --Cool Cat Talk 19:56, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Um... you are downloading the entire pywikipedia framework, then merging the changes into the file called wikipedia.py right? --AllyUnion (talk) 21:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not know exactly what do you mean. Can you mail me the wikipedia.py file I should use, I am using the short code you gave me. --Cool Cat Talk 21:23, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Dandelion clock.jpg promoted
~ Veledan • Talk + new 00:03, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Taj Mahal in March 2004.jpg promoted

 * ~ Veledan • Talk + new 00:22, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

User:NekoDaemon
Excuse me. Why do all the edit summaries by User:NekoDaemon end in nyaa! ? RJFJR 01:52, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Because Neko is Japanese for Cat. --cesarb 01:56, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, I just thought it was more like a "ha ha I did it" type of response :)  ∞ Who ? ¿ ?  02:08, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Automatic deletion
Any page smaller than 15 bytes turns out to be people testing edit power, or genuinely vandalisisng wikipedia. There are two legitamate cases of 15 bytes.
 * #redirect[A]

So if #redirect or not present on page, delete. I already have my vandal bot identifying tiny pages. The community so far did not show any objections @ [].

So basicaly if the vandal bot requests a check the pyton bot will go to the necesary page and check if its either a redirect or a template, if not delete.

--Cool Cat Talk 02:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Whobot
Hi, I was wondering if I could request final approval and a bot-flag for Whobot. Had some downtime due to the hurricane, but have been running fine for the past few days. Thanks. ∞ Who ? ¿ ? 08:04, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Reset the sandbox
I like the new option of resetting the sandbox. I originally had the link go to a previous edit and then you had to save the page but with this new tool it's a lot easier now. -- Thorpe talk 11:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Nichalp-bot
Thanks. I've made the new file. Is it ready now? What is the Nichalp/sandbox for? =Nichalp «Talk»=  15:11, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

A bot for the reference desk
I would like to write something to help maintain the reference desk pages, specifically the archival of old questions on a regular basis. Could you point me in the right direction to get started with writing a bot? --HappyCamper 20:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I program for a living when I'm not editing Wikipedia :-) - Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, Fortran, and the occasional database stuff. At work, I shift between different languages often; based on the needs at hand. If there is a particular language which is well suited for bot writing, I'd be willing to pick it up. --HappyCamper 22:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png|left]] Thanks for your detailed instructions, they're wonderful! --HappyCamper 01:07, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

AFD bot removing "purge" template

 * Hi Ally. Your AFD bot is removing the purge cache template when it closes the current AFD day. Is there any reason why it can't leave it there? Paul August ☎ 00:34, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

On the request of Radiant!, it was requested for it to be removed. But frankly, I do not see any reason to leave it on either. Is there any specific reason you think it should be left on? --AllyUnion (talk) 03:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well if you don't purge the cache you don't see the previous updates that have been made to the transcluded pages. So, for example this can cause "double" closures, where an editor wil "close" the AfD even though it has been already closed. I've had to correct several of these recently. Is there some reason it should not be left on? Paul August ☎ 14:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, not really... just that when everything is closed, it is no longer necessary... The request has been changed in AFD Bot. --AllyUnion (talk) 15:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ally. Paul August ☎ 15:46, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Bots
Hey Beland, do you think there would be enough interest to start somelike like a WikiProject for bot programmers? Something basically we can collaborately join together somewhere, discuss ideas, help write bots together? --AllyUnion (talk) 04:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, we already have Bot requests and Wikipedia talk:Bots and Computer help desk. It seems to me like we don't really have enough bot programmer participants to justify spawning yet another bot page. -- Beland 05:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * True, but the matter is that we don't have a central repository of code where Wikipedians can edit code back and forth. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:37, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, that's an interesting idea. I've found wikitext (especially for bots that edit wikitext) to be a rather poor container for code.  I suppose the thing to do is to set up a cvs repository, or make use of an existing Wikimedia one. -- Beland 04:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't know how to set the scope of it for Source Forge... And this would give us an advantage for several users to change bot code.  It seems my code stays relatively static because no one else has the ability to really affect changes other than myself.  Sourceforge may be a good solution, but I think we might be able to use a Wikimedia server.  Maybe we should ask Jimbo?  I mean this more of a bot developer kind of thing rather than the MediaWiki software developer kind of thing. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I dunno; I tried asking for opinons on #wikimedia-tech, but no one replied. Maybe the best thing to do is to send your proposal or questions to wikitech-l. -- Beland 02:10, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

AFD navigation tool
Sounds like it would worik... and, as I said originally, it would be very useful in navigation. You're right that the current day would always display a redlink to the next day, but if commenting it out would fix that, all the better. My only concern was that it would cause problems with the "long list" which lists a whole week's worth of AFD at once. If there's no problem with that though and it's not too much teouble, I think it would be a Good Thing. Grutness...  wha?  07:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Kakashi Bot is adding the navigation table twice at the top of each VfD log
Maybe do a "reverse" table addition. Ryan Norton T 07:41, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I went ahead and killed the extra duplicate tables of the ones that were in my watchlist. I looked at a few other days too. Ryan Norton T 07:54, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reversing those :) Ryan Norton T 08:13, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

sandbox
Oh, I see you want me to move the stuff to subpages. Sure, I can do that :) Ryan Norton T 08:21, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah - I'm on the same time zone, but I'll be up for a couple more hours :) Ryan Norton T 08:28, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

AfD bot
Oh, really? I'm sure I've seen Uncle G's bot going around making daily subpages somewhere or other, so I asked him to do WP:CP too. If it should really be your bot doing it, for consistency or whatever, then do change it over. It doesn't bother me at all which bot does the job! -Splash talk 13:38, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Bot
User:Nichalp-bot. This is what I plan to do:
 * I want my bot to create new articles using the .csv info.
 * I also later plan to use the bot to add infoboxes to pages that are already created, using the same csv information (ofcourse with some additional details like location maps). =Nichalp «Talk»=  15:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I plan to add the text+an infobox to articles that don't exist. If the articles exist, I'll add just an infobox. =Nichalp «Talk»=  04:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Text

 * Text

//infobox template:India district infobox

The csv file that I gave you was pretty basic. In it I had also planned to add the fields such as "collector", "lat.", "long.", and "state". Can the bot calculate the "area_magnitude" (orders of magnitude) automatically? =Nichalp «Talk»=  05:13, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

 * if if the "area" is between 1-9 then area_magnitude=6; if the "area" is between 10-99 then area_magnitude=7 and so on... So in the above case "area"=2,996, so area_magnitude=9. =Nichalp «Talk»=  05:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Clarification
The line of text is: East Kameng,Seppa,57065,4134,14,AR-EK

The article would be at: East Kameng

The introduction text would be (and only applied if the article does not exist): East Kameng is a district in Arunachal Pradesh in India. It has an area of 4,134 km² and a population of 57,065 with a density of 14 per square kilometre. The town of [Seppa is the district headquarters.

Followed by the infobox:

And the infobox is applied to existing articles before the first section, I assume? --AllyUnion (talk) 06:45, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes that is correct. I'm updating the .csv file at this moment. =Nichalp «Talk»=  06:52, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

State,District,Headquarters,Population,Area,Density,Abbr,Collector,Lat,Long Arunachal Pradesh,Changlang,Changlang,124994,4662,27,AR-CH,Talim Tapok,27.12,95.48 Arunachal Pradesh,East Kameng,Seppa,57065,4134,14,AR-EK,Bidol Tayeng,27.3,93.1 Arunachal Pradesh,East Siang,Pasighat,87430,4005,22,AR-ES, M Ete,28.06,95.33 yes, the article will be at East Kameng. (the collector names and lat/long are made up, just an example to show you) =Nichalp «Talk»=  06:56, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * updated csv contents

 * The list of districts are given here: List of Indian districts just if you need to see it. =Nichalp «Talk»=  07:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:AllyUnion/Archive15


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Absolutely Sweet Marie

"Absolutely Sweet Marie" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released on the third side of the double album and Dylan's seventh studio album, Blonde on Blonde (1966). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. It was recorded at around 1:00 am on March 8, 1966, at Columbia Studio A, Nashville. Some commentators have interpreted the song as being about sexual frustration.

The song has received critical acclaim; Rolling Stone placed the track 78th in their 2015 ranking of the 100 greatest Dylan songs. Dylan first performed "Absolutely Sweet Marie" live in concert on the first night of his Never Ending Tour, in Concord, California, on June 7, 1988. In all, he has played the song in concert 181 times, most recently in 2012. It was later included on The Original Mono Recordings (2010) and alternate versions appeared on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 (2015). George Harrison performed the song for The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993).

Background and recording
Bob Dylan's sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited was released in August 1965. Bob Johnston had produced all but the first two of the six recording sessions, and was again the producer when recording started for Dylan's next album on October 5, 1965, at Columbia Studio A, New York City. Further sessions in New York took place on November 30, and January 21, 25 and 27, 1966. Johnston suggested a change of location to Nashville, after the January sessions were unproductive. Robbie Robertson and Al Kooper, who had both played at earlier sessions, were joined by experienced Nashville session musicians, including Joe South, Charlie McCoy, Wayne Moss, and Kenneth Buttrey, for sessions at Columbia Studio A, initially on February 14, 1966.

"Absolutely Sweet Marie" was recorded at around 1:00 am on March 8, 1966, during the 10th album session, that had started at 9:30 pm the previous evening; it was the only song played during the session. Dylan sang and played harmonica, accompanied by Robertson, Moss, South and Mac Gayden (electric guitars); McCoy (acoustic guitar); Kooper (organ); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Henry Strzelecki (electric bass guitar); and Buttrey (drums). A rehearsal was followed by a complete take; a false start; a second complete take; and a recording of part of the song (an "insert"). The session finished at around 4:00 am. The second of the complete takes was released on Blonde on Blonde, Dylan's seventh studio album, on June 20, 1966. The LP record was the first rock double album, and "Absolutely Sweet Marie" appeared as the third of five tracks on the third side. The first complete take was released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 in 2015.

Composition and lyrical interpretation
"Absolutely Sweet Marie" was written by Dylan in the studio. The handwritten lyrics from the session largely reflect the recorded versions, apart from several changes in the first verse. The original lyrics omit the "railroad gate" that is in the first line of the released version, and although the studio log shows the song listed as "Where Are You Tonight, Sweet Marie?", the line does not appear in the written lyrics or the first take. The song's bridge, which refers to a "riverboat captain" who knows the narrator's fate, is also not in the original lyrics, although there is a note that "they all know my fate". Oliver Trager notes that possible inspirations for the name of the song have included "everything from a type of biscuit to a famous carnival 'Fat Lady' to a popular nineteenth century song by Percy French... ('Mountains of the Mourne')". Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon describe the song as a "mid-tempo rock song", with similarities to a British Invasion sound. Buttrey's drumming features prominently on the track; organist Kooper remarked that "the beat is amazing, and that's what makes the track work".

The narrator of the song is imprisoned. In Vanity Fair, Mike Hogan wrote that the song was about "being at the mercy of a much stronger woman". Journalist Paul Williams considers that "the whole album is about sexuality and power", and names "Absolutely Sweet Marie" as one of several songs on Blonde on Blonde referring to "the power and confusion of sexual connection, the mysteries and frustrations and rewards of the sexual encounter (always tied up in the problem or fear of being misunderstood)". Critic Andy Gill and Trager both interpret the song as about sexual frustration, citing the lines where the narrator refers to "beating on my trumpet" after mentioning "it gets so hard, you see". Gill notes that images used in the song, such as railroads, had gained a sexual connotation in songs; "white horses" in the traditional "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain", and Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", are a "blues image of sexual potency". Scholar of English Louis Renza remarked that Dylan's song "unquestionably traffics in sexual innuendo from first to last".

The song features mosaic rhymes in the style of poet Robert Browning, and as used in some Tin Pan Alley songs. Scholar of literature Jim Curtis wrote that "Absolutely Sweet Marie" "has a five-line stanza which rhymes ababb, where the a rhymes are consistently mosaic rhymes. Thus, in the first stanza Dylan rhymes 'Jump it/trumpet' and in the second stanza 'half sick/traffic.'" Music scholar Larry Starr wrote of "Absolutely Sweet Marie" that it was "probably the most unconventional of the Blonde on Blonde songs from a formal standpoint". He highlighted how the bridge music features twice, with different lyrics, and a "sudden, striking beginning on an out of key chord".

During a 1991 interview published in Paul Zollo's book Songwriters on Songwriting (1997), Dylan gives an idea of how he sees the song in his explanation of a line about a "yellow railroad": "That's about as complete as you can be. Every single letter in that line. It's all true. On a literal and on an escapist level.... Getting back to the yellow railroad, that could be from looking someplace. Being a performer, you travel the world. You're not just looking out of the same window every day. You're not just walking down the same old street. So you must make yourself observe whatever. But most of the time it hits you. You don't have to observe. It hits you. Like, "yellow railroad" could have been a blinding day when the sun was so bright on a railroad someplace and it stayed on my mind... These aren't contrived images. These are images which are just in there and have got to come out."

The song contains the phrase "To live outside the law you must be honest". Jonathan Lethem points to a very similar line by the screenwriter Stirling Silliphant in the 1958 film The Lineup: "When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty"; without attribution, Lethem imagines that Dylan "heard it ... cleaned it up a little, and inserted it into" this song. This possible allusion is also noted by Trager.

Critical reception
The Sun-Herald reviewer gave a negative view of what they referred to as "pop songs" on Blonde on Blonde, mentioning "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and other tracks, dismissing them with the comment that "the fancy words are inclined to hide the fact that there is nothing there at all".

Dylan biographer Robert Shelton found the track "catchy and bright, sparked off by a great organ proclamation... The band's ensemble sound is tight, over insistent drumming." Michael Gray wrote that "the words are borne along on a sea of rich red music, bobbing with a stylish and highly distinctive rhythm". Gray praised Dylan's vocal performance as amongst his best, and regards the delivery of the line which concludes each verse as having "as much alert variety in delivery as would be humanly yet still felicitously possible". Trager wrote that the track is "an elixir to those who found Dylan's mid-'60s songs a bit dour... an exuberant, pure Beale Street, up-tempo skip complete with a slew of memorable lines that could be anyone's koan". A reviewer for the Runcorn Weekly News described "Absolutely Sweet Marie" as a "real gem". Curtis praised how "discipline and verbal mastery to create such stable structures for his startling imagery. The tensions between his surrealistic, unpredictable images and his traditional, predictable stanzaic forms produces [sic] the extraordinary effects to which we responded so intensely."

Rolling Stone placed the track 78th in their 2015 ranking of the 100 greatest Dylan songs, calling it "a cryptic love letter that rides a bubblegum electric keyboard and sparkling blues-rock guitar". Author John Nogowski highlighted the mid-song "wild harmonica solo", and rated the song "A". In 1991, Dylan said of the song: "It's matured well ... It's like old wine."

Live performances and later releases
Dylan first performed "Absolutely Sweet Marie" live in concert on the first night of his Never Ending Tour, in Concord, California, on June 7, 1988. According to Dylan's official website, he has played the song live 181 times, most recently in 2012. The track was included on albums called Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2 in the Netherlands and West Germany in 1967, with "Marie" wrongly spelled as "Mary" on the sleeve and label. The same spelling error occurred on other releases in varying formats of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2 in France, India, and Yugoslavia. The song was included on The Original Mono Recordings (2010) and alternate versions appeared on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 (2015).

Personnel
Credits adapted from the That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde book.

Musicians
 * Bob Dylan – vocals, harmonica
 * Charlie McCoy – acoustic guitar
 * Robbie Robertson – electric guitar
 * Wayne Moss – electric guitar
 * Joe South – electric guitar
 * Mac Gayden – electric guitar
 * Al Kooper – organ
 * Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
 * Henry Strzelecki – electric bass guitar
 * Kenneth Buttrey – drums

Technical
 * Bob Johnston – record producer

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Puplinge

Puplinge is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.

History
According to Pierre Bertrand, the village of Puplinge was part of ancient Burgundy and settled in 443 by 'le peuple germanique des Burgondes' The name of the village is derived from Old German and has since been modified to fit with French spelling conventions by adding an 'e' at the end. Bertrand further states that the names of the villages of Presinge, Puplinge, Corsinge, Merlinge, etc. 'tended to indicate an area of Germanic preponderance'.

It was part of the County of Geneva originated in the 10th century, in the Kingdom of Burgundy; in the domain of Aymar of Geneva, who married Bertha of Flanders, daughter of Baudouin III, count of Flanders, and died in 1016. The territory passed to the de Thoire et Villars family on the death of Count Robert (the Avignon Pope Clement VII) in 1394, was sold in 1400 to the Counts of Savoy. During the attempts by the Duke of Savoy to capture Geneva in 1602, Puplinge was part of the Savoy territory as an appendage as part of the Bailiwick of Gaillard. It was subsequently conceded to several Savoyard princes before being joined to the Duchy of Savoy in 1659.

Puplinge is first mentioned in 1573 as Puplinge.

Prior to 1860, it was part of the Ville-La-Grand commune of Savoy as the other half of Ville La Grand commune of France of the present times. As a result of the Treaty of Turin, signed on 16 March 1816, Savoy was annexed to France as agreed back in 1858 at Plombières-les-Bains dividing the commune between Switzerland and France and Puplinge was awarded to Switzerland along with Presinge. The duty-free zone north of a line defined by Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers, Le Châtelard, Faverges and Les Contamines-Montjoie created as result of the treaty ensured that the official French frontier was located a significant distance away from the actual frontier with Switzerland. Presinge, Puplinge and the hamlets of Cara, La Louviere, and Pesay Angle were combined to form a single municipality. In 1824, the first school building opened in the town.

In 1842, the first direct elections to the town council occurred. Due to long standing tensions between Presinge and Puplinge, on 9 November 1850 Puplinge and Presinge were split into two communes creating the present day borders of the municipality. The commune has swung between Protestantism and Catholicism based on the government in charge.

In 1924, the municipality received its coat of arms.

Champ-Dollon Prison
Approximately 1 km from the village, across the Route de Jussy lies the Maximum Security prison of Champ-Dollon, which is officially part of the municipality. It employs about 200 people and houses 500 inmates. It was built in 1977 to house 200 inmates. There are several controversies surrounding this prison. Over 60% of the prisoners are awaiting trial which has caused significant overcrowding. In 2006, the prison faced a mutiny of the inmates over the conditions as well as police brutality. Over 80% of the prisoners are of foreign origin.

Geography
Puplinge has an area,, of 2.66 km2. Of this area, 1.97 km2 or 74.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.12 km2 or 4.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.55 km2 or 20.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 13.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 0.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 59.4% is used for growing crops and 6.8% is pastures, while 7.9% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is located on the left bank of the Rhone river. This municipality borders Ville la Grand commune in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It consists of the linear village of Puplinge and the hamlets of Mon-Idée and Cornier. Apart from France, it is surrounded by other Swiss municipalities of Choulex, Presinge and Thônex.

The municipality of Puplinge consists of the sub-sections or villages of Dardelles, Champ-Dollon, Pesay and Puplinge - village.

Demographics
Puplinge has a population of. , 17.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.9%. It has changed at a rate of -7.8% due to migration and at a rate of 8.4% due to births and deaths.

, the gender distribution of the population was 47.3% male and 52.7% female. The population was made up of 771 Swiss men (37.9% of the population) and 191 (9.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 923 Swiss women (45.4%) and 150 (7.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 426 or about 18.9% were born in Puplinge and lived there in 2000. There were 688 or 30.5% who were born in the same canton, while 364 or 16.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 514 or 22.8% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 19 live births to Swiss citizens and 6 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 15 while the foreign population increased by 6. There were 8 Swiss men and 5 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 6 non-Swiss men and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 6 and the non-Swiss population increased by 11 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 66.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 8.4%.

, there were 1,010 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,030 married individuals, 62 widows or widowers and 156 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 820 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 237 households that consist of only one person and 62 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 837 households that answered this question, 28.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 196 married couples without children, 305 married couples with children. There were 72 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 17 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 154 single family homes (or 52.9% of the total) out of a total of 291 inhabited buildings. There were 100 multi-family buildings (34.4%), along with 29 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.0%) and 8 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single family homes 37 were built before 1919, while 7 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (63) were built between 1981 and 1990. The most multi-family homes (42) were built between 1971 and 1980 and the next most (22) were built between 1996 and 2000.

there were 836 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 271. There were 41 single room apartments and 215 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 802 apartments (95.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 24 apartments (2.9%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (1.2%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.23%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.27% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (20.19%), the LPS Party (17.53%) and the SP (15.76%). In the federal election, a total of 652 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.4%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,318 registered voters of which 598 (45.4%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Les Verts with 19.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the second highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Libéral (with 17.7%), they were first in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the MCG (with 14.5%), they were also third in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,314 registered voters of which 698 (53.1%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Puplinge there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,513 registered voters of which 756 (50.0%) voted. Out of the 756 votes, there were 14 blank votes, 7 null or unreadable votes and 56 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Local government
Like all municipalities in the canton of Geneva, the political authorities of Puplinge consist of an Administrative Council (Conseil administratif) headed by a mayor as executive and a Municipal Council (Conseil municipal), composed of three and twenty-seven citizens respectively, elected for four years. The local government is responsible for providing services such as primary education, social services, public transportation, and tax collection. The primary source of income is direct taxes.

Puplinge also has the distinction of being 7th in the country for the highest number of registered Green Party of Switzerland (PES) voters with 20.2% of all voters indicating their preference for PES in 2007.

The elections are scheduled once every 4 years. Swiss citizens and foreigners residing in the Canton of Geneva for eight years or more are eligible to vote. The current mayor is Michel Pitteloud and the Deputy Mayor is Gilles Marti.

Language
The official language spoken in Puplinge is French. However until the mid-17th century, Franco-Provençal (called Romand in Switzerland) was a common patois in the region. Vestiges of the Franco-Provençal language only survive in street names in and around the villages of Suisse Romande today. After the ratification of the treaty by the Duchy of Savoy on 4 March 1540 making French the only official language, use of all patois declined and survived only in agricultural terms and in isolated towns. Modern-day Switzerland does not recognize Franco-Provençal (Romand) as one of its official languages.

It is speculated that the Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times in this region. Very little is known about this language which is believed to have been Indo-European in origin.

Most of the population speaks French (1,877 or 83.1%), with German being second most common (99 or 4.4%) and English being third (75 or 3.3%). There are 30 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.

Economy
The commune is mostly a bedroom community for the city of Geneva with most residents commuting to Geneva and nearby towns. There is also a vibrant farming culture. The local vineyards produce grapes for winemaking at the Chateau Du Crest. There are no industries or commercial centers in the village.

, Puplinge had an unemployment rate of 3.1%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 12 businesses in this sector. 407 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 37 businesses in this sector. There were 1,120 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.7% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 448. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 26, of which 14 were in agriculture and 12 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 33 of which 10 or (30.3%) were in manufacturing and 24 (72.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 389. In the tertiary sector; 27 or 6.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 0.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 3.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 28 or 7.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 10 or 2.6% were in education and 3 or 0.8% were in health care.

, there were 323 workers who commuted into the municipality and 956 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 8.0% of the workforce coming into Puplinge are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 18.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.3% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 884 or 39.1% were Roman Catholic, while 433 or 19.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 18 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.80% of the population), there were 8 individuals (or about 0.35% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 31 individuals (or about 1.37% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 12 individuals (or about 0.53% of the population) who were Jewish, and 15 (or about 0.66% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist, 2 individuals who were Hindu and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 504 (or about 22.32% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 348 individuals (or about 15.41% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Puplinge about 703 or (31.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 482 or (21.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 482 who completed tertiary schooling, 44.6% were Swiss men, 35.1% were Swiss women, 11.8% were non-Swiss men and 8.5% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009–2010 school year there were a total of 452 students in the Puplinge school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 35 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Puplinge there were 71 students in kindergarten or primary school and 4 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 71 lower secondary students who attended school in Puplinge. There were 119 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 31 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 40 students attended a private school.

, there were 14 students in Puplinge who came from another municipality, while 222 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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Bell-cot

A bellcote, bell-cote or bell-cot is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells. Bellcotes are most common in church architecture but are also seen on institutions such as schools. The bellcote may be carried on brackets projecting from a wall or built on the roof of chapels or churches that have no towers. The bellcote often holds the Sanctus bell that is rung at the consecration of the Eucharist.

The bellcote is mentioned throughout history books when referring to older structures and communities. Bromsgrove church: its history and antiquities is one example which goes into depth about the construction and maintenance of the bellcote. Bellcotes are also discussed in The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 8 and Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural ..., Volume 29.

A bell-gable is similar, located at the apex of a gable or building end wall.

Etymology
Bellcote is a compound noun of the words bell and cot or cote. Bell is self-explanatory. The word cot or cote is Old English, from Germanic. It means a shelter of some kind, especially for birds or animals (see dovecote), a shed, or stall.

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Amidol

Amidol is a colorless crystalline compound with the molecular structure C6H3(NH2)2OH. It is a dihydrogen chloride salt and is used as a photographic developer. It was introduced as a developing agent for photographic papers in 1892. It is unusual amongst developing agents as it works most effectively in slightly acid conditions rather than the strongly alkaline conditions required for most other developers. As amidol ages it changes color to a dark red-brown. Developing dishes and equipment used to prepare amidol solutions are also frequently stained brown, a stain that is very persistent.

Prints developed in amidol are typically a very warm brown-black color, but overdevelopment can quickly lead to chemical fogging.

Amidol's color change upon oxidation is used to advantage as a convenient colorimetric method for measuring the dissolved oxygen concentration in water supplies, rivers, etc.

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Grant Thomas

Grant Thomas may refer to:

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 * Grant Thomas (footballer) (born 1958), Australian rules footballer and former coach of St Kilda
 * Grant Thomas (technologist) (born 1983), American technologist

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I have the permission from the biography writer Stig Jacobsson and his employer STIM/Swedish Music to use this biography on Ebbe Grims-land. L Haglund 15:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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I couldn't find any reference for his death. --Jetman 19:35, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Correct! Ebbe is still going strong. I had a talk to him over the phone today.

He came back from his summerhouse on Adelsö in Mälaren yesterday. L Haglund 15:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Died on January 26, 2015
Although I can't find any reliable sources to use as a reference, he has indeed passed away according to the Swedish population register.  O s c a r L  15:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Yes, Ebbe died on january 27, owing to "Skatteverkets personbevis", which I have on may desk. I´m unfortunately not able to complete his article with this (age, health problems), so I welcome anyone willing to help. Give me your e-mail address and I´ll send the paper above mentioned! Thanks on beforehand! Excuse my "Swenglish"! L Haglund (talk) 08:13, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Sanctus bell

The term sanctus bell (or sacring bell) may refer to:

 * A particular type of church bell hung in a church tower or bell-cot
 * The small hand-held altar bell (or bells) which have colloquially assumed the same name

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Gobowen railway station

Gobowen railway station is a railway station on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line of the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside via Birmingham Snow Hill line, serving the village of Gobowen in Shropshire, England. It is the nearest station to the town of Oswestry.

History
The station building was designed by Thomas Mainwaring Penson, and is a Grade II listed building. The station was built between 1846 and 1848 by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in a notable Florentine (or Italianate) style with white stucco facing and a small turret. The awnings and the footbridge were added later by the Great Western Railway (the footbridge was demolished in 1987). Although a very small village, Gobowen was the junction station for the much larger regional town of Oswestry some three miles away. When rail services to Oswestry ceased in November 1966, Gobowen was retained as the railhead for the surrounding area. There is a scheme in progress to open this branch as a heritage railway. Until 1967 Gobowen was served by the GWR, latterly BR Western Region, express services between London Paddington and Birkenhead Woodside.

Severn-Dee Travel was established in 1995 and managed by the late David Lloyd, who was also a keen campaigner for the restoration of a direct rail link between the area and London. Following his death, the Wrexham & Shropshire locomotive 67015 was named in his honour, and a replica nameplate from the locomotive can be seen in the booking office.

Future
Gobowen station may become the northern terminus of the proposed Cambrian Heritage Railways line to Llynclys, Pant and Blodwel via Oswestry. Shropshire Council was to acquire the coal yard at Gobowen for railway-related uses, including car parking for the station. If the plans are fully realised, the station would have three platforms, one of which would be for the Heritage Railway.

Facilities
The main building, which was renovated in 2005, is used as small business space. The booking office is now located in the waiting room on the southbound platform. Unusually, it is not operated directly by the train operating company but by an independent travel agent, Severn-Dee Travel. It is staffed on weekdays from 07:15 to 16:00 and on Saturdays from 07:15 to midday. At other times tickets must be purchased on the train.

A vending machine and disabled access toilet is located in the ticket hall. Train running information is offered via CIS displays, timetable posters and automatic announcements. Level access to both platforms is via the staffed barrier level crossing at the north end which is controlled from the adjacent signal box.

There are no waiting shelters, but canopies are provided on both platforms:
 * Platform 1 - For southbound services to Shrewsbury, Cardiff Central or Birmingham New Street
 * Platform 2 - For northbound services to Wrexham General, Chester or Holyhead

Services
, train services run on two routes:
 * Transport for Wales service from Birmingham International to Holyhead.
 * Transport for Wales service from Holyhead to Cardiff.

These combine to give a basic hourly frequency between Shrewsbury and Chester (Mon - Sat). Two early morning northbound trains terminate short at Wrexham General on weekdays (one of which connects with the Avanti West Coast service to London Euston), whilst one morning and one evening train start from there. Others at the start and end of day run between Chester and Shrewsbury only, though there is also one late evening weekday through train to Manchester Piccadilly and three that run to Llandudno rather than Holyhead (with one in the opposite direction). On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service (with occasional extras) each way, mostly running between Chester and Birmingham International (though there are three trains to Holyhead and two to Cardiff).

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Russin

Russin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.

History
Russin is first mentioned around 1100 as Russino und Rucins. In 1217 it was mentioned as Russins.

Geography
Russin has an area,, of 4.91 km2. Of this area, 2.63 km2 or 53.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.04 km2 or 21.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.67 km2 or 13.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.42 km2 or 8.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.19 km2 or 3.9% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 5.1% of the area Out of the forested land, 19.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 24.6% is used for growing crops and 6.1% is pastures, while 22.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 1.2% is in lakes and 7.3% is in rivers and streams.

The municipality is located on the right bank of the Rhone river. It consists of the village of Russin and the hamlets of Verbois, La Chaumaz and Les Baillets. The municipality of Russin consists of the sub-sections or villages of Molards, Russin - plateau, Verbois, Teppes-du-Biolay and Russin - village.

Demographics
Russin has a population of. , 23.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16.6%. It has changed at a rate of 14.3% due to migration and at a rate of 6% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (340 or 86.7%), with German being second most common (15 or 3.8%) and Portuguese being third (9 or 2.3%). There are 4 people who speak Italian.

, the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female. The population was made up of 182 Swiss men (38.8% of the population) and 59 (12.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 165 Swiss women (35.2%) and 63 (13.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 105 or about 26.8% were born in Russin and lived there in 2000. There were 123 or 31.4% who were born in the same canton, while 52 or 13.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 93 or 23.7% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and 3 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 3. There were 4 Swiss men and 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 1 and the non-Swiss population increased by 6 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.8%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.2%.

, there were 160 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 196 married individuals, 17 widows or widowers and 19 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 155 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 42 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 163 households that answered this question, 25.8% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 49 married couples without children, 52 married couples with children There were 8 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 77 single family homes (or 61.6% of the total) out of a total of 125 inhabited buildings. There were 14 multi-family buildings (11.2%), along with 23 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (18.4%) and 11 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.8%). Of the single family homes 32 were built before 1919, while 6 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (7) were built before 1919 and the next most (3) were built between 1961 and 1970. There were 2 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.

there were 162 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 43. There were 9 single room apartments and 53 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 144 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (6.2%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (4.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 56 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Heritage sites of national significance
The Campagne De La Grand’Cour is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.38% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (20.25%), the FDP (19.06%) and the SP (9.59%). In the federal election, a total of 152 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 64.1%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 265 registered voters of which 133 (50.2%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Les Radicaux with 18.9% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the sixth highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 18.2%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Libéral (with 12.9%), they were first in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 265 registered voters of which 162 (61.1%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Russin there were 9 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 324 registered voters of which 229 (70.7%) voted. Out of the 229 votes, there were 1 blank votes, 118 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Economy
, Russin had an unemployment rate of 3.2%. , there were 32 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 49 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 27 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 11 businesses in this sector. There were 204 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.2% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 91. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 19, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 48 of which 2 or (4.2%) were in manufacturing and 5 (10.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 24. In the tertiary sector; 8 or 33.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 41.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 8.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 12.5% were in education.

, there were 46 workers who commuted into the municipality and 131 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 15.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.4% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 169 or 43.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 86 or 21.9% were Roman Catholic. Of the rest of the population, there were four individuals (or about 1.02% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were six individuals (or about 1.53% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were two people who were Muslim, one who was Buddhist and one individual who belonged to another church. 92 (or about 23.47% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 31 individuals (or about 7.91% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Russin about 133 or (33.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 87 or (22.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 87 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.7% were Swiss men, 28.7% were Swiss women, 6.9% were non-Swiss men and 12.6% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 85 students in the Russin school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 4 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Russin there were 16 students in kindergarten or primary school and - students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 16 lower secondary students who attended school in Russin. There were 29 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 4 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 3 students attended a private school.

, there were 21 students in Russin who came from another municipality, while 52 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Transportation
The municipality has a railway station, Russin, on the Lyon–Geneva line. It has regular service to La Plaine, Bellegarde, and Geneva.

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The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 06:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

The determinist teaching
Non-encyclopaedic content. Reads like a how-to for... getting numerical meaning out of words? The Bible Code? I honestly don't know. Peruvianllama 21:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. If someone knows what this is, and can explain it to me, I'd be happy to change my vote and instead slap a 'cleanup' or similar tag on this article. Peruvianllama 21:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Peruvianllama. KillerChihuahua 00:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as nonsense (unencyclopedic, not patent), and context-free OR. MCB 07:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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World Surf League

The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world's best talent in a variety of progressive formats. The World Surf League was originally known as the International Professional Surfing founded by Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick in 1976. IPS created the first world circuit of pro surfing events. In 1983 the Association of Surfing Pros took over management of the world circuit. In 2013, the ASP was acquired by ZoSea, backed by Paul Speaker, Terry Hardy, and Dirk Ziff. At the start of the 2015 season, the ASP changed its name to the World Surf League. Sophie Goldschmidt was appointed as WSL CEO on 19 July 2017. Paul Speaker had stepped down as CEO on 11 January 2017, and Dirk Ziff acted as the interim WSL CEO until Goldschmidt's appointment.

As of December 2017, the WSL had more than 6.5 million Facebook fans, surpassing more established sports such as the National Hockey League, the Association of Tennis Professionals and Major League Soccer. Sports Business Journal reported that 28 million hours of WSL digital video content were consumed during the 2017 season, making WSL the third most watched sport online in the United States behind NFL and NBA.

In January 2018, Forbes reported that the WSL had signed an exclusive deal for digital broadcast rights, with Facebook, worth $30 million over two years.

Erik Logan, Former Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) President and Executive Vice President at Harpo Studios, was appointed as WSL CEO on 14 January 2020. Logan exited his position as CEO on 29 June 2023.

Predecessors

 * 1964 to 1972, International Surfing Federation (ISF) held the World Surfing Championships as a single event every two years and was open to all comers.
 * 1973 to 1975, Smirnoff World Pro-Am Surfing Championships, occasionally referred to as the de facto professional world championship. The International Surfing Federation had been unable to establish a format or sponsorship so no official amateur championships were held between 1973 and 1975.
 * 1976 to 1982, International Professional Surfers founded by Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick (IPS) was the original world governing body of professional surfing.

The predecessors of the WSL relates to what organization predominantly represented individual professional surfers at that time. This is an important point because the International Surfing Federation (ISF) still functions to this day as the International Surfing Association (ISA) and also refers to competition winners as world champions (or variants thereof).

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) took over administration of professional surfing in 1983 and crowned world champions until 2015 when the organisation was rebranded as World Surf League (WSL). The ASP/WSL has remained the predominant surfing organization and sanctioning body for professional surfers since its formation. The ASP's first world champions were Tom Carroll (men's) and Kim Mearig (women's) in 1983/84. Split seasons were held from 1983/84 until 1988 when competition reverted to calendar basis. This means that Damian Hardman and Wendy Botha were crowned ASP world Champions for 1987/88, while Barton Lynch and Freida Zamba were crowned ASP world champions for the (shortened) 1988 season. The first WSL world champions were Adriano de Souza (BRA) and Carissa Moore (HAW) in 2015.

In March 2015, WSL launched a free downloadable app, which garnered more than a million downloads in its first year. The app provides real-time updates on competitions and provides personalized alerts, letting fans know when their favorite athletes are about to enter the water.

In April 2016, the World Surf League introduced WSL PURE, its philanthropic initiative dedicated to supporting ocean health through research, education and advocacy. WSL PURE has contributed an initial $1.5 million in funding that will support scientists from the Columbia University Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, as they lead research into ocean health & ecosystems, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and the role the oceans play in climate change.

Equal pay for athletes in 2019
On 5 September 2018, the World Surf League announced equal pay for every female and male WSL event. CEO Sophie Goldschmidt said, "This is a huge step forward in our long-planned strategy to elevate women's surfing and we are thrilled to make this commitment as we reveal our new 2019 schedule...". The announcement prompted a conversation about equal pay for professional athletes and the world commended the WSL for leading the way. 8 x world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore said "I hope this serves as a model for other sports, global organizations and society as a whole. My fellow women athletes and I are honored by the confidence in us, and inspired to reward this decision with ever higher levels of surfing.".

COVID-19 impact
On 14 March 2020 the WSL cancelled all events "for the remainder of March", including the opening event of the 2020 Championship Tour (CT) on the Gold Coast in Australia, and the Papara Pro Open. On 16 March the cancellations were extended to the end of May.

More events were cancelled in January 2021: Sunset, the Big Wave Jaws Championship Pe'ahi, and the Santa Cruz Pro.

WSL sanctioned tours

 * WSL Men's Championship Tour (CT)
 * WSL Women's Championship Tour (CT)
 * WSL Men's Challenger Series (CS)
 * WSL Women's Challenger Series (CS)
 * WSL Men's Qualifying Series (QS)
 * WSL Women's Qualifying Series (QS)
 * WSL Men's Longboard Championships
 * WSL Women's Longboard Championships
 * WSL Junior Championships.
 * WSL Big Wave Tour

WSL Championship tour
Event winners win a total of $100.000. Total prize pool per event in men's competition is $607.800 and for women's $420.800, as there are fewer competition spots available to the women. Event results are converted to points and count towards the World Title Race, the surfers with the most points by the end of the season are considered as world surfing champions.

The Men's Championship Tour (CT) is the men's elite competition consisting of the best 34 professional surfers competing in 11 events (as of 2015).

WSL Qualifying Series events
Surfers who are not currently eligible for the Championship Tour (CT) events are able to compete in a Qualifying Series (QS) of events, earning points towards qualifying for the following year's CT. The top Qualifiers at the end of each season's QS receive invitations, with the exact number on invitations having changed slightly from season to season. Furthermore, if a particular CT event, in the current season, is short of CT competitors, the judges may choose to select from the then-current top ranked QS surfers to fill in for that event – though this does not guarantee that the QS surfer will be invited to other events during the current season.

A WSL QS 10,000 event is held at premium venues with a restricted field and offers WSL QS 10,000 World Rankings points.

A WSL QS 1000, 1500, 3000 event is a lower level of competition, compared to an WSL QS 6000 and 10,000 event, with their importance indicated by how many points they are assigned: more points means generally better competition and prize money.

WSL world ranking
WSL Men's Championship Tour and WSL Women's Championship Tour surfers accumulate points from each WSL Championship Tour and WSL Qualifying Series event they compete in which count towards their WSL World Ranking. Accumulated points are valid for 12 months from the final date of the scheduled event in which they were earned.

Promotion and relegation
WSL World Ranking determines the promotion or relegation of surfers.

2012 tours
The qualifiers for the 2012 ASP World Tour top 34 surfers was determined using a Rotation Points system.

The qualifiers for the 2012 ASP Women's World Tour was determined by a surfer's rank at the conclusion of the 2011 Tour. The top 10 re-qualified for 2012 and the remaining 7 places were taken from the ASP Star Ranking.

2013-2018 tours
The qualifiers for the following year's WSL Men's Championship Tour top 34 surfers will consist of:
 * Top 22 surfers from the previous season of the WSL World Title Rankings;
 * Top 10 surfers from the previous season of the WSL World Qualifying Series (QS) Rankings (those who haven't already qualified in the above) and
 * 2 WSL wildcards.

Judging
In contests surfers are scored on a scale of 0.1 to 10.0. These scores are awarded in increments of one-tenth. The following scale can be used to relate descriptions to the scores:

 * 0–1.9 = Poor
 * 2.0–3.9 = Fair
 * 4.0–5.9 = Average
 * 6.0–7.9 = Good
 * 8.0–10.0 = Excellent

Judging criteria
Judges base the score on how successfully surfers display the following elements in each wave: These elements may be weighted differently from day to day and event to event, depending on the surfing conditions and the type of breaking wave at each event location. These criteria are different from in longboarding competitions. All is focused on creating some type consistency that can be seen throughout the many different events.
 * Commitment and degree of difficulty
 * Innovative and progressive maneuvers
 * Wave selection
 * Variety of maneuvers
 * Speed, power and flow

The events themselves are previously declared QS 1,000 - QS 10,000 events; among other things this ranking shows how many judges are required at the event. QS 1,000 - QS 3,000 Qualifying Series events are required to have a six judge panel with four judges on each heat. A QS 4,000 - QS 6,000 Qualifying Series event requires seven judges with five on each heat. At QS 5,000 - QS 10,000 Qualifying Series events there are only allowed to be 3 judges from any one region. This is then limited to two at any world championship events. All events also require an WSL approved head judge who has the ability to make corrections to errors or any other events that may have affected the results.

Rules
There are many rules out in the water that all revolve around the idea of right of way. A surfer has the right of way if he or she is closer to the area where the wave is breaking, this is more commonly referred to as having the inside position. If another surfer takes off in front of the surfer that has the inside position, then interference will be called, and penalties will be enacted. In most circumstances it does not matter who stood up first but who has the inside position.

A surfer can also be found guilty of interference if they catch more than their maximum number of waves in a heat and that this takes away from the other competitors ability to catch waves. A competitor is also not allowed to interfere with another competitor's paddling and maneuvering for a wave.

The rules of right of way vary slightly with the type of break. Point Breaks will always have a consistent direct of what is inside, that is, the person further up the line will have right of way. In a single peak situation where there is both a left and a right two people are able to be on the wave at the same time, provided that one goes left and one goes right and that neither crosses the path of the other to go one direction. If this does happen then, the surfer who stood up first will get the right of way. On a multi-peaked wave where the wave eventually comes together, both peaks can be surfed until the surfers come together. When they do the surfer who stood up first has right of way, and the other must maneuver to get off the wave without interrupting the other surfer.

In a one-on-one competition, priority can be declared by the Head Judge. Once the person with priority has paddled for a wave priority is then turned over to the next person until that person does the same. The person with second priority can paddle for waves as long as it does not interfere with the other person who will lose their priority only if they catch a wave.

A surfer who has already taken off or obtained possession of a wave maintains this position until the end of their ride. If another surfer takes off on the inside of this surfer, then this person does not obtain priority and is considered to be snaking. If this surfer does not hurt the other surfers ride, then both people can be scored based. If the judges determine that the snaking did interfere then the person will be penalized. Interference penalties are called by the judges and must have a majority to be declared an actual penalty. Interference are shown as triangles on the score cards in various different ways depending on when or where in the heat they were made. If three or more waves are being scored than one wave will be dropped off the score card. If only the top two waves are being scored, then 50% of the second best-scored wave will be taken off. If a surfer has more than one then 50% of the best waves score will be taken off also. The surfer who has been interfered with will be allowed an additional wave to their maximum as long as it is within the time limit. If a surfer interferes more than twice in a heat then they must leave the competition area.

WSL Championship Tour champions
Annual Championship Tour champions, since 1964, as recorded by World Surf League and correct as of 8 September 2022.

WSL Longboard Championship Tour champions
Annual Longboard champions, since Men's event started in 1986/87 and Women's in 1999, as recorded by World Surf League and correct as of 5 October 2022.

WSL World Junior champions
Annual Junior champions, since Men's event started in 1998 and Women's in 2005, as recorded by the Association of Surfing Pros through to 2012.

Men's Triple Crown Champions
NOTE: Only one event of the 2020 Triple Crown was held because of the pandemic.

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Talk:Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus

2 Brutus
I'm confussed at how this Brutus could be in the times that are suggested here... This is linked from the Brutus that assasinated Caesar... if this is the case than this information must be wrong...?
 * Yes, the Decimus Junius Brutus who detained Mark Antony outside the Senate during Caesar's assassination was Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus; links leading here (and a quick glance indicates there are many of them) are incorrect. This article should probably be moved to Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus, and Decimus Junius Brutus can be turned into a disambiguation page for Albinus and Callaicus.  I can take care of that now.  Correcting the incorrect links, however, is a more in depth project.
 * Incidentally, you can sign your talkpage posts either by just typing your name or by typing four tildes (~) in a row. Binabik80 21:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Irrelevant and misguiding references
The references from Strabo, Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder bear no relation with the content of this article. These three authors were geographers, not historians. Therefore, in none of them there is even a mention of the name Brutus, let alone of him crossing any rivers. Pliny the Elder 4.22 does not even deal with Hispania, it is about Cilicia (in Turkey); book 4 covers the geography of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea, continental and northern Europe, not Hispania.

Strabo in III.4 describes Hispania only south of the River Tagus. There is not even any mention of the Douro, the Limia or the Minho, let alone of Brutus.

Pomponius Mela 3.1 is a description of the coast of the Mediterranean which includes brief descriptions or mentions of the rivers of Lusitania and Galaecia. Again, there is no mention of Butus

Brutus could not have been proconsul of Lusitania with Gaius Marius.

 * In 113 BC there was not such a thing as the province of Lusitania and therefore there were no governors of Lusitinia. The province of Lusitania was established later by Augustus.Conflicts with Lusitanians were dealt with by the governor of Hispania Ulterior (Further Spain)
 * There was only one governor per province.
 * Neither Brutus nor Marius could have been proconsuls in 113 BC. In order to be a proconsuls, they would have had to have been consuls the previous year. Neither of them was.
 * In 113 BC Brutus was 67. He was too old to be given a governorship, which involved military command.

Image
There is an image described: "Decimus Junius Brutus crossing the "Lethes" (Limia River today). Photo taken 150 BC." how can a photo be taken 150BC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kakko1 (talk • contribs) 19:55, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Looks like vandalism to me - I just updated the caption. Chris.let (talk) 12:53, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Zhangjiakou

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Hello. Zhangjiakou is my birthplace. I added a modern history section, all of the contents of the section, as well as the population figure and area.

Shenzhou

Need cities of Zhangjiakou
The various cities within Zhangjiakou, such as 沙城镇, should be listed. Badagnani 01:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Name in Mongolian
I think the name in the (transliteration of the) classical script is incomplete. In halh-mongolian terms, it should be "chuulalt haalga", not just "haalga". Yaan (talk) 10:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Good to see the Mongolian name. I've met people from Zhangjiakou who have no idea of the Mongolian-related background of their city. For them, it's just another Han city in Hebei. It's a pity how quickly homogenisation takes place in China.

 * Bathrobe (talk) 12:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * It's inside the great wall, though, isn't it? Yaan (talk) 12:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Rob Church Talk 01:01, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Wiggle charges
A totally unused neologism. Delete. — Laura Scudder | Talk 21:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Apyule 06:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism or phrase otherwise not in wide use. MCB 07:01, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Rafah Elementary Co-Ed B School

Rafah Elementary Co-Ed “B” School (مدرسة رفح الابتدائية كو-إد بي) is a school in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). It stands 800 meters from the border with Israel and has been damaged by weapons fire on several occasions.

On January 31, 2005, pupil Noran Iyad Deeb was killed by a bullet said to have been fired from the area of the Israeli-controlled border. A second pupil was injured in the hand.

title: Rafah Elementary Co-Ed B School


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Alexander Ross (Canadian politician)

Alexander McLagan Ross (April 20, 1829 – March 31, 1901) was a Canadian banker and politician, who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Huron West from 1875 to 1890 as a Liberal member. He was provincial treasurer from 1883 to 1890.

He was born in Dundee, Scotland, the son of Colin Ross and Elizabeth McLagan, and came to Upper Canada with his family in 1834. He served as a clerk in the Bank of Upper Canada and was manager for the Royal Canadian Bank and then the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Goderich. In 1852, he married Agnes Kydd. In 1858, he was named treasurer for the united counties of Huron and Bruce. He continued to serve as treasurer for Huron from 1866 to 1883 after the two counties were split. Ross also served as Commissioner of Agriculture for the province from 1883 to 1888. In 1890, he was named county clerk for York County. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the local militia and served during the Fenian raids.

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SAE Supermileage Competition

The SAE Supermileage Competition is a yearly fuel efficiency competition held at the Eaton Corporation proving grounds located in Marshall, Michigan, United States. The Society of Automotive Engineers is the primary sponsor. Around 30 teams compete to build the vehicle that uses the least amount of gas to go a specified distance. Teams are required to use a one cylinder lawnmower engine provided by Briggs & Stratton, but significant modification is allowed. There are two divisions, Collegiate and High School.

In the Collegiate division, the winning team of Laval University in 2016 achieved a record setting 3,788 miles per US gallon. The winning mileage of the 2008 competition was achieved by the team from Laval University located in Quebec City, Canada, achieving 3169 mpgus. In the 2010 event, Université Laval achieved the first position with 2340 mpgus, followed by University of Ottawa with 1486 mpgus, Northern Illinois University with 1265 mpgus, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with 1262 mpgus and École de Technologie Supérieure with 1044 mpgus.

In the High School division, the winning mileage of the 2008 competition was 1716 mpgus, achieved by the team from Mater Dei High School of Evansville, Indiana. Mater Dei also captured first place in the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 competitions in the High school division. . Since 2009, however, High School division is no longer acknowledged in the event, Collegiate Division being the only category left.

title: SAE Supermileage Competition