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A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, and John Lund. The screenplay by Charles Brackett, Wilder, and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari.

The film is about a United States Army captain in post-World War II Berlin, occupied by the Allies during the early days of the Cold War, who is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the United States congresswoman investigating her. Though a comedy, the film has a serious and cynical political tone, attesting to the fascination of both Wilder and American audiences with the multiple legacies of Berlin.

Plot
In 1947 in post-World War II Berlin, prim Iowa Congresswoman Phoebe Frost arrives with a US congressional committee on a fact-finding mission to investigate the morale of American occupation troops reportedly infected by a “moral malaria.” Corruption runs rampant, with troops taking advantage of supply shortages for items such as stockings, coffee, and soap to profiteer and elicit privileges from local women. Officials defend the behavior of the troops, saying it is unfair to expect the same troops to be “both valorous and wise.”

Phoebe arrives with a birthday cake for a constituent’s boyfriend, Captain John Pringle. Although John tells her that he will share the scarce treat with his army buddies, he trades the valuable chocolate cake on the black market for a mattress for his lover, Erika von Schlütow. MPs arrive to question Erika, who because of her past had been ordered to a labor camp for brickwork. Instead, she has been working in a nightclub, protected by her relationship with Pringle. The MPs order Erika to report to the de-Nazification office, but Pringle sends them away.

On a tour of bombed-out Berlin, Phoebe notices how many US soldiers fraternize with local women. The guide describes how they are winning over the population, but Phoebe wonders who is influencing whom. Slipping away from the tour, Phoebe is mistaken for a local by two American soldiers, pretends to speak only broken English, and accompanies them to the Club Lorelei, the most popular troop hangout. There she sees cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow, who Phoebe's escorts gossip is suspected of being the former mistress of either Hermann Göring or Joseph Goebbels, and is being protected by an unidentified American officer. At the nightclub Phoebe enlists Captain Pringle to assist in her investigation of Erika, unaware that he is Erika's current lover.

After seeing Erika with Adolf Hitler in a newsreel filmed during the war, Phoebe asks John to take her to army headquarters to retrieve the singer's official file. To distract her, John woos Phoebe, who initially resists his advances. When Phoebe berates the ethics of American soldiers who cavort with former Nazis, John asks Phoebe whether she ever had a romance against her political ethics. She tells him how enamored she was of a Southern Congressman who romanced her just to get her vote. Taking his cue, John turns on the charm, to which Phoebe eventually succumbs.

Erika questions why he has not been seeing her lately. John comments that he never realized how deeply involved she was with Nazi officials and questions whether next year she might be romancing officers wearing a hammer and sickle. When Erika mocks his wooing of Phoebe, he responds coldly and departs. He and Phoebe end up at Club Lorelei, where Erika joins their table and needles Phoebe.

Aware of John’s relationship with Erika, Colonel Plummer orders him to continue seeing her to serve as bait for ex-Gestapo agent Hans Otto Birgel, believed hiding in the American occupation zone. A letter has been intercepted in which the jealous Birgel has threatened to kill Erika’s new lover.

Meanwhile, Erika and Phoebe are arrested during a raid at the Lorelei designed to catch Germans without proper identification papers. At the police station, Erika claims Phoebe is her cousin to secure her release without revealing her identity, avoiding scandal. At Erika’s apartment, Erika now explains that Phoebe is now in her debt and owes her John—her protector. When John arrives, Phoebe―out of his line of sight―sees John kissing Erika and leaves humiliated.

At the military airport waiting for departure, Phoebe tells Colonel Plummer that she will not be filing her report, since she feels ethically compromised herself. Colonel Plummer shares a dossier with Phoebe that discloses that John has been working on orders all along to use Erika to lead them to Birgel and now has a target on his back. Plummer tells Phoebe that John’s feelings for her have complicated matters.

Birgel appears at the Lorelei to shoot John, but Birgel is shot first by American soldiers. Erika is arrested for her complicity with Birgel. With an assist from Colonel Plummer, Phoebe and John are finally united.

Production
While serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II, Billy Wilder was promised government assistance if he made a film about Allied-occupied Germany, and he took advantage of the offer by developing A Foreign Affair with Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen. Erich Pommer, who was responsible for the rebuilding of the German film industry, placed what was left of the facilities at Universum Film AG at Wilder's disposal. While researching the existing situation for his screenplay, he interviewed many of the American military personnel stationed in Berlin, as well as its residents, many of whom were having difficulty dealing with the destruction of their city. One of them was a woman he met while she was clearing rubble from the streets. "The woman was grateful the Allies had come to fix the gas", Wilder later recalled. "I thought it was so she could have a hot meal, but she said it was so she could commit suicide".

Marlene Dietrich was Wilder's first choice to play Erika, and Friedrich Hollaender already had written three songs – "Black Market", "Illusions", and "The Ruins of Berlin" – for her to sing in the film (the lyrics were closely tied to the plot), but the director suspected she would be opposed to portraying a woman who collaborated with the Nazis. En route home from Berlin, he stopped in Paris to visit her, ostensibly to hear her opinion about a screen test he had made with June Havoc. "She kept making criticisms and suggestions ... and finally I said, like I had thought of it just that moment, 'Marlene, only you can play this part.' And she agreed with me", Wilder said.

Wilder persuaded Jean Arthur, who was attending college at the time, to come out of retirement to play Phoebe. Throughout filming, the actress felt the director was favoring Dietrich, and late one night she and her husband Frank Ross went to Wilder's home to confront him with her suspicions. "Marlene told you to burn my close-up", an extremely upset Arthur insisted. "She doesn't want me to look better than she does." Wilder, knowing such insecurities were common when two very different personalities were working together, tried to reassure her he was not playing favorites, although of all the actresses he directed, he admired Dietrich most of all. "The crews adored her ... She liked to find somebody with a cold, so she could make chicken soup for him. She loved to cook", Wilder recollected. Years later, Arthur called Wilder to tell him she finally had seen the film and liked it, apologized and said she would act in any future Wilder project.

Location shooting, much of it in the Soviet occupation zone, began in August 1947, and filming continued at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood between December 1947 and February 1948. The film was edited within a week after principal photography was completed, and it premiered at the Paramount Theatre in New York City on June 30, 1948, shortly after Wilder's The Emperor Waltz opened at Radio City Music Hall.

Critical response
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the film "a dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say" and added, "Congress may not like this picture . . . and even the Department of the Army may find it a shade embarrassing. For the Messrs. Brackett and Wilder, who are not the sort to call a spade a trowel . . . are here making light of regulations and the gravity of officialdom in a smoothly sophisticated and slyly sardonic way". He continued, "Under less clever presentation this sort of traffic with big stuff in the current events department might be offensive to reason and taste. But as handled by the Messrs. Brackett and Wilder . . . it has wit, worldliness and charm. It also has serious implications, via some actuality scenes in bombed Berlin, of the wretched and terrifying problem of repairing the ravages of war. Indeed, there are moments when the picture becomes down-right cynical in tone, but it is always artfully salvaged by a hasty nip-up of the yarn".

In later years, Channel 4 lauded A Foreign Affair as "one of Wilder's great forgotten films ... worthy of rapid rediscovery", while Andrea Mullaney of Eye For Film wrote in 2006 that the film was "talky, intelligent, cynical" and "as relevant to the current American involvement in Iraq as if it had been made yesterday".

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

The Blu-ray release garnered positive reviews.

Accolades
Charles Lang was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Black-and-White Cinematography, but lost to William H. Daniels for The Naked City. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Richard L. Breen were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and the Writers Guild of America Award, which was won by Frank Partos and Millen Brand for The Snake Pit.

Home media
A Foreign Affair has been released in both VHS and DVD formats. On November 27, 2006, the film was released as part of the 18-film Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection for the UK market. However, in April 2007, Dietrich's estate, Die Marlene Dietrich Collection GmbH, obtained an injunction which forced Universal Pictures to withdraw the DVD set due to an alleged contract breach.

In 2012, Universal through TCM released the two-DVD set Directed by Billy Wilder featuring Five Graves to Cairo and A Foreign Affair.

On August 25, 2019, A Foreign Affair was released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.

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Walter Geikie

Walter Geikie RSA (10 November 1795 – 1 August 1837) was a Scottish painter.

Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1795. At the age of two, he had a "nervous fever" which left him deaf. Through the careful attention of his father he obtained a good education. Before he had the advantage of the instruction of a master he had attained considerable proficiency in sketching both figures and landscapes from nature, and in 1812 he was admitted into the drawing academy of the board of Scottish manufactures. He first exhibited in 1815, and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1831, and a fellow in 1834.

In the 1830s Walter was living with his father, Archibald Geikie, a hairdresser and perfumer, at 2 Drummond Street in the south side of the city.

Owing to his want of feeling for color, Geikie was not a successful painter in oils, but he sketched in India ink with great truth and humor the scenes and characters of Scottish lower-class life in his native city. A series of etchings which exhibit very high excellence were published by him in 1829-1831 and a collection of eighty-one of these was republished posthumously in 1841, with a biographical introduction by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. Duncan Macmillan has described him as producing "images that are absolutely radical in their assertion of the inalienable nature of human dignity."

He died on 1 August 1837 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, however a memorial was erected to his memory on the western boundary wall in 1996.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/(sonography)

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

The result of the debate was Redirect to Sonography --Gareth Hughes 20:28, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

(sonography)
page heading is in parenthesis (sonography). Needs its proper heading Sonography, which currently redirects to an unrelated site Night writing. Can somebody with the know-how fix this problem then delete this article heading. The content of this article, although stubby, looks fine. Gaff talk 20:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone moved the content from the article to Sonography, so this could be deleted I guess. I don't really see the need for a redirect, who is going to go to put parenthesis' around an article name... -Greg Asche (talk) 21:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * keep the redirect, when linking it's not intuitively obvious that Kappa 21:47, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Sonography - Bwfc 23:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I haven't been here a week but I already know that if you don't want to put the parentheses outside the brackets, you would do this: (sonography) . TECannon 08:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

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


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Template talk:Lang-ar

definition
Please stop using this template. Replacing very simple links like Arabic saves a minimum of time and puts unnecessary strain on the servers. Worst of all, people use this template to replace existing links, which is unbelievably pointless.

Peter Isotalo 20:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Use ar instead, please. dab (ᛏ) 12:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I guess I'm not really getting it but I'm not really getting it! I dont see the diff. on either of them. how should the arabic names then be formatted? (ar هيان بن بيان) as such? let me know please. Wilis.azm 06:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

deprecate
use ..., we don't want the clutter of a separate template for every language on earth. dab (ᛏ) 11:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That would be an okay replacement if it adds the correct CSS classes and language name. The replacement that was suggested on the template was much longer, so I don't think anybody is going to use it. Anyway, I can't see a good reason not to have these specific templates for major languages. Kusma (討論) 06:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * indeed, there is nothing wrong with using both ... and ... except for the unsatisfactory situation that we'll have two standards of marking up the very same thing. If we could agree that we prefer ..., people could still use ... as much as they like, but we could send in a bot that will subst: occurrences. For the purposes of entering Arabic, nothing will change, but we'll end up with more standardized markup. dab (𒁳) 06:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, ... and ... do different things. ... (adding the language name with correct links) does something visible to newbies, while ... doesn't do anything obvious. I think it is likely that people will write just Arabic: blah instead of Arabic: blah, which will not add the language attribute and cause another page that needs disambiguation. Having a template for every language on earth is an easy way around these problems. Kusma (talk) 07:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Enlarging the script
Could we automatically enlarge the Arabic script so that it reads clearer in articles. --Al Ameer son (talk) 21:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way to include a transliteration?
I noticed on Jesus in Islam that عيسى عليه السلام is being used, and I'm guessing the second parameter is supposed to be a transliteration. However, it has no effect: عيسى عليه السلام does not display the second parameter at all. Is this a bug, or was it designed not to have any transliteration? Thanks,

-- Joren (talk) 02:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC) (P.S. - I know pretty much nothing about Arabic, so please forgive my ignorance)

 * Right now the article uses, producing عيسى ʿĪsā, if anyone else came here wondering. Shrigley (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Badr al-Jamali
Hi. Can someone take a look at Badr al-Jamali for me? Every time I try to add (1015-1094) after the Lang-ar template some sort of auto-correct feature jumps in and absorbs the text into the middle of the template.
 * original text:  (بدر الجمالى)
 * auto-corrected edit:  (بدر الجمالى) (1015-1094

When I then try to rearrange the text the auto-correct feature jumps in again and makes things even messier. Road Wizard (talk) 10:15, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I have found that adding the lrm template fixes the problem:
 *  (بدر الجمالى, 1015-1094)
 * According to Template talk:Lang it is a problem with switching between right-to-left and left-to-right unicode character sets. The lrm template inserts an invisible character that restores the text flow to normal. Road Wizard (talk) 10:51, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 16 August 2013
This template needs to be brought up to date to be in line with other Lang-xx templates. The new source, before the section, should read:  See Template:Lang-fr for an example.

Ibadibam (talk) 22:28, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * We don't italicise Arabic. It should be

 * — Lfdder (talk) 11:19, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch! Why does the ampersand in the LRM need to be coded? Ibadibam (talk) 16:23, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * That's because otherwise the lrm mark would be rendered, and would disapper when the code was copied and pasted. And the request is Yes check.svg Done. :) Sorry about the wait. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:36, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 12 September 2013
lrm needs to go outside: &lrm;

Lfdder (talk) 18:19, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 21:55, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

'Amiri' font
Why does this template (or one of its transcluded templates) hardcode the Amiri font. It's nearly illegible, and my default font, DejaVu Sans, is perfectly capable of rendering legible Arabic text. While Amiri has some aesthetic value, it's not suitable for an online encyclopedia.

Since it's hardcoded in the element style, I can't even override it in my user style, not even with the !important tag. This is extremely frustrating, and isn't it bad practice to hardcode fonts (which are downloaded to the user!) into span tags anyway? Why not use a css class I could then override?

Moszczynski (talk) 13:17, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * it's the Universal Language Selector to blame, not this tpl. — Lfdder (talk) 15:44, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

LIPIA
For the article LIPIA, I use the template, for example:  so we can put the transliteration directly in the template)
 * Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment: The a and t are currently being deprecated, since templates of other languages are using this scheme. For now, call Lang-ar-at without specifying a or t. Ex.  Cheers, — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 05:01, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Add lit. parameter per parent template
To allow making use of Template:Language with name's parameter, I created a sandbox version. While for many related articles, a parameter would be helpful, for now we should start with the current Template:Language with name. Please also change full protection to template protection per WP:TEMP-P. Regards, --PanchoS (talk) 17:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Testcases check out and no objections, so Yes check.svg Done. Alakzi (talk) 18:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 30 April 2015
This template written "ar: " without "", Fix it by making it "(ar: )"

عمار الوائلي (talk) 10:10, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The Lang-x templates are also used in places where brackets are not required, or as part of a longer parenthesis. Alakzi (talk) 17:20, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 29 May 2015
Please replace the current code with this revision. The  is no longer needed since it is now being automatically included for all lang-derived templates using the   field. I've also replaced the documentation with the lang-x documentation which better describes the available fields. — Quoth (talk) 09:52, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Alakzi (talk) 11:21, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Merged with Template:Lang-ar-at
Template has been merged with Template:Lang-ar-at per closed TfD consensus. Lang-ar-at has been redirected here. Documentation page has been recreated, and documents the extra parameters.

HyperGaruda, are there any Arabic WikiProject MOS guidelines that need updates? PanchoS, thanks for the suggestion. If you see any issues with this template, submit an edit request. Thanks!!! :) — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 18:10, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The template looks as good as it always was, maybe even better since you added "lrm". Adding birth dates was a pain in the a back then, but no more, so kudos to you. I'll take care of MOSAR ;) - HyperGaruda (talk) 18:25, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

 * How do you get the script isolated, it is big enough to read but not bold enough to bother the other words. Alexis Ivanov (talk) 23:10, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind Alexis Ivanov (talk) 23:13, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

“Translit.” should be Transcribed
The alleged Arabic “transliterations” are actually almost always transcriptions. How can I change the template so it says “transcribed” rather than transliterated?

Kilo77 (talk) 21:19, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The layout of the language templates is set in Module:Lang. You'll need to make a proposal at Template talk:Lang to get the process going. In the meantime, note that some cases of transcription of standard Arabic to account for regional variation can be covered as proper transliteration using specialized templates, specifically Lang-arq, Lang-ary and Lang-arz. Ibadibam (talk) 22:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

 * Ibadibam, Thank you. I posted in the talk page of Module:Lang. Kilo77 (talk) 02:36, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Main article has been moved
It's "Arabic" now, not "Arabic language". Is there a way to change the link on this template accordingly? Charles Essie (talk) 20:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

doc reverts
Editor Mahmudmasri made to the doc page with the edit summary less confusion. I objected to that edit because of the first character in the transliteration positional parameter:

I with an edit summary: IPA is not romanization.

Editor Mahmudmasri objected to my revert and with the edit summary: Who said that was IPA? And you reverted a disambiguation for the visually difficult samples.

Who said that was IPA?:
 * The first character in  above is ; see IPA Extensions Unicode chart.
 * In the templates,   (and when used, translit) identifies the transcription of a non-Latin alphabet to a Latin alphabet – the writing of a word or phrase.  IPA is about how a word or phrase is pronounced.  Pronunciation is not romanization.  The  templates do not support pronunciation and IPA.  For editors who wish to include IPA representations of Arabic pronunciation in articles there is.
 * In the templates,   (and when used, translit) identifies the transcription of a non-Latin alphabet to a Latin alphabet – the writing of a word or phrase.  IPA is about how a word or phrase is pronounced.  Pronunciation is not romanization.  The  templates do not support pronunciation and IPA.  For editors who wish to include IPA representations of Arabic pronunciation in articles there is.

And you reverted a disambiguation for the visually difficult samples:
 * Disambiguation? Not clear to me what that refers to.  Perhaps 'definition' was the intended word.
 * Documentation can always be better and this doc page has had its basic form for a long time. That 'thing' that I deleted was Editor Mahmudmasri's change in capitalization of an example that doesn't actually work.  The original:
 * → Arabic
 * Editor Mahmudmasri's change:
 * → ARABIC
 * Notice in the actual rendering, there is no 'transliteration' or 'TRANSLITERATION'. This is because in both cases   ('Arabic' and 'ARABIC') are composed of wholly Latin characters.  There is no need to romanize text that is already using Latin script so Module:Lang ignores   in these cases.
 * Perhaps to identify the positional parameters, something like this should be added under :
 * Certainly, the non-functioning example should be removed from the examples table.
 * Perhaps to identify the positional parameters, something like this should be added under :
 * Certainly, the non-functioning example should be removed from the examples table.
 * Certainly, the non-functioning example should be removed from the examples table.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:17, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * So, your objection is basically to the ʕ symbol. But, did you realize that it could also be used in transliteration? It was just an example and the symbol is often used in linguistic literature. You should have also realized that the transcription was not in IPA, since it contained i-macron.
 * The last example had some words capitalized to emphasize from the first sight that they were not part of the template's syntax. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 11:55, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * According to our article Macron (diacritic): "In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone"... so pronunciation (though perhaps not IPA compliant). Our article Romanization of Arabic does not appear to support your claim that ʕ ... could also be used in transliteration.  Assuming that i-macron is not IPA, the Comparison table suggests that the IPA ʕ symbol should be replaced with one of the several 'accent-like' characters depending on the romanization standard:
 * Mixing IPA with romanization is not a good idea.
 * Yeah, I got that the ALL-CAPS was used to distinguish the terms from syntax but that does not change the fact that capitalized or not, a template example using either form does not work so the example itself is pointless.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:34, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Mixing IPA with romanization is not a good idea.
 * Yeah, I got that the ALL-CAPS was used to distinguish the terms from syntax but that does not change the fact that capitalized or not, a template example using either form does not work so the example itself is pointless.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:34, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I got that the ALL-CAPS was used to distinguish the terms from syntax but that does not change the fact that capitalized or not, a template example using either form does not work so the example itself is pointless.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:34, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

 * I'm not here in a tirade trying to prove I'm right. If you were familiar with Semitic languages, you'd realize that there are no tones in them, so apparently it wasn't a transcription of tones, and IPA is normally written inline, between slashes or squared brackets. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 23:04, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Can anyone help me with the lang-ar template in Catalan wikipedia?
The lang-ar template in Catalan wikipedia enlarges the word in Arabic. I asked for help to solve this (that the Arabic word use the same font of the Catalan text), but on Catalan wikipedia team no one controls enough over the templates language to correct it. There is also a problem when transcription is added: the order of the words is reversed and the transcribed word is placed before the Arabic word. Could anyone knowing how templates language works give me a hand? Or could you direct me where someone could help me? Thank you very much. --CarlesVA (talk) 19:11, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I suspect that you have to change ca:Mòdul:Llengua/script particularly this line:
 * If you haven't already, you might want to talk to ca:Usuari:Vriullop. They might be the best person to talk to because they are the author of ca:Mòdul:Llengua and its supporting modules.
 * You might ask if it is possible to add the equivalent of en.wiki's size parameter so that the default  in the   attribute can be overridden when needed.  Apparently some styling support is available in the module if you can get template support for sc; see lines 24–32.
 * It isn't obvious to me that at ca.wiki supports transcriptions; see the output code at lines 34–43.
 * I note that there is a bug in line 10 of the module...
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 20:05, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . --CarlesVA (talk) 20:11, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I note that there is a bug in line 10 of the module...
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 20:05, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . --CarlesVA (talk) 20:11, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . --CarlesVA (talk) 20:11, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 20 July 2021
Currently, "Arabic" links to Arabic language, which is a redirect to Arabic. It should directly link to Arabic. Nehme1499 22:22, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No. To avoid having to maintain a list of exact article titles, all of the  templates link to their respective articles through '<language-name> language' redirects.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 22:46, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Some language links that do not have "language" in the title do not go to the language, for example, see English, which is a dab page. That is why these redirects exist, so there can be consistency in the Lang templates. Whether it's the English language or the Arabic language, the links get readers where they expect to be. There doesn't seem to be anything at WP:R that would prohibit usage of redirects in templates (or modules) for this purpose.  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 07:39, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Font stays the same?
On my MacBook, the Arabic font with or without the template stay the same. Is there any way to solve this? This is also the case with other non-Latin scripts. Nehme1499 13:51, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * does not manipulate font. This example from the template doc:
 * produces this output:
 * عمّون
 * nothing in that styles the font. It is common for browsers to select a font to render non-Latin-script text that is different from the font it uses to render Latin-script text.  For example, my browser renders these three lines using two distinctly different fonts:
 * this is text ← plain text
 * this is text ←
 * this is text ← decomposing the above to its minimum:
 * Did you recently update your browser? What happens when you view the Arabic text using a different browser?  Do you have custom font settings in your css here or in your browser?
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:11, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Changing browser doesn't do anything. On my PC, having Arabic text "naked" or inside this template produce different fonts (the one in this template is "clearer", if it makes sense). On my Mac, even your three examples produce the same text. Nehme1499 14:40, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hence my question, Did you recently update your browser? The 'problem' is not with.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:42, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't do anything to this (or any) browser. I just got this Mac, and noticed the difference in how Arabic text is displayed here compared to how it is displayed on my old PC when inside this template. If lang-ar shouldn't change the font, why does it do so on my other PC? I assumed that was the intended use of this template, to display Arabic text in a "clearer" font. Nehme1499 14:44, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The template doesn't change anything as I demonstrated above. Your PC browser (and my browser) are correctly reacting to the   attribute in the  html tag that wraps the Arabic text.  Your MacBook is ignoring that attribute.  The purpose of this template and all of the other templates supported by Module:Lang is to tell browsers and screen readers that the wrapped text is not English so may require special handling to display correctly and, for screen readers, to be pronounced correctly.  Proper display/pronunciation is the responsibility of the browser/screen reader.  This template's responsibility is to correctly format the Arabic text so that browsers and screen readers understand that the Arabic text is Arabic.  There is no evidence that the template is failing in its duty (if there were such evidence, you would not be the only editor making note of it).
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:12, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not asserting that it's this specific template's "fault". I'm just trying to understand if there was a way for my Macbook to adapt the font the same way my PC does. Nehme1499 15:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not asserting that it's this specific template's "fault". I'm just trying to understand if there was a way for my Macbook to adapt the font the same way my PC does. Nehme1499 15:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

How to transliterate?
I recently wrote the article for the video game Special Force and wanted to include its native Arabic name (القوة الخاصة) plus transliteration. Since I do not speak the language, I was looking at online transliteration tools, but they produce wildly different results. Crucially, not one of them correctly reproduce the examples from this template's documentation. Please see the table below.

Any help on getting this right would be greatly appreciated. Regards, IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 10:57, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * This might not be the best place to ask that question. Have you considered asking at WikiProject Arabic or WikiProject Intertranswiki/Arabic?  Perhaps someone at one of those two projects can help.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:00, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint. I posted a referral on those two projects' talk pages, as well as at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arab world. IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 16:00, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You might also want to ask at Wiktionary's Information desk or Tea room (long page). 115.188.126.180 (talk) 23:05, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

The transliteration is Al-Quwwa al-Khassa and/or Al-Quwwah al-Khassah.

 * Guerres et conflits récents
 * ¿Pueden los videojuegos cambiar el mundo?
 * Il falso nemico

PS: The letter s must be doubled (ss) in the second word "الخاصّة" because there is a shadda on the Arabic letter "sād".--TheEagle107 (talk) 20:19, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

 * @TheEagle107: Thank for these references! I found another spelling, "Al Quwwa el-Khassa", in a paper. Do you know why there are that many different interpretations of the source word? IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 20:36, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The prefix "al-" or "el-" in Arabic means "the". "Al" is the more formal "standard" pronunciation and "el" is more how normal people actually say it when they're talking. For example, in the Arabic language, the word "Allah" is an Arabic name used in Islam to refer to God, which being a grammatical derivative of "al-Ilah", meaning "the God" or "the Only God"—the prefix "Al" in Arabic is defined as "the" and is connected to the suffix "ilah," which means “god.”

For more detailed information, see: I hope this helps. All the best.--TheEagle107 (talk) 21:48, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Arabic definite article
 * Romanization_of_Arabic
 * Taw
 * Tā' marbūta (in German)
 * Sun and moon letters
 * Manual of Style/Arabic
 * Al- | Britannica

 * Thank you for the clarification, @TheEagle107! When I was about to implement this, @Sheila1988 added a transliteration directly to the article: "al-quwwa al-khāṣṣa". I suppose this is also correct? IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 19:48, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, Wiktionary is a good source for clarification. The dot under the S shows that it is the letter Sad and not Sin. Sheila1988 (talk) 19:56, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The only problem is that some letters need to be capitalized, especially Q & K. Source:

Kind regards.--TheEagle107 (talk) 20:45, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

 * Roger that. It's a shame that we still do not have a good online tool for this, but at least it is correct for this particular article (which, by the way, is on DYK today). Thanks everyone. IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 21:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @IceWelder,
 * اَلْقُوَّة اَلْخَاصَّةِ = Al-qwaut al-kash OR Al-qwauh al-kash Gerges (talk) 23:25, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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Stephen Ullmann

Stephen Ullmann (Ullmann István; 31 July 1914 – 10 January 1976) was a Hungarian linguist who spent most of his life in England and wrote about style and semantics in Romance and common languages.

Biography
Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, Ullmann achieved degrees from Eötvös Loránd University (otherwise known as the University of Budapest) and the University of Glasgow.

Academic career
After working for the BBC Monitoring Service during the Second World War, Ullmann gained an appointment as lecturer in Philology and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow in 1946. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1950, after having graduated DLitt on 5 November 1949 with the thesis titled "The Principles of Semantics" which had a profound influence on the Linguistics field.

Ullmann later taught at the University of Leeds where he was Professor of French Language and Romance Philology from 1953 to 1968, and at Oxford University. In 1974 he spent five months as a visitor at the Australian National University's department of Romance languages, where he lectured on "Words and their meanings".

Ullmann's ideas on semantics are said to be backed up by a wealth of published materials from across Europe. In addition, his works were translated into a variety of languages, such as French, Russian, Japanese and Spanish

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On 10 January 1976 Ullmann suffered a heart attack while walking home in his home town of Kidlington and died on the same day. He was described by The Times as 'one of the most eminent Romance philologists this country has ever known'.

Publications

 * The Principles of Semantics (1951)
 * Words and Their Use (1951)
 * Précis de Sémantique Française (1952)
 * Semantics: An Introduction to the Science of Meaning (1962)
 * Language and Style (1964)
 * Meaning and Style (1973)

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Konkoly Observatory

Konkoly Observatory (HUN-REN Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet; obs. code: 053) is an astronomical observatory located in Budapest, Hungary is part of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont) and belongs to the HUN-REN Magyar Kutatási Hálózat. Konkoly Observatory was founded in 1871 by Hungarian astronomer Miklós Konkoly-Thege (1842–1916) as a private observatory, and was donated to the state in 1899. Konkoly Observatory, officially known as HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet in Hungarian, is the largest astronomical research institute in Hungary, and hosts the largest telescopes in the country. The Observatory has more than 60 researchers, a quarter of them are non-Hungarian.

The main research areas include stellar structure and evolution, stellar and solar activity, variable stars, star and planetary formation, interstellar material, exoplanets, cosmology, large sky survey, Solar System studies, nuclear and extragalactic astrophysics, high energy astrophysics including supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and other transient events, radio astronomy, galactic archeology, designing and manufacturing astronomical instrumentation and cubesats, as well as history of astronomy. The institute has a close collaboration with Hungarian universities, the researches teach and supervise students at ELTE and Szeged Universities. Konkoly Observatory runs the assistant researcher (demonstrátor program introducing undergraduate students to scientific research and using astronomical telescopes and instruments. The Observatory hosted 7 Lendület-grants, 2 ERC-projects and several national large infrastructure projects (GINOP).

As well as performing astronomical research, the observatory published the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars on behalf of the International Astronomical Union.

The Ógyalla and Svábhegy Observatories
Hungarian nobleman Miklós Konkoly-Thege founded his private observatory in 1871 at Hurbanovo, in Northern Hungary, known as Ógyalla in Hungarian at the time. The instrumentation included a 6" refractor, a 10.5" Browning reflector (later replaced with a 10" Merz refractor), a meridian circle, a spectrograph, as well as various meteorological and geomagnetic instruments. Konkoly-Thege, who had no offspring, became increasingly afraid over time that his legacy will perish with his death. As a member of the Hungarian Parliament, he was able to convince the government to take the observatory into state property. In 1899, the Hurbanovo site was renamed to Royal Konkoly-founded Astrophysical Observatory, and operated under the direction of Konkoly-Thege and Radó Kövesligethy, a renowned geophysicist of the time. The main scientific profile of the institute was the photometry of stars, the observation of the Sun, meteor counting, and providing time service for the government. In 1913, an order for a 60 cm (24") telescope was finalized with the German Heyde company, but with the start of World War I, the telescope was never built.

After the end of World War I, Ógyalla became part of the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic. The government transferred the scientific equipment to Budapest before the newly formed border was shut down, and in 1921 allocated a new property in the Buda Hills just west to Budapest to build a new astronomical observatory. The new building, known as the Svábhegy observatory after a nearby hill, was finished by 1924, and the 6" refractor and the re-ordered 60 cm Heyde telescope were set up in new domes by 1928. Scientific work in the observatory focussed on the light variations of pulsating stars, the orbits of binary stars, and searching for asteroids. Measurements were made with photographic plates and wedge photometers.

The observatory survived World War II with minor damages. In late 1944, observations were put on hold, and the optical elements of the telescopes were removed to protect them from aerial bombings. Soviet troops occupied the buildings from December 1944 until February 1945, but the library and the photographic laboratories were spared. Observations were resumed by July 1945.

After the communist takeover of Hungary in 1948, a new network of research institutes, independent from universities, was set up under the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). The observatory was renamed to the Astronomical Institute of the HAS, but retained the traditional name, Konkoly Observatory, in English correspondences. With the communist isolation of the country, international relations shifted from predominantly German and American to Soviet and Eastern-bloc partnerships. However, the international recognition of then director László Detre kept some connections to the West alive. During one of his visits to the Western bloc, Detre received an RCA 1P21 photomultiplier tube from American astronomer Harlow Shapley to start photometric measurements at the observatory in 1948. He subsequently smuggled in to the country despite the strict trade restrictions at the time. In 1957, after the launch of Sputnik, multiple independent satellite observing and tracking stations were set up in the country at the suggestion of the Soviet Union. The institute provided coordination for these stations, and in 1966, the Baja station merged into the institute.

Relations with the West soon eased and at the 1961 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union at Berkeley, the institute was tasked with setting up and circulating the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. The Bulletin was envisaged to be a rapid communications platform between variable star observers, but it later expanded into a peer-reviewed journal for short papers and notes about variable stars.

The institute expanded in the 1960-70s with the foundation and subsequent independence of the Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory and the installation of new telescopes at Piszkéstető Mountain Station. In 1982, the observatories in Debrecen and Budapest were merged back together to form the Research Institute for Astronomy of the HAS. In 1992, the Baja station was separated from the institute and handed over to the county council of Bács-Kiskun.

In 2012, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences reorganized the structure of its institute network: the Astronomical Institute was merged with three other entities (Institutes for Geography, Geochemistry, and Geodesy and Geophysics) to form the Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences. In 2019, the Hungarian government transferred the research institute network of the academy, including the Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, to a newly formed entity called Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat (Eötvös Loránd Research Network).

Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory
In 1946, a new Solar physics department was initiated under the leadership of Lóránt Dezső. In 1958, the department moved to Debrecen to form a new solar observatory independent of the Astronomical Institute. Observations of the Sun started with two photoheliograph telescopes, one of which was relocated to the top of the water tower at Gyula in 1972. In 1973, a large coronagraph telescope with a 53 cm aperture was set up, but observations were hindered by the cumbersome mechanical setup. Given the low elevation of the observatory of just 124 m above sea level, the coronagraph was only capable to observe the chromosphere of the Sun, not the corona itself.

The main scientific output of the observatory has been the detailed documentation of the photospheric activity of the Sun. The positions, sizes, structures of sunspots and sunspot groups are determined and recorded daily, to provide long-term, homogeneous observations of the Sun. The Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) database is the direct continuation of the Greenwich Photoheliographic Results that were collected between 1874 and 1976. Originally, analog photographs and CCD images were collected locally, or from partner observatories, but with the advent of reliable space-based observations, the work transitioned to the analysis of images from the SOHO and SDO spacecraft. Further data products include the reanalysis of the Greenwich catalog, and older observations based on Hungarian drawings of the Sun.

In 1982, the observatory merged back into the Konkoly Astronomical Institute, and became a department of it once again. In 2015, the old observatory building in Debrecen was deemed unfeasible to maintain, and was closed down. The coronagraph was disassembled, and offices and personnel were transferred to the ATOMKI institute of the HAS in Debrecen. Given that space-based imagery has superseded the ground-based observations as the input source of the databases, the two photoheliographs were also decommissioned and removed from their mounts at Debrecen and Gyula.

Piszkéstető Mountain Station
In 1951, the observatory secured funding for a new mapping telescope. The initial order was for a 0.9 m, f/3 Sonnefeld telescope but it was soon modified for a 60/90 com Schmidt telescope. With the light pollution of Budapest steadily increasing, a more remote location was sought for the telescope. After settling for Piszkéstető peak in the Mátra mountains, about 80 km away from the capital, a residence building was constructed in 1960, and the new Schmidt telescope was installed in 1962. The telescope provided a 10°x10° field of view with photographic plates and could be equipped with an objective prism for low-resolution mass spectroscopic observations. The large field-of-view led to numerous supernova and asteroid discoveries at the time.

In 1966, a smaller, 0.5 m Cassegrain telescope with a two-channel photoelectric photometer was installed.

Finally, a 1 m Ritchey-Chrétien-coudé (RCC) telescope was installed in 1974, for high-resolution imaging and photometry of fainter targets. This marked the end of the initial development of Piszkéstető station.

In the late 1990s, photographic plates and photometers were replaced with CCD cameras on the Schmidt and RCC telescopes. In 2015, an echelle spectrograph with a spectral resolution of R=20,000 was installed on the RCC telescope.

A 40 cm Ritchey-Chrétien telescope was set up in 2010, intended for automated remote observations. The telescope is currently under refurbishment.

The Fly's Eye system, consisting of 19 small cameras to observe the whole sky above 30° altitude simultaneously, was installed in 2016.

A new, automated 0.8 m telescope to track transient events, e.g., supernovae, is expected to be installed in 2018.

Piszkéstető also hosts other instrumentations, including a seismic and gravimetric station of the Institute for Geophysics and Geodesy, and an infrasound detector array.

Former directors

 * 1899–1916 Miklós Konkoly-Thege
 * 1916–1936 Antal Tass
 * 1936–1938 Károly Móra
 * 1938–1943 Károly Lassovszky
 * 1943–1974 László Detre
 * 1974–1996 Béla Szeidl
 * 1997–2009 Lajos Balázs
 * 2010–2015 Péter Ábrahám
 * 2016–2018 László Kiss

Current director

 * from 1 January 2019: Róbert Szabó

Main research areas

 * Variable stars, stellar photometry, space-based photometry, exoplanets.
 * Astrochemistry, nuclear astrophysics, stellar dust. Includes the RADIOSTAR (Radioactivities from Stars to Solar Systems) ERC project.
 * Fly's Eye group: instrumentation and time-domain astronomy.
 * Small bodies in the Solar system: moons, TNOs, centaurs, comets, near-Earth asteroids, debris disks around other stars.
 * Protoplanetary disks and planet formation, star formation, infrared astronomy. Includes the SACCRED (Structured Accretion Disks) ERC project.
 * Solar and stellar activity, Doppler-imaging, differential rotation in stars, magnetic activity and dynamos, sunspot tracking.
 * Laboratory astrophysics and geochemistry, meteorites, planetary surfaces.
 * High-energy astrophysics, statistics of gamma-ray bursts.
 * Transient astrophysical objects (GINOP program).
 * Cosmic effects and risks (GINOP program).

Research groups

 * Astrophysical and Geochemical Laboratory (Ákos Keresztúri)
 * Konkoly Space Astronomy, Planet and Star Formation Group (Dr. Péter Ábrahám, Dr. Ágnes Kóspál)
 * Stellar Pulsation, Space Photometry and Exoplanets Group (SPEX) (Róbert Szabó)
 * MTA–CSFK Lendület Nuclear Burning in Stars Research Group (Maria Lugaro)
 * STARK (Stellar Activity Research at Konkoly Observatory) (Zsolt Kővári)
 * Solar System Research Group (Csaba Kiss)
 * Large-Scale Structure (LSS) MTA Lendület Research Group (András Kovács)
 * Konkoly Extragalactic Astronomy Group (József Vinkó)
 * Instrument and Satellite Development Research Group (András Pál)
 * Origin Research Group (Subordinated directly by CEO) (Stephen Mojzis)

Nomenclature
The observatory has had many different designations over the years. The current formal designation of the observatory is "Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences" (ELKH Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont, Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet). A former name, Svábhegyi Csillagvizsgáló, has been revived and used as branding for the public events and exhibitions hosted in the observatory and the 24" inch dome in particular.

Publications
The observatory publishes multiple periodicals. The most important one was the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, established by the IAU in 1961 that contained peer-reviewed papers about variable star research and discoveries. Since 2011, IBVS was published as an online-only, open-access, APC-free journal. Since 10 March 2019, IBVS no longer accepts new submissions, thus the active phase of the journal ended.

Larger amounts of observational data and proceedings of meetings and conferences have been published in the Communications of the Konkoly Observatory (originally published under various Hungarian and German titles, like Mitteilungen der Sternwarte Budapest/Svábhegy, and later as Mitteilungen der Sternwarte der Ungarishen Akademie der Wissenshaften). The observatory also published a few issues of Monographs (for History of Astronomy topics) and Occasional Technical Notes.

Equipment
Current equipment and locations:
 * 1 m RCC telescope (Piszkéstető). The main instrument, equipped with a medium-resolution echelle spectrograph and an EMCCD camera.
 * 60/90 Schmidt telescope (Piszkéstető).
 * 50 cm Cassegrain telescope (Piszkéstető). Removed.
 * 40 cm Ritchey-Crétien telescope (Piszkéstető). Under renovation.
 * Fly's Eye all-sky camera system (Piszkéstető).
 * 80 cm telescope – installed at the dome of the former 50 cm Cassegrain telescope (Piszkéstető).
 * 60 cm Heyde Newton/Cassegrain telescope (Budapest). Decommissioned after 2013, it has been renovated for public demonstrations.
 * 7" coudé refractor (Budapest). Decommissioned.
 * coronagraph. Originally in Debrecen, decommissioned and disassembled.
 * 5" photoheliograph (Debrecen). Decommissioned.
 * 6" photoheliograph (Gyula). Decommissioned.

International collaborations

 * Space telescopes and space probes: Herschel (ESA); Kepler (NASA); GAIA (ESA); TESS (NASA), SPICA (ESA/JAXA, pre-development), ARIEL (ESA), PLATO (ESA), Comet Interceptor (ESA), JUICE (ESA), Rosetta (ESA)
 * Ground based telescopes, instruments: Opticon (H2020), Matisse (ESO)
 * Sky surveys: SDSS, LSST, MSE (Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer), WEAVE
 * Nuclear astrophysics experiments and collaborations: Underground Laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics LUNA at LNGS (Gran Sasso, Italy); Jinping Underground laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics JUNA (China); GALAH (GALactic Archaeology with HERMES) stellar spectroscopic survey (Australia); US NSF Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics JINA; NuGRID-collaboration; Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos (European COST Action)
 * Laboratory astrophysics: EXODRILTECH (ESA), NEOMETLAB (ESA)

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Friedrich Gauermann

Friedrich Gauermann (10 September 1807 – 7 July 1862) was an Austrian painter. The son of the landscape painter Jacob Gauermann (1773–1843), he was born at Miesenbach near Gutenstein in Lower Austria. He was an early representative of the Veristic style devoted to nature in all its diversity. He was born in.

It was the intention of his father that Gauermann should devote himself to agriculture, but the example of an elder brother, who, however, died early, fostered his inclination towards art. Under his father's direction he began studies in landscape, and he also diligently copied the works of the chief masters in animal painting which were contained in the academy and court library of Vienna. In the summer he made art tours in the districts of Styria, Tirol, and Salzburg.

Two animal pieces which he exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1824 were regarded as remarkable productions for his years, and led to his receiving commissions in 1825 and 1826 from Prince Metternich and Caraman, the French ambassador. His reputation was greatly increased by his picture The Storm, exhibited in 1829, and from that time his works were much sought after and obtained correspondingly high prices. His Field Labourer was regarded by many as the most noteworthy picture in the Vienna exhibition of 1834, and his numerous animal pieces have entitled him to a place in the first rank of painters of that class of subjects.

The peculiarity of his pictures is the representation of human and animal figures in connexion with appropriate landscapes and in characteristic situations so as to manifest nature as a living whole, and he particularly excels in depicting the free life of animals in wild mountain scenery. Along with great mastery of the technicalities of his art, his works exhibit patient and keen observation, free and correct handling of details, and bold and clear colouring. He died at Vienna on 7 July 1862.

Many of his pictures have been engraved, and after his death a selection of fifty-three of his works was prepared for this purpose by the Austrian Kunstverein (Art Union).

His art influenced among others the works of Joseph Heicke.

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Qin Shaobo

Qin Shaobo (b. 1982 in Guangxi) is a Chinese actor, acrobat and contortionist. His first performance took place when he was 11 years old which resulted in him wanting to make acting a career.

Qin's motion picture debut was in 2001, playing The Amazing Yen, Danny Ocean's "grease man", in the remake of Ocean's Eleven. He reprised the role in 2004 in Ocean's Twelve and again in the sequel Ocean's Thirteen. He returned to the role in the spin-off film Ocean's 8.

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User talk:Jm178

A welcome from Sango123
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User talk:Pgeo2286

A welcome from Sango123
Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Remezov Letopis

The Remezov Letopis (Ремезовская летопись in Russian) is one of the Siberian Letopises, compiled by a Russian historian Semyon Remezov in the late 17th century.

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NER Class T2

The North Eastern Railway Class T2, classified as Class Q6 by the LNER, is a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight, especially for hauling long coal trains to various collieries in the North Eastern region of the UK, with a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour. 120 were built at Darlington Works and Armstrong Whitworth between 1913 and 1921 to the design of Vincent Raven, based on the NER Class T and T1 (LNER Q5). The batch of fifty built by Armstrong Whitworth from 1919 were A-W's first locomotives to be built, after the conversion of their Scotswood works from ordnance to peacetime production.

Numbering
All passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 63340-63459.

Disposal
63372 was withdrawn in 1960 after an accident. General withdrawals were from 1963 to 1967. 63395 has survived into preservation.

Preservation
One, 2238 (LNER 1946 number 3395; BR 63395) has survived to preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It is owned by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG), who purchased from Hughes Bolckow scrapyard in 1967, and was withdrawn from service in January 2017 to await boiler overhaul. This overhaul was completed in September 2018, with the locomotive being completed just in time to visit the Severn Valley Railway for their Autumn Steam Gala.

In May 2023, 63395 suffered a cylinder failure while departing from Grosmont with a train, causing major damage.

Models
Hornby has made a 1:76 (OO gauge) model of the class.

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Lunar Legend

Lunar Legend (ルナレジェンド) is a role-playing video game for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance developed by Japan Art Media and published internationally by Ubi Soft, who also provided the translation. It is a re-telling of the events of Lunar: The Silver Star with story and content changes. All the characters from the original game appear.

Gameplay
Lunar Legend plays very much like a traditional RPG, with 2D character sprites and environments. Unlike Lunar: The Silver Star, the battles do not consist of characters moving across the battlefield to attack enemies, instead having them retreat back to their original positions after attacking. The battles themselves are random, occurring every few steps within a dungeon or in scripted circumstances. By gaining experience after each fight, characters can level up, gaining new abilities and becoming stronger in the process. A new feature includes the use of special attacks akin to limit breaks via an "Arts gauge" underneath the character's HP and MP. It fills up as the character attacks enemies (whether or not the hit is successful) and once it's full, the character can unleash a powerful ability that generally does more damage than weapons or spells, or has a special effect such as rendering the party invincible for a short period of time. Ramus, Ghaleon and Laike, however, cannot unleash these special attacks.

Some of these special attacks can be changed by equipping certain items. For example, if Nash or Mia equip the Light Emblem accessory, it changes their special attacks to "Charge", which allows them to store magic power for one round. The next time they cast an attack spell, the damage is increased more than normal.

The player travels through the world of Lunar via the world map, visiting various towns, cities, and dungeons. Unlike The Silver Star, there are no random battles on the world map and each location is accessed by simply selecting it.

Story
Thousands of years ago, the benevolent Goddess Althena transformed the barren world of the Silver Star into the habitable place known to its inhabitants as "Lunar". In this world, three races were created: the stout Beastmen, the resourceful Humans, and the villainous Vile Tribe. While the Vile Tribe was forced to live in the dark lands known as the Frontier, Humans and Beastmen lived side by side in the surrounding lands, occasionally fighting with each other before eventually declaring peace. In order to preserve the life-force of the planet, as well as guide the elements within it, Althena created four all-powerful dragons and a warrior who wielded their combined power known as the Dragonmaster. She decreed that if anyone was to take up the mantle of Dragonmaster, they would have to pass the four trials of the dragons themselves before gaining the power to protect the world.

One such Dragonmaster was Dyne, a young man who, together with the heroes Ghaleon, Mel, and Lemia, succeeded in pacifying the then-insane black dragon. Althena at this time was losing control of her power, and though Ghaleon protested, Dyne gave up his power to transform the goddess into a mortal girl who immediately reverted into a baby. Never forgiving him for denying the world its leader, Ghaleon severed all ties to Dyne and retired from adventuring. Dyne, now no longer a Dragonmaster, disappeared and was never heard from again.

Years later, a boy named Alex from the small town of Burg is infatuated with stories of Dyne and the Four Heroes, and longs to become an adventurer himself and one day become a Dragonmaster like his idol. With the help of his best friend, Nall, a small, winged, cat-like creature, and Luna, his love interest who has lived with him since she was a child, Alex leaves on his adventure to pass the trials of the Dragons, and ultimately gets caught up in a struggle for the existence of his world.

Development and release
Lunar Legend is a re-made version of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for the Game Boy Advance and was developed by Media Rings Corporation after acquiring the rights to produce a handheld adaptation of Game Arts' role-playing game. The game was announced in a November 2001 issue of Japanese Weekly Famitsu magazine as a "powered up" version of the original Sega-CD and the 32-bit versions, with changes that would benefit players on the go and provide new story materials for veteran fans. Because of the game's limited 8-megabyte cart size, many features standard to the Lunar series such as voice acting and video sequences were omitted, with Media Rings instead utilizing real-time cutscenes using larger, more detailed character sprites to tell the story. Still images taken directly from Silver Star Story Complete's animated videos would appear at certain points during the game to give it a more cinematic feel. Game Arts' primary goal in co-developing the new version was to provide the previous game's music, art, and script for Media Ring's use. The Lunar series' producer Yoichi Miyaji joined the development team as a consultant, along with several other members of the Game Arts staff, in assisting project director Hisashi Sugawara in crafting a new vision of the game that would retain the same feel as previous adaptations. The game was originally scheduled for a March 2002 release, but was pushed back to the following April for last-minute changes.

The North American version became the first English Lunar title to not be produced by Working Designs, with company president Victor Ireland passing on the project for undisclosed reasons. During the 2002 IEMA Executive Summit, Ubisoft revealed they had acquired the publishing rights to Lunar Legend, with an initial release date of November 2002. Ubisoft's script remained closer to the original Japanese version than previous English endeavors, but retained Working Designs' character names and overall light-hearted tone. Rather than develop their own official Lunar Legend website, Ubisoft approached Mickey Shannon, webmaster of Lunar series fansite LunarNET, to create and host the game's official English page on his server.

Reception
Lunar Legend received an above-average total score of 30 out of 40 from four reviewers in Japanese Weekly Famitsu magazine. The game was mostly well received in North America, with some critics such as Electronic Gaming Monthly commending its re-drawn, animated character sprites, describing the game as "one of the prettiest, most involving RPGs to hit the GBA". GameSpot similarly declared that the game was "fun and engaging", but found the low difficulty lacking in challenge and the audio quality below the standard, commenting that the "generic battle sounds and forgettable music don't leave much of an impression". It was a runner-up for GameSpot's annual "Best Role-Playing Game on Game Boy Advance" award, which went to Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis.

Reviewers often compared the game to its PlayStation predecessor. GamePro saw the game as inferior to its earlier versions, stating that it was "definitely recommended for anyone who didn't live through the Lunar phenomenon, [but] anyone who's played the original is bound to be disappointed", finding fault in the game's lower quality presentation. Game Informer called the game a "solid port" with good enhancements, yet felt that the exclusion of voice-overs and animated cutscenes from the original hurt the game's narrative.

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User:Lion King

THE LION HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

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Talk:Sonography

I would like to add some sonograms to the pages.

Excellent, as long as they aren't copyrighted. By the way, if you sign your talk posts by typing --~ at the end, it's easier for others to see who said what when. (the button at the top of the edit box with the signature picture does this automagically) --Slashme 07:53, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Could someone please fix the caption on the picture? I'm clueless. --Slashme 15:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale
1. No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the article's subject.

2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.

3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.

4. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is need for encyclopedic purposes.

5. The image significantly contributes to the quality of the article and in identifying the subject of the article, which is the film itself.

6. The image is used in the article namespace only.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Voice of All(MTG)

 * The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

Voice of All(MTG)
Final (26/4/2) ended 20:27 October 22, 2005 (UTC)'''

– I have been editing Wikipedia for several months now. I would like to be able to do more to prevent further vandalism to articles, which makes Wikipedia needlessly lose credibility. In addition, I don't mind perfoming some of the day-to-day cleanup tasks, such as checking RfAs ands AfDs and what not. I already do many of those tasks when I have the time, along with tagging, cleanup, and NPOV rewordings. I also follow a 1RR instead of 3RR as reverting someone more than once tends to lead staight into the next three times and just increases stress. My objective, as stated on my user page, is to make Wikipedia a factual, objective, and citable source. I stongly believe in encyclopedic standards for all Wikipedia articles; I do not, however, believe in needless censorship that takes away from articles. I have gained much experience editing Wikipedia(such as learning to use more edit summaries!:)), and I think that it would be to Wikipedia's benefit if I was given some extra tools.  Voice of  All   @  |  E  |Merit  20:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * For the above reasons, I have nominated myself for adminship:

Support
 * 1) R  e  dwolf24  (talk—How's my driving?) 21:12, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - I've seen him about the place being civil and nice. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 21:14, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support, seems like a good user, and will be a good admin. But first, I have more edits than you ha ha! Privat  e   Butcher  21:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support of course. Ryan Norton T 21:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support -Greg Asche (talk) 21:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Merovingian (t) (c) ( e ) 21:58, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) --JAranda'' | watz sup 00:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support! BD2412  talk 05:01, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) SupportI like this editor and think he/she is one of the best mannered editors on the Wiki. I see Adminship as "no big deal" but encourage Voice of All to try and contribute more on RC Patrol and to heed friendly advice from well regarded admins that offer it.--MONGO 07:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support Polite editor, with many good contributions.  Ban e  s  15:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support — J I P  | Talk 16:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, with e-mail enabled. Thanks for doing so.   Ral  315   WS  18:22, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support -- Francs2000 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 22:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Voice of Support(  [ +t, +c, +m,  +e  ] 11:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC))
 * 15) Andre ( talk ) 16:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) -- (drini's page| ☎ ) 19:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support -- Essjay ·    Talk 23:10, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Looking at his talk page, VAMTG appears to have a very high spirit. Supporting. Denelson83 07:27, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. the wub  "?!"  16:18, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support devotion is more important than clicking "random article". freestylefrappe 00:48, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. Friday (talk) 02:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Fir  e  Fo  x  08:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. The Minister of War 10:19, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. Very knowledgable, very helpful, very mature. This user knows a lot about Wikipedia and Wikipedia policy. He leave insightful and meaningful comments on the discussion page. And his contributions are solid. My vote thus reflects this opinion. -- E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 22:03, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support V. Molotov (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]]  19:32, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. -- tomf688 {talk} 22:00, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * Oppose till user sets/enables his email id. =Nichalp «Talk»=  06:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Nichalp. An admin needs an e-mail address for contact.  Please leave a note on my talk page if you do so, and I'll gladly reconsider my vote.   Ral  315   WS  08:34, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I already posted it my email up there yesterday on my user page. I also just enabled that e-mail feature. Voice of  All   @  |  E  |Merit  15:22, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for enabling it. =Nichalp «Talk»=  16:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Do not listen to him... Listen to us, User:JIP! An admin doesn't necessarily need an e-mail address. — J I P | Talk 16:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, they most certainly do. Blockee's should be able to email you. If you don't have one set, I do hope you set it now. R  e  dwolf24  (talk—How's my driving?) 05:12, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose. Many minor edits to only a few articles, and use of edit summaries is very poor. Owen× ☎  12:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I either use an edit summary or "minor" when editing article space depending on what I am doing, so I would not considered it to be "very" poor. Also, I have made many edits that were not "minor", such as NLP, George Bush, History of Peurto Rico, Olmsted Amendment,Antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery, Operation Bootstrap, Wraparound mortgage,Cephalosporin...and so on...I could go on...Finally, I would by no means not consider 230 distinct pages to be "only a few". 4000 Distince article is definitely a lot, so is 1000, but 230 is not "a few". Some people enjoy clicking "random page", some don't; both are still equally useful. Please check edit histories before making such comments and please do not exaggerate so much. Thank you. Voice of All  @ ''' 14:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrá 21:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Note that this user has put "oppose", without any explanation on almost every single RfA all in one short time period. This is either an agenda(no more admins?) or a possible RfC case. Note that the RfA guidelines say please include a short explanation of your reasoning, particularly when opposing a nomination. Voice of All  @ ''' 21:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * He has done for a while now, though I seem to recall he has voted support on a few very rare occasions. As for an RFC, it's been and gone. the wub "?!"  23:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Boothy does have admin standards and he explained them to Acetic Acid in one of his talk archives and they are very high so many admins dont even pass with his high admin standards, whichc explains his oppose vote. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 01:26, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yea I seen Him vote support once in a while but that rare I think his limits on adminship are somewhere --JAranda'' | watz sup 23:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * here. -Greg Asche (talk) 01:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) (posted after edit conflict with the wub) Oppose — while Voice of All(MTG) is a great contributor, I recently came across this edit posted by him on Redwolf24's talk page:  boothy344 has voted no on every single RfA without explanation. This is not only suspesious, but against RfA guidlines. This is possible trolling warranting RfC. I wonder if the beaurocrates even count such silly votes. This is just ridiculous. (sic) As far as I'm concerned, I would prefer admin candidates not to call someone a possible troll. Not only will this usually flame a conflict, but it may be considered a personal attack. Though I don't agree with Boothy's votes, he is a respected Wikipedian in good standing and should not be called a troll. The rest of the comment, along with his response to Boothy's vote above, also makes me hesistant. While it's OK to question Boothy's votes (many have done so, and I'm sure many will do so in the future), it's certainly not OK to call someone a troll. Combined with a low edit count percentage and diminishing edits on the project (see the chart; your overall contributions have leveled off since 9/16), I just don't think you're ready yet. You're a great Wikipedian, VOA, so please don't be discouraged by my comments. If this RfA fails (which it looks like it won't), I'd gladly support you in the future. Best wishes, and thanks for your understanding. Flcelloguy | A note?  | Desk |  WS 23:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I said "possible" trolling. In addittion, my edits have increased shortly after I arrived at college. While I was first getting set up there, freshman year,(sept 18), I did not have much edit time. So that explains the temporary edit decrease. They are on the rise again, just get a new chart with Kate's tool or something. Also, I would not accuse him possible trolling if I was confronting him, I was merely discussing that possibility with other people. You should not the distinction. Also, thank you for your respect though, as the other two oppose votes are either unexplained or harsh and exaggerated.  Voice of All  @ ''' 02:24, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose Neutral based on: "Also, I would not accuse him possible trolling if I was confronting him, I was merely discussing that possibility with other people. You should not the distinction (sic)." I do note the distinction and think it a poor one. If you are unwilling to say something to someone directly how is it becoming of you to say it to others? Slander is not slander if presented in a person's company; it only becomes so when an accusation is levelled to third parties. Marskell 09:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It is not slander, I said "possible".
 * And Boothy would not listen to me anyway, as others have tried, even made an RfC against him, and he totally ignored it. He simply signs under oppose, not bothering to even write "oppose", and then moves on to the next RfA and does the same. When people ask why, he just ignores them(I think that he did responde once to someone though).
 * I often find it useful to discuss possible explanations of civility matter with other reasonable people like RedWolf24, and after I consider their opinions and ideas, I then can decide how to attack the situation. MONGO also believes that Boothy was being disruptive and unreasonable, but he also said that he doubts that he is a troll. I considered his opinion and agree. Let me be clear: I do not think that Boothy is a troll, he has made plenty of good contribitions. However, I do believe that being disruptive on RfA is a serious matter, that he should have responded in his RfC, and that such behavoir is uncivil, uneccesary, and makes Wikipedia more cold and harsh than it need be.
 * Slander is knowingly saying something false about someone. I said possible trolling, not "he is a troll". In fact, one can do things that are considered trolling and still not be a troll, as they perhaps do not realize the extend of their actions. If I said "he is a troll" or "that was trolling", then it would be possible slander. If I said those things(which I didn't) and I knew that he was not trolling, then it would be slander. Voice of All  @ ''' 16:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Slander is knowingly saying something false about someone in their absence. Your boss is quite within his rights to bring you into his office and say "I believe you are stealing, what do you have to say for yourself?" even if he is in error; they are not allowed to circulate a rumour to this affect (or even "possibly stealing" which is just a subtler form of slander) amongst others, true or not, in the absence of your being able to defend yourself. Wiki isn't a court obviously, but my implication above is that it is actually acceptable to go to Boothy's page and tell him he is behaving like a troll if that's how you feel and you should actually do this rather than raising it with other people. Granted, an oppose without comment is frustrating and you have taken the time to respond so I will move to neutral. Marskell 17:38, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will try to be more direct in the future, but discussing it with a few others(2-3) in such cases helps me get a more neutral opinion if I am upset by something the relavant person is doing. That way, if I confront him/her, my greviences will less provacative and therefore more productive. Voice of All  @ ''' 17:58, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Strong oppose The fact that you are in WikiProject Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit the former WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency concerns me as well as calling assuming boothy a troll. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 21:51, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I never called him a "troll", that is just incorrect. Please read my above comments. Thank you. Voice of All  @ ''' 22:45, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral- Few edits on Wikipedia name space, and only 209 distinct pages edited. I would suggest a bit more grunt work and then I will support. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 22:58, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral-  per Jossifresco --Sebastian Kessel Talk 19:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * Candidate doesn't appear to contactable be email.Geni 22:00, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I posted my ID, so that is no longer the case. Voice of  All   @  |  E  |Merit  15:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Could You tell what specific articles have you written from start (major contributions)? feydey 23:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A chart showing this user's edits along with a total # of edits line and average edits per day line is available here: Image:Voice-of-All(MTG)-edits.png. I offer this not as a more refined version of editcountitis, but as just one tool to help evaluate an admin nominee with a somewhat low edit count on Wikipedia. --Durin 14:40, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Use of edit summaries is 37%, 45% last 500 edits. Average edits per day is 17 and stable. --Durin 14:40, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. I will continue to participate in RfAs and VfDs along with various Community Portal Open Tasks. As an administrator, I could not only vote on AfDs, but I could also enforce the consensus once the polls close.

 * B. Additionally, I could delete relatively new (old enough that they are not just developing stubs) pages that obviosly meet speedy deletion requirements.

 * C. Reverting vandals using the Rollback feature.

 * D. Protecting articles only if absolutely necessary(severe POV disputes/trolls/nonstop vandalism from various sources).

 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I really enjoyed making edits to Puerto Rico related articles, as they have a calm and onstructive editing envirnment. Doing the research and finding sources gave me a break from NPOV tiptoeing on hot topics.

 * B. On the other hand, My expansions to the Health section, among other edits, to the George Bush article were quite pleasing, as only constructive edits were made to it by other users, in spite of the fact that the page is on such a contraversial topic. I also enjoyed making other NPOV edits to contraversial pages without getting into any conflicts; this is a testimant to the maturity and reasonable nature of most of Wikipedia's regular contributors.

 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. My first few day here were rough as I ran into an IP troll. I removed his comment on the George Bush page, which made things get worse. I then realized that generally, it is better to just leave the comments alone, hence giving them no attention, hence I am not feeding the troll.

 * B. During my ealier time here, I also made an edited out some of Gavin the Chosen's amazingly poor grammar, causing RyanFriesling, who did not notice the ":)" in my edit summary to point errors that I made. That develped into a confict on the talk page, which soon after,was resolved on Ryan's talk page. She misunderstood that I was kidding around and I mistakenly assumed that she was trolling. So I further learned to Assume Good Faith after that(although that is admittedly one of the hardest Wiki-ideals to master).

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


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User talk:Salthered

A welcome from Sango123
Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Though we all make goofy mistakes, here is what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful.

Happy Wiki-ing!

-- Sango  123   (talk)  20:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything or simply wish to say hello. :)

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