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User talk:Alai/Archive3

 Archive 1 - Archive 2

Louis Glackens
chris adams 18:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC) Re: Louis Glackens You recently catagorized one of my articles as a "stub". While it is indeed a short article, I don't feel it warrants stubification. Wikipedia states that one way "to define a stub is an article so incomplete that an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial internet search or a few minutes in a reference library". I have been interested in this person for years, and I must say that six sentences is all I can come up on him. I doubt there is much more information available. And so, I am respectfully destubify this article. -- Chris

Thanks!
I'm grateful for your kind welcome to Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to many happy hours of editing ahead. Ezratrumpet 06:17, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

"Scotland-related stub" creation
Hi, thanks for the warning. I have put some comments on my own talk page, and would have no problem putting it through the right channels. The UK category is a bit broad, and I believe it would also take care of various Scottish stubs which don't fit too neatly into other categories e.g. Curragh (both a Scottish and Irish related article maybe).--MacRusgail 16:08, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Alai!
Thanks for going through the extremely dull work of sorting the stubs categories of the heap of articles I've created recently, my dear Alai! You deserve a rest and a cold beer for the task. So come to the table and have one! I doubt that you remember me, but we had the chance to talk back in April regarding the edit war at History of Germany with Heimdal. I'll have to revisit that article and see what remained of it... It's great to see you again. Have a nice day, and hugs! Shauri   smil  e  !  00:48, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you liked the beer, Alai :) In fact, the stubs I was referring to are related to the Texas Rangers, like John Coffee Hays, Samuel Hamilton Walker, Leander H. McNelly, John B. Jones and others, all of which you've wisely categorized. I went on a stub-creating spree on these guys because I greatly expanded the Rangers' article and FACed it... which fortunately ended up successfully! :) I'll add the proper stub category to other ones that I made in such preparation. Again, thank you! Hugs, Shauri  [[Image:Heart.gif|11px]]  smil  e  !  21:07, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Nomination
 Freestylefrappe would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Freestylefrappe (email: danofalltrades7@hotmail.com) to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Requests for adminship/. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so. Freestylefrappe 01:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Inlining image
Ta for inlining image at WP:SCOWNB!--Mais oui! 10:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Thanks - I have much less time to edit now - and will be doing some stuff on Physics since it is less emotionally charged for me. I have been cleaning up my watchlist of LDS articles so I can focus better. Therefore, please let me know if there is an issue in the LDS community where I could be helpful. I am a little disappointed to see my Infobox removed from Joseph Smith - but I agree with some of CODGEN's reasoning - perhaps an edit to Joseph Smith, Jr./Infobox could address his concerns while keeping the style similar to the other LDS prophets. I must say that I absolutely hate the toccolours style and its derivatives that are used in the biographical template - yuck! Trödel| talk 11:52, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

American Football Bio Stub
I'd suggest first splitting it into players, coaches, and other figures. That could cut it down from the 900 to something more managable. After that, maybe look into league, decade, and whatnot...but that seems the most logical to me.jfg284 15:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Robert Steadman...
Oh yes, there have been much, much worse - I just hoped they'd notice how silly it was getting. Thanks for putting this up on RfC, it promises to be a lot of fun. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 00:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Cheers
Cheers, Alai, most welcoming! ben 06:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Macao-stub
 Let's sort it out at WP:WSS/P and WP:SFD. :-) — Instantnood 21:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't expect him to answer you. SchmuckyTheCat 07:50, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 *  I think I've responded your concern, that is, the issue over spelling variants was not appropriately handled, and some arguments were based on assumptions that are not entirely true. — Instantnood 16:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop!
Hi,, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  Please also add your name to WP:LA. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  14:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats on adminship. Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  22:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations! You'll be a great admin! Kirill Lokshin 18:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats - didn't even see you were up, but it is well-deserved and overdue. -Visorstuff 22:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations! I knew your RFA would pass easily. Jonathunder 23:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats from me too! As to voting early and often, there are times when that would be very useful on sfd! :) Grutness...  wha?  07:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations! The reason I voted for you was as follows: Despite our obvious disagreements, you've always been polite in regards to the SFD debates (unlike some editors I've encountered). Also the wikistress level is a bit old... I never fixed it. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:12, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Ag stub
(I've also added this as ancomment on SfD entry, but I wanted to make certain you saw this.)

 * Actually where I live, Ag is fairly common. A Google on ag and farm returns over 7 million entries, but I noticed that the first 50 entries (which was as far as I inspected) were all United States and Canadian sites, so I suspect it may be just a North American English thing, which probably explains why you are unfamiliar with it. Caerwine 06:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Highways
I believe you are mistaking what we believe. A "state highway" is a noun, a "California State Highway" is a proper noun.Gateman1997 05:53, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a proper noun because California State Route is a particular type of state route. While a California state route/highway could refer to any route in California state.Gateman1997 22:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Admin
Hi Alai! I've explained my answer to that question (#6) at Requests for adminship/Ronline. Ronline 04:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, the point I'm trying to make is that, in a dispute I am actively in, I would not use my admin powers in any way that would disadvantage the "opposition". However, I don't see anything wrong with continuing to apply objective things such as 3RR, simple vandalism, etc. So the answer is "No, except for things that are blatantly and objectively against policy." Ronline 04:35, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I understand how those things can be conflicts of interest. Which is why I would never protect a page I'm disputing in. Which is why I wouldn't block users on these pages for inserting information, even if it's false and tendentious. Is my answer OK now (see the candidature page)? Ronline 04:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * OK. Revised once again. Ronline 05:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * No, what you've done is perfectly fine. Administrator abuse is a terrible thing because it leads to alienation on the part of users, which is what lack of communication also leads to. And alienation is a major factor in leading to conflict, not only in Wikipedia but in the world in general. Ronline 05:27, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Your comments
Thank you, both for the expression of support and the chuckle! I hope not to let you down on that... I'm not sure whether ot not I hope to be elected/appointed/whatever! :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: RfB
Hi, you expressed some concern about my answers to the candidate questions in my RfB. I've tried to clarify them further, so would you mind taking another look? I don't mind if you decide to stay neutral. Anyway, good day to you and happy editing! Johnleemk | Talk 07:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Halibutt's RfA
I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works. As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and sorry for my discrepancies!
I hope I didn't aggravate anyone with my plethora of unlabled and minor edits to the Atlantis page. I'm a bit nitpicky and of course very compulsive with knowledge.

Thanks again, and I hope to be of service.

gustable

Stubs For Deletion Option
No offense, but please give me another option, having it in permanent limbo is unacceptable. The stub is posted on WP:NH(kind of as a point of pride), and that little "This Stub Is Up For Deletion" makes our state's transportation network to seem not worthy of its own stub despite the fact that there are nearly 100 in that stub cat. People looking at that little template on top of the stub may decide not to use it in the belief that it's temporary even though the worst possible thing that would happen here is that another, almost identical one would take its place. If SfD can't resolve this issue, i'm tempted to send SfD to MfD. karmafist 08:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That's no prank, and quite frankly, the reason why I said that is most likely the reason you put closing the discussion in hyphens. No progress has been made in two months. The average afd takes a week, and has clear rules on closing. I'm moving over to the log now, that discussion has gone on for too long and somebody has to be bold here, I'll go to the village pump later to ask in a change of policy, but that rarely does anything, so I might have to still pull an Ed Poor and do what I said before.

By the way, our wikiproject just started halfway through this discussion, and we've already added 5 members and tagged around 3 dozen articles. We all have better things to do than deal with stub bureaucracy cruft. karmafist 16:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I'll try in a bit
I've been having a bad week, i'll try in a bit to craft a better description of what i'm trying to say, it wasn't my intention to insult you or anything. Lately, everywhere I look I see a tangled mess of invisible rules and entrenched regulars established with the old way of doing things(which is arcane and outdated many places, IMO) to do what seems to be needed. That's what the bureaucracy was about, I encourage clearly set guidelines so if there's a problem, there isn't an arguement over what should be done in order to do what is basically maintenance. karmafist 19:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. -- featured status vote
Thanks for your suggestions on this article. The article is now up for featured article status. Please vote here, if you can. CO GDEN  22:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Highway madness
Hi Alai - I was under the impression that the official designation of those roads was "Washington State Highways". If they're simply Washington state highways, then they should stay as lower case,, but I don't know which way the legislation runs on them. I'm willing to go with whichever is the correct name. Grutness...wha?  01:09, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I should have guessed I wasn't the first to make that joke. As to the official names, if he takes it to cfd, then someone there will surely be able to quote chapter and verse on the correct capitalisation, and - as pointed out - the sfd result will all depend on cfd. Grutness...wha?  01:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I have moved the debate off my talk page and to User talk:Rschen7754/Highway Capitalization. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Mindmatrix scam adminship
I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA for TheParanoidOne
Hello Alai. Thanks for the vote of confidence in my RFA. I have now officially received the badge, so I shall try my best to be a good administrator. Thanks again. --TheParanoidOne 21:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Verifiability
Hi Alai, regarding your comment on WP:V, I can't see it in both the policy and guideline categories, and I can't see two headers. It's policy so that's where it should be. Am I not seeing something you can see? SlimVirgin (talk) 07:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Cheese with whine?
Banons, I don't no stinkin' banons! Caerwine Caerwhine 05:26, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

KTVX
You have received this message because you have edited a Salt Lake City media article in the past. We have recently had an edit war regarding the wording and inclusion of a paragraph on the KTVX article. In hopes of resolving this I have put together an informal survey. If you are interested, please stop by Talk:KTVX and add a vote. Thanks, A 09:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Remedies applied only to articles?
As the disputes involved in this case explicitly include categories, and have recently spread to include the stub namespace, would the arbcom consider broadening article-related provisions to category-pages and templates, too?

 * The decision includes everything whether it is technically an article or not. Fred Bauder 13:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Incidentally, remedies 5 & 6 appear to mandate that Instantnood be informed if either of the other two are barred from an article under the terms of their probation, which I assume is a cut-and-paste error. Alai 05:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

 * They need only be notified of a ban on themselves. Fred Bauder 13:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * fwiw, This was corrected in the final decision. SchmuckyTheCat 15:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

mea-stub
Hi there. I noticed your post-mortem comment for this on WP:SFD as well as your comments on the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles talk page. I've added a further comment there to see if I can get a response. Deleting this would be a waste of a lot of effort, so if there is no response I will be highly tempted to just carry out the proposed MEA-expand rename. Good idea? Bad idea? --TheParanoidOne 23:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Get your edit count up ;)
Early life Joseph Smith will be featured on the Main Page on the front page on the 23rd. Vandalism will probably be frequent that day. Could you help in monitoring the page? The 23rd starts at 7 pm ET on Dec 22nd, since wikipedia goes by UTC. Thx in advance. Trödel talk 01:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for protecting my sig page. I would love to visit Scotland - I have two tartan ties I bought here when I was on my mission - glad you are getting a break. I hope we are up to the task. My main concern is from about 5 UTC to 11 UTC as that is when most of the US is asleep, and I don't know many european editors. I hope there isn't too much vandalism - I originally had the 23rd off (Fri before Christmas) but now we are getting Mon the 26th off, so I don't know how much help I'll be. Have a great vacation!! Trödel talk 03:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Early life of JS edits
I'm afraid you might need to block User:130.13.121.233 - he has made the same full section deletion to the treasure seeking marriage section. I'll explain in detail on his talk if you decide to block that ip. Trödel talk 00:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I left him an explanation already - have a good Christmas! Trödel talk 00:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

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wtf is this?!?!?!?!?!!

Information: New Help Group
This message is to inform you about a new group whose aim is to try and answer Wikipedians' questions. The group is based here, and is so far nameless. If you can offer any help by improving the pages or by answering any questions, then you are very welcom to do so. You are also welcome to raise any questions.

If you know of anyone who would either like to know about this or could benefit from it, then please tell them. Thank you. The Neokid 19:07, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
 Francs2000's Bureaucratship

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs2000 22:04, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

3RR
Hi, I saw you blocked Gryffindor for a violation of 3RR. Did you look into that? I have my doubts about the validity of the claim. (Perhaps Gryffindor was just reverting POV? Not positive, since I myself haven't looked in to it totally, but the comment here was made by User:Jamesbozen (talk • contribs), who, while I'm not saying is a bad user, I don't know yet, and looks to be a newbie?) No rush on replying, I'm just curious. Have a nice day! Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl ♪ 13:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello Alai, yes I do have to wonder about that as well. I thought I made my actions pretty clear in my comments of the histories when reverting, such as South Tyrol, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy and Bozen-Bolzano. I kept on reverting the edits by the anon users, however got tired of it therefore I tried to get the opinions of other users, see, , , , as well as leaving numerous warnings on the talk page of anon . I also reported the case on the Wikiquette alerts . Since the users kept on doing it, I decided to report at least one case. I also pointed out to the other cases in my report . I'm really not sure what else I needed to have done in order to avoid getting blocked myself. I appreciate and thank you for your help in blocking anon and defending me. Maybe you could be so kind as to point out to me what was done wrong and how it can be avoided in future, because I find it unjustified to block me as well. I received no warning of impending breach of rules, which would have sufficed I think. with kind regards Gryffindor  19:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Violingirl, what doubts about validity do you have, exactly? "Reverting POV" isn't an exception to the 3RR, and I don't think the reverts were simply of vandalism as such.  (They don't look like good edits to me either, mind you.)
 * Gryffindor, my suggestion on not getting blocked for the 3RR is simple: don't revert so often!  Wait and see if someone else reverts the changes:  if they're as bad as you think, surely they will.  By all means contact other people, or noticeboards, etc, but those are intended to be alternatives to serial reverting, not simply prerequisites to doing so.  Please note that the 3RR applies per 24 hours, not per calendar day, as your own numbering of your reverts seems to reckon it.  If you'd misunderstood that, I have even more sympathy for you, which I have rather a lot of in any case, as I'm sure your edits were in good faith.  But none the less they were indeed reverts, and an excessive number of them at that, and I felt it wouldn't have been supportable to block one party and not the other, when both are equally guilty at least in technical terms.  I'd probably have lifted your block early on the basis of the checkuser results, since the sockpuppetry at work here seems to have been a large part of what provoked you into breaking the rule, but unfortunately I wasn't online much yesterday (pesky broadband regime has left me in the lurch again).  Alai 19:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Incidentally, I didn't warn first as firstly, it's not a requirement; secondly, as I assumed that if you were familiar enough with the rule to file 3RR violation reports against others, you'd be familiar enough to avoid infringing against it yourself; and lastly and most importantly, so as to deal as equitably and impartially as possible between two parties guilty of essentially the same "offence", regardless of any personal opinions or sympathies I might have on the matter. Note also that if you disagree with a block, you're free to email the blocking admin, and in any case, you're free to admin your own talk page even while blocked, so you can make whatever commentary you wish there.  In any case, glad you're back, all the best.  Alai 19:58, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh lord this is so confusing to me. Ok, because my understanding was you need to warn someone about the reverts, that's why I was warning the anon. user. Considering that user was probably using multiple account (if I may dare say so), I was only able to warn one address, not the others. you are right about the one day/24 hour thing, I must have gotten that one confused. Ok, so am I getting this right: next time, see how many reverts have been done in 24 hours, not one day (meaning from morning till evening), and inform other users first about the going on's. see if they think it needs to be reverted, or let others do them. But I thought that reverts by other users do not count towards the limit on the three-revert-rule, only if I do the reverts do they count. Is that correct, or it does not matter which users do the revert? IMO the changes done constituted vandalism, because whole sections of the article were simply being sliced away (see South Tyrol), it wasn't just about names. Please correct me if I'm wrong or forgot something, thanks. Gryffindor  20:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Warning's a very good idea, and I entirely applaud you for having done so, it's just not part of the blocking policy as such. I may have been somewhat severe in my assumption that if you warned and reported someone else, you were fully aware and didn't need to be warned myself, but at any rate such was my thinking at the time.  The rule is: no more than three reverts per person, per article.  Reverts by others don't count, reverts by sockpuppets do.  (So ideally your antagonist would have been blocked sooner, and more thoroughly, but hopefully this is resolved now at any rate, if a little later than would have been ideal.)  I didn't notice any other "vandalistic" changes at the time, nor any reports that they were such.  Looking back I can see half of paragraph was being removed from Trentino-South_Tyrol (but nothing similar on South Tyrol) though that's not necessarily "blanking vandalism", or at any rate, isn't clear-cut as such.  As other people were indeed making reversions sim8ilar to your own, all the more reason to stop when you reach your own "limit".  Of course, even better to resolve the dispute otherwise, without "using the reverts"!  (Though I admit this seems unlikely to have been possible here.)  Alai 20:32, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, gotcha. So in case something like this happens again, can I ask you for your opinion so that everything is legit? This was really my first time reverting such a user and using the reverts policy. Gryffindor  20:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely welcome to, certainly. Alai 23:32, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm still slightly confused...So, if it's a case of POV, don't revert more than once(?), but if it's vandalism, then you can revert however many times the vandal vandalizes. :) Right? (And, thanks for being patient explaining this to me!) -- Violin  G  irl ♪ 00:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No, you can in principle revert POV, or anything else you think needs to be reverted, up to the maximum number of times (i.e. 3). I'm just offering the commentary that reverting may not be the best action to take, esp. repeatedly, as it'll often just lead to further retaliation in kind.  But on vandalism, yes, however many times however many vandals vandalise. :)  And, you're welcome!  Alai 00:23, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, got it, this time! Thanks for helping. -- Violin  G  irl ♪ 13:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, merci beaucoup. Gryffindor  13:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Cosplay edit war incident
Hello there! :)

This is with regards to the very public edit war in the cosplay articles regarding the filcosplay forums, and the pinoycosplay forums. I would firstly like to apologize for the behavior of the Filipinos involved, and would like to ask not to take the actions of a few for the actions of us as a whole. I speak for several members of Filcosplay, who asked to apologize to the administrators caught up in the fighting, and they would like me to explain to you that they were not intentionally encouraging the edit war; they only wanted to have their own webpage up on the site, and fought back only when the user |Mikeabundo began constantly deleting their link without explanation.

I have posted on the discussion page of the Cosplay article, asking for your help in this matter, if you are available (and will be deeply in your debt!) As I have mentioned there, Mikeabundo has been something of a thorn on the cosplay community's side since late 2005, when he first began causing a ruckus. He takes photos from pretty female cosplayers and posts them on his site without permission, implying that he is on close terms with the women despite repeated overtures by the latter to stop using their pictures. In 2005, he bought pinoycosplay.com (there is a mailing list that has existed since 2000 called "pinoy cosplay", in no way affiliated with his forums, and in fact was opposed to taking a similar name as theirs); we believe that one of the reasons for his taking that domain name is that he can claim his boards to be the extension of the oldest filipino cosplay community. Some people have posted on his forums to point that fact out but, like what he has done here with regard to the filcosplay link in wikipedia, simply deletes the posts that contradicts his own without bothering to reply.

Recently, he bought filcosplay.com, and then re-directed that domain name to his pinoycosplay.com site, in the hopes of taking away potential new members who had heard of and were curious about the name "filcosplay". While this is not illegal in itself, it nonetheless smacks of immorality and a lack of netiquette. Filcosplay was never informed by |Mikeabundo about his taking the filcosplay.com domain name; they were only made aware of it through the discovery of one Filcosplay moderator trying out domain names on his browser.

I can provide proofs regarding all I have mentioned above as further evidence of his character, along with further proofs that filcosplay has been in existence far longer than pinoycosplay (which only began in late 2005 as well), that filcosplay has more members, and that filcosplay is supported by many of the online filipino gaming and anime communities (while pinoycosplay is not; it is in fact shunned by some communities because of its owner's actions). Quite frankly, many people have been very irritated by his ongoing behavior, along with his inability to make compromises - people not just in the cosplay community, but also many other people in blogging communities, gaming communities, and even some in the Philippine Technology field. While we have very little success to date in solving many of our problems regarding him, we are hoping at the very least, not to have the wikipedia incident added to our list.

(At the very list, we are hoping to remove the "old" descriptions labelled with the filcosplay link in the protected cosplay page, because it is both untruthful and misleading; we have no complaint against having the pinoycosplay link up as long as we are given fair treatment in the page; unfortunately, the other party does not share the same views.)

Thank you very much, and I apologize for taking up much of your time. I am relatively new to the inner workings of wikipedia, though I visit the site and read articles there often, and I would appreciate any help you can give regarding the situation. :)

Altaecia 13:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject LDS
Hello! I noticed you were on the list of members in the LDS WikiProject, and I was wondering if you were still interested in helping out there. You see, over the past few months, it appears that it has slowly drifted into inactivity. But you CAN help. Please consider doing both of the following:

 * 1) Take ONE thing form the To-Do list and do it. Once you're done with it, remove it from the list, and from the< >< >, so we know its done. Keep the page on your watchlist. We have a backlog going for more than half a year. Please help to work on it, and remove it.
 * 2) Vote on the LDSCOTF, and work on it!
 * 3) Tell your friends (esp. LDS friends, & esp. Wikipedian friends) about this WikiProject, and enocourage them to join (and be active).

Remember: your involvement in this WikiProject is just that - involvement! Please help us out.

(Note: I'm sending this out to everyone who's name was on the membership list, so I will NOT be watching this page for a response. If you want to contact me, do it on MY talk page, please.)

Thanks for all that you do -Trevdna 15:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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Vanpool

Vanpools or vanpooling is an element of the transit system that allow groups of people to share the ride similar to a carpool, but on a larger scale with concurrent savings in fuel and vehicle operating costs and thus usually a lower cost to the rider. Vanpools have a lower operating and capital cost than most transit vehicles in the United States, but due to their relatively low capacity, vanpools often require subsidies comparable to conventional bus service.

Vehicles may be provided by individuals, individuals in cooperation with various public and private support programs, through a program operated by or on behalf of an element of government, or a program operated by or on behalf of an employer.

The key concept is that people share the ride from home or one or more common meeting locations and travel together to a common destination or work center.

A number of programs exist (within the United States) to help lower the cost of that shared ride to the end user. Among these are traditional funding available to public agencies, public-private partnerships, and the Best Work Places for Commuters (Commuter Choice Programs). A tax benefit is available under 26 U.S.C. §132(f) Qualified Transportation Fringe Benefit allowances. These public transportation programs seek to reduce the number of cars on the road (with all the attendant environmental benefits).

Additional benefits include:
 * Speed: The van can use the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes because normally more than 2-3 people ride.
 * Fixed schedule (makes transit more predictable).
 * Saving the cost of gasoline (in some cases, it is part of the program).
 * Riders often can have significant reductions in the cost of personal automobile insurance (insurance for the rideshare component is usually provided as part of the vanpool program).
 * Incentives from local/federal transportation authorities offset cost.

In many cases, an employer may elect to subsidize the cost of the vanpool and the vehicles' maintenance. In some cases, the vehicles are provided and maintained by the municipality; in others, they are provided in partnership with or by a third-party provider. For example, UCLA operates an extensive network of vans in which faculty, staff, and students are eligible for discounted rates, although anyone commuting to the Westwood area is allowed to participate, with drivers receiving the highest discounts. The vans are centrally maintained, fueled, and cleaned.

The King County Metro Vanpool Program is a successful demand responsive transport program in the Puget Sound area, specifically in King County, Washington. Other successful programs are operated by Pace in Illinois and Utah Transit Authority in Utah.

Vanpooling was begun in the early nineteen seventies by a company called People’s Vans by founder Victor Paglia in 1972 to address the need for people to acquire affordable travel cross country. Reference May 14 article in the Travel section of the New York Times

The oldest multi-employer vanpool program in the country is in Treasure Valley, Idaho. For over 30 years Ada County Highway District’s Commuteride Vanpools have been crisscrossing the Valley helping commuters go to and from work, with their numerous vanpool routes traveling throughout the Treasure Valley. The Vanpools also service the Military at Gowen Field and Mountain Home Air Force Base (MHAFB) with multiple routes to and from Ada and Canyon County. ACHD Commuteride serves the cities, Boise, Meridian, Kuna, Garden City, Eagle and Star as well as Ada County.

Private firms operate vanpools for individuals, as well as in cooperation with employers or under contract.

Another notable example is Swvl, a NASDAQ publicly held company, that is providing Vanpooling services in 18 countries.

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 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 22:54, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

The Dangerous Man
Probably non-notable, with 129 google hits for Jamie Andrew Watkins-Morris. No specific and verifyable claims of notability in the article. Thue | talk 21:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Probably notable, with many more hits for 'The Dangerous Man' on Google, as this is the name as to which Jamie Andrew Watkins-Morris uses, so there will be very few for his real name User:james.w03 | talk 22:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete nn. Note User:james.w03 is the article's creator.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  22:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete The sheer hubris of this made me laugh. Totally nn, and ridiculous vanity page with no assertion (other than I wrote some crap in a blog that pissed off my 4 readers) that would prevent it from being speedily deleted.  Dottore So 07:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Lol. Delete it then. Just a laugh that people are taking way too serious User:james.w03 | talk

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Voroneț Monastery

The Voroneț Monastery is a medieval monastery in the Romanian village of Voroneț, now a part of the town Gura Humorului. It is one of the famous painted monasteries from southern Bukovina, in Suceava County. The monastery was constructed by Stephen the Great in 1488 over a period of 3 months and 3 weeks to commemorate the victory at Battle of Vaslui. Often known as the "Sistine Chapel of the East" for its vivid frescoes, Voroneț's walls feature an intense shade of blue known in Romania as "Voroneț blue."

The monastery is located to the south of Gura Humorului in Suceava County, in the valley of the Voroneț River. The legend of the origin of the church unites two men central to Romanian history: the founder of the monastery, Stephen the Great, and Saint Daniil the Hermit, the first abbot of the monastery. The tomb of Saint Daniil is located within the monastery.

The church is one of the Painted churches of Moldavia listed in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.

History
The age of the monastic site is not known. A legend tells us that Stephen the Great, in a moment of crisis during a war against the Ottoman Turks, came to Daniel the Hermit at his skete in Voroneț and asked for advice. Daniel told him not to surrender the fight. Then, after victory, he must build a monastery dedicated to Saint George. The original entrance above the Church of Saint George, now in the exonarthex, bears the inscription: "I, Voivode Stephen, by the Grace of God Ruler of Moldavia, son of Bogdan, have started to have the monastery of Voroneț built to the glory of the holy and well-known St George, the great and victorious martyr, in 6996 in May on 26, on one day of Monday, after the Pentecost and I had it finished the same year, in September, 1488." The church was built on a triconch plan (with three apses), with a chancel, a naos with its tower, and a pronaos.

In 1547, the Metropolitan Bishop of Moldavia Grigorie Roșca added the exonarthex to the west end of the church and had the exterior walls painted. His contribution is recorded on the left of the entrance door: "By the Will of the Father and the Help of the Son and the accomplishment of the Holy Spirit and by the great pains taken by the faithful Kir Grigorie, Metropolitan of the whole Moldavian Country, there was added this title porch and the exterior of the whole church was painted, for the sake of his soul, in 7055 (1547)."

The monastery contains tombstones commemorating Saint Daniel the Hermit, Grigorie Roșca, and other patrons of the church and noblemen.

Voroneţ was known for its school of calligraphy, where priests, monks and friars learned to read, write and translate religious texts. The school produced two notable copies of Romanian translations of the Bible: The Codex of Voroneț, discovered in 1871, and The Psalter of Voroneț, found in 1882. These books are now held at the Romanian Academy.

The monastery was deserted soon after 1775, when the Habsburg monarchy annexed the northern part of Moldavia. The monastic community returned to Voroneț in 1991. Since their return, those living in the monastery have constructed housing for the resident nuns, a chapel, fountains, stables, barns, and a house for pilgrims.

Church
The katholikon (main church) of Saint George at Voroneț Monastery is possibly the most famous church in Romania. It is known throughout the world for its exterior frescoes of bright and intense colours, and for the hundreds of well-preserved figures placed against the renowned azurite background. The small windows, their rectangular frames of crossed rods and the receding pointed or shouldered arches of the interior doorframes are Gothic. The south and north doors of the exonarthex of 1547 have rectangular frames, which indicate a transition period from Gothic to Renaissance. But, above them, on each wall is a tall window with a flamboyant Gothic arch. The whole west façade is without any openings, which indicates that the intention of the Metropolitan Roșca was from the beginning to reserve it for frescoes.

On the north façade is still visible the original decoration of the church, the rows of ceramic enamelled discs in yellow, brown and green, decorated in relief. These include heraldic motifs, such as the rampant lion and the aurochs' head of the Moldavian coat of arms, and creatures inspired by Western European mediaeval literature, such as two-tailed mermaids. The tower is decorated with sixteen tall niches, in four of which are windows. A row of small niches encircles the tower above them. The fragmented roof probably follows the shape of the original roof, which doubtless was made with shingles.

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Bischof

Bischof (bishop) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Gustav Bischof (1792–1870), German chemist
 * Horst Bischof (born 1967), Austrian computer scientist
 * Frank-Peter Bischof (born 1954), German canoeist
 * Werner Bischof (1916–1954), Swiss photographer
 * Kerstin Bischof (born 1980), German singer, vocalist of Xandria

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Flavoprotein

Flavoproteins are proteins that contain a nucleic acid derivative of riboflavin. These proteins are involved in a wide array of biological processes, including removal of radicals contributing to oxidative stress, photosynthesis, and DNA repair. The flavoproteins are some of the most-studied families of enzymes.

Flavoproteins have either FMN (flavin mononucleotide) or FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide) as a prosthetic group or as a cofactor. The flavin is generally tightly bound (as in adrenodoxin reductase, wherein the FAD is buried deeply). About 5-10% of flavoproteins have a covalently linked FAD. Based on the available structural data, FAD-binding sites can be divided into more than 200 different types.

90 flavoproteins are encoded in the human genome; about 84% require FAD and around 16% require FMN, whereas 5 proteins require both. Flavoproteins are mainly located in the mitochondria. Of all flavoproteins, 90% perform redox reactions and the other 10% are transferases, lyases, isomerases, ligases.

Discovery
Flavoproteins were first mentioned in 1879, when they isolated as a bright-yellow pigment from cow's milk. They were initially termed lactochrome. By the early 1930s, this same pigment had been isolated from a range of sources, and recognised as a component of the vitamin B complex. Its structure was determined and reported in 1935 and given the name riboflavin, derived from the ribityl side chain and yellow colour of the conjugated ring system.

The first evidence for the requirement of flavin as an enzyme cofactor came in 1935. Hugo Theorell and coworkers showed that a bright-yellow-coloured yeast protein, identified previously as essential for cellular respiration, could be separated into apoprotein and a bright-yellow pigment. Neither apoprotein nor pigment alone could catalyse the oxidation of NADH, but mixing of the two restored the enzyme activity. However, replacing the isolated pigment with riboflavin did not restore enzyme activity, despite being indistinguishable under spectroscopy. This led to the discovery that the protein studied required not riboflavin but flavin mononucleotide to be catalytically active.

Similar experiments with D -amino acid oxidase led to the identification of flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) as a second form of flavin utilised by enzymes.

Examples
The flavoprotein family contains a diverse range of enzymes, including:

 * Adrenodoxin reductase that is involved in steroid hormone synthesis in vertebrate species, and has a ubiquitous distribution in metazoa and prokaryotes
 * Cytochrome P450 reductase that is a redox partner of cytochrome P450 proteins located in endoplasmic reticulum

 * Epidermin biosynthesis protein, EpiD, which has been shown to be a flavoprotein that binds FMN. This enzyme catalyses the removal of two reducing equivalents from the cysteine residue of the C-terminal meso-lanthionine of epidermin to form a --C==C-- double bond
 * The B chain of dipicolinate synthase, an enzyme which catalyses the formation of dipicolinic acid from dihydroxydipicolinic acid
 * Phenylacrylic acid decarboxylase, an enzyme which confers resistance to cinnamic acid in yeast
 * Phototropin and cryptochrome, light-sensing proteins

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CKDX-FM

CKDX-FM (88.5 MHz, Hot Country 88.5) is a radio station licensed to Newmarket, Ontario, Canada and serving the Greater Toronto Area. Owned by Evanov Communications (but with a 30% stake held by outside investors under numbered companies), it broadcasts a country format. CKDX's studios are located at 5312 Dundas Street West in the Eatonville neighbourhood of Etobicoke, Toronto, while its transmitter is located near Aurora.

History
On August 2, 1978, Bradley R. Walker, representing a company to be incorporated, was given approval by the CRTC to operate a new English language AM radio station at Newmarket, Ontario which would operate on the frequency of 1480 kHz with 10,000 watts day and night.

The station was launched on February 28, 1980, as AM 1480 CKAN, broadcasting from 6 a.m. to midnight with a hybrid easy listening/beautiful music format. The station switched to a country format in 1984. In 1986, the station switched to a Top 40 format, and in 1988 the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day.

The station shut down on March 17, 1992, due to financial problems, but would resume broadcasting on May 17 of that year when the problems were resolved. At the time of the shutdown, the station was known as Energy 1480. In December of that year, the station adopted its current CKDX callsign with an oldies/easy listening format. CKDX subsequently moved to the FM dial in 1994, branding itself as The Phoenix. Since moving to FM, the station has gone through several technical changes.

The station went through a number of format changes in the next several years, adopting a dance format again as Power 88.5 (after a brief period as 88.5 The X) on February 21, 1997, at 8 a.m. On July 19, 1999, at 5 p.m., the station returned to country as 88.5 The Kat. On June 1, 2000, at Noon, the station flipped to a format that has never been tried in Canada before: "Rhythmic oldies" as Dancing Oldies 88.5. By 2001, the "Dancing Oldies" format aired throughout the day, while modern dance music was broadcast at night. It was at this point in time that the station became known as Foxy 88.5, The Dance Music Station. This lasted until January 2002, when it flipped to adult standards while retaining the "Foxy" branding. In April 2007, the station rebranded as 88.5 The Jewel, adopting the "Jewel" branding shortly after the launch of sister station CJWL-FM in Ottawa.

In 2009, after a few years with the adult standards format, the station changed to more of an older-skewing adult contemporary format to replace CJEZ-FM (which became adult hits as CHBM-FM) as CHFI-FM's competing AC station. It was at this point that CHFI began skewing towards a younger audience for its AC format. All of the "Jewel" stations presented an adult contemporary variety of music, from artists such as Elton John, Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, The Eagles, Kelly Clarkson, James Taylor, Lady Antebellum, Adele and Michael Bublé.

88.5 The Jewel also features traditional easy listening/adult standards music on "The Lounge" program, which is simulcast on the other Jewel stations, seven days a week from 7 to 11 p.m.. This program was hosted by a revolving roster of on-air personalities from Jewel stations, playing "Music With Style", often with standards from the Great American Songbook. Frequently played artists include Louis Armstrong, Diana Krall, Gladys Knight and Frank Sinatra. Following The Lounge in the 11 p.m. hour is the "Instrumental Concert Series," a beautiful music block.

On October 1, 2021, at 7 a.m., CKDX rebranded as Lite 88.5.

On November 17, 2023, at 9 a.m., after playing "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire, CKDX flipped back to country, this time as Hot Country 88.5. The first song under the new format was "Hello Country" by Newmarket artist Steven Lee Olsen.

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Regarding the Potato Head article that you keep creating, it has been deleted. Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. Academic Challenger 21:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Aeby

Aeby is a Swiss-German surname, derived from the personal name Adalbert (Albert). Notable people with the surname include:

 * Christoph Theodor Aeby (1835–1885), Swiss anatomist and anthropologist. The "closing plate of Aeby" (sic) is mentioned without a specific citation by the comparative neuroanatomist J.B.Johnston in his 1923 paper on the mammalian amygdaloid region, referring to the locus at the medial hemispheric wall that 'closes' the choroidal fissure. He probably was citing C.T.Aeby.
 * Georges Aeby (1913–1999), Swiss footballer
 * Jack Aeby (1923–2015), American engineer
 * Paul Aeby (1910-?), Swiss footballer
 * Philipp Aeby (born 1968), Swiss businessman

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Waltham St Lawrence

Waltham St Lawrence is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire.

Toponymy
The name 'Waltham' is believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words Wealt and Ham, meaning 'homestead or village in a forest’ (probably indicating a royal hunting estate). The church is called St. Lawrence and thus gives the village its distinguishing affix.

History
There is evidence of the existence of a Roman temple in Weycock Field in the parish. Most of the coins found from the site are of the lower empire (except for a silver one of Amyntas, the grandfather of Alexander the Great) and the area was occupied until 270. The high-road to London formerly left the London to Reading main-road at the 29th milestone and ran across Weycock Field (often referred to as Weycock Highrood). The Priory of Hurley maintained a grange in the village on the site of what is now Church Farm (to the north-west of the present Church) and this is why the great tithes of the parish were formerly appropriated to the Prior of Hurley.

Until quite recent times a large lake separated Waltham St. Lawrence from Ruscombe (the name 'Stanlake' would seem to be a survival of this) and so the southern end of the parish was known as South Lake. The parish church was built where the ancient high-road entered the village. The manor is mentioned as early as 940 but its continuous appearance in historical records may be said to begin with its sale by Ethelred the Unready in 1006. His widow, Queen Emma, bestowed it upon Ælfwine, the Bishop of Winchester. The Domesday Book records: "The King holds Waltham in demesne" and it remained a royal manor until 1189 when Godfrey de Luci, Bishop of Winchester, purchased it from the Crown. It was retained by the bishops of Winchester until the Reformation.

Bishop Ponet of Winchester surrendered the manor of Waltham to King Edward VI in 1551, and the King donated it to Sir Henry Neville, one of the gentlemen of his Privy Chamber, but Queen Mary returned it to Bishop John White of Winchester. King Edward's grant was confirmed (and Queen Mary's annulled) by an Act of Parliament in the first year of Queen Elizabeth I. Billingbear House was built by Sir Henry Neville in 1567, and this Elizabethan mansion existed as the home of the Nevilles until it was pulled down after a fire in the early 20th century. His son was the early-17th-century diplomat, Sir Henry Neville, junior. The parish register records that: "September 17th, 1667, King Charles 2nd, with his brother James Duke of Yorke, Prince Rupert Duke of Cumberland, James Duke of Monmouth and many more of the nobles dined at Bellingbear House in the great Parlour".

At that time, Richard Neville was Lord of the Manor. Henry Neville, the last heir of this branch of the family, who had assumed the name of Grey, as heir of his maternal grandfather, Baron Grey of Werke, died in 1740. On the death of his widow, who afterwards had married as her second husband the Earl of Portsmouth, the manor of Waltham St. Lawrence was inherited by Richard Aldworth of Stanlake, whose father had married the daughter and heir of Colonel Richard Neville. Mr. Aldworth, on his accession to this property, took the name of Neville. The village school—now a County Primary School—was originally a National School with an endowment of £35 by Lord Braybrooke, a Neville descendant. The first Dame School held in the parish was held at 'Honeys'. The village war memorial is at Paradise Corner, which takes its name from the nearby Georgian manor house, Paradise House, on The Street.

In 1920 Hal Taylor founded The Golden Cockerel Press, privately printing books from a surplus army hut he had erected in the village. The press continued to operate there under the later ownership of Robert Gibbings until, in 1933, economic circumstances forced its sale and production was relocated to London.

Location and amenities
Waltham St Lawrence is located in a rural setting in East Berkshire, south of the A4 trunk road and north of the M4 motorway, between Maidenhead and Reading. The parish is bordered by those of Twyford and Hurst to the west and White Waltham and Maidenhead to the east. The population is around 1000 adults with an all-ages estimate of 1,500 living in approximately 550 households. Residents are mainly employed in local towns such as Reading or Bracknell, although a significant number also commute to London. Waltham St Lawrence used to have its own village shop (with a part-time post office), There is a public house, the Bell, while Shurlock Row, in the parish, has another, the Shurlock Inn. West End, between the two villages, is a residential area, where the local village school is located.

Transport
The nearest rail stations are at Twyford 4 mi, Maidenhead 5 mi, Wokingham 6 mi and Bracknell 7 mi. There is a local bus service to Maidenhead and Bracknell.

Architecture
The parish church of St. Lawrence, a grade II* listed building, is of considerable antiquity. The original building probably ante-dates Bishop Godfrey's acquisition of the manor, for traces of pre-13th-century work can still be traced in the crude Norman arches at the west end of the nave. The church was rebuilt in the 13th century when a new aisle in the Decorated style was thrown out on the north side, and the Norman work was broken down, thus opening the new aisle to the nave. Later the chancel, with its side aisles was begun from the east end and the north and south walls of the nave were extended to join up with the new work in the 13th century. At the end of the 14th century, the south aisle of the chancel was enlarged and a square-headed window with trifoliated lights was inserted. Between this side-chapel and the south aisle of the nave is an Early English pointed arch. The window in the north chapel has a 14th-century window and on the south wall may be seen the remains of the ancient piscina. The porch on the south side of the church hides the old south door which is Norman work, set in a section of 11th-century walling.

The Early English Church was plastered inside and on this were commonly painted frescoes. A remnant of this treatment is to be found on the easternmost pillar of the north aisle. Close to this pillar and (behind the priest's stall) on the north side are to be seen traces of a pointed arch which evidently formed the doorway to the rood stairs. This is now blocked up. The Church has a small chancel with choir stalls and a pipe organ built by Henry Willis. The church building was restored in 1847 during the incumbency of the Revd. E. J. Parker, B.D., who gave the stained glass for the east window, which shows in its central panel the Crucifixion, with the Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord on either side. The praying angels on either side of this window are adapted from the famous fresco in the Riccardi Palace in Florence. The reredos is 19th-century work and shows – in three compartments—the Descent from the Cross (centre); on the right, the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; and on the left, Saint Paul preaching in Athens.

Bells
At the west end of the church is a square embattled tower, with a small turret at the south-west angle containing a staircase leading to the belfry and the top of the tower. The ringing chamber is open to the church and contains a beautiful window which is the only good glass in the building. This window, and the square-headed doorway below it, is of the Perpendicular period in English architecture. The tower was built in two sections. The lower part dates from the 14th century and the upper from the 16th. Some of the bells date back to the time of Charles II, but the peal only from 1808, when the bells were recast and rehung.

The peal was again rehung in 1931, and by the generous aid of G. A. Monkhouse, Esq., bells four and six were recast by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. Extracts from the registers make it plain that the tenor and treble, together with the second bell, were broken in 1659, and these – together with the sacring bell – were recast into five bells, and a peal rung for them for the first time on Tuesday, 23 April: "the day which King Charles the 2nd was crowned at Westminster". The sacring bell – which hangs in its own turret at the top of the tower – bears the following inscription: "The gift of John A. Beere of the Hill Henbolt. Pray for the welfare of Robert Conisbe 1681". The A'Bear family lived at Hill Farm at Hare Hatch in the adjoining parish of Wargrave.

Registers
The parish registers its date from 25 November 1558. The originals are lodged for safekeeping with the county archivist in Reading, but the parish priest possesses a transcript (1558 to 1812) by Edmund Newbery. Apart from the usual entries of births, marriages and deaths, there are interesting memoranda, such as the following: "Memorandum that the yewe tree at the churchyard gate on the right hand as one goeth into the churchyard up to the churchpond was planted by Thos. Wilkinson vicar of Waltham in February 1655" "Mabel modwyn widowe abact 68 years old arraigned for witch craft at Redding 29th Feb: and condemned on the 5th of March, 1655. Shee lived at ye south-wist cornr. of lower Innings in ye cornr. next to Binfield".

Notable people

 * Albert Burkill, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council
 * Robert Gibbings, wood engraver, author, broadcaster, educator and publisher. Proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press.
 * Henry Neville (died 1615), English courtier, politician, diplomat, candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.
 * John Newbery, publisher

 * Ernest Renshaw, former tennis player, died in the village.

Film and television
In the 1990s BBC television series Pie in the Sky the titular restaurant, home of DI Henry Crabbe, is located in the fictional town of 'Middleton'. According to a map shown in the 2nd series, this is supposedly located at Waltham St Lawrence (although the filming location was the old town, Hemel Hempstead). Waltham St Lawrence village and its church have also been used for recording episodes of "Rosemary and Thyme" and "Midsomer Murders".

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Biomarkers found in blood, urine, or body tissues that can be introduced or elevated by the presence of one or more types of cancer.

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"Table" runs on from text. Seprtate table wld be nice. Rich Farmbrough

I've re-written and de-stubbed the article, please correct any errors. :) Vidioman 09:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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We need another article for the classic Taito arcade game Zoo Keeper, which is very different from this.
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Game mode: Very Hard Mode
Surely this is achieved by turning the game on.

I've added a page for the Zoo Keeper arcade game.
It's still under construction but it's coming along. Check it out Zoo Keeper (arcade game).

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BetacommandBot 01:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Zookeeperboxart.jpg
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Use of DS boxart
There is absolutely no policy or guideline which states that, if a game has been released on more than one format and there is no "principal" format, then we shouldn't have any boxart at all. I'd love to know the reason why it keeps on getting removed. Any clues? Tim (Xevious) (talk) 11:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

First browser based game ported to a video game console
As far as I know, Zoo Keeper was the first browser based game which was ported to a video game console. It was ported in 2003 to the Game Boy Advance. The flash game Alien Hominid was ported in 2004 to the Gamecube. -- Gebu (talk) 15:08, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

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Boston Pizza

Boston Pizza (BP), known as Boston's The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar outside of Canada, is a Canadian multinational restaurant chain that owns and franchises locations in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

History
Boston Pizza began in Edmonton, Alberta, on August 12, 1964, when Gus Agioritis opened Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House. By 1970, Boston Pizza had 17 locations in Western Canada, 15 of which were franchised.

One of the first franchisees was Jim Treliving, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who lived down the street from the original location and was a regular customer. In 1968, he noticed the growing popularity of Boston Pizza and purchased the rights to open a restaurant in Penticton, British Columbia. While in Penticton, he met George Melville, a chartered accountant. He acted as Treliving's business consultant for four years, and, in 1973, became Treliving's business partner. Over 10 years, they opened 16 restaurants in British Columbia.

In 1983, Treliving and Melville acquired the Boston Pizza chain from Ron Coyle, who had acquired the company from Agioritis in 1978. The two divested 15 of their restaurants to other franchisees, converted one restaurant to a corporate training restaurant and set about establishing systems and operating standards to standardize company operations. In 1986, Boston Pizza became the official pizza supplier for Expo 86 in Vancouver. This major success for the company led to expansion in Eastern Canada, with the company opening three stores in Southern Ontario in 1989. Problems arising from a lack of local management led all three stores to close by the mid-1990s, putting a temporary halt on the company's eastward expansion.

By 1995, the chain had grown to 95 restaurants in Western Canada with sales in excess of $110 million (CAD). Over the many years, the restaurants had become a success, more sports bars had been established as an integral part of the business.

In 1997, Mark Pacinda was hired to attempt a further expansion into Eastern Canada. A regional office and restaurant were opened in Mississauga in 1997, followed by another restaurant in Ottawa in September 1998. The company later opened another regional office in Laval, Quebec, in April 2004. , there are 372 Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada, and over 50 Boston's restaurants in the U.S. and Mexico.

Boston's
Boston's is the U.S. and Mexican version of the Boston Pizza franchise. In 1998, a U.S. headquarters was set up in Dallas, Texas. The Boston Pizza name was changed to Boston's The Gourmet Pizza, Restaurant and Sports Bar that same year. Boston's had over 30 stores in the U.S. and 22 in Mexico.

Promotional branding
As part of an advertising campaign during the first round of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, when the Boston Bruins played the Montreal Canadiens, the company temporarily rebranded its Montreal locations as "Montreal Pizza". In the final round of the playoffs, when the Bruins played the Vancouver Canucks, the company temporarily rebranded its British Columbia locations as "Vancouver Pizza".

Trademark dispute
In 2002, Boston Pizza commenced a lawsuit against Boston Market in the Federal Court of Canada over the trademark use of the word "Boston" in Canada. In its defence, Boston Market alleged that Boston Pizza's trademarks were invalid because they described a style of pizza from a specific area. The dispute continued after Boston Market ceased operations in Canada in 2004. The parties settled the dispute in 2008 under an agreement that Boston Market would not use the words "Boston" or "Boston Market" in Canada for five years for restaurants or any food or drink products (other than pre-packaged food products, but not including pizza and lasagna). Boston Market also agreed that it would not challenge Boston Pizza's use in Canada of any trademark that uses the words "Boston" or "Boston Pizza" (with certain exceptions).

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Summary
Big Finish Doctor Who 73 cover by Lee Binding.

Fair use in Thicker than Water (Doctor Who audio)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.


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Category:Military equipment of the United Kingdom

This category is for articles about military equipment developed by the United Kingdom.