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 * response to comment on my talk page

Well, it's not too hard to do... -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 20:13, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary
Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. --Ryan Delaney talk 00:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Mary Jemison
Thanks for the kind words! The stories of Indian captives who subsequently refused to be returned to "civilization" are great stories, but its hard to find good info on them.

Happy editing... -- Mwanner 00:30, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

DPN
Thanks very much for the heads up. I apparently did not have that article on my watchlist (must have forgotten to add it) so I appreciate the notification. Of course, I do not consider it "my" article but I will be glad to look at it and see if I think I can help it any. Thank you muchly for adding to it. Qaz ( talk ) 21:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Jaqui
I noticed you voted in the recent Mariah Carey single articles on AFD.

You said that for O Holy Night, you'd change your vote if the article was expanded. If I do expand it, would you please change your vote?

Also for Joy to the World (Mariah Carey song), you voted Merge because User:Barno had indicated that the song did not follow WP:Music as it had not made the charts. However, that is not true. The single did chart in Australia and it charted in USA on the dance chart. The song is also not exactly the traditional Xmas song, but a medley of it and another song by 3 Dog Night. The song also has two music videos. There are more details in the song that would make this cluttered if combined, but I was wondering if you'd considering changing your vote with these details, or if you had any other concerns.

Also for Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Mariah Carey song), you noted that you would have voted keep, but the single had not been released. Well, if I had known this would have been placed on AFD, I wouldnt have created an article for it until it got released. But, if the article gets merged or deleted, it would be difficult to create the article later on. With that in mind, I promise you if that if you change your vote to be keep, I will expand the article to a decent size. Is that fair enough? OmegaWikipedia 15:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Part 2
Hi, Jaqui, I've expanded Joy to the World (Mariah Carey song). Is this good? Or do you feel there are some parts that need more expansion? Let me know. Thank you.

Thanks!
Thanks! -- BD2412 talk 00:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Abortion
You're welcome, and I would like to thank you for bringing up disability rights; which is a hidden and troubling aspect to abortion that is rarely discussed and usually overlooked. It is an outstanding example of what makes Wikipedia great... so upon reflection I will give you a Wikithanks and copy this to your talk page for others to see. - RoyBoy 800 03:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, RoyBoy! :) --Jacquelyn Marie 04:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

IDD network
Just to let you know I changed this to redirect. Cheers CambridgeBayWeather 05:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Great, that looks good. Quite the elegant solution. --Jacquelyn Marie 05:04, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Re:Jim Hanks
No I'm not going to dispute it, I just tagged it because it was poorly done, and had information that seemed false to me. I just didn't check if it was false or not, which I should of done before I tagged it. Sorry if you've had any problems because of it. Private Butcher 05:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Not at all. --Jacquelyn Marie 05:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

COW
hey, Thanks for working on the COW page so much, it needed/needs a lot of work. (It's pretty bad when that College of Wooster Greek Life page is longer than the main page...) If you need any help with the page, let me know :)  --shaile 22:23, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll make the observation before anyone else has to
Yes, sigh, I should stop bothering trying to get anywhere in AfD: Neanderthal Theory of the Autistic Spectrum. I know. Don't tell me that I have wasted my time and the space in AfD. I already understand that. --Jacquelyn Marie 22:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Alien Homonid
Just a note to say that I didn't realise it was a misspelling until I poked around for a bit. My (subsequently corrected) vote was intended to be a useful step on a road to reaching an acceptable conclusion. Thanks for nominating it, I think Wikipedia has been improved by this. Sliggy 00:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Anon Sex
I think you might want to vote Transwiki to wiktionary. freestylefrappe 23:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe. But first I want to look at if there's a definition over there, and what it's like. --Jacquelyn Marie 12:50, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Broadcasting notability
I've come up with a proposal for the criteria for including TV and radio stations. Let me know what you think. Thanks -- Kjkolb 13:25, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I made exceptions in the proposal for college radio stations (at the bottom). I knew those would be popular, so under the criteria the Wooster stations would be kept. Also, radio stations notable for some reason regardless of what class they are in can also be exceptions (also at the bottom). A notorious pirate radio station would be okay with me, but I didn't include anything about them yet. We can make the exceptions more explicit if necessary. I have already changed them a little. I went by class because, except for college stations (almost always class D), it is a pretty good indication of notability. The lower classes of radio stations are typically low power stations with no original content, local traffic information with no music, or only enough power to cover a small neighborhood. Some are only 10 to 100 watts, compared to several hundred or thousands for major stations. You can get some indication of all this if you search for stations in your state at the FCC site (external links section). There's separate searches for AM, FM and TV. I'm going offline in a minute and I'll get back to about any more comments or questions in a day or two. Thanks for your help. -- Kjkolb 14:40, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

post-archive AfD comments
Hi! Just thought I'd leave a note to let you know that I removed your comment from Articles for deletion/Jessamyn West (librarian) because it had already been closed and archived by the time you posted. I didn't want you to be surprised about it having disappeared. (In any case, the result was "keep"!) — mendel ☎ 01:54, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * heh. Must've closed while I was writing my screed. That's okay. I'm just glad the article is still around. :) --Jacquelyn Marie 05:52, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Good Job
Thought I would stop by to tell you that I am impressed with some of your work in creating and editing pages. Good job! - Sensor 02:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I am impressed
...by your work on the VFD.

Have this Deletionist's Barnstar.

Take care, '''Molotov (talk) ''' 21:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Euclid Beach Park
Hello! Thanks for the kind words, and nice job in getting the article started! - EurekaLott 04:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi!
Thanks for the hello and welcome! Glad to help out in the good fight where i can! -Seth Mahoney 22:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Maryville Middle School
Articles for deletion/Maryville Middle School appears in danger of being trumped by a conspicuous effort on the part of deletionists. Please review the nomination and vote at your convenience. I recognize you may not feel schools are inherently notable, but you have expressed your respect for precedent.--Nicodemus75 05:19, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

A Wooster senior?
And an English major at that? What's your IS on/who's your advisor? Snowspinner 22:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Peter is the most fabulous man ever to have lived. And although I e-mailed with him recently, please do tell him that Phil said hi. :) Snowspinner 04:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Re:WP:SIGN
Thanks! I knew that Bachelor's Degree in Journalism would eventually be useful for something ;-) Karmafist 07:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Article Improvement Drive
01:39, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Gay wolf
I have speedied it. It was speediable, no need for afd. -- Francs2000 21:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh. Well, good. But now I have to go clean up Afd. :) Jacqui  ★ 21:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * In answer to your question since September 2003 under this username, under a variety of proxy IPs before that date. In other words a long time! -- Francs2000 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] 22:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

SNL Characters
Hello, I'm the one that's been extensively updating SNL character articles. I notice that you're doing the same, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the problem that's come up with all the stubs that have come from the process. Gay Hitler and Zagat's have been nominated for deletion, and I think we should create categories which can encompass all the characters. Two categories I have in mind are "Characters Appearing on Weekend Update" and "Short-Lived Recurring Characters" (appearing four or fewer times).

My main question is, do you know how to logistically make this happen? I don't know the technical aspects of it, particularly how to link characters to those pages when they're created. Only names with their own pages can be linked like this right? If it was part of a larger article, that kind of link would go nowhere, right? Leadpipevigilante 00:19, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm going to stick this on both our talk pages, just in case. As far as I know, there are two ways to do this. One way is to create redirects from the character name to the page where their info resides. So for instance, Gay Hitler would redirect, presumably, to Characters appearing on Weekend Update (note the lowercase a due to the naming conventions).
 * The other thing we can do is use piped links with anchors on the list page to the correct part of the page you are speaking of creating (that I would help with, of course).
 * If you want, I can be in charge of the technical aspects of linking, etc, if you want to be the one to merge/compile the characters on their own page. Jacqui  ★ 00:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Sounds good. I like the idea of redirects best.  I'll start creating the category pages.  I'm in the middle of creating the character lists according to Cast Member, but I'm starting to think that the cast members with pages of their own can just have a list included in their existing article. Leadpipevigilante 06:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * That's fine with me, if the idea sticks with the people maintaining the pages for the cast members. (We may want to ask on article talk pages first, explaining what's going on.) Jacqui  ★ 14:34, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Discovery Channel
"By the way, regarding the Censored section, I checked who contributed that and also what other things they had contrubuted, and they had mostly spammed other entries with the same paragraph (or similar). I'm going to take that one out now. If anyone comes by later who disagrees with the three of us so far, revert me and we'll talk more here. (Also, if we want to mention it in passing at some later point, we have the edit history to get it back) Jacqui ★" Did you write this?

and this:

"I'm not sure if I'm the Jacqui you're talking about, or if you mean someone else, but I've never seen most of those links in my life. In any case, the facts remain at Conspiracy of Silence, etc. THis is a page about the Discovery Channel, itself. Please respect that. There are see also links on this page, and that is one of them. Thanks. Jacqui ★"

I don't understand why you would call my contributions SPAM in one post, then deny reading the contributions in the next? Yes, you are the Jacqui to which my comments are directed, as well as the one that removed my post about censorship in the USA. This page is a living history of a company. The fact that a show that was listed in several guides, then pulled from the line-up under political pressure, belongs in this page. The actual show and its contents are less important than the fact it was censored. I don't think people will gather the Discovery Channel has been censored from your "see also" link. It is important for people to know when the Media has been compromised.

 * Oh. Now I get it. Yes. I am sorry that I used the verb "spammed"; it's imprecise, rude and not quite what I meant anyway. However, from your contributions when I checked it was apparent to me that the only contributions you'd made to Wikipedia were ones related to this topic. I hadn't seen half of the links you listed because at the time I had checked your contributions, they didn't exist (or at least, you hadn't edited them yet). Most of the others, I hadn't ever clicked on, because you made it clear from your edit history what you put in.

 * The article about the Discovery Channel is not the living history of the company, it's about the living history of the channel. Those are two different things. If you'd like to click on the link on the Discovery Channel page that indicates what company owns it, you are free to edit that article. I stand by my feelings regarding the see-also in the Discovery Channel article enough. I also think you will find that when you do edit the article about the company, they probably won't let you put in quite that much about Conspiracy of Silence there either, as there are limits to page sizes in Wikipedia. That's why Conspiracy of Silence should have its own pgae -- so it can say on that page what would not fit on the other pages.

 * Happy editing! Jacqui  ★ 01:03, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Triple metre
The article on triple metre now exists. The fans of triple metre on the AfD page don't seem to be particularly motivated to give any explanation of why it might be considered unusual in thir chosen genre and timescale, so that article is still (for me) a problem, but at least a properly informative article should grow from the stub. - Just zis Guy, you know? 10:10, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Good on you for doing that. I'll go look at it shortly. If it gets large and comprehensive enough, we may not need lists at all. Jacqui  ★ 14:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Transwiki
You omitted several important parts of the transwiki process: Uncle G 10:19, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * For GFDL compliance, the edit summary or talk page must contain a back-link to the original article. (My 'bot does both.)
 * For GFDL compliance, a list of author information must accompany the article. This is generally placed on the talk page.
 * A record should be added to the inbound transwiki log of the destination project. (I cross-linked all of the inbound and outbound logs, so it is relatively simple to find the relevant inbound log when one is performing a manual transwiki.)
 * Gotcha. I misunderstood the instuctions here on the Wikipedia namespace, then. I had a feeling that what I had done was just too easy.... Jacqui  ★ 14:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanksgiving dinner
In the interest of keeping Wikipedia junque-free, I would encourage you to reconsider your keep vote on this article. The topic has vastly superior coverage in the Thanksgiving article, and the most suitable disposal of this title is a delete or a redirect. (No, I haven't tried before, and I hope I am providing you with fresh information:) ) Denni ☯ 05:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll give you this much: I will clarify my vote to indicate that a redirect to Thanksgiving dinner would not upset me and that I'd go with that if it would help to build consensus, though I still think that having a separate, improved article on the subject (possibly with material merged from other places) won't harm anything. Note that I didn't say, "Keep it, it's perfect as it is." No, it's certainly not. But I tend to be somewhat of an eventualist (but only to a point). Jacqui  ★ 05:45, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Success!!! Thanks for your support! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

If you have a second
Could you take a look at the links added by anon IP 69.201.181.152 to Knot theory, Topology, and Knot? User added links to Rosa Parks and some other articles where the referenced papers from the external link had only an ancillary mention of the topics. THose other three might be on topic though... I don't think so, but before I remove the links, I thought I'd get an outside opinion from a couple of people (you and User:A Man In Black). If you have a chance at some point, could you take a look and let me know what you think? Thanks!--Isotope23 16:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the opinion! I'll finish up the job and post something on the anon IP talk page to let them know why I did it.  Hopefully they will see it.  Heh, don't be so surprised... you always put together a well thought out argument on AfD, so I figured you'd have a valid opinion on this.--Isotope23 18:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from Pamri
Hi, Thanks a ton for voting at my RFA. I am now a wikipedia administrator. I hope I can keep your trust. Thanks again. --Pamri • Talk • [ Reply] 16:38, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Songs in triple meter
Thanks for the support on the afd page for Songs in triple meter. I created that page and added all but about 3 of the songs and you may know now that it has now been deleted even though the vote was something like 11 to 8 with half or more of the 11 knowing little or nothing about time signatures. I didn't know it was a raw numbers kind of affair. Live and learn I guess. I asked for the page to be undeleted and any suggestions you have or support you could show in this regard would be welcome. Thanks. Hraefen 02:41, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Covers
Jacqui, your post re: the "Hurt" covers got me thinking, so I wanted to ask you, are there any wikipedia guidelines for what constitutes a cover? To me, listing Bowie and Amos as performing as "covers" was questionable, and—I beg your pardon—my preference is to remove questionable claims from articles, instead of leaving them for the user to evaluate himself or herself. I've looked in cover version and list of notable cover versions, and haven't found any opinions to back up either of our defintions. Any pointers you could give me would be appreciated. Cheers! -- Rynne 04:56, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Reply listed on Rynne's talk page, copied here
my preference is to remove questionable claims from articles, instead of leaving them for the user to evaluate himself or herself. You're absolutely right. My apologies.

Regarding Wikipedia policy on what constitutes a cover -- I couldn't find any information, myself. But for me, if a singer or band is performing a song by another group that wouldn't be considered a "derivative work" by copyright law, then it's a cover. The Tori use of the song is kind of a special case. Is it derivative if it's being used as a bridge/opener? I don't know. I guess maybe the word I would use for that instance is a "partial cover." But you're right, there needs to be more clarification. Perhaps WikiProject Music could help us? Jacqui ★ 06:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Perhaps WikiProject Music could help us?

 * Ah, great suggestion. I've put a new question at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Songs.  Thanks! -- Rynne 15:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

The College of Wooster Greeks debate reopened
Since you participated in this AFD debate, you might like to know that it has been reopened following discussion at WP:DRV. The new debate is at here. Yours, Sjakkalle (Check!)  16:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Nadia Anjuman
Many thanks for expanding this article, I thought it was a lost cause. (I did find a link to news story on her murder with an Afghan news service, but you had to pay to see it). Now, if only the other [n] stubs about other obscure cultural figures could receive the same treatment from you... - Aaron Jethro 07:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the praise. I visited the article after someone blogged on the case in one of the blogs I follow (I think it was Bookslut). I was wondering if she had an article at all, and was glad she did. If you have any other "obscure cultural figures" that you think could use some help, feel free to contact me. Jacqui  ★ 07:28, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

 * That's my job. Well it will be when I can convince myself to spend more than 2 hours in front of a computer screen. I'm getting there though. - Aaron Jethro 07:44, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
I'm sorry you found reason to object to my adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to clear the slate. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future. ALKIVAR ™ 07:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, the fact that you have responded in this way is a good sign, as is the fact that enough of the community has faith in you for your RfA to go through. I wish you the best. Jacqui  ★ 07:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Fir e Fo  x  RFA
 Jacqui M/archive1

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks! Fir e  Fo  x  18:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Your use of edit summaries is 67% overall after 2,556 edits. It's 80.2% in the last 500 edits. You're definitely improving. As for what to do to prepare yourself for adminship; You might want to see User:Durin/My_guidelines_for_admin_nomination. Those are difficult standards. But, if you pass them, there's a (so far) very good chance you'll pass RfA with flying colors. I might nominate you myself. If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to answer. --Durin 19:46, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Be involved in admin appropriate areas, such as WP:AFD and similar (TFD,RFD, etc), recent changes patrol, watching Special:Newpages and bringing articles to AFD as appropriate, and more.
 * Remain civil and calm in the face of pressure. There are too many people here for you to like everybody, and not everybody is going to like you. Respond appropriately; don't lose your cool.
 * Remain involved and connected with the project. If you disappear for long stretches of time, people will want to know why.
 * Thank you Durin. :) Jacqui  ★ 20:10, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Jacqi.. thanks for noticing me. I live in Chicago (and have for 12 years now), but I was born and raised (to the age of 21) in South Euclid. I'm glad you corrected my miscue (I didn't know that Notre Dame had gone Coed). I've been editing and adding on to stuff in Wikipedia for a while, I've just been slow in figuring out everything (I'm up to my eyeballs in school... Wikipedia is kind of a hobby/outlet for my head full of stuff...); inasmuch, I just (like yesterday) got around to actually signing up for an account. Anyhow, I'll watch for ya on here. Good to see a fellow Buckeye/Clevelander around! Cheers... Ryecatcher773  (PS: Is this how the talk page works? Because I can't figure out how else to reply... the tutorial is as clear as mud!)

THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for voting in my RfA, and especially thank you for supporting me. I really appreciate it, and will wield the mop and bucket the best way I know how. I, like RoboCop, promise four things: I hope to do all those things and, even if I can't keep my fourth classified, will do all I can to be a great admin. Stop by my talk page, or on article pages; I look forward to working with you. A belated thanks again, User:Mys e kurity|Mysekurity ]] additions | e-mail]]04:26, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Serve the public trust
 * 2) Protect the innocent
 * 3) Uphold the law
 * 4) Classified

Emergency department
I wonder if you could consider supporting this article at Article Improvement Drive. Its an important place, where we all go by ambulance if we are very ill, and, I think, worthy of a comprehensive article.--File Éireann 21:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hate to break it to you, but I've been to the emergency room too many times to want to enshrine it in a Wikipedia article. (Why? Vasovagal syncope.) Sorry. Jacqui  ★ 04:05, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Bands
Feel free to edit any page beginning with User:Redwolf24, including the user page itself. I don't get why people freak out so much over their page... Permission is given out to everyone (though I don't advertise it as it violates WP:BEANS) and by the way, how did you find that page? :) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 03:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Just browsin'. I like to learn a bit about admins I see around a lot, even if I don't have the chance to interact with them much when our editing circles don't coincide. :) Jacqui  ★ 04:03, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oi, don't be afraid to leave me a message, I'm always delighted to help. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 04:41, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/India Today's top 10 colleges of India
Hi! This is not systematic bias. I am an Indian. I've nominated US lists for deletion as well. Articles for deletion/Newsweek’s List of Top High Schools (2003), Articles for deletion/Newsweek's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools and Articles for deletion/Newsweek's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools (2005). Could you please do a rethink on your vote. utcursch | talk 05:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying the nomination was an example of systemic bias. Of course not! What I was saying was that, since we have articles on such US lists, it's only fair that we have Indian ones too. And I think we should have such lists, in general. So no, I won't be changing my vote. Sorry for the confusion. Jacqui  ★ 06:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Sexual slang
I believe that The Literate Engineer would like to enlist your support for implementing Freakofnurture's suggestion from Articles for deletion/List of sexual slang/2005-10-18. Uncle G 10:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. I would like to help, but I will away from an Internet connection shortly and wn't be back to it for another 48 or so hours. If The Literate Engineer wanted to divvy up tasks, s/he could leave me some tasks to do here and I would complete them upon returning. Though, I am thinking that the help might have included decisions regarding what goes and what stays. In that case, I don't know how helpful I am going to be two days from now, unfortunately. Did s/he post a message anywhere regarding this? Jacqui  ★ 14:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * See the current AFD discussion and User talk:Uncle G. Uncle G 17:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

List of banned books
I noticed you put an NPOV tag on this article. I was wondering if you'd take a look at what I was doing with it (basically trying to get sourced descriptions for each entry) and see if this would address your concerns. So, er, yeah! Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 15:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I think your descriptions are much more balanced than the ones that were there before. You seem careful in your word choice, and that's good. The ones that no one can find a citation for the reason why they were banned should go, then, once the process is all over. I was thinking that there would be far more unverifiable ones than there seem to be, so that's good. The list will basically stay intact. Keep up the good work; I'm impressed. (And as a dangling carrot, I offer you an especially shiny barnstar if you get all the way to the end of the list. :) Jacqui  ★ 16:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Someone else has taken off the NPOV tag; I don't know if you're happy with that. I've just finished A, so maybe this time next year it'll be done! --Cherry blossom tree 12:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/List of music videos by year
In an effort to have this vote go as swimmingly as Articles for deletion/List of music videos by name, I'm pointing it out to all the people who voted on the previous one, as it's basically the same information, differently arranged. Had I known it existed at the time, I would have included it in the AfD. Too late now. Thanks. -R. fiend 01:55, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Rachel Dratch merge
I was just wondering why you added the merge label to the Rachel Dratch article. It seems like the Rachel Dratch article stands on its own, and you didn't provide a reason on the talk page. Please clarify. Thanks :), --Alhutch 20:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Oops, I misunderstood the merge tag. It makes sense now. Sorry to bother you. :)--Alhutch 20:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Triple meter

 * Thanks for the work on the triple meter lists and for the vote on the afd page. I'm really getting beat up in there.Hraefen 06:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Your sig
Hi, Your sig is not rendering correctly, the html is being converted to entities. See here for an example, and here for a diff. — Graibeard 04:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I know it's not, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to fix it. As far as I can tell, all of the tags are closed. I've already solicited help from a couple of people, but maybe you could tell me what's wrong with it? <font color="#663366">Jacqui</font> [[User_talk:Jacqui M Schedler|<sup>★</sup>]] 05:41, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi I just noticed that your having trouble with your sig. I'm not really sure if this will work but maybe try Jacqui ★ hope that helps if not I'm sorry to have wasted your time. :-D Knowledge Of Self  |  talk . 06:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Not a waste of time at all! I've been looking for a solution. Well, we'll see once I post this message if the fix worked.... [[User:Jacqui M Schedler|<font color="#663366">Jacqui</font><sup>[[User_talk:Jacqui M Schedler|★]]</sup>]] 06:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what's causing it but somehow your tags are being converted to entities. I was able to fix it in the diff I linked to, but other than that I can't really help; although if your cutting and pasting it from a sample, is the cut 'n paste doing the conversion? The following is a direct cut 'n paste from the fix at Bushtails' talk page — Jacqui ★ 01:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC) — which renders okay (in preview at least) - I'll now post it and we'll see what happens ;)  — Graibeard 06:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Trying again... Jacqui ★ 15:33, 15 November 2005 (UTC) Hey! think I fixed it. Still can't explain why it was displaying as entities, though....

Hi Jacqui, I noticed that you had some problems with the display of you signature, recently. As you've probably heard, this happened when the developers disabled HTML Tidy. It is back up again, but the devs have instituted changes to the MediaWiki software that can affect how your signature displays. It looks like your problem has resolved, but you may wish to look at WP:SIGHELP for more information. Very kind regards encephalon  01:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Notable albums
Thanks for fixing up the markup in the lists that I created (notable albums). It will make it easier to parse though the list and remove albums that have already been covered. The list were generated from an outside source, so the text was probably a little garbled. I do wonder though why redirects are not created instead? A similar thing happened in a list of films I created. Someone could easily copy and paste something in and would come upon a redlink rather than finding what actually existed. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:15, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

More on Sig
How_to_fix_your_signature. Sorry, I was on a two day wiki-vacation, otherwise maybe I would have known what was going on ;-) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 03:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Changing username
Hi - Some time ago, you left a request on Changing username. This facility is now up and running again. Are you still interested in changing your name? If so, please confirm at Changing username. thanks, Warofdreams talk 13:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I've now changed your username. All the best, Warofdreams talk 23:00, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Nuggeting
You asked for "conclusive evidence that this term exists". (As an aside: Please note that encyclopaedia articles address concepts, not terms.) Please re-visit both the article and the discussion. Please also visit Talk:NUGGET and consider adding the article to your watchlist and assisting in the effort to keep the article clear of unverifiable additions and original research by schoolchildren. Uncle G 15:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Interested in adminship?
I've noticed your contributions recently and also think you would be great for an admin. I've looked over your contributions thusfar and they seem pretty solid. If you feel like you are ready for the role and Durin has held back a little bit, I would be happy to nominate you; though I don't want to steal his thunder for his excellent advice. The best way to become an admin is start doing admin duties. I would start keeping track of Newpages, flagging articles for speedy and deletion. You have a good record at AFD. Keep up your good work in WP:MEA and I'm sure other people would be glad to support. Best of luck. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think I'll be ready for a while yet, but I appreciate the advice and the support. :) Jacqui ★ 21:04, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

AfD of List_of_most_famous_people_according_to_Google
You'd mentioned on Articles for deletion/List of Most Famous People That you'd objected to the abovemetioned article, just wanted to let you know, i AfD'ed it here:List of most famous people according to Google --VileRage ( Talk |  Cont ) 04:01, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Music sample template
Hi, I noticed you used the Non-free fair use in template at Image:AmosCrucify.ogg. You might want to consider using music sample, which is specifically for those type of files. cheers --pfctdayelise 14:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted. I just couldn't find it. :) Now I have a bunch of oggs to change. For anyone who is reading this with a similar problem, they should all be done in three or so days. Jacqui ★ 17:39, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Rosa Parks
Way to revert vandalism; I stopped by to give you this barnstar (I bet when you saw the subhead you thought it was something bad : ) )

Take care, Encyclopedist (talk) 21:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * (hides) Of all the times to get a barnstar for vandalism-fighting.... (grins) Jacqui ★ 21:09, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

The assault on the List of sexual slang
Two users in particular The Literate Engineer & Voice of All(MTG) have apparently made it their duty to get rid of the list and they have been using underhanded tactics in an attempt to do so in any way they can.

But word is getting out, and supporters of the list are starting to rally against them and protect the list (via rerverting vandalism, countering their tactics, etc.).

The results of the 18 October AfD:

 * Keep & clean = 3
 * Keep, no clean = 11
 * Delete = 2

The anonymous clean-up notice
The following anonymous clean-up notice was posted to the list on November 1st:

23:44, 1 November 2005 68.17.227.41

The notice was placed without group consensus, and there was no edit comment. Pretty sneaky.

This was the user's only edit. Nothing before or after. A sock-puppet.

The results of the 10 November Afd

 * Keep & clean up =3 votes
 * Keep, with no mention of clean up =7 votes
 * Delete = 4 votes (including the nomination)

That's 10 votes to keep, out of which 3 voted to clean up. Seven out of ten clearly voiced their desire to retain the list without deleting its entries.

Dishonest report of Afd results
Voice of All(MTG) reported the results as " ", and he and The Literate Engineer used that as the basis to erase the content of the list, which they did in successive edits.

Non-consensual list move
During the 10 November AfD discussion, Voice of All(MTG) moved the list to the new article name sexual slang, citing the introduction at the top of the list as the basis for the move ("it is more than a list"). Several users then used the article title as an argument against including any list entries.

When an article is moved, the change history is moved with it, and a redirect is placed under the original article's title. If the redirect is edited, then the article cannot be moved back. That is exactly what has happened to the list. See Merging and moving pages for more information.

The current situation
The change history of the list is currently stranded as the change history of Sexual slang.

The content of the list itself has been restored to List of sexual slang, where it was originally. This preserves the spirit of the results of the two AfD discussions mentioned above.

To summarize:

 * 1) On Oct 18 the list was nominated for AfD (article for deletion), but this attempt to delete failed, and the vote was overwhelmingly to Keep.
 * 2) An anonymous sock-puppet placed a clean-up notice on the list. It has been used as a justification to delete entries.
 * 3) On Nov 10, The Literate Engineer made an AfD attempt against the list and it failed too.
 * 4) Then Voice of All(MTG) underhandedly moved the list to the non-list name sexual slang, while the AfD was still underway.
 * 5) Voice of All(MTG)reported false results for the 10 November AfD vote, and he and The Literate Engineer edited out the entire list.
 * 6) I posted a rebuttal to the above antics on the talk page for sexual slang, and reverted the sexual slang article to the November 15 version in the article's change history (the complete list). My username ("Bend over") was banned as inappropriate or offensive.
 * 7) Some editors stated that an article is not the place for a list, and used that as a justification to keep list entries.
 * 8) So I replaced the redirect at List of sexual slang with the actual content of the entire list. Unfortunately, the change history for the list is still part of the change history for the article sexual slang.
 * 9) An attempt is being made to protect the list against vandalism at its original location: List of sexual slang.

Remember, the three reversion limit does not apply when reverting vandalism. Only if enough concerned users participate will this be successful.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Red Rover 21:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

New Wikibook on Castle of the Winds
Since I noticed you were one of the biggest contributors to Castle of the Winds, I thought you should know that I’ve started Castle of the Winds, with the intent of moving the player-oriented information over. Because it’s a Wikibook, it can contain a lot of things that the Wikipedia article wouldn’t have, such as object, monster and spell tables. So even with the content of the article, the book still needs your help.

The biggest hurdle in moving from Wikipedia to Wikibooks is the sub-pages, but you seem to understand sub-pages already; apart from that, the two wikis are similar to edit.

I look forward to seeing your contributions. In addition to replying here, you can also post to Wikibooks:Talk:Castle of the Winds or my talk page. Seahen 21:41, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello from Ohio
I will apologize in advance if I am breaking Wiki etiquette by asking you a question in this particular type of forum...

I am a very novice wikipedian just trying to get aquainted with the style and markup language. In my quest to make a somewhat reasonable userpage, I was checking through people's source(edit) code and noticed that you have something with which I need help. When you list your babel on your main page, the source is like so: {{User:Jacqui M/babel}

My userbox source, on the other hand is fully explicit:

Is there some way I can 'summarize' my code to make it more like yours? Any help is greatly appreciated. I have searched around a bit and I can't seem to find a suitable tutorial to help me along.

On a side note, I grew up on the east side of Cleveland myself, and give many winks to your likes of Good Eats, Mythbusters, and disklike of IVs!

Please feel free to yell at me if I should have put this in a different location, and I will be happy to oblige.

Cheers, Juan Banana 01:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Female Wikipedians
Hi! I noticed you had placed yourself in Category:Female Wikipedians, and use babel boxes. Just so you know, I've just made the template User female. Feel free to use it and/or edit it! — Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  19:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

LGBT interest userbox
Hi! After participating in some discussion about userboxes, I've decided to create a userbox specifically for people who are interested in LGBT issues. I like this userbox a lot because it doesn't force people to take a stand on LGBT-related political issues or declare a particular identity, but just expresses a common interest in editing LGBT-related articles on Wikipedia. I saw your name on the list of people who are interested in this kind of thing at the LGBT notice board, and saw when I visited your userpage that you are pretty comfortable with userboxes, so I thought I'd let you know about this one in case you want to list it on your user page. I am hoping that people will see it, click the link to the notice board, and become more involved in editing LGBT-related articles on Wikipedia. The userbox is at Template:User LGBT interest. - AdelaMae (talk - contribs) 06:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Mod of Template:User noprog
Somebody copied and modified the userbox you created. Check out Template:User computer programming. - Slo-mo 10:45, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

A Random Barnstar

I, The Great Gavini, hereby award Jacqui M a barnstar for a devil's myriad of contributions, and perhaps for appreciating the works of The Dresden Dolls and Neil Gaiman. 18:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Psst
I'm trying to build support for this nomination in its last few days. Please check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 20:24, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Amazing Fantasies
Yeah. Now if I just avoid sucking, I become one step closer to having an article written about me. Phil Sandifer 01:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:100 0168a-small.JPG listed for deletion
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Edible salt
I have partially reverted your last reversion again, mainly because it (as was earlier said by another editor) disrupts part of the page. I have tried to put the proper referencing back into the article, but I am afraid that that also resulted in some statements of you being reverted. If so, I am sorry, but, IMHO, the section is quite unreadable with all those references being written in the text. Could you have a look, change the wording to your liking, while trying to keep the referencing system? Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Jacqui,
 * Don't mind reverting anything I wrote, my interest in edible salt was (and is) purely chemical, hence it was on my watch-list for some time now. After all, it is just sodium chloride we are eating (with some additives), would people realize they are eating a chemical compound? :-p  I just reverted so that it at least has the referencing system in place, and also put other inline-URL's in references.  Do whatever you want with the article.  IMHO, I think it is rather unreadable .. statements which have only counterarguments etc., maybe arguments should be written out (keeping a neutral POV), and then countered?  Guess it could use some rewriting there ..  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 21:15, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Talking to press?
Hi! A journalist has contacted me trying to talk with Wikipedians from Ohio; is there any chance you'd be interested in speaking to the journalist? - Amgine 03:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * If it's the one from the Akron Beacon-Journal, I already have. But thanks :) Jacqui ★ 13:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's the one! - Amgine 17:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ta-da. There's 20 seconds of your 15 minutes. - EurekaLott 14:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the article! I'm the goofy kid who made that list on how to navigate Wikipedia. Anyhow, since you were in the article, I'm giving you a barnstar! If you know of anyone else who was in it (I think some of the usernames were botched), please let me know so that I can give each of them one as well!

 * Yeah! Nice to meet you, and I hope we run into each other again on the site! Ian Manka Talk to me! 18:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Miami Animal Police
Hello, and thankyou for the tag on my talk page. In retrospect, I think I probably placed the wrong tag on that article - the problems I saw were largely related to the proportionally large number of redlinks in the article text, most of which could (probably) be de-linked entirely. It could also benefit from the addition of a Television infobox, as could some of the other articles in the series, and some minor copyediting (ie, merging paragraphs, etc).

Since you asked, I'll get started on these. Serves me right for being lazy on NP Patrol. :) RandyWang ( raves/review me! ) 02:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * LOL. And here I was afraid I'd come to my talkpage and find something that would have to be moved to my litterbox. Your criticisms do make sense, actually. I'll work on it. Some of the other shows in the "See also" section need the same sorts of help. Anyway, I'm sorry if I bordered on bad faith there for a moment. Jacqui ★ 02:37, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hah! Sorry to have scared you, then. I've added an infobox to Miami Animal Police, generally cleaned it up a little and removed the Cleanup tag. I don't know anything about the show, though, so I'd appreciate if you could make the infobox a little less... almost entirely empty. :)

 * I didn't actually think you were anywhere near bad faith. Honestly, my userpage is a pretty good example of what happens when mild OCD meets an excessive supply of free time. Besides, I did invite you to call me a dick. :) RandyWang ( raves/review me! ) 02:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Walter Dean Myers
Thank you for your work on the Walter Dean Myers page. As a school librarian, I knew he deserved an article, but I didn't really know much about him personally. Great work. Czolgolz 20:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Lake County flooding
Hi. I don't have much experience in contributing to articles on current events, so I may not be of help here. I can't find the discussion right now, but if I remember correctly, an article about last month's flooding was deleted because it wasn't a major enough disaster. The damage in Lake County, however, seems more serious, and if the area is declared a federal disaster area, it would be difficult to argue about its notability. If you don't think the subject is suitable for a wikipedia article, perhaps it would work better as a wikinews article that could then be linked to. By the way, Cleveland.com also has a special section on the floods. - EurekaLott 05:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Gastric bypass diet
Gastric bypass diet

I see were you voted to have this redirected to the surgery page could you explain why as it makes no sense to get rid of very important article since surgery is one matter recovery is another. I am asking you to please reconsider your vote as this is too important to just get rid of. I have seen countless people after this operation get in terrible shape due to lack of knowing what to do after this operation.. Look at the references I supplied and see this is accurate information needed to be in Wikipedia --Supplements 13:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Gastric bypass diet
Gastric bypass diet

Thanks for your response this is verified infromation and it is guidelines not taking the place of a doctor the Problem is the gastric surgery page has nothing on it as far a after surgery... I am sending references to prove this is verified information...

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title: User talk:Jacqui M/archive1


text:
Category:Wikipedians in London, Ontario

Classification: Wikipedians | By Location | Canada | Ontario | London

Wikipedians who live in or are associated with London, Ontario, and other participants in the Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.

To add yourself to this list, insert the following on your user page: or use the following userbox:

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Category:Wikipedians in London, Ontario


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rhobite/SamuraiClinton articles

 * 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 keep: obviously erroneous nomination of a user page. 02:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Rhobite/SamuraiClinton articles
What an out-of-date article about a mere list of mostly redlinks.
 * Delete as referenceless listcruft. --SuperDude 01:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Doesn't belong on articles for deletion, anything but main namespace goes on WP:MfD. But there's no reason to delete this, if Rhobite wants it gone he can delete it and if he doesn't he can keep it. It's his user space and I don't see how this is disruptive. --fvw *  01:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep. It is a user space page and not subject to VfD even by superdudes without asking the owner politely first why the heck he keeps this. mikka (t) 02:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Don't delete user pages. --CastAStone 02:05, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I haven't even looked at the article and don't need to. Why are you nominating a User page at AfD? -Greg Asche (talk) 02:21, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment from author: SuperDude, I wish you would have asked me to remove this instead of nominating it for AfD. I don't think it's necessary to track your edits any more, so I'll nominate this page for speedy deletion myself. Rhobite 17:05, 12 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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User talk:FujitsuBoy

A welcome from Sango123
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Robert Meeropol

Robert Meeropol (born May 14, 1947 as Robert Rosenberg) is an American anthropologist. He is the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius was an electrical engineer and a member of the Communist Party USA. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party USA.

In 1953, when Robert was six years old, his parents were convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, and specifically for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

Early life and education
After the Rosenbergs were arrested, Robert and his older brother Michael lived with their maternal grandmother, Tessie Greenglass. After three months, she was unable to continue such care and placed them in the Hebrew Children's Home. After several months, their paternal grandmother Sophie Rosenberg removed them from the children's home to care for the boys herself. During their stay with her, the boys were allowed to visit their parents in Sing Sing prison. After one year with Sophie, the boys were sent to Toms River, New Jersey to live with the Bach family, friends of the Rosenbergs. They were eventually adopted by the writer and songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne and took their last name.

Meeropol earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology at Earlham College and the University of Michigan.

Activism and career
In the 1960s and 1970s, Meeropol became active in the anti-war effort. After completing his master's degree, Meeropol taught anthropology at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1971 to 1973.

With his brother, Meeropol sued the FBI and CIA under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), winning the release of 300,000 previously secret documents pertaining to their parents' case. Believing the documents proved their parents' innocence, the Meeropol brothers co-wrote a 1975 book about their childhood. From 1974 to 1978, he worked actively with the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case and the Fund for Open Information and Accountability.

From 1980 to 1982 he was managing editor of Socialist Review in the San Francisco Bay Area. During this time, his parents' executioner, Joseph Francel, died. In 1982 Meeropol moved back to Massachusetts. He returned to school, studying at the Western New England College School of Law, from which he received his J.D. degree in 1985. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and began practice as an attorney.

In 1990, Meeropol started the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a public foundation which provides support for children in the U.S. whose parents are targeted, progressive activists. The RFC also supports youth in the U.S. who have been targeted for their own progressive activism. He stepped down from the position of Executive Director of RFC on September 1, 2013, to be succeeded by his daughter Jennifer.

In 2003 he wrote a memoir that reflected on his life and his parents' fate.

Marriage and family
Robert is married to Ellen Meeropol. They have two daughters: Jennifer and Rachel. Rachel has become a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City.

Current position on parents' executions
In 2008, Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol said that, given recent revelations by their parents' co-defendant Morton Sobell and Venona project documents released in 1995, they now believed that their father was involved in espionage for the Soviet Union. However, they also said:"'To this day, there is no credible evidence that he participated in obtaining or passing on ... the secret of the atomic bomb, the crime for which he was executed.'"They also believed documents showed that witnesses had fabricated evidence against their mother, and that she was innocent of the government charges.

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Aphrodite of Knidos

The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC. It was one of the first life-sized representations of the nude female form in Greek history, displaying an alternative idea to male heroic nudity. Praxiteles' Aphrodite was shown nude, reaching for a bath towel while covering her pubis, which, in turn leaves her breasts exposed. Up until this point, Greek sculpture had been dominated by male nude figures. The original Greek sculpture is no longer in existence; however, many Roman copies survive of this influential work of art. Variants of the Venus Pudica (suggesting an action to cover the breasts) are the Venus de' Medici and the Capitoline Venus.

Original
The Aphrodite of Knidos was a marble carving of the goddess Aphrodite by the sculptor Praxiteles, which was bought by the people of Knidos in the middle of the 4th century BC. The earliest text to mention the Aphrodite is Pliny the Elder's Natural History, which reports that Praxiteles carved two sculptures of Aphrodite, one clothed and one nude; the clothed one was bought by the people of Kos and the Knidians bought the nude one. The statue was set up as the cult statue for the Temple of Aphrodite at Knidos. It depicted the goddess Aphrodite as she prepared for the ritual bath that restored her purity, discarding her drapery with one hand, while modestly shielding herself with the other. The placement of her hands obscures her pubic area, while simultaneously drawing attention to her exposed upper body. The statue is famed for its beauty, and is designed to be appreciated from every angle.

Because the various copies show different body shapes, poses and accessories, the original can only be described in general terms. It depicted a nude woman, the body twisting in a contrapposto position, with its weight on the right foot. Most copies show Aphrodite covering her pubic area with her right hand, while the left holds drapery which, along with a vase, helps support the figure. Almost all copies show the head of the sculpture turning to the left.

The female nude appeared nearly three centuries after the earliest nude male counterparts in Greek sculpture, the kouros; the female kore figures were clothed. Previously nudity was a heroic uniform assigned only to men. When making the Aphrodite of Knidos, Spivey argues that her iconography can be attributed to Praxiteles creating the statue for the intent of being viewed by male onlookers. Overwhelming evidence from aggregations suggests that the Knidian sculpture was meant to evoke male responses of sexuality upon viewing the statue. The Aphrodite of Knidos established a canon for the proportions of the female nude, and inspired many copies, the best of which is considered to be the Colonna Knidia in the Vatican's Pio-Clementine Museum. A Roman copy, it is not thought to match the polished beauty of the original, which was destroyed in a disastrous fire at Constantinople in 475.

Praxiteles was alleged to have used the courtesan Phryne as a model for the statue, which added to the gossip surrounding its origin. The statue became so widely known and copied that in a humorous anecdote the goddess Aphrodite herself came to Knidos to see it. A lyric epigram of Antipater of Sidon places a hypothetical question on the lips of the goddess herself: Paris, Adonis, and Anchises saw me naked, Those are all I know of, but how did Praxiteles contrive it?''

A similar epigram is attributed to Plato:

"When Cypris saw Cypris at Cnidus, "Alas!" said she; "where did Praxiteles see me naked?""

According to an epigram from Roman poet Ausonius, Praxiteles never saw what he was not meant to see, but instead sculpted Aphrodite as Ares would have wanted.

Temple in Knidos
The temple of Aphrodite in Knidos where the statue was displayed is described by two ancient sources, Pliny the Elder in his Natural History and Pseudo-Lucian in his Amores. According to Pliny, the sculpture was housed in a small building, open on all sides – by which he likely meant a monopteros, a colonnade with a roof but no walls. In the description given by Pseudo-Lucian, on the other hand, the building which housed the statue is described as having two doors, and suggests a more confined space than Pliny's description. In excavations at Knidos between 1969 and 1972, Iris Love discovered the remains of a round building which she identified as the temple of Aphrodite. This included a stone inscribed with the letters PRAX, which Love suggested was a statue base for the Knidian Aphrodite.

The statue became a tourist attraction in spite of being a cult image, and a patron of the Knidians. Nicomedes I of Bithynia offered to pay off the enormous debts of the city of Knidos in exchange for the statue, but the Knidians rejected his offer. The statue would have been polychromed, and was so lifelike that it even aroused men sexually, as witnessed by the tradition that a young man broke into the temple at night and attempted to copulate with the statue, leaving a stain on it. An attendant priestess told visitors that upon being discovered, he was so ashamed that he hurled himself over a cliff near the edge of the temple. This story is recorded in the dialogue Erotes (section 15), traditionally attributed to Lucian of Samosata.

Influence
The Knidian Aphrodite has not survived. Possibly the statue was removed to Constantinople (modern Istanbul), where it was housed in the Palace of Lausus; in 475, the palace burned and the statue was lost. It was one of the most widely copied statues in the ancient world, so a general idea of the appearance of the statue can be gleaned from the descriptions and replicas that have survived to the modern day. For a time in 1969, the archaeologist Iris Love thought she had found the only surviving fragments of the original statue, which are now in storage at the British Museum. The prevailing opinion of archaeologists is that the fragment in question is not of the Knidia, but of a different statue.

 * Probably the most faithful replica of the statue is the Colonna Venus conserved in the Museo Pio-Clementino, part of the collections of the Vatican Museums.
 * The Kaufmann Head, found at Tralles, purchased from the C. M. Kaufmann collection, Berlin, and conserved in the Musée du Louvre, is thought to be a very faithful Roman reproduction of the head of the Knidian Aphrodite.
 * At Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli in Italy, there is a second-century recreation of the temple at Knidos with a fragmentary replica of the Aphrodite standing at the center of it, generally matching descriptions in ancient accounts of how the original was displayed.
 * At the Prado Museum.

As well as more or less faithful copies, the Aphrodite of Knidos also influenced various variations, which include:
 * the Capitoline Venus (Capitoline Museums, Rome)
 * the Barberini Venus
 * the Borghese Venus
 * the Satala Aphrodite (British Museum), considered a replica by Zhores Khachatryan
 * the Aphrodite of Melos (the Venus de Milo, Louvre, Paris)
 * the Venus de' Medici (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
 * the Esquiline Venus (Capitoline Museum, Rome)
 * Venus of the Esquiline type (Louvre, Paris)
 * the Crouching Venus (Louvre, Paris and British Museum, London)
 * the Aphrodite Kallipygos (aka Venus Kalypygos, Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, Naples)
 * the Venus Victrix (Uffizi Gallery)
 * Venus Urania (Uffizi Gallery)
 * The Mazarin Venus, named after Cardinal Mazarin (now in the J. Paul Getty Museum)
 * An example with added figures of Pan and Cupid at the Athens National Archaeological Museum.
 * The Venus Felix at the Vatican Museums, a possible variation of the type.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soviet Union invasion

 * 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 Move to Soviet invasion of Romania and translate. Physchim62 15:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Union invasion

 * del, Romanian-langauge text for a valid topic. Delete unless translated during the time this discussion. The creator, User: 86.105.71.34, has a history of contributions in decent English language, and such foreign dump is simply a disrespect to the community. mikka (t) 01:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless translated by close of vote. Linked to by the Romania article but should be named as Soviet invasion of Romania. After all, it certainly wasn't the only invasion launched by the Soviet Union. Capitalistroadster 02:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * PS Has a Request for Translation been done for this. Capitalistroadster 02:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, if it is the question. But the guy should have thanslated it himself, or asked other people. In fact, there is plenty written in English on this topic. And in wikipedia as well: histories of Bucovina, Bessarabia, Chernivtsi Oblast, etc. He just bluntly dumped it on us. Bad precedent. mikka (t) 02:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Evidently, though, he didn't translate it, and we should make the best out of the situation. We're trying to make an encyclopedia, not a complex disciplinary system, so if it's possible to have this translated, it should be translated regardless of whether we're theoretically setting a bad precedent. I don't speak Romanian, so I refrain from voting, but it should go without saying that any action has to wait until after the two weeks on PNT. EldKatt (Talk) 10:05, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete given it has been through the translation process. It would be better if someone so inclined wrote an article about the Soviet Invasion of Romania from the start. Capitalistroadster 03:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for required two weeks, then, if not translated delete. The translation listing seems to be done at "19:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)" (shortly after creation).  I wish it could be deleted, but it seems that's not allowed.  --rob 03:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: It can be deleted before it's two weeks are up, if you think that Wikipedia shouldn't have an article on the Soviet invasion of Romania (e.g. if you think it shoulc be merged into History of Romania). I'm not sure there's much consensus for anything at the moment... Physchim62 16:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for the two weeks. Wait until translation process has been finished to see if we have either of (a) a translated article of this article to move to Soviet invasion of Romania or (b) an article written in English on Soviet invasion of Romania or (c) an untranslated article on the same topic. Capitalistroadster 04:05, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Move while it undergoes translation. the wub  "?!"  19:55, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Should be moved to Soviet invasion of Romania, and translated. I'm very concerned that this inappropriate placement on AfD short-circuited the translation process: usually, while an article is on AfD, no one works on translating it. I strongly suggest that if this survives AfD the clock should be reset to allow two weeks for translation, starting then. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Avolta

Avolta AG (until November 2023: Dufry AG) is a Swiss-based travel retailer which operates duty-free and duty-paid shops and convenience stores in airports, cruise lines, seaports, railway stations and central tourist areas. The company, headquartered in Basel, employs almost 36,000 people and operates in over 65 countries worldwide. It is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Retail brands
The company's retail brands are:

 * Hudson
 * World Duty Free
 * Hellenic Duty Free Shops
 * Reg Staer
 * Colombian Emeralds
 * Duty Free Uruguay
 * Duty Free Shop Argentina
 * Duty Free Shop Argentina

In addition, Dufry is also used as a brand name for some general travel retail shops.

History
The company owns stores at airports, railway stations and ports, and operates concessions onboard airlines and cruise ships.

By August 2017, the Chinese HNA Group, which declared bankruptcy in 2021, had acquired a 20.92% stake in Avolta, worth more than $1 billion. According to the Dutch OSINT platform Datenna, HNA Groups's stake in Avolta led to a medium risk of state influence on Avolta by the Chinese government. HNA Group's airport division was acquired by Hainan Development Holdings on 24 December 2021. However, HNA reduced their share to 3% in 2019.

On 24 October 2023, Dufry announced it was entering a strategic partnership with Hubei Airport Group, a Chinese based air transportation support company. The deal allows Dufry to operate as the Terminal 2 master concessionaire overseeing 77 shops at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, China’s fourteenth busiest airport.

Dufry's name was changed to Avolta AG on 3 November 2023, after a 99.8% approval by shareholders during an Extraordinary General Meeting convened following the takeover of Autogrill.

Milestones

 * 2023: Name changed to Avolta AG after buying Italian-based restaurant chain Autogrill.
 * 2020: Hudson becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Dufry and is delisted from the NYSE.
 * 2019: Dufry acquires a 60% stake of RegStaer Vnukovo.
 * 2018: Dufry's subsidiary Hudson Ltd. listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with its first trading day on February 1, 2018
 * 2016: Renewal of existing concession contracts. Company is included in the Swiss Leader Index, compiled of the 30 largest Swiss Corporations listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
 * 2015: Acquisition of World Duty Free
 * 2014: Acquisition of The Nuance Group
 * 2012: Acquisition of 51% of joint venture with RegStaer Group in Russia. Acquisition of 51% of travel retail operations of Folli Follie Group in Greece
 * 2011: Acquisitions of retail companies within Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Martinique and Armenia, involve 21 duty-free shops split between ten airports
 * 2010: Merger of Dufry Ltd. with Dufry South America Ltd.
 * 2008: Acquisition of US based travel retailer Hudson Group with 550 shops in 69 airports and transportation terminals in the United States and Canada.
 * 2007: Acquisition of one of the main travel retail operator in the Caribbean based in Puerto Rico with 23 shops in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean locations.
 * 2006: Initial Public Offering of Dufry South America Ltd. (DSA) in December. Trading of the shares on the Brazilian and Luxembourg stock exchanges. Acquisition of the Brazilian travel retailer Brasif and its logistic platform Eurotrade.
 * 2005: Dufry becomes a publicly listed company – its shares being listed on SIX Swiss Exchange. Acquisition of the remaining 25% share capital from previous shareholders by a consortium led by Advent International Corporation. Change of logo / corporate design.
 * 2004: Consortium led by Advent International Corporation acquires 75% of outstanding share capital of Dufry. Focusing of strategy on travel retail – divestment of wholesale and non-strategic activities as Weitnauer Distribution (February).
 * 2003: Name changes to Dufry.
 * 1952: Start of duty-free retail business – opening of the first duty-free shop in continental Europe in Paris/Le Bourget.
 * 1948: Start of duty-free wholesale business.
 * 1865: Company founded as a retailer in Switzerland under the name of Weitnauer.

Location
Some of the principal locations of the company are:
 * Zurich Airport, Kloten, (Switzerland)
 * EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, Basel, (Switzerland)
 * Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Istanbul, (Turkey)
 * Zvartnots International Airport, Yerevan, (Armenia)
 * Shirak International Airport, Gyumri, (Armenia)
 * Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver (Canada)
 * Las Americas International Airport, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
 * Melbourne Airport, Melbourne, (Australia)
 * Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
 * Guarulhos International Airport, São Paulo (Brazil)
 * Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore (India)
 * Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City (Mexico)
 * Malpensa International Airport (Italy)
 * All of Milan's railway stations (Italy)
 * Jorge Chavez International Airport, Lima (Peru)
 * Sharjah International Airport (United Arab Emirates)
 * Mohammed V International Airport, Casablanca (Morocco)
 * Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow (Russia)
 * El Dorado Airport, Bogotá (Colombia)
 * Siem Reap International Airport (Cambodia)
 * Phnom Penh International Airport (Cambodia)
 * Hong Kong West Kowloon railway station (Hong Kong)
 * P&O Ferries (United Kingdom)
 * Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (China)

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