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"I removed most of this entry. It was largely a combination of a less than fruitful attempt at a general-purpose definition of ""error"" and random trivia from a number of disciplines. Some particular comments:
An industry, insurance, has grown up to protect both victims and perpetrators from the baleful effects of error.
Removed this silly claim. Many kinds of insurance are designed not to protect you from error, but from ""acts of God"", such as fires and floods. Unless you mean to call God and/or ""the Universe"" a source of ""error"". Insurance protects you from many things that are not error, including chance and intentional malice.
Errors occur naturally, for example, an error in the replication of genetic material will result in a mutation, probably an unfavorable one.
Removed. Not NPOV. Whether errors occur ""naturally"" is entirely a matter of philosophical perspective. There is certainly a perspective from which anything natural is, by definition, free of error. In the case of genetics, you can only regard mutation as an ""error"" if you take as given that nature ""wants"" its replication processes to be exact replication processes.
Irrespectively of their inevitability, at law the fiction is maintained that an error is a wrong, negligence, a tort, for which anyone who suffers damage as the result thereof must be compensated by the perpetrator.
That's nice. Why can't this be in an article about law?
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Pig breeder and cultural icon of the Potteries
Arthur Berry (playwright). Trying to trim this down is like trying to dig out pine nuts from a plate-full of overcooked spaghetti. ` | 0 |
Yes creepy indeed. I believe the IP could be responsible for many of those different IP edits. Also chck this out two slander messages on my user page made by the IP in question and another IP in the same manor. Just to show a pattern. Thanks. | 0 |
WCW Smackdown
What about this? WCW Smackdown. Rare footage we've all forgot about. Should this be noted? 24.226.23.56 | 0 |
Żydokomuna
Nice work. Congratulations on bringing the article to Good Article status. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) | 0 |
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I posted the link to the Press Release. She announced that it is her ""sophomore album"", and that it ""doesn't need The Fame"". It can stand on its own two feet." | 0 |
There is no higher authority to stop users run around and delete article without talking to anyone??? Is this a joke? Why are there some editors with special rights, as you say? Yes, exactly, I don't have a problem with content issues, that's fine. I took part in discussions and votes, sometimes my view was the same as the outcome, sometimes not. Everything fine.
But here is someone who does delete articles before talking to anyone!!! This is incredibly offensive! Everybody I know and I told that story in real life, says this is unbelievable, and some of them already said they will think about that in the next round of donations to the WMF, because it looks totalitarian, that some users can do what Kwamikagami did. Is it really true that the WMF will not take action against this behavior of Kwamikagami. ... Still hoping. | 0 |
Wrong again, Calton. You just keep coming up trumps.
CattleGirl, check out the history. Calton has axes to grind, but admins have admonished him already. I reported him and User Griot on the Incidents board. Thanks again for your help. | 0 |
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""Destra"" means ""right"" (same root as our ""dexterous""). ""Left"" in Italian is ""Sinestra"". You didn't actually give your translation of ""destra"", so I can't exactly dispute it, but your ""HAHAAA!!"" suggests that you think it means something other than ""right"" and, yes, I will dispute that. (I'm not Italian, but I read pretty much all of the Romance languages pretty well.) - | Talk " | 0 |
Fixed all issues, if I have the time to do so, I'll look for more info later this week. –'''''''''' (talk / contribs) | 0 |
Didn't write it, but the total number of citations seems pretty good. Maybe the area you are talking about needs work. Why don't you place double braces fact double braces next to the paragraphs you feel need citation? | 0 |
Just because it's called a silverback, doesn't mean you have to see his back! The best solution would to rename it, describe it as the type of gorilla it is, rather than just as a silverback, since all male gorillas become silverbacks. As far as the pictures go, don't bother trying to get rid of any, that would be a waste of time because there has been an on-going war for a while now over that and other things, and it keeps getting changed back. I think the article could do with less pictures, but that's not going to happen. | 0 |
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":Generally blogs are not reliable, but there are exceptions. (""Self-published material may be acceptable when produced by a well-known, professional researcher in a relevant field or a well-known professional journalist. "" (emphasis added)) (☎ ✉ ✍)
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And you claim you want to simplify the lead? | 0 |
He may have written the first Opera in the muslim world but Soviet Union was not a muslim country. Moreover, neighboring Georgia and Armenia are actually Christian, where so many Operas had been written long before the era of Uzeyir Hajibeyov. Conservatory of Caucasus Shushi was indeed a part of Russian Empire, a city in Elizavetpol Gubernia with multiethnic population, and the majority of the city was Armenian with its Armenian districts. So many composers, other Russian Imperial celebrities track their roots from Shushi. The city was fundamentally burnt durint the Armenian Azeri clashes after the break up of Russian Empire. Later it became a village-like, 10000 inhabitants populating town in Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous district with absolute zero influence and significance because the Armenian intelligentsia moved to Karabakh's new capital Stepanakert.Later in 1992, Azeris lost the town to Armenians during the Karabakh war for independence. Armenians returned to their Shushi after 80 years, to the conservatory of Caucasus which they built and developed. The historic data given in this article is very politically motivated and unilateral, it is a pure propaganda. You better read Armenian sources as well before claiming not well grounded pretensions about Shushi's being an Azerbaijani town occupied my Armenian guerillas. | 0 |
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Is that a good speechless or a bad speechless because are about 300 more to do. | 0 |
==Vandalism==
72.136.39.180 has vandalized a series of talk pages including Annie Besant, Justin Besant, and Andrew Fox articles. | 0 |
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Re: Hawke
TBH, I'd rather leave the article the way it is. This is a superstitious thing from my part; if changes begin and if they're not good [to some people], they'll want to remove the star from Hawke's article, you know, and that'll be devastating. That's why I haven't made any changes to the article and have left them that way. I'm sorry you had to go through all this trouble, but let's just leave the settings alone... for now. Why remove the Alias appearance? It's a notable thing he did by guest starring in the show. (Hit " | 0 |
I don't think I follow your logic on this one Pcarbonn. If we consider the Shkedi and Jones et. al. papers to be genuine academic papers, then their findings can be included. We should not elaborate any further than their authors do about their significance in the debate. We don't have a source saying why Fleischman left the field, so it can't be included. | 0 |
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Hello James Cantor,
Thank you so much for your comments. The last 21 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine have had wiki pages for a number of years and the wiki community has added as much information as is fitting a Nobel Laureate. I just find is unusual that Crusio's page is so much larger than those who are far more notable. I think Crusio's page size should be about the size of an average Nobel Laureate. I can not but wonder how Wim Crusio's page is so much bigger than that last 21 of the most recent Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. As a scientist, one tends to plot data on a graph, and if you where to do so, Crusio's data point would be considered an out lier. As I stated, the wiki community has added as much information as is fitting a Nobel Laureate over many years. These pages have been edited by hundreds of users for many years, I think that gives us good yard stick, and says something about how much information a scientists site should have. While I agree with you that more ""good material"" is better, it appears that hundreds of wiki users disagree with this statement, based upon the data." | 0 |
Regarding your comment on the Norman Lowell discussion page, can you please give me the source of that quotation? Thanks | 0 |
Agreed; green is a poor choice of color for the background, as it implies Gaddafi control of those areas. - | 0 |
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What you're looking for, of course, is teledildonics. Personally, I'm holding out for the iPhone app (""There's an app for that!"") ^_^ - ❤ " | 0 |
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It seems the process requires a deletion nomination through the Redirects for Discussion page. I have linked the nomination to our discussion here. Talk " | 0 |
Your edits to Whissendine | 0 |
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Hi there skagitriver, i just wanted to say hi and pass my admiration for your work on Manson. Is he related to marilyn Manson? Are you obsessed with serial killers? Also, are you really a queen? If so, for how long?? | 0 |
You're welcome, and no, I don't believe that being a Outreach sysop should be added, since it isn't relevant. | 0 |
Sorry. I'm just mad that some anonymous accounts just wouldn't understand the difference between a light and heavy rail, and have repeatedly done that for weeks that I suspect they are vandalism by the same person. | 0 |
Why did you remove my edit? Please stop falsely editing Wikipedia article about Pashtun people or I will report you. | 0 |
Parfitt’s investigations were actually initiated in the 1980s ... and in 1992 he published his 'Journey to the vanished city'. The first genetic studies of the Lemba were then carried out in 1996. However, you are right that a 1997 writer can be forgiven for not being aware of the full extent of Parfitt’s discoveries.
Nevertheless, I am quite baffled as to why, under the circumstances, you consider it desirable to quote Ruwitah’s opinions here – particularly when they have now been contradicted by DNA evidence. Far more relevant and illuminating are the Lembas’ Semitic clan-names cited by van Warmelo in 1937. It therefore seems quite justifiable to insert a very brief mention of these – which I have done. | 0 |
I'm fine with coming to a consensus. However, I'm the only one willing to propose a solution and nobody is offering alternatives. Talk to me and propose a solution to including the most information about this document. Do not continue to vandalize and edit war. Edit do not destroy. | 0 |
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Please leave me alone. I had to due my duty in ensuring that you gain no further power on this site but otherwise I want no interaction with you. | 0 |
Image:DSC 6497-vi.jpg listed for deletion
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Copyright problems with Image:MPE MAP WEB.jpg
An image that you uploaded, Image:MPE MAP WEB.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. " | 0 |
Oh really? You may want to go and change EVERY SINGLE OTHER ARTICLE that uses the chart to Billboard then because the Canadian Hot 100 is the correct format. Jesus christ! Why do you feel the need to just make all the providers in brackets different to all of the other single articles like OCC when you know full well what it should be?! | 0 |
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See? This is exactly what I was talking about. The talking down, the condescension, the arrogance...Like I said, if you want us to co-exist, then stop. With that last post I believe that you and Qst are wanting me to leave, and I must tell you that just isn't going to happen. You need to be a LOT MORE CIVIL towards me. Then maybe we can work together. If not, then that's your loss. And by the way, Scorpion, I just wanted to remind you that you are largely responsible for the ongoing Hdayejr IP sock harassment that I've been under for the last few months. I may be a little more open to reconciling with Qst than I would be with you, unless you apologized for what you started. What got me blocked was the whole ""drop dead"" thing on your talk page. Get your facts straight, too. Be sure that I'm not going to take it to the levels I did before for risk of another block, but know this...I cannot, and I will not, coexist with editors with superiority complexes unless they can show me that they're willing to be civil. I can honestly say that I don't see that in you. And you are the ONLY EDITOR that I have ever really had a big problem with (me personally). " | 0 |
What Kizzle said. (throw me a line) | 0 |
About your RfA
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Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. I am glad you passed, and you are welcome for the support. For information on using your new tools, see the school for new admins; you will find it very useful. Good luck! | 0 |
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This article has now been merged and blanked, to be redirected to Laws of science. The parallels between classical EM and gravity is temporarily stored in my . q(E+v×B) ⇄ ∑ici " | 0 |
Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Gogeta. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. · (talk) · (mail) · | 0 |
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Copyright
Copyright is a tricky issue, and I am still struggling with it. In this case, the photographer is the copyright owner rather than Day and even Day's permission may not be good enough. If you know the name of the photographer, it's probably OK if you credit him in the caption - have a look at for a similar one I uploaded. Meanwhile, this page gives some possibilities for usable copyright tags: Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Displayed_and_ranked. Hope that helps, but it is a minefield. '''''' (talk - contribs) " | 0 |
Stop with the warnings!
I find them deeply offensive. | 0 |
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Notability of Brandon Barger
A tag has been placed on Brandon Barger requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or ""db"" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. " | 0 |
Showing notability
There are a few things you'd have to do in order to show that the band meets WP:BAND. First off, the band would have to have received coverage in reliable sources such as a newspaper or a music website or magazine that we'd consider reliable. Examples of what would be considered a reliable source would be something along the lines of a review by a staff member of AllMusic, a review by a magazine such as Pitchfork, or a newspaper article such as this one. We absolutely must have this sort of coverage in order to show that a band passes notability guidelines. WP:PRIMARY sources such as press releases, band websites, or the like do not count towards notability. Also, be wary of blog sources, as most blogs do not count towards notability. It's mostly because the vast majority of them do not have an editorial board that is established enough for us to be able to verify them. If you want, you can run sourcing through Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard, a noticeboard full of people that can tell you if a source is usable or not. (｡◕‿◕｡) | 0 |
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Wikipedia Admins Use Gestapo Tactics to Enforce their Agenda
Greetings, it is Germany 1939 all over again. Admin Mark Sweep and user TastyCakes conspire to silence another Wikipedia user that they find objectionable. After being called a ""Dunb Ass"" by user TastyCakes, and without any warning, Admin Mark Sweep, a former US Marine, has used his abilities as an admin to infinitely block my user priviledges. And all based on his personal dislike of my username, and his comradeship with user TastyCakes who were offended by a few harmless WORDS!!! Welcome to the world of those few who are endowed with superior genetics, and the ability to control what we read and learn!!!
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What comments are you talking about? 12:36, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) | 0 |
"=Remove the Tricolour from this article===
The Tricolour is not a symbol of Northern Ireland, so why is it in this section? It seems that it is here at the behest of a group of organised Irish-nationalist editors who are adept at playing the Wikipedia game, by creating controversy and thus the need for ""consensus"", which is then achieved by force of numbers. Could we have instead some genuine discussion as to why the flag should be included in a section on symbols of Northern Ireland? Please could other editors take part, otherwise this article - like others - will continue to remain under the control of the Irish-nationalist editors?
It was previously agreed that the flag could stay if its ambiguous and POV ""Flag of Ireland"" name were changed to ""Irish Tricolour"", but even this compromise has since been overturned by the nationalist group. Remember: consensus means more than majority rule.
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Unofficial request for comment about co-founder/sole founder dispute
Co-founder/sole founder dispute rumbles Wikipedia
04:51, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) List of Auburn University people (→Alumni: nothing to do with co founder dispute which it was removed last year)
04:50, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Huntsville, Alabama (→Notable residents and famous natives: nothing to do with the dispute)
04:48, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) 1966 (Undid revision 292265427 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:48, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Dopplr (Undid revision 292265970 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:48, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Undid revision 292266526 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:48, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Kelley School of Business (Undid revision 292272282 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:48, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2006) (Undid revision 292320956 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:47, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) American School in Japan (→Misc. Info: article has no relation to co-founder dispute)
04:46, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Society for Technical Communication (Undid revision 292369674 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:46, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Criticism of Microsoft (Undid revision 292369754 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:46, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) PR-e-Sense (Undid revision 292369952 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:46, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Diplopedia (Undid revision 292370091 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:45, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) June 1, 2005 (Undid revision 292370239 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:45, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Poduniversal (Undid revision 292370021 by QuackGuru (talk))
04:44, 26 May 2009 (hist | diff) Hot Press (nothing to do with the co-founder dispute come on QG you know better Undid revision 292369868 by QuackGuru (talk))
05:13, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Hot Press (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:13, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Poduniversal (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:13, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) June 1, 2005 (making false statements isnt helpful) (top)
05:12, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Society for Technical Communication (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:12, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Criticism of Microsoft (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:09, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) American School in Japan (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:08, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) List of Auburn University people (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:08, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Dopplr (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:08, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) 1966 (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:07, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2006) (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:07, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Birla Institute of Technology and Science (making false statements isnt helpful)
05:06, 4 June 2009 (hist | diff) Kelley School of Business (making false statements isnt helpful)
After the content dispute was over an editor went back to several articles and rewrote history (revisionism). The editor previously acknowledged Jimmy Wales is historically cosidered the co-founder of Wikipedia. | 0 |
AfD nomination of Guys with feelings
An article that you have been involved in editing, Guys with feelings, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guys with feelings. Thank you. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) | 0 |
Why?
why spoil all the fun? | 0 |
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Actually, I much appreciate your help; those were good-faith attempts to improve balance. I thought that one candidate's high goal-setting should be balanced by another's, and I also felt that removing the ""unknown"" made the purpose of moneybombing less Paul-centric. For instance, the Thompson bomb generated negative attention for a known candidate. I think Huckabee did well, Romney will announce something decent this weekend, and Kucinich will do well next weekend and (with Paul) get significant shared coverage. I would agree that technically the whole chain of custody Sugra to Lyman to boom is not as important; and maybe so with Nordstrom as well, though that depends on the whole of the article; but every WP article, when it has any ability to explain the who, what, where, and why of the origin of a word, does so. There is simply no fact dispute that anyone used ""moneybomb"" as fundraiser before Elder did on 10/14; it's verified repeatedly; so what would be the problem? But at any rate, I'm so happy we're back to normal editing cycles. " | 0 |
Probably, if this demonstrates a world wide reputation...., | 0 |
Actually here we have a German who was an eyewitness - we seem to love eyewitnesses except those who disagree with us it appears. The idea that such a large project - the holocaust - could be done with so many people and over such a large time period without any documentation is..... well it needs a lot of eyewitnesses to make up for the deficient ( far more than we have I would suggest). The documents that are available - tons of them - all point away from a holocaust. The Germans may not have known or saw anything for the simple reason that there may not have been anything to know or see. Also no group -even Germans - are that good at keeping secrets and running giant governmental burearucies by word of mouth.159.105.80.141 | 0 |
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Can't you follow wikipedia rules. Pray and you put something in I reverted and no one should revert me until a consensus has been reached. Yet you keep reverting don't discuss and there is no consensus. You didn't moan on the AO page when the stupid round table crap was removed so stop digging in things are changing around here. Sourcing and prose are a must if you don't like it edit something else. | 0 |
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Just want to say ""Great, I'm a great actor and there are plenty of gullible people out there."" haven't laughed so hard in months. brilliant line! 09:53, 27" | 0 |
It seems to me that the Grinnell Glacier picture was taken from near the summit of Mount Gould about midday. A midmorning time would reduce the shadows on the left side of the image. I would guess the ascent to be straightforward from the Highline Trail and could be done in about 1.5 hours. It would be splendid to have a high quality current picture for Retreat of glaciers since 1850 especially if it shows significant change since 1981. (talk) | 0 |
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Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Toothed whale. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. ☎ " | 0 |
By the way, as Sanchez is banned, I'm free to remove and report any vandalism he posts here (or anywhere) during his block. And I'll be doing so. | 0 |
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Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2014
Aleppo central prison liberated
http://sana.sy/eng/21/2014/05/22/546092.htm
Damascus, (SANA) Army units successfully wrapped up military operations in the vicinity of Aleppo Central Prison after they had broken the siege on the troops defending it, the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said.
In a statement issued Thursday, the Command announced that army units have regained control over a site where a law-enforcement battalion is stationed north of the prison and tightened grip on the adjacent areas, inflicting back-breaking losses on the armed groups.
""The new achievement is highly important as it serves to tighten the noose on residual terrorist groups in the eastern and northeastern outskirts of Aleppo city and cuts off supply lines that terrorist gangs were using for movement from the [Aleppo] northern countryside towards the city,'' added the statement.
The statement lauded the feat as a ""body blow"" for terrorist gangs which used Aleppo northern countryside as a springboard to launch attacks against Aleppo city, adding that it ""gives the lie to claims and fabrications"" about terrorist groups seizing control of the prison.
The Command concluded by vowing non-stop efforts to strike terrorists hard and bring back security and stability to Aleppo ""and every inch of the Syrian land.""
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Not emo, The Mifits are real punk like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and [Black Flag]] are. The Mifits rule!GorillazFan " | 0 |
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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban with the Larry O'Brien trophy at the Dallas Mavericks championship parade
Born July 31, 1958 (1958-07-31) (age 53)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Ethnicity Jewish
Alma mater Indiana University
Occupation Owner of Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and Chairman of HDNet
Net worth US$2.5 billion (2011)[1]
Spouse Tiffany Stewart (m. 2002) «start: (2002)»""Marriage: Tiffany Stewart to Mark Cuban"" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban)
Children 2 daughters, 1 son[2]
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958)[3] is an American business magnate and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks,[4] Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network HDNet.[5] He is also a part-time ""shark"" investor on the television series Shark Tank. In 2011, Cuban wrote an e-book, ""How to Win at the Sport of Business"", in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Family
2 Early career
3 Business career
3.1 Magnolia Pictures
3.2 Insider trading allegation
4 Dallas Mavericks
4.1 Ownership
4.2 NBA policy controversies
5 Other sports businesses
5.1 Major League Baseball
6 Political leanings
7 Fallen Patriot Fund
8 ""The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan""
9 Film and television credits
9.1 Acting roles
9.2 As himself
10 References
11 External links
[edit] BiographyCuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[6][7] and grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, in a Jewish[8] working-class family. His last name was shortened from ""Chabenisky"" when his Russian grandparents landed on Ellis Island.[9] Cuban's father Norton was an automobile upholsterer.[6][10][11] Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.[6][12] While in school, he held a variety of jobs, including bartender, disco dancing instructor, and party promoter. He paid for college by collecting and selling stamps, and once gained about $1,100 from starting a chain letter.[6]
Rather than attending high school for his senior year, Cuban enrolled as a full time student at the University of Pittsburgh. After one year at the University of Pittsburgh, he transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and graduated in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.[13]
[edit] FamilyIn September 2002, Cuban married Tiffany Stewart, an advertising executive, in Barbados,[14] with a wedding reception at the American Airlines Center. Their first daughter, Alexis Sofia, was born on September 25, 2005; their second daughter, Alyssa, was born in 2007.[15] Tiffany and Mark also have a son born in early 2010.[2] The family lives in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas, in a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) mansion.[16]
[edit] Early careerIn 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas. Cuban first found work as a bartender,[17][18] then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas. He was terminated less than a year later, after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store.[19]
Cuban started a company, MicroSolutions, with support from his previous customers from Your Business Software. MicroSolutions was initially a system integrator and software reseller. The company was an early proponent of technologies such as Carbon Copy, Lotus Notes, and CompuServe.[20] One of the company's largest clients was Perot Systems.[21] In 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe—then a subsidiary of H&R; Block—for $6 million.[22] He retained approximately $2 million after taxes on the deal.[23]
In 1995, Cuban and fellow Indiana University alumnus Todd Wagner started Audionet, combining their mutual interest in college basketball and webcasting. With a single server and an ISDN line,[24] Audionet became Broadcast.com in 1998. By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for the second quarter.[25] In 1999, during the dot com boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock.[26]
[edit] Business careerAfter the sale of Broadcast.com, Cuban diversified his wealth to avoid exposure to a market crash.[27] As of 2011, Cuban is No. 459 on Forbes' list of ""World's Richest People"", with a net worth of $2.5 billion.[28] The Guinness Book of Records credits Cuban with the ""largest single e-commerce transaction"", after he paid $40 | 0 |
I said that I fixed your reverts, When You Never added a SOURCE. Hey I Respect that You just get Stuff Right Because I Have no Idea why so many sites have Antillon Listed as Mexican. I don't have three accounts, Don't Be a Racist Theirs alot of Editors with the Name Mexicano. | 0 |
Frankly, Alienus, I was about to voice my support of halving the duration, on the basis that while it was inappropriate, offense might not have been intended. Then I read the preceding comment, and I see the familiar protests of complete innocence, and defiant tone. That doesn't seem compatible with an acceptance that your words did cause offense (regardless of intent), and a willingness to make an effort to avoid doing so in future. For what it's worth, then, I oppose a reduction of the block, though I may change this view in future. | 0 |
In the heavier than heaven biography it says he started smoking marijuana in the eighth grade and later in the book it talks about his addictions and I think it should be added to this section | 0 |
Re: Mass removal of language articles by Ryulong
Thank you for joining the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#Mass deletion of language articles by Ryulong. Without enough eyeballs, something unthinkable does happen in this encyclopedia. Please keep an eye on this problem. | 0 |
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i had a feeling that your warm welcome was not genuine. Stop feeding the propaganda and let the truth be known. | 0 |
User Andrewdaly.ca is a sockpuppet of user:24.57.201.171
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What is your intention with this text??, as you give no reason why you are introducing this. This is a talk page, so you obviously have some intention to the mainspace text. What is the aim??
Contentwise: This seems to be a conspiracy theory that takes in a lot of wild allegations. Combining these wild rumours in such a way is at best original research, at worst slander. Neither has a place in a mainspace article
Even if you dig up all the journal papers you are implying, this would still be original research as the synthesis of the sources in such a way is not obvious. So it will not be enough to provide a source for each line, you will need to provide a reputable source that combines them in the same way as you do. Without such source, this text is wild allegation. | 0 |
I made a rubber band ball today | 0 |
Anyway I've to finish my complains! | 0 |
Congratulations from me too. I hope to follow you soonish. Good luck with the mop. talk | 0 |
I hope you agree with me in this matter . | 0 |
Thanks
I would have used the ping thanks but it does not include my sentiments that I appreciate the time you took to add this. Much appreciated. |Talk | 0 |
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Kerala state Iyers cant be called as Tamil people. And according to your concept should we consider they do not belong to India itself since all Brahmins are from Aryan race???!! So a person should be recognised by the state where he is born and his mother tongue... Ajith forefathers and his father are from Palakkad it comes under Kerala state with Malayam language. Obviously he is a Keralite. When asked in interviews for his failure to perform comedies in cinemas , Ajith replied since he has problem with language its clear he started speaking Tamil only after getting into cinema.The wind or breeze 09:17, 30 May 2010 | 0 |
"Don't worry Bill, Wikzilla just goes and reverts your vandalism. Signed Dufus ""He's everywhere!"" the Dog, beloved pet of Wikzilla" | 0 |
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There are other valid interpretations (what's more interpretations that are backed up by sources). Bush didn't want to spread panic , and if he had stormed out of the room the footage would have been replayed endlessly on television and it wouldn't have done much for national morale. " | 0 |
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As you already know, I'm for Hōgyoku. Not because I prefer it, but for consistency and a precise reason. On every page, we rightly use ""shinigami"", ""zanpakutō"", ""kidō"", ""bankai"" etc. and to me Hōgyoku it's not different. They aren't japanese words, but Bleach specific keywords. " | 0 |
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Song articles
The majority of songs shouldn't have their own articles. They should only really have individual articles if they were released as singles (although not all singles, even by notable artists, are notable enough to have articles for example) or if there is enough relevant data that can be found and cited about them to make decent encyclopaedic articles about them (See Led Zeppelin songs and this discussion for examples). — (T|C) " | 0 |
The article Alex Coke has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. | 0 |
I'll say this again: I am not a sockpuppet. 193.109.199.35 | 0 |
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I guess we could just leave it the way it is now for a month or two should be fine. COuld also be ""amateur basketball player formerly of...with plans to attend..."" That's pretty cool Jordan was at your graduation. I'd probably stare a whole through him if I ever got that close to him. " | 0 |
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As you say, a question of relevance. The images of Bouch's bridge appear on Bouch's page; Bouch was an engineer who designed bridges. Yolland was a map maker and railway inspector: images on Yolland's page should, in a similar way, reflect his career. What relevant material can you offer to fulfil this? Why do you insist on two images, very prominently displayed, containing only loosely relevant material? The policy clearly calls for ""bold"" deletion of such material: I am at fault for merely reducing its prominence. You wish readers to ""judge the scale of the disaster"": I have now added the link to the correct Wikipedia article so that they may do so, in an appropriate level of detail and with these images (and one of mine—I've no objection to images that are relevant) included. " | 0 |
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Jundullah article
In the section of views I added this: ""Jundullah have been refered to as seperatists by various media,[33][34][35][36][37] the group's leader Abdolmalek Rigi, has however always denied the organisation had any seperatist agenda,[2][5][6][8]"" - this is basicly showing both views and reporting what has been said by others in an as neutral and objective way as possible. Please tell me what is wrong or biased about this, cause I don't see it at all...
BTW, I think it's strange you accuse me of making Iranian propaganda if all I'm doing is reporting the offical goals of an anti-Iranian organisation, on their article (rather than the view which is usually promoted by Iranian media). " | 0 |
I have already learned - may be you not yet - that one can not insult soulless people. | 0 |
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I agree fully. There's nothing inherently pejorative about the term. ""Redskin"" and ""Pale Face"" even enjoy a certain amount use as terms of affection between the two races. I imagine that there are some Native Americans who dislike the term (just as some, maybe even more understandably, hate the word ""Indian""), just as there are some who find the terms white, black, and yellow offensive. (Though ""yellow"" is probably a special case, since it is sometimes associated with cowardice, there are still some contexts in which few if any people would be offended by it, such as in ""all people, whether White, Black, Red, or Yellow, should be treated equally"", in which the usage is very explicitly non-derogatory.)
Although, this may depend on the area or the individuals involved. For example, a Native American would probably not be offended by being called a ""Redskin"" by a White friend who he knows to be anything but a racist, but might strongly object to being called a ""Redskin"" by a member of the KKK. Likewise, in areas where Native Americans are the largest racial ""minority"", there has probably already been a long history of mutual cooperation and friendship between the Whites and ""Redskins"" of the area (and many Whites who very proudly boast a Native herritage), who would not immediately think any word was intended pejoratively unless given good reason to do so. I know in my area, where racism against Mexicans and Asians is somewhat common (and sadly, even expected), the idea of racism against Natives is strange and alien, since the Whites and the Redskins here have such a long history together and such a strong respect for one another. Although that might also have to do with the fact that most of the cities in my area were founded by Scottish and Irish immigrants who were treated as outcasts in the rest of the U.S., so the Whites who settled here in the early years knew first-hand how hurtful prejudices and stereotypes could be.
In any event, it's not really accurate (and more than a little ignorant) to say that the word ""Redskin"" is a pejorative, when it is clearly not an offensive word in all contexts, and may even be, as mentioned above, a term of as a term of affection. 00:01, August 16, 2005 (UTC)" | 0 |
It has not been vandalism but merely exposing the truth and Chinamanjoe has had no right to delete the truthful information which I have provided from all the user talk pages. Chinamanjoe is a fraud and all the the pages he has created are complete lies. He has deleted the additions which I and others have made to the discussion pages to try and hide the truth. He should not be allowed to continue to conduct this sort of behaviour. Thank you. | 0 |
Please don't return the article to a misleading and innaccurate title. The subject and the contents are not just about the hacking, but about the controversy over the e-mails themselves. That's what most of the coverage in reliable sources discusses, well beyond the hacking incident itself. So a return to the former title would be very misleading and innacurate. If there is a better title let's use that one, but this one is a clear improvement over the improperly narrow title that was being used previously.
An article's title must reflect the article contents. An effort was made to split off the controversy over the e-mails, but that was reverted. The present title is misleading as it addresses only the hacking, a small part of the coverage, and ignore the much bigger issue about what was in the e-mails and the ensuing controversy. I'm okay with having separate article on the hacking and the e-mails if that's the way to go, but we can't have a distorted article that is titled and stilted to address the hacking only as if the e-mails themselves aren't the center of the controversy and what makes the subject so notable. | 0 |
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Wikilinks
How territorial of you to undo all my wikilinks just so you could put them all back yourself. Some of them you didn't even put back right, hence the friendly notice left on your talk page; you still have some DAB links left. How is this clearer and who does that? Who will purposely undo what a previous editor didwhich actually helped the pagejust so they could micromanage a page and do it all over again themselves... but worse. I don't get it. I followed your dance-style-on-the-card rule and I added wikilinks which weren't there before. We were on the SAME SIDE Snow. We both want a better page. Pay attention. If you were thinking clearly instead of obsessing over a page you think belongs to you, all you would have had to do after I originally added the wikilinks is fix mambo, tango, b-boying, and kalinka (they all linked to disam pages). Then everything would have linked fine. Instead you undo everything I linked. Then you (re)add links all back and end up creating more disambiguation links than what existed before. You even linked to some pages which aren't even helpful. Example: you changed ""Tap dance"" back to ""Tap dancing"" and ""Krumping"" back to ""Krump"". The only reason why I changed the way the words ended in the first place was to provide a link directly to their respective articles instead of to the redirects (not because I'm being subjective). But you change the links back so that they point to the redirects. It's not like your helping people in their understanding. All you did was link those dance styles back to redirect pages instead of to the actual articles. How petty is that. Take Bollywood for another example. Are you aware of the fact that Bollywood dance redirects to Hindi dance songs? Not to mention the fact that there's also a big huge original research banner at the top of that article. How is this article going to help someone understand Bollywood dance better than the Dance in India article which is where I linked it to before you reverted my edit. If you really didn't like it pointing to that article you could have at least linked it to Bollywood#Bollywood song and dance this time. Either way, at least people reading those pages would understand the dance better than reading an article about Hindi dance songs which has very few citations. Stop being selfish and think about the readers.
Final thoughts
By-the-way, regardless of how the show presents street dance, ""old school"" is two words and breaking will always be hip-hop dance considering it is one of the pillars of hip-hop culture. That's a fact and not subjective. Read a book, watch a documentary, or educate yourself some other way if you don't want to hear me out. I'm going to change ""old school"" back to two words because it's good grammar. I'm also going to remove electric boogie, take African out of the jazz dance group, and fix all the disambiguation links you added. Then I'll either make pas de duex it's own row again or put lyrical hip-hop back beside hip-hop. Or maybe do both. Or maybe not even touch them. I haven't decided yet since you have a problem my editing except for the last option. I don't know what you would settle with. Any other changes I make won't be without good reason. I think I've demonstrated that by my long-winded response to your comments. If it kills you to see me make these edits again then go ahead and revert them. At that point, I'll just go to WP:RFC and solicit the opinions of people who don't care about either of us or SYTYCD because I'm not about to argue back-and-forth on this talk page with you considering that you don't WP:OWN the page, you have no sources, and more importantly, you have no WP:CONSENSUS about a rule you made up which you yourself reneged on. My ip > 132.3.17.68 " | 0 |
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Bad wording on my part. The image copytag states they can be used under the fair use provision ""when they are used for the purposes of commentary or criticism relating to the image of the currency itself"". As the fact that Scotland is one of the few non sovereign nations to produce their own banknotes, and we talk about this here, then it is fine under the fair use provision for us to put a banknote image here. " | 0 |
I agree, but please if you really think I am a puppet file a request at WP:RFCU and clear me! I'm not a puppet, just a newbie with an unfortunate similarity in username | 0 |
. You can replace the name Lech Wałęsa with any other name that you would like to research in my list of reliable sources, and you can easily add other sources | 0 |
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So should all ""other albums"" not have a chronology in their infobox? Is there a rule that all albums have to have a chronology, or can it be removed from albums like Cheap Thrills, Strictly Commercial, Beat the Boots, etc? Removing it all together from those articles and leaving the chronology to the official albums seems like a better way of doing things.
Also, how should The Old Masters fit in? If all three boxes had their own articles (which they don't), the chronology would read:
Thing-Fish • Francesco Zappa • The Old Masters, Box IFrancesco Zappa • The Old Masters, Box I • Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
The Old Masters, Box I • Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention • Does Humor Belong in Music?Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention • Does Humor Belong in Music? • The Old Masters, Box II
Does Humor Belong in Music? • The Old Masters, Box II • Jazz from HellThe Old Masters, Box II • Jazz from Hell • London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II
Jazz from Hell • London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II • The Old Masters, Box IIILondon Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II • The Old Masters, Box III • Guitar
'''The Old Masters, Box III • Guitar • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
The problem is that without an article for each box, a reader going through all albums chronologically would end up stuck on the universal Old Masters page, which currently leads to Beat the Boots chronologically. Another reason getting rid of certain infobox chronologies would make sense.
(Also, at the risk of seeming rude, I'd like to point out that " | 0 |
I'm pretty sure it's spam (I'm italian). | 0 |
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