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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Cheetah Girls 3

The result was speedy deleted by User:Ral315, author request. Morgan Wick 05:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The Cheetah Girls 3
Movie is complete crystal balling, as IMDB has 0 entries on this movie. Prod removed by author as well Wildthing61476 03:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

IMBD does not always have everything up that fast. This was all said in a press conference and Deborah Gregory said this in a interview. Jtervin 03:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Mind linking to an article about this interview and/or press conference, then? —NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 03:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom. Fake promo pic made in MS Paint sealed the deal for this article. —NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 03:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't have the exact address but if you look on Google for The Cheetah Girls 3 i found a video for the press conference live and there is no promo pic. What promo pic?Jtervin 03:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I mean the image in this revision of the article, which you removed after I made that statement. —NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 03:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Do Not Delete It was on a live video feed and it was a press conference and it was on the news in my hometown like 2 weeks ago. Jtervin 03:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment' Funny, Googling "Cheetah Girls 3" gives NO link to this press conference. Wildthing61476 03:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Said Google search also turns up ~200 G-hits. Morgan Wick 04:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment That is what I did and it took me to Deborah Gregory's Pay-Per_view site and I payed 5.95 to watch the press conference live.

 * Comment Funny, NO mention of this on her website either. I'm starting to lean to a speedy the more I hear this. Wildthing61476 03:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment It might have been a cable company's site but it just said "Deborah Gregory PAy-Per-View at the top and looked like her offcial website Cheetahrama.Jtervin 04:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I did not remove that image by the way. I thought you did Neo.Jtervin 04:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice try. This diff shows that you were the one that removed it. —NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 04:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok i just found a link and i will post it in one sec!!! Jtervin 04:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Here is the link:

http://www.xanga.com/CheetahGirlsMovie3

and I did remove it the second time

 * Comment So the site was created on Friday August 11, 2006 at 12:08 AM eastern....7 minutes ago. Please stop, you are making your case MUCH worse. Wildthing61476 04:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I reposted that from somebody else's XangaJtervin 04:17, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Again, where is the proof? I'm REALLY gving you the benefit of a doubt, but was this mentioned in ANY major newspaper/publication/media source? Obviously a successful franchise, such as this, would be noteworthy enough if a sequel was being made. Wildthing61476 04:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete as wishful thinking/hoax. Gazpacho 04:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete original article was bad enough, behavior of author is even worse. A Xanga?! Danny Lilithborne 04:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I am sorry for my behavior but it was there but now its been removed and so I'm not mad t you guys but the poeple from the pay-per-view site. Sorry!!Jtervin 04:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If you've decided it doesn't actually exist, copy this into the article:   Gazpacho 04:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Or Morgan Wick 04:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol_opinion_vote.svg|20px]] Note: I wanted to see if this user has engaged in any questionable behaviour, specifically, if he's furthered hoaxes in the past. Here's what I found: He recreated The Cheetah Girls TV series after it got deleted; that is now nommed as a db-repost. He has also modified user pages that aren't his, but my real concern is less than 100 edits in less than a day... awfully new user, though he may have edited previously as an anon. Not the dirt I was looking for, but there's some clods in there. Morgan Wick 04:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete no legitimate evidence that the movie is real. The website in question would also not be acceptable by verifiability standards. Also unsigned personal attacks are not welcomed. Atttack was already removed. --Edgelord 04:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment You can delete this but like i said I was sorry about me exploding on you peeps it is the fact that i cannot find the link is what makes me mad.Jtervin 04:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment to Note Yes i have edited before i just never had a user-name and i did re-create the Tv series page because it needed to be fixed and is fixed and is not deleted yet so maybe it will stay up and I SAID I WAS SORRY FOR MY BAD BEHAVIOR!!!!
 * Delete per WP is not a crystal ball, and failing WP:V, at best. Tychocat 04:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Being Deleted I will delete this article to prove to you all that I can do it and that I am not just trying to pull an hoax but when this page come back up it will be veryfiable but put up by somebody else. ALSO please help me with the tours section of The Cheetah Girls Girl Grup i can't make thouse boxes Sorry!! :)


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Talk:Voter's Guide

I had this idea the other day, and I'm excited about it. I think this is a way that Wikibooks and the rest of Wikimedia's projects could gain some publicity and respect. I could easily see that, by the 2008 US election, we could have well-developed guides to the issues, parties and candidates, vetted by people of all political stripes and found neutral, and available in a dozen or more languages... This will require a number of participants, however, of diverse backgrounds. TUF-KAT 00:54, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

NPOV implies Wikipedia article
When an issue is described with a NPOV, it should be in Wikipedia, leaving the contentious, left vs right, issues summarized here, with the relevant interwikilinks, of course. in fact, the Wikipedia article will also benefit from a summary of the contentious issues explained more here too. Mark Hurd 10:04, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Um, neutral point of view is a policy across all of Wikimedia, it is not limited to Wikipedia. That being said, each project applies it differently, and the Voter Guide will need to have a special application of the policy, as the Wikimedia Foundation could loose it's non-profit status in the US (where the foundation is located) if it violates certin campaign laws, such as endorsing a particular candidate for office. There was a short discussion of this earlier on the Foundation-l mailing list. Gentgeen 12:26, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree that neutrality is important here. Also, the Voter's Guide should focus on which candidates and parties hold the various positions.  There should indeed by summaries of why people hold different opinions, but I agree that the nitty-gritty should be in Wikipedia.  I think the purpose of the Voter's Guide should be to point voters who already have at least a vague idea of where they stand on the issues to the candidates who best represent those positions.  For example, we can summarize the gun control arguments and explain what various pieces of legislation mean, with the primary purpose of explaining which politicians hold various views -- all the historical details and such should be at Wikipedia, and we should be liberally interlinking with those articles. TUF-KAT 17:54, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia-related idea
On Wikipedia, I nominated "Voter education" for collaboration of the week. But it needs two more votes by Oct. 17 to avoid removal.
 * Maurreen, Oct. 17, 2004

Related projects
I am aware of a few "related projects" that you may want to check out, either as an alternative to this format, complementing this site, or as a place to grab content from:
 * 1) The Pittsburgh Forum: Similar idea to Wikibate, may eventually change name. (Currently public domain, but may change to GFDL or CC-SA)
 * 2) LibertarianWiki: An encyclopedia for libertarians (Public domain)
 * 3) DKosopedia: A progressive political encyclopedia (GFDL)
 * 4) The Progress Pittsburgh Knowledge Base: A local progressive group, probably has the resources to make a good voter's guide. (No copyright notice, but told me that they do not intend to make the information free)
 * 5) theballot.org: The ultimate progressive peoples' voter guide. Find, create and share progressive voters guides.

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Just some notes on potential structures
Feel free to comment - TUF-KAT 04:43, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(Since I haven't thought of a remotely usable name for the whole proposal, I'm just calling it The Guide for the moment)

The Guide's purpose should be to encourage an educated debate of controversial issues and to provide a neutral database of information to help guide newcomers to our subjects. Note that by "encouraging an educated debate", I don't mean actually holding debates, but rather giving a one-stop source for information on why beliefs are held.

Departments

 * Voter's Guide: Collects information on specific elections, parties and candidates
 * Voter's Guide:George W. Bush with standardized subpages like maybe Voter's Guide:George W. Bush - Voting Record or Campaign Funding and the like.
 * Voter's Guide:Democratic Party with standardized subpages on whatever seems important
 * Voter's Guide:U.S. presidential election, 2008 with subpages if needed
 * We don't limit the notability of elections for any local, provincial or state elections. We should also allow for voter's guides for things like unions and other large organizations, but not for every podunk clubhouse, so there should be a line somewhere.
 * Issue Guide: (or a better name) collection of relevant facts and arguments on a particular debate
 * We should also have a guide to debates of fact. Maybe Issue Guide:Number of civilian Iraqis killed during the US occupation of Iraq, for example, where we could collect information on the different numbers that have been produced, explaining how they were derived.  Also Issue Guide:Change in homelessness during the Bush Administration
 * Maybe a separate section for conspiracy theories
 * We should have a section for brief explanations of logical fallacies of all kinds. This would be useful to link to.
 * Need to set a line for issues. Issue Guide:How much does Pantera RAWK!? is out, but Issue Guide:Nu Metal, if done in a neutral fashion, would be fine.  What about, however, critical reviews of movies and the like? Perhaps even expand into all manner of opinions and provide a meta-database of critical reviews of movies, albums and books.
 * A standardized method of citing scholarly journals. Say, on medical marijuana or the effects of secondhand smoke.
 * We should treat all opinions equally, assuming they are not idiosyncratic. I mean really equally, irregardless of popularity -- should Voter's Guide:Barack Obama document that some may not want to vote for him because he is black?  With a link to Issue Guide:White Supremacy, of course.  I think so, since it isn't our place to judge the reasonableness of opinions -- we provide documentation of reasons why people hold opinions.
 * The namespace Issue Guide should be for overviews of a particular dispute. The namespace Morality should be for examining moral claims that are inherently unprovable.  The namespace Factual Claim should be used for (theoretically) verifiable statements such as those involving history and statistics.  The namespace Premise should be used for other claims which rely on unverifiable statements but are not direct moral claims (such as funding priorities, justifications for specific bills and actions).

Name suggestions
Please, we need names

For the overarching project consisting of the Issue Guide, the Voter's Guide and all related paraphernalia. This is the one that really should begin with Wiki:
 * Some words to consider: en:forum, en:concord, en:summit, en:dispute, en:controversy, en:issue, en:debate, en:parliament, en:congress, en:feast, en:senate (mediators in ancient Rome were called internuncius, medium, intercessor, philantropus, interpolator, conciliator, interlocutor, interpres, and finally mediator)
 * Other words:

togetherness in spirit and humanness), and is also compared to Navajo k'e and Lakota ti ospaye customs and traditions that starts at community level, derives its name from a grass called Urucaca that thrives well in homesteads. The mechanism is founded on dialogue, reconciliation and reparation. Whenever there is a feud between two or more parties, elders gather in front of the homestead amidst Urucaca. Each party is then asked to present their case. The role of the council of elders is to facilitate the reconstruction of relationships. Meanwhile the party in the wrong is required to pay a fine as a way of punishment. Soon after, beer is shared by both parties and the council of elders, followed by a feast. Industrial Court, told participants in the inter-faith summit. Traditional dispute resolution, principally aimed at preventing the rupture of relationships, in addition to rectifying the wrong, begins at the family level. In cases where disputes cannot be dealt with at that level, they are referred to the ward Kgotla, a localized court in the vicinity of the defendant's home. Throughout the process, the defendant's kinsmen are actively involved. If the matter cannot be resolved at the ward Kgotla, then it goes to the main Kgotla, which is presided over by the chief. Mokgwa le Molao, the legal system in this context, literally means "law and custom," and expresses the character of a system of law that prescribes a moral content.'' courts have tried less than six percent of those detained for suspected genocide offences. There are some 110,000 Rwandese in the country's detention facilities, the vast majority of them still awaiting trial. The Gacaca system currently works as a tribunal, having been embraced by the community and the law. Late last year, 260,000 adults of "integrity, honesty and good conduct" were selected by local communities to serve as magistrates on the more than 10,000 Gacaca tribunals.'' council of elders (Lotido-Apoka)... Mato-Oput is usually performed after a fight, disagreement or any rift that would affect harmonious coexistence in the society. Where arms are involved, a ceremony known as "bending of spears" is performed. This involves the exchange of spears between the warring parties and the bending of the tips of the same. From then on, all the parties must vow not to harm one another, since they are united by the ritual and therefore rendered brothers and sisters.''
 * k'e - Navajo, meaning solidarity and reciprocity or what I do has an impact on you and what you do has an impact on me
 * hozhooji naat’aanii - Navajo, meaning peacemaking or people talking together to re-form relationships with each other and the universe, combination of the words for rightness and to talk
 * ki-ah-m - Cree, meaning law or for everything you do, good or bad, there are consequences, similar to the Zulu ubuntu (which is also defined as ''an attitude of
 * ''Another example of peace-building mechanism comes from the Banyarwanda community in Rwanda. Gacaca, an intricate system of
 * ''In Botswana, traditional courts form a critical part of the justice system, Judge Elijah Legwaila, President of Botswana's
 * ''In modern Rwanda, Gacaca is used as an institution to find out the truth about the 1994 genocide. The country's special genocide
 * ho‘oponopono - Hawaiian, a mediation session among a family in which all discussion is directed towards a leader that attempts reconciliation (Note: the word wiki is originally Hawaiian)
 * mogaji, the lineage head, and the baale, an elderly head of the district, act as mediators among the Yoruba They apparently use blackmail and the threat of excommunication to achieve a compromise
 * So Da Bee - title of a Yoruba television show in which disputes are solved
 * The ancient Indian system of Panchayat involved a mediator (pancha), whose decisions were irreversible
 * In early Irish law, a brithem, who had trained in law but had not been appointed by the king as the official judge, could work as an arbitrator. The law established the arbitrator’s pay at one-twelfth of the sum at issue.
 * Old Testament - King Solomon
 * Jewish tradition, based on the Torah and Talmud, provided a judicial setting called Beth Din in which disputants argued their case before three rabbinical judges. The disputants first had to agree to be bound by the judges’ decision. Prior to appearing before the judges, the disputants were strongly urged to resolve their differences informally in bitzua(mediation) or p’sharah (arbitration)
 * From the earliest days of Islam, Muhammad (570?–632) encouraged and practiced tahkim, or arbitration, to resolve a variety of disputes. Muhammad’s role as arbitrator is sanctioned by revelation. Once Islam became dominant in a community, local law was amended to include arbitration (Moussalli, 1997).
 * The Islamic tradition and culture focuses more on the group or community than on the individual. Originating in ancient Middle Eastern tribes and villages were the dispute resolution practices of Sulh(settlement) and Musalaha (reconciliation). The two together, often referred to simply as Sulh, have been used to control conflict and maintain harmony within and between tightly knit social groups. The ritual practices involve conversations, information sharing, and exchanging promises about the future.
 * ''The Acholi's Mato-Oput ritual involves the appearance of an individual or group of people involved in a conflict before a
 * It'd be neat to have a name based on one of these traditional terms related to dispute resolution - Wikike, Wikubuntu, Wikipono, Wikisolomon, Wikipancha, Wikibrithem, Wikitakhem, Wikioput
 * Other Ideas: Wikisummit, Wikiforum (I believe it's taken)
 * Some words to replace Issue Guide as a namespace and a specific part of the project: Disputarium or Disputorium

 * I rather like the idea of using some kind of traditional dispute resolution, since our goal after all is to facilitate communication among people who disagree with each other so that everyone can hopefully come to an amicable, informed and conscientious position. Of these, Wikubuntu is nice.  From the Zulu word ubuntu which I have found defined as an attitude of togetherness in spirit and humanness, humanity to others, humanness and I am what I am because of who we all are.  It is also apparently the name of a Linux distribution.  It serves as the spiritual foundation of African societies. It is a unifying vision or world view enshrined in the Zulu maxim umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, i.e. a person is a person through other persons (Shutte, 1993:46). At bottom, this traditional African aphorism articulates a basic respect and compassion for others. It can be interpreted as both a factual description and a rule of conduct or social ethic. It both describes human being as "being-with-others" and prescribes what "being-with-others" should be all about.  Later, Ubuntu underscores the importance of agreement or consensus. African traditional culture, it seems, has an almost infinite capacity for the pursuit of consensus and reconciliation (Teffo, 1994a:4). Democracy the African way does not simply boil down to majority rule. Traditional African democracy operates in the form of (sometimes extremely lengthy) discussions (cf. Busia, 1967:28). Although there may be a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, every person gets an equal chance to speak up until some kind of an agreement, consensus or group cohesion is reached. This important aim is expressed by words like simunye ("we are one", i.e. "unity is strength") and slogans like "an injury to one is an injury to all" (Broodryk, 1997a:5, 7, 9).  Also, Ubuntu inspires us to expose ourselves to others, to encounter the difference of their humanness so as to inform and enrich our own (cf. Sidane, 1994:8-9). Thus understood, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu translates as: "To be human is to affirm one's humanity by recognising the humanity of others in its infinite variety of content and form" (Van der Merwe, 1996:1). This translation of Ubuntu attests to a respect for particularity, individuality and historicality, without which decolonization cannot be. and The Ubuntu respect for the particularities of the beliefs and practices of others (cf. also Wiredu, 1995), is especially emphasised by a striking, yet (to my mind) lesser-known translation of umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, viz.: "A human being is a human being through (the otherness of) other human beings" (Van der Merwe, 1996:1— italics mine). For post-apartheid South Africans of all colours, creeds and cultures, Ubuntu dictates that, if we were to be human, we need to recognise the genuine otherness of our fellow citizens.  Ubuntu's respect for the particularity of the other, links up closely to its respect for individuality and Ubuntu defines the individual in terms of his/her relationship with others (Shutte, 1993:46ff). According to this definition, individuals only exist in  their relationships with others, and as these relationships change, so do the characters of the individuals. Thus understood, the word "individual" signifies a plurality of personalities corresponding to the multiplicity of relationships in which the individual in question stands. Being an individual by definition means "being-with-others". "With-others", as Macquarrie rightly observes, "...is not added on to a pre-existent and self-sufficient being; rather, both this being (the self) and the others find themselves in a whole wherein they are already related" (1972:104).  (Much of the previous from ).
 * So... I kind of like Wikubuntu, though it is weird-looking and kind of difficult to pronounce. Anyone know how ubuntu is pronounced in Zulu? TUF-KAT 03:45, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Campaigns.wikia.com
On July 4th, Jimmy Wales launched Campaigns Wikia at Wikia.com, and it seems to dovetail with this Voter's Guide project. I'd like to propose that much of the content here be moved to that site. It might be useful to have a wikibook describing how to vote in general terms, but getting down to candidate names and specific initiatives and levies that might be on a ballot somewhere seems to be beyond the scope of the Wikipedia Foundation. Chadlupkes 21:21, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * While this may be considered a gentle suggestion that it is, this should not be considered as rationale for a VfD of this book. Unfortunately, any effort that may have been put into this Wikibook may have in fact been zapped by this alternative Wiki.  Some of the voter's guides that have been generated here are of some significant value, and this is not necessarily outside of the scope of Wikibook.... provided it is NPOV and you can cite sources for the information that is being presented.  BTW, what exactly is "outside the scope of the Wikipedia Foundation"?  I didn't even know there was a Wikipedia Foundation.  The Wikimedia Foundation does try to set the scope of some projects, but I don't know of anything explicitly wrong here unless the WMF board itself is explicitly endorsing and providing financial or other support (like hosting an advocacy website) for a political candidate.  That is outside of the scope of this book and against Wikibooks policies as well like WB:WIW.  --Rob Horning 22:11, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

 * To be fair, Erik has used the term "Wikipedia foundation" frequently enough on foundation-l to create more then a little bit of confusion. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 22:12, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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I have undone revision 240647023 by <IP_ADDRESS> because it is a deletion of material that has been on the page for some time. However, the content that was removed, and that I've reinstated, may be considered controversial by some. In my view it has not been properly referenced, but I personally think that it helps balance the article. Comments please. ♦ Jongleur100 ♦ talk 11:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I have now properly sourced and referenced the material. It shoud NOT be removed without further discussion here.  ♦ Jongleur100 ♦  talk 15:34, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Copyvios
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User:CzarnyZajaczek

Me on other projects (ewerywhere as CzarnyZajaczek): also on many other, but I'm often only on these 3
 * Wikibooks.PL
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Steve Torpey (footballer, born 1981)

Stephen Robert Torpey (born 16 September 1981) is an English football coach and former player who now the Academy director at club Brentford.

A forward, he played one game in the English Football League for Port Vale in 2001. Also, he played in the Conference National for Halifax Town between 2006 and 2008. He also played once for Scarborough. Also, he turned out for lower non-League sides Prescot Cables, Altrincham, Atherton Laburnum Rovers, FC United of Manchester, Stalybridge Celtic, AFC Telford United, and Fleetwood Town. He then went into coaching with Liverpool, Manchester City and Brentford.

Playing career
A versatile forward, Torpey started as a Liverpool trainee, spending six years there and representing England at schoolboy level before moving to Second Division Port Vale in 2001. He made his debut for the "Valiants" on 1 September 2001, replacing George O'Callaghan 57 minutes into a 2–0 defeat to Reading at Vale Park. In October, he was loaned out to Conference National side Scarborough. He played in one Football League Trophy game before returning to Burslem.

He moved to Prescot Cables of the North West Counties League in 2002, helping the club to win two promotions in as many years, leaving them in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. On 2 October 2004, he joined Altrincham in the Conference North but had his time at Moss Lane disrupted by a hamstring injury and a bout of pleurisy. He moved back to Prescot in February 2005. In March 2005 he signed dual forms enabling him also to play for Atherton Laburnum Rovers. At the end of 2004–05, Cables lost out to Workington at the play-off semi-final stage.

In 2005, he joined the newly formed FC United of Manchester, a club formed by fans in protest to the Glazer ownership of Manchester United. He scored the club's first-ever goal in a friendly match against Flixton in August 2005. After a successful first season, in which the club won promotion out of North West Counties League Division Two, he moved into the Conference in August 2006 with Halifax Town. He played 27 games for Halifax throughout the 2006–07 campaign, scoring seven goals. He played 24 games in 2007–08, scoring two goals, before he left the Shay in February 2008 after being told he was not going to be given a new contract. He joined Conference North side Stalybridge Celtic on loan, and joined the club permanently in the summer. He scored 20 goals in 62 games for the club in all competitions, including an appearance in the 2008 play-off final defeat to Barrow. At the end of the 2008–09 season, Torpey signed for Conference North rivals Telford United. After just months at Telford, they agreed to sell him to Fleetwood Town Fleetwood were promoted at the end of 2009–10, after beating Alfreton Town in the play-offs.

In summer 2010, he played for F.C. United of Manchester, now in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, again in pre-season friendlies but was not named in the 21 player squad for the 2010–11 season by the club, as he was still considering offers from various clubs in higher leagues. It was announced on 28 August that he had re-signed for the club. He left the club in October 2011 after repeated injury problems, having had his registration released by manager Karl Marginson.

Coaching career
Torpey worked as a coach with Liverpool's youth teams, working with a range of age groups over six years, finishing with the role of Head of Foundation phase and U11 lead coach. He took up a similar position at Manchester City in 2014 (Foundation Phase Co-Ordinator / U11 Lead Coach). Since then, Torpey has progressed through the academy system at City, becoming Head of Coaching u9-u12 before taking on the role of Head of Coaching u15-u23 in August 2020, overseeing the club's first Premier League 2, u18 Premier League North, U18 Premier League National play-off and FA Youth Cup wins in his first season. He joined Brentford as Academy director in January 2024.

Honours
Prescot Cables
 * North West Counties Football League: 2002–03
 * Northern Premier League First Division promotion: 2003–04

F.C. United of Manchester
 * North West Counties Football League Division Two: 2005–06

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tewa Lascelles

The result was no consensus. W.marsh 02:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Tewa Lascelles
Speedy Delete (CSD A7) -- I've AFD'd this as while i believe no claim to notability is established, other editors may disagree. This person is over 41st in line for the throne, has done nothing notable. Being in line isnt really notable, when everyboody in the UK is in line.  Matthew Fenton  (Talk | Contribs) 18:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * delete or mergeto George, 7th Earl of Harewood not notable in own right. Edited Ohconfucius 10:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for missing WP:BIO and for having no reliable sources. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as per other articles nominated by same user -- Roleplayer 02:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Astrotrain 12:27, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Still not a vote, still no reason for keeping a subject who misses WP:BIO and escapes WP:CSD A7 iff 45st in line to the throne is notable. Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * OK then- how about being in the line of succession to the British throne is notable Astrotrain 21:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This is an argument difficult to reconcile with the absence of media references. Any number of biographical articles which have been deleted at AFD produced more news reports. If the subject is notable you'll be able to add more info and references. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge into some article about his family provided that reliable references are added. Ardric47 20:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete/Merge per nom Mad Jack 06:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


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Kurdistan Region–Russia relations

Kurdistan Region–Russia relations are bilateral relations between Kurdistan Region and Russia. While Kurdistan Region has a representation in Moscow, Russia has a consulate general in Erbil which opened on 28 November 2007. Relations between the Kurds and the Russians date back to the second half of the 1800s when Russian interest in Kurds because of expansionist ambitions. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union supported the Kurdish rebels against Iraq until the European power withdrew politically from the Middle East in the late 1970s because of the Middle-Eastern backlash from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

After the Cold War, Russia established ties with the newly founded autonomous Kurdistan Region and relations are described as ambivalent and contradictory but Moscow has been sympathetic to the Kurdistan independence movement for decades which also included military support for the Kurds. Today, the two parties mainly cooperate in the energy sector. Unlike most of the other European powers, Russia did not criticize the unilateral 2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum and continued to invest in the Kurdish region despite growing tensions between Kurdistan and Iraq. This made analysts believe that Russia was attempting to fill the gap which America had created from its criticism of the referendum. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani in June 2017 and in May 2018.

According to Kurdish officials, the Russian investments worth billions of dollars in the 2010s, prevented the Kurds from going bankrupt as a large portion of their budget went to the fight against ISIL.

Barzani's exile in the Soviet Union (1945-1958)
The Kurdish leader of the nationalist movement Mustafa Barzani went to exile in the Soviet Union in 1945 after the Kurdish rebellion was quelled and remained there for 13 years until he returned to Kurdistan in 1958 to resume the independence campaign. During his exile, he received an education and also established close ties to the KGB and the Soviet Army which generated the belief among Americans that he was a Russian agent. Despite ideological differences and Barzani's nationalist ideology, the Soviets began supporting his men militarily throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During the Cold War, Barzani had close ties to the Soviet Union, believing that an independent Kurdistan could only be established with Soviet support.

Military assistance amid ambiguous relations (1958-1980)
Just one year after returning to Kurdistan, Barzani returned to Moscow to hold talks with First Secretary Khrushchev wherein the Soviets uttered their support for Kurdish autonomy and willingness to support the Kurds militarily and financially. As Barzani returned from his trip to Russia, he began strengthening his grip on Kurdistan and defeated the Pro-Iraq Kurdish tribes. By 1961, the Kurdish rebels amounted to between 5,000 and 7,000 fighters as Iraq lost all influence in Iraqi Kurdistan. As Iraqi-Kurdish relations deteriorated, the Soviet support for the Kurds was delicate since Iraqi General Qasim was leaning towards communism and any antagonizing move would tilt Iraq towards the United States. When the Ba'athist coup of 1963 took place, the Soviet Union took the opportunity to pressure Iraq to recognize Kurdish rights which resulted in the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 in which Baghdad would recognize Kurdish autonomy. However, with the failure of negotiations, the Soviets signed a friendship treaty with Iraq in April 1972 which shifted the Kurdish-Soviet relations to the worse in spite of a high-level meeting between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in August 1972. After the treaty with Baghdad, Moscow stopped publicly mentioning the Kurds. In the second half of 1972, Kurdish and Soviet media began a smear campaign against each other. In 1975, the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War ended when Iraqi forces crushed the Kurdish uprising with Soviet weapons. However, Soviet military support for the Kurds continued even after their collapse in 1975, as Mitrokhin documents confirm that Moscow aided the Kurds in the early 1980s. In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow withdrew from the region politically because of criticism to the invasion.

Russian return to Kurdistan (2003-)
The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 made it possible for the Kurds and the Russians to open a new chapter in their relations. Russia became one of the first countries to open a representation in Kurdistan Region which was inaugurated in 2007, however relations remained unexploited due to fear of Turkish antagonism. The relations are mainly focused on the energy sector as Russian companies have invested billions of dollars in the region during the 2010s. In 2012, Gazprom and Kurdistan Region signed a contract for the exploration and oil production of two oil blocks which later rose to three oil blocks. In February 2017, Rosneft injected $2.1 billion as Russia received its first 600,000 barrels of Kurdish oil in April 2017, while Gazprom signed an agreement with the Kurdish authorities in June 2017 worth $400 million.

ISIL entering Iraq in the spring of 2014, prompted the World to deliver weapons to the Peshmerga. The Russian involvement in the equipping of the Kurdish soldiers was limited to three shipments in total. In the third dispatch, the Russians solely delivered five batches of the Soviet-era ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft.

On the Russian approach to Kurdistan in the 2010s, Russian analyst Barmin argued that:

"Russia’s ambivalence about its priorities in Iraq resulted in an odd stance on the Kurdish referendum. In official comments, Russian diplomats openly and repeatedly say they support Iraq's territorial integrity — although apparently not for Iraq's sake, but rather because Iraq's unity is “important for maintaining stability and security in the region and for resolving those critical problems that [abound in this region].” However, the narrative that Russia feeds to Kurdistan is significantly more nuanced. In an August interview with Kurdish media, the deputy head of Russia’s consulate in Erbil made a bold statement that Moscow would “support the decision made by the people of Kurdistan because it is a decision through referendum." Analyst Varfolomeeva argued that Russia needed Kurdistan to be viable to maintain its business relations and to not antagonize with the region which is why Russia did not criticize the referendum in 2017.

title: Kurdistan Region–Russia relations