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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Majai

The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 02:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Majai

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Cannot find any sources that substantiate any claims of notability in this article, or any other criteria for notability. Fails WP:BAND. Rogermx (talk) 16:34, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Majai should not be deleted. Majai has had at least two releases on important independent labels. Toll Says no More was released on Big Fish Recordings and Phoria was released on Armada music. Meets requirement of WP:BAND. Trancer5007 (talk) 14:56, 18 September 2017
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Comment Delete: Big Fish Recordings isn't notable, so that leaves one song on one notable label, Armada Music - and that wasn't the original release label anyway... "Phoria" was released on Tetsuo before the remixes were released on Armada's digital music platform. And the requirement to pass WP:BAND is for two albums released on notable labels, not two songs, so they don't meet that notability requirement. Richard3120 (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

"Don't Delete Close AFD": Big Fish Recordings is an independent label with a history of more than a few years, and with a roster of performers, many of whom are independently notable. Lazy Rich, Porter Robinson among others are notable. In addition, Phoria release with Armada was an original which featured an exclusive release of Phoria which was the Big Room Mix a remix reworked from the ground up and NOT released on any other label. The Big Room Remix was on several of Markus Schulz mix albums as well. Phoria was also released on Paul Van Dyk's label Vandit and his year double cd mix. Also Phoria was released on Tetsuo as well as the song Strange. Tetsuo is another notable independent label with a roster of performers as well which are all notable. Another release Lightwave was released on Monster Tunes which is another independent label with notable artists. We can go on and on. I'm not sure why you are trying to split hairs here as Majai releases were widely supported and played in the trance scene. I have no more time to waste on this fruitless argument. Close this or I will report this to Wikipedia. Trancer5007 (T) 19:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This has nothing to do with "splitting hairs" – you haven't demonstrated the notability of any of the artists or labels simply because you say they are notable. In order to pass Wikipedia's ntoability guidelines they need to have had coverage in multiple independent reliable sources, such as newspapers, music magazines, or credible online music websites... not blogs. Neither you nor I decides when this AfD is closed, that is up to the administrator. Richard3120 (talk) 14:09, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 * I agree completely with Richard. If you have any independent reliable sources that prove the notability of Majai, please list them here.  I will let the administrator decide this afd. Rogermx (talk) 15:29, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

"Don't Delete Close AFD": The releases listed above are the reliable sources. You should do your homework before you make an opinion on whether you believe a record label is notable or not. The fact remains those labels are notable and they have multiple notable artists on those labels. The argument has already been presented. And yes you are splitting hairs. Trancer5007 (T) 16:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)
 * Suggest you read WP:RS. We need to see something tangible that proves A) that a particular record label is notable, and B) that Majai released an album (not a single) at that record label.  Or show some other proof of notability.  Rogermx (talk) 20:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I've done my homework, and it's not my opinion – neither those labels nor those artists are notable by Wikipedia guidelines for WP:ORG and WP:BAND. I also notice that your only edits on Wikipedia are the creation of this article in 2008, and then nine years of silence until this AfD crops up? Richard3120 (talk) 18:08, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You have not done your homework. It is strictly opinion you are forming your comments on. The labels listed are notable according to Wikipedia guidelines. Just because you are not familiar with electronic dance music does not justify your statement. Refer to guidelines again WP:BAND. Regardless whether I edit or not does not have anything to do with validity. I could contribute further but that is a separate issue. Trancer5007 (talk) 13:46, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm very familiar with electronic music thanks, I spent fifteen years of my life going clubbing, and I am familiar with the labels you mention and some of the bands on those labels. That doesn't mean any of them pass Wikipedia notability guidelines. And Majai most definitely do not pass WP:BAND. You say they pass point five of the guideline, but as has already been pointed out above, the guideline states that they should have released two albums, not singles, on notable labels. And the labels are not notable, because they don't pass WP:ORG, even though you and I are familiar with them. Majai certainly don't come anywhere near passing any other criterion of WP:BAND. Richard3120 (talk) 21:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Delete - fails WP:GNG - lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. PhilKnight (talk) 23:26, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Sarvam Thaala Mayam (soundtrack)

Sarvam Thaala Mayam is the soundtrack album for the 2019 Tamil film of the same name. The soundtrack consists of six feature songs along with instrumental tracks. The film's director Menon composed a song that Rahman curated.

Development
Rahman began composing for the film in early 2016 and by May it was revealed that his two songs had been completed. As the film was a musical, Menon required the songs to be completed before production began and by November 2016, Rahman had finished composing nine songs for that film and composed parts of the background score. The lyrics were written by Madhan Karky, Arunraja Kamaraj and the late Na. Muthukumar, who worked in the film before his death in August 2016.

Track listing
The official track list of songs was released long before the audio release by A. R. Rahman, in his Twitter page, on 19 November 2018.

Background Score
A.R. Rahman used many different instruments for this soundtrack. In "A Journey of Peter", Peter employed instruments from North Rajasthan and the Northeast. These musical instruments are part of the background score. Rahman and his ensemble Qutub-E-Kripa adopted Indian Regional music and Carnatic music. Rahman also used a western African musical instrument called Kora. It is a 21 string lute-bridge-harp extensively used in Africa.

Sound Engineers

 * A R Rahman, Rasigan, A R Venkatesan
 * Mixed by - P. A. Deepak, T R Krishna Chetan, Karthik Sekaran, Jerry Vincent
 * Additional Programming - Santhosh Dhayanidhi
 * Mastered by - Suresh Perumal
 * MFiT mastered by - Suresh Perumal

Musicians

 * Guitar - Sunil Milner, Keba Jeremiah
 * Flute - Kamalakar
 * Kanjira Player - B Shree Sundarkumar
 * Sunshine Orchestra Conducted by VJ Srinivasamurthy
 * Musicians Coordinators - Noell James, TM Faizuddin, Abdul Haiyum
 * Musicians Fixer - R Samidurai

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

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Vector Drawing

Quick Definition of Vector Graphics:

Vector graphics are graphics that computers render by using mathematical formulas. This allows the image to be scaled up many times without distortion, unlike something in MS Paint which uses raster graphics (graphics made up of pixels).

Primary Uses

Vector graphics are primarily used for logos, icons on your computer, and wallpapers due to their scalability.

Software
This will be written specifically for Inkscape (review). For Inkscape tutorial see Vector graphics tutorial on Commons and How to draw a diagram with Inkscape on Wikipedia.

Assignments
(This is written for active learners; a step-by-step how to would cripple creativity.)

Day 1

Simply play with the software and become familiar with the different tools for 15-20 minutes. Put 5 different shapes on the paper and a curve. Add different color fills to the shapes, and a gradient fill to one.

Day 2

Redesign an icon from your desktop: Choose an icon from your desktop, and make a vector drawing of it, or of something else you would like to use as the icon. For example: headphones for your music player. Keep the detail low as it will be exported in icon size as a raster graphic.

Day 3

Create a vector from an image: Choose a simple image, such as a flower or some object, and create a vector image of it (probably using curves). Don't use color or shadows yet. The primary goal of the day is to gain experience creating complex shapes with the program you use.

Day 4

Add color to the objects you created in Day 3's assignment, and use a new object with darker colors to replicate shadows. Take note that vector drawings are usually just this, collections of objects with slightly different colors that look like something.

Day 5

Practice, practice, practice. Just keep practicing! With enough practice, you should be able to start designing things like wallpapers with your vector graphics.

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User:MJCato/sandbox

 * Test
 * Kaidun

 * Jbilet Winselwan

Minna Island, or Minnajima (水納島), (Miyako: Minna) is an island in the Miyako Islands in the jurisdiction of Tarama, Miyako District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

= Geography = Minnajima is part of the Miyako Islands and is 8 km north of Tarama Island. The island is surrounded by an atoll, primarily spreading to the west, with the East China Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

= History = Minnajima was historically host to a fishing village, with the local population reaching more than 200 adults. Due to regular typhoon damage and water shortages, The majority of the residents of Minnajima were relocated to the Takano district of Hirara in 1961.

A lighthouse was built on the southeastern portion of the island, first lit in 1972. The light is 21m above sea level and can be seen up to a distance of 12.0 nautical miles.

As of 2016, there are 5 residents who raise over 100 cattle on the island.

 * 1734 - Hisashiya Asatoshi was executed, and his eldest son was exiled to Minna Island.
 * 1771 - The Great Yaeyama Tsunami devastated the island.
 * 1900 - A branch school was set up on the island.
 * 1961 - A majority of the residents were relocated.
 * 1978 - The branch school closed.
 * 1983 - A fresh water supply facility was completed.
 * 1989 - Submarine power transmission from Tarama to the island.
 * 2011 - Tarama Prefectural Natural park is established around Tarama and Minna Island.

= Historic Sites =

 * Sakishima Beacons National Historic Site.

= Infrastructure =

 * Electricity is transmitted through submarine cables from a power station on Tarama Island.
 * A combination of groundwater purification and rainwater collection is used to provide fresh water to the island.
 * Telephone cables have been run to the island, and cellphone service through NTT Docomo is available over the entire island.
 * Two cottages and multiple campsites are available for visitors, but food will have to be prepared in advance, as there are no shops on the island.
 * A heliport was built next to the lighthouse, but is only used by the Japan Coast Guard in an emergency.
 * Access to the island is provided by ship from Tarama Island.

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Category talk:AAA Championship Car drivers

Scope of category
Having placed this category on Gus Monckmeier's page based on his participation in an AAA-sanctioned race in 1911 (http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/MonckmeirGus.htm), I wonder whether to include drivers who only entered events belonging to retrospectively created championship trails. --Fluidfellow (talk) 20:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * And what about those who have entered non-championship events belonging to official championship seasons, such as Bob Burman in 1916 (http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/BurmanBob.htm)? --Fluidfellow (talk) 03:14, 11 August 2018 (UTC)


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Cryptography/Digital signatures

As of 2014, installing apps is probably the most common way people use digital signatures. Both Android and iOS require an app to be digitally signed before it can be installed.

Cryptography is generally used to provide some form of assurance about a message. This assurance can be one or more of four general forms. These forms are message confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. Up until the advent of public key encryption, cryptography was generally only used to provide confidentiality, that is, communications were encrypted to keep their contents secret. This encryption generally implies the sender to know the scheme and key in use, and therefore provides some rudimentary authentication. Modern digital signatures are much better at providing the assurance of authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation than historical symmetric-key encryption schemes.

Digital signatures rely on the ability of a public-key signing algorithm to sign a message—to generate a signature from the message with a private key. Later, anyone with that signature can verify the message using the corresponding public key. (This uses the keys in the opposite order as public-key encryption and public-key decryption to provide confidentiality—encryption with a public key and decryption only with the private key). However, to provide digital signing, a signer must use his private key to sign the message—or some representation of the message—that he wants to sign with his private key, so that anyone who knows his public key can use it to verify that only his private key could have signed that message.

There are a number of relevant details to proper implementation.

First, the signature itself is useless if the recipients do not have a verified copy of the signer's public key. While perhaps the best method for exchanging that key would be to meet face-to-face, this is often not possible. As a result, many public key infrastructures require the creation of a Certificate Authority whose public key is pre-shared via some trusted method. An example of this would be SSL CA's like VeriSign, whose certificates are pre-installed in most popular browsers by the computer manufacturer. The CA is what's known as a Trusted Third Party, an individual or organization who is trusted by all parties involved in the encrypted communications. It is the duty of this organization to keep its private key safe and secret, and to use that key to sign public keys of individuals it has verified. In other words, in order to save the trouble of meeting face-to-face to exchange keys with every individual you wish to communicate with, you might engage the services of a trusted third party whose public key you already have to go meet these individuals face-to-face. The third party can then sign the public keys and send them along to you, so that you end up with a verified copy without the trouble of exchanging each key pair face-to-face. The details of signing itself we will get to in a moment.

An alternative method commonly used for secure e-mail transmission via PGP or GPG is known as a web of trust. A web of trust is similar to the creation of a certificate authority, with the primary difference being that it is less formal. Rather than creating an organization to act as a trusted third party, individuals will instead sign keys of other individuals they have met in person. In this manner, if Alice has Bob's key, and Bob signs Charlie's key, Alice can trust Charlie's key. Obviously, this can be extended over a very complex web, but this ability is also a great weakness; one compromised individual in the web—the weakest link in the chain of trust—can render the rest useless.

The actual implementation of signing can also vary. One can sign a message simply by encrypting it with his private key—it can be decrypted by his public key, and the act of valid encryption can only be performed by that secret key, thus proving his identity. However, often one may want to sign but not encrypt messages. To provide this functionality at a base level, one might send two copies of the message, one of which would be encrypted. If a reader wishes to verify that the unencrypted message he has read is valid, he can decrypt the duplicate and compare the two. However, even this method is cumbersome; it doubles the size of every message. To avoid this drawback, most implementations use Hash Functions to generate a hash of the message, and use the private key to encrypt that hash. This provides nearly the same security as encrypting a duplicate, but saves space.

Many early explanations of public-key signature algorithms describe public-key signing algorithms as "encrypt a message with a private key". Then they describe public-key message verify algorithms as "decrypt with the public key". Many people prefer to describe modern public-key cryptosystems as having 4 independent high-level functions—encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify—since none of them (if properly padded to avoid chosen-ciphertext attacks) can be substituted for any of the others.

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Kelty railway station

Kelty railway station served the village of Kelty, Fife, Scotland from 1860 to 1930 on the Kinross-shire Railway.

History
The station opened on 20 June 1860 by the North British Railway. It had a goods building at one point in its existence. The station closed to passengers on 22 September 1930.

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Talk:Lower Woods

SSSI Pages Inaccessible
The Natural England SSSI pages linked at the bottom of the article timeout when attempting to view them, is this because they are outdated or due to some other issues associated with them? Gbj64 (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6/Dictionaries

This chapter is about dictionaries. If you open a dictionary, you should notice every entry consists of two parts, a word and the word's definition. The word is the key to finding out what a word means, and what the word means is considered the value for that key. In Python, dictionaries have keys and values. Keys are used to find values. Here is an example of a dictionary in use:

And here is my output:

1. Print Dictionary 2. Add definition 3. Remove word 4. Lookup word 5. Quit Type in a number (1-5): 2 Add definition Word: Python Definition: A snake, a programming language, and a British comedy. Type in a number (1-5): 2 Add definition Word: Dictionary Definition: A book where words are defined. Type in a number (1-5): 1 Definitions: Python: A snake, a programming language, and a British comedy. Dictionary: A book where words are defined. Type in a number (1-5): 4 Lookup Word Word: Python The definition of Python is: A snake, a programming language, and a British comedy. Type in a number (1-5): 3 Remove Word Word: Dictionary Dictionary was removed. Type in a number (1-5): 1 Definitions: Python: A snake, a programming language, and a British comedy. Type in a number (1-5): 5

This program is similar to the name list from the earlier chapter on lists (note that lists use indexes and dictionaries don't). Here's how the program works:

 * First the function  is defined.   just prints a menu that is later used twice in the program.
 * Next comes the funny looking line .  All that line does is tell Python that   is a dictionary.
 * The next few lines just make the menu work.

 * This goes through the dictionary and prints all the information. The function  returns a list that is then used by the   loop.  The list returned by   is not in any particular order so if you want it in alphabetic order it must be sorted.  Similar to lists the statement   is used to access a specific member of the dictionary.  Of course in this case   is a string.
 * Next the line  adds a word and definition to the dictionary.  If   is already in the dictionary   replaces whatever was there before.

 * See if name is in words and remove it if it is. The expression   returns true if   is a key in   but otherwise returns false.  The line   removes the key   and the value associated with that key.

 * Check to see if words has a certain key and if it does prints out the definition associated with it.
 * Lastly if the menu choice is invalid it reprints the menu for your viewing pleasure.

A recap: Dictionaries have keys and values. Keys can be strings or numbers. Keys point to values. Values can be any type of variable (including lists or even dictionaries (those dictionaries or lists of course can contain dictionaries or lists themselves (scary right? :-) )). Here is an example of using a list in a dictionary:

and here is a sample output:

1. Add student 2. Remove student 3. Print grades 4. Record grade 5. Print Menu 6. Exit Menu Choice (1-6): 3 hw ch 1        hw ch 2         quiz            hw ch 3         test Menu Choice (1-6): 5 1. Add student 2. Remove student 3. Print grades 4. Record grade 5. Print Menu 6. Exit Menu Choice (1-6): 1 Student to add: Bill Menu Choice (1-6): 4 Record Grade Student: Bill Type in the number of the grade to record Type a 0 (zero) to exit 1  hw ch 1     2   hw ch 2     3   quiz        4   hw ch 3     5   test 0              0               0               0               0  Change which Grade: 1 Grade: 25 Change which Grade: 2 Grade: 24 Change which Grade: 3 Grade: 45 Change which Grade: 4 Grade: 23 Change which Grade: 5 Grade: 95 Change which Grade: 0 Menu Choice (1-6): 3 hw ch 1        hw ch 2         quiz            hw ch 3         test Bill   25              24              45              23              95 Menu Choice (1-6): 6
 * 1) Max   25              25              50              25              100
 * 1) Max   25              25              50              25              100

Here's how the program works. Basically the variable  is a dictionary with the keys being the name of the students and the values being their grades. The first two lines just create two lists. The next line  creates a new dictionary with the key { } and the value is set to be, since thats what   was when the assignment is made (I use the key   since   is sorted ahead of any alphabetic characters). Next  is defined. Next the  function is defined in the lines:

Notice how first the keys are gotten out of the  dictionary with the   function in the line. is a list so all the functions for lists can be used on it. Next the keys are sorted in the line  since it is a list. is used to go through all the keys. The grades are stored as a list inside the dictionary so the assignment  gives   the list that is stored at the key. The function  just prints a list and is defined a few lines later.

The later lines of the program implement the various options of the menu. The line  adds a student to the key of their name. The notation  just creates a list of 0's that is the same length as the   list.

The remove student entry just deletes a student similar to the telephone book example. The record grades choice is a little more complex. The grades are retrieved in the line  gets a reference to the grades of the student. A grade is then recorded in the line. You may notice that  is never put back into the students dictionary (as in no  ). The reason for the missing statement is that  is actually another name for   and so changing   changes.

Dictionaries provide a easy way to link keys to values. This can be used to easily keep track of data that is attached to various keys.


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mollo

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  softly, gently

Etymology 1
From (13th century, ), from, modified ultimately from , diminutive of. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bundle
 * 2) sheaf
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Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) sauce; marinade
 * 2) soak
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Adjective

 * 1) wet, damp, saturated, soaked

Related terms

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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) fire

Etymology
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Cookbook:Sausage

| Basic foodstuffs

Summer sausage, kielbasa, bologna, bratwurst: The list goes on and on. There are so many varieties of sausage. How long can you store them — and where? Are they fully cooked or not? The following background information will answer these questions and others.

Types of Sausages
Sausages are either ready to eat or not. They can be made from red meat, poultry or a combination. Uncooked sausages include fresh (bulk, patties or links) and smoked sausages. Uncooked smoked sausages containing pork must be treated for trichinae.

Ready-to-eat sausages are dry, semi-dry and/or cooked. Dry sausages may be smoked, unsmoked or cooked. Semi-dry sausages are usually heated in the smokehouse to fully cook the product and partially dry it.

Let the label be your guide to sausage selection and handling. It will tell you if the product must be kept refrigerated, the nutrient content and the ingredients. All ingredients in the product must be listed by weight in descending order in the ingredient statement.

In the United States, safe handling instructions are mandatory for all raw or partially cooked meat and poultry products.

Fresh Sausages
Fresh sausages are a coarse or finely comminuted meat food product prepared from one or more kinds of meat, or meat and meat byproducts. They may contain water not exceeding 3% of the total ingredients in the product. They are usually seasoned, frequently cured, and may contain binders and extenders. They must be kept refrigerated and thoroughly cooked before eating.

 * Fresh Pork Sausages - May not contain pork byproducts and no more than 50% fat by weight.
 * Fresh Beef Sausages - May not include beef byproducts and no more than 30% fat by weight.
 * Breakfast Sausages - May contain meat and meat byproducts and no more than 50% fat by weight.
 * Whole Hog Sausage - Meat from swine in such proportions as are normal to a single animal and no more than 50% fat by weight.
 * Italian Sausage Products - Cured or uncured sausages containing at least 85% meat, or a combination of meat and fat, with the total fat content constituting not more than 35% of the finished product. It contains salt, pepper, fennel and/or anise and no more than 3% water. Optional ingredients permitted in Italian Sausages are spices (including paprika) and flavorings, red or green peppers, onions, garlic, and parsley, sugar, dextrose, and corn syrup.

Cooked and/ or Smoked Sausages
These products are made of one or more different kinds of chopped or ground meats which have been seasoned, cooked and/or smoked. Water can be no more than 10% by weight. Meat byproducts may be used. Included in this category are:

 * salami
 * liverwurst
 * hot dogs
 * bologna
 * knockwurst
 * bratwurst
 * braunschweiger
 * blood sausage
 * jellied beef loaf
 * thuringer-style.

Cooked salami (not dry) is made from fresh meats which are cured, stuffed into casings and cooked in a smokehouse at high temperature. It may be air dried for a short time. It has a softer texture than dry and semi-dry sausages and must be refrigerated.

Meat Specialties
A ready-to-eat sausage product. It is made from comminuted meats that are seasoned and usually cooked or baked rather than smoked. They are usually sliced and served cold. Included in this category are:

 * chopped ham loaf
 * luncheon meat
 * peppered loaf
 * head cheese
 * jellied corned beef
 * ham and cheese loaf
 * honey loaf
 * old fashioned loaf
 * olive loaf
 * pickle and pimento loaf
 * scrapple
 * souse
 * veal loaf.

Dry and Semi-Dry Sausages
Dry sausages may or may not be characterized by a bacterial fermentation. When fermented, the intentional encouragement of a lactic acid bacteria growth is useful as a meat preservative as well as producing the typical tangy flavor. The ingredients are mixed with spices and curing materials, stuffed into casings, and put through a carefully controlled, long, continuous air-drying process.

Dry sausages require more production time than other types of sausages and results in a concentrated form of meat. Medium-dry sausage is about 70% of its "green" weight when sold. Green weight is the weight of the raw article before addition of added substances or before cooking. Less-dry and fully-dried sausages range from 80% to 60% of original weight at completion.

Dry sausages include:

 * chorizo (Spanish, smoked, highly spiced)
 * Frizzes (similar to pepperoni but not smoked)
 * pepperoni (not cooked, air dried)
 * Landjäger
 * Lola or Lolita and Lyons sausage (mildly seasoned pork with garlic)
 * Genoa Salami (Italian, usually made from pork but may have a small amount of beef; it is moistened with wine or grape juice and seasoned with garlic)

Semi-dry sausages are usually heated in the smokehouse to fully cook the product and partially dry it. Semi-dry sausages are semi-soft sausages with good keeping qualities due to their lactic acid fermentation. "Summer Sausage" (another word for cervelat) is the general classification for mildly seasoned, smoked, semi-dry sausages like Mortadella and Lebanon bologna.

Casings
If you've ever wondered what "Lamb casing" or "Beef casing" meant, that means what animal the casing comes from. If you really want to know what a casing is, then I'll tell you: Natural casings mean, well something very unappetizing: The connective tissue lining on the intestines. You still want to eat sausages now? Nowadays, many companies use a synthetic casing, collagen actually, that is shaped to look like a natural casing.

Preparation
Sausages can be boiled, fried, or browned (usually in preparation for inclusion in another dish). It can be prepared with the casing on, or with it removed. The method of preparation fundamentally affects the taste and texture of the resulting dish.

Safety precautions
Because dry sausages are not cooked, people "at risk" (the elderly, very young children, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems) might want to avoid eating them. The bacterium E. coli O157:H7 can survive the process of dry fermenting, and recently some children became ill after eating dry cured salami containing the bacteria. Also, the casing poses a sanitation problem because, in the first place, it is what makes raw meat infected with bacteria.

Sausage recipes

 * Wiejska - the most popular form of Kielbasa, or Polish sausage
 * Boerewors - a very popular South African sausage
 * Seitan Bratwurst - a very easy and tasty vegetarian Bratwurst.

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User:Arkaprobha Samanta/sandbox

Bio
Arkaprobha Samanta is a small Youtuber from Kolkata, India. He is known for his entertaining and gaming videos

Occupation
Arkaprobha Samanta is currently a student in St.Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata, India

Personal life
Arkaprobha Samanta was born in Kolkata, India on 31st January 2008 to Akhilesh Samanta ( Father) and Sucharita Samanta ( Mother ).

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JavaScript/Operators

String concatenation
The  operator acts in two different ways depending on the type of its two operands. If one or both of them are strings, it acts as a string concatenator. If both are numeric, it acts as an arithmetic addition.

An example of string concatenation is  resulting in. If one of the two operands isn't a string, it is implicitly converted to a string before the  operation takes place.

Arithmetic operators
JavaScript has the arithmetic operators,  ,  ,  ,    (remainder), and   (exponentiation). These operators work the way you learned in mathematics. Multiplication and division will be calculated before addition and subtraction. If you want to change such precedence, you can use parenthesizes.

Hint: In opposite to some other languages, the division operation may result in a floating point number - it's not always a pure integer.

Some mathematical operations, such as dividing by zero, cause the returned variable to be one of the error values - for example,, or   (Not a number).

The return value of the remainder operator maintains the sign of the first operand.

The  and   operators also have unary versions, where they operate only on one variable. When used in this fashion,  returns the number representation of the object, while   returns its negative counterpart.

As noted above,  is also used as the string concatenation operator: If any of its arguments is a string or is otherwise not a number, all arguments are converted to strings and concatenated together. All other arithmetic operators works the other way round: They attempt to convert their arguments into numbers before evaluating.

Bitwise operators
There are seven bitwise operators:,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , and.

These operators convert their operands to integers (truncating any floating point towards 0), and perform the specified bitwise operation on them. The logical bitwise operators,,  , and  , perform the and, or, and xor on each individual bit and provides the return value. The  (not operator) inverts all bits within an integer, and usually appears in combination with the logical bitwise operators.

Two bit shift operators,,  , move the bits in one direction that has a similar effect to multiplying or dividing by a power of two. The final bit-shift operator,, operates the same way, but does not preserve the sign bit when shifting.

These operators are kept for parity with the related programming languages, but are unlikely to be used in most JavaScript programs.

Assignment operators
The assignment operator  assigns a value to a variable. Primitive types, such as strings and numbers, are assigned directly. However, function and object names are just pointers to the respective function or object. In this case, the assignment operator only changes the reference to the object rather than the object itself. For example, after the following code is executed, "0, 1, 0" will be alerted, even though  was passed to the alert, but   was changed. This is because they are two references to the same object.

Similarly, after the next code snippet is executed,  is a pointer to an empty array.

If the result of any of the above-shown arithmetic or bitwise operators shall be assigned to its first operand, you can use a shorter syntax. Combine the operator, e.g.,, directly with the assignment operator   resulting in. As an example  can be abbreviated as.

The abbreviated operator/assignment syntax reads:

For example, a common usage for  in a   loop:

Increment operators
Increment and decrement operators are a particular form of arithmetic operators:  and. increments  and returns the old value of. increments  and returns the new value of. The decrement operator acts similarly but reduces the variable instead.

As an example, the next operations all perform the same task:

Pre and post-increment operators
Increment operators may be written before or after a variable. The position decides whether they are pre-increment or post-increment operators, respectively. That affects the operation.

Due to the possibly confusing nature of pre and post-increment behavior, code can be easier to read if you avoid increment operators.

Comparison operators
Comparison operators determine whether their two operands meet the given condition. They return true or false.

Concerning the 'equal' and 'not-equal' operators, you must take care. is different from. The first one tries to adapt the data type of the two types to each other and then compares the values. The second one compares the types as well as their values and returns only true if type and value are identical:  is true and   is false.

We recommend using the strict versions ( and  ) because the simple versions may lead to strange and non-intuitive situations, such as:

... although you might want:

Logical operators
The logical operators are and, or, and not — written as,  , and. The first two take two boolean operands each. The third takes one and returns its logical negation.

Operands are boolean values or expressions that evaluate to a boolean value.

and  are short circuit operators: if the result is guaranteed after the evaluation of the first operand, it skips the evaluation of the second operand. Due to this, the  operator is also known as the guard operator, and the   operator is known as the default operator.

The  operator determines the inverse of the given boolean value: true becomes false and false becomes true.

Note: JavaScript represents false by either a Boolean false, the number 0, NaN, an empty string, or the built-in types undefined or null. Any other value is treated as true.

Concerning the precedence of the three operators,  is evaluated first, followed by , and lastly. More details on the relationship between precedence and short-circuiting are explained at MDN

The  operator (also called the "ternary" operator) is an abbreviation of the   statement. First, it evaluates the part before the question mark. Then, if true, the part between the question mark and the colon is evaluated and returned, else the part behind the colon.

However, be careful when using it. Even though you can replace verbose and complex if/then/else chains with ternary operators, it may not be a good idea to do so. You can replace

with

The above example is a poor coding style/practice. When other people edit or maintain your code, (which could very possibly be you,) it becomes much more difficult to understand and work with the code.

Instead, it is better to make the code more understandable. Some of the excessive conditional nesting can be removed from the above example.

unbinds property  from object.

The delete keyword deletes a property from an object. It deletes both the value of the property and the property itself. After deletion, the property cannot be used before it is added back again. The  operator is designed to be used on object properties. It has no effect on variables or functions.

creates a new object of type cl. The cl operand must be a constructor function.

tests whether  is an object created by the constructor.

returns a string describing the type of. Following values may be returned.

Exercises

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Night of the Demon
This reference appears to be quite, quite wrong. McCarthy was 12 years old when this British film was released. The Wiki article lists a different composer. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 20:52, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 16

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project
Hi, I'm a member of the Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? I noticed your (impressive) list of Featured Articles, are there any others (GA or B-class articles)? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

 * See discussion below and WikiProject Cricket/Version 1.0 articles -- Ian ≡ talk 14:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Categorizing Pakistani, Bangladeshi and UAE cricketers
Cricketing sites like Cricinfo and Cricket Archive index Pakistani and Bangladeshi names differently from other nations' names. Other nations follow the Western practice of indexing by last name, first names, while Pakistani and Bangladeshi names are indexed in the same order they're written (Imran Khan, not Khan, Imran). This is the convention I'm following for now (e.g.,, not  ), but there don't appear to be any Wikipedia guidelines addressing this issue.

Can someone with knowledge of Pakistani and Bangladeshi culture shed more light on this? I couldn't find any style guidelines on the net that covered indexing Pakistani and Bangladeshi names. --Muchness 20:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This seems to happen with common surnames, eg Singh. People say HARBHAJAN Singh, YUVRAJ Singh, and their shirts have HARBHAJAN and YUVRAJ put on the back, not Singh. Anyway, for lots of Muslim players, they use their first names not their last, eg IRFAN Pathan - everybody calls him Pathan, but his India shirt has IRFAN printed on the back. Of course all the Khan's, eg ZAHEER, MOIN, Khan as well. Then there are the exceptions, such as Danish KANERIA and Shahid AFRIDI. I don't know what to do about this, but I hope I contribute something. Blnguyen 07:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * And in the case of Javed Miandad, when I first became interested in cricket it was Javed, by the time of his retirement it was Miandad. I remember reading an article where the journo was trying to get a definite answer, but he was non-commital. When asked "What does his wife call him?", the answer was: Something else altogether... --Paul 09:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I feel there's no need to reinvent the wheel here - there must be a reason everyone uses this method for Pakistani and Bangladeshi cricketers, so unless someone comes up with a compelling reason to sort them differently ("Westerners do it that way" is not) I think we should go by first name, second name. Sam Vimes 14:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: this convention also applies to United Arab Emirates players. --Muchness 22:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It doesn't matter in the least. If certain categories get indexed by first name, so be it.  But in any category not indexed by first name, this whole discussion is absolute nonsense.  Gene Nygaard 02:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Here is the thing, there is no hard and fast rules regarding what part of name a Bangladeshi person is known by. For example, Mohammad Ashraful is popularly known by "Ashraful". Syed Atahar Ali is known by "Atahar". Mohammad Rafique known by "Rafique". So when indexing, each person should be indexed by the part of the name he is best known by. As for Bangladeshi culture, the concept of family name is not mandatory, rather it is quite optional. So, Rafique is not Mohammad Rafique's family name, rather it is his last name. (unlike Harbhajan Singh, where Singh is his family name, or Miandad.). I know it sounds confusing, but that's the way it is. Thanks. --Ragib 04:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed, so perhaps we can say: Muslim names don't fit the mould of "christian name, surname", and trying to force them into that form is not practical --Paul 05:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * What's your point? I'm sometimes known as "Gene" and sometimes known as "Nygaard".  In a list indexed by given name, I'll be under the "G" and in a list indexed by last name I'll be under the "N".
 * But if you knew the subject matter, you'd be aware, that say Zaheer, would never categorised as under anything but Z --Paul 11:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * But as far as Ragib's silly notions of "best known by" go, that is an insufficiently defined criterion in the first place, and it certainly isn't an established fact in any of the mostly stub or sub-stub articles I've seen. If that's going to be the rule in cricket categories, it is a fact that needs verification.  Gene Nygaard 09:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone for you input. Gene Nygaard is currently edit warring over this issue at the following articles: Mohammad Tauqeer, Qasim Umar. He doesn't appear to be willing to respect established WP:Cricket convention on this matter. I don't want to risk violating the 3RR rule, but I agree with you all that these articles should be categorized to conform with other articles on Pakistani/Bangladeshi/UAE players, until a persuasive case can be made to switch. I've tried contacting him on his talk page without success. Can anyone help resolve this? --Muchness 09:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You've posted a message a few minutes before whining here, in the middle of hte night where I live. Get real, and don't claim failure to contact someone on that basis.

 * I posted my message to your talk page at 04:48, 10 February 2006, over 17 hours before you reverted. The fact that you decided to revert rather than talk about the issue created the impression that you weren't willing to discuss this. I apologize for not assuming good faith. --Muchness 11:30, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It's hard to deal with people who are innumerate. Your message right above was posted six hours and 42 minutes after your first message on my talk page, and your complaining about my unresponsiveness here was less than five hours after that posting on my talk page. Usually it is 12-hour clocks which give people problems, but it looks like you need to learn to read a 24-hour clock. Gene Nygaard 16:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, it was the timezone difference that tripped me up; my diffs are set to display local time and the talk pages display server time. Mea culpa. My point stands that I only expressed concern on this page after you reverted without replying to my message on your talk page, and I've already apologized for the misapprehension. Personal attacks won't help us resolve this issue. --Muchness 17:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It makes no sense whatsoever to have a crazy hodgepodge in some list of people, with some people indexed by given name and some indexed by last name, and you have to guess not only the basis on which it is made but also whether or not any particular person fits into whatever criteria apply in making that choice.

 * You are the ones who need to establish consensus for a category to be indexed by first name, and there has been no discussion whatsoever of this on any of the category pages or their talk pages. Furthermore, there has only been five days of tossing this idea about on this talk page.

 * If and when you ever get consensus on indexing them by first names in certain categories and post that on the category pages, then I will follow that rule in that category if I know about it, and if there is enough information presented on the article page to figure out which is which, or you can change it back if I haven't done so. If that is done, it might help to add an editorial comment to that fact to the article's category listing.  I'll not likely be looking in Category:Pakistani bowlers anyway, so I don't particularly care how that is indexed.  Just don't screw around with last name indexed categories such as Category:Living people and Category:1975 births] and any other category not dealing with cricket, and you might not have much of a problem.

 * It might help if you just keep your fingers out of any category not dealing with cricket. Gene Nygaard 09:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * As explained, the concepts of first and last names don't apply here. --Paul 11:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Let us not forget what you pointed out yourself about Javed Miandad being known for years as "Javed" and for years as "Miandad". So do you have him indexed under the last one used?  Gene Nygaard 16:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I would put him in the Js of course, that's how it's done. The question is: What about you? As I said, Javed and Miandad were/are seemingly interchangeable. Which is his "family" name, if either? Or is it simply whatever comes last, which you've indicated is not the case with Chinese names --Paul 19:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It's a similar situation to Chinese names, I suppose; Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin are both sorted by their "first name" (which is their family name), and no one seems to bother too much... Sam Vimes 11:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * No, the Chinese and Japanese names are sometimes written Jiang Zemin and sometimes written Zemin Jiang in Wikipedia (the latter more common for those more familiar in the western world. When the family name is written first, that is what they should be and most often are sorted by in most categories.  When the family name is written last, that is what they should be and most often are sorted by in most categories.  Gene Nygaard 15:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, as I mentioned before, the last name nor the first name in Bangladesh are not necessarily family names. My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and I all have different last names (and of course different first names:), none of which are family names. In Mohammad Rafique's case, no one would call him Mohammed, because that's a part of name often considered a prefix (and usually shortened to Md. while writing. So, you can't enforce indexing by family name, and claim Mohammad Rafique's first or last name as his family name, because there *is* none. Thanks. --Ragib 15:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems that you are hoist on your own petard this time, Ragib. Note that Mohammad Rafique starts a paragraph with "Rafique is also known as a handy, hard-hitting lower-order batsman."  It can't get much clearer than that. Gene Nygaard 20:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * So? Through all my comments, I maintained that a Bangladesh person is not necessarily known by his first name or his last name. This varies person to person, and there is no mandatory "Family name". Rafique is a good example, his family name is not Rafique, that's his last name, and the name is is most well known as a cricketer. Let's see another example, Mashrafe Mortaza is another Bangladeshi cricketer, and almost all publication/media in Bangladesh would refer to him as Mashrafe, not as Mortaza. I don't really care much about how indexing is done, but no matter how much you debate it, that won't change the sociological fact regarding naming in Bangladesh. I didn't get your point about "can't get clearer", because it reaffirms my comment that the "last name" = family name idea doesn't apply here, because not all people have a family name in Bangladesh. --Ragib 20:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * So what? Shaq is sometimes known by his often-shortened first name—enough so to warrant a Wikipedia redirect, sometimes by his last name, but he is indexed as "O'Neal, Shaquille" not only in Category:Worst Actor Razzie Nominee and Category:Omega Psi Phi brothers and Category:1972 births and Category:Living people but in all the basketball categories he appears in as well.  You seem to have pretty weird notions of how this indexing works.  Gene Nygaard 21:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Tell us, Ragib—do you ever get indexed under the "R" in any class rosters or telephone books or things like that?
 * Or aren't you a good enough cricket player for these rules to apply to you?
 * Indexing depends on the category. Even if the consensus is to index certain cricket categories by first name, that has no effect whatsoever on the indexing of anything else.  <IP_ADDRESS> 14:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC) (by me, wasn't logged in Gene Nygaard)

 * Well, now you are taking it rather personally!! Anyway, to answer your question, if I ever get to the status of notability to be included into Wikipedia, and I am best known by my first name, I'd of course want to be indexed under "R". And yes, in class rosters when I went through school in Bangladesh, I *was* listed under "R". Hope that helps satisfy your query. Thanks. --Ragib 16:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * What you didn't say speaks much more loudly than what you did say. It isn't anything personal, just trying to bring you to earth with a personal reference point.  Are you willing to admit yet that even if you choose to index certain cricketing categories by first name, that doesn't affect how either the other cricketing categories nor any other category are indexed?  Gene Nygaard 17:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Sure, and my great-grandfather and his father and his brothers used at least four different last names, but that doesn't mean they weren't last names, or that I don't index them by those names in my genealogy program. Furthermore, even if it is really true in some cases that both names are given names, you have admitted above that this is not true in many of the cases of Pakistani and Bengladeshi cricketers. Gene Nygaard 16:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, as above this is an issue of countering systemic bias; specifically, respecting the sociolinguistic differences of non-Western cultures. --Muchness 11:30, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have some memory that the Belgians and the Dutch sort Flemish names differently: the Belgians put "van Someone" under v, the Dutch under S. So you have to know whether someone is Belgian or Dutch before you can sort him correctly. Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * And Pierre S. du Pont, IV is sorted under "P" in Category:Du Pont family but under "D" (not "d" either, which would come after "Z" in the list) in Category:Governors of Delaware and Category:Episcopalians and all the other categories in which he appears.
 * In other words, the sort order is determined on a category basis, not on a person basis. Gene Nygaard 18:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, of course there's no point in sorting everyone under d when everyone in the category shares the same name! Sam Vimes 23:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Exactly. The indexing depends on the category.
 * You do understand the broader implications, too, don't you, Sam? No matter what WikiProject Cricket decides about indexing some cricket categories by first name, that has no effect whatsoever on the indexing of any other category.  <IP_ADDRESS> 14:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC) (by me, wasn't logged in Gene Nygaard)

 * Those categories are inconsistent in the first place - as the Chinese example clearly shows. There IS no specific thing known as family name in Pakistani/Bangladeshi culture, so you can't sort by something which doesn't exist! Sam Vimes 14:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * You guys should listen to Ragib. He is Bangladeshi as am I, and he knows what he's talking about. The whole concept of family name as your last name does not exist in the culture. My father has a certain last name (Mia in his case). But my six siblings and myself ALL have different last names. I am not named Mia, and I have never thought of myself as a Mia. Naming a child has much more to do with religion - "over there" in the land of the "other" - mainly because Muslims (in both Bangladesh and Pakistan) consider it propitious to name their children with words that have positive religious connotations. Surnames or family names don't enter the picture, although it sometimes does for people who are conscious of their familial status.

 * Anyway, Imran Khan would never be called Khan. Javed Miandad is called Miandad and Shahid Afridi is called Afridi, but no one ever called Mushtaq Ahmed as Ahmed. There is no hard and fast rule. I don't see why such cultural patterns should be shoehorned into a Western fit. [personal attack deleted] --Peripatetic 23:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, but as long as there's no hard and fast rule, and the formal way of addressing these people would include all their names (I assume), I would think the method used to sort these people everyone else would be a good way of doing it (that way we're not engaging in original research), so we stick to the first names. Sam Vimes 23:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * The only original research I've seen here are the false claims that Bangladeshi's or whatever do not have last names, admitted to be false by almost everyone who has made that claim. Just as in most other places, there are certain types of names almost instantly identified as a "first" name and others never used for a first name but always as a last name, with only a relative few being indeterminate.  This involves nothing more than the decisions always made in choosing the article titles for people, which very often involves dropping off some of the names which could be used.  Gene Nygaard 11:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Proposed compromise
Gene Nygaard's edit here proposes a compromise solution: catgeorize as last name, first name outside cricket related categories, and preserve current categorization of article title within cricket related categories. I'm willing to adopt this as a provisional guideline. Any opinions? --Muchness 14:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh well, fine by me. Until someone proves this one way or the other, I agree. Sam Vimes 08:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Just a note that Gene Nygaard is still reverting over this. If anyone feels strongly about this issue, by all means patrol the affected articles for changes. I've requested third party opinions at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, but I feel it's pointless to edit war over this issue. --Muchness 14:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Brian Statham
In Denton, Greater Manchester an anon has written Brian Statham. Can anybody verify this. It doesn't actually say in the article - it just says when he was young he used to play for the team there. --βjweþþ (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

 * From Wisden Almanack 1955: Born at Denton, near Manchester, on June 17, 1930, and a product of Denton West club, Statham played his early cricket with the Whitworth Street team in Manchester Schools matches. I believe the IP editor is correct. Sam Vimes 17:58, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks.

Compliments
A day or so ago I did some stub-sorting of the main cricketbio stub category, and I must say I admired the work that has been put into these articles. Virtually every one was well-organized, well-written, and contained all the relevant information in an easy-to-find area. I offer my compliments to the members of this project for their hard work and effort. Crystallina 20:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Main page
FYI, Sydney Riot of 1879 is the featured article on the WP Main Page today. -- Ian ≡ talk 00:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * And you really have to wonder if it's worth it considering the bombardment from vandals it's getting :( -- Ian ≡ talk 03:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I have long thought that front-page articles should be protected. Now that we have semi-protection, that really does seem like an obvious solution. Has this been discussed anywhere? Stephen Turner (Talk) 14:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. See User:Raul654/protection for the reasons why it's not going to happen. Sam Vimes 14:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm still unconvinced that it's a good policy. The diffs between before the list and now are largely cosmetic and one could argure thay'd happen in the course of time anyway. That's not to say they're not important though. In the meantime however, we've fed the trolls and vandals and they'll come back day after day (just look at the edit history on recent F/A's). The semi-protection feature would be ideal for this situation. But policy's policy and we must abide. -- Ian ≡ talk 11:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, the rationale is that some of those vandals may become real contributors. I certainly started out editing things that were linked from the Main Page, but that was in a quieter age :) It should cease to be an issue if/when we get stable versions: the non-stable "current draft" version is likely to continue to be vandalised in the background, but the "live" version that everyone sees won't. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Roll on WP:1.0 The trouble is there seems to be a growing cult of IP and registered editors with zero edit history which consume a disproportionate amount of time and effort being reverted. They contribute solely for the "thrill" they get of putting a photo of a penis in a place where as many people will see it as possible. And for whatever the reason, there's becoming more and more of them (I think). I also started editing from the main page as an unregistered IP editor, but I feel those days are in the past and our policies should reflect the situation we're now in. -- Ian ≡ talk 12:20, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Which reminds me, did anyone reply to that kind request from the WP:1.0 team further up the page? I know I didn't - I find it hard to validate articles I've been greatly involved in - but it's a good idea. Sam Vimes 12:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm sure it's all been discussed before, but maybe FP articles could be moderated? If said moderators were on the ball, it'd nearly be real time still. You'd need a roster or something though.. --Paul 13:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Asanka Gurusinha & Throwing
added stubs on Gurusinha and chucking. Lesliestng 02:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia 1.0 project
In response to the request from above from the Version 1.0 assessment team, I've started a new subpage WikiProject Cricket/Version 1.0 articles for which I would encourage nominations. This project is a fantastic initiative which aims to identify a set of articles that would be suitable for release in print, CD and DVD.

If you can think of any good quality cricket related articles which aren't yet featured articles (I've already listed those) then drop them into either of the A-class or B-class columns. This is not a final list and no-one is going to grill you to justify your choices. I'd like to see 50 20 or so articles in each category. -- Ian ≡ talk 14:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * That list is great! We have a list of such "good" articles from Wikiprojects here but, as other projects have done, you're free to have you separate page. To answer your question, yes, lists are eligible. Thanks. :) Gflores Talk 15:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Alvin Kallicharan
Added stub on Alvin Kallicharan. Lesliestng 19:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, Lesliestng, it's good to know about new articles, and thanks for telling us, but in fact we have a place to add them on the project page. Stephen Turner (Talk) 19:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I'm still relatively new here so I didn't know about that. I'll add them there from now on. Lesliestng 19:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD on Wisden Cricketer of the Year
Three minutes after I created Gerard Rotherham, one of the 38 missing Wisden Cricketers of the Year, it was nominated for deletion. Project members might like to comment at Articles for deletion/Gerard Rotherham. Johnlp 22:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This has now been speedily taken off the deletion list after a vote from many WP:Cricket participants (and others too) in favour of keeping. I suspect that Gerard Rotherham has had more attention paid to his cricketing prowess in the past 36 hours than in the previous 75 years! Johnlp 10:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Bill Brown (cricketer)
Bill (no relation) is Australia's oldest living cricketer and was a member of The Invincibles 1948 team. He's now 94 and is sharp as a tack. I've heard him being interviwed on the radio a few times recently and he's had a fascinating cricket life. His stubby article is embarassing, but I cannot find much in print about him, possibly because he was often in the shadow of giants like Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Harvey et al. As he won't be around for too much longer (one assumes), could members check their libraries and see what can be added? -- Ian ≡ talk 01:03, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Test bios
Do we get a tickertape parade for eliminating redlinks on List of Test cricketers? -- ALoan (Talk) 14:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Let's wait till we've cleaned out the substubs first, eh? Sam Vimes 18:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Spoilsport ;) -- ALoan (Talk) 18:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm in the process of making a new list of sub-stubs, by the way, although I probably won't finish until tomorrow. Stephen Turner (Talk) 18:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Unless I've done something very wrong, we've acquired another 1000 sub-stubs since I last generated the list a month and a half ago. :-( Stephen Turner (Talk) 14:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that's a tribute to the sterling work Paul has done on creating infoboxes for everyone who ever lifted a bat or picked up a ball internationally. Johnlp 14:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Absolutely. It was just rather more than I'd imagined. Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I wonder if it would help to categorise the sub-stubs into ones that need doing first (say, team captains, and by number of matches played - 100+, 50+, 20+) so we know where to start? -- ALoan (Talk) 15:02, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Now that all the Test players have infoboxes, that should be possible, but I'm not likely to get round to it for some time. Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Non test ODI cricketer template
created Non test ODI cricketer. Do we need it? Is there a better way to do it? I think there should be First class cricketer. Your thoughts? - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 23:14, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It needs looking at anyway. It's a bit mixed up in its columns between Test, ODI and first-class performances. Johnlp 23:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There is Cricketer Infobox which I created a while ago but went mainly unused - it allows you to choose the titles of the columns, so you can mix-and-match depending on the cricketer. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 01:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've just started on Infobxing all the non-Test ODIers, I'll have a look-see at that template. --Paul 02:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I never got round to writing a proper usage thing for it (firefox crashed when i was 90% done) but i tested it out on Bill Whitty and Rick Darling so if you look at the usage on those pages its pretty straight-forward I think. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 02:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * yeah i guess its need could be debated. I created it just because i couldn't find a good template to suit prominent players who hadn't played tests and leaving the test match column empty seemed a little visually awkward for me. But maybe its just because i dont know how to manipulate the existing templates well enough; I tried fiddling around with some, but wasn't really satisfied. The Cricketer Infobox could suit this purpose I guess. Lesliestng 02:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I just fixed the test/first class mismatch

No more super-subs
Hooray! . Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A question that bugged me the whole time (but I never bothered to find the answer to) - if a supersub isn't used, does it count as them having played an ODI? And what if a player in the starting XI is "subbed off" before they bat in the first innings, not having done anything? Agreed, though, hooray! :D AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 23:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Another Hooray! It would be good if the ICC also end the power-plays, they are always used at the start and means that the bowlers have to bowl within the fielding restrictions for five more unnecessary overs, giving away extra runs.  D a Gizza Chat  © 11:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Twenty20
On a lighter note, I wonder how many people in in Project think that the emergence of the twenty20 scene is good for international cricket - cheap charade or a serious attempt at adaptation to changing attitudes? Lesliestng 04:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it's a great idea as an occasional spectacle, to get spectators interested and to make some money. One or two games per tour is about right, and I would love to see it in the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games too. But I fear that the ICC and the national cricket boards will get greedy and we'll start seeing seven-match series every tour, and I think that would damage the rest of cricket. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll hate to see the side-effects on the international game of the new version. Being a spin-bowling all-rounder for my school's cricket club and having the rules changed to worse than Twenty20 style (in our competition there is a wierd rule allowing only eight fielders on at a time as well as other Twenty20 rules!), bowling seems more of a "Can't wait 'til its over" or "get it out of the way" job and batting is just swinging with enough power so that even an edge will go for six!  D a Gizza Chat  © 11:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Are you sure you are not playing baseball? (Just kidding, just.) -- ALoan (Talk) 12:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * There is also the "exciting" innovation of the bowl-out (he said, pluggin his new article). -- ALoan (Talk) 14:35, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Twenty20 Infobox
Do we require a new Infobox for cricketer as now Twenty20 also started. I have created a new template Template:Infobox Modern Cricketer and started editing some Cricketer's pages too but someone suggested to talk about this issue here. Please put your views so that we can proceed. Thanks -- Shyam ( T / C ) 20:43, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It was me who suggested talking about it here first. You can see what it would look like at, for example. I'll write my views later, because I haven't got time now. Anyone else got some views first? Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Did no-one else want to comment about this? I was unsure when I first saw it, and could see arguments on both sides. But after thinking about it for a while, I decided I preferred the current box with only the Tests and ODIs, at least in the short term. At the moment, international Twenty20 seems not to be taken very seriously. Also, no-one's played enough matches yet to have any kind of meaningful average. Does anyone else have an opinion though? Stephen Turner (Talk) 13:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

 * With India looking to boycott the twenty20 championship and seeking to convince other Asian nations to do the same, it will be interesting to see the outcome. I agree that there haven't been enough matches played as well. However, if the controversies are resolved, and all the countries start playing matches more frequently, the teplate will definitely be warranted. Waiting it out a little bit seems to be a good option for me. Lesliestng 04:19, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd be inclined to wait until there's been a lot more of them. Averages and other conventional stats are, I suspect, less important in this form of cricket than strike rates and economy rates (and maybe win percentages). Johnlp 09:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This is just a thought but I wonder in the future whether there will be Twenty20 "Specialists," in which Twenty20 will be the only international form some players play (Shahid Afridi, Andrew Symonds and Mahendra Dhoni mimics!) If it turns out to be a high number then a separate template may have to be considered.  D a Gizza Chat  © 10:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, best to wait for now. --Muchness 14:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I also agree, we should wait unless enough match played. -- Shyam ( T / C ) 15:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The Invincibles disambiguation
The Invincibles needs disambiguation. See discussion at Talk:The_Invincibles. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:06, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

ICC / MCC -- Separation of powers
The rules of cricket are legislated by the MCC. What rules are the ICC responsible for? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  12:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * If I recall correctly, the ICC are responsible for the playing conditions of all international cricket (which sometimes adds to the Laws and sometimes even contradicts them). Stephen Turner (Talk) 18:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Rahul Dravid
I've just put a marker on Rahul Dravid. Anyone want to have a go at cleaning it up?

Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It is almost pointless to try and NPOVize the articles on contemporary Indian and Pakistani cricketers because within a few minutes someone else will come along and add new POVs. Tintin (talk) 15:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have some sympathy with this point of view, but at least if we have a good base, the article can be reverted. Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:29, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I just reverted it, because all the dubious comments were added in after 19/2/2006, after his stats were last updated for the 5th ODI. There isn't a need for them, because there haven't been any important changes in DRavid's career during the tour to Pakistan, except accumulation of more runs and wins. There hasn't been any profound change in his standing amongst pundits, etc.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 22:43, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Blnguyen! Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Bowling Techniques
I think we need a discussion and consensus on the listing of individual bowlers on articles like Off spin, Leg spin, Left-arm orthodox spin and Fast bowling, etc. This also applies to the mentioning of specific bowlers on articles like Doosra, Googly and Flipper (cricket) as notable exponents of certain deliveries. There are cases where the page says "list of off-spinners" and others like "notable legspinners" or "proficient spinners". I think we need some criteria on notability and skill guidelines for inclusions in this list, or else we need to include any bowler. A lot of the spinners lists contain part-time spinners who are specialist batsmen like Mark Waugh, Yuvraj Singh, Michael Clarke (cricketer), Virender Sehwag, Darren Lehmann; however specialist spinners who are better, but have not been selected to play International cricket yet are not - eg. Dan Cullen (AUS young player of the year, offbreak) and Piyush Chawla (IND, 17 yrs old Uttar Pradesh legspinner who gained headlines by bowling Tendulkar a couple of times at first-class level with a flipper and googly and was one of the big talking points of the recent u-19 world cup).Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 23:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't much like any of the lists on those pages, because they tend to expand out of control as everyone adds their favourite players. Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 * what about having the top ten or so of each type on the page, ranked by either # of test wickets or best average??Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I wouldn't object to something like that, as long as it was objective. Stephen Turner (Talk) 08:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Corridor cricket
Hmm. -- ALoan (Talk) 23:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * So that's what Sir Geoffrey means by "the corridor of uncertainty". Johnlp 00:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I suggest a redirect to Beach cricket (well, backyard cricket, but that redirected to beach cricket itfp). The article as it stands is completely unverifiable. Sam Vimes 07:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Articles for deletion/Corridor cricket. Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

User:jguk
Where's this delightful fellow gone? He has gone cold for three weeks, and hasn't put one of those "I'm on holidays" messages on his page.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * He has left wikipedia, but still working on some other wikis. Tintin (talk) 02:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Did we do something to drive him away? Is there any possibility that he will return???Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Left-handers
List of famous left-handed people needs to be populated. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  17:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I read somewhere that David Gower, who is on this list, claimed to be right-handed but to find the left-handed batting stance more comfortable and productive, since the left hand/arm produces the power while the right hand/arm provides the more delicate control. Does anyone know if this is correct? There are, of course, also an awful lot of players who batted right-handed and bowled left-handed, and somewhat fewer who batted left-handed but bowled right-handed. Perhaps we should have lists of them too, if only to show that cricket is a far more complex sport than most others and positively inclusive in its multi-dextrousness. ;-) Johnlp 14:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that you'll tend to find that it is more likely that cricketers are "X"-handed will bowl with their "X" hand rather than bat "X" handed.. eg. Michael Clarke is a leftie, Ganguly is a rightie and I heard a commentator say Mohammad Yousuf is actually a leftie.  D a Gizza Chat  © 13:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I believe Lara's also a rightie who bats as a leftie. Hadlee's another example of a rightie who bowled right-handed and batted left-handed. Then there's the strange case of Alan Border, who batted and bowled left-handed but supposedly writes with his right hand. --Muchness 14:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)


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User:Alexthecq

Welcome to Alexthecq's page. I intend to help make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. I am fluent in English and can speak some French.

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Latin/Lesson 7-Translation

Using a Dictionary
To find a Latin word in the dictionary can be difficult. Foremost, Latin verbs are listed using the 'present indicative 1st person singular active' construct of the verb. To find the meaning of the verb 'amāre', one must find 'amō' listed in the dictionary. Thus, one must use their wits to determine what the stem and what is the ending of the verb. A bit of searching around in the dictionary may be required. There are a few verbs which are highly irregular and must be learnt such as 'ferō', I carry.

Nouns are usually much easier to find. They are always given in the nominative singular case. If you see a noun such as 'vōcem', and do not know what it is, don't fret. If you look for 'vōc' in the dictionary, you will not find what you are looking for. 'Em' is typically a third declension accusative ending, thus you should be aware that third declension nouns have radically changing stems. Those which have the consonant 'c' usually have the consonant 'x' replacing it in the nominative singular. Thus the nominative singular of vōcem, is vōx. Likewise, 'g' is also often used when shifting from nominative singular cases to other cases. For example, rēx becomes 'rēgem' in the accusative. There are plenty of other simple rules which one learns through experience.

Unconjugatable and indeclinable words are listed 'as is'.

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casca

Etymology 1
Attested from the 14th century. , from, from.

Noun

 * 1) skin; peel; rind of fruits or vegetables
 * 2) bark of trees
 * 3) shell of eggs or nuts
 * 4) husk
 * 1) shell of eggs or nuts
 * 2) husk
 * 1) husk

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) skin; peel; rind of fruits or vegetables
 * 2)  of trees
 * 3) shell of eggs or nuts
 * 4) husk
 * 5) scab

title: casca