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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1017

Semi protected page editing
 Punjabier (talk) 09:08, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, you can use Edit Requests.  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 09:33, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Edit requests for semi protected pages
how i can make edit requests for semi protected pages kindle give the formats — Preceding unsigned comment added by Punjabier (talk • contribs) 09:42, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Did you read WP:Edit Requests and the links from there? What specifically did you not understand? --David Biddulph (talk) 09:53, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * :Use the template on the talk page of the article.  Dbfirs  09:55, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Edit requests does not accepted by admin
several persons already made edit requests but admin or user registered is inactive any other alternative i had mafe 11 edits and account is confirmed still i am not able to edit in semi protected pages one day old account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Punjabier (talk • contribs) 10:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Please don't keep generating new sections. When discussing an existing topic, keep the edits in the same section.  You can't edit semi-protected pages untilyour account is autoconfirmed. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:14, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Means 10 or more edits AND four days. David notMD (talk) 10:23, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I should add that an edit that's not accepted by others is likely to be reverted even if you could make it yourself. The solution is to make your proposed edit policy-compliant. Please make your requests clear and concise, and supported by reliable sources.
 * I am guessing the query is about the edit requests at Talk:Saini. An editor experienced in this area should probably help clean up requests there, as Punjabeer has created multiple requests there, including blank ones. The issue itself seems to be a long-standing one, expert needed.  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 10:50, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Account autoconfirmed
after how many days my account will be autoconfirmed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Punjabier (talk • contribs) 12:05, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * If you had either followed the link which you were provided to WP:autoconfirmed, or taken the trouble to read the answer which you were given above, you would have known the answer. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:12, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Edit article
request you air, can you edit one artical only one word in that artical that hurt us alot someone disgrace our images by publishing wrong information  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Punjabier (talk • contribs) 12:17, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Courtesy: The dispute is about "(Mali)" in the sentence before the Lead in the Saini article "This article is about the Saini (Mali) community of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh and Delhi. For the Mali community who were not recorded as Saini prior to 1937 see Mali caste and Rajput Mali the Bhagrathi or Gola community of Western Uttar Pradesh Bhagirathi Mali." Punjabier has submitted an edit request on the Talk page of the article. David notMD (talk) 12:31, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Batch additions to Watchlist
Hi friends. I wish to add all pages in a particular categories to my watchlist (specifically: Category:Ophthalmology_drugs, Category:Human_eye_anatomy, Category:Visual_system, Category:Eye. Is there a way to do it quickly and easily? Is there a way to subsequently Undo it if it becomes too much to handle?! lol

Thank you, Vitreology  talk  03:01, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * This appears to be the only unanswered question in the Tea House at the moment.
 * So sad. So lonely. :(
 * (it's honestly not a super important question anyway, don't feel obligated to respond)

Vitreology  talk  13:35, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . I saw your question, but didn't know a good way to answer it. Perhaps others felt the same. You might have better luck find out about this type of thing at WP:VP/T since that a good place to ask technical questions about how the software runs. There's probably a way to do what you want to do, but I think most people just manually add pages to their watchlists. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:40, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No dramas. I'll have a look. Thanks, Vitreology   talk  13:41, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Change an article name.
I've just created a new article page, and I've realized that there's an error in its name. How can I correct it?- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petrandreev13 (talk • contribs) 6:25 pm, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Is this Draft:Brent Hinkley? If so, then don't worry, it can be renamed when it is accepted.  More important is that the draft does not have a single WP:Reliable source to establish WP:Notability.  IMDB doesn't count.  Anyone can put anything there.  Dbfirs  14:20, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

I want to create One Page and redirect it to another
Please tell me how can I do this. I want to create Fly Pro (Airline) and Fly Pro Moldova and Redirect it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Pro.

Thanks in advance for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Achint2182 (talk • contribs) 04:48, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . Please take a look at Wikipedia:Redirect for some general information about redirecting pages. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Marchjuly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Achint2182 (talk • contribs) 05:21, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Hello, . Please do not create "Fly Pro (airline)" as a redirect. Wikipedia only uses a term in brackets like that to distinguish different topics of the same name. I am also dubious about creating "Fly Pro Moldova" as a redirect: it seems very unlikely to me that anybody would search for "Fly Pro Moldova" and not "Fly Pro". I suspect that you are wanting these not to aid people in finding the article, but for SEO reasons: anything to do with SEO is necessarily promotional, and so fundamentally inconsistent with the purposes of Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 09:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi ColinFine, thanks for the advice, my purpose is not for promotion, I will delete all other variants I created. Thanks for valuable advice. Achint2182 (talk) 09:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi, ColinFine I want to delete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Pro_Airline please suggest process Achint2182 (talk) 13:27, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Hello, . I'm not sure it's worth deleting a redirect that has already been created, but if you want to, the place to go is WP:RFD. --ColinFine (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Two tables side by side
Hello! I added this information to Campus sexual assault but the one thing I don't know how to do is get the two tables showing side by side. Could someone demonstrate how that's done? 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 15:54, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the Teahouse, . You might find this section of Help:Tables of some use. Hope you find this helpful. Nick Moyes (talk) 16:46, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that's closer. Is there a way to rename the table headings so it doesn't just say "Table 1" and "Table 2"? 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 16:56, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Had you tried changing the lines that say  and  ? --David Biddulph (talk) 17:01, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No I hadn't, I had assumed that would be a modifier like the style= modifier in the section linked me to. Unfortunately getting them to lay out centered or evenly spaced I am still working with if someone has advice? 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 17:07, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

automatic acquiring certain information
Can you direct me to a place where Wikipedia would acquire some information automatically from another site? For example, the version and release-number of a program ....
 * Take a look Wikidata RudolfRed (talk) 18:17, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Is BehindTheVoiceActors a legitimate source?
I'd like to add data for voice actors on media entries, and i'd like to use it as a source? Is it acceptable for me to use the site? They've a rigorous sourcing process which only allows in-work credits or sources from the production, rather than from IMDb or here directly. Starbeam2 (talk) 17:02, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the Teahouse, . This website was discussed at Reliable sources noticeboard in 2013, and there was agreement at that time that the site is reliable when referencing a profile with a green check mark, which indicates that particular listing has been vetted. I am not familiar with the website myself. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  18:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Sandy Hook
Why is the perpetrator's motivation "inconclusive" when many articles cite that he was constantly threatened by his mother about hospitalization and feared that? Source — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:48, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. This page is a place for new users to ask questions about using Wikipedia.  If you have a question or concern about a specific article, you should address it to that article's talk page.  When you view the article, there should be a tab at the top that says "talk".  Click that to access the talk page. 331dot (talk) 18:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, the proper place to discuss this is Talk:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  18:54, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The issue of why a motive is not given is addressed in the "frequently asked questions" section of Talk:Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting. Fabrickator (talk) 19:07, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Translating a page from Russian to English
Hello,I'm a librarian and received a question from a faculty member in the Russian language department. This faculty person is interested in creating a Wikipedia article about Maxim Amelin (sometimes spelled Maksim Amelin). She attempted to create an article in the past, but it was deleted because the topic was not considered notable enough. There are multiple wikipedia pages about Maxim Amelin in other languages, and so she said she would also be willing to translate an existing page into English. We have read through some of the translation information pages, but they are a little confusing. Is there someone who would be willing to put the next steps into layman's terms? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZoeannaMayhook (talk • contribs) 20:00, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * The first step is to address the question of notability. The fact that articles exist in other languages doesn't necessarily mean that the subject would satisfy the notability requirements in the English Wikipedia (as each language's Wikipedia is independent and self-governing), but it is obviously worth looking at the sources used in other languages to see whether they would be suitable for the English version.  The basic advice is at WP:Translation. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:13, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * It would obviously be interesting to see any previous discussion about his notability here on enwiki, but on a quick search I can't see any evidence of such an article having existed and being deleted. Can you give us a link?  --David Biddulph (talk) 20:20, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I now see that a draft exists at Draft:Maxim Albertovich Amelin. It hasn't been deleted, but was declined at AFC review.  It would obviously make sense to address the points raised during that review. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Thank you all so much for the information! I'm happy to see that the draft still exists. We were concerned that it was deleted. We will look into the review comments, and see if we can improve the article. - ZoeannaMayhook

Sandbox
I developed my first article (page) in my UsedID:Sandbox. When I finished drafting and editing, and was ready for publishing on Wikipedia, I then moved it into the Wikipedia drafts area. Since then, the moderators have approved the article, and it is now “live”.

I have two questions:

1. All I have in my UserId:Sandbox is

 * 1) REDIRECT Anne Puckridge

I now want to develop a new article (page). Do I delete the redirect statement, now the article is live?

2. Can I develop more than one page at a time in my UserId:Sandbox?

Thank you!

What a great encyclopedia..

The Retiree — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Retiree (talk • contribs) 17:02, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * 1 Yes, you can remove the redirect from your sandbox, and/or replace it by anything else.
 * 2 You can have as many user subpages as you like; you can create User:The Retiree/sandbox2, User:The Retiree/whatever new title you like, or whatever.  --David Biddulph (talk) 17:11, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you so much for such a quick response - very helpful — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Retiree (talk • contribs) 17:28, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Just for clarification, it isn't quite true that you moved your sandbox into the draft area and that the "moderators" have approved the article, and it is now "live". You moved the sandbox version yourself mistakenly to Wikipedia project space at The Retiree/sandbox, and from there another editor (seeing that it didn't belong there) moved it to mainspace.  In parallel you copied a separate version to draft space (at Draft:Anne Puckridge) and submitted it for AFC review.  I assume that when a reviewer gets round to looking at it they will say that the mainspace article already exists, so they will decline the review of the draft.  --David Biddulph (talk) 21:39, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Whats WP:EEML ???
what is that I saw some one bring that Up? I don't under stand itJack90s15 (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * As you'll see if you put WP:EEML into the Wikipedia search box, WP:EEML is a redirect to Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:55, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * (ec)add Welcome to the Teahouse, . That acronym refers to a ten year old controversy about coordinated editing related to Eastern Europe, which led to special restrictions called discretionary sanctions being imposed on that topic area. See Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list for the whole mess. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  21:58, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Response to "Notability requirement" (16 September 2019)
I was able to find a number of sources for writer and minster, Albert Capwell Wyckoff. Perhaps the original poster,, might find these of use in creating a basic article on the topic.

Online Sources Morality in Literature—The Legacy of Columbia Author Albert Capwell Wyckoff, by Peder Johnson, Columbia Magazine, http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=10730

Albert Capwell Wyckoff, by Ed Waggener, Columbia Magazine, http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=10040

Capell Wyckoff's Mystery Hunters, by Frank W. Quillen, Newsboy, Volume 34, July-August 2001, Pages 13—20, The Horatio Alger Society, http://www.horatioalgersociety.net/newsboys/newsboys2000-2009/nb2001-07jul-aug.pdf [PDF]

Capwell Wyckoff (1903-1953), by Terence E. Hanley, Tellers of Weird Tales, 10 September 2011, https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/09/capwell-wyckoff.html

Offline Sources

Obituary, The Lebanon Enterprise, 16 January 1953, (This obituary was reprinted at Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55733383/albert-capwell-wyckoff As Find A Grave is not a WP Reliable Source, someone with access to Newspapers.com archives would need to pull up the original to confirm.)

Libraries/University Libraries/Historical Assocations (according to WorldCat)

Wyckoff's Stories of Adventure, by Fred Woodworth, The Mystery and Adventure Series Review, Summer 1982

Reminiscences of Albert Capwell Wyckoff, by D. Cambell Wyckoff, The Wyckoff House and Association Bulletin, 5.29, 841-34

I hope this is of use to the person who wanted to create the article. Carl Henderson (talk) 22:29, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I've moved your message from the top of the page to the bottom where it belongs. It is always useful to provide a wikilink to a previous thread where relevant;  in this case presumably WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1015? --David Biddulph (talk) 22:38, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I apologize for the misplacement of my post. I would swear that the text said "top" of page. I remember thinking at the time that that sounded kind of strange as the default is bottom of page for most stuff in WP. I guess I should not post when my AC is not working and it is Texas. Do you think it would also be appropriate to post this to the userpage of the person who asked the original question? Carl Henderson (talk) 04:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . New questions used to be posted at the top of the page, but this was changed not too long ago to bring the Teahouse more in step with the way other talk pages/noticeboards work.As for your question, if the article they are intended to be used in already exists, then you can add them as citations yourself if you think they meet WP:RS and WP:RSCONTEXT; if not, then maybe they could be added as part of a WP:FURTHERREADING or WP:EL section. You can also add them to the article's talk page using Template:Refideas. If the article doesn't already exist but is a draft, then you can pretty much do the same but you might want to just let the draft's creator know first as a courtesy. If there's no article and no draft, then perhaps simply listing the sources on the other person's user talk page should be fine. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:03, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * It is an article that wanted to see (I am not sure if he meant to create it). He was told there were no decent sources on Teahouse but my Google Fu is strong and I found some. Thank you. Carl Henderson (talk) 05:52, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Live Wikipedia Page
This page went live today, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Puckridge

but now it is showing this message:

This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (September 2019)

What has happened, and how can i fix it?

Thanks

Nigel — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Retiree (talk • contribs) 21:17, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Nothing has "happened" other than the fact that no other articles link to the article you created. This makes the article an "orphan". If you add links to the article you made where they seem pertinent in other articles, the Orphan tag can be removed. 331dot (talk) 21:20, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Would you mind looking at Draft:Anne Puckridge? I'm not sure why a draft for the article was created, particularly since the article already existed when the draft was created. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Please remove the draft - I moved my article from Sandbox to draft, thinking that was what I was supposed to doThe Retiree (talk) 23:21, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The blue words in the notice are wikilinks to further information. In particular, you will find an explanation at WP:orphan.  --David Biddulph (talk) 21:23, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Perfect - thank you so much - I have linked the article, and the message has gone away....isn't technology wonderful... — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Retiree (talk • contribs) 21:33, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you can clarify why you created a draft for this subject after you had already created the article about this subject? Usually, things are done the other way around. It's not going to break Wikipedia, but I don't think a "draft" is needed at this point. If you want to work on improvements to the article, you can use your user sandbox instead for practice or simply edit the article directly. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The message hasn't "gone away". You deleted the orphan tag although the article is still an orphan.  I have restored the tag. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:43, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Now I am getting really confused, because the page now has multiple issues:
 * This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
 * This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (September 2019)
 * This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (September 2019) — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Retiree (talk • contribs) 21:49, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have linked the article frozen state pension with the page Anne Puckridge, and I am guessing this is where you want the The Retiree (talk) 22:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)?
 * Hi again . The article you created has lots of sources (though perhaps too many as explained in WP:BOMBARD; for example, you don't really need 16 sources to support the fact that she was interviewed by media outlets in the UK and Canada.), but all of them are related to the "pension" matter, and there are none for the biographical information in the previous section. If you're going to add content about her background, education, etc. then you need to provide sources for them as well per WP:BLPSOURCES; otherwise, the unsourced content can be removed at anytime. Even if you know the content is true, citations are still needed for verification purposes. Also, you might want to read WP:COISELF and WP:BLPCOI as well as Wikipedia:Ownership of content. While I'm sure your intentions were noble in creating this article, if you're connected to Puckridge in some kind of personal or professional way, then you would be considered to have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and need to understand that the article shouldn't be used to promote her or her cause(s). Neither she nor anyone else associated with her has any final editorial control over the article's content; so, anything not in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines has a good chance of being removed.Finally, you should check the file you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons because it has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please read c:Commons:OTRS for more information on what you need to do to resolve that problem. For reference, Commons and Wikipedia are separate projects which means you will need to resolve the file issues over at Commons. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:08, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * @The Retiree: A possible way for you to WP:DE-ORPHAN the Puckridge article might be to add relevant sourced content about her and her challenge to Frozen pension. Perhaps a short paragraph describing her case, the outcome, etc. would work as long as it's supported by citation to reliable sources. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:19, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that has created both Anne Puckridge and Draft:Anne Puckridge, and the presence of two versions is creating confusion, particularly for The Retiree themself. I have often seen inexperienced editors create two or more versions of the same article, and it usually creates confusion, for the person responsible, for reviewers, for editors who nominate one of the versions for deletion, and for editors who improve one of the versions. Maproom (talk) 22:10, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I developed the page Anne Puckridge in my Sandbox, When I was happy with it, I moved it to Wikipedia Drafts, and from there I thought that the moderators then moved it to what I call "live" (is this called Mainspace?}. When I moved it, there was a Redirect placed in my Sandbox. Is this not the correct procedure?
 * The Retiree (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The redirect was created automatically, just in case you forgot where you had moved the article to. You can safely delete it now.  Just click on the "redirected from" link, then edit the sandbox to delete the contents so that you can start again.   Dbfirs  06:33, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

as i am new here
hi to the seniors over here, i have a question that i am new here so if i make an article directly from article wizard after getting autoconfirmed will it be deleted cuz i am new ?Ganeshayanamaha (talk) 06:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Hi and welcome to the Teahouse.  Writing a new article from scratch is one of the most difficult tasks here, so it is not surprising that many new articles get deleted.  If this happens, it is not because the editor is new but because they do not understand what is required for a Wikipedia article.  We usually advise that new editors gain some practice at editing existing articles, as you have already started doing.  Try adding a reference because this is one of the trickier tasks.  You might like to try WP:The Wikipedia Adventure to get some practice, and make sure that you have understood WP:Your first article and WP:Referencing for beginners  before starting on an article.   Dbfirs  06:28, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello,, and welcome to the Teahouse. If you make an article using the Article Wizard, it will be a draft, which you can submit for review when it is ready. It will not be deleted or declined because you are new; but writing an acceptable article is one of the hardest tasks on Wikipedia, and people who try it before they have some experience of editing other articles often find it a frustrating experience. Have you read your first article?
 * My personal take is that, for most new editors, they can contribute much much much much much more value to the encyclopaedia by improving some of our six million articles (many of which are in dire need of improvement) than plunging straight into the often frustrating project of creating a new article from scratch. --ColinFine (talk) 06:33, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Banglan
I tried to create a page for art director and national film award winner Vinesh Banglan. But it is rejected and removed by wikipedia. Already a page in malayalam language is there. How I can create a page for Banglan in English language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banglan (talk • contribs) 10:14, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Your user page was removed because that isn't the place for an article, see WP:user pages and WP:U5. The fact that there is an article in malayam doesn't necessarily mean that there should be an article in English, as each language's Wikipedia has its own rules.  Please read about notability, and then read the advice at WP:Your first article. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:24, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

WYZZ-TV
The box summary on the right side of the page incorrectly identifies channel 43.2 as GET-TV. The correct answer should show 43.2 as cool TV and channel 43.3 as GET-TV. Although 43.2 is actually not on the air because cool TV is bankrupt? I have tried to contact WYZZ for clarification, but have gotten no answer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:58, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello there! The actual channel has nothing to do with the wikipedia article which is maintained by volunteer editors like me, and you. We update the article based on what is published on reliable sources. Although I haven't checked the sources in this one, I changed it to 43.3 as you suggested because that's also what it says in the article body, and the infobox is supposed to be a summary of the article. Let's wait and see if the regular contributors to the article thank us or revert it back.  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 10:34, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Accounts
Excuse me, but is there a way to change your Wikipedia account user name, please? I would really like to change mine. Thank you. Tsarina Alexandra Hesse (talk) 10:44, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * See WP:Changing username. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:51, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Mr. David Biddulph. Tsarina Alexandra Hesse (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Watchlists
Excuse me, but how do i access my Watchlist, please? I would like to access it. Thank you. Tsarina Alexandra Hesse (talk) 10:50, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * At the top of the page is a "Watchlist" link. If you are in mobile view rather than desktop view then you would probably need to use the top left-hand menu.  For more information on your watchlist, see Help:Watchlist. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Mr. David Biddulph. Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (talk) 11:45, 20 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsarina Alexandra Hesse (talk • contribs)

Need Help with Rejected Draft of Notable Person
Hello,

I am looking for more information about how I could have the following article accepted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Antonios_Karatzis

I would like to ask:

1) Some sources in the said article are from materials produced by the creator (eg Reference number 2, which is the official site of the Karatzis Group of Companies, and referes to the company itself). Is this a red flag, and must be avoided at all costs? Or for cases, like the one I mentioned, it's ok to include said References?

2) In some Reference cases, like Reference number 20-25, the References are only in Online form, and from public sites (not owned by the creator though). Cases like these are included because there are no written sources available to ascertain these facts, aside from local newspapers and magazines which do not have online forms available to reference, since they refer to local events not covered in major media. Ar these references a red flag in the publishment of drafts? Shall I remove them altogether?

3) Could you give me some hints on which parts of my draft I should focus my attention on?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance, -George Antonakakis

Courtesy: The draft has been rejected six times. However, Antonakakis has only been editing after the fifth rejected. Question to Antonakakis: What is your connection to Karatzis? Asked because this is the only article you have edited, so need to know if your connection is paid or in some way a personal connection to Karatzis. David notMD (talk) 14:44, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I think that you and the OP may have intended to say "declined", rather than "rejected"; the latter, if I understand it, is an action which has been introduced relatively recently and which has a degree of finality to it. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, "Declined." I would still like a response from Antonakakis as to and WP:PAID or WP:COI related to becoming an editor on this draft. David notMD (talk) 15:33, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Hello again, and thank you for your responses. Yes, I am WP:COI related, as I know Mr. Karatzis Antonis. I am sorry I failed to mention it, I am new to wikipedia. And yes, I meant declined, not rejected. @David notMD thank you for your help with the edit! I will wait a bit before resubmitting, in case another helpful editor chimes in with more suggestions, since it takes a long time between submissions. Thank you very much nevertheless! George Antonakakis (talk) 13:06, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Draft Josip Zovko
Hello, you had informed me that the source information (IMDd) is not accepted. Although I have spotted this as a source (even as the only source) for many artists. This was accepted as such. Although I have deposited many and also good sources, you tell me that you do not accept them. I should translate the sources in English. I did that. However, you refuse to review my post and activate it. This is a contribution by an artist who has worked in Croatia in film, TV and theater. Thus, he has contributed much to the culture and development. The artist died in April 2019. Their behavior discriminates against the described person. Especially as they accept other artists with the specified sources of ONLY IMDd. Please consider whether this is objectivity.Moj Galeb (talk) 15:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * IMDB is user generated content - I could create a filmography for you there that is entirely fictional and try to create a Wikipedia article about you, but it would be blocked. If there are other poorly sourced articles that were written before the standards started being enforced, using just IMDB, that means they haven't been noticed and corrected yet, not that they are OK. Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF. You need to focus on finding reliable third party sources - see also WP:RS. TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  18:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

I have told you that I have used reputable sources. As you can see in my given sources are none of IMDd. I understood and changed this approach. My sources are from reputable third parties. I have used renowned reports from HRT. This is the Croatian first television. In addition, renowned newspapers such as Slobodna Dalmacija, Vecernji List, 24 Sata. These are one of the most famous Croatian newspapers. I also translated these sources and added the author with date. Therefore, I have established an objectivity about the artist.In addition, I am the author of the article in German and Croatian language. This is not plagiarism. These are facts.Moj Galeb (talk) 19:26, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

As you can see, I uploaded licenses to the pictures. These can be viewed on Wikipedia Commons. Wikipedia Commons is the international platform for images and data. The pictures show the artist staging various world-famous acts. These images are vertified and confirm the genuineness of the artist. Several times I have convinced the authenticity and verification of the article and pictures. In addition, I wrote a German Wikipedia administrator who can verify my reports. He can also understand English and Croatian. It is up to you to contribute to credibility. I would like to honor with my contribution a killed man. With your passive and subjective opinions and behavior you do not make any positive contribution to objectivity. Wikipedia is actually a platform of participation, not segregation. I would therefore ask for your support and unlock the article. Moj Galeb (talk) 10:38, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * I contacted the German administrator de:User:Aspiriniks(diskussion). He had checked my article in German and released. He gave me the hint that the English administrator en:User:Vanjagenije can read the Serbo-Croatian language. I wrote to en:User:Vanjagenije on her talk page and asked for help. The German administrator Aspiriniks can also be contacted and asked after my article if this corresponds to the truth. Moj Galeb (talk) 13:41, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination (Help me)
A tag has been placed on User:Chai Bisket, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia

Can someone help me why its rejected? i created page for my company — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandumx (talk • contribs)
 * Hi . The page was deleted by an administrator named per speedy deletion criterion U2. Apparently, you took the content you were working on at Draft:Sandbox and mistakenly added it to the user page of a non-existent account. That's not really the way to go about creating an article. You can either start a draft or a userspace draft and then work on creating an article.Before you do that, however, please carefully read through Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure, Wikipedia:Ownership of content, Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything, Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. There's a lot of information contained on those pages for sure, but it reading through might actually save you time in the end. Unless you're able to establish that your company is Wikipedia notable enough for an article to be written, you're unlikely going to ever have much luck getting such an article improved; moreover, even if you're successful in creating an article, you'll pretty much have no editorial control over it's content and won't be able to use it to promote your company in anyway. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Content currently at User:Chandumx/sandbox.
 * Was at. David notMD (talk) 14:28, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

wanted to know
hello, I wanted to know if a deserving article be recreated which was deleted because it was created earlier by a banned user? Thanks.Worldnpeace (talk) 11:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Which specific article do you mean? There is no response to this question that will cover all situations. --bonadea contributions talk 11:31, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , the answer ought to be an unequivocal "yes" since the question is about "deserving" articles?  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 14:11, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No, not at all. "Deserving" means nothing in the context of Wikipedia. And it is unfair to a completely new user (including all those who may be reading the discussion) to tell them things that might be strictly correct in theory, but impossible for them to judge the applicability of in practice. But if you want a general answer, it would be "probably not but maybe depending on the context". --bonadea contributions talk 14:43, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

How do you create a user talk page?
I noticed that some edit summary’s show what’s called “talk” how do you make the title called “User talk: “persons username” without making the title called “talk”? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Japan Airlines Flight 123 (talk • contribs) 00:20, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * You already have a user talk page and instead of worrying about how to remove the word "talk" from it, you probably should be more concerned about whether your choice of username is appropriate per WP:IU. Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a horrible tragedy (which I'm assuming you know and which might be why you choose that as your username), and your choice to use it as your username might be seen by some as disruptive or offensive. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:22, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Posts to user talk pages will have "User talk:" in the edit summary because they are edits to talk pages in the user space. Posts that show as "Talk:" are those made to talk pages in article space. --Khajidha (talk) 15:25, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

My article was declined
Hello, my name is bill cage. a few weeks ago, i starting writing an article about mordecai, a character from the cartoon network series regular show. i wrote an early draft, which was rejected by a user named dan something. i would simply like to know why my draft was rejected, was it because of my writing, or did have something to do with the subject matter? please let me now before the six month time limit is over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill cage (talk • contribs) 15:38, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Your draft was "declined", not "rejected"; there is a difference, as rejected has an air of finality about it.  There is feedback both in the draft and on your user talk page.  In each case there are many useful wikilinks (words in blue) to further advice.  You gave so little information in your draft that it was difficult to tell whether the subject is notable or not.  --David Biddulph (talk) 15:48, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Additionally, we already have content about that character, which can be found at List of Regular Show characters. For a standalone article about a fictional character, we usually expect to have some information about that character's out of universe importance. —Kusma (t·c) 15:56, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , they did leave a reason. Please click on the linked words/phrases in their declination message as well as the added comment. Without sources, there isn't a way to know if the subject matter is notable enough to be accepted. The page WP:YFA explains this well, please give it a read as well, or better yet, please start with this one. Good luck!  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 16:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

title edits
hello

the title of an article is misspelled how do i change it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baba pajero pvp (talk • contribs) 12:42, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Which article? Britmax (talk) 13:16, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , the title of an article is changed by WP:MOVE-ing it.  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 14:14, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

thanks for the response, the article is called dalecarlian languag — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baba pajero pvp (talk • contribs) 15:26, 20 September 2019 (UTC) Baba pajero pvp (talk) 16:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , you can link articles in source mode by putting the article's title between double square brackets, like so: dalecarlian languag .  Usedtobecool  TALK ✨ 15:48, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The title should of course be Dalecarlian language instead of Dalecarlian languag, but we mere mortals can't move it. A speedy deletion request is in place to get the existing redirect at Dalecarlian language deleted to make space for the article to be moved.  --David Biddulph (talk) 16:26, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Screwed up my wiki page
Hello, I somehow created an error in my wiki page. I was trying to add the AAPOR Award URL down in the references section. Can you help? THANKS!! \- Nancy Bates, US Census Bureau, Bates005 username. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bates005 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Please review the autobiography policy; you should avoid directly editing the article about you(it is not "your wiki page"); instead, you may make edit requests on the article talk page. You should also confirm your identity with Wikipedia by following the instructions at WP:REALNAME. 331dot (talk) 16:50, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

...
Who are you and where you live — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Please do not ask other users to reveal their personal information. 331dot (talk) 16:51, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

I am confused
hi. i am a little confused about articles regarding television shows and films. iv'e that shows such as the simpsons, south park, star trek, among others, have articles created for every single episode, i'd like to know why this is done for those shows and not for others. i would also like to why certain fictional characters have articles and others don't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill cage (talk • contribs) 16:34, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Most likely, it has not been done simply because no one has actually gone and done it. This is a volunteer project where people do what they can when they can, based in their own reasons for doing it.  In the case of Star Trek, it has a large fan base around the world, which likely means many people are interested in writing articles about it. A less popular franchise or show might have fewer fans and as such fewer people interested in writing about it. In other cases, it may be the case that not every episode of a particular series is notable enough to merit a standalone article. 331dot (talk) 17:30, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill cage (talk • contribs) 20:01, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Cities missing from Los Angeles County
Hi - I'm no programmer and I don't want to mess things up but I found a few cities missing from the list of cities that make up LA County. They are Panorama City, San Pedro and Van Nuys for certain. I don't know if others are missing but those are the ones I came across. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmb8000 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . It's possible they're "missing" for a good reason. For example, Panorama City, San Pedro, Los Angeles and Van Nuys are listed as communities/neighborhoods in their respective articles which means they might not meet the definition of "city" being applied to List of cities in Los Angeles County, California. The best place to discuss this would be at Talk:List of cities in Los Angeles County, California. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:59, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * They aren't listed as cities because they are parts of cities; they don't have independent, incorporated governments. 331dot (talk) 22:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Article
When will my article publish ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omarneal52 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. What you have done is edit your user page, which is not article space.  It is a place to introduce yourself to the Wikipedia community.  You do have a sandbox where you can draft articles(User:Omarneal52/sandbox) and then submit them using Articles for Creation.  However, your draft is completely unsourced; as a biography of a living person, all information in the draft must be sourced to an independent reliable source.  Please see the policy in this area, WP:BLP, for more information.  In addition, I'm not certain he meets Wikipedia's special definition of a notable football player, written at WP:NGRIDIRON.  He would need to have appeared in at least one regular season or playoff game in the NFL or other professional league to merit an article. Successfully writing a new article is the hardest task on Wikipedia; I suggest that you read Your First Article and use the new user tutorial to learn more about the process. 331dot (talk) 22:52, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * You haven't written an article. All of your contributions prior to this question were to your user page, but the content there does not satisfy the purpose of a user page, so it is liable to be deleted from there under criterion WP:U5. If it is intended to be a draft article you should move the content to User:Omarneal52/sandbox or to Draft:Jonathan Dorsey. It wouldn't yet be suitable as an article as it has no references to published WP:reliable sources. You can read the advice at WP:Your first article, but particularly the definition of notability and specifically WP:Notability (sports). --David Biddulph (talk) 22:54, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I moved it to Draft:Jonathan Dorsey. Would someone please apply the appropriate submission template? And, you should not submit this draft until it is adequately sourced.  You will also have to show that this individual meets either WP:NGRIDIRON, WP:NCOLLATH, or WP:ANYBIO. John from Idegon (talk) 23:01, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * If he has not played pro yet the draft does not meet notability. David notMD (talk) 23:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of draft rejection
Is there a streamlined way to open a dialogue with the people who have reviewed your draft and rejected it? I have some questions that I would like answered before resubmitting and have not heard from the WikiProject Articles for creation Help desk since I commented there on September 13th. I have since posted that Help desk post to the draft's talk page, and did not think it would belong on the Teahouse. If my understanding is mistaken, please let me know and I will be happy to move the post onto here! The draft I am talking about is "Action Teaching". Thanks for the help.

Tleclair96 (talk) 01:49, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi and welcome to the Teahouse. As one of the reviewers who turned down the article for lack of independent sources I've put a long explanation on the draft talk page at Draft talk:Action Teaching. StarryGrandma (talk) 03:36, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

New Article Created Fly Pro
Dear Wiki Experts, please someone review this article and let me know if there is anything/content in this article which is not supposed to be in Wikipedia. This new is my first article and I am totally new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Pro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Achint2182 (talk • contribs) 04:56, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * the only big mistake you've made is to cite wikipedia as a source (currently ref #8). You can wikilink within the article, but never use it as a reliable source. The article has got through New Page Patrol and you've done a nice, succinct job there. Well done. Very minor niggles include occasional use of capital letters on nouns which are not proper names ( e.g. Cargo aircraft) and a couple of places where 'the' was ommitted. But these are nothing to worry about. The one inconsistency I noted was the formatting of the name. Is it FlyPro, Fly-Pro, Fly Pro, or something else? Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 08:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Nick Moyes, I have removed citation of wikipedia page and changed name to Fly Pro everywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Achint2182 (talk • contribs) 08:19, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. One other little thing: Nick Moyes (talk) 10:19, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes Nick Moyes (talk), now I know how to sign off :) thanks Achint2182 (talk) 10:57, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Everyone, I have made some changes as suggested by Nick Moyes. Please review now and suggest to make it better, this is my first article. Achint2182 (talk) 05:26, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

How to clear the flag issues
Hi, There are some flag issues shows such as errors for notability, citation and errors Although there are none.. Can you please help how to improve page and get submitted — Preceding unsigned comment added by Themediatalk (talk • contribs) 18:39, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Courtesy link for other editors - this appears to be about Draft:Haelyn Shastri, which may have been previously deleted. The tags are appropriate. TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  19:03, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi and welcome to the Teahouse. If this is about the draft and the article Haelyn Shastri then there are lots of issues. You might like to start by reading WP:Referencing for beginners. I expect an admin can delete the article, then you can work on the draft.  The only correctly-formatted in-line reference seems to be about Hinal Bambhania.  This needs explaining.  Dbfirs  19:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * ... later note ... The version in mainspace has now been improved, using some of the refs from the draft so all is well.  Dbfirs  06:35, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

How to revert an article?
Can I revert an article?

 * Hi and welcome to the Teahouse.  If your question is about Sahil Khan, then other editors have contributed to the article so it can't just be deleted at your request, but it might fail because of lack of notability.  You can revert your own edits just by looking at the history and clicking "undo" for your last edit, or comparing selected versions and clicking "undo".  Your addition was a mixture of good content and opinion.  Maybe I've guessed wrongly and you are asking about another article?   Dbfirs  06:51, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Can we use Social Media posts for Citation
Dear Seniors, Please advise if I can use twitter/facebook posts as citation for some references in the article. One such post is https://twitter.com/UNICEF_Yemen/status/885686645558738944 Achint2182 (talk) 06:09, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:USERG and WP:SELFPUB would be the most immediately relevant guidelines, but the policy WP:No original research can be relevant as well.
 * For that specific post, what article and what context would it be used for? Ian.thomson (talk) 06:56, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi and welcome to the Teahouse. Anyone can put any rubbish on Facebook and Twitter, and often do! I haven't looked at your link, so I am not making a judgement here. In general, Wikipedia does not regard Twitter and Facebook as WP:Reliable sources so they can not be used as references except in certain circumstances. Official Facebook and Twitter accounts might be one exception. Perhaps a discussion on the talk page of the article would be appropriate?  Dbfirs  06:59, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks User:Dbfirs and Ian.thomson, I will start this topic on Talk Page of Article. Achint2182 (talk) 07:03, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Create a Page for Banglan - art director
Created user page is deleted. How to create an article successfully? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banglan (talk • contribs) 05:36, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , your user page is not the place to be writing Wikipedia articles. Additionally, writing about yourself is strongly discouraged. signed,Rosguill talk 05:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Did you read the reply which you received at above? --David Biddulph (talk) 07:25, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


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User:Rayc

Interested participant from Wikipedia under the name Rayc

Graduate student with knowledge in Electrical engineering with a hope to become a professor. I also am interested in math, genetic algorithms, and statistics.

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,65052,00.html http://www.simba.us/misc/dsmc/dsmca.html http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/EducationEducators Web Design/An Introduction to Programming with Javascript http://ocwfinder.com/

http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/

Places to contact

 * Signpost
 * Wikiprojects
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Sandboxes

 * /Rand
 * /ProposalQuiz
 * /Unipages
 * /School status
 * /Learning Blog
 * /Youtube

Trash
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User:Jednabbeyfan/sandbox

Elizabeth Bartlet Westin is the eldest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet and First Lady Abigail Bartlet on the television drama The West Wing.

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Ouya

The Ouya, stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012, bringing in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on its design and Muffi Ghadiali as VP of Product Management to put together the engineering team. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising US$8.5 million, becoming one of the website's highest earning projects in its history.

Units started to ship to Kickstarter backers in March 2013 and were released to the general public in June 2013. It featured a store for applications and games designed specifically for the Ouya platform, the majority of which were casual games. Out of the box, Ouya supports media apps such as Twitch and the Kodi media center. It runs a modified version of Android Jelly Bean, with rooting being officially encouraged. The console's hardware design allows it to be easily opened up, requiring only a standard screwdriver for easy modding and possible hardware add-ons.

All systems can be used as development kits, allowing any Ouya owner to also be a developer, without the need for licensing fees. All games were initially required to have some kind of free-to-play aspect, whether they be completely free, have a free trial, or have optional purchasable upgrades, levels, or other in-game items. This requirement was later removed.

Despite the successful Kickstarter campaign, the Ouya became a commercial failure. Sales were lackluster, game developers failed to embrace the platform, and incentives offered to promote adoption failed causing financial problems for Ouya Inc. and forcing the company to wind down the business. Its software assets were sold to Razer Inc., who announced the discontinuation of the console in July 2015. Razer continued to provide software support for existing Ouya units until June 2019, when it shut down the Ouya storefront, services and accounts, rendering the use of the many applications that required a check-in with the store impossible.

History
Ouya was announced on July 3, 2012, as a new home video game console, led by Julie Uhrman, the chief executive officer of Santa Monica, California-based Boxer8, Inc. (later rebranded Ouya, Inc. on August 13, 2012). On July 10, Ouya started a campaign to gauge how many people were interested in the project. Boxer8 confirmed having a working prototype with in-progress software and user interface. It features an Nvidia Tegra 3 chip and a price tag of $99 ($95 for 1000 "early birds" backers of the Kickstarter campaign).

The Kickstarter fundraising goal was $950,000, with a month to reach that goal; within 8 hours it surpassed $1 million. Funding continued to increase as more models were made available at various funding levels. According to Kickstarter, in reaching its goal, Ouya holds the record for best first-day performance of any project hosted to date. Within the first 24 hours, the project attracted one backer every 5.59 seconds. Ouya became the eighth project in Kickstarter history to raise more than a million dollars and was the quickest project ever to do so. The Kickstarter campaign finished on August 9 with $8,596,475 at 904% of their goal. This made the Ouya Kickstarter the fifth-highest earning in the website's history at the time.

Ouya units for Kickstarter funders started to ship on March 28, 2013. On June 25, 2013, the Ouya was released to the public for $99.

Ouya announced the "Free the Games Fund" in July 2013 with the goal to support developers making games exclusively for their system with Ouya matching a Kickstarter campaign's pledge dollar-for-dollar if a minimum of $50,000 is raised, but only if the game will be an Ouya exclusive for six months.

In October 2013, Uhrman stated that the company planned on releasing a new iteration of the Ouya console sometime in 2014, with an improved controller, double the storage space, and better Wi-Fi. On November 23, 2013, a limited edition white Ouya with double the storage of the original and a new controller design was available for pre-order at $129.

As of January 1, 2014, the limited edition white Ouya went off sale and cannot be found on the official store, nor from any official resellers. On January 31, 2014, a new black version of the Ouya was released with double storage and new controller design.

In January 2015, Ouya received an investment of US$10 million from Alibaba with the possibility of incorporating some of Ouya technologies into Alibaba's set-top box.

In April 2015, it was revealed that Ouya was trying to sell the company because it failed to renegotiate its debt. On July 27, 2015, it was announced that Razer Inc. had acquired Ouya's employees and content library and that Ouya hardware was now discontinued. The deal does not include Ouya's hardware assets. Owners were encouraged to migrate to Razer's own Forge microconsole; Ouya's content library will be integrated into the Forge ecosystem, and "[the] Ouya brand name will live on as a standalone gaming publisher for Android TV and Android-based TV consoles." On the same day Uhrman stepped down as Ouya's CEO.

The technical team and developer relations personnel behind Ouya joined the software team of Razer, which developed its own game platform called the Forge TV. The Forge TV was discontinued in 2016.

On May 21, 2019, Razer released a statement which announced that online accounts and services would be discontinued on June 25, 2019. According to Razer, most apps will become unusable on the platform, many relying on the user accounts to work. Razer suggests that users may be able to transfer purchases to other storefront platforms like Google Play, if developers and publishers agree to such.

Hardware
The Ouya is a 75 mm cube designed to be used with a TV as the display via an HDMI connection. It ships with a single wireless controller, but it can also support multiple controllers. Games are available via digital distribution or can be side-loaded.

Specifications
Notes:
 * 1) Hardware video decode supported by experimental XBMC using libstagefright.

Controller
The Ouya controller is a typical gamepad with dual analog sticks, a directional pad, 4 face buttons (labeled O, U, Y, and A) and pairs of back bumpers and triggers. It also includes a single-touch touchpad in the center of the controller. The Ouya controller also has magnetically attached faceplates which enclose the 2 AA batteries, one on each side of the removable plates.

Alternate controllers may be used with the console (including those from the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii) but only for compatible games.

Pre-release
While initial reception of the Ouya was positive, raising $3.7 million on Kickstarter in the first two days, there were a number of vocal critics who were skeptical of the ability of the fledgling company to deliver a product at all. On July 12, 2012, PC Magazine's Sascha Segan ran an op-ed entitled "Why Kickstarter's Ouya Looks Like a Scam" which was critical not only of the Ouya but of all Kickstarter-funded hardware projects. Unreality Magazine defended the Ouya, stating "A scam implies some sort of intentionally illegal deceit. [...] Tapping multiple investors from multiple sources isn't a scam, it's not even illegal, it's business."

Engadget reviewed the Kickstarter pre-release version of the Ouya on April 3, 2013. While praising the low cost and ease of hacking the console, it reported issues with controller buttons becoming stuck beneath the controller plating and the right analog stick snagging on the plating. It also reported a slight lag between the controller and the console and went on to say the controller was "usable, but it's far from great."

The Verge reported similar issues with the controller and questioned its construction quality. While they praised the hacking and openness of the console, calling it "a device with lots of potential and few true limitations", the review was mostly negative and was critical of the interface and game launch choice and stated that "Ouya isn't a viable gaming platform, or a good console, or even a nice TV interface."

Retail reception
Tom's Hardware summarized early media reviews of the Ouya as "lukewarm".

Engadget reviewed the retail version of the Ouya, and noted a largely improved experience as compared to what they found with their pre-release unit. Improvements to the gamepad were "huge", and they found "that the UI has been cleaned up and sped up". Engadget concluded that their "latest experience with the Android-based gaming device [left them] feeling optimistic" and that the company was "taking customer feedback seriously".

Digital Trends called the final retail console "a device with a lot of potential built with love", and called the design a "sleek and cool-looking cube filled with gamingy goodness". The mostly positive review cited a lot of potential for the future, but was tempered by noting deficiencies in performance ("as powerful as many current smartphones"), and pointing out that the Ouya won't be able to compete with the "big three" console makers on performance, but must rely on carving out a niche in the market.

ExtremeTech found that Ouya "has a number of serious faults". They mentioned the sub-par controller, the connectivity issues, and games which worked flawlessly on smartphones but stuttered on the console. Also, they remarked that "there just aren’t enough worthwhile games to play".

Sales
Market analyst NPD Group described Ouya sales in its first month as "relatively light", while several outlets noted low sales of games on the service in initial reports from developers. In April 2014, developer Maddy Thorson stated that her title TowerFall, the Ouya's most popular game at the time, had only sold 7,000 copies for the console. The Ouya in total sold around 200,000 units.

Free the Games Fund
In July 2013, Ouya announced the "Free the Games Fund", a scheme to help fund developers, where Ouya would match any Kickstarter campaign if a minimum target of $50,000 was reached, and provided the game remained Ouya exclusive for six months. Suspicions were raised concerning the first two games to reach the target. Commentators noticed the small number of backers each pledging a high value amount, the large number of those who had never backed a project before, as well as the use of duplicate names and avatars that included those of celebrities. This led some to suggest that the projects were artificially inflating their project's backing in order to receive extra money from Ouya. In addition, one project had a backer whose identity appeared to be taken from that of a missing person's case.

Nevertheless, Ouya rejected any suspicion regarding the backing of the projects, and planned to continue with providing funding. In September 2013, funding for one of the games that had reached its target (Elementary, My Dear Holmes) was later suspended by Kickstarter. The developers of the other funded game, Gridiron Thunder, threatened litigation against a commenter on the Kickstarter page, and further dismissed concerns that they would have no rights to official NFL branding, a license currently held by Electronic Arts. In the same month, another project, Dungeons the Eye of Draconus, caused controversy by openly stating that a relative of one developer had provided substantial additional backing in order to have the project qualify for money from the Free the Games fund. The project was removed by Ouya from the Free the Games fund, resulting in the developers removing the project from Kickstarter.

Many developers criticized the fund's rules. Sophie Houlden removed her game, Rose and Time, from the Ouya marketplace in protest. Matt Gilgenbach, who was trying to finance his game Neverending Nightmares with help from the fund, said, "It would kill me if due to other projects abusing the Free the Games Fund, people lost confidence in our project and what we are trying to do...While I believe in the idea of the Free the Games Fund, I think it definitely could use some reform in light of the potential avenues for abuse." A month later, Sophie revealed that she and several other developers had been in talks with Ouya boss Julie Uhrman, who accepted their criticism, saying: "Developers were telling us over and over, 'You're being too idealistic, and you're being too naive.' That was the part that personally took me a while to understand." Ouya changed the fund rules, including adding a dollar-per-backer limit. Satisfied the matter was resolved, Rose and Time was returned to the Ouya marketplace, and Neverending Nightmares qualified for funding under the new rules.

On September 18, 2013, Ouya modified the exclusivity clause of the fund. Developers would still not be able to release their software on mobile devices, video game consoles, and set-top boxes during the six-month exclusivity period, but they would be allowed to release on other personal computer systems, such as Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, during that time.

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Nizhegorodovs record wasn't acknowledged by the IAAF. There was no doping test at the competition on June 14th, 2004 held in Cheboksary, which was required by the IAAF for considering as a world record.--OlympicLegends (talk) 15:11, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

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Lawrence VanDyke

Lawrence James Christopher VanDyke (born December 12, 1972) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a former solicitor general of Nevada and Montana.

Early life and education
VanDyke was born in Midland, Texas, and grew up in Bozeman, Montana. After attending Oklahoma Christian University from 1992 to 1995, VanDyke studied civil engineering at Montana State University, graduating in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science with highest honors. He worked for his family's construction company and did graduate study at Montana State for the next three years, receiving a Master of Construction Engineering Management degree in 2000.

From 2000 to 2002, VanDyke attended Bear Valley Bible Institute, a Bible college in Denver, Colorado, from which he received a Bachelor of Theology degree summa cum laude. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He graduated in 2005 with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude.

Legal career
VanDyke was in private practice at the law firm Gibson Dunn from 2005 to 2006, then served as a law clerk to judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2006 to 2007. He returned to Gibson Dunn from 2007 to 2012. While in private practice, VanDyke performed pro bono legal work for groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Free Market Foundation, and the Alliance Defending Freedom. In 2010, VanDyke filed an amicus brief in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez on behalf of Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty, in which he argued that a college student group had a First Amendment right to exclude from membership students whose sexual conduct violated the group's stated beliefs.

From 2012 to 2013, VanDyke was an assistant to the Solicitor General of Texas. He was then appointed the Solicitor General of Montana but resigned in 2014, citing strain in the workplace. As Solicitor General of Montana, he submitted numerous amicus curiae briefs filed in other states. He recommended signing on to other states' challenges to state and federal gun laws, co-wrote a brief supporting an Arizona law prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks, and recommended that Montana file a brief in a New Mexico case involving a photographer who refused to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony.

VanDyke later ran unsuccessfully for the Montana Supreme Court. He became Solicitor General of Nevada under Attorney General Adam Laxalt in 2015, where he served until 2019 when he became a deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Since graduating law school, VanDyke has been a member of the Federalist Society.

Federal judicial service
On September 20, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate VanDyke to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Nevada Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, announced their opposition in the nomination. The nomination was to the seat being vacated by Judge Jay Bybee, who previously announced his intention to assume senior status on December 31, 2019. Six retired justices of the Montana Supreme Court publicly opposed VanDyke's nomination. VanDyke received a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. An ABA evaluator conducted 60 anonymous interviews with lawyers, judges, and others who had worked with VanDyke. In unusually personal terms, the ABA published a scathing critique of VanDyke in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee; that letter asserted that some interviewees described VanDyke as "'arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice'" of law. The ABA added that "'There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an 'entitlement' temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful'". The ABA also raised "concerns about whether Mr. VanDyke would be fair to persons who are gay, lesbian, or otherwise part of the LGBTQ community, claiming that "Mr. VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community."

On October 30, 2019, a hearing on VanDyke's nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee and it became contentious. Most of the two-hour hearing was focused on VanDyke's record on LGBTQ issues. During his confirmation hearing, VanDyke was asked by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), "Did you say that you wouldn't be fair to members of the LGBTQ community?" VanDyke broke down in tears, denying the accusation: "I did not say that. I do not believe that. It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God and they should all be treated with dignity and respect". Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), questioned VanDyke about an opinion editorial he wrote in 2004 while a student at Harvard Law noting that same-sex marriage may be harmful for children on average. VanDyke stated generally that some of his personal views have changed since that time. VanDyke said that his ABA evaluator told him that she was in a "hurry" and did not give him the opportunity to fully respond to concerns. The ABA acknowledged that the lead ABA evaluator assigned to VanDyke, Montana attorney Marcia Davenport, had contributed $150 to VanDyke's opponent in a 2014 Montana Supreme Court election.

The ABA's handling of VanDyke was widely denounced by conservative commentators. Writing for National Review, John McCormack asked: "Were VanDyke's comments to the ABA twisted or taken wildly out of context in order to paint him as a bigot? It is hard to believe any judicial nominee would suggest during an interview with the ABA that he might not be 'fair' to all litigants." McCormack asked the ABA for a transcript of the relevant portion of its interview with VanDyke, but the ABA declined to provide one. Legal scholar Adam White, a former member of the ABA's Administrative Law Section, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that there was "no basis on which to evaluate any of the broad-brush descriptions of Mr. VanDyke. We don't know what basis, if any, his critics have for these judgments, or even who they are. We're expected to take the ABA's disparagement at face value". The Wall Street Journal editorial board also published a critique of the ABA's treatment of VanDyke. Writing in The Atlantic, law professor Josh Blackman suggested that "[g]oing forward, when a nominee is rated as unqualified, the transcript should be released, and the recording should be posted publicly online."

On November 21, 2019, VanDyke's nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote. On December 10, 2019, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 53–40 vote. On December 11, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a 51–44 vote. He received his judicial commission on January 2, 2020.

In November 2021, VanDyke blasted the Ninth Circuit's "embarrassing" immigration rulings. He believes that the Ninth Circuit frequently "play[s] [the Board of Immigration Appeals]-for-a-day instead of genuinely deferring to the agency’s decisions."

Notable opinions
Reports have noted VanDyke's strident dissents in a number of cases.

Duncan v. Bonta
One of these dissents was in Duncan v. Bonta, a challenge to a California law that limits gun magazine capacity to 10 bullets. The en banc panel upheld the law, and VanDyke accused the majority of "distrust[ing] gun owners and think[ing] the Second Amendment is a vestigial organ of their living constitution" and having an "undefeated, 50–0 record against the Second Amendment." VanDyke concluded his dissent by saying that the ruling means that "at most, you might get to possess one janky handgun and 2.2 rounds of ammunition, and only in your home under lock and key."

In a concurring opinion to the majority ruling, Judge Andrew Hurwitz singled out VanDyke's dissent and rebuked his colleague "for attacking the personal motives of his sisters and brothers on this Court." Hurwitz pointed out that individual members of the majority panel owned handguns in their homes for self-defense and had served in the military, where they bore arms. Hurwitz called for a higher level of respect, indicating that all federal judges swear an oath to uphold the Constitution and are duty-bound to interpret the right to bear arms in the context of the public's desire to protect itself from indiscriminate mass shootings, saying: "The people of California should not be precluded from attempting to prevent mass murders simply because they don’t occur regularly enough in the eyes of an unelected Article III judge." In response, VanDyke wrote, "Respectfully, Judge Hurwitz’s claim that our judges’ personal views about the Second Amendment and guns have not affected our jurisprudence is simply not plausible."

McDougall v. County of Ventura
VanDyke wrote a majority opinion holding that two California counties violated the Second Amendment when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an unusual move, VanDyke wrote a concurrence to his own opinion, predicting that the case will be heard en banc and claiming that "no firearm-related ban or regulation ever ultimately fails" in the Ninth Circuit. He criticized his court's approach to Second Amendment challenges as "exceptionally malleable". He then attached a 13-page concurrence, writing a ruling in favor of the California counties—the opposite conclusion of his own opinion for the panel—and explaining: "I figure there is no reason why I shouldn’t write an alternative draft opinion that will apply our test in a way more to the liking of the majority of our court. That way I can demonstrate just how easy it is to reach any desired conclusion under our current framework, and the majority of our court can get a jumpstart on calling this case en banc. Sort of a win-win for everyone." He ended the alternate opinion with "You’re welcome."

2022 beauty pageant case
VanDyke held in a court case that beauty pageant companies may exclude trans women as part of their freedom of speech rights. In this case, he wrote, "It is commonly understood that beauty pageants are generally designed to express the 'ideal vision of American womanhood'."

United States v. Idaho
On September 28, 2023, VanDyke upheld Idaho's abortion law despite its lack of exceptions for medical emergencies. On November 13, 2023, the 9th circuit, en banc, voted 7-4 to temporarily block Idaho's abortion ban due to its lack of exceptions for medical emergencies. On January 5, 2024, the Supreme Court said it would take up the case and dissolved the 9th circuit's temporary injunction.

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Etymology
From, remodeled after Italian.

Verb

 * 1) to pursue, to chase after
 * 2)  to pursue, to try to reach (a goal, dream, etc.)
 * 3)  to persecute

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Indian National Association

The Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876. The objectives of this Association were "promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people". The Association attracted educated Indians and civics leaders from all parts of the country, and became an important forum for India's aspirations for independence. It later merged with the Indian National Congress.

Timeline
Indian Association formed in 1876 was one of the pioneer political associations with an all India outlook. During the second half of the 19th century, India witnessed marked changes in social and economic life. One of the striking developments of this time was the growth of political consciousness leading to the birth of political associations and national movements for independence. Prior to the Indian Association, Sisir Kumar Ghosh along with Sambhu Charan Mukherjee founded 'The India League' in Calcutta on 25 September 1875. The nationalist leaders like Ananda Mohan Bose, Durga Mohan Das, Nabagopal Mitra, Surendranath Banerjee and others were associated with this organisation. The League represented the middle class and worked to stimulate the sense of nationalism among the people and to encourage political education. With a broad vision of an all India outlook, the leaders kept the organisation above provincial and communal politics.

But soon the League foundered and shortly afterwards Surendranath Banerjee founded the Indian Association along with his friend Ananda Mohan Bose on 26 July 1876. The leaders who were associated with this organisation were Sivanath Sastri, Kristodas Pal, Dwarakanath Ganguly, Narendra Kishore, and others. Rev Krishna Mohan Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose were elected the first President and Secretary respectively of the Association. There was not much difference between the India League and the Indian Association in objectives and outlook. Both of them had worked to help the growth of national awakening and political unity among the educated middle class in India. The very name 'Indian Association' implied that national movement was assuming an all India character in outlook and approach.

The Association started its programme with a number of objects: (a) the creation of a strong body of public opinion in the country; (b) the unity of the Indian races and peoples on the basis of common political interest and aspirations; (c) the promotion of friendly feeling between Hindus and Muslims and (d) the inclusion of the masses in the great public movement of the time.

Prior to Indian National Association, there was no political organisation in Bengal that represented the interest of the middle class and the raiyats. The Association gave the young middle-class community a political platform on a more democratic basis. The leaders of the Association were mostly educated young men, lawyers, and journalists. Surprisingly it did not include big business leaders and landlords as members. In the words of Anil Seal, the Indian Association had worked as a pressure group for graduates and professional men, which claimed to represent 'The middle class'.

Being founded by moderate leaders like Surendranath Banerjea and Ananda Mohan Bose, who were also at the helm of its affairs, the Association was above extreme and narrow Hindu nationalism and parochialism. As a gesture of friendship and goodwill towards the Muslims, they invited Nawab Mohammad Ali to preside over its second annual conference. Indeed, the Indian Association had laid the foundation for the growth of national awakening and political consciousness that ultimately saw the establishment of the Indian national congress in 1885, and for this Surendranath Banerjea deserves credit. In fact, the Association was the forerunner of the Congress.

Right from its birth, the Association started its work in right earnest. The reduction of age limit (1877) from 21 to 19 years for the candidates of the Indian Civil Service examination gave it an excellent opportunity to start an all India movement. Under the leadership of Surendranath Banerjee, the Association strongly protested against this unjust decision. Surendranath was chosen as a special delegate to visit different parts of India to secure support for the memorial that the Association intended to send to British Parliament. Surendranath's tour of India was a great success. It enkindled a new spirit of nationalism, which helped to create a feeling of national unity on important political issues. He was the first politician to receive all India popularity. Under his able leadership, the Association demanded simultaneous holding of civil service examination in England and India and Indianisation of higher administrative posts. Besides, the Association led the campaign against the repressive arms act (1878), the vernacular press act, and the exemption of duties on cotton goods. Public meetings were held in Calcutta demanding the removal of racial inequality between Indians and Europeans and reduction of the salt tax. The Association gave its support to the Bengal tenancy act of 1885 and demanded self Government in India.

It is true that with the establishment of the Indian National Congress, the Association gradually lost much of its political importance. Yet it must be given the credit for initiating the idea of holding an all India conference with representatives from every province. The first Indian National Conference was accordingly held in Calcutta in 1883. The second National Conference, organised by the Association, held in 1885 in Calcutta. It coincided with that of the National Congress, which was meeting for the first time in Bombay in December 1885. The Indian Association expressed its solidarity and decided its merger with the Congress when the National Congress was organising its second annual conference in Calcutta in December 1886.

It is true that the Indian Association lost its earlier political importance as soon as Congress began to function as an all India organisation. Even then when the partition of Bengal (1905) occurred, the Association under the leadership of Surendranath Banerjea became very active. The Association, under the leadership of Surendranath, organised the Boycott and swadeshi movement against the partition, raised a National Fund, drew up a National Educational Policy and, in 1906, formally inaugurated the National Council of Education. Violent agitation compelled the government to revoke the partition of Bengal in December 1911. After the annulment of the partition, the Indian Association lost much of its political importance and continued its existence being engaged mainly in social works.

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Pseudo-Maximus

Pseudo-Maximus (or Pseudo-Maximos) is the conventional designation given to the anonymous author of a work misattributed to a Maximus, such as Maximus the Confessor or Maximus of Turin. Such works include:

 * Life of the Virgin (Maximus)
 * Loci communes (Pseudo-Maximus)

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Guitar/Authors

This book has no authors other than the public: it is open for anyone and everybody to improve. Therefore, this is more properly a list of acknowledgements of contributors than a list of authors. Whoever we are, this is where we get to brag about our accomplishments in writing this book.

List of major contributors

 * Kef Li Eric Marcus X-Schecter is the esoteric pen name of the former primary author of (er, contributor to) this book. He is, in his own words, not entirely qualified to write this book: he is learning as much as the readers are! He plays the electric guitar in the fingerpicking style exclusively, and has written a small number of songs. He currently enjoys writing and transcribing guitar tablature for the Power Tab Archive.

 * Sluffs, added chord diagram images to the Chord Reference section

 * Daniel made various minor contributions.

 * GABaker, who has had a lot trouble tuning cheap guitars, contributed to the section on tuning.

 * NickPenguin helped redesign many sections, helped translate content from the German guitar wikibook and created the Guitar template.

 * Michael Hoffman explained classic techniques for shaping distortion tones and controlling distortion independently from listening volume, on the Tone and Volume page.

 * Meemo created and added much content to the different types of guitars section and added the paragraph on stringing guitars, which seemed important until he read the list of external tutorials...

 * Sameer Kale Did a good bit of the Chords section a while ago, started off the Rhythm section, along with adding a few bits to ther places. He doesn't know why such a page as this exists, but does not want to be left out.

 * Kiefer.Wolfowitz edited Alternate Tunings, attempting to incorporate his material from English Wikipedia (not from Guitar tunings but rather from Regular tunings, Major-thirds tuning, and Ralph Patt).

 * Others (add your name and description if you made a major contribution)

 * Various anonymous persons.

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Duluth model

The Duluth model is a community based protocol for intimate partner violence (IPV), which aims to bring law enforcement, family law, and social work agencies together in a Coordinated Community Response to work together to reduce violence against women and rehabilitate perpetrators of domestic violence. It is named after Duluth, Minnesota, the city where it was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP). The model provides a method of coordinating community agencies to provide a consistent response to Intimate Partner Violence that has three primary goals: Part of this model is the men's behavior change program Creating a Process of Change for Men who Batter: The Duluth Curriculum. The curriculum is the most common batterer intervention program used in the United States. Advocates of the Duluth model claim it is successful because it is grounded in the experience of victims, helps offenders and society change, and pulls the whole community together to respond. The CPC Curriculum is designed for heterosexual males, who make up 85% of abusive partner cases that come to the program. It has been described as a well-documented batterer treatment programme by Judith Herman, who notes that it is based on a social model of gendered violence. There are also rehabilitation groups for women who conduct IPV for whom a different curriculum is used.
 * 1) Ensuring survivor safety.
 * 2) Providing a way to hold offenders/abusive partners accountable for their violence.
 * 3) Changing the climate of tolerance for this form of violence.

The Duluth Model Coordinated Community Response has received multiple awards for its grassroots efforts to end intimate partner violence, including the World Future Council's Future Policy Award in 2014. It has been criticized by mental health professionals who focus on individual behaviour and reject a social model of battering. Edward Gondolf critiques the narrow forms of evidence used to evaluate interventions, arguing that the biomedical research model is inappropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions.

Origin and theory
The feminist theory underlying the Duluth model is that men use violence within relationships to exercise abusive power and control. The curriculum "is designed to be used within a community using its institutions to diminish the power of batterers over their victims and to explore with each abusive man the intent and source of his violence and the possibilities for change through seeking a different kind of relationship with women”. This is illustrated by the "Power and Control Wheel," a graphic typically displayed as a poster in participating locations. According to the Duluth model, "women and children are vulnerable to violence because of their unequal social, economic, and political status in society." Treatment of abusive men is focused on re-education, as "we do not see men’s violence against women as stemming from individual pathology, but rather from a socially reinforced sense of entitlement."

The program's philosophy is intended to help batterers work to change their attitudes and personal behavior so they would learn to be nonviolent in any relationship. The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project was the first multi-agency program designed to address the issue of domestic violence. This experimental program, conducted in Duluth in 1981, coordinated the actions of a variety of agencies dealing with domestic conflict. The Duluth model curriculum was developed by a "small group of activists in the battered women’s movement", with five battered women and four men as subjects. The program has become a model for programs in other jurisdictions seeking to deal more effectively with domestic violence.

Effectiveness
An early U.S. government sponsored study found that batterers who complete programs based on the Duluth Model are less likely to repeat acts of domestic violence than those who do not complete any batterers' intervention program. A 2003 study conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Justice found the Duluth Model to have "little or no effect". This study had considerable shortfalls, and the National Institute of Justice said in its introduction that "response rates were low, many people dropped out of the program, and victims could not be found for subsequent interviews. The tests used to measure batterers' attitudes toward domestic violence and their likelihood to engage in future abuse were of questionable validity."

A 2003 longitudinal, four-year evaluation by E. W. Gondolf, covering four cities, shows clear deescalation of reassault and other abuse, with 80% of men reaching sustained non-violence. A 2005 study led by Larry Bennett, a professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on batterer intervention programs, found that of the 30 batterer intervention programs in Cook County, Illinois, 15 percent of batterers who completed the programs were rearrested for domestic violence, compared with 37 percent of those who dropped out of the programs. Bennett said the studies are largely meaningless because they lacked a proper control group. He added that participants who complete domestic violence programs are likely to be more motivated than others to improve behavior and would be less inclined to offend again.

A 2011 review of the effectiveness of batterers intervention programs (BIP), primarily the Duluth model, found that "there is no solid empirical evidence for either the effectiveness or relative superiority of any of the current group interventions," and that "the more rigorous the methodology of evaluation studies, the less encouraging their findings." That is, as BIPs in general, and Duluth model programs in particular are subject to increasingly rigorous review, their success rate approaches zero. A 2014 news report reported zero percent recidivism within five years for a batterers intervention program based on Nonviolent Communication, and contrasted this with a recidivism rate of 40 percent within five years for a batterers intervention program based on the Duluth model as reported by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project.

Criticism
Criticism of the Duluth Model has centered on the program's sexist insistence that men are perpetrators who are violent because they have been socialized in a patriarchy that condones male violence, and that women are victims who are violent only in self-defense. Some critics argue that "programs based on the Duluth Model may ignore research linking domestic violence to substance abuse and psychological problems, such as attachment disorders, traced to childhood abuse or neglect, or the absence of a history of adequate socialization and training."

Others criticize the Duluth Model as being overly confrontational rather than therapeutic, focusing solely on changing the abuser's actions and attitudes rather than dealing with underlying emotional and psychological issues. Donald Dutton, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied abusive personalities, states: "The Duluth Model was developed by people who didn't understand anything about therapy." Dutton also observes that "lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering". Philip W. Cook comments that in the case of homosexual domestic violence, the patriarchy is absent: there is no male dominance of women in same-sex relationships, and in fact female on female abuse is reported more than twice as frequently as male on male abuse. Furthermore, some critics argue that the model ignores the reality that women can be the perpetrators of domestic violence in heterosexual relationships. Its proponents counter that the Duluth model is effective and makes best use of scarce resources. Ellen Pence herself writes:

"By determining that the need or desire for power was the motivating force behind battering, we created a conceptual framework that, in fact, did not fit the lived experience of many of the men and women we were working with. The DAIP staff ... remained undaunted by the difference in our theory and the actual experiences of those we were working with ... It was the cases themselves that created the chink in each of our theoretical suits of armor. Speaking for myself, I found that many of the men I interviewed did not seem to articulate a desire for power over their partner. Although I relentlessly took every opportunity to point out to men in the groups that they were so motivated and merely in denial, the fact that few men ever articulated such a desire went unnoticed by me and many of my coworkers. Eventually, we realized that we were finding what we had already predetermined to find."

The Duluth model is featured in the documentary Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America with commentary from its authors, as well as its main critics, such as Dutton.

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fight a losing battle

Verb

 * 1) To continue to wage war when it is clear that one is not going to win.
 * 2)  To try to do something so difficult that it will probably end in failure.

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Smirnovo

Smirnovo (Смирново) is a rural locality (a selo) in Novokopylovsky Selsoviet, Zarinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 263 as of 2013. There are 4 streets.

Geography
Smirnovo is located 25 km west of Zarinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novokopylovo is the nearest rural locality.

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